Siddhartha Vocab Words Dec 4th
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- Magadha
- Kingdom near the present day state of Bihar, Ancient Indian kingdom near the state of Bihar
- Mara
- The evil One, Destroyer,
- Maya
- Sanskrit term denoting illusion, the physical world of appearances surrounding us,
- Nirvana
- When all desires and passions are extinguished, the highest bliss, reunion with the supreme spirit
- Om
- object of this profound religious meditation, often begins and ends prayers, chants and meditations.
- Prajapati
- Father of creation, Protector of Life
- Sakyamuni
- the wise man from the race of Sakya,
- Sansara
- circuit of mundane existence, the existence within worldly illusion.
- Samana
- acts of austerity,
- Satyam
- true, real, pure, that which abides and exists beyond "maya", illusion
- Savathi
- at the time of Buddha the capital of Kosala, the present day province of Oudh
- Self
- one's innermost being, the 'embodied or individual self'
- Siddhartha
- the wealth accrued to one who has fulfilled his aim, The greatest wealth being self-realization, enlightenment.
- Upanishads
- the sitting down at the feet of another to listen to his words, acquiring profound secretive knowledge in this manner OR setting at rest ignorance by revealing the knowledge of the supreme spirit.
- Vasudeva
- Name of the father of Krishna
- Veda
- from the root 'vid', to know; that body of sacred knowledge which constitutes the basis of the first period of the Hindu religion. Major texts are the Rig, Yajur and Sama Vedas
- Vedanta
- An amalgamation of Veda, to know, and 'anta' means end, hence Vedanta either means the 'complete knowledge of the Vedas', or that which comes as the end of such writings, which are the UPanishads. The chief doctrine of Vedanta, as expounded by Shankara, is 'Advaita', the view that nothing really exits but the One Self or Supreme Soul, Brahman
- Yoga
- In Sanskrit, the root verb 'yuj' meaning to join, yoke, unite, connect etc. has a plethora of uses. In Siddhartha it's concerned with the 'integration' which the practices of yoga bring about. These are the disciplines of the four paths of traditional yoga: bhakti (devotion), karma (action), jnana (knowledge), raja (meditation); strictly speaking, the purpose of all yogic practice is to concentrate the mind to obtain union with the Universal Spirit; hence those who think that yoga means 'asanas' (postures) and nothing else are mistaken. Yoga has eight limbs or aspects