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Ravana—a powerful atheist killed by Lord Ramacandra.
Rohini—the mother of Baladeva.
Riipa Gosvami—chief of the six Gosvamis of Vrndavana.

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Sac-cid-ananda vigraha—the eternal form of the Lord, full of bliss and
knowledge.

Sacidevi—the mother of Lord Caitanya.
Sadhu—great sage.
Sakhya—the rasa of fraternity.

_Samadhi—trance, or absorption in the service of the Lord.

Samba—a son of Krsna and Jambavati.
Sarnskaras—purificatory processes.
Samvit—the knowledge potency of the Lord.
Sandatana-dharma—man’s eternal engagement.
Sandhini—the eternal existence potency of the Lord.
Sandipani Muni—teacher of Krsna and Baladeva.
Sannyasa—the renounced order of life for spiritual culture.
Santa—the rasa of neutrality.

Sastras—revealed scriptures or Vedic literatures.
Sattva—the material mode of goodness.

Satvatas—eternal devotees of the Lord.

Satyaloka—the topmost planetary system within the universe.
Satya-yuga—the first of the four ages of a maha-yuga.
Sayujya—impersonal liberation.

Siksdstakam—the eight slokas of Lord Caitanya.
Simanta-nayanam—a samskara performed during pregnancy.
Siva—the predominating deity of the mode of ignorance.
Soma-rasa—a beverage drunk by demigods.

Sravana— hearing.

Srigara—the rasa of conjugal love.

Srnigi—the brahmana boy who cursed Maharaja Pariksit.

Sruti—direct Vedic injunctions.

Sudargana-cakra—the wheel weapon used by Krsna.
Suddha-sattva—the purified state of the soul freed from matter.
Sidras—persons in the mode of ignorance, the laborer class.
Surabhi—the cows herded by Govinda.

Siirasena—the father of Vasudeva and grandfather of Lord Krsna.
Siryaloka—the sun.

Svargaloka—the heavenly planets.

Svariipa—original spiritual form.
