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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Sat —eternal.
Śmṛti scriptures —supplementary explanations of the  Vedas .
Śravaṇam kirtanam viṣṇoḥ —the devotional processes of hearing and chanting about Lord Viṣṇu.
Śruti scriptures —the original Vedic literatures: the four  Vedas  and the  Upaniṣads .
Śūdra —a laborer; the fourth of the Vedic social orders.
Śvāmi —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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Upāsanā-kāṇḍa —a section of the  Vedas  prescribing worship of demigods.
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Vaikuṇṭha —the spiritual world.
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.
Varṇāśrama —the Vedic 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 —the original Personality of Godhead's primary expansions, each of whom is equally God.