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## The Eighth Insight: The Moon-Like Samadhi
"Par" Insight: This insight is called "Par" because it is the highest and the ultimate. Here, the spiritual development culminates, reaching its final peak. The ultimate principle is directly active here, meaning the soul directly becomes the Supreme Soul. Moreover, the one who attains this "Par" insight transcends the world, hence it is also called "Para." This eighth insight, as described above, has two characteristics like the moon, the eighth limb of yoga, Samadhi, the eighth restraint, the abandonment of the eight types of attachment, and the attainment of the eighth virtue.
In this insight, the two characteristics are like the moon because this eighth insight has more restraint than the seventh insight, which is like the sun, the all-illuminating Sun-like insight. The sun's light is bright but gives heat, while the moon's light is intense but cool and calming, providing ultimate bliss. Both illuminate the world equally, but the moon's light is considered superior to the sun's. Thus, this insight, like the full moon, is fully illuminated by the full moon of knowledge, and its restraint is fully absorbed in the Supreme Soul. This moon of knowledge illuminates the entire world but does not become the world itself. (See pages 757-487)
This "Par" insight is aptly compared to the moon because, like the moon, it remains stable in its form, illuminating the world with knowledge but not encompassing it. It is inherently complete in its activity, with no room for external influence. It is a pure, unadulterated, non-dual state.
Since this insight reaches the peak of restraint, it attains the eighth limb of yoga, Samadhi. This insight is rooted in Samadhi, always remaining in the form of the right path. Others call this state "Samadhi-nishedh" (rooted in Samadhi) because it is a special kind of meditation or the fruit of meditation. Holding the mind in restraint, the unity of conviction, that is meditation, and that meditation, being only the form of the object, is considered formless, that is Samadhi. In other words, where only the object is seen and the form of meditation remains absent, and where the triad of meditator, meditation, and object merges into one, only the inherent self-nature shines in its natural form, that is called Samadhi. Here, this supreme self-Samadhi continuously prevails, so the yogi who dwells in this insight remains in an unbroken state, as the Supreme Self, because all external influence has completely vanished.