--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_reply@> Can
> one then say, that samaadhi is, amongst other things, smRti-
nirodha?
> If one can, it seems impossible one could remember samaadhi?! :D
>
>
> Edg: If a true samaadhi, Pure Being, amness, is the experience,
only
> the Absolute can be said to be the witness of it -- not that that
is
> correct since we agree to define the Absolute as beyond concepts,
but
> there can be no sense of motion, energy, time, space, ANY THING in
> samaadhi since when the gunas are balanced all qualities are
merged,
> like drops of water into the ocean, into Pure Being. There is no
> duality for an observer/observed. Only the Absolute, which is not
> merely Pure Being but utterly beyond it as well, can be "inserted"
> into this scenario and thus we can artificially create -- for the
sake
> of handling the unhandleable -- a "duality" of sorts -- Being and
> Absolute. A pure fantasy, but instructive in that one can ask a
> meaningful question: should one's identity can be placed upon Pure
> Being, or the Absolute? But the Absolute cannot be identified with
> since it is identity itself....the "only" "real" "thing."
>
> Arrrgh!
>
> So no memory of samaadhi can be expected. If there is one, then
most
> likely it is a memory of some ritam-event preceding the samaadhi or
> after samaadhi -- these events will leave traces, but samaadhi is a
> non-event except for the sound OM and OM is like a line on air,
nay, a
> line in space, nay, a line on consciousness where any trace that
can
> be imagined must disappear as instantly as it appears. In samaadhi
> therefore, no sin -- no locked-in identification that must be
undone,
> later, for full realization.
>
> Edg
>
Whoa! That was cool!
According to Patañjali, /sattva/ and /puruSa/
are /atyanta-asaMkiirNa/:
sattva-puruSayor atyantaasaMkiirnayoH pratyayaavisheSo bhogaH...
(IV 35 [36])
atyanta mfn. beyond the proper end or limit ; excessive , very
great , very strong ; endless , unbroken , perpetual ; absolute ,
perfect ; (%{am}) ind. excessively , exceedingly , in perpetuity ,
absolutely , completely ; to the end ;
asaMkIrNa mfn. unmixed ; not unclean Sus3r.
