vira
वीर vīraThe 'hero'; in tantra the temperament of practitioner able to use the transgressive rites directly, between the bound pashu and the realised divya.
Where this term appears
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
They are not for everyone; they are for the qualified practitioner, the vira or "hero," undertaken as controlled ritual within the injunctions of the Kula, never as private indulgence.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
There is a Śākta cult of the Sun as Vira or Vireshvara with the goddess Bhargashikha, known only from citations in Abhinavagupta, Jayaratha and Kshemaraja, and, proving it was not merely local, in the Sekanirde…
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
Only a small "left-current" minority, the Vāma and Kaula vīra or "heroic" practitioners, took them literally, and even there the rites were hedged with restriction, secrecy, and initiation, meant for a specific…
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
They belong to the qualified practitioner, the vira or hero, and are expressly closed to the ordinary bound person who might seek them as a thrill.
- Who is Lakshmi? Deities
…th of grain and nourishment, Santana Lakshmi, the wealth of children, Vira Lakshmi, the wealth of courage, and Adi Lakshmi, the primordial spiritual ground of them all.
- The Householder Versus Renunciate Question Treatise
…xtual basis includes the Tantric textual heritage’s references to the Vira and Divya classes of practitioners who have transcended ordinary attachment, the Vedanta textual tradition’s identification of moksha (…
- The Panchamakara Question Treatise
…actitioners are classified as Pashu (bound, animal-like — beginners), Vira (heroic — advanced), and Divya (divine — highest).
- The Technological Question Treatise
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