laya
लय laya'Dissolution' or 'absorption' - the merging of one level of reality back into its source. In laya yoga and in bhuta-shuddhi, the practitioner dissolves the grosser elements successively into the subtler, retracing creation in reverse until only pure consciousness remains.
Where this term appears
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
This is laya , dissolution, and the figure below traces its upward ladder.
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
… ascetic practice and overlaid their own contribution, the meditative laya yoga of dissolving the mind, onto that base, and later, much later, wove the whole thing into a sectarian identity of their own.
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
laya sanjivana lakhana jiyaye, shri raghubira harashi ura laye — You brought the sanjivani herb and revived Lakshmana; the joy of Raghuvira, who clasped you to his heart.
- Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise
…ituals, the worship of the goddess in her fierce dissolution-aspect ( laya pradhana ) rather than her benign-aspect.