Discourses-----Day 15
January 27, 1940
Sri Sri Thakur was sitting in the Philanthropy Office. It
was about ten o’clock in
the morning. I was discussing supreme consciousness (Samadhi) with Kestoda.
Thakur overheard our talk and said, “Samadhi is
that peculiar condition which follows integrated solution. This condition leads
a man to thinking he is completely absorbed during it. But that is not the
case. When one arrives after much thinking at a complete solution of a problem,
one gets a feeling of unfathomable bliss ; one talks of absorption because one
is in ecstasy. Samadhi can take place in a number of ways. One man gets it when
absorbed in thoughts of his wife. Another by thinking of money, etc. Phenomena
have different phases. Supreme consciousness, a result of an impression of
perfect knowledge, appears when all the phases of a universe pertaining to a
particular subject reveal themselves to the perception and intellect. That is
why it is often said that a storehouse of knowledge opens up through Samadhi.
One must feel it with sensation, with being ; for which again it must be
meaningful to one’s Ideal. This Samadhi or integrated solution is followed by
activity. You work out the solution obtained. Nothing in you drops off in this.
You may be accustomed to visit a prostitute, to throw away pencils after using,
to read and write, to serve people, to steal berries and eat them. If so, they
will all remain. But they will remain with meaning. Whatever you know in this
universe must be known as an instrument for fulfilling the interests of your
Ideal. The urge to fulfill will itself open up the doors of unlimited ability.
Man invariably has the seed of knowledge latent in him. He comes to know
whatever he is associated with. How do I talk on so many subjects ? It is all based
on realized facts. And whatever I say, and however I may say it, I am talking
about essentially the same thing. Lord Ramakrishna said, ‘I am not giving you
all the knowledge now.’ He kept things a little closed. I am disclosing them
with all clarity and this cannot be appreciated by others unless they get in
touch with you. You are going to be the saviours of mankind. Those of you who
are actively working with me, you are the future Gurus and saviours of
humanity.”
Mohendrada has come out very successfully to his
publishing business. Kestoda narrated the history of Mohendrada’s business
life. Sri Sri Thakur said, “He has the
principle of Swastyayani innate in him. In whatever way a man evolves, he has
to have that as a starting point.”
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