Samadhi - communion with God

[Guest guest]

Light and Love Many parts of Swami's Teaching are concentrated to the

explanation the essence of humans' real Self, humans' goals on the Earth, the

relations between human beings, between human beings the nature and God

(Brahman, Atma, Absolute). Among them, the significant global role plays the

spiritual development and educare of a humanity. Without spiritual development

of humanity there is needless to expect to reach to the higher state of society

- 'Golden Age'. The spiritual development begins from a person's spiritual,

moral, ethical values and skills as Swami has many times has mentioned. One of

the skills is a personal awareness. How to reach to this? It is possible when

there is a will through different Sadhanas, rituals, scholarships, worships.

There are many ways and methods, about what I will hope to write time-by-time.

Swami indicates: "Samadhi is as the ocean to which all Sadhana flows.

The seven streams of Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Prathyahara, Dharana and

Dhyana all find their consummation in it. Every trace of name and Form

disappear in that Ocean. He who serves and He who receives the service, he who

meditates and He who is meditated upon, all such duality is dispelled and

destroyed. One will not experience even the experience, that is to say, one

will not be aware that he is experiencing! Oneself alone, naught else - that

will be the Samadhi. If there is aught else, it cannot be Samadhi. It is

something like a dream, a fantasy, a passing vision at best. Samadhi can admit

of nothing other than Brahman."(Excerpts from: Sathya Sai Baba."Prashanthi

Vahini," p. 60).

 

Samadhi is as the central point for spiritual awareness about what is

interesting to contemplate by the guidance and help of Swami's quotations.

"What is Samadhi? In common parlance, in the eyes of worldly people and in the

books written by worldly individuals, Samadhi may be described in various ways.

One may be a state of trance during meditation. But this cannot be called

Samadhi. Samadhi means merging the mind in the Atma. In that state there are no

two entities. Samadhi is a state of equal-mindedness. It is the state in which

the oneness of everything is experienced." (Excerpts from: Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

SSS. Vol. 23. Chapter 21). Swami explains the inner meaning of Samadhi:

"It is not a state of unconsciousness or some kind of consciousness. Samadhi is

"Sama-Dhi" - the state in which the intellect has achieved equanimity. Whether

in pleasure and pain, in praise or blame, in gain or loss, in heat or cold, to

be able to maintain in equal mind in Samadhi." (Sri Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol.

22. Chapter 21). The essence of Samadhi one cannot easily to understand.

Various spiritual circles have a little different explanations and approaches

to Samadhi. By my insight the most clear for Westerns are explanations

made by Swami. He indicated to the variety of approaches to Samadhi and

concluded that the ways may be many however, the God is One. "Samadhi is

ordinarily mistaken to be an emotional state in which a person acts abnormally,

as if in a state of high excitement or trance. You may think that Samadhi is

something different from the waking, dream or deep-sleep states. But, truly,

Samadhi is something common to all three states. A person who is immersed in

Samadhi, whose mind is in equanimity, will always be in a state of bliss,

whether he is in the waking state immersed in his every-day life, or whether he

is in the dream-state or in the deep-sleep state. To attain it, a great deal of

spiritual practice is necessary. After describing the noble characteristics

of a truly wise man, Krishna told Arjuna, "Arjuna, Follow my commands! Discharge

your duties while all the time thinking of me. Then you will be able to

experience and enjoy the divinity that is everywhere. This divinity is the

unity which underlies all the diversity in the world. Base your actions on

that. Constantly concentrate on that divinity. I am that divinity and you are

very dear to me. When you concentrate on me, then I will be fully concentrated

on you." ( Exerpts from: Sai Baba Gita. XXII, page 222). The first advice

to humans for the sake their awareness through meditation and its final state

Samadhi is constantly concentrate to the God and to dedicate all actions to Him

as through this is possible to experience the divinity everywhere. Devotion

and faith has a profound importance in the development of meditative states and

Samadhi Oneness of the Self, God. Devotion draws the interest of the God and

attracts spiritual initiation. Devotion focuses the mind more intently and

gives for meditation feeling and power. It allows one to turn mind completely

within. Faith is implicit in devotion. Without devotion one will has no

results. A great saint can achieve Samadhi without a formal meditation.

Devotion brings meditation naturally. However, all happens by the Divine Will.

By Swami suffering is caused because there is lack of faith that Divine

is in person. The religions and beliefs are different, but Brahman is the One.

The human life path is expressed through actions in past and present lives.

However, it is an illusion. When a person acknowledged it he/she achieve to

Brahman, to own real Self, Samadhi. By Yoga-Sutra, the three main practices

that produce Samadhi are austerities*, "self study," and "devotion to the Lord."

There is mentioned that Samadhi is more easily understandable through the

cultivation of wisdom (jnana). Wisdom is the knowledge about the Self, the

divine inner Self as the 'self study' (1, 2). (*The Vedic word for

austerities is "tapasya" meaning to burn. Austerities purify the physical and

astral bodies and burn away karma that obstructs practice. The true austerities

are: Sexual Restraint, Meditation, Pure Food, Pranayama, Fasting, Silence, and

Solitude). Obtained wisdom, one comes to the realization that the outer

material world is not more real than our nightly dreams and not any more

important. This knowledge makes it easier for the mind to turn inward and the

world represents as a beautiful dream of the Divine. The modern

science has discovered tens of years ago that there is abyss of 'emptiness'

between atoms' nucleons and electrons. Practically all around us so-called

material world in fact consists in 'emptiness' by scientific term - consists in

physical vacuum). Humans bodies are also practically consist in physical vacuum

where 'swim' the particles of atoms formed molecules. The structure of atoms

today knows any student of high school. This scientific truth as underlines the

Vedic wisdom by what "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form." (1). The

recent discoveries made under guidance of CERN (The world's largest particle

physics laboratory) show the that two entangled photons can be far away from

each other and still yield correlated results for measurements. A more exotic

scenario, and one that has recently been measured, is when a photon hits a beam

splitter and turns into what are effectively two versions of itself in two

different places, which display the same sort of correlations between its two

manifestations. Is it not an indirect scientific proof that all is the same

Atma, Brahman? By the same research, the bizarre predictions of quantum

mechanics really do hold in our universe (3). In this bizarre illusion the

nature of life is not a life, not a death, there is no coming, no going only

being in one state or another...what in essence are only appearances of eternal

Atma. However, the predictions of quantum mechanics being connected with

spiritual wisdom alias parts from Swami's Teaching are not bizarre at all.

What is life's meaning without devotion, faith, spiritual awareness?

"To a superficial observer, the life of man appears as an endless round of

eating and drinking, toiling and sleeping. But, verily life has a much greater

meaning; a much deeper significance. Life is a sacrifice, a yagna. Each little

act is an offering to the Lord. If the day is spent in deeds performed in this

spirit of surrender, what else can sleep be except Samadhi? Man commits the

great fault of identifying himself with the body. He has accumulated a variety

of things for the upkeep and comfort of the body. Even when the body becomes

weak and decrepit with age, he attempts to bolster it up, by some means or

other. But, how long can death be postponed? When Yama's warrant comes each has

to depart. Before Death, position, pride and power, all vanish. Realizing this,

strive day and night, with purity of body and mind and spirit, to realize the

Higher Self, by the service of all living beings." (Sathya Sai Baba. Prema

Vahini, p. 5). Below is brief general information about Samadhi what helps

more properly to understand this state of being and significance of Swami's

explanations on this topic. The word Samadhi the first is mentioned in

the Maitrayni Upanishad (6.18, 34) and in some of the Yoga and Sannyasa

Upanishads of the Atharvaveda. Samadhi as a term became more properly

known to Western world on the end of the 1930s. Two known thinkers, Aldous

Huxley and Christopher Isherwood, were impressed by Indian ancient philosophy.

Swami Vivekananda and his followers, monks of the Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Order

of India were founded the Vedanta Society in California in the late 1930s.

By encyclopedia of Britannica Samadhi is the highest state of mental

concentration that a person can achieve while still bound to the body and which

unites him with the highest reality. Samadhi is a state of profound and utterly

absorptive contemplation of the Absolute that is undisturbed by desire, anger,

or any other ego-generated factor. By thesaurus: Samadhi is Happiness,

Nirvana Parinirvana (Sanskrit meaning: establish, make firm). Different

thesaruses give little different explanation to this state of being. I selected

the more complete of them (by my opinion). Samadhi includes a non-dualistic

experience in which the consciousness of the experiencer becomes one with

consciousness itself. This occurs when all other mental functions pause except

consciousness. Concentration is not Samadhi. Rather, concentration helps create

a mind capable of experiencing Samadhi by strengthening the mind. Often

in spiritual literature Samadhi as the highest form of prayer is called the

"Holy Union", "Holy Communion", "Satori", "Enlightenment", "Dhawq", "Tao",

"Mystical Union", "Gnosis", "Sat-Chit-Ananda", "Beingness-Awareness, Bliss",

etc. To refer to the state of samadhi often is used terms: nirvana, gnosis,

trance, ecstasy, nirodha. But these terms are often used loosely, referring to

states that may or may not be true Samadhi. The Yoga philosophy

of Patanjali distinguishes between two stages of Samadhi: Samprajnata-Samadhi

and Asamprajnata-Samadhi, corresponding nearly to Savikalpa-Samadhi and

Nirvikalpa-Samadhi in Vedanta. In the first stage mental activities, such as

desires, feelings, thoughts and behaviors, are still present. The individual's

desires exist and reemerge. The second, highest stage is desirelessness,

feelinglessness, thoughtlessness and behaviorlessness. Limitations, desires and

the cycle of unhappiness have overcome. Swami completed: "Samadhi is of

two types, Savikalpa, Nirvikalpa. In Savikalpa, the Thriputi, or the Threefold

nature of Knower, Knowing and Knowee will still persist. When it is realised

that the Knower is Brahmam, Knowing too is Brahmam and the thing to be known is

also Brahmam, then there is no more Vikalpa or Agitation or Activity; that is

the Nirvikalpa Samadhi." (Sathya Sai Baba. Prashanthi Vahini, p. 60).

"When Form is ignored and Meaning alone is felt, that is Samadhi. This is the

opinion of Pathanjali. This can be explained in another manner also. When the

person engaged in Dhyana (meditation) forgets both himself and the fact that he

is engaged in Dhyana, then it becomes Samadhi. That is to say, when he is merged

in the thing he meditates on, he enters into the stage called Samadhi. Dhyana

fulfils itself, becomes complete, in Samadhi. Dhyana strives, proceeds through

effort, but, Samadhi comes effortlessly. It is the culmination of the

eight-fold discipline, the Ashtanga." (Sathya Sai Baba. Prashanthi Vahini, p.

59). "They are eight in all, Ashtanga, in fact - Yama, Niyama, Asana,

Pranayama, Prathyaahaara, Dhaarana, Dhyana, Samadhi - these are the names of

the eight. Samadhi means the fixing of the mind, free from all impulses

and agitations, on the Lord, or on one's own Reality. It indicates the state in

which one is in one's own real nature. Samadhi is when one is free from all

duality. “(Excerpts from: Sathya Sai Baba. Prasnottara Vahini. XV - Ashtaanga

Yoga). "When the mind has been brought under control by these eight

disciplines, the Will can easily be developed thereafter. The will is the

Nature of the Lord; it is also referred to as the Lord's Ordinance. The Lord,

by mere willing, can do anything immediately and easily. But man cannot realize

his will as soon as he entertains it. The Power of the Will is the deciding

fator. In Man the Will is not so overpoweringly strong; when he achieves that

Power, he gets something equal to the Power of the Lord. That is the meaning of

Laya, Merger. Such Merger is made possible through Dhyana." (Sathya Sai Baba.

Dhyana Vahini, p. 16).(Sanskrit word dhyana, derived from the verbal root dhyai

"to contemplate, meditate, think"). "When one knows that there is absolutely

no iota of distinction between the Jiva and the Atma, that they are One and the

Same, then it is the highest Samadhi. It is the fruit of ripest Dhyana, the

dearest moment of Yogis, the destroyer of Ajnana, the signal of the Grace of

God. Incessant thirst to know the Atman as all, is worthy to be encouraged and

welcomed, for, it is the path through which all doubts can be eliminated."

(Sathya Sai Baba. Prashanthi Vahini, p. 60). By the Yoga-Sutras Samadhi is

the third of three stages of mental concentration. The first stage is Dharana,

which means simple concentration. One attempts to focus the mind repeatedly for

example on the Divine Incarnation. (This is why the divinity takes human form: a

human being relates easily to another human form; can feel more powerfully

attracted to same). The second stage is Dhyana. This is where the mind

achieves steady concentration on the object. In Dhyana the thoughts of the

object flow continuously and uninterrupted. Some say that only the stage of

Dhyana is a true meditation. The third stage comes soon after, and is

Samadhi. Here the mind merges with the object, takes on the object's own

nature, and becomes still. If the object has been a transcendental divine

object, one merges in God. This is the goal and the attainment for the

spiritual seeker. If the concentration has been on some lower object, the

meditator attains perceptions and powers related to that object. The

hardest stage to pass through is Dharana, simple concentration. The mind of

everyone naturally wanders. The task of making it stay on an object seems very

difficult until practice improves concentration. But when one arrives at

Dhyana, Samadhi is near. Yoga-Sutra verses 1, 2 and 3 from the third

chapter: Sutra III.1 Dharana is binding the mind to a place. Sutra

III.2 Continuity of the mind there is Dhyana (meditation). Sutra III.3

That same (meditation), when it comes to shine forth as the object alone,

apparently empty of its own nature as knowledge, is called Samadhi (2).

Samadhi has definite physical patterns. The first level of Samadhi Savikalpa

involves the natural cessation of breath and heartbeat, or kumbhaka. The life

force reverses itself up the spine to its Source (pratyahara). If inclined, the

aspirant then becomes able to see the astral plane, consciously leave the body,

and engage consciously in astral activities. The second level Nirvikalpa

(in Sanskrit it means "Ecstasy without form or seed) is the realization of the

Self, Parasiva, a state of Oneness beyond all change or diversity; beyond time,

form and space. Nir means "without." Vi means "to change, make different." Kalpa

means "order, arrangement; a period of time." (1). However, Samadhi is the

state of undifferentiated Beingness, there are not really different kinds of

Samadhi. Savikalpa refers to the beginning state of Samadhi, Nirvikalpa is the

end result. Swami gives practical advices how reach to Samadhi in a form

of a popular scholarship in: Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol. 22. Chapter

21, "Self -control and Self-realization." Beside practical advices, Swami

tells (excerpts from the mentioned chapter): "Many image that all Dhyana

calls for is sitting in the padmasana (lotus pose). But one does not know where

his mind is wandering at the time. The concentration is disturbed by a mosquito

sitting on the nose. Meditation in these days is often confined to the

puja room. As soon as one emerges from the shrine, one is filled with all sorts

of mental agitations. This does not mean giving up all worldly affairs. Fulfill

your duties. But in all these activities, use your Dharana power (the power of

concentration). In the process, you develop your powers of Dhyana (meditation).

Dhyana means single- pointed contemplation. Dhyana means absorption of thought.

It should be centred on only one specific subject. This is described in

Vedantic parlance as Saalokyam. This means concentrating your thought on what

you desire, whatever is the object or subject." Swami points to the

internal method of meditation. "There is also an internal method of

practicing Dharana. When you close your eyes, a small dark spot appears before

the inner eye. You may concentrate on this spot for 12 seconds without letting

it move. By this practice, the power of meditation can be developed."

(Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol. 22. Chapter 21). There is a warning

by Swami not to fall into imaginable state what is far from real Samadhi:

"The state of inertia into which one is driven by despair cannot be called

Samadhi; or one might even indulge in day-dreaming in order to escape from

present misery; or one might start building castles in the air. All this is due

to attachment, to the temptations of the outer world. There is another type of

attachment too, the attachment to the inner world ... the planning within

oneself of various schemes to better oneself in the future as compared to the

past. Both these form part of what is called Kshaya. The basis for both is the

attraction of the outer world." (Sathya Sai Baba. Jnana Vahini, p. 3).

Swami's outlook to the various types of meditation: "The various types of

meditation practiced today are concerned with the trivial. Through these methods

the Divine cannot be realized. The very first requisite is control the vagaries

of the mind. Only then meditation can be effective. The practice of

meditation leads to the proximity to the Lord. This leads to the next stage -

Saroopyam (experience of the vision of the Lord). This may be compared to the

arrival of a river to merge in ocean. Spiritually, this process of merger of

the jivatma (the divine spark) with the Paramatma is described as Saayujyam

(mergence in the Divine). The first stage in the process is Salokyam -

continuous contemplation of the Divine. Think about the Lord in whatever action

you do. Then you achieve Sameepyam - nearness to the Lord. Coming nearer,

develop closer relations with the Divine. The state of Saroopyam is attained.

The realisation that "you and I are one" dawns. Then Sayujyam is experienced -

complete oneness with the Divine. This fourfold approach to the Divine is to

be found in any philosophy of religion. The creeds may vary, but the spiritual

process is one." (Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol. 22. Chapter 21).

”All forms of worship and meditation, which are regarded as spiritual

exercises, are in fact mental excursions intended to please the mind. God is

described as father, mother, brother, friend and so on... But all these are

unnecessary epithets if it is recognized that we and God are one. You are in

God and God is in you. There is no room for feeling of duality. " (Bhagawan

Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol. 23. Chapter 21). "In the state of Samadhi Atma is

the 'seer' and intellect, 'the seen'. There is nothing that can see the Atma.

Hence it is always the 'Seer' and never the 'Seen':" (Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba.

SSS. Vol. 24. Chapter 11). The experience of Samadhi often brings the

development of spontaneous siddhis, or esoteric powers. This is a natural

result of the meditator's direct contact with the Divinity. God is miraculous,

steel merges with fire for a long time it becomes like fire. Siddhi the source

of law and power, so this is a natural outcome. All siddhis take place in

the outer world when the consciousness of the practitioner is outward turned.

So even siddhis are seen as only more worldly phenomena, albeit using higher

laws. Thus siddhis are not made a goal by the wise. The attitude of the wise

is to spurn conscious pursuit of siddhis, and allow the Divinity to do whatever

it lists. Most of the miracles that have happened around great saints are not a

product of their conscious will but it is the product of the Divine Will.

Below are some my thoughts, experiences concern to Samadhi and inspired by

Swami's Teaching and His ardent devotees - Swami's Messengers. There are

two aspects of Samadhi. One is after passing the world - when a person is

'entered' in the Atmic reality as unity of the God, Absolute. The other

aspect is a state what is possible to experience through meditation, through

devotional longing, or any type of rituals in order to reach to Samadhi.

Sometimes the voices and images of people can hear or see, but they are as not

relate to the world, what disappears into some 'thick' trancidental light what

insists quiet, peace, bliss and inner joy. It is possible to feel that oneself

is as fuse into the infinite sky of light and acts as one with this infinite

and bright sky. This brightness is not clearly seen but feeling is such and

thereafter all thoughts as has fallen into 'black hole.' However, the much more

difficult is to leave 'black hole' than to fallen in it. It is an attempt to

describe 'feelings' before and after falling into 'black hole'. Such are my

experiences, but I do not know how real they are in comparison with true

Samadhi. I obtained this as a 'method of personal protection' in early

childhood (in age three - four) being in unliberty. At that time, this

experience was alone what belongs to me as my parent, friend... (Naturally, at

that time I had no idea about spirituality, Swami, God... it happened at that

time spontaneously and till today my friends are these 'fields of Nature'. I

think now that this spontaneous skill, experience helped me not to die. A few

little children remained in such conditions alive). It seems that everyone has

his/her own experiences near to Samadhi or real Samadhi what can quiet the mind

and lead to the peace in mind. "In the Sastras, Vedas and the Upanishads

have they not declared how they have realised God in their Dhyana Samadhi, each

in his own way, according to his attitude and devotion and worship; how each has

been blessed with the vision of the Lord and the actual consummation of union

with him." (Sathya Sai Baba. Sandeha Nivarini. Dialogue III). I seems

that state Samadhi has not influenced to mental functions, as it is beyond the

mind, beyond mayaa reality. It cannot be explained exactly by words which are

only pale and indirect pinpointers of such feeling. However, this state seems

to have an additional property to spread around the saint the special divine

vibrations (energy, aura) which as calls for spiritual action those who is in

the field of its influence. When to observe images (idols) of great

ancient saints it is possible to feel the energy what spread from them and

inspired the (observer) person to catharsis. This Divine energy as calls ones

for actions to express the divinity within through spiritual and worldly

activity. The same kind vibrations are always around Swami, His Form in

physical body. It is the purpose why millions of people long for His direct

Darshan. His Omnipresent Cosmic form has the same energy but for normal human

beings this is more difficult to access through 'fields of Nature'. I

imagine that true Swami's devotees is not only spread Swami's Teaching among

the seekers of Truth, but they spread Swami's Divine energy, what calls for

actions...The role of Swami's devotees is pictorially to be as transformations

stations. The last are responsible for spreading electrical current and

bringing the light to distant regions... Reference: 1.

http://samadhi.info/ 2. "Sankara on the Yoga Sutras," by Trevor Leggett

Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1981. 3. Cern-Curier Vol. 44, Number 6.

2004. "Entangled photons show interference and biolocation." For additional

information, not practically used in this story telling.

http://www.nibbana.com/nu2.htm Namaste - Reet

[Guest guest]

Aum Sai Ram to Reet and my brothers and sisters in Sai

 

Reet, thank you so much for your exhaustive treatise on Samadhi.

 

In 1999, when I first went to India, in Whitefield to be specific, I

held up a stack of letters for Swami to take during Darshan. As

Swami came around, He looked deep and piercingly into my eyes. I

could not see His pupils. All I saw was the dark mystery of the

universe. Then time stopped. The world stopped. There was no

Swami...no Al...no Darshan Hall...there was nothing except

existence...consciousness, knowingness, eternal alertness.... This

was interrupted when Swami's hand swung around to take my letters and

then the world was there again and there was Swami walking, making

everyone very happy.

 

I had not understood what happened. There was this unstoppable

sobbing in me, wailing like a child, crying tears of joy. I was so

happy I thought I was ready to die, right there and then. Apparently

no one else undertood what transpired. The guy next to me said, why

are you crying, He took your letters. Lost for words, I looked and

found that Swami did not take the one and only envelope that was at

the bottom of the stack. So fumbling for explanation I said, Swami

left one behind.

 

But they were really tears of joy, such happiness can only be when

Swami is so close to us in either physical sense or spiritual

proximity. The experience is truly beyond words because the mind did

not exist. It was not there to categorize the experience, to

describe whether it is good or bad or to assign a name to it. So

truly I am not able to give you an accurate description but rather a

vague idea of what went on, in hindsight.

 

After sharing the experience online, a brother in Sai replied back

saying congratulations, Swami just gave you (experience of) Samadhi.

Reet, using the same quote that you provided this seems to make

sense: "...Every trace of name and Form disappear in that Ocean. He

who serves and He who receives the service, he who meditates and He

who is meditated upon, all such duality is dispelled and destroyed.

One will not experience even the experience, that is to say, one will

not be aware that he is experiencing...." Sathya Sai Baba."Prashanthi

Vahini," p. 60).

 

Something to note, I could not possibly have done anything to make

this happen, it happens when it happens - the ego's will can not make

this occur. In fact at other times during meditation, there is that

same awareness until the mind starts to classify the event.

 

When Swami comes out for us to see Him, we really should silence the

mind and simply look at Him. On His birthday last year, I would not

take my eyes away from Sai Sundaram. After awhile all I could see

was Swami surrounded by white light and around him where globules of

gold light. The Mandir, the hall, the people were nowhere to be

seen - it was just Swami, surrounded by light...for a long time. I

blinked and then vision disappeared and I refocused to see an

exclusive view of the Lord of Lights. This happened 3 or 4 times

during that Darshan. Just the thought of it sends me to ecstasy.

 

Even when our physical eyes can not perceive Him, our inner eye, our

awareness should be on Him. I welcome having to get up early to be

at the queue for Darshan, because it gives me a chance to meditate,

or call His name inwardly or chant the Gayatri. One morning, a few

days before Shivaratri this year, as I was opening eyes from

meditation, I could see a sparkle of light in everyone and everything

I see, like stars sparkling in heaven. It was like this for I do not

know how long. The experience seems to say, see Me (Sai) as the

light in everyone, the guiding light.

 

So if you ask me, what is meditation, you look at Swami, that is

meditation. You can do that anywhere, while doing anything at

anytime. It is your awareness of Sai that counts, at least in my

opinion.

 

 

In Sai's loving hands

Al Macasaet

[Guest guest]

Soumendra Bhattacharjee <soumendra_toronto

Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:03pm

Re: [saibabanews] Samadhi - communion with God

 

Sai Ram Reet and Namaste ,

 

Awesome that all I can say-it was extremely mind blowing analysis

about samadhi.

 

Also you are right about the divine energy which we get from swami

and then as devotees we are spreading throughout the world.

 

As swami says- "Always find a quite corner after my darshan where

you may enter the stillness and receive the completion of my

blessings.

 

My energy goes from me as I pass by you.If you proceed to talk with

others immediately,the precious energy is dissipated and return to

me, unused by you.

 

Rest assured that wherever my eyes see becomes vitalised and

transmutted.You are being changed day by day.Never under estimate

what is accomplished by this act of darshan.My walking among you is

a gift yearned for by the gods of highest heavens and here you are

daily receiving the grace.

 

Be grateful.These blessings you receive will express themselves in

their perfect time.But also remember to whom such is given from him

much will be demanded."

 

He also says -"You are now Me and I am now Thee.There is no

difference. My difference will put forth from Me to and through

you.You may be unwaware of this constant action.Be ever pure of

heart and soul,and mankind in your lifetime will benefit from your

unique qualities."

 

Namaskar and Sai Ram

 

Soumendra

 

 

 

saibabanews, "Reet Priiman"

<reet.priiman@n...> wrote:

> Light and Love

>

> Many parts of Swami's Teaching are concentrated to the

explanation the essence of humans' real Self, humans' goals on the

Earth, the relations between human beings, between human beings the

nature and God (Brahman, Atma, Absolute). ..........

[Guest guest]

"Denaz Roy" <denazroy

Mon Aug 30, 2004 0:21pm

RE: [saibabanews] Re: Samadhi - communion with God

 

Dear Brother Al Macasaet,

 

I was so touched and moved reading your mail. How beautifully you

have narrated you experience. You must be really evolved to see

light in everyone and halos around Swami. You are indeed blessed

beyond measure.

 

Sai Ram,

 

Denaz

 

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Gina Diaz de Miranda <saiyeled284

Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:41pm

Re: [saibabanews] Re: Samadhi - communion with God

 

Sai Ram to all!

 

Dear Sai Brother,

 

Your beautiful experience of Samadhi in the presence of our Beloved

Swami cannot be explained in terms of words or images because it is

an experience in Supreme Atmic Reality, an experience in the spirit,

and the mind, which functions within the realm of words and images,

cannot elucidate a purely spiritual experience like yours.

 

These experiences cannot be conveyed to others in rational terms.

However, you did a wonderful service to us by transmitting to us,

through the love in your heart, sparkles of your own illuminating

experience. This can be done only through the Heart.

 

All experiences in this world, the world of moving images and

transient happenings, the world of constant change, cannot be

considered truly real. The world, however, does have a certain

reality of its own, mixed with unreality, and that's why the great

sages and rishis of India, in their wisdom, called the nature of

this world "mythia", which means neither totally false, nor totally

real. Also, they said that life in this world was like a river,

where the waters of "sat" where flowing together with those

of "asat", which means, life is sat/asat, where reality and

unreality are intertwined.

 

But yours was definitely an experience in Divine Reality.

 

Of all the experiences we may have in our human lives, only the

experiences of the Divine are truly real, and therefore, should be

everlasting. This means an experience, or eperiences like yours, do

become integrated into our consciousness and are blessings, given to

you by your Guru and God, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, and as such,

they will have a long lasting effect in your consciousness and life,

in fact, in your whole being.

 

A divine energy accompanies every divine experience, and that divine

energy is lodged within the receipient of such experience to do

something for him or her, and so it is to be considered a gift from

the Divine Lord Himself to His Devotee.

 

With much Sai love and blessings from the heart to all,

 

Gina

saiyeled284

 

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Soumendra Bhattacharjee <soumendra_toronto

Sun Aug 29, 2004 0:16am

Re: [saibabanews] Re: Samadhi - communion with God

 

Sai Ram Al ,

 

I think you have reached that ultimate stage because Vivekananda

had the same experience, Swami Ramakrishna Paramhamsma had to

intervene to bring him back to normal state.Vivekananda was so engrossed

with samadhi that he was seen drifting away from normal duties and his only

prayer to Ramakrishna was that to grant him Nirvikalpa Samdhi.Later Ramakrishna

admonished him saying that he is selfish and he doesn't care about the people

sufferings.If you read Autbiography of Swami Yogananda you will understand

that there is much relevancy to your experience anyway overall you are blessed

to reach that state.

As swami says bliss is your birthright so I presume you are reaching that goal

soon.

 

Swamis blessings to you.

 

Sai Ram

 

Soumendra

 

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GANAPATHY RAMAN <agraman62

Cc: ramanji2003

Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:13pm

Re: [saibabanews] Re: Samadhi - communion with God

 

Aum Sairam,dear Al Macasaet,

I am really thrilled to know your experience.Really you are

fortunate to have such experience.Of course you must have studied

the effects of Kundalini Power which in its last stage bestows the

effect of Samadhi.The same cant be achieved by ordinary people as

raising the Kunalini is a very hard task and requires high stages of

discipline in food habits,meditation,yoga marga etc and more than

that the benign blessings of a highly evolved soul who himself has

attained the highest stage of Samadhi ie the merging individual Atma

with the Universal Mind.In that stage there is only oneness and no

question of duality and one enjoys only bliss,ananda alone.They dont

have body consciousness but only mind consciousness and feel that

they cover the entire Universe.A book of Autobiography of a Yogi by

Paramahansa Yogananda will give great things about this aspect.

As everybody knows Swami has never done any yogic

practices,meditation and such things which came to HIM from the time

HE was born.That is why we call HIM an Avatar.Anyway I am really

happy to note that you have experienced such a bliss and to that

extent you are lucky and on right path.You may achive great things

in course of time by Swamis Grace.Sairam.

 

 

 

saibabanews, "Al Macasaet" <macasaet@m...>

wrote:

> Aum Sai Ram to Reet and my brothers and sisters in Sai

> Reet, thank you so much for your exhaustive treatise on Samadhi.

> In 1999, when I first went to India, in Whitefield to be specific,

> I held up a stack of letters for Swami to take during

> Darshan ..........

[Guest guest]

Aum Sai Ram

 

To Denaz Roy, Gina Diaz de Miranda, Soumendra Bhattacharjee and

GANAPATHY RAMAN, thank you so much for your kind response and words

of encouragement. It is always a joy to listen and talk about our

Sai.

 

Sai Love

Al