Friday, January 1, 2016

Bliss of samadhi

The Bliss of samadhi is incomparable. Once tasted one will only want the mind to rest in Om always.

Here's a simple formula:
Pain=ignorance; wisdom=bliss

The body is a cage of pain. To identify with it is ignorance.

Living outside the body is sheer bliss. 

Why does the bliss of samadhi not appear to be permanent? On account of the mind's forgetfulness of Devi. She is the power of Om, the Shakti. Time continues as long as the mind won't rest permanently in Om. This apparent division of Self into time is merely for other memories to be purified and replaced by Om. 

This body is a memory of the mind. Constant sense experience reinforces viShayAnanda (bliss of objects) and viShayAsmRti (memory of objects). This concretizes the 'I am the body ' idea. 

Constant experience of samadhi controls this memory (recall YS: tajjah samskArah anya samskAra pratibandhi) and replaces those with memory of the true Self through Om (again YS: tasya vAcakah praNavah), which is the same as Ishvara. 

These observations can be mis-interpreted as rejection of the world experience but that is not the import. Once the world is seen as the play of the Lord, everything is the play of the One and Its Power to be Many. Everyone is realized. Everyone is God. Shiva coming to interact with you through Shakti. All experience is vibration of Om. Even the so-called inanimate creation is simply the mind presently overpowered by tamas that in time will be seen as the Self alone. It is only the angle of vision that has to change: jnAna dRShTi with jnAna cakshu. Vision of wisdom through the eye of wisdom.

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