Saturday, February 12, 2011

Yogic Samadhi is not self-realization



When Yogi comes out of Samadhi and immediately duality confronts him again. His peace goes, it was depended Samadhi-sleep. Hence no yogi attains true peace, but he imagines it.  

It is not possible know that a Yogi is self-realized because the yogic Samadhi is not self-realization.  One must first find out that what he has got is Samadhi or wisdom. Only through non-dual wisdom one gets self realization.  The yogic Samadhi cannot be considered as non-dual wisdom. Therefore there is need to verify the facts.

When one cannot know the world in front of him then how can he know the God? He will only know his imagination of a God. How can he say his God is all-merciful, when the god is formless and cannot be perceivable from physical eyes?

Sanyasins are enjoined not to accept anything or ask for anything in order to get established in Atman. Religion propagates that only Sanyasis can have Atma Gnana, but it is not so, anyone who    trains himself to reason on the base of the true self will be able to acquire non-dual wisdom.  Blessings are religious fable. Only pretenders give blessings. A Gnani neither blesses nor curses.

The yogi fail to see non-duality in Samadhi, because he believes there is bliss to come to him from Samadhi. That shows he does not know truth, but still seeks bliss as something apart from himself.

It is no use seeing God everywhere. One must see Atman, the same consciousness, the same self, everywhere, and then he will be able  to accept all the three states  alike(as consciousness), with sameness. 

 
 Sri, Sankara says in Viveka Chudamani indicated that:-
56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realisation of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.

Sri Sankara clearly indicated that: - yoga, intellectualism, scriptural mastery is not the means to self-knowledge.  But by the realisation of one's identity with consciousness, which is ultimate truth or Brahman, freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality is possible, and by no other means.

 
BRIH. UPANISAD( page 32):- "Yoga does not yield truth or liberation."

Brihad Upanishad  declares:-  Yoga cannot give you truth.

 
BRIHAD UP. Page 133 1st para points out that:- even yoga cannot give perfect concentration and that the only way to gain it is philosophical realization. This confirms Mandukya's statement that:-  yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass. 

When the yogi enters this highest Nirvikalpa (effort-less) Samadhi, he will at once enter deep sleep. This will make plain to him after he wakes, that the inner self he sought and found, the Atman, is reached only when all his ideas are refunded into it, when there is then all the features of non-duality, one without a second. However the yogi must later wake up, emerge from Samadhi and there is duality again, for world of objects confronts him. So now he has to work on the next stage which is to find consciously in the waking experience the same non-duality that he unconsciously knew in sleep. This is done by learning that the universe is idea or object for the formless subject, and then refunding the universe -idea back into its source, which is consciousness. Only at this final stage dare he say "Atman (soul or consciousness) is the same as Brahman (ultimate truth)." Now he is fully aware of it.