Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

vijnana
ideal mind; the free spiritual or divine intelligence; causal Idea; Truth; gnosis; supermind; the comprehensive aspect [cf. jnana] of the true unifying knowledge; the large embracing consciousness, especially characteristic of the supramental energy, which takes into itself all truth and idea and object of knowledge and sees them all at once in their essence, totality and parts or aspects.
vijnanam [nominative]
vijnanani [nominative plural], ideas.

vijnanabuddhi
supramental reason.

vijnana-catustaya (Vijnana-Chatushtaya)
[the catustaya of vijnana].
vijnanacatustayam [nominative]

vijnana-kosa
knowledge sheath.

vijnanaloka
[the world of vijnana, the supramental world].

vijnanam
see under vijnana

vijnanamaya
[composed of or full of vijnana], gnostic.

vijnanamaya purusa
the gnostic purusa; the Spirit poised in gnosis.

vijnanamayi sakti
[the gnostic sakti].

vijnanani
see under vijnana

vijnanapadma
[the lotus of the vijnana, the centre of the gnostic consciousness in the individual].

vijnana purusa (Vijnana Purusha)
Supramental being.

vijnanavijrmbhitani
self-deployings of the Divine Knowledge [vijnana]. [Visnu Purana 2.12.39]

vijnanesvara (Vijnaneshwara)
[the Lord of the vijnana].

vijnanesvari (Vijnaneshwari)
[the isvari of the vijnana].

vijrmbhate
stretches; extends himself in intensity. [Brhad. l.l.l]

vikara
corruption, distortion, deformation; [in the samkhya philosophy: a production or derivative from prakrti.]

vilu
strong, stubborn. [Ved.]

vimoksaya
[for liberation]. [Gita 16.5]

vimudhatma
[one whose self is bewildered]. [Gita 3.6, 27]

vinasa
the Dissolution. [cf. Isa 14]

vinasti
perdition

vipascit
the clear in perception.

vipra
the illumined.
viprah [plural], Illuminates.

vira
hero; [tantrika distinction of sadhakas]: the hero man.

viraha
[separation]; absence of (the Divine Lover) .

viramarga
the way of the hero.

virapsi
large; breaking out into abundance. [Ved.]

virat
the universal Soul; the Self that becomes all these forms of things; the Spirit of the external universe; the seer and creator of gross forms.

virat purusa (Virat Purusha)
the Cosmic Spirit.

viravati
[heroic]; attended by conquering energies. [Ved.]

virupasah
born with different forms. [Ved.]

virya
dynamical force; spiritual force; the fundamental svabhavasakti or the energy of the divine temperament expressing itself in the fourfold type of the caturvarna.
viryam [nominative]

viryam saktih candibhavah sraddha iti sakti-catustayam
see these words separately

visada
[depression, despondency].

visah
the people. [Ved.]

visakanya
[a "poison-girl" supposed to cause the death of a man making love to her; a succuba].

visarga
the creative impulse and energy which looses out things from the first essential self-becoming.
visargah [nominative]

visaya (Vishaya)
object (of experience) .

visayams tyaktva
having abandoned objects. [Gita 18.51]

visayan indriyaiscaran
ranging over the objects with the senses. [Gita 2.64]

visaya vinivartante
[the objects of sense cease to affect]. [Gita 2.59]

Vishaya
see visaya

Vishishtadwaita
etc., see visistadvaita

Vishnu etc.
see Visnu etc.

Vishwa etc.
see visva etc.

Vishwadevas
see visve devah

Vishwarupa
see visvarupa

visistadvaita (Vishishtadwaita etc.)
Qualified Monism; modified monistic vedanta.

visistagati
a peculiar and excelling kind of motion.

visisyat
excels.

Visnu (Vishnu)
[Ved.]: the all-pervading godhead, the deva or Deity evoking the powers of the ascent; [Puranas]: a member of the divine Triad [trimurti], expressive of the conservative process in the cosmos, the preserver.

visnusakti (Vishnushakti)
[the power of Visnu].

visnutva
["Visnu-ness"].

vispati
lord or king in the creature; king of the universe and its peoples. [Ved.]

visrjami
I loose forth variously. [Gita 9.7,8]

visuddha
[pure; the name of the throat centre (cakra) ].

visuddhabuddhi
the purified intellect.

visuddhata
[purity].

visuddhata prakasah vicitrabodhah jnanadharanasadmarthyam iti buddhisaktih
see these words separately

visuddhi
purity.

visva (Vishwa)
[all, the all, the universe]; the Spirit of the external universe.

visva dhiyo vi rajati
illumines all the thoughts. [cf RV 1.3.12]

visvajanya
occupying or possessing all the worlds or births of the soul; universal. [Ved.]

visvajuvam visvarupam
(her) of the universal impetus of movement and the universal forms. [RV 4.33.8]

visvakama
all-lust.

visvamanava (Viswa Manava)
the universal man.

visvamaya
universal.

visvani vayunani vidvan
knowing all things that are manifested. [Isa 18]

visva-prakrti
world-nature.

visvaprema
all-love.

visvarasa
[universal taste of delight].

visvarupa (Vishwarupa)
the universal form.

visva varya
all the boons. [Ved.]

visvayu
the universal life; of many births.

visve devah (Vishwadevas)
the All-gods or all the Gods; the universal collectivity of the divine powers.

vita prstha
the wide (the straight open) levels. [cf. RV 4.2.11]

vitarka
debate.

vivarta
["turning round", changing from one state to another, development of the universe from brahman considered as the sole real reality, the phenomenal world considered as apparent or illusory form]; the world as a purely subjective evolution, not real as objective facts.

Vivasvan
[the "Shining-one"], the Sun-God.

viveka
discrimination, discernment.

vividhanandah
[manifold delight].

vraja
the pen of the cows. [Ved.]

vrata
a working; the divine action. [Ved.]
vratani [plural], the workings of the divine law of the Truth.

vrataya
[a man of the mendicant or vagrant class; one who has lost caste], who has fallen from the pure practice and temperament of his caste.

vrddhi
[in Sanskrit grammar]: the long modification.

Vrindavan
see Vrndavana

Vrishabha
see vrsabha

Vrishan
see vrsan

Vrishaparvan
see Vrsaparvan

Vrishni
see vrsni

Vritra
see Vrtra

Vritras
see vrtrah

vrjina
crooked; crooked one; a crooked winding (used to indicate the crookedness of the falsehood as opposed to the open straightness of the Truth) . [Ved.]
vrjina, vrjinani [nominative plural]
vrjindan [accusative plural]

vrka
"tearer", wolf.

Vrndavana (Vrindavan, Brindavan, Brindaban)
[the place on earth (near Mathura) where Krsna danced with the gopis]; the vaisnava heaven of eternal Beauty and Bliss.

vrsabha (Vrishabha)
the Bull; Male, Lord, Puissant, an image for the purusa. [Ved.]

vrsabhah matinam
Lord of the thoughts. [Ved.]

vrsan (Vrishan)
diffusing, generating, impregnating, the father of abundance, the Bull, the Male. [Ved.]

Vrsaparvan (Vrishaparvan)
[the name of a danava].

Vrsni (Vrishni)
[the name of the tribe from which Krsna was descended].

Vrsninam Vasudevah
(I am) Krsna [Vasudeva] among the Vrsnis. [Gita 10.37]

vrsti
rain; abundance. [Ved.]

Vrtra (Vritra)
the Coverer; the Serpent; the demon who covers and holds back the Light and obstructs the free movement of the illumined rivers of the truth, he is the personification of the Inconscient.

vrtras
the Coverers; one of the two great divisions of dasyus, who intercept the waters and the light, but are especially associated with the withholding of the waters, they are powers of Vrtra.

vrtti
a functioning of the mental and moral qualities.

vyahrti (Vyahriti)
[utterance]; each of the three symbolic words of the mantra: om bhur bhuvah svah.

vyakarana
separation; grammatical analysis; grammar].

vyakrta
[separated, developed, umanifested].

vyakrta prakrti
[manifested nature].

vyakta
manifest.

vyakulata
excited passionate eagerness; the heart's eagerness for the attainment of the Divine.

vyana
[one of the five pranas]: it pervades the whole body and distributes the vital energies throughout the body; on it depend the circulation of the blood and the distribution of the essential part of the food eaten and digested throughout the body.

vyapti
[one of the astasiddhis]: reception, communication; the power of receiving other men's thoughts, powers and feelings and projecting one's own thoughts etc. or personality into others.
vyaptih [nominative]

vyaptih prakamyam aisvaryam isita vasita mahima laghima iti astasiddhih
see these words separately

vyasa
compiler; [Vyasa: a name given to Krsna Dvaipayana, the compiler of the Vedas and author of the Mahabharata and many other works].

vyasti
the separative being, the individual. cf. samasti

vyavahara
practical relation, the empirical truth of things, the practical life.

vyavaharika
relative, practical, pragmatic.

vyavasaya
resolution; settled concentration and perseverance.

vyaya
[spending, expense]; the capacity to spend freely (without any mean and self-defeating miserliness in the giving) .
vyayah [nominative]

vyoman (Vyoma)
sky.

vyuha
marshalling.

yabhirvibhutibhir lokan imams tvam vyapya tisthasi
the sovereign powers of the becoming by which Thou standest pervading these worlds. [Gita 10.16]

yaccanyad drastum icchasi
and whatever else thou willest to behold. [Gita 11.7]


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