Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

samyami: [one who practises samyama].
samyatendriyah: [one who has] conquered and controlled the mind and senses. [Gita 4.39]
samye sthitam manah: the mind established in equality. [Gita 5.19]
sanatana: everlasting; without beginning or end.
sanatana dharma: the eternal religion; the Indian religious and spiritual tradition.
sanatanam purusam puranam: [to the everlasting ancient purusa].
sandhi: joint, lock; [in Sanskrit grammar]: the principle of euphonic combination.
sandhya: 1. twilight.; 2. [ =sandhyavandana].; 3. [ =yuga-sandhya].
sandhyavandana: [the morning, noon and evening prayers of a brahmana].
sangah akarmani: attachment to inaction. [Gita 2.47]
sangam tyaktvatmasuddhaye: having abandoned attachment for self-purification. [Gita 5.11]
Sangha: see samgha
Sanhita: see samhita
sanjivani mantra: [a mantra restorative of life].
sankalpa: resolution.
sankalparambha: initiation.
sankarasya ca karta syam upahanyamimah prajah: I should be the creator of confusion and slay these creatures. [Gita 3.24]
Sankhya: see samkhya
sanmaya: [composed of pure existence (sat)].
sannyasa: laying aside; renunciation (of life and action).
sannyasa asrama (Sannyasa Ashrama): [the last of the four asramas: the Period of the free super-social man.
sannyasin: [one who practises sannyasa; an ascetic].; sannyasi [nominative]
sanoh sanum: from level to level.; [see the following]
sanoh sanum aruhat: ascends from peak to peak. [RV 1.10.2]
Sansiddhichatushtaya: see samsiddhicatustaya
Sanskara: see samskara
santa: finite.
santaha: [good men], saints.
santam: calm.
santam alaksanam: calm, featureless. [cf. Mand. 7]
Santi (Shanti): calm, peace; spiritual peace.; santih [nominative]
santi-catustaya ( Shanti-chatushtaya): [the catustya of peace].; santi-catustayam [nominative]
santimaya Siva (Shantimaya Shiva): [Siva full of peace].
santim nirvana-paramam (matsamstham): the supreme peace of nirvana (which has its foundation in Me). [Gita 16.15]
santi-secana (Shanti-Sechan): [a "pouring-out of tranquillity"]; homage of hearts.
sanu: level, peak, elevation.; sanuni [plural]
sapanta rtam amrtam: they touch Truth and Immortality. [cf. RV 1.68.2]
sa paryagat: it is He who has moved out everywhere. [Isa 8]
sa pasyati: he sees.
sapta arcisa: the seven flames, tongues or rays (of Agni). [Ved.]
sapta-catustaya (Sapta-chatushtaya): [the seven catustayas].
sapta dhenavah: the seven fostering cows. [Ved.]
sapta dhitayah: the seven forms of the Thought-principle. [Ved.]; sapta dhitibhih [instrumental plural]
sapta dhiya: the seven thoughts. [Ved.]
sapta gavah: the seven Cows or the seven Lights. [Ved.]
saptagu: seven-rayed. [Ved.]; saptaguh [masculine]; saptagum [neuter]
sapta haritah: the seven brilliant horses of the sun. [Ved.]
sapta jvalah: the seven flames, tongues or rays (of Agni). [Ved.]
sapta matarah: the seven mothers. [Ved.]
saptarasmih: seven-rayed. [Ved.]
sapta ratna (ratnani): the seven delights. [Ved.]
sapta rsaya: the seven seers. [Ved.]
sapta sapta: seven by seven, in septettes. [Mund. 2.1.8]
saptasyah: seven-faced or seven-mouthed. [Ved.]
sapta vanih: the seven Words or fundamental expressions of the divine Mind. [Ved.]
sapta viprah: the seven sages. [Ved.]
Sarama: the Hound of Heaven, represents the faculty of intuition. [Ved.]
Sarameya: [one of the four dogs of Yama]. [Ved.]
saranam: [refuge].
saranyubhih: with them as travellers on the path. [Ved.]
Sarasvati (Saraswati): "she of the stream, of the flowing movement"; [Ved.]: the streaming current and the word of inspiration of the Truth; the goddess of the Word; [Puranas]: the Muse and goddess of wisdom, learning and the arts and crafts.
sardar (Sirdar) [Hind.]: [leader, commander, chieftain].
sarga: creation; [a section or chapter of some Sanskrit works such as the Mahabharata].
sarira: the body.
sarira-catustaya (Sharira-Chatushtaya): [the catustaya of the body].; sariracatustayam [nominative]
sariram kevalam karma: purely physical action. [Gita 4.21]
sariram khalu dharmasaddhanam: the body is the means of fulfilment of dharma.
sarirananda: [ananda in the body].
sarirayatra: the pilgrimage of the body; physical life.; [see the following]
sarirayatrapi...akarmanah: even the maintenance of (thy) physical life [cannot be effected] without action. [Gita 3.8]
sarkar (Sirkar) [Hind.]: [lord; administrator; government].
sarma: peace, joy. [Ved.]
sarva: all, the All. sarvah [nominative, masculine]; sarvam [nominative, neuter]; sarvesu [locative plural], in all.
sarvabhavena: in every way of his being. [Gita 15.19]
sarvabhutahite: in the good of all creatures.; [see the following]
sarvabhutahite ratah: busied with and delighting in the good of all creatures.; sarvabhutahite ratah [plural] [Gita 5.25; 12.4]
sarvabhuta-mahesvara: [the great Lord of all beings]. [cf. Gita 5.29]
sarvabhutanam hrddese: hidden in the heart of all existences. [Gita 18.61]
sarvabhutani: all existences.
sarvabhutani atmaivabhud vijanatah: it is the Self-Being that has become all existences that are Becomings, for he has the perfect knowledge. [cf. Isa 7]
sarvabhutasthitam yo mam bhajati ekatvam asthitah: who loves Me in all and his soul is founded on (the divine) oneness. [Gita 6.31]
sarvabhutatmabhutatma: [one] whose self has become the self of all existences. [Gita 5.7]
sarvabhutesu: in all existences.
sarvadharman: all dharmas.; [see the following]
sarvadharman parityajya: [having abandoned all dharmas]. [Gita 18.66]
sarvagatam acalam: all-pervading, motionless. [cf. Gita 2.24]
sarvagatam brahma: the all-pervading brahman.; [cf. the following]
sarvagatam yajne pratisthitam: all-pervading, established in the sacrifice. [Gita 3.15]
sarva-guhyatamam: a most secret truth of all. [Gita 18.64]
sarvah: see under sarva
sarvair vedair aham eva vedyah: I am that which is known by all the Vedas. [cf. Gita 15.15]
sarvajnana-samarthya: [capacity for all knowledge]; integral capacity of the thinking intelligence.
sarva-jnana-vimudhan nastan acetasah: [the insensible, bewildered in all knowledge and (fated to be) destroyed]. [Gita 3.32]
sarvakarmani: works of all kinds.
sarvakarmani josayan: helping them to do all actions with joy and acceptance. [cf. Gita 3.26]
sarvakarmani samnyasya: [having given up all actions]. [Gita 5.13; 18.57]
sarvakrt: [doer of all (actions)].
sarvalokamahesvaram suhrdam sarvabhutanam: the Lord of all worlds (who is) the friend of all creatures. [Gita 5.29]
sarvam: see under sarva
sarvam anantam jnanam anandam brahma iti brahmacatustayam: see these words separately
sarvamangalam: all good.
sarvam brahma: the brahman (that) is the All.
sarvam idam: all this, all that is here (the common phrase in the Upanisads for the totality of the phenomena in the mobility of the universe).
sarvam karmakhilam (partha) jnane parisamapyate: all the totality of works [O Partha (Arjuna)] finds its rounded culmination in knowledge. [Gita 4.33]
sarvam khalvidam (khalu idam) brahma: verily all this that is is the brahman. [Chand. 3.14.1]
Sarvani bhutani: "all things that have become", all becomings, all creatures.
sarvani bhutani atmaiva abhut: the Self-Being [atman] became all Becomings. [Isa 7]
sarvani vijnana-vijrmbhitani: all things are self-deployings of the Divine Knowledge. [cf. Visnu Purana 2.12.39]
sarvapapaih pramucyate: is delivered from all sin. [Gita 10.3]
sarvapapam: all evil. [Kaivalya 1]
sarvarambhah: all inceptions. [Gita 18.48]
sarvarambha-parityagi: one who has flung away from him all initiation. [Gita 14.25]
sarvatati: the formation or "extension' of the universal being. [Ved.]

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