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| Despite mulitiplicity, there is one Supreme Spirit. This is the 'ultimate truth.' Belief that underlies the teaching in the Bagavad Gita and Upanishads. |
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| breath, principle of life, the individual soul; in the grammar of Sanskrit it is also used as the reflexive pronoun: oneself |
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| A series of discourses between Lord Krishna and the warrior prince Arjuna from which flow the essential teachings of Indian philosophy (equivalent to the New Testament) |
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| the universal essence from which all created things emanate or with which they are identified and to which they return; not generally an object of worship, but rather of meditation and knowledge |
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| the priestly class, highest of the four divisions in ancient Hindu society. One who knows and repeats the Vedas |
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| the Awakened or Englightened One. Hence, Buddha is not a proper name but a title |
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| reincarnation is an essential truth believed in the East. When we become one with our Creator, the chain of rebirth is broken for ever; for many this is the goal of existence |
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| (cowman)one of the thousand names of Krishna. Teacher of Shankara, founder of the monastic order in India |
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| "heavy or weighty" a spiritual parents of preceptor from whom a youth receives instruction, prayer, and the sastras |
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| "action, works" one's individual fate |
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| "lotus flower" derived from Kama, the Hindu god of desire, sexual love. E.g. Kama Sutra |
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| A title to a monk or ascetic. In the context of this book "a master of desire" |
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| one of the two most famous earthly incarnations of Vishnu. A great hero and teacher |
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| Goddess of beauty, prosperity, and good luck. Wife of Vishnu |
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| In ancient India, a kingdom near the present day state of Bihar |
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| a state in which one experienced the highest bliss due to the extinguishing all desires and passions |
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| the mystic monosyllable; later it came to represent the Hindu triad: Vishnu, Siva, and Brahma. |
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| existence within worldly illusion |
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| to exert oneself, become weary |
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| that which abides and exists beyong 'maya', illusion |
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| one's innermost being. The embodied self is a minute part of God himself; it is the truth which is realized in enlightenment |
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| he who accomplished/fulfilled his aim to become enlightened |
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| "thread" that which runs through and holds things together |
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| that which has the system within itself |
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| following Buddha's four nobles truths it includes right... |
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| Despite the many different works (life) of the potter (God), the wheel(man) is the same. |
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| texts that reveal things about the human spirit but never speak about how to reach enlightenment, one Self, or Brahman |
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| the body of sacred knowledge which constitutes the basis of the first period of the Hindu religion |
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| things that complete the knowledge of the Veda's by appearing after them, these are the Upanishads |
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| the second in the Hindu trinity. The many places, the most popular deity in Hindu worship, he is the preserver |
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| concentrating the mind to obtain union with the Universal Spirit |
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