Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

rtu: the order and time of the Truth. [Ved.]
rtvij (Ritwik): he who sacrifices in right order and right season. [Ved.]
Rudra: "fierce, violent"; [Ved.]: the Divine as master of our evolution by violence and battle, the deva or Deity ascending in the cosmos; [Puranas]: the Terrible one, the God of might and wrath, a member of the divine Triad [trimurti], expressive of the destructive process in the cosmos.
rudra hiranyavartani: violent and moving in the paths of light. [RV 5.75.3]
Rudras: the fierce, impetuous ones; [a group of Gods, in the Veda sometimes identified with the Maruts, later eleven (or thirty-three) minor deities led by Rudra (Siva)].
rudrasakti(Rudrashakti): [power of Rudra].
rup, Hind.: for rupa
rupa: form.
rupabheda: [one of the sadanga]: distinction of forms.
rupam rupam pratirupo babhuva: it shapes itself to the forms it meets. [Katha 2.2.9]
Sa: see sah
sa: she.
sabda (Shabda): sound; vibration; word.
sabdabrahman (shabdabrahman): the Word; the oral expression of God [brahman].; sabdabrahma [nominative]
sabdabrahmativartate: [passes beyond the range of the sabdabrahman]. [Gita 6.44]
sab-janta [Beng.]: all-knowing.
sa buddhiman manusyesu: he is the man of true reason and discernment among men. [Gita 4.18]
saccidananda (Sachchidananda): a trinity of Existence [sat], Consciousness [cit], and Delight [ananda]; the Divine Being.; saccidanandam [nominative]
sacesta: involving (great strain of) effort.
Sachchidananda: see saccidananda
Saci (Sachi): the wife of Indra.
sadamsi: seats. [Ved.]
sadanad rtasya: from the home or seat of Truth. [RV 1.164.47; 4.21.3]
sadanam: seat; house.
sadanam rtasya: the seat (or world or home) of the Truth. [Ved.]
sadanga: the six limbs or essential elements of painting: rupabheda, pramana, bhava, lavanya, sadrsya, varnikabhanga.
sadas: seat; house. [Ved.]
sada tad-bhava bhavitah: each moment growing inwardly into that (divine) subjective being. [Gita 8.6]
sad-atman: [the Self (atman) as pure Existence].
sad-brahman (sat brahman): Existence pure, indefinable, infinite, absolute.
sadghanaloka: [world of dense Existence].
sadguru: [a good or true guru].
sadhaka (Sadhak): one who is getting or trying to get realisation [cf. yogin]; one who seeks siddhi by the practice of sadhana.
sadhana: the practice of yoga; the practice by which perfection (siddhi) is attained; spiritual self-training and exercise.
sadhana sastra (Sadhana Shastra): [a scripture (sastra) of spiritual practice (sadhana)].
sadharmya: becoming of one law of being and action with the Divine.
sadharmya-gati: a coming to be one in law of being with the Divine.
sadharmyam agatah: those who have become or like nature and law of being with the Divine. [Gita 14.21]
sadharmya-mukti: liberation by assumption of the Divine Nature.
sadhika: [a woman who practises sadhana].
sadhu: [a good or holy man, saint].; sadhunam [genitive plural]
sadhunam rajyam: the reign of the saints.
sadhu-sammatam: [that about which good men agree; approved of by the good].
sadosam: defective.
sadrsam cestate svasyah prakrteh: acts according to the mechanism of his Nature. [Gita 3.33]
sadrsya: 1. likeness (to the Divine).; 2. [one of the sadanga]: correspondence, truth of the form and its suggestion.
sadrsya-mukti: liberation by likeness to the Divine.
saguna: [with quality, personal]; the Personal.
saguna brahman: the Eternal with (infinite) qualities; the Personal Divine.
saguna sat: personal being.
sah (Sa): he.
sahadharmi: [one who has the same dharma; a mate, spouse].
sahaituka: [with motive (hetu)].
sahaja: that which is born with us; natural, inborn, innate.
sahaja dharma: ["natural law of being"; an esoteric Buddhist cult].
sahajam karma: work born with a man. [Gita 18.48]
sahasam: active courage and daring; hardihood.
sahasradala (padma): the thousand-petalled lotus, the higher consciousness centre.
sahasrara: same as sahasradala.
saheb: [lord, sir; formerly used of Europeans in India].
sahaya: help.
sahitya parisad: literary conference.
saiva (Shaiva, Shaivite): [pertaining to Siva; a worshipper of Siva].
sadjana: the good man.
sakalah: with all aspects (kalas); all entirely.
sakhayah: comrades.
sakhibhih: with (them as) comrades.
saksad darsana: [the seeing (darsana) of something as before one's eyes].
saksi (Sakshi): witness.
sakta (Shakta): [a worshipper of sakti].
sakti (Shakti): Energy, Force, Strength, Will, Power; the self-existent, self-cognitive, self-effective Power of the Lord which expresses itself in the workings of prakrti.; saktih [nominative]
sakti-catustayam (Shakti-Chatushtaya): [the catustaya of power].
saktyam bhagavati ca (iti sraddha): (faith) in the Lord and his sakti.
Sakyamuni (Shakya-Muni): "sage of the Sakyas", a name of the Buddha.
sala [Hind.]: [wife's brother (used as a term of abuse)].
salilam: water.
salilam apraketam: inconscient ocean. [cf. RV 10.129.3]
salokya: in one status and periphery of being with the Divine; dwelling of the soul in the Divine.
salokya-mukti: liberation by conscious existence in one world of being with the Divine.
sam: peace, bliss. [Ved.]
sama: equal; evenly distributed.
Sama: see saman
sama (Shama): the divine quiet, peace, rest.; samah [nominative]
sama ananda: equal ananda.
samabhavena: without respect to differences.
samadhi: Yogic trance (in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness); [in the Gita]: calm, desireless, griefless fixity of the buddhi in self-poise and self-knowledge.; samadhih [nominative]
samadhistha: arrived at the essential samadhi and settled in it.
samagram mam (jnatva): (having known) Me integrally. [cf. Gita 7.1]
samah: see under sama
samahita: concentrated in its own being; in samadhi. [Gita 6.7]
samaja (Samaj): [assembly, society, association].
samam brahm: the equal brahman. [Gita 5.19]
samam hi brahma: [for the brahman is equal]. [cf. the preceding]
saman (Sama): the mantra of the divine ananda, the word of calm and harmonious attainment for the bringing of the divine desire of the spirit. [Ved.]
samana: [one of the five pranas]; it is situated centrally in the body, and regulates the interchange of the prana and apana at their meeting place, equalises them and is the most important agent in maintaining the equilibrium of the vital forces and their functions; it is the agent for the assimilation of food.
samane urve: in the level wideness. [Ved.]
samarpana: surrender.
samasti: the collectivity. [cf. vyasti]
samata: equality, equanimity.
samata santih sukham hasyam iti santicatustayam: see these words separately.
samatva: equality.
samatvam yoga ucyate: it is equality that is meant by yoga. [Gita 2.48]
Sama-veda: [the Veda of the samans].
Sambara: [the name of a demon in the Veda].
sambhava: birth.
sambhavami yuge yuge: I am born from age to age. [Gita 4.8]
sambhut: becoming, the Birth.
sambhutya amrtam asnute: by the Birth he enjoys Immortality. [Isa 14]
samgha (Sangha): a fellowship and union (of those whom a personality and teaching unite).
samhata: [combined].
samhati: cohesion.
samhita (Sanhita): ["conjunction"; the text of the Veda treated with respect to the rules of euphonic combination, the real continuous text of the Veda (cf. padapatha)].
sami: labour. [Ved.]
samipya: nearness, proximity; dwelling of the soul with the Divine.
samipya-mukti: liberation by samipya.
samiti: assembly; [association].
samjnana: essential sense; contact of consciousness with its object; the inbringing movement of apprehensive consciousness which draws the object placed before it back to itself so as to possess it in conscious substance, to feel it.
samkara: [co-mingling]; confusion.
samkhya (Sankhya): the analysis, the enumeration and discriminative setting forth of the principles of our being; the abstract and analytical realisation of truth; [considered as one of the six darsanas]; [an adherent of the samkhya school].
samkirtan: [(a gathering for) singing the glory of God].
sam mahema manisay: let us build by our thought. [RV 1.94.1]
sammoha: [bewilderment].
samnyasa: see sannyasa
sampradana: [bestowing one's daughter in marriage].
sampradaya: [sect], group.
samrajya: empire; perfect empire without; mastery of one's environment and circumstances.
samrat: emperor; ruler of one's world-environment.
samsa: self-expression; that which brings out into the field of expression. [Ved.]
samsara: cyclic movement; the world; the ordinary life of the Ignorance.
samsiddhi: absolute spiritual perfection.; samsiddhim [accusative]
samsiddhicatustaya (Samsiddhichatushtaya): [the catustaya of absolute perfection].; samsiddhicatustayam [nominative]
samskara (Sanskara): association, impression, fixed notion, habitual reaction formed by one's past.; samskarah [plural]
samudre hrdi: in the heart, in the sea. [RV 4.58.11]
samudrika: [interpretation of marks on the body; palmistry].
samuha: gathering together.
samvatsara: Time in its periods determined by movement in Space.
samyagjnanam: integral knowledge.
samyama: 1. self-control, rejection or self-dissociation.; 2. concentration, directing or dwelling of the consciousness (by which one becomes aware of all that is in an object).

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