Gangetic Plain: The densely populated plain surrounding India's most sacred river, the Ganges (Ganga), an immense, fertile area of 300,000 square miles, 90 to 300 miles wide.

See: Ganges.

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garbha: (Sanskrit) "Womb; interior chamber." The inside or middle of anything.

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garbhadhana: (Sanskrit) "Womb-placing." The rite of conception.

See: reincarnation, samskaras of birth.

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garbhagriha: (Sanskrit) The "innermost chamber," sanctum sanctorum, of a Hindu temple, where the primary murti is installed. It is a small, cave-like room, usually made of granite stone, to which only priests are permitted access. Esoterically it represents the cranial chamber.

See: temple.

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Gargya: (Sanskrit) One of the known disciples of Lakulisha.

See: Lakulisha.

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guru-shishya system: (Sanskrit) "Master-disciple" system. An important education system of Hinduism whereby the teacher conveys his knowledge and tradition to a student.

Such knowledge, whether it be Vedic- Agamic art, architecture or spirituality, is imparted through the developing relationship between guru and disciple.

The principle of this system is that knowledge, especially subtle or advanced knowledge, is best conveyed through a strong human relationship based on ideals of the student's respect, commitment, devotion and obedience, and on personal instruction by which the student eventually masters the knowledge the guru embodies.

See: guru, guru bhakti, satguru.

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God Realization: Direct and personal experience of the Divine within oneself.

It can refer to either

1)    savikalpa samadhi ("enstasy with form") in its various levels, from the experience of inner light to the realization of Satchidananda, the pure consciousness or primal substance flowing through all form, or

2)    nirvikalpa samadhi ("enstasy without form"), union with the transcendent Absolute, Parasiva, the Self God, beyond time, form and space. In Dancing with Siva, the expression God Realization is used to name both of the above samadhis, whereas Self Realization refers only to nirvikalpa samadhi.

See: raja yoga, samadhi, Self Realization.

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Ganesha Chaturthi: (Sanskrit) Birthday of Lord Ganesha, a ten-day festival of August-September culminating in a spectacular parade called Ganesha Visarjana. It is a time of rejoicing, when all Hindus worship together.

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Murti(Sanskrit). A form, or a sign, or again a face, e.g., "Trimurti", the "three Faces" or Images.

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Panchama (Sanskrit). One of the five qualities of musical sound, the fifth, Nishada and Daivata completing the seven; G of the diatonic scale.

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Sattva (Sanskrit). Understanding; quiescence in divine knowledge. It follows ‘generally the word Bodhi when used as a compound word, e.g., "Bodhisattva".

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Ben (Hebrew, Jewish). A son; a common prefix in proper names to denote the son of so-and-so, e.g., Ben Solomon, Ben Ishmael, etc.

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Nirguna (Sanskrit). Negative attribute; unbound, or without Gunas (attributes), i.e., that which is devoid of all qualities, the opposite of Saguna, that which has attributes (Secret Doctrine, II. 95), e.g., Parabrahmam is Nirguna; Brahma, Saguna. Nirguna is a term which shows the impersonality of the thing spoken of.

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Tziruph (Heb)A set of combinations and permutations of the Hebrew letters designed to shew analogies and preserve secrets. For example, in the form called Atbash, A and T were substitutes, B and Sh, G and R, etc.

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Hypocephalus (Ancient Greek). A kind of a pillow for the head of the mummy. They are of various kinds, e.g., of stone, wood, etc., and very often of circular disks of linen covered with cement, and inscribed with magic figures and letters. They are called "rest for the dead" in the Ritual, and every mummy-coffin has one.

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CENTER - 1. physical, emotional, mental, psychic or spiritual region of the body or energy space e.g. a chakra.

2. spiritual home.

3. an educational, learning or healing center.

4. to find a calm and comfortable space within one self. (NAD)

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Physio-Spiritual Etheric Body healing SM (PSEBSM): One of several Reiki Plus healing modalities co-created by God and Reverend David G. Jarrell. It balances the biomagnetic energy surrounding the physical body.

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ADEPT - An individual through serious study and accomplishments is highly proficient in a particular magical way. e.g. Egyptian magickal practices but a failure with Kitchen magick practices. (TRASB)

Spiritual Master (NAD)

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Agla (Hebrew, Jewish). This Kabbalistic word is a talisman composed of the initals of the four words "Ateh Gibor Leolam Adonai", meaning "Thou art mighty for ever 0 Lord". MacGregor Mathers explains it thus "A, the first; A, the last; G, the trinity in unity; L, the completion of the great work".

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Plane. From the Latin planus (level, flat) an extension of space or of something in it, whether physical or metaphysical, e.g., a "plane of consciousness". As used in Occultism, the term denotes the range or extent of some state of consciousness, or of the perceptive power of a particular set of senses, or the action of a particular force, or the state of matter corresponding to any of the above.

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Psychism, from the Greek psyche. A term now used to denote very loosely every kind of mental phenomena, e.g., mediumship, and the higher sensitiveness, hypnotic receptivity, and inspired prophecy, simple clairvoyance in the astral light, and real divine seership; in short, the word covers every phase and manifestation of the powers and potencies of the human and the divine Souls.

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Bhava-bhakti - the initial stage of perfection in devotion. A stage of bhakti in which suddha-sattva, or the essence of Sri Krsna’s internal potency consisting of spiritual knowledge and bliss, is transmitted into the heart of the practicing bhakta from the heart of one of His eternal associates and softens the heart by different kinds of tastes. It is the first sprout of prema, or pure love of God. Bhava-bhakti is the seventh of the eight stages of development of the bhakti-lata, the creeper of devotion.

In Sri Brhad-Bhagavatamrta there are five divisions of bhava accepted amongst bhaktas:

1) jnana-bhakta (e.g. Bharata Maharaja) ,

2) suddha-bhakta (e.g. Ambarisa Mahaaraja) ,

3) prema-bhakta (e.g. Hanuman) ,

4) prema-para-bhakta (e.g. the Pandavas headed by Arjuna) , and

5) prematura-bhakta (atura means ‘very eager for’, or agitated out of prema e.g. the Yadavas headed by Uddhava).

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