marana
मारण māraṇaKilling; the deadliest of the six acts of tantric magic, the rite of destruction aimed at a life. The Mimamsa philosophers ruled the equivalent Vedic killing-rite effective yet forbidden; read inwardly, marana is the killing of the ego.
Where this term appears
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
… , made to lose its form), bound ( bandhana ), and finally "killed" ( māraṇa ), incinerated until the flowing metal becomes a stable, fixed powder that can be taken as medicine.
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
And the last is marana , killing, the rite of destruction aimed at a life.
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
Practitioners hold that shodhana , purification, and marana , the repeated incineration that "kills" a metal, turn bulk metal into something chemically different, and the characterisation literature, much of it…
- The six acts Treatise
Uccāṭana , eradication, deprives a person of his place. Māraṇa , liquidation: taking life.
- The word, reclaimed or not Treatise
…l six-act grid, śānti , vaśīkaraṇa , stambhana , vidveṣa , uccāṭana , māraṇa , does not organise this corpus at all, and that the tradition carries its own ethical critique of the coercive members, from the upa…