marga
मार्ग mārgaA 'path' or 'road' to liberation. The tradition names three principal margas to moksha, matched to different temperaments: karma-marga (action), bhakti-marga (devotion) and jnana-marga (knowledge); a fourth, raja-marga (meditation), is sometimes added.
Where this term appears
- Lila: The World as Divine Play Essentials
Vallabha, who founded the devotional path called Pushti Marga, the "way of grace," in the same century, made this the whole of religion: Krishna's lila is not a story about the past but the ongoing, present lif…
- The Three Paths to Liberation: Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Essentials
Each is called a marga , a road, or a yoga , a yoking, a discipline that joins the soul to its goal.
- Konark: The Sun Temple Temples
One line of reading connects them to vama-marga (the "left-hand path" of Tantra).
- Śavaripa the hunter Treatise
…d reproduces a roll of twelve Kāpālikas headed by Ādinātha and twelve mārga-pravartakas headed by Nāgārjuna, among whom stand Gorakṣa and Jālandhara .
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
The left-hand path The Vamachara sub-lineages — the Vama Marga , the Left-hand Path lineages that Volume 3’s Chapter 6 context introduced — are the most distinctive of the Bengali Tantric sub-traditions, and th…
- The Three Cities Treatise
The fifth reading is the three paths - karma-marga (work), bhakti-marga (devotion), jnana-marga (knowledge).
- Why this form exists Treatise
…k or blue, four- or six-armed, with a shakti , worshipped by the vama-marga , the left road, through the pancha-tattva , the five transgressive elements.