சைவ சித்தாந்தம் - முக்கியமான சொல் பட்டியல்

சைவ சமயம் பற்றி அறிந்து கொள்ளுமுன்பு நாம் தெரிந்து வைத்திருக்க வேண்டிய மிக முக்கியமான சொற்கள்.

Glossary
Term	Indicates
A	Symbol of Siva, short form of anuttara (the Supreme); the letter pervading all the other letters of the alphabet.
Abhasana	appearance; esoteric meaning - srsti- emanation
Abhava	Non-ens; void.
Abhinna	Non-different, identical
AbhiSheka	anointment, holy bathing
Abhiyoga	Backward reference of awareness
Abhoga	Expansion; camatkara or spiritual delight.
Abuddha	What is known as the awakened state for the common man is from the standpoint of the Yogi abuddha or unawakened state i.e. a state of spiritual ignorane.
AchAra	observance, discipline
Adhah-kundalini	the field of Kundalini from Lambika to one-three-fourths of its folds in the Muladhara
AdhAra	base, any of the six mystical chakras
Adhikara	Office, prerogative, right
Adhisthana	Substratum, support
Adhisthatr	The superintending, governing, presiding principle. Anu-One that breathes i.e. the limited, conditioned experient.
Adho-vaktra	Medhra-Kanda, situated at the root of the rectum
Adhva	Adhva literally means course or path. Suddha Adhva is the intrinsic course, the supramundane manifestation. Asuddha adhva is the course of mundane manifestation.
Adhvan (Adhva)	journey, way, course
Adi koti	The first edge or point i.e. the heart from which the measure of breath is determined.
Advaya	One without a second
Advaita	non-dualism, a Hindu philosophy
Agama	Revealed text, traditional knowledge, Dynamic scripture, Scripture explaining the implementation aspects of spirituality
Aghora	The merciful Siva
Aghora Saktis	The Saktis that lead the conditioned experients to the realization of Siva
Aghoresa	An aspect of Isvara below Suddha vidya giving rise to asuddha tattvas like maya; Anantanatha.
Agni kArya	the fire ritual
Agni (symbolic)	Pramata-knower or subject.
Agnisomatmika	The parasakti (highest sakti) that brings about srsti (manifestation) and samhara (withdrawal) of the universe.
Agnisomamayam	The universe which is of the nature of pramana (knowledge) and prameya (objects).
AGYA chakra	mystic centre at the brow junction, sixth centre
AGYAna	unwisdom, ignorance
Aham	I, absolute I
Aham-bhava	I-feeling; I-consciousness
AhaMkAra	the "I" feeling, I-making principle, ego
Ahanta	I-consciousness; I-ness
Ahimsa	non-violence
Ajnanam	The primal limitation (mala); Ajnana in this system does not mean absence of knowledge, but contracted or limited knowledge. Being inherent in Purusa on account of which he considers himself as of limited knowledge and limited activity, it is known as Paurusa-Ajnana. Being inherent in Buddhi, it leads one to form all kinds of asuddha vikalpas (thought-constructs devoid of essential Reality) and is thus known as Bauddha Ajnana.
Akala	The experient established in Siva tattva and identified with Siva.
Akasa	Space, ether; the sky; the infinite;
Akhyati	ignorance
Akrama	Succession less manifestation of the essential nature; Sakta Yoga.
Akrtrima	Natural; inartificial
Akhyati	Primal Ignorance; Mahamaya
Akshara, Axara	letter
Akshata, Axata	rice grains (usually in the context of worship or blessing)
Akula	Siva
Alamgrasa	'Alam' in this context means , atyartham i.e., to the utmost, and grasa means swallowing, consuming i.e., completely reducing to sameness with Self. Bringing experienced object completely to sameness with the consciousness of the Self, when no impression of samsara as separate from consciousness is allowed to remain.
Alayam	temple, kOvil, mandir
Amayiya	Beyond the scope of Maya; Amayiya sabda is one which does not depend on convention, in which the word and the object are one.
Amba	The highest Sakti of the Divine.
Amrta	Ambrosia; the spiritual state in which further involution in matter is annulled.
Amrta varna	the letter 'sa'
Amudha	Sentient
AnAhata	The mystic centre at the heart, fourth centre
Anacka	Sounding the consonants without the vowels; esoteric meaning-'concentrating on any mantra back to the source where it is unuttered'.
Ananda	Bliss; the nature of Sakti; the essential nature of Parama Siva along with Cit; the letter 'a'.
Anandamayakosa	The sheath of bliss
Annamayakosa	The gross physical sheath
Ananda-upaya	Realization os Siva-nature without any yogic discipline. Also known as Ananda Yoga or Anupaya.
Anasrita-siva	The state of Siva in which there is no objective content yet, in which the universe is negated from Him.
Anantabhattaraka	The presiding deity of the Mantra experients.
Anava	ego
ANavam	ego
Anava mala	Mala or limitation pertaining to anu or the empirical individual; innate ignorance of the jiva; primal limiting condition which reduces universal consciousness to a jiva, depriving consciousness of sakti and sakti of consciousness and thus bringing about a sense of imperfection.This limitation works in two ways-(1) while the sense, of doership is present, there is loss of bodha or prakasa, i.e. considering inconscient thngs like sunya, buddhi, prana, or body as the Self. (2) While there is bodha or prakasa, there is loss of the sense of activity or doership.
Anavopaya	The means whereby the anu or the empirical individual uses his own karanas or instruments i.e. senses, prana and manas for self-realization. It includes disciplines concerning the regulation of prana, rituals, japa, concentration, etc.
Anava Samavesa	Identification witht the Divine by the above means.
Anava upaya	The Yoga whereby the individual utilizes his senses, prana and manas for Self-realization. It consists generally of uccara, karana, dhyana, varna, and sthanakalpana. It is also known as Anava yoga, Bhedopaya and Kriya-yoga or Kriyopaya
Antakoti	The last edge or point; it is dvadasanta a measure of twelve fingers.
Antahkarana	The innerorgan, comprising manas (mind), buddhi (intellect or determinative faculty), citta (pleasure-seeking faculty), and, ahamkara (ego).
Antahstha	Lit; standing in between, the letters ya, ra, la, va are known as antahsta letters. According to Siksa (Phonetics) and Vyakarana (Grammar), they are called antahstha, because they stand between vowels and consonants, they are neither purely vowels, nor purely consonants or they are so called, because they stand between letters. According to Ksemaraja, they are called antahstha because they are determined by Maya and her kancukas which operate from within the mind of man. Abhinavagupta, however, says that since the formation of the antahstha letters is due to iccha and unmesa saktis which are inner forces and are identified with the pramata (subject), they are rightly called antahstha
Antaratma	The conditioned inner soul consisting of puryastaka or subtle body. It is called inner as contrasted with the gross body which is the outer covering of the soul.
Antarmukhibhava	Introversion of consciousness.
Antarvyoma	The interior space where prana and apana are dissolved.
Anu	'Aniti svasiti iti anuh'- one who breathes i.e. the jiva- the empirical individual; the limited, conditioned experient, conditioned by the body, puryastaka and prana; the nature is the empirical mind; the Maya-pramata, the experient dominated by Maya.
Anugraha	blessing, grace,
AnumAna	inference
Anupaya	Spontaneous realization of Self without any special effort.
Anusandhana	Lit; investigation; tracking a matter to its source. In Yoga, repeated intensive awareness of the Source or essential Reality.
Anusandhata	One who joins the succeeding experience into a unity.
Anusvarva	Nasal sound on the top of a letter; representation of Siva.
Anusyuta	Strung together; connected uninterruptedly.
Anuttara	(1) The Highest; the Supreme; Parama Siva; the Absolute (lit. one than whom nothing is higher). (2) The vowel 'a'
Apana	The vital vayu that goes in downwards towards the anus; the inhaled air. soma and jiva are synonyms of apna
Apara	Lower; lowest, immanent
Apasusakti	One whose bondage has disappeared and who has become a free being (pati) like Sadasiva.
apaurusheya	not man-made
Apavarga	Liberation
Apavedya susupti	Profound sleep in which there is absolutley no awareness of any object whatsoever
archana	salutation, praise
archaka	priest
ArAdana	worship
AraNyaka	class of religious and philosophical writings (associated with brAhmaNa)
Ardhacandra	Lit., demi-lunar; the second stage in the ardhamatra (half of a mora) in the japa or recitation of Aum; subtle energy of sound.
Arhata	Jaina
Artha	object; end; sense-object; meaning; notion; aim; wealth
aruL	grace
aShTAnga	with eight limbs (parts)
aShTottara (satanAma)	108 names
Asana	Exoteric meaning- 'A particular posture of the body.' Esoteric meaning- 'Being established in the Self.' sitting posture
Asat	Non-being
Asaya	Disposition of mind, antah-karana or the psychic apparatus; mental deposits lying in the unconscious.
Ashrama	1. hermitage, 2. Stage of life (The four stages are brahmacharya, gArhasthya, vAnaprastha, sanyAsa)
Asuddha vidya	Knowledge of a few particulars; limited knowledge; empirical knowledge.
Asuddhi	Impurity, limitation
Asunya	Non-void
Asyanata	shrunken state; dried state; congealment; solidification
Atharva-veda	One of the section of the Vedas
Atisanta padam	The state of Parama Siva beyond the tattvas.
Atmaboddha	(Lit., Self-Knowledge) The name of a sanskrit work written by Sankaracharya
Atman	Self
Atma-labha	Realization of Self
Atmasatkr	Reducing to sameness with the Self.
Atma-visranti	Resting in the Self
Atma-vyapti	Realization of the Self without the realization of the all-inclusive Siva-nature.
AtmArtha	spiritual, self intended
Aunmukhya	Because of His inherent ananda, the intentness of Siva towards manifestation; the rising of Iccha Sakti towards creativity.
Avadhana	Constant attentiveness.
Avastha	State; condition
Avesa	Entry; absorption
Avikalpa	Intuitive apprehension, free of all thought-construct.
Avikalpa (Nirvikalpa) Jnana	Direct realization of Reality without any mental activity.
Avikalpa (Nirvikalpa) pratyaksa	Sensuous awareness without any perceptual judgement, unparticularised awareness.
Aviveka	Non-awareness of the Real, moha or delusion; ignorance; non-discernment
AvuDaiyAr	gomukhi, the base of the shiva linga (circular or square) facing north regulating the thIrtha out
Avyakta	Non-manifest; unmanifest
bahir (pUja, mukha ......)	outside
Bahirmukhata	Externalization, extroversion of consciousness
Baindavi kala	Baindavi-pertaining to Bindu or the knower, Kala -will power. Baindavi kala is that freedom of Parama Siva by which the knower always remains as the knower and is never reduced to the known, svatantrya sakti
Bala	Cid-bala, power of the true Self or Universal Consciousness.
Bandha	(1) Bondage; (2) Limited knowledge (3) Knowledge founded on primal ignorance (4) Yogic practice in which certain organs of the body are contracted and locked.
Bala	Cid-bala, power of Universal Consciousness or true Self.
Bauddha ajnana	The ignorance inherent in Buddhi by which one considers his subtle or gross body as the Self on account of asuddha vikalpas
Bauddha jnana	Considering oneself as Siva by means of suddha vikalpas
bhAga	part
bhagavan	glorious, divine
bhakta	devotee
Bhakti (apara)	Devotion; intense feeling and will for being united with Siva.
Bhakti (para)	The constant feeling of being united with Siva and the supreme bliss of that consciousness.
Bharita	plenitude, fulness
bhasma, thiruniiru	ash, vibhUti
bhAShya	commentary, elucidation
Bhava	Existence both internal and external; object
Bhavana	The practice of contemplating or viewing mentally oneself and everything else as Siva; jnana yoga; Sakta upaya; creative contemplation; apprehension of an inner, emergent divine consciousness.
Bhava-sarira	Consideration of sound, etc. as one's Self.
Bhairava (apara)	Siddhas who have unity-consciousness and consider the whole world as identical with Self.
Bhairava (para)	Parama Siva; the Highest Reality. This is an anacrostic word, bha, indicating bharana, maintenance of the world, ra, ravana, or withdrawal of the world, and va, vamana or projection of the world.
Bhairava Agama	Sixty-four Saiva Agamas that teach non-dualism.
Bhairava (Teachers)	Liberated Sivas who are established in unity-consciousness and teach the sixty-four non-dualistic sastras
Bhairavi	Sakti of Bhairava
Bhairava mudra or Bhairavi mudra	This is a kind of psycho-physical condition brought about by the following practice 'Attention should be turned inwards; the gaze should be turned outwards, without the twinkling of the eyes'.
Bhairava Samapatti	Identity with Parama Siva
Bheda	difference
Bhoga	experience, sometimes used in the narrow sense of 'enjoyment'.
Bhokta	experient
Bhrumadhya	the centre or middle of the eye-brows.
Bhucari	Sub-species of Vamesvari, connected with the bhavas or existent objects. Bhu means existence; hence existent objects are the sphere of 'bhucari'
Bhumika	Role
Bhuta	Gross physical element
Bhutakaivalya	Withdrawal of the mind from the elements.
Bhuta-jaya	Control over the elements.
Bhuta-prthaktva	Detachment of the essential Self from the elements.
Bhuta-sarira	Consideration of the gross physical body as the Self
Bhuvana	becoming; place of existence; world; place of being, abode.
Bhuvana adhva	The third spatial existence, namely world. There are 108 bhuvanas
Bija	(1) Visva Karanam sphurattatma parasaktih i.e., the active light of the highest Sakti which is the root cause of the universe. (2) vowel. (3) The mystical letter forming the essential part of the mantra of a deity. (4) The first syllable of a mantra.
bIja (mantra)	seed (mantra)
Bijavasthapana	setting of the seed, esoteric meaning, 'vilaya'-concealment of true nature.
Bindu or Vindu	(1) A point, a metaphysical point. (2) Undivided Ligth of Consciousness. (3) The compact mass of sakti gathered into an undifferentiated point ready to create (4) Parah pramata, the Highest Self or Consciousness. (5) Anusvara or nasal sound , suggesting the fact that Siva in spite of the manifestation of the universe is undivided. (6) A specific teja or light appearing in the centre of the eye-brows by the intensity of meditation.
Bindu	written also as Vindu, a point; a metaphysical point; ghanibhuta sakti,- the compact mass of Sakti gathered into pramata-the highest Self or Consciousness; the anusvara or nasal sound indicated by a dot on a letter indicating the fact that Siva in spite of the manifestation of the universe is undivided.
Bodha	Enlightenment; spiritual awakening.
Brahma	The deva of creation. One of the trimUrti (In Sankara Vedanta) Pure foundational Consciousness without activity; unlimited knowledge devoid of activity. (In Saiva Philosophy) Pure foundational consciousness full of svatantrya sakti i.e. unimpeded power to know and do any and every thing; parama Siva
Brahmajnana	The knowledge of Brahman
Brahmanadi	Susumna or the central pranic channel or nerve.
Brahmanirvana	Resting in pure jnana tattva devoid of activity; the state of Vijnanakala
Brahmarandhra	The Sahasrara Cakra ; the pranic centre at the top of the head.
Brahma-sutra	An authoritative treatise on Vedanta philosophy ascribed to Vyasa. Same as Vedanta-sutras
Brahmavada	Sankara Vedanta
Brahmananda	The fourth stage of ananda (joy) in anavopaya experienced by resting of consciousness on Samana prana resulting from the unified combination of multifarious objects.
brahman	Supreme Being, Absolute
brAhmaNa	1. one pursuing brahman, one of the four sections of society 2. portion of vedas describing the application of the mantras
brahmarandhram	aperture in the head of the head through which the soul is said to escape on leaving body
Buddha	One awakened to the light of consciousness
Buddhi	Sometimes the higher mind; the super-personal mind; the ascertaining intelligence; the intuitive aspect of consciousness by which the essential Self awakens to truth.
buddi	intellect
Caitanya	The foundational Consciousness which has absolute freedom of knowing and doing, of jnana and kriya sakti<
Cakra	The group or Collective whole of saktis
Cakresvara	The master or lord of the group of saktis
Camatkara	Bliss of the pure I-consciousness; delight of artistic experience.
Candra	Prameya or object of knowledge; the apana prana or nadi (channel or nerve)
Caramakala	The highest phase of manifestation known as Santyatita or Santatita Kala
Carvaka	the materialist
Carvaka Darsana	materialistic philosophy
Cetana	Parama Siva, Self, Conscious individual.
Cetya	Knowable, object of consciousness.
charyA	practice, observance
Cheda	Cessation of prana and apana by sounding of anacka (vowel-less) sounds.
chit	consciousness, perception
Cidakasa	The ether of consciousness
Cidghana	Mass of consciousness
Cidananda	lit., consciousness and bliss, (1) The nature of ultimate Reality consisting of consciousness and bliss. (2) The sixth stratum of ananda in uccara yoga of anava upaya
Cidanandaghana	Mass of Consciousness-bliss
Cinta	thought; idea
Cit	The Absolute; foundational consciousness; the consciousness that is the unchanging principle of all changes.
Citi	The consciousness-power of the Absolute that brings about the world-process.
Citi-cakra	Samvit-Cakra- the senses
Citkala	Energy of consciousness
Citprakasa	Light of consciousness
Citta	the individual mind, the limitation of Citi or Universal Consciousness manifested in the individual mind, the mind of the empirical individual, consisting mainly of Sattva, the mind of the Maya-pramata
Citta pralaya	Dissolution of the empirical mind in the higher consciousness
Citta sambodha	Awakening of the individual mind
Citta visranti	Repose of the empirical mind in the higher consciousness
Damaru	a small drum
Dardhya	Firmness of mind or concentration.
Darsana	Seeing; system of philosophy
dEvAram, tEvAram	The great Tamil hymns sung by saints sambandar, appar & sundarar on Lord shiva, first seven parts of thirumuRai, specifically 4th to 6 th thirumuRai - appar dEvAram
Desa	Space; region
Desa adhva	Kala, tattva, and bhuvana
deva	1. divine, 2. essentials, elements
devi	divine (feminine)
dharma	righteousness, virtue, law, duty
Dharana	Meditation; contemplation
Dhruva	(1) Anuttara stage
dhUpa	fragrant smoke, incense
dhvaja	flag
Dhvani Yoga	A dharana of anava upaya consisting of concentration on anahata nada (unstruck sound) arising within through prana sakti. This is also known as Varna Yoga
Dhyana	meditation
Dhyani	meditator
Dhyana Yoga	The highest dharana of anava upaya in which pramana (knowledge), prameya (object of knowledge) and pramata (knower) are resulted as aspects of Samvid or foundational consciousness.
Dik	Space
Dikcari	Sub-species of Vamesvari, connected with bahiskaranas or outer senses.
Diksa	(1) The gift of spiritual knowledge (2) The initiation ceremony pertaining to a disciple by which spiritual knowledge is imparted and the residual traces of his evil deeds are purified.
dIpa	light
Dis	Direction
Divya mudra	Khecari mudra
Drdha	Stable in concentration
Drsti	Comprehensive vision
dyAna	meditation
dvaita	dualism
Dvadasanta	Distance or end of 12 fingers. This is measured in various ways: (1) A distance of 12 fingers from the tip of the nose in outer space is known as bahya dvadasanta (2) A distance of 12 fingers from the bahya dvadasanta to the centre (hrdaya) of the body is known as antara dvadasanta (3) A distance of 12 fingers from hrdaya upto Kantha. (4) There is a dvadasanta from the palate to the middle of the eye-brows. (5) There is a dvadasanta from the middle or centre of the eye-brows upto Brahmarandhra. This is known as urdhva dvadasanta. This distance is of use only when the kundalini awakens.
dvAdashAnta	mystic place twelve units above the head
Ekanava	Pasyanti vak
ekAtma vAda	the philosophy that only one soul exists (in the entire world)
Gaganangana	Cit-sakti, consciousness-power
ganga	The river Ganges, the holy river that flows down from himAlayam
gaNapati, gaNesh	The chief of the organised forces, Often refers to vignEshwara - the eldest son of Lord shiva
Garbha	Akhyati, primal, ignorance; Mahamaya
garbhagR^iham	sactum sanctorum, the main and core abode in the temple, mUlasthAnam
gAyatri	one of the chandas (meters), a famous mantra
Ghora Saktis	The Saktis or deities that draw the jivas towards worldly pleasures.
Ghoratari saktis	The Saktis or deities that push the jivas towards a downward path in samsara
Gocari	Sub-species of Vamesvari, connected with the antahkarana of the experient, 'Go' means sense; antahkarana is the seat of the senses; hence Gocari is connected with antahkarana.
gomukhi	AvuDaiyAr, the base of the shiva linga (circular or square) facing north regulating the thIrtha out
gOpura	tower
Grahaka	Knower; Subject; Experient
Grahya	Known; object of experience.
grantha	composition, book, a script
Granthi	Psychic tangle; psychic complex.
Guna-traya	Satva, rajas, tamas
guru	guide, teacher, preceptor
guru pUja	The anniversary day of a saint or n^AyanmAr attaining liberation in Lord shiva
Guru-vaktra	Lit. the mouth of the guru, anugraha sakti; Grace
guNa	characters, the three often referred guNas are satva (peaceful), rajas (fierce) and thamas (dull)
GYAna	wisdom
Ha	Symbol of Sakti or divine power.
Hamsa	the jiva, the soul
Hamsajapa	The consciousness of nada-kala
Hathapaka	Persistent process of assimilating experience to the central consciousness of the experient.
havis	Clarified butter, ghee, oblation
Hetu	Cause
Hetumat	Effect
Hrada	Lit., Lake; the Supreme Spiritual awareness; It is called a lake, because it is clear, uncovered by anything, deep, and infinite
Hrdaya	Lit., heart; the central consciousness; Light of Central Consciousness which is the substratum of all manifestation; citprakasa
Iccha	Will, Representing the letter (i), the Sakti of Sadasiva
Ichha upaya	Sambhava-upaya, also known as ichhayoga.
Ichha-Sakti	The inseparable innate Will Power of Parama Siva intent on manifestation; that inward state of Parama Siva in which jnana and kriya are unified; the predominant aspect of Sadasiva.
Idam	This, object
Idanta	This-consciousness; objective consciousness.
Indrajala	Lit., the net of Indra; magic; Illusion
Indriya	Organ of sense
Indu	Prameya or object; apana; kriya-sakti
Isana	Representing the letter 'i'. The first inner Sakti of Siva that acts as the teacher of Saiva Sastra
Isvara-bhattaraka	The presiding deity of the Mantresvaras residing in Isvara tattva
Isvara-tattva	The fourth tattva of the system, counting from Siva. In this the consciousness of 'I' and 'This' is equally prominent. The consciousness of Sada-Siva is 'I am this'. The consciousness of Isvara is 'This am I.' Jnana is predominant in this tattva
Jagadananda	The bliss of the Self or the Divine appearing as the universe, the bliss of the Divine made visible.
Jagat	The world-process.
Jagrat	Esoteric meaning-Enlightenment, undeluded awakening of consciousness at all levels.
Jagrat avastha	The waking condition.
Jagrat jnana	Objective knowledge common to all people in waking condition. Jagrat: Esoteric meaning-'Jnanam Jagrt'-Enlightenment, undeluded awakening of consciousness at all levels.
Japa	Recitation; chanting
jaTa	matted hair
Jiva	The individual soul; the empirical self whose consciousness is conditioned by the samskaras, of his experience and who is identified with the limitations of his subtle and gross constitution.
Jivanmukta	The liberated individual who while still living in the physical body is not conditioned by the limitation of his subtle and gross constitution and believes the entire universe to be an expression of Siva or his highest Self.
Jivanmukti	Experience of liberation while still living in the body.
Jnana	knowledge, the Sakti of Isvara
Jnana	Spiritual wisdom; limited knowledge (which is the source of bondage)
Jnanakanda	The part of the Vedas that teaches philosophical wisdom
Jnanin	The gnostic; one who has obtained spiritual realization
Jnana Yoga	Sakta upaya
Jnana Sakti	The power of knowledge of the Absolute
Jyestha	The Sakti of Siva that inspires the jiva for Self-realization or Siva-Consciousness.
jyoti	flame
Kaivalya	Aloneness; isolation; aloofness from the influence of prakrti or maya
Kala	limited agency; creativity; phase of manifestation; part letter or word (in ha-kalaparyantam)
Kala	time; Sakti or power that determines succession.
Kala	(1) The Sakti of consciousness by which all the thirty-six principles are evolved. (2) Part; particle, aspect (3) Limitation in respect of activity (Kincitkartrtva). (4) The subtlest aspect of objectivity, viz., Sastyatita, santa, Vidya, Pratistha, and Nivrtti
Kala pada	The toe of the right foot.
Kala tattva	Time-past, present, and future determined by the sense of succession.
Kala-adhva	Temporal course of manifestation, viz., Varna, mantra and pada
Kalacakra	Matrcakra, Sakticakra, Devicakra; the group of letters from 'a' to 'ksa'.
Kalagni	Kalagni-bhuvanesa-a particular Rudra in Nivrtti kala
Kala sakti	the Sakti or power of the Divine that determines succession.
Kalasarira	That of which the essential nature is activity; Karma mala
kAma	desire, lust
Kancuka	The covering of Maya, throwing a pall over pure consciousness (Suddha Samvid) and thus converting Siva into jiva. They are (1) kala, (2) (asuddha) Vidya, (3) Raga (4) Niyati and (5) Kala.
Kanda	Muladhara psychic centre
Kantha	The cakra at the base of the throat
Karana	(1) The means of jnana and kriya-antahkarana and bahiskarana (2) One of the anava upayas in which the aspirant contemplates over the body and the nervous system as an epitome of the cosmos.; cause
karaNam	instrument, antaHkaraNam (internal performers) are four - mind, intellect, subconcious mind, ego (manas, buddi, chitta, ahaMkAra)
Karanesvari	Khecari, gocari, dikcari and bhucari cakra
Karanesvaryah	Khecari, Gocari, Dikcari and Bhucari cakra
Karika	A commentary or a philosophical, grammatical work in concise statements
Karmakanda	The part of the Vedas that deals with rituals and scarifices
Karma mala	Mala due to vasanas or impressions left behind on the mind by Karma or motivated action.
Karmendriya	The five powers and organs of action-speaking (Vak), handling(hasta), locomotion (pada), excreting (payu), sexual action(upastha)
Kartrtva	The state of being the subject.
Karya	Effect; objectivity
kanmam, karma	Deeds, The effect of deeds, The accumulation of the good, bad or any deeds one (pashu - soul) has done during this and previous births
kashmiri shaivam	trika philosophy, The shaivite philosophy that ruled the Kashmir
Kevala	Alone. isolated
Kevali	One whose sole essence of Self consists in ebing pure consciousness; One who is established in Self.
Kha-traya	Kha-akasa, symbol of consciousness. Kha-traya-The three akasas,, viz; Sakti, vyapini, and samana situated in the head from the Vindu between the eye-brows up to Brahmarandhra. Concentrating in the head, one should rise higher by means of the above three khas
Khecari	Sub-species of Vamesvari Sakti, connected with the pramata, the empirical self; Khecari is one that moves in 'Kha' or 'akasa', the vast expanse of consciousness.
Khecari-cakra	The cakra or group of the saktis that move in the expanse of consciousness of the empirical subject.
Khecari Mudra	The bliss of the vast expanse of spiritual consciousness, also known as divya mudra or Sivavastha (the state of Siva).
Khyati	Jnana; knowledge; wisdom;
Kosa	(Lit., sheath or covering) The following are the five kosas as described in Vedanta philosophy: (1) the annamayakosa, or gross physical sheath, made of and sustained by food; (2) the pranamayakosa, or vital sheath, consisting of the five pranas or vital forces; (3) the manomayakosa, or mental sheath; (4)the vijnanamayakosa, or sheath of intelligence; (5) the anandamayakosa, or sheath of bliss. These five sheaths cover the Soul, which is the innermost reality or the jiva and is untouched by the characteristics of the sheaths.
Koti	Point, initial or final
kOvil, kOyil	temple, Alayam
Krama	Realization of Self by means of Kriya Yoga
Kramamudra	A successive occurrence of nimilana and unmilana samadhi; the condition in which the mind by the force of samavesa swings alternately between the internal (essential Self) and the external (the world which now appears as Siva)
Krida	Play or sport of the Divine.
Kriya	action, the Sakti of Suddha-vidya Activity; the power of activity.
Kriya Yoga	Anava upaya, also known as Kriyopaya
Kriya Sakti	The power of assuming any and every form (Sarvakarayogitvam Kriyasaktih)
Krtrima	Constructed by vikalpa or determinate idea; pseudo reality.
Ksema	Preservation of what is obtained
Ksetrajna	The empirical subject
Ksobha	Identification of 'I' with the gross or subtle body.
Ksetra	Holy place; place of pilgrimage.
Ksetrajna	The empirical Subject
Kuhana	Magic or tickling of the arm-pit
Kula	Sakti manifesting herself in 36 tattvas
Kulamarga	The discipline for attaining to the Supreme
Kulamnaya	The Sakta system or doctrine of realizing the Supreme by means of all the letters from (a) to (ksa)
Kumari	One who carries on the play of the world-process or one who brings about an end to the difference-creating Maya
Kumbhaka	Retention of prana
kumara, subrahmaNya, muruga	The second son of Lord shiva
Kundali or Kundalini	The creative power of Siva. A distinct sakti that lies folded up in three and a half folds in Muladhara.
Kutilakrti	A curved form in which prana flows before the awakening of Kundalini
Kuta-bija	The letter (ksa)
Laya	Interiorization of consciousness; dissolution
Lina	absorbed
linga	symbol, neither form nor formless used to represent the formless God through a symbol, representation of flame using solid material (The Supreme Flame is Lord Shiva, Who stood as infinite column of flame in front of braHma and viShNu)
Loka	Plane of existence
Madhya	(1) The central Consciousness; the pure I-consciousness. (2) The Susumna or central pranic nadi.
Madhyadhama	The central nadi in the pranamayakosa, also known as brahmanadi or Susumna
Madhyama	Sabda in its subtle form as existing in the antahkarana prior to its gross manifestation.
Madhyama-pada	the central or middle state.
Madhyamaka	Buddhist philosophy that teaches that Reality lies in the middle and not in any of the tetralemma;
Madhyamika	The follower of the Buddhist Madhyamaka philosophy.
Madhyasakti	Samvit-sakti, the central Consciousness-power.
Mahabodha	the great awakening, the grand illumination.
Mahamantra	The great mantra of pure consciousness, of Supreme I-consciousness.
Mahamaya (apara)	The state below Suddha Vidya and above Maya in which resides the vijnanakala. In this state there is only prakasa without vimarsa.
Mahahrada	The highest, purest I-consciousness. It is called mahahrada or the great lake because of its limpidity and depth.
Mahamaya (para)	The lower stratum of Suddha vidya in which reside the vidyesvaras who, though considering themselves as of the nature of pure consciousness take the world to be different from the Self.
Mahananda	In anavopaya, the fifth stage of ananda resulting from the resting of consciousness on udana agni that devours all the pramanas and prameyas
Mahanaya	Krama discipline
Mahartha	The greatest end; the highest value; the pure I-consciousness; the Kaula discipline.
Mahasatta	the Highest Reality which is absolute Light and freedom and the source of all existence.
Mahasunya	the great void
Mahavyapti	the grand fusion; the grand pervasion
Mahesvara	The highest lord; parama Siva- the Absolute
Mahesvarya	The power of Maheshvara, the supreme lord;
Maheswaryadayah	Mahesvari and other deities presiding over the groups of letters.
Mala	Dross; limitation; ignorance that hampers the free expression of the spirit.
Malini	Sakti of letters which holds the entire universe within itself and in which the letters are arranged in an irregular way from 'na' to 'pha'.
Manas	That aspect of mind which co-operates with the senses in building perceptions, and which builds up images and concepts, intention and thought-construct.
Manomayakosa	The sheath of the mind
Manthana Bhairava	Bhairava that churns i.e. dissolves all objects into Self-consciousness; Svacchanda Bhairava.
Mantra	(1) Sacred word or formula to be chanted (2) In Saktopaya that sacred word or formula by which the nature of the Supreme is reflected on as identical with the Self. It is called mantra, because it induces manana or reflection on the Supreme and because it provides trana or protection from the whirlgig of transmigratory life. In Saktopaya, the citta itself assumes the form of mantra. (3) The experient who has realized the Suddha Vidyatattva
Mantra-mahesvara	The experient who has realized Sasasiva tattva
Mantra-virya	The perfect and full I-consciousness; Siva-Consciousness, the experience of para-vak
Mantresvara	The experient who has realized Isvara tattva
maNipUrakam	mystic chakra at naval
Marici	Sakti
Marut	Breath (exhalation or inhalation)
Mati	understanding; intuitive intelligence.
Matrka	(1) The little unknown mother, the letter and wordpower which is the basis of all knowledge (2) The paravak sakti that generates the world.
Matrka-cakra	The group of Saktis pertaining to Matrka
Mathika	The four traditions of Saiva religion.
Maya	from 'ma' to measure, the finitising or limiting principle of the Divine; a tattva below Suddha vidya, the principle of veiling the Infinite and projecting the finite; the source of the five kancukas; the finitising power of Parama Siva
mAya (mAyai)	illusion
Maya (In Samkara Vedanta)	The beginningless cause that brings about the illusion of the world.
Maya pramata	The empirical self, governed by Maya.
Maya-sakti	The sakti of Siva that displays difference in identity and gives rise to maya tattva; the finishing power of the Infinite.
Maya tattva	The principle that throws a veil over pure consciousness and is the material cause of physical manifestation, the source of the five kancukas.
Mayiya mala	The limitation due to Maya which gives to the soul its gross and subtle body, and brings about a sense of difference.
Meya (prameya)	Object
Mimamsaka	the follower of the Mimamsa system of philosophy
Moha	Delusion by which one regards the body as the self; Maya.
Moksa	liberation, same as mukti.
moxa, moksha	liberation
Mudra	(1) Mud (joy), ra (to give); it is called mudra, because it gives the bliss of spiritual consciousness or because it seals up (mudranat) the universe into the being of turiya consciousness (2) Yogic control of certain organs as help in concentration.
Mudra-krama or Krama-mudra	The condition in which the mind by the force of samavesa swings alternately between the internal (Self or Siva) and the external (the world which now appears as the form of Siva).
Mudra-virya	The power by which there is emergence of the Supreme I-consciousness; mantra-virya; khecari state.
Mukta-siva	The classes of experients who have acquired Siva-Consciousness Mantra, Mantresvara, Mantramahesvara, and experients known as Siva, Rudra and Bhairava
Mukti	Liberation from bondage; acquisition of Siva-consciousness: Jivan-mukti-Liberation while living i.e acquisition of Siva-consciousness while the physical, biological and psychic life are still going on. Videha-mukti- establishment in Siva-consciousness after the mortal body has been dissolved.
Murti	Most manifest Kriya-sakti
mUlasthAnam	sactum sanctorum, the main and core abode in the temple, garbhagruham
Muladhara	the pranic centre below the genitals
mUlAdhAram	root-support, the first mystic center (chakra) on the kuNDalini nADi
mUrti	manifestation, embodiment, statue
Nada	(1) Metaphysical- The first movement of Siva-sakti towards manifestations. (2) In Yoga- The unstruck sound experienced in susumna. (3) When Sakti fills up the whole universe with Nadanta she is designated as Nada. This is also Sadasiva tattva because of the apposition of I and this is in the same principle.
Nada	interior spontaneous sound
Nada-bindu	The first creative pulsation and its compact mass; the creative sound and light; Sakti and Siva.
Nadanta	Subtle energy of pranava
Nadi	subtle channel of prana
Nadi-samhara	Dissolution of prana and apana into susumna.
naivedyam	offering (eatables)
Naiyayika	the follower of Nyaya philosophy; logician; dialectician.
namaskAra	salutation, prostrating down
n^andhi, nandi	Birth-deathless, Often refers to the chief guard of Lord shiva
Nasika	Pranasakti flowing in a zigzag way in Prana, Apana and Susumna channels.
n^AyanmAr	(the people of the Lord), The 63 great devotees who excelled in their love for the Lord shiva (lived in thamiz nadu and nearby lands)
Navavargaka	Letters pertaining to nine classes
Navatma	Of nine forms.
Nibhalana	Perception; mental practice.
Nigraha kriya	Siva's act of Self-veiling.
Nijananda	In anava upaya, the first stage of ananda arising from concentration on prana leading to the resting of the mind on the subject or experient.
Nimesa	Lit; Closing of the eye-lid, (1) dissolution of the world; (2) the inner activity of spanda by which the object is merged into the subject; (3) the dissolution of the Sakticakra in the Self; (4) the involution of Siva in matter.
Nimilana Samadhi	The inward meditative condition in which the individual consciousness gets absorbed into the Universal Consciousness.
Nirananda	The second stage of ananda in anava upaya resulting from the fixation of prana-sakti on sunya
Niradhara	without support-objective or subjective
Nirasraya	without any prop or base
Nirodhika or nirodhini	a subtle energy of pranava
Nirvana	Dissolution in Sunya; liberation
Nirvikalpa	Devoid of all thought-construct or ideation.
Nirvikalpasamadhi	The highest state of samadhi, in which the aspirant realizes his total oneness with Brahman
Nirvrti	Ananda
Nirvyutthana Samadhi	Samadhi (absorption into the Universal Consciousness) which continues even when is not engaged in formal meditation.
niShkAmya	not seeking any favour
Niskala	partless; undivided, Siva above manifestation or creation.
Nistaranga	free of undulation or commotion.
Nityatva	eternity
Nivesa or nivesana	entry into the Universal Consciousness
niyama	ritual
Niyati	Limitation by cause-effect relation; spatial limitation, limitation of what ought to be done and what ought not to be done.
Om	The most sacred word of the Vedas; also written Aum. It is a symbol of both the personal God and the Absolute
pa~nchAmR^itam	rasapa~nchAmR^itam A sweet mixture of cow's milk, curd, ghee (boiled butter), sugar and honey. (cardamom like nice smelling spices could also be added.) pazapa~nchAmR^itam In the above if the fruits like mango, jack, banana are added this fruit pa~nchamR^itam could be got
pa~nchagavyam	The mixture of the cow's milk, curd, ghee, Cow's Urine and Cow's dung.
pa~nchAxara, panchAkshara	Holy Five Letters (Syllables), the mantra of Lord shiva held sacrad most by shaivites, five different forms there - most common being namaH shivAya and shivAya namaH
Pancakrtya	The ceaseless five-fold act of Siva, viz. manifestation (srsti), maintenance of manifestation (sthiti), withdrawal of amnifestation (samhara), veiling of Self (vilaya); Grace (anugraha), or the five-fold act of abhasana, rakti, vimarsana, bijavasthapana, and vilapana
Panca mantra	Isana, Tatpurusa, Sadyojata, Vamadeva, and Aghora
Pancaratra	the philosophy of Vaisnavism, the follower of such philosophy
Pancaratrika	followers of Pancaratra system.
Panca-sakti	The five fundamental saktis (powers) of Siva, viz, Cit, Ananda, Iccha, Jnana, and Kriya
Para	The Highest; the Absolute
Para pramata	The highest experient; Parama Siva
Paramarsa	Seizing mentally; experience; comprehension; remembrance
Paramartha	The highest reality; essential truth; the highest goal.
Parama Siva	The Highest Reality, the Absolute
paramAtma	Supreme Self
Parananda	In anava upaya the joy of the third stage that ensues by the practice of resting on prana and apana in uccara yoga
Parapara	The intermediate stage, both identical and different; unity in diversity
parArtha (pUja)	outward / social (worship)
Parasakti	The Highest Sakti of the Divine; Citi; Paravak
parashu	axe
Paravak	The vibratory movement of the Divine Mind that brings about manifestations; Logos; Cosmic Ideation.
Paricchinna	limited
Parinama	Transformation
parivAra devata	retinue of the main deity in a temple
Pasa	Bondage
pAsham (pAcham)	bond, impurities (ANavam, kanmam, mAyai) which bind the pashu
pashu (pachu)	creature, any life, all of us - any living being
Pasu	The empirical individual bound by avidya or spiritual nescience
Pasu matarah	Mahesvari and other associated saktis active in the various letters, controlling the life of the empirical selves.
Pasyanti	The divine view in undifferentiated form; Vak sakti, going forth as seeing, ready to create in which there is no difference between vacya (object) and vacaka (word).
pati (pathi)	The Lord, Siva Supreme, Master, Eternal; The experient of Suddha adhva; the liberated individual
Pati-dasa	the status of the highest experient; the state of liberation
Paurusa ajnana	The innate ignorance of Purusa regarding his real Self.
Paurusa jnana	Knowledge of one's Siva nature after the ignorance of one's real Self has been eliminated.
Pidhana Krtya	The act of Self-veiling; same as vilaya
pradaxiNa, pradakshiNa	circumambulation, coming around (a deity) taking right turns
Prakasa	Lit. light; the principle of Self-revelation; consciousness; the principle by which every thing else is known.
Prakrti or Pradhana	The source of objectivity from buddhi down to earth
Pralaya	Dissolution of manifestation
Pralayakala or Pralayakevali	One resting in Mayatattva, not cognizant of anything; cognizant of sunya or void only.
Prama	Exact knowledge
Pramana	Knowledge; means of knowledge
Pramata	the knower; subject; experient
Pramatrta	knowership
Prameya	Known; object of knowledge; object
Prana	Generic name for the vital power; vital energy; life energy; specifically it is the vital vayu in expiration.
Pranamayakosa	The vital sheath
Pranana	the animating principle, the principle of all the pranas
Prana-pramata	The subject considering prana to be the Self
Prana-bija	The letter 'ha'
Pranasakti	Vital energy; bioplasma
praNava	Om
Pranayama	Breath control
Prarabdha karma	Action done in a previous life which had begun to bear fruit in the present life.
Prasada	The mantra Sauh
Prasara	Expansion; manifestation of Siva in the form of the universe through His sakti
Prath	To expand; unfold; appear; shine
Pratha	The mode of appearance
Pratibha	(1) Ever creative acitivity of consciousness; (2) The spontaneous Supreme I-consciousness; (3) Para Sakti
Pratimilana	Both nimilana and unmilana i.e. turning of the consciousness both within i.e into Siva and outside i.e. the Sakti of Siva, experience of divinity both within and outside.
pratyAhara	drawing back, withholding (from material ties) (1) Comprehension of several letters into one syllable effected by combining the first letter of a sutra with its final indicatory letter. (2) In yoga, withdrawal of the senses from their objects.
Pratyavamarsa	Self-recognition
Prabuddha	One greatly awakened to the higher spiritual consciousness
Pratyabhijna	Recognition
prANAyAma	breath control/exercise
prAyashchittam	atonement, expiation
Prithivi	The earth tattva
Pumstattva or Purusa tattva	Pasu pramata; jiva, the empirical Self
purANa	religious legend (There are eighteen in number)
Purna	perfect; full of divine consciousness
Purnatva	Perfection
Purnahanta	The perfect I-consciousness; non-relational I-consciousness.
Purusa	the Self
Puryastaka	Lit., the city of the group of eight i.e the five tanmatras, buddhi, ahamkara and manas; the suksma sarira (subtle body)
puruShArtha	objectives of human, four in number - dharma, artha, kAma, moxa
pUja	worship
puShkariNi	pond, temple tank
Raga	One of the kancukas of Maya on account of which there is limitation by desire; passionate desire.
Rajas	The principle of motion, activity and disharmony-a constituent of Prakrti.
Rakti	relish; enjoyment esoteric meaning-'sthiti'- maintenance.
Rasa	Flavour; aesthetic rapture.
Rasmi	Sakti
Raudri	The sakti that induces the pleasure-seeking souls to be confined to their pleasures.
Ravi	Pramana (knowledge); prana
Rekhini	The sakti that forms a straight line in the formation of the letter.
Rig-Veda	One of the four Vedas
RiShi, rushi	sage, seer
Rodhini	The sakti that obstructs the passage to moksa
rudra	A form of Lord shiva, as deva of destruction. One of the trimUrti
Rudra (kalagni)	Rudra residing in the lowest plane of Nivrtti kala.
Rudrah	The deities that are responsible for manifestation, maintenance of manifestation, and withdrawal of manifestation of the world-process; the souls that have evolved to the status of pati or selves that have realized Siva-consciousness.
Rudrah (teachers)	Exponents of 18 Saivagamas who are mukta Siva
Rudra pramata	Mukta Siva
rudrAxa, rudrAksha	beed held sacrad by shaivtes, appeared fromthe eye of rudra
Rudrayamala	intimate union of Rudra and His Sakti
Rupa	Form; essence.
Sabda	sound; word.
Sabda-brahma	Ultimate Reality in the form of thought-vibration in which state thought and word are identical.
Sabda-rasi	The group of letters from a to ksa
Sadadhva	The six forms of manifestation-three on the subjective side viz., mantra, varna and pada and three on the objective side, viz., Kala, tattva and bhuvana
Sadasiva (Sadakhya tattva)	The third tattva, counting from SIva. At this stage, the I-experience is more prominent than this experience-This tattva is also known as Sadakhya in as much as sat or being is posited at this stage. Ichha or Will is predominant in this tattva.
sAdhaka	accomplisher, practitioner
sAdhana	accomplishment, practice
Sadvidya	Suddha Vidya
Saguna Brahman	(Lit., Brahman with attributes) The Absolute conceived as the Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer of the universe; corresponds to Isvara, or the Personal God.
Sahaja	Innate essential nature
Sahaja-vidya	Knowledge of the innate essential nature; unmana; pure divine consciousness in which mental consciousness ceases, pervasion into Siva-consciousness (Siva-vyapti).
sahasrAra, sahasra dala padma	thousand patal mystic lotus beyond the six chakras
Sakta-japa	The constant remembrance of the Supreme I-consciousness.
Sakta-samavesa	Identification with Supreme Consciousness by means of Sakta-upaya
Sakta-upaya (Saktopaya)	the means of approach to the Divine through Sakti, the ever-recurring contemplation of the pure thought-construct of oneself being essentially Siva or the Supreme I-consciousness.
Sakta-Yoga	Same as Sakta-upaya, jnana-yoga
Sakti	(1) The power of Siva to manifest, to maintain the manifestation and to withdraw it (2) The spanda or creative pulsation of Siva or foundational consciousness.
Sakti-cakra	The group of the twelve mahakalis; the goddesses responsible for creation, etc; the group of Saktis of the senses; group of mantras; the group of Khecari, etc., the group of the goddess Srsti, etc.
Saktiman	Mahesvara; Siva
Sakti-pancaka	The five foundational saktis of Siva, viz., cit, ananda, iccha, jnana, and kriya.
Sakti-prasara	Sakti-vikasa; emergence from Samadhi and retaining that experience.
Sakti-pata	Descent of divine Sakti; Divine grace by which the empirical individual turns to and realizes his essential divine nature.
Sakti-sankoca	withdrawal of attention from sense-activity and turning it towards the inner reality.
Sakti tattva	The vimarsa aspect, or the foundational I-consciousness of SIva; the intentness of Siva's I-consciousness to manifest in the form of the universe; the second of the 36 tattvas.
Sakti-vikasa	concentration of attention on the inner consciousness even when the senses are open to their respective objects.
Sakti-visranti	Merging back into Samadhi and resting in that condition.
Samacara	Sam-samyak; a-isat; cara-prasarana- external expansion of the property evolved prana
Samarasya	Unison of Siva; identity of Consciousness; identical state in which all differentiation has disappeared.
samayak kuravar	The four stalwarts samban^dhar, appar, sun^dharar, mANikka vAchakar who by their glorious hymns (which are part of thirumuRai) gave an excellent energy and vitalisation to the Shaivam in Tamil Nadu
Samadhi	Collectedness of mind in which there is cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.
Samadhi-sukha	The bliss that is experienced in being established in pramatr-pada i.e in the state of the essential Self or subject.
samAdi	complete absorption of thoughts (into the Supreme Being), the final stage of aShTAnga yoga
Samana	When the unmana sakti begins to display herself in the form of the universe with sunya and ending with earth, then descending from the highest state of Pramata (knowing Self), she is known as Samana in as much as she has started the mentation of all that is thinkable (asesa-mananamatrarupatvat samana-Udyota, p.286)
Samana	The vital vayu that helps in the assimilation of food etc., and brings about equilibrium between prana and apana
Samapatti	Sometimes a synonym of samadhi; consummation; attainment of psychis at-onement.
Samarasa	One having the same feeling or consciousness.
Samaveda	One of the four Vedas
Samavesa	Being possessed by the Divine, absorption of the individual consciousness in the Divine.
Sambhava-pramata	One established in Siva-Consciousness, also known as Siva-pramata
Sambhava-samavesa	Identification with Siva without any thought-construct born out of profound insight or sambhava upaya
Sambhava upaya	Sudden emergence of Siva-Consciousness without any thought-construct (vikalpa) by a mere hint that one's essential Self is Siva; also known as Sambhava Yoga or Icchopaya or Iccha-Yoga
Sambhu	An epithet of Siva
samhAra	dissolution
samhita	1. Compilation 2. The mantra part of the vedas
samsAraH	circuit of worldly life
Sambodha	Samyak bodha, full or perfect knowledge of the essential nature of Reality as a mass of consciousness and bliss which is the essential nature of Self.
Samghatta	Meeting; mental union; concentration.
Samhara	Assimilation to the Highest Consciousness.
Samhara krtya	The withdrawal or reabsorption of the Universe into Siva
Samsara or samsrti	Transmigratory existence, the world process
Samsarin	Transmigratory being.
Samskara	the residual traces of the mind lying in the unconscious.
Samvid-samvitti	Consciousness; universal consciousness.
Samvit	Supreme consciousness in which there is complete fusion of prakasa and vimarsa, jnana-sakti; svatantrya-sakti; the supreme I-consciousness.
Samvit-devata	From the macrocosmic point of view Samvitdevatas are khecari, gocari, dikcari and bhucari. From the microcosmic point of view, the internal and external senses are said to be samvit-devata.
sAmIpam	residing next (to Lord shiva)
Samkalpa	resolve; the synthetic activity of thought
Samvahya	One who is carried from one form of existence to another: karmatma, pasu
Sandhana	Lit., joining; union, union of the individual consciousness with the universal Consciousness through fixed, intensive awareness or one-pointedness.
Sankoca	Contraction, limitation.
Sanatana Dharma	(Lit., Eternal Religion) The religion of the Hindus, formulated by the Rishis of the Vedas.
Sandha-bija	The four letters- which are unable to give rise to any other letter.
sAnkhya	one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy, attributed to sage kapila, the system of philosophy that believes in two fundamental realities, viz., Purusa and Prakrti; the follower of such system.
sannyAsa	(ascetic) practice, renunciation
Sara	quintessence
Saiva agama	The ten dualistic sastras, eighteen sastras which teach identity in difference, and sixty-four non-dualistic sastras expounded by Siva
Saiva yoga or Sadhana	Anava upaya, Sakta upaya and Sambhava upaya
Sakala	All the jivas from gods down to the mineral who rest in maya tattva. They have no knowledge of the real self and their consciousness is only that of diversity.
Saksat upaya	Sambhava upaya
Sksatkara	Direct intuitive experience of the essential Self.
sAlOkam	residing in the same world (of Lord shiva)
Salokya	The state in which the aspirant lives on the same plane with his chosen deity.
sArUpam	having the same form (of Lord shiva)
Sarupya	The state in which the aspirant realizes complete identity with the Divine.
Sarvaga	omnipenetrant
Sarvakartrtva	Omnipotence
Sarvajna	omniscient
Sarvajnatva	Omniscience
Sasana	Sastra; philosophical text.
Sastha-vaktra	Lit., the sixth organ or medhra-kanda, near the root of the rectum.
Sat	Existence which is consciousness
Satta	existence; ultimate reality
Sattamatra	pure existence, maha satta-transcendental reality.
Sattva	(1) The principle of being; light and harmony, a constituent of Prakrti (2) The inner essential Self.
Satya pramata	Para Siva
Saugata	Follower of Buddha, a Buddhist
Sausupta Srsti	The srsti in which pralayakalas remain
Savikalpa jnana	Knowledge which is acquired through the judgement of Buddhi
Savikalpa samadhi	Communion with God in which the distinction between subject and object is retained
Sayujya	The state in which the aspirant realizes identity with the Divine in the midst of difference.
sAyujyam	absorption (into Lord shiva)
shaiva, saiva	related to Shiva
shaiva sidhdhantha	The shaivite philosophy that bloomed in thamiznAdu.
shakti	Power, The Goddess (The female part of the God)
shaktipAda, saththinipAdham	descend of divine Grace
sharaNaru	The set of remarkable devotees who in karnataka spread the vIra shaivam movement
shAstra	instructional scripture
shiva	Perfect, Auspicious, The Supreme God
shivAchArya	priest, who shows the way to Lord shiva
shloka	verse
shrauta	vedic
Siddhi	Supernormal power
siddi	attainment
Sikhanta	Brahmarandhra
Siva	The good; the name of the Divine in general; the foundational prakasa or divine light.
Siva (parama)	The Absolute; the transcendent divine principle.
Siva Tattva	The first of the 36 tattvas; the primal divine light, the source of all manifestation.
Siva-Vyapti	fusion with Siva; absorption of the universe in Siva.
smArta	follower of smR^iti
smR^iti, smruti	remembrance, social law book
Soma (symbolic)	Prameya or object, apana
Soma nadi	The Pingala nadi carrying apana
Spanda	Apparent motion in the motionless Siva which brings about the manifestation, maintenance and withdrawal of the universe; Svatantrya Sakti, creative pulsation.
Sphuratta	Gleam; a throb-like gleam of the absolute Freedom of the Divine bringing about the world-process; spanda; the light of the spirit.
Srsti	letting go; emanation; manifestation.
Srsti-bija	Mantra-bija, the Supreme I-consciousness which brings about manifestation.
Sruti	The Vedas
Stabdha	immovable.
sthala purANa	history of the place/temple
sthala vR^ixa	abode tree
Sthana-Kalpana	A mode of anava upaya concerned with concentration of external things.
Sthiti	gross
Sthiti Krtya	Maintenance of manifestation
Sthula bhutani	Gross elements-ether, air, fire, water and earth.
Sthula Sarira	Gross physical body.
Sugata	The Buddha
Suddha Adhva	The course of extra-mundane manifestaion from Siva upto Suddha Vidya
Suddha tattva	Parama Siva
Suddha Vidya	The fifth tattva, counting from Siva. In this tattva, the consciousness of both I and This is equally prominent. Though the germinal universe is seen differently, yet identity runs through it as a thread. There is identity in diversoty at this stage. Kriya is predominent in this tattva. The consciousness of this state is 'I am I and also this.'
Suddha Vikalpa	The thought of one's self being essentially Siva
Suksma Sarira	The inner subtle body, puryastaka
Sunya	void; the state in which no object is experienced.
Sunya (Bauddha)	A state in which there is no distinct consciousness of knower, knowledge and known; an indefinable state of Reality.
Sunya-pramata	The experient who is identified with objectless consciousness; pralayakala
Sunya (Saiva)	A state in which no object is experienced.
Sunyata	vacuity
Sunyatisunya	absolute void
Suprabuddha	One who has awakened to the transcendental state of consciousness and in whom that consciousness is constantly present.
Surya (symbolic)	Prana, pramana (knowledge)Jnana-sakti
Surya nadi	The Ida nadi carrying prana
sthApana	installation
sushumnA	central nADi very important in yoga
Susuptata or sausuptam	Delusive condition caused by primal ignorance.
Susupti	Sound, dreamless sleep.
Susupti (apavedya)	Very deep sleep in which there is complete absence of all objective consciousness.
Susupti (savedya)	Sound sleep in which there remains a slight trace of the sense of pleasure, lightness etc.
Svacchanda	The absolutely Free Being, Siva; Bhairava
Svacchandya	Absolute Freedom of the Supreme
Svalaksana	An object limited in its particular space and time.
Svasamvedana	An intuitive apprehension of oneself without the aid of internal and extenal sense.
Svapna	Dream; dreaming condition; vikalpas or fancies limited to particular individuals;
Svapna srsti	The plane of existence in which the bhuvana, body and objects are subtle like dream.
Svarupa	one's own form; real nature; essence; essential nature
Svarupapatti	Attaining one's essential nature or true Self.
Svasthiti or Svastha	staying in one's essential state.
Svatma	one's own Self.
Svatantra	The Absolute, of unimpedede Will
Svatantrya	Absolute Freedom of Will; Vimarsa Sakti
Svatma-satkr	To assimilate to oneself; to integrate to oneself
Sveccha	Siva's or Sakti's own Will, synonymous with svatantrya
svAdhiShTAnam	own base, second mystical circle (chakra)
Tamas	One fo the constituents of Prakrti- the principle of inertia and delusion.
Tantrika	follower of Tantra; pertaining to Tantra.
Tanmatra	Lit. that only; the primary elements of perception; the general elements of the particulars of sense-perception, viz. sabda, sparsa, rupa, rasa, gandha
Tantra	A scripture in general; Science of the cosmic spiritual forces, revealed work.
Tanuta	becoming gradually less; reduction; a state of subtleness.
Tarka sastra	Logic and dialectics
Tattva	fact, philosophy ; Thatnesss; principle; reality; the very being of a thing;
Tattva-traya	The three tattvas, viz; Nara, Sakti and Siva or Atma, Vidya and Siva
Tatpurusa	One of the five aspects of Siva
thamiz	One of the very old language spoken in the southern most state of India, called Tamilnadu
thirumuRai	The hymns composed by the famous thamiz shaivite devotees during the first millenium. Highly adored text of thamiz shaivites
tIrtha	holy water
Tirodhana sakti	Power that obscures Reality
Trika	The system of philosophy of the tirad- Nara, Sakti and Siva or (1) Para,, the highest, concerned with identity (2) parapara, identity in difference, and (3) apara, difference and sense of difference.
Trika (para)	Prakasa, Vimarsa and their samarasya
Trika (parapara)	Iccha, Jnana and Kriya
trimUrti	The Hindu holy trinity - brahma, viShNu, rudra - involved in creation, sustainance and destruction
trishUla	trident
Turiya or Turya	The fourth state of consciousness beyond the states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep and stringing together all the states; the Metaphysical Consciousness distinct from the psychological or empirical self; the Saksi or witnessing consciousness; the transcendental Self.
Turyatita	The state of consciousness transcending the turiya, the state in which the distinction of the three, viz; waking, dreaming and deep sleep states is annulled; that pure blissful consciousness in which there is no sense of difference, in which the entire universe appears as the Self.
Uccara	A particular technique of concentration on Pranasakti under Anava upaya. Various aspects of ananda (bliss) are experienced in this concentration.
Ucchalatta	The creative movement of the Divine ananda in waves bringing about manifestation and withdrawal
Udana	The vital vayu that moves upwards. The Sakti that moves up in Susumna at spiritual awakening.
Udaya	Rise, appearance, creation
Udyama	The sudden spontaneous emergence of the Supreme I-consciousness.
Udyantrta	-do-
Udyoga	-do-
Udvamanti	Lit. Opening of the eye; (1) The externalizing of Ichha Sakti; the start of the world-process. (2) In Saiva-yoga-unfolding of the spiritual consciousness which comes about by concentrating on the inner consciousness which is the back-ground of the rise of ideas. (3) Representing the letter 'u'.
Uma	The Iccha Sakti of the Supreme; U=Siva; ma=Sakti- the Sakti of Siva.
Unmana	The Supramental Sakti of Parama Siva in its primal movement towards manifestation, though inseparable from Him is known as unmana or unmani. Literally it means that which transcends manas. This Sakti is amatra, measureless and beyond time. Ksemaraja in Udyota commentary on Necratantra says about unmana mana utkramya gata anavacchinnaprakasasphuratta. It is the Sakti that transcends mind and is an uninterrupted Light.
Unmesa	lit., opening of the eye-the start of the world process; (1) From the point of view of svabhava or the essential nature of the Divine, it means the emergence of the Divine I-consciousness. (2) From the point of view of manifestation, it means the externalizing of Iccha sakti, the start of the world process. (3) From the point of view of Saiva yoga, it means the emergence of the spiritual consciousness which is the background of the rise of ideas. (4) Representing the letter 'u'.
Unmilana	Unfolding; manifestation.
Unmilana samadhi	that state of the mind in which, even when the eyes are open, the external world appears as Universal Consciousness or Siva.
Unata	Representing the letter U
Upadana	limiting adjunct or condition
Upadhi	Limiting adjunct or condition
Upalabhdr	The Experient, knower or subject
Upalabdhi	Cognition, awareness
upachAra	honour, courtesy
upadesha	close advice, initiation
upaniShad	philosophy of vedas, vedanta
upAsana	service, attendance
Urdhva-Kundalini	the risen up kundalini when the prana and apana enter the Susumna
Urdhva marga	Upward path; susumna
Usma	The letters Sa, sa, sa, ha
Vacaka	Word; indicator; mantra, varna and pada
Vacya	Object, indicated; kala, tattva, bhuvana
Vaha	Flow; channel; the prana flowing in the ida nadi on the left and apana flowing in the pingala nadi on the right of susumna are together known as vaha
Vahni	a technical word of Saiva-Yoga, meaning 'entering completely' into the root and half of the middle of adhah kundalini (from the root Vah to carry)
Vaikhari	Sakti as gross physical word.
Vaisamya	difference, disquietude of duality.
Vaisnava	the follower of Visnu; follower of Vaisnava philosophy.
Vama or Vamesvari	The divine Sakti that emits (from vam to emit) or projects the universe out of the Absolute and produces the reverse (vama consciousness of difference (whereas there is non-difference in the divine).
Vapus	(bhairavasya) form; the nature of Bhairava, cosmic essence.
Varga	Classes of letters like kavarga, cavarga etc.
Varna	(1) Letter (2) Object of concentration known as dhvani in anavopaya; anahata nada (unstruck sound experienced in susumna).
Vasana	Residual traces of actions and impressions retained in the mind; habit energy.
veda	1. knowledge 2. The sacrad book of vaidika dharma (Hinduism) from which the name is arrived)
Vedaka	Experient
Vedya	Object
vedAnta	conclusion of veda, upanishad
Vibhuti	splendour; power
vidhAnam	procedure
vidi	order, system, fate
Vidya	(1) Suddha vidya tattva; (2) Unmana sakti, Sahaja vidya (3) Limited knowledge, a kancuka of Maya.
Vidyasarira	Sabdarasi-the group of letters and words (sutra, Section II)
Vigraha	Individual form or shape; body.
Vigrahi	The embodied
Vijnana	consciousness; supreme consciousness
Vijnanamayakosa	The sheath of intelligence
Vijnanakala	The experient below Suddha Vidya but above Maya who has pure awareness but no agency. He is free of karma and maytya mala but not free of anava mala
vimAna	aeroplane, superstructure over sanctum sanctorum
Vikalpa	Difference of perception; distinction; option; an idea as different from another idea; ideation; fancy; imagination, thought-construct.
Vikalpa-Ksaya	The dissolution of all vikalpas
Vikalpanam	The differentiation-making activity of the mind;
Vikalpa(suddha)	The fixed idea that I am Siva.
Vikasa	Unfoldment; development
Vilapana	dissolution; esoteric meaning-anugraha-grace.
Vilaya	concealment
Vimarsa	Self-consciousness or awarenes of Parama Siva full of jnana and kriya which brings about the world-process.
Vimarsana	intuitive awareness; esoteric meaning-samhara absorption.
Vinayakah	Beings who create obstacles in spiritual progress by offering temptations.
Virat	Consciousness limited or conditioned by the upadhi of the aggregate of gross bodies.
Viresa	The lord or amster of the senses that are intent on removing all sense of difference in as much as the lord of the senses has now experienced the delight of the transcendental consciousness. The senses are called vira, because they are now saktis.
vIrashaivam	The movement that strengthened the shaivite roots in the masses of karnataka. Revolutionary in thrashing away some of the old customs like caste etc.
Virya	virility, vitality; mantra-virya the virility of mantra
Visa	a technical word of Saiva Yoga, meaning 'entering into the remaining half and wholly into the top of adhah-kundalini right upto the position where urdhva-kundalini ends (from the root vis, to pervade).
vishuddi	fifth mystic chakra
viShNu	The Lord of sustainance. Worshiped by vaiShNavam
Visarga	Emanation; creation
Visargabhumi	Two dots simultaneously, representing Sakti's external manifestation of the universe and the internal assimilation of the same into Siva
Visranti	rest; peace.
Visva	The universe; the all.
Visvamaya	Visvatmaka: Immanent.
Visvatmaka	immanent
Visvottirna	Transcendent
Vitarka	The thought that I am SIva, the Self of the universe
Vivarta	(In Sankara Vedanta) Appearance of the Real as something different.
Viveka	Philisophical discrimination
Viyat	space; sky
vrata	penance
Vrtti	mode, fluctuation
Vyamohitata	delusion
Vyana	the vital Vayu that is everywhere or the pervasive prana
Vyapini	all-pervasive energy of pranava
Vyapta	completely pervaded.
Vyapati	pervasion; fusion in the whole, in Siva.
Vyapakatva	All-pervasiveness
Vyamohitata	Delusion
Vyoma	sky; the infinite sky of consciousness; antar vyoma, the space in the mystic centre.
Vyutthana	Lit., rising, coming to normal consciousness after samadhi or meditative absorption.
Yajur-Veda	One of the four Vedas
yama	personal discipline
Yoga	(1) Acquisition of what is not yet acquired. (2) Communion, Communion of the individual soul with the Supreme; discipline leading to this communion (3) (In Patanjali) Samadhi, cessation of mental fluctuations (yuji samadhau).
Yogi	One who is seeking to or has been able to unite with the Universal consciousness.
Yogindra	the great yogi who has attained the sambhava state.
Yogini	the divine energy of Bhairava.
Yoginyah	The saktis-Khecari, Gocari, Dikcari, Bhucari etc.
Yoni	(1) womb, source. (2) The nine classes of consonants; in the context of letters, sakti is yoni, and Siva is bija. (3) The four saktis, viz., Amba, Jyestha, Raudri, Vama (4) Maya-sakti
Yonivarga	Maya and its progeny; mayiya mala
Yugapat	simultanelusly

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