Muni 4; one who meditates
silently ; a great thinker.

JMuraja 5 2; a small drum ; a
tabor.

Nalini 55 ; a variety of lotus.

.Nir-vana 26 ; nir, completely,
va, to extinguish ; the state of
the soul in which the sense of
ego-ism, small-self-ness, is ex-
tinguished by mergence into
the sense of All-Self-ness; moJc-
sha^ muJeti. Another etymolo-
gical explanation is also possi-
ble; nir, ni, not, vj, to blow,
not blowing about; steady ;

the steady mind, steadfastly
established in the Supreme.
Cf. Gita, yatha cllpo ni-vata-
stho n-engcit(\ s-opama smrtOf
"as the lamp-name in a wind-
less place (burns steadily,with-
out nickering) such is the stste
of the yog'i who has joined
(yuj^ to join) his individual
soul with the Universal Soul."

Nir-vi-kalpa-Samadbi 37, 54 f,n.
84 ; rapt, en-tranc-ed consci-
ousness in which there is no
particular idea, object, form ;

see samaclhi and kalpa.

'Ojas 2 ; the magnetic aura
radiating from muscular vigor,
physical prowess, and vitality.

Padya 14; pada^ the foot; water
towash the feet (for visitors who
may come walking bare-foot).

Param-anu 59 ; super-atom; pa-
rama, final, extreme, anu^
atom.

Param-Atma 40, 42, 44, 57 ;

Highest Greatest A(;ma .(q.v.);

the Supreme Universal Self,
Brahman, Eternal and Infinite.

Param-eshthtl 11 f.n.

Para-(or pari") nirvana 83 f.n.

Pari-vrat 70 ; part, all around,
vrajf to go ; a wandering an-
chorite.

Pishacha 69 ; pishita, carrion,
af^ to eat ; a carrion-eating
ghoul.

Prajnapti-bodhena 55 f.n.

Praja-pati 80 ; pra fine, ja, jan^
to be born, patz, master ; the
Lord of 'progeny', of creatures;

the Creator, Primal Progenitor. '

Pra-krti 65 ; pra, superlatively,
in the greatest degree and
measure, kr, to create; Nature,
the Nature of Purusha, God,
the Supreme Self, which
creates all.

Prakrtic 65 ; natural ; Nature^s;

subtlest and highest.

Pralaya 46, 47; Dissolution,
Chaos ; see Maha-pralaya.

Pra-rabdha-karma 44 f.n.; pro,
a'rctbhf to begin.

Pratibhd 60, 71, 72 f.n.

Pr*eta 79 f.n. ; a ghost ; a soul
newly departed from the ter-
rene plane to the subtler
spheres.

Pulindi 66; ttibe living beside
streams, at the foot of hills,
in valleys.

Pfifcana 69 ; female demon.

Rasa 21 ; ras, to taste ; sap,
juice ; taste, relish.

Raga 41 ; ^<y, ^wy, to tinge ;

any desire, passion, emotion,
which colors, dyes, stains the
mind (and produces changes
of color in the aura, literally);

usually opposed to dveshdr or
hate, raga means love or lust