S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 6 - 2 Fa l l 2 0 2 0 5 Gejza M. Timčák In case of a liberated person ( jñāni , jivanmukti ), after re-emerging from nirvikapla samādhi into the perception of one's own body and mind as well as of the outer environment, one's functional non-physical instruments (see Fig. 1) became freely passable to the “will of the Absolute” and the ahamkāra is transformed in such a way that at all times the jñāni is aware of the identity of his psychophysical individuality and of all the environment as the outpour of the Being. This means that the one was absorbed in sahaja samādhi – samādhi that is uninterrupted also in non-meditational states. Maharshi claims, “ [w]hen the mind, which is the cause of all cognition and of all action, becomes quiescent, the world will disappear” (1966, 3). We find a similar view at Vallalar, a 16th century South Indian yogi, who states that “ [t]hose who dwell as knowledge upon the abolition of ignorance, who upon the abolition of both knowledge and ignorance, do not know even that knowledge, and hence are not separate from their Self, have attained absorption in true knowledge [Note: jñāna samādhi ] through the loss of their individual Self, and in that very instant are liberated whilst in body. ” (Vallalar 2013, 91). Muruganar, one of the eminent followers of Ramana Maharshi, describes the process ofĀtma vichāra as: “ Do not look at this, do not look at that. If you simply remain without looking at anything, then by that powerful look at [Note: one’s own] being [Note: that is, by that powerful attention to the Self manifested as ‘I am’] , you will become the supreme reality, which has the outlook of the unlimited space of consciousness. ” (Muruganar 2007, 31). The final outcome ofĀtma vichāra is thus sahaja samādhi , which state implies that the yogi becomes a jñāni through whom the Absolute gets specifically manifested. Fig.1. The Approximation of the Way How the Mind of Jñānis Functions (Ganapati 2016, 37–39) Sat-Chit-Ānanda → Depersonified attention, which perceives the flow of information from the Absolute ← Ahamkāra that was restructured so that it reflects the will of the Absolute → Manas and buddhi are reflecting the information from within and from without → Attention 1 The world perceived as the outflow of the will of the Absolute ← Attention 2 Unimpeded flow of information (will of the Absolute) ending in deeds →
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