Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Guna - three natural modes or qualities as composite of maya, called
sattva, rajas and tamas. Sattva means purity, calmness, peace, silence.
Rajas means activity, restlessness, passionate. Tamas means
lethargy, stupidity, dullness, obstacle. When tamas and rajas have
their impact, creation is caused and the cosmos comes about. They
agitate living beings into activity. When the 3 modes of maya are in balance
and in a state of unruffled equipoise, the universe is termed unmanifest.
Guru - spiritual guide, master; a knower of Brahman, who is calm,
merciful and ever ready to help and guide the spiritual aspirants who
approach him. The cosmic guru is the Avatar.
Hiranyagarbha - the golden egg, the golden sprout.
Indra - it is the Lord from the intuition level and from the cosmic mental
plan. It is the Divinity concerned with rain.
Kailasa - is the holy mountain in the Himalaya, where Shiva and Shakti
reside.
Karma - action; deed; work; religious rite; the totality of innate landencies
formed as a consequence of acts done in previous lives. Every
karma produces a lasting impression on the mind of the doer, apart
from affecting others. Repetition of a particular karma produces a tendency
in the mind. Karma is of three kinds: 1. Prarabdha: which is being
exhausted in present life, 2. Agami: which is being accumulated in
the present life and 3. Samchita which is being stored to be experienced
in future lives. Akarma is on action done without any intention
to gain the consequences; Vikarma is the action that is intentionally
done.
Kundalini - latent and active fire, cosmic power. In the science of kundalini
yoga, the vital energy of man lying dormant like a coiled snake,
at the bottom of thin column in the lowest muladhara chakra, the basic
wheel is to be awakened and aroused, so that it courses up through
more wheels (centres of superior consciousness) until it reaches the
thousand-petalled lotus wheel at the very top of the skull. The passage
for the kundalini is through the sushumna nerve in the centre of the spinal
column. The worship of the snake, ridiculed as superstition, is the
symbolic counterpart of this great yogic spiritual discipline which confers
vigour and vitality. But through the kundalini-power and its ascent
through the chakras, it is well-nigh impossible to realise the universal
Atman.
Linga - it is the symbolic form of the Godhead. On every Maha-Shivaratri
lingas emerge from the Avatar Sathya Sai Baba. Not only this,
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