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| Ramana Maharshi |
Nirvikalpa Samadhi is simply Manolaya, a temporary dissolution of the mind. The mind gets dissolved, just like in deep dreamless sleep, but eventually comes back. That is not enlightenment.
(from "A Sadhu's Reminiscences Of Ramana Maharshi):Bhagavan used to tell a story of the Yogi who was practicing Tapas (Spiritual Practice) on the bank of the Ganges. He told his disciple to go and fetch him some water and in the meantime went into a state of Manolaya (Nirvikalpa Samadhi, temporary dissolution of the mind). After a thousand years he awoke, the first thing he did was to demand his water, but the disciple had become a skeleton at his side, the Ganges had changed its course and the whole country was different. What good had the long trance done? It had just been a blank when time stood still."
Ramana Maharshi also said: (from "Crumbs from His Table")
"In Kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi one is not free from vasanas (latent tendencies, normally called deep karma) and does not, therefore, attain mukti. Only after the samskaras and vasanas have been destroyed, can one attain salvation...
Even though one practices Kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi for years together, if one has not rooted out the vasanas, he will not attain salvation."
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