However, I could raise myself up from my bed and even drink a glass of water, but it was all so ... bizarre. And when I went back to bed, it took nearly forty-five minutes for the body to regain its normal state. Only after I had entered into another type of samadhi' and again come out of it did my consciousness fully return. It is the first time I have had an experience of this kind. During those three hours, there was nothing but the Supreme manifesting through the eternal Mother. page 372 , Mother's Agenda , volume - 1, 24th May 1960