abhyāsa— practice, exercise.

ācchanna — covered, concealed.

adhāra — support, receptacle, vessel; the mental-vital-physical system as a vessel of the. spiritual consciousness; a physical object or sensation serving as a support for subtle sense-perception.

adhyaksatva— the status of the adhyaksa, he who oversees and controls from above.

agni—fire; one of the five states of Matter (paricabhuta); one of the seven kinds of "akashic material" from which rupa and lipi are formed.

agnimaya — consisting of or relating to agni.

ahaituka — without specific cause; arising spontaneously

 from within; (physical a-nanda) not associated with an initiating stimulus; ahaituka ānanda.

ahaituka ānanda — the form of ānanda corresponding to the mental plane.

aiśvarya — lordship, sovereignty; iśvarabha-va; a "siddhi of power" (see siddhi): effectiveness of the will acting as a command, without special concentration on the person or object as in vasitd.

aiśvarya-bodha— sense of sovereignty.

akaśa— ether, the subtlest of the five states of Matter (paricabhuta); also, any of various immaterial ethers: vital ("pranic"), mental, etc. Rupa and lipi seen in the akasa are distinguished from the citra ("pictorial") and sthapatya ("sculptural") types, which appear on a suggestive or supporting background. All rupa and lipi,

 however, are formed from "akashic material", of which there are seven kinds: prakasa, agni, varna, jyotih, tejas, dhuma and chāyā.

atnangala — unfortunate, bad; harm, evil.

ānanda — bliss, spiritual delight, ecstasy; an aspect of the supreme reality (see ānanda brahman); the plane of being above vijñāna. Manifesting in the body (SC IV. Ānanda), it takes five forms, the most important of which is kamānanda (see sarira ānanda). Corresponding to the other planes of being are six other forms of ānanda. These are, in ascending order: premānanda, ahaituka ānanda, cidghana ānanda, suddha ānanda, cidānanda and sadānanda. See also śama ānanda.

ānanda brahman—(the realisation of) the brahman as the self-existent bliss and its universal delight of being, the last member of the brahmaҫatustaya (SC VI).

ānanda darsana— vision of ānanda {ānanda brahman or ānanda īśvara) in all things and beings; brahmadariana raised to the plane of pure ānanda.

ānanda īśvara—ānanda brahman seen as an aspect of the Lord.

ānandamaya— full of or consisting of ānanda; blissful; belonging to the plane of pure ānanda.

ānandam brahma — see ānanda brahman.

ānanda purusa— ānanda brahman seen in the divine Personality.

ānanda vijñāna — vijñāna pervaded by ānanda.

anantam (brahma) — (the realisation of) the brahman infinite in being and infinite in quality (guna), the second member of the brahmaҫatustaya (SC VI).

anantam jñānam — the union of anantam brahma and jñānam brahma.

anima— "subtlety", a siddhi which frees the body from subjection to strain and pain.

antardarsi— "inward-looking" (Jagrat samādhi); samādhi in the waking state in which images are seen inside oneself in the mental ether, generally with eyes closed.

aprakasa— absence of light; obscurity.

apravrtti— inactivity; inertia.

 arogya—health; freedom from disease or disturbance in the bodily system, a member of the sariraҫatustaya (SC IV). arogya tapas — spiritual force applied to health.

aśakti — incapacity; tack of  śakti. aśamala — inequality; lack of śamatā. asatya(m) — falsehood; negation of satyam. asiddhi — imperfection; failure; negation of siddhi.

asraddha— lack of faith; negation of srad-dha.

astasiddhi—see siddhi.

ātmani atmdnam ātmana— the self in the self by the self. {Gita 13.25]

bahirdarsi— "outward-looking" (jagrat samādhi); samādhi in the waking state in which images are seen outside oneself in the physical atmosphere.

balam — strength.

bhava — state of being; inner condition; subjective realisation; feeling; temperament; aspect.

bhoga — enjoyment; possession; desireless enjoyment in the prarita, the second of the three stages of bhukti.

bhukti — liberated enjoyment, the third member of the last ҫatustaya.

bhusvarga—"earthly heaven"; a subtle physical world.

bhuta — any of the five elements or states of substance—akasa ("ether"), vayu ("air"), agni or tejas ("fire"), jala ("water") and prthivi ("earth") — which constitute the material universe and the physical body.

brahma — see brahman.

brahma darsana — vision of brahman in all things and beings. In the Record, the vision of the impersonal Brahman in its four aspects (SC VI) is the basic realisation, but the vision of the divine Personality (purusa, īśvara) in the Brahman is required for the fullness of the darsana.

brahman — the infinite and omnipresent Reality, "the One besides whom there is nothing else existent". Its four aspects (sarvam anantam jñānam ānandam) are enumerated in the brahmaҫatustaya (SC VI).

ҫama — see śama. ҫamas — see śamas.

ҫatustaya — tetrad; any of the seven parts of

the Sapta Ҫatustaya, the system received by Sri Aurobindo as a programme for his Yoga (see the introduction to this Glos-sary).

chāyā — shadow; the lowest of the seven kinds of "akashic material" from which rupa and lipi are formed.

chāyāmaya — shadowy; composed of chāyā.

cidānanda — ānanda of pure consciousness, one of the seven levels of ānanda.

cidghana—massing of consciousness, a characteristic of vijñāna; see cidghana ānanda.

cidghana ānanda — ānanda of "dense luminous consciousness", one of the seven levels of ānanda, corresponding to vijñāna .

citra — picture; "pictorial" rupa or lipi; subtle images or writing seen on a background rather than in the akasa, and as two-dimensional pictures rather than in relief (sthapatya).

citta — basic mental consciousness; indeterminate mind-stuff out of which mental and vital movements arise.

craddha — see śraddhā.

cravana — see sravana.

cruti — see sruti.

daivī prakrti — divine Nature; the third member of the  śaktiҫatustaya (SC II), also called devlbhava.

darsana— vision; subtle sight; vision of the Divine in all things and beings (see brahma darsana).

dasya — the state of being a servant or slave of the Divine; submission, surrender. It is connected in the Record with the  śakti-catusiaya (SC II) though not formally a member of it. Three principal degrees of dasya are defined in the Record: (1) "primary, that is a free subjection of the Will on the basis of a potential independence ", (2) "secondary, that is a mechanical subjection of the adhara independent of the personal Will to the Prakriti", and (3) "tertiary, a complete subjection, mechanical & volitional to the Ishwara with the Prakriti only as a channel".

devata — deity; in the Record, any of the beings of various planes who represent partial aspects of the īśvara and act as agents of his will.

 devlbhava — the divine Shakti (devi, "the Goddess") manifest in the temperament in her four aspects (Mahakdil, Mahesvari, Mahaiaksml and Mahasarasvatl); another term for daivī prakrti.

 devi-hāsya—"laughter of the Goddess"; a combination of the four kinds of hāsya proper to the four aspects of devlbhava.

dhuma — smoke; one of the varieties of "akashic material" from which rupa and lipi are formed.

dhyana — concentration.

drasta— one who sees; seer; one who or that which has the power of drsti or revelation; revelatory.

drasta logos (Sanskrit-Greek) — the highest revelatory (drasta) form of the luminous reason ("iogistic" vijñāna).

drastr—that which sees; same as drasta.

drsti — vision; subtle sight; subtle sense-perception in general; trikaladrsti; revelation, direct vision of the truth, the highest faculty of jñāna.

drstimaya — of the nature of drsti; revelatory.

drśya— vision of scenes, beings or objects belonging to subtle worlds.

duhkha— un happiness. .

dvesa—disliking, repulsion.

gana — in the Record, beings of various planes who act as agents of prakrti, intervening between the Divine and the individual.

gandha — scent; the subtle sense of smell.

gandha-rasa—the taste of things smelt.

ghana—-dense (see rupa); a dense mass.

gnana — see jñāna.

guna — quality; mode of energy.

hāsya — "laughter", the last member of the śamatāҫatustaya (SC I); "an active internal state of gladness and cheerfulness which no adverse experience mental or physical can trouble"; see also devi-hāsya.

hermeneusis (Greek) — interpretation.

indriya — sense-organ.

isita — a "siddhi of power" (see siddhi): "effectiveness of the will acting not as a command or through the thought," as in aiśvarya, "but through the heart or temperament (citta) in a perception of need or pure lipsa."

 īśvara — the Lord; in the Record, the īśvara is identified with Krșna (SC V).

īśvarabhava—lordship, sovereignty; a quality common to the four aspects of devi-bhava which carries with it "a sense of the Divine Power".

īśvara brahma darsana— vision of brahman as the Lord.

īśvara darsana — vision of the Lord; see brahmadarsana.

isvari— the all-ruling Goddess; see Kāli.

 jagrat—waking, in the waking state; the state of samādhi "when in the waking consciousness, we are able to concentrate and become aware of things beyond our consciousness".

jagratta — wakefulness.

 jala — water; the liquid state of substance (bhuta).

jalamaya — consisting of or relating to jala.

jñāna — knowledge; suprarational thought-perception (often referred to in the Record as "thought") using the faculties of smrti, sruti and drsfi; the first member of the  Vijnanāҫatustaya (SC III).

jñānam (brahma) — (the realisation of) the brahman as self-existent consciousness and universal knowledge, the third member of the brahmaҫatustaya (SC VI).

 jyoti(h), jyotir— light; light of knowledge; one of the seven kinds of "akashic material" from which rupa and lipi are forme K.A.—abbreviation of kāma ānanda.

Kāli— a name of the Goddess (devi) in her forceful and often destructive, yet supremely compassionate aspect; in the Record, Kāli usually designates the divine Shakti, the Power who carries out the will of the Lord (Krșna). The realisation of Kāli is the second part of the karmaҫatustaya (SC V).

kalyanabuddhi—beneficent intelligence.

kāma— "desire"; a quality of the ideal sudra temperament in which desire changes "from the seeking after physical well-being and self-indulgence to the joy of God manifest in Matter" (SC II, Virya); as a member of the karmaҫatustaya (SC V), kāma is the divine enjoyment which accompanies a divinised action (karma); often short for kamānanda.

kāma ānanda — see kamānanda.

kamānanda — the principal form of physical  ānanda, that

associated with the spiritual transmutation of sensuous desire (kāma); sometimes synonymous with sarira ānanda.

K. Ananda—abbreviation of kāma ānanda.

karma — action; work; perfect action on the basis of the vijñāna, part of the karmaҫatustaya (SC V).

kavya — poetry.

Krșna — a name of the supreme Deity; the most blissful form of the divine Personality. The realisation of Krșna, "the Ish-wara taking delight in the world", is the first part of the karmaҫatustaya (SC V).

Krșna darsana— the vision of Krșna in all, a form of brahmadarsana.

Krșna Kāli— the union of Krșna and Kāli. The dual realisation of Krishna and Kāli, Ishwara and Shakti, forms the "subjective half of the karmaҫatustaya (SC V).

 lilamaya — playful.

lipi—writing seen in subtle vision or the power of such vision, an instrument of vijñāna closely connected with trikaladrsti. Like rupa, lipi may be composed of different kinds of ."akashic material" and may manifest either in the akasa or in the form of citra or sthapatya on a supporting physical background.

lipsa—seeking, reaching out; "divine desire-less reaching out of Brahman in personality to Brahman in the vishaya" or object"; a means by which iSita is effected.

logos (Greek) — see drasta logos.

 loka — world.

madhura dasya — "sweet servitude"; ecstatic surrender to the divine Lover.

madird — wine; in the Record, a form of physical ānanda which manifests "flowing through the sukshma body like a sweet and delightful wine".

madiramaya — consisting of madird.

mahattvam — greatness.

manasa — mental; mentality.

manasa loka-—mental world.

matrbhava — feeling or realisation of the Mother in the daivī prakrti.

mnemosune (Greek) — memory; the goddess of Memory, mother of the Muses.

moha — delusion.

mukti—liberation of the spirit and nature, the second member of the last ҫatustaya. Liberation of the nature includes freedom from ego and from the dualities and the replacement of the three gunas of the lower prakrti (sattva, rajas and tamas) by their divine equivalents (prakdsa, tapas and śama).

nati — submission to the divine Will; the third stage of negative or passive śamatā.

nidra — sleep.

nidramaya — of the nature of sleep; experienced in sleep.

niradhara — (subtle sense-perception) without a support of physical sensation; rupa or lipi seen in the akasa without relation to a background.

paricabhuta — the five "elements" or subtle conditions of material energy (see bhuta).

prajñāna—apprehending consciousness; the consciousness that cognizes all things as objects confronting its observation.

prakamya — a "siddhi of knowledge" (see siddhi) by which the mind and senses surpass the ordinary limits of the body.

prakasa — light, clarity; the divine light of knowledge into which sattva is to be converted in the liberation from the three gunas of the lower Nature (SC VII, Mukti); the highest of the seven types of "akashic material" from which rupa and lipi are formed.

prakdśamaya— full of prakasa, luminous; (rupa or lipi) consisting of prakasa.

prakrti—nature; the universal energy and its process.

pramada — negligence, distraction.

pramatta—negligent, lax.

 prana— life-force, vital energy.

pranamaya— vital, composed of prana; belonging to the vital world.

 pratistha — support, base.

pravrtti—activity, movement, impetus; the desireless impulsion (also called tapas) into which rajas has to be converted in the liberation from the three gunas (SC VII, Mukti).

prema—love; love which seeks no return, a quality of the ideal sudra temperament (SC II, Virya); premānanda.

premamaya — full of love or of premānanda. premānanda — ānanda of love, one of the seven levels of ānanda, corresponding to the vital-emotional plane.

prthivi—earth; the solid state of substance (bhuta).

prthivimaya — consisting of prthivi.

purusa— conscious being, soul, spirit; the supreme Being, the divine Personality.

purusa brahma (darSana)— (vision of) brahman as the supreme Being.

 raga — liking, attraction.

rajas—the kinetic and impassioned guna of prakrti.

rasa—taste; the subtle sense of taste; the principle of delight in things.

rasa-grahana — seizing by the mind of the rasa or principle of delight in things, the first of the three stages of bhukti.

raudra (ānanda)—fierce or violent ānanda, the form of physical ānanda associated with sensations that would ordinarily be felt as painful.

 roga — disease; disturbance or imperfect functioning in the bodily system.

rudra—violent, mighty; strong, vehement.

rupa — form, image; forms or images, often symbolic or predictive, seen in. subtle vision; also the faculty of such vision (rupadrsti), an instrument of vijñāna. Images seen in rupadrsti are sometimes distinguished in the Record from drsya of things actually existing in subtle worlds. Rupa may be composed of any of seven kinds of "akashic material" (see akaia); this material is further analysed according to four orders of "fullness": "crude" (the primary state), "dense" or ghana ("material developed into substance of consistency"), "developed" ("when the substance has developed lifelike appearance of reality") and "perfect". Rupa may manifest spontaneously in the akasa or on a suggestive or supporting background (see citra and sthdpatya).

rupadrsti—vision of subtle images (rupa).

rupa-siddhi— perfection of rupa.

rupa-visaya— rupadrsti and visayadrsti.

sabda — sound; the subtle sense of hearing.

sadānanda — ānanda of pure existence, the highest of the seven levels of ānanda.

 sadhara—(subtle sense-perception) with the support (adhara) of a physical sensation; sadhara akasa.

sadhara akasa — rupa or lipi appearing in the akasa but seen against a background; it differs from citra and sthapatya in that it "is created not from the background, but from the akash and thrown on the background to help the distinctness".

sagurta— with qualities; brahman realised as possessing infinite qualities.

sahaituka—having a specific cause; (physical ānanda) associated with an initiating stimulus, such as a touch of some kind on —the body.

śakti — force; capacity; power of the spirit; the Power that directs the Yoga; the supreme Power who executes the will of the Ishwara; the "power of the instruments", a heightened capacity of mind, heart, life and body, the second member of the  śaktiҫatustaya (SC II); the  śaktiҫatustaya itself.

śama — quiet, peace, repose; the divine passivity into which lamas is to be transformed in the liberation from the three gunas of the lower Nature (SC VII, Mukti).

śama ānanda — equal ānanda; the universal delight in all experiences which constitutes active or positive śamatā.

samādhi—yogic trance as a means of increasing the range of consciousness, the last member of the  Vijnanāҫatustaya (SC III). Its principal states are jagrat ("waking"), svapna ("dream") and susupta ("deep sleep"). In jagrat there is the further distinction of bahirdarsi and an-tardarii, making four states in all.

śamarthya—capacity; see sarvakarmasdmar-thya.

śamas— same as śama.

śamatā—-equality, "the capacity of receiving with a calm and equal mind all the attacks and appearances of outward things", the first member of the first ҫatustaya; also the śamatāҫatustaya itself. Śamatā has two forms, passive (negative) and active (positive), each with three stages.

samjna — immediate awareness; contact of consciousness with its object.

samskara— impression, mental formation, habitual reaction formed by one's past. śāntimaya — peaceful.

    sarira — the body; the sariraҫatustaya (SC IV).

sarira ānanda — physical ānanda (SC IV, Ānanda); its five forms are kamānanda, visaya ānanda, tivra ānanda, raudra ānanda and vaidyuta ānanda.

sarvakarmaśamarthya — the faculty of being able to accomplish any work that the nature may undertake; an attribute common to the four aspects of devibhava.

sarvam ānandam brahma — the union of sar-varh brahma and Ānandam brahma.

sarvam brahma — (the realisation of) the brahman that is the All, the first member of the brahmaҫatustaya (SC VI).

satapas smarana—smarana with tapas; active attention.

sattva—the intelligent and harmonising guna of prakrti.

satyam — truth; essential truth of being, the basis of all knowledge and action in the vijñāna.

saundarya — beauty; physical beauty as an element of the perfection of the body (SC IV).

self-craddha — see sraddhd svaSaktydm.

siddhi—perfection; spiritual attainment; accomplishment of the aims of the yoga as a whole or of any part of the yoga; the final member of the last ҫatustaya. The word may also mean an occult or supernormal power; in this sense, the eight siddhis of the Ashtasiddhi (SC III) are divided into two "siddhis of knowledge" (vyapti and prakamya), three "siddhis of power" (vas-itd, aiśvarya, isita), and three physical siddhis (mahima, laghima, anima).

sita — cold.

smarana — remembrance, attention.

smrti—"memory"; the faculty of jñāna "by which true knowledge hidden in the mind reveals itself to the judgment and is recognised at once as the truth". It consists of intuition and viveka and is the essence of the "logistic" vijñāna.

sparsa — touch; the subtle sense of touch.

śraddhā — faith; the last member of the  śaktiҫatustaya (SC II).

śraddhā svasaktyam— faith in one's own power or capacity.

sravana— hearing; the subtle sense of hearing.

sruti—hearing; inspiration, "an immediate reception of the very voice of the truth", the second faculty of jñāna.

sthdpatya—"architectural" rupa or lipi, i.e. vision of things seen in relief on a background as if sculptured.

sthula — gross, physical; belonging to the material plane of existence.

sthulatva — materiality, concreteness.

suddha ānanda — pure ānanda; the form of ānanda corresponding to the ānanda plane proper.

suddhi—purification; "a total purification of all the complex instrumentality in all the parts of each instrument", the first member of the last ҫatustaya.

sudra — an aspect of the fourfold personality through which the divine Power manifests (SC II, Virya); its essential characteristics are self-giving, work and service.

sukham — "happiness", the third member of the śamatāҫatustaya (SC I); "not merely freedom from grief and pain, but a positive state of happiness in the whole system".

suksma— subtle, supraphysical; belonging to the subtle planes of existence.

Surya — the Vedic sun-god, deity of the plane of vijñāna.

susupta (samādhi) — the state of trance resembling deep sleep; the deepest state of samādhi.

susupta svapna (samādhi) — dream trance (svapna samādhi) passing into deep-sleep trance (susupta samādhi).

susupti— deep sleep; susupta samādhi.

svapna — dream; vision in svapna samādhi; the state of svapna samādhi.

svapnamaya susupti — susupta samādhi accompanied by dream-vision.

svapna samādhi — the second or "dream" state of samādhi; "when the mind has lost its outward consciousness . . . and goes inside itself". In this state it has "not dreams but internal visions" which are "records of true and actual experiences".

 svapna siddhi — perfection of dream or of  svapna samādhi.

svaśakti— one's own power or capacity. T²—see trikaladrsti-tapas.

tamas — the inert and unintelligent guna of   prakrti.

tamoguna— the guna of tamas.

tapas — spiritual force, power, will; concentration of energy to effect an end; the divine force of action into which rajas is to be transformed in the liberation from the three gunas of the lower Nature (SC VII, Mukti). In the Record, tapas often refers to the dynamic aspect of the vi-jhana which acts through the "siddhis of power" (see siddhi).

tapassiddhi — perfection of tapas (i.e., of ais-varya, isita and vaSita).

tejas — fiery brilliance; mental or spiritual energy; force of character; "fire", the principle of light and heat, one of the five states of Matter (pahcabhuta); one of the seven types of "akashic material" from which rupa and lipi are formed.

tejo balam mahattvarh pravrttih — energy, strength, greatness, activity: the first "general formula" of the  śaktiҫatustaya, related to virya.

tejomaya—composed of tejas. 

tivra (ānanda)—intense or thrilling ānanda, one of the five types of physical ānanda.

 traigunya siddhi — conversion of the three gunas or modes of the lower Nature (tamas, rajas and sattva) into their divine equivalents (Śama, japas and prakdsa); part of mukti.

trik.—abbreviation of trikaladrsti.

trikdladrsti—"vision of the three times"; direct knowledge of the past, present and future (particularly, in the Record, the future); as a member of the vijñānacatus-taya (SC III), it is jñāna "applied to the facts and events of the material world".

trikaladrsti-tapas — the union of trikaladrsti and tapas, usually referred to in the Record as T².

triloka — the three lower worlds (physical, vital and mental).

utthapana—levitation; "the state of not being subject to the pressure of physical forces", part of the sariraҫatustaya (SC IV). Primary utthapana meant a general

 liberation of the mental and physical being "from exhaustion, weariness, strain and all their results". The practice of secondary utthapana had the aim of making the body able to "take and maintain any position or begin and continue any movement for any length of time naturally and in its own right". Tertiary utthapana is "when one is not necessarily subject to the law of gravitation or other physical laws".

vaidyuta (ānanda) — "electric" ānanda, one of the five types of physical ānanda.

vakya —- speech.

varna— colour; one of the seven kinds of "akashic material" from which rupa and lipi are formed.

 varnamaya — composed of varna.

vasita — a "siddhi of power" (see siddhi): concentration of the will on a person or object so as to control it.

vayu—air, wind; the gaseous state of Matter  (bhuta).

vayumaya—consisting of or relating to vayu.

vijñāna— the suprarational consciousness, often referred to in the Record as the "ideality" or "gnosis", whose instruments of knowledge and action form the  Vijnanāҫatustaya (SC

vijñāna ānanda — see cidghana ānanda.

vijñāna darsana — brahmadarsana on the plane of vijñāna.

vijñāna ghanata — massed concentration of  vijñāna.

vijñānamaya — of the nature of vijñāna; suprarational, ideal, gnostic.

vijñāna śakti—the  śakti acting on the plane of vijñāna.

virya — strength of character; soul-force expressed through the fourfold personality (brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra), the first member of the  śaktiҫatustaya (SC

visaya— object of sense (physical or subtle); often an abbreviation of visaya ānanda or visayadrsti.

visaya ānanda — ānanda of the senses, one of the five types of physical ānanda.

visayadrsti — the faculty of subtle sensory perception, consisting of five specific faculties (sabda, sparsa, drsya, rasa and gandha) corresponding to the five senses.

visaya-ksma—the combination of visaya ānanda and kamānanda.

vismrti — forgetfulness, inattention.

visvadariana— universal brahmadarsana.

viveka — intuitive discrimination.

 vyapti — telepathic reception or communication, a "siddhi of knowledge" (see siddhi).

vyapti prakamya — the combined working of the two "siddhis of knowledge", which together "constitute what the Europeans call telepathy".