Q: When can one practise sahaja samadhi? M: Even from the beginning. Even though one practises kevala nirvikalpa samadhi for years together, if one has not rooted out the vasanas one will not attain liberation. Q: May I have a clear idea of the difference between savikalpa and nirvikalpa? M: Holding on to the supreme state is samadhi. When it is with effort due to mental disturbances, it is savikalpa. When these disturbances are absent, it is nirvikalpa. Remaining permanently in the primal state without effort is sahaja. Q: Is nirvikalpa samadhi absolutely necessary before the attainment of sahaja? M: Abiding permanently in any of these samadhis, either savikalpa or nirvikatpa, is sahaja [the natural state]. Q: What is body-consciousness? M: What is the insentient body plus consciousness. Both of these must lie in another consciousness which is absolute and unaffected and which remains as it always is, with or without the body-consciousness. Q: What does it then matter whether the body-consciousness is lost or retained, provided one is holding on to that pure consciousness? M: Total absence of body-consciousness has the advantage of making the samadhi more intense, although it makes no difference to the knowledge of the supreme. --Sri Ramana Maharshi
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 06:00:00 +0000
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