Samadhi - Yoganandaji

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Here's a poem written by ParamahansaYogananda called, "Samadhi"

-Vanished the veils of light and shade,Lifted every vapor of

sorrow,Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy,Gone the dim sensory

mirage.Love, hate, health, disease, life, death,Perished these false

shadows on the screen of duality.Waves of laughter, scyllas of

sarcasm, melancholic whirlpools,Melting in the vast sea of bliss.The

storm of maya stilledBy magic wand of intuition deep.The universe,

forgotten dream, subconsciously lurks,Ready to invade my

newly-wakened memory divine.I live without the cosmic shadow,But it

is not, bereft of me;As the sea exists without the waves,But they

breathe not without the sea.Dreams, wakings, states of deep turia

sleep,Present, past, future, no more for me,But ever-present,

all-flowing I, I, everywhere.Planets, stars, stardust, earth,Volcanic

bursts of doomsday cataclysms,Creation's molding furnace,Glaciers of

silent x-rays, burning electron floods,Thoughts of all men, past,

present, to come,Every blade of grass, myself, mankind,Each particle

of universal dust,Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust,I

swallowed, transmuted allInto a vast ocean of blood of my own one

Being!Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditationBlinding my tearful

eyes,Burst into immortal flames of bliss,Consumed my tears, my frame,

my all.Thou art I, I am Thou,Knowing, Knower, Known, as

One!Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever-new

peace!Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss!Not

an unconscious stateOr mental chloroform without wilful

return,Samadhi but extends my conscious realmBeyond limits of the

mortal frameTo farthest boundary of eternityWhere I, the Cosmic

Sea,Watch the little ego floating in Me.The sparrow, each grain of

sand, fall not without My sight.All space floats like an iceberg in

My mental sea.Colossal Container, I, of all things made.By deeper,

longer, thirsty, guru-given meditationComes this celestial

samadhi.Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard,The dark earth, mountains,

vales, lo! molten liquid!Flowing seas change into vapors of

nebulae!Aum blows upon vapors, opening wondrously their veils,Oceans

stand revealed, shining electrons,Till, at last sound of the cosmic

drum,Vanish the grosser lights into eternal raysOf all-pervading

bliss.From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.Ocean of

mind, I drink all creation's waves.Four veils of solid, liquid,

vapor, light,Lift aright.Myself, in everything, enters the Great

Myself.Gone forever, fitful, flickering shadows of mortal

memory.Spotless is my mental sky, below, ahead, and high

above.Eternity and I, one united ray.A tiny bubble of laughter, IAm

become the Sea of Mirth Itself.~ Paramahnasa Yogananda

 

 

 

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