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    Scientific Terms/Concepts

    Audible sound or speech.
    One who 1S not attached to the world of the senses; sect of renunciates who have transcended matter.
    Dispassion; non attachment; state in which one remains internally calm and balanced under all circumstances; absence of sensual craving and desire.
    Sect that worships incarnations of Lord Vishnu as the supreme reality.
    One who worships incarnations of Lord Vishnu as the supreme reality.
    Lord of the conscious realm, the material world.
    Contraction and release of the urinary passage to stimulate swadhisthana chakra.
    Colour.
    End of the Vedas; Veda means '(transcendental) knowledge' and anta means 'end; ultimate philosophy of the Vedas; one of the six darshanas, or systems, of vedic philosophy which deals with the transcendental and manifest nature of consciousness.
    Oldest known spiritual texts of Aryans, written more than 5,000 years ago; four in number: Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda.
    Psychic power; accomplishment of yoga; splendour; purified essence or sacred ash worn on the forehead by devotees of Shiva; subtle, unmanifest power behind creation; perfection; dominion.
    Third chapter of Sage Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
    Right enquiry; discernment; Path of self enquiry which implies discrimination between the real and unreal, self and ego.
    From the root, vid, or inner knowledge.
    Essential truth; intuitive ability of mind; higher understanding.
    State of consciousness where one achieves union with the cosmic consciousness.
    Higher mental sheath or body.
    Imagination, fancy, doubt, error; idea, ideation, thought or conclusion without factual evidence; one of the five vrittis, or modifications of mind.
    oscillating state of mind between dissipation and one pointedness
    Full of purity (absence of duality or subject/object).
    Nature, or swabhava, of Shiva; aspect of Prakasha by which it knows itself; experience; self consciousness of the supreme; another name for shakti.
    Brave; hero.
    Literally, 'enormous'; macrocosm; sum total of the entire manifest universe.
    Object.
    Vedic deity; preserver and sustainer of the universe; one of the Hindu trinity; supreme consciousness; often associated with water.
    Chakra below mooladhara.
    Discernment; the power to discrimate knowledge or understanding.
    Mental fluctuation, wave or pattern.
    Manifest universe.
    Pranic air current pervading whole body.
    Centre or abode of shoonya which can be pierced or transcended only by the appearance of Jyotsna.