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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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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.
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 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 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 .
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Yajña —sacrifice; work done for the satisfaction of Lord Viṣṇu.
Yogī —a transcendentalist who, in one way or another, is striving for union with the Supreme.
Yugas —ages in the life of a universe, occurring in a repeated cycle of four.