Insights from Samadhi

Just like Brahman gets lost in its own self-knowledge (moksha), it also finds its own knowledge. It finds it in its own appearance —the function of consciousness named: Turiya. It witnesses a pre-existing appearance and then desires to know what is inside. It now becomes a character in creation.

 

 

People go into samadhi every night. In fact, when you dream, it is just unconscious samadhi. Meaning, your waking body goes on absolute rest mode and awareness has no choice but to be aware of a dream body which takes place inside your mind. But if you meditate deeply, you can actually go into conscious samadhi and experience these dream worlds while you are still active with the physical body. It never needed to shut off, it just needed to go in rest mode by withdrawing attention. When attention goes inward to identify with the subtler bodies, you enter trance and start losing the ego the deeper you go in self-absorption.

 

 

The observer doesn’t observe thoughts in the jivanmukti state. It can’t. It’s not self knowledge if you observe thoughts. Everything is known at once without thinking it through linearly. I know I am Brahman all at once. I don’t need to think first that there is a I, and that I is Brahman. As if I have to go through the statement: I + am + Brahman, one by one. It’s an instantaneous knowing. 

 

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To produce liberation, the dream needs to be exposed so you get lost in it while it’s still present. Brahman became conscious of itself via its own attention latching onto the appearance and believing itself to be separate. And so this belief and experience of separateness keeps samsara sustained. Only once Brahman becomes aware of itself while the dream is still present, can it eventually forget about separateness and that there is a dream even there. It becomes lost in its own self knowledge. This itself kills the dream because brahman is no longer conscious of it even while it appears to be there. It can no longer attach attention to something 'different' because it now considers that very 'difference' non-separate from itself. This is why moksha is irreversible and permanent. 

 

When you rest as THAT, you BECOME THAT. If you become THAT, how do you know you are THAT, if body mind is no longer yours? That very thing you’re resting as, cannot think or speak. So how is there self-knowledge that you are THAT? The knowledge exists because the mind which now appears to be a separate identity, speaks like it knows what’s happening and YOU (identified as awareness) knows because you’re observing what it says and knows it all-at-once without any judgement and thinking behind your knowing. And so, the combination of both, forms the very basis of knowledge. But when you abide as the self, eventually you’ll lose this knowledge because your attention turns upon itself.  You become lost in your own self-knowledge. There is no longer knowledge of the self as the mind becomes extinct (moksha).

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When you go into deep samadhi through self-inquiry, there will be extreme vivid intuitive insight as to what the experience of nirguna brahman is (even though it cannot be adequately explained and considered an experience).  This sudden and hard-hitting glimpse is like plunging into a bottomless oblivion of extremely dense stillness and utter peace

 

Snapshots are revealed when you go into deep samadhi.  The snapshot is a frozen picture of what you're being aware of right now. This picture is formless and is more equivalent to light than anything else since it is truly immaterial and only exists as a vision for witness consciousness.  Every moment consists of a completely distinct snapshot.  But because each snapshot that passes by in your point of awareness is almost perfectly identical, it allows there to be an illusion of a seamless motion, which is just a transition from one distinct snapshot to another.  Behind all of these infinite snapshots is pure awareness, which is simply observing these snapshots unfold naturally as a spontaneous expression.

 

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