daiva
दैव daivaFate or destiny; in the Yoga Vasistha understood as the self-effort (purushartha) of past lives returning as circumstance.
Where this term appears
- Devas and Asuras Deities
…rsepolis recording that he destroyed a daivadana , a sanctuary of the daivas , and forbade their worship.
- Fate or freedom Treatise
Daiva , destiny, he argues, is not a foreign power ruling over us from outside.
- The Beings of the Dark Treatise
… bhūta kola — the spirit-possession rituals in which local bhūtas, or daivas , speak and dance through their mediums — remains a vital, honoured tradition, the spirits of the land propitiated and consulted, not…