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CHAPTER IX

Yoga 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 symbolizing 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.

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