samayin
समयिन् samayinThe first and lowest grade of initiate in the Shaiva Siddhanta - one who has received the preliminary initiation and taken on the samayas, the post-initiatory rules, but not yet the liberating nirvana-diksha. Above the samayin stand the putraka, the sadhaka and the acharya.
Where this term appears
- What is Diksha? Lineages
At the bottom is the samayin , the one bound by the samaya , the rules and disciplines of the school, admitted through a lesser initiation but not yet liberated.
- Samaya: the fetter and who was spared it Lineages
In Shaiva tantra , the sense of this article, samaya is the set of binding rules an initiate accepts; samayin is the grade of initiate who carries them; samayachara is the conduct they prescribe.
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
Lakshmidhara, in the sixteenth century, assigned them to the two schools: the Kaulas conceive the figure only by dissolution, the Samayins prefer creation.
- The Nisvasa: the oldest tantra, and what it does not yet know Lineages
…on 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
…hujaḥ , and it names the row in the same breath: it is the row of the samayins , the lowest grade of initiate.