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Sri Harinama Cintamani :: Glossary (part 2) |
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| khaja |
a sweet made from sesame paste and sugar candy. |
| kirtana |
the public, loud chanting of the maha-mantra by an assembly of devotees, usually accompanied by musical instruments and ecstatic dancing; audibly chanting the maha-mantra on the beads; one of the nine principal limbs of devotional service. |
| krsna-bhakti |
the spiritual path that concentrates upon love of and service
to Krsna as its chief form of practice. |
| Krsna Caitanya |
see Caitanya. |
| krsna-prema |
pure love of Krsna, the object of the path of krsna-bhakti. |
| ksatriya |
the martial-spirited administrative class of Vedic society
(varnasrama-dharma); one who protects society from danger. |
| kuh-guru |
a traditional family guru. |
| kunda |
a bathing place or ghat; Radha-kunda and Syama-kunda are
two famous kundas in Vrndavana. |
| lakh |
one hundred thousand (100,000 or 1,00,000). |
Laksmi-
Narayana |
Laksmi, the goddess of fortune and wealth, is the eternal
maidservant of Lord Narayana, who is the presiding Deity
in the Vaikuntha planets; They are worshipped in opulence
in the mood of awe and reverence. | |
You may not be content to watch the stream of mindstuff flow freely, but instead may try to control it, redirect it, or stop it completely. But the very fact that you can try to redirect or control your mind, combined with the fact that it is so difficult to succeed in the endeavor, further shows that you, the self, are not the mind or stream of mindstuff.
| lila |
the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Lord. |
| lila-smarana |
to practice the remembrance of Krsna's pastimes; generally,
these will be pastimes that facilitate meditation upon the
holy name; the asta-kaliya-lila pastime meditations. |
| lobha |
intense greed to follow in the footsteps of an eternal associate of the Supreme Lord who is a permanent resident of Vraja-dharma, and one hundred percent steeped in the mood
of ragatmika-bhakti. |
| Lord Caitanya |
see Caitanya |
madhurya or
madhura-rasa |
the spiritual mellow of conjugal love. |
madhyama-
adhikari |
a devotee in the middle stage of spiritual advancement. |
| mahabhava |
the highest expression of ecstatic love for Krsna, possible
only in Srimati Radharani. |
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