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Sacrifice

In the spiritual sense, however, sacrifice has a different meaning—it does not so much indicate giving up what is held dear as an offering of oneself, one’s being, one’s mind, heart, will, body, life, actions to the Divine. It has the original sense of “making sacred” and is used as an equivalent of the word yajña. When the Gita speaks of the “sacrifice of knowledge“, it does not mean a giving up of anything, but a turning of the mind towards the Divine in the search for knowledge and an offering of oneself through it. It is in this sense, too, that one speaks of the offering or sacrifice of works.

Sadhaka

A sadhaka is one who is doing sadhana to attain union with the divine consciousness.

Sadhana

Sadhana is the practice of Yoga.

The object of the sadhana is opening of the consciousness to the Divine and the change of the nature. Meditation or contemplation is one means to this but only one means; bhakti is another; work is another.

Sādharmya

Sādharmya is becoming of one law of being and action with the Divine.

It is the eternal wisdom, the great spiritual experience by which all the sages attained to that highest perfection, grew into one law of being-with the Supreme and live for ever in his eternity, not born in the creation, not troubled by the anguish of the universal dissolution. This perfection, then, this sādharmya is the way of immortality and the indispensable condition without which the soul cannot consciously live in the Eternal.

Sādṛsya

The Yoga of works leads to oneness in power of being and nature, sādṛśya.

Each finds its own way, such as the love and worship of the Bhakta and the growing into the likeness of the Divine by love.

Sahasradala

Above the head extends the higher consciousness centre, sahasradala padma. But usually there is partial working of the forehead centre also when the sahasradala opens.

The sahasradala centralises spiritual mind, higher mind, intuitive mind and acts as a receiving station for the intuition proper and overmind.

The sahasradala commands all between the ordinary mind and the supermind—therefore its opening necessarily takes long. But opening by itself only creates a connection or communication—to dwell in that centre, one needs to have overpassed the mind and be able to live mainly in the spiritual self.

Sālokya

The Yoga of adoration envisages an eternal habitation or nearness as the greater release, sālokya.

There is an eternal ecstatic dwelling in the highest existence of the Supreme.

Supramental

Supramental is simply the direct selfexistent Truth-Consciousness and the direct self-effective Truth- Power.

The supramental is the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings ill its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter.

The Truth-Consciousness whether above or in the universe by which the Divine knows not only his own essence and being but his manifestation also. The fundamental character is knowledge by identity, by that the Self is known, the Divine Sachchidananda is known, but also the truth of manifestation is known because this too is That. Mind is an instrument of the Ignorance trying to know - Supermind is the Knower possessing Knowledge, because one with it and the known, therefore seeing all things in the light of His own Truth, the light of their true self which is He. It is a dynamic and not only a static Power, not only a Knowledge, but a Will according to Knowledge - there is a Supramental Power or Shakti which can manifest direct its world of Light and Truth in which all is luminously based on the harmony and unity of the One, not disturbed by a veil of Ignorance or any disguise.