WHAT IS SAMADHI 


 

Samadhi is a neutral state of melted knowledge in its fullness.

In this state, the deep knowledge of the subject is connected with the deep knowledge of the object.

There is no mental effort or deliberation in this state.

What Happens in Samadhi


 

Things flow completely spontaneously with their purest streams. There is a breakthrough.

The experience of the past, present and future is united and spontaneously expressed.

A person’s memory is disabled and united with the ultimate reality.

 

Perception is switched toward higher abilities and answers to the questions like why, how, where, who are given with ease, perfect precision and with pure, highest intuition.

The person who has reached the Samadhi, the things are no longer unknown. In such a person’s mind ideas flow spontaneously. The right things happen without wish, desire, doubt, obstacles or any effort.

Knowledge of Oneness


 

With pure intuition the knowledge of Yoga begins.

This is where, as I usually like to notice, the knowledge of modern psychology ceases and where the knowledge of the ancient science (and state) of Yoga begins.

In Yoga, intuition guides and not intellect.

Yoga Sutra 3.3:

„When the true nature of the object in meditation shines forth not being distorted by the mind of the perceiver, that is absorption or samadhi.“

The true state of Yoga follows after a long, long road of purifying mind and body, by using only own power of mind with no any exoteric means. The slow but sure stages of Yoga are kind of, as I love to call them „natural, spontaneous, intuitive entheogens“.

Pretended "Samadhi"


 

I have seen people addicted to various entheogens who claim to experience the “mystical states”.

 

The word entheogen comes from the Greek language:

“Το μέσο που γεννά / παράγει / σχηματίζει (σ ‘ένα άτομο) το θείο συναίσθημα”

which means that entheogens are “the means that give birth / generate / form the feeling of the divine (in man).”

 

The path and the state of samadhi is traveled and reached once in lifetime and it has an open end. That is why neither marijuana, nor alcohol, nor psychedelics, nor any other entheogens have any value for the path toward real, ultimate Truth. The perception and reality of persons who are dependent on any enteogens are constantly re-entering a new circle with no exit.

The entheogen addicted brain has not reached unification. In the contrary.

To mention just one huge brain damage caused by the use of drugs (entheogens), alcohol. Alcohol is an extremely strong drug (and the most dangerous of all drugs, although it is not recognized as a drug in the society) that reaches certain parts of the brain that are normally very well protected and have very special functions in the development of the human brain, of course in a positive way.

 

“Trans,” “nirvana,” or “ecstasy,” as self-styled liberated individuals usually describe their post-drug use states, are conditions that essentially happened as planned, however involuntarily. Things like this are done no more or less than for complacency and such a path does not lead to Truth. In addition, a person with an entheogen addiction must first earn (borrow or for those drugs with “extra” effects the most common steal) money in order to reach a completely unconscious state, after all. And morality in such a person is often gone.

When Samadhi Happens


 

The realization of Being, liberation (kaivalya moksha) or the continuous peace of mind are all expressions expressing the state of Samadhi. This condition is only possible when there is no attachment to any gross objects. In this supreme state of Yoga (Asamprajnata Yoga) one has the capacity to stop all mental activity by his own will and not by external means.

The person who realized his Being has undergone various stages of transformation. These people did not “change their minds” because “to change mind” also means to remain trapped in personal duplicity and hypocrisy.

 

What happens (explained at the level of matter) is that the frequencies in the brain of a realized person have changed and therefore their character, of course, for the better. Changes in the brain shape a new reality.

 

Many people will expect that such people have a special, phenomenal look and many will be surprised to hear that people who experienced Samadhi do not look different from others or than they are used to look like. The only thing is that no one really knows what exactly is going on inside a person who has experienced Samadhi because, ordinary, consciousness cannot enter another consciousness.

 „Success depends essentially on a qualified aspirant. Time, place and other such means are but auxiliaries in this regard.“

-Adi Shankaracharya, Vivekachudamani


 

Although rare, especially in Western society, these occult, yogic, psychic powers, siddhis still happen. Although great, such powers are not completely harmless because a person can very easily be carried by his egotism (a state in which a man loves himself a lot, rises himself very far, “likes” himself, has a very high opinion about himself. One of the psychological disorders). And so he will become attached this time by new, unique forces, spinning in circles again and again. Repeated misery in a new color. That is why non-attachment is important even for these new sweet powers.

Many will try to exercise their powers by striving for more and more but their actions will be so miserable when they end up failing.

Others, again, will be able to use these to control and manipulate other minds for the benefit of their personal fame and name, or politically, separating and dividing people by their place of birth (and thus their religious beliefs) or skin color.

Yoga Sutra 3.38:

„There are powers in a worldly state but they are obstacles to samadhi.“


 

A division of any kind was not given to us by birth.

Goodness is what we are given.

 

Babies come into the world pure and innocent. Adults who have become open, honest, spontaneous and pure as a child, and who are steady in their feelings, thoughts and actions, can say that they know and have mastered Yoga.

Unlike a calculated and analytical mind (German: überlegt), the mind of a yogi is free from any judgment. The mind of a yogi is spontaneous and pure as a small child.

A master of Yoga has no doubts. Everything else is just a fabricated truth in the modern materialistic society.

Samyama, Pure Wisdom


 

Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi form the Samyama, a state of pure reflection, pure wisdom.

Yoga Sutra 3.4-6:

„When concentration, meditation and absorption are brought to bear upon one subject they are called samyama.
Through mastery of samyama comes the light of knowledge (wisdom).
This must be applied stage by stage.“


 

And since each end is only a new beginning, so is the state of samyama (which is the practice and experience of concentration, meditation and samadhi) only the beginning of a new, truly spiritual life.

 

Everything that was unconscious up to this state is now becoming conscious.

 

However, while this state is much higher than the first five states of Yoga (changing oneself, creating noble habits, practicing yoga postures, practicing yogic breathing techniques, practicing and perfecting the withdrawal of the senses from the outside world), these three new, unified, states are still far from the highest transformation.

This is what Yoga Sutras 3.7-8 are all about.