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even performing your daily activities. Everyone does samadhi with their eyes closed but real samadhi is samadhi that remains even when the eyes are open. The eyes are not meant to be kept closed; they are for seeing everything. They are for seeing God wherever He is, if one knows how to. In fact samadhi is to‘ see’ everything exactly as it is,‘ hear’ exactly as it is, and‘ walk’ exactly as it is. And despite doing all this, samadhi prevails; such is the samadhi of‘ Dada’. People look for solitude to practice their samadhi. There is no solitude anywhere in this world, so where will you go? There is no end to crowds in this world. To find solitude in a crowd is Gnan. When you are in a crowded train, surrounded by crowds of people from all sides, the mind, the intellect, the chit and the ego will remain quiet and then as much solitude as needed is available. Real solitude( opportunity to be the Self) is available only in heavy crowds( stresses from all aspects of the non-self). Solitude in a crowd is true solitude.
The ascetics sit in samadhi; they renounce their worldly life, they go to the Himalayas and then they meditate,‘ I am not a sadhu, I am not this. I am not that.’ In doing this they experience some happiness but their samadhi is not the nirvikalp samadhi( bliss of freedom from ego) that they experience because they have not entered within with understanding.
Questioner: I know someone who attains samadhi even while standing. He cannot hear us even if we shout.
Dadashri: That is not called samadhi; that is unconsciousness. What is samadhi? Samadhi is a natural state. It is true samadhi where all the five senses are awake and alert; the person will have awareness when someone touches him. You cannot call it samadhi where there is no awareness of the body. That kind of samadhi is the result of unduly subjecting the body to suffering( kasht samadhi). It can never be called samadhi