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FORMS OF SAMADHI
The problem of living
FINAL STATE
We have to arrive finally at a state, where it can rightly be presumed that God does not move till moved by the devotee. When we enter this ultimate state, we are in a state of oneness. Ignorance, in its refined state, will lead us on to the final state.
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There are three forms of samadhi or the stages of concentration. 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 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 within an unconscious state. Apparently, he is not conscious of anything, but still Consciousness is present within, though only in a shadowy form. In his state of unconsciousness he
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