bija
बीज bīja"Seed." The single-syllable seed-mantra associated with a chakra or a deity, used inside the larger ritual of visualization rather than on its own.
Where this term appears
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
Bhuta shuddhi ('purification of the elements') is the preliminary tantric rite in which the worshipper mentally dissolves their own body, element by element, back…
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
It is a form with a precise bija , a seed-syllable that is its sound-body, and a yantra , a geometric diagram that is its spatial body, and the practitioner installs it within his own person.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
There is a further, more esoteric layer still, in which each name is joined to a seed syllable, a bija , the sun's sound distilled: Hram, Hrim, Hrum, Hraim, Hraum, Hrah , six seeds carried through the twelve.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
Sayana pushes it to its limit and calls him jagad-bija , the seed of the world, the source from which all growth comes.
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
Each lotus, in the Sat-Chakra-Nirupana , carries a number of petals, the petals bear Sanskrit letters, the centre holds an element, a bija or seed-syllable, a presiding deity, and a shakti.
- What is a Mantra? Worship
There are the bija or "seed" mantras, single syllables that carry no dictionary meaning at all: hrim , commonly tied to the Goddess as Bhuvaneshwari or to the power of maya ; shrim , to Lakshmi and to abundance…
- Nyasa As Architecture Treatise
Binduvisargamatrika - with both. Hrillekhadi - beginning with the Hrim bija.
- The Chariot Treatise
The Hadi-lineage Khadgamala - the lineage-specific version of the Devi Khadgamala Stotra - names the yoginis at each enclosure with slightly different bijas than the Kadi-lineage version.