| A |
| abhasa: | reflection
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| abhichara prayogam: | Black magic
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| abhijna: | direct perception
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| abhimana: | attachment
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| abhisheka: | pouring water, etc. over any sacred image
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| abhyasa: | practice
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| abhyasi: | one who practises
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| achala: | unmoving; a hill or a mountain
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| achamana: | sipping water before or after a religious ceremony
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| achit: | not sentient
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| adhara: | support
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| adhishtana: | substratum
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| adhyaropa: | superimposition
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| adhyasika: | superimposed
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| adyatmika sakti: | power of the Self
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| adhridha: | weak, not firm
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| advaita: | non-duality
agami (agami karma): actions expected to bear fruit in future births
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| aham: | I
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| aham Brahmasmi: | I am Brahman
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| ahankara: | `l' sense; the ego-self
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| ahimsa: | non-violence
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| ajatavada: | the theory of advaita which denies creation
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| ajnana: | ignorance
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| ajna: | direction; injunction
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| ajnani: | the ignorant, one who has not realized the Self
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| akara: | form or shape
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| akasa: | ether; space
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| akasavani: | voice coming from the sky
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| akhanda: | undivided
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| akhandakara vritti: | unbroken experience
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| akritopasaka: | one who has not done upasana or meditation
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| amrita: | immortal
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| amrita nadi: | the name of a yogic nerve
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| anadi: | without beginning
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| anahata: | name of a yogic chakra
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| ananda: | bliss
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| anandamaya kosa: | the sheath of bliss
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| anandatman: | Self in the state of bliss
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| ananta: | infinite; endless
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| anatman: | non-Self
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| anava: | limitation
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| anichcha: | involuntary
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| anitya: | transitory
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| annamaya kosa: | sheath of gross matter
antah (antar): internal
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| antah karanam: | the inner organ; the mind
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| antah pranayama: | internal breath-regulation
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| antardhana: | disappearance from sight
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| antarmukhi manas: | inward-turned mind
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| anu: | atom
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| ap: | water
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| apana: | the life-force which goes down
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| apara: | the lower
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| apara vibhuti: | inferior vibhuti
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| aparoksha: | direct; immediate
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| apavada: | removal
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| ardra: | a star in the constellation of Orion
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| aruna: | red
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| arupa: | formless
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| asamsakti: | non-attachment; one of the seven stages of enlightenment
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| asana: | sitting posture; seat
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| asat: | not real
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| asesha sakshi: | witness of all
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| asrama: | stage of life; a place where hermits and sages live
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| asthira: | unsteady
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| asukavi: | one who can versify spontaneously
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| asuddha: | impure
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| asura: | demon
atiasrama (atyasrama): Above the four stages of life
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| ati jagrat: | beyond waking
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| ati sunya: | beyond the void
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| atita: | beyond
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| ativahika sarira: | the subtle body which remains when the physical body
perishes and which carries the individual to other worlds
atma (n): Self
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| atma Jnani: | one who has realized the Self
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| atma nadi: | the name of a yogic nerve
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| atma nishta: | abiding in the Self
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| atmanusandhana: | thinking constantly of the Self
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| atma vichara: | enquiry into the Self
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| atyanta vairagyam: | total dispassion
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| avarana: | covering
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| avarta: | eddy
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| avastha traya: | the three states of consciousness, namely waking, dream
and sleep
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| avatar: | incarnation of God
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| avidya: | nescience; ignorance
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| avritta chakshus: | introverted look
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| ayatana: | repository
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| B |
| bahir pranayamam: | external breath regulation
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| bahir mukhi manas: | outward going mind
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| bahudaka: | a sannyasin who wanders about
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| bahya: | external
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| bala: | child
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| bandha: | bondage
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| bandha hetu: | cause of bondage
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| beeja: | seed
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| bhajana: | singing God's praises especially in chorus
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| bhakta: | devotee
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| bhakti: | devotion
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| bhakti marga: | path of devotion
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| bhashyakara: | commentator
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| bhavana: | idea
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| bhoga: | enjoyment
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| bhoga hetu: | cause of enjoyment
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| bhogyam: | that which is enjoyed
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| bhoga vastu: | object of enjoyment
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| bhokta: | enjoyer
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| bhuma: | all-comprehensive; the Absolute
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| bindu: | a term used in Tantrism
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| brahmachari: | a celibate; a student
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| brahmahatya: | the sin of killing a brahmin
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| Brahmaivaham: | Brahman am I
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| Brahmajnana: | knowledge (realization) of Brahman
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| Brahmajnani: | one who has realized the Self
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| Brahman: | The Supreme Being; the Absolute
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| Brahmanishta: | one who is established in Brahman
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| brahmacharya: | celibacy
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| brahmakaravritti: | concept in the form of Brahman
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| Brahmavid: | one who has realised Brahman
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| Brahma-vid-vara: | one who is a superior among knowers of Brahman
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| Brahma-vid-varishta: | the very best among the knowers of Brahman
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| Brahma-vid-varya: | the best among the Knowers of Brahman
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| Buddha: | one who is aware
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| buddhi: | intellect
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| C |
| chaitanya: | Consciousness
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| chakshus: | eye
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| chamara: | a fly whisk made of the bushy tail of Bos grunniens used as a
badge of royalty
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| chanchala: | changing, fickle
chidvyoman (chitta vyoman): expanse of consciousness
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| chinmaya: | full of Consciousness
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| chinta: | thought or idea
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| chintamani: | wish-fulfilling gem
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| chit: | Consciousness
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| chitta: | memory; mind
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| chitta-nirodha: | control of mind
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| chitta suddhi: | purity of mind
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| chitta vilasa: | play of mind
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| chittaikograta: | one-pointedness of mind
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| D |
| daharakasa: | ether of the heart
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| dana: | gift
darsan(a): seeing; vision
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| dasi: | courtesan
deha(m): body
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| dehatma buddhi: | I-am-the-body consciousness
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| dehavasana: | attachment to the body
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| devas: | celestial beings
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| dharana: | concentration of mind; one of the eight stages of Raja Yoga
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| dharma sastri: | one who is well-versed in the scriptures relating to dharma
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| dhriti: | steadfastness
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| dhyana: | meditation; contemplation
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| dikpalas: | gods who protect the various quarters
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| diksha: | spiritual instruction
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| divya chakshus: | divine eye
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| drashta: | seer
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| dridha: | firm
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| drik: | he who sees; the subject
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| drishti: | look
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| drishti srishti: | simultaneous creation
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| drisya: | that which is seen; the object
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| drisyanuviddha: | associated with something seen
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| drisya vilaya: | the disappearance of the objective world
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| dukha: | misery; frustration
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| dvaita: | duality
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| dvandva: | pair of opposites
dvividha (dwividha): two-fold
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| E |
| eka: | one
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| ekagrata: | concentration
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| G |
| ganja: | a narcotic, hashish
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| Gayatri: | a well-known Vedic mantra
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| gopuram: | temple tower
|
| granthi: | knot
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| grihastha: | householder
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| grihini: | housewife
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| gunas: | the three fundamental qualities, tendencies or stresses which underlie
all manifestations
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| gunatita: | one who has transcended the gunas
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| guru: | a spiritual master; teacher
|
| H |
| halahala: | the poison which came up when the milky ocean was churned
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| hamsa: | a sannyasi who has advanced to a high stage
|
| hasta: | hand
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| hatha yoga: | a form of yoga involving bodily postures
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| hetu: | cause
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| Hiranyagarbha: | universal consciousness; totality of minds
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| homa: | sacrifice in fire
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| hridaya: | heart; the spiritual centre in the body
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| hridaya granthi: | knot of the heart
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| hrit: | heart
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| hrit pundarika: | the heart lotus
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| I |
| ichcha: | desire
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| idam: | this
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| indriyas: | senses
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| ishta devata: | the god whom one likes to worship or contemplate
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| Isvara: | God, the Supreme Being in His aspect as the Lord of all creation
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| Isvara anugraha: | God's grace
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| Isvara aradhana: | worship of God
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| Isvara drishti: | Seeing everything as God
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| lsvara prasada: | God's grace
|
| J |
| jada: | inert
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| jagat: | world
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| jagrat: | waking state
|
| jagrat sushupti: | wakeful sleep
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| jai: | victory
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| jala: | water
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| janma: | birth
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| japa: | repetition of a sacred word or syllable or a name of God
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| japa karta: | one who does japa
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| jirna: | decayed
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| jiva: | the individual soul; the ego
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| jivanmukta: | one who is liberated even when he is alive
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| jivanmukti: | liberation while one is alive
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| jivatman: | the individual self
jnana(m): knowledge
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| jnana bhumikas: | stages of knowledge of which there are seven
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| jnana chakshus: | eye of wisdom
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| jnana drishti: | eye of wisdom
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| jnanagni: | fire of wisdom
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| jnana lakshana: | sign of wisdom
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| jnana marga: | the path of knowledge
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| jnana yoga: | the method of realizing the Absolute through knowledge
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| jnanendriya: | organ of knowledge
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| Jnani: | the Self-realized sage
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| jothi: | (jyothi) light; effulgence
|
| K |
| kaivalya: | the state of liberation
|
| kala: | a term used in Tantrism
|
| kalpana: | idea
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| kama: | desire; lust
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| kantha: | throat
|
| kanthabharana: | ornament worn round the neck
|
| kanya: | virgin
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| karana: | cause
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| karana sarira: | causal body
|
| karma: | action; work; deeds; also result of action
|
| karma samya: | good and bad actions in equal proportions
|
| karma traya: | the three kinds of karma, namely sanchita, agami and prarabdha
|
| karma yoga: | the spiritual path of action
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| karmendriya: | organ of action
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| karpura arati: | the waving of lighted camphor during puja
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| karta: | he who does an act
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| kartrtva: | doership
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| kartrtva buddhi: | the sense of doership
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| kashaya: | latent impurity
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| kashaya: | ochre coloured garment
|
| kasiyatra: | pilgrimage to Kasi; part of the marriage rites among Brahmins
|
| kasturi: | musk
|
| kayakalpa: | a medicinal preparation for prolonging life
|
| kayasiddhi: | making the body proof against injury
|
| kevala kumbhaka: | sudden stoppage of breathing, whether in the midst of
inhaling or exhaling
|
| kevala samadhi: | samadhi in which activities of body and mind are only
merged
|
| khanda: | division
|
| Krama mukti: | liberation by degrees
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| krama srishti: | gradual creation
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| kshetra: | temple; field; the body
|
| kshipta: | active
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| khyati: | theory
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| kousalam: | skill
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| krida: | play, pastime
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| kritopasaka: | one who has done upasana or meditation
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| krodha: | anger
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| kumbha: | a pot used for keeping water
|
| kumbhaka: | retention of breath
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| kundalini: | yogic power called the serpent power
|
| Kumkuma: | vermilion powder applied to the forehead
|
| kutichaka: | a sannyasin who lives permanently in a hut
|
| kuvasana: | bad tendency
|
| L |
| laghu: | light; easy
|
| lakshana: | sign
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| lakshya: | aim, target, goal
|
| lakshyartha: | implied meaning
|
| laya: | dissolution
lila (leela): play or sport
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| linga: | symbol
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| Linga sarira: | subtle body
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| loka: | world; that which is seen
|
| loukika: | worldly
|
| M |
| madhya: | centre; mixed; middling
|
| madhyama: | a stage in uttering sounds
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| maharshi: | great rishi (seer or sage)
|
| mahasunya: | great void
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| mahatma: | enlightened person
|
| mahavakyas: | the four main sentences proclaiming the truth of Brahman, one
taken from each Veda
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| malaparipaka: | complete removal of impurity
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| malina: | impure
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| manana: | thinking over what has been heard
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| mani: | jewel
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| manolaya: | (temporary) subsidence of the mind
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| manomaya kosa: | sheath of mind
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| manonasa: | extinction of the mind
|
| manta: | thinker
|
| mantra: | cosmic sound forms of the Vedas used for worship and prayer; also
seed letters for meditation on the form of the Lord; ritual incantation
|
| mantra japa: | repetition of a mantra
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| marga: | path
|
| maru marichika: | mirage seen in a desert
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| mati: | thinking power
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| maya: | illusion; the power inherent in Brahman by which it manifests the world
|
| maya vada: | the doctrine of maya
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| medha: | intellect
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| Moda: | joy which is higher than priya
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| moksha: | Liberation; spiritual freedom
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| moodha: | dull
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| moola: | root; source
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| mooladhara: | One of the yogic centres of the body
mouna (mowna): Silence
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| mriga trishna: | water of mirage
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| mukta: | one who is liberated
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| mukti: | Liberation; spiritual freedom
|
| Mulavidya: | primal ignorance
|
| mumukshu: | one who aspires for Liberation
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| mumukshutva: | the desire for Liberation
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| muni: | sage
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| muppazh: | three voids
|
| N |
| na medhaya: | not by the intellect
|
| nada: | subtle sound accompanied by an effulgence, a term used in Tantrism
|
| nabhi: | navel
|
| nadaswaram: | the pipe of the South Indian piper
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| nadi: | yogic nerve
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| naham: | I am not
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| naishtika brahmacharya: | lifelong celibacy
|
| nama: | name; the name of God
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| nama japa: | repetition of the name of God
|
| nama sankirtan: | Singing the names of God
|
| nama smarana: | remembering and repeating the name of God
namaskar (a): prostration before God or Guru
|
| nana: | diversity
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| naraka: | hell
|
| nasa: | destruction
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| nava: | new
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| nididhyasana: | the last of the three stages of vedantic realization; uninterrupted
contemplation
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| nijananda: | true bliss
|
| nirakara upasana: | meditation on the formless
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| nirguna: | without attributes
|
| nirguna upasana: | meditation on the attributeless Brahman
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| nirodha: | control
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| nirvana: | Liberation
|
| nirvikalpa samadhi: | the highest state of concentration in which the soul loses
all sense of being different from the universal Self, but a temporary state
from which there is a return to ego-consciousness
|
| nishkama karma: | acts done without a motive
|
| nitya: | always; eternal
|
| nitya siddha: | ever present
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| nivritti: | destruction
|
| nivritti marga: | The path of renunciation
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| niyama: | law, rule
|
| O |
| owpacharika: | in a worldly sense
|
| P |
| padarthabhavini: | absolute non-perception of objects; one of the seven stages
of enlightenment
|
| panchakshari: | a mantra of five syllables sacred to Siva
|
| panchikarana: | division of the five elements and combining the parts in
particular proportions
|
| para: | higher; in Tantrism unmanifest sound
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| param: | transcendental
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| paramahamsa: | a sannyasin who has attained Self-realization
|
| paramarthika: | absolute
|
| paramarthika satyam: | absolute reality
paramatma (n): the Supreme Self
|
| paranchi khani: | outgoing
|
| para nadi: | the name of a yogic nerve
|
| para vibhuti: | superior vibhuti
|
| pareccha: | by another's will
|
| parinama vada: | the theory of Brahman changing into the world
|
| paroksha: | hearsay or indirect
|
| Pasyanti: | a stage in uttering sound
|
| phala: | fruit; the result of an act
|
| phala chaitanyam: | knowledge
|
| phala data: | dispenser of the results of our acts
|
| phala sruti: | description of the result of an act
|
| Pisachas: | demons
|
| poorna: | full
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| pradakshina: | going round a sacred person or place
|
| pradeepta: | Shining brightly
|
| prajna: | the individual being in sleep
|
| prajnana: | full consciousness
|
| prajnana ghana: | full consciousness
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| prakriti: | nature, Maya
|
| pralaya: | dissolution (of the world)
|
| pramana: | means of valid knowledge
pramata (r): knower; cogniser
|
| pramoda: | joy which is higher than moda
|
| prana: | vital air; life-force; breath; the air which goes up
|
| pranamaya kosa: | sheath of prana or the vital air
|
| pranasakti: | the power of the vital forces
|
| pranava: | another term for OM
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| pranayama: | regulation of breathing
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| prapatti: | surrender
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| prapti: | attainment
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| prarabdha: | that part of one's karma which is to be worked out in this life
prasad (a): grace; food etc., which has been offered to God and afterwards
distributed among the devotees
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| prasthana traya: | the threefold scripture
|
| pratibhasika satya: | illusory reality as it appears to a particular individual
|
| pratikam: | symbol
|
| pratikriya: | remedy
|
| pratyabhijna: | recognition
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| pratyahara: | one of the steps in Raja Yoga; withdrawal
|
| pratyaksha: | direct; immediate
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| pravritti marga: | path of action
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| prayaschitta: | a rite for expiating sin
|
| prayatna: | effort
|
| prema: | love
prithvi (prthvi): earth
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| priya: | joy; dear
|
| puja: | ceremonial worship with flowers, water etc.
|
| punya: | merit
|
| puraka: | inhalation
|
| purana: | old; an ancient book of stories embodying religious symbolism
|
| puri: | city
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| puriashtaka: | subtle body consisting of eight phases
|
| purna: | full
|
| purusha: | man; applied sometimes to God
|
| purushakara: | personal effort
|
| purva paksha: | arguments advanced by the opponent
|
| purva samskara: | latent tendency
|
| R |
| Raja Yoga: | the principal system of Yoga as taught by Patanjali
|
| rajas: | one of the three primal qualities, described as red, the principle of
activity
|
| rajju-sarpa: | rope-snake; a rope looking like a snake in a dim light
|
| rasa: | bliss
|
| rasasvada: | taste of bliss in the absence of thoughts
|
| ravi marga: | path of the sun
|
| rechaka: | exhalation
rishi (rshi): a seer; a sage
|
| S |
| sabdanuviddha: | associated with sound
|
| sad guru: | true guru
sadhak (a): a spiritual aspirant; one who follows a method of spiritual
discipline
|
| sadhana: | method of spiritual practice
|
| sadhana-chatushtaya: | the four qualifications expected in an aspirant
|
| sadhu: | ascetic; sage
|
| sadhu seva: | service rendered to sages
|
| sadyomukti: | immediate Liberation
|
| saguna: | with attributes
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| saguna upasana: | meditation on Brahman with attributes
|
| sahaja: | natural; one's natural state
|
| sahaja samadhi: | samadhi which comes naturally and is present always
|
| sahasrara: | the highest yogic centre located in the brain
|
| sajatiya: | of the same kind
|
| sakshatkaram: | direct realization
|
| sakshi: | witness; the Self
|
| sakti: | power
|
| sakti pata: | descent of divine power on a person
|
| sama: | equal; common
|
| samanya: | common; general; ordinary
|
| samashti: | whole
|
| samatva: | equality
|
| samjnana: | awareness; perception
|
| samrajya: | empire
|
| samsara: | the cycle of births and deaths
|
| samskara: | innate tendency
|
| samvit: | consciousness; knowledge
|
| samyamana: | one-pointedness of mind
sanchita (sanchita karma): accumulated karma of former births
|
| sandeha: | doubt
|
| sanga: | association
|
| sankalpa: | intention, thought; the ostensible motive of doing a ritual uttered
before it is begun
|
| sannidhi: | presence
|
| sannyasi: | an ascetic, one who belongs to the fourth stage of life
|
| santi: | peace
|
| sarira: | body
|
| sariri: | dweller in the body
|
| sarira traya: | the three bodies namely the physical, subtle and causal
|
| sarva: | all
|
| sarvajna: | omniscient
|
| sarvajnatvam: | omniscience
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| sastra: | scripture; science
|
| sat: | good; existence
|
| satya: | true; the real
|
| satyam: | truth; reality
|
| sat-chit-ananda: | being consciousness-bliss
|
| sat sanga: | association with the wise
|
| sattva: | purity; one of the three primal qualities described as white, the
principle of purity and goodness
|
| sattvapatti: | realization; one of the seven stages of enlightenment
|
| sattvik: | pure; relating to sattva, one of the three constituents of prakriti
|
| savikalpa samadhi: | a state of concentration in which the distinction between
the knower. knowledge and known is not yet lost
|
| shadadhara: | the six yogic centres
|
| siddha: | one who has acquired supernatural powers and is capable of working
miracles; also a state of accomplishment
|
| siddhi: | supernatural powers; realization; attainment
|
| sishya: | disciple
|
| Sivoham: | I am Siva
|
| sloka: | a stanza in Sanskrit
|
| smriti: | memory; scriptures based on the Vedas
|
| soham: | I am He (Brahman)
|
| sparsa: | touch
|
| sphurana: | manifestation
|
| sraddha: | faith
|
| sravana: | hearing of the truth from the guru
|
| srishti drishti: | gradual creation
|
| srota: | hearer
|
| srotra: | ear
|
| sruti: | scripture
|
| sthitaprajna: | one who is established in wisdom
|
| sthula: | physical
|
| sthula sarira: | physical body
|
| sthiti: | being
|
| stotram: | a hymn of praise
|
| subhechcha: | desire for enlightenment; one of the seven stages of
enlightenment
|
| suddha: | pure
|
| sukha: | happiness
|
| sukha asana: | easy and comfortable posture of sitting
|
| sukshma: | subtle
|
| sukshma sarira: | the subtle body
|
| sunya: | blank; void
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| sushumna: | the name of a yogic nerve
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| sushupti: | dreamless sleep
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| sutra: | string; aphorism
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| suvasana: | good tendency
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| svagata: | within itself
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| svapna: | dream
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| svarga: | heaven
svaroopa (swarupa): nature; real form
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| swaraj: | independence
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| swatantra: | independence
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| swechcha: | of one's own will
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| T |
| taijasa: | the individual being in dream
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| tamas: | darkness; ignorance; one of the three primal qualities described as
black; the principle of inertia
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| tanha: | thirst (for living)
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| tanmatras: | elements in their subtle forms
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| tanmaya: | full of the Self
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| tanumanasa: | tenuous mind; one of the seven stages of enlightenment
tapas (tapasya): austerity
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| tapobhrashta: | one who has fallen away from his austerities
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| tapta-aya-pindavat: | like a red hot iron ball
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| tattva: | truth, essence of a thing
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| tejas: | effulgence
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| tejomaya: | full of light
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| tejo rupa: | of the form of light
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| tirtha: | a sacred river or tank
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| triputi: | triad like seer, seen and seeing
turavu (Tamil): renunciation
turya (turiya): the fourth state beyond waking, dreaming and sleeping
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| turyaga: | beyond words; one of the seven stages of enlightenment
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| tyaga: | giving up
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| U |
| udasinam: | indifference
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| upadesa: | spiritual instruction
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| upadhi: | limiting adjunct
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| upasaka: | one who meditates
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| upasana: | meditation
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| upasana sthana: | seat of meditation
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| V |
| vachyartha: | literal meaning
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| vada: | theory; disputation
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| vaikhari: | one of the stages in the formation of sound; audible sound
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| Vaikuntha: | the abode of Vishnu
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| vairagya: | dispassion; non-attachment
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| Vaishnavite: | a worshipper of Vishnu
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| varnasrama dharma: | dharma of the various castes and stages of life
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| vasana: | habit of the mind; latent tendency or impression
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| vasana kshaya: | cessation of vasanas
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| vastutah: | in reality
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| vayu: | air
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| vibhakti: | separation
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| vibhuti: | sacred ashes; God's glory; supernatural power
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| vichara: | enquiry
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| vichara marga: | the spiritual path of enquiry
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| vicharana: | investigation; one of the seven stages of enlightenment
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| videha mukta: | one who is liberated after death
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| videha mukti: | liberation after death
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| vidya: | knowledge; learning
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| vijatiya: | of a different kind
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| vijnana: | special knowledge; spiritual knowledge
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| vijnanamaya kosa: | sheath of intellect
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| vijnanatma: | the ignorant Self
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| vijnata: | knower
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| vikshepa: | diversity
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| vikshipta: | distracted
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| viparita: | contrary
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| Virat: | totality of gross beings
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| visesha: | particular; special
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| vishaya: | object
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| visishta: | qualified
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| visishtadvaitin: | one who believes in a modified form of non-duality
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| visranti: | repose
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| Visva: | the individual being in the waking state
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| visvarupa: | (darsana) God seen as the universe
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| visvarupa darsana: | God seen as the universe
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| vivechana: | discrimination
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| viyoga: | separation
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| vritti: | modification of the mind
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| vyaptam: | pervaded
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| vyashti: | part
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| vyavahara: | (vyavaharika) empirical
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| vyavahara satya: | phenomenal existence
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| Y |
| yaga: | ritualistic sacrifice
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| yajna: | sacrifice
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| yoga: | union (with the Supreme Being)
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| yogabhrashta: | one who has slipped from the yoga
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| yogarudha: | one who has attained yoga
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| Yogiraja: | king of yogis
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| yugapat srishti: | simultaneous creationAbhasa
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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi 
