Follow up to "Questions about samadhi - the superconscious state"

Summary

June 13, 2013, 9 min

Why samadhi should not be watered down, following up a question on whether it is the sensation felt at the spiritual eye. Patanjali's eight steps serve as the map: each comes in order, pratyahara precedes dharana, dhyana and samadhi, and an experience while walking or talking is not samadhi.

In this video

Teaches

SamadhiEight limbs of yoga

Discusses

Pratyahara

Mentions

Spiritual eyeCarl JungHacking the UniverseAlbert EinsteinPatanjaliYama-NiyamaPranayamaDharanaDhyanaSuperconscious mind

Key moments

00:01Follow-up on the question of what samadhi feels like 01:17Reading about an orange vs actually tasting it 02:03Watered-down practices: it's the hard that makes it great 03:31As simple as possible, but no simpler 03:59The eight steps of Patanjali as a framework to memorize 05:20The map: no step can come before the one prior 06:45People who claim samadhi while walking and talking 07:37Cosmic consciousness isn't dumped on you: it's a process 08:17Keep the eight words in your back pocket