Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna,
Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama Rama, Hare Hare
ISKCON - the International Society for Krishna Consciousness founded by Srila Prabhupada.
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Japa - personal chanting of names of God, usually while counting on beads.
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Jiva - living entity, eternal individual soul.
Kali-yuga - in the endlessly repeated cycle of four cosmic ages, the present and worst age, the Age of Quarrel and Hypocrisy, of which 5,000 of 432,000 years have passed.
Karma - material action; its inevitable reaction., or the law by which such action and reaction are governed.
Karmi - one engaged in fruititive activities (karma); a materialist
Kirtana - congregational singing of names of God, usually accompanied by cymbals (karatalas) and drums (mrdangas).
Krishna - the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His original transcendental form (see "Godhead").
Lila - a trancendental pastime or activity performed by the Supreme Lord.
Loka - planet.
Mababharata - the epic history of ancient India, a history in which the, Bhagavad-gita appears as the most important and well known? text.
Maha-Mantra - the "great mantra":
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna,
Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama Rama, Hare Hare
Mahatma - "great soul", a liberated person who is fully Krsna conscious
Mahat-tattwa - the total material energy
Mantra - a trancendental sound or Vedic hymn
Manu - the demigod who is the father of mankind
Maya - illusion; the energy of the Supreme Lord that deludes living entities into forgetting their spiritual nature and forgetting God.
Mayavadi - one who's regards the Absolute Truth as ultimately impersonal or void.
Modes of nature - the three qualities (goodness, passion, and ignorance) that hold sway over all action in the material world.
Mukti - liberation from material existence
Narayana - the four-armed form of Lord Krsna who presides over the Vaikuntha planets; Lord Visnu
Nityananda - the incarnation of Lord Balaram who appeared with Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Om (Omkara) - the sacred syllable that represents the Absolute Truth.
Paramatma - the Supersoul; the localized aspect of the Supreme Lord; the indwelling witness and guide who accompanies every conditioned soul.
Parampara - disciplic succession. ISKCON Parampara
Prasadam - sanctified vegetarian food/ flowers/ incense offered in devotion to Lord Krsna(literally "mercy").
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Prema pure, spontaneous devotional love of God.
Purana - history told in story form.
Puranas - Vedic histories.
(Srimati ) Radharani - Lord Krishna's consort and pleasure potency.
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Rathayatra - "chariot festival": a festival in which the form of Krishna is borne in procession on a large canopy topped chariot or float, especially the festival originating in Puri India, for Jagannatha (Lord Krishna, "the Lord of the universe").
Sach-chid-ananda - eternal, blissful and full of knowledge.
Sadhu - a saint or Krsna conscious person
Samsara - the cycle of repeated birth and death in the material world
Sanatana-Dharma - the eternal religion; devotional service
Sannyasa - the renounced fife of a man who relinquishes home to dedicate himself fully to the Supreme.
Shastra - revealed scriptures
Shiva - the demigod who supervises the material mode of ignorance and who annihilates the material cosmos.
Sri - an honorific meaning "opulent" or "beatiful" (similarly. Srila, Srimad, Sriman, Srimati).
Srila Prabhupada - His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Prabhupada's Biography.
Srimad Bhagavatam - the most important of the eighteen Puranas, which tells of the nature and pastimes of Lord Krishna and His devotees. The Bhagavat Purana, written by Vyasadeva specifically to give a deep understanding of Lord Sri Krsna.
Sudra - a member of the laborer class of men
Supersoul - the form of the Lord who resides in every heart along with the individual soul.
Upanisads - the 108 essential philosophical treatises that appear Vedas.
Varnasrama - the Vedic social system. It organizes society into four occupational and four spiritual divisions (varnas and asramas). The members of the four varnas are the brahmanas (intellectuals and priests), the ksatriyas (administrators and soldiers), the vaisyas (farmers and businessmen), and the sudras (labourers and artisans). The members of the four asramas are the brahmacris (celibate students), grhasthas (married people), varnaprasthas (retired people), and sannyasis (renunciants).
Vrndavana - the transcendental abode of Lord Krishna, mirrored on earth as the town in India where Krishna appeared five thousand years ago.
Vaisnava - a devotee of the Supreme Lord (from the, word Visnu).
Vedas - the hymns of knowledge revealed by the Lord Himself at the beginning of creation.
Vedic - pertaining to the culture in which the Vedas and related scriptures guide all aspects of human life.
Visnu - any form of the Personality of Godhead (see "Godhead"); the forms the Lord manifests to create and sustain the material world.
Yugya (Yajna) - sacrifice.
Yamaraja - the demigod who punishes the sinful after death.
Yoga - spiritual discipline to link oneself with the Supreme.
Yuga - "age" there are four yugas, which cycle perpetually: Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga and Kali-yuga. As the ages proceed from Satya to Kali, religion and the good qualities of men gradually decline.
