ESSAYS ON THE GITA

CONTENTS

Pre-Content

BOOK ONE

  I OUR DEMAND AND NEED FROM THE GITA
  II THE DIVINE TEACHER
  III THE HUMAN DISCIPLE
  IV THE CORE OF THE TEACHING
  V KURUKSHETRA
  VI MAN AND THE BATTLE OF LIFE
  VII  THE CREED OF THE ARYAN FIGHTER
  VIII SANKHYA AND YOGA
  IX SANKHYA, YOGA AND VEDANTA
  X THE YOGA OF THE INTELLIGENT WILL
  XI WORKS AND SACRIFICE
  XII THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SACRIFICE
  XIII THE LORD OF THE SACRIFICE
  XIV THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE WORKS
  XV THE POSSIBILITY AND PURPOSE OF AVATARHOOD
  XVI THE PROCESS OF AVATARHOOD
  XVII THE DIVINE BIRTH AND DIVINE WORKS
  XVIII THE DIVINE WORKER
  XIX EQUALITY
  XX EQUALITY AND KNOWLEDGE
  XXI THE DETERMINISM OF NATURE
  XXII BEYOND THE MODES OF NATURE
  XXIII NIRVANA AND WORKS IN THE WORLD
  XXIV THE GIST OF THE KARMAYOGA

BOOK TWO

  I THE Two NATURES
  II THE SYNTHESIS OF DEVOTION AND KNOWLEDGE
  III THE SUPREME DIVINE
  IV THE SECRET OF SECRETS
  V THE DIVINE TRUTH AND WAY
  VI WORKS, DEVOTION AND KNOWLEDGE
  VII THE SUPREME WORD OF THE GITA
  VIII GOD IN POWER OF BECOMING
  IX THE THEORY OF THE VIBHUTI
  X THE VISION OF THE WORLD-SPIRIT—TIME THE DESTROYER
  XI THE VISION OF THE WORLD-SPIRIT—THE DOUBLE ASPECT
  XII THE WAY AND THE BHAKTA
  XIII THE FIELD AND ITS KNOWER
  XIV ABOVE THE GUNAS
  XV THE THREE PURUSHAS
  XVI THE FULLNESS OF SPIRITUAL ACTION
  XVII DEVA AND ASURA
  XVIII THE GUNAS, FAITH AND WORKS
  XIX  THE GUNAS, MIND AND WORKS
  XX SWABHAVA AND SWADHARMA
  XXI TOWARDS THE SUPREME SECRET
  XXII THE SUPREME SECRET
  XXIII THE CORE OF THE GITA'S MEANING
  XXIV THE MESSAGE OF THE GITA
    GLOSSARY
    INDEX

INDEX

 

A

A, the letter, 333

A, the spirit of the gross and external, 301 f

Abandonment of all dharmas—See Dharmas, abandonment of all of fruits of action, 396

Abhayam, 432

Abhyāsa, 220, 369

Absolute, the, 59, 272, 320, 335, 337, 338, 367, 405, 291, 449,486, 491, 495, 496, 502, 503, 519, 520, 537

and Bhakti, 272

mental, 518

negative, 404

of delight and beauty, 519

of inner self-mastery and control of life, 519

of intellectual truth and reason, 519

of love, sympathy, compassion, 519

of right and conduct, 519

positive, 404-05

Absolutism, spiritual, 518

Absolutists of the spirit, 520

Ācāra, (rigid custom), 467

Acintyam, 486

Acintyarupa, 284, 311, 316, 496

Action and inaction, 29, 162

and the liberated man, 106

done according to personal desire and done according to, Shastra, 436

done by nature, 76, 196

established standards of, 412

of the whole world, 16

tamasic, rajasic, sattwic, 458

Activism, divine, 278

Adharma, (also ADHARMA), 158, 160, 460

Adhibhūta, 265, 266, 267

Adhidaiva, 265, 267

Adhidaivata, 162

Adhikāra, 256

Adhisthāna, 455, 456

Adhisthātrī devatā, 142

Adhiyajña, 108,. 266

 

 

Adhyaksa, 292

Adhyātma, 108, 265

Adhyatma-shastra, 435

Adityas, 332, 347

Adoration, (see also Bhakti and Devotion), 279, 298, 299, 307

Adwaita of the Gita, 411

the real, 411

Mayavadin's, 441

Visishta—of Ramanuja, (See Visishtadwaita)

Aesthetic knowledge and beauty of the Divine, 186

Agni, 110, 332, 356

Ahankara, (also Ahamkāra), 504

Ahamkrta bhāva, 497

Ahimsā, (also Ahinsa),, 49, 432, 516

Ahuramazda, 158

Ahriman, 42, 158

Aim of human existence, 57

Airavata, 333

Aiśvara yoga, 321

Akarma, 454

Akartā, 208, 210, 211, 485

Akrtsnavidah, 195, 196

Aksara purusa, 267, 365, 372, 401, 485

Aksara, (Akshara), 73, 77, 107, 118 121, 128, 129, 132, 210, 211, 212, 215, 220, 223, 372, 397, 400, 401, 404, 405, 408, 411, 484

All, the, 356, 358

-blissful, 307

-conscient, 331

-existence, 140

-knowledge, 139

-lover, 305

-ruler, (See Samrat)

-Self, 527

-Soul, 304

-spirit, 351

-will, 139

Aloofness, philosophic, 190

Amrta, 110, 329

(Amśa) Avatar, 140

Amsah sanatanah, 408, 496, 502 

 

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Ananda, 169, 250, 300, 306, 329-30, ; 351, 358, 364, 379, 398, 421

as utter love, 398

of creation, 358

Ananta, the serpent, 332

Ananta-guna, 338, 477

Ancestors, divinised, 303

Ancient of Days, 270, 349, 358

Indian civilisation and the individual, 46-47

philosophies, 68

Soul, 356

urge to action, 406

Ancients, the seven, 317

Anīś, 72

Anityam asukham, 118, 120, 178

Antimony between impersonal self and human personality, 280

between self and Nature, 280

Anumantā, 66, 71

Anumati, 208

Apāna, 218

Apāpaviddham, 165

Apocalypse, divine, 38 

Apollonian Supermanhood, 126 ;

Apostles, 149 

Apothegm of Heraclitus, 38, 39

Aprakāśa, 394

Apravrtti, 394

Archer, divine, 464

Arjuna, the disciple, 19;—the divine man, 55;—the fighter, 20, 21; —the representative man, 20

Arjuna s inner being, 11;—recoil, 50, 51

Arjuni, the White One, 20

Ārta, 259

Arthārthī, 259

Aryaman, 333

Aryan, 22

community, tour orders of, 467, 471

culture, 53, 80

fighter, 53, 54, 61, 87

man, 53, 54

religion, 80

Asat, 500

Ascent, 145, 146, 148, 150

of humanity into divine birth, 148, 150

 

Ascetic inaction, 408

renunciation, (See Sannyasa, also Renunciation)

Asceticism, physical, 52

Asiatic culture, 80 f

Asita, 327

Askesis, (See also Tapasya), 9, 218, 225, 248, 303, 405, 442, 446, 447, 449, 453, 465, 471, 480

doers of, 225

inner, 52

of mental and moral perfection, 447

of outward act, 447

of speech, 447

psycho-physical, 218

tamasic, rajasic, sattwic, 442, 446,47

Aspiration, 279, 296, 303, 310

Āśraya, 241

Association, Principle of, 41

Aśubham, 282

Asura-s, 160, 167, 255, 424, 429, 434

Asuric disposition, 21

force-s, 40, 444

man, 432

nature or prakrti, 141, 142, 255, 298, 431, 432, 434, 543

qualities, 54

Superman, 343

tapasya, 447

Aswattha tree, 333, 403, 406

Aswins, 347

Ātma-dāna, 448

Ātmamāyā, 142

Ātmaprasāda, 94

Ātmaśakti, 318

Ātma-samarpana, 448

Ātma-vibhūti, 329, 338

Atheistic Sankhya, 64

Attachment, 93, 95, 172

mental and vital, 500

to enjoyment of gunas, 396, 

to fruits of works, 452,

to inaction, 95, 454,

to the possession and enjoyment of things, 535,

to work, 106, 107, 454

AUM,301f

Avatar, 4, 12, 13, 14,16, 17, 19, 85,

 

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123, 127, 132, 133, 134, 136, 138, 143, 145, 147, 148, ISO, 151, 1S2, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160,297,356, 359, 528, 531

a dual phenomenon of humanity and divinity, 151

and crisis, 154

and exoteric Christianity, 12

and miracles, 151

and restoration of Dharma, 155

and Vibhuti, distinction between, 148

Godhead in humanity, 12, 19, 123

partial, 148

the Process or, 145-153

work of the, 157 ' .

Avatarhood, 14, 15, 133. 134, 136, 137, 139, 145, 147, 148, 149, 153, 155, 156

intermediary idea of, 148-150 

the conception of, in the Gita, 14, 16

the possibility and purpose of, 133144

the Process of, 145-153

Avidyāmāya, 143

Avikārya, 72

Avyakta, 243, 311, 388f, 401, 405

Avyaktamūrti, 66

Avyaya, 406, 492

Avyavahārya, 272, 312, 486

 

B

 

Bāhya sparśa, 67

Bālavat, 190

Bali, 156

Bankim Chandra Chatterji, 34

Beauty of the Divine and aesthetic knowledge, 186

Becoming:

and faith, 268-69

and non-becoming, cycle of, 271

cosmic, 209, 400

divine, 213, 269, 330, 485

divine subjective, 269

inward and outward, 288

mutable, 266

mutation of, 276

objective, 331

of the soul, 73, 268

 

outward, 288, 318

Powers or the, (see Powers of the Becoming and also Vibhuti)

primal qualities of, 318

spiritual, 542

subjective, 73, 249, 313, 330-31

ultimate of the soul, 268

universal, 330, 441, 529

Becomings, 77, 107, 113, 119, 123, 148, 247, 250, 268, 313, 319, 328, 377, 457, 496

and Being, (see Being and Becoming-s)

of the Divine, 319

perpetual mental, 317

psychological, 319

subjective, 249, 313, 330-31

Being and becoming-s, 58, 285, 290, 303, 318, 319, 362, 377

Consciousness and delight, (or bliss), 280, 342

Delight of, 145

divine, 36, 73, 108, 122, 182, 213, 239, 242, 273, 280, 287, 312, 313, 336, 340, 384, 418, 424, 497, 503, 517, 528, 531, 542

egoistic, 56

Immutable, 29, 210

impersonal, 121, 122, 325

individual-in Nature, 240, 241

manifesting in cosmos, 281

mental, (see Mental being)

mutable, 29, 31, 267

natural, 198, 342, 360, 380, 464,

503, 530, 543

original status of, 268

personal, 325, 365

psychological, 325

Self-existent, 77, 143

subjective, 266

Supernal, 301

Supreme, 12, 29, 35, 113, 129,

243, 244, 286, 290, 319, 356

timeless, 280, 407

transcendent, 44, 316, 360, 512

universal, 45, 286, 328, 336, 360, 382, 419, 441, 449

world, 274

Beloved, 159,492, 511, 541

Benares, death in, 269

Bethlehem, 14

 

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Beyond, 302, 320

Bhagavān, 159

Bhāgavat, 159

Bhakta, (,also BHAKTA), 159, 182,

225, 259, 344, 362, 363, 370

Bhaktas, (also Bhakti) £our lands of, 259

Bhakti, 219, 225, 241, 256, 257, 258, 259, 263, 270, 272, 299, 315, 361, 398, 489,491

and the impersonal Brahman, 489

as the climax of Yoga, 225, 476

psychic and vital-emotional, 259

Vaishnava, 360

with knowledge, 258, 259

Bhakti's place in Yoga of self-liberation, 279 Bhaktiyoga, (or Yoga of Bhakti), 36, 73, 270

Bharata, 59

Bharatas, 15

Bhartā, 71

Bhāvāh, 249

Bhima, 179

Bhishma, 56, 352

Bhrigu, 333

Bhūtagrāma, 148

bhūta, pañcha, 90, 242

Bhūtānām iśvarah, 132

Bhūtāni, 113, 142, 245, 286, 303

Bhūtasarga, 431

Bible, 85

Birds, two—on one tree, 72

Birth, divine, 132, 135, 144, 146, 148, 150, 151, 154-161, 262, 278

Bliss, (see also Ananda), 221 -soul, 175

Blood-stained enjoyments, 24, 51, 56

Body as the delegated image of God, 500

Bondage, 100, 163, 304, 394, 395 cause of, 100 of the three gunas, 394-96 to works, 87, 88, 109

Boundless universe, 284

Brahma, 84, 251, 271, 348, 356, 358, 391

and rajas,391

Day and Night of, 271

Brahman, 8, 14, 73, 77, 78, .83, 84,

 

 

85f, 97, 105, 107, 108 f, 110, 112, 169, 172, 173, 184, 185, 188, 212, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 224, 230, 264, 265, 267, 272, 295, 364, 365, 381, 382, 385, 484, 485, 486, 491, 501, 534, 536

Akshara, 211

and Maya, opposition made between, 309

becoming, 484

born of the Immutable, 105

established in sacrifice, 105

extinction in, 215, 216

fire of, 110, 111

great, 249 

immutable, 83, 104, 109,172, 215, 267,488

impersonal, 121, 421, 4.87, 489

in the Akshara, 212

knower of, 14, 188, 272

Nirvana in, 216, 217, 219

of the Mayavadins, 33

soul in union with, 169

Supreme, 73, 84, 295, 326, 491

the equal, 185

transcendent, 382

triple, 449

universal, 234, 382

Vedantic, 78

wheel of, 114

work born from, 107

Brahma satyam jagan mithyā, 403

Brahmabhuta, 77, 148, 365

Brahma-bhūya, 406 484, 485

Brahmacharya, 221

Brahmaloka, 80

Brahman-consciousness, 217, 220

Brahma-nirvāna, 215, 216, 503

-Sutras, 378

-Vada, 80

Brahmavadins, 80

Brahmayoga, 215

Brahmic condition, 76, 77, 95, 123, 124

consciousness, 26, 30, 32, 33, 112, 118,216-217

poise, 97

status, (see also Brahmic condition), 376, 397, 406

status, two ways of arriving at, 406

 

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Brāhmī sthiti, 95

Brahmanas, 449

Brahmanya, 478

Brahmin, 81, 168, 305, 306, 466, 469, 471, 472, 478, 536

natural work of, 466

Brahminhood, 469, 478

Breath-control, 110, 218

Brihaspati, 332

Buddha, 11, 31, 33, 135, 136, 147, 151, 152, 153, 156, 158, 177, 260, 355, 437

Buddhahood, 136, 149

Buddhism, 9, 78, 80 f, 215, 219, 309

Buddhistic, 78, 158

Buddhists, 78, 96, 149, 215

Buddhi, Sankhya Principle of, 67, 70, 90, 391

as mental power of understanding, 88

as will and knowledge, 89, 90, 94, 104, 200, 201, 202, 323, 401

tamasic, rajasic or sattvic, 460-.62

Buddhi-bheda, 177, 198

Buddhi Yoga, 71, 75, 505

 

C

 

Call of God, 32

Carlylean heroism, 147

Camel-man, 39

Caste system, 466-67, 469

Caturvarna, 466, 468

Causality, 266, 267, 530

Causal Purusha, 449

Cessation of desire and attachment, 488

Cestāh, (efforts), 455

Chaitanya, the Avatar of Nadiya, 13 f, 149

Chance, world of, 432

Chandala, 306, 479

Chandāmsi, 407

Charioteer, the divine, 20, 22, 43, 123, 241, 335, 351, 355, 509

of the human soul in world-action, 278

Chhandogya Upanishad, Krishna in the, 14

Child-man, 39

Chinese, books .of the, 85

 

Chit-Shakti, (same as (Cit-sakti)

Chitraratha, 332

Chivalry, 48

Choice, Free and determinism of Nature, 205

Chosen and beloved soul, 508

Christ, 11, 14, 42, 135, 136, 147, 151, 153, 156, 158, 260, 354, 437

the historicity of, 14

Christ's miracles, 151

Christhood, 136

Christian, 157, 158

death, 269

devotionalism of Middle Ages, 30

equality, 174

incarnation, doctrine of, 149

martyrs, 41

Christianity, 42, 85, 157, 158

exoteric and Avatarhood, 12

Church, 42

Cit-śakti, (or Chit Shakti), 243, 339, 426 f, 442

Cittavrtti-nirodha, 218

Classes of society in the East and in Europe, 468-69

Collectivism, 125

Compassion, divine, 54

Communion with gods, 30,2

Communion, outer, 302

Companion birds, 72

Conscience, 46

Conscious being—descent of the Infinite, 12

beings, multiplicity of, 69, 71, 72

embodied soul or dehi, 13

soul, double status of, 73

Consciousness, Brahmic, (see Brahmic Consciousness)

bodily, 337

cosmic, (see Cosmic Consciousness)

creative, 44

divine, 13, 140, 148, 149, 150, 151, 168, 292, 300, 307, 369, 541

divinised, 337

human, 19, 148

of Purusha, 90

phenomenal or frontal, 140

spiritual (see Spiritual Consciousness)

Consecration of self and nature and life, 528

 

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Consent of Purusha, 69, 71

Cosmic consciousness, 289, 502

cycles, theory of, 271

Energy, 67, 74;—Energy thirteen principles constituting subjective aspect or, 67;—Energy, twenty-four principles of, 67, 74

Ignorance, 318

manifestation and non-manifestation Periods of, 271

monism, 316

Nature, 68, 277, 289

principles, twenty-four, 67, 74

procession in Time and supracosmic Eternity, 316

relations, 316

sanction, 272

sacrifice, 279

Spirit, 532

Cosmological notions, Indian, 271,  272 Cosmopolitanism, 125

Cosmos, 66, 69, 72, 77, 102, 265, 266, 288, 302, 318,320

Divine in, 288

Sankhya explanation of, 67

Creation by destruction, 38

Creator, universal, 37

Creative Consciousness, 44

Crisis, 12, 22, 23, 45, 154

and Avatar, 154

Critical intelligence and revelatory knowledge, 282

Cross, 151, 191

Crucifixion, 14

Cycle of becoming and non-becoming, 271

Cycle of births and deaths of bodies, 381

Cycles, cosmic (or Cycles of Cosmos), 271

Cycle of dissolution and appearance of worlds, 386, 389

Cycle of aeons, 386

Cycles of manifestation, unending, 402

Cycle of Nature, 104

Cycles of Time, 292 :

Cyclic whirl of Nature, 292

 

D

Daivam (Fate), 455

Dakshina, 444

Dāna, 443, 448

Dāna, tamasic, rajasic and sattwic, 448

Danava-s, 327, 430

Darkness, children of, 158

Darwinians, 39

Day of the soul, 95-96

Death, 56, 57, 58, 332, 349, 353 

Death-bed remembrance and becoming, 269

Death of body and Immortality, 56-58

Deist, 137

Deity, 42

Delight, divine, 250, 398

triple or triune, 540

of being, 145

Demiurge, 320

Demon, 158

Demoniac nature, 161

Descent, 146, 150, 151, 155, 458

of the divine Purusha into humanity, 150

Desire-s, 54, 91, 93, 97, 98, 101, 102, 117, 233, 250, 304, 305,432, 436, 437, 485, 533, 534, 537, 539, 543 1

cessation of, 488

positive and negative, 93

-soul, 175, 176, 197

-will, 222

Desireless works or action, 76, 83, 97, 101, 102, 124, 369, 371, 541

Desirelessness, 173, 183, 370, 371, 449, 500

Destroyer, 37, 348

Time the, (see Time the Destroyer)

Destruction as universal principle of life, 39, 41

Detachment, divine, 277

intellectual and spiritual, 277

Determination of Nature, 417

Determinations of energy and substance, 381

Determinism of Prakriti or Nature, 35, 170, 194-204, 205-208

Deva-s, 81, 83, 84, 104, 108, 424, 429, 430, 431, 433, 434

and Asura, 430-34

nature or prakriti, 431, 432

 

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Devaki, 14

Devala, 327

Devil, semi-omnipotent, 350 ;

Devotion (see also Bhakti), 77, 79, ;• 300, 304, 307, 370, 371, 490, 495, 540

Dhananjaya, 147

Dharma-s, 22, 24, 25, 111, 130, 134, • 136, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 167, 168, 224, 250, 339, 352, 372, 406, 411, 412, 413, 428, 430, 460, 461, 482, 492, 496, 498, 509, 512, 513, 522, 523, 542, 543, 544

and Adharma, 160, 460

and war, 168

as government of inner and outer of man, 157

as law of action or life, 24, 25, 542

as law of being, 339, 372

as law of nature, 428 as one's nature, 130

as religious, social and moral rule of conduct, 32

changing and evolving in its forms, 158

established by Avatar, 136, 158

eternal and unchanging in its principle, 158, 397, 406, 411

immortal, 372, 412, 428, 492

in the Indian conception, 157

kingdom of, 160, 431, 456

literal meaning of, 24 f, 157

of sattwic man, 498

spiritual sense of, 250

upholding of—and Avatar, 134, 135, 155

various senses of, 255

Dharmas, conflict of, 413

mixture of, 498, 499

Dharma-ksetra, 166, 352

Dharma-rājya, 344

Dhīra, (calm and wise man), 57

Dhritarashtra, 14, 179

the sons of, 24

Dhritarashtrians, (,also Dhartarashtriyans), 55, 171, 211

Dhrtih, 432, 460, 488

Dhrti, (persistence of will), tamasic, rajasic, or sattwic, 460

Dhyāna-yoga, 489

 

 

Dialectical warfare, 8

Dialectics-analytical, 7

Difficulty of human action, 483

Dionysian Supermanhood, 126

Disabilities of Shudras and women, 6

Disciple, human, 19

Discoveries of physical science, 3

Discrimination, right, 79

Dispensation, external, 302

universal and individual, 301

Dissolution, 386, 388 f, 389, 397

of all that is in life and mind, 520

of individual spiritual being, 388 f

Divine, the, 9, 13, 15, 16, 20, 25, 26, 29, 35, 54, 59, 94, 95, 105, 116, 118, 121, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 241, 248, 249, etc,

Being, (see Being, divine) ;

Birth, (see Birth divine)

birth, ascent of humanity into, 148, 150

charioteer, 43, 44, 219

Compassion, 54, 261

consciousness, (see Consciousness, divine) calling down descent of, 148, 149;—growing of the human into, 148, 149

creators of races of living beings, 358

embryo, 389

government, 320, 321, 350

humanity, 151, 335

immanent, 532

impersonality, 280

in man, 186

Influence, 501

light, 357, 410, 508

lodged in human body, 290, 293, 409

love, 261

man, 152,356

Maya, (see Maya, divine)

Nature, 36, 74, 128, 132, 134, 135, 150, 152, 157, 160, 182, 214, 247, 250, 253, 282, 292, 293, 295, 313, 321, 339, 341, 342, 544

Person, (see Person, divine)

Personality, (see Personality, Divine)

 

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Presence, 140, 15Q, 247, 250, 305, 429, 544

Tapas, 465

Teacher, (see Teacher, Divine) transcendent, 531

the Universal, 532

works, (see Works, Divine)

Will, (see, Will, Divine)

Wisdom, (see Wisdom, Divine)

Yoga, 284, 315, 321, 322, 335

Divinity, 283, 293, 297, 303, 326, 328

fourfold presence of, 477

Divyam janma, 135

Divyam karma, 135

Doer, 34, 170, 384, 454, 455, 458 464, 536

of action, tamasic, rajasic and sattwic, 458-59

instrument and work, 458

temporary use of, 187

Double Prakriti, 77, 195

Dravya-yajña, 111

Drona, 56, 352

Dualism of determination of Nature and self-determination, 417-18; —of Purusha and Prakriti, 71, 417;-of two Purushas, 417;of Vedantic School, relative, 65

Dualist and God, 138

Dualities, 93, 95, 166, 169, 220, 256, 257, 306, 379, 416, 533

Dual reactions, 414

Durga, 42

Duryodhana, 155

Duty, 32, 33

relative nature of, 3r3-3.4

Dvandva-moha, 256

Dvandvātīta, 166

Dwaita, 65

E

Eater eating is eaten, 39 

Ecstasy, 87

Ego, 26, 83, 96, 116, 119, 121, 124, 125, 161, 204, 205, 206, 212, 232, 242, 304, 325, 335, 340, 342, 370, 414, 420, 432, 452, 455, 474, 483, 484, 487,497,

 

 

499, 501, 502, 504, 505, 527, 532, 534, 535, 537, 539, 543

and Freewill 207

as one o£ eightfold Nature, 242

as ostensible doer of works, 455

life of the, 497

sattwic, 204, 414, 488

vital and physical, 430

-idea, 205, 380, 484

-mind, 194, 197, 203,, 223, 495, 505

-motive, 380

-personality, 487, 490, 506

-self, 199

-sense, 69, 70, 71, 73, 96; 103, 118, 206, 209, 210, 211, 380, 421, 496, 504, 526, 536, 539

-soul, 194, 196, 379

Egoism, 51, 62, 102, 103,-117, 125, 164, 196, 340, 355, 370, 488, 494, 499, 505

of the doer, 164, 201

pragmatic, 35

rajasic, 434, 436, 488 

sattwic, 21, 488

tamasic, 436

of will, 454

Eightfold nature, 242

path of Buddha, 437

Elements-five concrete,. 67, 90, 242

natural, 386

Elemental conditions of Nature, Five, 90, 247, 409

powers and spirits, 303, 444

Emotionalism, spiritualised, 310'

Empirical truth, 312

Energisms of askesis, 446

tamasic, rajasic, sattwic, 446-47 

Energy, 66, 67, 244, 378, 379, 384, 389

conscious, 244

cosmic or universal, 74, 309, 390, 391, 393

divine, 339

Enigma of human action, 482-83

Enjoyer of action, 384

of askesis or tapasya, 219, 405

of sacrifice, 120, 219, 405

Enjoyment of objects of mind and sense, 409

personal, 109

 

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Enlightened man, 56

Equal Brahman, 185

Equality, 33, 36, 76, 94, 95, 97, 172182, 319, 370, 381, 396,411, 53S

and Karmayoga, 172

and Knowledge, 183-193

as sign and test for aspirant, 173

as sign of liberated soul, 396

as Yoga, 95, 181

Christian, 174

founded upon oneness, 190

Stoic, 174, 180

Equilibrium and disequilibrium of  gunas, 427

kinesis and inertia, 391

Eternal Individual, 253, 408, 513.

Eternity, transcendent, 381.

Ethical ideal, 516, 520, 544

idealism, 517

illusion, veil of, 37

problem, 516

Ethics, spiritualised, 516

Europe, Reformation in, 155

European intellect, 30

release from, 282, 321

Europeanised intellect, 30

Evil, release from, 282, 321

Evolution, 146, 152, 176, 319, 351, 353, 379, 384, 395. 412, 477

individual, 431

material, 90, 378

objective and subjective, 378-79

of Nature, 90, 176, 319

of Soul, 90, 434

order of, 90

physical, 152

social, 468-69

spiritual, 152, 343, 434, 465, 470

Evolutions of Time, 358

Evolutionary power, 330

Existence as manifestation of God, 12

Experience, spiritual, 5

Extinction, (.see Nirvana),

of ego, 480, 497, 503

of ignorance, 497

Extracosmic, 286

F

Faith, 46, 187, 225, 269, 282, 283, 302, 303, 328, 366, 436, 440,

 

 

450, 451, 464, 523, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530

act of, 46

and knowledge, 187

and stuff of being, 440

mental, 328

sattwic, rajasic and tamasic, 439, 440, 442

three elements of mental, 328

triple kind of, 440, 441

Fatalism and free-will, 207

Fate, (daivam), 455

Father of creatures, 83

God as, 301, 389

symbol of Divine Being, 332,

Fathers, 332

Fatherhood of God, 361

Feebleness of heart, Arjuna's, 353

Field, 26, 375-385

individual and world, 378

of being, 375-76

of Nature, 385

powers of the, 379

Field-knower, 26, 375-385

Finiteness of name and form,-12

Fire, divine, 13, 145

of Brahman, 110, 111

of Knowledge, 110, 183

Five causes or requisites of works, 455

Food, 105, 110, 443

tamasic, rajasic or sattwic, 443

Force acting in the world, 42

creative, 44

divine, 456

inconscient, 90

of being, developed (Vibhuti), 13

Form, 361

boundless universal, 359

supreme, 362

Formless, 16

Fourfold, order, a concrete form of spiritual truth,6

order of society, 6

Four orders and three gunas, 477

functions of social man in community, 468

orders as stages of self-development in manhood, 477

orders of Indian social culture, 466

orders of men, external idea of, 477 

 

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orders, spiritual sense assigned to by the Gita, 471

Freedom of Roman institutions, 189

Freedom or Purusha, 207

Freeman of the Gita, 190 

Free Will, (see Will, Free)  

Free-will, egoistic, 206, 207 ;

French Revolution, 155

Friend, divine, 56, 351

God as,-of people, 18, 43, 44, 56, 88

of all creatures, 350, 355, 357, 368

of our soul, 495

Friendhood of God, 360

Fruits of action, or works, 95, 369, 396, 420, 444, 445, 446, 447, 453,538

 

G

Gahana, 162 ,

Gandharvas, 332

Gandiva, heavenly bow, 55

Ganges, 269, 333

death in, 269

Garuda, 333

Gayatri, 333

Gita, a Vedantic work, 63

as a Gospel of Duty, 34

as a scripture, 4, 515

Local and temporal elements in, 5,6

Message of, 525

metaphysical connotation of, 4

synthesis of, 9, 10, 28

Gita's integral Yoga, 511, 529

Yoga, (see Yoga of Gita)

Giving (Dāna), tamasic, rajasic or sattwic, 448

Gnosis, divine, 14 God, 8, 30, etc.

as Destroyer, 43, 348-51

as Divine Mother, 301, 389

as Friend of all creatures, 18, 43, 44, 350

as teacher descended into humanity, 12

as transcendent Being, 44

call of, 32

extra-cosmic or supracosmic, 137

 

in the world, 12, 474

of Love and Mercy, 42, 260

of righteousness and justice, 260

of wrath and terror, 38, 260 Word of, 3

God's Lila, 330 

God-being, 30 

-doers, 523 

-knower-s, 128, 523, 540

-knowledge, 113, 189, 533, 540

-love, 540, 541

-nature, 225

-possessed, 30

-seer, 127

-state, 30

-union, integral, 530

-vision, 225, 437

-workers, 540

Godlover-s, 224, 262, 371, 523, 541

God-ward consciousness, 154

humanity, 145

law, 147

Goddess, 164

Godhead-s, 120, 142, 147, 208, 259, 281, etc.

as origin of all, 314

growing into, 282, 335

in humanity, 12, 54, 135, 143, 145, 147

in man, 313, 314, 326

in our nature and being, 300

incarnate—as guiding all, 12

names and images of, 259

secret in us, 290, 307, 331

supreme, 260, 263, 274, 281, 287, 304, 314, 317, 318, 347, 350, 492

terrible as well as sweet, 349

Time-figure of, 345

transcendent, 316, 319, 323

universal, 303, 304, 313, 330, 382, 419, 422

Good., Law of, 45

Supreme, 108

Good, and evil. Beyond, 185

confusion of, 185

Gospel of Duty, 34

of Works, 17, 29

Grace, 35

Greeks, 137 ,

Grihyasutras, 82

 

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Guhāyām, 141

Guide of man, 88

Guna-s, (see also Modes of Nature), 21, 66, 70, 79, 81, 91, 100, 101, 107, 170, 197, 200-04, 211, 213, 233, 341, 386, 397, 422, 424, 428, 536

a triple cord of bondage, 394

and action, 458-59

determining man's work or function (karma), 470

action in animal, 449

action in man, 449

action in plant, 448

all action done by, 102

and askesis, (tapasya), 446-48

and cosmic Trinity, 391

and doer of action, 459

and equality, 396-97

and faith, (sraddha), 439-41

and food, 443

and four orders of society, 470-72

and giving, (dāna), 448

and happiness, 462-63

and reason or understanding, (buddhi), 460-62

and sacrifice, 443-46

and soul's freedom, 207

as subject-matter of Veda, 81 

as three kinds of becomings, 250

attachment to the enjoyment of, 396

balance of—a quantitative play, 6

beyond, (see trigunātīla)  

equilibrium of, 66, 70, 198

free from, (see Nirguna and Nistraigunya)

psychological side of, 392

Gunā gunesu variants, 203, 210, 424

Guna-karma, 141, 339

Guru, 16, 56, 380

H

Happiness, tamasic, rajasic or sattwic, 462-63

Harivansha, 15

Harmonisation of pantheistic, theistic and transcendental terms of spiritual conception and experience, 316

 

Harmony, 43

of Love, Knowledge and Works, 9

Hatha Yoga, 9, 110

Hathayogins, 112

Hebraic, 53

Hell-s, 32, 54, 434

Heraclitus on war, 38

Hereditary basis of caste, 467, 470

principle as practical basis of fourfold order, 469

Hero-worship, 343

Heroic philosophy, 180

Himalaya, 333

Hinduism, 156

Hindu religion, catholicity of, 44

Holiday of fight, 22, 51

Holy Spirit, 149

Horse of sacrifice, 39

Human existence, aim of, 57

history, 41

riddle, 275

Humanitarianism, 125, 156

Hunger as Death, 39

Huns; 40

I

I, little limited, 497

I, Supreme egoless, 383

Iblis, 158 .

Icchā-dvesa, 255

Idea, the,' 384, 389, 391

Idea-being and Idea-force, 391

Ignorance, 17, 97, 98, 118, 127, 131, 184, 185, 194, 198, 212, 216, 244, 281, 295, 305, 312, 313, 320, 321, 338, 341, 342, etc.

Illusion, pragmatic, 441

Illusionism, 79

Illusionist Mayavada, 310

"I am He," 280

Immanent, the, 288, 326, 328

Immanence of the Divine and in the Divine, 336

Immeasurable, the, 348, 356

Immortality, 57, 59, 61, 329, 357, 385, 386, 387

and death of the body, 56-58, 386

and Time, 387

as supreme status of Spirit, 387

in ancient teaching, 386

 

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Immutable, the, 29, 65, 77, 215, 241, 311,312,348,358,364,365, 367, 399-411

manifest, 367

unmanifest, 367

Impersonal, the, 118, 121, 123, 170, 210, 490, 503

eternal, 258

Person, (see Person, impersonal)

Personality, (see Personality, impersonal)

Impersonality, 118, 119, 120, 165, 173, 211, 280, 327, 366, 367, 422, 499, 540

joy of, 540 .

supreme spiritual, 490

universal, 540

Inaction, 29, 198, 394, 395, 408, 416, 426, 429

inward, 501

Inactivity, inner, 483

Incarnation, divine, 145

intermediary idea of, 148-50

Inconscient, 68, 441

Nature, 90

Sun flaming through ether, 343

will and intelligence, 90

Indefinable, the, 311, 364

India, religious mind of, 15

Indian civilisation and war, 47

logicians, 28

philosophy, word Jñāna in, 186

religion-s, 9, 350

religious thought, 350

scriptures, 17

social culture, old, 466

spirituality, 7, 29, 54, 87, 350

teaching, 30

thinkers and quantitative action of Nature, 390

thought, 29, 77, 263

Indifference, philosophic motive of,19

Individual and community, 47

and Infinite, 502

and society, 125

in ancient Indian civilisation, 47

spiritual, 502

Individuality as delegated adaptability of God, 501

spiritual, 503, 511

 

Indra, 17, 20, 332

Master of the World of Light and Immortality, 20

Indwelling and overdwelling Lord, 150

Indwelling and overdwelling Soul, 150 '

Ineffable, the, 301

Inertia, 66, 163, 391, 394, 416, 426, 429,452, 498,543

of inaction, 394

of nescience, 394

Infinite and the finite mind, 308

call of, 167

Inhabitant, 150, 164, 264, 289, 295, 296, 300, 305, 336, 359, 377, 387, 529

Initiation of action, 397, 486, 544 , ;

Instinct-s, 435

and desire, law of, 435

Instrument of action, tamasic, rajasic and sattwic, 458

of the Divine, 537

Intangible, the, 300

Integral bhakti or devotion, 299, 5:11, 529

God-love, 541

Knowledge, 242, 264, 275, 315, 492, 511, 529, 533, 537, 540

Knowledge bringing triple delight, 540

perfection, 510, 529, 533

reality of the Divine, 411

truth, 530

union, 508, 541

work-s, 511, 541

Intelligence, two types of, 88

Intelligent Will, (Buddhi), 70, 72, 90, 100, 210, 231

Ishwara, 64, 66, 72, 77, 81, 84, 104, 240, 296, 308, 313, 326, 375, 409, 539

Krishna, 64

Ista-devatā, (also Ishta-deva), 313, 495

Isvarah, 71, 196

Ivory tower, 182

 

J

 

]ada, 68, 200, 392

Jaimini, 80

 

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Janaka, 106, 107, 124 .

Japanese ideal of the Samurai, 48

Jayadratha, 352

Jesus, 14, 150f

Jijñāsu, 259

Jiva, 8, 74, 149, 150, 153, 206, 245, 246, 247, 248, 251, 254, 258, 259, 261, 262, 266, 273, 289, 292, 313, 326, 340, 341, 375, 408, 421, 446, 475, 478, 496, 503, 532

and supreme Nature, 503, 510

as a partial manifestation of Divine, 74, 148, 245

as eternal portion of Divine, 408, 424, 446, 496, 510, 542

as manifested form of Supreme Prakriti, 8, 74, 245,340

as the basis of multiple existence, 245

creating his own world, 502

manifested in Time, 245

released from ignorance, 496

Jiva's identity with Atman, 490

Jivanmukta, 537

Jivas, world of, 408

Jñānam as real knowledge, 379

Jñāna as Self-knowledge, 186

Jnanakanda, 80

Jñāna and vijnana, 242

Jñānayajm, 299

Jnanayoga or Jñānayoga, 299

Jñānī bhakta, 36, 77, 486

Jñātā, 259, 262

]ñeyam, 379

Joseph, the carpenter, 14

Judea, 14

Jugupsā, 175, 177, 178

Jyotih, (direct supramental force of knowledge), 427

 

K

Kāla, 266

Kālī, 42, 349, 354, 357

Kalki, 152

Kāma, 250

the spiritual, 250

Kamadhuk, the cow of plenty, 336

Kandarpa the love-God, 332

Karana, (instrumentation), 455

Kārana (efficient cause), 455

 

Karma or karma, 40, 199, 202, 266, 267, 268, 281, 309

born of on's own nature, 470

human, 456

kartavyam, (see Kartavyam karma)

natural, inborn, innate, 470

niskama, 101

nitya, (see Nitya karma)

niyata, (see Niyata karma)

sahajam, 470

svabhāvajam, 470

svabhāva-niyatam, (see svabhāvaniyatam karma)

Karmabandha, 87

Karmakanda, 80

Karmayoga or karmayoga, (see also Yoga or Works), 29, 36, 65, 100, 162, 172, 218, 229, 231, 486, 538

Karmayogin, 124, 164

Kama, 352 Karta, (doer), 45S

Kartavyam karma, 35, 55, 100, 166, 420, 443, 452, 454, 465, 543

Kauravas, 155

Kinesis, 391, 392, 394, 425, 426, 428

eternal, 393

rajasic and spiritual; 426

spiritual, 426

Kinetism,. 278

Kingdom of Dharma, (see Dharma, kingdom of)

of Right and Truth, 344, 431

King-knowledge, 281

Log, 137

-secret, 281

Knower, 358, 415, 457, 527

divine, 17

of Field, (.see Field-Knower)

of Veda, 86

"Knowers of day and night," 272

Knowledge and bhakti, unified, 315

divine, 16, 17, 20

men of, 186

objects of, 457

revelatory, 282

tamasic, rajasic and sattwic, 457-58

Koran, 85

Krishna, the Avatar of Vishnu, 8

avatarhood of, 15, 123, 135, 147, 148, 153, 160

 

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historical character of, 14, 15

of the Mahabharata, the human divine, 14

son of Devaki, 14

the charioteer, 335

the symbol, 17

the Vibhuti, 334

Krishnahood, 136

Krtātma, 409 :

Krtsnakrt, 421, 423

Krtsna-vit, (also KRTSNAV1D), 195, 196,404,421

Ksara bhāva, 108 f, 266

Ksara purusa, 267, 484

Ksetra-m, 378, 380

Ksetra, constitution of, 378

Ksetrajña, 378, 380, 382

Kshara, (or kśara), 73, 107, 121, 128, 129, 131, 209,210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 217, 397, 400, 401, 405, 410, 411, 484

Kshatriya, 22, 23, 46, 48, 49, 60, 61, 120, 156, 413, 465, 466, 471, 472, 478

duties of, 22, 46-47, 51 

ideal, 61

Indian conception of, 46, 48-49

natural work of, 466

Kshetra, (,see ksetra)

Kunti, 61

Kurukshetra, battle of, 11, 15, 37, 38, 45, 50, 59, 120, 344, 354, 414, 456

battle-field of, 14, 17, 35, 344, 352, 413

Lord of, 43 of

Nature, 166

problem of, 520

warrior of, 274

Kurus, 155

Kūtastha, 220, 397

Kutsa, 17, 20

the human soul, 20

 

L

 

Law,21,434, 435, 437

a higher, 26

another's, 465

fourfold, 138

of becoming, real, 244

of Good, 45

 

of Life, 105

of life and action, 25, 26, 227, 465

own, 465

Law-s of being, 339, 542

of conduct, 33

Laya, 216, 397, 402

Liberation, 69, 70, 71, 81, 104, 119, 344, 364, 377, 387, 407, 412

and action, (see Liberation and Works)

and impersonality, 118

and works or action, 274, 412, 425

by knowledge, Sankhya doctrine of, 81

by works, Yoga doctrine of, 81

means of, 70, 79, 83, 407

of the Soul, 68, 412

quististic, 278

Vedantic and of the Gita, 364

Liberator, 93

Libertus, the freedman, 189

Liberty, equality and fraternity, 157

Life as delegated harmony of God, 501

by death, Law of, 43

universal, 276

Life-Spirit, 152, 438 

Lila, (or LĪLĀ),9, 131

or manifestation of the Divine, the world as a, 131

Lion-man, 39

Local and temporal elements in the Gita, 5, 6

Lokamaheśvara, 320

Lokasamgraha, 106, 109, 124, 192, 219, 355,.408, 456, 501

Lord, 19, 29, 320, 370

as Time, 37, 43

indwelling and overdwelling, 495

of Cosmos, 295 '

of Karma, 41

of Love, 29

of Nature, 71, 143, 208, 347, 35 5

of Sacrifice, 114, 120, 538

of Wealth, 332

of Works, (see also Master of Works), 65, 161, 235

seated in the heart of all, 492

Love as the crown of works and knowledge, 541

Divine, 16, 350, 363, 368, 508

 

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Lover and Beloved, divine, 159, 492, 511

Divine, 306, 365, 368, 406, 421 

of our soul, 495, 511

Lucretian sage, 190

 

M

 

Machine of Nature, 289

Macrocosm, 378

Madbhāva, 134, 136, 137, 213, 268, ;318f, 323, 385, 396, 441, 485, 542

Madhyamā gatih, 176

Magician, Avatar not a, 151

Mahabharata, 515

an allegory of the inner life, 19

clash between human Devas and Asuras in, 430

Gita an interpolation in, 11

struggle of, 160

Mahat, Sankhya principle of, 67, 391

Mahat Brahman, 389, 390

Mahāvākya of Gita, 34, 35

Mahayana, 500

Mahayanist Buddhism, 80 f, 219

Mahomed, 11

Mamaivāmśah sanātanah, 408

Man, an embodied soul, 543

and God, constant companionship of, 361

sattwic, rajasic and tamasic, 543

Manas, Sankhya principle of, 67, 89, 90

Mandukya Upanishad, 301 f

Manichean conflict of Principles, 320

Manifestation and non-manifestation, cosmic, 271, 272, 366

and Day of Brahma, 271

Mantra-s, 300, 333, 445

Manu-s,

and fourfold active nature of Godhead, 317

as perpetual mental becomings of the Supreme Soul, 317

Many in One, 347

Margasirsha, 333

Marichi, 332

Mary, 14

Master, 15, 16, 370, 375, 420, 452, 454, 459, 504, 508

 

of action, 420

of being, 275, 281, 295, 375

of beings or existences, 210-11, 327, 405

of cosmic godheads, 358

of existence, 16, 239, 270, 312, 326, 388, 420, 445, 449, 466, 477, 504, 510, 530-31, 540, 544

of Immortality, 358

of knowledge and adoration, 347

of knowledge and love and works, 227

of Life, 353

of Light, 430

of Nature, 189, 351, 377, 438, 539, 549

of Sacrifice, 8, 29, 35, 76, 240, 265, 281,303,446,539

of subjective becoming, 313, 331

of the battle, 166

of the Universe or world, 233 322, 344, 371, 431, 456, 459, 466, 507, 509, 538

of Time, 421

of works, 18, 131, 164, 166, 191, 229, 235, 241, 264, 267, 278, 279, 314, 346-47, 363, 364,  371, 422, 466, 452, 454, 457, ' 492, 495

of Yoga, 322, 346, 512

Master-man, 54, 55, 126

Materialistic philosopher and detachment, 277

Mātrā, 390

Matter, 284, 392, 404, 518

and ideative spirit, 390

and life, 518

as food, 39

Life, Mind, 381, 428, 518-20

Matter—five elements or elemental

conditions of, 67-68, 247, 379

Māyā, ātma, 143

Māyā, avidyā- or Maya of ignorance, 143,417

Maya or Maya, 35, 44, 70, 78, 79, 141, 142, 143, 149, 210, 243, 256, 309, 400, 417, 507, 521, 532, 542

as a bewildering partial consciousness, 403

 

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as power of infinite Consciousness, 15

divine, 141, 215

illusive, 251, 313

lower, 407, 507

of the three gunas or modes of Prakriti, 8, 126, 141

of Yoga, (see Yoga-maya)

Self, 134, 138, 142

Māyā, parā, 149

Mayavada, 8, 70, 288, 310

Mayavadin, 423, 441

Meditation, 383, 488, 489

Rajayogic, 220

Mental being, 308, 310, 388, 393, 396

and vital liking and disliking, 489

happiness and divine rapture, 427

Self, superficial, 88

Meru, 333

Metaphysical connotation of Gita, 4, 5

dogma, 87

philosophy, Gita not a, 253

Microcosm, 378

Military obligation, 47, 48

Mimansakas, 103

Mimansa Purva, 80

Uttara, 80

Mind, 297, 519-20

of Yogin at the time of death, 270

tamasic, rajasic or sattwic, 543-44

universal, 276

Miracle-s, 151, 152

Mithyacara, 100 f, 198

Modes acting upon modes, 203, 210

of action, desire and possession— (see Rajas)

of darkness and inertia—(see Tamas)

of Light and poise and peace— (see Sattva)

of Prakriti or nature, (see also Gunas), 8, 21, 26, 34, 49, 50, 51, 67, 129, 141, 163, 194, 196, 197, 201-03, 206, 386, 390, 392, 393, 396, 428

of world-energy, 49

Moksa, 150, 412

Monism, 8, 74, 316,411

 

Moral consciousness, 33

law, 33

Mosaic law of righteousness, 437

Mother, 42, 149, 305, 330, 357, 389

divine, 305, 389

Motives of action, 223

Mounted on a machine by Maya, 201, 474, 495, 507-08

M, the spirit of the secret superconscient omnipotence, 305

Mukti, 365

Muktasya karma, 171, 412, 423, 513

Multiplicity of souls in the Sankhya, 70

Mutable Person, (see Kshara)

Mutable Being, (see Being, mutable)

Mutation of becoming, 276

Mutations of Nature, 276

 

N

 

Nagas, 332

Naiskarmya, 98, 100, 123, 483, 485, 501

Narada, 327, 333

Nara-Narayana, the human soul and the divine Soul, 13, 17

Narayana, 13, 17, 122, 124,133, 139, 328, 344, 360, 361

National Suicide, 47

Nature, (see Prakriti)

and the triple Purusha, 209-10

as a Magician, 532

as a power of divine consciousness, 139

as creator and destroyer, 42

cosmic, 68, 121, 277, 289, 294, 404

creative, 44

determinism of, 34, 35, 170, 193-204, 416,417

economy of, 343 ;

eightfold, 242

instruments of, 455

knower of, 378

lower, (see Prakriti, lower)

mechanical, 280

mechanical engine or machine of, 231,289,474, 537

mental, vital and physical, 379, 389, 484, 542

modes of, (see Modes of Prakriti) mutable multiple, 258

 

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mutations of, 276

or Prakriti, divine, 36, 74, 128, 132, 134, 135, 150, 152, 157, 160, 182, 186, 214, 247, etc.

phenomenal, 242, 244, 246, 280

pragmatic energy of, 256

qualitative action of, 391, 417

quantitative action of, 390

secondary subjective becomings of, 249

soul in, (see Soul in Nature)

Supreme, (see Prakriti supreme)

the universal worker, 276, 279

Natures, the two, lower and higher, 484

the two, phenomenal and spiritual, 239-52

Nature's whole action as a sacrifice, 419

Nature-evolution, 90

-force, 89, 90

-soul, 36, 389

Nazareth, 14, 150f

Nectar of immortality, 110, 112, 229

Negation, supreme, 309, 320

Nervous being, Mental and, 397

Nescience, 392, 394

Neti, neti, 309, 329, 404

Nietzsche, 39

Nietzschean creed of power, 53

creed of Supermanhood, 126

Night of the soul, 95

Nigraha, 200

Nihil, 318

Nimitta, 266, 267, 290

Nimitta-mātram, 186, 191,212

Nine-gated city, 170

Nirguna, 50, 129, 210, 213

Nirguna, the Impersonal, 210

Nirgunam gunabhoktr ca, 213

Nirguno guni, 129

Nirvana, 76, 78, 83, 96, 214, 215, 216, 217, 219, 222, 223, 309, 310, 401, 437, 520, 521

in the Brahman, 76, 84, 96, 215-22

of the Buddhists, 78, 96, 21.5

Nirvanic state, 500

Nisthā, (concentrated will of devotion), 440

Nistralgunya, 107, 109, 213, 424

Nityakarma, 101

 

Nitya-yoga, 270

Nivrtti, (also Nirvitti), 92, 115, 243, 253, 407

Niyata karma, 100, 101, 4S3

Non-Being, 78

-doer, 208, 210, 289, 290

-manifestation and Night of Brahma, 271

Norwegian hero, 53

Nothing, supreme All and, 424

Numen, 290, 422

 

0

 

Objects of sense-s, 91, 92, 99, 170, 379, 409, 535

Olympian Supermanhood, .126

OM, 248, 270, 300, 333, 449

symbol of triple Brahman, 449

Tat, Sat, the formula, 449

the absolute, 300

the initiating syllable for sacrifice, giving and askesis, 449

Omnipresent Deity, 44

Omniscient consciousness, 513

One and Many, 209, 490

in the many, the, 347

that is nothing, 500

Oneness in the midst of differences, 172

Opulent kingdom, 124, 352 ;

Orders of Indian social culture, 466, 79

Oriental teaching, 30

Ormuzd, 42

Oversoul, 326, 318

Own-becoming, (svabhāva), 210

Own law, (svadharma), 465

 

P

 

Pacifism, 48

Pallavas, 40

Pandavas, 147, 155, 333

Pantheistic conception of universe, 316

Pāpayonayah, 472

Para bhāva or the Supreme being of

the Divine, 12

Parabrahman, 294, 313, 325, 403

Paradise, 80, 83, 104

Parā gatih, 385

Paramatman, 291,294, 382, 405 

 

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Parā Māyā, 149

Param dhāma, (the highest status), 388, 401, 404, 513

Parameshwara, 294, 313

Parā prakrti, 149, 243-52, 253, 325, 339, 372,406,489,490

Parā prakrtir jīvabhutā, 406, 490

Parā Prakrtī that has become Jiva, 244, 245, 340, 406

Para purusa, 325

Parā śānti, 508

Parā siddhim, 388

Parashurama, (see also Rama of the axe), 156

Pariah, 306

Paro avyaktah, -405

Partha, 105

Particularised name and form of Divinity, 313

Patanjali, 7, 64

Path of the fathers, 272

of the gods, 272

Patriotism, 125

Peace, 40, 50, 52

Perdition, 476, 505

Perfectibility of man, 9

Perfection, means of, 388

Person, 19, 105, 299

divine, 166, 189, 338, 365, 367

immanent, 512

impersonal, 121, 135

manifest in Vibhutis, etc., 366

Real, 19, 502

Supernal, 294

supreme, 105, 295, 313, 406, 501, 503

Personal God born as a human personality, 138 

of Saguna, 210

Personality, 211, 231, 280, 383, 422, 487, 488

and impersonality, 312, 487-88

divine, 12, 159, 310

egoistic, 135, 254, 258, 500, 522

human—and impersonal self, 280

human—and personal God, 138

impersonal, 123, 135

individual, 313

lower, 122, 258

mental and vital, 229, 534

multiple, 254, 384

 

natural separative, 325

of the liberated soul and the impersonal, 166

perfect, 129

spiritual, 253, 254

supreme, 123

Phenomenal consciousness, 140

nature, lower, 242, 246, 284

Phenomena, objective and subjective, 243, 265

Philosophical disquisitions, 11

Philosophic mind and the Eternal, 68 :

Philosophy, 3, 5, 68 :

last word of the reasoning intellect, 3

Physical action, purely, 165

plane of existence, 434

Pilgrimage of the body, 99

Pisachas, 431

Pitr, 303

Play, cosmic, 9 f

Pluralism of the Sankhyas, 68

Posture for the practice of Rajayoga, 221

Power, 17, 41, 209, 277, 320, 332, 342, 360, 464, 496, 508, 512, 521, 527, 531

diabolical, 42

divine, 13, 16, 280, 352, 508, 539, 541, 544, 545

Nietzschean creed of, 53

of being, 291, 339, 340

of initiation, 205

of self-becoming, atma-vibhuti, 338

Powers cosmic, 430

of becoming, sovereign, (,see also Vibhuti), 327, 329, 331, 332, 338

of darkness, 357

of Light and powers of Darkness, 273 f

of self-Nature, (vibhuti), 331

Prabhu, 170, 184, 211, 289

Pragmatic, egoism, 35

illusion, 441

man, 21, 22

relations between individual soul and nature, 497

truth, 441

Pragmatism, modern, 440, 441

 

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Prahlada, 332

Prajapati, 356

Prajna or -prajñā, 301, 317

Prakāśa, (derivative mental light), 427

the essence of sattwa, 394

Prakriti, (or Nature), 7, 34, 35, 44, 66, 67, 77, 78, (Chapters: 13, 21, 24, 25), etc.

and Purusha as dual cause of cosmos, 71

and Purusha, Interrelation between, 66

and Purusha, original and eternal duality of, 401

and Purusha, -twin principles of being, 119

as Energy, 66

as eternal feminine principle, 72

as executrix of all works, 109

constituted of three gunas, 66

cosmic, (see Nature, cosmic) determinism of, 34-35, 170, 194,204

double, 77, 195, 239-52

eightfold, 242

lower, 78, 84, 181, 239-52, 254, 257, 275, 282, 335, 342, 385, 423, 427, 492, 497

one—for all Purushas, 69

supreme, (see also Para prakrti), 36, 149, 243-52, 254, 325, 492, 503, 532

supreme, manifested as Jiva, 8, 244, 245, 294, 340, 406, 475, 490

working by inequality of her modes, 197

Prakrti, parā,—(see Para prakrti)

Prakriti's activities for the pleasure of Purusha, 71

Prakrtir jīvabhūtā, 294, 406, 475, 490

Pralaya, 386

Prāna, 218

Pranava, 14

Pranayama, 112, 224

Prasāda, 393

Pravrtti, (also Pravritti), 115, 243, 253, 392, 393, 394, 398, 407

Pravrttih prasrta purāni, 406

Presence, 123, 129, 305, 320, 336,

 

359, 366, 381,420,495, 500, 542, 545

Presiding control, 292

Pritha, 53, 249

Problem-s of human life, 20, 517

Proletariate, society of, 478

Psyche, connecting medium between spirit and matter, 390

Psychic centre, 328

ideal, 520

Psychical preferences, 288

Psychological being of man, 8

order of the Sankhyas, 89

Puny a, 17

Puranas, 8, 15,78f,85

symbolic part in, 20

Puranic accounts, 15

tradition, 9 f

Purusha, 6, 66-74, 81, 89, 90, 91, 92, 99, 103, 104, 115, 116, 120, 128, 138, 149, 163, 239, 242, 255, 265, 299, 312, 375, 391, 401, 441, 496, 497, 510, 527

Akshara, (see aksara purusa) consciousness of, 90

consent of, 70, 71

divine, 297, 409 „ ,

eternal multiplicity of one,

immutable, 72, 484 

involved in Prakriti, 72 

Kshara, Akshara and Uttama, 73

multiple, 83

multiplicity of, 64, 69, 71 :

mutable or mobile, 484

no bigger than the thumb, 251

sacrifice of, 245

supreme, 269, 272, 375, 441, 503

three, 399-411

triple or threefold, 73, 77, 195, 209

triple status of, 72, 77, 82

Uttama, 73, 372

Vedantic conception of, 71

Virat, 325 , 

Purusārtha, 80

Purusha-Sukta, Vedic, 469

-Yajna, 132

Purushottama, 29, 35, 73, 74, 79, 82, 85, 108, 113, 115, 121, 123, 124, 133, 134, 136, 138, 160, 166, 170, 213, 214, 223, 227, 244, 253, 254, 255, 258, 265,

 

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266, 271, 273, 294, 304, 381, 404-11, 441, 442, 446, 452, 453, 490, 491, 501, 503, 510, 530, 542

as the highest among the three Purushas, 404-11

Gita's idea of, 404-11

supertheistic idea of, 170

Purva Mimansa, 80

 

Q

 

Quantitative action of Nature, 390

action of qualities of Nature, 394

aspect of Nature and physical Science, 390

Qualities or qualitative modes of Nature, (see Gunas and also Modes), 94, 394

Quiescence of Sannyasa, 408, 423

Quietism, absolute, 499 

divine, 278

inner, 485, 488

Quietist-ic, 129, 130, 131, 278, 310, 406

 

R

 

Rahasyam uttamam, (see Uttamam rahasyam), 105, 106

Rain and sacrifice, 105, 106

Rajas, the principle of passion, action and struggling emotion, 49, 66, 200, 201, 202, 341, 391, 392, 393, 395, 396, 397, 422, 429

Rajasic ego or egoism, (see Egoism, Rajasic)

kinesis, 425

Raja Yoga, 9, 64, 110, 218, 221

Rajayogic meditation, 220

Rajayogins, 112

Rājyam samrddham, 124, 190, 355

Rakshasa-s, 167, 298, 332, 342, 356, 357, 430, 431

Rakshasic forces, 444

nature, 160, 298, 431. 543

Rama, 152, 155, 156, 333

of the axe, 152

Ramakrishna, 31

 

 

Ramanuja, Visishtadwaita doctrine of, 409

Ramayana, 430

Rosa, the pleasure of the sense in the object, 92, 179

the sap in the earth-mother, 410

Ravana, 156

Razor's edge, 311

Real, the, 288, 295, 299

Reality of self and of cosmos, 411

of the supracosmic, 411

Realisation, 36

Reality, 58, 309, 321, 326,359

divine, 288, 309

Rebirth, 132

Indian theory of, 469

Recoil, self-protecting, 177

tamasic, 52, 178

Reformation in Europe, 155

Religion, 3, 5, 35

ordinary, 303

Religions, kinetic and emotional, 310

of Bhakti, 263

of India or Religion, Indian, 9, 350

Remembrance of Divine Being, uninterrupted, 269, 270, 273

Renunciation, 29, 36, 51, 76, 77, 79, 97, 98, 99, 119, 220, 408, 442, 452, 453, 454, 455, 483, 485, 517

inner, 454,, 455

mental and spiritual, 452

of action, 222, 452, 530

of desire, 29, 36, 119, 177, 423, 452, 454, 485, 501

of life and works, 28, 51, 76, 77, 78, 97, 98,99,177,184, 275, 311, 408, 423, 452, 453, 483

of liking and disliking, 489

of objects by the senses, 489

of works and Yoga of works, 184

outer and inner, 52, 79, 119, 442, 453, 485

physical, 453

tamasic, rajasic and sattwic, 454

Result, three kinds of, 454

Revelation-s, 3, 326, 335, 338, 347

of modern knowledge, 9

of Truth, 63

Revelatory knowledge and critical intelligence, 282

 

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Rigveda, 184, 185,430

Rik, 300

Rishi-s, 8, 9, 316, 317, 327, 333, 348

Ritualism, 105

Roman institutions, 189

Rudra-s, 39, 251, 332, 347, 349, 354, 391

and tamas, 391

forces in man and nature, 350

the Dancer, 349

Rule of the Shastra, right, (see Vidhi)

Rūpa, a self-created form, 284

 

S

 

Śabdabrahma, 81, 85

Sachi, 20

Sacrifice, 65, 80, 83, 97, 103, 105-13, 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 297, 298, 301, 302, 303, 314, 351, 361, 368, 419, 431, 442, 444, . 448, 453, 465, 509, 523, 539, 544

as symbolism, born from work, 105, 107, 112

ceremonial, 105, 106, 107

cosmic, 279

idea of-in Gita, 5, 103, 104

law of the world, 112

Master of, (see Master of Sacrifice) of knowledge, 299

of Purusha, Universal being as, 449

of soul in Nature to the supreme Soul, 281

of works, 278, 480

offered to Ishwara, 104

tamasic, rajasic and sattwic, 443, 444-46

to partial godheads, 303

to the ego, 419

Sādhanā, 227, 481

Sādharmya, 126, 322, 386, 388 f, 390, 542

Sādrsya, 126, 365

Sage-s, 380, 387

characteristics of, 380

Saguna, the Personal, 210

Sahaja, 470

Sāksi, 66, 71

Sakya State, government of, 31

Sālokya, 126 f, 365

 

Salvation, Gita's way of, 411 

Sāma, 300, 333

Samadhi, 25, 65, 81, 94, 216, 216; 220, 224,453

Samāhita, 200, 220

Samam brahma, 185, 500

Sama-veda, 333

Samgha, 156, 158, 159

Sāmīpya, 365

Sammoha, 321

Samrāt, 124, 180, 189

Samurai, Japanese ideal of, 48

Samyama, 200

Samyatendriyah, 187

Sanction, 70, '208, 275, 289, 312, 364

cosmic, 275

divine, 364

giver of, 66, 208, 527

Sankhya, 7, 49, 63, 64, 65, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74-79, 81, 82, 84, 89, 103, 195, 197, 208, 210, 486

and Yoga—Gita's distinction between, 63, 65, 80, 104

and Yoga—Reconciliation between, 75-77

as a Yoga of Knowledge, 65, 76, 78

Karikas of Ishwara Krishna, 64

non-theistic or "atheistic," 7

Vedantic, 65, 76

Sannyāsa, 29, 50, 51, 75, 78, 119, 169, 177, 184, 219, 406, 408, 423, 442, 452, 453, 455, 485, 486,489

Sannyāsa and tyāga, distinction between, 169, 442, 452-55

Sannyasa and Yoga of works, 184

Sannyasin, 76, 120, 124, 169, 212, 219

Sanskaras, 500

Sāntim nirvānā-paramām, 215, 221

Sap in the earth-mother, 410

Śarira-yātrā, 99

Sarva-bhāva, 508

Sarvabhūta, 114, 216, 217, 290, 421

Sarvabhūta-hite ratāh, 210 .

Sarvadharmān parityajya, 480, 512

Sarvārambha, 486

Sarvavid, 411

Sat, 438, 449

Satan, 158

 

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Satatam maccittah, 497, 504

Sattvānurūpā sarvasya śraddhā, 440

Sattwa, (also sattva) the principle of poise, knowledge and satisfaction, 49, 50, 55, 66, 200, 201, 202, 341, 391, 392, 393, 395, 396, 397, 422, 427, 429, 439

and work of Brahmin, 471-72

as mediator between higher and lower nature, 429

as quality of preserver Vishnu, 391

Sattwic askesis, three kinds of, 447

egoism, (see Egoism, sattwic), guna, transformation of, 428-29

Ideals and their limitations, 498-99

Satyam, 432

Sāyujya, 126, 365

Science, discoveries of physical, 3

Modern—and old truths, 39

Modem,—and Sankhya, 68

Physical, 3, 390

Scripture, 5, 32, 34, 37, 63, 81, 85, 226

Scriptures, divine, 85

of the world, 85

sacred and profane, 3, 4

Secondary subjective becomings of

Nature, 249

Secret, Nature's deepest, 278

Seers, 9, 270, 272, 317, 327

divine, 327

seven original, 317

Seer-poets, 147, 333

Self, 26, 29, 58, 59, 62, 71, 72, 79, 94, 105, 110, 113, 122, 171, 186, 194, etc.

absolute, 217, 491

all-conscious, 522

and cosmic Nature, antinomy between, 243

and human personality, antinomy between, 280

and individual being in Nature, distinction between, 240

and Nature, antinomy between, 280

and not-self, 309, 400

apparent, 19, 196

as foundation of cosmic existence, 7

divine, 19, 291, 322, 331, 343, 371,504

 

 

immanent in all things, 243

immobile, 71, 72, 118, 123

immutable, (see also Aksara and Akshara Purusha), 71, 72, 113, 214, 215, 230, 234, 241, 243, 267, 279, 281, 289, 312, 358, 362, 366, 375, 404, 410, 418, 419, 486, 534

impersonal, 119, 121, 254, 280, 326, 376, 416, 418

in mankind, 110

individual, 211

inmost, 314

inner, 299, 331

mobile power and stability of, 401

mutable, 243

omnipresent, 230

of all existences, 184, 190, 276, 312

of all, one, 408

real, 19, 196, 384

reality of, 411

superficial mental, 88

supracosmic, 292-93

Supreme, 36, 73, 106, 166, 167, 217, 292-93, 325, 383, 386, 411, 414, 417, 490, 491, 540

timeless, 279, 281

unchanging imperishable, 314

universal, 109, 278, 414, 418,476, 477

unmanifest, 243

witnessing, 210, 289

Yoga, 220

Self-annihilation of the Buddhists, 96

-annulment and self-fulfilment, 263

-assertion of life against life, 41

-becoming, 265, 281, 338, 434

-being, 285, 291

-conception, 284, 358, 389

-conscient spirit or Witness, 416

-conscious spirit, 286

-consciousness, 180, 475

-delight, 109, 120

-determination, 418

-discipline, 59, 178, 306, 452, 481

-discipline, sattwic, 452

-exceeding, 362, 431

-existent, 77, 140, 208, 234, 286, 300, 320 f, 419, 453

-existent being, 296

 

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-extension in the universe. Godhead's, 330

-extinction (see Nirvana)

-extinction in the Akshara, 215

-finding, 264, 476, 525

-fulfilment, 263, 264, 339, 525

-giving, 191, 264, 300, 302, 304, 305, 342, 377, 444, 448, 465, 494

-introspection, 452

-knowledge, 117, 170, 172, 180, 185, 275

-manifestation-s, 58, 280, 294, 295, 301, 304, 329

-mastery of the soul, 180, 189, 199, 206, 485, 519

-Maya, 134, 142

-Nature, 247, 248, 331

-offering, 299, 406, 448, 467

-power, 281, 318, 339, 418, 487

-protecting recoil, 177

-protection, Nature's principle of, 178

-purification, doing works for, 169

-purification, Yoga for, 221

-representations, 140, 141

-revelation, 301, 346

-ruler, (see Svarat)

-sacrifice, 41

-seeing of the Self, 402

-seeing Soul, 331

-surrender, 191, 284, 304, 306, 307, 325, 327, 372, 429, 501, 523

-vision, 269, 281, 336, 456

-Yoga, 361

Senses as Prakriti and as Divine, 248, 379, 409

five, 248, 379, 409

limitation of, 382

objects of, (see Objects of Senses)

Sensory consciousness, 248

relations, 247

Sense-functions, ten, 67

-mind, 89, 90, 382, 506

Separativism of relative existence, 402

Serpents, divine, 348

Shabda, 273

Shakas, 40

Shaktas, 99

Shakti, 99, 128, 164, 241, 244, 247, 251, 266, 340, 342, 382, 400,

 

417, 453, 456, 474,485,490, 492, 502, 539

creative, 44

Shaktism, 329

Shankara's Mayavada, 288

Shastra, 6, 21, 101, 102, 302, 411, 435, 436, 437, 438-40, 444, 446,447

and personal desire, 436

fixed rules of—and liberty of the spirit, 439

meaning of, 6, 435

Sheath, fivefold, 378

Shiva, 39, 84, 332

Shudra, (see Sudra) Siddha, 537

Siddhas, 348, 356, 357

Siddhi, 98, 135, 483

Siddhi, parā, 388 f

Sin as working of lower nature, 254

Skanda, the war-god, 332

Sleep of the soul, 95

Society, fourfold order of, 6, 466

So'ham, 280

Solar dynasty or line, 133, 134

Soma, 356, 410

Soma-wine, 110

Son, symbol of divine Man 149

of Man, 136

Soul, 57, 58, 62, 66, 67, 68, 92, 168, 180, 189, 208, 210, 212, 244, 255, 279, 295, 299, 301, 302, 313, 320, 377, 389, 390, 415, 420, 461, 477, 485, 489, 496, 527

and Nature as two aspects of Brahman, 383

and Nature, distinction between, 383-84

and Nature, relations of, 382

and Over-soul, union of, 327

apparent, 116

as a spectator, 208

as reality, 57

as spark of divine Fire, 13

chosen and beloved, 508

conscious, 66, 208, 346, 506

constituting the Nature, 210

cosmic, 210

desire, (see Desire-soul)

ego—(see Ego-soul)

 

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embodied, 309, 311, 361, 368, 376, 386, 388, 455, 543

embodied—and action, 455

embodied—and Supreme Soul, distinction between, 386

human, 163, 165, 196, 210, 278, 290, 308, 310, 316, 335, 336, 360, 369, 377, 408, 421, 433

in (or of) humanity, 289, 351

in manifestation, double nature of, 263

in nature, 169, 265, 267, 281, 294, 352, 381, 407, 409, 434, 455

in Nature, Sacrifice of, 281

immutable—of the Sankhyas, 230

impersonal, 119

inactive-of the Sankhyas, 78, 208

individual, 402, 497

indwelling and overdwelling, 150

liberated, 167, 419, 426

manifest in Nature, 210

multiple, 244, 245, 253, 258, 418

Nature, (see Nature-soul) nature of, 58

of all souls, 317

of life, 410

of matter, 410

of mind, 410

of mutable things, 410

of mutuality and relation, 477

of supramental light, 410

of the universe, multiple, 418

of the world, 419

plurality of, 401

self-seeking, 331

supreme, 244, 263, 270, 279, 281, 299, 317, 325, 363-65, 490, 491, 530

universal, 171, 344, 400, 475

witnessing, 208, 323

Soul's movement in Time, goal of, 270

self, loss of ego in, 278

Soul-becoming, 496

-consciousness, 89, 198, 388

-force, 42, 228, 432, 459

-instincts, 228

-nature, lowest status of, 434

-outlook and soul-experience, 69

-power, 390, 421

 

Space, Time and, 266, 279, 284, 285, 294, 330, 399, 403, 529, 530

Speculations of philosophic intellect, 7

Spirit, 37, 59, 240, 243, 244, 245, 246, 287, 288, 295, 311, 346, 358, 361, 363, 376, 400, 419, 427, 439, 449, 455, 461, 480, 501, 503, 509, 527, 529, 533, 545

as master of time, 421

elect or chosen of die, 511, 541

embodied, 378

eternal, 57, 58, 61

ideative, 390

immutable, 291, 376

imperishable, 251

indwelling, 371

life in, 37, 57

of the cosmos. (or Cosmic Spirit), 491, 531

of the future, creative, 332

of the past, withdrawing, 332

of the present, sustaining, 332

of the universe, 474

Supreme, 245, 368, 489

transcendent, 244, 359, 363, 474

universal, 331, 359, 363, 456, 474, 479, 487

unmanifest, 243

Spiritual action or works, 412, 417

consciousness, 8, 286, 337, 388, 408, 422, 502, 523

ideal, 518

impersonality, 165, 366, 367

individual, 502 

individuality, 503, 510

kāma, 250

knowledge, synthesis of, 8

light, change of sattwa into, 429

man, passivity of, 40

nature, supreme, 249, 475, 476, 503

person, (purusa), 406

personality, 530

predestination, 433

release, 485

seeking, 9

thought, 10 

truth, 8, 10, 312, 425, 515

universality, 377, 511 

welfare, 10

Spirituality, 31

 

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Indian, 7

Sraddhā, 187, 269, 275, 328, 436 439, 440, 441, 442, 449, 451, 454, 526

and jñaña, 187

and sattva, 440

Śraddhā, sattwic, rajasic and tamasic,  439, 440, 442

Śraddhāmaya purusa, 440

Śraddhāvān, 187, 225

Śruti, 81, 82

Standards of duty or conduct, 30

of Right and Justice, 60

of thoughts and action, ordinary, 12

of virtue, human, 544

Status, supreme, (.see Supreme status)

Stoic, 174, 178, 180, 189

Streams of Truth, 185

Strife, Law of, 41

Struggle for life, 39, 41

Subjective becomings of Nature, 249

Subliminal, 306, 466, 467, 471, 472, 477, 478, 479

Sudra-s, 306, 466, 467, 471, 472, 477, 478, 479

comparative spiritual disabilities of, 6

natural work of, 466

Sukham, (mental happiness), 427, 463

and Ananda, 463

Sukha, (happiness), tamasic, rajasic and sattwic, 462-63

Sukrti, 256

Sun,446

-God, 133

Superconscience, 422, 441

Superconscient causal Purusha, 449

nature, 542

omnipotence, spirit of, 301

plane, 149

power, 301

Will, 527

Superconscious Nature, 74, 480

Superconsciousness, 441, 544

Super-existence, 313

-person, 422

Superman, 54, 126, 136, 343

Supermanhood, 126, 343

Supersoul, divine or cosmic, 194, 218

 

Supertheistic idea of Purushottama, 170

Supracosmic, 290, 292, 295, 316, 326,362,381,407,408

Absolute, 287, 326

Being, 290

Divine, 294

Eternity, 316, 381

existence, 288, 290, 542

mystery of universe, 28 S

Reality, 281, 285

superconscience, 422

status, 381

truth, 240, 286

unmanifest, 271

Supramental Ananda and power and gnosis, 496

infinite, 288

knowledge, 382, 427

seeing of things, 491

vastness, 249

Suprapersonal Divine, 420

Supraphysical centre, descent from, 458

planes, 407, 434 f

Supreme, the, 29, 31, 35, 121, 186, 188, 235, 241, 253

Being, (see Being, Supreme)

Form, 247

Nature or Prakriti—(see Prakriti Supreme);—spirit in, 266 ,

Prakriti that has become the Jiva— (see Para prakrti that has become the Jiva)

secret, (see also uttamam rahasyam), 285, 481, 482, 494-514

Self, (see Self, Supreme)

status, 385, 387, 388

Surrender, 87, 191, 257, 297, 301, 302, 304, 325, 371, 495,496, 500, 509, 511, 512, 538, 542

Svabhāva, (also Swabhava), 73, 108, 141, 170, 212, 243, 248, 250, 265, 266, 267, 268, 318, 372, 415, 421, 434, 464, 465, 466, 467, 470, 471, 475, 476, 479, 480, 506, 507, 509, 539, 543, 545

Svabhāvaja, 470

Svabhāvajam karma, 470

 

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Svabhāva-niyatam karma, 453, 467, 470

Svadharma, (also Swadharma), 59, 130,141,199,202,340,465, 466, 470, 471, 473, 475, 476, 480, 509, 544

Svām prakrtim or Svā prakrtih, 210, 372, 486

Svaprakāśa, 470

Svarāt, 124, 180, 189

Svarūpa, the eternal form, 284, 316

of four general kinds, 466

Switra, the White Mother, 20

Synthesis, metaphysical, 325

of Devotion and Knowledge, 239, 253-62

of knowledge, works and devotion, 15,74,296

of Sankhya and Yoga, 75, 81, 82;–and Vedanta, 82, 376

of the Gita, 9, 63, 80, 81-82, 296, 304

of the psychological being of man, 8

of works and knowledge, 81-82

psychological, 325

spiritual, of the Upanishads, 8, 9

Tantric, 9

Vedic, 8

Synthetic Yoga, 412

Sysiphus, labour of, 298

T

Taijasa, 301 f

Tamas, the principle of ignorance and inertia, 41, 49, 51, 55, 66, 198, 201, 202, 341, 391-97, 422,425, 426, 429

as quality of destroyer Rudra, 391

Tāmasa sarga or Tamasic creation, 201

Tanmātrās, five, 247

Tantra, 9, 77, 85, 482

Tantric Shaktas, 99

synthesis, 9

Tantrics, 9

Tao, 500

Taoist thinkers, 500, 501

Tapas, 339, 426 f, 443, 448, 459, 465

Tapasyā, 17, 218, 248, 443, 446,'447, 448, 539 ;

 

Tapasya, Asuric, 447

involuntary, 443

tamasic, rajasic and sattwic, 446-48

Tapo-yajña, 112

Tat, 449

Tattvas—twenty-four—of Sankhya, 67

Tattvajñāna, 264

Teacher, Divine, 11, 15, 24, 28, 35, 50,53, 83,241, 326, 380, 528, etc.

Divine personality of, 12

Tejah, 432

Teutonic, 53

Thoughts, the seven—of the Veda, 317

Threefold or triple Purusha, 77, 195

Thunderbolt, divine, 333

Time, 31, 186, 266, 267, 279, 291, 292, 294, 316, 322, 331, 332, 333, 344, 349, 350, 353, 357, 359, 360, 387, 399, 400, 403, 405, 492, 529, 530, 544

and immortality, 387, 492

and Space, 266, 279, 284, 285, 291, 294, 331, 399, 403, 529, 530

and the Eternal, 31, 316, 407

Godhead self-fulfilled in,

manifestation in, 531

Space and Causality, 266, 530

Space and Circumstance, 399

Spirit in, 511

the Destroyer, 346-62

the head of all reckoning, 333

Truth expressing itself in, 4

Timeless, the 51, 353

being, 280, 401, 403 

eternity,, 270

Time-figure of Godhead, 345

-spirit, 274, 288, 352, 353, 354, 355, 431, 531

Titan-s, 55, 156, 316, 327, 332, 341, 349, 350, 430, 431

Titanic nature, 54, 160

powers, 158

Titiksā, 174, 179

Tolstoy, 33 

Touches, outward—of things, 67

Traigunya, 50, 186, 431

Traigunyamayi māyā, 377

Traigunyātīta, 170, 173, 389

Traigunya-visayā vedāh, 407

 

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Trance, (see also Samadhi) 64, 221

Transfigurations of Chaitanya, 149

Transcendence, 36, 43, 44, 45, 316, 318, 320, 335, 359, 362, 492,  530

Transcendent, the 43, 219, 293, 319,  340, 362, 400, 510, 540 

Eternity, 381 

Godhead, mystery of, 284

Transformation, divine, 430 

of lower nature, 423

Tree of cosmic existence or cosmos, 407

Trigunatita, 35, 50, 170, 204, 211, 212, 424

Trinity, Christian, 149

of Creator, preserver and destroyer, 42, 43, 357, 391

Triple Purusha, 72, 77, 82

Truth, empirical and spiritual, 312

expressing itself in Time, 4

God's, 3

metaphysical and intellectual, 4

of relations, 312

one and eternal, 4

revelation of, 63

spiritual, 6, 312

Sun of, 184

the foundation of spirituality, 42,43

Truths of Sankhya, 65

Turiya, the fourth state, 301 f, 449

Tyaga or tyāga, 169, 443, 452, 454, 455, 485, 489

Tyāga and sannyāsa, distinction between, 169, 443, 451-55, 485

 

U

 

U, the letter, 449

't the spirit of the subtle and internal,  301f

Uchchaihsravas, India's horse, 333

Udasmavat, 190

Udasmata, 174

Un-Aryan, 55, 57, 353

Unborn, the 13, 15, 327, 405

birth of the, 139

Pralniti, 72

Purushas, 72

 

Understanding, tamasic, rajasic or sattwic, 460-62

Unity and multiplicity, as greater and lesser truths, 245

Universal being as sacrifice of Purusha, 449

peace, 46

Universe and the transcendent or the supracosmic, 284, 285

in space and time, 284, 285

Unknowable, 309

Unmanifest, the, 271, 364

birth from and going back to the, 271

Upanishads, 4, 8, 11, 17, 32, 38, 39, 63, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 90, 91, 103, 188, 240,246, 272, 280, 311, 329, 402, 508

Chandogya, 14

Isha, 403 f

Kena, 403 f

Mandukya, 301f, 403 

Swetaswatara, 403

Upholder of Nature, 71, 527

Ushanas,-148, 334,403

Uttama, 73

Purusha, 372, 405

Uttamam rahasyam, 13, 74, 115, 128, 136, 213, 264, 420, 428, 503, 504

Uttara Mimansa, 80

 

V

 

Vairāgya, 488, 489

Vaishnava, 148

adoration, (or bhakti), 159, 360

bhakti, (or adoration, 159, 360

philosophies, 84

Theism, 8

Vaishnavism, 159, 329

Vaishya, 306, 466, 467, 472, 478

natural work of, 466

Vak, 248

Vamana, 152, 156

Varna system, 470

Varuna, 332, 356

Vasishtha's use of soul-force, 40

Vast, the, 389

Vasudeva, 147, 242, 260, 272, 280, 288, 293, 295, 318, 327, 329,

 

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338, 400, 403, 417, 421, 44, 452, 487, 492, 503, 510, 53

Vasudevah sarvam iti, 272, 288, 314 318

Vasuki the snake-god, 333

Vasus, 332

Vayu, 356, 401

Veda-s, 4, 11, 81, 82, 85, 106, 10; 317, 407, 449

knower of, 410

triple, 407

Veda-knower, 407

Vedanta, 75, 81, 82, 84, 85, 99, 311 325, 510

maker of, 410

of the Upanishads, 311

Vedantic, 7, 63, 379, etc.

authorities, 8

Monism, 64

philosophy, 56

Sankhya, 65, 71, 76

schools, 65 :

synthesis, 9, 65

truth, 64, 75, 114

utterances, great, 110

view of life, 12, 138

Yoga, 71, 79

Vedantins, 9, 84, 85

Vedantism, 103

Vaishnava form of, 13

Vedantists, 104, 230

Vedavada, 80, 83, 407

Vedavadins, 80, 83, 91, 95

Vedic exegisis, methods of, 85

hymns, 80

mystics, 110

philosophies, 77

rhythms, (chhandāmsi), 407

rite, 300

sacrifices, 80, 82, 102, 103, 101 106

sages, 126

seers, 8

synthesis, 8

Vedism, 103, 104 '

Vedist and Vedantist ideals, 106

dogma, 106 .

Vibhu, 289, 331

Vibhūti, 137, 143, 147, 148, 15; 154, 297, 327, 329, 330, 33] 333, 338, 340, 342, 344, 34,

 

3S2, 363, 366, 511, 513, 531

Vibhūti and Avatar, distinction between, 147-48 Vibhuti, Theory of, 335-45, 340

Vibhuti-Yoga, 330, 336

Vicāra, (also Vichara), 79

Vichitravirya, 14

Vidhi, 82, 444, 445

Vidyāmāyā, 143

Vijñāna, the direct spiritual awareness, 242

(The Idea), 389, 390, 391

Vikāra, 90

Vinasti, 476, 505

Virat, 301

Virgin Mother, 149

Visarga, 108, 267

Visayas, 90, 92, 179

Vishnu, 84, 148, 155, 251, 332, 354, 391

and sattwa, 391

Vision, 274, 275, 296, 299, 314, 331, 347, 348, 349, 360, 362, 366, 375,403,421,464,489,491

false egoistic, 126

inner human, 335

integral, 326

of God, 282, 296, 303, 537

of Nature, 277

of Spirit, 277

of the Upanishads, 402

of unity, 257

of World-Purusha, 239, 335, 34662

spiritual, 409

Visishtadwaita doctrine of Ramanuja, 408

Viswamitra's military violence, 40

Vital force, 410

reactions, 443

Vivasvan, 25, 133

Viveka, 79

Vivekananda, 31

Vrindavan, 15

Vrishnis, 147, 333

Vyasa, 147, 148, 327, 334, 403

Vyavahāra, 312

Vyavasāya, 89, 91

 

W

 

War and Indian Civilisation, 47

 

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as an aspect of life, 39, 47, 48

Heraclitus and, 38

Wheel of Brahman, 114

of delusion, 276

Will, 19, 116, 156, 165, 204, 205, 207, 234, 235, 344, 351, 368, 414, 528

divine, 30, 116, 156, 165, 189, 191, 192, 194, 213, 235, 274, 344, 352, 420, 425, 426, 456, 458, 537, 538, 541

egoistic, 457

Free, 201, 203, 204-08

freedom of, 202

immanent and superconscient, 527

of desire, egoistic, 458

of ego and determinism of Nature, 205, 526, 536 

of Sacrifice, 368

omniscient, 452

-to-be, 342, 440

to live, 518, 521

to power, 518, 521

universal in Nature, 279

Wind-God, 333

Wisdom, all-seeing, 512

divine, 156, 317, 380, 545

Withdrawal of consent, Purusha's, 70

Witness, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 129, 289, 290, 312, 320, 384, 415, 416

Womb of all beings, 244

Word, the, 81, 86, 134, 300

directly inspired, 63

of God, 3

Supreme, 308-24, 315, 482, 507, 511

Work of Brahmin and Kshatriya, internal character of, 471

of Vaishya and Sudra as external function, 471

sacrifice born of, 105, 107

that should be done, (see Kartavyam karma) that should be done, three main elements of, 442

Work's completion in Knowledge, 184

Works as a sacrifice, 36, 76, 183, 235, 256, 279, 351

as an offering, 35, 351

as operation of Universal Force, 36

 

divine, 122, 128, 132, 135, 151, 154-61, 162, 492, 540

Doctrine of, 98

five causes or indispensable requisites of, 455

inferior to Yoga of intelligence, 89

Lord of, 166, 235

Master of, (see Master of Works)

mental impulsion to, 351

of liberated soul—(see muktasya karma)

spiritual norm of, 412

three kinds of, 106

Yoga of, (see Yoga of Works)

Worker, divine, 162, 164, 165, 465

Eternal, 502, 537

World, a partial manifestation of Godhead, 337

as a chaos and a clash, 44

World-Being, 275

-consciousness, 216

-energy, Modes of, 49

-existence as sacrifice offered by Nature to Purusha, 121,—laws of, 42;-mystery of, 336

-Form, 355

-Power, 42

-Purusha, 239, 335, 351, 353, 354

-sacrifice, 132

-Spirit, (see World-Purusha)

-Spirit, the Vision of the—(see Vision of the World-Spirit)

-Teacher, 16, 19

-Yoga, 366

 

Y

 

Yadava, 357, 359

Yajña, 82, 106, 108, 110

Yajur, 300

Yakshas, 332, 444

Yama, lord of the Law, 333, 356

Yantra, engine of Nature, 231

Yantrārudha, 201

Yatis, 216

Yoga, 7, 25, 63, 64, 65, 66, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 104, 110 111, 121, 126, 133, 164, 170, 186, 214, 216, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, 229, 242, 269, 279, 321, 322, 346, 347, 364, 488, 508, 510, 512, 513, 523, 539

 

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ancient and original, 133

Aphorisms of Patanjali, 64

as skill in works, 95, 164, 200

as winning of spiritual bliss, 221

Bhakti, (see Bhaktiyoga)

divine—(see Divine Yoga)

for self-purification, 221

goal of, 121

hill of, 34

Jnana, (see Jnanayoga)

Karma, (see Karmayoga)

Master of, (see Master of Yoga)

of action, 369, 537

of Adoration, (see also Bhaktiyoga, 365

of dejection of Arjuna, 37

of desireless works or action, 101, 369

of devotion, 381

of Gita, 64, 314, 493, 494, 511, 516

of integral knowledge, integral works and integral bhakti, Gita's, 511, 529

of intelligent will, (Buddhi Yoga), 71, 75, 87, 88, 89,92,97,101, 323, 494

of Knowledge, (see also Jnanayoga)

of love and adoration, 326, 540

of Patanjali, 7

of sacrifice of works, 133

 

of the Buddhi, 71, 75, 88, 323, 487

of the Sankhyas, 384, 486

of the whole being, 214

of works, (see also Karmayoga), 76 98, 100, 184, 218, 326, 365, 384

silent and solitary, 222

synthetic, 412

Vedantic, 72, 79

Yogas, Hatha and Raja, 9

Yogah karmasu kauśalam, 164, 200

Yoga-ksema, 223, 303

Yogamaya, 141, 143, 286, 290, 400

Yoga-self, 220

Yoga-yajña, 112

Yogesvarah, 393

Yogin-s, 75, 111, 195, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 275, 313, 329, 331, 486, 538

the perfect, 182, 423

Yogin's times of leaving the body, 272

Yugadharma, 30

Yukta, 93

two senses of, i.e., 1) in Yoga and 2) in moderation, 222-23

 

Z

 

Zoroaster, 430

Zoroastrianism, 158

 

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