RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Allowing the Divine to Express

How to progress beyond through the samadhis

After you experience the samadhi of the particular (savitarka), you can begin to progress to higher levels of absorption. Explore ways to move through the more universal levels of samadhi. Discover how the evolution of your individual consciousness can become rapid and wondrous.

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A Flow of Awareness

As a result of the flow of savitarka samadhi, you no longer need to name or reason about the chosen physical object. It simply abides in your mind free of thoughts. This is the next stage of samadhi called nirvitarka samadhi. It is loosely defined as free from consideration.

The object stays and you don’t have to make an effort to keep it in your awareness. Effort was needed to begin with, but now the object shines easily in a continuous flow of awareness. Savitarka then becomes nirvitarka samadhi.

The soul within you is a focal point of the Divine expressing in time and space
It is usually necessary to experience savitarka (samadhi of the particular) in order to enjoy the higher samadhis
When savitarka samadhi continues easily without effort — without the aid of words or reasoning — that level is called nirvitarka samadhi

Following the savitarka and nirvitarka samadhis are the universal samadhis where one sees the universal value, meaning and truth of whatever one is meditating on
After the universal samadhis come the joy samadhis in which one realizes ananda, the joyous source which is expressing as both the universal and the particular
Beyond the joy samadhis are the samadhis of pure consciousness. Liberation comes as a result of knowing that all is pure consciousness, Spirit