Samadhi vs Nirvana - What's the difference?
samadhi | nirvana |
A state of transcendent union supposed to be assumed by a holy man or yogi at his death.
* 2005 , Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown , Vintage 2006, p. 227:
The highest state of meditation, at which complete unity is reached.
* 1902 , William James, The Varities of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 340:
The tomb of a holy person or saint in India.
(Buddhism) complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
(non-Buddhist colloquial usage) state of paradise; heightened or great pleasure.
As nouns the difference between samadhi and nirvana
is that samadhi is a state of transcendent union supposed to be assumed by a holy man or yogi at his death while nirvana is complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.samadhi
English
Noun
- 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.’
