Bliss in Samadhi
by kam

There are ordinary states of consciousness and there are transcendent states of consciousness. Those on the spiritual path are attempting to move from ordinary to transcendent. This however appears to be no easy matter. So many texts from differing lineages and different religions as well as an infinite variety of teaches. Why such divergence? Because you are dealing with the reflect-ability of the mind. The mind can reflect and believe anything. So the antidotes for dealing with and annihilating these reflections must be, by necessity, infinite as well.

This bliss-what is it? It is what it is. This is not being flippant. Any definition I give you has to be imperfect due to the limitations of language (words) to represent experience, especially 'this experience'. However here goes. 'Bliss' or 'enlightenment' or 'Buddha-nature' or 'nirvana' or nibbanna' or 'samadhi' or 'emptiness' or 'nothingness' or 'voidness' or 'consciousness' or 'I am' or 'sat-chit-ananda/' 'existence-bliss-consciousness' or 'heaven' or 'Kingdom of God' or 'God-consciousness' or 'Christ-consciousness' or 'This' are all attempts to explain "that" which cannot be explained. All teachings in all religions, books, tapes, classes are "relative knowledge" towards this " absolute knowledge" of experience.

But all relative knowledge will also be abandoned to obtain that bliss. But that's not all: all emotional attachment, all attachment to the body, attachment to labels, forms, ideas, attachment to people, attachment to teachings, attachment to your religion or attachment to any external thing or ritual. Quick summary? All the crap that people can possibly hang on to must be abandoned. If you can abandon everything for just one moment, just one second the world you used to know and the 'you' you used to know will be irrevocably changed forever.

In that moment God's grace comes in. When you become nothing, you will know God. When you have the importance of dust, then what's left is God. In that moment ego disappears and there is no-one to take the credit. There is nobody to take the credit for realising enlightenment! What a bizarre irony? There's the experience of God, which has always been there. Say that again! The experience of God has always been in you, your bliss consciousness was always present in you all the time. You can bet that fucks with your head after the event.

So why was I pumping yoga poses for all those years?
To learn to detach from all form, all emotion and all thought.

Are you were under the impression that you have to master
the "fifth series in Astanga yoga" to get to enlightenment ?

Do you think you have to have perfect alignment or awareness of every minute skin cell before you get to enlightenment ?

Do you think you have to master all the pranayamas, mudras or bandhas before you get to enlightenment ?

Do you think "the answer" is in or
even not within your spiritual practice ?

Your practice is an antidote to your thinking, that's all.

Does this mean you stop all spiritual practices, no.
Transition from them to your "Natural State", more and more.

All spiritual practices are tools and valuable tools at that
but there is no need to be stuck on these as well.

Do you imagine that you still have forty years of rugged
Sadhana, if not lifetimes, to reach liberation ?

It's not by your own efforts but by being open to God's grace
and detached from the things of this world that bliss hits.

This is your inner nature.
Everyone's inner nature

Thank God and
" call off the search ! "

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