Samadi Quotes

“The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds—all reasoning and disputing—come to an end. Then you go into samadhi—sleep—, into communion with God in silence.”
― Sri Ramakrishna

“All-vision gathered into a single ray,
As when the eyes stare at an invisible point
Till through the intensity of one luminous spot
An apocalypse of a world of images
Enters into the kingdom of the seer.”
― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“In sabikalpa samadhi the devotee has attained realization of his oneness with Spirit but cannot maintain his cosmic consciousness except in the immobile trance state.

By continuous meditation he reaches the superior state of nirbikalpa samadhii, in which he may move freely in the world without any loss of God-perception.

pg416, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi