Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

bhaga: enjoyment, enjoyer; Bhaga: the deva as the Lord of enjoyment, the divine Enjoyer in man.
bhaga: share, portion; enjoyment. [Ved.]
Bhaga Savitr (Bhaga Savitri): [Savitr, the Creator, as Bhaga, the Enjoyer].
Bhagavad Gita: [the Song of the Blessed Lord", a celebrated scripture in the form of a dialogue between Krsna (Bhagavan) and Arjuna spoken on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, which occurs as an episode in the Mahabhdrata].
Bhagavan (Bhagawan, Bhagwan): God; the Lord of Love and Delight.
bhagavata (Bhagavat, Bhagawata): 1. the Bhagavata Purana [one of the eighteen Puranas], the law of the vaishnava dispensation of adoration and love.; 2. [a worshipper of Bhagavan].
bhagavat-cetana (Bhagavat Chetana): [the divine consciousness], the Mother.
bhagavati sakti: [the divine Power].
Bhagawan: see Bhagavan
Bhagiratha: [the name of an ancient king of the solar dynasty who brought down the Ganga from heaven].
Bhagwan: see Bhagavan
bhai bhai ek thain [Beng.]: brother and brother massed inseparably together.
bhajami: I accept (them) to My love. [Gita 4.11]
bhajana (Bhajan): [a devotional song; worship].
bhajanti pritipurvakam: they adore Me with an intense delight of love. [cf. Gita 10.10]
bhajati: adores (Me), has bhakti (for Me). [Gita 15.19]
bhakta: a lover and devotee of the Divine.
bhakti: love for the Divine, devotion to the Divine.
bhaktiman me priyah: the God-lover (the one who has love of Me) is dear to Me. [Gita 12.17]
bhaktimarga: [the path of bhakti].
bhaktivada: [the gospel of bhakti].
bhaktiyoga: [the yoga of devotion].
bhaktya mam abhijanati: by bhakti he comes to know Me. [Gita 18.55]
bhang [Hind.]: [hemp,. used as an intoxicant].
bhanga: see varnikabhanga
bhangi [Hind.]: scavenger.
Bharata (Bharat): India.
Bharatasakti (Bharata Shakti): [the sakti of India].
Bharatavarsa (Bharatavarsha): India.
Bharati: see Mahi.
bhargah savitur devasya yo no dhiyah pracodayat: [the power and light of the divine Sun (Savitr) ... which should impel our thoughts]. [cf. RV 3.62.10]
bhargavah (Bhargavas): a clan of rsis [descended from Bhrgu] who went by his name; [same as the Bhrgus]. [Ved.]
bhartr: upholder; husband.; bharta [nominative]
bhartrsokaparitangi: her whole body afflicted with grief for her husband. [Mahabharata, 3.64.12]
bhasya (Bhashya): a commentary.
bhava: 1. status of being.; 2. a becoming.; 3. a subjective state, one of the secondary subjective becomings of Nature (states of mind, affections of desire, movements of passion, the reactions of the senses, the limited and dual play of the reason, the turns of the feeling and moral sense).; 4. the affective nature.; 5. general sensation.; 6. [one of the sadanga]: the emotion or aesthetic feeling expressed by the form.; 7. [in poetry: feeling, mood, sentiment].; bhavah [plural]
bhava-karah: [maker of subjective becomings]. [cf. Gita 8.3]
Bhavani (Bhawani): [a name of the Goddess]; the Mother; the Infinite Energy.
Bhavani Bharati (Bhawani Bharati): [Bhavani as the sakti of India].
Bhavani Mahisa-mardini (Bhawani Mahisha Mardini): [Bhavani as the slayer of the Buffalo-demon (Mahisasura)].
Bhavani Mandira (Bhawani Mandir): [the temple of Bhavani, the Mother].
bhavanti: they are.
bhavanti matta eva: they are from Me. [Gita 10.5]
bhavonyah: another status of existence. [Gita 8.20]
Bhawani etc.: see Bhavani etc.
bhayanaka: [one of the eight rasas]: the terrible.
bheda: difference, a different part.; bhedah [plural]
bhedabheda: difference and sameness.
bhoga: enjoyment, possession.
bhogaisvaryagatim prati: directed to enjoyment and lordship as its goal. [Gita 2.43]
bhogalipsa: [desire for bhoga]
bhogartham: for the sake of enjoyment.
bhogasamarthya: capacity for enjoyment.; bhogasamarthyam [nominative]
bhogin: [enjoyer].
bhokta: enjoyer.
bhoktaram yajnatapasam: enjoyer of sacrifice and tapasya (askesis). [Gita 5.29]
bhoktaram yajnatapasam sarvabhutamahesvaram: enjoyer of sacrifice and askesis, great Lord of all beings. [cf. Gita 5.29]
bhrasta: [fallen (from yoga)].
Bhrgu (Bhrigu): a great rsi, the son of Varuna; regarded as one of the original sages, progenitor of the clan of rsis who went by his name.
Bhrgus (Bhrigus): solar powers of Surya, burning powers of the Sun; a family of rsis in the Veda, [descendants of Bhrgu]. [Ved.]
bhrumadhya: [the place between the eyebrows].
Bhujyu: "the seeker of enjoyment", son of King Tugra. [Ved.]
bhukti: enjoyment.; bhuktih [nominative]
bhuma: the Large.
bhumi: earth.
bhunjithah: thou shouldst enjoy. [Isa 1]
bhur (Bhu): the material world.
bhuri (aspasta) kartvam: (there is made clear) the much that has still to be done. [RV 1.10.2]
bhurloka: the material world, the world of formal becoming.
bhuta: 1. a becoming, an existence.; 2. an elemental power or spirit.; 3. an element; the five bhutas: elements, the five elemental states of substance: akasa, vayu, agni (tejas), apas (jala), prthivi.; bhutanam [genitive plural]; bhutani [nominative and accusative]
bhuta-bhavana bhutesa deva-deva jagatpate: lord of existences, cause of their becoming, God of gods, master of the universe. [Gita 10.15]
bhutabhrn na ca bhutastho mamatma bhutabhavanah: My self is that which supports beings and constitutes their existence, it does not dwell in them. [Gita 9.5]
bhutabhrt: that which supports beings. [see the preceding]
bhutagramam: multitude of beings or becomings.
bhuta-karah: [maker of existences]. [cf. Gita 8.3]
bhutanam: see under bhuta
bhutanam isvarah: the lord of beings. [Gita 4.6]
bhutani: see under bhuta
bhutani abhut: became the becomings. [cf. Isa 7]
bhutani... atmanam: existences... the Self. [reference to [Isa 6] translated thus: but he who sees everywhere the Self in all existences and all existences in the Self...]
Bhutas: see under bhuta
bhutva bhutva: having come into the becoming again and again. [Gita 8.19]
bhuvana: becoming; world.; bhuvanam [nominative]
bhuvar (Bhuvah): world of pure vitality, world of various becoming (the intermediate dynamic, vital or nervous consciousness).
bhuvarloka: world of free vital becoming in form.
bhuya eva srnu me paramam vacah: again hearken to My supreme word. [Gita 10.1 ]
bibaha: [Beng. pronunciation of vivaha], [marriage].
bibhatsa: [one of the eight rasas]: the horrible or repellent.
Bibhishan: Beng. pronunciation of Vibhisana.
bideshi: [Beng. pronunciation of videsi], [foreign (goods)].
bihista (behesta) [Hind.]: Paradise.
bijamantra: [seed-mantra].
bila: hole.
bindu: [dot, point].
biparita buddhi: [Beng. pronunciation of viparita buddhi], deluded intelligence.
brahma: see under brahman
Brahma (Brahma): [Ved] 1. the Power of the Divine, which creates the worlds by the Word;; 2. the priest of the Word. [Later]: the creative Deity [one of the trimurti]; the Eternal's personality of existence. [Brahma is the nominative; the uninflected form of the word is brahman; it differs from brahman "the Eternal" only in gender].
brahmabhuta: has become the brahman.
brahma-bhuyaya: [for] arriving at the Brahmic status. [Gita 18.53]
brahmacarin (Brahmachari): [one who practises brahmacarya; a student]
brahmacarya (Brahmacharya): complete sex-purity.; brahmacaryam [nominativel
brahmacatustaya (Brahmachatushtaya): [the catustaya of the brahman]; brahmacatustayam [nominative]
Brahma devanam prathamah sambabhuva: Brahma first of the Gods was born. [Mund. 1.1.1]
brahmadvisah: haters and destroyers of the Word. [Ved.]
brahmagni: the fire of the brahman. [cf. Gita 4.24, 25]
brahmajnanam: [knowledge (jnana) of the brahman].
brahmaloka: world of the brahman, in which the soul is one with the infinite existence and yet in a sense still a soul able to enjoy differentiation in the oneness; the highest state of pure existence, consciousness and beatitude attainable by the soul without complete extinction in the Indefinable.
brahman: [Ved.]: the sacred or inspired word, expression of the heart or soul; heart; the Vedic word or mantra in its profoundest aspect as the expression of the intuition arising out of the depths of the soul or being; the Soul that emerges out of the subconscient in Man and rises towards the superconscient and also word of creative Power welling upward out of the soul. [Vedanta]: the Reality; the Eternal; the Absolute; the Spirit; the Supreme Being; the One besides whom there is nothing else existent; in relation to the universe [cf. atman] the Supreme is brahman, the one Reality which is not only the spiritual, material and conscious substance of all the ideas and forces and forms of the universe, but their origin, support and possessor, the cosmic and supracosmic Spirit.; brahma [nominative]; brahmana [instrumental], by the hymn.; brahmani [locative], into the brahman. [cf. Brahma]
brahmana (Brahmin): [a member of the first of the four orders (caturvarna)] the priest of knowledge; the man of learning and thought and knowledge; (symbolic idea) : the Divine as knowledge in man.
brahmana: see under brahman
brahmananda: [the ananda of the brahman]
Brahmanas: [the portion of the Veda, distinct from its mantra (hymnal) portion, which contains rules for the employment of the mantras at various sacrifices, and also detailed explanations of the origin and meaning of the mantras and numerous old legends].
Brahmanaspati: the lord of the divine word (brahman); the Creator (by the word).

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