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1nirakar brahm. The formless aspect of God which is established in

2the personal form of God (and all the personal forms of God are

3established in the personality of Krishn).

4paramahans. A yogi or gyani Saint who is fully absorbed in the

5Blissful state of his conscious samadhi.

6prakriti. See maya.

7rasik. See Saint.

8Saint. The one who has visualized and realized God in any form,

9and whose teachings are based on the themes and the guidelines

10of the Gita, Bhagwatam and Upnishads which are our prime

11scriptures. There are three categories of Saints: gyani Saints,

12bhakt Saints, and rasik Saints. (1) Gyani Saints are those who

13have attained the impersonal (nirakar) form of God. They are

14of two kinds: gyani Saint and yogi Saint, (2) bhakt Saints who

15attain the (Personal) Divine love form of God like, Vishnu, Durga,

16Shiv, Ram, Krishn, etc. (3) Those bhakt Saints who attain the

17Divine love form of God like, Ram or Krishn are called rasik

18Saints (ras means the Divine love), but generally speaking the

19rasik word refers to those Saints who have received the vision

20and Divine love of Radha Krishn.

21samadhi. The ecstasy. The quality and the depth of a samadhi depend

22upon the sattvic purity of a devotee.

23sat-chit-anand. Sat means the eternal Divine existence, chit means

24Divine omniscience of God and anand the absolute Bliss of God.

25sattvic. The pious quality of maya.

26yog. It is the eightfold system of very disciplined form of meditation

27which is described in the Yog Darshan of Sage Patanjali. Its aim

28is to neutralize the mind from all kinds of attachments, attractions,

29likings dislikings and loving emotions, and then to enter into