3 books to Enlightenment - yogi explains samadhi

Summary

April 26, 2019, 16 min

Enlightenment located in the body and brain, explained through three books: Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary, Satyacharan in the Abode of Truth, and Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke of Insight. Savikalpa samadhi is framed as the immobile shift into the right brain, and nirvikalpa samadhi as identifying with both hemispheres at once.

In this video

Teaches

Self-realizationLeft and right brainSamadhi

Discusses

MahabharataIain McGilchristSatyacharan LahiriJill Bolte TaylorHigher Self

Mentions

Bhagavad GitaKrishnaKurukshetraLahiri MahasayaSpiritual eyeKriya Yoga

Key moments

00:00A student's unanswered question: what is enlightenment?00:35Grounding enlightenment in the body 01:22Matsya Ganda: the body that smells like a fish becomes a lotus 03:18Book one: Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary 04:10The bird's two eyes: predator left brain, exploratory right brain 05:25Book two: Satyacharan in the Abode of Truth 06:29Satyacharan's unknown state and Lahiri Mahasaya's diaries 07:50Seeing himself wash the dish: meeting the Purana Purusha 09:06Nirvikalpa samadhi: seeing the higher self continuously 09:50Read through McGilchrist: both brains awake at once 11:07Book three: Jill Taylor's My Stroke of Insight 12:45Her stroke as savikalpa samadhi; the book as yoga in reverse 13:42The right brain as where the higher self is experienced