Index of Words in CWSA

A. E., Pen name of George William Russell (1867-1935), poet & mystic; a leading figure in the Irish nationalist movement & the renascence of Ir ...
Abdominal Centre
Abhayam
Abhimana
Absolute
Absoluteness
Absolutism
Abyssinia
Accidents
Achar
Action
Activity
Actualities
Adesh
Adhar
Adhibhūta
Adhidaiva
Adhikara
Adhiyajña
Adhyātma
Adhyatmayoga
Aditi, “the infinite undivided consciousness of God”, personification of the Infinite & “the infinite Mother of the gods”. [SABCL Vol.11:32]
Adityas
Administration
Adoration
Adverse forces
Adwaita
Adwaitavada
Adya Shakti, is the Supreme Consciousness & Power above the universe & it is by her that all the Gods are manifested, & even the supramental Ishwara ...
Aeschylus, (c.524-455 BC) Athenian poet considered inventor of Greek tragedy.
Aesthesis
Aesthetic being
Aesthetic culture
Aesthetic experience of the Self
Aesthetic faculties
Aesthetic mind
Aesthetic nature
Aesthetic reception of things
Aesthetic use of Art
Aesthetics
Affection
Affirmation(s)
Afghanistan
Africa
Agastya, Vedic sage, author of many hymns in the Rig Veda. “Agastya had been for years driving deep into the earth, the abyss of the subconscient ...
Aggregate(s)
Aggregation
Agni / Agnidevata
Agnosticism
Ahambhāva
Ahankara
Ahimsa
Ahuramazda
Aims
Air
Aishwarya
Aitareya Upanishad, an Upanishad of the Rig Veda.
Aiyar
Ajanta
Ajna Chakra
Ajnana
Akasha
Akasha lipi
Akbar, (1542-1605), exemplary grandson of Babur (an exemplary descendant of Taimur Lang & Chenghiz Khan), he was the 3rd Emperor of Mughal Hind ...
Akshara
Albania
Alcaeus, (c.620-580 BC) Greek lyric poet, contemporary of Sappho.
Alexander, (356-323 BC), son of Philip II, king of Macedonia (376-323). In 333 & 331 Alexander defeated king of Persia, the last of the line of Dar ...
All-Bliss
All-Knowledge
All-love
All-Soul
All-Will
Allegory
Alsace-Lorraine
Altruism
Alwars, literally “those immersed in God”, were Tamil Vaishnava mystic-poets who sang praises of Vishnu as they travelled from one place to anot ...
Ambition
America
Amṛtam
Anacreon, (582-485 BC), lyric poet of Greece; only fragments of his poetry survive.
Ananda
Ananda Brahman
Anandagiri, annotator of Ādi Shankarāchārya, who preached monistic Vedanta.
Ananke, personification of Compelling Necessity or Ultimate Fate to which even the gods must yield. She was sister of Themis (q.v.).
Ananta, Śeṣa Nāga, the Great Snake with a thousand hoods on which the earth stands; the Energy of the Infinite in Space-Time. Traditionally, Lor ...
Anantam
Anarchism
Anaximander, (610-547 BC) Greek thinker.
Anaximenes, of Miletus (c.545 BC), Greek naturalist who taught that the single substance of the universe was Air; all other elements were produced b ...
Andal, Tamil Vaishnava saint (c.8th cent.), putative daughter of Periya-Alwār (q.v.); popularly remembered for her Tiruppāvai.
Andhra
Anger
Angirasa, Angirasas, Angirasa Rishis
Angirasa legend
Anglo-Indians
Anglo-Saxon
Aṇimā
Animal life
Animal mentality
Animal soul
Animal(s)
Animism
Aniruddha, son of Pradyumna & grandson of Sri Krishna; his marriage to Usha, the daughter of the Asura king Bāṇāsura the most formidable enemy of h ...
Anna
Annakoṣa
Annamaya puruṣa
Antaḥkaraṇa
Antaratman
Antariksha
Anthropomorphism
Anumati
Apah
Apana
Apollo, son of Zeus & Leto; god of light, music, poetry, prophecy, medicine, pastoral pursuits & archery; his chief oracle was at Delphi. In lat ...
Apsaras
Arab kingdoms
Arab nation
Arabia, poem by Walter de la Mare.
Arabs
Aradhana
Archer
Architecture
Arhat
Aristocracy
Aristophanes, (448-388 BC), Athenian poet & writer of comedy.
Aristotle
Arjava
Arjuna
Armaments
Armed Forces
Arnold
Art
Art, music and literature
Artha
Artha-shastra, In 1905 a copy of the Artha-shāstra in Sanskrit, written on palm leaves, was presented by a Tamil Brahmin from Thanjavur to the newly op ...
Artistic creation
Artistic man
Artistic temper
Arts and crafts
Arya Samaj, a social-reform body founded by Swami Dayānanda Saraswati in 1875 to re-establish the Vedas as a living religious scripture. He rejected ...
Aryaman, in Vedas, one of the four powers of the Truth of Surya; he represents the immortal puissance of the clear-discerning aspiration & endeav ...
Aryan
Aryan speech
Asana(s)
Asat
Ascent
Ascent and descent
Ascetic
Asceticism
Ashramas
Ashwattha tree
Ashwins
Asia
Asian art
Asiatic literature
Asiatic question
Askesis
Asoka
Aspiration
Assam, The precise origin of the term Assam is not known, but western/westernised scholars prefer the Tai term A-Cham & the Bodo term Ha-Sam. A ...
Assent
Assimilation
Association
Association of free nationalities
Associations
Assyria
Aṣṭasiddhis
Astral plane
Astrology
Asuras
Atharva Veda, also called Atharvān (Ātharvana), after its creator.
Atheism
Athene
Athens
Atlantis
Atman
Atmaślāghā
Atom
Atomic disaggregation
Atomic existence
Atomic infinitesimals
Attachment
Attitude
Aum
Aura
Aurobindo
Australia
Austria, currently a land-locked federal republic in central Europe. Before World War I (1914-19) it was with Hungary an empire & one of the grea ...
Automatic writing
Avalon
Avatar
Avatarhood
Avidya
Avvai, Awaiyār, Tamil saint-poet; like Ᾱndāla (q.v.) pre-6th cent.
Avyakta

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Baker
Balarama
Bali, principled king of the Asūras, who after obtaining the boon of lordship over the three worlds, held a Yajña. After which, as required by ...
Balkans, The Balkan Peninsula comprised all of Albania, continental Greece, Bulgaria, European Turkey, most of Yugoslavia, & south-eastern Rumani ...
Balzac, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist; he converted what had been styled romance into a record of human experience.
Bana, Bāṇabhaṭṭa was the court-poet of King Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhūti dynasty of Thāneshwar & Kanauj. His work Harsha-charita, written ...
Banerji
Baptista
Barbarian(s)
Barbarism
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (1821-67), French poet whose theories were a source of the European symbolist movement.
Bauls, Bengali sannyāsis (comprising Hindu & Muslim Sufis) known for the spontaneity of their mystical verse.
Baxter, Richard (1615-91), Presbyterian preacher.
Bbaktiyoga
Beatitude
Beautiful
Beauty
Becoming
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), German musician & composer considered one of the greatest in the history of Western music. He was the first majo ...
Being
Being and Becoming
Beings
Belgian writers
Belgium
Belief
Belloc
Bengal, is the anglicised form of Bānglā evolved from the Bengali Baṇga of the Sanskrit Vaṇga which denoted Eastern & Central Bengal in the age ...
Bengal School of art
Bengali language
Bengali literature
Bengali poetry
Bengali race
Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1831), English economist & political theorist whose inventions of ‘scientific solutions to social problems’, founded the Ut ...
Bergson, Henri (1859-1941), French philosopher, exponent of process philosophy. His works won him the 1927 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Besant
Beyond
Bhaga, Lord of Enjoyment, classed among the Ādityas & the Vishwadevas (q.v.). He is one of the four powers of the Truth of Surya, & represents ...
Bhaga Savitri
Bhagavad Purana, made up of 18,000 shlokas in 12 skandhas or books; its 10th book narrates in detail the events of Krishna’s life.
Bhajan
Bhakti
Bharatchandra
Bharati, Bengali monthly started in 1878 & edited by Dvijendranath Tagore.
Bharavi, 7th century classical Sanskrit poet; some consider him, just on the strength of his Kirāta-arjūniya, almost the peer of Kālidāsa.
Bhartrihari, Some researchers ascribe c.450-510, some c.570, & some c.651, as the period he lived in, while some believe there were two Bhartriharis: ...
Bhasa
Bhatkhande, Vishnu Narayan (1875-1936), modernised the science of Hindustani music. The Mādhava Music College of Gwalior & Marris College of Music i ...
Bhavabhuti, (c.700), dramatist, poet & author of three of the best extant dramas, Vīra-Charita, Uttara Rāma-Charita, & Mālati Mādhava. These plays, ...
Bhavas
Bhawani
Bhoga
Bhrigu
Bhur
Bhurloka
Bhutas
Bhuvar
Bhuvarloka
Bible
Bidyapati
Bindu
Binyon
Birth
Bismarck
Blake
Blalvatsky
Bliss
Bliss-consciousness
Bliss-Self
Bodily life
Body
Body consciousness
Body-mind
Boer republics
Bohemia
Bolshevism
Bose
Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne (1627-1704), French bishop, spokesman for Rights of the French Church against papal authority, chiefly remembered for hi ...
Botticelli, Sandro (1445-1510), one of the greatest of early Renaissance Florentine painters whose “Birth of Venus” & “Primavera” express to modern ...
Bourgeois democracy
Bourgeoisie
Brahma, the Eternal’s Personality of Existence, the Power of the Divine that stands behind formation & the creation. “Brahmā, Vishnu, & Shiva, a ...
Brahmacharya, Sri Aurobindo: The sex-energy utilised by Nature for the purpose of reproduction is in its real nature a fundamental energy of Life. It ...
Brahmachatushtaya
Brahmaloka
Brahman
Brahman-consciousness
Brahmana
Brahmananda
Brahmanas, commentaries on the Vedas.
Brahmanaspati, Lord of the divine Word, the Creator by the Word.
Brahmasutras
Brahmatejas
Brahmavada
Brahmavarchasya
Brahmic condition
Brahmin(s)
Brahma Samaj / Brahmo Samaj, a religion founded by Raja Rammohan Roy in 1828 which spread throughout Bengal. It rejected the Vedas & Hindu forms of worship & caste s ...
Brain
Breathing
Bridges
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, ascribed to Rishi Yajñavalkya, belongs to the Kāṇvī branch of Vājasaneyi Brāhmaṇa of Shukla Yajur Veda.
Brihaspati
Brindavan
British colonies
British Commonwealth
British Empire
British nation
Brontës, three English sisters, all writers: Charlotte (1816-55), novelist; Emily Jane (1818-48), novelist & poet; & Anne (1820-49), novelist; th ...
Brooke
Brotherhood
Brotherhoods
Browning
Bruno
Buddha
Buddhahood
Buddhi
Buddhishakti
Buddhism, a religion & philosophy that repudiates the authority of the Vedas & the existence of a soul or God, & in which rebirth & karma cease wh ...
Buddhist art
Buddhist literature
Buddhist Nirvana
Buddhist Sangha
Buddhiyoga
Bulgaria
Burke, Edmund (1729-97), educated at Ballitore & Trinity College, Dublin 1743-8: founded the Annual Register 1759: Private Secretary to Lord Ro ...
Burns, Robert, Robert (1759-96), national poet of Scotland.
Burton, Captain Sir Richard Francis (1821-90), English explorer, soldier, linguist, diplomat, spy: educated on the continent without system & Tr ...
Business
Byron
Byzantine Empire, Eastern counterpart & successor to the Roman Empire of the West, also called the Eastern Empire & the East Roman Empire. It was named af ...

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Caesar
Caitanya purușa
Caitanyaghana
Cakras
Calderón, Pedro Calderόn de la Barca (1600
Caliphate
Call
Calm
Calm mind
Cambridge University
Canada
Capacity
Capital and Labour
Capital punishment
Capitalism
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881), British essayist, historian, social reformer famous for his On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History, & The ...
Carpenter, Edward (1844-1929), English author & poet.
Carthage
Caste
Castor and Polydeukes
Categorical imperative
Catullus, Gaius Valerius (c.84-c.54 BC), intensely emotional Roman poet whose expressions of love & hatred are considered the finest lyric poetry ...
Catur-vyūha
Causal body
Causal matter
Causality
Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour (1810-61), premier of Sardinia (1852-59, 1860-61), he was the main force behind the unification of Italy ...
Celibacy
Celt
Celtic characteristics
Celtic culture
Celtic imagination
Celtic movement
Celtic poetry
Celtic races
Celtic revival
Central Being
Central government
Centralisation
Centres
Chaitanya
Chaitya Purusha
Chakras
Chakravarty
Chanakya, as son of Chaṇak, was the cognomen of Vishnugupta. Chaṇak, the most renowned scholar of his time, esp. in the sciences of politics & eco ...
Chance
Chandas
Chandibhava
Chandidas, (14th-15th cent.), Bengali poet & singer whose songs about washerwoman Rami was/is a source of inspiration to Bengal’s Vaishnava & Sahaj ...
Chandragupta
Change
Change of nature
Chapman, George (1559?-1634), English dramatist & poet, translated Iliad & Odyssey.
Character
Charlemagne, Charles the Great or Charles I (c.742-814), Frankish king (768-814); he conquered nearly all Christian lands of Western Europe & ruled a ...
Charles II
Charvakas
Chateaubriand, François René, vicomte de (1768-1848), French diplomat, writer & founder of French romanticism. His memoirs are his most enduring work.
Chatterji/ Chattopadhyay(a)/ Bankim Chandra, (1838-94) Sri Aurobindo called him “the Rishi of modern Bengal”. [1] Buckland: (a) Chatterji, Bankim Chandra: Bengali novelist & prose w ...
Chatterton, Thomas (1752-70), English poet of Gothic literary revival; precursor of the Romantic Movement.
Chattopadhyay
Chattopadhyaya
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1342/43-1400), his Canterbury Tales made him the most important English poet before Shakespeare.
Chaudhuri
Cheerfulness
Cheiro, Count Louis Hamon an Englishman famous his books on palmistry & other methods of fortune-telling. Though he correctly predicted the date ...
Cheiromancy
Chénier, André-Marie de Chenier (1762
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936), English critic & writer who used the weapon of paradox to probe the profound ambiguities of Christian theolog ...
Chetas
Chhandogya Upanishad
Child
China
Chinese
Chinese art
Chinese civilisation
Chinese empire
Chinese painting
Chinese poetry
Chit
Chit-Shakti
Chit-Tapas
Chitta
Chittashakti
Chittashuddhi
Chittavritti
Choice
Christ
Christendom, communities dominated by any sect of Christianity.
Christian discipline
Christian mystics
Christianity, “Christ came into the world to purify, not to fulfil. He himself foreknew the failure of his mission & the necessity of his return with ...
Churches
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC); greatest of Roman orators, he was scholar, lawyer, writer, & staunch upholder of republican principles durin ...
Cidghana
cinmaya deha
Circumconscient
City-state(s)
Civilisation
Clairaudience
Clairsentience
Clairvoyance
Clan
Class(es)
Classicism
Cleopatra
Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-61), English poet whose work reflects the perplexity & religious doubt of mid-19th century England. He was a friend of ...
Cognition
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), leading English Romantic poet, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, & one of the most profound literary ...
Collective being
Collective consciousness
Collective ego
Collective egoism
Collective existence
Collective life
Collective will
Collectivism
Collectivity
Collins, William (1721-59), English lyricist whose odes adhered to neoclassical forms but they were Romantic in theme & feeling. Though his liter ...
Colours
Commerce
Commercial pressure
Commercialism
Commonwealth
Communalism
Commune
Communism
Community
Comparative mythology
Comparative philology
Compassion
Compounds and disintegration
Concentration
Conduct
Confederate empire
Confederation/ Confederacy
Conflagration
Confucius, Kong Fu-Tse (551-479 BC), Chinese philosopher; Confucianism has been the substance of learning, the source of values, & the social code ...
Congo
Congress, Indian National
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924), Polish-born English novelist & short-story writer.
Conscience
Conscious Being
Conscious Force
Consciousness
Consecration
Consent
Conservation and progress
Constantine, (288?-337), Roman emperor who converted to Christianity, turned his empire into a Christian Western & Byzantine medieval state, & ordere ...
Contact
Contemplation
Continental agglomerates
Contradictions
Conventional stage of human society
Convention(s)
Conversion
Coomaraswamy
Corneille, Pierre (1606-84), called Father of French classical tragedy.
Cortes, Hernan or Hernando Cortez (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador; he captured Mexico for Spain, obliterating an ancient & far more cultured c ...
Cosmic
Cosmic being
Cosmic Consciousness
Cosmic cycles
Cosmic Divine
Cosmic Force
Cosmic forces
Cosmic Life
Cosmic Mind
Cosmic Self
Cosmic Spirit
Cosmic-terrestrial theory of existence
Cosmic values
Cosmic vision
Cosmic Will
Cosmos
Coué, Emile (1857-1926), French pharmacist & psychotherapist who helped curing by optimistic autosuggestions such as: “Day by day, in every wa ...
Court of International Arbitration
Cousins
Cowper, William (1731-1800), one of the most widely read English poets of his day. In his sympathy with commonplace phenomena, his concern for t ...
Creation
Creative Power
Crete
Crime
Cripps
Critical intellect
Criticism
Croce
Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland, & Ireland (1653-58), he led parliamentary forces in the English Civil War.
Cruelty
Cuba
Culture
Curzon
Cycles
Czech nation

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David-Neel, Alexandra
D' Annuzio
Dadaists, followers of Dadaism, a nihilistic movement in arts in Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Paris, & New York in early 20th century. The t ...
Dadhikravan
Daemon
Daksha, in the Vedas, master of the works of unerring discernment; in the Puranas, one of the Prajāpatis, father of Dānu, Dīti, & Sati.
Dakshina, goddess of divine Discernment.
Damascus
dāna
Dance
Dante, (Alighieri) (1265-1321), Italian poet famous for his Divina Commedia.
Danton, Georges(-Jacques) (1759-94), a leading figure of the French Revolution. He has been branded “most complex & controversial” & “both a de ...
Danu, in Veda, the divided consciousness, mother of Vritra & Dānavas.
Darshan
Darwinism
Das
dāsyalipsā
Dasyus, adversaries of the seekers of Light & the Truth. There are two main branches of the Dasyus: the Pānis & the Vritras.
Dayananda
De la Mare
Death
Decadence
Dedication
Dehashakti
dehātma-buddhi
Deism
Deity
Delight
Democracy
Democratic cultus
Democratic State
Democratic tendency
Demosthenes, (384-322 BC), considered greatest of Greek orators, he roused Athens to oppose Philip of Macedon & later, his son Alexander.
Departed souls
Depression
Descent
Deshpande, perhaps Dr. Yashwantrao Khusala Deshpande (b.1884).
Desire-mind
Desire-soul
Desire(s)
Destiny
Destruction
Detachment
Determinates
Determinations
Determinism
Deuskar, Sakhārām Ganesh, a Mahārāshtrian writer whose family had lived long in Bengal. An able writer in Bengali, he was author of Desher Katha, ...
Devayan
Devi
Devotion
Dhanwantari
dhāraṇasāmarthya
Dharma, Tamil magazine brought out from Pondicherry around 1911 by V.V.S. Aiyar. It was allowed free circulation in British India.
dharmarājya
Dharmashastras
dhī
dhīra
Dhritarashtra
dhṛti
dhyāna
Dickens, Charles (John Huffam) (1812-70); popular English novelist.
Dickenson
Difficulties
dikṣā
Dionysus, Greek god of fertility & wine; also called Bacchus. He was intimately connected with the Eleusian Mysteries (q.v.), & was patron of chor ...
Disarmament
Disciple
Discipline
Discrimination
Disease
Disharmony
Disintegration
Dissolution
Distinctions
Diti, mother of the Daityas, goddess or personification of Divided Consciousness.
Diversity
Divine
Divine action
Divine Being
Divine birth
Divine body
Divine Compassion
Divine Consciousness
Divine existence
Divine Force
Divine Forces
Divine government of the universe
Divine Grace
Divine Individual
Divine life
Divine Love
Divine Manifestation
Divine Mind
Divine Mother
Divine Nature
Divine Personality
Divine Power
Divine Presence
Divine reason
Divine Shakti
Divine soul
Divine Will
Divine work(s)
Divinisation
Divinity
Division
Doer
Dominion Status
Donne, John, (1572-1631) dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, lead poet of English Metaphysical School, his poems & sermons were marked by passion & wit.
Double consciousness
Doubt(s)
Drama
Dravidian architecture
Dravidian(s), Sanjeev Sanyal: The theory of Aryan invasion had to be drastically revised when the remains of the sophisticated Harappan civilisation w ...
Dream-experience(s)
Dream self
Dream State
Dreams
Dṛṣṭi
Dryden, John (1631-1700), English poet, dramatist, translator, & critic. The later 17th century is sometimes termed “the age of Dryden”.
Dualism
Dualities
Dumas
Durant
Duration
Durga
Dutch
Dutt
Duty
Dvandvas
Dwaita
Dwapara
Dynamism

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Earth
Earth-consciousness
Earth-memory
Earth-nature
Earth-Principle,Power
East
East and West
Eastern art
Eastern poetry
Economic barbarism
Economic development
Economic life
Economic society
Economic unity
Economic view of life
Economics
Ecstasy
Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley (1882-1944), British astronomer, physicist & mathematician. He was a pioneer in the fields of relativity, cosmology, ...
Education
Effort
Ego
Ego-centrism
Ego-function
Ego-sense
Egoism
Egoistic phase of evolution
Egos
Egypt
Egyptian sculpture
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955), born in Germany of Jewish parents, theoretical physicist, best known for the formulation of the relativity theory. H ...
Élan vital
Electric infinitesimals
Electricity
Elementals
Element(s)
Eleusinian Mysteries, holy religious rites of Greece held at Eleusis; they dealt with the legends of Demeter, Kore (Persephone), & Dionysus.
Eliot, Thomas Steams (1888-1965), American-English poet, playwright, critic, leader of the modernist movement in poetry.
Elizabeth I
Emanations of the Mother
Embodiment
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-82), American lecturer, poet, essayist, leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism.
Emotional being
Emotional centre
Emotional experience of the Self
Emotional man
Emotional mind
Emotional nature
Emotional vital
Emotions
Empedocles, (c.490-430 BC), Greek philosopher, statesman, poet, & physiologist.
Empire(s)
Endurance
Energy
England
English
English colonies
English culture and national mind
English language
English literature
English poetry
English prose-writers
English prosody
English social culture
Enjoyment
Ennius, Quintus (239-169 BC), Latin epic poet, dramatist & satirist, father of Latin poetry. Virgil, Lucretius & Ovid borrowed freely from Ennius.
Enthousiasmos
Environment
Environmental consciousness
Epic
Epictetus, (c.55-c.135), Phrygian Stoic philosopher remembered for the religious tone of his teachings, which commended him to numerous early Chris ...
Epicureans
Epilepsy
Equality
Equanimity
Error(s)
Essence
Essentiality and commonality and individuality
Eternal
Eternal recurrence
Eternity
Ether
Ethical being
Ethical culture
Ethical good and evil
Ethical ideals
Ethical instinct
Ethical Law
Ethical man
Ethics
Ethnology
Etymology
Euripides, (c.484-406 BC), youngest of three greatest Athenian tragic poets (the other two being Aeschylus & Sophocles).
Europe, “If we consider the past of humanity so far as it is known to us, we find that the interesting periods of human life, the scenes in whic ...
European art
European civilisation,culture
European ethics
European history
European justice
European mind
European painting
European philosophy
European poetry
European religion
European scholarship
European sculpture
European society
European thought
Evans-Wentz
Eventualities
Evil
Evolution
Evolutionary impulse
Evolutionary intention
Evolutionary Mind
Evolutionary synthesis
Exclusive concentration
Existence
Existent
Experience(s)
Expression
Exteriorisation
Extrovert
Eyebrows

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Fact
Faith
Falsehood
Fame
Family
Family duties
Family idea
Family ideal
Family ties
Fascism, term first used in 1919 by Mussolini to define his political attitude & mass movement in Italy; it reached its zenith in Hitler’s Nazi G ...
Fasting
Fate
Fathers
Fatigue
Fear
Federal empire
Federation
Federation of free nations
Feelings
Ferrer
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814), German philosopher & transcendental Idealist.
Fiction
Field and Knower of the Field
Fielding
Financial power
Finland
Firdausi, (c.935-c.1020/26), principal Persian poet, author of the Shāh-nāmāh (Book of Kings), the Persian national epic.
Fire
Fitzgerald, (1) Lord Edward Fitz-Gerald (1763-98), Irish hero, one of the leaders in the uprising of 1798 against British rule. (2) Edward Fitzgeral ...
Flanders
Flaubert, Gustave (1821-80), French novelist, a pioneer of the Realist school of French literature.
Flowers
Food
Force
Force(s)
Formateurs
Formations
Formless
Formlessness
Formosa
Form(s)
Fortune
Four objects of life
Four orders
Four stages of life
Fourfold personality
Fragmentation
France
Francis of Assisi
Franco-German war, usually called the Franco-Prussian War (19 July 1870-10 May 1871), marked the end of French hegemony in continental Europe & the foundat ...
Fraternity
Free association
Free-confederation
Free grouping
Free nationality
Free speech
Free variation
Free Will
Freedom
French empire
French language
French mind and character
French poetry
French prose
French revolution, (1789-1815), considered the first of modern revolutions following which by a series of wars; French rule extended through most of Europe ...
French Romanticists
French scholarship
French social culture
Friendship
Fruit of works
Future
Futurism

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Gaekwar
Galileo, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist, he proved that the earth revolves round the sun, not vice ver ...
Gandha
Gandharvan sculpture
Gandharvas, in the Veda, Lord of hosts of Delight; in Puranas, musicians of Heaven. In Sri Aurobindo’s words, “beautiful, brave & melodious beings, ...
Gandhi, Mahatma
Ganesha
Gangoly
Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-82), Italian patriot & soldier, a leading figure in the Risorgimento, the period (1815-70) of Italian national unification.
Garimā
Garuda
Gaudapada, 7th century commentator on some Upanishads & Sānkhyakarikal.
Gaul, ancient designation for the land south & west of the Rhine, west of the Alps & north of the Pyrenees, i.e. what is presently France, Bel ...
Gayatri
Genius
German music
German philosophy
German poetry
German scholarship
German transcendentalism
Germany
Ghose
Ghost(s)
Bhagavad Gita, “The secret of action, so we might summarise the message of the Gita, the word of the divine Teacher, is one with the secret of all life ...
Giving
Global
Gnosis
Gnostic being
Gnostic change
Gnostic collectivity,collectivegnostic life
Gnostic evolution
Gnostic idea
Gnostic individual
Gnostic life
Gnostic mentality
Gnostic race of beings
Gnostic world
Goal
God
God and the world
God, Man and Nature
Godhead
Gods
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), poet, thinker, dramatist, novelist, & scientist.
Gokhale
Golden Age
Goldsmith, Oliver (17307-74), British poet, essayist, dramatist & novelist.
Goloka, Gō is spiritual light. Gōlōka is the spiritual plane of the light of the divine consciousness created by Sri Krishna. Vishnu’s Vaikuntha ...
Good
Good and evil
Gopis
Goswami
Government
Govind Singh
Govindadas
Grace
Gradations
Gradations between Mind and Supermind
Graeco-Roman civilisation
Graeco-Roman era
Graeco-Roman world
Graeco-Romao tradition
Graphology
Gratitude
Gray, Thomas (1716-71), famous for his An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, finished after years of revision in 1750.
Great Britain
Great Powers
Greatness
Greece
Greed
Greek
Greek art
Greek culture
Greek drama
Greek education
Greek Empire
Greek ethics
Greek islands
Greek language
Greek literature
Greek mythology
Greek philosophy and thought
Greek poetry
Greek polity
Greek sculpture
Greek temperament
Grief
Grihya Sutras, scriptures dealing with the rules for the conduct of domestic rites & the personal sacraments, extending from birth to marriage.
Group
Group-self
Group-soul
Guidance
Guide
Gujerat
Gunas
Gupta
Guru
Guru Govind Singh

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Habits
Hades, (1) a son of Cronus & Rhea, who won the lordship of the nether world when his brother Zeus of the sky, & Poseidon of the sea. He is also ...
Haeckel
Hafiz, Shams-ul-Din (c.1320-90), Persian mystic & poet.
Hague tribunal
Hallucination
Happiness
Hara-Gauri
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928), English novelist; after his novels were denounced as indecent & immoral, he became one of the foremost poets.
Harmony
Harris
Harvey, Gabriel (1545?-1630), poet, university don, & friend of Edmund Spenser.
Hasya
Hathayoga
Hatred
Hauntings
Havell, E.B. Havell (1861-1934) came to India in 1884 to take charge of Govt. School of Art, Madras, & worked as its superintendent up to 1892. ...
Headache
Healing
Hearing
Heart
Heart centre
Heat
Heavenly existence
Heavenly worlds
Heaven(s)
Hebraism
Hegel, G.W. Friedrich (1770-1831) what he wrote on ethics, aesthetics, history, & religion influenced Existentialism, Marxism, Positivism, & An ...
Heine, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet & author whose lyrics, ballads, & essays dwelt on German literature, politics & philosophy.
Hellenic civilisation
Hellenic ideal
Hellenic mind
Hellenic type
Hellenism
Hell(s)
Help
Hemisphere
Henotheism
Hephaestus
Heraclitus, (c.535-c.475 B.C), Greek philosopher of Ephesus. Sri Aurobindo: Heraclitus’ account of the cosmos is an evolution & involution out of hi ...
Heredity
Hesiod, Greek poet, first to incorporate a set of instructions poetically. His most famous poem contains advice for his brother & maxims for far ...
Hexameter
Hierarchy
Higher beings
Higher consciousness
Higher Mind
Higher Nature
Higher planes
Higher Thought
Hindu-Mahomedan question
Hindu Shastra
Hindu temperament
Hinduism
Hiranyagarbha, The Golden Womb, the Golden Egg is the source of the manifested Cosmos in Vedic philosophy as well as an avatar of Vishnu in the Bhāgava ...
Hiranyakashipu, an Asura who for his tapasyā had been granted lordship of the three worlds by Shiva, persecuted even his son Prahlāda for worshipping Vi ...
History
Hitler
Hitopadesha, ethical tales & fables by Narayana in 12th century from Panchatantra.
Hohenzollerns, German dynasty ruling Brandenburg (1415-1918), Prussia (1525-1918), & Germany (1871-1918).
Holland, formerly a part of the Holy Roman Empire, it was the chief member of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1579 to 1795.
Holy Alliance, term originally for 19th century European alliance ostensibly formed for conserving religion, justice & peace, but used for repressing p ...
Holy Roman Empire
Home Rule
Homer, principal figure of ancient Greek literature, & the First European poet. Legends about Homer were numerous in ancient times. He was said ...
Homeric poems
Hopkins
Horace, (65-08 BC); after the death of Virgil, he was the chief literary figure in Rome. He represents par excellence the spirit of the Augustan ...
Hostile Beings
Hostile forces
Housman
Hugo
Human being
Human evolution
Human nature
Human progress
Human unity
Humanitarianism
Humanity
Hume, David (1711-76), English philosopher, historian, economist, & essayist who conceived of philosophy as the inductive, experimental scienc ...
Humility
Humour
Hungary
Hunger
Hunger that is Death
Huxley, (1) Thomas Henry (1825-95), British scientist renowned for his defence of Darwinism which he accepted with some reservations. (2) Aldous ...
Hypnotism
Hysteria

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I
Ibsen, Henrik (Johan) (1828-1906), Norwegian poet & playwright.
Idealism
Ideal(s)
Idea(s)
Ideation
Idée force
Identical
Identity
Identity-consciousness
Idol-worship
Ignorance
Ila, in the Veda, goddess of revelation, “the strong primal Word of Truth who gives us its active vision” [SABCL 11:32]; one of the five powe ...
Illness
Illumined Mind
Illusion
Illusionism
Image-worship
Images
Imagination(s)
Immanence
Immortality
Immutability
Immutable
Imperatives
Imperfection(s)
Imperialism
Impersonal
Impersonal Divine
Impersonal self
Impersonality
Imposition
Incapacity
Incarnation
Inconscience
Indeterminable
Indeterminates
India, Sanyal: It appears that most of the earth’s land mass was joined together a billion years ago in a supercontinent called Rodinia…. Rodin ...
India and the West
Indian architecture
Indian art
Indian arts and crafts
Indian civilisation
Indian education
Indian epics
Indian ethics
Indian literature
Indian mind
Indian National Congress
Indian National Movement
Indian painting
Indian philosophy
Indian poetry
Indian religion
Indian scholarship
Indian sculpture
Indian society and polity
Indian spirituality
Indian thought
Indicative sciences
Indifference
Individual
Individual and the collectivity
Individual and the Universal
Individual and the universe
Individual being(s)
Individual consciousness
Individual Divine
Individual life
Individual self
Individual, Universal, Transcendent
Individualisation
Individualism
Individualistic age
Individualistic democracy
Individuality
Indra
Indriya(s)
Industrialism
Inertia
Infinite
Infinity
Infrarational
Infrarational age
Initiation
Inner being
Inner being and outer being
Inner consciousness
Inner experience(s)
Inner Guide
Inner life
Inner mind
Inner senses
Inner vision
Inner voice
Inquisition, The Roman Catholic ecclesiastical court founded in the 13th century under Pope Innocent III best remembered for its innocent devilish se ...
Insanity
Inspiration
Instinct(s)
Instrument
Integral theories of existence
Integral Yoga
Integralisation
Integrality
Integration
Integration of the being
Intellect
Intellectual mind
Intellectualisation
Intellectuality
Intellectuals
Intelligence
Intelligent will
Intelligentsia
Interchange
Intermediate zone(s)
International law
International unity
Internationalism
Introvert
Intuition
Intuitionalism
Intuitive consciousness
Intuitive gnosis
Intuitive Mind
Intuitive poetry
Intuitive self
Intuitivisation
Intuitivism
Involution
Inward movement
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Irish aesthetic temper
Irish humour
Irish movement
Irish poets
Irish revival
Isha
Isha Upanishad
Ishta Deva
Ishwara
Ishwara and Shakti
Ishwara Krishna
Ishwari Shakti
Īśitā
Islam, lit. submission to, having peace with, God; a religion founded by Prophet Mahomad. Although there have been many sects & movements in Is ...
Islamic civilisation
Islamic invasion of Spain
Israel, denotes both the Jewish state & the people who are descendants of Jacob. In the Old Testament, the term “Kingdom of Israel” is used to d ...
Iṣṭa-deva
Italian language
Italian painting
Italian poetry
Italy
Itihasa
Ito
Iyer
Idealist(s)
Ideative mind
Ishwarakoti

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Jacobins, the political group of the French Revolution formed in 1798, they led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794 (see Robesp ...
Jagat
Jai Singh, (d.1667) Raja of Amber who sold himself to Shah Jahan on whose orders he hunted the emperor’s sons Shuja & then Dara with distinction, f ...
Jaimini, disciple of Vyāsa. He authored the Purva-Mīmāṁsā.
Jainism, religion founded by Mahāvira on the principles taught by the 23rdTirthankara Parshvanāth. It accepts Karma & Rebirth but rejects the aut ...
Jala
James
Janaka
Janaloka, lowest of the three cosmic worlds; ‘world of creative delight’.
Japa
Japan
Japanese
Japanese art
Japanese artistic sense
Japanese Empire
Japanese poetry
Japanese society
Jatakas
Jāti
Javanese art
Javanese sculpture
Jayadeva, poet of Gita-Govinda, lyrics on the early life & love of Krishna as Govinda (the cowherd), & Radha. Jayadeva graced the court of King La ...
Jayaswal, Kashi Prasad (1871-1937), a pioneer in diverse fields of Indology. His main field of activity, however, was research in Indian history & ...
Jealousy
Jeans
Jesus Christ
Jewish race
Jews
Jiva
Jivakoti
Jivanmukta
Jivatman
Jnana
Jnanakanda
Jnanalipsa
Jnanaprakasha
Jnanayoga
Joan of Arc / Jeanne d’Arc, (c.1412-31), saint & greatest national heroine of France. She led the resistance to the English & Burgundians in the second period of th ...
Johnson, Samuel (1709-84), English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer.
Jonaraja, (c.1389-1459), poet, scholar, historian, astronomer, & physician of Kashmir who, asked by the ruler composed Rājataraṅginī, an account o ...
Jonson
Joy
Judaism, the Jewish religion.
Judea, Graeco-Roman name of Judah, then a part of Roman Palestine; the others were Galilee, Samaria, &, east of the river Jordan, Peraea. In th ...
Judgment
Judicial administration
Judicial system
Jugupsā
Julian, the Apostate (331/332-363), last Roman emperor (361-63) to attempt to replace Christianity by a revived polytheism of the Graeco-Roman P ...
Jupiter
Justice
Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis (b. AD 55), powerful of Roman satiric poet.
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Kabir, (1440-1518) a saint & mystic poet.
Kaivalya Upanishad, an Upanishad of the Krishna (Dark) Yajurveda.
Kali
Kalidasa, Many works are attributed to him; esp. the dramas Abhijñāna Śākuntalam, Vikramorvasīyam & Mālavikāgnimitram, & three epics Raghuvamsam, ...
Kalki, destroyer of foulness, destroyer of darkness, or destroyer of ignorance. By extension, he will complete the current cycle of evolution, ...
Kāma
Kamban, Tamil mystic, author of Kamban Rāmāyana, which he named Rāmanātaka.
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804), German metaphysician.
Kapila, Vedic Rishi who founded the Sāṅkhya Yoga, propounding Dwaita-vada. Vyāsa’s Yogasutra-bhāshya holds Kapila to be a Brahma-Jñani. Brahma P ...
Kārana
Karana-purusha
Karikas of Gaudapada
Karma
Karmachatushtaya
Karmakanda
Karmayoga
Kartavyam karma
Kartikeya, name given to Skandha, Pārvati’s first son, born to kill the Asura Tādaka (see Jayā). Known also as Kumar(a), in the South he is called ...
Kashiram, Kāshiram Das 16th century Bengali poet; his rendering of Mahabharata# & Krittibas’ Ramayana$ influence the cultural life of Bengal.
Kashmir
Katharsis
Kathasaritsagara, Ocean of the Rivers of Tales, popular tales in Sanskrit verse by Somadeva Bhatta between 1063 & 1081.
Kauśala
Kavi
Keats, John (1795-1821), considered one of the greatest of 19th century lyricists, for his vivid imagery, sensuous appeal, & rich classical themes.
Kena Upanishad
Khalifate
Khalsa, the military theocracy of the Sikhs. It is a democratic institution in which a new direction & form was given to Sikhism by Guru Govind ...
Khilafat agitation, Karandikar: The uprising of 1857 taught not a few lessons to the foreign rulers.... All martial races except the Sikhs & Gurkhās were ex ...
Kindness
Kinetic man
King
Kingdom of God, poem by Francis Thompson.
Kingship
Kingsley, Charles (1819-75), one of the first Anglican churchmen to support Darwin’s theory; his writings influenced social development in Britain.
Kinnaras
Kipling
Knower of the Field
Knowledge
Knowledge and the Ignorance
Knowledge-Will
Koran
Korea
Korean War
Kratu
Sri Krishna
Krishna consciousness
Krishna's Light
Krita Yuga, is “the age of accomplishment”; “the Age when the law of the Truth is accomplished”.
Krittibas, Krittivāsa Ojhā Mukhati (b.1346), distinguished classical writer who helped to make the Bengali language a literary instrument.
Kshara Purusha
Kshatratejas
Kshatriya
Kshetra
Kula
Kundalini
Kurukshetra, ‘the field of the Kurus’, a plain where the great battle between the Kauravas & the Pandavas was fought. The site of the battle has been ...
Kutastha

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Labour
laghimā
Lajpatrai,Lala
Lamb
Lamprecht, Karl Gottfried (1856-1915), German historian, the first to put forward a psychological theory of history & social development which depa ...
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864), English author & poet.
Languages
Latin intellect
Latin language
Latin tongues
Law
Law of Nature
Law of the talion
Law of the Truth
Lawrence
League of Nations
Lecky, William E. Hartpole (1838-1903), British historian of rationalism & morals.
Leconte de Lisle, Charles-Marie-René (1818-94), French poet, leader of the Parnassians; acknowledged as the foremost French poet (1865-95) apart from Hugo.
Legislation
Lele, (1) Vishnu Bhāskara Lele (1876-1938) a Mahārāshtrian yogi under whose guidance Sri Aurobindo achieved complete silence of the mind & imm ...
Lenin
Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect & engineer. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry into the workings of t ...
Leopardi, Giacomo (1798-1837), Italian poet, scholar, & philosopher.
Lex talionis
Libanius, with Themistius, leading educationist of Greece. Libanius was a famous rhetorician who conducted a school in his native Antioch.
Liberation
Liberty
Liberty and order
Liberty and uniformity
Liberty-equality-fraternity
L'Idée Nouvelle
Life
Life-energy
Life-force
Life-forces
Life-mind
Life-plane
Life-power
Life-principle
Life-soul
Life-value
Life-worlds
Light(s)
Lila
Limit
Limitation
Lipsā
Literary criticism
Literature
Logic
Logical process
Logical reason
Logical reason(ing)
Logos
Lokasaṁgraha
Loneliness
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82), a popular of American poet, a professor of modern languages, having command of some ten languages.
Lord
Lorraine
Lotus(es)
Louis Napoleon, Bonaparte, or Napoleon III (1808-73), Emperor of France (1852-70) who gave France two decades of prosperity & revived its prestige in Eu ...
Louis XIV
Love
Love for the Divine
Lower nature
Lower vital
Loyalty
Lucan, Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65), Latin poet; a Republican patriot who was forced to kill himself when his part in a plot against Emperor ...
Lucretius, (1) (c.99-55 BC), Latin poet & philosopher whose De Rerum Natura sets arguments based on philosophies of Democritus & Epicurus. (2) Cent ...
Lycurgus, reformer of Sparta’s constitution, govt., & social system, to establish a machine of war which would preclude trouble from the helots & ...

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Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis (1848-1890): ICS: Financial Secretary to Govt. of Bengal & Member of the Legislative Council: went to Peking 1885: ...
Macedon
Machinery
Macrocosm
Madhusudan
Madhwa
Madness
Madrasi race
Maeterlinck, Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard (1862-1949), Belgian symbolist poet & playwright, he wrote in French & won the 1911 Nobel Prize in litera ...
Magha, ancient Sanskrit poet, son of Dattaka, & author of Shishupāla-vadha.
Magic
Magna Charta, (Magna Carta), a document guaranteeing personal & political liberty to his subjects, issued by King John at Runnymede in 1215 under thre ...
Mahabharata, by Vyāsa; presently comprises a lakh shlokas in 18 Parvas.
Mahakali
Mahalakshmi
Mahar
Maharashtra
Maharloka
Mahas
Mahasaraswati
Mahashakti
Mahashiva
Mahat
Mahat ātman
Mahavira, (c.599-527 BC) born as Vardhamana he founded Jainism, & became known as Mahāvira, the last of the 24 Tirthankaras of that spiritual system.
Mahayana Buddhism
Maheshwari
Mahi, (1) in the Veda, the goddess of the Vast Truth (Mahas); she represents the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source. ...
Mahimā
Mahomed
Mahomedan
Mahomedan world
Mahomedan yoga
Mahomedanism
Mahratta confederation
Mahrattas
Malavas
Mallarmé, Stéphane (1842-98), French poet, a master of the evocative use of the French language, & a major influence on the Symbolist movement.
Malory, Sir Thomas (c.1470), English writer famous as author of Morte d’Arthur, the first prose account in English of the rise & fall of King Ar ...
Man
Manas
Mānava-dharmaśāstra
Manicheanism
Manifestation
Manishi
Mankind
Manomaya Purusha
Mantra(s)
Manu
Many
Maratha poetry
Maratha race
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-93), English dramatist & poet. Among the Elizabethan dramatists, he was second only to Shakespeare.
Marriage
Maruts, the storm-gods, who hold a very prominent place in the Vedas & are represented as friends & allies of Indra. The Maruts are Life-Powers ...
Marxism
Masefield, John (1878-1967), playwright & novelist; 15th poet laureate of England.
Mass-consciousness
Master
Matarishwan
Material
Material being
Material consciousness
Material energy
Material Force
Material life
Material man
Material Nature
Material things
Material World
Materialisation
Materialism
Materialistic age
Materialistic movements
Matter
Maya
Mayas
Mayavada
Mazzini, Giuseppe (1805-72), Italian revolutionary, thinker, writer, an outstanding figure of Risorgimento (1815-70), the period of national unif ...
Mc Taggart
Mechanical mind
Mechanisation
Mediaeval age of Europe
Medical Science
Medicines
Meditation
Medo-Persia
Megasthenes, (c.350– c.290 BC) a Greek explorer historian of Asia Minor, whom, around 302 BC, Seleucus I Nikator sent him as his ambassador to Chandr ...
Mehta
Memory
Menander, (342-292 BC), Athenian dramatist considered the supreme poet of Greek New Comedy, the last flowering of Athenian stage comedy.
Menelik, Menelik II (1844-1913), emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia). He expanded the empire almost to its present borders & also modernised it.
Menes, first ruler of the first dynasty of unified Egypt; he joined Upper & Lower Egypt in a centralized monarchy. Tradition attributes to him ...
Mental activity
Mental being
Mental Constructions
Mental control
Mental development
Mental energy
Mental faculties
Mental forces
Mental formations
Mental gnosis
Mental knowledge
Mental life
Mental man
Mental person
Mental physical
Mental plane(s)/world(s)
Mental psychic
Mental Purusha
Mental realisation(s)
Mental self
Mental sheath
Mental silence
Mentality
Meredith
Mesopotamia
Metal
Metaphor
Metaphysical distinctions
Metaphysical inquiry
Metaphysical knowledge
Metaphysical objection to teleology
Metaphysical philosophy
Metaphysical statement
Metaphysical thought
Metaphysics
Metempsychosis
Metre
Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar (1773-1859), Fürst von Metternich, Austrian statesman, a champion of conservative principles. The period 1 ...
Mexico
Michelangelo
Microcosm and macrocosm
Middle Ages
Militarism
Military unification
Milton, John (1608-74), English poet, whose 19 English & five Italian sonnets are considered greatest ever written, but his Paradise Lost has ma ...
Mimansa
Mind
Mind centres
Mind, Life and Body
Mind, Life and Matter
Mind of light
Mind-sense
Mind Space
Minerva, Roman goddess of handicrafts, the professions, the arts, & later, of war; commonly identified with the Greek Athena.
Mirabai, was born in Chittodgadh (see Chitore); her integral surrender to Lord Krishna was epitomized by her final disappearance in His temple in ...
Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti (1749-91), Comte de Mirabeau, French revolutionist & statesman, one of the greatest figures in the Nationa ...
Miracles
Mitra, one of the Ādityas; associated with Vedic Varuna, he is the all-embracing harmony of the Truth, the Friend of all beings, & therefore, t ...
Mitter
Modes of Nature
Modes of the Self
Moghul Empire
Moghul painting
Moha
Moksha
Moliere, pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73), French dramatist, actor, & master of comedy. He was eventually acclaimed as one of the gr ...
Monad
Monarch
Monarchy
Monastic life
Money
Monism
Moral change
Moral energy
Moral governance of the world
Moral law
Moral nature
Moral order
Moral personality
Moral strength
Morality
Morley
Morocco
Morris
Mortality
Moses, (14th -13th cent BC) the greatest lawgiver of Israel, he led his people out of bondage in Egypt to the edge of Canaan. God promulgated t ...
Moslem poetry
Moslem world
Movement
Mrinalini Devi, (1887-1918) was born in Meherpore, a village near Jessore. She was married to Sri Aurobindo on 30 April 1901. According to her father, s ...
Mukherji
Muktasya karma
Mukti
Muladhara
Müller
Mullick
Multiplicity
Mundaka Upanishad, an Upanishad of Atharva-Veda.
Munje
Muses
Music
Mussalman invasion and domination of India
Mussalman nations
Mutability
Mutable Purusha
Mutuality
Mysteries
Mystic
Mystic experience
Mystic mind
Mystic poetry
Mystical language
Mysticism
Mystics
Myth
Mythology

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Nadis
Naga
Naidu
Name and form
Name(s)
Nammalwar, Vaishnava saint poet of South India, considered greatest of the Alwārs.
Namuchi, in Rig-Veda, a demon associated with Vritra. He personifies man’s weaknesses & is slain by Indra with the foam of water. The legend of N ...
Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion was born in 1469 in a Khatri family of Talwandi near Lahore. He considered all men as equal before God & pr ...
Naoroji
Napoleon
Nara-Narayana, “expresses the relation of God in man to man in God” [SABCL: 13:11] A legend about their incarnations as Sri Krishna & Arjūna goes thus: ...
Narad
Narayana, one of the two Rishi brothers who performed austerities at Budaricāshram. Urvasie was produced by the sage Nārāyaṇa by thumping on his t ...
Nati
Nation
Nation idea
National education
National ego
National egoism
National evolution
National Socialism
Nationalism
Nationality
Nature
Navel centre
Necessity
Neo-Platonism
Neo-Platonists
Neptune, Roman god of fertility, later times identified with Poseidon, god of the sea. (2) The planet named Neptune was discovered in 1846.
Nero, Nero Claudius Caesar was the title of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus as the 5th Roman emperor (54-68). His fervent admiration of Greek cult ...
Nerve channels
Nerve-energy
Nerves
Nervous breakdown
Nervous envelope
Nescience
Netherlands
Neurasthenia
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), English physicist & mathematician, best known for his formulation of the Law of Gravitation & of the Laws of Motion.
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900), German classical scholar, philosopher, & critic.
Nigraha
Nihil
Nirguna and Saguna
Nirukta, one of the Vedāṇgas. The term means etymology & glossary. It is devoted to the explanation of difficult Vedic words. The only work of th ...
Nirvana
Nivedita
Nivritti and Pravritti
Niyama
Noailles
Nolini Kanta Gupta
Nomen
Non-Birth and Birth
Non-Existence
Non-violence
Northern Africa
Norway
Nostradamus
Noumenalism
Nous
Numbers
Numbness
Numen
Nyaya, one of the six Darshanas, Science of Logic, by Rishi Gautama.

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Obedience
Objectivisation
Objectivism
Objectivity
Object(s)
Observation
Occult brotherhoods
Occult faculty
Occult powers
Occult processes
Occultism
Odour
Offering
Oligarchy
Olympiad
OM
OM Tat Sat
Omnipotence
Omnipresence
Omniscience
One
One and the Many
One existent
Oneness
Opening
Opinions
Oppositions
Order
Organs
Oriental
Orphic Mysteries
Ouranos, Greek sky-god.
Ouspensky, Peter Demianovitch (1878-1947), Russian philosopher, influential disciple of Gurdjieff. He broke away from Gurdjieff in 1924.
Outer Being
Outer consciousness
Outer mind
Outer nature
Overhead planes
Overhead poetry
Overmental transformation
Overmentalisation
Overmind
Overmind aesthesis
Overmind Gnosis
Overmind Intuition
Overmind law
Overmind Maya
Overmind principle
Overself
Oversoul
Oxford Dictionary
Oxford University

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Paganism
Pain
Pain and pleasure
Painting
Pakistan
Pal
Palestine
Pali language
Panchayat(s)
Pantheism
Para Purusha
Parabrahman
Paramatman
Parameshwara
Parameshwari
Paramhansa
Parārdha
Parashakti
Parashurama
Paratpara Brahman
Paratpara Purusha
Paribhu
Pariṇāma
Parjanya, Vedic god of Rain; also an Aditya, & god of the constellation Kumbha.
Parliamentarism
Parnell
Pascal
Pasha
Passive resistance
Passivity
Past
Patala, nethermost of the seven regions below the earth ruled by Vāsuki.
Patanjali, contemporary of King Pushyamitra (q.v.); though many of the compositions mentioned by Patanjali existed long before the Mauryas, some of ...
Pater, Walter Horatio (1839-94), English critic & essayist, known for his painstakingly fastidious style. His highly personal criticisms of pai ...
Patience
Patriotism
Paul
Peace
Peele, George (1556-96), English dramatist & clergyman experimented with many forms of theatrical art: pastoral, history, melodrama, tragedy, f ...
Penultimate centre
Perfection
Permanent
Perseverance
Persia
Persistence
Persistence of will
Person
Personal and the Impersonal
Personal Divine
Personal effort/effort
Personality
Personality and Impersonality
Perversion
Peshwas
Pessimism
Pessimist theory of the world
Petrarch, Francesco (1304-74), Italian scholar, humanist, & poet whose poems to Laura inspired a Renaissance of lyric poetry in Italy, France, Spa ...
Phenomenon
Phidias
Philanthropy
Philippines
Philistine
Philistine society
Phillip II of Macedonia
Phillips
Philo, Philo Judaeus, Alexandrian Jewish philosopher whose doctrines also influenced Christian religious writings.
Philology
Philosopher
Philosophy
Photograph
Physical
Physical being
Physical Consciousness
Physical education
Physical exercise
Physical man
Physical Mind
Physical Nature
Physical plane
Physical Purusha
Physical sheath
Physical things
Physical transformation
Physical-vital
Physics
Pillai
Pishachas
Pitris
Pitriyan
Pity
Pizarro, Francisco (c. 1475-1541), Spanish conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru.
Planck, Max (Karl Ernst Ludwig) (1858-1947), German theoretical physicist who originated the quantum theory. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize ...
Plane(s)
Planets
Plant(s)
Plasticity
Plato, (c. 428-348/347 BC), 2nd of the Great Trio of ancient Greeks – Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle – who laid the philosophical foundations of ...
Platonists
Play of forces
Pleasure
Plotinus, (c.205-270), native of Egypt, who transformed a revival of Platonism in the Roman Empire into Neo-Platonism which influenced Islamic & E ...
Pluralism
Poem
Poetic beauty
Poetic conceit
Poetic creation
Poetic delight
Poetic fancy
Poetic image
Poetic inspiration
Poetic intelligence
Poetic originality
Poetic rhetoric
Poetic rhythm
Poetic word
Poetry
Poet(s)
Poland
Political evolution
Politician
Politics
Polity
Poltergeist phenomena
Polytheism
Pondicherry, In the 9th century “Pallava kings extended their patronage to educational institutions at Kāṅchī & Bāhur. Bāhur had a College where prov ...
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) was born in London, his education was affected by the recently enacted Test Acts, which banned Catholics from teac ...
Portugal
Positivism
Possession
Possibility(ies)
Potentialities
Pound
Poverty
Power
Powers
Powers of consciousness
Practical life
Practical man
Pradhana
Pradyumna, son of Sri Krishna by Rukminie, said to be a reincarnation of Kāmadeva. “Symbolically, Pradyumna is the third Power of the Chaturvyuha, ...
Pragmatism
Prahlada, son of the Asura king Hiranyakashipu; while yet a boy he became an ardent devotee of Vishnu. This enraged his father, who tried to get h ...
Prajapati
Prajna
Prajnana
Prākāmya
Prakriti
Pralaya
Prana
Prāṇakoṣa
Prāṇamaya puruṣa
Prāṇapratiṣthā
Pranashakti
Pranayama
Pranic Shakti
Prashna Upanisbad
Pravritti and Nivritti
Praxiteles, sculptor of Athens (370-330 BC), greatest of the Attic sculptors & artists.
Prayer
Predetermination
Premananda
Presence
Present
Presentiment
Pressure
Principles
Prītiḥ
Process
Procreation
Progress
Propaganda
Property
Prophecy
Prophet
Prose
Prose rhythm
Prose style
Prosody
Protection
Providence
Prussia
Prussian
Psuché
Psyche
Psychic
Psychic Being
Psychic centre
Psychic change
Psychic emergence
Psychic entity
Psychic experience(s)
Psychic feeling
Psychic fire
Psychic inspiration
Psychic love
Psychic mind
Psychic opening
Psychic Person
Psychic-physical
Psychic sorrow
Psychic-vital
Psychic weeping
Psychic world
Psychical consciousness
Psychical phenomena
Psychical powers
Psychical Prana
Psychical senses
Psychicisation
Psycho-spiritual change
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Pulling the Force
Punjab
Puranas, constitute, according to the Upanishads, the fifth Veda; the Smṛti considers them commentaries on the Vedas. Traditionally a Purana trea ...
Puranic literature
Puranic religions
Puranic tradition
Purification
Purity
Purna Yoga
Purpose
Purusha
Purusha and Prakriti
Purusha consciousness
Purushottama
Purushottama consciousness
Purva Mimansa
Pushan, in Vedas ‘the increaser’, ‘the nourisher’. In later scriptures he is Surya.
Pythagoras, (c.582-c.507 BC), Greek philosopher & mathematician; he founded of the Pythagorean brotherhood that formulated principles that contribut ...
Pythagorean system
Pythagoreans

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Qualified Monism
Quality
Quantity
Quarrels
Question-asking
Quiescence
Quiet
Quiet mind
Quietude

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Race
Racine, Jean Baptiste (1639-99), French dramatist & poet, a master of tragedy.
Radha, “personification of the absolute love for the Divine, total & integral in all parts of the being from the highest spiritual to the physi ...
Radha-love
Radhakrishnan S
Rajas
Rajasic man
Rajayoga, book in English by Swami Vivekananda with the subtitle Conquering the Internal Nature. The first part includes his lectures in New York; ...
Rajput painting
Rajputana, original Rājputāna lay in the north-western part of Bhāratavarsha on both sides of the Aravalli Range (see ‘India’). A large part of it ...
Rajput(s)
Rakshasas
Rakshasi
Rama, 7th Avatar of Vishnu born as eldest son of King Dasharatha of Koshala: “When the divine Consciousness & Power, taking upon itself the hu ...
Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1 Feb. 1836-16 Aug. 1886). Sri Aurobindo received three crucial Akashic messages from him. In 1912, he wrot ...
Ramakrishna Mission, religious body founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1897 to spread the teaching of Sri Ramakrishna & to improve the social condition of India ...
Ramanuja
Ramatirtha, Swami Rāmatirtha (1873-1906), known for the highly personal & poetic manner in which he illustrated the divine nature of man through Pra ...
Ramayana
Ramdas, (1884-1963), Vaishnava Bhakta of South India, a devotee of Rama. He established the Ananda Ashram in Kanhangad, Kerala. His wrote In que ...
Ramprasad, Rāma Prasād Sen (1718/23-75), Bengali poet-saint, a devotee of Mother Kali. He rendered the romantic story of Vidyā & Sundar.
Ranade
Ranade R . D
Raphael, Raffaello Santi (1483-1520), one of the masters of the Italian High Renaissance style. He was the youngest of the three great artists of ...
Rasa
Rational age
Ravana, was one of the two chief dwara-pālas of Lord Vishnu who were cursed by Rishi Durvāsā to be born in Mrityuloka (the world of Death, our e ...
Ravi Varma
Rayi
Reading
Real-Idea
Realisation(s)
Realism
Reality
Reason
Reasoning will
Rebirth
Receptivity
Reflection
Reformation
Regimentation and liberty
Reincarnation
Rejection
Relations with the Divine
Relationships
Relativity
Reliance
Religio-ethical sense
Religion of humanity
Religion, Philosophy and Science
Religion(s)
Religious code of conduct
Religious community
Religious cultures
Religious fanaticism
Religious ideal of perfection
Religious liberty
Religious life
Religious reformations
Religious teaching
Religious work
Remembrance
Renaissance
Renan
Renunciation
Repentance
Republics
Resistance
Resolution
Retirement
Revelation
Revolution
Revolutionary movement
Revolutionary mysticism
Rhetoric
Rhythm(s)
Ribhus, in Rig-Veda, Ribhū or Ribhukshan, Vibhū or Vibhva, & Vaja, the three sons of Sudhanwan (q.v.), are human powers who by the work of sacri ...
Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761), English novelist, started the epistolary technique.
Rig-veda, The first of the four Vedas. Two others, the Yajur & Sama, are merely different arrangements of its hymns for special purposes. The hymn ...
Right
Rik
Rimbaud, (Jean-Nicolas-) Arthur (1854-91), French poet & adventurer whose small poetic output had an incalculable influence on the Symbolist move ...
Rishis
Ritam
Robespierre, Maximilien-Francois-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre (1758-94; Jacobin leader & one of the leading figures of French Revolution & author of ...
Rolland
Roman Empire
Roman poetry
Romanticism
Rome
Roosevelt
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-82), English poet, painter, founder of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood devoted to “truth to nature” & romanticizing the M ...
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-78), his treatises & novels inspired leaders of the French Revolution & Romantic generation: Kant, Goethe, Robespierr ...
Roy
Rudra
Rudra energy
Rules
Rumania
Ruskin, John (1819-1900), English author & critic who championed Gothic Revival in architecture & decorative arts & influenced public taste in a ...
Russell
Russia
Russian Empire
Russian literature
Russian novelists
Russian Revolution
Russo-Japanese War

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Sabda
Sachchidananda
Sachchidananda consciousness
Sacrifice
Sadātman
Sadhak
Sadhana
Sādharmya
Sādṛśya
Sagona and Nirguna
Sāhasam
Sālokya
Salvation
Sama
Sáma
Samadhi
Samain
Samana
Samata
Sāmīpya
Saṁyama
Sanatan Dharma
Sand
Saṅgha
Sanjnana
Sankhya, one of the six schools of Yoga founded Kapila Muni (q.v.). It is the abstract & analytical realisation of the truth.
Sankhya Karika(s), verses on Sāṅkhya by Ishwara Krishna.
Sannyasa
Sansiddhichatushtaya
Sanskrit
Sanskrit drama
Sanskrit poetry
Santayana
Sappho, of Lesbos, greatest of early Greek lyricists. Plato called her the tenth Muse.
Sapta-chatushtaya
Saradamani Devi
Sarama, the Vedic Hound (Intuition) who pursues & recovers the cows (Spiritual Light) stolen by the Pānis (anti-Divine powers).
Saraswati
Sat
Sat Brahman
Sat puruṣa
Sati, a form of Ᾱdya Shakti was born as the youngest of the three daughters of Prajāpati Daksha; the other two were Danu & Diti. She was led t ...
Satsaṅga
Sattwa
Sattwic community
Sattwic man
Satya
Satyadharma
Satyaloka
Satyam
Satyam, Ritam, Brihat
Savage
Savitri
Saxon
Sayana, brother of Madhavāchārya, prime minister of Vijayanagara. Over a 100 scholarly works, commentaries on the Saṁhitās & Brāhmaṇas of the Ve ...
Sāyujya
Scandinavian States
Scandinavian writers
Scepticism
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von (1759-1805): German poet, dramatist, historian, & philosopher; one of the founders of modern German liter ...
Scholarship
Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860): German philosopher, his metaphysical doctrine prepared the way for Existential Philosophy & Freudian psychology.
Schweitzer
Science
Scientific method of knowledge
Scientific objection to a teleological cosmos
Scientific view of existence
Scotland
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), first great Scottish novelist & poet: inventor of the historical novel (see Rebecca) & one of the most popular n ...
Scripture
Sculpture
Seances
Seed-sounds
Seeking for the Divine
Self
Self-absorption
Self-affirmation
Self-analysis
Self and Nature
Self-assertion
Self-awareness
Self-consciousness
Self-creation
Self-delight
Self-determination(s)
Self-development
Self-discovery
Self-Existence
Self-experience
Self-expression
Self-fulfilment
Self-giving
Self-immolation
Self-knowledge
Self-limitation
Self-manifestation
Self-observation
Self-offering
Self-Power
Self-preservation
Self-realisation
Self-sacrifice
Semitic nations
Sensational mind
Sensations
Sense evidence
Sense-mind
Sense values
Senses
Sensibility
Sentiment
Sentimentalism
Serbia
Serpent Power
Service
Sex
Shabda
Shaivism
Shaivite poetry
Shaivite sculpture
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), Ben Jonson had prophecised that he “was not of an age, but for all time”. The majority of scholars accept 38 plays, ...
Shakti
Shakti-chatushtaya
Shankaracharya
Shanks
Shanti
Shanti-chatushtaya
Shape
Sharira-chatushtaya
Shastra
Shaw
Sheath(s)
Shelley
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (Butler) (1751-1816), British playwright & politician noted for his comedies of manners, especially The School for Scandal.
Shiva
Shivaji, (1627/30-80) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was born in at Shivneri, a hill fort near Pune. Since his father Shāhāji Raje Bhonsle, employed ...
Shraddha
Shuddhi
Shudrashakti
Siam
Siddhi
Siddhis
Sidney
Sikh Gurus
Sikh Khalsa
Sikh religion
Sikhs
Silence
Simplicity
Sin
Sincerity
Sindh, the valley of River Sindhu below its confluence with Vitastā (native name of Jhelum). It witnessed the birth & collapse of a pre-histori ...
Singh
Singing
Skanda
Slavery
Sleep
Sleep-self
Sleep-state
Smell
Smriti
Social democracy
Social development
Social evolution
Social hierarchy
Social principle
Social reform, Sri Aurobindo: Reform is not an excellent thing in itself as many Europeanised intellects imagine; neither is it always safe & good to s ...
Social standard
Socialised life
Socialism
Socialistic State
Society
Sociology
Socrates, (c. 470-399 BC), first of the great trio of ancient Greeks, the other two being Plato & Aristotle. He wrote nothing himself. His life & ...
Soma, in Veda, husband of Indu & Vena (Delight & Immortality), he represented & animated the Sōma-juice. In Puranas he is the god Chandra, son ...
Somaliland
Sophists, Greek lecturers, writers, & teachers in 5th-4th centuries BC, most of whom travelled about teaching young men in return for fees. They p ...
Sophocles, (c.497-406 BC), one of the three great tragic playwrights of classical Greece. He wrote some 123 dramas, only seven of which have survived.
Sorley
Sorrow
Soul
Soul evolution
Soul-force
Soul-personality
Soul-power
Sound
South Africa
South East Asia
Sovereign
Soviet Union
Sovietism
Space
Spain, In 1516, Habsburg dynasty unified a number of disparate predecessor kingdoms & expanded their empire to the Americas. The Spanish Empire ...
Spark of the Divine
Sparśa
Sparta
Speech
Spenser, Edmund (1552/53-99), English poet, his allegorical The Faerie Queene – in what became known as the Spenserian stanza – glorified England ...
Spine
Spinoza, Benedict de (1632-77), Dutch rationalist who formulated the metaphysical systems of Western philosophy.
Spirit
Spirit and matter
Spirit communication
Spiritism
Spiritual age
Spiritual aim in society
Spiritual being
Spiritual change
Spiritual consciousness
Spiritual destiny
Spiritual determinates
Spiritual evolution
Spiritual existence
Spiritual experience
Spiritual force
Spiritual knowledge
Spiritual Life
Spiritual man
Spiritual mind
Spiritual mind-range
Spiritual philosophy
Spiritual realisation
Spiritual transformation
Spiritual utility of art
Spiritual view of existence
Spiritual will
Spiritualisation
Spiritualised society
Spiritualism
Spirituality
Sports
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Sri Aurobindo's force
Sri Aurobindo's light
Sriharsha
Sṛṣṭi
Sruti
Stability
Standardisation
State
State idea
State socialism
stead
sthairyam
Stillness
Stoic system
stoics, philosopher(s) of the school founded at Athens c. 308 BC by Zeno: it held virtue as highest good, concentrated on ethics, & inculcated c ...
Strength
Strife
Study
Subconscient
Subconscient dreams
Subconscient mind
Subconscious being
Subjective age
Subjective experience
Subjectivism
Subjectivity
Subliminal
Subliminal consciousness
Subliminal mind
Subliminal nature
Subliminal self
Submission1
Submission2
Substance
Subtle body
Subtle force
Subtle matter
Subtle physical
Subtle physical consciousness
Subtle physical object
Subtle properties of Energy and Matter
Subtle smell
Subtle sounds
Subtle worlds
Sudhā
Sudra
Suffering
Sufi poetry
Sufism, Tasawwuf, the inner mystical dimension of Islam, emerged among the Shi’ites as a reaction against the worldliness of the early Umayyad C ...
Suicide
Sukham
Sunlit path
Superconscient
Superconscient existence
Superman
Supermind
Supernatural
Supernature
Superstition
Suppression
Supra-Intelligence
Supracosmic
Supracosmic theory of existence
SupramentaJ Yoga
Supramental
Supramental being
Supramental being(s)
Supramental consciousness
Supramental creation
Supramental descent
Supramental force
Supramental intelligence
Supramental knowledge
Supramental love
Supramental nature
Supramental principle
Supramental realisation
Supramental reason
Supramental sense
Supramental Shakti
Supramental substance
Supramental thought
Supramental transformation
Supramental Truth
Supramental vision
Supramental will
Supramental word
Supramental world(s)
Supramentalisation
Supraphysical
Supraphysical beings
Supraphysical phenomena
Suprarational
Suprarational age
Supraterrestrial theory of existence
Supreme
Supreme Nature
Surdas
Surface being
Surface consciousness
Surface existence
Surface knowledge
Surface mind
Surface nature
Surface personality
Surface self
Surrender
Surya, in the Vedic Trinity, he governs the Sky, Agni the earth, & Indra the heavens. In later scriptures his chariot is driven by Aruṇ, Dawn; ...
Surya Savitri
Sushupti
Sutras
svabhāva
Svabhava-niyatam karma
Swabhava
Swadharma
Swar
Swargaloka
Swarloka
Swayambhu
Sweden
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909), English poet & critic, symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt.
Switzerland
Symbolic dreams
Symbolic language
Symbolic stage of human society
Symbolism
Symbols
Synge
Syrian republics
System(s)

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Tacitus
Tagore
Taijasa
Taine, Hippolyte (-Adolphe) (1828-93), French thinker, critic, historian, exponent of 19th cent. French Positivism which applies scientific met ...
Tamas
Tamasic man
Tamil language
Tamil saints
Tanmatras
Tantra
Tantras
Tantric distincton between men
Tantric philosophy
Tantric theory of speech
Tantricism
Tao, the One – Being & Non-Being, Beginning & End, the Way, the Road to Heaven.
Tapas
Tapasya / Tapasyā
Tapoloka
Tasso, Torquato (1544-95), Italian poet famed as author of Jerusalem Delivered.
Taste
Tat
Tattwas
Teacher
Tejah
Teleology
Telepathy
Tennyson, Lord Alfred (1809-92), chief representative of the Victorian Age, appointed poet laureate in 1850.
Teresa
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-63), English Victorian novelist whose work, during his lifetime & for long afterward, was considered equal or su ...
That
The Mother
The Mother's consciousness
The Mother's Force
The Mother's Grace
The Mother's help
The Mother's light
The Mother's love
The Mother's music
The Mother's Presence
The Mother's protection
The Mother's Will
Theism
Theocracy
Theocritus, (c.310-250 BC), Alexandrian Greek poet, the creator of pastoral poetry.
Theology
Theosophy
Thinking mind
Third eye
Thompson
Thomson, James (1700-48), British poet famous for Seasons which foreshadowed some of the attitudes of the Romantic movement. He also wrote a few ...
Thought formation(s)
Thought(s)
Thousand-petalled lotus
Thrace, region east of Macedonia, on the Aegean & the Black Sea & extending north to the Danube. In the Trojan War, Thracians fought under Rhesu ...
Throat centre
Tibet
Tilak
Time
Time and Space
Time, Space and Causality
Time-Spirit
Tintoretto, Jacopo Robusti (1518-94), one of the greatest Mannerist painters of the Venetian school & of the Renaissance; famed for executing with a ...
Tiruvalluvar, a Tamil yogi who wrote Tirukkural (see Kural).
Titiksha
Totalitarian mysticism
Totalitarianism
Touch
Traiguṇātītya
Trance
Transcendent
Transcendent Divine
Transcendentalism
Transformation
Translation
Transmigration
Trāṭak
Treitschke, Heinrich von (1834-96), German historian & political writer whose advocacy of power politics, influential at home, led to distrust of Ge ...
Treta, second of the four Yugas, when sacrifice commenced & righteousness decreased by one-fourth; men adhered to truth, & were devoted to righ ...
Tribe
Tribe idea
Trieste
Trikaladrishti
Triple transformation
Tripoli
Trita Aptya, a god or Rishi of the third plane, full of luminous mental kingdoms unknown to the physical mind; Aptya from his origin in Āpah (water).
True Being
True Consciousness
True vital
Trust
Truth
Truth-consciousness
Truth-plane
Tukaram, (1607-49), poet-saint of Mahārāshṭra. His devotional songs, addressed to Viṭhala (Lord Vishnu), greatly influenced Shivaji.
Tulsidas, (1532/43-1623) wrote his Rāmacharita-mānasa in Awadhi the popular language of his time. It is his version of Vālmiki’s Rāmāyana.
Turiya
Turiya Atman
Turkish Empire
Twashtri, among Rig-Vedic gods, he is “the Fashioner of things” [SABCL 10:438]; among Puranic gods he is Viśvakarmā.
Tyaga
Typal beings
Typal society
Typal stage of human society
Typal worlds
Type(s)

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Udana
Udasinata
Ujjayini
Ulster
Uma Haimavati, Pārvati as the Supreme Nature from whom the whole cosmic action takes its birth. The earliest known mention of the name is in the Kena U ...
Understanding
Undivine
Unification of the human race, etc./Human unity/International unity
Uniformity
Union
United Kingdom
United Nations Organisation
United States of America
United States of Europe
Unity
Unity and diversity
Unity and multiplicity
Unity and uniformity
Universal
Universal action
Universal Being
Universal Consciousness
Universal Divine
Universal energy
Universal forces
Universal Life
Universal love
Universal Mind
Universal Nature
Universal Will
Universalisation
Universalism
Universality
Universe
Unknowable
Unmanifest
Upadhyaya
Upanishadic thought
Upanishads
Uranus, (1) son of Gaea, goddess of the Earth, he was the god of the Skies, the first ruler of the Universe; he was father of the Titans, the Cy ...
Urdu literature
Urvasie, the most beautiful of the celestial nymphs, born from the thigh of Nārāyaṇa; heroine of Kālidāsa’s play Vikramorvasīyam.
Usha, (1) in the Veda, the daughter of Heaven & sister of the Ādityas; the divine Dawn, the bringer of illumination; also called Ahānā & Dyōta ...
Utopia
Utsāha
Uttara Mimansa

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Swami Vivekananda, (1863-1902) born Narendra Nath Dutta
Vaikuntha
Vairagya
Vaisheshikas
Vaishnava Bhajan
Vaishnava Bhakti
Vaishnava philosophy
Vaishnava poetry
Vaishnava religion
Vaishnava yoga
Vaishya
Vaishyashakti
Vaiśvānara
Vak
Valéry, Paul Ambrose (1871-1945), French poet, essayist & critic, whose work is notable for the range & subtlety of its views & sensibility of i ...
Valmiki
Values
Vamana, son of Kashyapa & Adīti, he was the Dwarf-Incarnation of Vishnu. Bali, the most outstanding king of Asūras, had by his Tapasyā acquired ...
Vampire
Vampirism
Vanity
Variation(s)
Varuna
Varunie
Vashita
Vāyu / Vaiou, the God of Wind; the master of Life; inspirer of that Breath or Dynamic energy called Prāṇa, which is represented in man by the vital & ...
Veda
Vedanta
Vedantic art
Vedantic experience
Vedantic morality
Vedantism
Vedaranya
Vedavada
Vedic age
Vedic demons etc
Vedic discipline
Vedic gods
Vedic India
Vedic legends
Vedic poets
Vedic religion
Vedic style
Vedic symbols and images
Vedic synthesis
Vedic terms and miscellaneous figures
Vedism
Venice
Veridical Sciences
Verlaine, Paul (1844-96), French lyric poet of later 19th cent., who gained notice with his Parnassian poetry, & became a well-known in Bohemian l ...
Vibhuti(s)
Vicāra
Vice
Victor Emmanuel II
Vidya
Vidya and Avidya
Vidyasagar
Vigilance
Vijnana
Vijnana-chatushtaya
Vijnanabhikshu, a siddha of Sāṅkhya Yoga school of Kashi, perhaps its last Āchārya. He wrote commentaries on Sāṅkhya, Yoga & Vedanta.
Vijnanamaya Purusha
Vikramaditya, Prof. S. Bhattacharya: Sun of Prowess is a title assumed by various ancient Indian kings. Tradition associates the title with a king of ...
Violence
Viraha
Virāt / Virât/ Virat (Purusha) / Virat Vaisvanara, the Universal or Cosmic Soul; “God practical”; Lord of Waking-Life, who governs, preserves & maintains the sensible creation which Hiraṇ ...
Virāt(a), king of Matsya, where the Pandavas took refuge in their year of Ajñāta-vāsa. Virāṭa fought on their side in the war & was killed by Droṇ ...
Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BC) Roman poet, author of Aeneid.
Virtue
Virya
Vishnu
Vishnu Purana, is one of the eighteen Mahā Purāṇas. It was the one he went through carefully, Sri Aurobindo said in an evening talk with disciples, for ...
Vishwadevas
Vision
Vision-mind
Visions
Visishtadwaita, Modified orQualified Monism
Vital
Vital being
Vital Beings
Vital body
Vital consciousness
Vital descent
Vital ego
Vital force
Vital forces
Vital instincts
Vital interchange
Vital love
Vital man
Vital mind
Vital Physical
Vital plane
Vital Purusha
Vital sheath
Vital wants
Vital Worlds
Vitalism
Vital(istic) egoism
Vivarta
Viveka
Vivisection
Voice
Voices
Void
Voltaire, Francois-Marie-Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778), French philosopher known for his crusade against tyranny, bigotry, & cruelty, & his wit, ...
Vrindavan
Vyahritis
Vyana
Vyāpti
Vyasa / Veda Vyasa / Krishna Dvypaiana Vyāsa, The term Vyāsa means “an arranger”; Veda Vyāsa is the sage who compiled the Vedas. A son of Rishi Parāsara & Satyavati, he was known Kri ...
Vyaya

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Wagner, Wilhelm Richard (1813-83), German dramatist whose operatic creations represented a new art form on dramatic, musical, & verbal levels. H ...
Waking consciousness
Waking self
Waking state
Wales
Waller, Edmund (1606-87), English poet whose adoption of smooth, regular versification in place of argumentative structure & dramatic immediacy ...
War
War of the members
Washington
Waste
Water
watson, Sir John William (1858-1935), English writer of lyrical & political verse.
Wealth
Webster, (1) John (c.1580-1625), English playwright whose The White Devil & The Duchess of Malfi, are said to be the greatest English tragedies o ...
Weeping
Wells
Welsh
Welsh language
Whitman, Walter (1819-92), American journalist, essayist, & poet; his Leaves of Grass made him a revolutionary figure in American literature.
Wideness
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills (1854-1900), Irish-born British wit, poet, & dramatist, best known for his The Importance of Being Earnest ...
Will
Will-to-be
William II
Wilson
Wisdom
Witness
Witness attitude
Witness consciousness
Witness Purusha
Woman
Woodroffe
Woolf
Word
Word-music
Word(s)
Wordsworth
Worker
Work(s)
World
World-Empire
World-Force
World-knowledge
World-negation
World-Spirit
World-State
World Union
World War I
World War II
Worship
Writing
Wrong

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Yajna
Yajur
Yakshas
Yama / Dharma / Critanta / Kṛtanta, an aspect of Surya & the Lord of Truth.
Yama and Niyama
Yashas
Yaska, author of the Nirukta, the oldest known but not the first commentator on Vedic hymns, for he refers to earlier commentators.
Yatudhani
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright, & nationalist politician
Yoga
Yoga-analysis
Yoga-force
Yoga of Devotion, Bhaktiyoga
Yoga of Knowledge, Jnanayoga
Yoga of self-perfection
Yoga of the Gita
Yoga of Works, Karmayoga
Yoga-Shakti
Yogachatushtaya
Yogic consciousness
Yogic experience
Yogi(n)
Yugadharma
Yugas
Yugoslavia

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Zeitgeist
Zeus, son of Cronos, whom he overthrew. He decrees all that shall be, subject only to the mysterious power of Ananke. Lord of the heavens, he ...
Zodiac
zola
Zoroastrians

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Ātmasamarpaṇa / Atmasamarpanam / ātma-samarpaṇa
Āveśa

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Śrāddha