What is samadhi?
 The word ‘samadhi’
has been largely misunderstood. People think it means a death-like
situation. The word literally means ‘sama’ and ‘dhi’. ‘Sama’
means equanimity and ‘dhi’ denotes ‘buddhi’. If you reach
that kind of equanamous state of intellect, it is known as ‘samadhi’.
What it means by equanamous state of intellect is this: only when
the intellect is functioning, you are able to discriminate between
one thing and the other. The discrimination that this is this and
this is that is there only because the intellect is functioning. The
moment you drop the intellect or transcend the intellect, this
discrimination does not exist. Now everything becomes one whole,
which is a reality.
Everything just
becomes one whole. In this state, there is no time and space. You
may think the man had been in samadhi for three days. For him, it
was just a few moments – it just passes off like that. Lifetimes
can pass off like this.
There are legends
where it is said that there have been yogis who lived up to 400-500
years and that some of them are still alive. This 400-500 years –
is such a thing possible? Theoretically, it is possible. Whether
there is such a person or not, is not the point, but it is
definitely possible. This 400-500 years is according to your
calculation. For him, it might have been just a few minutes.
If you want to
understand these things, you have to pull yourself out of the world.
Staying in this world, whichever way you look at it, you cannot
understand, because you are bound by time and space. When there is
no time and space there are no physical quantities. This world, as
you understand it today, as you see it today, as you experience it
today, is a complete falsehood. It seems to be there, but it is not
really there. It just seems to be there, including yourself, just
seem to be there.
Now the whole
struggle is to see that it is just nonsense. The whole thing is just
an illusion. What it means by ‘maya’ is just this. It just seems
to be there. Today your physics is proving it beyond any doubt that
there is no such thing as matter in existence. Everything is
relative. It just seems to be there but not there. But it is so
real, isn’t it? It seems very real. Who is going to believe this
story that it is not there?
It is there, very
much there. The whole existence, the many forms of creation, can you
say it is not there? It is very much there. It is there only as long
as the intellect is there. The moment you dissolve your intellect,
everything dissolves into one.
Extracted from the
book ‘Mystics Musings’ – Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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What is samadhi?
