On Feb 25, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
However, the word samadhi is not found in any of the 10 Upanishads commented on by Shankara Acharya. This is no small mattter and cannot be passed over, for if, as you infer, the attainment of samadhi is central to the experiential verification of enlightenment, one would expect the phrase to occur in the Maharishi's commentary on the Gita and in the Vedanta texts cited by Shankara, would one not?
Not necessarily. I would expect a true advatin text to NOT include samadhi.
