Avadhuta - Chapter 1 verse 23

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(translator - Swami Chetanananda)

 

How can a man attain samadhi as long as he thinks of himself as something

other than the Atman? But on the other had, samadhi is not possible for a

man who thinks of himself as the Atman. How can samadhi be attained as long

as a man thinks that the Atman exists and yet does not exist? And what need

is there to attain samadhi if all are one, and by nature free?

 

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Samadhi - This superconscious state is of two kinds; savikalpa and

nirvikalpa. In nirvikalpa samadhi, knower-knowledge-knowable become unified;

but this does not occur in savikalpa samadhi. Here Dattatreya means to say

that being the Atman, it is illogical to think that one would have to

practise samadhi.