Sathya Sai Baba Dictionary

Bhasma:

Bhasma: Vibhuthi (ash) (SSS-II)

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Banyan:

Banyan: Tree considered sacred. To mark the spot where sacred pastimes took place we may find a banyan tree.

S'rila Sanatana Gosvami quotes the following verses from S'ri Harivams'a (Vishnu-parva 11.18-22), which describe the banyan tree:

dadars'a vipulodagra-

 s'akhinam s'akhinam varam

 sthitam dharanyam meghabham

 nibidam dala-san'cayaih

 gagaardhocchritakaram

 parvatabhoga-dharinam

 nila-citranga-varnais' ca

 sevitam bahubhih khagaih

 phalaih pravalais' ca ghanaih

 sendracapa-ghanopamam

 bhavanakara-vithapam

 lata-pushpa-sumanditam

 vis'ala-mulavanatam

 pavanambhoda-dharinam

 adhipatyam ivanyesham

 tasya des'asya s'akhinam

 kurvanam s'ubha-karmanam

 niravarsham anatapam

 nyagrodham parvatagrabham

 bhandiram nama namatah

"They saw that best of all trees, which had many long branches. With its dense covering of leaves, it resembled a cloud sitting on the earth. Indeed, its form was so large that it appeared like a mountain covering half the sky. Many birds with charming blue wings frequented that great tree, whose dense fruits and leaves made it seem like a cloud accompanied by a rainbow or like a house decorated with creepers and flowers. It spread its broad roots downward and carried upon itself the sanctified clouds. That banyan tree was like the lordly master of all other trees in that vicinity, as it performed the all-auspicious functions of warding off the rain and the heat of the sun. Such was the appearance of that nyagrodha tree known as Bhandira, which seemed just like the peak of a great mountain."

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Adi-sesha:

Adi-sesha (also Sesha): Divine serpent with a thousand heads upon which the earth rests; used by demi-gods and demons together to churn the ocean of milk. Also reposing bed of Visnu. Also: Sesa-naga of Ananta-sesa: the snake-bed of Garbhodakasayi

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Adhokshaja:

Adhokshaja: a name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vishnu or the Vishnu-avatara, as being situated above and beyond the senses and who is not perceivable by impure, material senses.

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Ahi-ravana:

Ahi-ravana: Another son of Ravana living in the nether regions (RRV2-9)

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Avidyamaya:

Avidyamaya: The Maya named Avidya is very vicious; she causes boundless misery. Those drawn by it will sink into the depths of flux, the eternal tangle of joy and grief (RRV2-2) (SSS-III)

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Brahmapriya:

Brahmapriya: Beloved of Brahma, said of Satharupa, the wife of Manu. (BV-30)

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Asita:

Asita: an ancient authority on the Vedas.

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Vayu:

Vayu: The demigod in charge of the wind. Air, vital energy, movement of the air in the control of the breathing process. In five types: going up (udana), going down (apana) expanding (vya na) balanced (samana) and higher (pranavayu).

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Ajnana:

Ajnana: To speak of it (the one) as different is to reveal one's ignorance (BV-1), (BV-36), (BV).

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Arishadvarga:

Arishadvarga: The pulls of lust, anger, greed, delusion, pride and hate (DharmaV).

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Ardhangi:

Ardhangi: half the body (RRV-11b).

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Elements:

Elements: water, fire, earth, air and ether. In a broader sense one also speaks of sixteen elements together with the intelligence and the ten working and perceiving senses. There are also divisions with 24 or 25 elements: the material elements, the subtle elements (the five objects of the senses: odor, color, touch and sound), the ten senses of perception and action, spirit, intelligence, ego and consciousness with the element of time as the twenty-fifth element. [see also S.B.: 3-26:11-15, 6.1:50].

- S'rila Prabhupada, purport 10.13: 52: 'The twenty-four elements are the five working senses (pan'ca- karmendriya), the five senses for obtaining knowledge (pan'ca-jn'anendriya), the five gross material elements (pan'ca-mahabhuta), the five sense objects (pan'ca-tanmatra), the mind (manas), the false ego (ahankara), the mahat-tattva, and material nature (prakriti). All twenty-four of these elements are employed for the manifestation of this material world.'

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Anrtham:

Anrtham: Falsehood (SSS-II)

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Anusasithara:

'Anusasithara': He who lays down the law, the norms (SSS-II)

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Ignorance:

Ignorance:

 om ajn'ana-timirandhasya

 jn'anan'jana-s'alakaya

 cakshur unmilitam yena

 tasmai s'ri-gurave namah

 I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto him.

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Akshauhini:

Akshauhini: An akshauhini consists of 109350 footsoldiers, 65610 horses and horsemen, 21870 elephants and elephant warriors, and 21870 chariots and their human equipment. (BV-24)

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Bala:

Bala: 'Strength' (Balarama)

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Amrithodbhavam Day:

Amrithodbhavam Day: In the very first week of 1963, on the 6th January to be exact, the Vaikunta Ekadasi had to be celebrated, according to the Calendar. Baba's Calendar marks out that Day as Amrithodbhavam Day, when Divine Nectar emanates from His Hand (SSS-II)

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Maya:

Maya: The tangle of ignorance, the veil of illusion, (BV-1), (RRV-1), power to delude, (RRV-4) delusion, (BV-32) the Deluding Urge, the mother of all the worlds, (BV-33), taking the appearance as real (RRV-7b).

 - Avidyamaya: The Maya named Avidya is very vicious; she causes boundless misery. Those drawn by it will sink into the depths of flux, the eternal tangle of joy and grief (RRV2-2).

 - Vidyamaya: The Maya known as Vidya has created the Cosmos, under the prompting of the Lord. For, she has no innate force of her own. Only while in the Presence of the Lord can she create the three-stranded Cosmos (Prapancha) (RRV2-2).

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Atri Muni:

Atri Muni: A great Sage among the demigods and the father of the incarnation Dattatreya (RRV-7c)

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Bhakthi Yoga:

Bhakthi Yoga: Linking with the Supreme Lord (Krishna) by devotional service. "Union through devotion." Bhakti yoga is the practice of devotional disciplines, worship, prayer, chanting and singing with the aim of awakening love in the heart and opening oneself to God's grace. Bhakti may be directed toward God, Gods or one's spiritual preceptor. Bhakti yoga seeks communion and ever closer rapport with the Divine, developing qualities that make communion possible, such as love, selflessness and purity.

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