Open eyed Samadhi

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Friends,

 

I resonate to this experience because something like it was my own

for years, and a great deal of it persists to this day, notably:

 

Everywhere he looked, he saw the "atom-dance" of nature; the air

was filled with myriad moving pin-pricks of light.

 

This experience began for me in Baba Muktananda's Ashram in

Ganeshpuri, India. I was quite aware of it's shocking and impactive

effects, but was not misled into thinking it was Enlightenment. I

approached Baba and submitted my experience to him, and he

said "That's your state. that's your state. It will never change. It

will never change" and I was very encouraged. The foregoing isn't all

of our exchange, but it is all of it that is relevent to this

discussion.

 

I can honestly say that Baba was right, it has proven to be my state

and the experience has neither gone away nor diminished, although

the initial display took place more than 20 years ago. The emotions

and blissful feelings that accompagnied such a magical transition

have diminished, and for long periods of time, disappeared, but the

visual display has never wavered. The writer of these experiences

quoted from Yagoda exercizes and you, the readers, should be under no

misapprehension, however, that these experiences constitute any kind

of definitive Enlightenment. they don't. and subsequent experiences

with Muktananda as well as face to face interviews with him have

confirmed this.

 

Those of you familiar with Idries Shaw's The Sufis will know of the

distinction he draws between permanent states or levels and glimpses

or momentary experiences. The state in question can be either. For

the writer and student of Yagoda it was an extended experience; for

me it has proven to be a permanent level. Neither is more than a sign

post and a teaching experience.

 

yours in the bonds,

eric

 

 

 

 

 

, "mumblecat2000" <mumblecat@a...> wrote:

>

>

> > I am sure you must have experienced that also: You meditate, or

> pray, or go

> > within, and all of a sudden your heart sings with joy, a

tremendous

> inner

> > happiness that arises for no particular reason at all. And you

ask

> yourself,

> > what is this - why am I so happy?

>

>

> Heh heh, well Mike, at that point I'm usually not asking myself why

> I'm so happy, since happiness has a tendency to wane as well and

will

> probably be replaced by something else later on. At that point I'm

> usually bored with meditation or prayer and oh wait, that's why I

> never do any of those things anyway, at least not in planning,

> because ah I don't want to set aside time for "spiritual things"

> and "not spiritual things" and I usually throw my hands up, giving

up

> trying to find spiritualness in meditation and prayer. But that's

me,

> I wanted something more lasting, so not searching for anything,

> worked best for me. Other things may work best for other ppl. I

just

> give up.

>

>

> Love,

>

> Amanda.