[A good sádhaka (spiritual practitioner) was the medium for the demonstration of this samádhi. He was first asked by Bábá to examine the audience carefully with open eyes and to estimate roughly the number of individuals. He estimated there were about two hundred fifty individuals. He further stated that as he beheld all those various individuals, his mind registered different feelings and became disturbed. Then Bábá made him close his eyes and touched him.

On being asked what he saw with closed eyes, he responded, “Unity.” He saw nothing but oneness.

Then Bábá asked him to concentrate on the various cakras, from múládhára upward, and each time to try to imagine or see oneness. As the cakras under concentration rose higher and higher, the sádhaka said that he was feeling oneness more. Moreover, his mind was becoming more and more tranquil, in contrast to the disturbance he had felt earlier when viewing the audience. Finally, when his concentration reached and surpassed the ájiṋá cakra at the trikut́i (between the eyebrows), the sádhaka got more and more deeply immersed in samádhi till at last he lost control of his body.

Bábá explained that the Cosmos was, externally, a phenomenon of analysis (vishleśańa), diversity, clash, disturbance of mind and materialism (jad́atá); and internally, a matter of synthesis (saḿshleśańa), oneness, peace, tranquillity and spirituality (ádhyátma). Apará knowledge, that is, the knowledge of the external objectivity, is necessary for worldly activities, but pará knowledge, that is, the knowledge of matters internal, is supreme and superior. Apará knowledge should be controlled by pará knowledge. Educational institutions where only apará knowledge is imparted are not sufficient. Side by side the controlling pará knowledge must be taught. In fact the pará knowledge should have precedence over the apará knowledge, because uncontrolled by pará knowledge, apará knowledge will tend to produce literate brutes who might misuse their knowledge of worldly things. Controlled by pará knowledge, apará knowledge will be used for the welfare and elevation of all of humankind.

The Supreme Self is the peak of subjectivity. Because He is the goal, our approach in each and every worldly activity should be subjective; however, in the actual physical performance of activity we will have to follow the method of objective adjustment. Even when dealing with the many, one must remember that, behind the many, there is the One. We must never lose sight of the fact that the many are but the facets of the One. Even a criminal whom we may have to punish is, ultimately, a chip off the same block, Brahma. Thus orientated internally, our physical actions will always remain moral, ethical and spiritual. There will be no sins committed and there will be no degradation of the soul, even if a physical action outwardly damages or destroys someone.

In the end Bábá exhorted every Ananda Margi to work tirelessly with a smiling face in the service of mankind and at the same time devotedly and constantly perform sádhaná. Then he promised everyone his grace and the blessing of samádhi that the aforesaid sádhaka was enjoying. The name of the samádhi that he was enjoying was atimánasa yoga samádhi.]