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