bindu
बिन्दु binduThe point; the central dot of the Sri Yantra and, in metaphysics, the concentrated source from which manifestation unfolds.
Where this term appears
- What the bindi actually means Journal
The bindi takes its name from bindu , which means "a point, a drop, a dot." Monier-Williams's dictionary lists it as "a detached particle, a globule, a spot." That sounds humble until you sit with it, because a…
- Tantric alchemy: rasa-shastra and the deathless body Lineages
…ical work is not to distil a metal but to preserve that essence , the bindu or seed-drop, so that it is never spent and lost, and to transmute it upward into nectar.
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
The yogi who masters khecarī catches and drinks that nectar, and preserves the bindu , the vital drop, and so halts the leak of life.
- What are Mudras? Lineages
…prana , disperses and drains away; and a subtle nectar, the amrita or bindu , is imagined to drip continually from a "moon" in the head, only to fall into a "sun" of fire at the navel and be burned up.
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
At the exact centre sits a point, the bindu , and whether it belongs to the count is a question the commentators answer differently.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
The Shakta mark is the simplest and the most charged: a bindu or streak of red kumkum , the colour of blood and life and the Goddess's own power.
- Mantroddhara: the key printed above the lock Lineages
Verse five: the vowels are the tithis , the lunar days, running out to the dot called bindu .
- Four in the Morning Treatise
At the centre, the bindu - the point at which the geometry terminates and the Goddess sits - has a small smear of last night’s kumkum, dried and fading.