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Wolf_Thor
It seems fairly self-explanatory. What is it that you'd like to know specifically?
My own Path started with asamprajnanta-samadhi (didn't know this name for it at the time). The experience of The Beyond, The Fourth, Unio Mystica or whatever it is called. I would describe it as being without all concepts of my mind.
While in many other Paths these kind of experiences happen only after many years of practice, they happend spontaniously for me right at the beginning (I was 12 years old). I had practiced maybe half a year of hatha yoga regularily and succded intentionally with various low samadhis (merging with music, merging with body limbs, etc) and samatha. The vipassana came naturally, too. A simple switch of perspective but leading to the same strange Beyond as the asamprajnanta-samadhi.
From what I read recently I am on the so-called "Direct Path", that - in contrast to a Cosmological Path - begins with jumping back and forth between samsara and enlightment states (
http://www.sunyaprajna.com/Advaita/Atmananda.html) .
When people, who are on the Cosmological Path reach these enlightment states they are usually prepared for it and it is controlled and stabilized. Not so for me. So now I am trying to get the "missing pieces", if you know what I mean.
Krishna was asked for a way without "controlling the senses" but at least in my case the vipassana was reached after the contol of the senses (if I understand the phrase correctly).
(1) Do your duty to the best of your abilities for Me, without any selfish motive, and remember Me at all times --- before starting a work, at the completion of a task, and while inactive.
To REMEMBER Krishna already implys to know Krishna, does it not? In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna said that not everybody remembers Him and when dying people go to where they remember, this can be a place of relatives and spirits, etc or Him.
He also talks about "without selfish motive" and in my experience selfishless is a result of the control of the senses (especially the inner senses) that leads to either an annihilation of the I-function or a detachment from it. So basically, I do not see how this advice from Krishna can be used without at least once been able to control the senses so that the detachment and vipassana can be reached.
It might be different for other people and other Paths, this is why I ask. Looking for missing links.
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