Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) Vol-2, Issue-11, 2016 ISSN: 2454-1362, http://www.onlinejournal.in Samadhi Is the Ultimate State of Realization of Self S. Mothilal Nehru1 & Dr. M. Jothilakshmi2 1Ph.D Research Scholar, Vision for Wisdom, Bharathiar University. 2Guide, Asst. Professor, Department of Tamil, Bishop Heber College, Trichirappalli. Abstract: The Astanga Yoga of Pathanjali provides Universe, realization of Truth are all the same. The methods of achieving Samadhi by practicing the entire Universe can be analyzed into four yoga stage by stage. Only few of the aspirants they principles; they are (1) Truth; (2) Energy; (3) move to Samadhi stage and others have not Mass; and (4) Consciousness. Karma Yoga is an achieved for various obvious reasons. Astanga or appropriate method of life which will cleanse one Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is a text that covers many of the impurities and enable him to reach the goal aspects of life, beginning with a code of conduct of Self Realization. Ramana Maharishi also urged and ending with the goal of yoga, a vision of one ?s people who came to him to practice self-enquiry. true Self. Yoga isn? t only about postures, or He directed people to look inward rather than meditation, it is a way of life, or religion. In this seeking outside themselves for Realization. influencing scripture there are eight steps to awakening or enlightenment through yoga. These KEYWORDS: eight astanga or limbs of yoga are: yamas, Lust,Vanity,Introspection,Sublimation,Neutralizati niyamas, asanas, pranayama, pratyahara, on,Moralization &Miserliness. dharana, dhyana, and Samadhi. Samadhi is the ultimate state of self-realization, or union INTRODUCTION with the source. It is a state of being totally aware Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is a text that covers of the present moment; a one-pointedness of mind. many aspects of life, beginning with a code of Vethathiri Maharishi is the exponent of the system conduct and ending with the goal of yoga, a vision of Simplified Kundalini Yoga which is the sure way of one?s true Self. The Pantajali?sYoga Sutras is to lasting peace and real happiness. He has also probably the most authoritative text on yoga. It rediscovered the Simplified Kayakalpa Yoga given defines yoga as a focusing of the attention to out by the siddhas of South India many centuries whatever object is being contemplated to the ago. Objective -Yoga for human excellence are exclusion of all others. Yoga isn?t only about disease-free life, to achieve peace and perfection in postures, or meditation, it is a way of life, or life, he patterned the simplified exercise. He religion. In this influencing scripture there are eight popularized the simplified Kundalini meditation steps to awakening or enlightenment through yoga. and synthesized Kayakalpa Yoga exercise for These eight astanga or limbs of yoga are: yamas, modern life. His system has four practical methods niyamas, asanas, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, besides the simplified exercise and special exercise dhyana, and samadhi. called Kayakalpa exercise for rejuvenating the life The yamas consist of lessons in moral and force. These are Meditation, Introspection, social conduct in our environment. Sublimation, Perfection. For which the The niyama focuses on attitudes towards ourselves: introspection practice starts. Think of self, Find compromising, cleanliness, serenity, devotion, and the drawbacks / Goodness within self, Find a plan asceticism. In the asanas, one focuses on posture to eradicate the drawbacks, Practice and adopt to practice, positioning the body while incorporating lead the life as per plan. The introspection also the breath to achieve a greater awareness in the helps to analyze the thoughts, neutralization of mind. Pranayama, or the restraint and control of the anger, moralization of desires, eradication of breath, helps with concentration, energizing and worries and realization of self as who am I?. By balancing of the mind and body. Pratyahara is the this introspection, one can convert the following six relaxation of the senses, where no distractions temperaments – Greediness, Anger, Miserliness, actually activate the mind. Dharana, or Lust, Vanity & Vengeance. REALIZATION OF concentration, is the ability to direct the mind SELF AS WHO AM I: Self Realization is the toward a chosen object and focus in on it alone. perfection of the sixth sense and it is the peak of Dhyana, or meditation, is the ability to develop wisdom. Self Realization, actualization of the focused interactions with what we seek to Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) Page 275 Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) Vol-2, Issue-11, 2016 ISSN: 2454-1362, http://www.onlinejournal.in understand. Lastly, but most importantly, Samadhi the appearance the 'counterpart sign' is the ultimate state of Self-realization, or union (patibhaganimitta). with the Source. • Absorption concentration (appanasamadhi): The total immersion of the mind on its SAMADHI: meditation of object and stabilization of all Home → Spirituality → Concentration, Meditation, four jhanas. Contemplation → Samadhi: The Ideologically the Zen-tradition stresses prajna Height of Divine Consciousness. and sudden insight, but in the actual practice prajna and samadhi, or sudden insight and gradual SAMADHI: In Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sik cultivation, are paired to each other. hism, Merkabah, Mysticism, Sufism & yogic Patañjali's Yoga sutras schools refers to a state of meditative consciousness. It is a meditative absorption or Samadhi is the main subject of the eight trance, attained by the practice limb of the Yoga Sutras called Samadhi-pada. They of dhyāna. In samadhi the mind becomes still. It is resemble the Buddhist jhanas. According to David a state of being totally aware of the present Gordon White, the language of the Yoga Sutras is moment; a one-pointedness of mind. In Buddhism, often closer to "Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, the it is the last of the eight elements of the Noble Sanskrit of the early Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, Eightfold Path.In the Ashtanga Yoga tradition, it is than to the classical Sanskrit of other Hindu the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga scriptures." According to Karel Werner, Patanjali's Sūtras of Patañjali. system is unthinkable without Buddhism. As far as Definition: its terminology goes there is much in the Yoga • Sarbacker: Samādhi is meditative absorption, Sutras that reminds us of Buddhist formulations attained by the practice of dhyana. from the Pāli Canon and even more so from the Sarvastivada Abhidharma and • Shankman: an abiding in which mind from Sautrantika." Robert Thurman writes that becomes very still but does not merge with the Patanjali was influenced by the success of object of attention, and is thus able to observe the Buddhist monastic system to formulate his own and gain insight into the changing flow of matrix for the version of thought he considered experience. orthodox. However, it is also to be noted that the Buddhism: The term 'Samadhi' derives from the Yoga Sutra, especially the fourth segment of root sam-a-dha, which means 'to collect' or 'bring Kaivalya Pada, contains several polemical verses together', and thus it is often translated as critical of Buddhism, particularly the Vijnanavada 'concentration' or 'unification of mind'. In the early school of Vasubandhu. Buddhist texts, samadhi is also associated with the Samadhi is oneness with the object of term samatha (calm abiding). In the suttas, samadhi meditation. There is no distinction between act of is defined as one-pointedness of mind meditation and the object of meditation. Samadhi is (Cittass'ekaggatā). Buddhagosa defines samadhi as of two kinds, with and without support of an "the centering of consciousness and consciousness object of meditation: concomitants evenly and rightly on a single • object...the state in virtue of which consciousness Samprajnata Samādhi, also called savikalpa and its concomitants remain evenly and rightly on a samādhi and Sabija Samādhi, meditation with single object, undistracted and unscattered" support of an object. (Vism.84-85; PP.85). Samprajata samadhi is associated with deliberation, reflection, bliss, and I-am-ness. The Theravada Pali texts mention four kinds of The first two, deliberation and reflection, form samadhi: the basis of the various types of samapatti: • Momentary concentration (khanikasamadhi): • Savitarka, "deliberative": The citta is A mental stabilization which arises concentrated upon a gross object of during vipassana. meditation, an object with a manifest • Preliminary concentration appearance that is perceptible to our (parikammasamadhi): Arises out of the senses, such as a flame of a lamp, the tip meditator's initial attempts to focus on a of the nose, or the image of a meditation object. deity. Conceptualization (vikalpa) still • Access concentration (upacarasamadhi): takes place, in the form of perception, the Arises when the five hindrances are word and the knowledge of the object of suppressed, when jhana is present, and with meditation. When the deliberation is ended this is called nirvitaka samādhi. Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) Page 276 Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) Vol-2, Issue-11, 2016 ISSN: 2454-1362, http://www.onlinejournal.in • Savichara, "reflective": the citta is In Sikhism the word is used to refer to an concentrated upon a subtle object of action that one uses to remember and fix one's meditation, which is not perceptible