yama
(Language: Sanskrit)
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In Sanskrit, “restraint”, "self control", whether on the bodily or psychic level.
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yantra
(Language: Sanskrit)
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In Sanskrit, literally, “instrument of support”; a geometrical design, often representing the cosmos, used in Tantric Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism.
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yoga
(Language: Sanskrit)
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union of the jiva with God; method of God-realization (in Hinduism)
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Yoga Vasishtha
(Language: Sanskrit)
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In Hinduism, a Vedantic text attributed to Valmiki.
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yogi
(Language: Sanskrit)
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a practitioner of yoga (in Hinduism)
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yogin
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Literally, "one who is yoked or joined;" a practitioner of yoga.
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yuga
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Age; referring to the four ages of Hindu cosmology.
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©2003 Dictionary of Spiritual Terms
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