unconscious memories which set up impulses and reactions, impressions
Mental impression of the past.
Hindu rites and practices, especially those linked with major life events such as marriage, birth, death and cremation. A samskara celebrates the passing, or attainment, of a particular life stage and therefore the beginning of a new phase of the individual's spiritual journey. The ritual celebrates and sanctifies the process of moving from one stage to another. The observation of these rites of passage is one of the five obligations of all Hindus.
The impression left in ones mind followed by any experience, imprints or some incident of the past consciously or unconsciously leaves samskara. It represents the root impressions derived from past experiences maybe of recent past or distant past.
Stored impression, accumulated by experience and made of the forces of karma.
association, impression, fixed notion, habitual reaction formed by one's past. samskarah [plural
Latent impression. When an event stored in the subconscious mind cannot be recalled to one's consciousness, it still leaves a dormant impression in our mind. Upon being triggered, it will generate a pre-determined thought pattern, desire orbehavior. Please see raja yoga.
formation . The 2nd nadana is called samskara, or formations. It is the tendency for ignorance to form into activity and results. This is deeply engrained in us. We might understand it as the speed involved in habitual patterns. It is depicted by the potter at his wheel. What begins as a lump of clay, avidya(ignorance) keeps forming and reforming into specific shapes. The momentum of the potter's wheel expresses itself in the transformation of clay into a pot, just as samskara continually thrusts our ignorance into forms.
an enduring impression etched into the malleable substance of a person's mind at a psychological point in life
Impression; ceremonial purification; prenatal tendency.
impression; ceremonial purification; pre-natal tendency
impressions left in the subconscious mind from our behaviours and actions (present and past) which act to shape further developments and behaviours.
See Volition or Five Skandhas.
A term used for psychological conditioning or impressions from past lives.
impressions stored in the mind that form the basis of our beliefs, attitudes and personality.
(“activatorâ€) — the subconscious impression left behind by each act of volition, which, in turn, leads to renewed psychomental activity; the countless samskâras hidden in the depth of the mind are ultimately eliminated only in asamprajnâta-samâdhi (see samâdhi)
A mental impression or tendency continuing from former lives.
Ritual, in the general sense. Denotes rites such as the birth ceremony, tonsure, marriage, cremation, etc. In yoga, it stands for the indelible imprints in the subconscious left behind by our daily experiences.
("activator"): the subconscious impression left behind by each act of volition, which, in turn, leads to renewed psychomental activity; the countless samskaras hidden in the depth of the mind are ultimately eliminated only in asamprajnata-samadhi (see samadhi)
In Hinduism samskaras or sanskaras (Sanskrit: impression; under the impulse of previous impressions) are tendencies inherited from previous births which form a person's propensities in this life.
In Hinduism, Samskaras are ritualistic practices a Hindu is expected to follow at various stages of his or her life. Gautama Dharmasutras specify 40-48 samskaras, though the later Smritis brought down this number to 16 (Shodasha Samskaras).