Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

vaicitra: variety.
vaidya: [a physician who follows the Ayurvedic system].
vaidyuta: [of vidyut (lightning) ; electrical].
vaidyuta Agni: [Agni (fire) as vidyut (lightning)]; God of electricity.
vaidyuto manavah: Electrical Man.
vaijnanika: [of the vijnana].
vaikhari: [the fourth and lowest of the four levels of speech; articulate utterance].
vaikuntha: the heaven of Visnu.
vaira: [enmity, hostility, hatred].
vairagi: [one who has vairagya (for life and the world), a renunciate].
vairagya: distaste; disgust with the world; complete cessation of desire and attachment.
vairajya: [extended sovereignty].
vaisesika (Vaisheshika): [a system of philosophy, one of the six darsanas; its characteristic doctrine is the eternally distinct nature of the nine substances (air, fire, water, earth, mind, ether, time, space and soul), of which the first five, including mind, are held to be atomic].
Vaishnava: see vaisnava
Vaishwanara: see vaisvanara
Vaishya etc.: see vaisya etc.
vaisnava (Vaishnava): [relating or belonging to Visnu; a worshipper of Visnu].
vaisvadevyam: the union of all the godheads (in our consenting universality); the complete universal power, the cosmic whole. [Ved.]
vaisvanara (Vaishwanara, Vaishwanor): the Universal Male; the Waking-Self, the Self that supports the waking state or sthula consciousness; the external consciousness.
vaisya (Vaishya): [a member of the third of the four orders (caturvarna) ]: the economic man, producer and wealth-getter, the merchant, artisan, cultivator; (symbolic idea): the divine as production, enjoyment and mutuality in man.
vaisyam (Vaishyam): the dharma of the vaisya.
vaisya-sakti (Vaishyashakti): [the soul-power of the vaisya].; vaisyasaktih [nominative]
vaisyasvabhavasakti (Vaishyaswabhavashakti): [the natural power of the vaisya].
Vaivasvata Manu (Vaivaswata Manu): [the "sun-born Manu", the progenitor and sovereign of the present manvantara].
vaja: plenty, the plenitude of all possessions internal or external; Vaja: "the Plenitude", the name of one of the Rbhus. [Ved.]
Vajasaneyi-samhitopanisad (Vajasaneyi): [a name of the Isa Upanisad (because it occurs as part of the Vajasaneyi-samhita of the Yajur-veda) ].
vajin: horse; the horse of Being generally; the steed of the journey which brings us in the plenty of our spiritual wealth.; vaji [nominative]
vak: see under vac
vakalam: see bakalam
vakil [Hind.]: [lawyer].
vak-sakti (Vak-Shakti): [the power (sakti) of Speech; the Word].
Vala: the chief of the panis, a demon whose name signifies probably the "circumscriber" or"encloser"; the enemy who keeps for himself the Light; the personification of the subconscient.
Valahan: "the slayer of Vala", a name of Indra.
valasya gomatah: [of Vala rich in cattle (full of radiances)].
valasya govapusah: of Vala whose body is made of the light. [cf. RV 10.68.9]
vama: [left, the left side (the word is cognate with vana) ].
vamamarga: the left-hand path (of the tantra) , "the way of ananda", nature in man liberating itself by joyous acceptance in power and practice of its own energies, elements and potentialities.
vana: forest, the forests or delightful growths of earth; delight, delightful, pleasure, enjoyment. [Ved.]
vanam pratibhayam sunyam jhillikagananaditam: a void and dreadful forest ringing with the crickets' cry. [Mahabharata 3.64.1]
vanaprastha (asrama): [the third of the four asramas]: the forest stage; the period of the recluse or forest-dweller.
vanara: [monkey, ape].
vanaspati: "lord of the woodland of delight"; the tree, lord of the forest, of the growths of the earth, the material existence, and lord of delight. [Ved.]; vanaspatin [accusative plural]
vani: voice (of the Self or of the isvara) .
Vaniya: see baniya
vara: the thing desired, supreme good. [Ved.]
vara: desirable good. [Ved.]
varabhaya: [boon (vara) and freedom from fear (abhaya) : a gesture of blessing and reassurance given by a deity].
varga: a class.
varna: colour; [Ved.]: denotes quality, temperament etc.; [Brahmanas]: used for caste or class; the four varnas (caturvarna): the four graded classes of society.
varnasankara: confusion of the great types (varnas) .
varnikabhanga: [one of the sadanga]: the turn, combination, harmony of colours.
varta eva ca karmani: I abide verily in action. [Gita 3.22]
Varuna: "he of the Wideness", [Ved.]: the deva as the all-pervading Vastness and purity of the Divine supporting and perfecting the world, he represents the ethereal purity and oceanic wideness of the infinite Truth; [Purana]: the deity of the waters; [in the Gita called chief among the peoples of the sea].
varyam: the desirable good, the object of our desire. [Ved.]
vasana: idea or mental feeling arising from the citta (passive memory) .
vasita (Vashita): [one of the astasiddhis]: the power of exacting obedience to the spoken or written word; the control of the object in its nature so that it is submissive to the spoken word, receptive of the thought conveyed or sensitive and effective of the action suggested.
vasu: substance; riches. [Ved.]
Vasudeva: ["son of Vasudeva", a name of Krsna], the Divine, the omnipresent being.; Vasudevah [nominative]
vasudevah sarvam (iti): the Divine Being (Vasudeva) is all.; [see the following]
vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah: very rare is the great soul who knows that Vasudeva, the omnipresent being, is all that is. [Gita 7.19]
vasudha: [earth]; all earth-life.
vasudhaiva kutumbakam: the whole earth is (my) family.
Vasuki: [a serpent-king, chief of the nagas].
Vasus: the shining Ones, the Lords of the riches; [a group of (usually eight) gods].
vasyam: to be clothed; to be worn as a garment; to be inhabited (the last significance agrees best with the thought of the Isa Upanisad) . [Isa 1]
vata: [wind]; the vital force; nervous activity.
vavra: concealing prison. [Ved.]
vayas: wideness, expansion, growth. [Ved.]
vayavya: [of vayu], aerial.
vayu: 1. wind, breath.; 2. Vayu: the Wind-God who in the Vedic system is the Master of Life, inspirer of that Breath or dynamic energy called the prana.; 3. [one of the five bhutas]: Air, the motional principle of expansion and contraction represented to the senses as the gaseous state.
vayuna: knowledge. [Ved.]
veda: knowledge; knowledge of the Divine; the book of knowledge; [especially, Veda: a generic name for the most ancient Indian sacred literature, i.e. the Rg-veda, Yajur-veda,Sama-veda and Atharva-veda, each of these being divided into two portions, mantra and brahmana; the term " Veda" is generally reserved for the mantras or metrical hymns, especially those of the Rg-veda].
vedaisca vedyah: that which is known by all the books of Knowledge. [Gita 15.15]
vedanga: [a "limb of the Veda", one of six sciences auxiliary to the Veda: chanting, ritual, grammar, etymological interpretation, prosody, astrology].
vedanta: the "end or culmination of the Veda", the Upanisads (which occur at the end of the Veda) ; a system of philosophy based on the Upanisads teaching the culminating knowledge of the Absolute, considered (sometimes under the name uttara-mimamsa) to be one of the six darsanas].
vedavada: [the gospel of the (ritualistic) Veda, as opposed to the brahmavada]
Vedanta Sutra: see Brahmasutra
vedavid vedantakrt: knower of Veda and the author of Vedanta. [cf. Gita 15.15]
Vena: =Soma, the master of mental delight of existence. [Ved.]
vetti: [he knows].
vibhavati: manifests its power (its free power and pervading presence) . [Mund. 3.1.9]
Vibhisana: [a raksasa, brother of Ravana, whom he betrayed; a traitor].
vibhu: 1. [Ved.]: becoming or coming into existence pervasively.; 2. all-pervading Master, the Lord.; 3. [ =Vibhva].
vibhuti: divine power, efflorescence of the Divine's powers, energies and magnitudes of its knowledge, love, joy, developed force of being; a power of God in man, embodied World-Force or human leader.; vibhuitayah [plural], master powers of the becoming.
vibhutimat sattvam srimad urjitam eva va: mighty, beautiful [or] forceful creature. [Gita 10.41]
Vibhva: "the Pervading", "the Self-diffusing", the name of one of the Rbhus, also called Vibhu. [Ved.]
vicacaksire: revealed that to our understanding. [Isa 10.13]
vicara (Vichara): intellectual reflection, thought in the mind.
vicarabuddhi: [the reflective intellect].
vicetas: (one) completely conscious, (one) wide in consciousness: (a Vedic word corresponding to the Vedantic vijnana) .
viceya-taraka prabhata-kalpeva sarvari: night preparing for dawn, with a few just decipherable stars. [Raghuvamsa 3.2]
Vichara: see vicara
vicitra-bodha: variety of understanding.
viddhi: know. [imperative]
vidhi: careful order, right rule of the sastra; the right principle, the exact method and rule, the just rhythm and law of our works, their true functioning, their dharma.
vidhunute: shakes (himself) ; throws (himself) out in energy. [Brhad. 1.1.1]
vidmah: we know.
vidya: Knowledge; Knowledge in its highest spiritual sense; the consciousness of Unity cf. avidya.
vidya avidya: the Knowledge and the Ignorance.
vidya-avidyamayi maya: [maya composed of Knowledge and Ignorance].
vidyamaya: [the maya of the Knowledge].
vidyut: [lightning]; electricity.; vidyutam [accusative]
vigata-sprha: free from (all) longings. [Gita 2.56; 18.49]
vihara: [a monastery, convent or temple; a pleasure-ground].
vijanatah: [of one having the perfect knowledge]. [Isa 7]
vijanimah: we can distinguish (seems to indicate a total comprehension in whole and detail, by synthesis and analysis) . [Kena 1.3]

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