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Om (or Aum) ( listen ⓘ; Sanskrit: ॐ, ओम्, romanized : Oṃ, Auṃ, ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a symbol representing a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism. [ 1][ 2] Its written representation is the most important symbol of Hinduism. [ 3] It is the essence of the supreme Absolute, [ 2] consciousness, [ 4][ 5][ 6 ...
Namaste ( Namas + te) is derived from Sanskrit and is a combination of the word namas and the second person dative pronoun in its enclitic form, te. [7] The word namaḥ takes the sandhi form namas before the sound te. [8] [9] It is found in the Vedic literature. Namas-krita and related terms appear in the Hindu scripture Rigveda such as in the ...
Prana. In yoga, Ayurveda, and Indian martial arts, prana ( प्राण, prāṇa; the Sanskrit word for breath, "life force", or "vital principle") [1] permeates reality on all levels including inanimate objects. [2] In Hindu literature, prāṇa is sometimes described as originating from the Sun and connecting the elements. [3]
Moksha ( Sanskrit: मोक्ष, mokṣa ), also called vimoksha, vimukti, and mukti, [1] is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, nirvana, or release. [2] In its soteriological and eschatological senses, it refers to freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth. [3]
Tapasya - Jain meditation in progress. [1]Tapas (Sanskrit: तपस्, romanized: tapas) is a variety of austere spiritual meditation practices in Indian religions.In Jainism, it means asceticism (austerities, body mortification); [1] [2] in Buddhism, it denotes spiritual practices including meditation and self-discipline; [3] and in the different traditions within Hinduism it means a ...
Akasha or Akash ( Sanskrit ākāśa आकाश) means space, sky or aether in traditional Indian cosmology, depending on the religion. The term has also been adopted in Western occultism and spiritualism in the late 19th century. In many modern Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages the corresponding word (often rendered Akash) retains ...
Sādhanā. Buddhist sādhanā ( Japan) Shugendō sādhanā (Japan) Sādhanā ( Sanskrit: साधना; Tibetan: སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་, THL: druptap; Chinese: 修行; pinyin: xiūxíng) is an ego -transcending spiritual practice. [1] It includes a variety of disciplines in Hindu, [2] Buddhist [3] and Jain [4] traditions that are ...
The literal meaning in English has been expressed as "praise to the jewel in the lotus", [4] or as a declarative aspiration, possibly meaning "I in the jewel-lotus". [5] Padma is the Sanskrit for the Indian lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) and mani for "jewel", as in a type of spiritual "jewel" widely referred to in Buddhism. [6]