Maitreya

1363 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

SB 3.5.18 Śrī Maitreya said: O Vidura, all glory unto you. You have inquired from me of the greatest of all goodness, and thus you have shown your…
SB 3.5.19 O Vidura, it is not at all wonderful that you have so accepted the Lord without deviation of thought, for you were born from the semen of…
SB 3.5.20 I know that you are now Vidura due to the cursing of Māṇḍavya Muni and that formerly you were King Yamarāja, the great controller of…
SB 3.5.21 Your good self is one of the eternal associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead for whose sake the Lord, while going back to His…
SB 3.5.22 I shall therefore describe to you the pastimes by which the Personality of Godhead extends His transcendental potency for the creation,…
SB 3.5.23 The Personality of Godhead, the master of all living entities, existed prior to the creation as one without a second. It is by His will…
SB 3.5.24 The Lord, the undisputed proprietor of everything, was the only seer. The cosmic manifestation was not present at that time, and thus He…
SB 3.5.25 The Lord is the seer, and the external energy, which is seen, works as both cause and effect in the cosmic manifestation. O greatly…
SB 3.5.26 The Supreme Living Being in His feature as the transcendental puruṣa incarnation, who is the Lord’s plenary expansion, impregnates the…
SB 3.5.27 Thereafter, influenced by the interactions of eternal time, the supreme sum total of matter, called the mahat-tattva, became manifested,…
SB 3.5.28 Thereafter the mahat-tattva differentiated itself into many different forms as the reservoir of the would-be entities. The mahat-tattva is…
SB 3.5.29 Mahat-tattva, or the great causal truth, transforms into false ego, which is manifested in three phases — cause, effect and the doer. All…
SB 3.5.30 The false ego is transformed into mind by interaction with the mode of goodness. All the demigods who control the phenomenal world are…
SB 3.5.31 The senses are certainly products of the mode of passion in false ego, and therefore philosophical speculative knowledge and fruitive…
SB 3.5.32 The sky is a product of sound, and sound is the transformation of egoistic ignorance. In other words, the sky is the symbolic…
SB 3.5.33 Thereafter the Personality of Godhead glanced over the sky, partly mixed with eternal time and external energy, and thus developed the…
SB 3.5.34 Thereafter the extremely powerful air, interacting with the sky, generated the form of sense perception, and the perception of form…
SB 3.5.35 When electricity was surcharged in the air and was glanced over by the Supreme, at that time, by a mixture of eternal time and external…
SB 3.5.36 Thereafter the water produced from electricity was glanced over by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and mixed with eternal time and…
SB 3.5.37 O gentle one, of all the physical elements, beginning from the sky down to the earth, all the inferior and superior qualities are due only…
SB 3.5.38 The controlling deities of all the above-mentioned physical elements are empowered expansions of Lord Viṣṇu. They are embodied by eternal…
SB 3.5.39 The demigods said: O Lord, Your lotus feet are like an umbrella for the surrendered souls, protecting them from all the miseries of…
SB 3.5.40 O Father, O Lord, O Personality of Godhead, the living entities in the material world can never have any happiness because they are…
SB 3.5.41 The lotus feet of the Lord are by themselves the shelter of all places of pilgrimage. The great clear-minded sages, carried by the wings…
SB 3.5.42 Simply by hearing about Your lotus feet with eagerness and devotion and by meditating upon them within the heart, one at once becomes…
SB 3.5.43 O Lord, You assume incarnations for the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation, and therefore we all take…
SB 3.5.44 O Lord, persons who are entangled by undesirable eagerness for the temporary body and kinsmen, and who are bound by thoughts of “mine” and…
SB 3.5.45 O great Supreme Lord, offensive persons whose internal vision has been too affected by external materialistic activities cannot see Your…
SB 3.5.46 O Lord, persons who, because of their serious attitude, attain the stage of enlightened devotional service achieve the complete meaning of…
SB 3.5.47 Others, who are pacified by means of transcendental self-realization and have conquered over the modes of nature by dint of strong power…
SB 3.5.48 O Original Person, we are therefore but Yours only. Although we are Your creatures, we are born one after another under the influence of…
SB 3.5.49 O unborn one, please enlighten us regarding the ways and means by which we can offer You all enjoyable grains and commodities so that both…
SB 3.5.50 You are the original personal founder of all the demigods and the orders of different gradations, yet You are the oldest and are…
SB 3.5.51 O Supreme Self, please give us, who are created in the beginning from the mahat-tattva, the total cosmic energy, Your kind directions on…
SB 3.6.1 The Ṛṣi Maitreya said: The Lord thus heard about the suspension of the progressive creative functions of the universe due to the…
SB 3.6.2 The Supreme Powerful Lord then simultaneously entered into the twenty-three elements with the goddess Kālī, His external energy, who alone…
SB 3.6.3 Thus when the Personality of Godhead entered into the elements by His energy, all the living entities were enlivened into different…
SB 3.6.4 When the twenty-three principal elements were set in action by the will of the Supreme, the gigantic universal form, or the viśvarūpa body…
SB 3.6.5 As the Lord, in His plenary portion, entered into the elements of the universal creation, they transformed into the gigantic form in which…
SB 3.6.6 The gigantic virāṭ-puruṣa, known as Hiraṇmaya, lived for one thousand celestial years on the water of the universe, and all the living…
SB 3.6.7 The total energy of the mahat-tattva, in the form of the gigantic virāṭ-rūpa, divided Himself by Himself into the consciousness of the…
SB 3.6.8 The gigantic universal form of the Supreme Lord is the first incarnation and plenary portion of the Supersoul. He is the Self of an…
SB 3.6.9 The gigantic universal form is represented by three, ten and one in the sense that He is the body and the mind and the senses, He is the…
SB 3.6.10 The Supreme Lord is the Supersoul of all the demigods entrusted with the task of constructing the cosmic manifestation. Being thus prayed…
SB 3.6.11 Maitreya said: You may now hear from me how the Supreme Lord separated Himself into the diverse forms of the demigods after the…
SB 3.6.12 Agni, or heat, separated from His mouth, and all the directors of material affairs entered into it in their respective positions. By that…
SB 3.6.13 When the palate of the gigantic form was separately manifested, Varuṇa, the director of water in the planetary systems, entered therein,…
SB 3.6.14 When the Lord’s two nostrils separately manifested themselves, the dual Aśvinī-kumāras entered them in their proper positions, and because…
SB 3.6.15 Thereafter, the two eyes of the gigantic form of the Lord were separately manifested. The sun, the director of light, entered them with…
SB 3.6.16 When there was a manifestation of skin separated from the gigantic form, Anila, the deity directing the wind, entered with partial touch,…
SB 3.6.17 When the ears of the gigantic form became manifested, all the controlling deities of the directions entered into them with the hearing…
SB 3.6.18 When there was a separate manifestation of skin, the controlling deities of sensations and their different parts entered into it, and thus…
SB 3.6.19 When the genitals of the gigantic form separately became manifest, then Prajāpati, the original living creature, entered into them with…
SB 3.6.20 The evacuating channel separately became manifest, and the director named Mitra entered into it with partial organs of evacuation. Thus…
SB 3.6.21 Thereafter, when the hands of the gigantic form separately became manifested, Indra, the ruler of the heavenly planets, entered into them,…
SB 3.6.22 Thereafter the legs of the gigantic form separately became manifest, and the demigod named Viṣṇu [not the Personality of Godhead] entered…
SB 3.6.23 When the intelligence of the gigantic form separately became manifest, Brahmā, the lord of the Vedas, entered into it with the partial…
SB 3.6.24 After that, the heart of the gigantic form separately manifested itself, and into it entered the moon demigod with partial mental…
SB 3.6.25 Thereafter the materialistic ego of the gigantic form separately manifested itself, and into it entered Rudra, the controller of false…
SB 3.6.26 Thereafter, when His consciousness separately manifested itself, the total energy, mahat-tattva, entered with His conscious part. Thus the…
SB 3.6.27 Thereafter, from the head of the gigantic form, the heavenly planets were manifested, and from His legs the earthly planets and from His…
SB 3.6.28 The demigods, qualified by the superexcellent quality of the mode of goodness, are situated in the heavenly planets, whereas the human…
SB 3.6.29 Living entities who are associates of Rudra develop in the third mode of material nature, or ignorance. They are situated in the sky…
SB 3.6.30 O chief of the Kuru dynasty, the Vedic wisdom became manifested from the mouth of the virāṭ, the gigantic form. Those who are inclined to…
SB 3.6.31 Thereafter the power of protection was generated from the arms of the gigantic virāṭ form, and in relation to such power the kṣatriyas…
SB 3.6.32 The means of livelihood of all persons, namely production of grains and their distribution to the prajās, was generated from the thighs of…
SB 3.6.33 Thereafter, service was manifested from the legs of the Personality of Godhead for the sake of perfecting the religious function. Situated…
SB 3.6.34 All these different social divisions are born, with their occupational duties and living conditions, from the Supreme Personality of…
SB 3.6.35 O Vidura, who can estimate or measure the transcendental time, work and potency of the gigantic form manifested by the internal potency of…
SB 3.6.36 In spite of my inability, whatever I have been able to hear [from the spiritual master] and whatever I could assimilate I am now…
SB 3.6.37 The highest perfectional gain of humanity is to engage in discussions of the activities and glories of the Pious Actor. Such activities…
SB 3.6.38 O my son, the original poet, Brahmā, after mature meditation for one thousand celestial years, could know only that the glories of the…
SB 3.6.39 The wonderful potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is bewildering even to the jugglers. That potency is unknown even to the…
SB 3.6.40 Words, mind and ego, with their respective controlling demigods, have failed to achieve success in knowing the Supreme Personality of…
SB 3.7.9 Śrī Maitreya said: Certain conditioned souls put forward the theory that the Supreme Brahman, or the Personality of Godhead, is overcome…
SB 3.7.10 The living entity is in distress regarding his self-identity. He has no factual background, like a man who dreams that he sees his head…
SB 3.7.11 As the moon reflected on water appears to the seer to tremble due to being associated with the quality of the water, so the self…
SB 3.7.12 But that misconception of self-identity can be diminished gradually by the mercy of the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, through the…
SB 3.7.13 When the senses are satisfied in the seer-Supersoul, the Personality of Godhead, and merge in Him, all miseries are completely vanquished,…
SB 3.7.14 Simply by chanting and hearing of the transcendental name, form, etc., of the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one can achieve the…
SB 3.9.26 The sage Maitreya said: O Vidura, after observing the source of his appearance, namely the Personality of Godhead, Brahmā prayed for His…
SB 3.9.27-28 The Lord saw that Brahmā was very anxious about the planning and construction of the different planetary systems and was depressed upon…
SB 3.9.44 The sage Maitreya said: After instructing Brahmā, the creator of the universe, to expand, the primeval Lord, the Personality of Godhead in…
SB 3.10.4 The greatly learned sage Maitreya said: O Vidura, Brahmā thus engaged himself in penances for one hundred celestial years, as advised by…
SB 3.10.5 Thereafter Brahmā saw that both the lotus on which he was situated and the water on which the lotus was growing were trembling due to a…
SB 3.10.6 Long penance and transcendental knowledge of self-realization had matured Brahmā in practical knowledge, and thus he drank the wind…
SB 3.10.7 Thereafter he saw that the lotus on which he was situated was spread throughout the universe, and he contemplated how to create all the…
SB 3.10.8 Thus engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Brahmā entered into the whorl of the lotus, and as it spread all…
SB 3.10.9 Lord Brahmā is the most exalted personality in the universe because of his causeless devotional service unto the Lord in mature…
SB 3.10.10 Vidura inquired from Maitreya: O my lord, O greatly learned sage, kindly describe eternal time, which is another form of the Supreme Lord,…
SB 3.10.11 Maitreya said: Eternal time is the primeval source of the interactions of the three modes of material nature. It is unchangeable and…
SB 3.10.12 This cosmic manifestation is separated from the Supreme Lord as material energy by means of kāla, which is the unmanifested, impersonal…
SB 3.10.13 This cosmic manifestation is as it is now, it was the same in the past, and it will continue in the same way in the future.
SB 3.10.14 There are nine different kinds of creations besides the one which naturally occurs due to the interactions of the modes. There are three…
SB 3.10.15 Of the nine creations, the first one is the creation of the mahat-tattva, or the sum total of the material ingredients, wherein the modes…
SB 3.10.16 The sense perceptions are created in the third creation, and from these the elements are generated. The fourth creation is the creation of…
SB 3.10.17 The fifth creation is that of the controlling deities by the interaction of the mode of goodness, of which the mind is the sum total. The…
SB 3.10.18 All the above are natural creations by the external energy of the Lord. Now hear from me about the creations by Brahmā, who is an…
SB 3.10.19 The seventh creation is that of the immovable entities, which are of six kinds: the fruit trees without flowers, trees and plants which…
SB 3.10.20 All the immovable trees and plants seek their subsistence upwards. They are almost unconscious but have feelings of pain within. They are…
SB 3.10.21 The eighth creation is that of the lower species of life, and they are of different varieties, numbering twenty-eight. They are all…
SB 3.10.22 O purest Vidura, of the lower animals the cow, goat, buffalo, kṛṣṇa stag, hog, gavaya animal, deer, lamb and camel all have cloven hooves.
SB 3.10.23 The horse, mule, ass, gaura, śarabha bison and wild cow all have only one hoof. Now you may hear from me about the animals who have five…
SB 3.10.24 The dog, jackal, tiger, fox, cat, rabbit, sajāru, lion, monkey, elephant, tortoise, alligator, gosāpa, etc., all have five nails in their…
SB 3.10.25 The heron, vulture, crane, hawk, bhāsa, bhallūka, peacock, swan, sārasa, cakravāka, crow, owl and others are the birds.
SB 3.10.26 The creation of the human beings, who are of one species only and who stock their eatables in the belly, is the ninth in the rotation. In…
SB 3.10.27 O good Vidura, these last three creations and the creation of demigods (the tenth creation) are vaikṛta creations, which are different…
SB 3.10.28-29 The creation of the demigods is of eight varieties: (1) the demigods, (2) the forefathers, (3) the asuras, or demons, (4) the Gandharvas…
SB 3.10.30 Now I shall describe the descendants of the Manus. The creator, Brahmā, as the incarnation of the passion mode of the Personality of…
SB 3.11.1 The material manifestation’s ultimate particle, which is indivisible and not formed into a body, is called the atom. It exists always as…
SB 3.11.2 Atoms are the ultimate state of the manifest universe. When they stay in their own forms without forming different bodies, they are called…
SB 3.11.3 One can estimate time by measuring the movement of the atomic combination of bodies. Time is the potency of the almighty Personality of…
SB 3.11.4 Atomic time is measured according to its covering a particular atomic space. That time which covers the unmanifest aggregate of atoms is…
SB 3.11.5 The division of gross time is calculated as follows: two atoms make one double atom, and three double atoms make one hexatom. This hexatom…
SB 3.11.6 The time duration needed for the integration of three trasareṇus is called a truṭi, and one hundred truṭis make one vedha. Three vedhas…
SB 3.11.7 The duration of time of three lavas is equal to one nimeṣa, the combination of three nimeṣas makes one kṣaṇa, five kṣaṇas combined…
SB 3.11.8 Fifteen laghus make one nāḍikā, which is also called a daṇḍa. Two daṇḍas make one muhūrta, and six or seven daṇḍas make one fourth of a…
SB 3.11.9 The measuring pot for one nāḍikā, or daṇḍa, can be prepared with a six-pala-weight [fourteen ounce] pot of copper, in which a hole is…
SB 3.11.10 It is calculated that there are four praharas, which are also called yāmas, in the day and four in the night of the human being.…
SB 3.11.11 The aggregate of two fortnights is one month, and that period is one complete day and night for the Pitā planets. Two of such months…
SB 3.11.12 Two solar movements make one day and night of the demigods, and that combination of day and night is one complete calendar year for the…
SB 3.11.13 Influential stars, planets, luminaries and atoms all over the universe are rotating in their respective orbits under the direction of the…
SB 3.11.14 There are five different names for the orbits of the sun, moon, stars and luminaries in the firmament, and they each have their own…
SB 3.11.15 O Vidura, the sun enlivens all living entities with his unlimited heat and light. He diminishes the duration of life of all living…
SB 3.11.18 Maitreya said: O Vidura, the four millenniums are called the Satya-, Tretā-, Dvāpara- and Kali-yuga. The aggregate number of years of all…
SB 3.11.19 The duration of the Satya millennium equals 4,800 years of the years of the demigods; the duration of the Tretā millennium equals 3,600…
SB 3.11.20 The transitional periods before and after every millennium, which are a few hundred years as aforementioned, are known as yuga-sandhyās,…
SB 3.11.21 O Vidura, in the Satya millennium mankind properly and completely maintained the principles of religion, but in other millenniums religion…
SB 3.11.22 Outside of the three planetary systems [Svarga, Martya and Pātāla], the four yugas multiplied by one thousand comprise one day on the…
SB 3.11.23 After the end of Brahmā’s night, the creation of the three worlds begins again in the daytime of Brahmā, and they continue to exist…
SB 3.11.24 Each and every Manu enjoys a life of a little more than seventy-one sets of four millenniums.
SB 3.11.25 After the dissolution of each and every Manu, the next Manu comes in order, along with his descendants, who rule over the different…
SB 3.11.26 In the creation, during Brahmā’s day, the three planetary systems — Svarga, Martya and Pātāla — revolve, and the inhabitants, including…
SB 3.11.27 In each and every change of Manu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears by manifesting His internal potency in different…
SB 3.11.28 At the end of the day, under the insignificant portion of the mode of darkness, the powerful manifestation of the universe merges in the…
SB 3.11.29 When the night of Brahmā ensues, all the three worlds are out of sight, and the sun and the moon are without glare, just as in the due…
SB 3.11.30 The devastation takes place due to the fire emanating from the mouth of Saṅkarṣaṇa, and thus great sages like Bhṛgu and other inhabitants…
SB 3.11.31 At the beginning of the devastation all the seas overflow, and hurricane winds blow very violently. Thus the waves of the seas become…
SB 3.11.32 The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, lies down in the water on the seat of Ananta, with His eyes closed, and the inhabitants of…
SB 3.11.33 Thus the process of the exhaustion of the duration of life exists for every one of the living beings, including Lord Brahmā. One’s life…
SB 3.11.34 The one hundred years of Brahmā’s life are divided into two parts, the first half and the second half. The first half of the duration of…
SB 3.11.35 In the beginning of the first half of Brahmā’s life, there was a millennium called Brāhma-kalpa, wherein Lord Brahmā appeared. The birth…
SB 3.11.36 The millennium which followed the first Brāhma millennium is known as the Pādma-kalpa because in that millennium the universal lotus…
SB 3.11.37 O descendant of Bharata, the first millennium in the second half of the life of Brahmā is also known as the Vārāha millennium because the…
SB 3.11.38 The duration of the two parts of Brahmā’s life, as above mentioned, is calculated to be equal to one nimeṣa [less than a second] for the…
SB 3.11.39 Eternal time is certainly the controller of different dimensions, from that of the atom up to the superdivisions of the duration of…
SB 3.11.40 This phenomenal material world is expanded to a diameter of four billion miles, as a combination of eight material elements transformed…
SB 3.11.41 The layers or elements covering the universes are each ten times thicker than the one before, and all the universes clustered together…
SB 3.11.42 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is therefore said to be the original cause of all causes. Thus the spiritual abode of Viṣṇu…
SB 3.12.1 Śrī Maitreya said: O learned Vidura, so far I have explained to you the glories of the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His…
SB 3.12.2 Brahmā first created the nescient engagements like self-deception, the sense of death, anger after frustration, the sense of false…
SB 3.12.3 Seeing such a misleading creation as a sinful task, Brahmā did not feel much pleasure in his activity, and therefore he purified himself…
SB 3.12.4 In the beginning, Brahmā created four great sages named Sanaka, Sananda, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra. All of them were unwilling to adopt…
SB 3.12.5 Brahmā spoke to his sons after generating them. “My dear sons,” he said, “now generate progeny.” But due to their being attached to…
SB 3.12.6 On the refusal of the sons to obey the order of their father, there was much anger generated in the mind of Brahmā, which he tried to…
SB 3.12.7 Although he tried to curb his anger, it came out from between his eyebrows, and a child mixed blue and red was immediately generated.
SB 3.12.8 After his birth he began to cry: O destiny maker, teacher of the universe, kindly designate my name and place.
SB 3.12.9 The all-powerful Brahmā, who was born from the lotus flower, pacified the boy with gentle words, accepting his request, and said: Do not…
SB 3.12.20 Śrī Maitreya said: Thus Rudra, having been ordered by Brahmā, circumambulated his father, the master of the Vedas. Addressing him with…
SB 3.12.21 Brahmā, who was empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, thought of generating living entities and begot ten sons for the…
SB 3.12.22 Marīci, Atri, Aṅgirā, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Bhṛgu, Vasiṣṭha, Dakṣa, and the tenth son, Nārada, were thus born.
SB 3.12.23 Nārada was born from the deliberation of Brahmā, which is the best part of the body. Vasiṣṭha was born from his breathing, Dakṣa from a…
SB 3.12.24 Pulastya was generated from the ears, Aṅgirā from the mouth, Atri from the eyes, Marīci from the mind and Pulaha from the navel of Brahmā.
SB 3.12.25 Religion was manifested from the breast of Brahmā, wherein is seated the Supreme Personality of Godhead Nārāyaṇa, and irreligion appeared…
SB 3.12.26 Lust and desire became manifested from the heart of Brahmā, anger from between his eyebrows, greed from between his lips, the power of…
SB 3.12.27 Sage Kardama, husband of the great Devahūti, was manifested from the shadow of Brahmā. Thus all became manifested from either the body or…
SB 3.12.28 O Vidura, we have heard that Brahmā had a daughter named Vāk who was born from his body and who attracted his mind toward sex, although…
SB 3.12.29 Thus, finding their father so deluded in an act of immorality, the sages headed by Marīci, all sons of Brahmā, spoke as follows with great…
SB 3.12.30 O father, this performance in which you are endeavoring to complicate yourself was never attempted by any other Brahmā, nor by anyone…
SB 3.12.31 Even though you are the most powerful being, this act does not suit you because your character is followed for spiritual improvement by…
SB 3.12.32 Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead, who, by His own effulgence, while situated in Himself, has…
SB 3.12.33 The father of all Prajāpatis, Brahmā, thus seeing all his Prajāpati sons speaking in that way, became very much ashamed and at once gave…
SB 3.12.34 Once upon a time, when Brahmā was thinking of how to create the worlds as in the past millennium, the four Vedas, which contain all…
SB 3.12.35 The four kinds of paraphernalia for conducting the fire sacrifice became manifest: the performer [the chanter], the offerer, the fire, and…
SB 3.12.37 Maitreya said: Beginning from the front face of Brahmā, gradually the four Vedas — Ṛk, Yajur, Sāma and Atharva — became manifest.…
SB 3.12.38 He also created the medical science, military art, musical art and architectural science, all from the Vedas. They all emanated one after…
SB 3.12.39 Then he created the fifth Veda — the Purāṇas and the histories — from all his mouths, since he could see all the past, present and future.
SB 3.12.40 All the different varieties of fire sacrifices [ṣoḍaśī, uktha, purīṣi, agniṣṭoma, āptoryāma, atirātra, vājapeya and gosava] became…
SB 3.12.41 Education, charity, penance and truth are said to be the four legs of religion, and to learn this there are four orders of life with…
SB 3.12.42 Then the thread ceremony for the twice-born was inaugurated, as were the rules to be followed for at least one year after acceptance of…
SB 3.12.43 The four divisions of retired life are the vaikhānasas, vālakhilyas, audumbaras and phenapas. The four divisions of the renounced order of…
SB 3.12.44 The science of logical argument, the Vedic goals of life, and also law and order, moral codes and the celebrated hymns bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ and…
SB 3.12.45 Thereafter the art of literary expression, uṣṇik, was generated from the hairs on the body of the almighty Prajāpati. The principal Vedic…
SB 3.12.46 The art of writing verse, paṅkti, became manifested from the bone marrow, and that of bṛhatī, another type of verse, was generated from…
SB 3.12.47 Brahmā’s soul was manifested as the touch alphabets, his body as the vowels, his senses as the sibilant alphabets, his strength as the…
SB 3.12.48 Brahmā is the personal representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the source of transcendental sound and is therefore above…
SB 3.12.49 Thereafter Brahmā accepted another body, in which sex life was not forbidden, and thus he engaged himself in the matter of further creation.
SB 3.12.50 O son of the Kurus, when Brahmā saw that in spite of the presence of sages of great potency there was no sufficient increase in…
SB 3.12.51 Brahmā thought to himself: Alas, it is wonderful that in spite of my being scattered all over, there is still insufficient population…
SB 3.12.52 While he was thus absorbed in contemplation and was observing the supernatural power, two other forms were generated from his body. They…
SB 3.12.53 The two newly separated bodies united together in a sexual relationship.
SB 3.12.54 Out of them, the one who had the male form became known as the Manu named Svāyambhuva, and the woman became known as Śatarūpā, the queen…
SB 3.12.55 Thereafter, by sex indulgence, they gradually increased generations of population one after another.
SB 3.12.56 O son of Bharata, in due course of time he [Manu] begot in Śatarūpā five children — two sons, Priyavrata and Uttānapāda, and three…
SB 3.12.57 The father, Manu, handed over his first daughter, Ākūti, to the sage Ruci, the middle daughter, Devahūti, to the sage Kardama, and the…
SB 3.13.16 Śrī Maitreya said: Thus, seeing the earth merged in the water, Brahmā gave his attention for a long time to how it could be lifted.
SB 3.13.17 Brahmā thought: While I have been engaged in the process of creation, the earth has been inundated by a deluge and has gone down into the…
SB 3.13.18 O sinless Vidura, all of a sudden, while Brahmā was engaged in thinking, a small form of a boar came out of his nostril. The measurement…
SB 3.13.19 O descendant of Bharata, while Brahmā was observing Him, that boar became situated in the sky in a wonderful manifestation as gigantic as…
SB 3.13.20 Struck with wonder at observing the wonderful boarlike form in the sky, Brahmā, with great brāhmaṇas like Marīci, as well as the Kumāras…
SB 3.13.21 Is this some extraordinary entity come in the pretense of a boar? It is very wonderful that He has come from my nose.
SB 3.13.22 First of all this boar was seen no bigger than the tip of a thumb, and within a moment He was as large as a stone. My mind is perturbed.…
SB 3.13.23 While Brahmā was deliberating with his sons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, roared tumultuously like a great mountain.
SB 3.13.24 The omnipotent Supreme Personality of Godhead enlivened Brahmā and the other highly elevated brāhmaṇas by again roaring with His uncommon…
SB 3.13.25 When the great sages and thinkers who are residents of Janaloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka heard the tumultuous voice of Lord Boar, which was…
SB 3.13.26 Playing like an elephant, He entered into the water after roaring again in reply to the Vedic prayers by the great devotees. The Lord is…
SB 3.13.27 Before entering the water to rescue the earth, Lord Boar flew in the sky, slashing His tail, His hard hairs quivering. His very glance was…
SB 3.13.28 He was personally the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu and was therefore transcendental, yet because He had the body of a hog, He searched after the…
SB 3.13.29 Diving into the water like a giant mountain, Lord Boar divided the middle of the ocean, and two high waves appeared as the arms of the…
SB 3.13.30 Lord Boar penetrated the water with His hooves, which were like sharp arrows, and found the limits of the ocean, although it was…
SB 3.13.31 Lord Boar very easily took the earth on His tusks and got it out of the water. Thus He appeared very splendid. Then, His anger glowing…
SB 3.13.32 Thereupon Lord Boar killed the demon within the water, just as a lion kills an elephant. The cheeks and tongue of the Lord became smeared…
SB 3.13.33 Then the Lord, playing like an elephant, suspended the earth on the edge of His curved white tusks. He assumed a bluish complexion like…
SB 3.13.34 All the sages uttered with great respect: O unconquerable enjoyer of all sacrifices, all glories and all victories unto You! You are…
SB 3.13.35 O Lord, Your form is worshipable by performances of sacrifice, but souls who are simply miscreants are unable to see it. All the Vedic…
SB 3.13.36 O Lord, Your tongue is a plate of sacrifice, Your nostril is another plate of sacrifice, in Your belly is the eating plate of sacrifice,…
SB 3.13.37 Moreover, O Lord, the repetition of Your appearance is the desire for all kinds of initiation. Your neck is the place for three desires,…
SB 3.13.38 O Lord, Your semen is the sacrifice called soma-yajña. Your growth is the ritualistic performances of the morning. Your skin and touch…
SB 3.13.39 O Lord, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are worshipable by universal prayers, Vedic hymns and sacrificial ingredients. We…
SB 3.13.40 O lifter of the earth, the earth with its mountains, which You have lifted with Your tusks, is situated as beautifully as a lotus flower…
SB 3.13.41 O Lord, as the peaks of great mountains become beautiful when decorated with clouds, Your transcendental body has become beautiful because…
SB 3.13.42 O Lord, for the residential purposes of all inhabitants, both moving and nonmoving, this earth is Your wife, and You are the supreme…
SB 3.13.43 Who else but You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, could deliver the earth from within the water? It is not very wonderful for You,…
SB 3.13.44 O Supreme Lord, undoubtedly we are inhabitants of the most pious planets — the Jana, Tapas and Satya lokas — but still we have been…
SB 3.13.45 O Lord, there is no limit to Your wonderful activities. Anyone who desires to know the limit of Your activities is certainly nonsensical.…
SB 3.13.46 The sage Maitreya said: The Lord, being thus worshiped by all the great sages and transcendentalists, touched the earth with His hooves…
SB 3.13.47 In this manner the Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, the maintainer of all living entities, raised the earth from within the water, and…
SB 3.13.48 If one hears and describes in a devotional service attitude this auspicious narration of Lord Boar, which is worthy of description, the…
SB 3.13.49 Nothing remains unachieved when the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased with someone. By transcendental achievement one understands…
SB 3.13.50 Who, other than one who is not a human being, can exist in this world and not be interested in the ultimate goal of life? Who can refuse…
SB 3.14.5 The great sage Maitreya said: O warrior, the inquiry made by you is just befitting a devotee because it concerns the incarnation of the…
SB 3.14.6 By hearing these topics from the sage [Nārada], the son of King Uttānapāda [Dhruva] was enlightened regarding the Personality of Godhead,…
SB 3.14.7 This history of the fight between the Lord as a boar and the demon Hiraṇyākṣa was heard by me in a year long ago as it was described by…
SB 3.14.8 Diti, daughter of Dakṣa, being afflicted with sex desire, begged her husband, Kaśyapa, the son of Marīci, to have intercourse with her in…
SB 3.14.9 The sun was setting, and the sage was sitting in trance after offering oblations to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, whose…
SB 3.14.10 In that place the beautiful Diti expressed her desire: O learned one, Cupid is taking his arrows and distressing me forcibly, as a mad…
SB 3.14.11 Therefore you should be kind towards me by showing me complete mercy. I desire to have sons, and I am much distressed by seeing the…
SB 3.14.12 A woman is honored in the world by the benediction of her husband, and a husband like you will become famous by having children because…
SB 3.14.13 In days long ago, our father, the most opulent Dakṣa, who was affectionate to his daughters, asked each of us separately whom we would…
SB 3.14.14 Our well-wishing father, Dakṣa, after knowing our intentions, handed over thirteen of his daughters unto you, and since then we have all…
SB 3.14.15 O lotus-eyed one, kindly bless me by fulfilling my desire. When someone in distress approaches a great person, his pleas should never go…
SB 3.14.16 O hero [Vidura], Diti, being thus afflicted by the contamination of lust, and therefore poor and talkative, was pacified by the son of…
SB 3.14.17 O afflicted one, I shall forthwith gratify whatever desire is dear to you, for who else but you is the source of the three perfections of…
SB 3.14.18 As one can cross over the ocean with seagoing vessels, one can cross the dangerous situation of the material ocean by living with a wife.
SB 3.14.19 O respectful one, a wife is so helpful that she is called the better half of a man’s body because of her sharing in all auspicious…
SB 3.14.20 As a fort commander very easily conquers invading plunderers, by taking shelter of a wife one can conquer the senses, which are…
SB 3.14.21 O queen of the home, we are not able to act like you, nor could we repay you for what you have done, even if we worked for our entire life…
SB 3.14.22 Even though it is not possible to repay you, I shall satisfy your sex desire immediately for the sake of begetting children. But you must…
SB 3.14.23 This particular time is most inauspicious because at this time the horrible-looking ghosts and constant companions of the lord of the…
SB 3.14.24 Lord Śiva, the king of the ghosts, sitting on the back of his bull carrier, travels at this time, accompanied by ghosts who follow him for…
SB 3.14.25 Lord Śiva’s body is reddish, and he is unstained, but he is covered with ashes. His hair is dusty from the whirlwind dust of the burning…
SB 3.14.26 Lord Śiva regards no one as his relative, yet there is no one who is not connected with him. He does not regard anyone as very favorable…
SB 3.14.27 Although no one in the material world is equal to or greater than Lord Śiva, and although his unimpeachable character is followed by great…
SB 3.14.28 Unfortunate, foolish persons, not knowing that he is engaged in his own self, laugh at him. Such foolish persons engage in maintaining the…
SB 3.14.29 Demigods like Brahmā also follow the religious rites observed by him. He is the controller of the material energy, which causes the…
SB 3.14.30 Maitreya said: Diti was thus informed by her husband, but she was pressed by Cupid for sexual satisfaction. She caught hold of the…
SB 3.14.31 Understanding his wife’s purpose, he was obliged to perform the forbidden act, and thus after offering his obeisances unto worshipable…
SB 3.14.32 Thereafter the brāhmaṇa took his bath in the water and controlled his speech by practicing trance, meditating on the eternal effulgence…
SB 3.14.33 O son of the Bharata family, Diti, after this, went nearer to her husband, her face lowered because of her faulty action. She spoke as…
SB 3.14.34 The beautiful Diti said: My dear brāhmaṇa, kindly see that my embryo is not killed by Lord Śiva, the lord of all living entities, because…
SB 3.14.35 Let me offer my obeisances unto the angry Lord Śiva, who is simultaneously the very ferocious great demigod and the fulfiller of all…
SB 3.14.36 Let him be pleased with us, since he is my brother-in-law, the husband of my sister Satī. He is also the worshipable lord of all women. He…
SB 3.14.37 Maitreya said: The great sage Kaśyapa thus addressed his wife, who was trembling because of fear that her husband was offended. She…
SB 3.14.38 The learned Kaśyapa said: Because of your mind’s being polluted, because of defilement of the particular time, because of your negligence…
SB 3.14.39 O haughty one, you will have two contemptuous sons born of your condemned womb. Unlucky woman, they will cause constant lamentation to all…
SB 3.14.40 They will kill poor, faultless living entities, torture women and enrage the great souls.
SB 3.14.41 At that time the Lord of the universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the well-wisher of all living entities, will descend and…
SB 3.14.42 Diti said: It is very good that my sons will be magnanimously killed by the arms of the Personality of Godhead with His Sudarśana weapon.…
SB 3.14.43 A person who is condemned by a brāhmaṇa or is always fearful to other living entities is not favored either by those who are already in…
SB 3.14.44-45 The learned Kaśyapa said: Because of your lamentation, penitence and proper deliberation, and also because of your unflinching faith in…
SB 3.14.46 In order to follow in his footsteps, saintly persons will try to emulate his character by practicing freedom from animosity, just as the…
SB 3.14.47 Everyone will be pleased with him because the Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller of the universe, is always satisfied with a…
SB 3.14.48 That topmost devotee of the Lord will have expanded intelligence and expanded influence and will be the greatest of the great souls. Due…
SB 3.14.49 He will be a virtuously qualified reservoir of all good qualities; he will be jolly and happy in others’ happiness, distressed in others’…
SB 3.14.50 Your grandson will be able to see, inside and outside, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose wife is the beautiful goddess of fortune.…
SB 3.14.51 The sage Maitreya said: Hearing that her grandson would be a great devotee and that her sons would be killed by Kṛṣṇa, Diti was highly…
SB 3.15.1 Śrī Maitreya said: My dear Vidura, Diti, the wife of the sage Kaśyapa, could understand that the sons within her womb would be a cause of…
SB 3.15.2 By the force of the pregnancy of Diti, the light of the sun and moon was impaired in all the planets, and the demigods of various planets,…
SB 3.15.3 The fortunate demigods said: O great one, just see this darkness, which you know very well and which is causing us anxieties. Because the…
SB 3.15.4 O god of the demigods, sustainer of the universe, head jewel of all the demigods in other planets, you know the intentions of all living…
SB 3.15.5 O original source of strength and scientific knowledge, all obeisances unto you! You have accepted the differentiated mode of passion from…
SB 3.15.6 O lord, all these planets exist within your self, and all the living entities are generated from you. Therefore you are the cause of this…
SB 3.15.7 There is no defeat in this material world for persons who control the mind and senses by controlling the breathing process and who are…
SB 3.15.8 All the living entities within the universe are conducted by the Vedic directions, as a bull is directed by the rope attached to its nose.…
SB 3.15.9 The demigods prayed to Brahmā: Please look upon us mercifully, for we have fallen into a miserable condition; because of the darkness, all…
SB 3.15.10 As fuel overloads a fire, so the embryo created by the semen of Kaśyapa in the womb of Diti has caused complete darkness throughout the…
SB 3.15.11 Śrī Maitreya said: Thus Lord Brahmā, who is understood by transcendental vibration, tried to satisfy the demigods, being pleased with…
SB 3.17.1 Śrī Maitreya said: The demigods, the inhabitants of the higher planets, were freed from all fear upon hearing the cause of the darkness…
SB 3.17.2 The virtuous lady Diti had been very apprehensive of trouble to the gods from the children in her womb, and her husband predicted the…
SB 3.17.3 On the birth of the two demons there were many natural disturbances, all very fearful and wonderful, in the heavenly planets, the earthly…
SB 3.17.4 There were earthquakes along the mountains on the earth, and it appeared that there was fire everywhere. Many inauspicious planets like…
SB 3.17.5 There blew winds which were most uninviting to the touch, hissing again and again and uprooting gigantic trees. They had storms for their…
SB 3.17.6 The luminaries in the heavens were screened by masses of clouds, in which lightning sometimes flashed as though laughing. Darkness reigned…
SB 3.17.7 The ocean with its high waves wailed aloud as if stricken with sorrow, and there was a commotion among the creatures inhabiting the ocean.…
SB 3.17.8 Misty halos appeared around the sun and the moon during solar and lunar eclipses again and again. Claps of thunder were heard even without…
SB 3.17.9 In the interior of the villages she-jackals yelled portentously, vomiting strong fire from their mouths, and jackals and owls also joined…
SB 3.17.10 Raising their necks, dogs cried here and there, now in the manner of singing and now of wailing.
SB 3.17.11 O Vidura, the asses ran hither and thither in herds, striking the earth with their hard hooves and wildly braying.
SB 3.17.12 Frightened by the braying of the asses, birds flew shrieking from their nests, while cattle in the cowsheds as well as in the woods passed…
SB 3.17.13 Cows, terrified, yielded blood in place of milk, clouds rained pus, the images of the gods in the temples shed tears, and trees fell down…
SB 3.17.14 Ominous planets such as Mars and Saturn shone brighter and surpassed the auspicious ones such as Mercury, Jupiter and Venus as well as a…
SB 3.17.15 Marking these and many other omens of evil times, everyone but the four sage sons of Brahmā, who were aware of the fall of Jaya and Vijaya…
SB 3.17.16 These two demons who appeared in ancient times soon began to exhibit uncommon bodily features; they had steel-like frames which began to…
SB 3.17.17 Their bodies became so tall that they seemed to kiss the sky with the crests of their gold crowns. They blocked the view of all directions…
SB 3.17.18 Prajāpati Kaśyapa, the creator of the living entities, gave his twin sons their names; the one who was born first he named Hiraṇyākṣa, and…
SB 3.17.19 The elder child, Hiraṇyakaśipu, was unafraid of death from anyone within the three worlds because he received a benediction from Lord…
SB 3.17.20 His younger brother, Hiraṇyākṣa, was always ready to satisfy his elder brother by his activities. Hiraṇyākṣa took a club on his shoulder…
SB 3.17.21 Hiraṇyākṣa’s temper was difficult to control. He had anklets of gold tinkling about his feet, he was adorned with a gigantic garland, and…
SB 3.17.22 His mental and bodily strength as well as the boon conferred upon him had made him proud. He feared death at the hands of no one, and…
SB 3.17.23 On not finding Indra and the other demigods, who had previously been intoxicated with power, the chief of the Daityas, seeing that they…
SB 3.17.24 After returning from the heavenly kingdom, the mighty demon, who was like an elephant in wrath, for the sake of sport dived into the deep…
SB 3.17.25 On his entering the ocean, the aquatic animals who formed the host of Varuṇa were stricken with fear and ran far away. Thus Hiraṇyākṣa…
SB 3.17.26 Moving about in the ocean for many, many years, the mighty Hiraṇyākṣa smote the gigantic wind-tossed waves again and again with his iron…
SB 3.17.27 Vibhāvarī is the home of Varuṇa, lord of the aquatic creatures and guardian of the lower regions of the universe, where the demons…
SB 3.17.28 You are the guardian of an entire sphere and a ruler of wide fame. Having crushed the might of arrogant and conceited warriors and having…
SB 3.17.29 Thus mocked by an enemy whose vanity knew no bounds, the worshipful lord of the waters waxed angry, but by dint of his reason he managed…
SB 3.17.30 You are so skilled in war that I do not see anyone else but the most ancient person, Lord Viṣṇu, who can give satisfaction in battle to…
SB 3.17.31 Varuṇa continued: On reaching Him you will be rid of your pride at once and will lie down on the field of battle, surrounded by dogs, for…
SB 3.18.1 Maitreya continued: The proud and falsely glorious Daitya paid little heed to the words of Varuṇa. O dear Vidura, he learned from Nārada…
SB 3.18.2 He saw there the all-powerful Personality of Godhead in His boar incarnation, bearing the earth upward on the ends of His tusks and…
SB 3.18.3 The demon addressed the Lord: O best of the demigods, dressed in the form of a boar, just hear me. This earth is entrusted to us, the…
SB 3.18.4 You rascal, You have been nourished by our enemies to kill us, and You have killed some demons by remaining invisible. O fool, Your power…
SB 3.18.5 The demon continued: When You fall dead with Your skull smashed by the mace hurled by my arms, the demigods and sages who offer You…
SB 3.18.6 Although the Lord was pained by the shaftlike abusive words of the demon, He bore the pain. But seeing that the earth on the ends of His…
SB 3.18.7 The demon, who had golden hair on his head and fearful tusks, gave chase to the Lord while He was rising from the water, even as an…
SB 3.18.8 The Lord placed the earth within His sight on the surface of the water and transferred to her His own energy in the form of the ability to…
SB 3.18.9 The demon, who had a wealth of ornaments, bangles and beautiful golden armor on his body, chased the Lord from behind with a great mace.…
SB 3.18.13 Śrī Maitreya said: The demon, being thus challenged by the Personality of Godhead, became angry and agitated, and he trembled in anger…
SB 3.18.14 Hissing indignantly, all his senses shaken by wrath, the demon quickly sprang upon the Lord and dealt Him a blow with his powerful mace.
SB 3.18.15 The Lord, however, by moving slightly aside, dodged the violent mace-blow aimed at His breast by the enemy, just as an accomplished yogī…
SB 3.18.16 The Personality of Godhead now exhibited His anger and rushed to meet the demon, who bit his lip in rage, took up his mace again and began…
SB 3.18.17 Then with His mace the Lord struck the enemy on the right of his brow, but since the demon was expert in fighting, O gentle Vidura, he…
SB 3.18.18 In this way, the demon Haryakṣa and the Lord, the Personality of Godhead, struck each other with their huge maces, each enraged and…
SB 3.18.19 There was keen rivalry between the two combatants; both had sustained injuries on their bodies from the blows of each other’s pointed…
SB 3.18.20 O descendant of Kuru, Brahmā, the most independent demigod of the universe, accompanied by his followers, came to see the terrible fight…
SB 3.18.21 After arriving at the place of combat, Brahmā, the leader of thousands of sages and transcendentalists, saw the demon, who had attained…
SB 3.19.1 Śrī Maitreya said: After hearing the words of Brahmā, the creator, which were free from all sinful purposes and as sweet as nectar, the…
SB 3.19.2 The Lord, who had appeared from the nostril of Brahmā, sprang and aimed His mace at the chin of His enemy, the Hiraṇyākṣa demon, who was…
SB 3.19.3 Struck by the demon’s mace, however, the Lord’s mace slipped from His hand and looked splendid as it fell down whirling. This was…
SB 3.19.4 Even though the demon had an excellent opportunity to strike his unarmed foe without obstruction, he respected the law of single combat,…
SB 3.19.5 As the Lord’s mace fell to the ground and a cry of alarm arose from the witnessing crowd of gods and ṛṣis, the Personality of Godhead…
SB 3.19.6 As the discus began to revolve in the Lord’s hands and the Lord contended at close quarters with the chief of His Vaikuṇṭha attendants,…
SB 3.19.7 When the demon saw the Personality of Godhead, who had eyes just like lotus petals, standing in position before him, armed with His…
SB 3.19.8 The demon, who had fearful tusks, stared at the Personality of Godhead as though to burn Him. Springing into the air, he aimed his mace at…
SB 3.19.9 O saintly Vidura, while His enemy looked on, the Lord in His boar form, the enjoyer of all sacrificial offerings, playfully knocked down…
SB 3.20.12 Maitreya said: When the equilibrium of the combination of the three modes of nature was agitated by the unseen activity of the living…
SB 3.20.13 As impelled by the destiny of the jīva, the false ego, which is of three kinds, evolved from the mahat-tattva, in which the element of…
SB 3.20.14 Separately unable to produce the material universe, they combined with the help of the energy of the Supreme Lord and were able to produce…
SB 3.20.15 For over one thousand years the shiny egg lay on the waters of the Causal Ocean in the lifeless state. Then the Lord entered it as…
SB 3.20.16 From the navel of the Personality of Godhead Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu sprouted a lotus flower effulgent like a thousand blazing suns. This…
SB 3.20.17 When that Supreme Personality of Godhead who is lying on the Garbhodaka Ocean entered the heart of Brahmā, Brahmā brought his intelligence…
SB 3.20.18 First of all, Brahmā created from his shadow the coverings of ignorance of the conditioned souls. They are five in number and are called…
SB 3.20.19 Out of disgust, Brahmā threw off the body of ignorance, and taking this opportunity, Yakṣas and Rākṣasas sprang for possession of the…
SB 3.20.20 Overpowered by hunger and thirst, they ran to devour Brahmā from all sides and cried, “Spare him not! Eat him up!”
SB 3.20.21 Brahmā, the head of the demigods, full of anxiety, asked them, “Do not eat me, but protect me. You are born from me and have become my…
SB 3.20.22 He then created the chief demigods, who were shining with the glory of goodness. He dropped before them the effulgent form of daytime, and…
SB 3.20.23 Lord Brahmā then gave birth to the demons from his buttocks, and they were very fond of sex. Because they were too lustful, they…
SB 3.20.24 The worshipful Brahmā first laughed at their stupidity, but finding the shameless asuras close upon him, he grew indignant and ran in…
SB 3.20.25 He approached the Personality of Godhead, who bestows all boons and who dispels the agony of His devotees and of those who take shelter of…
SB 3.20.26 Lord Brahmā, approaching the Lord, addressed Him thus: My Lord, please protect me from these sinful demons, who were created by me under…
SB 3.20.27 My Lord, You are the only one capable of ending the affliction of the distressed and inflicting agony on those who never resort to Your…
SB 3.20.28 The Lord, who can distinctly see the minds of others, perceived Brahmā’s distress and said to him: “Cast off this impure body of yours.”…
SB 3.20.29 The body given up by Brahmā took the form of the evening twilight, when the day and night meet, a time which kindles passion. The asuras,…
SB 3.20.30 Her breasts projected upward because of their clinging to each other, and they were too contiguous to admit any intervening space. She had…
SB 3.20.31 Adorned with dark tresses, she hid herself, as it were, out of shyness. Upon seeing that girl, the asuras were all infatuated with an…
SB 3.20.32 The demons praised her: Oh, what a beauty! What rare self-control! What a budding youth! In the midst of us all, who are passionately…
SB 3.20.33 Indulging in various speculations about the evening twilight, which appeared to them endowed with the form of a young woman, the…
SB 3.20.34 Who are you, O pretty girl? Whose wife or daughter are you, and what can be the object of your appearing before us? Why do you tantalize…
SB 3.20.35 Whosoever you may be, O beautiful girl, we are fortunate in being able to see you. While playing with a ball, you have agitated the minds…
SB 3.20.36 O beautiful woman, when you strike the bouncing ball against the ground with your hand again and again, your lotus feet do not stay in one…
SB 3.20.37 The asuras, clouded in their understanding, took the evening twilight to be a beautiful woman showing herself in her alluring form, and…
SB 3.20.38 With a laugh full of deep significance, the worshipful Brahmā then evolved by his own loveliness, which seemed to enjoy itself by itself,…
SB 3.20.39 After that, Brahmā gave up that shining and beloved form of moonlight. Viśvāvasu and other Gandharvas gladly took possession of it.
SB 3.20.40 The glorious Brahmā next evolved from his sloth the ghosts and fiends, but he closed his eyes when he saw them stand naked with their hair…
SB 3.20.41 The ghosts and hobgoblins took possession of the body thrown off in the form of yawning by Brahmā, the creator of the living entities.…
SB 3.20.42 Recognizing himself to be full of desire and energy, the worshipful Brahmā, the creator of the living entities, evolved from his own…
SB 3.20.43 The Pitās themselves took possession of the invisible body, the source of their existence. It is through the medium of this invisible body…
SB 3.20.44 Then Lord Brahmā, by his ability to be hidden from vision, created the Siddhas and Vidyādharas and gave them that wonderful form of his…
SB 3.20.45 One day, Brahmā, the creator of the living entities, beheld his own reflection in the water, and admiring himself, he evolved Kimpuruṣas…
SB 3.20.46 The Kimpuruṣas and Kinnaras took possession of that shadowy form left by Brahmā. That is why they and their spouses sing his praises by…
SB 3.20.47 Once Brahmā lay down with his body stretched at full length. He was very concerned that the work of creation had not proceeded apace, and…
SB 3.20.48 O dear Vidura, the hair that dropped from that body transformed into snakes, and even while the body crawled along with its hands and feet…
SB 3.20.49 One day Brahmā, the self-born, the first living creature, felt as if the object of his life had been accomplished. At that time he evolved…
SB 3.20.50 The self-possessed creator gave them his own human form. On seeing the Manus, those who had been created earlier — the demigods, the…
SB 3.20.51 They prayed: O creator of the universe, we are glad; what you have produced is well done. Since ritualistic acts have now been established…
SB 3.20.52 Having equipped himself with austere penance, adoration, mental concentration and absorption in devotion, accompanied by dispassion, and…
SB 3.20.53 To each one of these sons the unborn creator of the universe gave a part of his own body, which was characterized by deep meditation,…
SB 3.22.1 Śrī Maitreya said: After describing the greatness of the Emperor’s manifold qualities and activities, the sage became silent, and the…
SB 3.22.2 Manu replied: To expand himself in Vedic knowledge, Lord Brahmā, the personified Veda, from his face created you, the brāhmaṇas, who are…
SB 3.22.3 For the protection of the brāhmaṇas, the thousand-legged Supreme Being created us, the kṣatriyas, from His thousand arms. Hence the…
SB 3.22.4 That is why the brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas protect each other, as well as themselves; and the Lord Himself, who is both the cause and effect…
SB 3.22.5 Now I have resolved all my doubts simply by meeting you, for Your Lordship has very kindly and clearly explained the duty of a king who…
SB 3.22.6 It is my good fortune that I have been able to see you, for you cannot easily be seen by persons who have not subdued the mind or…
SB 3.22.7 I have fortunately been instructed by you, and thus great favor has been bestowed upon me. I thank God that I have listened with open ears…
SB 3.22.8 O great sage, graciously be pleased to listen to the prayer of my humble self, for my mind is troubled by affection for my daughter.
SB 3.22.9 My daughter is the sister of Priyavrata and Uttānapāda. She is seeking a suitable husband in terms of age, character and good qualities.
SB 3.22.10 The moment she heard from the sage Nārada of your noble character, learning, beautiful appearance, youth and other virtues, she fixed her…
SB 3.22.11 Therefore please accept her, O chief of the brāhmaṇas, for I offer her with faith and she is in every respect fit to be your wife and take…
SB 3.22.12 To deny an offering that has come of itself is not commendable even for one absolutely free from all attachment, much less one addicted to…
SB 3.22.13 One who rejects an offering that comes of its own accord but later begs a boon from a miser thus loses his widespread reputation, and his…
SB 3.22.14 Svāyambhuva Manu continued: O wise man, I heard that you were prepared to marry. Please accept her hand, which is being offered to you by…
SB 3.22.15 The great sage replied: Certainly I have a desire to marry, and your daughter has not yet married or given her word to anyone. Therefore…
SB 3.22.16 Let your daughter’s desire for marriage, which is recognized in the Vedic scriptures, be fulfilled. Who would not accept her hand? She is…
SB 3.22.17 I have heard that Viśvāvasu, the great Gandharva, his mind stupefied with infatuation, fell from his airplane after seeing your daughter…
SB 3.22.18 What wise man would not welcome her, the very ornament of womanhood, the beloved daughter of Svāyambhuva Manu and sister of Uttānapāda?…
SB 3.22.19 Therefore I shall accept this chaste girl as my wife, on the condition that after she bears semen from my body, I shall accept the life of…
SB 3.22.20 The highest authority for me is the unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whom this wonderful creation emanates and in whom its…
SB 3.22.21 Śrī Maitreya said: O great warrior Vidura, the sage Kardama said this much only and then became silent, thinking of his worshipable Lord…
SB 3.22.22 After having unmistakably known the decision of the Queen, as well as that of Devahūti, the Emperor most gladly gave his daughter to the…
SB 3.22.23 Empress Śatarūpā lovingly gave most valuable presents, suitable for the occasion, such as jewelry, clothes and household articles, in…
SB 3.22.24 Thus relieved of his responsibility by handing over his daughter to a suitable man, Svāyambhuva Manu, his mind agitated by feelings of…
SB 3.22.25 The Emperor was unable to bear the separation of his daughter. Therefore tears poured from his eyes again and again, drenching his…
SB 3.22.26-27 After asking and obtaining the great sage’s permission to leave, the monarch mounted his chariot with his wife and started for his…
SB 3.22.28 Overjoyed to know of his arrival, his subjects came forth from Brahmāvarta to greet their returning lord with songs, prayers and musical…
SB 3.22.29-30 The city of Barhiṣmatī, rich in all kinds of wealth, was so called because Lord Viṣṇu’s hair dropped there from His body when He…
SB 3.22.31 Manu spread a seat of kuśas and kāśas and worshiped the Lord, the Personality of Godhead, by whose grace he had obtained the rule of the…
SB 3.22.32 Having entered the city of Barhiṣmatī, in which he had previously lived, Manu entered his palace, which was filled with an atmosphere that…
SB 3.22.33 Emperor Svāyambhuva Manu enjoyed life with his wife and subjects and fulfilled his desires without being disturbed by unwanted principles…
SB 3.22.34 Thus Svāyambhuva Manu was a saintly king. Although absorbed in material happiness, he was not dragged to the lowest grade of life, for he…
SB 3.22.35 Consequently, although his duration of life gradually came to an end, his long life, consisting of a Manvantara era, was not spent in…
SB 3.22.36 He passed his time, which lasted seventy-one cycles of the four ages [71 × 4,320,000 years], always thinking of Vāsudeva and always…
SB 3.22.37 Therefore, O Vidura, how can persons completely under the shelter of Lord Kṛṣṇa in devotional service be put into miseries pertaining to…
SB 3.22.38 In reply to questions asked by certain sages, he [Svāyambhuva Manu], out of compassion for all living entities, taught the diverse sacred…
SB 3.22.39 I have spoken to you of the wonderful character of Svāyambhuva Manu, the original king, whose reputation is worthy of description. Please…
SB 3.23.1 Maitreya continued: After the departure of her parents, the chaste woman Devahūti, who could understand the desires of her husband, served…
SB 3.23.2 O Vidura, Devahūti served her husband with intimacy and great respect, with control of the senses, with love and with sweet words.
SB 3.23.3 Working sanely and diligently, she pleased her very powerful husband, giving up all lust, pride, envy, greed, sinful activities and vanity.
SB 3.23.4-5 The daughter of Manu, who was fully devoted to her husband, looked upon him as greater even than providence. Thus she expected great…
SB 3.23.6 Kardama Muni said: O respectful daughter of Svāyambhuva Manu, today I am very much pleased with you for your great devotion and most…
SB 3.23.7 Kardama Muni continued: I have achieved the blessings of the Lord in discharging my own religious life of austerity, meditation and Kṛṣṇa…
SB 3.23.8 Kardama Muni continued: What is the use of enjoyments other than the Lord’s grace? All material achievements are subject to be annihilated…
SB 3.23.9 Upon hearing the speaking of her husband, who excelled in knowledge of all kinds of transcendental science, innocent Devahūti was very…
SB 3.23.10 Śrī Devahūti said: My dear husband, O best of brāhmaṇas, I know that you have achieved perfection and are the master of all the infallible…
SB 3.23.11 Devahūti continued: My dear lord, I am struck by excited emotion for you. Therefore kindly make what arrangements must be made according…
SB 3.23.12 Maitreya continued: O Vidura, seeking to please his beloved wife, the sage Kardama exercised his yogic power and instantly produced an…
SB 3.23.13 It was a wonderful structure, bedecked with all sorts of jewels, adorned with pillars of precious stones, and capable of yielding whatever…
SB 3.23.14-15 The castle was fully equipped with all necessary paraphernalia, and it was pleasing in all seasons. It was decorated all around with…
SB 3.23.16 The palace looked charming, with beds, couches, fans and seats, all separately arranged in seven stories.
SB 3.23.17 Its beauty was enhanced by artistic engravings here and there on the walls. The floor was of emerald, with coral daises.
SB 3.23.18 The palace was very beautiful, with its coral thresholds at the entrances and its doors bedecked with diamonds. Gold pinnacles crowned its…
SB 3.23.19 With the choicest rubies set in its diamond walls, it appeared as though possessed of eyes. It was furnished with wonderful canopies and…
SB 3.23.20 Here and there in that palace were multitudes of live swans and pigeons, as well as artificial swans and pigeons so lifelike that the real…
SB 3.23.21 The castle had pleasure grounds, resting chambers, bedrooms and inner and outer yards designed with an eye to comfort. All this caused…
SB 3.23.22 When he saw Devahūti looking at the gigantic opulent palace with a displeased heart, Kardama Muni could understand her feelings because he…
SB 3.23.23 My dear Devahūti, you look very much afraid. First bathe in Lake Bindu-sarovara, created by Lord Viṣṇu Himself, which can grant all the…
SB 3.23.24 The lotus-eyed Devahūti accepted the order of her husband. Because of her dirty dress and the locks of matted hair on her head, she did…
SB 3.23.25 Her body was coated with a thick layer of dirt, and her breasts were discolored. She dove, however, into the lake, which contained the…
SB 3.23.26 In a house inside the lake she saw one thousand girls, all in the prime of youth and fragrant like lotuses.
SB 3.23.27 Seeing her, the damsels suddenly rose and said with folded hands, “We are your maidservants. Tell us what we can do for you.”
SB 3.23.28 The girls, being very respectful to Devahūti, brought her forth, and after bathing her with valuable oils and ointments, they gave her…
SB 3.23.29 They then decorated her with very excellent and valuable jewels, which shone brightly. Next they offered her food containing all good…
SB 3.23.30 Then in a mirror she beheld her own reflection. Her body was completely freed from all dirt, and she was adorned with a garland. Dressed…
SB 3.23.31 Her entire body, including her head, was completely bathed, and she was decorated all over with ornaments. She wore a special necklace…
SB 3.23.32 About her hips she wore a girdle of gold, set with numerous jewels, and she was further adorned with a precious pearl necklace and…
SB 3.23.33 Her countenance shone, with beautiful teeth and charming eyebrows. Her eyes, distinguished by lovely moist corners, defeated the beauty of…
SB 3.23.34 When she thought of her great husband, the best of the sages, Kardama Muni, who was very dear to her, she, along with all the…
SB 3.23.35 She was amazed to find herself surrounded by a thousand maids in the presence of her husband and to witness his yogic power.
SB 3.23.36-37 The sage could see that Devahūti had washed herself clean and was shining forth as though no longer his former wife. She had regained her…
SB 3.23.38 Though seemingly attached to his beloved consort while served by the Gandharva girls, the sage did not lose his glory, which was mastery…
SB 3.23.39 In that aerial mansion he traveled to the pleasure valleys of Mount Meru, which were rendered all the more beautiful by cool, gentle,…
SB 3.23.40 Satisfied by his wife, he enjoyed in that aerial mansion not only on Mount Meru but in different gardens known as Vaiśrambhaka, Surasana,…
SB 3.23.41 He traveled in that way through the various planets, as the air passes uncontrolled in every direction. Coursing through the air in that…
SB 3.23.42 What is difficult to achieve for determined men who have taken refuge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s lotus feet? His feet are the…
SB 3.23.43 After showing his wife the globe of the universe and its different arrangements, full of many wonders, the great yogī Kardama Muni…
SB 3.23.44 After coming back to his hermitage, he divided himself into nine personalities just to give pleasure to Devahūti, the daughter of Manu,…
SB 3.23.45 In that aerial mansion, Devahūti, in the company of her handsome husband, situated on an excellent bed that increased sexual desires,…
SB 3.23.46 While the couple, who eagerly longed for sexual pleasure, were thus enjoying themselves by virtue of mystic powers, a hundred autumns…
SB 3.23.47 The powerful Kardama Muni was the knower of everyone’s heart, and he could grant whatever one desired. Knowing the spiritual soul, he…
SB 3.23.48 Immediately afterward, on the same day, Devahūti gave birth to nine female children, all charming in every limb and fragrant with the…
SB 3.23.49 When she saw her husband about to leave home, she smiled externally, but at heart she was agitated and distressed.
SB 3.23.50 She stood and scratched the ground with her foot, which was radiant with the luster of her gemlike nails. Her head bent down, she spoke in…
SB 3.23.51 Śrī Devahūti said: My lord, you have fulfilled all the promises you gave me, yet because I am your surrendered soul, you should give me…
SB 3.23.52 My dear brāhmaṇa, as far as your daughters are concerned, they will find their own suitable husbands and go away to their respective…
SB 3.23.53 Until now we have simply wasted so much of our time in sense gratification, neglecting to cultivate knowledge of the Supreme Lord.
SB 3.23.54 Not knowing your transcendental situation, I have loved you while remaining attached to the objects of the senses. Nonetheless, let the…
SB 3.23.55 Association for sense gratification is certainly the path of bondage. But the same type of association, performed with a saintly person,…
SB 3.23.56 Anyone whose work is not meant to elevate him to religious life, anyone whose religious ritualistic performances do not raise him to…
SB 3.23.57 My lord, surely I have been solidly cheated by the insurmountable illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for in spite of…
SB 3.24.1 Recalling the words of Lord Viṣṇu, the merciful sage Kardama replied as follows to Svāyambhuva Manu’s praiseworthy daughter, Devahūti, who…
SB 3.24.2 The sage said: Do not be disappointed with yourself, O princess. You are actually praiseworthy. The infallible Supreme Personality of…
SB 3.24.3 You have undertaken sacred vows. God will bless you. Hence you should worship the Lord with great faith, through sensory control,…
SB 3.24.4 The Personality of Godhead, being worshiped by you, will spread my name and fame. He will vanquish the knot of your heart by becoming your…
SB 3.24.5 Śrī Maitreya said: Devahūti was fully faithful and respectful toward the direction of her husband, Kardama, who was one of the Prajāpatis,…
SB 3.24.6 After many, many years, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Madhusūdana, the killer of the demon Madhu, having entered the semen of…
SB 3.24.7 At the time of His descent on earth, demigods in the form of raining clouds sounded musical instruments in the sky. The celestial…
SB 3.24.8 At the time of the Lord’s appearance, the demigods flying freely in the sky showered flowers. All the directions, all the waters and…
SB 3.24.9 Brahmā, the first-born living being, went along with Marīci and other sages to the place of Kardama’s hermitage, which was surrounded by…
SB 3.24.10 Maitreya continued: O killer of the enemy, the unborn Lord Brahmā, who is almost independent in acquiring knowledge, could understand that…
SB 3.24.11 After worshiping the Supreme Lord with gladdened senses and a pure heart for His intended activities as an incarnation, Brahmā spoke as…
SB 3.24.20 Śrī Maitreya said: After thus speaking to Kardama Muni and his wife Devahūti, Lord Brahmā, the creator of the universe, who is also known…
SB 3.24.21 O Vidura, after the departure of Brahmā, Kardama Muni, having been ordered by Brahmā, handed over his nine daughters, as instructed, to…
SB 3.24.22-23 Kardama Muni handed over his daughter Kalā to Marīci, and another daughter, Anasūyā, to Atri. He delivered Śraddhā to Aṅgirā, and Havirbhū…
SB 3.24.24 He delivered Śānti to Atharvā. Because of Śānti, sacrificial ceremonies are well performed. Thus he got the foremost brāhmaṇas married,…
SB 3.24.25 Thus married, the sages took leave of Kardama and departed full of joy, each for his own hermitage, O Vidura.
SB 3.24.26 When Kardama Muni understood that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the chief of all the demigods, Viṣṇu, had descended, Kardama…
SB 3.24.27 Kardama Muni said: Oh, after a long time the demigods of this universe have become pleased with the suffering souls who are in material…
SB 3.24.28 After many births, mature yogīs, by complete trance in yoga, endeavor in secluded places to see the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality…
SB 3.24.29 Not considering the negligence of ordinary householders like us, that very same Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in our homes just…
SB 3.24.30 Kardama Muni said: You, my dear Lord, who are always increasing the honor of Your devotees, have descended in my home just to fulfill Your…
SB 3.24.31 My dear Lord, although You have no material form, You have Your own innumerable forms. They truly are Your transcendental forms, which are…
SB 3.24.32 My dear Lord, Your lotus feet are the reservoir that always deserves to receive worshipful homage from all great sages eager to understand…
SB 3.24.33 I surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, descended in the form of Kapila, who is independently powerful and transcendental,…
SB 3.24.34 Today I have something to ask from You, who are the Lord of all living entities. Since I have now been liberated by You from my debts to…
SB 3.24.41 Śrī Maitreya said: Thus when Kardama Muni, the progenitor of human society, was spoken to in fullness by his son, Kapila, he…
SB 3.24.42 The sage Kardama accepted silence as a vow in order to think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and take shelter of Him exclusively.…
SB 3.24.43 He fixed his mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Parabrahman, who is beyond cause and effect, who manifests the three modes of…
SB 3.24.44 Thus he gradually became unaffected by the false ego of material identity and became free from material affection. Undisturbed, equal to…
SB 3.24.45 He thus became liberated from conditioned life and became self-situated in transcendental devotional service to the Personality of…
SB 3.24.46 He began to see that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is seated in everyone’s heart, and that everyone is existing on Him, because He is…
SB 3.24.47 Freed from all hatred and desire, Kardama Muni, being equal to everyone because of discharging uncontaminated devotional service,…
SB 3.25.5 Maitreya said: When Kardama left for the forest, Lord Kapila stayed on the strand of the Bindu-sarovara to please His mother, Devahūti.
SB 3.25.6 When Kapila, who could show her the ultimate goal of the Absolute Truth, was sitting leisurely before her, Devahūti remembered the words…
SB 3.25.7 Devahūti said: I am very sick of the disturbance caused by my material senses, for because of this sense disturbance, my Lord, I have…
SB 3.25.8 Your Lordship is my only means of getting out of this darkest region of ignorance because You are my transcendental eye, which, by Your…
SB 3.25.9 You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the origin and Supreme Lord of all living entities. You have arisen to disseminate the rays of…
SB 3.25.10 Now be pleased, my Lord, to dispel my great delusion. Due to my feeling of false ego, I have been engaged by Your māyā and have identified…
SB 3.25.11 Devahūti continued: I have taken shelter of Your lotus feet because You are the only person of whom to take shelter. You are the ax which…
SB 3.25.12 Maitreya said: After hearing of His mother’s uncontaminated desire for transcendental realization, the Lord thanked her within Himself for…
SB 3.25.13 The Personality of Godhead answered: The yoga system which relates to the Lord and the individual soul, which is meant for the ultimate…
SB 3.25.14 O most pious mother, I shall now explain unto you the ancient yoga system, which I explained formerly to the great sages. It is…
SB 3.25.15 The stage in which the consciousness of the living entity is attracted by the three modes of material nature is called conditional life.…
SB 3.25.16 When one is completely cleansed of the impurities of lust and greed produced from the false identification of the body as “I” and bodily…
SB 3.25.17 At that time the soul can see himself to be transcendental to material existence and always self-effulgent, never fragmented, although…
SB 3.25.18 In that position of self-realization, by practice of knowledge and renunciation in devotional service, one sees everything in the right…
SB 3.25.19 Perfection in self-realization cannot be attained by any kind of yogī unless he engages in devotional service to the Supreme Personality…
SB 3.25.20 Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same…
SB 3.25.21 The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he…
SB 3.25.22 Such a sādhu engages in staunch devotional service to the Lord without deviation. For the sake of the Lord he renounces all other…
SB 3.25.23 Engaged constantly in chanting and hearing about Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the sādhus do not suffer from material miseries…
SB 3.25.24 O My mother, O virtuous lady, these are the qualities of great devotees who are free from all attachment. You must seek attachment to such…
SB 3.25.25 In the association of pure devotees, discussion of the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very pleasing and…
SB 3.25.26 Thus consciously engaged in devotional service in the association of devotees, a person gains distaste for sense gratification, both in…
SB 3.25.27 Thus by not engaging in the service of the modes of material nature but by developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, knowledge in renunciation, and…
SB 3.25.28 On hearing this statement of the Lord, Devahūti inquired: What kind of devotional service is worth developing and practicing to help me…
SB 3.25.29 The mystic yoga system, as You have explained, aims at the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is meant for completely ending material…
SB 3.25.30 My dear son, Kapila, after all, I am a woman. It is very difficult for me to understand the Absolute Truth because my intelligence is not…
SB 3.25.31 Śrī Maitreya said: After hearing the statement of His mother, Kapila could understand her purpose, and He became compassionate towards her…
SB 3.25.32 Lord Kapila said: The senses are symbolic representations of the demigods, and their natural inclination is to work under the direction of…
SB 3.25.33 Bhakti, devotional service, dissolves the subtle body of the living entity without separate effort, just as fire in the stomach digests…
SB 3.25.34 A pure devotee, who is attached to the activities of devotional service and who always engages in the service of My lotus feet, never…
SB 3.25.35 O My mother, My devotees always see the smiling face of My form, with eyes like the rising morning sun. They like to see My various…
SB 3.25.36 Upon seeing the charming forms of the Lord, smiling and attractive, and hearing His very pleasing words, the pure devotee almost loses all…
SB 3.25.37 Thus because he is completely absorbed in thought of Me, the devotee does not desire even the highest benediction obtainable in the upper…
SB 3.25.38 The Lord continued: My dear mother, devotees who receive such transcendental opulences are never bereft of them; neither weapons nor the…
SB 3.25.39-40 Thus the devotee who worships Me, the all-pervading Lord of the universe, in unflinching devotional service, gives up all aspirations to…
SB 3.25.41 The terrible fear of birth and death can never be forsaken by anyone who resorts to any shelter other than Myself, for I am the almighty…
SB 3.25.42 It is because of My supremacy that the wind blows, out of fear of Me; the sun shines out of fear of Me, and the lord of the clouds, Indra,…
SB 3.25.43 The yogīs, equipped with transcendental knowledge and renunciation and engaged in devotional service for their eternal benefit, take…
SB 3.25.44 Therefore persons whose minds are fixed on the Lord engage in the intensive practice of devotional service. That is the only means for…
SB 3.26.1 The Personality of Godhead, Kapila, continued: My dear mother, now I shall describe unto you the different categories of the Absolute…
SB 3.26.2 Knowledge is the ultimate perfection of self-realization. I shall explain that knowledge unto you by which the knots of attachment to the…
SB 3.26.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supreme Soul, and He has no beginning. He is transcendental to the material modes of nature and…
SB 3.26.4 As His pastime, that Supreme Personality of Godhead, the greatest of the great, accepted the subtle material energy, which is invested…
SB 3.26.5 Divided into varieties by her threefold modes, material nature creates the forms of the living entities, and the living entities, seeing…
SB 3.26.6 Because of his forgetfulness, the transcendental living entity accepts the influence of material energy as his field of activities, and…
SB 3.26.7 Material consciousness is the cause of one’s conditional life, in which conditions are enforced upon the living entity by the material…
SB 3.26.8 The cause of the conditioned soul’s material body and senses, and the senses’ presiding deities, the demigods, is the material nature.…
SB 3.26.9 Devahūti said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, kindly explain the characteristics of the Supreme Person and His energies, for both of…
SB 3.29.6 Śrī Maitreya said: O best amongst the Kurus, the great sage Kapila, moved by great compassion and pleased by the words of His glorious…
SB 3.29.7 Lord Kapila, the Personality of Godhead, replied: O noble lady, there are multifarious paths of devotional service in terms of the…
SB 3.29.8 Devotional service executed by a person who is envious, proud, violent and angry, and who is a separatist, is considered to be in the mode…
SB 3.29.9 The worship of Deities in the temple by a separatist, with a motive for material enjoyment, fame and opulence, is devotion in the mode of…
SB 3.29.10 When a devotee worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead and offers the results of his activities in order to free himself from the…
SB 3.29.11-12 The manifestation of unadulterated devotional service is exhibited when one’s mind is at once attracted to hearing the transcendental name…
SB 3.29.13 A pure devotee does not accept any kind of liberation — sālokya, sārṣṭi, sāmīpya, sārūpya or ekatva — even though they are offered by the…
SB 3.29.14 By attaining the highest platform of devotional service, as I have explained, one can overcome the influence of the three modes of…
SB 3.29.15 A devotee must execute his prescribed duties, which are glorious, without material profit. Without excessive violence, one should…
SB 3.29.16 The devotee should regularly see My statues in the temple, touch My lotus feet and offer worshipable paraphernalia and prayer. He should…
SB 3.29.17 The pure devotee should execute devotional service by giving the greatest respect to the spiritual master and the ācāryas. He should be…
SB 3.29.18 A devotee should always try to hear about spiritual matters and should always utilize his time in chanting the holy name of the Lord. His…
SB 3.29.19 When one is fully qualified with all these transcendental attributes and his consciousness is thus completely purified, he is immediately…
SB 3.29.20 As the chariot of air carries an aroma from its source and immediately catches the sense of smell, similarly, one who constantly engages…
SB 3.29.21 I am present in every living entity as the Supersoul. If someone neglects or disregards that Supersoul everywhere and engages himself in…
SB 3.29.22 One who worships the Deity of Godhead in the temples but does not know that the Supreme Lord, as Paramātmā, is situated in every living…
SB 3.29.23 One who offers Me respect but is envious of the bodies of others and is therefore a separatist never attains peace of mind, because of his…
SB 3.29.24 My dear mother, even if he worships with proper rituals and paraphernalia, a person who is ignorant of My presence in all living entities…
SB 3.29.25 Performing his prescribed duties, one should worship the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead until one realizes My presence in his…
SB 3.29.26 As the blazing fire of death, I cause great fear to whoever makes the least discrimination between himself and other living entities…
SB 3.29.27 Therefore, through charitable gifts and attention, as well as through friendly behavior and by viewing all to be alike, one should…
SB 3.29.28 Living entities are superior to inanimate objects, O blessed mother, and among them, living entities who display life symptoms are better.…
SB 3.29.29 Among the living entities who have developed sense perception, those who have developed the sense of taste are better than those who have…
SB 3.29.30 Better than those living entities who can perceive sound are those who can distinguish between one form and another. Better than them are…
SB 3.29.31 Among human beings, the society which is divided according to quality and work is best, and in that society, the intelligent men, who are…
SB 3.29.32 Better than the brāhmaṇa who knows the purpose of the Vedas is he who can dissipate all doubts, and better than him is one who strictly…
SB 3.29.33 Therefore I do not find a greater person than he who has no interest outside of Mine and who therefore engages and dedicates all his…
SB 3.29.34 Such a perfect devotee offers respects to every living entity because he is under the firm conviction that the Supreme Personality of…
SB 3.29.35 My dear mother, O daughter of Manu, a devotee who applies the science of devotional service and mystic yoga in this way can achieve the…
SB 3.29.36 This puruṣa whom the individual soul must approach is the eternal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Brahman and…
SB 3.29.37 The time factor, who causes the transformation of the various material manifestations, is another feature of the Supreme Personality of…
SB 3.29.38 Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the enjoyer of all sacrifices, is the time factor and the master of all masters. He…
SB 3.29.39 No one is dear to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, nor is anyone His enemy or friend. But He gives inspiration to those who have not…
SB 3.29.40 Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the wind blows, out of fear of Him the sun shines, out of fear of Him the rain pours…
SB 3.29.41 Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the trees, creepers, herbs and seasonal plants and flowers blossom and fructify, each in…
SB 3.29.42 Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the rivers flow, and the ocean never overflows. Out of fear of Him only does fire burn…
SB 3.29.43 Subject to the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the sky allows outer space to accommodate all the various planets, which…
SB 3.29.44 Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the directing demigods in charge of the modes of material nature carry out the…
SB 3.29.45 The eternal time factor has no beginning and no end. It is the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the maker of the…
SB 3.33.1 Śrī Maitreya said: Thus Devahūti, the mother of Lord Kapila and wife of Kardama Muni, became freed from all ignorance concerning…
SB 3.33.2 Devahūti said: Brahmā is said to be unborn because he takes birth from the lotus flower which grows from Your abdomen while You lie in the…
SB 3.33.3 My dear Lord, although personally You have nothing to do, You have distributed Your energies in the interactions of the material modes of…
SB 3.33.4 As the Supreme Personality of Godhead, You have taken birth from my abdomen. O my Lord, how is that possible for the supreme one, who has…
SB 3.33.5 My dear Lord, You have assumed this body in order to diminish the sinful activities of the fallen and to enrich their knowledge in…
SB 3.33.6 To say nothing of the spiritual advancement of persons who see the Supreme Person face to face, even a person born in a family of…
SB 3.33.7 Oh, how glorious are they whose tongues are chanting Your holy name! Even if born in the families of dog-eaters, such persons are…
SB 3.33.8 I believe, my Lord, that You are Lord Viṣṇu Himself under the name of Kapila, and You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme…
SB 3.33.9 Thus the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kapila, satisfied by the words of His mother, towards whom He was very affectionate, replied with…
SB 3.33.12 Śrī Maitreya said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead Kapila, after instructing His beloved mother, took permission from her and left His…
SB 3.33.13 As instructed by her son, Devahūti also began to practice bhakti-yoga in that very āśrama. She practiced samādhi in the house of Kardama…
SB 3.33.14 She began to bathe three times daily, and thus her curling black hair gradually became gray. Due to austerity, her body gradually became…
SB 3.33.15 The home and household paraphernalia of Kardama, who was one of the Prajāpatis, was developed in such a way, by dint of his mystic powers…
SB 3.33.16 The opulence of the household of Kardama Muni is described herein. The bedsheets and mattresses were all as white as the foam of milk, the…
SB 3.33.17 The walls of the house were made of first-class marble, decorated with valuable jewels. There was no need of light, for the household was…
SB 3.33.18 The compound of the main household was surrounded by beautiful gardens with sweet, fragrant flowers and many trees which produced fresh…
SB 3.33.19 When Devahūti would enter that lovely garden to take her bath in the pond filled with lotus flowers, the associates of the denizens of…
SB 3.33.20 Although her position was unique from all points of view, saintly Devahūti, in spite of all her possessions, which were envied even by the…
SB 3.33.21 Devahūti’s husband had already left home and accepted the renounced order of life, and then her only son, Kapila, left home. Although she…
SB 3.33.22 O Vidura, thus always meditating upon her son, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kapiladeva, she very soon became unattached to her…
SB 3.33.23 Thereafter, having heard with great eagerness and in all detail from her son, Kapiladeva, the eternally smiling Personality of Godhead,…
SB 3.33.24-25 She did so with serious engagement in devotional service. Because she was strong in renunciation, she accepted only the necessities of the…
SB 3.33.26 Her mind became completely engaged in the Supreme Lord, and she automatically realized the knowledge of the impersonal Brahman. As a…
SB 3.33.27 Situated in eternal trance and freed from illusion impelled by the modes of material nature, she forgot her material body, just as one…
SB 3.33.28 Her body was being taken care of by the spiritual damsels created by her husband, Kardama, and since she had no mental anxiety at that…
SB 3.33.29 Because she was always absorbed in the thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, she was not aware that sometimes her hair was…
SB 3.33.30 My dear Vidura, by following the principles instructed by Kapila, Devahūti soon became liberated from material bondage and achieved the…
SB 3.33.31 The place where Devahūti achieved her perfection, my dear Vidura, is understood to be a most sacred spot. It is known all over the three…
SB 3.33.32 Dear Vidura, the material elements of her body have melted into water and are now a flowing river, which is the most sacred of all rivers.…
SB 3.33.33 My dear Vidura, the great sage Kapila, the Personality of Godhead, left His father’s hermitage with the permission of His mother and went…
SB 3.33.34 While He was passing in the northern direction, all the celestial denizens known as Cāraṇas and Gandharvas, as well as the munis and the…
SB 3.33.35 Even now Kapila Muni is staying there in trance for the deliverance of the conditioned souls in the three worlds, and all the ācāryas, or…
SB 3.33.36 My dear son, since you have inquired from me, I have answered. O sinless one, the descriptions of Kapiladeva and His mother and their…
SB 3.33.37 The description of the dealings of Kapiladeva and His mother is very confidential, and anyone who hears or reads this narration becomes a…
SB 4.1.1 Śrī Maitreya said: Svāyambhuva Manu begot three daughters in his wife, Śatarūpā, and their names were Ākūti, Devahūti and Prasūti.
SB 4.1.2 Ākūti had two brothers, but in spite of her brothers, King Svāyambhuva Manu handed her over to Prajāpati Ruci on the condition that the…
SB 4.1.3 Ruci, who was very powerful in his brahminical qualifications and was appointed one of the progenitors of the living entities, begot one…
SB 4.1.4 Of the two children born of Ākūti, the male child was directly an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and His name was…
SB 4.1.5 Svāyambhuva Manu very gladly brought home the beautiful boy named Yajña, and Ruci, his son-in-law, kept with him the daughter, Dakṣiṇā.
SB 4.1.6 The Lord of the ritualistic performance of yajña later married Dakṣiṇā, who was anxious to have the Personality of Godhead as her husband,…
SB 4.1.7 The twelve boys born of Yajña and Dakṣiṇā were named Toṣa, Pratoṣa, Santoṣa, Bhadra, Śānti, Iḍaspati, Idhma, Kavi, Vibhu, Svahna, Sudeva…
SB 4.1.8 During the time of Svāyambhuva Manu, these sons all became the demigods collectively named the Tuṣitas. Marīci became the head of the…
SB 4.1.9 Svāyambhuva Manu’s two sons, Priyavrata and Uttānapāda, became very powerful kings, and their sons and grandsons spread all over the three…
SB 4.1.10 My dear son, Svāyambhuva Manu handed over his very dear daughter Devahūti to Kardama Muni. I have already spoken to you about them, and…
SB 4.1.11 Svāyambhuva Manu handed over his daughter Prasūti to the son of Brahmā named Dakṣa, who was also one of the progenitors of the living…
SB 4.1.12 You have already been informed about the nine daughters of Kardama Muni, who were handed over to nine different sages. I shall now…
SB 4.1.13 Kardama Muni’s daughter Kalā, who was married to Marīci, gave birth to two children, whose names were Kaśyapa and Pūrṇimā. Their…
SB 4.1.14 My dear Vidura, of the two sons, Kaśyapa and Pūrṇimā, Pūrṇimā begot three children, namely Viraja, Viśvaga and Devakulyā. Of these three,…
SB 4.1.15 Anasūyā, the wife of Atri Muni, gave birth to three very famous sons — Soma, Dattātreya and Durvāsā — who were partial representations of…
SB 4.1.16 After hearing this, Vidura inquired from Maitreya: My dear master, how is it that the three deities Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva, who are the…
SB 4.1.17 Maitreya said: When Lord Brahmā ordered Atri Muni to create generations after marrying Anasūyā, Atri Muni and his wife went to perform…
SB 4.1.18 In that mountain valley flows a river named Nirvindhyā. On the bank of the river are many aśoka trees and other plants full of palāśa…
SB 4.1.19 There the great sage concentrated his mind by the yogic breathing exercises, and thereby controlling all attachment, he remained standing…
SB 4.1.20 He was thinking: May the Lord of the universe, of whom I have taken shelter, kindly be pleased to offer me a son exactly like Him.
SB 4.1.21 While Atri Muni was engaged in these severe austerities, a blazing fire came out of his head by virtue of his breathing exercise, and that…
SB 4.1.22 At that time, the three deities approached the hermitage of Atri Muni, accompanied by the denizens of the heavenly planets, such as the…
SB 4.1.23 The sage was standing on one leg, but as soon as he saw that the three deities had appeared before him, he was so pleased to see them all…
SB 4.1.24 Thereafter he began to offer prayers to the three deities, who were seated on different carriers — a bull, a swan and Garuḍa — and who…
SB 4.1.25 Atri Muni was greatly pleased to see that the three devas were gracious towards him. His eyes were dazzled by the effulgence of their…
SB 4.1.26-27 But since his heart was already attracted by the deities, somehow or other he gathered his senses, and with folded hands and sweet words…
SB 4.1.28 I called for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, desiring a son like Him, and I thought of Him only. But although He is far beyond the…
SB 4.1.29 The great sage Maitreya continued: Upon hearing Atri Muni speak in that way, the three great deities smiled, and they replied in the…
SB 4.1.30 The three deities told Atri Muni: Dear brāhmaṇa, you are perfect in your determination, and therefore as you have decided, so it will…
SB 4.1.31 You will have sons who will represent a partial manifestation of our potency, and because we desire all good fortune for you, those sons…
SB 4.1.32 Thus, while the couple looked on, the three deities Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara disappeared from that place after bestowing upon Atri Muni…
SB 4.1.33 Thereafter, from the partial representation of Brahmā, the moon-god was born of them; from the partial representation of Viṣṇu, the great…
SB 4.1.34 Aṅgirā’s wife, Śraddhā, gave birth to four daughters, named Sinīvālī, Kuhū, Rākā and Anumati.
SB 4.1.35 Besides these four daughters, she also had another two sons. One of them was known as Utathya, and the other was the learned scholar…
SB 4.1.36 Pulastya begot in his wife, Havirbhū, one son of the name Agastya, who in his next birth became Dahrāgni. Besides him, Pulastya begot…
SB 4.1.37 Viśravā had two wives. The first wife was Iḍaviḍā, from whom Kuvera, the master of all Yakṣas, was born, and the next wife was named…
SB 4.1.38 Gati, the wife of the sage Pulaha, gave birth to three sons, named Karmaśreṣṭha, Varīyān and Sahiṣṇu, and all of them were great sages.
SB 4.1.39 Kratu’s wife, Kriyā, gave birth to sixty thousand great sages, named the Vālakhilyas. All these sages were greatly advanced in spiritual…
SB 4.1.40 The great sage Vasiṣṭha begot in his wife, Ūrjā [sometimes called Arundhatī], seven spotlessly great sages, headed by the sage named…
SB 4.1.41 The names of these seven sages are as follows: Citraketu, Suroci, Virajā, Mitra, Ulbaṇa, Vasubhṛdyāna and Dyumān. Some other very…
SB 4.1.42 Citti, wife of the sage Atharvā, gave birth to a son named Aśvaśirā by accepting a great vow called Dadhyañca. Now you may hear from me…
SB 4.1.43 The sage Bhṛgu was highly fortunate. In his wife, known as Khyāti, he begot two sons, named Dhātā and Vidhātā, and one daughter, named…
SB 4.1.44 The sage Meru had two daughters, named Āyati and Niyati, whom he gave in charity to Dhātā and Vidhātā. Āyati and Niyati gave birth to two…
SB 4.1.45 From Mṛkaṇḍa, Mārkaṇḍeya Muni was born, and from Prāṇa, the sage Vedaśirā, whose son was Uśanā [Śukrācārya], also known as Kavi. Thus Kavi…
SB 4.1.46-47 My dear Vidura, the population of the universe was thus increased by the descendants of these sages and the daughters of Kardama. Anyone…
SB 4.1.48 Dakṣa begot sixteen very beautiful daughters with lotuslike eyes in his wife Prasūti. Of these sixteen daughters, thirteen were given in…
SB 4.1.49-52 One of the remaining two daughters was given in charity to the Pitṛloka, where she resides very amicably, and the other was given to Lord…
SB 4.1.53 On the occasion of the appearance of Nara-Nārāyaṇa, the entire world was full of joy. Everyone’s mind became tranquil, and thus in all…
SB 4.1.54-55 In the heavenly planets, bands began to play, and they showered flowers from the sky. The pacified sages chanted Vedic prayers, the…
SB 4.1.56 The demigods said: Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto the transcendental Personality of Godhead, who created as His external…
SB 4.1.57 Let that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is understood by truly authorized Vedic literature and who has created peace and prosperity…
SB 4.1.58 [Maitreya said:] O Vidura, thus the demigods worshiped with prayers the Supreme Personality of Godhead appearing as the sage…
SB 4.1.59 That Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi, who is a partial expansion of Kṛṣṇa, has now appeared in the dynasties of Yadu and Kuru, in the forms of Kṛṣṇa and…
SB 4.1.60 The predominating deity of fire begot in his wife, Svāhā, three children, named Pāvaka, Pavamāna and Śuci, who exist by eating the…
SB 4.1.61 From those three sons another forty-five descendants were generated, who are also fire-gods. The total number of fire-gods is therefore…
SB 4.1.62 These forty-nine fire-gods are the beneficiaries of the oblations offered in the Vedic sacrificial fire by impersonalist brāhmaṇas.
SB 4.1.63 The Agniṣvāttas, the Barhiṣadas, the Saumyas and the Ājyapas are the Pitās. They are either sāgnika or niragnika. The wife of all these…
SB 4.1.64 Svadhā, who was offered to the Pitās, begot two daughters named Vayunā and Dhāriṇī, both of whom were impersonalists and were expert in…
SB 4.1.65 The sixteenth daughter, whose name was Satī, was the wife of Lord Śiva. She could not produce a child, although she always faithfully…
SB 4.1.66 The reason is that Satī’s father, Dakṣa, used to rebuke Lord Śiva in spite of Śiva’s faultlessness. Consequently, before attaining a…
SB 4.2.1 Vidura inquired: Why was Dakṣa, who was so affectionate towards his daughter, envious of Lord Śiva, who is the best among the gentle? Why…
SB 4.2.2 Lord Śiva, the spiritual master of the entire world, is free from enmity, is a peaceful personality, and is always satisfied in himself.…
SB 4.2.3 My dear Maitreya, to part with one’s life is very difficult. Would you kindly explain to me how such a son-in-law and father-in-law could…
SB 4.2.4 The sage Maitreya said: In a former time, the leaders of the universal creation performed a great sacrifice in which all the great sages,…
SB 4.2.5 When Dakṣa, the leader of the Prajāpatis, entered that assembly, his personal bodily luster as bright as the effulgence of the sun, the…
SB 4.2.6 Influenced by his personal bodily luster, all the fire-gods and other participants in that great assembly, with the exceptions of Lord…
SB 4.2.7 Dakṣa was adequately welcomed by the president of the great assembly, Lord Brahmā. After offering Lord Brahmā respect, Dakṣa, by the order…
SB 4.2.8 Before taking his seat, however, Dakṣa was very much offended to see Lord Śiva sitting and not showing him any respect. At that time,…
SB 4.2.9 All sages, brāhmaṇas and fire-gods present, please hear me with attention, for I speak about the manners of gentle persons. I do not speak…
SB 4.2.10 Śiva has spoiled the name and fame of the governors of the universe and has polluted the path of gentle manners. Because he is shameless,…
SB 4.2.11 He has already accepted himself as my subordinate by marrying my daughter in the presence of fire and brāhmaṇas. He has married my…
SB 4.2.12 He has eyes like a monkey’s, yet he has married my daughter, whose eyes are just like those of a deer cub. Nevertheless he did not stand…
SB 4.2.13 I had no desire to give my daughter to this person, who has broken all rules of civility. Because of not observing the required rules and…
SB 4.2.14-15 He lives in filthy places like crematoriums, and his companions are the ghosts and demons. Naked like a madman, sometimes laughing and…
SB 4.2.16 On the request of Lord Brahmā I handed over my chaste daughter to him, although he is devoid of all cleanliness and his heart is filled…
SB 4.2.17 The sage Maitreya continued: Thus Dakṣa, seeing Lord Śiva sitting as if against him, washed his hands and mouth and cursed him in the…
SB 4.2.18 The demigods are eligible to share in the oblations of sacrifice, but Lord Śiva, who is the lowest of all the demigods, should not have a…
SB 4.2.19 Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, in spite of the requests of all the members of the sacrificial assembly, Dakṣa, in great anger, cursed…
SB 4.2.20 Upon understanding that Lord Śiva had been cursed, Nandīśvara, one of Lord Śiva’s principal associates, became greatly angry. His eyes…
SB 4.2.21 Anyone who has accepted Dakṣa as the most important personality and neglected Lord Śiva because of envy is less intelligent and, because…
SB 4.2.22 Pretentiously religious householder life, in which one is attracted to material happiness and thus also attracted to the superficial…
SB 4.2.23 Dakṣa has accepted the body as all in all. Therefore, since he has forgotten the viṣṇu-pāda, or viṣṇu-gati, and is attached to sex life…
SB 4.2.24 Those who have become as dull as matter by cultivating materialistic education and intelligence are nesciently involved in fruitive…
SB 4.2.25 May those who are envious of Lord Śiva, being attracted by the flowery language of the enchanting Vedic promises, and who have thus become…
SB 4.2.26 These brāhmaṇas take to education, austerity and vows only for the purpose of maintaining the body. They shall be devoid of discrimination…
SB 4.2.27 When all the hereditary brāhmaṇas were thus cursed by Nandīśvara, the sage Bhṛgu, as a reaction, condemned the followers of Lord Śiva with…
SB 4.2.28 One who takes a vow to satisfy Lord Śiva or who follows such principles will certainly become an atheist and be diverted from…
SB 4.2.29 Those who vow to worship Lord Śiva are so foolish that they imitate him by keeping long hair on their heads. When initiated into worship…
SB 4.2.30 Bhṛgu Muni continued: Since you blaspheme the Vedas and the brāhmaṇas, who are followers of the Vedic principles, it is understood that…
SB 4.2.31 The Vedas give the eternal regulative principles for auspicious advancement in human civilization which have been rigidly followed in the…
SB 4.2.32 By blaspheming the principles of the Vedas, which are the pure and supreme path of the saintly persons, certainly you followers of…
SB 4.2.33 The sage Maitreya said: When such cursing and countercursing was going on between Lord Śiva’s followers and the parties of Dakṣa and…
SB 4.2.34 The sage Maitreya continued: O Vidura, all the progenitors of the universal population thus executed a sacrifice for thousands of years,…
SB 4.2.35 My dear Vidura, carrier of bows and arrows, all the demigods who were performing the sacrifice took their bath at the confluence of the…
SB 4.3.1 Maitreya continued: In this manner the tension between the father-in-law and son-in-law, Dakṣa and Lord Śiva, continued for a considerably…
SB 4.3.2 When Lord Brahmā appointed Dakṣa the chief of all the Prajāpatis, the progenitors of population, Dakṣa became very much puffed up.
SB 4.3.3 Dakṣa began a sacrifice named vājapeya, and he became excessively confident of his support by Lord Brahmā. He then performed another great…
SB 4.3.4 While the sacrifice was being performed, many brahmarṣis, great sages, ancestral demigods and other demigods, their wives all very nicely…
SB 4.3.5-7 The chaste lady Satī, the daughter of Dakṣa, heard the heavenly denizens flying in the sky conversing about the great sacrifice being…
SB 4.3.8 Satī said: My dear Lord Śiva, your father-in-law is now executing great sacrifices, and all the demigods, having been invited by him, are…
SB 4.3.9 I think that all my sisters must have gone to this great sacrificial ceremony with their husbands just to see their relatives. I also…
SB 4.3.10 My sisters, my mother’s sisters and their husbands, and other affectionate relatives must be assembled there, so if I go I shall be able…
SB 4.3.11 This manifested cosmos is a wonderful creation of the interaction of the three material modes, or the external energy of the Supreme Lord.…
SB 4.3.12 O never-born, O blue-throated one, not only my relatives but also other women, dressed in nice clothes and decorated with ornaments, are…
SB 4.3.13 O best of the demigods, how can the body of a daughter remain undisturbed when she hears that some festive event is taking place in her…
SB 4.3.14 O immortal Śiva, please be kind towards me and fulfill my desire. You have accepted me as half of your body; therefore please show…
SB 4.3.15 The great sage Maitreya said: Lord Śiva, the deliverer of the hill Kailāsa, having thus been addressed by his dear wife, replied…
SB 4.3.16 The great lord replied: My dear beautiful wife, you have said that one may go to a friend’s house without being invited, and this is true,…
SB 4.3.17 Although the six qualities education, austerity, wealth, beauty, youth and heritage are for the highly elevated, one who is proud of…
SB 4.3.18 One should not go to anyone’s house, even on the consideration of his being a relative or a friend, when the man is disturbed in his mind…
SB 4.3.19 Lord Śiva continued: If one is hurt by the arrows of an enemy, one is not as aggrieved as when cut by the unkind words of a relative, for…
SB 4.3.20 My dear white-complexioned wife, it is clear that of the many daughters of Dakṣa you are the pet, yet you will not be honored at his house…
SB 4.3.21 One who is conducted by false ego and thus always distressed, both mentally and sensually, cannot tolerate the opulence of self-realized…
SB 4.3.22 My dear young wife, certainly friends and relatives offer mutual greetings by standing up, welcoming one another and offering obeisances.…
SB 4.3.23 I am always engaged in offering obeisances to Lord Vāsudeva in pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is always pure consciousness,…
SB 4.3.24 Therefore you should not see your father, although he is the giver of your body, because he and his followers are envious of me. Because…
SB 4.3.25 If in spite of this instruction you decide to go, neglecting my words, the future will not be good for you. You are most respectable, and…
SB 4.4.1 The sage Maitreya said: Lord Śiva was silent after speaking to Satī, seeing her between decisions. Satī was very much anxious to see her…
SB 4.4.2 Satī felt very sorry at being forbidden to go see her relatives at her father’s house, and due to affection for them, tears fell from her…
SB 4.4.3 Thereafter Satī left her husband, Lord Śiva, who had given her half his body due to affection. Breathing very heavily because of anger and…
SB 4.4.4 When they saw Satī leaving alone very rapidly, thousands of Lord Śiva’s disciples, headed by Maṇimān and Mada, quickly followed her with…
SB 4.4.5 The disciples of Lord Śiva arranged for Satī to be seated on the back of a bull and gave her the bird which was her pet. They bore a lotus…
SB 4.4.6 She then reached her father’s house, where the sacrifice was being performed, and entered the arena where everyone was chanting the Vedic…
SB 4.4.7 When Satī, with her followers, reached the arena, because all the people assembled were afraid of Dakṣa, none of them received her well.…
SB 4.4.8 Although she was received by her sisters and mother, she did not reply to their words of reception, and although she was offered a seat…
SB 4.4.9 Present in the arena of sacrifice, Satī saw that there were no oblations for her husband, Lord Śiva. Next she realized that not only had…
SB 4.4.10 The followers of Lord Śiva, the ghosts, were ready to injure or kill Dakṣa, but Satī stopped them by her order. She was very angry and…
SB 4.4.11 The blessed goddess said: Lord Śiva is the most beloved of all living entities. He has no rival. No one is very dear to him, and no one is…
SB 4.4.12 Twice-born Dakṣa, a man like you can simply find fault in the qualities of others. Lord Śiva, however, not only finds no faults with…
SB 4.4.13 It is not wonderful for persons who have accepted the transient material body as the self to engage always in deriding great souls. Such…
SB 4.4.14 Satī continued: My dear father, you are committing the greatest offense by envying Lord Śiva, whose very name, consisting of two…
SB 4.4.15 You are envious of Lord Śiva, who is the friend of all living entities within the three worlds. For the common man he fulfills all…
SB 4.4.16 Do you think that greater, more respectable personalities than you, such as Lord Brahmā, do not know this inauspicious person who goes…
SB 4.4.17 Satī continued: If one hears an irresponsible person blaspheme the master and controller of religion, one should block his ears and go…
SB 4.4.18 Therefore I shall no longer bear this unworthy body, which has been received from you, who have blasphemed Lord Śiva. If someone has taken…
SB 4.4.19 It is better to execute one’s own occupational duty than to criticize others’. Elevated transcendentalists may sometimes forgo the rules…
SB 4.4.20 In the Vedas there are directions for two kinds of activities — activities for those who are attached to material enjoyment and activities…
SB 4.4.21 My dear father, the opulence we possess is impossible for either you or your flatterers to imagine, for persons who engage in fruitive…
SB 4.4.22 You are an offender at the lotus feet of Lord Śiva, and unfortunately I have a body produced from yours. I am very much ashamed of our…
SB 4.4.23 Because of our family relationship, when Lord Śiva addresses me as Dākṣāyaṇī I at once become morose, and my jolliness and my smile at…
SB 4.4.24 Maitreya the sage told Vidura: O annihilator of enemies, while thus speaking to her father in the arena of sacrifice, Satī sat down on the…
SB 4.4.25 First of all she sat in the required sitting posture, and then she carried the life air upwards and placed it in the position of…
SB 4.4.26 Thus, in order to give up her body, which had been so respectfully and affectionately seated on the lap of Lord Śiva, who is worshiped by…
SB 4.4.27 Satī concentrated all her meditation on the holy lotus feet of her husband, Lord Śiva, who is the supreme spiritual master of all the…
SB 4.4.28 When Satī annihilated her body in anger, there was a tumultuous roar all over the universe. Why had Satī, the wife of the most respectable…
SB 4.4.29 It was astonishing that Dakṣa, who was Prajāpati, the maintainer of all living entities, was so disrespectful to his own daughter Satī,…
SB 4.4.30 Dakṣa, who is so hardhearted that he is unworthy to be a brāhmaṇa, will gain extensive ill fame because of his offenses to his daughter,…
SB 4.4.31 While people were talking among themselves about the wonderful voluntary death of Satī, the attendants who had come with her readied…
SB 4.4.32 They came forward forcibly, but Bhṛgu Muni saw the danger and, offering oblations into the southern side of the sacrificial fire,…
SB 4.4.33 When Bhṛgu Muni offered oblations in the fire, immediately many thousands of demigods named Ṛbhus became manifested. All of them were…
SB 4.4.34 When the Ṛbhu demigods attacked the ghosts and Guhyakas with half-burned fuel from the yajña fire, all these attendants of Satī fled in…
SB 4.5.1 Maitreya said: When Lord Śiva heard from Nārada that Satī, his wife, was now dead because of Prajāpati Dakṣa’s insult to her and that his…
SB 4.5.2 Thus Lord Śiva, being extremely angry, pressed his lips with his teeth and immediately snatched from his head a strand of hair which…
SB 4.5.3 A fearful black demon as high as the sky and as bright as three suns combined was thereby created, his teeth very fearful and the hairs on…
SB 4.5.4 When that gigantic demon asked with folded hands, “What shall I do, my lord?” Lord Śiva, who is known as Bhūtanātha, directly ordered,…
SB 4.5.5 Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, that black person was the personified anger of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and he was prepared…
SB 4.5.6 Many other soldiers of Lord Śiva followed the fierce personality in a tumultuous uproar. He carried a great trident, fearful enough to…
SB 4.5.7 At that time, all the persons assembled in the sacrificial arena — the priests, the chief of the sacrificial performance, and the…
SB 4.5.8 Conjecturing on the origin of the storm, they said: There is no wind blowing, and no cows are passing, nor is it possible that this dust…
SB 4.5.9 Prasūti, the wife of Dakṣa, along with the other women assembled, became very anxious and said: This danger has been created by Dakṣa…
SB 4.5.10 At the time of dissolution, Lord Śiva’s hair is scattered, and he pierces the rulers of the different directions with his trident. He…
SB 4.5.11 The gigantic black man bared his fearful teeth. By the movements of his brows he scattered the luminaries all over the sky, and he covered…
SB 4.5.12 While all the people talked amongst themselves, Dakṣa saw dangerous omens from all sides, from the earth and from the sky.
SB 4.5.13 My dear Vidura, all the followers of Lord Śiva surrounded the arena of sacrifice. They were of short stature and were equipped with…
SB 4.5.14 Some of the soldiers pulled down the pillars which were supporting the pandal of sacrifice, some of them entered the female quarters, some…
SB 4.5.15 They broke all the pots made for use in the sacrifice, and some of them began to extinguish the sacrificial fire. Some tore down the…
SB 4.5.16 Some blocked the way of the fleeing sages, some threatened the women assembled there, and some arrested the demigods who were fleeing the…
SB 4.5.17 Maṇimān, one of the followers of Lord Śiva, arrested Bhṛgu Muni, and Vīrabhadra, the black demon, arrested Prajāpati Dakṣa. Another…
SB 4.5.18 There was a continuous shower of stones, and all the priests and other members assembled at the sacrifice were put into immense misery.…
SB 4.5.19 Vīrabhadra tore off the mustache of Bhṛgu, who was offering the sacrificial oblations with his hands in the fire.
SB 4.5.20 Vīrabhadra immediately caught Bhaga, who had been moving his eyebrows during Bhṛgu’s cursing of Lord Śiva, and out of great anger thrust…
SB 4.5.21 Just as Baladeva knocked out the teeth of Dantavakra, the King of Kaliṅga, during the gambling match at the marriage ceremony of…
SB 4.5.22 Then Vīrabhadra, the giantlike personality, sat on the chest of Dakṣa and tried to separate his head from his body with sharp weapons, but…
SB 4.5.23 He tried to cut the head of Dakṣa with hymns as well as weapons, but still it was hard to cut even the surface of the skin of Dakṣa’s…
SB 4.5.24 Then Vīrabhadra saw the wooden device in the sacrificial arena by which the animals were to have been killed. He took the opportunity of…
SB 4.5.25 Upon seeing the action of Vīrabhadra, the party of Lord Śiva was pleased and cried out joyfully, and all the bhūtas, ghosts and demons…
SB 4.5.26 Vīrabhadra then took the head and with great anger threw it into the southern side of the sacrificial fire, offering it as an oblation. In…
SB 4.6.1-2 All the priests and other members of the sacrificial assembly and all the demigods, having been defeated by the soldiers of Lord Śiva and…
SB 4.6.3 Both Lord Brahmā and Viṣṇu had already known that such events would occur in the sacrificial arena of Dakṣa, and knowing beforehand, they…
SB 4.6.4 When Lord Brahmā heard everything from the demigods and the members who had attended the sacrifice, he replied: You cannot be happy in…
SB 4.6.5 You have excluded Lord Śiva from taking part in the sacrificial results, and therefore you are all offenders at his lotus feet. Still, if…
SB 4.6.6 Lord Brahmā also advised them that Lord Śiva is so powerful that by his anger all the planets and their chief controllers can be destroyed…
SB 4.6.7 Lord Brahmā said that no one — not even himself, Indra, all the members assembled in the sacrificial arena or all the sages — could know…
SB 4.6.8 After thus instructing all the demigods, the Pitās and the lords of the living entities, Lord Brahmā took them with him and left for the…
SB 4.6.9 The abode known as Kailāsa is full of different herbs and vegetables, and it is sanctified by Vedic hymns and mystic yoga practice. Thus…
SB 4.6.10 Kailāsa is full of mountains filled with all kinds of valuable jewels and minerals and surrounded by all varieties of valuable trees and…
SB 4.6.11 There are many waterfalls, and in the mountains there are many beautiful caves in which the very beautiful wives of the mystics are found.
SB 4.6.12 On Kailāsa Hill there is always the rhythmical sound of the peacocks’ sweet vibrations and the bees’ humming. Cuckoos are always singing,…
SB 4.6.13 There are tall trees with straight branches that appear to call the sweet birds, and when herds of elephants pass through the hills, it…
SB 4.6.14-15 The whole of Kailāsa Hill is decorated with various kinds of trees, of which the following names may be mentioned: mandāra, pārijāta,…
SB 4.6.16 There are other trees also which decorate the hill, such as the golden lotus flower, the cinnamon tree, mālatī, kubja, mallikā and mādhavī.
SB 4.6.17 Kailāsa Hill is also decorated with such trees as kata, jackfruit, julara, banyan trees, plakṣas, nyagrodhas and trees producing…
SB 4.6.18 There are mango trees, priyāla, madhuka and iṅguda. Besides these there are other trees, like thin bamboos, kīcaka and varieties of other…
SB 4.6.19-20 There are different kinds of lotus flowers, such as kumuda, utpala and śatapatra. The forest appears to be a decorated garden, and the…
SB 4.6.21 There are varieties of deer, such as karṇāntra, ekapada, aśvāsya, vṛka and kastūrī, the deer which bears musk. Besides the deer there are…
SB 4.6.22 There is a small lake named Alakanandā in which Satī used to take her bath, and that lake is especially auspicious. All the demigods,…
SB 4.6.23 Thus the demigods saw the wonderfully beautiful region known as Alakā in the forest known as Saugandhika, which means “full of fragrance.”…
SB 4.6.24 They also saw the two rivers named Nandā and Alakanandā. These two rivers are sanctified by the dust of the lotus feet of the Supreme…
SB 4.6.25 My dear Kṣattā, Vidura, the celestial damsels come down to those rivers in their airplanes with their husbands, and after sexual…
SB 4.6.26 After the damsels of the heavenly planets bathe in the water, it becomes yellowish and fragrant due to the kuṅkuma from their bodies. Thus…
SB 4.6.27 The airplanes of the heavenly denizens are bedecked with pearls, gold and many valuable jewels. The heavenly denizens are compared to…
SB 4.6.28 While traveling, the demigods passed over the forest known as Saugandhika, which is full of varieties of flowers, fruits and desire trees.…
SB 4.6.29 In that celestial forest there were many birds whose necks were colored reddish and whose sweet sounds mixed with the humming of the bees.…
SB 4.6.30 All these atmospheric influences unsettled the forest elephants who flocked together in the sandalwood forest, and the blowing wind…
SB 4.6.31 They also saw that the bathing ghāṭas and their staircases were made of vaidūrya-maṇi. The water was full of lotus flowers. Passing by…
SB 4.6.32 That banyan tree was eight hundred miles high, and its branches spread over six hundred miles around. The tree cast a fine shade which…
SB 4.6.33 The demigods saw Lord Śiva sitting under that tree, which was competent to give perfection to mystic yogīs and deliver all people. As…
SB 4.6.34 Lord Śiva sat there, surrounded by saintly persons like Kuvera, the master of the Guhyakas, and the four Kumāras, who were already…
SB 4.6.35 The demigods saw Lord Śiva situated in his perfection as the master of the senses, knowledge, fruitive activities and the path of…
SB 4.6.36 He was seated on a deerskin and was practicing all forms of austerity. Because his body was smeared with ashes, he looked like an evening…
SB 4.6.37 He was seated on a straw mattress and speaking to all present, including the great sage Nārada, to whom he specifically spoke about the…
SB 4.6.38 His left leg was placed on his right thigh, and his left hand was placed on his left thigh. [This sitting posture is called vīrāsana.] In…
SB 4.6.39 All the sages and demigods, headed by Indra, offered their respectful obeisances unto Lord Śiva with folded hands. Lord Śiva was dressed…
SB 4.6.40 Lord Śiva’s lotus feet were worshiped by both the demigods and demons, but still, in spite of his exalted position, as soon as he saw that…
SB 4.6.41 All the sages who were sitting with Lord Śiva, such as Nārada and others, also offered their respectful obeisances to Lord Brahmā. After…
SB 4.7.1 The sage Maitreya said: O mighty-armed Vidura, Lord Śiva, being thus pacified by the words of Lord Brahmā, spoke as follows in answer to…
SB 4.7.2 Lord Śiva said: My dear father, Brahmā, I do not mind the offenses created by the demigods. Because these demigods are childish and less…
SB 4.7.3 Lord Śiva continued: Since the head of Dakṣa has already been burned to ashes, he will have the head of a goat. The demigod known as Bhaga…
SB 4.7.4 The demigod Pūṣā will be able to chew only through the teeth of his disciples, and if alone, he will have to satisfy himself by eating…
SB 4.7.5 Those who have had their arms cut off will have to work with the arms of Aśvinī-kumāra, and those whose hands were cut off will have to do…
SB 4.7.6 The great sage Maitreya said: My dear Vidura, all the personalities present were very much satisfied in heart and soul upon hearing the…
SB 4.7.7 Thereafter, Bhṛgu, the chief of the great sages, invited Lord Śiva to come to the sacrificial arena. Thus the demigods, accompanied by the…
SB 4.7.8 After everything was executed exactly as directed by Lord Śiva, Dakṣa’s body was joined to the head of the animal meant to be killed in…
SB 4.7.9 When the animal’s head was fixed on the body of King Dakṣa, Dakṣa was immediately brought to consciousness, and as he awakened from sleep,…
SB 4.7.10 At that time, when Dakṣa saw Lord Śiva, who rides upon a bull, his heart, which was polluted by envy of Lord Śiva, was immediately…
SB 4.7.11 King Dakṣa wanted to offer prayers to Lord Śiva, but as he remembered the ill-fated death of his daughter Satī, his eyes filled with…
SB 4.7.12 At this time, King Dakṣa, afflicted by love and affection, was very much awakened to his real senses. With great endeavor, he pacified his…
SB 4.7.13 King Dakṣa said: My dear Lord Śiva, I committed a great offense against you, but you are so kind that instead of withdrawing your mercy,…
SB 4.7.14 My dear great and powerful Lord Śiva, you were created first from the mouth of Lord Brahmā in order to protect the brāhmaṇas in pursuing…
SB 4.7.15 I did not know your full glories. For this reason, I threw arrows of sharp words at you in the open assembly, although you did not take…
SB 4.7.16 The great sage Maitreya said: Thus being pardoned by Lord Śiva, King Dakṣa, with the permission of Lord Brahmā, again began the…
SB 4.7.17 Thereafter, in order to resume the activities of sacrifice, the brāhmaṇas first arranged to purify the sacrificial arena of the…
SB 4.7.18 The great sage Maitreya said to Vidura: My dear Vidura, as soon as King Dakṣa offered the clarified butter with Yajur Veda mantras in…
SB 4.7.19 Lord Nārāyaṇa was seated on the shoulder of Stotra, or Garuḍa, who had big wings. As soon as the Lord appeared, all directions were…
SB 4.7.20 His complexion was blackish, His garment yellow like gold, and His helmet as dazzling as the sun. His hair was bluish, the color of black…
SB 4.7.21 Lord Viṣṇu looked extraordinarily beautiful because the goddess of fortune and a garland were situated on His chest. His face was…
SB 4.7.22 As soon as Lord Viṣṇu was visible, all the demigods — Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, the Gandharvas and all present there — immediately…
SB 4.7.23 In the presence of the glaring effulgence of the bodily luster of Nārāyaṇa, everyone else’s luster faded away, and everyone stopped…
SB 4.7.24 Although the mental scope of even demigods like Brahmā was unable to comprehend the unlimited glories of the Supreme Lord, they were all…
SB 4.7.25 When Lord Viṣṇu accepted the oblations offered in the sacrifice, Dakṣa, the Prajāpati, began with great pleasure to offer respectful…
SB 4.7.26 Dakṣa addressed the Supreme Personality of Godhead: My dear Lord, You are transcendental to all speculative positions. You are completely…
SB 4.7.27 The priests addressed the Lord, saying: O Lord, transcendental to material contamination, by the curse offered by Lord Śiva’s men we have…
SB 4.7.28 The members of the assembly addressed the Lord: O exclusive shelter for all who are situated in troubled life, in this formidable fort of…
SB 4.7.29 Lord Śiva said: My dear Lord, my mind and consciousness are always fixed on Your lotus feet, which, as the source of all benediction and…
SB 4.7.30 Śrī Bhṛgu said: My dear Lord, all living entities, beginning from the highest, namely Lord Brahmā, down to the ordinary ant, are under the…
SB 4.7.48 Śrī Maitreya said: After Lord Viṣṇu was glorified by all present, Dakṣa, his consciousness purified, arranged to begin again the yajña…
SB 4.7.49 Maitreya continued: My dear sinless Vidura, Lord Viṣṇu is actually the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices, yet because of His being…
SB 4.7.50 Lord Viṣṇu replied: Brahmā, Lord Śiva and I are the supreme cause of the material manifestation. I am the Supersoul, the self-sufficient…
SB 4.7.51 The Lord continued: My dear Dakṣa Dvija, I am the original Personality of Godhead, but in order to create, maintain and annihilate this…
SB 4.7.52 The Lord continued: One who is not in proper knowledge thinks that demigods like Brahmā and Śiva are independent, or he even thinks that…
SB 4.7.53 A person with average intelligence does not think the head and other parts of the body to be separate. Similarly, My devotee does not…
SB 4.7.54 The Lord continued: One who does not consider Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva or the living entities in general to be separate from the Supreme, and…
SB 4.7.55 The sage Maitreya said: Thus Dakṣa, the head of all Prajāpatis, having been nicely instructed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
SB 4.7.56 With all respect, Dakṣa worshiped Lord Śiva with his share of the remnants of the yajña. After finishing the ritualistic sacrificial…
SB 4.7.57 Thus worshiping the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu by the ritualistic performance of sacrifice, Dakṣa was completely situated on the religious path.…
SB 4.7.58 Maitreya said: I have heard that after giving up the body she had received from Dakṣa, Dākṣāyaṇī (his daughter) took her birth in the…
SB 4.7.59 Ambikā [goddess Durgā], who was known as Dākṣāyiṇī [Satī], again accepted Lord Śiva as her husband, just as different energies of the…
SB 4.7.60 Maitreya said: My dear Vidura, I heard this story of the Dakṣa yajña, which was devastated by Lord Śiva, from Uddhava, a great devotee and…
SB 4.7.61 The great sage Maitreya concluded: If one hears and again narrates, with faith and devotion, this story of the Dakṣa yajña as it was…
SB 4.8.1 The great sage Maitreya said: The four great Kumāra sages headed by Sanaka, as well as Nārada, Ṛbhu, Haṁsa, Aruṇi and Yati, all sons of…
SB 4.8.2 Another son of Lord Brahmā was Irreligion, whose wife’s name was Falsity. From their combination were born two demons named Dambha, or…
SB 4.8.3 Maitreya told Vidura: O great soul, from Dambha and Māyā were born Greed and Nikṛti, or Cunning. From their combination came children…
SB 4.8.4 O greatest of all good men, by the combination of Kali and Harsh Speech were born children named Mṛtyu (Death) and Bhīti (Fear). From the…
SB 4.8.5 My dear Vidura, I have summarily explained the causes of devastation. One who hears this description three times attains piety and washes…
SB 4.8.6 Maitreya continued: O best of the Kuru dynasty, I shall now describe to you the descendants of Svāyambhuva Manu, who was born of a part of…
SB 4.8.7 Svāyambhuva Manu had two sons by his wife, Śatarūpā, and the names of the sons were Uttānapāda and Priyavrata. Because both of them were…
SB 4.8.8 King Uttānapāda had two queens, named Sunīti and Suruci. Suruci was much more dear to the King; Sunīti, who had a son named Dhruva, was…
SB 4.8.9 Once upon a time, King Uttānapāda was patting the son of Suruci, Uttama, placing him on his lap. Dhruva Mahārāja was also trying to get on…
SB 4.8.10 While the child, Dhruva Mahārāja, was trying to get on the lap of his father, Suruci, his stepmother, became very envious of the child,…
SB 4.8.11 Queen Suruci told Dhruva Mahārāja: My dear child, you do not deserve to sit on the throne or on the lap of the King. Surely you are also…
SB 4.8.12 My dear child, you are unaware that you were born not of my womb but of another woman. Therefore you should know that your attempt is…
SB 4.8.13 If you at all desire to rise to the throne of the King, then you have to undergo severe austerities. First of all you must satisfy the…
SB 4.8.14 The sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, as a snake, when struck by a stick, breathes very heavily, Dhruva Mahārāja, having been…
SB 4.8.15 When Dhruva Mahārāja reached his mother, his lips were trembling in anger, and he was crying very grievously. Queen Sunīti immediately…
SB 4.8.16 This incident was unbearable to Sunīti’s patience. She began to burn as if in a forest fire, and in her grief she became just like a burnt…
SB 4.8.17 She also was breathing very heavily, and she did not know the factual remedy for the painful situation. Not finding any remedy, she said…
SB 4.8.18 Sunīti said: My dear boy, whatever has been spoken by Suruci is so, because the King, your father, does not consider me his wife or even…
SB 4.8.19 My dear boy, whatever has been spoken by Suruci, your stepmother, although very harsh to hear, is factual. Therefore, if you desire at all…
SB 4.8.20 Sunīti continued: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is so great that simply by worshiping His lotus feet, your great-grandfather, Lord…
SB 4.8.21 Sunīti informed her son: Your grandfather Svāyambhuva Manu executed great sacrifices with distribution of charity, and thereby, with…
SB 4.8.22 My dear boy, you also should take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is very kind to His devotees. Persons seeking…
SB 4.8.23 My dear Dhruva, as far as I am concerned, I do not find anyone who can mitigate your distress but the Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
SB 4.8.24 The great sage Maitreya continued: The instruction of Dhruva Mahārāja’s mother, Sunīti, was actually meant for fulfilling his desired…
SB 4.8.25 The great sage Nārada overheard this news, and understanding all the activities of Dhruva Mahārāja, he was struck with wonder. He…
SB 4.8.26 How wonderful are the powerful kṣatriyas! They cannot tolerate even a slight infringement upon their prestige. Just imagine! This boy is…
SB 4.8.27 The great sage Nārada told Dhruva: My dear boy, you are only a little boy whose attachment is to sports and other frivolities. Why are you…
SB 4.8.28 My dear Dhruva, if you feel that your sense of honor has been insulted, you still have no cause for dissatisfaction. This kind of…
SB 4.8.29 The process of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very wonderful. One who is intelligent should accept that process and be satisfied…
SB 4.8.30 Now you have decided to undertake the mystic process of meditation under the instruction of your mother, just to achieve the mercy of the…
SB 4.8.31 Nārada Muni continued: After trying this process for many, many births and remaining unattached to material contamination, placing…
SB 4.8.32 For this reason, my dear boy, you should not endeavor for this; it will not be successful. It is better that you go home. When you are…
SB 4.8.33 One should try to keep himself satisfied in any condition of life — whether distress or happiness — which is offered by the supreme will.…
SB 4.8.34 Every man should act like this: when he meets a person more qualified than himself, he should be very pleased; when he meets someone less…
SB 4.8.35 Dhruva Mahārāja said: My dear Lord Nāradajī, for a person whose heart is disturbed by the material conditions of happiness and distress,…
SB 4.8.36 My dear lord, I am very impudent for not accepting your instructions, but this is not my fault. It is due to my having been born in a…
SB 4.8.37 O learned brāhmaṇa, I want to occupy a position more exalted than any yet achieved within the three worlds by anyone, even by my father…
SB 4.8.38 My dear lord, you are a worthy son of Lord Brahmā, and you travel, playing on your musical instrument, the vīṇā, for the welfare of the…
SB 4.8.39 The sage Maitreya continued: The great personality Nārada Muni, upon hearing the words of Dhruva Mahārāja, became very compassionate…
SB 4.8.40 The great sage Nārada told Dhruva Mahārāja: The instruction given by your mother, Sunīti, to follow the path of devotional service to the…
SB 4.8.41 Any person who desires the fruits of the four principles religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and, at the end,…
SB 4.8.42 My dear boy, I therefore wish all good fortune for you. You should go to the bank of the Yamunā, where there is a virtuous forest named…
SB 4.8.43 Nārada Muni instructed: My dear boy, in the waters of the Yamunā River, which is known as Kālindī, you should take three baths daily…
SB 4.8.44 After sitting on your seat, practice the three kinds of breathing exercises, and thus gradually control the life air, the mind and the…
SB 4.8.45 [The form of the Lord is described herein.] The Lord’s face is perpetually very beautiful and pleasing in attitude. To the devotees who…
SB 4.8.46 Nārada Muni continued: The Lord’s form is always youthful. Every limb and every part of His body is properly formed, free from defect. His…
SB 4.8.47 The Lord is further described as having the mark of Śrīvatsa, or the sitting place of the goddess of fortune, and His bodily hue is deep…
SB 4.8.48 The entire body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, is decorated. He wears a valuable jeweled helmet, necklaces and…
SB 4.8.49 The Lord is decorated with small golden bells around His waist, and His lotus feet are decorated with golden ankle bells. All His bodily…
SB 4.8.50 Real yogīs meditate upon the transcendental form of the Lord as He stands on the whorl of the lotus of their hearts, the jewellike nails…
SB 4.8.51 The Lord is always smiling, and the devotee should constantly see the Lord in this form, as He looks very mercifully toward the devotee.…
SB 4.8.52 One who meditates in this way, concentrating his mind upon the always auspicious form of the Lord, is very soon freed from all material…
SB 4.8.53 O son of the King, now I shall speak unto you the mantra which is to be chanted with this process of meditation. One who carefully chants…
SB 4.8.54 Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. This is the twelve-syllable mantra for worshiping Lord Kṛṣṇa. One should install the physical forms of the…
SB 4.8.55 One should worship the Lord by offering pure water, pure flower garlands, fruits, flowers and vegetables which are available in the…
SB 4.8.56 It is possible to worship a form of the Lord made of physical elements such as earth, water, pulp, wood and metal. In the forest one can…
SB 4.8.57 My dear Dhruva, besides worshiping the Deity and chanting the mantra three times a day, you should meditate upon the transcendental…
SB 4.8.58 One should follow in the footsteps of previous devotees regarding how to worship the Supreme Lord with the prescribed paraphernalia, or…
SB 4.8.59-60 Anyone who thus engages in the devotional service of the Lord, seriously and sincerely, with his mind, words and body, and who is fixed in…
SB 4.8.61 If one is very serious about liberation, he must stick to the process of transcendental loving service, engaging twenty-four hours a day…
SB 4.8.62 When Dhruva Mahārāja, the son of the King, was thus advised by the great sage Nārada, he circumambulated Nārada, his spiritual master, and…
SB 4.8.63 After Dhruva entered Madhuvana Forest to execute devotional service, the great sage Nārada thought it wise to go to the King to see how he…
SB 4.8.64 The great sage Nārada inquired: My dear King, your face appears to be withering up, and you look like you have been thinking of something…
SB 4.8.65 The King replied: O best of the brāhmaṇas, I am very much addicted to my wife, and I am so fallen that I have abandoned all merciful…
SB 4.8.66 My dear brāhmaṇa, the face of my son was just like a lotus flower. I am thinking of his precarious condition. He is unprotected, and he…
SB 4.8.67 Alas, just see how I was conquered by my wife! Just imagine my cruelty! Out of love and affection the boy was trying to get up on my lap,…
SB 4.8.68 The great sage Nārada replied: My dear King, please do not be aggrieved about your son. He is well protected by the Supreme Personality of…
SB 4.8.69 My dear King, your son is very competent. He will perform activities which would be impossible even for great kings and sages. Very soon…
SB 4.8.70 The great Maitreya continued: The King, Uttānapāda, after being advised by Nārada Muni, practically gave up all duties in relation with…
SB 4.8.71 Elsewhere, Dhruva Mahārāja, having arrived at Madhuvana, took his bath in the river Yamunā and observed fasting in the night with great…
SB 4.8.72 For the first month Dhruva Mahārāja ate only fruits and berries on every third day, only to keep his body and soul together, and in this…
SB 4.8.73 In the second month Dhruva Mahārāja ate only every six days, and for his eatables he took dry grass and leaves. Thus he continued his…
SB 4.8.74 In the third month he drank water only every nine days. Thus he remained completely in trance and worshiped the Supreme Personality of…
SB 4.8.75 In the fourth month Dhruva Mahārāja became a complete master of the breathing exercise, and thus he inhaled air only every twelfth day. In…
SB 4.8.76 By the fifth month, Mahārāja Dhruva, the son of the King, had controlled his breathing so perfectly that he was able to stand on only one…
SB 4.8.77 He completely controlled his senses and their objects, and in this way he fixed his mind, without diversion to anything else, upon the…
SB 4.8.78 When Dhruva Mahārāja thus captured the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the refuge of the total material creation and who is the…
SB 4.8.79 As Dhruva Mahārāja, the King’s son, kept himself steadily standing on one leg, the pressure of his big toe pushed down half the earth,…
SB 4.8.80 When Dhruva Mahārāja became practically one in heaviness with Lord Viṣṇu, the total consciousness, due to his fully concentrating and his…
SB 4.8.81 The demigods said: Dear Lord, You are the refuge of all moving and nonmoving living entities. We feel all living entities to be…
SB 4.8.82 The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: My dear demigods, do not be perturbed by this. It is due to the severe austerity and full…
SB 4.9.1 The great sage Maitreya told Vidura: When the demigods were thus reassured by the Personality of Godhead, they were freed from all fears,…
SB 4.9.2 The form of the Lord, which was brilliant like lightning and in which Dhruva Mahārāja, in his mature yogic process, was fully absorbed in…
SB 4.9.3 When Dhruva Mahārāja saw his Lord just in front of him, he was greatly agitated and offered Him obeisances and respect. He fell flat…
SB 4.9.4 Although Dhruva Mahārāja was a small boy, he wanted to offer prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead in suitable language. But…
SB 4.9.5 At that time Dhruva Mahārāja became perfectly aware of the Vedic conclusion and understood the Absolute Truth and His relationship with…
SB 4.9.6 Dhruva Mahārāja said: My dear Lord, You are all-powerful. After entering within me, You have enlivened all my sleeping senses — my hands,…
SB 4.9.7 My Lord, You are the supreme one, but by Your different energies You appear differently in the spiritual and material worlds. You create…
SB 4.9.8 O my master, Lord Brahmā is fully surrendered unto You. In the beginning You gave him knowledge, and thus he could see and understand the…
SB 4.9.9 Persons who worship You simply for the sense gratification of this bag of skin are certainly influenced by Your illusory energy. In spite…
SB 4.9.10 My Lord, the transcendental bliss derived from meditating upon Your lotus feet or hearing about Your glories from pure devotees is so…
SB 4.9.11 Dhruva Mahārāja continued: O unlimited Lord, kindly bless me so that I may associate with great devotees who engage in Your transcendental…
SB 4.9.12 O Lord who have a lotus navel, if a person happens to associate with a devotee whose heart always hankers after Your lotus feet, seeking…
SB 4.9.13 My dear Lord, O Supreme Unborn, I know that the different varieties of living entities, such as animals, trees, birds, reptiles, demigods…
SB 4.9.14 My dear Lord, at the end of each millennium the Supreme Personality of Godhead Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu dissolves everything manifested within…
SB 4.9.15 My Lord, by Your unbroken transcendental glance You are the supreme witness of all stages of intellectual activities. You are eternally…
SB 4.9.16 My dear Lord, in Your impersonal manifestation of Brahman there are always two opposing elements — knowledge and ignorance. Your…
SB 4.9.17 My Lord, O Supreme Lord, You are the supreme personified form of all benediction. Therefore, for one who abides in Your devotional service…
SB 4.9.18 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, when Dhruva Mahārāja, who had good intentions in his heart, finished his prayer, the…
SB 4.9.26 The great sage Maitreya said: After being worshiped and honored by the boy [Dhruva Mahārāja], and after offering him His abode, Lord…
SB 4.9.27 Despite having achieved the desired result of his determination by worshiping the lotus feet of the Lord, Dhruva Mahārāja was not very…
SB 4.9.28 Śrī Vidura inquired: My dear brāhmaṇa, the abode of the Lord is very difficult to attain. It can be attained only by pure devotional…
SB 4.9.29 Maitreya answered: Dhruva Mahārāja’s heart, which was pierced by the arrows of the harsh words of his stepmother, was greatly aggrieved,…
SB 4.9.30 Dhruva Mahārāja thought to himself: To endeavor to be situated in the shade of the lotus feet of the Lord is not an ordinary task, because…
SB 4.9.31 Alas, just look at me! I am so unfortunate. I approached the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can immediately cut the…
SB 4.9.32 Since all the demigods who are situated in the higher planetary system will have to come down again, they are all envious of my being…
SB 4.9.33 Dhruva Mahārāja lamented: I was under the influence of the illusory energy; being ignorant of the actual facts, I was sleeping on her lap.…
SB 4.9.34 It is very difficult to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but in my case, although I have satisfied the Supersoul of the whole…
SB 4.9.35 Because of my state of complete foolishness and paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal service, I wanted…
SB 4.9.36 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, persons like you, who are pure devotees of the lotus feet of Mukunda [the Supreme…
SB 4.9.37 When King Uttānapāda heard that his son Dhruva was coming back home, as if coming back to life after death, he could not put his faith in…
SB 4.9.38 Although he could not believe the words of the messenger, he had full faith in the word of the great sage Nārada. Thus he was greatly…
SB 4.9.39-40 Then King Uttānapāda, being very eager to see the face of his lost son, mounted a chariot drawn by excellent horses and bedecked with…
SB 4.9.41 Both the queens of King Uttānapāda, namely Sunīti and Suruci, along with his other son, Uttama, appeared in the procession. The queens…
SB 4.9.42-43 Upon seeing Dhruva Mahārāja approaching the neighboring small forest, King Uttānapāda with great haste got down from his chariot. He had…
SB 4.9.44 Reunion with Dhruva Mahārāja fulfilled King Uttānapāda’s long-cherished desire, and for this reason he smelled Dhruva’s head again and…
SB 4.9.45 Then Dhruva Mahārāja, the foremost of all nobles, first of all offered his obeisances at the feet of his father and was honored by his…
SB 4.9.46 Suruci, the younger mother of Dhruva Mahārāja, seeing that the innocent boy had fallen at her feet, immediately picked him up, embracing…
SB 4.9.47 Unto one who has transcendental qualities due to friendly behavior with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all living entities offer…
SB 4.9.48 The two brothers Uttama and Dhruva Mahārāja also exchanged their tears. They were overwhelmed by the ecstasy of love and affection, and…
SB 4.9.49 Sunīti, the real mother of Dhruva Mahārāja, embraced the tender body of her son, who was dearer to her than her own life, and thus forgot…
SB 4.9.50 My dear Vidura, Sunīti was the mother of a great hero. Her tears, together with the milk flowing from her breasts, wet the whole body of…
SB 4.9.51 The residents of the palace praised the Queen: Dear Queen, your beloved son was lost a long time ago, and it is your great fortune that he…
SB 4.9.52 Dear Queen, you must have worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who delivers His devotees from the greatest danger. Persons who…
SB 4.9.53 The sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, when everyone was thus praising Dhruva Mahārāja, the King was very happy, and he had Dhruva…
SB 4.9.54 The whole city was decorated with columns of banana trees containing bunches of fruits and flowers, and betel-nut trees with leaves and…
SB 4.9.55 At each and every gate there were burning lamps and big waterpots decorated with differently colored cloth, strings of pearls, flower…
SB 4.9.56 In the capital city there were many palaces, city gates and surrounding walls, which were already very, very beautiful, and on this…
SB 4.9.57 All the quadrangles, lanes and streets in the city, and the raised sitting places at the crossings, were thoroughly cleansed and sprinkled…
SB 4.9.58-59 Thus as Dhruva Mahārāja passed on the road, from every place in the neighborhood all the gentle household ladies assembled to see him, and…
SB 4.9.60 Dhruva Mahārāja thereafter lived in his father’s palace, which had walls bedecked with highly valuable jewels. His affectionate father…
SB 4.9.61 The bedding in the palace was as white as the foam of milk and was very soft. The bedsteads were made of ivory with embellishments of…
SB 4.9.62 The palace of the King was surrounded by walls made of marble with many engravings made of valuable jewels like sapphires, which depicted…
SB 4.9.63 The King’s residence was surrounded by gardens wherein there were varieties of trees brought from the heavenly planets. In those trees…
SB 4.9.64 There were emerald staircases which led to lakes full of variously colored lotus flowers and lilies, and swans, kāraṇḍavas, cakravākas,…
SB 4.9.65 The saintly King Uttānapāda, hearing of the glorious deeds of Dhruva Mahārāja and personally seeing also how influential and great he was,…
SB 4.9.66 When, after concentration, King Uttānapāda saw that Dhruva Mahārāja was suitably mature to take charge of the kingdom and that his…
SB 4.9.67 After considering his advanced age and deliberating on the welfare of his spiritual self, King Uttānapāda detached himself from worldly…
SB 4.10.1 The great sage Maitreya said: My dear Vidura, thereafter Dhruva Mahārāja married the daughter of Prajāpati Śiśumāra, whose name was…
SB 4.10.2 The greatly powerful Dhruva Mahārāja had another wife, named Ilā, who was the daughter of the demigod Vāyu. By her he begot a son named…
SB 4.10.3 Dhruva Mahārāja’s younger brother Uttama, who was still unmarried, once went on a hunting excursion and was killed by a powerful Yakṣa in…
SB 4.10.4 When Dhruva Mahārāja heard of the killing of his brother Uttama by the Yakṣas in the Himālaya Mountains, being overwhelmed with…
SB 4.10.5 Dhruva Mahārāja went to the northern direction of the Himālayan range. In a valley he saw a city full of ghostly persons who were…
SB 4.10.6 Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, as soon as Dhruva Mahārāja reached Alakāpurī, he immediately blew his conchshell, and the sound…
SB 4.10.7 O hero Vidura, the greatly powerful heroes of the Yakṣas, unable to tolerate the resounding vibration of the conchshell of Dhruva…
SB 4.10.8 Dhruva Mahārāja, who was a great charioteer and certainly a great bowman also, immediately began to kill them by simultaneously…
SB 4.10.9 When the heroes of the Yakṣas saw that all their heads were being thus threatened by Dhruva Mahārāja, they could very easily understand…
SB 4.10.10 Just like serpents, who cannot tolerate being trampled upon by anyone’s feet, the Yakṣas, being intolerant of the wonderful prowess of…
SB 4.10.11-12 The Yakṣa soldiers were 130,000 strong, all greatly angry and all desiring to defeat the wonderful activities of Dhruva Mahārāja. With…
SB 4.10.13 Dhruva Mahārāja was completely covered by an incessant shower of weapons, just as a mountain is covered by incessant rainfall.
SB 4.10.14 All the Siddhas from the higher planetary systems were observing the fight from the sky, and when they saw that Dhruva Mahārāja had been…
SB 4.10.15 The Yakṣas, being temporarily victorious, exclaimed that they had conquered Dhruva Mahārāja. But in the meantime Dhruva’s chariot suddenly…
SB 4.10.16 Dhruva Mahārāja’s bow and arrows twanged and hissed, causing lamentation in the hearts of his enemies. He began to shoot incessant arrows,…
SB 4.10.17 The sharp arrows released from the bow of Dhruva Mahārāja pierced the shields and bodies of the enemy, like the thunderbolts released by…
SB 4.10.18-19 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, the heads of those who were cut to pieces by the arrows of Dhruva Mahārāja were…
SB 4.10.20 The remaining Yakṣas who somehow or other were not killed had their limbs cut to pieces by the arrows of the great warrior Dhruva…
SB 4.10.21 Dhruva Mahārāja, the best of human beings, observed that in that great battlefield not one of the opposing soldiers was left standing with…
SB 4.10.22 In the meantime, while Dhruva Mahārāja, doubtful of his mystic enemies, was talking with his charioteer, they heard a tremendous sound, as…
SB 4.10.23 Within a moment the whole sky was overcast with dense clouds, and severe thundering was heard. There was glittering electric lightning and…
SB 4.10.24 My dear faultless Vidura, in that rainfall there was blood, mucus, pus, stool, urine and marrow falling heavily before Dhruva Mahārāja,…
SB 4.10.25 Next, a great mountain was visible in the sky, and from all directions hailstones fell, along with lances, clubs, swords, iron bludgeons…
SB 4.10.26 Dhruva Mahārāja also saw many big serpents with angry eyes, vomiting forth fire and coming to devour him, along with groups of mad…
SB 4.10.27 Then, as if it were the time of the dissolution of the whole world, the fierce sea with foaming waves and great roaring sounds came…
SB 4.10.28 The demon Yakṣas are by nature very heinous, and by their demoniac power of illusion they can create many strange phenomena to frighten…
SB 4.10.29 When the great sages heard that Dhruva Mahārāja was overpowered by the illusory mystic tricks of the demons, they immediately assembled to…
SB 4.10.30 All the sages said: Dear Dhruva, O son of King Uttānapāda, may the Supreme Personality of Godhead known as Śārṅgadhanvā, who relieves the…
SB 4.11.1 Śrī Maitreya said: My dear Vidura, when Dhruva Mahārāja heard the encouraging words of the great sages, he performed the ācamana by…
SB 4.11.2 As soon as Dhruva Mahārāja joined the nārāyaṇāstra arrow to his bow, the illusion created by the Yakṣas was immediately vanquished, just…
SB 4.11.3 Even as Dhruva Mahārāja fixed the weapon made by Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi onto his bow, arrows with golden shafts and feathers like the wings of a…
SB 4.11.4 Those sharp arrows dismayed the enemy soldiers, who became almost unconscious, but various Yakṣas on the battlefield, in a rage against…
SB 4.11.5 When Dhruva Mahārāja saw the Yakṣas coming forward, he immediately took his arrows and cut the enemies to pieces. Separating their arms,…
SB 4.11.6 When Svāyambhuva Manu saw that his grandson Dhruva Mahārāja was killing so many of the Yakṣas who were not actually offenders, out of his…
SB 4.11.7 Lord Manu said: My dear son, please stop. It is not good to become unnecessarily angry — it is the path to hellish life. Now you are going…
SB 4.11.8 My dear son, the killing of the sinless Yakṣas which you have undertaken is not at all approved by authorities, and it does not befit our…
SB 4.11.9 My dear son, it has been proved that you are very much affectionate towards your brother and are greatly aggrieved at his being killed by…
SB 4.11.10 One should not accept the body as the self and thus, like the animals, kill the bodies of others. This is especially forbidden by saintly…
SB 4.11.11 It is very difficult to achieve the spiritual abode of Hari, in the Vaikuṇṭha planets, but you are so fortunate that you are already…
SB 4.11.12 Because you are a pure devotee of the Lord, the Lord is always thinking of you, and you are also recognized by all His confidential…
SB 4.11.13 The Lord is very satisfied with His devotee when the devotee greets other people with tolerance, mercy, friendship and equality.
SB 4.11.14 One who actually satisfies the Supreme Personality of Godhead during one’s lifetime becomes liberated from the gross and subtle material…
SB 4.11.15 The creation of the material world begins with the five elements, and thus everything, including the body of a man or a woman, is created…
SB 4.11.16 Manu continued: My dear King Dhruva, it is simply by the illusory material energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and by the…
SB 4.11.17 My dear Dhruva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is uncontaminated by the material modes of nature. He is the remote cause of the…
SB 4.11.18 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by His inconceivable supreme energy, time, causes the interaction of the three modes of material…
SB 4.11.19 My dear Dhruva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is ever existing, but in the form of time He is the killer of everything. He has no…
SB 4.11.20 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His feature of eternal time, is present in the material world and is neutral towards everyone. No…
SB 4.11.21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is all-powerful, and He awards the results of one’s fruitive activities. Thus, although one…
SB 4.11.22 The differentiation among varieties of life and their suffering and enjoyment is explained by some to be the result of karma. Others say…
SB 4.11.23 The Absolute Truth, Transcendence, is never subject to the understanding of imperfect sensory endeavor, nor is He subject to direct…
SB 4.11.24 My dear son, those Yakṣas, who are descendants of Kuvera, are not actually the killers of your brother; the birth and death of every…
SB 4.11.25 The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates this material world, maintains it, and annihilates it in due course of time, but because He is…
SB 4.11.26 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supersoul of all living entities. He is the controller and maintainer of everyone; through the…
SB 4.11.27 My dear boy Dhruva, please surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the ultimate goal of the progress of the world.…
SB 4.11.28 My dear Dhruva, at the age of only five years you were very grievously afflicted by the words of your mother’s co-wife, and you very…
SB 4.11.29 Therefore, my dear Dhruva, please turn your attention to the Supreme Person, who is the infallible Brahman. Face the Supreme Personality…
SB 4.11.30 Thus regaining your natural position and rendering service unto the Supreme Lord, who is the all-powerful reservoir of all pleasure and…
SB 4.11.31 My dear King, just consider what I have said to you, which will act as medicinal treatment upon disease. Control your anger, for anger is…
SB 4.11.32 A person who desires liberation from this material world should not fall under the control of anger because when bewildered by anger one…
SB 4.11.33 My dear Dhruva, you thought that the Yakṣas killed your brother, and therefore you have killed great numbers of them. But by this action…
SB 4.11.34 For this reason, my son, you should immediately pacify Kuvera with gentle words and prayers, and thus his wrath may not affect our family.
SB 4.11.35 Thus Svāyambhuva Manu, after giving instruction to Dhruva Mahārāja, his grandson, received respectful obeisances from him. Then Lord Manu…
SB 4.12.1 The great sage Maitreya said: My dear Vidura, Dhruva Mahārāja’s anger subsided, and he completely ceased killing Yakṣas. When Kuvera, the…
SB 4.12.2 The master of the treasury, Kuvera, said: O sinless son of a kṣatriya, I am very glad to know that under the instruction of your…
SB 4.12.3 Actually, you have not killed the Yakṣas, nor have they killed your brother, for the ultimate cause of generation and annihilation is the…
SB 4.12.4 Misidentification of oneself and others as “I” and “you” on the basis of the bodily concept of life is a product of ignorance. This bodily…
SB 4.12.5 My dear Dhruva, come forward. May the Lord always grace you with good fortune. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is beyond our…
SB 4.12.6 Engage yourself fully, therefore, in the devotional service of the Lord, for only He can deliver us from this entanglement of…
SB 4.12.7 My dear Dhruva Mahārāja, son of Mahārāja Uttānapāda, we have heard that you are constantly engaged in transcendental loving service to the…
SB 4.12.8 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, when thus asked to accept a benediction from Kuvera the Yakṣarāja [King of the Yakṣas],…
SB 4.12.9 The son of Iḍaviḍā, Lord Kuvera, was very pleased, and happily he gave Dhruva Mahārāja the benediction he wanted. Thereafter he…
SB 4.12.10 As long as he remained at home, Dhruva Mahārāja performed many great ceremonial sacrifices in order to please the enjoyer of all…
SB 4.12.11 Dhruva Mahārāja rendered devotional service unto the Supreme, the reservoir of everything, with unrelenting force. While carrying out his…
SB 4.12.12 Dhruva Mahārāja was endowed with all godly qualities; he was very respectful to the devotees of the Supreme Lord and very kind to the poor…
SB 4.12.13 Dhruva Mahārāja ruled over this planet for thirty-six thousand years; he diminished the reactions of pious activities by enjoyment, and by…
SB 4.12.14 The self-controlled great soul Dhruva Mahārāja thus passed many, many years favorably executing three kinds of worldly activities, namely…
SB 4.12.15 Śrīla Dhruva Mahārāja realized that this cosmic manifestation bewilders living entities like a dream or phantasmagoria because it is a…
SB 4.12.16 Thus Dhruva Mahārāja, at the end, left his kingdom, which extended all over the earth and was bounded by the great oceans. He considered…
SB 4.12.17 In Badarikāśrama Dhruva Mahārāja’s senses became completely purified because he bathed regularly in the crystal-clear, purified water. He…
SB 4.12.18 Because of his transcendental bliss, incessant tears flowed from his eyes, his heart melted, and there was shivering and standing of the…
SB 4.12.19 As soon as the symptoms of his liberation were manifest, he saw a very beautiful airplane coming down from the sky, as if the brilliant…
SB 4.12.20 Dhruva Mahārāja saw two very beautiful associates of Lord Viṣṇu in the plane. They had four hands and a blackish bodily luster, they were…
SB 4.12.21 Dhruva Mahārāja, seeing that these uncommon personalities were direct servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, immediately stood…
SB 4.12.22 Dhruva Mahārāja was always absorbed in thinking of the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa. His heart was full with Kṛṣṇa. When the two confidential…
SB 4.12.23 Nanda and Sunanda, the two confidential associates of Lord Viṣṇu, said: Dear King, let there be all good fortune unto you. Please…
SB 4.12.24 We are representatives of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the creator of the whole universe, who carries in His hand the bow named…
SB 4.12.25 To achieve Viṣṇuloka is very difficult, but by your austerity you have conquered. Even the great ṛṣis and demigods cannot achieve this…
SB 4.12.26 Dear King Dhruva, neither your forefathers nor anyone else before you ever achieved such a transcendental planet. The planet known as…
SB 4.12.27 O immortal one, this unique airplane has been sent by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is worshiped by selected prayers and who is…
SB 4.12.28 The great sage Maitreya continued: Mahārāja Dhruva was very dear to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When he heard the sweet speeches…
SB 4.12.29 Before getting aboard, Dhruva Mahārāja worshiped the airplane, circumambulated it, and also offered obeisances to the associates of Viṣṇu.…
SB 4.12.30 When Dhruva Mahārāja was attempting to get on the transcendental plane, he saw death personified approach him. Not caring for death,…
SB 4.12.31 At that time drums and kettledrums resounded from the sky, the chief Gandharvas began to sing, and other demigods showered flowers like…
SB 4.12.32 Dhruva was seated in the transcendental airplane, which was just about to start, when he remembered his poor mother, Sunīti. He thought to…
SB 4.12.33 The great associates of Vaikuṇṭhaloka, Nanda and Sunanda, could understand the mind of Dhruva Mahārāja, and thus they showed him that his…
SB 4.12.34 While Dhruva Mahārāja was passing through space, he gradually saw all the planets of the solar system, and on the path he saw all the…
SB 4.12.35 Dhruva Mahārāja thus surpassed the seven planetary systems of the great sages who are known as saptarṣi. Beyond that region, he achieved…
SB 4.12.36 The self-effulgent Vaikuṇṭha planets, by whose illumination alone all the illuminating planets within this material world give off…
SB 4.12.37 Persons who are peaceful, equipoised, cleansed and purified, and who know the art of pleasing all other living entities, keep friendship…
SB 4.12.38 In this way, the fully Kṛṣṇa conscious Dhruva Mahārāja, the exalted son of Mahārāja Uttānapāda, attained the summit of the three statuses…
SB 4.12.39 Saint Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, descendant of Kuru, as a herd of bulls circumambulates a central pole on their right side, all…
SB 4.12.40 After observing the glories of Dhruva Mahārāja, the great sage Nārada, playing his vīṇā, went to the sacrificial arena of the Pracetās and…
SB 4.21.45 The great sage Maitreya said: After hearing King Pṛthu speak so nicely, all the demigods, the denizens of Pitṛloka, the brāhmaṇas and the…
SB 4.21.46 They all declared that the Vedic conclusion that one can conquer the heavenly planets by the action of a putra, or son, was fulfilled, for…
SB 4.21.47 Similarly, Hiraṇyakaśipu, who by dint of his sinful activities always defied the supremacy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, entered…
SB 4.21.48 All the saintly brāhmaṇas thus addressed Pṛthu Mahārāja: O best of the warriors, O father of this globe, may you be blessed with a long…
SB 4.21.49 The audience continued: Dear King Pṛthu, your reputation is the purest of all, for you are preaching the glories of the most glorified of…
SB 4.21.50 Our dear lord, it is your occupational duty to rule over your citizens. That is not a very wonderful task for a personality like you, who…
SB 4.21.51 The citizens continued: Today you have opened our eyes and revealed how to cross to the other side of the ocean of darkness. By our past…
SB 4.21.52 Dear lord, you are situated in your pure existential position of goodness; therefore you are the perfect representative of the Supreme…
SB 4.22.1 The great sage Maitreya said: While the citizens were thus praying to the most powerful King Pṛthu, the four Kumāras, who were as bright…
SB 4.22.2 Seeing the glowing effulgence of the four Kumāras, the masters of all mystic power, the King and his associates could recognize them as…
SB 4.22.3 Seeing the four Kumāras, Pṛthu Mahārāja was greatly anxious to receive them. Therefore the King, with all his officers, very hastily got…
SB 4.22.4 When the great sages accepted their reception, according to the instructions of the śāstras, and finally took their seats offered by the…
SB 4.22.5 After this, the King took the water which had washed the lotus feet of the Kumāras and sprinkled it over his hair. By such respectful…
SB 4.22.6 The four great sages were elder to Lord Śiva, and when they were seated on the golden throne, they appeared just like fire blazing on an…
SB 4.22.7 King Pṛthu spoke: My dear great sages, auspiciousness personified, it is very difficult for even the mystic yogīs to see you. Indeed, you…
SB 4.22.8 Any person upon whom the brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas are pleased can achieve anything which is very rare to obtain in this world as well as…
SB 4.22.9 Pṛthu Mahārāja continued: Although you are traveling in all planetary systems, people cannot know you, just as they cannot know the…
SB 4.22.10 A person who is not very rich and is attached to family life becomes highly glorified when saintly persons are present in his home. The…
SB 4.22.11 On the contrary, even though full of all opulence and material prosperity, any householder’s house where the devotees of the Lord are…
SB 4.22.12 Mahārāja Pṛthu offered his welcome to the four Kumāras, addressing them as the best of the brāhmaṇas. He welcomed them, saying: From the…
SB 4.22.13 Pṛthu Mahārāja inquired from the sages about persons entangled in this dangerous material existence because of their previous actions.…
SB 4.22.14 Pṛthu Mahārāja continued: My dear sirs, there is no need to ask about your good and bad fortune because you are always absorbed in…
SB 4.22.15 I am completely assured that personalities like you are the only friends for persons who are blazing in the fire of material existence. I…
SB 4.22.16 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always anxious to elevate the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, and for their special…
SB 4.22.17 The great sage Maitreya continued: Thus Sanat-kumāra, the best of the celibates, after hearing the speech of Pṛthu Mahārāja, which was…
SB 4.22.18 Sanat-kumāra said: My dear King Pṛthu, I am very nicely questioned by you. Such questions are beneficial for all living entities,…
SB 4.22.19 When there is a congregation of devotees, their discussions, questions and answers become conclusive to both the speaker and the audience.…
SB 4.22.20 Sanat-kumāra continued: My dear King, you already have an inclination to glorify the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.…
SB 4.22.21 It has been conclusively decided in the scriptures, after due consideration, that the ultimate goal for the welfare of human society is…
SB 4.22.22 Attachment for the Supreme can be increased by practicing devotional service, inquiring about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, applying…
SB 4.22.23 One has to make progress in spiritual life by not associating with persons who are simply interested in sense gratification and making…
SB 4.22.24 A candidate for spiritual advancement must be nonviolent, must follow in the footsteps of great ācāryas, must always remember the nectar…
SB 4.22.25 The devotee should gradually increase the culture of devotional service by constant hearing of the transcendental qualities of the Supreme…
SB 4.22.26 Upon becoming fixed in his attachment to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the grace of the spiritual master and by awakening…
SB 4.22.27 When a person becomes devoid of all material desires and liberated from all material qualities, he transcends distinctions between actions…
SB 4.22.28 When the soul exists for sense gratification, he creates different desires, and for that reason he becomes subjected to designations. But…
SB 4.22.29 Only because of different causes does a person see a difference between himself and others, just as one sees the reflection of a body…
SB 4.22.30 When one’s mind and senses are attracted to sense objects for enjoyment, the mind becomes agitated. As a result of continually thinking of…
SB 4.22.31 When one deviates from his original consciousness, he loses the capacity to remember his previous position or recognize his present one.…
SB 4.22.32 There is no stronger obstruction to one’s self-interest than thinking other subject matters to be more pleasing than one’s self-realization.
SB 4.22.33 For human society, constantly thinking of how to earn money and apply it for sense gratification brings about the destruction of…
SB 4.22.34 Those who strongly desire to cross the ocean of nescience must not associate with the modes of ignorance, for hedonistic activities are…
SB 4.22.35 Out of the four principles — namely religion, economic development, sense gratification and liberation — liberation has to be taken very…
SB 4.22.36 We accept as blessings different states of higher life, distinguishing them from lower states of life, but we should know that such…
SB 4.22.37 Sanat-kumāra advised the King: Therefore, my dear King Pṛthu, try to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is living within…
SB 4.22.38 The Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself as one with the cause and effect within this body, but one who has transcended the…
SB 4.22.39 The devotees, who are always engaged in the service of the toes of the lotus feet of the Lord, can very easily overcome hard-knotted…
SB 4.22.40 The ocean of nescience is very difficult to cross because it is infested with many dangerous sharks. Although those who are nondevotees…
SB 4.22.41 The great sage Maitreya continued: Being thus enlightened in complete spiritual knowledge by the son of Brahmā — one of the Kumāras, who…
SB 4.22.42 The King said: O brāhmaṇa, O powerful one, formerly Lord Viṣṇu showed me His causeless mercy, indicating that you would come to my house,…
SB 4.22.43 My dear brāhmaṇa, you have carried out the order thoroughly because you are also as compassionate as the Lord. It is my duty, therefore,…
SB 4.22.44 The King continued: Therefore, my dear brāhmaṇas, my life, wife, children, home, furniture and household paraphernalia, my kingdom,…
SB 4.22.45 Since only a person who is completely educated according to the principles of Vedic knowledge deserves to be commander-in-chief, ruler of…
SB 4.22.46 The kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras eat their food by virtue of the brāhmaṇas’ mercy. It is the brāhmaṇas who enjoy their own property,…
SB 4.22.47 Pṛthu Mahārāja continued: How can such persons, who have rendered unlimited service by explaining the path of self-realization in relation…
SB 4.22.48 The great sage Maitreya continued: Being thus worshiped by Mahārāja Pṛthu, the four Kumāras, who were masters of devotional service,…
SB 4.22.49 Amongst great personalities, Mahārāja Pṛthu was the chief by virtue of his fixed position in relation to spiritual enlightenment. He…
SB 4.22.50 Being self-satisfied, Mahārāja Pṛthu executed his duties as perfectly as possible according to the time and his situation, strength and…
SB 4.22.51 Mahārāja Pṛthu completely dedicated himself to be an eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, transcendental to material…
SB 4.22.52 Mahārāja Pṛthu, who was very opulent due to the prosperity of his entire empire, remained at home as a householder. Since he was never…
SB 4.22.53 Being situated in the liberated position of devotional service, Pṛthu Mahārāja not only performed all fruitive activities but also begot…
SB 4.22.54 After begetting five sons, named Vijitāśva, Dhūmrakeśa, Haryakṣa, Draviṇa and Vṛka, Pṛthu Mahārāja continued to rule the planet. He…
SB 4.22.55 Since Mahārāja Pṛthu was a perfect devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he wanted to protect the Lord’s creation by pleasing the…
SB 4.22.56 Mahārāja Pṛthu became as celebrated a king as Soma-rāja, the king of the moon. He was also powerful and exacting, just like the sun-god,…
SB 4.22.57 Mahārāja Pṛthu was so strong and powerful that no one could disobey his orders, any more than one could conquer fire itself. He was so…
SB 4.22.58 Just as rainfall satisfies everyone’s desires, Mahārāja Pṛthu used to satisfy everyone. He was like the sea in that no one could…
SB 4.22.59 Mahārāja Pṛthu’s intelligence and education were exactly like that of Yamarāja, the superintendent of death. His opulence was comparable…
SB 4.22.60 In his bodily strength and in the strength of his senses, Mahārāja Pṛthu was as strong as the wind, which can go anywhere and everywhere.…
SB 4.22.61 In his bodily beauty he was just like Cupid, and in his thoughtfulness he was like a lion. In his affection he was just like Svāyambhuva…
SB 4.22.62 In his personal behavior, Pṛthu Mahārāja exhibited all good qualities, and in spiritual knowledge he was exactly like Bṛhaspati. In…
SB 4.22.63 Throughout the whole universe — in the higher, lower and middle planetary systems — Pṛthu Mahārāja’s reputation was loudly declared, and…
SB 4.23.1-3 At the last stage of his life, when Mahārāja Pṛthu saw himself getting old, that great soul, who was king of the world, divided whatever…
SB 4.23.4 After retiring from family life, Mahārāja Pṛthu strictly followed the regulations of retired life and underwent severe austerities in the…
SB 4.23.5 In the tapo-vana, Mahārāja Pṛthu sometimes ate the trunks and roots of trees, sometimes he ate fruit and dried leaves, and for some weeks…
SB 4.23.6 Following the principles of forest living and the footsteps of the great sages and munis, Pṛthu Mahārāja accepted five kinds of heating…
SB 4.23.7 Mahārāja Pṛthu underwent all these severe austerities in order to control his words and his senses, to refrain from discharging his semen…
SB 4.23.8 By thus practicing severe austerities, Mahārāja Pṛthu gradually became steadfast in spiritual life and completely free of all desires for…
SB 4.23.9 Thus the best amongst human beings, Mahārāja Pṛthu, followed that path of spiritual advancement which was advised by Sanat-kumāra. That is…
SB 4.23.10 Mahārāja Pṛthu thus engaged completely in devotional service, executing the rules and regulations strictly according to principles,…
SB 4.23.11 By regularly discharging devotional service, Pṛthu Mahārāja became transcendental in mind and could therefore constantly think of the…
SB 4.23.12 When he became completely free from the conception of bodily life, Mahārāja Pṛthu realized Lord Kṛṣṇa sitting in everyone’s heart as the…
SB 4.23.13 In due course of time, when Pṛthu Mahārāja was to give up his body, he fixed his mind firmly upon the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, and thus,…
SB 4.23.14 When Mahārāja Pṛthu practiced a particular yogic sitting posture, he blocked the door of his anus with his ankles, pressed his right and…
SB 4.23.15 In this way, Pṛthu Mahārāja gradually raised his air of life up to the hole in his skull, whereupon he lost all desire for material…
SB 4.23.16 In this way, according to the different positions of the various parts of the body, Pṛthu Mahārāja merged the holes of his senses with the…
SB 4.23.17 He amalgamated the mind with the senses and the senses with the sense objects, according to their respective positions, and he also…
SB 4.23.18 Pṛthu Mahārāja then offered the total designation of the living entity unto the supreme controller of illusory energy. Being released from…
SB 4.23.19 The Queen, the wife of Pṛthu Mahārāja, whose name was Arci, followed her husband into the forest. Since she was a queen, her body was very…
SB 4.23.20 Although she was not accustomed to such difficulties, Queen Arci followed her husband in the regulative principles of living in the forest…
SB 4.23.21 When Queen Arci saw that her husband, who had been so merciful to her and the earth, no longer showed symptoms of life, she lamented for a…
SB 4.23.22 After this, the Queen executed the necessary funerary functions and offered oblations of water. After bathing in the river, she offered…
SB 4.23.23 After observing this brave act performed by the chaste wife Arci, the wife of the great King Pṛthu, many thousands of the wives of the…
SB 4.23.24 At that time the demigods were situated on the top of Mandara Hill, and all their wives began to shower flowers on the funeral pyre and…
SB 4.23.25 The wives of the demigods said: All glories to Queen Arci! We can see that this queen of the great King Pṛthu, the emperor of all the…
SB 4.23.26 The wives of the demigods continued: Just see how this chaste lady, Arci, by dint of her inconceivable pious activities, is still…
SB 4.23.27 In this material world, every human being has a short span of life, but those who are engaged in devotional service go back home, back to…
SB 4.23.28 Any person who engages himself within this material world in performing activities that necessitate great struggle, and who, after…
SB 4.23.29 The great sage Maitreya continued speaking: My dear Vidura, when the wives of the denizens of heaven were thus talking amongst themselves,…
SB 4.23.30 Maitreya continued: The greatest of all devotees, Mahārāja Pṛthu, was very powerful, and his character was liberal, magnificent and…
SB 4.23.31 Any person who describes the great characteristics of King Pṛthu with faith and determination — whether he reads or hears of them himself…
SB 4.23.32 If one hears of the characteristics of Pṛthu Mahārāja and is a brāhmaṇa, he becomes perfectly qualified with brahminical powers; if he is…
SB 4.23.33 It does not matter whether one is a man or woman. Anyone who, with great respect, hears this narration of Mahārāja Pṛthu will become the…
SB 4.23.34 Also, one who hears this narration three times will become very reputable if he is not recognized in society, and he will become a great…
SB 4.23.35 By hearing the narration of Pṛthu Mahārāja, one can become great, increase his duration of life, gain promotion to the heavenly planets…
SB 4.23.36 If a king, who is desirous of attaining victory and ruling power, chants the narration of Pṛthu Mahārāja three times before going forth on…
SB 4.23.37 A pure devotee who is executing the different processes of devotional service may be situated in the transcendental position, being…
SB 4.23.38 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, I have as far as possible spoken the narrations about Pṛthu Mahārāja, which enrich…
SB 4.23.39 Whoever, with great reverence and adoration, regularly reads, chants and describes the history of Mahārāja Pṛthu’s activities will…
SB 4.24.1 The great sage Maitreya continued: Vijitāśva, the eldest son of Mahārāja Pṛthu, who had a reputation like his father’s, became emperor and…
SB 4.24.2 Mahārāja Vijitāśva offered the eastern part of the world to his brother Haryakṣa, the southern part to Dhūmrakeśa, the western part to…
SB 4.24.3 Formerly, Mahārāja Vijitāśva pleased the King of heaven, Indra, and from him received the title Antardhāna. His wife’s name was…
SB 4.24.4 The three sons of Mahārāja Antardhāna were named Pāvaka, Pavamāna and Śuci. Formerly these three personalities were the demigods of fire,…
SB 4.24.5 Mahārāja Antardhāna had another wife, named Nabhasvatī, and by her he was happy to beget another son, named Havirdhāna. Since Mahārāja…
SB 4.24.6 Whenever Antardhāna, the supreme royal power, had to exact taxes, punish his citizens or fine them severely, he was not willing to do so.…
SB 4.24.7 Although Mahārāja Antardhāna was engaged in performing sacrifices, because he was a self-realized soul he very intelligently rendered…
SB 4.24.8 Havirdhāna, the son of Mahārāja Antardhāna, had a wife named Havirdhānī, who gave birth to six sons, named Barhiṣat, Gaya, Śukla, Kṛṣṇa,…
SB 4.24.9 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, Havirdhāna’s very powerful son named Barhiṣat was very expert in performing various…
SB 4.24.10 Mahārāja Barhiṣat executed many sacrifices all over the world. He scattered kuśa grasses and kept the tops of the grasses pointed eastward.
SB 4.24.11 Mahārāja Barhiṣat — henceforward known as Prācīnabarhi — was ordered by the supreme demigod Brahmā to marry the daughter of the ocean…
SB 4.24.12 While Śatadruti was thus being married, the demons, the denizens of Gandharvaloka, the great sages, and the denizens of Siddhaloka, the…
SB 4.24.13 King Prācīnabarhi begot ten children in the womb of Śatadruti. All of them were equally endowed with religiosity, and all of them were…
SB 4.24.14 When all these Pracetās were ordered by their father to marry and beget children, they all entered the ocean and practiced austerities and…
SB 4.24.15 When all the sons of Prācīnabarhi left home to execute austerities, they met Lord Śiva, who, out of great mercy, instructed them about the…
SB 4.24.16 Vidura asked Maitreya: My dear brāhmaṇa, why did the Pracetās meet Lord Śiva on the way? Please tell me how the meeting happened, how Lord…
SB 4.24.17 The great sage Vidura continued: O best of the brāhmaṇas, it is very difficult for living entities encaged within this material body to…
SB 4.24.18 Lord Śiva, the most powerful demigod, second only to Lord Viṣṇu, is self-sufficient. Although he has nothing to aspire for in the material…
SB 4.24.19 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, because of their pious nature, all the sons of Prācīnabarhi very seriously accepted the…
SB 4.24.20 While traveling, the Pracetās happened to see a great reservoir of water which seemed almost as big as the ocean. The water of this lake…
SB 4.24.21 In that great lake there were different types of lotus flowers. Some of them were bluish, and some of them were red. Some of them grew at…
SB 4.24.22 There were various trees and creepers on all sides of the lake, and there were mad bumblebees humming all about them. The trees appeared…
SB 4.24.23 The sons of the King became very much amazed when they heard vibrations from various drums and kettledrums along with other orderly…
SB 4.24.24-25 The Pracetās were fortunate to see Lord Śiva, the chief of the demigods, emerging from the water with his associates. His bodily luster…
SB 4.24.26 Lord Śiva became very pleased with the Pracetās because generally Lord Śiva is the protector of pious persons and persons of gentle…
SB 4.24.27 Lord Śiva said: You are all the sons of King Prācīnabarhi, and I wish all good fortune to you. I also know what you are going to do, and…
SB 4.24.28 Lord Śiva continued: Any person who is surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the controller of everything — material…
SB 4.24.29 A person who executes his occupational duty properly for one hundred births becomes qualified to occupy the post of Brahmā, and if he…
SB 4.24.30 You are all devotees of the Lord, and as such I appreciate that you are as respectable as the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. I…
SB 4.24.31 Now I shall chant one mantra which is not only transcendental, pure and auspicious, but is the best prayer for anyone who is aspiring to…
SB 4.24.32 The great sage Maitreya continued: Out of his causeless mercy, the exalted personality Lord Śiva, a great devotee of Lord Nārāyaṇa,…
SB 4.24.33 Lord Śiva addressed the Supreme Personality of Godhead with the following prayer: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all glories unto You.…
SB 4.24.34 My Lord, You are the origin of the creation by virtue of the lotus flower which sprouts from Your navel. You are the supreme controller of…
SB 4.24.35 My dear Lord, You are the origin of the subtle material ingredients, the master of all integration as well as the master of all…
SB 4.24.36 My Lord, as the supreme directing Deity known as Aniruddha, You are the master of the senses and the mind. I therefore offer my obeisances…
SB 4.24.37 My Lord, O Aniruddha, You are the authority by which the doors of the higher planetary systems and liberation are opened. You are always…
SB 4.24.38 My Lord, You are the provider of the Pitṛlokas as well as all the demigods. You are the predominating deity of the moon and the master of…
SB 4.24.39 My dear Lord, You are the gigantic universal form which contains all the individual bodies of the living entities. You are the maintainer…
SB 4.24.40 My dear Lord, by expanding Your transcendental vibrations, You reveal the actual meaning of everything. You are the all-pervading sky…
SB 4.24.41 My dear Lord, You are the viewer of the results of pious activities. You are inclination, disinclination and their resultant activities.…
SB 4.24.42 My dear Lord, You are the topmost of all bestowers of all benediction, the oldest and supreme enjoyer amongst all enjoyers. You are the…
SB 4.24.43 My dear Lord, You are the supreme controller of the worker, sense activities and results of sense activities [karma]. Therefore You are…
SB 4.24.44 My dear Lord, I wish to see You exactly in the form that Your very dear devotees worship. You have many other forms, but I wish to see…
SB 4.24.45-46 The Lord’s beauty resembles a dark cloud during the rainy season. As the rainfall glistens, His bodily features also glisten. Indeed, He…
SB 4.24.47-48 The Lord is superexcellently beautiful on account of His open and merciful smile and His sidelong glance upon His devotees. His black hair…
SB 4.24.49 The Lord has shoulders just like a lion’s. Upon these shoulders are garlands, necklaces and epaulets, and all of these are always…
SB 4.24.50 The Lord’s abdomen is beautiful due to three ripples in the flesh. Being so round, His abdomen resembles the leaf of a banyan tree, and…
SB 4.24.51 The lower part of the Lord’s waist is dark and covered with yellow garments and a belt bedecked with golden embroidery work. His…
SB 4.24.52 My dear Lord, Your two lotus feet are so beautiful that they appear like two blossoming petals of the lotus flower which grows during the…
SB 4.24.53 My dear Lord, those who desire to purify their existence must always engage in meditation upon Your lotus feet, as described above. Those…
SB 4.24.54 My dear Lord, the king in charge of the heavenly kingdom is also desirous of obtaining the ultimate goal of life — devotional service.…
SB 4.24.55 My dear Lord, pure devotional service is even difficult for liberated persons to discharge, but devotional service alone can satisfy You.…
SB 4.24.56 Simply by expansion of His eyebrows, invincible time personified can immediately vanquish the entire universe. However, formidable time…
SB 4.24.57 If one by chance associates with a devotee, even for a fraction of a moment, he no longer is subject to attraction by the results of karma…
SB 4.24.58 My dear Lord, Your lotus feet are the cause of all auspicious things and the destroyer of all the contamination of sin. I therefore beg…
SB 4.24.59 The devotee whose heart has been completely cleansed by the process of devotional service and who is favored by Bhaktidevī does not become…
SB 4.24.60 My dear Lord, the impersonal Brahman spreads everywhere, like the sunshine or the sky. And that impersonal Brahman, which spreads…
SB 4.24.61 My dear Lord, You have manifold energies, and these energies are manifested in manifold forms. With such energies You have also created…
SB 4.24.62 My dear Lord, Your universal form consists of all five elements, the senses, mind, intelligence, false ego (which is material) and the…
SB 4.24.63 My dear Lord, You are the only Supreme Person, the cause of all causes. Before the creation of this material world, Your material energy…
SB 4.24.64 My dear Lord, after creating by Your own potencies, You enter within the creation in four kinds of forms. Being within the hearts of the…
SB 4.24.65 My dear Lord, Your absolute authority cannot be directly experienced, but one can guess by seeing the activities of the world that…
SB 4.24.66 My dear Lord, all living entities within this material world are mad after planning for things, and they are always busy with a desire to…
SB 4.24.67 My dear Lord, any learned person knows that unless he worships You, his entire life is spoiled. Knowing this, how could he give up…
SB 4.24.68 My dear Lord, all actually learned persons know You as the Supreme Brahman and the Supersoul. Although the entire universe is afraid of…
SB 4.24.69 My dear sons of the King, just execute your occupational duty as kings with a pure heart. Just chant this prayer fixing your mind on the…
SB 4.24.70 Therefore, O sons of the King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is situated in everyone’s heart. He is also within your hearts.…
SB 4.24.71 My dear princes, in the form of a prayer I have delineated the yoga system of chanting the holy name. All of you should take this…
SB 4.24.72 This prayer was first spoken to us by Lord Brahmā, the master of all creators. The creators, headed by Bhṛgu, were instructed in these…
SB 4.24.73 When all the Prajāpatis were ordered to create by Lord Brahmā, we chanted these prayers in praise of the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
SB 4.24.74 A devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa whose mind is always absorbed in Him, who with great attention and reverence chants this stotra [prayer], will…
SB 4.24.75 In this material world there are different types of achievement, but of all of them the achievement of knowledge is considered to be the…
SB 4.24.76 Although rendering devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and worshiping Him are very difficult, if one vibrates or…
SB 4.24.77 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the dearmost objective of all auspicious benedictions. A human being who sings this song sung by me…
SB 4.24.78 A devotee who rises early in the morning and with folded hands chants these prayers sung by Lord Śiva, and gives facility to others to…
SB 4.24.79 My dear sons of the King, the prayers I have recited to you are meant for pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul. I…
SB 4.25.1 The great sage Maitreya continued speaking to Vidura: My dear Vidura, in this way Lord Śiva instructed the sons of King Barhiṣat. The sons…
SB 4.25.2 All the Pracetā princes simply stood in the water for ten thousand years and recited the prayers given to them by Lord Śiva.
SB 4.25.3 While the princes were undergoing severe austerities in the water, their father was performing different types of fruitive activities. At…
SB 4.25.4 Nārada Muni asked King Prācīnabarhiṣat: My dear King, what do you desire to achieve by performing these fruitive activities? The chief aim…
SB 4.25.5 The King replied: O great soul, Nārada, my intelligence is entangled in fruitive activities; therefore I do not know the ultimate goal of…
SB 4.25.6 Those who are interested only in a so-called dutiful life — namely remaining as a householder entangled by sons and a wife and searching…
SB 4.30.3 The great sage Maitreya said: The sons of King Prācīnabarhi, known as the Pracetās, underwent severe austerities within the seawater to…
SB 4.30.4 At the end of ten thousand years of severe austerities performed by the Pracetās, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to reward their…
SB 4.30.5 The Personality of Godhead, appearing on the shoulder of Garuḍa, seemed like a cloud resting on the summit of the mountain known as Meru.…
SB 4.30.6 The Lord’s face was very beautiful, and His head was decorated with a shining helmet and golden ornaments. The helmet was dazzling and was…
SB 4.30.7 Around the neck of the Personality of Godhead hung a flower garland that reached to His knees. His eight stout and elongated arms were…
SB 4.30.21 The great sage Maitreya said: After the Personality of Godhead spoke thus, the Pracetās began to offer Him prayers. The Lord is the…
SB 4.30.22 The Pracetās spoke as follows: Dear Lord, You relieve all kinds of material distress. Your magnanimous transcendental qualities and holy…
SB 4.30.23 Dear Lord, we beg to offer our obeisances unto You. When the mind is fixed upon You, the world of duality, although a place for material…
SB 4.30.24 Dear Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You because Your existence is completely independent of all material influences. Your…
SB 4.30.25 Dear Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You because from Your abdomen sprouts the lotus flower, the origin of all living…
SB 4.30.26 Dear Lord, the garment You have put on is yellowish in color, like the saffron of a lotus flower, but it is not made of anything material.…
SB 4.30.27 Dear Lord, we conditioned souls are always covered by ignorance in the bodily conception of life. We therefore always prefer the miserable…
SB 4.30.28 Dear Lord, You are the killer of all inauspicious things. You are compassionate upon Your poor devotees through the expansion of Your…
SB 4.30.29 When the Lord, out of His natural compassion, thinks of His devotee, by that process only are all desires of the neophyte devotee…
SB 4.30.30 O Lord of the universe, You are the actual teacher of the science of devotional service. We are satisfied that Your Lordship is the…
SB 4.30.31 Dear Lord, we shall therefore pray for Your benediction because You are the Supreme, beyond all transcendence, and because there is no end…
SB 4.30.32 Dear Lord, when the bee approaches the celestial tree called the pārijāta, it certainly does not leave the tree, because there is no need…
SB 4.30.33 Dear Lord, as long as we have to remain within this material world due to our material contamination and wander from one type of body to…
SB 4.30.34 Even a moment’s association with a pure devotee cannot be compared to being transferred to heavenly planets or even merging into the…
SB 4.30.35 Whenever pure topics of the transcendental world are discussed, the members of the audience forget all kinds of material hankerings, at…
SB 4.30.36 The Supreme Lord, Nārāyaṇa, is present among devotees who are engaged in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Supreme Personality of…
SB 4.30.37 Dear Lord, Your personal associates, devotees, wander all over the world to purify even the holy places of pilgrimage. Is not such…
SB 4.30.38 Dear Lord, by virtue of a moment’s association with Lord Śiva, who is very dear to You and who is Your most intimate friend, we were…
SB 4.30.39-40 Dear Lord, we have studied the Vedas, accepted a spiritual master and offered respect to brāhmaṇas, advanced devotees and aged…
SB 4.30.41 Dear Lord, even great yogīs and mystics who are very much advanced by virtue of austerities and knowledge and who have completely situated…
SB 4.30.42 Dear Lord, You have no enemies or friends. Therefore You are equal to everyone. You cannot be contaminated by sinful activities, and Your…
SB 4.30.43 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the protector of surrendered souls, being…
SB 4.30.44 Thereafter all the Pracetās emerged from the waters of the sea. They then saw that all the trees on land had grown very tall, as if to…
SB 4.30.45 My dear King, at the time of devastation, Lord Śiva emits fire and air from his mouth out of anger. To make the surface of the earth…
SB 4.30.46 After seeing that all the trees on the surface of the earth were being turned to ashes, Lord Brahmā immediately came to the sons of King…
SB 4.30.47 The remaining trees, being very much afraid of the Pracetās, immediately delivered their daughter at the advice of Lord Brahmā.
SB 4.30.48 Following the order of Lord Brahmā, all the Pracetās accepted the girl as their wife. From the womb of this girl, the son of Lord Brahmā…
SB 4.30.49 His previous body had been destroyed, but he, the same Dakṣa, inspired by the supreme will, created all the desired living entities in the…
SB 4.30.50-51 After being born, Dakṣa, by the superexcellence of his bodily luster, covered all others’ bodily opulence. Because he was very expert in…
SB 4.31.1 The great saint Maitreya continued: After that, the Pracetās lived at home for thousands of years and developed perfect knowledge in…
SB 4.31.2 The Pracetās went to the seashore in the west where the great liberated sage Jājali was residing. After perfecting the spiritual knowledge…
SB 4.31.3 After practicing the yogāsana for mystic yoga, the Pracetās managed to control their life air, mind, words and external vision. Thus by…
SB 4.31.4 As soon as the Pracetās saw that the great sage Nārada had appeared, they immediately got up even from their āsanas. As required, they…
SB 4.31.5 All the Pracetās began to address the great sage Nārada: O great sage, O brāhmaṇa, we hope you met with no disturbances while coming here.…
SB 4.31.6 O master, may we inform you that because of our being overly attached to family affairs, we almost forgot the instructions we received…
SB 4.31.7 Dear master, kindly enlighten us in transcendental knowledge, which may act as a torchlight by which we may cross the dark nescience of…
SB 4.31.8 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, being thus petitioned by the Pracetās, the supreme devotee Nārada, who is always…