शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

120 SIVAGNANA BOTHAM.
Arivu ... Intelligence; Soul.
Aruḷ ... Grace; Divine Grace.
Arul Sakti ... The Power of Divine Grace.
Asat ... Non-ego; matter, other than Sat; Achit, other than
Souls, and God.
Átma ... This word is invariably to denote the Soul, in all
Siddhantha works; In Vedantha works, this
word is used to denote the Soul, Jivatma, and
God, Paramatma.
Avasthá ... One of the conditions or states of the Soul's existence.
Jagra avastha ... Waking state.
Swapna avastha ... Dreaming state.
Sushupthi avastha ... State of dead sleep.
Thuriya avastha ... State of the Soul breathing in bodies, in which
consciousness is not yet developed.
Thuriyathithum ... The state of the Soul in its original, unevolved and
undeveloped state.
Kevala avastha ... The avastha named last is Kévala Avastha. The
other four avasthas constitute Sakala avastha. The
state of the Jívanmukta is the Sutta avastha.
Avatár ... Incarnation.
Aviddhei ... Ignorance.
Bandham ... Bond; fetters.
Mala Bandham ... Bond of ignorance, and of matter.
Bávana ... Imagining; thinking of something else as known.
Soham bavana ... Imagining God as oneself.
Bhakti ... Love of God; Devotion.
Bétham ... Difference; Duality.
Béthábétham ... Being nondual and dual.
Brahm ... (Neuter gender); (Literally) means Great; Supreme
Being; The Omnipresent Being.
Brahma ... (Masculine Gender) one of the Hindu Trinity
regarded as the author of creation; according to
the view of the Siddhanthi, he is regarded as a
mortal as well as the other two of the Trinity.
Bhóga ... Enjoyment.
Bhouddam ... Buddhism, exoteric as it is now called, denying
the existence of the Soul and God, and proclaim-
ing the supremacy of, the human Reason or
Buddhi alone.
Buddhi ... Reason; one of the four Andakaranás.