glossary to aurobindo's record of yoga

Glossary to the Record of Yoga

Introductory Note

Status. Work on this glossary is in progress. Some definitions areprovisional and will be revised before the glossary is published.Scope. Most words from languages other than English (primarily San-skrit), and some English words used in special senses in the Record ofYoga, are included.Transliteration. Words in italics are Sanskrit unless otherwise indi-cated. Sanskrit words are spelled according to the standard interna-tional system of transliteration. This has been adopted because thesame Sanskrit word is often spelled in more than one way in the text.The spellings that occur in the text, if they differ from the transliter-ation (ignoring any diacritical marks over and under the letters), arementioned in parentheses. The sounds represented by c, r., and s or s. inthe standard transliteration are commonly represented by “ch”, “ri”,and “sh” in the anglicised spellings normally used in the Record ofYoga.Order. All entries, regardless of language, are arranged in English al-phabetical order. Words and phrases are alphabetised letter by letter,disregarding diacritics, spaces and hyphens.Compounds and phrases. A compound or phrase composed of wordsthat do not occur separately in the text is normally listed as a unitand the words are not defined individually. Compound expressionsconsisting of words that also occur by themselves, and thus are definedseparately, are listed in the glossary only if they occur frequently orhave a special significance.Definitions. The definition of each term is intended only as an aid tounderstanding its occurrences in the Record of Yoga. It may not includeall the meanings a word has in the original language. On the otherhand, it may include meanings that are not found in dictionaries of thelanguage, since Sri Aurobindo adapted many words to his own needs inreferring to his yogic experiences. The definitions take into account Sri

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Aurobindo’s own explanations, the contexts in which the terms occur,and the relations between the Record of Yoga and his other writings.Quotations. Direct quotations from Sri Aurobindo’s writings are indi-cated by quotation marks.Cross-references. Words in bold type in the definitions are defined inthe glossary.Searching. When searching for a definition, enter the term in either oftwo ways:1. Type the term as it is spelled in the text. This should find either(a) the definition you are looking for, or (b) an entry that will showthe transliteration of the term under which the definition can be foundusing the next method.2. Type a period / full stop (.) and the transliterated spelling withoutdiacritical marks. Typing a period / full stop before the transliterationwill find the entry where the term is defined rather than occurrences ofit in compounds or in definitions of other terms.Example: Searching for “sparsha” (as it is spelled in the text) findsthe entry for the compound “agneya-sparsa (agneya-sparsha)”, whichshows that the transliteration of “sparsha” is “sparsa”. Searching for“.sparsa” finds the definition of sparsa, skipping over other expressionscontaining this word.

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..abhasaabhasa — appearance; (in Bengali) glimmer, hint.

..abhavaabhava — entry into the being from outside.

..abhayaabhaya (abhaya; abhayam) — fearlessness; passive courage, “freedomfrom fear which with a bold calmness meets and receives every menaceof danger and shock of misfortune”, an attribute of the ks.atriya...abhayamabhayam — see abhaya...abhayam, sahasa, atmaslagha, yasolipsaabhayam, sahasa, atmaslagha, yasolipsa (abhayam, sahasa, atmasla-gha, yasholipsa) — fearlessness, daring, self-confidence, the urge to-wards victory (the attributes of the ks.atriya)...abhayam, sahasam, yasolipsa, atmaslagha, iti ksatratejahabhayam, sahasam, yasolipsa, atmaslagha, iti ks.atratejah. (abhayam,sahasam, yasholipsa, atmaslagha, iti kshatratejah) — fearlessness, dar-ing, the urge towards victory, self-confidence: these express the energyof the ks.atriya temperament.

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..abhimanaabhimana — pride; egoism.

..abhisastihabhisastih. — hostile expression.

..abhistiabhis.t.i — invasion.

..abhyasaabhyasa — repetition; exercise; discipline; practice.

..acchannaacchanna — covered, concealed.

..active brahmanactive brahman — same as sagun. a brahman, the dynamic aspect ofbrahman which is expressed in the cosmic movement, “a universalDivine, one in being, multiple in personality and power, who conveysto us, when we enter into the consciousness of his universal forces, asense of infinite quality and will and act and world-wide knowledgeand a one yet innumerable delight”; realised by the mind separatelyfrom the santam brahma or silent brahman, it is an aspect of universalbeing which “though wonderfully freed, uplifted and illumined, sup-ports only the present self-expression of the Cosmic Spirit and does nottransform, as would a transcendental Descent, the ambiguous symbolsand veiled mysteries of a world of Ignorance”...active samataactive samata — equality in one’s response to the contacts of the world,consisting of (sama) rasa, (sama) bhoga and (sama) ananda, alsocalled positive samata: an “active equality which will enable us notonly to draw back from or confront the world in a detached andseparated calm, but to return upon it and possess it in the power ofthe calm and equal Spirit”...actual gnosisactual gnosis — same as actualistic ideality...actualisticactualistic — characterised by a working of intuition which, in dealingwith the movement in time, lays “stress on the stream of immediateactualities”...actualistic idealityactualistic ideality — an intuitional form of logistic ideality which, ap-plied to the field of trikaladr.s.t.i and tapas, “depends upon the existentactuality, illumines it, goes a little beyond it but from it”...actualistic logistisactualistic logistis — same as actualistic ideality...actualistic seer tapasactualistic seer tapas — tapas acting in the actualist intuitional revela-tion, the lowest form of seer tapas...actualistic seer trikaladrstiactualistic seer trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i in the actualistintuitional revelation...actualist intuitional revelationactualist intuitional revelation — actualistic ideality raised to the intu-itive revelatory logistis...adasyaadasya — inability to surrender, “insubmission”, absence of dasya.


..adequateadequate — (vak) having the qualities of the lowest level of style, which“has the power to make us . . . see the object or idea in a certain tem-perate lucidity of vision”; most often combined with a higher level, asin the effective-adequate style or the inevitable form of the adequate...adesaadesa (adesha; adesh) — command; a voice (van. ı) heard inwardly as“the command of the Divine Guide of the Yoga”; especially, “theAdesha given in the jail”, the inner command received by Sri Auro-bindo in Alipur jail giving him a mission to accomplish a certain work,karma, with four principal parts: literary (sahitya), religious (daiva ordharma), political (kr.ti) and social (samaja or kama1)...adesasiddhiadesasiddhi (adeshasiddhi; adesha-siddhi; adesha siddhi; adeshsid-dhi; adesh-siddhi; adesh siddhi) — fulfilment of the divine command(adesa) enjoining the accomplishment of a certain mission (karma), awork for the world with literary, political, social and spiritual aspects...adesavaniadesavan. ı (adeshavani) — “speech of supreme command”, the highestform of van. ı, which “is clear and irresistible, the mind has to obey andthere is no question possible, even if what comes is contrary to thepreconceived ideas of the mental intelligence”...adharaadhara (adhara; adhar) — vessel, receptacle; support; “that in whichthe consciousness is now contained — mind-life-body”, the psycho-physical system comprising the antah.karan. a and the sthula deha; aphysical object or sensation serving as a support or background forrupadr.s.t.i or any other kind of vis.ayadr.s.t.i...adharadrstiadharadr.s.t.i (adhardrishti; adhar drishti) — vision of images on a back-ground (sadhara rupa)...adhara-siddhiadhara-siddhi — the perfection of the mental-vital-physical system,consisting of the siddhi of the first four catus.t.ayas, so that the adhara“becomes a perfect instrument for the Purushottama, the Purusha andShakti to carry on their Lila”...adharmaadharma — not dharma; lawlessness...adhogatiadhogati — literally “downward movement”; the negation of utthapa-na, especially due to defective laghima and mahima...adhyaksatvaadhyaks.atva (adhyakshatwa) — the status of the Divine Being “as theadhyaks.a, he who seated over all in the supreme ether over-sees things,views and controls them from above”...adhyaropaadhyaropa — superimposition...adhyaropitaadhyaropita — superimposed.


..adhyayaadhyaya — chapter.

..adinataadınata — freedom from depression; the opposite of dainyam.

..adinata ksiprata sthairyam isvarabhavaadınata ks.iprata sthairyam ısvarabhava (adinata kshiprata sthairyamishwarabhava) — non-depression, swiftness, steadiness, mastery: thesecond general formula of the sakti catus.t.aya, consisting of qualitiesneeded for the perfection of all parts of the psycho-physical system...AditiAditi — the Vedic goddess of infinite being, the mother of the gods,manifested here as the earth-goddess (Pr.thivı2); the adya-sakti, theindivisible consciousness (cit), force (tapas) and bliss (ananda) of theSupreme...adriadri — rock; hill; a Vedic symbol of “formal existence and especiallyof the physical nature”...adrstamadr.s.t.am (adrishtam) — literally “the unseen”; fate...adyaadya mahasakti (adya mahashakti) — the original cosmic Power(mahasakti), the universal sakti on the highest plane of the eternalmanifestation...adya parasaktiadya parasakti (adya parashakti) — the original supreme Power (parasakti), the transcendent sakti who “stands above the worlds and linksthe creation to the ever unmanifest mystery of the Supreme”...adya-saktiadya-sakti (adyashakti; adya-shakti) — the original Power (sakti),both transcendent (adya parasakti) and universal (adya mahasakti)...AghoraAghora — literally “not terrible” (though terrible, ghora, in appear-ance), an epithet of Siva, the destroyer; a form of Tantra of thevamamarga or “left-hand path” which annuls all distinctions; a beingor world characterised by samata (equality)...Agner bhrajante arcayahAgner bhrajante arcayah. (Agner bhrajante archayah) — the flamingradiances of Agni2 blaze forth. [R. g Veda 1.44.12]..agneya-sparsaagneya-sparsa (agneya-sparsha) — fiery or burning touch...agni1agni1 — fire; fiery energy; the fire of Agni2, “the flame of divine Forceinstinct with divine knowledge”; the bhuta of fire, “the igneous, radi-ant and electric energy”, also called tejas; the type of akashic materialcalled “fire”...Agni2Agni2 (Agni; Agnih) — the god of Fire; in Sri Aurobindo’s interpre-tation of the Veda, the deva as the master of tapas, “the divineConsciousness formulating itself in universal energy”; he is the “secretinhabitant of Matter and its forms” and “the power of conscious Being,called by us will, effective behind the workings of mind and body”;


his “divine birth-place and home, — though he is born everywhereand dwells in all things, — is the Truth, the Infinity, the vast cosmicIntelligence in which Knowledge and Force are unified”...agnimayaagnimaya — fiery; pertaining to the bhuta of agni1; (rupa or lipi)composed of or containing the akashic material called agni or“fire”...agnimaya varnaagnimaya varn. a — fiery colour; varn. a mixed with an element of agni1...Agni RudraAgni Rudra — Agni2, the god of Force, identified with Rudra2, “theDivine as master of our evolution by violence and battle”...Agni TvastaAgni Tvas.t.a (Agni Twashta) — Agni2, the universal energy, as Tvas.t.a,“the Fashioner of things”...Agni-VayuAgni-Vayu (Agni-Vayu; Agni Vayu) — Agni2, the divine Force, work-ing through the vital energy of Vayu2...Agni-Vayu-AryamanAgni-Vayu-Aryaman — the three forceful gods Agni2, Vayu2 andAryaman unified to form one deity...Agni-Vayu-AryamanAgni-Vayu-Aryaman bhava — the self-manifestation of the deva asAgni2, Vayu2 and Aryaman, forming part of devabhava...agrahaagraha — insistence...ahaitukaahaituka — causeless; objectless; lacking a hetu; (with reference toany form of physical ananda or certain types of subjective ananda)manifesting without relation to an outer stimulus or object; short forahaituka ananda...ahaituka anandaahaituka ananda — “objectless bliss”; a kind of subjective ananda,“self-existent and independent of objects and particular experiences”,which manifests on the plane of mind (manas) as “an even and tranquilneutral joy”; any form of physical ananda not associated with anexternal stimulus...ahaitukanandaahaitukananda — the form of ananda corresponding to the mentalplane (same as ahaituka ananda)...ahamaham — I; ego, “the sense of a separate self-existence” (same asahankara); (“the divine Aham”) the individual consciousness “nolonger as an obscured and limited ego, but as a centre of the Divine andof the universal consciousness embracing, utilising and transforminginto harmony with the Divine all individual determinations” (same ascaitanyakendra)...aham bhartaaham bharta — (literally) I am the upholder; the ego-sense in the con-sciousness that upholds actions.


..aham bhoktaaham bhokta — (literally) I am the enjoyer; the ego-sense in the con-sciousness that enjoys experience...aham jnataaham jnata — (literally) I am the knower; the egoism of the knower...aham kartaaham karta — (literally) I am the doer; the egoism of the doer...aham saksiaham saks.ı (aham sakshi) — (literally) I am the witness; the ego-sensein the witnessing consciousness...ahankaraahankara — the ego; the subjective principle by which the purus.a isinduced to identify himself with prakr.ti and her activities; “the limited‘I’ in us”, freedom from which is part of the mukti or liberation of thenature: the egoistic consciousness, including the “ego-sense in the lifestuff” and the “ego-idea in the mind” which “maintain a constructedsymbol of self, the separative ego, which does duty for the hidden realself, the spirit or true being” and whose nature “is a self-limitationof consciousness by a willed ignorance of the rest of its play and itsexclusive absorption in one form, one combination of tendencies, onefield of the movement of energies”...ahankara-mukti-siddhiahankara-mukti-siddhi — the perfection of release from the ego(ahankara), part of the mukti or liberation of the nature: “thetransformation of the limited ego into a conscious centre of the divineunity and freedom” (caitanyakendra) through “an uncompromisingabolition of the ego-sense at its very basis and source”, leavingonly an “individualisation for the purposes of the play of universalconsciousness in an individual mind and frame”...ahasyamahasyam — cheerlessness; the negation of hasya or “laughter”...ahiahi — serpent; the Time-snake...ahitena cid arvataahitena cid arvata (ahitena chid arvata) — even without urging on thewar-horse (symbol of vehement nervous tapas). [R. g Veda 8.62.3]..aikyalipsaaikyalipsa — the urge towards unity, an element of Mahesvarı bhava...aikyamaikyam — unity...ainsi n’est il pas assez rouge pour vousainsi n’est il pas assez rouge pour vous [French] — isn’t it red enoughfor you like this? (British possessions were traditionally coloured redor pink on world maps.)..aishwari sthitiaishwari sthiti — see aisvarı sthiti...aishwaryaaishwarya, etc. — see aisvarya, etc...aiskhistos esthaaiskhistos estha [Greek] — you were the ugliest (or the most infamous)...aisvari sthitiaisvarı sthiti (aishwari sthiti) — abiding in the consciousness of theısvara.


..aisvaryaaisvarya (aishwarya; aishwaryam; aiswarya; aisvaryam) — mastery;sovereignty; the sense of divine power (same as ısvarabhava, a qualitycommon to the four aspects of daivı prakr.ti); one of the three siddhis ofpower: effectiveness of the will acting on a person or object without thekind of direct control established in vasita; an instance of so exercisingthe will; sometimes equivalent to aisvaryatraya or tapas...aisvaryabhavaaisvaryabhava (aishwaryabhava) — state or sense of sovereign mas-tery (equivalent to ısvarabhava)...aisvaryabodhaaisvaryabodha (aishwaryabodha; aishwarya-bodha; aishwarya bo-dha) — consciousness of sovereign power (equivalent to ısvarabhavaas a general attribute of daivı prakr.ti)...aisvarya-isitaaisvarya-ısita (aishwarya-ishita; aishwarya ishita) — the combinationof aisvarya and ısita, two of the three siddhis of power...aisvarya-isita-vasitaaisvarya-ısita-vasita (aishwarya-ishita-vashita) — a combination ofthe three siddhis of power...aisvarya-isita-vyaptiaisvarya-ısita-vyapti (aishwarya-ishita-vyapti) — the combination ofaisvarya, ısita and (communicative) vyapti...aisvaryamaisvaryam (aishwaryam; aisvaryam) — see aisvarya...aisvaryamaya tratakaaisvaryamaya trat.aka (aishwaryamaya tratak) — trat.aka (concentra-tion of the vision) brought about by aisvarya (exercise of will)...aisvaryaaisvarya (aishwarya) of exact time — aisvarya applied to bring aboutan event at a specific time...aisvaryaprayogaaisvaryaprayoga (aishwaryaprayoga) — application of the siddhi ofaisvarya...aisvaryasiddhiaisvaryasiddhi (aishwaryasiddhi; aiswaryasiddhi; aishwarya siddhi)— the supernormal power (siddhi) called aisvarya; perfection or ful-filment of this power; an instance of its use...aisvarya-tapasaisvarya-tapas (aishwarya-tapas; aishwarya tapas) — pressure ofaisvarya...aisvaryatrayaaisvaryatraya (aishwaryatraya; aishwarya-traya; aishwarya traya) —the triad of aisvarya, consisting of the three siddhis of power...aisvarya-vasitaaisvarya-vasita (aishwarya-vashita; aishwaryavashita; aishwaryavashita) — the combination of aisvarya and vasita, two of the threesiddhis of power...aisvarya-vasita-isitaaisvarya-vasita-ısita (aishwarya-vashita-ishita; aishwarya vashitaishita) — a combination of the three siddhis of power...aisvarya-vyaptiaisvarya-vyapti (aishwarya-vyapti) — the combination of aisvarya


and (communicative) vyapti...aisvarya-vyapti-isitaaisvarya-vyapti-ısita (aishwarya-vyapti-ishita) — the combination ofaisvarya, (communicative) vyapti and ısita...aiswaryaaiswarya — see aisvarya...aitihya lipiaitihya lipi — historical lipi, a means of historical trikaladr.s.t.i...ajnaajna — command; “thought that is will” (ajnanam); the ajnacakra...ajnacakraajnacakra (ajnachakra; ajna-chakra) — the cakra between the eye-brows, the centre of consciousness that governs will, vision and dy-namic thought, “not the ordinary outer mental will and sight, butsomething more powerful, belonging to the inner being”...ajnanaajnana (ajnana; ajnanam) — ignorance; absence of jnana; “the forget-fulness of the high and true self”, resulting in bondage to the threemodes (trigun. a) of the lower Nature (apara prakr.ti)...ajnanamajnanam — see ajnana...ajnanamajnanam — knowledge-will; the operation of consciousness by whichit “dwells on an image of things so as to hold, govern and possess it inpower”, one of the four functions of active consciousness (of which theothers are vijnana, prajnana and samjnana) and the means by whichthe supreme consciousness that is the master of the world (ısvara)exercises control of all things; same as ajna...akalyanaakalyan. a — misfortune, adversity; evil...akaraakara (akar) — form; the manner in which an object appears to thesenses...akaranaakaran. a — causeless; same as ahaituka...akartaakarta — the non-doer; inactive...akartavyaakartavya — what is not to be done...akartr-samaakartr.-sama (akartri-shama) — inactive peace...akasaakasa (akasha; akash) — ether; the most rarefied condition of materialbeing, “a condition of pure material extension in Space”, the subtlestof the pancabhuta; the state of physical substance that borders on thesupraphysical and is the medium through which the powers of higherworlds act on the material plane (same as sthula akasa); any of variouskinds of suks.ma akasa or immaterial ether, “depths of more and moresubtle ether which are heavily curtained from the physical sense bythe grosser ether of the material universe”; (same as akasarupa orakasalipi) images or writing seen in the akasa...akasalipiakasalipi (akashalipi; akasha lipi) — “etheric writing”; lipi seen in the


akasa...akasarupaakasarupa (akasharupa; akasha rupa) — rupa seen in the akasa, eitheras the result of forming images “by mental-physical pressure” outof akashic material or of “sudden manifestation of form partial orcomplete out of other akashas into the physical”...akasa-saktiakasa-sakti (akasha-shakti) — the power of the akasa (to resist thetapas)...akashaakasha, etc. — see akasa, etc...akashic materialakashic material — “subtle-gross etheric material” of any of sevenkinds (called in ascending order chaya [shadow], dhuma [smoke],tejas [brilliance], jyotih. [light], vidyut [lightning] or varn. a [colour],agni [fire], and prakasa [radiance]) out of which akasarupa andakasalipi are formed...akashic recordakashic record — the etheric writing (akasalipi) “that keeps the recordof all things past, transcribes all that is in process in the present, writesout the future”...akriya udasinataakriya udasınata — inactive indifference...aksaraaks.ara (akshara) — letter, syllable; immutable, unchanging; the im-mutable brahman, “the immobile omnipresent Soul of things”; “theimmutable self-existence which is the highest self-expression of theDivine and on whose unalterable eternity all the rest, all that movesand evolves, is founded”, the inactive status of the purus.ottama “inthe freedom of his self-existence unaffected by the action of his ownpower in Nature, not impinged on by the urge of his own becoming,undisturbed by the play of his own qualities”...aksara purusaaks.ara purus.a (akshara purusha) — the immutable spirit, the unchang-ing purus.a: “the inactive Purusha free from Prakriti and her works”,who stands above all things “in his imperturbable immobility of eternalsilence and calm”...aksepaaks.epa (akshepa) — disturbance...aksharaakshara — see aks.ara...akshepaakshepa — see aks.epa...alaksanaalaks.an. a (alakshana) — featureless...alasyaalasya (alasya; alasyam) — lassitude...alasyamalasyam — see alasya...alpaalpa — small, little; limited, deficient; littleness (same as alpam)...alpamalpam — littleness, the negation of br.hat.


..amaama — raw.

..amangalaamangala — unfortunate, unfavourable; adverse event (same as aman-galam)...amangalabodhaamangalabodha — the sense of misfortune or adversity...amangalamamangalam — misfortune, unfavourable occurrence, adverse circum-stances...amara purusaamara purus.a (amara purusha) — immortal spirit...amavasyaamavasya — new-moon day...ambulandoambulando [Latin] — walking; see in ambulando...amertumeamertume [French] — bitterness...amrtaamr.ta (amrita; amritam) — immortality; “the spirit’s timeless exis-tence . . . translated into the Time manifestation”, including in itsfullness “a physical life fit for a divine inhabitant and, — in the sensenot of attachment or of restriction to our present corporeal frame butan exceeding of the law of the physical body, — the conquest of death,an earthly immortality”; the “ambrosia of the gods”, a rejuvenating“nectar” induced by certain practices of yoga to trickle down from asubtle centre in the head; identified with soma1, “the sweetness thatcomes flowing from the streams of the upper hidden world, . . . thedivine delight hidden in all existence which, once manifest, supportsall life’s crowning activities and is the force that finally immortalisesthe mortal”...amsaamsa (ansha; angsha) — portion...amutraamutra — there; beyond this world...anahataanahata — the cakra in the heart, also called the “heart-lotus”, the“mental-vital, emotional centre with the psychic behind it (the soul,Purusha in the heart)”...anaikyaanaikya (anaikya; anaikyam) — disunity...anaikyamanaikyam — see anaikya...anandaananda — delight, bliss, ecstasy, beatitude; “a profound concentratedintense self-existent bliss extended to all that our being does, envisages,creates, a fixed divine rapture”; same as sama ananda, the universaldelight which constitutes active / positive samata, “an equal delight inall the cosmic manifestation of the Divine”, whose “foundation is theAtmajnana or Brahmajnana by which we perceive the whole universeas a perception of one Being that manifests itself in multitudinousforms and activities”; the highest of the three stages of active / positive


samata, “the joy of Unity” by which “all is changed into the fulland pure ecstasy” of the Spirit; the third and highest state of bhukti,consisting of the delight of existence experienced “throughout the sys-tem” in seven principal forms (kamananda, premananda, ahaitukaananda, cidghanananda, suddhananda, cidananda and sadananda)corresponding to the seven kosas or sheaths of the being and the sevenlokas or planes of existence; physical ananda or sarırananda in its fiveforms, also called vividhananda (various delight), the fourth memberof the sarıra catus.t.aya; (especially in the plural, “anandas”) any ofthese forms of ananda; same as anandam brahma, the last aspectof the fourfold brahman; bliss of infinite conscious existence, “theoriginal, all-encompassing, all-informing, all-upholding delight”, thethird aspect of saccidananda and the principle manifested in its purityin janaloka or anandaloka, also present in an involved or subordinatedform on every other plane...ananda-akasaananda-akasa (ananda-akasha; ananda akasha) — ether of ananda,“a supra-ethereal . . . ether of bliss . . . which is the matrix and conti-nent of the universal expression of the Self”...ananda atmanananda atman — delight-self; anandam brahma seen or experiencedas the atman, “the calm, motionless, blissful Self within us which iseternally untroubled and unaffected by the touches of things”...ananda bhavaananda bhava (ananda bhava) — condition of spiritual bliss; state ofconsciousness on a plane of ananda...anandabhogaanandabhoga (anandabhoga; ananda-bhoga) — enjoyment of de-light; same as bhoga as a term for the third and highest stage ofactive / positive samata, also called (sama) ananda...ananda bhumiananda bhumi — the world of bliss, a svargabhumi...anandabodhaanandabodha — awareness of bliss...ananda brahmaananda brahma — same as anandam brahma...anandabrahmadarsanaanandabrahmadarsana (anandabrahmadarshana) — vision of anan-dam brahma...ananda brahmanananda brahman — same as anandam brahma...anandabuddhaanandabuddha — (van. ı) expressing ananda on the mental plane...ananda candraananda candra (ananda chandra) — the moon (candra1) as a symbolof ananda...ananda cidghanaananda cidghana (ananda chidghana) — same as suddha cidghanaananda.


..ananda-cit-satananda-cit-sat (ananda-chit-sat) — Bliss-Consciousness-Being; sat-cit-ananda with the terms reversed...anandadarsanaanandadarsana (anandadarshana; ananda-darshana; ananda dar-shana) — vision of the various forms of the delight of existence inthings and beings...anandadharanasaktianandadharan. asakti (anandadharanashakti) — the power to sustainananda of any intensity...ananda idealityananda ideality — same as ananda-vijnana...ananda isvaraananda ısvara (ananda ishwara) — anandam brahma seen as an as-pect of the Lord...anandakosaanandakosa (anandakosha; ananda-kosha) — the sheath (kosa) cor-responding to the plane of ananda, the “bliss-sheath” which is thespiritual body of the “bliss soul” and in which, together with thevijnanakosa, “all the perfection of a spiritual embodiment is to befound, a yet unmanifested divine law of the body”...anandalokaanandaloka (anandaloka; ananda-loka; ananda loka) — the world(loka) of the supreme bliss (ananda) of saccidananda, the planeof “the joy of absolute identity in innumerable oneness”, where all“consciousness is of the bliss of the Infinite, all power is power of thebliss of the Infinite, all forms and activities are forms and activities ofthe bliss of the Infinite”; there is also “a repetition of the Ananda planein each lower world of consciousness”, but “in the lower planes notonly is it reached by a sort of dissolution into it of the pure mind or thelife-sense or the physical awareness, but it is, as it were, itself dilutedby the dissolved form of mind, life or matter, held in the dilution andturned into a poor thinness wonderful to the lower consciousness butnot comparable to its true intensities”...anandamanandam — same as anandam brahma...ananda-mahatananda-mahat — (van. ı) expressing ananda on the plane of vijnana...ananda manasananda manas — the principle of ananda reflected in the mental plane...anandamayaanandamaya (anandamaya; anandamay) — full of or consisting ofananda; joyous, delightful, blissful, beatific; characterized by an equaldelight (sama ananda) in all experiences; having the nature of pureananda of saccidananda, or of the principle of ananda involvedin or subordinated to the principle of another plane, such as thephysical, mental, etc.; (“the Anandamaya”) the All-Blissful, shortfor anandamaya ısvara or anandamaya purus.a; the third degree of


the third intensity of Kr.s.n. adarsana, a kind of vision of the divinePersonality corresponding to anandam brahma in the impersonalbrahmadarsana...anandamaya asatanandamaya asat (anandamay asat) — non-being (asat) conceived as“some inexpressible Beatitude [ananda] . . . into which even the notionof self-existence seems to be swallowed up”; “a pure causeless eternalBliss so intense that we are that alone”, experienced when the mind,in approaching saccidananda, dwells exclusively “on the aspect ofdelight, Ananda, and existence [sat] and consciousness [cit] then seemto disappear into a bliss without basis of self-possessing awareness orconstituent being”...anandamaya asuraanandamaya asura — the sadhyadeva (mind raised to the plane ofananda) of the asura type, who evolves in the eleventh and twelfthmanvantaras of the sixth pratikalpa...anandamaya brahmamayaanandamaya brahmamaya — consisting of anandam brahma...anandamaya isvaraanandamaya ısvara (anandamaya ishwara) — “the all-blissful Lord”,the ısvara as the anandamaya purus.a, “the Lord of existence andworks and Spirit of bliss”...anandamaya Krsnaanandamaya Kr.s.n. a (anandamaya Krishna) — Kr.s.n. a as the ananda-maya ısvara / purus.a, the deva of whom ananda is “the subtle bodyand being”; Kr.s.n. a seen in the highest form (third degree of the thirdintensity) of Kr.s.n. adarsana...anandamaya lilaanandamaya lıla — the world as a rapturous game of the anandamayaısvara / purus.a...anandamayaanandamaya lılamaya — (brahman or ısvara) full of ananda ex-pressed in the lıla of the world; short for anandamaya lılamayasagun. a or anandamaya lılamaya Kr.s.n. a...anandamaya lilamaya Krsnaanandamaya lılamaya Kr.s.n. a (anandamaya lilamaya Krishna) — Kr.s.-n. a as the anandamaya and the lılamaya, taking divine delight in thecosmic game...anandamaya lilamaya sagunaanandamaya lılamaya sagun. a — anandamaya sagun. a brahman in itslılamaya aspect, seen as the source of the cosmic play...anandamaya natianandamaya nati — ecstatic submission; the highest form of nati,which comes when one learns “to take delight in all things even asthe Lord takes delight in them”, becoming “capable of receiving allcontacts with a blissful equality, because we feel in them the touch ofthe imperishable Love and Delight, the happiness absolute that hides


ever in the heart of things”...anandamaya purusaanandamaya purus.a (anandamaya purusha) — “the Bliss-Self of thespirit”; the supreme and universal Soul, “the one and yet innumerablePersonality, the infinite Godhead, the self-aware and self-unfoldingPurusha”, whose essential nature is ananda, a “transcendent Bliss,unimaginable and inexpressible by the mind and speech”; also calledananda purus.a...anandamaya sagunaanandamaya sagun. a — same as anandamaya sagun. a brahman...anandamaya saguna brahmananandamaya sagun. a brahman — sagun. a brahman perceived as full ofthe universal delight that is the nature of anandam brahma...anandamaya titiksa-udasinata-natianandamaya titiks.a-udasınata-nati (anandamaya titiksha-udasinata-nati) — joyous endurance-indifference-submission; anandamaya natiunified with titiks.a and udasınata...anandamaya vanianandamaya van. ı — beatific voice...anandam brahmaanandam brahma — the realisation of “Brahman as the self-existentbliss and its universal delight of being”, the last member of the brahmacatus.t.aya; the divine Reality (brahman) realised as a supreme andall-pervading ananda, also called brahmananda...anandam brahmananandam brahman — same as anandam brahma...anandamanandam brahman. o vidvan na bibheti kutascana (anandam brah-mano vidvan na bibheti kutaschana) — he who possesses the delightof the brahman (see brahmananda) has no fear from anything in theworld. [Cf. Taittirıya Upanis.ad 2.4]..Ananda MimamsaAnanda Mımamsa (Ananda Mimansa) — “inquiry into the nature ofbliss”, a Sanskrit work...anandam jnanam anantam sarvam (brahma)anandam jnanam anantam sarvam (brahma) — brahman as Bliss, asKnowledge, as the Infinite, as the All; the formula of the brahmacatus.t.aya with its terms in reverse order...ananda purusaananda purus.a (ananda purusha; ananda-purusha) — the “supremebliss Soul”, the aspect of the divine Personality (purus.a) correspondingto the impersonal anandam brahma; same as anandamaya purus.a...anandasiddhianandasiddhi (anandasiddhi; ananda siddhi) — the perfection ofananda, especially in the sense of sama ananda or any form ofphysical ananda...anandatattvaanandatattva (anandatattwa; ananda tattwa) — the principle of bliss,usually referring not to the supreme ananda of saccidananda, but toits diluted manifestation on a lower plane.


..anandavanianandavan. ı (anandavani; ananda vani) — beatific voice: van. ı originat-ing on the ananda plane or expressing the delight of the anandamayaısvara...ananda-vijnanaananda-vijnana (ananda-vijnana; ananda vijnana) — the principle ofananda reflected in the plane of vijnana...ananda-vijnanamayaananda-vijnanamaya — (van. ı) expressing the delight and wisdom ofthe vijnanamaya anandamaya ısvara...ananimaanan. ima (ananima; an-anima) — defect or denial of an. ima...anantaananta — infinite; brahman as the Infinite (short for ananta brahman)...ananta anandaananta ananda — the infinite delight (ananda) of saccidananda; (inbrahmadarsana) “the sense of the infinite Ananda in each thing”...ananta brahma; ananta brahmanananta brahma; ananta brahman — same as anantam brahma...ananta dasa disahananta dasa disah. (ananta dasha dishah) — the ten directions of infi-nite space...anantagunaanantagun. a (anantaguna; ananta guna; anantagunam) — “the infinitequalities of the spirit” of which “Nature is only the power in beingand the development in action”; brahman as “an Infinite teemingwith innumerable qualities, properties, features”; capable of infinitequalities; same as anantagun. amaya...anantagunamanantagun. am — see anantagun. a...anantagunamayaanantagun. amaya — full of infinite qualities (anantagun. a); the “God-head, the spirit manifested in Nature” who “appears in a sea of infinitequality” expressing his “absolute capacity of boundlessly varied self-revelation”; Kr.s.n. a seen in the second degree of the third intensity ofKr.s.n. adarsana, a kind of vision of the divine Personality correspondingto anantam brahma in the impersonal brahmadarsana...ananta-jnanaananta-jnana — same as anantam jnanam brahma...anantamanantam — same as anantam brahma...anantam brahmaanantam brahma — the realisation of “the Brahman infinite in beingand infinite in quality”, in which all quality (gun. a) and action is experi-enced as the play of a “universal and infinite energy”, the second mem-ber of the brahma catus.t.aya; the divine Reality (brahman) “realisedin its absolute infinity”, bringing the perception of “Infinite Force andQuality at play in all forms”. This has two aspects, “one in which theInfinite Force acts as if it were a mechanical entity, knowledge standingback from it, the other in which Life Force & Knowledge act together& the Infinite Force is an intelligent or at least a conscious force”.


..anantam jnanam (brahma)anantam jnanam (brahma) — the union of anantam (brahma) andjnanam (brahma)...ananta tapasananta tapas — infinite force...anantyamanantyam — infinity...anarambhaanarambha — non-initiation of action...anarvaanarva — same as anarvan...anarvananarvan — unopposed; free from struggle...anaryaanarya — not arya; ignoble, unaspiring; a human being or supraphys-ical power opposed to the spiritual effort...andha visvasaandha visvasa — blind faith...anekadarsi ekamanekadarsi ekam (anekadarshi ekam) — the One (eka1) seeing theMany...AngirasasAngirasas — an ancient clan of r.s.is in the Veda, the “human fathers”who discovered the Light, also portrayed as heavenly seers or as powersof Agni2, “forces of the symbolic Light and Flame”; along with theBhr.gus, identified in the Record of Yoga with the Judeo-Christian“seraphim”, the highest order of angels...angshaangsha — see amsa...angusthamatraangus.t.hamatra (angushthamatra) — the size of a thumb...animaan. ima — fineness, subtlety; a physical siddhi that frees the body fromthe limitations ordinarily imposed by the gross materiality of its sub-stance, such as subjection to stiffness, strain and pain resulting fromexertion...anima agnian. ima agni — the fire of an. ima...anirdesyamanirdesyam (anirdeshyam) — the indefinable...AniruddhaAniruddha — the aspect of the fourfold ısvara whose sakti is Maha-sarasvatı, corresponding to the sudra who represents the cosmic prin-ciple of Work in the symbolism of the caturvarn. ya; his method is that“of the patient intellectual seeker & the patient & laborious contriverwho occupies knowledge & action inch by inch & step by step”...Aniruddha-Balarama balakabhavaAniruddha-Balarama balakabhava — a combination of the Anirud-dha and Balarama aspects of the fourfold ısvara (see Balarama-Aniruddha) enjoying the world-game (lıla) in a mood of divine child-likeness (balabhava)...Aniruddha bhavaAniruddha bhava — the temperament of Aniruddha; manifestation ofthe Aniruddha personality of the fourfold ısvara...Aniruddha-saktiAniruddha-sakti (Aniruddha-shakti) — Mahasarasvatı as the sakti or


devı expressing the Aniruddha aspect of the fourfold ısvara...anisaanısa (anisha) — not lord; powerless...anisabhavaanısabhava (anishabhava) — the state or sense of not being the lord;powerlessness; subjection of the soul to the lower Nature; the oppositeof ısvarabhava...anisataanısata (anishata) — incapacity; same as anısabhava...anistaanis.t.a (anishta) — not chosen, undesired...anisvaraanısvara (anishwara) — (T2) not fully expressing the omniscience andomnipotence of the ısvara...anna1anna1 (anna; annam) — (literally) food; matter, the principle on whichthe physical world (bhu) is based, the lowest of the three principlesof the aparardha; in its fundamental nature, “a form of the forceof conscious Being [sat], a form given by Mind and realised by Life”;“the divisible being which founds itself on the constant changeablenessof physical substance”, the material body which, together with thephysical pran. a, composes the sthula deha...anna2anna2 — a former coin of India with the value of one sixteenth of arupee...annakasaannakasa (annakasha) — physical ether...annakosaannakosa (annakosha; anna-kosha) — literally “food-sheath”; thebodily case, “the gross physical sheath of this materially visible andsensible frame”; the physical kosa, of which the “body is only thecentralised part”...annamannam — see anna1...annamayaannamaya — physical; composed of or pertaining to anna1...annamaya atmanannamaya atman — physical self...annamaya-cittaannamaya-citta (annamaya-chitta) — the “pervading and possessingaction of consciousness” (citta) in the body...annamaya purusaannamaya purus.a (annamaya purusha) — “the physical conscious be-ing”, the purus.a “as a soul in body, which puts forth life as its activityand mind as the light of that activity”; it “uses life and mind char-acteristically for physical experience, — all else being regarded as aconsequence of physical experience, — does not look beyond the lifeof the body and, so far as it feels anything beyond its physical individ-uality, is aware only of the physical universe and at most its onenesswith the soul of physical Nature”...anrtaanr.ta (anrita) — false, wrong; falsehood, error (same as anr.tam).


..anrtamanr.tam (anritam) — falsehood, error; the negation of r.tam.

..anrtanianr.tani (anritani) — errors.

..anrta tejasanr.ta tejas (anrita tejas) — false energy.

..anshaansha — see amsa.

..antahantah. — same as antar.

..antahkaranaantah.karan. a (antahkarana; antahkaran) — the “inner instrument”,regarded as comprising the buddhi or intelligence, manas or sense-mind and citta or basic consciousness, ordinarily subject to theahankara or ego-sense and pervaded by the suks.ma pran. a or subtlelife-force...antahsukhaantah. sukha — inner happiness...antahsukho’ntararamahantah. sukho’ntararamah. — having the inner happiness and inner re-pose. [Gıta 5.24]..antarantar — within; short for antardarsı or antardr.s.t.a...antararamaantararama — inner ease and repose...antard.antard. — abbreviation of antardarsı or antardr.s.t.a...antardarsiantardarsı (antardarshi) — inward-looking; samadhi in the wakingstate with internal vision and experience (same as antardarsı jagrat)...antardarsi jagratantardarsı jagrat (antardarshi jagrat) — jagrat samadhi of the inward-looking (antardarsı) type, in which images or other objects of subtlesensory experience are perceived internally in a subtle ether such as thecittakasa or cidakasa, usually with the eyes closed...antardarsi rupaantardarsı rupa (antardarshi rupa) — subtle images seen in antardarsıjagrat or the faculty of seeing such images...antardrstaantardr.s.t.a (antardrishta) — (images, etc.) seen or perceived within;samadhi in the waking state with such vision or perception (same asantardarsı jagrat); same as antardr.s.t.a lipi or antardr.s.t.a rupa...antardrsta jagratantardr.s.t.a jagrat (antardrishta jagrat) — samadhi in the waking statein which images, etc., are perceived internally; same as antardarsıjagrat...antardrsta jagrat samadhiantardr.s.t.a jagrat samadhi (antardrishta jagrat samadhi) — same asantardr.s.t.a jagrat...antardrsta lipiantardr.s.t.a lipi (antardrishta lipi) — writing seen in the state of antar-darsı jagrat, the second type of lipi in the lipi catus.t.aya...antardrsta rupaantardr.s.t.a rupa (antardrishta rupa) — images seen with an internalvision in the waking state of samadhi; same as antardarsı rupa...antardrsta samadhiantardr.s.t.a samadhi (antardrishta samadhi) — same as antardr.s.t.a


jagrat...antardrstiantardr.s.t.i (antardrishti) — internal vision (in the waking state ofsamadhi); same as antardarsı jagrat...antariksaantariks.a (antariksha) — the mid-region between earth and heaven;the “intermediate dynamic, vital or nervous consciousness” connect-ing the physical and mental planes, the world of the life-force, same asbhuvar...antarjyotihantarjyotih. (antarjyotih; antarjyoti) — inner light...antaryamiantaryamı — the inner Control, the inner Guide...antianti — close, near...anucaraanucara (anuchara) — follower, attendant, servant...anumantaanumanta — giver of the sanction...anumatianumati — consent, sanction...anupalabdhianupalabdhi — absence of experience...anusmaranaanusmaran. a — remembrance, attention...apahapah. — same as apas2...apakarsanaapakars.an. a (apakarshana) — tearing away; cutting off; one of the fiveforms of pain to be turned into raudrananda...apanaapana — the vital current that moves “in the lower part of the trunk”from the muladhara to the navel; one of the pancapran. a, that which“gives away the vital force out of the body” and so is called “the breathof death”...aparaapara — lower...aparaapara — lower (feminine of apara)...apara prakrtiapara prakr.ti (apara prakriti) — the lower (mental-vital-physical)Nature which is derived from the higher Nature or para prakr.ti;prakr.ti in the lower hemisphere of existence (aparardha), also calledtraigun. yamayı prakr.ti because its process is limited to the action ofthe three modes of the traigun. ya or trigun. a...aparardhaaparardha — “the lower half of world-existence”, the hemisphere ofthe triloka (three worlds) of manas, pran. a and anna1 or mind, life andmatter; these three principles “are in themselves powers of the superiorprinciples” (of the higher hemisphere, parardha), “but wherever theymanifest in a separation from their spiritual sources, they undergo as aresult a phenomenal lapse into a divided in place of the true undividedexistence . . . oblivious of all that is behind it and of the underlyingunity, a state therefore of cosmic and individual Ignorance” (avidya).


..apara trikaladrstiapara trikaladr.s.t.i (apara trikaldrishti) — the lower form of trikala-dr.s.t.i, i.e., telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i...apara vidyaapara vidya — the lower knowledge; the knowledge of the world, “thelower science which diffuses itself in an outward knowledge of phe-nomena, the disguises of the One and Infinite as it appears to us in orthrough the more exterior forms of the world-manifestation aroundus”...aparigrahahaparigrahah. — freedom from the idea of possession...apas1apas1 — work, action...apas2apas2 — waters (accusative of apas)..apasapas — waters; (in Vedic symbolism) the “waters of being”, represent-ing existence in its manifold movement on various planes...apasi svasrnamapasi svasr.n. am (apasi swasrinam) — in the work of the sisters (thedivine Waters). [R. g Veda 3.1.3]..apikarsanaapikars.an. a (apikarshana) — injuring; breaking; one of the five formsof pain to be turned into raudrananda...apo matarisva dadhatiapo matarisva dadhati (apo Matariswa dadhati) — Matarisvan gov-erns action (apas1). [Isa Upanis.ad 4]..aprakasaaprakasa (aprakasha) — absence of light (prakasa); lack of clarity;nescience...apramattaapramatta — free from negligence and distraction...apramattataapramattata — attentiveness...aprasadaaprasada — discontent; lack of (atma)prasada...apravrttiapravr.tti (apravritti) — inactivity; inertia; the negation of pravr.tti...apriyaapriya (apriya; apriyam) — unpleasant, disliked; that which is disliked;the sense of disliking...apriyamapriyam — see apriya...apsarasapsaras (Apsara) — nymph of heaven...apsuapsu — in the waters (apas)...aptavya-anaptavyaaptavya-anaptavya — (the sense of) what is to be obtained and whatis not to be obtained...Arabindo, mandir karo, mandir karoArabindo, mandir karo, mandir karo [Bengali] — “Aurobindo, makea temple, make a temple.”..arambhaarambha — personal initiation of action...AranyaniAran. yanı — the Vedic goddess of the forest (aran.ya, wilderness, per-haps equivalent in the esoteric sense of the Veda to vana, forest,symbolising for Sri Aurobindo “the growths of the earth, our material


existence”)...arasaharasah. — distaste; lack of appreciation...archevequearcheveque [French] — archbishop...ardhajnanamardhajnanam — half-knowledge...arogyaarogya (arogya; arogyam) — health; freedom from disease (roga) in allits forms, part of physical perfection (sarırasiddhi); the first memberof the sarıra catus.t.aya, “the state of being healthy”, whose first stageis when “the system is normally healthy and only gets disturbed byexceptional causes”, its second stage when “even exceptional causesor great overstrain cannot disturb the system”, while its culminationwould be immortality (amr.ta) in the body; same as arogyasakti...arogyamarogyam — see arogya...arogyamarogyam utthapana saundaryam vividhananda iti sarıra catus.t.ayam(arogyam, utthapana, saundaryam, vividhananda iti sharirachatush-tayam) — arogya, utthapana, saundarya and vividhananda: theseconstitute the sarıra catus.t.aya...arogyaprakrtiarogyaprakr.ti (arogyaprakriti) — healthy nature...arogya sadhanaarogya sadhana — the process leading to arogyasiddhi...arogyasaktiarogyasakti (arogyashakti; arogya-shakti; arogya shakti) — the forceof health maintaining arogya and repelling tendencies or attacks ofroga...arogyasariraarogyasarıra (arogyasharira) — healthy body...arogyasiddhiarogyasiddhi (arogyasiddhi; arogya-siddhi; arogya siddhi) — the per-fection of health (arogya); the movement towards this perfection orthe power working to bring it about...arogya tapasarogya tapas (arogya tapas; arogya-tapas) — will-power (tapas) actingon the body to maintain or restore health...arthaartha — meaning...arthabodhaarthabodha (arthabodha; artha-bodha) — perception of the meaning...articulate thoughtarticulate thought — same as vanmaya thought...aryaarya — noble, aspiring; a follower of the ideals of the ancient Indianspiritual culture; a superhuman power helping men to realise theseideals...AryamanAryaman — “the Aspirer”, a Vedic god, one of the Four who representthe “working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament”; he is“the deity of the human journey” who “sums up in himself the wholeaspiration and movement of man in a continual self-enlargement and


self-transcendence to his divine perfection”, bringing to this movementa “mighty strength and perfectly-guided happy inner upsurging”...Aryaman-BhagaAryaman-Bhaga — the combination of Aryaman and Bhaga, “the As-pirer” and “the Enjoyer”, in which the power of Aryaman is “theeffective term of the self-discovering and self-seizing movement bywhich Being and Consciousness realise themselves as Bliss”...asaasa (asha) — hope, expectation...asad atmanasad atman — the Self (atman) as Non-being (asat), “the negation ofall this existence and yet something inconceivable to mind, speech ordefining experience”; this negation is “the affirmation by the Unknow-able . . . of Its freedom from all cosmic existence, — freedom, that isto say, from all positive terms of actual existence which consciousnessin the universe can formulate to itself”, not denying these terms “as areal expression of Itself”, but denying “Its limitation by all expressionor any expression whatsoever”...asadgrahaasadgraha — false conception...asaktiasakti — attachment...asaktiasakti (ashakti) — incapacity; lack of sakti...asamahita asanta-manusaasamahita asanta-manus.a (asamahita ashanta-manusha) — “uncon-centrated unquiet man”, the ordinary human being who lacks thepower of spiritual concentration and quietude...asamarthyaasamarthya — incapacity...asamataasamata — inequality; lack of equanimity; defect or failing of samata;sometimes restricted to passive / negative asamata...asanaasana (asana; asan) — sitting; any of various postures assumed inhat.hayoga with a view to “the habituating of the body to certainattitudes of immobility” in order “to force it to hold the Pranic energyinstead of dissipating and squandering it”; any position of the body,especially those that involve keeping different limbs raised in exercisesfor developing secondary utthapana...asantiasanti (ashanti; asanti) — disquiet, disturbance, trouble; the negationof santi...asantosaasantos.a (asantosha) — dissatisfaction...asastiasasti (ashasti) — non-expression...asatasat — non-existent, unreal; non-being, nothingness; “the Negation ofthings” made possible by “the Spirit’s potency of presenting to itselfthe opposites of its own truths of being — an abyss of non-existence,


a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoon of insensibilityfrom which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of exis-tence [saccidananda] can manifest themselves”; (same as asat brahma)“something beyond the last term to which we can reduce our purestconception and our most abstract or subtle experience of actual beingas we know or conceive it while in this universe”, not a mere negationbut “a zero which is All or an indefinable Infinite which appears to themind a blank, because mind grasps only finite constructions”...asat brahmaasat brahma — brahman as “Non-Being in the sense, not of an inex-istent Nihil but of an x which exceeds our idea or experience of exis-tence”; it is “that which is not manifested and beyond manifestationand is not contained in the basis of manifestation”...asatruasatru (ashatru) — free from (internal) enemies...asatyaasatya — untrue, false; falsehood (same as asatyam)...asatya dvesaasatya dves.a (asatya dwesha) — aversion for falsehood...asatyamasatyam — untruth, falsehood; the negation of satyam...asatya tapasasatya tapas — false power...asatya tejasasatya tejas — false energy...asaundaryaasaundarya (asaundarya; asaundaryam) — absence of beauty; ugli-ness; the negation of saundarya...asaundaryamasaundaryam — see asaundarya...a-sauryaa-saurya (a-shaurya) — lack of heroism or courage (saurya), perhapsreferring to a deficiency of abhaya and sahasa, two attributes of theks.atriya...ashaasha — see asa...ashaktiashakti — see asakti...ashantiashanti — see asanti...ashastiashasti — see asasti...ashatruashatru — see asatru...a-shauryaa-shaurya — see a-saurya...ashivaashiva — see asiva...ashivamashivam — see asivam...ashtasiddhiashtasiddhi — see as.t.asiddhi...ashuashu — see asu...ashubhamashubham — see asubham...ashuddhaashuddha — see asuddha...ashuddhiashuddhi — see asuddhi.


..asiddhaasiddha — imperfect.

..asiddhiasiddhi — failure; imperfection; negation of siddhi; denial of progressin yoga, relapse; the power that works against the achievement ofperfection in the yoga or in any part of the yoga...asivaasiva (ashiva) — inauspicious, evil...asivamasivam (ashivam) — inauspicious circumstances, misfortune, adver-sity...asmaranaasmaran. a — forgetfulness, inattentiveness; without attention...asraddhaasraddha — lack of faith; doubt, scepticism, distrust, “unfaith”; thenegation of sraddha...asramaasrama — spiritual community...astaraastara — invincible...astasiddhias.t.asiddhi (ashtasiddhi; ashta siddhi) — the eight siddhis or super-normal powers (prakamya, vyapti, vasita, aisvarya, ısita, mahima,laghima and an. ima), constituting the third member of the vijnanacatus.t.aya. When the members of the vijnana catus.t.aya are listed as fiverather than four, with rupadr.s.t.i as the third, as.t.asiddhi is omitted andis replaced by tapas, meaning the siddhis of power (vasita, aisvarya andısita), as the fourth member; the siddhis of knowledge (prakamya andvyapti) are then treated as belonging to trikaladr.s.t.i, and the siddhisof the body (mahima, laghima and an. ima) are regarded as part ofutthapana...astikyamastikyam — belief in God...asuasu — life-breath; energy, force...asuasu (ashu) — swift...asubhamasubham (ashubham) — bad...asuddhaasuddha (ashuddha; asuddha) — impure...asuddha pravrttiasuddha pravr.tti (ashuddha pravritti) — impure impulsion; the activ-ity of an impure nature, action impelled by desire and emotion...asuddhiasuddhi (ashuddhi; asuddhi) — impurity, “confusion and disorderamong the functions”, the opposite of suddhi...asukhaasukha (asukha; asukham) — unhappiness; grief; the negation ofsukha...asukhamasukham — see asukha...asundaraasundara (asundara; asundaram) — not beautiful; absence of beauty;the sense of ugliness...asundaramasundaram — see asundara.


..asunvanasunvan — “who presses not out the nectar”; void of active delight.

..asuraasura — (in the Veda) “the mighty Lord”, an epithet of the supremedeva; a Titan (daitya); a kind of anti-divine being of the mentalisedvital plane; the sixth of the ten types of consciousness (dasa-gavas)in the evolutionary scale: mind concentrated on the buddhi; (on page1280) a being of a world of “might & glory”...asuradevaasuradeva — the combination of asura and deva, making vijnanaserve the buddhi, which evolves in the general asura type in the ninthmanvantara of the sixth pratikalpa...asura-pasuasura-pasu (asura-pashu) — the asura stage of the pasu, which evolvesin the general asura type early in the sixth pratikalpa...asuraasura raks.asa (asura rakshasa) — the combination of asura andraks.asa, seeking from the buddhi the satisfaction of heart and senses,which evolves in the general asura type in the (current) seventhmanvantara of the sixth pratikalpa...asurimasurım raks.asıncaiva prakr.tim apannah. (asurim rakshasincaivaprakritim apannah) — possessed of the Asuric and Rakshasic nature.[Cf. Gıta 9.12, 16.20]..Asuro-RakshasaAsuro-Rakshasa — same as asura raks.asa...asurya janahasurya janah. — sunless peoples...a su surmontera su surmonter toutes les difficultes et s’assurer une vie durable [French]— was able to overcome all difficulties and secure a lasting life...asvaasva (aswa) — the horse, Vedic symbol of vital energy...asvadaasvada (aswada) — taste (in a literal or figurative sense); the subtlesense of taste (rasadr.s.t.i)...asvahasvah. — horses; nervous energies...asva(h)asva(h. ) patvabhih. saphanam (aswa patwabhih saphanam) — horses(symbolic of vital energies) with tramplings of their hooves. [Cf. R. gVeda 5.6.7]..asvapnaasvapna (a-swapna) — absence of dream-vision...asvatthaasvattha (aswattha) — fig tree (Vedantic symbol of the cosmic mani-festation)...AsvinsAsvins (Aswins) — the “Riders on the Horse”, the name of two Vedicgods; “twin divine powers whose special function is to perfect thenervous or vital being in man in the sense of action and enjoyment”...athanatogenathanatogen [coined from Greek] — that which produces immortality...athumiaathumia [Greek] — faintheartedness, despondency.


..atmaatma — same as atman.

..atmaivabhud bhutaniatmaivabhud bhutani — the Self (atman) has become all beings. [IsaUpanis.ad 7]..atmajnanaatmajnana — knowledge of the Self (atman)...atmanatman — self; “a Self that is neither our limited ego [ahankara] norour mind, life or body, world-wide but not outwardly phenomenal, yetto some spirit-sense . . . more concrete than any form or phenomenon,universal yet not dependent for its being on anything in the universe oron the whole totality of the universe”; brahman known in its subjectiveaspect as “the Self or immutable existence of all that is in the universe”,as “the cosmic Self, but also as the Supreme Self transcendent of its owncosmicity and at the same time individual-universal in each being”...atmani atmanam atmanaatmani atmanam atmana — the self in the self by the self. [Gıta 13.25]..atmaprakasaatmaprakasa (atmaprakasha) — self-luminous, self-revealing; self-luminosity...atmaprasadaatmaprasada (atmaprasada; atmaprasad) — “a state of clearness,purity and contentment in the whole self”, the last member of thesamata / santi catus.t.aya, which in its most positive form is calledhasya; an element of Mahesvarı bhava...atmaratiatmarati — delight in the Self. [cf. Gıta 3.17]..atma saktiatma sakti (atma shakti) — “a high idea of the power that is in one’sself”, an attribute of the ks.atriya, equivalent to atmaslagha...atmasamarpanaatmasamarpan. a — self-surrender, “the giving of one’s self withoutdemanding a return”, an attribute of the sudra...atmaslaghaatmaslagha (atmaslagha; atma slagha) — self-affirmation, “the highself-confidence of power, capacity, character and courage indispensableto the man of action”, an attribute of the ks.atriya...atmatrptaatmatr.pta (atmatripta) — self-contented...atriatri — literally “devourer”, a type of hostile being in the Veda...attahasyaat.t.ahasya (attahasya; attahasyam) — loud laughter, “the laughter thatmakes light of defeat and death and the powers of the ignorance”, anelement of Mahakalı bhava or Can. d. ıbhava, and the principal form ofdevıhasya...attahasyamat.t.ahasyam — see at.t.ahasya...a uhatea uhate — “so that he bears up thy activities” (Sri Aurobindo’s inter-pretation of ohate in R. g Veda 1.176.4)...AUMAUM — another spelling of the mystic syllable OM; its three letters,


A, U and M, symbolise the states of brahman as, respectively, “thespirit of the gross and external” (virat.), “the spirit of the subtle andinternal” (hiran. yagarbha), and “the spirit of the secret superconscientomnipotence” (prajna), while the syllable as a whole represents the Ab-solute (turıya), “the supreme Intangible, the original Unity, the timelessMystery self-existent above all manifestation in supernal being”...avahelaavahela — contempt...avaraka tamasavaraka tamas — covering darkness...avaranamavaran. am — covering, obstruction...avasavas — presence...avasthaavastha — state, condition...avataraavatara (avatar) — divine incarnation; the “descent into form” of theGodhead (deva, ısvara, purus.ottama), “when the divine Conscious-ness and Power, taking upon itself the human form and the humanmode of action, possesses it not only by powers and magnitudes, by de-grees and outward faces of itself but out of its eternal self-knowledge”in order “to exemplify the possibility of the Divine manifest in the hu-man being” and “to leave the influence of that manifestation vibratingin the earth-nature and the soul of that manifestation presiding overits upward endeavour”; any of the ten incarnations of Vis.n. u describedin the Hindu tradition, regarded by Sri Aurobindo as “a parable ofevolution”...avegaavega — enthusiasm...avegamayaavegamaya — enthusiastic...avegamaya sraddhaavegamaya sraddha — enthusiastic faith...avegamaya tejasavegamaya tejas — enthusiastic energy...avesaavesa (avesh) — inrush of inspiration or spiritual force...avesamayaavesamaya (aveshamaya) — inspired; enthusiastic...avicara samadhiavicara samadhi (avichara samadhi) — a type of samadhi in which themind ceases to judge and perceive...avidyaavidya — ignorance; the power by which “the Spirit dwells . . . in theconsciousness of multiplicity and relativity”; “the knowledge of theMany” (bahu), which “becomes no longer knowledge at all but igno-rance, Avidya” because it “takes the Many for the real fact of existenceand views the One [eka1] only as a cosmic sum of the Many”...avikalpa samadhiavikalpa samadhi — samadhi with cessation of variety of inner expe-rience.


..aviraavıra — lacking in strength.

..avisrstiavisr.s.t.i (avisrishti) — absence of visr.s.t.i.

..avyaktaavyakta (avyakta; avyaktam) — unmanifest; the Unmanifest.

..avyaktamavyaktam — see avyakta.

..avyakta paratparaavyakta paratpara — the unmanifest Supreme.

..ayatharthabodhaayatharthabodha — incorrect perception.

B

..bahirdarsabahirdarsa (bahirdarsha) — same as bahirdarsı.

..bahirdarsibahirdarsı (bahirdarshi) — outward-looking; samadhi in the wakingstate with externalised vision and experience (same as bahirdarsıjagrat)...bahirdarsi akasabahirdarsı akasa (bahirdarshi akasha) — the vision of akasarupa inbahirdarsı jagrat...bahirdarsi jagratbahirdarsı jagrat (bahirdarshi jagrat) — jagrat samadhi of the out-ward-looking (bahirdarsı) type, in which images or other objects ofsubtle sensory experience are perceived as if outside oneself...bahirdarsi rupabahirdarsı rupa (bahirdarshi rupa) — subtle images seen in bahirdarsıjagrat or the faculty of seeing such images...bahirdrstabahirdr.s.t.a (bahirdrishta) — (images, etc.) seen or perceived outsideoneself; samadhi in the waking state with such vision or perception(same as bahirdarsı jagrat)...bahubahu — many; the multiplicity, “the play or varied self-expansion ofthe One [eka1], shifting in its terms, divisible in its view of itself,by force of which the One occupies many centres of consciousness,inhabits many formations of energy in the universal Movement”...bahyasparsabahyasparsa (bahyasparsha; bahyaspars) — outward touch...bala1bala1 (bala; balam) — strength; a term in the first general formula ofthe sakti catus.t.aya; “an abounding strength, energy and puissance ofoutgoing and managing force”, an element of dehasakti...Bala2Bala2 — the name of a daitya or Titan, regarded by Sri Aurobindo as aforce from the mahat, the plane of the vastness of vijnana, descendedinto the mental plane and there “disturbing evolution by a prematureeffort towards perfection”...balabala — child, boy (see bala-Kr.s.n. a)...balabala — girl (see bala-Kalı).


..balabhavabalabhava — the state of being (like) a child; childhood; childlikeness;the childlikeness of the free physical mind, “a state of pure happy andfree irresponsibility of action”; “the royal and eternal childhood whosetoys are the worlds and all universal Nature is the miraculous gardenof the play that tires never”...bala bhavabala bhava — girlish aspect...balakabalaka — female crane...balakabalaka — child, boy...balakabhavabalakabhava — same as balabhava...balaka Krsnabalaka Kr.s.n. a (balaka Krishna) — same as bala-Kr.s.n. a...bala-Kalibala-Kalı (bala-Kali; bala Kali) — the girl Kalı, “the force of Naturethat whirls the stars in their orbits, lightly as a child might swing aball”; the sakti as the playmate of bala-Kr.s.n. a...bala-kisora-bhavabala-kisora-bhava (bala-kishora-bhava; bala-kishore-bhava) — theyoung boy aspect (of the lılamaya Kr.s.n. a)...bala-Krsnabala-Kr.s.n. a (bala-Krishna; bala Krishna) — the boy Kr.s.n. a, “the divineChild” at play in the worlds in “the free infinity of the self-delightof Sachchidananda”; Kr.s.n. a as the lılamaya purus.a in a condition ofbalabhava...balambalam — see bala1...BalaramaBalarama (Balarama; Balaram) — the aspect of the fourfold ısvarawhose sakti is Mahakalı, corresponding to the ks.atriya who representsthe cosmic principle of Power in the symbolism of the caturvarn. ya; hisqualities include “strength, grandeur, rushing impetuosity, overbearingcourage” and he is identified with Rudra2...Balarama-AniruddhaBalarama-Aniruddha (Balarama-Aniruddha; Balaram-Aniruddha) —the combination of the Balarama and Aniruddha aspects of the four-fold ısvara, corresponding to the Mahakalı-Mahasarasvatı combi-nation of the aspects of the sakti; the temperament proper to thiscombination (short for Balarama-Aniruddha bhava)...Balarama-Aniruddha bhavaBalarama-Aniruddha bhava (Balarama-Aniruddha bhava; Balaram-)— the Balarama-Aniruddha temperament; a combination of Bala-rama bhava and Aniruddha bhava...Balarama bhavaBalarama bhava — the temperament of Balarama; manifestation ofthe Balarama personality of the fourfold ısvara...balaslaghabalaslagha — assertion of strength (bala1), an element of dehasakti...balavatbalavat — like a child.


..bali1bali1 — offering, oblation.

..Bali2Bali2 — a daitya or Titan subdued by Vis.n. u in his fifth avatara, at thefirst stage of fully human evolution, when he incarnated in “man asdwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himselfthe godhead and taking possession of existence”; Bali is associatedin the Record of Yoga with obstinacy of the will (hat.ha) as a qualityneeded in the complete psychological state...bandhubandhu — kinsman; brother...bandini dasibandinı dası — literally “captive slave-girl”, the dası as the captive ofher divine Lover and Master, a symbol of the state of madhura dasya...barhihbarhih. — in the Veda, the seat of sacred grass on which the gods areinvited to sit at the sacrifice...barhisbarhis — same as barhih. ...bauddhabauddha — relating to the buddhi; intellectual...bauddha narahbauddha narah. — literally “intellectual men”, powers of the buddhi...b. darshanab. darshana — abbreviation of “brahma darshana” (see brahmadarsa-na)...BhadrakaliBhadrakalı — name of a goddess, a form of Durga (see Durga-Kalı)...bhadra pramatibhadra pramati — happy state of mind. [R. g Veda 1.94.1]..BhagaBhaga — “the Enjoyer”, a Vedic god, one of the Four who representthe “working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament”;he brings into the human consciousness “the divine beatitude, theillimitable joy of the Truth, of the infinity of our being”...bhagavanbhagavan (bhagavan; bhagawan) — God, the Divine, “the Lord ofLove and Delight”...bhagavatabhagavata — relating to bhagavan; divine; the name of the highestsvarga...bhagavati sraddhabhagavati sraddha — faith in the Divine; same as sraddha bhagavati...bhagavati svasaktyambhagavati svasaktyam (bhagavati swashaktyam) — (faith) in God andin the power within oneself...bhagawanbhagawan — see bhagavan...bhagyabhagya — destiny...bhaktabhakta — devotee, God-lover...bhaktibhakti — devotion, “love and adoration and the soul’s desire of theHighest”...bhartabharta — upholder...bhartrbhartr. (bhartri) — (brahman as) the upholder.


..bhasabhas.a (bhasha; bhasa) — language; the linguistic faculty (bhas.asakti),one of the “special powers” whose development is related to literarywork (sahitya); the study of languages and reading of texts for thesake of cultivating this faculty...bhasasaktibhas.asakti (bhashashakti) — linguistic faculty; the power of under-standing languages, especially by intuition, inspiration and othermeans proper to vijnana...bhasasiddhibhas.asiddhi (bhashasiddhi) — perfection of the linguistic faculty...bhasatattvabhas.atattva (bhashatattwa) — the principles of language; the system-atic study of these principles, usually referred to as nirukta or philol-ogy...bhasyabhas.ya (bhashya) — commentary; scriptural interpretation; the capac-ity of exegesis “in faithful subordination to the strict purport &connotation of the text”...bhautabhauta — physical; relating to the five bhutas and their balance in thebody...bhauta asiddhibhauta asiddhi — the negation of bhautasiddhi...bhautasiddhibhautasiddhi (bhautasiddhi; bhauta-siddhi; bhauta siddhi) — a termthat occurs in 1912-13 in connection with utthapana, also associatedwith the vijnana catus.t.aya; it is perhaps a collective term for thesiddhis of the body, which are the basis of utthapana and form partof as.t.asiddhi in the vijnana catus.t.aya...bhauta tejasbhauta tejas — (excess of) the element tejas (fire) in the body; bodyheat...bhavabhava — becoming; state of being (sometimes added to an adjective toform an abstract noun and translatable by a suffix such as “-ness”, asin br.hadbhava, the state of being br.hat [wide], i.e., wideness); condi-tion of consciousness; subjectivity; state of mind and feeling; physicalindication of a psychological state; content, meaning (of rupa); spir-itual experience, realisation; emotion, “moved spiritualised state ofthe affective nature”; (madhura bhava, etc.) any of several types ofrelation between the jıva and the ısvara, each being a way in which“the transcendent and universal person of the Divine conforms it-self to our individualised personality and accepts a personal relationwith us, at once identified with us as our supreme Self and yet closeand different as our Master, Friend, Lover, Teacher”; attitude; mood;temperament; aspect; internal manifestation of the Goddess (devı), in


her total divine Nature (daivı prakr.ti or devıbhava) or in the “moreseizable because more defined and limited temperament” of any ofher aspects, as in Mahakalı bhava; a similar manifestation of anypersonality or combination of personalities of the deva or fourfoldısvara, as in Indrabhava or Aniruddha bhava; in the vision of Reality(brahmadarsana), any of the “many aspects of the Infinite” which“disclose themselves, separate, combine, fuse, are unified together”until “there shines through it all the supreme integral Reality”; espe-cially, the various “states of perception” in which the divine personality(purus.a) is seen in the impersonality of the brahman, ranging from the“general personality” of sagun. a brahman to the “vivid personality”of Kr.s.n. akalı...bhavasamrddhibhavasamr.ddhi — richness of feeling; an element of Mahalaks.mıbhava...bhava-saundaryabhava-saundarya (bhava-saundarya; bhava saundarya) — beauty inthe state of mind and feeling; inner beauty...bhavitavyambhavitavyam — that which is to be...bhaya anandamayabhaya anandamaya — fear turned into delight...bhedabheda — division...bhedabuddhibhedabuddhi — dividing mind...bhogabhoga — enjoyment; a response to experience which “translates itselfinto joy and suffering” in the lower being, where it “is of a twofoldkind, positive and negative”, but in the higher being “it is an ac-tively equal enjoyment of the divine delight in self-manifestation”;(also called sama bhoga) the second stage of active / positive samata,reached when the rasagrahan.a or mental “seizing of the principle ofdelight” in all things takes “the form of a strong possessing enjoy-ment . . . which makes the whole life-being vibrate with it and acceptand rejoice in it”; the second stage of bhukti, “enjoyment without de-sire” in the pran. a or vital being; (when prıti is substituted for bhoga asthe second stage of positive samata or bhukti) same as (sama) ananda,the third stage of positive samata or bhukti, the “perfect enjoyment ofexistence” that comes “when it is not things, but the Ananda of thespirit in things that forms the real, essential object of our enjoying andthings only as form and symbol of the spirit, waves of the ocean ofAnanda”...bhoga hasyam karmalipsa samabhavabhoga hasyam karmalipsa samabhava — enjoyment, cheerfulness, the


urge to work, equality...bhogalipsabhogalipsa — the urge towards enjoyment, an attribute of the vaisya...bhogasamarthyabhogasamarthya (bhogasamarthya; bhogasamarthyam; bhoga samar-thyam) — “the capacity to take all enjoyment of the world with-out desire but also without exhaustion and satiety”, an element ofpran. asakti...bhogasamarthyambhogasamarthyam — see bhogasamarthya...bhojananandabhojanananda — delight in eating...bhoktabhokta — enjoyer...bhoktrbhoktr. (bhoktri) — (brahman as) the enjoyer...bhrajantahbhrajantah. — blazing; radiant...bhramsabhramsa — a fall (from the path of yoga)...bhrastabhras.t.a (bhrashta) — fallen (from the path of yoga)...bhratrabhratra — brotherhood; the relation (bhava) with the ısvara in whichthe relation of friend (sakhya) is “raised to brother”...BhrguBhr.gu (Bhrigu) — the name of a Vedic r.s.i, progenitor of an ancientclan of sages who went by his name, also described as heavenly seers orsymbolically as “burning powers of the Sun, the Lord of Knowledge”;along with the Angirasas, they are identified in the Record of Yogawith the Judeo-Christian “seraphim”, the highest order of angels...bhrsta tavisibhr.s.t.a tavis.i (bhrista tavishi) — afflicted force...bhubhu — earth, the plane of terrestrial existence; the world of Matter(anna1), which is “Sachchidananda represented to His own mentalexperience as a formal basis of objective knowledge, action and delightof existence”, the lowest world of the triloka; it includes the physicalplane, along with its vital and mental envelopes (triloka in bhu), andthe subtle bhu...bhuhbhuh. — same as bhu...bhuh-prakrtibhuh. -prakr.ti (bhuh-prakriti) — physical nature...bhuktibhukti — enjoyment; the “enjoyment of our liberated being whichbrings us into unity or union with the Supreme”; the third mem-ber of the siddhi catus.t.aya, resulting from suddhi and mukti andconsisting of “the Delight of existence in itself, independent of everyexperience and extending itself to all experiences”. It has three states(rasagrahan. a, bhoga and ananda), each with three intensities (rati,ratna and ratha), on each of seven levels corresponding to the sevenplanes of existence.


..bhumabhuma — largeness.

..bhumaya akasabhumaya akasa (bhumaya akasha) — the akasa of bhu; the physicalether...bhumayi prakrtibhumayı prakr.ti (bhumayi prakriti) — terrestrial nature...bhumibhumi — earth; world; place of manifestation...bhurbhur — same as bhu...bhurlokabhurloka — the world (loka) of terrestrial existence; same as bhu...bhurmayabhurmaya — physical...bhusvargabhusvarga (bhuswarga) — a heavenly world (svarga) belonging to thehigher levels associated with the terrestrial plane (bhu) or to the subtlebhu...bhutabhuta — creature; any of the pancabhuta, the five “subtle conditionsof material energy” which are “called by the names of the five con-crete elements of ancient thought, ether, air, fire, water and earth”; allobjects are said to be “created by the combination of these five subtleconditions or elements” which are “nowhere to be found in their purityin the gross material world”...bhutaprakrtibhutaprakr.ti (bhutaprakriti) — material Nature...bhutasuddhibhutasuddhi — purification of the combination of the bhutas in thebody...bhuvahbhuvah. — same as bhuvar...bhuvarbhuvar — the plane of the life-principle (pran. a), consisting of “multi-ple dynamic worlds formative of the Earth”, the second plane of thetriloka; the vital layer of the material world (see bhuvar of bhu)...bhuvarlokabhuvarloka — the world (loka) called bhuvar; the vital world...bhuvarmayabhuvarmaya — consisting of the energy of bhuvar; vital...bhuvarmaya tapasbhuvarmaya tapas — same as bhuvar tapas...bhuvarmayibhuvarmayı — vital (feminine of bhuvarmaya)...bhuvar of bhubhuvar of bhu — the vital world within the physical; the vital layer ofthe earth-consciousness or plane of material existence, the second levelof the triloka in bhu...bhuvar tapasbhuvar tapas — the power that belongs to the vital plane; manifestingthrough this medium, “the Will tends to produce powerfully immediateresults & more intermittently, often by indirect means & after muchtergiversation, final results”...bibhatsabıbhatsa — disgusting...bibhatsa viratibıbhatsa virati — avoidance of what is repellent.


..bijabıja — seed; also spelled vıja.

..blagueblague [French] — humbug.

..bodhabodha — awareness, consciousness, perception.

..bodhi-sattvabodhi-sattva (Bodhi-sattwa) — in Mahayana Buddhism, “a beingwho, though having the right to enter Nirvana, deliberately renouncesit, electing to work under the conditions and possibly renewed temp-tations of the world, for the love of one’s fellow man or of the wholesentient world” (The Theosophical Path, March 1915, p. 160)...brahmabrahma — same as brahman...BrahmaBrahma — the Creator, one of the “three Powers and Personalities ofthe One Cosmic Godhead”, of which the other two are Vis.n. u, thePreserver, and Siva or Rudra2, the Destroyer...brahmabhavabrahmabhava — consciousness of the impersonal brahman in allthings; inner realisation of brahman...brahmabodhabrahmabodha (brahmabodha; brahma bodha) — awareness of brah-man...brahmabuddhibrahmabuddhi — awareness of brahman...brahmacaribrahmacarı (brahmachari) — unmarried religious student...brahma catustayabrahma catus.t.aya (brahma chatusthaya; brahmachatusthaya; brah-machatushtaya) — the sixth catus.t.aya, the quaternary of the divineReality (brahman), consisting of sarvam brahma, anantam brahma,jnanam brahma and anandam brahma (combined in sarvam anantamjnanam anandam brahma, the formula of the fourfold brahman)...brahmadarsanabrahmadarsana (brahmadarshana; brahma-darshana; brahma dar-shana; brahmadarshan) — the vision (darsana) of brahman in allthings and beings; the perception of the fourfold brahman as “theimpersonal Sarvam Anantam Jnanam Anandam” (also called “sim-ple Brahmadarshana”), sometimes extended to the perception of“the Personal in & embracing the Impersonal”, the latter percep-tion including ısvaradarsana and such specific forms of darsana asNarayan. adarsana, Kr.s.n. adarsana and Kr.s.n. akalı darsana. The visionof “the one and indivisible eternal transcendent and cosmic Brahmanthat is in its seeming divided in things and creatures” is in its naturea “spiritual seeing of God and world” which is a “direct experience[upalabdhi] and as real, vivid, near, constant, effective, intimate asto the mind its sensuous seeing and feeling of images, objects andpersons”.


..brahmadrstibrahmadr.s.t.i (brahmadrishti) — same as brahmadarsana.

..brahmajnanabrahmajnana — knowledge of the brahman.

..brahmalokabrahmaloka — the world of the brahman in which the soul is onewith the infinite existence and yet able to enjoy differentiation in theoneness...brahmamayabrahmamaya — consisting of brahman...brahmamaya isvarabrahmamaya ısvara (brahmamaya ishwara) — the ısvara with brah-man as his impersonal aspect...brahmanbrahman — (in the Veda) “the soul or soul-consciousness emergingfrom the secret heart of things” or “the thought, inspired, creative, fullof the secret truth, which emerges from that consciousness and becomesthought of the mind”; (in Vedanta) the divine Reality, “the One [eka1]besides whom there is nothing else existent”, the Absolute who is “atthe same time the omnipresent Reality in which all that is relative existsas its forms or its movements”. Its nature is saccidananda, infiniteexistence (sat), consciousness (cit) and bliss (ananda), whose secondelement can also be described as consciousness-force (cit-tapas), mak-ing four fundamental principles of the integral Reality; brahman seenin all things in terms of these principles is called in the Record of Yogathe fourfold brahman, whose aspects form the brahma catus.t.aya. Thecomplete realisation of brahman included for Sri Aurobindo not onlythe unification of the experiences of the nirgun. a brahman (brahmanwithout qualities) and sagun. a brahman (brahman with qualities), butthe harmonisation of the impersonal brahman which is “the spiri-tual material and conscious substance of all the ideas and forces andforms of the universe” with the personal ısvara in the consciousness ofparabrahman, the brahman in its supreme status as “a transcendentUnthinkable too great for any manifestation”, which “is at the sametime the living supreme Soul of all things” (purus.ottama) and thesupreme Lord (paramesvara) and supreme Self (paramatman), “and inall these equal aspects the same single and eternal Godhead”. Brahmanis represented in sound by the mystic syllable OM...brahmanabrahman. a — by the soul-thought (brahman in the Vedic sense). [Cf.R. g Veda 2.2.10]..brahmanabrahman. a — the soul-type representing “the Divine as knowledge inman”, the first element in the fourfold personality symbolised by thecaturvarn. ya.


..brahmanandabrahmananda — the bliss of brahman, “the self-existent bliss of thespirit which depends on no object or circumstance”; it “can be de-scribed as the eternity of an uninterrupted supreme ecstasy”, a bliss ofwhich “peace . . . is the intimate core and essence”...brahmanyambrahman. yam — “Brahminhood”; the inner nature of the brahman. a...brahmapremabrahmaprema — love of the brahman in all...brahmasaktibrahmasakti (brahmashakti) — the soul-power of knowledge whichreveals itself in the brahman. a...brahmasiddhibrahmasiddhi — the siddhi of the brahma catus.t.aya...brahmatejasbrahmatejas — the energy that manifests itself in the brahman. a tem-perament...brahmatmabhavabrahmatmabhava — realisation of the Self as one with brahman...brahmavarcasyabrahmavarcasya (brahmavarchasya; brahmavarchasyam) — “spiri-tual force which comes from knowledge and purity”, an attribute ofthe brahman. a...brahmavarcasyambrahmavarcasyam (brahmavarchasyam) — see brahmavarcasya...brahminbrahmin — same as brahman. a...brahmi sthitibrahmı sthiti — abiding in the consciousness of the brahman...brhadbr.had (brihad) — same as br.hat...brhad arcisbr.had arcis (brihad archis) — vast ray...brhadbhavabr.hadbhava (brihadbhava) — wideness...brhad rtambr.had r.tam (brihad ritam) — same as br.hat r.tam...brhallipsabr.hallipsa — the urge towards vastness; an element of Mahesvarıbhava...BrhaspatiBr.haspati (Brihaspati) — a Vedic god, the “Master of the creativeWord”; the universal deva as the “self-expressive Soul”, giver of thesupreme word by which is effected the “manifestation of the differ-ent world-planes in the conscient human being” culminating “in themanifestation of the superconscient, the Truth and the Bliss”...brhatbr.hat (brihat) — wide, large, vast; wideness, largeness; vast abundance;“vast self-awareness”, one of the three terms expressing the nature ofvijnana (see satyam r.tam br.hat)...brhat rtambr.hat r.tam (brihat ritam; brihad ritam) — large ordered truth...brhat satyabr.hat satya (brihat satya; brihat satyam) — large essential truth...brhat satyam rtambr.hat satyam r.tam (brihat satyam ritam) — vastness, essential truthand ordered truth; see satyam r.tam br.hat...brhat siddhibr.hat siddhi (brihat siddhi) — large perfection.


..brhattarabr.hattara (brihattara) — wider; very wide.

..brhattvabr.hattva (brihattwa) — wideness.

..brihadbrihad, etc. — see br.had, etc.

..BrihaspatiBrihaspati — see Br.haspati.

..brihatbrihat, etc. — see br.hat, etc.

..brumebrume [French] — fog.

..bubhuksabubhuks.a (bubhuksha) — appetite.

..buddhabuddha — mental; the mental plane, the plane of buddhi.

..buddha bhavabuddha bhava — mental condition; intellectual state of consciousness.

..buddhabuddha tapas — mental will-power; same as intellectual / mentaltapas...buddha vanibuddha van. ı — mental voice; a communication from a spirit belongingto the mental plane...buddherbuddher — of the intelligence...buddhibuddhi — intelligence; the thinking mind, the highest normal facultyof the antah.karan. a, also called the manasa buddhi or mental rea-son, whose three forms are the habitual mind, pragmatic reason andtruth-seeking reason. The buddhi as “the discerning intelligence andthe enlightened will” is “in its nature thought-power and will-powerof the Spirit turned into the lower form of a mental activity” andthus “an intermediary between a much higher Truth-mind not nowin our active possession, which is the direct instrument of Spirit, andthe physical life of the human mind evolved in body”; its powers ofperception, imagination, reasoning and judgment correspond respec-tively to the higher faculties of revelation, inspiration, intuition anddiscrimination belonging to vijnana, which may act in the mind tocreate “a higher form of the buddhi that can be called the intuitivemind” or vijnanabuddhi. In compound expressions, the word buddhisometimes refers to a particular mentality or state of consciousness andmay be translated “sense of”, as in dasyabuddhi, “sense of surrender”...buddhicaturyabuddhicaturya — acuteness of intelligence, an element of Maha-sarasvatı bhava...buddhigrahyam atindriyambuddhigrahyam atındriyam — seizable by the reason but beyond thesenses. [Gıta 6.21]..buddhisaktibuddhisakti (buddhishakti) — the power, capacity and right state ofactivity of the thinking mind, one of the four kinds of sakti formingthe second member of the sakti catus.t.aya.


..buddhi-yogabuddhi-yoga — a method of yoga, “the Yoga of the self-liberatingintelligent will”...bujrukibujruki [Bengali] — hocus-pocus; imposture.

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..caitanyacaitanya (chaitanya; chaitanyam) — consciousness; same as cit.

..caitanyakendracaitanyakendra (chaitanyakendra) — centre of consciousness; the“true centre” which “is a luminous formulation of the one Con-sciousness and a pure channel and instrument of the one Existence”,supporting “the individual manifestation and action of the universalForce” and revealing “the true Person in us, the central eternal being,an everlasting being of the Supreme, a power and portion of thetranscendent Shakti”...caitanyalokacaitanyaloka (chaitanyaloka) — the world of pure and infinite con-sciousness (usually not distinguished from tapoloka)...caitanyamcaitanyam (chaitanyam) — see caitanya...caitanyamayacaitanyamaya (chaitanyamaya) — having the nature of caitanya, theprinciple of pure consciousness (cit) that is the second aspect of sac-cidananda; expressing the principle of caitanya or cit contained in theprinciple of any other plane, such as the physical...cakracakra (chakra) — any of the seven centres of consciousness in the subtlebody (suks.ma deha), each of which “is the centre and the storing-houseof its own particular system of psychological powers, energies and op-erations, — each system corresponding to a plane of our psychologicalexistence”; these centres or “lotuses”, connected with certain centresin the physical nervous system and arranged “in a line correspondingto the spinal cord”, are called (from the highest to the lowest) sahas-radala, ajnacakra, visuddha, anahata, man. ipura, svadhis.t.hana andmuladhara, of which man. ipura (the nabhicakra or “navel centre”)and especially svadhis.t.hana (the “penultimate chakra” or, countingfrom the bottom, the “second chakra”, also called the kamacakra orsimply “the chakra”) are often mentioned in the Record of Yoga inconnection with arogya and kamananda...cakra-sakticakra-sakti (chakra-shakti) — strength of the cakra or cakras, re-ferring especially to the kamacakra, but possibly including thenabhicakra.


..caksuhcaks.uh. (chakshu) — the eye; the sense-organ or indriya (especially thesubtle sense-organ or suks.ma indriya) of sight (darsana)...caksuscaks.us (chakshush) — same as caks.uh. ...caksusacaks.us.a (chakshusha; chakshush) — ocular, visual; pertaining to theeye or to the physical or subtle sense of vision (caks.us); the visual formof subtle sense-perception (vis.ayadr.s.t.i), also called darsana...caksusa anandacaks.us.a ananda (chakshush ananda) — visual ananda, delight in allthat is seen with the eyes, a kind of indriya-ananda...camacama — see sama...camamayacamamaya — see samamaya...camascamas — see samas...cancalyacancalya (chanchalya) — restlessness...candacan. d. a (chanda) — fierce, ardent, intense...canda anandacan. d. a ananda (chanda ananda) — same as can. d. ananda...candanandacan. d. ananda (chandananda) — intense delight...canda samanandacan. d. a samananda (chanda samananda) — intense equal delight...canda sukhamcan. d. a sukham (chanda sukham) — ardent happiness...candatacan. d. ata (chandata) — fierceness, ardour, intensity...canda tejascan. d. a tejas (chanda tejas) — ardent energy (tejas)...CandiCan. d. ı (Chandi) — fierce (feminine of can. d. a); “the fierce one”, anepithet of Kalı...CandibhavaCan. d. ıbhava (Chandibhava; Chandi bhava; Chandibhavah) — “theforce of Kali manifest in the temperament” (see Kalı), a term usedearly in the Record of Yoga for devıbhava or daivı prakr.ti, sometimesreferring to a combination of the four personalities of the divine saktiwith Mahakalı as the dominant aspect, sometimes referring specificallyto the force of Mahakalı and almost equivalent to Mahakalı bhava...candra1candra1 (chandra) — moon; the lunar orb as a symbol of the mind,especially the intuitive mind, which reflects the light of vijnana symbol-ised by surya1, the sun; also a symbol of ananda, sometimes identifiedwith soma1...Candra2Candra2 (Chandra) — the god of the moon (candra1); the deity ofmind...candracandra (chandra; chandra) — lunar, relating to the moon; mild, cold;belonging to the intuitive mind...candralokacandraloka (chandraloka) — the world of the moon (candra1, symbolof the mind reflecting the light of surya1, the sun of Truth); the higher


of the two planes of svar, corresponding to buddhi (intelligence)...candramandalacandraman. d. ala (chandramandala) — the orb of the moon (candra1),symbolising intuitive mind...candramayacandramaya (chandramaya) — full of the light of candra1; having thenature of intuitive mind...candra tejascandra tejas (chandra tejas) — lunar (i.e., reflected, indirect) light andenergy...Candra VamsaCandra Vamsa (Ch. Vsa) — lunar dynasty (the line of ancient Indiankings traditionally regarded as descendants of Candra2, the moon-god)...canticanti — see santi...capalyamcapalyam (chapalyam) — restlessness...caranacaran. a (charana) — a celestial singer...carira siddhicarira siddhi — see sarırasiddhi...carsanipracars.an. ipra (charshanipra) — “filling the actions” (see the sortilege of13 December 1912 from R. g Veda 1.177.1)...catholiques . . brahmaniquescatholiques . . brahmaniques [French] — Catholic . . Brahminic (bothin plural)...caturvarnyacaturvarn. ya (chaturvarnya) — the ancient Indian system of the fourorders (brahman. a, ks.atriya, vaisya, sudra), representing four psy-chological types whose combination is necessary for the completepersonality; these four types are symbolic of “four cosmic principles,the Wisdom that conceives the order and principle of things, the Powerthat sanctions, upholds and enforces it, the Harmony that creates thearrangement of its parts, the Work that carries out what the rest direct”...caturyugacaturyuga (chaturyuga) — a series of four ages (satyayuga, treta,dvapara and kaliyuga), one hundredth of a pratikalpa, forming acycle of apparent decline leading to a new cycle beginning on ahigher level in a “cosmic circling movement” through which “Godis perpetually leading man onwards to loftier & more embracingmanifestations of our human perfectibility”...catustayacatus.t.aya (chatushtaya; chatusthaya; chatusthay; chatustaya) — groupof four, tetrad, quaternary; any of the seven parts of the saptacatus.t.aya, the system received by Sri Aurobindo as a programmefor his yoga. The seven catus.t.ayas are: (1) samata catus.t.aya orsanti catus.t.aya, (2) sakti catus.t.aya, (3) vijnana catus.t.aya, (4)sarıra catus.t.aya, (5) karma catus.t.aya or lılacatus.t.aya, (6) brahma


catus.t.aya, (7) (sam)siddhi catus.t.aya or yoga catus.t.aya. The first fourcatus.t.ayas are the catus.t.ayas of the adhara-siddhi; the last three arethe general catus.t.ayas. The word catus.t.aya may also be applied toother groups of four, such as lipi catus.t.aya...catvaro manavahcatvaro manavah. (chatvaro manavah; chatwaro manavah) — the fourManus, archetypal mental beings through whom the fourfold activenature of the Godhead is expressed in the fourfold character of hu-manity. [Gıta 10.6]..cestaces.t.a (cheshta) — struggle, effort...chaitanyachaitanya, etc. — see caitanya, etc...chakrachakra — see cakra...chakshuchakshu — see caks.uh. ...chakshushchakshush — see caks.us, caks.us.a...chakshushachakshusha — see caks.us.a...chanchalyachanchalya — see cancalya...chandachanda, etc. — see can. d. a, etc...ChandiChandi — see Can. d. ı...ChandibhavaChandibhava — see Can. d. ıbhava...chandrachandra, etc. — see candra, etc...chapalyamchapalyam — see capalyam...charanacharana — see caran. a...charshanipracharshanipra — see cars.an. ipra...chaturvarnyachaturvarnya — see caturvarn. ya...chaturyugachaturyuga — see caturyuga...chatushtayachatushtaya — see catus.t.aya...chatustayachatustaya — see catus.t.aya...chatusthaya; chatusthaychatusthaya; chatusthay — see catus.t.aya...chatvaro manavahchatvaro manavah — see catvaro manavah. ...chatwaro manavahchatwaro manavah — see catvaro manavah. ...chayachaya (chhaya; chaya) — shadow; the lowest of the seven kinds ofakashic material; rupa or lipi composed of this material...chayaghanachayaghana (chhayaghan) — dense chaya...chayalokachayaloka (chhayaloka) — the shadowy world; same as patala...chayamayachayamaya (chhayamaya; chhayamay; chayamaya; chayamay) —shadowy; (rupa or lipi) composed of or containing chaya...chayamaya rupachayamaya rupa (chhayamaya rupa) — rupa composed of chaya...chayamayachayamaya tejas (chhayamaya tejas) — shadowy brilliance; tejas


mixed with an element of chaya...chayamayachayamaya tejomaya (chhayamaya tejomaya) — shadowy-brilliantrupa; tejomaya mixed with an element of chaya...chayamaya varnachayamaya varn. a (chhayamay varna)—shadowy colour; varn. a mixedwith an element of chaya...chayamayichayamayı (chhayamayi) — shadowy (feminine of chayamaya, agree-ing with implied dr.s.t.i, “vision”); the shadowy vision of the under-world...chaya-prakasachaya-prakasa (chhaya-prakasha) — rupa composed of chaya andprakasa combined...chayarupachayarupa (chhayarupa) — rupa composed of chaya...chayavrtachayavr.ta (chhayavrita) — enveloped in shadows...chayayuktachayayukta (chhayayukta) — containing chaya...cheshtacheshta — see ces.t.a...chhayachhaya, etc. — see chaya, etc...chid.chid., etc. — see cid., etc...chinmayachinmaya, etc. — see cinmaya, etc...chintanachintana — see cintana...chitchit — see cit...chitrachitra, etc. — see citra, etc...chittachitta, etc. — see citta, etc...cid.cid. (chid.) — abbreviation of cidghanananda...cidakasacidakasa (chidakasha; chidakash) — the ether of pure consciousness(cit); a subtle ether (suks.ma akasa) or “inner space” behind thecittakasa; its accessibility to the mind in antardarsı jagrat and svap-nasamadhi and its mention in connection with the cittakasa suggestthat the cidakasa referred to by Sri Aurobindo is the ether of cit on themental plane, not on its own highest plane...cidanandacidananda (chidananda) — (also called nirgun. a, qualitiless) “Anandaof pure consciousness [cit] without the gunas”, one of the sevenprincipal forms of ananda, corresponding to the principle of anandainvolved in cit-tapas, an “infinite inalienable delight” implicit in the“infinite imperishable force of self-conscious being”...cidghanacidghana (chidghana) — the “dense light of essential consciousness”belonging to the vijnana or gnosis, “in which the intense fullness ofthe Ananda can be”: “a dense luminous consciousness, . . . the seed-state of the divine consciousness in which are contained living and


concrete all the immutable principles of the divine being and all theinviolable truths of the divine conscious-idea and nature”; short forcidghanananda...cidghana ahaituka anandacidghana ahaituka ananda (chidghana ahaituka ananda) — ahaitukaananda combined with cidghanananda...cidghana anandacidghana ananda (chidghana ananda) — same as cidghanananda...cidghananandacidghanananda (chidghanananda) — bliss of “dense self-luminousconsciousness” (cidghana), ananda possessed not “by reflection in themental experience” (see ahaituka ananda) but “with a greater fullnessand directness in the massed and luminous consciousness . . . whichcomes by the gnosis”; the form of subjective ananda connected withthe plane of vijnana...cidghana suddhacidghana suddha (chidghana shuddha) — same as cidghana-suddha-nanda...cidghana-suddhanandacidghana-suddhananda (chidghana-shuddhananda) — suddhanandacombined with cidghanananda; suddhananda on the plane of vijnana...cinmayacinmaya (chinmaya; chinmay) — consisting of pure consciousness(cit)...cinmaya aisvaryacinmaya aisvarya (chinmay aishwarya) — same as cinmayaisvarya...cinmayaisvaryacinmayaisvarya (chinmayaishwarya) — aisvarya with full divine con-sciousness, “free from all element of struggle, in which force andpressure will only be present to stress the energy of fulfilment andnot for overcoming resistance”...cintanacintana (chintana) — thought...citcit (chit) — consciousness; the infinite self-awareness that is “the ele-mental origin and primal completeness of all this varied consciousnesswhich is here used for various formation and experience”, the secondterm of saccidananda; “an inherent self-consciousness” in brahman,“inseparable from its being [sat] and throwing itself out as a force[tapas] of movement of consciousness which is creative of forces, formsand worlds”; the “universal conscious-stuff of existence”, the “originalConsciousness” which “modifies itself so as to become on the Truth-plane the supermind, on the mental plane the mental reason, will,emotion, sensation, on the lower planes the vital or physical instincts,impulses, habits of an obscure force not in superficially consciouspossession of itself”...citracitra (chitra) — picture; two-dimensional image (rupa) or writing (lipi)


“formed from the material provided by the background, by the mentaleye acting through the material”; short for citra-dr.s.t.i...citra-drsticitra-dr.s.t.i (chitra-drishti) — vision of citra rupa and citra lipi...citra lipicitra lipi (chitralipi; chitra-lipi; chitra lipi) — pictorial writing: two-dimensional lipi seen on a background from which the mental eyedraws its material...citrarathacitraratha (chitraratha) — another term for citra ratih. , taken from asortilege from Kadambarı; Citraratha, king of the gandharvas, is inKadambarı the husband of Madira and father of Kadambarı...citra ratihcitra ratih. (chitra ratih) — various delight; a combination of differentforms of ananda...citra rupacitra rupa (chitrarupa; chitra rupa) — pictorial image: two-dimension-al rupa seen on a background from which the mental eye draws itsmaterial...citra tejascitra tejas (chitra tejas) — pictorial rupa composed of tejas...cit-sakticit-sakti (chit-shakti; chitshakti) — consciousness-force, same as cit-tapas; “the Consciousness-Force of the eternal Existence” who “is theuniversal creatrix”...cit samudracit samudra (chit samudra) — ocean of consciousness...cittacitta (chitta) — the “primary stuff of consciousness” which is “uni-versal in Nature, but is subconscient and mechanical in nature ofMatter”; the “pervading and possessing action of consciousness” inthe living body which forms into the sense-mind (manas); it consistsof a lower layer of passive memory in which “the impressions of allthings seen, thought, sensed, felt are recorded”, and a higher layer (alsocalled manas-citta) of the emotional mind where “waves of reactionand response . . . rise up from the basic consciousness”; also short forcittakasa...cittakasacittakasa (chittakasha; chittakash) — the ether (akasa) of the cittaor basic mental consciousness, a mental akasa defined as the “etherof the pranic manas”, whose contents are experienced especially inantardarsı jagrat and svapnasamadhi...cit-tapascit-tapas (chit-tapas; chittapas; chit tapas) — consciousness-force;knowledge-power; the unity of cit and tapas; “the infinite divine self-awareness which is also the infinite all-effective Will”, represented bycit in the description of the nature of divine being as sat-cit-ananda orsaccidananda; the “divine Conscious-Force” which “is omnipresent


in the material cosmos, but veiled, operative secretly behind the actualphenomenon of things, and it expresses itself there characteristicallythrough its own subordinate term, Life” (pran. a)...cittasakticittasakti (chittashakti) — the power, capacity and right state of activ-ity of the emotional being, one of the four kinds of sakti forming thesecond member of the sakti catus.t.aya...cittasuddhicittasuddhi (chittashuddhi; chittasuddhi) — purification of the emo-tional being...cittasyacittasya (chittasya) — of the emotional being...cit-tattvacit-tattva (chit-tattwa) — the principle of consciousness (cit)...clariclari [Latin] — of a clear (consciousness)...combined samadhicombined samadhi — the simultaneous experience of different statesof samadhi, in the form of double samadhi or triple samadhi...comme une partie de la famillecomme une partie de la famille [French] — like a part of the family...communicative vyapticommunicative vyapti — the form of vyapti by which “you can sendor put your own thought, feeling etc. into someone else”...composite bhavacomposite bhava — a fusion of the different types of relation (bhava)between the jıva and the ısvara, who is perceived as “the perfectPersonality capable of all relations even to the most human, concreteand intimate; for he is friend, comrade, lover, playmate, guide, teacher,master, ministrant of knowledge or ministrant of joy, yet in all relationsunbound, free and absolute”; in the composite bhava, the various re-lations are unified in a “deepest many-sided relation” based on “lovefrom which all things flow, love passionate, complete, seeking a hun-dred ways of fulfilment, every means of mutual possession, a millionfacets of the joy of union”...craddhacraddha — see sraddha...cravanacravana — see sravan. a...cruticruti — see sruti...cukshmacukshma — see suks.ma.

D

..D3D3 — short for tertiary dasya.

..dahidahı [Hindi] — curd.

..daihika saktidaihika sakti (daihik shakti) — same as daihikı sakti.

..daihiki saktidaihikı sakti (daihiki shakti) — bodily force; same as dehasakti.


..dainyamdainyam — depression; timidity.

..daityadaitya — an enemy of the gods (devas), the “opposing or too violentlyforward-striving Titan”; any of the sons of Diti, meaning “the division,the separative consciousness”, who is the mother of the Titans as Aditiis the mother of the gods...daivadaiva — divine; short for daiva karma...daiva aisvaryabhavadaiva aisvaryabhava (daiva aishwaryabhava) — divine sense of sover-eignty...daivabhavadaivabhava — divine condition...daiva karmadaiva karma — the “religious” part of Sri Aurobindo’s life-work (seeadesa), involving the establishment of a new system of Yoga andimparting it to others...daivasaktidaivasakti — divine Force...daivi prakrtidaivı prakr.ti (daivi prakriti) — divine nature, the third member ofthe sakti catus.t.aya, also called devıbhava or (at an earlier stage)Can. d. ıbhava; the divinising of human nature by calling in the divinePower (sakti) “to replace our limited human energy so that this may beshaped into the image of and filled with the force of a greater infiniteenergy”. In this process, four aspects of the sakti are manifested andcombined: Mahesvarı, the sakti of wideness and calm; Mahakalı, thesakti of strength and swiftness; Mahalaks.mı, the sakti of beauty, loveand delight; and Mahasarasvatı, the sakti of skill and work...daivyadaivya — divine...daivya ketudaivya ketu — divine perception...daivya tapasdaivya tapas — the divine power (tapas) “by which the Self dwellsgathered in itself, by which it manifests within itself, by which itmaintains and possesses its manifestation, by which it draws backfrom all manifestation into its supreme oneness”...daksa1daks.a1 (daksha) — intuitive discernment; same as viveka or discrimi-nation, a faculty of jnana...Daksa2Daks.a2 (Daksha) — the Vedic deity who represents “the discriminatingand distributing Thought of the divine Mind”...Daksina maghoniDaks.in. a maghonı (Dakshina maghoni) — Daks.in. a (the Vedic goddess“whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offer-ing and distribute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion”) in herplenitude; “the discernment in its fullness”. [R. g Veda 2.11.21, etc.]..damyamdamyam — (on page 83) a misreading of dainyam.


..danadana — giving; generosity; an attribute of the vaisya, who “pours him-self out on the world in order to get back what he has given increaseda hundredfold”; an attribute of Pradyumna...danagrahanadanagrahan. a — accepting gifts...danam,danam, vyayah. , kausalam, bhogalipsa (danam, vyayah, kaushalam,bhogalipsa) — giving, spending, skill, the urge towards enjoyment (theattributes of the vaisya)...danam,danam, vyayah. , kausalam, bhogalipsa, iti vaisyasaktih. (danam,vyayah, kaushalam, bhogalipsa, iti vaishyashaktih) — giving, spend-ing, skill, the urge towards enjoyment: these express the vaisyasoul-power...darsanadarsana (darshana; darshan) — vision; the subtle sense (suks.ma in-driya) of sight, “a sight that is independent of the physical eye”, oneof the faculties of vis.ayadr.s.t.i, called darsana (as opposed to rupadr.s.t.i)especially when it is a vision not of symbolic images but of the actualforms of supraphysical things; the perception of brahman in all thingsand beings: a spiritual seeing by which “the eye gets a new and trans-figured vision of things and of the world around us” and “there comesthrough the physical sense to the total sense consciousness within andbehind the vision a revelation of the soul of the thing seen and of theuniversal spirit that is expressing itself in this objective form of its ownconscious being”; a similar perception of any impersonal or personalaspect (bhava) of brahman or ısvara, as in Kr.s.n. adarsana, etc.; (as partof sahitya) philosophy...dasadasa — (in the Veda) a destructive power, enemy of the arya...dasa-gavasdasa-gavas (dasha-gavas; dashagava) — the ten rays; the ten types orforms of consciousness in the evolutionary scale: the pasu, vanara,pisaca, pramatha, raks.asa, asura, deva, sadhyadeva (or siddhadeva),siddhadeva (or siddhasura) and satyadeva (or siddha purus.a or sid-dhadeva)...dasagudasagu (dashagu) — same as dasa-gavas...dasatyadasatya — a coined term for an active form of dasya...dasidası — literally “slave-girl”; a symbol of the jıva or prakr.ti serving theısvara in a relation of dasya...dasibhavadasıbhava — the temperament or attitude of the servant-girl; the sub-missive relation of the dası to the ısvara...dasi-isvaridası-ısvarı (dasi-ishwari; dasi iswari) — slave-girl and queen; she who


serves and rules...dasuse mayasdasus.e mayas (dasushe mayas) — bliss for the giver (of the sacrifice).[R. g Veda 1.93.1]..dasyadasya (dasya; dasyam) — service, “a service of God in the world ofwhich the controlling power is the Divinity within us in whom we areone self with the universe and its creatures”; submission, surrender,“a surrender and submission to That which is beyond us enabling thefull and free working of its Power”; the relation (bhava) between thejıva (or prakr.ti) and the ısvara that is compared to that of a servantor slave with his or her master: “a giving up of one’s own will to bethe instrument of the Master of works, and this not with the lesseridea of being a servant of God, but, eventually at least, of such acomplete renunciation both of the consciousness and the works to himthat our being becomes one with his being and the impersonalisednature only an instrument and nothing else”, an attitude that “mustlead finally to an absolute union of the personal with the Divine Willand, with the growth of knowledge, bring about a faultless responseof the instrument to the divine Power and Knowledge”; an element ofMahasarasvatı bhava...dasyabhavadasyabhava — the relation (bhava) of dasya, in which one feels oneselfto be a servant or slave of the ısvara...dasyabuddhidasyabuddhi (dasyabuddhi; dasya-buddhi) — awareness of dasya, thesense of surrender or submission to the will of the ısvara...dasyalipsadasyalipsa — the urge towards service (dasya); “the desire to serve”,which “in the perfect man becomes the desire to serve God-in-all”, anattribute of the sudra: “the abnegation that is ready to bear the yokeof the Master and make the life a free servitude to Him and under hisdirection to the claim and need of his creatures”...dasyamdasyam — see dasya...dasya-madhuradasya-madhura (dasya-madhura; dasya madhura) — same as madhu-ra dasya, the relation (bhava) of loving servitude of the jıva to theısvara...dasyam buddhicaturyam karmalipsa pritihdasyam buddhicaturyam karmalipsa prıtih. — service, acuteness of in-telligence, the urge to work, gladness (the attributes of Mahasarasvatı)...dasyatadasyata — the state of dasya...dasya vairadasya vaira — enmity (vaira) as a form of service (dasya), enforcing“with more or less violence the higher in place of the lower aims” of


those whom it serves by opposing their desires...dasyudasyu — (in the Veda) an enemy, plunderer or destroyer; any of variouspowers of darkness and ignorance who oppose the seeker of truth andimmortality...daurbalyamdaurbalyam — weakness...dayadaya — compassion; “oneness, a participating sympathy, a free iden-tity, with all energies in all beings and therefore a spontaneous andfruitful harmony with all the divine will in the universe”, a qualitycommon to the four aspects of daivı prakr.ti...dayadaya ısvarabhavah. karmasamarthyam (daya ishwarabhavah kar-masamarthyam) — compassion, sovereignty, capacity for action (seenext)...dayadaya ısvarabhavah. sarvakarmasamarthyam — compassion, sover-eignty, capacity for all action (the attributes common to all fouraspects of daivı prakr.ti)...decisive intuitiondecisive intuition — decisive trikaladr.s.t.i by means of intuition...decisive seer tapasdecisive seer tapas — tapas acting in the full revelatory ideality, thehighest form of seer tapas...decisive seer trikaladrstidecisive seer trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — decisive trikaladr.s.t.i in thefull revelatory ideality...decisive telepathic trikaladrstidecisive telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — telepathic trikaladr.s.t.icombined with decisive trikaladr.s.t.i, seeing the forces at work and theresult that is to emerge...decisive trikaladrstidecisive trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i with a decisive per-ception of future eventualities, often identified with non-telepathictrikaladr.s.t.i...defaillancesdefaillances [French] — failings...dehadeha — the body...dehasaktidehasakti (dehashakti; deha-shakti) — the power, capacity and rightstate of activity of the physical being, one of the four kinds of saktiforming the second member of the sakti catus.t.aya...dehasiddhidehasiddhi — the perfection of the body, which “has to submit to amutation and be no longer the clamorous animal or the impedingclod it now is, but become instead a conscious servant and radiantinstrument and living form of the spirit”; the siddhi of the sarıracatus.t.aya...dehasuddhidehasuddhi — purification of the body.


..dehasyadehasya — of the body.

..demain matindemain matin [French] — tomorrow morning.

..dede nombreux accidents eurent lieu [French] — many accidents oc-curred...derivative vanmayaderivative vanmaya — same as refulgent vanmaya...desadesa (desha) — place...devadeva — a god, a divinity; “a dynamic being manifested in Prakriti forthe works of the plane to which he belongs”; any of the “cosmicgodheads presiding over the action of cosmic principles”, brahman“representing Itself in cosmic Personalities expressive of the one God-head who, in their impersonal action, appear as the various play ofthe principles of Nature”; the Divine, the supreme and universal Deity(ısvara, purus.a) “of whom all the gods are different Names and Pow-ers”; the seventh of the ten types of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in theevolutionary scale: mind concentrated in vijnana, exceeding itself...deva Agnideva Agni — the god Agni2; the deva as “a flaming Force of knowl-edge”...deva-asuradeva-asura — same as devasura...devabhavadevabhava — the presence in the consciousness of the deva, the “oneDivine Existence who manifests Himself in many names and forms”,accomplishing the Vedic work of “the formation of the godhead in itsmanifold forms in the human being”...devasuradevasura — a combination of deva and asura; the deva of the asuratype, who evolves in the tenth manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa...devatadevata — deity; a being of a higher world; any of the beings of variousplanes who act as agents of the ısvara...devidevı — goddess; the consort of the deva; the sakti of the ısvara in her“outer or executive side” as Nature (prakr.ti); the sakti as the ısvarı,“the conscious Power and universal Goddess all-creative from eternityand armed with the Spirit’s omnipotence”...devibhavadevıbhava (devibhava; devi-bhava; devi bhava) — the devı or divinesakti manifest in the temperament in a combination of her four aspects(Mahesvarı, Mahakalı, Mahalaks.mı and Mahasarasvatı), anotherterm for daivı prakr.ti, gradually replacing the earlier Can. d. ıbhava...devihasyadevıhasya (devihasya; devi-hasya; devi hasya; devihasyam) — laughterof the Goddess, “the laughter of the Shakti doing luminously the workof the Divine and taking his Ananda in all the worlds”; a union of the


four kinds of hasya proper to the four aspects of devıbhava...dhairyadhairya (dhairya; dhairyam) — steadiness, calmness, patience; thetemperament of the thinker (dhıra); an attribute of the brahman. a...dhairyamdhairyam — see dhairya...dhairyamdhairyam suddhatanantyalipsa mahadbhavah. — calmness, purity,the urge towards infinity, greatness...dhamadhama — seat, domain...dhanadhana — wealth; gain; (symbolically) spiritual plenitude...dhananam satihdhananam satih. — safety of the gains...dharanadharan. a — holding, containing; short for dharan. asamarthya...dharananyunatadharan. anyunata — deficiency of containing power...dharanasaktidharan. asakti (dharanashakti) — the “faculty of holding”; the body’s“power to hold whatever force is brought into it by the spirit andto contain its action without spilling and wasting it or itself gettingcracked”; same as dharan. asamarthya...dharanasamarthyadharan. asamarthya (dharanasamarthya; dharana-samarthya; dha-ranasamarthyam; dharana samarthyam) — the capacity of the bodyto contain “without strain or reaction any working however intenseand constant, of energy however great and puissant”, an element ofdehasakti...dharanasamarthyamdharan. asamarthyam — see dharan. asamarthya...dharanashaktidharanashakti — see dharan. asakti...dharane asamarthyadharan. e asamarthya — inability to hold; lack of dharan. asamarthya...dharmadharma — law of being; “a fundamental law of our nature whichsecretly conditions all our activities”; the law of religious and spirituallife; the religious or spiritual part of karma...dharma-karmadharma-karma — work of dharma...dharma-sankaradharma-sankara — confusion of functions...dhasidhasi — foundation. [Etymologically = Greek thesis]..dhatudhatu — Sanskrit verbal root...dhiradhıra — steady, calm, patient; the calm and wise mind, “the thinkerwho looks upon life steadily and does not allow himself to be disturbedand blinded by his sensations and emotions”...dhir manusadhır manus.a — the mental thought [Cf. R. g Veda 2.2.10]..dhotidhotı [Hindi] — loincloth...dhrtidhr.ti (dhriti) — firmness, fortitude; persistence of the will...dhumadhuma — smoke; one of the seven kinds of akashic material.


..dhuminahdhuminah. — smoky.

..dhumramayadhumramaya — smoky; (rupa or lipi) composed of or containingdhuma...dhyanadhyana — concentration...Dieu sorti de l’ecoleDieu sorti de l’ecole [French] — God who has left school...disahdisah. (dishah) — the regions of space...discriminationdiscrimination — same as viveka, one of the two components of smr.ti,a faculty of jnana; on the plane of vijnana or ideality it “is hardlyrecognisable as a separate power, but is constantly inherent in thethree others [intuition, inspiration and revelation] and is their owndetermination of the scope and relations of their knowledge”...discriminativediscriminative — involving the faculty of intuitive discrimination(viveka); same as vivekamaya...discriminative revelatory logisticdiscriminative revelatory logistic — having the nature of revelatory lo-gistis on its lowest scale (intuitive revelatory logistis), with discrimina-tion taken up into the revelation...discriminative trikaladrstidiscriminative trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — same as vivekamaya trika-ladr.s.t.i...dishahdishah — see disah. ...divdiv — heaven; the plane of pure intelligence...divahdivah. — heavens; levels of mind...divine gnosisdivine gnosis — the highest form of gnosis, the “invincible Gnosis ofthe Divine”, also called (from 29 October 1927 onwards) supermindgnosis or supermind, “the secret Wisdom which upholds both ourKnowledge and our Ignorance” and “which creates, governs and up-holds the worlds”...divine hasyadivine hasya — same as devıhasya...divine reasondivine reason — the luminous reason, which “although not of the men-tal stamp and although an operation of the direct truth and knowl-edge, . . . is a delegated power for a range of purposes greater in light,but still to a certain extent analogous to those of the ordinary humanwill and reason”...divine tapasdivine tapas — same as daivya tapas...divyadivya — divine...divya ketudivya ketu — divine perception...dosados.a (dosha) — defect...dosados.a (dosha) — “in the Night”; under the cover of darkness and un-


consciousness...double dasyadouble dasya (dasyam) — an intermediate form of dasya, also calledsecondary / prakritic dasya, in which, unlike simple dasya, “there isno active & constant freedom, but only a general & ultimate freedomwhich is used little”, for “we do not determine what is God’s will andact thereby or order Prakriti to act thereby, but leave everything toGod to determine; the whole responsibility is His & a given impulseof Prakriti fulfils itself or not as He chooses without our interference”...double samadhidouble samadhi — simultaneous experience of two states of samadhi,especially svapnasamadhi and jagrat samadhi, so that one is “awarein the dream-trance of the outer physical world through the subtlesenses which belong to the subtle body”...doulosdoulos [Greek] — slave...drastadras.t.a (drashta) — one who sees; seer; one who knows by means ofrevelation (dr.s.t.i); same as dras.t.r....drasta anandadras.t.a ananda (drashta ananda) — same as dras.t.r. ananda...drasta logosdras.t.a logos (drashta logos) [Sanskrit and Greek] — a term used in1920, equivalent to the seer logistis of the previous year; same asrevelatory logistis or full revelatory ideality...drastadras.t.a (drashta) luminous reason — same as revelatory logistis...drasta saktidras.t.a sakti (drashta shakti) — sakti illumined by dr.s.t.i...drastrdras.t.r. (drashtri; drastri) — that which sees; knowing by means ofrevelation (dr.s.t.i); belonging to the seer ideality or seer / revelatorylogistis...drastr anandadras.t.r. ananda (drashtri ananda; drastri ananda) — ananda experi-enced in the revelatory logistis...drastrdras.t.r. (drashtri) logistis; dras.t.r. reason — same as seer / revelatory lo-gistis...drastr tapasdras.t.r. tapas (drashtri tapas) — tapas acting in the revelatory logistis;same as seer tapas...drastr vijnanadras.t.r. vijnana (drashtri vijnana) — same as seer ideality, usually in thesense of seer / revelatory logistis...dravyajnanadravyajnana — knowledge of matter; physical science...drishtadrishta — see dr.s.t.a...drishtidrishti — see dr.s.t.i...drishtimayadrishtimaya — see dr.s.t.imaya...drishyadrishya — see dr.sya.


..drishyarupadrishyarupa — see dr.syarupa.

..dristidristi — see dr.s.t.i.

..drisyadrisya — see dr.sya.

..drstadr.s.t.a (drishta) — thing seen (in samadhi).

..drstidr.s.t.i (drishti; dristi) — vision; subtle sight, including rupadr.s.t.i andsometimes lipidr.s.t.i; subtle sense-perception (vis.ayadr.s.t.i) in general;trikaladr.s.t.i, the knowledge of the past, present and future; percep-tion of brahman or ısvara in things and beings (same as darsana);revelation, the truth-seeing faculty of jnana whose nature is “a directinner seizing or a penetrating and enveloping luminous contact of thespiritual consciousness with its object”. In the last sense, dr.s.t.i is theessence of the seer ideality and present in all forms of logistic idealitywith a revelatory element; in 1920 it often means revelatory logistis orfull revelatory ideality...drstidr.s.t.i (drishti) intuition — same as revelatory intuition...drstimayadr.s.t.imaya (drishtimaya) — having the nature of dr.s.t.i; revelatory...drsyadr.sya (drishya; drisya) — visible object, “thing seen”; scene or objectseen in samadhi; subtle sight (darsana), especially vision of actualforms belonging to subtle worlds...drsyarupadr.syarupa (drishyarupa) — same as rupadr.sya...duhkhaduh.kha (duhkha; duhkham) — unhappiness, suffering, grief...duhkha-bhogaduh.kha-bhoga — feeling of unhappiness...duhkhamduh.kham — see duh.kha...dunasadun. asa (dunasha) — “oppressed in hope” (in Sri Aurobindo’s inter-pretation of R. g Veda 1.176.4)...duredure — far; from a distance...Durga-KaliDurga-Kalı — the Goddess (devı), combining two of her forceful per-sonalities as Durga, “the conquering and protecting aspect of theUniversal Mother” and as Kalı...dutaduta — messenger...dvaitadvaita (dwaita) — duality...dvaitabhavadvaitabhava (dwaitabhava) — sense of duality...dvandvadvandva (dwandwa) — duality; any of the pairs of opposites that “arethe positive and negative terms in which the ego soul of the lowernature enjoys the universe”, freedom from which is part of the muktior liberation of the nature, also applied to pairs of related terms that arenot opposites, such as hunger and thirst; the “discordant and divided


experience” that consists of “an oscillation between or a mixture ofconstant pairs of contraries”, due to “an ignorance which is unable toseize on the spiritual truth of things and concentrates on the imperfectappearances, but meets them not with a mastery of their inner truth,but with a strife and a shifting balance of attraction and repulsion,capacity and incapacity, liking and disliking, pleasure and pain, joyand sorrow, acceptance and repugnance”...dvandva ragadvesadvandva ragadves.a (dwandwa ragadwesha) — attraction and repul-sion with regard to the dualities of experience...dvaparadvapara (dwapara) — the third age in a caturyuga, whose master-spiritis the vaisya; a period of the world in which the harmony created in thesatyayuga and upheld by force of will in the treta breaks down furtherand “has to be maintained at every step by a careful & laboriousregulation”...dvayadvaya (dwaya) — duality...dvayavindvayavin (dwayavin) — “dualiser”; a type of hostile being in the Veda...dvesadves.a (dwesha) — disliking, repulsion...DvitaDvita (Dwita) — (literally “second or double”) the purus.a of the vitalor dynamic consciousness, the “second soul” or Life-soul betweenEka2 and Trita: “the god or Rishi of the second plane of the humanascent”, which “is that of the Life-Force, the plane of fulfilled force,desire, free range of the vital powers which are no longer limited bythe strict limitations of this mould of Matter”...dynamicdynamic — same as tapomaya; (in 1919) having the nature of dynamicgnosis or pragmatic ideality, which gives “the tapas of the future, thewill at work now and hereafter for effectuation”...dynamic gnosisdynamic gnosis — same as pragmatic ideality...dynamic highest gnostic tapasdynamic highest gnostic tapas — same as dynamic seer tapas...dynamicdynamic inspirational revelation — the dynamic gnosis or pragmaticideality raised to the inspired revelatory logistis...dynamic logistisdynamic logistis — same as pragmatic ideality...dynamic seer tapasdynamic seer tapas — tapas acting in the dynamic inspirational reve-lation, the middle form of seer tapas...dynamic seer trikaladrstidynamic seer trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i in the dynamicinspirational revelation...dyumnadyumna — luminous power.


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..ebhih stomebhihebhih. stomebhih. — by these hymns of affirmation. [R. g Veda 7.62.2]

..effectiveeffective — (vak) having the qualities of the second level of style,more dynamic and powerfully expressive than the adequate style andcharacterised by “aptness and vividness and richness and beauty ofphrase”...effective-adequateeffective-adequate — (vak) combining the qualities of the two lowestlevels of style...effective halfeffective half (of the fifth catus.t.aya) — karma and kama1, the thirdand fourth members of the karma catus.t.aya...effective illuminativeeffective illuminative — (vak) combining the qualities of the secondand third levels of style...effective telepathy; effective vyaptieffective telepathy; effective vyapti — same as communicative vyapti...effleureeffleure seulement pendant le quart d’un second [French] — toucheslightly for just a quarter of a second...effulgent vanmayaeffulgent vanmaya — the movement of vanmaya thought in which thethought comes “as speech self-born out of the truth and complete inits own right and carrying in itself its own vision and knowledge”...egoistic dasyaegoistic dasya — same as primary / simple dasya, also called personaldasya, the form of dasya in which “between the various impulsesof Prakriti, we have the sense of choosing, of an active & constantfreedom, & although we choose what we understand to be God’s will,it is still our choice that determines the action in the adhara & not Hisdirect and imperative Will”...eisideineisidein [Greek] — to look at, see, perceive...eka1eka1 (eka; ekam) — one; the One, the sole Reality, brahman or sac-cidananda, seen “as one Existence, Being gathered in itself and Beingdisplayed in all existences; as one Consciousness concentrated in theunity of its existence, extended in universal nature and many-centredin innumerable beings; one Force static in its repose of self-gatheredconsciousness and dynamic in its activity of extended consciousness;one Delight blissfully aware of its featureless infinity and blissfullyaware of all feature and force and forms as itself”...Eka2Eka2 — (literally “one or single”, taken by Sri Aurobindo to be a nameof the sage called in ancient legend Ekata, the brother of Dvita andTrita) the purus.a of the material consciousness.


..eka anandamaya purusaeka anandamaya purus.a (eka anandamaya purusha) — the one all-blissful Spirit...ekadantiekadantı — having one tusk...ekamekam — see eka1...ekam brahmaekam brahma — the one Reality; brahman as the One (eka1), realisedas “Being one in itself”, but also as “one everywhere, in all its poisesand in every aspect, in its utmost appearance of multiplicity as in itsutmost appearance of oneness”...ekam evadvitiyamekam evadvitıyam (ekam evadwitiyam) — One without a second.[Chandogya Upanis.ad 2.6.1]..ekas tisthati viras tisthatiekas tis.t.hati vıras tis.t.hati — he stands alone, he stands as a hero...ekatvadrstiekatvadr.s.t.i (ekatwadrishti) — vision of unity; the perception of a “one-ness unaffected by any multitudinousness of objects and details”, avision in which “the identity of the Eternal, the unity of the Brahman”is apparent “not only to the subtler consciousness but to the meresense, to the illumined physical sight itself”...ekhani pariskar korbbo?ekhani paris.kar korbbo? [Bengali] — shall I clean it right now?..electric anandaelectric ananda — same as vaidyutananda...elementary utthapanaelementary utthapana — same as primary utthapana...eloignementeloignement [French] — withdrawal...en depiten depit de l’opposition le surhomme se depeint dans l’homme actuel[French] — in spite of the opposition, the superman outlines himself inpresent-day man...engusengus [Greek] — near...enimveroenimvero [Latin] — certainly, indeed...enisusenisus [Latin] — strenuous, earnest...eniteoeniteo [Latin] — to shine forth, become bright, be eminent...enitescoenitesco [Latin] — same as eniteo...enitorenitor [Latin] — to climb, make an effort, struggle...enixeenixe [Latin] — strenuously, earnestly...enixusenixus [Latin] — strenuous, earnest...enoeno [Latin] — to swim away, swim across...enodateenodate [Latin] — clearly, plainly...enodatioenodatio [Latin] — untying; explanation...en preparationen preparation [French] — in preparation...episkheroepiskhero [Greek] — successively, in order, thence, afterwards...esa jagarti suptesues.a jagarti suptes.u (esha jagarti supteshu) — this wakes in those who


sleep. [Cf. Kat.ha Upanis.ad 2.2.8]..espionespion [French] — spy...essential muktiessential mukti — the liberation of the spirit, the “freedom of the soul”which is “an opening out of mortal limitation into the illimitableimmortality of the Spirit”...etad vai tatetad vai tat — this is That. [Kat.ha Upanis.ad 2.1.3, etc.]..etatetat — this (being or world)...eveileveil [French] — awakening.

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..flottementflottement [French] — floating, wavering.

..fonder l’enseignement moralefonder l’enseignement morale [French] — to found the moral teaching.

..formative mayaformative maya — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) overmindin its fundamental power of measuring and limiting consciousness(maya), regarded as the essential form of overmind proper (see over-mind system); “the original cosmic Maya, not a Maya of Ignorancebut a Maya of Knowledge, yet a Power which has made the Ignorancepossible, even inevitable”...FourFour, the — same as the fourfold ısvara; the four Vedic gods (Varun. a,Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga) who “build up the whole divine stateinto its perfection by the natural interaction of its four essential el-ements”, the four gods representing respectively “the all-pervadingpurity” of sat (Varun.a), “the all-uniting light” of cit (Mitra), “themovement and all-discerning force” of tapas (Aryaman) and “the all-embracing joy” of ananda (Bhaga), thus being “practically the lateressential trinity of Sachchidananda, — Existence, Consciousness, Blisswith self-awareness and self-force, Chit and Tapas, for double termsof Consciousness”...fourfold brahmanfourfold brahman — the omnipresent Reality, brahman, “seen every-where in the whole & in each object” in the four aspects that constitutethe brahma catus.t.aya; sarvam brahma is seen “when we realise onething in the universe”, anantam brahma “when we realise InfiniteForce and Quality at play in all forms”, jnanam brahma “whenwe realise a consciousness in everything which is aware of all”, andanandam brahma “when we realise in that consciousness a delight inall things”.


..fourfold isvarafourfold ısvara (ishwara) — the ısvara in his four personalities, usuallyreferred to in the Record of Yoga as Mahavıra, Balarama, Pradyumnaand Aniruddha, to whom correspond the four aspects of his sakti andthe four psychological types of the caturvarn. ya; each of these personal-ities is not a separate deity, but an aspect of the ısvara or Kr.s.n. a, “Fourwho are One, One who is Four”, often combined with one or moreof the other three aspects. Sri Aurobindo adapted the Vaishnava tradi-tion of the caturvyuha (fourfold manifestation of the purus.ottama) ingiving to the four aspects names associated with Kr.s.n. a as an avatara.Mahavıra (“the great hero”) designates Srıkr.s.n. a himself, Balaramawas his elder brother, Pradyumna his son and Aniruddha his grandson;they figure together in the legend of Us.a and Aniruddha told in theBhagavata Puran. a. Other names that are sometimes used in the Recordof Yoga for these aspects of the ısvara are Mahesvara or Siva for thefirst aspect (Mahavıra), Rudra2 for the second (Balarama) and Vis.n. ufor the third (Pradyumna)...full drastafull dras.t.a (drashta) luminous reason — a term used in 1920, equiv-alent to the highest seer logistis of the previous year; same as fullrevelatory ideality...full logistic revelationfull logistic revelation — same as full revelatory ideality...full revelationfull revelation — same as full revelatory ideality...full revelatoryfull revelatory — having the nature of the highest scale of revelatorylogistis, on its own plane as full revelatory ideality or acting in thementality to form the highest revelatory mentality...full revelatory gnosisfull revelatory gnosis — same as full revelatory ideality...full revelatory idealityfull revelatory ideality — the highest scale of revelatory logistis, alsocalled the full dras.t.a luminous reason, whose three forms are describedas (1) “revelation with interpretation but the front representative”,(2) “the front interpretative with intuition involved in the drishti”,and (3) “the whole drishti with the two other powers taken into thedrishti”; these three forms are also referred to as the representative,interpretative and imperative elements of representative vijnana in thehigher sense (highest representative ideality or logos vijnana)...future trikaladrstifuture trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — “the prophetic knowledge of thefuture”, the kind of time-vision most often meant in the Record ofYoga by trikaladr.s.t.i.


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..gachisgachis [French] — mess.

..gadha-supta svapnagad. ha-supta svapna (gadha-supta swapna) — svapnasamadhi in pro-found sleep; the deepest sus.upta-svapna...ganagan. a — group; (in the Indian tradition) a group of attendants, espe-cially the demigods attending on Siva; (in the Record of Yoga) devatasacting as agents of the ısvara...ganalokagan. aloka — the world of the gan. as...gandhagandha — scent, smell; a non-material (suks.ma) odour; the suks.mavis.aya of subtle smell; (short for gandhadr.s.t.i) the subtle sense of smell...gandhadrstigandhadr.s.t.i (gandhadrishti) — the perception of odours imperceptibleto the ordinary physical sense; a subtle sense (suks.ma indriya), “theessential inhalation grossly represented in physical substance by thesense of smell”, one of the faculties of vis.ayadr.s.t.i...gandharasagandharasa (gandharasa; gandha-rasa) — the (subtle) taste of thingssmelt, a form of rasadr.s.t.i...gandharvagandharva (gandharva; gundharva) — a kind of supernatural being,traditionally a celestial musician, belonging to a world of beauty andenjoyment; in the evolutionary scale, a sub-type of the deva type, im-parting grace and refinement to lower types with which it is combined...gandharva-pasugandharva-pasu (gandharva-pashu; gandharva pashu) — a combina-tion of the gandharva and pasu, forming a kind of pasu deva ordivinised pasu, which evolves in the asura type in the first manvantaraof the sixth pratikalpa...gandharvigandharvı — female gandharva; Kalı manifested in the gandharvatype...garimagarima — heaviness; “the power of increasing the size and weight ofthe body”, a physical siddhi related to or included in mahima; a senseof heaviness due to a defect of the physical siddhis...GauriGaurı — the goddess Parvatı, consort of Siva, identified with Mahe-svarı...gavasgavas — rays; forms of consciousness; see dasa-gavas...gege [Greek] — earth; “territoriality”; the physical nature...general catustayasgeneral catus.t.ayas — the last three of the seven parts of the saptacatus.t.aya, namely the karma catus.t.aya, brahma catus.t.aya and siddhicatus.t.aya, which when combined constitute “an ideal action of the


Divine through our perfected being in the largeness of the Brahmicunity”...general formulageneral formula — either of two lists of four terms, each formula beingrelated to one of the first two members of the sakti catus.t.aya and con-sisting of attributes that are to be common (samanya) to all elementsof that member of the catus.t.aya. The first general formula, tejo balampravr.ttir mahattvam, is related to vırya; the second general formula,adınata ks.iprata sthairyam ısvarabhavah. , is related to sakti...georgosgeorgos [Greek] — tiller of the soil, farmer...geruyageruya [Bengali] — cloth dyed with red ochre, worn by sannyasıs...ghanaghana — deep; (referring to rupa) dense; a dense mass...ghana caitanyaghana caitanya (ghana chaitanya) — dense consciousness...ghana rupaghana rupa — dense image, “consisting of material developed intosubstance of consistency”...ghatanaghat.ana — happening, event, incident...ghranaghran. a — the sense of smell; same as gandhadr.s.t.i...ghrnaghr.n. a (ghrina) — pity; repulsion, disgust...ghrtamghr.tam (ghritam) — clarified butter (ghee), Vedic symbol of “a richand bright mental activity”...gnahgnah. — (in the Veda) the female powers who are “the energies ofNature”...gnanagnana — see jnana...gnanam brahmagnanam brahma — see jnanam brahma...gnorisisgnorisis [Greek] — acquaintance, intimate knowledge; “spontaneousjudgment”, a quality of the intuitional ideality...gnosisgnosis — “a power above mind working in its own law, out of thedirect identity of the supreme Self”, a faculty superior to buddhi orintellect, possessing not only the “concentrated consciousness of theinfinite Essence”, but “also and at the same time an infinite knowledgeof the myriad play of the Infinite”; (in 1919-20) the supra-intellectualconsciousness (also called ideality or vijnana) with its three planesof logistic, hermetic and seer gnosis, each successive level being more“intense and large in light, imperative, instantaneous, the scope ofthe active knowledge larger, the way nearer to the knowledge byidentity, the thought more packed with the luminous substance ofself-awareness and all-vision”; (in most of 1927 before 29 October)a plane of consciousness usually referred to as above the supreme


supermind and descending into it to form supreme supermind gnosis,also rising to the “invincible Gnosis of the Divine”; (in April 1927) aterm encompassing three degrees of supramental gnosis (correspondingto planes later redefined as parts of the overmind system) and a fourthdegree of divine gnosis; (from 29 October 1927 onwards) equivalent to“divine gnosis”, a grade of consciousness above overmind (but some-times distinguished from supermind, which occupies a similar position)and descending into it to form gnostic overmind or gnosis in overmind...gnosis in overmindgnosis in overmind — (in late 1927 or 1928) the highest plane in theseries of planes at the summit of the overmind system later calledovermind gnosis, where overmind borders on supermind or divinegnosis...gnosticgnostic — (in 1919) same as vijnanamaya or ideal; (c. 1927-28) havingthe nature of gnosis, in various senses according to the date; sometimesregarded as higher than supramental...gnostic intuitiongnostic intuition — (in 1919) same as ideal intuition; (in April 1927)intuition as the first degree of supramental gnosis, probably corre-sponding to the later intuitive overmind...gnosticised supreme supermindgnosticised supreme supermind — same as supreme supermind gnosisor the later supramentalised overmind...gnostic overmindgnostic overmind — (in late 1927 or 1928) the highest series of planesin the overmind system, where overmind is filled with divine gnosis;one of the higher planes in this series...gnostic supermindgnostic supermind — (in April 1927) the highest degree of supramentalgnosis; it corresponds apparently to gnosis (above the supreme super-mind) in the terminology of January 1927 and gnostic overmind (inthe sense of the later overmind gnosis) in the terminology adopted bythe end of 1927...gnostic Tgnostic T — (in January 1927) same as T (which is evidently possibleonly in the unitary consciousness of the gnosis), a fusion of the elementsof T3 and T2 into a faculty which “when it acts . . . is of the nature ofomniscience and omnipotence”...gnostic T2gnostic T2 — (in early 1927) T2 in the gnosis above or in the supremesupermind...gnostic tapasgnostic tapas — (in 1919) same as ideal tapas...gnostic thoughtgnostic thought — (in 1919) same as ideal thought; (in early 1927)thought in the gnosis above or in the supreme supermind.


..goagram asvapesasamgoagram asvapesasam (goagram aswapeshasam) — in whose front isthe cow (symbol of Light) and whose form is the horse (symbol of vitalenergy). [R. g Veda 2.1.16]..golokagoloka — the Vaishnava heaven of eternal beauty and bliss...grhagr.ha (griha) — house (a symbol of the body)...gunagun. a — quality, property, feature; any of “the numberless and infinitequalities” (anantagun. a) of the sagun. a brahman “into which all thecosmic action can be resolved”; the quality which the ısvara “perceivesin each different object of experience (vishaya) and for the enjoymentof which He creates it in the lila”; any of the three modes (trigun. a)of the energy of the lower Nature (apara prakr.ti), called sattva, rajasand tamas, which in the transition to the higher Nature (para prakr.ti)are transformed into pure prakasa, tapas (or pravr.tti) and sama...gundharvagundharva — see gandharva...gunigun. ı — possessor of qualities; same as sagun. a...guruguru — spiritual guide; “the secret and universal Teacher who is seatedin the hearts of all”...guru-sakhaguru-sakha — the ısvara as teacher and friend, combining his guru-sisya and sakhya relations with the jıva...guru-sisyaguru-sisya (guru-shishya) — the teacher-disciple relation (bhava), inwhich the ısvara is perceived as “the teacher and guide” who “leadsus to knowledge; at every step of the developing inner light and vision,we feel his touch like that of the artist moulding our clay of mind, hisvoice revealing the truth and its word”, until there is “a transformationof our mentality into his and more and more he becomes the thinkerand seer in us”.

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..habitual mindhabitual mind — the lowest form of the thinking mind (buddhi), con-sisting of an “undercurrent of mechanically recurrent thought” and amovement that reduces “all new experience . . . to formulas of habitualthinking”...hamdihamd. ı (handi) [Bengali, Hindi] — pot...hamsahamsa (hansa) — the goose or swan, “a symbol of the soul on thehigher plane”...harsahars.a (harsha) — joy.


..hasyahasya (hasya; hasyam) — literally “laughter”; “a clear joy and laugh-ter of the soul embracing life and existence”, a stronger form ofatmaprasada, the last member of the samata / santi catus.t.aya; some-times equivalent to devıhasya...hasyamhasyam — see hasya...hasyamaya anandahasyamaya ananda — delight full of laughter; (sama) ananda full ofhasya...hasyasiddhihasyasiddhi — the perfection of hasya; hasya as an element in thesiddhi of the samata catus.t.aya...hathahat.ha — coercive force; obstinacy, an attribute of Vali or Bali2...hathayogahat.hayoga — a strenuous psycho-physical system of yoga whose chiefprocesses are asana and pran. ayama...hatha-yoginhat.ha-yogin — one who practises hat.hayoga...hebetehebete [French] — dazed...hermeneusishermeneusis [Greek] — interpretation; “inspired interpretation”, thedistinguishing feature of the hermetic ideality and interpretative reve-latory vijnana...hermeneutichermeneutic — having the nature of hermeneusis; interpretative...hermesishermesis — same as hermetic ideality...hermetichermetic — closed, sealed, esoteric; relating to hermetic ideality on itsown plane or in a modified form as an element of some of the highestlevels of logistic ideality...hermetic gnosishermetic gnosis — same as hermetic ideality...hermetic idealityhermetic ideality — (in 1919) the second of the three planes of ideal-ity, the plane whose essence is sruti (inspiration), later called srautavijnana. Whereas the logistic ideality “remembers at a second removethe knowledge secret in the being but lost by the mind in the oblivionof the ignorance”, the hermetic ideality “divines at a first remove agreater power of that knowledge”. The first “resembles the reason, isa divine reason”, the second is said to be of the nature of “inspiredinterpretation”...hermetic logistic idealityhermetic logistic ideality — (in 1919) a high level of logistic idealitysuffused by the light of the hermetic ideality; perhaps the same as thelater interpretative revelatory vijnana...hermetic logistishermetic logistis — same as hermetic logistic ideality...hermetic vijnanahermetic vijnana — same as hermetic ideality...hermetised logistishermetised logistis — same as hermetic logistic ideality.


..hetuhetu — cause; an object or external stimulus (usually a touch) associ-ated with the experience of sahaituka ananda...higher mindhigher mind — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) a plane of con-sciousness with three levels: “liberated intelligence”, “intuitive [highermind]” and “illumined [higher mind]” (in ascending order). The firstlevel may correspond to vijnanabuddhi in the earlier terminology ofthe Record of Yoga. The “intuitive” and “illumined” levels may bewhat Sri Aurobindo soon after making the diagram began to refer to as“higher mind” (defined as “a luminous thought-mind, a mind of spirit-born conceptual knowledge”) and “illumined mind” (characterised by“an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the spirit”); cf.logistic ideality (also called luminous reason) and hermetic idealityor srauta vijnana (distinguished by “a diviner splendour of light andblaze of fiery effulgence”) in the terminology of 1919-20...higher revelatoryhigher revelatory — (in 1920) same as full revelatory...higher trikaladrstihigher trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — same as non-telepathic trikala-dr.s.t.i...highest drasta logoshighest dras.t.a logos (drashta logos) — same as full revelatory idealityor its highest form...highest drastr tapashighest dras.t.r. tapas (drashtri tapas) — same as decisive seer tapas...highest gnosishighest gnosis — same as highest ideality...highest gnostic tapashighest gnostic tapas — same as revelatory / seer tapas...highest idealityhighest ideality — same as revelatory logistis (the highest level of logis-tic ideality) or seer ideality (the highest of the three planes of ideality)...highest inspired revelatory ideal reasonhighest inspired revelatory ideal reason — same as highest inspired rev-elatory gnosis...highest inspired revelatory gnosishighest inspired revelatory gnosis — the highest of the three forms ofinspired revelatory logistis...highest logistic gnosis;highest logistic gnosis; highest logistic ideality; highest logistic vijnana;highest logistis — same as revelatory logistis or full revelatory ideality...highest mindhighest mind — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) the plane ofintuitive consciousness below overmind, possibly corresponding to seerideality in entries of 1919...highest representative idealityhighest representative ideality — in October 1920, equivalent to logosvijnana in the sense of full revelatory ideality; also called represen-tative vijnana, which is said to have three elements: representative,interpretative and imperative. The meaning of “representative” earlier


in 1920, when it referred to the highest intuitive revelatory logistis, waspreserved at this time in the definition of logos reason as the “lowerrepresentative idea”...highest revelation; highest revelatory gnosishighest revelation; highest revelatory gnosis — same as full revelatoryideality...highest revelatory tapashighest revelatory tapas — tapas acting in the full revelatory ideality;same as decisive seer tapas...hiranmaya patrahiran. maya patra — golden lid. [Isa Upanis.ad 15]..hiranyahiran. ya — short for hiran. yagarbha...hiranyagarbhahiran. yagarbha — “the Golden Embryo of life and form”, brahmanmanifest in the second of the three states symbolised by the letters ofAUM as “the Spirit in the inner planes”; the Self (atman) supporting thedream state (svapna) or subtle (suks.ma) consciousness, “the Dream-self which is the continent of all subtle, subjective or supraphysicalexperience”...HiranyakasipuHiran. yakasipu (Hiranyakashipu) — a daitya or Titan who persecutedhis son Prahlada for his devotion to Vis.n. u and was destroyed by Vis.n.uas Narasimha; regarded as an example of the asura raks.asa “in whichthe intellectual ego & the emotional, sensational ego enter into anequal copartnership for the grand enthronement & fulfilment of thehuman ahankara”...historical trikaladrstihistorical trikaladr.s.t.i — a form of trikaladr.s.t.i of the past...hotra avitahhotra avıtah. — unmanifested energies of the sacrifice. [R. g Veda 4.48.1]..hrdayahr.daya (hridaya) — heart...hvarahvara — crooked.

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..idealideal — having the nature of ideality; same as vijnanamaya.

..ideal idealityideal ideality — true ideality (vijnana), distinguished from intellectualideality as well as ideal intellectuality...ideal intellectualityideal intellectuality — same as intuitive mind or a form of it...ideal intuitionideal intuition — intuition in the ideality or vijnana, in contrast tomental intuition...idealisedidealised — brought under the control or influence of ideality; rendered“perfectly & spontaneously true & luminous”...idealised intellectualityidealised intellectuality — same as idealised mentality.


..idealised manasaidealised manasa — same as idealised mental.

..idealised mentalidealised mental — having the nature of idealised mentality.

..idealised mentalityidealised mentality — same as intuitive mind, a faculty created by theaction of the ideality in the intellectual mentality...idealised mindidealised mind — same as idealised mentality...idealityideality — the supra-intellectual faculty (vijnana) with its powers ofsmr.ti (consisting of intuition and discrimination), sruti (or inspiration)and dr.s.t.i (or revelation), usually distinguished from (but sometimesincluding) vijnanabuddhi or intuitive mind. The plane of ideality orvijnana generally referred to in the early period of the Record of Yogaappears to be what in 1918 was designated primary / inferior ideality,above which Sri Aurobindo then distinguished a secondary / superiorideality. In 1919, the lower plane came to be called logistic ideality in ascheme of three planes, of which the higher two were termed hermeticideality (later srauta vijnana) and seer ideality. Up to 1920, “ideality”by itself continued to refer mainly to the first of these planes...ideality IIideality II — same as superior ideality...ideal logistisideal logistis — same as logistic ideality...ideal mindideal mind — same as ideality...ideal reasonideal reason — same as luminous reason (logistic ideality)...ideal sraddhaideal sraddha — supra-intellectual (vijnanamaya) faith...ideal supermindideal supermind — see triple ideal supermind...ideal tapasideal tapas — tapas in the ideality, “working by the swabhava” (es-sential nature of things), same as vijnanamaya tapas...ideal thoughtideal thought — thought elevated to the plane of ideality; same asvijnanamaya thought, especially in the form of perceptive thought...ideal trikaladrstiideal trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i in the ideality...ideal truth tapasideal truth tapas — tapas acting in the revelatory logistis...ideationideation — same as perceptive thought...ihaiha — here; in this world...ihabhavaihabhava — literally “here-ness”; present association...ihalokadrstiihalokadr.s.t.i (ihalokadrishti) — vision of this world by means otherthan the physical senses, a form of lokadr.s.t.i; it includes the knowledge,by direct perception or through symbolic images, of “things concealedfrom the limited receptivity or beyond the range of the physical organs,distant forms, scenes and happenings, things that have passed out ofphysical existence or that are not yet in physical existence”.


..ilaspadeil.aspade — “in the seat of revelation”.

..illuminativeilluminative — (vak) having the qualities of the third level of style,which gives “the pure untranslated language of intuitive vision” full of“a greater illumination in which the inner mind sees and feels object,emotion, idea not only clearly or richly or distinctly and powerfully,but in a flash or outbreak of transforming light which kindles thethought or image into a disclosure of new significances of a muchmore inner character, a more profoundly revealing vision, emotion,spiritual response”...illumined higher mindillumined higher mind — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) thethird (“illumined”) level of higher mind, perhaps corresponding tohermetic ideality or srauta vijnana in the terminology of 1919-20...imperativeimperative — (in 1920) being of the nature of a “revealingly imperativepower of the spirit’s knowledge by identity”, the element in the logosvijnana or highest representative ideality (see full revelatory ideality)that deals with “the imperatives of the infinite”, connected with rev-elation in much the same way as representative with intuition andinterpretative with inspiration, and evidently entering into the logisticideality from a higher plane of imperative vijnana; (in early 1927)a plane related to, but higher than, the imperative vijnana of 1920,apparently occupying a position between the supreme supramental andthe supreme supermind, for one of its forms “acts as an intermediaryforce, lifting the former into the latter”. The forms of “the imperative”in 1927 are perhaps the “intuitive forms” which by January of thatyear had been arranged “in the gnosis”, making them part of what atthe end of October is called the overmind system...imperative vijnanaimperative vijnana — a term used in the last dated entry of 1920 fora plane of consciousness whose arrangement “on the lower levels ofthe ideal thought-powers” had then begun; in view of evidence for theconnection of the term imperative with revelation or dr.s.t.i, imperativevijnana is perhaps the same as the earlier seer ideality, whose “deputedpower” in the logistic ideality was mentioned in 1919...in ambulandoin ambulando [Latin] — while walking...independent T2independent T2 — same as original T2...Indo vrsaIndo vr.s.a (Indo vrisha) — O Indu (Soma2), strong and abundant. [R. gVeda 1.176.1]..IndraIndra — “the Puissant”, a Vedic god, lord of svar, the luminous world;


the deva as “the master of mental force”. As Agni2 “is one pole of Forceinstinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth toheaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force whichdescends from heaven to earth”; he “comes down into our world asthe Hero” and “slays darkness and division with his lightnings, poursdown the life-giving heavenly waters [svarvatır apah. ], finds in the traceof the hound, Intuition [Sarama], the lost or hidden illuminations,makes the Sun of Truth [surya1] mount high in the heaven of ourmentality”...IndrabhavaIndrabhava — the self-manifestation of the deva as Indra, “the Powerof pure Intelligence”, forming part of devabhava...Indra brhatIndra br.hat — Indra, the vast...indriyaindriya (indriya; indriyam) — sense-organ, especially any of “the fiveperceptive senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell, which makethe five properties of things their respective objects” (see vis.aya);the sense-faculty in general, “fundamentally not the action of cer-tain physical organs, but the contact of consciousness with its ob-jects” (samjnana). Each of the physical senses has two elements, “thephysical-nervous impression of the object and the mental-nervousvalue we give to it”; the mind (manas) is sometimes regarded as a“sixth sense”, though “in fact it is the only true sense organ and the restare no more than its outer conveniences and secondary instruments”...indriya-anandaindriya-ananda (indriya-ananda; indriya ananda) — sense-delight; theananda of the indriyas in general or of any particular indriya, “a beat-itude of the senses perceiving and meeting the One [eka1] everywhere,perceiving as their normal aesthesis of things a universal beauty [sar-vasaundarya] and a secret harmony of creation”; the sahaituka formof vis.ayananda...indriya bhuktiindriya bhukti — liberated sensory enjoyment...indriyamindriyam — see indriya...indriya-niranandaindriya-nirananda — the opposite of indriya-ananda; sensational dis-comfort...indriya rasaindriya rasa — rasa of the senses...InduIndu — same as Soma2...inevitableinevitable — (vak) having the qualities of the highest level of style,which brings the “absolute and revealing word”, either in the pureinevitable form or as a “magical transformation” of a lesser style


“raised to inevitability” in its own line...in extremisin extremis [Latin] — in desperate circumstances; at the point of death...inferior idealityinferior ideality — a term used mainly in May-June 1918 for the lowerplane of ideality, that which “takes up the whole intellectual actionand transforms it into vijnana”; cf. the logistic ideality of 1919-20...inferior seer logistisinferior seer logistis — the lowest form of seer logistis; perhaps thesame as intuitive revelatory logistis...ingitaingita — gesture...in motuin motu [Latin] — in motion...inspirationinspiration — same as sruti, truth-hearing, the faculty of jnana which“comes as a vibration which carries the Truth in it and sometimes itcomes as the actual word”; also, an instance of the working of thisfaculty; sometimes equivalent to inspired logistis, the middle plane oflogistic ideality; (of vak) the characteristic of the fourth level of style(see inspired)...inspirationalinspirational — having the nature of inspiration; same as inspired...inspirational gnosisinspirational gnosis — same as inspired logistis...inspirational idealityinspirational ideality — (in 1918-19) same as inspired logistis; (in1920) same as srauta vijnana (hermetic ideality)...inspirational intuitionalinspirational intuitional — same as inspirational intuitive...inspirational intuitiveinspirational intuitive — having the nature of inspired intuition...inspirational intuitive idealised mindinspirational intuitive idealised mind — the inspirational intuitive formof idealised mentality, same as inspired intuitional intellectuality...inspirational intuivityinspirational intuivity — same as inspired intuitivity...inspirational logistisinspirational logistis — same as inspired logistis...inspirational mentalinspirational mental — having the nature of inspirational mentality...inspirational mentalityinspirational mentality — the middle level of idealised mentality, a“mind of luminous inspiration” which, in dealing with the movementin time, sees things “in the light of the world’s larger potentialities”;its defect is that it may be liable “to a hesitation or suspension ofdetermining view as between various potential lines of the movementor even to a movement away from the line of eventual actuality andfollowing another not yet applicable sequence”...inspirational revelationinspirational revelation — revelation with an element of inspiration;(in 1919) same as inspired revelatory logistis...inspirational-revelatoryinspirational-revelatory — having the nature of inspirational revela-tion.


..inspirational tapasinspirational tapas — tapas acting in the inspired logistis.

..inspirational telepathic trikaladrstiinspirational telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — telepathic trikala-dr.s.t.i in the inspired logistis, a form of inspirational trikaladr.s.t.i...inspirational trikaladrstiinspirational trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i by means of in-spiration; the second level of ideal trikaladr.s.t.i...inspirational vijnanainspirational vijnana — same as inspired logistis or inspirational men-tality...inspiredinspired — having the nature of inspiration (sruti), as it acts on thelevel of inspired logistis or another level of ideality or intuitive mind,often in combination with intuition or revelation; (vak) having thequalities of the fourth level of style, which “brings to us not only purelight and beauty and inexhaustible depth, but a greater moved ecstasyof highest or largest thought and sight and speech”...inspired gnosis; inspired idealityinspired gnosis; inspired ideality — same as inspired logistis...inspired intellectualityinspired intellectuality — (mentioned only in the form of intuitionalinspired intellectuality) same as inspirational mentality...inspired intuitioninspired intuition — intuition with an element of inspiration; the mid-dle form of intuitional ideality...inspired intuitional intellectualityinspired intuitional intellectuality — intuitional intellectuality with anelement of inspiration, raising it towards inspirational mentality...inspired intuitional logistisinspired intuitional logistis — same as inspired intuition...inspired intuitive mentalityinspired intuitive mentality — same as inspired intuitional intellectual-ity...inspired intuitivityinspired intuitivity — a working of the intuitive mind related to inspi-rational mentality and pragmatic intuitivity...inspired logistic revelationinspired logistic revelation — same as inspired revelatory logistis...inspired logistisinspired logistis — the middle level of logistic ideality, where inspira-tion (sruti) determines the predominant character of the working of theluminous reason; also, the second gradation of this level, between theintuitional inspired and revelatory inspired forms of logistic ideality...inspired revelationinspired revelation — same as inspired revelatory logistis...inspired revelatoryinspired revelatory — having the nature of inspired revelatory logistis,or the second of its three forms, or the corresponding form of revelatorymentality...inspired revelatory gnosis;inspired revelatory gnosis; inspired revelatory ideal reason — same asinspired revelatory logistis...inspired revelatory logistisinspired revelatory logistis — the second scale of revelatory logistis, in


which inspiration is taken up into revelation...inspired vijnanainspired vijnana — same as inspired logistis...in statuin statu [Latin] — in place, not moving...intellectual idealityintellectual ideality — same as uninspired intuition, the lowest form ofintuitional ideality, sometimes regarded not as true ideality, but as atransitional stage between intuitive mind and vijnana...intellectual intuitionintellectual intuition — same as mental intuition...intellectual sraddhaintellectual sraddha — mental faith; belief...intellectual tapasintellectual tapas — will-power on the plane of the buddhi, where itintroduces a stress of speculation and intellectual preference that is anobstacle to knowledge; same as mental tapas...interpretativeinterpretative — (in 1920) being of the nature of an “ideative visionand thought” that “interpret . . . the illimitable unity and variety of theInfinite”, the characteristic of the hermetic ideality or srauta vijnana,the plane of vijnana whose essence is sruti, also attributed to thehighest forms of logistic ideality containing an element of inspiration;specifically, pertaining to the highest form of inspired revelatory logis-tis, called interpretative revelatory vijnana, to the second element inthe highest representative ideality or to the srauta vijnana itself, fromwhich these derive; (in 1927) short for interpretative imperative...interpretative drstiinterpretative dr.s.t.i — same as interpretative revelatory vijnana...interpretative idealityinterpretative ideality — same as interpretative revelatory vijnana orsrauta vijnana...interpretative imperativeinterpretative imperative — (c. 1920) a form of logos vijnana formedby a combination of its interpretative and imperative elements; (inearly 1927) an intermediate form of “the imperative”, evidently in-terpretative ideality taken up into imperative vijnana and that againelevated to one of the lower planes of what by the end of 1927 wascalled overmind...interpretative logistical vijnanainterpretative logistical vijnana — same as interpretative revelatoryvijnana...interpretative-representative highest idealityinterpretative-representative highest ideality — representative revela-tory vijnana (the highest intuitive revelatory logistis) in combinationwith interpretative revelatory vijnana (the highest inspired revelatorylogistis)...interpretative revelatoryinterpretative revelatory — having the nature of interpretative revela-tory vijnana.


..interpretative revelatory vijnanainterpretative revelatory vijnana — (in 1920) the highest, most revela-tory form of inspired revelatory logistis...interpretative rev. V.interpretative rev. V. — short for interpretative revelatory vijnana...interpretative vijnanainterpretative vijnana — same as interpretative revelatory vijnana...intuitionintuition — the faculty of jnana that “suggests a direct and illumininginner idea of the truth, an idea that is its true image and index, . . .a representation, but a living representation”; one of the two com-ponents of smr.ti, it “does the work of reasoning without the ne-cessity of reasoning to arrive at a conclusion”; also, an instance ofthe working of this faculty; sometimes equivalent to intuitional ide-ality, the lowest level of logistic ideality; (in 1927) same as gnosticintuition...intuitionalintuitional — having the nature of intuition, as it acts on the level ofintuitional ideality or another level of ideality or intuitive mind, oftenin combination with inspiration or revelation...intuitional gnosisintuitional gnosis — same as intuitional ideality...intuitional idealityintuitional ideality — the lowest level of logistic ideality, where in-tuition (along with discrimination or viveka, the other componentof smr.ti) determines the predominant character of the working ofthe luminous reason, the other faculties of jnana being inactive orsubordinate to it...intuitional ideal mindintuitional ideal mind — same as intuitional ideality...intuitional inspiredintuitional inspired — having the nature of intuitive inspiration...intuitional inspired intellectualityintuitional inspired intellectuality — the lowest form of inspirationalmentality, in which intuition is taken up into inspiration...intuitional inspired logistisintuitional inspired logistis — the lowest form of inspired logistis, inwhich intuition is taken up into inspiration...intuitional intellectualityintuitional intellectuality — the lowest level of idealised mentality, the“primary intuitive action” of the intuitive mind, which “dealing withthe triple time movement . . . sees principally the stream of successiveactualities in time, even as the ordinary mind, but with an immediatedirectness of truth and spontaneous accuracy of which the ordinarymind is not capable”...intuitional mindintuitional mind — same as intuitive mind...intuitional reasonintuitional reason — same as intuitional intellectuality...intuitional revelation; intuitional revelatory idealityintuitional revelation; intuitional revelatory ideality — same as intu-itive revelatory logistis.


..intuitional trikaladrstiintuitional trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i by means of intu-ition; the lowest level of ideal trikaladr.s.t.i...intuitional vijnanaintuitional vijnana — same as intuitional ideality...intuitiveintuitive — same as intuitional...intuitive consciousnessintuitive consciousness — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) theplane of highest mind below overmind; evidently equivalent to “Intu-ition” in the sense in which Sri Aurobindo used this word in his laterwritings, where it is “a power of consciousness nearer and more inti-mate [than Higher Mind or Illumined Mind] to the original knowledgeby identity”, differing from Overmind in that it “sees in flashes” andcombines them, while Overmind “sees calmly, steadily, in great massesand large extensions of space and time and relation, globally”...intuitive gnosisintuitive gnosis — same as intuitional ideality...intuitive higher mindintuitive higher mind — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) thesecond (“intuitive”) level of higher mind, perhaps corresponding tologistic ideality in the terminology of 1919-20...intuitive idealised mindintuitive idealised mind — (mentioned only in the form of inspirationalintuitive idealised mind) same as intuitional intellectuality...intuitive idealityintuitive ideality — same as intuitional ideality...intuitive inspirationintuitive inspiration — intuition taken up into inspiration (on the planeof idealised mentality or logistic ideality); the same as intuitionalinspired intellectuality or intuitional inspired logistis...intuitive-inspirationalintuitive-inspirational — having the nature of intuitive inspiration...intuitive inspired revelatoryintuitive inspired revelatory — having the nature of intuition taken upinto inspired revelatory logistis or the corresponding form of revelatorymentality...intuitive intellect;intuitive intellect; intuitive intellectuality; intuitive intelligence — sameas intuitive mind or intuitional intellectuality...intuitive manasaintuitive manasa — same as intuitive mind...intuitive mentalintuitive mental — having the nature of intuitive mind...intuitive mentalityintuitive mentality — same as intuitive mind or intuitional intellectual-ity...intuitive mental powerintuitive mental power — sakti or tapas acting in the forms proper tothe intuitive mind...intuitive mental trik.intuitive mental trik. — abbreviation of next...intuitive mental trikaladrstiintuitive mental trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i in the intu-itive mind.


..intuitive mindintuitive mind — same as vijnanabuddhi, a higher form of the buddhiwhose “inspirations, revelations, intuitions, self-luminous discerningsare messages from a higher knowledge-plane”, but which “can per-ceive the truth only by a brilliant reflection or limited communicationand subject to the restrictions and the inferior capacity of the mentalvision”...intuitive overmindintuitive overmind — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) intu-itive consciousness taken up into overmind, where its “movement ismore comprehensive, global, many-faceted, more wide and potent inits truth-force”...intuitive reasonintuitive reason — same as intuitive mind...intuitive representative vijnanaintuitive representative vijnana — same as lower representative...intuitive rev.intuitive rev. — short for intuitive revelatory...intuitive revelationintuitive revelation — intuition taken up into revelation; same as intu-itive revelatory logistis...intuitive revelatoryintuitive revelatory — having the nature of intuitive revelatory logistisor the corresponding form of revelatory mentality; when distinguishedfrom representative, which is described as the highest intuitive revela-tory logistis, “intuitive revelatory” apparently refers to a lower formof intuitive revelatory logistis...intuitive revelatory logistisintuitive revelatory logistis — the lowest scale of revelatory logistis, inwhich intuition is taken up into revelation...intuitive revelatory reason; intuitive revelatory vijnanaintuitive revelatory reason; intuitive revelatory vijnana — same as in-tuitive revelatory logistis...intuitive tapasintuitive tapas — tapas acting in the intuitional ideality...intuitive telepathic trikaladrstiintuitive telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — telepathic trikaladr.s.t.iin the intuitional ideality, a form of intuitional trikaladr.s.t.i...intuitive vijnanaintuitive vijnana — same as intuitional ideality...intuitivityintuitivity — (in 1919-20) a term for intuitive mind (also called in-tuivity), used especially with reference to three levels (“mechanical”,“pragmatic” and “truth-reflecting”) regarded as higher counterpartsof levels of the intellectual reason; (in April 1927) apparently the sameas gnostic intuition, the first degree of supramental gnosis...intuivityintuivity — (in 1919-20) same as intuitivity...isis. (ish) — force of impulsion...isaısa (isha) — Lord (same as ısvara)...isahis.ah. (ishah; isha) — impulsions.


..ishish — see is..

..ishaisha — see ısa, is.ah. .

..ishitaishita — see ısita.

..ishitasiddhiishitasiddhi — see ısitasiddhi.

..ishtaishta — see is.t.a.

..ishwaraishwara, etc. — see ısvara, etc.

..ishwariishwari — see ısvarı.

..ishwaribhavaishwaribhava — see ısvarıbhava.

..isitaısita (ishita) — effectiveness of pure lipsa in the citta without a delib-erate act of will, one of the three siddhis of power; an instance of thiseffectiveness...isitasiddhiısitasiddhi (ishitasiddhi; ishita-siddhi) — the supernormal power (sid-dhi) called ısita; perfection or fulfilment of this power; an instance ofits use...isita-vasitaısita-vasita (ishita-vashita) — the combination of ısita and vasita, twoof the three siddhis of power...isita-vyapti-aisvaryaısita-vyapti-aisvarya (ishita-vyapti-aishwarya) — the combination ofısita, (communicative) vyapti and aisvarya...istais.t.a (ishta) — chosen, desired...isthi hina mathes theristhi hina mathes ther [Greek] — know in order to understand thebeast (the physical consciousness)...isthi philos esthaisthi philos estha [Greek] — know you were a friend...isvaraısvara (ishwara; iswara) — lord; the supreme Being (purus.ottama)as the Lord, “the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler” who by hisconscious Power (sakti) “manifests himself in Time and governs theuniverse”, ruling his self-creation with “an all-consciousness in whichhe is aware of the truth of all things and aware of his own all-wisdomworking them out according to the truth that is in them”; identifiedwith Kr.s.n. a; the individual soul (purus.a or jıva) as the master of itsown nature...isvarabhavaısvarabhava (ishwarabhava; iswarabhava) — lordship, “the tempera-ment of the ruler and leader”; mastery, sovereignty; a term in thesecond general formula of the sakti catus.t.aya; “a sense of the DivinePower”, a quality common to the four aspects of daivı prakr.ti; thepersonal aspect of brahman seen as the ısvara...isvara brahmaısvara brahma (ishwara brahma) — brahman as the Lord (ısvara); theomnipresent Reality “revealed as possessor, enjoyer of his own self-


existence, creator of the universe and one with it . . . and yet superiorto it”...isvaradarsanaısvaradarsana (ishwaradarshana; ishwara-darshana; ishwara dar-shana; ishwaradarshan) — the vision of the Lord (ısvara) who “knows,lives in, identifies himself with all and yet is not subjugated by thereactions or limited in his knowledge, power and Ananda by thelimitations of the mind and life and physical being in the universe”, aform of darsana related to brahmadarsana or regarded as part of it...isvaradarsana sarvabhutesuısvaradarsana sarvabhutes.u (ishwaradarshana sarvabhuteshu) — vi-sion of the Lord in all existences...isvarapremaısvaraprema (ishwaraprema) — love of the ısvara in all...isvara-saktiısvara-sakti (ishwara-shakti) — “the dynamic Duality” of ısvara andsakti, which in “the superconscient truth of the Self-Existence . . . arefused and implied in each other, one and indistinguishable, but in thespiritual-pragmatic truth of the dynamism of the universe, they emergeand become active . . . as a dual principle”...isvara T2ısvara T2 — T2 expressing the omniscience and omnipotence of theısvara...isvariısvarı (ishwari; iswari) — the all-ruling Goddess (devı), “the World-Mother, creatrix of the universe, putting forth the Gods and the worldsand all things and existences out of her spirit-substance”...isvaribhavaısvarıbhava (ishwaribhava; iswaribhava; ishwari bhava) — the tem-perament of the ruling Goddess; “the supreme sense of the masteriesof the eternal Ishwari”, sometimes mentioned instead of ısvarabhavaas a general quality of daivı prakr.ti...iswaraiswara — see ısvara...iswarabhavaiswarabhava — see ısvarabhava...iswariiswari — see ısvarı...iswaribhavaiswaribhava — see ısvarıbhava...itihasaitihasa — history; narrative.

J

..jadajad. a — inert.

..jada Bharatajad. a Bharata — name of a sage, example of the state of liberation inwhich the outward nature is inert and inactive...jada niranandajad. a nirananda — inert joylessness.


..jada prakrtijad. a prakr.ti (jada prakriti) — inert nature.

..jadatvajad. atva (jadatwa) — inertness, “the inert irresponsibility of the freephysical mind”...jadisjadis [French] — formerly, of old...jagatjagat — literally “that which moves”; the universe as “the perpetualmovement”; a world (loka); any object, regarded as “a knot of habitualmotion”...jagatijagatı — literally “she that moves”; the earth; the universe; Nature(prakr.ti) as “the ever moving”...jaghanya viratijaghanya virati — avoidance of what is low and vulgar...jagradjagrad — same as jagrat...jagrad antardarsijagrad antardarsı (jagrad antardarshi) — same as antardarsı jagrat...jagrad antardrstajagrad antardr.s.t.a (jagrad antardrishta) — same as antardr.s.t.a jagrat...jagrad drstijagrad dr.s.t.i (jagrad drishti) — waking vision; rupadr.s.t.i in jagratsamadhi...jagrad rupajagrad rupa — same as jagrat rupa...jagrad rupa antardrstajagrad rupa antardr.s.t.a (jagrad rupa antardrishta) — rupa in antar-dr.s.t.a jagrat...jagratjagrat — awake, waking; the waking consciousness, in which one isaware of the outer world through the physical senses; the state of jagratsamadhi (sometimes restricted to bahirdarsı jagrat); (the condition ofbeing) inwardly wakeful and self-possessed in states of samadhi inwhich the consciousness is withdrawn from the surface...jagrat antardarsijagrat antardarsı (jagrat antardarshi) — same as antardarsı jagrat...jagrat antardrstajagrat antardr.s.t.a (jagrat antardrishta) — same as antardr.s.t.a jagrat...jagrat antardrstijagrat antardr.s.t.i (jagrat antardrishti) — internal vision in the wakingstate of samadhi; same as antardarsı jagrat...jagrat bahirdarsijagrat bahirdarsı (jagrat bahirdarshi) — same as bahirdarsı jagrat...jagrat caitanyajagrat caitanya (jagrat chaitanya) — wakeful consciousness...jagrat cittakasajagrat cittakasa (jagrat chittakasha) — the waking cittakasa; a mentalether in which images are seen in jagrat samadhi...jagrat rupajagrat rupa (jagrat rupa; jagrat-rupa) — subtle images seen in the wak-ing consciousness; vision of such images...jagrat sabdadrstijagrat sabdadr.s.t.i (jagrat shabdadrishti) — perception of subtle soundsin the waking consciousness...jagrat samadhijagrat samadhi — samadhi in the waking state, “when in the wakingconsciousness, we are able to concentrate and become aware of things


beyond our [normal] consciousness”. This has two forms, antardarsı(inward-looking) and bahirdarsı (outward-looking), in which imagesare seen “with the bodily eyes closed or open, projected on or into aphysical object or medium or seen as if materialised in the physicalatmosphere or only in a psychical ether revealing itself through thisgrosser physical atmosphere; seen through the physical eyes themselvesas a secondary instrument and as if under the conditions of the phys-ical vision or by the psychical vision alone and independently of therelations of our ordinary sight to space”...jagrat suksmavisayajagrat suks.mavis.aya (jagrat sukshmavishaya) — same as jagrat vis.a-ya...jagrat-susuptajagrat-sus.upta (jagrat-sushupta) — sus.upta samadhi with inner wake-fulness...jagrat-svapnajagrat-svapna (jagrat-swapna) — svapnasamadhi with inner wakeful-ness; light svapnasamadhi bordering on antardarsı jagrat...jagrattajagratta — wakefulness in the deeper states of samadhi; consciousself-possession and overcoming of the tendency to nidra (sleep) andincoherent dreaming...jagratjagrat vis.aya (jagrat vishaya) — subtle sense-objects (usually otherthan images) perceived in the waking state; the perception of suchobjects (subtle sounds, touches, odours, tastes) in jagrat samadhi...jalajala (jala; jalam) — water; the liquid condition of material being, oneof the pancabhuta or “five elemental states of Substance”; urine;urination (short for jalavisr.s.t.i)...jala bhutajala bhuta — the liquid state of substance...jalabindujalabindu — drop of water...jalamjalam — see jala...jalamayajalamaya (jalamaya; jalamay) — watery; liquid; consisting of or relat-ing to jala...jalarodhajalarodha — retention of fluids (in the form of urine)...jalavisrstijalavisr.s.t.i (jalavisrishti; jala-visrishti; jala visrishti) — discharge (vi-sr.s.t.i) of waste matter in liquid form; same as mutra...jalyajalya — relating to jala; watery...janajana — same as janaloka...janalokajanaloka — the world (loka) of the “creative delight of existence”,the plane of ananda, also called anandaloka, where the “soul maydwell . . . in the principle of infinite self-existent delight and be aware


of the divine Ananda creating out of its self-existence by its energywhatever harmony of being”...janamaya drstijanamaya dr.s.t.i (janamaya drishti) — vision on the plane of jana orananda...janmantara drstijanmantara dr.s.t.i (janmantara drishti) — knowledge of other (past andfuture) lives, a form of trikaladr.s.t.i...jarajara — old age...jarat sabarajarat sabara (jarat shabara) — old savage...jatavedasjatavedas — knower of all things born (a Vedic epithet of Agni2)...jayajayaujayajayau — victory and defeat...jayalabhajayalabha — attainment of victory...jivajıva — “the living entity”; the soul, the individual purus.a, “a spiritand self, superior to Nature” which “consents to her acts, reflects hermoods”, but “is itself a living reflection or a soul-form or a self-creationof the Spirit universal and transcendent”, an expression of the “prin-ciple of multiplicity in the spiritual being of the one divine Existence”;the jıva as a partial manifestation of the ısvara, participating in all hispowers as “witness, giver of the sanction, upholder, knower, lord”, isalso “the meeting-place of the play of the dual aspect of the Divine,Prakriti and Purusha, and in the higher spiritual consciousness he be-comes simultaneously one with both these aspects, and there he takesup and combines all the divine relations created by their interaction”...jivanta(h)jıvanta(h. ) — living; lifelike...jiva-prakrtijıva-prakr.ti (jiva-prakriti; jivaprakriti) — the jıva aware of its unitywith prakr.ti, a unity realised in secondary / double dasya (also calledprakritic dasya) when the “individual on the side of action has disap-peared into oneness with universal Prakriti”...jiva-saktijıva-sakti (jiva-shakti) — the soul (jıva) that has merged its active in-dividuality in the working of the universal sakti, but is aware of itspersonal existence as the individual purus.a “enabling by his partici-pation the divine Shakti to do in him the works and the will of theIshwara” and “enjoying all the relations with him [the ısvara] whichare created by her workings”...jivatmajıvatma — same as jıvatman...jivatmanjıvatman — individual soul (jıva), “the self of the living creature”;the Self (atman) seeming “to limit its power and knowledge so asto support an individual play of transcendent and universal Nature”;


same as ks.ara purus.a...jnanajnana (jnana; jnanam; gnana) — knowledge; “that power of direct anddivine knowledge which works independently of the intellect & sensesor uses them only as subordinate assistants”, the first member of thevijnana catus.t.aya, consisting primarily of the application of any or allof the supra-intellectual faculties of smr.ti, sruti and dr.s.t.i “to the thingsof thought, ideas and knowledge generally”; sometimes extended toinclude other instruments of vijnana such as trikaladr.s.t.i and telepathy;also, short for jnanam brahma; wisdom, an attribute of Mahavıra; (onpage 1281) the name of a svarga...jnana atmanjnana atman — knowledge-self; jnanam brahma seen or experiencedas the atman...jnana brahma; jnana brahmanjnana brahma; jnana brahman — same as jnanam brahma...jnana devajnana deva — a god of knowledge...jnanadharanasamarthyamjnanadharan. asamarthyam — the capacity to contain all knowledge;same as jnanasamarthyam...jnanadipenajnanadıpena bhasvata (jnanadipena bhaswata) — with the blazinglamp of knowledge. [Gıta 10.11]..jnana-hasyamjnana-hasyam — laughter of knowledge, expressing “felicity of illu-mination”, an element of Mahesvarı bhava and a form of devıhasya...jnanalipsajnanalipsa — the urge towards knowledge, an attribute of the brahma-n. a...jnanalipsajnanalipsa jnanaprakaso brahmavarcasyam sthairyam iti brahma-tejah. (jnanalipsa jnanaprakasho brahmavarchasyam sthairyam itibrahmatejah) — the urge towards knowledge, light of knowledge,spiritual force, steadiness: these express the energy of the brahman. atemperament...jnanalokajnanaloka — the world of knowledge...jnanamjnanam — same as jnana or jnanam brahma...jnanam anandam (brahma)jnanam anandam (brahma) — brahman as Knowledge and Bliss, thelast two elements of the brahma catus.t.aya...jnanamayajnanamaya — full of knowledge...jnanamaya sagunajnanamaya sagun. a — jnanam brahma with qualities...jnanam brahmajnanam brahma (jnanam brahma; gnanam brahma) — the realisationof “Brahman as self-existent consciousness and universal knowledge”,bringing a perception of “all knowledge and conscious experience asthe outflowing of that consciousness”, the third member of the brahma


catus.t.aya; the divine Reality (brahman) realised as “a consciousnessin everything which is aware of all”...jnanam,jnanam, trikaladr.s.t.ir, as.tasiddhih. , samadhir, iti vijnanacatus.t.ayam(jnanam, trikaldrishtir, ashtasiddhih, samadhir, iti vijnanachatustha-yam) — jnana, trikaladr.s.t.i, as.tasiddhi and samadhi: these constitutethe vijnana catus.t.aya...jnanaprakasajnanaprakasa (jnanaprakasha) — light of knowledge, “clearness ofmind and its tendency to be easily illuminated by ideas and to receivethe truth”, an attribute of the brahman. a...jnanaprakaso,jnanaprakaso, jnanalipsa, brahmavarcasyam, sthairyam (jnanapra-kasho, jnanalipsa, brahmavarchasyam, sthairyam) — light of knowl-edge, the urge towards knowledge, spiritual force, steadiness (theattributes of the brahman. a)...jnanasamarthyamjnanasamarthyam (jnanasamarthyam; jnana samarthyam) — capacityfor knowledge, “the power of the mind to receive and adapt itself to anykind of knowledge without feeling anywhere a limit or an incapacity”,an element of buddhisakti...jnanijnanı — man of knowledge...jnanoparatijnanoparati — cessation of knowledge...jnatajnata — knower...jnata-purusajnata-purus.a (jnata-purusha) — the soul or conscious being as theknower...jnatr brahmajnatr. brahma (jnatri brahma) — brahman as the knower...jonakijonaki [Bengali] — firefly...journalierjournalier [French] — “daily” (evidently a word seen by Sri Aurobindoin lipi)...jugupsajugupsa — “self-protecting recoil”, repulsion, “the shrinking of thelimited being from that which is not himself and not sympathetic or inharmony with himself, its impulse of self-defence”...jugupsitajugupsita — repellent...jyoti(h)jyoti(h. ) — light; light of spiritual consciousness or ideal knowledge;one of the seven kinds of akashic material; rupa or lipi composed ofthis material...jyotikajyotika (jyotik) — same as jyotirmaya...jyotirjyotir — same as jyoti(h. )...jyotir daksajyotir daks.a (jyotir daksha) — light and discernment. [Cf. R. g Veda9.61.18]


..jyotirmayajyotirmaya (jyotirmaya; jyotirmay) — luminous; full of light of vi-jnana; (rupa or lipi) composed of jyoti(h. )...jyotirmaya lipijyotirmaya lipi (jyotirmaya lipi) — lipi composed of jyoti(h. )...jyotirmaya prakasajyotirmaya prakasa (jyotirmaya prakasha) — illumined clarity.

K

..K.A.K.A. — abbreviation of “Kama Ananda” (see kamananda).

..kaccakacca (kachcha) [Hindi] — unripe, immature.

..kadakada — when.

..KadambariKadambarı — name of a Sanskrit prose romance by Ban. a (7th centuryA.D.)...KailasaKailasa (Kailas) — the mountain on whose summit Siva is said todwell, according to a popular tradition which translated inner truths“into terms familiar to our physical and objective experience, . . .turned the rarer heights of subtle substance into material heights andplaced the abodes of the gods on the summits of physical mountains”...kaivalyanandakaivalyananda — the bliss of absolute existence (kaivalya, the condi-tion of that which is kevala, sole or absolute), a term used for theunion of sadananda, cidananda and suddhananda, the three high-est forms of ananda, which are based on the “Joy of the spirit inthe Ekam” (One) in its threefold aspect as saccidananda or infiniteExistence-Consciousness-Bliss; also applied to sadananda by itself...kalakala — art...kalakala — time...kalasikalasi [Bengali] — pitcher...kalikali — (“the Kali”) same as kaliyuga...KaliKalı — (literally “the black”) the “dark Mother”, a name given in theHindu tradition to the “supreme Energy . . . beneficent even in themask of destruction”, represented “with her garland of skulls tram-pling naked in battle”, symbolic of “the Nature Force [prakr.ti] inthe ignorance surrounded by difficulties, wresting and breaking every-thing in a blind struggle to get through till she finds herself standingwith her foot on the Divine itself — then she comes to herself andthe struggle and destruction are over”; the Goddess (devı) into whoseundivided consciousness-force (cit-sakti) “our divided & unequal in-dividual force of action & thought” is to be renounced in order “to


replace our egoistic activities by the play in our body of the universalKali and thus exchange blindness & ignorance for knowledge andineffective human strength for the divine effective Force”; the sakticarrying out the lıla according to the pleasure of the ısvara, the secondmember of the karma catus.t.aya; sometimes the same as Mahakalı...KalibhavaKalıbhava (Kalibhava; Kali-bhava; Kali bhava) — the forceful tem-perament of Kalı, sometimes equivalent to Can. d. ıbhava or Mahakalıbhava; oneness with Kalı as the universal prakr.ti or sakti, a state de-pendent on liberation from the ego (ahankara-mukti-siddhi) in which“the form of the egoistic consciousness with a name attached to it isrepelled whenever it throws its shadow on the central consciousness”,leading to “entire possession of the world in subjective unity” by thejıva-prakr.ti...KalidarsanaKalıdarsana (Kalidarshana) — vision of Kalı “manifest in all beings& things”, the darsana of the sakti acting in the world, “the timelesspower of the Divine which manifests itself in time as a universal forcecreating, constituting, maintaining and directing all the movementsand workings of the universe”...Kali-devaKali-deva — the god of the kaliyuga; probably Aniruddha, who man-ifests the divine qualities of the sudra...KalikrsnaKalıkr.s.n. a (Kalikrishna; Kali krishna) — (also called Kr.s.n. akalı) theunion of Kalı and Kr.s.n. a, whether seen in the perception (darsana) ofthe external world or experienced in oneself in a spiritual realisationwhich is the basis of karma and kama1, where Kalı as prakr.ti “take[s]up the whole nature into the law of her higher divine truth and act[s]in that law offering up the universal enjoyment of her action and beingto the Anandamaya Ishwara” (Kr.s.n. a), while the individual soul (jıva)is “the channel of this action and offering”...Kali-KrsnaKalı-Kr.s.n. a bhava (Kali-Krishna bhava) — (also called Kr.s.n. akalıbhava) the realisation of Kalıkr.s.n. a, a state of being in which Kalı,the universal prakr.ti or sakti, is felt “occupying the whole of myselfand my nature which becomes Kali and ceases to be anything else,the Master [ısvara, Kr.s.n. a] using, directing, enjoying the Power to hisends, not mine, with that which I call myself only as a centre of hisuniversal existence and responding to its workings as a soul to theSoul, taking upon itself his image until there is nothing left but Krishnaand Kali”.


..Kalikrsna darsanaKalıkr.s.n. a darsana — the vision of Kalıkr.s.n. a in all, same as Kr.s.n. akalıdarsana...KalimandiraKalımandira (Kalimandir) — a temple to the goddess Kalı...kali pasukali pasu (kali pashu) — pasu in a kaliyuga...Kali-prakrtiKalı-prakr.ti (Kali-prakriti) — Nature as Kalı...kaliyugakaliyuga (kaliyuga; kali yuga) — the last age in a caturyuga, whosemaster-spirit is the sudra; a period of the world in which the harmonycreated in the satyayuga and maintained with increasing difficulty inthe treta and dvapara “finally collapses and is destroyed”, while at thesame time “the necessary conditions are progressively built up for anew Satya, another harmony, a more advanced perfection”...KalkiKalki — the final avatara of Vis.n. u according to the Hindu tradition,expected to come mounted symbolically on a white horse “bringingthe Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asuraforces”...kalpakalpa — a vast period of time, consisting of ten pratikalpas of ahundred caturyugas each; (loosely) a pratikalpa...kalpanamayi prakrtikalpanamayı prakr.ti (kalpanamayi prakriti) — Nature creating sub-jectively by the power of imagination...kalyanakalyan. a (kalyana; kalyanam) — fortunate; beneficent; beneficence;goodness, good...kalyanabuddhikalyan. abuddhi — beneficent Intelligence...kalyanalipsakalyan. alipsa — the urge to bring about the good of all; an element ofMahalaks.mı bhava...kalyanamkalyan. am — see kalyan. a...kalyanasraddhakalyan. asraddha (kalyanasraddha; kalyana sraddha) — faith that all isfor the best, “the sense of a divine power making for good behind allexperiences”, an element of cittasakti...kalyanecchakalyan. eccha (kalyanechcha) — beneficent Will...kama1kama1 (kama; kamah) — desire; same as suddha kama, “a divine de-sire other than the vital craving, a God-desire of which this other andlower phenomenon is an obscure shadow and into which it has to betransfigured”; the seeking for “the joy of God manifest in matter”,an attribute of the sudra and of Aniruddha; short for kamananda;same as samaja, the social part of karma; the divine enjoyment thataccompanies a divine action in the world, a member of the karmacatus.t.aya; (on page 1281) the lowest svarga.


..Kama2Kama2 — the god of Desire (kama1), identified with Aniruddha.

..kama anandakama ananda — same as kamananda.

..kamabhogakamabhoga — kamananda in the state of bhoga.

..kamacakrakamacakra (kamachakra) — the “sensational desire centre”, the ab-dominal cakra, also called svadhis.t.hana, on whose strength kama-nanda and arogya depend...kamahkamah. — see kama1...kamah,kamah. , premah. , dasyalipsa atmasamarpan. am iti sudrasaktih. (ka-mah, premah, dasyalipsa atmasamarpanam iti shudrashaktih) —desire, love, the urge towards service, self-giving: these express thesudra soul-power...kamanakamana — longing...kamanandakamananda — a form of sarırananda or physical ananda associ-ated with (suddha) kama or purified desire, also referred to asmaithunananda (though that term is usually reserved for a highintensity of kamananda); a general term for ananda as experiencedon the physical plane: “the joy of Matter released into a spiritualconsciousness and thrilled with a constant ecstasy”, realised as part of“the total perfection of the spiritualised body”. Kamananda manifestsboth in the suks.ma deha (subtle body) and the sthula deha (grossbody), and there is a subjective kamananda besides the physicalkamananda that is more often meant by the word. The perfection ofkamananda, as the “most central” form of physical ananda, dependson a “transformation of the sex-centre and its energy” so that thisenergy which “is the support in the body of all the mental, vital andphysical forces of the nature” is “changed into a mass and a movementof intimate Light, creative Power, pure divine Ananda”...kamapremakamaprema — (subjective) kamananda combined with premananda...kamasiddhikamasiddhi — fulfilment of kama1...kamic cakra; kamic centrekamic cakra; kamic centre — same as kamacakra...kampanakampana — trembling, sometimes experienced when there is “a greatincrease, inpouring, circulation of force” which the body, “accustomedto work off superfluous energy by movement, is at first ill able tobear . . . and betrays it by violent tremblings”...K. AnandaK. Ananda — abbreviation of “Kama Ananda” (see kamananda)...kantamkantam — the beloved...karalikaralı — terrible.


..karanakaran. a (karan) — instrument.

..karanakaran. a (karana; karanam) — cause; causal; “the Causal Idea which,by supporting and secretly guiding the confused activities of Mind, Lifeand Body ensures and compels the right arrangement of the Universe”,same as vijnana or vijnanamaya; (especially in Bengali) consecratedwine, used in Tantric rituals...karana-indriyakaran. a-indriya — the causal (vijnanamaya) sense-faculty; the “supra-mental sense” which “is independent of the body and the physical lifeand outer mind and it is above too the inner mind and its experiences”...karanamkaran. am — see karan. a...karmakarma — action, work; activity, motion; action in the world based onvijnana and expressing the union of Kr.s.n. a and Kalı, the third memberof the karma catus.t.aya, often conceived in terms of a fourfold mission(literary, political, social and spiritual) enjoined by a divine command(adesa) while Sri Aurobindo was in jail; the karma catus.t.aya itself;work, an attribute of Aniruddha; the sum of one’s actions, each actionbeing viewed as a link in a chain of cause and effect extending overmany lives...karma catustayakarma catus.t.aya (karmachatusthaya; karma chatusthaya) — the fifthcatus.t.aya, the quaternary of action, consisting of Kr.s.n. a, Kalı, karmaand kama1; also called the lılacatus.t.aya...karmadehakarmadeha (karmadeha; karma deha) — karma-body; a kind of sub-tle vital-physical atmosphere surrounding the body and containingsamskaras due to one’s past karma...karmadevakarmadeva (karmadeva; karma deva) — a god of action; one who hasachieved divinity by works...karmadevatakarmadevata — same as karmadeva...karmahina udasinatakarmahına udasınata (karmahin udasinata) — inactive indifference...karmakamakarmakama (karmakama; karma-kama; karma kama) — the combi-nation of karma and kama1, divine action and divine enjoyment, whichtogether form the “effective half” of the karma catus.t.aya...karmalipsakarmalipsa — the urge to work, an element of Mahasarasvatı bhava...karmani akarmakarman. i akarma — inaction in action. [Gıta 4.18]..karmapatavamkarmapat.avam — skill in work, an element of Mahasarasvatı bhava...karmasamarthyakarmasamarthya — capacity for action, a quality common to the fouraspects of daivı prakr.ti, also called sarvakarmasamarthya: “a rapidand divine capacity for all kinds of action that may be demanded from


the instrument”...karmasannyasakarmasannyasa — renunciation of (egoistic) action; giving up of iden-tification of the jıva with the activity of the adhara...karmasiddhikarmasiddhi (karmasiddhi; karma-siddhi; karma siddhi) — success ofaction in the world; perfection of karma in all its parts as laid downby the adesa; fulfilment of the karma catus.t.aya, especially its effectivehalf...karma-siddhi asiddhikarma-siddhi asiddhi — success and failure in karma...karma-sraddhakarma-sraddha — faith in the success of the work; sraddha in theachievement of karmasiddhi...karmikarmı — man of works...karnakarn. a — ear...karsanakars.an. a (karshana) — tearing, forcing, hurting; one of the five formsof pain to be turned into raudrananda...kartakarta — doer...kartavyakartavya — to be done; the thing that has to be done...kartavya-akartavyakartavya-akartavya — (the sense of) what is to be done and what isnot to be done...kartavya karmakartavya karma — same as kartavyam karma...kartavyam akartavyamkartavyam akartavyam — what is to be done and what is not to bedone...kartavyam karmakartavyam karma — the work that is to be done...kartr brahmakartr. brahma (kartri brahma) — brahman as the doer...kartrtva abhimanakartr.tva abhimana (kartritwa abhimana) — the egoism of the worker;the idea of oneself as the doer...Karttika purnimaKarttika purn. ima (Karttik Purnima) — the full-moon night of theHindu month of Karttika (November-December)...karunakarun. a — pity...karyakarya — effect...kausalakausala (kaushala; kaushalam) — skill, “the dexterity and skill whichis able so to arrange the means, the equipment, the action as to producethe greatest results possible and the best arranged results”, an attributeof the vaisya...kausalyakausalya (kaushalya) — skilfulness (of lipi), especially in the use of thevarious kinds of akashic material...kaushala; kaushalamkaushala; kaushalam — see kausala...kaushalyakaushalya — see kausalya.


..kautuka-hasyamkautuka-hasyam — laughter of amusement, an attribute of Maha-sarasvatı and a form of devıhasya...kautuka-kridakautuka-krıd. a — amusing game...kavacakavaca (kavacha) — armour; mental armour around the body whichkeeps off attacks of all kinds...kavikavi — poet; (in the Veda) seer, one who is “possessed of the Truth-consciousness and using its faculties of vision, inspiration, intuition,discrimination”...kavyakavya — poetry; the poetic faculty, the power of self-expression in therhythmic language of poetry which is “the highest form of speechavailable to man for the expression whether of his self-vision or of hisworld-vision”; the writing of poetry, part of sahitya, including work inthe “epic, dramatic and the minor forms which again include narrative,lyric and reflective”...kayasiddhikayasiddhi — perfection of the body (same as sarırasiddhi)...kayasuddhikayasuddhi (kayashuddhi) — purification of the body...kendrakendra — centre; see caitanyakendra...ketuketu — perception; intuitive thought-perception...kevalairkevalair — (instrumental plural of kevala) mere; pure, simple; isolated,alone; absolute. [Gıta 5.11]..khandakhan. d. a — part, section...khanda-siddhikhan. d. a-siddhi — partial siddhi; partial effectuality of tapas...khatakhata [Bengali, etc.] — notebook...kinnarakinnara — a kind of centaurlike being of “unearthly sweetness of voiceand wild freedom”, belonging to a world of fantasy...klantiklanti — exhaustion, fatigue...kleinoskleinos [Greek] — famous...kosakosa (kosha) — sheath, case, covering; “a grade of our substance,a sheath as it was called in the ancient figurative language”, ofwhich there are principally five (annakosa, pran. akosa, manah.kosa,vijnanakosa and anandakosa) corresponding to “five degrees of ourbeing, the material, the vital, the mental, the ideal, the spiritual orbeatific”; two additional kosas (tapas-kosa and sat-kosa) are said tobe “not yet developed” in the human evolution, “but only unformednimbuses of concrete being”...kratukratu — will; volition...kratum sacetasamkratum sacetasam (kratum sachetasam) — conscious Will.


..krauryamkrauryam — cruelty.

..KrishnaKrishna, etc. — see Kr.s.n. a, etc.

..kritikriti — see kr.ti.

..kriyakriya — practice.

..kriyasaktikriyasakti (kriyashakti) — power of action.

..krnusva pajahkr.n. us.va pajah. — create a massive strength. [R. g Veda 4.4.1]

..krodhakrodha (krodh) — anger.

..KrsnaKr.s.n. a (Krishna) — the eighth avatara of Vis.n. u in the Hindu tradition,regarded by Sri Aurobindo as an embodiment of “the complete divinemanhood” and as the avatara who opened the possibility of overmindin the evolution of consciousness on earth; a name of the universalDeity (deva) and supreme Being (purus.ottama) who is the fourfoldısvara and also “the Destroyer, Preserver, Creator in one” (Rudra2,Vis.n. u, Brahma), manifesting “through the Vishnu aspect as his frontalappearance”; “the Ishwara taking delight in the world” (anandamayaısvara or lılamaya purus.a), realisation of oneness with whom is thefirst part of the karma catus.t.aya, seen in all things and beings in theseveral intensities and degrees of Kr.s.n. adarsana...KrsnabhavaKr.s.n. abhava (Krishnabhava) — oneness of the individual soul (jıva)with Kr.s.n. a as the ısvara or universal purus.a, a state which “comesby the increasing manifestation of the Divine, the Ishwara in all ourbeing and action”, reaching its perfection “when we are constantlyand uninterruptedly aware of him . . . as the possessor of our beingand above us as the ruler of all its workings and they become to usnothing but a manifestation of him in the existence of the Jiva”; astate of perception (bhava) of brahmadarsana in which Kr.s.n. a is seeneverywhere...KrsnabodhaKr.s.n. abodha (Krishnabodha) — awareness of Kr.s.n. a in the brah-madarsana...KrsnadarsanaKr.s.n. adarsana (Krishnadarshana; Krishna-darshana; Krishna dar-shana; Krishnadarshan) — the vision of Kr.s.n. a, the para purus.a orpurus.ottama, seen in relation to the world as the transcendent anduniversal anandamaya purus.a and ısvara who is “not only the originand spiritual container, but the spiritual inhabitant in all forces, inall things and in all beings, and not only the inhabitant but . . .himself all energies and forces, all things and all beings”, a formof darsana regarded as the highest bhava of brahmadarsana or as


a distinct darsana related to ısvaradarsana. The three intensitiesof Kr.s.n. adarsana in human beings (applicable with modifications toall things and beings) are described in the entry of 30 May 1915as (1) “Krishna seen behind the human mask” (distinguished fromthe preliminary stage, “Krishna sensed behind the disguise”), (2)“Krishna seen in the human being”, and (3) “The human being seenin Krishna” (with three degrees of the third intensity, the vision ofsarvamaya, anantagun.amaya and anandamaya Kr.s.n. a), leading tothe consummation: “The human being = Krishna”...KrsnadrstiKr.s.n. adr.s.t.i (Krishnadrishti) — same as Kr.s.n. adarsana...Krsnah,Kr.s.n. ah. , Kalı, kamah. , karma iti karmacatus.t.ayam (Krishnah, Kali,kamah, karma iti karmachatushtayam) — Kr.s.n. a, Kalı, kama1 andkarma: these constitute the karma catus.t.aya...KrsnakaliKr.s.n. akalı (Krishnakali; KrishnaKali; Krishna-Kali; Krishna Kali) —(also called Kalıkr.s.n. a) the union of Kr.s.n. a and Kalı, forming the “sub-jective base” of karma; Kalı as prakr.ti surrendering herself in a relationof (madhura) dasya to Kr.s.n. a, the purus.a; “a complete union of thetwo sides of the Duality” of ısvara-sakti which, when it rules one’sconsciousness, can draw it “altogether out of the confused clash ofIdeas and Forces here into a higher Truth and enable the descent ofthat Truth to illumine and deliver and act sovereignly upon this worldof Ignorance”; the same union of Kr.s.n. a and Kalı seen everywhere in thevision (darsana) of the external world, a perception which because ofits “vivid personality” is regarded as superior to that of purus.a-prakr.ti;short for Kr.s.n. akalı bhava or Kr.s.n. akalı darsana...Krsnakali bhavaKr.s.n. akalı bhava (Krishnakali bhava; Krishna-Kali -; Krishna Kali -)— (also called Kalı-Kr.s.n. a bhava) the realisation of Kr.s.n. akalı, a stateof simultaneous Kr.s.n. abhava and Kalıbhava, in which the individualsoul (jıva) experiences “at once its oneness with the Ishwara [Kr.s.n. a]and its oneness with the Prakriti [Kalı]” and can “enjoy all relationswith Infinite and finite, with God and the universe and beings in theuniverse in the highest terms of the union of the universal Purusha andPrakriti”; a state of perception (bhava) of brahmadarsana in whichKr.s.n. a and Kalı are seen everywhere...KrsnakaliKr.s.n. akalı darsana (Krishnakali darshana; Krishnakali-darshana;Krishna-Kali-darshana) — the vision of Kr.s.n. akalı in all, a state ofperception (bhava) in brahmadarsana where, after we become “able


to hold consistently and vividly the settled perception of the One inall things and beings”, we see “in the One . . . the Master [ısvara] andHis Power [sakti], — Krishna and Kali”...Krsna namaKr.s.n. a nama (Krishna nama) — the name (nama) of Kr.s.n. a, the symbolof his “power, quality, character of being caught up by the conscious-ness and made conceivable”...Krsna-NarayanaKr.s.n. a-Narayan. a (Krishna-Narayana; Krishna Narayana) — Kr.s.n. a,the supreme Being (para purus.a), seen revealing himself as Narayan. a,“the God in man who is also the Lord in the universe”; a bhava ofbrahmadarsana in which Kr.s.n. a is perceived as “the Purushottama,the supreme Divinity who becomes manifest within us as Narayana,Lord of all our being and action seated secret in our hearts forever”, regarded as superior to a vision of the universal Narayan.a notaccompanied by a sense of the transcendental personality of Kr.s.n. a...KrsnanrtyaKr.s.n. anr.tya (Krishnanritya) — the dance of Kr.s.n. a, “a whirl of mightyenergies, but the Master of the dance holds the hands of His energiesand keeps them to the rhythmic order”...Krsna-purusaKr.s.n. a-purus.a (Krishna-purusha) — Kr.s.n. a as the conscious being whois the lord of Nature...krsna-suryakr.s.n. a-surya (krishna-surya) — black sun...krtikr.ti (kriti) — action, work; same as karma, especially the political partof karma...ksaraks.ara (kshara) — mutable, changing; brahman manifest in the mutableworld, “the spiritual principle of the mobile working of things”; “thecosmic spirit in Time”, the active status of the purus.ottama “in his eter-nal multiplicity” as “the spirit in the mutability of cosmic phenomenonand becoming”...ksaraks.ara purus.a (kshara purusha) — the soul in Nature, the mutablepurus.a; “the spirit of mutable things”, manifesting “the multiplicityof the divine Being . . . not apart from, but in Prakriti”...ksatramks.atram (kshatram) — “Kshatriyahood”; the inner nature of theks.atriya...ksatrasaktiks.atrasakti (kshatrashakti) — the soul-power of will and strengthwhich reveals itself in the ks.atriya...ksatratejasks.atratejas (kshatratejas) — the energy that manifests itself in theks.atriya temperament...ksatriyaks.atriya (kshatriya) — the soul-type representing “the Divine as


power”, the second element in the fourfold personality symbolisedby the caturvarn. ya...ksatriya viryamks.atriya vıryam (kshatriya viryam) — the strength of character properto the ks.atriya element in the fourfold personality...ksaya1ks.aya1 (kshaya) — loss, diminution...ksaya2ks.aya2 (kshaya) — habitation...ksetraks.etra (kshetra) — field; same as sadhana-ks.etra...ksharakshara — see ks.ara...kshatramkshatram, etc. — see ks.atram, etc...kshatriyakshatriya — see ks.atriya...kshayakshaya — see ks.aya...kshetrakshetra — see ks.etra...kshiprakaritakshiprakarita — see ks.iprakarita...kshipratakshiprata — see ks.iprata...kshobhakshobha — see ks.obha...kshutpipasakshutpipasa — see ks.utpipasa...ksiprakaritaks.iprakarita (kshiprakarita) — swiftness of action...ksiprataks.iprata (kshiprata) — swiftness; a term in the second general formulaof the sakti catus.t.aya...ksobhaks.obha (kshobha) — disturbance...ksutpipasaks.utpipasa (kshutpipasa) — hunger and thirst, a duality (dvandva) ofthe physical pran. a...kumarakumara (kumara) — a youth, young man; prince; (on page 399, refer-ring to a sortilege consisting of the title Dasakumaracaritam, “The Ad-ventures of the Ten Princes”, a Sanskrit work by Dan.d. in) interpretedto mean purus.a in the sense of an evolutionary type...kumbhakakumbhaka — cessation of the breathing in the practice of pran. ayama...kundalinikun. d. alinı — “the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy” in the lowestcakra which, when awakened by certain processes of yoga, “ascendsin light through the opening centres to meet the Divine in the highestcentre and so connect the manifest and the unmanifested, joining spiritand Matter”...kunthakun. t.ha — dull...KutsaKutsa — a Vedic r.s.i, companion of Indra; his name is interpreted inthe translation of a sortilege from R. g Veda 5.31.9 to mean “Sense-Pleasure”, explained as the intensity of subjective ananda in relationto sensory experience.


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..la cuisine Francaisela cuisine Francaise [French] — French cooking.

..laghimalaghima — lightness; one of the siddhis of the body: a “power of light-ness, that is to say of freedom from all pressure or weighing down inthe mental, pranic or physical being” by which “it is possible to getrid of weariness and exhaustion and to overcome gravitation”...laghima-mahimalaghima-mahima — the combination of laghima and mahima...laghu mahimalaghu mahima — mahima containing laghima...laghutalaghuta — lightness, an element of dehasakti: “a lightness, swiftnessand adaptability of the nervous and physical being”...laghutvamlaghutvam (laghutwam) — same as laghuta...la guerre en Orientla guerre en Orient [French] — war in the East...LaksmiLaks.mı (Luxmi) — the goddess of beauty and prosperity...lalityamlalityam — charm; an element of Mahalaks.mı bhava...laukikalaukika (laukic) — worldly...layalaya — dissolution, disappearance; annullation of the individual soulin the Infinite...lekhalekha — writing...le nombre d’etres en moile nombre d’etres en moi [French] — the number of beings in me...Le Pourquoi des MondesLe Pourquoi des Mondes [French] — “The Wherefore of the Worlds”,title of a series contributed to the Arya by Paul Richard...le resultat decisifle resultat decisif [French] — the decisive result...les debatsles debats [French] — the proceedings...Les DieuxLes Dieux [French] — “The Gods”, title of a book by Paul Richard...les journalistesles journalistes [French] — the journalists...les meilleures dispositionsles meilleures dispositions [French] — the best disposition...liberated intelligenceliberated intelligence — see higher mind...lilalıla — play, game; the world as a game of the Lord or ısvara, “a play ofthe divine Being with the conditions of cosmic existence in this worldof an inferior Nature”; life (especially in the objective world or fieldof karma, as distinguished from yoga) “experienced as a play of thedivine Delight”...lilacatustayalılacatus.t.aya (lilachatusthaya) — the quaternary of the divine play;another name for the karma catus.t.aya...lilamayalılamaya — playful; enjoying the cosmic game; pertaining to the lıla;(sagun. a brahman) perceived as pouring out the delight of existence


(ananda) into the play of the world; (“the Lilamaya”) short forlılamaya ısvara or lılamaya purus.a, the Lord or Soul of bliss who“can play with the manifestation without being imbued with theIgnorance”... lılamaya ananda brahman — anandam brahma seen as expressingits universal delight through the lıla of the world...lilamaya darsanalılamaya darsana (lilamaya darshana) — the vision of the lılamayaısvara / purus.a in all, a form of darsana in which one is “aware ofthe whole world as the expression, play or Lila of an infinite divinepersonality”...lilamaya isvaralılamaya ısvara (lilamaya ishwara) — the Lord of the cosmic lıla, “themighty Lord of Nature, who . . . enjoys with his universal delight thisplay of her figures of his own being”; the ısvara as “our Playmate in thegreat world-game who has disguised himself throughout as friend andenemy, helper and opponent and, in all relations and in all workingsthat affect us, has led our steps towards our perfection and our release”...lilamaya isvaradarsanalılamaya ısvaradarsana (lilamaya ishwaradarshan; lilamaya ishwaradarshana) — vision of the lılamaya ısvara, by which the manifestationis seen as a “play of the Lord who is in His being all delight”...lilamaya Krsnalılamaya Kr.s.n. a (lilamaya Krishna) — Kr.s.n. a as the lılamaya ısvara /purus.a, “the eternal Child frolicing in the Universe, the Playmate,Lover, Master, Teacher and Friend of all His creations”, he “who drawsall of us to him by his love, compels all of us by his masteries and playshis eternal play of joy and strength and beauty in the manifold world”...lilamaya Narayanalılamaya Narayan. a — Narayan. a seen in relation to the cosmic gameor lıla as an aspect of the “divine Anandamaya personality” at play inthe world...lilamayalılamaya para purus.a (lilamaya para purusha) — the supreme lıla-maya purus.a, often referred to as lılamaya Kr.s.n. a...lilamaya purusalılamaya purus.a (lilamaya purusha) — the purus.a as the enjoyer andmaster of the lıla: “the Soul of things eternally young, perpetually in-exhaustible, creating and re-creating Himself in Himself for the sheerbliss of that self-creation, of that self-representation, — Himself theplay, Himself the player, Himself the playground”...lilamayalılamaya sagun. a — sagun. a brahman perceived in relation to theworld-play or lıla with a sense of “the lilamaya personality of theBrahman”.


..lilamaya upalabdhilılamaya upalabdhi — realisation of the lılamaya sagun. a or lılamayaısvara / purus.a in brahmadarsana...lingalinga — (literally) mark, sign, characteristic; subtle, carrying the essen-tial characteristics of the thing itself; a subtle form or emanation; themale organ; an iconic representation of Siva...linga-rupalinga-rupa — subtle form...linga sariralinga sarıra (linga sharira; linga sharir) — subtle body or emanation...lipilipi — writing seen with the subtle vision; the faculty of seeing suchwriting (same as lipi-dr.s.t.i)...lipi catustayalipi catus.t.aya (lipi chatusthaya) — lipi seen in the four states ofsamadhi: bahirdarsı jagrat, antardarsı jagrat, svapnasamadhi andsus.upti...lipi-drstilipi-dr.s.t.i (lipi-drishti) — the faculty of seeing writing (lipi) with thesubtle vision...lipikausalyalipikausalya (lipikaushalya; lipi-kaushalya; lipi kaushalya) — skilful-ness or formal perfection of lipi, consisting especially of the varied useof akashic material...lipi-trikaladrstilipi-trikaladr.s.t.i (lipi-trikaldrishti; lipi trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i, es-pecially prediction, by means of lipi...lipsalipsa — wish, seeking; the will to have something; the urge to engagein or achieve something; “divine desireless reaching out of Brahman inpersonality to Brahman in the vishaya or object”; the tendency towardsself-fulfilment of a particular kind, expressed in one attribute of eachof the four elements of vırya and of each of the four aspects of daivıprakr.ti...litteraireslitteraires [French] — literary...lobhalobha — greed...logisticlogistic — relating to the divine reason or logos; belonging to the firstplane of ideality, whose action most resembles the human faculty ofreasoning...logisticallogistical — same as logistic...logistic drstilogistic dr.s.t.i (drishti) — same as logistic revelation or revelatory logis-tis...logistic gnosislogistic gnosis — same as logistic ideality...logistic idealitylogistic ideality — the plane of luminous reason, the lowest of the threeplanes of ideality; its essence is smr.ti (intuition and discrimination, thelatter often regarded as inherent in the former) and it has three levels


with three or more forms of each, based on various combinationsof intuition with inspiration and revelation, the higher faculties ofjnana. On each successive level, “the lower first calls down into itselfand is then taken up into the higher, so that on each level all thethree elevations are reproduced, but always there predominates in thethought essence the character that belongs to that level’s proper formof consciousness”. The logistic ideality of 1919-20 may be correlatedwith the “intuitive” level of higher mind in the diagram on page 1360(c. 1931)...logistic revelationlogistic revelation — revelation on the plane of logistic ideality; sameas revelatory logistis or (in 1920) intuitive revelatory logistis...logistic seer idealitylogistic seer ideality — same as seer logistis...logistic tapaslogistic tapas — tapas acting on any level of logistic ideality...logistic vijnanalogistic vijnana — same as logistic ideality...logistislogistis — same as logistic ideality; in October 1920, restricted to intu-itive ideality as the lowest level of logos vijnana...logistis in the hermesislogistis in the hermesis — the lowest level of hermetic ideality...logoslogos [Greek] — the universal reason at work in the cosmos; the divinereason; short for logos vijnana...logos reasonlogos reason — a term used in October 1920 for the second level of lo-gos vijnana; it is defined as “the lower representative idea”, apparentlyreferring to the form of intuitive revelatory logistis previously calledrepresentative revelatory vijnana...logos vijnanalogos vijnana [Greek and Sanskrit] — a term used in October 1920 forthree levels encompassing much of what was formerly called logisticideality; applied more specifically to the highest of these levels, alsotermed highest representative ideality, which corresponds to full rev-elatory ideality and “has to deal with three movements”: actualities,potentialities and the “imperatives of the infinite”...lointainlointain [French] — distant...lokaloka — “a way in which conscious being images itself”, a world orplane of existence, including planes other than the material world,with which we may come into contact by “an opening of our mind andlife parts to a great range of subjective-objective experiences in whichthese planes present themselves no longer as extensions of subjectivebeing and consciousness, but as worlds; for the experiences there areorganised as they are in our own world, but on a different plan, with a


different process and law of action and in a substance which belongs toa supraphysical Nature”. The principal lokas, described as the “sevenworlds”, are in ascending order: bhu (the world of anna1, matter),bhuvar (the world of pran. a, life-force), svar (the world of manas,mind), maharloka (the world of vijnana, gnosis), janaloka (the worldof ananda, bliss), tapoloka (the world of [cit-]tapas, [consciousness-]force), and satyaloka (the world of sat, absolute existence); when thethree highest planes are combined into one world of saccidananda(existence-consciousness-bliss), the result is a scheme of five worlds,sometimes counted in descending order so that bhu becomes the fifth...lokadarsanamlokadarsanam (lokadarshanam) — same as lokadr.s.t.i...lokadrstilokadr.s.t.i (lokadrishti) — vision of the worlds, knowledge of the planesof existence (lokas). It includes ihalokadr.s.t.i, vision of this world, andparalokadr.s.t.i, vision of other worlds...lokoparatilokoparati — world-renunciation...lorsque l’espritlorsque l’esprit alors assemble les donnees et assouplit assez sa languepour les traduire synthetiquement [French] — when the mind gath-ers the data and makes its language supple enough to translate themsynthetically...lower representativelower representative — in October 1920, equivalent to what repre-sentative had meant earlier in that year, when it referred to a formof intuitive revelatory logistis; this came to be described as “lowerrepresentative” when representative vijnana came to mean highestrepresentative ideality...lower revelatorylower revelatory — (in 1920) a term used for a form or forms of logisticideality other than the highest kinds of revelatory logistis, but contain-ing an element of revelation, such as revelatory intuition, revelatoryinspired logistis or the lower forms of intuitive revelatory logistis...lower revelatory representativelower revelatory representative — pertaining to a form of intuitive rev-elatory logistis that combines lower revelatory and representative ele-ments...luminous ideal reasonluminous ideal reason — same as luminous reason...luminous reasonluminous reason — the supra-intellectual faculty (vijnana) acting onthe plane of logistic ideality, which is the “lowest total stage” of thetriple ideal supermind; also called the divine reason...luminous revelatory reasonluminous revelatory reason — same as revelatory logistis...LuxmiLuxmi — see Laks.mı.


M

..M3M3 — a combination of three of the four aspects of daivı prakr.ti (e.g.,Mahesvarı, Mahakalı and Mahasarasvatı)...M4M4 — a combination of all four aspects of daivı prakr.ti: Mahesvarı,Mahakalı, Mahalaks.mı and Mahasarasvatı; same as quadruplebhava...madhumadhu — honey; sweetness, “the entire sweetness of existence, thehoney, the delight that is the food of the soul”; the intoxication of thesoma1 pervading the mental body...madhuramadhura (madhura; madhur) — sweet; blissful; short for madhurarasa, the sweet taste perceived by rasadr.s.t.i; short for madhura bhavaor madhura dasya, the relation of ecstatic love and surrender tothe Divine that brings the highest experience of “the sweetness andintimate control of the divine Personality”...madhura bhavamadhura bhava (madhurabhava; madhur bhava)—the sweet (madhu-ra) relation (bhava) between the jıva and the ısvara (or between Kalıand Kr.s.n. a), the relation of lover and beloved which “is the mostintense and blissful of all and carries up all the rest into its heights”(see composite bhava); the spiritual emotion proper to that relation, inwhich “the turning of human emotion Godwards finds its full meaningand discovers all the truth of which love is the human symbol, all itsessential instincts divinised, raised, satisfied in the bliss from which ourlife was born and towards which by oneness it returns in the Anandaof the divine existence where love is absolute, eternal and unalloyed”...madhura dasimadhura dası — literally “sweet slave-girl”, the dası serving her Lordin a relation of madhura bhava; a symbol of the state of madhuradasya, the condition of “the living and loving instrument” (yantra),when it “ends in the whole nature of our being becoming the slave ofGod, rejoicing in his possession and its own blissful subjection to thedivine grasp and mastery”...madhura dasyamadhura dasya (madhura dasya; madhuradasya; madhura-dasya) —dasya in the relation of madhura bhava, “passionate service to thedivine Beloved”, giving “that joy of mastery of the finite nature by theInfinite and of service to the Highest by which there comes freedomfrom the ego and the lower nature”; the condition symbolised by themadhura dası, in which the jıva or prakr.ti is the enamoured “slave”


of the ısvara so that with “a passionate delight it does all he wills it todo without questioning and bears all he would have it bear, becausewhat it bears is the burden of the beloved being”...madhura-dasya bhavamadhura-dasya bhava (madhura-dasya bhava; madhura dasya bhava)— the state, feeling or relation of rapturous surrender...madhura rasamadhura rasa — sweet taste; the subtle taste (suks.ma rasa) of sweet-ness, one of the tastes perceived by the faculty of rasadr.s.t.i...madhuryamadhurya — sweetness; “the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine”,experienced in connection with the Mahalaks.mı “colouring” ofdevıbhava...madiramadira — wine, liquor, any intoxicating drink; a form of kamanandafelt pervading the suks.ma deha and sometimes the sthula deha, so that“even the physical body takes its share of the joy, feels the touch, isfilled in all its limbs, veins, nerves with the flowing of the wine of theecstasy, amr.ta”...madiramayamadiramaya (madiramaya; madiramay) — consisting of madira...madyamadya — wine...MaghaMagha — the name of a classical Sanskrit author, writer of the epicSisupalavadha...mahabuddhimahabuddhi — great buddhi; the supreme creative intelligence ofjanaloka, the world of ananda above that of vijnana; also, vijnanaitself...mahadbhavamahadbhava (mahadbhava; mahadbhav) — largeness, vastness, great-ness, wideness...mahad brahmamahad brahma — (c. December 1926) the world of “Divine Truth andVastness”, containing seven planes where brahman is manifest in termsof satyam r.tam br.hat; same as vijnana loka...mahajanamahajana — the great all-productive principle of janaloka (the worldof ananda)...MahakaliMahakalı — one of the four personalities of the sakti or devı: thegoddess of strength and swiftness, who is the “inhabitant” occupy-ing the Mahasarasvatı “continent” in the harmony of the aspects ofdaivı prakr.ti, and whose manifestation in the temperament (Mahakalıbhava) brings the force (Mahakalı tapas) needed for the rapid achieve-ment of the divine work; sometimes short for Mahakalı bhava...Mahakali bhavaMahakalı bhava (Mahakalibhava; Mahakali bhava) — the Mahakalıaspect of devıbhava; the temperament of Mahakalı, the personality


of the sakti or devı who “embodies her power of splendid strengthand irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, herimpetuous swiftness and world-shaking force”...Mahakali ksiprakaritaMahakalı ks.iprakarita (Mahakali kshiprakarita) — the swiftness inaction of Mahakalı...Mahakali-MahasarasvatiMahakalı-Mahasarasvatı (Mahakali-Mahasaraswati; Mahakali Ma-hasaraswati) — the combination of Mahakalı (bhava) and Maha-sarasvatı (bhava), in which Mahakalı “imparts to the slow and difficultlabour after perfection an impetus that multiplies the power andshortens the long way”. For Sri Aurobindo’s sadhana as documentedin the Record of Yoga, this was the most important of the variouscombinations of two aspects of daivı prakr.ti, because — while the“method chosen for preparation” was that of Mahasarasvatı — “themethod chosen for fulfilment” was “Mahakali’s in the Mahasaraswatimould”, on “the basis of hidden calm & self-possession” provided byMahesvarı and strongly coloured by Mahalaks.mı...Mahakali-MahasarasvatiMahakalı-Mahasarasvatı bhava (Mahakali-Mahasaraswati bhava) —the Mahakalı-Mahasarasvatı temperament, a combination of Ma-hakalı bhava and Mahasarasvatı bhava...Mahakali-MahasarasvatiMahakalı-Mahasarasvatı prakr.ti-amsa (Mahakali-Mahasaraswatiprakriti-angsha) — a portion of universal Nature expressing theMahakalı-Mahasarasvatı combination of the aspects of the divinesakti...MahakaliMahakalı Mahasarasvatı tapas (Mahakali Mahasaraswati tapas) —the force of Mahakalı-Mahasarasvatı, a reconciliation of active andpassive tapas in which the swiftness of Mahakalı is one with theperfection of Mahasarasvatı...Mahakali pravrttiMahakalı pravr.tti (Mahakali pravritti) — the dynamism of Mahakalı...Mahakali-saktiMahakalı-sakti (Mahakali-shakti) — the Mahakalı aspect of thedivine sakti as it manifests in the human temperament...Mahakali tapasMahakalı tapas — the victorious force of Mahakalı...mahakaranamahakaran. a — the first cause, the “cause of all causes”; satyaloka,the world of sat, as the supreme plane of original causality...MahalaksmiMahalaks.mı (Mahalakshmi; Mahalaxmi; Mahaluxmi) — one of thefour personalities of the sakti or devı: the goddess of beauty, love anddelight, whose manifestation in the temperament (Mahalaks.mı bhava)gives its “colouring” to the combination of the aspects of daivı prakr.ti;


sometimes short for Mahalaks.mı bhava...Mahalaksmi bhavaMahalaks.mı bhava (Mahalakshmi bhava; Mahaluxmi bhava) — theMahalaks.mı aspect of devıbhava; the temperament of Mahalaks.mı,the personality of the sakti or devı who “is vivid and sweet and won-derful with her deep secret of beauty and harmony and fine rhythm, herintricate and subtle opulence, her compelling attraction and captivatinggrace”...Mahalaksmi-MahakaliMahalaks.mı-Mahakalı (Mahalaxmi-Mahakali) — the combination ofMahalaks.mı (bhava) and Mahakalı (bhava), in which Mahalaks.mı“teaches to strength and force the rhythm that keeps the might of theiracts harmonious and in measure” and Mahakalı “brings to beauty andharmony a high and mounting movement”...Mahalaksmi-MahasarasvatiMahalaks.mı-Mahasarasvatı (Mahalakshmi-Mahasaraswati; Maha-laxmi-; Mahaluxmi-) — the combination of Mahalaks.mı (bhava) andMahasarasvatı (bhava), divine harmony and divine perfection, inwhich Mahalaks.mı “casts on perfection the charm that makes itendure for ever”...mahamayamahamaya — the vast power of “comprehending, measuring, form-ing Knowledge [maya] . . . in the undivided being” of Aditi; “theConsciousness-Puissance of the Eternal [brahman], timeless and il-limitable beyond the universe, but spread out here under a mask ofbright and dark opposites for the miracle of the slow manifestation ofthe Divine in Mind and Life and Matter”...mahanmahan — great, large, vast (masculine of mahat)...mahapanthamahapantha — great path...maharlokamaharloka — the world (loka) of vastness (mahas); the plane whosebasis is vijnana or supermind, which links saccidananda in the higherhemisphere of existence (parardha) with the mental, vital and physicalprinciples in the lower hemisphere (aparardha) and makes it possible“to realise the one Existence, Consciousness, Delight in the mould ofthe mind, life and body”...mahasmahas — “the great, the vast”, “the infinity of the Truth”; same asmaharloka...mahasaktimahasakti (mahashakti) — the cosmic sakti of the ısvara, “the univer-sal Mother”, who “works out whatever is transmitted by her transcen-dent consciousness from the Supreme and enters into the worlds thatshe has made”.


..MahasarasvatiMahasarasvatı (Mahasaraswati) — one of the four personalities of thesakti or devı: the goddess of skill and work, whose manifestation inthe temperament (Mahasarasvatı bhava) is the “continent” occupiedby the force of Mahakalı in the intended combination of the aspectsof daivı prakr.ti; sometimes short for Mahasarasvatı bhava...MahasarasvatiMahasarasvatı bhava (Mahasaraswati bhava) — the Mahasarasvatıaspect of devıbhava; the temperament of Mahasarasvatı, the personal-ity of the sakti or devı who “is equipped with her close and profoundcapacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quietand exact perfection in all things”...Mahasarasvati-MahakaliMahasarasvatı-Mahakalı (Mahasaraswati-Mahakali) — same as Ma-hakalı-Mahasarasvatı...Mahasarasvati-MahesvariMahasarasvatı-Mahesvarı (Mahasaraswati-Maheshwari) — same asMahesvarı-Mahasarasvatı...MahasarasvatiMahasarasvatı prakr.ti (Mahasaraswati prakriti) — the Mahasaras-vatı nature; prakr.ti expressing the Mahasarasvatı aspect of the divinesakti...Mahasarasvati tapasMahasarasvatı tapas (Mahasaraswati tapas) — the patient and labo-rious force of Mahasarasvatı...Mahasarasvati vibhutiMahasarasvatı vibhuti (Mahasaraswati vibhuti) — manifestation inhuman nature of the qualities of Mahasarasvatı...mahashaktimahashakti — see mahasakti...mahatmahat — great; large, vast; containing mahima; the vastness ofvijnana...mahatapasmahatapas — the supreme force; the dynamic principle of tapoloka,the world of (cit-)tapas...mahatimahatı — great; large, vast (feminine of mahat)...mahat laghimamahat laghima (mahat laghima; mahat-laghima) — laghima contain-ing mahima...mahatmamahatma — great soul...mahattvamahattva (mahattwa; mahattwam) — greatness, largeness, vastness; aterm in the first general formula of the sakti catus.t.aya; “a greatnessof sustaining force”, an element of dehasakti; sometimes equivalent tomahima...mahattvabodho,mahattvabodho, balaslagha, laghuta, dharan. asamarthyam iti deha-saktih. (mahattwabodho, balaslagha, laghuta, dharanasamarthyam itidehashakti) — the sense of a greatness of sustaining force, assertion of


strength, lightness, the capacity to hold all workings of energy: theseconstitute the power of the body...mahattvabodho,mahattvabodho, balaslagha, laghutvam, dharan. asamarthyam (ma-hattwabodho, balaslagha, laghutwam, dharanasamarthyam) — thesense of a greatness of sustaining force, assertion of strength, lightness,the capacity to hold all workings of energy (the elements of dehasakti)...mahattwa; mahattwammahattwa; mahattwam — see mahattva...MahaviraMahavıra — (literally “the great hero”, an epithet of Srıkr.s.n. a) theaspect of the fourfold ısvara whose sakti is Mahesvarı, correspondingto the brahman. a who represents the cosmic principle of Wisdom in thesymbolism of the caturvarn. ya; he is identified with Siva or Mahesvara...MahavisnuMahavis.n. u (Mahavishnu) — Vis.n. u as virat., the Soul of the materialworld...MahesvaraMahesvara (Maheshwara) — a name of Siva; (also called Mahavıra)the aspect of the fourfold ısvara whose sakti is Mahesvarı; same asMahesvara bhava...Mahesvara bhavaMahesvara bhava (Maheshwara bhava) — the temperament of Mahe-svara; manifestation of the Mahesvara personality of the fourfoldısvara...MahesvariMahesvarı (Maheshwari; Maheswari) — one of the four personalitiesof the sakti or devı: the goddess of wideness and calm, whose manifes-tation in the temperament (Mahesvarı bhava) is the pratis.t.ha or basisfor the combination of the aspects of daivı prakr.ti; sometimes shortfor Mahesvarı bhava. According to an entry on 18 March 1917, untilthen there had been only one very early manifestation of “Maheshwariherself”; what was referred to as Mahesvarı was usually her manifes-tation in another sakti as part of the preparation of the pratis.t.ha forthe full daivı prakr.ti...Mahesvari bhavaMahesvarı bhava (Maheshwari bhava; Maheshwari-bhava; Mahe-swari bhava) — the Mahesvarı aspect of devıbhava; the temperamentof Mahesvarı, the sakti or devı in “her personality of calm widenessand comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity and inexhaustiblecompassion and sovereign and surpassing majesty and all-rulinggreatness”...Mahesvari-MahalaksmiMahesvarı-Mahalaks.mı (Maheswari-Mahalakshmi) — the combina-tion of Mahesvarı (bhava) and Mahalaks.mı (bhava), a harmony ofdivine calm and divine delight.


..Mahesvari-Mahalaksmi-MahasarasvatiMahesvarı-Mahalaks.mı-Mahasarasvatı (Maheshwari-Mahaluxmi-Mahasaraswati) — the combination of Mahesvarı (bhava), Maha-laks.mı (bhava) and Mahasarasvatı (bhava), three of the four aspectsof daivı prakr.ti or devıbhava, with Mahakalı (bhava), the aspect ofstrength and swiftness, “contained and dominated” by the others...Mahesvari-MahasarasvatiMahesvarı-Mahasarasvatı (Maheshwari-Mahasaraswati) — the com-bination of Mahesvarı (bhava) and Mahasarasvatı (bhava), charac-terised by a “slow and regular unhasting pressure” favourable toluminous and effective vijnana, but lacking in the intensity of theMahakalı energy...Mahesvari-Mahasarasvati santiMahesvarı-Mahasarasvatı santi (Maheshwari-Mahasaraswati shanti)— the passive calm of Mahesvarı-Mahasarasvatı...Mahesvari pratisthaMahesvarı pratis.t.ha (Maheshwari pratistha) — the Mahesvarı bhavaas the calm base that supports the combined working of the otheraspects of daivı prakr.ti...mahimamahima — greatness, largeness; one of the siddhis of the body: “un-hampered force in the mental power or in the physical power”, show-ing itself physically by “an abnormal strength which is not muscular”;also, an attribute of Mahavıra...mahima-laghimamahima-laghima — the combination of mahima and laghima...maithunamaithuna — (literally “sexual”) pertaining to or short for maithuna-nanda...maithuna anandamaithuna ananda — same as maithunananda...maithunanandamaithunananda — an intensity of kamananda comparable in someway to sexual ecstasy: a kind of physical ananda born of brahmananda“which is far higher, finer and more intense than the sexual, but ofwhich the sexual is a coarse and excited degradation”; another termfor kamananda itself as one of the five forms of sarırananda...manahmanah. — same as manas...manahkosamanah.kosa (manahkosha; manah-kosha) — the sheath (kosa) com-posed of mental substance, “the mental sheath or subtle body in whichour true mental being [manomaya purus.a] lives”...manapamanabodhamanapamanabodha — the sense of honour and disgrace...manasmanas — mind, the psychological principle or degree of consciousnessthat is the basis of the mental world (manoloka or svar), the highestplane of the triloka and the summit of the aparardha or lower hemi-sphere of existence; in its essence, “a consciousness which measures,


limits, cuts out forms of things from the indivisible whole and containsthem as if each were a separate integer”; the sensational mind, “theoriginal sense [indriya] which perceives all objects and reacts uponthem”, capable not only of “a translation into sense of so much of theouter impacts as it receives through the nervous system and the physicalorgans”, but also of “a subtle sight, hearing, power of contact of itsown which is not dependent on the physical organs”; the principle thatgoverns the realm of svarga, the lower plane of svar; (on page 1281)the name of a particular svarga...manasamanasa — mental; pertaining to manas, having the nature of mind ingeneral or of the sensational mind; mentality; subtle sense-perception(vis.ayadr.s.t.i) on the mental plane by means of the inner manas...manasa abhyasamanasa abhyasa — mental repetition...manasa buddhimanasa buddhi (manasabuddhi; manasa buddhi; manasbuddhi; man-as-buddhi) — the mental reason, the reasoning intellect; the buddhior thinking mind in its ordinary forms (distinguished from thevijnanabuddhi or intuitive mind), as a faculty of prajnana (“ap-prehending consciousness” or intelligence) separated from vijnana;“the mental intelligence and will” which “are only a focus of dif-fused and deflected rays and reflections” of “the sun of the divineKnowledge-Will burning in the heavens of the supreme consciousBeing”...manasa-drstimanasa-dr.s.t.i (manas-drishti) — mental vision; perception by themanas, “an inner or subliminal mental consciousness and sensecapable of perceiving and experiencing directly, not only the lifeforces and their play and results and phenomena, but the mentaland psychical worlds and all they contain and the mental activities,vibrations, phenomena, forms, images of this world also”...manasa ketumanasa ketu (manasaketu; manasa ketu) — mental perception; “tele-pathic mind”...manasa lokamanasa loka — the mental world, same as manoloka...manasasmrtimanasasmr.ti (manasasmriti) — mental smr.ti...manas brahmanmanas brahman — brahman experienced on the mental level...manasbuddhimanasbuddhi — see manasabuddhi...manas-cittamanas-citta (manas-chitta; manas chitta) — the emotional mind, “thelife of sensations and emotions which are at the mercy of the outwardtouches of life and matter and their positive or negative reactions,


joy and grief, pleasure and pain”, constituting a “surface desire-soul”behind which is “the subliminal soul in us open to the universal delight[ananda] which the cosmic soul takes in its own existence and in theexistence of the myriad souls that represent it and in the operations ofmind, life and matter by which Nature lends herself to their play anddevelopment”...manasikamanasika (manasik) — mental, relating to the sensational mind(manas)...manasika susuptimanasika sus.upti (manasik sushupti) — a condition of the mind re-sembling deep sleep (sus.upti); the inertia and passivity of the intellectin the deepest states of samadhi...manastattvamanastattva (manastattwa; manas tattwa) — mind-principle...manavamanava — human; man...mandamanda — slow...mandalaman. d. ala — circle, orb; any of the ten books of the R. g Veda...mangalamangala (mangala; mangalam) — good fortune, favourable circum-stances...mangala-amangalamangala-amangala — fortunate and unfortunate; the dvandva offavourable and adverse...mangalammangalam — see mangala...mangalamangalamangalamangala — same as mangala-amangala...mangalamangalabodhamangalamangalabodha — the sense of fortunate and unfortunate cir-cumstances...mangalamayamangalamaya — fortunate, favourable...mangala upalabdhimangala upalabdhi — experience of favourable circumstances...mangalyamangalya — fortunate, favourable...manipuraman. ipura — the cakra behind the navel (nabhicakra), “the central seatof the Vital, the Life Principle”...manisahmanıs.ah. — illumined thoughts...manisimanıs.ı (manishi) — thinker...manolokamanoloka — the mental world, a loka where mind “is not determinedby material conditions or by the life-force, but itself determines anduses them for its own satisfaction”; the mental layer of the materialworld (see manoloka of bhu)...manoloka of bhumanoloka of bhu — the mental world within the physical; the mentallayer of the earth-consciousness or plane of material existence, thehighest level of the triloka in bhu.


..manomayamanomaya — mental; mental activity; the mental being; the mentalplane...manomaya laghimamanomaya laghima — laghima (the siddhi of lightness and freedomfrom fatigue) in the mental being...manomaya purusamanomaya purus.a (manomaya purusha) — “the Soul on the mentallevel”, the purus.a as a mental being “in whose nature the clarity andluminous power of the mind acts in its own right independent of anylimitation or oppression by the vital or corporeal instruments”; the“Spirit poised in mind” which “becomes the mental self of a mentalworld and dwells there in the reign of its own pure and luminousmental Nature”...manomayimanomayı — mental (feminine of manomaya)...mantramantra — a mystic formula, “a word of power born out of the secretdepths of our being where it has been brooded upon by a deeperconsciousness than the mental”, which can not only “reveal knowledgeand faculties we did not before possess”, but in some cases “producevibrations in the mental and vital atmosphere which result in effects . . .on the physical plane”...ManuManu — the mental being; same as Manu Prajapati; each of the four-teen manifestations of Manu Prajapati governing the manvantaras ofa pratikalpa; each of “the four Type-Souls from whom all humanPurushas are born”...Manu PrajapatiManu Prajapati — Manu as the first Prajapati, “a part of MahavishnuHimself descended into the mental plane in order to conduct thedestinies of the human race”...ManuputraManuputra — son of Manu; a human soul...manusa sabdamanus.a sabda (manusha shabda) — (sabdadr.s.t.i of) the sound of thehuman voice...manusa sparsamanus.a sparsa (manusha sparsha) — (sparsadr.s.t.i of) human touch...manusi vakmanus.ı vak (manushi vak) — (sabdadr.s.t.i of) human speech...manvantaramanvantara (manvantara; manwantara) — an aeon comprising sev-eral caturyugas and corresponding to the reign of one of the fourteenManus...maranamaran. a — hitting, striking (as in the related Bengali and Hindi verbs,not in the normal Sanskrit sense of “killing”)...martya manasmartya manas — mortal mind; mind (manas) subject to life (pran. a)and matter (anna1).


..MarutsMaruts — the Vedic storm-gods, “luminous and violent gods of thestorm and the lightning”, representing in the esoteric sense of the Veda“the powers of Thought which by the strong and apparently destruc-tive motion of their progress break down that which is established andhelp to the attainment of new formations”...MatarisvanMatarisvan (Matariswan) — a Vedic epithet of Vayu2, “who, rep-resenting the divine principle in the Life-energy,” (pran. a) “extendshimself in Matter and vivifies its forms”...material akasamaterial akasa (akasha) — the ether of the gross physical plane...matrbhavamatr.bhava — the feeling or realisation of the Mother in the daivıprakr.ti...mayamaya — (in the Veda) “originally a formative power of knowledge,the true magic of the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, but . . . alsoused for the adverse formative power of a lower knowledge, the deceit,illusion and deluding magic of the Rakshasa”; measuring and limit-ing consciousness, “a selective faculty of knowledge commissioned toshape finite appearance out of the infinite Reality” (brahman); thepower of phenomenal creation by which “out of the supreme beingin which all is all without barrier of separative consciousness emergesthe phenomenal being in which all is in each and each is in all forthe play of existence with existence, consciousness with consciousness,force with force, delight with delight”; illusion, “a bewildering partialconsciousness which loses hold of the complete reality, lives in thephenomenon of mobile Nature [prakr.ti] and has no sight of the Spirit[purus.a] of which she is the active Power”...mayasmayas — bliss; the world of ananda...maya-saktimaya-sakti (maya-shakti) — force of maya...mayavadinmayavadin — one who says that the world is an illusion; illusionist...mayavinmayavin — weaver of illusions...mechanical intellectualitymechanical intellectuality — same as habitual mind...mechanical intuivitymechanical intuivity — the lowest form of intuivity, corresponding onthe level of the intuitive mind to the habitual mind on the intellectualplane; it is related to intuitional intellectuality and stresses the percep-tion “of the powers and tendencies of the present and what they meanand presage”...mechanical mentalitymechanical mentality — same as habitual mind or mechanical intuiv-ity.


..mechanical tapasmechanical tapas — tapas acting in the mechanical intuivity.

..meghagarjanameghagarjana (meghagarjan) — thunder (heard in sabdadr.s.t.i).

..mental akasamental akasa (akasha) — any subtle ether (suks.ma akasa) belongingto the mental plane, such as the cittakasa; the mental ether of thematerial plane, the highest akasa of the triloka in bhu...mental bhogamental bhoga — mental or subjective ananda, or any of its forms, inthe state of bhoga which is the second stage of bhukti...mental intuitionmental intuition — intuition acting in the buddhi, in contrast to idealintuition...mental overmindmental overmind — the plane of the overmind system that is “directlycreative of all the formations that manifest below in the mental world”...mental samamental sama (shama) — a mental imitation of the true sama or divinecalm of the traigun. yasiddhi; the inactivity of an enlightened tamas“which by this saving enlightenment is more of a quiescence than anincapacity”...mental susuptimental sus.upti — same as manasika sus.upti...mental tapasmental tapas — mental will-power, whose working takes the form of“perceptions realising themselves if vijnanamaya, acting as forces, ifpranamaya”; same as intellectual tapas...MerulokaMeruloka — the world of Meru, the mountain of the gods at the centreof the earth...mesquinmesquin [French] — petty...middle hermesismiddle hermesis — the second level of hermetic ideality...middle idealitymiddle ideality — same as inspired logistis...middle seer logistismiddle seer logistis — an intermediate degree of seer logistis; perhapsa form of inspired revelatory logistis...mithyadharanamithyadharan. a — misunderstanding, the holding of a wrong idea...mithyagrahamithyagraha — misconception...mithyaropamithyaropa — misplacement...MitraMitra — “the Friend of all beings”, a Vedic god, one of the Four whorepresent the “working of the Truth in the human mind and tempera-ment”; he is the lord of the luminous harmony by which “the manifoldworkings of the Truth agree together in a perfectly wedded union”...mitra-premamitra-prema — love as between friends, one of the three forms ofprema...MKMK — abbreviation of Mahakalı...M.MM.M — a combination of two of the four aspects of daivı prakr.ti (e.g.,


Mahesvarı-Mahasarasvatı)...mnemosunemnemosune (mnemosyne) [Greek] — memory; the goddess of Mem-ory, mother of the Muses...mohamoha — delusion...moksamoks.a (moksha) — liberation; release from existence in the world;same as mukti...mot d’ordremot d’ordre [French] — watchword...motumotu — see in motu...mrtammr.tam (mritam) — death...mrtyurmr.tyur va prabhavati (mrityur va prabhavati) — death has power.(This phrase, forming the first sortilege of 9 October 1914, occurs ina sentence in Shankara’s commentary on Svetasvatara Upanis.ad 2.12which is part of the second sortilege of the same date. The completesentence means: “Over that Yogi neither disease nor old age nor deathhas power.”)..mudramudra — a position of the hands; the use of the hands to shut the earsto outward sounds...mukhasrimukhasrı — facial beauty...mukhya pranamukhya pran. a (mukhyaprana; mukhya prana) — the “original or ele-mental force” of pran. a in the body, the “pure life-force itself”, called“the first or supreme Breath . . . because all the others [pancapran. a]are secondary to it, born from it and only exist as its special functions”...muktabhogamuktabhoga — liberated enjoyment...muktimukti — liberation, “the release of our being from the narrow andpainful knots of the individualised energy in a false and limited play,which at present are the law of our nature”; in purn. a yoga, “a libera-tion of the soul in nature perfect and self-existent whether in action orin inaction”; the second member of the siddhi catus.t.aya, integral free-dom, including liberation of the spirit (essential mukti) and liberationof the nature (comprising ahankara-mukti-siddhi, traigun. yasiddhiand mukti from dvandva), not only a “liberation from Nature in aquiescent bliss of the spirit”, but also a “farther liberation of the Natureinto a divine quality and spiritual power of world-experience” which“fills the supreme calm with the supreme kinetic bliss of knowledge,power, joy and mastery”...muladharamuladhara — the lowest cakra, the centre at the bottom of the spinewhich “is the main support of the physical consciousness and the


material parts of the nature” and from which the kun. d. alinı rises...mumuksutvamumuks.utva (mumukshutwa) — desire for liberation; liberation fromthis desire is the final step in subjective mukti...murtimurti — form; the second of the two principal kinds of rupa, the “ac-tual form” of a thing seen in its own world (jagat or loka), as opposedto pratimurti or “image”; the form in which a deity (deva) manifests...mutramutra — urine, the fluid discharged in jalavisr.s.t.i.

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..nabhicakranabhicakra (nabhichakra; nabhi chakra) — the “navel centre”, thecakra called man. ipura, “the main seat of the centralised vital con-sciousness (dynamic centre)”...nadinad. ı — a nerve-channel in the subtle body...naisthuryamnais.t.huryam (naishthuryam; naishturyam) — severity...naktanakta — “night”, symbolic of non-manifestation or obscured con-sciousness...naktosasanaktos.asa svasara ekam sisum [dhapayete] (naktoshasa swasara ekamshishum [dhapayete]) — Night and Dawn, two sisters, suckle one child...namanama — name; the word designating an object, person or deity, “in itsdeeper sense . . . not the word by which we describe the object, but thetotal of power, quality, character of the reality which a form of thingsembodies and which we try to sum up by a designating sound”...namadrstanamadr.s.t.a (namadrishta) — same as namadr.s.t.i...namadrstinamadr.s.t.i (namadrishti) — subtle vision (suks.ma dr.s.t.i) of nama orname (i.e., written or printed words), as opposed to vision of rupa orform (i.e., images), a term used by Sri Aurobindo in 1909 for what helater called lipi...namarupanamarupa — name and form, the attributes by which the mind andsenses distinguish an object or person...namasnamas — submission...namasinaması [Bengali] — mother’s younger sister...namaskaranamaskara — salutation with hands joined...nana me matam tasya durbalasya — I am not of the opinion of thatweakling...NaraNara — (in mythology) the name of a sage (see Nara-Narayan. a); (lit-erally) Man; “the universal man acting in the individual as a human


personality”; in brahmadarsana, the vision of “the cosmic Purusha inhumanity”, who “is developing in the human race the power that hasgrown into humanity from below it and shall yet grow to supermindand spirit and become the Godhead in man who is aware of his trueand integral self and the divine universality of his nature”...narakanaraka — hell...Nara-NarayanaNara-Narayan. a (Nara-Narayana; NaraNarayana; Nara Narayana) —(in mythology) the names of two sages, Nara and Narayan. a, “the seerswho do tapasya together for the knowledge”, a “double figure” whichin the “Vaishnava form of Vedantism . . . expresses the relation of Godin man to man in God”, Nara being “the human soul which, eternalcompanion of the Divine, finds itself only when it awakens to thatcompanionship”, while Narayan.a “is the divine Soul always presentin our humanity, the secret guide, friend and helper of the humanbeing”; an intermediate bhava of brahmadarsana in which there isa dualistic perception of Nara and Narayan.a in all, the “bodha ofNarayana” not being extended “into the whole consciousness of theNara”, but kept “as a thing apart & containing & informing, but notidentical with the Nara”...NarasimhaNarasimha (Narasinha) — the man-lion, the fourth avatara of Vis.n. u,the incarnation symbolically “bridging man and animal” in the evo-lutionary interpretation of the ten avataras; psychologically, leoninevital strength in a mentalised form, associated in the Record of Yogawith a “fierce & ardent” energy called Narasimha tejas...NarasimhaNarasimha tejas (Narasinha tejas) — the energy of the man-lion(Narasimha)...NarayanaNarayan. a (Narayana; Narayan) — (in mythology) one of two sages(see Nara-Narayan. a), whose association symbolises the “constantcompanionship of man and God, man living in the world for God,God dwelling in man and turning to his own divine ends in himthe enigmatic world-process”; the “universal all-inhabiting Ishwara”,identified with Vis.n. u, the Preserver, one of the “cosmic Personalitiesof the Divine” through whom Kr.s.n. a manifests...NarayanabodhaNarayan. abodha (Narayanabodha; Narayana bodha) — awareness ofthe Narayan. a-aspect of Kr.s.n. a...NarayanadarsanaNarayan. adarsana (Narayanadarshana; Narayana darshana) — the vi-sion of Narayan. a, “the God in man” who “lives constantly associated


in a dual unity with Nara, the human being”, a form of darsana relatedto but distinguished from Kr.s.n. adarsana...Narayana-drstiNarayan. a-dr.s.t.i (Narayana-drishti) — same as Narayan. adarsana...narikelajahnarikelajah. — (in the interpretation of a sortilege on page 399) born(-ja) of the mood of enjoyment (kela taken in the sense of keli, play)of prakr.ti (nari = narı, the woman)...NarottamaNarottama — (literally) the supreme Man (Nara); same as Narayan. a,“the one Divine in all men”...naryapasnaryapas — strong in action. [R. g Veda 8.93.1]..nasikya asvadanasikya asvada (nasikya aswada) — taste perceived through the nos-trils...na socati, na nandatena socati, na nandate (na sochati, na nandate) — neither grieves norrejoices...nastikya-buddhinastikya-buddhi — the sceptical mentality...nastikyamnastikyam — disbelief in God; atheism; scepticism...nathanatha — lord, possessor...natinati — resignation, submission; the “equal acceptance by the soul” of“all things as the play of the all-Blissful Lord, the Will of the supremeself and Ishwara”, the third stage of passive / negative samata, whosehighest form is anandamaya nati...navadvarenavadvare pure (navadware pure) — in the nine-gated city (of thebody). [Gıta 5.13]..negative asamatanegative asamata — defect or failing of negative samata...negative niranandanegative nirananda — absence of ananda...negative samatanegative samata — equality in one’s reception of the contacts of theworld, consisting of titiks.a, udasınata and nati, also called passivesamata: “a passive or negative equality, an equality of reception whichfronts impassively the impacts and phenomena of existence and negatesthe dualities of the appearances and reactions which they impose onus”...negative santinegative santi (shanti) — a passive calm based on udasınata...nervous tapasnervous tapas — vital power, whose action is characterised by “theplay of forces, action & reaction, resistance etc”; same as pran. amayatapas...nibhrsta-tavisinibhr.s.t.a-tavis.i (nibhrishta-tavishi) — distressed by its force. [Cf. R. gVeda 2.25.4]..nidahnidah. — “the Restrainers”, a kind of hostile being in the Veda.


..nidranidra — sleep.

..nidramayanidramaya — of the nature of sleep; (samadhi) under the hold of sleep.

..nidramaya svapna siddhinidramaya svapna siddhi (nidramaya swapna siddhi) — perfection ofsvapnasamadhi during sleep...nidravistanidravis.t.a samadhi (nidravishta samadhi) — samadhi invaded bysleep...nigrahanigraha — suppression; forcible coercion of one’s nature...nihsabdatanih. sabdata (nihshabdata) — absence of sound...nihsmarananih. smaran. a — without smaran. a; (physical ananda) not being depen-dent on attention...ni karmani karma manyum durevasya sardhatah. (ni karma manyum durevasyashardhatah) — “may we cast out the passion of him of evil impulsewhen he putteth forth his force.” [R. g Veda 2.23.12]..nilanıla (nil) — dark blue...nimisannapinimis.annapi (nimishannapi) — even blinking; as well as when shuttingthe eyes. [Gıta 5.9]..nimittanimitta — efficient cause, “the immediate cause and instrument”...niradharaniradhara — (subtle sense-perception) without the support (adhara) ofa physical sensation; (rupa or lipi) seen in the akasa without relationto a background...niranandanirananda — “undelight”, the absence or contrary of ananda...niranandamayaniranandamaya — joyless; the opposite of anandamaya...nirananda santinirananda santi (nirananda shanti) — peace without ananda, a formof negative santi...nirapeksanirapeks.a (nirapeksha) — freedom from desire, expectation and de-pendency; disinterestedness, non-attachment...nirgunanirgun. a (nirguna; nirgunam) — without qualities; absence of qualities;short for nirgun. a brahman, “an Infinite essentially free from all limita-tion by qualities, properties, features”; the ananda of pure featurelessconsciousness (cit), another term for cidananda...nirguna brahmannirgun. a brahman — brahman without qualities (gun. as), also calledsantam brahma, the featureless Reality whose “illimitable freedom . . .provides the indispensable condition for . . . a free and infinite self-expression in quality and feature”...nirguna guninirgun. a gun. ı — “the Supreme without qualities who is possessed ofall qualities”, the deva or ısvara as at once nirgun. a and sagun. a, “theimpersonal-personal” who “is beyond all limitation by quality” and


yet “is not limited by a qualitiless void but is too all infinite qualities”.[Cf. Svetasvatara Upanis.ad 6.2, 11, 16]..nirgunamnirgun. am — see nirgun. a...nirguna sad brahmannirgun. a sad brahman (nirgun sad brahman) — brahman as pure exis-tence (sat) without qualities...niruktanirukta — etymology; philology, part of sahitya: the study of the ori-gins and development of language, especially with reference to San-skrit, with the aim of creating “a science which can trace the origins,growth & structure of the Sanscrit language, discover its primary,secondary & tertiary forms & the laws by which they develop fromeach other, trace intelligently the descent of every meaning of a wordin Sanscrit from its original root sense, account for all similarities &identities of sense, discover the reason of unexpected divergences, tracethe deviations which separated Greek & Latin from the Indian dialect,discover & define the connection of all three with the Dravidian formsof speech”...nir-utthapananir-utthapana — the negation of utthapana...nirvedanirveda — despondency, indifference...nirvijnana ahaitukanirvijnana ahaituka — ahaituka ananda without vijnana...nirvikalpa samadhinirvikalpa samadhi — “trance in which there is no formation or move-ment of the consciousness”, a kind of samadhi “in which all the lowerorgans are stopped and there is only the superconscious experience ofthe Brahman”...nirvisesanirvises.a (nirvisesha) — unqualified; undifferentiated; associated withno specific object or stimulus; used in July 1912 for various forms ofphysical and subjective ananda in a sense similar to ahaituka...niscayaniscaya (nishchaya; nischaya) — certainty, decisiveness...niscestatanisces.t.ata (nischeshtata) — immobility, absence of effort, passivity...nischayanischaya — see niscaya...nischeshtatanischeshtata — see nisces.t.ata...nishchayanishchaya — see niscaya...niskamanis.kama (nishkama) — desireless; (on page 1281) the name of asvarga...niskama karmanis.kama karma (nishkama karma) — desireless action...niskama nihsprhanis.kama nih. spr.ha (nishkama nihspriha) — without desire or longing...nistapas smarananistapas smaran. a — smaran. a (memory) without pressure of tapas(will); passive attention.


..nistejasnistejas — lack of energy.

..nityanitya — constant.

..nitya anusmarananitya anusmaran. a (nitya anusmaran) — constant remembrance, “theconstant undeviating memory of the Divine”...nityakarmanityakarma — (in traditional Hinduism) daily ritual, “the Vedic rule,the routine of ceremonial sacrifice, daily conduct and social duty”;the routine of daily activities, a routine that “is ritam & necessaryfor karma, only it must be ritam of the brihat, part of the infinite, notnarrow & rigid, a flexible instrument, not a stiff & unpliant bondage”...nityasmarananityasmaran. a (nityasmarana; nitya smarana) — constant memory; astate in which the “remembrance of the Divine Being becomes nolonger an intermittent act of the mind, but the natural condition ofour activities and in a way the very substance of the consciousness”...nivrttinivr.tti (nivritti) — literally “moving back and in”; withdrawal, ab-stention, inactivity; “cessation from the original urge to action” andthe return of the soul “to its eternal, unchanging immobility”, oneside of “the double movement of the Soul and Nature” whose otherside is pravr.tti; a “divine quietism” supporting “a divine activism andkinetism”...non-telepathic trikaladrstinon-telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — the higher form of trikala-dr.s.t.i, which is not dependent on the perception of tendencies, forcesand intentions by telepathy and can “perceive what is the unalterableeventuality actually destined”...nos amisnos amis [French] — our friends...novae suae patriae perciperenovae suae patriae percipere [Latin] — to perceive one’s new father-land...nrhnr.h. (nrih) — (apparently the plural of nr., whose more regular formsare narah. [nominative] or nr.n [accusative]) literally “men”, a term usedin the Veda for “the gods as the male powers or Purushas presidingover the energies of Nature”...nulli visa cito decurrit tramite virgonulli visa cito decurrit tramite virgo [Latin] — seen by none, the maiden(the goddess Iris) swiftly runs down her path. [Aeneid 5.610]..nyunatanyunata — deficiency.

O

..objective anandaobjective ananda — same as physical ananda.


..objective visayanandaobjective vis.ayananda (vishayananda) — vis.ayananda generated “ob-jectively in the physical response to all experiences”...obtenir la prestige par la victoireobtenir la prestige par la victoire [French] — to get prestige by victory...ojasojas — a primal physical energy supporting the other energies in thebody...OMOM — in the Vedic tradition, the sacred “initiating syllable”, regardedas “the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech”and “the foundation of all the potent creative sounds of the revealedword”; the “Word of Manifestation”, the mantra or “expressivesound-symbol of the Brahman Consciousness in its four domains” (seeAUM)...OM AgnihOM Agnih. — an invocation to Agni2...OM anandamayi caitanyamayi satyamayi parameOM anandamayi caitanyamayi satyamayi parame (OM anandamayichaitanyamayi [satyamayi parame]) — OM, O supreme Goddess whoart all bliss, consciousness and truth of being...OM tat satOM tat sat — a mantra said to be “the triple definition” of the brah-man: OM, also spelled AUM, is the “Word of Manifestation”, sym-bolising “the outward-looking, the inward or subtle and the supercon-scient causal Purusha”, indicated respectively by the letters A, U andM, while “the syllable as a whole brings out the fourth state, Turiya,which rises to the Absolute”; tat, That, “indicates the Absolute”; sat“indicates the supreme and universal existence in its principle”. [cf.Gıta 17.23]..original T2original T2 — trikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi with non-telepathic trikala-dr.s.t.i as the first element...original vanmayaoriginal vanmaya — same as effulgent vanmaya...oubliezoubliez [French] — forget...overmindovermind — (from 29 October 1927 onwards) the highest plane orsystem of planes of consciousness below supermind or divine gno-sis; especially the principal plane in the overmind system, apparentlycorresponding to what earlier in 1927 was referred to as supremesupermind. Possessing “an illimitable capacity of separation and com-bination of the powers and aspects of the integral and indivisibleall-comprehending Unity”, the overmind “takes up all that is in thethree steps below it and raises their characteristic workings to theirhighest and largest power, adding to them a universal wideness ofconsciousness and force”.


..overmind gnosisovermind gnosis — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) the highestplane of overmind, defined as “supermind subdued to the overmindplay” (see supermind); it may also be regarded as a series of planes...overmind logosovermind logos — (c. 1931, in the diagram on page 1360) the logos oruniversal reason in its highest form on the plane of overmind belowformative maya (see overmind system), described as “determinative ofrelations” in the worlds derived from it...overmind systemovermind system — a term used on 29 October 1927 (when the word“overmind” first occurs) for what earlier in that year had consistedof a series of planes, divisible into four groups, rising from supramen-tality to gnostic supermind. In 1933, Sri Aurobindo wrote that theovermind “can for convenience be divided into four planes”, which hecalled mental overmind, intuitive overmind or overmind intuition, trueovermind, and supramental overmind or overmind gnosis, “but thereare many layers in each and each of these can be regarded as a plane initself”. In the diagram of overmind gradations on page 1360 (c. 1931),mental overmind seems to be missing, but overmind logos is listedbetween intuitive overmind and formative maya, the latter evidentlydesignating the principal plane of true overmind. Overmind logos mayrepresent mental overmind; its position in the diagram could be ex-plained if its highest level is assumed to be a form of mental overmindtaken up into true overmind and constituting a plane of overmindproper, like the supramentalised mind in overmind of 1927-28.

P

..pacanapacana (pachana) — cooking, baking; ripening; perfecting.

..pajahpajah. — same as pajas.

..pajaspajas — mass of strength.

..pancapanca (pancha) — five.

..pancabhautapancabhauta (panchabhauta) — involving the five elements (panca-bhuta)...pancabhutapancabhuta (panchabhuta) — the five bhutas or “elements, as it isrendered, but rather elemental or essential conditions of material beingto which are given the concrete names of earth [pr.thivı1], water [jala],fire [tejas or agni1], air [vayu1] and ether [akasa]”...pancapranapancapran. a (panchaprana) — the five “vital currents of energy” in the


body, called pran. a, apana, samana, vyana and udana; the “fivefoldmovement” of the physical life-force “pervading all the nervous systemand the whole material body and determining all its functionings”...pancavidha sariranandapancavidha sarırananda (panchavidha sharirananda)—fivefold phys-ical ananda, consisting of kamananda, vis.ayananda, tıvrananda,raudrananda and vaidyutananda...panipan. i — a class of Vedic demons whose chief is Vala; “traffickers in thesense-life, stealers and concealers of the higher Light and its illumina-tions”...papapunyapapapun. ya — sin and virtue...papapunyamanapamanapriyapriyavivarjanampapapun. yamanapamanapriyapriyavivarjanam—dispelling the senseof sin and virtue, honour and dishonour, love and hatred...parapara — higher; supreme...parapara — higher; supreme (feminine of para)...parabhavaparabhava — higher aspect; supreme status of being...parabrahmadarsanaparabrahmadarsana (parabrahmadarshana) — vision (darsana) of thesupreme Reality (parabrahman); the “renewal of the Parabrahmadar-shana of two years ago” recorded on 16 April 1914 was a revivalof what Sri Aurobindo had experienced on 15 August 1912 when,according to a letter, his “subjective sadhana” had “received its finalseal and something like its consummation by a prolonged realisation& dwelling in Parabrahman for many hours”...parabrahmanparabrahman — the supreme Reality (brahman), “absolute and inef-fable . . . beyond all cosmic being”, from which “originate both themobile and the immobile, the mutable and the immutable, the actionand the silence”; it “is not Being [sat] or Non-Being [asat], but some-thing of which Being & Non-Being are primary symbols”. As it is“indescribable by any name or definite conception”, it is referred to bythe neuter pronoun tat, That, in order “to speak of this Unknowablein the most comprehensive and general way . . . ; but this neuter doesnot exclude the aspect of universal and transcendent Personality”...parabrahman-mahamayaparabrahman-mahamaya — the supreme Reality and the power of its“infinite consciousness to comprehend, contain in itself and measureout . . . Name and Shape out of the vast illimitable Truth of infinite ex-istence”, the duality of brahman and maya in its highest “biune” form...parajayanandaparajayananda — joy of (temporary) defeat (as a step towards vic-tory), a form of sama ananda.


..paralokadrstiparalokadr.s.t.i (paralokadrishti) — vision of other worlds, where ex-periences are organised “on a different plan, with a different processand law of action and in a substance which belongs to a supraphysicalNature”, a form of lokadr.s.t.i...paramahamsaparamahamsa (paramahansa) — the liberated man; one of those whohave attained “a particular grade of realisation” and “live in the cosmicconsciousness in touch or union with the All”, about whom it “is saidthat their vital behaves either like a child (Ramakrishna) or like amadman or like a demon or like something inert (cf. Jadabharata)”...paramatmanparamatman — the supreme Self (atman), the “supreme unmanifestsupracosmic Being” as the world’s “invisible spiritual foundation andthe hidden spiritual cause of the becoming of all existences”...paramesvaraparamesvara (parameshwara; parameswara) — the supreme Lord, thetranscendent ısvara, who rules the worlds “from beyond all cosmosas well as within it” and “from his highest original existence . . . origi-nates and governs the universe . . . with an all-knowing omnipotence”...paramesvara-adyaparamesvara-adya parasakti (parameswara-adya parashakti) — thesupreme Lord one with his original supreme Power; the “biune”duality of ısvara-sakti on the highest plane of existence...paramesvara-paramesvariparamesvara-paramesvarı (parameswara-parameswari) — the su-preme Lord (paramesvara) and supreme Goddess (paramesvarı) asthe Two-in-One...paramesvariparamesvarı (parameshwari; parameswari) — the supreme Goddess(ısvarı)...para prakrtipara prakr.ti (para prakriti) — the higher (spiritual and supramental)Nature, the “supreme nature of the Divine which is the real source ofcosmic existence and its fundamental creative force and effective energyand of which the other lower and ignorant Nature [apara prakr.ti] isonly a derivation and a dark shadow”; prakr.ti in the parardha orhigher hemisphere of existence...para purusapara purus.a (para purusha; parapurusha; para purushah) — the high-est Soul (purus.a), the supreme Being, a “Transcendent who is beyondall world and all Nature and yet possesses the world and its nature,who has descended with something of himself into it and is shaping itinto that which as yet it is not”; same as purus.ottama...parardhaparardha — “the upper half of world-existence”, consisting of theworlds of saccidananda linked by vijnana to the aparardha or lower


hemisphere of mind, life and matter, “an upper hemisphere of mani-festation based on the Spirit’s eternal self-knowledge” (vidya)...para saktipara sakti (para shakti; parashakti) — higher Power; the supreme saktiof paramesvara, “the transcendent Mother” of whom the mahasaktion each plane is “the cosmic Soul and Personality” (same as adyaparasakti)...para tapaspara tapas — higher tapas...paratmanparatman — the supreme Self, same as paramatman...paratparaparatpara — higher than the highest; supreme; “the supreme of theSupreme”...para vidyapara vidya — the higher knowledge; the knowledge of brahman, “thesupreme supra-intellectual knowledge which concentrates itself on thediscovery of the One and Infinite in its transcendence or tries to pene-trate by intuition, contemplation, direct inner contact into the ultimatetruths behind the appearances of Nature”...paresseparesse [French] — laziness, indolence...paropakaraparopakara — doing good to others...parthivaparthiva — earthly; physical; consisting of or relating to the bhutacalled pr.thivı1...parthiva akasaparthiva akasa (parthiva akasha) — the physical ether...parthiva visrstiparthiva visr.s.t.i (parthiva visrishti) — discharge (visr.s.t.i) of waste mat-ter in solid form...parvataparvata — mountain...passive asamatapassive asamata — defect or failing of passive samata...passive samatapassive samata — equality in one’s reception of the contacts of theworld, consisting of titiks.a, udasınata and nati, also called negativesamata: a “passive or purely receptive equality” gained by an “inhi-bition of the normal reactions of the mind to the touches of outwardthings” and a “separation of the self or spirit from the outward actionof Nature”...pasavipasavı (pashavi) — Kalı as ruler of the physical consciousness (pasu)...pasupasu (pashu) — animal; the human animal; the lowest of the ten typesof consciousness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale: mind con-centrated on the bodily life; “the animal power in the body”, which“might be divinely used for the greater purposes of the divinisedPurusha”...pasu-asurapasu-asura (pashu-asura; pashu asura) — the pasu stage of the asura


with which the first manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa begins, whenmind having evolved to the buddhi returns temporarily to a concen-tration on the bodily life...pasu devapasu deva (pashu deva) — the pasu of the deva type; the divinisedanimal-man...patalapatala — the underworld; a plane of “low physical nervosity” asso-ciated with visions in a shadowy (chayamaya) dimness; “the sub-conscient below the Earth — the Earth being the conscious physicalplane”, a domain where what has been rejected from the surface natureoften takes refuge...patrapatra — vessel, plate, lid; recipient; the object or person referred to oracted upon by the faculties of knowledge or power...pempegach (pepegach)pempegach (pepegach) [Bengali] — papaya tree...perceptional thought; perceptive jnanaperceptional thought; perceptive jnana — same as perceptive thought...perceptive thoughtperceptive thought — thought that comes as silent perception “with-out the aid of any suggestive or developing word”, a form of jnanadistinguished from vanmaya thought...personal dasyapersonal dasya — same as primary / simple dasya, also called egoisticdasya, the form of dasya in which one “learns, still using the personalwill, personal effort, personal energies, to employ them as represen-tatives of the higher Power and in conscious obedience to the higherInfluence”...phalahetuphalahetu — acting for the sake of the fruit...phalakanksaphalakanks.a (phalakanksha) — desire for the fruit of one’s acts...physical anandaphysical ananda — ananda revealing itself in the body “as an ecstasypouring into it from the heights of the spirit and the peace and bliss ofa pure and spiritualised physical existence”; same as sarırananda inits totality or in any of its five forms...physical bhogaphysical bhoga — physical ananda, or any of its forms, in the stateof bhoga (the second stage of bhukti), where the seizing of the rasain things is made concrete by the participation of the pran. a bringingin “the full sense of life and the occupying enjoyment by the wholebeing”...physical bhuktiphysical bhukti — bhukti in the physical body or sthula deha, consist-ing of physical ananda in its five forms (kamananda, vis.ayananda,tıvrananda, raudrananda and vaidyutananda) with the correspond-ing forms of bhoga and rasagrahan.a.


..physical kamanandaphysical kamananda — kamananda as physical ananda manifest-ing in the sthula deha or gross body, distinguished from subjectivekamananda...physical pranaphysical pran. a — “the life-energy as it acts in the body”, same assthula pran. a; the pran. a “directly involved in the body”, where “itproduces those reactions of hunger, thirst, fatigue, health, disease,physical vigour, etc. which are the vital experiences of the physicalframe”...physical siddhiphysical siddhi — the siddhi of the sarıra catus.t.aya or of any of itsmembers; any of the siddhis of the body which “although belongingto the dharma of the vijnana . . . act in the body and are strictly partof the physical siddhi”, forming the basis of utthapana...pisacapisaca (pishacha; pisacha) — demon; a kind of anti-divine being of thelower vital plane; the third of the ten types of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale: mind concentrated on the senses andconcerned with the knowledge of bodily life...pisaca-asurapisaca-asura (pishacha-asura; pisacha-asura; pisacha asura) — thepisaca stage of the asura, which evolves in the second and thirdmanvantaras of the sixth pratikalpa...pisaca-pramathapisaca-pramatha (pisacha-pramatha; pisacha pramatha; pisacho-pramatha) — the combination of pisaca and pramatha, which evolvesin the asura type in the third manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa...pisacipisacı (pisachi) — female pisaca; Kalı as ruler of the sensational mind...pisitarthipisitarthı (pishitarthi) — looking for meat...pitrlokapitr.loka (pitriloka) — the world of the divinised ancestors...plusplus [French] — more...point d’appuipoint d’appui [French] — point of support...politespolites [Greek] — freeman...positive anandapositive ananda — same as positive samata...positive asraddhapositive asraddha — same as samsaya, doubt...positive niranandapositive nirananda — the opposite of ananda; pain, distress, discom-fort...positive samatapositive samata — equality in one’s response to the contacts of theworld, consisting of (sama) rasa, (sama) bhoga and (sama) ananda,also called active samata: “a positive equality which accepts the phe-nomena of existence, but only as the manifestation of the one divinebeing and with an equal response to them which comes from the divine


nature in us and transforms them into its hidden values”...prabhrthaprabhr.tha (prabhritha) — bringing forward; offering...prabhuprabhu — the presiding Lord...prabhutvaprabhutva (prabhutwa) — lordship...pradhanapradhana — (in the Sankhya philosophy) the original, unevolved stateof Matter...pradivpradiv (pradiv; pradiva) — the “intermediate mentality”, a level ofconsciousness described as “pure mind in relation with nervous”; amental akasa defined as the ether of the “prano-manasic buddhi”behind the cittakasa...PradyumnaPradyumna — the aspect of the fourfold ısvara whose sakti is Maha-laks.mı, corresponding to the vaisya who represents the cosmic princi-ple of Harmony in the symbolism of the caturvarn. ya; he is “the sweetand throbbing heart in things” and he is identified with Vis.n. u...pragmaticpragmatic — (in 1919) having the nature of pragmatic reason, prag-matic intuitivity or pragmatic ideality...pragmatic gnosispragmatic gnosis — same as pragmatic ideality...pragmatic idealitypragmatic ideality — an inspirational form of logistic ideality which,applied to the field of trikaladr.s.t.i and tapas, takes the present actualityas a passing circumstance and “claims to go altogether beyond it, tocreate with a certain large freedom according to the Will”...pragmatic ideal tapaspragmatic ideal tapas — tapas acting in the pragmatic ideality...pragmatic intuitivitypragmatic intuitivity — the second form of intuitivity, correspondingon the level of the intuitive mind to the pragmatic reason on theintellectual plane; it is related to inspirational mentality and gives theperception of the “powers and forces which attempt to create a futurenot bound by the probabilities of the present”...pragmatic intuivitypragmatic intuivity — same as pragmatic intuitivity...pragmatic mentalitypragmatic mentality — same as pragmatic reason or pragmatic intu-itivity...pragmatic reasonpragmatic reason — the form of the thinking mind (buddhi) that “actscreatively as a mediator between the idea and the life-power, betweentruth of life and truth of the idea not yet manifested in life”...pragmatic tapaspragmatic tapas — tapas acting in the pragmatic intuitivity or prag-matic ideality...PrahladaPrahlada — a daitya, son of Hiran. yakasipu; he became a devotee ofVis.n. u, who as Narasimha intervened to save him from his hostile


environment...PrajapatiPrajapati — “the Lord of creatures”, the divine purus.a of whom allbeings are the manifestations; the deva presiding over janaloka; one of“the three primal Purushas of the earth life”, who appears after AgniTvas.t.a and Matarisvan in the form of the four Manus (also called“the four Prajapatis”); any of certain mental beings connected withthe terrestrial creation, one of whom is Manu Prajapati...prajavatprajavat — fruitful, “not barren, but full of the fruits of activity, richin the offspring of the soul”...prajnaprajna — “the Lord of Wisdom”, brahman in the last of the threestates symbolised by the letters of AUM, manifest behind virat. andhiran. yagarbha “in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infi-nite”; the Self (atman) supporting the deep sleep state (sus.upti) orcausal (karan. a) consciousness, “a luminous status of Sleep-self, amassed consciousness which is the origin of cosmic existence”...prajna-hiranya-viratprajna-hiran. ya-virat. — brahman in the three states symbolised by theletters of AUM, manifest in the superconscient as prajna, in the subtleworlds as hiran. yagarbha, and in the external universe as virat....prajnanaprajnana — intelligence; “the consciousness which holds an image ofthings before it as an object with which it has to enter into relationsand to possess by apprehension and a combined analytic and syntheticcognition”; a subordinate operation of vijnana which “by its powerof projecting, confronting, apprehending knowledge” is the “parent ofthat awareness by distinction which is the process of the Mind”...prajnanamaya vijnanaprajnanamaya vijnana — a lower kind of vijnana, which “puts theknowledge by identity more into the background and stresses morethe objectivity of the thing known”, becoming a form of prajnana,whose “characteristic movement, descending into the mind, becomesthe source of the peculiar nature of our mental knowledge”...prakamyaprakamya — a heightened power of mind and senses by which theconsciousness can exceed the limits normally imposed by the body andproject itself into other persons and objects to know what is in them,one of the two siddhis of knowledge whose combination constitutestelepathy...prakamya trikaladrstiprakamya trikaladr.s.t.i (prakamya trikaldrishti) — telepathic trikala-dr.s.t.i by means of prakamya...prakamya-vyaptiprakamya-vyapti (prakamya-vyapti; prakamyavyapti; prakamya


vyapti) — the combination of prakamya and vyapti, the two siddhisof knowledge, which constitutes telepathy...prakarsanaprakars.an. a (prakarshana) — stretching out; one of the five forms ofpain to be turned into raudrananda...prakasaprakasa (prakasha; prakash) — radiance, illumination, “transparentluminousness”; clarity of the thinking faculty, an element of bud-dhisakti; the divine light of knowledge into which sattva is transformedin the liberation (mukti) of the nature from the trigun. a of the lowerprakr.ti; the highest of the seven kinds of akashic material...prakasa-chayaprakasa-chaya (prakasha-chhaya) — rupa composed of prakasa andchaya combined...prakasa-chaya-tejasprakasa-chaya-tejas (prakasha-chhaya-tejas) — rupa composed ofprakasa, chaya and tejas combined...prakasamayaprakasamaya (prakashamaya; prakashamay) — full of prakasa; radi-ant; luminous; (rupa or lipi) composed of prakasa...prakasamaya samasprakasamaya samas (prakashamaya camas) — luminous peace; samasfull of prakasa, without tapas...prakasamaya tapasprakasamaya tapas (prakashamaya tapas) — luminous force...prakritic dasyaprakritic dasya — same as double / secondary dasya, an intermediateform of dasya in which “we perceive that Prakriti is the only doerof all our actions voluntary or involuntary from the most deliberatelyconcerted endeavour even to the simplest trifle”, though we remain“aware of ourselves as . . . the individual ruling & sanctioning author-ity” and “have the power of refusing our sanction to any particularimpulse of Prakriti if we choose”...prakrtiprakr.ti (prakriti) — nature; “the active force of Nature which by itsmotion creates and maintains and by its sinking into rest dissolvesthe phenomenon of the cosmos”; the universal energy acting for theenjoyment of the purus.a on all the planes of being; the “outer orexecutive side” of the sakti or Conscious Force of the ısvara, workingin the Ignorance (avidya) as the lower or apara prakr.ti and in theKnowledge (vidya) as the higher or para prakr.ti...prakrti-amsaprakr.ti-amsa (prakriti-angsha) — portion of universal nature...prakrti-jivaprakr.ti-jıva (prakriti-jiva) — the individual soul (jıva) realising itselfas a manifestation of prakr.ti or universal Nature; see jıva-prakr.ti...prakrtimprakr.tim yanti bhutani nigrahah. kim karis.yati (prakritim yantibhutani nigrahah kim karishyati) — “Creatures follow after nature;


what is the use of coercion?” [Gıta 3.33]..prakrti purusaprakr.ti purus.a (prakriti purusha) — same as purus.a-prakr.ti...pramadapramada — negligence; confusion; distraction...pramathapramatha — a kind of being on the lower vital plane, related to thepisaca; the fourth of the ten types of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in theevolutionary scale: mind concentrated on the heart and the emotionaland aesthetic part of the citta...pramatha-asurapramatha-asura (pramatha-asura) — the pramatha stage of the asura,which evolves in the fourth manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa...pramatha-raksasapramatha-raks.asa (pramatha-rakshasa) — the combination of pra-matha and raks.asa, which evolves in the asura type in the fifthmanvantara of the sixth pratikalpa...pramathesvaripramathesvarı (pramatheswari) — Kalı as ruler of the emotional mind(pramatha)...pramattapramatta — negligent, lax...pranapran. a — (literally) breath, “the breath drawn into and thrown outfrom the lungs and so, in its most material and common sense,the life or the life-breath”; the physical life-energy (sthula pran. a);the “essential life force” (mukhya pran. a) which is said “to occupyand act in the body with a fivefold movement”; any one of thefive workings of the vital force (pancapran. a), especially the firstof the five, associated with respiration, which “moves in the upperpart of the body and is preeminently the breath of life, because itbrings the universal Life-force into the physical system and gives itthere to be distributed”; the vital being or suks.ma pran. a; the vitalprinciple, the second of the three principles of the aparardha, “amiddle term between Mind and Matter, constituent of the latterand instinct with the former”, being in its nature “an operationof Conscious-Force [cit-tapas] which is neither the mere forma-tion of substance nor the operation of mind with substance andform as its object of apprehension”, but “rather an energising ofconscious being which is a cause and support of the formation ofsubstance and an intermediate source and support of conscious mentalapprehension”...prana-akasapran. a-akasa (prana-akasha; prana akasha) — same as pran. akasa...pranad ejadpran. ad ejad — that which breathes and moves. [Cf. Mun.d. aka Upani-s.ad 2.2.1]


..pranajagatpran. ajagat (pranajagat; prana jagat) — the vital world, the world (ja-gat) of pure life-force (pran. a), where “forms do not determine theconditions of the life, but it is life which determines the form, andtherefore forms are there much more free, fluid, largely and to ourconceptions strangely variable than in the material world”...pranakasapran. akasa (pranakasha; pranakash) — the vital ether, the akasa of thepran. ajagat; the vital ether of the material plane, the second akasa ofthe triloka in bhu...pranakosapran. akosa (pranakosha; prana-kosha) — the sheath (kosa) composedof life-energy (pran. a), “the life sheath or vital body” through which“the life-world [pran. ajagat] enters into relations with us”; it is “closelyconnected with the physical or food-sheath [annakosa] and forms withit the gross body [sthula deha] of our complex existence”...pranamayapran. amaya (pranamaya; pranamay) — consisting of pran. a; nervous,vital; the vital plane...pranamaya jagatpran. amaya jagat (pranamay jagat) — the vital world; same as pran. a-jagat...pranamaya purusapran. amaya purus.a (pranamaya purusha) — “the vital conscious be-ing”, the purus.a “as a soul of life, self-identified with a great movementof becoming in Time, which puts forth body as a form or basic sense-image and mind as a conscious activity of life-experience”; it “iscapable of looking beyond the duration and limits of the physicalbody, of feeling an eternity of life behind and in front, an identitywith a universal Life-being, but does not look beyond a constant vitalbecoming in Time”...pranamaya tapaspran. amaya tapas — vital power, “unquiet, full of desire or effort”,same as nervous tapas...pranan atarahpran. an atarah. — you have passed beyond the vital forces...prananyasapran. anyasa — directing vital energy to any part of the body; a practiceconnected with pran. ayama...pranasaktipran. asakti (pranashakti; prana-shakti) — life-force, “a pervading vitalforce other than the physical energy”, which one can come to feel“concretely with a mental sense, see its courses and movements, anddirect and act upon it immediately by the will”; pran. a as a universalforce “which in various forms sustains or drives material energy in allphysical things”; the power, capacity and right state of activity of thesuks.ma pran. a or vital being, one of the four kinds of sakti forming


the second member of the sakti catus.t.aya...prana sarirapran. a sarıra (prana sharira) — the “vital body” which belongs to thevital soul (pran. amaya purus.a), a body “composed of a substance muchsubtler than physical matter . . . a substance surcharged with consciousenergy”; it “penetrates and envelops the physical and is sensitive toimpacts of another kind, to the play of the vital forces around us andcoming in on us from the universe . . . or else from the vital planes andworlds which are behind the material universe”...pranasuddhipran. asuddhi — purification of the pancapran. a...pranasyapran. asya — of the vital being...pranayamapran. ayama — control of the vital currents of energy in the body byregulation of the breathing...pranipran. ı — breathing; living...pranic laghimapranic laghima — laghima (the siddhi of lightness and freedom fromfatigue) in the pran. a or nervous being...pranic mahimapranic mahima — mahima (the siddhi of unhampered force) in thepran. a or nervous being...pranic tapaspranic tapas — same as pran. amaya tapas...prasadaprasada — clearness; contentment; “an illumined ease and clarity”,same as atmaprasada...prasannataprasannata — clearness, “clear purity and gladness”, an element ofpran. asakti...pratibodhapratibodha — perception; inner awakening; experiential knowledge;realisation...pratidanapratidana — return; exchange...pratijnapratijna — promise; programme...pratikalpapratikalpa (pratikalpa; prati-kalpa; prati kalpa) — a period of a hun-dred caturyugas, one tenth of a kalpa, also divided into fourteenmanvantaras of several caturyugas each; each pratikalpa correspondsto one of the ten types or forms of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in theevolutionary scale, the present pratikalpa being regarded as the sixthin the current kalpa, the pratikalpa of the asura in which mind isconcentrated on the buddhi...pratimurtipratimurti — image; (as opposed to murti or “actual form”) the first ofthe two principal kinds of rupa, seen “in the personal consciousness asimage of a remote reality”, including “transcriptions . . . or impressesof physical things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or


will be or may be in the physical universe” and representations “notof the physical world, but of vital, psychic or mental worlds beyondus”...pratisthapratis.t.ha (pratishtha; pratistha) — foundation, support, pedestal;base, basis...pratisthitapratis.t.hita — founded, established...pratyaksapratyaks.a (pratyaksha) — (seeing) what is before the eyes, same aspratyaks.adarsana; self-evidence; revelation...pratyaksadarsanapratyaks.adarsana (pratyakshadarsana) — seeing what is before theeyes; direct vision...pravrttipravr.tti (pravritti) — literally “moving out and forward”; activity,“movement and impulsion and kinesis”; the will to act, a term in thefirst general formula of the sakti catus.t.aya; “the Divine Impulse whichacts through us”, the pure desireless impulsion (suddha pravr.tti) intowhich rajas is transformed in the liberation (mukti) of the naturefrom the trigun. a of the lower prakr.ti; “the ancient sempiternal urgeto action . . . which for ever proceeds without beginning or end fromthe original Soul of all existence”, one side of “the double movementof the Soul and Nature” whose other side is nivr.tti...prayasprayas — enjoyment, delight; “the soul’s satisfaction in its objects”...prayogaprayoga (prayoga; prayog) — application of any of the siddhis ofpower...premaprema — love; “the love which consecrates service, a love which asksfor no return, but spends itself for the satisfaction of that which welove”, an attribute of the sudra; an attribute of Mahalaks.mı and ofPradyumna; short for premananda; (on page 1281) the name of asvarga...prema anandaprema ananda — same as premananda...premaprema bhavasamr.ddhih. saundaryalipsa snehahasyam — love, rich-ness of feeling, the urge towards beauty, laughter of affection (theattributes of Mahalaks.mı)...premabhogapremabhoga — premananda in the state of bhoga...premahasyampremahasyam — laughter of love, an element of Mahalaks.mı bhavaand a form of devıhasya...premakamapremakama (premakama; prema-kama) — prema and kama1, two at-tributes of the sudra; short for premakamananda...prema,prema, kama, dasyalipsatmasamarpan. am — love, desire, the urge


towards service (dasyalipsa), self-giving (atmasamarpan. a): the at-tributes of the sudra...premakamanandapremakamananda (prema-kamananda; prema kamananda) — prema-nanda combined with (subjective) kamananda...premamayapremamaya — full of love; of the nature of premananda...premamaya virodhapremamaya virodha — loving opposition...premanandapremananda — the ananda of love, the form of subjective ananda thatmanifests in the vital-emotional being (pran. a and citta); the “funda-mental ecstasy of being” translated “in the heart into a wide or deepor passionate delight of universal union and love and sympathy andthe joy of beings and the joy of things”...prema nathaprema natha — Lord of Love...premasamarthyampremasamarthyam (premasamarthyam; prema samarthyam) — “ca-pacity for unbounded love for all beings”, an element of cittasakti...preranapreran. a — inspiration, especially when it “comes as the actual word. . . revealing its meaning”; inspiration as part of the linguistic fac-ulty (bhas.asakti), giving the meanings of unknown words; writing invarious languages received by inspiration...present gnosispresent gnosis — same as actualistic ideality...present trikaladrstipresent trikaladr.s.t.i — the intuitive knowledge of things in the present“that are beyond the range of our physical senses or the reach of anymeans of knowledge open to the surface intelligence”...primary dasyaprimary dasya — the lowest form of dasya, also called simple dasya orpersonal / egoistic dasya, whose sign is obedience, “a free subjectionof the Will on the basis of a potential independence”; the relation withthe ısvara in which the jıva is “a servant of God”...primary idealityprimary ideality — in May-June 1918, the same as inferior idealityduring the same period; cf. the logistic ideality of 1919-20...primary logistic gnosisprimary logistic gnosis — same as intuitional ideality...primary utthapanaprimary utthapana — the first stage of utthapana, consisting of the fullforce of laghima, mahima and an. ima in the mind stuff and psychicpran. a “so that the mind rejects all exhaustion, weariness, depressionof force etc.”, extended also to the physical pran. a; exercise in the formof walking (often called “physical activity”) to develop this utthapanain the body...prithiviprithivi — see pr.thivı...prithivimayaprithivimaya — see pr.thivımaya.


..pritiprıti (priti; pritih) — pleasure; gladness; the “pleasure of the mind”in the rasa of all experience; an intense delight which “assumes theplace of the scattered and external pleasure of the mind in existence orrather it draws all other delight into it and transforms by a marvellousalchemy the mind’s and the heart’s feelings and all sense movements”;sometimes substituted for bhoga as the second stage of active / positivesamata or bhukti; an element of Mahasarasvatı bhava...pritihprıtih. daks.yam danapratidanalipsa anandıbhava (pritih dakshyamdanapratidanalipsa anandibhava) — pleasure, skill, the tendency togive and receive, joyfulness...priyapriya (priya; priyam) — pleasant, liked; that which is liked; the senseof liking...priya-apriyapriya-apriya (priya-apriya; priya apriya) — the dvandva of pleasantand unpleasant, liked and disliked...priyampriyam — see priya...priyapriyabodhapriyapriyabodha — the sense of things or persons who are liked anddisliked...prthivi1pr.thivı1 (prithivi) — earth; the objective world, same as bhu; Matter,“the earth-principle creating habitations of physical form for the soul”;the lowest of the pancabhuta, material energy in the state “of cohesion,termed earth or the solid state”; the physical consciousness...Prthivi2Pr.thivı2 (Prithivi) — the earth-goddess, a manifestation of Aditi in thelower hemisphere of existence (aparardha)...prthivimayapr.thivımaya (prithivimaya) — composed of earth; consisting of thebhuta called pr.thivı1...prthu pajahpr.thu pajah. — wide mass of strength...prthvi prasitipr.thvı prasiti — wide movement. [Cf. R. g Veda 4.4.1]..prthvim prasitimpr.thvım prasitim — same as pr.thvı prasiti...prthvi trsvi prasitipr.thvı tr.s.vı prasiti — wide and swift movement. [Cf. R. g Veda 4.4.1]..psychic pranapsychic pran. a — “the life-energy as it acts in support of the mentalactivities”, also called suks.ma pran. a; the pran. a in its psychologicalaspect, which, however, normally “leans on the physical life, limitsitself by the nervous force of the physical being, limits thereby theoperations of the mind and becomes the link of its dependence on thebody and its subjection to fatigue, incapacity, disease, disorder”...pulavpulav (pullao) [Hindi] — a dish of seasoned rice and usually meat orfish.


..PulindaPulinda — member of a mountain-dwelling tribe; barbarian.

..pullaopullao — see pulav.

..purahpurah. — fortresses, cities; (in Vedic symbolism) worlds.

..pure inevitablepure inevitable — (vak) having the inevitable quality of style in itsmost absolute form, “a speech overwhelmingly sheer, pure and true, aquintessential essence of convincingly perfect utterance”...pure trikaladrstipure trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — same as non-telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i...purisapurıs.a (purisha) — excrement, stool, the solid matter discharged inparthiva visr.s.t.i; short for purıs.a visr.s.t.i...purisa visrstipurıs.a visr.s.t.i (purisha visrishti) — discharge of purıs.a, same as parthi-va visr.s.t.i...purnapurn. a — full; complete; integral...purnabrahmadrstipurn. abrahmadr.s.t.i (purnabrahmadrishti) — vision of the totality ofbrahman...purnatapurn. ata — fullness of vital force, an element of pran. asakti...purnata,purn. ata, prasannata, samata, bhogasamarthyam — fullness, clear-ness, equality, capacity for enjoyment (the elements of pran. asakti)...purnata,purn. ata, prasannata, samata, bhogasamarthyam, iti pran. asaktih.(purnata, prasannata, samata, bhogasamarthyam, iti pranashaktih) —fullness, clearness, equality, capacity for enjoyment: these constitutethe power of the life-force...purna yogapurn. a yoga — integral yoga, a spiritual path whose aim is “union withthe being, consciousness and delight of the Divine [saccidananda]through every part of our human nature . . . so that the whole may betransformed into a divine nature of being”; its central method is forthe individual “to spiritualise his being by the power of the soul inmind opening itself directly to a higher spiritual force and being andto perfect by that higher force [sakti] so possessed and brought intoaction the whole of his nature”...purna yoginpurn. a yogin — one who practises purn. a yoga...purohitapurohita — “put in front”...purohitipurohiti — placing in front...purusapurus.a (purusha) — man; person; soul; spirit; the Self (atman) “asoriginator, witness, support and lord and enjoyer of the forms andworks of Nature” (prakr.ti); the conscious being, universal or individ-ual, observing and upholding the activity of Nature on any plane ofexistence; the infinite divine Person (purus.ottama), “the Existent who


transcends all definition by personality and yet is always that whichis the essence of personality”; any of the ten types of consciousness(dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale...purusa brahmapurus.a brahma (purusha brahma) — brahman seen in its personalaspect as the purus.a, “the divine Person who knows himself in allthese things and persons and becomes all things and persons in hisconsciousness and shapes their thoughts and forms”...purusa-prakrtipurus.a-prakr.ti (purusha-prakriti; purusha prakriti) — “the great du-ality, Soul-Nature” which “in aspect separate, is inseparable”, thedualism of purus.a, “a witness recipient observing experiencing Con-sciousness which does not appear to act but for which all these activitiesinside and outside us seem to be undertaken and continue” and prakr.ti,“an executive Force or an energy of Process which is seen to constitute,drive and guide all conceivable activities and to create a myriad formsvisible to us and invisible and use them as stable supports for its in-cessant flux of action and creation”. On the lower planes of existence,purus.a-prakr.ti differs from ısvara-sakti in that “Purusha and Prakritiare separate powers, but Ishwara and Shakti contain each other”,but at “a certain spiritual and supramental level”, this dual powerbecomes “perfectly Two-in-one, the Master Soul with the ConsciousForce within it, and its potentiality disowns all barriers and breaksthrough every limit”; in the perception of the world, the darsana ofpurus.a-prakr.ti in all things and beings rises to the vision of Kr.s.n. akalı...purusottamapurus.ottama (purushottama; purushottam) — the supreme Soul, thesupreme Being, “the supernal Person of whom all self and nature, allbeing and becoming in this or any universe are the self-conceptionand the self-energising”; the highest purus.a, who manifests himself inthe aks.ara (immutable) and the ks.ara (mutable), as purus.a poised inhimself and purus.a active in prakr.ti...purusottama-paraprakrtipurus.ottama-paraprakr.ti (purushottama-paraprakriti)—the supremeBeing one with his supreme Nature; the “biune” duality of purus.a andprakr.ti on the highest plane of existence...puru visvapuru visva janima manus.an. am (puru vicva janima manushanam) —all the many births of men. [R. g Veda 7.62.1]..PusanPus.an (Pushan) — “the Increaser”, a name or form of the Vedic sun-god, Surya2, who progressively “enlarges and opens man’s dark andlimited being into a luminous and infinite consciousness”.


Q

..quadruple bhavaquadruple bhava — the combination of all four aspects of daivıprakr.ti, in which Mahakalı is the “inhabitant” of the Mahasarasvatı“continent” on the basis of the calm of Mahesvarı and with thecolouring of Mahalaks.mı...quaternary dasyaquaternary dasya — (in January 1913) the highest of four degrees ofdasya, also called supreme dasya or “the dasya of the supreme degreewhich obeys helplessly the direct impulse of the Master”, correspond-ing to the third stage of tertiary dasya in the classification used fromSeptember 1913 onwards...quaternary dasyabuddhiquaternary dasyabuddhi — the sense of quaternary dasya; same asturıya dasyabuddhi.

R

..rabhasrabhas — impetuosity of force or rapture.

..radhasradhas — riches; joy, felicity.

..ragaraga — liking, attraction.

..ragadvesaragadves.a (ragadwesha; raga-dwesha) — attraction and repulsion.

..rajamsirajamsi (rajansi) — “active forcefulnesses”; activities of tapas (in theinterpretation of a sortilege from R. g Veda 1.180.1)...rajasrajas — (etymologically) “the shining”; (in the Veda) the antariks.a,“the middle world, the vital or dynamic plane” between heaven (themental plane) and earth (the physical); “luminous power” establishedin this intermediate realm; (post-Vedic) the second of the three modes(trigun. a) of the energy of the lower prakr.ti, the gun. a that is “theseed of force and action” and “creates the workings of energy”; it isa deformation of tapas or pravr.tti, the corresponding quality in thehigher prakr.ti, and is converted back into pure tapas or pravr.tti in theprocess of traigun. yasiddhi. This kinetic force “has its strongest holdon the vital nature”, where it “turns always to action and desire”,but “finding itself in a world of matter which starts from the principleof inconscience and a mechanical driven inertia, has to work againstan immense contrary force; therefore its whole action takes on thenature of an effort, a struggle, a besieged and an impeded conflict forpossession which is distressed in its every step by a limiting incapacity,


disappointment and suffering”...rajasic udasinatarajasic udasınata — udasınata achieved by means proper to the gun. aof rajas: “the indifference of the moral hero, of the stoic”, whichis “enforced by effort, sustained by resolution, habitualised by longself-discipline”...rajasika udasinatarajasika udasınata (rajasik udasinata) — same as rajasic udasınata...rajayogarajayoga — a psychological science of yoga which depends on anelaborate training of the whole mental system...raja-yoginraja-yogin — one who practises rajayoga...rajogunarajogun. a — the gun. a of rajas...raksasraks.as (rakshas) — (in the Veda) a type of hostile entity, “the detainer”...raksasaraks.asa (rakshasa) — same as raks.as; giant, ogre; a kind of anti-divinebeing of the middle vital plane; the fifth of the ten types of conscious-ness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale: mind concentrated on thethinking manas (sensational mind). It is the raks.asa “who first be-gins really to think, but his thought is . . . egoistic & turned towardssensation”, seeking “a gross egoistic satisfaction in all the life of themind, prana & body”; the “divine use of the Rakshasa force” wouldcome when it is “changed from a nervous egoism to a sort of powerfuldynamic utility on that plane”...raksasa-asuraraks.asa-asura (rakshasa-asura; rakshasa asura) — same as raks.asa-sura...raksasasuraraks.asasura (rakshasasura) — a combination of raks.asa and asura;the raks.asa of the asura type, who evolves in the sixth manvantara ofthe sixth pratikalpa...raksasiraks.ası (rakshasi) — female raks.asa; Kalı as ruler of the thinking sense-mind...raksaso ni yataraks.aso ni yata — assail the raks.as powers. [R. g Veda 5.42.10]..raksasviraks.asvı (rakshaswi) — (in the Veda) a hostile entity, one of “thepowers who detain”; same as raks.as...RamaRama — the seventh avatara of Vis.n. u, “the divinely-natured man”,destroyer of Ravan.a; his work was “to fix for the future the possibilityof an order proper to the sattwic civilised human being . . . in a worldstill occupied by anarchic forces”...rapports avec la Soc. Theosophrapports avec la Soc. Theosoph [Societe Theosophique] [French] — re-lations with the Theosophical Society...rapports avec la T.S.rapports avec la T.S. [French] — see preceding.


..rasarasa (rasa; rasah) — sap, juice; body-fluid; “the upflow of essentialbeing in the form, that which is the secret of its self-delight”, whoseperception is the basis of the sensation of taste; a non-material (suks.ma)taste; the suks.ma vis.aya of subtle taste; (short for rasadr.s.t.i) the subtlesense of taste; “the pure taste of enjoyment” in all things, a form ofananda “which the understanding can seize on and the aesthesis feel asthe taste of delight in them”; (also called sama rasa or rasagrahan.a)the perception by the mind of the essential quality (gun. a) in eachobject of experience, the “essence of delight” in it, the first stage ofactive / positive samata or bhukti...rasabhogarasabhoga — full enjoyment (bhoga) of the rasa or essence of delightin all things, a term used for the third state of bhukti when the secondstate is called rasaprıti, equivalent to ananda as “the divine bhogasuperior to all mental pleasure with which God enjoys the rasa”...rasadrstirasadr.s.t.i (rasadrishti) — the perception of tastes imperceptible to theordinary physical sense; the subtle sense (suks.ma indriya) of taste, oneof the faculties of vis.ayadr.s.t.i...rasagandharasagandha — the subtle smell of things tasted...rasagrahanarasagrahan. a (rasagrahana; rasa-grahana; rasagrahanam) — the seiz-ing of the rasa or “principle of delight” in things, “an enlightenedenjoyment principally by the perceptive, aesthetic and emotive mind,secondarily only by the sensational, nervous and physical being”, thefirst of the three states of bhukti, in which the mind “gets the puretaste of enjoyment” of all experience “and rejects whatever is per-turbed, troubled and perverse”; same as (sama) rasa, the first stage ofactive / positive samata...rasagrahanamrasagrahan. am — see rasagrahan. a...rasahrasah. — see rasa...rasah,rasah. , prıtir anandah. [iti sarvanandah. ] — rasa, prıti and anandaconstitute sarvananda or complete delight...rasajnanamrasajnanam — knowledge or appreciation of rasa...rasapritirasaprıti — the pleasure (prıti) of the mind in the rasa or essence ofdelight in all things, a term used for the second stage of bhukti...rasasuddhirasasuddhi (rasashuddhi) — purification of the body-fluids...ratharatha — chariot; joy; a Vedic symbol of “the happy movement of theAnanda”...ratharatha — (coined from the same root as ratha) the highest intensity


of each of the three states of bhukti called rasagrahan. a, bhoga andananda...ratirati — pleasure; the lowest intensity of each of the three states of bhukticalled rasagrahan. a, bhoga and ananda...ratnaratna — (in the Veda) delight; the second intensity of each of the threestates of bhukti called rasagrahan. a, bhoga and ananda...rattachementrattachement [French] — connection...raudraraudra — fierce, violent; short for raudrananda...raudraraudra — see raudra Kalı...raudra anandaraudra ananda — same as raudrananda...raudra Kaliraudra Kalı — the fierce aspect of Kalı, “the Mother of all and de-stroyer of all”, who “saves by her destructions”; prakr.ti or saktiexpressing the nature of Rudra2...raudranandaraudrananda — fierce or violent delight; a form of sarırananda asso-ciated with the conversion of suffering into ananda. It arises “whenthis human being, imprisoned in matter, subjected to mind, emergesfrom his subjection, conquers his mind and delivers himself utterlyin his body, realising his true anandamaya self in every part of theadhara”, so that “physical pain itself, the hardest thing for materialman to bear, changes its nature in experience” and becomes a kind ofphysical ananda...raudrataraudrata — fierceness, violence...raudryamraudryam — fierceness, violence, intensity; force, an attribute ofBalarama...RavanaRavan. a — the ten-headed raks.asa king slain by Rama; “the type of thesensational & emotional Rakshasa-Asura” (see raks.asasura), powerfulas the result of a tapasya which was “a self-disciplining for a moreintelligently victorious self-indulgence”...RbhusR. bhus (Ribhus) — the name of three Vedic gods or demigods, the “ar-tisans of Immortality”; they “are represented as human beings whohave attained to the condition of godhead by power of knowledgeand perfection in their works” and act as “energies of formation andupward progress who assist the gods in the divinising of man”...receptive telepathyreceptive telepathy — same as receptive vyapti...receptive vyaptireceptive vyapti — the form of vyapti by which “the thoughts, feelingsetc. of others or any kind of knowledge of things outside yourself arefelt coming to the mind from those things or persons”.


..recursusrecursus [Latin] — retreat, falling back.

..referencereference — same as sortilege.

..refulgent vanmayarefulgent vanmaya — the movement of vanmaya thought in which thethought-perception aids itself “by a suggestive inward speech thatattends it to bring out its whole significance”...representativerepresentative — (in 1920) being of the nature of a luminous thought-representation of truth which is “a partial manifestation of a greaterknowledge existing in the self but not at the time present to the immedi-ately active consciousness”, related to smr.ti and its faculty of intuitionin its power of “recalling as it were to the spirit’s knowledge the truththat is called out more directly by the higher powers” of interpretativeand purely revelatory vision; specifically, pertaining to the highest formof intuitive revelatory logistis, called representative revelatory vijnana,or to the lowest element in the highest representative ideality; (in 1927)short for representative imperative...representative highest vijnanarepresentative highest vijnana — same as representative revelatoryvijnana...representative idealityrepresentative ideality — see highest representative ideality...representative imperativerepresentative imperative — (c. 1920) a form of logos vijnana formedby a combination of its representative and imperative elements; (inearly 1927) the lowest form of “the imperative”, evidently representa-tive vijnana taken up into imperative vijnana and that again elevatedto one of the lower planes of what by the end of 1927 was calledovermind...representative-interpretativerepresentative-interpretative — having the nature of interpretative rev-elatory vijnana (the highest inspired revelatory logistis) combinedwith representative revelatory vijnana (the highest intuitive revelatorylogistis)...representative logisrepresentative logis — same as representative revelatory vijnana (“lo-gis” may be a slip of the pen for “logistis”)...representative revelatory vijnanarepresentative revelatory vijnana — (in 1920) the highest form of in-tuitive revelatory logistis...representative vijnanarepresentative vijnana — same as representative revelatory vijnana or(in October 1920) highest representative ideality...revelationrevelation — the act of revealing; same as dr.s.t.i, truth-seeing, the facultyof jnana that “makes evident to a present vision the thing in itself ofwhich the idea is the representation”; also, an instance of the working


of this faculty; sometimes equivalent to revelatory logistis, the highestplane of logistic ideality...revelational idealityrevelational ideality — same as revelatory logistic ideality...revelational-inspirationalrevelational-inspirational — having the nature of revelatory inspira-tion...revelativerevelative intuition viveka — smr.ti (intuition and viveka) combinedwith dr.s.t.i (revelation)...revelatoryrevelatory — having the nature of revelation (dr.s.t.i), as it acts on thelevel of revelatory logistis or another level of ideality or intuitive mind,often in combination with intuition or inspiration; (in 1920) sometimesequivalent to full revelatory, sometimes to lower revelatory...revelatory gnosisrevelatory gnosis — same as revelatory logistis...revelatory idealrevelatory ideal — having the nature of revelatory ideality...revelatory idealityrevelatory ideality — same as revelatory logistis...revelatory inspirationrevelatory inspiration — inspiration filled with revelation; same as rev-elatory inspired logistis...revelatoryrevelatory inspirational ideality; revelatory inspirational vijnana —same as revelatory inspired logistis...revelatory inspiredrevelatory inspired — having the nature of revelatory inspiration...revelatory inspired logistisrevelatory inspired logistis — the highest form of inspired logistis, inwhich inspiration is filled with revelation...revelatory interpretativerevelatory interpretative — perhaps the same as interpretative revela-tory, or pertaining to the highest form of interpretative revelatoryvijnana...revelatory intuitionrevelatory intuition — intuition with an element of revelation; the high-est form of intuitional ideality...revelatory intuitionalrevelatory intuitional — having the nature of revelatory intuition...revelatory intuitional idealityrevelatory intuitional ideality — same as revelatory intuition...revelatory intuitiverevelatory intuitive — same as revelatory intuitional...revelatory intuitive vijnanarevelatory intuitive vijnana — same as revelatory intuition...revelatory logisticrevelatory logistic — having the nature of revelatory logistis...revelatory logistic idealityrevelatory logistic ideality — same as revelatory logistis...revelatory logistisrevelatory logistis — the highest level of logistic ideality, where revela-tion (dr.s.t.i) determines the predominant character of the working ofthe luminous reason...revelatory mentalityrevelatory mentality — the highest level of idealised mentality, a “mindof luminous revelation” which, in dealing with the movement in time,


“sees what is determined behind the play of potentialities and actuali-ties”...revelatory representativerevelatory representative — same as lower revelatory representative...revelatory tapasrevelatory tapas — tapas acting in the revelatory logistis...revelatory trikaladrstirevelatory trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i by means of reve-lation; the highest level of trikaladr.s.t.i on the first plane of ideality...revelatory vijnanarevelatory vijnana — vijnana of a predominantly revelatory character;same as revelatory logistis or full revelatory ideality...revelatory vijnanamayarevelatory vijnanamaya — having the nature of revelatory vijnana...rf.rf. — abbreviation of reference (see sortilege)...rhathumiarhathumia [Greek] — easy-going temper; a characteristic of Maha-sarasvatı: “the leaving things to take care of themselves instead ofinsisting by the ideal tapas upon perfection”...rhathumosrhathumos [Greek] — easy-going...RibhusRibhus — see R. bhus...rijuriju — see r.ju...rikrik — see r.k...rinamrinam — see r.n. am...rishirishi — see r.s.i...ritarita, etc. — see r.ta, etc...rjur.ju (riju) — straight...rjutamahimar.jutamahima — greatness of the rectitude of the will, an element ofMahesvarı bhava...rkr.k (rik) — a verse of the R. g Veda...rnamr.n. am (rinam) — debt; the aspect of r.tam that relates to “our debts ofthe Ignorance”; motion, “the right movement”...rnayar.n. aya — in motion, following the right movement...rocanarocana (rochana) — (in the Veda) the three “shining realms” of svar,forming the luminous summit of the mental plane, where “a divineLight radiates out towards our mentality” from “the vast regions ofthe Truth”...rogaroga — illness, disease; bodily disorder, considered to be due to vari-ous causes including impurities or imbalances in the pancabhuta andpancapran. a, functional defects, materialisation of “false illness, for-mulated in symptom and not in root in the sukshma body and thencepressed upon the sthula”, or simply “the habit of disease”; same asrogasakti.


..rogamayarogamaya — diseased, unhealthy.

..rogasaktirogasakti (rogashakti) — the force of disease, seen as an immaterialagent of disorder attacking the body from outside...rogasarirarogasarıra (rogasharira) — body subject to disease...rsir.s.i (rishi) — seer; one who possesses the power of “internal vision,dr.s.t.i, . . . a sort of light in the soul by which things unseen become asevident and real to it — to the soul and not merely to the intellect —as do things seen to the physical eye”...rtar.ta (rita) — true, right; (of the nature of) r.tam...rtadharmar.tadharma (ritadharma) — the law of the truth...rtamr.tam (ritam) — truth, right; right ordering; truth of fact and arrange-ment; “ordered truth of active being”, one of the three terms expressingthe nature of vijnana (see satyam r.tam br.hat)...rtam jyotihr.tam jyotih. (ritam jyotih; jyoti) — truth-light; the light of divine truth...rtam satyam brhatr.tam satyam br.hat (ritam satyam brihat) — ordered truth, essentialtruth and vastness; same as satyam r.tam br.hat...rtva viliyanter.tva vilıyante — strike and are dissolved...rudra1rudra1 — fierce, violent, vehement; strong, forceful; same as raudra...Rudra2Rudra2 — “the terrible”, a Vedic deity who is “the Violent and Mer-ciful, the Mighty One, . . . the armed, wrathful and beneficent Powerof God who lifts forcibly the creation upward, smites all that opposes,scourges all that errs and resists, heals all that is wounded and suf-fers”; (in the plural) gods with the qualities of this deity, “the fierce,impetuous ones”, such as the Maruts; in later Hinduism, a name ofSiva as the Destroyer, one of the “three Powers and Personalities ofthe One Cosmic Godhead”, of which the other two are Brahma, theCreator, and Vis.n. u, the Preserver; in the Record of Yoga, sometimesidentified with the Balarama personality of the fourfold ısvara...rudra anandarudra ananda — vehement delight...rudrabhavarudrabhava — vehement temperament; vehemence, forcefulness...rudranandarudrananda — same as raudrananda...RudraniRudran. ı — the sakti or devı expressing the energy of Rudra2...rudra premarudra prema — violent love; the form of universal prema which “man-ifests itself in the adverse movements & associates itself with anger,opposition etc turning them to rudrata pure”...rudra saktirudra sakti (rudrashakti; rudra shakti) — vehement force; the soul-power or element of vırya that expresses the personality of the fourfold


ısvara as Rudra2 or Balarama...rudratarudrata — vehement intensity...rudra tapasrudra tapas — vehement power...rudra tapatyarudra tapatya — vehement tapatya...rudra tejasrudra tejas — vehement energy...Rudra-VisnuRudra-Vis.n. u (Rudra-Vishnu; Rudra Vishnu) — Rudra2 and Vis.n. uforming one deity; Vis.n.u, as the universal deva, putting forward hisRudra aspect; the combination of the Rudra or Balarama and Vis.n.uor Pradyumna personalities of the fourfold ısvara...ruparupa — form; image; a non-material (suks.ma) form, any of “thosesensible forms of which only the subtle grasp of the inner conscious-ness can become aware”, which may be of either of two principalkinds, “mere image” (pratimurti) or “actual form” (murti); the suks.mavis.aya of subtle form; (short for rupadr.s.t.i) the faculty of seeing subtleimages. Such images “are very variously seen and under all kinds ofconditions; in samadhi [especially svapnasamadhi] or in the wakingstate [jagrat], and in the latter with the bodily eyes closed [antardarsı]or open [bahirdarsı], projected on or into a physical object or medium[sadhara] or seen as if materialised in the physical atmosphere oronly in a psychical ether revealing itself through this grosser physicalatmosphere [akasarupa]”...rupadrstirupadr.s.t.i (rupadrishti; rupa drishti) — the perception of forms invisi-ble to the ordinary physical eye; subtle vision, the faculty of vis.ayadr.s.t.ithat “is the most developed ordinarily and the first to manifest itselfwith any largeness when the veil of the absorption in the surface con-sciousness which prevents the inner vision is broken”, called rupadr.s.t.i(as opposed to darsana) especially when it is a seeing of the first of thetwo main kinds of rupa, which is seen not “as actual form of things”but “as image of a remote reality”...rupadrsyarupadr.sya (rupadrishya; rupa-drishya; rupa drishya) — (in 1917) vi-sion of images in samadhi; same as rupadr.s.t.i...rupamrupam — form...rupa-samadhirupa-samadhi (rupa-samadhi; rupasamadhi; rupa samadhi) — rupaand samadhi, sometimes regarded as a single part of vijnana...rupasiddhirupasiddhi (rupasiddhi; rupa-siddhi; rupa siddhi) — the faculty of see-ing subtle forms or images...rupa-visayarupa-vis.aya (rupa-vishaya; rupa vishaya) — rupadr.s.t.i and vis.ayadr.s.t.i;


an object seen in rupadr.s.t.i...RussieRussie [French] — Russia...rutirut.i [Bengali] — flat unleavened bread; chapati.

S

..sasa — he; “the Existent self-aware and self-blissful”.

..sasa — she.

..sabdasabda (shabda; sabda) — sound; word; a non-material (suks.ma)sound; the suks.ma vis.aya of subtle sound; (short for sabdadr.s.t.i)the subtle sense of hearing...sabdadrstisabdadr.s.t.i (shabdadrishti) — the perception of sounds inaudible to theordinary physical ear; (also called sravan. a) subtle hearing, one of thefaculties of vis.ayadr.s.t.i...saccidanandasaccidananda (sachchidananda; sacchidananda) — “the triune princi-ple of transcendent and infinite Existence [sat], Consciousness [cit] andBliss [ananda] which is the nature of divine being” and “the origin,the continent, the initial and the ultimate reality of all that is in thecosmos”; in its supreme manifestation in which the three poises orworlds (lokas) called satyaloka, tapoloka and janaloka are sometimesdistinguished, “the consciousness of unity dominates; the soul livesin its awareness of eternity, universality, unity, and whatever diversitythere is, is not separative, but only a multitudinous aspect of oneness”.Saccidananda is “the highest positive expression of the Reality to ourconsciousness” and “at once impersonal and personal”, though theneuter form saccidanandam is sometimes used for the impersonalaspect, describing the nature of brahman, while the personal aspect ofsaccidananda is identified with the ısvara...saccidanandamsaccidanandam (sacchidanandam) — saccidananda in its impersonalaspect as brahman, “That which Is, which, being, comprehends Itsown existence, which, comprehending, has in its silence of being or inits play of comprehension a self-existent delight”...sadanamsadanam — seat, abode...sadanandasadananda — “Ananda of pure existence apart from all objects and ex-periences”, one of the seven forms of ananda, consisting of the delightof existence absorbed in unconditioned being (sat), where it is “at restin peace of existence”; together with cidananda and suddhananda it


comprises kaivalyananda, the bliss of the absolute, a term also appliedto sadananda by itself...sadarsa samadhisadarsa samadhi (sadarsha samadhi) — samadhi with inner vision onthe plane of vijnana...sad atmansad atman — the Self (atman) as Being (sat), “a pure Existence . . .from which all things and activities proceed and which supports ev-erything”...sad brahmansad brahman — brahman as sat, pure Being, which “is the affirmationby the Unknowable of Itself as the free base of all cosmic existence”,same as sat brahman...sadhakasadhaka (sadhaka; sadhak) — one who practises sadhana...sadhanasadhana (sadhana; sadhan) — spiritual discipline; practice of yoga; theprocess or method leading to siddhi...sadhana-ksetrasadhana-ks.etra (sadhan-kshetra) — the field of sadhana; the imme-diate environment, including “movements of birds, beasts, insects,people around”, as a field of exercise and experiment, especially forthe development of tapas, telepathy and trikaladr.s.t.i...sadhana saktisadhana sakti (sadhana shakti) — the Power that directs the yoga...sadhana tapassadhana tapas — tapas applied to sadhana...sadharasadhara — (subtle sense-perception) with the support (adhara) of aphysical sensation; (rupa or lipi) seen on a background or “projectedon or into a physical object or medium”; short for sadhara akasa,sadhara lipi or sadhara rupa...sadhara akasasadhara akasa (sadhara akasha) — (rupa or lipi) seen in the ether(akasa) against a background, or created from the akasa and “thrownon the background to help the distinctness”...sadharadrstisadharadr.s.t.i (sadharadrishti) — subtle (suks.ma) sense-perceptionstimulated by or superimposed on gross physical (sthula) sensations;vision of sadhara rupa...sadhara lipisadhara lipi — lipi seen on a background...sadhara rasasadhara rasa — subtle taste-perception with the support of a physicaltaste...sadhara rupasadhara rupa — rupa seen on a background...sadhara visayasadhara vis.aya (sadhara vishaya) — subtle sense-perception (vis.aya-dr.s.t.i) with the support or stimulus of a physical sensation...sadharmyasadharmya — becoming of one law of being and action with theDivine.


..sadhyasadhya — same as sadhyadeva.

..sadhyadevasadhyadeva — a term for the eighth of the ten types of consciousness(dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale, also called siddhadeva: mindraised to the plane of ananda...sadripus.ad. ripu (shadripu) — the six inner enemies, usually listed as lust, anger,greed, arrogance, delusion, envy...sa ekahsa ekah. — He, the One...sagunasagun. a (saguna; sagunam) — with qualities; characterised by a percep-tion of the gun. as or “qualities in universal Being” of which all thingsare the manifestation; brahman in the action of the three gun. as of thelower prakr.ti, self-displayed as “the creator and originator of worksin the mutable becoming”; short for sagun. a brahman...sagunabodhasagun. abodha — consciousness of sagun. a brahman...saguna brahmasagun. a brahma — same as sagun. a brahman...saguna brahmadrstisagun. a brahmadr.s.t.i (saguna brahmadrishti) — vision of sagun. a brah-man...saguna brahmansagun. a brahman — brahman with qualities, the active brahman,whose “being assumes by conscious Will all kinds of properties[gun. as], shapings of the stuff of conscious being, habits as it wereof cosmic character and power of dynamic self-consciousness”; itprovides the basis of “general personality” in the vision of brahman(brahmadarsana) from which emerge the bhavas or “states of percep-tion” of the purus.a that reveal the “divine secret behind personality”...sagunamsagun. am — see sagun. a...saguna-nirgunasagun. a-nirgun. a — both sagun. a (possessing qualities) and nirgun. a(free from qualities); same as sagun. a-nirgun. a brahman...saguna-nirguna brahmansagun. a-nirgun. a brahman — brahman perceived in the unity of its“two essential modes” as equally sagun. a (“qualitied”) and nirgun. a(“unqualitied”); sagun. a brahman, “a fundamental divine Reality whois the source and container and master of all relations and determina-tions”, realised on the foundation of nirgun. a brahman, “a fundamen-tal divine Reality free from all relations or determinates”...sahaitukasahaituka — having a cause (hetu); associated with a stimulus; (withreference to any kind of physical ananda or certain types of subjec-tive ananda) awakened by a sensation or object; short for sahaitukaananda...sahaituka anandasahaituka ananda — ananda (especially physical ananda or any of


its forms) awakened by a stimulus (hetu); since “ideal delight in thebody . . . is self-existent even when sahaituka”, the hetu “only awak-ens, it does not produce it”...sahajadrstisahajadr.s.t.i (sahajadrishti) — innate perception; intuition...sahankarasahankara — egoistic...sahasasahasa (sahasa; sahasam) — boldness, “active courage and daringwhich shrinks from no enterprise however difficult or perilous”, anattribute of the ks.atriya...sahasamsahasam — see sahasa...sahasradalasahasradala (sahasradala; sahasradal) — the “thousand-petalled lo-tus”; the cakra above the head which is “the centre of communicationdirect between the individual being and the infinite Consciousnessabove”...sahasyasahasya — with laughter (hasya), full of a “gladness and cheerfulnesswhich no adverse experience mental or physical can trouble”...sahityasahitya — literature; literary work (karma) said to fall “under threeheads — poetry, prose and scholarship”, with further subdivisions ofeach of these such as philosophy (darsana) under prose, and philology(nirukta) under scholarship; sahitya itself is sometimes listed separatelyfrom some of these divisions and subdivisions, seeming then to refermainly to general prose writing...sahityasiddhisahityasiddhi (sahityasiddhi; sahitya-siddhi; sahitya siddhi) — perfec-tion of literary work in all its forms, one of the “particular siddhis”,involving the application of the power of vak to karma...sahityasmrtisahityasmr.ti (sahityasmriti) — literary memory, the ability to recallpassages of poetry or other literature “not by effort to remember . . .but by inspiration” or any action of a “higher memory” by which“things are . . . remembered permanently without committing them toheart”...sajatyamsajatyam — homogeneousness...sajosasajos.a (sajosha) — united...sakamasakama — accompanied by kama1 or kamananda...sakhasakha — friend; “the wise and close and benignant friend of all be-ings”...sakhyasakhya — friendship; the relation (bhava) with the ısvara as “thedivine Friend” (sakha), a relation that “admits of an equality andintimacy even in inequality and the beginning of mutual self-giving; at


its closest when all idea of other giving and taking disappears, whenthis relation becomes motiveless except for the one sole all-sufficingmotive of love, it turns into the free and happy relation of the playmatein the Lila of existence”...sakhya-vairasakhya-vaira — the relation (bhava) with the ısvara in which sakhya,“the friendhood of God”, is combined with an appearance or play ofenmity (vaira), forming part of the composite bhava...saksaddarsanasaks.addarsana (sakshaddarshana) — seeing what is before the eyes;direct vision; same as pratyaks.a...saksisaks.ı (sakshi) — witness...saksi ahamsaks.ı aham (sakshi aham) — “I am the witness”; the ego of the witnessconsciousness...saksi brahmasaks.i brahma (sakshi brahma) — brahman as the witness...saktisakti (shakti) — force, power; capacity; the supreme Power, the “Con-scious Force which forms and moves the worlds”, the goddess (devı)who is “the self-existent, self-cognitive Power of the Lord” (ısvara,deva, purus.a), expressing herself in the workings of prakr.ti; any ofthe various aspects of this Power, particularly Mahesvarı, Mahakalı,Mahalaks.mı or Mahasarasvatı, each corresponding to an aspect ofthe fourfold ısvara and manifesting in an element of devıbhava ordaivı prakr.ti; the soul-power which reveals itself in each elementof the fourfold personality (brahmasakti, ks.atrasakti, vaisyasaktiand sudrasakti); “the right condition of the powers of the intelligence,heart, vital mind and body”, the second member of the sakti catus.t.aya;the sakti catus.t.aya as a whole; spiritual force acting through the siddhisof power...sakti catustayasakti catus.t.aya (shakti chatusthaya; shakti-chatusthaya) — the secondcatus.t.aya, the quaternary of power, consisting of vırya, sakti, daivıprakr.ti (or devıbhava or Can. d. ıbhava), and sraddha...sakti jivasakti jıva (shakti jiva) — the soul (jıva) in the state in which it “hasbecome an individualised form and action of the divine Shakti” or else“disappears into and becomes one with the Shakti” so that “there isthen only the play of the Shakti with the Ishwara”...sakti margasakti marga (shakti marga) — the path of yoga whose foundation issakti...saktiprayogasaktiprayoga (shaktiprayoga; shakti-prayoga; shakti prayoga) — ap-plication of spiritual force by means of the siddhis of power.


..saktiritisaktiriti (shaktiriti) — sakti (the power of the instruments) consistsof. . . ...sakti upasanasakti upasana (shakti upasana) — worship of the divine sakti...saktyam bhagavati ca, iti sraddhasaktyam bhagavati ca, iti sraddha (shaktyam bhagawati cha, iti srad-dha) — sraddha means faith in God and in his sakti (the formula ofthe last member of the sakti catus.t.aya)...sakunasakuna (shakuna) — omen; an external sign interpreted as giving anindication about the future...salambasalamba — with support; (pictures or forms) seen in the akasa againsta background...salokyasalokya — dwelling in the same status of being as the Divine...samasama (shama; cama) — quietude, peace, calm; rest, quiescence, pas-sivity; the “divine peace and tranquil eternal repose” which replacestamas in the liberation (mukti) of the nature from the trigun. a of thelower prakr.ti, “a divine calm, which is not an inertia and incapacityof action, but a perfect power, sakti, holding in itself all its capacityand capable of controlling and subjecting to the law of calm even themost stupendous and enormous activity”...samasama — equal; even; universal...sama anandasama ananda (shama ananda) — ananda filled with peace; calm de-light...sama anandasama ananda — equal ananda; the universal delight in all experi-ences which constitutes active / positive samata; the third stage ofactive / positive samata, in which “all is changed into the full and pureecstasy of the spiritual Ananda”...sama bhogasama bhoga (sama bhoga; sama-bhoga) — equal bhoga; “the equalenjoyment in the Prana of all things, happenings, experiences, objectsetc.”, the second stage of active / positive samata...samadhisamadhi — concentration; trance; the last member of the vijnanacatus.t.aya: the placing of the consciousness in particular conditionsthat give it access to larger fields of experience, so that “one can becomeaware of things in this world outside our ordinary range or go intoother worlds or other planes of existence”. The term samadhi includesthree principal states corresponding to those of waking (jagrat), dream(svapna) and deep sleep (sus.upti), but it is applied especially to statesof consciousness “in which the mind is withdrawn from outwardthings” and is often equivalent to svapnasamadhi.


..samadhisthasamadhistha — absorbed in samadhi.

..samahitasamahita — concentrated.

..samahitabhavasamahitabhava — concentrated state.

..samajasamaja — society; the social part of Sri Aurobindo’s work (see adesa),also called kama1...samajikasamajika (samajic) — social...samalipsasamalipsa — equal lipsa...samamayasamamaya (shamamaya, camamaya) — full of sama; peaceful...samanasamana — one of the five workings of the life-force (pancapran. a) inthe body, that which regulates the interchange of pran. a and apanawhere they meet near the navel; it “equalises them and is the mostimportant agent in maintaining the equilibrium of the vital forces andtheir functions”...samanandasamananda — equal delight; same as sama ananda...samanvita karmasamanvita karma (shamanvita karma) — tranquil activity; action im-bued with peace (sama)...samanyasamanya — general, common to all...samaranasamaran. a — struggle, battle...sama rasasama rasa — equal rasa; the equal perception by the mind of “the trueessential taste of the inalienable delight of existence in all its variations”which comes by the elimination of “imperfect and perverse forms”of rasa when one can “be entirely disinterested in mind and heartand impose that detachment on the nervous being”, the first stage ofactive / positive samata...samarthyasamarthya — capacity...samassamas (shamas; camas) — same as sama...samatasamata — equality, equanimity, “the capacity of receiving with a calmand equal mind all the attacks and appearances of outward things”,the first member of the samata / santi catus.t.aya, consisting of pas-sive / negative samata and active / positive samata, “samata in recep-tion of the things of the outward world and samata in reaction tothem”; sometimes restricted to the first of these or extended to refer tothe samata catus.t.aya as a whole; also an element of pran. asakti...samata catustayasamata catus.t.aya (samata chatusthaya; samata-chatusthaya; sama-tachatusthaya) — the first catus.t.aya, the quaternary of equality,consisting of samata, santi, sukha, and (atma)prasada or hasya;also called the santi catus.t.aya.


..samata-hasyamsamata-hasyam — equality and laughter, a combination of the firstand fourth members of the samata catus.t.aya...sama tapassama tapas — equal tapas; tapas with samata...sama-tapas-prakasasama-tapas-prakasa (shama-tapas-prakasha) — the union of sama,tapas and prakasa, which replace tamas, rajas and sattva in trai-gun. yasiddhi, the liberation of the nature from the trigun. a; unlike thegun. as of the lower nature, sama, tapas and prakasa “do not excludeeach other, are not at war, are not even merely in equilibrium, but eachan aspect of the two others and in their fullness all are inseparable andone”...samatasamata santih. sukham hasyam iti santicatus.t.ayam (samata shantihsukham hasyam iti shantichatusthayam) — samata, santi, sukha andhasya: these constitute the santi catus.t.aya...samata santi sukha hasyasamata santi sukha hasya (samata shanti sukh hasya) — a union of thefour elements of the first catus.t.aya, with hasya (rather than prasada)as the last element...samata-santi-sukhamsamata-santi-sukham (samata-shanti-sukham) — a union of the firstthree elements of the first catus.t.aya...samata santi sukha prasadasamata santi sukha prasada (samata shanti sukha prasada) — a unionof the four elements of the first catus.t.aya, with prasada (rather thanhasya) as the last element...samata siddhisamata siddhi — the perfection of samata or of the samata catus.t.aya...samena samavasthitasamena samavasthita — present equally everywhere...samjnasamjna (sanjna) — same as samjnana...samjnanasamjnana (sanjnana) — sense-knowledge; “the essential sense” (see in-driya) which “in itself can operate without bodily organs” and is “theoriginal capacity of consciousness to feel in itself all that consciousnesshas formed and to feel it in all the essential properties and operationsof that which has form, whether represented materially by vibration ofsound or images of light or any other physical symbol”. Samjnana, likeprajnana, is one of the “subordinate operations involved in the actionof the comprehensive consciousness” (vijnana); “if prajnana can bedescribed as the outgoing of apprehensive consciousness to possess itsobject in conscious energy, to know it, samjnana can be described asthe inbringing movement of apprehensive consciousness which drawsthe object placed before it back to itself so as to possess it in conscioussubstance, to feel it”.


..samo diva dadrse rocamanosamo diva dadr.se rocamano (samo diva dadrishe rochamano) — to-gether with heaven (the illumined mind) he appears shining. [R. g Veda7.62.1]..samomayasamomaya (shamomaya) — full of samas; peaceful...samrajyasamrajya — outward empire, “the control by the subjective conscious-ness of its outer activities and environment”...samratsamrat. — universal sovereign; one who is master of his environment...samsasamsa (shansa) — expression...samsayasamsaya (sanshaya) — doubt; positive asraddha...samsiddhi catustayasamsiddhi catus.t.aya (sansiddhi chatushtaya) — the quaternary of in-tegral perfection; another name for the siddhi catus.t.aya...samskarasamskara (sanskara; sanskar) — impression, mental formation, habit-ual reaction formed by one’s past...samudrasamudra — ocean...samudrikasamudrika (samudrik) — palmistry...samuhasamuha — gathering together of the rays of the sun of knowledge. [Cf.Isa Upanis.ad 16]..samula vinasasamula vinasa (samula vinasha) — total and radical destruction...samvrtasamvr.ta (sanvrita) — covered, concealed...samyak issamyak is. — complete force of impulsion...samyamasamyama (sanyama; samyama) — self-control; concentration; identi-fication; dwelling of the consciousness on an object until the mind ofthe observer becomes one with the observed and the contents of theobject, including its past, present and future, are known from within...sanatanasanatana — eternal...sandhisandhi — euphonic combination...sanghatasanghata — aggregation...sanisani — secure possession...sanjnasanjna — see samjna...sanjnanasanjnana — see samjnana...sankalpasankalpa — resolution, volition, will...sankarasankara — mixture, confusion...sankarsanasankars.an. a (sankarshana) — squeezing together; one of the five formsof pain to be turned into raudrananda...sanmayasanmaya — having the nature of sat, the principle of pure existencethat is the first aspect of saccidananda; expressing the principle of satcontained in the principle of any other plane, such as the physical or


the ananda plane (see next)...sanmaya anandasanmaya ananda — the sanmaya level of the plane of ananda...sannyasasannyasa — renunciation...sannyasisannyası — ascetic...sannyasocita bhavasannyasocita bhava (sannyasochita bhava) — the state of mind con-ducive to renunciation...sanshayasanshaya — see samsaya...sansiddhi chatushtayasansiddhi chatushtaya — see samsiddhi catus.t.aya...sanskara; sanskarsanskara; sanskar — see samskara...santasanta (shanta) — calm, peaceful...santamsantam (shantam) — same as santam brahma...santam brahmasantam brahma (shantam brahma) — the silent brahman, same asnirgun. a brahman, the static aspect of brahman which stands alooffrom the cosmic movement, “the pure featureless One Existence, theImpersonal, the Silence void of activities”...santa samatasanta samata (shanta samata) — calm equality...santa sukhamsanta sukham (shanta sukham) — calm happiness...santa udasinatasanta udasınata (shanta udasinata) — tranquil indifference or impar-tiality, “a calm superiority of the high-seated soul above the contactsof things”...santisanti (shanti; canti) — peace, calm; the second member of the samata /santi catus.t.aya, consisting of “a vast passive calm” based on udasınataor “a vast joyous calm” based on nati; an element of Mahesvarı bhava...santi catustayasanti catus.t.aya (shanti chatusthaya; shanti-chatusthaya) — the firstcatus.t.aya, the quaternary of peace, consisting of samata, santi, sukha,and hasya or (atma)prasada; also called the samata catus.t.aya...santihsantih. visalata aikyalipsa atmaprasadah. — calm, wideness, the urgetowards unity, clear and tranquil happiness (the attributes of Mahe-svarı)...santimayasantimaya (shantimaya) — peaceful...santosasantos.a (santosha) — contentment...sanusanu — level, plane...sanvritasanvrita — see samvr.ta...sanyamasanyama — see samyama...sapranasapran. a — living...sapremasaprema — accompanied by prema or premananda...sapta catustayasapta catus.t.aya (sapta chatusthaya) — the seven catus.t.ayas or quater-


naries, an enumeration of the elements of the yoga of self-perfection,Sri Aurobindo’s practice of which is documented in the Record of Yoga...sapta hotrahsapta hotrah. (sapta hotrah) — the seven sacrificial energies or “Ladiesof the offering”, the powers of “the human sacrifice which has a sev-enfold energy of its action because there is a sevenfold principle in ourbeing which has to be fulfilled in its integral perfection”...saptarcisaptarci (saptarchi) — the seven rays or flames (of agni1, the principleof visible formation, or Agni2, the deity who supports this principle),identified with the seven types of akashic material...SaramaSarama — a Vedic goddess whose action is “a forerunner of the dawnof Truth in the human mind”, depicted in “the figure of the divinehound which was . . . a possibly later development of the Vedic im-agery”; she represents the discovering intuition, a faculty “which goesstraight to the Truth by the straight path of the Truth and not throughthe crooked paths of doubt and error”...SarasvatiSarasvatı (Saraswati) — “she of the stream, the flowing movement”,a Vedic goddess who “represents the truth-audition, sruti, which givesthe inspired word”; in later Hinduism, “the goddess of speech, oflearning and of poetry”; same as Mahasarasvatı...Sarasvati bhavaSarasvatı bhava (Saraswati bhava) — same as Mahasarasvatı bhava...sarathisarathi — charioteer...sarirasarıra (sharira) — the body; the sarıra catus.t.aya...sarirasarıra (sharıra; sharira; sharira; carira) — relating to the body; physi-cal; short for sarıra ananda or sarırasiddhi...sarira anandasarıra ananda (sharira ananda) — same as sarırananda...sarira catustayasarıra catus.t.aya (sharirachatusthaya; sharira chatusthaya)—the fourthcatus.t.aya, the quaternary of the body, whose members are arogya,utthapana, saundarya and ananda (or vividhananda)...sarira muktisarıra mukti (sharira mukti) — physical mukti, especially liberation ofthe body from the dualities of the physical pran. a...sariranandasarırananda (sharirananda) — (also called physical ananda) “the totalphysical delight” experienced when spiritual ananda “can flow intothe body and inundate cell and tissue”; ananda manifesting in thebody in the five forms called kamananda, vis.ayananda, tıvrananda,raudrananda and vaidyutananda; (especially in the plural, “shari-ranandas”) any of these forms of physical ananda; the forms of physicalananda other than kamananda.


..sarirasiddhisarırasiddhi (sharirasiddhi; sharira-siddhi; sharira siddhi; sharira -;carira -) — physical perfection, consisting of the siddhi of the sarıracatus.t.aya: “a perfection of the body as the outer instrument of acomplete divine living on earth . . . effected by bringing in the law ofthe gnostic Purusha, vijnanamaya purus.a, and of that into which itopens, the Anandamaya, into the physical consciousness”, leading to“a divinising of the law of the body”...sarirayatrasarırayatra (sharirayatra) — the journey or pilgrimage of the body; themaintenance of one’s physical life. [Gıta 3.8]..saririka anandasarırika ananda (sharirika ananda) — same as sarırananda...sarupa dhyanasarupa dhyana (sarup dhyan) — meditation with vision of rupa...sarvasarva — all; the All; same as sarvam brahma...sarva-anantasarva-ananta — same as sarvam anantam...sarva-ananta-jnanasarva-ananta-jnana — same as sarvam anantam jnanam...sarvasarva ananta jnana ananda Kr.s.n. a (sarva ananta jnana ananda Krish-na) — Kr.s.n. a as the fourfold brahman in its personal aspect...sarva ananta jnana brahmansarva ananta jnana brahman — same as sarvam anantam jnanam...sarvabhutesusarvabhutes.u (sarvabhuteshu) — in all beings...sarva brahma; sarva brahmansarva brahma; sarva brahman — same as sarvam brahma...sarvadarsanasarvadarsana (sarvadarshana) — vision of all; especially, the vision ofananda on every plane...sarvakarmasamarthyasarvakarmasamarthya (sarvakarmasamarthya; sarvakarmasamarth-yam) — capacity for all action, a quality common to the four aspectsof daivı prakr.ti, also called karmasamarthya: “a rapid and divinecapacity for all kinds of action that may be demanded from theinstrument”...sarvakarmasamarthyamsarvakarmasamarthyam — see sarvakarmasamarthya...sarvalokadrstisarvalokadr.s.t.i (sarvalokadrishti) — vision of all the worlds...sarvamsarvam — same as sarvam brahma...sarvam anandam brahmasarvam anandam brahma — sarvam brahma combined with anan-dam brahma...sarvam anantamsarvam anantam — sarvam brahma combined with anantam brahma...sarvamsarvam anantam anandam brahma — sarvam anantam combinedwith anandam brahma...sarvam anantam anandam brahma-purusasarvam anantam anandam brahma-purus.a (sarvam anantam anan-dam brahma-purusha) — a union of the impersonal and personalaspects of sarvam anantam anandam brahma.


..sarvam anantam jnanamsarvam anantam jnanam — sarvam anantam combined with jnanambrahma...sarvamsarvam anantam jnanam anandam — same as sarvam anantamjnanam anandam brahma...sarvam anantam jnanam anandam brahmasarvam anantam jnanam anandam brahma — the formula expressingthe realisation of the fourfold brahman, when one sees “all the uni-verse as the manifestation of the One” (sarvam brahma), “all qualityand action as the play of his universal and infinite energy” (anantambrahma), “all knowledge and conscious experience as the outflowingof that consciousness” (jnanam brahma), and “all in the terms of thatone Ananda” (anandam brahma)...sarvamsarvam anantam jnanam anandam brahma, iti brahmacatus.t.ayam(sarvam anantam jnanam anandam brahma, iti brahmachatushtayam)— sarvam brahma, anantam brahma, jnanam brahma and anandambrahma: these constitute the brahma catus.t.aya...sarvamsarvam anantam jnanam brahma — same as sarvam anantam jna-nam...sarvamayasarvamaya — Kr.s.n. a seen “as the All, not only in the unique essence ofthings, but in the manifold form of things”, the first degree of the thirdintensity of Kr.s.n. adarsana, a kind of vision of the divine Personalitycorresponding to sarvam brahma in the impersonal brahmadarsana...sarvam brahmasarvam brahma — the realisation of “the Brahman that is the All”,in which all the universe is experienced “as the manifestation of theOne”, the first member of the brahma catus.t.aya; the divine Reality(brahman) seen “as the material & informing presence of the world& each thing it contains”...sarvam brahmansarvam brahman — same as sarvam brahma...sarvam jnanam brahmasarvam jnanam brahma — sarvam brahma combined with jnanambrahma...sarvam samam anandam brahmasarvam samam anandam brahma — the universal and equal delight ofbrahman...sarvanandasarvananda — complete delight; a term for active / positive samata,including all its three stages; universal ananda...sarvarambhan parityajyasarvarambhan parityajya — abandoning all personal initiations of ac-tion. [Cf. Gıta 12.16, 14.25, 18.66]..sarvasaundaryasarvasaundarya (sarvasaundarya; sarva-saundarya; sarvasaundar-yam) — all-beauty; the “universal Beauty which we feel in Nature


and man and in all that is around us”, reflecting “some transcendentBeauty of which all apparent beauty here is only a symbol”; short forsarvasaundaryabodha or sarvasaundarya darsana...sarvasaundaryabodhasarvasaundaryabodha — the sense of universal beauty, “a delight-perception and taste of the absolute reality all-beautiful in everything”...sarvasaundarya darsanasarvasaundarya darsana (sarvasaundarya darshana) — the vision ofuniversal beauty, “an aesthesis and sensation of beauty and delightuniversal and multitudinous in detail”...sarvasaundaryamsarvasaundaryam — see sarvasaundarya...sarvasundarasarvasundara (sarvasundara; sarva-sundara) — (Kr.s.n. a as) the All-beautiful...sarvatragatisarvatragati — (literally) going everywhere; same as visvagati...sarvavastusu isvarasarvavastus.u ısvara (sarvavastushu ishwara) — the Lord in all things...sarvesam etesam tejo balam pravrttir mahattvamsarves.am etes.am tejo balam pravr.ttir mahattvam (sarvesham eteshamtejo balam pravrittir mahattvam) — in all of these (elements of vıryathere must be) energy, strength, dynamism and greatness (the fourterms of the first general formula of the sakti catus.t.aya)...sarvesvetesusarves.vetes.u ks.iprata, sthairyam, adınata cesvarabhavah. (sarveshve-teshu kshiprata, sthairyam, adinata cheshwarabhava) — in all of these(elements of sakti there must be) swiftness, steadiness, non-depressionand mastery (the four terms of the second general formula of the sakticatus.t.aya)...sasmaranasasmaran. a (sasmarana; sa-smarana) — with smaran. a; (physical anan-da) dependent on attention...sasninasasnina — preserving...sasraddha saktisasraddha sakti (sasraddha shakti) — force applied with faith in theresult...sastrasastra (shastra) — systematic knowledge...satsat — being, existence; substance; “pure existence, eternal, infinite, in-definable, not affected by the succession of Time, not involved in theextension of Space, beyond form, quantity, quality”, the first termof saccidananda and the principle that is the basis of satyaloka;“the spiritual substance of being” which is cast “into all manner offorms and movements”; existence as “the stuff of its own becom-ing”, which on every plane is “shaped into the substance with whichForce has to deal” and “has formed itself here, fundamentally, asMatter; it has been objectivised, made sensible and concrete to its own


self-experiencing conscious-force in the form of self-dividing materialsubstance” (anna1); short for sat brahman...satapassatapas — with tapas; maintained by an effort of will...satapas smaranasatapas smaran. a — smaran. a (memory) accompanied by tapas (will);active attention...satarkasatarka — same as savitarka...sat brahmansat brahman (sat brahman; sat-brahman) — brahman as universal Be-ing, same as sarvam brahma; “Existence pure, indefinable, infinite,absolute, . . . the fundamental Reality which Vedantic experience dis-covers behind all the movement and formation which constitute theapparent reality”...sat-cit-anandasat-cit-ananda (sat-chit-ananda) — (usually spelled saccidananda)Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, “the infinite being [sat], the infiniteconsciousness [cit], the infinite delight [ananda] which are the supremeplanes of existence and from which all else derives or descends intothis obscurer ambiguous manifestation”; referred to as “thrice seven”planes because “each of the divine principles contains in itself thewhole potentiality of all the other six notes of our being” (see loka)...satisati — safety; secure possession (of a siddhi)...satir dhananamsatir dhananam — “safe enjoyment of our havings”, assured posses-sion of our (spiritual) riches. [Cf. R. g Veda 1.4.9]..satis universitatissatis universitatis [Latin] — enough of the universe...sat-kosasat-kosa (sat-kosha) — the sheath (kosa) of our being correspondingto the plane of absolute existence (sat)...sat-purusasat-purus.a (sat-purusha; sat purusha) — the spirit in its poise of pureexistence; the highest form of consciousness in the evolutionary scale...sat samudrasat samudra (chit samudra) — ocean of existence...sat-tapassat-tapas — existence (sat) moulding itself through its own force(tapas)...sattvasattva (sattwa) — being; the highest of the three modes (trigun. a) of theenergy of the lower prakr.ti, the gun. a that is “the seed of intelligence”and “conserves the workings of energy”; it is derived from prakasa, thecorresponding quality in the higher prakr.ti, and is converted back intopure prakasa in the process of traigun. yasiddhi. Psychologically, sattvais the “purest quality of Nature”, that which “makes for assimilationand equivalence, right knowledge and right dealing, fine harmony, firmbalance, right law of action, right possession”; but its knowledge and


will are “the light of a limited mentality” and “the government of alimited intelligent force”, and “its limited clarity falls away from uswhen we enter into the luminous body of the divine Nature”...sattvasthitisattvasthiti (sattwasthiti) — abiding in sattva...sattwatamasic udasinatasattwatamasic udasınata — indifference (udasınata) due to a combi-nation of sattva and tamas, which can arise when tamasic udasınataaids itself “by the intellectual perception that the desires of life cannotbe satisfied, that the soul is too weak to master life, that the wholething is nothing but sorrow and transient effort”, or when sattwicudasınata “calls in the aid of the tamasic principle of inaction” to getrid of the disturbances caused by rajas, and the seeker of liberation“strives by imposing an enlightened tamas on his natural being . . . togive the sattwic guna freedom to lose itself in the light of the spirit”...sattwic udasinatasattwic udasınata — udasınata due to a predominance of sattva: “ahigh intellectual indifference seated above the disturbances to whichour nature is prone”, a “philosophic equality” that can come “withthe perception of the world either as an illusion [maya] or a play [lıla]and of all things as being equal in the Brahman”...satyasatya — true; truth (same as satyam); short for satyaloka or satya-yuga...satya brhatsatya br.hat (satya brihat) — essential truth and wideness...satyadarsanamsatyadarsanam (satyadarshanam) — truth-vision...satyadevasatyadeva — literally “true god”; a term used for the highest of theten types of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale, alsocalled siddhadeva or siddha purus.a: mind raised to the plane of sat...satyadharmasatyadharma — the law of the Truth; knowledge in action...satyadharmaya drstayesatyadharmaya dr.s.t.aye (satyadharmaya drishtaye) — for the law ofthe Truth, for sight. [Isa Upanis.ad 15]..satyadrstisatyadr.s.t.i (satyadrishti) — true vision; vision of the truth; an elementof Mahesvarı bhava...satyakalpanasatyakalpana — truth-imagination...satyalokasatyaloka — the world (loka) of the “highest truth of being”, the planeof sat, where the “soul may dwell in the principle of infinite unityof self-existence and be aware of all consciousness, energy, delight,knowledge, will, activity as conscious form of this essential truth, Sator Satya”...satyamsatyam — truth; essential truth of being, one of the three terms ex-


pressing the nature of vijnana (see satyam r.tam br.hat)...satya manomayasatya manomaya — true mental...satyam brhatsatyam br.hat (satyam brihat) — true and vast; essential truth and wide-ness...satyam brhat rtamsatyam br.hat r.tam (satyam brihat ritam) — essential truth, widenessand ordered truth; see satyam r.tam br.hat...satyam rtamsatyam r.tam (satyam ritam) — (of the nature of) essential truth andordered truth...satyam rtam brhatsatyam r.tam br.hat (satyam ritam brihat) — “consciousness of essentialtruth of being (satyam), of ordered truth of active being (r.tam) andthe vast self-awareness (br.hat) in which alone this consciousness ispossible”; these three terms express the nature of vijnana. [Cf. AtharvaVeda 12.1.1, satyam br.had r.tam]..satyaprakasasatyaprakasa (satyaprakasha) — true illumination; light of truth...satyapratijnasatyapratijna — true promise...satyarupasatyarupa — actual form...satyasatyasatyasatya — truth and falsehood, a duality (dvandva) of the mind“created by our limited nature of consciousness and the partiality ofour intellect and its little stock of reasonings and intuitions”...satyatapatyasatyatapatya — true tapatya...satyavadanamsatyavadanam — truth-utterance...satyayugasatyayuga (satyayuga; satya yuga) — the “Age of Truth” or GoldenAge; “a period of the world in which a harmony, stable and sufficient,is created and man realises for a time, under certain conditions andlimitations, the perfection of his being”, the first age in a caturyuga,whose master-spirit is the brahman. a...saucasauca (saucha) — purity...saumatyasaumatya — the state of a mind at ease; mildness (see saumyata, forwhich saumatya was possibly substituted by a slip of the pen)...saumyasaumya — mild, subdued...saumya-raudrasaumya-raudra — mild-fierce...saumyatasaumyata — mildness...saumya tejassaumya tejas — subdued energy...saundaryasaundarya (saundarya; saundaryam) — beauty; physical beauty as partof the perfection of the body, the third member of the sarıra catus.t.aya,involving an attempt “of the psychic body to alter by mental force thephysical sheath into its own image”; beauty in the world; short for


saundaryabodha...saundaryabodhasaundaryabodha (saundaryabodha; saundarya bodha) — the aware-ness of beauty in all things...saundarya-buddhisaundarya-buddhi — the sense of beauty in all things...saundaryadrstihsaundaryadr.s.t.ih. — vision of beauty, an element of Mahalaks.mıbhava...saundaryalipsasaundaryalipsa — the urge towards beauty, an element of Mahalaks.mıbhava...saundaryamsaundaryam — see saundarya...saundaryasiddhisaundaryasiddhi — perfection of physical beauty through “consciousaction by the Will on the formed body”, part of sarırasiddhi...sauryasaurya — solar...sauryasaurya (shaurya; sauryam) — heroism, courage, might; an element ofMahakalı bhava or Can. d. ıbhava...sauryamsauryam — see saurya...sauryamsauryam ugrata yuddhalipsat.t.ahasyam — heroism, impetuosity, theurge towards battle, loud laughter (the attributes of Mahakalı)...sauryam,sauryam, ugrata, yuddhalipsat.t.ahasyam, daya cesvarabhavah. sarva-karmasamarthyam (shauryam, ugrata, yuddhalipsattahasyam, dayacheshwarabhavah sarvakarmasamarthyam) — heroism, impetuosity,the urge towards battle, loud laughter, compassion, sovereignty, ca-pacity for all action: the four specific attributes of Mahakalı and thethree attributes common to all four aspects of daivı prakr.ti...savaso napatahsavaso napatah. — “grandsons of luminous Force”, an epithet of theR. bhus as offspring of Indra, who “is born out of luminous Force as isAgni out of pure Force”...savalambanasavalambana — with support (of a background against which lipiappears in the akasa); same as sadhara...savesasavesa (savesha) — inspired; enthusiastic...savicarasavicara (savichara) — (samadhi) with judgment; having the nature ofsavicara samadhi...savicara samadhisavicara samadhi (savichara samadhi) — a type of samadhi “in whichthe mind does not reason logically but judges and perceives”...savijnanasavijnana — (samadhi) with experiences on the plane of vijnana; sameas vijnanamaya...savijnana samadhisavijnana samadhi — samadhi with thought, sight and other kinds ofexperience on the plane of vijnana.


..savikalpasavikalpa — admitting of variety or distinctions; (samadhi) with vari-ety of experience on the mental plane; same as savikalpa samadhi...savikalpa samadhisavikalpa samadhi — a type of samadhi in which the mind is open toall kinds of inner experiences...savisesasavises.a (savishesha) — qualified; differentiated; (ananda) associatedwith specific objects, equivalent to sahaituka...savitarkasavitarka — (samadhi) with reasoning; having the nature of savitarkasamadhi...savitarka samadhisavitarka samadhi — a type of samadhi in which the mind is with-drawn into itself, but goes on thinking and reasoning...saviveka samadhisaviveka samadhi — samadhi with intuitive discrimination, a higherform of savitarka samadhi...sayujyasayujya — contact of the individual being in all its parts with theDivine...scriptscript — communication from a divine or other source, usually receivedthrough a process resembling automatic writing...script vaniscript van. ı — van. ı accompanied by or formulated in script...secondary dasyasecondary dasya — an intermediate form of dasya, also called dou-ble / prakritic dasya, “in which the Prakriti uses the instrument anditself obeys the Ishwara, but guided as if from behind a veil”...secondary idealitysecondary ideality — (in 1918) same as superior ideality; (in 1919)same as secondary logistic gnosis or inspired logistis)...secondary logistic gnosissecondary logistic gnosis — same as inspired logistis...secondary utthapanasecondary utthapana — the second stage of utthapana, in which reac-tions contradicting the siddhis of the body are eliminated “so that thelimbs and the whole body can take and maintain any position or beginand continue any movement for any length of time naturally and inits own right”; exercise to develop this kind of utthapana by holdingvarious positions of the limbs for extended periods...second vijnanasecond vijnana — same as srauta vijnana...seerseer — same as dras.t.a or dras.t.r.; revelatory; having the nature of seerideality or seer logistis...seer gnosisseer gnosis — same as seer ideality...seer hermesisseer hermesis — seer ideality in the hermesis; the highest level of her-metic ideality...seer idealityseer ideality — the highest of the three planes of ideality, evidently theplane whose essence is dr.s.t.i or revelation, as the essence of the logistic


ideality is smr.ti and the essence of the hermetic ideality is sruti; theseer logistis, in which the action of the seer ideality is “modified tosuit the lower key of the logistis”, is sometimes referred to by the samename. If the plane of highest mind or intuitive consciousness in thediagram on page 1360 (c. 1931) is correlated with the seer ideality of1919, this plane would seem to correspond to what Sri Aurobindo inhis later writings called “Intuition”, about which he explained: “whatis thought-knowledge in the Higher Mind becomes illumination in theIllumined Mind and direct intimate vision in the Intuition”...seer logisticseer logistic — having the nature of seer logistis...seer logistical ideality; seer logistic idealityseer logistical ideality; seer logistic ideality — same as seer logistis...seer logistisseer logistis — (in 1919) a high level of logistic ideality full of the influ-ence of the seer ideality; same as revelatory logistis or full revelatoryideality...seer tapasseer tapas — tapas acting in the seer logistis...seer telepathic trikaladrstiseer telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i inthe revelatory logistis, a form of seer trikaladr.s.t.i...seer telepathyseer telepathy — telepathy in the seer logistis...seer trikaladrstiseer trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i in the seer logistis...self-sraddhaself-sraddha (self-craddha) — faith in the power within oneself; sameas svasaktyam sraddha...se to rajii holose to rajıi holo [Bengali] — he has agreed...shabdashabda, etc. — see sabda, etc...shadripushadripu — see s.ad. ripu...shaktishakti, etc. — see sakti, etc...shakunashakuna — see sakuna...shamashama, etc. — see sama, etc...shansashansa — see samsa...shantashanta, etc. — see santa, etc...shantishanti, etc. — see santi, etc...sharirasharira, etc. — see sarıra, etc...shastrashastra — see sastra...shauryashaurya — see saurya...shitashita, etc. — see sıta, etc...ShivaShiva, etc. — see Siva, etc...shrutishruti — see sruti...shubhamshubham — see subham.


..shuddhashuddha, etc. — see suddha, etc.

..shuddhishuddhi — see suddhi.

..shudrashudra, etc. — see sudra, etc.

..siddhasiddha — perfected; perfect; the “perfected soul”, same as siddhayogin; a type of consciousness above the deva; (on page 1280) anotherterm for sadananda...siddhadevasiddhadeva — literally “perfect god”; one of the ten types of conscious-ness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale (considered variously to bethe eighth, ninth or tenth in this scale)...siddhantasiddhanta — conclusion; the demonstrated conclusion of a logical ar-gument...siddha purusasiddha purus.a (siddha purusha) — a term for the highest of the tentypes (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale, also called siddhadeva orsatyadeva...siddhasurasiddhasura — the ninth of the ten types (dasa-gavas) in the evolu-tionary scale, also called siddhadeva: mind raised to the plane oftapas...siddha yoginsiddha yogin — yogin who has achieved siddhi...siddhisiddhi — success; fulfilment; perfection, regarded not as a static con-dition, but as an automatically self-fulfilling movement of growth intoa higher divine nature; accomplishment of the aims of self-disciplineby yoga, the last member of the siddhi catus.t.aya; perfection of anyelement of the yoga; (“first siddhi”, etc.) fulfilment of a particularcatus.t.aya, referred to by its number in the sapta catus.t.aya; an occultpower or supernormal faculty, especially any of the eight included inthe as.t.asiddhi, grouped into two siddhis of knowledge, three siddhisof power and three siddhis of the body...siddhi-asiddhisiddhi-asiddhi (siddhi-asiddhi; siddhi asiddhi) — success and failure...siddhi catustayasiddhi catus.t.aya (siddhichatusthaya; siddhi chatusthaya) — the sev-enth and last catus.t.aya, the quaternary of perfection, consisting ofsuddhi, mukti, bhukti and siddhi; also called the samsiddhi catus.t.ayaor yoga catus.t.aya...siddhiprayogasiddhiprayoga (siddhiprayoga; siddhi-prayoga) — application of anyor all of the siddhis of power...siddhis of knowledgesiddhis of knowledge — prakamya and vyapti, two of the eight siddhisof the as.t.asiddhi, which together constitute telepathy...siddhis of powersiddhis of power — aisvarya, ısita and vasita, three of the eight siddhis


of the as.t.asiddhi, which together form the instrumentation of tapas...siddhis of the bodysiddhis of the body — mahima, laghima and an. ima, three of the eightsiddhis of the as.t.asiddhi; garima is sometimes included in mahima.These siddhis develop when the “gross body begins to acquire some-thing of the nature of the subtle body and to possess something of itsrelations with the life-energy; that becomes a greater force more pow-erfully felt and yet capable of a lighter and freer and more resolvablephysical action”...siddhyasiddhisiddhyasiddhi — success and failure...simhavahinisimhavahinı (singhabahini) [Bengali] — the Goddess (devı) riding ona lion, “the symbol of the Divine Consciousness acting through adivinised physical-vital and vital-emotional force”...simhisimhı (singhi) — lioness...simple dasyasimple dasya (dasyam) — the lowest form of dasya, also called pri-mary dasya or personal / egoistic dasya, “the dasya of the servant”,characterised by “that obedience to the divine impulsion which is self-chosen & depends on the individual’s intelligence of God’s will and hisconsent, his readiness to obey”...simulsimul [Bengali] — silk-cotton tree...sitasıta (shita) — cold...sitasparsasıtasparsa (shitasparsha) — touch of cold objects...sitosnasıtos.n. a (shitoshna) — cold and heat, a duality (dvandva) of the physi-cal pran. a...SivaSiva (Shiva) — “the auspicious”, a name of the god who is at once “theMaster of the force that acts in the worlds and the Yogin who enjoysthe supreme liberty and peace”; especially the contemplative aspect ofthis deity, in contrast to his “terrible” aspect which is called Rudra2

and sometimes regarded as a distinct god; the divine personality repre-senting absolute Existence (sat) with infinite Force (tapas) inherent init, whose immobility is translated in the lower hemisphere of existence(aparardha) by inertia, figured in the image of Siva’s body lying underthe feet of the dancing Kalı; (also called Mahesvara and identified withMahavıra) the aspect of the fourfold ısvara whose sakti is Mahesvarı;a name of the Lord and supreme Being (ısvara, purus.ottama)...siva Kalisiva Kalı (shiva Kali) — the auspicious form of Kalı, “the loving andbeneficent Mother”; the sakti expressing the nature of Siva...sivamsivam (shivam) — auspicious.


..SivasaktiSivasakti (Shivashakti) — the soul-power or element of vırya thatexpresses the personality of the fourfold ısvara as Siva or Mahavıra...slaghaslagha — praise, celebration; self-assertion; confidence...slathyamslathyam — laxity; weakness...smaranasmaran. a — memory, attention; remembrance of brahman or theısvara; conscious attention to the development of the siddhi as awhole or to any part of it; especially, mental attention stimulating theexperience of physical ananda...smarana-tapassmaran. a-tapas (smarana-tapas; smaranatapas) — the will to remem-ber; attention and will...smarta srutismarta sruti — sruti (inspiration) acting on a basis of smr.ti (intuitionand discrimination)...smrtasmr.ta (smrita) — remembered, attended to...smrtismr.ti (smriti) — memory; the faculty of jnana “by which true knowl-edge hidden in the mind reveals itself to the judgment and is recognisedat once as the truth”. It consists of intuition and viveka and is theessence of logistic ideality...sneha-hasyamsneha-hasyam — laughter of affection, an element of Mahalaks.mıbhava and a form of devıhasya...snigdhata, tejahslagha, kalyanasraddha, premasamarthyamsnigdhata, tejah. slagha, kalyan. asraddha, premasamarthyam — rich-ness of feeling, assertion of psychic force, faith in the universal good,capacity for unbounded love (the elements of cittasakti)...snigdhata,snigdhata, tejah. s.lagha, kalyan. asraddha, premasamarthyam, iticittasaktih. (snigdhata, tejahslagha, kalyanasraddha, premasamarth-yam, iti chittashaktih) — richness of feeling, assertion of psychicforce, faith in the universal good, capacity for unbounded love: theseconstitute the power of the emotional being...sollicitudesollicitude [French] — anxiety; concern...soma1soma1 — the “mystic wine” of the Vedic sacrifice, “the wine of delight[ananda], the wine of immortality [amr.ta]”; an “ecstatic subtle liquorof delight” which is felt physically like “wine [madira] flowing throughthe system”; ananda on the mental plane, a “beatitude . . . insepara-ble from the illumined state of the being”; sometimes identified withcandra1, the moon, as a symbol of the “intuitive mind-orb”...Soma2Soma2 — a Vedic deity, “lord of the delight of immortality”, the godof ananda as symbolised by the “wine of delight” (soma1); also thegod of the moon (Candra2), who manifests himself as mind.


..somasya hradahsomasya hradah. — a lake of soma1.

..songesonge [French] — dream.

..sorssors [Latin] — same as sortilege.

..sortilegesortilege — (on page 44) divination by the random selection of playing-cards; (elsewhere) a method of receiving guidance and predictions fromtexts found seemingly by chance (as by opening a book at random) andinterpreted by the faculties of jnana; also, a text found in this way andsubjected to this kind of interpretation. Sri Aurobindo listed sortilegesamong the “external means” that can provide “data for a past andfuture knowledge” (see trikaladr.s.t.i); although some sortileges required“a very figurative & even fanciful interpretation”, he took the resultshe obtained by this method to be signs of “an intelligent, omniscient& all-combining Mind at work which uses everything in the world asits instrument & is superior to the system of relations & connectionsalready fixed in this world”...sparsasparsa (sparsha) — touch; any contact of outward things, physical ormental, pleasant or unpleasant; a touch on the body as a stimulusawakening sahaituka ananda; a non-material (suks.ma) touch; thesuks.ma vis.aya of subtle touch; (short for sparsadr.s.t.i) the subtle senseof touch...sparsadrstisparsadr.s.t.i (sparshadrishti; sparsha-drishti)—the perception of touch-es imperceptible to the ordinary physical sense; the subtle sense(suks.ma indriya) of touch, one of the faculties of vis.ayadr.s.t.i...sparsanandasparsananda (sparshananda) — the ananda of touch, a kind ofvis.ayananda...speech-thoughtspeech-thought — same as vanmaya thought...spiegelspiegel [German] — mirror...splankhnasplankhna (splanchna) [Greek] — inward parts of the body, viscera,bowels; the heart or vital organs as the seat of feelings and character...sraddhasraddha (sraddha; craddha) — faith; faith in the Divine (bhagavan), inhis executive Power (sakti) and in the power within oneself (svasakti),the last member of the sakti catus.t.aya...sraddha bhagavatisraddha bhagavati — faith in God; “faith in the presence and powerof the Divine in us and the world”...sraddha bhagavati svasaktyam casraddha bhagavati svasaktyam ca (sraddha bhagavati swashaktyamcha) — faith in the Divine and in the power within oneself...sraddhamaya tapassraddhamaya tapas — will-power full of faith in its own fulfilment.


..sraddha svasaktyamsraddha svasaktyam (sraddha swashaktyam) — faith in one’s ownpower (svasakti) as the power of the universal sakti manifested inoneself...srantisranti — weariness...srautasrauta — of the nature of sruti or inspirational knowledge; inspired;short for srauta vijnana...srauta vijnanasrauta vijnana — (in 1914) same as inspirational vijnana; (in 1920)the second plane of ideality, previously called the hermetic ideality,whose essence is sruti or “inspired interpretation”. It enters into thelower plane, the logistic ideality or luminous reason, “attended by a di-viner splendour of light and blaze of fiery effulgence”. The “illumined”level of higher mind in the diagram on page 1360 (c. 1931) may becorrelated with the hermetic ideality or srauta vijnana of 1919-20...srauta vyaptisrauta vyapti — same as receptive vyapti...sravamsisravamsi — inspirations...sravanasravan. a (sravana; cravana) — hearing; the ear; the subtle sense(suks.ma indriya) of hearing, “the essential hearing of which ourapprehension of physical sound or the spoken word is only the mostoutward result”, the means of sabdadr.s.t.i; the sense of hearing as ameans of vis.ayananda...sravayatpatimsravayatpatim — the Master of things who opens our ears to theknowledge. [R. g Veda 5.25.5]..srisrı — glory, splendour, beauty, prosperity; creation of prosperity andbeauty in the world, part of Sri Aurobindo’s karma or life-work...Sri K.Sri K. — abbreviation of “Sri Krishna” (see Srıkr.s.n. a)...SrikrsnaSrıkr.s.n. a (Srikrishna; SriKrishna; Sri Krishna) — a name of the supremeBeing (para purus.a or purus.ottama), same as Kr.s.n. a; the first aspectof the fourfold ısvara, more often called Mahavıra...SrikrsnadarsanaSrıkr.s.n. adarsana (Srikrishnadarshana; Srikrishnadarshan) — the vi-sion (darsana) of Srıkr.s.n. a in all things and beings, same as Kr.s.n. a-darsana...Srikrsna-NarayanaSrıkr.s.n. a-Narayan. a (Srikrishna-Narayana) — same as Kr.s.n. a-Nara-yan. a...Srikrsna Narayana caitanyaSrıkr.s.n. a Narayan. a caitanya (Srikrishna Narayana chaitanya) — con-sciousness of Kr.s.n. a-Narayan. a...Sri Krsna-RudraSrı Kr.s.n. a-Rudra (Sri Krishna-Rudra) — the combination of the Srı-kr.s.n. a (or Mahavıra) and Rudra2 (or Balarama) personalities of the


fourfold ısvara...srotassrotas — stream, current...srutamaghasrutamagha — full in inspiration. [R. g Veda 8.93.1]..srutisruti (shruti; sruti; cruti) — hearing; inspiration, a faculty of jnanawhich “is of the nature of truth hearing: it is an immediate receptionof the very voice of the truth, it readily brings the word that perfectlyembodies it and it carries something more than the light of its idea;there is seized some stream of its inner reality and vivid arriving move-ment of its substance”. It is an element in all the inspirational andinterpretative forms of the logistic ideality and is the essence of thesrauta vijnana...sruti-smrtisruti-smr.ti (sruti-smriti) — a combination of sruti (inspiration) andsmr.ti (intuition and discrimination)...st.st. — abbreviation of sortilege...statustatu [Latin] — see in statu...sthairyasthairya (sthairya; sthairyam) — steadiness; constancy; “the capacityof fixity in jnana”, an attribute of the brahman. a; a term in the secondgeneral formula of the sakti catus.t.aya...sthairyamsthairyam — see sthairya...sthanasthana — place; location on the body; stationary condition (of thingsseen in samadhi)...sthapatyasthapatya — (literally) architecture; (by extension) sculpture; sculp-tural; three-dimensional images (rupa) or writing (lipi) seen in relief,as if sculptured, on a background from which the mental eye draws itsmaterial (cf. citra); short for sthapatyadr.s.t.i...sthapatyadrstisthapatyadr.s.t.i (sthapatyadrishti) — vision of sthapatya rupa andsthapatya lipi...sthapatya lipisthapatya lipi (sthapatyalipi; sthapatya lipi) — sculptural writing: lipiseen in relief on a background from which the mental eye draws itsmaterial...sthapatya rupasthapatya rupa — sculptural image: rupa seen in relief on a back-ground from which the mental eye draws its material...sthavarasthavara — inanimate...sthenossthenos [Greek] — forceful...sthirasthira — steady, constant; stable, fixed, immobile...sthira lipisthira lipi — stable lipi...sthulasthula — gross, physical; concrete, objective; pertaining to the physical


being or the material world; (sensations, etc.) objectivised from a subtleplane so as to be perceptible to the physical senses (see sthulatva); theobjective world or material plane of existence; same as sthula akasaor sthula deha...sthula akasasthula akasa (sthula akasha) — the akasa of the material plane; thephysical ether...sthula dehasthula deha — the “gross body”, consisting of the anna1 forming thephysical frame together with the sthula pran. a or physical life-energythat animates it...sthuladrstisthuladr.s.t.i (sthuladrishti) — gross (physical) vision...sthula pranasthula pran. a — physical life-energy; pran. a moving “in the nervoussystem of the gross body” (sthula deha), also called physical pran. a...sthulapranavad annamsthulapran. avad annam — a component of the karmadeha, composedof material substance filled with physical life-energy...sthula sarirasthula sarıra (sthula sharira) — gross physical body...sthula-suksmasthula-suks.ma (sthula-sukshma; sthula sukshma) — gross-subtle;suks.ma with a degree of sthulatva, supraphysical but partiallymaterialised...sthulatvasthulatva (sthulatwa) — the state of being sthula; physicality, concrete-ness, objectivity; “objectivisation to the outer sense”, the impinging ofa supraphysical (suks.ma) fact on the physical world so as to “producean effect on our physical senses and become manifest to them”, orits “derivative objectivisation” to the physical senses brought aboutby “an association of the action of the subtle body and its sense-organisation with the action of the material body and its physicalorgans”...stomahstomah. — affirmations...stristrı — woman, seen as a manifestation of Kalı, the divine sakti...stylestyle — a quality of vak, the inward speech expressing a higher knowl-edge, which “may frame itself in the language now employed to expressthe ideas and perceptions and impulses of the intellect and the sensemind, but it uses it in a different way and with an intense bringingout of the intuitive or revelatory significances of which speech is capa-ble”; this “seeing speech” has “different grades of its power of visionand expression of vision”, the main levels of which are the adequate,effective, illuminative, inspired and inevitable styles...subhamsubham (shubham) — good.


..subjective anandasubjective ananda — ananda manifesting on the various levels of theinner being, as distinct from physical ananda; especially, the five formsof ananda called suddhananda, cidghanananda, ahaituka ananda,premananda and subjective kamananda, or any one of these...subjective halfsubjective half (of the fifth catus.t.aya) — Kr.s.n. a and Kalı, the first twomembers of the karma catus.t.aya...subjective kamasubjective kama — kama1 (divine desire or enjoyment) in its subjectiveaspect; same as subjective kamananda...subjective kamanandasubjective kamananda — kamananda manifesting in the suks.ma deha(subtle body) as the form of subjective ananda closest to the physical...subjective visayasubjective vis.aya (vishaya) — same as subjective vis.ayananda...subjective visayanandasubjective vis.ayananda (vishayananda) — vis.ayananda generated“subjectively in the mind’s reception of all actions, sights, sounds,touches etc”...subjective visaya-niranandasubjective vis.aya-nirananda (vishaya-nirananda) — the negation ofsubjective vis.ayananda...subtle akasasubtle akasa (akasha) — same as suks.ma akasa...subtle bhusubtle bhu — the subtle physical world, a loka in which the Spiritbases its manifestation “on a subtler and more plastic, more consciousprinciple of Matter”...suddhasuddha (shuddha; suddha) — purified, pure; unmixed, unmodified;free from impurity (asuddhi); short for suddhananda...suddha anandasuddha ananda (shuddha ananda; suddha ananda) — pure ananda,the “unalloyed delight” of eternal existence; same as suddhananda...suddha ananta anandasuddha ananta ananda (shuddha ananta ananda) — pure infinite de-light...suddha cidghana anandasuddha cidghana ananda (shuddha chidghana ananda; shuddha-chidghana-ananda) — cidghanananda full of suddha ananda...suddha kamasuddha kama (shuddha kama) — purified desire (kama1), “the calminner will of delight not afflicted or limited by any trouble of craving”...suddhanandasuddhananda (shuddhananda; suddhananda) — pure ananda, “thepure delight of the Infinite”; the form of subjective ananda corre-sponding to the plane of transcendent bliss (anandaloka) or to thesub-planes created by the “repetition of the Ananda plane in eachlower world of consciousness”. It brings the “sense of Supreme Beautyin all things” (sarvasaundarya), differing from cidghanananda in thatit “transcends or contains” the beauty of gun. a (quality) proper to


vijnana, depending “not on knowledge-perception of the separateguna & yatharthya [truth] of things, but on being-perception in chit ofthe universal ananda of things”; its highest intensities are experiencedwhen the soul “casts itself into the absolute existence of the spirit andis enlarged into its own entirely self-existent bliss infinitudes”...suddha pravrttisuddha pravr.tti (shuddha pravritti) — pure impulsion; the activity of apurified nature, “action without desire and independent of emotion”...suddhatasuddhata — purity...suddha-vijnananandasuddha-vijnanananda (shuddha-vijnanananda; suddha vijnanananda)— same as suddha cidghana ananda...suddhisuddhi (shuddhi; suddhi) — purity; purification, “the removal of allaberrations, disorders, obstructions brought about by the mixed andirregular action of the energy of being in our physical, moral andmental system” (adhara); in purn. a yoga, “not a negative, prohibitory,passive or quietistic, but a positive, affirmative, active purity” depend-ing on the removal of “two forms of impurity which are at the root ofthe whole confusion”, namely, “a radically wrong and ignorant formgiven to the proper action of each part of our instrumental being” and“an immixture of functions by which the impure working of the lowerinstrument gets into the characteristic action of the higher function”;the first member of the siddhi catus.t.aya, “a total purification of all thecomplex instrumentality in all the parts of each instrument”, so thatthe whole being is made “a clear mirror in which the divine reality canbe reflected, a clear vessel and an unobstructing channel into whichthe divine presence and through which the divine influence can bepoured, a subtilised stuff which the divine nature can take possessionof, new-shape and use to divine issues”...suddhir,suddhir, muktir, bhuktih. , siddhir, iti yogacatus.t.ayam (shuddhir, muk-tir, bhuktih, siddhir, iti yogachatushtayam) — suddhi, mukti, bhuktiand siddhi: these constitute the yoga catus.t.aya...sudrasudra (shudra) — the soul-type representing “the Divine as service,obedience and work”, the last element in the fourfold personalitysymbolised by the caturvarn. ya...sudranisudran. ı — the wife of a sudra; an epithet of Mahasarasvatı as the saktiof Aniruddha (the personality of the fourfold ısvara corresponding tothe sudra)...sudrasaktisudrasakti (shudrashakti) — the soul-power of service which reveals


itself in the sudra...sudrasvabhavasudrasvabhava (shudraswabhava) — the inner nature of the sudra...sudra tejassudra tejas (shudra tejas) — the energy that manifests itself in the sudratemperament...sukhasukha (sukha; sukham) — happiness; the third member of the samata /santi catus.t.aya: “not merely freedom from grief and pain, but apositive state of happiness in the whole system”...sukhahasyamsukhahasyam — laughter of happiness, an element of Mahasarasvatıbhava and a form of devıhasya...sukhamsukham — see sukha...suksmasuks.ma (sukshma; cukshma) — subtle; non-material, not belonging tothe physical world perceived by the outer mind and senses; (relatingto) the subliminal parts of our being or the supraphysical planes ofexistence (lokas) between the sthula and the karan. a...suksma akasasuks.ma akasa (sukshma akasha) — subtle ether; any kind of innerspace whose contents are imperceptible to the physical senses, suchas the pran. akasa, cittakasa or cidakasa...suksma bhavasuks.ma bhava (sukshma bhava) — subtle state of mind and feeling...suksmabodhasuks.mabodha (sukshmabodha) — subtle awareness, the perception ofsupraphysical things by means of the faculties of vis.ayadr.s.t.i...suksmasuks.ma (sukshma) body — same as suks.ma deha...suksmasuks.ma darsana (sukshma darshana) — the subtle sense of sight(darsana), the suks.ma indriya by which rupa is perceived...suksma dehasuks.ma deha (sukshmadeha; sukshma deha) — the subtle body whichis the “subtle-physical support of the inner being” (antah.karan. a) andcontains the cakras or centres of the inner consciousness; it “penetratesand is interfused with the gross body” (sthula deha), being tied to it bythe pran. a with its two connected forms, the suks.ma pran. a and sthulapran. a...suksma drstisuks.ma dr.s.t.i (sukshmadrishti; sukshma drishti) — subtle sight (seedarsana); subtle sense-perception by means of any suks.ma indriya;telepathic perception by means of prakamya or vyapti...suksmasuks.ma gandha (sukshmagandha; sukshma gandha) — the suks.mavis.aya of gandha; subtle smell perceived by the faculty of gandhadr.s.t.i...suksmasuks.ma ghran. a (sukshma ghrana) — the subtle sense of smell, thesuks.ma indriya by which gandha is perceived...suksma hetusuks.ma hetu (sukshma hetu) — subtle stimulus.


..suksma indriyasuks.ma indriya (sukshma indriya) — a subtle sense-organ (indriya),“existing in the subtle body (suks.ma deha), and the means of subtlevision and experience (suks.ma dr.s.t.i)”; any of “the inner and deepersenses which see what are hidden from the physical organs”, including“a subtle sense of vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste” which “canpresent to the consciousness visual, auditory, tactual and other imagesand vibrations of things beyond the restricted range of the physicalsenses or belonging to other planes or spheres of existence”...suksmajalasuks.majala (sukshmajala) — subtle water; water of a subtle world...suksma klantisuks.ma klanti (sukshma klanti) — fatigue in the subtle body...suksma pranasuks.ma pran. a (sukshmaprana; sukshma prana) — subtle life-energy,pran. a “moving in the nervous system of the subtle body” (suks.madeha); the “mental vitality or purely nervous mind”, also called psychicpran. a, whose “proper action . . . is pure possession and enjoyment”(bhoga), but which is ordinarily deformed by desire, “the vital cravingto seize upon that which we feel we have not”...suksmapranavad annamsuks.mapran. avad annam (sukshmapranavad annam) — a componentof the karmadeha, composed of material substance filled with subtlelife-energy...suksma rasasuks.ma rasa (sukshmarasa; sukshma rasa) — the suks.ma vis.aya ofrasa; subtle taste perceived by the faculty of rasadr.s.t.i...suksma sabdasuks.ma sabda (sukshmashabda; sukshma-shabda; sukshma shabda)— the suks.ma vis.aya of sabda; subtle sound heard by the faculty ofsabdadr.s.t.i...suksma sabdadrstisuks.ma sabdadr.s.t.i (sukshma shabdadrishti) — the subtle sense of hear-ing, “a hearing that is independent of the physical ear”, by whichsuks.ma sabda is perceived...suksma sparsasuks.ma sparsa (sukshma sparsha) — the suks.ma vis.aya of sparsa; sub-tle touch perceived by the faculty of sparsadr.s.t.i...suksma sravanasuks.ma sravan.a (sukshma sravana; cukshma cravana) — the subtlesense of hearing (sravan. a), the suks.ma indriya by which sabda isperceived...suksma-sthulasuks.ma-sthula (sukshma-sthula; sukshma sthula) — subtle-gross;combining the properties of the suks.ma and the sthula, or intermediatebetween suks.ma and sthula...suksmatvasuks.matva (sukshmatwa) — the state of being suks.ma; subtlety, non-materiality.


..suksma vaksuks.ma vak (sukshmavak; sukshma vak) — subtle speech, a form ofsuks.ma sabda consisting of “human voices & words reaching the earas if overheard”...suksma vidyutsuks.ma vidyut (sukshma vidyut) — subtle electricity...suksma visayasuks.ma vis.aya (sukshmavishaya; sukshma vishaya) — an immaterialvis.aya perceived by a suks.ma indriya; an object of subtle sense-perception, including “many kinds of symbolic, transcriptive or rep-resentative images presented to the different psychical senses”; any ofthe various faculties of subtle sense-perception (vis.ayadr.s.t.i), especiallythose other than rupadr.s.t.i...suksmavisaya jagratsuks.mavis.aya jagrat (sukshmavishaya jagrat) — samadhi in the wak-ing state in which subtle objects (suks.ma vis.ayas) are perceived...suksmendriyasuks.mendriya (sukshmendriya) — subtle sense-organ (same as suks.maindriya)...suktasukta — perfectly expressed; a Vedic hymn...sundarasundara (sundara; sundaram) — beautiful...sundaramsundaram — see sundara...sun-idealitysun-ideality — same as surya ideality...sunrtasunr.ta (sunrita) — true and happy word...sunyasunya — empty; void...suparnasuparn. a — literally “beautifully winged”; a bird, especially a large birdsuch as an eagle; a symbol of the soul in the Veda and Upanishads...superior idealitysuperior ideality — (in 1918) the plane of ideality that takes up the in-ferior ideality into its “greater range”, from which the inferior ideality“is only a selection”...supermindsupermind — “a principle superior to mentality”, which “has theknowledge of the One, but is able to draw out of the One its hiddenmultitudes” and “manifests the Many, but does not lose itself intheir differentiations”, forming a link between “the unitarian orindivisible consciousness of pure Sachchidananda in which there areno separating distinctions” and “the analytic or dividing consciousnessof Mind which can only know by separation and distinction” andmaking it “possible for us to realise the one Existence, Consciousness,Delight in the mould of the mind, life and body”; (up to 1920) ageneral term for the supra-intellectual faculty or plane (vijnana); (c.December 1926) the “Truth-Mind” or plane of “luminous Divine-Mind-Existence” below the “Divine Truth and Vastness” of mahad


brahma; (in 1927 before 29 October) same as supreme supermind,one of a series of planes above ideality which seem to correspond tothose later included in the overmind system, a series that also includedother planes sometimes designated as forms of “supermind”, suchas supreme supramental supermind and gnostic supermind; (from 29October 1927 onwards) equivalent to divine gnosis, the plane of “self-determining infinite consciousness” above overmind, from which itdiffers in that “the overmind knows the One as the support, essence,fundamental power of all things, but in the dynamic play proper toit it lays emphasis on its divisional power of multiplicity”, while inthe supermind all is “held together as a harmonised play of the oneExistence” even in its “working out of the diversity of the Infinite”...supermind gnosissupermind gnosis — same as divine gnosis...supermind in overmindsupermind in overmind — (in late 1927 or 1928) supermind manifest-ing in the higher ranges of the overmind system, a plane of what islater called overmind gnosis...supramentalsupramental — (before 1920) same as vijnanamaya or ideal (some-times restricted to the lower levels of vijnana); (in 1926-27 before 29October 1927) having the nature of supermind and related planesas defined before the introduction of the term overmind and theelevation of “supermind” above “overmind”, sometimes applied espe-cially to the planes below supreme supermind; (“the supramental” insome entries of January 1927) the next plane of consciousness abovesupramentality; (after 29 October 1927) expressing the working ofsupermind (in the latest sense) on its own plane or in the overmind,where “supramental” movements are sometimes regarded as higherthan supramentalised and lower than gnostic...supramental gnosissupramental gnosis — (in April 1927) a term comprising the planescalled (gnostic) intuition, supermind and gnostic supermind as definedbefore the introduction of the term overmind and the redefinition ofthese planes as parts of the overmind system...supramentalisedsupramentalised — (in late 1927 or 1928) under the influence of thesupermind; having a partly supramental character...supramentalisedsupramentalised mind — (in late 1927 or 1928) a supramentalisedform of mind, one of the lower gradations of the overmind system,mentioned along with supramentality and perhaps corresponding tothe supramental or supreme supramental referred to in the earlier


terminology of January 1927...supramentalised mind in overmindsupramentalised mind in overmind — (in late 1927 or 1928) an inferiorform of the third plane of the overmind system, evidently the resultof supramentalised mind being lifted into the true overmind; perhapsa later term for what in January 1927 was referred to as supremesupramental mind in the supreme supermind...supramentalised overmindsupramentalised overmind — (in late 1927 or 1928) a plane or planesof overmind connected with supermind and having a partly supra-mental character; when distinguished from supramental overmind, theterm seems to refer to the higher ranges of true overmind below theline where overmind gnosis begins...supramentalitysupramentality — (in 1927-28) the first plane above the highest ideal-ity, evidently the beginning of what came to be called the overmindsystem; its levels are referred to as “the supramentalities”...supramental overmindsupramental overmind — (in late 1927 or 1928) a form of overmindin which the element of supermind is prominent; when distinguishedfrom supramentalised overmind, which seems to be a lower plane, andfrom the higher plane of gnostic overmind, supramental overmind maybe regarded as the beginning of the highest series of overmind planes.Later it is equivalent to overmind gnosis...supramental reasonsupramental reason — a term used in April 1927 for some parts ofwhat later in the year came to be called the overmind system; it seemsto include grades up to supreme supermind other than gnostic intuitionand is possibly related to overmind logos in the diagram on page 1360(c. 1931)...supreme dasyasupreme dasya — (also called quaternary dasya in a classification usedin January 1913) the highest degree of dasya, in which the “gulf ordistance which necessitates an obscure process of transit . . . betweenthe divine Origin and the emerging human current . . . is removed; allin the individual becomes the divine working”...supreme supermindsupreme supermind — (in 1927 before 29 October) the highest planebelow gnosis in the series of planes above ideality, corresponding totrue overmind in the later terminology of the overmind system...supreme supermind gnosissupreme supermind gnosis — (in January 1927) gnosis manifesting inthe supreme supermind and forming its highest plane, later calledsupramentalised overmind...supreme supramentalsupreme supramental — the highest in the first group of planes above


ideality; the same plane seems to be meant by supreme supramentalmind and supreme supramental supermind...supreme supramental mindsupreme supramental mind — see supreme supramental...supremesupreme supramental mind in the supreme supermind — (in January1927) a grade of consciousness apparently experienced as a result ofthe supreme supramental being lifted into the supreme supermind bya form of the imperative acting “as an intermediary force”, a pro-cess also described as “the supreme supermind taking up the supremesupramental supermind”; perhaps equivalent to supramentalised mindin overmind in the terminology adopted for the overmind system laterin the same year...supreme supramental supermindsupreme supramental supermind — see supreme supramental...suptasupta — sleeping; absorbed in a deep state of samadhi...supta caitanyasupta caitanya (supta chaitanya) — the consciousness of one who issleeping or absorbed in a deep state of samadhi...supta-svapnasupta-svapna (supta-swapna; supta swapna) — same as sus.upta-svapna...surasura — illumined...surexcitationsurexcitation [French] — over-stimulation...surisuri — illumined, luminous; an illumined thinker, a seer; any of thesolar gods or powers of Surya2...surihsurih. — (nominative of suri) illumined; “luminous with the solar lightof the ideal knowledge”. [R. g Veda 1.176.4]..surya1surya1 — sun; “the sun of knowledge” which is “the very body andblaze” of the light of the Truth, the symbol of vijnana...Surya2Surya2 — the Vedic sun-god, the “Lord of Light and Truth”, of whomthe “solar energy is the physical form”...surya anandasurya ananda — ananda full of the light of surya1 on the plane ofvijnana...surya idealitysurya ideality — ideality as pure vijnana composed of the direct lightof the sun of knowledge (surya1)...surya jyotissurya jyotis — the light of the sun of vijnana...suryalokasuryaloka — the world of the sun of knowledge (surya1), symbolisingthe plane of vijnana...suryamandalasuryaman. d. ala — the orb of the sun (surya1)...suryamayasuryamaya — full of the light of surya1; same as vijnanamaya...Surya SavitrSurya Savitr. (Surya Savitri) — Surya2 as the Creator, “the Wisdom-


Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence”...suryasya rasmayahsuryasya rasmayah. (suryasya rashmayah) — the rays of surya1, beamsof the “radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Exis-tence”, of which “each ray is a truth”...surya tapassurya tapas — will-power (tapas) illumined by surya1; same as vi-jnanamaya tapas...sushuptasushupta — see sus.upta...sushuptisushupti — see sus.upti...Susna KuyavaSus.n. a Kuyava (Sushna Kuyava) — (misprinted “Sushna Kayava” onpage 836) a Vedic name for a hostile being; “the false force that distortsknowledge and action”...susuptasus.upta (sushupta) — fast asleep; immersed in sus.upti; deep sleep; thestate of sus.upta samadhi...susupta samadhisus.upta samadhi (sushupta samadhi) — the state of profound samadhithat is compared to dreamless sleep. It is not an unconscious state, but“the Yogic sleep of the mind with wakefulness of the vijnana”, which“is the gate of union with the supreme state of Sachchidananda”...susupta-svapnasus.upta-svapna (sushupta-swapna; sushupta swapna) — deep svap-nasamadhi bordering on sus.upta samadhi, in which “memory, reason,mental attention are all absent”, but activity of vijnana can proceedand be inertly received by the mind...susupta svapna lipisus.upta svapna lipi (sushupta swapna lipi) — lipi in sus.upta-svapna...susupta svapna samadhisus.upta svapna samadhi (sushupta swapna samadhi) — same as su-s.upta-svapna...susuptisus.upti (sushupti) — deep sleep; an inert condition of the mind re-sembling deep sleep, where in the presence of “things quite beyond itsscope”, the mind “can no longer see truth even as in a dream, but passesinto the blank incomprehension and non-reception of slumber”; thestate of trance compared to dreamless sleep, same as sus.upta samadhi...sutuko dadasasutuko dadasa (sutuko dadasha) — a Vedic phrase, occurring in thesortilege on page 460, whose precise interpretation is problematic; SriAurobindo translates sutukah. elsewhere as “swift”, but connects ithere with “samata & ananda”, while he takes dadasa, “he has given”,to refer to “complete dasya subjective & objective”. [R. g Veda 1.149.5]..suvirahsuvırah. — perfect in energy...suviryam arvata . . brahmanasuvıryam arvata . . brahman. a — perfect energy by the war-horse (sym-bolising “active nervous power”) or by the soul-thought (brahman in


the Vedic sense). [Cf. R. g Veda 2.2.10]..suvitamsuvitam — literally “right or good going”, a Vedic word for “thefelicity that comes by following the right path”...suvrktisuvr.kti (suvrikti) — the process by which “all is clearly distinguishedand put in its place”...suyama asvasuyama asva (suyama aswa) — well-governed horse; (symbolically)well-controlled nervous energy...suyamasahsuyamasah. — well-controlled...svabhavasvabhava (swabhava) — (literally “own-becoming”) “the essential na-ture and self-principle of being of each becoming”; individual nature;temperament; “the general nature of things”...svabhavasaktisvabhavasakti (swabhavashakti) — force of the essential nature...svadesisvadesı (swadeshi) — indigenous; a movement in India in the earlytwentieth century to promote the manufacture and sale of indigenousgoods; a nationalist involved in this movement...svadhasvadha (swadha) — self-fixity; “the spontaneous self-arranging actionof Nature”...svadhinasvadhına (swadhina) — independent, free; a being or a world charac-terised by freedom...svadhisthanasvadhis.t.hana (swadhishthana; swadhisthana) — the cakra “below thenavel in the abdomen which is the lower or sensational vital centre”,connecting all the centres above it with the physical; also called thekamacakra...svahasvaha (swaha) — self-energy...svahakrtasvahakr.ta (swahakrita) — turned into self-energy...svapadasvapada (swapada) — own plane...svapnasvapna (swapna) — dream, dreaming; the state of sleep in whichdreams occur, in contrast to deep and dreamless sleep (sus.upti); in-ternal vision in svapnasamadhi; short for svapnasamadhi; the middledepths of svapnasamadhi...svapna-jagratsvapna-jagrat (swapna-jagrat) — inwardly wakeful in svapnasama-dhi...svapnamayasvapnamaya (swapnamaya) — having the nature of svapna (in thesense of dream or svapnasamadhi); dreamlike; pertaining to the planesof subliminal consciousness associated with the dream-state...svapnamayasvapnamaya sus.upti (swapnamaya sushupti) — same as svapna-sus.upti.


..svapna rupasvapna rupa (swapna rupa) — image seen in svapnasamadhi.

..svapnasamadhisvapnasamadhi (swapnasamadhi; swapna-samadhi; swapna samadhi)— the state of samadhi that arises “when the mind has lost its outwardconsciousness . . . and goes inside itself”; this state has some resem-blance to ordinary svapna or dream-consciousness, but is characterisednot by dreams but by internal visions which are accurate “records oftrue and actual experiences”. The mind in svapnasamadhi “is at workliberated from the immixture of the physical mentality” and “is able touse either its ordinary will and intelligence with a concentrated poweror else the higher will and intelligence of the more exalted planes ofmind”...svapnasiddhisvapnasiddhi (swapnasiddhi; swapna siddhi) — the perfection ofdream, converting it into internal vision in svapnasamadhi...svapna-susuptisvapna-sus.upti (swapna-sushupti) — sus.upta samadhi with dream-consciousness...svapnavasthasvapnavastha (swapnavastha) — the state of svapnasamadhi...svarsvar (swar) — “the luminous world”, the world of luminous intelli-gence of which Indra is the lord, comprising the planes at the summitof the mental consciousness; the mental world (manoloka), the highestplane of the triloka; its lower principle of manas, sensational mind,and higher principle of buddhi, intelligence, are manifested in the tworealms of svarga and candraloka, respectively...svarajyasvarajya (swarajya) — self-rule, subjective empire; “the entire controlby the subjective consciousness of all the states and activities properto its own domain”...svaratsvarat. (swarat) — self-ruler; master of all one’s inner states and activi-ties...svargasvarga (swarga) — heaven; the lower of the two planes of svar, cor-responding to manas, the sensational mind; any subdivision of thisplane...svargabhumisvargabhumi (swargabhumi) — a heavenly world; a level of svarga...svarlokasvarloka (swarloka) — the world (loka) of mind; same as svar...svar-tapassvar-tapas (swar-tapas; swar tapas) — the power that belongs to themental plane; manifesting through this medium, the Will “fastens moreoften on general than on particular effectualities”...svarupasvarupa (swarupa) — literally “own form”; rupa that is not an imagebut an actual form on a subtle plane.


..svarvati buddhisvarvatı buddhi (swarvati buddhi) — buddhi full of the light of svar;illumined intelligence...svarvatir apahsvarvatır apah. (swarvatir apah; swarwatir apah) — waters (apas) thatcarry in them the light of svar; the floods of a “higher consciousnesspouring on the mortal mind”. [R. g Veda 1.10.8, etc.]..svarvati saktisvarvatı sakti (swarvati shakti) — sakti full of the light of svar; spiri-tual force working on the plane of luminous intelligence...svasaktisvasakti (swashakti; swacakti) — “self-power”; one’s own power orcapacity; the power of the divine sakti manifested in oneself...svasaktyamsvasaktyam (swashaktyam) — (faith) in one’s own power (svasakti)...svasaktyamsvasaktyam bhagavati ca (swashaktyam bhagavati cha) — (faith) inone’s own power (svasakti) and in God (bhagavan)...svasaktyam sraddhasvasaktyam sraddha (swashaktyam sraddha) — faith in one’s ownpower as an expression of the universal sakti; same as sraddhasvasaktyam...svayamprakasasvayamprakasa (swayamprakasha) — self-luminous, self-evident; self-evident knowledge having the nature of revelation...sve damesve dame (swe dame) — in its own domain...swabhavaswabhava, etc. — see svabhava, etc...swacaktiswacakti — see svasakti...swadeshiswadeshi — see svadesı...swadhaswadha — see svadha...swadhinaswadhina — see svadhına...swadhishthanaswadhishthana — see svadhis.t.hana...swadhisthanaswadhisthana — see svadhis.t.hana...swahaswaha, etc. — see svaha, etc...swapadaswapada — see svapada...swapnaswapna, etc. — see svapna, etc...swarswar — see svar...swarajyaswarajya — see svarajya...swaratswarat — see svarat....swargaswarga, etc — see svarga, etc...swarlokaswarloka — see svarloka...swarupaswarupa — see svarupa...swarvatiswarvati, etc. — see svarvatı, etc...swarwatir apahswarwatir apah — see svarvatır apah. ...swashaktiswashakti — see svasakti.


..swashaktyamswashaktyam — see svasaktyam.

..swayamprakashaswayamprakasha — see svayamprakasa.

..swe dameswe dame — see sve dame.

T

..TT — (in January 1927) the highest stage in the unification of the el-ements of T3 and T2, evidently representing a complete identity ofknowledge and will...T2T2 — a union of two of the three elements of T3; (in 1914) abbreviationof telepathy-trikaladr.s.t.i, a combination of the knowledge facultiesof T3; (usually, from 1917 onwards) abbreviation of trikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi, representing a united action of the higher facultiesof knowledge and will, with telepathy included in or replaced bytrikaladr.s.t.i; in the last entries of 1927, this is associated with a“passive-active attitude . . . in which the Ishwara determines and thePowers [of the Overmind] may for a time resist and even modifytemporarily what he has determined, but must now or in the end helpto carry out his will”...T3T3 — abbreviation of telepathy-trikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi, these threeelements “acting separately and not taken up into the union in duality”of T2; in the last entries of 1927, associated with a “passive attitude . . .in which the nature is the plaything of the powers of the Overmind”...tad ekamtad ekam — That One...tad vratamtad vratam — that is the law. [A recurring phrase in the Chhandogyaand Taittiriya Upanishads.]..taijasataijasa — full of tejas; same as tejomaya...taijasa jalataijasa jala — jala with an excess of tejas...tamastamas — darkness; the lowest of the three modes (trigun. a) of the en-ergy of the lower prakr.ti, the gun. a that is “the seed of inertia andnon-intelligence”, the denial of rajas and sattva, and “dissolves whatthey create and conserve”; it is a deformation of sama, the correspond-ing quality in the higher prakr.ti, “an obscurity which mistranslates,we may say, into inaction of power and inaction of knowledge theSpirit’s eternal principle of calm and repose”, and it is converted backinto pure sama in the process of traigun. yasiddhi. This principle ofinertia “is strongest in material nature and in our physical being”;


its “stigmata . . . are blindness and unconsciousness and incapacityand unintelligence, sloth and indolence and inactivity and mechani-cal routine and the mind’s torpor and the life’s sleep and the soul’sslumber”...tamasitamasi — in darkness...tamasitaması — characterised by tamas; inert...tamasic dhrtitamasic dhr.ti (dhriti) — same as taması dhr.ti...tamasic natitamasic nati — inert submission, “weak resignation or dull accep-tance”; the lowest form of nati, “an equality of disappointed resigna-tion”, an acquiescence under the influence of tamas...tamasic nidratamasic nidra — same as tamomaya nidra...tamasic tyagatamasic tyaga — outward renunciation of action due to inertia...tamasic udasinatatamasic udasınata — inert indifference; udasınata due to the influenceof tamas, part of “the movement of tamasic equality” which “is ageneralisation of Nature’s principle of jugupsa or self-protecting recoilextended from the shunning of particular painful effects to a shun-ning of the whole life of Nature itself as in sum leading to pain andself-tormenting and not to the delight which the soul demands”...tamasic vairagyatamasic vairagya — vairagya characterised by tamas; disgust with lifedue to disappointment, weariness and unwillingness to make an effort...tamasi dhrtitaması dhr.ti (tamasi dhriti) — inert persistence of will; blind force ofhabit...tamasyatamasya — inertia (a coinage, related to tamas as tapasya to tapas)...tamogunatamogun. a — the gun. a of tamas...tamomaya nidratamomaya nidra — sleep dominated by inertia and unconsciousness...tanutanu — body...tapahtapah. — same as tapas...tapah-saktitapah. -sakti — force of tapas...tapanatapana — a form of ideal tapas: the fire of surya1 (symbolisingvijnana) in the will-power...tapastapas — “concentration of power of consciousness”; will-power; theforce that acts through aisvarya, ısita and vasita, or the combinationof these siddhis of power themselves, sometimes listed as the fourthof five members of the vijnana catus.t.aya; the divine force of actioninto which rajas is transformed in the liberation (mukti) of the naturefrom the trigun. a of the lower prakr.ti, a power “which has no desirebecause it exercises a universal possession and a spontaneous Ananda


of its movements”; the force manifested by an aspect of daivı prakr.ti(see Mahakalı tapas, Mahasarasvatı tapas); (also called cit-tapas)“infinite conscious energy”, the principle that is the basis of tapoloka;limited mental will and power. Tapas is “the will of the transcendentspirit who creates the universal movement, of the universal spirit whosupports and informs it, of the free individual spirit who is the soulcentre of its multiplicities. . . . But the moment the individual soul leansaway from the universal and transcendent truth of its being, . . . thatwill changes its character: it becomes an effort, a straining”...tapas anandatapas ananda — ananda filled with force...tapasbuddhitapasbuddhi — will-thought...tapas-kosatapas-kosa (tapas-kosha) — the sheath (kosa) of our being correspond-ing to the plane of infinite conscious force (tapas)...tapaso mahinatapaso mahina — by the greatness of its energy. [R. g Veda 10.129.3]..tapas-saktitapas-sakti (tapas-shakti) — force of working of the siddhis of power...tapas-siddhitapas-siddhi (tapassiddhi; tapas-siddhi; tapas siddhi) — the workingof tapas through the siddhis of power; fulfilment or effectivity ofaisvarya, ısita and vasita...tapas smaranatapas smaran. a — attention with pressure of tapas...tapastrayatapastraya — the triad of tapas, consisting of the three siddhis ofpower...tapastyatapastya — a “doubtfully effective rajasic” form of tapas, inferior totapatya...tapasyatapasya — concentration of will and energy to control the nature;rigorous discipline; physical austerity...tapatatapata — a form of intellectual / mental tapas, “an uninsistent intel-lectual stress”, higher than tapatya...tapatyatapatya — (in 1913-16) a form of tapas, sometimes associated withMahakalı bhava and with a “higher rudra intensity of knowledge,action, ananda”, described in its true form as sasraddha sakti, a “self-fulfilling force which is sure beforehand of its result”, though there isalso a “disinterested and instrumental Tapatya not depending on faithin the results”; an instance of the use of such a force; (in 1917-19) aform of intellectual / mental tapas intermediate between tapastya andtapata, defined as “the straining to know and fulfil” which, when de-sire is eliminated, remains “as an illegitimate prolongation and stress ofwhat is received in the ideality . . . bringing false stress and falsification


of values”...tapatya buddhitapatya buddhi — attitude of tapatya...tapatya-siddhitapatya-siddhi — fulfilment or effectivity of tapatya, a form of tapas-siddhi...tapolokatapoloka — the world (loka) of “infinite Will or conscious force”, theplane where the “soul may dwell . . . in the principle of infinite con-scious energy” (tapas or cit-tapas) “and be aware of it unrolling out ofself-existence the works of knowledge, will and dynamic soul-actionfor the enjoyment of an infinite delight of the being”...tapomayatapomaya — consisting of or relating to tapas in any form (mental,ideal, etc.); volitional; dynamic...tapomaya anandatapomaya ananda — the tapomaya level of the ananda plane...tapyetatapyeta — one should apply tapas...tarastaras — rapidity...tattat — that; “That which escapes definition or description and is yetnot only real but attainable”, a word used to indicate parabrahman as“something utterly Transcendent, something that is unnameable andmentally unknowable, a sheer Absolute”. Since this Absolute “is initself indefinable by reason, ineffable to the speech”, it can only “beapproached through experience”, either “through an absolute negationof existence, as if it were itself a supreme Non-Existence, a mysteriousinfinite Nihil” (asat) or else “through an absolute affirmation of allthe fundamentals of our own existence, . . . through an inexpressibleabsolute of being” (sat)...tat sattat sat — the unity of “That which is beyond” (tat) and “that whichrepresents Him here as the basis of our existence” (sat)...tattvatattva (tattwa) — principle...tejahtejah. (tejah; teja) — same as tejas...tejahksobhatejah.ks.obha (tejahkshobha) — a disturbance of arogya involving thebhuta of tejas...tejahslaghatejah. slagha — “energy and power of assertion”, an element of citta-sakti...tejastejas — fiery brilliance; mental light and energy; the energy of temper-ament that manifests itself in each element of the fourfold personality(brahmatejas, etc.); a term in the first general formula of the sakticatus.t.aya; “a strong and ardent force and intensity”, an element ofcittasakti; one of the seven kinds of akashic material; rupa or lipi


composed of this material; fire, the principle of light and heat, one of“the five elements of ancient philosophy or rather elementary condi-tions of Nature, panca bhuta, which constitute objects by their variouscombination”, also called agni1; the virile energy carried to the headby udana...tejas-suryatejas-surya — a sun composed of tejas...tejasvitejasvı (tejaswi) — energetic...tejotejo balam mahattvam pravr.ttih. (tejo balam mahattwam pravrittih; -mahattvam -) — energy, strength, greatness, dynamism (see next)...tejotejo balam pravr.ttir mahattvam (tejo balam pravrittir mahattwam) —energy (tejas), strength (bala1), dynamism (pravr.tti), greatness (ma-hattva): the first general formula of the sakti catus.t.aya, consisting ofqualities needed for the perfection of all four elements of vırya...tejobhutatejobhuta — the bhuta called tejas (fire), the igneous condition ofmaterial energy...tejoghanatejoghana — composed of dense tejas...tejomayatejomaya (tejomaya; tejomay) — fiery; fierily brilliant; pertaining to thebhuta of tejas; (rupa or lipi) composed of or containing the akashicmaterial called tejas...tejomaya chayamayatejomaya chayamaya — brilliant shadowy rupa; chayamaya mixedwith an element of tejas...tejomaya lipitejomaya lipi — lipi composed of tejas...tejomaya rupatejomaya rupa — rupa composed of tejas...tejomaya varnatejomaya varn. a (tejomay varna) — brilliant colour; varn. a mixed withan element of tejas...tejonamatejonama — namadr.s.t.i of tejomaya lipi...tejorasitejorasi (tejorashi) — mass of tejas...tejorekhatejorekha — tejomaya rupa resembling a drawing...telepathic drstitelepathic dr.s.t.i (drishti; dristi) — same as telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i...telepathic mindtelepathic mind — a mind “illuminated with intimations and upsurg-ings from the inner being” and capable of prakamya and vyapti, thepowers that constitute telepathy; this is usually distinguished from thevijnanabuddhi or intuitive mind, in which the higher faculties of jnanaare partially active in addition to the power of telepathy...telepathic T2telepathic T2 — trikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi with telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i asthe first element...telepathic trikaladrstitelepathic trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — the lower form of trikaladr.s.t.i


which, by means of the faculties of prakamya and vyapti, “gives thefact and tendency [of] actual and potential forces in action”...telepathytelepathy — the faculty formed by the combination of prakamya andvyapti, the two siddhis of knowledge; also, either one of these powersseparately. Telepathy is the capacity of consciousness “to communicatebetween one mind and another without physical means consciouslyand voluntarily”, overcoming the habitual limitations because of which“Consciousness in one material being communicates with the sameconsciousness in another material being by certain fixed methods suchas speech, gesture, writing etc. and unconscious mental communica-tion”...telepathy-trikaladrstitelepathy-trikaladr.s.t.i (telepathy-trikaldrishti; telepathy trikaldrishti)— the combination of telepathy and trikaladr.s.t.i, forming the knowl-edge aspect of T3...telepathy-trikaladrsti-tapastelepathy-trikaladr.s.t.i-tapas (telepathy-trikaldrishti-tapas; telepathytrikaldrishti tapas) — same as telepathy-trikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi...telepathy-trikaladrsti-tapassiddhitelepathy-trikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi (telepathy-trikaldrishti-tapassid-dhi; -tapas siddhi) — the combination of telepathy, trikaladr.s.t.i andtapas-siddhi, usually referred to as T3...telostelos [Greek] — end, completion...temperamental sraddhatemperamental sraddha — the faith of the emotional being...tertiary dasyatertiary dasya (dasya; dasyam) — (in January 1913) the third of fourdegrees of dasya, “the dasya of the yantra [instrument], which cannotdisobey, but is worked mechanically through an intermediate impul-sion of Prakriti”, this indirectness being what distinguishes it fromquaternary dasya; (from September 1913 onwards, corresponding tothe earlier triple dasya) the highest of three forms of dasya, “a com-plete subjection” to the ısvara, with prakr.ti “only as a channel”, astate resulting from the loss of the illusory “relative freedom whichby us is ignorantly called free-will”, in which “at each moment andin each movement the absolute freedom of the Supreme handles theperfect plasticity of our conscious and liberated nature”; it has threestages, one in which volition is “dominant in the consciousness not asfree, but as accompanying & approving the movement”, a second inwhich the control of prakr.ti is “dominant though as a compelled &compulsory agent of a remote or veiled Ishwara” and a third in whichprakr.ti is purely a channel and “the compulsion from the Ishwara


direct, omnipresent and immanent”...tertiary gnosistertiary gnosis — same as revelatory logistis...tertiary logistic gnosis; tertiary logististertiary logistic gnosis; tertiary logistis — same as revelatory logistis...tertiary utthapanatertiary utthapana — the last stage of utthapana, in which “one is notnecessarily subject to the law of gravitation or other physical laws”,making possible levitation “of the whole body raised from the earth”...tes hugieiestes hugieies [Greek] — of the health...thanousesthanouses [Greek] — from the dead one (feminine)...therther [Greek] — wild animal...thespesiathespesia [Greek] — divine prophecy...thesphatathesphata [Greek] — divine decrees, oracles...thoughtthought — often equivalent to vijnanamaya thought or to jnana asthe first member of the vijnana catus.t.aya; it usually includes bothperceptive thought and vanmaya (articulate) thought, but sometimesrefers specifically to one or the other of these (most often the first)...thought-expressionthought-expression — same as vanmaya thought...thought-perceptionthought-perception — same as perceptive thought...thought-prakamyathought-prakamya (thought-prakamya; thought prakamya) — read-ing of the thoughts of others by prakamya...thought-readingthought-reading — same as thought-prakamya...thought-siddhithought-siddhi (thought-siddhi; thought siddhi) — the perfection ofthought; the siddhi of jnana...thought-speechthought-speech — same as vanmaya...thought-telepathythought-telepathy — awareness of the thoughts of others, consisting ofthought-prakamya and thought-vyapti...thought-vyaptithought-vyapti — reception of the thoughts of others by vyapti...time-drstitime-dr.s.t.i (drishti) — same as time-trikaladr.s.t.i...time-trikaladrstitime-trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i (usually foreknowledge)of the exact time of events; “an intuition of Time which is not of themind and when it plays is always accurate to the very minute and ifneed be to the very second”...tiraskaranitiraskaran. i — curtain, veil...tithitithi — day of the lunar month...titiksatitiks.a (titiksha) — the power of endurance, “the facing, enduring andconquest of all shocks of existence”; the first stage of passive / negativesamata, relying “on the strength of the spirit within us to bear all thecontacts, impacts, suggestions of this phenomenal Nature that besieges


us on every side without being overborne by them and compelled tobear their emotional, sensational, dynamic, intellectual reactions”...titiksa-udasinata-natititiks.a-udasınata-nati (titiksha-udasinata-nati) — see anandamayatitiks.a-udasınata-nati...titiksa,titiks.a, udasınata, natih. iti samata (titiksha, udasinata, natih itisamata) — endurance, indifference, submission: these constitute (pas-sive / negative) samata...tivratıvra — keen, intense; having the nature of tıvrananda; short fortıvrananda; the experience of tıvrananda in a particular part of thebody...tivra anandatıvra ananda — same as tıvrananda...tivranandatıvrananda — intense physical pleasure; a form of sarırananda orphysical ananda whose nature is, if it is sahaituka, “an intimate andintense thrill” in the response of the physical system to any touch(sparsa) or, if it is ahaituka, a similar thrill even without an externalstimulus...tivra-sthititıvra-sthiti — fixity of tıvrananda...tivratatıvrata — keenness, intensity; “thrill”...tivratamatıvratama — extremely intense...tivrataratıvratara — very intense...tivra-visaya-kamatıvra-vis.aya-kama (tivra-vishaya-kama) — the combination of tıvra-nanda, vis.ayananda and kamananda...Toute usurpationToute usurpation a un cruel retour et celui qui usurpe devrait y songer,du moins pour ses enfants qui presque toujours portent la peine[French] — All usurpation has a cruel backlash and he who usurpsshould think of that, at least for the sake of his children who almostalways pay the penalty...traigunyatraigun. ya — “the threefold mode of Nature”, consisting of sattva,rajas and tamas in their “interlocked and mutually limited play”;same as trigun. a...traigunyamayatraigun. yamaya — having the nature of any mode or combination ofmodes of the traigun. ya...traigunyamayitraigun. yamayı — feminine of traigun. yamaya...traigunyamayi prakrtitraigun. yamayı prakr.ti (traigunyamayi prakriti) — the lower nature(apara prakr.ti) whose process is an interaction of the three gun. as(sattva, rajas and tamas), “the inferior nature of things” in which “theplay of infinite quality [anantagun.a] is subject to a limited measure”


and “managed by a fundamental working in three qualitative modes[traigun. ya] which conflict and combine together in all her creations”...traigunyasiddhitraigun. yasiddhi (traigunyasiddhi; traigunya-siddhi; traigunya siddhi)— the perfection of the traigun. ya or trigun. a: that part of the muktior liberation of the nature in which, when the being has transcendedthe gun. as and is trigun. atıta, the gun.as are transformed and unifiedso that “the three lower unequal modes pass into an equal triunemode”; tamas, rajas and sattva then “go back to their divine princi-ples” in “three essential powers of the Divine”, termed sama, tapas(or pravr.tti) and prakasa, “which are not merely existent in a perfectequilibrium of quietude, but unified in a perfect consensus of divineaction”...trailokyatrailokya — the three worlds (physical, vital and mental) of theaparardha or lower hemisphere of existence; same as triloka...trailokyadrstitrailokyadr.s.t.i (trailokyadrishti; trailokya drishti) — vision of thetrailokya...trailokyagatitrailokyagati — the ability to move through the three worlds (trai-lokya) in samadhi...trailokyamayi prakrtitrailokyamayı prakr.ti (trailokyamayi prakriti) — (the lower) Naturecomprising the three worlds of matter, life and mind...trailokya of bhutrailokya of bhu — same as triloka in bhu...tratakatrat.aka (trataka; tratak) — concentration of the vision on a singlepoint...trayatraya — triad, trinity...trayasparsatrayasparsa (tryasparsha) — a solar day in which three lunar days (allof one and parts of two others) meet; it is considered auspicious forbeginning a journey or inaugurating a ceremony...tretatreta — the second age in a caturyuga, whose master-spirit is theks.atriya; a period of the world in which the harmony established inthe satyayuga “begins to break down and man upholds it . . . by forceof will, individual and collective”...tri.tri. — abbreviation of trikaladr.s.t.i...trigunatrigun. a — the three gun. as, qualities or modes of the lower Nature(apara prakr.ti), called sattva, rajas and tamas, which may be defined“in terms of the motion of the universal Energy as Nature’s threeconcomitant and inseparable powers of equilibrium, kinesis and iner-tia”; psychologically, tamas is “Nature’s power of nescience”, rajas


“her power of active seeking ignorance enlightened by desire andimpulsion”, and sattva “her power of possessing and harmonisingknowledge”. Among these gun. as “there is a necessary disequilibrium,a shifting inconstancy of measures and a perpetual struggle for dom-ination” which can cease only when “the disharmonies of the triplemode of our inferior existence are overpassed and there begins a greatertriple mode of a divine Nature” (para prakr.ti); tamas, rajas and sattvaare then replaced by sama, tapas (or pravr.tti) and prakasa, of whichthey are “imperfect or degraded forms”...trigunatitatrigun. atıta (trigunatita; trigunatitam) — beyond the trigun. a, “supe-rior to the three qualities and master of them and therefore at oncecapable of action and unaffected, undominated by its own action”;brahman manifesting in “the repose, kinesis, illumination of the divineNature” above “this nature of the Ignorance with its unquiet unbal-anced activity of the three modes”...trigunatita udasinatatrigun. atıta udasınata — udasınata achieved by a “detached superior-ity to the three modes [trigun. a] of Nature” in which the “soul isinwardly separated and free from the lower Prakriti, not involved inits coils, indifferent and glad above it”...trigunatitamtrigun. atıtam — see trigun. atıta...trik.trik. — abbreviation of trikaladr.s.t.i...trikalatrikala (trikal) — “the three times”: the past, present and future, seenas an indivisible movement...trikaladrstitrikaladr.s.t.i (trikaladrishti; trikaldrishti; trikaldristi) — literally “thevision of the three times”, i.e., “the direct knowledge of the past,the intuitive knowledge of the present and the prophetic knowledgeof the future”, the second member of the vijnana catus.t.aya. It is aspecial faculty of jnana “by which that general power is applied tothe actuality of things”; its essence is a consciousness of “the Infinitedeploying in itself and organising all things in time”, making possible“a total view of the three times as one movement singly and indivisiblyseen even in their succession of stages, periods, cycles”...trikaladrstitrikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) of exact time — same as time-trikaladr.s.t.i...trikaladrstitrikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) of the past — “the direct knowledge of thepast”, including the “knowledge of our past lives, — whether of pastsoul states or personalities or scenes, occurrences, relations with others,— of the past lives of others, of the past of the world”.


..trikaladrstitrikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) of time — same as time-trikaladr.s.t.i.

..trikaladrsti-siddhitrikaladr.s.t.i-siddhi (trikaldrishti-siddhi) — perfection of trikaladr.s.t.i.

..trikaladrsti-tapastrikaladr.s.t.i-tapas (trikaldrishti-tapas; trikaldrishti tapas) — same astrikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi...trikaladrsti-tapassiddhitrikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi (trikaldrishti-tapassiddhi; trikaldrishti tapas-siddhi) — the union of trikaladr.s.t.i and tapas-siddhi, usually referredto as T2...trikaladrsti tapas telepathytrikaladr.s.t.i tapas telepathy (trikaldrishti tapas telepathy) — same astelepathy-trikaladr.s.t.i-tapassiddhi...trikaladrsti-vanitrikaladr.s.t.i-van. ı (trikaldrishti-vani) — van. ı (a divine voice) making aprediction...trikalasiddhitrikalasiddhi (trikalsiddhi) — the perfection of trikaladr.s.t.i...trikaldrishtitrikaldrishti — see trikaladr.s.t.i...trikaldristitrikaldristi — see trikaladr.s.t.i...trikalsiddhitrikalsiddhi — see trikalasiddhi...trilokatriloka (triloka; trilok) — the three lokas or worlds (physical, vitaland mental, called bhu, bhuvar and svar) of the aparardha or lowerhemisphere of existence. Each plane has its own triloka, in whichthe principles of the other two planes are subordinated to its ownprinciple; in their totality they are described as “thrice seven”, becauseeach contains in itself not only the principles of all three worlds ofthe lower hemisphere, but the four principles of the higher hemisphere(parardha)...trilokadrstitrilokadr.s.t.i (trilokadrishti) — vision of the triloka...triloka in bhutriloka in bhu — the three levels of the earth-consciousness or plane ofmaterial existence (bhu), consisting of a purely physical, a vital and amental layer...triple dasyatriple dasya (dasya; dasyam) — (corresponding in July 1912 to the latertertiary dasya) the highest of three forms of dasya, that in which the“potential freedom” of double dasya disappears; this loss of apparentfreedom of the will gives the “true freedom” that is attained only when“we surrender our conscious will and allow it to be made one withthe will of the Eternal”, for then, “living in the divine liberty, we shallno longer cling to this shackled so-called free-will, a puppet freedomignorant, illusory, relative, bound to the error of its own inadequatevital motives and mental figures”...triple ideal supermindtriple ideal supermind — (in 1920) the first three supra-intellectual


planes, called logistic, hermetic and seer ideality. Cf. intuitive highermind, illumined higher mind and highest mind in the terminology ofc. 1931...triple samadhitriple samadhi — simultaneous experience of sus.upta samadhi, svap-nasamadhi and jagrat samadhi, the three states of samadhi beingsuperimposed so that the consciousness “in sushupta perceives belowit the activities of the swapna & perceives also what is happening inthe jagrat”...tristetriste [French] — sad, sorrowful, miserable...TritaTrita — “the Third or Triple, apparently the Purusha of the mentalplane”, the companion of Eka2 and Dvita: “the god or Rishi of thethird plane, full of luminous mental kingdoms unknown to the physicalmind”...trsvi prasititr.s.vı prasiti — swift movement. [Cf. R. g Veda 4.4.1]..trsvim prasitimtr.s.vım prasitim — same as tr.s.vı prasiti...truth-reflectingtruth-reflecting intuitivity — the highest form of intuitivity, corre-sponding on the level of the intuitive mind to the truth-seeking reasonon the intellectual plane and related to the revelatory mentality...truth-reflecting intuivitytruth-reflecting intuivity — same as truth-reflecting intuitivity...truth-seeking reasontruth-seeking reason — the intelligence that “seeks impersonally to re-flect Truth”, the highest form of the manasa buddhi or thinking mind...truth tapastruth tapas — tapas acting in the truth-reflecting intuitivity or in therevelatory ideality...tryasparshatryasparsha — see trayasparsa...t-st-s — abbreviation of tapas-siddhi...tucchyena abhvapihitatucchyena abhvapihita (tucchyena abhwapihita) — universal being(abhu) concealed by fragmentation or littleness. [R. g Veda 10.129.3]..turituri [Bengali] — horn...turiyaturıya — fourth; “the incommunicable Self or One-Existence . . .which is the fourth state of the Self” (atman), symbolised by thesyllable AUM as a whole, “the supreme or absolute self of being” ofwhich the waking self, dream-self and sleep-self (virat., hiran. yagarbhaand prajna) “are derivations for the enjoyment of relative experi-ence in the world”; brahman in its “pure self-status” about which“neither consciousness nor unconsciousness as we conceive it canbe affirmed . . . ; it is a state of superconscience absorbed in its self-existence, in a self-silence or a self-ecstasy, or else it is the status of


a free Superconscient containing or basing everything but involved innothing”...turiya dasyabuddhiturıya dasyabuddhi — the sense of quaternary dasya, a state in whichall inner and outer activities are perceived to come “only as thingsimpelled by the divine hand of the Master”...TvastaTvas.t.a (Twashta) — same as Tvas.t.r....TvastrTvas.t.r. (Twashtri) — a Vedic god, “the Fashioner of things”; the uni-versal deva pervading all that he fashions as both “the indwelling Lordand Maker” and “the material of his own works”...tyagatyaga — renunciation.

U

..udanaudana — one of the five workings of the life-force (pancapran. a), thatwhich “moves upward from the body to the crown of the head and isa regular channel of communication between the physical life and thegreater life of the spirit”...udasinaudasına — indifferent, impartial, “seated above and unmoved”; onewho “lives high-seated above” in “the unattached freedom of the soultouched by the supreme knowledge”...udasina anandaudasına ananda — impartial delight...udasina natiudasına nati — nati with udasınata, a submission to the divine Willthat rises superior to the dualities, “regarding joy and sorrow equallyas God’s working in these lower instruments”...udasina premaudasına prema — impartial love, one of the three forms of prema...udasina santiudasına santi (udasina shanti) — peace of indifference; passive calmbased on udasınata...udasinataudasınata — the state of being udasına; the indifference to thedvandvas or dualities that comes from “being seated above, superior toall physical and mental touches”, the second stage of passive / negativesamata: “the soul’s impartial high-seatedness looking down fromabove on the flux of forms and personalities and movements andforces”, regarding the “passions of the mind as things born of theillusion of the outward mentality or inferior movements unworthyof the calm truth of the single and equal spirit or a vital and emo-tional disturbance to be rejected by the tranquil observing will anddispassionate intelligence of the sage”; indifference of various other


kinds, due to “either the inattention of the surface desire-soul in itsmind, sensations, emotions and cravings to the rasa of things, or itsincapacity to receive and respond to it, or its refusal to give any surfaceresponse or, again, its driving and crushing down of the pleasure orthe pain by the will”; see rajasic udasınata, sattwic udasınata, tamasicudasınata, trigun. atıta udasınata...uddesyauddesya (uddeshya) — the end in view...uddipanauddıpana — excitation; stimulus...udvigna anandabhavaudvigna anandabhava — troubled state of ananda...udyogalipsaudyogalipsa — the urge towards the application of knowledge to life,an element of Mahasarasvatı bhava...ugraugra — forceful, impetuous, violent, vehement; vivid...ugrapravrttiugrapravr.tti (ugrapravritti) — vehement activity...ugrataugrata — forcefulness, impetuosity, violence, vehemence; an elementof Mahakalı bhava or Can. d. ıbhava...ugra tapasugra tapas — forceful or violent use of will-power...ukthamuktham — prayer...uninspired intuitionuninspired intuition — intuition not uplifted by inspiration (or revela-tion), the lowest form of intuitional ideality...untelepathic trikaladrstiuntelepathic trikaladr.s.t.i — same as non-telepathic trikaladr.s.t.i...upalabdhiupalabdhi — objective experience; subjective experience, realisation,“spiritual experience — a realisation in the very substance of our be-ing”...uparatiuparati — cessation; inaction...upasanaupasana — worship...urdhvagatiurdhvagati (urdhwagati) — literally “upward movement”; same asutthapana or utthapana-sakti...urjasviurjasvı — forceful...urjo napta sahasvanurjo napta sahasvan — the son of Energy, the master of Force...urusamsaurusamsa (urushansa) — wide in expression...UsaUs.a (Usha) — the Vedic goddess of Dawn, bringer of divine illumina-tion; “the illumining dawn of the higher or undivided Consciousness”...usasius.asi (ushasi) — in the dawn (of the illumined consciousness)...utsahautsaha — effort...uttamauttama — highest; the supreme Being (purus.ottama), “the supremeBrahman, the supreme Self, who possesses both the immutable unityand the mobile multiplicity”, the Lord (ısvara) who “by a large


mobility and action of His nature, His energy, His will and power . . .manifests Himself in the world and by a greater stillness and immobilityof His being . . . is aloof from it”...uttamam rahasyamuttamam rahasyam — highest secret, the “supreme mystery of the be-ing of the Purushottama, . . . the miracle of a supreme Person andapparent vast Impersonal that are one, an immutable transcendentSelf of all things and a Spirit that manifests itself here at the veryfoundation of cosmos as an infinite and multiple personality actingeverywhere”. [Cf. Gıta 4.3]..utthapanautthapana — (literally) raising, elevating; “the state of not being sub-ject to the pressure of physical forces”, the second member of the sarıracatus.t.aya, called utthapana or levitation because of its third and finalstage (tertiary utthapana) in which “gravitation is conquered”, butusually referring to either of two earlier stages (primary utthapanaand secondary utthapana) in which “the habit by which the bodilynature associates certain forms and degrees of activity with strain,fatigue, incapacity” is rectified, resulting in a great increase in “thepower, freedom, swiftness, effectiveness of the work whether physicalor mental which can be done with this bodily instrument”; exer-cise for the development of utthapana (such as walking for primaryutthapana)...utthapana-saktiutthapana-sakti (utthapana-shakti; utthapana shakti) — the force ofutthapana, based on a combination of the siddhis of the body, espe-cially laghima and mahima.

V

..V.V. — abbreviation of “Vachas” (see vacas).

..V.AV.A — abbreviation of “Vijnana Ananda” (see vijnanananda).

..vacahvacah. (vachah) — plural of vak (in the sense of vacas).

..vacamsivacamsi (vachansi) — plural of vacas.

..vacasvacas (vachas) — word; text; same as sortilege.

..vaidyutavaidyuta — composed of vidyut; electrical; electricity (see vaidyutam);short for vaidyutananda...vaidyuta anandavaidyuta ananda — same as vaidyutananda...vaidyutamvaidyutam — electricity; the “electric energy” of the life-force (pran. a)whose currents are felt “vibrating up and down the nerves”.


..vaidyutanandavaidyutananda — “electric” ananda; a form of sarırananda orphysical ananda which “comes as a blissful electric shock or currenton the brain or other part of the nervous system”. It is said to be “oftwo kinds, positive or fiery & negative or cold”, corresponding to“two forms of sukshma vidyut [subtle electricity] that are the basis ofthe phenomena of heat & cold”; a “neutral” vaidyutananda is alsomentioned...VaikunthaVaikun. t.ha — the heaven of Vis.n.u...vaiparityamvaiparıtyam — contradiction; disharmony...vairavaira — enmity; the relation (bhava) with the ısvara in which he comesto us “as an enemy, with the wrath of love”, and our relations withhim are “those of battle and struggle”; this relation is combined withfriendship (sakhya) into sakhya-vaira as an element of the compositebhava...vairagivairagı — one who is disgusted with the world...vairagyavairagya (vairagya; vairagyam) — disgust with the world, frequentlya motive for asceticism and the renunciation of life; often used in thesense of tamasic vairagya...vairagyamvairagyam — see vairagya...vairyamvairyam — same as vaira...vaisvavaisva — universal...vaisyavaisya (vaishya; vaisya) — the soul-type representing “the Divine asproduction, enjoyment and mutuality”, the third element in the four-fold personality symbolised by the caturvarn. ya...vaisyasaktivaisyasakti (vaishyashakti) — the “soul-power of mutuality” whichreveals itself in the vaisya...vaisyasvabhavavaisyasvabhava (vaishyaswabhava) — the inner nature of the vaisya...vaisya tejasvaisya tejas (vaishya tejas) — the energy that manifests itself in thevaisya temperament...vajavaja — plenitude, abundance, substance...vajasatihvajasatih. — conquest of the plenitude...vajravajra — a nad. ı (subtle nerve-channel) connected with the genito-urinary system...vakvak — word or words, usually internal, but also (in “indicative vak”)written words serving as sortilege; speech; subtle (suks.ma) speechheard in sabdadr.s.t.i; inward speech expressing jnana, a speech “inwhich the higher knowledge, vision or thought can clothe itself within


us for expression”, especially “the word revelatory, inspired or intu-itive” that “manifests inwardly with a light, a power, a rhythm ofthought and a rhythm of inner sound” by which “it pours into thelanguage, even though the same as that of mental speech, another thanthe limited intellectual, emotional or sensational significance”...vakyavakya — speech; sentence...ValaVala — a Vedic demon, the “circumscriber” or “encloser”; the enemywho holds back the Light...ValiVali — same as Bali2, representing a form of energy (tejas) lacking inardour but full of patience (dhairya) and obstinacy (hat.ha)...vamamargavamamarga — the “left-hand path” of Tantra; the way of ananda:“Nature in man liberating itself by joyous acceptance . . . of its ownenergies”...vamih suvira isahvamıh. suvıra is.ah. (vamih suvira ishah) — delightful impulsions full ofa perfect energy. [Cf. R. g Veda 3.53.1]..V. AnandaV. Ananda — abbreviation of vijnana ananda (see vijnanananda)...vanaravanara — ape; “man with the Ape nature”; the second of the tentypes of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale: mindconcentrated on the pran. a...vanara-asuravanara-asura (vanara-asura) — the vanara stage of the asura, whichevolves in the first two manvantaras of the sixth pratikalpa...vangmayavangmaya — see vanmaya...vanivan. ı — voice; speech; “a word, a message or an inspiration that de-scends to us from above”, sometimes seeming to be “a voice of the Selfor of the Ishwara”; a voice conveying a message, often of the nature ofguidance or prediction, from a divine or other source, usually distin-guished from suks.ma vak (subtle speech) which does not come “fromabove”, but is heard “outside” (though there is also an “external”van. ı)...vani scriptvan. ı script — script dictated by van. ı...vanmayavanmaya (vangmaya) — (thought) expressed in vak; short for van-maya thought...vanmayavanmaya (vangmaya) thought — thought expressing itself “in the formof an inward speech” (vak) without the “separate character” of van. ı;a form of jnana defined as “the revelation of truth through rightand perfect vak in the thought”, regarded as a special power of srutiand distinguished from perceptive thought. It has two movements: the


effulgent (or original), which is “vak leaping forth from the idealitywith the ideation contained in it”, and the refulgent (or derivative),which expresses a previous ideation or proceeds “from a silent indefi-nite ideation to which it gives form and expression”...VarahiVarahı — the sakti of Vis.n. u in his third avatara, when he incarnatedas a mighty boar (Varaha) to raise the Earth from the depths of theocean...varddhakyavarddhakya (vardhakya) — old age...varnavarn. a — colour; one of the seven kinds of akashic material; rupa orlipi composed of this material...varnaghanavarn. aghana — dense varn. a...varna-lipivarn. a-lipi — lipi composed of varn. a...varnamayavarn. amaya (varnamaya; varnamay) — coloured; (rupa or lipi) com-posed of varn. a...varnaprasadavarn. aprasada — clearness of the complexion...vartavarta — see vartta...vartamanadrstivartamanadr.s.t.i (vartamanadrishti) — same as present trikaladr.s.t.i...varttavartta (varta) — livelihood, subsistence...VarunaVarun. a — “the Lord of Wideness”, a Vedic god who “brings to usthe infinite oceanic space of the divine soul and its ethereal, elementalpurity”, one of the Four who represent the “working of the Truth inthe human mind and temperament”; in post-Vedic mythology, the godof the sea...vasanavasana — desire...vasikaranavasıkaran. a (vashikarana) — control, especially as exercised by vasita...vasitavasita (vashita) — concentration of the will on a person or object soas to control it, one of the three siddhis of power; an instance of sucha concentration of the will...vasita-isitavasita-ısita (vashita-ishita) — the combination of vasita and ısita, twoof the three siddhis of power...VasudevaVasudeva — a name of Kr.s.n. a...vatsalyavatsalya — parental affection, especially of a mother for her child; therelation (bhava) with “God the Child”, where the ısvara is experiencedas “the child born to our desire whom we cherish and rear”, part ofthe composite bhava in which “the most intimate human relations”are made “stepping-stones to the supra-human”...vayavicvayavic — relating to vayu1, gaseous; relating to pran. a, vital.


..vayavya jalavayavya jala — jala containing an excess of vayu1.

..vayu1vayu1 — air, wind, gas; the gaseous condition of material being, oneof the pancabhuta: material Force “modifying its first ethereal status”(akasa) to assume “a second, called in the old language the aerial, ofwhich the special property is contact between force and force, contactthat is the basis of all material relations”...Vayu2Vayu2 — the Vedic god of Wind, the universal deva as “the Master ofLife, inspirer of that Breath or dynamic energy”, later called pran. a,which “was considered to be a great force pervading all materialexistence and the condition of all its activities”...vayumayavayumaya — gaseous; consisting of or relating to vayu1...VayuputraVayuputra — son of Vayu2...Veda-jnanaVeda-jnana — (intuitive) knowledge of the Veda...venavena — a kind of angelic being; cherub...vepathuvepathu — trembling, regarded as “the sign of the pranashakti at workimproving an unfit adhara”...vibhuvibhu — pervasive; the all-pervading Master...vibhutivibhuti — manifestation of divine power; an exceptional individualwho embodies “some power of the Divine and is enabled by it to actwith great force in the world”...vicaravicara (vichara) — intellectual reflection, judgment...vicitravicitra (vichitra) — rich and varied; variegated...vicitrabodhavicitrabodha (vichitrabodha; vichitra bodha) — “richness and greatvariety and minuteness of the perceptions”, an element of buddhisakti...vidhanavidhana — arrangement and right assignment of perceptions...viduharsinvıd. uhars.in (viduharshin) — exulting in its strength. [Cf. R. g Veda2.23.11]..vidvan devavidvan deva — all-knowing Godhead...vidyavidya — knowledge, including the higher and the lower knowledge,para vidya and apara vidya, “the knowledge of Brahman in Himselfand the knowledge of the world”; “the Knowledge of the Oneness”,the power by which “the Spirit dwells . . . in the consciousness ofunity and identity”; the “science and craft and technique of things”,an element of Mahasarasvatı bhava...vidya-avidyavidya-avidya — the Knowledge-Ignorance, where vidya, the con-sciousness of unity, is subject to the conditions of avidya, the dividedconsciousness.


..vidya-avidya-siddhividya-avidya-siddhi — the perfection (siddhi) that is attainable un-der the conditions of vidya-avidya, where Knowledge is “inextricablyintertwined with an original Ignorance”...vidyadharavidyadhara — a kind of supernatural being with magical power andknowledge (vidya); in the evolutionary scale, a sub-type of the devatype...vidyunmandalavidyunman. d. ala (vidyunmandal) — a halo of lightnings...vidyunmayavidyunmaya — filled with lightning...vidyutvidyut — lightning; electricity; a term sometimes substituted for varn. aas one of the seven kinds of akashic material...vihvih. — bird (Vedic symbol of the inner being)...vijavıja — seed; a spark or speck resembling a seed; also spelled bıja...vijnanavijnana (vijnana; vijnanam; vijnan) — “the large embracing conscious-ness . . . which takes into itself all truth and idea and object of knowl-edge and sees them at once in their essence, totality and parts oraspects”, the “comprehensive consciousness” which is one of the fourfunctions of active consciousness (see ajnanam), a mode of awarenessthat is “the original, spontaneous, true and complete view” of existenceand “of which mind has only a shadow in the highest operations ofthe comprehensive intellect”; the faculty or plane of consciousnessabove buddhi or intellect, also called ideality, gnosis or supermind(although these are distinguished in the last period of the Record ofYoga as explained under the individual terms), whose instrumentsof knowledge and power form the vijnana catus.t.aya; the vijnanacatus.t.aya itself; the psychological principle or degree of consciousnessthat is the basis of maharloka, the “World of the Vastness” that linksthe worlds of the transcendent existence, consciousness and bliss ofsaccidananda to the lower triloka of mind, life and matter, beingitself usually considered the lowest plane of the parardha or higherhemisphere of existence. Vijnana is “the knowledge of the One andthe Many, by which the Many are seen in the terms of the One, in theinfinite unifying Truth, Right, Vast [satyam r.tam br.hat] of the divineexistence”...vijnana anandavijnana ananda (vijnana ananda; vijnana-ananda) — same as vijnana-nanda...vijnana bhavavijnana bhava — supra-intellectual state of consciousness...vijnana brahmanvijnana brahman — brahman experienced in vijnana.


..vijnanabuddhivijnanabuddhi (vijnanabuddhi; vijnana-buddhi; vijnana buddhi) —the intuitive mind, intermediate between intellectual reason (manasabuddhi) and pure vijnana, a faculty consisting of vijnana “workingin mind under the conditions and in the forms of mind”, which “byits intuitions, its inspirations, its swift revelatory vision, its luminousinsight and discrimination can do the work of the reason with a higherpower, a swifter action, a greater and spontaneous certitude”...vijnana-caksuhvijnana-caks.uh. (vijnana-chakshu) — eye of vijnana...vijnana catustayavijnana catus.t.aya (vijnanachatusthaya; vijnana-chatusthaya; vijnanachatusthaya) — the third catus.t.aya, the quaternary of the supra-intellectual faculty (vijnana), whose members are usually listed asjnana, trikaladr.s.t.i, as.t.asiddhi and samadhi; as.t.asiddhi is sometimesreplaced by rupadr.s.t.i and tapas, making five members...vijnana darsanavijnana darsana (vijnana darshana) — vision of brahman on the planeof vijnana...vijnanadrstivijnanadr.s.t.i (vijnanadrishti; vijnana drishti) — dr.s.t.i (revelation) act-ing in the vijnana free from mental accompaniment or limitation...vijnana ghanatavijnana ghanata — massed concentration of vijnana...vijnana jyotisvijnana jyotis — light of vijnana...vijnanakosavijnanakosa (vijnanakosha; vijnana-kosha) — the sheath (kosa) cor-responding to vijnana, “the knowledge-sheath, the causal [karan. a]body”, by living in which the human being “will be able to drawdown entirely into his terrestrial existence the fullness of the infinitespiritual consciousness”...vijnana lokavijnana loka — the world (loka) of vijnana, same as maharloka, “theplane of the gnosis” where “the infinite . . . is very concretely . . . thefoundation from which everything finite forms itself”...vijnanamvijnanam — see vijnana...vijnanamayavijnanamaya (vijnanamaya; vijnanamay) — supra-intellectual; havingthe nature of vijnana, the principle that links saccidananda to mind,life and matter and is revealed through the faculties of smr.ti, sruti anddr.s.t.i; expressing the principle of vijnana involved in or subordinatedto the principle of another plane, such as the physical or mental. Theterms ideal, gnostic and supramental are almost interchangeable withvijnanamaya in the Record of Yoga up to 1920; in 1927, the wordvijnanamaya does not occur, while “supramental” and “gnostic” referto planes higher than ideality.


..vijnanamayavijnanamaya anandamaya ısvara (vijnanamaya anandamaya ish-wara) — the all-knowing and all-blissful Lord...vijnanamaya samadhivijnanamaya samadhi — same as savijnana samadhi...vijnanamaya tapasvijnanamaya tapas — tapas on the plane of vijnana, “that which ful-fils what the knowledge sees”; same as ideal tapas...vijnanamaya thoughtvijnanamaya thought — thought elevated to the plane of vijnana...vijnanamaya trikaladrstivijnanamaya trikaladr.s.t.i (vijnanamaya trikaldrishti) — time-vision inthe vijnana...vijnanamayivijnanamayı — feminine of vijnanamaya...vijnananandavijnanananda — ananda experienced on the plane of vijnana; sameas cidghanananda...vijnanapadmavijnanapadma — lotus of knowledge; see sahasradala...vijnana reasonvijnana reason — same as luminous reason (logistic ideality)...vijnana saktivijnana sakti (vijnana shakti) — the sakti acting on the plane ofvijnana...vijnana-samadhivijnana-samadhi (vijnana-samadhi; vijnana samadhi) — samadhitransformed by the action of vijnana; a higher counterpart of thetraditional savicara samadhi, replacing intellectual judgment andperception by their supra-intellectual equivalents...vijnanasarathyupeta rathi vidvanvijnanasarathyupeta rathı vidvan — the Knower riding in the chariot(of the body) with vijnana as charioteer...vijnanasiddhivijnanasiddhi (vijnanasiddhi; vijnana-siddhi; vijnana siddhi) — theperfection of the vijnana catus.t.aya...vijnana suddha anantavijnana suddha ananta (vijnana shuddha ananta) — pure infinite de-light (suddha ananta ananda) experienced on the plane of vijnana...vijnana thoughtvijnana thought — same as vijnanamaya thought...vijnana trikaladrstivijnana trikaladr.s.t.i (vijnana trikaldrishti) — same as vijnanamayatrikaladr.s.t.i...vijnanavan devavijnanavan deva — the Godhead manifesting through vijnana...vijnana yantritavijnana yantrita — controlled by vijnana...vikalpavikalpa — variation; variety; distinction...vikaravikara — modification, derivative...vinasmaranavinasmaran. a (vinasmarana; vina-smarana; vina smarana) — withoutsmaran. a; (physical ananda) independent of memory or attention...viparitaviparıta — contrary, inverse, perverse...viraktivirakti — disgust, aversion...viratvirat. — “the Shining and Mighty One”, brahman manifest in the first


of the three states symbolised by the letters of AUM; the Self (atman)supporting the waking state (jagrat) or sthula consciousness; the Lord(ısvara) pervading the external universe as the Cosmic Soul...virat purusavirat. purus.a (virat purusha) — same as virat....virativirati — cessation, desistence; dissatisfaction...virodhavirodha — opposition; repugnance...viryavırya (virya; viryam) — strength of character; “the energy of the divinetemperament expressing itself in the fourfold type of the chaturvarnya”(see caturvarn. ya), the first member of the sakti catus.t.aya, consistingof the dynamic force “of the temperament, character and soul nature,svabhava, which makes the power of our members effective in actionand gives them their type and direction”; heroism, an attribute ofBalarama; the virile energy carried to the head by udana...viryamvıryam — see vırya...viryamitivıryamiti — vırya consists of. . . ...virya,vırya, sakti, can. d. ıbhavah. , sraddha, iti sakticatus.t.ayam (virya,shakti, chandibhavah, sraddha, iti shaktichatusthayam) — vırya, sakti,Can. d. ıbhava and sraddha: these constitute the sakti catus.t.aya...visadavis.ada (vishada) — despondency, depression...visalatavisalata — wideness, an element of Mahesvarı bhava...visarjanavisarjana — discharge...visayavis.aya (vishaya) — an object of sensory or other experience; any ofthe five “properties of energy or matter, sound, touch, form, taste andsmell, which constitute the way in which the mind-sense perceivesobjects”, being “five different ways of sense cognizance of the world,powers evolved by the universal energy [prakr.ti] in order to dealwith all the forms of things she has created from the five elementalstates [pancabhuta] assumed by her original objective substance”;(also called suks.ma vis.aya) an immaterial object or sensation per-ceived by a subtle sense (suks.ma indriya); short for vis.ayadr.s.t.i orvis.ayananda...visaya anandavis.aya ananda (vishaya ananda) — same as vis.ayananda...visayabhogavis.ayabhoga (vishayabhoga; vishaya bhoga) — vis.ayananda in thestate of bhoga...visaya buddhivis.aya buddhi (vishaya buddhi) — worldly reason, science; an at-tribute of Aniruddha...visayadrstivis.ayadr.s.t.i (vishayadrishti) — subtle sense-perception (suks.ma dr.s.t.i)


in general or any particular form of such perception, especially per-ception of the suks.ma vis.ayas of sound, touch, smell and taste (sabda,sparsa, gandha and rasa), with vision of rupa often mentioned sep-arately; the faculty or faculties constituting the instrumentation ofsamjnana or “sense in its purity”, which “exists behind and beyond themind it uses and is a movement of the self, a direct and original activityof the infinite power of its consciousness”, capable of presenting to us“things concealed from the limited receptivity or beyond the rangeof the physical organs, . . . scenes, forms, happenings, symbols of thevital, psychical, mental, supramental, spiritual worlds”...visaya-kamavis.aya-kama (vishaya-kama) — the combination of vis.ayananda andkamananda...visayanandavis.ayananda (vishayananda) — ananda in the objects of sense (vis.a-yas), a form of sarırananda or physical ananda by which all “sense andsensation becomes full of . . . a divine joy, the delight of the Brahman”;the experience of vis.ayananda in relation to a particular sense (indriya)and its objects...visaya-niranandavis.aya-nirananda (vishaya-nirananda) — undelight in the objects ofsense...visesa-radhasvises.a-radhas (vishesha-radhas) — special ecstasy...vishadavishada — see vis.ada...vishayavishaya, etc. — see vis.aya, etc...vishesha-radhasvishesha-radhas — see vises.a-radhas...VishnuVishnu, etc. — see Vis.n. u, etc...vishuddhavishuddha, etc. — see visuddha, etc...vishuddhivishuddhi — see visuddhi...vishwadarshanavishwadarshana — see visvadarsana...visistadvaitavisis.t.advaita (visishtadwaita) — modified monism; the perception of“relation in a qualified identity”...vismaranavismaran. a — forgetfulness...vismrtivismr.ti (vismriti) — forgetfulness, inattention...VisnuVis.n. u (Vishnu) — a Vedic god, “the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, theLover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existenceand the transcendent delight”, who supplies for the action of the othergods “the necessary static elements, — Space, the ordered movementsof the worlds, the ascending levels, the highest goal”; in later Hinduism,the Preserver of the world, one of the “three Powers and Personalities


of the One Cosmic Godhead”, of which the other two are Brahma, theCreator, and Siva or Rudra2, the Destroyer; also regarded as the Lordhimself (ısvara) who incarnates in the avataras, and the one deva ofwhom all the gods are manifestations; in the Record of Yoga, usuallya subordinate aspect of Kr.s.n. a, sometimes identified with Pradyumnaas the personality of the fourfold ısvara whose sakti is Mahalaks.mı...Visnu-NarayanaVis.n. u-Narayan. a (Vishnu-Narayana) — Vis.n. u, regarded as a cosmicpersonality of Kr.s.n. a, manifesting in the form of Narayan. a, who is“Vishnu . . . as the God in man”...VisnusaktiVis.n. usakti (Vishnushakti) — the soul-power or element of vıryathat expresses the personality of the fourfold ısvara as Vis.n. u orPradyumna...visrstivisr.s.t.i (visrishti) — evacuation; discharge of waste matter from thedigestive system in the liquid form of mutra (in jalavisr.s.t.i) or in thesolid form of purıs.a (in parthiva visr.s.t.i), a process whose diminutionindicates improved assimilation connected with arogya...visrsti-visarjanavisr.s.t.i-visarjana (visrishti-visarjana) — discharge of mutra or purıs.a...visuddhavisuddha (vishuddha; visuddha) — the cakra in the throat, the centreof consciousness that “governs the expressive and externalising mind”...visuddhatavisuddhata (vishuddhata) — purity of the thinking faculty, an elementof buddhisakti...visuddhata,visuddhata, prakasa, vicitrabodha, jnanadharan. asamarthyam itibuddhisaktih. (vishuddhata, prakasha, vichitrabodha, jnanadharana-samarthyam iti buddhishaktih) — purity, clarity, variety of under-standing, capacity to hold all knowledge: these constitute the powerof the thinking mind...visuddhivisuddhi (vishuddhi; visuddhih) — purity; same as visuddhata...visuddhih,visuddhih. , prakaso, vicitrabodho, jnanasamarthyam (visuddhih,prakasho, vichitrabodho, jnanasamarthyam) — purity, clarity, vari-ety of understanding, capacity for all knowledge (the elements ofbuddhisakti)...visvadarsanavisvadarsana (vishwadarshana; vishwa darshana) — vision of all theworlds; anandadarsana on all planes...visvadevalokavisvadevaloka — the world of the all-gods or karmadevatas...visvadrstivisvadr.s.t.i (visvadrishti) — vision of all the worlds...visvagativisvagati — the power to travel through all the worlds (lokas) insamadhi; an alternative name for the last member of the vijnana


catus.t.aya...visvaisvaryavisvaisvarya (visvaiswarya) — universal power, omnipotence...VisvakarmanVisvakarman — the divine architect of the universe, identified withTvas.t.r....visvasparsavisvasparsa (visvasparsha) — universal touch...visva varyani sravasyavisva varyan. i sravasya — all the boons of inspired knowledge. [R. gVeda 1.149.5]..vivekaviveka (viveka; vivek) — intuitive discrimination, one of the two com-ponents of smr.ti, a faculty of jnana; its function is “to seize on ourthoughts & intuitions, arrange them, separate their intellectual fromtheir vijnanamaya elements, correct their false extensions, false lim-itations, misapplications & assign them their right application, rightextension, right limitation”...vivekamayavivekamaya — having the nature of viveka...vivekamaya trikaladrstivivekamaya trikaladr.s.t.i (trikaldrishti) — trikaladr.s.t.i in which vivekais used for “deciding the correct event among the various tendencies,applied forces & possibilities”...vividhanandavividhananda — various delight; ananda as the last member ofthe sarıra catus.t.aya, consisting of the fivefold physical ananda orsarırananda whose forms are kamananda, vis.ayananda, tıvrananda,raudrananda and vaidyutananda...vividha vanivividha van. ı — miscellaneous van. ı...vivrtavivr.ta (vivrita) — open, revealed...vouloir (exclusivement) la delivrance de ses vassauxvouloir (exclusivement) la delivrance de ses vassaux [French] — to de-sire (exclusively) the deliverance of his vassals...vraja bhuranta gonamvraja bhuranta gonam — (the steeds of life-energy) gallop to the pensof the luminous cows (the illuminations of the divine Truth). [R. g Veda5.6.7]..vranavran. a — wound; flaw, “scar of imperfection”. [Cf. Isa Upanis.ad 8]..vrijinavrijina — see vr.jina...vrikavrika — see vr.ka...vrishavrisha — see vr.s.a...VritraVritra — see Vr.tra...vritratwavritratwa — see vr.tratva...vrjinavr.jina (vrijina) — crooked...vrkavr.ka (vrika) — wolf; “tearer”; a type of hostile being in the Veda...vrsavr.s.a (vrisha) — as master or strongly or abundantly.


..VrtraVr.tra (Vritra) — a Vedic demon, the “coverer” who blocks the flow ofthe waters of being; a hostile power obstructing the yoga...vrtratvavr.tratva (vritratwa) — state of being concealed by Vr.tra; obscuration...vyaghracarmavyaghracarma (vyaghracharma) — tiger-skin...vyakaranavyakaran. a — grammar; a special power that gives the intuitive knowl-edge of grammar, related to bhas.asakti...vyaktavyakta — manifest...vyanavyana — one of the five workings of the life-force (pancapran. a), thatwhich “distributes the vital energies throughout the body”...vyaptivyapti — the pervasion of all by a universal consciousness; a streamof conscious connection between beings arising from a fundamentalunity; (also called receptive vyapti) the reception of thoughts, feelings,etc., entering into one’s mind from others, one of the two siddhisof knowledge whose combination constitutes telepathy; (also calledeffective or communicative vyapti) the transmission of thoughts orstates of consciousness to others, an agent of vasita...vyaptih,vyaptih. , prakamyam, aisvaryam, ısita, vasita, mahima, laghima,an. ima, iti as.t.asiddhih. (vyaptih, prakamyam, aishwaryam, ishita,vashita, mahima, laghima, anima, iti ashtasiddhih) — vyapti, prakam-ya, aisvarya, ısita, vasita, mahima, laghima, an. ima: these are the eightsiddhis or supernormal powers...vyapti-prakamyavyapti-prakamya (vyapti-prakamya; vyaptiprakamya; vyapti prakam-ya) — the combination of vyapti and prakamya, the two siddhis ofknowledge, which constitutes telepathy...vyayavyaya — “capacity to spend freely”, an attribute of the vaisya...vyaya-laksmivyaya-laks.mı (vyaya-lakshmi) — success and prosperity resulting fromexpenditure of energies...vyuhavyuha — marshalling of the rays of the sun of knowledge. [Cf. IsaUpanis.ad 16]

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..yadrcchalabhasantosahyadr.cchalabhasantos.ah. — being satisfied with whatever comes bychance...yajnayajna — sacrifice...yaksayaks.a (yaksha) — a kind of supernatural being belonging to a worldof pleasure; in the evolutionary scale, a sub-type of the deva type.


..YamaYama — the “Controller or Ordainer”, a form of the Vedic sun-god,Surya2, as “the guardian of the divine Law”...yantrayantra — tool, instrument, machine; the adhara as “a complex engineof Nature” placed at the service of the ısvara in the relation of tertiarydasya or yantrabhava...yantrabhavayantrabhava — the relation (bhava) with the ısvara in which one hasthe sense of being a living instrument (yantra) in his hands, a stateassociated with tertiary dasya in which “we do not obey, but move tohis will as the string replies to the finger of the musician”...yantranayantran. a — forcing, hurting...yantriyantrı — one who makes use of an instrument (yantra); the purus.aas the “master of the machine”; the ısvara as “the Mechanician . . .mending & testing His machine” or as “the Worker” in whose handsthe adhara is a passive instrument...yantritayantrita — controlled...yantri-yantra bhavayantrı-yantra bhava — the relation (bhava) with the ısvara that iscompared to that of an instrument (yantra) to the user of the in-strument (yantrı), the control of the yantrı being felt by the yantra “asif it were being pushed by him with his hand upon it”...yasahpraptiyasah.prapti (yashahprapti) — the attainment of glory...yasasyasas (yashas) — glory; victory; success...yasolipsayasolipsa (yasholipsa) — the urge towards glory and victory, an at-tribute of the ks.atriya...yatharthabodhayatharthabodha — correct perception...yatharthyayatharthya — truth, real nature...yat kinca jagatyam jagatyat kinca jagatyam jagat (yat kincha jagatyam jagat) — “whatever isindividual world of movement [jagat] in the universal motion [jagatı]”.[Isa Upanis.ad 1]..yauvanayauvana — youth...yogayoga — union; “the union of that which has become separated in theplay of the universe with its own true self, origin and universality”;any of various methods of seeking for such a union; especially the pathof purn. a yoga, culminating in a “Yoga of self-perfection” by whichthe “liberated individual being, united with the Divine in self andspirit, becomes in his natural being a self-perfecting instrument for theperfect outflowering of the Divine in humanity”. In Sri Aurobindo’sdiary, “the Yoga” usually refers to his practice of this Yoga of self-


perfection, whose elements are enumerated in the sapta catus.t.aya; butthe effective half of the karma catus.t.aya is for some purposes treatedas part of “life” or the lıla, as distinct from the yoga...yoga catustayayoga catus.t.aya (yoga chatushtaya) — the quaternary of yoga; anothername for the siddhi catus.t.aya...yogagnimaya sarirayogagnimaya sarıra (yogagnimaya sharira) — a body filled with thefiery energy generated by yoga. [Svetasvatara Upanis.ad 2.12]..yogangayoganga — the limbs or divisions of the yoga of self-perfection...yogasiddhiyogasiddhi (yogasiddhi; yoga-siddhi; yoga siddhi) — “the perfectionthat comes from the practice of Yoga”; the progressive or eventualattainment of perfection (siddhi) in yoga, especially in the yoga of self-perfection outlined in the sapta catus.t.aya, often not including karmaor the effective half of the karma catus.t.aya...yogatattvayogatattva (yogatattwa) — the principles of yoga, especially the yogaof self-perfection outlined in the sapta catus.t.aya...yogesvara Hariyogesvara Hari (yogeshwara Hari) — Kr.s.n. a, Master of the Yoga. [Cf.Gıta 11.9]..yoginyogin — one who practises yoga; one who has attained yogasiddhi...yo . . . samimyo . . . samım sasamanasya nindat — “who confines the work whenman seeks his self-expression”. [R. g Veda 5.42.10]..yo . . . suptesuyo . . . suptes.u jagarti — “this that wakes in the sleepers”. [Kat.haUpanis.ad 2.2.8]..yo . . . tucchyanyo . . . tucchyan kaman karate sis.vidanah. — “who with sweat of effortcreates little fragmentary desires”. [R. g Veda 5.42.10]..yuddhayuddha — struggle, battle; (on page 1281) the name of a svarga...yuddhalipsayuddhalipsa — the urge towards battle, an element of Mahakalı bhavaor Can. d. ıbhava...yuddhanandayuddhananda — delight in struggle and battle...yugayuga — age, period; any of the four ages of a caturyuga.

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