IIT Delhi Online Course 4 | Session 8 | Dhyana and Samadhi | Science of Yoga | Sri M | March 2022

As he continues with the Science of Yoga through the Angas (limbs) of Ashtanga Yoga, Sri M goes into a detailed explanation about the key components of the final two Angas, Dhyana and Samadhi. A Q&A session follows the satsang.

00:00 – Summary of previous sessions
00:46 – Steps leading to Dhyana
03:00 – Introduction to Dhyana
04:33 – Removing the vrittis
08:50 – Samadhi
11:22 – Devotional practices
11:58 – Vedantic path to Samadhi
12:34 – The act of meditation
13:35 – Different kinds of Samadhi
15:33 – Summary on Dhyana and Samadhi
16:27 – the desire to repeat the experience of samadhi
19:59 – Obstacles to Samadhi - Sutra 30 of the Yoga Sutras
27:03 – Pranayama is the solution – Sutra 31
28:04 – Practice of dharana also important – Sutra 32
28:16 –Purifying the mind through practise of opposites- Sutra 33
30:49 – Key tenets of Yoga
32:58 – Example of outer and inner mindfulness
34:11 – Physiological changes with happiness – Bio-feedback
35:17 – Methods to restore tranquility and equanimity
37:29 – Mastering of dharana and meditation
39:34 – Q&A Begins – Q1 – In another session you had mentioned that sometimes practicing asanas may be dangerous. Could you please clarify?
43:17 – What is the difference between the states of Dhyana and Samadhi? How do we go from one state to another?
45:55 – In one of the earlier sessions you had narrated a story about two people who went in search of Bodhidharma to learn Zen. Can you please give the significance of the story?
49:39 – When I sit to meditate initially my thoughts are reduced and then some sort of deep fear sets in. Then after some time lots of thoughts appear again. Can you please help me?
53:49 – (i) You mentioned that there are many thoughts or vrittis when one sits to meditate. When a person tries to practise Dharana / one-pointedness there is a vritti to focus on. So, if we need a vritti to start off with dharana, then how is it possible to lose that vritti to attain the state of Dhyana?
(ii) How can dhyana be vritti nirodha? Does vritti nirodha mean thoughtlessness?
(iii) You also spoke about devotees who are so filled with Bhakti towards the deity that in the end the deity or God alone remains. Is that deity also vritti? If vritti nirodha is nothingness then what exactly

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