Samadhi is a much misunderstood word. It is freely misapplied. All
kinds of emotional upsurges, attacks of hysteria, nervous breakdowns, neurotic
fits are now extolled and exalted as "Samaadhi"! It says Sama Dhee, that is to
say, balanced, unruffled intellect; that is, a discriminating reaction of
equanimity, in the face of heat and cold, grief and joy, pain and pleasure,
rejection or rejoicing.
One who has attained that stage, or realised that he is the one
without a second, will be indifferent to fear or favour, to hate or love, to
exalt or execrate. Where there is one, how can even thought arise. That is the
Samaadhi - the being, the awareness and the bliss.
- From Bhagawan's Divine Discourse on 7th Jan 1971.
