365bet娱乐

up of malefic
- 349 -
Beside pure devotional rites aiming at freedom,
Saiva tantra contains an important bulk of rituals which envisage
worldly fruition. While liberation is obtained through passing three
successive stages, i.e. limpidity or awareness of subconscious zones
which manifest into existence, coalescence into pure energy and finally
into the un
e
uncreated, worldly fruition is acquired by becoming aware of
a particular driving energy and by guiding it towards an
an
ascertained
purpose.
patitis
Can not be
The most frequent classification of rites is
the dichotomy of compulsory and optional (or voluntary) rites. Compulsory
rites are those whic
which must be strictly performed on each of the three
levels of learning the Saivite tantric path, viz. neophyte (samayin),
spiritual son (putraka) and
and
adept (sadhaka); the ritualism pertaining
to a certain category of disciple represents his "qualification" or
the level reached in his attempt towards self-awareness. Compulsory
rites are also those cyclically performed on certain days of the year,
such as the
as
the day on which the master was enlightened, the day of the
master's death, certain days established by astrological calculation
taking the movements of the sun and the moon into special consideration,
included into
that of the
The optional rituals have a pronounced magical
character. They were divid
divided even in the Atharvaveda into two categories,
viz. pacificatory (santa, saunya, and terrible (rauara, ghora). The rites
of
pacification or removal of malefic influences (santika), those of
feeuing or nourishment (apy膩yana), those of prosperity (pusti) etc. take
Part in the first category. The second group of optional rites is made
..
etc.