Vacaka | Word; indicator; mantra, varna and pada |
Vacya | Object, indicated; kala, tattva, bhuvana |
Vaha | Flow; channel; the prana flowing in the ida nadi on the left and apana flowing in the pingala nadi on the right of susumna are together known as vaha |
Vahni | a technical word of Saiva-Yoga, meaning 'entering completely' into the root and half of the middle of adhah kundalini (from the root Vah to carry) |
Vaikhari | Sakti as gross physical word. |
Vaisamya | difference, disquietude of duality. |
Vaisnava | the follower of Visnu; follower of Vaisnava philosophy. |
Vama or Vamesvari | The divine Sakti that emits (from vam to emit) or projects the universe out of the Absolute and produces the reverse (vamaconsciousness of difference (whereas there is non-difference in the divine). |
Vapus | (bhairavasya) form; the nature of Bhairava, cosmic essence. |
Varga | Classes of letters like kavarga, cavarga etc. |
Varna | (1) Letter (2) Object of concentration known as dhvani in anavopaya; anahata nada (unstruck sound experienced in susumna). |
Vartikam | A concise explanatory note. |
Vasana | Residual traces of actions and impressions retained in the mind; habit energy. |
Vasana Mala | Evil of association, or habit. |
veda | 1. knowledge 2. The sacrad book of vaidika dharma (Hinduism) from which the name is arrived) |
Vedaka | Experient |
Vedya | Object |
vedAnta | conclusion of veda, upanishad |
Vibhuti | splendour; power |
vidhAnam | procedure |
vidi | order, system, fate |
Vidya | (1) Suddha vidya tattva; (2) Unmana sakti, Sahaja vidya (3) Limited knowledge, a kancuka of Maya. |
Vidyasarira | Sabdarasi-the group of letters and words (sutra, Section II) |
Vigraha | Individual form or shape; body. |
Vigrahi | The embodied |
Vijnana | consciousness; supreme consciousness |
Vijnanamayakosa | The sheath of intelligence |
Vijnanakala | The experient below Suddha Vidya but above Maya who has pure awareness but no agency. He is free of karma and maytya mala but not free of anava mala |
vimAna | aeroplane, superstructure over sanctum sanctorum |
Vikalpa | Difference of perception; distinction; option; an idea as different from another idea; ideation; fancy; imagination, thought-construct. |
Vikalpa-Ksaya | The dissolution of all vikalpas |
Vikalpanam | The differentiation-making activity of the mind; |
Vikalpa(suddha) | The fixed idea that I am Siva. |
Vikasa | Unfoldment; development |
Vilapana | dissolution; esoteric meaning-anugraha-grace. |
Vilaya | concealment |
Vimarsa | Self-consciousness or awarenes of Parama Siva full of jnana and kriya which brings about the world-process. |
Vimarsana | intuitive awareness; esoteric meaning-samhara absorption. |
Vinayakah | Beings who create obstacles in spiritual progress by offering temptations. |
Vinthu | The form of Pranava. |
Vijnanakalar | The highest of the three order of Souls. They have only Anava Mala. |
Virat | Consciousness limited or conditioned by the upadhi of the aggregate of gross bodies. |
Viresa | The lord or amster of the senses that are intent on removing all sense of difference in as much as the lord of the senses has now experienced the delight of the transcendental consciousness. The senses are called vira, because they are now saktis. |
vIrashaivam | The movement that strengthened the shaivite roots in the masses of karnataka. Revolutionary in thrashing away some of the old customs like caste etc. |
Virya | virility, vitality; mantra-virya the virility of mantra |
Visa | a technical word of Saiva Yoga, meaning 'entering into the remaining half and wholly into the top of adhah-kundalini right upto the position where urdhva-kundalini ends (from the root vis, to pervade). |
vishuddi | fifth mystic chakra |
viShNu | The Lord of sustainance. Worshiped by vaiShNavam |
Visarga | Emanation; creation |
Visargabhumi | Two dots simultaneously, representing Sakti's external manifestation of the universe and the internal assimilation of the same into Siva |
Visishtadvaitam | Qualified non-dualism. |
Visranti | rest; peace. |
Visva | The universe; the all. |
Visvamaya | Visvatmaka: Immanent. |
Visvatmaka | immanent |
Visvottirna | Transcendent |
Vitarka | The thought that I am SIva, the Self of the universe |
Vivarta | (In Sankara Vedanta) Appearance of the Real as something different. |
Viveka | Philisophical discrimination |
Viyat | space; sky |
vrata | penance |
Vrtti | mode, fluctuation |
Vyamohitata | delusion |
Vyana | the vital Vayu that is everywhere or the pervasive prana |
Vyapaka | All container. |
Vyapini | all-pervasive energy of pranava |
Vyappiya | The contained. |
Vyapta | completely pervaded. |
Vyapati | pervasion; fusion in the whole, in Siva. |
Vyapakatva | All-pervasiveness |
Vyapti | Associated with the contained. |
Vyamohitata | Delusion |
Vyoma | sky; the infinite sky of consciousness; antar vyoma, the space in the mystic centre. |
Vyutthana | Lit., rising, coming to normal consciousness after samadhi or meditative absorption. |