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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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.
Śāstras —revealed scriptures.
Siddhaloka —heavenly planet where residents have all eight mystic powers.
Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ —the devotional processes of hearing and chanting about Lord Viṣṇu.
Śūdra —a laborer; the fourth of the Vedic social orders.
Śvāmī —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.
Tilaka —auspicious clay marks that sanctify a devotee's body as a temple of the Lord.
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Vaikuṇṭha —the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.
Vaiṣṇava —a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, or 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.
Varṇāśrama —the Vedic social system of four social and four spiritual orders.
Vedas —the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the Lord Himself.
Vidyādharas —a race of celestial beings.
Vijñānamaya —(lit., full of knowledge), consciousness of the self as different from matter.
Viṣṇu , Lord—Kṛṣṇa's first expansion for the creation and maintenance of the material universes.
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 .