Sage Dattatreya
The Goddess Continued..
Worship of Abstract Intelligence in a concrete form is not only useful but essential for non-dual realization. For how can one be made fit for it without Her benediction. Non-dual realization is the same as pure Intelligence, absolutely void of objective knowledge. Such realization nullifies all objective knowledge, revealing it in all its nakedness to be as harmless as a picture of a pouncing tiger or of an enraged serpent.
When the mind has completely resolved into the Self, that state is called nirvikalpa samadhi (the undifferentiated peaceful state). After waking up from it, the person is overpowered by the memory of his experience as the one, undivided, infinite pure Self and he knows I AM THAT, as opposed to the puerile I-thought of the ignorant. That is Supreme Knowledge (vijnana or pratyabhijna jnana).
Note: The advanced state of meditation is savikalpa samadhi, where the person is aware that he has turned away from objectivity towards subjectivity and feels his proximity to the state of Self- realisation. When he actually sinks within the Self, there is no knowledge apart from the simple awareness of blissful existence. This is nirvikalpa samadhi. Waking up, he sees the world just as any other man does, but his outlook has become different. He is now able to know his pure Self and no longer confounds himself with the ego. That is the acme of Realisation.
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