A tantric rite of the left-hand (vamachara) path performed while seated upon a corpse; in its interior sense the corpse is a mirror of the practitioner's own body and ego, and the discipline aims at conquering the fear of death and the reflex of disgust.

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  In the rite the traditions call shava-sadhana , the discipline upon a corpse, the body the seeker finally has to master is his own, and the corpse he sits on becomes a mirror held up to his own dying ego.

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