Article - Kriya Yoga: Kriya Yoga An Enlightening Experience
Kriya Yoga An Enlightening Experience It all began when a friend of mine gave me a copy of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogana...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yogic Enlightenment: Encyclopedia - Yogic Enlightenment
Enlightenment by means of yoga is said by some of its adherents to include the following elements: 1. A shift into Samadhi meditation con...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Enlightenment: Siddha Yoga Dictionary On Enlightenment
Enlightenment: The final attainment on the spiritual path, when the limited sense of "I" merges into supreme Consciousness....   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini Yoga Faq: Kundalini Yogas Faq (part I Of Iii) -
This FAQ gives an overview of those kundalini yoga practices which require conscious effort. Part I of III.   In Part I: 1) What is...   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini Faq: What Is Kundalini? (part I Of Iii) -
This FAQ gives a background on the phenomenon of kundalini. Part I of III.   In Part I: 1) What is kundalini?, 2) What is the diffe...   » Read the article

Article - Siddha Mahayoga Faq: What Is Kundalini? (part I Of Iii)
''Kundalini'' literally means coiling, like a snake. More meaningfully kundalini can be described as a great reservoir of creative energy...   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini Yoga: Kundalini Yogas Faq (part Iii Of Iii)
This FAQ gives an overview of those kundalini yoga practices which require conscious effort. Part I of III.   In Part III: 1) But e...   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini Faq: What Is Kundalini? Signs Of Awakened Kundalini (part Iii Of Iii)
This FAQ gives a background on the phenomenon of kundalini. Part III of III.   In Part II: 1) What are the signs of an awakened kun...   » Read the article

Article - Raja Yoga: The Eight Limbs Of Raja Yoga
Compiled by the Sage Patanjali Maharishi in the Yoga Sutras, the Eight Limbs are a progressive series of steps or disciplines which purif...   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini: What Is Kundalini?
When Kundalini awakening happens to people who are not on a spiritual path, the experience can leave them fragile and fragmented. As the ...   » Read the article

Article - Hindu Quotes: Ignorance Is Destroyed
Hindu Quotes: Ignorance is Destroyed   When ignorance is destroyed, the Self is liberated from its identification with the worl...   » Read the article

Article - Yoga Systems: Gyana Yoga - Path Of Knowledge
Gyana Yoga is the spiritual path of 'knowledge'. It aims at realising the Supreme Spirit through deep enquiry and constant contemplati...   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality At Workplace: Uses Of Spirituality At The Workplace  
Does the recent interest exhibited in non-fiction titles such as The Soul of Business, A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America, The Sti...   » Read the article

Article - Siddha Mahayoga Faq: What Are Kriyas? (part Iii Of Iii) -
Kriyas, literally ''activities'', are spontaneous movements that occur after kundalini awakening. These include bodily activities such as...   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini Faq: What Is Kundalini? (part Ii Of Iii) -
This FAQ gives a background on the phenomenon of kundalini. Part II of III.   In Part II: 1) Can I just use kundalini yoga simply t...   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini Yoga: Kundalini Yoga Faq (part Ii Of Iii) -
This FAQ gives an overview of those kundalini yoga practices which require conscious effort. Part I of III.   In Part II: 1) What a...   » Read the article

Article - Siddha Mahayoga Faq: What Is Shaktipat? (part I Of Iii) -
''Shakti'' is another word for kundalini and ''pat'' means to descend. Shaktipat is a method by which an individual's kundalini is awaken...   » Read the article

Article - Sahaja Yoga: Health Benefits Of Sahaja Yoga
Health benefits of Sahaja Yoga On being asked as to why so many foreigners are coming to India, when advanced medicines are available wi...   » Read the article

Article - Enlightenment: Krishnaraj Dasaji About Samskarashuddhi
Krishnaraj Dasaji will introduce you to some of the basic principles of Samskara Shuddi and also share some of his personal experiences f...   » Read the article

Article - Sahaja Yoga: Sahaja Yoga And The Workplace
Sahaja Yoga and the Workplace Most of us spend a lot of time at work and we all dream about a workplace where we could deal with enlight...   » Read the article

Article - Conquest Of Death: How Yoga Is A Way Of Conquering Death
All are terribly afraid of death. No one wants to die. Even intellectual persons who have grasped the idea that the Soul is Immortal and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enlightenment: Encyclopedia - Enlightenment
Enlightenment may refer to: Enlightenment (concept), a concept in mysticism, philosophy and psychology For the Hindu religious concept ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoga: Encyclopedia - Yoga
Yoga is a family of ancient spiritual practices that originated in India, where it remains a vibrant living tradition and is seen as a me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Self-realization: Encyclopedia - Self-realization
In Yoga, Self-realization is knowledge of one's true self. This true self is also referred to as the atma to avoid ambiguity. The term "s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tumo: Encyclopedia - Tumo
Tumo (also spelled Tummo, or Tum-mo ) is a Tibetan term for an advanced type of meditation practiced by those wishing to attain enlighten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yogin: Encyclopedia - Yogin
In contemporary English yogin is an alternative rendering for the word yogi, a human being who is committed to the practise of yoga, usua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adi Da: Encyclopedia - Adi Da
Adi Da Samraj (born Franklin Albert Jones, November 3, 1939 in Jamaica, New York) is a highly controversial modern spiritual teacher and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Karmapa: Encyclopedia - Karmapa
The Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu (Bka' rgyud), the largest of the lineages that make up the Kagyu school, one of the four major...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Enlightenment: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Enlightenment
enlightenment: the direct experience that the individual Self (Atman) is one with the supreme Self (Brahman); also referred to as real...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Guru: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary V On Guru
Guru: spiritually enlightened soul, who can dispel darkness, ignorance and illusion from the mind and enlighten the consciousness of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoga: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoga - Diversity Of Yoga
Over the long history of yoga, different schools have emerged, and there are numerous examples of subdivisions and synthesis. It is commo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bodhisattva: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva:   Bodhisattva ("enlightenment being"): in Mahayana Buddhist yoga, the individual who, motivated by compa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bodhi: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Bodhi
Bodhi:   Bodhi ("enlightenment"): the state of the awakened master, or buddha   (See also: Bodhi ,Yoga, Yoga...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avadhuta: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Avadhuta
Avadhuta: An enlightened being who lives in a state beyond body-consciousness.   (See also: Avadhuta ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary) ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Surya: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Surya
Surya: the sun, also the Vedic Sun God or god of the enlightened mind.   (See also: Surya ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)      » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Self-realization: Encyclopedia Ii - Self-realization - Self-realization In Sahaja Yoga
According to Sahaja Yoga, self-realization is a process of kundalini awakening. ... See also:Self-realization, Self-realization - Self...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Self-realization: Encyclopedia Ii - Self-realization - Self-realization According To Paramhansa Yogananda
“Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yoga: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary V On Yoga
Yoga: state of union between two opposites - body and mind; individual and universal consciousness; a process of uniting the opposing...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jnana Yoga: Sai Baba Dictionary On Jnana Yoga
Jnana Yoga: Jnana Yoga: Yoga of knowledge, "Union of knowledge." Describes the esoteric spiritual practices of the fully ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Self-realization: Encyclopedia Ii - Self-realization - Self-realization In Surat Shabd Yoga
Surat Shabd Yoga cosmology depicts the whole of creation (the macrocosm) as being emanated and arranged in a spiritually differentiated h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhakti: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Bhakti, Bhakta
bhakti/bhakta: devotion/devotee. Bhakti Yoga is the path to enlightenment through devotion to God, the Truth, or a holy teacher. &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tantra: Magic Shamanism Dictionary On Tantra
hindu path based in kundalini yoga and sex magic as a way to enlightenment   (See also: Tantra , Magic, Shamanism, Pagan Dict...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Enlightenment: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Enlightenment
enlightenment: For Saiva monists, Self Realization, samadhi without seed (nirvikalpa samadhi); the ultimate attainment, sometimes re...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bodhi: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Bodhi
Bodhi: Enlightenment; the pursuit of pure truth without any attachment.  Prince Gautama, the Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree (act...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jnana Yoga: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Jnana Yoga
jnana yoga: (Sanskrit) "Union of knowledge."   Describes the esoteric spiritual practices of the fully enlightened bei...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mandala: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Mandala
Mandala: A circular geometric design that represents the cosmos and the spirit's journey. It is a tool in the pilgrimage to enlightenm...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Enlightenment: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Enlightenment
enlightenment: For Saiva monists, Self Realization, samadhi without seed (nirvikalpa samadhi); the ultimate attainment, sometimes refe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Patanjali: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Patanjali
Patanjali: (Sanskrit) "Possessed of reverence."   A Saivite Natha siddha (ca 200 bce) who codified the ancient yoga ph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pansita: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Pansita
Pansita - Pansa means ‘the intelligence of one who is enlightened by knowledge of the sastra’, and the word pansita refers...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Antarmukha: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Antarmukha
Antarmukha - the inward tendency. Having one’s attention focused inwards towards the soul and spiritual enlightenment.  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shakti-pata: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Shakti-pata
Shakti-pata:   Shakti-pata ("descent of power"): the process of initiation, or spiritual baptism, by means of the ben...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sahaja: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Sahaja
Sahaja:   Sahaja ("together born"): a medieval term denoting the fact that the transcendental Reality and the empiric...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddha: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Buddha
Buddha:   Buddha ("awakened"): a designation of the person who has attained enlightenment (bodhi) and therefore inner...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddha: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Buddha
Buddha: The Awakened One - The honorary title of Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism who lived in the sixth century B.C. The n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kundalini: Magic Shamanism Dictionary On Kundalini
dormant bio-energy resident in the base of the human spine, in the root chakra, released through yoga and other practices for enligh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sanskrit Dictionary: A Sanskrit Dictionary From Advaita To Yoga
Sanskrit dictionary. From Advaita to Yoga.   Please note that all words in grey, like "enlightenment" or "kundalini&...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kundalini-shakti: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Kundalini-shakti
Kundalini-shakti:   Kundalini-shakti ("coiled power"): according to Tantra and hatha yoga, the serpent power or spiri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sri Aurobindo: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Sri Aurobindo
Aurobindo Ghosh: (Sanskrit) A prolific Bengali writer and poet, pantheistic philosopher and yoga mystic, widely known as Sri Aurobindo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sri Aurobindo: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Sri Aurobindo
Aurobindo Ghosh: (Sanskrit) A prolific Bengali writer and poet, pantheistic philosopher and yoga mystic, widely known as Sri Aurobindo (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Dictionary: Dictionary Of Spiritual Terms
A Dictionary of Spiritual Terms. From Acupuncture to Zoroaster.   Please note that all words in grey, like "yoga", "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siddha Yoga Dictionary: Dictionary Of Siddha Yoga Terminology
A dictionary Of Siddha Yoga Terminology. From Abhanga to Yogini.   Please note that all words in grey, like "enlightenment&quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yoga: Alternative Health Dictionary Ii On Yoga
Yoga The word "Yoga" has two meanings, each of which go some way to explaining it.   The Sanskrit root yuj means to yok...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gautama: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Gautama
Gautama: Siddhartha Gautama abandoned a life of comfort as the son of a. local king and dedicated himself to finding a way to end huma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natha: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Natha
Natha: (Sanskrit) "Master, lord; adept."   Names an ancient Himalayan tradition of Saiva-yoga mysticism, whose first h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kundalini: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Kundalini
kundalini: (Sanskrit) "She who is coiled; serpent power."   The primordial cosmic energy in every individual which, at...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jnana: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Jnana
jnana: (Sanskrit) "Knowledge; wisdom."   The matured state of the soul. It is the wisdom that comes as an aftermath of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samadhi: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Samadhi
Samadhi:   Samadhi ("putting together"): the ecstatic or unitive state in which the meditator becomes one with the ob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adi Da: Encyclopedia Ii - Adi Da - Complete Teaching Literature
Although Adi Da has authored over 70 books on spirituality and the process of God-Realization over the last 35 years, his full and comple...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tapasya: Encyclopedia Ii - Tapasya - Buddha And Mahavira
The meditation undertaken by Siddhartha Gautama and Mahavira, the founders of Buddhism and Jainism respectively, earns them the exalted s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yogic Flying: Encyclopedia Ii - Yogic Flying - History Of Yogic Flying
Yogic flying traditionally stems from the Vedic rishi Avatsara, "the flying-one". Later yogic texts also describe this siddhi ("perfectio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parmahansa Yogananda: Parapsychology Dictionary On Parmahansa Yogananda
Parmahansa Yogananda: Born Mukunda Lal Ghosh on January 5, 1893, in Gorakhpur, India, he is considered as a pioneer of bringing the Y...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shoko Asahara: Encyclopedia Ii - Shoko Asahara - Birth Of Aum Shinrikyo
In 1987 Asahara returned from India and explained to his disciples that he attained his ultimate goal: the enlightenment. The immediate d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tilaka: Encyclopedia Ii - Tilaka - Worn By Women Bindi
Tilaka has been worn by Hindu women for many millennia for different reasons as a bindi or dot between the eyebrows or on the center of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Narayana Guru: Encyclopedia Ii - Narayana Guru - Enlightenment And Its Poetic Expression
It is uncertain as to when precisely Nānu Āśān moved to his hermitage deep inside the hilly forest area in Maruthwāmala, where he is...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samadhi: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Samadhi
samadhi: (Sanskrit) "Enstasy," which means "standing within one's Self." "Sameness; contemplation; union, who...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tibetan Buddhism: Parapsychology Dictionary On Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism: Tibetan Buddhism derives from the confluence of Buddhism and yoga which started to arrive in Tibet from India brief...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) (1931-1990) Born in India with the name Chandra Mohan, he studied philosophy. Changing his name ot Bhagw...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yoga Dictionary: Yoga Dictionary - A Yogic Alphabet
A Yoga Dictionary from Asanas to Zerosis Note that all words in grey (like the following examples; Yoga, Kundalini, Enlightenment) in th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Self Realization: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Self Realization
Self Realization: Direct knowing of the Self God, Parasiva.   Self Realization is known in Sanskrit as nirvikalpa samadhi; "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tantrism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Tantrism
tantrism: The enlightenment path outlined in the Tantra scriptures. 1)    Tantrism is sometimes considered a parallel ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samadhi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Samadhi
Samadhi (Sanskrit) [from sam with, together + a towards + the verbal root dha to place, bring]   To direct towards; to combine th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Padukas: Siddha Yoga Dictionary On Padukas
Padukas: The Guru's sandals, objects of the highest veneration. Vibrations of the inner shakti flow out from the Guru's feet, which a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Self-realization: Siddha Yoga Dictionary On Self-realization
Self-realization: The state of enlightenment in which the individual merges with pure Consciousness.   (See also: Self-realiz...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mantra: Siddha Yoga Dictionary On Mantra
Mantra: The names of God; sacred words or divine sounds invested with the power to protect, purify, and transform the individual who ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siddha Guru: Siddha Yoga Dictionary On Siddha Guru
Siddha guru: One who has attained the state of enlightenment and who has the capacity to awaken the dormant spiritual energy of a dis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siddha Master: Siddha Yoga Dictionary On Siddha Master
Siddha master: One who has attained the state of enlightenment and who has the capacity to awaken the dormant spiritual energy of a d...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avadhuta: Siddha Yoga Dictionary On Avadhuta
Avadhuta: An enlightened being who lives in a state beyond body-consciousness and whose behavior is not bound by ordinary social conv...   » 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 - Sannyasa Ashrama: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Sannyasa Ashrama
sannyasa ashrama: the fourth ashrama in the four stages of the Hindu's life. At this time, the life in the world is renounced for the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pratyeka Buddha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pratyeka Buddha
Pratyeka Buddha (Sanskrit) [from prati towards, for + eka one]   Each one for himself; exalted and in one sense holy beings who c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yama-niyama: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Yama-niyama
yama-niyama: (Sanskrit) "Restraints-observances."   The first two of the eight limbs of raja yoga, constituting Hindui...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Subramuniyaswami: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Subramuniyaswami
Subramuniyaswami: Current and 162nd satguru (1927-) of the Nandinatha Sampradaya's Kailasa Parampara. He was ordained Sivaya Subramuni...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddha: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Buddha
Buddha [one of true wisdom]: Buddha is a title bestowed on an enlightened master. The Buddha in the present cycle is Siddhartha Gautam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ganesha: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Ganesha
Ganesha: the elephant god of great wisdom and strength who is worshiped first in any ritual or new enterprise. He is invoked to remove...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panchadasi: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Panchadasi
Panchadasi [fifteen]: Vedantic text of fifteen chapters written by Swami Vidyaranya. It is an advanced introductory text (prakarana gr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Upanishad: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Upanishad
Upanishad (seated below): the culmination, or philosophical section, of each of the four Vedas that reveals the essential oneness betw...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chitraketu: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Chitraketu
Chitraketu A sonless king at last blessed with a son, a son who died in infancy. Enlightened by Narada, Chitraketu became spiritually ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sanskrit Dictionary: Dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit Terms (a-c)
A dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit terms. From A to Crore.   Please note that all words in grey, like "yoga", "e...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sanskrit Dictionary: Dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit Terms (d-k)
A dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit terms. From Dadhicha to Kutichaka.   Please note that all words in grey, like "yoga&quo...   » Read the article

Article - Yoga Sitemap I - E
This is a sitemap for Yoga - E . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.   eas...   » Read the article