sadhana
साधना sadhanaDisciplined spiritual practice undertaken to reach a goal; in Tantra, the structured worship of a deity through mantra, visualization and ritual, received from a guru.
Where this term appears
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
In Tantric sadhana the devotee is required, first, to become the deity.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It is in the Tibetan Kangyur, in the Action Tantra section, catalogued at Toh 564, 565 and 566, all three now translated into English. Her Sanskrit sadhanas are in the Sadhanamala .
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
The first, the Samadhi Pada , is on absorption, the goal. The second, the Sadhana Pada , is on practice, the means.
- Kamala: The Lotus at the End of the Garland Treatise
Her Tantric Mahavidya layer, with its yantra and bija and esoteric sadhana , is initiatory like the rest; but her devotional surface is something nearly every Hindu home already knows.
- Tara: The Star That Ferries Across Treatise
Where she is worshipped, and a warning Her heart is Bengal and Assam, and above all Tarapith, where the cremation ground beside the temple has made her a goddess of intense, dangerous Tantric sadhana .
- The Garland: Why the Ten Are One Treatise
Others live almost entirely within the guarded, initiatory world of Tantric sadhana .
- Wisdom Through the Forbidden Treatise
The Mahavidyas belong to Shakta Tantra, where the Goddess (Shakti) is the supreme reality and Shiva is inert without her. The ten are ranged deliberately from…
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
The second, the sadhana pada , sets out the means, including the famous eight limbs.