18. What is a Samādhi?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Brett W. Parris [+]
Brett W Parris is a DPhil Candidate in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the
University of Oxford. He has an MPhil in Classical Indian Religion from Oxford, as well as a PhD in development economics from Monash University in Melbourne. He worked for NGOs focussed on poverty, human rights, and climate change for many years. His current research focusses on the ethical dimensions of yogic philosophy and practice, and broader inter-religious dialogue. He has taught yoga in both Australia and the UK.
Description
As with so much else in traditional yoga(s), there is no clear consensus as to what samādhi actually refers to, though it is generally described either as an advanced stage or state of meditative practice, or a summary of the yoga path as a whole in terms of its goal.