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nirbija

निर्बीज nirbija

'Seedless' absorption (samadhi), resting on no supporting object.

Where this term appears

  • Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga

    The same divide is named elsewhere as sabija , "with seed," and nirbija , "seedless." The seeds are the residues that could sprout into thought again.

  • What is Diksha? Lineages

    …the Shaiva rites, treat this as a distinct category, sometimes called nirbija diksha , seedless initiation, because it plants no seed of future ritual obligation and simply secures the soul's release.

  • Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy

    The commentators identify this state with nirbija samadhi, "seedless absorption" (1.51): the vrittis persist only as buried potential, and consciousness, with nothing whatever left to be aware of, is at last th…

  • Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi: The Inner Three Yoga

    … fall away and only the latent impressions remain, and deepest of all nirbija , the seedless (1.51), where even those impressions, the samskaras , are stilled.

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