DAKSHINA - donation for the Master or priest


DAM - self-control, restraint, control of the mind; second of the "six treasures" (see also "shat sampatti" and "Gyana Yoga")

DAN - giving; gift, donation, offering

DARSHAN - 1. vision, sight; seeing, meeting or visiting a respected person; 2. view, thought, philosophy

DAS - servant, devotee of God

DATA - giver, donor, benefactor; liberal, generous

DAYA - sympathy, compassion, mercy
- DAYA BHAV - feeling of pity, sympathy

DAYAL, DAYALU - compassionate, merciful, kind

DEEN - 1. humble; 2 poor, needy, miserable
- DEEN BANDHU - friend and helper of the poor, an epithet of God
- DEEN DAYAL(U) - kind and considerate to the poor, an epithet of God
- DEENANATH - protector of the poor, Lord

DEEP - lamp, light

DEEVALI / DEEPAVALI - Festival of Light; traditional celebration in India

DEVA - a divine being, god, deity

DEVI - a female deity, goddess

DHANA - property, wealth, possessions

DHARANA - concentration, the sixth limb of Raja Yoga
- CHIDAKASH DHARANA - a meditation technique
- HRIDAYAKASH DHARANA - a meditation technique
- TRIKUTI DHARANA - a concetration technique

DHARMA - 1. right action, duty, morality, virtue, righteousness; 2. religion, religious duty; 3. particular nature or character
- SANATAN DHARMA - eternal duty, the relation to the essence
- SAT SANATAN DHARMA - the true relation to the essence, the duty of the true relation

DHAUTI - a Hatha Yoga technique for internal cleansing (see also "Hatha Yoga kriyas")

DHYANA - meditation, the seventh limb of Raja Yoga

DIKSHA - initiation

DIVYA - 1. divine, supernatural, 2. wonderful, charming

DIWALI - see Deevali


DUKHA - sorrow, suffering, pain

DVAITA - duality, dualism; (see also "advait")
- DVAITA VEDANTA - the doctrine of dualism

DVESHA - repulsion, hatred, aversion, dislike