Light on Yoga - Day 34

 

Tribute to Guruji and Light on Yoga - Day 34

Samadhi is defined as the state of intense concentration achieved through meditation. In Hindu yoga this is regarded as the final stage, at which union with the divine is reached (before or at death).

Mr. Iyengar writes in Light on Yoga that at the peak of the sadhaka's meditation the body and senses are at rest as if asleep but the faculties of mind and reason are alert as if awake and has gone beyond consciousness.  The person in the state of Samadhi is fully conscious and alert.  There is no sense of "I" or "mine"  and there is only the experience of consciousness, truth and joy.

There are no words to describe this state and Mr. Iyengar writes this state can only be explained by profound silence.
Once free from all dualities the knower and known merge in the Eternal.

Namaste.

Pamela Nelson

www.plnyoga.blogspot.com