دیكشا

दीक्षा dīkshā, s.f. Preparation or consecration (for a religious ceremony); a ceremony preliminary to a sacrifice, initiation, dedication; receiving the initiatorymantraor prayer; undertaking religious observances, or engaging in a course of austerities (for a special purpose), devotion; sacrificing, offering oblations, dedicating oneself (to an object, or to a person), self-devotion.