When Effort Falls Away

Samadhi and the stillness beneath practice

Samadhi is the eighth and final limb of yoga — not an achievement, but a natural unfolding of the mind’s deepest potential.

If dharana is focused effort

If dhyana is sustained flow

Samadhi is pure absorption.

It is the moment when the meditator, the act of meditation, and the object of meditation dissolve into one seamless field of awareness.

Rather than something you do, Samadhi describes a state of being — open, expansive, deeply connected, and free.

This passage is from A Glimpse of Yoga, a book I return to often when I want to remember that practice is about presence, not progress.

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