Drg Drsya Viveka 5 – The Real and the Unreal in Everything That We Perceive and Experience

– Everything in this world has five aspects, ie, the permanent, unchanging substratum consisting of Existence- Consciousness – Bliss ( सत्- चित् – आनन्द ), and the impermanent changing aspect, consisting of names and forms, (nama-rupa ) which constitute ‘Maya’.
– The Absolute Reality, Existence- Consciousness – Bliss (सत्- चित् – आनन्द) is beyond the five conditions of verbalization ( beyond the five categories of definitions, descriptions etc. (sabda-pravritti-nimitta).
– Nirvikalpa-samadhi explained:
– The mind of a person who has attained ‘Nirvikalpa Samadhi’ compared to a lamp kept in sheltered, windless place- it never flickers; it is always steady.
– The five states of mind according to Yoga psychology explained:
Ksipta, Mudha, Viksipta, Ekagra, Niruddha
– Different forms of ‘Samadhi’: (a) with the help of an external object and,
(b) with the help of an internal object.

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