dhyana and samadhi🔗

Merging with the Source

chapter 5

ध्यान समाधि Merging with the Source

Dhyāna is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘meditation’. It is the derived from the root word, dhī, meaning the mind and yana, meaning moving.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains that Dhyāna is not concentrating on one object. Dhyāna is raising your frequency to a certain level so that the object on which the meditation is happening, and the meditator, both lose their boundary and become one. Meditating on for example a piece of cloth to where the mind and the object lose their boundaries, become one, and disappear into the source from where they both arise, is Dhyāna.

Dhyāna does not involve seeing colors and light, hearing music, or sensing the presence of Divine beings. Dhyāna is not having supernormal experiences. While aspirants may have these experiences, this itself is not meditation. All experiences are of the mind, and Dhyāna can happen only when you drop the mind.

Meditation is not an escape from Life. In fact, meditation is intimately connected with Life. Paramahamsa Nithyananda says that Consciousness spirling outward is Life. Life spiraling inward, towards Consciousness, is meditation. Meditation is a continuous evolutionary process, each experience taking us to higher levels of awareness and understanding, while clearing away the mental garbage of many lifetimes.

One can meditate on anything and if the boundary is lost, even enlightenment can be experienced. For Paramahamsa Nithyananda, his first enlightenment experience happened at the age of twelve. Nithyananda was playfully experimenting with the simple technique of trying to find the source of His thoughts. He noticed that something opened up inside him which resulted in an experience that was far beyond the scope of His two physical eyes. Today, we are able to understand that what the young Avatar had was a spontaneous awakening of the Third Eye and the experience of Advaita, Oneness with the Whole!

“The first experience was, that I was able to see everything

around me, above me, the whole 360 degree. I realized not only was I able to see, I was able to feel, experience, the skin of the stone, the rock on which I was sitting on the skin of this body, both carry me equally. In both I exist equally."

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

As Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains, during Dhyāna, not only the mind, but also the object on which it has been meditating, loses its boundary and becomes one with the Source from which both have arisen - resulting in intense joy, peace and bliss. During this experience of Oneness, the qualities of the object of meditation manifests in the one meditating. That is why it is so important to meditate on a source of higher energy like a deity or Guru.

The attainment of the supreme state, space and shaktis of Sadashiva Himself, is the fruit of meditation. Initiated members of the Nithyananda Sangha practice Dhyāna by visualizing the laughing face of the master in a special point between the navel and solar plexus called the Ananda Gandha. By entering a state of Oneness with the Master, they are able to manifest yogic powers such as blindfolded reading, remote viewing, body scanning, levitation and materialization.

Samadhi is a Sanskrit word describing a state of meditative consciousness. A yogi can attain it by the practice of dhyāna. One is completely aware of the present moment. The mind becomes still.

Bhava Samadhi is a state of ecstatic consciousness that arises from a space of unconditional devotion to your chosen ideal. Bhava means mental attitude, feeling, emotion. This state of consciousness sometimes spontaneously happens in us.

"Practicing the presence of God is the greatest, most powerful technique to put you in Bhava Samadhi immediately. Practicing the presence of God is constantly feeling you are with Him, He is with you. Practicing the presence of God means cognizing His presence is there with you and constantly relating with Him, keeping Him present in your presence. Keeping Him present in your presence, is Practicing the Presence of God!"

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

"Bhava Samadhi means the zone where the solid is not solid, liquid is not liquid, where that gap between the solid and the liquid is just overlapping on each other. It is like a - when the ice and water meets and melts, that zone. Neither the formlessness nor the physical form. You can say the doorstep. Neither you are in nor you are out. Same way, nor in the space of complete formlessness, or in the space of name and form. where the solid is becoming liquid. where the form is becoming formless. That zone. That is what I call Bhava samadhi." Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Nirvikalpa Samadhi happens once one becomes one with the ultimate. "Nirvikalpa" means being without any changes. "Vikalpa" means changes, oscillation, diversion, dilution, differentiation. All these can be different meanings of the word Vikalpa. 'Nirvikalpa' means without any of this. When one achieves Nirvikalpa Samadhi, he literally becomes God. 'Nirvikalpa Samadhi' means your whole being, your whole identity dissolving into the cosmic existence. The individual inner space has no more disturbances, differences.

The best direct experience of Nirvikalpa Samadhi can be achieved by unclutching. The word "unclutching" is the Ultimate Spiritual Truth. Unclutching can directly upgrade your very consciousness. The process can be understood by describing three terms: clutching, disclutching and unclutching. Clutching means holding on to, getting attached. Disclutching means completely getting disconnected, breaking. Unclutching means moving back to clutch anytime when it is needed. Continuously you are clutched to your body, to your mind, to your emotions, to many things. You are clutched even with your Facebook identity! The ideas your mind creates - the idea of joy, idea of pain, idea of pleasure - you clutch with so many things . Unclutching, even if it is practiced sincerely in a very small level, brings so much of awakening in you. For example, you can practise it every moment when you have a thought. When a thought raises in you, without supporting it, encouraging it, entertaining it or being entertained by it, just relax from it.

If you start relaxing from the thoughts which are raising, you will experience freedom from the identity which you created.

Please understand, unclutching is not even a path leading to Nirvikalpa Samadhi, it is a process directly giving you the experience of Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The moment you start unclutching, you are falling into Nirvikalpa Samadhi. It is not a peak to attain it, it is a valley in which you need to fall. It is not an object to attain it, peak to achieve it, it is a valley to be fallen in it. When one achieves Nirvikalpa Samadhi it is not even an achievement.

"Unclutching is the purest form of meditation. Unclutching is the purest Samadhi." Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Embodied State of Consciousness - Bhava Samadhi ....................................................................... Atma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Pratyahāra means withdrawing from everything else. Dhāra a means flowing on one thing. Dhyāna means that truth towards which you are flowing, revealing itself to you—Being in that state continuously is Samādhi.

Leela Dhyan ....................................................................... Atma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Shaktipata should be happening constantly in your system by the sweet Leela Dhyāna, a sweet remembrance. Blessed are those in whom the Leela Dhyāna continuously happening, means Shaktipata has become eternal in you. Shaktipata, the first thing it does in you - increasing the viscosity of Bliss, increasing the depth and presence and intensity of the Bliss in you, so that automatically breaks the Pitta layer, Delusion layer.

Defining Dhyana / Meditation ....................................................................... Atma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Developing the brain's ability to catch the subtlest visualizations, through long practice of internal silence, is called Unclutching or meditation.

Defining Dhyana / Meditation ....................................................................... Atma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Developing the brain's ability to catch the subtlest visualizations, through long practice of internal silence, is called Unclutching or meditation.

Dhyana not Only for Inner Peace, but to Raises the Subtlety of Brain Grooves and Brain's Ability ....................................................................... Atma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Practicing surrender or Unclutching or Ananda Gandha Dhyāna, Complete completion, all this not only brings peace into your heart, it raises the subtlety of your brain grooves and your brain's ability to capture and live the higher truths. The most subtle one your brain captured, makes itself as your cognition and life's goal.

Ātma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Anything which is subtle, the most subtlest experience, imagination, visualization, your brain is able to capture, it will make that as the base for its function. I don't need to do anything other than describe how the materialization happens to My Baalasants, the way they are able to capture. The moment their subtle grooves in the brain captures this, that power will start manifesting in them. Why I am saying Baalasants, because they are more ready to listen, their inner space has more peace, their brains have more subtle grooves to imbibe what I am sharing. When I explain that science, if you can visualize it, that power will start manifesting in you; because anything your brain can visualize, it will make that as your basic functionality. If I can explain – moving from one body and another body, Astral travel – and your brain is subtle enough to capture it, visualize it, you will start manifesting that power. All powers are like that only. You just need the completion space and Guru who properly makes your brain grooves to CATCH IT.

Ātma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Anything your brain can capture and enjoy, your life will make that into reality. If your brain can capture and enjoy the most subtlest understandings of Cosmic sacred secrets and the spiritual powers, you will just become Yogi, Divya Shariri.

Ātma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Ability to reflect the subtlest truths, ability to reflect the sacred understandings, ability to catch the most sacred bliss, ability to capture the powerfulness of the Consciousness, ability to look into the Source of the Cosmos, happens with tremendous completion and peace in the inner space.

You Associating Yourself More with Consciousness

Ātma Pramāṇa - आत्म प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Associating yourself with Consciousness, the Pure Consciousness more and more is Dhyāna .

From Pranayama to Meditation

Translation Having equalized the outbreath and inbreath (prana and apana) and having enabled the breath to flow through within the central channel (susumna) and having arrested the workings of inbreath and outbreath, the well-skilled sadhaka should deeply meditate on Lord Siva.

Defining Dhyāna

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.19

अथ ध्यानम्

Translation Dhyāna is said to be the technique, which frees the mind from all the thoughts. Practice of unswerving concentration of the thoughts, on any of the elements, is defined as Dhyāna. 19

Dhyāna-Mudrā

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.21

Translation Adopt a comfortable sitting posture, with the eyes gazing at an external point, while mind is focused inside, keeping the body straight and remaining motionless. This is dhyāna-mudrā, which bestows success. 21

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.29

Translation Fixing the gaze at the tip of the nose, one should meditate on the Self, which is as bright as a golden light situated on the first cakra, that is ādhāra. Thus one frees one- self from the sins. 29

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Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.30

Translation Sva stands for prana, svadhisthana is the abode for that (prana), (sva {self} + adhistana {abode}). This is how svadhīthana cakra Is define, which should be meditated upon. 30

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.32

Translation One meditates upon the Self placing it on the manipura cakra, which is as effulgent as the morning sun, by fixing the gaze on the tip of the nose and experienceing complete Bliss. 32

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.47

Translation One should meditate on the Sefl placed in the lotus heart, which is as bright as lightening and purified by the practice of pranayama, fixing the gaze on the tip of the nose. Thus one becomes identified with Brahman. 47

Meditate on Siva

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.49

Translation One should meditate on the Siva, who is nirguna (without attributes), peaceful and omnipresent, placing it in the gagana (ether - brahma-randra) and fixing the gaze on the tip of the nose. Thus one becomes identified Brahman. 49

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Meditate on Vishuddhi

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.50

Translation One should meditate on the Atman (Self), in the visuddha cakra, which is as illuminating as the light and located in the throat. Doing so, one attains freedomg from misery. 50

Meditate on Self in Palate

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.51

Translation One should meditate on the Atman (Self), visulizing it in the orb of moon located in the palate, wherefrom the nectar oozes and keep the gaze on the tip of the nose. Thus one transcends death. 51

Meditate on third eye

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.52

Translation One should meditate on the Atman (Self), visulizing it as a deity between the two eye-brows, which is brightly shining like the rays of pure diamond, while keeping the gaze on the tip of the nose. Thus one is filled up with Bliss. 52

9 points of Meditation

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.55

Translation

Anus, genitals, navel, lotus heart, throat, uvula, palate, center of the eye-brows and nabho-bila (brahma-randhra) - are the nine sites for meditation as told by the yogīs.

Attain Powers through Meditation

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.56

Translation

Meditation on Heart Padma

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VI.61

Translation

Adopt the posture of vajrasana daily keeping the body erect, have control on the breath and visualize the tatva in the petals of the hṛt padma. Thus one attains liberation. 61

See the Ultimate Reality

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Haṭhapradīpikā of Svātmārāma VII.38

Translation

Keeping the eyes half-open and mind poised, fix the gaze on the tip of the nose, slow down the pace of both iḍā and piṅgalā, maintain an internal calm, visualize the ultimate Reality as brightly shining internal light. Thus, one attains the Absolute State of tatva (Self), beyond all material realm. What else remains to be said? 38.

Meditating in Supreme Self - Description

vidyeśvaraṃ tatastattavaṃ tataḥ sadāśivaṃ param | bhitvā tu kṣurikāstreṇa tataḥ sūkṣmaṃ śivaṃ viśet||29||

Translation Pervading completely in all directions – across, above, below, outside, inside and so on – the self always exists in its own state being dissociated from all things. Being self luminous it shines forth with its own brilliance and illumines everything. The refined seeker should always meditate on his own self which is of such nature.

Meditation to Experience Oneness with Shiva

amratātmā śivaṃ sākṣāt tasmin viṣṭastu yogavit | saryagya: sarvaga: sūkṣma: sarveśa: sarvakradbhavet:|| 30 ||

Translation The self is not to be considered as absolutely non-existent( na s'u'nyam). In its own state it is bereft of adjuncts such as body, instruments and so forth ( na as'u'nyam). But in its embodied state it is associated with relevant body , Instruments, location and enjoyments( na s'u'nyam). In its liberated state, it becomes one with S'iva who is eternally free from the constricting adjuncts. The refined seeker should meditate on his own self as completely dissociated from adherence to such notion of state as existent or non-existent.

Description of Position, Space and State for Yogic Meditation

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Paramesvaragama (Ch. 10, 23)

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Yogi should be seated on a clean place in a steady posture keeping the head, neck and the body straight without making any movement like a trunk of the tree or an unflinching flame of the lamp (23).

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Describing Location of Focus for Meditation on Sadashiva (part 1)

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Paramesvaragama (Ch. 10, 24)

On one of the lotus centre of the heart, navel, Svadhisthana, Muladhara, Vishuddha, Ajna, Sahasrara. 24

Describing Location of Focus for Meditation on Sadashiva (part 2)

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Paramesvaragama (Ch. 10, 25)

Brahmarandra (top of the head), crown of the crest, Dvadasanta (western crest) or soul. O Sive! Then Yogi should meditate on me as the supreme God. 25

Description of Dhyāna

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Mahanirvani Tantram (5, 137)

Dhyāna or contemplation is two-fold, according to the distinction of, with and without forms. But meditation on thee (Devi) without any form is beyond the range of mind and speech. 137

Translation Heart-lotus is denoted as prakrta padma, and Brahma is its presiding deity. Out of the five syllable of mula mantra, the finest syllable is considered to be one with the presiding deity

Brahma who is to be meditated upon as the pure Lord. Associated with the heart lotus there are ten important nadis - vijñaya, prathama, saumyā, paśūni, akṣi, vedātmika, cetana, bandhanī, mocanī and mohinī.

Brahma is to be contemplated upon as endowed with his own characteristics and shinning forth in the form of first syllable.Through this kind of Dhyāna, the aspirant can attain victory over tattvas from prthivi to avyakta.

| Reaching the Place Belonging to Visnu Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (36) | उपरिष्टाद्यथाऽगच्छेत् हरिस्थानं भवेत्-खग । नाडयष्षोडशाब्जस्था विज्ञेयाः कर्णसंस्थितः ॥ ३६ ॥ upariṣṭādyathā'gacchet haristhānaṃ bhavet-khaga । nāḍayaṣṣoḍaśābjashā vijñeyāḥ karṇasaṁsthitaḥ || 36 || | Translation When he rises above the plane of heart lotus (mentally) he reaches a place belonging to visnu. 36 | | Region Where Vishnu Resides Occupied by Sixteen Nadis Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (37) | तत्र विष्णुस्ततश्शुद्धो द्वितीयोऽक्षरमास्थितः । शुभा मनोरम दीप्ता सुदीप्ता भीमकारिका ॥ ३७ ॥ tatra viṣṇustataśśuddho dvitiyo'kṣaramāsthitaḥ |I37II | Translation There are sixteen nadis occupying the region of the ears. With all purity and in the form of the second syllable Lord Visnu resides there. | | Names of the Sixteen Nadis Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (37-38) | शुभा मनोरम दीप्ता सुदीप्ता भीमकारिका ॥ ३७॥ सुधूमा पिङ्गला पीता वारुणी शीघ्रगाचला । शशारिका स्प्रभा चैव ज्ञादा मोक्षदा परा ॥ ३८॥ śubhā manorama dīptā sudīptā bhīmakārikā ||37|| sudhūmā piṅgalā pītā vāruṇī śīghragācalā | śaśārikā sprabhā caiva jñādā mokṣadā parā ||38|| | Translation The name of the 16 nadis are: śubhā, manorama, dīptā, sudīptā, bhīmakārikā,sudhūmā, piṅgalā, pītā, vāruṇī, śīghragācalā, śaśārikā, sprabhā, caiva, jñādā, mokṣadā and parā ||38|| | | Description on Dhyana on Vishnu Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (39) | इत्येताष्षोडश ज्ञेया हरिमावृत्य संस्थिताः । स्वरुपेणाभ्यसेद्विष्णुं अथवा वर्णरूपकम् ॥ ३९॥ ityetāṣṣoḍaśa jñeyā harimāvṛtya saṁsthitāḥ | svarūpeṇābhyasedviṣṇuṁ athavā varṇarūpakam ||39|| | Translation These sixteen nadis are there surrounded of Visnu who is to be meditated upon as shining forth with his own features and appearing one with the second syllable.39 |

From Avyakta to Purusha ........................................................................ Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (40)

Translation Through the practice of this Dhyāna, one can easily get over the letters of tattvas from avyakta to purusa. 40

Meditation on Palate Region (Uvuka) ........................................................................ Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (40-41)

Translation Above the place of the second lotus there is a lotus region which is very pure. This is in the region ocupied by the uvula (or palate). There are 24 nadisrunning around the lotus-petals.

Twenty Four Energy Channels - Nadis ........................................................................ Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (41-43)

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (44)

Translation Rudra is to be contemplated upon as being surrounded of these twenty four nadis and as endowed with his own divine form and shinning forth in the form of third syllable.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (45)

Translation Through the practice of this kind of dhyana, the aspirant can ascend to the place of Ananteswara. Note: Ananta means the serpent Ananta Sesa. As He is the Lord of Ananta, He is known as Ananteswara.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (56-57)

Translation Above the place of bindu (fore-head) there ascends a path which is subtle and long as the subtle thread of lotus stalk. This is the place of Lord Sadashiva where innumerable sounds like the loud noise of clouds can be heard internally.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (57-58)

Translation O Garuda, Lord Sadashiva is to be meditated upon as shining forth with is own divine form made of kala mantras and adorned with rising snakes. He is seated on the lotus surrounded of four nadis - indikā, dīpikā, weikā and mocikā.

Translation Above the region of Sadāṣiva mandala exists sakti mandala known as kuṇḍalinī. This is beyond the reach of sound and it is with subtle form. 59

Translation Sakti is seated there surrounded of four nādīs - sūkṣmā, susūkṣmā, amṛtā and mṛtā.

Translation Through the practice of this kind of dhyāna, one can become the knower of all and the doer of all.

Translation Above the place of Sakti is the mandala of parāśakti in which there arefour nadis - vyāpinī, ananta, anāthā and anāśrita. She Is seated at the center of lotus with a subtle and impeccable form.

Translation Through the practice of this kind of Dhyāna, one can achive the power of Vyāpakatva (all-pervasiveness), the power which is not to be attained even by divine and celestial beings.

Description of Place Existing Above Parashakti

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (63-64)

Translation The place existing above Parāśakti - maṇḍala is niṣkala; it is eternal and everlasting (avyaya). It is the nature of consciousness and it is as still as motionless air.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (64)

Translation A Yogin who ascends to that highest maṇḍala and gets absorbed in it (samādhi bhāvana) through the gradual practice of dhyāna process never comes back to his mundane state.

Three Nadis as Three Gunas Pervading the Three-Fold Existence

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (69)

Translation These three nadis exist in the form of the three fundamental gunas and they are being controled by their respective Shakti and Rudra. All the three-fold existents are pervaded by these three nadis.69

Meditation to Know Past, Present and Future

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (70)

Translation Through the continued practice of Dhyāna based on these three nādis, one can attain the power of knowing all things concerned with the past, present and future.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (71)

Translation That which has occured during the past time can be known through vāma nādi (iḍā); happenings of the present time that occur all over the world can be known through the right nāḍi (piṅgala); future can be known through the middle nāḍi known as suṣumna.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (71)

Translation Through the proper process of Dhyāna based on these three nādis, one can certainly attain the state of niṣṭha etc. within the period of six months.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (72)

Translation He becomes a perfect Yogin endowed with the power of knowing the past present and future. There is no doubt about this kind of acheievement. If not in this manner, the aspirant can meditate upon Lord Sambhu who assumes a form as small as an atom in the heart of all beigns.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (73)

Translation He can be meditated upon in a place twelve angulas above the plane of his nose-tip, a place known as Dvādaśāñta, which is superior to all and which is of the nature of ineffable clamness.

Shakti to Ascend to the All-Pervading Space

Śāstra Pramāṇa -शास्त्र प्रमाण Kirana Agama - Yoga Pada (74)

śiraḥ-pāṅyiḍi saṁyuktam - ūrdhvadevaṁ svahṛdgatam | (74)

Translation

Through the proper pronouncement of prāsāda kala as instructed by the preceptor one can mentally ascend to that highest place which pervades everything.

samādhi

Ātma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

See, usually what happens when I fall into that samadhi is, kind of a light ball which assumed this body overtakes this body.

Ātma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Unclutching is the purest form of meditation. Unclutching is the purest Samadhi.

Ātma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Your eyes are open, but you are not seeing. Your ears are open, but you are not hearing. Your are not sleeping, your cognition is alive but you are not cognizing, that is the state called Sahaja Samādhi. After sometime even if you are cognizing, you will not move out of that state. You will continue to be in that state and you will continue to cognize, that is the perfect of Sahaja Samadhi.

Ātma Pramāṇa - आत्मा प्रमाण Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Start the Pure Questioning, you will see automatically your attention will get centered on something which cannot be verbalized. This question will not lead to answer, it will lead to an experience – embodied state. The embodied state is the answer for this question. Sahaja Samadhi is the answer for Pure Questioning.

śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Shiva Samhita(BA)-III.67

Translation When the jivan-mukta (delivered in the present life,) tranquil Yogi has obtained, through practice, the consummation of samadhi (meditation), and when this state of consummated samadhi can be voluntarily evoked, then let the Yogi take hold of the chetana (conscious intelligence), together with the air, and withthe force of (kriya-sakti) conquer the six wheels, and absorb it in the force called jnana-sakti.

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण Kirana Agama-Yoga pada.61(b)-64

Translation Above the place of Sakti is the mandala of Parasakti in which there are four nadis - vyapini, ananta, anatha and anasrita. She is seated at the centre of lotus with a subtle and impeccable form. Through the practice of this kind of Dhyāna , one can achieve the power of vyapakatva, the power which is not to be attained even by divine and celestial beings. The place existing above Parasakti-mandala is niskala; it is eternal and everlasting (avyaya). It is of the nature of consciousness and it is as still as motionless air. A yogin who ascends to that highest mandala and gets absorbed in it (samadhi bhavana) through the gradual practice of Dhyāna process never comes back to his mundane state.

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Shiva Samhita-V.208-209

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samadhi

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण Shiva Samhita-V.210-212

Translation

Therefore, the Yogi should perform Yoga according to the rules of practice. He who is contented with what he gets, who restrains his senses, being a householder, who is not absorbed in the household duties, certainly attains emancipation by the practice of Yoga.Even the lordly house-holders obtain success by japa, if they perform the duties of Yoga properly.

Let, therefore, a householder also exert in Yoga (his wealth and condition of life are no obstacles in this).Living in the house amidst wife and children, but being free from attachments to them, practicing

Yoga in secrecy, a householder even finds marks of success (slowly crowning his efforts), and thus following this teaching of mine, he ever lives in blissful happiness.