Is Maha-Samadhi a Path to Peace or Death?

What is Maha-Samadhi?


The theory of Samadhi has been widely misunderstood.  Many people misinterpret Samadhi as a death-like state. The term Samadhi is derived from the Sanskrit phrases Sama and dhi, where Sama refers to serenity and Dhi refers to buddhi or intellect. Samadhi is the condition of consciousness in which you achieve equanimity. Everything merges into the one wholeness known as reality. This situation permits you to experience the unity of everything that is, the oneness of existence.

Samadhi is a state of calm in which the mind exceeds its usual role of judgement. This, in turn, separates one from one's actual body. There is a difference between who you are and who you are in your body (A space between what is you and your body is created.).

There is no time or space in this condition. Your mind creates time and space. Time and space cease to exist for you when you transcend the mind as a limitation. What is here is turned into what is there, and what is now is transformed into what is then. You don't have a history or a future. Right now, everything is precisely where it should be. You might think someone has been in Samadhi for three days, but it was only a few seconds for them - it just passes off like that. They have transcended the duality of what is and isn't. They've crossed the line and tasted what isn't — what has no form, shape, characteristics, or qualities – nothing.

The entire existence, the many forms of creation, exist only as long as the mind is present. When you dissolve your thoughts, everything merges into one.

The union of the individual, with the Universal Absolute.

In simple words Maha-Samadhi is the condition of attaining bliss and oneness, as well as the point at which the "revolving wheel of thoughts" comes to a halt. The first line of the yoga sutras, "Chitta Vritti Nirodha," implies "the halting, or aggregation of, the spinning wheel of thoughts.".

Maha-Samadhi, the "great" and last Samadhi in Hinduism and Buddhism, is the act of abandoning one's body consciously and purposely at the time of death. Maha-Samadhiis quite real and possible in our time as well. Maha-Samadhiis willingly facing death and doing nothing but wishing for it to happen.

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