avimukta
अविमुक्त avimukta'The never-forsaken'; an ancient sacred name for Kashi (Varanasi) as the place Shiva vows never to leave. The Jabala Upanishad locates Avimukta both in the city and within the body of the meditator.
Where this term appears
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
…s own city, which he never forsakes, which is why one of its names is Avimukta , "the never-abandoned." He abides there as Vishveshvara, "Lord of All," and grants moksha , liberation, to those who die within th…
- How Shiva lost his city Treatise
But dharma is dharma, and the world's need is real, and so Shiva does the thing his own great name, Avimukta, the Never-Forsaken, says he will never do.
- The body of the city Treatise
Inside that, the Avimukta circuit, tracing the never-forsaken core.
- The book of the city Treatise
…shi means , the liberation it gives, the presence of Shiva, the inner Avimukta, this treatise reports it as the tradition's own voice, quoted faithfully and attributed clearly to the tradition, neither endorsed…
- The city that will not die Treatise
Kashi's oldest and truest name is Avimukta , the never-forsaken, and it names a promise the tradition makes about the ground itself: that Shiva, having chosen this place, will never leave it, no matter what is …
- The ground under the ground Treatise
It located it in Shiva's refusal to leave the ground, and in the inner Avimukta that no army can reach.
- The never-forsaken Treatise
It makes a claim so large that the whole strange architecture of the city rests on it, and it is the name we left the streets to open. Avimukta.
- The other bank Treatise
… the deepest layer of the tradition had said all along: that the true Avimukta, the real never-forsaken ground, is not a bank of the river at all.