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(Specific Focus on the Initiation, Initiator and Desirous Initiate Factors)

Abstract

The term Dīkşā is understood as the initiation. Any student is known as an initiate. He is taught the discipline slowly in a step by step manner. Certain process’ are followed one after the other systematically. These are known as the procedures or vidhi to be followed. These pertain to the aim to be realized, the specifications, the rules and procedures to be followed, in the undertaking. These pertain to the subtle part – the concept and the process. The next is the actual pertaining to those who are actually involved – (i) one who guides, should himself be an adept, an expert an adhikarin. He is the Guru or the didīkṣu. And (ii) one who acquires the lore is the instructed, is overseen and guided in performance first as an apprentice and later as an independent performer is the desirous initiate. He is eager to learn, desirous to acquire the knowledge and wishes to be initiated into world of the spirituality. Such a desirous, earnest disciple is the didikshu or the desirous initiate. The present paper focuses on the three points to get a better understanding of Samayacara.