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SRI RAMCHANDRA’S RAJAYOGA – THE NEW DARSANA
Meditation thus practised leads in due course to a state of absorption or the state of samadhi. He states that there are three forms of Samadhi or stages of concentration or absorption. The first of these is wherein a man feels lost or drowned. His senses, feelings and emotions are temporarily suspended in a way that they seem apparently dead for the time being. He resembles a man in a dead slumber, unconscious of everything. The second form is, in which a man though deeply concentrated on a point, does not feel actually drowned in it. It may be described as a state of consciousness with an unconscious state. Apparently he is not conscious of anything but still consciousness is present within, though only in a shadowy form. A man walks along a road thinking deeply over some problem. He is also absorbed in it that he is unconscious of anything else nor does he see anything in the way, nor hear the sounds or voices near about. He goes on in an unconscious state of mind. But still he does not collide with a tree by the roadside, nor is he knocked down by a car coming that way. In this state of unconsciousness he unknowingly attends to these necessities and acts as occasion demands. He has consciousness of the actions. It is consciousness in an unconscious state. Similarly, in the cases of the second
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