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The Twelfth Lesson: The Vedas; and Glossary.1377
Shiva, or Siva. The Third Principle of the Hindu Trinity, representing the
Destroying or Changing Principle; also the conception of the Supreme
Being of the Shaivas. (See lessons on The Religions of India.)
Sloka. A verse of a poem or sacred writing.
Smriti. Memory; also a term sometimes applied to the sacred books outside
of the Vedas, which have been transmitted in the past by Memory.
Soham. A term meaning “I Am He,” used by the enthusiastic Bhakti Yogis,
and others, and implying the perception of their relation to Brahman or
that; equivalent to the radical Sufi statement of “I am God Himself.”
Soma. The nectar of the ancient gods; an Indian plant.
Sravana. The supersensuous hearing claimed to be developed by the Yoga
practices; Clairaudience.
Sri, or Shri. A term meaning “blessed one,” or “holy one,” applied to the
great sages and teachers of India by their followers.
Sthula Sharira. The gross physical body, as distinguished from the Linga
Sharira, or subtle body, or etheric double.
Sunya Vada. The doctrine that behind the phenomenal world there is an
Infinite Void, or Nothing; a form of philosophical Nihilism.
Sushupti. The state of profound, dreamless sleep.
Shushumna. The canal running through the centre of the spinal cord, and
through which the Kundalini ascends in the Yogi practices. (See the lesson
on the Yoga System.)
Svadhisthana. The second lotus of the Yoga system of Patanjali, and which
is situated back of the navel.
Swami. A spiritual teacher.
Tadiyata. A state of exaltation common to certain of the advanced Bhakti
Yogis, in which the man loses his sense of personality and feels that he is
merged with the Lord’s “radiation or light” by reason of his Love-of-God.
Tamas. Darkness; one of the Gunas; the Guna of Sloth, Ignorance, and
Slowness. (See lesson on the Sankhya System.)