Kalpa Dictionary - Article Index

Dictionary - Kalpa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kalpa
Kalpa (Sanskrit). The period of a mundane revolution, generally a cycle of time, but usually, it represents a "day" and &quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary On Kalpa
kalpa: An age. See yuga.   (See also: kalpa , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Kalpa
kalpa: kalpa. Age; a day of Brahma, a period of 4,320,000,000 years.   (See also: kalpa , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Tantra Tantric Dictionary On Kalpa
Kalpa: Kalpa. An age. See Yuga.   (See also: Kalpa , Tantra, Tantra Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary Iii On Kalpa
KALPA: a period of 432,00,00,000 years   (See also: KALPA , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samvartta Kalpa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Samvartta Kalpa
Samvartta Kalpa (Sanskrit). The Kalpa or period of destruction, the same as Pralaya. Every root-race and sub-race is subject to such K...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Padma-kalpa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Padma-kalpa
Padma-kalpa (Sanskrit) The lotus age; the last kalpa or preceding manvantara which lasted a Year of Brahma.   (See also: Padma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Sai Baba Dictionary On Kalpa
Kalpa: Kalpa: Age (BV 36). A day according to the time-calculation of Brahma.   (See also: Kalpa , Hinduism, Hinduism Dict...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Kalpa
kalpa a unit of cosmic time, equal to one day of Brahma (or one night), or 4,320,000,000 years.   (See also: kalpa , Bhakti, B...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhadra-kalpa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bhadra-kalpa
Bhadra-kalpa (Sanskrit) (from bhadra auspicious, blessed + kalpa age)   The time period of the sages; the present age, said exote...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asamkhiya (kalpa): Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Asamkhiya (kalpa)
Asamkhiya (kalpa) Term related to the Buddhist metaphysics of time. Each of the periodic manifestations and dissolutions of universes...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddhism: Basic Buddhist Dictionary
Buddhism: Basic Buddhist Dictionary A basic dictionary of Buddhism terms. Please note that all words in grey like " Buddhism "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahma: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Brahma
A Theosophical definition of Brahma :   Brahma (Sanskrit) A word of which the root, brih, means "expansion." It stand...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Kalpa
Kalpa Periodic manifestations and dissolutions of universes which go on etemally. Great kalpas consist of four asamkhiya kalpas corre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Kalpa
KALPA A day of Brahma. 4,320,000,000 years long, divided unequally into 4 ages. Satya Yuga was the first age (Golden Age).   &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Kalpa
A Theosophical definition of Kalpa :   Kalpa (Sanskrit) This word comes from a verb-root klrip, meaning "to be in order&qu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hinduism And Sanskrit Dictionary
A dictionary with common spiritual words from Hinduism and Sanskrit. Also see these links: Hinduism, Spirituality, Enlightenment, Spiritu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Maha Kalpa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Maha Kalpa
Maha Kalpa (Sanskrit). The "great age".   (See also: Maha Kalpa , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Padma Kalpa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Padma Kalpa
Padma Kalpa (Sanskrit). The name of the last Kalpa or the preceding Manvantara, which was a year of Brahma.   (See also: Padma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa-vriksha: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Kalpa-vriksha
kalpa-vriksha: kalpa-vriksha. Wish-fulfilling tree.   (See also: kalpa-vriksha , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Di...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ratnavabhasa-kalpa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ratnavabhasa-kalpa
Ratnavabhasa-kalpa (Sanskrit) [from ratna jewel + avabhasa splendor + kalpa age]   The age that shall be as of the splendor of je...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vi-kalpa: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Vi-kalpa
vi-kalpa: vi-kalpa. Negativity, indecisiveness.   (See also: vi-kalpa , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa Vedanga: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Kalpa Vedanga
Kalpa Vedanga: (Sanskrit) "Procedural or ceremonial Veda-limb."   Also known as the Kalpa Sutras- a body of three grou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Kalpa
kalpa: (Sanskrit) From krlip, "arranged, ordered." 1)    Rules for ceremony or sacred living, as in the Kalp...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cosmic Cycle: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Cosmic Cycle
cosmic cycle: One of the infinitely recurring periods of the universe, comprising its creation, preservation and dissolution. These cy...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pralaya: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Pralaya
pralaya: (Sanskrit) "Dissolution, reabsorption; destruction; death."   A synonym for samhara, one of the five function...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nirvikalpa Samadhi: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Nirvikalpa Samadhi
nirvikalpa samadhi: (Sanskrit) "Enstasy (samadhi) without form or seed."   The realization of the Self, Parasiva, a st...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grihya Sutras: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Grihya Sutras
Grihya Sutras: (Sanskrit) "Household maxims or codes." An important division of classical smriti literature, designating rul...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhadrakalpa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Bhadrakalpa
Bhadrakalpa (Sanskrit). Lit., "The Kalpa of the Sages". Our present period is a Bhadra Kalpa, and the exoteric teaching make...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahmas Day, Night, Age, Year, Life: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Brahmas Day, Night, Age, Year, Life
Brahma's Day, Night, Age, Year, Life A Day of Brahma, a cosmic manvantara or out-breathing of Brahma, represents a period where worlds...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahayuga: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mahayuga
Mahayuga (Sanskrit) [from maha great + yuga age, period of time]   Great age; in Hindu works, the 1000th part of a kalpa or Day o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sutra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sutra
Sutra (Sanskrit) [from siv to sew]   A string, thread; the sutras are strings of rules or aphorisms written in serve form, compos...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siva, Shiva: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Siva, Shiva
Siva, Shiva (Sanskrit) The third god of the Hindu Trimurti (trinity): Brahma the evolver; Vishnu the preserver; and Siva the regenerat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Round: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Round
A Theosophical definition of Round :   Round The doctrine concerning our planetary chain commonly called that of the seven roun...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedanga: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Vedanga
Vedanga: (Sanskrit) "Veda-limb." Six branches of post- Vedic studies revered as auxiliary to the Vedas.   Four Vedanga...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agni: Theosophy Dictionary On Agni
Agni (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root ag to move tortuously, wind)   Fire; as god of fire, one of the most revered of Vedic deiti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Baudhayana Dharma Shastra: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Baudhayana Dharma Shastra
Baudhayana Dharma Shastra: (Sanskrit) A book of laws associated with the Krishna Yajur Veda and governing studentship, marriage, house...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Skanda-purana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Skanda-purana
Skanda-Purana (Sanskrit) One of the 18 principal Hindu Puranas consisting of several samhitas and khandas.   The most celebrated...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Smriti: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Smriti
smriti: (Sanskrit) "That which is remembered; the tradition."   Hinduism's nonrevealed, secondary but deeply revered s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sveta-lohita: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sveta-lohita
Sveta-lohita (Sanskrit) The white and red; a name of Siva "when he appears in the 29th Kalpa as 'a moon-coloured Kumara' " (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Round
Round In connection with a planetary chain, when the life-wave of any planet passes through the seven root-races of one of its globes,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bardo: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bardo
Bardo (Tibetan) (from bar between + do two)   Between two; generally a gap, interval, or intermediate state, especially the state...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eternity: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Eternity
Eternity (from Latin aeternus, aeviternus from aevum an age)   Originally eternity signified time divided into endless cycles str...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION - n. or adj. 1. art and science of contemplation and concentration spanning Paleolithic hunting rituals. Neolithic mysteri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anukalpa: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Anukalpa
Anukalpa - refers to acceptance by the bhakta of anu (a small amount) kalpa (for minimum capability) , meaning a quantity of food (whi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nirvana: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Nirvana
A Theosophical definition of Nirvana :   Nirvana (Sanskrit) This is a compound: nir, "out," and vana, the past partic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manvantara: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Manvantara
A Theosophical definition of Manvantara :   Manvantara (Sanskrit) This word is a compound, and means nothing more than "be...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yuga: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Yuga
Yuga (Sanskrit). A 1,000th part of a Kalpa. An age of the World of which there are four, and the series of which proceed in succession...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samvarta: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Samvarta
Samvarta (Sanskrit) A minor kalpa. {SD 1:368, 2:307n}   (See also: Samvarta , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Samvarta: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Samvarta
Samvarta (Sanskrit). A minor Kalpa. A period in creation after which a partial annihilation of the world occurs.   (See also: ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahakalpa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mahakalpa
Mahakalpa (Sanskrit) [from maha great + kalpa age]   Great age; lifetime of Brahma consisting of 100 Divine Years, equivalent to ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Japa: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Japa
Japa - loud chanting or soft utterance of the holy names of Krsna to oneself; usually referring to the practice of chanting hari-nama ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Life Span Of The Thus Come One Chapter: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary On Life Span Of The Thus Come One Chapter
Life Span of the Thus Come One chapter (Jpn.: Nyorai-juryo-hon)   Abbreviated as the "Life Span" chapter. The sixteenth...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vaikunthas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vaikunthas
Vaikunthas (Sanskrit) One of the names given in each kalpa to the twelve great gods or jayas who were emanated by Brahma as the first ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Centaurs: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Centaurs
Centaurs (Greek) Greek mythology preserves legends of monsters, half man, half horse, located in wild spots in Greece. "See, for ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Narada: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Narada
Narada (Sanskrit) One of the ten great rishis, mind-born sons of Brahma, or prajapatis; the most difficult to understand of the Vedic ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kurma-purana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kurma-purana
Kurma-Purana (Sanskrit) (from kurma tortoise)   One of the 18 principal Hindu Puranas, so named because it deals with the avatari...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asura: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Asura
Asura (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root as to breathe)   A title frequently given to the hierarch or supreme spirit of our univers...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sveta-lohita: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sveta-lohita
Sveta-lohita (Sanskrit). The name of Siva when he appears in the 29th Kalpa as "a moon-coloured Kumara".   (See also:...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jaya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jaya
Jaya (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root ji to conquer)   Conquering, winning, victorious. As a noun, conquest, victory, hence a fav...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sanskrit: Archives And Dictionary Related To Sanskrit - Kan - Kam
Popular archives related to Sanskrit Sanskrit, Sanskrit Dictionary, Sanskrit Symbol, Sanskrit Language, Sanskrit Alphabet, Sanskrit Li...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manu: Sai Baba Dictionary On Manu
Manu: Manu: impersonation of Krishna as the ruler, father and legislator of humanity. There are fourteen of them for each day of Br...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kalpa
Kalpa (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root klrip to be in order)   A generalizing term for a period or cycle of time.   (See a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary On Kalpa
Kalpa: A Day of Brahma-4,320,000,000 years. It alternates with a Night of Brahma of the same length. In the Day of Brahma creation is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Quick Links To Archives And Dictionary Related To Mysticism - R - Ra
Links to archives related to mysticism: R - Letter R, RaÕhmin Seth, Rabu Ina Ili Ahura Mazda, Race-Buddha, Racial Buddha, Radha,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Quick Links To Archives And Dictionary Related To Mysticism - Be - Bi
Links to archives related to mysticism: Bernard of Clairvaux, Berosus, Bes, Besom, Besome, Besqul, Bestla, Beta Body, Beta Waves...   » Read the article