YONI: Source.

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Yoni:

Yoni: source; womb.

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yoni:

yoni - vagina, womb, or source

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Yoni:

Yoni. A woman's sacred temple; ring like symbol of Shakti or female power. Female sexual organ.

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Catur-yoni. See CHATUR-YONI

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Yoni Puja:

Yoni Puja. The art of orally stimulating the female genitalia with loving adoration.

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Chatur-yoni catur-yoni (Sanskrit) Four wombs; the four modes of birth; the four ways of entering on the path of birth as decided by karma.

These four ways as described in ancient books are:

1)    birth from the womb, as men and mammalia;

2)    birth from an egg, as birds and reptiles;

3)    birth from moisture and air-germs, as insects; and

4)    by sudden self-transformation, as bodhisattvas and gods (anupapadaka -- "parentless").

The anupapadaka birth is brought about by the intrinsic energy and karmic merit of the individual, thus transforming himself into a nobler being.

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female genitalia as a sacred symbol of life; creation, fertility,
sexuality, the Goddess, etc

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Yoni (Sanskrit). The womb, the female principle.

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Yoni (Sanskrit) The womb; more generally, the female principle. In ancient India the yoni was the common female symbol of the universal Mother of the gods. This symbol corresponds to Noah's ark, and to the navis or shiplike form of the crescent, the sidereal vessel.

The ancient Hindu interpretation of the linga and yoni is entirely metaphysical and psychological, but the once highly philosophical and sublime worship of the linga and yoni of Siva worship has degenerated in modern times to mere phallic worship.

The Hebrew interpretation of these same symbols likewise finally became realistic and physiological (cf SD 2:469-70). However, as Monier-Williams wrote in Folklore Record (vol 3, pt 1, p. 118): "[The linga and yoni are] mystical representations, and perhaps the best possible impersonal representatives, of the abstract expressions of paternity and maternity."

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Yoni

(Sanskrit, "place of issue," secondarily "womb-chamber")

1) The female genitals

2) In Vedic philosophy, "the source" of creation, identified with brahman.

3) In Hinduism, the emblem of feminine cosmic creativity (Sanskrit. Shakti), the highest symbol of Devi, consort of Shiva, corresponding to his lingam. Shaiva temples have a circular yoni-pedestal for the lingam. In meditational diagrams, especially Tantric, the yoni is a triangle with downward apex.

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Jagad-Yoni (Sanskrit). The womb of the world; space.

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Padma Yoni (Sanskrit). A title of Brahma (also called Abjayoni), or the "lotus-born".

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Yoni Mudra

·  Close your ears with thumbs.

·  Cover your eyes with your index finger.

·  Close your nostrils with your middle fingers.

·  Press your lips together with your remaining fingers.

Release the middle fingers gently to inhale and exhale while you meditate.

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Jagad-yoni (Sanskrit) (from jagat world + yoni womb)

The womb of the world; applied to Brahma, Vishnu, and Krishna. It is the material cause of the universe and not the mother of the world, as often translated. It signifies a portion of the spatial deeps to be womb or source of some celestial body such as a planet, or a group of bodies such as a solar system.

Jagad-yoni, therefore, is any portion of kosmic space which through karmic destiny is to be the focus out of which shall spring a celestial globe or solar system. It parallels in certain senses the Hindu hiranyagharba and Greek pleroma (BCW 11:491).

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Siddha yoni asana:

the female counterpart of the siddhasana meditative posture, in which the left heel presses the entrance to the vagina

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YONI-MUDRA: the Mudra in which one closes the ears, eyes, nose and mouth with the thumbs and fingers of the hands to enable one to hear the Anahata sounds

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yoni: (Sanskrit) "Source, origin; female genitals, womb."

In some tantric sects the Sivalinga is depicted as a phallic symbol, and the base as a vulva, or yoni. While the linga represents the unmanifest or static Absolute, the yoni represents the dynamic, creative energy of God, the womb of the universe.

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 Yoni:

vagina, womb, or source

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Lingam and Yoni

Male and female symbols in Hinduism for positive and negative polarity

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