nyasa
न्यास nyāsaThe ritual 'placing' of mantras and deities upon parts of the body by touch and utterance, consecrating the practitioner's body as the deity's before worship.
Where this term appears
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
Immediately upon the making of the new body comes nyasa , the installation of the deity's mantras and presence onto it, limb by limb, and in the Shakta form a jiva-nyasa that infuses the new body with the very …
- What is Tantra? Lineages
Onto that body the deity is installed by touch, in the rite called nyasa , "placing," in which seed-syllables are set on the limbs and centres so that the worshipper's body becomes the deity's body, mapped in s…
- What are Mudras? Lineages
…e is the practice where mudra and mantra fuse most completely, called nyasa , "placing." The worshipper touches parts of the body in turn, the fingers, the heart, the head, the shoulders, the eyes, and with eac…
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
When the foundation of the sanctum is laid, the texts of the tradition prescribe a rite called garbha-nyasa , the "placing of the embryo".
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
Through nyasa , the ritual placing of mantras upon the parts of the body, the sadhaka builds the deity into himself limb by limb until, in the tradition's own language, he is devata-maya , made of the deity.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
It is called vinyasa , from vi-nyasa , to place in a special and ordered way, and it was the particular innovation of Krishnamacharya to treat the transitions, the moving into and out of a shape on a breath, as…
- What is a Hindu Temple? Temples
… of the life-breath." Through mantra (sacred sound-formulas), through nyasa (the ritual placing of divine power onto the image and the body), through yantra (geometric ritual diagrams) and homa (fire offering),…
- Nyasa As Architecture Treatise
…when the practitioner stops being the practitioner. The moment is the nyasa .