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Det är inte jag som rekommenderar, det är Brahma, Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Krishna och alla acaryer som rekommenderar harinam sankirtan, att sjunga Krishnas heliga namn.
Samadhi är det sista stadiet i det åttafaldiga yogasystemet astanga-yoga, (yama, niyama, asana, dhyana, dharana, pranayama, pratyahara och samadhi) Detta innebär att man befinner sig i trans, eller totalt absorberad i transcendentalt medvetande. Det vediska lexikonet Nirukti definerar samadhi: samyag adhiyate 'sminn atma-tattva-yathatmyam: "When the mind is fixed for understanding the self, it is said to be in samadhi." Det är inget litet påstående att ha uppnått samadhi, och detta tillstånd är inget som försvinner med tiden. När man nått samadhi förblir man obunden till den materiella världen, trots att man fortfarande är aktiv i den.
Krishna säger i Bhagavad-gita, som är auktoriteten vad gäller yoga och samadhi:
2.53: "When your mind is no longer disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas, and when it remains fixed in the trance of self-realization (samadhi), then you will have attained the divine consciousness."
Arjuna frågar sen vad symtomen är av att ha uppnått samadhi:
2.54: "Arjuna said: O Krsna, what are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his language? How does he sit, and how does he walk?"
2:55-58: "The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Partha, when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense gratification, which arise from mental concoction, and when his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness. One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind. In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge. One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness."
