Sanskrit terms or phrases best kept as is
| Sanskrit | Meaning | Related Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chitta vritti nirodhah | Stilling the mind's fluctuations | |
| Pratipaksabhavana | Bhavana is to cultivate and pratipaksa I think means the opposite - so cultivate the opposite | |
| abhāsa (आभास) | All manifestations shine forth from the divine: non-dual beings | |
| Bhavana | The feeling-tone that permeates a space | |
| Karma (कर्म) | Action, specifically prescribed/righteous action in the Gita's threefold scheme; more broadly, the act and its residue | YOGA-GITA-Action-Inaction |
| Vikarma (विकर्म) | Wrong/forbidden action — acts driven by craving, ego-gratification, or against dharma | YOGA-GITA-Action-Inaction |
| Akarma (अकर्म) | Inaction — but in the Gita's deeper sense, action performed without the doer-sense, leaving no karmic residue | YOGA-GITA-Action-Inaction |
| Kartritva (कर्तृत्व) | Doer-sense; the felt claim "I am the one acting." What binds in action — not the deed itself | YOGA-KLESHAS YOGA-GITA-Action-Inaction |
| Svadharma (स्वधर्म) | One's own dharma — the duty/way of being consonant with one's nature and place in the larger order | |
| Gahana (गहन) | Profound, inscrutable, impenetrable. The quality Krishna ascribes to the path of action. Names why discernment must be cultivated phenomenologically rather than by rule |