108 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers

Vaisyas—farmers and merchants; the third Vedic social
order.

Vanaprastha—one who has retired from family life; the
third order of Vedic spiritual life.

Varndsrama—the Vedic social system of four social and
four spiritual orders.

Vedas —the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the
Lord Himself.

Visnu, Lord—Krsna’s first expansion for the creation and
maintenance of the material universes.

Vrndavana—Krsna’s personal abode, where He fully
manifests His quality of sweetness.

Vyasadeva—Krsna’s incarnation, at the end of Dvapara-
yuga, for compiling the Vedas.

Yajfia—sacrifice, work done for the satisfaction of Lord
Visnu.

Yogi—a transcendentalist who, in one way or another, is
striving for union with the Supreme.

Yuga—ages in the life of a universe, occurring in a
repeated cycle of four.
