ÁCÁRYA or ÁCÁRYÁ. Spiritual teacher qualified to give initiation and teach all lessons of meditation.
ADHRUVA. Changing, transitory.
AGRYÁBUDDHI. Pointed intellect.
AHAḾTATTVA. Doer “I”, ego.
ÁNANDA. Divine bliss.
ANITYA. Transient.
ÁTMÁ, ÁTMAN. Soul, consciousness, PURUŚA, pure cognition. The átman of the Cosmos is PARAMÁTMAN, and that of the unit is the jiivátman.
ÁTMAJIṊÁNA. Self-knowledge.
AVADHÚTA or AVADHÚTIKÁ. Literally, “one who is thoroughly cleansed mentally and spiritually”; a monk or nun of an order close to the tradition of Shiva Tantra.

BHAGAVÁN. Lord.
BHAJAN. Devotional song.
BHAKTA. Devotee.
BHAKTI. Devotion.
BHAKTI YOGA. Devotional form of spiritual practice.
BHÁVA. Idea, ideation, mental flow.
BRAHMA. Supreme Consciousness, Supreme Entity.

CAKRA. Cycle or circle; psychic-energy or psycho-spiritual centre; psychic-nerve plexus.
CITTA. Done “I”, objective “I”, objective mind, mind-stuff.

DHARMA. Characteristic property; spirituality; the path of righteousness in social affairs.
DHIIRA. A person with discriminating faculty.
DHRUVA. Unchangeable.
DHRUVASATTÁ. Unchangeable Entity, BRAHMA.
DHYÁNA. Meditation in which the psyche is directed towards Consciousness; seventh limb of aśt́áḿga (eight-limbed) yoga.

GUŃA. Binding factor or principle.

IISHVARA. The Supreme Entity as Cosmic Controller; literally, “the Controller of all controllers”.
INDRIYA. One of the ten sensory and motor organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin; and hands, feet, vocal cord, genital organ and excretory organ). The eye indriya (for example) comprises the eye itself, the optical nerve, the fluid in the nerve, and the location in the brain at which the visual stimulus is transmitted to the CITTA.

JAPA. Repetition of mantra.
JIṊÁNA. Knowledge; understanding.
JIṊÁNA YOGA. A form of spiritual practice which emphasizes discrimination or intellectual understanding.

KARMA. Action.
KARMA YOGA. A form of spiritual practice which emphasizes selfless action.

LIILÁ. Divine sport.

MAHATTATTVA. “I” (“I am,” “I exist”) feeling, existential “I”.
MANTRA. A sound or collection of sounds which, when meditated upon, will lead to spiritual liberation.
MÁYÁ. Creative Principle, PRAKRTI in Her phase of creation. One aspect of Máyá is the power to cause the illusion that the finite created objects are the ultimate truth.
MOKŚA. Spiritual emancipation, non-qualified liberation.
MUKTI. Spiritual liberation.

NIITI. Principles leading to one’s spiritual welfare.
NITYA. Eternal.

PÁPA. Sin.
PARAMA PURUŚA. Supreme Consciousness.
PARAMÁTMAN. Supreme Consciousness in the role of witness of His own macropsychic conation. Paramátman comprises: (1) Puruśottama, the Macrocosmic Nucleus; (2) Puruśottama’s association with all creation in His extroversial movement (prota yoga); and (3) Puruśottama’s association with each unit creation individually (ota yoga) and (4) with all collectively (prota yoga) in His introversial movement.
PARAMÁ PRAKRTI. Supreme Operative Principle.
PRAKRTI. Cosmic Operative Principle.
PRÁŃÁYÁMA. Process of controlling vital energy by controlling the breath.
PUŃYA. Virtue.

QUINQUELEMENTAL. Composed of the ethereal, aerial, luminous, liquid and solid factors, or elements.

RASA. Cosmic flow.
RŚI. Sage; one who, by inventing new things, broadens the path of progress of human society.

SÁDHAKA. Spiritual practitioner.
SÁDHANÁ. Literally, “sustained effort”; spiritual practice; meditation.
SAMÁDHI. “Absorption” of the unit mind into the Cosmic Mind (savikalpa samádhi) or into the ÁTMAN (nirvikalpa samádhi).
SAḾSÁRA. The world as a dimension of relentless, unceasing movement.
SAḾSKÁRA. Mental reactive momentum, potential mental reaction.
SHÁSTRA. Scripture.
SHLOKA. A Sanskrit couplet expressing one idea.
SUBHÁŚITA SAḾGRAHA. Collected Discourses.
SVABHÁVA. Characteristics, one’s own nature.

TANMÁTRA. Literally, “minutest fraction of that”, i.e., of a given rudimental factor of matter. Also translated “generic essence” or “inferential wave”. The various types of tanmátras convey the senses of hearing, touch, form (vision), taste and smell.

YAMA AND NIYAMA. Moral code.
YOGA. Spiritual practice leading to unification of the unit ÁTMAN with PARAMÁTMAN.