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Hinduism Glossary of terms - K

Kaivalya	Aloneness; isolation; aloofness from the influence of prakrti or maya
Kala	limited agency; creativity; phase of manifestation; part letter or word (in ha-kalaparyantam)
Kala	time; Sakti or power that determines succession.
Kala	(1) The Sakti of consciousness by which all the thirty-six principles are evolved. (2) Part; particle, aspect (3) Limitation in respect of activity (Kincitkartrtva). (4) The subtlest aspect of objectivity, viz., Sastyatita, santa, Vidya, Pratistha, and Nivrtti
Kala pada	The toe of the right foot.
Kala tattva	Time-past, present, and future determined by the sense of succession.
Kala-adhva	Temporal course of manifestation, viz., Varna, mantra and pada
Kalacakra	Matrcakra, Sakticakra, Devicakra; the group of letters from 'a' to 'ksa'.
Kalagni	Kalagni-bhuvanesa-a particular Rudra in Nivrtti kala
Kala sakti	the Sakti or power of the Divine that determines succession.
Kalasarira	That of which the essential nature is activity; Karma mala
Kalpa	Periodic evolution
kAma	desire, lust
Kancuka	The covering of Maya, throwing a pall over pure consciousness (Suddha Samvid) and thus converting Siva into jiva. They are (1) kala, (2) (asuddha) Vidya, (3) Raga (4) Niyati and (5) Kala.
Kanda	Muladhara psychic centre
Kantha	The cakra at the base of the throat
Karana	(1) The means of jnana and kriya-antahkarana and bahiskarana (2) One of the anava upayas in which the aspirant contemplates over the body and the nervous system as an epitome of the cosmos.; cause
kArana	Cause.
kArana SarIra	See Sarira
karaNam	instrument, antaHkaraNam (internal performers) are four - mind, intellect, subconcious mind, ego (manas, buddi, chitta, ahaMkAra)
Karana Sarira	The body in profound sleep and in two other higher avasthas.
Karanesvari	Khecari, gocari, dikcari and bhucari cakra
Karanesvaryah	Khecari, Gocari, Dikcari and Bhucari cakra
Karika	A commentary or a philosophical, grammatical work in concise statements
Karma	One of the three Bandam or Mala or Pasa which fetters the Soul. The sum total of human action, involved as cause and effect, producing pleasure and pain and causing rebirths.
Karmakanda	The part of the Vedas that deals with rituals and scarifices
Karma mala	Mala due to vasanas or impressions left behind on the mind by Karma or motivated action.
Karmendriya	The five powers and organs of action-speaking (Vak), handling(hasta), locomotion (pada), excreting (payu), sexual action(upastha)
Karta	Creator ; the Lord ; God.
Kartrtva	The state of being the subject.
Karya	Effect; objectivity
kanmam, karma	Deeds, The effect of deeds, The accumulation of the good, bad or any deeds one (pashu - soul) has done during this and previous births
kashmiri shaivam	trika philosophy, The shaivite philosophy that ruled the Kashmir
Kevala	Alone. isolated
Kevala avastha	The avastha named last is Kevala Avastha. The other four avasthas constitute Sakala avastha. The state of the Jivanmukta is the Sutta avastha.
Kevali	One whose sole essence of Self consists in ebing pure consciousness; One who is established in Self.
Kha-traya	Kha-akasa, symbol of consciousness. Kha-traya-The three akasas,, viz; Sakti, vyapini, and samana situated in the head from the Vindu between the eye-brows up to Brahmarandhra. Concentrating in the head, one should rise higher by means of the above three khas
Khecari	Sub-species of Vamesvari Sakti, connected with the pramata, the empirical self; Khecari is one that moves in 'Kha' or 'akasa', the vast expanse of consciousness.
Khecari-cakra	The cakra or group of the saktis that move in the expanse of consciousness of the empirical subject.
Khecari Mudra	The bliss of the vast expanse of spiritual consciousness, also known as divya mudra or Sivavastha (the state of Siva).
Khyati	Jnana; knowledge; wisdom;
Kosa	(Lit., sheath or covering) The following are the five kosas as described in Vedanta philosophy: (1) the annamayakosa, or gross physical sheath, made of and sustained by food; (2) the pranamayakosa, or vital sheath, consisting of the five pranas or vital forces; (3) the manomayakosa, or mental sheath; (4)the vijnanamayakosa, or sheath of intelligence; (5) the anandamayakosa, or sheath of bliss. These five sheaths cover the Soul, which is the innermost reality or the jiva and is untouched by the characteristics of the sheaths.
Koti	Point, initial or final
kOvil, kOyil	temple, Alayam
Krama	Realization of Self by means of Kriya Yoga
Kramamudra	A successive occurrence of nimilana and unmilana samadhi; the condition in which the mind by the force of samavesa swings alternately between the internal (essential Self) and the external (the world which now appears as Siva)
Krida	Play or sport of the Divine.
Kriya	action, the Sakti of Suddha-vidya Activity; the power of activity.
Kriya Sakti	The Divine Energy. God as conceived as the author of evolution
Kriya Yoga	Anava upaya, also known as Kriyopaya
Kriya Sakti	The power of assuming any and every form (Sarvakarayogitvam Kriyasaktih)
Krtrima	Constructed by vikalpa or determinate idea; pseudo reality.
Ksema	Preservation of what is obtained
Ksetrajna	The empirical subject
Ksobha	Identification of 'I' with the gross or subtle body.
Ksetra	Holy place; place of pilgrimage.
Ksetrajna	The empirical Subject
Kuhana	Magic or tickling of the arm-pit
Kula	Sakti manifesting herself in 36 tattvas
Kulamarga	The discipline for attaining to the Supreme
Kulamnaya	The Sakta system or doctrine of realizing the Supreme by means of all the letters from (a) to (ksa)
Kumari	One who carries on the play of the world-process or one who brings about an end to the difference-creating Maya
Kumbhaka	Retention of prana
kumara, subrahmaNya, muruga	The second son of Lord shiva
Kundali or Kundalini	The creative power of Siva. A distinct sakti that lies folded up in three and a half folds in Muladhara.
Kutilakrti	A curved form in which prana flows before the awakening of Kundalini
Kuta-bija	The letter (ksa)