Glossary 305
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.

U

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

Vv

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

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 and agricultural class, and
the laborer class.

Varna-sankara—children born of parents who did not follow Vedic
rules for procreation or purification.

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

Vedas—the original revealed scriptures, first spoken by the Lord Him-
self.

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

Visnu-tattva—personal expansions of the Lord.

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

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Yajiia—sacrifice; work done for the satisfaction of Lord Visnu.

Yavanas—lowborn persons who do not follow Vedic regulations.

Yogamaéya—internal spiritual potency of the Lord.
