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and grains from the hands of the pure devotee.
Purāṇas —Supplementary Vedic literature. There are eighteen  Purāṇas , intended for the gradual upliftment of the conditioned soul to spiritual life. Six  Purāṇas  are meant for the understanding of those in the modes of ignorance, six for the understanding of those in passion, and six for those in the mode of goodness—culminating in “the spotless  Purāṇa ,”  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , which is the ripened fruit of all Vedic literature.
Pūrṇam —All-perfect, the Supreme Lord. There is no chance of His being subject to the laws of material Nature.
Puruṣa —Enjoyer, Male. Used for the Supreme Lord. Lord Kṛṣṇa in His original Form never leaves Vṛndāvana in the Spiritual Sky; all the affairs of His different creations are carried out by His plenary expansion or Puruṣa incarnation. The ordinary conditioned living entity tries to imitate the Puruṣa as the enjoyer of the material world, but his real eternal position is as eternal servant of the Supreme Lord.
Rāsa Dance —The sublime and spiritual Pastime of the Supreme Lord with the  gopīs , conducted on the exchange of conjugal love without any of the inebrieties of lust as found in the material world.  Rāsa dance  has to be understood from the lips of a pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa.
Rṣis —Philosophers, mystics. Used generally for those thinkers who try to reach the Absolute by their tiny brain power. They can reach only negative definitions of the Absolute. The Absolute Truth, Personality of Godhead, is revealed only to the devotee engaged in transcendental devotional service.
Rudra —Lord Śiva, controller of the material modes of ignorance; at the time of dissolution of the material worlds, Śiva is in charge of destruction.
Saguṇa —With qualities. The worship of the Supreme Lord with attributes, as in worship of the Deity in the temple, does