the time was forced to operate in secrecy. Its literature employed an encrypted and enigmatic style. Because of the necessity of privacy and secrecy, little is definitively known about their prevalence or practices. The or the siddhi or 'natural accomplishment' or the 'accomplishment of the unconditioned natural state' was also a textual work, the revealed by Dombi Heruka (Skt. Ḍombi Heruka or Ḍombipa) one of the eighty-four Mahasiddhas. The following quotation identifies the relationship of the 'mental flux' (mindstream) to the . Moreover, it must be remembered that though Sundararajan and Mukerji (2003: p. 502) use a masculine pronominal the term is not gender-specific and that there were females, many as senior , amongst the communities: Ramana Maharshi Ramana Maharshi distinguished between and : is temporary, whereas is a continuous state throughout daily activity. This state seems inherently more complex than , since it involves several aspects of life, namely external activity, internal quietude, and the relation between them. It also seems to be a more advanced state, since it comes after the mastering of samadhi. See also Wu wei Samadhi Turiya Sambalpur Balasore Ziran Mahamudra Shikantaza Ten bulls Five ranks Notes References Sources Printed sources Arora, R.K. The Sacred Scripture (New Delhi: Harman, 1988), chapter 6: Sahaja Das Gupta, Shashibhusan. Obscure religious cults (Calcutta: Mukhopadhyay, 1969) Davidson, Ronald M. "Reframing Sahaja: genre, representation, ritual and lineage", Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol.30, 2002, pp45–83 Dimock, Edward C. Jr. "The Place of the Hidden Moon - Erotic Mysticism in the Vaiṣṇava-sahajiyā Cult of Bengal, University of Chicago Press, 1966 Kvaerne, Per. "On the Concept of Sahaja in Indian Buddhist Tantric Literature", Temenos, vol.11, 1975, pp88-135 Mahendranath, Shri Gurudev. Ecstasy, Equipoise, and Eternity. Retrieved Oct. 20, 2004. Mahendranath, Shri Gurudev. The Pathless Path to Immortality. Retrieved Oct. 20, 2004. Neki, J.S. "Sahaja: an Indian ideal of mental health", Psychiatry, vol.38, 1975, pp1–10 Ray, Niharranjan. "The Concept of Sahaj in Guru Nanak's Theology and its Antecedents", in Medieval Bhakti Movements in India, edited by N.N.Bhattacharyya (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1969), pp17–35 Web-sources Timothy Conway (2012), Saraha: One of the earliest, wisest Buddhist Tantra mahasiddha-sages Bengali philosophy Buddhism in Bangladesh Schools of Buddhism Buddhist philosophical concepts Hindu philosophical concepts Bhakti movement Nondualism Advaita Yoga