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Rāvaṇa—a powerful atheist killed by Lord Rāmacandra.
Rohiṇī—the mother of Baladeva.
Rūpa Gosvāmī—chief of the six Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana.
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Sac-cid-ānanda vigraha —the eternal form of the Lord, full of bliss and knowledge.
Śacīdevī—the mother of Lord Caitanya.
Sādhu —great sage.
Sākhya —the  rasa  of fraternity.
Samādhi —trance, or absorption in the service of the Lord.
Sāmba —a son of Kṛṣṇa and Jāmbavatī.
Saṁskāras —purificatory processes.
Saṁvit —the knowledge potency of the Lord.
Sanātana-dharma —man's eternal engagement.
Sandhinī —the eternal existence potency of the Lord.
Sāndīpani Muni —teacher of Kṛṣṇa and Baladeva.
Sannyāsa —the renounced order of life for spiritual culture.
Śānta —the  rasa  of neutrality.
Śāstras —revealed scriptures or Vedic literatures.
Sattva —the material mode of goodness.
Sātvatas —eternal devotees of the Lord.
Satyaloka —the topmost planetary system within the universe.
Satya-yuga —the first of the four ages of a  mahā-yuga .
Śāyujya —impersonal liberation.
Śikṣāṣṭakam —the eight  ślokas  of Lord Caitanya.
Śimanta-nayanam —a  saṁskāra  performed during pregnancy.
Śiva —the predominating deity of the mode of ignorance.
Śoma-rasa —a beverage drunk by demigods.
Śravaṇa —hearing.
Śrigāra —the  rasa  of conjugal love.
Śrigi —the  brāhmaṇa  boy who cursed Mahārāja Parīkṣit.
Śruti —direct Vedic injunctions.
Śudarśana-cakra —the wheel weapon used by Kṛṣṇa.
Śuddha-sattva —the purified state of the soul freed from matter.
Śūdras —persons in the mode of ignorance, the laborer class.
Śurabhi —the cows herded by Govinda.
Śūrasena —the father of Vasudeva and grandfather of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Śūryaloka —the sun.
Śvargaloka —the heavenly planets.
Śvarūpa —original spiritual form.