madhyama
मध्यमा madhyamaThe 'intermediate' level of speech: inward, mental speech, differentiated into words but not yet voiced, standing between pashyanti and vaikhari on the descent from para.
Where this term appears
- Japa: The Discipline of Repetition Treatise
Spoken japa works at vaikhari , the audible level; whispered japa softens toward the inward; mental japa works at madhyama , the level of the mind, nearer the source.
- The Four Levels of Speech Treatise
Below that is madhyama , "the intermediate": inward, mental speech, the word as it is formed in the mind, differentiated now into distinct ideas and even distinct words, but not yet voiced.
- The Garland of Letters Treatise
Woodroffe describes them as the subtle forms behind the gross spoken letters, operative at the inward, mental level of speech that the third chapter called madhyama .
- The mantra withheld Treatise
Madhyama is the word in the mind, inward speech before it is uttered.