Vaibhava-prakasha — Krishnas känslomässiga uppenbarelseformer.
Vaibhava-vilasa — Krishnas tjugofyra främsta fyrarmade uppenbarelseformer.
Vaikuntha — den andliga rymden där ingen oro finns.
Vaishnava — en hängiven till Herren Vishnu [Krishna]
Vaishnava-aparadha — en förseelse vid en vaishnavas lotusfötter.
Vaishya — medlem av köpmanna- och jordbruksklassen, enligt det vediska samhällets indelning i fyra sociala grupper (varna).
Vanaprastha — tillbakadraget liv, då man reser till heliga platser för att förbereda sig för försakelsens livsordning (sannyas).
Vandana — den hängivna metoden att frambära böner till Herren.
Varna — de fyra sammhällsindelningarna i enlighet med arten av ens arbete och benägenhet i naturens kvaliteter.
Varna-sankara — oönskade barn, som avlats genom olovligt könsumgänge.
Varnashrama-dharma — systemet bestående av fyra sammhällsklasser och fyra andliga livsordningar (se ashram och varna).
Vasudeva — Herren Krishnas far; också ett namn på Krishna (Vasudevs son)
Vatsalya-rasa — ett förhållande med Krishna i föräldrakärlek.
Veda — de ursprungliga uppenbarelseskrifterna, först talade av Herren Själv (Rig-veda, Yajur-veda, Sama-veda och Atharva-veda).
Vedanta-sutra — filosofisk avhandling författad av Vyasadev, bestående av korta aforismer som innefattar Upanishadernas väsentliga innebörd.
Vibhava — det som ökar ens kärlek till Krishna.
Vibhinnamsa — de levande varelserna, som alla har begränsad kraft och makt.
Vibhuti — Herrens majestätiska attribut; särskild förmån som den Högste Herren ger en levande varelse.
Vidhi-bhakti (vaidhi-bhakti) — reglerad hängiven tjänst.
Vidya — kunskap.
Vikarma — arbete som utförs i strid mot skrifternas anvisningar; syndfull handling.
Virat-rupa eller Vishva-rupa — den Högste Herrens världsomfattande skepnad.
Vishnu — Krishnas första uppenbarelseform, som skapar och vidmakthåller den materiella världen.
Vishnu-bhakta — en Krishnamedvetna gudshängiven.
Vishnu-tattva — Krishnas fullständiga uppenbarelseformer, vilka alla är Gud, var och en för sig; en fullständig aspekt eller delaspekt av Krishna.
Vishrambha — kärleksfull tillit till Herren fri från alla vördnadsaspekter.
Vishvambara — den som upprätthåller hela universum samt styr och leder alla levande varelser.
Vivartavada — läran om förvandling.
Vrajavasi — Vrindavans invånare.
Vrindavana — Herren Krishnas transcendentala boning. Kallas även Goloka Vrindavan eller Krishnaloka. Staden Vrindavan i distriktet Mathura i Uttar Pradesh, Indien, där Krishna uppenbarade Sig för 5 000 år sedan, är en manifestation på denna jord av Krishnas boning i den andliga världen..
Vyasadeva — en inkarnation av Krishna som framträder i slutet av Dvapara-yuga, och som har till uppgift att sammanställa Veda inklusive Puranas, Mahabharat och Vedanta-sutra.

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Vacala — a person who can speak according to Vedic authority.
Vahana mandapa — where the mount of the Deity (vahana) such as Lord Visnu carrier's Garuda or Siva's bull Nandi is located.
Vaibhasikas — a class of philosophers, akin to the Buddhists, who existed when Lord Krsna spoke Bhagavad-gita and who accept that life is a product of a mature combination of material elements.
Vaidarbhi — the woman who was formerly a man but took birth as a woman in his next life because of too much attachment to woman. Darbha means kusa grass. In fruitive activities, or karma-kandiya ceremonies, one requires kusa grass. Thus vaidarbhi refers to one who takes birth in a family of karma-kandiya understanding. However, if by karma-kanda activities one by chance comes in contact with a devotee, as Vaidarbhi did when she married Malayadhvaja, his life becomes successful. He then pursues the devotional service of the Lord. The conditioned soul becomes liberated simply by following the instructions of the bona fide spiritual master.
Vaidhi-bhakti — see: Vidhi-bhakti.
Vaidurya-mani — a spiritual gem that can display different colors.
Vali — name of a monkey who was the son of Indra, the King of heaven, and elder brother of Sugriva, the monkey king in the epic Ramayana.
Vaijayanti — a garland containing flowers of five colors and reaching down to the knees. It is worn by Lord Krsna.
Vaikali-bhoga — food offered to the Deity at the end of the day.
Vaikuntha lokas — variegated spiritual planets situated in the brahmajyoti.
Vaikuntha-jagat — see: Vaikuntha lokas above.
Vaikuntha-natha — the Lord of Vaikuntha.
Vaikuntha — the eternal planets of the spiritual world, the abode of Lord Narayana, which lies beyond the coverings of the material universe. Literally, "the place with no anxiety".
Vaisya (Vaishyas) — member of the mercantile or agricultural class, according to the system of four social orders and four spiritual orders.
Vairagi — a person in the renounced order of life.
Vairagya — renunciation; detachment from matter and engagement of the mind in spirit.
Vaisesika — see: Kanada -- the propounder of Vaisesika philosophy, which states that atoms are the original cause of the creation.
Vaisnava-aparadha — an offense to the devotee of Krsna.
Vaisnava-dharma — the eternal principle of service to the Supreme Lord, Visnu.
Vaisnava — a devotee of the Supreme Lord, Visnu, or Krsna.
Vaisnavism — the science of bhakti-yoga, devotional service to Visnu, or Krsna.
Vaivasvata Manu — the current Manu, the seventh of fourteen.
Vaiyasaki — see: Sukadeva Gosvami.
Vajradatta — the son of King Bhagadatta. He fought with Arjuna for the sacrificial horse.
Vajra — the great grandson of Lord Sri Krsna. He became the king of Mathura when Lord Krsna left this world.
Valmiki — the author of the original Ramayana -- the original epic history about Lord Ramacandra and Sita, written by Valmiki Muni.
Vamadeva — a great sage who was a competitor of Gautama Rsi's. He was the secretary of Dasaratha Maharaja, the father of Lord Rama.
Vamanadeva — the Supreme Lord's fifth incarnation as a dwarf brahmana, to whom Bali Maharaja surrendered everything. See also: Trivikrama.
Vama — left-wing group of gopis, who are eager to be jealously angered.
Vanaprastha — retired family life, in which one quits home to cultivate renunciation and travels from holy place to holy place in preparation for the renounced order of life; the third order of Vedic spiritual life.
Vana — forest.
Vandana — the devotional process of offering prayers to the Lord.
Vani — the words of the spiritual master, which exist eternally.
Vanik — a merchant.
Vapu — the physical presence of the spiritual master.
Varadaraja — Deity of Lord Visnu worshiped Kancipuram.
Varanasi — one of the oldest and most famous places of pilgrimage in India; also known as Kasi and Benares. It is a center of impersonalistic, or Mayavada, philosophy. Here is where Lord Caitanya defeated Prakasananda Sarasvati, the leading Mayavadi of his day.
Varanavata — the place where Duryodhana built the palace of lac. (Adi Parva in Mahabharata)
Varaha Purana — one of the eighteen Puranas. It deals with the transcendental pastimes of the Lord's boar incarnation.
Varaha — the gigantic boar incarnation of Lord Krsna.
Varna-sankara — children conceived without regard for Vedic religious principles; thus, unwanted population.
Varnasrama-dharma — the system of four social and four spiritual orders established in the Vedic scriptures and discussed by Sri Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita.
Varna — one of the four Vedic social-occupational divisions of society, distinguished by quality of work and situation with regard to the modes of nature (gunas). See also: Brahmana, Ksatriya, Vaisya, Sudra.
Vartma-pradarsaka-guru — the one who first gives information about spiritual life.
Varuna — the demigod in charge of the oceans.
Vasana — a wish or desire.
Vasistha — a great sage who was a rival of Visvamitra Muni's. He was the family priest of Maharaja Dasaratha, the father of Lord Ramacandra.
Vastra-harana-lila — Krishnas pastime of stealing the gopis clothes.
Vastu-gata — the stage of being completely uncontaminated by the material body and mind.
Vatsalya-rasa — the relationship with Krsna as His parent.
Vatsalya-rati — see: Vatsalya-rasa above.
Vasudeva-parayana — one whose desire is fixed on the Supreme Lord.
Vasudeva — the father of Krsna, and the half-brother of Nanda Maharaja; the state of pure goodness, which transcends the material modes of nature and in which one can understand the Supreme Lord.
Vasudeva — the Supreme Lord, Krsna, son of Vasudeva, and proprietor of everything, material and spiritual.
Vasundhara — a name for mother earth meaning "she who has very fertile soil and unlimited wealth.
Vasusena — a name for Karna during his younger years.
Vatsasura — a demon who came to Vrndavana in the form of a calf to kill Krsna but who was instead killed by Him.
Vayu — air, one of the three major elements of the gross body; the demigod in charge of the wind. He was the father of Bhima and Hanuman.
Veda-caksuh — literally, seeing through the eyes of the Vedas.
Veda-vada-rata — one who gives his own explanation of the Vedas a smarta; fruitive workers who become entangled in material activities disguised as spiritual activities.
Vedasraya-nastikya-vada — agnosticism under the shelter of Vedic culture.
Vedanta-darsana — the philosophy of Srila Vyasadeva, which culminates in bhakti-yoga.
Vedanta-sutra (Brahma-sutra) — Srila Vyasadeva's conclusive summary of Vedic philosophical knowledge, written in brief codes. The philosophy of the Absolute Truth, which finds implicit expression in the Vedas and the Upanisads, was put into a systematic and more explicit form in the Vedanta-sutra. All apparent contradictory statements of the vast literature of the Vedas are resolved by the great Vyasa in this work. In this work there are four divisions 1) reconciliation of all scriptures; 2) the consistent reconciliation of apparently conflicting hymns; 3) the means or process of attaining the goal (spiritual realization); and 4) the object (or desired fruit) achieved by the spiritual process. The Vedanta-sutra establishes that Godhead exists, that devotion is the means of realizing transcendental love for Godhead, and that this love is the final object of man's endeavors. This book is the textbook of all theistic philosophy, and, as such, many commentators have elaborated on the significance of its conclusions.
Vedanta — the conclusion of Vedic philosophy; the philosophy of the Vedanta-sutra of Srila Vyasadeva, containing a conclusive summary of Vedic philosophical knowledge and showing Krsna as the goal.
Vedanti — a person who knows Vedanta, that is, who perfectly knows Krsna.
Vedas — the original Veda was divided into four by Srila Vyasadeva. The four original Vedic scriptures, Samhitas (Rg, Sama, Atharva and Yajur) and the 108 Upanisads, Mahabharata, Vedanta-sutra, etc. The system of eternal wisdom compiled by Srila Vyasadeva, the literary incarnation of the Supreme Lord, for the gradual upliftment of all mankind from the state of bondage to the state of liberation. The word veda literally means "knowledge", and thus in a wider sense it refers to the whole body of Indian Sanskrit religious literature that is in harmony with the philosophical conclusions found in the original four Vedic Samhitas and Upanisads. The message of the transcendental realm that has come down to this phenomenal world through the medium of sound is known as the Veda. Being the very words of Godhead Himself, the Vedas have existed from eternity. Lord Krsna originally revealed the Vedas to Brahma, the first soul to appear in the realm of physical nature, and by him they were subsequently made available to other souls through the channel of spiritual disciplic succession.
Vedic culture — life-style based on the tenets of the four original scriptures of India, the Vedas.
Vedic — pertaining to a culture in which all aspects of human life are under the guidance of the Vedas.
Vena — the demoniac son of King Anga and father of King Prthu.
Venkatesvara — Deity of Lord Visnu worshiped at Tirupati.
Vidyanagara — at the time of cosmic desolution, Lord Matsya preserves the Vedic wisdom.
Vibhatsu — one of the ten names of Arjuna.
Vibhava — the causes or bases for relishing transcendental mellows.
Vibhisana — a grandson of Pulastya Muni and the pious brother of Ravana. He was a staunch devotee of Lord Rama, who offered him the kingdom of Sri Lanka for four yugas. He is one of eight personalities who lives for more than one cycle of four yugas.
Vibhinnamsa — the separated expansions of the Supreme Lord, the minute living entities, who are part and parcel of Krsna.
Vibhu-atma — the Supersoul.
Vibhuti — a secondary incarnation indirectly empowered by the Supreme Lord; opulence by which Krsna controls the entire material manifestation.
Vidyanagara — at the time od cosmic desolution, Lord Matsya preserves the Vedic wisdom.
Vidagdha-madhava — a seven-act play written by Srila Rupa Gosvami describing the pastimes of Sri Krsna in Vrndavana.
Vidagdha — one who is expert in the art of attracting women.
Vidarbha — an ancient province of old India. Rukmini, the wife of Lord Krsna, was the daughter of the King of this province.
Vidarbha-rajasimha — the best of persons who are expert in fruitive activities.
Viddha-bhakti — mixed devotional service.
Videharaja Nimi — a devotee king, ruler of Videha.
Videha — the kingdom of Mithila in India ruled by King Nimi.
Vidhi-bhakti — devotional service under scheduled regulations.
Vidhi-marga — see vidhi-bhakti above
Vidura-vigata — see: Candala.
Vidura — the son of Vyasadeva by a maidservant of Ambalika and the half brother of Dhrtarastra. He was an incarnation of the great devotee mahajana, Yamaraja, and an uncle of the Pandavas. A great devotee of Krsna who inquired and heard from Maitreya Muni, as narrated in Srimad-Bhagavatam. He was cursed to become a Sudra by Mandavya Muni. He was constantly trying to restrain Dhrtarastra from mistreating the Pandavas. In the end when Dhrtarastra lost everything Vidura was able to deliver his brother to the path of self-realization.
Vidyadharas — a race of celestial beings who are attendants of Lord Siva and who possess material mystic knowledge.
Vidyapati — an author of Vaisnava poetry who was particularly admired by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Vidya — knowledge.
Vihara — Buddhist monastery
Vijara — not subjected to the miseries of old age.
Vijatiya — one who is outside devotional service.
Vijaya-dasami — the celebration of the conquest of Lanka by Lord Ramacandra.
Vijayadhvaja Tirtha — a Vaisnava spiritual master in the line of Madhvacarya. He was a commentator on Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Vijighatsa — free from desire for material enjoyment.
Vijita-sad-guna — one who has conquered the six material qualities.
Vijitasva — the eldest son of King Prthu (also known as Antardhana).
Vijnanam — specific knowledge of spirit soul, his constitutional position and his relationship with the Supreme Soul.
Vijnanamaya — with full knowledge, that is, conscious of the self as different from matter.
Vijnana — the practical realization of spiritual knowledge.
Vikarna — one of the one hundred sons of Dhrtarastra. He was the only one to stand up in defense of Draupadi during the gambling match. He was killed by Bhima during the battle of Kuruksetra. (Drona Parva in Mahabharata)
Vikarma — unauthorized or sinful work, performed against the injunctions of revealed scriptures.
Vilasa-vigrahas — expansions of the Lord who manifest bodily differences.
Vilasa — symptoms manifested in a woman's body when she meets her lover.
Vimanam — the tower over the sanctum of the deity; an airplane.
Vimudhas — foolish rascals.
Vina — a stringed musical instrument.
Vinda — a prince of Avanti. He was the bother of Mitravinda, a queen of
Lord Krsna. He was very envious of Lord Krsna and Arjuna. He was killed along with his brother Anuvinda during the Kuruksetra war. Both brothers were killed by Arjuna.
Vindhyacala — a range of mountains west of the Himalayas. See also:
Agastya Muni — a great sage who authored many Vedic hymns and writings on Ayurvedic medicine. The son of Mitra and Varuna, he was born from a water jar. Once he swallowed the ocean and forced the Vindhya mountain range to prostrate itself before him.
Vipralambha — ecstasy in separation.
Vipralipsa — the cheating propensity.
Vipra — see: Brahmana.
Vira-rasa — chivalry, one of the indirect relationships with Krsna.
Vira-vrata — fully determined.
Virabhadra — the demon created by Lord Siva to destroy the sacrifice of Maharaja Daksa.
Viraraghava Acarya — a Vaisnava spiritual master in the line of Ramanujacarya, and commentator on Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Viraha — transcendental bliss in separation from the Lord.
Viraja River — the river that divides the material world from the spiritual world.
Virakti — detachment.
Virat-purusa — the universal form of the Supreme Lord as the totality of all material manifestations.
Virat-rupa — the universal form of the Supreme Lord. See also: Visva-rupa
Virata — the King of the Matsyas. He unknowingly sheltered the Pandavas during their last year of exile. He took the side of the Pandavas and was killed by Drona during the Kuruksetra war.
Virya — one who has mercy.
Visrama-ghata — After Varaha killed Hiranyaksa, He spoke the Adi-varaha-Purana to mother Bhumi (Earth) while relaxing at Visrama-ghata. Thousands of years He rested here after killing Kamsa and dragging his body to shores of the Yamuna.
Visada — moroseness, a vyabhicari-bhava.
Visaya-taranga — the waves of material existence.
Visaya — the object of worship; an object of material sense gratification.
Visayi — one who is interested only in material sense gratification.
Visrama-ghata — After Varaha killed Hiranyaksa, He spoke the Adi-varaha-Purana to mother Bhumi (Earth) while relaxing at Visrama-ghata. Thousands of years He rested here after killing Kamsa and dragging his body to shores of the Yamuna.
Visarga — the secondary creation by Brahma.
Visistadvaita-vada — the Vaisnava philosophy established by Ramanujacarya's Sri-bhasya commentary on the Vedanta-sutra.
Visnoh smarana — the devotional process of remembering.
Visnu-bhaktas — devotees in Krsna consciousness.
Visnu-bhakti — devotional service to Lord Visnu.
Visnu-dharma — one of the eighteen Puranas, or Vedic historical scriptures.
Visnu-murti — the Deity form of the Lord worshiped in the temple.
Visnu-purana — scripture describing the glories of Lord Visnu.
Visnu-tattva — a primary expansion of Krsna having full status as Godhead.
The term applies to primary expansions of the Supreme Lord.
Visnu-yajna — a sacrifice performed for the satisfaction of Lord Visnu.
Visnudutas — the messengers of Lord Visnu who come to take perfected devotees back to the spiritual world at the time of death, the personal servants of Lord Visnu, they closely resemble If Him in appearance.
Visnuloka — the abode of Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. See also: Vaikuntha
Visnupriya-devi — the second wife of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, whom He left to accept sannyasa, the renounced order of life.
Visnu — the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His four-armed expansion in Vaikuntha; A plenary expansion of the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna. Visnu supervises the maintenance of the created universe, and enters into the material universe before creation. He is worshiped by all the demigods and sages, and described throughout the Vedas as the summum bonum of all knowledge — the Absolute Truth.
Visoka — callous to material distress and happiness.
Visoka — the charioteer of Bhima.
Visrambha — devotional service devoid of a respectful attitude toward the Lord.
Visruta — the son begotten by the Pracetas through Marisa.
Visuddha-sattva — the spiritual platform of pure goodness.
Visva-rupa (virat-rupa) — the universal form of Lord Krsna, as described in the Eleventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita.
Visva-dharma — universal religion.
Visvakarma — the architect of the devas or demigods. He built the city of Indraprastha for the Pandavas at the request of Lord Sri Krsna.
Visvakosa — an ancient Sanskrit dictionary.
Visvambhara — one who maintains the entire universe and who leads all living beings; the name of Lord Caitanya before He entered the renounced order.
Visvamitra — a prominent sage and rival of Vasistha Muni.
Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura — a great acarya in the Caitanya school of Vaisnavism and the most prominent acarya after Narottama dasa Thakura. On the order of his guru he went to Vrndavana and by his life's end he had composed twenty-four valuable books on the science of bhakti. He established the Gokulananda Temple. In his final years he lived at Radha-kunda; he has written commentaries on Srimad-Bhagavatam and Srimad Bhagavad-gita.
Visvasa — a government secretary; confidence.
Visvarupa — brother of Lord Caitanya, he took sanyassa at an early age; the life-breath of Nimai.
Visvavasu — a leader of the Gandharvas, singers in the heavenly planets.
Vitarka — argument, a vyabhicari-bhava.
Vithi — beginning of a drama consisting of only one scene.
Vivaha-yajna — the sacrifice of marriage.
Vivarta-vada — the erroneous concept; propounded by Sankaracarya, that God is no longer complete after He expands His energies for creation; the Mayavadi interpretation of the Vedanta-sutra that the Supreme Lord becomes changed when He expands and that all manifest varieties are unreal.
Vivarta — illusion; also, sorrow and confusion due to nonfulfillment of material desires.
Vivasvan — the name of the present sun-god, to whom Bhagavad-gita was instructed at least 120,400,000 years ago.
Vivimsati — one of the one hundred sons of Dhrtarastra. He was killed by Bhima. (Drona Parva in Mahabharata)
Viyoga — the stage of separation when the mind is fully absorbed in thoughts of Krsna.
Vrajabhumi — see: Vrndavana.
Vraja — the 168-square-mile (84 krosa) area in the district of Mathura where five thousand years ago Lord Krsna displayed His pastimes. It is the principal holy place of pilgrimage for all Vaisnavas. It is said in the sastras that Vraja is the essence and sum total of all holy places. See also: Vrndavana.
Vrajendra-kumara — Krsna, the child of King Nanda.
Vrajendra-nandana — Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja.
Vrajendra — Nanda Maharaja, the foster father of Lord Krsna.
Vrddhaksatra — the father of Jayadratha.
Vrida — shame, a vyabhicari-bhava.
Vrkodara — a name for Bhimasena meaning "he of the voracious appetite."
Vrndavana dasa Thakura — the incarnation of Vedavyasa in Lord Caitanya's pastimes and the author of Caitanya-bhagavata, one of the earliest biographies of Lord Caitanya, in which he especially describes Caitanya Mahaprabhu's early pastimes.
Vrndavana-vihara — the pastimes of Vrndavana.
Vrndavana — Krsna's eternal abode, where He fully manifests His quality of sweetness; the village on this earth in which He enacted His childhood pastimes five thousand years ago; the topmost transcendental abode of the Supreme Lord. It is His personal spiritual abode descended to the earthly plane. It is situated on the Western bank of the river Yamuna. He was present on earth about 5,000 years ago. Also see Vraja.
Vrsasena — the son of Karna. He was considered a Maharathi. He was killed by Arjuna in the presence of his father Karna. (Karna Parva in Mahabharata)
Vrsni — a famous king of the Yadu dynasty. Lord Krsna took birth in his dynasty.
Vrtra — Vrtrasura, a great demon killed by Indra. He was actually the devotee Citraketu, who had been cursed to take a low birth.
Vyabhicari-bhavas — the thirty-three transitory bodily symptoms manifest in ecstatic love.
Vyadhi — disease, a vyabhicari-bhava.
Vyakta — material creation when it is manifested from the total energy of mahat-tattva.
Vyana-vayu — one of the internal bodily airs which is controlled by the astanga-yoga system. The vyana-vayu acts to shrink and expand.
Vyasa-puja — worship of the compiler of the Vedas, Vyasadeva; worship of the bona fide spiritual master as the representative of Vyasadeva on his appearance day.
Vyasadeva (Vyasa) — the literary incarnation of God, and the greatest philosopher of ancient times. The son of Parasara, and the compiler of the original Vedic scriptures, including the eighteen Puranas, Vedanta-sutra, the Mahabharata, and the Upanisads. He played a very important part in guiding the Pandavas during crucial times. He gave the vision of the battle of Kuruksetra to Sanjaya so that he could relate it to Dhrtarastra. He is still living in this world.
Vyasasana — the seat of Vyasa, on which the representative of Vyasadeva sits.
Vyasa — see: Vyasadeva