Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

ajo vibhuh: the unborn and the all-pervading Master. [cf. Gita 10.12]
ajovyaya atma: the unborn and imperishable Self. [cf. Gita 4.6]
akala: timeless.
akarma: cessation from action.
akarta: the non-doer.; akartaram [accusative]
akartavyam: that which should not be done.
akasa (Akasha): ether; [as one of the five bhutas]: the static principle of extension which is the eternal matrix of things.
akasa brahman (Akasha Brahman): the ethereal brahman.
akasa-lipi: the etheric writing.
Akasha etc.: see akasa etc.
akhanda rasa: undifferentiated and unabridged delight.
akhara [Hind.]: [a place for wrestling; gymnasium; club].
akratu: he who has not the will to work. [Ved.]
akrta: not constructed or put together.
akrtsnavidah: those who have not the knowledge of the whole. [Gita 3.29]
aksara (Akshara): 1. unmoving, immutable; the Immobile, the Immutable.; 2. syllable.
aksara brahman (Akshara Brahman): the immutable brahman.
aksaramavyaktam: unmanifest Immutable. [Gita 12.1]
aksaram paramam: the supreme Immutable. [Gita 8.3]
aksara purusa (Akshara Purusha): the immobile purusa, the Self standing back from the changes and movements of Nature.
aksaravrtta: [in Bengali prosody, a type of metre in which a syllable ending in a consonant possesses a metrical value of two units when it occurs at the end of a word; otherwise it is generally considered to possess a value of one unit. (cf. matravrtta)].
Akshara etc.: see aksara etc.
akshitam sravah: inexhaustible store of memory.
akusalam: inauspicious.
alakshanam: without feature.
alankara: ornament.
alpa: little; the little.
amangala: ill-fortune.
amanyamanah: they who have no power to think and mentalise (the word and the truth it contains) . [Ved.]
amhoh: out of the narrow existence, the narrowness full of suffering and evil, i.e., the unenlightened state of our limited mentality. [RV 5.65.4]
Amitabha Buddha: [in Buddhist legend "the Buddha of measureless splendour"] who turned away when his spirit was on the threshold of nirvana and took the vow never to cross its while a single being remained in the sorrow and the Ignorance.
amrta (Amrita): 1. immortality.; 2. the nectar of immortality, ambrosia, the food or drink of the gods; the immortalising delight of the divine ecstasy.; amrtam [nominative]
amrtam sapantah: they taste (or touch) immortality. [RV 5.3.4]
amrtasya cetanam: the awakening of the consciousness to immortality. [RV 1.170.4]
amrtasya putrah: sons of immortality. [Svet. 2.5]
amrtatvaya kalpate: he becomes fit for immortality. [Gita 2.15]
amrte loke aksite: [in the immortal inexhaustible world]. [RV 9.113.7]
amsa (Amsha): a portion.
amsah sanatanah: an eternal portion. [Gita 15.7]
amsavatara: a partial Incarnation [avatara].
Amsha: see amsa
anadi ubhau api: both eternal without beginning. [Gita 13.20]
anahata: [name of the heart-lotus (hrtpadma) ].
ananda: bliss, delight, beatitude, spiritual ecstasy; the essential principle of delight; a self-delight which is the very nature of the transcendent and infinite existence.
ananda akasa (Ananda Akasha): ether of bliss.
Ananda Brahman: see anandam brahma
anandaghanaloka: [world of compact bliss].
anandakosa: [bliss-sheath].
anandaloka: [world of bliss.]
anandamaya: 1. [full of ananda], joyous.; 2. [ =anandamaya purusa].
anandamaya avesa: [a blissful avesa].
anandamaya isvara (Anandamaya Ishwara): [the Lord whose substance is ananda], the Lord of existence and works and the Spirit of bliss.
anandamaya namaskara: [a blissful salutation].
anandamaya purusa (Anandamaya Purusha): Bliss-Self; the all-blissful being or all-enjoying and all-productive soul; an infinite "I Am" of Bliss.
anandam brahma (Ananda Brahman): the brahman as the self-existent bliss and its universal delight of being; the bliss-existence.
anandam brahmano vidvan na bibheti kutascana: He who possesses the delight of the brahman has no fear from anything in the world. [Tait. 2.4]
ananta: infinite; Ananta: [a name of the serpent Sesa upon whose coils Vishnu sleeps after the cosmic pralaya].; anantam [nominative, neuter]
anantaguna: [having] infinite quality.
anantam: see under ananta
anantam brahma (Anantam Brahman): the [infinite brahman].
anante antah: within the Infinite. [RV 1.130.3; 4.1.7]
anantya: infinity.
anarya (Anaryan): [not-arya, ignoble].
anasah: they who have no force of the divine breath or mouth to speak it (does not mean "noseless") . [RV 5.29.10]
anatman: not-Self.
anatmavan: [not in possession of the Self.]
anatmyam anilayanam: selfless, unhoused. [Tait. 2.7]
andham tamah: a blind darkness. [Isa 9.12]
andham tamah pravisanti ye avidyam upasate, tato bhuya iva te tamo ya u vidyayam ratah: into a blind darkness they enter who follow after the Ignorance, they as if into a greater darkness who devote themselves to the Knowledge alone. [Isa 9]
anejad ekam: One unmoving.; [see the following]
anejadekam manaso javiyah: One unmoving swifter than mind. [Isa 4]
angaraksana (Angarakshana): [protection of the body].
angaraksana mantra (Angarakshana Mantra): [a mantra for the protection of the body].
Angira: a form of the name Angiras. [Ved.]
Angiras (Angirasa): the rsi who represents the seer-will, in later times regarded as one of the original sages, progenitor of a clan of rsis that went by his name, however it is clear that the word is used in the Veda not merely as a name of a certain family of rsis, but with a distinct meaning inherent in the word: it must have meant flaming, glowing; used as an epithet, a name of Agni, etc. [Ved.]
Angirasa: [relating to Angiras]; a patronymic [from "Angiras"]; used as an epithet of Brhaspati. [Ved.]
Angirasah, Angiras rsis (the Angirasas, the Angirasa Rishis): a clan of rsis that went by the name of Angiras, their progenitor; the seven sages, the seven lustres of Agni, his sons; burning powers of the Light; divine or human types of the seer-will.
anicchannapi baladiva niyojitah: although one wishes not to, as if compelled by force. [Gita 3.36]
aniha: without wish.
aniketa: that has no mansion.
anilam amrtam: immortal Breath. [Isa 17]
anima: [one of the astasiddhis]: subtlety.
anindrah: [they who are] not Indra. [Ved.]
anirdesyam: indefinable.
Aniruddha: [the name of a son of Pradyumna].
anirvacaniya: inexplicable, ineffable.
anirvinnacetasa: with a consciousness free from despondency. [Gita 6.23]
anisa: not-lord, subject.
anisvara: [not-isvara].
anityah sarvasamskarah: same as the following, but singular in form.
anityah sarve samskarah: [all samskaras. are transient].
anityam asukham: transient and unhappy. [see the following]
anityam asukham lokam imam: this transient and unhappy world. [see the following]
anityam asukham lokamimam prapya bhajasva mam: thou who hast come to this transient and unhappy world, love and turn to Me. [Gita 9.33]
anna: Food; gross visible matter; in its origin the word meant simply being or substance.; annam [nominative]
annakosa: material or food sheath.
annam: see under anna
annamaya atma: [material self.]
annamayam jagat: gross material world.
annamaya purusa: soul in body; physical conscious being; material being.
annam brahma: Matter as the sole reality, Matter as the Eternal, Matter as the brahman. [Tait. 3.2]
annam vai sarvam: All is Matter.
anor aniyamsam acintya-rupam: subtler than subtlety, whose form is beyond thought. [Gita 8.9]
anor aniyamsam atarkyam anupramanat: subtler than subtlety and that which logic cannot reach [on account of the minuteness of its measure]. [cf. Katha 1.2.8; Gita 8.9]
anrtam: falsehood; not-truth or wrong application of the satyam in mental or bodily activity.
anrtasya bhureh: [of an] abundant falsehood. [RV 7.60.5]
antah-karana: the inner instrument; mind; mind and vital as opposed to the body.
antahsukhontararamah: he who has the inner happiness and the inner ease and repose. [see the following]
antah sukhontararamas tathantarjyotir eva yah: he who has the inner happiness and the inner ease and repose and the inner light. [Gita 5.24]
antaratman: inner self; inner being; soul.
antariksa (Antariksha): "the intervening habitation"; the midregion; the intermediate or connecting level of the vital or nervous consciousness; the vital worlds.; antariksam [nominative]
antaryamin: the inner control, the Guide in the conscious being.
anu ajayata: was born. [Brhad. l.1.2]
anubhava: experience.
anubkuti: [feeling, experience].
anucchvasa [Beng.]: [sobriety, staidness (opposite of ucchvasa)].
anumantr: giver of the sanction.; anumanta [nominative]
anumati: sanction; consent.
anupasyati: sees everywhere. [Isa 6]
anur hyesa dharmah: [for] subtle is the law of it. [cf. Katha 1.1.21]
anusthana: religious exercise.

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