{"id":18241,"date":"2021-06-21T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/?p=18241"},"modified":"2021-06-21T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:59:58","slug":"swami-vivekanandas-experience-of-nirvikalpa-samadhi-or-complete-mergence-with-god-pulkit-mathur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/swami-vivekanandas-experience-of-nirvikalpa-samadhi-or-complete-mergence-with-god-pulkit-mathur\/","title":{"rendered":"Swami Vivekananda\u2019s Experience of Nirvikalpa Samadhi or Complete Mergence With God ~ Pulkit Mathur"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The enclosed\u00a0dialogue with Swami Vivekananda\u00a0was recorded by his disciple Sharat, at Belur, in the year 1898. In it Swamiji describes in detail his experience of Nirvikalpa Samadhi or complete mergence with \u201cBrahman\u201d or God \u2013 the infinite and self-luminous consciousness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is what I mean by meditation \u2013 the soul trying to stand upon itself, when it is thinking of itself, residing in its own glory.\u201d
\n\u2013 Swami Vivekananda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sharat:<\/strong> Sir, as the fruition of great austerities in past lives, I have been blessed with your company. Now bless me that I may not be overcome by ignorance and delusion anymore. Now my mind sometimes is seized with a great longing for some direct spiritual realization.<\/p>\n

Swami Vivekananda:<\/strong> I also felt like that many times. One day in the Cossipore garden, I had expressed my prayer to Shri Ramakrishna with great earnestness. Then in the evening, at the hour of meditation, I lost the consciousness of the body and felt that it was absolutely non \u2013 existent.<\/p>\n

I felt that the sun, moon, space, time, ether, and all had been reduced to a homogeneous mass and then melted far away into the unknown; the body-consciousness had almost vanished, and I had nearly merged in the Supreme. But I had just a trace of the feeling of Ego, so I could again return to the world of relativity from the Samadhi.<\/p>\n

In this state of Samadhi all the difference between \u201cI\u201d and the \u201cBrahman\u201d (God, the Absolute Divine Consciousness) goes away, everything is reduced into unity, like the waters of the Infinite Ocean \u2014 water everywhere, nothing else exists \u2014 language and thought, all fail there. Then only is the state \u201cbeyond mind and speech\u201d realized in its actuality. Otherwise, so long as the religious aspirant thinks or says, \u201cI am the Brahman\u201d\u2013\u201cI\u201d and \u201cthe Brahman\u201d, these two entities persist \u2014 there is the involved semblance of duality.<\/p>\n

After that experience, even after trying repeatedly, I failed to bring back the state of Samadhi. On informing Shri Ramakrishna about it, he said, \u201cIf you remain day and night in that state, the work of the Divine Mother will not be accomplished; therefore you won\u2019t be able to induce that state again; when your work is finished, it will come again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe highest spiritual experiences can only be known in that state of consciousness which in Sanskrit is called Samadhi. Samadhi is a state quite other than that of waking, dreaming or dreamless sleep; it has been described as superconsciousness. In Samadhi, a man knows his absolute identity with the Atman (Soul), which is his real nature.<\/p>\n

Samadhi goes beyond all sense experiences. It is in its highest form a state of total knowledge, in which the knower and the thing known become one. This is Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The so-called lower Samadhi, Savikalpa, is that in which the sense of duality is not yet quite lost; knower and known are still separated, but only, as it were, by a thin pane of glass. The mystic who has reached the lower Samadhi is almost certain to be able to pass on to the higher if he desires it.<\/p>\n

Outwardly, Samadhi appears to be a state of unconsciousness, since the mind of the experiencer is entirely withdrawn from the outer world. Therefore it is often referred to as a `trance\u2019. But, in fact, Samadhi is a state of awareness unimaginably more intense than everyday consciousness. It is the very opposite of a trance, which, in its primary meaning at least, is a condition of stupor, or bewilderment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Christopher Isherwood in his book:\u00a0Ramakrishna and his Disciples<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

~ Pulkit Mathur<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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