Swami Vivekanan when he was here in New York,

is a beautiful description of him,

in one of those rented houses,

and he would teach meditation.

That posture, this one, he would sit like this,

and he said, now we will meditate, and he would sit, and the description is he would sit like this, and he said, now we will meditate.

And he would sit, and the description is he would become like a stone Buddha,

like a bronze image of the Buddha, he was absolutely still.

And others would also sit, some on the carpet, some on chairs.

There's even a description of people sitting on the sink, because there was no place to sit. It's so crowded, small rooms. And they would meditate. 15 minutes would pass

and a half an hour would pass. And Swami is absolutely motionless. He's lost in samadhi.

He meditates, it goes into samadhi.

45 minutes and people are starting to fidget look up and then close their eyes again

one hour and one and a half hours and two hours and people will gently get up and quietly slink away

two three hours later he would open his eyes and the room would be empty. He's made them all disappear.

And he would be ashamed of these things.

And you know, he would try not to get so absorbed.

In Thousand Island Park, I went there recently in St. Lawrence River,

where he went and spent six months.

That book inspired talks.

It was a cottage.

There is this cottage, Miss Dutchel, Elizabeth Dutcher's cottage.

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