Samadhi is knowing the Soul
The experiences and realizations of the Yogi, his ecstasies, occur when his Sadhana meets the intention of the transcendent to manifest itself to him.
Samadhi, the Yogi's ecstasy, occurs in many ways.
It is an instrument of knowledge because through ecstasy, transcendent entities reveal themselves, make themselves known, and bestow knowledge upon the Yogi.
It is an object of knowledge because to know, the Yogi must use the higher intellect, discrimination, and intuitive knowledge: this is to ensure that "vision" is transformed into knowledge.
Different experiences, visions, and ecstasies mark the steps of the Yogi's upward progress.
The transcendent Purusha, the Divine Mother, the Paramatman... and so on reveal themselves to the Yogi in different forms and with different nuances, thus outlining his path.
Three words define the ways in which the Yogi experiences what is in reality indefinable;
in fact, rather than defining, these words indicate a way of experiencing the transcendent whose contours are undefined because they are, in fact, infinite, but the mind describes how it experiences it.
These words are: Being, Consciousness, Bliss.
By investigating, the Yogi transforms and purifies what he has experienced.
Samadhi can be experienced in many ways, with ordinary consciousness fully active, partially active, or in total absence of consciousness.
These modes do not in themselves qualify the metaphysical elevation of ecstasy, but rather the ways in which different Yogis can experience it, given their diverse natures.
It may also be that the Absolute's will is to enrapture the entire being, returning it regenerated and enlightened by its embrace.
In the most complete ecstasy of yoga, there is a descent of Shakti that invades and surprises the seer. This descent brings with it a specific knowledge, or rather, reveals a transcendent world that is known.
The descent transforms, and the Yogi's vision changes and expands.
All this cannot happen through an ordinary personality, in a mind occupied by vital stimuli, by petty habits, in an unconscious cluttered like a cellar of old, abandoned and forgotten things.
A cleansing, a waiting, a search, an annihilation, a death are needed.
The old personality must disappear.
It is so!
What is needed is the death of the ordinary, limited personality, its placing itself at the service of what will happen, accepting the invasion of the light.
