Paramahansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic \u201cAutobiography of a Yogi\u201d, wrote a powerful poem about the experience of cosmic consciousness or \u201cSamadhi\u201d\u2014the highest state of awareness in which the individual merges with the infinite. This painting depicts many lines from this poem such as \u201cPlanets, stars, stardust, earth \u2013 Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms \u2013 Creation\u2019s molding furnace\u2026Each particle of universal dust\u2026I swallowed, transmuted all \u2013 Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being\u201d, providing a visual glimpse of this exalted state. As children of the infinite, Samadhi is actually our native state, reclaimed when we calm the restless mind and heart. \u201cBy deeper, longer, thirsty, guru-given meditation comes this celestial Samadhi.\u00a0 Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard, the dark earth, mountains, vales, lo! Molten liquid!\u00a0 Flowing seas change into vapors of nebulae!
\nAum blows upon the vapors, opening wondrously their veils,
\nOceans stand revealed, shining electrons…\u201d<\/p>\n
Excerpted from the poem \u201cSamadhi\u201d by Paramahansa Yoganada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"