Footnote onesto ‘Enlightened Living’
Preciso illustrate the translator’s unique position, six important words that occur durante the text are given below with verso complete list of their meanings as found durante verso sensitivo-sized dictionary:
cittam: 1. Observing. attending. 2. (a) Thought, thinking, attention; (b) desire, intention, aim. 3. The mind. 4. 5. Reason, intellect, reasoning faculty.
nirodha: 1. Confinement, locking up, imprisonment. 2. Enclosing, covering up. 3. Restraint, check, suppression, control. 4. Hindrance, obstruction, opposition. 5. Hurting, punishing, injuring. 6. Annihilation, complete destruction. 7. Aversion, dislike. 8. Disappointment, frustration of hopes (in dramatic language). 9. (With the Buddhists) Suppression of pain.
pranidhana: 1. Applying, employing, application, use. 2. Great effort, energy. 3. Profound religious meditation, abstract contemplation. 4. Respectful behaviour towards. 5. Renunciation of the fruit of actions. 6. Entrance, access. 7. (With Buddhists) Verso prayer, an entreaty.
pratyaya 1. Conviction, settled belief. 2. Esclusiva, reliance, faith, confidence. 3. Conception, ispirazione, notion, opinion. 4. Surety, certainty. 5. Knowledge, experience, cognition. 6. A cause, ground, means of action. 7. Celebrity, fame, renown. 8. Per termination, an affix or suffix. 9. An oath. 10. Per dependant. 11. A usage, practice. 12. Per hole. 13. Intellect, understanding. 14. An assistant or associate. 15. An epithet of Vishnu. 16. (With Buddhists) Verso co-operating cause. 17. An instrument, verso means of agency. 18. Religious contemplation. 19. Per householder who keeps per sacred fire.
samadhi: 1. Collecting, composing, concentrating. 2. Profound or abstract meditation, concentration of mind on one object, perfect absorption of thought into the one object of meditation, i.anche., the Supreme Spirit (the 8th and last stage of Yoga). 3. Intentness, concentration (durante general), fixing of thoughts. 4. Penance, religious obligation, devotion (puro penance) 5. Bringing together, concentration, combination, collection. 6. Reconciliation, settling or composing differences. 7. Silence. 8. Agreement, assent, promise. 9. Requital. 10. Completion, accomplishment. 11. Perseverance per extreme difficulties. 12. Attempting impossibilities. 13. Laying up corn (per times of famine), storing grain. 14. Verso tomb. 15. The joint of the neck; a particular position of the neck. 16. (Durante rhetoric) A figure of speech. 17. One of the ten gunas or merits of style. 18. Verso religious vow or self-imposed restraint alua app gratuita. 19. Support, upholding.
vritti: 1. Being, existence. 2. Abiding, remaining, attitude, being per verso particular state. 3. State, condition. 4. Action, movement, function, operation. 5. Course, method. 6. Conduct, behaviour, course of conduct, mode of action. 7. Profession, occupation, business, employment, mode of leading life. 8. Livelihood, maintenance, means of subsistence or livelihood. 9. Wages, hire. 10. Cause of activity. 11. Respectful treatment. 12. Commentary Gloss, exposition. 13. Revolving, turning round. 14. The circumference of verso wheel or circle. 15. Verso complex formation requiring resolution or explanation. 16. The power or force of a word by which it expresses, indicates or suggests a meaning; general character or force of a word. 17. Style durante composition. 18. Customary allowance. 19. Manner of thinking.
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