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Yogic Philosophy
Key Concepts to Support Your Practice
The articles below are drawn from the Hridaya Yoga Dictionary of the Ineffable, a text that clarifies key spiritual concepts and offers inspiration and understanding beyond the rational mind. It is our aspiration that these articles will help you go deeper in your spiritual practice.
- Abhyasa & Vairagya: The Essential Aspects of Spiritual Life
- Adi Shankaracharya: The Great Sage of Advaita Vedanta
- Advaita Vedanta: The Non-Dual Vision
- Aham Vritti: The Whirl of “I”
- Atman
- Bandhas: The Three Energetic Locks
- Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Devotion
- The Chakras: Frequencies in the Ocean of Universal Energy
- Dosha: The Three Humors of the Body
- The Eight Limbs: Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga
- The Five Bodies: Pancha Kosha
- The Five Kleshas: The Fundamental Causes of Suffering
- The Five Niyamas: Yogic Guidelines for Interacting with the Inner World
- The Five States of Mind
- The Five Vayus: The Vital Airs
- The Five Yamas: Yogic Guidelines for Interacting with the Outer World
- The Four States of Consciousness
- Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom
- Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Conscious Action
- Kumbhaka: The Retention of the Breath
- Kundalini Shakti: The Serpent Power
- Mahasiddhis: The Eight Great Paranormal Powers
- Maha Vidyas: The Ten Great Wisdoms
- Mala: The Three Kinds of Impurity
- Manovaha Nadis: The Ten Main Energy Channels
- Mantras: Sacred Syllables
- Ojas: The Subtle Life Force
- OM: The Supreme Mantra
- Pancha Bhuta: The Five Elements
- Purushartha: The Four Aims of Existence
- Samadhi: Ecstatic Union
- Samskaras & Vasanas: Subconscious Tendencies
- Sat-Chit-Ananda: Pure Existence-Pure Awareness-Pure Bliss
- Shaivism: The Worship of Shiva
- Shatkarmas: The Six Yogic Purification Practices
- Stillness: Another Name for the Self
- Somatization: Infusing the Body with Spiritual Attitudes
- Sublimation: The Refinement of Energy
- Surrender: Letting Go and Opening to the Self
- Tantra Yoga: The Yoga of Integrating Consciousness and Energy
- The Three Granthis
- The Three Gunas: Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas
- The Three Kinds of Karma
- The Three Main Nadis: Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna
- Types of Kundalini Shakti
- Upayas: The Means to Reveal Our Ultimate Nature
- Vak: The Four Levels of the Word
- Witness Consciousness: The Seer Within
- Yin & Yang: The Polar Energies
- Yoga: Union with the Divine
- Yoni & Lingam: Sacred Symbols of the Feminine and Masculine
