Quote#Nature
I exist without the cosmic shadow
Quote byParamahansa Yogananda · 1893–1952
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quotes drawn from the poem "Samadhi".
English (original)
I exist without the cosmic shadow, But it could not live bereft of me; As the sea exists without the waves, But they breathe not without the sea. Dreams, wakings, states of deep turiya sleep, Present, past, future, no more for me, But the ever-present, all-flowing, I, I everywhere. Consciously enjoyable, Beyond the imagination of all expectancy, Is this, my samadhi state.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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