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Pratibhā simultaneously means intuitive insight, embodied instinct, and spontaneous inspiration.
Christopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
Nāḍī means “channel” or “little river” in Sanskrit, and from a yogic perspective, the nāḍīs are an intricate system of rivulets of Prāṇa and energy that flow through and penetrate every area of the body.
Mary Taylor • The Art of Vinyasa: Awakening Body and Mind through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga
It is important to remember that this picture of the world as the play (lila) of God is mythological in form. If, at this stage, we were to translate it directly into philosophical statement it would be a crude type of pantheism, with which Hindu philosophy is generally and erroneously confused. Thus the idea of each man, each thing, as a part
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Mahayana
Buddhist concept referring to the most fundamental, supreme, or ancient Buddha in the cosmos.
Adi-Buddha
Their God is “underneath” rather than “above” everything, and he (or it) plays the world from inside. One might say that if religion is the opium of the people, the Hindus have the inside dope.
Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Tradition has isolated four powerful formulaic utterances (mahavakyas) embedded in the early Upanishads. One is sarvam idam brahma, “All is Brahman” (Chandogya III.14.1), which states the foundation of mysticism: that everything is ultimately one.
Eknath Easwaran • The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Book 2)
The Śrīvidyā Mantra Traditionally, the Śrīvidyā lineages, rituals and texts were distinguished by three matas12—kādi, hādi, and sādi.13 They are named so based on the root of the Pañcadaśi, where the mantra begins with the syllables ka, ha, or sa.
Kavitha Chinnaiyan • Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma
This must in no way be confused with, or even thought of, as god or the highest principle, the Brahman, which are the projections of the human mind out of fear and longing, the unyielding desire for total security.
Mary Lutyens • The Life and Death of Krishnamurti
Controlling the sense-organs and the organs of action through desirelessness (vairāgya) and trying to fix the wavering mind on brahman are the two essential elements among the six items in the third sādhana.