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The Experience of Samadhi · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is impossible for the mental Consciousness, to imagine what
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  the state of samadhi actually is.
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  If we try to sit for meditation, we find all kinds of perceptions
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  feelings nervous. Impulses random thoughts and
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  emotions flitting across our mind.
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  We can observe an almost endless stream of inner subtle
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  reactions, and mental commentary that has been called by some or
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  monkey mind. There are times when we are
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  relatively at peace with ourselves in the world.
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  Perhaps in a quiet place where we are not being bombarded by
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  sights. Sounds and vibrations from
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  external sources and we feel calm quiet contented.
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  But this has nothing at all to do with the actual state of
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  samadhi. They're coming experiences in
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  meditation where the Mind Falls relatively quiet and one of the
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  First Reactions is to go into a state that the Seeker May
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  describe as a type of Quasi sleep state.
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  The active mind has withdrawn and Fallen quiet and the
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  external being takes this as a period of sleep, there is thus
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  frequently, a disconnect between the inner status and the
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  external being that prevents a true and complete transcription
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  of the experience from being fully brought forward and thus
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  it seems to be almost dreamlike or even an induced form of
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  sleep. Samadhi is frequently described
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  as a trance State and the experience there is in most
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  cases, unable to be accurately represented in the outer
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  existence. In his yoga sutras of patanjali
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  describes, various states of samadhi, particularly estate,
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  that is with seed, and a state that is without seed.
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  This is explained by Swami Vivekananda in his lectures, on
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  Raja yoga to meanest. Adage that keeps all the
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  thoughts away in seed form. So that they can arise again at
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  the earliest opportunity as well as a deeper status.
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  That is unshakable yet. These do not give us real
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  insight into the state of samadhi.
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  When an actual experience arises, it is a frequent
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  experience that the Seeker suddenly draws back in fear.
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  As the ego personality is afraid that it will lose its entire
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  coherence. And existence in order to enter
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  into the true state of samadhi, the secret eventually must be
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  able to overcome any fear that arises and allow the entire
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  being to fall into a deep and impenetrable silence.
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  SRI aurobindo observes quote, the experience you relate, the
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  Stillness, The Emptiness of mind and vital and cessation of
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  thoughts and other movements, was the coming of the state of
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  samadhi, in which the Consciousness goes inside in a
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  deep Stillness and silence. This condition is favorable to
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  enter experience realization the vision of the Unseen truth of
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  things. The one can get these in the
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  waking condition. Also, It is not sleep, but the
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  state in which one feels conscious within no longer
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  outside. And quote.
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  Reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 7, growth of
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  Consciousness. Inner experiences page 141.