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even performing your daily activities. Everyone does samadhi with their eyes closed but real samadhi is samadhi that remains even when the eyes are open. The eyes are not meant to be kept closed; they are for seeing everything. They are for seeing God wherever He is, if one knows how to. In fact samadhi is to see' everything exactly as it is, 'hear' exactly as it is, and 'walk' exactly as it is. And despite doing all this, samadhi prevails, such is the samadhi of 'Dada'. People look for solitude to practice their samadhi. There is no solitude anywhere in this world, so where will you go? There is no end to crowds in this world. To find solitude in a crowd is Gnan. When you are in a crowded train, surrounded by crowds of people from all sides, the mind, the intellect, the chit and the ego will remain quiet and then as much solitude as needed is available. Real solitude (opportunity to be the Self) is available only in heavy crowds (stresses from all aspects of the non-self). Solitude in a crowd is true solitude.
where there is undue suffering of the body. The one who has true samadhi has complete awareness.
Nirvikalp samadhi What have the worldly spiritual masters believed nirvikalp samadhi to be? They believed them to be miracles of the chit (chit chamatkar). When they lose awareness of their physical body, they believe that all the information from the sense organs (indriya gnan) has come to an end. But the knowledge beyond the senses (atiindriya gnan) has not arisen and therefore they are wondering in the zone of play of the chit. They see all kinds of effects of the chit. In this, some see a white light but that is not a true samadhi; it is nirindriya (without sensory input) samadhi. It is not samadhi if you lose awareness of the body. On the contrary, there is greater and acute awareness of the body in nirvikalp samadhi. How can one call it nirvikalp samadhi when he verily loses the awareness of the body?
Questioner : What is a nirvikalp samadhi?
Dadashri : 'I am Chandulal' is vikalp samadhi. Everything that one sees is also vikalp samadhi. When a child breaks something precious, it breaks Chandulal's peace.
Questioner : What is the meaning of sankalp and vikalp?
Dadashri : Vikalp means 'I' and sankalp means 'my. One (the self) becomes that which it imagines to be (kalptaru, kalpswarup). Whatever vikalp is made, one becomes that. When one says, "I am Chandulal," he becomes that. When he says, "I am unhappy," he becomes that. This projection is the Vikalp. So this goes under I' and 'mine'. That Vikalp can never be broken until he attains the knowledge of the Self, and hence he can never become vikalp-less (nirvikalp). 'I renounced this. 'I read so many scriptures', 'I performed so many worships' etc, are all vikalps. These vikalps remain entrenched and
The ascetics sit in samadhi; they renounce their worldly life, they go to the Himalayas and then they meditate, 'I am not a sadhu, I am not this. I am not that.' In doing this they experience some happiness but their samadhi is not the nirvikalp samadhi (bliss of freedom from ego) that they experience because they have not entered within with understanding
Questioner: I know someone who attains samadhi even while standing. He cannot hear us even if we shout.
Dadashri : That is not called samadhi; that is unconsciousness. What is samadhi? Samadhi is a natural state. It is true samadhi where all the five senses are awake and alert: the person will have awareness when someone touches him. You cannot call it samadhi where there is no awareness of the body. That kind of samadhi is the result of unduly subjecting the body to suffering (kasht samadhi). It can never be called samadhi
