Sri Harinama Cintamani :: Glossary (part 5)
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Vraja-basi-jana the pure devotees who actually reside in the sacred dhama and render loving service to Sri-Sri Radha and Krsna.
vraja-rasa the spiritual mellow of the residents of Vrndavana.
vraja-sadhana bhajana in the mood of the residents of Vrndavana.
vrata a vow.

The fact that there are at least as many "wealthy" criminals as there are "poor" criminals effectively destroys the materialists' theory that the root cause of crime is poverty and that the solution to the crime problem is to make everybody rich. Obviously, if poverty were the cause of crime, then no wealthy people would commit crimes. Besides, the term "poverty" is relative. A poor American, for example, would be a wealthy Ethiopian.
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Vrndavana the residence of Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, where He sports in eight kinds of pastimes with His intimate devotees; the supreme planet in the Vaikuntha spiritual sky (Goloka Vrndavana); the place on the Earth planet 90 miles southeast of Delhi, India, where Krsna performs His childhood pastimes when He appears here (Gokula).
vyabhicari the thirty-three devotional sentiments manifest by the gopis and Lord Krsna Himself while participating in their pastimes; these churn the ocean of rasa.
vyavadhana a disruption in the mellows of chanting the holy name of the Lord; this disruption is of two kinds: varna-vyavadhan and tattva-vyavadhan (which see).
yavana a fierce, demoniac meat-eater who does not practice Vedic rites.
yoga in general, a spiritual path or practice in which one seeks his relationship and connection with the Lord—yoga means 'union' in Sanskrit; more specifically, contemporary yoga is a spiritual path based upon mental speculation and impersonal meditation in which the goal is to merge into the existence of the Lord, thus committing spiritual suicide.
yogamaya Sri Krsna's svarupa-sakti (which see) or internal spiritual potency.
yogi a practitioner of yoga.
yukta-vairagya renunciation of attachment to material objects, at the same time using every ming in the service of the Lord.
yutha-pravesa the transcendental sentiment of entrance into a group of gopis in one's permanent spiritual identity in Goloka Vrndavana.
yuthesvari one of Lord Krsna's many female gopi group leaders; Srimati Radharani is everyone's favorite yuthesvari—serving Krsna under Her direction is the ultimate spiritual experience.