Sdmdnyatcidrishta Samapatti.
Sennas ti. Samipya Samprajndta Sennsdra Sennskdras.
Samyama Sanandam.
Sanchita Sandilya Friendship.
Power.
Dwelling in the presence of God.
Not allowing the mind to externalise.
The hymn portion of the Veda, or that portion which was sung during the ceremonies.
Constant practice.
The nerve current that controls the function of digestion.
Inference based on superficial reasoning.
lit. “Treasures.” Used in Yoga philo- sophy to indicate the different stages of meditation.
The universal.
Closeness to God.
The first stage of super-consciousness which comes through deep meditation.
Endless cycle of manifestation.
Impressions in the mind-stuff that produce habits.
lit. “Control.” In the Yoga philosophy it is technically used for that perfect control of the powers of the mind, by which the Yogi can know anything in the universe.
The "blissful Samadhi.” The third step of the samprajndta samadhi. The object of meditation in this state is the “thinking organ” bereft of activity and dullness. ( Reijas and Tennas.)
The stored up, past Karma, whose fruits we are not reaping now, but which we shall have to reap in the future.
Writer of the Aphorisms of Divine Love (. Bhakti ) from the Advaita point of view.
GLOSSARY Sankaracharya.
Sankhya Sankocha Sannyasa Sannyasin.
Santa Santa-Bhakta Santih. Santosa. Sarupya Scistra.
Sat.
Satchidananda Sattva.
Sattva-purshanvatakhyati Sdttvika Satyam. Saucham Savichdra Savitarka The great exponent and commentator of the non-dua.listic school of Vedanta. He is supposed to have lived in India about the eighth century A.D.
lit. “That which reveals perfectly.” The name of a famous system of Indian philosophy, founded by the great sage Kapila.
Shrinking, contraction or non- manifestation.
Complete renunciation of all worldly position, property and name.
One who makes Sannyasa, and lives a life of self-sacrifice, devoting himself entirely to religion.
Peaceful or gentle love.
A devotee who has attained to peace through the path of Divine love.
Peace.
Contentment.
Growing like God.
Books accepted as Divine authority. Sacred Scriptures.
Existence-absolute.
lute.”
Illumination material. One of the three principles which form the essence of nature.
The perception of the Self as different from the principles of nature.
Having the Sattva quality highly developed, hence one who is pure and holy.
Truthfulness.
Cleanliness.
With discrimination. (A mode of meditation) Meditation with reasoning or question.
RAJA YOGA Sayujya. Sakshi. Siddha-Guru Siddhanta. Siddhas.
Siddhis.
Siksha.
Sishya.
Siva Sivoham Sloka. Smrti Soham. Soma.
Sphota.
Sraddha Sravana Sri.
Sri Bhashya.
Union with Brahman.
Witness.
A teacher who has attained Mukti.
Decisive knowledge.
Semi-divine beings, or Yogis, who have attained supernatural powers.
The supernatural powers which come through the practice of Yoga.
The science dealing with pronunciation and accents.
A student or disciple of a Guru.
The “Destroyer” of the Hindu trinity. Sometimes regarded in the Hindu mythology as the One God.
“7 am Siva ” (or eternal bliss).
Verse.
(1) Memory. (2) Any authoritative religious book, except the Vedas.
“I am He.”
A certain plant, the juice of which was used in the ancient sacrifices.
The eternal, essential material of all ideas or names, which makes words possible, yet is not any definite word in a fully formed state. The inexpres- sible Manifestor behind all the expressed, sensible universe. The power through which the Lord creates the universe. Its symbol is the eternal Om.
Strong faith in religion.
(1) Hearing, the ears. (2) The finer power of hearing developed by the Yogi.
Holy, or blessed.
Name of the qualified non-dualistic commentary of Vedanta by Ramanuja.
GLOSSARY Srotiyas Sruti Sthiti Sthula Sarira Sukshma Sarira [sometimes called “ Ling a Sarira] Sunya Vcida...Sushupti...Susumnd...Sutra Svadhisthana Svadhyaya.
Tadiyatd...lit. “High bom,” or born of a noble family. The Hindu students who know the Vedas by heart.
The Vedas, so called because transmitted orally from father to son in ancient times. The Vedas are regarded by all orthodox Hindus as Divine revelation and as the supreme authority in religious matters.
Stability.
Gross body.
Fine or subtle body.
Doctrine of the void, nihilism.
Deep, dreamless sleep.
The name given by the Yogis to the hollow canal which runs through the centre of the spinal cord.
lit. “Thread.” Usually means aphorism.
lit. “Abode of Self.” Second lotus of the Yogis, between base of spine and the navel.
Study.
“May it be perpetuated,” or “so be it.” An expression used in making obltation.
The dream state.
Commentator of the Aphorisms of Sdndilya.
A blessing, meaning “Good be unto you.”
Name of a star Heaven.
One of the chief Upanishads of the Yajur-Veda.
lit. “His-ness.” The state when a man has forgotten himself altogether, in his love for the Lord, and does not feel that anything belongs to him personally.
RAJA YOGA Tomas Tamndtras...Fine material.
Tantras . Books held to be sacred by a certain sect in India.
Tantrikas...Followers of the Tantras.
Tapas . Controlling the body by fasting or other means. Austerity.
Tdraka . Saviour.
Tarka . Question or reasoning.
"Tat tvam asi”.
. “That thou art.”
Tattvas . Categories, principles, truths.
Tejas . One of the elements; fire; heat.
Titikshd . Ideal forbearance. “All-sufferingness.”
Trishnd . Thirst, desire.
Tulsidas...A great sage and poet who popularised the famous epic, the Rdmdyana, by translating it from Sanskrit into the Hindustani dialect.
Turiya.
. The fourth, or highest state of consciousness.
Tydga.
. Renunciation.
Udana.
. Nerve current governing the organs of speech, etc.
Uddhdrsa.
. Excessive merriment.
Udgitha . lit. “That which is chanted aloud,” hence the Pravana or Om.
Udgdtha . Awakening the Kundalini.
U pad ana . The material cause of the world.
Upddhi.
. Limiting adjunct.
Uparati.
. Not thinking of things of the senses; discontinuing external religious observances.
Updyapratyaya.
. A state of abstract meditation.
Uttar a Gita.
. The name of a book supposed to be related by Sri Krsna for the further instruction of Arjuna.
Uttar a Mimdnsd . Another name for the Vedanta philo- sophy, written originally in the foim of aphorisms by Vydsa.
GLOSSARY Vach or Vdk Vddci Vairagyam. Vaiseshika. Vaishnavas.
Vamadeva.
Vanaprastha Varaha-Pu ran a Vardhate Vdrtikam Vanina. Vdtsand.
Vdsudeva Vdtsalya Vdyu Vedand.
Vedas.
Vedanta lit. “speech.” The Word, the Logos.
Argumentative knowledge.
Non-attachment to the attractions of the senses. Renunciation.
A branch of the Nyasa school of philo- sophy; the Atomic school.
The followers or worshippers of Vishnu, who form one of the principle Hindu religious sects.
A great Rishi who possessed the highest spiritual enlightenment from the time of his birth.
The forest life. Third of the four stages into which the life of a man was divided into ancient India.
One of the eighteen principle Purdnas.
To grow.
A concise explanatory note.
The old Vedic god of the sky.
A habit or tendency arising from an impression remaining unconsciously in the mind from past Karma.
Manifestation of the highest Being.
The affection of parents for children.
lit. "the vibrating.” The air.
The fine power of feeling developed by the Yogi.
The Hindu Scriptures, consisting of the Rg-Veda, the Yajur-Veda, the Sama- Veda, the Artharva-Veda; also the Brahmanas and the Upanishads’, comprising the hymns, rituals and philosophy of the Hindu religion.
The final philosophy of the Vedas, as expressed in the Upanishads. The philosophical system which embraces all Indian systems of philosophy, — the monistic, the mono-dualistic and the dualistic.
RAJA YOGA Vedavai anantah . A quotation from the Vedas, meaning “The Scriptures are infinite.”
Vidcha...
Disembodied, or unconscious of body.
Vidyd...Science, or knowledge.
Vidvdn...One who knows.
Vijndna...The higher knowledge.
Vikcdpa...Verbal delusion, doubt, notion, fancy.
Vikaranabhava.
. Uninstrumental perception.
Vikshipta . A scattered or confused state of mind.
Vimoksha.
. Absence of desire. Absolute freedom.
Vine!...A stringed musical instrument of India.
Viparyaya.
. False conception of a thing whose real form does not correspond to that conception, as mother of pearl mis- taken for silver.
Vipra...A sage who was born and bred a Brahmin.
Vi r aka...Intense misery due to separation from the beloved one.
Vitya...Strength, energy.
Vishnu...The “Preserver” of the Hindu trinity, who takes care of the universe, and who incarnates from time to time to help mankind.
Visishtadvaita.
. Qualified non-dualism. A school of Indian philosophy, founded by Ramanuja, a great religious reformer, which teaches that the individual soul is a part of God.
Visishtadvaitin.
. A follower of the above school of philosophy; a qualified non-dualist.
Vivekananda Vitarka...Questioning or philosophical enquiry.
Viveka...Discrimination (of the true from the false).
Visuddha . The fifth lotus of the Yogis, opposite the throat (in the Susumnd).
GLOSSARY Vraja Vrinda Vrtti Vydna Vydsa Vyasci Sutras Vyasti.
Vyutthana.
Yajur-Veda. Yama.
Yoga Yoga Sutra. Yogi..
Yudhisthira.
Yuga A suburb of the city of Muttra, where Krsna played in his childhood.
The attendant of the principal Go pi.
lit. “The whirlpool.” Wave form in the chitta; a modification of the mind.
The nerve current which circulates all over the body.
lit. “One who expounds” (as a com- mentator). One Vycisa was the author of the Mahabharata and of the Uttara Mimdnsd.
The Vedanta Aphorisms by Vydsa.
The particular (as opposed to the universal).
Waking, or returning to consciousness after abstract meditation.
The ritualistic portion of the Vedas.
The internal purification through moral training, preparatory to Yoga. The god of Death, so called from his power of self-control.
Joining; union of the lower self with the higher self, by means of mental control. Any sort of culture that leads us to God.
Aphorism on Yoga.
One who practices Yoga.
A great Hindu Emperor who lived about 1400 B.C. He was one of the five Pcmdavas.
A cycle or age of the world. The present cycle is known in India as the “ Kali - Yuga” or “Iron-Age.”
■SO Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
This edition of Raja Yoga was key-entered from a facsimile of an 1899 edition, titled Vedanta Philosophy (besides Raja Yoga and the glossary it included Bhakti-Yoga and a short essay titled “Immortality” from Jnana Yoga, both here omitted). No attempt has been made to retain the pagination of that edition. As in that edition, technical Sanskrit terms are italicised. A few minor changes in punctuation have been made for the sake of clarity.
In the printed edition, the glossary contained a certain amount of Americanisation (Americanization, even) of spelling which was not present in Raja Yoga itself; this has been undone.
By an effort of will I have refrained from inserting any sarcastic footnotes. While I do not consider myself competent to criticise the author's exposition of Yoga teachings in their own terms, I will note that his analogies drawn from physical science appear to demonstrate a poor understanding and limited knowledge thereof (even given how physical science stood at the end of the nineteenth century E.V.) and frequently seem flawed and downright laughable (in the case of the remarks about motion on p. 183 of this edition, though, he can be excused for not having heard of Special Relativity).
Further, it should not be assumed that the value of the practices taught depends on the truth of the ethical and metaphysical dogmas expounded; in particular the student might want to learn to recognise and avoid the error of exalting particular rules of conduct based on local social, climatic, or similar conditions into universal moral laws.
This work is in the public domain — copy and distribute as you will.
Love is the law, love under will.
T.S.
August 2003 E.V.
P.S. November 2003. Revised based on the 1959 edition published by Advaita Ashrama, Calcutta, which also includes the Sanskrit text of Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms and the extracts in the Appendix (currently still omitted as my knowledge of Sanskrit is insufficient to transcribe them all with any degree of reliability). Text reformatted from improved on-screen readability (read: larger type size). An e-text of Bhakti Yoga is being released by Celephais Press alongside this new edition of Raja Yoga.