Sanskrit Yoga Glossary
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Letter 'p'
- pada - official itrans spelling: 'pAda'
- Feet.
- padasevanam - official itrans spelling: 'pAdasevanaM'
- Serving the Lord's Feet.
- It is the fourth of the nine modes of bhakti.
- paramatman - official itrans spelling: 'paramAtman'
- Supreme Self.
- True Self.
- parampara - official itrans spelling: 'paramparA'
- Lineage.
- Usually refers to the guru parampara, lineage of masters who came before us and who we are connected to at the time of initiation.
- patanjali maharishi - official itrans spelling: 'pata~njali maharSi'
- One of the great seers (maharishi) and the author of the yoga sutras.
- pradipika - official itrans spelling: 'pradIpaka'
- Treatise.
- A famous pradipika is the hatha yoga pradipika, the most authoritative hatha yoga shastra.
- prana (pranic) - official itrans spelling: 'prANa'
- Life force, energy.
- Pranic is the adjectival form.
- pranava - official itrans spelling: 'prANava'
- The 'om' mantra
- pranayama - official itrans spelling: 'prANAyAma'
- Techniques of yogic breathing aimed at controlling the prana and awakening the kundalini sakti.
- The fourth limb of raja yoga.
- One of the practices of hatha yoga.
- pratyahara - official itrans spelling: 'pratyAhAra'
- Withdrawal of the senses.
- The fifth limb of raja yoga.
- prem - official itrans spelling: 'prem'
- Pure, divine love which culminates in total self surrender.
- preya - official itrans spelling: 'not done yet'
- pleasant
- puja - official itrans spelling: 'pUjA'
- Worship ritual of offering.
- purana(s) - official itrans spelling: 'purANa'
- The puranas are the mythological holy scriptures.
- Purana means ancient.
- purusha - official itrans spelling: 'puruSa'
- The true self, the soul, one's own true nature.
