Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

sarvatha vartamanopi: however -- even in all kinds of ways -- he lives and acts ...; [see the following]
sarvatha vartamanopi sa yogi mayi vartate: however -- even in all kinds of ways -- he lives and acts, that yogin lives and acts in Me. [Gita 6.31]
sarvatra: everywhere.
sarvatragah: all-pervading. [Gita 9.6]
sarvavid: all-knowing, a whole-knower. [Gita 15.19]
sarvavit sarvabhavena: that whole-knower ... with his whole being (in every way of his nature). [Gita 15.19]
sarve samarambhah kamasamkalpa-varjitah: [all inceptions and undertakings free from the will of desire]. [Gita 4.19]
sarvesu: see under sarva
sastra (Shastra): any systematised teaching and science; the moral and social code; the science and art of right knowledge, right works, right living; [in yoga]: the knowledge of the truths, principles, powers and processes that govern the realisation.; sastram [nominative]
sastrakara (Shaskakara): [author of a sastra].
sastram: see under sastra
sasvatam padam avyayam: the eternal and imperishable status. [Gita 18.56]
sasvatibhyah samabhyah: from years sempiternal. [Isa 8]
sasvatih samah: years sempiternal, a long space and permanence of time or a hardly measurable aeon. [Brhad. 5.10.1; Gita 6.41]
sat: being, existence; Pure Existence; the thing that truly is; the right, the highest or best or real good.
sataka: a century [of poems, etc.].
sa tapas taptva annam brahmeti vya-janat: he having practised austerity arrived at the knowledge that Matter is brahman. [Tait. 3.1-2]
sat-asat: the existent and the non-existent.
satatam maccittah: always one in heart and consciousness with Me. [cf. Gita 18.57]
satata-yukta: [always in union]. [cf. Gita 10.10; 12.1]
sat brahman: see sad brahman
sati: 1. [a good woman; a good and loyal wife].; 2. [a widow who immolates herself on her husband's funeral pyre].; 3. [Sati: the daughter of Daksa and wife of Siva].
satkosa: [the sheath of pure existence (sat)].
sat purusa (Sat Purusha): the pure divine Self; God.
satsanga: [association with the good], good company.
sattva (Sattwa): [one of the three gunas]: the mode of light and poise and peace; the force of equilibrium (translates in quality as good and harmony and happiness and light).
sattvaguna (Sattwaguna): [the quality (guna) of sattva].
sattvanurupa sarvasya sraddha: the faith of each man takes the shape given to it by his stuff of being. [Gita 17.3]
sattvaprerana: a direct indication from the inner being of what is to be thought, felt or done.
sattvayuga (Sattwayuga): the Golden Age. [cf. the more usual satyayuga]
sattvika (sattwic): [of the nature of sattva].
sattvika bhava rajasastamasasca: secondary subjective becomings of Nature [bhavah] that are sattvika, rajasika and tamasika. [Gita 7.12]
Sattwa etc.: see sattva etc.
satvabhih: with them as fighters in the battle. [Ved.]
satya: 1. true; truth; truth of being [cf. rtam].; 2. [ =satyayuga].; 3. [ =satyaloka].; satyam [nominative]
satyadharma: the Law of the Truth; the carrying out of jnana in bhava and action.
satyagraha [Hind.]: ["insistence on truth", in the Indian national movement the name given to the non-violent resistance advocated by Mahatma Gandhi and others].
satyaloka: world of (the highest) truth of being.
satyam: see under satya
satya mantra: the true thought expressed in the rhythm of the truth. [Ved.]
satyamantrah: they who have the true thought (expressed in the inspired Word). [RV 1.20.4; 7.76.4]
satyam rtam: Truth and Right. [Ved.]
satyam rtam brhat (Satyam Ritam Brihat): the Truth, the Right, the Vast. [Atharva-veda 12.1.1]
satyam suryam: the true Sun. [Ved.]
satyam tat: that Truth. [Ved.]
satyam tat ... suryam: that true (illuminating) Sun. [Ved.]
satyannasti paro dharmah: there is no higher law of conduct [dharma] than truth.
satyasrutah: hearers of the Truth. [Ved.]
satyasya drstih srutih smrtih pratibodha iti jnanam; vrtte tu karmani ca satyadharma eva jnanam: [the seeing, hearing and remembering of truth, and realisation, these are jnana; and in conduct and action the Law of the Truth is jnana].
satya (yuga): [the first of the four Ages]: the Age of the Truth, the Golden Age.
satyena tisthate jagat: [the world stands by Truth].
saucat svanga-jugupsa: from cleanliness (arises) disgust for one's own body. [Yoga Sutras 2.40]
saudram (Shaudram): the dharma of the sudra.
saumya: [sweetness, mildness].
saumyatva: sweetness (of heart), clarity.
saundaryam: [beauty].
saura: pertaining to the sun; a worshipper of Surya, the god of the Sun].
savas: energy (with an association of the farther idea of light and flame); bright power. [Ved.]
savasana: in hathayoga, the "corpse posture" in which one lies on the back and relaxes completely].
savikalpa: (trance) with formation or movement of the consciousness. Cf. nirvikalpa samadhi.
savira: full of shining or flashing energy. [Ved.]
saviraya dhiya: with their thought of flashing energy. [RV 1.3.2]
Savitr (Savitri): the Creator or Manifester; the creative Sun.; Savita [nominative]
Savitri (Savitri2): the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun; goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save.
Savyasacin ( Savyasachin): ["ambidextrous bowman", an epithet of Arjuna].
sayujya: the absolute union of the divine with the human spirit.
sayujyamukti: [liberation by] self-oblivious abolition of the soul's personal being in the absorption in the One; the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine.
seva: [service].
Shabda: see sabda
Shabdabrahman: see sabdabrahman
Shaiva, Shaivite: see saiva
Shakta: see sakta
Shakti etc.: see sakti etc.
Shala: Beng. pronunciation of sala
Shama: see sama
Shanti etc.: see santi etc.
Sharira-Chatushtaya: see sariracatustaya
Shastra: see sastra
Shastrakara: see sastrakara
Shaudram: see saudram
Shiksha: see siksa
Shilpasutras: see silpasutras
Shishya: see sisya
Shiva etc.: see Siva etc.
Shloka: see sloka
Shraddha: see sraddha and sraddha
Shruti: see sruti
Shuddhi: see suddhi
Shudra etc.: see sudra etc.
Shunahshepa: see Sunahsepa
Shunya etc.: see sunya etc.
Shushna: see Susna
Shyama: see Syamsundara
siddha: accomplished, complete, perfect; the perfected soul, the perfect man.
siddhanta: [the conclusion of a logical argument].
siddhapurusa: a perfect being [purusa].
siddha-yogi: [a perfected yogin].
siddhi: 1. perfection, fulfilment, accomplishment of the aims of self-discipline by yoga.; 2. an extraordinary or occult power.; siddhih [nominative]
siksa (Shiksha): [the science of pronunciation], the elements [of pronunciation]. [Tait. 1.2]
silpasutras (Shilpasutras): [aphoristic writings on any of the arts or crafts].
sindhu: ocean; river.
Sirdar: see sardar
Sirkar: see sarkar
sista: [(one who is) well-bred and well-mannered].
sistacara: decorum.
sisya (Shishya): [pupil, disciple].
Sita: [daughter of Janaka and wife of Rama].
sitosna-sukhaduhkhesu tatha manapamanayoh: in heat and cold and happiness and grief and also in honour and disgrace. [Gita 6.7]
Siva (Shiva): good; "the auspicious", the Blessed One, [the name of ] the Eternal's Personality of Force and Lord of tapas; [he is a member of the Hindu trinity (trimurti) and is associated especially with the work of destruction].
Siva-loka (Shivaloka): [the celestial world of Siva].
Siva-murti (Shivamurti): [an image of Siva].
Siva-Rudra (Shiva-Rudra): the auspicious [Siva] and the terrible [Rudra], the leader and destroyer, the yogin who enjoys the supreme liberty and peace and the Master of the force that acts in the worlds.
Siva-sakti (Shivashakti): [the Power of Siva].
Skanda: [a name of Karttikeya], the war-god.
slagha: [vaunt, boasting].
slesa: double entendre; the rhetorical figure of double sense.
sloka (Shloka): a verse of four quarters or padas [each pada having eight syllables].
smarana: remembrance.
smasana: [cremation ground; burial ground].
smrti (Smriti): 1. remembrance; the faculty by which true knowledge hidden in the mind reveals itself to the judgment and is recognised at once as the truth.; 2. [(a code of) traditional or man-made laws, as distinguished from sruti or revealed laws].
smrtikara (Smritikara): [the maker or author of a smrti (definition 2) ].
snigdata: [affectionateness, tenderness, mildness].
snigdhata tejahslagha kalyanasraddha premasamarthyam iti cittasaktih: see these words separately
soham so aham (Soham): He am I.
soham asmi: He am I. [Isa 16]
soka: [sorrow].
soma: the plant which yielded the mystic wine for the Vedic sacrifice; the wine itself, which represents the intoxication of the ananda, the divine delight of being; Soma: the Lord of this wine of delight and immortality, the representative deity of the beatitude.
soma-rasa: [the juice of the soma plant].

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