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Para Prakriti

The supreme Nature, Para Prakriti, concealed behind it is the very nature of the Divine—a supreme Consciousness-Force which manifests the multiple Divine as the Many. These Many are in themselves eternal selves of the Supreme in his supreme Nature, Para Prakriti. The lower Nature, Apara Prakriti, is this external objective and superficial subjective apparent Nature which manifests all these minds, lives and bodies. [1]

Parabrahman

The only true truth is the supracosmic; or, in any case, the Absolute, the Parabrahman is the origin and goal of all existence, all else is an interlude without any abiding significance. [2]

Parabrahman is the Absolute, & because It is the Absolute, it cannot be reduced into terms of knowledge. You can know the Infinite in a way, but you cannot know the Absolute. [3]

Parabrahman, the absolute, transcendental, eternal reality is unknowable to human reason; [4]

Of Him[Parabrahman] Vedanta itself can only speak in two great trilogies, subjective and objective, Sacchidanandam, Existence, Consciousness, Bliss; Satyam Jnanam Anantam, Truth, Knowledge, Infinity. [5]

Paramatman

The supreme Self; [6] the Absolute; [7] Supreme Universal Self [8]

[Paramatman is] the supreme spirit who ensouls the forms and movements of the universe. [9]

Patala

Patala simply means the subconscient below the Earth—the Earth being the conscious physical plane. [10]

Patala under the earth, Hell under Patala, these are Asuric worlds... they are the worlds of gloom and suffering in the nether depths of our own being. A world is not a place with hills, trees and stones, but a condition of the Jivatman. [11]

Patience

Patience: the capacity to wait steadily for the Realisation to come. [12]

Peace

Peace carries with it a sense of settled and harmonious rest and deliverance. [13]

A deep quietude where no disturbance can come - a quietude with a sense of established security and release. [14]

Peace is more positive than calm—there can be a negative calm which is merely an absence of disturbance or trouble, but peace is always something positive bringing not merely a release as calm does but a certain happiness or Ananda of itself. [15]

Personal Relation

A personal relation is formed when there is an exclusive looking to each other. The rule about personal relation in this yoga is this : (I) All personal relations to disappear in the single relation between the sādhaka and the Divine; (2) All personal (psychic-spiritual) relations to proceed from the Divine Mother, determined by her to be part of this single relation with the Divine Mother. [16]

Philosophy

Intellectual expression of the Truth.[...] a means of expressing this greater discovery and as much of its contents as can at all be expressed in mental terms to those who still live in the mental intelligence. [17]

Physical

By the gross physical is meant the earthly and bodily physical - as experienced by the outward sense-mind and senses. But this is not the whole of Matter. There is a subtle physical also with a subtler consciousness in it which can, for instance, go to a distance from the body and yet feel and be aware of things in a not merely mental or vital way. [18]

Physical Change

The transformation to which we aspire is too vast and complex to come at one stroke; it must be allowed to come by stages. The physical change is the last of these stages and is itself a progressive process. [19] The physical change itself can only be brought about by a descent of the greater supramental consciousness into the cells of the body. Till then at least the body and its supporting energies have to be maintained in part by the ordinary means, food, sleep, etc. [20]

The physical changes slowly always—its nature is habit—so it is only by constant descents [of calmness, purity, light and strength] that gradually its substance gets changed and it becomes accustomed to the higher condition. [21]

The consciousness [higher] that is always there in the body is tamasic and obscure and the greater part of it is subconscient. If it opens then there will be an increasing union with the higher consciousness and it will be able to share the experiences and the developments in the mind and vital. [22]

Physical Consciousness

Physical Contact

Physical Exercise

Physical Fatigue

Physical Mind

Physical Opening

Pink

Planes

Pisacha

Positive and Negative

Possession

Possibilities

Power

Powers (Occult)

Powers and Appearances

Powers for Realisation

Pranayama

Prayer

Preparatory Work

Presence

Pressure

Process

Progress

Progress is the very heart of the significance of human life, for it means our evolution into greater and richer being. [23]

Progress consists not in rejecting beauty and delight, but in rising from the lower to the higher, the less complete to the more complete beauty and delight. [24]

The harmony of the inner and outer man which is the true meaning of civilisation and the efficient condition of a true progress. [25]

Protection

Psychic

Psychic Powers

Psychicisation

Psycho-Analysis and Yoga

Psychology

Pulling

Purification

Purity

Purple

Purusha

Pyramid

References

  1. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-jivatman-in-the-integral-yoga#p16
  2. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-integral-knowledge-and-the-aim-of-life-four-theories-of-existence#p17
  3. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/parabrahman-mukti-and-human-thought-systems#p1
  4. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/17/the-law-of-renunciation#p6
  5. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/the-philosophy-of-the-upanishads#p30
  6. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/17/the-eternal-in-his-universe#p20
  7. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-origin-of-the-ignorance#p1
  8. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/an-incomplete-work-of-vedantic-exegesis#p5
  9. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/19/works-devotion-and-knowledge#p1
  10. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/earth?search=Patala#p12
  11. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/17/salvation-through-works#p29
  12. http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/patience#p2
  13. http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/the-foundation-of-sadhana-ii#p8
  14. http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/the-foundation-of-sadhana-ii#p15
  15. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p1
  16. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p65
  17. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p3
  18. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p34
  19. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p57
  20. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p58
  21. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p70
  22. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p33
  23. http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/16/materialism#p5
  24. http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/17/the-national-value-of-art-iii#p1
  25. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/20/is-india-civilised-i#p5