sankalpa
संकल्प saṃkalpaA resolve or formed intention, the vow stated before a Hindu ritual (naming the time, place, and purpose) and the short positive resolution planted in yoga nidra. An act of aligned will, not a demand on the world.
Where this term appears
- What is a gotra? Essentials
…est recites when he announces a person's ancestry in a ritual, in the sankalpa , the formal statement of intention, at a wedding or a rite for the ancestors, a person names their gotra and pravara to locate the…
- The Antahkarana: The Fourfold Inner Instrument Essentials
The tradition calls this restless oscillation sankalpa-vikalpa , willing and doubting.
- The Sound That Remains Treatise
The closing chapter braids two strands. First, nama-bhakti: the devotional theology that the divine Name and the Named are one, that in the Kali age the Name alone…
- Is manifestation the same as Hindu sankalpa? Journal
Then she pours the water onto the ground, and she begins the work: the fast, the recitation, the discipline she has bound herself to for the next forty days. The tradition calls this a sankalpa , a resolve.
- Four in the Morning Treatise
The sankalpa - the formal declaration of the intention of this morning’s puja, naming the date and the place and the practitioner in the Sanskrit grammar that has named such moments for forty centuries.