Hari OM
Monday is AUM-day; in search of meditation.
With our penultimate look at OM as focus of meditation, we arrive
at samaadhi.
…oh, to reach समाधि/samaadhi!!! The
state of being beyond all of what precedes it. Beyond vasihvanara, taijas and
prajna; without the deception of unmaanii or alaadanii. Samaadhi is the deepest
absorption, the ultimate transitional meditative state. Samaadhi is the state
from which one can attain the final level of Consciousness within OM;
turiiya.
There are different ‘textures’ of samaadhi, dependent on the
nature of the meditation (to be discussed fully at a later time). The key thing
to note for now is that even within samaadhi, there is a hierarchy of
being-ness. Working one’s way through from the gross to the subtlest of subtle,
observational meditation is what is required in order to make the total
transition into turiiya. Samaadhi is not, of itself, enlightenment (moksha).
All the texts talk of the samaadhi, also of the need to persist in
it to attain moksha. Continual abhyaasa is required to bring oneself out of the
gross and ever-more into the subtle. To avoid the traps of activity in the
gross, the ‘smoke and mirrors’ of the transitions and the mesmerism of the causal
takes much persistence of abhyaasa and requires application of vairaagya. Samaadhi
is not moksha, it is merely the condition in which liberation may be
discovered. To demonstrate the vastness, the variety, that is samaadhi, here is
a list of its meanings… we shall return to this list and ponder each of the
aspects; for now, run your eyes down and seek to understand the scope contained
here. Not only the word but the condition.
Consider this a SAADHANA.
The following is taken from Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit.
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | whole | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | accomplishment | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | conclusion | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | proof | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | putting together | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | assent | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | intentness | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | union | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | concentration of the thoughts | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | profound or abstract meditation | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | joining with | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | agreement | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | intense contemplation of anyparticular object | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | setting to rights | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | completion | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | justification of a statement | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | trance | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | aggregate | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | intense application or fixing themind on | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | set | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | concentration of mind | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | bringing into harmony | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | joint or a particular position of theneck | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | settlement | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | adjustment | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | intense absorption or a kind oftrance | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | sanctuary or tomb of a saint | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | attention | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. | joining or combining with | ||
| समाधि | samAdhi | m. f. | deep concentration, meditation |