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Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker
I experienced samadhi ‘passively’ once becoming one without a second wherein space time too disappeared but the after party question is ~ what ‘higher’ aspect of consciousness enabled return to body? If we disappear, there’s no one here!
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I see it as an issue of identification.
Everyday conscious awareness identifies with the personality and body.
In certain circumstances conscious awareness may transcend identification with the lower personality and instead identifies with Higher Consciousness, even if only briefly. Here there is no separate self, there is just Being.
But in most cases conscious awareness cannot sustain this higher identification. It falls back to its habitual level of awareness. It is not that a "‘higher’ aspect of consciousness enabled return to body". It is more that consciousness was not ready to fully surrender to this higher state.
In rare cases there is complete surrender and complete identification, and then the samadhi state becomes permanent and effortless, even in everyday life. Ramana Maharshi called this Sahaja Samadhi.
"Holding on to the supreme state is Samadhi. When it is with effort due to mental disturbances, it is Savikalpa. When these disturbances are absent, it is Nirvikalpa. Remaining permanently in the primal state without effort is Sahaja."
Peace