328 Srimad-Bhagavatam

U

Upasané-kanda—a section of the Vedas prescribing worship of
demigods for fruitive results.

V

Vaikuntha—the spiritual world.

Vaisnava—a devotee of Lord Visnu, Krsna.

Vaisnava-aparadhas— offenses to a devotee of the Lord.

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.

Vasitva—the mystic ability to control others’ minds.

Vedas—the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the Lord
Himself.

Vrndavana—Krsgna’s personal abode, where He fully manifests His
quality of sweetness.

Y

Yajfia—an activity performed to satisfy either Lord Visnu or the
demigods.

Yama—regulative principles.

Yogi—a transcendentalist who, in one way or another, is striving for
union with the Supreme.

Yogini—a female yogi.

Yugas—ages in the life of a universe, occurring in a repeated cycle of
four.
