Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

munayah sarve: all the sages. [Gita 14.1]
muni: a sage.
muninam apyaham vyasah: I am Vyasa among the sages. [Gita 10.37]
murti: image.
na abhavo vidyate satah: that which (really) is cannot go out of existence. [Gita 2.16]
nabhas: sky, ether; heaven (the mental principle).
nabhipadma: the navel centre [lotus].
na buddhibhedam janayed ajnanam karmasanginam: he should not create a division of their understanding [buddhi] in the ignorant who are attached to their works. [Gita 3.26]
na caivamutra no iha: [not elsewhere indeed, nor here].
nadatte kasyacit papam na caiva sukrtam: it accepts neither the sin nor the virtue [of any]. [Gita 5.15]
nadi: a nerve channel.
nadi-suddhi: nerve purification.
na duhkhena gurunapi vicalyate: [not shaken even by great sorrow]. [Gita 6.22]
naga: serpent, a snake-god who inhabits the nether-world.
nagapasa: [a sort of magical noose].
naham prakasah sarvasya yogamayasamavrtah: I am not revealed to any and every being, enveloped in the maya of My yoga. [Gita 7.25]
na hi te bhagavan vyaktim vidur deva na danavah: neither the gods nor the titans, O blessed Lord, know Thy manifestation. [Gita 10.14]
na idam yad upasate: not this which men follow after. [Kena 1.4-8]
naisa tarkena matir apaneya: this wisdom is not to be had by reasoning. [Katha 1.2.9]
naiskarmya: inactivity.
na karma lipyate nare: action cleaves not to a man. [Isa 2]
na kartavyam na karmani: neither the state of the doer nor the works. [see the following]
na kartrtvam na karmani srjati na karma-phala-samyoga: does not create the state of the doer or works or the joining of the works to their fruit. [Gita 5.14]
nakasya prsthe: [in] the highest level of Heaven. [RV 1.125.5]
na kincit karoti: does nothing. [Gita 4.20]
naksaddabham taturim: victorious in his march, breaking through (to the goal). [RV 6.22.2]
naksantah: [they who travel to]. [Ved.]
naktoshasa: Night and Day [Dawn]. [Ved.]
na limpanti: fix not themselves. [Gita 4.14]
na lipyate: cleaves not. [Isa 2]
nama: range, pasture. [Ved.]
nama: [name].
namajapa: [repetition of a name of God].
na mam abhijananti tattvena: [they do not know Me in the true principles]. [Gita 9.24]
namarup: [name and form].
namas: "bending down"; obeisance; pious resignation.
namobhi: [instrumental plural]
namaskara: [a salutation].
namahsudra (Namasudra) [Beng.]: [(one of) a class of low caste Hindus with a martial temperament].
na me bhaktah pranasyat: he who loves Me [My bhakta] will not perish. [Gita 9.31]
name goh: in the pasture of the cow. [RV 3.39.6]
namobhih: see under namas
Namuchi: a demon associated with Vrtra. [Ved.]
nanairucirhi lokah: [men have different tastes].
nanto na cadih: no end and no beginning. [Gita 15.3]
nanyad astiti vadinah: they whose creed is that there is nothing else. [Gita 2.42]
nanyah pantha vidyateyanaya: there is no other road for the great passage. [Svet. 3.8; 6.15]
na patati: does not fall. [cf. Kena 1.1 ]
napatibhir...vivasvatah: by the grand children or descendants of the Sun. [RV 9.14.5]
nara: man; the human being. [cf. Nara-Narayana]; narah [plural], men; human powers. [Ved.]
Narada: [the name of a heavenly rsi], he stands for the expression of the Divine Love and Knowledge.
narah: see under nara
naraka: [hell], the condition of misery in the subtle body.
Nara-Narayana: the human soul [Nara], eternal companion of the Divine [Narayana].
Narayana: the Divine, usually taken as a name of Visnu, Preserver and Lord of Love.
nasagra: [the tip of the nose].
na sandrse tisthati rupam asya: the form of That stands not in the ken of sight. [Katha 2.3.9; Svet. 4.20]
nasatya: "powers of the movement", [two] lords of the movement, leaders of the journey or voyage. [Ved.]
nastyanto (nasti anto) vistarasya me: there is no end to My self-extension. [Gita 10.19]
nata: bent.
Nataraja Siva (Natarajan): [(an image of) Siva as the king of the Dance].
na tatra socate budhah: the wise man grieves not over that.
nati: pious resignation, the submission of the soul to the will of God.
natmanam avasadayet: [one should not cast down and depress the self]. [Gita 6.5]
navagvas (Navagwas): those who sacrificed for nine months of the year; seers of the nine cows or nine rays who institute the search for the herds of the Sun and the march of Indra to battle with the panis. [Ved.]
na vak gacchati na manah: speech nor mind travel (there). [Kena 1.3]
navamivambhasi: like a boat on the sea. [Gita 2.67]
nayam atma balahinena labhyah: this spirit [atman] is not to be won by the weak. [Mund. 3.2.4]
na yatha prakrto janah: [not as an ordinary man].
nazarana [Hind.]: [tribute].
neta: leader.
neti neti: it is not this, it is not that.
nid: obstructor, Restrainer, Censurer. [Ved.]; nidah [plural]
nididhyasana: fixed contemplation, the absorbed dwelling of the mind on its object.
nidra: [sleep].
nigraha: repression, suppression.
nihatah purvameva: already even they are slain. [Gita 11.33]
nihitam guhayam: hidden in the (secret) cave.
nihsprha: without the longing and reaching after things.
nihsva: [without possessions].
nila: [blue, dark blue, black]
nimitta: immediate cause; instrument; causality.
nimittamatram: only the occasion. [see the following]
nimittamatram bhava (Savyasacin): become only the occasion (O Savyasacin). [Gita 11.33]
ninya vacamsi: secret words. [see the following]
ninya vacamsi nivacanani kavaye: secret words (of guidance) that speak out their sense to the seer. [cf. RV 4.3.16]
nirahankara: free from egoism.
nirakara brahman (Nirakar Brahman): [the formless brahman].
nirananda: [blisslessness].
nirapada sthana: safe refuge.
nirapeksa: without expectation.
nirasir nirmamo bhutva: having become free from desire and egoism. [Gita 3.30]
nirasraya: dependent on nothing.
niratisayapremaspadatvam anandatattvam: [the status of divine delight (ananda) is that in which is experienced the union of utter love].
nirbhara [Beng.]: reliance.
nirdosam hi samam brahma: the equal brahman is faultless. [Gita 5.19]
nirdvandva: free from the dualities.
nirghuna: cruel; a man without disgust or loathing.
nirguna: qualityless; the Impersonal.
nirguna brahman: the Eternal without qualities; the Impersonal Divine.
nirgunam gunabhoktr ca: the enjoyer of the gunas, though not limited by them. [Gita 13.15]
nirguna sat: impersonal being.
nirguno guni: the Qualitied who is without qualities, impersonal personal. [cf. Svet. 6.2,11,16]
nirlipta: not attached.
nirliptata: [the state of being not attached].
nirmam: free from my-ness.
nirmamo nirahankarah: [free from egoism and from my-ness]. [Gita 2.71; 12.13]
nirukta: etymological interpretation; [the Nirukta: a work by Yaska containing explanations and etymological interpretations of obscure Vedic words].
nirvan: extinction (not necessarily of all being, but of being as we know it, extinction of ego, desire and egoistic action and mentality).
nirvikalpa samadhi: complete trance, in which there is no thought or movement of consciousness or awareness of either inner or outer things.
niscala-niravata: [motionless soundlessness]; silence.
niscesta: without effort.
Nishkamakarma: see niskama karma,
niskama: free from desire.
niskama dharma: [desireless dharma].
niskama karma (Nishkamakarma): desireless works.
niskama karmayogin: [one who does desireless works as yoga].
niskriya: [one] without initiative or action.
nisthah: fixed and steady concentration; concentrated will of devotion; faith.
nistraigunya: [a state in which one is] free from the three gunas.
nistraigunyo bhavarjuna: do thou become free from the triple guna, O Arjuna. [Gita 2.45]
nitya anusmarana: constant remembrance.
nityah sarvagatah sthanur acaloyam sanatanah: eternally stable, immobile, all-pervading it is for ever and ever. [Gita 2.24]
nityakarma: regular works (of sacrifice, ceremonial and the daily rule of Vedic living).
nityamukta: [(one who is) perpetually in the state of liberation].
nitya smarana: constant remembrance.
nityatrpto nirasrayah: ever satisfied without (any kind of) dependence. [Gita 4.20]
nityayoga: uninterrupted yoga.
nityayukta: in constant union.
nityonityana: the Eternal in the transient. [Katha 2.2.13; Svet. 6.13]

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