Ghee
object · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
ghee · Ghṛta
in the texts
Rigveda
Clarified butter poured as the primary oblation substance.
The divine sacrificial grass, growing, filled with heroes, spread out for wealth, easily borne on this altar, anointed with ghee — let the Vasus, the Viśve Devāḥ, the Ādityas, the worthy of sacrifice, sit upon it.
I anoint Agni with the ghee-oblation — dwelling opposite all the worlds, broad across, great in body, widest, mighty in food, fierce to behold.
Ghee is sprinkled;
Brahmabindūpaniṣad
Ghee hidden within milk, a simile for the realized knowledge (vijñāna) present within every being, to be churned out through practice.
Like ghee hidden within milk, vijñāna (realized, discriminative knowledge) dwells in every single being;