Yoga Sutra Reflections Session 56: Samadhi

Integrating Ancient Wisdom in Modern Life: Become Ordinary

1. In Yoga, samadhi is considered to be the state in which individual and universal consciousness unite. Samadhi is not the goal, the goal is Kaivalya of Yoga Sutra. It’s a path towards Kaivalya. Samadhi is state, when not the three – the meditator, the thought of meditation and the meditated-upon – but only the one remains.
2. The experience of Samadhi cannot be expressed through words, only through your behaviour. One who has experienced truth through Samadhi becomes ordinary. Because only an ordinary person with the realisation of truth has a pure body and an innocent mind is able to express the unmanifested through his behaviour. Expression in the behaviour means Love has not to be destroyed; only awareness has to be added to it. Relationships have not to be destroyed; only meditation has to be added to it. You need not go from the marketplace, you need not go to any cave and in the Himalayas; only God has to be called there in the marketplace.
3. As the ego transforms, it will become blissful. Bliss means one who has become very tender and sensitive towards himself and others. Transformation means the ego cannot enter anymore. The practice of Samadhi has changed the whole chemistry of ego.
4. When action remains not an actor, when the deed remains not a doer is Samadhi. Samadhi is a state which can be attained any time when one is totally absorbed in anything. This is called material or physical Samadhi. Which is known as glimpse.
5. Yogic Samadhi differs from material Samadhi. In material Samadhi actions remain, the actor is absorbed in action. Yogic Samadhi is self-realisation of self, so seer and seen is not separate but one. Seen is absorbed in Seer.
6. Similarity and Difference between Samadhi and Deep Sleep. Similarities: no mind, no memories, no intelligence, no knowledge of body, they come on their own and delta brain waves. Differences: in deep sleep ego is dormant, not aware about true nature, is trance, helpful to be human, in samadhi ego is transformed, consciously aware of true-nature, becomes like Shiva, helpful to be Supreme Consciousness.
7. Difference between us and one who becomes Supreme Consciousness is that both will have thoughts, emotions and desire. We run after desires and become addicted to them. Also have guilt and resistance for the same. One who becomes Supreme Consciousness will not have any resistance to it and either consciously goes through it and finishes with it or will not take any action on it. In the mind itself they can restrain them.