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Soka

Sraddha

Steya

Sthita-prajna

Sthiti
Sty ana
Sugr"iva

Sukha

Sumanasya

Sunyasunya

Supta

Surya

Surya-bhedana

Surya-chakra

Surya-naifi

Susumna • •

Susupti-• avastha

Sva

Svadhisthana-..

chakra

Svadhyaya

Svana

Svapnavastha

Svasa

Svasa-prasvasa

Svatmarama

Tada.

Glossary 531

goes on with every inhalation within every living

creature throughout life.

Anguish, distress, grief, sorrow.

Faith, trust.

Theft, robbery.

One whose wisdom is firmly established and does

not waver; one who is unmoved by the dualities of

pleasure and pain, gain and loss, joy and sorrow,

victory and defeat.

Stability.

Languor, sloth.

A monkey chief who assisted Rama in his search

and recovery of Sita, who had been abducted by the

demon king Rav�a.

Happiness, delight, joy, pleasure, comfort.

Benevolence.

The mind is in a state of void ( Siinya) and yet a

state that is not void (asiinya).

Sleeping.

The sun.

Piercing or passing through (bhedana) the sun.

Here the inhalation is done through the right nostril,

from where the Pirigala-na91 or Siirya-na�'i starts.

Exhalation is done through the left nostril, from

where the Ida-nad'i or Chandra-nad'i starts.

Nervous plexus situated between the navel and the

heart.

The nad'i • of the sun. Another name for Pingala-

nad'i..

The main channel situated inside the spinal column.

The state of the mind in dreamless sleep.

One's own, innate, vital force, soul, self.

The nervous plexus situated above the organs of

generation.

Education of the self by study of divine literature.

A dog.

The state of the mind in a dream.

Inspiration.

Heaving and sighing.

The author of the Ha!ha-yoga-pradipika, a classical

textbook on Hatha-yoga.

A mountain.