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Antah-shaucha

अन्तःशौच antaḥśauca

Inner purity, the purity of consciousness, as distinct from shaucha, the outer purity of substances and contacts; in Tantra the inner is held to be decisive.

Where this term appears

  • The reversal Treatise

    The cleansing that matters in all of this is inner, the antah-shaucha the texts name, the purification of the seer rather than the seen.

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