Dhyana 凝神
1. 梵文:{ Dhya_ana,中性}冥想；宗教沉思。2. 冥想 ?3. 指冥想的第一階段，在那個(gè)階段你把你的注意力轉(zhuǎn)向你敬拜的對(duì)象。
Dharana 入定
1. 梵文:指冥想的第二階段，在那個(gè)階段你的注意力與上天合一。
Samadhi 三摩地
1. 自覺?2. 冥想的第三階段。3. 三摩地，指人們坐下來沉思數(shù)小時(shí)，直到螞蟻布滿全身。(區(qū)別于無費(fèi)力達(dá)成的Sahaja-Samadhi自然而然的霎哈嘉三摩地狀態(tài))
（選自霎哈嘉瑜伽詞典）
冥想是一個(gè)很一般性的詞匯...冥想有三個(gè)階段：Dhyana（凝神）, Dharna（入定） 和 Samadhi（三摩地）——但在霎哈嘉瑜伽我們是一籃子全部達(dá)成這三者。我們繞開了其它部分而直接達(dá)成三摩地。Dhyana（凝神）指在求道這一階段，你把注意力轉(zhuǎn)向你敬拜的對(duì)象。Dharna（入定）指你集中所有的注意力，因此你的注意力持續(xù)地放在上天，直到你的注意力與上天合一。當(dāng)這個(gè)階段成熟之后，第三個(gè)階段Samadhi（三摩地）就來了。這一階段你在所做的任何事情中，在你周遭發(fā)生的所有一切中都看到上天力量的存在。（830723）
Shri Mataji 女士談Samadhi（三摩地）
Sama指受啟發(fā)的，Dhi指意識(shí)或知覺（810926）；在古代，三摩地指一個(gè)瑜伽士坐很長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間，忘了周遭的一切...但是現(xiàn)在不是這樣（820130）。也指瑜伽士通過達(dá)成三摩地來選擇自己的死亡，就如圣者Nyaneshwara（格涅殊哇）走入房間選擇了他的死亡（870408）。
在三摩地的狀態(tài)中你開始感受到喜樂和上天祝福的欣喜，你會(huì)說，“噢，上天啊...這是怎樣的祝福。” 這時(shí)你必須意識(shí)到，“我是誰…我是什么…我是靈。”當(dāng)你的注意力能夠持續(xù)地穩(wěn)固在靈體上的時(shí)候，那時(shí)你會(huì)發(fā)展出一種伴隨著喜樂的完全靜觀的狀態(tài)（830723）。在那里你的注意力完全沉浸在當(dāng)下的體驗(yàn)之中（830107）。
首先是Dhyana（凝神）和Dharna（入定），然后來到冥想的第三個(gè)階段，是我們冥想達(dá)到成熟的階段。在這一階段無論我們看到什么，做什么，都是上天力量的顯現(xiàn)，祂是我們敬拜的對(duì)象。因此無論我們看到什么，聽到什么，讀到什么，無論我們用眼睛或鼻子等做什么，都是上天賜予我們的。這是上天力量的顯現(xiàn)，祂自然地發(fā)生——如果我們發(fā)生某種問題，一定是為了教會(huì)我們一些經(jīng)驗(yàn)或教訓(xùn)，問題本身也成為上天力量的顯現(xiàn)。我們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)問題自然地得到解決。這種內(nèi)在喚醒的嶄新狀態(tài)被稱為Rutumbhara Pragnya（生命能量覺知的狀態(tài)） (830723)
在三摩地狀態(tài)中，首先是無思慮的覺醒狀態(tài)，你們知道那就是Nirvichara Samadhi（無思慮三摩地）。然后進(jìn)入所謂Nirvikalpa Samadhi（無疑惑三摩地），即無疑惑的覺醒狀態(tài)...兩種狀態(tài)...Sirvikalpa（有疑惑）和無疑惑。大部分霎哈嘉瑜伽士現(xiàn)在是在Sirvikalpa（有疑惑狀態(tài)），還沒有到達(dá)無疑惑狀態(tài)...為了升進(jìn)到無疑惑狀態(tài)我們必須明白我們需要做得更多一些。（850310）
以下是英文原文：
Dhyana 1. Sanskrit: {Dhya_ana, NEUTER} meditation; religious contemplation.300[301]? 2. Meditation.301[302]? 3. The first stage of meditation wherein you put your attention towards the object of your worship.302[303]
Dharana? 1. Sanskrit: The second stage of meditation wherein your attention becomes One with the Deity.
Samadhi? 1. Self-realization.876[877]? 2. Third stage of meditation.877[878]? 3. "Samadhi is where people just sit down and go on meditating for hours together and the ants grow upon them, and all that" (as distinguished from Sahaja-Samadhi which is achieved without effort).878[879]
Meditation is a very general word... there are three steps for meditation: Dhyana, Dharna and Samadhi - but in Sahaja Yoga we got all 3 in a bundle, we avoided everything else and got the Samadhi part. Dhyana is the seeking part, where you put your attention towards the object of your worship. Then Dharna is where you put all your effort, concentrate all your effort, so your attention is continuously on your Deity, til your attention becomes one with that Deity. When these mature, the 3rd state of Samadhi comes in. In this state you see your Deity in everything you do, and in everything that happens around you (830723.1)
Guru Purnima. Lodge Hill, Sussex, England. 23 July 1983.
Samadhi
From 'Sama'/Enlightened, and 'Dhi'/Awareness or Consciousness (810926); In older times, where the Yogi would sit for great periods of time oblivious to all around him... but not so now (820130), and also could be that the Yogi would choose his death, by taking his Samadhi, as did Nyaneshwara who went into a room and died (870408)
That state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God's blessings, and start saying 'Oh God... what a blessing...' At this time you have to realise 'who am I... what am I... I am the Spirit...'; After establishing your sustained attention on the Spirit, you then will develop a complete state of witnessing - with joy (830723.3); Where your attention is completely drowned into the experiencing (830107)
The third of three steps in meditation, preceded by Dhyana and Dharna, and is the state of maturity of our meditation, in which we see, in whatever we do, the manifestations of the Deity, who is the object of our worship. So whatever we see or hear or read, or whatever we do with our eyes, or our nose etc., it is the Deity every whom we worship, who is bringing that to us. It is a kind of manifestation of that Deity, that comes automatically - if we have a problem, it must be there to teach us some experience, or some lesson, and is the manifestation of the Deity itself. We will find that problems get solved automatically. This new state awakened in us is called as Rutumbhara Pragnya (830723.1)
In the Samadhi state, first is the thoughtless awareness as you know called Nirvichara Samadhi and then into the other state called as Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is doubtless awareness... and which is 2 states... Sirvikalpa and Nirvikalpa. Most of the Sahaja Yogis now are on the Sirvikalpa, not yet at the Nirvikalpa... and to rise up to the Nirvikalpa we must understand that we have to do little more about it (850310)
