Glossary
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Acaérya—a spiritual master who teaches by example.
Adharma—irreligion.
Adhibhautika— material suffering caused by other living entities.
Adhidaivika—material suffering caused by natural occurrences.
Adhyatmika—material suffering caused by one’s own body and mind.
Advaita-vadis—atheistic philosophers who say that any distinction must be
material.
Ajfidta-sukrti—pious deeds performed accidentally, without knowledge of
their effect.
Arati—a ceremony for greeting the Lord with offerings of food, lamps, fans,
flowers and incense.
Arcanaé—the devotional process of regulated Deity worship.
Asrama—an order of spiritual life.
B
Balarama, Lord—Krsna’s first expansion and elder brother.
Bhagavad-gita—the basic directions for spiritual life spoken by the Lord
Himself.
Bhagavata-dharma—the eternal religion or occupational duty of service to
the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Bhakta—a devotee.
Bhakti-yoga—devotional service.
Bhoga—sense gratification; food not offered to the Lord.
Brahmacarya—celibate student life; the first order of Vedic spiritual life.
Brahmaloka—the abode of Lord Brahma; the highest planetary system.
Brahman—the Absolute Truth; especially, the impersonal aspect of the
Absolute.
Brahmana—a person in the mode of goodness; first Vedic social order.
C
Caitanya-caritamrta—Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja’s authorized biography of
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