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Meditative Absorption (Samādhi)

Absorption so complete the meditator and the meditated-on become one.

Samādhi is the deepest reach of meditation: a state of total absorption in which the usual gap between the one who meditates and what is meditated upon falls away. Patañjali's Yoga distinguishes stages of it, from absorption that still has an object to a final 'seedless' stillness. It is the eighth and crowning limb of yoga and a key to the pure self standing free.

How it traveled

  1. Bhagavad-gītā
    Kuru-Pañcāla region · -150
    explains
  2. Yoga-sūtra
    Kāśī (Varanasi) · 375
    explains

Key passages(16)

Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitā · (attributed to Gheraṇḍa)

Very high

Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

Very high

When the mind, absolutely restrained by the practice of concentration, attains quietude, and when seeing the Self by the self, one is satisfied in his own Self; when he feels that infinite bliss—which

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Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā · Svātmārāma

Very high

Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)

Very high

Yoga-sūtra · Patañjali

Very high

Yoga-sūtra · Patañjali

Very high

Vijñāna-bhairava · Anonymous (Bhairava Āgama / Tantra)

High

Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

High

When the mind, absolutely restrained by the practice of concentration, attains quietude, and when seeing the Self by the self, one is satisfied in his own Self; when he feels that infinite bliss—which

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Aṣṭāvakra-gītā · Aṣṭāvakra

High

Vijñāna-bhairava · Anonymous (Bhairava Āgama / Tantra)

High

Śiva-stotrāvalī · Utpaladeva

High

Paramārthasāra · Abhinavagupta

High

Tantrasāra · Abhinavagupta

High

Upadeśasāhasrī · Ādi Śaṅkara

Moderate

Spanda-kārikā · Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa

Moderate

Upadeśasāhasrī · Ādi Śaṅkara

Moderate