Five Years of Theosophy Part 36

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Taraka Yog, one of the Brahmanical systems for the development of psychic powers and attainment of spiritual knowledge.

Tatwa, eternally existing "that;" the different principles in Nature.

Tatwams, the abstract principles of existence or categories, physical and metaphysical.

Telugu, a language spoken in Southern India.

Tesshu Lama, the head of the Tibetan Church.

The Laws of Upasanas, chapter in the Book iv. of Kui-te on the rules for aspirants for chelas.h.i.+p.

Theodidaktos (lit. "G.o.d taught "), a school of philosophers in Egypt.

Theosophy, the Wisdom-Religion taught in all ages by the sages of the world.

Tikkun, Adam Kadmon, the ray from the Great Centre.

t.i.tiksha, renunciation.

Toda, a mysterious tribe in India that practise black magic.

Tridandi, (tri, "three," danda, "chastis.e.m.e.nt"), name of BrahmanicaI thread.

Trimurti, the Indian Trinity--Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, Creator, Preserver and Destroyer.

Turiya Avastha, the state of Nirvana.

Tzong-ka-pa, celebrated Buddhist reformer of Tibet, who inst.i.tuted the order of Gelugpa Lamas.

Universal Monas, the universal spirit.

Upadana Karnam, the material cause of an effect.

Upadhis, bases.

Upamiti, a.n.a.logy.

Upanayana, invest.i.ture with the Brahmanical thread.

Upanishads, Brahmanical Scriptures appended to the Vedas, containing the esoteric doctrine of the Brahmans.

Upanita, one who is invested with the Brahmanical thread (lit. "brought to a spiritual teacher").

Uparati, absence of out-going desires.

Urvanem, spiritual ego; sixth principle.

Ushtanas, vital force; second principle.

Vach, speech; the Logos; the mystic Word.

Vaishyas, cattle breeders artisans; the third caste among the Hindus.

Vakya Sanyama, control over speech.

Varuna or Pracheta, the Neptune of India.

Vasishta, a great Indian sage, one of those to whom the Rig Veda was revealed in part.

Vata, air.

Vayu, the wind.

Vayu Puranas, one of the Puranas.

Vedantists, followers of the Vedanta School of Philosophy, which is divided into two branches, monists and dualists.

Vedas, the most authoritative of the Hindu Scriptures. The four oldest sacred books--Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva--revealed to the Ris.h.i.+s by Brahma.

Vedic, pertaining to the Vedas.

Vidya, secret knowledge.

Vija, the primitive germ which expands into the universe.

Vijnana-maya-kosha, the sheath of knowledge; the fourth sheath of the divine monad; the fifth principle in man (Vedanta).

Viraj, the material universe.

Vishnu, the second member of the Hindu trinity; the principle of preservation.

Vishnuite or Vishuvite, a wors.h.i.+per of Vishnu, the name of a sect among the Hindus.

Vrishalas, Outcasts.

Vyasa, the celebrated Ris.h.i.+, who collected and arranged the Vedas in their present form.

Vyavaharika, objective existence; practical.

Yajna Sutra, the name of the Brahmanical thread.

Yama, law, the G.o.d of death.

Yashts, the Parsi prayer-books.

Yasna, religious book of the Parsis.

Yasodhara, the wife of Buddha.

Yavanacharya, the name given to Pythagoras in the Indian books.

Yavanas, the generic name given by the Brahmanas to younger peoples.

Yoga Sutras, a treatise on Yoga philosophy by Patanjali.

Yog Vidya, the science of Yoga; the practical method of uniting one's own spirit with the universal spirit.

Yogis, mystics, who develop themselves according to the system of Patanjali's "Yoga Philosophy."

Yudhishthira, the eldest of the five brothers, called Pandavas, whose exploits are celebrated in the great Sanskrit epic "Mahabharata."

Zend, the sacred language of ancient Persia.

Zhing, subtle matter; Kama Rupa, or fourth principle (Chinese).

Zoroaster, the prophet of the Parsis.

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