Glossary
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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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Upāsanā-kāṇḍa —section of the  Vedas  prescribing worship of demigods for fruitive results.
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Vaikuṇṭha —the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.
Vaiṣṇava —a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, 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.
Varṇa —the four occupational divisions of society: the intellectual class, the administrative class, the mercantile and agricultural class, and the laborer class.
Varṇa-saṅkara —children born of parents who did not follow Vedic rules for procreation or purification.
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.
Viṣṇu-tattva —personal expansions of the Lord.
Vṛndāvana —Kṛṣṇa's personal abode, where He fully manifests His quality of sweetness.
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Yajña —sacrifice; work done for the satisfaction of Lord Viṣṇu.
Yavanas —lowborn persons who do not follow Vedic regulations.
Yogamāyā —internal spiritual potency of the Lord.