Samadhi - The Forgotten Eden: Revealing the Ancient Yogic Art of Samadhi by SantataGamana

Author:SantataGamana [SantataGamana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Real Yoga
Published: 2019-05-25T20:00:00+00:00

Between Waking and Sleeping

There’s also another way in which you can use this method.

It involves doing the same as above (including the pre-conditions of already having some meditative experience), but in a different setting and starting from a much different state.

If you’ve ever woken up in the middle of the night, especially from a profound sleep, you know how “dizzy” you can feel. There’s a vacuum in your head, and it’s like you lack emotions, thoughts or feelings. Your memories are receded into the back of your mind, and you’re not entirely conscious of them. You may even go to the bathroom and come back, and don’t remember it in the morning because it wasn’t as similated into your conscious mind.

During this phase, your consciousness is in an alternate state, and it is more prone to achieve Samadhi. This is a great time to achieve Samadhi with an object because the usual constraints of the “I” are slightly dormant [19] . The biggest ob stacle though, is that you are also more prone to falling asleep; it’s a double-edged sword.

This method may also disrupt your sleep patterns and affect your energy levels in the morning, so it should only be done if you don’t have any commitments the next day, or preferably during the next few days (it works best if done consecutively, rather than once per week).

Here’s what you will do:

- Set the alarm to wake you up 4 ½ hours from the moment you lay down in bed to sleep.

- Go to sleep 15 to 30 minutes early and focus on your ob ject. Let yourself fall asleep while concentrating on the object the best you can.

- Once the alarm rings off, get up, go to the bathroom or drink a cup of water, and go back to bed. This should take 1-3 minutes.

- As soon as you’re in bed again, focus on the object for around 4 ½ minutes. Then let go of it for 30 seconds. Do not fall into unconsciousness.

- Focus again on the object, but for roughly 4 minutes, then let it go for 1 minute.

- Repeat this motion several times until you are performing 4 ½ minutes of letting go, with 30 seconds of focus (just like in the main method; nine rounds in total).

At any moment during or after the letting go phase, you may become aware of the deeper presence of the object, and if so, keep doing what you were doing above (focusing and let ting go, increasing the letting go time and diminishing the focusing time).

During this phase, there’s an incredibly high chance of fall ing asleep, starting to dream, or falling into hypnagogic im agery—but that’s okay. This alternative method requires numerous sessions to be successful. Countless different types of experiences, lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, visions, hearing non-physical sounds or melodies, etc., may also occur. It is a very volatile state, in-between wakefulness, dreaming, and the sleep state.

You may experience Shunya Samadhi at any moment during the letting go phase.

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