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Rudras—the expansions of Lord Śiva who rule over the material mode of ignorance.
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Sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha —the Lord's transcendental form, which is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss.
Sakhya-rasa —fraternal affection for the Supreme Lord.
Sālokya —the liberation of gaining entrance into the Lord's own abode.
Samādhi —perfect trance in  yoga .
Sāmīpya —the liberation of eternal association with the Lord.
Sanātana-dharma —eternal religion.
Saṅkīrtana —public chanting of the names of God, the approved  yoga  process for this age.
Sannyāsa —renounced life; the fourth order of Vedic spiritual life.
Śānta —neutral affection for the Supreme Lord.
Śārṣṭi —the liberation of achieving equal opulence with the Lord.
Śārūpya —the liberation of obtaining bodily features like the Lord's.
Śāstras —revealed scriptures.
Śāyujya —the impersonal liberation, rejected by devotees, of merging into the rays of the Lord's bodily effulgence.
Śeṣa —the expansion of  Śaṅkarṣaṇa  who, in the form of a couch of snakes, personally serves the Supreme Personality of Godhead and holds up all the worlds on his numberless hoods.
Śiddhas —a race of demigods who possess all mystic  yoga  powers.
Śoma-rasa —the heavenly beverage taken by demigods for increased span of life.
Śravaṇam kīrtanam viṣṇoḥ —the devotional processes of hearing and chanting about Lord Viṣṇu.
Śrīvatsa —the mark of the resting place of the goddess of fortune on the chest of Lord Nārāyaṇa.
Śūdra —a laborer; the fourth of the Vedic social orders.
Śuāmī —one who controls his mind and senses; title of one in the renounced order of life.
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Tapasya —austerity; accepting some voluntary inconvenience for a higher purpose.