Oneness - Clarity and Joy of Life through Advaita by Madhukar - HTML preview

MAHAYOGA Form of Yoga with the goal: KASHYAP Devotee of Buddha.

Oneness with the Divine.

KOSHA “Sheath.” The Vedas describe five MALA Rosary (Hind./Buddh.) consisting of sheaths that surround our innermost core.

108 beads made of seeds, wood, bones or

horn.

KRISHNA “Attractive One.” Popular Hindu divinity. The eighth Avatar of Vishnu. Lived

MANAS Mind, one of the five inner organs in presumably around 3200 B.C.

Indian philosophy.

KUNDALINI Energy dormant in human be-MANDALA Circular or square image found in ings described in Tantric writings and sym-many cultures representing divinities or the

bolized as a snake; yogis apply techniques to

cycle of creation as a symbol of the One, Indi-awaken this energy and experience Enlighten—

visible.

ment.

MANITOU Algonquin Indians use this term LANGHOTEE Indian loincloth for a man.

to signify a power that dwells in and flows

through every animate and inanimate being.

LAOTSE Chinese philosopher and religious leader, said to have lived during the 6th cen-MANTRA Holy word or holy words, of which tury B.C. Founder of Daoism.

the most famous is OM. The repetition of Mantras is one of the most common forms of Sad-

LOGOS (Gk.) Refers to all the expressions of hana.

“Reason” represented in language; the spectrum of meanings extends from word, sentence

MARATHI Indian language spoken in what and speech to definition and relationship to

today is Maharashtra State in Western India.

calculation, tenet.

MAYA Deception, superimposition, illusion, M-THEORY Theory of Everything; quantum causes the One Absolute to appear as Many

physics, mathematical attempt to explain the

(the world). Papaji: “What is and is not.”

world.

MENAKA (Sanskr.): “Jewel.” The vision of a MACAQUES Genus of primates, subfamily of beautiful woman.

Cercopithecinae.

METAPHYSICS Teaching of the Original MAHARSHI (Sanskr.): “Great Seer.”

Causes of Being that go beyond what can be

experienced and perceived.

MAHARSHI, SRI RAMANA

Sat-Guru, one of the greatest spiritual Masters METZINGER, THOMAS

of our time, lived in Tiruvannamalai, India; re-Neurophilosopher who teaches at the Univered worldwide as the “The Sage of Aruna—

versity of Mainz. “There is no Self.” (Madhukar: chala.” 1879–1950.

“There is no personal Self.”) Outstanding researcher in the field of consciousness.

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MULTIVERSE The idea that the observable called Bhagwan and Rajnees (Chandra Mo-Universe is only part of the whole reality led to han), 1931–1990.

the definition of a Multiverse containing many possible universes. The term was coined in

OXYTOCIN Hormone. Plays an important 1960 in a lecture on the many-worlds interpre-role in the birth process; influences the betation in quantum physics.

havior between mother and child. Released in

the brain by affectionate caresses and sexual

NAGARJUNA Indian mystic. Considered the intercourse, has an opium-like effect; also

first historically significant figure in the context known as the “cuddle hormone.”

of Mahayana Buddhism.

PAISAM Ceremonial feast, Southern India.

NETI-NETI “Not this, not that;” a method of classical Advaita, in which everything is rejec-PALI Buddha’s language, Middle Indian, deri-ted that can be named or understood; only un-ved from the Vedic (and now extinct).

changeable Reality remains.

PANDAVA-BROTHERS Yudhishthira, Bhi-

NEUMANN, JOHN VON (Margittai Neumann ma, Arjuna, Nakulam and Sahadava; heros of

János Lajos); mathematician of German-Hun—

the Mahabharatha.

garian origin. One of the fathers of computer

science, 1903–1957.

PAPAJI Sri H.W.L Poonja, Guru. “The Lion of Lucknow.” Student of Sri Ramana Maharshi,

NIRVANA Term for the Buddhist goal of sal-Krishna Bhakta. 1910–1997, was called Papaji

vation, escape and liberation from Samsara,

(venerable father) by his Devotees. See Poon—

the cycle of suffering.

ja.

NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ, SRI

PARMENIDES OF ELEA Greek philosopher, Guru and Advaita Master. 1897–1981, Bom-lived between the late 6th and 5th centuries

bay, India.

B.C. “There is only the one Being.”

NORBU, CHÖGYAL NAMKHAI

PARVATI “Daughter of the Mountains.” In-One of the most important living Dzogchen

dian goddess, wife of Shiva.

Masters. Professor at the University of Neapel.

Born 1938 in Derghe in Eastern Tibet (See

PATANJALI Indian author of the Yoga Su-Dzogchen).

tras, about whose life nothing is known. Yoga

is presented as an eight-limbed path (Ash-

OLF (Lat.) Olfactus, the sense of smell; unit tanga Yoga). The final goal is Samadhi, com-of measure to evaluate the strength of an odor.

plete stillness of mind.

OM Ancient, cosmic sound, the sacred sylla-PHANTASMAGORIA Magic, deception,

ble from which all Creation arises.

apparition.

OM NAMAH SHIVAJA Mantra of the Devo-

PLATO Greek philosopher, student of Sotees of Shiva.

crates. Practiced a radical questioning as a

way to school the thought (“I know that I do not OSHO Indian mystic and philosopher, foun-know anything!”). Founded the Academy, the

der of the Neo-Sannyasin movement; also

first school for philosophy in Athens. “The

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Divine is the Beautiful, the Wise, the Good…”

understanding of the structure of matter and its 427–347 B.C.

interactions. With the exception of gravitation, which is described by the general theory of

POONJA, H.W.L. SRI

relativity, all the known fundamental inter-

“The Lion of Lucknow.” Jivan mukta and Guru.

actions of matter have now been described.

Student of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Called

Attempts to unite the two to create the field of Papaji (venerable father) by his Devotees.

so-called quantum gravitation have not yet

Born 1910 in Punjab, now Pakistan, died 1997

succeeded. The term comes from the Latin

in Lucknow, India. Awakened in 1944 in the

quantum—how big, how many. “Those who

presence of his Master Ramana Maharshi.

are not shocked when they first come across

Guru of Madhukar. See Papaji.

quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.” Niels Bohr (1922 Nobel Prize for

PRAJNA Great, comprehensive wisdom

Physics).

(“transcendental knowledge”) that penetrates

all things and phenomena in the entire Uni-

QUANTUM PHYSICS see Quantum Mecha—

verse.

nics.

PRAJNAPARAMITA (Buddh.)

QUARKS Elementary components (elemen-Transcendental, complete wisdom.

tary particles), out of which e.g. protons and neutrons are made. They have their own spin

PUJA Religious ceremony, ritual.

and now are considered fundamental building

blocks of matter.

PURUSHA Man, human, mankind, person, original soul; Ruler of Immortality, metaphy-RADHA “Inner Power of Joy;” beloved of sical World Spirit.

Krishna; embodiment of Beauty, epitome of

Blissfulness and Empathy; also called “the