304 Srimad-Bhagavatam

Sankirtana—public chanting of the names of God, the approved yoga pro-
cess for this age.

Sannydsa—renounced life: the fourth order of Vedic spiritual life.

Sdstras —revealed scriptures.

Siddhaloka—heavenly planet where residents have all eight mystic powers.

Sravanam kirtanam visnoh—the devotional processes of hearing and chant-

_ ing about Lord Visnu.

Siidra—a laborer; the fourth of the Vedic social orders.

Svadmi—one who controls his mind and senses; title of one in the renounced
order of life.

T

Tapasya—austerity; accepting some voluntary inconvenience for a higher
purpose.

Tilaka—auspicious clay marks that sanctify a devotee’s body as a temple of
the Lord.

V

Vaikuntha—the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.

Vaisnava—a devotee of Lord Visnu, or 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.

Varnasrama—the Vedic social system of four social and four spiritual
orders.

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

Vidyadharas—a race of celestial beings.

Vijidnamaya—(lit., full of knowledge), consciousness of the self as dif-
ferent from matter.

Visnu, Lord—Krsna’s first expansion for the creation and maintenance of
the material universes.

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

Vyasadeva—Krsna’s incarnation, at the end of Dvapara-yuga, for compiling
the Vedas.
