Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

abhasa: [reflection; likeness].
abhaya: fearlessness; passive freedom from fear.; abhayam [nominative]
abhayam sahasam yasolipsa atmaslagha iti ksatratejah: see these words separately
abhayavacana: assurance of safety.
abhi: fearless.
abhimana (Abhiman): [self-respect, pride, especially hurt pride or haughtiness].
abhinaksantah: they who travel towards (the goal). [Ved.]
abhisheka (Abhishek): [sprinkling, anointment, royal unction], coronation.
abhito vartate: is all around. [Gita 5.26]
abhut sarvabhutani: he has become all existences. [cf. Isa 7]
abhyasa: constant practice (of a method).
acalah sanatanah: motionless, sempiternal. [Gita 2.24]
acancalata: [absence of restlessness; quietude].
acara (Achara): [conduct]; (rigid) custom; formally regulated method of self-discipline; rule of life.
acarasuddhi: [purity of acara].
acarya (Acharya): preceptor.
acetanam: [non-sentient].
Achara: see acara
Acharya: see acarya
acintyam avyavaharyam: unthinkable, incommunicable. [cf. Mand. 7]
acintyarupa: [of unthinkable form].; acintyarupam [nominative] [Mund. 3.1.7; Gita 8.9]
acitti: unconsciousness; the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness.
acyuta: [not-fallen, firm, solid], unperturbed, unmoved.
adbhutah: wonderful.
adesa (Adesh, Adesha): voice, impulsion, command.
adevi maya: undivine maya. [Ved.]; adevir mayah [plural], formations of a dark and false creative knowledge.
adhama: [low, degraded].
adhama gati: the lowest status; [the lowest path].; adhamam gatim [accusative] [Gita 16.20]
adhara (Adhar): vehicle [vessel, support]; that in which the consciousness is now contained, mind-life-body.
adhara-siddhi: [perfection of the adhara].
adharma: not-dharma.
adhibhuta: the elemental; the objective phenomenon of being.
adhidaiva: that which pertains to the Gods (non-material powers) ; the subjective phenomenon of being.
adhidaivata: the divine element in the becoming.
adhikara: capacity; something in the immediate power of a man's nature that determines by its characteristics his right to this or that way of yoga.
adhikari: [one who has adhikara (for a particular way of yoga) ].
adhikaribheda: [distinction between adhikaris].
adhina: [subject to, subservient to].
adhishthana: basis, standing ground (of the soul in Nature) .
adhishthatri devata: indwelling Godhead.
adhishthaya: [having dwelt in or stood upon]. [Gita 4.6]
adhisthita: seated above.
adhiyajna: the cosmic principle of works and sacrifice; the secret Divine who receives the sacrifice.
adho gacchanti: [they go downwards]. [Gita 14.18]
adhogati: [downward movement]; descent (towards matter and mere form).
adhvara: travelling, moving; a word for sacrifice, really an adjective, the full phrase is adhvara yajna. [Ved.]
adhvarasya pesah: the form of the pilgrim-sacrifice. [RV 7.42.1 ]
adhvara yajna (Adhwara Yajna): the sacrifice that travels or is a travel to the home of the godheads. [Ved.]
adhvaryu (Adhwaryu): the conductor of the sacrifice; a priest of the pilgrim-sacrifice. [Ved.]
Adhwara Yajna: see adhvara yajna
Adhwaryu: see adhvaryu
adhyaksa: presiding person or presence; he who seated over all in the supreme ether oversees things, views and controls them from above.
adhyaropa: imposition.
adhyatma: the spiritual, everything that has to do with the highest existence [atman] in us; the principle of the self in Nature.
adhyatmacetasa: [by means of] a spiritual consciousness. [Gita 3.30]
adhyatma-jivana: the spiritual life.
adhyatma-sastra (Adhyatma-shastra): science and art of spiritual living.
adhyatma-sukham: spiritual happiness.
adhyatmayoga: spiritual yoga.
adhyatmika (Adhyatmic): [spiritual].
adhyaya: chapter.
adi-devam ajam vibhum: the original Godhead, the Unborn, the all-pervading Master. [Gita 10.12]
aditayah: infinite beings. [RV 7.52.1]
aditaye anagasah: blameless before the Infinite Mother. [cf. RV I.24. 1 5; 5.82.6]
Aditi: the indivisible conscious-force and ananda of the Supreme; the Mother; the infinite Mother of the gods; supreme Nature or infinite Consciousness.
Aditi devatamayi: Aditi full of the gods. [cf. Katha 2.1.7]
Adityah (Adityas): Solar gods, children of Infinity (sons of Aditi). [Ved.]; Adityasah [vocative], O Sons of the infinite Mother. [RV 7.52.1]
adityavarna: [having the colour of the sun]. [cf. Gita 8.9]
adityavat prakasayati tat param: like a sun lights up that Supreme. [Gita 5.16]
adityavat tamasah parastat: [like a sun beyond darkness]. [cf. Svet. 3.8; Gita 8.9]
adreh sanu: a level of the hill (of being). [Ved.]
adri: 1. hill; rock, stone, dense substance (a figure for the physical consciousness).; 2. the pressing-stone.; 3. the thunderbolt, the formed electric force of Indra. [Ved.]
adrsta: the unseen thing, Fate.
advaita (Adwaita): [non-duality], One-Existence; Monism, Monistic vedanta.
advaita-jnani (Adwaitajnani): [one who follows the advaita path of Knowledge].
advaitavada (Adwaitavada): [the doctrine of advaita].
advaitavadin (Adwaitavadin): [one who professes the advaitavada].
advaitin (Adwaitin): a Vedantic Monist.
advaya: free from the duality.
Adwaita etc.: see advaita etc.
adya mahasakti: [the original mahasakti].
adyam purusham yatah pravrttih prasrta purani: the original Soul ... from whom proceeds the ancient sempiternal urge to action [pravrtti]. [Gita 15.4]
adya sakti (Adya Shakti): original Power; the supreme divine Consciousness and Power above the worlds; the Transcendental Mother.
agamistha: mostly ready to come. [RV 5.76.2]
agananashakti: infinite variations of energy.
aghatana-ghatana-patiyasi: very skillful in bringing about the impossible.
Agni: 1. the godhead of fire, [psychologically]: the divine will perfectly inspired by divine Wisdom, and indeed one with it, which is the active and effective power of the Truth-Consciousness.; 2. [one of the five bhutas]: fire; the formatory principle of intension, represented to our senses in matter as heat, light and fire.
Agni pavaka: the purifying fire; the psychic fire.
Agni sakti (Agni Shakti): the force of fire.
Agni vaisvanara (Agni Vaishwanara): 1. Agni as the universal in Man or universal Power.; 2. the heat that digests food.
ahaituka: [without any motive]; disinterested.
ahaituki: feminine of ahaituka
ahaituki bhakti: [motiveless devotion]; inherent yearning
aham: I.
aham adih sarvasah: I am altogether and in every way the origin. [Gita 10.2]
ahambhava: [the state of being "I"].
aham brahma asmi: I am brahman
aham-buddhi: ego-idea.
aham eva akshayah kalah: I am imperishable Time. [Gita 10.33]
ahamkara (ahankara, Ahankar): ego-sense; ego-idea; the divisional principle of ego-formation; the separative ego-sense which makes each being conceive of itself as an indepndent personality.
ahamkarta: ["I" as the doer].
ahamkrta bhava: egoistic condition of consciousness.
aham krtsnasya jagath prabhavah pralayas tatha: I am the birth of the whole world and so too its dissolution. [Gita 7.6]
aham mrtyuh sarvaharah: I am all-snatching death. [cf. Gita 10.34]
aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate: I am the birth of everything and from me all proceeds into development of action and movement. [Gita 10.8]
aham tvam moksayisyami ma sucah: I will deliver thee, do not grieve.; [see the following]
aham tva sarvapapebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah: I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve. [Gita 18.66]
aham vedmi suko vetti sanjayo vetti va na va: [I know, Shuka knows, Sanjaya knows or perhaps does not]. [Mahabharata 1.1.81]
ahan: day.
ahankara (Ahankar): see ahamkara
ahimsa (Ahinsa): harmlessness, non-injuring and non-killing.
ahimsa paramo dharmah: ahimsa is the highest law (dharma) .
Ahinsa: see ahimsa
Ahi Vrtra (Ahi Vritra): [the serpent Vrtra]. [Ved.]
Airavata: [the name of the elephant of Indra.]
aisvara yoga: divine yoga.
aisvarya (Aishwarya): [one of the ashtasiddhis]: the control over events, lordship, wealth and all objects of desire; effectiveness of the Will acting on object or event without the aid of physical means.; aisvaryam [nominative]
ajanayat: [he brought it to birth].
ajna: [command]; thought that is will.
ajnacakra (Ajna Chakra): the centre between the eye-brows, which governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation.
ajnana: Knowledge-Will; the operation by which the consciousness dwells on an image of things so as to govern and possess it in power.; ajnanam [nominative]
ajnanasambhutam hrtstham samsayam: [doubt born of ignorance stationed in the heart]. [Gita 4.42]
ajnanenavrtam jnanam tena muhyanti jantavah: because Knowledge is veiled by Ignorance, mortal men [creatures] are deluded. [Gita 5.15]
ajneyam: the Unknowable.

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