Mohanama, the uncle of King Dhatusma. 
     Maha-Yug, the aggregate of four Yugas, or ages—­4,320,000
years—­in the Brahmanical system. 
     Manas, the mind, the thinking principle; the fifth
principle in the septenary division. 
     Manas Sanyama, perfect concentration of the mind; control
over the mind. 
     Manomaya Kosha, third sheath of the divine monad, Vedantic
equivalent for fourth and fifth principles. 
     Mantra period, one of the four periods into which Vedic
literature has been divided. 
     Mantra Sastra, Brahmanical writings on the occult science of
incantations. 
     Mantra Tantra Shastras, works on incantation and Magic. 
     Manu, the great Indian legislator. 
     Manvantara, the outbreathing of the creative principle; the
period of cosmic activity between two pralayas. 
     Maruts, the wind gods. 
     Mathadhipatis, heads of different religious institutions in
India. 
     Matras, the quantity of a Sanskrit syllable. 
     Matrikasakti, the power of speech, one of six forces in
Nature. 
     Matsya Puranas, one of the Puranas. 
     Maya, illusion, is the cosmic power which renders phenomenal
existence possible. 
     Mayavic Upadhi, the covering of illusion, phenomenal
appearance. 
     Mayavirupa, the “double;” “doppelganger;” “perisprit.” 
     Mazdiasnian, Zoroastrian (lit. “worshiping God"). 
     Microcosm, man. 
     Mobeds, Zoroastrian priests. 
     Monad, the spiritual soul, that which endures through all
changes of objective existence. 
     Moneghar, the headman of a village. 
     Morya, one of time royal houses of Magadha; also the name
of a Rajpoot tribe. 
     Mukta, liberated; released from conditional existence. 
     Mukti.  See Mukta. 
     Mula-prakriti, undifferentiated cosmic matter; the
unmanifested cause and substance of all being. 
     Mumukshatwa, desire for liberation.

     Nabhichakram, the seat of the principle of desire, near the
umbilicus. 
     Najo, witch. 
     Nanda (King), one of the kings of Magadha. 
     Narayana, in mystic symbology it stands for the life
principle. 
     Nava nidhi, the nine jewels, or consummation of spiritual
development. 
     Neophyte, a candidate for initiation into the mysteries of
adeptship. 
     Nephesh, one of the three souls, according to the Kabala;
first three principles in the human septenary. 
     Neschamah, one of the three souls, according to the Kabala;
seventh principle in the human septenary. 
     Nirguna, unbound; without gunas or attributes; the soul in
its state of essential purity is so called. 
     Nirvana, beautitude, abstract spiritual existence,
absorption into all. 
     Niyashes, Parsi prayers. 
     Noumena, the true essential nature of being, as
distinguished from the illusive objects of sense. 
     Nous, spirit, mind; Platonic term, reason. 
     Nyaya Philosophy, a system of Hindu logic founded by
Gautuma.