A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Nirvikalpa-samadhi
This page describes Nirvikalpa-samadhi which is located on page 424 of the second volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Nirvikalpa-samadhi” according to 122 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Vivekachudamani [by Shankara]
Through the Samadhi in which the mind has been perfectly stilled, visualise the Truth of the Self with the eye of clear realisation. If the meaning of the (Scriptural) words heard from the Guru is perfectly and indubitably discerned, then it can lead to no more doubt. Notes:[Samadhi— i. e. the highest or Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Scriptural words—such as “Thou art That,” and so on. Discerned—realised in Samadhi.]...
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Yoga-sutras (Vedanta Commentaries)
When it has subsided, we enter that highest samadhi of all, which is called Nirvikalpa in the Vedanta system of philosophy. Nirvikalpa samadhi is said to be seedless because it is nothing but pure, undifferentiated consciousness; it contains no phenomenal impressions whatever, no seeds of desire and attachment. Brahman is not "an object of concentration"; in Brahman is neither knower nor known....
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Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu [by Shrila Rupa Gosvami]
sandra, yatha — sarvavidya-dhvamsato yah samastad avirbhuto nirvikalpe samadhau | jate sakshad yadavendre sa vindan mayy anandah sandratam kotidhasit ||3.1.37||English translationSandra-shanta-rati: “In nirvikalpa-samadhi, after destroying all ignorance, I experienced complete bliss. But when I saw Krishna directly, that bliss became thousands of times more concentrated.”...
Read full contents: Verse 3.1.37
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