chinmaya-thathwa:

chinmaya-thathwa (-thatthvaa). Science of ultra-consciousness, pure intelligence.

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suddha sathwa:

suddha sathwa (shuddha satthva). Pure consciousness.

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HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE The popular nickname "Hare Krishnas" for devotees of this movement comes from the maha-mantra (great chant) they either sing aloud or chant quietly on rosary-like beads. The sound vibration created by repeating these names of God is said to gradually induce pure God-consciousness. The maha mantra appear ...

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The popular nickname "Hare Krishnas" for devotees of this movement comes from the maha-mantra (great chant) they either sing aloud or chant quietly on rosary-like beads. The sound vibration created by repeating these names of God is said to gradually induce pure God-consciousness. (see below) HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE The maha mantra appear ...

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shuddha-sattva

“Pure goodness,” the nonmaterial, incorruptible substance of the spiritual world. Also, the pure consciousness in which one can realize the Personality of Godhead.

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Chidakasha: Brahman in Its aspect as limitless knowledge; unbounded intelligence. This is a familiar concept of the Upanishads. It is not meant that the physical ether is consciousness. The Pure Consciousness (Cit) is like the ether (Akasha), an all-pervading continuum.

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Turiya: The state of pure consciousness. A Ramakrishna-Vedanta Wordbook defines it as: "The superconscious; lit., 'the Fourth,' in relation to the three ordinary states of consciousness-waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep-which it transcends."

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Nirvikalpa: seedless samadhi; pure undifferentiated consciousness; it contains no phenomenal impressions whatever, no seeds of desire and attachment. One with Brahman.

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guru

A spiritual master. The gurus who initiate one and instruct one in pure Krishna consciousness are to be honored equally with the Supreme Lord.

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Shiva:

Shiva. Lord of Withdrawal. Represents pure consciousness. Possesses 3 Shaktis or Powers: Iccha (Will), Jnana (Knowledge), and Kriya (Doing).

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cit:

the pure consciousness equated with moksa when the egoistic self is consort of vishnu, sometimes called Sri

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Atman

The eternal or real self, sometimes referring to the principle of life in all things. The pure consciousness of the spirit which is a spark of God. The real "I".

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Dion Fortune describes Keter as pure consciousness, beyond all categories, timeless, a point that crystallises out of the Ein Sof, and commences the process of emanation that ends in Malkuth. The name of God given to it is Eheieh, the archangel that presides over it is Metatron, the order of angels that resides in it are the Holy Living Creatures, the Chaioth ha Qadesh, and the mundane chakra is said to be the First Swirlings of the cosmos. As pure formless consciousness, it is often compa ...

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Satchidananda (Sachchidananda): (Sanskrit) "Existence-consciousness-bliss."

A synonym for Parashakti. Lord Siva's Divine Mind and simultaneously the pure superconscious mind of each individual soul. It is perfect love and omniscient, omnipotent consciousness, the fountainhead of all existence, yet containing and permeating all existence.

It is also called pure consciousness, pure form, substratum of existence, and more. One of the goals of the meditator or yogi is to experience the natural state of the mind, Satchidananda, holding back the vrittis through yogic practices.

In Advaita Vedanta, Satchidananda is considered a description of the Absolute (Brahman). Whereas in monistic, or shuddha, Saiva Siddhanta it is understood as divine form - pure, amorphous matter or energy - not as an equivalent of the Absolute, formless, "atattva," Parasiva. In this latter school, Parasiva is radically transcendent, and Satchidananda is known as the primal and most perfectly divine form to emerge from the formless Parasiva.

See: atattva, Parashakti, tattva.

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Shankara: (788-820AD)

Founder of the best-known and most influential school of Vedanta, known as the non-dualist or advaita Vedanta.

He taught that the teachings of the Upanishads was a self-consistent whole, that the ultimate reality id Brahma or the Self, which is pure reality, pure consciousness, and pure bliss, and that the world has come into being from Brahman and is wholy dependent on it. The criteria of reality is immutibility and permanence. The world is called illusion, or maya.

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Sushupti susupti (Sanskrit) [from su well, good, fine + shupti from the verbal root svap to sleep]

Fast asleep, deep sleep; the deep sleeping state when human consciousness is plunged into profound self-oblivion, "when the percipient consciousness enters into the purely manasic condition . . ." (OG 72). Sushupti is the third of the four states of consciousness mentioned in yoga philosophy, the others being jagrat, svapna, and turiya.

Sushuptyavastha is the sleeping state or condition.

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Chid-akasa cidakasa (Sanskrit) (from chit consciousness + akasa ether, space)

Abstract cosmic consciousness as active in spiritual cosmic substance or akasa; the infinite field of universal consciousness, pure cosmic intelligence in its union with abstract cosmic substance, the spiritual side of svabhavat.

Because each universe in the Boundless is in itself a cosmic individual, having its own wide fields of spiritual egoity, the chit is the svabhava (intrinsic individuality) of said universe.

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In Experiential Spirituality and Contemporary Gnosis Diane Brandon writes: "And this emphasis on spirituality and consciousness reflects an acknowledgment that we are, in essence, spiritual beings - and beings of pure energy, as consciousness is a form of energy - even though we are "in the body." Deepak Chopra: "...our bodies are contained within our consciousness, not our consciousness contained within our bodies." Michael Sharp: "As above in consciou ...

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Aitreya Upanishad

It belongs to the Rg Veda. It is considered as one of the principal Upanisads and concerns with imparting the knowledge of the Self (atman) as the unequalled substance of the universe, that He is pure consciousness, that he also has become everything from Indra and Prajapati down to the lowest and last in creation.

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Sanaka (-kumara)

The oldest of the first four sons of Lord Brahma. Sanaka and his three brothers are great masters of yoga who teach the science of pure Krishna consciousness. His brothers are named Sanat, Sanandana, and Sanatana.

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Aprakrta - transcendental, beyond the influence of material nature, beyond the perception of the mind and senses, not created by any human, beyond the material world, situated in Krsna’s transcendental abode, extraordinary, divine, pure, or consisting of spiritual consciousness and bliss.

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purusha:

literally 'person': the original, primeval being the sacrifice of which was believed to create from its body the phenomenal world, in particular the four classes. It is the pure consciousness, or the spirit which is also synonymous of brahman and therefore of atman

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