Glossary

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Abhidheya —activities in one’s personal relationship with God; devotional service.

Acarya—a spiritual master who teaches by his own example.

Acintya-bhedabheda-tattva—Lord Caitanya’s “simultaneously one and different” doctrine,
which establishes the inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference of the Lord
and His expansions.

Adhirddha—an advanced symptom of maha-bhdava found only in the gopis.

Akama—one who is desireless.

Anapeksa—indifference to mundane people.

Anartha-nivrtti—giving up unwanted things.

Anubhdva—bodily symptoms manifested by a devotee in ecstatic love for Krsna.

Anuraga—subattachment in ecstatic love of God.

Arcand—worship of the Deity in the temple.

Asana—a sitting place.

Asuras —demons; people who are averse to the supremacy of the Supreme Lord, Visnu.

Atma-nivedana—the devotional process of surrendering everything to the Lord.

Atmaramas —transcendentalists.

Ayoga—See: Viyoga.

Ayukta—the ecstatic condition of not having yet met one’s lover.

Bhagavata-dharma—the science of God consciousness.

Bhakta—a devotee of Krsna.

Bhakti —devotional service.

Bhakti-rasa—the mellow relished in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.

Bhakti-yoga—the method for developing pure devotional service.

Bhava—ecstatic love of God.

Bhava-bhakti—the platform of purified goodness when one’s heart melts in devotional ser-
vice; the first stage of love of Godhead.

Brahmacdri—a celibate student under the care of a spiritual master.

Brahmana—the intelligent class of men.

Brahmadnanda—the bliss derived from merging into the existence of the Absolute.

Bhukti —material enjoyment.

Brahma-bhita—the state of being freed from material contamination.

Brahma-muhdarta—the hour and a half just before sunrise.

Brahma-randhra —the hole at the top of the skull through which a yogi passes on quitting his
body.

Brahma-updsaka—-a worshiper of the impersonal Brahman.

Brahmavddis—those who are absorbed in the thought of impersonal Brahman.

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Candalas —low-class men who eat dogs; untouchables.

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