It is said and perhaps rightly too, that over this distracted world there is a greater sway of materialism than of spirituality. The majority of people are deeply sunk in materialism and therefore, have no inclination or desire to turn their attention towards spiritual values.
The supreme and final state of samadhi is Sahaja samadhi which does not imply any trance or any oblivion to what we ignorant ones call the ‘outer world’. There is no going backward and forward between the trance state and the mental state, the inner and the outer. His consciousness embraced both constantly without distinction and without effort.
“If it is true that all the objective world owes its existence to the ego, then how can that ego ever have the experience of surprise as it does, for example, when we stub our toe on an unseen obstacle?”
Saint Sages are the salt of the earth. They are the saviours of humanity. They are the sustainers of society. Philo remarks, “Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the good and beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves, they fill those they meet with a free mind.”
An English professor in the purvasrama, Sri Krishnaprem was an orthodox devotee of Krishna and as such had no intention to follow Self-Enquiry. Yet he had a striking experience of the significance of the question, ‘Who am I?’, when he visited Bhagavan for his blessings.