338 Aptavani-2
Here the fault lies with the one who sees.
People in India are such that they will even put a lock on their mouth! These people believe that loss of bodily awareness is nirvikalp samadhi. They believe they have entered the dimension beyond the senses( atiindriya state, nirvikalp state) because the information through the senses is not coming through( nirindriya state). They think that they have entered the nirvikalp state( atiindriya state). No! The atiindriya state is way beyond that. They have discarded awareness of the senses; they have not yet attained the state of atiindriya state. So where are they? They are in a nirindriya state; a state void of senses. And in this nirindriya state, they keep saying,‘ Hum, hum(‘ I am something, I am something’), and believe they are in the state of a nirvikalp samadhi.
Still, their intentions are good. Their intention behind putting chili powder in their eyes is good; therefore they will attain liberation some day.
In the Kramic path, nirvikalp samadhi begins when one is very near to attaining the final liberation, whereas here in the Akram path, you( addressing the mahatmas who have received Gnan) have already attained the state of nirvikalp samadhi. In the Kramic path you have to suffer all necessary penance till the very end. You have to suffer the penance of loach; hair plucking ritual, and other penances and rituals. In the Kramic path the doer is a separate entity, karma is separate, the knower is separate but at the same time one claims,“ I have to do dhyan.” Hence there the‘ doer’( the one meditating), the goal( dhyeya), and the process of meditation( dhyan), are all separate. But only when these three unite as one, can there be a little experience of the bliss of nirvikalp. But in the Kramic path, the sense of doer-ship remains till the end. That is why they say,“ I am doing dhyan.”
Dhyeya, which is the goal, is to be nirvikalpi and dhyata;