What Is Samadhi and How Can I Attain It?

[@grayowl108]

Probably the best definition of Nirvakalpa and Sahaja Samadhi I've ever heard. The truth is always the simplest explanation. Occam's razor.

[@blackxxxstar]

Sahaja = Buddha _ Nirvalkalpa = Moksha

[@hootless7631]

Is Rupert then in Sahaja?

[@martinwagner7361]

@@hootless7631 ONLY in THEORY....but not for REAL.

[@alisonsalter8352]

@@hootless7631yea

[@alisonsalter8352]

@@hootless7631yes

[@alisonsalter8352]

The first time I dissolved into samadhi, I gave myself boundless time…I could sit there the entire day in meditation if I wanted. But I did not set out to attain anything. That’s. A sure fire way of preventing dissolving oneself to uncover samadhi/pure awareness. I sat and breathed and rested between the breaths in the heart space. Over and over and over. Flow down and down in ever widening rings of being…each breath is a ring descending into the heart. And then rest as it settles into the heart. The body and mind will over time release tensions through yawning, shivers, tears, belly rumbles…go right through that. Right through. Stay put. Stay sitting. You are on the right path. You will notice that the breathing gets more spaced apart. Keep going. Do not look for anything. So not expect anything. Any effects you see or feel, just say thank you. And go back to resting in Being. In the heart. It’s like labour, when you think you can’t do anymore, stay. That is the mind trying to stop its annihilation. Come out of the head and stay with the breath down in the body. I have several meditations which lead here if anyone is interested, google my name. 😊

[@benthomas8025]

Whats your meditation method? Are you continually following your breath?

[@kathrynphillips3710]

Love Ruperts humble and gentle way of explaining non- duality and oneness, no- one else teaches its concepts quite so beautiful and simple ❤🙏❤

[@PraeytoGod]

YES!

[@Gerrentee]

😊😊😅😊😊p😊

[@betelgeuse4187]

You haven't seen swami sarvapriyananda talks then...He's the aficionado of Adwait Vedant..

[@RealTalk-mq2ug]

My life moves with grace. I use my intuition wisely. I see connections and the deeper truths. All that I need is within me. I dwell in the state of presence. I am a timeless, eternal being, connected to the wisdom of the Universe. I see challenges in my life with great clarity. I learn from the challenges in my life, they are spiritual lessons. I love and accept myself. I open myself to insights and clarity.

[@luis55ful]

What a sage, as time passes, his teachings are deeper but clearer, simple, direct truth, greatness. Thanks

[@nothingwronginhinduism5923]

This person is really enlightened 🙏🚩

[@harmony5807]

No human being can be enlightened and stay alive physically incarnated on this planet... unless they become spirits of light and cross the other side and die. They can only be children of GOD... nothing less nothing more... this is the Truth

[@pbeapbea5206]

Beautiful! Thank you, Rupert!

[@pilargarcia6724]

Muchísimas gracias!!!❤🙏😊

[@nivedithakamath9388]

Thank you Rupert 🧘‍♂️🙏

[@zoetele123]

When you come to truly realize all of this it becomes truly funny. Rupert is great at explaining all that people just keep complicated

[@versoturner5777]

he really is.

[@wadedraper3507]

This existence is so hilarious - Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh.

[@JJBerthume]

Wonderful Rupert, thank you! Non-sequitor: some wonderful non-dual jokes I discovered: Why did the non-dualist refuse to play hide and seek? Because there's no one to find and nowhere to hide! Why don't non-dualists use GPS? Because they know they're already everywhere! What did the non-dualist say to the hotdog vendor? "Make me one with everything!"

[@angeloiodice9304]

Cute, especially the last one.

[@angeloiodice9304]

That last one reminds me of when I was still a teenager in old New York City, before becoming a shaven-head renunciate vegetarian monk for a while. I remember ordering three or sometimes four of those Hebrew National hot dogs with “the works” and a can of Coke for a couple of bucks, off the carts, and being the happiest teen in the world. That was before placing enlightenment over hot dogs. I might have taken the wrong choice at the fork in the road. (LOL) And, please don’t tell me to grab some tofu hot dogs on a whole wheat bun. Just not the same. But, it does have some nostalgic gratification, until the taste registers. Hebrew National Kosher Hot Dogs, as I further and further digress from, and humiliate this all-important thread, had one of the greatest advertising commercials of all time. It was just irresistible. They had Uncle Sam smiling and enjoying a regular standard American brand hot dog, and then they started narrating that the USDA allows all sorts of garbage into their hot dogs, but “Hebrew National Kosher Hot Dogs, answers to a higher authority.(God) A really great and funny, thought-provoking commercial, especially since they never mentioned “God,”but just showed “The Light.” It actually insinuated to this young religious teenager that eating a kosher hot dog brings you to the realm of The Almighty. I can attest that eating kosher hot dogs doesn’t stamp your ticket to the Divine. But, I can also attest to the fact that long fasting, and strict adherence to the zen Macrobiotic austere number 7 diet, also does not merit the Divine.

[@AkasHYadaV-tw3zu]

Samadhi is a natural state of mind without any thought only the presence of awareness.

[@sadafpouriliyaei9068]

What a great question, 🙏 thank you

[@Aanandlahar]

Dear people, Rupert has mixed things up at 4:28 Traditionally, there are three types of Samadhis - *Savikalpa, Nirvikalpa and Sahaja* If there's a duality to the Samadhi, it's called Savikalpa. A duality-less Samadhi is Nirvikalpa. Because *Vikalpa* itself means alternative in Sanskrit. If one effortlessly lives in a Samadhi state, it's called Sahaja (Sahaj means effortless in Sanskrit). But Rupert is describing Savikalpa as Sahaja! I can see that he genuinely wants to share his knowledge with everyone. But what ultimately matters is whether he has touched *the 3 states* or not.

[@davidmickles5012]

I interpret these 3 "modes of experience" as.. Savikalpa Samadhi = trance, ecstasy, kensho, glimpsing, describable, touched and back again - like the experience of **visiting** heaven or pure Being. Nirvikalpa Samadhi = true or essential nature, boundless, infinite, beyond qualities or description, objectless. This is what is "visited" in Savikalpa but without or beyond any self-other duality. Sahaj Samadhi = the **recognition** that all dualities have always been resolved. Sahaj Samadhi is the actual "stage" (permanent recognition) of wholeness within the appearance of duality. * Please, dont trust only my words.. I apologize if you or anyone reading this are in doubt about anything I said and I encourage you/them to continue study, practice (experience), and ask a Dharma teacher (guru). I'm sorry if my words here cause confusion or division, but I do like the helpful comments and it's all good. ❤🙏

[@Aanandlahar]

@@davidmickles5012 Dear Sir, your words are 100% correct. And it's quite straightforward. My words would definitely offend people, but Rupert has actually mixed things up. It's better to read scriptures ourselves than listening to someone who speaks without integrity.. Thank you.

[@donaldexcell6697]

No past no future just calm presence, silence is samadhi

[@timothygeorge2530]

Its like walking in complete darkness with a torch looking for the dark

[@dabig77]

Resting awareness

[@christianhadden6720]

5meo is a direct path to samadhi . be prepared for unearned wisdom is difficult for some

[@Ron-rk6iz]

Just live your Life here and now to the fullest, this is your only reality in this material world. The rest just takes care of Rupert's income.

[@EinfachNurTyp]

You can also just watch KZbin videos and smoke cigarettes 🚬 😉 🎉

[@Da_Xman]

And your THAT afraid...?

[@sugarfree1894]

Sam - all/every/total Dhi - contemplation Contemplation of everything, including the self, non-distinct from all apparently other things. Sit in stillness and silence (noises of the world notwithstanding) every day for long enough and you will blossom into it. No more questions then.

[@galaxymetta5974]

Modern research on Near Death Experience by Raymond moody, reincarnation memories by Ian Stevenson/Jim trucker and past lives regression by Brian Weiss all independently but coincidentally show that our consciousness survive death, we live many lives and our thoughts and actions matter in the hereafter. So be kind and helpful to others, be virtuous, meditate and cultivate ourselves to higher spiritual levels. Cheers.

[@fhl60]

Wow!! 😊

[@NayiSochWala]

Both are the ways to samadhi. To ignore & to Watch Toughts continuously. But thought is a part of yourself. It is better to Watch the illusion rather than running away. Because running away can't clear the illusion but temporary ignoring. Like in Deep sleep state. BUT Permanent freedom lies in continuous watching thoughts arising & subsiding like waves in the Ocean!

[@davidhayes1014]

Very true. The True self is not merely awareness.

[@Da_Xman]

​@@davidhayes1014 So, what's the True Self that's "not merely Awareness"?

[@gabon35]

If you can stare at a point without distraction or deviation of your gaze towards the content of the mind, whether thought or images, for 1 minute, then YOU HAVE ALREADY REACHED SAMADHI!!! The state of samadhi is like you are watching a movie or a dream. You do not need to become enlightened because enlightenment entails a subject that wants to obtain it and the object that is the illumination that one wants to achieve speaking of non-duality. There is only the being. Your consciousness is trapped in the gross body. Trapped in the sense of identified, subjected or enslaved to desires. The desire to not be behind the screen observing but to be a participant in the content of the mind, within the mind-body. Everything is mental creation, except consciousness which remains unchanged. I do not want to offend anyone but the reality is such that you have chosen this and not to be the witness, that is, the consciousness.

[@db8799]

In spiritual life there are no strangers...

[@chitradevima]

there are two eternal principles. Purusha that is You and Praktiti that is everything else..nirvikalpa samadhi is separating Purusha from Prakriti..... and the Self (Purusha) is all there is in nirvikalpa samadhi, sahaji samadhi is after separating the two, they come back together and You are Awake to it All.. the chances of someone reaching nirvikalpa samadhi is like 1 in a billion..its like a lottery or a race or competition...in order to reach nirvikapla samadhi you have to stop the thought waves in the mind...you have to do spiritual practices....what makes it exraordinay is its rarity...the Self that we all are is just simple Energy..its just really difficult to remove ALL the stuff that makes up creation and the experiences your having to know exactly what you are...peace peace

[@Janeoffools]

The chances of somebody reaching samadhi is zero. You can’t reach what you already are.

[@timothygeorge2530]

How can one get rid of creatiom when youre it

[@chitradevima]

@@timothygeorge2530 creation is just a combination of three elements..sattva rajas and tamas.things, experiences...if you like to think of yourself as sattva rajas and tamas -experineces - things -go for it...but enlightenment is first separating yourself from creation and realizing that you are just energy and then coming back to satva raja and tamas..things and experiences..

[@chitradevima]

@@Janeoffools theres alot of content covering what you really are so removing content is another way of saying *reaching*

[@RippleDrop.]

Thx

[@charifyks2500]

As far as I know, Samadhi is a Thai defination of meditation.

[@ashasingh6923]

🙏

[@MateuszSikora1]

So samadhi is awakening ?

[@saritaniraula754]

❤❤❤❤

[@StefanKojouharov]

Thank you Rupert. In Samadhi is there any vimarsha? Is consciousness aware of itself or recognize that it is in Samadhi?

[@adrielgomz3405]

So the answer is stillness right?

[@TheHmmka]

🌿

[@trudihsu]

It is being lost in that Infinity.

[@michaelferguson2344]

Samadhi is no-mind awareness.

[@NayiSochWala]

Thoughts are mental awareness. The awareness of perception. But the awareness independent of Perception, looking as it is, is pure consiousness self knowing & glorious!

[@anilahuja5579]

Read the Bhagwat Puran to understand the answer to your question 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤Jai Shree Madhaba.

[@ruchiramatidharmachari]

Good clip, but the title a bit misleading. I don't think Rupert talked about how to attain it.

[@Gerrentee]

😊😊😊😊😊

[@icontrolmythoughts4712]

There is no explanation on how to attain it

[@williamparrish2436]

What she's asking about she doesn't want to experience, she just doesn't know it. Being in the presence of the Divine is such an overwhelming thing. It is so holy that you don't want to unite with that. It would destroy you from its purity. You are better off experiencing it's presence and knowing that everything is ok than trying to unite with that thing. Because that is like diving into the Sun. You won't survive that. All these gurus that are so cultured and plain and ordinary haven't united with the Divine, because there would be no one left. They would be utterly destroyed. God is absolute universal madness!

[@alecmisra4964]

It is monotonous. Not in the sense of being tediious but in the sense of being an undifferentiated monotone - like a white field (and you are that field and only that field). That is what it is like. There are lower levels of samadhi than this of course (that are tied up with objects etc) as Rupert explains.

[@chitradevima]

the field isnt white, its a clear light..

[@nikkifrye7599]

It cannot be coerced, persuaded, flattered, walked away from, chased after. Imperturbable, uncreated, imperishable. It just is. IT JUST IS❣️❣️❣️ IT JUST IS❣️❣️❣️☮️❤️‍🔥

[@alecmisra4964]

@@chitradevima well whatever

[@alecmisra4964]

@@nikkifrye7599 k

[@alecmisra4964]

@SIMPLY HUMAN so samadhi doesnt exist then. Fine.

[@lasvegascollective]

I am.

[@martinwagner7361]

Since when is Nirvikalpa Samadhi just Awareness ? At least not to the true rare Sages like Ramakrishna..... Rupert clearly can NOT answer these questions simply because he hasn't experienced them ever.... No doubt that he therefore can NOT at all demonstrate the true state..... WHY not admitting that honestly at least ?? Simply intellectualizing/talking about it is NOT at all true own transformative realization.... Ten thousand talkers from the mental/astral circus but not one REAL experiencer.... Don't be fooled....🙏

[@ayeam5822]

When one attains Samadhi: there IS no ONE and there IS no Samadhi.......When one IS emperor of the SOUL, the first duty is to ABDICATE and then: ALL is, AS is. 🙏

[@terefefeyssa877]

AYE AM: Yes, it is a matter of saying it. Once you attain, words can not fully explain it. The formation of language can not explain beyond its formation, but still, we use language, which is paradoxical.

[@tomaskubalik1952]

Rupert is a nice guy, but I think he's still a little bit confused about it. I think he distinguishes things that do not need to be distinguished and confuses things that need to be distinguished.

[@m.dgaius6430]

Those are just words Rupert

[@plumeria66]

Easier to just stop referencing concepts from religious traditions and think in terms of invisible nondimensional consciousness as who we are having a limited experience thru a temporary body in a 3D world. Everything else is just a distraction or something to chitter about.

[@tonymarriott8480]

This, what has been. Explained is not Samadhi, when we talk of Samadhi in Yoga. its generally excepted that we are talking about, the first Samadhi, because until the first is reaches you are not going to reach the non dual SAMADHI which is second and last, the first Samadhi is achieved through concentration, which is Key to the whole of Yoga, and the Practice of Dhyana is what we do to reach Samadhi, and concentrating down to one thought and holding that thought without any other thought penetrating into that holding, is how it is done, when a certain amount of holding concentration is achieved, meaning you can hold one thought for around 45 minutes without any other thought penetrating into that holding, consistantly, then Samadhi will take place, it will follow you out of meditation as a permanent state, of superconciousness in a state of superconcentration, this is Samadhi, turning the I into IAM, when the thought being held is the I thought, when it is held long enoght for it to become permement, then it become IAM, it is nothing at all until one starts to concentrate hold and establish the I, which is the consciousness space between the thought from holding. This is how you establish this I concousness, without which you are only talking about it, and this is just thought in words. You have to establish consciousness or awareness if you want to call it that, normally you are at the thinking thought, sense conciousness level, with a bit of interlect thrown in, once Samadhi is attained one moves conciousness from sense consciousness to IAM Samadhi conciousness which is above all of the former., and is the only means to achieving the non Dual SAMADHI.

[@robinhood6954]

Hang on a minute... Where does all this 'samadhi' stuff fit in with the Galactic Federation and everyone ascending to 5D with the help of our extra-dimensional chums..?

[@skyotter3317]

100%

[@anthonybaransky137]

If you don't know what it is, then why do you want it?

[@ionelpantus3513]

This man like many other on youtube makes more harm than..... This man is the very example of unconscious human.

[@martinmaga2461]

I am curious. Would you please elaborate on why do you think this is the case in your point of view?

[@ionelpantus3513]

@@martinmaga2461 With respect, but nobody is serious enough to discuss problems of such caliber.

[@davidhayes1014]

The reason his explanations are so clear and simple is because it’s all based on a very simple theory in his head. He is guilty of what is being called “spiritual bypassing”.

[@joediamo7550]

Nice question Nice person but I didn't get the sense that she got it.

[@kahacoaching2676]

If you think you can attain samadhi you don't get samadhi? it's unattainable as it's you that wants to achieve it.. and the you is not part of smadhi yet it is then and therefore samadhi is. Now. Being. Not something you can achieve. It's non dual. Non identical. Therefore one and all of us. If you ask me ( the name-reacting- mind that write this just to share ))...

[@harmony5807]

You can not attain Samadhi. You can not " ATTAIN" anything. It is an illusion to think, feel believe One can attain without GOD's will.. And you can not attain anything spiritual without a NATURAL force guiding You and that is GOD, I like those bla bla and dellusions that people believe about attaining something, freeing minds, becoming nothing, or something like GOD and Goddess😂 You dear humanoids can only be Yourselves and can be only be truly FREE with the LOVE OF CHRIST, only in the command of his name one is saved body and soul and truly free to be who they are, they can have sins, darkness, mess, but Yeshua cleans all away and accepts as You are, cause You have always been a CHILD OF GOD, not child of Samadhi... Ask yourself who are You without GOd???? Put your hand on your heart and ask... Once You have your answer you know the Truth...

[@klbat41]

RUPERT, 2 QUESTIONS. DO U BELIEVE IN PHILOSOPHICAL ZOMBIES ? DO U BELIEVE THAT EACH PERSON BECAUSE OF INTERPRETATION MAY HAVE A WORLD AS DIFFERENT AS EACH OTHERS AS THE COLOR WHITE IS FROM THE COLOR BLACK?

[@OperculumAudio]

I just don't understand what he's talking about

[@prakashsapkota3225]

He must be an expert of philosophy but not an enlightened being.