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Dharana - Concentration is holding the mind within a center of spiritual consciousness in the body, or fixing it on some divine form, either within the body or outside it.’
Dhanurasana – bow pose
Dhauti – second of the shatkarmas; cleansing technique of the eyes, ears, tongue, forehead, oesophagus, stomach, rectum and anus.
Dosha – the three fundamental terms of Ayurvedic physiology.
Dyana – Meditation is an unbroken flow of thought toward the object of concentration.  Prolonged concentration.  In the practice of meditation, a succession of identical waves (thoughts) are raised in the mind; and this is done so quickly that no one wave is allowed to subside before another arises to take its place.
Dahara vidya [duhuraa vidyaa]: contemplation of the deity in the heart
Dana [daan]: gift; alms; relinquishment
Darsan(a), darshan [dursh^un]: seeing; vision
Dasi [daasee]: courtesan
Deha(m) [deha(M)]: body; existence
Deham, naham, koham, soham' I am the body; I am not the body; who am I? I am He.
Dehatma buddhi [dehaatma buddhi]: I-am-the-body
Dehavasana [dehuvaasunaa]: attachment to the body
Deva [devaaH]: a god or celestial being
Devakanya [ ]: a class of minor female divinity
Devata [devutaa]: a goddess
Devi [same]: the Divine Mother; a goddess
Dharana [dhaarunaa]: concentration of mind; one of the eight stages of Raja Yoga
Dharma [dhurmuH]: teaching of Buddha; universal law; way or path; an entity of any sort - thing, idea, concept, etc; virtuous deeds; harmonious life; natural duty; inherent qualities
Dharmakaya [dhurmukaayaa]: the Dharma-Body or the Absolute, viewed as the Ultimate Reality with which Buddhas or Enlightened Beings are one and indivisible
Dharma dhatu [dhurm dhaatu]: the Absolute, i.e. the Dharma-Realm
Dharma Raja [dhurm raaj]: the Buddha
Dharma sastri [dhurm sh^aastri]: one well-versed in the scriptures relating to dharma
Dhatu(s) [dhaatu]: humors; constituent elements of the body
Dhriti [dhr^tiM]: steadfastness
Dhyana [dhyaan]: meditation; contemplation; the seventh rung in the eightfold ladder of yoga
Dhyana siddhi [dhyaan siddhi]: successful meditation
Dikpalas [dikpulus]: gods who protect the various quarters
Diksha [dik^sh]: spiritual initiation
Divya chakshus [divya chuk^shus]: divine eye
Drashta [drushtaa]: seer
Dridha [dr^dh]: firm
Drik [dr^k]: he who sees; the subject
Drishti [dr^shti]: look; seeing
Drishti srishti [dr^shti sr^shti]: simultaneous creation
Drisya [dr^sh^ya]: that which is seen; the object
Drisya vilaya [dr^sh^ya viluya]: disappearance of the objective world
Drisyanuviddha [dr^sh^yaanuviddh]: associated with something seen
Dukha [dukh]: misery; frustration
Dvaita [dvait]: duality
Dvandva [dvundv]: pair of opposites
Dvividha (dwividha) [dvividh]: two-fold

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