amrita
अमृत amritaThe nectar of immortality, churned from the ocean of milk in the samudra-manthana.
Where this term appears
- The Kumbh Mela Temples
Together they will churn the cosmic ocean to draw out amrita , the nectar of immortality.
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
From a lunar centre at the crown, amrita , the nectar of immortality, is imagined raining down, and out of this nectar and the purified elements a fresh, celestial, divine body is constructed, luminous and flaw…
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
…d up behind the palate to seal an inner opening, and there drinks the amrita , the nectar of immortality said to drip perpetually from a lunar centre in the head, catching it before it can fall and be consumed …
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
Free me from death, but do not, in the freeing, cut me off from amrita , from deathlessness itself.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
But by the classical period the equation is fixed: the Moon is the vessel of amrita , the nectar of deathlessness, and the gods and the ancestors drink from it.
- What are Mudras? Lineages
The gesture is understood to transform the ordinary liquid into amrita , the nectar of the gods, sanctifying the offering before it is given.
- Devipuram And The Open-Access Model Treatise
…i founded to administer the temple and its teaching programs) and the Amrita Janani online portal that has aggregated Guruji’s teachings — operates explicitly as an open-access teaching infrastructure.
- The Panchamakara Question Treatise
Madya (wine) is read as the Amrita — the divine nectar that drips from the bindu in the head during advanced yogic states.