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Indriya
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The energy of the sense organs
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Iswara
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Maya cum cidabhasa. Cosmic causal
body.
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Jagat
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The universe
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Jagrat avastha
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The waking state
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Janma
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One life span; birth
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Jiva
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Synonym of jivatma
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Jivabrama aikyam
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Identity of the essential nature of
Jivatma and Paramatma
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Jivanmukta
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One who has become liberated while
living.
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Jivanmukti
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Liberation from Samsara in the
current life itself
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Jivatma
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The conglomerate of body, mind and
atma
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Jnana kanda
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The latter part of the Veda dealing
with Brahman, Jivatmas and jagat
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Jnanadhyasa
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The wrong notion mistaking a real
entity to be an unreal thing.
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Jnanam
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(1) Consciousness (2) Knowledge
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Jnanendriyas
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Sense organs of perception – sight,
hearing, smell, taste and touch
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Jnani
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One who has gained knowledge of
one’s identity with Brahman – jivabrama aikyam. The knowledge that one’s
real nature is consciousness and that that consciousness is no different
from the all pervading consciousness called Brahman
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Kamya Karma
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Action for selfish ends
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Karana sarira
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The causal body – the anandamaya
kosa
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Karma
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Action; merit and demerit
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Karma kanda
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The former part of the Veda dealing
with rituals
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Karma Yoga
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Purificatory spiritual practices as
preparation for study of Jnana kanda
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Karmaphalam
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The enjoyment and suffering
undergone by the jivatma for punya and papa
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Karmendriyas
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Sense organs of action – action
through speech, legs, hands, anus and the genitals
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Karta
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Doer
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Kartrutvam
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The sense that one is a doer
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Krama mukti
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Liberation from samsara after going
to the abode of Hiranyagarbha by doing Hiranyagarbha or Iswara Upasana
and being taught by Hiraanyagarbha himself
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Lakshanam
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Features ; characteristics ;
definition.
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Laya
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Dissolution of the universe
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Mananam
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The process of getting doubts
clarifies by discussion with the teacher or by one’s own analysis and
reasoning
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Manas
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Faculty of mind which is of the
nature of indecision or doubt; also the emotional aspect of antahkarana
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Manomaya kosa
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The mind and the five sense organs
of perception
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Maya
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Unevolved names and forms resting,
as a lower of reality, in Brahman
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Mithya
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That which is experienced but has
no real existence of its own
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Moksha
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Liberation from samsara
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Mumukshutvam
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Intense yearning for moksha
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Nama roopa
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Name and form
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Nididhyasanam
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The process of dwelling on the core
of the teaching to overcome the habitual identification with the body
mind complex
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Nimitta karanam
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Intelligent cause
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Nirakara
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Formless
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Niravayava
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That which has no parts
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Nirguna
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Attributeless
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Nirvikalpa
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Divisionless
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Nirvikara
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Changeless
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Nitya
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Eternal
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Pancabhootas
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The five basic compounds – space,
air, fire water and earth
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Pancakosa viveka
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Enquiry into one’s real nature by
analyzing the five kosas
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Papa
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Demerit, i.e., in the system
of karma, the debit entry in the ledger, as it were, for bad action
or bad thought, to be discharged by imposing suffering on the
jivatma in the same birth or in some future birth.
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Paramartika satyam
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Absolute reality
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Paramatma
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Brahman
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Parinama
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Transformation
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Prajnaam Brahma
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The consciousness which is the
nature of the individual is none other than the all pervading
consciousness called Brahman
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Prakarana grantha
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Works expounding Sruti
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Prakriti
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Literal meaning is ‘nature’.
However, it is used as a technical term synonymous with Maya
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Prama
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Right knowledge
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Pramanam
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The instrument of knowing
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Pramata
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The knower
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Prameyam
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The known
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Prana
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The energy that regulates the
physiological functions of living beings – five in number – prana,
apana, vyana, samana and udana – responsible
for functions such as respiration, circulation, digestion,
metabolism, ejection , locomotion, action etc. – generally referred to as
‘vital airs’
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Pranamaya kosa
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The five pranas and the five sense
organs of action
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Prarabdha karma
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The quota of punya and papa
allotted to be exhausted by enjoyment or suffering in a particular janam
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Pratibhasika satyam
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Subjective reality
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Pratyabhinja
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Recognition.
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Pratyagatma
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When the all pervading
consciousness is referred to as the consciousness recognizable by oneself
in oneself, it is called Pratyagatma
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Punya
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Merit, i.e., in the system of
karma, the credit entry in the ledger, as it were, for good action
or good thought – to be discharged by conferring enjoyment or comfort on
the jivatma in the same birth or in some future birth
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Purushartha
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(1) Goals in life – material
prosperity called artha, enjoyment called kama, merit gained by
observance of one’s duties in accordance with scriptural commandments and
prohibitions called dharma and moksha (2) free will
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