YOGA TEACHER TRAINING COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔surya - ✔✔sun
✔✔tada - ✔✔mountain
✔✔padma - ✔✔lotus
✔✔bandha - ✔✔lock
✔✔danda - ✔✔staff
✔✔hala - ✔✔plow/poison
✔✔sukkam - ✔✔happiness/ease
✔✔dukkam - ✔✔suffering
✔✔utkata - ✔✔might, fierce
✔✔parsva - ✔✔side
✔✔japa - ✔✔spiritual discipline involving the meditative repetition of a mantra
✔✔pranayama - ✔✔breath control (prana = energy, breath; yama = stretch/control), 4th
limb of yoga
✔✔puja - ✔✔worship
✔✔abhyasa - ✔✔practice, effort
✔✔ahimsa - ✔✔non-violence
✔✔avidya - ✔✔ignorance (one of the 5 chitta vrttis)
✔✔akasha - ✔✔space, ether or sky (one of the Pangha Maha Bhutas or 5th elements in
yoga)
✔✔ananda - ✔✔joyfulness, bliss
✔✔asana - ✔✔posture, seat, 3rd limb of yoga
, ✔✔bhakti - ✔✔devotion
✔✔Brahman - ✔✔the universal Self
✔✔Chakra - ✔✔subtle energy center
✔✔devi - ✔✔goddess, female deity
✔✔dharma - ✔✔law, religion, duty
✔✔gita - ✔✔song
✔✔guna - ✔✔quality, attribute
✔✔hatha - ✔✔force, joining of sun (ha) and moon (tha)
✔✔ksatriya - ✔✔warrior class
✔✔mala - ✔✔garland
✔✔mandala - ✔✔circle
✔✔parama - ✔✔chief, highest, best
✔✔phala - ✔✔fruit (karmaphala fruits of actions)
✔✔raja - ✔✔king
✔✔risi - ✔✔a seer or sage
✔✔rupa - ✔✔form
✔✔sadhana - ✔✔practice
✔✔shakti - ✔✔feminie energy/power, consort of Shiva
✔✔santi/shanti - ✔✔peace
✔✔satchidananda - ✔✔being, consciousness, bliss (our true nature)
✔✔sutra - ✔✔thead
✔✔svarupa - ✔✔one's essential nature
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔surya - ✔✔sun
✔✔tada - ✔✔mountain
✔✔padma - ✔✔lotus
✔✔bandha - ✔✔lock
✔✔danda - ✔✔staff
✔✔hala - ✔✔plow/poison
✔✔sukkam - ✔✔happiness/ease
✔✔dukkam - ✔✔suffering
✔✔utkata - ✔✔might, fierce
✔✔parsva - ✔✔side
✔✔japa - ✔✔spiritual discipline involving the meditative repetition of a mantra
✔✔pranayama - ✔✔breath control (prana = energy, breath; yama = stretch/control), 4th
limb of yoga
✔✔puja - ✔✔worship
✔✔abhyasa - ✔✔practice, effort
✔✔ahimsa - ✔✔non-violence
✔✔avidya - ✔✔ignorance (one of the 5 chitta vrttis)
✔✔akasha - ✔✔space, ether or sky (one of the Pangha Maha Bhutas or 5th elements in
yoga)
✔✔ananda - ✔✔joyfulness, bliss
✔✔asana - ✔✔posture, seat, 3rd limb of yoga
, ✔✔bhakti - ✔✔devotion
✔✔Brahman - ✔✔the universal Self
✔✔Chakra - ✔✔subtle energy center
✔✔devi - ✔✔goddess, female deity
✔✔dharma - ✔✔law, religion, duty
✔✔gita - ✔✔song
✔✔guna - ✔✔quality, attribute
✔✔hatha - ✔✔force, joining of sun (ha) and moon (tha)
✔✔ksatriya - ✔✔warrior class
✔✔mala - ✔✔garland
✔✔mandala - ✔✔circle
✔✔parama - ✔✔chief, highest, best
✔✔phala - ✔✔fruit (karmaphala fruits of actions)
✔✔raja - ✔✔king
✔✔risi - ✔✔a seer or sage
✔✔rupa - ✔✔form
✔✔sadhana - ✔✔practice
✔✔shakti - ✔✔feminie energy/power, consort of Shiva
✔✔santi/shanti - ✔✔peace
✔✔satchidananda - ✔✔being, consciousness, bliss (our true nature)
✔✔sutra - ✔✔thead
✔✔svarupa - ✔✔one's essential nature