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Meaning of samadhi | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
səˈmɑːdi

Definitions

  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.

Equivalents

日本語 三昧
한국어 삼매

Examples

“She had seated herself cross-legged in the samadhi position and simply ceased to be.”
“The yogi, or disciple, who has by these means overcome the obscurations of his lower nature sufficiently, enters into the condition termed samâdhi, and ‘comes face to face with facts which no instinct or reason can ever know.’”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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