The words the practice is made of

Non-dualism - the teaching that ultimate reality is not divided into separate selves and separate divine.

Non-harm - the first restraint of yoga, extending from action to speech to the tone of one's own thoughts.

Bliss - not fleeting pleasure but the fullness said to be inherent in the nature of reality itself.

Non-grasping - the discipline of not accumulating beyond need, last of the five yamas.

Seat or posture - the physical stability a practice is built on before attention can go anywhere else.

The self behind the selves - the unchanging witness the Upanishads point to beneath body, mind, and role.

Ignorance - not a lack of information, but a fundamental misperception of one's own nature.

Devotion - the path of love and surrender toward the divine, distinct from paths of knowledge or action.

The ground of all that is - the single reality the Upanishads name beneath the world's changing faces.

The mind-field - the whole substrate of mental activity, including memory, thought, and impression.

Concentration - sustained focus on a single point, the sixth limb of classical yoga.

The order that holds things together - and, for a person, the conduct that keeps them aligned with it.

Meditation proper: attention flowing toward one object steadily enough to stop commenting on itself.

Initiation - the formal threshold by which a student is received into a practice or lineage.

Gaze - where the eyes rest; in practice, the steadying of sight as a handle on the steadiness of mind.

The three strands - clarity, agitation, inertia - whose shifting blend gives every state its texture.

Teacher - literally one who dispels darkness, naming a relationship of transmission, not just instruction.

Surrender to the highest - releasing the fantasy of total control and dedicating action beyond the self.

The practice of repeating a mantra or name - counted, whispered, or silent - until repetition becomes remembering.

Action - and the way every action leaves a residue that shapes what becomes easy or hard to do next.

Affliction - the mental patterns, rooted in ignorance, that generate suffering and obscure clarity.

Patient forgiveness - the earth-like capacity to absorb offense without hardening.

A circle - in ritual and art, a bounded arrangement that gathers scattered elements around a centre.

A formula of sound held in the mind - an instrument that protects attention by giving it one thing to carry.

Silence as discipline - the deliberate practice of not speaking, from which the sage (muni) takes his name.

The world's power of appearance - not a lie, but the artistry by which the one shows up as many.

Liberation - release from the machinery of compulsion, counted the final aim of a human life.

Observance - the second limb of classical yoga, the disciplines addressed toward oneself.

The breath of life - the vital current the traditions track through breath, and train by way of it.

The regulation of breath - yoga's fourth limb, extending and refining the one trainable vital current.

Withdrawal of the senses - the hinge limb of yoga between outward discipline and inward concentration.

Worship - the structured practice of honoring the divine through offerings, attention, and repeated gesture.

The strand of motion - passion, drive, and restlessness; indispensable for action, corrosive when it rules.

A committed, repeated practice - the daily work by which an aspiration becomes a capacity.

Complete absorption - the settling of attention so total that the sense of a separate observer goes quiet.

The wandering-on - the cycle of becoming that repeats itself, in lifetimes or in an ordinary afternoon.

Impression - the mental groove left by repeated thought or action, shaping what becomes easy to think or do next.

Resolve - a vow formed whole in the heart, planted once and trusted, rather than argued with daily.

Collective chanting - devotional song practiced in congregation, where the voices carry each other.

Contentment as discipline - the practiced acceptance of what is present, prior to any improvement of it.

Gathering in truth - the practice of sitting in the company of those pursuing the same understanding.

The strand of clarity - the light, balanced quality in which things are seen as they are.

Truthfulness - alignment of speech and life with what is, restrained by ahimsa from becoming a weapon.

Selfless service - action performed for others without expectation of personal return.

A body of teaching - text and discipline together - that instructs by ordering knowledge for transmission.

Trusting confidence - the working faith that lets a practice begin before certainty has arrived.

Remembrance - the practice of repeatedly calling the sacred back to mind throughout the day.

Self-study - the twin discipline of studying the texts and studying the one who is reading them.

The strand of inertia - heaviness, dullness, and concealment; the ground of rest and the swamp of avoidance.

Heat - the friction of voluntary discipline, by which effort burns off what mere intention cannot.

Forbearance - the trained capacity to endure discomfort without dramatizing or immediately fixing it.

The fourth state - pure awareness underlying waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep.

Sitting near - the philosophical texts transmitted at the teacher's feet, concerned with ultimate reality.

Non-attachment - not coldness, but the loosening of the grip by which outcomes hold the mind hostage.

Latent tendency - the accumulated residue of samskaras, forming the deep dispositions that drive behavior.

Discernment - the practiced ability to tell the lasting from the passing, the real from the merely loud.

Sacrifice or offering - the ritual act of giving something up in order to sustain a larger order.

Restraint - the ethical disciplines that form the first limb of classical yoga, addressed toward others.