[Advaita-l] Vikalpa, Savikalpa, and Nirvikalpa

[vinayaka ns]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Venkatesh Murthy <vmurthy36 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Why there is the necessity for Samadhi experience? Janaka was a Jnani
> and King. He did not have time to do meditation and go into Samadhi.
> But he got Jnana doing his daily activities only.


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Namaste,

According to laghu yOga vAsishTa janaka got enlightenment through the
samAdhi abhyAsa. You can see the details of his sAdhana in the following
link.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/advaitin/message/57874

It should be noted that Sri Vidyaranya, a sampradAya AchArya has profusely
quoted this text in his work 'jIvanmukti vivEka'. I could trace this
portion with the help of his citation.

Best Wishes,

Vinayaka