Sambodhi

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Shantilal M. Desai
cannot be compared to any other Rasa in literature or life. It is the conglomoration of all Rasas. It has no parallel similie outside because it is a psychic and experiential stage of inner process of not only self-stabilization but of the psychosynthesis.
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Para and Samadhi
The last but not the least but the uppermost stage is Para stage according to Haribhadra and he equates it with Samadhi of Patanjali. Reaching the goal as it were in this eighth stage and the final one the Sadhaka is now free from all attachments and is far above likes and dislikes. He surpasses all codes of conduct because he stands far above all the processes and is fully self-stabilized. He is in a state from where he can renunciate all virtues. Haribhadra gives out a fine similie of this state of such existence. The pure soul now stands comparison to the moon, consciousness is like the moonlight and the veil obsuring the consciousness is compared to the clouds which are far below on the earthly matter and that too is pervaded by the moonlight of conciousness. He now becoines Omniscient and possesses all that is worthy of attainment, can bestow benefits to others as he has reached the culmination of yoga. The bodily and mental operations can be ceased at this stage at will and so there can be no ailment whatsoever and can attain Mokṣa in no time. It is the complete freedom that is the nature of this Para stage and this very word Para is suggestive of the transcendenal supreme stage of complete bliss and freedom.
Patanjali describes this stage in two ways i.e. as a final process as well as the final stage. Patanjali has shown his keen insight in such a double description of Samadhi because it has in fact such a double aspect. As the last stage of the process of self-stabilization it is still a process of the concentration of all psychic energies and forces in the self and so it is the last process of psychosynthesis. But the proces of psychosynthesis ends in the complete realization of the self. At the end of this process of Samadhi alone, self-realization becomes an estabished fact but not till then. So Samadhi has double aspect of the final stage process of yoga and the endproduct of such process in the form of complete selfstability which is nothing but Mokṣa. Herein the process of polarization comes to an end and the two poles become one i. e. the pole of the focal point of the Sadhaka's fast evolving personality coincides with the supremely stable fixed pole of the goal of Mok şa. Then on the life of the samadhistha mukta sadhaka becomes concentric cycle free from all worldliness and even detached from his own psychic forces and energies.