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    Five makaras of tantra: mudra (psychic attitude), mansa (flesh), maithuna (physical union), matsya, mansa (fish), madya (wine).
    Transcendental knowledge.
    Supreme goddess; cosmic energy principle.
    High order of sanyasins who are able to discriminate between reality and unreality.
    Cosmic soul or consciousness; universal or supreme self; highest spirit.
    Supreme consciousness; the absolute; highest reality.
    One of the threefold principles of shakti.
    Supreme power; kundalini; medium for revealing Shiva.
    Supreme or highest knowledge.
    Consort and first disciple of Lord Shiva; cosmic mother; Mahashakti; daughter of Himavan.
    Animal nature.
    Sound vibration in the subtle body; inaudible sound; mental sound.
    Sage, or rishi, who codified the Yoga Sutras, propounder of ashtanga yoga.
    Major pranic channel in the body which conducts the dynamic force, or pranashakti: solar or vital energy channel; emerges from the right of mooladhara chakra and intersects each of the chakras before reaching ajna chakra.
    Inhalation.
    source of individual revelation; unconscious mind Intuition.
    Eternal light, luminosity; internal or subtle illumination; principle of self revelation.
    Manifest and unmanifest nature composed of the attributes; cosmic energy; vehicle of purusha (consciousness) according to Samkhya philosophy.
    Dissolution of universe where everything created dissolves, back into the unmanifest source of existence.
    Principle of energy that sets life in motion; vital air or energy force, sustaining life and creation; vital air which operates in the chest region.
    Energy sheath or body.
    Creative aspect of pure consciousness.
    Yogic practices involving control of inhalation, exhalation and retention of breath; technique for expanding the dimensions of prana.
    Doctrine of recognition belonging to Kashmir Shaivism.