Words on the Way - Muz Murray Mantra Yoga Master

Dakshina dak-shin-nah)
(dak
Var: Daksina
Sense: ‘The honorarium or fee (which may include cows and
other goods) offered to a priest for his services.’
These days, some gurus with an eye on their coffers, will
demand dakshina (‘love offerings’) as a monthly expectation.
Dakshinachara
(dak-shin-ah-char
char-rah)
Var:
Sense: ‘The right-hand path of Tantra, being the tradition which
emphasises the way of meditation, spiritual discipline and purity,
towards union with the Absolute.’
Dak‚hi~åm¨rt⁄ dak-shin-nah-murh-tih)
(dak
Var: Dak‚i~åm¨rt⁄, Dakshinamurti, Dakshinamurthi
A great Self-realised teacher of antiquity, believed to have been
an incarnation of Lord Shiva and the primary master of true Yoga,
who for the most part taught in silence.
His four advanced ‘pupils’ are named as Sanaka, Sanandana,
Sanatkumara and Sanatsujata. However, as these four names have
the same etymology, scholars contend that they are all one and the
same person, or principle (being ‘Eternally well-born’) an epithet
also ascribed to the god Subramanya (Murugana).
Dama (dam-mah)
(
Var:
Sense:
Sense: ‘The practice of restraint from external activities by
overcoming the desires of the sense organs.’
218