Glossary
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Śruti —scriptures received directly from God.
Strī —woman.
Śūdra —the laborer class of men.
Śukla —a person in the mode of goodness; also a name of Viṣṇu.
Śukṛtinaḥ —pious persons.
Śvāṁśa —nondifferent plenary expansions of the Lord.
Śvarūpa-vismṛti —forgetting one's real constitutional position.
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Tamo-guṇa —the material mode of ignorance.
Tapasya —voluntary acceptance of some material trouble for progress in spiritual life.
Tilaka —sacred clay used to mark twelve temples of Viṣṇu on the body of a devotee.
Titikṣā —tolerance; a quality of  brāhmaṇas .
Tulasī —Kṛṣṇa's favorite plant.
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Ugra-karma —horrible activities which are the basis of a demoniac civilization.
Upāsanā-kāṇḍa —worship of demigods, ultimately of Viṣṇu, as prescribed in the  Vedas .
Upādhis —material designations.
Urukrama —Kṛṣṇa, who performs wonderful feats.
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Vaikuṇṭha —the spiritual sky, where there is no anxiety.
Vairāgya —the spirit of renunciation.
Vaiṣṇava —a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu.
Vaiṣṇava-aparādha —an offense at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava.
Vaiśya —the class of men involved in business and farming.
Vānaprastha —retired life in which one travels to holy places in preparation for the renounced order of life.