Gem's from Bhagavan: Self-Realization

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When we have vikalpas (false concepts) and are trying to give them up, i.e.

when we are still not perfected, but have to make conscious effort to keep

the mind one pointed or free from thought, it is Nirvikalpa Samadhi. When

through practice we are always in that state, not going into samadhi and

coming out again, that is the sahaja (natural) state. In sahaja one always

sees oneself. He sees the jagat (world) as swarupa (Reality) or Brahmakara

(form of Brahman). Eventually, what was once the means becomes itself the

goal, whatever method one follows. Dhyana (meditation), jnana, bhakti and

samadhi are all names for ourselves, for our Real State.

 

(Gems from Bhagavan, selected by A. Devaraja Mudaliar)