Light on Yoga: The Bible of Modern Yoga

524 Glossary

Lauliki
Lay a
Laya-yoga

Lobha
Lola

Lorna

Madhyama

Maha

Mahabharata

Maharsi •

Maitri

Makara

Mala

Man

Manas

Manas-chakra

Manasika

Mandala..

Mandara

Manduka

Mani• puraka-

chakra

Manoman'i

Mantra

Manu

Marga

Mar'ichi

Matsya

Matsyendra

Mayura

Menaka

Meru-danda

The same as nauli, q. v.

Dissolution; absorption of the mind, devotion.

The achievement of union with the Supreme

Universal Soul through adoration or devotion.

Greed.

Tremulous, dangling, moving to and fro like a swing

or a pendulum.

Hair.

Middling, average, mediocre.

Great, mighty, powerful, lofty, noble.

The celebrated epic composed by Vyasa. It includes

the Bhagavad Gita.

A great sage.

Friendliness coupled with a feeling of oneness.

A crocodile.

A garland, wreath.

To think.

The individual mind having the power and faculty

of attention, selection and rejection. The ruler of the

senses.

Nervous plexus situated between the navel and the

heart.

Of the mind, mental.

A circle. It also means a collection, a division of the

Rgveda.

A mountain used by the gods and demons as a

churning stick when they churned the cosmic ocean

for nectar.

A frog.

The nervous plexus situated m the region of the

navel.

The state of samadhi.

A sacred thought or a prayer.

Name of the father of the human race.

A way, road, path.

Name of one of the sons of Brahma. He was a sage

and the father of Kasyapa, q. v.

A fish.

One of the founders of Ha�ha-yoga.

A peacock.

A nymph, the mother of Sakuntala.

The spinal column.