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Ojas. The subtle energy of the system, conserved by continence and purity.
Om, or Omkara. See Aum.
“Om Tat Sat.” A sacred expression of the Hindus, applied to that, and
meaning “Thou art the Supreme and Absolute Being, Wisdom, and Bliss”;
tat meaning “that,” and sat meaning “being”; and Om meaning the term
for that including his Absolute Aspects.
Padartha. A Category, or Ultimate Classification.
Para. Supreme; greatest; highest (superlative term used as a prefix).
Para-Atman. The Supreme Spirit.
Para-Bhakti. Supreme Love of God.
Para-Brahm. Brahman considered in its Absolute Aspect, devoid of
manifestation or emanation—Brahman-in-Itself.
Para-Nirvana. The Supreme Nirvana, which by many is held to mean
Absolute Extinction or Nothingness, but which the Inner Teachings hold
to be Absolute Absorption in that and Infinite Consciousness.
Paramahamsa. Supreme soul, or being.
Paravidya. Supreme Wisdom, or knowledge.
Parvati. The wife of Shiva, in the ancient mythologies.
Patanjali. The founder of the Yoga System of the Hindu Philosophy, who
lived about 200 b.c.
Pingala. The right-side nerve current; the left nostril.
Pirris. The forefathers, or ancestors, highly venerated by the Hindus and
all Orientals, and generally held to exercise a watchful interest over their
descendants.
Pradhana. Nature, or primordial element.
Prajna. Divine Wisdom, leading to the Realization of the One.
Prajnajyoti. An Illumined One; one who has attained divine knowledge.
Prakriti. Nature; or the Primal Substance of Nature; one of the two
fundamental bases of the conception of the Universe advanced by the
Sankhya philosophy of Kapila; the source of the material and mental
phases of the universe, as distinguished from the Spiritual Basis, or Purusha.