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Prakṛti —material nature.
Prasāda —“the Lord’s mercy”; food which has become spiritualized by first being offered for God’s pleasure.
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Rajo-guṇa —passion, one of the three modes which control material existence.
Rāvaṇa —the demoniac ruler who was killed by Lord Rāmacandra.
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Sādhana —the beginning phase of devotional service as regulated practice.
Sādhus —saintly persons.
Śaṅkarācārya —the incarnation of Lord Śiva who, ordered by the Supreme Lord, propagated the famous Māyāvāda philosophy, which maintains that there is no distinction between the Lord and the living entities.
Sārūpya-mukti —the liberation of achieving a spiritual form similar to that of the Supreme Lord.
Śāstras —revealed scriptures, such as the Vedic literature.
Śitā —the eternal consort of Lord Rāmacandra.
Śiva —the demigod in charge of the mode of ignorance and the destruction of the material manifestation.
Śmṛti —supplementary Vedic scriptures, apart from the original  Vedas .
Śuddha-sattva —the transcendental platform of “pure goodness,” beyond the material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance.
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Tamo-guṇa —ignorance, one of the three modes which control material existence.
Tilaka —auspicious clay marks that sanctify a devotee’s body as a temple of the Lord.
Tulasī —the sacred plant whose leaves are especially dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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Upaniṣads —the philosophic portions of the  Vedas .