Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

iccha: wish.
iccha-dvesa: wish and disliking.
iccha-mrtyu: the power of abandoning the body definitively without the ordinary phenomena of death, by an act of will.
iccha-sakti: power of will.
ida nadi: [one of the main nerve channels in the subtle body, situated on the left side of the central channel].
iha: here (in this life and body).
iha ca amutra ca: here and beyond.
ihaiva: here [itself]; (in life, on earth, in the body).
Iksvaku (Ikshvaku): the name of the head of the Solar line.
Ila: [Ved.]: the goddess of the Truth-vision; a faculty of the rtam representing truth-vision or revelation; the highest Word, premier energy of the Truth-Consciousness; she who is the direct revealing vision in knowledge and becomes in that knowledge the spontaneous self attainment of the Truth of things in action, result and experience. [Puranas]: Mother of the Lunar dynasty.
Indra: the Master of the World of Light and Immortality (svar); the Power of divine Mind. [Ved.]
indra jyestho marudganah: Indra eldest of the Maruts. [cf. RV 1.23.8; 2.41.15]
indratama angirastama: "most-Indra", "most-Angirasa". [Ved.]
indriyas: the sense-faculties.
is, isa (Ish, Isha): Lord.
Isana (Ishana): [master, ruler, a name of Siva-Rudra].
isa vasyam: for habitation by the Lord. [see the following]
isa vasyam idam sarvam yat kinca: all this whatsoever ... is for habitation by the Lord. [see the following]
isa vasyam idam sarvam yat kinca jagatyam jagat: all this is for habitation by the Lord, whatsoever is individual universe of movement in the universal motion. [Isa 1]
Ish, Isha: see is, isa
Ishana: see isana
Ishita: see isita
Ishwara etc.: see isvara etc.
isita (Ishita): [one of the astasiddhis]: the perfect control over the powers of nature and over things inert and intelligent; effectiveness of will acting not as command or through the thought, by ajnanam, but through the heart and temperament (citta) in a perception of need or pure lipsa.
isitam presitam patati manas: ...missioned the mind shot falls to its mark. [cf. kenesitam patati presitam manah]
ista: chosen; beloved; [ =istadeva(ta)].
ista-deva(ta): the chosen deity; the name and form elected by our nature for its worship; a conscious Personality of the Divine answering to the needs of the seeker's own personality and showing to him in a representative image what the Divine is or at least pointing him through himself to the Absolute.
isvara (Ishwara): Lord, Master, the Divine, God.
isvara-bhava: lordship, the temperament of the ruler and leader.
isvarah sarvabhutanam hrddese: the Lord in the heart of all creatures. [Gita 18.61]
isvarakoti (Ishwarakoti): divine man; a human being whose centre has already been shifted upwards or from the beginning elevated in the superior planes of conscious existence, was established in God rather than in Nature; such men are already leaning down from God to Nature; they may therefore in losing themselves in Him yet keep themselves and live in Man-God. [cf. jivakoti]
isvara-sakti (Ishwara-Shakti): the dual principle of the Lord [isvara] and his executive Power [sakti].
isvari (Ishwari): [feminine of isvara, "she who has mastery"].
isvari sakti (Ishwari Shakti): Divine Conscious Force and World Mother.
iti: [thus; used to indicate direct speech, to include under one head a number of terms grouped together, etc.].
itihasa: historical tradition, a historico-mythic epic narrative; ancient historical or legendary tradition turned to creative use as a significant mythus or tale expressive of some spiritual or religious or ethical or ideal meaning.
iti iti: it is this, it is this.
jada: inert, mechanical, inconscient.
jada laya: [an absorption of the self into the Spirit, which leaves the mind, life and body in a state of inconscience and inertia].
jada prakrti: [inert nature].
jada samadhi: inert inner existence.
jadavat: like a thing inert.
jadavat paramahamsa: a paramahamsa who is outwardly inert and inactive, moved by circumstance or forces but not self-mobile, even though the consciousness is enlightened within.
jadu [Hind.]: magic.
jagadguru ( jagat-guru): the World-Teacher.
jagadisvaro va: or sovereign of the world.
jaganmithya: the world is a lie. [Vivekacudamani 20]
jagannatha (Jagannath): [Lord of the world].
jagat: world, universe; (the word has the radical sense of motion): the perpetual movement; knot of motion.
jagat-guru: see jagadguru
jagati: 1. the movement; universe; the universal motion.; 2. [the name of a metre].
jagatyam jagat: universe of movement in the universal motion. [Isa 1]
jagrat: awake; the waking state, the consciousness of the material world.
jahi kamam durasadam: slay desire which is hard to assail. [cf. Gita 3.43]
jala: water; [as one of the five bhutas. see apas, definition 2]
jamayah: kindred, brothers. [Ved.]
jana: man; birth and delight, the delight that gives birth to life and world; [ =janaloka].
Janaka: [a famous king and sage, the father of Sita].
janaloka: the world of creative delight of existence.
janmabhumi: the land of one's birth.
janma karma ca me divyam: My divine birth and work. [see the following]; janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah; tyaktva deham punarjanma naiti mam eti sorjuna,; He who knoweth thus in its right principles My divine birth and My divine work, when he abandons his body, comes not to rebirth, he comes to Me, O Arjuna. [Gita 4.9]; vitaragabhayakrodha manmaya mam upasritah; bahavo jnanatapasa puta madbhavam agatah; Delivered from liking and fear and wrath, full of Me, taking refuge in Me, many purified by austerity of knowledge have arrived at My nature of being. [Gita 4.10]
janma-mrtyu-jara-duakhair vimuktomrtam asnute: free from birth and death and age and grief enjoys immortality. [Gita 14.20]
janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-dukha-dosanudarsanam: the perception of the defects of existence, birth and disease and death and old age and sorrow. [Gita 13.9]
japa: [repetition of a mantra or a name of God].
jara-marana-moksaya mam asritya yatanti ye: [they who, having resorted to Me, strive for release from age and death] [Gita 7.29]
jara-marana-moksaya yatanti: [they strive for release from age and death]. [see the preceding]
jat [Hind.]: [ =jati].
Jatavedas: knower of the births (the worlds); [a Vedic epithet of Agni].
jati: caste.
jati-dharma: caste law and rule of living and conduct.
jati-sangha: caste communal assembly.
jatyantaraparinamah prakrtyapurat: [evolutionary change (parinama) into another species is by the flooding of nature]. [Yogasutra 4.2]
jitah sargah: conquered the creation. [Gita 5.19]
jitakrodha: [one who has conquered anger].
jitatma: a soul self-conquered.
jitendriya: [one who has conquered the senses].
jitva satrun bhunksva rajyam samrddham: conquer thy enemies and enjoy an opulent kingdom. [Gita 11.33]
jiva: 1. Living creature.; 2. the spirit individualised and upholding the living being in its evolution from birth to birth (the full term is jivatman).
jivabhutam: [who] has become the jiva. [Gita 7.5]
jivakoti: a human being leaning pre-eminently to the symbol-nature, who, once immersed, cannot return; he is lost in God to humanity. [cf. isvarakoti]
jivanmukta: living liberated man.
jivanmukti: [liberation while living].
jiva purusa (Jiva Purusha): [the jivatman as a Person (purusa)].
jivatman: the individual self; central being; the atman, spirit or eternal self of the living being; the multiple Divine manifested here as the individualised self or spirit of the created being. [cf. jiva]; jivatma [nominative]
jivatmikam: in its essence the jiva.
jnana: knowledge, wisdom; supreme self-knowledge; the essential aspect [cf. vijnana] of the true unifying knowledge, the direct spiritual awareness of the supreme Being.; jnanam [nominative]
jnanadharanasamarthyam: [capacity for receiving and sustaining knowledge].
jnanadipena bhasvata: with the blazing lamp of knowledge. [Gita 10.11]
jnanakanda: the section of knowledge [of the Veda], identified with the Upanisads. [cf. karmakanda]
jnanalipsa: [desire for knowledge].
jnanalipsa jnanaprakaso brahmavarcasyam sthairyam iti brahmatejah: see these words separately.
jnanam: see under jnana
jnanam brahma: the brahman as the self-existent consciousness and universal knowledge.
jnanam caitanyam jyotir brahma: [the brahman is knowledge, consciousness and light].
jnanam trikaladrstih astasiddhih samadhih iti vijnanacatustayam: see these words separate]y.
jnana-nirdhuta-kalmasah: [they whose sins have been removed by knowledge]. [Gita 5.17]
jnanaprakasa (Jnanaprakasha): [light of knowledge].; jnanaprakaso[nominative, modified form]
jnana-sakti (Jnana Shakti): power of knowledge.
jnana-yajnena yajanto mam upasate: [they, sacrificing with the sacrifice of knowledge, worship Me]. [Gita 9.15]
jnanayoga: the yoga of knowledge; self-realisation and knowledge of the true nature of the self and the world.
jnanayogena sankhyanam: by the yoga of knowledge of the sankhyas. [Gita 3.3]
jnani (bhaktah): [one of the four classes of devotees]: the Godlover who has the knowledge. [Gita 7.16]
jnata isvarah: Knower and Lord.
jnatr: knower.; jnata [nominative]
jnatum drastum tattvena pravestum ca: to know, to see in all the principles and powers of (My) existence and to enter... [Gita 11.54]
jneyam: [that which is] to be known.
jugupsa: shrinking, contraction; self-protecting recoil; the feeling of repulsion caused by the sense of a want of harmony between one's own limited self-formation and the contacts of the external with a consequent recoil of grief, fear, hatred, discomfort, suffering.
jyayasi karmano buddhih: the intelligence [buddhi] is greater than works. [Gita 3.1]
jijnasu: [one of the four classes of devotees]: the seeker of God-knowledge. [Gita 7.16]

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