Integral Yoga - Literature - Sanskrit Glossary

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

vijnana: ideal mind; the free spiritual or divine intelligence; causal Idea; Truth; gnosis; supermind; the comprehensive aspect [cf. jnana] of the true unifying knowledge; the large embracing consciousness, especially characteristic of the supramental energy, which takes into itself all truth and idea and object of knowledge and sees them all at once in their essence, totality and parts or aspects.; vijnanam [nominative]; vijnanani [nominative plural], ideas.
vijnanabuddhi: supramental reason.
vijnana-catustaya (Vijnana-Chatushtaya): [the catustaya of vijnana].; vijnanacatustayam [nominative]
vijnana-kosa: knowledge sheath.
vijnanaloka: [the world of vijnana, the supramental world].
vijnanam: see under vijnana
vijnanamaya: [composed of or full of vijnana], gnostic.
vijnanamaya purusa: the gnostic purusa; the Spirit poised in gnosis.
vijnanamayi sakti: [the gnostic sakti].
vijnanani: see under vijnana
vijnanapadma: [the lotus of the vijnana, the centre of the gnostic consciousness in the individual].
vijnana purusa (Vijnana Purusha): Supramental being.
vijnanavijrmbhitani: self-deployings of the Divine Knowledge [vijnana]. [Visnu Purana 2.12.39]
vijnanesvara (Vijnaneshwara): [the Lord of the vijnana].
vijnanesvari (Vijnaneshwari): [the isvari of the vijnana].
vijrmbhate: stretches; extends himself in intensity. [Brhad. l.l.l]
vikara: corruption, distortion, deformation; [in the samkhya philosophy: a production or derivative from prakrti.]
vilu: strong, stubborn. [Ved.]
vimoksaya: [for liberation]. [Gita 16.5]
vimudhatma: [one whose self is bewildered]. [Gita 3.6, 27]
vinasa: the Dissolution. [cf. Isa 14]
vinasti: perdition
vipascit: the clear in perception.
vipra: the illumined.; viprah [plural], Illuminates.
vira: hero; [tantrika distinction of sadhakas]: the hero man.
viraha: [separation]; absence of (the Divine Lover) .
viramarga: the way of the hero.
virapsi: large; breaking out into abundance. [Ved.]
virat: the universal Soul; the Self that becomes all these forms of things; the Spirit of the external universe; the seer and creator of gross forms.
virat purusa (Virat Purusha): the Cosmic Spirit.
viravati: [heroic]; attended by conquering energies. [Ved.]
virupasah: born with different forms. [Ved.]
virya: dynamical force; spiritual force; the fundamental svabhavasakti or the energy of the divine temperament expressing itself in the fourfold type of the caturvarna.; viryam [nominative]
viryam saktih candibhavah sraddha iti sakti-catustayam: see these words separately
visada: [depression, despondency].
visah: the people. [Ved.]
visakanya: [a "poison-girl" supposed to cause the death of a man making love to her; a succuba].
visarga: the creative impulse and energy which looses out things from the first essential self-becoming.; visargah [nominative]
visaya (Vishaya): object (of experience) .
visayams tyaktva: having abandoned objects. [Gita 18.51]
visayan indriyaiscaran: ranging over the objects with the senses. [Gita 2.64]
visaya vinivartante: [the objects of sense cease to affect]. [Gita 2.59]
Vishaya: see visaya
Vishishtadwaita: etc., see visistadvaita
Vishnu etc.: see Visnu etc.
Vishwa etc.: see visva etc.
Vishwadevas: see visve devah
Vishwarupa: see visvarupa
visistadvaita (Vishishtadwaita etc.): Qualified Monism; modified monistic vedanta.
visistagati: a peculiar and excelling kind of motion.
visisyat: excels.
Visnu (Vishnu): [Ved.]: the all-pervading godhead, the deva or Deity evoking the powers of the ascent; [Puranas]: a member of the divine Triad [trimurti], expressive of the conservative process in the cosmos, the preserver.
visnusakti (Vishnushakti): [the power of Visnu].
visnutva: ["Visnu-ness"].
vispati: lord or king in the creature; king of the universe and its peoples. [Ved.]
visrjami: I loose forth variously. [Gita 9.7,8]
visuddha: [pure; the name of the throat centre (cakra) ].
visuddhabuddhi: the purified intellect.
visuddhata: [purity].
visuddhata prakasah vicitrabodhah jnanadharanasadmarthyam iti buddhisaktih: see these words separately
visuddhi: purity.
visva (Vishwa): [all, the all, the universe]; the Spirit of the external universe.
visva dhiyo vi rajati: illumines all the thoughts. [cf RV 1.3.12]
visvajanya: occupying or possessing all the worlds or births of the soul; universal. [Ved.]
visvajuvam visvarupam: (her) of the universal impetus of movement and the universal forms. [RV 4.33.8]
visvakama: all-lust.
visvamanava (Viswa Manava): the universal man.
visvamaya: universal.
visvani vayunani vidvan: knowing all things that are manifested. [Isa 18]
visva-prakrti: world-nature.
visvaprema: all-love.
visvarasa: [universal taste of delight].
visvarupa (Vishwarupa): the universal form.
visva varya: all the boons. [Ved.]
visvayu: the universal life; of many births.
visve devah (Vishwadevas): the All-gods or all the Gods; the universal collectivity of the divine powers.
vita prstha: the wide (the straight open) levels. [cf. RV 4.2.11]
vitarka: debate.
vivarta: ["turning round", changing from one state to another, development of the universe from brahman considered as the sole real reality, the phenomenal world considered as apparent or illusory form]; the world as a purely subjective evolution, not real as objective facts.
Vivasvan: [the "Shining-one"], the Sun-God.
viveka: discrimination, discernment.
vividhanandah: [manifold delight].
vraja: the pen of the cows. [Ved.]
vrata: a working; the divine action. [Ved.]; vratani [plural], the workings of the divine law of the Truth.
vrataya: [a man of the mendicant or vagrant class; one who has lost caste], who has fallen from the pure practice and temperament of his caste.
vrddhi: [in Sanskrit grammar]: the long modification.
Vrindavan: see Vrndavana
Vrishabha: see vrsabha
Vrishan: see vrsan
Vrishaparvan: see Vrsaparvan
Vrishni: see vrsni
Vritra: see Vrtra
Vritras: see vrtrah
vrjina: crooked; crooked one; a crooked winding (used to indicate the crookedness of the falsehood as opposed to the open straightness of the Truth) . [Ved.]; vrjina, vrjinani [nominative plural]; vrjindan [accusative plural]
vrka: "tearer", wolf.
Vrndavana (Vrindavan, Brindavan, Brindaban): [the place on earth (near Mathura) where Krsna danced with the gopis]; the vaisnava heaven of eternal Beauty and Bliss.
vrsabha (Vrishabha): the Bull; Male, Lord, Puissant, an image for the purusa. [Ved.]
vrsabhah matinam: Lord of the thoughts. [Ved.]
vrsan (Vrishan): diffusing, generating, impregnating, the father of abundance, the Bull, the Male. [Ved.]
Vrsaparvan (Vrishaparvan): [the name of a danava].
Vrsni (Vrishni): [the name of the tribe from which Krsna was descended].
Vrsninam Vasudevah: (I am) Krsna [Vasudeva] among the Vrsnis. [Gita 10.37]
vrsti: rain; abundance. [Ved.]
Vrtra (Vritra): the Coverer; the Serpent; the demon who covers and holds back the Light and obstructs the free movement of the illumined rivers of the truth, he is the personification of the Inconscient.
vrtras: the Coverers; one of the two great divisions of dasyus, who intercept the waters and the light, but are especially associated with the withholding of the waters, they are powers of Vrtra.
vrtti: a functioning of the mental and moral qualities.
vyahrti (Vyahriti): [utterance]; each of the three symbolic words of the mantra: om bhur bhuvah svah.
vyakarana: separation; grammatical analysis; grammar].
vyakrta: [separated, developed, umanifested].
vyakrta prakrti: [manifested nature].
vyakta: manifest.
vyakulata: excited passionate eagerness; the heart's eagerness for the attainment of the Divine.
vyana: [one of the five pranas]: it pervades the whole body and distributes the vital energies throughout the body; on it depend the circulation of the blood and the distribution of the essential part of the food eaten and digested throughout the body.
vyapti: [one of the astasiddhis]: reception, communication; the power of receiving other men's thoughts, powers and feelings and projecting one's own thoughts etc. or personality into others.; vyaptih [nominative]
vyaptih prakamyam aisvaryam isita vasita mahima laghima iti astasiddhih: see these words separately
vyasa: compiler; [Vyasa: a name given to Krsna Dvaipayana, the compiler of the Vedas and author of the Mahabharata and many other works].
vyasti: the separative being, the individual. cf. samasti
vyavahara: practical relation, the empirical truth of things, the practical life.
vyavaharika: relative, practical, pragmatic.
vyavasaya: resolution; settled concentration and perseverance.
vyaya: [spending, expense]; the capacity to spend freely (without any mean and self-defeating miserliness in the giving) .; vyayah [nominative]
vyoman (Vyoma): sky.
vyuha: marshalling.
yabhirvibhutibhir lokan imams tvam vyapya tisthasi: the sovereign powers of the becoming by which Thou standest pervading these worlds. [Gita 10.16]
yaccanyad drastum icchasi: and whatever else thou willest to behold. [Gita 11.7]

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