General Vocabulary Flashcards
Yoga
The root, “yuj” (meaning “unity” or “yoke”)
Viveka
(lit., discrimination; distinction) A main tool of Yoga.
This is the intellectual ability to discriminate, or discern, between the real and the unreal. true and false, reality and illusion. Self and not-Self
Vedanta defines the real as being permanent and the unreal as being temporary
Sukha
Happiness, sweetness, ease, pleasure or bliss - Expansion
Dukha
Suffering, contraction
Vedanta
Hindu philosophy from the upanishads
Upanishads
Upanishad means the inner or mystic teaching. The term Upanishad is derived from upa (near), ni (down) and s(h)ad (to sit), i.e., sitting down near.
neti-neti
the view that truth can be found only through the negation of all thoughts about it.
Kleshas
“poison” Afflictions
Samskara
impression; under the impulse of previous impressions) are the imprints left on the subconscious mind by experience in this or previous lives,
Kriya Yoga
mentally directs life energy to revolve, upward and downward, around the six spinal centers (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses)
Tapas
means deep meditation,[2] effort to achieve self-realization, sometimes involving solitude
Svadhyaya
study of the scriptures and darśanas which help the understanding of the nature of the Paramātman.
Ishvarapranidhana
represents surrender to, and love for, the divinity within the individua
Avidya
Ignorance (in the form of a misapprehension about reality)
one of the klesha’s
Asmita
one of the Kleshas: egoism (in the form of an erroneous identification of the Self with the intellect)
