Many people decide to do yoga not for the sake of spiritual insight. Their goal is to master the technique for the sake of obtaining opportunities that allow them to rise above the rest: read thoughts, walk on water, move through the air … To receive this gift, according to the testimony of enlightened yogis, is impossible without immersion in the state of Samadhi.
Several varieties of Samadhi are known, between which, as the sages say, lies an unknown abyss. Here are some of the meditations used to achieve this spiritual state.
Savikalpa Samadhi
Savikalpa Samadhi is a state, upon entering which, a person, as if being in another world, for some time loses the sense of time and space. This environment can be conditionally called the world of unfulfilled desires: almost everything has already been fulfilled, but something is waiting for fulfillment. Millions of creatures inhabiting space are waiting for the fulfillment of millions of their desires. A person feels like a tool, which, if he is involved, means that he is still needed, but if not, this indicates that everything has already been done and there is nothing more to wish for.
The state of Savikalpa Samadhi is multilevel. In the same way as in a school class there are more thancapable students and less capable, so in Savikalpa Samadhi: the one who has already reached the highest levels (the state of enlightenment) is at the top, and the less capable, who have not yet learned the lesson, are at the bottom.
The concepts, rules and plans that exist in Savikalpa Samadhi can in no way affect the meditator. A person engaged in meditation remains serene, while his inner essence does not stand still, it develops confidently and dynamically.
Nirvikalpa Samadhi
Nirvikalpa Samadhi is a state in which there are no concepts, no plans, no thoughts, no ideas. A person who is in Nirvikalpa Samadhi may seem inadequate or insane. There is no mind here, there is only the awareness of infinite bliss and peace, and the one who comprehends and what is comprehended, enjoying the all-consuming esoteric emotion, merge into one. One and the same subject, being in Nirvikalpa Samadhi, is simultaneously transformed into an object of voluptuousness, and into a being receiving pleasure, and into pleasure itself.
People who managed to get out of this state say that they felt like one endless heart. So huge that both the world of people and the whole Universe seemed to be a barely distinguishable point inside this heart, the dimensions of which are huge.
Bliss is a state that not every person can comprehend and realize. In Nirvikalpa Samadhi, esotericists say, the meditator not only feels bliss, but also becomes bliss himself.
What else does one feel in Nirvikalpa Samadhi?A huge and incomparable power, a tiny part of which you can take with you to earthly life.
Nirvikalpa Samadhi is the highest form of Samadhi and is available only to the most powerful spiritual mentors. Staying in Nirvikalpa Samadhi can last several days, or maybe several hours, after which a person must return to his world.
Many of those who devoted little time to such practices, but who managed to return from Nirvikalpa Samadhi, at first could neither speak nor think, forgot their name and age. The ability to return from Nirvikalpa Samadhi is the result of long practice. Almost everyone who found himself in Nirvikalpa Samadhi caught himself thinking that he did not want to return back to the imperfect physical world.
It is very important, - enlightened teachers warn, - to have time to return, since the soul, remaining in Nirvikalpa Samadhi for more than eighteen days, will never again be able to connect with the physical body. True, there are cases when highly developed spiritual Teachers who have achieved nirvakalpa Samadhi did not return from this state, because, having reached the highest state of Samadhi, they considered it unacceptable for themselves to return to worldly affairs. A person whose spirit is enlightened cannot interact with the inhabitants of this world, but it is not given to him to decide where he should be, and if the Almighty deems it necessary to return him back, his soul will descend to the earthly level.
Sahaja Samadhi
Sahaja Samadhi is the highestthe stage of Samadhi, having reached which, a person can continue to perform his usual, earthly duties, but his consciousness is at the highest point of development. In fact, a person transformed into a soul, perceiving his earthly body as an ideal tool that can be used to carry out earthly tasks - the same as those that uninitiated, ordinary people solve daily.
The heart of a person who has achieved Sahaja Samadhi is overshadowed by divine understanding. He can, whenever he wishes, visit the upper world, and then return to Earth and be born again. The one who has reached the state of Sahaja Samadhi is inseparable from the Supreme, every second he consciously proves that God is present everywhere.
Experience Samadhi
A person staying in Samadhi no longer has a first and last name, personal and professional achievements, past and future. There is only the subconscious. The state of Samadhi is the main goal of a being immersed in meditative practices.
Talking about this mystical phenomenon without feeling it is like talking about love without knowing anything about this feeling. A person who has no experience of Samadhi cannot give a definition to this state, and one who has experienced such an experience is unlikely to want to talk about it … Samadhi is on the other side of words, language barriers and definitions.
Samadhi is the goal of Yoga
To achieve Samadhi is the task of Yoga of all levels. Being the main component of this teaching, Samadhi is far from the last stage of development. Just from its quality, people who practice yoga believe,much depends…
What should happen to a person in Samadhi?
A person is constantly doing something, saying… believing that all his thoughts and actions are conscious. The purpose of Samadhi is to destroy the restrictions that block the subconscious, to make sure that the phenomena and events that occurred in the present and past lives do not affect the way of thinking. Most people do not think about the need to control mental images, which, spontaneously “born” in the subconscious, encourage them to act or talk. Thoughts are just a reflection of desires, fears, resentments, anger and other manifestations, without getting rid of which, a person will not be able to end the war between the consciousness and the subconscious, and will not be able to complete his spiritual development.
Sismita Samadhi
A person, staying in Samadhi, constantly practicing and becoming more and more perfect and comprehensive, ceases to pay attention to the elements of the gross and subtle planes: "there is only an ego freed from impurities." The state of Sasmita Samadhi is called by esotericists "meditation with the touch of one's "I". A person who has achieved Sasmita Samadhi is released from the gross bodily shell and becomes “immersed in nature.”
Tantra Yoga and the wheel of Samsara
Tantrism is perhaps the most ancient esoteric teaching that has ever existed on Earth. In the West, the word "Tantra" is most often associated with forbidden sexual gratification and ruthless mystical rites.
In the countries of the East, Tantrism is considered an integral part ofthe cult of the feminine (Shakti), and Tantra Yoga - the universal ancient teaching of world harmony or the harmonious combination of male and female principles.
Buddhists practice tantric teaching in temples hidden from prying eyes under the strict guidance of experienced mentors, and the smirk that appeared in the Western reader after reading these lines is just evidence of the deepest ignorance. No Western esotericist can practice Tantra Yoga for a simple reason: Tantric rituals are held secretly and are transmitted strictly within the families of initiates - from generation to generation.
The inhabitants of Western countries do not quite correctly understand the basic postulates of the ancient teaching, which was given to people by Gautama Buddha ("Noble Eightfold Path"). In the list of ways by which a person can stop the movement of the wheel of Samsara or the chain of reincarnations, there is a mention that it is necessary to live in nature - in a natural habitat.
A sharp change in lifestyle is out of the question, because nature can surround a person living both in the city and in the countryside, for example, as "living fences" and man-made reservoirs. Not everyone can reach Nirvana, but everyone can create their own Heaven on Earth.
Compared to Samadhi, Nirvana is Merging with the consciousness of God, becoming like the Holy Spirit and forgetting everything that is connected with property, including one's own "I" (yogis use the term "Nirvana" to mean incineration, the elimination of everything individual).
To move from the state of Samadhi(Bliss) to Nirvana (Merge) it is necessary to have a powerful individuality. It is difficult to develop individual consciousness to the necessary limit, but it is possible: through training that provides not only for the acquisition of meditative experience, but also for the availability of appropriate ethical training.
The transition from one state to another consists of the following steps:
total destruction of the "inflated", lower (individual) "I";
replacement of individual consciousness by collective;
transformation of the collective "I" into the universal "We"
Music for meditation. Do you need it?
According to popular belief, the ideal background for meditation is absolute silence. However, it is difficult for the inhabitants of the modern world to achieve complete relaxation and focus on meditation practice without sound background.
Today everyone can decide for himself whether he needs music for meditation. To select the right melody, a whole theory has been built, based on special sound and rhythmic combinations.
Impossible to grasp the immense
It is impossible in one article to list all the states that can be accessed by a person who is in Samadhi. However, there are things that the uninitiated who have made the decision to achieve Samadhi need to know about.
When a person, by meditating, reaches the highest level, the power of his meditation will destroy his seed, erase memories, take away the ability to think and stop all karmic laws acting on him … Starting any isoteric practice, everyonemust ask himself if he is willing to pay the price.
