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Hare —A form of address to the energy of the Lord.
Jīva —The living spirit or vital force.
Kāla —Eternal time.
Parā Prakṛti —Superior form of energy which creates the anti-material world.
Para-vyoma —The variegated spiritual planetary system which comprises the major three-fourths part of the Supreme Lord's creative energy. Also called  Vaikuṇṭhaloka .
Piṭṛs —Bygone forefathers.
Pratyāhāna —The process of closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and the life air at the top of the head, thus establishing oneself in  yoga .
Pratyāhāna —The process of closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and the life air at the top of the head, thus establishing oneself in  yoga .
Rajas —The material mode of passion.
Sanātana —Eternal, that which has neither beginning nor end.
Sanātana-dhāma —The eternal nature, the anti-material sky beyond the material universe.
Sanātana-dharma —The eternal nature of the living being, to render service.
Sāṅkhyas —Speculators who scrutinize the material principles with minute analysis and synthesis.
Sattva —The material mode of goodness.
Satyaloka —The topmost planet of the material world. Also called  Brahmaloka .
Siddhaloka —Planets of materially perfect beings who have full capacities to control gravity, space, time, etc.
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Soma-rasa —A celestial beverage drunk on the moon.
Tamas —The material mode of ignorance.
Uttarāyaṇa —Period when the sun passes towards the northern side, in which the deities of fire and effulgence control the atmosphere, the opportune time for persons who have realized the transcendence to leave their material bodies and reach the anti-material world.
Vaikuṇṭhaloka —See  Para-vyoma .
Vibhūti-bhinnam —Specific variegated endowment by which each planet has its own atmosphere, making bodily or psychological change necessary for the organism of one planet to adapt to life on another planet.
Viṣṇumūrti —The form of Viṣṇu.