Samadhi

Ramana Maharshi poetically described the distinction between the two highest states of Samadhi in the following terms: “In Kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi the mind is alive, sunk in Light, like a bucket tied to a rope and left lying in the water in a well, to be drawn out by the other end of the rope; while in Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi the mind is dead, resolved into the Self, like a river discharged into the ocean and its identity lost since a river cannot be redirected from the ocean.”DOI:10.2307/1384285Corpus ID: 85549449 The states of human consciousness C. D. King Published 1965 Sociology Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-states-of-human-consciousness-King/6d260728b9cf0364c08dd22b524054a28c24608b