The Yoga of Samadhi

Book Description (97 pages, 33 diagrams/photos)

Excerpt:
Our mind is an expression of the spark of life and consists of two parts:
A conscious part, which wakes for most of the day, sets desires and goals and then gathers experiences as it sets out to achieve these desires … crowding one on top of the other throughout its waking hours.

A non-conscious part of the mind patterns these experiences and their overlying thoughts into a matrix of beliefs, concepts, truths and habits (known as samskâra in Sanskrit), which have influence on our present state of being.

Thus the mind sculptures a sense of self … a type of spectrum around the immutable spark of life (Îsvara). This sense of self, itself rainbows the time-matrix of the samskâra.

The samskâra are like geography by which the mind navigates and constructs through life … but these are not the mind itself.
For the mind to know the sense of self, it has to be free of longing, of needing, of disharmony between both parts of itself … it requires peace, stillness and unity to locate itself.

The yogi looks toward the experience of samâdhi to locate himself … but what is this samâdhi?