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but they are not so visible. Only few people will be able to understand what is happening because they belong to a very unknown world. You don't have any language for it, no concepts for it, and you cannot see it unless it happens to you.
... IN THIS STATE KNOWLEDGE IS GAINED DIRECT, WITHOUT THE USE OF THE SENSES.
The mind has gone, and with the mind all the assistants, all the idiots. They are not functioning, they don't distract you, they don't disturb your perception, they don't create any types of hindrances, they don't project, they don't interpret. That whole thing is no more there. Simply consciousness is there before reality. And when this happens, consciousness faces consciousness, because there is no matter.
The most beautiful metaphor that I have come across is a mirror facing another mirror. What will happen when a mirror faces another mirror? One mirror mirrors another mirror; the other mirrors this mirror, and there is nothing in the mirror, only mirroring reflected millions of times into each other. The whole world becomes millions of mirrors -- and you are also a mirror -- and all mirrors empty, because nothing else is there to reflect, not even the frame of the mirror. There is just the mirror -- two mirrors facing each other. That is the most graceful moment, the most blissful; grace descends, flowers shower, the whole celebrates that one more has attained, one more traveler has reached home.
THE PERCEPTION GAINED IN NIRVICHARA SAMADHI TRANSCENDS ALL NORMAL PERCEPTIONS, BOTH IN EXTENT AND INTENSITY.
These two words are very meaningful: "extent" and "intensity". When you see the world through the senses, brain and the mind, the world is very dull. It has no luminosity in it, dusty, and soon it becomes boring, and one feels fed up: the same trees, the same people, the same actions -- everything just a rut. It is not so.
Sometimes in LSD, or marijuana or hashish, suddenly the tree becomes more green. You have never known it, that the tree was so green or the rose was so rosy.
When Aldous Huxley first took LSD, he was sitting before a chair. Suddenly, the chair became one of the most beautiful things
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