Baba was always in the state of
supreme soul consciousness (paramhansa avastha).
He gave brief experiences of achal samadhi
(a static state in which consciousness transcends the body) to some
people, including Kishan Chandra Tewari, Nandaballabh Joshi, and
Gurudatt Sharma.
After putting Gurudatt Sharma into such a state at Church Lane, Baba
turned to a doctor who had just arrived and asked, "See,
what has happened to him?"
The doctor was puzzled and confused because Sharma ji did not have an
obvious pulse and did not seem to be breathing. Baba told some other
devotees to carry the completely inert Gurudatt Sharma into another
room. After some time Baba went into the room and touched him. Sharma
ji then regained consciousness.
On another occasion Baba put Sharma ji into samadhi
in Major Rikhi's house in Delhi. Someone doubted his state of
unawareness and decided to test it by cutting his foot with a razor
blade. Blood flowed onto the floor, but Sharma ji was completely
unaware of it. When Major Rikhi saw what was happening, he cleaned and
bandaged the cut. It was not until Sharma ji regained consciousness
that he noticed his bandaged foot.
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