An advanced yogi.Īdharma: “Unrighteousness.”The opposite of dharma. In religion, one who has mastered certain spiritual practices or disciplines. Odic energy, the force of attraction and repulsion between people, and between people and their things, manifests as masculine (aggressive) and feminine (passive), arising from the pingala and ida currents.Īdage: An old saying that has been popularly accepted as truth.Īdept: Highly skilled expert. Actinic refers to consciousness in its pure, unadulterated state. Adjective derived from the Greek aktis, “ray.” Of or pertaining to consciousness in its pure, unadulterated state.Īctinodic: Spiritual-magnetic a mixture of odic and actinic force. A title generally bestowed through diksha and ordination, such as in the Sivacharya priest tradition.Īctinic: Spiritual, creating light.
The wise one who practices what he preaches. See: chakra, loka.Īcharya: “Going toward ” “approaching.” A highly respected teacher. The dark states of consciousness into which one may fall as a result of serious misbehavior the seven chakras (psychic centers) or talas (realms of consciousness) below the muladhara chakra, which is located at the base of the spine. To avoid a desire, negative action or habit.Ībyss: A bottomless pit. Same as Absolute Being and Absolute Reality.Ībstain: To hold oneself back, to refrain from or doing without. It is the Self God, the essence of man’s soul. See: puja.Ībhyasa: “Throwing towards.” Dedicated striving and practice.Īblution: Snana. A washing of the body, especially as a religious ceremony.Ībsolute: Lower case (absolute): real, not dependent on anything else, not relative. Upper case (Absolute): Ultimate Reality, the unmanifest, unchanging and transcendent Parashiva - utterly nonrelational to even the most subtle level of consciousness. Also performed in the inauguration of religious and political monarchs and other special blessings. A special form of puja prescribed by Agamic injunction. See: mudra.Ībhisheka: “Sprinkling ablution.” Ritual bathing of the Deity’s image with water, curd, milk, honey, ghee, rosewater, etc.
The aadheenam head, or pontiff, is called the Guru Mahasannidhanam or Aadheenakarthar.Ībhaya mudra: The hand gesture common in Hindu icons, betokening “fear not,” in which the fingers of the right hand are raised and the palm faces forward. Also known as matha or pitha, as in Kailasa Pitha. A Saivite Hindu monastery and temple complex in the South Indian Saiva Siddhanta tradition. Aadheenam: Endowment, foundation, institution, establishment, estate, property.
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