The Pathless PathHis teaching

All chapters11 of 19
  1. The Pathless Path
  2. The Goal of Human Life
  3. Turn to Reality
  4. The Change Must Be Within
  5. Religion is a Matter of Experience
  6. The Touch of Saints and Guru’s Grace
  7. The Divine Name as the Ladder
  8. Faith and Surrender
  9. Hints on Sadhana
  10. Meditation
  11. Samadhi
  12. After Reaching the Height
  13. The Attributes of Man Endowed with Cosmic Vision
  14. Inner Voice
  15. Jivanmukta
  16. Recapitulation
  17. The Path of God-Realisation
  18. One Universal God
  19. Conclusion of “Gita-Sandesh”

Samadhi

One kind of Samadhi consists in sitting down in a definite posture and by meditation merging in the Infinite entirely forgetful of the world outside.

The other kind of Samadhi (Sahaja Samadhi) is the state of ecstatic bliss which saints enjoy at all times under all conditions.

We are after Peace and Joy which abide in all conditions and situations. This joy is called Sahajananda and the state corresponding to it is called Samadhi. In this supreme attainment the liberated soul enjoys divine ecstasy at all times unruffled by the passing phases and events of external phenomena of life, because he sees and experiences in every change and activity nothing but the movement of the Eternal Anand.

The former kind (the first kind set forth above) is necessary for attaining this one (Sahaja Samadhi). Realise God as Love and the Universe as God. Realise God both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes. Formless God without attributes is inexpressible. Formless God with attributes is Love, Light, Bliss, Truth, Wisdom and Consciousness. God with form is the Universe and all in it.

You are wise, you are well-read and you have gone through spiritual practices, you have put on the garb of sanctity, you can preach and you can pose – these are all nothing if you do not experience the blissful union with the Beloved. The Saguna you are after is an image of your own mind and it cannot satisfy you. You ought to rise beyond all forms of sight and mind. The true Saguna or the body of the Lord is the Universe itself in which He is immanent, and by His power He is causing, in the manifestation, birth, growth and dissolution of all beings and things. He is also transcendent as pure Spirit. Your body is one of His expressions. Your activity has its inception in the infinite power of God. Don’t be deluded by a desire to behold things which are conditioned and momentary – mere phantoms of your mind. Have the true longing to realise your immortal nature and your union with omnipresent and omnipotent God, who is the supreme Lord of the Universe. Purify the mind and heart by proper discipline and entitle yourself to this glorious vision, and attain perfect freedom and Eternal Bliss.

Until the aspirant of immortality goes beyond name and form to the height of the impersonal God that dwells within him, until he tunes his mind and life to the Divine symphony or movement thrilling through the Cosmos, until he is freed from all limitations of thought, time and circumstance, until he beholds the entire universe as the veritable expression of his own infinite Self, he cannot realise and experience the all-comprehensive glory and the all-absorbing splendour of the greatest Truth – God!!!

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