Vedanta reveals that freedom is impossible as long as the ego seeks to preserve itself. Meditation may bring temporary calm, but real transformation begins only when the false sense of individuality dissolves. Whether through devotion or knowledge, every genuine spiritual path culminates in the complete dissolution of the seeker into Truth. Liberation is not the experience of Truth by an individualтАФit is the end of the individual who wants to experience Truth.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, pranam. In one of his talks, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, тАЬWhat is Samadhi? It is the complete merging of the mind in God-consciousness. The Jnani experiences Jada Samadhi, in which no trace of 'I' is left. The Samadhi attained through the path of Bhakti is Chaitanya Samadhi. In this Samadhi, there remains a consciousness of 'I,' the 'I' of the servant and master relationship, of the lover and beloved relationship, of the enjoyer and food relationship.
God is the master; the devotee is the servant. God is the beloved; the devotee is the lover. God is the food, and the devotee is the enjoyer. I don't want to be sugar. I want to eat it.тАЭ That's what the Bhakta says.
Referring to the same, Ramana Maharshi says,
"It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within yourself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it. Because you imagine yourself to be out of it, you raise the question, 'Where is the source?'
