Amritasiddhi, Amṛtasiddhi, Amrita-siddhi: 2 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Amṛtasiddhi can be transliterated into English as Amrtasiddhi or Amritasiddhi, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Yoga (school of philosophy)

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Source: Wisdom Library: Yoga

Amṛtasiddhi (अमृतसिद्धि):—Name of a Sanskrit work dealing with haṭhayoga. Written by Virūpākṣa around the twelfth or eleventh century. Among the contents of this book are descriptions of mahābandha, mahāmudrā, and mahāvedha.

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (yoga)

Amṛtasiddhi (अमृतसिद्धि) is a 12th-century text belonging to the Haṭhayoga textual tradition.—The text of the Amṛtasiddhi consists of 303 verses divided into 35 short vivekas. The first ten vivekas teach the constituents of the yogic body. Vivekas 11–13 teach three methods of manipulating those constituents and viveka 14 teaches the practice, i.e. how the three methods are to be used together. Vivekas 15–18 teach the four grades of aspirant, 19–33 the four states of yoga, and 34–35 the final transformation of the body leading up to nirvāṇa. Despite the compound haṭhayoga being found in earlier Vajrayāna works (Birch 2011, 535–536) and its teachings being central to later haṭhayogic texts, the Amṛtasiddhi does not call its yoga method haṭha.

Note: The Amṛtasiddhi was composed in a Vajrayāna Buddhist milieu and its intended audience was other Vajrayāna Buddhists. Its teachings are subsequently found in Haṭhayoga texts from a wide range of non-Buddhist traditions. This does not mean, however, that Haṭhayoga itself was a product of Vajrayāna Buddhists.

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Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).

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