Bh
ta
uddhi
(Skt., ‘purification of the elements’). The ritual purification of the body in
Tantrism
, so as to render the body sacred in order to worship a deity. The body corresponds to the cosmos, so bh

ta

uddhi recapitulates at a personal level the process of cosmic dissolution (
pralaya
). Bh

ta

uddhi is a preliminary rite in all forms of Tantric p

j

.
Bh
tatathat
