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lila

nouncommon in dialogue

The play of god’s spirit manifested in the universe; divine play, creative spiritual energy.

noun

  1. 1

    The play of god’s spirit manifested in the universe; divine play, creative spiritual energy.

    His face shone with joy when he read good books, thought new thoughts, heard news about the country's welfare, or when God's lila filled his mind.

Etymology

Transliteration of Sanskrit लीला (līlā).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).