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Abhanavarana: Screening the outshining Bragman; one of the two Avarana Saktis which is removed by Aparoksha Jnana.

Abhasa: Reflection, appearance, semblance, not true.

Abhasamatra: In name only.

Abhasavada: Doctrine holding that all creation is reflection of the Supreme Reality.

Abhati: Shines, illumines.

Abhava: In which one’s self is meditated upon as zero or, as bereft of every quality or limitation whatsoever; absence; non-existence; negation.

Abhavamatra: Of a merely negative character.

Abhavana: Non-thought.

Abhava padartha: A thing which cannot have existence in reality, viz., horn of a hare, son of a barren woman.

Abhavarupavritti: The function of thinking of a non-existent thing.

Abhayadana: Gift (boon) of fearlessness.

Abhayam: Fearlessness.

Abheda: Non-difference.

Abheda-ahamkara: The pure ego that identifies itself with Brahman or the Absolute.

Abheda-bhakti: Highest devotion that has culminated in the identity of the worshipper and the worshipped; devotion without the sense of duality.

Abheda-buddhi: The Buddhi that beholds unity.

Abheda-chaitanya: Constant thought of the identity of the soul with Brahman; undivided Consciousness.

Abheda-jnana: Knowledge of the identity of the individual with the Absolute (Atman and Brahman).

Abhedabhava: Sense of non-separateness.

Abhigamana: Approach to the temple.

Abhijna: Direction; perception or recollection assisted by memory.

Abhijna-Jnana: Knowledge through perception.

Abhimana: Egoism; identification with the body.

Abhimani: One who has egoistic feeling.

Abhinaya: Controlling; training; disciplining.

Abhinivesa: Clinging to earthly life; will to live.

Abhivimana: As identical with himself; an epithet of the unlimited Supreme Being.

Abhivyakta: Manifested.

Abhokta: Non-enjoyer.

Abhyantara: Internal.

Abhyasa: Repetition; practice; one of the Shad Lingas.

Abhyasin: Yoga-practitioner; one who studies Veda.

Abhyudaya: Exaltation.

Abuddhi-purva: Unintelligent; insentient.

Achala: Not moving; fixed.

Achamana: Sipping water from the hollowed palm o the hand; a preliminary simple rite connected with ritualistic worship.

Achara: Right conduct, custom, practice, external observance of established rules and laws.

Acharana: Observance of right conduct.

Acheta: Unintelligent.

Achetana: Unconscious.

Achintya: Unthinkable.

Achintya Sakti: Inscrutable power.

Achit Sakti (of Brahman): Tamas or great darkness; the root of matter.

Achit: Inanimate matter.

Achit vastu: Non-sentient matter.

Achyuta: The indestructible; the unchanging.

Adambhitva: Unpretentiousness.

Adbhuta: Wonderful.

Adhama: Low; degraded.

Adhama uddharaka: Uplifter of the down-trodden.

Adharma: All that is contrary to the right and the law; demerit.

Adarsa: Ideal.

Adarsa-purusha: A person whom you can take as an ideal; an exemplary person.

Adesa: A divine command from within the being.

Adhara: Support; basis; Brahman; also, the system corn posed of the five principles constituting the physical, vital, mental, intellectual and the blissful sheaths; receptacle; that which supports.

Adhara-adheya-sambandha: Relation of the support and the thing supported; relation of location and the thing located; relation of abode and abiding.

Adhi: Disease of the mind.

Adhibhautika: Elemental.

Adhibhautika sarira: Body composed of elements.

Adhibhautika Taapa: Pain caused by the Bhutas, as scorpion-sting, snake-bite, etc.; nature-extrinsic suffering.

Adhibhuta: Pertaining to the elements; the primordial form of matter.

Adhibhuta-vidya: Science of the physical or material world.

Adhidaiva-vidya: Science of the heavens.

Adhidaivika: Pertaining to the heaven or the celes­tial beings.

Adhidaivika Taapa: Pain caused by gods or the heavens as thunder, rain, flood, etc.

Adhika: Additional.

Adhikarana: Section; topic; substratum; receptacle.

Adhikari: Qualified person.

Adhikari-vada: The doctrine upholding the neces­sity of prescribing a distinct course of discipline for each spiritual aspirant according to his capacity.

Adhimatra (Vairagya): Degree of Vairagya when worldly enjoyment even becomes a source of pain.

Adhipatipratyaya: The defining cause.

Adhishthana: Background; support; basis; substratum; repository (Brahman); underlying truth or essence.

Adhishthatri Devata: Presiding divinity.

Adhiyajna: Pertaining to the sacrifice.

Adhokshaja: A being who cannot be perceived by the outer senses; a name of Bhagavan Narayana.

Adhvaryu: A priest who recites the Yajur-veda in a sacrifice. (Yajur-veda is one of the four Vedas or source-scriptures of Hinduism. The others are Rig-veda, Sama-veda and Atharvana-veda.)

Adhyaksha: Agent; supervisor.

Adhyatmika: Pertaining to the Atman.

Adhyatmika Vidya: Science of Self.

Adhyaropa: Illusory attribution; superimposition; false attribution; one thing is mistaken for another; qualities of one are transferred to another; qualities of the Self arf transferred to the body.

Adhyaropita: Fictitiously ascribed.

Adhyasa: Superimposition or reflection of the attributes of one thing on another thing.

Adhyasta: Falsely-cognised thing.

Adhyasta astitva: Reflected existence.

Adhyatma Sastra: Spiritual science.

Adhyatma Vidya: Science of the Self.

Adhyatmavit: Knower of the Inner Self

Adhyavasaya: The determining function of the Buddhi or the intellect.

Adi-tattva: The first principle; Brahman; Mula Prakriti; the first element (of matter) next but one above Akasa in the gradation of subtlety.

Aditya: Sun-god; Sun; a class of celestial beings.

Adrishta: The unseen principle.

Adrishtam: Unperceived.

Adrisya: That which cannot be perceived by the physical eye (Brahman).

Advaita: Non-duality; monism.

Advaita-avastharupa-samadhi: Nirvikalpa Samadhi of Advaitins where there is no Brahmakara Vritti. [This is the highest superconscious state in which there is no triad (knowledge, knower and known), but One alone exists in Its own state.]

Advaita nishtha: Establishment in the state of non-duality.

Advaita-siddhi: Realisation of the non-dual Brahman or Oneness.

Advaita vada: The theory that Brahman is the only existence; monism; Vedanta.

Advaita vedanta: Non-dualistic philosophy (of Sri Sankara.)

Advitiya: Without a second.

Advitiyata: State of being secondless.

Adya: Primordial; original.

Adyasakti: Primordial power; Avyaktam or Mula Prakriti.

Agadha: Unfathomable.

Agama: The Veda; manual of practical worship.

Agama pramana: The Veda as proof.

Agami (Karma): Karma now produced, to be en­joyed after.