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Nakṣatra: the constellation in which the moon sits in the heaven at a particular time, commonly called as ‘birth Star’

Vedic sciences: refer to a number of disciplines found in the Vedas, a large body of texts originating in ancient India, among the oldest sacred texts

Ṛg Veda: an ancient Indian sacred collection of hymns, counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas

Āryabhaṭa: one of the first astronomer and great mathematician of India, born in 476

Copernicus: (1473-1543) the first astronomer to formulate a heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe

Galileo: (1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and important astronomical observations

Yojana: a Vedic measure of distance used in ancient India, between 6 to 15 km (4 and 9 miles)

Ṛṣi: a sage through whom the Vedic hymns flowed, a “seer” able to reach states of higher consciousness

Yogi: a practitioner of various forms of spiritual discipline, as yoga

Parāśara Maharṣi: a Ṛg Veda author of many ancient Indian texts and important astrological texts, known as a traveling Master

Bṛhat Parāśara Hora Śāstra: a prominent astrological scientific text, written as a recorded dialogue between Parāśara and his disciple Maitreya

Vaśiṣṭa: Rāma’s guru, a great Ṛṣi and had complete knowledge of the whole cosmos and the gods

Veda Vyāsa: a sage of ancient India, compiler of the Vedas and great epics like the Māhābhārata

Māhābhārata: one of the major Sanskrit epic of India and philosophical scripture, depicting a great war that happened in India, written in 250 000 verses

Saṁskāras: engraved memories stored in the subconscious part of the mind. They are continually interfering with our decision making process

Grahas: energy centers, energy fields that planets exert in the universe, generally assimilated to 'planets'

Karmas: the collection of unfulfilled experiences and actions that stay in us and constantly pull us to fulfill them

Āyurveda: a system of traditional medicine native to the Indian Subcontinent. In Sanskrit, the word Āyurveda consists of the words ayus, meaning ‘life’, and veda, meaning ‘related to knowledge’ or ‘science’.

Yoga: literally union, union of the individual self and the divine Self, often taken to mean Hatha yoga, which is one of the components of yogāsana, relating to body postures.

Rudrākṣa: a large broad-leaved tree whose seed is traditionally revered and used for prayer beads, or mala, mainly growing in foothills of the Himalayas up to South-East Asia

Sanskrit: language of the Ṛg Veda and of many scriptures, as well as mantras

Mantra: a sound, a formula, sometimes a word or set of words, which because of their inherent sounds, have energizing properties, an approach to spiritual evolution

Unclutching: 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

Cakra: literally a 'wheel': refers to energy centers in the mind-body system

Anāhata cakra : the fourth energy center; literally 'that which cannot be created', referring to love

Sahasrāracakra: seventh energy center; located on the top of the head, also called 'crown cakra'

Sattva: a state in which the mind is steady, calm and peaceful

Guru: master, literally one who leads from gu (darkness) to ru (light)

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

Kapha: one of the three dośas or attributes of the body in Āyurveda, related to the element of water and earth, related to the structure and lubrication of the body

Viṣṇu: the preserver in the trinity; His incarnations include Kṛṣṇa, Rāma ect., also means 'all encompassing'

Matsya-avatar: the fish Incarnation, the first incarnation of Viṣṇu in which he retrieves the Vedas from the demon Hayagriva and also saves the pious

Avatar: signifies the descent of Divinity into flesh

Yogic: a quality developed through spiritual and yoga practices

Vajrāsana: common yoga and meditation posture, where the person sits on his heels

Cin mudra: palms upraised with thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched

Guru pūja: form of worship offered to the master body postures performed in yoga, literally means ‘seat’

Aṣṭānga namaskār: prostrating to a deity or master by lying on the floor with all eight limbs of the body touching the earth

Bhujangāsana: ‘cobra posture’ in yoga, in which the head and chest are raised while lying down

Pranic layer: the second layer of energy of the body, related to prana or life energy Lord Śiva: rejuvenator in the trinity also means ‘causeless auspiciousness’

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

Bīja mantra: refers to the single syllable mantra used to invoke certain deities

Pūja: a ritual made of different offerings related to the deity propitiated

Navagraha dośa: literally means ‘planetary defects’ or inauspicious alignment of planets

Homa: ancestral Vedic fire ritual

Nirvanic layer: seventh subtle body that we have and last layer of energy which is the space where one experiences intense bliss

Physical layer: the gross body made of flesh and bones

_Aum:_ the primordial cosmic sound from which the whole Universe emerged

_Hrīm:_ _bīja_, or seed _mantra_ relating to feminine energy

_Śakti:_ energy, intelligent energy, considered as the feminine aspect of Śiva.

_Jīvan Mukti:_ the state of achieving liberation from the cycle of birth and death during one's lifetime