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Maan
Sense of self-esteem; Conceit or pride

Maaya (Maya)
Deceit ; Delusion; Ignorance of the Self; That power which creates and maintains the universe's apparent diversity or to put it in other words, that which causes the One to appear as many.
The force that pulls one towards the physical and mental senses; The cosmic illusion on account of which the relative appears as real. Fascination for transitory objects out of ignorance or illusion; The power that veils and obscures the true nature of the Self and creates a sense of differentiation.; Ignorance obscuring the vision of God causing spiritual blindness

Maayik (Mayik) such
Delusive worldly happiness

Maagdhi (Magdhi)
Dialect specific to Magadh, southern region of present-day Bihar. Language of the ancient Jain and Buddhist scriptures.

Madhya-lok
Middle of terristial world

Madhyama
Intermediate

Mahatma
Highly spiritual person; One living in harmony with the Real Self. Great Soul; Self realised person

Mahavideh
Name of a kshetra; Twenty Tirthankars currently exist there, deeming it the most sacred kshetra. A special world from where souls can attain final moksh through darshan of existing Tirthankars

Mahavir-jayanti
Birth anniversary of Lord Mahavir

Maha-vrat
Great vow; Sadhu's vows are known as mahaa-vrat The five great vows of a mendicant

A vow that is much stricter than Anuvrat. Only those who take diksha will take on these vows (i.e. Sadhus and Sadhvis). There are five mahavrats - namely Ahimsa, Anekantvaan, Aprigraha, Asatya and Bramcharya.

Mahi
Within

Mahimaa
Huge body

Maitree
Friendship; Having no dislike or hate for anyone or anything in the world

Mamta
Attachment caused by a sense of 'mine'.

Manah-paryaya(gnan)
Intuition of mental modes
Psychic mode; Telepathy; Mind-reading
Transcendental knowledge of the thought and feelings of others, occuring without the medium of physical senses
Direct awareness of what thoughts are going on in the mind of other person before echo is heard in one's inner instrument (Antahkaran)

Man (Mun)
One of the four aspects of the antahkaran, characterized by its functions of generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyasThe empirical mind. The faculty of the inner organ , antahskaran , sometimes translated as "mind" ; which is the substrate for all thoughts

Manan
Deep reflection; Contemplation; Reflecting over what has been said; Probing; Thought; Mind

Manodravya
Matter constituting mind; Mind substance

Manojanya
Born of mind

Mantra
Sacred invocation; Transcendental chant that soothes and purifies mind. The sacred jap, or repetition of God's name; Sacred words given to a disciple by a guru ; See Trimantra.
The formula that holds the mind in one state
Holy litany

Manushya
Living beings with manas..mind. Humans

Manushya-gati
Human destiny

Marg (Margh)
Path

Marjeeyaat
Freewill, Purushaarth. Or as opposed to see Farjiyat

Mataarthee
Lack of freedom from passions; Lack of inner detachment

Matignan
Sensous knowledge; Perceptual knowledge A form of Knowledge acquired through sense perceptions Mind-based knowledge;
Sensuous knowledge Knowledge gathered through the senses and the mind Emperical knowledge

Maun (Mouna)
Vow of silence

Mishra chetan
Blending of consciousness, of the Pure-Self and the Non-Self; Partially pure, partially non-pure sensation

Mithyaa (sruta)
Contrary to one's nature or belief ; Unreal Vitiated; Perverted; False; Deluded

Mithyaa darshan
Wrong belief, synonymous with mithyadrsti and mithyatva Skeptical deluded view; Deluded world view; Perverse attitude

Mithyaa drashti
One who has no awareness of the atma; Incorrect view of reality, the first gunasthana A person of perverted attitude;
Wrong view ; Perverted vision

Mithyaa gnan
Perverted knowledge; Wrong assessment of values; Delusion; Nescience; Wrong cognition

Mithyaatva
Wrong faith; misbelief
Wrongness; Perverted attitude; Predilection for the untruth
Illusion or the non-real taken as the Real; False belief e.g. 'I am Chandulal'.
Lack of insight; synonymous with mithyadarshan and mithyadrsti; Vision deluding

Moha
Infatuation; Attachment
Delusion; False belief
Attraction, that makes the atma crazy.forgets self and other.gets one focussed on an external object

Mohaniya
Deluding;

Mohaniya karma
That type of Karma, the operation of which produces ignorance and illusion of Self's own nature and causes the individual to act in a way harmful and detrimental to own well-being. It is divided into Darshana Moha and Charitra Moha explained elsewhere. Charitra Moha impels indulgence in feelings of liking and disliking, from severest to minutest form, by the individual
Karma that are delusive and cause attractions.
Deluding karma; Karma that prevents the true perception of reality and the purity of the soul; karma that defiles the bliss-quality of the soul Out of the 8 types of karma, this is the most powerful - it makes the atma forget itself

Moksh
Freedom of the soul from the fetters of the bondage due to matters alien to it; Liberation from the fetters of maya
Emancipation; release
Liberation of the soul from karmas, from the cycle of birth and death;
Salvation;

Mokshmarg
The path of salvation; The path to moksha (samyak darshan, gyaan and charitra form the mokshamaarg)

Moodhatma
One who sees this relative world as Real

Moodh-drashti
Ignorance; Beliefs not discriminating between true and false

Moorchha-bhaav
Desire or attachment for something external or belonging to another

Mouna

Mukta
Free; The Liberated Soul

Mukti
Freedom; Liberation from the cycle of births and deaths
Release; Emancipation (Opp. of bandhan)

Mula; muda
Origin; Root; Base

Mumukshata
Intense desire to know the Self; Intense desire to be free..see Jignasha
Meditation to achieve only moksha

Mumukshu
One who desires to achieve moksha; Spiritual aspirant; Seeker of Liberation;

The first stage when the seeker feels that there is something beyond this material universe but is still identified with his body-mind; the next stage is that of Sadhak

Muni
Mendicant, Sage, Saint; Sadhu

Murchha
Delusion

Murtatva
Materiality

Murti
Image of deity installed in a temple for worship
Idol; In Gnani's Language ,all that is perceived in the relative world. See Amurta

 
 
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