sadhana:

"Direct way". a ritual. a spiritual discipline.

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yoga:

techniques of developing and integrating energy; discipline or 'yoking' of the senses and the ego more...

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Lajja (Sanskrit) Modesty, personified as the wife of Dharma and mother of Vinaya (good conduct, discipline), and the daughter of Daksha.

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Jnanayoga:

The path of knowledge, consisting of discrimination, renunciation, and other disciplines.

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Dhotipoti (Sanskrit) The early discipline of hatha yoga {BCW 2:119}.

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Thapas:

Thapas: Ascetic practices (BV-23), process of purifying the inner equipments of man in the crucible of single-pointed speech, feeling and activity, directed towards God; discipline, spiritual exercise (sadhana), (BV-33), the discipline of austerities to propitiate the Gods (RRV-7b).

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sadhaka

A practitioner of devotional service or some other authorized spiritual discipline.

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ASCETICISM - 'exercise training', science of self knowledge through discipline of mind and body (Greek) (NAD)

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jnana-yoga

The spiritual discipline of cultivating knowledge of pure spirit.

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Sadhana:

Sadhana. "Direct way". A ritual. A spiritual discipline.

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Bhakti Yoga: Bhakti Yoga is the practice of devotional disciplines. It is union through devotion.

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Ahimsa:

Ahimsa ("nonharming"): the single most important moral discipline (yama)

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Brahmacharya:

Brahmacharya (from brahma and acarya "brahmic conduct"): the discipline of chastity, which produces ojas

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Ojas:

Ojas ("vitality"): the subtle energy produced through practice, especially the discipline of chastity (brahmacharya)

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Vinaya-pitaka (Sanskrit) [from vinaya discipline + pitaka basket]

The second section of the Buddhist canon treating of the training and discipline of monks; Tripitaka (three baskets) is the name given to the Buddhist canon.

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Sadhu: Seeker for truth (sat); and person who is practicing spiritual disciplines. Usually this term is applied only to monastics.

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Bhakti Yoga: The yoga of attaining union with God through the prescribed spiritual discipline of the path of devotion.

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Yogi: One who practises Yoga; one who strives earnestly for union with God; an aspirant going through any course of spiritual discipline.

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dharana:

dharana (dhaarana). Concentration, fixed attention, one of eight steps in Patanjali's yoga discipline.

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ashtanga-yoga:

ashtanga-yoga (ashtaanga-yoga). Eight-fold discipline of yoga to destroy ignorance and reach state of communion with Self, as taught by Sage Patanjali.

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Aranyakas:

Aranyakas (Aaranyakas). Religious or philosophical texts closely connected with the brahmins, either composed in the forest or studied there. They deal with inner significances and internal disciplines.

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Mahasaraswathi:

Mahasaraswathi: Power as self-control, vision, value, validity, knowledge, keenness, discipline, justice, aspiration, adoration, the sathwic nature (SSS-III)

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