{"id":476,"date":"2012-05-27T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/?p=476"},"modified":"2012-04-09T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T04:28:59","slug":"samadhi-trance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/samadhi-trance\/","title":{"rendered":"Samadhi (Trance)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samadhi <\/em>is the highest state of mental concentration that a person can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites him with the highest reality. It is a state of profound and utterly absorptive contemplation of the Absolute that is undisturbed by desire, anger, or any other ego-generated thought or emotion. It is a state of joyful calm, or even of rapture and beatitude. Samadhi <\/em><\/strong>is regarded as the climax of all spiritual and intellectual activity, which is the ultimate aim of Yoga.<\/p>\n

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Yoga has two branches, Hatha Yoga and Raj Yoga. Hatha yoga has seven parts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Shat karma<\/a> <\/em>(Six Cleansings) <\/li>\n
  2. Asana<\/a> <\/em>(Postures) <\/li>\n
  3. Mudras<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  4. Pranayama<\/a> <\/em>(breathing exercises) <\/li>\n
  5. Pratyahara<\/a> <\/em>(Control of senses) <\/li>\n
  6. Dhyana<\/a> <\/em>(Meditation) <\/li>\n
  7. Samadhi<\/a><\/em> (a state of contemplation or trance) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Raj yoga has eight parts (Asthanga yoga):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Yama<\/em> <\/li>\n
    2. Niyama<\/em> <\/li>\n
    3. Asana<\/a> <\/em>(Postures) <\/li>\n
    4. Pranayama<\/a> <\/em>(breathing exercises) <\/li>\n
    5. Pratyahara<\/a> <\/em>(Control of senses) <\/li>\n
    6. Dharana<\/em> <\/li>\n
    7. Dhyana<\/a> <\/em>(Meditation) <\/li>\n
    8. Samadhi<\/a><\/em> (a state of contemplation or trance) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The first five parts are called external aids to Yoga; the remaining three are purely mental or internal aids. As the ultimate goal of both the branches is the Samadhi<\/em>, so a reader may find a few aspects common in both the branches. To achieve the state of Samadhi<\/em>, a sadhaka <\/em>has to go through\/climb up the four steps as described in next article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Samadhi is the highest state of mental concentration that a person can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites him with the highest reality. It is a state of profound and utterly absorptive contemplation of the Absolute that is undisturbed by desire, anger, or any other ego-generated thought or emotion. It is … Continue reading “Samadhi (Trance)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3,21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hathayoga","category-insight-in-yoga","category-samadhi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yFu-7G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}