| Term | Meaning |
| Kalas | Rays |
| Kali-Yuga | Iron age or darkest age |
| Karma | action at gross level - thought speech and action at abstracct level |
| Kirtan | Singing Lords glories, chanting |
| Klesh, klesha, Klesas | Psychic sources of sorrow, affliction, misery. There are 5 types of Kleshas. 1) Avidya: ignorance of one's true identity as an eternal soul and servant of Krishna; 2) Asmita: identification with the mundane ego, mind, and body; 3) Abhinivesh: absorption in mundane experience; 4) Rag: obsession with mundane pleasures and their paraphernalia; and 5) Dwesh: revulsion to dissatisfaction and its causes. |
| Kriyas | involuntary actions and experiences |
| Kundalini | Kundalini is one of the primary components of man
"s subtle body, which consists of 72,000 nadis (subtle
energy channels), chakras (psychic centres), prana (subtle energy), and bindu (drops of essence). Nadis are
astral tubes that carry pranic currents. Three are important. They are the Ida, the Pingala, and the Sushumna.
Sushumna is the most important because Kundalini passes through this nadi only. The first step in Kundalini
Yoga is the purification of the Nadis. When Sushumna is pure, then only will the Kundalini pass through it. The progress of kundalini through the different chakras leads to different levels of awakening and mystical experiences, until the Kundalini finally reaches the top of the head, Sahasrara chakra, attaining the Self-Realization or enlightenment or moksha. When kundalini is taken to the Sahasrara (the crown of the head), when she is united with Lord Siva, perfect Samadhi (super-conscious, blissful state) ensues. Here the Yogi drinks th |