| abhaya: | State of fearlessness; offering shelter to one who
seeks refuge.
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| abheda: | Without difference.
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| abheda buddhi: | Concept free from ideas of difference.
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| abhishekam: | The sacred bath of water, milk, curd, etc., given
to a deity.
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| abhyasa: | Practice.
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| abhavam: | Non-existence; absence.
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| adhama: | Inferior.
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| adi: | Beginning.
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| advaita: | Non-duality; no-otherness.
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| advaitic: | Pertaining to advaita.
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| advaitin: | One who believes in non-duality.
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| aham: | I; the ego.
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| ahamkaram: | Ego-sense.
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| Aham vritti: | The `I' thought.
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| ajnana: | Ignorance; nescience.
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| akasa: | Space; ether; sky; Brahman.
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| ananda: | Bliss.
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| ananya bhakti: | Whole-hearted devotion.
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| angushtha-pramana: | Of the size of the thumb.
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| anta: | The end.
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| antaryami: | The controller within us. God.
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| anugraha: | Blessing; grace.
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| anupallavi: | Sub-refrain of a song.
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| apachara: | Sacrilege.
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| arati: | The waving of lights before a sacred image.
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| archana: | Offering flowers to a sacred image.
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| arupa manas: | Mind which has no form or concept.
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| asariri: | Without body; a celestial voice.
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| asat: | Non-existence.
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| Ashta Dik Palakas: | Protectors of eight quarters.
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| Ashta Dik Lingams: | Eight lingams.
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| Ashta Vasus: | Celestial beings who are eight in number.
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| asti: | Exists.
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| asuric: | Demoniac.
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| atma: | Self.
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atma sakshatkaram: Perceiving (realizing) the Self directly.
Avadhuta: | An ascetic who has given up everything including
his clothes.
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| avastha: | State, especially the state of waking or dream or
sleep.
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| avatar: | Incarnation; descent of God in a worldly form.
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| avidya: | Ignorance; nescience.
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| aviyal: | A South Indian preparation in which several kinds
of vegetables are used.
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| avyabhicharini bhakti: | Bhakti which does not change from one object
to another.
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| bhagavat bhakta: | One who is devoted to Bhagavan (Vishnu).
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| bhajan: | Singing devotional songs in chorus.
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| bhakti: | Devotion to a personal God.
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| bhakti marga: | The spiritual path of devotion to a personal God.
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| bhakti rasa: | The joy of bhakti.
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| bhati: | Shines, manifests, is aware.
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| bhava: | Feeling ; emotion.
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| bheda bhava: | A sense of separateness.
|
| bhiksha: | lit. The food offered to begging ascetics in charity;
a feast given to ascetics and other religious persons.
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| bhoga Kshetra: | A place of enjoyment.
|
| bhu: | A sacred and symbolic syllable called a vyahriti.
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| bhuvar: | A sacred and symbolic syllable called a vyahriti.
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| bindu: | A dot; in yoga the dot over OM.
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| brahmacharya: | The first stage of life, the stage of the student.
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| brahmajnana: | Realization of Brahman.
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brahmakara vritti: Concept of the form of Brahman.
Buddhi: | Intellect.
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| chaitanya: | Consciousness; sentience.
|
| chakora: | A mythical bird which is to feed only on rain
water.
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| chakra: | A yogic centre in the body.
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| chalana: | Movement.
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| charanam: | The body of a song.
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| charya: | Regular observance of rites.
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| chattram: | A place of free lodging for pilgrims and travellers.
Sometimes food is also provided free.
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| cheetah: | A small leopard.
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| chembu: | A small round water pot made of brass or copper.
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| chidabhasa: | The reflected consciousness; the jiva.
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| chidakasa: | The akasa or ether or space in the heart; Brahman.
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| chinmudra: | The hand-pose indicating illumination.
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| chiranjivi: | One who lives for ever.
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| chit: | Consciousness.
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| chit-jada granthi: | The knot which ties the sentient (Self ) and the inert (the body).
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| chitta suddhi: | Purity of mind.
|
| daharakasa: | The tiny akasa; A term applied to the Self which
is realized in the Heart.
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| daivic: | Godly; divine.
|
| darshan: | Seeing a holy person or image.
|
| dasara: | holidays: The ten days devoted to the worship of the
Universal Mother.
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| deham: | Body.
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| dehatma buddhi: | The idea that the body is the Self.
|
| deva: | A celestial being.
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| dhoti: | A long piece of cloth tied round the waist.
|
| dhyana: | Meditation; contemplation.
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| diksha: | Formal initiation of a disciple by the Guru.
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| deeksha: | Formal initiation of a disciple by the Guru.
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| dosai prasad: | Prasad (Offering to God) consisting of dosai, a
pancake made out of rice and blackgram.
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| drishti srishti: | Perception followed by creation.
|
| dvaita: | Duality.
|
| dvaitic: | Pertaining to dvaita.
|
| dvaitin: | One who believes in duality.
|
| eka chintana: | Concentrated thinking.
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| ekagra bhakti: | Complete devotion to one.
|
| ganjira: | A tabor-like musical instrument.
|
| Gayatri: | A well-known Vedic mantra.
|
| giri pradakshina: | Going round the Hill.
|
| Gokulashtami: | The eighth lunar day on which Sri Krishna was
born.
|
| gosala: | A place where the cows are kept.
|
| gottuvadyam: | A stringed musical instrument.
|
| grihapravesam: | House warming.
|
| grihasta: | One who is in the second stage of life, that of a
householder.
|
| guna: | Quality; mode.
|
| guru stuti: | Praise of the Guru; verses in praise of the Guru.
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| harikatha: | A religious discourse interspersed with devotional songs.
|
| hasta diksha: | Spiritual initiation in which the Guru places his
hand on the head of the disciple.
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| hastamalakam: | An amalaka fruit in the hand.
|
| hatha yoga: | A form of yoga involving difficult bodily postures.
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| homa: | Sacrifice offered in the sacred fire.
|
| idam: | This, usually applied in Vedanta to the world.
|
| ishta devata: | The deity whom one desires to worship or
contemplate.
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| isvara: | God.
|
| isvara maya: | The maya (delusion) produced by God.
|
| isvaravadi: | One who expounds the doctrine of a personal
God.
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| jada: | The inert.
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| jagrat: | The waking state.
|
| japa: | Repetition of a sacred word or syllable or the name
of God.
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| jada: | Matted hair.
|
| Jayanti: | The birthday of a God or a holy person.
|
| jibba: | A long, loose shirt without collar and cuffs.
|
| jiva: | The individual.
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| jivanmukta: | One who is Liberated while alive.
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| jivatman: | The individual self.
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| jnana: | Knowledge; Wisdom; Enlightenment.
jnanottara bhakti: Bhakti which follows Jnana.
|
| jutka: | A carriage on two wheels drawn by a pony.
|
| jyoti: | Effulgence.
|
| jyoti maya: | Full of effulgence.
|
| kainkaryam: | Service rendered to God, the Guru, etc.
|
| kalakshepam: | A religious discourse interspersed with songs.
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| kali yuga: | The last of the four yugas (aeons).
|
| kamandalam: | A receptacle for holding water used by ascetics and generally made out of the shell of a large
coconut.
|
| kanji: | Gruel.
|
| kashaya: | Taint; impurity.
|
| kattalai: | Offerings made to a temple at regular times by a
devotee.
|
| kayakalpa: | A medicinal preparation for longevity.
|
| kirtan: | A devotional song.
|
| koham: | Who am I?
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| kripa: | Mercy.
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| kripa drishti: | Look of mercy or grace.
|
| kriya: | An act.
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| kshetra: | A field; a place; the body.
|
| kshira sagara: | The ocean of milk in which Vishnu lies on a
serpent with a thousand hoods.
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| kummi: | A song which accompanies a kind of rustic
dance.
|
| kumkum(am): | Vermilion applied to the forehead, generally by women.
|
| kundalini: | The mystic circle of three and a half coils situated in the umbilical region. The yogic principle of Serpent power. The Primordial Maya.
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| kuvalaya: | The lotus.
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| laya: | Dissolution; absorption.
|
| lila: | Sport.
|
| lingam: | Symbol; the symbol of Siva.
|
| lingamaya: | Full of lingas.
|
| madhu: | Honey; enjoyment.
|
| madhu Vidya: | The name of a spiritual and esoteric practice.
|
| madhwada: | One who enjoys the good and bad things in the world; the jiva.
|
| madhyama: | Middling.
|
| maha prana: | The important life-force.
|
| manana: | Reflection on what has been heard.
|
| manas: | Mind.
|
| manasa japam: | Japam done mentally.
|
| mangalam: | Auspicious.
|
| manigar: | The person in charge of an institution.
|
| mano nasa: | The extinction of the mind.
|
| mantapam: | A raised platform of stone covered over with an
ornamental roof supported by pillars.
|
| manthi: | A grown up male monkey.
|
| mantra: | A sacred word or words supposed to have spiritual
potency.
|
| mantra japam: | Repetition of mantra.
|
| mantramaya: | Full of mantra.
|
| marundu: | Medicinal preparation.
Mattu Pongal: day: The day on which the cows are venerated.
|
| mauna (mowna): | Silence.
|
| mayavadi: | One who expounds the doctrine of maya.
|
| megha: | Cloud.
|
| megha mandala: | A bank of clouds.
|
| mithya: | Unreal; false.
|
| moham: | Delusion.
|
| moharrum: | A Muslim festival.
|
| moksha: | Liberation.
|
| mridangam: | A small drum which is struck with the fingers of both the hands and used in South Indian Musical Concerts.
|
| mudra: | Pose of the hands.
|
| mukta: | One who is liberated.
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| mukti: | Liberation.
|
| muladhara: | The name of the lowest Yogic chakra or centre.
|
| mumukshu: | One who desires to be Liberated.
|
| nada: | Sound; in yoga the sound represented by OM.
|
| nadi: | River.
|
| nadi: | Yogic nerve.
|
| nadi horoscope: | A system of astrology.
|
| naham: | I am not the body.
|
| naivedyam: | Food offered to a God at the time of worship.
|
| nakshatra: | A star; an asterism.
|
| nama: | Name.
|
| nama smarana: | Repetition of the name of God.
|
| Navami: | The ninth lunar day.
|
| nididhyasana: | Uninterrupted contemplation.
|
| nirvikalpa samadhi: | Samadhi in which all differences between the individual self and Brahman cease to exist.
|
| nishkama karma: | Action done without a selfish motive.
|
| nitya karma: | The daily rites which are obligatory.
|
| niyati: | Law; rule; established order.
|
| om(kar): | The sacred syllable which represents Brahman.
|
| padaiveedu: | A temple or shrine built on the site of a battle fought by gods with demons.
|
| padmasanam: | The lotus-posture of sitting for meditation.
|
| pakva: | Fit; proper; mature.
|
| pallavi: | Refrain in a piece of music.
|
| paramatman: | The Supreme Self; Brahman.
|
| parayana: | The chanting of the Vedas.
|
| pathasala: | A school, especially one in which boys are taught to chant the Vedas.
|
| pipal: | A sacred tree; the ficus religiosa.
|
| poli: | A North Indian preparation made of wheat flour fried in ghee.
|
| pongal: | A South Indian preparation made of rice, pulses, nuts, ghee, etc.
|
| pongal prasadam: | Pongal offered to God.
|
| pooran poli: | A North Indian sweet preparation.
|
| pradakshina: | Going round a sacred object or person.
|
| prakara: | The paved yard surrounding the shrine in a temple.
|
| prakriti: | Nature; compound of the three gunas, satva, rajas and tamas.
|
| prana: | Life-force; the vital airs, breath.
|
| pranayama: | Regulation or control of breath.
|
| prarabdha: | That part of one's karma which has to be worked out in this life.
|
| prasad: | Food distributed to devotees after it is offered to God, the Guru, etc.
|
| pratyaksha: | Direct; immediate.
|
| pravritti: | Activity.
|
| prayaschittam: | An expiatory act.
|
| priyam: | Bliss.
|
| puja: | Ceremonial worship with flowers, water, etc.
|
| punarvasu: | The name of an asterism.
|
| punya: | Merit; the result of a good deed.
|
| puranas: | Ancient poems containing mythological stories,
legends, etc.
|
| purusha: | Man; the Self.
|
| purushottama: | The best of men; an epithet of God.
|
| ramamaya: | Full of Rama.
|
| sadhana: | Spiritual practice.
|
| sadhu: | An ascetic; a sannyasin.
|
| sadguru: | The Self-realized Guru.
|
| sahaja samadhi: | Samadhi which is natural and constant.
|
| sahaja sthiti: | Natural state.
|
| sadhaka: | An aspirant; one who follows a spiritual discipline.
|
| sahasrara: | The lotus of the thousand petals; the topmost
yogic centre situated in the head.
|
| sakshatkara: | Direct perception.
|
| sakti: | Power; Energy.
|
| samasanam: | See Sama asraya.
|
| sama asraya(m): | Vaishnava method of initiation.
|
| samkalpa: | Idea, concept; imagination.
|
| samsara: | Cycle of births and deaths.
|
| samskara: | impression.
|
| samudram: | Ocean.
|
| sanchitakarma: | Karma which has been accumulated in former lives and which has not yet taken effect.
|
| sandal: | A fragrant paste made by rubbing a piece of sandalwood on a rough and moist stone.
|
| sandhi: | Conjunction, especially of syllables and words.
|
| sannyasa: | Asceticism; the fourth stage of life.
|
| shanti: | Peace; tranquillity.
|
| sastra: | Scripture; a science.
|
| sannyasi: | An ascetic; a person belonging to the fourth stage of life.
|
| sariram: | Body.
|
| sat: | Existence; being.
|
| satavadhana: | Attending to various things at one and the same time.
|
| sat karma: | Good or meritorious acts.
|
| sat sang: | Contact with good or pious persons.
|
| satakam: | A poem of one hundred stanzas.
|
| satvic: | Good; wholesome; possessing the quality of satva.
|
| satya yuga: | The first of the four yugas (aeons).
|
| siddhi: | Supernatural attainment.
|
| siva lingam: | The symbol of Siva which is an object of worship.
|
| sivanamavali: | Repetition of the names of Siva.
|
| sloka: | A stanza in Sanskrit poetry.
|
| soham: | I am He.
|
| sphurana: | Manifestation.
|
| sravana: | Hearing, especially the sacred truth.
|
| srishti: | Creation.
|
| srishti drishti: | Creation followed by perception.
|
| sruti: | That which is heard or revealed; inspired words, generally applied to the Vedas.
|
| sthalapurana: | The legend of a sacred place.
|
| sthapati: | An architect of temples and other sacred structures.
|
| sthitaprajna: | One who is stable in intelligence; a Self-realized Sage.
|
| stotram: | A hymn of praise.
|
| suddha manas: | Pure mind; mind without concepts.
|
| sukshma: | Subtle.
|
| sukshma sarira: | The subtle body.
|
| sushumna nadi: | A yogic nerve.
|
| sushupti: | The state of deep and dreamless sleep.
|
| sushupti ananda: | The bliss experienced in sushupti
|
| sutra: | Aphoristic words or phrases.
|
| suvar: | A sacred syllable known as a vyahriti.
|
| svabhavasthiti: | Natural state.
|
| svanubhava: | One's own experience.
|
| svarga loka: | The world of the Personal God.
|
| swarupa: | Nature; form; Self.
|
| taila: | Medicated oil.
|
| tapal(s): | Mail; the post.
|
| tapam: | Heat.
|
| tapas: | Austerities; severe spiritual discipline.
|
| tapasvi: | One who performs tapas.
|
| tapasya: | See Tapas.
|
| tat: | That; Brahman.
|
| tattwa: | Truth; significance.
|
| Thai: | The name of a Tamil month corresponding to
the middle of January to the middle of
February.
|
| Thai Poosam: | The day on which the moon is in conjunction with the asterism Pushya in the Tamil month of Thai.
|
| thengalai: | A sect among the Vishnu Worshippers.
|
| thevaram: | Songs composed by important Tamil Saints which are venerated like Vedas.
|
| tithi: | A lunar day.
|
| tope: | A grove of trees.
|
| triputi: | A triad like knower, known and knowledge.
|
| tulsi: | A sacred plant.
|
| turiya: | The fourth state which is beyond the three states of waking, dream and dreamless sleep.
|
| turiya ananda: | Bliss experienced in the state of turiya, the fourth state, Brahman.
|
| turiyatita: | Beyond turiya, the fourth state beyond waking, dream and dreamless sleep.
|
| upadesa: | Spiritual instruction.
|
| upadhi: | An adjunct.
|
| upadhi ananda: | Bliss which is caused by an adjunct.
|
| upasana: | Contemplation of a deity or word or syllable like
Om.
|
| uppuma: | A South Indian preparation made of semolina or
broken rice.
|
| uttama: | Superior; the best.
|
| vadai: | A South Indian preparation of blackgram dough
which is fried in oil.
|
| vaikasi: | The name of a Tamil month corresponding to
the middle of May to the middle of June.
|
| vairagya: | Dispassion.
|
| varnasrama (dharma): | The order of castes and stages of life; the duties
pertaining to the several castes and order of life.
|
| vasana: | Inherent tendency.
|
| vibhuti: | Sacred ashes.
|
| vichara: | Enquiry.
|
| vichara marga: | The path of enquiry.
|
| videha mukti: | Liberation after death.
|
| vidya: | A spiritual and esoteric discipline.
|
| vikalpa: | Doubt; wrong concept.
|
| vikshepa: | Tossing to and fro.
|
| vimanam: | The upper portion of the tower of a temple; a
celestial car.
|
| viparita: | Contrary.
|
| viparita buddhi: | A wrong conception.
|
| visishtadvaita: | Advaita in a modified form.
|
| viyoga: | Separation.
|
| vrata: | A rite; an observance.
|
| vritti: | An idea, a thought.
|
| yajna: | Ritualistic sacrifice.
|
| yama: | Control.
|
| yama: | the god of death.
|
| yathartham: | Truth; a thing as such.
|
| yoga nidra: | Yogic sleep.
|
| yuga: | A long period of time consisting of thousands of
years (aeons).
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