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Spiritual Terminology |
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Prayascitta: atonement , expiation of an evil deed by certain sacrificial acts in concordance with scriptural injunctions |
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Rajas: the quality of activity , passion, unrest |
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Sadhna: means to secure appropriate ends ; spiritual effort towards perfection |
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Samadhi: the super-concious state of realization of Brahman , the target of spiritual discipline. |
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Samsara: the eternal activity in the manifested universe in toto , subject to the realm of Maya. |
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Samskara: latent mental tendency or inclination, acquired through past experience of any kind. |
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Sat-Cit-Ananda: Existence-Counciousness-Bliss; the term signifying the nature of the Nirguna Brahman adopted by the Sruti and emphasized by the Advaitic school of thought. |
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Sattva: the quality of goodness, light and calm |
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Sastra: the whole body of sacred teachigs as established in the sruti , smrirti , and the recognized comentaries of post Vedic techers. |
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Sraddha: Faith; reliance on and self-surrender to the Deity. |
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Sruti: the canonical scriptures of the hindus the belief in whose authority is the incumbent on and common to all hindus. |
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Smrti: the canonical tradition, next in importance to the sruti only, its injunction are to be followed wherever they are consistent with the latter. |
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