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What does samadhi mean?

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Noun
  1. A state of transcendent union supposed to be assumed by a holy man or yogi at his death.
  2. The highest state of meditation, at which complete unity is reached.
  3. The tomb of a holy person or saint in India.
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Lying down, or sometimes sitting on the bed, he entered a state of samadhi.
Tuesday January 4: Visit Sri Aurobindo Ashram samadhi shrine where Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are laid to rest.
Immersed one day in samadhi on the bank of the Kaveri River, Sadasiva was seen to be carried away by a sudden flood.
Hence, the death of a person having this power is also considered a samadhi.
He thereupon in the very middle of the river burnt his body in a fiery ecstasy of samadhi, and his pari-nirvana was attained.
This lack of self is related to gnosis but makes me think more of things like yoga's samadhi.

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