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the realm of relativity and where all dualities are overcome forever. The emancipated soul then leaves its nest of the body and roams freely in the infinite expanse of the sky of the Supreme Spirit.' So long as the jiva exists on the level of conditioned existence, it cannot know God. But God can be realised by the pure mind (s'uddha manas), which again is the same thing as the pure unconditioned spirit. He cannot indeed be realised by the finite reason, or by the finite, relative, and conditioned mind that has a sensuous nature due to its attachment to 'woman and gold'..... When freed from all the worldly tendencies, desires, and attachments, it becomes one with the unconditioned Spirit..... God is beyond mind and intellect so long as they are bound within relativity, but He manifests Himself to them when they are purified, and become free from ignorance. The state of the highest Samadhi is indescribable. No one can say what it is; it is the absolute transformation of one's own soul into God. The doll made of salt plunged into the ocean to measure its depth; but no sooner did it touch the water than it was dissolved. Who can then give the idea of the profundity of the Divine joy and perfection when the measurer himself is lost in it?3 Ramakṛṣņa had experienced such a Nirvikalpa Samadhi for a considerably long period, and from his own experience he says that knowledge finally culminates into such a highest Samadhi which has ineffable peace; its experience
1 Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, 290.
2 Ibid. 924, 925. 8 Ibid. 988.
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