prakriti:

great nature, matter

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vishaya-aasakthi:

vishaya-aasakthi. Interest only in superficial matters; longing for worldly matters.

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Mahabhutas (Sanskrit). Gross elementary principles of matter.

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Sthula (Sanskrit). Differentiated and conditioned matter.

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Substance.

See MATTER

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Jism - an Islamic term for matter.

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Sea of Milk Cosmic matter, the "curds," the Milky Way.

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TANMATRA: Subtle, undifferentiated root elements of matter.

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PRAKRITI: Mother Nature, causal matter.

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Pradhana (Sanskrit). Undifferentiated substance, called elsewhere and in other schools - Akasa; and Mulaprakriti or Root of Matter by the Vedantins. In short, Primeval Matter.

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Tanmatra:

Tanmatra: subtle, undifferentiated root  elements of matter.

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dravya:

dravya (dhravya). Material, matter, thing.

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pradhana:

pradhana (pradhaana). Primordial matter; source of material world according to sankhya.

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prakriti:

prakriti (prakrithi). Causal matter, creation, nature.

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mula:

mula (muula). Primordial matter; root cause, basis, foundation.

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Prakriti:

Prakriti: mother nature, causal matter.

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Ideos Used by Paracelsus to denote primordial undifferentiated matter in Chaos.

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Iliados Used by Paracelsus as synonymous with Ideos, primordial matter in the subjective state.

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Protyle [from Greek protos first + hyle matter]

Used by the English chemist Crookes (1832-1919) for a then hypothetical substance of which he believed the chemical elements to be differentiations; used in this sense by Blavatsky and also in a general sense for rudimentary, primordial, or undifferentiated matter.

In this wider meaning, there are many protyles, each being the matter of its own plane in the undifferentiated condition; so that the protyle of Crookes would be the undifferentiated basis of physical matter, and therefore quasi-astral. The fundamental cosmic protyle is pradhana or mulaprakriti.

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Arc(s), Ascending and Descending Also Luminous and Shadowy Arcs. A cycle of development, such as that of a planetary chain, can be divided into two halves, the first from the first globe to the middle of the most material globe, and the other extending from this midpoint upwards to the last globe. The first half is the downward or shadowy arc; the second is the ascending or luminous arc. The descending arc represents an involution of spirit and a concurrent evolution of matter resulting in a progressive materialization of spirit and a continuous grossening or concretion of the texture of matter; the ascending arc represents an evolution of spirit and involution of matter, resulting in a progressive dematerialization, spiritualization, or refinement of matter as it increasingly manifests the qualities of spirit. Yet spirit and matter are fundamentally one essence at different stages of development.

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Prakriti: Causal matter; the fundamental power (shakti) of God from which the entire cosmos is formed; the root base of all elements; undifferentiated matter; the material cause of the world. Also known as Pradhana.

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