Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

sphatika: [crystal].
sprha: eagerness [of desire].
sraddha (Shraddha): [certain ceremonies held in honour of and for the benefit of dead relatives].
sraddha (Shraddha): faith; will-to-believe; constituting belief.
sraddha-mayoyam puruso yo yacchraddhah sa eva sah: this purusa is made of sraddha, whatever the straddha in him, he isthat and that is he.[Gita 17.3]
sraddhavan bhajate: the one who has faith has love (for Me) . [Gita 6.47]
sraddhavan labhate jnanam: the one who has faith attains to knowledge. [Gita 4.39]
sravamsi: see under sravas
sravana: hearing, the function of gathering and reflection.
sravas: "hearing"; fame; revealed knowledge, the knowledge which comes by inspiration. [Ved.]; sravamsi [plural], inspirations.
sravasyu: which turns towards the knowledge. [Ved.]
srestha: the best.
sreyah param avapsyatha: you will arrive at the highest good. [Gita 3.11]
sreyas: the good.
Srikrishna: see Krsna
srotavyasya srutasya ca: [of scripture to be heard or heard]; texts old and new. [Gita 2.52]
strotrasya strotram: the Ear of the ear. [Kena 1.2]
srsta: projected, [created].
srsti: projection (of a part from the whole); creation, release or bringing forth of what is held in.
sruta: the thing heard, the Word.
sruti (Shruti): hearing, spiritual audience, inspiration; an inspired Scripture.
srutivipratipanna: perplexed and confused. led in different directions by the sruti. [Gita 2.53]
stambha: [pillar, column, post.]
stambhanam: [stiffening, making rigid, paralysing].
sthairya: [steadiness]; the capacity of fixity (in jnana) .; sthairyam [nominative]
sthanam sasvatam: to the eternal status. [Gita 18.62]
sthanu: immobile.
sthira: [fixed, calm, steady].
sthirata: calm.
sthula: gross.
sthula deha, sthula sarira: the gross body [prana and physicality together].
stoma: a stabilising mantra; a hymn at once of affirmation and submission. [Ved.]
stoman abhi svara abhi grnihi a ruva: vibrate (or answer) to our songs of praise, speak them out as they rise, cry out thy response. [RV 1.10.4]
stotra: [a hymn of praise].
striyah samasta sakala jagatsu: all women entirely in the worlds. [Devi Mahatmyam 11.6]
stubh: the rhythm that affirms the gods; the Word considered as a power which affirms and confirms in the settled rhythm of things. [Ved.]
stubha: light, enjoyment, bliss. [Ved.]
subhasita: [good or eloquent speech, witty saying]; gnomic verse.
subhaspati: [two] lords of weal or of bliss.
Sudarsana cakra (Sudarshan Chakra): ["the beautiful disc", the name of a weapon of Visnu or Krsna]
suddha: pure.
suddha bhakti: pure bhakti.
suddhacitta: the purified heart consciousness [citta].
suddham: [the pure].
suddhi (Shuddhi): [purification]. suddhih [nominative]
suddhih muktih bhuktih siddhih iti yogacatustayam: see these words separately
sudha: nectar or amrta; the food or drink of the gods.
sudra (Shudra, Sudra): [a member of the last of the four orders (caturvarna) ]: the more undeveloped type of man, not yet fit for the other steps of the scale, but only for unskilled labour and service; (symbolic idea) : the Divine as service in man.
sudrasakti (Shudrashakti): [the soul-power of the sudra].; sudrasaktih [nominative]
sudrasvabhavasakti (Shudraswabhavashakti): [the natural power of the sudra].
suga: easy of going and thornless. [Ved.]
suhrdarn sarvabhutanam: the Friend of all creatures.; [see the following]
suhrdam sarvabhutandm sarva-lokamahesvaram: the Friend of all creatures and the [great] Master of the universe [of all worlds]. [cf. Gita 5.29]
sukha-bhoga: [experience of happiness].
sukhahasya: cheerfulness.
sukham: happiness.
sukham aksayam astnute: enjoys an imperishable happiness. [Gita 5.21]
sukham aptum: [easy to attain]. [cf. Gita 5.6]
sukra: bright, brilliant.
sukratu: perfect in power (for the sacrifice) . [Ved.]
sukrtam: well-built.
sukrtam u lokam: the other world to which those who do well the works of sacrifice attain. [Ved.]
sukrti: ethical.
sukrtyaya: by perfection in the work. [Ved.]
suksma (Sukshma): subtle.
suksma anna: [subtle matter].
suksma deha: subtle body.
suksma drsti: subtle vision.
suksma indriya: subtle organ.
suksma jagat: [subtle world].
suksma prana: [subtle life-force].
suksma sarira: [subtle body].
sukta: [a hymn of the Veda].
sumati: the perfect mentality; right thoughts, right sensibilities; a happy rightness of mind and feeling. [Ved.]
Sunahsepa (Shunahshepa): [the name of a rsi, described in the Rgveda as bound to the sacrificial post by a threefold cord (representing man's mentality, vitality and corporality) ].
sundaram: [the beautiful].
sunrta: the word of a blissful truth; happy truths. [Ved.]; sunrtah [plural], the powers or the voices of Truth and Joy.
sunrtavari: [full of happy truths].
sunya (Shunya, Sunya): void; the Nothing which is All.; sunyam (Shunyam, Sunyam) [nominative]
sunya brahman (Sunya Brahman): [the brahman as the Void]; Supreme Nothingness.; sunyam brahma (Shunyam Brahma) [nominative]
sunyam: see under sunya
sunyapanthinah (Shunyapanthis): [those who follow the path of sunya; Nihilists].
sunyavada: [the doctrine that the ultimate reality is the Void; Nihilism].
sunyavadin: [one who professes the sunyavada; a Nihilist].
sura: a god.
sura: the sun. [Ved.]
suracakasasah: sun-eyed. [Ved.]
suri: the illumined thinker, seer. [Ved.]
Surya: the Sun; the Sun-God, Lord of Truth and the Light, the giver of the rays of knowledge which illumine the mind; the soul and energy and body of the spiritual illumination.
Surya: daughter of the Sun, bride of the Asvins.
suryadvarena: by the Sun as a door or gate. [Mund. 1.2.11]
surya-sakti: [sun-power].
Surya Savitr (Surya Savitri): the Creator, the Light which is father of all things. [cf. Surya; Savitr]
suryasya dvara: the gates of the Sun.
suryasya rasmayah: the rays of the sun (of knowledge) .
surya vyuha rasmin samuha, tejo yat te rupam kalyanatamam tat te pasyami, yosavasau purusah. sohamasmi...: O illuminating Sun, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form of all, that in Thee I behold. The purusa there and there, He am I. [Isa 16]
Sushupta Purusha: see susupta purusa
Sushupti: see susupti
Susna (Shushna): a demon associated with Vrtra; the false force that distorts knowledge and action.
susupta: fast asleep.
susupta purusa (Sushupta Purusha): [the purusa in the state of sleep (susupti) ].
susupti (Sushupti): deep sleep; the Sleep-State, a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis, which is beyond our experience because our causal body or envelope of gnosis is not developed in us, its faculties not active, and therefore we are in relation to that plane in a state of dreamless sleep.
sutra: [a type of literary work composed of terse aphoristic sentences].
suvar: [ =svar]
suvira: full of energy. [Ved.]; suvira [feminine]
suviryam: complete hero-force. [Ved.]
suvitam: right going, good going, happy going; truth of thought and action; the felicity that comes by following the right path. [Ved.]; suvitaya [dative]
svabhava (Swabhava): "own being", "own becoming"; the principle of self-becoming; nature, real nature; essential nature and self-principle of being of each becoming; the pure quality of the spirit in its inherent power of conscious will and in its characteristic force of action; spiritual temperament, inborn nature, essential character.
svabhavaja: born of the svabhava
svabhavajam karma: the work born of one's svabhava. [cf. Gita 18.42,43,44]
svabhavajena svena karmana: by (thy) own work born of (thy) svabhava. [Gita 18.60]
svabhava-niyata: regulated by nature.; svabhadvaniyatam; [see the following]
svabhavaniyatam karma: an action proceeding from and determined by the inner nature [svabhava]. [Gita 18.47]
svabhavasakti: the energy of the (divine) temperament.
svabhavas tu pravartate: [but nature works out (these things) ]. [Gita 5.14]
svadesa (Swadesh): [one's own] country.
svadesi (Swadeshi): [of the svadesa, indigenous; goods produced indigenously as opposed to those imported; Indian Nationalism generally, especially in its encouragement of indigenous industries and boycott of foreign (especially British) goods].
svadha: the self-ordering power of Nature. [Ved.]
svadharma (Swadharma): own law of action; true rule and way of being; truth of one's own inner movement.
svadharmah su-anusthitah: own law of action rightly worked out. [cf. Gita 3.35; 18.47]
svadharmam api caveksya: [and also having regarded thy own law of action...]. [Gita 2.31]
svadhina: dependent only on itself, free.
svadhisthana: name of the abdominal centre [cakra].
svadhiti: 1. an axe or other cleaving instrument.; 2. the self-ordering power of nature. [Ved.]
svah: see svar
svaha (Swaha): [hail! : an exclamation used in making oblations].
svakam rupam: own image. [Gita 11.50]
sva-karmana: by one's own work. [Gita 18.46]

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