There are certain deities which are recognized in more than one school of Tantra. Some of them are recognized by both Buddhist Tantra and Jain Tantra, some by both Buddhist and Sh H recognized by Buddhist Tantra. There is a place called Kalka n Buddhist deity, but in
- (1) - M the de ‟ Niila Sarasvatii of Tibet was later changed into the all-white Puranic deity Sarasvatii.
sometimes recovered from the earth or from the artificial ponds of that region.
four hands; from the face of each deity a reddish glow is exuded; all the deities are three-eyed; then again all three have ropes, goads, bows and arrows. Here Buddhist T and Puranic [Hindu] Tantra are existing side-by-side, sometimes intermixed.
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There is a Puranic deity called Kuvera who is still worshipped in Jain Tantra and Puranic Tantra. “ ”
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M “ ” “ ” ‟ immense, although Shiva left his mortal frame long, long ago. Shiva is gone, no doubt, but his ‟ District, centring around the temple of Iis M H M Shaeva Tan - - Bengalees participate. The so-called high-caste Bengalees, particularly the
and Vaedyas, keep their distance from these festivals.(1) When asked the reason for their
aloofness, they s “ ‟ ” still pressed as to why, they flounder for a satisfactory reply. The reason is that the so-called high-caste people have tried to mould the Shaeva religion which was inseparably rooted in the Bengal soil into the shape of the Vedic religion. But they could not altogether obliterate the influence of Shiva.
Since the days of the Yajurveda, the Aryans as well as non-Aryans have accepted and recognized Shiva. In the Vedas the word “ ” downgraded or underrated in any way by anyone.
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in fact indigenous, some of them affect to have originated outside in order to give themselves a false distinction.
Glossary
Y Y H M M M organization). H Y Y the mundane. H H M concentrate it at one point.H H H “ ” H Y M Y movements from the Y M Y
BHAJANA. Spiritual song. BHAKTI. Devotion.
BHAKTI YOGA. Devotional form of spiritual practice. BHAVA. The expressed universe.
H
BIIJA MANTRA. Acoustic root; particular sound vibration from which a particular type of action stems.
HM H H BRAHMA CAKRA. The Cosmic Cycle – the cycle of creation out of Consciousness, and
dissolution back into Consciousness, th
HM HM priestly functions or live by intellectual labour.
BRAHMATVA. Brahma-hood, supreme stance.
HM rahma is the essence.
CAKRA. Cycle or circle; psychic-energy or psycho-spiritual centre; psychic-nerve plexus. The psycho-spiritual centres, or plexi, in the human body are all located within the spinal column but are associated with certain external conce -
M Y propitiation or appeasement.
DEVA. Mythologically, a god, a deity. Philosophically, any vibration, or expression, emanating from the Cosmic Nucleus.
DEVII. A goddess, a female deity.
H -limbed) yoga.
DHARMA. Spirituality; psycho- ‟ path of righteousness in social affairs.
HY M -limbed) yoga.
HY M it verse listing the attributes of a deity, to be used for visualizing that deity in meditation.
Y Y H “ ” especially advantageous. H M Y IISHVARA. T “ ” H H Ananda Marga meditation.
INDRIYA. One of the ten sensory and motor organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin; and hands, feet, vocal cord, genital organ and excretory organ). The eye indriya (for example) comprises the eye itself, the optical nerve, the fluid in the nerve, and the location in the brain at which the visual stimulus is transmitted to the ectoplasm or mind-stuff.
JIIVA. An individual being.
H microcosmic bearing. Y nation or intellectual understanding. principle. ‟
H causes the aspirant to confront and overcome all the inherent fetters and enemies of the human mind.
M KARMA YOGA. A form of spiritual practice which emphasizes selfless action.
KIIRTANA. Collective singing of the name of the Lord, sometimes combined with a dance that expresses the spirit of surrender.
“ ” “ ” M M terms of its degree of subtlety or crudeness.
. The second-highest social group in India, who traditionally discharge military functions.
KULA. Lowest vertebra of the spine.
“ ” force dormant in the KULA of the body, which, when awakened, rises up the spinal column to ‟
M H M M M H consequently developed a charisma felt by other people.
M H M H HM H Himself through a body, t H M
MANTRA. A sound or collection of sounds which, when meditated upon, will lead to spiritual liberation.
MANTRA CAETANYA. The awakening of a mantra; conceptual understanding of and psychic association with a mantra.
MARGI. One who follows ANANDA MARGA ideology, including the practice of Ananda Marga meditation.
M Y H M power to cause the illusion that the finite created objects are the ultimate truth.
M -qualified liberation. M M
M H
MUNI. A saintly person devoted to intellectual pursuits.
HM ent principle.
-energy channel; nerve. NAMAH. Salutations.
Y M
NEOHUMANISM. A worldview characterized by love for the Supreme which overflows onto all objects created by the Supreme. Adoption of the Neo-Humanistic outlook in turn safeguards ‟ HM HM -Qualified Brahma. M M “ ” Y M
H – ethereal, aerial, luminous, liquid and solid.
M M H M M M H M M ‟ H ‟ Y collectively (prota yoga) in His introversial movement.
H
Y PLEXUS. See CAKRA.
H -spiritual songs composed by P.R. Sarkar (Shrii
PRAKRTI. Cosmic Operative Principle. H Y M -limbed) yoga. - - “ ” “ ” Y H -limbed) yoga. M H M Y H M M H
H. The territory, mostly in Bengal, stretching from the west bank of the Bhagirathi River to the Parasnath Hills.
H H “ ” H H “ ” H M H HM HM H
-by-step extroversion and crudification of consciousness from Nucleus Consciousness to the state of solid matter.
M H “ ” M
M H M M Y Y “ ‟ ” “ ” SHABDA. Sound.
SHAEVA DHARMA. Shaivism; the theoretical or philosophical side of spirituality as taught by SHIVA.
SHAEVA TANTRA. Shiva Tantra; the applied, or practical side of spirituality as taught by SHIVA.
H he judicious application of power.
SHAKTI. PRAKRTI; energy; a deification of PRAKRTI. H M H
H
SHIVA. A great Tantric guru of 5000 B.C. who guided society while His mind was absorbed in Consciousness; hen
H H
SHIVA- “ ”
SHLOKA. A Sanskrit couplet expressing one idea.
H H M “ ”
SIDDHI. Self-realization; spiritual attainment.
M H Y M H M H H sends vibrations throughout the universe and causes all objects of the universe in turn to radiate vibrations.
M “ ” H “ ” “ ” the senses of hearing, touch, form (vision), taste and smell.
TANTRA. A spiritual tradition which originated in India in prehistoric times and was first systematized by SHIVA. It emphasizes the development of human vigour, both through meditation and through confrontation of difficult external situations, to overcome all fears and weaknesses. Also, a scripture expounding that tradition.
HM
M M Y without any clear goal.
“ ” religious or philosophical school which originated among the Aryans and was brought by them to India. It is based on the Vedas and emphasizes the use of ritual to gain the intervention of the gods.
Y M Y movements from the crude to th Y M Y
“ ” ideation while seeking to confront and overcome all mental weaknesses.
VRTTI. Mental propensity. Y
YAMA AND NIYAMA. Moral code.
Y Y Y Y Y -by-step decline of morality and spirituality.