Savikalpa

Samadhi (Sanskrit: समाधि), in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness

In the yogic traditions, and the Buddhist commentarial tradition on which the Burmese Vipassana movement and the Thai Forest tradition rely, it is a meditative absorption or trance, attained by the practice of dhyāna

In the oldest Buddhist suttas, on which several contemporary western Theravada teachers rely, it refers to the development of a luminous mind which is equanimous and mindful

In Buddhism, it is the last of the eight elements of the Noble Eightfold Path

In the Ashtanga Yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali