Samskrta glossary
Samskrta glossary is an alphabetical list of words relating to Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar's works with explanations and notes.
A
- Abhaya: fearlessness
- Abhimána: inflated ego
- Anitya:: transient
- Apara: objective; controlled
- Artha: anything (especially wealth) that gives temporary relief from suffering
B
- Bhajana: devotional song(s)
- Bhakta: devotee
- Bhakti: devotion, see Bhakti
- Bhava: the expressed universe
- Bháva: idea, ideation, mental flow
- Bodhi: intuition
C
- Citishakti: Cognitive Principle, Puruśa, Pure Consciousness
D
- Deva: god or deity
- Devii: a goddess, a female deity
E
- Ekádashii: eleventh day after the new moon or full moon> Fasting on this day is advantageous
F
G
- Gagan: sky
- Gandhaja: a very small worm
- Gátra: body
H
I
J
- Jagat: world, universe
- Jiiva: an individual being
- Jiṋána:: knowledge, understanding
K
- Karma: action, work
L
- Liilá: divine sport
M
- Mahá: great
- Maháshúnya: the great void
- Mantra: a sound or collection of sounds which, when meditated upon, will lead to spiritual liberation.
- Mantra caetanya: the awakening of a mantra; conceptual understanding of and psychic association with a mantra
- Márga: path
- Mukti: spiritual liberation
- Muni: a saintly figure devoted to intellectual and spiritual pursuits
N
- Namah: salutations
- Nava: new
- Niiti: morality
O
P
- Pápa: sin
- Pápii: sinner
- Priya: beloved, loved one
Q
R
S
- Satsaunga: good company
- Shabda: sound
- Shakti: Prakrti; energy; a deification of Prakrti
- Shloka: a Sanskrit couplet expressing one idea
- Siddhi: Self-realization; spiritual attainment/fulfillment
T
U
V
- Vimukha: anger, permanent displeasure
- Vinásha: transformation through destruction
- Viveka: conscience, power of discrimination between good and evil
- Vraja: the spirit of joyful movement
- Vrtti: mental propensity
W
X
Y
- Yugas: four mythological ages, Satya Yuga, or Golden Age, Treta Yuga, or Silver Age, Dvápara Yuga, or Copper Age, and Kali Yuga, or Iron Age. These Yugas represent the step-by-step decline of morality and spirituality
Z
References
Sources
- Master Saḿskrta Glossary, The Electronic Edition of the Works of P. R. Sarkar, edition: 7.5