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Swami Vivekananda
Bhagavan - "Possessor of all powers." Great Lord
Bhakti - Intense love for God
Bhakti-Yoga - Union with the Divine through devotion
Bhavana - Pondering; meditation
Bodha - Intelligence
Brahma - The Creator of the universe
Brahmacharya - Chastity in thought, word and deed
Brahman - The One Existence, the Absolute
Brahmavidya - Knowledge of Brahman, the supreme wisdom that
leads to Mukti
Buddhi - The determinative faculty
Chaitanya - Pure intelligence. Name of a great Hindu sage
(born 1485) who is regarded as a Divine Incarnation
Chitta - Mind Stuff
Dana - Charity
Daya - Mercy, compassion, doing good to others without hope of
return
Devas - The "shining ones," semi-divine beings representing
states attained by workers of good
Devaloka - Abode of the gods
Dharma - Virtue. Religious duty
Gunas - Qualities, attributes
Guru - " the dispeller of darkness." The real guru is a
transmitter of the spiritual impulse that quickens the spirit
and awakens a genuine thirst for religion.
Hamsa - The Jiva, or individual soul
Hatha Yoga - The science of controlling body and mind, but
with no spiritual end in view, bodily perfection being the
only aim
Hum - A mystic word used in meditation as symbolic of the
highest Bliss
Isvara - The Supreme Ruler; the highest possible conception
through reason, of the Absolute, which is beyond all thought
Jagrat - Waking state
Jnana - Pure intelligence. Knowledge
Kalyana - Blessings
Karma - Work or action, also effects of actions; the law of
cause and effect in the moral world
Karma-Yoga - Union with the Divine through the unselfish
performance of duty
Kundalini - "the coiled-up." The residual energy, located
according to the Yogis, at the base of the spine, and which in
ordinary men produces dreams, imagination, psychical
perceptions, etc., and which, when fully aroused and purified,
leads to the direct perception of God
Mantra - Any prayer, holy verse, sacred or mystic word recited
or contemplated during worship
Maya - Mistaking the unreal and phenomenal for the real and
eternal
Moksha - Freedom, liberation (Mukti)
Mukti - Emancipation from rebirth
Namah - Salutation
Nataraja - " Lord of the stage." Sometimes used for God as the
Lord of this vast stage the universe
Om or Omkara - The most holy word of the Vedas. A symbolic
word meaning the Supreme Being, the Ocean of Knowledge and
Bliss Absolute
Om tat sat - "Om That Existence." That Ocean of Knowledge and
Bliss Absolute, the only Reality
Paramahamsa - Supreme soul
Prakriti - Nature
Prana - The sum total of the cosmic energy, the vital forces
of the body
Pratibha - Divine illumination
Samadhi - Super-consciousness
Samskaras - Impressions in the mind-stuff that produce habits
Santosa - Contentment
Sattvika - Having the Sattva quality highly developed, hence
one who is pure and holy
Satyam - Truthfulness
Siddhas - Semi-divine beings, or Yogis, who have attained
supernatural powers
Siva - The "Destroyer"
Sivoham - "I am Siva" (or eternal bliss)
Sloka - Verse
Soham - "I am He"
Sraddha - Strong faith
"Tat tvam asi" - "That thou art"
Vidya - Science, or Knowledge
Vidvan - One who knows
Vishnu - The "Preserver", who takes care of the universe, and
who incarnates from time to time to help mankind
Yuga - A cycle or age of the world
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