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Tilaka —auspicious clay marks that sanctify a devotee's body as a temple of the Lord.
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Ugra-karma —evil activities.
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Vaikunṭha —the spiritual world.
Vaiṣṇava —a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa.
Vaiśyas —farmers and merchants; the third Vedic social order.
Vānaprastha —one who has retired from family life; the third order of Vedic spiritual life.
Varṇa —the four occupational divisions of society: the intellectual class, the administrative class, the mercantile class, and the laborer class.
Varṇāśrama —the Vedic social system of four social and four spiritual orders.
Vātsalya-rasa —parental relationship with the Lord.
Vedas —the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the Lord Himself.
Vimuktas —persons liberated from the material world.
Viṣṇu, Lord —Kṛṣṇa's expansion for the creation and maintenance of the material universes.
Viṣṇu-mūrtis —the various forms of the Lord.
Viṣṇu-tattva —the original Personality of Godhead's primary expansions, each of whom is equally God.
Vṛndāvana —Kṛṣṇa's personal abode, where He fully manifests His quality of sweetness.
Vyāsadeva —Kṛṣṇa's incarnation, at the end of Dvāpara-yuga, for compiling the  Vedas .
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Yajña —an activity performed to satisfy either Lord Viṣṇu or the demigods.
Yogi —a transcendentalist who, in one way or another, is striving for union with the Supreme.
Yugas —ages in the life of a universe, occurring in a repeated cycle of four.