Thank you sir @Lal for suggesting that post, although it was probably 2nd or 3rd time I read it.
I just revised the post “Overcoming Kāma Saññā – Satipaṭṭhāna Bhumi or Jhāna” to clarify a few points and to make the distinction between Ariya and anariya jhāna clearer.
Sir my understanding was that, jhanas are there to make the process of attaining magga-phala smoother. I understand that even process of breathing is some form of suffering but it is very very subtle one. I also understand that panca-upadan khanda are actually not happy thing but are just suffering and when they or anything seems happiness through them, its just a lie or illusion, I accept this on surface atleast.
I cannot reach any jhana or anything like that, my understanding of aanapanasati is that, if it is properly and truly cultivated, it can lead to magga-phala by hook or by crook (it takes tremendous time and efforts), because one’s awareness of reality becomes more and more as one progresses in it and it starts to become clearer that reality is not happiness, it is really painful, literally painful, and even if one bears it, it starts to become unbearable (this fact really scares me to the core), I don’t understand and can’t even imagine what is beyond this suffering. One more conception I have is that, while cultivating aanapanasati or anything, one should not forget/ignore/reject reality. I feel that those who abandon reality like that are those who attain anariya jhanas or at least, the anariya way of loving the trance. Am I correct here? Idk if I should ask such direct questions here.
Last question sir, once one becomes devoid of kama sanna, even if it is for a moment, for him, does satipatthana bhumi become accessible here and now for that moment?