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Jagrat-sushupti: Wakeful sleep. Jnana: Knowledge. Japam: Repetition of the name of God or a sacred syllable either mentally or orally. Jiva: The embodied soul. Jivanmukta: One who is liberated while living in a body. Jives: Living beings. Jnana: Knowledge of Self. Jnana-drishti: Seeing through true knowledge. Jnana-marga: Path of knowledge. Jnanendriyas: Five sense organs. Jnani: Sage. Kaivalya: The state of oneness. Karma: It is the concept of ‘action’ or ‘deed’, understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect, i.e., the cycle of birth and death. Karma-phala: Fruit of actions. Karma yogis: Persons who are selflessly devoted to work. Karta: Doer Kartritva: Sense of doership. Kriya-sakti: A power of doing or action. Kumbhaka: Temporary retention of breath. Maha sunya: Great void. Manam: Mind Manas: Mind, the faculty of discursive thinking, the faculty of doubt and volition, seat of desire and governor of sensory and motor organs. M a n o -n a s a : D es t r u ct i o n o f t h e mi n d . M a n t r a: Sa c r e d s yl l a bl e s r ep e at e d i n me d i t a t i o n. M a n t r a -j a p a: R e p et i t i o n o f sa cr e d w or d s . M a ya : T r a n si t or y ma n i f es t at i o n i n t i me a n d space. Maunam: Silence. Mukhya sadhana: The principal means. Mukti: Liberation. Mukti-hetu: Cause of Liberation. Mukti-hetu sankalpa: Liberating motive. Murti-dhyana: Meditation upon a form of God. Nadis: Nerves. Nan Yar: Who am I? About 1902, Sivaprakasam Pillai p u t several questions to Sage Ramana and got answers to them in writing. These answers form the quintessence of Sage Ramana’s teachings.