Dream Dictionary Grammar

Aupapaduka (Sanskrit) Pali opapatika. Self-produced, spontaneously generated (research shows that anupapadaka, as found in Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary, is a misreading of aupapaduka. Cf. Franklin Edgerton, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1953, 2:162). One who does not go or come (as others do): parentless, having no material parent.

One who is self-born by reason of his own intrinsic energy, without parents or predecessors from which his existence or activities are derived, as is the usual case in line descent; applied therefore to certain self-evolving gods. In Buddhism, used with particular reference to the dhyani-buddhas, who issue forth from adi-buddha without intermediary agency.

"The term Anupadaka, 'parentless,' or without progenitors, is a mystical designation having several meanings in the philosophy. By this name celestial beings, the Dhyan-Chohans or Dhyani-Buddhas, are generally meant. But as these correspond mystically to the human Buddhas and Bodhisattwas, known as the 'Manushi (or human) Buddhas,' the latter are also designated 'Anupadaka,' once that their whole personality is merged in their compound sixth and seventh principles -- or Atma-Buddhi, and that they have become the 'diamond-souled' (Vajra-sattvas), the full Mahatmas. . . . The mystery in the hierarchy of the Anupadaka is great, its apex being the universal Spirit-Soul, and the lower rung the Manushi-Buddha; and even every Soul-endowed man is an Anupadaka in a latent state. Hence, when speaking of the Universe in its formless, eternal, or absolute condition, before it was fashioned by the 'Builders' -- the expression, 'the Universe was Anupadaka' " (SD 1:52).

Indeed, not only are there aupapaduka divinities of the solar system, but also of every organic entity, because the core of any such entity is aupapaduka -- a mystical way of stating the doctrine of the inner god (cf OG 5-6; also FSO 487-91, 532).

(See also: Aupapaduka , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Saiva Siddhanta: (Sanskrit) "Final conclusions of Saivism."

The most widespread and influential Saivite school today, predominant especially among the Tamil people in Sri Lanka and South India. It is the formalized theology of the divine revelations contained in the twentyeight Saiva Agamas. The first known guru of the Shuddha ("pure") Saiva Siddhanta tradition was Maharishi Nandinatha of Kashmir (ca bce 250), recorded in Panini's book of grammar as the teacher of rishis Patanjali, Vyaghrapada and Vasishtha. Other sacred scriptures include the Tirumantiram and the voluminous collection of devotional hymns, the Tirumurai, and the masterpiece on ethics and statecraft, the Tirukural.

For Saiva Siddhantins, Siva is the totality of all, understood in three perfections: Parameshvara (the Personal Creator Lord), Parashakti (the substratum of form) and Parasiva (Absolute Reality which transcends all). Souls and world are identical in essence with Siva, yet also differ in that they are evolving. A pluralistic stream arose in the middle ages from the teachings of Aghorasiva and Meykandar. For Aghorasiva's school (ca 1150) Siva is not the material cause of the universe, and the soul attains perfect "sameness" with Siva upon liberation. Meykandar's (ca 1250) pluralistic school denies that souls ever attain perfect sameness or unity with Siva.

See: Saivism.

(See also: Saiva Siddhanta , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Vasishtha: (Sanskrit) Disciple of Maharishi Nandikeshvara (Nandinatha) (ca 250 bce) along with Patanjali and Vyaghrapada (as recorded in Panini's book of grammar). Also the name of several other famous sages, including the rishi attributed with composing the hymns of the Rig Veda's seventh mandala, another who plays a central role in the epics and certain Puranas and Upanishads, and a third who expounds the ancient yogic wisdom to Lord Rama in the 29,000-verse Yoga Vasishtha.

(See also: Vasishtha , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Amarakosa (Sanskrit) (from a not + mara dying from the verbal root mri to die + kosa treasury, sheath, dictionary)

Also Amarakosha. Immortal treasury; a dictionary written by Amara or Amara-Simha, sage, scholar, and Buddhist, about whom not very much is definitely known. Orientalists place him anywhere between the 2nd and 6th centuries. They are unanimous, however, in rating the Amarakosa as equal in quality and importance for the Sanskrit language as is Panini's grammar.

Amarakosa is also sometimes applied to the highest of the kosas (sheaths).

(See also: Amarakosa , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Vyakarana Vedanga: (Sanskrit) Auxiliary Vedic texts on

Sanskrit grammar. Vyakarana is among four linguistic

skills taught for mastery of the Vedas and the rites of

yajna. The term literally means "separation, or

explanation." The most celebrated Vyakarana work is

Panini's 4,000-sutra Ashtadhyayi, which set the linguistic

standards for classical Sanskrit (ca 400 bce).

See:

Vedanga.

(See also: Vyakarana Vedanga , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Vedanga: (Sanskrit) "Veda-limb." Six branches of post- Vedic studies revered as auxiliary to the Vedas.

Four Vedangas govern correct chanting of the Vedas:

1)    Shiksha (phonetics),

2)    ‚handas (meter),

3)    Nirukta (etymology),

4)    Vyakarana (grammar). The two other Vedangas are

5)    )Jyotisha Vedanga (astronomy-astrology) and

6)    Kalpa Vedanga (procedural canon) which includes the Shrauta and Shulba Shastras (ritual codes), Dharma Shastras (social law) and Grihya Shastras (domestic codes).

See: Kalpa Vedanga, Vedas, and individual entries for named texts.

(See also: Vedanga , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Vasishtha: (Sanskrit) Disciple of Maharishi

Nandikeshvara (Nandinatha) (ca 250 bce) along with

Patanjali and Vyaghrapada (as recorded in Panini's book

of grammar). Also the name of several other famous

sages, including the rishi attributed with composing the

hymns of the Rig Veda's seventh mandala, another who

plays a central role in the epics and certain Puranas and

Upanishads, and a third who expounds the ancient yogic

wisdom to Lord Rama in the 29,000-verse Yoga

Vasishtha.

(See also: Vasishtha , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

vedangas:

rules on ritual, astronomy, morals, grammar and phonetics

(See also: vedangas , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

Patha-sala - literally means a school in which four subjects (patha) are taught. These four subjects refer to the study of the four Vedas or the four subjects - Sanskrit grammar, rhetoric, logic, and philosophy.

(See also: Patha-sala , Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

Mahabhashya mahabhasya (Sanskrit) (from maha great + bhashya commentary on technical sutras, usually in the vernacular)

Great commentary; Patanjali's Commentary on the Sutras (Grammar) of Panini and the Varttikas of Katyayana (Katyayana's critical annotations of Panini's Sutras). Sometimes referred to simply as the Bhashya, it is one of the three known writings of Patanjali.

(See also: Mahabhashya, mahabhasya , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Quadrivium (Latin). A term used by the Scholastics during the Middle Ages to designate the last four paths of learning - of which there were originally seven. Thus grammar, rhetoric and logic were called the trivium, and arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy (the Pythagorean obligatory sciences) went under the name of quadrivium.

(See also: Quadrivium , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary,)

Quadrivium (Latin) [from quattuor four + via path]

A place where four roads meet and cross; used by Boethius and medieval scholars to denote the higher division of the seven liberal arts: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy; the lower division, or trivium, consists of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

(See also: Quadrivium , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

GLAMOUR

Glamour didn't always refer to the quality of a movie star. It is actually a corruption of grammar or gramarye, a word with two meanings: 1) grammar and 2) magic.

Magic has much to do with the casting of spells (and spelling goes back to Gematria and the meanings of the letters of words, an insight that the Jews picked up from the Egyptians). Once again, the connection between language and magic is quite clear. Remember, Gods are really cosmic magicians who create and mutate things through the Word and human magicians achieve their ends by invocation, evocation, chants, mantras, orisons, etc. All things are as they are because of the words we give to them.

Example, a mushroom can be called either a psychedelic or a death-dealing toadstool. Or if you call a man a king then he is a king and if you call him a fool then he is a fool. Grammar in the schoolroom sense is also magic, for knowing exactly and correctly how to phrase your thoughts you thereby affect reality for precision or imprecision.

Vedanta is even more specific. Vedanta actually means linguistic grammar.

(See also: GLAMOUR , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul,)

Purvardha (Sanskrit) [from purva first + ardha half]

The first half or portion of anything; as in the Orient, the East has always been called the first, purvardga signifies the eastern parts. In grammar an incomplete poetic line, the first half of a hemistich.

(See also: Purvardha , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Para vidya alone can show us the path to eternal bliss. Mundane knowledge, which produces 'intellectualism"cannot confer wisdom on us. Even the most amazing of scientific and technological advances have failed to bring lasting happiness in our lives. The exponential increase in knowledge has,surprisingly, led to more conflicts and destruction.

Para vidya is transcendental knowledge, which leads to wisdom.

Apara vidya or secular knowledge merely enhances our vision of the outer world. Wisdom is perennial while knowledge is mainly informative and therefore transient. The former is stable, the latter, subject to change.

(See also: Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Read more here: » Peace of Mind: Para Vidya, Path To Eternal Bliss

The word riyaz has its origins in r iyazat, which implies ibadat, bandagi, bhakti or devotion. If riyaz is performed with a spirit of devotion, the exercise becomes ibadat. But while r iyaz is rather mechanically equated with practice or exercise, the all-important difference is one of spirit. Riyaz is to achieve that which has not been achieved so far. For that, the student has to struggle with faith.

In the initial stages one might be less than sure whether one is correct in what one is doing. But that is the struggle! In the absence of faith, one's riyaz will be filled with doubt. Faith is of great importance in r iyaz . Practice with a doubt-ridden mind will achieve little.

(See also: Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Read more here: » Peace of Mind: Divine Music Springs From the Soul

Spirits differing very widely from one another as regards their knowledge and morality, it is evident that the same question may receive from them very different answers, according to the rank at which they have arrived; exactly as would be the case if it were propounded alternately to a man of science, an ignoramus, and a mischievous wag. The important point, as previously remarked, is to know who is the spirit to whom we are addressing our question.

From "The Spirits book" By Allan Karde (1804-1869.

Read more here: » Spiritism, Introduction of The Spirits book - Part V of VI

GRIMOIRE

One of the infinite variety of medieval handbooks on  magic or collections of spells. The important thing to note is that a  grammarye, from which grimoire derives, was originally a grammar in  fact, one that actually taught the correct usage of a language. The other  word derived from grammar was glamour, the spell of witchcraft.  Indeed, the word spell itself is associated with magic, because the first  alphabets (Assyrian, Cuneiform, Egyptian, Phoenician, Hebrew, etc.) were  composed of magical letters or "glyphs", each of which had a numinous meaning of its own. So to cast a spell was to take full advantage of the  words of the incantation, from the inside out.

This dictionary, I hope we can say, is an attempt to bridge both the  ancient and modern senses of the word at the same time.

(See also: GRIMOIRE , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul,)

Mahabhashya (Sanskrit). The great commentary on Panini’s grammar by Patanjali.

(See also: Mahabhashya , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary,)

We have misunderstood these cosmological schemes of the past. What we call "geocentrism" was never meant to establish the earth merely as the spatial center of the great universe, but principally to communicate its place as an intersection of primary and secondary cosmic purposes and forces. The medieval mystic Meister Eckhart likens the earth to a station of cosmic reality through which there passes all the powers of Creation on their way to complete unfolding. "Earth...lies open to every celestial emanation. All the work and waste of heaven is caught midway in the sink of earth."

This is part III from the first chapter of Jacob Needlemans book A Sense of The Cosmos

Read more here: » Consciousness: The Universe, Part III – A Conscious Universe

SECRET GRANARY: The legendary and elusive *Gramarye* or grammar book containing the Craft Secrets of East Anglia.

(See also: SECRET GRANARY , Witch, Witchcraft, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)