'Happiness'. - Ssy.org

Samadhi Meditation is a direct access to Akasha. That's the highest and purest powered Prana.
No amount of Yogasanas, can come close to half a minute of that Akasha tatva. That is why Samadhi is
so much more powerful than other methods of receiving Prana.
If you go by the Pancha - Koshas, Anandmaya Kosha (feeling body) the Kosha of the Ego is the subtlest
Kosha and Samadhi meditation keeps this Anandmaya Kosha clean and open.
Prana can also enter through Vignyanmaya Kosha - Intellect body.
When you realize that you cannot have an answer, as soon as you realize that you don't know and you
admit that you don't know; when you reach a point where you cannot know, the Vignyanmaya Kosha
opens and Prana enters to rejuvenate the system. This is Gynana Yoga. And then suddenly there is
enlightenment, there is an opening which leaves you feeling very exhilarated. This, is called
Vignyanmaya Kosha Bheda --opening.
In the SSY class we do very well, we take you to a point where you realize that you don't know.
In that state you are very happy, where you realize that there is no answer and that it is perfectly all
right to be in that state of no answer. But not too many people can remain in that state of instability, of
'not knowingness'.
Everybody tends to know, and as soon as they think they know, the Vignyanmaya Kosha closes and the
Prana stops entering. The problem is, that the man becomes very firm that he knows that he cannot
know, and this understanding becomes a state of knowing.
These Gynana Yoga training's are very tricky, and they work as long as you are with a teacher, who goes
on abandoning and dissecting your intellect. Left to yourself, you will close it very easily. This opening is
certainly very beautiful. It dissolves all previous understanding and thus purifies the Vignyanmaya Kosha.
It is a logical argument leading to nowhere. But higher than this is a direct access to the Anandmaya
Kosha.