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not mean that the Lord comes under the laws of material nature, although He has qualities and appears in the material form (wood, stone, etc.). For Him there is no difference between material and spiritual energies, as He is the Source and Controller of both.
Sākhya —Relationship of friendship with the Supreme Lord. Arjuna had this relationship.
Sambhūti —The Absolute Personality of Godhead Who is absolutely independent.
Sambhavat —Worship of the Supreme Cause.
Sannyāsa —Renounced order of life.  Sannyāsa  does not mean to go off to the jungle and renounce all activity, but to surrender everything to Kṛṣṇa. Even a householder or married man living in the world can do this, under the instructions of a bona fide spiritual master.
Sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha —Eternal, knowing and blissful—in full form. Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entities share this nature; but His nature is infinite, and His parts and parcels are infinitesimal.
Śaṅkara —Impersonalist  ācārya  who taught supremacy of  Brahma-jyoti , the effulgence emanating from the Body of the Supreme Lord. Although he does not belong to the personalist cult, Śaṅkara has admitted that Nārāyaṇa and Kṛṣṇa are one and that Nārāyaṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, transcendental to the material modes.
Śānta —The spiritual relationship of calmness or the neutral relationship between the Supreme Lord and His loving associates, as had by the four Kumāra sages who were always in meditation on the greatness of God.
Sense enjoyment —Illusory life of trying to enjoy with the body, without surrendering to the Complete Whole.
Śrīla Bhaktivinode Thākur —Great  Ācārya  in discipline succession from Lord Caitanya, pioneer of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness in the modern age. Father of Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī,