Dhyana 凝神
1. 梵文:{ Dhya_ana,中性}冥想；宗教沉思。2. 冥想 3. 指冥想的第一阶段，在那个阶段你把你的注意力转向你敬拜的对象。
Dharana 入定
1. 梵文:指冥想的第二阶段，在那个阶段你的注意力与上天合一。
Samadhi 三摩地
1. 自觉 2. 冥想的第三阶段。3. 三摩地，指人们坐下来沉思数小时，直到蚂蚁布满全身。(区别于无费力达成的Sahaja-Samadhi自然而然的霎哈嘉三摩地状态)
（选自霎哈嘉瑜伽词典）
冥想是一个很一般性的词汇...冥想有三个阶段：Dhyana（凝神）, Dharna（入定） 和 Samadhi（三摩地）——但在霎哈嘉瑜伽我们是一篮子全部达成这三者。我们绕开了其它部分而直接达成三摩地。Dhyana（凝神）指在求道这一阶段，你把注意力转向你敬拜的对象。Dharna（入定）指你集中所有的注意力，因此你的注意力持续地放在上天，直到你的注意力与上天合一。当这个阶段成熟之后，第三个阶段Samadhi（三摩地）就来了。这一阶段你在所做的任何事情中，在你周遭发生的所有一切中都看到上天力量的存在。（830723）
Shri Mataji 女士谈Samadhi（三摩地）
Sama指受启发的，Dhi指意识或知觉（810926）；在古代，三摩地指一个瑜伽士坐很长的时间，忘了周遭的一切...但是现在不是这样（820130）。也指瑜伽士通过达成三摩地来选择自己的死亡，就如圣者Nyaneshwara（格涅殊哇）走入房间选择了他的死亡（870408）。
在三摩地的状态中你开始感受到喜乐和上天祝福的欣喜，你会说，“噢，上天啊...这是怎样的祝福。” 这时你必须意识到，“我是谁…我是什么…我是灵。”当你的注意力能够持续地稳固在灵体上的时候，那时你会发展出一种伴随着喜乐的完全静观的状态（830723）。在那里你的注意力完全沉浸在当下的体验之中（830107）。
首先是Dhyana（凝神）和Dharna（入定），然后来到冥想的第三个阶段，是我们冥想达到成熟的阶段。在这一阶段无论我们看到什么，做什么，都是上天力量的显现，祂是我们敬拜的对象。因此无论我们看到什么，听到什么，读到什么，无论我们用眼睛或鼻子等做什么，都是上天赐予我们的。这是上天力量的显现，祂自然地发生——如果我们发生某种问题，一定是为了教会我们一些经验或教训，问题本身也成为上天力量的显现。我们会发现问题自然地得到解决。这种内在唤醒的崭新状态被称为Rutumbhara Pragnya（生命能量觉知的状态） (830723)
在三摩地状态中，首先是无思虑的觉醒状态，你们知道那就是Nirvichara Samadhi（无思虑三摩地）。然后进入所谓Nirvikalpa Samadhi（无疑惑三摩地），即无疑惑的觉醒状态...两种状态...Sirvikalpa（有疑惑）和无疑惑。大部分霎哈嘉瑜伽士现在是在Sirvikalpa（有疑惑状态），还没有到达无疑惑状态...为了升进到无疑惑状态我们必须明白我们需要做得更多一些。（850310）
以下是英文原文：
Dhyana 1. Sanskrit: {Dhyâ_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)
