Perfection In Yoga

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into Samadhi. He is dead to the world. He experiences Superconsciousness or

Nirvikalpa Samadhi. He is in blissful union with the Lord. Savikalpa Samadhi

is subject to time and change. There is Triputi, the seer, sight and seen; or

knower, knowledge and knowable. There is some link with Prakriti or matter.

Savikalpa Samadhi cannot give the final emancipation. This is also an obstacle

to Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The aspirant gets false contentment and stops his

meditation or Sadhana. Hence this is an obstacle to the final or higher

realisation. Nirvikalpa Samadhi alone can burn all Samskaras and Vasanas in

toto. Savikalpa Samadhi cannot destroy all Samskaras and Vasanas. In Savikalpa

Samadhi the life-force or Prana of the Yogi is withdrawn from the body. The

body appears to be dead, motionless and rigid. Breathing is suspended. He is

aware

of his bodily condition or suspended breath. Nirvikalpa or Nirbija Samadhi is

timeless, changeless. This is the highest state of Samadhi. '

------------ Sri Swami Sivananda The Gradational Ascent Of The Mind The

Chakras are centres of Shakti as vital force—in other words, these are centres

of Pranashakti manifested by Pranavayu in the living body, the presiding

Devatas of which are the names for the Universal Consciousness as it manifests

in the form of these centres. The Chakras are not perceptible in the gross

senses. Even if they were perceptible in the living body which they help to

organise they disappear with the disintegration of organism at death. Purity

of mind leads to perfection in Yoga. Regulate your conduct when you deal with

others. Have no feeling of jealousy towards others. Be compassionate. Do not

hate sinners. Be kind to all. Success in Yoga will be rapid if you put your

maximum energy in your Yoga practice. You must have a keen longing for

liberation and intense Vairagya also. You must be sincere and earnest. Intense

and constant meditation is necessary for entering into Samadhi. The mind of

a worldly man with base desires and passions moves in the Muladhara and

Svadhishthana Chakras or centres situated near the anus and the reproductive

organ respectively. If one’s mind becomes purified the mind rises to the

Manipura Chakra or the centre in the navel and experiences some power and joy.

If the mind becomes more purified, it rises to the Anahata Chakra or centre in

the heart, experiences

bliss and visualises the effulgent form of the Ishta Devata or the tutelary

deity. When the mind gets highly purified, the meditation and devotion

become intense and profound, the mind rises to Vishuddha Chakra or the centre

in the throat and experiences more and more powers and bliss. Even when the

mind has reached this centre, there is possibility for it to come down to the

lower centres. When the Yogi reaches the Ajna Chakra or the centre between

the two eyebrows he attains Samadhi and realises the supreme Self or Brahman.

There is a slight sense of separateness between the devotee and Brahman. If

he reaches the spiritual centre in the brain, the Sahasrara Chakra, the

thousand-petalled lotus the Yogi attains Nirvikalpa Samadhi or Superconscious

State—He becomes one with the non-dual Brahman. All sense of separateness

dissolves. This is the highest plane of consciousness or Supreme Asamprajnata

Samadhi. Kundalini unites with Siva. The Yogi may come down to the centre in

the throat to give instructions to the students and do good to others

(Lokasamgraha).

--------Sri Swami Sivananda Sivaya Namah

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