Ashtavakra says: ~ “This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”
When the yogi enters this highest Nirvikalpa (effort-less) Samadhi, he will at once enter deep sleep. This will make plain to him after he wakes, that the inner ‘Self’ he sought and found, the Atman, is reached only when all his ideas are refunded into it, when there is then all the features of non-duality, one without a second. However, the yogi must later wake up, emerge from Samadhi and there is duality again, for the world of objects confronts him. So now he has to work on the next stage which is to find consciously in the waking experience the same non-duality that he unconsciously knew in sleep. This is done by learning that the universe is or idea or an object for the formless subject and then refunding the universe ~idea back into its source, which is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Only at this final stage, he says "Atman, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the same as the Brahman. The Brahman is the ultimate truth. “Now” he is fully aware of it.
By stopping the thoughts through yogic samadhi, the ignorance will not vanish.
In Sutra Bashya and Manduka Upanishads:~ Samadhi and sleep are identical.
Brihad Upanishad does not advocate Samadhi.
Yoga can never give you the fundamental thing, that the world is an illusion. Only Gnana can give it. Nirvikalpa Samadhi is unquestionably the same as deep sleep, and all ideas are refunded back there too. One must learn what ideas are when all the ideas of the universe-existence go back into one’s mind through Yoga. Then one learns this. How has he to learn that the entire universe is consciousness or Brahman if he stops at Nirvikalpa Samadhi? Without perceiving the universe, and having a duality before him, it is impossible.
Nirvikalpa has no duality, hence it cannot tell you about the universe. The yogi who emerging from Samadhi and says he found Gnana there, says it to a second person, hence there is duality again. If he were a real Gnani, there would be nobody for him to tell that he had experienced Gnana.
Self-knowledge will interest only a few people; the rest are interested in Religion, yoga other paths, and pleasure hunting.
Remember:~
Bhagavan Buddha gave up his austerities of yoga as impossible and useless. (Page.70/71 "Buddhism in Translation” by Warren)
Bhagavan Buddha got enlightenment only after he gave up Yoga. Unless one exercises his reason--there is no chance of getting the truth.
Remember:~
Thoughtlessness is not wisdom. The thoughts and the thinker and the world in which thinker exists belongs to the dualistic illusion.
Some gurus say find out, to ‘whom these thoughts come?’ But such an inquiry will not help to unfold the mystery of the ‘I’.
The thoughts are nothing to do with the Soul, the innermost self, which is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
Without the form, time, and space the thought will not be formed. The thought rises only to the waking entity or dream entity. Without the waking entity or dream entity, the thoughts will not arise.
Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity but the Self is the Soul or consciousness, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
The three states are nothing to do with the Soul, the Self because the three states are an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.
Thus, thoughtless is not wisdom. The thought, thinker, and the world are created out of single clay and that clay is the consciousness. That essence is consciousness thus, the thought, thinker, and the world are part of the illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
