On Memory/: My thoughts on Samadhi & Advaita

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Nirvikalpa Samadhi can be viewed both as a transient experience or

that which reveals the Sahaj state, depending on one's own

understanding, practice, and direct knowledge of the Self.

 

In Nirvikalpa Samadhi, mind, memory, will, etc., are fully absent and

yet there is fullness and wholeness of pure consciousness. When one

consciously "comes out", one realizes there is no coming in and out.

it is not the reliance on memory that allows one to say, "Oh, I had

the Nirvikalpa Samadhi experience". It is simply that the Self-

Knowledge is not an experience and yet It Is Self-Revealing to It

Self in all states of consciousness. The Self is always in its own

state and has absolutely no requirement of memory to know itself.

 

Since thoughts, prana, imagination, ideas, hopes, dreams, desires,

possibilities, time, space, are absorbed and absent in Nirvikalpa

Samadhi, the Self-Recognition as Sat-Chit-Ananda is pure and clear.

It Is Pure Self-Knowing serene like a calm ocean or an a quiet sky.

 

In "Coming out", of Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the same Self-Recognition is

known to be bursting forth in all states of consciousness. The role

of memory does not have anything to do at all with Nirvikalpa Samadhi.

 

Knowing clearly the Self in Nirvikalpa Samadhi, one Knows directly

that it is the same Self in waking and other states. This *Knowing*

is prior to thoughts, does not depend on ideas or concepts, and

completely transcends memory.

 

Love to all

Harsha