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Sri Harinama Cintamani :: Glossary (part 1) |
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| bhajana-kutira | a small cottage used for bhajana or intense devotional meditation. |
| bhajana-siddhi |
the perfection of worship. |
bhakti or
bhakli-yoga | the path of approaching the Supreme Lord Krsna through
ecstatic devotional love and service. |
| bhakti-abhasa | shadow devotion, or bhaki mixed with desires for karma, jnana or yoga. |
Bhakti-rasamrta-
sindhu |
"The Ocean of the Pure Nectar of Devotional Service", an
important Sanskrit work by Srila Rupa Gosvami, one of the
direct disciples of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; it describes the subject matter of rasa in elaborate detail, giving
detailed examples from the scriptures. |
bhauma-vraja-
rasa |
the vraja-rasa available on this material plane in Vrndavana-dhama. |
| bhava |
the performance of spontaneous pure devotional service in
love of Godhead, with the manifestation of ecstatic symptoms. |
| bhava-bhakti |
rendering spontaneous service, which is superior to regulative devotional service. |
The senses (whether they are the "normal" senses or "extra" senses) are really just channels by which information from the external world travels to and is impressed upon the mind. The self, then, perceives or views that information as it appears on the mind.
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| bhava-seva |
commences only after one has surmounted the namaparadhas; in this stage of seva, one has to be free from all offenses. In bhava-seva, mental service is foremost. |
| bhoga |
indulgence in sense enjoyment. |
| bhusuragana |
bhu means the earth, suranga means demigods; the demigods of earth, or first-class brahmanas. |
| bimba |
a red fruit that grows in Vrndavana. |
| brahmacari |
the stage of celibate student life in Vedic society (varnasrama-dharma). |
| brahmajyoti |
the brilliantly shining rays of the Lord's transcendental
body. The goal of the impersonalists. |
| brahman |
the undifferentiated attribute of the Supreme; the effulgence
of Lord Krsna's transcendental form. |
| brahmana |
the priestly intellectual class of Vedic society (varnasramadharma). |
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