samadhi
समाधि samādhiAbsorption, the eighth and final limb of ashtanga yoga: the state in which the mind becomes wholly one with its object and, at its summit, rests in pure awareness.
Where this term appears
- Is yoga Hindu? Is it a religion? Yoga
…rol, withdrawal of the senses, concentration, meditation, and finally samadhi , absorption.
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
Dhyana , meditation (3.2). Samadhi , absorption (3.3).
- What is Yoga? Yoga
…withdrawal of the senses), and then the inner three, dharana, dhyana, samadhi (concentration, meditation, absorption).
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
About one hundred and ninety-six aphorisms, sutras , threads, each one compressed almost to the point of code, arranged in four chapters called padas . The first, the Samadhi Pada , is on absorption, the goal.
- What is Hatha Yoga? Yoga
When it arrives there, the texts say, the breath stops, the mind dissolves, and samadhi dawns.
- Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials
They share technical words and methods: dhyana , meditative absorption, samadhi , deep concentration, the use of mantra , the figure of the renunciant who leaves ordinary life to pursue liberation.
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
The magical attainments, he writes, are powers in the outward, worldly state, and obstacles to samadhi , to the gathered stillness that is the actual goal.
- Who is Parvati? Deities
The demon Taraka can be killed by no one except a son of Shiva, and Shiva is in samadhi , absorbed meditation, and has been for a very long time, and is not looking at anything.