Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam 1.2 Commentary

• āgamas: a traditional doctrine or precept, collection of such doctrines, sacred work, anything handed down and fixed by tradition (as the reading of a text) • munīndra: chief of the Munis, a great sage or ascetic • transcendental sentiments (rasas): ecstatic emotional flavors of relationship with the Supreme in any form—neutrality, servitorship, friendship, parenthood and conjugal love. See Bhakti-rasāmrta-sindhu, Part 2:http://www.mediafire.com/file/94owo1ouwj8ls3i/Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu-Part2.pdf/file • Naimiṣ: Name of a forest (āranya) and a sacred tīrtha where the son of Suta related the Mahābhārata, and so called because in it an army of asuras was destroyed in a twinkling. Nimi = the closing or winking of the eyes, twinkling • vidyā: knowledge, science, learning, scholarship, philosophy etc. Vedic knowledge has many divisions: the four Vedas, the six Vedangas, the Puranas, the Mimāmsas, Nyāya or logic and dharma or law; the four Upavedas, and the 64 arts and sciences. Knowledge is also personified and identified as Goddess Durgā—She has composed many powerful prayers and mantras. • yoga-nidrā: "meditative-sleep" a state of half-meditation, half-sleep which admits of the full exercise of the mental powers; it is peculiar to devotees, Such as Rāmana Maharshi, who called it ‘waking sleep’. Refers especially the sleep of Viṣṇu at the end of a yuga. Viṣṇu's sleep is personified as a form of Goddess Durgā. • ekārṇava: ‘one ocean’—the cosmic ocean at the time of dissolution • Śivā: the original form of Śakti-Devī which is equivalent to Lord Śiva; or, the form of Śiva created by Śakti • prākṛti: ‘making or placing before or at first’, the original or natural form or condition of anything, original or primary substance; natural; derived from Nature, the original substance or consciousness • turīya-caitanya: the fourth state of consciousness, pure unconditioned objectless awareness • manomaya-cakra: the wheel of the mind • tattva-jñāṇa: knowledge of the categories of truth, insight into the true principles of philosophy, thorough knowledge derived from Self-realization