Is tandra really a big obstacle in meditation?

Q : What is the stage of Tandra in meditation? I have heard that it is not good and it is a big obstacle in meditation?

Sheel Kumar Hans

Answer

Tandra indeed is a great obstacle in meditation because in Tandra you are neither in total deep sleep, nor are you conscious of the moments. Tandra is a state where your mind, your sub-conscious, your conscious get muddled up and this is a very dark state but it has a base of light in it.

Normally when you doze off into sleep then your head would tilt left or right or your body would move, it gets limply and when you are meditating then you are sitting like a rock, but in Tandra your body is stable like a rock but your mind has moved into deep sleep. Thus, when you open up your eyes you find that your body is as still and stable as it should be and as it was when you had started meditating.

So quite often people wonder and labeled this state as if something great has happened and many-many aspirants have taken Tandra to be a Samadhi which it is not. So, Tandra is something which is the biggest dark room and if you drop in that, there is no hope and thus there is no scope of you to know that this is Tandra and also to come out of this stage.

Gurumaa

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