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Pāṇḍu: father of Pāṇḍavas, husband of Kuntī Pāṇḍavas: five brothers in Mahābharata, also sons of Pāṇḍu Pañca bhūta: five elemental energies that sustain us, namely, earth, water, fire, air and ether Pañca indriya: five senses Pāñcajanya: Lord Kṛṣṇa's conch Pārtha: (lit: son of Prithā or Kuntī); name of Arjuna called lovingly by

Kṛṣṇa

Parantapa: another name of Arjuna; means the destroyer of enemies

Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa as the cosmic energy, the Supreme God

Parāśakti: Supreme cosmic energy; Ādi Śakti, source of existence

Paramahamsa: (lit. 'supreme swan'); Enlightened being; title for enlightened spiritual Masters, in the state of non-duality, Advaita.

Patañjali: father, founder of Yoga; author of yoga treatise called Patañjali's Yoga Sūtras

Piṇḍāṇḍa: individual microcosm or micro-universe; space enclosed in form

Prāṇāyāma: lit: 'extension of life-energy force' through breath modulation and control; the fourth limb of the Āṣṭāṇga Yoga.

Prārabdha karma: karmas based on which this life has been assumed

Prakṛti: Nature

Pratyāhāra: fifth limb of Patañjali's Aṣṭaṇga Yoga referring to turning

Pravṛitti: looking outward (worldly life), 'path of incompletion leading to more incompletion.'

Prema śakti: (or prema siddhi) the power of feeling.

Puṇya: merit, beneficence

Purāṇa: the great historical happenings and narrations that depict the glory of Divine and Its sacred plays, līlās

Puruṣa: the personification of the Supreme energy

Puruṣottama: Supreme Being amongst all beings

Pūrṇāvatār: complete, absolute Incarnation of God.

Pūrṇa: literally 'complete'

Pūrnatva: the space or state of 'completion' that signifies the Truth that from completion (whole) comes the Whole.