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where there is undue suffering of the body. The one who has
true samadhi has complete awareness.
Nirvikalp samadhi
What have the worldly spiritual masters believed nirvikalp
samadhi to be? They believed them to be miracles of the chit
(chit chamatkar). When they lose awareness of their physical
body, they believe that all the information from the sense organs
(indriya gnan) has come to an end. But the knowledge beyond
the senses (atiindriya gnan) has not arisen and therefore they
are wondering in the zone of play of the chit. They see all kinds
of effects of the chit. In this, some see a white light but that is
not a true samadhi; it is nirindriya (without sensory input)
samadhi. It is not samadhi if you lose awareness of the body. On
the contrary, there is greater and acute awareness of the body
in nirvikalp samadhi. How can one call it nirvikalp samadhi when
he verily loses the awareness of the body?
Questioner : What is a nirvikalp samadhi?
Dadashri : ‘I am Chandulal’ is vikalp samadhi. Everything
that one sees is also vikalp samadhi. When a child breaks
something precious, it breaks Chandulal’s peace.
Questioner : What is the meaning of sankalp and
vikalp?
Dadashri : Vikalp means ‘I’ and sankalp means ‘my’.
One (the self) becomes that which it imagines to be (kalptaru,
kalpswarup). Whatever vikalp is made, one becomes that.
When one says, “I am Chandulal,” he becomes that. When he
says, “I am unhappy,” he becomes that. This projection is the
vikalp. So this goes under ‘I’ and ‘mine’. That vikalp can never
be broken until he attains the knowledge of the Self, and hence
he can never become vikalp-less (nirvikalp). ‘I renounced this’,
‘I read so many scriptures’, ‘I performed so many worships’
etc., are all vikalps. These vikalps remain entrenched and