Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

tena: by that.
tena tyaktena bhunjithah: by that renounced thou shouldst enjoy. [Isa 1]
te priyamanaya vaksyami: I will speak to thee [who art] taking delight (in Me) . [Gita 10.1]
thana [Hind.]: [police station; guard house].
tiraskarani: curtain.
tisrah prthivih: the three earths. [Ved.]
tisro divah: the three heavens. [Ved.]
tisthati: stands. [Gita 3.5]
titiksa: endurance; the bearing firmly of all contacts pleasant or unpleasant, not being overpowered by that which is painful, not being carried away by that which is pleasant.
titiksa udasinata natih iti samata: see these words separately
tol [Beng.]: [a Sanskrit school].
traigunatitya: transcendence of the three gunas.
traigunya: the threefold mode of Nature.
traigunyamayi maya: the lower prakrti [maya] of the three gunas.
traiguayavisaya vedah: the triple guna is the subject of the Vedas. [Gita 2.45]
trailokya: the (lower) triple world (of our being) .
Trasadasyu: "the disperser of the destroyers", [a name]. [RV 5.27.1]
trataka (Tratak): concentration of the vision on a single point or object, preferably a luminous object.
treta (yuga): the second of the four ages [yugas].
tridhatu: the triple principle; the triple world in which the uplifted consciousness of man reflects the three divine principles of being, its infinite existence, its infinite conscious-force, its infinite bliss. [Ved.]
trigunatita: above or beyond the three gunas.
trikaladrsti (Trikaladrishti): the vision of the three times, a special faculty of jnana by which that general power is applied to the actuality of things, their details of event, tendencies etc. in the past, present and future of the world as it exists, has existed and will exist in Time.; trikaladrstih [nominative]
triloka: [the triple world].
trimarga: the triple path of Knowledge [jnanayoga], Devotion [bhaktiyoga] and Works [karmayoga].
trimurti: ["having three-forms"; the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Visnu and Siva (or Rudra) representing respectively the creative, preservative and destructive processes of the cosmos].
trini rocana (rocanani): the three luminosities or luminous realms of the pure mind. [Ved.]
trisadastha: the triple world of the session, the triple place of the conscious being's progressive self-fulfilling. [Ved.]
tristubh (tristup): [a metre with four padas of eleven syllables each].
trisu sanusu: on the three levels (body, life and mind) . [Ved.]
Trita Aptya: the Third or Triple, apparently the purusa of the mental plane; in the tradition he is a rsi, in the Veda he seems rather to be a god.
trivrt: triple.
tubhyam bhuyistham nama uktim vidhema: to thee completest speech of submission we would dispose. [cf. Isa 18]
tucchyena: by (infinitesimal) fragmentation.; [see the following]
tucchyendbhvapihitam: universal being concealed by fragmentation. [RV 10.129.3]
Tugra: "the Forceful-Hastening" [name of a king]. [Ved.]
turiya: the fourth, the fourth plane of our consciousness; the superconscient; the Absolute.
turiya atman: spirit in its fourth or transcendental state.
turiyam dhama: the fourth placing or poise of existence.
turiyam svid: a certain Fourth.
tuvijata: multiply born. [RV 1.2.9]
tvam: to thee.
tvam pratyaksam brahmasi: Thou art manifest brahman. [Tait. 1.1, 12]
Tvastr (Twashtri): the Framer or Fashioner of things. [Ved.]
tvaya hrsikesa hrdi sthitena yatha niyuktosmi tatha karomi: according as I am appointed by Thee, O Hrsikesa, seated in my heart, so I act. [Pandavagita]
Twashtri: see Tvastr
tyaga: a leaving, renunciation; [Gita]: the inward renunciation, an entire abandonment of all attached clinging to the fruits of our works, to the action itself or to its personal initiation or rajasika impulse, inner freedom from desire and attachment.
tyaktena bhunjithah: by (that) renounced thou shouldst enjoy. [Isa 1]
tyaktva kalevaram: having abandoned the body. [cf. Gita 8.5]
ubhe sukrtaduskrte: both good doing and evil doing.[Gita 2.50]
Uccaihsravas (Uchchaihsravas): [Indra's horse, the prototype and king of horses].
ucchvasa: [exhaltation]; exuberance [of language].
Uchchaihsravas: see Uccaihsravas
udana: [one of the five pranas] : it moves upward from the body to the crown of the head and is a regular channel of communication between the physical life and the greater life of the spirit.
udara: high and noble.
udarah sarva evaite: all these are high and noble. [Gita 7.18]
udasina: seated above and indifferent.
udasinata: being seated above (superior to all physical and mental touches) ; indifference.
udasinavad asinah: [seated as if indifferent above]. [cf. Gita 9.9]
udasinavat: as one seated above [indifferent].
udbhava: birth.
uddesatah: as an indication. [Gita 10.40]
uddhared atmanatmanam: by the self thou shouldst deliver the self. [Gita 6.5]
udgitha: the chant of Sama-veda.
uksan: diffusing, generating, impregnating; the father of abundance; the Bull; the Male. [Ved.]
uktha: the prayer, that which desirse or wills. [Ved.]
u loka: that (other) world. u lokam [accusative]
Uma: [a name of the Goddess, spouse of Siva].
uma Haimavati: "Uma daughter of the snowy summits"; the supreme Nature.
unmatta: [distracted, insane].
unmattavat: as one inconsequent in thought and impulse (though within is an utter calm and serenity) ; in a God-possessed frenzy careless of self and world.
upacesta: [with a little effort].
upadesa: [instruction, teaching].
upadhi: [substitute; appearance], form, body.
upadrava: [accident, calamity, disturbance].
upakara: good turn.
upalabdha: [acquired]; felt.
upalabdhi: experience.
upamasu kalidasah: Kalidasa for similes.
upanisad (Upanishad): inner knowledge, the secret teaching which enters into the final truth and settles in it, [one of a class of Hindu sacred writings, regarded as the source of the Vedanta-philosophy].
upari budhna esam: their foundation is above [RV 1.24.7]
upari budhne: [in the foundation above].
upasana: [waiting upon, worship, devotion].
Upendra: younger Indra (a name of Visnu.)
upendratva: [Upendra-ness].
urau anibadhe: in the wide and the limitless or unobstructed. [RV 3.1.11]
urdhvagati: ascent (towards Spirit and God) .
urdhvaretah: those who have drawn the whole virile force in the body up into the brain.
urj: energy, force. [Ved.]
uru: wide, vast. [Ved.]
uru loka: the wide world. [Ved.]
uru u loka: the wide other world. [Ved.]; urum u lokam [accusative]
Usanas Kavya (Ushanas Kavya): [Ved.]: the rsi of the heavenward desire that is born from the seer knowledge; [in the [Gita], Usanas Kavi is named as vibhuti among the seer-poets].
usarbudhah: wakers with the Dawn. [Ved.]
Usas (Usha, Ushas): Dawn, the bringer of illumination.
Ushanas Kavya: see Usanas Kavya
usik: an aspirant (applied like nr to men and gods, but, like nr also, sometimes especially indicating the Angirasas). [Ved.]; usigbhih [instrumental plural], by those who desire.; usijah [plural], desirers (of the godheads) .
usra: Bull; the bright or luminous one, the illuminated power of the Truth in man.
usra: cow; radiance, ray of light. [Ved.]
usriya: the Shining One; ray; cow.; usriyasu [locative plural], in the bright ones or cows.
uti: 1. protection, guard.; 2. growth, expansion. [Ved.]; utih [nominative]
utkata karma: [karma exceeding the usual measure], certain strong effects [of one's past actions] that are unmodifiable.
utsab: Beng. for utsava
utsaha: zeal; patient and persistent action; the force of one's personal effort.
utsarga: [throwing or casting away; abandoning; setting free].
utsava (Utsav; Utsab [Beng.]): [festival].
utsideyur ime lokah: [these worlds would crumble to pieces].; [see the following]
utsideyur ime loka na kuryam karma cedaham: these worlds would crumble to pieces (would be overpowered by tamas and sink into inaction) if I did not do actions. [Gita 3.24]
uttama: supreme, highest; [ =uttama purusa].
uttama gati: [the highest gati.]
uttamam rahasyam: the highest secret. [cf. Gita 4.3]
uttama purusa: the Highest purusa, the Lord. [same as purusottama]
uttara: higher; north.
uttara-mimamsa: [a system of philosophy (one of the six darsanas) : the enquiry into the latter portion of the Veda (i.e. the Upanisads ) ; it is usually called vedanta]; the brahmavada.
uttara yogin (Uttar Yogi): [the yogin from the North].
utthapana: levitation.
vac (Vach): speech; the goddess Speech.; vak [nominative]
vacas: the word as a power of expression. [Ved.]
Vach: see vac
vada: [doctrine, "ism"], gospel.
vagevasya vak: speech verily is the voice of him. [Brhad. 1.1.1]
vahana: steed, conveyance, vehicle.

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