SB (1962) Appendix - Glossary
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.