Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

Chit: see cit
Chitragupta: see Citragupta
Chitraratha: see Citraratha
Chitta: see citta
Chit Tapas: see cit tapas
Chittashakti: see cittasakti
Chittashuddhi: see cittasuddhi
Chaddar: see caddar
chotalok (Chhotalok) [Beng.]: [ (a member of) the lower orders of society (a pejorative term) ].
Chowdhury: see caudhari
chudis: see curis
cicchakti: see citsakti
cidakasa: [ether of consciousness], inner space.
cid-atman (Chid Atman): [self of consciousness].
cidghana: dense luminous consciousness, the seed-state of the divine consciousness. [same as caitanyaghana]
cikirsur lokasamgraham: having for his motive the holding together of the peoples. [Gita 3.25]
cinmaya: [composed of consciousness]; transcendental.
cinmaya deha: [cinmaya body], spiritualised conscious body.
cit (Chit): consciousness.
cit kosa: [the sheath of consciousness].
Citragupta (Chitragupta): [the name of an attendant of Yama who records the good and evil deeds of each man].
Citraratha (Chitraratha): [the name of the chief of the gandharvas].
cit-sakti (Chit Shakti): consciousness-force, conscious force; the divine Energy; the Mother.
citta (Chitta): basic consciousness; mind-stuff, the general stuff of mental consciousness; passive memory; "heart and mind".
cittakasa: mental or psychical ether.
cit tapas (Chit Tapas): consciousness-force, pure energy of Consciousness; the infinite divine selfawareness which is also the infinite all-effective Will.
cittapramathi: [confusing the mind; exciting passion].
cittasakti (Chittashakti): [the full power (and perfection) of the citta].; cittasaktih [nominative]
cittasuddhi (Chittashuddhi): purification of the citta.
cittavrtti: waves of consciousness, waves of reaction and response which rise up from the basic consciousness [citta]; the manifold activities of consciousness (thoughts and memories and-desires and sensations and perceptions and feelings).
cittavrttinirodha: [control of the cittavrttis], the conquest of all the movements of the mind. [Yogasutra 1.2]
citti: the Knowledge; the truthperceiving conscious vision and knowledge.
citti acitti: the Knowledge and the Ignorance. [cf. the following]
cittim acittim cinavad vi vidvan: let the knower distinguish the Knowledge and the Ignorance. [RV 4.2.11]
ciyate: is piled up; grows. [Mund. 1.1.8]
curis (chudis) [Hind.]: [bangles].
dabhram evapi tvam vettha brahmano rupam: little indeed dost thou know the form of the brahman. [Kena 2.1]
dadhati: establishes. [Isa 4]
dadhi: curds, [Ved.]: the fixation of the yield of the cow in the intellectual mind.
Dadhikravan: the divine warhorse, a power of Agni. [Ved.]
daityas: [demons, sons of Diti].
daiva: Fate, the influence of the Power or powers other than the human factor, other than the visible mechanism of Nature.; daivam [nominative]
daivi: of the godheads or Godhead. [see the following]
daivi hyesa gunamayi mama maya: this is My divine maya of the gunas. [Gita 7.14]
daivi prakrti: the divine nature.
daivya ketu: the divine perception. [Ved.]
daksa (Daksha): [Ved.]: strength generally; mental power; the power of judgment, discernment, discrimination; Daksa: a god, master of the works of unerring right discernment. [Purana]: one of the Prajapatis, the original progenitors.
daksaya kratve: [for], capacity and effective power or will and discernment. [Ved.]
Daksha: see daksa
daksina (Dakshina): 1. clever, skilful; right-hand; south.; 2. giving or self-giving to the leaders of the sacrificial action.
daksina (Dakshina): the pure intuitive discernment; Daksina: the goddess of divine discernment. [Ved.]
daksinamarga (Dakshinamarga): [in the Tantra]: the righthand path: the way of Knowledge; Nature in man liberating itself by right discrimination in power and practice of its own energies.
dama: mastery.
damana: [taming, subduing, conquering].
dana: giving.; danam [nominative]
danam vyayah kausalam bhogalipsa iti vaisyasaktih: see these words separately
danavas: Titans, children of Danu, the Mother of division.
dand [Hind.]: [a kind of exercise, similar in some respects to the push-up].
dandramyamanah andhena niyamano yathandhah: beating about like the blind led by the blind. [cf. Katha 1.2.5]
Danu: the divided consciousness, mother of Vrtra and the other danavas (same as Diti). [Ved.]
danus: children of Danu, [a class of demons]. [Ved.]
daridra-narayana-seva: [service of God in the poor].
daridrer seva [Beng.]: [service of the poor].
darsana (Darshan, Darshana): seeing; the self-revelation of the Deity to the devotee; [an occasion when a spiritual personality in India allows himself to be seen]; [the six darsanas: the six systems of orthodox Indian philosophy: purva-mimamsa, uttara-mimamsa (vedanta), nyaya, vaisesika, samkhya, yoga].
dasa: [demon]. [Ved.]
dasa gavah: the ten Rays. [Ved.]
dasagvas (Dashagwas): those who sacrifice for ten months; seers of the ten rays who enter with Indra into the cave of the panis and recover the lost herds. [Ved.]
dasa ksipah: the ten Casters. [Ved.]
dasapatni: possessed by the destroyers, in the possession of Vrtra or Vala. [Ved.]
dasa varna: [the varna of the dasa]. [Ved.]
dasa yosanah: the ten Brides. [Ved.]
dasma: potent, powerful for (or in) action; doer of works. [Ved.]
dasra: effectual in action. [Ved.]
dasya: service.; dasyam [nominative]
dasyalipsa: [desire to serve.]
dasyam: see under dasya
dasyus: Robbers, destroyers, dividers, plunderers; powers of darkness; adversaries of the seekers of Light and the Truth; there are two great divisions of the dasyus: the panis and the vrtras. [Ved.]
daya: pity.
dehasakti (Dehashakti): [the full power (and perfection) of the body].; dehasaktih [nominative]
dehatma-buddhi, dehatmakabuddhi: the state of perception in which the body is identified with the Self.
dehi: the embodied soul.
desa: place; country.
desa-kala-nimitta: spacetime-causality.
desa-kala-patra (desh-kal-patra): the (right) place, the (right) time and the (right) person.
deva: 1. god, godhead; God, Godhead, the Divine.; 2. [tantrika distinction of sadhakas]: the divine man.; devan [accusative plural]
devabhasa: [the language of the gods, applied to the Sanskrit language].
deva-deva: [God of gods], universal deity.
devadvisah: god-haters.
devakridanudarsanam: as watching the sports of the gods. [Bhagavata Purana]
devan: see under deva
devanagari: [the name of the script (the one used in this glossary) in which Sanskrit is usually written].
devanam adabdha (adabdhani) vratani: [the inviolate laws of the working of the gods]. [Ved.]
devanam dhruva-vratani: [the fixed laws of working of the gods]. [Ved.]
devanam prathama vratani: [the first laws of working of the gods]. [Ved.]
devan devayajo yanti madbhakta yanti mam api: [they who worship the gods go to the gods, but My devotees come to Me]. [Gita 7.23]
devanidah: obstructors of the godhead. [Ved.]
devaputrah: sons of the gods.
devata: [god, godhead].
devatati: the formation or "extension" of the Divine. [Ved.]
devatmasakti: self-power of the Godhead. [see the following]
devatmasaktim svagunair nigudham: the self-power of the divine Existent hidden by its own modes. [Svet. 1.3]
devatva: [divinity]; godhead, the being of the deva.
devaviti: the manifestation of the Divine. [Ved.]; devavitaye [dative]
devayana (Devayan): a journeying of the gods or to the gods.; devayanah [plural]
devayantah: seekers or builders of the godhead. [Ved.]
devayavah: seekers of the godhead. [Ved].
devi: [goddess]; the divine sakti- the Consciousness and Power of the Divine; the Mother and Energy of the worlds.
Devi Candi Ranarangini Nrmundamalini (Devi Chandi Ranarangini Nrimundamalini): [the goddess Candi who delights in battle and wears a garland of human heads].
devir dvarah: the divine doors. [Ved.]
dhama: placing, status, position, foundation; the placing of the law in a founded harmony which creates for us our plane of living and the character of our consciousness, action and thought. [Ved.]; dhamani [plural]
dhana: wealth; any kind of possession.; dhanam [nominative]
dhanvan (Dhanwan): solid or desert field of Matter. [Ved.]
dharana: the fixing of the mind on a single thought, feeling or object.
dharanasakti: faculty of holding.
dharanasamarthya: holding and responsive power; the power of sustaining the full stream of force, of ananda, of widening knowledge and being which descends into the mind and prana and the vital and bodily functions.; dharanasamarthyam [nominative]
dharma: literally that which one lays hold of and which holds things together; Law, law of being, standard of Truth, rule or law of action; the collective Indian conception of the religious, social and moral rule and conduct; [one of the four human interests]: ethical conduct and the right law of individual and social life.
dharmagola [Beng.]: [a collective warehouse established for the benefit of the entire community].
dharma jivana: the religious life.
dharmaksetre kuruksetre: on the field of the (working out of the) dharma, the field of Kuruksetra. [Gita 1.1]
dharmarajya: the kingdom of the dharma.
dharmasadhana: the means of fulfilment of dharma.
dharmasala (Dharmashala): [a building for the temporary accommodation of pilgrims].
dharma-sangha: a communal body [sangha] which exists as the expression of and is based in the rules, features, structure of its life on the maintenance of the dharma.
dharmasastra (Dharmashastra): [a scripture dealing with dharma].
Dharmashala: see dharmasala
Dharmashastra: see dharmasastra
dharmayuddha, dharmyayuddha: righteous battle.

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