==Abhiman==
Abhiman, revolt, violent insistence on the satisfaction of claims and wishes are foreign to the spirit of the Yoga, they can only bring disturbance and trouble. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/work-and-yoga#p38</ref>
Abhiman has nothing to do with true love; it is like jealousy a part of the vital egoism.
There is no such thing as a mere accident. There is some - perhaps a slight - unconsciousness in the physical and it is taken advantage of by these small beings of the vital physical plane, who are more mischievous than consciously hostile.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p1</ref>
==Ādesa==
Inner command;
The Divine speaks to us in many ways and it is not always the imperative ādeśa that comes. When it does, it is clear and irresistible, the mind has to obey and there is no question possible, even if what comes is contrary to the preconceived ideas of the mental intelligence. But more often what is said is an intuition or even less, a mere indication, which the mind may not follow because it is not impressed with its imperative necessity. It is something offered but not imposed, perhaps something not even offered but only suggested from the Truth above.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/integral-yoga-and-other-paths-i#p5</ref>
==Ādhāra==
The Adhara is that in which the consciousness is now contained—mind-life-body.
The Adhar means the mind, life and body as instruments of the expression of the being—the being is the conscious Existence within which uses mind, life and body as its instruments of thought, feeling and action. But sometimes the word being is used to signify the whole—soul and nature together. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-lower-nature-or-lower-hemisphere#p7,p8</ref>
==Adhyatma Yoga==
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p31</ref>
==AdvaitaĀdyā Sakti==
AdvaitaAdyashakti is the original Shakti, ''viśiṣṭādvaita'', ''dvaita'' are merely various ways therefore the highest form of looking at the relations Mother. Only she manifests in a different way according to the plane from which one sees her. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/adyashakti#p1</ref> ==Adwaita== The Adwaita or Monistic Vedanta affirms the entire unity of these two [Matter and Spirit] & explains their apparent separation by Maya, Illusion or Ignorance, in other words by the One to theory that the ManyIndivisible Eternal has deliberately imagined himself as divisible (I speak in metaphors, and none the only way of approaching such subtle inquiries) & hence created an illusion of them has multiplicity where the only real fact is Unity. We may take the right metaphor of a sea & its waves; if each wave were to monopolise imagine itself separate from all other waves & from the name Vedanta. Advaita sea of which it is truea part, because that would be an illusion similar to that of the Many are only manifestations of finite self when it imagines itself as different from other finite selves and from the Infinite. The wave is not really different from the One, ''viśiṣṭādvaita'' sea but is true because ideas are eternal and having manifested, must have manifested before sea (not the sea) and the next moment will manifest againbe indistinguishable from sea; in fact the word “wave” merely expresses a momentary perception,—the Many are eternal in an idea of change or modification which the Onenext moment we perceive not to exist, and not a real object; the only they are sometimes manifest and sometimes unmanifestreal object is the sea. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/0317/theisha-upanishad-all-that-is-stressworld-ofin-the-hidden-spirituniverse#p5p2</ref>
==Affinities==
Hereditary influence creates an affinity and affinity is a living thing. It is only when the hereditary part is changed that the affinity ceases.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/karma-and-heredity#p11</ref>
As a general rule, all these affinities have to be surrendered to the Divine along with the rest of the old nature—so that only what is in harmony with the Divine Truth can be kept and transformed for its work in you. All relations with others must be relations in the Divine and not of the old personal nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p20</ref>
Agni, master of pure tapas, works out all the actions of the Yoga, the inner sacrifice. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/16/rv-i-dot-94-dot-1-10#p14</ref>
Agni, the inner flame, the soul within us (for who can deny that the soul is fire?), the innate aspiration drawing man towards the heights; Agni, the ardent will within us that sees, always and forever, and remembers; Agni, ‘the priest of the sacrifice,’ the ‘divine worker,’ the ‘envoy between earth and heaven’ (Rig-veda III, 3.2) ‘he is there in the middle of his house’ (I.70.2). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-30-1961#p41</ref>
==Ahamkara/Ahankara==
The lower self movement of Mind in Nature is in bondage thus able to its past; conceive of the object as the reality and the Inhabitant as limited and determined by the appearances of the higher is lord object. It conceives of the pastobject, not as the present universe in one of its frontal appearances, but as itself a separate existence standing out from the Cosmos and different in being from all the futurerest of it. So the will It conceives similarly of the lower self Inhabitant. This is born the illusion of ''ahankara'' and limited by ''ahankara''ignorance which falsifies all realities. The illusion is called ahaṁkāra, but the will separative ego-sense which makes each being conceive of the higher self is beyond ''ahankara'' and cannot be limited by ititself as an independent personality. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/0717/the-needinhabiting-ofgodhead-life-theand-momentaction#p2p13</ref>
Under the conditions of mind, life & body, ahankara is born, the subjective or objective form of consciousness is falsely taken for self-existent being, the body for an independent reality & the ego for an independent personality; the one loses itself in us in its multiplicity & when it recovers its unity, finds it difficult, owing to the nature of mind, to preserve its play of multiplicity. Therefore when we are absorbed in world, we miss God in Himself; when we seek God, we miss Him in the world. Our business is to break down & dissolve the mental ego & get back to our divine unity without losing our power of individual & multiple existence in the universe. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/the-entire-purpose-of-yoga#p10</ref>
The aim of integral Yoga; it is the rendering in personal experience of the truth which universal Nature has hidden in herself and which she travails to discover. It is the conversion of the human soul into the divine soul and of natural life into divine living. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/20/the-four-aids#p22</ref>
==Ājnā-Cakra==
In the middle of the forehead—the Ajna Chakra—(will, vision, dynamic thought). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-system-of-the-chakras#p3</ref>
==Ājnāna==
Ājnāna is the operation by which consciousness dwells on an image of things so as to govern and possess it in power. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/12/commentary-viii#p8</ref>
==Aksara==
The evolutionary nisus is pushing towards a development of the cosmic Force in terrestrial life which needs a larger mental and vital being to support it, a wider mind, a greater wider more conscious unanimised Life-Soul, Anima. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p41</ref>
==Annakosha==
Physical sheath of his being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/16/rv-i-dot-1-1-4#p8</ref>
==Antahkarana==
Antahkarana usually means the mind and vital as opposed to the body—the body being the outer instrument and manaḥ-prāṇa the inner instrument of the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-psychic-being#p45</ref>
==ĀtmanAnubhava== The spiritual experience does not even despise dreams and visions; it is known to it that many of these things are not dreams at all but experiences on an inner plane and if the experiences of the inner planes which lead to the opening of the inner self into the outer so as to influence and change it are not accepted, the experiences of the subtle consciousness and the trance consciousness, how is the waking consciousness to expand out of the narrow prison of the body and the body-mind and the senses? For, to the physical mind untouched by the inner awakened consciousness, even the experience of the cosmic consciousness or the Eternal Self might very well seem merely subjective and unconvincing.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-value-of-experiences#p15</ref> The motive for anubhava/experience is of a more general applicability; for in order to reject anything from the being one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is an entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/transformation-of-the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient-i#p62,p63</ref> ==Apana== Apana, situated in the lower part of the trunk, presides over the lower functions, especially over the emission of such parts of the food as are rejected by the body and over procreation; it is intimately connected with the processes of decay and death. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/27/psychical-evolution#p6</ref> ==Aparārdha==
The Ātman is combination of the Self or Spirit that remains abovethree lower members, pure and stainlessmind, unaffected by the stains of life& body, by desire and ego and ignorance. It is realised as the true being of the individual, but also more widely as the same being in all and as the Self in the cosmos; it his also a self-existence above the individual and cosmos and it is then called the Paramatma, the supreme Divine Beingtherefore aparārdha. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2817/the-psychicisha-upanishad-being1#p39p60</ref>
==AsceticismĀrādhanā==
After all real asceticism Aradhana is hardly possible except in a hut or on worship of the Himalayas. The heart of asceticismDivine, besideslove, is having no desires or attachment, being indifferentself-surrender, able aspiration to do without thingsthe Divine, satisfied with whatever comes. If you asceticise outwardly it becomes a rule of life and you keep it up because it is a rulecalling the name, for the principle of the thing or for the kudos of it or as a point of honourprayer. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/asceticismthe-andcentral-theprocesses-integralof-yoga#p10</ref>Asceticism for its own sake is not the ideal of this yoga, but self-control in the vital and right order in the material are a very important part of it—and even an ascetic discipline is better for our purpose than a loose absence of true control. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/sadhana-through-work-ix#p2p26</ref>
==AttachmentĀsana==
Attachment means that you desire or need or depend on a thing or a person so much that you cannot do without it or him, and are always trying The habituating of the body to keep the thing or be with the person or somehow in touch with him. <ref>http://incarnatewordcertain attitudes of immobility.in/cwsa/35/inadvisability-of-forming-special-relations#p8</ref>Attachment to things : the physical rejection The Hathayogic system of Asana has at its basis two profound ideas which bring with them is not the best way to get rid of itmany effective implications. Accept what The first is given you, ask for what is needed and think no more that of it - attaching no importancecontrol by physical immobility, using them when you have, not troubled if you have not. That the second is the best way of getting rid that of the attachmentpower by immobility. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/2423/transformation-of-the-vital-xihathayoga#p20p5,p6</ref>
==AusterityAscent and Decent==
Austerity, spiritual discipline. <ref>httpThe practice of this yoga is double ://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-265-266-267-268-269#p7</ref>A premature and excessive physical austerity, tapasyāone side is of an ascent of the consciousness to the higher planes, may endanger the process other is that of the sadhana by establishing a disturbance and abnormality descent of the forces in the different parts power of the system. A great energy may pour higher planes into the mental earth-consciousness so as to drive out the Power of darkness and ignorance and vital parts, but transform the nature.All the nerves and consciousness in the body may be overstrained and lose human being who is the strength mental embodied in living matter has to support rise so as to meet the higher consciousness; the play of these higher energiesconsciousness has also to descend into mind, into life, into matter.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/2430/transformationascent-ofand-the-physical-vdescent#p34p5,p6</ref>
==AnubhavaAsceticism==
After all real asceticism is hardly possible except in a hut or on the Himalayas. The system of getting rid heart of asceticism, besides, is having no desires or attachment, being indifferent, able to do without things by anubhava[experience] can also be , satisfied with whatever comes. If you asceticise outwardly it becomes a dangerous one; for on this way one can easily become more entangled instead rule of arriving at freedom. This method has behind life and you keep it up because it two well-known psychological motives. Oneis a rule, for the motive principle of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold the thing or too strong a drive in for the kudos of it to be got rid of by vicāra or by the process as a point of rejection honour. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/asceticism-and -the substitution of the true movement in -integral-yoga#p10</ref>Asceticism for its place. The other motive for anubhava own sake is of a more general applicability; for in order to reject anything from not the being one has first to become conscious ideal of itthis yoga, to have but self-control in the clear inner experience of its action vital and to discover its actual place right order in the workings material are a very important part of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is it—and even an entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it ascetic discipline is only the degradation better for our purpose than a loose absence of a higher and true movementcontrol. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/2423/transformationsadhana-ofthrough-thework-subconscient-and-the-inconscient-iix#p62,p63p2</ref>
==Aspects of the Divine==
3) The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-divine-and-its-aspects#p12,p13,p14,p15</ref>
==AstrologyAspiration==
Many astrological predictions come true, quite Aspiration is a mass turning upward of them, if one takes all together. But it does not follow that the stars rule our destiny; the stars merely record inner being with a destiny that has been already formedcall, they are a hieroglyphyearning, not a Force, - or if their action constitutes a force, it is a transmitting energy, not an originating Power. Someone is there who has determined or something is there which is Fate, let us say; prayer for the stars are only indications. The astrologers themselves say that there are two forcesDivine, ''daiva'' and ''puruṣakāra'', fate and individual energy, and for the individual energy can modify and even frustrate fate. MoreoverTruth, for the stars often indicate several fate possibilities; for exampleConsciousness, that one may die in mid-agePeace, but that if that determination can be overcomeAnanda, one can live to a predictable old age. FinallyKnowledge, cases are seen in which the predictions descent of the horoscope fulfil themselves with great accuracy up to a certain age, then apply no more. This often happens when the subject turns away from the ordinary to the spiritual life. If the turn Divine Force or whatever else is very radical, the cessation aim of predictability may be immediate; otherwise certain results may still last on for a time ; but there is no longer the sure inevitability. <ref>http://incarnatewordone‘s endeavour.in/cwsa/28/fate-free-will-and-prediction#p25</ref>
==Auto-suggestions==The call in the being for the Divine or for the higher things that belong to the Divine Consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/aspiration#p11,p12</ref>
Auto-suggestions- it is really faith in a mental form An aspiration vigilant, constant, unceasing- act both on the subliminal and mind’s will, the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action heart’s seeking, the powers assent of the inner vital being, its occult power the will to open and make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on plastic the body - in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death physical consciousness and illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the return of health. They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the effects can be very remarkablenature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/2432/transformation-of-the-physicalmother-xii#p107p4</ref>
==AnnakoshaAssimilation==
Physical sheath There has to be a period of his assimilation. When the beingis unconscious, the assimilation goes on behind the veil or below the surface and meanwhile the surface consciousness sees only dullness and the loss of what it had got; but when one is conscious, then one can see the assimilation going on and one sees that nothing is lost, it is only a quiet settling in of what has come down. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsasabcl/1623/rv-i-dotexperiences-1and-1realisations-4v#p8p27</ref>
==ApanaAstrology==
ApanaMany astrological predictions come true, situated quite a mass of them, if one takes all together. But it does not follow that the stars rule our destiny; the stars merely record a destiny that has been already formed, they are a hieroglyph, not a Force, - or if their action constitutes a force, it is a transmitting energy, not an originating Power. Someone is there who has determined or something is there which is Fate, let us say; the stars are only indications. The astrologers themselves say that there are two forces, ''daiva'' and ''puruṣakāra'', fate and individual energy, and the individual energy can modify and even frustrate fate. Moreover, the stars often indicate several fate possibilities; for example, that one may die in mid-age, but that if that determination can be overcome, one can live to a predictable old age. Finally, cases are seen in which the lower part predictions of the trunkhoroscope fulfil themselves with great accuracy up to a certain age, presides over then apply no more. This often happens when the subject turns away from the ordinary to the lower functionsspiritual life. If the turn is very radical, especially over the emission cessation of such parts of the food as are rejected by the body and over procreationpredictability may be immediate; otherwise certain results may still last on for a time ; it but there is intimately connected with no longer the processes of decay and deathsure inevitability. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/2728/psychicalfate-free-will-and-evolutionprediction#p6p25</ref>
==Ascent and DecentAsura==
The practice of this yoga is double : one Asuras are really the dark side is of an ascent of the consciousness to the higher planesmental, or more strictly, of the other vital mind plane. This mind is that of a descent of the power of the higher planes into the earth-consciousness so as to drive out the Power very field of darkness and ignorance and transform the natureAsuras.All the consciousness in the human being who Their main characteristic is the mental embodied in living matter has to rise so as to meet egoistic strength and struggle, which refuse the higher consciousness; the higher consciousness law. The Asura has also to descend into mindself-control, into lifetapas and intelligence, into matterbut all that for the sake of his ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsasabcl/3022/ascentthe-divine-and-descentthe-hostile-powers-ii#p5,p6</ref>
==AspirationĀtman==
Aspiration The Ātman is a turning upward of the inner being with a callSelf or Spirit that remains above, yearningpure and stainless, prayer for unaffected by the Divinestains of life, for by desire and ego and ignorance. It is realised as the true being of the Truthindividual, for but also more widely as the same being in all and as the Self in the Consciousnesscosmos; it his also a self-existence above the individual and cosmos and it is then called the Paramatma, Peace, Ananda, Knowledge, descent of the supreme Divine Force or whatever else is Being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the aim of one‘s endeavour.-psychic-being#p39</ref>
The call in the being for the Divine or for the higher things that belong to the Divine Consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/aspiration#p11,p12</ref>==Attachment==
An aspiration vigilantAttachment means that you desire or need or depend on a thing or a person so much that you cannot do without it or him, constant, unceasingand are always trying to keep the thing or be with the person or somehow in touch with him. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/inadvisability-of-forming-special- relations#p8</ref>Attachment to things : the mind’s will, physical rejection of them is not the heart’s seekingbest way to get rid of it. Accept what is given you, the assent ask for what is needed and think no more of the vital beingit - attaching no importance, using them when you have, not troubled if you have not. That is the will to open and make plastic best way of getting rid of the physical consciousness and natureattachment.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsasabcl/3224/transformation-of-the-mothervital-iixi#p4p20</ref>
==AsuraAUM/Om==
The Asuras are really three letters represent the dark side Brahman or Supreme Self in its three degrees of status, the mentalWaking Soul, or more strictly, of the vital mind plane. This mind is the very field of Dream Soul and the Asuras. Their main characteristic is egoistic strength Sleep Soul and struggle, which refuse the higher law. The Asura has self-control, tapas and intelligence, but all whole potent sound rises towards that for the sake of his egowhich is beyond status as beyond activity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/2223/the-divine-and-the-hostile-powers-iiconcentration#p6p3</ref>
==AUM==OM is the mantra, the expressive sound-symbol of the Brahman Consciousness in its four domains from the Turiya to the external or material plane. The function of a mantra is to create vibrations in the inner consciousness that will prepare it for the realisation of what the mantra symbolises and is supposed indeed to carry within itself. The mantra OM should therefore lead towards the opening of the consciousness to the sight and feeling of the One Consciousness in all material things, in the inner being and in the supraphysical worlds, in the causal plane above now superconscient to us and, finally, the supreme liberated transcendence above all cosmic existence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/sadhana-through-meditation-iii#p2</ref>
The three letters represent the Brahman or Supreme Self in its three degrees of status, the Waking Soul, the Dream Soul and the Sleep Soul and the whole potent sound rises towards that which is beyond status as beyond activity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p3</ref>==Austerity==
==Avatara==Austerity, spiritual discipline. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-265-266-267-268-269#p7</ref>
An AvatarA premature and excessive physical austerity, roughly speakingtapasyā, is one who is conscious may endanger the process of the presence sadhana by establishing a disturbance and power abnormality of the Divine born forces in him or descended the different parts of the system. A great energy may pour into him the mental and governing from within his will vital parts, but the nerves and life the body may be overstrained and action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presencelose the strength to support the play of these higher energies. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/2224/thetransformation-purposeof-ofthe-avatarhoodphysical-iv#p24p34</ref>
He is a realiser, an establisher ==Auto- not of outward things only, though he does realise something in the outward also, but of something essential and radical needed for the terrestrial evolution which is the evolution of the embodied spirit through successive stages towards the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/specific-avatars-and-vibhutis#p14</ref>suggestions==
==Aparārdha==Auto-suggestions- it is really faith in a mental form - act both on the subliminal and the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, its occult power to make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on the body - in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the return of health. They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the effects can be very remarkable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/transformation-of-the-physical-x#p107</ref>
The combination of the three lower members, mind, life & body, is called therefore aparārdha. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/17/the-isha-upanishad-1#p60</ref>==Avatara==
==Assimilation==An Avatar, roughly speaking, is one who is conscious of the presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/the-purpose-of-avatarhood-i#p24</ref>
There has to be He is a period realiser, an establisher - not of assimilation. When outward things only, though he does realise something in the being is unconsciousoutward also, the assimilation goes on behind the veil or below the surface but of something essential and meanwhile radical needed for the surface consciousness sees only dullness and terrestrial evolution which is the loss evolution of what it had got; but when one is conscious, then one can see the assimilation going on and one sees that nothing is lost, it is only a quiet settling in of what has come downembodied spirit through successive stages towards the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/2328/experiencesspecific-avatars-and-realisations-vvibhutis#p27p14</ref>
==Awakening==