Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

Prthivi, prthvi (Prithivi, Prithvi): Earth; the Earth-Principle; [as one of the Five bhutas]: the stabilising principle of condensation, represented to us in matter as earth, the basis of all solids.
prthivi pajasyam: Earth (is His) footing. [Brhad. 1.1.1]
prthivya iva manadandah: as if earth's measuring rod. [Kumarasambhava 1.1 ]
prthvi: see prthivi
puja: worship; [a religious festival (in Bengal)].
punarjanma: "again birth", rebirth.
punya: good, virtue, ethics, merit.
purana: legend and apologue; the Puranas: [a class of sacred writings written in an easy form of Sanskrit (more modem than that of the Veda and Vedanta) composed of legends, apologues, etc.].
Puranic: see pauranika
Pundit: see pandita
purah-hita: see purohita
puratan manus [Beng.]: [old man, "the old Adam"].
purna: [full, fulfilled, perfect].; purnah [nominative, masculine], the perfect being.; purnam [nominative, neuter], fullness.
purnam param: the perfect and the highest.
purnata: fullness.
purnata prasannata samata bhogasamarthyam iti pranasaktih: see these words separately
purna yoga (Poorna Yoga): [the integral yoga].
purna yogin: [one who practises purna yoga], the sadhaka of the Divine Perfection.
purohita (Purohit): (purah-hita, set in front); the priest [whom] man puts in front as his spiritual representative [Ved.]; any priest.
puru: manifold.
Purudamsas: the Manifold in activity (an epithet used of the Asvins). [Ved.]
purusa (Purusha): Person; Conscious Being; Conscious--Soul; Soul; essential being supporting the play of prakrti; a Consciousness--or a Conscient--behind, that is the lord, witness, knower, enjoyer, upholder and source of sanction for Nature's works.
purusa antaratman (Purusha Antaratman): [the purusa as the inner self or soul].
purusa evedam sarvam karma tapo brahma paramrtam: it is the divine soul that is all this, even all action and all active force and brahman and the supreme immortality. [cf. Mund. 2.1.10]
purusah ... aksarat paratah parah: a purusa supreme beyond the Immutable [aksara]. [Mund. 2.1.2]
purusah prakrtisthah: [ purusa situated in prakrti]. [Gita 13.22]
purusah puranah sanatana: ancient soul of long standing, sempiternal in being.
purusakara: [human effort], individual energy.
purusam sasvatam divyam: the eternal divine purusa. [Gita 10.12]
purusa-prakrti (Purusha-Prakriti): Soul-Nature. [see purusa and prakrti separately]
purusarsabha: the leonine soul among men.
purusartha: object of man; [each of the four objects of life: kama, artha, dharma, moksa].
purusasukta (Purusha-Sukta): [the "hymn of the purusa": [RV 10.90]
purusa-yajna (Purusha-Yajna): the sacrifice of the purusa.
purusottama (Purushottama): the Supreme divine Person; the Supreme Being who is superior both to the mutable Being and to the Immutable; the Divine Being
puruso varenya adityavarnas tamasah parastat: [the excellent purusa, of the colour of the sun, beyond darkness] [cf. Svet. 3.8; Gita 8.9]
Purusha etc: see purusa etc.
purva: in front; east.
purva-mimamsa (Purva Mimansa): [a system of philosophy (one of the six darsanas), the enquiry into the first or mantra portion of the Veda; it is concerned chiefly with Vedic ritual]; the vedavada.
purvebhih ... nutanaih: by the ancient ... by the new. [RV 1.1.2]
purve devah: the former gods.
purve pitarah: the early Fathers.
purve pitarah manusyah: the ancient human fathers. [Ved.]
pusan (Pushan): the Fosterer or Increaser, a form of the sun-god. [Ved.]
pusti: increase or growth. [Ved.]
Radha: the personification of the absolute love for the Divine (the word means adoration and also delight).
radhas: riches, opulence; achievement, effectuation. [Ved.]
raga: 1. liking, attraction.; 2. [in Indian classical music, a particular mode or order of sound or formula].
raga-dvesa: like and dislike, attraction and repulsion.
rahasyam: mystery, secret.
rahasyam (hyetad) uttamam: (for this is) the highest secret. [Gita 4.3]
rajarsi (Rajarshi): [a royal rsi].
rajas: 1. [one of the three gunas]: the mode of action, desire and passion; the force of kinesis (translates in quality as struggle and effort, passion and action).; 2. [Ved.]: a word for the heavenly and earthly worlds, meant probably "the shining"; the lower world.
rajasakti: political strength.
rajasika (rajasic): [of the nature of rajas].
rajasuya: [a great sacrifice performed sometimes on the occasion of the coronation of a king by himself and his tributary princes].
rajayoga: [a particular system of yoga], the use of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes.
rajayogin: [one who practises rajayoga].
rajoguna: [the quality (guna) of rajas], the quality of vital passion, impulsion or drive of propensity.
rajogunasamudbhavah: which has its native point of origin in the rajasika guna [Gita 3.37]
rajyam samrddham: an opulent kingdom. [Gita 11.33]
rakhi bandhan [Hind.]: [the tying of a thread around the wrist of a loved one in order to ward off misfortune; the thread itself].
raksasa (Rakshasa): giant, giant power of darkness, a [hostile] being of the middle vital plane.
raksasi (Rakshasi): [a female raksasa].
raksasi maya (Rakshasi Maya): illusion of the powers of darkness.
Raktabija: [the name of a demon who did battle with the goddess Candi; from the drops of his blood arose innumerable duplicates of himself].
Rama: [popular short form for Ramacandra, a celebrated avatara of Visnu].
Rama-rajya: [the kingdom of Rama; the ideal kingdom].
Ramayana: [the life-story of Rama, a celebrated epic poem by Valmiki whose central incident is the abduction of Rama's wife sita by Ravana, king of the raksasas, and her subsequent recovery by Rama and his allies].
Ras: see rasa
rasa: 1. sap, juice; essence.; 2. taste; pleasure; liking (and disliking); affectation of sense.; 3. aesthesis; the response of the mind, the vital feeling and the sense to a certain "taste" in things which may often be but is not always a spiritual feeling.; 4. the eight rasas: eight forms of emotional aestheticism.
rasa, rasa lila (Ras): the dance-round of Krsna with the cowherdesses in the moonlit groves of Vrndavana, type of the dance of Divine Delight with the souls of men liberated in the world of Bliss secret within us.
rasagrahana: seizing of the principle of delight.
rasa lila: see rasa
ratha: chariot.
ratna: light; enjoyment, ecstasy. [Ved.]
raudra: strength, force.
Ravana: [the chief of the raksasas who abducted sita and was slain by her husband Rama].
Raya: riches; bliss. [Ved.]; rayah [nominative]
raye: to the felicity. [Isa 18]
rayi (1): [physically]: wealth, prosperity; [psychologically]: a felicity or enjoyment which consists in abundance of certain forms of spiritual wealth. [Ved.]; rayih [nominative]
rayi (2): movement, matter.
rayo durah: the doors of the felicity. [Ved.]
Rbhu (Ribhu), Rbhuksan: the name of one of the Rbhus, the skilful Knower or the Shaper in knowledge. [Ved.]
Rbhus (Ribhus): the divine craftsmen; the artisans of Immortality. [Ved.]
retas: [semen].
revan: rich with treasure. [Ved.]
rgmibhih: with them as singers of the divine chant. [Ved.]
Rg-veda (Rig-veda): [the Veda of the rks, the most ancient of the sacred books of India, composed of metrical hymns arranged in ten books (mandalas)].
Ribhu: see Rbhu
Ribhus: see Rbhus
Rig-veda: see Rg-veda
Rik: see rk
ripu: enemy.
Rishi: see rsi
Ritam: see rtam
Ritwik: see rtvij
rjuh panthah: the straight road. [Ved.]
rk (Rik): the word of illumination which lights up the mind with the rays of knowledge; [a verse of the Rg-veda].
rocana, rocanani: "the shining": heavenly and earthly worlds, luminous worlds. [Ved.]
rodasi: the two firmaments, heaven and earth: the .mental and physical consciousness. [Ved.]
roga: [disease].
roma prthivyah: the "pleasant growths" of our physical existence. [Ved.]
rsayo divyah: the divine rsis.
rsi (Rishi): a seer.
rta-cit: Truth-Conscious; he who has the Truth-Consciousness. [Ved.]
rtajna: a knower of the Truth.
rtam (Ritam): the Right, truth of divine being regulating right activity both of mind and body, truth of knowledge and action; Truth; Truth-Consciousness.; rtasya [genitive]; rtena [instrumental]
rtam brhat: the vast Truth. [Ved.]
rtam jyotih: the truth light. [Ved.]
rtam satyam brhat: the Right, the Truth, the Vast. [Ved.]
rtasya: see under rtam
rtasya brhate: [to or for the vastness of Truth]. [Ved.]
rtasya budhne: in the foundation of the Truth. [cf. RV 3.61.7]
rtasya dharah: the streams of the Truth. [RV 5.12.2; 7.43.4]
rtasya dhitih: the thought of the Truth. [RV 1.68.3]
rtasya panthah: the path of the Truth. [Ved.]; rtasya pathah [instrumental]
rtasya presa: the urgings or impulsion of the Truth; the substance of the Truth put into active movement. [RV 1.68.3]
rtasya sve dame: in the native home of the Truth. [Ved.]
rtavari: full of the Truth. [Ved.]
rtavrdhah: those who increase the Truth. [Ved.]; rtavrdha [dual]
rtena: see under rtam
rtena rtam apihitam: truth hidden by truth. [RV 5.62.1]
rtepi tvam: even without thee. [Gita 11.32]

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