ANUBHAVA - personal experience
ANUSTHANA - an intensive exercise carried out during a pre-set time
APANA - one of the five pranas that function in the body (see "prana") ...
Anubhava, the ultimate spiritual experience, moves with undetermined law. The laws of determinacy and indeterminacy must be well understood.
Anubhava - Experience.
Asana - Seat; posture.
Ashrama - Hermitage, a residential institution especially a spiritual or religious one.
Also means the four stages of human life, 25 years each, prescribed by the Vedantic scriptures:
1.
anubhava experience.
anubkuti [feeling, experience].
anucchvasa [Beng.] [sobriety, staidness (opposite of ucchvasa)].
Anubhavanivedana - "Tribute of the Inner Experience";
Anuttarāṣṭikā - "Eight Verses on Anuttara";
Krama-stotra - an hymn, different from the fundamental text of the Krama school; ...
It is not real, for it is contradicted in Brahmanubhava or Truth-Experience. It is not unreal, for we perceive and feel the diversity of life. It cannot be said to be both real and unreal, because such a proposition is unintelligible to us.
One who has studied Vedas and who has direct knowledge of Atman through Anubhava can only be considered a Guru. If you can find peace in the presence of a Mahatma, and if your doubts are removed by his very presence you can take him as your Guru.
He also composed a short work, the Amritanubhava, and over one hundred abhangas, or devotional songs in Marathi, in which he describes various spiritual experiences following the awakening of kundalini.
ANUBHAVA: Experience.
APTA: Realized.
ARHATA: A perfected Soul.
ASAMPRAJNATA: Highest superconscious state where the mind is completely annihilated and Reality experienced.
ASANA: A bodily pose or posture.
ASHRAM: A hermitage; monastery.
Anahata Chakra"Cardiac plexus.
Ananda"Bliss; happiness; comfort.
Antahkarana"Fourfold internal organs, viz., Manas, Chitta, Buddhi and Ahankara.
Anubhava"Experience.
Asana"Seat; posture.
Avidya"Ignorance.
 See also: Bhava, Spirit, Ananda, Spiritual, Krishna
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