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Padmasana – full lotus pose
functions only as prompted by another. SEVEN STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE – Stage 6
Pashimottanasana– back stretching pose
Pingala – on the right.  Major nadi which conducts prana shakit.  Emerges from the right side of
mooladhara opposite ida and intersects each of the chakras before reaching the right side of ajna.  Also associated with the mundane realm of experience and externalized awareness.
Pitta – “to heat”.  It is only the fire which in pitta brings on good and bad results, according to normal or abnormal conditions of the organs.  The normal function of pitta causes: power of cognition, fire of
digestion, fresh complexion, clarity of thought, body temperature, hunger and thirst, and nimbleness of
mind.
Prakriti– the elemental, undifferentiated stuff of mind and matter; the primal cause; the energy by which all phenomena are projected.
Plavini pranayama – gulping breath in which air is swallowed into the stomach and retained
Prana – means energy; the vital energy which we draw into ourselves from the surrounding universe;
‘breath’ – vital force sustaining life and creation, permitting the whole of creation and existing in both the macrocosms and the microcosms. [praan]: life-force, breath, vital air that goes up.
Pranayama – a system of breathing exercises; Control of the prana
Prapti– the power to reach the proximity of even distant objects; Prakamya - the power to obtain what is desired; siddhi
Pratyahara – Withdrawal of the mind from sense objects.
Puraka – inhalation
Purusha – see Atman; the Real Self
Padarthabhavini [pudaarthaa bhaavinee]: absolute nonperception of objects; one of the seven stages of enlightenment
Padmasana [pudmaasun]: the 'lotus' yogic posture
Panchakshari [punchaak^shaari]: a mantra of five syllables sacred to Siva
Pandit [pundeet]: learned man; scholar; man of wisdom
Para [puraa]: higher; supreme; other; in Tantricism, unmanifest sound
Para bhakti[puraa bhukti]: supreme devotion
Para nadi[puraa naadi]: a yogic nerve
Para vibhuti [puraa vibhooti]: superior vibhuti
Parabraham[purubruhm]: the Absolute
Parabrahman [ ]: the Supreme Absolute
Param[purum]: transcendental
Paramahamsa [purumuhums]: a sannyasin who has attained Self-realization
Paramakash [purumukush]: the Absolute
Paramapada [purumupaad]: Supreme state
Paramarthika[paarumaarthik]: Absolute; true Self
Paramarthika satyam (p. satyan) [paarumaarthik sutyum]: absolute reality
Paramatma(n) [purumaatma(n)]: the Supreme Self; Universal Brahman
Paramita[purumit]: a means of crossing to the further shore, thereby entering Nirvana
Paranchi khani [puraanchi khaani]: outgoing
Parantapa [puruntup]: Arjuna, as 'he who destroys his enemy'
Pareccha[purechchhaa; conjunct 'ch' and 'chh', pronounced with no vowel between]: by another's will
Parinama vada [purinaam vaad]: the theory of Brahman changing into the world
Parinirvana [purinirvaan]: beyond nirvana; used to indicate that the concept of nirvana as the blissful opposite of samsara doesn't point to the final realization
Paripurnam[puripoornum]: the perfect state
Paroksha [purok^sh]: hearsay; indirect
Phala [phul; NOT ful]: fruit; the result of an act
Phala chaitanyam [phul chaitunyum]: knowledge
Phala data [phul daataa]: dispenser of the results of our acts
Phala sruti [phul sh^ruti]: description of the result of an act
Pisacha(s) [pish^uchaa]: demon(s)
Poorna(see purna)
Pradakshina [pruduk^shin]: going around a sacred person or place
Pradeepta [prudeept]: shining brightly
Prajna[praaj^na]: consciousness; awareness; highest wisdom, transcendent wisdom; also employed as a synonym for the universal 'substance'
Prajnana [pruj^naan]: full consciousness
Prajnana ghana [pruj^naan ghun]: Brahman, the Absolute; immutable Knowledge
Prakriti[prukriti]: nature; primal substance out of which all things are created; Maya; causal matter; also called shakti
Pralaya [pruluya]: complete merging; dissolution (of the world)
Pramada[prumaad]: swerving from abidance in the Absolute
Pramana[prumaan]: means of valid knowledge
Pramata(r) [prumaat(ur)]: knower, cognizer
Pramoda [prumod]: joy higher than moda
Pranasakti [praanush^ukti]: the power of the vital forces
Pranava[prunuv]: another term for Om
Pranava japa [prunuv jup]: incantation of Om
Pranayama [praanaayum]: breath control
Prapatti [pruputti]: surrender
Prapti [praapti]: attainment
Prarabdha [praarubdh]: the part of one's karma (destiny) to be worked out in this life
Prasad(a) [prusaad(a)]: divine blessing; food which has been offered to God and afterwards distributed among the devotees
Prasthana traya [prusthaan truya]: the threefold canon of Vedanta (Upanishads, Brahma Sutras, and Bhagavad Gita)
Pratibhasika satya [praatibhaasik sutya]: illusory reality as it appears to an individual
Pratikam [pruteekum]: symbol
Pratikriya [prutikriyaa]: remedy
Pratyabhijna [prutyubhij^na]: recognition
pratyahara[prutyaahaar]: withdrawal of senses from objectivity; fifth rung in the Raja Yoga ladder
Pratyaksha [prutyuk^sh]: direct, immediate
Pratyeka-Buddha [prutyek buddh]: one who achieves Enlightenment on his own and who does not then go forth to Preach the Dharma
Pravritti [pruvr^tti]: pursuing what is desirable
Pravritti marga [pruvr^tti maarg]: path of action
Prayaschitta[praayush^chitt]: a rite for expiating sin
Prayatna [pruyutna]: proper and adequate effort
Prema [prem]: divine love [for God]
Preta[pret]: a hungry, tantalized ghost, led by evil karma into that sad but temporary state of existence
Prithvi (prthvi) [pr^thvi]: earth
Priya[same]: joy; dear
Puja [pooj]: ceremonial worship with flowers, water etc.
Punya[same]: merit
Puraka [pooruk]: inhalation
Purana [puraan]: old; eighteen ancient books of stories embodying religious symbolism, attributed to Vyasa
Puri [puree]: city
Puriashtaka [puriushtuk]: subtle body consisting of eight phases
Purna (purnam) [poorn(uM)]: full; infinite; complete
Purusha (purusa) [purush]: man; spirit, soul; applied sometimes to God as the living principle; the Self which abides in the heart of all things
Purushakara[purushukaar]: personal effort
Purushartha[purushaartha]: human ends; objectives worthy of human pursuit (dharma, artha, kama and moksha)
Purushottama [ ]: Supreme Divine Being
Purva [poorv]: previous
Purva paksha [poorv puk^sh]: arguments advanced by the opponent
Purva samskara [poorv sumskaar]: latent tendencies

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