yoga-kshetra:

yoga-kshetra (-kshethra). Abode or state or field of yoga.

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thyaga-kshetra:

thyaga-kshetra (thyaaga-kshethra). Abode or field of sacrifice.

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Kathirgama Purana: (Sanskrit) A secondary scripture regarding the famous central Sri Lankan abode of Lord Murugan (Karttikeya).

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mandira: (Sanskrit) "Abode." A temple or shrine; sanctuary.

See: devamandira, temple.

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svarga: (Sanskrit) "Abode of light." An intermediate realm of the Antarloka; a term essentially synonymous with Svarloka.

See: loka.

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Narayana: (Sanskrit) "Abode of men." A name of Lord Vishnu.

See: Vishnu.

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Brahmapura (Sanskrit) (from Brahma + pura city, abode)

The abode or city of Brahma, the creative or Third Logos. "The inmost chamber, the chamber of the Heart, and the abode of the World's Mother" (VS 9), one of the mystic powers latent in all human beings, but called into activity by advanced yogis. Brahmapura can signify the heart or indeed the entire body. It is also the name of the so-called capital of Brahma on Mt. Kailasa in the Himalayas or on Mount Meru.

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Yuh-kai (Tibetan) Also chikhai. Equivalent to the Sanskrit kama-loka; although a state or condition of entities, it is also a locality for it is "the abode of Elementaries" (ML 105).

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Zabulon (Hebrew, Jewish). The abode of God, the tenth Devachan in degree. Hence Zabulon, the tenth son of Jacob.

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Deva-lokas (Sanskrit). The abodes of the Gods or Devas in superior spheres. The seven celestial worlds above Meru.

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Kailasa (Sanskrit). In metaphysics "heaven", the abode of gods; geographically a mountain range in the Himalayas, north of the Mansaravara lake, called also lake Manasa.

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TIPHARETH

The sixth qabalistic power-zone of the Tree of Life, stands for "Beauty" and is the abode of the Sun and the Holy Guardian Angel. It is symbolized by Osiris.

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Summerland Sometimes used by Spiritualists for what they hold to be the abode of departed spirits, which actually exist in astral regions, disintegrating before the second death.

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Svarga (Sanskrit) In Hindu philosophy, a heavenly abode -- also often called Indraloka, or Svarloka, said to be situated on Mount Meru. It corresponds in theosophical writings to devachan.

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PLEROMA

In Gnosticism, divine being, the Universal Soul, including all aeons which emanate from it. Hence, it is a realm of pure light and the abode of all the Gods.

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NETZACH

The seventh qabalistic power zone on the Tree of Life, the abode of Venus, concerned with feelings, sensations, etc. It is victory over the fear to experience.

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Svetadvipa

“The white island,” the abode of Lord Kshirodaka-shayi Vishnu. It is a spiritual planet manifest within the material world, in the Ocean of Milk.

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dharma shala: overnight abodes or hostels that were constructed by pious people or kings to provide free food and shelter to traveling pilgrims.

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Sivaloka

The personal abode of Lord Siva in the last shell that covers the material universe, the shell of false ego.

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Nanda-vraja

“The cow pastures of Nanda,” the sacred district of Mathura that is the manifestation on earth of Goloka Vrindavana, the supreme abode of Krishna.

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HOD

The 8th qabalistic power chakra on the Tree of Life. It is intelligence and reason, abode of Mercury. It means "splendor," that is, the bedazzlement of the mind.

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Svadhistana: literally means one own abode; second chakra in the spinal column, above mooladhara, associated with the sacral plexus and governing the urogenital system.

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