Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

You take a form for the sake of the devotees inthe creation, and You are indeed formless evenwhen the five elements are dissolved.Vision of Formless Sat-chit-ananda [14] – piercing thesix spiritual centres and attainment of samadhiRamlal sings –Above it in the region of the throat is the smokehuedsixteen-petalled lotus of a void, the sourceof water.When this void is experienced, the universe isdissolved in the Void.Sri Ramakrishna then says to M., “Listen, thisis known as the vision of the formless Sat-chitananda.When the Vishuddha centre is pierced,one sees all as akasa [15] .”M. — Yes, sir.Sri Ramakrishna — After crossing over themaya of the universe and created beings, onereaches the Nitya [16] . Passing beyond thesound nada [17] , one attains samadhi. Whilepracticing the spiritual discipline of repeating‘Om,’ one goes beyond the nada sound andattains samadhi.Chapter III