Sati

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Sati may refer to:

  • Sati is a mental state that relives an event from the past exactly word after word, emotion after emotion in the present. Pali / English dictionary gives the meaning; memory, recognition, consciousness, intentness of mind, wakefulness, mindfulness, self consciousness, conscience, self possession, lucidity of mind.
  • Mindfulness (Pali). In Buddhism the word ‘Sati’ usually carries the meaning of awareness or skillful attentiveness
  • An alternative name for Hindu goddess Dakshayani, Shiva's first wife
  • Sati (practice), a hindu tradition of the immolation of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre
  • Bhai Sati Das, one of the greatest martyrs in Sikh history.
  • School of mindfulness meditation established by John Garrie Rōshi
  • An alternate spelling of Satis in Egyptian mythology
  • Sati, a character in the film The Matrix Revolutions
  • Sati, a novel by Christopher Pike
  • Sati (film) , 1989 Bengali film directed by Aparna Sen and starring Shabana Azmi
  • Violeta "Sati" Jurkonienė, a Lithuanian singer