Light on Yoga: The Bible of Modern Yoga

530 Glossary

Sarva

Sarvaizga

Sat"i

Sattva

Sattva-guna '.

Saucha

Sava

Say ana

Sesa.

Setu

Setu-bandha

Siddha

Siinha

Sir a

Sirs a

Si�ya

Sit a

Sit a
Sitakiir"i and
Sit ali
Siva

Siva-samhita
Skanda
Smrti..
Sodhana
'Soham'

goddess of speech and learning, the consort of

Brahma.

All, whole.

The whole body.

The daughter of Daksa Prajapati. She immolated

herself for the insult �ffered to her husband Siva

by her father, and was then re.born as the daughter

of Himalaya and again won Siva as her husband.

She was the mother of Kartikeya (the god of war)

and of Ganapati (the god of learning, wisdom and

good luck).

The illuminating, pure and good quality of every­

thing in nature.

The quality of goodness and purity.

Purity, cleanliness.

A corpse, a dead body.

A bed, a couch.

A celebrated serpent, said to have a thousand heads.

Sesa is. represented as the couch of Visnu, floating..

on the cosmic ocean, or as supporting the world on

his hoods. Other names of Sesa are Ananta and

Vasuki.

A bridge.

.

The construction of a bridge. Name of an asana in

which the body is arched.

A sage, seer or prophet; also a semi-divine being

of great purity and holiness.

A lion.

A tubular organ in the body. See na91.

The head.

A pupil, a disciple.

Name of the wife of Rama, the heroine of the epic

Ramaya�a.

Cool, cold.

Types of pranayama which cool the system.

Name of the third god of the Hindu Trinity, who is

entrusted with the task of destruction.

A classical textbook on Ha�ha-yoga.

A name of Kartikeya, the god of war.

Memory, a code of law.

Purification, cleansing.

'He am I'; the unconscious repetitive prayer that