GLOSSARY
A
Working Glossary for the Use of Students of Theosophical Literature
Compiled
by William Quan Judge, a pioneering Theosophist and
co-founder
of the original Theosophical Society, founded in New York in 1875
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1851 - 1896
A
Working Glossary
for the Use of Students of
Theosophical Literature
Compiled by
William
Quan Judge
ABHAVA, non-existence,
non-entity; privation, negation, destruction, death. (a,
not; bhava, being: non-being.)
ABHINIVESA, idle terror
causing death.
ABHUTARAJASAS, bright
incorporeal beings, deities having not even astral forms. (a,
not; bhuta, element; raj, shine.)
ABHYASANA, uninterrupted
contemplation of an object. (abhi, into; asa, throwing:
"throwing [one's self] into [study].")
ACHARYA, a holy teacher; an
instructor in the mysteries. (Literally, "one who knows the achara, or
rules.")
ACHIT, one of the three
inseparable aspects of Parabrahmam. (a, devoid of; chit, thought,
intelligent force, mind.)
ACHYUTA, the
"unfailing," that which is not subject to "fall"; a title
given to Krishna in the Bhagavat-Gita; a name of Vishnu.
ADEPT (Eng.), as used in
these times is applied to the Mahatmas, but as there are black and white, high
and low Adepts, that use is erroneous. The word strictly means an expert or master
in some particular art or science. In Theosophical literature the term is
generally applied to those occultists who have passed beyond the age of
pupilage and have, so to speak, "come of age" in the study and
practice of occultism, being more than chelas but less than full Initiates.
ADHARMA, unrighteousness,
wickedness, vice.
ADHIBAUTIKA, natural; a term
applied to natural and extrinsic pain.
ADHIBHUTA, the lord of lives;
the Supreme Spirit when dwelling in all elemental nature through the mysterious
power of nature's illusion. (adhi, over; bhuta,element.)
ADHIDAIVATA, (also
ADHIDAIVA), presiding deity, lord of all the gods; the Supreme Spirit as
dwelling in the solar orb (meaning, according to Eastern ideas, that the
supreme power for this solar system has its place in the sun), or when fully
manifest in man. (adhi, over; deva, a god.)
ADHIDAIVIKA, spiritual; a
term applied to superhuman pain.
ADHIYAJNA, the Supreme Spirit
as director of the body, as it is held in the ancient doctrine that one spirit
guides all men, assuming in each an apparent separateness which is due to the
personal lower self. (adhi, over; yajna, sacrificial ceremony:
"director of the sacrificial ceremony" -- which is human life.)
ADHYATMA, the soul of souls;
the over-soul. (adhi, over; atma, soul.)
ADHYATMIKA, relating to the
soul (adhyatma); a term applied to natural and inseparable pain.
ADI, the first, the
beginning; the unknown Deity, Brahma.
ADI-BUDDHA, first or primeval
wisdom; an aspect of Parabrahmam. (adi, first; buddha, wisdom.)
ADI-BUDDHI, the first or
unmanifested consciousness.
ADI-SANAT, "the first
ancient," Brahma, the creator.
ADITI, "the
boundless," i.e., space; aether; akasa; Vedic name for mulaprakriti;
abstract space, or ideal nature, corresponding with the Egyptian Isis, the
female side of procreative nature.
ADITYAS, the twelve sun-gods
who bring about the universal conflagration of this solar system.
ADI-VARSHA, the first
country; the Eden of the first races.
ADONAI, a Hebrew word,
meaning "Lord," which was used in reading the sacred scrolls as a
substitute for the unutterable name of four letters, the J-H-V-H. This term was
used by mediaeval writers as a name for certain classes of the Dhyan Chohans.
ADRISHTA, unseen; beyond
reach of consciousness; the merit or demerit attaching to a man's conduct in a
former incarnation, and the corresponding (apparently arbitrary) punishment or
reward in the present or a future incarnation; destiny.
ADVAITA, non-duality; the one
secondless existence, the one reality; a system of philosophy based on
non-duality.
AGAMI, one of the three sorts
of karma. (a, not; gami, going.) (See KARMA.)
AGNI, name of a god; fire,
especially fire from heaven; sometimes indirectly signifying Parabrahmam.
AGNIHOTRI, a priest and
invoker of fire. (agni, fire, especially fire from
heaven; hotri, priest, offerer, invoker.)
AGNISVATTAS, gods of fire and
air; one of the two kinds of Pitris, incorporeal, without even astral forms, who
are fashioners of the inner man.
AHAMKARA, egoism; that which
within us says, "I am the actor, for me all this is being done"; in
Sankhya philosophy, the third of the eight producers of creation. (Aham,
I; kara, making: the making of self.)
AHRIMAN, the evil principle
of the universe; the "Satan" of Zoroastriainism; an asura.
AISVARYA, power; superhuman
powers of omnipresence, omnipotence, invisibility, etc.
AITAREYA-BRAHMANA, name of a
Upanishad. (See BRAHAMANA.)
AITIHYA, oral communication,
traditional instruction.
AJA, not born, existing from
all eternity; a term applied to the higher deities.
AJNYANA, ignorance.
AKASA, the subtle fluid that
pervades all space, and exists everywhere and in everything, as the vehicle of
life and sound; "out-look," open space, sky, aether. It is said that
by a knowledge and use of the akasa all magical feats can be performed.
AKHYAYIKAS, short tales or
anecdotes.
AKSHA, eye; any round thing.
AKSHARA, unbroken,
imperishable; Brahma, Vishnu, or Siva: the syllable Om; the soul.
(aksha, a round thing, a circle, unbroken [like a circle].)
AKTA, anointed, initiated.
ALAYA, the over-soul.
(a, not; laya, dissolution: non-dissolution, permanence.)
AMANASA, the mindless. (a,
not; manas, mind.)
AMITABHA, a Dhyani-Buddha;
the celestial name of Gautama Buddha, much used in Japanese Buddhism.
(Literally, "of unmeasured splendor.")
AMRITA, the water of
immortality obtained, according to an allegory in the Mahabharata, from the
churning of the ocean by the suras and asuras, meaning the spiritual
cultivation resulting from the conflict between our higher and lower nature;
Soma juice; immortality; the collective body of immortals; the immortal light;
final emancipation. (Literally, "deathless.")
ANAISVARYA, powerless,
without supremacy.
ANANDA, bliss; an aspect of
Parabrahmam.
ANANDAMAYA-KOSA, the
spiritual soul, buddhi. (See KOSA.)
ANANTA, infinite; a term
applied to different deities, and to the seven-headed serpent couch upon which Krishna
(the manifested Vishnu) reclines when he creates the worlds; the infinite
beyond time and space.
ANAVASADA, indifference to
miseries.
ANAYAM, a measure of time,
180 days.
ANDHATAMISRA, utter darkness
of the soul.
ANIMA, a power or siddhi by
which one can go into the smallest atom.
ANIMA MUNDI (Latin), the soul
of the world. In Esotericism it means the actual soul or psychic force of the
world; that is, that this globe as a whole with its creatures has its own soul.
ANISHTUBHA, a peculiar
Sanskrit metre.
ANITYA, temporary, not
everlasting.
ANNAMAYA-KOSA, the material
body. (See KOSA.)
ANTAHKARANA, the channel of
communication between the higher and lower aspects of manas; the seat of
thought and feeling. (antar, within; karana,instrument or means of causing.)
ANU, atomic.
ANUDDHARSHA, contentment,
satisfaction with one's condition.
ANUGITA, an episode from the
fourteenth book of the Mahabharata. It gives the discourse between Krishna and
Arjuna after the battle with which the Bhagavad-Gita opens. (anu, after; gita,
song: an after-song.)
ANUMANA, inference, drawing a
conclusion from given premises, one of the means of obtaining knowledge
according to the Sankhya or Nyaya systems.
ANUMAPAKA, the basis of
inference.
ANUMATA, producer of
satisfaction in the doer of an act, though not himself concerned in action,
still appearing as such.
ANUPADAKA, without
progenitors; a name applied to celestial beings generally, and also to the
highest Adepts.
ANUSRAVA, Vedic tradition;
acquired by repeated hearing.
ANYATHAJNANA, confounding of
the attributes of one thing with those of another.
(anyatha, otherwise; jnana, knowing.)
AP, water; air; the
intermediate region.
APAH, (plural of AP),
divinities and potencies.
APAM-NAPAT, Vedic name for
Agni, or fire as sprung from water; intelligent force pervading nature, the
"light of the Logos," Fohat. (apam, water; napat,
offspring.)
APANA, breathing out,
expiration, one of the five vital airs, (opposed to prana); a cultivated
physical faculty utilized in certain Hatha Yoga exercises.
APAVARGA, the emancipation of
the soul from the misery of repeated re-births; final beatitude.
(apa, from, away; varga, purified, exempt.)
APRITHAKSIDDHA, inseparable
and eternal union, such as that existing between Chit, Achit and Isvara.
ARANIS, the two pieces of
wood used in producing, by attrition, the sacred fire.
ARGHYA, a libation to gods or
saints, of rice, flowers, etc., with water, or of water only, in a small
boat-shaped vessel.
ARGHYANATH, lord of
libations, a title of the Maha-Chohan.
ARGHYA-VARSHA, the land of
libations; the mystery name of the land whence the Kalki avatar is expected to
come.
ARHATS, initiated holy men of
the Buddhist and Jaina faiths; often used synonymously with Rishi, Mahatma, and
Adept. (Literally, "worthy ones.")
ARJUNA, a personality in the
Bhagavat Gita, son and avatar of Indra, allegorically representing man; also
spoken of as Nara. (arjuna, silver white; mara, man, the primal
man, a hero.)
ARUPA, formless, colorless.
(a, not; rupa, color, form.)
ARYA, a man of the Vedic
Indian tribes, an Aryan. (Literally, "one of the faithful.")
ARYASANGHA, the whole body of
the Aryans; name of the founder of the Yogachara (Yogakara) school of Buddhism.
ARYAVARTA, the sacred land of
the Aryans; India.
ASAKTI, disability.
ASANA, a posture of a
devotee, the manner of sitting forming part of the eight-fold observances of
ascetic; one of the eight means or stages of Yoga. (See YOGA.)
ASAT, non-being.
ASMITA, egoism.
ASTRAL BODY (Eng.), a term
very loosely used in Theosophical literature to cover every kind of phantasmal
or ethereal appearance of the human form. Its principal meanings are as
follows: (1.) The term is used as the English equivalent of the Sanskrit
linga-sarira, and then means the ethereal or subtle form round which the
physical body is built up, a form which serves as the vehicle of prana or life,
and constitutes the mould into and from which the atoms of gross matter are
continually passing. The linga-sarira or astral body in this sense can exude or
ooze out from the physical body and become perceptible to the physical senses.
This frequently occurs in the case of spiritualistic mediums, many of whose
phenomena, especially the so-called materializations, are produced through the
agency of this astral body. But the linga-sarira can never go far from the
physical body and disintegrates, as a rule, shortly after the death of the
latter. (2.) The term "astral body" is also used to mean the
mayavi-rupa or thought-form, or illusionary form. As its name implies, the
latter is a form or body created by the power of thought, and it is this
mayavi-rupa which is seen in cases of the apparitions of living persons at a
distance from the physical body. (3.) The term "astral body" is also
sometimes used in regard to the kama-rupa or body of desires, which remains in
the astral world after the death of the physical body, and the disintegration
of the linga-sarira proper, when it slowly fades out as the energy that it has
derived from the true ego, the manas-buddhi, is dissipated.
ASTRAL LIGHT (Eng.), the
light derived from the stars; the lowest principle of akasa. This term has been
so indiscriminately used as to be now synonymous with akasa and ether. Although
called "light," it is such as can only be perceived psychically. A
tenuous medium, or ether, interpenetrating all space, and which cannot be
properly understood unless the doctrine is fully admitted that the apparently
solid world and material objects are all illusions or space made
visible. (See AKASA.)
ASU, vital spirit, vigorous life;
the breath; spiritual life.
ASURA, a spiritual, divine
being; (derived from asu, breath;) an evil spirit, a demon of the
highest order in perpetual hostility with the gods; (incorrectly derived froma,
not, and sura, god: a non-god, a demon.)
ASURA-MAYA, name of a great
Atlantean magician, who is said to have been a great astronomer.
ASVAMEDHA, the
horse-sacrifice, a ceremony of Vedic times.
ASVATHA, the holy fig tree,
symbolizing the universe.
ATHARVA-VEDA, the fourth of
the Vedas.
ATMA, the spirit of the
universe; spirit; soul; the animating spiritual breath; the permanent Self; the
highest principle of life in the universe; in one sense Brahma, the supreme
deity and soul of the universe.
ATMA-VIDYA, knowledge of soul
or the Supreme Spirit.
ATRI, a famous Rishi, author
of a number of Vedic hymns.
ATYANTIKA PRALAYA, absolute
dissolution or obscuration, as, for instance, of a whole planetary chain.
AUGOEIDES (Greek, literally
meaning the "self -luminous" or "shining one"), a term
applied by the Neo-Platonists to the Higher Ego or Individuality of man, as
contradistinguished from his lower self or personality. In the Secret
Doctrine the hints given in Isis Unveiled are explained by the
statement that the Augoeides, the "Father in Heaven," the
"Higher Ego," are synonymous terms referring to the Manasa-Dhyani,
who incarnated in or overshadowed the mindless men of the third race, and thus
conferred on them the potency of divine, conscious immortality.
AVABOHDA, waking, perception,
discrimination, knowledge.
AVALOKITESVARA, a
Bhodisattva; the manifested Logos, the synthesis of the seven Dhyani-Buddhas or
Dhyan-Chohanic hosts. (avalokita, seen; isvara, lord: the lord
who is manifest [to the Self]. Rhys Davids renders it, "the lord who looks
down from on high.")
AVARANA-SAKTI, the power that
makes one thing appear as another.
AVASTHA, state, condition.
AVASTHA-TRAYA, the three
states of the soul, according to Vedanta philosophy, known to uninitiated
humanity, namely: jagrata, waking state; svapna, dreaming state; and sushupti,
dreamless sleep. (See also TURIYA.)
AVATARA, an avatar, the
appearance of any deity upon earth, but more particularly the incarnations of
Vishnu in his ten principal forms, namely: the fish, tortoise, boar, man-lion, dwarf,
the two Ramas, Krishna, Buddha, and Kalki, the last yet to come, and which will
take place at the end of the four yugas.
AVIDYA, Without knowledge,
ignorance, illusion; personified illusion, or Maya, in Buddhism, ignorance
together with non-existence. (a, not, without; vidya,knowledge.)
AVIKARA, changeless,
undifferentiating.
AVYAKTA, indiscrete or
undifferentiated matter, the primordial principle whence the phenomenal world
is produced; mulaprakriti; the all-soul. (See MULAPRAKRITI.)
BANDHA, fettering; bondage,
as opposed to moksha or emancipation.
BARHISHAD, a class of lunar
pitris who are creators of physical man. (baris, sacrificial grass,
kusa; sad, seated: seated on the kusa grass.)
BHAGAVAD-GITA, an epic in the
Mahabharata, consisting of a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, which is
carried on in a chariot drawn up between two opposing armies. The chariot
means, esoterically, the body; Arjuna is the Ego; Krishna is the Supreme
Spirit, and the opposing hosts of Kauravas and Pandavas are the higher and
lower natures of man; the horses may be called the mind, which draws the body.
The poem has been translated by Burnouf into French, by Lassen into Latin, by
Stanislav Gotti into Italian, by Galanos into Greek, by Wilkins, Davies,
Thompson, Kasinath Telang, Chintamon, Mohini, Arnold and others into English.
(bhagavat, having happiness, blessed; gita, song: song of the
blessed one.)
BHAKTI, devotion, a thing
apportioned or set apart, portion.
BHAKTI-YOGA, systematized
devotion for the attainment of union with Parabrahmam, prescribed in the
Visishtadvaita Catechism as "the contemplation of Parabrahmam, with its
various attributes and qualities, without any interruption whatever, throughout
one's whole life, and at the same time discharging one's duties to the best of
one's ability, or true devotion." (See also the Bhagavad-Gita for
prescription of and insistence upon attainment of devotion, conjoined with
strict performance of duty.)
BHARATA, "the one
supported," an epithet of Agni as being maintained or kept alive by men;
the true consciousness, of which the consciousness of the interior faculties is
a reflection; an epithet given Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita to signify his
intimate relation with his race and nation.
BHARATA-VARSHA, India.
BHIMA, son of Vayu the god of
the wind; presiding deity of the air, allegorically representing power; a
Vidarbhan king; the higher nature of man. (Literally, "terrible.")
BHISHMA, the grandsire
(grandfather's step-brother) of both the Kauravas and the Pandavas, allegorically
representing the lower nature of man. (Literally, "horrible.")
BHOGA, fruition, enjoyment.
BHOKTA, the consciousness
pervading the Buddhi, and which appears as conscious beings.
BHRANTIDARSANATAH, false
perception, the perception of one who moves (or thinks) unsteadily, without
aim.
BHRIGU, the planet Venus; a
race of beings described in the Rig-Veda as cherishing fire brought to them by
the wind, or as kindling fire from the aranis; that one of the ten Maharshis
from whom these beings descended. It in some sense gives a clue to the use and
function of Venus in relation to our earth.
BHUH, the world.
BHURLOKA, the place of earth,
the terrestrial world.
BHUTA, an element; created
being, elemental, ghost, goblin, imp, demon, phantom, elementary.
BHUTA-DAK, a
"spirit-medium"; one who holds communion with elementals. (A mongrel
word, dak usually meaning "carriage.")
BHUTATMA, the vital soul, or
elemental self, as opposed to Kshetrajna.
(bhuta, elemental; atma, self, soul.)
BHUVAH, sky.
BODISATTVA, one who has
perfect wisdom as his essence, and who will attain in only one or a certain
number of births to the state of a Buddha; the terrestrial correspondent of a
Dhyani-Buddha, a human Buddha.
BRAHMA, the Absolute,
Parabrahmam.
BRAHMA, the creator; the
impersonal universe-pervading spirit personified under this name; the lord or
ruler over a Brahmanda, at the end of whose "life" that system is
resolved into its final elements and reabsorbed by Parbrahmam.
BRAHMACHARIN, an ascetic
mendicant who lives under the direction of a spiritual Master and is vowed to
celibacy and mendicancy.
BRAHMACHARYA, life of
religious studentship and holiness.
BRAHMA-KALPA, a "day of
Brahma," embracing a period of fourteen manvantaras, together with the
sandhis intervening between two Manus, equal in all to 1,000 mahayugas, or
4,320,000,000 solar years.
BRAHMAN, religious devotion,
prayer; one who prays, a priest.
BRAHMANA, a class of prose
works appended to the Vedas, as the Rig-Veda has the Aitareya-Brahmana and the Kaushitaka-Brahmana;
the White Yajur-Veda has the Satapatha-Brahmana; the Black Yajur-Veda has the
Taittiriya-Brahmana; the Sama-Veda has eight Brahmanas; and the Atharva-Veda
has the Gopatha-Brahmana. They are esoteric keys to the ceremonial magic of the
Vedas.
BRAHMANDA, a macrocosm, the
mundane egg; a division of infinite space containing the fourteen lokas.
(Brahma, the creator; anda, egg.)
BRAHMA-PURA, a Vedic term for
the heart, also for the body. (brahma, Brahma; pura, city: city
of Brahma.)
BRAHMA-PUTRAS, sons of
Brahma.
BRAHMA-RANDHRA, an opening in
the crown of the head through which the soul is said to escape at death. Nine
openings of the human body are usually reckoned, the Brahma-randhra being the
tenth. It is, however, in the right sense, an astral current and not a material
place or opening. (brahma, the Supreme, the
Atma; randhra, an opening, any one of the openings of the human
body.)
BRAHMA-RISHI, (also
BRAHMARSHI), a priest-sage.
BRAHMA-SAMADHI, abstract
meditation upon Brahma, perfect absorption in thought upon the Supreme Spirit.
BRIH, prayer; expansion.
BRIHASPATI, the
personification of exoteric ritualism; the planet Jupiter.
BRIHAT-SAMAN, a sacred verse
which is said to reveal the path to Nirvana.
BUDDHA, a manifestation of
the Supreme, the first Buddha being Avalokitesvara, from whom emanate the seven
Dhyani-Buddhas ("Buddhas of contemplation"), who by the power of
meditation create for themselves the celestial Bodhisattvas, who incarnate on
earth at the beginning of each human cycle as men, and become human
Bodhisattvas and finally terrestrial Buddhas, of whom there have been four,
humanity being now in the fourth round.
BUDDHI, intelligence; in the
Sankhya philosophy, intellect as the second tattva, coming next to and
proceeding from mulaprakriti or avyakta; the passive spiritual vehicle, or
latent ideation, of Atma, serving to connect it with manas, the individual
self. (See MANAS.)
BUDHA, awake, intelligent,
wise; the planet Mercury.
BYTHOS, the abyss, or chaos,
-- a Gnostic term.
CADUCEUS (Greek), the rod of
Mercury, consisting of two serpents twined about a staff. Sometimes the staff
also terminates in the head of a serpent.
CHAITANYA, the Supreme Spirit
considered as the essence of all being.
CHAKRA, wheel, discus,
center; in the body, centres of psychic energy; the weapon of Vishnu,
symbolizing cyclic evolution; a cycle.
CHAKSHUS, the eye.
CHANDALA, an outcast, a
pariah.
CHANDRA, the moon.
(Literally, "glittering.")
CHARVAKA, a Hindu
philosopher, founder of the Charvaka system of philosophy, which is considered
by some to be materialistic.
CHATURMASYA, three sacrifices
performed every four months, at the beginning of the three seasons.
CHELA, pupil, disciple. (See
LANOO.)
CHEMI, the land of Egypt.
CHETANA, knowledge of right
and wrong; the thinking principle. (See CHAITANYA.)
CHHAYA, a reflected image,
shadow, shade; the astral image projected as a model for material man.
CHIDATMA, the Logos -- that
is, the unitary soul and intelligence in one aspect
(chit, intelligence; atma, soul.)
CHINMATRA, pure intelligence.
CHIT, intelligence,
perception; the element of immaterial and eternal spirit in each human being,
the individual soul; intelligent force; potential understanding; one of the aspects
of Parabrahmam. It is held that chit and achit do not exist without
Parabrahmam, but, like substance and quality, are in inseparable union with one
another and with Parabrahmam.
CHITRA-GUPTA, name of one of
the beings recording the vices and virtues of mankind in Yama's world. (chat,
visible, ether; gupta, guarded, preserved: preserved in the ether.)
CHITTA, thought, mind,
reason: the heart considered as the seat of intellect; notice (in the sense of
observation).
CHRISTOS (Greek), the Higher
Self, Isvara.
CHYUTA, "the
fallen," a term applied to those Dhyanis who, incarnating in human form,
"fell" into generation.
CRORE, 10,000,000.
CRUX ANSATA (Latin), the
ansated cross. (See SVASTIKA.)
DAGOBA, a conical erection of
brick or stone surrounding relics among the Buddhists, built on a platform.
DAITYAS, descendants of Diti,
demons, giants who lived in the earliest ages.
DAITYA-YUGA, an age of the
demons, consisting of 12,000 divine years.
DAIVA-PRAKRITI, the synthesis
of the six forces in the astral light; the "Light of the Logos."
DAKSHA, ability, faculty,
strength, power -- all with especial application to spiritual power and will;
son of Marisha, Kandu's daughter, an allegorical personage introduced in the
Puranas.
DALADA, the left canine tooth
of Buddha -- a relic.
DAMA, Victor, a son of Bhima;
house, home; self-restraint.
DANAVAS, sons of Danu, demons
and foes of the gods; spoken of in the Bhagavad-Gita as evil spirits or fallen
angels.
DANDA, chastisement,
correction; conquest; a measure of time, 60 making a siderial day.
DANU, one of the daughters of
Daksba and mother of the Danavas.
DARSANAS, the six systems of
Hindu philosophy, viz: Sankhya of Kapila, Yoga of Patanjali, Nyaya of
Gotama, Vaiseshika of Kanada, Purva-Mimansa of Jamini, Uttara-Mimansa or
Vedanta of Vyasa.
DEHA, the body.
DEMIURGOS (Greek), the
creator, not in any personal sense, but as the aggregate of creative forces in
the universe.
DEVA (also DEVATA), a
celestial being, a god.
DEVACHAN, heaven, the
subjective rest between incarnations.
DEVADATTA, the conch-shell of
Arjuna; one of the vital airs. (deva, god; delta, given:
god-given.)
DEVAKI, the mother of
Krishna.
DEVANAGIRI, the character in
which Sanscrit is usually written. (Literally, "the divine-city
writing.")
DEVARSHI, divine sage,
demi-god. (deva, god; rishi, sage.)
DEVI (feminine of DEVA), an
elemental being, a goddess,
DHAIRYA, fortitude, firmness.
DHANANJAYA, a title of Arjuna
in the Bhagavad-Gita; an epithet of Soma; a particular vital air which
nourishes the body. (dhanam, booty, wealth; jaya,conquering:
conquering wealth.)
DHARANA, maintaining,
supporting, upholding; steadfast concentration. (See YOGA.)
DHARMA, law; duty; religion;
good works; custom, usage, correct course of conduct; natural action of anything
under its laws; virtue.
DHARMA-MEGHA, cloud of
virtue; one of the ten Bhumis (earths, worlds) with Buddhists.
(dharma, virtue; megha, cloud.)
DHARMANA, accordant with
nature; according to the established order of things.
DHARMA-SASTRA, book of laws.
DHOTI, the cloth wrapped
around the loins of Hindus. It is from 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 yards long, and 2 or 3
feet broad. lt is found represented upon the oldest frescoes and sculptures.
DHRITARASHTRA, a blind king,
one of the personalities in the Mahabharata, who allegorically represents
material existence -- of which his blindness and thirst for prolonged life are
typical. He is the first character prominently mentioned in the Bhagavad-Gita,
where, being blind, he anxiously asks for particulars of the battle, the defeat
of his side meaning that material existence will fall into insignificance.
(dhrita, firm, supported; rashtra, kingdom: "whose empire
is firm.")
DHRITI, patience,
steadfastness; a certain evening sacrifice offered to the asvamedha.
DHRUVA (also DHRUVATARA), the
pole-star. (Literally, "remaining in one place.")
DHURTI, decay; injury,
damage.
DHYANA, meditation; abstract
contemplation; divine intuition. (See YOGA.)
DHYAN CHOHANS, the highest
creative intelligences; gods; souls who become gods and co-workers with nature.
DHYANI-BUDDHA, a spiritual or
mental Buddha, of whom seven, and sometimes ten, are mentioned; the first
beings emanated by Avalokitesvara.
DIKSHA, ceremonies
preliminary to sacrifice; new-birth -- a rite of initiation; initiation personified
as the wife of Soma.
DIKSHITA, initiated; an
initiate.
DIOSCURI (Greek), the twin
brothers Castor and Pollux.
DIS, space; a cardinal point
of the compass.
DNYANA. (See JNANA.)
DNYANA-MARGA. (See
JNANA-MARGA.)
DNYANA-YOGA. (See
JNANA-YOGA.)
DOSHA, faults.
DRAUPADI, the wife of the
five Pandu princes, being a personification of yoga-maya, or the power of
illusion.
DRAVYA, thing, object,
substance, nine kinds of which are reckoned in the Nyaya philosophy, viz:
prithivi, earth; ap, water; tejas, fire; vayu, air; akasa, ether; kala, time;
dis, space; atma, soul; and manas, mind.
DRIKSTHITI, the state in
which one having converted his internal eye into one of pure knowledge, views
the whole of this transitional world as Brahma; the real concentration. (drik, one
who sees, a seer; sthiti, standing, steadiness.)
DRISHTA, seen, perceived.
DRISYA, visible, to be seen.
DUGPA (Thibetan), a sorcerer
or "red-cap" of Bhootan. (See GELUPA.)
DUHKHA, misery, uneasiness,
anguish; pain personified as the son of Narada and Vedana.
DURGA, a goddess, the wife of
Siva -- goddess of destruction, called also Kali.
DVAITA, dualism; a system of
philosophy which asserts the distinctness from each other of the human spirit
and the universal spirit.
DVAPARA. (See DVAPARA-YUGA.)
DVAPARA-YUGA, the third of
the four ages. (See YUGA.)
DVARAKA, Krishna's city,
submerged by the sea. A temple still remains on the peninsula of Guzerat, an
object of pilgrimage. (Literally, "city with many gates.")
DVESHA, hate.
DVIJA, an initiated Brahman,
Kshatriya, or Vaishya. (dvi, twice; ja, born: twice-born.)
DVIPA, an island, peninsula,
any land surrounded by water; any continent on which a root-race is evolved.
EGG OF THE WORLD, the egg
form assumed by the Supreme Spirit, according to the Rig-Veda, from which the
world is evolved.
EGO (Latin), I; myself; self.
EKA, one, single.
EKAGRATA, one-pointed; the
perfect concentration of contemplation.
(eka, one; agrata, pointed.)
EKANEKARUPA, the one and the
many in outward form.
ELEMENTALS (Eng.), nature-spirits
presiding over the elements of fire, air, etc.; beings evolved from or
constituting the lower, elemental nature of man; centers of force in the astral
light.
ELEMENTARY (Eng.), the
psychic remnant left in the astral sphere after death, where it eventually
becomes dissipated. Though abandoned by the real Ego, it may retain the
elements of the lower personality, and through accession of force from
elementals, or from a living mediumistic person, may present a spurious
semblance of the dead, which is easily mistaken for the spirit of that person.
The Kabalistic works call the elementals without distinguishing them from the
dead.
EPOPTA (Greek), a seer; one
initiated into the Greater Mysteries.
FAKIR, a Mohammedan ascetic
wonder-worker; the equivalent among the Mohammedans of the Hindu yogi.
FLAGAE (Latin), a name given
by Paracelsus to one of the higher groups of Dhyan Chohans.
FOHAT (Thibetan), force;
force in its highest aspect, -- that which gives differentiation and life to
cosmic matter.
GANDHA, odor, smell; fragrant
substance; fragrance; perfume.
GANDHARVAS, heavenly singers
belonging to Indra's court, a class of elemental spirits.
GANDIVA, the bow of Arjuna,
which was made from the plant gandi. It was presented by Soma to
Varuna, by him to Agni, and by Agni to Arjuna.
GANESA, the god of wisdom,
who is said to cause obstacles and remove them. He is the son of Siva and
Parvati, and is represented as a short fat man with an elephant's head, having
but one tusk; usually he is riding a rat, or is attended by one. He is said to
have written down the Mahabharata, as dictated by Vyasa. He is the allegorical
representation of magical learning. (gana, body of attendants, Siva's
troop; isa, commander: leader of the attendants of Siva.)
GARIMA, a siddhi, or power in
magic, giving control over gravitation, so that one can become light or heavy
at will.
GARUDA, a mythical bird
pictured as attendant upon Vishnu, as the eagle is the bird of Jove. It is a
symbol of the great cycle of cosmic activity.
GATHA, a sacred verse, to be
chanted or sung; a religious verse, but not belonging to the Vedas.
GHEE, a common word
for ghi or ghrita -- clarified butter used both for
culinary and religious purposes.
GHORA, frightful,
disagreeable; an epithet of Siva.
GHRANA, the nose; smell;
smelling.
GHRITA, ghee, butter
clarified and hardened.
GNANA. (See JNANA.)
GNANI. (See JNANIN.)
GNYANA. (See JNYANA.)
GOVINDA, the finder of cows,
the searcher for cows, an epithet of Krishna or manifested Vishnu.
GRIHASTHA, a priest of the exoteric
ritual only; a house holder. (grihia, house sthia, standing,
abiding.)
GUHA, a cave or subterranean
resort of a yogi.
GUNA, a quality, attribute;
as a term in philosophy, one o the three pervading qualities of prakriti,
matter, which specifically are: sattva, truth, purity; rajas, passional
activity; tamas, darkness. (guna, a single thread of a cord.)
GUNAVISESHA, modifications or
affections of the qualities.
GUPTA-VIDYA, guarded or
secret knowledge. (gupta, hidden; vidya, knowledge.)
GURU, a spiritual parent or
preceptor. (guru, weighty, important, worthy of honor.)
HA, the sun; a symbol for the
breath called prana in Hatha Yoga practices.
HAMSA, (also HANSA), a
mythical bird, corresponding some what to the swan, and which is the vehicle of
Brahma; it symbolises spiritual wisdom. (Probably derived
from aham, I, and sa, that: "I am
that," i.e., the Supreme Spirit, -- sa being a form
of tad or tat. It may also be derived from han, "to
go," and would then mean "who goes eternally." See also SO'HAM.)
HANUMAN, (HANUMAT), a
monkey-chief, the most celebrated of a vast host of ape-like beings, who,
according to the Ramayana, were created by the gods to be the allies of
Rama-chandra in his war with Ravana. Hanumat was the son of Pavana or Maruta,
"the Wind," (according to some legends, of Siva,) and had many
magical powers. (Literally, "having large jaws.")
HARI, pale yellow or golden,
bay -- "bays," the bay coursers of Indra; "the Remover," a
title given to Krishna.
HARIVANT, "lord of the
bay coursers" -- a title of Indra.
HATHA-YOGA, a system of
physical practices designed to cultivate will-power, withdraw the mind from
external objects, and bring about certain changes of condition in the physical
body, for the attainment of the lower siddhis or magical powers. It involves
great austerities, difficult and often painful postures, control of the breath,
etc., is attended with great dangers, and yet, at its best, results in merely
abnormal cultivation of physical and Psychical powers, at the expense of
spiritual progress. (hatha, violence, force; yoga, union,
contemplation: forcing the mind to abstain from external objects.)
HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY, the
philosophic system of Hermes Trismegistus, of which unreliable fragments alone
remain in Western literature.
HERMETIST, one who follows
the philosophy of Hermes Trismegistus.
HETUMAT, having cause or
origin; proceeding from a cause. (Literally, "having, the hetu,"
reason for an inference, the second member of the five-membered Nyaga
syllogism.)
HEYA-GUNAS, bad qualities.
HIEROPHANT (Eng.), an
instructor in the Mysteries, an initiator.
(Greek hieros, sacred; phantes, one who shows.)
HINA-YANA, the inferior or
lesser vehicle, a system of Buddhistic teaching. (See MAHA-YANA.)
HINDU, a Hindoo; the name of
the religion of the Hindus.
HIRANYA-GARBHA, a name of
Brahma, the creator, said to have been born from a golden egg which was formed
out of the seed deposited by the self-existent Brahma in the waters; a symbol
for universal abstract nature. (hiranya, golden; garbha, the conceiving
womb, the fruit of the womb: "gold-scion," or "fruit of the
golden [egg].")
HOLY TRIAD, in Buddhism, the
Lord (Buddha), the Law, and the Assembly.
HOTRI, a priest conversant
with the Rig-Veda; an offerer of sacrifices with fire.
HRIDAYA, the heart; the
center or essence of anything; divine knowledge.
HRISHIKESHA, lord of the
organs of sense, or the faculties. (hrishika, any organ of sense,
or indriya; isa, master, ruler. (See INDRIYATMAN.)
IAO (Hebrew), among the
Semites, a name for the Supreme Spirit, as Aum is among the Aryans.
ICHCHHA, wish, desire.
ICHCHHANABHIGHATA,
unobstruction of wish.
ICHCHHA-SAKTI, the power of
will, in the sense of strong desire.
IDA, a magnetic current on the
right side of the human body, between the heart and the Brahma-randhra.
IKSVAKU, son of Manu
Vaivasvata, and founder and first kin of the solar dynasty in Ayodhya, the
capital of Rama, said to be the modern Oude.
INDRA, one of the great
powers of nature; the name of god, or power, in heaven (svarga) found in
Sanskrit literature, sometimes directly and at other times indirectly
signifying Parabrahmam.
INDRIYAS, the senses.
(Literally, "belonging to Indra.")
ISA, lord; the name of one of
the Upanishads, which treat of spiritual identity or unity.
ISVARA, lord, master; an
epithet of Siva, also of Durga or any other female sakti; the Supreme Spirit,
or Atman, -- the usual meaning in modern Theosophical works; one of the three
inseparable realities -- Chit, Achit and Isvara -- combined in Parabrahmam, the
three-in-one, which pervades and controls the universe; that part of the
trinity which, assuming a form of suddasatva (intellectual substance), enables
yogis to engage in contemplation who would otherwise be incapable of
contemplating or comprehending the impersonal deity. (Pronounced, and often
written, Ishwara.)
JAGAT, movable; all that
moves; the animated beings of the visible, material universe.
JAGAD-YONI, an epithet of
Siva, Brahma, Vishnu and Krishna. (jagat, world; yoni, womb: womb of
the world.)
JAGANNATHA, a Hindu god, the
"juggernaut" of the Christian missionaries. He is the allegorical
representation of the soul indwelling in the body and in the world. (jagat,
movable, the body, the world; natha, ruler, master.)
JAGRATA, waking existence,
one of the three states of consciousness known to ordinary man. (See
AVASTHA-TRAYA.)
JAINA, a sect founded in
India by Rishabadeva. They deny the infallibility of the Vedas; give reverence
to holy men called Tirthankaras, and will kill nothing that has life. They are
followers of Jina, and affirm Nirvana. (The Anglicized form of the word
is Jains.)
JANAKA, a celebrated king and
Adept who is taken as an example of one who, in the midst of the performance of
duties, yet became proficient in divine science.
JANA-LOKA, the fifth of the
seven lokas, the one where the sons of Brahma reside. (jana, created
beings; loka, place, world.)
JANARDANA, "giver of all
that men ask," one of Krishna's titles; a class of deities. (jana, created
beings, men; ardana, moving: agitating men.)
JANMAN, birth; existence;
term of life.
JAPA, a religious exercise,
consisting of repeating in a murmuring tone passages from scriptures, muttering
prayers or spells, counting the beads of a rosary, etc. (Literally,
"whispering," "muttering.")
JAYA, a class of deities, the
twelve great gods created by Brahma to assist him in the work of creation; a
name of the sun. (Literally, "conquering.")
JIHVA, the tongue; tongue of
flame of Agni.
JINA, a name of Buddha.
JIVA, living; the principle
of life; the vital principle in the material body; monad; individual soul; the
name adopted in Esoteric Buddhism for one of the seven human principles. There
are, it is taught, three classes of jivas, or souls: first, nityas, those
who permanently enjoy supreme bliss, and are never subject to matter or karma;
second, muktas, those who have attained supreme bliss, and are freed
from all miseries and from the necessity for reincarnation;
third, baddhas, who are subject to all karma and to the miseries
arising from connection with matter.
JIVAN-MUKTA, one who has
during life attained freedom from conditioned existence; a soul in conscious
union with the Supreme Spirit.
JIVAN-MUKTI, emancipation,
redemption. (See JIVAN-MUKTA.)
JIVATMA, the human spirit;
the intellectual life of the ego; the Logos; living soul; sometimes applied to
the monad which passes through all incarnations. (jiva, life;atma, soul.)
JNANA, knowledge, especially
of the higher truths of religion and philosophy. (See VIDYA.)
JNANA-MARGA, knowledge of the
way. (jnana, knowledge; marga, path.)
JNANA-SAKTI, power of
knowing.
JNANA-YOGA, the religion of
knowledge.
JNANENDRIYAS, the organs of
sense, or perception; the organs by which external objects are perceived.
JNANIN, a sage; one possessed
of occult wisdom.
JYOTIS, light; star; heavenly
body; the light in the head.
KABALA (Hebrew), the esoteric
meaning of the scriptures and the traditions of the Jews, derived by them from
the Chaldeans. As, in the Hebrew language, the consonants only were usually
written and the vowels omitted, the letters being at equal distances and
without punctuation, and each letter representing also a numeral, the real
meaning could be concealed under an apparently real wording.
KAIVALYA, emancipation of the
soul from matter; enjoyment by the jiva, in its real condition, of supreme
bliss. (Literally, "isolated," "detached.")
KALA, time. (See TIME.)
KALAYANA, truth-seeking,
mercy, charity; fair, lovely.
KALI, black; an epithet of
Siva; the goddess Durga.
KALIDASA, the greatest
dramatist of India, well known in European literature. His drama Sakuntala was
first translated into English in 1789. He is said to have lived in the sixth
century A.D.
KALI-YUGA, the age of vice, a
period of 432,000 years of mortals in Brahmanical computation. It is the
present yuga, the age in which we live, and is described in the Mahabharata as
characterized by great material advance, with spiritual darkness. (See YUGA.)
KALKI AVATAR, the tenth and
last avatar of Vishnu, who will appear at the end of the four yugas. (See
AVATARA.)
KALPA, a day of Brahma, or
1,000 yugas, a period of 432,000,000 years of mortals. (See YUGA.)
KAMA, desire, longing, love.
KAMA-DHUK, a -mythological
animal, the cow of plenty.
KAMA-RUPA, one of the human
"principles"; "desire-form."
(kama, desire; rupa, form.)
KAPILA, a great Indian sage,
who founded the Sankhya school of philosophy.
KARANA-SARIRA, the causal
body in which the Logos is
reflected. (karana, causal; sarira, body.)
KARANOPADHI, the spiritual
soul or buddhi, the vehicle of
atma. (karana, causal; upadhi, basis.)
KARMA, the law of universal
harmony, or the self-adjusting force of nature restoring harmony disturbed by
action; the self-enforcing equation of action -- cause and effect in endless
succession; the moral law of compensation, operating to produce all conditions
of life, misery and happiness, birth, death and rebirth, being itself both
cause and effect, action and the effect of action, the rewarder of good and the
punisher of evil, and being always in operation, involving all worlds up to
that of Brahma. The three divisions of karma in the Siamese school
are: thittham wethaniya kam, fruits experienced at once, or in
this life; upadha wethaniya kam, fruits for next life; aprapara
wethaniya kam, fruits in future lives from the third onward. In the Indian
schools some of its great divisions are: karma now being experienced; karma
that we are making for the next incarnation or incarnations, and delayed karma
from other lives still unexperienced. (karma, action, work deed; derived
from the root kri, "to make," which is akin to the
Latin cre-are, whence comes the English "cre-ate.")
KARMA-YOGA, the religion of
good deeds, or the proper performance of duty, as prescribed in the Bhagavad-Gita,
always keeping in view the Supreme Spirit.
KARMENDRIYAS, the five organs
of action, namely: vak, voice; pani, band; pada, foot; payti, anus; upastha,
organs of generation. (karma, action; indriya, organ.)
KARSHVARES, the seven spheres
of our planetary chain.
KARTTIKA, a name of Skanda.
(See KARTTIKEYA.)
KARTTIKEYA, Skanda, the god
of war, so called because he was nourished by the Pleiads or Karttikas.
KARYA, action; effect.
KASHAYA, in the practice of
yoga, that disposition of the mind which impels to thinking of unpleasant
things.
KASHTA. (See TIME.)
KASI, Benares; the sacred
city; consciousness fully developed and figured as located between the
eyebrows.
KASYAPI, an epithet of Aruna,
charioteer of the sun; also of Garuda, the bird of Vishnu. (Literally,
"having black teeth.")
KESAVA, one of the titles of
Krishna. (Literally, "having long or much handsome hair.")
KHANDA, broken; a portion, a
chapter; divisions of some of the Upanishads.
KHANDA-KALA, conditioned
time; time reckoned by the revolutions of the planets.
KIM-PURUSHAS, heavenly
spirits.
KOSA, (KOSHA), sheath; a
term, especially Vedantic, for five of the human principles, regarded as
successive "sheaths" around the divine monad.
KRISHNA, one of the
manifestations, within the comprehension of finite intelligence, of the
Absolute and, in Itself, Unknowable One; the personification of the Supreme
Spirit; the human spirit; a divine Avatar who remained in mortal form 125 years
and died 3,001 B.C. (Literally, "dark," "black.")
KRITA, made, done, well done,
good; the side of a die marked with four spots.
KRITA-YUGA, the first age,
sometimes called satya-yuga, "the age of truth," containing 4,800
divine years, which multiplied by 360 gives 1,728,000 years. (See YUGA.)
KRITTIKAS, the Pleiads.
KRIYA, performance, duty,
action; doing one's duty, as prescribed in the Vedas, as perfectly as possible.
KRIYA-SAKTI, the power of
thought which, by its knowledge, produces results on the objective plane.
(kriya, power; sakti, power: capability to act.)
KSHA, loss; destruction of
the world; the fourth incarnation of Vishnu, as the man-lion, or nara-sinha.
KSHANA, a measure of time.
(See TIME.)
KSHANTI, indifference,
patience, forbearance.
KSHARA, water; that which
streams or flows; perishable; a material body.
KSHATRA, rule, dominion,
temporal power; the second or military tribe or caste.
KSHATRIYA, the second or
military tribe or caste in India.
KSHETRA, a field; the field
of evil passions, i.e., the body.
KSHETRA-JNA, the embodied
soul. (kshetra, field; jna, knowing.)
KUCHAKRI, "the
intriguer," a title that has been by some commentators on the
Bhagavad-Gita applied to Krishna, because of a certain allegory concerning him.
KUMARAS, gods who incarnated
in the third root-race. (Literally, "easily dying.")
KUMBHAKA, immovable
concentration on the conviction of the identity of the individual soul and the
Supreme Spirit; in hatha-yoga, stopping the breath by shutting the mouth and
closing the nostrils with the fingers of the right hand.
KUMUDI-PATI, the moon.
(kumud, lotus, water-lily; pati, father: father of the lotus.)
KUNDALINI-SAKTI, the
serpentine force, the astral fire, an aspect of buddhi, the basic force of all
manifested nature. (kundalini, annular, spiral,
winding; sakti,force.)
KUNTI. Arjuna's mother.
KURAVAS, sons of Kuru (who
was the ancestor of both Pandu and Dhrita-rashtra, though this patronymic is
applied only to the descendants of the latter); the personified evil
propensities of man, his vices and their allies.
KURU-KSHETRA, the field of
the battle between the Kurus and the Pandus; allegorically, the human
personality as the contested ground between cosmic energy and spiritual forces.
(kuru, son of Dhrita-rashtra or personified material existence, the cosmic
or astral forces; kshetra, a field.)
KUSA, the poa
cynosuroides, a grass with long stalks and numerous pointed leaves,
considered sacred and used in certain religious ceremonies. It is said to have
strong magnetic properties.
KUSINAGARA, the scene of
Buddha's nirvana, said to be some one hundred miles north by north-east of
Benares.
KUTASTHA, in philosophy,
whatever is immovable, unchangeable, perpetually and universally the same; the
indestructible spirit. (kuta, the summit; stha, standing:
standing on the peak.)
KUTHUMI, a pupil of
Panshyinji and teacher of the Sama Veda.
LAGHIMA, lightness, one of
the magic powers by which one can control weight.
LAKH, (also LAC), 100,000.
LAKSHANA, characteristic
mark; topic.
LAKSHMI, a mark or sign of
luck, good or bad, but usually good, and so of wealth, prosperity; the goddess
of wealth.
LALITA-VISTARA, Nepalese life
of Buddha.
LANKA, the capital of ancient
Ceylon; the island of Ceylon.
LANKRIKA,
psycho-physiological powers supposed to be developed by physiological means;
the results obtained by hatha-yoga practices.
LANOO (Thibetan), disciple,
chela, neophyte or student of the Mysteries, under the instruction of a Guru or
Master.
LAYA, passivity; a neutral
center; in yoga practice, the natural disposition toward passivity of mind, one
of the obstacles to concentration.
LHA (Thibetan), pitris,
spirits.
LINGAM, the genital
organ, membre virile, phallus.
LINGA-SARIRA, the astral form
upon which the physical body is concreted. (linga, characteristic; sarira, body.)
LOGOS (Greek), the word; the
first cause; the Demiurgos; Isvara; Brahma; a mirror reflecting universal mind;
the great unseen; the unknown light; the one ray.
LOKAS, worlds, places,
spheres. The Vishnu-Purana gives seven, namely: pitri-loka; Indra, or svarga;
marut-loka, or devi-loka; mahar-loka, or gandharva-loka; janar-loka, of saints;
tapar-loka, of the seven sages; Brahma-loka, or satya-loka, of infinite truth.
The loka of Krishna, called go-loka, is indestructible.
LOKOTHRA, psychic powers
accompanying spiritual development.
MACROCOSM the great world, or
universe, of which the microcosm, or little world -- man -- is a copy.
MADHAVA, a title of Krishna.
(Literally, "made of honey.")
MADHU, the demon of darkness;
a giant who was slain by Krishna.
MADHVACHARYA, a great
philosopher, who taught that the relation between Deity and man is that of
master and servant. He founded a system of philosophy and established monastic
orders that exist to the present day.
MADHYA-STHA, neutral, indifferent,
unconcerned. (madhya, middle, medius; stha, standing.)
MAHA-BHUTAS, the five great
elements, ether, air, fire, water and earth.
(maha, great; bhuta, element.)
MAHA-KALPA, 100 years of
Brahma, comprising 360 days and nights of Brahma, making 311,040,000,000,000
solar years. (maha, great; kalpa, age.)
MAHA-PURUSHA. the Supreme
Spirit. (maha, great; purusha, spirit.)
MAHAT, intellect in the
universal sense; first manifested intellect.
MAHATMA, great soul. As
applied to beings it is held by some to mean a perfectly developed sage who has
become one with universal spirit.
(maha, great; atma,spirit: mahatma, the Supreme Spirit, or
maha-tattva; mahatma, great-souled, powerful.)
MAHA-YANA, "the great
vehicle," a system of Buddhism promulgated by Nargajuna.
MAHESVARA, the great lord,
the Supreme Spirit. (maha, great; isvara, master.)
MAHIMA, a power or siddhi by
which one can expand the consciousness and perception so as to embrace the
largest mass or the greatest space.
MAHIMNASTAVA, a hymn of
praise.
MAITREYA, the title of an
Upanishad composed by Maitri, wife of Yajnavalkya; name of a Buddha yet to
come.
MAKARA, in the Hindu zodiac
the tenth sign, Capricornus, said to have been the eighth sign under the old
system; a fabulous sea-monster sometimes confounded with the crocodile.
MALIMLUCH, a demon, an imp.
MANAS, mind, in the widest
sense as applied to thought and emotion; the intellect, feelings, disposition;
one of the seven human principles, the individual self or reincarnating ego,
corresponding to the Greek Nous.
MANASA-PUTRAS, mind-born
sons. (See AUGOEIDES.)
MANAVA, (fem. MANAVI), human;
descended from Manti.
MANTRA, (also MANTRAM),
incantation; spell; charm; sacred text; essential virtue, in sound or
otherwise, of verse or word.
MANU, mankind; a name applied
to each of fourteen spiritual sovereigns of humanity, the first being
Svayambhuva (sprung from the Self-Existent), and the seventh or present Manu
being Vaivasvata (sun-born). They are personifications of collective humanity.
The Hindu "Laws of Manu" are ascribed to Svayambhuva.
MANVANTARA, the period of
creative, formative and re-constructive activity on the objective planes of the
universe, intervening between two pralayas; a period of evolution; the life of
a Manu.
MARA, death; the world of
death, i.e., this world; with Buddhists, the Destroyer, Evil One.
MARTTANDA, our sun; the
sun-god; an aditya.
MARTYA-LOKA, the world of
mortals, this world. (martya, mortal; loka, world.)
MARUTS, the storm-gods;
Indra's companions.
MATI, understanding;
devotion.
MATRIKA-SAKTI, the power of
sound.
MATSYA, a species of fish;
the twelfth sign of the zodiac, Pisces; name of one of the eighteen Puranas, so
called because said to have been communicated by Vishnu in the form of a fish
to Vaivasvata Manu.
MAUNA, the state of a sage or
muni who abandons all doubts as to the relations of Brahma and Jagat.
MAYA, illusion, which
produces the diverse manifestations of the one reality, entering into all
finite things; in the Sankhya system, prakriti.
MAYA-KRITA, made by illusion,
illusionary.
MAYAVI-RUPA, illusionary
body, the form used by an Adept when appearing at a distance from his physical
body. (mayavi, illusionary; rupa, form.)
MELHAS (Thibetan), fire-gods.
MERU, the celestial mountain
where the gods and highest spiritual beings are said to dwell. It is compared
to the seed-vessel of a lotus, the leaves of which are formed by the various
continents (dvipas), the central dvipa being Jambu. Meru is thought by some to
mean the north-polar continent, now unseen.
METEMPSYCHOSIS,
transmigration, the passage of the soul (psyche) from one body to another.
MICROCOSM, a little world;
man. (See MACROCOSM.)
MIMANSA, an Indian
philosophical system founded by Jaimini. It, in effect, denies the doctrine of
free-will. (Literally, "something to be considered.")
MISRANA, mixing.
MLECHCHHA, a foreigner,
barbarian, outcast, non-Aryan.
MOHA, dullness;
insensibility; destruction; delusion of mind preventing the discernment of
truth by leading men to believe in the reality of worldly objects.
MOKSHA, salvation; complete
liberation from conditioned existence and enjoyment of supreme bliss. Those who
attain it may reincarnate on earth to aid humanity, but in doing so
are not subject to karma or to the conditions of matter, and return to moksha
when their term of voluntary reincarnation ends. Two kinds of moksha --
kaivalya and Brahmanda, also called sayujya -- are described in the
Visishtadvaita philosophy.
MONAD, an ultimate atom; an
unextended point; an elemental; the spirit, the ego.
MRIGA, a wild animal.
MRITYU, death.
MUHURTTA. (See TIME.)
MUKTATMA, liberated spirit.
(mukta, freed; atma, spirit.)
MUKTI, salvation,
deliverance, release from conditioned existence.
MULA-BANDHA, having roots,
deep-rooted.
MULA-PRAKRITI,
undifferentiated matter; the root of matter; the first emanation of
Parabrahmam, being itself an aspect of Parabrahmam.
(mula, root;. prakriti,matter.)
MUMUKSHUTVA, desire for
moksha or final emancipation.
MUNDANE EGG. (See EGG OF THE
WORLD, also HIRANYAGHARBA.)
MUNI, an ascetic, a saint, a
holy man; pressure, impulse; a man driven by inward pressure or impulse.
NAGA, a serpent; a tree; a
mountain; the sun; the number seven; a symbol of wisdom; an Initiate.
NAIMITTIKA-PRALAYA, that
change by which, at the end of each Brahma-kalpa, all things in an individual
solar system are resolved into their primitive elements. (naimittika,
periodical; pralaya, dissolution.)
NAKSHATRA, star; the 27 lunar
houses or signs of the zodiac.
NARA, man; the primal man; a
hero; a title of Arjuna.
NARAKA, a state of being,
"in a certain locality," in which the jivatma feels pain as a
punishment for or effect of bad karma; hell, limited in duration by karma; a
place of retribtition for evil karma, supposed to be situated near the earth
and in an etherial condition -- variously described by different systems as of
numerous divisions, generally said to be twenty-one in number.
NARAYANA, son of the primal
man; Vishnu, a manifestation of Parabrahmam. (nara,
water; ayana, moving: moving on the water.)
NATHA, lord, protector,
ruler.
NEPHESH (Hebrew), the
"breath of life"; the vital soul; manas. In the Kabala the division
is: neschamah, ruach, nephesh.
NESCHAMAH (Hebrew), the
spirit; atma. (See NEPHESH.)
NIMISHA, the time taken to
twinkle the eye. (See TIME.)
NIMITTI-KARANA, the
instrumental cause.
NIRAKARA, formless; Vishnu;
universal spirit.
NIR-GUNA, devoid of
attributes or qualities.
NIRMALAH, free from love,
hate, etc.
NIRMANAKAYAS, men who have
reached the point where they can enter nirvana but voluntarily relinquish it
and remain on earth in an unseen body in order to help men.
NIRUKTA, uttered, pronounced;
explained.
NIRVANA, the extinguishment
of desire; the kingdom of ineffable peace; annihilation of the illusions of matter;
conscious rest in omniscience. Called Niebban in Burmah
and Nippang in China.
NIR-VIKARAH, formless.
NISH-KARMA, karmaless. (nish,
without; karma, karma.)
NISH-KRIYA, actionless; a
term for the Supreme Spirit. (nis, without; kriya, action.)
NITYA, constant; daily;
always.
NITYA-MUKTAH, separate.
NITYA-PRALAYA, constant
dissolution; the change which takes place, perceptibly and imperceptibly, in
everything in the universe of matter, from the globe to the atom, without
cessation.
NIYAMA, act of obligation,
voluntary penance; constant and inseparable consciousness of unity with Brahma.
NOUMENA (Greek), realities,
as opposed to phenomena or illusionary appearances.
Nous (Greek), the Higher
Manas or Reincarnating Ego.
NYAYA, method, system; logic;
the system of philosophy of Gautama.
NYAYYA, normal, right,
regular.
OCCULTISM, the real science
of things, now unknown to uninitiated humanity; the science of the unknown
astral and spiritual planes; secret knowledge.
OM, the name of the Deity,
considered as sacred by the Brahmans and Buddhists alike. Its sounds are said
by them to contain a mystery and to symbolize the universe. Its full form
is Aum. The first sound, in its utterance, -- a sound
of a -- represents Brahma, and signifies creation; its second sound
-- a sound of u -- represents Vishnu, and signifies the preservation
of the universe; the third, or "stoppage" -- the sound
of m -- represents Siva, and signifies destruction. Its occult
significance is very great. Its substitute word is Pranava.
OM-KARA, the name of Om.
OSHA, burning, combustion.
PADA, foot; step; pace;
stride; footprint; mark; vestige; portion; path.
PADMA, the lotus -- not the
plant itself, but the flower only.
PADMI, the lotus -- the whole
plant, padma being the flower only.
PANCHA-KARAIENDRIYA, the five
organs of action. (pancha,
five; karma, action; indriya, organ.)
PANCHA-KOSA, the five-fold
screen, case or sheath of the soul -- anna-maya, prana-maya, manomaya,
vignana-maya and ananda-maya. (pancha, five; kosa,sheath.)
PANCHA-MAHA-BHUTA, the five
gross elements -- earth, water, fire, air, ether.
(pancha, five; maha, great; bhuta, element.)
PANCHA-MAHA-PRANA, the five
great airs -- the ascending and descending airs, the airs of circulation,
assimilation and respiration. (pancha, five; maha, great;prana, breath.)
PANCHA-RATNANI, the five
jewels, or five most admired episodes in the Mahabharata.
PANCHA-TAN-MATRAS, the five
subtle elements. (See TANMATRAS.)
PANDAVAS, the five sons of
Pandu -- Yudhi-sthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Saha-deva, -- and their
adherents: personalities in the Mahabharata who represent the higher principles
in man.
PANDITA, a learned Brahmin.
PANI, the hand.
PAPA, evil, destructive; bad
karma; one of the hells.
PARA, the opposite shore of a
river; the limit or utmost reach; applied to the first half -- now completed --
of the present maha-kalpa, of which the universe has but just entered upon the
second half; other, chief, highest.
PARA-BRAHMA, (also
PARA-BRAHMAM), the Absolute, above all, yet in all and containing all; Brahma,
the Unknowable, above and beyond Brahma and all creators.
PARA-DEVATA, the highest
deity -- in the sense of the highest abstraction of the human mind.
PARA-GURU, highest teacher,
in an occult and religious sense.
PARAMAPADA, the supreme
state, or path -- vaikuntha loka -- above all material worlds, and composed of
intellectual substance -- suddha-sattva -- in which supreme bliss is enjoyed.
PARAMARTHA, the highest or
most sublime truth.
PARAMITAS, the Buddhistic six
and ten perfections belonging to a Bodhisattva. (Literally,
"transcendent.")
PARA-NIRVANA, beyond nirvana.
PARINAMA, change, alteration,
advance in age.
PARVATI, a name of Durga, the
goddess representing cosmic energy.
PASA, a noose, a cord.
PASU, domestic animal,
sacrificial animals; uninitiated persons.
PAYU, the anus.
PENTAGRAM, a figure of this
shape:
PHALA, fruit (of action);
result.
PHRABAT, the holy footprint
of Buddha, said to be in Siam, where a temple is erected over it. It is visited
by pilgrims every year. There are many alleged footprints of Buddha in India
and other places.
PARA CHITR, Siamese
equivalent of Divine Spirit.
PINDA, lump, ball, especially
the ball or cake of meal offered to the manes of deceased ancestors. (See
SRADDHA.)
PINDI, a meal cake.
PINGALA, a particular current
in the body: the right of three currents running from the os
coccyx to the head, which, according to the anatomy of the Yoga system,
are the chief passages of breath. (Literally, "yellowish.")
PISACHA, an evil spirit or demon;
an evil ghost.
PITRI-PATRI, lord or king of
the pitris.
PITRIS, fathers, lunar
spirits, beings perfected (within its scope) upon the lunar chain of planets,
transferred hither to lead and guide humanity. Some Indian wonderworkers claim
the help of pitris.
PITRI-YAJNA, sacrifice to the
manes or pitris. (pitri, forefather; yajna, sacrifice.)
PLEROMA, space; akasa.
PRABHUTA, governed, presided
over.
PRADHANA, in the Sankhya
systems, the source of the material world; the manifestation of mulaprakriti.
(Literally, "the originant.")
PRAGNA, (also PRAJNA),
consciousness; wisdom personified; the energy of Adi-buddhi.
PRAJA-PATIS, creators; the
seven progenitors of the first seven divisions of men on the planet.
(praja, offspring; patis, fathers, lords.)
PRAKASANA, manifesting to;
enlightening; an epithet of Vishnu.
PRAKRITA, essential, natural.
PRAKRITA-PRALAYA, the change
of the universe from its present to a latent condition and its dissolution in
unmanifested nature, in which no evolution can take place until the dawn of a
new manvantara. This takes place at the end of each maha-kalpa, and the pralaya
continues during an expanse of time equal to a maha-kalpa -- 311,040,000,000
solar years.
PRAKRITI, nature; cosmic
matter, always in combination with spirit -- purusha. (Literally,
"procreated.")
PRAKRITI-SAMBANDHA,
connection with matter; being bound to matter.
PRALAYA, change from the
present objective, or manifested, into a latent or elemental condition;
destruction; dissolution.
PRANA, breath; the force
derived from the sun, which is represented in man by the breath; one of the
seven human principles.
PRANA-MAYA-KOSA, the vital
sheath surrounding the soul.
PRANAVA, a substitute word
for the sacred word Aum.
PRANAYAMA, suspending the
breath: by rechaka, or holding the left nostril and breathing through
the right; puraka, closing the right and breathing through the left
nostril; kumbhaka, both nostrils closed and breathing suspended.
PRAPATTI, a phase of Yoga --
devotion and means for attainment of supreme bliss -- in which one
contemplates: first, one's own inability to practice either of the other kinds
of Yoga; and, second, the attributes and qualities of Isvara as the sole
redeemer. Prapatti is much approved in the Visishtadvaita school of religious
philosophy. It is particularly intended for those who are unable to contemplate
the impersonal Deity.
PRARABDHA-KARMA, that karma
which has already begun to produce results, such as we now experience.
PRATIBHA, comprehension,
understanding.
PRATYAGATMA, the individual
soul.
PRATY-AHARA, restraint of the
organs of sense from all outward things and directing them entirely to mental
impressions. (Literally, "drawing back, restraint.")
PRATY-AKSHA, perception,
apprehension by the senses. (prati, near; aksha, eye: in sight.)
PRATY-EKA-BUDDHA, a Buddha
who obtains emancipation for himself only. (Literally, "one by one.")
PRETYA-BHAVA, the state after
death. (pretya, having died; bhava, being.)
PRITHIVI, the earth.
PURA, filling; rising of a
river; flood; high water; formerly.
PURANAS, a large class of
Indian works of an historical and prophetic character. They are eighteen in
number, as Brahma, Padma, Vishnu, Vrihan-naradiya, Bhagavata, Martanda, Agni,
Bhavisya, Brahma-vairvata, Linga, Varaha, Skanda, Vamana, Kurma, Matsya,
Garuda, Brahmanda. There are eighteen minor Puranas. (Literally, "tales of
old times," from pura, "formerly," "once upon a
time.")
PURUSHA, spirit; the
intelligence pervading nature; the divine spirit infusing matter.
PURUSHOTTAMA, the Supreme
Spirit. (purusha, life principle, spirit; uttama, uppermost,
highest.)
PURVA-MIMANSA, one of the six
systems of Indian philosophy; an Upanishad (sometimes called the
Karma-Mimansa), being an inquiry into the first or ritual portion of the Veda.
It is really an interpretation of the text of the Veda, and is generally
called the Mimansa, the term Vedanta-- "end of the Veda" --
being applied to the Uttara-Mimansa, which is an exposition of the later
portion of the Veda or Upanishads. (purva, prior, ancient, mimansa,
discussion.)
PUSHAN, the Deity in the sun.
RAGA, emotion, feeling, love;
joy, pleasure; regret, sorrow; the quality of rajas. (See GUNA, also RAJOGUNA.)
RAJASIKA, equivalent to
rajoguna.
RAJA-YOGA. (See YOGA.)
RAJOGUNA, the quality in nature
that impels to action, of mixed good and evil in its development in man,
inasmuch as no action can be performed by an imperfect man without some taint
of self. (rajas, energy, activity; guna, a quality, a "single
thread.")
RAKSHASAS, nocturnal demons
who disturb sacrifices; a name for the Atlanteans, or men of the fourth race.
(Literally, "harmers," "destroyers.")
RAMANUJACHARYA, name of the
founder of a system of religious philosophy and monastic orders still in
existence. He taught that the Supreme Spirit is the only reality.
RASA, juice; sapidity, taste;
inclination.
RASASVADA, in yoga practice,
the disposition (one of the obstacles) of the mind to fly from the object
selected for contemplation to pleasurable ideas. (rasa,juice; asvada,
tasting, enjoying: the sipping of juices, perception of enjoyment.)
RATHA, car, chariot,
war-chariot; the body as the vehicle of the soul.
RECHAKA, emptying; expelling
the breath out of one of the nostrils, in yoga practice; the negation of
phenomenal illusion and conviction of spirit as the only reality.
RIG-VEDA. (See VEDA.)
RISHI, singer of sacred
songs; poet; one of those to whom the Vedas were revealed, later regarded as a
patriarchal sage. The seven Rishis are the seven Dhyan Chohans, or creative
spirits.
RUACH (Hebrew), in the
Kabala, the spiritual soul, or buddhi.
RUCHI, light; beauty; desire,
passion.
RUDRAS, a class of storm-gods
(Maruts) led by Rudra, who became in later Sanskrit literature Siva -- the
third member of the trinity. (Siva, "the gracious one," an
euphemism for Rudra, the howling one, the terrible one.)
RUPA, form, external
appearance, body; visibility.
SADAIKA-RUPA, the immutable
nature, or essence; changeless form.
(sada, always; eka, one; rupa, form.)
SADATMA, the ego.
(sada, always; atma, soul.)
SADHANAS, possessing riches,
having spiritual accomplishments.
SADHU, a holy man.
(Literally, "leading straight to the goal.")
SAHA-DEVA, one of the
"sons of the sun," representing water, in Mahabharatic allegory.
(saha, with; deva, god.)
SAHAKARIKARANA, the auxiliary
cause.
SAKRIYA, mutable, movable.
SAKSHI, witness. (Literally,
"one having eyes.")
SAKTI, power, ability; the
power to create.
SAKYA-MUNI, -the
"Sakya-saint," a title of Gautama Buddha, Sakya being the
name of the family of Buddha.
SALOKYA, living in one and
the same place with Isvara.
SAMA, the first qualification
of a disciple -- perfect mastery over the mind. (Literally, "same,"
"level," "equal.")
SAMADHANA, being
constitutionally incapable of deviating from the path of right.
SAMADHI, abstract meditation;
perfect absorption of thought into the Supreme Spirit, -- the highest and last
stage of yoga.
SAMAJA, company, convention.
SAMANA, good; honored.
SAMARTHYA, having considered;
being determined.
SAMA-VEDA. (See VEDA.)
SAMBHAVA, proportion;
identity.
SAM-YOGA, junction, -- one of
the twenty-four gunas of the Nyaya system.
SANCHITA-KARMA, that karma
which is latent, producing no effect- owing to the active operation of other
karma, but which will operate in a future incarnation. (sanchita, piled
up, accumulated; karma, karma.)
SANDHI, the period at the
expiration of each yuga and equal to one-sixth of its duration; occurring also
at the end of each manvantara. (san, together; dhi, putting: junction.)
SANDHYA, morning or evening
twilight; the period which precedes a yuga.
SANDHYANSA, the portion of a
sandhi (twilight) succeeding a yuga, and equal in duration to the dawn
preceding the yuga. (sandhi, period between day and night;ansa, a
part, a portion.)
SANGHA, the order, the
assemblage.
SANJAYA, the charioteer of
King Dhrita-rashtra and narrator in the Bhagavad-Gita.
SANJNA, name of the Gayatri,
or most sacred verse of the Vedas; name of a daughter of Visva-karman and wife
of the sun, allegorically signifying spiritual consciousness.
SANKALPA, volition, strength
of mind; thought, reflection.
SANKARACHARYA, one of the
great teachers of Brahminism; said to be a reincarnation of Gautama Buddha.
SANKHYA, one of the great
systems of Indian philosophy, -- a speculative system as broadly distinguished
from the practical, or that based upon exercise of the moral and religious
duties. (Literally, "the summing up [of philosophy].")
SANNYASA, asceticism;
withdrawal from the world of pain.
SANNYASIN, one who retires
from worldly concerns; an ascetic.
SANSARA, migration; passing
through a succession of states; passing from one body to another,
reincarnation.
SANSAYA, doubt; error.
SANSIDDHIKA, innate.
SANSKARA, fancy, imagination;
inclination.
SANTA, tranquil, pleasant.
SANYAMA, the combination of
attention, contemplation and abstract meditation; in yoga practice, restraint
due to the foregoing combination.
SAPTA, seven.
SAPTARSHI, (also
SAPTA-RISHI), the first seven sages or great teachers of men.
(sapta, seven; rishi, sage.)
SARASVATI, the wife or female
sakti of Brahma. (Literally, "watery.")
SARIRA, body; attributes. The
sarira of Parabrahmam may be spoken of as qualities.
SARIRI, substances.
SARUPYA, having body or
shape, similar to that of Isvara.
SARVA-JNA, omniscient.
(sarva, all; jna, knowing.)
SARVA-SAKTI, omnipotent.
(sarva, all; sakti, power.)
SASTRA, a religious or
scientific treatise, any sacred book or standard authority.
SAT, truth,
"be-ness," self-existence; one of the aspects of Parabrahmam.
SAT-KARYYAM, existent effect.
SATTVA, being, existence,
entity, life; truth, reality; in philosophy, the highest of the three gunas.
SATYA, real, true; truth,
unconditioned reality.
SATYAKI, a great hero, an
allegorical personification introduced in the battle described in the Bhagavad-Gita.
SATYA-LOKA, the highest
heaven; place of truth.
SATYA-YUGA, the first of the
four ages, the golden age, containing 1,728,000 of mortal years. (See YUGA.)
SAVITRI, the sun; the divine
sun. According to Sayana, Savitri is the sun before rising, and after rising
until its setting it is called Surya. (Literally, "the vivifier.")
SAWAN, Siamese for heaven.
SAYUJYA, a state of moksha
(supreme bliss), which includes salokya and sarupya, but does not mean absolute
union with Parabrahmam.
SESHA, name of the thousand-headed
serpent -- also called Ananta -- sometimes represented as forming the couch and
canopy of Vishnu while he sleeps during the night of Brahma. It is a symbol of
eternal matter.
SHAT-KONA, a symbol
consisting of two interlaced triangles, one pointing up, the other down --
"Indra's thunderbolt" with the Hindus, "Solomon's seal"
with the Jews. (shat, six; kona, angle, point.)
SIDDHA, one who has attained
psychic powers by proficiency in occult sciences; perfect; one who has attained
perfection; he who has acquired siddhis.
SIDDHARTHA, a title of
Gautama Buddha.
SIDDHAS, demi-gods, with
superhuman powers.
SIDDHASANA, a particular
posture in religious meditation, described as putting the left heel under the
body and the right heel in front of it.
SIDDHI, magic power;
extraordinary power that may be acquired by man through spiritual development.
SISHTA, chastened, corrected,
taught, instructed, ruled.
SIVA, one of the Hindu
trinity (Brahma, Vishnu and Siva), the destroyer, or transformer. (Literally,
"the gracious one," an euphemism for Rudra, "the howler,"
"the horrible one.")
SKANDA, a name of Karttikeya,
son of Siva and god of war. (Literally, "leaping.") (See KARTTIKEYA.)
SKANDHAS, the impermanent
elements that enter into man's constitution and which he assumes upon
incarnating. (Literally, "branches," "ramifications.")
SMRITI, remembrance;
tradition; laws handed down by human authors, not "revealed," as
sruti.
SO'HAM, the reverse of Hamsa,
symbolizing black magic. (sas, that; aham, I: I that very person,
I myself -- expresssive of bad egoism -- while Hamsa
(aham, I;sas, that: I am That) is an affirmation of divine
unity.)
SOLOMON'S SEAL, two
interlaced triangles, one pointing tip, the other down, one dark and the other
light, expressing the union of spirit and matter.
SOMA, the moon; a liquid
expressed from the moon-plant.
SPARSA, tangibility, that
which may be touched.
SPARSANAKA, that which
touches, (used in speaking of the skin.)
SRADDHA, an oblation to the manes,
made at the same time as the pinda offering.
SRADDHA, trust, faith.
SRI, beautiful appearance,
beautiful; goddess of fortune and prosperity and of beauty; also a title of
honor, "the glorious," as Sri Krishna.
SROTRAM, the ear.
SRUTI, revelation; utterance;
sacred utterance handed down by tradition.
STHAMBHA, stiffness,
rigidity, stupor, stupidity, stupefaction; a magical faculty, many kinds of
which are enumerated in the Tantras.
STHAVARA, standing, powerless
of locomotion; the lower orders of created things, vegetable and mineral.
STHULA, the differentiated
condition of matter.
STHULA-SARIRA, the gross
physical body.
STHULOPADHI, the lowest of
the three bases in the Taraka-yoga classification of the human principles,
inclusive of the sthula-sarira, prana and the linga-sarira.
(sthula, physical; uphadhi, basis, vehicle.)
SUCHI, flaming, glowing; the
solar fire; the fire of passion and animal instinct.
SUKHA, pleasure.
SUKRA, the planet Venus;
clean, bright.
SUKSHMA, atomic, intangible,
small, fine; the undifferentiated condition of matter.
SUKSHMA-SARIRA, the subtle
body, the "double."
SUKSHMAVASTHA, the latent
condition of the attributes before evolution began.
SUKSHMOPADI, the psychic body
in the dreaming state; the subtle body used by the dreamer.
SURAS, good spiritual beings,
the antitheses of asuras.
SURYA, the sun.
SUSHUMNA, one of the seven
principal rays of the sun; a particular tube in the spinal cord, lying between
the vessels called ida and pingala, through which the spirit passes. (See BRAHMA-RANDHRA,
IDA and PINGALA.)
SUSHUPTI, the state of
dreamless sleep, in which the ego has real experiences of very high spiritual
nature. It is entered by all persons, whether virtuous or vile. (See
AVASTHA-TRAYA.)
SUTRA, the sacred cord worn
by the two higher Hindu castes; a religious verse, aphorism or extract.
SUTRATMAN, in Vedantic
philosophy, the spiritual essence which passes through the five subtle
principles of the human being and links them together as by a thread.
(sutra, thread; atman, soul: thread-soul.)
SVABHAVA, the real nature of
a thing; concrete aspect of mula-prakriti, the one substance.
SVABHAVIKA, a sect of
Buddhist philosophers who accounted for all things by the laws of nature.
SVAMI, master, lord;
spiritual preceptor.
SVAPNA, the dreaming state,
intermediate between jagrata and sushupti. (See AVASTHA-TRAYA.)
SVARGA, heaven, Indra's
paradise, said to be situated on the mountain Meru. It is a state in which the
disembodied soul enjoys bliss -- under karmic limitations -- for a space of time
commensurate with the spiritual energy which produced the state.
SVASTIKA, any lucky or
auspicious object; a sign shaped like a Greek cross, with the extremities of
the four arms bent at right angles in the same direction.
SVAYAM-BHUVA, the first Manu.
(svayam, himself; bhuva, being, existing: self-existing.)
TAIJASI, bright, luminous,
brilliant; in Vedanta philosophy, the "radiant
one," i.e., manas illuminated by atma-buddhi.
TAMAS, darkness; the gloom of
hell; a division of hell; mental darkness, constituting one of the five forms
of avidya -- ignorance -- in the Sankhya philosophy; the lowest of the three
qualities of matter. (See GUNA, also TAMOGUNA.)
TAMASHA, show, display;
trick, jugglery, performance of phenomena.
TAMISRA, gloom; darkness of
mind, illusion.
TAMOGUNA, the lowest of the
three qualities of nature, predominating in earth and water, and in human
beings productive of sloth, indifference and inaction.
(tamas, darkness; guna, quality.)
TANHA, desire; the will to
live; thirst for life.
TAN-MATRA, a subtle element,
or rudiment of elementary matter, of which five are popularly
enumerated, viz: sabda, sparsa, rupa, rasa and gandha, from which are
produced the five gross elements. (tat, that; matra, element.)
TANTRA, a religious or
magical treatise. The Tantras are very numerous in India, and are usually in
the form of a dialogue between Siva and Durga. They comprise five
subjects, viz,: the creation; the destruction of the world; the worship of
the gods; the attainment of all objects, especially the six mystic yoga powers;
the four methods of attaining union with the Supreme Spirit. Though many of
them contain noble philosophy, the practice, by uninitiated persons, of the
rites and formularies contained in the Tantras leads invariably to black magic.
TANTRIKA, one versed in the
Tantras; also, a black magician.
TAPAS, burning, heat;
self-castigation, asceticism; devotion.
TAPASVIN, an ascetic, one who
practices religious austerities.
TAT, that, the Absolute.
TATHAGATA, a name of Buddha
-- used in his discourses when he speaks of himself. (Literally, "going
the same way [as his predecessors.]")
TATTVA, truth, reality as
opposed to illusion. The Sankhya system has twenty-five tattvas, viz.:
avyakta, buddhi, ahankara, the five tan-matras, the five maha-bhutas, the
eleven organs and purusha. The Mahesvaras enumerate five tattvas, corresponding
with the five elements. In Vedantic philosophy tattva is called maha-vakya,
"the great word," by which the identity of the whole universe with
Brahma is expressed. (tat, that; tva, thou: that art thou.)
TAU (Greek), the letter T;
the cross of that shape.
TEJAS, flame; radiance,
brilliance.
THIRTY-TWO CHARACTERISTICS,
the thirty-two marks some or all of which are found on spiritually developed
men, or Bodhisattvas. On Buddha all were found.
THVAK, the skin as the organ
of touch.
TIME, kala, is
divided by the Hindus as follows: 15 nimishas (twinklings of the eye) equal 1
kashta; 30 kashtas equal 1 kala; 30 kalas equal 1 kshana; 12 kshanas equal 1
muhurtta; 30 muhurttas equal 1 day and night.
TIRTHANKARA, (also
TIRTHANKAR), a Jaina term signifying nearly the same as Avatara; a Jaina Arhat.
(Literally, "bathing in holy water.")
TIRTHIKA, a pilgrim.
TITIKSHA, endurance,
patience, resignation, forbearance.
TRETA, third; name of the
second of the four yugas or ages. It contains 1,296,000 years of mortals. (See
YUGA.)
TRI-LOKAS, the three worlds
-- of men, gods and semi-divine beings. (tri, three; lokas, worlds.)
TRI-PITAKAS, the three
classes of the sacred books of the Buddhists, viz: Sutra-Pitaka,
Vinaya-Pitaka and Abhidharma-Pitaka. (tri, three; pitaka, basket,
collection.)
TRISHNA, thirst; thirst for
life.
TURIYATITA, a state of
consciousness beyond turiyavastha; name of an Upanishad.
(turiya, fourth; atita, having passed beyond.)
TURIYAVASTHA, the fourth
state of consciousness, not attainable by the ordinary man but only by
Initiates. (turiya, fourth; avastha, state.)
TUSHTI, satisfaction;
acquiescence; indifference.
TYAGA, forsaking; abandonment
of the world of illusion.
UDASINI, indifferent, free
from affection; a stoic philosopher; a religious mendicant. (ud,
apart; asini, sitting: sitting apart.)
UPACHAYA, accumulation,
aggregation.
UPADHI, foundation, basis.
UPADRASHTA, the absolute
consciousness within us.
UPAMANA, comparison, analogy;
in Nyaya philosophy, the third of the four means of correct knowledge.
UPANAYANA, the ceremony of
investiture with the sacred thread of the two higher Hindu castes; initiation.
(Literally, "leading to [a teacher.]")
UPANISHADS, ancient Sanskrit
mystical writings, by many authors. The actual number of Upanishads is not
known. Muller placed them at 149 in 1865; Weber at 235; there are, however,
many more. Those translated and edited by Muller are: Chandogya, Talavakara,
Aitareya, Kaushitaka, Vajaseneya, Sanhita, Katha, Mundaka, Taitiriyaka,
Brihadaranyaka, Svetasvatara, Prasna, and Maitreyana-Brahmana. (Literally,
"secret knowledge.")
UPARATI, ceasing, stopping;
the renunciation of all formal religion -- the third qualification of a
disciple.
UPASAMA, cessation, stopping;
quiet; tranquillity; patience.
UPASANA, devotion, adoration;
religious meditation. (Literally, "sitting by the side of [Isvara.]")
UPAYA, that by which one
reaches an aim, expedient, means.
URAGAS, an order of celestial
beings, higher elementals, who possess great knowledge. They are usually
represented as semi-divine serpents, having human heads of great beauty.
(uras, breast; ga, going: going upon the breast.)
URDHVA-LOKA, the world above,
heaven. (urdhva, upper; loka, world.)
USANAS, the planet Venus.
USHMAPA, a spirit of an
inferior order, a deceased ancestor. (Literally, "feeder on warmth.")
VACH, speech, word; the
mystic Word, the Logos or collective host of Dhyan Chohans.
VAHAN, vehicle, carrier.
VAIKRITI, modification,
change.
VAIKRITIKA, constructive;
incidental.
VAIRAGYA, (also VIRAGA),
freedom from worldly passion, absence of all worldly desires.
VAISVA-NARA, the internal
fire which causes digestion; in Vedanta philosophy, the spirit of humanity, the
collective consciousness of mankind; an epithet of Savitri. (vaisva, pervading,
common to all; nara, man, mankind.)
VAIVASVATA-MANU, the Manu
reigning during the present manvantara. (See MANU.)
VAJRA-SATTVA, having a heart
of adamant. (vajra, adamantine; sattva, soul, heart.)
VARANAKA, surrounding,
enveloping, covering.
VASANA, knowledge derived
from memory; an impression remaining unconsciously in the mind from past good
or evil actions, and hence producing pleasure or pain.
VASU-DEVA, name of the father
of Krishna, who was also the brother of Pritha, or Kunti, the mother of the
five Pandu princes. (vasu, excellent; deva, a god.)
VAYU, air, wind.
VEDANA, sensation, knowledge
obtained through the senses.
VEDANTA, a system of
philosophy. (See PURVA-MIMANSA.)
VEDAS, the sacred books of
the earlier Hindu religion. Originally there were three Vedas, but a later work
called the Atharva-Veda has been added to these and constitutes the fourth
Veda. Collectively they are termed Sruti, "revelation," or "utterance"
-- the sacred utterance handed down by tradition. Rig-Veda signifies "Veda
of verses," from rig, a spoken stanza; Sama-Veda, Veda
of chants, from saman, a song or chant; Yajur-Veda, "Veda of
sacrificial formulas," from yajus, a sacrificial text. The
distinctive quality of the Vedas is the power of invocation. (veda, knowledge,
divine knowledge.)
VIBHU, pervading all natural
things, omnipresent.
VIDYA, knowledge, learning
science.
VIGNANA, act of
perceiving; worldly knowledge of any kind.
VIHARA, a Buddhist or Jaina
temple or convent.
VIKALPA, distinction;
duality; doubt.
VIKARA, (also VIKRITI),
change, alteration; in Sankhya philosophy, a production, or that which is
evolved from a previous pra-kriti or producer.
VIKSHEPA, casting asunder;
refuting in argument.
VINA, the Indian lute, a
seven-stringed instrument of the guitar kind, said to have been invented by
Narada.
VIPARAITI-GNANA, confounding
one thing with another, the effect of imperfect and consequently confused
knowledge. (viparaiti, turned around, inverted;gnana, knowing.)
VIRAGA. (See VAIRAGYA.)
VISHADA, despondency,
distress of mind, despair; stupefaction.
VISHAYA, an object sense.
Five vishayas are enumerated, one for each indriya, or organ of sense, and each
corresponds with one of the five elements.
VISESHAS, species; the
distinctions existent between objects.
VISHNU, the second member of
the Hindu trinity. (Literally, "all-pervading.")
VISISHTA, separated, set
apart by itself; distinguished.
VISVA-DEVAS, a class of
deities particularly worshipped at the sraddhas, or funeral ceremonies.
VIVASVAT, the sun; the first
manifestation of divine wisdom at the season of creation.
VIVEKA, discrimination, good
judgment; in Vedanta philosophy, the power of separating the invisible spirit
from the visible world, spirit from matter, truth from untruth, reality from
illusion. (Literally, "a separating apart.")
VRITTI, event; procedure,
action; established rule; occupation, means of subsistence.
VYAKTA, discrete,
discernible, manifest, evident.
VYASA, a mythical Indian sage
and poet, to whom the compilation of the Vedas, the Maha-bharata and other
works is ascribed. The Vishnu-Purana enumerates twenty-eight Vyasas, and the
first Vyasa is said to have been Svayambhuva, or Brahma himself.
VYASHTI-SARGA, specific and
individual creation. (Vyashti, manifold; sarga, creation.)
YAKSHAS, sprites, ghosts,
elementals who guard treasures. (Literally, "restless ones.")
YAMA, forbearance; the first
stage of yoga; the god of death. Yama and his sister Yami constituted the first
human pair, in allegorical Vedic tradition, and he is consequently so honored
as the father of mankind and king of the pitaras, or ancestors. Later he
becomes "the restrainer," and, as "the punisher," rules the
dead in the underworld.
YATANA-DEHA, a body evolved
from the sukshma-sarira, in which the soul is clothed during its stay in naraka
-- hell. (yatana, requital, pains of hell; deha, body.)
YOGA, the second of the two
divisions of the Sankhya philosophy, teaching the means of attaining complete
union with the Supreme. Eight stages or means of yoga, mental concentration and
union with Isvara, are enumerated, viz: yama, forbearance, freedom from
cruelty; niyama, restraint, religious observances; asana, bodily postures;
pranayama, regulation of the breath; pratyahara, full control of thoughts and
feelings; dharana, steadying of the mind; dhyana, contemplation; samadhi,
perfect meditation, the highest of mystic trances. To the system of mental and
ethical training the term raja-yoga, "kingly union," is applied,
while physical and psychic practices in the line of black magic and
spiritualism are called hatha-yoga, violent control. (yoga, yoking,
union.)
YOGA-BALA, the force of
devotion; the power of magic.
YOGACHARYA, a teacher of magic;
a teacher of the yoga philosophy.
(yoga, philosophy; acharya, teacher.)
YOGA-VIDYA, knowledge of
yoga, divine knowledge.
YOGI, (also YOGIN), a
follower of the yoga system, a contemplative saint; a magician.
YUGA, an age; a cycle. There
are four ages of the world, the durations of which constitute together a
maha-yuga, or great age. They are thus set forth in Brahmanical computations:
Krita-yuga contains 1,728,000 solar years; treta-yuga, 1,296,000; dvapara-yuga,
864,000; kali-yuga, 432,000. These four make one maha-yuga, of 4,320,000 years,
and 71 such maha-yugas form the period of the reign of one Manu, containing
306,720,000 years. The reigns of 14 Manus (embracing the duration of 994
maha-yugas) equal 4,294,080,000 years; and, adding to these the sandhis
(twilights), equal to 6 maha-yugas, or 25,920,000 years, the total of these
reigns and interregnums of 14 Manus is 1,000 maha-yugas, which constitute a
kalpa, or "day of Brahma," amounting to 4,320,000,000 solar years. As
Brahma's "night" is of equal duration, one day and night of Brahma
would contain 8,640,000,000 solar years; and 360 such days and nights make a
year of Brahma, containing 3,110,400, 000, 000 solar years; while 100 such
years of Brahma constitute the whole period of Brahma's age, comprising
311,040,000,000,000 years of mortals. Among lesser yugas is an astronomical
cycle of five years. (yuga, a yoke, a yoking [of human beings], and so,
human generation, a generation of men, an age of the world. The four yugas have
received their names from the marks on dice, the best mark being four points
and the worst one: krita is the side of a die marked with four
points; treta, the side having three spots; dvapara, two
spots; and kali, one spot.)
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