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.
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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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