The sanskrit word samadhi means “putting together” and is the final integration in the process of enlightenment if you are on the yogic path. This is when the enlightened being is liberated from the ego mind and its constant chatter, evaluations, judgments, worries, fears, and opinions and enters a state of imperturbable joy.

It is less of an experience and more of a a pure state of being. Each moment is sacred, whether the saint is brushing her teeth or sweeping his floor. Being in samadhi doesn’t mean you have to sit for hours in painful positions. It means being in the present moment at all times and not being dragged away from it by the fears, likes, and dislikes of the ego-mind’s drama.

In the state of samadhi, the saint sees only oneness in all occurrences of life and finds deep peace therein. The enlightened being does not pay homage to worry or fear. She does not feel anxiety because she knows there are no barriers between her needs and their fulfillment. But usually the saint does not have many needs because he is happy within himself and is not seeking for something outside him to complete his picture of bliss.
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In this bliss of samadhi, all suffering disappears. Samadhi is not the same thing as fun moments at the amusement park or at a party. That sort of happiness is fleeting. Samadhi is a remembrance of our own divinity. It is the feeling of being in the presence of Diving Source of the Universe and being at one with this Divine Source at the same time.

Thales is not only called “The First Philosopher” but also “The First Scientist.” This is because he did his work in around 624 - 546 B.C., which was before Socrates’s time (born 470 B.C.), when the Greeks and Romans believed that everything was caused by mythological gods.

He rejected these traditional explanations about why things happened. Instead, he replaced them with rational explanations, based on experiments, astronomy, and scientific inquiry. He asked questions such as, “How can nature be described mathematically?” He tried to discover universal principles to explain the whole of Nature.

Therefore, he was one of the first to employ the scientific method as well as to delve into the nature of reality, and thus combine science with philosophy.
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But this is just in the Western Tradition. The Buddha and Lao Tsu had established their ways of looking at the world at roughly the same time as Thales, so it is not accurate to say that he is the world’s first philosopher, without qualifying it with the word “Greek.” And since written records are not easily available from those times, we can only surmise that he was the first Greek philosopher, though there doubtless were other thinkers who did not reach his level of fame.