Savichara Ananda Samdhis Yoga Sutra

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The second type of Samadhi described by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutra 1.17  is ‘Savichara Samadhi’

The State of Samadhi attained here is the result of concentrating on Subtle Objects, like the Gods,or the chanting of Pranava OM, where the thoughts in the first case encourages mental picture, while in the later they are produced by the vibrations of the Pranava,

Couple of points.

In Buddhism by the Tibetan Monks, Lamas,, the body is explained have three layers,

Layers of Body, Buddhism. Tibet.

Layers of Body, Buddhism.

The Gross Body, which we see,

The Etheric Body, which extends up to one eights of an inch surrounding the Gross body,

The Auric Body,which surrounds the Etheric Body for another one eighth of an inch and,

Aura, which surrounds the whole.

In Indian Philosophy this phenomenon is explained while describing the Five sheaths of the Atman or Reality, the Five sheaths being,

Annamaya Kosa (of Food),

Pranamaya Kosa,(of Vital Breaths)

Manomaya Kosa,(of Mind)

Vigyanamaya Kosa (of Knowledge)

Anandamaya Kosa.(of Bilss)

It is also interesting to note Japas, the practice of chanting a sacred name or Hymn is three-fold.

1.Chanting aloud, the first Stage,

2.Chanting but not aloud; the lips alone should move.

The Mantras give fruits , right from the first stage,

In the second stage, they give results  hundred times more than the first stage (Satham) and in the Third Stage,

They give thousand times more(Sahasrapala)

Savichara Samadhi is practiced after mastering the ‘Savitarka Samadhi’ and understanding the nature of Gross elements.

Ananda Samadhi.

This state is reached by using the Mind, and not Knowledge.

In the earlier Samadhis one uses the Knowledge one has or gains .

But in Ananada Samadhi Chiththa  is focused upon and laziness and actions are dispensed with.

This is the third state.

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Savitarka Samadhi PatanjaliYoga

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Samadhi, the State of becoming or returning to our original State of Being,that is of Being, Knowledge and Bliss is explained in Patanjali‘s Yoga Sutra 1.17.

There is a difference between the ‘Nirvana‘, spoken of in Buddhism and The Samadhi of Yoga.

Buddhism advocates Nirvana, a State of Nothingness, Sunyavada.

Both Samadhi and Nirvana are Higher or elevated sense of Consciousness.

Yoga Samadhi is positive in the sense that one reverts to his original state of Being which consists of Being, Knowledge and Bliss.

Nirvana , on the other hand is the negation of all transient attributes and attaining  a State of being Nothing, without attributes.

The difference,please do not read philosophical interpretations in this statement,is akin to being fully satisfied after eating and the feeling of Fullness one has without having eaten.

Types of Brain Waves

Types of Brain Waves, Delta for Samadhi( near samadhi)

The Types of Samadhi.

Some people refer this as Super Consciousness or Supra Consciousness, which is incorrect as Consciousness is One and our lack of realizing it does not make it Super.

Yoga never calls anything as Super or Supra.

In Samadhi we return to our original State of Being.

Savitarka Samadhi,

Savicara Samadhi,

Ananda Samadhi,

Saasmita Samadhi

Savitarka Samadhi.

‘Tarka’ means ‘questioning, logic’

Samadhi attained by the path of questioning is Savitarka Samadhi.

This is the first step or type of Samadhi.

Our minds wander after many objects at the same time and we pay attention to one of them for a brief span of time, at the same time, being aware of the other things as well, both physical and mental.

To rein in the Mind it is essential to reduce the number of objects we pay attention to , to attain better efficiency.

This becomes easy when we fix our mind on a single object  at a given time.

When one thinks of some thing to the exclusion of the others, his concentration and his control over the reactions the object produces increases.

At this stage one can exercise control over the object.

The object will be focus of attention to the total exclusion of everything else,(this will be explained in detail when we discuss Pratyahara, Dhyana and Dharana).

One increase efficiency by performing to his full potential. thus enabling a better result.

As the number of objects being attended to are less here, so are the impressions in the Mind and later reflected in Chithi.

So we are reducing the Chitha Vrutthi being spoken of in the second Sutra of Patanjali.

Yet there is a pitfall here in this state of Savitarka Samadhi.

Being able to concentrate on a single object  provides one with not so normal powers of being able to dominate the object and literally bend it to one’s Will.

This is the core of the so-called paranormal abilities like Clairvoyance, Clairaudience , Kinetasis  , which form a part of Asthta Siddis  or Ashtama Siddhis.

Ashtama or Astha Siddhis.

  • Aṇimā: reducing one’s body even to the size of an atom
  • Mahima: expanding one’s body to an infinitely large size
  • Garima: becoming infinitely heavy
  • Laghima: becoming almost weightless
  • Prāpti: having unrestricted access to all places
  • Prākāmya: realizing whatever one desires
  • Iṣṭva: possessing absolute lordship
  • Vaśtva: the power to subjugate all[3]

The practitioner gets lost in these Yoga Sadhana by being enamored of these powers and loses the goal of Self Realization.

So this Samadhi, though the first step,is not of Higher order.

Patanjali warns that this  Samadhi would increase attachment to Objects and increase one’s attachment to objects and consequently multiply the Chitha Vrutti, instead of reducing it.

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhi

 

 

 

 

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First Tamils,Muslims Next,Now Hindus SriLanka

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Sri Lanka seems to be in a self destruct mood post LTTE.

They first targeted Tamils,divided the Muslims of Indian origin from the Tamils,Then started attacking Muslims, including the burning od Mosques.

Now it seems that it is the turn of the Hindus .

Gunmen(Buddhists) attack Mosque in Sri Lanka

Gunmen(Buddhists) attack Mosque in Sri Lanka

In a comedy called History a joker has been publishing articles that the Tamils were Buddhists and Jains first and later became Saivites/ Hindus!

“Tamil Saivites who believe that Tamil and Saivism are inextricably intertwined are troubled by suggestions that Tamils were once mainly Buddhist and Jain before Saivism took root after the seventh century AD as the Thevaram Period began. Many Saivites whose ancestors converted at the time think Tamil Saivites who converted to Christianity in European colonial times are traitors.”

This merits only laughter.

For I understand that this  as natural , if  coming from a man descended from a Lion!

But from a Tamil who is licking the boots of racists?

Is this guy Raj Narain or a Lalu Prasad Yadav to shower jokes?

At least they were/are harmless buffons.

And there is a vitriolic attack on Arumuganavalar, a great Saivaite.

I merely reproduce excerpts from the pulp for readers to enjoy.

“To digress a little, I actually believe that those Tamils who refused to convert became the Sinhalese and these include many ardent South Indian Jain and Buddhist believers who took shelter in Ceylon where Buddhists were comfortable as those refusing to convert in South India were being executed during the Thevaram period  –  even today a Madurai temple festival celebrates the impalement of 8000 Jains who refused to convert to the new state religion on the orders of Saint Sambandar and this is recorded by Nambi Andar Nambi (Aludaiya Pillaiyar Tiru-ula-malai, Stanzas 59 and 74). This incident dates to the beginning of Chola power at the close of the millennium before last. Nilkanta Shastri, who was not given to making heritage histories, states in his book (A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar, Oxford, 1958) that many Hindu temples today were once Buddhist and Jain”

Does he mean that there were no Hindus before this period in Sri Lanka!

And excellent interpretations of Caste too.

“ Dominating Jaffna’s cultural life, Vellalas, as people who labour, are Sudras, the lowest of the caste groups of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra. (Dennis Hudson says Navalar’s caste is elite, something that Vellalas must have told him). Prof. Bryan Pfaffenberger calls Vellala control of Jaffna “Sudra Domination.” (Vellalas are a living contradiction, at once claiming to be high caste and also that the four-fold classification is North Indian and therefore not ours – a classic case of not wanting to be low Sudras and not wanting to give up their high status within Sudras. Caste is from North India and Vellalas need to take it or leave it.)”

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2013/03/31/arumuka-navalar-fake-images-and-histories/

http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/heritage-histories-what-they-are-and-how-they-operate-through-jaffna/

Mr.Anil Gupta.Thanks for the Link.

I did not comment on the story at the site for it is beneath me to comment on these.

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“Dogs Are Buddhists

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I am always surprised at people talking a lot about Parenting.

I recall an instance when a leading school invited me for a Seminar as Faculty on Parenting organised for Schools and Parents in Chennai, around 2009.

Knowing my views and quirkiness in addressing a meet , I politely declined.

The Correspondent of the Institution where I was  Management Consultant insisted I attend and confirmed me as a participant.

Being a good friend of the Correspondent I attended.

There was a lot of talk and discussions on parenting.

Dog as a Buddhist

Dog as a Buddhist

When my turn came , I spoke thus,

‘Ladies and Gentlemen,

All of you are assembled here to listen to a talk on Parenting.

Animals, and even lowly Life, beget children and they bring their children up.

They do not attend a seminar.

That’s my talk.

Thank you”

I am always surprised at people trying to study parenting!

 

They leave children to baby sitters and attend seminars on parenting!

Now the story beats even this.

Digs are replacing children in Hong Kong and Singapore.And worse dogs are being declared as Buddhists.

Read On:

In Hong Kong and Singapore, it is not unusual to see couples pushing baby strollers that do not contain a baby, but rather a small dog. Sometimes the puppy prams are not wheeled by the dog owners, but by a Filipino or Indonesian domestic helper who has been hired just to look after the pooch.

This extreme level of anthropomorphic dog pampering  is taking place, not surprisingly, in two cities where sky-high high real estate prices and poor parental benefits force many adults to forego what is increasingly viewed as the luxury of having children. The combination of low fertility and the worryingly high prices of homes large enough to raise actual kids —this modest 776 square foot 3-bed in a Hong Kong suburb popular with middle class families rents at $3864 a month—produces some eye-catching luxury businesses catering to canines.

In Singapore, pet owners can buy sailboat cruises and aromatherapy sessions for their companions, the Daily Telegraph reports. Hong Kong has a luxury dog hotel for animals whose owners—sorry, “parents”— cannot bear the thought of leaving them in a mere kennel. Allegedly designed in consultation with an animal psychologist, it has a beauty spa and a shop selling products with names such as “Ultrasonic Hydro Bath”. (Here is a photo gallery of its primped and coiffed guests.)

And let us not forget about the dogs’ religious and spiritual needs. At a recent pet products exhibition in Hong Kong, guests could have their animals proclaimed as Buddhists in what is known as a “gui yi” (皈依) ceremony. And in 2011, a South African yoga instructor in Hong Kong offered “dog yoga”; in Singapore they call it “doga.”

Singapore’s leaders would much rather have people fulfill their need to nurture by having more babies; the city state is facing a dangerous demographic time-bomb with a fertility rate of 1.2 births per woman. In Hong Kong, the figure is only 1.1.

One main reason: Real estate. Property prices have soared in both cities due to low global interest rates, open economies and high interest from wealthy mainland Chinese buyers. Hong Kong flats are nicknamed “shoebox homes“. And while Singapore offers its poorest citizens fantastic public housing, the government is also fighting a property bubble (paywall) that has put home ownership beyond the reach of much of the middle class. Hong Kong and Singapore policymakers also don’t do much to encourage parenthood by providing generous maternity or paternity leave, like France and Sweden.

http://qz.com/68680/dog-pampering-obsessions-in-singapore-and-hong-kong-foreshadow-a-demographic-time-bomb/

 

 

Sri Lanka Now Muslims Turn To Be Attacked By Buddhists

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I posted on 18 March on the role played by the Muslims in Sri Lankan War on Tamils and indicated that Sri Lanka will turn on Muslims now that Tamils are subjugated.

I did not imagine that the Day of reckoning would be so near!

Buddhist Monks are leading the attack on Muslims in Sri Lanka.

The attacks have intensified after after Gotabhaya Rajapaksa,brother of Mahinda Rajapakshe, publicly associated himself with the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) and less than a fortnight after the outfits’ Rabble-Rouser-in-Chief, Rev. Galagoda-Atte Gnanasara Thero.

I fear the worst to come.

I have posted in my blogpost(google) on the Fanaticism of The Buddhists in Myanmar.

Muslims Attacked in Sri Lanka.

Muslims Attacked in Sri Lanka.

Mosque Attacked by Buddhist Monks.

in Sri lanka , Dambulla city Muslims Mosque attacked by buddhist monks

Muslims Attacked By Buddhists ,Sri Lanka

Muslims Attacked By Buddhists ,Sri Lanka

Lawyer Attacks Monks.

Lawyer Attacks Buddhist Monks – Must Watch Please Share

Story:

Rev. Galagoda-Atte Gnanasara Thero. launched an uncouth diatribe against the Muslim owners of the ‘Fashion Bug’, accusing them of conspiring to turn pure Sinhala-Buddhist maidens into harem-inmates…

According to media reports, the mob-attack happened consequent to a rumour of a 15 year old Sinhala-Buddhist employee of Fashion Bug being raped, within the premises, by a Muslim fellow-employee. The connection between this wholly apocryphal rumour and Ven. Gnanasara Thero’s Kandy-diatribe against ‘Fashion Bug’ is obvious. Like the Nazis and the White Racists, the BBS is using the image of the ‘Lascivious and Predatory Muslim’ threatening Sinhala-Buddhist womanhood, and by extension Mother Lanka, in order to weld ordinary, law-abiding Sinhala-Buddhist men into a baying mob. Muslim-owned establishments are being depicted as dens of sexual iniquity; implicit and explicit images/charges of a sexual nature are being used to titillate and incite Sinhala-Buddhist men, and to provide the resultant mob with a cast-iron and time-honoured justification for hating – and attacking – any Muslim.

According to video footage, the mobs were led by monks. Reports indicate that the attackers took their time, undeterred by a heavy police/riot-police/STF presence2. The criminal-mob was not tear-gassed, baton-charged or water-cannoned by the uniformed guardians of law and order. Even when the advance guard of the mob manhandled police officers, the police forbore to react3. Why the screaming horde got the licence denied to law-abiding political demonstrators is not hard to guess. Which policeman is going to lift a finger against a saffron-mob, after Gotabhaya Rajapaksa came out of the closet and paraded his affinity with the BBS? Which policeman wants to risk a sudden punishment-transfer to nowhere?
The tactics used by the Rajapaksas and the BBS, to clear themselves of any blame for this deadly incident, are identical to the politico-propaganda ploys used during the ‘Humanitarian Operation’. The attack is being de-politicised by depicting it as an ordinary crime, caused by an ordinary girl-boy issue. The purpose is to deceive the international community and that part of the Lankan public still sane enough to be alarmed by the thought of another Black July.
The modus operandi is clear. Incite the Sinhala-Buddhists to fear and hate Muslims. Instigate/permit a few attacks on Muslim establishments. Mouth pious-platitudes about peace and harmony. Impose an unofficial censorship on the media. Use lies and half truths to explain/justify any crime which cannot be covered-up. Blame the opposition, the NGOs or international conspirators if things get out of hand.
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