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Divine resonance that is heard after one sees light with the practice of Yog

Without attributes or forms. Refer Sagun

Duty of another. Pardharma means the work and actions performed by others

Supreme Self

Supreme God

God or the embodied being living in the body. He is a fragment of the all-pervading God and an eternal living being

Brahma, the Creator

Nature comprising three kinds of attributes of purity, passion and delusion

Incoming breath or in-breath

Breath control

The time of leaving the body

Merit

Bhavas or thoughts of the being that cause his birth in a new body on discarding of the old one

Embodied being or God dwelling in the body. Purushas are of three kinds – Perishable, Non-perishable and Supreme. The Supreme Purush or Being pervades all

The highest being

Demons. These are Bhavas and thoughts that oppose Gyan or true knowledge

Passion. It is one of the three attributes of Nature that perform actions

Nature of Rajas or passion. Also a person with the predominance of the attribute of Rajas or passion in him

Thoughts of Gyan or Truth

Thoughts of Gyan or Truth

With attributes or form. Brahm or God is said to be of two kinds namely Sagun Brahm and Nirgun Brahm, that is, God with attributes and attributeless God

Constant union with Brahm with steadiness of intellect that all the fruits of actions are of God and God is experiencing joy and sorrow

Resolve to do or achieve various things in life

Sankhya is the path of Gyan by way of treating alike opposites such as joy and sorrow, gain and loss, victory and defeat, believing that all these are according to the will of God. Sankhya is also called the path of Sanyas or the renunciation of desire, aversion and the pairs of opposites

Union with Brahm by Sankhya or Gyan and the renunciation of all fruits of actions to God

Renunciation. In the Gita, Sanyas has been used for the renunciation of desire, hate, the pairs of opposites and the fruits of action (Verses 5:3, 6:1 and 18:11-12)

Renouncer or renunciate. A follower of Sankhya and Gyan Yog who neither hates nor desires and renounces all fruits of actions

Offering of whatever one does, eats, sacrifices or gives to God in the heart (Verses 9:27-28)

Truth. In the Gita, Sat or truth has been explained in Verses 17:26-27

Purity. It is one of the three attributes of Nature that perform actions

Nature of Sattva or Purity. Also means a person with the predominance of the attribute of Sattva or purity in him

A person of warrior class

Field. It refers to the body along with evolutes described in Verses 13:6-7

Knower of field. Supreme Brahm is the Shetragya or knower in all the fields (Verse 13:3)

Perfected soul

One of steady intellect, who has all the marks given in Verses 2:55-61

A person of the service class

The Bhava of oneness and sameness that all is Supreme Reality and all beings are God along with non-attachment to actions and objects

Supreme Being

Nature. Nature is of three kinds, namely Sattvik, Rajasik and Tamasik, or pure, passionate and deluded

One’s duty. Since the being is not the doer, Swadharma means actions that take place from one's body according to nature