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Dada J.P. Vaswani     A Saint from India.

H. H. Dadaji Vaishampayan     H. H. Dadaji Vyaishampayan’s full name is H. H. Sripad Ganesh Vyaishampayan. His place of birth is the village Nere (town Panvel, district Raigad) in India. Sage Mahamuni Vishnurupi Bhagwan Anand Swami, Who lives in the Himalayas, accepted Him as a disciple.     Sage Anand Swami still resides in a cave in Kulu valley (Himachal Pradesh, India). H. H. Dadaji performed several 40-day Jal-anushthans (water penance rituals) in Tungabhadra and Kanyakumari (in the South of India). H. H. Dadaji has attained many supernatural powers by undertaking rigorous spiritual practice for 22 hours daily. Accurate remedies and predictions is the specialty of his spiritual practice.

Damaru     A hour glass shaped tabor / sounding instrument.

Dan     An offering; donation.

Darshan     To be in the presence of a spritiually evolved person; seeing God or an image of God.

Dasamaruti     Form of Maruti as a servitor

Shri Dasbodh     A great spiritual text compiled by Samarth Ramdas Swami .

Lord Datta       An incarnation of Lord Vishnu. See Shri Gurudev Datta

Datta Jayanti     The day of the year when the Datta Principle is most active.

Datta Sampradaya     A Hindu sect that follows the worship of Lord Datta.

Dehabuddhi     Body awareness

Deha     (lit. body) There are four types of bodies: Physical body (Sthula-deha). Apart from the body it also consists of a sheath of the five vital energies called the Pran-deha. (See pranshakti). Mental body (Sukshma-deha). It consists of : Mental sheath (Mano-deha). Sheath of desires (Vasana-deha). Causal body or intellect (Karana-deha). Supracausal body or Subtle ego (Mahakarana-deha).      The Mahakarana, Karana and Sukshma-dehas constitue the Linga deha or the Subtle body, which leaves the physical body at the time of death.

H. H. Bejon Desai       A great Saint from Nasik, India.

Destiny     See Prarabdha

Destroyer (of evil) aspect of the divine principle     Deities have two aspects - Saviour aspect and the Destroyer aspect. Savior aspect is used for blessing and protecting devotees/seekers and Destroyer aspect is used for destruction of evil (negative energies) to protect seekers.

Devi Gita     A Hindu Holy text about Divine Energy or Shakti.

Devotional songs     Baba's bhajans and Kshatrageet.

Dhammapada     A Buddhist Scripture

Dharma     ‘Dharma (Righteousness) is that which accomplishes the three tasks of keeping the social system in an excellent condition, bringing about the worldly progress of every living being and causing progress in the spiritual realm as well.’ - Shri Shankaracharya

Dharna     Fixing the mind on any object.

Dhi and Kha frequencies     Associated with the Kundalini Yoga. [More information given in the book Path of Kundalini Yoga - Vol. 18]

Dhoop     A special incense used during Hindu ritualistic worship. The smoke from it has the ability to ward off negative energies. They being gaseous in nature are unable to 'breathe' in the sattvik smoke from dhoop.

Dhyan     Meditation

Dhyanyoga     Dhyan means meditation and yoga means pathway leading to the union with God. Hence, the path of meditation.

Disciple (Shishya)     One who has surrendered his everything, that is, his body, wealth and life unto the Guru and practices Spirituality as advised by Him.

Distressing energy     Just as there exist positive energies and deities that aid the proper functioning of the world, there are distressing or negative energies, such as subtle bodies of deceased and unsatisfied people, demons, etc., that obstruct it. Distressing energies can create physical, psychological or spiritual obstacles in one's life.

Saint Dnyaneshvar     (1275 - 1297) Foremost amongst poet Saints of Maharashtra (a state in India). His verse commentary on the Bhagavadgita, known as the Dnyaneshvari, is acknowledged as one of the world's greatest spiritual works.

Shri Dnyaneshvar Haripath     A compilation of Saint Dnyaneshvar's hymns.

Shri Dnyaneshvari     A commentary on the Bhagavadgita written by Saint Dnyaneshvar, foremost among the Saints of Maharastra, India.

Dnyanottar Karya     Mission after attaining Self-realisation.

Dnyani     One possessing Spiritual Knowledge, i.e., Self-realized.

Dnyanyoga     Dnyan means knowledge and yoga mean pathway leading to the union with God. Hence, path of knowledge.

Doership     Feeling that ‘I’ am the one doing a task, rather than God getting it done through me.

Draupadi     Wife of the five pandavas.

Drawing Sattvik Letters     The letters of the alphabet that we write manually or that are available in various software packages are designed with an eye for aesthetic beauty. Many a times, these letters, though good to look at, actually emit negative energy. Short of this, they emit rajasik or tamasik vibrations. Sanatan is evolving the science of writing the alphabet in such a way that each letter emits sattvik vibrations. After this task is completed, Sanatan will undertake the development of rajasik and tamasik letters.

Drushta     A ritual to ward off negative energies in a person.  The ritual of drushta for children up to 6 years of age: Seat the child on a wooden footstool or some other low, flat seat. Hold an even number of flowers in right hand and odd number of flowers in the left hand. Then the person other than the child's mother should face the child and say, "If any person or anything has cast an evil eye on the child, let it burn and may the child's suffering go away." This should be said while holding both hands in a cross action and moving them around the child first by touching the floor and then taking it up to the child's head. This motion should be repeated until the above sentence is complete. Then the person should make a spitting gesture and throw the flowers into a bush or in flowing water. (This is necessary, as the drushta ritual removes the negative energy from the child and puts it into the flowers. Thus, the flowers should not be touched by anyone, as one may accidentally get affected by the negative energies therein.) A more effective version of the same ritual can be done for children over 6 years of age, using 1 teaspoon each of mustard seeds and rock salt, and 3 dry red whole chili peppers. In this ritual an equal measure (half a teaspoon each) of mustard seeds and salt is to be taken in each hand of the person performing the ritual - preferably other than the mother of the child. That person should also hold 2 chili peppers in the right hand and 1 chili pepper in the left hand. Seating the child as mentioned above, the person should repeat a similar motion as above 9 times with these ingredients, accompanied by saying the above sentence. At the end of the ritual, the person should throw all the ingredients in his hand into a very hot iron pan or into fire. Once they have burned properly, the ingredients can be similarly disposed of as above. The ritual of drushta should be performed at least twice a week (ideally on every Wednesday and Sunday) at twilight.

Durga     One of the nine main female divine principles. A female deity Who is a form of divine energy (Shakti) and is associated with Lord Shiva. Durga is the protector of all deities as well as man, and a slayer of demons.

Dr. Durgesh Samant     A senior seeker undertaking spiritual practice under the guidance of the Sanatan, presently looking after the Sanatan's publications, periodicals and activity in India and abroad.

Dvaparyug (Dwaparyug)     Yug means era. According to Eastern philosophy, time since Creation can divided into 4 major Eras. The first is Satyayug, followed by Tretayug, followed by Dvaparyug, and lastly the current era that we live in, i.e., the Kaliyug.