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Abhyasa

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practice

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Acarya

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guru

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Advaita (“nonduality”)

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Truth and teaching that there is only One Reality (Atman, Brahman), especially as found in the Upanishads;

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Ahamkara (“I-maker”)

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the individuation principle, or ego

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Ahimsa (“nonharming”)

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Single most important moral discipline (yama)

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Akasha (“ether/space”)

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the first of the five material elements of which the physical universe is composed; also used to designate “inner” space, that is, the space of consciousness (called cid-akasha)

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Amrita (“immortal/immortality”)

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a designation of the deathless Spirit (atman, purusha); also the nectar of immortality that oozes from the psychoenergetic center at the crown of the head (see sahasrara-cakra) when it is activated and transforms the body into a “divine body” (divya-deha)

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Ananda (“bliss”)

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the condition of utter joy, which is an essential quality of the ultimate Reality (tattva)

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Anga (“limb”)

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a fundamental category of the yogic path, such as asana, dharana, dhyana, niyama, pranayama, pratyahara, samadhi, yama; also the body (deha, sharira)

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Arjuna (“White”)

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one of the five Pandava princes who fought in the great war depicted in the Mahabharata, disciple of the God-man Krishna whose teachings can be found in the Bhagavad Gita

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Asana (“seat”)

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a physical posture (see also anga, mudra); the third limb (anga) of Patanjali’s eightfold path (astha-anga-yoga); originally this meant only meditation posture, but subsequently, in hatha yoga, this aspect of the yogic path was greatly developed

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Ashrama (“that where effort is made”)

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a hermitage; also a stage of life, such as brahmacharya, householder, forest dweller, and complete renouncer (samnyasin)

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Ashta-anga-yoga, ashtanga-yoga (“eight-limbed union”)

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the eightfold yoga of Patanjali, consisting of moral discipline (yama), self-restraint (niyama), posture (asana), breath control (pranayama), sensory inhibition (pratyahara), concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana), and ecstasy (samadhi), leading to liberation (kaivalya)

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Asmita (“I-am-ness”)

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a concept of Patanjali’s eight-limbed yoga, roughly synonymous with ahamkara

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Atman (“self”)

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the transcendental Self, or Spirit, which is eternal and superconscious; our true nature or identity; sometimes a distinction is made between the atman as the individual self and the parama-atman as the transcendental Self; see also purusha; cf. brahman

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Avadhuta (“he who has shed [everything]”)

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a radical type of renouncer (samnyasin) who often engages in unconventional behavior

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Avidya (“ignorance”)

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the root cause of suffering (duhkha); also called ajnana; cf. vidya

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Ayurveda, Ayur-veda (“life science”)

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one of India’s traditional systems of medicine, the other being South India’s Siddha medicine