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पर parā

The supreme level; the highest of the graded levels of speech and reality (para, parapara, apara) in the Trika and Srividya schemes.

Where this term appears

  • The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages

    …a second scheme, the five modes in which God makes himself available: para , the transcendent; vyūha , the emanations just described; vibhava , the incarnations, the avatars who descend into history; antaryāmin…

  • What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy

    The name comes from the triads the system loves: the three goddesses Para, Parapara, and Apara; the three energies of will, knowledge, and action; the three levels of self from the individual to the absolute.

  • What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship

    juga sahasra jojana para bhanu, lilyo tahi madhura phala janu — The sun, a thousand yuga -yojanas away, you swallowed, taking it for a sweet fruit.

  • Nyasa As Architecture Treatise

    Balasamputita - sandwiched between the Bala mantras. Parasamputita - sandwiched between the Para mantras.

  • The Chariot Treatise

    Presided over by the Para-Apara-Rahasya - Lalita herself with Kameshvara.

  • The Court Treatise

    …dition, in particular, gives unusually high prominence to the goddess Para - the supreme form of the goddess that, in the Kashmir Shaiva framework the Hadi lineage inherited more directly than the Kadi lineage …

  • The Fire She Came From Treatise

    …tion-Kali who draws Time itself into herself) and the three goddesses Para , Parapara , Apara (the high, medium, and lower forms of speech/awareness).

  • The Mantra, At Architecture Treatise

    …onal practice into the 21st century - preserve mantras drawn from the Para-Parapara-Apara framework of the Trika.

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