Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

mam: me.
mama atma: [My Self]. [Gita 9.5]
mamaiva amsah, mamaivamsah: a part (partial manifestation) of Me. [see the following]
mamaivamsah sanatanah: an eternal portion of Me. [Gita 15.7]
mam anusmaran: [remembering Me]. [Gita 8.13]
mam anusmara yudhya ca: remember Me and fight. [Gita 8.7]
mam asritya: having resorted to Me (as their refuge). [Gita 7.29]
mam viduh: they know Me. [Gita 7.30]
mam visate tadanantaram: [ ...(knowing) Me, he enters immediately into That]. [Gita 18.55]
manah-kosa: the mental sheath.
manah-prana: [mind-life].
manana: thinking.; mananam [nominative]
manas: mind, the mind proper [as distinct from the intellect (buddhi)], sense-mind.
manasa ananda: [mental bliss].
manasa buddhi: mental reason.
manasa niyamya arabhate karmayogam: controlling (the senses) by the mind he engages in the yoga of action. [Gita 3.7]
manasa putra: mind-born child.
manasa tapas: [mental tapas].
manasika: [mental].
Manava-dharmasastra: [name of the famous code of laws attributed to Manu]; the science of the law of conduct of the mental or human being.
mandala: circle, a "book" of the Rg-veda; [a district or province of a large kingdom].
mandira (Mandir): [temple].
mangala: good fortune.
manipura: [name of the navel-lotus (nabhipadma)].
manisa: intellect. [Ved.]
manisi (Manishi): the thinker.
manma: expression of thought in mind; thought of the mind. [Ved.]
manmana maccittah: [with mind (manas) and citta given up to Me]. [cf. Gita 9.34]
manmaya mam upasritah: [they who are full of Me and take refuge in Me]. [Gita 4.10]
mano brahma: Mind as the Eternal [brahman]. [Tait. 3.4]
manomaya: [ =manomayapurusa].
manomaya (purusa) prana-sarira-neta: the mental Being, leader of the life and the body. [Mund. 2.2.8]
manomaya purusa (Manomaya Purusha): mental Person, the mental being.
mantharagati [Hind.]: [slow-paced].
mantra: sacred syllable, name or mystic formula; the intuitive and inspired rhythmic utterance; any of the verses of the Veda, revealed verses of power not of an ordinary but of a divine inspiration and source.
manu: 1. the thinker, the mental being, man.; 2. Manu: the father of man.; 3. the four Manus (catvaro manavah): the spiritual Fathers of every human mind and body.; 4. [one of the fourteen progenitors who preside successively over the fourteen manvantaras; to the first of these is attributed the Manava-dharmasastra; the manu of the present (seventh) manvantara is Vaivasvata].
manusah: men, human powers. [Ved.]
manusim tanum asritam: lodged in the human body. [Gita 9.11]
manusvat: human.
manusya: [a man].
manvantara: [an age or period of a Manu, an extremely long period of time, one fourteenth of a day of Brahma].
manyamanah: the thinkers of the word. [Ved.]
manyu: temperament, emotive mind. [Ved.]
Mara: [in Buddhism: the Destroyer, the Evil One (who tempts man to indulge his passions and is the great enemy of the Buddha and of his religion)], conscious devil or self-existent principle of evil.
maranam: [killing].
marga: [way, path].
margasirsa (Margashirsha): the first month in the ancient Hindu lunar calendar, corresponding to November-December].
Marici (Marichi): the leader of the Maruts.
Martanda: "he of the mortal creation", the eighth Surya, the black or dark, the lost or hidden sun. [Ved.]
Maruti: [a name of Hanumat].
Maruts: the Thought-Forces; the Life-Powers that support by their nervous and vital energies the action of the thought in the attempt of the mortal consciousness to grow or expand itself into the immortality of the Truth and Bliss; (to the uninstructed Aryan worshipper): powers of storm, wind and rain.
ma sucah: do not grieve. [Gita 18.66]
mata devanam aditer anikam: Mother of the gods, force of the Infinite. [RV 1.113.19]
Matarisvan (Matarishwan): he who moves, breathes, expands infinitely in the mother element; the universal Life-Power, an epithet of Vayu.
matha: [monastery, hermitage].
Mathura: [a town near Agra in North India, the birth-place of Krsna].
mati: general mentality; thought, feeling, mental state. [Ved.]
matra: measure (of sound), the quantitative action of Nature.
matravrtta: [in Bengali prosody, a type of metre in which a syllable ending in a consonant always possesses a metrical value of one unit. [cf. aksaravrtta]
matrka (Matrika): [mother], corresponds to "emanation" (of the Mother).
matsamstham: founded upon Me. [Gita 6.15]
matsthani sarvabhutani: all existences are situated in Me. [see the following]
matsthani sarvabhutdni na caham tesvavasthitah: all existences are situated in Me, not I in them. [Gita 9.4]
matta eva: verily from Me. [Gita 7.12]
mattah pravartate: is derived from Me. [Gita 10.8]
mauna: [not speaking, silence].
maunavrata: [a vow of silence].
maya: signified originally in the Veda the comprehensive and creative knowledge, wisdom that is from of old, afterwards taken in its second and derivative sense, cunning, magic, illusion; phenomenal consciousness, the power of self-illusion in brahman.; mayabhih [instrumental plural], by (his) workings of knowledge.; mayah[plural], forms of knowledge.
maya duratyaya: maya hard to overcome. [Gita 7.14]
mayah: see under maya
mayaivaite nihatah purvameva nimittamatram bhava savyasacin: by Me and none other already even are they slain, do thou become the occasion only, O Savyasacin. [Gita 11.33]
maya nihatah purvam eva: already have they been slain by Me. [see the preceding]
mayas: Bliss, beatitude, felicity. [Ved.]
mayavada: [the doctrine which holds that the world is maya, i.e. an illusion].
mayavadin: [one who professes the mayavada].
mayi arpita-manobuddhih: [one with] mind and understanding given up to Me. [Gita 8.7; 12.14]
mayi nivasisyasi (nivasisyasyeva): (verily) thou shalt dwell in Me. [cf. Gita 12.8]
mayi samnyasya (karmani): giving up (works) into Me. [see the following]
mayi sarvani karmani samnyasyadhyatmacetasa: with a consciousness identified with the Self, renouncing all actions into Me. [Gita 3.30]
mayi vartate: lives and acts in Me. [Gita 6.31]
mayobhuvah: those who bring or carry in their being the felicity [mayas]. [Ved]
mayyeva nivasisyasi: verily thou shalt dwell in Me. [Gita 12.8]
medha: brain-power, grasping-power.
meghadhavani: [the sound of thunder].
me prakrtih: My nature. [cf. Gita 7.5]
Meru: [the name of a fabulous mountain which is the centre of the seven continents and around which the planets revolve].
me yoga aisvarah: My yoga of divine Power. [cf. Gita 9.5]
milana: contact, union.
mimamsaka (Mimansaka): [a follower of the purva-mimamsa philosophy].
mitabhasi: (one who is) temperate in speech.
mitacarah: (one who is) restrained in action.
mithya: ["a lie" as in jaganmithya: "the world is a lie"].
mithyacara: a false and self-deceiving line of action. [Gita 3.6]
Mitra: the Lord of love and harmony [Ved.]; the name also means "friend" and is the ordinary Sanskrit word for friend.
mitrasya dhamabhih: by the foundations, statuses, placings of Mitra. [Ved.]
mitrasya dharmabhih: by the "holdings" or laws of Mitra. [Ved.]
mleccha (Mlechchha): [barbarian, non-Aryan].
mleccha sakti (Mlechchha Shakti): [a mleccha Energy].
Mofussil: see mufassal
mogham partha sa jivati: in vain, O Partha [Arjuna], he lives. [Gita 3.16]
moha: delusion, self-delusion.
mohanam: [a bewildering, a confusing].
mohinim prakrtim sritah: (they) dwell in the nature which deludes. [cf. Gita 9.12]
moksa (Moksha): release, liberation; [one of the four human interests]: spiritual liberation.
mrdhravacasah: spoilers of speech. [Ved.]
mrtyu: death.
mrtyum tirtva amrtam asnute: he crosses beyond death and enjoys Immortality. [Isa 14]
mudhayonisu: [in the wombs of the ignorant]. [Gita 14.15]
mufassal (Mofussil) [Hind.]: [the country (as opposed to the town), rural districts].
muhurta: a moment.
mukam karoti vacalam pangum langhayate girim: he makes the dumb to talk and the lame to cross over the hills.
mukhya (prana): chief Breath or Breath of the mouth. [Chand. 1.2.7; 1.5.3]
mukta: free.
mukta jiva: a soul free from illusion and limitation.
muktasya karma: the action of the liberated man.
muktatma: [the liberated soul (atman)].
mukti: liberation.; muktih [nominative]
muladhara: root vessel or chamber; the physical consciousness centre [cakra]
mula-prakrti: original or root energy [nature].
mulla (Mullah) [Hind.]: [a Mahomedan priest].
mumuksu: [one who desires liberation].
mumuksu jiva: self-liberating soul.
mumuksutvam: passion for release, desire for liberation.

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