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Guru Nanak Dev Ji says:
In the thought-less state of Samadhi (sunna, emptiness), neither maya (illusion) nor the snare of mind exist. Only the gracious God exists.
Paltu Sahab says:
Staying in (shunya)
solitude and meditate on emptiness
Saint Dadu Dayal Ji says:
That [Ultimate] Reality is beyond the dual categories of qualified and unqualified; it is Emptiness which transcends emptiness (shunya).
Saint Charan Das says:
When the soul is absorbed on the peak (highest inner realm) of emptiness, then it experiences rapture.
This emptiness is also known as ether (akasha) or void (avakasha). In the Ramcharitamanasa, Gosvami Tulsidas Ji
invokes Lord Shiva:
I invoke the name of Shiva--Lord Shiva, who dwells in the space of infinite knowledge (akasha])”.
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There are discussions about shunya in the Tantra Shastra also in the Jnanasankalni Tantra, where it says,
Meditation is not meditation unless the mind is united with Shunya” (57).
Maharishi Mehi says:
Consciousness that is traveling beyond sunna (void) and mahasunna (the great void) traverses the realm of
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