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Overcoming Obstacles to Samadhi

Learn how samadhi can free you from fears and worries

Samadhi is the absorption of our consciousness in progressively more subtle levels — from physical objects all the way to soul awareness. This deep absorption brings many benefits and transformations. Explore the obstacles to samadhi and how to overcome them. Discover how these superconscious experiences can enhance and enrich your life.

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Samadhi Transforms and Liberates

Our present mental content is based on the past. All our samskaras (past energy patterns) have resulted in our present thoughts and emotions. Samadhi overcomes the pain and ignorance resonating from the past and transforms it into spiritual understanding.  Patanjali wrote that the project is to develop smriti (divine memory). If we can remember who we truly are, a divine soul, we are renewed. We become a new and free being.

  • Samadhi brings many benefits and enables a person to be steadfast on the path
  • As Patanjali taught:  The project is to develop smriti (divine memory) and remember the true self
  • Samadhi frees us from desires, fears and worries to live a new, more conscious life
  • Deep absorption brings independence, liberating us from subconscious thoughts and negative influences
  • Through samadhi our ignorance of Spirit is transformed into spiritual awareness
  • Nine main obstacles prevent samadhi from happening
How to Experience Samadhi
How the content of your mind reveals your nature
Learn how samadhi can free you from fears and worries
Learn how to prepare for savitarka samadhi
How to progress beyond through the samadhis
Are you ready to experience pure, unalloyed joy?
Would you like to know the meaning and purpose of your life?
How do you know if you’ve experienced samadhi?
Explore how the ego can be completely transformed
What is japa?
1. An easy way to increase devotion
1. An easy way to increase devotion
True, but there is a better answer.
2. Reverently repeating God’s name
2. Reverently repeating God’s name
True, but there is a better answer.
3. Meditative repetition of a mantram
3. Meditative repetition of a mantram
True, but there is a better answer.
4. All of the above
4. All of the above
Correct
Hear more about how the practice of japa increases devotion and concentration.

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