samskara
संस्कार samskaraA life-cycle rite of passage, such as birth, initiation, marriage or the funerary rites; the domestic samskaras are governed by the Grihya-sutras.
Where this term appears
- Why do Hindus cremate their dead? Essentials
The funeral rite is called antyeshti , and it is the sixteenth and final of the samskaras, the sacraments that mark a Hindu life from before birth to after death.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It is conferred in a child's eighth year, and privately: a hidden samskara , one of her informants said, only between the kid and the sun.
- The Antahkarana: The Fourfold Inner Instrument Essentials
Chitta is memory and retention, the reservoir in which every experience leaves its trace, the latent impressions the tradition calls samskaras .
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
The Gayatri Mantra is Rigveda 3.62.10, a single Vedic verse ascribed to the seer Vishvamitra and addressed to Savitr, the Impeller, the god who sets things in…
- What is Diksha? Lineages
…on the Pancharatra Agamas, developed their own initiation, the pancha-samskara , the five sacraments: the marking of the body with Vishnu's emblems, the sectarian forehead mark, the giving of a new name in serv…
- The Rules of the Rite Treatise
Here belong the samskaras , the life-cycle rites that mark a person from before birth to after death: the rites of conception and naming, the upanayana (the initiation that admits a boy to Vedic study), marriag…
- Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi: The Inner Three Yoga
… all nirbija , the seedless (1.51), where even those impressions, the samskaras , are stilled.
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
…ored as a residue ( karmashaya , 2.12) and as subliminal impressions, samskaras , in the depths of the citta; those impressions ripen into new births, new circumstances, new tendencies, which in turn generate f…