kali yuga: Sanskrit word meaning the dark or “iron” age in the Vedic cosmological system of cyclical time.

kanda (Sanskrit word meaning “bulb”): a branch.

kapidhwaja: Sanskrit word derived from kapi, “son of air” (i.e. Hanuman), and dhwaja, “banner”. On Krishna and Arjuna’s chariot was a banner bearing the emblem of Hanuman.

Kapila: name of great sage, a perfect being who was realized from the moment of his birth.

karana: Sanskrit word meaning the twelve instruments or organs—five organs of action (vocal chords, hands, feet, rectum, and sex organ), five organs of perception (touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing), and the mind and intellect.   

karma(n): Sanskrit word meaning action; duty; the law of cause and effect.

karma-phala: Sanskrit word meaning fruition of actions.

karma sannyasa: Sanskrit word meaning to renounce attachment to action—to remain calmly in the fontanel and compassionately detached while doing any kind of work and perceiving that the soul is the real doer in your body.

karma yoga: Sanskrit word meaning the yoga of action—to offer every action as worship to God.

karmendriyas (Sanskrit word meaning “action organs”): the five organs of action: vocal chords, feet, hands, rectum, and genitals.