*WORDS OF WISDOM* - RAMANA MAHARSHI
MANO NASA
The final obstacle to meditation is ecstasy, when you feel great bliss and happiness, the tendency is to stay in that ecstasy. Do not yield to this but pass onto the sixth stage which is great calm. The calm is higher than ecstasy and it merges into samadhi. Successful samadhi causes a waking sleep state to encompass you, when you are always Consciousness, for Consciousness is your nature.
Hence a person is always in samadhi, only they do not know it. All one has to do is to remove the obstacles I have just mentioned.
Q: Are there thoughts in samadhi or not?
M: There will only be the feeling 'I am' and no other thoughts.
Q: Isn't 'I am' a thought?
M: The ego less 'I am' is not a thought. It is realization. Mental quietude is easier to attain, and comes sooner, but the ultimate goal is mental destruction (*). Most paths lead to mental quietness, whereas Self-inquiry gets there quickly and leads on to the destruction of mind. Find where the mind takes its rise, or who is mentally quiet, and you will succeed.
(*) mano nasa- the destruction of identification with the mind.
MANO NASA
The final obstacle to meditation is ecstasy, when you feel great bliss and happiness, the tendency is to stay in that ecstasy. Do not yield to this but pass onto the sixth stage which is great calm. The calm is higher than ecstasy and it merges into samadhi. Successful samadhi causes a waking sleep state to encompass you, when you are always Consciousness, for Consciousness is your nature.
Hence a person is always in samadhi, only they do not know it. All one has to do is to remove the obstacles I have just mentioned.
Q: Are there thoughts in samadhi or not?
M: There will only be the feeling 'I am' and no other thoughts.
Q: Isn't 'I am' a thought?
M: The ego less 'I am' is not a thought. It is realization. Mental quietude is easier to attain, and comes sooner, but the ultimate goal is mental destruction (*). Most paths lead to mental quietness, whereas Self-inquiry gets there quickly and leads on to the destruction of mind. Find where the mind takes its rise, or who is mentally quiet, and you will succeed.
(*) mano nasa- the destruction of identification with the mind.
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