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: rasa-shastra and the deathless 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
Devipuram, the lineage site at Srimeru, Amrita Nilayam, the peetam at Rush in New York, and The Hans India all name the same teacher: Sri Swaprakashananda Natha Thirtha Avadhuta of Anakapalli, who gave him his …
- 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.