Consciousness of the world disappears
https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/tlayt.bucket1/Short+talks+from+12.06.20/Consciousnessoftheworlddisappears+.mp3 Finally, in the last one, as we’ve said – Samadhi. The consciousness of the world and the body, which before had become faint, now disappears, and there’s only the object of meditation in its radiant form, for example, the case of the Buddha in radiant form. It takes practice and persistence, but it corresponds to something already in ourselves. The forms, like the Buddha or the avatars, like Christ, Krishna, they are forms which are taken on by the Lord for his devotees. We need, mostly, a human form, for a long time. It’s not easy to meditate on abstract things for long, particularly if we need forgiveness, or if we’re very frightened, or if we’re very tempted. (We need) to have a human form, from whom we can feel we’ve been forgiven, or that we’re being helped in temptation. Crime will never be banished until there’s certainty …