purascharana

And what the practice extends across - what the architecture is performed within - is the structured discipline of the long retreat. The purascharana .

What allows it to germinate is what the Parashurama Kalpasutra and the Nityotsava and the lineage manuals across the traditions name as the purascharana - the going-before .

…hen Kerala practitioners traditionally undertake their major personal purascharanas.

They were made after the lock, or outside it, or in a speech the lock did not reach. They need no utkīlana , no dīkṣā , no puraścaraṇa .

… practitioner’s body becomes the operative substrate (Chapter 6); the purascharana retreat architecture (Chapter 7); and the closing chapter on what twelve hundred years of transmission has actually been carryi…

…our conditions goes unmet, the letters garbled, the sense absent, the puraścaraṇa not performed by rule, the japa not done by rule.

… kept from the śābara mantras, which have no such prescription and no puraścaraṇa at all.

…sequences at specific transitions, the specific timings, the specific purascharana counts - are what the lineages hold each in their own way, transmitted from guru to disciple within the lineage and not properl…