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GLOSSARY

ABHYASA—Spiritual practice

 

AHAM BRAHMA ASMI—I am Brahman

 

ATMAN—The Self

 

AVIDYA—Nescience

 

BANDHA—exercise in Hatha Yoga

 

BHUMA—the Infinite; the unconditioned; Brahman

 

BINDU—point; seed

 

BRAHMAMUHURTA—auspicious time between 4 to 6 a.m.

 

CHAITANYA—Pure consciousness

 

CHAKRA—Centre of spiritual energy

 

CHITTA—Subconscious mind

 

DHARANA—Concentration

 

DHYANA—Meditation

 

EKAGRATA—One-pointedness of mind

 

GUNA—Quality

 

ISVARA—Lord, God

 

JADA—Insentient; non-intelligent

 

JAPA—Repetition of the Name of the Lord

 

JIVANMUKTI—Liberation in this life

 

KAIVALYA—Final emancipation

 

KAMANDAL—The holy vessel used by a Sannyasin for keeping water

 

KARMA—Action operating through the Law of Cause and Effect KIRTAN—Singing the Lord’s Names

 

KRIYA—Hatha Yogic exercise

 

KUNDALINI—The primordial cosmic energy located in the individual

 

LAKSHYA—Goal

 

MAYA—The illusory power of Brahman

 

MOKSHA—Liberation

 

MUDRA—A type of exercise in Hatha Yoga

 

NADA—A mystic sound

 

NADIS—Nerve-currents

 

NIRGUNA—Without attributes

 

NIRVANA—Liberation

 

NIRVIKALPA—Without the modifications of the mind

 

OMKARA—The sacred syllable Om symbolising Brahman

 

PRAKRITI—Nature, the primitive non-intelligent principle

 

PRANAVA—Same as Om

 

PRATYAHARA—Abstraction or withdrawal of the senses from their objects

 

SABDA BRAHMAN—sound-form of Brahman

 

SAGUNA—With attributes

 

SAMADHI—The state of superconsciousness where Absoluteness is experienced

 

SAMSKARA—Impression in the subconscious mind

 

SATCHIDANANDA—Existence Absolute—Knowledge Absolute—Bliss Absolute; Brahman

 

SAVIKALPA—With modifications

 

SOHAM—A Vedantic assertion meaning “I am He (Brahman)” TAPAS—Penance

 

TAT TVAM ASI—That Thou Art

 

TATTVA—Principle, Reality

 

TRIKUTI—Space between the eyebrows

 

VEDANTA—(Lit.) End of the Vedas; the school of thought based primarily on the Vedic Upanishads

 

VIRAT—Macrocosm; the Lord in His form as the manifest universe

 

VRITTI—A wave of thought, a modification of the mind

 

YOGA—(Lit.) Union; union of the individual soul with the Supreme Soul; any course which makes for such union