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Within this samādhi, it can be with eyes closed or with eyes open. When the eyes are open it suggests the sādhu has stabilized the level of samādhi to even experience it while in activity.
I think this is a very important point. What I have noticed is that samadhi has become quite a buzz word, often times translated as the ultimate stage or a supreme trance like state, like being totally absorbed into another world, or a deep meditation trance absorbed in cross legged position in a cave. Yet its much more than that and can be applied in normal life with the eyes open and the world then appears as a living experience within union of the all pervasive, or at least there are moments and blessings along the way to see this, this is due to direct experience of samadhi. Samadhi has been translated as union, so that can happen with eyes open or closed, asleep or awake.