The Sanskrit term Śāmbhavāveśa can be transliterated into English as Sambhavavesa or Shambhavavesha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)

Source: eScholarship: The role of religious experience in the traditions of Tantric Shaivism

Śāmbhavāveśa (शाम्भवावेश) refers to “supreme penetration” (i.e., penetration by the Śāmbhava state).—Ūrmikaulārṇava-tantra addresses śāmbhava-vijñāna), which is explicitly glossed as śāmbhavāveśa. Here, as in the Mālinīvijayottara-tantra, it is associated with an intense (tīvra) awakening, and is said (despite its name) to arise from rudra-śakti.

Where we have five signs for the śākta-vijñāna, here we have sixteen or more, though five of them are here singled out as the five (primary) marks of śāmbhavāveśa:

1. horripilation,
2. paralysis (involuntary movements),
3. shaking,
4. devotion,
5. unmanā state (though the last of these is a conjecture).

It seems hard to distinguish the śāmbhava from the śākta state: both include trembling or shaking as a primary sign and collapsing to the ground (pāta) as an ancillary sign; both include a “jump” (udbhava = plava), and being “afflicted [or] drunk” might be parallel to “whirling”. The overall sense of the signs of śāmbhavāveśa here is that one who displays them might be considered mad—yet they are divine (divyatā).

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Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.

Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)

Source: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantram

Śāmbhavāveśa (शाम्भवावेश) refers to “Śāmbhava penetration”, according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—As the neophant experiences the penetration (āveśa) of the six states that correspond to the six parts of the path, he rises in six stages through the hierarchy of principles ranging from the gross element Earth up to the Transmental, and so attains to the fullness and source of the Command. The six are as follows: [6) Śāmbhava: This is the one Principle (tattva) of the Path of the Principles. This penetration extends from the Person to Cessation (nivṛtti) ending finally in the Transmental state (unmanatva), ...]

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Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.

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Partial matches: Avesha, Shambhava.

Full-text: Ghurni, Ghurna, Ghurmi, Avesha.

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