Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

mam
me.

mama atma
[My Self]. [Gita 9.5]

mamaiva amsah, mamaivamsah
a part (partial manifestation) of Me. [see the following]

mamaivamsah sanatanah
an eternal portion of Me. [Gita 15.7]

mam anusmaran
[remembering Me]. [Gita 8.13]

mam anusmara yudhya ca
remember Me and fight. [Gita 8.7]

mam asritya
having resorted to Me (as their refuge). [Gita 7.29]

mam viduh
they know Me. [Gita 7.30]

mam visate tadanantaram
[ ...(knowing) Me, he enters immediately into That]. [Gita 18.55]

manah-kosa
the mental sheath.

manah-prana
[mind-life].

manana
thinking.
mananam [nominative]

manas
mind, the mind proper [as distinct from the intellect (buddhi)], sense-mind.

manasa ananda
[mental bliss].

manasa buddhi
mental reason.

manasa niyamya arabhate karmayogam
controlling (the senses) by the mind he engages in the yoga of action. [Gita 3.7]

manasa putra
mind-born child.

manasa tapas
[mental tapas].

manasika
[mental].

Manava-dharmasastra
[name of the famous code of laws attributed to Manu]; the science of the law of conduct of the mental or human being.

mandala
circle, a "book" of the Rg-veda; [a district or province of a large kingdom].

mandira (Mandir)
[temple].

mangala
good fortune.

manipura
[name of the navel-lotus (nabhipadma)].

manisa
intellect. [Ved.]

manisi (Manishi)
the thinker.

manma
expression of thought in mind; thought of the mind. [Ved.]

manmana maccittah
[with mind (manas) and citta given up to Me]. [cf. Gita 9.34]

manmaya mam upasritah
[they who are full of Me and take refuge in Me]. [Gita 4.10]

mano brahma
Mind as the Eternal [brahman]. [Tait. 3.4]

manomaya
[ =manomayapurusa].

manomaya (purusa) prana-sarira-neta
the mental Being, leader of the life and the body. [Mund. 2.2.8]

manomaya purusa (Manomaya Purusha)
mental Person, the mental being.

mantharagati [Hind.]
[slow-paced].

mantra
sacred syllable, name or mystic formula; the intuitive and inspired rhythmic utterance; any of the verses of the Veda, revealed verses of power not of an ordinary but of a divine inspiration and source.

manu
1. the thinker, the mental being, man.
2. Manu: the father of man.
3. the four Manus (catvaro manavah): the spiritual Fathers of every human mind and body.
4. [one of the fourteen progenitors who preside successively over the fourteen manvantaras; to the first of these is attributed the Manava-dharmasastra; the manu of the present (seventh) manvantara is Vaivasvata].

manusah
men, human powers. [Ved.]

manusim tanum asritam
lodged in the human body. [Gita 9.11]

manusvat
human.

manusya
[a man].

manvantara
[an age or period of a Manu, an extremely long period of time, one fourteenth of a day of Brahma].

manyamanah
the thinkers of the word. [Ved.]

manyu
temperament, emotive mind. [Ved.]

Mara
[in Buddhism: the Destroyer, the Evil One (who tempts man to indulge his passions and is the great enemy of the Buddha and of his religion)], conscious devil or self-existent principle of evil.

maranam
[killing].

marga
[way, path].

margasirsa (Margashirsha)
the first month in the ancient Hindu lunar calendar, corresponding to November-December].

Marici (Marichi)
the leader of the Maruts.

Martanda
"he of the mortal creation", the eighth Surya, the black or dark, the lost or hidden sun. [Ved.]

Maruti
[a name of Hanumat].

Maruts
the Thought-Forces; the Life-Powers that support by their nervous and vital energies the action of the thought in the attempt of the mortal consciousness to grow or expand itself into the immortality of the Truth and Bliss; (to the uninstructed Aryan worshipper): powers of storm, wind and rain.

ma sucah
do not grieve. [Gita 18.66]

mata devanam aditer anikam
Mother of the gods, force of the Infinite. [RV 1.113.19]

Matarisvan (Matarishwan)
he who moves, breathes, expands infinitely in the mother element; the universal Life-Power, an epithet of Vayu.

matha
[monastery, hermitage].

Mathura
[a town near Agra in North India, the birth-place of Krsna].

mati
general mentality; thought, feeling, mental state. [Ved.]

matra
measure (of sound), the quantitative action of Nature.

matravrtta
[in Bengali prosody, a type of metre in which a syllable ending in a consonant always possesses a metrical value of one unit. [cf. aksaravrtta]

matrka (Matrika)
[mother], corresponds to "emanation" (of the Mother).

matsamstham
founded upon Me. [Gita 6.15]

matsthani sarvabhutani
all existences are situated in Me. [see the following]

matsthani sarvabhutdni na caham tesvavasthitah
all existences are situated in Me, not I in them. [Gita 9.4]

matta eva
verily from Me. [Gita 7.12]

mattah pravartate
is derived from Me. [Gita 10.8]

mauna
[not speaking, silence].

maunavrata
[a vow of silence].

maya
signified originally in the Veda the comprehensive and creative knowledge, wisdom that is from of old, afterwards taken in its second and derivative sense, cunning, magic, illusion; phenomenal consciousness, the power of self-illusion in brahman.
mayabhih [instrumental plural], by (his) workings of knowledge.
mayah[plural], forms of knowledge.

maya duratyaya
maya hard to overcome. [Gita 7.14]

mayah
see under maya

mayaivaite nihatah purvameva nimittamatram bhava savyasacin
by Me and none other already even are they slain, do thou become the occasion only, O Savyasacin. [Gita 11.33]

maya nihatah purvam eva
already have they been slain by Me. [see the preceding]

mayas
Bliss, beatitude, felicity. [Ved.]

mayavada
[the doctrine which holds that the world is maya, i.e. an illusion].

mayavadin
[one who professes the mayavada].

mayi arpita-manobuddhih
[one with] mind and understanding given up to Me. [Gita 8.7; 12.14]

mayi nivasisyasi (nivasisyasyeva)
(verily) thou shalt dwell in Me. [cf. Gita 12.8]

mayi samnyasya (karmani)
giving up (works) into Me. [see the following]

mayi sarvani karmani samnyasyadhyatmacetasa
with a consciousness identified with the Self, renouncing all actions into Me. [Gita 3.30]

mayi vartate
lives and acts in Me. [Gita 6.31]

mayobhuvah
those who bring or carry in their being the felicity [mayas]. [Ved]

mayyeva nivasisyasi
verily thou shalt dwell in Me. [Gita 12.8]

medha
brain-power, grasping-power.

meghadhavani
[the sound of thunder].

me prakrtih
My nature. [cf. Gita 7.5]

Meru
[the name of a fabulous mountain which is the centre of the seven continents and around which the planets revolve].

me yoga aisvarah
My yoga of divine Power. [cf. Gita 9.5]

milana
contact, union.

mimamsaka (Mimansaka)
[a follower of the purva-mimamsa philosophy].

mitabhasi
(one who is) temperate in speech.

mitacarah
(one who is) restrained in action.

mithya
["a lie" as in jaganmithya: "the world is a lie"].

mithyacara
a false and self-deceiving line of action. [Gita 3.6]

Mitra
the Lord of love and harmony [Ved.]; the name also means "friend" and is the ordinary Sanskrit word for friend.

mitrasya dhamabhih
by the foundations, statuses, placings of Mitra. [Ved.]

mitrasya dharmabhih
by the "holdings" or laws of Mitra. [Ved.]

mleccha (Mlechchha)
[barbarian, non-Aryan].

mleccha sakti (Mlechchha Shakti)
[a mleccha Energy].

Mofussil
see mufassal

mogham partha sa jivati
in vain, O Partha [Arjuna], he lives. [Gita 3.16]

moha
delusion, self-delusion.

mohanam
[a bewildering, a confusing].

mohinim prakrtim sritah
(they) dwell in the nature which deludes. [cf. Gita 9.12]

moksa (Moksha)
release, liberation; [one of the four human interests]: spiritual liberation.

mrdhravacasah
spoilers of speech. [Ved.]

mrtyu
death.

mrtyum tirtva amrtam asnute
he crosses beyond death and enjoys Immortality. [Isa 14]

mudhayonisu
[in the wombs of the ignorant]. [Gita 14.15]

mufassal (Mofussil) [Hind.]
[the country (as opposed to the town), rural districts].

muhurta
a moment.

mukam karoti vacalam pangum langhayate girim
he makes the dumb to talk and the lame to cross over the hills.

mukhya (prana)
chief Breath or Breath of the mouth. [Chand. 1.2.7; 1.5.3]

mukta
free.

mukta jiva
a soul free from illusion and limitation.

muktasya karma
the action of the liberated man.

muktatma
[the liberated soul (atman)].

mukti
liberation.
muktih [nominative]

muladhara
root vessel or chamber; the physical consciousness centre [cakra]

mula-prakrti
original or root energy [nature].

mulla (Mullah) [Hind.]
[a Mahomedan priest].

mumuksu
[one who desires liberation].

mumuksu jiva
self-liberating soul.

mumuksutvam
passion for release, desire for liberation.


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