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VIKALPA - giving up of a resolve or a plan

VIKSHEPA - disruption, absent-mindedness, scatterbrainedness ...

 


Nirvikalpa-Samadhi
Superconscious state where there is no mind or Triputi.
Nitya-Siddha ...

Vikalpa - impression of thought
Vikalpa samskara - purification of thought; one-pointedness of thought
Viksipta - state of consciousness that is not steady; when one withdraws the mind, but it does not remain withdrawn ...

Vikalpa
one of the five vrittis; doubt; an alternative; error
Vikshipta ...

Nirvikalpa is the final state of samadhi, the state when even the wonderful visions and experiences of higher meditation are renounced, as even they are only modifications of the mind. Only pure awareness of the Self is left.
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nirvikalpa samadhi complete trance, in which there is no thought or movement of consciousness or awareness of either inner or outer things.
niscala-niravata [motionless soundlessness]; silence.
niscesta without effort.

Nirvikalpa is the state of superconsciousness. There are no Vikalpas of any sort in this condition. This is the Goal of life. All the mental activities cease now. The functions of the intellect and ten Indriyas cease entirely.

Nirvikalpa or Nirbija Samadhi is timeless, changeless. This is the highest state of Samadhi.
Double Consciousness ...

1. Savikalpa-samādhi (samāpatti 1, 3, 5, and 7)
2. Nirvikalpa-samādhi (samāpatti 2, 4, 6, and 8)
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The Nirvikalpa or Sanjivan Samadhi is well explained by the greatest yogi, Dhnyaneshwar.

Sankalapa vikalpatmakah manah, a changing mind oscillation from one state to another. This is the most gross state of mind when this randomness gets canalized the energies start getting useful.

Vikalpa: Fancy; Imagination.
Viniyoga: Application.
Vipareetha Bhavana: Perverted understanding.
Viparyaya: Wrong knowledge; wrong cognition.
Virodha: Opposing.
Visesha: Distinction; defined.
Vishaya: Objects.
Visoka: Without sorrow.

According to the descriptions we have in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, this is equal to savikalpa samadhi, a merger into the being of God with a simultaneous feeling of independence maintained by oneself.

- One of two cases, one side of an argument, an alternative (p a k s h a; vikalpa); investigation, research.
- Resolve, determination.

Nirvikalpa Samadhi ensues now and the Yogi gets liberation and all the divine Aishvaryas. One should practise control of breath with concentration of mind. The awakened Kundalini that is taken up to Manipura Chakra may drop down again to Muladhara.

Vritti ("whirl") - in Patanjali's yoga-darshana, specifically the five types of mental activity: valid cognition (pramna), misconception (viparyaya), imagination (vikalpa), sleep (nidr), and memory (smriti) ...

See also: Kalpa, Yoga, Ananda, Mind, Spirit

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