manasa
मानस mānasaMental, silent mantra repetition, the sound turned over in the mind with the lips still. Held the highest of the three forms of japa, though the commentator Medhatithi reads that ranking as figurative praise.
Where this term appears
- What is a Mantra? Worship
The third is manasa or manasika , mental, the sound turned over silently in the mind with the lips still.
- Sat-Chit-Ananda: Being, Consciousness, Bliss Essentials
…ther with the mind, unable to reach it", yato vaco nivartante aprapya manasa saha .
- What is Diksha? Lineages
To these the Kularnava Tantra adds a subtler triad, an initiation given by the teacher's very look, by touch, and by thought, drik , sparsha , and manasa .
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
The Kularnava Tantra (14.39) lists seven kinds of liberating initiation: by rite ( kriya ), by letter ( varna ), by kala , by touch ( sparsha ), by speech ( vak ), by sight ( drik ), and by mind ( manasa ).
- What is Tirtha? Pilgrimage in Hindu Life Temples
From the same Puranic world comes the teaching of the manasa-tirtha , the tirtha of the mind.
- The Government of the Cosmos Treatise
They are described as the mānasa-putras , the "mind-born sons" of Brahmā — brought forth not by birth but by pure thought — and they are the original transmitters of the Vedas, the ṛṣis to whom the eternal know…