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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Hinduism's Online Lexicon - A-z Dictionary O objective: 1) Quality of thinking or perception relating to the object as it truly is. Not biased or colored by one's personal point of view or prejudices, which then would be subjective thinking. 2) A target, goal or anything sought for or aimed at. Cf: subjective. oblation: An offering or sacrifice ceremoniously given to a God or guru. See: sacrifice, yajna. obscuration: Same as obscuring grace.

See: grace, Nataraja**.** obscuring grace: See: grace, Nataraja. obstacle: See: upasarga. obstinate (obstinacy): Overly determined to have one's own way. Stubborn. occult: Hidden, or kept secret; revealed only after initiation. See: mysticism. odic: Magnetic--of or pertaining to consciousness within ashuddha maya, the realm of the physical and lower astral planes.

Odic force in its rarified state is prakriti, the primary gross energy of nature, manifesting in the three gunas: sattva, rajas and tamas. It is the force of attraction and repulsion between people, people and their things, and manifests as masculine (aggressive) and feminine (passive), arising from the pingala and ida currents. These two currents (nadi) are found within spine of the subtle body.

Odic force is a magnetic, sticky, binding substance that people seek to develop when they want to bind themselves together, such as in partnerships, marriage, guru-shishya relationships and friendships. Odic energy is the combined emanation of the pranamaya and annamaya koshas.

The term odic is the adjective form of od (pronounced like mode), defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "a hypothetical force held by Baron von Reichenbach (1788-1869) to pervade all nature, manifesting itself in certain persons of sensitive temperament (streaming from their fingertips), and exhibited especially by magnets, crystals, heat, light and chemical action; it has been held to explain the phenomena of mesmerism and animal magnetism." See: actinic, actinodic, guna, kosha, odic, subtle body, tattva.

offset: Made up for, compensated for, counterbalanced by. offspring: The young of animals. Children. Sanskrit: apatya. olai: (Tamil) "Leaf." An ancient form of Indian books used in South India, made of strips of fronds from the palmyra (trindruma) and talipot (talapatra, "fan-leaf") palms. Prepared birch bark (bhurja pattra) was the medium in the North.