Sansar or Samadhi.

Sansar or Samadhi.

Some definitions have to be adequately understood here.

By Sansar, I always mean mental Sansar, not the physical world.

We all have accumulated many desires and created many crooked lanes in our minds to acquire them.

Maad (Egoism), Moha ( desires ), Krodh ( anger ), and Maya ( illusion ) are all hidden within us.

This has happened only due to our ignorance –

1. There is something to get from this physical world; there isn’t. ( MINE )
2. ⁠The belief that “ I am this body” ( Ego ); we are not. ( ME ).

This ignorance will not go away by walking away from the physical world.

Whereas you go, you will still be carrying it with you.

If you go and live in the Himalayas, you will take your own mental Sansar there; my hut, clothes, begging bowl, etc.- that is not samadhi.

Spirituality is about throwing a light of consciousness onto our ignorance and staying exactly where we are.

This is possible here and now.

Samadhi means Samantva ( balance , equanimity ) of Buddha ( wisdom ).

It is all an inner process.

Why is it not possible?

It is not easy, but not impossible.

It’s our ignorance, and only we can remove it.

The finesse you are talking about also arises from the same Samadhi.

If we want to keep running towards the physical world to become happy, satisfy our desires, and attain balanced buddhi ( samadhi ), that will not happen.

But living in this physical world, without desires and Ego, is possible.

But yes, these are the only two ways: Sansar ( complex mind revolving around the Ego, running outward ) or Samsdhi (consciousness—resting from the mind—going within ).

They are opposite —ignorance ( Ego ) vs. knowledge ( I am consciousness ).

You cannot do both.

प्रेम गली अति संकरी, तामें दाऊ न समाई |
जब में था तब हरी नहीं, अब हरी है में नाहीं ||

The street of love is very narrow; two can’t pass through it simultaneously.

When I was, there was no God (Hari); now there is God, but I am not.

– Kabir