Samadhi stage in yoga may be the Mukti stage

Samadhi stage in yoga may be the Mukti stage

Came across a video from Guinness book where a yogi (Yogi Koudoux from france) demonstrated an extraordinary feat.  He fit his 6 ft body into a box less than 2x2x2 ft in size and then submerged the box into water for good five and a half minutes !

They said that he had slowed down the breathing(or was not breathign at all) and the pulse had reduced to 32 pulse/min. Yogi told that the Soul had left the body and then came back into the body when he was preparing to come out of the box. The Experience of soul entering back is quite drastic
This has been achieved with years of Yoga practice.

while study and experiments with pranayama, I also came to an understanding that the breaths need to be prolonged. the prolonged the better. this is what is being practised in pranayama with an effort to open up all nostrils/passages to incorporate more air and prolonged breath enhancing the same.

while practicing the above we also achieve higher levels of concentration and mind control.

Extrapolating the baove points on practice of yoga and pranayama, as a final yogic stage, we will have a stage where the person will have a very prolonged breath and mind control so strong that the soul is free to come out and pursue its path for a very long time.

This stage is when the person is no longer interested in worldly happenings and is more interested how the soul pursues its path for bigger awakening and body remains merely alive as if put on auto mode. 

This Stage of samadhi is often characterized by persons not requiring to go through daily chores of food and water intake and outlet. Also has been documented are the instances where in person going into samadhi /dying are not decaying at all (at times nails and hair keep growing is also noted in some cases). 

This has an analogy to a driver driving a vehicle. driver is the soul, and vehicle is the body. normal circumstances we have driver driving the vehicle often seen as single entity as body and soul together. In stages of higher levels of yogic practices or samadhi, the person manages to bifurcate both for a while and then for very long time. Its like driver putting the vehicle on free running/neutral and then opening the door to have a look. While in the vehicle his senses are restricted to senses of the vehicle which is site screen, rear mirror or camera and vehicle indicators where as coming out of vehicle person can use his own additional senses of hear, smell, touch, vision and sound to further visualise whole new dimensions. Hence the person is no longer interested in limited visions of worldly matters here after. Imagining that the vehicle is put on free running/neutral, the driver has gone out to experience world in different perspective on his own. The vehicle is left behind and driver is free to move at his will.

This exact stage is also described as Mukti where the soul is free from the cycle of birth and death (since the person taking samadhi is not technically dead, there can be no birth further) and soul is free to pursue its path( samadhi also frees up the soul to pursue its path of higher enlightenment )

Hence it is postulated that the Samadhi stage itself is mukti and that the road to mukti is not that difficult and is very physical than philosophical or mythological.