What is samadhi?

Question

Has anyone had an experience of it? What happened?

Answer 1

Samadhi is the last stage of self realization in meditation.One looses personal identity and experiences the universal consciousness or existence of GOD.Yes I have experienced Samadhi . I am a changed man who despite the worldly duties has no desires for excellence. Every particle becomes alive and the feelings are beyond words. I can say I am the only one who has meditated on this planet earth and the dust particles . There is much more beyond the visible particles. Tears of love will blind your eyes and you will know what this universe is all about.All doubts will perish and you will be certain what you realized in Samadhi.

Answer 2

In some forms of sitting meditation it is possible to reach a state where the mind is absolutely quiet, one-pointed and absorbed in itself. This is called jhanic samadhi. In this meditative state, the person cannot function. It is only a temporary state, which one comes out of.
When your mindfulness is at its peak, you can experience states where thoughts fall away. But the no-thought state lasts for only a split second. You experience a heightened awareness that is one-pointed as well as absolutely quiet. This momentary one-pointedness of the mind is called khanika samadhi. Although it is not as prolonged as the samadhi states in sitting meditation, khanika samadhi has the same intensity and quality. In khanika samadhi, thoughts fall away and the mind arrives at its purest state.
Although this experience may be brief, it is timeless and infinite; it is a moment of transformation. It is the moment when the "I" and "mine" resolve. After that moment of no thought, pure vision is followed by thought, but the thoughts, emotions and actions are not in the old habitual routine. In the moment of an absolutely still and quiet mind, pure vision (pañña or insight), love and compassion arise from our inner depths. Subsequent thoughts and actions are tempered with love and compassion.

Answer 3

Samadhi (Sanskrit, lit. "establish, make firm") is a Hindu and Buddhist term that describes a non-dualistic state of consciousness in which the consciousness of the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object [1], and in which the mind becomes still (one-pointed or concentrated)[2] but the person remains conscious. Sahaj samadhi is the effortless and continual state of perfection of a satguru. [3]


It's similar to what Native Americans use to experiance when they would shapeshift. Their awareness and conciousness became merged with the object of their intention. . . effectively they become the rock, or the cat, or the universe. Whatever they are meditating on.

Answer 4

Samadhi is a state when mind is completely focused on the Supreme Lord. Yogis achieve samadhi through astanga-yoga after long years and great endeavor, but through bhakti-yoga samadhi can be achieved more quickly and easily. Generally it means focusing on loving service to the Supreme Lord. If you want, you can also easily experience it through bhakti-yoga. Are you interested?

Answer 5

I have experienced it briefly. It's an extraordinary sensation.

The experiences occurred after prolonged efforts to be in a state of "divided attention" as described by Peter Ouspensky, where you focus attention both on yourself but also on the object you are viewing. By prolonged I mean several weeks of constant moment-by-moment effort. Best word I can think to describe it is "electrifying".

Samadhi being a state of consciousness in which the consciousness of the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object - from wikipedia.

I've always found it odd that dividing attention in two has to be experienced before being aware of being one :-)

Answer 6

State of intense concentration or absorption of consciousness, the product of meditation. In Hinduism, it is achieved through Yoga, in which the consciousness is absorbed in the object of meditation. In Buddhism, samadhi is the result of mind-development as distinct from insight-development (see vipassana), and is attainable by non-Buddhists as well as Buddhists. In Zen Buddhism, samadhi allows the meditator to overcome dualistic subject-object awareness through unity with the object of meditation.

Answer 7

Samadhi is kind of juice which is mixed with ice cream in Arabic world.

Answer 8

The stage of perfection is called trance, or samadhi, when one's mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This is characterized by one's ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 9

samadhi is a state of consciousness

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/contents.htm

Answer 10

The description of samadhi is in attached page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

Unfortunately no experience of this.