Tour of Navadvip

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Badarayan--See VYASADEVA.
Bahiranga-sakti-: the material, external potency of the Supreme Lord.

Baladeva--: (bala - strength, deva - god) The Supreme original Spiritual master, one who gives strength for advancement in spiritual life. The older brother of Krishna, See JAGANNATHA, BALADEVA, AND SUBHADRA.
Bhagavad-Gita -: the paramount scripture of the Vedic tradition, embodying the teachings of Lord KRISNA to His devotee ARJUNA and expounding devotion to the Supreme Lord as both the principal means and the ultimate end of spiritual perfection.

Bhagavan -: the Supreme Lord, who is the ultimate possessor of all varieties of opulences. The opulent one, the living being who is the fountainhead of all energies. The possessor of six opulences in full - i.e. all strength, all knowledge, all beauty, all wealth, all fame and all renunciation

Bhagavatam, Bhagavata Purana--See SRIMAD-BHAGAVATAM.
Bhajana-kriya--: the practice of devotional service.

bhakta--: a devotee of the Supreme Lord.

bhakti (bhakti-yoga) --: the practice of devotional service to the Supreme Lord. Loving devotional service unto Krsna- the natural, eternal activity of the pure spirit soul.

Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu --: Rupa Gosvami's definitive explanation of devotional service to the Supreme Lord, beginning with the most elementary practices and ending with the ultimate perfection of personal relationships with the Lord.

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati-(1874-1936): the spiritual master of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Bhaktivedanta--: a title meaning "one who has realized that devotional service to the Supreme Lord is the end of all knowledge."

Bhaktivinoda Thakura--(1838-1915): a VAISNAVA spiritual master, father of BHAKTISIDDHANTA SARASVATI, who started the movement to spread Krishna consciousness in the West.

Bharata--: a name of ARJUNA meaning "descendant of Bharata Maharaja."

Bharata Maharaja-: a great devotee king under whose rule India was named BHARATA-VARSA.

Bharata-varsa--: the traditional, scriptural name for India.

Bhava-: Attachment, the preliminary stage of love of God.

Bhisma--: the most powerful warrior in the Battle of KURUKSETRA; he is recognized as one of the chief authorities on devotional service to the Lord.

Bhukti-kamis-: persons interested only in material happiness.

Brahma--: the first created living being in the universe; he creates the multiplicity of life-forms, planets, and living conditions under the supervision of the Supreme Lord. the presiding deity of this universe.

brahmacari, brahmachari--: one who has taken the vow of Brahmacarya, a celibate student under the care of a spiritual master. See ASRAMAS.

Brahmacarya-: the vow of strict abstinence from sex indulgence.

brahmajyoti--: the spiritual bodily effulgence of the Supreme Lord which illuminates the spiritual world.

Brahman--: the impersonal, all-pervasive aspect of the Supreme Lord.

Brahmana-: the intelligent class of men, first of the four Vedic social orders. a person wise in Vedic knowledge, fixed in activities in the mode of goodness, and knowledgeable of Brahman, the Absolute Truth; a member of the first Vedic social order. One is brahmana by qualities not by being born into a family of born brahmanas. If one is born in the family of brahmanas and behaves like a sudra, he is understood to be a sudra. Whereas someone born into a family of outcasts who exhibits the qualities of a brahmana should be understood to be a brahmana. See also VARNAS.

brahmanya-- see brahmana
Brahma-pada --: Occupation of the post of Brahma.

Brahma-randhra--: Hole on the topmost part of the skull. By lifting the vital force to the brahmarandhra, a yogi can leave the gross and subtle bodies and reach the transcendental Vaikuntha planets.

Brahma-samhita--: a description of the glories of the Lord, including prayers to the Lord by BRAHMA.

Brhan-naradiya Purana-See PURANAS
Buddha--: a disguised incarnation of the Supreme Lord who preached atheism in order to divert the people of that time from misusing the ritualistic sacrifices of the VEDAS as a license for animal slaughter.

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