• Paris

    Scientific Terms/Concepts

    One of the three gunas, or qualities of nature and mind, representing stability and immobility; responsible for inertia, laziness, procrastination, dullness, darkness, fear of change quality or essence of the five elements.
    sensory perception; five in number: smell, sight, taste, touch and hearing.
    Expansion.
    Process of expansion of mind and liberation of energy and consciousness from matter; comes from two roots: tanoti meaning 'expansion' and trayati 'liberation'.
    Practitioner of the esoteric tantric science.
    Literally, 'to sharpen' or 'to whet'; austerity; derived from tapa, or fire.
    Literally, 'thatness', essential element or principle; five in number: earth, water, fire, air and ether.
    Literally, 'bright'; that which illuminates subtle objects; subconscious state related to dream whose essence is light.
    One supreme reality, manifesting as three.
    Literally, 'steady gazing' at a fixed point or object without blinking; a method of focusing the mind.
    Liberation.
    Threefold, triple; system or philosophy of the triad: i)Shiva, ii) Shakti and iii) Nara, bound soul; or i) para, the highest, non different from Shiva, ii) parapara, the intermediate state of identity in difference, iii) apara, the state of difference, basic philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism.
    Tri means 'three' and shira means 'That which carries'; text dealing with the three flows, or shiras, of prana known as ida, pingala and sushumna.
    Upanishad which deals with the three flows, or shiras, of energy known as ida, pingala and sushumna.
    Three pronged trident symbolic of the three gunas or qualities of nature, in equipoise
    Fourth dimension of consciousness transcending the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states, and linking states; integral awareness; sakshi, or witnessing The super consciousness, consciousness.