Glossary 367
Sandhini sakti—the eternity portion of the Lord’s spiritual potency.
Sankirtana—congregational chanting of the glories of the Lord.
Sannyasa—the fourth order of spiritual life.
Sannydsa-danda—the staff carried by a sannydsi.
Sannydsis—those in the renounced order of life.
Sarsti—the liberation of attaining opulences like those of the Lord.
Sardpya—the liberation of attaining a four-handed form exactly like that of the Lord.
Sarvatma-nivedana—See: Atma-nivedana.
Sastra—revealed scripture.
Sayujya-mukti—merging into the Brahman effulgence of the Lord.
Seva-puja—Deity worship.
Siddha—one who has realized the Brahman effulgence.
Siva—the personality in charge of the mode of ignorance.
Sravana—the devotional process of hearing.
Stri—women.
Sddipta—the manifestation in a devotee of all eight ecstatic symptoms multiplied a
thousand times and all visible at once.

Sddras—the laborer class of men.
Svadhyaya—the reading of Vedic literature.

T
Tamasah—the coverings of the universe.
Tattva—truth.
Triyuga—a name of Visnu meaning one who appears in only three yugas.

U
Uddipta—the manifestation in a devotee of five, six or all eight ecstatic symptoms

simultaneously.

Vv
Vaikali-bhoga—food offered to the Deity at the end of the day.
Vaikunthalokas —variegated spiritual planets situated in the brahmajyoti.
Vairdgya —renunciation.
Vaisnava—a devotee of the Supreme Lord Visnu, or Krsna.
Vaisyas —people engaged in agriculture and commerce.
Vanas —forests.
Vandana—the devotional process of praying.
Varaha—the boar incarnation of the Lord.
Vedasraya nastikya-vada—agnosticism under the shelter of Vedic culture.
