Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

nivasisyasi mayyeva: thou shalt dwell in Me. [Gita 12.8]
Nivritti: see nivrtti
nivrtta: without any turn to action.
nivrtti (Nivritti): moving back and in; holding back from action; the soul's involution into the passivity.
nivrtti marga: [the path of nivrtti (cessation from action)].
niyama: [in rajayoga]: regulating moral habit.
niyamy: [having controlled]. [Gita 3.7]
niyata: controlled. [cf. Gita 3.8]
niyatam karma: controlled action. [Gita 3.8]
niyatam kuru karma tvam: do action (thus) self-controlled. [Gita 3.8]
niyatasya tu sannyasah karmano nopapadyate: [but the renunciation of rightly regulated actions is not proper]. [Gita 18.7]
niyati: Fate (the thing willed and executed by Nature according to a fixed law of its self-governed workings).
niyut: each of Vayu's horses, a steed of the yoking. [Ved.]
nr: the male power or purusa; the male divine Principle. [Ved.]
nrcaksasah: those who have the divine vision. [Ved.]
nrmna: strength. [Ved.]
nrpati: king of men.
nrtamo nrnam: most puissant of the powers. [Ved.]
nyaya: [one of the six darsanas, the science of logic].
ojas: essential energy.
okas: home. [Ved.]
om: the mantra or expressive sound symbol of the brahman in its four domains from the turiya to the external or material plane (i.e. the outward looking, the inward or subtle, and the superconscient causal - each letter A, U, M indicating one of these three in ascending order and the whole bringing out the fourth state, turiya); used as an initiating syllable pronounced as a benedictory prelude and sanction.
Om anandamayi caitanyamayi satyamayi parame: [om O Thou full of bliss, full of consciousness, full of truth, supreme].
Om bhur bhuvah svah: [a formula, see the terms separately].
Om namas candikayai: [om salutations to Candika (a name of the Goddess, cf. Candi)].
om stantih...(OM Shanti Shanti Shanti): [om peace peace peace (a formal beginning and ending for an Upanisad, etc.)].
Om tat sat: om That is the thing that Is.
Opsaras: see apsaras
osadhih: (the earth's) growths.
pad: foot; step; the principle on which the soul founds itself.
pada: 1. step, place, foothold of being.; 2. [a quarter of a sloka].; padam [nominative]; padani [nominative plural]
pada: a quarter of a sloka.
padapatha: a [Vedic] text in which all euphonic combinations are resolved into the original and separate words and even the components of compound words indicated. [cf. samhita]
padbhyam prthivi: Earth is His footing. [Mund. 2. 1.4]
paddhati [Hind.]: [process, method of action].
Paisachi: [a Prakrta dialect].
paisacika: [of or like a pisaca, demonic].
pajasyam: footing.
palayanam: flight.
palli: village.
pancabhautika: [relating to the panca bhuta].
panca bhuta: "the five elements", the five elementary states of substance:; [akasa, vayu, agni (tejas), apas (jala), prthivi].
panca janah: the five births; the five nations. [Ved.]
panca kosas: the five sheaths.
panca krstih, pancaksitih: the five worlds of creatures where works are done. [Ved.]
pancayat (Panchayat, Panchayet) [Hind.]: [a village council consisting in theory of five persons].
pandal [Hind.]: [a temporary structure for meetings, etc.]
Pandavas: [the sons of Pandu, i.e. Arjuna and his four brothers, who with their allies formed one side in the Mahabharata-war].
pandita (Pandit, Pundit): a scholar.
panditya: [(mere) scholarship].
panis: dasyus who withhold or steal the cows; the word seems to have originally meant doers, dealers or traffickers, but this significance is sometimes clouded by the farther sense of "misers". [Ved.]
papa: sin, demerit.
papa-yonayah: wombs of sin. [Gita 9.32]
para: supreme.
para: see para vak
para bhava: the supreme being (of the Divine), the Highest; the ultimate becoming (of the soul).; param bhavam [accusative]; paro bhavah [nominative]
parabrahman: the supreme brahman; the supreme Unknowable; the Divine.
para gatih: the supreme status (of the soul).
parah avyakta: the supreme Unmanifest.
param: the supreme.
paramahamsa (Paramahansa, Paramhansa): the liberated man, [literally "the supreme hamsa"; a spiritual personality of the highest order].
paramam dhama: the supreme place of being. [cf. Gita 8.21]
paramam padam: the highest seat.
paramam sthanam adyam: a status original, sempiternal and supreme. [cf. Gita 8.28]
paramam vacah: supreme word. [Gita 10.1; 18.64]
parama parardha: the highest kingdom of the most High. [cf. Katha 1.3.1]
parama paravat: the highest supreme, the highest summit.; paramasyam paravati [locative]
param apnoti purusah: man attains to the Highest. [Gita 3.19]
paramartha: the highest spiritual truth; essential fact.
paramasyam paravat: see under parama paravat
paramatman: the supreme Self or Spirit, the Absolute.; paramatma [nominative]
param avyaktam: the supreme Unmanifest.
para maya: [the supreme maya]; higher divine Nature.
param bhavam: see under para bhava
param brahma: same as parabrahman
param dhama: the highest status (of the Divine). [Gita 10.12]
param drstva: [having seen the Supreme]. [Gita 2.59]
paramestham (Parameshtham): [standing at the top], that which is superlative and highest.
paramesthin: the one full of paramestham; paramesthi [nominative]
paramesvara (Parameshwara): supreme Lord.; paramesvaram [accusative]
paramesvari (Parameshwari): [the supreme isvari; the supreme Mother].
parame vyoman: in the highest ether. [Ved.]
Paramhansa: see paramahamsa
param jyotih: the supreme Light.
parampara: succession (of gurus or spiritual teachers).
param santim: to a supreme peace. [Gita 18.62]
param siddhim: [to the] supreme perfection. [Gita 14.1]
para prakrti (Para Prakriti): the supreme Nature; the very nature of the Divine; the infinite timeless conscious power of the self-existent being out of which all existences in the cosmos are manifested.; para prakrtih [nominative]
para prakrtir jivabhuta: the spiritual Nature which has become the jiva. [cf. Gita 7.5]
para prakrtir me: My supreme nature. [cf. Gita 7.5]
para prakrtir me yaya dharyate jagat: My supreme nature by which the world is upheld. [cf. Gita 7.5]
para-purusa (Para Purusha): supreme Soul; God.
parardha: the upper half (of world existence); the higher hemisphere.; parardhe [locative], in the higher being. [Katha 1.3.1]
parashakti (Parashakti): the supreme power.
paras-patthar (Parash-pathar) [Hind.]: the alchemic stone.
Parasurama (Parashurama): Rama of the axe, an avatara of Visnu who destroyed the unrighteous licence of the military and princely caste (the ksatriyas)
para sva prakrtih: [own highest nature, highest self-nature].
paratman: see paramatman
paratpara: the Supreme beyond the Most High, the supreme of the Supreme.; paratparam [nominative]
paratpara brahman: [brahman higher than the highest].
paratparam: see under paratpara
paratpara purusa (Paratpara Purusha): [the purusa higher than the highest, the transcendent, infinite and universal personality.
para vak: [the highest of the gradations of speech]: (probably) the revelatory and inspired speech.
para vidya: the higher knowledge; the knowledge of the brahman in Himself.
paribhu: the One who becomes everywhere, God as the formal becoming.; paribhuh [nominative] [Isa 8]
parigraha: egoistic possession, making things one's own.
parinama: evolutionary change (out of the original substance or energy), a varying, developing, mounting movement of organised energy and its evolutionary consequences.
paripasyanti dhirah: sages behold everywhere. [Mund. 1.1.6]
parivrajaka: [a wandering religious mendicant], the free supersocial man.
Parjanya: the rain-cloud, giver of the rain [vrsti].
paro bhavaha: see under para bhava
paroksa: indirect knowledge (of that which is remote from and beyond our vision).
parthivani rajamsi: earthly realms of light. [Ved.]
parvatasya garbhah: the pregnant contents of the hill. [Ved.]
Parvat: [a name of Siva's consort].
Parvati-Sankara (Parvati-Shankara): [Siva and his consort Parvati].
pascima: behind, west.
Pashupati: see Pasupati
pasu: animal; [Ved.]: the cow of light; [in the tantrika distinction of sadhakas]: the animal man.
Pasupati (Pashupati): the name of Siva as the Lord of wildlife; the lord of the animal (in man).
pasyanti buddhi: a seeing intelligence.
pasyanti vak: [the second level of speech], the seeing word, speech with the vision of truth in it.
pasyatah: [of him who sees]. [Gita 2.69]
pasyati: he sees.
patala: worlds of delusion and shadow; the subconscient below the earth.
patati: falls. [see the following]
patati manah: the mind falls. [Kena 1.1]

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