From Ramana Maharishi
D.: If trance be my natural state, why is it said that trance is necessary to be got before Realisation?
M.: That means that one should be aware of his eternal state of trance. Inattentiveness to it is ignorance. ‘Pramado vai mrtyuh’ (inattention is death itself).
D.: How can I be attentive without getting trance beforehand?
M.: Very well. If you are so anxious for trance any narcotic will bring it about. Drug-habit will be the result and not liberation. There are vasanas in the latent state even in trance. The vasanas must be destroyed.
(From ‘Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi’, Talk 317)
There are many desire patterns way below the conscious level.
That must be destroyed. This destruction is called Nirvikalpa
But first one must learn to find those latent desires – way below conscious level by deep meditation – savikalpa. It seems like a paradox to the ignorant.
The ignorant translation is how can I be conscious of something below consciousness? Does it not become a conscious level then?
The answer is what people generally think as being conscious is not true consciousness
Bhavin