In Buddhism, Samādhi denotes the sixth, seventh, and eighth steps in the Eightfold path, as ‘perfect effort’, ‘perfect mindfulness’ and ‘perfect concentration’. In Hinduism and Buddhism, Samādhi denotes ‘total absorption in the object of meditation’ and ‘a nondualistic state of consciousness in which the experience of the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object’.

Importing this word into Panosophy, Samādhi is essentially cognate with Collumination, both as the coherent Light of Consciousness and as the cognitive meditation practice that leads to Gnosis, as Prajñā in Sanskrit.