Below is verse 357 from Shankara’s Vivekachudamani together with Swami Chinmayananda’s brief commentary on the verse, stating the need for Samadhi, and how without this experience the whole of written and verbal vedanta is just empty talk (this is paraphrasing the teachings given in the Amritabindu Upanishad in verse 5). BMI is Swami Chinmayananada’s shorthand for Body-Mind-Intellect:
Also see:
The Union of Meditation and Self-Enquiry – The two paths of Vedanta – Panchadasi by Vidyaranya Swami
Ramana Maharshi: the path to self-realisation (Padamalai)
Shankara on the Mind, Samadhi (stillness of mind), Manonasa (destruction of mind), and Liberation
Tom Das 
Tom,
Have we not chosen the ” bondage of birth and rebirth “? In this shared experience of the interplay of opposites… are we not experiencing Love? So our ” bondage” our “cross” of pain and suffering is a working out of a far surpassing “experience” of Love that we would not have otherwise encountered. Is this the DHARMA?
Peace to YOU
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I’m not sure!
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Can you be sure if Samadhi is the beginning or the ending of true experience?
Peace to You.
Contruple
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Try it first, then, in time, you will see for yourself
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Hi Tom, I would like to know more about the classes that you teach (both group and individual). Is there a good way for me to contact you via email or other online means?
thanks
Guru
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Hi Guru, please use the contact form on this website. Meeting details can be found here, best wishes: http://www.tomdas.com/events
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If you are based in the London UK area, the next meeting is Thursday 25th (today) at the Druids Head Pub in Kingston upon Thames, see here: https://www.meetup.com/Non-duality-Kingston-London/
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Thanks! I will try to attend the meeting, but not sure since I am based on Seattle, USA. I heard that you also provide 1:1 sessions, can you please provide more details on that? My email id is gurumurthys@gmail.com.
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