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Tilaka—auspicious clay marks that sanctify a devotee’s body as a temple ;
of the Lord.
U ‘
Ugra-karma—evil activities.
Vv
Vaikuntha—the spiritual world.
Vaisnava—a devotee of Lord Visnu, Krsna.
Vaisyas—farmers and merchants; the third Vedic social order.
Vanaprastha—one who has retired from family life; the third order of
Vedic spiritual life.
Varna—the four occupational divisions of society: the intellectual class,
the administrative class, the mercantile class, and the laborer class.
Varnasrama—the Vedic social system of four social and four spiritual
orders.
Vatsalya-rasa— parental relationship with the Lord.
Vedas—the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the Lord
Himself.
Vimuktas—persons liberated from the material world.
Vigsnu, Lord—Krsna’s expansion for the creation and maintenance of
the material universes.
Visnu-mirtis—the various forms of the Lord.
Visnu-tattva—the original Personality of Godhead’s primary expan-
sions, each of whom is equally God.
Vrndavana—Krsna’s personal abode, where He fully manifests His
quality of sweetness.
Vyasadeva—Krsna’s incarnation, at the end of Dvapara-yuga, for com-
piling the Vedas.
Y
Yajfia—an activity performed to satisfy either Lord Visnu or the
demigods.
Yogi—a transcendentalist who, in one way or another, is striving for
union with the Supreme.
Yugas—ages in the life of a universe, occurring in a repeated cycle of
four.
