Sat-Chit-Ananda (reincarnation, God, Christ, divine)

[Travelling fella]

Sat-Chit-Ananda

To avoid violating the new CD Zero Tolerance copyright policy I'll post just a link to this excellent explanation of Sat-Chit-Ananda

Hopefully the interested people who read the article would engage into an interesting, respectful, enlightening and constructive dialogue

Sat-Chit-Ananda — Yoga of Sri Chinmoy

[moonsavvy]

Boy Trav that's pretty deep. I'm not sure I understood it correctly. What does it mean when they say only a few will achieve it and even then it's just temporary? What's your take on it?

Thanks

[Travelling fella]

Originally Posted by moonsavvy

Boy Trav that's pretty deep. I'm not sure I understood it correctly. What does it mean when they say only a few will achieve it and even then it's just temporary? What's your take on it?

Thanks

My take on it, is that every living being eventually will reach that state, but being the highest state of consciousness that one can attain, it is very hard to achieve it in one life, even with the most powerful meditation techniques.

What he said about being temporary is that sometimes you are able to reach that state in meditation, when you feel totally intoxicated in bliss, loose consciousness of your bodily weight and you just exist as consciousness, this state is known as samadhi and it's usually reached after a constant and disciplined effort in your spiritual discipline, usually this state lasts for a brief moment but that is enough to strenghten your resolve to seek God and put more effort on your meditation until you are able to reach samadhi everytime you are meditating, this is the second level of samadhi and it's known as savikalpa samadhi, finally a really advanced yogi will reach the highest state of samadhi which is nirvikalpa samadhi, that is the permanent state of union with spirit, once a human being reaches this state he becomes a siddha which means perfected being, totally conscious of his unity with God, but there are 2 levels of siddhas.

Jivanmukta:

A Jivanmukta is a liberated sage. He is released even while living. He lives in the world, but he is not of the world. He always revels in the eternal bliss ...

Once a human being becomes a Jivanmukta, he will have to get rid of his physical body in order to reach the highest state, this will happen either by death or mahasamadhi which is the conscious bodily exit that advanced yogis do when it is their time to leave, then he will become a Paramukta:

PARAMUKTA ("supremely free"-full power over death); the latter has completely escaped from the mayic thralldom and its reincarnational round. The PARAMUKTA therefore seldom returns to a physical body; if he does, he is an avatar, a divinely appointed medium of supernal blessings on the world.

An avatar is unsubject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as a light image, is free from any debt to nature. The casual gaze may see nothing extraordinary in an avatar's form but it casts no shadow nor makes any footprint on the ground. These are outward symbolic proofs of an inward lack of darkness and material bondage. Such a God-man alone knows the Truth behind the relativities of life and death.

Avatar is a Sanskrit word which means "descent"; its roots are AVA, "down," and TRI, "to pass." In the Hindu scriptures, AVATARA signifies the descent of Divinity into flesh.

Christ, Krishna and Babaji are 3 Avatars

[moonsavvy]

That's fascinating! Thanks.