Five Years of Theosophy Part 33

Aum, the sacred syllable in Sanskrit representing the Trinity Avalokitesvara, manifested wisdom, or the Divine Spirit in man.

Avasthas, states, conditions, positions.

Avatar, the incarnation of an exalted being, so called among the Hindus.

Avesta, the sacred books of the Zoroastrians.

Avyakta, the unrevealed cause.

Baddha, bound or conditioned; the state of an ordinary human being who has not attained Nirvana.

Bahihpragna, the present state of consciousness.

Baodhas, consciousness; the fifth principle of man.

Barhaspatyamanam, a method of calculating time prevalent during the later Hindu period in North-eastern India.

Bhadrasena, a Buddhist king of Magadha.

Bhagats (or called Sokha and Sivnath by the Hindus), one who exorcises an evil spirit.

Bhagavad Gita (lit, the "Lord's Song"), an episode of the Maha-Bharata, the great epic poem of India. It contains a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna on Spiritual Philosophy.

Bhao, ceremony of divination among the Kolarian tribes of Central India.

Bhashya, commentary.

Bhon, religion of the aborigines of Tibet.

Bikshu, a religious mendicant and ascetic who suppresses all desire and is constantly occupied in devotion; a Buddhist monk.

Boddhisatwas, Egos evolving towards Buddhahood.

Brahma, the Hindu Deity which personifies the active cosmic energy.

Brahmachari, a Bushman ascetic.

Brahmagnani, one possessed of complete illumination.

Brahman, the highest caste in India; Brahman, the absolute of the Vedantins.

Brahmana period, one of the four periods into which the Vedic literature has been divided.

Brihadranyaka Upanishad, one of the sacred books of the Brahmins; an Aranyaka is a treatise appended to the Vedas, and considered the subject of special study by those who have retired to the forest for purposes of religious meditation.

Buddha, the founder of Buddhism; he was a royal prince, by name Siddhartha, son of Suddhodhana, king of the Sakyas, an Aryan tribe.

Buddhi, the spiritual Ego.

Buru Bonga, spirit of the hills wors.h.i.+ped by the Kolarian tribes of Central India.

Canarese, one of the Dravidian tongues, spoken in Southern India.

Chandragupta, one of the kings of Magadha, an ancient province of India.

Chandramanam, the method of calculating time by the movements of the moon.

Charaka, the most celebrated writer on medicine among the Hindus.

Chat.u.r.dasa Bhuvanam, the fourteen lokas or states.

Chela, a pupil of an adept in occultism; a disciple.

Chichakti, the power which generates thought.

Chidagnikundum (lit. "the fireplace in the heart"), the seat of the force which extinguishes all individual desires.

Chidakasam, the field of consciousness.

Chinmatra, the germ of consciousness, abstract consciousness.

Chit, the abstract consciousness.

Chitta suddhi (Chitta, mind, and Suddi, purification), purification of the mind.

Chutuktu, the five chief Lamas of Tibet.

Daemon, the incorruptible part of man; nous; rational soul.

Daenam (lit. "knowledge"), the fourth principle in man, according to the Avesta.

Daimonlouphote, spiritual illumination.

Daityas, demons, t.i.tans.

Dama, restraint of the senses.

Darasta, ceremonial magic practised among the Kolarian tribes of Central India.

Darha, ancestral spirits of the Kolarian tribes of Central India.

Deona or Mati, one who exercises evil spirits (Kolarian).

Deva, G.o.d; beings of the subjective side of Nature.

Devachan, a blissful condition in the after-life; heavenly existence.

Devanagari, the current Sanskrit alphabet.

Dharmasoka, one of the kings of Magadha.

Dhatu, the seven princ.i.p.al substances of the human body --chyle, flesh, blood, fat, bones, marrow, s.e.m.e.n.

Dhyan, contemplation. There are six stages of Dhyan, varying in the degrees of abstraction of the Ego from sensuous life.

Dhyan Chohans, Devas or G.o.ds planetary spirits.

Dik, s.p.a.ce.

Diksha, initiation.

Dosha, fault.

Dravidians, a group of tribes inhabiting Southern India.

Dravya, substance.

Dugpas, the "Red Caps," evil magicians, belonging to the left-hand path of occultism, so called in Tibet.

Dukkhu, pain.

Dwija Brahman, twice born; the invest.i.ture with the sacred thread const.i.tutes the second birth.

Elementals, generic name for all subjective beings other than disembodied human creatures.

Epopta, Greek for seer.

Fakir, a Mahomedan recluse or Yogi.

Fan, Bar-nang, s.p.a.ce, eternal law.

Fohat, Tibetan for Sakti; cosmic force or energizing power of the universe.

Fravashem, absolute spirit.

Gaudapada, a celebrated Brahmanical teacher, the author of commentaries on the Sankhya Karika, Mundukya Upanishad, &c.

Gayatri, the holiest verse of the Vedas.

Gehs, Parsi prayers.

Gelugpas, "Yellow Caps," the true Magi and their school, so called in Tibet.

Gnansaki, the power of true knowledge, one of the six forces.

Gujarathi, the vernacular dialect of Gujrat, a province of Western India.

Gunas, qualities, properties.

Gunava, endowed with qualities.

Guru, spiritual preceptor.

Ha, a magic syllable used in sacred formula; represents the power of Akasa Sakti.

Hangsa, a mystic syllable standing for evolution, it literally means "I am he."

Hatha Yog, a system of physical training to obtain psychic powers, the chief feature of this system being the regulation of breath.

Hierophants, the High Priests.

Hina-yana, lowest form of transmigration of the Buddhist.

Hiong-Thsang, the celebrated chinese traveler whose writings contain the most interesting account of India of the period.

Hwun, spirit; the seventh principle in man (Chinese).

Ikhir Bongo, spirit of the deep of the Kolarian tribes.

Indriya, or Deha Sanyama, control over the senses.

"Isis" ("Isis Unveiled"), book written by Madame Blavatsky on the Esoteric Doctrine.

Iswara, Personal G.o.d, Lord, the Spirit in man, the Divine principle in its active nature or condition, one of the four states of Brahma.

Itchasakti, will power; force of desire; one of the six forces of Nature.

Itchcha, will.

Ivabhavat, the one substance.