Editing Samadhi (section)

=== ''Mahāsamādhi'' ===
In Hindu or Yogic traditions, ''mahāsamādhi'', the "great" and final ''samādhi'', is the act of consciously and intentionally leaving one's body at the moment of death.<ref>{{cite web |date=2010-07-25 |title=Glossary Of Siddha Yoga Terminology |url=https://www.siddhayoga.org/glossary |access-date=2020-11-22 |publisher=Siddhayoga.org}}</ref> According to this belief, a realized and liberated ([[Jivanmukta]]) [[yogi]] or [[yogini]] who has attained the state of ''nirvikalpa samādhi'' can consciously exit from their body and attain [[moksha|liberation]] at the moment of death while in a deep, conscious meditative state.<ref name="Blackman">{{cite book |last=Blackman |first=Sushila |title=Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die: Death Stories Of Tibetan, Hindu & Zen Masters |date=1997 |publisher=Weatherhill |isbn=0-8348-0391-7 |location=New York}}</ref>

Some individuals have, according to their followers, declared the day and time of their ''mahāsamādhi'' beforehand. These include [[Lahiri Mahasaya]] whose death on September 26, 1895, was of this nature, according to [[Paramahansa Yogananda]].<ref name="Blackman" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Yogananda |first=Paramahansa |title=Autobiography of a Yogi – Chapter 36 |date=1997 |publisher=Self-Realization Fellowship |isbn=0-87612-086-9 |location=Los Angeles}}</ref> Paramahansa Yogananda's own death on March 7, 1952, was described by his followers as entering ''mahāsamādhi''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mahasamadhi — |url=https://yssofindia.org/paramahansa-yogananda/Final-Years-and-Mahasamadhi |access-date=2020-02-11 |publisher=Yogoda Satsanga Society of India}}</ref> Daya Mata, one of Yogananda's direct disciples, said that Yogananda on the previous evening had asked her "Do you realize that it is just a matter of hours and I will be gone from this earth?"<ref>{{cite book |last=Goldberg |first=Philip |title=The Life of Yogananda |date=2018 |publisher=Hay House, Inc. |isbn=978-1-4019-5218-1 |location=California |page=277}}</ref>