pasha
पाश pāśa'The bond': the threefold fetter of anava, karma and maya that binds the soul, cut by diksha and grace in the Shaiva Siddhanta.
Where this term appears
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
Pati, pashu, and pasha The why , where it survives, rests on three words.
- The Aghorīs Lineages
The soul, it holds, is in truth Shiva, but veiled by a set of nooses, pāśa , among them fear, disgust, shame, hatred, and desire.
- What is Shaivism? Lineages
In the Tamil south, the great school is Shaiva Siddhanta, and its whole system turns on three words: pati-pashu-pasha .
- The Vedic Gods: Indra, Agni, and the world of the Rigveda Essentials
The hymns describe his spies moving through the world, and nothing done in secret escapes him. He binds wrongdoers with his pasha , his noose.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
Across most of them runs a shared vocabulary, pati–paśu–pāśa , the Lord, the bound soul, and the bond.
- The Door Treatise
What is destroyed is pasha-bandhana - the bonds of limited individual identity.
- The Fire She Came From Treatise
In her upper right hand she held a noose - pasha , the rope of attachment by which she binds beings to her.
- Do Aghoris really eat human flesh? Journal
The tradition speaks of pasha , the nooses that bind the soul, and among them it counts fear, disgust, and shame.