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In plain words

Hardly had the words "As Bliss immortal" been sung when Sri Ramakrishna sank into deep samadhi! He sits with hands folded, facing east, his body erect. He is drowned in the sea of the Blissful Mother's beauty! He is wholly unaware of the outer world. Is he breathing or not? Motionless, unblinking, he sits like a figure in a painting. It is as if he had left this world and gone somewhere far away.