| WORD | MEANING |
| Raga: | Desire; passion; attachment |
| Giving up infatuation. | |
| Rajas: | Principle of motion in the Samkhya doctrine |
| Rajoharana: | A whiskbroom |
| Rajya-Katha: | politics |
| Rakta: | Rad. |
| Rasa: | Taste |
| Rasa parityaga: | Daily renunciation of one or more of six kinds of delicacies: Ghee, milk, curd, sugar, salt, and oil--external austerity. |
| Abandonment of stimulating or delicious food | |
| Rati: | Indulgence |
| Pleasure in sense activity | |
| Ratnatraya: | The three jewels: right faith or insight, right knowledge, right conduct |
| Ratre-bhukta-tyaga: | Abstinence from eating at night. |
| Ratri-bhojana: | Eating at night |
| Ratribhakta-pratima: | The sixth stage, in which one limits all sexual activity to nighttime hours |
| Raudradhyana: | Meditation on the perverse pleasure of causing injury to others |
| Rju: | Analytic |
| Rju-sutrabhasa: | False analytical view point |
| Rjumati: | Straight intelligence |
| Rjusutra (Naya): | Analytic stand, point |
| Rjusutra-naya: | Straight-thread view |
| Rta: | Vedic concept of cosmic law |
| Ruja: | Illness |
| Ruksha: | Rough. |
| Rupastha-dhyana: | Concentration on the form of the Jina |
| Rupatita-dhyana: | Concentration on that which transcends form: the nature of the siddha |