Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

asvamedha (Ashwamedha): the offering of the horse. [Ved.]: the offering of the Life-Power with all its impulses, desires, enjoyments to the divine existence. [Later]: [a great sacrifice performed by an imperial sovereign and sometimes used as a means of empire-building.]
asvattha (Ashwattha): fig-tree (symbolises the cosmic manifestation).
asvavati: having with her her horses; accompanied by the swiftnesses of force. [Ved.]
Asvins (Ashwins, Aswins): the two Riders on the Horse; lords of the joyous upward action of the mind and the vital powers; twin divine powers whose special function is to perfect the nervous or vital being in man in the sense of active enjoyment, but they are also powers of Truth, of intelligent action, of right enjoyment. [Ved.]
asvyam: mass of abundance or power of the horse. [Ved.]
Aswins: see asvins.
asya mahimanam: his greatness. [Mund. 3.1.2; Svet. 4.7]
atarkyam: that which logic cannot reach. [Katha 1.2.8]
atat tvam asi: thou art not That. [cf. tat tvam asi]
atha para yaya tad aksaram adhigamyate: and then the higher by which is known the Immutable. [Mund. 1. 1.5]
Atharvan (Atharva): the rsi of the journeying on the Path; [the seer of the Atharva-veda]. [Ved.]
Atharvanah (Atharvans): [the descendants of Atharvan]. [Ved.]
Atharva-veda: [the fourth Veda, composed by Atharvan].
ativa me priyah: exceedingly dear to Me. [Gita 12.20]
atma: see under atman
atmabodha: [awareness of the Self].
atmadana: self-giving.
atma (eva) abhut sarvani bhutani (sarvabhutani): the Self-existent has become all (these) becomings. [cf. Isa 7]
atmajnana: knowledge of the Self.
atmamayaya: by self-maya. [Gita 4.6]
atman: Self; Spirit; the original and essential nature of our existence; in relation to the individual [cf. brahman] the Supreme is our own true and highest Self, atman.; atma [nominative]; atmanam [accusative]
atmana atmanam: thyself by thyself. [see the following]
atmana atmanam vettha: thou knowest thyself by thyself. [Gita 10.15]
atmanam: see under atman
atmanam akartaram: himself as the non-doer. [Gita 13.30]
atmanam avasadayet: [thou shouldst (not) depress the self]. [Gita 6.5]
atmanam niyamya: [controlling the self.] [Gita 18.51]
atmanam sarvabhutesu sarvabhutani catmani: the Self in all existing things and all existing things in the Self. [cf. Isa 6; cf. Gita 6.29]
atmanam srjami: I loose forth myself. [Gita 4.7]
atmani atho mayi: in the Self and then in Me. [Gita 4.35]
atmani atmanam atmana: the self in the self by the self. [Gita 13.25]
atmani sannyasya: [having renounced (them) into the Self].
atmani visva-darsanam: [the seeing of the universe within the Self].
atmanyatmana: in the self by the self. [cf. Gita 13.25]
atmaprasada: [happy tranquillity of the Self].
atmarati: the delight of the Self.; atmaratih [nominative]
atmartham: [for the sake of the Self].
atmasakti [Atmashakti]: Self Power.
atmasamarpana: self-surrender.; atmasamarpanam [nominative]
atmasamyama: self-discipline, the power and habit to control whatever needs control in the movements of the nature.
atmasatkarana: an assimilative appropriation, a making a thing settle into oneself and turn into characteristic form of our self-being.
Atmashakti: see atmasakti
atmaslagha: self-pride, self-confidence, knowledge of one's own might; with purification it becomes the divine Self within rejoicing in the Shakti of God as it pours itself out through the human adhara.
atmaupamyena sarvatra: all everywhere in the image of the Self. [Gita 6.32]
atmavan: in possession of the Self.
atma-vibhuti: God's power of various self-becoming.
atmavisuddhaye: for self purification. [Gita 6.12]
atri: "the eater or the traveller": the devourer [a kind of demon]; [Atri: a Vedic rsi from whom are descended the Atris]. [Ved.]
Atris: "eaters, travellers", the name of a family of rsis in the Veda.
attahasya: [loud laughter], the laughter that makes light of defeat and death and the powers of the ignorance.; attahasyam [nominative]
AUM: [the sacred syllable om with its three constituent letters A, U, M shown separately].
avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam: deluded minds despise Me lodged in the human body. [Gita 9.11]
avalambana: a support.
avas: guard, safety, protection. [Ved.]
avasam prakrter vasat: helplessly subject owing to the control of prakrti. [Gita 9.8]
avasam ...vasat: helplessly subject owing to the control... [see the preceding]
avastabhya: leaning upon. [Gita 9.8]
avastha: status.
avatara (Avatar): Incarnation; the descent into form; the revelation of the Godhead in humanity; the Divine manifest in a human appearance; the word avatara means a descent; it is the coming down of the Divine below the line which divides the divine from the human world or status.
avedit: one comes to (that) Knowledge. [Kena 2.5]
avesa: [entrance, possession]; exultation of the uplifting of the consciousness, elation of the inrush and passage [of poetical inspiration].
avibhakhtam ca bhutesu vibhaktam iva ca sthitam: indivisible but as if divided in beings. [Gita 13. 17]
avicari: [one] without perception and deliberation.
avidat: he found.
avidhipurvakam: not in the true order. [Gita 16.17]
avidya: the Ignorance; the consciousness of Multiplicity; the relative and multiple consciousness.
avidyamaya: [maya of the Ignorance].
avidyayam antare: within the Ignorance. [see the following]
avidyayam antare vartamanah: living and moving within the Ignorance. [Katha 1.2.5; Mund. 1.2.8]
avikampena yogena yujyate: unites himself (to Me) by an untrembling yoga. [Gita 10.7]
avikarya: immutable. [Gita 2.25]
avranam: without wound or scar. [Isa 8]
avratan: those who observe not the law of (thy) working. [Ved.]
avrdhah: they who desire no increase. [Ved.]
avrtti: repetition.
avyabhicarini bhakti: unswerving devotion. [cf. Gita 13.11]
avyakrta: the Unmanifest.
avyakrta prakrti: undifferentiated Nature.
avyakta: unmanifest, latent, concealed; the unmanifestation, unmanifest principle; [in samkhya]: the primary unmanifest seed-state of the manifest active eightfold nature of things; [in vedanta]: the power involved or inherent in unmanifest Spirit or Self out of which cosmos comes and into which it returns.
avyaktam aksaram: the unmanifest immutable. [cf. Gita 12.1]
avyaktam anirdesyam: unmanifest, indefinable. [cf. Gita 12.3]
avyaktamurti: whose image is not revealed. [cf. Gita 9.4]
avyakta parardha: concealed higher hemisphere.
avyaktat param avyaktam: [an unmanifest Supreme beyond the Unmanifest]. [cf. Gita 8.20; Katha 1.3.11]
avyaktoksarah: the unmanifest immutable. [Gita 8.21]
avyakto vyaktat parah: [unmanifest Supreme beyond the manifest].
avyavaharya: incommunicable, without relations.; avyavaharyam [nominative, neuter]
avyaya: imperishable.
ayam atma brahma: this Self is the brahman. [Mand. 2]
Ayasya: [a rsi associated with the navagvas]. [Ved.]
ayoni-sambhava: Virgin [wombless] birth.
babhru: red gold or tawny yellow.
babu [Hind.]: [gentleman], especially, a Bengali of the higher and middle class; [often used with the name like the English "Mr."].
baddha jiva: a soul in bondage.
badmas (Badmash, Budmash) [Hind.]: [hooligan].
bahuni: many. [see the following]
bahuni me vyatitani janmani (tava carjuna): many are My lives that are past, (and thine also, O Arjuna). [Gita 4.5]
bahuvrihi: [in Sanskrit grammar: attributive compound].
bahyapujah: external worship.
bahya sparsa: the touch of outward things. [cf. Gita 5.21]
baithak [Hind.]: [deep knee-bends].
baithakkhana [Hind.]: [drawing-room, parlour].
bakalam [Hind.]: [delegation of authority to another].
bala: strength.; balam [nominative]
balaka: [child, boy].
balam: see under bala
Balarama (Balaram): [the elder brother of Krsna, sometimes regarded as an avatara of Visnu].
balaslagha: [boasting about (confidence in) one's strength].
balavat: as a child.
bande mataram [Beng. pronunciation of]: I bow to the Mother.
bandhu: kin; friend.
bandobast [Hind.]: arrangement.
baniya (Bania, Banya) [Hind.]: [ =vaisya; merchant, shopkeeper].
barabhaya: Beng. pronunciation of varabhaya.
barhis: the sacred grass, the seat of sacred grass. [Ved.]
barhisad pitarah (Barhishad Pitris): [the Fathers "seated on the sacrificial grass", a class of pitrs]. [Ved.]
basana [Beng.]: [wish, longing, fanciful desire]. [cf. vasana]
behesta: see bihista
bhadram: good, happy; anything good, auspicious, happy.

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