Inward
and Outward-Turned Consciousness
Samadhi is of two kinds:
one turned outward, one turned inward. The outward-turned consciousness
is always first. You are in the stage of Samadhi belonging to the
outward-turned waking consciousness, when you can pass beyond the
objects to the principles which those objects manifest, when through
the form you catch a glimpse of the life. Darwin was in this stage
when he glimpsed the truth of evolution. That is the outward-turned
Samadhi of the physical body.
This is technically the
Samprajnata Samadhi, the "Samadhi with consciousness,"
but to be better regarded, I think, as with consciousness outward-turned,
i.e. conscious of objects. When the object disappears, that is,
when consciousness draws itself away from the sheath by which those
objects are seen, then comes the Asamprajnata Samadhi; called the
"Samadhi without consciousness". I prefer to call it the
inward-turned consciousness, as it is by turning away from the outer
that this stage is reached.
These two stages of Samadhi
follow each other on every plane; the intense concentration on objects
in the first stage, and the piercing thereby through the outer form
to the underlying principle, are followed by the turning away of
the consciousness from the sheath which has served its purpose,
and its withdrawal into itself, i.e., into a sheath not yet recognised
as a sheath. It is then for a while conscious only of itself and
not of the
outer world. Then comes the "cloud," the dawning sense
again of an outer, a dim sensing of "something" other
than itself; that again is followed by the functioning of the nigher
sheath and the Recognition of the objects of the next higher plane,
corresponding to that sheath. Hence the complete cycle is: Samprajnata
Samadhi, Asamprajnata Samadhi, Megha (cloud), and then the Samprajnata
Samadhi of the next plane, and so on.
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