Sadhana

Sadhana: practice, usually spiritual practice Section: Tantra Tantra: esoteric techniques used in spiritual evolution Section: Tapas Tapas: severe spiritual endeavor, penance Section: Dośa Dośa: in Ayurvedic medicine, one of the three biological humors or energies (kapha, pitta, vata) which combine in various proportions to determine individual constitution, mental and physical disorders Section: Vajrāsana Vajrāsana: common yoga and meditation posture, where the person sits on his heels Section: Cin mudra palms upraised with thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched. Section: Guru pūja form of worship offered to the master Section: Asana body postures performed in yoga, literally means ‘seat’ Section: Nitya ānanda eternal bliss Section: Aṣṭānga namaskār prostrating to a deity or master by lying on the floor with all eight limbs of the body touching the earth Section: Bhujangāsana ‘cobra posture’ in yoga, in which the head and chest are raised while lying down Section: Pranic layer the second layer of energy of the body, related to prana or life energy Section: Brahman the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality, the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe Section: Moon in Sagittarius Section: Bija mantra refers to the single syllable mantra used to invoke certain deities Section: Pūja a ritual made of different offerings related to the deity propitiated Section: Navagraha dośa literally means ‘planetary defects’ or inauspicious alignment of planets Section: Homa ancestral Vedic fire ritual Section: Nirvanic layer seventh subtle body that we have and last layer of energy which is the space where one experiences intense bliss Section: Physical layer the gross body made of flesh and bones Section: Aum the primordial cosmic sound from which the whole Universe emerged Section: Hrim bīja, or seed mantra relating to feminine energy Section: Śakti energy, intelligent energy, considered as the feminine aspect of Śiva Section: Jivan Mukti the state of achieving liberation from the cycle of birth and death during one’s lifetime