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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Śrāddha —ritualistic ceremony of offering oblations to one's deceased ancestors to free them from possible hellish conditions in their next lives.
Śravaṇam kirtanam viṣṇoḥ —the devotional processes of hearing and chanting about Lord Viṣṇu.
Śūdra —a laborer; the fourth of the Vedic social orders.
Svāmi —one who controls his mind and senses; title of one in the renounced order of life.
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Tantras —Vedic literatures consisting mostly of dialogues between Lord Śiva and Durgā.
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.
Varṇas —the four occupational divisions of society: the intellectual class, the administrative class, the mercantile and agricultural class, and the laborer class.
Varṇāśrama —the Vedic social system of four social and four spiritual orders.
Vedas —the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the Lord Himself.
Viṣṇu, Lord —Kṛṣṇa's first expansion for the creation and maintenance of the material universes.
Viṣṇudūtas —the messengers of Lord Viṣṇu who come to take perfected devotees back to the spiritual world at the time of death.
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 .