The Experience of Samadhi

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It is impossible for the mental
Consciousness, to imagine what

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the state of samadhi actually
is.

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If we try to sit for meditation,
we find all kinds of perceptions

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feelings nervous.
Impulses random thoughts and

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emotions flitting across our
mind.

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We can observe an almost endless
stream of inner subtle

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reactions, and mental commentary
that has been called by some or

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monkey mind.
There are times when we are

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relatively at peace with
ourselves in the world.

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Perhaps in a quiet place where
we are not being bombarded by

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sights.
Sounds and vibrations from

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external sources and we feel
calm quiet contented.

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But this has nothing at all to
do with the actual state of

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samadhi.
They're coming experiences in

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meditation where the Mind Falls
relatively quiet and one of the

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First Reactions is to go into a
state that the Seeker May

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describe as a type of Quasi
sleep state.

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The active mind has withdrawn
and Fallen quiet and the

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external being takes this as a
period of sleep, there is thus

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frequently, a disconnect between
the inner status and the

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external being that prevents a
true and complete transcription

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of the experience from being
fully brought forward and thus

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it seems to be almost dreamlike
or even an induced form of

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sleep.
Samadhi is frequently described

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as a trance State and the
experience there is in most

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cases, unable to be accurately
represented in the outer

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existence.
In his yoga sutras of patanjali

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describes, various states of
samadhi, particularly estate,

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that is with seed, and a state
that is without seed.

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This is explained by Swami
Vivekananda in his lectures, on

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Raja yoga to meanest.
Adage that keeps all the

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thoughts away in seed form.
So that they can arise again at

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the earliest opportunity as well
as a deeper status.

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That is unshakable yet.
These do not give us real

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insight into the state of
samadhi.

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When an actual experience
arises, it is a frequent

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experience that the Seeker
suddenly draws back in fear.

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As the ego personality is afraid
that it will lose its entire

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coherence.
And existence in order to enter

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into the true state of samadhi,
the secret eventually must be

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able to overcome any fear that
arises and allow the entire

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being to fall into a deep and
impenetrable silence.

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SRI aurobindo observes quote,
the experience you relate, the

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Stillness, The Emptiness of mind
and vital and cessation of

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thoughts and other movements,
was the coming of the state of

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samadhi, in which the
Consciousness goes inside in a

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deep Stillness and silence.
This condition is favorable to

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enter experience realization the
vision of the Unseen truth of

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things.
The one can get these in the

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waking condition.
Also, It is not sleep, but the

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state in which one feels
conscious within no longer

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outside.
And quote.

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Reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 7, growth of

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Consciousness.
Inner experiences page 141.