In the Yoga Sutras, distinctive descriptors are added to "samadhi, for example, "sabija", "asamprajnata" and so on. There are ten types of Samadhi recognised in the Yoga Sutras. Each of the ten types of samadhi is similar in the manner of absorption of the yogi into the concentration of the psyche. What distinguishes the ten types is that each happens at a different level of cognizance. To comprehend the levels of cognizance, one must know about cosmologies that incorporate the nonphysical universes.
After the eight limbs (yama, niyama, asanas, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi) are aced, samadhi is the method used to plunge through awareness. Learning samadhi isn't the completion of yoga, it is the start. This is essential to understand. The ten types of samadhi frame a sequence whereby awareness plunges from shallow into more profound layers, in a steady progression. "Kaivalya", which signifies "alone" or "disengaged", is referred to as joining with the infinity in the Yoga Sutra.
In yoga, the experience of the infinity is the pined for reality.
It is called "Brahman" in Hinduism; however here and there Parabrahman, sometimes Parashiva and once in a while Parameshwara are also used. No matter what it is called, it is the experience of everything. That is the reason Patanjali called it "Kaivalya", "alone". There is nothing past, close to, or outside of it. It is all that is, was or ever will be. The ten sorts of samadhi are the successive stages one must go through in moving from the relative presence of our waking awareness to the condition of vastness, or Kaivalya.
Few types of samadhi are:-
Sabija Samadhi – As the name suggests, it is the Samadhi ‘with the seed'. It means that there is an object of meditation. The object of meditation is called pratyaya. There are 2 types of Sabija Samadhi:-
Samprajatna Samadhi – In this Samadhi the seeker is absorbed in Pratyaya at a singular level of consciousness. Saprajatna Samadhi can occur at each of the four levels of consciousness. The four states are:-
Savitarka Samadhi - Vitarka is the consciousness of specifics
Savicara Samadhi - Vicara is the consciousness of the paradigm
Ananda - The consciousness of patterns amongst paradigms, where one mulls more over the patterns than the paradigm.
Asmita – This is defined as the consciousness of oneness. There are no distinctions between the stages of awareness in this consciousness.
Asamprajatna Samadhi – This is the state of moving from one level to another of consciousness. The four stages of transition are as follows:-
Nirvitarka – vitarka to vicara
Nirvichara – vicara to Ananda
Ananda to Asmita
Asmita to Nirbija Samadhi
Nirbija Samadhi – It is the Samadhi ‘without a seed'. It is the highest form of Samadhi and leads directly to Dharma Megha Samadhi.
Dharma Megha Samadhi – It is the most unique kind of Samadhi. It is the state of travelling out of the universe of relative happenings and surroundings and transitioning into Kaivalya.
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