sadhaka
साधक sādhakaA practitioner - one who undertakes sadhana, a disciplined spiritual practice, toward a defined goal (siddhi or liberation). In Tantra the sadhaka is the initiated aspirant who performs the rites, as distinct from the ordinary worshipper.
Where this term appears
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
Bhuta shuddhi ('purification of the elements') is the preliminary tantric rite in which the worshipper mentally dissolves their own body, element by element, back…
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
The Kularnava Tantra ('the ocean of the Kula') is one of the most important and most quoted scriptures of the Kaula school of Tantra, a comprehensive manual of the…
- What is Diksha? Lineages
Beside these stands the sadhaka , the practitioner who seeks siddhi , particular powers and attainments, through a more specialised consecration.
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
…g Sastry's disciples, and it is ultimately the guru of a community of sadhakas , practitioners, who approves such charts.
- 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.
- Samaya: the fetter and who was spared it Lineages
In the Mrgendra 's chapter on samaya conduct the penance scales by grade of initiation , running from the teacher down through the sadhaka and the putraka to the samayin , who pays half the putraka's.
- The Nisvasa: the oldest tantra, and what it does not yet know Lineages
….10 to 18, but everyone in the religion appears to be called simply a sadhaka , and the fourfold ladder of samayin , putraka , sadhaka and acarya that later Shaivism runs on is missing.
- The Svacchanda Tantra: the fight over what was in the cup Lineages
The putrakas , initiated for liberation. The sādhakas , adepts who are after powers instead.