Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

abhasa
[reflection; likeness].

abhaya
fearlessness; passive freedom from fear.
abhayam [nominative]

abhayam sahasam yasolipsa atmaslagha iti ksatratejah
see these words separately

abhayavacana
assurance of safety.

abhi
fearless.

abhimana (Abhiman)
[self-respect, pride, especially hurt pride or haughtiness].

abhinaksantah
they who travel towards (the goal). [Ved.]

abhisheka (Abhishek)
[sprinkling, anointment, royal unction], coronation.

abhito vartate
is all around. [Gita 5.26]

abhut sarvabhutani
he has become all existences. [cf. Isa 7]

abhyasa
constant practice (of a method).

acalah sanatanah
motionless, sempiternal. [Gita 2.24]

acancalata
[absence of restlessness; quietude].

acara (Achara)
[conduct]; (rigid) custom; formally regulated method of self-discipline; rule of life.

acarasuddhi
[purity of acara].

acarya (Acharya)
preceptor.

acetanam
[non-sentient].

Achara
see acara

Acharya
see acarya

acintyam avyavaharyam
unthinkable, incommunicable. [cf. Mand. 7]

acintyarupa
[of unthinkable form].
acintyarupam [nominative] [Mund. 3.1.7; Gita 8.9]

acitti
unconsciousness; the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness.

acyuta
[not-fallen, firm, solid], unperturbed, unmoved.

adbhutah
wonderful.

adesa (Adesh, Adesha)
voice, impulsion, command.

adevi maya
undivine maya. [Ved.]
adevir mayah [plural], formations of a dark and false creative knowledge.

adhama
[low, degraded].

adhama gati
the lowest status; [the lowest path].
adhamam gatim [accusative] [Gita 16.20]

adhara (Adhar)
vehicle [vessel, support]; that in which the consciousness is now contained, mind-life-body.

adhara-siddhi
[perfection of the adhara].

adharma
not-dharma.

adhibhuta
the elemental; the objective phenomenon of being.

adhidaiva
that which pertains to the Gods (non-material powers) ; the subjective phenomenon of being.

adhidaivata
the divine element in the becoming.

adhikara
capacity; something in the immediate power of a man's nature that determines by its characteristics his right to this or that way of yoga.

adhikari
[one who has adhikara (for a particular way of yoga) ].

adhikaribheda
[distinction between adhikaris].

adhina
[subject to, subservient to].

adhishthana
basis, standing ground (of the soul in Nature) .

adhishthatri devata
indwelling Godhead.

adhishthaya
[having dwelt in or stood upon]. [Gita 4.6]

adhisthita
seated above.

adhiyajna
the cosmic principle of works and sacrifice; the secret Divine who receives the sacrifice.

adho gacchanti
[they go downwards]. [Gita 14.18]

adhogati
[downward movement]; descent (towards matter and mere form).

adhvara
travelling, moving; a word for sacrifice, really an adjective, the full phrase is adhvara yajna. [Ved.]

adhvarasya pesah
the form of the pilgrim-sacrifice. [RV 7.42.1 ]

adhvara yajna (Adhwara Yajna)
the sacrifice that travels or is a travel to the home of the godheads. [Ved.]

adhvaryu (Adhwaryu)
the conductor of the sacrifice; a priest of the pilgrim-sacrifice. [Ved.]

Adhwara Yajna
see adhvara yajna

Adhwaryu
see adhvaryu

adhyaksa
presiding person or presence; he who seated over all in the supreme ether oversees things, views and controls them from above.

adhyaropa
imposition.

adhyatma
the spiritual, everything that has to do with the highest existence [atman] in us; the principle of the self in Nature.

adhyatmacetasa
[by means of] a spiritual consciousness. [Gita 3.30]

adhyatma-jivana
the spiritual life.

adhyatma-sastra (Adhyatma-shastra)
science and art of spiritual living.

adhyatma-sukham
spiritual happiness.

adhyatmayoga
spiritual yoga.

adhyatmika (Adhyatmic)
[spiritual].

adhyaya
chapter.

adi-devam ajam vibhum
the original Godhead, the Unborn, the all-pervading Master. [Gita 10.12]

aditayah
infinite beings. [RV 7.52.1]

aditaye anagasah
blameless before the Infinite Mother. [cf. RV I.24. 1 5; 5.82.6]

Aditi
the indivisible conscious-force and ananda of the Supreme; the Mother; the infinite Mother of the gods; supreme Nature or infinite Consciousness.

Aditi devatamayi
Aditi full of the gods. [cf. Katha 2.1.7]

Adityah (Adityas)
Solar gods, children of Infinity (sons of Aditi). [Ved.]
Adityasah [vocative], O Sons of the infinite Mother. [RV 7.52.1]

adityavarna
[having the colour of the sun]. [cf. Gita 8.9]

adityavat prakasayati tat param
like a sun lights up that Supreme. [Gita 5.16]

adityavat tamasah parastat
[like a sun beyond darkness]. [cf. Svet. 3.8; Gita 8.9]

adreh sanu
a level of the hill (of being). [Ved.]

adri
1. hill; rock, stone, dense substance (a figure for the physical consciousness).
2. the pressing-stone.
3. the thunderbolt, the formed electric force of Indra. [Ved.]

adrsta
the unseen thing, Fate.

advaita (Adwaita)
[non-duality], One-Existence; Monism, Monistic vedanta.

advaita-jnani (Adwaitajnani)
[one who follows the advaita path of Knowledge].

advaitavada (Adwaitavada)
[the doctrine of advaita].

advaitavadin (Adwaitavadin)
[one who professes the advaitavada].

advaitin (Adwaitin)
a Vedantic Monist.

advaya
free from the duality.

Adwaita etc.
see advaita etc.

adya mahasakti
[the original mahasakti].

adyam purusham yatah pravrttih prasrta purani
the original Soul ... from whom proceeds the ancient sempiternal urge to action [pravrtti]. [Gita 15.4]

adya sakti (Adya Shakti)
original Power; the supreme divine Consciousness and Power above the worlds; the Transcendental Mother.

agamistha
mostly ready to come. [RV 5.76.2]

agananashakti
infinite variations of energy.

aghatana-ghatana-patiyasi
very skillful in bringing about the impossible.

Agni
1. the godhead of fire, [psychologically]: the divine will perfectly inspired by divine Wisdom, and indeed one with it, which is the active and effective power of the Truth-Consciousness.
2. [one of the five bhutas]: fire; the formatory principle of intension, represented to our senses in matter as heat, light and fire.

Agni pavaka
the purifying fire; the psychic fire.

Agni sakti (Agni Shakti)
the force of fire.

Agni vaisvanara (Agni Vaishwanara)
1. Agni as the universal in Man or universal Power.
2. the heat that digests food.

ahaituka
[without any motive]; disinterested.

ahaituki
feminine of ahaituka

ahaituki bhakti
[motiveless devotion]; inherent yearning

aham
I.

aham adih sarvasah
I am altogether and in every way the origin. [Gita 10.2]

ahambhava
[the state of being "I"].

aham brahma asmi
I am brahman

aham-buddhi
ego-idea.

aham eva akshayah kalah
I am imperishable Time. [Gita 10.33]

ahamkara (ahankara, Ahankar)
ego-sense; ego-idea; the divisional principle of ego-formation; the separative ego-sense which makes each being conceive of itself as an indepndent personality.

ahamkarta
["I" as the doer].

ahamkrta bhava
egoistic condition of consciousness.

aham krtsnasya jagath prabhavah pralayas tatha
I am the birth of the whole world and so too its dissolution. [Gita 7.6]

aham mrtyuh sarvaharah
I am all-snatching death. [cf. Gita 10.34]

aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate
I am the birth of everything and from me all proceeds into development of action and movement. [Gita 10.8]

aham tvam moksayisyami ma sucah
I will deliver thee, do not grieve.
[see the following]

aham tva sarvapapebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah
I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve. [Gita 18.66]

aham vedmi suko vetti sanjayo vetti va na va
[I know, Shuka knows, Sanjaya knows or perhaps does not]. [Mahabharata 1.1.81]

ahan
day.

ahankara (Ahankar)
see ahamkara

ahimsa (Ahinsa)
harmlessness, non-injuring and non-killing.

ahimsa paramo dharmah
ahimsa is the highest law (dharma) .

Ahinsa
see ahimsa

Ahi Vrtra (Ahi Vritra)
[the serpent Vrtra]. [Ved.]

Airavata
[the name of the elephant of Indra.]

aisvara yoga
divine yoga.

aisvarya (Aishwarya)
[one of the ashtasiddhis]: the control over events, lordship, wealth and all objects of desire; effectiveness of the Will acting on object or event without the aid of physical means.
aisvaryam [nominative]

ajanayat
[he brought it to birth].

ajna
[command]; thought that is will.

ajnacakra (Ajna Chakra)
the centre between the eye-brows, which governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation.

ajnana
Knowledge-Will; the operation by which the consciousness dwells on an image of things so as to govern and possess it in power.
ajnanam [nominative]

ajnanasambhutam hrtstham samsayam
[doubt born of ignorance stationed in the heart]. [Gita 4.42]

ajnanenavrtam jnanam tena muhyanti jantavah
because Knowledge is veiled by Ignorance, mortal men [creatures] are deluded. [Gita 5.15]

ajneyam
the Unknowable.


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