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Gada – a club.
Gadadhari – the Supreme Lord, carrier of the club.
Gajendra – the king of the elephants. He was saved from a crocodile by Lord Visnu and awarded liberation.
Gandhari – the saintly, faithful wife of King Dhrtarastra and the mother of one hundred sons.
Gandharvas – demigod singers and musicians.

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Ganesa – the demigod in charge of material opulence and freedom from misfortune. He is a son of Lord Siva and the scribe who wrot e down the [Mahabharata].
Ganga – the Ganges River.
Ganja – marijuana.
Garbhadhana-samskara – the Vedic ceremony of purification to be performed by parents before conceiving a child.
Garbhodaka Ocean – the body of water that fills the bottom part of each material universe.
Garbhodakasayi Visnu – the second Visnu epansion, who enters each universe and from whose navel grows a lotus upon which Lord Bra hma appears. Brahma then creates the diverse material manifestations.
Garga Muni – the family priest for the Yadu dynasty.
Garuda – Lord Visnu's eternal carrier, a great devotee in a birdlike form.
Garuda Purana – one of the eighteen [Puranas,] or Vedic historical scriptures.
Gaudiya-Madhva-sampradaya – the Vaisnava disciplic succession of bona fide spiritual masters coming through Srila Madhvacarya and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; the followers in that tradition.
Gaudiya Vaisnavas – devotees of Lord Krsna coming in disciplic succession from Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Gaudiya Vaisnava-sampradaya – the line of spiritual masters descending from Lord Caitanya.
Gauracandra – the "golden moon," Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Gaurakisora dasa Babaji – the disciple of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura who was the spiritual master of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.
Gaurakrsna – [See:] Caitanya Mahaprabhu
Gaura-purnima – the appearance day of Lord Caitanya.
Gaurasundara-the beautiful, golden – compleioned Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Gayatri mantra – the Vedic prayer chanted silently by [brahmanas] at sunrise, noon and sunset.
Ghee – clarified butter.
Giridhari – the Supreme Lord, Krsna, the lifter of Govardhana Hill.
Girisa – [See:] Siva
Go-dasa – a servant of the senses.
Godhead – the ultimate source of all energies.
Gokula – [See:] Vrndavana
Gokulesvara – Lord Krsna, the master of Gokula.
Goloka Vrndavana (Krsnaloka) – the highest spiritual planet, Lord Krsna's personal abode.
Gopa – jati – [See: Vaisyas]
Gopala – the Supreme Lord, Krsna, who protects the cows.
Gopala Bhatta Gosvami – one of the six Vaisnava spiritual masters who directly followed Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and systematically presented His teachings.
Gopi-jana-vallabha – the Supreme Lord, Krsna, who is dear to the [gopis].
Gopis – Krsna's cowherd girl friends, who are His most surrendered and confidential devotees.
Gopisvara – [See:] Siva
Gosvami – a controller of the mind and senses; the title of one in the renounced, or [sannyasa,] order.
Govardhana – a large hill dear to Lord Krsna and His devotees. Krsna held it up for seven days to protect His devotees in Vrndavan a from a devastating storm sent by Indra.
Govinda – the Supreme Lord, Krsna, who gives pleasure to the land, the senses, and the cows.
Govinda dasa Thakura – an author of important Vaisnava songs.
Gramya-karma – mundane activities.
Grhamedhi – a materialistic householder.
Grha-vrata – one attached to the material duties of family life.
Grhastha – regulated householder life; the second order of Vedic spiritual life; one in that order.
Gujarat – a province in northwestern India.
Guna-avataras – Visnu, Brahma and Siva, the presiding deities of the three modes of nature.
Gunas – the three modes, or qualities, of material nature: goodness, passion and ignorance.
Guru – a spiritual master.
Guru-daksina – a disciple's gift to his spiritual master, collected by begging and given as a token of gratitude.
Guru-kula – a school of Vedic learning. Boys begin at age five and live as celibate students, guided by a spiritual master.
Guru-puja – worship of the spiritual master.

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