What is samadhi?

The kind of equanamous state of intellect that we are talking about reflects the concept of ‘samadhi’. What it really means is that this state of intellect occurs only when the intellect is functioning; in a situation when you are able to discriminate between one thing and the other.

The discrimination exists because the intellect functions perfectly. The moment you drop the intellect or transcend the intellect, this discrimination does not exist. Generally this happens at a time when you have control of all your senses, while keeping your eyes closed. When all senses merge into one, it becomes a whole, in yogic terms, a reality, that drives you through life.

There seems to be no time and space in a situation like this. This feeling of absolute completeness, a whole totality of things that makes space for intellect is known as samadhi. A feeling of deep orgasm is one of the feelings of samadhi. Many people have tried to define this feeling, and all that they have come up to explaining is there is no time and space. You may notice the person to be in samadhi for three days, but for him the feeling is so overpowering that it would always be a few moments – it tends to pass off just like that. Sometimes even lifetimes can pass off in this fashion.

So why are we talking about Samadhi
There have been legends where it is said that there have been yogis who lived up to 400-500 years and that some of them were still alive. It’s hard to believe but this is true. 400-500 years according to rational and logical thinking for the human mind may not be possible. But there has been proof that such a thing of staying in one place for long stretches of time is possible. The only question here is to find such a person who has lived through this experience. Another interesting piece of information is that for us these may be 400-500 years, but according to him, it might have been just a few minutes. Such is the effect of a Samadhi existence.

To understanding this concept, momentarily you’ll have to pull yourself out from this and observe. Notice that while staying in this world, whichever way you look at it, there are aspects that are beyond your understanding. Because you are bound by time and space, everything in the world is calculated on these fundamentals. For example if there is a task that requires your attention, you’ll probably calculate it by the time it might take or probably by the amount of space that it might require you to complete it. An absolute feeling and understanding of samadhi comes in when there is no time and space, or in other words there are no physical quantities.

Present day Understanding of Samadhi
This world, as you understand it today, as you see it today, as you experience it today, then becomes one that is by in itself comprising of complete falsehood. What we learn from this state is that when you put yourself in situations that require you to complete a task in absolute accuracy, you don’t have to be bound by the negativity that surrounds it. To get into a state of samadhi, you need absolute belief in yourself as well as confidence that you may be able to retain this state of great periods of time.

Most often, the feeling of samadhi does not only restrict itself to a peaceful co-existence, it also teaches one the art of being patient. Patience as a virtue is well understood through documented definition and never by its everlasting effect. It is understood with the help of people who are patient, and never by the fact that all these feelings are right within us. The existence in a samadhi is more like an acceptance that all things both good and evil are within and around you.

Your acceptance of these around you can make you live in a better comprehension of the world around you. That distractions are always hounding you in every day life; it is the acceptance and the negligence of the fact that these will affect you is what needs to be discarded. True, its easier said than done, but then Rome wasn’t built in a day. It is from the description of what is good do you realize the evils that persist in this world!

That this struggle of power and muscle is nothing; but a struggle within oneself to get to a position that you have claimed to be respectable! Otherwise this whole world is but an illusion, a magical one that gives us a hope to make a better tomorrow!