272 Srimad-Bhagavatam

Sat—eternal.

Smrti scriptures—supplementary explanations of the Vedas.

Sravanam kirtanarn visnoh—the devotional processes of hearing and

_ chanting about Lord Visnu.

Sruti scriptures—the original Vedic literatures: the four Vedas and the

_  Upanisads.

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

Svami—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.

U

Upasana-kanda—a section of the Vedas prescribing worship of
demigods.

V

Vaikuntha—the spiritual world.

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.

Varnasrama—the Vedic 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—the original Personality of Godhead’s primary expan-
sions, each of whom is equally God.
