Shankara on nirvakalpa samadhi: "There is a continuous consciousness of the unity of Atman and Brahman." [Call it implosion, dissolution of boundaries, Ramakrishna's salt doll dissolving into the sea, call it what you will, the body-mind is no longer central. A new orientation of emptiness unbounded fills to brimming with myriad form, and all of these apparently real forms are recognized to be insubstantial and illusory, transience born ceaselessly out of eternal consciousness.] "There is no longer any identification of the Atman with its coverings." [The pushing and pulling of body-mind and phenomena are witnessed dispassionately as ephemera.] "All sense of duality are obliterated." [This is so, and all attempts at description merely constitute further obstruction. My own "feeling" is roughly an absence of personal self (although continually witnessed), and in its place oceanic, transparent, knowing recognition, like light of dawn permeating morning sky. But words just obscure it.] "The man who is well established in this consciousness is said to be illumined." [Well established. Ah, there's the rub, for now.]
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