Help
Sign In
paramhansa yoganda
November 2009 
Samadhi
RLtruthseeker-artist
Samadhi
Vanished the veils of light and shade,
Lifted every vapor of sorrow,
Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy,
Gone the dim sensory mirage.
Love, hate, health, disease ,life ,death,
Perished these false shadows on the screen of duality.
Waves of laughter, scyllas of sarcasm, melancholic whirlpools,
Melting in the vast sea of bliss.
The storm of maya stilled
By magic wand of intuition deep.
The universe, forgotten dream, subconsciously lurks,
Ready to invade my newly-waken memory divine.
I life without the cosmic shadow,
But it is not, bereft of me;
As the sea exists without the waves,
But they breathe not without the sea.
Dreams, wakings, states of deep turia, sleep,
Present, past, future, no more for me,
But ever-present, all-flowing I, I, everywhere.
Planets, stars, stardust, earth,
Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms,
Creation's molding furnace,
Glaciers of silent x-rays, burning electron floods,
Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come,
Every blade of grass, myself, mankind,
Each particle of universal dust,
Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust,
I swallowed, transmuted all
Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being!
Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditation
Blinding my tearful eyes,
Burst into immortal flames of bliss,
Consumed my tears, my frame, my all.
Thou art I, I am Thou,
Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!
Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever new peace!
Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy,
Samadhi bliss!
Not an unconscious state
Or mental chloroform without willful return,
Samadhi but extends my conscious realm
Beyond limits of the mortal frame
To farthest boundary of eternity
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,
Watch the little ego floating in Me.
The sparrow, each grain of sand, fall not without My sight.
All space floats like an iceberg in My mental sea.
Colossal Container, I, of all things made.
By deeper, longer, thirsty, guru-given meditation
Comes this celestial samadhi.
Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard,
The dark earth, mountains, vales, lo! Molten liquid!
Flowing seas change into vapors of nebulae!
Aum blows upon vapors, opening wondrously their veils,
Oceans stand revealed, shining electrons,
Till at last sound of the cosmic drum,
Vanish the grosser lights into eternal rays
Of all-pervading bliss.
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
Ocean of mind, I drink all creation's waves.
Four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light,
Lift aright.
Myself, in everything enters the Great Myself.
Gone forever, fitful, flickering shadows of mortal memory.
Spotless is my mental sky, below, ahead, and high above.
Eternity and I, one united ray.
A tiny bubble of laughter, I
Am become the Sea of Mirth Itself.
--Paramhansa Yoganda
Access: Public
wow, how do I comment on that?
impossible..
thank you so much
feeling like j. awesome!
Love love love Yogananda. Can we but imagine the bliss that is possible? Just smiling, thinking about it.
Two years ago my friend asked me to come to a satsang given by her new spiritual teacher. She excitedly told me that this man strongly felt he had been Parahamsa Yogananda in his past life. I didn't know who Parahamsa Yogananda was. I'm also generally suspicious about this kind of past life claims. So I declined my friend's invitation in spite of the fact that these satsangas are held quite close to the place where I live.
Anyway I accepted to read Yogananda's book ”The Autobiography of a Yogi”. That book did not impress me much. There is plenty of stuff in it that I interpret to be prerational. However it was an authentic description of Hindu belief systems and culture.
After having finished the book my friend again asked me to come to the satsang, just because she wanted to hear my evaluation of that man's past life claims, if there could be a grain of truth in it. I accepted that invitation.
My first impression was that the man had a relatively strong aura of subtle energies around him. The room was full of dedicated followers in spite of the fact that this man's awakening had happened rather recently. His teaching however was pretty ordinary having focus on light, and bliss, and love. It seemed to me his approach was a typical eastern form of spiritual bypassing. I started to question him on this. To my surprise he could immediately tune into my perspective of the importance of shadow work, and facing and working also with heavy energies. He told me about his difficult divorce, the pain it had activated in him, how he had worked with the pain, and how that had finally lead to his awakening.
After the satsang I also discussed privately with him still trying to figure out my view on his past life claim. When I sat there at the table close to him, a pretty strong subtle energy field was formed between us. It could be felt as waves of a cosmic ocean. I have felt this also in communication with some other people. However this experience is relatively rare to me while talking with somebody.
I also was observing his looks, his profile etc. I couldn't help but to admit that there were some resemblances to the pictures of Yogananda I had seen in the book.
Afterwards I told my friend I consider it to be valid that there is something of Yogananda in this man. I also told her that I don't believe in one to one rebirth, but clearly something of the morphogenetic field of Yogananda has got activated in that man.
After that I have a couple of times participated in his satsang. Every time I get troubled by his to me excessive focus on light, bliss and love, and start to bring in other perspectives. He immediately tunes in with me, and we have had pretty interesting and advanced discussions in full mutual understanding.
Wow, what an amazing experience. Sorry I didn't comment sooner. This poem came from The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita, from one of Paramhansa Yoganda's disciples. I've read a little of Yoganda…but I like your experience. I think (authentic) spiritual teachers know for the most part what they are talking about, but sometimes it's not communicated effectively for everyone. I like how you are able to resonate and communicate with this teacher. Thanks for your perspective. Maybe someday I'll have my own subtle energies, lol. Or at least get them radiating stronger, lol. :)