Glossary of the framework
Terms.
The technical vocabulary the classical traditions developed for the paired cultivation discipline. Sanskrit for the Vedic frame, Chinese for the Taoist parallel, a few documented physiological observations from the modern literature where they fit. Each term is short by design — a working definition, the primary source, a cross-reference to where the term is in motion elsewhere on the site.
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17 filedBrahmacharya
One of the five yamas in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
TERMS · SOURCEDGrihastha
The householder stage in the four-ashrama Vedic life-stage system.
TERMS · SOURCEDOjas
Vital essence; the final refined product of a seven-stage tissue transformation in Ayurvedic physiology.
TERMS · SOURCEDProphetess (Oracle)
The highest expression of accumulated female ojas in the classical traditions, named with notable cross-cultural consistency: Deborah, Huldah, the Pythia, the Norse völva, Anna in Luke 2.
TERMS · SOURCEDRajas
The female reproductive essence and creative energy — the female counterpart to male shukra.
TERMS · SOURCEDShakti
The moving pole.
TERMS · SOURCEDShiva
The still pole.
TERMS · SOURCEDArdhanarishvara
The half-male, half-female composite figure of classical Hindu iconography.
TERMS · SOURCEDBindu
The "seed drop" — the same reproductive essence as shukra understood as a discrete unit in the tantric body-map, located at the crown.
TERMS · SOURCEDBrahma Muhurta
The "hour of Brahma" — the 48-minute muhurta ending roughly 48 minutes before sunrise (its onset approximately ninety-six minutes before).
TERMS · SOURCEDGunas
Sattva, rajas, tamas.
TERMS · SOURCEDKundalini
The "coiled serpent" — the latent energetic potential at the base of the spine that, when awakened, ascends through the central channel and produces the chakra-by-chakra refinement of vital essence into ojas.
TERMS · SOURCEDMula Bandha
The "root lock" — a sustained gentle engagement of the perineum and pelvic floor that seals the lowest gateway of the central channel and prevents the downward escape of vital essence.
TERMS · SOURCEDSahadharmacharini
Sanskrit technical term for the wife in the dharmic-marriage tradition.
TERMS · SOURCEDShukra
Male reproductive essence (semen) in Ayurvedic physiology.
TERMS · SOURCEDSpanda
Cosmic vibration.
TERMS · SOURCEDThe Three Treasures
The Taoist account of the same cultivation sequence the Vedic tradition calls the seven-stage transformation.
