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Sadhana catushtaya
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The four fold discipline qualifying
for the study of Jnana kanda, consisting of viveka, vairagya, shatka
sampatti, and mumukshutvam
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Sadhanas
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Spiritual practices
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Sakshi
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When the all pervading
consciousness is referred as the consciousness that is the source of the
reflected consciousness in the mind and is present throughout when mind
has one cognition after another , it is called Sakshi
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Sama
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Control or mastery over the mind
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Samadhana
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Single-contended of the mind
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Samanvaya
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Harmonious interpretation of texts
– Sastra mentions six criteria – what is said in the beginning, what is said
in the end, what is repeated, what is praised or condemned, what accords
with logic and what is said to bring benefit.
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Samashti
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Macrocosm
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Samsara
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The cycle of births and deaths,
karma and karma phalam punya and papa and enjoyment and suffering.
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Sancita karma
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The accumulated ‘bundle’ of punya
and papa
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Santimantra
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Benedictory verse
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Sarvagatam
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All pervading
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Sarvajnah
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The omniscient
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Sarvasaktiman
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The omnipotent
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Sarvatmabhava
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The sense that one is everything
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Sastra
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Scripture. Spiritual
literature including Sruti, Smriti, Bhashyas, Vartikas, and Prakarana
Granthas
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Sat
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(1)Existence; (2) essence
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Satyam
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That which exists in all three
periods of time
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Shatka Sampatti
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A six fold mental
training consisting of sama dama, uparama, tritiksha, sraddha and
samadhana
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Siddhi
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Superhuman powers
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Siva
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The God embodying Iswara’s power
of dissolution
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Smriti
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Elaborations based on sruti. E.g.,
Bhagavat Gita. Literal meaning is memory; remembrance
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Sraddha
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Faith in the teaching of the guru
and scriptures
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Sravanam
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Listening to the teaching of Sastra
by a guru
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Srishti
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Creation of the universe ; the
unfolding of names and forms out of Maya
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Sruti
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Veda, in four compilations –
Rg, Yajuh, Sama and Atharva
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Sthiti
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Maintenance of the universe
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Sthoola sarira
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The physical body – the annamaya
kosa
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Sukshma sarira
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The subtle body consisting of the
pranamaya, manomaya and vijanamaya kosas
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Sushupti
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The deep sleep state
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Sutra
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Scriptural work in the form
aphorisms
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Swapna avastha
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The dreaming state
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Swaroopam
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Intrinsic nature
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Tattvamasi
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“Thou art That”. The teaching
“You, Jivatma are none other than Brahman”
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Titiksha
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Endurance of discomforts, such as
heat, cold etc .Equanimity towards the opposites of pleasure and pain.
Acceptance of things and situations without grudging or complaint.
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Triputi
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The division of the knower, the
known and the knowing instrument or the act of knowing – the pramata, the
prameyam and the pramanam
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Upadana karanam
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Material cause
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Upadhi
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The thing from which
characteristics are falsely transferred to an entity that is close by
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Upahitam
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The entity to which characteristics
of a thing close by are falsely transferred
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Upanishad
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Vedic texts dealing with Brahman,
jivatmas and the jagat
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Upanishadic
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Used as an adjectival form of
Upanishad
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Uparati
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Performance of one’s duty towards
himself, the parents, teacher, family, society etc., which involves
sacrifice as opposed to insistence on rights which involves demands on
others
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Upasana
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Spiritual meditation
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Vairagya
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Dispassion – Absence of desire for
enjoyment of things of this world as also of other worlds
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Vakyam
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Sentence
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Vartika
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Commentary, in verse form ,on the
scriptural text
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Vasanas
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Impressions formed in the mind on
account of experiences.
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Veda
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The original Hindu religious
scripture
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Vedanta
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Janna kanda consisting of the
Upanishads
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Vedantic
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Used as an adjectival for of
Vedanta
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Videhamukti
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Dissolution of the sthoola, sukshma
and karana sariras of a Jivanmukta when he dies
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Vijanamaya kosa
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The intellect and the five sense
organs of perception
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Vikshepa sakti
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Projecting power. The power of Maya
that projects the universe of names and forms on Brahman, the sub-stratum
of pure Existence and also deludes jivatmas into mistaking the world to
be real
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Virat
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Cosmic physical body
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Vishnu
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The God embodying the Iswara’s
power of maintenance of the universe
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Vivarta karanam
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The cause that produces effect
without undergoing any change.
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Viveka
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Discrimination of the eternal and
the ephemeral
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Vritti
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Thought mode
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Vyashti
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Microcosm
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Vyavaharika satyam
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Empirical reality
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