Kṛṣṇa

2794 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

BG 2.2 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, how have these impurities come upon you? They are not at all befitting a man who…
BG 2.3 O son of Pṛthā, do not yield to this degrading impotence. It does not become you. Give up such petty weakness of heart and arise, O…
BG 2.11 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are…
BG 2.12 Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
BG 2.13 As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at…
BG 2.14 O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and…
BG 2.15 O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for…
BG 2.16 Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the…
BG 2.17 That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.
BG 2.18 The material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is sure to come to an end; therefore, fight, O descendant…
BG 2.19 Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain.
BG 2.20 For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into…
BG 2.21 O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?
BG 2.22 As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.
BG 2.23 The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.
BG 2.24 This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere,…
BG 2.25 It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body.
BG 2.26 If, however, you think that the soul [or the symptoms of life] will always be born and die forever, you still have no reason to lament, O…
BG 2.27 One who has taken his birth is sure to die, and after death one is sure to take birth again. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of…
BG 2.28 All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when annihilated. So what need…
BG 2.29 Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about…
BG 2.30 O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body can never be slain. Therefore you need not grieve for any living being.
BG 2.31 Considering your specific duty as a kṣatriya, you should know that there is no better engagement for you than fighting on religious…
BG 2.32 O Pārtha, happy are the kṣatriyas to whom such fighting opportunities come unsought, opening for them the doors of the heavenly planets.
BG 2.33 If, however, you do not perform your religious duty of fighting, then you will certainly incur sins for neglecting your duties and thus…
BG 2.34 People will always speak of your infamy, and for a respectable person, dishonor is worse than death.
BG 2.35 The great generals who have highly esteemed your name and fame will think that you have left the battlefield out of fear only, and thus…
BG 2.36 Your enemies will describe you in many unkind words and scorn your ability. What could be more painful for you?
BG 2.37 O son of Kuntī, either you will be killed on the battlefield and attain the heavenly planets, or you will conquer and enjoy the earthly…
BG 2.38 Do thou fight for the sake of fighting, without considering happiness or distress, loss or gain, victory or defeat – and by so doing you…
BG 2.39 Thus far I have described this knowledge to you through analytical study. Now listen as I explain it in terms of working without fruitive…
BG 2.40 In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on this path can protect one from the most dangerous type of fear.
BG 2.41 Those who are on this path are resolute in purpose, and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus, the intelligence of those who are…
BG 2.42-43 Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words of the Vedas, which recommend various fruitive activities for elevation…
BG 2.44 In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute…
BG 2.45 The Vedas deal mainly with the subject of the three modes of material nature. O Arjuna, become transcendental to these three modes. Be…
BG 2.46 All purposes served by a small well can at once be served by a great reservoir of water. Similarly, all the purposes of the Vedas can be…
BG 2.47 You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of…
BG 2.48 Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.
BG 2.49 O Dhanañjaya, keep all abominable activities far distant by devotional service, and in that consciousness surrender unto the Lord. Those…
BG 2.50 A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of both good and bad reactions even in this life. Therefore strive for yoga, which is the…
BG 2.51 By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material…
BG 2.52 When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all…
BG 2.53 When your mind is no longer disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas, and when it remains fixed in the trance of self-realization,…
BG 2.55 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Pārtha, when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense gratification, which arise from…
BG 2.56 One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment,…
BG 2.57 In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed…
BG 2.58 One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect…
BG 2.59 Though the embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by…
BG 2.60 The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a man of discrimination who is…
BG 2.61 One who restrains his senses, keeping them under full control, and fixes his consciousness upon Me, is known as a man of steady…
BG 2.62 While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from…
BG 2.63 From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when…
BG 2.64 But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the…
BG 2.65 For one thus satisfied [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness], the threefold miseries of material existence exist no longer; in such satisfied…
BG 2.66 One who is not connected with the Supreme [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness] can have neither transcendental intelligence nor a steady mind, without…
BG 2.67 As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the roaming senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man’s…
BG 2.68 Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence.
BG 2.69 What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the…
BG 2.70 A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires – that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is…
BG 2.71 A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship…
BG 2.72 That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is thus situated even at the hour…
BG 3.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O sinless Arjuna, I have already explained that there are two classes of men who try to realize…
BG 3.4 Not by merely abstaining from work can one achieve freedom from reaction, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection.
BG 3.5 Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore no one can…
BG 3.6 One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.
BG 3.7 On the other hand, if a sincere person tries to control the active senses by the mind and begins karma-yoga [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness]…
BG 3.8 Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working. One cannot even maintain one’s physical body without work.
BG 3.9 Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed; otherwise work causes bondage in this material world. Therefore, O son of Kuntī,…
BG 3.10 In the beginning of creation, the Lord of all creatures sent forth generations of men and demigods, along with sacrifices for Viṣṇu, and…
BG 3.11 The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you, and thus, by cooperation between men and demigods, prosperity will reign…
BG 3.12 In charge of the various necessities of life, the demigods, being satisfied by the performance of yajña [sacrifice], will supply all…
BG 3.13 The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who…
BG 3.14 All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rains. Rains are produced by performance of yajña [sacrifice], and yajña…
BG 3.15 Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead.…
BG 3.16 My dear Arjuna, one who does not follow in human life the cycle of sacrifice thus established by the Vedas certainly leads a life full of…
BG 3.17 But for one who takes pleasure in the Self, whose human life is one of self-realization, and who is satisfied in the Self only, fully…
BG 3.18 A self-realized man has no purpose to fulfill in the discharge of his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform such work.…
BG 3.19 Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one…
BG 3.20 Kings such as Janaka attained perfection solely by performance of prescribed duties. Therefore, just for the sake of educating the people…
BG 3.21 Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
BG 3.22 O son of Pṛthā, there is no work prescribed for Me within all the three planetary systems. Nor am I in want of anything, nor have I a need…
BG 3.23 For if I ever failed to engage in carefully performing prescribed duties, O Pārtha, certainly all men would follow My path.
BG 3.24 If I did not perform prescribed duties, all these worlds would be put to ruination. I would be the cause of creating unwanted population,…
BG 3.25 As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, the learned may similarly act, but without attachment, for the sake of…
BG 3.26 So as not to disrupt the minds of ignorant men attached to the fruitive results of prescribed duties, a learned person should not induce…
BG 3.27 The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the…
BG 3.28 One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well…
BG 3.29 Bewildered by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully engage themselves in material activities and become attached. But the wise…
BG 3.30 Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with full knowledge of Me, without desires for profit, with no claims to…
BG 3.31 Those persons who execute their duties according to My injunctions and who follow this teaching faithfully, without envy, become free from…
BG 3.32 But those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not follow them regularly are to be considered bereft of all knowledge,…
BG 3.33 Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can…
BG 3.34 There are principles to regulate attachment and aversion pertaining to the senses and their objects. One should not come under the control…
BG 3.35 It is far better to discharge one’s prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another’s duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of…
BG 3.37 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later…
BG 3.38 As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the living entity is similarly…
BG 3.39 Thus the wise living entity’s pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and…
BG 3.40 The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living…
BG 3.41 Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bhāratas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin [lust] by regulating the senses, and slay…
BG 3.42 The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the…
BG 3.43 Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to the material senses, mind and intelligence, O mighty-armed Arjuna, one should steady the mind…
BG 4.1 The Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān…
BG 4.2 This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in…
BG 4.3 That very ancient science of the relationship with the Supreme is today told by Me to you because you are My devotee as well as My friend…
BG 4.5 The Personality of Godhead said: Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of…
BG 4.6 Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, by My internal…
BG 4.7 Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion – at that…
BG 4.8 To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium…
BG 4.9 One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this…
BG 4.10 Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became…
BG 4.11 As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.
BG 4.12 Men in this world desire success in fruitive activities, and therefore they worship the demigods. Quickly, of course, men get results from…
BG 4.13 According to the three modes of material nature and the work associated with them, the four divisions of human society are created by Me.…
BG 4.14 There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the fruits of action. One who understands this truth about Me also does not become…
BG 4.15 All the liberated souls in ancient times acted with this understanding of My transcendental nature. Therefore you should perform your…
BG 4.16 Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what is inaction. Now I shall explain to you what action is, knowing…
BG 4.17 The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is and…
BG 4.18 One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although…
BG 4.19 One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a…
BG 4.20 Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and independent, he performs no fruitive action, although…
BG 4.21 Such a man of understanding acts with mind and intelligence perfectly controlled, gives up all sense of proprietorship over his…
BG 4.22 He who is satisfied with gain which comes of its own accord, who is free from duality and does not envy, who is steady in both success and…
BG 4.23 The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely…
BG 4.24 A person who is fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is sure to attain the spiritual kingdom because of his full contribution to…
BG 4.25 Some yogīs perfectly worship the demigods by offering different sacrifices to them, and some offer sacrifices in the fire of the Supreme…
BG 4.26 Some [the unadulterated brahmacārīs] sacrifice the hearing process and the senses in the fire of mental control, and others [the regulated…
BG 4.27 Others, who are interested in achieving self-realization through control of the mind and senses, offer the functions of all the senses,…
BG 4.28 Having accepted strict vows, some become enlightened by sacrificing their possessions, and others by performing severe austerities, by…
BG 4.29 Still others, who are inclined to the process of breath restraint to remain in trance, practice by offering the movement of the outgoing…
BG 4.30 All these performers who know the meaning of sacrifice become cleansed of sinful reactions, and, having tasted the nectar of the results…
BG 4.31 O best of the Kuru dynasty, without sacrifice one can never live happily on this planet or in this life: what then of the next?
BG 4.32 All these different types of sacrifice are approved by the Vedas, and all of them are born of different types of work. Knowing them as…
BG 4.33 O chastiser of the enemy, the sacrifice performed in knowledge is better than the mere sacrifice of material possessions. After all, O son…
BG 4.34 Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The…
BG 4.35 Having obtained real knowledge from a self-realized soul, you will never fall again into such illusion, for by this knowledge you will see…
BG 4.36 Even if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge you will be…
BG 4.37 As a blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.
BG 4.38 In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism. And…
BG 4.39 A faithful man who is dedicated to transcendental knowledge and who subdues his senses is eligible to achieve such knowledge, and having…
BG 4.40 But ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed scriptures do not attain God consciousness; they fall down. For the doubting…
BG 4.41 One who acts in devotional service, renouncing the fruits of his actions, and whose doubts have been destroyed by transcendental…
BG 4.42 Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance should be slashed by the weapon of knowledge. Armed with yoga, O…
BG 6.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the…
BG 6.2 What is called renunciation you should know to be the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme, O son of Pāṇḍu, for one can never…
BG 6.3 For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means; and for one who is already elevated in yoga,…
BG 6.4 A person is said to be elevated in yoga when, having renounced all material desires, he neither acts for sense gratification nor engages…
BG 6.5 One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy…
BG 6.6 For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the…
BG 6.7 For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and…
BG 6.8 A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogī [or mystic] when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired…
BG 6.9 A person is considered still further advanced when he regards honest well-wishers, affectionate benefactors, the neutral, mediators, the…
BG 6.10 A transcendentalist should always engage his body, mind and self in relationship with the Supreme; he should live alone in a secluded…
BG 6.11-12 To practice yoga, one should go to a secluded place and should lay kuśa grass on the ground and then cover it with a deerskin and a soft…
BG 6.13-14 One should hold one’s body, neck and head erect in a straight line and stare steadily at the tip of the nose. Thus, with an unagitated,…
BG 6.15 Thus practicing constant control of the body, mind and activities, the mystic transcendentalist, his mind regulated, attains to the…
BG 6.16 There is no possibility of one’s becoming a yogī, O Arjuna, if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep…
BG 6.17 He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system.
BG 6.18 When the yogī, by practice of yoga, disciplines his mental activities and becomes situated in transcendence – devoid of all material…
BG 6.19 As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation…
BG 6.20-23 In the stage of perfection called trance, or samādhi, one’s mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of…
BG 6.24 One should engage oneself in the practice of yoga with determination and faith and not be deviated from the path. One should abandon,…
BG 6.25 Gradually, step by step, one should become situated in trance by means of intelligence sustained by full conviction, and thus the mind…
BG 6.26 From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the…
BG 6.27 The yogī whose mind is fixed on Me verily attains the highest perfection of transcendental happiness. He is beyond the mode of passion, he…
BG 6.28 Thus the self-controlled yogī, constantly engaged in yoga practice, becomes free from all material contamination and achieves the highest…
BG 6.29 A true yogī observes Me in all beings and also sees every being in Me. Indeed, the self-realized person sees Me, the same Supreme Lord,…
BG 6.30 For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me.
BG 6.31 Such a yogī, who engages in the worshipful service of the Supersoul, knowing that I and the Supersoul are one, remains always in Me in all…
BG 6.32 He is a perfect yogī who, by comparison to his own self, sees the true equality of all beings, in both their happiness and their distress,…
BG 6.35 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: O mighty-armed son of Kuntī, it is undoubtedly very difficult to curb the restless mind, but it is possible by…
BG 6.36 For one whose mind is unbridled, self-realization is difficult work. But he whose mind is controlled and who strives by appropriate means…
BG 6.40 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Son of Pṛthā, a transcendentalist engaged in auspicious activities does not meet with destruction…
BG 6.41 The unsuccessful yogī, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous…
BG 6.42 Or [if unsuccessful after long practice of yoga] he takes his birth in a family of transcendentalists who are surely great in wisdom.…
BG 6.43 On taking such a birth, he revives the divine consciousness of his previous life, and he again tries to make further progress in order to…
BG 6.44 By virtue of the divine consciousness of his previous life, he automatically becomes attracted to the yogic principles – even without…
BG 6.45 And when the yogī engages himself with sincere endeavor in making further progress, being washed of all contaminations, then ultimately,…
BG 6.46 A yogī is greater than the ascetic, greater than the empiricist and greater than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all…
BG 6.47 And of all yogīs, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me within himself and renders transcendental loving service…
BG 7.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Now hear, O son of Pṛthā, how by practicing yoga in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached…
BG 7.2 I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and numinous. This being known, nothing further shall remain for you…
BG 7.3 Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.
BG 7.4 Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego – all together these eight constitute My separated material energies.
BG 7.5 Besides these, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is another, superior energy of Mine, which comprises the living entities who are exploiting…
BG 7.6 All created beings have their source in these two natures. Of all that is material and all that is spiritual in this world, know for…
BG 7.7 O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.
BG 7.8 O son of Kuntī, I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable oṁ in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether…
BG 7.9 I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics.
BG 7.10 O son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the prowess of all powerful…
BG 7.11 I am the strength of the strong, devoid of passion and desire. I am sex life which is not contrary to religious principles, O lord of the…
BG 7.12 Know that all states of being – be they of goodness, passion or ignorance – are manifested by My energy. I am, in one sense, everything,…
BG 7.13 Deluded by the three modes [goodness, passion and ignorance], the whole world does not know Me, who am above the modes and inexhaustible.
BG 7.14 This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered…
BG 7.15 Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, who are lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the…
BG 7.16 O best among the Bhāratas, four kinds of pious men begin to render devotional service unto Me – the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the…
BG 7.17 Of these, the one who is in full knowledge and who is always engaged in pure devotional service is the best. For I am very dear to him,…
BG 7.18 All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider to be just like My own self.…
BG 7.19 After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that…
BG 7.20 Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of…
BG 7.21 I am in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul. As soon as one desires to worship some demigod, I make his faith steady so that he can devote…
BG 7.22 Endowed with such a faith, he endeavors to worship a particular demigod and obtains his desires. But in actuality these benefits are…
BG 7.23 Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the…
BG 7.24 Unintelligent men, who do not know Me perfectly, think that I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, was impersonal before and have…
BG 7.25 I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My internal potency, and therefore they do not know that I…
BG 7.26 O Arjuna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I know everything that has happened in the past, all that is happening in the present,…
BG 7.27 O scion of Bharata, O conqueror of the foe, all living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by dualities arisen from desire and hate.
BG 7.28 Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life and whose sinful actions are completely eradicated are freed from the…
BG 7.29 Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old age and death take refuge in Me in devotional service. They are actually…
BG 7.30 Those in full consciousness of Me, who know Me, the Supreme Lord, to be the governing principle of the material manifestation, of the…
BG 8.1 Arjuna inquired: O my Lord, O Supreme Person, what is Brahman? What is the self? What are fruitive activities? What is this material…
BG 8.2 Who is the Lord of sacrifice, and how does He live in the body, O Madhusūdana? And how can those engaged in devotional service know You at…
BG 8.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is…
BG 8.4 O best of the embodied beings, the physical nature, which is constantly changing, is called adhibhūta [the material manifestation]. The…
BG 8.5 And whoever, at the end of his life, quits his body remembering Me alone at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.
BG 8.6 Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kuntī, that state he will attain without fail.
BG 8.7 Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Kṛṣṇa and at the same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting.…
BG 8.8 He who meditates on Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind constantly engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he,…
BG 8.9 One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows everything, as He who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is…
BG 8.10 One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and, by the strength of yoga, with an undeviating mind, engages…
BG 8.11 Persons who are learned in the Vedas, who utter oṁ-kāra, and who are great sages in the renounced order enter into Brahman. Desiring such…
BG 8.12 The yogic situation is that of detachment from all sensual engagements. Closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the…
BG 8.13 After being situated in this yoga practice and vibrating the sacred syllable oṁ, the supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the…
BG 8.14 For one who always remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Pṛthā, because of his constant engagement in devotional…
BG 8.15 After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because…
BG 8.16 From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place.…
BG 8.17 By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together form the duration of Brahmā’s one day. And such also is the duration of his night.
BG 8.18 At the beginning of Brahmā’s day, all living entities become manifest from the unmanifest state, and thereafter, when the night falls,…
BG 8.19 Again and again, when Brahmā’s day arrives, all living entities come into being, and with the arrival of Brahmā’s night they are…
BG 8.20 Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme…
BG 8.21 That which the Vedāntists describe as unmanifest and infallible, that which is known as the supreme destination, that place from which,…
BG 8.22 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than all, is attainable by unalloyed devotion. Although He is present in His abode, He…
BG 8.23 O best of the Bhāratas, I shall now explain to you the different times at which, passing away from this world, the yogī does or does not…
BG 8.24 Those who know the Supreme Brahman attain that Supreme by passing away from the world during the influence of the fiery god, in the light,…
BG 8.25 The mystic who passes away from this world during the smoke, the night, the fortnight of the waning moon, or the six months when the sun…
BG 8.26 According to Vedic opinion, there are two ways of passing from this world – one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he…
BG 8.27 Although the devotees know these two paths, O Arjuna, they are never bewildered. Therefore be always fixed in devotion.
BG 8.28 A person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the results derived from studying the Vedas, performing sacrifices,…
BG 9.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most confidential…
BG 9.2 This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct…
BG 9.3 Those who are not faithful in this devotional service cannot attain Me, O conqueror of enemies. Therefore they return to the path of birth…
BG 9.4 By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.
BG 9.5 And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities and…
BG 9.6 Understand that as the mighty wind, blowing everywhere, rests always in the sky, all created beings rest in Me.
BG 9.7 O son of Kuntī, at the end of the millennium all material manifestations enter into My nature, and at the beginning of another millennium,…
BG 9.8 The whole cosmic order is under Me. Under My will it is automatically manifested again and again, and under My will it is annihilated at…
BG 9.9 O Dhanañjaya, all this work cannot bind Me. I am ever detached from all these material activities, seated as though neutral.
BG 9.10 This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, producing all moving and nonmoving…
BG 9.11 Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be.
BG 9.12 Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their…
BG 9.13 O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in…
BG 9.14 Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with…
BG 9.15 Others, who engage in sacrifice by the cultivation of knowledge, worship the Supreme Lord as the one without a second, as diverse in many,…
BG 9.16 But it is I who am the ritual, I the sacrifice, the offering to the ancestors, the healing herb, the transcendental chant. I am the butter…
BG 9.17 I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable…
BG 9.18 I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the…
BG 9.19 O Arjuna, I give heat, and I withhold and send forth the rain. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both spirit and matter…
BG 9.20 Those who study the Vedas and drink the soma juice, seeking the heavenly planets, worship Me indirectly. Purified of sinful reactions,…
BG 9.21 When they have thus enjoyed vast heavenly sense pleasure and the results of their pious activities are exhausted, they return to this…
BG 9.22 But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form – to them I carry what they lack, and I…
BG 9.23 Those who are devotees of other gods and who worship them with faith actually worship only Me, O son of Kuntī, but they do so in a wrong…
BG 9.24 I am the only enjoyer and master of all sacrifices. Therefore, those who do not recognize My true transcendental nature fall down.
BG 9.25 Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship…
BG 9.26 If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it.
BG 9.27 Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform – do that, O son of Kuntī, as an…
BG 9.28 In this way you will be freed from bondage to work and its auspicious and inauspicious results. With your mind fixed on Me in this…
BG 9.29 I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I…
BG 9.30 Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is…
BG 9.31 He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.
BG 9.32 O son of Pṛthā, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth – women, vaiśyas [merchants] and śūdras [workers] – can attain…
BG 9.33 How much more this is so of the righteous brāhmaṇas, the devotees and the saintly kings. Therefore, having come to this temporary,…
BG 9.34 Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me,…
BG 10.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Listen again, O mighty-armed Arjuna. Because you are My dear friend, for your benefit I shall…
BG 10.2 Neither the hosts of demigods nor the great sages know My origin or opulences, for, in every respect, I am the source of the demigods and…
BG 10.3 He who knows Me as the unborn, as the beginningless, as the Supreme Lord of all the worlds – he only, undeluded among men, is freed from…
BG 10.4-5 Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses, control of the mind, happiness…
BG 10.6 The seven great sages and before them the four other great sages and the Manus [progenitors of mankind] come from Me, born from My mind,…
BG 10.7 One who is factually convinced of this opulence and mystic power of Mine engages in unalloyed devotional service; of this there is no doubt.
BG 10.8 I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My…
BG 10.9 The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss…
BG 10.10 To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.
BG 10.11 To show them special mercy, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.
BG 10.19 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Yes, I will tell you of My splendorous manifestations, but only of those which are prominent, O…
BG 10.20 I am the Supersoul, O Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all living entities. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings.
BG 10.21 Of the Ādityas I am Viṣṇu, of lights I am the radiant sun, of the Maruts I am Marīci, and among the stars I am the moon.
BG 10.22 Of the Vedas I am the Sāma Veda; of the demigods I am Indra, the king of heaven; of the senses I am the mind; and in living beings I am…
BG 10.23 Of all the Rudras I am Lord Śiva, of the Yakṣas and Rākṣasas I am the Lord of wealth [Kuvera], of the Vasus I am fire [Agni], and of…
BG 10.24 Of priests, O Arjuna, know Me to be the chief, Bṛhaspati. Of generals I am Kārttikeya, and of bodies of water I am the ocean.
BG 10.25 Of the great sages I am Bhṛgu; of vibrations I am the transcendental oṁ. Of sacrifices I am the chanting of the holy names [japa], and of…
BG 10.26 Of all trees I am the banyan tree, and of the sages among the demigods I am Nārada. Of the Gandharvas I am Citraratha, and among perfected…
BG 10.27 Of horses know Me to be Uccaiḥśravā, produced during the churning of the ocean for nectar. Of lordly elephants I am Airāvata, and among…
BG 10.28 Of weapons I am the thunderbolt; among cows I am the surabhi. Of causes for procreation I am Kandarpa, the god of love, and of serpents I…
BG 10.29 Of the many-hooded Nāgas I am Ananta, and among the aquatics I am the demigod Varuṇa. Of departed ancestors I am Aryamā, and among the…
BG 10.30 Among the Daitya demons I am the devoted Prahlāda, among subduers I am time, among beasts I am the lion, and among birds I am Garuḍa.
BG 10.31 Of purifiers I am the wind, of the wielders of weapons I am Rāma, of fishes I am the shark, and of flowing rivers I am the Ganges.
BG 10.32 Of all creations I am the beginning and the end and also the middle, O Arjuna. Of all sciences I am the spiritual science of the self, and…
BG 10.33 Of letters I am the letter A, and among compound words I am the dual compound. I am also inexhaustible time, and of creators I am Brahmā.
BG 10.34 I am all-devouring death, and I am the generating principle of all that is yet to be. Among women I am fame, fortune, fine speech, memory,…
BG 10.35 Of the hymns in the Sāma Veda I am the Bṛhat-sāma, and of poetry I am the Gāyatrī. Of months I am Mārgaśīrṣa [November-December], and of…
BG 10.36 I am also the gambling of cheats, and of the splendid I am the splendor. I am victory, I am adventure, and I am the strength of the strong.
BG 10.37 Of the descendants of Vṛṣṇi I am Vāsudeva, and of the Pāṇḍavas I am Arjuna. Of the sages I am Vyāsa, and among great thinkers I am Uśanā.
BG 10.38 Among all means of suppressing lawlessness I am punishment, and of those who seek victory I am morality. Of secret things I am silence,…
BG 10.39 Furthermore, O Arjuna, I am the generating seed of all existences. There is no being – moving or nonmoving – that can exist without Me.
BG 10.40 O mighty conqueror of enemies, there is no end to My divine manifestations. What I have spoken to you is but a mere indication of My…
BG 10.41 Know that all opulent, beautiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.
BG 10.42 But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire…
BG 11.5 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, O son of Pṛthā, see now My opulences, hundreds of thousands of varied divine and…
BG 11.6 O best of the Bhāratas, see here the different manifestations of Ādityas, Vasus, Rudras, Aśvinī-kumāras and all the other demigods. Behold…
BG 11.7 O Arjuna, whatever you wish to see, behold at once in this body of Mine! This universal form can show you whatever you now desire to see…
BG 11.8 But you cannot see Me with your present eyes. Therefore I give you divine eyes. Behold My mystic opulence!
BG 11.32 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds, and I have come here to destroy all people. With…
BG 11.33 Therefore get up. Prepare to fight and win glory. Conquer your enemies and enjoy a flourishing kingdom. They are already put to death by…
BG 11.34 Droṇa, Bhīṣma, Jayadratha, Karṇa and the other great warriors have already been destroyed by Me. Therefore, kill them and do not be…
BG 11.35 Sañjaya said to Dhṛtarāṣṭra: O King, after hearing these words from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the trembling Arjuna offered…
BG 11.47 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, happily have I shown you, by My internal potency, this supreme universal form…
BG 11.48 O best of the Kuru warriors, no one before you has ever seen this universal form of Mine, for neither by studying the Vedas, nor by…
BG 11.49 You have been perturbed and bewildered by seeing this horrible feature of Mine. Now let it be finished. My devotee, be free again from all…
BG 11.50 Sañjaya said to Dhṛtarāṣṭra: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, having spoken thus to Arjuna, displayed His real four-armed form…
BG 11.52 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, this form of Mine you are now seeing is very difficult to behold. Even the…
BG 11.53 The form you are seeing with your transcendental eyes cannot be understood simply by studying the Vedas, nor by undergoing serious…
BG 11.54 My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only…
BG 11.55 My dear Arjuna, he who engages in My pure devotional service, free from the contaminations of fruitive activities and mental speculation,…
BG 12.1 Arjuna inquired: Which are considered to be more perfect, those who are always properly engaged in Your devotional service or those who…
BG 12.2 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Those who fix their minds on My personal form and are always engaged in worshiping Me with great…
BG 12.3-4 But those who fully worship the unmanifested, that which lies beyond the perception of the senses, the all-pervading, inconceivable,…
BG 12.5 For those whose minds are attached to the unmanifested, impersonal feature of the Supreme, advancement is very troublesome. To make…
BG 12.6-7 But those who worship Me, giving up all their activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service…
BG 12.8 Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always,…
BG 12.9 My dear Arjuna, O winner of wealth, if you cannot fix your mind upon Me without deviation, then follow the regulative principles of…
BG 12.10 If you cannot practice the regulations of bhakti-yoga, then just try to work for Me, because by working for Me you will come to the…
BG 12.11 If, however, you are unable to work in this consciousness of Me, then try to act giving up all results of your work and try to be…
BG 12.12 If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation,…
BG 12.13-14 One who is not envious but is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor and is free from false ego,…
BG 12.15 He by whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and distress, fear and…
BG 12.16 My devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and not…
BG 12.17 One who neither rejoices nor grieves, who neither laments nor desires, and who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things – such a…
BG 12.18-19 One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy,…
BG 12.20 Those who follow this imperishable path of devotional service and who completely engage themselves with faith, making Me the supreme goal,…
BG 14.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all…
BG 14.2 By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature like My own. Thus established, one is not born at the…
BG 14.3 The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is that Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births…
BG 14.4 It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the…
BG 14.5 Material nature consists of three modes – goodness, passion and ignorance. When the eternal living entity comes in contact with nature, O…
BG 14.6 O sinless one, the mode of goodness, being purer than the others, is illuminating, and it frees one from all sinful reactions. Those…
BG 14.7 The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kuntī, and because of this the embodied living entity is bound to…
BG 14.8 O son of Bharata, know that the mode of darkness, born of ignorance, is the delusion of all embodied living entities. The results of this…
BG 14.9 O son of Bharata, the mode of goodness conditions one to happiness; passion conditions one to fruitive action; and ignorance, covering…
BG 14.10 Sometimes the mode of goodness becomes prominent, defeating the modes of passion and ignorance, O son of Bharata. Sometimes the mode of…
BG 14.11 The manifestation of the mode of goodness can be experienced when all the gates of the body are illuminated by knowledge.
BG 14.12 O chief of the Bhāratas, when there is an increase in the mode of passion the symptoms of great attachment, fruitive activity, intense…
BG 14.13 When there is an increase in the mode of ignorance, O son of Kuru, darkness, inertia, madness and illusion are manifested.
BG 14.14 When one dies in the mode of goodness, he attains to the pure higher planets of the great sages.
BG 14.15 When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities; and when one dies in the mode of…
BG 14.16 The result of pious action is pure and is said to be in the mode of goodness. But action done in the mode of passion results in misery,…
BG 14.17 From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, greed develops; and from the mode of ignorance develop…
BG 14.18 Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly…
BG 14.19 When one properly sees that in all activities no other performer is at work than these modes of nature and he knows the Supreme Lord, who…
BG 14.20 When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes associated with the material body, he can become free from birth, death,…
BG 14.21 Arjuna inquired: O my dear Lord, by which symptoms is one known who is transcendental to these three modes? What is his behavior? And how…
BG 14.22-25 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O son of Pāṇḍu, he who does not hate illumination, attachment and delusion when they are present…
BG 14.26 One who engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes…
BG 14.27 And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is immortal, imperishable and eternal and is the constitutional position of ultimate…
BG 15.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is said that there is an imperishable banyan tree that has its roots upward and its branches…
BG 15.2 The branches of this tree extend downward and upward, nourished by the three modes of material nature. The twigs are the objects of the…
BG 15.3-4 The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its…
BG 15.5 Those who are free from false prestige, illusion and false association, who understand the eternal, who are done with material lust, who…
BG 15.6 That supreme abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who reach it never return to this…
BG 15.7 The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with…
BG 15.8 The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another, as the air carries aromas.…
BG 15.9 The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped…
BG 15.10 The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell…
BG 15.11 The endeavoring transcendentalists who are situated in self-realization can see all this clearly. But those whose minds are not developed…
BG 15.12 The splendor of the sun, which dissipates the darkness of this whole world, comes from Me. And the splendor of the moon and the splendor…
BG 15.13 I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit. I become the moon and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables.
BG 15.14 I am the fire of digestion in the bodies of all living entities, and I join with the air of life, outgoing and incoming, to digest the…
BG 15.15 I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I…
BG 15.16 There are two classes of beings, the fallible and the infallible. In the material world every living entity is fallible, and in the…
BG 15.17 Besides these two, there is the greatest living personality, the Supreme Soul, the imperishable Lord Himself, who has entered the three…
BG 15.18 Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world…
BG 15.19 Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without doubting, is the knower of everything. He therefore engages himself in…
BG 15.20 This is the most confidential part of the Vedic scriptures, O sinless one, and it is disclosed now by Me. Whoever understands this will…
BG 16.1-3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Fearlessness; purification of one’s existence; cultivation of spiritual knowledge; charity;…
BG 16.4 Pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance – these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature, O son of Pṛthā.
BG 16.5 The transcendental qualities are conducive to liberation, whereas the demoniac qualities make for bondage. Do not worry, O son of Pāṇḍu,…
BG 16.6 O son of Pṛthā, in this world there are two kinds of created beings. One is called divine and the other demoniac. I have already explained…
BG 16.7 Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. Neither cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is…
BG 16.8 They say that this world is unreal, with no foundation, no God in control. They say it is produced of sex desire and has no cause other…
BG 16.9 Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works…
BG 16.10 Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn…
BG 16.11-12 They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is…
BG 16.13-15 The demoniac person thinks: “So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it…
BG 16.16 Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, they become too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and fall…
BG 16.17 Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes proudly perform sacrifices in name only, without…
BG 16.18 Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demons become envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated…
BG 16.19 Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, I perpetually cast into the ocean of material existence, into various…
BG 16.20 Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, O son of Kuntī, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they sink…
BG 16.21 There are three gates leading to this hell – lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation…
BG 16.22 The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kuntī, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains…
BG 16.23 He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme…
BG 16.24 One should therefore understand what is duty and what is not duty by the regulations of the scriptures. Knowing such rules and…
BG 17.1 Arjuna inquired: O Kṛṣṇa, what is the situation of those who do not follow the principles of scripture but worship according to their own…
BG 17.2 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: According to the modes of nature acquired by the embodied soul, one’s faith can be of three kinds…
BG 17.3 O son of Bharata, according to one’s existence under the various modes of nature, one evolves a particular kind of faith. The living being…
BG 17.4 Men in the mode of goodness worship the demigods; those in the mode of passion worship the demons; and those in the mode of ignorance…
BG 17.5-6 Those who undergo severe austerities and penances not recommended in the scriptures, performing them out of pride and egoism, who are…
BG 17.7 Even the food each person prefers is of three kinds, according to the three modes of material nature. The same is true of sacrifices,…
BG 17.8 Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and…
BG 17.9 Foods that are too bitter, too sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry and burning are dear to those in the mode of passion. Such foods cause…
BG 17.10 Food prepared more than three hours before being eaten, food that is tasteless, decomposed and putrid, and food consisting of remnants and…
BG 17.11 Of sacrifices, the sacrifice performed according to the directions of scripture, as a matter of duty, by those who desire no reward, is of…
BG 17.12 But the sacrifice performed for some material benefit, or for the sake of pride, O chief of the Bhāratas, you should know to be in the…
BG 17.13 Any sacrifice performed without regard for the directions of scripture, without distribution of prasādam [spiritual food], without…
BG 17.14 Austerity of the body consists in worship of the Supreme Lord, the brāhmaṇas, the spiritual master, and superiors like the father and…
BG 17.15 Austerity of speech consists in speaking words that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others, and also in regularly…
BG 17.16 And satisfaction, simplicity, gravity, self-control and purification of one’s existence are the austerities of the mind.
BG 17.17 This threefold austerity, performed with transcendental faith by men not expecting material benefits but engaged only for the sake of the…
BG 17.18 Penance performed out of pride and for the sake of gaining respect, honor and worship is said to be in the mode of passion. It is neither…
BG 17.19 Penance performed out of foolishness, with self-torture or to destroy or injure others, is said to be in the mode of ignorance.
BG 17.20 Charity given out of duty, without expectation of return, at the proper time and place, and to a worthy person is considered to be in the…
BG 17.21 But charity performed with the expectation of some return, or with a desire for fruitive results, or in a grudging mood is said to be…
BG 17.22 And charity performed at an impure place, at an improper time, to unworthy persons, or without proper attention and respect is said to be…
BG 17.23 From the beginning of creation, the three words oṁ tat sat were used to indicate the Supreme Absolute Truth. These three symbolic…
BG 17.24 Therefore, transcendentalists undertaking performances of sacrifice, charity and penance in accordance with scriptural regulations begin…
BG 17.25 Without desiring fruitive results, one should perform various kinds of sacrifice, penance and charity with the word tat. The purpose of…
BG 17.26-27 The Absolute Truth is the objective of devotional sacrifice, and it is indicated by the word sat. The performer of such sacrifice is also…
BG 17.28 Anything done as sacrifice, charity or penance without faith in the Supreme, O son of Pṛthā, is impermanent. It is called asat and is…
BG 18.2 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The giving up of activities that are based on material desire is what great learned men call the…
BG 18.3 Some learned men declare that all kinds of fruitive activities should be given up as faulty, yet other sages maintain that acts of…
BG 18.4 O best of the Bhāratas, now hear My judgment about renunciation. O tiger among men, renunciation is declared in the scriptures to be of…
BG 18.5 Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not to be given up; they must be performed. Indeed, sacrifice, charity and penance purify even…
BG 18.6 All these activities should be performed without attachment or any expectation of result. They should be performed as a matter of duty, O…
BG 18.7 Prescribed duties should never be renounced. If one gives up his prescribed duties because of illusion, such renunciation is said to be in…
BG 18.8 Anyone who gives up prescribed duties as troublesome or out of fear of bodily discomfort is said to have renounced in the mode of passion.…
BG 18.9 O Arjuna, when one performs his prescribed duty only because it ought to be done, and renounces all material association and all…
BG 18.10 The intelligent renouncer situated in the mode of goodness, neither hateful of inauspicious work nor attached to auspicious work, has no…
BG 18.11 It is indeed impossible for an embodied being to give up all activities. But he who renounces the fruits of action is called one who has…
BG 18.12 For one who is not renounced, the threefold fruits of action – desirable, undesirable and mixed – accrue after death. But those who are in…
BG 18.13 O mighty-armed Arjuna, according to the Vedānta there are five causes for the accomplishment of all action. Now learn of these from Me.
BG 18.14 The place of action [the body], the performer, the various senses, the many different kinds of endeavor, and ultimately the Supersoul –…
BG 18.15 Whatever right or wrong action a man performs by body, mind or speech is caused by these five factors.
BG 18.16 Therefore one who thinks himself the only doer, not considering the five factors, is certainly not very intelligent and cannot see things…
BG 18.17 One who is not motivated by false ego, whose intelligence is not entangled, though he kills men in this world, does not kill. Nor is he…
BG 18.18 Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower are the three factors that motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer are the…
BG 18.19 According to the three different modes of material nature, there are three kinds of knowledge, action and performer of action. Now hear of…
BG 18.20 That knowledge by which one undivided spiritual nature is seen in all living entities, though they are divided into innumerable forms, you…
BG 18.21 That knowledge by which one sees that in every different body there is a different type of living entity you should understand to be in…
BG 18.22 And that knowledge by which one is attached to one kind of work as the all in all, without knowledge of the truth, and which is very…
BG 18.23 That action which is regulated and which is performed without attachment, without love or hatred, and without desire for fruitive results…
BG 18.24 But action performed with great effort by one seeking to gratify his desires, and enacted from a sense of false ego, is called action in…
BG 18.25 That action performed in illusion, in disregard of scriptural injunctions, and without concern for future bondage or for violence or…
BG 18.26 One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material nature, without false ego, with great determination and…
BG 18.27 The worker who is attached to work and the fruits of work, desiring to enjoy those fruits, and who is greedy, always envious, impure, and…
BG 18.28 The worker who is always engaged in work against the injunctions of the scripture, who is materialistic, obstinate, cheating and expert in…
BG 18.29 O winner of wealth, now please listen as I tell you in detail of the different kinds of understanding and determination, according to the…
BG 18.30 O son of Pṛthā, that understanding by which one knows what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, what is to be feared and what…
BG 18.31 O son of Pṛthā, that understanding which cannot distinguish between religion and irreligion, between action that should be done and action…
BG 18.32 That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and…
BG 18.33 O son of Pṛthā, that determination which is unbreakable, which is sustained with steadfastness by yoga practice, and which thus controls…
BG 18.34 But that determination by which one holds fast to fruitive results in religion, economic development and sense gratification is of the…
BG 18.35 And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion – such unintelligent…
BG 18.36 O best of the Bhāratas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness by which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he…
BG 18.37 That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said…
BG 18.38 That happiness which is derived from contact of the senses with their objects and which appears like nectar at first but poison at the end…
BG 18.39 And that happiness which is blind to self-realization, which is delusion from beginning to end and which arises from sleep, laziness and…
BG 18.40 There is no being existing, either here or among the demigods in the higher planetary systems, which is freed from these three modes born…
BG 18.41 Brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras are distinguished by the qualities born of their own natures in accordance with the material…
BG 18.42 Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom and religiousness – these are the natural qualities…
BG 18.43 Heroism, power, determination, resourcefulness, courage in battle, generosity and leadership are the natural qualities of work for the…
BG 18.44 Farming, cow protection and business are the natural work for the vaiśyas, and for the śūdras there are labor and service to others.
BG 18.45 By following his qualities of work, every man can become perfect. Now please hear from Me how this can be done.
BG 18.46 By worship of the Lord, who is the source of all beings and who is all-pervading, a man can attain perfection through performing his own…
BG 18.47 It is better to engage in one’s own occupation, even though one may perform it imperfectly, than to accept another’s occupation and…
BG 18.48 Every endeavor is covered by some fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work born of his nature, O…
BG 18.49 One who is self-controlled and unattached and who disregards all material enjoyments can obtain, by practice of renunciation, the highest…
BG 18.50 O son of Kuntī, learn from Me how one who has achieved this perfection can attain to the supreme perfectional stage, Brahman, the stage of…
BG 18.51-53 Being purified by his intelligence and controlling the mind with determination, giving up the objects of sense gratification, being freed…
BG 18.54 One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to…
BG 18.55 One can understand Me as I am, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of…
BG 18.56 Though engaged in all kinds of activities, My pure devotee, under My protection, reaches the eternal and imperishable abode by My grace.
BG 18.57 In all activities just depend upon Me and work always under My protection. In such devotional service, be fully conscious of Me.
BG 18.58 If you become conscious of Me, you will pass over all the obstacles of conditioned life by My grace. If, however, you do not work in such…
BG 18.59 If you do not act according to My direction and do not fight, then you will be falsely directed. By your nature, you will have to be…
BG 18.60 Under illusion you are now declining to act according to My direction. But, compelled by the work born of your own nature, you will act…
BG 18.61 The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a…
BG 18.62 O scion of Bharata, surrender unto Him utterly. By His grace you will attain transcendental peace and the supreme and eternal abode.
BG 18.63 Thus I have explained to you knowledge still more confidential. Deliberate on this fully, and then do what you wish to do.
BG 18.64 Because you are My very dear friend, I am speaking to you My supreme instruction, the most confidential knowledge of all. Hear this from…
BG 18.65 Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this…
BG 18.66 Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.
BG 18.67 This confidential knowledge may never be explained to those who are not austere, or devoted, or engaged in devotional service, nor to one…
BG 18.68 For one who explains this supreme secret to the devotees, pure devotional service is guaranteed, and at the end he will come back to Me.
BG 18.69 There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear.
BG 18.70 And I declare that he who studies this sacred conversation of ours worships Me by his intelligence.
BG 18.71 And one who listens with faith and without envy becomes free from sinful reactions and attains to the auspicious planets where the pious…
BG 18.72 O son of Pṛthā, O conqueror of wealth, have you heard this with an attentive mind? And are your ignorance and illusions now dispelled?
SB 1.7.27 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Know from Me that this is the act of the son of Droṇa. He has thrown the hymns of nuclear energy…
SB 1.7.28 O Arjuna, only another brahmāstra can counteract this weapon. Since you are expert in the military science, subdue this weapon’s glare…
SB 1.7.35 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: O Arjuna, you should not show mercy by releasing this relative of a brāhmaṇa [brahma-bandhu], for he has killed…
SB 1.7.36 A person who knows the principles of religion does not kill an enemy who is careless, intoxicated, insane, asleep, afraid or devoid of his…
SB 1.7.37 A cruel and wretched person who maintains his existence at the cost of others’ lives deserves to be killed for his own well-being,…
SB 1.7.38 Furthermore, I have personally heard you promise Draupadī that you would bring forth the head of the killer of her sons.
SB 1.7.39 This man is an assassin and murderer of your own family members. Not only that, but he has also dissatisfied his master. He is but the…
SB 1.7.53-54 The Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: A friend of a brāhmaṇa is not to be killed, but if he is an aggressor he must be killed. All…
SB 2.9.31 The Personality of Godhead said: Knowledge about Me as described in the scriptures is very confidential, and it has to be realized in…
SB 2.9.32 All of Me, namely My actual eternal form and My transcendental existence, color, qualities and activities — let all be awakened within you…
SB 2.9.33 Brahmā, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the…
SB 2.9.34 O Brahmā, whatever appears to be of any value, if it is without relation to Me, has no reality. Know it as My illusory energy, that…
SB 2.9.35 O Brahmā, please know that the universal elements enter into the cosmos and at the same time do not enter into the cosmos; similarly, I…
SB 2.9.36 A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, must certainly search for it up to this, in all…
SB 2.9.37 O Brahmā, just follow this conclusion by fixed concentration of mind, and no pride will disturb you, neither in the partial nor in the…
SB 2.9.38 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, after being seen in His transcendental form,…
SB 2.9.39 On the disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who is the object of transcendental enjoyment for the senses of…
SB 2.9.40 Thus once upon a time the forefather of living entities and the father of religiousness, Lord Brahmā, situated himself in acts of…
SB 2.9.41 Nārada, the most dear of the inheritor sons of Brahmā, always ready to serve his father, strictly follows the instructions of his father…
SB 2.9.42 Nārada very much pleased his father and desired to know all about the energies of Viṣṇu, the master of all energies, for Nārada was the…
SB 2.9.43 The great sage Nārada also inquired in detail from his father, Brahmā, the great-grandfather of all the universe, after seeing him well…
SB 2.9.44 Thereupon the supplementary Vedic literature, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which was described by the Personality of Godhead and which contains ten…
SB 2.9.45 In succession, O King, the great sage Nārada instructed Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam unto the unlimitedly powerful Vyāsadeva, who meditated in…
SB 2.9.46 O King, your questions as to how the universe became manifested from the gigantic form of the Personality of Godhead, as well as other…
SB 3.3.14 [After the end of the Battle of Kurukṣetra, the Lord said:] The abatement of the earth’s great burden, eighteen akṣauhiṇīs, has now been…
SB 3.3.15 When they quarrel among themselves, influenced by intoxication, with their eyes red like copper because of drinking [madhu], then only…
SB 3.3.16 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, thus thinking to Himself, established Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira in the position of supreme control of the world in order to…
SB 3.3.17 The embryo of Pūru’s descendant begotten by the great hero Abhimanyu in the womb of Uttarā, his wife, was burnt by the weapon of the son…
SB 3.3.18 The Supreme Lord induced the son of Dharma to perform three horse sacrifices, and Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, constantly following Kṛṣṇa, the…
SB 3.3.19 Simultaneously, the Personality of Godhead enjoyed life in the city of Dvārakā, strictly in conformity with the Vedic customs of society.…
SB 3.3.20 He was there in His transcendental body, the residence of the goddess of fortune, with His usual gentle and sweetly smiling face, His…
SB 3.3.21 The Lord enjoyed His pastimes, both in this world and in other worlds [higher planets], specifically in the association of the Yadu…
SB 3.3.22 The Lord was thus engaged in household life for many, many years, but at last His detachment from ephemeral sex life was fully manifested.
SB 3.3.23 Every living entity is controlled by a supernatural force, and thus his sense enjoyment is also under the control of that supernatural…
SB 3.3.24 Once upon a time, great sages were made angry by the sporting activities of the princely descendants of the Yadu and Bhoja dynasties, and…
SB 3.3.25 A few months passed, and then, bewildered by Kṛṣṇa, all the descendants of Vṛṣṇi, Bhoja and Andhaka who were incarnations of demigods went…
SB 3.3.26 After arriving there, all of them took bath, and with the water of this place of pilgrimage they offered their respects to the…
SB 3.3.27 The brāhmaṇas were not only given well-fed cows in charity, but also gold, gold coins, bedding, clothing, animal-skin seats, blankets,…
SB 3.3.28 Thereafter they offered the brāhmaṇas highly delicious foodstuffs first offered to the Personality of Godhead and offered their respectful…
SB 3.4.1 Thereafter, all of them [the descendants of Vṛṣṇi and Bhoja], being permitted by the brāhmaṇas, partook of the remnants of prasāda and…
SB 3.4.2 As by the friction of bamboos destruction takes place, so also, at sunset, by the interaction of the faults of intoxication, all their…
SB 3.4.3 The Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, after foreseeing the end [of His family] by His internal potency, went to the bank of the…
SB 3.4.4 The Lord is the vanquisher of the distresses of one who is surrendered unto Him. Thus He who desired to destroy His family told me…
SB 3.4.5 Yet in spite of my knowing His desire [to destroy the dynasty], O Arindama [Vidura], I followed Him because it was impossible for me to…
SB 3.4.6 Thus following, I saw my patron and master [Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa] sitting alone and deeply thinking, taking shelter on the bank of the river…
SB 3.4.7 The Lord’s body is blackish, but is eternal, full of bliss and knowledge, and very, very beautiful. His eyes are always peaceful, and they…
SB 3.4.8 The Lord was sitting, taking rest against a young banyan tree, with His right lotus foot on His left thigh, and although He had left all…
SB 3.4.9 At that time, after traveling in many parts of the world, Maitreya, a great devotee of the Lord and a friend and well-wisher of the great…
SB 3.4.10 Maitreya Muni was greatly attached to Him [the Lord], and he was listening in a pleasing attitude, with his shoulder lowered. With a smile…
SB 3.4.11 O Vasu, I know from within your mind what you desired in the days of yore when the Vasus and other demigods responsible for expanding the…
SB 3.4.12 O honest one, your present life is the last and the supermost because in this term of life you have been awarded My ultimate favor. Now…
SB 3.4.13 O Uddhava, in the lotus millennium in the days of yore, at the beginning of the creation, I spoke unto Brahmā, who is situated on the…
SB 3.4.14 Uddhava said: O Vidura, when I was thus favored at every moment by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and addressed by Him with great…
SB 3.4.15 O my Lord, devotees who engage in the transcendental loving service of Your lotus feet have no difficulty in achieving anything within the…
SB 3.4.16 My Lord, even the learned sages become disturbed in their intelligence when they see that Your Greatness engages in fruitive work although…
SB 3.4.17 O my Lord, Your eternal Self is never divided by the influence of time, and there is no limitation to Your perfect knowledge. Thus You…
SB 3.4.18 My Lord, kindly explain to us, if You think us competent to receive it, that transcendental knowledge which gives enlightenment about…
SB 3.4.19 When I thus expressed my heartfelt desires unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the lotus-eyed Lord instructed me about His…
SB 3.4.20 I have studied the path of understanding self-knowledge from my spiritual master, the Personality of Godhead, and thus after…
SB 3.4.21 My dear Vidura, now I am mad for want of the pleasure of seeing Him, and just to mitigate this I am now proceeding to Badarikāśrama in the…
SB 3.4.22 There in Badarikāśrama the Personality of Godhead, in His incarnation as the sages Nara and Nārāyaṇa, has been undergoing great penance…
SB 3.9.29 The Supreme Personality of Godhead then said: O Brahmā, O depth of Vedic wisdom, be neither depressed nor anxious about the execution of…
SB 3.9.30 O Brahmā, situate yourself in penance and meditation and follow the principles of knowledge to receive My favor. By these actions you will…
SB 3.9.31 O Brahmā, when you are absorbed in devotional service, in the course of your creative activities, you will see Me in you and throughout…
SB 3.9.32 You will see Me in all living entities as well as all over the universe, just as fire is situated in wood. Only in that state of…
SB 3.9.33 When you are free from the conception of gross and subtle bodies and when your senses are free from all influences of the modes of…
SB 3.9.34 Since you have desired to increase the population innumerably and expand your varieties of service, you shall never be deprived in this…
SB 3.9.35 You are the original ṛṣi, and because your mind is always fixed on Me, even though you will be engaged in generating various progeny the…
SB 3.9.36 Although I am not easily knowable by the conditioned soul, you have known Me today because you know that My personality is not constituted…
SB 3.9.37 When you were contemplating whether there was a source to the stem of the lotus of your birth and you even entered into that stem, you…
SB 3.9.38 O Brahmā, the prayers that you have chanted praising the glories of My transcendental activities, the penances you have undertaken to…
SB 3.9.39 I am very much pleased by your description of Me in terms of My transcendental qualities, which appear mundane to the mundaners. I grant…
SB 3.9.40 Any human being who prays like Brahmā, and who thus worships Me, shall very soon be blessed with the fulfillment of all his desires, for I…
SB 3.9.41 It is the opinion of expert transcendentalists that the ultimate goal of performing all traditional good works, penances, sacrifices,…
SB 3.9.42 I am the Supersoul of every individual. I am the supreme director and the dearest. People are wrongly attached to the gross and subtle…
SB 3.9.43 By following My instructions you can now generate the living entities as before, by dint of your complete Vedic wisdom and the body you…
SB 3.16.2 The Personality of Godhead said: These attendants of Mine, Jaya and Vijaya by name, have committed a great offense against you because of…
SB 3.16.3 O great sages, I approve of the punishment that you who are devoted to Me have meted out to them.
SB 3.16.4 To Me, the brāhmaṇa is the highest and most beloved personality. The disrespect shown by My attendants has actually been displayed by Me…
SB 3.16.5 A wrong act committed by a servant leads people in general to blame his master, just as a spot of white leprosy on any part of the body…
SB 3.16.6 Anyone in the entire world, even down to the caṇḍāla, who lives by cooking and eating the flesh of the dog, is immediately purified if he…
SB 3.16.7 The Lord continued: Because I am the servitor of My devotees, My lotus feet have become so sacred that they immediately wipe out all sin…
SB 3.16.8 I do not enjoy the oblations offered by the sacrificers in the sacrificial fire, which is one of My own mouths, with the same relish as I…
SB 3.16.9 I am the master of My unobstructed internal energy, and the water of the Ganges is the remnant left after My feet are washed. That water…
SB 3.16.10 The brāhmaṇas, the cows and the defenseless creatures are My own body. Those whose faculty of judgment has been impaired by their own sin…
SB 3.16.11 On the other hand, they captivate My heart who are gladdened in heart and who, their lotus faces enlightened by nectarean smiles, respect…
SB 3.16.12 These servants of Mine have transgressed against you, not knowing the mind of their master. I shall therefore deem it a favor done to Me…
SB 3.16.13 Brahmā continued: Even though the sages had been bitten by the serpent of anger, their souls were not satiated with hearing the Lord’s…
SB 3.16.14 The Lord’s excellent speech was difficult to comprehend because of its momentous import and its most profound significance. The sages…
SB 3.16.15 The four brāhmaṇa sages were nevertheless extremely delighted to behold Him, and they experienced a thrill throughout their bodies. They…
SB 3.16.16 The sages said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, we are unable to know what You intend for us to do, for even though You are the supreme…
SB 3.16.17 O Lord, You are the supreme director of the brahminical culture. Your considering the brāhmaṇas to be in the highest position is Your…
SB 3.16.18 You are the source of the eternal occupation of all living entities, and by Your multimanifestations of Personalities of Godhead, You have…
SB 3.16.19 Mystics and transcendentalists, by the mercy of the Lord, cross beyond nescience by ceasing all material desires. It is not possible,…
SB 3.16.20 The goddess of fortune, Lakṣmī, the dust of whose feet is worn on the head by others, waits upon You, as appointed, for she is anxious to…
SB 3.16.21 O Lord, You are exceedingly attached to the activities of Your pure devotees, yet You are never attached to the goddesses of fortune who…
SB 3.16.22 O Lord, You are the personification of all religion. Therefore You manifest Yourself in three millenniums, and thus You protect this…
SB 3.16.23 O Lord, You are the protector of the highest of the twice-born. If You do not protect them by offering worship and mild words, then…
SB 3.16.24 Dear Lord, You never want the auspicious path to be destroyed, for You are the reservoir of all goodness. Just to benefit people in…
SB 3.16.25 O Lord, whatever punishment You wish to award to these two innocent persons, or also to us, we shall accept without duplicity. We…
SB 3.16.26 The Lord replied: O brāhmaṇas, know that the punishment you inflicted on them was originally ordained by Me, and therefore they will fall…
SB 3.18.10 The Personality of Godhead said: Indeed, We are creatures of the jungle, and We are searching after hunting dogs like you. One who is…
SB 3.18.11 Certainly We have stolen the charge of the inhabitants of Rasātala and have lost all shame. Although bitten by your powerful mace, I shall…
SB 3.18.12 You are supposed to be the commander of many foot soldiers, and now you may take prompt steps to overthrow Us. Give up all your foolish…
SB 3.19.10 The Lord then said: “Take up your weapon and try again, eager as you are to conquer Me.” Challenged in these words, the demon aimed his…
SB 3.19.11 When the Lord saw the mace flying toward Him, He stood firmly where He was and caught it with the same ease as Garuḍa, the king of birds,…
SB 3.19.12 His valor thus frustrated, the great demon felt humiliated and was put out of countenance. He was reluctant to take back the mace when it…
SB 3.19.13 He now took a trident which was as rapacious as a flaming fire and hurled it against the Lord, the enjoyer of all sacrifices, even as one…
SB 3.19.14 Hurled by the mighty demon with all his strength, the flying trident shone brightly in the sky. The Personality of Godhead, however, tore…
SB 3.19.15 The demon was enraged when his trident was cut to pieces by the discus of the Personality of Godhead. He therefore advanced toward the…
SB 3.19.16 Hit in this manner by the demon, O Vidura, the Lord, who had appeared as the first boar, did not feel the least quaking in any part of His…
SB 3.19.17 The demon, however, employed many conjuring tricks against the Personality of Godhead, who is the Lord of yoga-māyā. At the sight of this…
SB 3.19.18 Fierce winds began to blow from all directions, spreading darkness occasioned by dust and hail storms; stones came in volleys from every…
SB 3.19.19 The luminaries in outer space disappeared due to the sky’s being overcast with masses of clouds, which were accompanied by lightning and…
SB 3.19.20 O sinless Vidura, mountains discharged weapons of various kinds, and naked demonesses armed with tridents appeared with their hair hanging…
SB 3.19.21 Cruel and savage slogans were uttered by hosts of ruffian Yakṣas and Rākṣasas, who all either marched on foot or rode on horses, elephants…
SB 3.19.22 The Lord, the personal enjoyer of all sacrifices, now discharged His beloved Sudarśana, which was capable of dispersing the magical forces…
SB 3.19.23 At that very moment, a shudder suddenly ran through the heart of Diti, the mother of Hiraṇyākṣa. She recalled the words of her husband,…
SB 3.19.24 When the demon saw his magic forces dispelled, he once again came into the presence of the Personality of Godhead, Keśava, and, full of…
SB 3.19.25 The demon now began to strike the Lord with his hard fists, but Lord Adhokṣaja slapped him in the root of the ear, even as Indra, the lord…
SB 3.19.26 Though struck indifferently by the Lord, the conqueror of all, the demon’s body began to wheel. His eyeballs bulged out of their sockets.…
SB 3.19.27 Aja [Brahmā] and others arrived on the spot to see the fearfully tusked demon lying on the ground, biting his lip. The glow of his face…
SB 3.19.28 Brahmā continued: He was struck by a forefoot of the Lord, whom yogīs, seeking freedom from their unreal material bodies, meditate upon in…
SB 3.19.29 These two personal assistants of the Supreme Lord, having been cursed, have been destined to take birth in demoniac families. After a few…
SB 3.19.30 The demigods addressed the Lord: All obeisances unto You! You are the enjoyer of all sacrifices, and You have assumed the form of a boar,…
SB 3.19.31 Śrī Maitreya continued: After thus killing the most formidable demon Hiraṇyākṣa, the Supreme Lord Hari, the origin of the boar species,…
SB 3.19.32 Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, I have explained to you the Personality of Godhead’s coming down as the first boar incarnation and…
SB 3.19.33 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī continued: My dear brāhmaṇa, Kṣattā [Vidura] the great devotee of the Lord achieved transcendental bliss by hearing the…
SB 3.19.34 What to speak of hearing the pastimes of the Lord, whose chest is marked with Śrīvatsa, people may take transcendental pleasure even in…
SB 3.19.35 The Personality of Godhead delivered the king of the elephants, who was attacked by an alligator and who meditated upon the lotus feet of…
SB 3.19.36 What grateful soul is there who would not render his loving service to such a great master as the Personality of Godhead? The Lord can be…
SB 3.19.37 O brāhmaṇas, anyone who hears, chants, or takes pleasure in the wonderful narration of the killing of the Hiraṇyākṣa demon by the Lord,…
SB 3.19.38 This most sacred narrative confers extraordinary merit, wealth, fame, longevity and all the objects of one’s desire. On the field of…
SB 3.20.1 Śrī Śaunaka inquired: O Sūta Gosvāmī, after the earth was again situated in its orbit, what did Svāyambhuva Manu do to show the path of…
SB 3.20.2 Śaunaka Ṛṣi inquired about Vidura, who was a great devotee and friend of Lord Kṛṣṇa and who gave up the company of his elder brother…
SB 3.20.3 Vidura was born from the body of Vedavyāsa and was not less than he. Thus he accepted the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa wholeheartedly and was…
SB 3.20.4 Vidura was purified of all passion by wandering in sacred places, and at last he reached Hardwar, where he met the great sage who knew the…
SB 3.20.5 Śaunaka inquired about the conversation between Vidura and Maitreya: There must have been many narrations of the spotless pastimes of the…
SB 3.20.6 O Sūta Gosvāmī, all good fortune to you! Please narrate the activities of the Lord, which are all magnanimous and worth glorifying. What…
SB 3.20.7 On being asked to speak by the great sages of Naimiṣāraṇya, the son of Romaharṣaṇa, Sūta Gosvāmī, whose mind was absorbed in the…
SB 3.20.8 Sūta Gosvāmī continued: Vidura, the descendant of Bharata, was delighted to hear the story of the Lord, who, having assumed by His own…
SB 3.21.23 The Supreme Lord said: Having come to know what was in your mind, I have already arranged for that for which you have worshiped Me well…
SB 3.21.24 The Lord continued: My dear ṛṣi, O leader of the living entities, for those who serve Me in devotion by worshiping Me, especially persons…
SB 3.21.25 The Emperor Svāyambhuva Manu, the son of Lord Brahmā, who is well known for his righteous acts, has his seat in Brahmāvarta and rules over…
SB 3.21.26 The day after tomorrow, O brāhmaṇa, that celebrated emperor, who is expert in religious activities, will come here with his queen,…
SB 3.21.27 He has a grown-up daughter whose eyes are black. She is ready for marriage, and she has good character and all good qualities. She is also…
SB 3.21.28 That princess, O holy sage, will be just the type you have been thinking of in your heart for all these long years. She will soon be yours…
SB 3.21.29 She will bring forth nine daughters from the seed sown in her by you, and through the daughters you beget, the sages will duly beget…
SB 3.21.30 With your heart cleansed by properly carrying out My command, resigning to Me the fruits of all your acts, you will finally attain to Me.
SB 3.21.31 Showing compassion to all living entities, you will attain self-realization. Giving assurance of safety to all, you will perceive your own…
SB 3.21.32 O great sage, I shall manifest My own plenary portion through your wife, Devahūti, along with your nine daughters, and I shall instruct…
SB 3.21.33 Maitreya went on: Thus having spoken to Kardama Muni, the Lord, who reveals Himself only when the senses are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness,…
SB 3.21.34 While the sage stood looking on, the Lord left by the pathway leading to Vaikuṇṭha, a path extolled by all great liberated souls. The sage…
SB 3.21.35 Then, after the departure of the Lord, the worshipful sage Kardama stayed on the bank of Bindu-sarovara, awaiting the time of which the…
SB 3.21.36 Svāyambhuva Manu, with his wife, mounted his chariot, which was decorated with golden ornaments. Placing his daughter on it with them, he…
SB 3.21.37 O Vidura, they reached the hermitage of the sage, who had just completed his vows of austerity on the very day foretold by the Lord.
SB 3.21.38-39 The holy Lake Bindu-sarovara, flooded by the waters of the river Sarasvatī, was resorted to by hosts of eminent sages. Its holy water was…
SB 3.21.40 The shore of the lake was surrounded by clusters of pious trees and creepers, rich in fruits and flowers of all seasons, that afforded…
SB 3.21.41 The area resounded with the notes of overjoyed birds. Intoxicated bees wandered there, intoxicated peacocks proudly danced, and merry…
SB 3.21.42-43 Lake Bindu-sarovara was adorned by flowering trees such as kadamba, campaka, aśoka, karañja, bakula, āsana, kunda, mandāra, kuṭaja and…
SB 3.21.44 Its shores abounded with deer, boars, porcupines, gavayas, elephants, baboons, lions, monkeys, mongooses and musk deer.
SB 3.21.45-47 Entering that most sacred spot with his daughter and going near the sage, the first monarch, Svāyambhuva Manu, saw the sage sitting in his…
SB 3.21.48 Seeing that the monarch had come to his hermitage and was bowing before him, the sage greeted him with benediction and received him with…
SB 3.21.49 After receiving the sage’s attention, the King sat down and was silent. Recalling the instructions of the Lord, Kardama then spoke to the…
SB 3.21.50 The tour you have undertaken, O lord, is surely intended to protect the virtuous and kill the demons, since you embody the protecting…
SB 3.21.51 When necessary, You assume the part of the sun-god; the moon-god; Agni, the god of fire; Indra, the lord of paradise; Vāyu, the wind-god;…
SB 3.21.52-54 If you did not mount your victorious jeweled chariot, whose mere presence threatens culprits, if you did not produce fierce sounds by the…
SB 3.21.55 If you gave up all thought of the world’s situation, unrighteousness would flourish, for men who hanker only after money would be…
SB 3.21.56 In spite of all this, I ask you, O valiant King, the purpose for which you have come here. Whatever it may be, we shall carry it out…
SB 3.24.35 The Personality of Godhead Kapila said: Whatever I speak, whether directly or in the scriptures, is authoritative in all respects for the…
SB 3.24.36 My appearance in this world is especially to explain the philosophy of Sāṅkhya, which is highly esteemed for self-realization by those…
SB 3.24.37 This path of self-realization, which is difficult to understand, has now been lost in the course of time. Please know that I have assumed…
SB 3.24.38 Now, being sanctioned by Me, go as you desire, surrendering all your activities to Me. Conquering insurmountable death, worship Me for…
SB 3.24.39 In your own heart, through your intellect, you will always see Me, the supreme self-effulgent soul dwelling within the hearts of all…
SB 3.24.40 I shall also describe this sublime knowledge, which is the door to spiritual life, to My mother, so that she also can attain perfection…
SB 3.26.10 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The unmanifested eternal combination of the three modes is the cause of the manifest state and is…
SB 3.26.11 The aggregate elements, namely the five gross elements, the five subtle elements, the four internal senses, the five senses for gathering…
SB 3.26.12 There are five gross elements, namely earth, water, fire, air and ether. There are also five subtle elements: smell, taste, color, touch…
SB 3.26.13 The senses for acquiring knowledge and the organs for action number ten, namely the auditory sense, the sense of taste, the tactile sense,…
SB 3.26.14 The internal, subtle senses are experienced as having four aspects, in the shape of mind, intelligence, ego and contaminated…
SB 3.26.15 All these are considered the qualified Brahman. The mixing element, which is known as time, is counted as the twenty-fifth element.
SB 3.26.16 The influence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is felt in the time factor, which causes fear of death due to the false ego of the…
SB 3.26.17 My dear mother, O daughter of Svāyambhuva Manu, the time factor, as I have explained, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whom the…
SB 3.26.18 By exhibiting His potencies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead adjusts all these different elements, keeping Himself within as the…
SB 3.26.19 After the Supreme Personality of Godhead impregnates material nature with His internal potency, material nature delivers the sum total of…
SB 3.26.20 Thus, after manifesting variegatedness, the effulgent mahat-tattva, which contains all the universes within itself, which is the root of…
SB 3.26.21 The mode of goodness, which is the clear, sober status of understanding the Personality of Godhead and which is generally called vāsudeva,…
SB 3.26.22 After the manifestation of the mahat-tattva, these features appear simultaneously. As water in its natural state, before coming in contact…
SB 3.26.23-24 The material ego springs up from the mahat-tattva, which evolved from the Lord’s own energy. The material ego is endowed predominantly…
SB 3.26.25 The threefold ahaṅkāra, the source of the gross elements, the senses and the mind, is identical with them because it is their cause. It is…
SB 3.26.26 This false ego is characterized as the doer, as an instrument and as an effect. It is further characterized as serene, active or dull…
SB 3.26.27 From the false ego of goodness, another transformation takes place. From this evolves the mind, whose thoughts and reflections give rise…
SB 3.26.28 The mind of the living entity is known by the name of Lord Aniruddha, the supreme ruler of the senses. He possesses a bluish-black form…
SB 3.26.29 By transformation of the false ego in passion, intelligence takes birth, O virtuous lady. The functions of intelligence are to help in…
SB 3.26.30 Doubt, misapprehension, correct apprehension, memory and sleep, as determined by their different functions, are said to be the distinct…
SB 3.26.31 Egoism in the mode of passion produces two kinds of senses: the senses for acquiring knowledge and the senses of action. The senses of…
SB 3.26.32 When egoism in ignorance is agitated by the sex energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the subtle element sound is manifested, and…
SB 3.26.33 Persons who are learned and who have true knowledge define sound as that which conveys the idea of an object, indicates the presence of a…
SB 3.26.34 The activities and characteristics of the ethereal element can be observed as the accommodation of room for the external and internal…
SB 3.26.35 From ethereal existence, which evolves from sound, the next transformation takes place under the impulse of time, and thus the subtle…
SB 3.26.36 Softness and hardness and cold and heat are the distinguishing attributes of touch, which is characterized as the subtle form of air.
SB 3.26.37 The action of the air is exhibited in movements, mixing, allowing approach to the objects of sound and other sense perceptions, and…
SB 3.26.38 By interactions of the air and the sensations of touch, one receives different forms according to destiny. By evolution of such forms,…
SB 3.26.39 My dear mother, the characteristics of form are understood by dimension, quality and individuality. The form of fire is appreciated by its…
SB 3.26.40 Fire is appreciated by its light and by its ability to cook, to digest, to destroy cold, to evaporate, and to give rise to hunger, thirst,…
SB 3.26.41 By the interaction of fire and the visual sensation, the subtle element taste evolves under a superior arrangement. From taste, water is…
SB 3.26.42 Although originally one, taste becomes manifold as astringent, sweet, bitter, pungent, sour and salty due to contact with other substances.
SB 3.26.43 The characteristics of water are exhibited by its moistening other substances, coagulating various mixtures, causing satisfaction,…
SB 3.26.44 Due to the interaction of water with the taste perception, the subtle element odor evolves under superior arrangement. Thence the earth…
SB 3.26.45 Odor, although one, becomes many — as mixed, offensive, fragrant, mild, strong, acidic and so on — according to the proportions of…
SB 3.26.46 The characteristics of the functions of earth can be perceived by modeling forms of the Supreme Brahman, by constructing places of…
SB 3.26.47 The sense whose object of perception is sound is called the auditory sense, and that whose object of perception is touch is called the…
SB 3.26.48 The sense whose object of perception is form, the distinctive characteristic of fire, is the sense of sight. The sense whose object of…
SB 3.26.49 Since the cause exists in its effect as well, the characteristics of the former are observed in the latter. That is why the peculiarities…
SB 3.26.50 When all these elements were unmixed, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the origin of creation, along with time, work, and the qualities…
SB 3.26.51 From these seven principles, roused into activity and united by the presence of the Lord, an unintelligent egg arose, from which appeared…
SB 3.26.52 This universal egg, or the universe in the shape of an egg, is called the manifestation of material energy. Its layers of water, air,…
SB 3.26.53 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the virāṭ-puruṣa, situated Himself in that golden egg, which was lying on the water, and He divided it…
SB 3.26.54 First of all a mouth appeared in Him, and then came forth the organ of speech, and with it the god of fire, the deity who presides over…
SB 3.26.55 In the wake of the olfactory sense came the wind-god, who presides over that sense. Thereafter a pair of eyes appeared in the universal…
SB 3.26.56 Then the universal form of the Lord, the virāṭ-puruṣa, manifested His skin, and thereupon the hair, mustache and beard appeared. After…
SB 3.26.57 After this, semen (the faculty of procreation) and the god who presides over the waters appeared. Next appeared an anus and then the…
SB 3.26.58 Thereafter the two hands of the universal form of the Lord became manifested, and with them the power of grasping and dropping things, and…
SB 3.26.59 The veins of the universal body became manifested and thereafter the red corpuscles, or blood. In their wake came the rivers (the deities…
SB 3.26.60 Next grew feelings of hunger and thirst, and in their wake came the manifestation of the oceans. Then a heart became manifest, and in the…
SB 3.26.61 After the mind, the moon appeared. Intelligence appeared next, and after intelligence, Lord Brahmā appeared. Then the false ego appeared…
SB 3.26.62 When the demigods and presiding deities of the various senses were thus manifested, they wanted to wake their origin of appearance. But…
SB 3.26.63 The god of fire entered His mouth with the organ of speech, but the virāṭ-puruṣa could not be aroused. Then the god of wind entered His…
SB 3.26.64 The sun-god entered the eyes of the virāṭ-puruṣa with the sense of sight, but still the virāṭ-puruṣa did not get up. Similarly, the…
SB 3.26.65 The predominating deities of the skin, herbs and seasoning plants entered the skin of the virāṭ-puruṣa with the hair of the body, but the…
SB 3.26.66 The god of death entered His anus with the organ of defecation, but the virāṭ-puruṣa could not be spurred to activity. The god Indra…
SB 3.26.67 Lord Viṣṇu entered His feet with the faculty of locomotion, but the virāṭ-puruṣa refused to stand up even then. The rivers entered His…
SB 3.26.68 The ocean entered His abdomen with hunger and thirst, but the Cosmic Being refused to rise even then. The moon-god entered His heart with…
SB 3.26.69 Brahmā also entered His heart with intelligence, but even then the Cosmic Being could not be prevailed upon to get up. Lord Rudra also…
SB 3.26.70 However, when the inner controller, the deity presiding over consciousness, entered the heart with reason, at that very moment the Cosmic…
SB 3.26.71 When a man is sleeping, all his material assets — namely the vital energy, the senses for recording knowledge, the senses for working, the…
SB 3.26.72 Therefore, through devotion, detachment and advancement in spiritual knowledge acquired through concentrated devotional service, one…
SB 3.27.1 The Personality of Godhead Kapila continued: When the living entity is thus unaffected by the modes of material nature, because he is…
SB 3.27.2 When the soul is under the spell of material nature and false ego, identifying his body as the self, he becomes absorbed in material…
SB 3.27.3 The conditioned soul therefore transmigrates into different species of life, higher and lower, because of his association with the modes…
SB 3.27.4 Actually a living entity is transcendental to material existence, but because of his mentality of lording it over material nature, his…
SB 3.27.5 It is the duty of every conditioned soul to engage his polluted consciousness, which is now attached to material enjoyment, in very…
SB 3.27.6 One has to become faithful by practicing the controlling process of the yoga system and must elevate himself to the platform of unalloyed…
SB 3.27.7 In executing devotional service, one has to see every living entity equally, without enmity towards anyone yet without intimate…
SB 3.27.8 For his income a devotee should be satisfied with what he earns without great difficulty. He should not eat more than what is necessary.…
SB 3.27.9 One’s seeing power should be increased through knowledge of spirit and matter, and one should not unnecessarily identify himself with the…
SB 3.27.10 One should be situated in the transcendental position, beyond the stages of material consciousness, and should be aloof from all other…
SB 3.27.11 A liberated soul realizes the Absolute Personality of Godhead, who is transcendental and who is manifest as a reflection even in the false…
SB 3.27.12 The presence of the Supreme Lord can be realized just as the sun is realized first as a reflection on water, and again as a second…
SB 3.27.13 The self-realized soul is thus reflected first in the threefold ego and then in the body, senses and mind.
SB 3.27.14 Although a devotee appears to be merged in the five material elements, the objects of material enjoyment, the material senses and material…
SB 3.27.15 The living entity can vividly feel his existence as the seer, but because of the disappearance of the ego during the state of deep sleep,…
SB 3.27.16 When, by mature understanding, one can realize his individuality, then the situation he accepts under false ego becomes manifest to him.
SB 3.27.17 Śrī Devahūti inquired: My dear brāhmaṇa, does material nature ever give release to the spirit soul? Since one is attracted to the other…
SB 3.27.18 As there is no separate existence of the earth and its aroma or of water and its taste, there cannot be any separate existence of…
SB 3.27.19 Hence even though he is the passive performer of all activities, how can there be freedom for the soul as long as material nature acts on…
SB 3.27.20 Even if the great fear of bondage is avoided by mental speculation and inquiry into the fundamental principles, it may still appear again,…
SB 3.27.21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One can get liberation by seriously discharging devotional service unto Me and thereby hearing…
SB 3.27.22 This devotional service has to be performed strongly in perfect knowledge and with transcendental vision. One must be strongly renounced…
SB 3.27.23 The influence of material nature has covered the living entity, and thus it is as if the living entity were always in a blazing fire. But…
SB 3.27.24 By discovering the faultiness of his desiring to lord it over material nature and by therefore giving it up, the living entity becomes…
SB 3.27.25 In the dreaming state one’s consciousness is almost covered, and one sees many inauspicious things, but when he is awakened and fully…
SB 3.27.26 The influence of material nature cannot harm an enlightened soul, even though he engages in material activities, because he knows the…
SB 3.27.27 When a person thus engages in devotional service and self-realization for many, many years and births, he becomes completely reluctant to…
SB 3.27.28-29 My devotee actually becomes self-realized by My unlimited causeless mercy, and thus, when freed from all doubts, he steadily progresses…
SB 3.27.30 When a perfect yogī’s attention is no longer attracted to the by-products of mystic powers, which are manifestations of the external…
SB 3.28.1 The Personality of Godhead said: My dear mother, O daughter of the King, now I shall explain to you the system of yoga, the object of…
SB 3.28.2 One should execute his prescribed duties to the best of his ability and avoid performing duties not allotted to him. One should be…
SB 3.28.3 One should cease performing conventional religious practices and should be attracted to those which lead to salvation. One should eat very…
SB 3.28.4 One should practice nonviolence and truthfulness, should avoid thieving and be satisfied with possessing as much as he needs for his…
SB 3.28.5 One must observe silence, acquire steadiness by practicing different yogic postures, control the breathing of the vital air, withdraw the…
SB 3.28.6 Fixing the vital air and the mind in one of the six circles of vital air circulation within the body, thus concentrating one’s mind on the…
SB 3.28.7 By these processes, or any other true process, one must control the contaminated, unbridled mind, which is always attracted by material…
SB 3.28.8 After controlling one’s mind and sitting postures, one should spread a seat in a secluded and sanctified place, sit there in an easy…
SB 3.28.9 The yogī should clear the passage of vital air by breathing in the following manner: first he should inhale very deeply, then hold the…
SB 3.28.10 The yogīs who practice such breathing exercises are very soon freed from all mental disturbances, just as gold, when put into fire and…
SB 3.28.11 By practicing the process of prāṇāyāma, one can eradicate the contamination of his physiological condition, and by concentrating the mind…
SB 3.28.12 When the mind is perfectly purified by this practice of yoga, one should concentrate on the tip of the nose with half-closed eyes and see…
SB 3.28.13 The Supreme Personality of Godhead has a cheerful, lotuslike countenance with ruddy eyes like the interior of a lotus, and a swarthy body…
SB 3.28.14 His loins are covered by a shining cloth, yellowish like the filaments of a lotus. On His breast He bears the mark of Śrīvatsa, a curl of…
SB 3.28.15 He also wears around His neck a garland of attractive sylvan flowers, and a swarm of bees, intoxicated by its delicious fragrance, hums…
SB 3.28.16 His loins and hips encircled by a girdle, He stands on the lotus of His devotee’s heart. He is most charming to look at, and His serene…
SB 3.28.17 The Lord is eternally very beautiful, and He is worshipable by all the inhabitants of every planet. He is ever youthful and always eager…
SB 3.28.18 The glory of the Lord is always worth singing, for His glories enhance the glories of His devotees. One should therefore meditate upon the…
SB 3.28.19 Thus always merged in devotional service, the yogī visualizes the Lord standing, moving, lying down or sitting within him, for the…
SB 3.28.20 In fixing his mind on the eternal form of the Lord, the yogī should not take a collective view of all His limbs, but should fix the mind…
SB 3.28.21 The devotee should first concentrate his mind on the Lord’s lotus feet, which are adorned with the marks of a thunderbolt, a goad, a…
SB 3.28.22 The blessed Lord Śiva becomes all the more blessed by bearing on his head the holy waters of the Ganges, which has its source in the water…
SB 3.28.23 The yogī should fix in his heart the activities of Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune, who is worshiped by all demigods and is the mother of…
SB 3.28.24 Next, the yogi should fix his mind in meditation on the Personality of Godhead’s thighs, the storehouse of all energy. The Lord’s thighs…
SB 3.28.25 The yogī should then meditate on His moonlike navel in the center of His abdomen. From His navel, which is the foundation of the entire…
SB 3.28.26 The yogī should then meditate on the chest of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the abode of goddess Mahā-Lakṣmī. The Lord’s chest is…
SB 3.28.27 The yogī should further meditate upon the Lord’s four arms, which are the source of all the powers of the demigods who control the various…
SB 3.28.28 The yogī should meditate upon His club, which is named Kaumodakī and is very dear to Him. This club smashes the demons, who are always…
SB 3.28.29 The yogī should then meditate on the lotuslike countenance of the Lord, who presents His different forms in this world out of compassion…
SB 3.28.30 The yogi then meditates upon the beautiful face of the Lord, which is adorned with curly hair and decorated by lotuslike eyes and dancing…
SB 3.28.31 The yogīs should contemplate with full devotion the compassionate glances frequently cast by the Lord’s eyes, for they soothe the most…
SB 3.28.32 A yogī should similarly meditate on the most benevolent smile of Lord Śrī Hari, a smile which, for all those who bow to Him, dries away…
SB 3.28.33 With devotion steeped in love and affection, the yogī should meditate within the core of his heart upon the laughter of Lord Viṣṇu. The…
SB 3.28.34 By following this course, the yogī gradually develops pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari. In the course of his…
SB 3.28.35 When the mind is thus completely freed from all material contamination and detached from material objectives, it is just like the flame of…
SB 3.28.36 Thus situated in the highest transcendental stage, the mind ceases from all material reaction and becomes situated in its own glory,…
SB 3.28.37 Because he has achieved his real identity, the perfectly realized soul has no conception of how the material body is moving or acting,…
SB 3.28.38 The body of such a liberated yogī, along with the senses, is taken charge of by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it functions until…
SB 3.28.39 Because of great affection for family and wealth, one accepts a son and some money as his own, and due to affection for the material body,…
SB 3.28.40 The blazing fire is different from the flames, from the sparks and from the smoke, although all are intimately connected because they are…
SB 3.28.41 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Parambrahma, is the seer. He is different from the jīva soul, or individual living…
SB 3.28.42 A yogi should see the same soul in all manifestations, for all that exists is a manifestation of different energies of the Supreme. In…
SB 3.28.43 As fire is exhibited in different forms of wood, so, under different conditions of the modes of material nature, the pure spirit soul…
SB 3.28.44 Thus the yogī can be in the self-realized position after conquering the insurmountable spell of māyā, who presents herself as both the…
SB 3.29.1-2 Devahūti inquired: My dear Lord, You have already very scientifically described the symptoms of the total material nature and the…
SB 3.29.3 Devahūti continued: My dear Lord, please also describe in detail, both for me and for people in general, the continual process of birth…
SB 3.29.4 Please also describe eternal time, which is a representation of Your form and by whose influence people in general engage in the…
SB 3.29.5 My dear Lord, You are just like the sun, for You illuminate the darkness of the conditional life of the living entities. Because their…
SB 3.30.1 The Personality of Godhead said: As a mass of clouds does not know the powerful influence of the wind, a person engaged in material…
SB 3.30.2 Whatever is produced by the materialist with great pain and labor for so-called happiness, the Supreme Personality, as the time factor,…
SB 3.30.3 The misguided materialist does not know that his very body is impermanent and that the attractions of home, land and wealth, which are in…
SB 3.30.4 The living entity, in whatever species of life he appears, finds a particular type of satisfaction in that species, and he is never averse…
SB 3.30.5 The conditioned living entity is satisfied in his own particular species of life; while deluded by the covering influence of the illusory…
SB 3.30.6 Such satisfaction with one’s standard of living is due to deep-rooted attraction for body, wife, home, children, animals, wealth and…
SB 3.30.7 Although he is always burning with anxiety, such a fool always performs all kinds of mischievous activities, with a hope which is never to…
SB 3.30.8 He gives heart and senses to a woman, who falsely charms him with māyā. He enjoys solitary embraces and talking with her, and he is…
SB 3.30.9 The attached householder remains in his family life, which is full of diplomacy and politics. Always spreading miseries and controlled by…
SB 3.30.10 He secures money by committing violence here and there, and although he employs it in the service of his family, he himself eats only a…
SB 3.30.11 When he suffers reverses in his occupation, he tries again and again to improve himself, but when he is baffled in all attempts and is…
SB 3.30.12 Thus the unfortunate man, unsuccessful in maintaining his family members, is bereft of all beauty. He always thinks of his failure,…
SB 3.30.13 Seeing him unable to support them, his wife and others do not treat him with the same respect as before, even as miserly farmers do not…
SB 3.30.14 The foolish family man does not become averse to family life although he is maintained by those whom he once maintained. Deformed by the…
SB 3.30.15 Thus he remains at home just like a pet dog and eats whatever is so negligently given to him. Afflicted with many illnesses, such as…
SB 3.30.16 In that diseased condition, one’s eyes bulge due to the pressure of air from within, and his glands become congested with mucus. He has…
SB 3.30.17 In this way he comes under the clutches of death and lies down, surrounded by lamenting friends and relatives, and although he wants to…
SB 3.30.18 Thus the man, who engaged with uncontrolled senses in maintaining a family, dies in great grief, seeing his relatives crying. He dies most…
SB 3.30.19 At death, he sees the messengers of the lord of death come before him, their eyes full of wrath, and in great fear he passes stool and…
SB 3.30.20 As a criminal is arrested for punishment by the constables of the state, a person engaged in criminal sense gratification is similarly…
SB 3.30.21 While carried by the constables of Yamarāja, he is overwhelmed and trembles in their hands. While passing on the road he is bitten by…
SB 3.30.22 Under the scorching sun, the criminal has to pass through roads of hot sand with forest fires on both sides. He is whipped on the back by…
SB 3.30.23 While passing on that road to the abode of Yamarāja, he falls down in fatigue, and sometimes he becomes unconscious, but he is forced to…
SB 3.30.24 Thus he has to pass ninety-nine thousand yojanas within two or three moments, and then he is at once engaged in the torturous punishment…
SB 3.30.25 He is placed in the midst of burning pieces of wood, and his limbs are set on fire. In some cases he is made to eat his own flesh or have…
SB 3.30.26 His entrails are pulled out by the hounds and vultures of hell, even though he is still alive to see it, and he is subjected to torment by…
SB 3.30.27 Next his limbs are lopped off and torn asunder by elephants. He is hurled down from hilltops, and he is also held captive either in water…
SB 3.30.28 Men and women whose lives were built upon indulgence in illicit sex life are put into many kinds of miserable conditions in the hells…
SB 3.30.29 Lord Kapila continued: My dear mother, it is sometimes said that we experience hell or heaven on this planet, for hellish punishments are…
SB 3.30.30 After leaving this body, the man who maintained himself and his family members by sinful activities suffers a hellish life, and his…
SB 3.30.31 He goes alone to the darkest regions of hell after quitting the present body, and the money he acquired by envying other living entities…
SB 3.30.32 Thus, by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the maintainer of kinsmen is put into a hellish condition to suffer for…
SB 3.30.33 Therefore a person who is very eager to maintain his family and kinsmen simply by black methods certainly goes to the darkest region of…
SB 3.30.34 Having gone through all the miserable, hellish conditions and having passed in a regular order through the lowest forms of animal life…
SB 3.31.1 The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the…
SB 3.31.2 On the first night, the sperm and ovum mix, and on the fifth night the mixture ferments into a bubble. On the tenth night it develops into…
SB 3.31.3 In the course of a month, a head is formed, and at the end of two months the hands, feet and other limbs take shape. By the end of three…
SB 3.31.4 Within four months from the date of conception, the seven essential ingredients of the body, namely chyle, blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow…
SB 3.31.5 Deriving its nutrition from the food and drink taken by the mother, the fetus grows and remains in that abominable residence of stools and…
SB 3.31.6 Bitten again and again all over the body by the hungry worms in the abdomen itself, the child suffers terrible agony because of his…
SB 3.31.7 Owing to the mother’s eating bitter, pungent foodstuffs, or food which is too salty or too sour, the body of the child incessantly suffers…
SB 3.31.8 Placed within the amnion and covered outside by the intestines, the child remains lying on one side of the abdomen, his head turned…
SB 3.31.9 The child thus remains just like a bird in a cage, without freedom of movement. At that time, if the child is fortunate, he can remember…
SB 3.31.10 Thus endowed with the development of consciousness from the seventh month after his conception, the child is tossed downward by the airs…
SB 3.31.11 The living entity in this frightful condition of life, bound by seven layers of material ingredients, prays with folded hands, appealing…
SB 3.31.12 The human soul says: I take shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appears in His various eternal forms and…
SB 3.31.13 I, the pure soul, appearing now bound by my activities, am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of māyā. I offer my…
SB 3.31.14 I am separated from the Supreme Lord because of my being in this material body, which is made of five elements, and therefore my qualities…
SB 3.31.15 The human soul further prays: The living entity is put under the influence of material nature and continues a hard struggle for existence…
SB 3.31.16 No one other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the localized Paramātmā, the partial representation of the Lord, is directing all…
SB 3.31.17 Fallen into a pool of blood, stool and urine within the abdomen of his mother, his own body scorched by the mother’s gastric fire, the…
SB 3.31.18 My dear Lord, by Your causeless mercy I am awakened to consciousness, although I am only ten months old. For this causeless mercy of the…
SB 3.31.19 The living entity in another type of body sees only by instinct; he knows only the agreeable and disagreeable sense perceptions of that…
SB 3.31.20 Therefore, my Lord, although I am living in a terrible condition, I do not wish to depart from my mother’s abdomen to fall again into the…
SB 3.31.21 Therefore, without being agitated any more, I shall deliver myself from the darkness of nescience with the help of my friend, clear…
SB 3.31.22 Lord Kapila continued: The ten-month-old living entity has these desires even while in the womb. But while he thus extols the Lord, the…
SB 3.31.23 Pushed downward all of a sudden by the wind, the child comes out with great trouble, head downward, breathless and deprived of memory due…
SB 3.31.24 The child thus falls on the ground, smeared with stool and blood, and plays just like a worm germinated from the stool. He loses his…
SB 3.31.25 After coming out of the abdomen, the child is given to the care of persons who are unable to understand what he wants, and thus he is…
SB 3.31.26 Laid down on a foul bed infested with sweat and germs, the poor child is incapable of scratching his body to get relief from his itching…
SB 3.31.27 In his helpless condition, gnats, mosquitoes, bugs and other germs bite the baby, whose skin is tender, just as smaller worms bite a big…
SB 3.31.28 In this way, the child passes through his childhood, suffering different kinds of distress, and attains boyhood. In boyhood also he…
SB 3.31.29 With the growth of the body, the living entity, in order to vanquish his soul, increases his false prestige and anger and thereby creates…
SB 3.31.30 By such ignorance the living entity accepts the material body, which is made of five elements, as himself. With this misunderstanding, he…
SB 3.31.31 For the sake of the body, which is a source of constant trouble to him and which follows him because he is bound by ties of ignorance and…
SB 3.31.32 If, therefore, the living entity again associates with the path of unrighteousness, influenced by sensually minded people engaged in the…
SB 3.31.33 He becomes devoid of truthfulness, cleanliness, mercy, gravity, spiritual intelligence, shyness, austerity, fame, forgiveness, control of…
SB 3.31.34 One should not associate with a coarse fool who is bereft of the knowledge of self-realization and who is no more than a dancing dog in…
SB 3.31.35 The infatuation and bondage which accrue to a man from attachment to any other object is not as complete as that resulting from attachment…
SB 3.31.36 At the sight of his own daughter, Brahmā was bewildered by her charms and shamelessly ran up to her in the form of a stag when she took…
SB 3.31.37 Amongst all kinds of living entities begotten by Brahmā, namely men, demigods and animals, none but the sage Nārāyaṇa is immune to the…
SB 3.31.38 Just try to understand the mighty strength of My māyā in the shape of woman, who by the mere movement of her eyebrows can keep even the…
SB 3.31.39 One who aspires to reach the culmination of yoga and has realized his self by rendering service unto Me should never associate with an…
SB 3.31.40 The woman, created by the Lord, is the representation of māyā, and one who associates with such māyā by accepting services must certainly…
SB 3.31.41 A living entity who, as a result of attachment to a woman in his previous life, has been endowed with the form of a woman, foolishly looks…
SB 3.31.42 A woman, therefore, should consider her husband, her house and her children to be the arrangement of the external energy of the Lord for…
SB 3.31.43 Due to his particular type of body, the materialistic living entity wanders from one planet to another, following fruitive activities. In…
SB 3.31.44 In this way the living entity gets a suitable body with a material mind and senses, according to his fruitive activities. When the…
SB 3.31.45-46 When the eyes lose their power to see color or form due to morbid affliction of the optic nerve, the sense of sight becomes deadened. The…
SB 3.31.47 Therefore, one should not view death with horror, nor have recourse to defining the body as soul, nor give way to exaggeration in enjoying…
SB 3.31.48 Endowed with right vision and strengthened by devotional service and a pessimistic attitude towards material identity, one should relegate…
SB 3.32.1 The Personality of Godhead said: The person who lives in the center of household life derives material benefits by performing religious…
SB 3.32.2 Such persons are ever bereft of devotional service due to being too attached to sense gratification, and therefore, although they perform…
SB 3.32.3 Such materialistic persons, attracted by sense gratification and devoted to the forefathers and demigods, can be elevated to the moon,…
SB 3.32.4 All the planets of the materialistic persons, including all the heavenly planets, such as the moon, are vanquished when the Supreme…
SB 3.32.5 Those who are intelligent and are of purified consciousness are completely satisfied in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Freed from the modes of…
SB 3.32.6 By executing one’s occupational duties, acting with detachment and without a sense of proprietorship or false egoism, one is posted in…
SB 3.32.7 Through the path of illumination, such liberated persons approach the complete Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of the…
SB 3.32.8 Worshipers of the Hiraṇyagarbha expansion of the Personality of Godhead remain within this material world until the end of two parārdhas,…
SB 3.32.9 After experiencing the inhabitable time of the three modes of material nature, known as two parārdhas, Lord Brahmā closes the material…
SB 3.32.10 The yogīs who become detached from the material world by practice of breathing exercises and control of the mind reach the planet of…
SB 3.32.11 Therefore, My dear mother, by devotional service take direct shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is seated in everyone’s…
SB 3.32.12-15 My dear mother, someone may worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead with a special self-interest, but even demigods such as Lord…
SB 3.32.16 Persons who are too addicted to this material world execute their prescribed duties very nicely and with great faith. They daily perform…
SB 3.32.17 Such persons, impelled by the mode of passion, are full of anxieties and always aspire for sense gratification due to uncontrolled senses.…
SB 3.32.18 Such persons are called trai-vargika because they are interested in the three elevating processes. They are averse to the Supreme…
SB 3.32.19 Such persons are condemned by the supreme order of the Lord. Because they are averse to the nectar of the activities of the Supreme…
SB 3.32.20 Such materialistic persons are allowed to go to the planet called Pitṛloka by the southern course of the sun, but they again come back to…
SB 3.32.21 When the results of their pious activities are exhausted, they fall down by higher arrangement and again come back to this planet, just as…
SB 3.32.22 My dear mother, I therefore advise that you take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for His lotus feet are worth worshiping.…
SB 3.32.23 Engagement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and application of devotional service unto Kṛṣṇa make it possible to advance in knowledge and…
SB 3.32.24 The exalted devotee’s mind becomes equipoised in sensory activities, and he is transcendental to that which is agreeable and not agreeable.
SB 3.32.25 Because of his transcendental intelligence, the pure devotee is equipoised in his vision and sees himself to be uncontaminated by matter.…
SB 3.32.26 The Supreme Personality of Godhead alone is complete transcendental knowledge, but according to the different processes of understanding…
SB 3.32.27 The greatest common understanding for all yogīs is complete detachment from matter, which can be achieved by different kinds of yoga.
SB 3.32.28 Those who are averse to the Transcendence realize the Supreme Absolute Truth differently through speculative sense perception, and…
SB 3.32.29 From the total energy, the mahat-tattva, I have manifested the false ego, the three modes of material nature, the five material elements,…
SB 3.32.30 This perfect knowledge can be achieved by a person who is already engaged in devotional service with faith, steadiness and full…
SB 3.32.31 My dear respectful mother, I have already described the path of understanding the Absolute Truth, by which one can come to understand the…
SB 3.32.32 Philosophical research culminates in understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead. After achieving this understanding, when one…
SB 3.32.33 A single object is appreciated differently by different senses due to its having different qualities. Similarly, the Supreme Personality…
SB 3.32.34-36 By performing fruitive activities and sacrifices, by distributing charity, by performing austerities, by studying various literatures, by…
SB 3.32.37 My dear mother, I have explained to you the process of devotional service and its identity in four different social divisions. I have…
SB 3.32.38 There are varieties of material existence for the living entity according to the work he performs in ignorance or forgetfulness of his…
SB 3.32.39 Lord Kapila continued: This instruction is not meant for the envious, for the agnostics or for persons who are unclean in their behavior.…
SB 3.32.40 It is not to be instructed to persons who are too greedy and too attached to family life, nor to persons who are nondevotees and who are…
SB 3.32.41 Instruction should be given to the faithful devotee who is respectful to the spiritual master, nonenvious, friendly to all kinds of living…
SB 3.32.42 This instruction should be imparted by the spiritual master to persons who have taken the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be more dear…
SB 3.32.43 Anyone who once meditates upon Me with faith and affection, who hears and chants about Me, surely goes back home, back to Godhead.
SB 3.33.10 The Personality of Godhead said: My dear mother, the path of self-realization which I have already instructed to you is very easy. You can…
SB 3.33.11 My dear mother, those who are actually transcendentalists certainly follow My instructions as I have given them to you. You may rest…
SB 4.9.19 The Personality of Godhead said: My dear Dhruva, son of the King, you have executed pious vows, and I also know the desire within your…
SB 4.9.20-21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead continued: My dear Dhruva, I shall award you the glowing planet known as the polestar, which will…
SB 4.9.22 After your father goes to the forest and awards you the rule of his kingdom, you will rule continuously the entire world for thirty-six…
SB 4.9.23 The Lord continued: Sometime in the future your brother, Uttama, will go hunting in the forest, and while absorbed in hunting, he will be…
SB 4.9.24 The Lord continued: I am the heart of all sacrifices. You will be able to perform many great sacrifices and also give great charities. In…
SB 4.9.25 The Personality of Godhead continued: My dear Dhruva, after your material life in this body, you will go to My planet, which is always…
SB 4.20.2 Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, said: My dear King Pṛthu, Indra, the King of heaven, has disturbed your execution of one…
SB 4.20.3 O King, one who is advanced in intelligence and eager to perform welfare activities for others is considered best amongst human beings. An…
SB 4.20.4 If a personality like you, who are so much advanced because of executing the instructions of the previous ācāryas, is carried away by the…
SB 4.20.5 Those who are in full knowledge of the bodily conception of life, who know that this body is composed of nescience, desires and activities…
SB 4.20.6 How can a highly learned person who has absolutely no affinity for the bodily conception of life be affected by the bodily conception in…
SB 4.20.7 The individual soul is one, pure, nonmaterial and self-effulgent. He is the reservoir of all good qualities, and He is all-pervading. He…
SB 4.20.8 Although within the material nature, one who is thus situated in full knowledge of the Paramātmā and ātmā is never affected by the modes…
SB 4.20.9 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, continued: My dear King Pṛthu, when one situated in his occupational duty engages in My…
SB 4.20.10 When the heart is cleansed of all material contamination, the devotee’s mind becomes broader and transparent and he can see things…
SB 4.20.11 Anyone who knows that this material body, made of the five gross elements, the sense organs, the working senses and the mind, is simply…
SB 4.20.12 Lord Viṣṇu told King Pṛthu: My dear King, the constant change of this material world is due to the interaction of the three modes of…
SB 4.20.13 My dear heroic King, please keep yourself always equipoised and treat people equally, whether they are greater than you, in the…
SB 4.20.14 To give protection to the general mass of people who are citizens of the state is the prescribed occupational duty for a king. By acting…
SB 4.20.15 Lord Viṣṇu continued: My dear King Pṛthu, if you continue to protect the citizens according to the instructions of the learned brāhmaṇa…
SB 4.20.16 My dear King, I am very captivated by your elevated qualities and excellent behavior, and thus I am very favorably inclined toward you.…
SB 4.20.17 The great saint Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, in this way Mahārāja Pṛthu, the conqueror of the entire world, accepted the…
SB 4.20.18 As King Indra was standing by, he became ashamed of his own activities and fell down before King Pṛthu to touch his lotus feet. But Pṛthu…
SB 4.20.19 King Pṛthu abundantly worshiped the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who was so merciful to him. While worshiping the…
SB 4.20.20 The Lord was just about to leave, but because He was so greatly inclined toward the behavior of King Pṛthu, He did not depart. Seeing the…
SB 4.20.21 The original king, Mahārāja Pṛthu, his eyes full of tears and his voice faltering and choked up, could neither see the Lord very…
SB 4.20.22 The Supreme Personality of Godhead stood with His lotus feet almost touching the ground while He rested the front of His hand on the…
SB 4.20.23 My dear Lord, You are the best of the demigods who can offer benedictions. Why, therefore, should any learned person ask You for…
SB 4.20.24 My dear Lord, I therefore do not wish to have the benediction of merging into Your existence, a benediction in which there is no existence…
SB 4.20.25 My dear Lord, You are glorified by the selected verses uttered by great personalities. Such glorification of Your lotus feet is just like…
SB 4.20.26 My dear highly glorified Lord, if one, in the association of pure devotees, hears even once the glories of Your activities, he does not,…
SB 4.20.27 Now I wish to engage in the service of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and to serve just like the goddess of fortune,…
SB 4.20.28 My dear Lord of the universe, the goddess of fortune, Lakṣmī, is the mother of the universe, and yet I think that she may be angry with me…
SB 4.20.29 Great saintly persons who are always liberated take to Your devotional service because only by devotional service can one be relieved from…
SB 4.20.30 My dear Lord, what You have said to Your unalloyed devotee is certainly very much bewildering. The allurements You offer in the Vedas are…
SB 4.20.31 My Lord, due to Your illusory energy, all living beings in this material world have forgotten their real constitutional position, and out…
SB 4.20.32 The great sage Maitreya continued by saying that the Lord, the seer of the universe, after hearing Pṛthu Mahārāja’s prayer, addressed the…
SB 4.20.33 My dear King, O protector of the citizens, henceforward be very careful to execute My orders and not be misled by anything. Anyone who…
SB 4.20.34 The great saint Maitreya told Vidura: The Supreme Personality of Godhead amply appreciated the meaningful prayers of Mahārāja Pṛthu. Thus,…
SB 4.20.35-36 King Pṛthu worshiped the demigods, the great sages, the inhabitants of Pitṛloka, the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka, and those of…
SB 4.20.37 The infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead, having captivated the minds of the King and the priests who were present, returned to His…
SB 4.20.38 King Pṛthu then offered his respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supreme Lord of all demigods.…
SB 4.21.1 The great sage Maitreya told Vidura: When the King entered his city, it was very beautifully decorated to receive him with pearls, flower…
SB 4.21.2 Fragrant water distilled from sandalwood and aguru herb was sprinkled everywhere on the lanes, roads and small parks throughout the city,…
SB 4.21.3 At the street crossings there were bunches of fruits and flowers, as well as pillars of banana trees and betel nut branches. All these…
SB 4.21.4 As the King entered the gate of the city, all the citizens received him with many auspicious articles like lamps, flowers and yogurt. The…
SB 4.21.5 When the King entered the palace, conchshells and kettledrums were sounded, priests chanted Vedic mantras, and professional reciters…
SB 4.21.6 Both the important citizens and the common citizens welcomed the King very heartily, and he also bestowed upon them their desired blessings.
SB 4.21.7 King Pṛthu was greater than the greatest soul and was therefore worshipable by everyone. He performed many glorious activities in ruling…
SB 4.21.8 Sūta Gosvāmī continued: O Śaunaka, leader of the great sages, after hearing Maitreya speak about the various activities of King Pṛthu, the…
SB 4.30.8 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear sons of the King, I am very much pleased by the friendly relationships among you. All of…
SB 4.30.9 The Lord continued: Those who remember you every evening of every day will become friendly with their brothers and with all other living…
SB 4.30.10 Those who will offer Me the prayers composed by Lord Śiva, both in the morning and in the evening, will be given benedictions by Me. In…
SB 4.30.11 Because you have with pleasure accepted within your hearts the orders of your father and have executed those orders very faithfully, your…
SB 4.30.12 You will have a nice son, who will be in no way inferior to Lord Brahmā. Consequently, he will be very famous all over the universe, and…
SB 4.30.13 O sons of King Prācīnabarhiṣat, the heavenly society girl named Pramlocā kept the lotus-eyed daughter of Kaṇḍu in the care of the forest…
SB 4.30.14 Thereafter the child, who was left to the care of the trees, began to cry in hunger. At that time the king of the forest, namely the king…
SB 4.30.15 Since all of you are very much obedient to My orders, I ask you to immediately marry that girl, who is so well qualified with beauty and…
SB 4.30.16 You brothers are all of the same nature, being My devotees and obedient sons of your father. Similarly, that girl is also of the same type…
SB 4.30.17 The Lord then blessed all the Pracetās, saying: My dear princes, by My mercy you can enjoy all the facilities of this world as well as the…
SB 4.30.18 Thereafter you will develop unadulterated devotional service unto Me and be freed from all material contamination. At that time, being…
SB 4.30.19 Those who are engaged in auspicious activities in devotional service certainly understand that the ultimate enjoyer or beneficiary of all…
SB 4.30.20 Always engaging in the activities of devotional service, devotees feel ever-increasingly fresh and new in all their activities. The…
SB 6.4.43 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O most fortunate Prācetasa, because of your great faith in Me, you have attained the supreme…
SB 6.4.44 My dear Prajāpati Dakṣa, you have performed extreme austerities for the welfare and growth of the world. My desire also is that everyone…
SB 6.4.45 Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, the Manus, all the other demigods in the higher planetary systems, and you prajāpatis, who are increasing the…
SB 6.4.46 My dear brāhmaṇa, austerity in the form of meditation is My heart, Vedic knowledge in the form of hymns and mantras constitutes My body,…
SB 6.4.47 Before the creation of this cosmic manifestation, I alone existed with My specific spiritual potencies. Consciousness was then…
SB 6.4.48 I am the reservoir of unlimited potency, and therefore I am known as unlimited or all-pervading. From My material energy the cosmic…
SB 6.4.49-50 When the chief lord of the universe, Lord Brahmā [Svayambhū], having been inspired by My energy, was attempting to create, he thought…
SB 6.4.51 O My dear son Dakṣa, Prajāpati Pañcajana has a daughter named Asiknī, whom I offer to you so that you may accept her as your wife.
SB 6.4.52 Now unite in sexual life as man and woman, and in this way, by sexual intercourse, you will be able to beget hundreds of children in the…
SB 6.4.53 After you give birth to many hundreds and thousands of children, they will also be captivated by My illusory energy and will engage, like…
SB 6.4.54 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After the creator of the entire universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, had spoken in this way in…
SB 6.5.1 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Impelled by the illusory energy of Lord Viṣṇu, Prajāpati Dakṣa begot ten thousand sons in the womb of…
SB 6.5.2 My dear King, all the sons of Prajāpati Dakṣa were alike in being very gentle and obedient to the orders of their father. When their…
SB 6.5.3 In the west, where the river Sindhu meets the sea, there is a great place of pilgrimage known as Nārāyaṇa-saras. Many sages and others…
SB 6.5.4-5 In that holy place, the Haryaśvas began regularly touching the lake’s waters and bathing in them. Gradually becoming very much purified,…
SB 6.9.47 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O beloved demigods, you have offered your prayers to Me with great knowledge, and I am certainly…
SB 6.9.48 O best of the intelligent demigods, although it is true that nothing is difficult for one to obtain when I am pleased with him, a pure…
SB 6.9.49 Those who think material assets to be everything or to be the ultimate goal of life are called misers [kṛpaṇas]. They do not know the…
SB 6.9.50 A pure devotee who is fully accomplished in the science of devotional service will never instruct a foolish person to engage in fruitive…
SB 6.9.51 O Maghavan [Indra], all good fortune unto you. I advise you to approach the exalted saint Dadhyañca [Dadhīci]. He has become very…
SB 6.9.52 That saintly Dadhyañca, who is also known as Dadhīci, personally assimilated the spiritual science and then delivered it to the…
SB 6.9.53 Dadhyañca’s invincible protective covering known as the Nārāyaṇa-kavaca was given to Tvaṣṭā, who delivered it to his son Viśvarūpa, from…
SB 6.9.54 When the Aśvinī-kumāras beg for Dadhyañca’s body on your behalf, he will surely give it because of affection. Do not doubt this, for…
SB 6.9.55 When Vṛtrāsura is killed because of My spiritual strength, you will regain your strength, weapons and wealth. Thus there will be all good…
SB 7.9.52 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Prahlāda, most gentle one, best of the family of the asuras, all good fortune unto you. I…
SB 7.9.53 My dear Prahlāda, may you live a long time. One cannot appreciate or understand Me without pleasing Me, but one who has seen or pleased Me…
SB 7.9.54 My dear Prahlāda, you are very fortunate. Please know from Me that those who are very wise and highly elevated try to please Me in all…
SB 7.10.11 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Prahlāda, a devotee like you never desires any kind of material opulences, either in this…
SB 7.10.12 It does not matter that you are in the material world. You should always, continuously, hear the instructions and messages given by Me and…
SB 7.10.13 My dear Prahlāda, while you are in this material world you will exhaust all the reactions of pious activity by feeling happiness, and by…
SB 7.10.14 One who always remembers your activities and My activities also, and who chants the prayers you have offered, becomes free, in due course…
SB 7.10.15-17 Prahlāda Mahārāja said: O Supreme Lord, because You are so merciful to the fallen souls, I ask You for only one benediction. I know that…
SB 7.10.18 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Prahlāda, O most pure, O great saintly person, your father has been purified, along with…
SB 7.10.19 Whenever and wherever there are peaceful, equipoised devotees who are well-behaved and decorated with all good qualities, that place and…
SB 7.10.20 My dear Prahlāda, King of the Daityas, because of being attached to devotional service to Me, My devotee does not distinguish between…
SB 7.10.21 Those who follow your example will naturally become My pure devotees. You are the best example of My devotee, and others should follow in…
SB 7.10.22 My dear child, your father has already been purified just by the touch of My body at the time of his death. Nonetheless, the duty of a son…
SB 7.10.23 After performing the ritualistic ceremonies, take charge of your father’s kingdom. Sit upon the throne and do not be disturbed by…
SB 7.10.24 Śrī Nārada Muni continued: Thus, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ordered, Prahlāda Mahārāja performed the ritualistic ceremonies for…
SB 7.10.25 Lord Brahmā, surrounded by the other demigods, was bright-faced because the Lord was pleased. Thus he offered prayers to the Lord with…
SB 8.4.17-24 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Freed from all sinful reactions are those who rise from bed at the end of night, early in the…
SB 8.4.25 My dear devotee, unto those who rise from bed at the end of night and offer Me the prayers offered by you, I give an eternal residence in…
SB 8.4.26 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After giving this instruction, the Lord, who is known as Hṛṣīkeśa, bugled with His Pāñcajanya conchshell,…
SB 8.5.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, I have described to you the pastime of Gajendra-mokṣaṇa, which is most pious to hear. By hearing of…
SB 8.5.2 The brother of Tāmasa Manu was the fifth Manu, named Raivata. His sons were headed by Arjuna, Bali and Vindhya.
SB 8.5.3 O King, in the millennium of Raivata Manu the King of heaven was known as Vibhu, among the demigods were the Bhūtarayas, and among the…
SB 8.5.4 From the combination of Śubhra and his wife, Vikuṇṭhā, there appeared the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vaikuṇṭha, along with demigods…
SB 8.5.5 Just to please the goddess of fortune, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vaikuṇṭha, at her request, created another Vaikuṇṭha planet,…
SB 8.5.6 Although the great activities and transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s various incarnations are wonderfully…
SB 8.5.7 The son of Cakṣu known as Cākṣuṣa was the sixth Manu. He had many sons, headed by Pūru, Pūruṣa and Sudyumna.
SB 8.5.8 During the reign of Cākṣuṣa Manu, the King of heaven was known as Mantradruma. Among the demigods were the Āpyas, and among the great…
SB 8.5.9 In this sixth manvantara millennium, Lord Viṣṇu, the master of the universe, appeared in His partial expansion. He was begotten by Vairāja…
SB 8.5.10 By churning the Ocean of Milk, Ajita produced nectar for the demigods. In the form of a tortoise, He moved here and there, carrying on His…
SB 8.5.11-12 King Parīkṣit inquired: O great brāhmaṇa, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, why and how did Lord Viṣṇu churn the Ocean of Milk? For what reason did He…
SB 8.5.13 My heart, which is disturbed by the three miserable conditions of material life, is not yet sated with hearing you describe the glorious…
SB 8.6.18 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and other demigods, please hear Me with great attention, for what I say…
SB 8.6.19 As long as you are not flourishing, you should make a truce with the demons and asuras, who are now being favored by time.
SB 8.6.20 O demigods, fulfilling one’s own interests is so important that one may even have to make a truce with one’s enemies. For the sake of…
SB 8.6.21 Immediately endeavor to produce nectar, which a person who is about to die may drink to become immortal.
SB 8.6.22-23 O demigods, cast into the Ocean of Milk all kinds of vegetables, grass, creepers and drugs. Then, with My help, making Mandara Mountain…
SB 8.6.24 My dear demigods, with patience and peace everything can be done, but if one is agitated by anger, the goal is not achieved. Therefore,…
SB 8.6.25 A poison known as kālakūṭa will be generated from the Ocean of Milk, but you should not fear it. And when various products are churned…
SB 8.6.26 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King Parīkṣit, after advising the demigods in this way, the independent Supreme Personality of Godhead, the…
SB 8.6.27 Then Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, after offering their respectful obeisances to the Lord, returned to their abodes. All the demigods then…
SB 8.6.28 Mahārāja Bali, a most celebrated king of the demons, knew very well when to make peace and when to fight. Thus although his commanders and…
SB 8.6.29 The demigods approached Bali Mahārāja, the son of Virocana, and sat down near him. Bali Mahārāja was protected by the commanders of the…
SB 8.6.30 After pleasing Bali Mahārāja with mild words, Lord Indra, the King of the demigods, who was most intelligent, very politely submitted all…
SB 8.6.31 The proposals submitted by King Indra were immediately accepted by Bali Mahārāja and his assistants, headed by Śambara and Ariṣṭanemi, and…
SB 8.6.32 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, chastiser of enemies, the demigods and the demons thereafter made an armistice between them. Then, with great…
SB 8.6.33 Thereafter, with great strength, the demons and demigods, who were all very powerful and who had long, stout arms, uprooted Mandara…
SB 8.6.34 Because of conveying the great mountain for a long distance, King Indra, Mahārāja Bali and the other demigods and demons became fatigued.…
SB 8.6.35 The mountain known as Mandara, which was extremely heavy, being made of gold, fell and smashed many demigods and demons.
SB 8.6.36 The demigods and demons were frustrated and disheartened, and their arms, thighs and shoulders were broken. Therefore the Supreme…
SB 8.6.37 Observing that most of the demons and the demigods had been crushed by the falling of the mountain, the Lord glanced over them and brought…
SB 8.6.38 The Lord very easily lifted the mountain with one hand and placed it on the back of Garuḍa. Then, He too got on the back of Garuḍa and…
SB 8.6.39 Thereafter, Garuḍa, the chief of birds, unloaded Mandara Mountain from his shoulder and brought it near the water. Then he was asked by…
SB 8.12.15 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: When the demons took away the jug of nectar, I assumed the form of a beautiful woman to bewilder…
SB 8.12.16 O best of the demigods, I shall now show you My form that is very much appreciated by those who are lusty. Since you want to see that…
SB 8.12.17 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After speaking in this way, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, immediately disappeared, and Lord Śiva…
SB 8.12.18 Thereafter, in a nice forest nearby, full of trees with reddish-pink leaves and varieties of flowers, Lord Śiva saw a beautiful woman…
SB 8.12.19 Because the ball was falling down and bouncing up, as She played with it Her breasts trembled, and because of the weight of those breasts…
SB 8.12.20 The woman’s face was decorated by broad, beautiful, restless eyes, which moved as the ball bounced here and there from Her hand. The two…
SB 8.12.21 As She played with the ball, the sari covering Her body became loose, and Her hair scattered. She tried to bind Her hair with Her…
SB 8.12.22 While Lord Śiva observed the beautiful woman playing with the ball, She sometimes glanced at him and slightly smiled in bashfulness. As he…
SB 8.12.23 When the ball leaped from Her hand and fell at a distance, the woman began to follow it, but as Lord Śiva observed these activities, a…
SB 8.12.24 Thus Lord Śiva saw the woman, every part of whose body was beautifully formed, and the beautiful woman also looked at him. Therefore,…
SB 8.12.25 Lord Śiva, his good sense taken away by the woman because of lusty desires to enjoy with Her, became so mad for Her that even in the…
SB 8.12.26 The beautiful woman was already naked, and when She saw Lord Śiva coming toward Her, She became extremely bashful. Thus She kept smiling,…
SB 8.12.27 His senses being agitated, Lord Śiva, victimized by lusty desires, began to follow Her, just as a lusty elephant follows a she-elephant.
SB 8.12.28 After following Her with great speed, Lord Śiva caught Her by the braid of Her hair and dragged Her near him. Although She was unwilling,…
SB 8.12.29-30 Being embraced by Lord Śiva like a female elephant embraced by a male, the woman, whose hair was scattered, swirled like a snake. O King,…
SB 8.12.31 As if harassed by an enemy in the form of lusty desires, Lord Śiva followed the path of Lord Viṣṇu, who acts very wonderfully and who had…
SB 8.12.32 Just as a maddened bull elephant follows a female elephant who is able to conceive pregnancy, Lord Śiva followed the beautiful woman and…
SB 8.12.33 O King, wheresoever on the surface of the globe fell the semen of the great personality of Lord Śiva, mines of gold and silver later…
SB 8.12.34 Following Mohinī, Lord Śiva went everywhere — near the shores of the rivers and lakes, near the mountains, near the forests, near the…
SB 8.12.35 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, best of kings, when Lord Śiva had fully discharged semen, he could see how he himself had been victimized by the…
SB 8.12.36 Thus Lord Śiva could understand his position and that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has unlimited potencies. Having reached…
SB 8.12.37 Seeing Lord Śiva unagitated and unashamed, Lord Viṣṇu [Madhusūdana] was very pleased. Thus He resumed His original form and spoke as…
SB 8.12.38 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O best of the demigods, although you have been amply harassed because of My potency in assuming…
SB 8.12.39 My dear Lord Śambhu, who within this material world but you can surpass My illusory energy? People are generally attached to sense…
SB 8.12.40 The material, external energy [māyā], who cooperates with Me in creation and who is manifested in the three modes of nature, will not be…
SB 8.17.12 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O mother of the demigods, I have already understood your long-cherished desires for the welfare…
SB 8.17.13 O Devī, O goddess, I can understand that you want to regain your sons and be together with them to worship Me, after defeating the enemies…
SB 8.17.14 You want to see the wives of the demons lamenting for the death of their husbands when those demons, the enemies of your sons, are killed…
SB 8.17.15 You want your sons to regain their lost reputation and opulence and live again on their heavenly planet as usual.
SB 8.17.16 O mother of the demigods, in My opinion almost all the chiefs of the demons are now unconquerable, for they are being protected by…
SB 8.17.17 Yet because I have been satisfied by the activities of your vow, O goddess Aditi, I must find some means to favor you, for worship of Me…
SB 8.17.18 You have prayed to Me and properly worshiped Me by performing the great payo-vrata ceremony for the sake of protecting your sons. Because…
SB 8.17.19 Always thinking of Me as being situated within the body of your husband, Kaśyapa, go worship your husband, who has been purified by his…
SB 8.17.20 O lady, even if someone inquires, you should not disclose this fact to anyone. That which is very confidential is successful if kept secret.
SB 8.19.2 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O King, you are indeed exalted because your present advisors are the brāhmaṇas who are…
SB 8.19.3 I know that even until now, no one taking birth in your family has been poor-minded or miserly. No one has refused to give charity to…
SB 8.19.4 O King Bali, never in your dynasty has the low-minded king been born who upon being requested has refused charity to brāhmaṇas in holy…
SB 8.19.5 It was in your dynasty that Hiraṇyākṣa was born. Carrying only his own club, he wandered the globe alone, without assistance, to conquer…
SB 8.19.6 When delivering the earth from the Garbhodaka Sea, Lord Viṣṇu, in His incarnation as a boar, killed Hiraṇyākṣa, who had appeared before…
SB 8.19.7 When Hiraṇyakaśipu heard the news of his brother’s being killed, with great anger he went to the residence of Viṣṇu, the killer of his…
SB 8.19.8 Seeing Hiraṇyakaśipu coming forward bearing a trident in his hand like personified death, Lord Viṣṇu, the best of all mystics and the…
SB 8.19.9 Wheresoever I go, Hiraṇyakaśipu will follow Me, as death follows all living entities. Therefore it is better for Me to enter the core of…
SB 8.19.10 Lord Vāmanadeva continued: O King of the demons, after Lord Viṣṇu made this decision, He entered the body of His enemy Hiraṇyakaśipu, who…
SB 8.19.11 Upon seeing that the residence of Lord Viṣṇu was vacant, Hiraṇyakaśipu began searching for Lord Viṣṇu everywhere. Angry at not seeing Him,…
SB 8.19.12 Unable to see Him, Hiraṇyakaśipu said, “I have searched the entire universe, but I could not find Viṣṇu, who has killed my brother.…
SB 8.19.13 Hiraṇyakaśipu’s anger against Lord Viṣṇu persisted until his death. Other people in the bodily concept of life maintain anger only because…
SB 8.19.14 Your father, Virocana, the son of Mahārāja Prahlāda, was very affectionate toward brāhmaṇas. Although he knew very well that it was the…
SB 8.19.15 You also have observed the principles followed by great personalities who are householder brāhmaṇas, by your forefathers and by great…
SB 8.19.16 O King of the Daityas, from Your Majesty, who come from such a noble family and who are able to give charity munificently, I ask only…
SB 8.19.17 O King, controller of the entire universe, although you are very munificent and are able to give Me as much land as I want, I do not want…
SB 8.19.18 Bali Mahārāja said: O son of a brāhmaṇa, Your instructions are as good as those of learned and elderly persons. Nonetheless, You are a…
SB 8.19.19 I am able to give You an entire island because I am the proprietor of the three divisions of the universe. You have come to take something…
SB 8.19.20 O small boy, one who approaches me to beg something should not have to ask anything more, anywhere. Therefore, if You wish, You may ask…
SB 8.19.21 The Personality of Godhead said: O my dear King, even the entirety of whatever there may be within the three worlds to satisfy one’s…
SB 8.19.22 If I were not satisfied with three paces of land, then surely I would not be satisfied even with possessing one of the seven islands,…
SB 8.19.23 We have heard that although powerful kings like Mahārāja Pṛthu and Mahārāja Gaya achieved proprietorship over the seven dvīpas, they could…
SB 8.19.24 One should be satisfied with whatever he achieves by his previous destiny, for discontent can never bring happiness. A person who is not…
SB 8.19.25 Material existence causes discontent in regard to fulfilling one’s lusty desires and achieving more and more money. This is the cause for…
SB 8.19.26 A brāhmaṇa who is satisfied with whatever is providentially obtained is increasingly enlightened with spiritual power, but the spiritual…
SB 8.19.27 Therefore, O King, from you, the best of those who give charity, I ask only three paces of land. By such a gift I shall be very pleased,…
SB 8.19.28 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When the Supreme Personality of Godhead had thus spoken to Bali Mahārāja, Bali smiled and told Him, “All…
SB 8.19.29 Understanding Lord Viṣṇu’s purpose, Śukrācārya, the best of the learned, immediately spoke as follows to his disciple, who was about to…
SB 8.19.30 Śukrācārya said: O son of Virocana, this brahmacārī in the form of a dwarf is directly the imperishable Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
SB 8.19.31 You do not know what a dangerous position you have accepted by promising to give Him land. I do not think that this promise is good for…
SB 8.19.32 This person falsely appearing as a brahmacārī is actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who has come in this form to take away…
SB 8.19.33 You have promised to give Him three steps of land in charity, but when you give it He will occupy the three worlds. You are a rascal! You…
SB 8.19.34 Vāmanadeva will first occupy the three worlds with one step, then He will take His second step and occupy everything in outer space, and…
SB 8.19.35 You will certainly be unable to fulfill your promise, and I think that because of this inability your eternal residence will be in hell.
SB 8.19.36 Learned scholars do not praise that charity which endangers one’s own livelihood. Charity, sacrifice, austerity and fruitive activities…
SB 8.19.37 Therefore one who is in full knowledge should divide his accumulated wealth in five parts — for religion, for reputation, for opulence,…
SB 8.19.38 One might argue that since you have already promised, how can you refuse? O best of the demons, just take from me the evidence of the…
SB 8.19.39 The Vedas enjoin that the factual result of the tree of the body is the good fruits and flowers derived from it. But if the bodily tree…
SB 8.19.40 When a tree is uprooted it immediately falls down and begins to dry up. Similarly, if one doesn’t take care of the body, which is supposed…
SB 8.19.41 The utterance of the word om signifies separation from one’s monetary assets. In other words, by uttering this word one becomes free from…
SB 8.19.42 Therefore, the safe course is to say no. Although it is a falsehood, it protects one completely, it draws the compassion of others toward…
SB 8.19.43 In flattering a woman to bring her under control, in joking, in a marriage ceremony, in earning one’s livelihood, when one’s life is in…
SB 8.22.24 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Lord Brahmā, because of material opulence a foolish person becomes dull-witted and mad.…
SB 8.22.25 While rotating in the cycle of birth and death again and again in different species because of his own fruitive activities, the dependent…
SB 8.22.26 If a human being is born in an aristocratic family or a higher status of life, if he performs wonderful activities, if he is youthful, if…
SB 8.22.27 Although aristocratic birth and other such opulences are impediments to advancement in devotional service because they are causes of false…
SB 8.22.28 Bali Mahārāja has become the most famous among the demons and nonbelievers, for in spite of being bereft of all material opulences, he is…
SB 8.22.29-30 Although bereft of his riches, fallen from his original position, defeated and arrested by his enemies, rebuked and deserted by his…
SB 8.22.31 The Lord continued: Because of his great tolerance, I have given him a place not obtainable even by the demigods. He will become King of…
SB 8.22.32 Until Bali Mahārāja achieves the position of King of heaven, he shall live on the planet Sutala, which was made by Viśvakarmā according to…
SB 8.22.33 O Bali Mahārāja [Indrasena], now you may go to the planet Sutala, which is desired even by the demigods. Live there peacefully, surrounded…
SB 8.22.34 On the planet Sutala, not even the predominating deities of other planets, what to speak of ordinary people, will be able to conquer you.…
SB 8.22.35 O great hero, I shall always be with you and give you protection in all respects along with your associates and paraphernalia. Moreover,…
SB 8.22.36 Because there you will see My supreme prowess, your materialistic ideas and anxieties that have arisen from your association with the…
SB 8.23.9 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear son Prahlāda, all good fortune unto you. For the time being, please go to the place known…
SB 8.23.10 The Supreme Personality of Godhead assured Prahlāda Mahārāja: You shall be able to see Me there in My usual feature with conchshell, disc,…
SB 8.24.32 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O King, who can subdue your enemies, on the seventh day from today the three worlds — Bhūḥ,…
SB 8.24.33 When all the three worlds merge into the water, a large boat sent by Me will appear before you.
SB 8.24.34-35 Thereafter, O King, you shall collect all types of herbs and seeds and load them on that great boat. Then, accompanied by the seven ṛṣis…
SB 8.24.36 Then, as the boat is tossed about by the powerful winds, attach the vessel to My horn by means of the great serpent Vāsuki, for I shall be…
SB 8.24.37 Pulling the boat, with you and all the ṛṣis in it, O King, I shall travel in the water of devastation until the night of Lord Brahmā’s…
SB 8.24.38 You will be thoroughly advised and favored by Me, and because of your inquiries, everything about My glories, which are known as paraṁ…
SB 8.24.39 After thus instructing the King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead immediately disappeared. Then King Satyavrata began to wait for that…
SB 8.24.40 After spreading kuśa with its tips pointing east, the saintly King, himself facing the northeast, sat down on the grass and began to…
SB 8.24.41 Thereafter, gigantic clouds pouring incessant water swelled the ocean more and more. Thus the ocean began to overflow onto the land and…
SB 8.24.42 As Satyavrata remembered the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he saw a boat coming near him. Thus he collected herbs and…
SB 8.24.43 The saintly brāhmaṇas, being pleased with the King, said to him: O King, please meditate upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Keśava.…
SB 8.24.44 Then, while the King constantly meditated upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, a large golden fish appeared in the ocean of…
SB 8.24.45 Following the instructions formerly given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the King anchored the boat to the fish’s horn, using the…
SB 8.24.46 The King said: By the grace of the Lord, those who have lost their self-knowledge since time immemorial, and who because of this ignorance…
SB 8.24.47 In hopes of becoming happy in this material world, the foolish conditioned soul performs fruitive activities that result only in…
SB 8.24.48 One who wants to be free of material entanglement should take to the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and give up the…
SB 8.24.49 Neither all the demigods, nor the so-called gurus nor all other people, either independently or together, can offer mercy that equals even…
SB 8.24.50 As a blind man, being unable to see, accepts another blind man as his leader, people who do not know the goal of life accept someone as a…
SB 8.24.51 A materialistic so-called guru instructs his materialistic disciples about economic development and sense gratification, and because of…
SB 8.24.52 My Lord, You are the supreme well-wishing friend of everyone, the dearmost friend, the controller, the Supersoul, the supreme instructor…
SB 8.24.53 O Supreme Lord, for self-realization I surrender unto You, who are worshiped by the demigods as the supreme controller of everything. By…
SB 8.24.54 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When Satyavrata had thus prayed to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had assumed the form of a fish, the…
SB 8.24.55 The Supreme Personality of Godhead thus explained to King Satyavrata the spiritual science known as sāṅkhya-yoga, the science by which one…
SB 8.24.56 While sitting in the boat, King Satyavrata, accompanied by the great saintly persons, listened to the instructions of the Supreme…
SB 8.24.57 At the end of the last inundation [during the period of Svāyambhuva Manu] the Supreme Personality of Godhead killed the demon named…
SB 8.24.58 King Satyavrata was illuminated with all Vedic knowledge by the mercy of Lord Viṣṇu, and in this period he has now taken birth as…
SB 8.24.59 This story concerning the great King Satyavrata and the fish incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is a great…
SB 8.24.60 One who narrates this description of the Matsya incarnation and King Satyavrata will certainly have all his ambitions fulfilled, and he…
SB 8.24.61 I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who pretended to be a gigantic fish, who restored the Vedic…
SB 9.8.28 The Personality of Godhead said: My dear Aṁśumān, here is the animal sought by your grandfather for sacrifice. Please take it. As for your…
SB 9.8.29 Thereafter, Aṁśumān circumambulated Kapila Muni and offered Him respectful obeisances, bowing his head. After fully satisfying Him in this…
SB 9.8.30 After delivering charge of his kingdom to Aṁśumān and thus being freed from all material anxiety and bondage, Sagara Mahārāja, following…
SB 9.9.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: King Aṁśumān, like his grandfather, performed austerities for a very long time. Nonetheless, he could not…
SB 9.9.2 Like Aṁśumān himself, Dilīpa, his son, was unable to bring the Ganges to this material world, and he also became a victim of death in due…
SB 9.9.3 Thereafter, mother Ganges appeared before King Bhagīratha and said, “I am very much satisfied with your austerities and am now prepared to…
SB 9.9.4 Mother Ganges replied: When I fall from the sky to the surface of the planet earth, the water will certainly be very forceful. Who will…
SB 9.9.5 O King, I do not wish to go down to the planet earth, for there the people in general will bathe in my water to cleanse themselves of the…
SB 9.9.6 Bhagīratha said: Those who are saintly because of devotional service and are therefore in the renounced order, free from material desires,…
SB 9.9.7 Like a cloth woven of threads extending for its length and breadth, this entire universe, in all its latitude and longitude, is situated…
SB 9.9.8 After saying this, Bhagīratha satisfied Lord Śiva by performing austerities. O King Parīkṣit, Lord Śiva was very quickly satisfied with…
SB 9.9.9 When King Bhagīratha approached Lord Śiva and requested him to sustain the forceful waves of the Ganges, Lord Śiva accepted the proposal…
SB 9.9.10 The great and saintly king Bhagīratha brought the Ganges, which can deliver all the fallen souls, to that place on earth where the bodies…
SB 9.9.11 Bhagīratha mounted a swift chariot and drove before mother Ganges, who followed him, purifying many countries, until they reached the…
SB 9.9.12 Because the sons of Sagara Mahārāja had offended a great personality, the heat of their bodies had increased, and they were burnt to…
SB 9.9.13 Simply by having water from the Ganges come in contact with the ashes of their burnt bodies, the sons of Sagara Mahārāja were elevated to…
SB 9.9.14 Because mother Ganges emanates from the lotus toe of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Anantadeva, she is able to liberate one from…
SB 9.9.15 Great sages, completely freed from material lusty desires, devote their minds fully to the service of the Lord. Such persons are liberated…
SB 9.9.16-17 Bhagīratha had a son named Śruta, whose son was Nābha. This son was different from the Nābha previously described. Nābha had a son named…
SB 9.9.18 Sarvakāma had a son named Sudāsa, whose son, known as Saudāsa, was the husband of Damayantī. Saudāsa is sometimes known as Mitrasaha or…
SB 10.10.40 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The great saint Nārada Muni is very merciful. By his curse, he showed the greatest favor to both…
SB 10.10.41 When one is face to face with the sun, there is no longer darkness for one’s eyes. Similarly, when one is face to face with a sādhu, a…
SB 10.10.42 O Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva, now you may both return home. Since you desire to be always absorbed in My devotional service, your desire to…
SB 10.13.14 “Let Me go and search for the calves,” Kṛṣṇa said. “Don’t disturb your enjoyment.” Then, carrying His yogurt and rice in His hand, the…
SB 10.13.15 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Brahmā, who resides in the higher planetary system in the sky, had observed the activities of the most powerful Kṛṣṇa…
SB 10.13.16 Thereafter, when Kṛṣṇa was unable to find the calves, He returned to the bank of the river, but there He was also unable to see the…
SB 10.13.17 When Kṛṣṇa was unable to find the calves and their caretakers, the cowherd boys, anywhere in the forest, He could suddenly understand that…
SB 10.13.18 Thereafter, just to create pleasure both for Brahmā and for the mothers of the calves and cowherd boys, Kṛṣṇa, the creator of the entire…
SB 10.13.19 By His Vāsudeva feature, Kṛṣṇa simultaneously expanded Himself into the exact number of missing cowherd boys and calves, with their exact…
SB 10.13.20 Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time appear as their…
SB 10.13.21 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Kṛṣṇa, who had divided Himself as different calves and also as different cowherd boys, entered different cow sheds as…
SB 10.13.22 The mothers of the boys, upon hearing the sounds of the flutes and bugles being played by their sons, immediately rose from their…
SB 10.13.23 Thereafter, O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as required according to the scheduled round of His pastimes, Kṛṣṇa returned in the evening, entered the…
SB 10.13.24 Thereafter, all the cows entered their different sheds and began mooing loudly, calling for their respective calves. When the calves…
SB 10.13.25 Previously, from the very beginning, the gopīs had motherly affection for Kṛṣṇa. Indeed, their affection for Kṛṣṇa exceeded even their…
SB 10.13.26 Although the inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi, the cowherd men and cowherd women, previously had more affection for Kṛṣṇa than for their own…
SB 10.13.27 In this way, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, having Himself become the cowherd boys and groups of calves, maintained Himself by Himself. Thus He continued…
SB 10.13.28 One day, five or six nights before the completion of the year, Kṛṣṇa, tending the calves, entered the forest along with Balarāma.
SB 10.13.29 Thereafter, while pasturing atop Govardhana Hill, the cows looked down to find some green grass and saw their calves pasturing near…
SB 10.13.30 When the cows saw their own calves from the top of Govardhana Hill, they forgot themselves and their caretakers because of increased…
SB 10.13.31 The cows had given birth to new calves, but while coming down from Govardhana Hill, the cows, because of increased affection for the older…
SB 10.13.32 The cowherd men, having been unable to check the cows from going to their calves, felt simultaneously ashamed and angry. They crossed the…
SB 10.13.33 At that time, all the thoughts of the cowherd men merged in the mellow of paternal love, which was aroused by the sight of their sons.…
SB 10.13.34 Thereafter the elderly cowherd men, having obtained great feeling from embracing their sons, gradually and with great difficulty and…
SB 10.13.35 Because of an increase of affection, the cows had constant attachment even to those calves that were grown up and had stopped sucking milk…
SB 10.13.36 What is this wonderful phenomenon? The affection of all the inhabitants of Vraja, including Me, toward these boys and calves is increasing…
SB 10.13.37 Who is this mystic power, and where has she come from? Is she a demigod or a demoness? She must be the illusory energy of My master, Lord…
SB 10.13.38 Thinking in this way, Lord Balarāma was able to see, with the eye of transcendental knowledge, that all these calves and Kṛṣṇa’s friends…
SB 10.13.39 Lord Baladeva said, “O supreme controller! These boys are not great demigods, as I previously thought. Nor are these calves great sages…
SB 10.13.40 When Lord Brahmā returned after a moment of time had passed (according to his own measurement), he saw that although by human measurement…
SB 10.13.41 Lord Brahmā thought: Whatever boys and calves there were in Gokula, I have kept them sleeping on the bed of my mystic potency, and to this…
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SB 10.13.43 Thus Lord Brahmā, thinking and thinking for a long time, tried to distinguish between those two sets of boys, who were each separately…
SB 10.13.44 Thus because Lord Brahmā wanted to mystify the all-pervading Lord Kṛṣṇa, who can never be mystified, but who, on the contrary, mystifies…
SB 10.13.45 As the darkness of snow on a dark night and the light of a glowworm in the light of day have no value, the mystic power of an inferior…
SB 10.13.46 Then, while Lord Brahmā looked on, all the calves and the boys tending them immediately appeared to have complexions the color of bluish…
SB 10.13.47-48 All those personalities had four arms, holding conchshell, disc, mace and lotus flower in Their hands. They wore helmets on Their heads,…
SB 10.13.49 Every part of Their bodies, from Their feet to the top of Their heads, was fully decorated with fresh, tender garlands of tulasī leaves…
SB 10.13.50 Those Viṣṇu forms, by Their pure smiling, which resembled the increasing light of the moon, and by the sidelong glances of Their reddish…
SB 10.13.51 All beings, both moving and nonmoving, from the four-headed Lord Brahmā down to the most insignificant living entity, had taken forms and…
SB 10.13.52 All the viṣṇu-mūrtis were surrounded by the opulences, headed by aṇimā-siddhi; by the mystic potencies, headed by Ajā; and by the…
SB 10.13.53 Then Lord Brahmā saw that kāla (the time factor), svabhāva (one’s own nature by association), saṁskāra (reformation), kāma (desire), karma…
SB 10.13.54 The viṣṇu-mūrtis all had eternal, unlimited forms, full of knowledge and bliss and existing beyond the influence of time. Their great…
SB 10.13.55 Thus Lord Brahmā saw the Supreme Brahman, by whose energy this entire universe, with its moving and nonmoving living beings, is…
SB 10.13.56 Then, by the power of the effulgence of those viṣṇu-mūrtis, Lord Brahmā, his eleven senses jolted by astonishment and stunned by…
SB 10.13.57 The Supreme Brahman is beyond mental speculation, He is self-manifest, existing in His own bliss, and He is beyond the material energy. He…
SB 10.13.58 Lord Brahmā’s external consciousness then revived, and he stood up, just like a dead man coming back to life. Opening his eyes with great…
SB 10.13.59 Then, looking in all directions, Lord Brahmā immediately saw Vṛndāvana before him, filled with trees, which were the means of livelihood…
SB 10.13.60 Vṛndāvana is the transcendental abode of the Lord, where there is no hunger, anger or thirst. Though naturally inimical, both human beings…
SB 10.13.61 Then Lord Brahmā saw the Absolute Truth — who is one without a second, who possesses full knowledge and who is unlimited — assuming the…
SB 10.13.62 After seeing this, Lord Brahmā hastily got down from his swan carrier, fell down like a golden rod and touched the lotus feet of Lord…
SB 10.13.63 Rising and falling again and again at the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa for a long time, Lord Brahmā remembered over and over the Lord’s…
SB 10.13.64 Then, rising very gradually and wiping his two eyes, Lord Brahmā looked up at Mukunda. Lord Brahmā, his head bent low, his mind…
SB 10.15.5 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O greatest of Lords, just see how these trees are bowing their heads at Your lotus feet, which…
SB 10.15.6 O Original Personality, these bees must all be great sages and most elevated devotees of Yours, for they are worshiping You by following…
SB 10.15.7 O worshipable one, these peacocks are dancing before You out of joy, these doe are pleasing You with affectionate glances, just as the…
SB 10.15.8 This earth has now become most fortunate, because You have touched her grass and bushes with Your feet and her trees and creepers with…
SB 10.22.10 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] My dear girls, you may each come here as you wish and take back your garments. I’m telling you the truth and am not…
SB 10.22.11 I have never before spoken a lie, and these boys know it. Therefore, O slender-waisted girls, please come forward, either one by one or…
SB 10.22.12 Seeing how Kṛṣṇa was joking with them, the gopīs became fully immersed in love for Him, and as they glanced at each other they began to…
SB 10.22.13 As Śrī Govinda spoke to the gopīs in this way, His joking words completely captivated their minds. Submerged up to their necks in the cold…
SB 10.22.16 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: If you girls are actually My maidservants, and if you will really do what I say, then come here…
SB 10.22.17 Then, shivering from the painful cold, all the young girls rose up out of the water, covering their pubic area with their hands.
SB 10.22.18 When the Supreme Lord saw how the gopīs were struck with embarrassment, He was satisfied by their pure loving affection. Putting their…
SB 10.22.19 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] You girls bathed naked while executing your vow, and that is certainly an offense against the demigods. To counteract…
SB 10.22.20 Thus the young girls of Vṛndāvana, considering what Lord Acyuta had told them, accepted that they had suffered a falldown from their vow…
SB 10.22.21 Seeing them bow down like that, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the son of Devakī, gave them back their garments, feeling…
SB 10.22.22 Although the gopīs had been thoroughly cheated, deprived of their modesty, ridiculed and made to act just like toy dolls, and although…
SB 10.22.23 The gopīs were addicted to associating with their beloved Kṛṣṇa, and thus they became captivated by Him. Thus, even after putting their…
SB 10.22.24 The Supreme Lord understood the determination of the gopīs in executing their strict vow. The Lord also knew that the girls desired to…
SB 10.22.25 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] O saintly girls, I understand that your real motive in this austerity has been to worship Me. That intent of yours is…
SB 10.22.26 The desire of those who fix their minds on Me does not lead to material desire for sense gratification, just as barleycorns burned by the…
SB 10.22.27 Go now, girls, and return to Vraja. Your desire is fulfilled, for in My company you will enjoy the coming nights. After all, this was the…
SB 10.22.31-32 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] O Stoka Kṛṣṇa and Aṁśu, O Śrīdāma, Subala and Arjuna, O Viśāla, Vṛṣabha, Ojasvī, Devaprastha and Varūthapa, just see…
SB 10.22.33 Just see how these trees are maintaining every living entity! Their birth is successful. Their behavior is just like that of great…
SB 10.22.34 These trees fulfill one’s desires with their leaves, flowers and fruits, their shade, roots, bark and wood, and also with their fragrance,…
SB 10.22.35 It is the duty of every living being to perform welfare activities for the benefit of others with his life, wealth, intelligence and words.
SB 10.22.36 Thus moving among the trees, whose branches were bent low by their abundance of twigs, fruits, flowers and leaves, Lord Kṛṣṇa came to the…
SB 10.22.37 The cowherd boys let the cows drink the clear, cool and wholesome water of the Yamunā. O King Parīkṣit, the cowherd boys themselves also…
SB 10.22.38 Then, O King, the cowherd boys began herding the animals in a leisurely way within a small forest along the Yamunā. But soon they became…
SB 10.23.1 The cowherd boys said: O Rāma, Rāma, mighty-armed one! O Kṛṣṇa, chastiser of the wicked! We are being harassed by hunger, and You should…
SB 10.23.3 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Please go to the sacrificial arena where a group of brāhmaṇas, learned in the Vedic injunctions, are now performing the…
SB 10.23.4 When you go there, My dear cowherd boys, simply request some food. Declare to them the name of My elder brother, the Supreme Lord…
SB 10.23.5 Thus instructed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cowherd boys went there and submitted their request. They stood before the…
SB 10.23.6 [The cowherd boys said:] O earthly gods, please hear us. We cowherd boys are executing the orders of Kṛṣṇa, and we have been sent here by…
SB 10.23.7 Lord Rāma and Lord Acyuta are tending Their cows not far from here. They are hungry and want you to give Them some of your food.…
SB 10.23.8 Except during the interval between the initiation of the performer of a sacrifice and the actual sacrifice of the animal, O most pure…
SB 10.23.9 The brāhmaṇas heard this supplication from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, yet they refused to pay heed. Indeed, they were full of…
SB 10.23.10-11 Although the ingredients of sacrificial performance — the place, time, particular paraphernalia, mantras, rituals, priests, fires,…
SB 10.23.12 When the brāhmaṇas failed to reply even with a simple yes or no, O chastiser of the enemy [Parīkṣit], the cowherd boys returned…
SB 10.23.13 Hearing what had happened, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord of the universe, simply laughed. Then He again addressed the…
SB 10.23.14 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Tell the wives of the brāhmaṇas that I have come here with Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. They will certainly give you all the food…
SB 10.23.15 The cowherd boys then went to the house where the brāhmaṇas’ wives were staying. There the boys saw those chaste ladies sitting, nicely…
SB 10.23.16 [The cowherd boys said:] Obeisances unto you, O wives of the learned brāhmaṇas. Kindly hear our words. We have been sent here by Lord…
SB 10.23.17 He has come a long way with the cowherd boys and Lord Balarāma, tending the cows. Now He is hungry, so some food should be given for Him…
SB 10.23.18 The wives of the brāhmaṇas were always eager to see Kṛṣṇa, for their minds had been enchanted by descriptions of Him. Thus as soon as they…
SB 10.23.19 Taking along in large vessels the four kinds of foods, full of fine tastes and aromas, all the ladies went forth to meet their beloved,…
SB 10.23.20-21 Although their husbands, brothers, sons and other relatives tried to forbid them from going, their hope of seeing Kṛṣṇa, cultivated by…
SB 10.23.22 His complexion was dark blue and His garment golden. Wearing a peacock feather, colored minerals, sprigs of flower buds, and a garland of…
SB 10.23.23 O ruler of men, for a long time those brāhmaṇa ladies had heard about Kṛṣṇa, their beloved, and His glories had become the constant…
SB 10.23.24 Lord Kṛṣṇa, who witnesses the thoughts of all creatures, understood how those ladies had abandoned all worldly hopes and come there simply…
SB 10.23.25 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Welcome, O most fortunate ladies. Please sit down and make yourselves comfortable. What can I do for you? That you have…
SB 10.23.26 Certainly expert personalities, who can see their own true interest, render unmotivated and uninterrupted devotional service directly unto…
SB 10.23.27 It is only by contact with the self that one’s vital breath, intelligence, mind, friends, body, wife, children, wealth and so on are dear.…
SB 10.23.28 You should thus return to the sacrificial arena, because your husbands, the learned brāhmaṇas, are householders and need your assistance…
SB 10.23.29 The wives of the brāhmaṇas replied: O almighty one, please do not speak such cruel words. Rather, You should fulfill Your promise that You…
SB 10.23.30 Our husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, other relatives and friends will no longer take us back, and how could anyone else be willing to…
SB 10.23.31 The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: Rest assured that your husbands will not be inimical toward you, nor will your fathers,…
SB 10.23.32 For you to remain in My bodily association would certainly not please people in this world, nor would it be the best way for you to…
SB 10.23.33 It is by hearing about Me, seeing My Deity form, meditating upon Me and chanting My names and glories that love for Me develops, not by…
SB 10.24.3 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] My dear father, kindly explain to Me what this great endeavor of yours is all about. What is it meant to accomplish? If…
SB 10.24.4 Please tell Me about it, O father. I have a great desire to know and am ready to hear in good faith. Certainly, no secrets are to be kept…
SB 10.24.5 One who is neutral may be avoided like an enemy, but a friend should be considered like one’s own self.
SB 10.24.6 When people in this world perform activities, sometimes they understand what they are doing and sometimes they don’t. Those who know what…
SB 10.24.7 Such being the case, this ritualistic endeavor of yours should be clearly explained to Me. Is it a ceremony based on scriptural…
SB 10.24.8 Nanda Mahārāja replied: The great Lord Indra is the controller of the rain. The clouds are his personal representatives, and they directly…
SB 10.24.9 Not only we, my dear son, but also many other men worship him, the lord and master of the rain-giving clouds. We offer him grain and other…
SB 10.24.10 By accepting the remnants of sacrifices performed to Indra, people sustain their lives and accomplish the threefold aims of religiosity,…
SB 10.24.11 This religious principle is based on sound tradition. Anyone who rejects it out of lust, enmity, fear or greed will certainly fail to…
SB 10.24.13 Lord Kṛṣṇa said: It is by the force of karma that a living entity takes birth, and it is by karma alone that he meets his destruction. His…
SB 10.24.14 Even if there is some supreme controller who awards all others the results of their activities, He must also depend upon a performer’s…
SB 10.24.15 Living beings in this world are forced to experience the consequences of their own particular previous work. Since Lord Indra cannot in…
SB 10.24.16 Every individual is under the control of his own conditioned nature, and thus he must follow that nature. This entire universe, with all…
SB 10.24.17 Because it is karma that causes the conditioned living entity to accept and then give up different high- and low-grade material bodies,…
SB 10.24.18 Therefore one should seriously worship work itself. A person should remain in the position corresponding to his nature and should perform…
SB 10.24.19 If one thing is actually sustaining our life but we take shelter of something else, how can we achieve any real benefit? We would be like…
SB 10.24.20 The brāhmaṇa maintains his life by studying and teaching the Vedas, the member of the royal order by protecting the earth, the vaiśya by…
SB 10.24.21 The occupational duties of the vaiśya are conceived in four divisions: farming, commerce, cow protection and moneylending. Out of these,…
SB 10.24.22 The causes of creation, maintenance and destruction are the three modes of nature — namely goodness, passion and ignorance. In particular,…
SB 10.24.23 Impelled by the material mode of passion, the clouds pour down their rain everywhere, and by this rain all creatures gain their…
SB 10.24.24 My dear father, our home is not in the cities or towns or villages. Being forest dwellers, we always live in the forest and on the hills.
SB 10.24.25 Therefore may a sacrifice for the pleasure of the cows, the brāhmaṇas and Govardhana Hill begin! With all the paraphernalia collected for…
SB 10.24.26 Let many different kinds of food be cooked, from sweet rice to vegetable soups! Many kinds of fancy cakes, both baked and fried, should be…
SB 10.24.27 The brāhmaṇas who are learned in the Vedic mantras must properly invoke the sacrificial fires. Then you should feed the priests with…
SB 10.24.28 After giving the appropriate food to everyone else, including such fallen souls as dogs and dog-eaters, you should give grass to the cows…
SB 10.24.29 After everyone has eaten to his satisfaction, you should all dress and decorate yourselves handsomely, smear your bodies with sandalwood…
SB 10.24.30 This is My idea, O father, and you may carry it out if it appeals to you. Such a sacrifice will be very dear to the cows, the brāhmaṇas…
SB 10.25.26 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] My dear cowherd men, please go out with your wives, children and possessions. Give up your fear. The wind and rain have…
SB 10.25.27 After collecting their respective cows and loading their paraphernalia into their wagons, the cowherd men went out. The women, children…
SB 10.25.28 While all living creatures looked on, the Supreme Personality of Godhead put down the hill in its original place, just as it had stood…
SB 10.25.29 All the residents of Vṛndāvana were overwhelmed with ecstatic love, and they came forward and greeted Śrī Kṛṣṇa according to their…
SB 10.25.30 Mother Yaśodā, mother Rohiṇī, Nanda Mahārāja and Balarāma, the greatest of the strong, all embraced Kṛṣṇa. Overwhelmed with affection,…
SB 10.25.31 In the heavens, O King, all the demigods, including the Siddhas, Sādhyas, Gandharvas and Cāraṇas, sang the praises of Lord Kṛṣṇa and…
SB 10.25.32 My dear Parīkṣit, the demigods in heaven resoundingly played their conchshells and kettledrums, and the best of the Gandharvas, led by…
SB 10.25.33 Surrounded by His loving cowherd boyfriends and Lord Balarāma, Kṛṣṇa then went off to the place where He had been tending His cows. The…
SB 10.27.15 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Indra, it was out of mercy that I stopped the sacrifice meant for you. You were greatly…
SB 10.27.16 A man blinded by intoxication with his power and opulence cannot see Me nearby with the rod of punishment in My hand. If I desire his real…
SB 10.27.17 Indra, you may now go. Execute My order and remain in your appointed position as King of heaven. But be sober, without false pride.
SB 10.27.18 Mother Surabhi, along with her progeny, the cows, then offered her obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa. Respectfully requesting His attention, the…
SB 10.27.19 Mother Surabhi said: O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, greatest of mystics! O Soul and origin of the universe! You are the master of the world, and by Your…
SB 10.27.20 You are our worshipable Deity. Therefore, O Lord of the universe, for the benefit of the cows, the brāhmaṇas, the demigods and all other…
SB 10.27.21 As ordered by Lord Brahmā, we shall perform Your bathing ceremony to coronate You as Indra. O Soul of the universe, You descend to this…
SB 10.29.18 Lord Kṛṣṇa said: O most fortunate ladies, welcome. What may I do to please you? Is everything well in Vraja? Please tell Me the reason for…
SB 10.29.19 This night is quite frightening, and frightening creatures are lurking about. Return to Vraja, slender-waisted girls. This is not a proper…
SB 10.29.20 Not finding you at home, your mothers, fathers, sons, brothers and husbands are certainly searching for you. Don’t cause anxiety for your…
SB 10.29.21-22 Now you have seen this Vṛndāvana forest, full of flowers and resplendent with the light of the full moon. You have seen the beauty of the…
SB 10.29.23 On the other hand, perhaps you have come here out of your great love for Me, which has taken control of your hearts. This is of course…
SB 10.29.24 The highest religious duty for a woman is to sincerely serve her husband, behave well toward her husband’s family and take good care of…
SB 10.29.25 Women who desire a good destination in the next life should never abandon a husband who has not fallen from his religious standards, even…
SB 10.29.26 For a woman from a respectable family, petty adulterous affairs are always condemned. They bar her from heaven, ruin her reputation and…
SB 10.29.27 Transcendental love for Me arises by the devotional processes of hearing about Me, seeing My Deity form, meditating on Me and faithfully…
SB 10.32.17 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: So-called friends who show affection for each other only to benefit themselves are actually…
SB 10.32.18 My dear slender-waisted gopīs, some people are genuinely merciful or, like parents, naturally affectionate. Such persons, who devotedly…
SB 10.32.19 Then there are those individuals who are spiritually self-satisfied, materially fulfilled or by nature ungrateful or simply envious of…
SB 10.32.20 But the reason I do not immediately reciprocate the affection of living beings even when they worship Me, O gopīs, is that I want to…
SB 10.32.21 My dear girls, understanding that simply for My sake you had rejected the authority of worldly opinion, of the Vedas and of your…
SB 10.32.22 I am not able to repay My debt for your spotless service, even within a lifetime of Brahmā. Your connection with Me is beyond reproach.…
SB 10.34.11 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] My dear sir, you appear so wonderful, glowing with such great beauty. Who are you? And who forced you to assume this…
SB 10.34.12-13 The serpent replied: I am the well-known Vidyādhara named Sudarśana. I was very opulent and beautiful, and I used to wander freely in all…
SB 10.34.14 It was actually for my benefit that those merciful sages cursed me, since now I have been touched by the foot of the supreme spiritual…
SB 10.34.15 My Lord, You destroy all fear for those who, fearing this material world, take shelter of You. By the touch of Your feet I am now freed…
SB 10.34.16 O master of mystic power, O great personality, O Lord of the devotees, I surrender to You. Please command me as You will, O supreme God,…
SB 10.34.17 O infallible one, I was immediately freed from the brāhmaṇas’ punishment simply by seeing You. Anyone who chants Your name purifies all…
SB 10.34.18 Thus receiving the permission of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the demigod Sudarśana circumambulated Him, bowed down to offer Him homage and then returned…
SB 10.34.19 The inhabitants of Vraja were astonished to see the mighty power of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Dear King, they then completed their worship of Lord Śiva…
SB 10.34.20 Once Lord Govinda and Lord Rāma, the performers of wonderful feats, were playing in the forest at night with the young girls of Vraja.
SB 10.34.21 Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma wore flower garlands and spotless garments, and Their limbs were beautifully decorated and anointed. The women sang…
SB 10.34.22 The two Lords praised the nightfall, signaled by the rising of the moon and the appearance of stars, a lotus-scented breeze and bees…
SB 10.34.23 Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma sang, producing the entire range of musical sounds simultaneously. Their singing brought happiness to the ears and…
SB 10.34.24 The gopīs became stunned when they heard that song. Forgetting themselves, O King, they did not notice that their fine garments were…
SB 10.34.25 While Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma thus played according to Their own sweet will and sang to the point of apparent intoxication, a servant…
SB 10.34.26 O King, even as the two Lords looked on, Śaṅkhacūḍa brazenly began driving the women off toward the north. The women, who had accepted…
SB 10.34.27 Hearing Their devotees crying out “Kṛṣṇa! Rāma!” and seeing that they were just like cows being stolen by a thief, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma…
SB 10.34.28 The Lords called out in reply, “Do not fear!” Then They picked up logs of the śala tree and quickly pursued that lowest of Guhyakas, who…
SB 10.34.29 When Śaṅkhacūḍa saw the two of Them coming toward him like the personified forces of Time and Death, he was filled with anxiety. Confused,…
SB 10.34.30 Lord Govinda chased the demon wherever he ran, eager to take his crest jewel. Meanwhile Lord Balarāma stayed with the women to protect them.
SB 10.34.31 The mighty Lord overtook Śaṅkhacūḍa from a great distance as if from nearby, my dear King, and then with His fist the Lord removed the…
SB 10.34.32 Having thus killed the demon Śaṅkhacūḍa and taken away his shining jewel, Lord Kṛṣṇa gave it to His elder brother with great satisfaction…
SB 10.39.4 The Supreme Lord said: My dear, gentle Uncle Akrūra, was your trip here comfortable? May all good fortune be yours. Are our well-wishing…
SB 10.39.5 But, my dear Akrūra, as long as King Kaṁsa — that disease of our family who goes by the name “maternal uncle” — is still prospering, why…
SB 10.39.6 Just see how much suffering I have caused My offenseless parents! Because of Me their sons were killed and they themselves imprisoned.
SB 10.39.7 By good fortune We have today fulfilled Our desire to see you, Our dear relative. O gentle uncle, please tell Us why you have come.
SB 10.41.10 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Take the chariot and enter the city ahead of us. Then go home. After resting here a while, we will go to see the city.
SB 10.41.11 Śrī Akrūra said: O master, without the two of You I shall not enter Mathurā. I am Your devotee, O Lord, so it is not fair for You to…
SB 10.41.12 Come, let us go to my house with Your elder brother, the cowherd men and Your companions. O best of friends, O transcendental Lord, in…
SB 10.41.13 I am simply an ordinary householder attached to ritual sacrifices, so please purify my home with the dust of Your lotus feet. By that act…
SB 10.41.14 By bathing Your feet, the exalted Bali Mahārāja attained not only glorious fame and unequaled power but also the final destination of pure…
SB 10.41.15 The water of the river Ganges has purified the three worlds, having become transcendental by bathing Your feet. Lord Śiva accepted that…
SB 10.41.16 O Lord of lords, master of the universe, O You whose glories it is most pious to hear and chant! O best of the Yadus, O You whose fame is…
SB 10.41.17 The Supreme Lord said: I will come to Your house with My elder brother, but first I must satisfy My friends and well-wishers by killing…
SB 10.41.33 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Please give suitable garments to the two of Us, who certainly deserve them. If you grant this charity, you will…
SB 10.41.34 Thus requested by the Supreme Lord, who is perfectly complete in all respects, that arrogant servant of the King became angry and replied…
SB 10.41.35 [The washerman said:] You impudent boys! You’re accustomed to roaming the mountains and forests, and yet You would dare put on such…
SB 10.41.36 Fools, get out of here quickly! Don’t beg like this if You want to stay alive. When someone is too bold, the King’s men arrest him and…
SB 10.41.37 As the washerman thus spoke brazenly, the son of Devakī became angry, and then merely with His fingertips He separated the man’s head from…
SB 10.41.38 The washerman’s assistants all dropped their bundles of clothes and fled down the road, scattering in all directions. Lord Kṛṣṇa then took…
SB 10.41.39 Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma put on pairs of garments that especially pleased Them, and then Kṛṣṇa distributed the remaining clothes among the…
SB 10.41.40 Thereupon a weaver came forward and, feeling affection for the Lords, nicely adorned Their attire with cloth ornaments of various colors.
SB 10.41.41 Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma looked resplendent, each in His own unique, wonderfully ornamented outfit. They resembled a pair of young elephants,…
SB 10.41.42 Pleased with the weaver, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa blessed him that after death he would achieve the liberation of attaining a form like the…
SB 10.41.43 The two Lords then went to the house of the garland-maker Sudāmā. When Sudāmā saw Them he at once stood up and then bowed down, placing…
SB 10.41.44 After offering Them seats and bathing Their feet, Sudāmā worshiped Them and Their companions with arghya, garlands, pān, sandalwood paste…
SB 10.41.45 [Sudāmā said:] O Lord, my birth is now sanctified and my family free of contamination. Now that You both have come here, my forefathers,…
SB 10.41.46 You two Lords are the ultimate cause of this entire universe. To bestow sustenance and prosperity upon this realm, You have descended with…
SB 10.41.47 Because You are the well-wishing friends and Supreme Soul of the whole universe, You regard all with unbiased vision. Therefore, although…
SB 10.41.48 Please order me, Your servant, to do whatever You wish. To be engaged by You in some service is certainly a great blessing for anyone.
SB 10.41.49 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] O best of kings, having spoken these words, Sudāmā could understand what Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma wanted. Thus…
SB 10.41.50 Beautifully adorned with these garlands, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma were delighted, and so were Their companions. The two Lords then offered the…
SB 10.41.51 Sudāmā chose unshakable devotion for Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Soul of all existence; friendship with His devotees; and transcendental compassion…
SB 10.41.52 Not only did Lord Kṛṣṇa grant Sudāmā these benedictions, but He also awarded him strength, long life, fame, beauty and ever-increasing…
SB 10.42.2 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Who are you, O beautiful-thighed one? Ah, ointment! Who is it for, my dear lady? Please tell Us truthfully. Give Us…
SB 10.42.3 The maidservant replied: O handsome one, I am a servant of King Kaṁsa, who highly regards me for the ointments I make. My name is…
SB 10.42.4 Her mind overwhelmed by Kṛṣṇa’s beauty, charm, sweetness, smiles, words and glances, Trivakrā gave both Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma generous…
SB 10.42.5 Anointed with these most excellent cosmetics, which adorned Them with hues that contrasted with Their complexions, the two Lords appeared…
SB 10.42.6 Lord Kṛṣṇa was pleased with Trivakrā, so He decided to straighten that hunchbacked girl with the lovely face just to demonstrate the…
SB 10.42.7 Pressing down on her toes with both His feet, Lord Acyuta placed one upward-pointing finger of each hand under her chin and straightened…
SB 10.42.8 Simply by Lord Mukunda’s touch, Trivakrā was suddenly transformed into an exquisitely beautiful woman with straight, evenly proportioned…
SB 10.42.9 Now endowed with beauty, character and generosity, Trivakrā began to feel lusty desires for Lord Keśava. Taking hold of the end of His…
SB 10.42.10 [Trivakrā said:] Come, O hero, let us go to my house. I cannot bear to leave You here. O best of males, please take pity on me, since You…
SB 10.42.11 Thus entreated by the woman, Lord Kṛṣṇa first glanced at the face of Balarāma, who was watching the incident, and then at the faces of the…
SB 10.42.12 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] O lady with beautiful eyebrows, as soon as I fulfill My purpose I will certainly visit your house, where men can…
SB 10.42.13 Leaving her with these sweet words, Lord Kṛṣṇa walked further down the road. The merchants along the way worshiped Him and His elder…
SB 10.42.14 The sight of Kṛṣṇa aroused Cupid in the hearts of the city women. Thus agitated, they forgot themselves. Their clothes, braids and bangles…
SB 10.42.15 Lord Kṛṣṇa then asked the local people where the arena was in which the bow sacrifice would take place. When He went there He saw the…
SB 10.42.16 That most opulent bow was guarded by a large company of men, who were respectfully worshiping it. Kṛṣṇa pushed His way forward and,…
SB 10.42.17 Easily lifting the bow with His left hand, Lord Urukrama strung it in a fraction of a second as the King’s guards looked on. He then…
SB 10.42.18 The sound of the bow’s breaking filled the earth and sky in all directions. Upon hearing it, Kaṁsa was struck with terror.
SB 10.42.19 The enraged guards then took up their weapons and, wanting to seize Kṛṣṇa and His companions, surrounded them and shouted, “Grab Him! Kill…
SB 10.42.20 Seeing the guards coming upon Them with evil intent, Balarāma and Keśava took up the two halves of the bow and began striking them down.
SB 10.42.21 After also killing a contingent of soldiers sent by Kaṁsa, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma left the sacrificial arena by its main gate and continued…
SB 10.42.22 Having witnessed the amazing deed Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma had performed, and seeing Their strength, boldness and beauty, the people of the city…
SB 10.42.23 As They strolled about at will, the sun began to set, so They left the city with the cowherd boys and returned to the cowherds’ wagon…
SB 10.42.24 At the time of Mukunda’s [Kṛṣṇa’s] departure from Vṛndāvana, the gopīs had foretold that the residents of Mathurā would enjoy many…
SB 10.42.25 After Kṛṣṇa’s and Balarāma’s feet were bathed, the two Lords ate rice with milk. Then, although knowing what Kaṁsa intended to do, They…
SB 10.42.26-27 Wicked King Kaṁsa, on the other hand, was terrified, having heard how Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma had broken the bow and killed his guards and…
SB 10.42.28-31 When he looked at his reflection he could not see his head; for no reason the moon and stars appeared double; he saw a hole in his shadow;…
SB 10.42.32 When the night had finally passed and the sun rose up again from the water, Kaṁsa set about arranging for the grand wrestling festival.
SB 10.42.33 The King’s men performed the ritual worship of the wrestling arena, sounded their drums and other instruments and decorated the viewing…
SB 10.42.34 The city-dwellers and residents of the outlying districts, led by brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas, came and sat down comfortably in the galleries.…
SB 10.42.35 Surrounded by his ministers, Kaṁsa took his seat on the imperial dais. But even as he sat amidst his various provincial rulers, his heart…
SB 10.42.36 While the musical instruments loudly played in the rhythmic meters appropriate for wrestling matches, the lavishly ornamented wrestlers…
SB 10.42.37 Enthused by the pleasing music, Canura, Muṣṭika, Kūṭa, Śala and Tośala sat down on the wrestling mat.
SB 10.42.38 Nanda Mahārāja and the other cowherds, summoned by the King of the Bhojas, presented him with their offerings and then took their seats in…
SB 10.43.4 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] O driver, driver, move aside at once and let Us pass! If you don’t, this very day I will send both you and your…
SB 10.43.5 Thus threatened, the elephant-keeper became angry. He goaded his furious elephant, who appeared equal to time, death and Yamarāja, into…
SB 10.43.6 The lord of the elephants charged Kṛṣṇa and violently seized Him with his trunk. But Kṛṣṇa slipped away, struck him a blow and disappeared…
SB 10.43.7 Infuriated at being unable to see Lord Keśava, the elephant sought Him out with his sense of smell. Once again Kuvalayāpīḍa seized the…
SB 10.43.8 Lord Kṛṣṇa then grabbed the powerful Kuvalayāpīḍa by the tail and playfully dragged him twenty-five bow-lengths as easily as Garuḍa might…
SB 10.43.9 As Lord Acyuta held on to the elephant’s tail, the animal tried to twist away to the left and to the right, making the Lord swerve in the…
SB 10.43.10 Kṛṣṇa then came face to face with the elephant and slapped him and ran away. Kuvalayāpīḍa pursued the Lord, managing to touch Him again…
SB 10.43.11 As Kṛṣṇa dodged about, He playfully fell on the ground and quickly got up again. The raging elephant, thinking Kṛṣṇa was down, tried to…
SB 10.43.12 His prowess foiled, the lordly elephant Kuvalayāpīḍa went into a frenzied rage out of frustration. But the elephant-keepers goaded him on,…
SB 10.43.13 The Supreme Lord, killer of the demon Madhu, confronted the elephant as he attacked. Seizing his trunk with one hand, Kṛṣṇa threw him to…
SB 10.43.14 Lord Hari then climbed onto the elephant with the ease of a mighty lion, pulled out a tusk, and with it killed the beast and his keepers.
SB 10.43.15 Leaving the dead elephant aside, Lord Kṛṣṇa held on to the tusk and entered the wrestling arena. With the tusk resting on His shoulder,…
SB 10.43.16 My dear King, Lord Baladeva and Lord Janārdana, each carrying one of the elephant’s tusks as His chosen weapon, entered the arena with…
SB 10.43.17 The various groups of people in the arena regarded Kṛṣṇa in different ways when He entered it with His elder brother. The wrestlers saw…
SB 10.43.18 When Kaṁsa saw that Kuvalayāpīḍa was dead and the two brothers were invincible, he was overwhelmed with anxiety, O King.
SB 10.43.19 Arrayed with variegated ornaments, garlands and garments, just like a pair of excellently costumed actors, the two mighty-armed Lords…
SB 10.43.20 O King, as the citizens of the city and the people from outlying districts gazed upon those two Supreme Personalities from their seats in…
SB 10.43.21-22 The people seemed to be drinking Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma with their eyes, licking Them with their tongues, smelling Them with their nostrils…
SB 10.43.23 [The people said:] These two boys are certainly expansions of the Supreme Lord Nārāyaṇa who have descended to this world in the home of…
SB 10.43.24 This one [Kṛṣṇa] took birth from mother Devakī and was brought to Gokula, where He has remained concealed all this time, growing up in the…
SB 10.43.25 He made Pūtanā and the whirlwind demon meet with death, pulled down the twin Arjuna trees, and killed Śaṅkhacūḍa, Keśī, Dhenuka and…
SB 10.43.26-27 He saved the cows and the cowherds from a forest fire and subdued the serpent Kāliya. He removed Lord Indra’s false pride by holding up…
SB 10.43.28 The gopīs overcame all kinds of distress and experienced great happiness by seeing His face, which is always cheerful with smiling glances…
SB 10.43.29 It is said that under His full protection the Yadu dynasty will become extremely famous and attain wealth, glory and power.
SB 10.43.30 This lotus-eyed elder brother of His, Lord Balarāma, is the proprietor of all transcendental opulences. He has killed Pralamba, Vatsaka,…
SB 10.43.31 While the people talked in this way and the musical instruments resounded, the wrestler Cāṇūra addressed Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma with the…
SB 10.43.32 [Cāṇūra said:] O son of Nanda, O Rāma, You two are well respected by courageous men and are both skillful at wrestling. Having heard of…
SB 10.43.33 Subjects of the King who try to please him with their thoughts, acts and words are sure to achieve good fortune, but those who fail to do…
SB 10.43.34 It is well known that cowherd boys are always joyful as they tend their calves, and that the boys playfully wrestle with each other while…
SB 10.43.35 Therefore let’s do what the King wants. Everyone will be pleased with us, for the king embodies all living beings.
SB 10.43.36 Hearing this, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who liked to wrestle and welcomed the challenge, replied with words appropriate to the time and place.
SB 10.43.37 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Although forest-dwellers, We are also subjects of the Bhoja king. We must gratify his desires, for such behavior will…
SB 10.43.38 We are just young boys and should play with those of equal strength. The wrestling match must go on properly so that irreligion does not…
SB 10.43.39 Cāṇūra said: You aren’t really a child or even a young man, and neither is Balarāma, the strongest of the strong. After all, You playfully…
SB 10.43.40 Therefore You two should fight powerful wrestlers. There’s certainly nothing unfair about that. You, O descendant of Vṛṣṇi, can show Your…
SB 10.45.3 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Dear Father, because of Us, your two sons, you and mother Devakī always remained in anxiety and could never enjoy Our…
SB 10.45.4 Deprived by fate, We could not live with you and enjoy the pampered happiness most children enjoy in their parents’ home.
SB 10.45.5 With one’s body one can acquire all goals of life, and it is one’s parents who give the body birth and sustenance. Therefore no mortal man…
SB 10.45.6 A son who, though able to do so, fails to provide for his parents with his physical resources and wealth is forced after his death to eat…
SB 10.45.7 A man who, though able to do so, fails to support his elderly parents, chaste wife, young child or spiritual master, or who neglects a…
SB 10.45.8 Thus We have wasted all these days, unable as We were to properly honor you because Our minds were always disturbed by fear of Kaṁsa.
SB 10.45.9 Dear Father and Mother, please forgive Us for not serving you. We are not independent and have been greatly frustrated by cruel Kaṁsa.
SB 10.45.21 [Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma said:] O Father, you and mother Yaśodā have affectionately maintained Us and cared for Us so much! Indeed, parents…
SB 10.45.22 They are the real father and mother who care for, as they would their own sons, children abandoned by relatives unable to maintain and…
SB 10.45.23 Now you should all return to Vraja, dear Father. We shall come to see you, Our dear relatives who suffer in separation from Us, as soon as…
SB 10.45.24 Thus consoling Nanda Mahārāja and the other men of Vraja, the infallible Supreme Lord respectfully honored them with gifts of clothing,…
SB 10.45.25 Nanda Mahārāja was overwhelmed with affection upon hearing Kṛṣṇa’s words, and his eyes brimmed with tears as he embraced the two Lords.…
SB 10.45.26 My dear King, then Vasudeva, the son of Śūrasena, arranged for a priest and other brāhmaṇas to perform his two sons’ second-birth…
SB 10.45.27 Vasudeva honored these brāhmaṇas by worshiping them and giving them fine ornaments and well-ornamented cows with their calves. All these…
SB 10.45.28 The magnanimous Vasudeva then remembered the cows he had mentally given away on the occasion of Kṛṣṇa’s and Balarāma’s birth. Kaṁsa had…
SB 10.45.29 After attaining twice-born status through initiation, the Lords, sincere in Their vows, took the further vow of celibacy from Garga Muni,…
SB 10.45.30-31 Concealing Their innately perfect knowledge by Their humanlike activities, those two omniscient Lords of the universe, Themselves the…
SB 10.45.32 Sāndīpani thought very highly of these two self-controlled disciples, whom he had obtained so fortuitously. By serving him as devotedly as…
SB 10.45.33 That best of brāhmaṇas, the spiritual master Sāndīpani, was satisfied with Their submissive behavior, and thus he taught Them the entire…
SB 10.45.34 He also taught Them the Dhanur-veda, with its most confidential secrets; the standard books of law; the methods of logical reasoning and…
SB 10.45.35-36 O King, those best of persons, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, being Themselves the original promulgators of all varieties of knowledge, could…
SB 10.45.37 O King, the learned brāhmaṇa Sāndīpani carefully considered the two Lords’ glorious and amazing qualities and Their superhuman…
SB 10.45.38 “So be it,” replied those two great chariot warriors of limitless might, and They at once mounted Their chariot and set off for Prabhāsa.…
SB 10.45.39 The Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa addressed the lord of the ocean: Let the son of My guru be presented at once — the one you seized here with your…
SB 10.45.40 The ocean replied: O Lord Kṛṣṇa, it was not I who abducted him, but a demonic descendant of Diti named Pañcajana, who travels in the water…
SB 10.45.41 “Indeed,” the ocean said, “that demon has taken him away.” Hearing this, Lord Kṛṣṇa entered the ocean, found Pañcajana and killed him. But…
SB 10.45.42-44 Lord Janārdana took the conchshell that had grown around the demon’s body and went back to the chariot. Then He proceeded to Saṁyamanī,…
SB 10.45.45 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Suffering the bondage of his past activity, My spiritual master’s son was brought here to you. O…
SB 10.45.46 Yamarāja said, “So be it,” and brought forth the guru’s son. Then those two most exalted Yadus presented the boy to Their spiritual master…
SB 10.45.47 The spiritual master said: My dear boys, You two have completely fulfilled the disciple’s obligation to reward his spiritual master.…
SB 10.45.48 O heroes, now please return home. May Your fame sanctify the world, and may the Vedic hymns be ever fresh in Your minds, both in this life…
SB 10.45.49 Thus receiving Their guru’s permission to leave, the two Lords returned to Their city on Their chariot, which moved as swiftly as the wind…
SB 10.45.50 All the citizens rejoiced upon seeing Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, whom they had not seen for many days. The people felt just like those who have…
SB 10.46.3 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Dear gentle Uddhava, go to Vraja and give pleasure to Our parents. And also relieve the gopīs, suffering in separation…
SB 10.46.4 The minds of those gopīs are always absorbed in Me, and their very lives are ever devoted to Me. For My sake they have abandoned…
SB 10.46.5 My dear Uddhava, for those women of Gokula I am the most cherished object of love. Thus when they remember Me, who am so far away, they…
SB 10.46.6 Simply because I have promised to return to them, My fully devoted cowherd girlfriends struggle to maintain their lives somehow or other.
SB 10.47.29 The Supreme Lord said: You are never actually separated from Me, for I am the Soul of all creation. Just as the elements of nature —…
SB 10.47.30 By Myself I create, sustain and withdraw Myself within Myself by the power of My personal energy, which comprises the material elements,…
SB 10.47.31 Being composed of pure consciousness, or knowledge, the soul is distinct from everything material and is uninvolved in the entanglements…
SB 10.47.32 As a person just arisen from sleep may continue to meditate on a dream even though it is illusory, so by the agency of the mind one…
SB 10.47.33 According to intelligent authorities, this is the ultimate conclusion of all the Vedas, as well as all practice of yoga, Sāṅkhya,…
SB 10.47.34 But the actual reason why I, the beloved object of your sight, have stayed far away from you is that I wanted to intensify your meditation…
SB 10.47.35 When her lover is far away, a woman thinks of him more than when he is present before her.
SB 10.47.36 Because your minds are totally absorbed in Me and free from all other engagement, you remember Me always, and so you will very soon have…
SB 10.47.37 Although some gopīs had to remain in the cowherd village and so could not join the rāsa dance to sport with Me at night in the forest,…
SB 10.48.29 The Supreme Lord said: You are Our spiritual master, paternal uncle and praiseworthy friend, and We are like your sons, always dependent…
SB 10.48.30 Exalted souls like you are the true objects of service and the most worshipable authorities for those who desire the highest good in life.…
SB 10.48.31 No one can deny that there are holy places with sacred rivers, or that the demigods appear in deity forms made of earth and stone. But…
SB 10.48.32 You are indeed the best of Our friends, so please go to Hastināpura and, as the well-wisher of the Pāṇḍavas, find out how they are doing.
SB 10.48.33 We have heard that when their father passed away, the young Pāṇḍavas were brought with their anguished mother to the capital city by King…
SB 10.48.34 Indeed, weak-minded Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the son of Ambikā, has come under the control of his wicked sons, and therefore that blind King is not…
SB 10.48.35 Go and see whether Dhṛtarāṣṭra is acting properly or not. When We find out, We will make the necessary arrangements to help Our dear…
SB 10.48.36 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus fully instructing Akrūra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari then returned to His residence,…
SB 10.50.13-14 [The Supreme Lord said:] My respected elder brother, see this danger which has beset Your dependents, the Yadus! And see, dear master, how…
SB 10.50.15 After Lord Kṛṣṇa had thus invited His brother, the two Dāśārhas, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, wearing armor and displaying Their resplendent…
SB 10.50.16 As Lord Kṛṣṇa came out of the city with Dāruka at the reins of His chariot, He blew His conchshell, and the enemy soldiers’ hearts began…
SB 10.50.17 Jarāsandha looked at the two of Them and said: O Kṛṣṇa, lowest of men! I do not wish to fight alone with You, since it would be a shame to…
SB 10.50.18 You, Rāma, should gather Your courage and fight with me, if You think You can do it. You may either give up Your body when it is cut to…
SB 10.50.19 The Supreme Lord said: Real heroes do not simply boast but rather show their prowess in action. We cannot take seriously the words of one…
SB 10.51.36 The Supreme Lord said: My dear friend, I have taken thousands of births, lived thousands of lives and accepted thousands of names. In fact…
SB 10.51.37 After many lifetimes someone might count the dust particles on the earth, but no one can ever finish counting My qualities, activities,…
SB 10.51.38 O King, the greatest sages enumerate My births and activities, which take place throughout the three phases of time, but never do they…
SB 10.51.39-40 Nonetheless, O friend, I will tell you about My current birth, name and activities. Kindly hear. Some time ago, Lord Brahmā requested Me…
SB 10.51.41 I have killed Kālanemi, reborn as Kaṁsa, as well as Pralamba and other enemies of the pious. And now, O King, this barbarian has been…
SB 10.51.42 Since in the past you repeatedly prayed to Me, I have personally come to this cave to show you mercy, for I am affectionately inclined to…
SB 10.51.43 Now choose some benedictions from Me, O saintly King. I will fulfill all your desires. One who has satisfied Me need never again lament.
SB 10.51.58 The Supreme Lord said: O emperor, great ruler, your mind is pure and potent. Though I enticed You with benedictions, your mind was not…
SB 10.51.59 Understand that I enticed you with benedictions just to prove that you would not be deceived. The intelligence of My unalloyed devotees is…
SB 10.51.60 The minds of nondevotees who engage in such practices as prāṇāyama are not fully cleansed of material desires. Thus, O King, material…
SB 10.51.61 Wander this earth at will, with your mind fixed on Me. May you always possess such unfailing devotion for Me.
SB 10.51.62 Because you followed the principles of a kṣatriya, you killed living beings while hunting and performing other duties. You must vanquish…
SB 10.51.63 O King, in your very next life you will become an excellent brāhmaṇa, the greatest well-wisher of all creatures, and certainly come to Me…
SB 10.52.30 [The Supreme Lord said:] O best of exalted brāhmaṇas, are your religious practices, sanctioned by senior authorities, proceeding without…
SB 10.52.31 When a brāhmaṇa is satisfied with whatever comes his way and does not fall away from his religious duties, those very religious principles…
SB 10.52.32 An unsatisfied brāhmaṇa wanders restlessly from one planet to another, even if he becomes King of heaven. But a satisfied brāhmaṇa, though…
SB 10.52.33 I repeatedly bow My head in respect to those brāhmaṇas who are satisfied with their lot. Saintly, prideless and peaceful, they are the…
SB 10.52.34 O brāhmaṇa, is your King attending to your welfare? Indeed, that king in whose country the citizens are happy and protected is very dear…
SB 10.52.35 Whence have you come, crossing the impassable sea, and for what purpose? Explain all this to Us if it is not a secret, and tell Us what We…
SB 10.52.36 Thus questioned by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who incarnates to perform His pastimes, the brāhmaṇa told Him everything.
SB 10.52.37 Śrī Rukmiṇī said [in her letter, as read by the brāhmaṇa]: O beauty of the worlds, having heard of Your qualities, which enter the ears of…
SB 10.52.38 O Mukunda, You are equal only to Yourself in lineage, character, beauty, knowledge, youthfulness, wealth and influence. O lion among men,…
SB 10.52.39 Therefore, my dear Lord, I have chosen You as my husband, and I surrender myself to You. Please come swiftly, O almighty one, and make me…
SB 10.52.40 If I have sufficiently worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead by pious works, sacrifices, charity, rituals and vows, and also by…
SB 10.52.41 O unconquerable one, tomorrow when my marriage ceremony is about to begin, You should arrive unseen in Vidarbha and surround Yourself with…
SB 10.52.42 Since I will be staying within the inner chambers of the palace, You may wonder, “How can I carry you away without killing some of your…
SB 10.52.43 O lotus-eyed one, great souls like Lord Śiva hanker to bathe in the dust of Your lotus feet and thereby destroy their ignorance. If I…
SB 10.52.44 The brāhmaṇa said: This is the confidential message I have brought with me, O Lord of the Yadus. Please consider what must be done in…
SB 10.53.2 The Supreme Lord said: Just as Rukmiṇī’s mind is fixed on Me, My mind is fixed on her. I can’t even sleep at night. I know that Rukmī, out…
SB 10.53.3 She has dedicated herself exclusively to Me, and her beauty is flawless. I will bring her here after thrashing those worthless kings in…
SB 10.54.39 [Again addressing Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma said:] A relative should not be killed even if his wrongdoing warrants capital punishment. Rather, he…
SB 10.54.40 [Turning to Rukmiṇī, Balarāma continued:] The code of sacred duty for warriors established by Lord Brahmā enjoins that one may have to…
SB 10.54.41 [Again Balarāma addressed Kṛṣṇa:] Blinded by conceit with their personal opulences, proud men offend others for the sake of such things as…
SB 10.54.42 [To Rukmiṇī Balarāma said:] Your attitude is unfair, for like an ignorant person you wish good to those who are inimical to all living…
SB 10.54.43 The Supreme Lord’s Māyā makes men forget their real selves, and thus, taking the body for the self, they consider others to be friends,…
SB 10.54.44 Those who are bewildered perceive the one Supreme Soul, who resides in all embodied beings, as many, just as one may perceive the light in…
SB 10.54.45 This material body, which has a beginning and an end, is composed of the physical elements, the senses and the modes of nature. The body,…
SB 10.54.46 O intelligent lady, the soul never undergoes contact with or separation from insubstantial, material objects, because the soul is their…
SB 10.54.47 Birth and other transformations are undergone by the body but never by the self, just as change occurs for the moon’s phases but never for…
SB 10.54.48 As a sleeping person perceives himself, the objects of sense enjoyment and the fruits of his acts within the illusion of a dream, so one…
SB 10.54.49 Therefore, with transcendental knowledge dispel the grief that is weakening and confounding your mind. Please resume your natural mood, O…
SB 10.56.31 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] It is for this jewel, O lord of the bears, that we have come to your cave. I intend to use the jewel to disprove the…
SB 10.56.32 Thus addressed, Jāmbavān happily honored Lord Kṛṣṇa by offering Him his maiden daughter, Jāmbavatī, together with the jewel.
SB 10.56.33 After Lord Śauri had entered the cave, the people of Dvārakā who had accompanied Him had waited twelve days without seeing Him come out…
SB 10.56.34 When Devakī, Rukmiṇī-devī, Vasudeva and the Lord’s other relatives and friends heard that He had not come out of the cave, they all…
SB 10.56.35 Cursing Satrājit, the sorrowful residents of Dvārakā approached the Durgā deity named Candrabhāgā and prayed to her for Kṛṣṇa’s return.
SB 10.56.36 When the citizens had finished worshiping the demigoddess, she spoke to them in response, promising to grant their request. Just then Lord…
SB 10.56.37 Seeing Lord Hṛṣīkeśa return as if from death, accompanied by His new wife and wearing the Syamantaka jewel on His neck, all the people…
SB 10.56.38 Lord Kṛṣṇa summoned Satrājit to the royal assembly. There, in the presence of King Ugrasena, Kṛṣṇa announced the recovery of the jewel and…
SB 10.56.39 Hanging his head in great shame, Satrājit took the gem and returned home, all the while feeling remorse for his sinful behavior.
SB 10.56.40-42 Pondering over his grievous offense and worried about the possibility of conflict with the Lord’s mighty devotees, King Satrājit thought,…
SB 10.56.43 Having thus intelligently made up his mind, King Satrājit personally arranged to present Lord Kṛṣṇa with his fair daughter and the…
SB 10.56.44 The Lord married Satyabhāmā in proper religious fashion. Possessed of excellent behavior, along with beauty, broad-mindedness and all…
SB 10.56.45 The Supreme Personality of Godhead told Satrājit: We do not care to take this jewel back, O King. You are the sun-god’s devotee, so let it…
SB 10.57.1 Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: Although Lord Govinda was fully aware of what had actually occurred, when He heard reports that the Pāṇḍavas and…
SB 10.57.2 The two Lords met with Bhīṣma, Kṛpa, Vidura, Gāndhārī and Droṇa. Showing sorrow equal to theirs, They cried out, “Alas, how painful this…
SB 10.57.3 Taking advantage of this opportunity, O King, Akrūra and Kṛtavarmā went to Śatadhanvā and said, “Why not take the Syamantaka jewel?
SB 10.57.4 “Satrājit promised his jewellike daughter to us but then gave her to Kṛṣṇa instead, contemptuously neglecting us. So why should Satrājit…
SB 10.57.5 His mind thus influenced by their advice, wicked Śatadhanvā murdered Satrājit in his sleep simply out of greed. In this way the sinful…
SB 10.57.6 As the women of Satrājit’s palace screamed and helplessly wept, Śatadhanvā took the jewel and left, like a butcher after he has killed…
SB 10.57.7 When Satyabhāmā saw her dead father, she was plunged into grief. Lamenting “My father, my father! Oh, I am killed!” she fell unconscious.
SB 10.57.8 Queen Satyabhāmā put her father’s corpse in a large vat of oil and went to Hastināpura, where she sorrowfully told Lord Kṛṣṇa, who was…
SB 10.57.9 When Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma heard this news, O King, They exclaimed, “Alas! This is the greatest tragedy for Us!” Thus imitating the…
SB 10.57.10 The Supreme Lord returned to His capital with His wife and elder brother. After arriving in Dvārakā, He readied Himself to kill Śatadhanvā…
SB 10.57.11 Upon learning that Lord Kṛṣṇa was preparing to kill him, Śatadhanvā was struck with fear. To save his life he approached Kṛtavarmā and…
SB 10.57.12-13 [Kṛtavarmā said:] I dare not offend the Supreme Lords, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. Indeed, how can one who troubles Them expect any good fortune?…
SB 10.57.14 His appeal refused, Śatadhanvā went to Akrūra and begged him for protection. But Akrūra similarly told him, “Who would oppose the two…
SB 10.57.15 “It is the Supreme Lord who creates, maintains and destroys this universe simply as His pastime. The cosmic creators cannot even…
SB 10.57.16 “As a child of seven, Kṛṣṇa uprooted an entire mountain and held it aloft as easily as a young boy picks up a mushroom.
SB 10.57.17 “I offer my obeisances to that Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, whose every deed is amazing. He is the Supreme Soul, the unlimited…
SB 10.57.18 His appeal thus rejected by Akrūra also, Śatadhanvā placed the precious jewel in Akrūra’s care and fled on a horse that could travel one…
SB 10.57.19 My dear King, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma mounted Kṛṣṇa’s chariot, which flew the flag of Garuḍa and was yoked with tremendously swift horses, and…
SB 10.57.20 In a garden on the outskirts of Mithilā, the horse Śatadhanvā was riding collapsed. Terrified, he abandoned the horse and began to flee on…
SB 10.57.21 As Śatadhanvā fled on foot, the Supreme Lord, also going on foot, cut off his head with His sharp-edged disc. The Lord then searched…
SB 10.57.22 Not finding the jewel, Lord Kṛṣṇa went to His elder brother and said, “We have killed Śatadhanvā uselessly. The jewel isn’t here.”
SB 10.57.23 To this Lord Balarāma replied, “Indeed, Śatadhanvā must have placed the jewel in the care of someone. You should return to Our city and…
SB 10.57.24 “I wish to visit King Videha, who is most dear to Me.” O King, having said this, Lord Balarāma, the beloved descendant of Yadu, entered…
SB 10.57.25 The King of Mithilā immediately rose from his seat when he saw Lord Balarāma approaching. With great love the King honored the supremely…
SB 10.57.26 The almighty Lord Balarāma stayed in Mithilā for several years, honored by His affectionate devotee Janaka Mahārāja. During that time…
SB 10.57.27 Lord Keśava arrived in Dvārakā and described the demise of Śatadhanvā and His own failure to find the Syamantaka jewel. He spoke in a way…
SB 10.57.28 Lord Kṛṣṇa then had the various funeral rites performed for His deceased relative, Satrājit. The Lord attended the funeral along with…
SB 10.57.29 When Akrūra and Kṛtavarmā, who had originally incited Śatadhanvā to commit his crime, heard that he had been killed, they fled Dvārakā in…
SB 10.57.30 In Akrūra’s absence ill omens arose in Dvārakā, and the citizens began to suffer continually from physical and mental distresses, as well…
SB 10.57.31 Some men proposed [that the troubles were due to Akrūra’s absence], but they had forgotten the glories of the Supreme Lord, which they…
SB 10.57.32 [The elders said:] Previously, when Lord Indra had withheld rain from Kāsī [Benares], the king of that city gave his daughter Gāndinī to…
SB 10.57.33 Wherever his equally powerful son Akrūra stays, Lord Indra will provide sufficient rain. Indeed, that place will be free of miseries and…
SB 10.57.34 Hearing these words from the elders, Lord Janārdana, though aware that the absence of Akrūra was not the only cause of the evil omens, had…
SB 10.57.35-36 Lord Kṛṣṇa honored Akrūra, greeted him confidentially and spoke pleasant words with him. Then the Lord, who was fully aware of Akrūra’s…
SB 10.57.37 “Since Satrājit had no sons, his daughter’s sons should receive his inheritance. They should pay for memorial offerings of water and…
SB 10.57.38-39 “Nevertheless, the jewel should remain in your care, O trustworthy Akrūra, because no one else can keep it safely. But please show the…
SB 10.57.40 Thus shamed by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s conciliatory words, the son of Śvaphalka brought out the jewel from where he had concealed it in his clothing…
SB 10.57.41 After the almighty Lord had shown the Syamantaka jewel to His relatives, thus dispelling the false accusations against Him, He returned it…
SB 10.57.42 This narration, rich with descriptions of the prowess of Lord Śrī Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, removes sinful reactions and…
SB 10.58.40 The Supreme Lord said: O ruler of men, learned authorities condemn begging for a person in the royal order who is executing his religious…
SB 10.58.41 The King said: My Lord, who could be a better husband for my daughter than You, the exclusive abode of all transcendental qualities? On…
SB 10.58.42 But to ascertain the proper husband for my daughter, O chief of the Sātvatas, we previously set a condition to test the prowess of her…
SB 10.58.43 These seven wild bulls are impossible to tame, O hero. They have defeated many princes, breaking their limbs.
SB 10.58.44 If You can subdue them, O descendant of Yadu, You will certainly be the appropriate bridegroom for my daughter, O Lord of Śrī.
SB 10.58.45 Upon hearing these terms, the Lord tightened His clothing, expanded Himself into seven forms and easily subdued the bulls.
SB 10.58.46 Lord Śauri tied up the bulls, whose pride and strength were now broken, and pulled them with ropes just as a child playfully pulls wooden…
SB 10.58.47 Then King Nagnajit, pleased and astonished, presented his daughter to Lord Kṛṣṇa. The Supreme Personality of Godhead accepted this…
SB 10.58.48 The King’s wives felt the greatest ecstasy upon attaining Lord Kṛṣṇa as the dear husband of the royal princess, and a mood of great…
SB 10.58.49 Conchshells, horns and drums resounded, along with vocal and instrumental music and the sounds of brāhmaṇas, invoking blessings. The…
SB 10.58.50-51 As the dowry, powerful King Nagnajit gave ten thousand cows, three thousand young maidservants wearing golden ornaments on their necks and…
SB 10.58.52 The King of Kośala, his heart melting with affection, had the bride and groom seated on their chariot, and then he sent them on their way…
SB 10.58.53 When the intolerant kings who had been rival suitors heard what had happened, they tried to stop Lord Kṛṣṇa on the road as He took His…
SB 10.58.54 Arjuna, wielder of the Gāṇḍīva bow, was always eager to please his friend Kṛṣṇa, and thus he drove back those opponents, who were shooting…
SB 10.58.55 Lord Devakī-suta, the chief of the Yadus, then took His dowry and Satyā to Dvārakā and continued to live there happily.
SB 10.58.56 Bhadrā was a princess of the Kaikeya kingdom and the daughter of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s paternal aunt Śrutakīrti. The Lord married Bhadrā when her…
SB 10.58.57 Then the Lord married Lakṣmaṇā, the daughter of the King of Madra. Kṛṣṇa appeared alone at her svayaṁvara ceremony and took her away, just…
SB 10.58.58 Lord Kṛṣṇa also acquired thousands of other wives equal to these when He killed Bhaumāsura and freed the beautiful maidens the demon was…
SB 10.60.10 The Supreme Lord said: My dear princess, you were sought after by many kings as powerful as the rulers of planets. They were all…
SB 10.60.11 Since your brother and father offered you to them, why did you reject the King of Cedi and all those other suitors, who stood before you,…
SB 10.60.12 Terrified of these kings, O lovely-browed one, We took shelter in the ocean. We have become enemies of powerful men, and We practically…
SB 10.60.13 O fine-browed lady, women are usually destined to suffer when they stay with men whose behavior is uncertain and who pursue a path not…
SB 10.60.14 We have no material possessions, and We are dear to those who similarly have nothing. Therefore, O slender one, the wealthy hardly ever…
SB 10.60.15 Marriage and friendship are proper between two people who are equal in terms of their wealth, birth, influence, physical appearance and…
SB 10.60.16 O Vaidarbhī, not being farsighted, you didn’t realize this, and therefore you chose Us as your husband, even though We have no good…
SB 10.60.17 Now you should definitely accept a more suitable husband, a first-class man of the royal order who can help you achieve everything you…
SB 10.60.18 Kings like Śiśupāla, Śālva, Jarāsandha and Dantavakra all hate Me, O beautiful-thighed one, and so does your elder brother Rukmī.
SB 10.60.19 It was to dispel the arrogance of these kings that I carried you away, My good woman, for they were blinded by the intoxication of power.…
SB 10.60.20 We care nothing for wives, children and wealth. Always satisfied within Ourselves, We do not work for body and home, but like a light, We…
SB 10.60.29 The Supreme Lord said: O Vaidarbhī, do not be displeased with Me. I know that you are fully devoted to Me. I only spoke in jest, dear…
SB 10.60.30 I also wanted to see your face with lips trembling in loving anger, the reddish corners of your eyes throwing sidelong glances and the…
SB 10.60.31 The greatest pleasure worldly householders can enjoy at home is to spend time joking with their beloved wives, My dear timid and…
SB 10.60.49 The Supreme Lord said: O saintly lady, O princess, We deceived you only because We wanted to hear you speak like this. Indeed, everything…
SB 10.60.50 Whatever benedictions you hope for in order to become free of material desires are ever yours, O fair and noble lady, for you are My…
SB 10.60.51 O sinless one, I have now seen firsthand the pure love and chaste attachment you have for your husband. Even though shaken by My words,…
SB 10.60.52 Although I have the power to award spiritual liberation, lusty persons worship Me with penance and vows in order to get My blessings for…
SB 10.60.53 O supreme reservoir of love, unfortunate are they who even after obtaining Me, the Lord of both liberation and material riches, hanker…
SB 10.60.54 Fortunately, O mistress of the house, you have always rendered Me faithful devotional service, which liberates one from material…
SB 10.60.55 In all My palaces I can find no other wife as loving as you, O most respectful one. When you were to be married, you disregarded all the…
SB 10.60.56 When your brother, who had been defeated in battle and then disfigured, was later killed during a gambling match on Aniruddha’s wedding…
SB 10.60.57 When you sent the messenger with your most confidential plan and yet I delayed going to you, you began to see the whole world as void and…
SB 10.63.29 The Supreme Lord said: O three-headed one, I am pleased with you. May your fear of My fever weapon be dispelled, and may whoever remembers…
SB 10.63.30 Thus addressed, the Māheśvara-jvara bowed down to the infallible Lord and went away. But Bāṇāsura then appeared, riding forth on his…
SB 10.63.31 Carrying numerous weapons in his thousand hands, O King, the terribly infuriated demon shot many arrows at Lord Kṛṣṇa, the carrier of the…
SB 10.63.32 As Bāṇa continued hurling weapons at Him, the Supreme Lord began using His razor-sharp cakra to cut off Bāṇāsura’s arms as if they were…
SB 10.63.33 Lord Śiva felt compassion for his devotee Bāṇāsura, whose arms were being cut off, and thus he approached Lord Cakrāyudha [Kṛṣṇa] and…
SB 10.63.34 Śrī Rudra said: You alone are the Absolute Truth, the supreme light, the mystery hidden within the verbal manifestation of the Absolute.…
SB 10.63.35-36 The sky is Your navel, fire Your face, water Your semen, and heaven Your head. The cardinal directions are Your sense of hearing, herbal…
SB 10.63.37 Your current descent into the material realm, O Lord of unrestricted power, is meant for upholding the principles of justice and…
SB 10.63.38 You are the original person, one without a second, transcendental and self-manifesting. Uncaused, you are the cause of all, and You are…
SB 10.63.39 O almighty one, just as the sun, though hidden by a cloud, illuminates the cloud and all other visible forms as well, so You, although…
SB 10.63.40 Their intelligence bewildered by Your māyā, fully attached to children, wife, home and so on, persons immersed in the ocean of material…
SB 10.63.41 One who has attained this human form of life as a gift from God, yet who fails to control his senses and honor Your feet, is surely to be…
SB 10.63.42 That mortal who rejects You — his true Self, dearmost friend, and Lord — for the sake of sense objects, whose nature is just the opposite,…
SB 10.63.43 I, Lord Brahmā, the other demigods and the pure-minded sages have all surrendered wholeheartedly unto You, our dearmost Self and Lord.
SB 10.63.44 Let us worship You, the Supreme Lord, to be freed from material life. You are the maintainer of the universe and the cause of its creation…
SB 10.63.45 This Bāṇāsura is my dear and faithful follower, and I have awarded him freedom from fear. Therefore, my Lord, please grant him Your mercy,…
SB 10.63.46 The Supreme Lord said: My dear lord, for your pleasure We must certainly do what you have requested of Us. I fully agree with your…
SB 10.63.47 I will not kill this demonic son of Vairocani, for I gave Prahlāda Mahārāja the benediction that I would not kill any of his descendants.
SB 10.63.48 It was to subdue Bāṇāsura’s false pride that I severed his arms. And I slew his mighty army because it had become a burden upon the earth.
SB 10.63.49 This demon, who still has four arms, will be immune to old age and death, and he will serve as one of your principal attendants. Thus he…
SB 10.63.50 Thus attaining freedom from fear, Bāṇāsura offered obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa by touching his head to the ground. Bāṇa then seated Aniruddha…
SB 10.63.51 At the front of the party Lord Kṛṣṇa then placed Aniruddha and His bride, both beautifully adorned with fine clothes and ornaments, and…
SB 10.63.52 The Lord then entered His capital. The city was lavishly decorated with flags and victory arches, and its avenues and crossways were all…
SB 10.63.53 Whoever rises early in the morning and remembers Lord Kṛṣṇa’s victory in His battle with Lord Śiva will never experience defeat.
SB 10.64.1 Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: O King, one day Sāmba, Pradyumna, Cāru, Bhānu, Gada and other young boys of the Yadu dynasty went to a small forest…
SB 10.64.2 After playing for a long time, they became thirsty. As they searched for water, they looked inside a dry well and saw a peculiar creature.
SB 10.64.3 The boys were astonished to behold this creature, a lizard who looked like a hill. They felt sorry for it and tried to lift it out of the…
SB 10.64.4 They caught on to the trapped lizard with leather thongs and then with woven ropes, but still they could not lift it out. So they went to…
SB 10.64.5 The lotus-eyed Supreme Lord, maintainer of the universe, went to the well and saw the lizard. Then with His left hand He easily lifted it…
SB 10.64.6 Touched by the hand of the glorious Supreme Lord, the being at once gave up its lizard form and assumed that of a resident of heaven. His…
SB 10.64.7 Lord Kṛṣṇa understood the situation, but to inform people in general He inquired as follows: “Who are you, O greatly fortunate one? Seeing…
SB 10.64.8 “By what past activity were you brought to this condition? It seems you did not deserve such a fate, O good soul. We are eager to know…
SB 10.64.32 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] How indigestible is the property of a brāhmaṇa, even when enjoyed just slightly and by one more potent than fire! What…
SB 10.64.33 I do not consider hālāhala to be real poison, because it has an antidote. But a brāhmaṇa’s property, when stolen, can truly be called…
SB 10.64.34 Poison kills only the person who ingests it, and an ordinary fire may be extinguished with water. But the fire generated from the kindling…
SB 10.64.35 If a person enjoys a brāhmaṇa’s property without receiving due permission, that property destroys three generations of his family. But if…
SB 10.64.36 Members of the royal order, blinded by royal opulence, fail to foresee their own downfall. Childishly hankering to enjoy a brāhmaṇa’s…
SB 10.64.37-38 For as many years as there are particles of dust touched by the tears of generous brāhmaṇas who have dependent families and whose property…
SB 10.64.39 Whether it be his own gift or someone else’s, a person who steals a brāhmaṇa’s property will take birth as a worm in feces for sixty…
SB 10.64.40 I do not desire brāhmaṇas’ wealth. Those who lust after it become short-lived and are defeated. They lose their kingdoms and become…
SB 10.64.41 My dear followers, never treat a learned brāhmaṇa harshly, even if he has sinned. Even if he attacks you physically or repeatedly curses…
SB 10.64.42 Just us I always carefully bow down to brāhmaṇas, so all of you should likewise bow down to them. I will punish anyone who acts otherwise.
SB 10.64.43 When a brāhmaṇa’s property is stolen, even unknowingly, it certainly causes the person who takes it to fall down, just as the brāhmaṇa’s…
SB 10.64.44 Having thus instructed the residents of Dvārakā, Lord Mukunda, purifier of all the worlds, entered His palace.
SB 10.69.40 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O brāhmaṇa, I am the speaker of religion, its performer and sanctioner. I observe religious…
SB 10.70.35 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] It is certain that today the three worlds have attained freedom from all fear, for that is the influence of such a…
SB 10.70.36 There is nothing unknown to you within God’s creation. Therefore please tell Us what the Pāṇḍavas intend to do.
SB 10.70.46 The Personality of Godhead said: You are indeed Our best eye and closest friend, for you know perfectly the relative value of various…
SB 10.70.47 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus requested by his master, who, though omniscient, acted as if perplexed, Uddhava took this order upon…
SB 10.72.7 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Your decision is perfect, O King, and thus your noble fame will spread to all the worlds, O…
SB 10.72.8 Indeed, My lord, for the great sages, the forefathers and the demigods, for Our well-wishing friends and, indeed, for all living beings,…
SB 10.72.9 First conquer all kings, bring the earth under your control and collect all the required paraphernalia; then execute this great sacrifice.
SB 10.72.10 These brothers of yours, O King, have taken birth as partial expansions of the demigods ruling various planets. And you are so…
SB 10.72.11 No one in this world, even a demigod — what to speak of an earthly king — can defeat My devotee with his strength, beauty, fame or riches.
SB 10.72.28 The Supreme Lord said: O exalted King, give us battle in the form of a duel, if you think it fitting. We are princes and have come to beg…
SB 10.72.29 Over there is Bhīma, son of Pṛthā, and this is his brother Arjuna. Know Me to be their maternal cousin, Kṛṣṇa, your enemy.
SB 10.72.30 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus challenged, Magadharāja laughed out loud and contemptuously said, “All right, you fools, I’ll give you…
SB 10.72.31 “But I will not fight with You, Kṛṣṇa, for You are a coward. Your strength abandoned You in the midst of battle, and You fled Your own…
SB 10.72.32 “As for this one, Arjuna, he is not as old as I, nor is he very strong. Since he is no match for me, he should not be the contender.…
SB 10.72.33 Having said this, Jarāsandha offered Bhīmasena a huge club, took up another himself and went outside the city.
SB 10.72.34 The two heroes thus began battling each other on the level fighting grounds outside the city. Maddened with the fury of combat, they…
SB 10.72.35 As they skillfully circled left and right, like actors dancing on a stage, the fight presented a magnificent spectacle.
SB 10.72.36 When Jarāsandha’s and Bhīmasena’s clubs loudly collided, O King, the sound was like the impact of the big tusks of two fighting elephants,…
SB 10.72.37 They swung their clubs at each other with such speed and force that as the clubs struck their shoulders, hips, feet, hands, thighs and…
SB 10.72.38 Their clubs thus ruined, those great heroes among men angrily pummeled each other with their iron-hard fists. As they slapped each other,…
SB 10.72.39 As they thus fought, this contest between opponents of equal training, strength and stamina reached no conclusion. And so they kept on…
SB 10.72.40 Lord Kṛṣṇa knew the secret of His enemy Jarāsandha’s birth and death, and also how he had been given life by the demoness Jarā.…
SB 10.72.41 Having determined how to kill the enemy, that Lord of infallible vision made a sign to Bhīma by tearing in half a small branch of a tree.
SB 10.72.42 Understanding this sign, mighty Bhīma, the best of fighters, seized his opponent by the feet and threw him to the ground.
SB 10.72.43 Bhīma pressed down on one leg with his foot while grabbing Jarāsandha’s other leg in his hands, and just as a great elephant might break…
SB 10.72.44 The King’s subjects then saw him lying in two separate pieces, each with a single leg, thigh, testicle, hip, shoulder, arm, eye, eyebrow…
SB 10.72.45 With the death of the lord of Magadha, a great cry of lamentation arose, while Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa congratulated Bhīma by embracing him.
SB 10.72.46 The immeasurable Supreme Personality of Godhead, the sustainer and benefactor of all living beings, coronated Jarāsandha’s son, Sahadeva,…
SB 10.73.18 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: From now on, my dear kings, you will have firm devotion to Me, the Supreme Self and the Lord of…
SB 10.73.19 Fortunately you have come to the proper conclusion, my dear kings, and what you have spoken is true. I can see that human beings’ lack of…
SB 10.73.20 Haihaya, Nahuṣa, Veṇa, Rāvaṇa, Naraka and many other rulers of demigods, men and demons fell from their elevated positions because of…
SB 10.73.21 Understanding that this material body and everything connected with it have a beginning and an end, worship Me by Vedic sacrifices, and…
SB 10.73.22 As you live your lives, begetting generations of progeny and encountering happiness and distress, birth and death, always keep your minds…
SB 10.73.23 Be detached from the body and everything connected to it. Remaining self-satisfied, steadfastly keep your vows while concentrating your…
SB 10.77.10 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] O driver, quickly take My chariot near Śālva. This lord of Saubha is a powerful magician; don’t let him bewilder you.
SB 10.77.11 Thus ordered, Dāruka took command of the Lord’s chariot and drove forth. As the chariot entered the battlefield, everyone there, both…
SB 10.77.12 When Śālva, the master of a decimated army, saw Lord Kṛṣṇa approaching, he hurled his spear at the Lord’s charioteer. The spear roared…
SB 10.77.13 Śālva’s hurtling spear lit up the whole sky like a mighty meteor, but Lord Śauri tore the great weapon into hundreds of pieces with His…
SB 10.77.14 Lord Kṛṣṇa then pierced Śālva with sixteen arrows and struck the Saubha airship with a deluge of arrows as it darted about the sky. Firing…
SB 10.77.15 Śālva then managed to strike Lord Kṛṣṇa’s left arm, which held His bow Śārṅga, and, amazingly, Śārṅga fell from His hand.
SB 10.77.16 Those who witnessed this all cried out in dismay. Then the master of Saubha roared loudly and addressed Lord Janārdana.
SB 10.77.17-18 [Śālva said:] You fool! Because in our presence You kidnapped the bride of our friend Śiśupāla, Your own cousin, and because You later…
SB 10.77.19 The Supreme Lord said: O dullard, you boast in vain, since you fail to see death standing near you. Real heroes do not talk much but…
SB 10.77.20 Having said this, the furious Lord swung His club with frightening power and speed and hit Śālva on the collarbone, making him tremble and…
SB 10.77.21 But as soon as Lord Acyuta withdrew His club, Śālva disappeared from sight, and a moment later a man approached the Lord. Bowing his head…
SB 10.77.22 [The man said:] O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, mighty-armed one, who are so affectionate to Your parents! Śālva has seized Your father and taken him…
SB 10.77.23 When He heard this disturbing news, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who was playing the role of a mortal man, showed sorrow and compassion, and out of love…
SB 10.77.24 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Balarāma is ever vigilant, and no demigod or demon can defeat Him. So how could this insignificant Śālva defeat Him and…
SB 10.77.25 After Govinda spoke these words, the master of Saubha again appeared, apparently leading Vasudeva before the Lord. Śālva then spoke as…
SB 10.77.26 [Śālva said:] Here is Your dear father, who begot You and for whose sake You are living in this world. I shall now kill him before Your…
SB 10.77.27 After he had mocked the Lord in this way, the magician Śālva appeared to cut off Vasudeva’s head with his sword. Taking the head with him,…
SB 10.77.28 By nature Lord Kṛṣṇa is full in knowledge, and He possesses unlimited powers of perception. Yet for a moment, out of great affection for…
SB 10.77.29 Now alert to the actual situation, Lord Acyuta saw before Him on the battlefield neither the messenger nor His father’s body. It was as if…
SB 10.77.30 Such is the account given by some sages, O wise King, but those who speak in this illogical way are contradicting themselves, having…
SB 10.77.31 How can lamentation, bewilderment, material affection or fear, all born out of ignorance, be ascribed to the infinite Supreme Lord, whose…
SB 10.77.32 By virtue of self-realization fortified by service rendered to His feet, devotees of the Lord dispel the bodily concept of life, which has…
SB 10.77.33 While Śālva continued to hurl torrents of weapons at Him with great force, Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose prowess never fails, shot His arrows at…
SB 10.77.34 Shattered into thousands of pieces by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s club, the Saubha airship plummeted into the water. Śālva abandoned it, stationed…
SB 10.77.35 As Śālva rushed at Him, the Lord shot a bhalla dart and cut off his arm that held the club. Having finally decided to kill Śālva, Kṛṣṇa…
SB 10.77.36 Employing His disc, Lord Hari removed that great magician’s head with its earrings and crown, just as Purandara had used his thunderbolt…
SB 10.77.37 With the sinful Śālva now dead and his Saubha airship destroyed, the heavens resounded with kettledrums played by groups of demigods. Then…
SB 10.78.33 The Personality of Godhead said: I will certainly perform the atonement for this killing, since I wish to show compassion to the people in…
SB 10.78.34 O sages, just say the word, and by My mystic power I shall restore everything you promised him — long life, strength and sensory power.
SB 10.78.35 The sages said: Please see to it, O Rāma, that Your power and that of Your kuśa weapon, as well as our promise and Romaharṣaṇa’s death,…
SB 10.78.36 The Supreme Lord said: The Vedas instruct us that one’s own self takes birth again as one’s son. Thus let Romaharṣaṇa’s son become the…
SB 10.78.37 Please tell Me your desire, O best of sages, and I shall certainly fulfill it. And, O wise souls, please carefully determine My proper…
SB 10.78.38 The sages said: A fearsome demon named Balvala, the son of Ilvala, comes here every new-moon day and contaminates our sacrifice.
SB 10.78.39 O descendant of Daśārha, please kill that sinful demon, who pours down pus, blood, feces, urine, wine and meat upon us. This is the best…
SB 10.78.40 Thereafter, for twelve months, You should circumambulate the land of Bhārata in a mood of serious meditation, executing austerities and…
SB 10.80.28 The Supreme Lord said: My dear brāhmaṇa, you know well the ways of dharma. After you offered the gift of remuneration to our guru and…
SB 10.80.29 Even though you are mostly involved in household affairs, your mind is not affected by material desires. Nor, O learned one, do you take…
SB 10.80.30 Having renounced all material propensities, which spring from the Lord’s illusory energy, some people execute worldly duties with their…
SB 10.80.31 My dear brāhmaṇa, do you remember how we lived together in our spiritual master’s school? When a twice-born student has learned from his…
SB 10.80.32 My dear friend, he who gives a person his physical birth is his first spiritual master, and he who initiates him as a twice-born brāhmaṇa…
SB 10.80.33 Certainly, O brāhmaṇa, of all the followers of the varṇāśrama system, those who take advantage of the words I speak in My form as the…
SB 10.80.34 I, the Soul of all beings, am not as satisfied by ritual worship, brahminical initiation, penances or self-discipline as I am by faithful…
SB 10.80.35-36 O brāhmaṇa, do you remember what happened to us while we were living with our spiritual master? Once our guru’s wife sent us to fetch…
SB 10.80.37 Then, as the sun set, the forest was covered by darkness in every direction, and with all the flooding we could not distinguish high land…
SB 10.80.38 Constantly besieged by the powerful wind and rain, we lost our way amidst the flooding waters. We simply held each other’s hands and, in…
SB 10.80.39 Our guru, Sāndīpani, understanding our predicament, set out after sunrise to search for us, his disciples, and found us in distress.
SB 10.80.40 [Sāndīpani said:] O my children, you have suffered so much for my sake! The body is most dear to every living creature, but you are so…
SB 10.80.41 This indeed is the duty of all true disciples: to repay the debt to their spiritual master by offering him, with pure hearts, their wealth…
SB 10.80.42 You boys are first-class brāhmaṇas, and I am satisfied with you. May all your desires be fulfilled, and may the Vedic mantras you have…
SB 10.80.43 [Lord Kṛṣṇa continued:] We had many similar experiences while living in our spiritual master’s home. Simply by the grace of the spiritual…
SB 10.80.44 The brāhmaṇa said: What could I possibly have failed to achieve, O Lord of lords, O universal teacher, since I was able to personally live…
SB 10.80.45 O almighty Lord, Your body comprises the Absolute Truth in the form of the Vedas and is thus the source of all auspicious goals of life.…
SB 10.81.3 The Supreme Lord said: O brāhmaṇa, what gift have you brought Me from home? I regard as great even the smallest gift offered by My…
SB 10.81.4 If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it.
SB 10.81.5 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Even after being addressed in this way, O King, the brāhmaṇa felt too embarrassed to offer his palmfuls of…
SB 10.81.6-7 Being the direct witness in the hearts of all living beings, Lord Kṛṣṇa fully understood why Sudāmā had come to see Him. Thus He thought,…
SB 10.81.8 Thinking like this, the Lord snatched from the brāhmaṇa’s garment the grains of flat rice tied up in an old piece of cloth and exclaimed,…
SB 10.81.9 “My friend, have You brought this for Me? It gives Me extreme pleasure. Indeed, these few grains of flat rice will satisfy not only Me but…
SB 10.81.10 After saying this, the Supreme Lord ate one palmful and was about to eat a second when the devoted goddess Rukmiṇī took hold of His hand.
SB 10.81.11 [Queen Rukmiṇī said:] This is more than enough, O Soul of the universe, to secure him an abundance of all kinds of wealth in this world…
SB 10.81.12 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The brāhmaṇa spent that night in Lord Acyuta’s palace after eating and drinking to his full satisfaction. He…
SB 10.81.13 The next day, Sudāmā set off for home while being honored by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the self-satisfied maintainer of the universe. The brāhmaṇa felt…
SB 10.81.14 Although he had apparently received no wealth from Lord Kṛṣṇa, Sudāmā was too shy to beg for it on his own. He simply returned home,…
SB 10.81.15 [Sudāmā thought:] Lord Kṛṣṇa is known to be devoted to the brāhmaṇas, and now I have personally seen this devotion. Indeed, He who carries…
SB 10.81.16 Who am I? A sinful, poor friend of a brāhmaṇa. And who is Kṛṣṇa? The Supreme Personality of Godhead, full in six opulences. Nonetheless,…
SB 10.81.17 He treated me just like one of His brothers, making me sit on the bed of His beloved consort. And because I was fatigued, His queen…
SB 10.81.18 Although He is the Lord of all demigods and the object of worship for all brāhmaṇas, He worshiped me as if I were a demigod myself,…
SB 10.81.19 Devotional service to His lotus feet is the root cause of all the perfections a person can find in heaven, in liberation, in the…
SB 10.81.20 Thinking “If this poor wretch suddenly becomes rich, he will forget Me in his intoxicating happiness,” the compassionate Lord did not…
SB 10.81.21-23 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thinking thus to himself, Sudāmā finally came to the place where his home stood. But that place was now…
SB 10.81.24 As he continued to ponder in this way, the beautiful men — and maidservants, as effulgent as demigods, came forward to greet their greatly…
SB 10.81.25 When she heard that her husband had arrived, the brāhmaṇa’s wife quickly came out of the house in a jubilant flurry. She resembled the…
SB 10.81.26 When the chaste lady saw her husband, her eyes filled with tears of love and eagerness. As she held her eyes closed, she solemnly bowed…
SB 10.81.27 Sudāmā was amazed to see his wife. Shining forth in the midst of maidservants adorned with jeweled lockets, she looked as effulgent as a…
SB 10.81.28 With pleasure he took his wife with him and entered his house, where there were hundreds of gem-studded pillars, just as in the palace of…
SB 10.81.29-32 In Sudāmā’s home were beds as soft and white as the foam of milk, with bedsteads made of ivory and ornamented with gold. There were also…
SB 10.81.33 [Sudāmā thought:] I have always been poor. Certainly the only possible way that such an unfortunate person as myself could become suddenly…
SB 10.81.34 After all, my friend Kṛṣṇa, the most exalted of the Dāśārhas and the enjoyer of unlimited wealth, noticed that I secretly intended to beg…
SB 10.81.35 The Lord considers even His greatest benedictions to be insignificant, while He magnifies even a small service rendered to Him by His…
SB 10.81.36 The Lord is the supremely compassionate reservoir of all transcendental qualities. Life after life may I serve Him with love, friendship…
SB 10.81.37 To a devotee who lacks spiritual insight, the Supreme Lord will not grant the wonderful opulences of this world — kingly power and…
SB 10.81.38 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus firmly fixing his determination by means of his spiritual intelligence, Sudāmā remained absolutely…
SB 10.81.39 Lord Hari is the God of all gods, the master of all sacrifices, and the supreme ruler. But He accepts the saintly brāhmaṇas as His…
SB 10.81.40 Thus seeing how the unconquerable Supreme Lord is nonetheless conquered by His own servants, the Lord’s dear brāhmaṇa friend felt the…
SB 10.81.41 The Lord always shows brāhmaṇas special favor. Anyone who hears this account of the Supreme Lord’s kindness to brāhmaṇas will come to…
SB 10.82.41 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] My dear girlfriends, do you still remember Me? It was for My relatives’ sake that I stayed away so long, intent on…
SB 10.82.42 Do you perhaps think I’m ungrateful and thus hold Me in contempt? After all, it is the Supreme Lord who brings living beings together and…
SB 10.82.43 Just as the wind brings together masses of clouds, blades of grass, wisps of cotton and particles of dust, only to scatter them all again,…
SB 10.82.44 Rendering devotional service to Me qualifies any living being for eternal life. But by your good fortune you have developed a special…
SB 10.82.45 Dear ladies, I am the beginning and end of all created beings and exist both within and without them, just as the elements ether, water,…
SB 10.82.46 In this way all created things reside within the basic elements of creation, while the spirit souls pervade the creation, remaining in…
SB 10.83.3 [Lord Kṛṣṇa’s relatives said:] O master, how can misfortune arise for those who have even once freely drunk the nectar coming from Your…
SB 10.83.4 The radiance of Your personal form dispels the threefold effects of material consciousness, and by Your grace we become immersed in total…
SB 10.84.9 The Supreme Lord said: Now our lives are indeed successful, for we have obtained life’s ultimate goal: the audience of great yoga masters,…
SB 10.84.10 How is it that people who are not very austere and who recognize God only in His Deity form in the temple can now see you, touch you,…
SB 10.84.11 Mere bodies of water are not the real sacred places of pilgrimage, nor are mere images of earth and stone the true worshipable deities.…
SB 10.84.12 Neither the demigods controlling fire, the sun, the moon and the stars nor those in charge of earth, water, ether, air, speech and mind…
SB 10.84.13 One who identifies his self as the inert body composed of mucus, bile and air, who assumes his wife and family are permanently his own,…
SB 10.85.22 The Supreme Lord said: My dear Father, I consider your statements appropriate, since you have explained the various categories of…
SB 10.85.23 Not only I, but also you, along with My respected brother and these residents of Dvārakā, should all be considered in this same…
SB 10.85.24 The supreme spirit, Paramātmā, is indeed one. He is self-luminous and eternal, transcendental and devoid of material qualities. But…
SB 10.85.25 The elements of ether, air, fire, water and earth become visible, invisible, minute or extensive as they manifest in various objects.…
SB 10.85.47 The Supreme Lord said: During the age of the first Manu, the sage Marīci had six sons by his wife Ūrnā. They were all exalted demigods,…
SB 10.85.48-49 Because of that improper act, they immediately entered a demoniac form of life, and thus they took birth as sons of Hiraṇyakaśipu. The…
SB 10.85.50 We wish to take them from this place to dispel their mother’s sorrow. Then, released from their curse and free from all suffering, they…
SB 10.85.51 By My grace these six — Smara, Udgītha, Pariṣvaṅga, Pataṅga, Kṣudrabhṛt and Ghṛṇī — will return to the abode of pure saints.
SB 10.85.52 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] After saying this, Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma, having been duly worshiped by Bali Mahārāja, took the six…
SB 10.85.53 When she saw her lost children, Goddess Devakī felt such affection for them that milk flowed from her breasts. She embraced them and took…
SB 10.85.54 Lovingly she let her sons drink from her breast, which became wet with milk just by their touch. She was entranced by the same illusory…
SB 10.85.55-56 By drinking her nectarean milk, the remnants of what Kṛṣṇa Himself had previously drunk, the six sons touched the transcendental body of…
SB 10.85.57 Seeing her sons return from death and then depart again, saintly Devakī was struck with wonder, O King. She concluded that this was all…
SB 10.85.58 Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Soul, the Lord of unlimited valor, performed countless pastimes just as amazing as this one, O descendant of Bharata.
SB 10.86.51 The Supreme Lord said: My dear brāhmaṇa, you should know that these great sages have come here just to bless you. They travel throughout…
SB 10.86.52 One can gradually become purified by seeing, touching and worshiping temple deities, places of pilgrimage and holy rivers. But one can…
SB 10.86.53 By his very birth, a brāhmaṇa is the best of all living beings in this world, and he becomes even more exalted when he is endowed with…
SB 10.86.54 Even My own four-armed form is no dearer to Me than a brāhmaṇa. Within himself a learned brāhmaṇa comprises all the Vedas, just as within…
SB 10.86.55 Ignorant of this truth, foolish people neglect and enviously offend a learned brāhmaṇa, who, being nondifferent from Me, is their…
SB 10.86.56 Because he has realized Me, a brāhmaṇa is firmly fixed in the knowledge that everything moving and nonmoving in the universe, and also the…
SB 10.86.57 Therefore you should worship these brāhmaṇa sages, O brāhmaṇa, with the same faith you have in Me. If you do so, you will worship Me…
SB 10.86.58 Śrī Śuka said: So instructed by his Lord, with single-minded devotion Śrutadeva worshiped Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the topmost brāhmaṇas accompanying…
SB 10.86.59 O King, thus the Personality of Godhead, who is devoted to His own devotees, stayed for some time with His two great devotees Śrutadeva…
SB 10.87.9 The Personality of Godhead said: O son of self-born Brahmā, once long ago on Janaloka, wise sages who resided there performed a great…
SB 10.87.10 At that time you happened to be visiting the Lord on Śvetadvīpa — that Supreme Lord in whom the Vedas lie down to rest during the period…
SB 10.87.11 Although these sages were all equally qualified in terms of Vedic study and austerity, and although they all saw friends, enemies and…
SB 10.87.12-13 Śrī Sanandana replied: After the Supreme Lord withdrew the universe He had previously created, He lay for some time as if asleep, and all…
SB 10.87.14 The śrutis said: Victory, victory to You, O unconquerable one! By Your very nature You are perfectly full in all opulences; therefore…
SB 10.87.15 This perceivable world is identified with the Supreme because the Supreme Brahman is the ultimate foundation of all existence, remaining…
SB 10.87.16 Therefore, O master of the three worlds, the wise get rid of all misery by diving deep into the nectarean ocean of topics about You, which…
SB 10.87.17 Only if they become Your faithful followers are those who breathe actually alive, otherwise their breathing is like that of a bellows. It…
SB 10.87.18 Among the followers of the methods set forth by great sages, those with less refined vision worship the Supreme as present in the region…
SB 10.87.19 Apparently entering among the variegated species of living beings You have created, You inspire them to act, manifesting Yourself…
SB 10.87.20 The individual living entity, while inhabiting the material bodies he has created for himself by his karma, actually remains uncovered by…
SB 10.87.21 My Lord, some fortunate souls have gotten relief from the fatigue of material life by diving into the vast nectar ocean of Your pastimes,…
SB 10.87.22 When this human body is used for Your devotional service, it acts as one’s self, friend and beloved. But unfortunately, although You…
SB 10.87.23 Simply by constantly thinking of Him, the enemies of the Lord attained the same Supreme Truth whom sages fixed in yoga worship by…
SB 10.87.24 Everyone in this world has recently been born and will soon die. So how can anyone here know Him who existed prior to everything else and…
SB 10.87.25 Supposed authorities who declare that matter is the origin of existence, that the permanent qualities of the soul can be destroyed, that…
SB 10.87.26 The three modes of material nature comprise everything in this world — from the simplest phenomena to the complex human body. Although…
SB 10.87.27 The devotees who worship You as the shelter of all beings disregard Death and place their feet on his head. But with the words of the…
SB 10.87.28 Though You have no material senses, You are the self-effulgent sustainer of everyone’s sensory powers. The demigods and material nature…
SB 10.87.29 O eternally liberated, transcendental Lord, Your material energy causes the various moving and nonmoving species of life to appear by…
SB 10.87.30 If the countless living entities were all-pervading and possessed forms that never changed, You could not possibly be their absolute…
SB 10.87.31 Neither material nature nor the soul who tries to enjoy her are ever born, yet living bodies come into being when these two combine, just…
SB 10.87.32 The wise souls who understand how Your Māyā deludes all human beings render potent loving service to You, who are the source of liberation…
SB 10.87.33 The mind is like an impetuous horse that even persons who have regulated their senses and breath cannot control. Those in this world who…
SB 10.87.34 To those persons who take shelter of You, You reveal Yourself as the Supersoul, the embodiment of all transcendental pleasure. What…
SB 10.87.35 Sages free from false pride live on this earth by frequenting the sacred pilgrimage sites and those places where the Supreme Lord…
SB 10.87.36 It may be proposed that this world is permanently real because it is generated from the permanent reality, but such an argument is subject…
SB 10.87.37 Since this universe did not exist prior to its creation and will no longer exist after its annihilation, we conclude that in the interim…
SB 10.87.38 The illusory material nature attracts the minute living entity to embrace her, and as a result he assumes forms composed of her qualities.…
SB 10.87.39 Members of the renounced order who fail to uproot the last traces of material desire in their hearts remain impure, and thus You do not…
SB 10.87.40 When a person realizes You, he no longer cares about his good and bad fortune arising from past pious and sinful acts, since it is You…
SB 10.87.41 Because You are unlimited, neither the lords of heaven nor even You Yourself can ever reach the end of Your glories. The countless…
SB 10.87.42 The Supreme Lord, Śrī Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi, said: Having heard these instructions about the Supreme Self, the Personality of Godhead, the sons of…
SB 10.87.43 Thus the ancient saints who travel in the upper heavens distilled this nectarean and confidential essence of all the Vedas and Purāṇas.
SB 10.87.44 And as you wander the earth at will, My dear son of Brahmā, you should faithfully meditate on these instructions concerning the science of…
SB 10.88.8 The Personality of Godhead said: If I especially favor someone, I gradually deprive him of his wealth. Then the relatives and friends of…
SB 10.88.9 When he becomes frustrated in his attempts to make money and instead befriends My devotees, I bestow My special mercy upon him.
SB 10.88.10 A person who has thus become sober fully realizes the Absolute as the highest truth, the most subtle and perfect manifestation of spirit,…
SB 10.88.11 Because I am difficult to worship, people generally avoid Me and instead worship other deities, who are quickly satisfied. When people…
SB 10.88.29 The Supreme Lord said: My dear son of Śakuni, you appear tired. Why have you come such a great distance? Please rest for a minute. After…
SB 10.88.30 O mighty one, please tell Us what you intend to do, if We are qualified to hear it. Usually one accomplishes his purposes by taking help…
SB 10.88.32 The Supreme Lord said: If this is the case, We cannot believe what Śiva says. Śiva is the same lord of the Pretas and Piśācas whom Dakṣa…
SB 10.88.33 O best of the demons, if you have any faith in him because he is the spiritual master of the universe, then without delay put your hand on…
SB 10.88.34 If the words of Lord Śambhu prove untrue in any way, O best of the demons, then kill the liar so he may never lie again.
SB 10.88.35 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus bewildered by the Personality of Godhead’s enchanting, artful words, foolish Vṛka, without realizing…
SB 10.88.36 Instantly his head shattered as if struck by a lightning bolt, and the demon fell down dead. From the sky were heard cries of “Victory!”…
SB 10.88.37 The celestial sages, Pitās and Gandharvas rained down flowers to celebrate the killing of sinful Vṛkāsura. Now Lord Śiva was out of danger.
SB 10.88.38-39 The Supreme Personality of Godhead then addressed Lord Giriśa, who was now out of danger: “Just see, O Mahādeva, My lord, how this wicked…
SB 10.88.40 Lord Hari is the directly manifest Absolute Truth, the Supreme Soul and unlimited ocean of inconceivable energies. Anyone who recites or…
SB 10.89.45 [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] I will show you the brāhmaṇa’s sons, so please don’t despise yourself like this. These same men who now criticize us…
SB 10.89.46 Having thus advised Arjuna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead had Arjuna join Him on His divine chariot, and together they set off toward…
SB 10.89.47 The Lord’s chariot passed over the seven islands of the middle universe, each with its ocean and its seven principal mountains. Then it…
SB 10.89.48-49 In that darkness the chariot’s horses — Śaibya, Sugrīva, Meghapuṣpa and Balāhaka — lost their way. Seeing them in this condition, O best…
SB 10.89.50 The Lord’s Sudarśana disc penetrated the darkness with its blazing effulgence. Racing forward with the speed of the mind, it cut through…
SB 10.89.51 Following the Sudarśana disc, the chariot went beyond the darkness and reached the endless spiritual light of the all pervasive…
SB 10.89.52 From that region they entered a body of water resplendent with huge waves being churned by a mighty wind. Within that ocean Arjuna saw an…
SB 10.89.53 In that palace was the huge, awe-inspiring serpent Ananta Śeṣa. He shone brilliantly with the radiance emanating from the gems on His…
SB 10.89.54-56 Arjuna then saw the omnipresent and omnipotent Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mahā-Viṣṇu, sitting at ease on the serpent bed. His bluish…
SB 10.89.57 Lord Kṛṣṇa offered homage to Himself in this boundless form, and Arjuna, astonished at the sight of Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu, bowed down as well.…
SB 10.89.58 [Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu said:] I brought the brāhmaṇa’s sons here because I wanted to see the two of you, My expansions, who have descended to…
SB 10.89.59 Although all your desires are completely fulfilled, O best of exalted personalities, for the benefit of the people in general you should…
SB 10.89.60-61 Thus instructed by the Supreme Lord of the topmost planet, Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna assented by chanting om, and then they bowed down to almighty…
SB 10.89.62 Having seen the domain of Lord Viṣṇu, Arjuna was totally amazed. He concluded that whatever extraordinary power a person exhibits can only…
SB 10.89.63 Lord Kṛṣṇa exhibited many other, similar heroic pastimes in this world. He apparently enjoyed the pleasures of ordinary human life, and He…
SB 10.89.64 The Lord having demonstrated His supremacy, at suitable times He showered down all desirable things upon the brāhmaṇas and His other…
SB 10.89.65 Now that He had killed many wicked kings and engaged devotees such as Arjuna in killing others, the Lord could easily assure the execution…
SB 11.6.28 The Supreme Lord said: O lord of the demigods, Brahmā, I understand your prayers and request. Having removed the burden of the earth, I…
SB 11.6.29 That very Yādava dynasty in which I appeared became greatly magnified in opulence, especially in their physical strength and courage, to…
SB 11.6.30 If I were to leave this world without withdrawing the overly proud members of the Yadu dynasty, the whole world would be destroyed by the…
SB 11.6.31 Now due to the brāhmaṇas’ curse, the annihilation of My family has already begun. O sinless Brahmā, when this annihilation is finished and…
SB 11.6.34 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Our dynasty has been cursed by the brāhmaṇas. Such a curse is impossible to counteract, and thus…
SB 11.6.35 My dear respected elders, we must not remain any longer in this place if we wish to keep our lives intact. Let us go this very day to the…
SB 11.6.36 Once, the moon was afflicted with consumption because of the curse of Dakṣa, but just by taking bath at Prabhāsa-kṣetra, the moon was…
SB 11.6.37-38 By bathing at Prabhāsa-kṣetra, by offering sacrifice there to placate the forefathers and demigods, by feeding the worshipable brāhmaṇas…
SB 11.7.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O greatly fortunate Uddhava, you have accurately revealed My desire to withdraw the Yadu dynasty…
SB 11.7.2 Answering the prayer of Lord Brahmā, I descended within this world along with My plenary portion, Lord Baladeva, and performed various…
SB 11.7.3 Now due to the brāhmaṇas’ curse the Yadu dynasty will certainly perish by fighting among themselves; and on the seventh day from today the…
SB 11.7.4 O saintly Uddhava, in the near future I will abandon this earth. Then, being overwhelmed by the Age of Kali, the earth will be bereft of…
SB 11.7.5 My dear Uddhava, you should not remain here on the earth once I have abandoned this world. My dear devotee, you are sinless, but in…
SB 11.7.6 Now you should completely give up all attachment to your personal friends and relatives and fix your mind on Me. Thus being always…
SB 11.7.7 My dear Uddhava, the material universe that you perceive through your mind, speech, eyes, ears and other senses is an illusory creation…
SB 11.7.8 One whose consciousness is bewildered by illusion perceives many differences in value and meaning among material objects. Thus one engages…
SB 11.7.9 Therefore, bringing all your senses under control and thus subduing the mind, you should see the entire world as situated within the self,…
SB 11.7.10 Being fully endowed with conclusive knowledge of the Vedas and having realized the ultimate purpose of such knowledge in practice, you…
SB 11.7.11 One who has transcended material good and evil automatically acts in accordance with religious injunctions and avoids forbidden…
SB 11.7.12 One who is the kind well-wisher of all living beings, who is peaceful and firmly fixed in knowledge and realization, sees Me within all…
SB 11.9.32 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Having thus spoken to King Yadu, the wise brāhmaṇa accepted obeisances and worship from the King…
SB 11.9.33 O Uddhava, hearing the words of the avadhūta, the saintly King Yadu, who is the forefather of our own ancestors, became free from all…
SB 11.10.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Taking full shelter in Me, with the mind carefully fixed in the devotional service of the Lord as…
SB 11.10.2 A purified soul should see that because the conditioned souls who are dedicated to sense gratification have falsely accepted the objects…
SB 11.10.3 One who is sleeping may see many objects of sense gratification in a dream, but such pleasurable things are merely creations of the mind…
SB 11.10.4 One who has fixed Me within his mind as the goal of life should give up activities based on sense gratification and should instead execute…
SB 11.10.5 One who has accepted Me as the supreme goal of life should strictly observe the scriptural injunctions forbidding sinful activities and,…
SB 11.10.6 The servant or disciple of the spiritual master should be free from false prestige, never considering himself to be the doer. He should be…
SB 11.10.7 One should see one’s real self-interest in life in all circumstances and should therefore remain detached from wife, children, home, land,…
SB 11.10.8 Just as fire, which burns and illuminates, is different from firewood, which is to be burned to give illumination, similarly the seer…
SB 11.10.9 Just as fire may appear differently as dormant, manifest, weak, brilliant and so on, according to the condition of the fuel, similarly,…
SB 11.10.10 The subtle and gross material bodies are created by the material modes of nature, which expand from the potency of the Supreme Personality…
SB 11.10.11 Therefore, by the cultivation of knowledge one should approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead situated within oneself. By…
SB 11.10.12 The spiritual master can be compared to the lower kindling stick, the disciple to the upper kindling stick, and the instruction given by…
SB 11.10.13 By submissively hearing from an expert spiritual master, the expert disciple develops pure knowledge, which repels the onslaught of…
SB 11.10.14-16 My dear Uddhava, I have thus explained to you perfect knowledge. There are philosophers, however, who challenge My conclusion. They state…
SB 11.10.17 Although the performer of fruitive activities desires perpetual happiness, it is clearly observed that materialistic workers are often…
SB 11.10.18 It is observed within the material world that sometimes even an intelligent person is not happy. Similarly, sometimes even a great fool is…
SB 11.10.19 Even if people know how to achieve happiness and avoid unhappiness, they still do not know the process by which death will not be able to…
SB 11.10.20 Death is not at all pleasing, and since everyone is exactly like a condemned man being led to the place of execution, what possible…
SB 11.10.21 That material happiness of which we hear, such as promotion to heavenly planets for celestial enjoyment, is just like that material…
SB 11.10.22 If one performs Vedic sacrifices and fruitive rituals without any mistake or contamination, one will achieve a heavenly situation in the…
SB 11.10.23 If on earth one performs sacrifices for the satisfaction of the demigods, he goes to the heavenly planets, where, just like a demigod, he…
SB 11.10.24 Having achieved the heavenly planets, the performer of ritualistic sacrifices travels in a glowing airplane, which he obtains as the…
SB 11.10.25 Accompanied by heavenly women, the enjoyer of the fruits of sacrifice goes on pleasure rides in a wonderful airplane, which is decorated…
SB 11.10.26 Until his pious results are used up, the performer of sacrifice enjoys life in the heavenly planets. When the pious results are exhausted,…
SB 11.10.27-29 If a human being is engaged in sinful, irreligious activities, either because of bad association or because of his failure to control his…
SB 11.10.30 In all the planetary systems, from the heavenly to the hellish, and for all of the great demigods who live for one thousand yuga cycles,…
SB 11.10.31 The material senses create material activities, either pious or sinful, and the modes of nature set the material senses into motion. The…
SB 11.10.32 As long as the living entity thinks that the modes of material nature have separate existences, he will be obliged to take birth in many…
SB 11.10.33 The conditioned soul who remains dependent on fruitive activities under the material modes of nature will continue to fear Me, the Supreme…
SB 11.10.34 When there is agitation and interaction of the material modes of nature, the living entities then describe Me in various ways such as…
SB 11.10.35 Śrī Uddhava said: O my Lord, a living entity situated within the material body is surrounded by the modes of nature and the happiness and…
SB 11.10.36-37 O my Lord, Acyuta, the same living entity is sometimes described as eternally conditioned and at other times as eternally liberated. I am…
SB 11.11.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, due to the influence of the material modes of nature, which are under My…
SB 11.11.2 Just as a dream is merely a creation of one’s intelligence but has no actual substance, similarly, material lamentation, illusion,…
SB 11.11.3 O Uddhava, both knowledge and ignorance, being products of māyā, are expansions of My potency. Both knowledge and ignorance are…
SB 11.11.4 O most intelligent Uddhava, the living entity, called jīva, is part and parcel of Me, but due to ignorance he has been suffering in…
SB 11.11.5 Thus, My dear Uddhava, in the same material body we find opposing characteristics, such as great happiness and misery. That is because…
SB 11.11.6 By chance, two birds have made a nest together in the same tree. The two birds are friends and are of a similar nature. One of them,…
SB 11.11.7 The bird who does not eat the fruits of the tree is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who by His omniscience perfectly understands His…
SB 11.11.8 One who is enlightened in self-realization, although living within the material body, sees himself as transcendental to the body, just as…
SB 11.11.9 An enlightened person who is free from the contamination of material desire does not consider himself to be the performer of bodily…
SB 11.11.10 An unintelligent person situated within the body created by his previous fruitive activities thinks, “I am the performer of action.”…
SB 11.11.11 An enlightened person fixed in detachment engages his body in lying down, sitting, walking, bathing, seeing, touching, smelling, eating,…
SB 11.11.12-13 Although the sky, or space, is the resting place of everything, the sky does not mix with anything, nor is it entangled. Similarly, the…
SB 11.11.14 A person is considered to be completely liberated from the gross and subtle material bodies when all the functions of his vital energy,…
SB 11.11.15 Sometimes for no apparent reason one’s body is attacked by cruel people or violent animals. At other times and in other places, one will…
SB 11.11.16 A saintly sage sees with equal vision and therefore is not affected by that which is materially good or bad. Indeed, although he observes…
SB 11.11.17 For the purpose of maintaining his body, a liberated sage should not act, speak or contemplate in terms of material good or bad. Rather,…
SB 11.11.18 If through meticulous study one becomes expert in reading Vedic literature but makes no endeavor to fix one’s mind on the Supreme…
SB 11.11.19 My dear Uddhava, that man is certainly most miserable who takes care of a cow that gives no milk, an unchaste wife, a body totally…
SB 11.11.20 My dear Uddhava, an intelligent person should never take to literatures that do not contain descriptions of My activities, which purify…
SB 11.11.21 Coming to this conclusion of all knowledge, one should give up the false conception of material variety that one imposes upon the soul and…
SB 11.11.22 My dear Uddhava, if you are not able to free your mind from all material disturbance and thus absorb it completely on the spiritual…
SB 11.11.23-24 My dear Uddhava, narrations of My pastimes and qualities are all-auspicious and purify the entire universe. A faithful person who…
SB 11.11.25 One who has obtained pure devotional service by association with My devotees always engages in worshiping Me. Thus he very easily goes to…
SB 11.11.26-27 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, what type of person do You consider to be a true devotee, and what type…
SB 11.11.28 My dear Lord, as the Absolute Truth You are transcendental to material nature, and like the sky You are never entangled in any way. Still,…
SB 11.11.29-32 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Uddhava, a saintly person is merciful and never injures others. Even if others are aggressive…
SB 11.11.33 My devotees may or may not know exactly what I am, who I am and how I exist, but if they worship Me with unalloyed love, then I consider…
SB 11.11.34-41 My dear Uddhava, one can give up false pride and prestige by engaging in the following devotional activities. One may purify oneself by…
SB 11.11.42 O saintly Uddhava, please know that you may worship Me in the sun, fire, brāhmaṇas, cows, Vaiṣṇavas, sky, wind, water, earth, individual…
SB 11.11.43-45 My dear Uddhava, one should worship Me within the sun by chanting selected Vedic mantras and by performing worship and offering…
SB 11.11.46 Thus, in the previously mentioned places of worship and according to the processes I have described, one should meditate on My peaceful,…
SB 11.11.47 One who has executed sacrificial performances and pious works for My satisfaction, and who thus worships Me with fixed attention, obtains…
SB 11.11.48 My dear Uddhava, I am personally the ultimate shelter and way of life for saintly liberated persons, and thus if one does not engage in My…
SB 11.11.49 My dear Uddhava, O beloved of the Yadu dynasty, because you are My servant, well-wisher and friend, I shall now speak to you the most…
SB 11.12.1-2 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, by associating with My pure devotees one can destroy one’s attachment for all…
SB 11.12.3-6 In every yuga many living entities entangled in the modes of passion and ignorance gained the association of My devotees. Thus, such…
SB 11.12.7 The persons I have mentioned did not undergo serious studies of the Vedic literature, nor did they worship great saintly persons, nor did…
SB 11.12.8 The inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, including the gopīs, cows, unmoving creatures such as the twin arjuna trees, animals, living entities with…
SB 11.12.9 Even though one engages with great endeavor in the mystic yoga system, philosophical speculation, charity, vows, penances, ritualistic…
SB 11.12.10 The residents of Vṛndāvana, headed by the gopīs, were always completely attached to Me with deepest love. Therefore, when My uncle Akrūra…
SB 11.12.11 Dear Uddhava, all of those nights that the gopīs spent with Me, their most dearly beloved, in the land of Vṛndāvana seemed to them to pass…
SB 11.12.12 My dear Uddhava, just as great sages in yoga trance merge into self-realization, like rivers merging into the ocean, and are thus not…
SB 11.12.13 All those hundreds of thousands of gopīs, understanding Me to be their most charming lover and ardently desiring Me in that way, were…
SB 11.12.14-15 Therefore, My dear Uddhava, abandon the Vedic mantras as well as the procedures of supplementary Vedic literatures and their positive and…
SB 11.12.16 Śrī Uddhava said: O Lord of all masters of mystic power, I have heard Your words, but the doubt in my heart does not go away; thus my mind…
SB 11.12.17 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, the Supreme Lord gives life to every living being and is situated within the…
SB 11.12.18 When sticks of kindling wood are vigorously rubbed together, heat is produced by contact with air, and a spark of fire appears. Once the…
SB 11.12.19 The functions of the working senses — the organ of speech, the hands, the legs, the genitals and the anus — and the functions of the…
SB 11.12.20 When many seeds are placed in an agricultural field, innumerable manifestations of trees, bushes, vegetables and so on will arise from a…
SB 11.12.21 Just as woven cloth rests on the expansion of lengthwise and crosswise threads, similarly the entire universe is expanded on the…
SB 11.12.22-23 This tree of material existence has two seeds, hundreds of roots, three lower trunks and five upper trunks. It produces five flavors and…
SB 11.12.24 With steady intelligence you should develop unalloyed devotional service by careful worship of the spiritual master, and with the…
SB 11.13.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The three modes of material nature, namely goodness, passion and ignorance, pertain to material…
SB 11.13.2 When the living entity becomes strongly situated in the mode of goodness, then religious principles, characterized by devotional service…
SB 11.13.3 Religious principles, strengthened by the mode of goodness, destroy the influence of passion and ignorance. When passion and ignorance are…
SB 11.13.4 According to the quality of religious scriptures, water, one’s association with one’s children or with people in general, the particular…
SB 11.13.5 Among the ten items I have just mentioned, the great sages who understand Vedic knowledge have praised and recommended those that are in…
SB 11.13.6 Until one revives one’s direct knowledge of the spirit soul and drives away the illusory identification with the material body and mind…
SB 11.13.7 In a bamboo forest the wind sometimes rubs the bamboo stalks together, and such friction generates a blazing fire that consumes the very…
SB 11.13.8 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Kṛṣṇa, generally human beings know that material life brings great future unhappiness, and still they try to…
SB 11.13.9-10 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, a person bereft of intelligence first falsely identifies himself with the…
SB 11.13.11 One who does not control the material senses comes under the control of material desires and is thus bewildered by the strong waves of the…
SB 11.13.12 Although the intelligence of a learned person may be bewildered by the modes of passion and ignorance, he should again carefully bring the…
SB 11.13.13 A person should be attentive and grave and never lazy or morose. Mastering the yoga procedures of breathing and sitting properly, one…
SB 11.13.14 The actual yoga system as taught by My devotees, headed by Sanaka-kumāra, is simply this: Having withdrawn the mind from all other…
SB 11.13.15 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Keśava, at what time and in what form did You instruct the science of yoga to Sanaka and his brothers? I now…
SB 11.13.16 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Once, the mental sons of Lord Brahmā, namely, the sages headed by Sanaka, inquired from their…
SB 11.13.17 The sages headed by Sanaka said: O Lord, people’s minds are naturally attracted to material sense objects, and similarly the sense objects…
SB 11.13.18 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, Brahmā himself, who is born directly from the body of the Lord and who is the…
SB 11.13.19 Lord Brahmā desired to attain the answer to the question that was puzzling him, and thus he fixed his mind on Me, the Supreme Lord. At…
SB 11.13.20 Thus seeing Me, the sages, placing Brahmā in the lead, came forward and worshiped My lotus feet. Then they frankly asked Me, “Who are You?”
SB 11.13.21 My dear Uddhava, the sages, being eager to understand the ultimate truth of the yoga system, thus inquired from Me. Now please hear as I…
SB 11.13.22 My dear brāhmaṇas, if, when asking Me who I am, you believe that I am also a jīva soul and that there is no ultimate difference between us…
SB 11.13.23 If by asking Me “Who are You?” you were referring to the material body, then I must point out that all material bodies are constituted of…
SB 11.13.24 Within this world, whatever is perceived by the mind, speech, eyes or other senses is Me alone and nothing besides Me. All of you please…
SB 11.13.25 My dear sons, the mind has a natural proclivity to enter into the material sense objects, and similarly the sense objects enter into the…
SB 11.13.26 A person who has thus achieved Me by understanding that he is not different from Me realizes that the material mind is lodged within the…
SB 11.13.27 Waking, sleeping and deep sleep are the three functions of the intelligence and are caused by the modes of material nature. The living…
SB 11.13.28 The spirit soul is trapped in the bondage of material intelligence, which awards him constant engagement in the illusory modes of nature.…
SB 11.13.29 The false ego of the living entity places him in bondage and awards him exactly the opposite of what he really desires. Therefore, an…
SB 11.13.30 According to My instructions, one should fix the mind on Me alone. If, however, one continues to see many different values and goals in…
SB 11.13.31 Those states of existence that are conceived of as separate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead have no actual existence, although…
SB 11.13.32 While awake the living entity enjoys with all of his senses the fleeting characteristics of the material body and mind; while dreaming he…
SB 11.13.33 You should consider how, by the influence of My illusory energy, these three states of the mind, caused by the modes of nature, have been…
SB 11.13.34 One should see that the material world is a distinct illusion appearing in the mind, because material objects have an extremely flickering…
SB 11.13.35 Having understood the temporary illusory nature of material things, and thus having pulled one’s vision away from illusion, one should…
SB 11.13.36 Just as a drunken man does not notice if he is wearing his coat or shirt, similarly, one who is perfect in self-realization and who has…
SB 11.13.37 The material body certainly moves under the control of supreme destiny and therefore must continue to live along with the senses and vital…
SB 11.13.38 My dear brāhmaṇas, I have now explained to you the confidential knowledge of Sāṅkhya, by which one philosophically distinguishes matter…
SB 11.13.39 O best of the brāhmaṇas, please know that I am the supreme shelter of the yoga system, analytic philosophy, virtuous action, truthful…
SB 11.13.40 All superior transcendental qualities, such as being beyond the modes of nature, detached, the well-wisher, the most dear, the Supersoul,…
SB 11.13.41 [Lord Kṛṣṇa continued:] My dear Uddhava, thus all of the doubts of the sages headed by Sanaka were destroyed by My words. Fully worshiping…
SB 11.13.42 The greatest of sages, headed by Sanaka Ṛṣi, thus perfectly worshiped and glorified Me, and as Lord Brahmā looked on, I returned to My own…
SB 11.14.1 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Kṛṣṇa, the learned sages who explain Vedic literature recommend various processes for perfecting one’s life.…
SB 11.14.2 My dear Lord, You have clearly explained the process of unalloyed devotional service, by which a devotee removes all material association…
SB 11.14.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: By the influence of time, the transcendental sound of Vedic knowledge was lost at the time of…
SB 11.14.4 Lord Brahmā spoke this Vedic knowledge to his eldest son, Manu, and the seven great sages headed by Bhṛgu Muni then accepted the same…
SB 11.14.5-7 From the forefathers headed by Bhṛgu Muni and other sons of Brahmā appeared many children and descendants, who assumed different forms as…
SB 11.14.8 Thus, due to the great variety of desires and natures among human beings, there are many different theistic philosophies of life, which…
SB 11.14.9 O best among men, the intelligence of human beings is bewildered by My illusory potency, and thus, according to their own activities and…
SB 11.14.10 Some say that people will be happy by performing pious religious activities. Others say that happiness is attained through fame, sense…
SB 11.14.11 All the persons I have just mentioned obtain temporary fruits from their material work. Indeed, the meager and miserable situations they…
SB 11.14.12 O learned Uddhava, those who fix their consciousness on Me, giving up all material desires, share with Me a happiness that cannot possibly…
SB 11.14.13 One who does not desire anything within this world, who has achieved peace by controlling his senses, whose consciousness is equal in all…
SB 11.14.14 One who has fixed his consciousness on Me desires neither the position or abode of Lord Brahmā or Lord Indra, nor an empire on the earth,…
SB 11.14.15 My dear Uddhava, neither Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa, the goddess of fortune nor indeed My own self are as dear to Me as you…
SB 11.14.16 With the dust of My devotees’ lotus feet I desire to purify the material worlds, which are situated within Me. Thus, I always follow the…
SB 11.14.17 Those who are without any desire for personal gratification, whose minds are always attached to Me, who are peaceful, without false ego…
SB 11.14.18 My dear Uddhava, if My devotee has not fully conquered his senses, he may be harassed by material desires, but because of his unflinching…
SB 11.14.19 My dear Uddhava, just as a blazing fire turns firewood into ashes, similarly, devotion unto Me completely burns to ashes sins committed by…
SB 11.14.20 My dear Uddhava, the unalloyed devotional service rendered to Me by My devotees brings Me under their control. I cannot be thus controlled…
SB 11.14.21 Only by practicing unalloyed devotional service with full faith in Me can one obtain Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I am…
SB 11.14.22 Neither religious activities endowed with honesty and mercy nor knowledge obtained with great penance can completely purify one’s…
SB 11.14.23 If one’s hairs do not stand on end, how can the heart melt? And if the heart does not melt, how can tears of love flow from the eyes? If…
SB 11.14.24 A devotee whose speech is sometimes choked up, whose heart melts, who cries continually and sometimes laughs, who feels ashamed and cries…
SB 11.14.25 Just as gold, when smelted in fire, gives up its impurities and returns to its pure brilliant state, similarly, the spirit soul, absorbed…
SB 11.14.26 When a diseased eye is treated with medicinal ointment it gradually recovers its power to see. Similarly, as a conscious living entity…
SB 11.14.27 The mind of one meditating upon the objects of sense gratification is certainly entangled in such objects, but if one constantly remembers…
SB 11.14.28 Therefore, one should reject all material processes of elevation, which are like the mental creations of a dream, and should completely…
SB 11.14.29 Being conscious of the eternal self, one should give up association with women and those intimately associated with women. Sitting…
SB 11.14.30 Of all kinds of suffering and bondage arising from various attachments, none is greater than the suffering and bondage arising from…
SB 11.14.31 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa, by what process should one who desires liberation meditate upon You, of what specific nature…
SB 11.14.32-33 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Sitting on a level seat that is not too high or too low, keeping the body straight and erect yet…
SB 11.14.34 Beginning from the mūlādhāra-cakra, one should move the life air continuously upward like the fibers in the lotus stalk until one reaches…
SB 11.14.35 Being fixed in the oṁkāra, one should carefully practice the prāṇāyāma system ten times at each sunrise, noon and sunset. Thus, after one…
SB 11.14.36-42 Keeping the eyes half closed and fixed on the tip of one’s nose, being enlivened and alert, one should meditate on the lotus flower…
SB 11.14.43 One should then pull the consciousness back from all the limbs of that transcendental body. At that time, one should meditate only on the…
SB 11.14.44 Being established in meditation on the Lord’s face, one should then withdraw the consciousness and fix it in the sky. Then giving up such…
SB 11.14.45 One who has completely fixed his mind on Me should see Me within his own soul and should see the individual soul within Me, the Supreme…
SB 11.14.46 When the yogī thus controls his mind by intensely concentrated meditation, his illusory identification with material objects, knowledge…
SB 11.15.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, the mystic perfections of yoga are acquired by a yogī who has conquered his…
SB 11.15.2 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord Acyuta, by what process can mystic perfection be achieved, and what is the nature of such perfection? How…
SB 11.15.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The masters of the yoga system have declared that there are eighteen types of mystic perfection…
SB 11.15.4-5 Among the eight primary mystic perfections, the three by which one transforms one’s own body are aṇimā, becoming smaller than the…
SB 11.15.6-7 The ten secondary mystic perfections arising from the modes of nature are the powers of freeing oneself from hunger and thirst and other…
SB 11.15.8-9 The power to know past, present and future; tolerance of heat, cold and other dualities; knowing the minds of others; checking the…
SB 11.15.10 One who worships Me in My atomic form pervading all subtle elements, fixing his mind on that alone, obtains the mystic perfection called…
SB 11.15.11 One who absorbs his mind in the particular form of the mahat-tattva and thus meditates upon Me as the Supreme Soul of the total material…
SB 11.15.12 I exist within everything, and I am therefore the essence of the atomic constituents of material elements. By attaching his mind to Me in…
SB 11.15.13 Fixing his mind completely in Me within the element of false ego generated from the mode of goodness, the yogī obtains the power of mystic…
SB 11.15.14 One who concentrates all mental activities in Me as the Supersoul of that phase of the mahat-tattva which manifests the chain of fruitive…
SB 11.15.15 One who places his consciousness on Viṣṇu, the Supersoul, the prime mover and Supreme Lord of the external energy consisting of three…
SB 11.15.16 The yogī who places his mind in My form of Nārāyaṇa, known as the fourth factor, full of all opulences, becomes endowed with My nature and…
SB 11.15.17 One who fixes his pure mind on Me in My manifestation as the impersonal Brahman obtains the greatest happiness, wherein all his desires…
SB 11.15.18 A human being who concentrates on Me as the upholder of religious principles, the personification of purity and the Lord of Śvetadvīpa…
SB 11.15.19 That purified living entity who fixes his mind on the extraordinary sound vibrations occurring within Me as the personified sky and total…
SB 11.15.20 Merging one’s sight into the sun planet and then the sun planet into one’s eyes, one should meditate on Me as existing within the…
SB 11.15.21 The yogī who completely absorbs his mind in Me, and who then makes use of the wind that follows the mind to absorb the material body in…
SB 11.15.22 When the yogī, applying his mind in a certain way, desires to assume a particular form, that very form immediately appears. Such…
SB 11.15.23 When a perfect yogī desires to enter another’s body, he should meditate upon himself within the other body, and then, giving up his own…
SB 11.15.24 The yogī who has achieved the mystic perfection called svacchanda-mṛtyu blocks the anus with the heel of the foot and then lifts the soul…
SB 11.15.25 The yogī who desires to enjoy in the pleasure gardens of the demigods should meditate on the purified mode of goodness, which is situated…
SB 11.15.26 A yogī who has faith in Me, absorbing his mind in Me and knowing that My purpose is always fulfilled, will always achieve his purpose by…
SB 11.15.27 A person who perfectly meditates on Me acquires My nature of being the supreme ruler and controller. His order, like Mine, can never be…
SB 11.15.28 A yogī who has purified his existence by devotion to Me and who thus expertly knows the process of meditation obtains knowledge of past,…
SB 11.15.29 Just as the bodies of aquatics cannot be injured by water, similarly, the body of a yogī whose consciousness is pacified by devotion to Me…
SB 11.15.30 My devotee becomes unconquerable by meditating on My opulent incarnations, which are decorated with Śrīvatsa and various weapons and are…
SB 11.15.31 A learned devotee who worships Me through yoga meditation certainly obtains in all respects the mystic perfections that I have described.
SB 11.15.32 For a sage who has conquered his senses, breathing and mind, who is self-controlled and always absorbed in meditation on Me, what mystic…
SB 11.15.33 Learned experts in devotional service state that the mystic perfections of yoga that I have mentioned are actually impediments and are a…
SB 11.15.34 Whatever mystic perfections can be achieved by good birth, herbs, austerities and mantras can all be achieved by devotional service to Me;…
SB 11.15.35 My dear Uddhava, I am the cause, the protector and the Lord of all mystic perfections, of the yoga system, of analytic knowledge, of pure…
SB 11.15.36 Just as the same material elements exist within and outside of all material bodies, similarly, I cannot be covered by anything else. I…
SB 11.16.1 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord, You are beginningless and endless, the Absolute Truth Himself, unlimited by anything else. You are the…
SB 11.16.2 My dear Lord, although it is difficult for the impious to understand that You are situated in all superior and inferior creations, those…
SB 11.16.3 Please tell me of the perfections that great sages achieve by worshiping You with devotion. Also, kindly explain which of Your different…
SB 11.16.4 O my Lord, maintainer of all, although You are the Supersoul of the living entities, You remain hidden. Thus being bewildered by You, the…
SB 11.16.5 O supremely potent Lord, please explain to me Your innumerable potencies, which You manifest on the earth, in heaven, in hell and indeed…
SB 11.16.6 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O best of those who know how to inquire, on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, Arjuna, desiring to…
SB 11.16.7 On the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra Arjuna thought that killing his relatives would be an abominable, irreligious activity, motivated only by…
SB 11.16.8 At that time I enlightened Arjuna, the tiger among men, with logical arguments, and thus in the front of the battle Arjuna addressed Me…
SB 11.16.9 My dear Uddhava, I am the Supersoul of all living entities, and therefore I am naturally their well-wisher and supreme controller. Being…
SB 11.16.10 I am the ultimate goal of all those seeking progress, and I am time among those who exert control. I am the equilibrium of the modes of…
SB 11.16.11 Among things possessing qualities I am the primary manifestation of nature, and among great things I am the total material creation. Among…
SB 11.16.12 Among the Vedas I am their original teacher, Lord Brahmā, and of all mantras I am the three-lettered oṁkāra. Among letters I am the first…
SB 11.16.13 Among the demigods I am Indra, and among the Vasus I am Agni, the god of fire. I am Viṣṇu among the sons of Aditi, and among the Rudras I…
SB 11.16.14 Among saintly brāhmaṇas I am Bhṛgu Muni, and I am Manu among saintly kings. I am Nārada Muni among saintly demigods, and I am Kāmadhenu…
SB 11.16.15 I am Lord Kapila among perfected beings and Garuḍa among birds. I am Dakṣa among the progenitors of mankind, and I am Aryamā among the…
SB 11.16.16 My dear Uddhava, among the demoniac sons of Diti know Me to be Prahlāda Mahārāja, the saintly lord of the asuras. Among the stars and…
SB 11.16.17 I am Airāvata among lordly elephants, and among aquatics I am Varuṇa, the lord of the seas. Among all things that heat and illuminate I am…
SB 11.16.18 Among horses I am Uccaiḥśravā, and I am gold among metals. I am Yamarāja among those who suppress and punish, and among serpents I am…
SB 11.16.19 O sinless Uddhava, among the best of snakes I am Anantadeva, and among those animals with sharp horns or teeth I am the lion. Among the…
SB 11.16.20 Among sacred and flowing things I am the holy Ganges, and among steady bodies of water I am the ocean. Among weapons I am the bow, and of…
SB 11.16.21 Among residences I am Mount Sumeru, and of impervious places I am the Himālayas. Among trees I am the holy fig tree, and among plants I am…
SB 11.16.22 Among priests I am Vasiṣṭha Muni, and among those highly situated in Vedic culture I am Bṛhaspati. I am Kārtikeya among great military…
SB 11.16.23 Among sacrifices I am study of the Veda, and I am nonviolence among vows. Among all things that purify I am the wind, fire, the sun, water…
SB 11.16.24 Among the eight progressive states of yoga I am the final stage, samādhi, in which the soul is completely separated from illusion. Among…
SB 11.16.25 Among ladies I am Śatarūpā, and among male personalities I am her husband, Svāyambhuva Manu. I am Nārāyaṇa among the sages and…
SB 11.16.26 Among religious principles I am renunciation, and of all types of security I am consciousness of the eternal soul within. Of secrets I am…
SB 11.16.27 Among the vigilant cycles of time I am the year, and among seasons I am spring. Among months I am Mārgaśīrṣa, and among lunar houses I am…
SB 11.16.28 Among ages I am the Satya-yuga, the age of truth, and among steady sages I am Devala and Asita. Among those who have divided the Vedas I…
SB 11.16.29 Among those entitled to the name Bhagavān I am Vāsudeva, and indeed, you, Uddhava, represent Me among the devotees. I am Hanumān among the…
SB 11.16.30 Among jewels I am the ruby, and among beautiful things I am the lotus cup. Among all types of grass I am the sacred kuśa, and of oblations…
SB 11.16.31 Among the enterprising I am fortune, and among the cheaters I am gambling. I am the forgiveness of the tolerant and the good qualities of…
SB 11.16.32 Of the powerful I am bodily and mental strength, and I am the devotional activities of My devotees. My devotees worship Me in nine…
SB 11.16.33 Among the Gandharvas I am Viśvāvasu, and I am Pūrvacitti among the heavenly Apsaras. I am the steadiness of mountains and the fragrant…
SB 11.16.34 I am the sweet taste of water, and among brilliant things I am the sun. I am the effulgence of the sun, moon and stars, and I am the…
SB 11.16.35 Among those dedicated to brahminical culture I am Bali Mahārāja, the son of Virocana, and I am Arjuna among heroes. Indeed, I am the…
SB 11.16.36 I am the functions of the five working senses — the legs, speech, anus, hands and sex organs — as well as those of the five…
SB 11.16.37 I am form, taste, aroma, touch and sound; false ego; the mahat-tattva; earth, water, fire, air and sky; the living entity; material…
SB 11.16.38 As the Supreme Lord I am the basis of the living entity, of the modes of nature and of the mahat-tattva. Thus I am everything, and nothing…
SB 11.16.39 Even though over a period of time I might count all the atoms of the universe, I could not count all of My opulences which I manifest…
SB 11.16.40 Whatever power, beauty, fame, opulence, humility, renunciation, mental pleasure, fortune, strength, tolerance or spiritual knowledge there…
SB 11.16.41 I have briefly described to you all My spiritual opulences and also the extraordinary material features of My creation, which are…
SB 11.16.42 Therefore, control your speaking, subdue the mind, conquer the life air, regulate the senses and through purified intelligence bring your…
SB 11.16.43 A transcendentalist who does not completely control his words and mind by superior intelligence will find that his spiritual vows,…
SB 11.16.44 Being surrendered to Me, one should control the speech, mind and life air, and then through loving devotional intelligence one will…
SB 11.17.1-2 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord, previously You described the principles of devotional service that are to be practiced by followers of the…
SB 11.17.3-4 My dear Lord, O mighty-armed one, previously in Your form of Lord Haṁsa You spoke to Lord Brahmā those religious principles that bring…
SB 11.17.5-6 My dear Lord Acyuta, there is no speaker, creator and protector of supreme religious principles other than Your Lordship, either on the…
SB 11.17.7 Therefore, my Lord, since You are the knower of all religious principles, please describe to me the human beings who may execute the path…
SB 11.17.9 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, your question is faithful to religious principles and thus gives rise to the…
SB 11.17.10 In the beginning, in Satya-yuga, there is only one social class, called haṁsa, to which all human beings belong. In that age all people…
SB 11.17.11 In Satya-yuga the undivided Veda is expressed by the syllable om, and I am the only object of mental activities. I become manifest as the…
SB 11.17.12 O greatly fortunate one, at the beginning of Tretā-yuga Vedic knowledge appeared from My heart, which is the abode of the air of life, in…
SB 11.17.13 In Tretā-yuga the four social orders were manifested from the universal form of the Personality of Godhead. The brāhmaṇas appeared from…
SB 11.17.14 The married order of life appeared from the loins of My universal form, and the celibate students came from My heart. The forest-dwelling…
SB 11.17.15 The various occupational and social divisions of human society appeared according to inferior and superior natures manifest in the…
SB 11.17.16 Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, cleanliness, satisfaction, tolerance, simple straightforwardness, devotion to Me, mercy and…
SB 11.17.17 Dynamic power, bodily strength, determination, heroism, tolerance, generosity, great endeavor, steadiness, devotion to the brāhmaṇas and…
SB 11.17.18 Faith in Vedic civilization, dedication to charity, freedom from hypocrisy, service to the brāhmaṇas and perpetually desiring to…
SB 11.17.19 Service without duplicity to the brāhmaṇas, cows, demigods and other worshipable personalities, and complete satisfaction with whatever…
SB 11.17.20 Dirtiness, dishonesty, thievery, faithlessness, useless quarrel, lust, anger and hankering constitute the nature of those in the lowest…
SB 11.17.21 Nonviolence, truthfulness, honesty, desire for the happiness and welfare of all others and freedom from lust, anger and greed constitute…
SB 11.17.22 The twice-born member of society achieves second birth through the sequence of purificatory ceremonies culminating in Gāyatrī initiation.…
SB 11.17.23 The brahmacārī should regularly dress with a belt of straw and deerskin garments. He should wear matted hair, carry a rod and waterpot and…
SB 11.17.24 A brahmacārī should always remain silent while bathing, eating, attending sacrificial performances, chanting japa or passing stool and…
SB 11.17.25 One observing the vow of celibate brahmacārī life should never pass semen. If the semen by chance spills out by itself, the brahmacārī…
SB 11.17.26 Purified and fixed in consciousness, the brahmacārī should worship the fire-god, sun, ācārya, cows, brāhmaṇas, guru, elderly respectable…
SB 11.17.27 One should know the ācārya as Myself and never disrespect him in any way. One should not envy him, thinking him an ordinary man, for he is…
SB 11.17.28 In the morning and evening one should collect foodstuffs and other articles and deliver them to the spiritual master. Then, being…
SB 11.17.29 While engaged in serving the spiritual master one should remain as a humble servant, and thus when the guru is walking the servant should…
SB 11.17.30 Until the student has completed his Vedic education he should remain engaged in the āśrama of the spiritual master, should remain…
SB 11.17.31 If the brahmacārī student desires to ascend to the Maharloka or Brahmaloka planets, then he should completely surrender his activities to…
SB 11.17.32 Thus enlightened in Vedic knowledge by service to the spiritual master, freed from all sins and duality, one should worship Me as the…
SB 11.17.33 Those who are not married — sannyāsīs, vānaprasthas and brahmacārīs — should never associate with women by glancing, touching, conversing,…
SB 11.17.34-35 My dear Uddhava, general cleanliness, washing the hands, bathing, performing religious services at sunrise, noon and sunset, worshiping…
SB 11.17.36 A brāhmaṇa observing the great vow of celibacy becomes brilliant like fire and by serious austerity burns to ashes the propensity to…
SB 11.17.37 A brahmacārī who has completed his Vedic education and desires to enter household life should offer proper remuneration to the spiritual…
SB 11.17.38 A brahmacārī desiring to fulfill his material desires should live at home with his family, and a householder who is eager to purify his…
SB 11.17.39 One who desires to establish family life should marry a wife of his own caste, who is beyond reproach and younger in age. If one desires…
SB 11.17.40 All twice-born men — brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas and vaiśyas — must perform sacrifice, study the Vedic literature and give charity. Only the…
SB 11.17.41 A brāhmaṇa who considers that accepting charity from others will destroy his austerity, spiritual influence and fame should maintain…
SB 11.17.42 The body of a brāhmaṇa is not intended to enjoy insignificant material sense gratification; rather, by accepting difficult austerities in…
SB 11.17.43 A brāhmaṇa householder should remain satisfied in mind by gleaning rejected grains from agricultural fields and marketplaces. Keeping…
SB 11.17.44 Just as a ship rescues those who have fallen into the ocean, similarly, I very quickly rescue from all calamities those persons who uplift…
SB 11.17.45 Just as the chief bull elephant protects all other elephants in his herd and defends himself as well, similarly, a fearless king, just…
SB 11.17.46 An earthly king who protects himself and all citizens by removing all sins from his kingdom will certainly enjoy with Lord Indra in…
SB 11.17.47 If a brāhmaṇa cannot support himself through his regular duties and is thus suffering, he may adopt the occupation of a merchant and…
SB 11.17.48 A king or other member of the royal order who cannot maintain himself by his normal occupation may act as a vaiśya, may live by hunting or…
SB 11.17.49 A vaiśya, or mercantile man, who cannot maintain himself may adopt the occupation of a śūdra, and a śūdra who cannot find a master can…
SB 11.17.50 One in the gṛhastha order of life should daily worship the sages by Vedic study, the forefathers by offering the mantra svadhā, the…
SB 11.17.51 A householder should comfortably maintain his dependents either with money that comes of its own accord or with that gathered by honest…
SB 11.17.52 A householder taking care of many dependent family members should not become materially attached to them, nor should he become mentally…
SB 11.17.53 The association of children, wife, relatives and friends is just like the brief meeting of travelers. With each change of body one is…
SB 11.17.54 Deeply considering the actual situation, a liberated soul should live at home just like a guest, without any sense of proprietorship or…
SB 11.17.55 A householder devotee who worships Me by execution of his family duties may remain at home, go to a holy place or, if he has a responsible…
SB 11.17.56 But a householder whose mind is attached to his home and who is thus disturbed by ardent desires to enjoy his money and children, who is…
SB 11.17.57 “O my poor elderly parents, and my wife with a mere infant in her arms, and my other young children! Without me they have absolutely no…
SB 11.17.58 Thus, because of his foolish mentality, a householder whose heart is overwhelmed by family attachment is never satisfied. Constantly…
SB 11.18.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One who desires to adopt the third order of life, vānaprastha, should enter the forest with a…
SB 11.18.2 Having adopted the vānaprastha order of life, one should arrange one’s sustenance by eating uncontaminated bulbs, roots and fruits that…
SB 11.18.3 The vānaprastha should not groom the hair on his head, body or face, should not manicure his nails, should not pass stool and urine at…
SB 11.18.4 Thus engaged as a vānaprastha, one should execute penance during the hottest summer days by subjecting oneself to burning fires on four…
SB 11.18.5 One may eat foodstuffs prepared with fire, such as grains, or fruits ripened by time. One may grind one’s food with mortar and stone or…
SB 11.18.6 The vānaprastha should personally collect whatever he requires for his bodily maintenance, carefully considering the time, place and his…
SB 11.18.7 One who has accepted the vānaprastha order of life should perform seasonal sacrifices by offering oblations of caru and sacrificial cakes…
SB 11.18.8 The vānaprastha should perform the agnihotra, darśa and paurṇamāsa sacrifices, as he did while in the gṛhastha-āśrama. He should also…
SB 11.18.9 The saintly vānaprastha, practicing severe penances and accepting only the bare necessities of life, becomes so emaciated that he appears…
SB 11.18.10 One who with long endeavor executes this painful but exalted penance, which awards ultimate liberation, simply to achieve insignificant…
SB 11.18.11 If the vānaprastha is overtaken by old age and because of his trembling body is no longer able to execute his prescribed duties, he should…
SB 11.18.12 If the vānaprastha, understanding that even promotion to Brahmaloka is a miserable situation, develops complete detachment from all…
SB 11.18.13 Having worshiped Me according to scriptural injunctions and having given all one’s property to the sacrificial priest, one should place…
SB 11.18.14 “This man taking sannyāsa is going to surpass us and go back home, back to Godhead.” Thus thinking, the demigods create stumbling blocks…
SB 11.18.15 If the sannyāsī desires to wear something besides a mere kaupīna, he may use another cloth around his waist and hips to cover the kaupīna.…
SB 11.18.16 A saintly person should step or place his foot on the ground only after verifying with his eyes that there are no living creatures, such…
SB 11.18.17 One who has not accepted the three internal disciplines of avoiding useless speech, avoiding useless activities and controlling the life…
SB 11.18.18 Rejecting those houses that are polluted and untouchable, one should approach without previous calculation seven houses and be satisfied…
SB 11.18.19 Taking the food gathered through begging, one should leave the populated areas and go to a reservoir of water in a secluded place. There,…
SB 11.18.20 Without any material attachment, with senses fully controlled, remaining enthusiastic, and satisfied in realization of the Supreme Lord…
SB 11.18.21 Dwelling in a safe and solitary place, his mind purified by constant thought of Me, the sage should concentrate on the soul alone,…
SB 11.18.22 By steady knowledge a sage should clearly ascertain the nature of the soul’s bondage and liberation. Bondage occurs when the senses are…
SB 11.18.23 Therefore, completely controlling the five senses and the mind by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, a sage, having experienced spiritual bliss within…
SB 11.18.24 The sage should travel in sanctified places, by flowing rivers and within the solitude of mountains and forests. He should enter the…
SB 11.18.25 One in the vānaprastha order of life should always practice taking charity from others, for one is thereby freed from illusion and quickly…
SB 11.18.26 One should never see as ultimate reality those material things which obviously will perish. With consciousness free from material…
SB 11.18.27 One should logically consider the universe, which is situated within the Lord, and one’s own material body, which is composed of mind,…
SB 11.18.28 A learned transcendentalist dedicated to the cultivation of knowledge and thus detached from external objects, or My devotee who is…
SB 11.18.29 Although most wise, the paramahaṁsa should enjoy life like a child, oblivious to honor and dishonor; although most expert, he should…
SB 11.18.30 A devotee should never engage in the fruitive rituals mentioned in the karma-kāṇḍa section of the Vedas, nor should he become atheistic,…
SB 11.18.31 A saintly person should never let others frighten or disturb him and, similarly, should never frighten or disturb other people. He should…
SB 11.18.32 The one Supreme Lord is situated within all material bodies and within everyone’s soul. Just as the moon is reflected in innumerable…
SB 11.18.33 If at times one does not obtain proper food one should not be depressed, and when one obtains sumptuous food one should not rejoice. Being…
SB 11.18.34 If required, one should endeavor to get sufficient foodstuffs, because it is always necessary and proper to maintain one’s health. When…
SB 11.18.35 A sage should accept the food, clothing and bedding — be they of excellent or inferior quality — that come of their own accord.
SB 11.18.36 Just as I, the Supreme Lord, execute regulative duties by My own free will, similarly, one who has realized knowledge of Me should…
SB 11.18.37 A realized soul no longer sees anything as separate from Me, for his realized knowledge of Me has destroyed such illusory perception.…
SB 11.18.38 One who is detached from sense gratification, knowing its result to be miserable, and who desires spiritual perfection, but who has not…
SB 11.18.39 Until a devotee has clearly realized spiritual knowledge, he should continue with great faith and respect and without envy to render…
SB 11.18.40-41 One who has not controlled the six forms of illusion [lust, anger, greed, excitement, false pride and intoxication], whose intelligence,…
SB 11.18.42 The main religious duties of a sannyāsī are equanimity and nonviolence, whereas for the vānaprastha austerity and philosophical…
SB 11.18.43 A householder may approach his wife for sex only at the time prescribed for begetting children. Otherwise, the householder should practice…
SB 11.18.44 One who worships Me by his prescribed duty, having no other object of worship, and who remains conscious of Me as present in all living…
SB 11.18.45 My dear Uddhava, I am the Supreme Lord of all worlds, and I create and destroy this universe, being its ultimate cause. I am thus the…
SB 11.18.46 Thus, one who has purified his existence by execution of his prescribed duties, who fully understands My supreme position and who is…
SB 11.18.47 Those who are followers of this varṇāśrama system accept religious principles according to authorized traditions of proper conduct. When…
SB 11.18.48 My dear saintly Uddhava, I have now described to you, just as you inquired, the means by which My devotee, perfectly engaged in his…
SB 11.19.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: A self-realized person who has cultivated scriptural knowledge up to the point of enlightenment…
SB 11.19.2 For learned, self-realized philosophers I am the only object of worship, the desired goal of life, the means for achieving that goal, and…
SB 11.19.3 Those who have achieved complete perfection through philosophical and realized knowledge recognize My lotus feet to be the supreme…
SB 11.19.4 That perfection which is produced by a small fraction of spiritual knowledge cannot be duplicated by performing austerities, visiting holy…
SB 11.19.5 Therefore, My dear Uddhava, through knowledge you should understand your actual self. Then, advancing by clear realization of Vedic…
SB 11.19.6 Formerly, great sages, through the sacrifice of Vedic knowledge and spiritual enlightenment, worshiped Me within themselves, knowing Me to…
SB 11.19.7 My dear Uddhava, the material body and mind, composed of the three modes of material nature, attach themselves to you, but they are…
SB 11.19.8 Śrī Uddhava said: O Lord of the universe! O form of the universe! Please explain to me that process of knowledge which automatically…
SB 11.19.9 My dear Lord, for one who is being tormented on the terrible path of birth and death and is constantly overwhelmed by the threefold…
SB 11.19.10 O almighty Lord, please be merciful and uplift this hopeless living entity who has fallen into the dark hole of material existence, where…
SB 11.19.11 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, just as you are now inquiring from Me, similarly, in the past King Yudhiṣṭhira,…
SB 11.19.12 When the great Battle of Kurukṣetra had ended, King Yudhiṣṭhira was overwhelmed by the death of many beloved well-wishers, and thus, after…
SB 11.19.13 I will now speak unto you those religious principles of Vedic knowledge, detachment, self-realization, faith and devotional service that…
SB 11.19.14 I personally approve of that knowledge by which one sees the combination of nine, eleven, five and three elements in all living entities,…
SB 11.19.15 When one no longer sees the twenty-eight separated material elements, which arise from a single cause, but rather sees the cause itself,…
SB 11.19.16 Commencement, termination and maintenance are the stages of material causation. That which consistently accompanies all these material…
SB 11.19.17 From the four types of evidence — Vedic knowledge, direct experience, traditional wisdom and logical induction — one can understand the…
SB 11.19.18 An intelligent person should see that any material activity is subject to constant transformation and that even on the planet of Lord…
SB 11.19.19 O sinless Uddhava, because you love Me, I previously explained to you the process of devotional service. Now I will again explain the…
SB 11.19.20-24 Firm faith in the blissful narrations of My pastimes, constant chanting of My glories, unwavering attachment to ceremonial worship of Me,…
SB 11.19.25 When one’s peaceful consciousness, strengthened by the mode of goodness, is fixed on the Personality of Godhead, one achieves religiosity,…
SB 11.19.26 When consciousness is fixed on the material body, home and other, similar objects of sense gratification, one spends one’s life chasing…
SB 11.19.27 Actual religious principles are stated to be those that lead one to My devotional service. Real knowledge is the awareness that reveals My…
SB 11.19.28-32 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, O chastiser of the enemies, please tell me how many types of disciplinary regulations and regular…
SB 11.19.33-35 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Nonviolence, truthfulness, not coveting or stealing the property of others, detachment, humility,…
SB 11.19.36-39 Absorbing the intelligence in Me constitutes mental equilibrium, and complete discipline of the senses is self-control. Tolerance means…
SB 11.19.40-45 Actual opulence is My own nature as the Personality of Godhead, through which I exhibit the six unlimited opulences. The supreme gain in…
SB 11.20.1 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa, You are the Supreme Lord, and thus the Vedic literatures, consisting of positive and negative…
SB 11.20.2 According to Vedic literature, the superior and inferior varieties found in the human social system, varṇāśrama, are due to pious and…
SB 11.20.3 Without seeing the difference between piety and sin, how can one understand Your own instructions in the form of Vedic literatures, which…
SB 11.20.4 My dear Lord, to understand those things beyond direct experience — such as spiritual liberation or the attainment of heaven and similar…
SB 11.20.5 My dear Lord, the distinction observed between piety and sin comes from Your own Vedic knowledge and does not arise by itself. If the same…
SB 11.20.6 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, because I desire that human beings may achieve perfection, I have presented…
SB 11.20.7 Among these three paths, jñāna-yoga, the path of philosophical speculation, is recommended for those who are disgusted with material life…
SB 11.20.8 If somehow or other by good fortune one develops faith in hearing and chanting My glories, such a person, being neither disgusted with nor…
SB 11.20.9 As long as one is not satiated by fruitive activity and has not awakened his taste for devotional service by śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ, one…
SB 11.20.10 My dear Uddhava, a person who is situated in his prescribed duty, properly worshiping by Vedic sacrifices but not desiring the fruitive…
SB 11.20.11 One who is situated in his prescribed duty, free from sinful activities and cleansed of material contamination, in this very life obtains…
SB 11.20.12 The residents of both heaven and hell desire human birth on the earth planet because human life facilitates the achievement of…
SB 11.20.13 A human being who is wise should never desire promotion to heavenly planets or residence in hell. Indeed, a human being should also never…
SB 11.20.14 A wise person, knowing that although the material body is subject to death it can still award the perfection of one’s life, should not…
SB 11.20.15 Without attachment, a bird gives up the tree in which his nest was constructed when that tree is cut down by cruel men who are like death…
SB 11.20.16 Knowing that one’s duration of life is being similarly cut down by the passing of days and nights, one should be shaken by fear. In this…
SB 11.20.17 The human body, which can award all benefit in life, is automatically obtained by the laws of nature, although it is a very rare…
SB 11.20.18 A transcendentalist, having become disgusted and hopeless in all endeavors for material happiness, completely controls the senses and…
SB 11.20.19 Whenever the mind, being concentrated on the spiritual platform, is suddenly deviated from its spiritual position, one should carefully…
SB 11.20.20 One should never lose sight of the actual goal of mental activities, but rather, conquering the life air and senses and utilizing…
SB 11.20.21 An expert horseman, desiring to tame a headstrong horse, first lets the horse have his way for a moment and then, pulling the reins,…
SB 11.20.22 Until one’s mind is fixed in spiritual satisfaction, one should analytically study the temporary nature of all material objects, whether…
SB 11.20.23 When a person is disgusted with the temporary, illusory nature of this world and is thus detached from it, his mind, guided by the…
SB 11.20.24 Through the various disciplinary regulations and the purificatory procedures of the yoga system, through logic and spiritual education or…
SB 11.20.25 If, because of momentary inattention, a yogī accidentally commits an abominable activity, then by the very practice of yoga he should burn…
SB 11.20.26 It is firmly declared that the steady adherence of transcendentalists to their respective spiritual positions constitutes real piety and…
SB 11.20.27-28 Having awakened faith in the narrations of My glories, being disgusted with all material activities, knowing that all sense gratification…
SB 11.20.29 When an intelligent person engages constantly in worshiping Me through loving devotional service as described by Me, his heart becomes…
SB 11.20.30 The knot in the heart is pierced, all misgivings are cut to pieces and the chain of fruitive actions is terminated when I am seen as the…
SB 11.20.31 Therefore, for a devotee engaged in My loving service, with mind fixed on Me, the cultivation of knowledge and renunciation is generally…
SB 11.20.32-33 Everything that can be achieved by fruitive activities, penance, knowledge, detachment, mystic yoga, charity, religious duties and all…
SB 11.20.34 Because My devotees possess saintly behavior and deep intelligence, they completely dedicate themselves to Me and do not desire anything…
SB 11.20.35 It is said that complete detachment is the highest stage of freedom. Therefore, one who has no personal desire and does not pursue…
SB 11.20.36 Material piety and sin, which arise from the good and evil of this world, cannot exist within My unalloyed devotees, who, being free from…
SB 11.20.37 Persons who seriously follow these methods of achieving Me, which I have personally taught, attain freedom from illusion, and upon…
SB 11.21.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Those who give up these methods for achieving Me, which consist of devotional service, analytic…
SB 11.21.2 Steadiness in one’s own position is declared to be actual piety, whereas deviation from one’s position is considered impiety. In this way…
SB 11.21.3 O sinless Uddhava, in order to understand what is proper in life one must evaluate a given object within its particular category. Thus, in…
SB 11.21.4 I have revealed this way of life for those bearing the burden of mundane religious principles.
SB 11.21.5 Earth, water, fire, air and ether are the five basic elements that constitute the bodies of all conditioned souls, from Lord Brahmā…
SB 11.21.6 My dear Uddhava, although all material bodies are composed of the same five elements and are thus equal, the Vedic literatures conceive of…
SB 11.21.7 O saintly Uddhava, in order to restrict materialistic activities, I have established that which is proper and improper among all material…
SB 11.21.8 Among places, those bereft of the spotted antelope, those devoid of devotion to the brāhmaṇas, those possessing spotted antelopes but…
SB 11.21.9 A specific time is considered pure when it is appropriate, either by its own nature or through achievement of suitable paraphernalia, for…
SB 11.21.10 An object’s purity or impurity is established by application of another object, by words, by rituals, by the effects of time or according…
SB 11.21.11 Impure things may or may not impose sinful reactions upon a person, depending on that person’s strength or weakness, intelligence, wealth,…
SB 11.21.12 Various objects such as grains, wooden utensils, things made of bone, thread, liquids, objects derived from fire, skins and earthy objects…
SB 11.21.13 A particular purifying agent is considered appropriate when its application removes the bad odor or dirty covering of some contaminated…
SB 11.21.14 The self can be cleansed by bathing, charity, austerity, age, personal strength, purificatory rituals, prescribed duties and, above all,…
SB 11.21.15 A mantra is purified when chanted with proper knowledge, and one’s work is purified when offered to Me. Thus by purification of the place,…
SB 11.21.16 Sometimes piety becomes sin, and sometimes what is ordinarily sin becomes piety on the strength of Vedic injunctions. Such special rules…
SB 11.21.17 The same activities that would degrade an elevated person do not cause falldown for those who are already fallen. Indeed, one who is lying…
SB 11.21.18 By refraining from a particular sinful or materialistic activity, one becomes freed from its bondage. Such renunciation is the basis of…
SB 11.21.19 One who accepts material sense objects as desirable certainly becomes attached to them. From such attachment lust arises, and this lust…
SB 11.21.20 From quarrel arises intolerable anger, followed by the darkness of ignorance. This ignorance quickly overtakes a man’s broad intelligence.
SB 11.21.21 O saintly Uddhava, a person bereft of real intelligence is considered to have lost everything. Deviated from the actual purpose of his…
SB 11.21.22 Because of absorption in sense gratification, one cannot recognize himself or others. Living uselessly in ignorance like a tree, one is…
SB 11.21.23 Those statements of scripture promising fruitive rewards do not prescribe the ultimate good for men but are merely enticements for…
SB 11.21.24 Simply by material birth, human beings become attached within their minds to personal sense gratification, long duration of life, sense…
SB 11.21.25 Those ignorant of their real self-interest are wandering on the path of material existence, gradually heading toward darkness. Why would…
SB 11.21.26 Persons with perverted intelligence do not understand this actual purpose of Vedic knowledge and instead propagate as the highest Vedic…
SB 11.21.27 Those who are full of lust, avarice and greed mistake mere flowers to be the actual fruit of life. Bewildered by the glare of fire and…
SB 11.21.28 My dear Uddhava, persons dedicated to sense gratification obtained through honoring the Vedic rituals cannot understand that I am situated…
SB 11.21.29-30 Those who are sworn to sense gratification cannot understand the confidential conclusion of Vedic knowledge as explained by Me. Taking…
SB 11.21.31 Just as a foolish businessman gives up his real wealth in useless business speculation, foolish persons give up all that is actually…
SB 11.21.32 Those established in material passion, goodness and ignorance worship the particular demigods and other deities, headed by Indra, who…
SB 11.21.33-34 The worshipers of demigods think, “We shall worship the demigods in this life, and by our sacrifices we shall go to heaven and enjoy…
SB 11.21.35 The Vedas, divided into three divisions, ultimately reveal the living entity as pure spirit soul. The Vedic seers and mantras, however,…
SB 11.21.36 The transcendental sound of the Vedas is very difficult to comprehend and manifests on different levels within the prāṇa, senses and mind.…
SB 11.21.37 As the unlimited, unchanging and omnipotent Personality of Godhead dwelling within all living beings, I personally establish the Vedic…
SB 11.21.38-40 Just as a spider brings forth from its heart its web and emits it through its mouth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself…
SB 11.21.41 The Vedic meters are Gāyatrī, Uṣṇik, Anuṣṭup, Bṛhatī, Paṅkti, Triṣṭup, Jagatī, Aticchanda, Atyaṣṭi, Atijagatī and Ativirāṭ.
SB 11.21.42 In the entire world no one but Me actually understands the confidential purpose of Vedic knowledge. Thus people do not know what the Vedas…
SB 11.21.43 I am the ritualistic sacrifice enjoined by the Vedas, and I am the worshipable Deity. It is I who am presented as various philosophical…
SB 11.22.1-3 Uddhava inquired: My dear Lord, O master of the universe, how many different elements of creation have been enumerated by the great sages?…
SB 11.22.4 Lord Kṛṣṇa replied: Because all material elements are present everywhere, it is reasonable that different learned brāhmaṇas have analyzed…
SB 11.22.5 When philosophers argue, “I don’t choose to analyze this particular case in the same way that you have,” it is simply My own…
SB 11.22.6 By interaction of My energies different opinions arise. But for those who have fixed their intelligence on Me and controlled their senses,…
SB 11.22.7 O best among men, because subtle and gross elements mutually enter into one another, philosophers may calculate the number of basic…
SB 11.22.8 All subtle material elements are actually present within their gross effects; similarly, all gross elements are present within their…
SB 11.22.9 Therefore, no matter which of these thinkers is speaking, and regardless of whether in their calculations they include material elements…
SB 11.22.10 Because a person who has been covered by ignorance since time immemorial is not capable of effecting his own self-realization, there must…
SB 11.22.11 According to knowledge in the material mode of goodness, there is no qualitative difference between the living entity and the supreme…
SB 11.22.12 Nature exists originally as the equilibrium of the three material modes, which pertain only to nature, not to the transcendental spirit…
SB 11.22.13 In this world the mode of goodness is recognized as knowledge, the mode of passion as fruitive work, and the mode of darkness as…
SB 11.22.14 I have described the nine basic elements as the enjoying soul, nature, nature’s primeval manifestation of the mahat-tattva, false ego,…
SB 11.22.15 Hearing, touch, sight, smell and taste are the five knowledge-acquiring senses, My dear Uddhava, and speech, the hands, the genitals, the…
SB 11.22.16 Sound, touch, taste, smell and form are the objects of the knowledge-acquiring senses, and movement, speech, excretion and manufacture are…
SB 11.22.17 In the beginning of creation nature assumes, by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance, its form as the embodiment of all subtle…
SB 11.22.18 As the material elements, headed by the mahat-tattva, are transformed, they receive their specific potencies from the glance of the…
SB 11.22.19 According to some philosophers there are seven elements, namely earth, water, fire, air and ether, along with the conscious spirit soul…
SB 11.22.20 Other philosophers state that there are six elements — the five physical elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether) and the sixth…
SB 11.22.21 Some philosophers propose the existence of four basic elements, of which three — fire, water and earth — emanate from the fourth, the…
SB 11.22.22 Some calculate the existence of seventeen basic elements, namely the five gross elements, the five objects of perception, the five sensory…
SB 11.22.23 According to the calculation of sixteen elements, the only difference from the previous theory is that the soul is identified with the…
SB 11.22.24 Counting eleven, there are the soul, the gross elements and the senses. Eight gross and subtle elements plus the Supreme Lord would make…
SB 11.22.25 Thus great philosophers have analyzed the material elements in many different ways. All of their proposals are reasonable, since they are…
SB 11.22.26 Śrī Uddhava inquired: Although nature and the living entity are constitutionally distinct, O Lord Kṛṣṇa, there appears to be no difference…
SB 11.22.27 O lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa, O omniscient Lord, kindly cut this great doubt out of my heart with Your own words, which exhibit Your great skill in…
SB 11.22.28 From You alone the knowledge of the living beings arises, and by Your potency that knowledge is stolen away. Indeed, no one but Yourself…
SB 11.22.29 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O best among men, material nature and its enjoyer are clearly distinct. This manifest creation…
SB 11.22.30 My dear Uddhava, My material energy, comprising three modes and acting through them, manifests the varieties of creation along with…
SB 11.22.31 Sight, visible form and the reflected image of the sun within the aperture of the eye all work together to reveal one another. But the…
SB 11.22.32 Similarly, the sense organs, namely the skin, ears, eyes, tongue and nose — as well as the functions of the subtle body, namely…
SB 11.22.33 When the three modes of nature are agitated, the resultant transformation appears as the element false ego in three phases — goodness,…
SB 11.22.34 The speculative argument of philosophers — “This world is real,” “No, it is not real” — is based upon incomplete knowledge of the Supreme…
SB 11.22.35-36 Śrī Uddhava said: O supreme master, the intelligence of those dedicated to fruitive activities is certainly deviated from You. Please…
SB 11.22.37 Lord Kṛṣṇa said: The material mind of men is shaped by the reactions of fruitive work. Along with the five senses, it travels from one…
SB 11.22.38 The mind, bound to the reactions of fruitive work, always meditates on the objects of the senses, both those that are seen in this world…
SB 11.22.39 When the living entity passes from the present body to the next body, which is created by his own karma, he becomes absorbed in the…
SB 11.22.40 O most charitable Uddhava, what is called birth is simply a person’s total identification with a new body. One accepts the new body just…
SB 11.22.41 Just as a person experiencing a dream or daydream does not remember his previous dreams or daydreams, a person situated in his present…
SB 11.22.42 Because the mind, which is the resting place of the senses, has created the identification with a new body, the threefold material variety…
SB 11.22.43 My dear Uddhava, material bodies are constantly undergoing creation and destruction by the force of time, whose swiftness is…
SB 11.22.44 The different stages of transformation of all material bodies occur just like those of the flame of a candle, the current of a river, or…
SB 11.22.45 Although the illumination of a lamp consists of innumerable rays of light undergoing constant creation, transformation and destruction, a…
SB 11.22.46 A person does not actually take birth out of the seed of past activities, nor, being immortal, does he die. By illusion the living being…
SB 11.22.47 Impregnation, gestation, birth, infancy, childhood, youth, middle age, old age and death are the nine ages of the body.
SB 11.22.48 Although the material body is different from the self, because of the ignorance due to material association one falsely identifies oneself…
SB 11.22.49 By the death of one’s father or grandfather one can surmise one’s own death, and by the birth of one’s son one can understand the…
SB 11.22.50 One who observes the birth of a tree from its seed and the ultimate death of the tree after maturity certainly remains a distinct observer…
SB 11.22.51 An unintelligent man, failing to distinguish himself from material nature, thinks nature to be real. By contact with it he becomes…
SB 11.22.52 Made to wander because of his fruitive work, the conditioned soul, by contact with the mode of goodness, takes birth among the sages or…
SB 11.22.53 Just as one may imitate persons whom one sees dancing and singing, similarly the soul, although never the doer of material activities,…
SB 11.22.54-55 The soul’s material life, his experience of sense gratification, is actually false, O descendant of Daśārha, just like trees’ appearance…
SB 11.22.56 For one who is meditating on sense gratification, material life, although lacking factual existence, does not go away, just as the…
SB 11.22.57 Therefore, O Uddhava, do not try to enjoy sense gratification with the material senses. See how illusion based on material dualities…
SB 11.22.58-59 Even though neglected, insulted, ridiculed or envied by bad men, or even though repeatedly agitated by being beaten, tied up or deprived…
SB 11.22.60 Śrī Uddhava said: O best of all speakers, please explain to me how I may properly understand this.
SB 11.22.61 O soul of the universe, the conditioning of one’s personality in material life is very strong, and therefore it is very difficult even for…
SB 11.23.2 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: O disciple of Bṛhaspati, there is virtually no saintly man in this world capable of resettling his own mind after it…
SB 11.23.3 Sharp arrows which pierce one’s chest and reach the heart do not cause as much suffering as the arrows of harsh, insulting words that…
SB 11.23.4 My dear Uddhava, in this regard a most pious story is told, and I shall now describe it to you. Please listen with careful attention.
SB 11.23.5 Once a certain sannyāsī was insulted in many ways by impious men. However, with determination he remembered that he was suffering the…
SB 11.23.6 In the country of Avantī there once lived a certain brāhmaṇa who was very rich and gifted with all opulences, and who was engaged in the…
SB 11.23.7 In his home, devoid of religiosity and lawful sense gratification, the family members and guests were never properly respected, even with…
SB 11.23.8 Since he was so hardhearted and miserly, his sons, in-laws, wife, daughters and servants began to feel inimical toward him. Becoming…
SB 11.23.9 In this way the presiding deities of the five family sacrifices became angry at the brāhmaṇa, who, being niggardly, guarded his wealth…
SB 11.23.10 O magnanimous Uddhava, by his neglect of these demigods he depleted his stock of piety and all his wealth. The accumulation of his…
SB 11.23.11 Some of the wealth of this so-called brāhmaṇa was taken away by his relatives, My dear Uddhava, some by thieves, some by the whims of…
SB 11.23.12 Finally, when his property was completely lost, he who never engaged in religiosity or sense enjoyment became ignored by his family…
SB 11.23.13 Having lost all his wealth, he felt great pain and lamentation. His throat choked up with tears, and he meditated for a long time on his…
SB 11.23.14 The brāhmaṇa spoke as follows: O what great misfortune! I have simply tormented myself uselessly, struggling so hard for money that was…
SB 11.23.15 Generally, the wealth of misers never allows them any happiness. In this life it causes their self-torment, and when they die it sends…
SB 11.23.16 Whatever pure fame is possessed by the famous and whatever praiseworthy qualities are found in the virtuous are destroyed by even a small…
SB 11.23.17 In the earning, attainment, increase, protection, expense, loss and enjoyment of wealth, all men experience great labor, fear, anxiety and…
SB 11.23.18-19 Theft, violence, speaking lies, duplicity, lust, anger, perplexity, pride, quarreling, enmity, faithlessness, envy and the dangers caused…
SB 11.23.20 Even a man’s brothers, wife, parents and friends united with him in love will immediately break off their affectionate relationships and…
SB 11.23.21 For even a small amount of money these relatives and friends become very agitated and their anger is inflamed. Acting as rivals, they…
SB 11.23.22 Those who obtain human life, which is prayed for even by the demigods, and in that human birth become situated as first-class brāhmaṇas,…
SB 11.23.23 What mortal man, having achieved this human life, which is the very gateway to both heaven and liberation, would willingly become attached…
SB 11.23.24 One who fails to distribute his wealth to the proper shareholders — the demigods, sages, forefathers and ordinary living entities, as well…
SB 11.23.25 Discriminating persons are able to utilize their money, youth and strength to achieve perfection. But I have feverishly squandered these…
SB 11.23.26 Why must an intelligent man suffer by his constant vain efforts to get wealth? Indeed, this whole world is most bewildered by someone’s…
SB 11.23.27 For one who is in the grips of death, what is the use of wealth or those who offer it, sense gratification or those who offer it, or, for…
SB 11.23.28 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Hari, who contains within Himself all the demigods, must be satisfied with me. Indeed, He has…
SB 11.23.29 If there is any time remaining in my life, I will perform austerities and force my body to subsist on the bare necessities. Without…
SB 11.23.30 Thus may the presiding demigods of these three worlds kindly show their mercy upon me. Indeed, Mahārāja Khaṭvāṅga was able to achieve the…
SB 11.23.31 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa continued: His mind thus determined, that most excellent Avantī brāhmaṇa was able to untie the knots of desire within his…
SB 11.23.32 He wandered about the earth, keeping his intelligence, senses and life air under control. To beg charity he traveled alone to various…
SB 11.23.33 O kind Uddhava, seeing him as an old, dirty beggar, rowdy persons would dishonor him with many insults.
SB 11.23.34 Some of these persons would take away his sannyāsī rod, and some the waterpot which he was using as a begging bowl. Some took his deerskin…
SB 11.23.35 When he was sitting on the bank of a river about to partake of the food that he had collected by his begging, such sinful rascals would…
SB 11.23.36 Although he had taken a vow of silence, they would try to make him speak, and if he did not speak they would beat him with sticks. Others…
SB 11.23.37 They would criticize and insult him, saying, “This man is just a hypocrite and a cheat. He makes a business of religion simply because he…
SB 11.23.38-39 Some would ridicule him by saying, “Just see this greatly powerful sage! He is as steadfast as the Himālaya Mountains. By practice of…
SB 11.23.40 The brāhmaṇa understood that all his suffering — from other living beings, from the higher forces of nature and from his own body — was…
SB 11.23.41 Even while being insulted by these low-class men who were trying to effect his downfall, he remained steady in his spiritual duties.…
SB 11.23.42 The brāhmaṇa said: These people are not the cause of my happiness and distress. Neither are the demigods, my own body, the planets, my…
SB 11.23.43 The powerful mind actuates the functions of the material modes, from which evolve the different kinds of material activities in the modes…
SB 11.23.44 Although present along with the struggling mind within the material body, the Supersoul is not endeavoring, because He is already endowed…
SB 11.23.45 Charity, prescribed duties, observance of major and minor regulative principles, hearing from scripture, pious works and purifying vows…
SB 11.23.46 If one’s mind is perfectly fixed and pacified, then tell me what need does one have to perform ritualistic charity and other pious…
SB 11.23.47 All the senses have been under the control of the mind since time immemorial, and the mind himself never comes under the sway of any…
SB 11.23.48 Failing to conquer this irrepressible enemy, the mind, whose urges are intolerable and who torments the heart, many people are completely…
SB 11.23.49 Persons who identify with this body, which is simply the product of the material mind, are blinded in their intelligence, thinking in…
SB 11.23.50 If you say that these people are the cause of my happiness and distress, then where is the place of the soul in such a conception? This…
SB 11.23.51 If you say that the demigods who rule the bodily senses cause suffering, still, how can such suffering apply to the spirit soul? This…
SB 11.23.52 If the soul himself were the cause of happiness and distress, then we could not blame others, since happiness and distress would be simply…
SB 11.23.53 And if we examine the hypothesis that the planets are the immediate cause of suffering and happiness, then also where is the relationship…
SB 11.23.54 If we assume that fruitive work is the cause of happiness and distress, we still are not dealing with the soul. The idea of material work…
SB 11.23.55 If we accept time as the cause of happiness and distress, that experience still cannot apply to the spirit soul, since time is a…
SB 11.23.56 The false ego gives shape to illusory material existence and thus experiences material happiness and distress. The spirit soul, however,…
SB 11.23.57 I shall cross over the insurmountable ocean of nescience by being firmly fixed in the service of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. This was…
SB 11.23.58 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: Thus becoming detached upon the loss of his property, this sage gave up his moroseness. He left home, taking…
SB 11.23.59 No other force besides his own mental confusion makes the soul experience happiness and distress. His perception of friends, neutral…
SB 11.23.60 My dear Uddhava, fixing your intelligence on Me, you should thus completely control the mind. This is the essence of the science of yoga.
SB 11.23.61 Anyone who listens to or recites to others this song of the sannyāsī, which presents scientific knowledge of the Absolute, and who thus…
SB 11.24.1 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: Now I shall describe to you the science of Sāṅkhya, which has been perfectly established by ancient authorities. By…
SB 11.24.2 Originally, during the Kṛta-yuga, when all men were very expert in spiritual discrimination, and also previous to that, during the period…
SB 11.24.3 That one Absolute Truth, remaining free from material dualities and inaccessible to ordinary speech and mind, divided Himself into two…
SB 11.24.4 Of these two categories of manifestation, one is material nature, which embodies both the subtle causes and manifest products of matter.…
SB 11.24.5 When material nature was agitated by My glance, the three material modes — goodness, passion and ignorance — became manifest to fulfill…
SB 11.24.6 From these modes arose the primeval sūtra, along with the mahat-tattva. By the transformation of the mahat-tattva was generated the false…
SB 11.24.7 False ego, which is the cause of physical sensation, the senses and the mind, encompasses both spirit and matter and manifests in three…
SB 11.24.8 From false ego in the mode of ignorance came the subtle physical perceptions, from which the gross elements were generated. From false ego…
SB 11.24.9 Impelled by Me, all these elements combined to function in an orderly fashion and together gave birth to the universal egg, which is My…
SB 11.24.10 I Myself appeared within that egg, which was floating on the causal water, and from My navel arose the universal lotus, the birthplace of…
SB 11.24.11 Lord Brahmā, the soul of the universe, being endowed with the mode of passion, performed great austerities by My mercy and thus created…
SB 11.24.12 Heaven was established as the residence of the demigods, Bhuvarloka as that of the ghostly spirits, and the earth system as the place of…
SB 11.24.13 Lord Brahmā created the region below the earth for the demons and the Nāga snakes. In this way the destinations of the three worlds were…
SB 11.24.14 By mystic yoga, great austerities and the renounced order of life, the pure destinations of Maharloka, Janoloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka…
SB 11.24.15 All results of fruitive work have been arranged within this world by Me, the supreme creator acting as the force of time. Thus one…
SB 11.24.16 Whatever features visibly exist within this world — small or great, thin or stout — certainly contain both the material nature and its…
SB 11.24.17 Gold and earth are originally existing as ingredients. From gold one may fashion golden ornaments such as bracelets and earrings, and from…
SB 11.24.18 A material object, itself composed of an essential ingredient, creates another material object through transformation. Thus one created…
SB 11.24.19 The material universe may be considered real, having nature as its original ingredient and final state. Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu is the resting…
SB 11.24.20 As long as the Supreme Personality of Godhead continues to glance upon nature, the material world continues to exist, perpetually…
SB 11.24.21 I am the basis of the universal form, which displays endless variety through the repeated creation, maintenance and destruction of the…
SB 11.24.22-27 At the time of annihilation, the mortal body of the living being becomes merged into food. Food merges into the grains, and the grains…
SB 11.24.28 Just as the rising sun removes the darkness of the sky, similarly, this scientific knowledge of cosmic annihilation removes all illusory…
SB 11.24.29 Thus I, the perfect seer of everything material and spiritual, have spoken this knowledge of Sāṅkhya, which destroys the illusion of doubt…
SB 11.25.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O best among men, please listen as I describe to you how the living entity attains a particular…
SB 11.25.2-5 Mind and sense control, tolerance, discrimination, sticking to one’s prescribed duty, truthfulness, mercy, careful study of the past and…
SB 11.25.6 My dear Uddhava, the combination of all three modes is present in the mentality of “I” and “mine.” The ordinary transactions of this…
SB 11.25.7 When a person devotes himself to religiosity, economic development and sense gratification, the faith, wealth and sensual enjoyment…
SB 11.25.8 When a man desires sense gratification, being attached to family life, and when he consequently becomes established in religious and…
SB 11.25.9 A person exhibiting qualities such as self-control is understood to be predominantly in the mode of goodness. Similarly, a passionate…
SB 11.25.10 Any person, whether man or woman, who worships Me with loving devotion, offering his or her prescribed duties unto Me without material…
SB 11.25.11 When a person worships Me by his prescribed duties with the hope of gaining material benefit, his nature should be understood to be in…
SB 11.25.12 The three modes of material nature — goodness, passion and ignorance — influence the living entity but not Me. Manifesting within his…
SB 11.25.13 When the mode of goodness, which is luminous, pure and auspicious, predominates over passion and ignorance, a man becomes endowed with…
SB 11.25.14 When the mode of passion, which causes attachment, separatism and activity, conquers ignorance and goodness, a man begins to work hard to…
SB 11.25.15 When the mode of ignorance conquers passion and goodness, it covers one’s consciousness and makes one foolish and dull. Falling into…
SB 11.25.16 When consciousness becomes clear and the senses are detached from matter, one experiences fearlessness within the material body and…
SB 11.25.17 You should discern the mode of passion by its symptoms — the distortion of the intelligence because of too much activity, the inability of…
SB 11.25.18 When one’s higher awareness fails and finally disappears and one is thus unable to concentrate his attention, his mind is ruined and…
SB 11.25.19 With the increase of the mode of goodness, the strength of the demigods similarly increases. When passion increases, the demoniac become…
SB 11.25.20 It should be understood that alert wakefulness comes from the mode of goodness, sleep with dreaming from the mode of passion, and deep,…
SB 11.25.21 Learned persons dedicated to Vedic culture are elevated by the mode of goodness to higher and higher positions. The mode of ignorance, on…
SB 11.25.22 Those who leave this world in the mode of goodness go to the heavenly planets, those who pass away in the mode of passion remain in the…
SB 11.25.23 Work performed as an offering to Me, without consideration of the fruit, is considered to be in the mode of goodness. Work performed with…
SB 11.25.24 Absolute knowledge is in the mode of goodness, knowledge based on duality is in the mode of passion, and foolish, materialistic knowledge…
SB 11.25.25 Residence in the forest is in the mode of goodness, residence in a town is in the mode of passion, residence in a gambling house displays…
SB 11.25.26 A worker free of attachment is in the mode of goodness, a worker blinded by personal desire is in the mode of passion, and a worker who…
SB 11.25.27 Faith directed toward spiritual life is in the mode of goodness, faith rooted in fruitive work is in the mode of passion, faith residing…
SB 11.25.28 Food that is wholesome, pure and obtained without difficulty is in the mode of goodness, food that gives immediate pleasure to the senses…
SB 11.25.29 Happiness derived from the self is in the mode of goodness, happiness based on sense gratification is in the mode of passion, and…
SB 11.25.30 Therefore material substance, place, result of activity, time, knowledge, work, the performer of work, faith, state of consciousness,…
SB 11.25.31 O best of human beings, all states of material being are related to the interaction of the enjoying soul and material nature. Whether…
SB 11.25.32 O gentle Uddhava, all these different phases of conditioned life arise from work born of the modes of material nature. The living entity…
SB 11.25.33 Therefore, having achieved this human form of life, which allows one to develop full knowledge, those who are intelligent should free…
SB 11.25.34 A wise sage, free from all material association and unbewildered, should subdue his senses and worship Me. He should conquer the modes of…
SB 11.25.35 Then, being fixed in devotional service, the sage should also conquer the material mode of goodness by indifference toward the modes. Thus…
SB 11.25.36 Freed from the subtle conditioning of the mind and from the modes of nature born of material consciousness, the living entity becomes…
SB 11.26.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Having achieved this human form of life, which affords one the opportunity to realize Me, and…
SB 11.26.2 A person fixed in transcendental knowledge is freed from conditioned life by giving up his false identification with the products of the…
SB 11.26.3 One should never associate with materialists, those dedicated to gratifying their genitals and bellies. By following them one falls into…
SB 11.26.4 The following song was sung by the famous emperor Purūravā. When deprived of his wife, Urvaśī, he was at first bewildered, but by…
SB 11.26.5 When she was leaving him, even though he was naked he ran after her just like a madman and called out in great distress, “O my wife, O…
SB 11.26.6 Although for many years Purūravā had enjoyed sex pleasure in the evening hours, still he was not satisfied by such insignificant…
SB 11.26.7 King Aila said: Alas, just see the extent of my delusion! This goddess was embracing me and held my neck in her grip. My heart was so…
SB 11.26.8 That lady cheated me so much that I did not even see the rising or setting of the sun. Alas, for so many years I passed my days in vain!
SB 11.26.9 Alas, although I am supposed to be a mighty emperor, the crown jewel of all kings on this earth, just see how my bewilderment has rendered…
SB 11.26.10 Although I was a powerful lord with great opulence, that woman gave me up as if I were no more than an insignificant blade of grass. And…
SB 11.26.11 Where are my so-called great influence, power and sovereignty? Just like an ass being kicked in the face by his she-ass, I ran after that…
SB 11.26.12 What is the use of a big education or the practice of austerities and renunciation, and what is the use of studying religious scriptures,…
SB 11.26.13 To hell with me! I am such a fool that I didn’t even know what was good for me, although I arrogantly thought I was highly intelligent.…
SB 11.26.14 Even after I had served the so-called nectar of the lips of Urvaśī for many years, my lusty desires kept rising again and again within my…
SB 11.26.15 Who but the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who lies beyond material perception and is the Lord of self-satisfied sages, can possibly save…
SB 11.26.16 Because I allowed my intelligence to become dull and because I failed to control my senses, the great confusion in my mind did not go…
SB 11.26.17 How can I blame her for my trouble when I myself am ignorant of my real, spiritual nature? I did not control my senses, and so I am like a…
SB 11.26.18 What is this polluted body anyway — so filthy and full of bad odors? I was attracted by the fragrance and beauty of a woman’s body, but…
SB 11.26.19-20 One can never decide whose property the body actually is. Does it belong to one’s parents, who have given birth to it, to one’s wife, who…
SB 11.26.21 What difference is there between ordinary worms and persons who try to enjoy this material body composed of skin, flesh, blood, muscle,…
SB 11.26.22 Yet even one who theoretically understands the actual nature of the body should never associate with women or with men attached to women.…
SB 11.26.23 Because the mind is not disturbed by that which is neither seen nor heard, the mind of a person who restricts the material senses will…
SB 11.26.24 Therefore one should never let his senses associate freely with women or with men attached to women. Even those who are highly learned…
SB 11.26.25 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Having thus chanted this song, Mahārāja Purūravā, eminent among the demigods and human beings,…
SB 11.26.26 An intelligent person should therefore reject all bad association and instead take up the association of saintly devotees, whose words cut…
SB 11.26.27 My devotees fix their minds on Me and do not depend upon anything material. They are always peaceful, endowed with equal vision, and free…
SB 11.26.28 O greatly fortunate Uddhava, in the association of such saintly devotees there is constant discussion of Me, and those partaking in this…
SB 11.26.29 Whoever hears, chants and respectfully takes to heart these topics about Me becomes faithfully dedicated to Me and thus achieves My…
SB 11.26.30 What more remains to be accomplished for the perfect devotee after achieving devotional service unto Me, the Supreme Absolute Truth, whose…
SB 11.26.31 Just as cold, fear and darkness are eradicated for one who has approached the sacrificial fire, so dullness, fear and ignorance are…
SB 11.26.32 The devotees of the Lord, peacefully fixed in absolute knowledge, are the ultimate shelter for those who are repeatedly rising and falling…
SB 11.26.33 Just as food is the life of all creatures, just as I am the ultimate shelter for the distressed, and just as religion is the wealth of…
SB 11.26.34 My devotees bestow divine eyes, whereas the sun allows only external sight, and that only when it is risen in the sky. My devotees are…
SB 11.26.35 Thus losing his desire to be on the same planet as Urvaśī, Mahārāja Purūravā began to wander the earth free of all material association…
SB 11.27.1 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord, O master of the devotees, please explain to me the prescribed method of worshiping You in Your Deity form.…
SB 11.27.2 All the great sages repeatedly declare that such worship brings the greatest benefit possible in human life. This is the opinion of Nārada…
SB 11.27.3-4 O most magnanimous Lord, the instructions on this process of Deity worship first emanated from Your lotus mouth. Then they were spoken by…
SB 11.27.5 O lotus-eyed one, O Supreme Lord of all lords of the universe, please explain to Your devoted servant this means of liberation from the…
SB 11.27.6 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, there is no end to the innumerable Vedic prescriptions for executing Deity…
SB 11.27.7 One should carefully worship Me by selecting one of the three methods by which I receive sacrifice: Vedic, tantric or mixed.
SB 11.27.8 Now please listen faithfully as I explain exactly how a person who has achieved twice-born status through the relevant Vedic prescriptions…
SB 11.27.9 A twice-born person should worship Me, his worshipable Lord, without duplicity, offering appropriate paraphernalia in loving devotion to…
SB 11.27.10 One should first purify his body by cleansing his teeth and bathing. Then one should perform a second cleansing by smearing the body with…
SB 11.27.11 Fixing the mind on Me, one should worship Me by his various prescribed duties, such as chanting the Gāyatrī mantra at the three junctures…
SB 11.27.12 The Deity form of the Lord is said to appear in eight varieties — stone, wood, metal, earth, paint, sand, the mind or jewels.
SB 11.27.13 The Deity form of the Lord, who is the shelter of all living entities, can be established in two ways: temporarily or permanently. But a…
SB 11.27.14 The Deity that is temporarily established can optionally be called forth and sent away, but these two rituals should always be performed…
SB 11.27.15 One should worship Me in My Deity forms by offering the most excellent paraphernalia. But a devotee completely freed from material desire…
SB 11.27.16-17 In worshiping the temple Deity, my dear Uddhava, bathing and decoration are the most pleasing offerings. For the Deity traced on sacred…
SB 11.27.18 Even very opulent presentations do not satisfy Me if they are offered by nondevotees. But I am pleased by any insignificant offering made…
SB 11.27.19 After cleansing himself and collecting all the paraphernalia, the worshiper should arrange his own seat with blades of kuśa grass whose…
SB 11.27.20 The devotee should sanctify the various parts of his body by touching them and chanting mantras. He should do the same for My Deity form,…
SB 11.27.21 Then, with the water of that prokṣaṇīya vessel he should sprinkle the area where the Deity is being worshiped, the offerings that are…
SB 11.27.22 The worshiper should then purify those three vessels. He should sanctify the vessel holding water for washing the Lord’s feet by chanting…
SB 11.27.23 The worshiper should meditate upon My subtle form — which is situated within the worshiper’s own body, now purified by air and fire — as…
SB 11.27.24 The devotee conceives of the Supersoul, whose presence surcharges the devotee’s body, in the form corresponding to his realization. Thus…
SB 11.27.25-26 The worshiper should first imagine My seat as decorated with the personified deities of religion, knowledge, renunciation and opulence and…
SB 11.27.27 One should worship, in order, the Lord’s Sudarśana disc, His Pāñcajanya conchshell, His club, sword, bow, arrows and plow, His muṣala…
SB 11.27.28 One should worship the Lord’s associates Nanda and Sunanda, Garuḍa, Pracaṇḍa and Caṇḍa, Mahābala and Bala, and Kumuda and Kumudekṣaṇa.
SB 11.27.29 With offerings such as prokṣaṇa one should worship Durgā, Vināyaka, Vyāsa, Viṣvaksena, the spiritual masters and the various demigods. All…
SB 11.27.30-31 The worshiper should bathe the Deity every day, as opulently as his assets permit, using waters scented with sandalwood, uśīra root,…
SB 11.27.32 My devotee should then lovingly decorate Me with clothing, a brāhmaṇa thread, various ornaments, marks of tilaka and garlands, and he…
SB 11.27.33 The worshiper should faithfully present Me with water for washing My feet and mouth, fragrant oils, flowers and unbroken grains, along…
SB 11.27.34 Within his means, the devotee should arrange to offer Me sugar candy, sweet rice, ghee, śaṣkulī [rice-flour cakes], āpūpa [various sweet…
SB 11.27.35 On special occasions, and daily if possible, the Deity should be massaged with ointment, shown a mirror, offered a eucalyptus stick for…
SB 11.27.36 In an arena constructed according to scriptural injunctions, the devotee should perform a fire sacrifice, utilizing the sacred belt, the…
SB 11.27.37 After spreading kuśa grass on the ground and sprinkling it with water, one should perform the anvādhāna ritual according to the prescribed…
SB 11.27.38-41 The intelligent devotee should meditate upon that form of the Lord whose color is like molten gold, whose four arms are resplendent with…
SB 11.27.42 Having thus worshiped the Lord in the sacrificial fire, the devotee should offer his obeisances to the Lord’s personal associates by…
SB 11.27.43 Once again he should offer the Deity water for washing His mouth, and he should give the remnants of the Lord’s food to Viṣvaksena. Then…
SB 11.27.44 Singing along with others, chanting loudly and dancing, acting out My transcendental pastimes, and hearing and telling stories about Me,…
SB 11.27.45 The devotee should offer homage to the Lord with all kinds of hymns and prayers, both from the Purāṇas and from other ancient scriptures,…
SB 11.27.46 Placing his head at the feet of the Deity, he should then stand with folded hands before the Lord and pray, “O my Lord, please protect me,…
SB 11.27.47 Praying in this way, the devotee should respectfully place upon his head the remnants I offer to him. And if the particular Deity is meant…
SB 11.27.48 Whenever one develops faith in Me — in My form as the Deity or in other bona fide manifestations — one should worship Me in that form. I…
SB 11.27.49 By worshiping Me through the various methods prescribed in the Vedas and tantras, one will gain from Me his desired perfection in both…
SB 11.27.50 The devotee should more fully establish My Deity by solidly constructing a temple, along with beautiful gardens. These gardens should be…
SB 11.27.51 One who offers the Deity gifts of land, markets, cities and villages so that the regular daily worship and special festivals of the Deity…
SB 11.27.52 By installing the Deity of the Lord one becomes king of the entire earth, by building a temple for the Lord one becomes ruler of the three…
SB 11.27.53 But one who simply engages in devotional service with no consideration of fruitive results attains Me. Thus whoever worships Me according…
SB 11.27.54 Anyone who steals the property of the demigods or the brāhmaṇas, whether originally given to them by himself or someone else, must live as…
SB 11.27.55 Not only the performer of the theft but also anyone who assists him, instigates the crime, or simply approves of it must also share the…
SB 11.28.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One should neither praise nor criticize the conditioned nature and activities of other persons.…
SB 11.28.2 Whoever indulges in praising or criticizing the qualities and behavior of others will quickly become deviated from his own best interest…
SB 11.28.3 Just as the embodied spirit soul loses external consciousness when his senses are overcome by the illusion of dreaming or the deathlike…
SB 11.28.4 That which is expressed by material words or meditated upon by the material mind is not ultimate truth. What, therefore, is actually good…
SB 11.28.5 Although shadows, echoes and mirages are only illusory reflections of real things, such reflections do cause a semblance of meaningful or…
SB 11.28.6-7 The Supersoul alone is the ultimate controller and creator of this world, and thus He alone is also the created. Similarly, the Soul of…
SB 11.28.8 One who has properly understood the process of becoming firmly fixed in theoretical and realized knowledge, as described herein by Me,…
SB 11.28.9 By direct perception, logical deduction, scriptural testimony and personal realization, one should know that this world has a beginning…
SB 11.28.10 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord, it is not possible for this material existence to be the experience of either the soul, who is the seer,…
SB 11.28.11 The spirit soul is inexhaustible, transcendental, pure, self-luminous and never covered by anything material. It is like fire. But the…
SB 11.28.12 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: As long as the foolish spirit soul remains attracted to the material body, senses and vital…
SB 11.28.13 Actually, the living entity is transcendental to material existence. But because of his mentality of lording it over material nature, his…
SB 11.28.14 Although while dreaming a person experiences many undesirable things, upon awakening he is no longer confused by the dream experiences.
SB 11.28.15 Lamentation, elation, fear, anger, greed, confusion and hankering, as well as birth and death, are experiences of the false ego and not of…
SB 11.28.16 The living entity who falsely identifies with his body, senses, life air and mind, and who dwells within these coverings, assumes the form…
SB 11.28.17 Although the false ego has no factual basis, it is perceived in many forms — as the functions of the mind, speech, life air and bodily…
SB 11.28.18 Real spiritual knowledge is based on the discrimination of spirit from matter, and it is cultivated by scriptural evidence, austerity,…
SB 11.28.19 Gold alone is present before its manufacture into gold products, the gold alone remains after the products’ destruction, and the gold…
SB 11.28.20 The material mind manifests in three phases of consciousness — wakefulness, sleep and deep sleep — which are products of the three modes…
SB 11.28.21 That which did not exist in the past and will not exist in the future also has no existence of its own for the period of its duration, but…
SB 11.28.22 Although thus not existing in reality, this manifestation of transformations created from the mode of passion appears real because the…
SB 11.28.23 Thus clearly understanding by discriminating logic the unique position of the Absolute Truth, one should expertly refute one’s…
SB 11.28.24 The material body made of earth is not the true self; nor are the senses, their presiding demigods or the air of life; nor is the external…
SB 11.28.25 For one who has properly realized My personal identity as the Supreme Godhead, what credit is there if his senses — mere products of the…
SB 11.28.26 The sky may display the various qualities of the air, fire, water and earth that pass through it, as well as such qualities as heat and…
SB 11.28.27 Nevertheless, until by firmly practicing devotional service to Me one has completely eliminated from his mind all contamination of…
SB 11.28.28 Just as an improperly treated disease recurs and gives repeated distress to the patient, the mind that is not completely purified of its…
SB 11.28.29 Sometimes the progress of imperfect transcendentalists is checked by attachment to family members, disciples or others, who are sent by…
SB 11.28.30 An ordinary living entity performs material work and is transformed by the reaction to such work. Thus he is driven by various desires to…
SB 11.28.31 The wise man, whose consciousness is fixed in the self, does not even notice his own bodily activities. While standing, sitting, walking,…
SB 11.28.32 Although a self-realized soul may sometimes see an impure object or activity, he does not accept it as real. By logically understanding…
SB 11.28.33 Material nescience, which expands into many varieties by the activities of the modes of nature, is wrongly accepted by the conditioned…
SB 11.28.34 When the sun rises it destroys the darkness covering men’s eyes, but it does not create the objects they then see before them, which in…
SB 11.28.35 The Supreme Lord is self-luminous, unborn and immeasurable. He is pure transcendental consciousness and perceives everything. One without…
SB 11.28.36 Whatever apparent duality is perceived in the self is simply the confusion of the mind. Indeed, such supposed duality has no basis to rest…
SB 11.28.37 The duality of the five material elements is perceived only in terms of names and forms. Those who say this duality is real are…
SB 11.28.38 The physical body of the endeavoring yogī who is not yet mature in his practice may sometimes be overcome by various disturbances.…
SB 11.28.39 Some of these obstructions may be counteracted by yogic meditation or by sitting postures, practiced together with concentration on…
SB 11.28.40 These inauspicious disturbances can be gradually removed by constant remembrance of Me, by congregational hearing and chanting of My holy…
SB 11.28.41 By various methods, some yogīs free the body from disease and old age and keep it perpetually youthful. Thus they engage in yoga for the…
SB 11.28.42 This mystic bodily perfection is not valued very highly by those expert in transcendental knowledge. Indeed, they consider endeavor for…
SB 11.28.43 Although the physical body may be improved by various processes of yoga, an intelligent person who has dedicated his life to Me does not…
SB 11.28.44 The yogī who has taken shelter of Me remains free from hankering because he experiences the happiness of the soul within. Thus while…
SB 11.29.1 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord Acyuta, I fear that the method of yoga described by You is very difficult for one who cannot control his…
SB 11.29.2 O lotus-eyed Lord, generally those yogīs who try to steady the mind experience frustration because of their inability to perfect the state…
SB 11.29.3 Therefore, O lotus-eyed Lord of the universe, swanlike men happily take shelter of Your lotus feet, the source of all transcendental…
SB 11.29.4 My dear infallible Lord, it is not very astonishing that You intimately approach Your servants who have taken exclusive shelter of You.…
SB 11.29.5 Who, then, could dare reject You, the very Soul, the most dear object of worship, and the Supreme Lord of all — You who give all possible…
SB 11.29.6 O my Lord! Transcendental poets and experts in spiritual science could not fully express their indebtedness to You, even if they were…
SB 11.29.8 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Yes, I shall describe to you the principles of devotion to Me, by executing which a mortal human…
SB 11.29.9 Always remembering Me, one should perform all his duties for Me without becoming impetuous. With mind and intelligence offered to Me, one…
SB 11.29.10 One should take shelter of holy places where My saintly devotees reside, and one should be guided by the exemplary activities of My…
SB 11.29.11 Either alone or in public gatherings, with singing, dancing and other exhibitions of royal opulence, one should arrange to celebrate those…
SB 11.29.12 With a pure heart one should see Me, the Supreme Soul within all beings and also within oneself, to be both unblemished by anything…
SB 11.29.13-14 O brilliant Uddhava, one who thus views all living entities with the idea that I am present within each of them, and who by taking shelter…
SB 11.29.15 For him who constantly meditates upon My presence within all persons, the bad tendencies of rivalry, envy and abusiveness, along with…
SB 11.29.16 Disregarding the ridicule of one’s companions, one should give up the bodily conception and its accompanying embarrassment. One should…
SB 11.29.17 Until one has fully developed the ability to see Me within all living beings, one must continue to worship Me by this process with the…
SB 11.29.18 By such transcendental knowledge of the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, one is able to see the Absolute Truth everywhere. Freed thus…
SB 11.29.19 Indeed, I consider this process — using one’s mind, words and bodily functions for realizing Me within all living beings — to be the best…
SB 11.29.20 My dear Uddhava, because I have personally established it, this process of devotional service unto Me is transcendental and free from any…
SB 11.29.21 O Uddhava, greatest of saints, in a dangerous situation an ordinary person cries, becomes fearful and laments, although such useless…
SB 11.29.22 This process is the supreme intelligence of the intelligent and the cleverness of the most clever, for by following it one can in this…
SB 11.29.23 Thus have I related to you — both in brief and in detail — a complete survey of the science of the Absolute Truth. Even for the demigods,…
SB 11.29.24 I have repeatedly spoken this knowledge to you with clear reasoning. Anyone who properly understands it will become free from all doubts…
SB 11.29.25 Anyone who fixes his attention on these clear answers to your questions will attain to the eternal, confidential goal of the Vedas — the…
SB 11.29.26 One who liberally disseminates this knowledge among My devotees is the bestower of the Absolute Truth, and to him I give My very own self.
SB 11.29.27 He who loudly recites this supreme knowledge, which is the most lucid and purifying, becomes purified day by day, for he reveals Me to…
SB 11.29.28 Anyone who regularly listens to this knowledge with faith and attention, all the while engaging in My pure devotional service, will never…
SB 11.29.29 My dear friend Uddhava, have you now completely understood this transcendental knowledge? Are the confusion and lamentation that arose in…
SB 11.29.30 You should not share this instruction with anyone who is hypocritical, atheistic or dishonest, or with anyone who will not listen…
SB 11.29.31 This knowledge should be taught to one who is free from these bad qualities, who is dedicated to the welfare of the brāhmaṇas, and who is…
SB 11.29.32 When an inquisitive person comes to understand this knowledge, he has nothing further to know. After all, one who has drunk the most…
SB 11.29.33 Through analytic knowledge, ritualistic work, mystic yoga, mundane business and political rule, people seek to advance in religiosity,…
SB 11.29.34 A person who gives up all fruitive activities and offers himself entirely unto Me, eagerly desiring to render service unto Me, achieves…
SB 11.29.41-44 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, take My order and go to My āśrama called Badarikā. Purify yourself by both…
SB 11.30.5 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O leaders of the Yadu dynasty, please note all these terrible omens that have appeared in Dvārakā…
SB 11.30.6 The women, children and old men should leave this city and go to Śaṅkhoddhāra. We shall go to Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where the river Sarasvatī…
SB 11.30.7 There we should bathe for purification, fast, and fix our minds in meditation. We should then worship the demigods by bathing their…
SB 11.30.8 After performing the expiatory rituals with the help of greatly fortunate brāhmaṇas, we will worship those brāhmaṇas by offering them…
SB 11.30.9 This is indeed the appropriate process for counteracting our imminent adversity, and it is sure to bring about the highest good fortune.…
SB 11.30.10 Having heard these words from Lord Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Madhu, the elders of the Yadu dynasty gave their assent, saying, “So be it.” After…
SB 11.30.11 There, with great devotion, the Yādavas performed the religious ceremonies according to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of…
SB 11.30.12 Then, their intelligence covered by Providence, they liberally indulged in drinking the sweet maireya beverage, which can completely…
SB 11.30.13 The heroes of the Yadu dynasty became intoxicated from their extravagant drinking and began to feel arrogant. When they were thus…
SB 11.30.14 Infuriated, they seized their bows and arrows, swords, bhallas, clubs, lances and spears and attacked one another on the shore of the ocean.
SB 11.30.15 Riding on elephants and chariots with flags flying, and also on donkeys, camels, bulls, buffalos, mules and even human beings, the…
SB 11.30.16 Their mutual enmity aroused, Pradyumna fought fiercely against Sāmba, Akrūra against Kuntibhoja, Aniruddha against Sātyaki, Subhadra…
SB 11.30.17 Others also, such as Niśaṭha, Ulmuka, Sahasrajit, Śatajit and Bhānu, confronted and killed one another, being blinded by intoxication and…
SB 11.30.18 Completely abandoning their natural friendship, the members of the various Yadu clans — the Dāśārhas, Vṛṣṇis and Andhakas, the Bhojas,…
SB 11.30.19 Thus bewildered, sons fought with fathers, brothers with brothers, nephews with paternal and maternal uncles, and grandsons with…
SB 11.30.20 When all their bows had been broken and their arrows and other missiles spent, they seized the tall stalks of cane with their bare hands.
SB 11.30.21 As soon as they took these cane stalks in their fists, the stalks changed into iron rods as hard as thunderbolts. With these weapons the…
SB 11.30.22 In their confused state, O King, they also mistook Lord Balarāma for an enemy. Weapons in hand, they ran toward Him with the intention of…
SB 11.30.23 O son of the Kurus, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma then became very angry. Picking up cane stalks, They moved about within the battle and began to…
SB 11.30.24 The violent anger of these warriors, who were overcome by the brāhmaṇas’ curse and bewildered by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s illusory potency, now led…
SB 11.30.25 When all the members of His own dynasty were thus destroyed, Lord Kṛṣṇa thought to Himself that at last the burden of the earth had been…
SB 11.30.26 Lord Balarāma then sat down on the shore of the ocean and fixed Himself in meditation upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Merging…
SB 11.30.27 Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī, having seen the departure of Lord Rāma, sat down silently on the ground under a nearby pippala tree.
SB 11.30.28-32 The Lord was exhibiting His brilliantly effulgent four-armed form, the radiance of which, just like a smokeless fire, dissipated the…
SB 11.30.33 Just then a hunter named Jarā, who had approached the place, mistook the Lord’s foot for a deer’s face. Thinking he had found his prey,…
SB 11.30.34 Then, seeing that four-armed personality, the hunter became terrified of the offense he had committed, and he fell down, placing his head…
SB 11.30.35 Jarā said: O Lord Madhusūdana, I am a most sinful person. I have committed this act out of ignorance. O purest Lord, O Uttamaḥśloka,…
SB 11.30.36 O Lord Viṣṇu, the learned say that for any man, constant remembrance of You will destroy the darkness of ignorance. O master, I have…
SB 11.30.37 Therefore, O Lord of Vaikuṇṭha, please kill this sinful hunter of animals immediately so he may not again commit such offenses against…
SB 11.30.38 Neither Brahmā nor his sons, headed by Rudra, nor any of the great sages who are masters of the Vedic mantras can understand the function…
SB 11.30.39 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Jarā, do not fear. Please get up. What has been done is actually My own desire. With My…
SB 11.30.40 So instructed by the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, who assumes His transcendental body by His own will, the hunter circumambulated the Lord three…
SB 11.30.41 At that time Dāruka was searching for his master, Kṛṣṇa. As he neared the place where the Lord was sitting, he perceived the aroma of…
SB 11.30.42 Upon seeing Lord Kṛṣṇa resting at the foot of a banyan tree, surrounded by His shining weapons, Dāruka could not control the affection he…
SB 11.30.43 Dāruka said: Just as on a moonless night people are merged into darkness and cannot find their way, now that I have lost sight of Your…
SB 11.30.44 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] O foremost of kings, while the chariot driver was still speaking, before his very eyes the Lord’s chariot…
SB 11.30.45 All the divine weapons of Viṣṇu rose up and followed the chariot. The Lord, Janārdana, then spoke to His chariot driver, who was most…
SB 11.30.46 O driver, go to Dvārakā and tell Our family members how their loved ones destroyed one another. Also tell them of the disappearance of…
SB 11.30.47 You and your relatives should not remain in Dvārakā, the capital of the Yadus, because once I have abandoned that city it will be…
SB 11.30.48 You should all take your own families, together with My parents, and under Arjuna’s protection go to Indraprastha.
SB 11.30.49 You, Dāruka, should be firmly situated in devotion to Me, remaining fixed in spiritual knowledge and unattached to material…
SB 11.30.50 Thus ordered, Dāruka circumambulated the Lord and offered obeisances to Him again and again. He placed Lord Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet upon his…
SB 12.9.2 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Mārkaṇḍeya, you are indeed the best of all learned brāhmaṇas. You have perfected your…
SB 12.9.3 We are perfectly satisfied with your practice of lifelong celibacy. Please choose whatever benediction you desire, since I can grant your…
SB 12.9.4 The sage said: O Lord of lords, all glories to You! O Lord Acyuta, You remove all distress for the devotees who surrender unto You. That…
SB 12.9.5 Such demigods as Lord Brahmā achieved their exalted positions simply by seeing Your beautiful lotus feet after their minds had become…
SB 12.9.6 O lotus-eyed Lord, O crest jewel of renowned personalities, although I am satisfied simply by seeing You, I do wish to see Your illusory…