Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

last Saturday. Suddenly there was a strangesensation in my chest.Mani — Waking of the Kundalini!Narendra — It must be that. I clearly perceivedthe Ida [2] and the Pingala [3] nerves. I askedHazra to place his hand on my chest to feel thesensation.“Yesterday, Sunday, I went upstairs to see him[Sri Ramakrishna] and told him about it.“I said, ‘Everyone else has attained realization;please give me some. Everyone else hasattained it. Should I be the only one not tosucceed?’ ”Mani — What did he say to you?Narendra — He said, ‘Please come here aftersettling your family affairs. You will geteverything. What do you want?’Sri Ramakrishna and the Vedanta – accept both theAbsolute and the phenomenal“I said, ‘I want to remain absorbed in samadhifor three or four days. I want only to rise nowand then to eat a little food.’“He said, ‘You are very small-minded! Thereis a state higher than this! Don’t you yourselfsing, “You are all that is”?’ ”