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When the last thought
has been ‘thoughted’…
SWAMI ADVAYANANDA
anguage can only very poorly communicate the nature and
Lthe process of the final mystic experience. Nay, rather clumsily!
This difficulty is observed in all languages – Sanskrit is no
exception – but the challenge is more so with English.
Matchless Master
Pujya Gurudev, an exceptional ‘architect’ of the English language,
could design, construct, mould, and recast it at will and with
ease, and when it came to communicating the lofty experience
in the final moments of meditation and giving a glimpse of It to
his disciples, he evinced no qualms even in ‘un-grammatizing’
English. While explaining how a seeker glides into the
experience of nirvikalpa-samädhi, he would often express the final
culminating moment thus: “In the white heat of meditation
when the last thought has been thoughted, and no more new
thought is thoughting…” he would then give a long, profound,
pregnant pause – cease talking, be still, soar into that sacred
Silence, giving all of us, his disciples, a glimpse of That – and
then alone would he complete the rest of the sentence: “then
is the mystic death of the ego, wherein the individual ego
disappears into the sacred Vision of the transcendental Reality.”
God’s Name is a magnetic
healing balm for the wounded
and the afflicted in the dreadful
battlefield of this dire mundane
existence.
Swami Chinmayananda
Tapovan Prasad 34 November 2024
