Samadhi: deep enstasy
Samadhi is the eighth and final limb of Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga.
It is the step of Raja Yoga that leads the person's spirit to realise the Ultimate Reality.
Samadhi as concentration
As concentration, samadhi is associated with the meditation practice called samatha bhavana, the development of tranquillity. The concentration referred to here is therefore a particular state of mind: it is not the ordinary concentration used to carry out intellectual tasks.
Samadhi as deep meditation
Samadhi is the culmination of Yoga, the return of the spirit to its point of origin. Fusion...
At this stage there are no longer any cognitive means, so no memory, no trace of anything; even Yoga and non-attachment must be forgotten.
Many people wrongly believe they know samadhi…
To get a sense of this very rare state, I recommend watching 2 films…
First, Little Buddha, in which the master Lama Norbu Rinpoche enters samadhi for days without moving.
Then the second, which I really love: the film about Yogananda. Yogananda explains that Yoga allows us to meet God and that it exists for that alone…
At the end of his life he entered truly deep samadhis, and the films and photos of the time speak for themselves...
In Yoga it is said that:
One day the practitioner sees the light,
then enters the light and becomes the light.
Then Shiva finds Shiva again, Shiva is Shiva...