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248 GLOSSARY.<br />

Madhumati ...........<br />

honeyed. The state<br />

, when knowledge gives satis<br />

lit.<br />

faction as honey does.<br />

Mathurd............. Sweet. That form of Bhakti<br />

Madvdchdrya ..........<br />

in which the relation of<br />

the<br />

devotee towards God is like<br />

that of a loving wife to her<br />

husband.<br />

Commentator of the dualistic<br />

school of the Vedanta phi<br />

losophy.<br />

MahdkdSa ............ lit. &quot;Great<br />

Mahdpurusha .........<br />

Mahat ..............<br />

space&quot;<br />

(applied<br />

to ordinary space).<br />

Great Soul.<br />

(Incarnation.)<br />

lit. The great one. Cosmic<br />

intelligence.<br />

Mahattattva ........... Great principle. The ocean<br />

of intelligence evolved first<br />

from indiscrete nature, ac<br />

cording to Sdnkhya philos<br />

ophy.<br />

Mahdyoga............. Seeing the Self as one with God.<br />

Maitriya.............. lit. Full of compassion.&quot; The<br />

name of a Hindu sage.<br />

Manas................ The deliberative faculty of the<br />

mind.<br />

Mantra............... Any prayer, holy verse, sacred<br />

or mystic word recited or<br />

contemplated during wor<br />

ship.

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