Glossary 493

Soma-rasa —an intoxicant taken on the heavenly planets.
Sravanarh kirtanar visnoh—hearing and chanting about Visnu.
Suddha-sattva—the platform of pure goodness.

Sudra—the laborer class of men who serve the three higher classes.
Suras—demigods, devotees.

Svamsa—See: Visnu-tattva.

Svarga-loka—the heavenly planetary system.

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Tarno-guna—the matecial mode of ignorance.
Tattva-darsi—one who has seen the truth.
Trivikrama—Lord Vamana, the incarnation who performed three heroic

deeds.

Udaéra— magnanimous.
Updsya—worshipable.
Uttamasloka—Krsna, who is worshiped by select poetry.

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Vaikuntha—the spiritua! sky, where there is no anxiety.

Vaisya—the class of men involved in business and farming.

Vanaprastha—retired life in which one travels to holy places in preparation
for the renounced order of life.

Vandana—the devotional process of offering prayers to the Lord.

Vanik—the mercantile community.

Varnasrama-dharma—the scientific system of four social and four spiritual
orders in human society.

Vikarma—sinful work performed against the injunctions of revealed scrip-
tures.

Vimidhas—foolish rascals.

Viraha—transcendental bliss in separation from the Lord.

Virdta-rupa—the universal form of the Lord.

Vira-vrata—fully determined.
