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- Samādhi (समाधि): a central term of Indian and Buddhist philosophy, naming a state of deep absorption into the whole, or into the absolute.
- Samādhi Mandir: a building — tomb, temple or mausoleum — raised to hold the body of a holy man or woman who left their bodily form in the state of Samādhi (often called Mahāsamādhi).
- Meaning in Sanskrit: union, wholeness, accomplishment, completion, setting in order, complete concentration of the mind, contemplation, absorption, ecstasy — or mystical ecstasy.
- In the Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali: it is the eighth and last limb (aṅga) of Aṣṭāṅga Yoga. It is where concentration arrives, the mind absorbed entirely into the object of meditation.
- In Vedānta: it names the state of fusion with the inner Self (Ātman), or of absorption into the universal Absolute (Brahman).
- In Buddhism: the word carries two main senses — the steady concentration of the mind (śamatha), and a deep establishment in awakening.
