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We generally experience this calm and pleasurable tranquil state just when we are falling into deep sleep and approaching unconsciousness, or rising from it and approaching consciousness.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
The highest state, complete and final, is sahaja samadhi, referred to briefly at the beginning of Chapter Two. This is pure uninterrupted Consciousness, transcending the mental and physical plane and yet with full awareness of the manifested world and full use of the mental and physical faculties, a state of perfect equilibrium, perfect harmony, be
... See moreArthur Osborne • Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge
The ultimate Reality is Sat-Cit-Ānanda, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. The Essence in man is identical with this Reality but under the influence of Māyā, he has forgotten his true nature. He takes to be real a merely apparent world of subject and object, and this error is the cause of his bondage and suffering. The goal of all spiritual practice is
... See moreSwami Tapasyananda • Saundarya Lahari
Nondualism - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.orgThe Atman is the basis of the Maya, it is the stable being which is “the condition and foundation of the vast action of the Force of being”.