Words on the Way - Muz Murray Mantra Yoga Master

thighs and the soles pointing skywards. The hands rest on the
knees, with the thumb and forefinger joined together, the other
fingers straight, but relaxed.
From padma—lotus, åsana—seat or posture.
Pådya pahd-yah) (pahd
Sense: ‘Washing the feet of’ an idol, or whatever other symbol
may be utilise in ritual worship. The esoteric significance is that
the water is offered to the ‘feet’ of God.
Pakvi — see Paripakvi
Pañcakoça — see Panchakoçha viveka
Pancak‚hara — see Panchak‚hara
Pancanga lak‚a~a — see Panchanga Lak‚ha~a
Panch-ågni
ågni-tapasyå
(panch-ahg-nee-tap-pas-yah
yah)
Var: Panchaagni, pancha-ågni tapas, pancagni
Synon: Dh¨ni-tap, dhooni-tapas, panchakkini
Sense: ‘The austerity of sitting between five fires’—namely, four
fires on the ground oriented to the cardinal points, with the sun
above counted as the fifth.
A scripturally approved method of purification, in which the
practitioner, utilising the repetition of mantra, is himself the
‘offering to the fire’; sometimes sitting between the ‘five fires’
for up to twenty years. In the 20th century it has become
customary in some areas, to increase the number of fires over a
long period of practice.
Root: Pancha-five, ågni--fire, tapasya—austere spiritual practice.
(See Ågni)
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