SB (1962) Appendix - Glossary

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A

Acharya - Authorised teacher of a particular cult.

Ahamkara - The meeting point of matter and spirit.

Annaprashan - A ceremony or Samskara of offering solid food to a teething child at the age of six to seven months.

Apara - Material inferiority.

Archa - The Form of the Lord manifested through material agency such as mind, metal, earth, painting, wood, stone, jewel, drawing etc accepted as incarnation of God and worshipped by regulations.

Archan - The procedures followed in connection with worshipping the Archa.

Ashrama - Orders of life in connection with self realisation.

Ashura - Person against the service of the Lord.

Astasiddhi - Eight fold perfections by mystic powers.

Atmarama - Self satisfied in spiritual values.

Avesha - Incarnation of Godhead partially empowered.

B

Bhakti - Activities of the purified senses.

Bhagwat - In relation with the Personality of Godhead.

Brahman - The Absolute Truth.

Brahmin - A person in the mode of goodness.

Brahma - The first created being head of an Universe.

Bibhuti - Specific power deputed to a living being.

D

Devata - Person obedient to the service of the Lord.

J

Jnanam - Knowledge transcendental.

K

Kazi - A Muslim Magistrate.

Karcha - Authorised notes recorded.

Karma - Material activities subjected to reaction.

Kartal - Handy bell used by the devotee.

Kali - The age in which quarrel is a common affair.

Kalpa - Millennium or material manifestation during the day of Brahma.

Kshatriya - The martial caste in the mode of passion.

L

Leela - Transcendental pastime of the Lord.

M

Mantras - Sound transcendental or Vedic hymns.

Mayavada - The system of philosophy propounded by the impersonalists.

Mukti - Recovery from material existence and be re - instated in the original form.

Mohatma - A devotee of the Lord constantly engaged in the service of the Lord.

Muktipada - Lord Vishnu whose lotus feet are worshipped by the liberated souls.

Mridanga - A particular type of drum specially made in Bengal.

P

Parampara - Disciplic succession.

Para - Transcendental superiority.

Pasandi - An offender to the Lord.

Paramatma - The supersoul localised aspect of the Lord.

Phalgooni Purnima - The full moon night in the month of Phalgoon (Feb.- March).

Prakriti - Energy or Nature.

Prema - Spontaneous attraction of Love.

Purusha - Incarnation of Godhead for material manifestations.

Puranas - Supplements of the Vedas.

R

Rasa - Spiritual humour by spiritual sense perception.

S

Satwam - Mode of material nature in goodness.

Sannyas - Renounced order of life for spiritual culture.

Sattwatas - Eternal devotees of the Lord.

Samadhi - Trance or being absorbed in the service of the Lord.

Shakabda - Year since the birthday of Maharaj Saka (79 B.C.)

Shastras - Revealed scriptures of Vedic literatures.

Shalagram Shila - Specific Archa of Vishnu (See Archa)

Sikshastak - Eight stanzas composed by Lord Chaitanya.

Suddha satwa - Purified state of the soul freed from matter.

Sudra - Person in the mode of ignorance the labourer class.

Sruti - Direction of the Vedas directly.

Sudarshan Chakra - The weapon - wheel used by Lord Krishna.

Swarupa - Original spiritual Form.

T

Tamas - Darkness or ignorance of undeveloped mind.

Tatwa - Substance.

Taraka Brahman - Transcendence that delivers the soul.

Tirtha - Holy place or the saint able to deliver a fallen soul.

U

Uttamadhikari - Advanced devotee of the Lord.

V

Vaishya - The merchantile class in the mode of passion and ignorance.

Vasudeva - Perfect spiritual being free from matter.

Vishnu Tatwa - Status of Godhead.

Varnas - Castes or section in terms of qualification and occupation.

Vaishnaras - The devotees of the Lord.

Y

Yoga - That which connects link with the Supreme.

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