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Samadhi

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A state of meditative consciousness in which the mind is fully absorbed in the object of meditation, often leading to union with the divine or ultimate reality.

Detailed Definition
In Buddhist and Hindu contemplative traditions, samadhi represents the culmination of meditative practice, where subject-object duality dissolves into pure awareness. In poetry, especially in yogic and Zen-inspired verse, samadhi symbolizes transcendence, inner stillness, and the ineffable unity beyond thought. Poets evoke it through imagery of light, silence, or boundless space to convey the depth of spiritual realization that words alone cannot capture.
Example
Example in poetry:
A meditation poem: “Samādhi is not trance—it’s the mind dissolved in its object, like salt in water”; In a modern verse, “In samādhi, ‘I’ vanishes—only awareness remains”; A minimalist reflection: “Samādhi: absorption as liberation”; A student’s lyric: “I chased samādhi—forgot it’s already here, behind the noise.”
Additional Notes
Samadhi is the eighth and final limb of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga. It is a state of deep meditative absorption where the mind becomes one with the object of meditation, and the sense of a separate self dissolves. There are different levels of Samadhi, culminating in a state of pure consciousness without an object. This state leads to the ultimate goal of Yoga: Kaivalya (liberation). It is the pinnacle of mental discipline.
Also Known As
Concentration Meditative Absorption
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