Footnote onesto ‘Enlightened Living’
Sicuro illustrate the translator’s unique position, six important words that occur con the text are given below with verso complete list of their meanings as found sopra verso medium-sized dictionary:
cittam: 1. Observing. attending. 2. (a) Thought, thinking, attention; (b) desire, intention, aim. 3. The mind. 4. 5. Reason, intellect, reasoning faculty.
nirodha: 1. Confinement, locking up, imprisonment. 2. Enclosing, covering up. 3. Restraint, check, suppression, control. 4. Hindrance, obstruction, opposition. 5. Hurting, punishing, injuring. 6. Annihilation, complete destruction. 7. Aversion, dislike. 8. Disappointment, frustration of hopes (con dramatic language). 9. (With the Buddhists) Suppression of pain.
pranidhana: 1. Applying, employing, application, use. 2. Great effort, energy. 3. Profound religious meditation, abstract contemplation. 4. Respectful behaviour towards. 5. Renunciation of the fruit of actions. 6. Entrance, access. 7. (With Buddhists) Verso prayer, an entreaty.
pratyaya 1. Conviction, settled belief. 2. Privativa, reliance, faith, confidence. 3. Conception, pensiero, notion, opinion. 4. Surety, certainty. 5. Knowledge, experience, cognition. 6. A cause, ground, means of action. 7. Celebrity, aspirazione, renown. 8. A termination, an affix or suffix. 9. An oath. 10. Per dependant. 11. Per usage, practice. 12. Per hole. 13. Intellect, understanding. 14. An assistant or associate. 15. An epithet of Vishnu. 16. (With Buddhists) A co-operating cause. 17. An instrument, per means of agency. 18. Religious contemplation. 19. Verso householder who keeps a sacred fire.
samadhi: 1. Collecting, composing, concentrating. 2. Profound or abstract meditation, concentration of mind on one object, perfect absorption of thought into the one object of meditation, i.anche., the Supreme Spirit (the 8th and last stage of Yoga). 3. Intentness, concentration (con general), fixing of thoughts. 4. Penance, religious obligation, devotion (sicuro penance) 5. Bringing together, concentration, combination, collection. 6. Reconciliation, settling or composing differences. 7. Silence. 8. Agreement, assent, promise. 9. Requital. 10. Completion, accomplishment. 11. Perseverance con extreme difficulties. 12. Attempting impossibilities. 13. Laying up corn (con times of famine), storing grain. 14. Per tomb. 15. The joint of the neck; per particular position of the neck. 16. (In rhetoric) A figure of speech. 17. One of the ten gunas or merits of style. 18. Per religious vow or self-imposed restraint. 19. Support, upholding.
vritti: 1. Being, existence. 2. Abiding, remaining, attitude, being con per particular state. 3. State, condition. 4. Action, movement, function, operation. 5. Course, method. 6. Conduct, behaviour, course of conduct, mode of action. 7. Profession, occupation, business, employment, mode of leading life. 8. Livelihood, maintenance, means of subsistence or livelihood. 9. Wages, hire. 10. Cause of activity. 11. Respectful treatment. 12. Commentary Gloss, exposition. 13. Revolving, turning ripresa. 14. The circumference of per wheel or circle. 15. Per complex formation requiring resolution or explanation. 16. The power or force of a word by which it expresses, indicates or suggests verso meaning; general character or force of per word. 17. Style mediante composition. 18. Customary allowance. 19. Manner of thinking.
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