The heart (considered as the seat of intellect)

Footnote onesto ‘Enlightened Living’

To illustrate the translator’s unique position, six important words that occur in the text are given below with per complete list of their meanings as found con verso sensitivo-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 (per 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. Verso cause, ground, means of action. 7. Celebrity, brama, renown. 8. Verso termination, an affix or suffix. 9. An oath. 10. Per dependant. 11. Verso usage, practice. 12. Verso hole. 13. Intellect, understanding. 14. An assistant or associate. 15. An epithet of Vishnu. 16. (With Buddhists) Verso co-operating cause. 17. An instrument, verso 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.addirittura., 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 per extreme difficulties. 12. Attempting impossibilities. 13. Laying up corn (in times of famine), storing grain. 14. Verso tomb. 15. The joint of the neck; verso particular position of the neck. 16. (Durante rhetoric) A figure of speech. 17. One of the ten gunas or merits of style. 18. A religious vow or self-imposed restraint. 19. Support, upholding.

vritti: 1. Being, existence. 2. Abiding, remaining, attitude, being sopra 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 per word by which it expresses, indicates or suggests a meaning; general character or force of per word. 17. Style mediante composition. 18. Customary allowance. 19. Manner of thinking.

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