--- In [email protected], "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Om Namo Narayan > > Sahaja means effortless and continuous - > (not simply the result of being in sitting meditation) > This is rather a continous state of Consciousness versus > an experience that comes and goes. > > Sarvikalpa - is still having an identity but it is merged > in Oneness. Being One > > Nirvikalpa - is no me remaining - Simply IS. One does > not percieve any story any longer it is over. There is only > Pure Awareness without any attributes layered over. > IN Nirvikalpa Sahaja there are no longer rising thoughts > and oneness has dissolved into 0 point balance. > > Maha Shanti
Sri Ramakrishna describes this distinction very well: "Savikalpa Samadhi was compared by Sri Ramakrishna to a cotton doll which when put in water gets saturated with it, and Nirvikalpa Samadhi to a doll of salt which when immersed in water dissolves and loses itself in it. Nirvikalpa is the higher..." It reminds me of the saying by Christ Jesus that: "Whoever finds his life (ego) will lose it (Cosmic Awareness), and whoever loses his life (litte ego) for my sake will find it (Cosmic Consciousness). >
