Sage Dattatreya
Having spoken of the jnani's samadhi as approved by the Sages, Dattatreya proceeds to prove its unbroken nature.
What is samadhi? Samadhi is absolute knowledge uncontaminated by objects. such is the state of the best jnanis even when they take part in the affairs of the world. The blue color of the sky is known to be an unreal phenomenon and yet it appears the same to both the knowing and the unknowing, but with this difference, that the one is misled by the appearance and the other is not. Just as the false perception does not mislead the man who knows, so also all that is perceived, which is known to the wise to be false, will never mislead them.
Since the middle class of jnanis have already destroyed their minds, there are no objects for them. Their state is known as the supramental one. The mind is agitated when it assumes the shape of those objects which it mistakes for real; and unagitated otherwise. Therefore the latter state is alone supramental.
Since a jnani of the highest order can engage in several actions at the same time and yet remain unaffected, he is always many-minded and yet remains in unbroken samadhi. His is absolute knowledge free from objects.
I have now told you all that you want to know.
Thus ends the Chapter 'The Different States of jnanis' in Tripura Rahasya.
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