vamachara

There is also vamachara , the "left-hand" path of Tantra, which uses what orthodox practice forbids and which made Kamakhya famous and feared.

Aghori practice shares its deepest features with the vamachara , the left-hand way of Tantra, which takes the very things orthodoxy forbids and turns them into instruments.

In the ācāra scheme the words are about ritual handedness and carry a purity judgment: dakṣiṇācāra is Veda-congruent, caste-observant, publicly avowable conduct, and vāmācāra is transgressive conduct.

In the path called vamachara , the left-hand practice, the qualified initiate ritually uses five substances that ordinary religion forbids: the panchamakara , the five Ms, being wine, meat, fish, parched grain …

Vamachara , the "left-hand" approach, is transgressive and, in certain rites, literal.

…ayachara position skips the preparation that most practitioners need. Vamachara - the “left-hand” mode.

The Vamachara sub-lineages add specific operational elements to the nyasa sequence that the orthodox traditions do not perform.

On a Phalaharini Kali Puja new-moon night at Dakshineswar, Ramakrishna seated his wife Sarada Devi on the goddess's seat, performed nyasa on her, worshipped her…