How do you use life to free yourself from Self?
Micheael Singer speaks about pratyhara (freedom from attachment to sensory input, dharana (single focused concentration, and dhyana (meditation) and their role in leading us to freedom...but he states it requires more than that. It reqires a certain degree of dealing with life ot there.
The state of freedom is found as we progress through the many stages of Samadhi. When we are completely free of our attachment to this 'me' with its samskaras and our outer world distractions, we are in a state of ultimate freedom: Nirvikalpa Samadhi. We become jivanmuktas. Jivan means while alive. and mukta means liberated. We will all find freedom after we discard these bodies, but yoga teaches we are meant to be free while we are alive.
What does it look like to be a liberated being?
All the thoughts, all the desires, become selfless. Selfishness is the germ that sprouts, saing, "I want it!". When the selfishness is completely taken out, you become germless. That is called... nirvikalpa samadhi.(Patanali's Stras, page 1 )T
This is the final stage of Samadhi. I can't think about getting to the final stage of anything bt I do seek to be free of this distracted, resisitant, selfish "me". Not sure I will ever be a jivanmukta in this life time but it is the direction I move in.
How does such a jivanmukti look?
One who has achieved this may look similar to anyone else. But the burnt nature of his or her mental seeds is the difference between oridnary beings and jivanmuktas (liberated beings). They also eat, sleep, and do everthing like everybody else, but they are not affected by what they do. There is no moisture of attachent to cause sprouting. ...It [being in this state] is not sitting stiffly with eyes closed as some people think. If sitting like a statue is what you call samadhi, all the rocks in the gardnen must be deep in samadhi. No. You will be useful; you will be active-more active than other people. Your actions [when in this state] are more perfect than other people's. You are dynamic, but you looks static....You dive deep into an object or idea, and it releases its secrets. Page 166-167
Hmm! Something to think abot.
All is well.
Sorr...issing soe letters. It takes so long to tpe now. Need to go back and tr to trigger the issing letters...soeties it works and soeties, as o are seeing now, it doesn't. It gets worse the longer I tpe
ichael A. Singer/Teple of the Universe/Sonds True (April, 2026) Fro Distraction to Liberation. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT
Sat Satchidananda( 2011) The Stras of Patanali.
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