Glossary
Ananda: Bliss
Astral: Consciousness of senses.
Astral Body: Spirit body, host of senses and chakras; pranic body.
Aum: Name given to God-consciousness in action; Holy Stream; also a mantra.
Avatar: One who has been liberated and has chosen to incarnate and serve humanity.
Bhakti: Love of and for Divinity.
Brahmachari: The state of Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram-consciousness.
Causal: Consciousness of ideas.
Causal Body: Subtlest of three bodies, host of the mind.
Chakra: A force center or wheel in pranic body. The seven chakra seed mantras are: Lam, Vam, Ram, Yam, Ham, Om, Om.
Chit: Consciousness
Christ-consciousness: Tat; God-consciousness in the first form of manifestation.
Darshan: The presence of a holy one's consciousness, holy sight.
Deva: Realized one residing in astral or causal heavens.
Devotee: One who is devoted to God.
Dharma: Duty of one's soul, the harmonization of one's uniqueness within the universal God-consciousness.
Divine Mother: God
Four Fountains: The four primal instincts of eating, sleeping, procreation and survival.
God-Consciousness: Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram without form.
Guru: A stream of consciousness; the dispeller of darkness.
Holy One: One who realizes his/her nature of Sat Tat Aum.
Hrim: A mantra for invoking the indwelling energy.
Humility: The willingness to learn.
Ida:
A cooling current; one of the three main energy channels in the pranic body.
Japa: Repetition of a sacred sound.
Karma: Motion; action; law of motion.
Kundalini: Primal energy rising from the gross physical to the God-consciousness.
Liberation: The realization of one's holistic nature of Sat Tat Aum.
Mukta: A liberated soul.
Mukti: Liberation; freedom into life.
Na Hum: A mantra meaning,
Not this/not that.
Namaste: "I bow to the divine light within you."
Nirbikalpa Samadhi: Samadhi without seed.
Non-attachment: Process of letting go.
Om Satyam: The Divine eternal love, also a mantra.
Om Shanti: The Divine eternal peace, God-consciousness without form, also a mantra.
Om Shivam: The Divine eternal virtue, also a mantra.
Om Sundaram: The Divine eternal beauty, also a mantra.
Pingala: A heating current; one of three main energy channels in the pranic body.
Prana: Life force.
Pranayama: Control of life force.
Pranic Body: Spirit body, host of senses and chakras.
Pronam: To bow to Divinity.
Royal Path: Combining Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga and meditation.
Sabikalpa Samadhi: Samadhi with seed, realization of one's holistic nature.
Sacred Heart: Love of God; soul's nature.
Sadhana: Spiritual practices and disciplines.
Samadhi: Union with God.
Samskaras: Mindsets; view of reality that is incomplete.
Sat: Eternal
Sat Guru: One's personal, eternal guru, determined by similarity of soul vibration.
Satmuktananda: Eternal, liberation, bliss.
Satyam: Eternal God-consciousness as love; part of the threefold nature of God: Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram.
Self: Includes the purity of our soul and the limitations of our personality.
Self-realization: Realization of one's nature as Satyam Shivam Sundaram.
Shakti: God-manifested, the Omnipresent Power.
Shalom: Grace of manifested God-consciousness.
Shiva: God-unmanifested, the Supreme Reality.
Shivam: Eternal God-consciousness as harmony, part of the threefold nature of God: Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram.
Siddhi: Mystical power developed through practice.
So Hum: The sound of the breath; a mantra meaning "I am this, I am that."
Sundaram: Eternal God-consciousness as beauty and joy; part of the threefold nature of God: Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram.
Sushumna: Largest of the three energy channels rising from the base of the spine to the crown.
Tat: God in manifestation; God-consciousness in form.
Upanishad: Sitting close to God-consciousness.
Yoga: Union
Yuga: Age; cycle of approximately 24,000 years. This cycle is made up of Kali, Dwapara, Treta and Satya yugas.
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