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The Twelfth Lesson: The Vedas; and Glossary.1367
Antahkarana. The Internal Organ of the Mind, including the deliberative
faculty, the determinative faculty, and the Self-Conscious Principle.
Anubhava. Realization.
Anumana. Inference.
Apana. The nerve-currents governing the excretory organs; one of the five
manifestations of Prana.
Aparapratyaksha. Psychic sensing, beyond the realm of sensuousness.
Aparavidya. Knowledge of externals, as contrasted with knowledge of
internals; superficial knowledge.
Apas. The element of Water.
Apta. One who has attained Illumination.
Apura. Merit.
Arjavam. Directness in intention; straightforwardness.
Arupa. Formless.
Asamprajnata. The extreme and highest state of superconsciousness.
Asana. Posture; bodily attitude assumed during meditation; the Third Step
in Patanjali’s Yoga System.
Asat. Non-being; non-existence.
Asvada. Psychic taste; or faculty of taste.
Asti. To exist; to Be.
Atikranta-Chavaniya. Meditation leading up to and culminating in the
state of Samadhi, or Transcendental Consciousness, or Ecstasy.
Atman. The Spirit; the Real Self.
Aum (or Om). A symbolic “Holy Word” signifying The Absolute Idea.
Avarana. The outward sheaths of the mind.
Avatara or Avatar. A divine incarnation; an incarnation of Deity in human
form.
Avidya. Ignorance.
Avyaktam. Undifferentiated state or condition of Prakriti, or Nature, before
there is a manifestation.
Bhagavad-Gita. A sacred book of India, or Upanishad.