Samadhi and Duty Discouragement
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Jan 26, 2017
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Email Inquiry:
If I say, I really don't want to do anything after the meditation, so what's that called? and why that happens? and sometimes I would like to read only those related material and want to fall in again so called samadhi (chintan) and don't want to connect with worldly matters. That's not allowed as you are not making justice with your work or your duty. Hence, pl. elaborate more.
MiBeloved's Response:
For efficiently, a person who leaves a samadhi state, should do so with full consciousness focus over into whatever reality he or she finds the self to be at the time. In some cases there will be a delay as the life force in the body takes time to reconnect the core-self with the appropriate psychic perception equipment which are necessary for functioning in the dimension the persons finds himself (herself) to be in.
If the life force fails to connect the core-self to the equipment, then the person will be lost as it was for a time. This might be considered to be due to a lack of mastership of kundalini yoga or the cultivation of an efficient relationship with the kundalini which controls the sleep-wake cycle of the physical body and the synchronization and resynchronization of the subtle body into the physical.
This problem would be solved by mastery of kundalini yoga. Guruji Gorakshnatha taught hatha yoga completely as kundalini yoga where the kundalini is subdued and transformed so that it does not put the self or the psychic equipment into a lull.
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There is a nice story from the life of Buddha which might shed some insight into advanced sattva guna samadhi. This is told by Master Sayadaw on page 148 of his book “Knowing and Seeing.” On the basis of the Pali cannon literature about Buddha, Sayadaw wrote:
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An example of a lesser Steam-Enterer who was reborn in the deva realm, and who attained Nibbàna very quickly afterwards, is the Venerable Samana-Devaputta. He was a bhikkhu who practiced samatha-vipassana earnestly. He died when practicing, and was reborn in the deva realm. He did not know he had died, and continued meditating in his mansion in the deva realm. When the female devas in his mansion saw him, they realized he must have been a bhikkhu in his previous life, so they put a mirror in front of him and made a noise. He opened his eyes, and saw his image in the mirror. He was very disappointed, because he did not want to be a deva; he wanted only Nibbàna.
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Here we hear of a person who was in samadhi and who was unaware that his material body had died in this world. He came to or became consciousness in the Swarga Loka heavenly places to which his subtle body was transferred. But as soon as he became conscious there, he knew what was what and what he was supposed to do which was to finish out his yoga austerities to attain liberation. He did not space out for a moment and had his faculties with him.
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If you do not master kundalini yoga, then your sitting to meditate may not yield the proper insight consciousness which is required for prompt assumption of purpose and duties after a samadhi state.
Incidentally vipassana really means vi-pashyana which is insight. Pashya is from the Sanskrit for seeing and vi qualifies the perception as supernatural vision.
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The state you wish to attain would be had by mastership of kundalini yoga, to the extent that the yogi uproots the kundalini and takes over its duties of regulating the sleep way cycle and the connection and reconnection of the core-self with its psychic adjuncts. That would require a tremendous amount of austerities under very superior guidance. It is better to not think of this anymore. Be satisfied with whatever little you are doing at present.
manishsony 3 years ago
Dedicating every action to God will make everything divine, even if the things which we don't like.
