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Sadhana. Spiritual practice, discipline and effort. Part of the daily way of life for serious spiritual aspirants. Will often involve daily devotion, meditation and sacred mantras.

Sadhu. A renunciate spiritual seeker, usually seen in India. Saddhus have no possessions having given up everything in the material world in search of personal spiritual growth. The ultimate goal of which is Enlightenment.

Samadhi. A blissful physical state experienced when one is in union with God, and therefore receiving the impulse of Divine energy. This is the state of bliss, also called Nirvana, much sought by all of the saddhu's, mystics and spiritual seekers. A state of superconsciousness.

Samsara. The objective world, sea of change, cycle of birth and death.

Samskara. Inborn desire. Mental impression of acts done in former state of existence. Purification ceremony or sacrament.

Samthusthi. Total contentment.

Sannyasin. One who, having had his fill of the material world, having fulfilled his family duties, turns to the spiritual path, and dedicates his life to the spiritual growth of himself and those he teaches. There is a Holy Order of Sannyasa whose members don the saffron robes and take vows of renunciation, and allegiance to God.

Satguru. Virtuous teacher.

Sathya. Truth. (Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Shakti. Divine energy.

Shanti. Sanskrit word meaning peace. 

Shiatsu. A Japanese system of health treatment based on applying pressure to meridian points around the body, particularly the soles of the feet.

Shiva. A Hindu Deity. Part of the Trinity of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu.

Siddhi. A Divine power, or ability. Examples are omnipresence (as demonstrated regularly by Sathya Sai Baba), and levitation.

Sri. Prefix to the name of venerated persons. (Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Sutras. A sanskrit word meaning "thought threads". 

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