ABSTRACT
The Indian philosophy of religion is based upon the transcendental, supersensuous experience of sages and seers, and Indian sages and philosophers have further insisted that the final goal of life must be the attainment of transcendental consciousness. Samadhi, however, is a much higher stage, beyond the mystic visions, and that this is so is known by its effects upon the life of the aspirant. When one attains samadhi, his whole life becomes completely transformed. In the lower form of samadhi, the idea of ego, separate from God, is there, but only in relation to and in connection with God. The universe of many is then obliterated. And after one returns from samadhi, he does not find himself as ignorant as before, but he finds that ‘he lives, moves, and has his being in God’. In samadhi is experienced the indefinable and unlimited Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss.
