Nirvikalpa Samadhi - Stanza Two

'' The Great Master in this state knows the twinkling atoms of Cosmic Energy to be his own eyes, through which he peers into every pore of Space and into Ifinity.

He enjoys in all Creation the fragrance of Bliss; and inhales the sweetness of astral atom-blossoms, blooming in the Cosmic garden.

He tastes the astral nectar of liquid Cosmic Energy; and sips the fluid honey of a tangible joy, existing in the honeycomb of electronic space.

No longer is he lured by material food, but lives by his own Divine Energy.

He feels his voice vibrate, not in a human body, but in the throat of all vibrations, and in his body of all finite matter.

He listens to his voice of creative Cosmic AUM, conjoined with the song of Spirit, singing through the flute of atoms, and through the shimmering waves of all Creation; and he desires to hear naught else.

He feels his blood of perception run through the veins in the body of all finite vibratory creation.

He feels the home of his being in the ocean of Space, and perceives the swimming waves of island universes on his own sea bosom.

He knows the softness of the petals of blossoms, and the tenderness of the love in all hearts, the aliveness of youth in all bodies.

He knows births and deaths only as changes dancing on the Sea of Life - even as waves of the ocean, fall, and rise again.

He cognizes all past and future, but lives in the eternal present.

For him the conundrum of the why of being is resolved in the singular realization: ''From Joy we have come. In Joy we live and move and have our being. And in that Saced Perennial Joy we melt again''.

This is Self-Realization, man's native state.''

Paramahansa Yogananda

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