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    A Brief Sanskrit Glossary: A Spiritual Student's Guide to Essential Sanskrit Terms
    A Brief Sanskrit Glossary: A Spiritual Student's Guide to Essential Sanskrit Terms
    A Brief Sanskrit Glossary: A Spiritual Student's Guide to Essential Sanskrit Terms
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    A Brief Sanskrit Glossary: A Spiritual Student's Guide to Essential Sanskrit Terms

    By Abbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri)

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    It is very beneficial for students of Indian thought, of the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and other Indian scriptures and philosophical works to expand their vocabularies to include the sanskrit terms included in them. English books about these works often contain many untranslated sanskrit words because there are no concise English equivalents.

    This glossary contains full translations and explanations of many of the most commonly used sanskrit terms, and will help students of these spiritual treatises gain a fuller understanding in their studies.

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    PublisherAbbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri)
    Release dateDec 19, 2014
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    A Brief Sanskrit Glossary - Abbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri)

    A Brief Sanskrit Glossary

    A Spiritual Student's Guide to Essential Sanskrit Terms

    compiled by

    Abbot George Burke

    (Swami Nirmalananda Giri)

    Published by

    Light of the Spirit Press

    Cedar Crest, New Mexico

    Light of the Spirit Monastery

    P. O. Box 1370

    Cedar Crest, New Mexico 87008

    www.ocoy.org

    Copyright © 2014 Light of the Spirit Monastery.

    All rights reserved.

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2014916116

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    Table of Contents

    Preface

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    D

    E

    G

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    I

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    Preface

    It is very beneficial for students of Indian thought, of the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and other Indian scriptures and philosophical works to expand their vocabularies to include the sanskrit terms included in them. English books about these works often contain many untranslated sanskrit words because there are no concise English equivalents.

    This glossary contains full translations and explanations of many of the most commonly used sanskrit terms, and will help students of these spiritual treatises gain a fuller understanding in their studies.

    We recommend two other dictionaries:

    Yoga-Vedanta Dictionary by Swami Sivananda. Divine Life Society of South Africa

    A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy by John Grimes. State University of New York Press

    A

    Abhaya(m): Without fear; fearlessness; a state of steadfastness in which one is not swayed by fear of any kind.

    Abhedananda, Swami: A direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, who spent many years traveling and teaching Vedanta and Yoga in America.

    Abhimana: Egoism; conceit; attachment; I-sense; pride; the function of the ego; the delusion of me and mine; identification with the body.

    Abhimata: Desired; favorite; attractive; agreeable, appealing; object of choice.

    Abhinivesha: Will to live; strong desire; false identification of the Self with the body or mind; an instinctive clinging to life and a dread of death.

    Abhisheka(m): Bathing–the ritual pouring of various items over a sacred image or personage in homage and worship.

    Abhyantara: Internal; inward.

    Abhyasa: Sustained spiritual practice.

    Abhyasayoga: Yoga, or union with God, through sustained spiritual practice.

    Achala: Immovable; standing still; firm; steady; fixed unwavering; without change.

    Achara: 1) Immobile. 2) Conduct; good behavior; custom; practice; teaching.

    Acharya: Preceptor; teacher; spiritual teacher/ guide; guru.

    Achintya: Unthinkable; inconceivable; incomprehensible; inexplicable. A title of Brahman because the mind cannot conceive Its nature.

    Achintya shakti: Inscrutable power ineffable force.

    Achyuta: Imperishable one–a title of Krishna.

    Adhara: 1) To support or prop; support; substratum; body apparatus. In yoga, it means various places of the body where the attention is focussed for control, concentration, and meditation. 2) A reservoir of pranic energies, storage units for the energies that flow into the subtle bodies through the chakras, therefore often mistaken for a chakra.

    Adharma: Unrighteousness; demerit, failure to perform one’s proper duty; unrighteous action; lawlessness; absence of virtue; all that is contrary to righteousness (dharma).

    Adhibhuta: Primal Being; Primal Element; Primordial Matter. Also: Supreme Being and Supreme Element.

    Adhidaiva: Primal God; Supreme God.

    Adhikara: Authority; qualification; jurisdiction; prerogative; office; claim; privilege.

    Adhikari(n): An eligible or qualified person; a worthy person. It implies both fitness and capability.

    Adhishthana(m): Seat; basis; substratum; ground; support; abode; the body as the abode of the subtle bodies and the Self; underlying truth or essence; background.

    Adhiyajna: Primal Sacrifice; Supreme Sacrifice.

    Adhyatma: The individual Self; the supreme Self; spirit.

    Adhyatmic: Pertaining to the Self, individual and Supreme.

    Adi Purusha: The First or Original Purusha. See Purusha.

    Adishakti: Primal Power.

    Aditi: Boundless; unbounded; Infinite Mother–the source of all the cosmic forms of consciousness from physical upwards; in Vedic cosmology: the mother of the gods.

    Aditya: The sun; the Sun God.

    Adityas: Solar deities, the greatest of which is Vishnu.

    Advaita: Non-dualism; non-duality; literally: not [a] two [dvaita].

    Advaita Vedanta: The teaching that there is only One Reality (Brahman-Atman), as found in the Upanishads. Non-dualistic philosophy, especially that of Shankara.

    Advaitic: Non-dual; having to do with the philosophy of Advaita (Non-Dualism).

    Advaitin: A proponent of Advaita philosophy.

    Advaitist: A proponent of Advaita philosophy.

    Adyasakti: The Primal Energy.

    Agama: Scripture; particularly scriptures dealing with the four topics of temple construction and the making of images, philosophy, meditation practice, and methods of worship.

    Agamapaya/agamapayi: That which appears and disappears–comes and goes.

    Agami karma: The action that will be done by the individual in the future.

    Agastya: A sage and reputed seer of many hymns in the Rig Veda.

    Agni: Vedic god of fire.

    Agnihotra: Fire offering; a Vedic fire sacrifice.

    Aham Brahmasmi: I am Brahman. The Mahavakya (Great Saying) of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

    Ahamkara: See Ahankara.

    Ahankara: Ego; egoism or self-conceit; the self-arrogating principle I, I am-ness; self-consciousness.

    Ahara: Food.

    Ahata: Natural sound.

    Ahimsa: Non-injury in thought, word, and deed; non-violence; non-killing; harmlessness.

    Airavata: The white elephant of Indra that was produced by the churning of the ocean.

    Aishwarya: Dominion, power; lordship; divine glory; majesty; splendor; attribute(s) of Ishwara.

    Ajapa japa: A yogic term that means the natural, spontaneous sound of the breath that goes on perpetually through the simple act of breathing. This sound is extremely subtle, and though non-verbal is the highest form of mantra.

    Ajapa Gayatri: So-ham.

    Ajna chakra: Command Wheel. Energy center located at the point between the eyebrows, the third eye. The medulla center opposite the point between the eyebrows.

    Ajara: Without old age; ageless.

    Ajara Amara Avinashi Atma: The ageless, immortal, imperishable Self.

    Akarma: Inaction; non-doing.

    Akarta: Non-doer; non-attached.

    Akasha: Ether; space; sky; literally: not visible. The subtlest of the five elements (panchabhuta), from which the other four arise. It is all-pervading, and is sometimes identified with consciousness–chidakasha. It is the basis of sound (shabda), which is its particular property.

    Akashavani: Ethereal voice; heavenly voice.

    Akhanda: Unbroken (literally: not broken); indivisible; undivided; whole.

    Aklishta: Unafflicted; non-afflicted; unmoved.

    Akshara: Imperishable; indestructible, immutable, undying; undecaying; unchanging–all in reference to the individual self and the Supreme Self, Brahman. It also means syllable and is used in reference to the ekakshara–the one syllable, the One Imperishable: Om.

    Akula: Without form; formless.

    Alabdhabhumikatva: Non-achievement of a stage;

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