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Ahaṅkār: the identity that we show to the outer world

Ahiṁsā: non-violence

Ananta śayana: the lying posture

Ashta maha siddhis: eight hallmark yogic powers of an awakened being such as levitation, teleportation or telepathy

Book of Revelations: the final book in the Bible; also known as the Apocalypse

Brahman: the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality, the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe

Dhyāna: meditation

Engrams: thoughts patterns you carry

Ganges or Gaṅgā: the most celebrated river in India, considered holy by all Hindus

Guṇa: the three human behavioural characteristics or predispositions; satva, rajas and tamas

Gurukul: a type of school in India, residential in nature, with students living in proximity to the guru; literally 'tradition of guru', refers to the ancient education system in which children were handed over to a guru at a very young age by parents for upbringing and education

Hatha Yoga: a system of yoga introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a Hindu sage of 15th century India

I Ching: also known as the Classic of Changes, Book of Changes and Zhouyi; one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts

Janmas: life cycles; births

Jeeva: imaginary identity

Jeevan mukta: a living enlightened being; a superconscious being

Jeevan mukti: a new consciousness; living enlightenment

Kāla Bhairava: time

Kali Yuga: the age of ignorance

Karma: spiritual law of cause and effect, driven by vāsana and saṁskāra

Kaurava: one of the two principal clans in the epic, Mahābhārata

Kundalini: the inner potential energy which is available in all of us but which is not directly used by us

Lakṣmī: goddess of wealth and fortune

Lord Nārāyaṇa: another name of Lord Viṣṇu, the Hindu deity who dreams the world into being

Lord Śiva: Mahadeva, the destroyer of evil and sorrow

Mahābhārata: the Hindu epic whose central characters are the five Pāṇḍava princes, their hundred Kaurava cousins and enlightened master Kṛṣṇa

Mamakār: The inward identity, our self-image

Mangalattwa: auspiciousness

Mithyā: unreality

Mount Kailāś : Lord Śiva, the destroyer of evil and sorrow, resides at the summit of a legendary mountain named Kailāśa, where he sits in a state of perpetual meditation along with his wife Pārvatī

New Children (Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow): three generations of special children claimed to possess special, unusual and/or supernatural traits or abilities • Nirguṇa brahman: consciousness that cannot be limited to a form • Nirvikalpa: just sitting in an unclutched way • Pāṇḍavas: five brothers in Mahābhārata, also sons of Pāṇḍu • Prāṇāyāma: an ancient yogic practice concerned with breath control • Rajas: the state of hyperactivity; more-thoughts-more-actions • Ṛṣi: a sage; modern day scientist • Rudrākṣa: beads of the Rudrākṣa tree, literally means 'Śiva's tears' • Sadhana: spiritual practice • Samādhi: an altered, elevated state of consciousness; state of no-mind, no-thoughts; literally, becoming one's original state; liberated, enlightened state • Śambāla: a mythical kingdom; place where one is in peace and security; space of ultimate freedom • Saṃsāra: the chase for fulfillment from external stimuli • Saṃskāra: embedded memories of unfulfilled desires stored in the subconscious that drive one into decisions, into karmic action • Sanchita karma: one's past karmas • Śaṅkara: an Indian philosopher from Kālady of present day Kerala who consolidated the doctrine of advaita vedānta; his teachings are based on the unity of the ātman and brahman— non-dual brahman, in which brahman is viewed as nirguṇa brahman, brahman without attributes • Śāstra pramānas: truths revealed by contemporary ṛṣis

Satva: the state of inner balance; fewer-thoughts-more-actions

Satya Yuga: the age of enlightenment

Śiva Purāṇa: a Hindu religious text dedicated to Lord Śiva

Śrī Kṛṣṇa: considered an incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu; a personality in the ancient Hindu epic Mahābhārata where he delivers the Bhagavad Gītā (a 700-verse Hindu scripture)

Tamas: the state of inertia; depression; fewer-thoughts-fewer-actions

Thought-aholic: addicted to thoughts

Unclutching, unclutch, or unclutched: ; a word coined by Paramahamsa Nithyananda; the understanding that each thought is completely independent, unconnected to the precedent; which leads to disengage oneself from the mind, resulting in experiencing the no-mind state; See section on Unclutching In Depth for more details

Upaniṣad: master's presence is working

Vaikuṇṭha: the abode of Lord Viṣṇu

Vaiśnavite: a tradition of Hinduism that worships Viṣṇu and his associated Avatars

Vāsana: mental set up

Vedas: (literally means 'knowledge') a large body of texts originating in ancient India; among the oldest sacred texts

Vedic civilization: Ancient Indus-Saraswati Valley Civilizations of India

Vīra Bhadra: space

Viṣṇu: supreme god in the Vaiśnavite tradition of Hinduism

Vitarka: feeling connection

Web Bot: an Internet bot software program; claimed to be able to predict future events by tracking keywords entered on the Internet; created in 1997 originally to predict stock market trends

Yama: Lord of Death

Yoga nidra: literally means 'Yogic sleep'; a conscious deep sleep-like state which yogis experience during their meditations