# Bhakti Shatak — source page 62

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<a id="line-1"></a>nirakar brahm. The formless aspect of God which is established in  
<a id="line-2"></a>the personal form of God (and all the personal forms of God are  
<a id="line-3"></a>established in the personality of Krishn).  
<a id="line-4"></a>paramahans. A yogi or gyani Saint who is fully absorbed in the  
<a id="line-5"></a>Blissful state of his conscious samadhi.  
<a id="line-6"></a>prakriti. See maya.  
<a id="line-7"></a>rasik. See Saint.  
<a id="line-8"></a>Saint. The one who has visualized and realized God in any form,  
<a id="line-9"></a>and whose teachings are based on the themes and the guidelines  
<a id="line-10"></a>of the Gita, Bhagwatam and Upnishads which are our prime  
<a id="line-11"></a>scriptures. There are three categories of Saints: gyani Saints,  
<a id="line-12"></a>bhakt Saints, and rasik Saints. (1) Gyani Saints are those who  
<a id="line-13"></a>have attained the impersonal (nirakar) form of God. They are  
<a id="line-14"></a>of two kinds: gyani Saint and yogi Saint, (2) bhakt Saints who  
<a id="line-15"></a>attain the (Personal) Divine love form of God like, Vishnu, Durga,  
<a id="line-16"></a>Shiv, Ram, Krishn, etc. (3) Those bhakt Saints who attain the  
<a id="line-17"></a>Divine love form of God like, Ram or Krishn are called rasik  
<a id="line-18"></a>Saints (ras means the Divine love), but generally speaking the  
<a id="line-19"></a>rasik word refers to those Saints who have received the vision  
<a id="line-20"></a>and Divine love of Radha Krishn.  
<a id="line-21"></a>samadhi. The ecstasy. The quality and the depth of a samadhi depend  
<a id="line-22"></a>upon the sattvic purity of a devotee.  
<a id="line-23"></a>sat-chit-anand. Sat means the eternal Divine existence, chit means  
<a id="line-24"></a>Divine omniscience of God and anand the absolute Bliss of God.  
<a id="line-25"></a>sattvic. The pious quality of maya.  
<a id="line-26"></a>yog. It is the eightfold system of very disciplined form of meditation  
<a id="line-27"></a>which is described in the Yog Darshan of Sage Patanjali. Its aim  
<a id="line-28"></a>is to neutralize the mind from all kinds of attachments, attractions,  
<a id="line-29"></a>likings dislikings and loving emotions, and then to enter into

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