Sanskrit words appear in italics in the text. In Roman Sanskrit, a is pronounced as in up; á as in father; e as in say; aḿ as ung; c as ch; ś as sh; and jiṋá as gyá.

ÁCÁRYA – spiritual teacher; literally, “one who teaches by his conduct and character”
ADHARMA – movement towards imperfection; literally, “not-dharma”, not the true nature of man
ÁNANDA – Supreme Bliss
ANANDA MARGA – the Path of Bliss
ASAT – the transitory; literally, “not-Truth”
ASAKTHI – attraction for the finite material world
ÁSANA – a part of Yogic practice, physical exercises which harmonize the glandular system and thus make the body perfectly fit for meditation
AVIDYÁ – the force leading towards “crudeness”, degeneration

BALA – spiritual force
BALVÁN – full of spiritual force
BHAJAN – devotional song
BHAKTI – devotion, intense attraction for the Supreme
BRAHMA – God, Cosmic Consciousness
BRAHMACAKRA – the cycle of Brahma, the movement of creation away from God, from the “subtle” to the “crude”, from consciousness to matter, and then from the crude to the subtle, back to Him again
BRAHMA LOKA – the realm of Pure Consciousness, subtlest realm of the universe

CAKRA – a psychic and spiritual energy centre in the human being; there are seven cakras located along the spinal column

DAGDHABIIJA – “burnt seed”, one who surrenders his mind to God and so creates no more saḿskáras, mental reactions
DHARMA – nature, duty, the essential characteristic of an entity

FIVE FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS – the five basic factors from which the material realm of the universe is created: ether, air, fire (luminous), liquid, and solid.

GUŃAS – the three binding forces of Prakrti
GURU spiritual preceptor, literally, “dispeller of darkness”

HANUMÁN – the giant monkey, devoted servant of Ráma (the God-king hero of the Indian epic Rámáyańa)

IISHVARA – God; literally, “the controller”

JIṊÁNA – knowledge
JIṊÁNII – man of knowledge

KARMA YOGA – the Yoga of action; actions performed without attachment to the results
KIIRTANA – chanting the Lord’s name
KRŚŃA – great Yogi who lived about 3500 years ago in India, still worshipped by millions as a perfectly realized one
KULAKUŃD́ALINII – “coiled serpentine”, the latent spiritual energy in each human being

LIILÁ – the divine play, the game of God in creating the universe

MADHUVIDYÁ – literally, “honey knowledge”, the sweet ideation that God is everywhere, that He is doing everything
MAHÁBHARATA – an Indian epic
MAHÁYOGI – a great Yogi
MANANA – literally, “thinking”, thinking about God
MÁYÁ – the Operative Principle, the creative energy of the universe, sometimes called Prakrti
MOKŚA – salvation, the merger of the mind into unqualified Cosmic Consciousness, Nirguńa Brahma
MUKTI – liberation; the merger of the mind into qualified Cosmic Consciousness, Saguńa Brahma
MUTATIVE FORCE – rajoguńa, one of the three guńas or binding forces of Prakrti – causes movement, activity, restlessness

NAMASKÁR – salutations
NIRGUŃA BRAHMA – unmanifested Cosmic Consciousness

PARAMA PURUŚA – the Cosmic Consciousness, God
PRACÁR – the propagation of spiritual practices and philosophy
PRAKRTI – the Operative Principle of God, the Cosmic Energy, sometimes called “MÁYÁ”
PRÁŃA – the vital energy of an entity
PRAŃAVA – the Om-sound, the sound of God
PRÁŃÁYÁMA – a Yogic practice involving control of breath or vital energy
PREMA – divine love
PREYA – material gain
PURÁŃAS – ancient Indian mythological scriptures

RÁMA – the mythological God-king, hero of the Indian epic Rámáyana
RÁMÁYAŃA – an Indian epic story of the victorious battle of the God-king Ráma with the demon-king, Rávana
RAJOGUŃA – the mutative force, one of the three guńas or binding forces of Prakrti, which causes restless activity
RÁSALIILÁ – the play of God’s flow, the rhythmic, vibrational dance of creation, the play of waves in God’s ocean
RÁVAŃA – the demon-king, enemy of Lord Ráma in the Rámáyana
RUDRA – God, literally, “He who makes others weep” in pain and joy

SAT – Truth, the eternal
SÁDHAKA – a spiritual aspirant, practitioner of Yoga
SÁDHANA – meditation, spiritual practice; literally, “effort” or “completion”
SAGUŃA BRAHMA – manifested Cosmic Consciousness
SAMÁDHI – to become one with God, to expand one’s unit mind by ideation on God until it merges in God’s mind; a state of peace and bliss. Literally, “to become one with the goal”
SAḾSKÁRA – the potential reaction of one’s action
SENTIENT FORCE – that force of the Cosmic Energy, Prakrti, which causes peace, awareness, self-knowledge, and which leads to liberation
SEVÁ – service
SHÁSTRAS – scriptures
SHRAVAŃA – literally, “hearing” about God, telling stories about God and singing His Name
SHREYA – spiritual gain
STATIC FORCE – that force of the Cosmic Energy, Prakrti, which creates inaction, inertia, death

TAPAH – selfless service

VIŚŃU – the all-expanded, all-pervasive Entity, God

YOGA – literally, “unification”, the union of the unit consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness, of the spiritual aspirant with God
YOGI – one who has achieved God-realization

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The word Bábá comes from Sanskrit. It means “beloved”. For the living beings, the Lord is the beloved one, Bábá nám kevalam. But for the Lord, the living being is His Bábá! When living beings sing Bábá nám kevalam, then the Lord also sings Bábá nám kevalam in His mind.