Brahmā

553 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

• SB 2.5.9 Lord Brahmā said: My dear boy Nārada, being merciful to all (including me) you have asked all these questions because I have been inspired…
• SB 2.5.10 Whatever you have spoken about me is not false because unless and until one is aware of the Personality of Godhead, who is the ultimate…
• SB 2.5.11 I create after the Lord’s creation by His personal effulgence [known as the brahmajyoti], just as when the sun manifests its fire, the…
• SB 2.5.12 I offer my obeisances and meditate upon Lord Kṛṣṇa [Vāsudeva], the Personality of Godhead, whose invincible potency influences them [the…
• SB 2.5.13 The illusory energy of the Lord cannot take precedence, being ashamed of her position, but those who are bewildered by her always talk…
• SB 2.5.14 The five elementary ingredients of creation, the interaction thereof set up by eternal time, and the intuition or nature of the individual…
• SB 2.5.15 The Vedic literatures are made by and are meant for the Supreme Lord, the demigods are also meant for serving the Lord as parts of His…
• SB 2.5.16 All different types of meditation or mysticism are means for realizing Nārāyaṇa. All austerities are aimed at achieving Nārāyaṇa. Culture…
• SB 2.5.17 Inspired by Him only, I discover what is already created by Him [Nārāyaṇa] under His vision as the all-pervading Supersoul, and I also am…
• SB 2.5.18 The Supreme Lord is pure, spiritual form, transcendental to all material qualities, yet for the sake of the creation of the material world…
• SB 2.5.19 These three modes of material nature, being further manifested as matter, knowledge and activities, put the eternally transcendental…
• SB 2.5.20 O Brāhmaṇa Nārada, the Superseer, the transcendent Lord, is beyond the perception of the material senses of the living entities because of…
• SB 2.5.21 The Lord, who is the controller of all energies, thus creates, by His own potency, eternal time, the fate of all living entities, and…
• SB 2.5.22 After the incarnation of the first puruṣa [Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu], the mahat-tattva, or the principles of material creation, take place,…
• SB 2.5.23 Material activities are caused by the mahat-tattva’s being agitated. At first there is transformation of the modes of goodness and…
• SB 2.5.24 The self-centered materialistic ego, thus being transformed into three features, becomes known as the modes of goodness, passion and…
• SB 2.5.25 From the darkness of false ego, the first of the five elements, namely the sky, is generated. Its subtle form is the quality of sound,…
• SB 2.5.26-29 Because the sky is transformed, the air is generated with the quality of touch, and by previous succession the air is also full of sound…
• SB 2.5.30 From the mode of goodness the mind is generated and becomes manifest, as also the ten demigods controlling the bodily movements. Such…
• SB 2.5.31 By further transformation of the mode of passion, the sense organs like the ear, skin, nose, eyes, tongue, mouth, hands, genitals, legs,…
• SB 2.5.32 O Nārada, best of the transcendentalists, the forms of the body cannot take place as long as these created parts, namely the elements,…
• SB 2.5.33 Thus when all these became assembled by force of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, this universe certainly came into being…
• SB 2.5.34 Thus all the universes remained thousands of aeons within the water [the Causal Ocean], and the Lord of living beings, entering in each of…
• SB 2.5.35 The Lord [Mahā-Viṣṇu], although lying in the Causal Ocean, came out of it, and dividing Himself as Hiraṇyagarbha, He entered into each…
• SB 2.5.36 Great philosophers imagine that the complete planetary systems in the universe are displays of the different upper and lower limbs of the…
• SB 2.5.37 The brāhmaṇas represent His mouth, the kṣatriyas His arms, the vaiśyas His thighs, and the śūdras are born of His legs.
• SB 2.5.38 The lower planetary systems, up to the limit of the earthly stratum, are said to be situated in His legs. The middle planetary systems,…
• SB 2.5.39 From the forefront of the chest up to the neck of the universal form of the Lord are situated the planetary systems named Janaloka and…
• SB 2.5.40-41 My dear son Nārada, know from me that there are seven lower planetary systems out of the total fourteen. The first planetary system, known…
• SB 2.5.42 Others may divide the whole planetary system into three divisions, namely the lower planetary systems on the legs [up to the earth], the…
• SB 2.6.1 Lord Brahmā said: The mouth of the virāṭ-puruṣa [the universal form of the Lord] is the generating center of the voice, and the…
• SB 2.6.2 His two nostrils are the generating centers of our breathing and of all other airs, His smelling powers generate the Aśvinī-kumāra…
• SB 2.6.3 His eyes are the generating centers of all kinds of forms, and they glitter and illuminate. His eyeballs are like the sun and the heavenly…
• SB 2.6.4 His bodily surface is the breeding ground for the active principles of everything and for all kinds of auspicious opportunities. His skin,…
• SB 2.6.5 The hairs on His body are the cause of all vegetation, particularly of those trees which are required as ingredients for sacrifice. The…
• SB 2.6.6 The Lord’s arms are the productive fields for the great demigods and other leaders of the living entities who protect the general mass.
• SB 2.6.7 Thus the forward steps of the Lord are the shelter for the upper, lower and heavenly planets, as well as for all that we need. His lotus…
• SB 2.6.8 From the Lord’s genitals originate water, semen, generatives, rains and the procreators. His genitals are the cause of a pleasure that…
• SB 2.6.9 O Nārada, the evacuating outlet of the universal form of the Lord is the abode of the controlling deity of death, Mitra, and the…
• SB 2.6.10 The back of the Lord is the place for all kinds of frustration and ignorance, as well as for immorality. From His veins flow the great…
• SB 2.6.11 The impersonal feature of the Lord is the abode of great oceans, and His belly is the resting place for the materially annihilated living…
• SB 2.6.12 Also, the consciousness of that great personality is the abode of religious principles — mine, yours, and those of the four bachelors…
• SB 2.6.13-16 Beginning from me [Brahmā] down to you and Bhava [Śiva], all the great sages who were born before you, the demigods, the demons, the…
• SB 2.6.17 The sun illuminates both internally and externally by expanding its radiation; similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by expanding…
• SB 2.6.18 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the controller of immortality and fearlessness, and He is transcendental to death and the fruitive…
• SB 2.6.19 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be known as the supreme reservoir of all material opulences by the one fourth of His energy in…
• SB 2.6.20 The spiritual world, which consists of three fourths of the Lord’s energy, is situated beyond this material world, and it is especially…
• SB 2.6.21 By His energies, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead is thus comprehensively the master in the activities of controlling and in…
• SB 2.6.22 From that Personality of Godhead, all the universal globes and the universal form with all material elements, qualities and senses are…
• SB 2.6.23 When I was born from the abdominal lotus flower of the Lord [Mahā-Viṣṇu], the great person, I had no ingredients for sacrificial…
• SB 2.6.24 For performing sacrificial ceremonies, one requires sacrificial ingredients, such as flowers, leaves and straw, along with the sacrificial…
• SB 2.6.25 Other requirements are utensils, grains, clarified butter, honey, gold, earth, water, the Ṛg Veda, Yajur Veda and Sāma Veda and four…
• SB 2.6.26 Other necessities include invoking the different names of the demigods by specific hymns and vows of recompense, in accordance with the…
• SB 2.6.27 Thus I had to arrange all these necessary ingredients and paraphernalia of sacrifice from the personal bodily parts of the Personality of…
• SB 2.6.28 Thus I created the ingredients and paraphernalia for offering sacrifice out of the parts of the body of the Supreme Lord, the enjoyer of…
• SB 2.6.29 My dear son, thereafter your nine brothers, who are the masters of living creatures, performed the sacrifice with proper rituals to…
• SB 2.6.30 Thereafter, the Manus, the fathers of mankind, the great sages, the forefathers, the learned scholars, the Daityas and mankind performed…
• SB 2.6.31 All the material manifestations of the universes are therefore situated in His powerful material energies, which He accepts…
• SB 2.6.32 By His will, I create, Lord Śiva destroys, and He Himself, in His eternal form as the Personality of Godhead, maintains everything. He is…
• SB 2.6.33 My dear son, whatever you inquired from me I have thus explained unto you, and you must know for certain that whatever there is (either as…
• SB 2.6.34 O Nārada, because I have caught hold of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, with great zeal, whatever I say has…
• SB 2.6.35 Although I am known as the great Brahmā, perfect in the disciplic succession of Vedic wisdom, and although I have undergone all…
• SB 2.6.36 Therefore it is best for me to surrender unto His feet, which alone can deliver one from the miseries of repeated birth and death. Such…
• SB 2.6.37 Since neither Lord Śiva nor you nor I could ascertain the limits of spiritual happiness, how can other demigods know it? And because all…
• SB 2.6.38 Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose incarnations and activities are chanted by us for…
• SB 2.6.39 That supreme original Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, expanding His plenary portion as Mahā-Viṣṇu, the first incarnation, creates…
• SB 2.6.40-41 The Personality of Godhead is pure, being free from all contaminations of material tinges. He is the Absolute Truth and the embodiment of…
• SB 2.6.42 Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu is the first incarnation of the Supreme Lord, and He is the master of eternal time, space, cause and effects, mind,…
• SB 2.6.43-45 I myself [Brahmā], Lord Śiva, Lord Viṣṇu, great generators of living beings like Dakṣa and Prajāpati, yourselves [Nārada and the Kumāras],…
• SB 2.6.46 O Nārada, now I shall state, one after another, the transcendental incarnations of the Lord known as līlā-avatāras. Hearing of their…
• SB 2.7.1 Lord Brahmā said: When the unlimitedly powerful Lord assumed the form of a boar as a pastime, just to lift the planet earth, which was…
• SB 2.7.2 The Prajāpati first begot Suyajña in the womb of his wife Ākūti, and then Suyajña begot demigods, headed by Suyama, in the womb of his…
• SB 2.7.3 The Lord then appeared as the Kapila incarnation, being the son of the prajāpati brāhmaṇa Kardama and his wife, Devahūti, along with nine…
• SB 2.7.4 The great sage Atri prayed for offspring, and the Lord, being satisfied with him, promised to incarnate as Atri’s son, Dattātreya [Datta,…
• SB 2.7.5 To create different planetary systems I had to undergo austerities and penance, and the Lord, thus being pleased with me, incarnated in…
• SB 2.7.6 To exhibit His personal way of austerity and penance, He appeared in twin forms as Nārāyaṇa and Nara in the womb of Mūrti, the wife of…
• SB 2.7.7 Great stalwarts like Lord Śiva can, by their wrathful glances, overcome lust and vanquish him, yet they cannot be free from the…
• SB 2.7.8 Being insulted by sharp words spoken by the co-wife of the king, even in his presence, Prince Dhruva, though only a boy, took to severe…
• SB 2.7.9 Mahārāja Vena went astray from the path of righteousness, and the brāhmaṇas chastised him by the thunderbolt curse. By this King Vena was…
• SB 2.7.10 The Lord appeared as the son of Sudevī, the wife of King Nābhi, and was known as Ṛṣabhadeva. He performed materialistic yoga to…
• SB 2.7.11 The Lord appeared as the Hayagrīva incarnation in a sacrifice performed by me [Brahmā]. He is the personified sacrifices, and the hue of…
• SB 2.7.12 At the end of the millennium, the would-be Vaivasvata Manu, of the name Satyavrata, would see that the Lord in the fish incarnation is the…
• SB 2.7.13 The primeval Lord then assumed the tortoise incarnation in order to serve as a resting place [pivot] for the Mandara Mountain, which was…
• SB 2.7.14 The Personality of Godhead assumed the incarnation of Nṛsiṁhadeva in order to vanquish the great fears of the demigods. He killed the king…
• SB 2.7.15 The leader of the elephants, whose leg was attacked in a river by a crocodile of superior strength, was much aggrieved. Taking a lotus…
• SB 2.7.16 The Personality of Godhead, after hearing the elephant’s plea, felt that the elephant needed His immediate help, for he was in great…
• SB 2.7.17 The Lord, although transcendental to all material modes, still surpassed all the qualities of the sons of Aditi, known as the Ādityas. The…
• SB 2.7.18 Bali Mahārāja, who put on his head the water washed from the lotus feet of the Lord, did not think of anything besides his promise, in…
• SB 2.7.19 O Nārada, you were taught about the science of God and His transcendental loving service by the Personality of Godhead in His incarnation…
• SB 2.7.20 As the incarnation of Manu, the Lord became the descendant of the Manu dynasty and ruled over the miscreant kingly order, subduing them by…
• SB 2.7.21 The Lord in His incarnation of Dhanvantari very quickly cures the diseases of the ever-diseased living entities simply by His fame…
• SB 2.7.22 When the ruling administrators, who are known as the kṣatriyas, turned astray from the path of the Absolute Truth, being desirous to…
• SB 2.7.23 Due to His causeless mercy upon all living entities within the universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with His plenary…
• SB 2.7.24 The Personality of Godhead Rāmacandra, being aggrieved for His distant intimate friend [Sītā], glanced over the city of the enemy Rāvaṇa…
• SB 2.7.25 When Rāvaṇa was engaged in the battle, the trunk of the elephant which carried the King of heaven, Indra, broke in pieces, having collided…
• SB 2.7.26 When the world is overburdened by the fighting strength of kings who have no faith in God, the Lord, just to diminish the distress of the…
• SB 2.7.27 There is no doubt about Lord Kṛṣṇa’s being the Supreme Lord. Otherwise, how was it possible for Him to kill a giant demon like Pūtanā when…
• SB 2.7.28 Then also when the cowherd boys and their animals drank the poisoned water of the river Yamunā, and after the Lord [in His childhood]…
• SB 2.7.29 On the very night of the day of the chastisement of the Kāliya snake, when the inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi were sleeping carefreely, there…
• SB 2.7.30 When the cowherd woman [Kṛṣṇa’s foster mother, Yaśodā] was trying to tie the hands of her son with ropes, she found the rope to be always…
• SB 2.7.31 Lord Kṛṣṇa saved His foster father, Nanda Mahārāja, from the fear of the demigod Varuṇa and released the cowherd boys from the caves of…
• SB 2.7.32 When the cowherd men of Vṛndāvana, under instruction of Kṛṣṇa, stopped offering sacrifice to the heavenly King, Indra, the whole tract of…
• SB 2.7.33 When the Lord was engaged in His pastimes of the rāsa dance in the forest of Vṛndāvana, enlivening the sexual desires of the wives of the…
• SB 2.7.34-35 All demonic personalities like Pralamba, Dhenuka, Baka, Keśī, Ariṣṭa, Cāṇūra, Muṣṭika, Kuvalayāpīḍa elephant, Kaṁsa, Yavana, Narakāsura…
• SB 2.7.36 The Lord Himself in His incarnation as the son of Satyavatī [Vyāsadeva] will consider his compilation of the Vedic literature to be very…
• SB 2.7.37 When the atheists, after being well versed in the Vedic scientific knowledge, annihilate inhabitants of different planets, flying unseen…
• SB 2.7.38 Thereafter, at the end of Kali-yuga, when there exist no topics on the subject of God, even at the residences of so-called saints and…
• SB 2.7.39 At the beginning of creation there are penance, myself [Brahmā] and the Prajāpatis, the great sages who generate; then, during the…
• SB 2.7.40 Who can describe completely the prowess of Viṣṇu? Even the scientist, who might have counted the particles of the atoms of the universe,…
• SB 2.7.41 Neither I nor all the sages born before you know fully the omnipotent Personality of Godhead. So what can others, who are born after us,…
• SB 2.7.42 But anyone who is specifically favored by the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, due to unalloyed surrender unto the service of the…
• SB 2.7.43-45 O Nārada, although the potencies of the Lord are unknowable and immeasurable, still, because we are all surrendered souls, we know how He…
• SB 2.7.46 Surrendered souls, even from groups leading sinful lives, such as women, the laborer class, the mountaineers and the Siberians, or even…
• SB 2.7.47 What is realized as the Absolute Brahman is full of unlimited bliss without grief. That is certainly the ultimate phase of the supreme…
• SB 2.7.48 In such a transcendental state there is no need of artificial control of the mind, mental speculation or meditation, as performed by the…
• SB 2.7.49 The Personality of Godhead is the supreme master of everything auspicious because the results of whatever actions are performed by the…
• SB 2.7.50 My dear son, I have now explained in brief the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is creator of the manifested worlds. Without Him (Hari,…
• SB 2.7.51 O Nārada, this science of God, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, was spoken to me in summary by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it was spoken as…
• SB 2.7.52 Please describe the science of Godhead with determination and in a manner by which it will be quite possible for the human being to…
• SB 2.7.53 The Lord’s activities in association with His different energies should be described, appreciated and heard in accordance with the…
• SB 2.8.1 King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: How did Nārada Muni, whose hearers are as fortunate as those instructed by Lord Brahmā,…
• SB 2.8.2 The King said: I wish to know. Narrations concerning the Lord, who possesses wonderful potencies, are certainly auspicious for living…
• SB 2.8.3 O greatly fortunate Śukadeva Gosvāmī, please continue narrating Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam so that I can place my mind upon the Supreme Soul, Lord…
• SB 2.8.4 Persons who hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam regularly and are always taking the matter very seriously will have the Personality of Godhead Śrī…
• SB 2.8.5 The sound incarnation of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Soul [i.e., Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam], enters into the heart of a self-realized devotee, sits on…
• SB 2.8.6 A pure devotee of the Lord whose heart has once been cleansed by the process of devotional service never relinquishes the lotus feet of…
• SB 2.8.7 O learned brāhmaṇa, the transcendental spirit soul is different from the material body. Does he acquire the body accidentally or by some…
• SB 2.8.8 If the Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whose abdomen the lotus stem sprouted, is possessed of a gigantic body according to His own…
• SB 2.8.9 Brahmā, who was not born of a material source but of the lotus flower coming out of the navel abdomen of the Lord, is the creator of all…
• SB 2.8.10 Please also explain the Personality of Godhead, who lies in every heart as the Supersoul, and as the Lord of all energies, but is…
• SB 2.8.11 O learned brāhmaṇa, it was formerly explained that all the planets of the universe with their respective governors are situated in the…
• SB 2.8.12 Also please explain the duration of time between creation and annihilation, and that of other subsidiary creations, as well as the nature…
• SB 2.8.13 O purest of the brāhmaṇas, please also explain the cause of the different durations of time, both short and long, as well as the beginning…
• SB 2.8.14 Then again, kindly describe how the proportionate accumulation of the reactions resulting from the different modes of material nature act…
• SB 2.8.15 O best of the brāhmaṇas, please also describe how the creation of the globes throughout the universe, the four directions of the heavens,…
• SB 2.8.16 Also, please describe the inner and outer space of the universe by specific divisions, as well as the character and activities of the…
• SB 2.8.17 Please explain all the different ages in the duration of the creation, and also the duration of such ages. Also tell me about the…
• SB 2.8.18 Please also explain what may generally be the common religious affiliations of human society, as well as their specific occupational…
• SB 2.8.19 Kindly explain all about the elementary principles of creation, the number of such elementary principles, their causes, and their…
• SB 2.8.20 What are the opulences of the great mystics, and what is their ultimate realization? How does the perfect mystic become detached from the…
• SB 2.8.21 Please explain unto me how the living beings are generated, how they are maintained, and how they are annihilated. Tell me also of the…
• SB 2.8.22 Please also explain how, merged in the body of the Lord, living beings are created, and how the infidels appear in the world. Also please…
• SB 2.8.23 The independent Personality of Godhead enjoys His pastimes by His internal potency and at the time of annihilation gives them up to the…
• SB 2.8.24 O great sage, representative of the Lord, kindly satisfy my inquisitiveness in all that I have inquired from you and all that I may not…
• SB 2.8.25 O great sage, you are as good as Brahmā, the original living being. Others follow custom only, as followed by the previous philosophical…
• SB 2.8.26 O learned brāhmaṇa, because of my drinking the nectar of the message of the infallible Personality of Godhead, which is flowing down from…
• SB 2.9.25 Lord Brahmā said: O Personality of Godhead, You are situated in every living entity’s heart as the supreme director, and therefore You are…
• SB 2.9.26 In spite of that, my Lord, I am praying to You to kindly fulfill my desire. May I please be informed how, in spite of Your transcendental…
• SB 2.9.27 And [please inform me] how You, by Your own Self, manifest different energies for annihilation, generation, acceptance and maintenance by…
• SB 2.9.28 O master of all energies, please tell me philosophically all about them. You play like a spider that covers itself by its own energy, and…
• SB 2.9.29 Please tell me so that I may be taught in the matter by the instruction of the Personality of Godhead and may thus act instrumentally to…
• SB 2.9.30 O my Lord, the unborn, You have shaken hands with me just as a friend does with a friend [as if equal in position]. I shall be engaged in…
• SB 3.9.1 Lord Brahmā said: O my Lord, today, after many, many years of penance, I have come to know about You. Oh, how unfortunate the embodied…
• SB 3.9.2 The form which I see is eternally freed from material contamination and has advented to show mercy to the devotees as a manifestation of…
• SB 3.9.3 O my Lord, I do not see a form superior to Your present form of eternal bliss and knowledge. In Your impersonal Brahman effulgence in the…
• SB 3.9.4 This present form, or any transcendental form expanded by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is equally auspicious for all the…
• SB 3.9.5 O my Lord, persons who smell the aroma of Your lotus feet, carried by the air of Vedic sound through the holes of the ears, accept Your…
• SB 3.9.6 O my Lord, the people of the world are embarrassed by all material anxieties — they are always afraid. They always try to protect wealth,…
• SB 3.9.7 O my Lord, persons who are bereft of the all-auspicious performance of chanting and hearing about Your transcendental activities are…
• SB 3.9.8 O great actor, my Lord, all these poor creatures are constantly perplexed by hunger, thirst, severe cold, secretion and bile, attacked by…
• SB 3.9.9 O my Lord, the material miseries are without factual existence for the soul. Yet as long as the conditioned soul sees the body as meant…
• SB 3.9.10 Such nondevotees engage their senses in very troublesome and extensive work, and they suffer insomnia at night because their intelligence…
• SB 3.9.11 O my Lord, Your devotees can see You through the ears by the process of bona fide hearing, and thus their hearts become cleansed, and You…
• SB 3.9.12 My Lord, You are not very much satisfied by the worship of the demigods, who arrange for Your worship very pompously, with various…
• SB 3.9.13 But the pious activities of the people, such as performance of Vedic rituals, charity, austere penances and transcendental service,…
• SB 3.9.14 Let me offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Transcendence, who is eternally distinguished by His internal potency. His indistinguishable…
• SB 3.9.15 Let me take shelter of the lotus feet of Him whose incarnations, qualities and activities are mysterious imitations of worldly affairs.…
• SB 3.9.16 Your Lordship is the prime root of the tree of the planetary systems. This tree has grown by first penetrating the material nature in…
• SB 3.9.17 People in general all engage in foolish acts, not in the really beneficial activities enunciated directly by You for their guidance. As…
• SB 3.9.18 Your Lordship, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You who are indefatigable time and the enjoyer of all sacrifices. Although I am…
• SB 3.9.19 O my Lord, by Your own will You appear in the various species of living entities, among animals lower than human beings as well as among…
• SB 3.9.20 My Lord, You accept the pleasure of sleeping in the water of devastation, where there are violent waves, and You enjoy pleasure on the bed…
• SB 3.9.21 O object of my worship, I am born from the house of Your lotus navel for the purpose of creating the universe by Your mercy. All these…
• SB 3.9.22 Let the Supreme Lord be merciful towards me. He is the one friend and soul of all living entities in the world, and He maintains all, for…
• SB 3.9.23 The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is always the benefactor of the surrendered souls. His activities are always enacted through…
• SB 3.9.24 The Lord’s potencies are innumerable. As He lies down in the water of devastation, I am born as the total universal energy from the navel…
• SB 3.9.25 The Lord, who is supreme and is the oldest of all, is unlimitedly merciful. I wish that He may smilingly bestow His benediction upon me by…
• SB 3.12.10 Thereafter Brahmā said: O chief of the demigods, you shall be called by the name Rudra by all people because you have so anxiously cried.
• SB 3.12.11 My dear boy, I have already selected the following places for your residence: the heart, the senses, the air of life, the sky, the air,…
• SB 3.12.12 Lord Brahmā said: My dear boy Rudra, you have eleven other names: Manyu, Manu, Mahinasa, Mahān, Śiva, Ṛtadhvaja, Ugraretā, Bhava, Kāla,…
• SB 3.12.13 O Rudra, you also have eleven wives, called the Rudrāṇīs, and they are as follows: Dhī, Dhṛti, Rasalā, Umā, Niyut, Sarpi, Ilā, Ambikā,…
• SB 3.12.14 My dear boy, you may now accept all the names and places designated for you and your different wives, and since you are now one of the…
• SB 3.12.15 The most powerful Rudra, whose bodily color was blue mixed with red, created many offspring exactly resembling him in features, strength…
• SB 3.12.16 The sons and grandsons generated by Rudra were unlimited in number, and when they assembled together they attempted to devour the entire…
• SB 3.12.17 Brahmā told Rudra: O best among the demigods, there is no need for you to generate living entities of this nature. They have begun to…
• SB 3.12.18 My dear son, you had better situate yourself in penance, which is auspicious for all living entities and which will bring all benediction…
• SB 3.12.19 By penance only can one even approach the Personality of Godhead, who is within the heart of every living entity and at the same time…
• SB 3.13.9 Lord Brahmā said: My dear son, O lord of the world, I am very pleased with you, and I desire all blessings for both you and your wife. You…
• SB 3.13.10 O hero, your example is quite befitting a son in relationship with his father. This sort of adoration for the superior is required. One…
• SB 3.13.11 Since you are my very obedient son, I ask you to beget children qualified like yourself in the womb of your wife. Rule the world in…
• SB 3.13.12 O King, if you can give proper protection to the living beings in the material world, that will be the best service for me. When the…
• SB 3.13.13 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Janārdana [Lord Kṛṣṇa], is the form to accept all the results of sacrifice. If He is not satisfied,…
• SB 3.13.14 Śrī Manu said: O all-powerful lord, O killer of all sins, I shall abide by your order. Now please let me know my place and that of the…
• SB 3.13.15 O master of the demigods, please attempt to lift the earth, which is merged in the great water, because it is the dwelling place for all…
• SB 3.15.12 Lord Brahmā said: My four sons Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumāra, who were born from my mind, are your predecessors. Sometimes…
• SB 3.15.13 After thus traveling all over the universes, they also entered into the spiritual sky, for they were freed from all material…
• SB 3.15.14 In the Vaikuṇṭha planets all the residents are similar in form to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They all engage in devotional…
• SB 3.15.15 In the Vaikuṇṭha planets is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the original person and who can be understood through the Vedic…
• SB 3.15.16 In those Vaikuṇṭha planets there are many forests which are very auspicious. In those forests the trees are desire trees, and in all…
• SB 3.15.17 In the Vaikuṇṭha planets the inhabitants fly in their airplanes, accompanied by their wives and consorts, and eternally sing of the…
• SB 3.15.18 When the king of bees hums in a high pitch, singing the glories of the Lord, there is a temporary lull in the noise of the pigeon, the…
• SB 3.15.19 Although flowering plants like the mandāra, kunda, kurabaka, utpala, campaka, arṇa, punnāga, nāgakeśara, bakula, lily and pārijāta are…
• SB 3.15.20 The inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha travel in their airplanes made of lapis lazuli, emerald and gold. Although crowded by their consorts, who…
• SB 3.15.21 The ladies in the Vaikuṇṭha planets are as beautiful as the goddess of fortune herself. Such transcendentally beautiful ladies, their…
• SB 3.15.22 The goddesses of fortune worship the Lord in their own gardens by offering tulasī leaves on the coral-paved banks of transcendental…
• SB 3.15.23 It is very much regrettable that unfortunate people do not discuss the description of the Vaikuṇṭha planets but engage in topics which are…
• SB 3.15.24 Lord Brahmā said: My dear demigods, the human form of life is of such importance that we also desire to have such life, for in the human…
• SB 3.15.25 Persons whose bodily features change in ecstasy and who breathe heavily and perspire due to hearing the glories of the Lord are promoted…
• SB 3.15.26 Thus the great sages Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumāra, upon reaching the above-mentioned Vaikuṇṭha in the spiritual world by…
• SB 3.15.27 After passing through the six entrances of Vaikuṇṭha-purī, the Lord’s residence, without feeling astonishment at all the decorations, they…
• SB 3.15.28 The two doormen were garlanded with fresh flowers which attracted intoxicated bees and which were placed around their necks and between…
• SB 3.15.29 The great sages, headed by Sanaka, had opened doors everywhere. They had no idea of “ours” and “theirs.” With open minds, they entered the…
• SB 3.15.30 The four boy-sages, who had nothing to cover their bodies but the atmosphere, looked only five years old, even though they were the oldest…
• SB 3.15.31 When the Kumāras, although by far the fittest persons, were thus forbidden entrance by the two chief doorkeepers of Śrī Hari while other…
• SB 3.15.32 The sages said: Who are these two persons who have developed such a discordant mentality even though they are posted in the service of the…
• SB 3.15.33 In the Vaikuṇṭha world there is complete harmony between the residents and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, just as there is complete…
• SB 3.15.34 Therefore let us consider how these two contaminated persons should be punished. The punishment should be apt, for thus benefit can…
• SB 3.15.35 When the doormen of Vaikuṇṭhaloka, who were certainly devotees of the Lord, found that they were going to be cursed by the brāhmaṇas, they…
• SB 3.15.36 After being cursed by the sages, the doormen said: It is quite apt that you have punished us for neglecting to respect sages like you. But…
• SB 3.15.37 At that very moment, the Lord, who is called Padmanābha because of the lotus grown from His navel and who is the delight of the righteous,…
• SB 3.15.38 The sages, headed by Sanaka Ṛṣi, saw that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, who was formerly visible only within their hearts in…
• SB 3.15.39 The Lord is the reservoir of all pleasure. His auspicious presence is meant for everyone’s benediction, and His affectionate smiling and…
• SB 3.15.40 He was adorned with a girdle that shone brightly on the yellow cloth covering His large hips, and He wore a garland of fresh flowers which…
• SB 3.15.41 His countenance was distinguished by cheeks that enhanced the beauty of His alligator-shaped pendants, which outshone lightning. His nose…
• SB 3.15.42 The exquisite beauty of Nārāyaṇa, being many times magnified by the intelligence of His devotees, was so attractive that it defeated the…
• SB 3.15.43 When the breeze carrying the aroma of tulasī leaves from the toes of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead entered the nostrils of…
• SB 3.15.44 The Lord’s beautiful face appeared to them like the inside of a blue lotus, and the Lord’s smile appeared to be a blossoming jasmine…
• SB 3.15.45 This is the form of the Lord which is meditated upon by the followers of the yoga process, and it is pleasing to the yogīs in meditation.…
• SB 3.15.46 The Kumāras said: Our dear Lord, You are not manifested to rascals, even though You are seated within the heart of everyone. But as far as…
• SB 3.15.47 We know that You are the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, who manifests His transcendental form in the uncontaminated…
• SB 3.15.48 Persons who are very expert and most intelligent in understanding things as they are engage in hearing narrations of the auspicious…
• SB 3.15.49 O Lord, we pray that You let us be born in any hellish condition of life, just as long as our hearts and minds are always engaged in the…
• SB 3.15.50 O Lord, we therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto Your eternal form as the Personality of Godhead, which You have so kindly…
• SB 3.16.1 Lord Brahmā said: After thus congratulating the sages for their nice words, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose abode is in the…
• SB 3.16.27 Lord Brahmā said: After seeing the Lord of Vaikuṇṭha, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the self-illuminated Vaikuṇṭha planet, the…
• SB 3.16.28 The sages circumambulated the Supreme Lord, offered their obeisances and returned, extremely delighted at learning of the divine opulences…
• SB 3.16.29 The Lord then said to His attendants, Jaya and Vijaya: Depart this place, but fear not. All glories unto you. Though I am capable of…
• SB 3.16.30 This departure from Vaikuṇṭha was foretold by Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune. She was very angry because when she left My abode and then…
• SB 3.16.31 The Lord assured the two Vaikuṇṭha inhabitants, Jaya and Vijaya: By practicing the mystic yoga system in anger, you will be cleansed of…
• SB 3.16.32 After thus speaking at the door of Vaikuṇṭha, the Lord returned to His abode, where there are many celestial airplanes and all-surpassing…
• SB 3.16.33 But those two gatekeepers, the best of the demigods, their beauty and luster diminished by the curse of the brāhmaṇas, became morose and…
• SB 3.16.34 Then, as Jaya and Vijaya fell from the Lord’s abode, a great roar of disappointment arose from all the demigods, who were sitting in their…
• SB 3.16.35 Lord Brahmā continued: Those two principal doorkeepers of the Personality of Godhead have now entered the womb of Diti, the powerful semen…
• SB 3.16.36 It is the prowess of these twin asuras [demons] that has disturbed you, for it has minimized your power. There is no remedy within my…
• SB 3.16.37 My dear sons, the Lord is the controller of the three modes of nature and is responsible for the creation, preservation and dissolution of…
• SB 3.18.22-23 Lord Brahmā said: My dear Lord, this demon has proved to be a constant pinprick to the demigods, the brāhmaṇas, the cows and innocent…
• SB 3.18.24 Lord Brahmā continued: My dear Lord, there is no need to play with this serpentine demon, who is always very skilled in conjuring tricks…
• SB 3.18.25 Brahmā continued: My dear Lord, You are infallible. Please kill this sinful demon before the demoniac hour arrives and he presents another…
• SB 3.18.26 My Lord, the darkest evening, which covers the world, is fast approaching. Since You are the Soul of all souls, kindly kill him and win…
• SB 3.18.27 The auspicious period known as abhijit, which is most opportune for victory, commenced at midday and has all but passed; therefore, in the…
• SB 3.18.28 This demon, luckily for us, has come of his own accord to You, his death ordained by You; therefore, exhibiting Your ways, kill him in the…
• SB 3.24.12 Lord Brahmā said: My dear son Kardama, since you have completely accepted my instructions without duplicity, showing them proper respect,…
• SB 3.24.13 Sons ought to render service to their father exactly to this extent. One should obey the command of his father or spiritual master with…
• SB 3.24.14 Lord Brahmā then praised Kardama Muni’s nine daughters, saying: All your thin-waisted daughters are certainly very chaste. I am sure they…
• SB 3.24.15 Therefore, today please give away your daughters to the foremost of the sages, with due regard for the girls’ temperaments and likings,…
• SB 3.24.16 O Kardama, I know that the original Supreme Personality of Godhead has now appeared as an incarnation by His internal energy. He is the…
• SB 3.24.17 By mystic yoga and the practical application of knowledge from the scriptures, Kapila Muni, who is characterized by His golden hair, His…
• SB 3.24.18 Lord Brahmā then told Devahūti: My dear daughter of Manu, the same Supreme Personality of Godhead who killed the demon Kaiṭabha is now…
• SB 3.24.19 Your son will be the head of all the perfected souls. He will be approved by the ācāryas expert in disseminating real knowledge, and among…
• SB 4.6.42 Lord Brahmā said: My dear Lord Śiva, I know that you are the controller of the entire material manifestation, the combination father and…
• SB 4.6.43 My dear lord, you create this cosmic manifestation, maintain it, and annihilate it by expansion of your personality, exactly as a spider…
• SB 4.6.44 My dear lord, Your Lordship has introduced the system of sacrifices through the agency of Dakṣa, and thus one may derive the benefits of…
• SB 4.6.45 O most auspicious lord, you have ordained the heavenly planets, the spiritual Vaikuṇṭha planets and the impersonal Brahman sphere as the…
• SB 4.6.46 My dear Lord, devotees who have fully dedicated their lives unto your lotus feet certainly observe your presence as Paramātmā in each and…
• SB 4.6.47 Persons who observe everything with differentiation, who are simply attached to fruitive activities, who are mean-minded, who are always…
• SB 4.6.48 My dear lord, if in some places materialists, who are already bewildered by the insurmountable illusory energy of the Supreme Godhead,…
• SB 4.6.49 My dear lord, you are never bewildered by the formidable influence of the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore…
• SB 4.6.50 My dear Lord Śiva, you are a shareholder of a portion of the sacrifice, and you are the giver of the result. The bad priests did not…
• SB 4.6.51 My dear lord, by your mercy the performer of the sacrifice [King Dakṣa] may get back his life, Bhaga may get back his eyes, Bhṛgu his…
• SB 4.6.52 O Lord Śiva, may the demigods and the priests whose limbs have been broken by your soldiers recover from the injuries by your grace.
• SB 4.6.53 O destroyer of the sacrifice, please take your portion of the sacrifice and let the sacrifice be completed by your grace.
• SB 4.7.31 Lord Brahmā said: My dear Lord, Your personality and eternal form cannot be understood by any person who is trying to know You through the…
• SB 5.1.11 Lord Brahmā, the supreme person within this universe, said: My dear Priyavrata, kindly hear attentively what I shall say to you. Do not be…
• SB 5.1.12 One cannot avoid the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not by the strength of severe austerities, an exalted Vedic education,…
• SB 5.1.13 My dear Priyavrata, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all living entities accept different types of bodies for birth and…
• SB 5.1.14 My dear boy, all of us are bound by the Vedic injunctions to the divisions of varṇāśrama according to our qualities and work. These…
• SB 5.1.15 My dear Priyavrata, according to our association with different modes of material nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives us our…
• SB 5.1.16 Even if one is liberated, he nevertheless accepts the body he has received according to his past karma. Without misconceptions, however,…
• SB 5.1.17 Even if he goes from forest to forest, one who is not self-controlled must always fear material bondage because he is living with six…
• SB 5.1.18 One who is situated in household life and who systematically conquers his mind and five sense organs is like a king in his fortress who…
• SB 5.1.19 Lord Brahmā continued: My dear Priyavrata, seek shelter inside the opening in the lotus of the feet of the Lord, whose navel is also like…
• SB 5.1.20 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After thus being fully instructed by Lord Brahmā, who is the spiritual master of the three worlds,…
• SB 5.1.21 Lord Brahmā was then worshiped by Manu, who respectfully satisfied him as well as he could. Priyavrata and Nārada also looked upon Brahmā…
• SB 5.1.22 Svāyambhuva Manu, with the assistance of Lord Brahmā, thus fulfilled his desires. With the permission of the great sage Nārada, he…
• SB 5.1.23 Following the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mahārāja Priyavrata fully engaged in worldly affairs, yet he always thought of…
• SB 5.1.24 Thereafter, Mahārāja Priyavrata married Barhiṣmatī, the daughter of the prajāpati named Viśvakarmā. In her he begot ten sons equal to him…
• SB 5.1.25 The ten sons of Mahārāja Priyavrata were named Āgnīdhra, Idhmajihva, Yajñabāhu, Mahāvīra, Hiraṇyaretā, Ghṛtapṛṣṭha, Savana, Medhātithi,…
• SB 5.1.26 Three among these ten — namely Kavi, Mahāvīra and Savana — lived in complete celibacy. Thus trained in brahmacārī life from the beginning…
• SB 5.1.27 Thus situated in the renounced order from the beginning of their lives, all three of them completely controlled the activities of their…
• SB 5.1.28 In his other wife, Mahārāja Priyavrata begot three sons, named Uttama, Tāmasa and Raivata. All of them later took charge of manvantara…
• SB 5.1.29 After Kavi, Mahāvīra and Savana were completely trained in the paramahaṁsa stage of life, Mahārāja Priyavrata ruled the universe for…
• SB 5.1.30 While so excellently ruling the universe, King Priyavrata once became dissatisfied with the circumambulation of the most powerful sun-god.…
• SB 5.1.31 When Priyavrata drove his chariot behind the sun, the rims of his chariot wheels created impressions that later became seven oceans,…
• SB 5.1.32 The names of the islands are Jambū, Plakṣa, Śālmali, Kuśa, Krauñca, Śāka and Puṣkara. Each island is twice as large as the one preceding…
• SB 5.1.33 The seven oceans respectively contain salt water, sugarcane juice, liquor, clarified butter, milk, emulsified yogurt, and sweet drinking…
• SB 5.1.34 King Priyavrata then gave his daughter, Ūrjasvatī, in marriage to Śukrācārya, who begot in her a daughter named Devayānī.
• SB 5.1.35 My dear King, a devotee who has taken shelter of the dust from the lotus feet of the Lord can transcend the influence of the six material…
• SB 5.1.36 While enjoying his material opulences with full strength and influence, Mahārāja Priyavrata once began to consider that although he had…
• SB 5.1.37 The King thus began criticizing himself: Alas, how condemned I have become because of my sense gratification! I have now fallen into…
• SB 5.1.38 By the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mahārāja Priyavrata reawakened to his senses. He divided all his earthly possessions…
• SB 5.1.39 There are many famous verses regarding Mahārāja Priyavrata’s activities:
• SB 5.1.40 “To stop the quarreling among different peoples, Mahārāja Priyavrata marked boundaries at rivers and at the edges of mountains and forests…
• SB 5.1.41 “As a great follower and devotee of the sage Nārada, Mahārāja Priyavrata considered hellish the opulences he had achieved by dint of…
• SB 5.2.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After his father, Mahārāja Priyavrata, departed to follow the path of spiritual life by undergoing…
• SB 5.2.2 Desiring to get a perfect son and become an inhabitant of Pitṛloka, Mahārāja Āgnīdhra once worshiped Lord Brahmā, the master of those in…
• SB 5.2.3 Understanding King Āgnīdhra’s desire, the first and most powerful created being of this universe, Lord Brahmā, selected the best of the…
• SB 5.2.4 The Apsarā sent by Lord Brahmā began strolling in a beautiful park near the place where the King was meditating and worshiping. The park…
• SB 5.2.5 As Pūrvacitti passed by on the road in a very beautiful style and mood of her own, the pleasing ornaments on her ankles tinkled with her…
• SB 5.2.6 Like a honeybee, the Apsarā smelled the beautiful and attractive flowers. She could attract the minds and vision of both humans and…
• SB 5.2.7 The Prince mistakenly addressed the Apsarā: O best of saintly persons, who are you? Why are you on this hill, and what do you want to do?…
• SB 5.2.8 Then Āgnīdhra observed the glancing eyes of Pūrvacitti and said: My dear friend, you have two very powerful arrows, namely your glancing…
• SB 5.2.9 Seeing the bumblebees following Pūrvacitti, Mahārāja Āgnīdhra said: My dear Lord, the bumblebees surrounding your body are like disciples…
• SB 5.2.10 O brāhmaṇa, I can simply hear the tinkling of your ankle bells. Within those bells, tittiri birds seem to be chirping among themselves.…
• SB 5.2.11 Āgnīdhra then praised Pūrvacitti’s raised breasts. He said: My dear brāhmaṇa your waist is very thin, yet with great difficulty you are…
• SB 5.2.12 O best friend, will you kindly show me the place where you reside? I cannot imagine how the residents of that place have gotten such…
• SB 5.2.13 My dear friend, what do you eat to maintain your body? Because you are chewing betel, a pleasing scent is emanating from your mouth. This…
• SB 5.2.14 My mind is already restless, and by playing with a ball, moving it all about with your lotuslike palm, you are also agitating my eyes.…
• SB 5.2.15 O best among those performing austerities, where did you get this wonderful beauty that dismantles the austerities performed by others?…
• SB 5.2.16 Lord Brahmā, who is worshiped by the brāhmaṇas, has very mercifully given you to me, and that is why I have met you. I do not want to give…
• SB 5.2.17 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Mahārāja Āgnīdhra, whose intelligence was like that of a demigod, knew the art of flattering women to win them…
• SB 5.2.18 Attracted by the intelligence, learning, youth, beauty, behavior, opulence and magnanimity of Āgnīdhra, the King of Jambūdvīpa and master…
• SB 5.2.19 In the womb of Pūrvacitti, Mahārāja Āgnīdhra, the best of kings, begot nine sons, named Nābhi, Kiṁpuruṣa, Harivarṣa, Ilāvṛta, Ramyaka,…
• SB 5.2.20 Pūrvacitti gave birth to these nine sons, one each year, but after they grew up she left them at home and again approached Lord Brahmā to…
• SB 5.2.21 Because of drinking the breast milk of their mother, the nine sons of Āgnīdhra naturally had strong, well-built bodies. Their father gave…
• SB 5.2.22 After Pūrvacitti’s departure, King Āgnīdhra, his lusty desires not at all satisfied, always thought of her. Therefore, in accordance with…
• SB 5.2.23 After the departure of their father, the nine brothers married the nine daughters of Meru named Merudevī, Pratirūpā, Ugradaṁṣṭrī, Latā,…
• SB 5.3.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak: Mahārāja Nābhi, the son of Āgnīdhra, wished to have sons, and therefore he attentively began to offer…
• SB 5.3.2 In the performance of a sacrifice, there are seven transcendental means to obtain the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead: (1) by…
• SB 5.3.3 Lord Viṣṇu appeared before King Nābhi with four arms. He was very bright, and He appeared to be the best of all personalities. Around the…
• SB 5.3.4-5 The priests began to offer prayers to the Lord, saying: O most worshipable one, we are simply Your servants. Although You are full in…
• SB 5.3.6 O Supreme Lord, You are full in every respect. You are certainly very satisfied when Your devotees offer You prayers with faltering voices…
• SB 5.3.7 We have engaged in Your worship with many things and have offered sacrifices unto You, but we think that there is no need for so many…
• SB 5.3.8 All of life’s goals and opulences are directly, self-sufficiently, unceasingly and unlimitedly increasing in You at every moment. Indeed,…
• SB 5.3.9 O Lord of lords, we are completely ignorant of the execution of dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa, the process of liberation, because we do…
• SB 5.3.10 O most worshipable of all, You are the best of all benefactors, and Your appearance at saintly King Nābhi’s sacrificial arena is meant for…
• SB 5.3.11 Dear Lord, all the great sages who are thoughtful and saintly persons incessantly recount Your spiritual qualities. These sages have…
• SB 5.3.12 Dear Lord, we may not be able to remember Your name, form and qualities due to stumbling, hunger, falling down, yawning or being in a…
• SB 5.3.13 Dear Lord, here is the great King Nābhi, whose ultimate goal in life is to have a son like You. Your Lordship, his position is like that…
• SB 5.3.14 Dear Lord, unless one worships the lotus feet of great devotees, one will be conquered by the illusory energy, and his intelligence will…
• SB 5.3.15 O Lord, You perform many wonderful activities. Our only aim was to acquire a son by performing this great sacrifice; therefore our…
• SB 6.7.21 Lord Brahmā said: O best of the demigods, unfortunately, because of madness resulting from your material opulence, you failed to receive…
• SB 6.7.22 Because of your misbehavior toward Bṛhaspati, you have been defeated by the demons. My dear demigods, since the demons were weak, having…
• SB 6.7.23 O Indra, your enemies, the demons, were extremely weak because of their disrespect toward Śukrācārya, but since they have now worshiped…
• SB 6.7.24 Because of their firm determination to follow the instructions of Śukrācārya, his disciples, the demons, are now unconcerned about the…
• SB 6.7.25 O demigods, I instruct you to approach Viśvarūpa, the son of Tvaṣṭā, and accept him as your guru. He is a pure and very powerful brāhmaṇa…
• SB 6.7.26 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thus advised by Lord Brahmā and relieved of their anxiety, all the demigods went to the sage Viśvarūpa,…
• SB 6.7.27 The demigods said: Beloved Viśvarūpa, may there be all good fortune for you. We, the demigods, have come to your āśrama as your guests.…
• SB 6.7.28 O brāhmaṇa, the highest duty of a son, even though he has sons of his own, is to serve his parents, and what to speak of a son who is a…
• SB 6.7.29-30 The ācārya, the spiritual master who teaches all the Vedic knowledge and gives initiation by offering the sacred thread, is the…
• SB 6.7.31 Dear son, we have been defeated by our enemies, and therefore we are very much aggrieved. Please mercifully fulfill our desires by…
• SB 6.7.32 Since you are completely aware of the Supreme Brahman, you are a perfect brāhmaṇa, and therefore you are the spiritual master of all…
• SB 6.7.33 The demigods continued: Do not fear criticism for being younger than us. Such etiquette does not apply in regard to Vedic mantras. Except…
• SB 6.7.34 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When all the demigods requested the great Viśvarūpa to be their priest, Viśvarūpa, who was advanced in…
• SB 6.7.35 Śrī Viśvarūpa said: O demigods, although the acceptance of priesthood is decried as causing the loss of previously acquired brahminical…
• SB 6.7.36 O exalted governors of various planets, the true brāhmaṇa, who has no material possessions, maintains himself by the profession of…
• SB 6.7.37 All of you are my superiors. Therefore although accepting priesthood is sometimes reproachable, I cannot refuse even a small request from…
• SB 6.7.38 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, after making this promise to the demigods, the exalted Viśvarūpa, surrounded by the demigods,…
• SB 6.7.39 The opulence of the demons, who are generally known as the enemies of the demigods, was protected by the talents and tactics of…
• SB 6.7.40 Viśvarūpa, who was most liberal, spoke to King Indra [Sahasrākṣa] the secret hymn that protected Indra and conquered the military power of…
• SB 6.8.1-2 King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My lord, kindly explain the Viṣṇu mantra armor that protected King Indra and enabled him to…
• SB 7.3.17 Lord Brahmā said: O son of Kaśyapa Muni, please get up, please get up. All good fortune unto you. You are now perfect in the performance…
• SB 7.3.18 I have been very much astonished to see your endurance. In spite of being eaten and bitten by all kinds of worms and ants, you are keeping…
• SB 7.3.19 Even saintly persons like Bhṛgu, born previously, could not perform such severe austerities, nor will anyone in the future be able to do…
• SB 7.3.20 My dear son of Diti, with your great determination and austerity you have done what was impossible even for great saintly persons, and…
• SB 7.3.21 O best of the asuras, for this reason I am now prepared to give you all benedictions, according to your desire. I belong to the celestial…
• SB 7.3.22 Śrī Nārada Muni continued: After speaking these words to Hiraṇyakaśipu, Lord Brahmā, the original being of this universe, who is extremely…
• SB 7.3.23 As soon as he was sprinkled with the water from Lord Brahmā’s waterpot, Hiraṇyakaśipu arose, endowed with a full body with limbs so strong…
• SB 7.3.24 Seeing Lord Brahmā present before him in the sky, carried by his swan airplane, Hiraṇyakaśipu was extremely pleased. He immediately fell…
• SB 7.3.25 Then, getting up from the ground and seeing Lord Brahmā before him, the head of the Daityas was overwhelmed by jubilation. With tears in…
• SB 7.3.26-27 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the supreme lord within this universe. At the end of each day of his life, the universe is…
• SB 7.3.28 I offer my obeisances to the original personality within this universe, Lord Brahmā, who is cognizant and who can apply his mind and…
• SB 7.3.29 Your Lordship, being the origin of the life of this material world, is the master and controller of the living entities, both moving and…
• SB 7.3.30 My dear lord, by your form as the Vedas personified and through knowledge relating to the activities of all the yajñic brāhmaṇas, you…
• SB 7.3.31 O my lord, Your Lordship is eternally awake, seeing everything that happens. As eternal time, you reduce the duration of life for all…
• SB 7.3.32 There is nothing separate from you, whether it be better or lower, stationary or moving. The knowledge derived from the Vedic literatures…
• SB 7.3.33 O my lord, being changelessly situated in your own abode, you expand your universal form within this cosmic manifestation, thus appearing…
• SB 7.3.34 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme, who in his unlimited, unmanifested form has expanded the cosmic manifestation, the…
• SB 7.3.35 O my lord, O best of the givers of benediction, if you will kindly grant me the benediction I desire, please let me not meet death from…
• SB 7.3.36 Grant me that I not die within any residence or outside any residence, during the daytime or at night, nor on the ground or in the sky.…
• SB 7.3.37-38 Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving. Grant me, further, that I not be killed by any demigod or demon or by…
• SB 7.4.1 Nārada Muni continued: Lord Brahmā was very much satisfied by Hiraṇyakaśipu’s austerities, which were difficult to perform. Therefore,…
• SB 7.4.2 Lord Brahmā said: O Hiraṇyakaśipu, these benedictions for which you have asked are difficult to obtain for most men. Nonetheless, O my…
• SB 7.4.3 Then Lord Brahmā, who awards infallible benedictions, departed, being worshiped by the best of the demons, Hiraṇyakaśipu, and being…
• SB 7.4.4 The demon Hiraṇyakaśipu, having thus been blessed by Lord Brahmā and having acquired a lustrous golden body, continued to remember the…
• SB 7.4.5-7 Hiraṇyakaśipu became the conqueror of the entire universe. Indeed, that great demon conquered all the planets in the three worlds — upper,…
• SB 7.4.8 Hiraṇyakaśipu, who possessed all opulence, began residing in heaven, with its famous Nandana garden, which is enjoyed by the demigods. In…
• SB 7.4.9-12 The steps of King Indra’s residence were made of coral, the floor was bedecked with invaluable emeralds, the walls were of crystal, and…
• SB 7.4.13 O my dear King, Hiraṇyakaśipu was always drunk on strong-smelling wines and liquors, and therefore his coppery eyes were always rolling.…
• SB 7.4.14 O Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, descendant of Pāṇḍu, by dint of his personal power, Hiraṇyakaśipu, being situated on the throne of King Indra,…
• SB 7.4.15 Being worshiped by sacrifices offered with great gifts by those who strictly followed the principles of varṇa and āśrama, Hiraṇyakaśipu,…
• SB 7.4.16 As if in fear of Hiraṇyakaśipu, the planet earth, which consists of seven islands, delivered food grains without being plowed. Thus it…
• SB 7.4.17 By the flowing of their waves, the various oceans of the universe, along with their tributaries, the rivers, which are compared to their…
• SB 7.4.18 The valleys between the mountains became fields of pleasure for Hiraṇyakaśipu, by whose influence all the trees and plants produced fruits…
• SB 7.4.19 In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as…
• SB 7.4.20 Hiraṇyakaśipu thus passed a long time being very much proud of his opulences and transgressing the laws and regulations mentioned in the…
• SB 7.4.21 Everyone, including the rulers of the various planets, was extremely distressed because of the severe punishment inflicted upon them by…
• SB 7.4.22-23 “Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto that direction where the Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated, where those purified…
• SB 7.4.24 Then there appeared before them a transcendental sound vibration, emanating from a personality not visible to material eyes. The voice was…
• SB 7.4.25-26 The voice of the Lord vibrated as follows: O best of learned persons, do not fear! I wish all good fortune to you. Become My devotees by…
• SB 7.4.27 When one is envious of the demigods, who represent the Supreme Personality of Godhead, of the Vedas, which give all knowledge, of the…
• SB 7.4.28 When Hiraṇyakaśipu teases the great devotee Prahlāda, his own son, who is peaceful and sober and who has no enemy, I shall kill…
• SB 7.4.29 The great saint Nārada Muni continued: When the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the spiritual master of everyone, thus reassured all the…
• SB 7.4.30 Hiraṇyakaśipu had four wonderful, well-qualified sons, of whom the one named Prahlāda was the best. Indeed, Prahlāda was a reservoir of…
• SB 7.4.31-32 [The qualities of Mahārāja Prahlāda, the son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, are described herewith.] He was completely cultured as a qualified…
• SB 7.4.33 Although Prahlāda Mahārāja was born in a family of asuras, he himself was not an asura but a great devotee of Lord Viṣṇu. Unlike the other…
• SB 7.4.34 O King, Prahlāda Mahārāja’s good qualities are still glorified by learned saints and Vaiṣṇavas. As all good qualities are always found…
• SB 7.4.35 In any assembly where there are discourses about saints and devotees, O King Yudhiṣṭhira, even the enemies of the demons, namely the…
• SB 7.4.36 Who could list the innumerable transcendental qualities of Prahlāda Mahārāja? He had unflinching faith in Vāsudeva, Lord Kṛṣṇa [the son of…
• SB 7.4.37 From the very beginning of his childhood, Prahlāda Mahārāja was uninterested in childish playthings. Indeed, he gave them up altogether…
• SB 7.4.38 Prahlāda Mahārāja was always absorbed in thought of Kṛṣṇa. Thus, being always embraced by the Lord, he did not know how his bodily…
• SB 7.4.39 Because of advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he sometimes cried, sometimes laughed, sometimes expressed jubilation and sometimes sang…
• SB 7.4.40 Sometimes, upon seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Prahlāda Mahārāja would loudly call in full anxiety. He sometimes lost his…
• SB 7.4.41 Sometimes, feeling the touch of the Lord’s lotus hands, he became spiritually jubilant and remained silent, his hairs standing on end and…
• SB 7.4.42 Because of his association with perfect, unalloyed devotees who had nothing to do with anything material, Prahlāda Mahārāja constantly…
• SB 7.4.43 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu tormented this exalted, fortunate devotee, although Prahlāda was his own son.
• SB 7.4.44 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said: O best of the saints among the demigods, O best of spiritual leaders, how did Hiraṇyakaśipu give so much…
• SB 7.4.45 A father and mother are always affectionate to their children. When the children are disobedient the parents chastise them, not due to…
• SB 7.4.46 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira further inquired: How was it possible for a father to be so violent toward an exalted son who was obedient,…
• SB 7.10.26 Lord Brahmā said: O Supreme Lord of all lords, proprietor of the entire universe, O benedictor of all living entities, O original person…
• SB 7.10.27 This demon, Hiraṇyakaśipu, received from me the benediction that he would not be killed by any living being within my creation. With this…
• SB 7.10.28 By great fortune, Hiraṇyakaśipu’s son Prahlāda Mahārāja has now been released from death, for although he is a child, he is an exalted…
• SB 7.10.29 My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are the Supreme Soul. If one meditates upon Your transcendental body, You naturally…
• SB 7.10.30 The Personality of Godhead replied: My dear Lord Brahmā, O great lord born from the lotus flower, just as it is dangerous to feed milk to…
• SB 7.10.31 Nārada Muni continued: O King Yudhiṣṭhira, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is not visible to an ordinary human being, spoke in…
• SB 7.10.32 Prahlāda Mahārāja then worshiped and offered prayers to all the demigods, such as Brahmā, Śiva and the prajāpatis, who are all parts of…
• SB 7.10.33 Thereafter, along with Śukrācārya and other great saints, Lord Brahmā, whose seat is on the lotus flower, made Prahlāda the king of all…
• SB 7.10.34 O King Yudhiṣṭhira, after all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahmā, were properly worshiped by Prahlāda Mahārāja, they offered Prahlāda…
• SB 7.10.35 Thus the two associates of Lord Viṣṇu who had become Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu, the sons of Diti, were both killed. By illusion they…
• SB 7.10.36 Being cursed by the brāhmaṇas, the same two associates took birth again as Kumbhakarṇa and the ten-headed Rāvaṇa. These two Rākṣasas were…
• SB 7.10.37 Pierced by the arrows of Lord Rāmacandra, both Kumbhakarṇa and Rāvaṇa lay on the ground and left their bodies, fully absorbed in thought…
• SB 7.10.38 They both took birth again in human society as Śiśupāla and Dantavakra and continued in the same enmity toward the Lord. It is they who…
• SB 7.10.39 Not only Śiśupāla and Dantavakra but also many, many other kings who acted as enemies of Kṛṣṇa attained salvation at the time of death.…
• SB 7.10.40 By devotional service, pure devotees who incessantly think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead receive bodies similar to His. This is…
• SB 7.10.41 Everything you asked me about how Śiśupāla and others attained salvation although they were inimical has now been explained to you by me.
• SB 7.10.42 In this narration about Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, various expansions or incarnations of the Lord have been described, and…
• SB 7.10.43-44 This narration describes the characteristics of the great and exalted devotee Prahlāda Mahārāja, his staunch devotional service, his…
• SB 7.10.45 The principles of religion by which one can actually understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead are called bhāgavata-dharma. In this…
• SB 7.10.46 One who hears and chants this narration about the omnipotence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is certainly liberated from…
• SB 7.10.47 Prahlāda Mahārāja was the best among exalted devotees. Anyone who with great attention hears this narration concerning the activities of…
• SB 7.10.48 Nārada Muni continued: My dear Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, all of you [the Pāṇḍavas] are extremely fortunate, for the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 7.10.49 The impersonal Brahman is Kṛṣṇa Himself because Kṛṣṇa is the source of the impersonal Brahman. He is the origin of the transcendental…
• SB 7.10.50 Exalted persons like Lord Śiva and Lord Brahmā could not properly describe the truth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. May the…
• SB 7.10.51 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, long, long ago in history, a demon known as Maya Dānava, who was very expert in technical knowledge, reduced the…
• SB 7.10.52 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said: For what reason did the demon Maya Dānava vanquish Lord Śiva’s reputation? How did Lord Kṛṣṇa save Lord Śiva…
• SB 8.5.21 Lord Brahmā said: I, Lord Śiva, all of you demigods, the demons, the living entities born of perspiration, the living beings born of eggs,…
• SB 8.5.22 For the Supreme Personality of Godhead there is no one to be killed, no one to be protected, no one to be neglected and no one to be…
• SB 8.5.23 Now is the time to invoke the mode of goodness of the living entities who have accepted material bodies. The mode of goodness is meant to…
• SB 8.5.24 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, subduer of all enemies, after Lord Brahmā finished speaking to the demigods, he took them with him to the abode of…
• SB 8.5.25 There [at Śvetadvīpa], Lord Brahmā offered prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even though he had never seen the Supreme Lord.…
• SB 8.5.26 Lord Brahmā said: O Supreme Lord, O changeless, unlimited supreme truth. You are the origin of everything. Being all-pervading, You are in…
• SB 8.5.27 The Supreme Personality of Godhead directly and indirectly knows how everything, including the living force, mind and intelligence, is…
• SB 8.5.28 In the cycle of material activities, the material body resembles the wheel of a mental chariot. The ten senses [five for working and five…
• SB 8.5.29 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated in pure goodness [śuddha-sattva], and therefore He is eka-varṇa — the oṁkāra [praṇava].…
• SB 8.5.30 No one can overcome the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s illusory energy [māyā], which is so strong that it bewilders everyone, making one…
• SB 8.5.31 Since our bodies are made of sattva-guṇa, we, the demigods, are internally and externally situated in goodness. All the great saints are…
• SB 8.5.32 On this earth there are four kinds of living entities, who are all created by Him. The material creation rests on His lotus feet. He is…
• SB 8.5.33 The entire cosmic manifestation has emerged from water, and it is because of water that all living entities endure, live and develop. This…
• SB 8.5.34 Soma, the moon, is the source of food grains, strength and longevity for all the demigods. He is also the master of all vegetation and the…
• SB 8.5.35 Fire, which is born for the sake of accepting oblations in ritualistic ceremonies, is the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.…
• SB 8.5.36 The sun-god marks the path of liberation, which is called arcirādi-vartma. He is the chief source for understanding of the Vedas, he is…
• SB 8.5.37 All living entities, moving and nonmoving, receive their vital force, their bodily strength and their very lives from the air. All of us…
• SB 8.5.38 May the supremely powerful Personality of Godhead be pleased with us. The different directions are generated from His ears, the holes of…
• SB 8.5.39 Mahendra, the King of Heaven, was generated from the prowess of the Lord, the demigods were generated from the mercy of the Lord, Lord…
• SB 8.5.40 The goddess of fortune was generated from His chest, the inhabitants of Pitṛloka from His shadow, religion from His bosom, and irreligion…
• SB 8.5.41 The brāhmaṇas and Vedic knowledge come from the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the kṣatriyas and bodily strength come from…
• SB 8.5.42 Greed is generated from His lower lip, affection from His upper lip, bodily luster from His nose, animalistic lusty desires from His sense…
• SB 8.5.43 All learned men say that the five elements, eternal time, fruitive activity, the three modes of material nature, and the varieties…
• SB 8.5.44 Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is completely silent, free from endeavor, and…
• SB 8.5.45 O Supreme Personality of Godhead, we are surrendered unto You, yet we wish to see You. Please make Your original form and smiling lotus…
• SB 8.5.46 O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, by Your sweet will You appear in various incarnations, millennium after millennium, and act…
• SB 8.5.47 Karmīs are always anxious to accumulate wealth for their sense gratification, but for that purpose they must work very hard. Yet even…
• SB 8.5.48 Activities dedicated to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even if performed in small measure, never go in vain. The Supreme Personality…
• SB 8.5.49 When one pours water on the root of a tree, the trunk and branches of the tree are automatically pleased. Similarly, when one becomes a…
• SB 8.5.50 My Lord, all obeisances unto You, who are eternal, beyond time’s limits of past, present and future. You are inconceivable in Your…
• SB 8.6.8 Lord Brahmā said: Although You are never born, Your appearance and disappearance as an incarnation never cease. You are always free from…
• SB 8.6.9 O best of persons, O supreme director, those who actually aspire for supreme good fortune worship this form of Your Lordship according to…
• SB 8.6.10 My dear Lord, who are always fully independent, this entire cosmic manifestation arises from You, rests upon You and ends in You. Your…
• SB 8.6.11 O Supreme, You are independent in Your self and do not take help from others. Through Your own potency, You create this cosmic…
• SB 8.6.12 As one can derive fire from wood, milk from the milk bag of the cow, food grains and water from the land, and prosperity in one’s…
• SB 8.6.13 Elephants afflicted by a forest fire become very happy when they get water from the Ganges. Similarly, O my Lord, from whose navel grows a…
• SB 8.6.14 My Lord, we, the various demigods, the directors of this universe, have come to Your lotus feet. Please fulfill the purpose for which we…
• SB 8.6.15 I [Lord Brahmā], Lord Śiva and all the demigods, accompanied by the prajāpatis like Dakṣa, are nothing but sparks illuminated by You, who…
• SB 8.6.16 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When the Lord was thus offered prayers by the demigods, headed by Lord Brahmā, He understood the purpose for…
• SB 8.6.17 Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of the demigods, was capable of performing the activities of the demigods by…
• SB 8.17.25 Lord Brahmā said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all glories unto You, who are glorified by all and whose activities are all uncommon.…
• SB 8.17.26 I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the all-pervading Lord Viṣṇu, who have entered the cores of the hearts of all living entities.…
• SB 8.17.27 O my Lord, You are the beginning, the manifestation and the ultimate dissolution of the three worlds, and You are celebrated in the Vedas…
• SB 8.17.28 My Lord, You are the original generator of all living entities, stationary or moving, and You are also the generator of the Prajāpatis. O…
• SB 8.22.21 Lord Brahmā said: O well-wisher and master of all living entities, O worshipable Deity of all the demigods, O all-pervading Personality of…
• SB 8.22.22 Bali Mahārāja had already offered everything to Your Lordship. Without hesitation, he has offered his land, the planets and whatever else…
• SB 8.22.23 By offering even water, newly grown grass, or flower buds at Your lotus feet, those who maintain no mental duplicity can achieve the most…
• SB 9.4.53-54 Lord Brahmā said: At the end of the dvi-parārdha, when the pastimes of the Lord come to an end, Lord Viṣṇu, by a flick of His eyebrows,…
• SB 9.4.55 When Durvāsā, who was greatly afflicted by the blazing fire of the Sudarśana cakra, was thus refused by Lord Brahmā, he tried to take…
• SB 9.4.56 Lord Śiva said: My dear son, I, Lord Brahmā and the other demigods, who rotate within this universe under the misconception of our…
• SB 9.4.57-59 Past, present and future are known to me [Lord Śiva], Sanat-kumāra, Nārada, the most revered Lord Brahmā, Kapila [the son of Devahūti],…
• SB 9.4.60 Thereafter, being disappointed even in taking shelter of Lord Śiva, Durvāsā Muni went to Vaikuṇṭha-dhāma, where the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 9.4.61 Durvāsā Muni, the great mystic, scorched by the heat of the Sudarśana cakra, fell at the lotus feet of Nārāyaṇa. His body trembling, he…
• SB 9.4.62 O my Lord, O supreme controller, without knowledge of Your unlimited prowess I have offended Your most dear devotee. Very kindly save me…
• SB 9.4.63 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said to the brāhmaṇa: I am completely under the control of My devotees. Indeed, I am not at all…
• SB 9.4.64 O best of the brāhmaṇas, without saintly persons for whom I am the only destination, I do not desire to enjoy My transcendental bliss and…
• SB 9.4.65 Since pure devotees give up their homes, wives, children, relatives, riches and even their lives simply to serve Me, without any desire…
• SB 9.4.66 As chaste women bring their gentle husbands under control by service, the pure devotees, who are equal to everyone and completely attached…
• SB 9.4.67 My devotees, who are always satisfied to be engaged in My loving service, are not interested even in the four principles of liberation…
• SB 9.4.68 The pure devotee is always within the core of My heart, and I am always in the heart of the pure devotee. My devotees do not know anything…
• SB 9.4.69 O brāhmaṇa, let Me now advise you for your own protection. Please hear from Me. By offending Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, you have acted with…
• SB 9.4.70 For a brāhmaṇa, austerity and learning are certainly auspicious, but when acquired by a person who is not gentle, such austerity and…
• SB 9.4.71 O best of the brāhmaṇas, you should therefore go immediately to King Ambarīṣa, the son of Mahārāja Nābhāga. I wish you all good fortune.…
• SB 10.14.1 Lord Brahmā said: My dear Lord, You are the only worshipable Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore I offer my humble…
• SB 10.14.2 My dear Lord, neither I nor anyone else can estimate the potency of this transcendental body of Yours, which has shown such mercy to me…
• SB 10.14.3 Those who, even while remaining situated in their established social positions, throw away the process of speculative knowledge and with…
• SB 10.14.4 My dear Lord, devotional service unto You is the best path for self-realization. If someone gives up that path and engages in the…
• SB 10.14.5 O almighty Lord, in the past many yogīs in this world achieved the platform of devotional service by offering all their endeavors unto You…
• SB 10.14.6 Nondevotees, however, cannot realize You in Your full personal feature. Nevertheless, it may be possible for them to realize Your…
• SB 10.14.7 In time, learned philosophers or scientists might be able to count all the atoms of the earth, the particles of snow, or perhaps even the…
• SB 10.14.8 My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of…
• SB 10.14.9 My Lord, just see my uncivilized impudence! To test Your power I tried to extend my illusory potency to cover You, the unlimited and…
• SB 10.14.10 Therefore, O infallible Lord, kindly excuse my offenses. I have taken birth in the mode of passion and am therefore simply foolish,…
• SB 10.14.11 What am I, a small creature measuring seven spans of my own hand? I am enclosed in a potlike universe composed of material nature, the…
• SB 10.14.12 O Lord Adhokṣaja, does a mother take offense when the child within her womb kicks with his legs? And is there anything in existence —…
• SB 10.14.13 My dear Lord, it is said that when the three planetary systems are merged into the water at the time of dissolution, Your plenary portion,…
• SB 10.14.14 Are You not the original Nārāyaṇa, O supreme controller, since You are the Soul of every embodied being and the eternal witness of all…
• SB 10.14.15 My dear Lord, if Your transcendental body, which shelters the entire universe, is actually lying upon the water, then why were You not…
• SB 10.14.16 My dear Lord, in this incarnation You have proved that You are the supreme controller of Māyā. Although You are now within this universe,…
• SB 10.14.17 Just as this entire universe, including You, was exhibited within Your abdomen, so it is now manifested here externally in the same exact…
• SB 10.14.18 Have You not shown me today that both You Yourself and everything within this creation are manifestations of Your inconceivable potency?…
• SB 10.14.19 To persons ignorant of Your actual transcendental position, You appear as part of the material world, manifesting Yourself by the…
• SB 10.14.20 O Lord, O supreme creator and master, You have no material birth, yet to defeat the false pride of the faithless demons and show mercy to…
• SB 10.14.21 O supreme great one! O Supreme Personality of Godhead! O Supersoul, master of all mystic power! Your pastimes are taking place…
• SB 10.14.22 Therefore this entire universe, which like a dream is by nature unreal, nevertheless appears real, and thus it covers one’s consciousness…
• SB 10.14.23 You are the one Supreme Soul, the primeval Supreme Personality, the Absolute Truth — self-manifested, endless and beginningless. You are…
• SB 10.14.24 Those who have received the clear vision of knowledge from the sunlike spiritual master can see You in this way, as the very Soul of all…
• SB 10.14.25 A person who mistakes a rope for a snake becomes fearful, but he then gives up his fear upon realizing that the so-called snake does not…
• SB 10.14.26 The conception of material bondage and the conception of liberation are both manifestations of ignorance. Being outside the scope of true…
• SB 10.14.27 Just see the foolishness of those ignorant persons who consider You to be some separated manifestation of illusion and who consider the…
• SB 10.14.28 O unlimited Lord, the saintly devotees seek You out within their own bodies by rejecting everything separate from You. Indeed, how can…
• SB 10.14.29 My Lord, if one is favored by even a slight trace of the mercy of Your lotus feet, he can understand the greatness of Your personality.…
• SB 10.14.30 My dear Lord, I therefore pray to be so fortunate that in this life as Lord Brahmā or in another life, wherever I take my birth, I may be…
• SB 10.14.31 O almighty Lord, how greatly fortunate are the cows and ladies of Vṛndāvana, the nectar of whose breast milk You have happily drunk to…
• SB 10.14.32 How greatly fortunate are Nanda Mahārāja, the cowherd men and all the other inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi! There is no limit to their good…
• SB 10.14.33 Yet even though the extent of the good fortune of these residents of Vṛndāvana is inconceivable, we eleven presiding deities of the…
• SB 10.14.34 My greatest possible good fortune would be to take any birth whatever in this forest of Gokula and have my head bathed by the dust falling…
• SB 10.14.35 My mind becomes bewildered just trying to think of what reward other than You could be found anywhere. You are the embodiment of all…
• SB 10.14.36 My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, until people become Your devotees, their material attachments and desires remain thieves, their homes remain prisons,…
• SB 10.14.37 My dear master, although You have nothing to do with material existence, You come to this earth and imitate material life just to expand…
• SB 10.14.38 There are people who say, “I know everything about Kṛṣṇa.” Let them think that way. As far as I am concerned, I do not wish to speak very…
• SB 10.14.39 My dear Kṛṣṇa, I now humbly request permission to leave. Actually, You are the knower and seer of all things. Indeed, You are the Lord of…
• SB 10.14.40 My dear Śrī Kṛṣṇa, You bestow happiness upon the lotuslike Vṛṣṇi dynasty and expand the great oceans consisting of the earth, the…
• SB 11.6.21 Lord Brahmā said: My dear Lord, previously we requested You to remove the burden of the earth. O unlimited Personality of Godhead, that…
• SB 11.6.22 My Lord, You have reestablished the principles of religion among pious men who are always firmly bound to the truth. You have also…
• SB 11.6.23 Descending into the dynasty of King Yadu, You have manifested Your unique transcendental form, and for the benefit of the entire universe…
• SB 11.6.24 My dear Lord, those pious and saintly persons who in the Age of Kali hear about Your transcendental activities and also glorify them will…
• SB 11.6.25 O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O my Lord, You have descended into the Yadu dynasty, and thus You have spent one hundred twenty-five…
• SB 11.6.26-27 My dear Lord, there is nothing remaining at this time for Your Lordship to do on behalf of the demigods. You have already withdrawn Your…