The unpinning or unlocking of a mantra, named as the counterpart of its having been pinned. In the Purāṇic passages reached, the word is scoped to one particular named formula rather than to mantra as such.

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  From that moment no mantra would function for anyone who had not first performed utkīlana , the unlocking, under a qualified teacher.

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