Glossary 461
Sagarbha-yogi—a yogi who worships the Supersoul in the Visnu form.
Sakhya—the devotional process of making friendship with the Lord.
Salagrama-sila —a Deity incarnation of Narayana in the form of a stone.
Sama—control of the mind.
Sambandha—one’s personal relationship with God.
Sambhoga—the ecstasy of the meeting and embracing of lovers.
Sankirtana—the congregational chanting of the holy name of the Lord.
Sannydsa—the renounced order of life.
Santa-bhaktas —devotees in the neutral stage of devotional service.
Sarkaraksa—those situated in the gross bodily conception of life.
Sarva-kima—one who desires material perfection.
Sarva-kama-deha—the body engaged for the satisfaction of all kinds of material desires.
Sarvarambha-parityagi—one who is indifferent to both pious and impious activities.
Satyam param—the Supreme Absolute Truth, Krsna.
Sevd-aparddha—offenses in Deity worship.
Siddhi—perfection in yoga.
Sita—subordinate ecstatic symptoms including singing, yawning, etc.; a division of anubhava.
Smarana—the devotional process of remembering the Lord.
Smarta-brahmana—a caste brahmana who believes that a person not born in a brahmana
family can never be elevated to that platform.
Smarta-guru—a professional spiritual master.
Smarta-viddhi —mundane religious activity.
Smrti—scriptures compiled by living entities under transcendental direction.
Sneha—affection in ecstatic love of God.
Sravana—the devotional process of hearing.
Srigadra—conjugal love.
Sthayi-bhava—permanent ecstasies.
Suddha-sattva-visesatm4—the position of being situated on the transcendental platform of
pure goodness.
Sddra—the laborer class of men.
Sukrti—auspicious activity.
Svardpa-laksana—the position when the soul is purified of all material contamination.
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Tapasvis —persons who undergo severe penances for elevation to higher planets.
Tattva—knowledge of the actual truth.
Tilaka—sacred clay used to mark Visnu temples on twelve places of the body of a devotee.
Triveni—the confluence of three sacred rivers at Prayaga.
Tulasi—Krsna’s favorite plant.
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Udbhdsvara—eternal ecstatic symptoms or bodily transformations which indicate ecstatic
emotions in the mind.
