The Spiritual World
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GLOSSARY
| - bhakta | Devotee of Krishna. Spiritualist of the highest order. Pure human. |
- Brahma |
First being created in the universe and the highest of all. Demiurge. He receives the power from the Supreme Lord to create all creation in the universe, which he is the principal regent. |
- Cetena |
Element of knowledge. |
- Deva |
Virtuous being, God's servant. Inhabitant of the heavenly planets. |
- Dharma |
The duties of evrybody according to his social status, the surrender to God. |
- Gopis |
Krishna companions in Vrndavana, the holy city of India. They embody the highest devotion to the Lord because of their pure love for him. |
- Govinda |
Name of Krishna, Krishna plenary emanation of prevailing on one of the Vaikuntha planets. |
- Gunas |
The attributs of material nature (virtue, passion and ignorance) that influence people and things. |
- impersonalist |
One who sees God through its energies exclusively, and realizes the Lord as his spiritual formless aspect. |
- Jnana |
The philosophical quest for absolute truth. spiritual knowledge. |
- jnaani |
He who possesses spiritual knowledge. |
- Kaivalya |
internal power, spiritual, through which the embodied and conditioned soul awakens to realize its true nature of spiritual soul, part of God. |
- Karmi |
Materialist seeking only the pleasure of the senses. |
- Lapis lazuli |
Gemstone blue. |
- Laksmi |
Goddess of fortune. |
- Maha-tattva |
Principle of material creation. The aggregate of the 24 elements of material nature. |
- Maya |
What does not exist, the illusion. |
- Sama-veda |
exquisite melody sung in honor of Krishna in the spiritual world. |
- Sourabhis |
Cows of the spiritual world. |
- Vaikuntha |
The spiritual realm, where everything is full of eternity, knowledge and bliss. |
- Vaikunthalokas |
Vaikuntha planets: Eternal planets located in the kingdom of God, in the spiritual world. Krishna reigns over each in form of Narayana. |
- Virata-rupa |
Other name of Visva-rupa. |
- Visva-guru |
See also virata-rupa rupa-or visva |
- Visva-rupa |
The universal form of the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna in the material universe. It consists of the entire cosmic manifestation. |
- Vishnu |
Means "The support of all that is." God, the Supreme Person, has four arms. |
- Yoga-maya |
Krishna internal power that mask him, making him inaccessible to common human. Also, power by which the Lord is partially revealed to his pure devotee, veiling his divine nature. |