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    Constant, regular and uninterrupted practice, the Sadhana.
    Ancient, primordial or original guru; divine source from which the power of initiation and guidance descends to line of gurus; an epithet of Sri Shankaracharya and sometimes of Dakshinamurti.
    Constant, regular and uninterrupted practice, the Sadhana.
    Ancient, primordial or original guru; divine source from which the power of initiation and guidance descends to line of gurus; an epithet of Sri Shankaracharya and sometimes of Dakshinamurti.
    Non dual, concept of oneness; monistic vision of reality.
    To carry on or go forward, esoteric tradition of tantra. appropriate for kali yuga; tantric philosophy and scriptures in which Lord Shiva teaches Devi Parvati, his consort; these texts outline a code of living which includes ritual, worship, discipline, meditation and attainment of siddhis; predate the Vedas.
    One for whom nothing is abominable, one who is in total tune with nature, having mastered the elements, totally innocent.
    I, absolute I.
    l am Brahm (supreme conscious ness), one of the four mahavakyas, or great pronouncements,of Vedanta.
    Faculty of ego, awareness of the existence of T'; centre of individual mental, emotional, psychic and physical functioning.
    Oblations offered into the fire during yajna, or sacrifice.
    Spontaneous, unbroken repetition of mantra; meditation practice in which mantra is repeated in coordination with the incoming and outgoing breath.
    Third eye (eye of knowledge), command or guru centre; psychic centre that is the seat of intuition.
    First letter of Sanskrit alphabet; first sound to emanate space at the beginning of creation.
    Form.
    Indelible sound vibration contained within the letters that make up words and language, fifty in number; written on the lotus petals of the chakras.
    Support (of awareness) in the form of thoughts Or samskaras; base.
    Laziness; one of the obstacles in sadhana according to Sage Patanjali.
    Unstruck sound, unstruck cosmic sound that is reverberating throughout the universe; sound made without contact of two objects coming together; sound of the soul; although it emerges from anahata chakra, it is heard most clearly at bindu at the top back of the head.
    Psychic/pranic centre situated in the region of the heart and cardiac plexus; fourth chakra in human evolution.
    State of supreme or unending bliss.
    Finger width.
    Grain; food.
    Material or food body.
    Part.
    Inner tool or 'inner self'; internal organ of consciousness; comprises manas, chitta, buddhi and ahamkara.
    Prefix representing the subtle dimensions; atom, little; limited, conditioned or Individual.
    Divine graces transmission of energy or shaktipath Blessing.
    Attainment of spiritual experience through through little or no means or effort, for very advanced aspirants only.
    Immanent, lower, material; one of the threefold principles of shakti.
    Both immanent and transcendental.
    Chakra below mooladhara.
    Half moon, psychic centre corresponding to bindu visarga.
    Disciple of Sri Krishna who, in the Bhagavad Gita, received the highest knowledge from him; third of the five sons of Kunti and King Pandu.
    Ascent; used in context of ascent of consciousness, also refers to the ascending scale in music, psychic pathway used in meditation which runs from mooladhara chakra up the front of the body to sahasrara chakra at the crown of the head.
    According to Patanjali, a steady and comfortable meditation pose in which one is at perfect ease; a specific position of the body which balances and channels prana, opens the chakras and removes energy blocks; third stage of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga
    The eight-limbed yoga of Patanjali: Yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi. limbed yoga of Patanjali: Yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi.
    Horse sacrifice; elaborate vedic ceremony undertaken by kings or emperors to attain a son or sovereignty; esoteric tantric meditation.
    Contraction of the anal sphincter.
    Last of the four Vedas; named after Sage Atharvan, who classified the agamas that existed under the name of tantra, and consolidated them in the Atharva Veda.
    Reflective thinking.
    Pure consciousness which everything, undying self, spirit, soul.
    Primordial sound; cosmic vibration of the universe, universal manta; Pranava represents the four states of consciousness; conscious, subconscious, unconscious and superconscious; symbol of Brahmin; also spelt Om.
    Descent of consciousness; descending psychic pathway used in kriya yoga and meditation which starts ac sahasrara and travels down through sushumna to mooladhara chakra.
    Descent or incarnation of supreme consciousness into human form, e.g., Rama, Krishna, Buddha and the other dashavataras, or ten incarnations, of Vishnu.
    Ignorance of true reality, complete unawareness.
    Unmanifest, unseen.
    Dimension.