Nārada

1088 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

SB 1.5.8 Śrī Nārada said: You have not actually broadcast the sublime and spotless glories of the Personality of Godhead. That philosophy which…
SB 1.5.9 Although, great sage, you have very broadly described the four principles beginning with religious performances, you have not described…
SB 1.5.10 Those words which do not describe the glories of the Lord, who alone can sanctify the atmosphere of the whole universe, are considered by…
SB 1.5.11 On the other hand, that literature which is full of descriptions of the transcendental glories of the name, fame, forms, pastimes, etc.,…
SB 1.5.12 Knowledge of self-realization, even though free from all material affinity, does not look well if devoid of a conception of the Infallible…
SB 1.5.13 O Vyāsadeva, your vision is completely perfect. Your good fame is spotless. You are firm in vow and situated in truthfulness. And thus you…
SB 1.5.14 Whatever you desire to describe that is separate in vision from the Lord simply reacts, with different forms, names and results, to…
SB 1.5.15 The people in general are naturally inclined to enjoy, and you have encouraged them in that way in the name of religion. This is verily…
SB 1.5.16 The Supreme Lord is unlimited. Only a very expert personality, retired from the activities of material happiness, deserves to understand…
SB 1.5.17 One who has forsaken his material occupations to engage in the devotional service of the Lord may sometimes fall down while in an immature…
SB 1.5.18 Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavor only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable…
SB 1.5.19 My dear Vyāsa, even though a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa sometimes falls down somehow or other, he certainly does not undergo material existence…
SB 1.5.20 The Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is Himself this cosmos, and still He is aloof from it. From Him only has this cosmic manifestation…
SB 1.5.21 Your Goodness has perfect vision. You yourself can know the Supersoul Personality of Godhead because you are present as the plenary…
SB 1.5.22 Learned circles have positively concluded that the infallible purpose of the advancement of knowledge, namely austerities, study of the…
SB 1.5.23 O Muni, in the last millennium I was born as the son of a certain maidservant engaged in the service of brāhmaṇas who were following the…
SB 1.5.24 Although they were impartial by nature, those followers of the Vedānta blessed me with their causeless mercy. As far as I was concerned, I…
SB 1.5.25 Once only, by their permission, I took the remnants of their food, and by so doing all my sins were at once eradicated. Thus being…
SB 1.5.26 O Vyāsadeva, in that association and by the mercy of those great Vedāntists, I could hear them describe the attractive activities of Lord…
SB 1.5.27 O great sage, as soon as I got a taste of the Personality of Godhead, my attention to hear of the Lord was unflinching. And as my taste…
SB 1.5.28 Thus during two seasons — the rainy season and autumn — I had the opportunity to hear these great-souled sages constantly chant the…
SB 1.5.29 I was very much attached to those sages. I was gentle in behavior, and all my sins were eradicated in their service. In my heart I had…
SB 1.5.30 As they were leaving, those bhakti-vedāntas, who are very kind to poor-hearted souls, instructed me in that most confidential subject…
SB 1.5.31 By that confidential knowledge, I could understand clearly the influence of the energy of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the creator, maintainer and…
SB 1.5.32 O Brāhmaṇa Vyāsadeva, it is decided by the learned that the best remedial measure for removing all troubles and miseries is to dedicate…
SB 1.5.33 O good soul, does not a thing, applied therapeutically, cure a disease which was caused by that very same thing?
SB 1.5.34 Thus when all a man’s activities are dedicated to the service of the Lord, those very activities which caused his perpetual bondage become…
SB 1.5.35 Whatever work is done here in this life for the satisfaction of the mission of the Lord is called bhakti-yoga, or transcendental loving…
SB 1.5.36 While performing duties according to the order of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one constantly remembers Him, His names…
SB 1.5.37 Let us all chant the glories of Vāsudeva along with His plenary expansions Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Saṅkarṣaṇa.
SB 1.5.38 Thus he is the actual seer who worships, in the form of transcendental sound representation, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu,…
SB 1.5.39 O brāhmaṇa, thus by the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa I was endowed first with the transcendental knowledge of the Lord as inculcated in the…
SB 1.5.40 Please, therefore, describe the almighty Lord’s activities which you have learned by your vast knowledge of the Vedas, for that will…
SB 1.6.5 Śrī Nārada said: The great sages, who had imparted scientific knowledge of transcendence to me, departed for other places, and I had to…
SB 1.6.6 I was the only son of my mother, who was not only a simple woman but a maidservant as well. Since I was her only offspring, she had no…
SB 1.6.7 She wanted to look after my maintenance properly, but because she was not independent, she was not able to do anything for me. The world…
SB 1.6.8 When I was a mere child of five years, I lived in a brāhmaṇa school. I was dependent on my mother’s affection and had no experience of…
SB 1.6.9 Once upon a time, my poor mother, when going out one night to milk a cow, was bitten on the leg by a serpent, influenced by supreme time.
SB 1.6.10 I took this as the special mercy of the Lord, who always desires benediction for His devotees, and so thinking, I started for the north.
SB 1.6.11 After my departure, I passed through many flourishing metropolises, towns, villages, animal farms, mines, agricultural lands, valleys,…
SB 1.6.12 I passed through hills and mountains full of reservoirs of various minerals like gold, silver and copper, and through tracts of land with…
SB 1.6.13 I then passed alone through many forests of rushes, bamboo, reeds, sharp grass, weeds and caves, which were very difficult to go through…
SB 1.6.14 Thus traveling, I felt tired, both bodily and mentally, and I was both thirsty and hungry. So I took a bath in a river lake and also drank…
SB 1.6.15 After that, under the shadow of a banyan tree in an uninhabited forest I began to meditate upon the Supersoul situated within, using my…
SB 1.6.16 As soon as I began to meditate upon the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead with my mind transformed in transcendental love, tears…
SB 1.6.17 O Vyāsadeva, at that time, being exceedingly overpowered by feelings of happiness, every part of my body became separately enlivened.…
SB 1.6.18 The transcendental form of the Lord, as it is, satisfies the mind’s desire and at once erases all mental incongruities. Upon losing that…
SB 1.6.19 I desired to see again that transcendental form of the Lord, but despite my attempts to concentrate upon the heart with eagerness to view…
SB 1.6.20 Seeing my attempts in that lonely place, the Personality of Godhead, who is transcendental to all mundane description, spoke to me with…
SB 1.6.21 O Nārada [the Lord spoke], I regret that during this lifetime you will not be able to see Me anymore. Those who are incomplete in service…
SB 1.6.22 O virtuous one, you have only once seen My person, and this is just to increase your desire for Me, because the more you hanker for Me,…
SB 1.6.23 By service of the Absolute Truth, even for a few days, a devotee attains firm and fixed intelligence in Me. Consequently he goes on to…
SB 1.6.24 Intelligence engaged in My devotion cannot be thwarted at any time. Even at the time of creation, as well as at the time of annihilation,…
SB 1.6.25 Then that supreme authority, personified by sound and unseen by eyes, but most wonderful, stopped speaking. Feeling a sense of gratitude,…
SB 1.6.26 Thus I began chanting the holy name and fame of the Lord by repeated recitation, ignoring all the formalities of the material world. Such…
SB 1.6.27 And so, O Brāhmaṇa Vyāsadeva, in due course of time I, who was fully absorbed in thinking of Kṛṣṇa and who therefore had no attachments,…
SB 1.6.28 Having been awarded a transcendental body befitting an associate of the Personality of Godhead, I quit the body made of five material…
SB 1.6.29 At the end of the millennium, when the Personality of Godhead, Lord Nārāyaṇa, lay down within the water of devastation, Brahmā began to…
SB 1.6.30 After 4,300,000,000 solar years, when Brahmā awoke to create again by the will of the Lord, all the ṛṣis like Marīci, Aṅgirā, Atri and so…
SB 1.6.31 Since then, by the grace of the almighty Viṣṇu, I travel everywhere without restriction both in the transcendental world and in the three…
SB 1.6.32 And thus I travel, constantly singing the transcendental message of the glories of the Lord, vibrating this instrument called a vīṇā,…
SB 1.6.33 The Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose glories and activities are pleasing to hear, at once appears on the seat of my heart, as if called for,…
SB 1.6.34 It is personally experienced by me that those who are always full of cares and anxieties due to desiring contact of the senses with their…
SB 1.6.35 It is true that by practicing restraint of the senses by the yoga system one can get relief from the disturbances of desire and lust, but…
SB 1.6.36 O Vyāsadeva, you are freed from all sins. Thus I have explained my birth and activities for self-realization, as you asked. All this will…
SB 1.13.41 Śrī Nārada said: O pious King, do not lament for anyone, for everyone is under the control of the Supreme Lord. Therefore all living…
SB 1.13.42 As a cow, bound through the nose by a long rope, is conditioned, so also human beings are bound by different Vedic injunctions and are…
SB 1.13.43 As a player sets up and disperses his playthings according to his own sweet will, so the supreme will of the Lord brings men together and…
SB 1.13.44 O King, in all circumstances, whether you consider the soul to be an eternal principle, or the material body to be perishable, or…
SB 1.13.45 Therefore give up your anxiety due to ignorance of the self. You are now thinking of how they, who are helpless poor creatures, will exist…
SB 1.13.46 This gross material body made of five elements is already under the control of eternal time [kāla], action [karma] and the modes of…
SB 1.13.47 Those who are devoid of hands are prey for those who have hands; those devoid of legs are prey for the four-legged. The weak are the…
SB 1.13.48 Therefore, O King, you should look to the Supreme Lord only, who is one without a second and who manifests Himself by different energies…
SB 1.13.49 That Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, in the guise of all-devouring time [kāla-rūpa] has now descended to the earth to…
SB 1.13.50 The Lord has already performed His duties to help the demigods, and He is awaiting the rest. You Pāṇḍavas may wait as long as the Lord is…
SB 1.13.51 O King, your uncle Dhṛtarāṣṭra, his brother Vidura and his wife Gāndhārī have gone to the southern side of the Himālaya Mountains, where…
SB 1.13.52 The place is called Saptasrota [“divided by seven”] because there the waters of the sacred Ganges were divided into seven branches. This…
SB 1.13.53 On the banks at Saptasrota, Dhṛtarāṣṭra is now engaged in beginning aṣṭāṅga-yoga by bathing three times daily, in the morning, noon and…
SB 1.13.54 One who has controlled the sitting postures [the yogic āsanas] and the breathing process can turn the senses toward the Absolute…
SB 1.13.55 Dhṛtarāṣṭra will have to amalgamate his pure identity with intelligence and then merge into the Supreme Being with knowledge of his…
SB 1.13.56 He will have to suspend all the actions of the senses, even from the outside, and will have to be impervious to interactions of the…
SB 1.13.57 O King, he will quit his body, most probably on the fifth day from today. And his body will turn to ashes.
SB 1.13.58 While outside observing her husband, who will burn in the fire of mystic power along with his thatched cottage, his chaste wife will enter…
SB 1.13.59 Vidura, being affected with delight and grief, will then leave that place of sacred pilgrimage.
SB 1.13.60 Having spoken thus, the great sage Nārada, along with his vīṇā, ascended into outer space. Yudhiṣṭhira kept his instruction in his heart…
SB 4.12.41 The great sage Nārada said: Simply by the influence of his spiritual advancement and powerful austerity, Dhruva Mahārāja, the son of…
SB 4.12.42 The great sage Nārada continued: Just see how Dhruva Mahārāja, aggrieved at the harsh words of his stepmother, went to the forest at the…
SB 4.12.43 Dhruva Mahārāja attained an exalted position at the age of only five or six years, after undergoing austerity for six months. Alas, a…
SB 4.12.44 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, whatever you have asked from me about the great reputation and character of Dhruva…
SB 4.12.45 By hearing the narration of Dhruva Mahārāja one can fulfill desires for wealth, reputation and increased duration of life. It is so…
SB 4.12.46 Anyone who hears the narration of Dhruva Mahārāja, and who repeatedly tries with faith and devotion to understand his pure character,…
SB 4.12.47 Anyone who hears this narration of Dhruva Mahārāja acquires exalted qualities like him. For anyone who desires greatness, prowess or…
SB 4.12.48 The great sage Maitreya recommended: One should chant of the character and activities of Dhruva Mahārāja both in the morning and in the…
SB 4.12.49-50 Persons who have completely taken shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord should recite this narration of Dhruva Mahārāja without taking…
SB 4.12.51 The narration of Dhruva Mahārāja is sublime knowledge for the attainment of immortality. Persons unaware of the Absolute Truth can be led…
SB 4.12.52 The transcendental activities of Dhruva Mahārāja are well known all over the world, and they are very pure. In childhood Dhruva Mahārāja…
SB 4.25.7 The great saint Nārada said: O ruler of the citizens, my dear King, please see in the sky those animals which you have sacrificed without…
SB 4.25.8 All these animals are awaiting your death so that they can avenge the injuries you have inflicted upon them. After you die, they will…
SB 4.25.9 In this connection I wish to narrate an old history connected with the character of a king called Purañjana. Please try to hear me with…
SB 4.25.10 My dear King, once in the past lived a king named Purañjana, who was celebrated for his great activities. He had a friend named Avijñāta…
SB 4.25.11 King Purañjana began to search for a suitable place to live, and thus he traveled all over the world. Even after a great deal of…
SB 4.25.12 King Purañjana had unlimited desires for sense enjoyment; consequently he traveled all over the world to find a place where all his…
SB 4.25.13 Once, while wandering in this way, he saw on the southern side of the Himālayas, in a place named Bhārata-varṣa [India], a city that had…
SB 4.25.14 That city was surrounded by walls and parks, and within it were towers, canals, windows and outlets. The houses there were decorated with…
SB 4.25.15 The floors of the houses in that city were made of sapphire, crystal, diamonds, pearls, emeralds and rubies. Because of the luster of the…
SB 4.25.16 In that city there were many assembly houses, street crossings, streets, restaurants, gambling houses, markets, resting places, flags,…
SB 4.25.17 On the outskirts of that city were many beautiful trees and creepers encircling a nice lake. Also surrounding that lake were many groups…
SB 4.25.18 The branches of the trees standing on the bank of the lake received particles of water carried by the spring air from the falls coming…
SB 4.25.19 In such an atmosphere even the animals of the forest became nonviolent and nonenvious like great sages. Consequently, the animals did not…
SB 4.25.20 While wandering here and there in that wonderful garden, King Purañjana suddenly came in contact with a very beautiful woman who was…
SB 4.25.21 The woman was protected on all sides by a five-hooded snake. She was very beautiful and young, and she appeared very anxious to find a…
SB 4.25.22 The woman’s nose, teeth and forehead were all very beautiful. Her ears were equally very beautiful and were bedecked with dazzling earrings.
SB 4.25.23 The waist and hips of the woman were very beautiful. She was dressed in a yellow sārī with a golden belt. While she walked, her ankle…
SB 4.25.24 With the end of her sārī the woman was trying to cover her breasts, which were equally round and well placed side by side. She again and…
SB 4.25.25 Purañjana, the hero, became attracted by the eyebrows and smiling face of the very beautiful girl and was immediately pierced by the…
SB 4.25.26 My dear lotus-eyed, kindly explain to me where you are coming from, who you are, and whose daughter you are. You appear very chaste. What…
SB 4.25.27 My dear lotus-eyed, who are those eleven strong bodyguards with you, and who are those ten specific servants? Who are those women…
SB 4.25.28 My dear beautiful girl, you are exactly like the goddess of fortune or the wife of Lord Śiva or the goddess of learning, the wife of Lord…
SB 4.25.29 O greatly fortunate one, it appears that you are none of the women I have mentioned because I see that your feet are touching the ground.…
SB 4.25.30 Certainly your glancing upon me today has very much agitated my mind. Your smile, which is full of shyness but at the same time lusty, is…
SB 4.25.31 My dear girl, your face is so beautiful with your nice eyebrows and eyes and with your bluish hair scattered about. In addition, very…
SB 4.25.32 Nārada continued: My dear King, when Purañjana became so attracted and impatient to touch the girl and enjoy her, the girl also became…
SB 4.25.33 The girl said: O best of human beings, I do not know who has begotten me. I cannot speak to you perfectly about this. Nor do I know the…
SB 4.25.34 O great hero, we only know that we are existing in this place. We do not know what will come after. Indeed, we are so foolish that we do…
SB 4.25.35 My dear gentleman, all these men and women with me are known as my friends, and the snake, who always remains awake, protects this city…
SB 4.25.36 O killer of the enemy, you have somehow or other come here. This is certainly great fortune for me. I wish all auspicious things for you.…
SB 4.25.37 My dear lord, I have just arranged this city of nine gates for you so that you can have all kinds of sense gratification. You may live…
SB 4.25.38 How can I expect to unite with others, who are neither conversant about sex nor capable of knowing how to enjoy life while living or after…
SB 4.25.39 The woman continued: In this material world, a householder’s life brings all kinds of happiness in religion, economic development, sense…
SB 4.25.40 The woman continued: According to authorities, the householder life is pleasing not only to oneself but to all the forefathers, demigods,…
SB 4.25.41 O my dear hero, who in this world will not accept a husband like you? You are so famous, so magnanimous, so beautiful and so easily gotten.
SB 4.25.42 O mighty-armed, who in this world will not be attracted by your arms, which are just like the bodies of serpents? Actually you relieve the…
SB 4.25.43 The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King, those two — the man and the woman — supporting one another through mutual understanding,…
SB 4.25.44 Many professional singers used to sing about the glories of King Purañjana and his glorious activities. When it was too hot in the summer,…
SB 4.25.45 Of the nine gates in that city, seven were on the surface and two were subterranean. A total of nine doors were constructed, and these led…
SB 4.25.46 My dear King, of the nine doors, five led toward the eastern side, one led toward the northern side, one led toward the southern side, and…
SB 4.25.47 The two gates named Khadyotā and Āvirmukhī were situated facing the eastern side, but they were constructed in one place. Through those…
SB 4.25.48 Similarly in the east there were two sets of gates named Nalinī and Nālinī, and these were also constructed in one place. Through these…
SB 4.25.49 The fifth gate situated on the eastern side was named Mukhyā, or the chief. Through this gate, accompanied by his friends named Rasajña…
SB 4.25.50 The southern gate of the city was known as Pitṛhū, and through that gate King Purañjana used to visit the city named Dakṣiṇa-pañcāla,…
SB 4.25.51 On the northern side was the gate named Devahū. Through that gate, King Purañjana used to go with his friend Śrutadhara to the place known…
SB 4.25.52 On the western side was a gate named Āsurī. Through that gate King Purañjana used to go to the city of Grāmaka, accompanied by his friend…
SB 4.25.53 Another gate on the western side was known as Nirṛti. Purañjana used to go through this gate to the place known as Vaiśasa, accompanied by…
SB 4.25.54 Of the many inhabitants of this city, there are two persons named Nirvāk and Peśaskṛt. Although King Purañjana was the ruler of citizens…
SB 4.25.55 Sometimes he used to go to his private home with one of his chief servants [the mind], who was named Viṣūcīna. At that time, illusion,…
SB 4.25.56 Being thus entangled in different types of mental concoction and engaged in fruitive activities, King Purañjana came completely under the…
SB 4.25.57-61 When the Queen drank liquor, King Purañjana also engaged in drinking. When the Queen dined, he used to dine with her, and when she chewed,…
SB 4.25.62 In this way, King Purañjana was captivated by his nice wife and was thus cheated. Indeed, he became cheated in his whole existence in the…
SB 4.26.1-3 The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King, once upon a time King Purañjana took up his great bow, and equipped with golden armor and a…
SB 4.26.4 It was almost impossible for King Purañjana to give up the company of his Queen even for a moment. Nonetheless, on that day, being very…
SB 4.26.5 At that time King Purañjana was very much influenced by demoniac propensities. Because of this, his heart became very hard and merciless,…
SB 4.26.6 If a king is too attracted to eating flesh, he may, according to the directions of the revealed scriptures on sacrificial performances, go…
SB 4.26.7 Nārada Muni continued to speak to King Prācīnabarhiṣat: My dear King, any person who works according to the directions of the Vedic…
SB 4.26.8 Otherwise, a person who acts whimsically falls down due to false prestige. Thus he becomes involved in the laws of nature, which are…
SB 4.26.9 When King Purañjana was hunting in this way, many animals within the forest lost their lives with great pain, being pierced by the sharp…
SB 4.26.10 In this way King Purañjana killed many animals, including rabbits, boars, buffalo, bison, black deer, porcupines and other game animals.…
SB 4.26.11 After this, the King, very much fatigued, hungry and thirsty, returned to his royal palace. After returning, he took a bath and had an…
SB 4.26.12 After this, King Purañjana decorated his body with suitable ornaments. He also smeared scented sandalwood pulp over his body and put on…
SB 4.26.13 After taking his dinner and having his thirst and hunger satisfied, King Purañjana felt some joy within his heart. Instead of being…
SB 4.26.14 At that time King Purañjana was a little anxious, and he inquired from the household women: My dear beautiful women, are you and your…
SB 4.26.15 King Purañjana said: I do not understand why my household paraphernalia does not attract me as before. I think that if there is neither a…
SB 4.26.16 Kindly let me know the whereabouts of that beautiful woman who always saves me when I am drowning in the ocean of danger. By giving me…
SB 4.26.17 All the women addressed the King: O master of the citizens, we do not know why your dear wife has taken on this sort of existence. O…
SB 4.26.18 The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King Prācīnabarhi, as soon as King Purañjana saw his Queen lying on the ground, appearing like a…
SB 4.26.19 The King, with aggrieved mind, began to speak to his wife with very pleasing words. Although he was filled with regret and tried to pacify…
SB 4.26.20 Because the King was very expert in flattery, he began to pacify his Queen very slowly. First he touched her two feet, then embraced her…
SB 4.26.21 King Purañjana said: My dear beautiful wife, when a master accepts a servant as his own man, but does not punish him for his offenses, the…
SB 4.26.22 My dear slender maiden, when a master chastises his servant, the servant should accept this as great mercy. One who becomes angry must be…
SB 4.26.23 My dear wife, your teeth are very beautifully set, and your attractive features make you appear very thoughtful. Kindly give up your…
SB 4.26.24 O hero’s wife, kindly tell me if someone has offended you. I am prepared to give such a person punishment as long as he does not belong to…
SB 4.26.25 My dear wife, until this day I have never seen your face without tilaka decorations, nor have I seen you so morose and without luster or…
SB 4.26.26 My dear Queen, due to my sinful desires I went to the forest to hunt without asking you. Therefore I must admit that I have offended you.…
SB 4.27.1 The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King, after bewildering her husband in different ways and bringing him under her control, the…
SB 4.27.2 The Queen took her bath and dressed herself nicely with all auspicious garments and ornaments. After taking food and becoming completely…
SB 4.27.3 Queen Purañjanī embraced the King, and the King also responded by embracing her shoulders. In this way, in a solitary place, they enjoyed…
SB 4.27.4 In this way, increasingly overwhelmed by illusion, King Purañjana, although advanced in consciousness, remained always lying down with his…
SB 4.27.5 My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, in this way King Purañjana, with his heart full of lust and sinful reactions, began to enjoy sex with his…
SB 4.27.6 The great sage Nārada then addressed King Prācīnabarhiṣat: O one whose life span is great [virāṭ], in this way King Purañjana begot 1,100…
SB 4.27.7 O Prajāpati, King Prācīnabarhiṣat, in this way King Purañjana also begot 110 daughters. All of these were equally glorified like the…
SB 4.27.8 After this, King Purañjana, King of the Pañcāla country, in order to increase the descendants of his paternal family, married his sons…
SB 4.27.9 Of these many sons, each produced hundreds and hundreds of grandsons. In this way the whole city of Pañcāla became overcrowded by these…
SB 4.27.10 These sons and grandsons were virtually plunderers of King Purañjana’s riches, including his home, treasury, servants, secretaries and all…
SB 4.27.11 The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, like you King Purañjana also became implicated in so many desires. Thus he…
SB 4.27.12 Thus King Purañjana, being attached to fruitive activities [karma-kāṇḍīya] as well as kith and kin, and being obsessed with polluted…
SB 4.27.13 O King! In Gandharvaloka there is a king named Caṇḍavega. Under him there are 360 very powerful Gandharva soldiers.
SB 4.27.14 Along with Caṇḍavega were as many female Gandharvīs as there were soldiers, and all of them repetitively plundered all the paraphernalia…
SB 4.27.15 When King Gandharva-rāja [Caṇḍavega] and his followers began to plunder the city of Purañjana, a snake with five hoods began to defend the…
SB 4.27.16 The five-hooded serpent, the superintendent and protector of the city of King Purañjana, fought with the Gandharvas for one hundred years.…
SB 4.27.17 Because he had to fight alone with so many soldiers, all of whom were great warriors, the serpent with five hoods became very weak. Seeing…
SB 4.27.18 King Purañjana collected taxes in the city known as Pañcāla and thus was able to engage in sexual indulgence. Being completely under the…
SB 4.27.19 My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, at this time the daughter of formidable Time was seeking her husband throughout the three worlds. Although…
SB 4.27.20 The daughter of Time [Jarā] was very unfortunate. Consequently she was known as Durbhagā [“ill-fated”]. However, she was once pleased with…
SB 4.27.21 When I once came to this earth from Brahmaloka, the highest planetary system, the daughter of Time, wandering over the universe, met me.…
SB 4.27.22 The great sage Nārada continued: When I refused to accept her request, she became very angry at me and cursed me severely. Because I…
SB 4.27.23 After she was thus disappointed by me, with my permission she approached the King of the Yavanas, whose name was Bhaya, or Fear, and she…
SB 4.27.24 Approaching the King of the Yavanas, Kālakanyā addressed him as a great hero, saying: My dear sir, you are the best of the untouchables. I…
SB 4.27.25 One who does not give charity according to the customs or injunctions of the scriptures and one who does not accept charity in that way…
SB 4.27.26 Kālakanyā continued: O gentle one, I am now present before you to serve you. Please accept me and thus show me mercy. It is a gentleman’s…
SB 4.27.27 After hearing the statement of Kālakanyā, daughter of Time, the King of the Yavanas began to smile and devise a means for executing his…
SB 4.27.28 The King of the Yavanas replied: After much consideration, I have arrived at a husband for you. Actually, as far as everyone is concerned,…
SB 4.27.29 This world is a product of fruitive activities. Therefore you may imperceptibly attack people in general. Helped by my soldiers, you can…
SB 4.27.30 The King of the Yavanas continued: Here is my brother Prajvāra. I now accept you as my sister. I shall employ both of you, as well as my…
SB 4.28.1 The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, afterward the King of the Yavanas, whose name is fear itself, as well as…
SB 4.28.2 Once the dangerous soldiers attacked the city of Purañjana with great force. Although the city was full of paraphernalia for sense…
SB 4.28.3 Gradually Kālakanyā, with the help of dangerous soldiers, attacked all the inhabitants of Purañjana’s city and thus rendered them useless…
SB 4.28.4 When Kālakanyā, daughter of Time, attacked the body, the dangerous soldiers of the King of the Yavanas entered the city through different…
SB 4.28.5 When the city was thus endangered by the soldiers and Kālakanyā, King Purañjana, being overly absorbed in affection for his family, was…
SB 4.28.6 When King Purañjana was embraced by Kālakanyā, he gradually lost all his beauty. Having been too much addicted to sex, he became very poor…
SB 4.28.7 King Purañjana then saw that everything in his town was scattered and that his sons, grandsons, servants and ministers were all gradually…
SB 4.28.8 When King Purañjana saw that all his family members, relatives, followers, servants, secretaries and everyone else had turned against him,…
SB 4.28.9 The objects of enjoyment became stale by the influence of Kālakanyā. Due to the continuance of his lusty desires, King Purañjana became…
SB 4.28.10 The city of King Purañjana was overcome by the Gandharva and Yavana soldiers, and although the King had no desire to leave the city, he…
SB 4.28.11 Under the circumstances, the elder brother of Yavana-rāja, known as Prajvāra, set fire to the city to please his younger brother, whose…
SB 4.28.12 When the city was set ablaze, all the citizens and servants of the King, as well as all family members, sons, grandsons, wives and other…
SB 4.28.13 The city’s superintendent of police, the serpent, saw that the citizens were being attacked by Kālakanyā, and he became very aggrieved to…
SB 4.28.14 As a serpent living within the cavity of a tree wishes to leave when there is a forest fire, so the city’s police superintendent, the…
SB 4.28.15 The limbs of the serpent’s body were slackened by the Gandharvas and Yavana soldiers, who had thoroughly defeated his bodily strength.…
SB 4.28.16 King Purañjana then began to think of his daughters, sons, grandsons, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, servants and other associates, as…
SB 4.28.17 King Purañjana was overly attached to his family and conceptions of “I” and “mine.” Because he was overly attracted to his wife, he was…
SB 4.28.18 King Purañjana was anxiously thinking, “Alas, my wife is encumbered by so many children. When I pass from this body, how will she be able…
SB 4.28.19 King Purañjana then began to think of his past dealings with his wife. He recalled that his wife would not take her dinner until he had…
SB 4.28.20 King Purañjana continued thinking how, when he was in a state of bewilderment, his wife would give him good counsel and how she would…
SB 4.28.21 King Purañjana continued worrying: “After I pass from this world, how will my sons and daughters, who are now fully dependent on me, live…
SB 4.28.22 Although King Purañjana should not have lamented over the fate of his wife and children, he nonetheless did so due to his miserly…
SB 4.28.23 When the Yavanas were taking King Purañjana away to their place, binding him like an animal, the King’s followers became greatly…
SB 4.28.24 The serpent, who had already been arrested by the soldiers of Yavana-rāja and was out of the city, began to follow his master along with…
SB 4.28.25 When King Purañjana was being dragged with great force by the powerful Yavana, out of his gross ignorance he still could not remember his…
SB 4.28.26 That most unkind king, Purañjana, had killed many animals in various sacrifices. Now, taking advantage of this opportunity, all these…
SB 4.28.27 Due to his contaminated association with women, a living entity like King Purañjana eternally suffers all the pangs of material existence…
SB 4.28.28 King Purañjana gave up his body while remembering his wife, and consequently in his next life he became a very beautiful and well-situated…
SB 4.28.29 It was fixed that Vaidarbhī, daughter of King Vidarbha, was to be married to a very powerful man, Malayadhvaja, an inhabitant of the Pāṇḍu…
SB 4.28.30 King Malayadhvaja fathered one daughter, who had very black eyes. He also had seven sons, who later became rulers of that tract of land…
SB 4.28.31 My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, the sons of Malayadhvaja gave birth to many thousands and thousands of sons, and all of these have been…
SB 4.28.32 The great sage named Agastya married the first-born daughter of Malayadhvaja, the avowed devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. From her one son was born,…
SB 4.28.33 After this, the great saintly King Malayadhvaja divided his entire kingdom among his sons. Then, in order to worship Lord Kṛṣṇa with full…
SB 4.28.34 Just as the moonshine follows the moon at night, immediately after King Malayadhvaja departed for Kulācala, his devoted wife, whose eyes…
SB 4.28.35-36 In the province of Kulācala, there were rivers named Candravasā, Tāmraparṇī and Vaṭodakā. King Malayadhvaja used to go to those pious…
SB 4.28.37 Through austerity, King Malayadhvaja in body and mind gradually became equal to the dualities of cold and heat, happiness and distress,…
SB 4.28.38 By worshiping, executing austerities and following the regulative principles, King Malayadhvaja conquered his senses, his life and his…
SB 4.28.39 In this way he stayed immovable in one place for one hundred years by the calculation of the demigods. After this time, he developed pure…
SB 4.28.40 King Malayadhvaja attained perfect knowledge by being able to distinguish the Supersoul from the individual soul. The individual soul is…
SB 4.28.41 In this way King Malayadhvaja attained perfect knowledge because in his pure state he was directly instructed by the Supreme Personality…
SB 4.28.42 King Malayadhvaja could thus observe that the Supersoul was sitting by his side, and that he, as the individual soul, was sitting by the…
SB 4.28.43 The daughter of King Vidarbha accepted her husband all in all as the Supreme. She gave up all sensual enjoyment and in complete…
SB 4.28.44 The daughter of King Vidarbha wore old garments, and she was lean and thin because of her vows of austerity. Since she did not arrange her…
SB 4.28.45 The daughter of King Vidarbha continued as usual to serve her husband, who was seated in a steady posture, until she could ascertain that…
SB 4.28.46 While she was serving her husband by massaging his legs, she could feel that his feet were no longer warm and could thus understand that…
SB 4.28.47 Being now alone and a widow in that forest, the daughter of Vidarbha began to lament, incessantly shedding tears, which soaked her…
SB 4.28.48 O best of kings, please get up! Get up! Just see this world surrounded by water and infested with rogues and so-called kings. This world…
SB 4.28.49 That most obedient wife thus fell down at the feet of her dead husband and began to cry pitifully in that solitary forest. Thus the tears…
SB 4.28.50 She then prepared a blazing fire with firewood and placed the dead body of her husband upon it. When this was finished, she lamented…
SB 4.28.51 My dear King, one brāhmaṇa, who was an old friend of King Purañjana, came to that place and began to pacify the Queen with sweet words.
SB 4.28.52 The brāhmaṇa inquired as follows: Who are you? Whose wife or daughter are you? Who is the man lying here? It appears you are lamenting for…
SB 4.28.53 The brāhmaṇa continued: My dear friend, even though you cannot immediately recognize Me, can’t you remember that in the past you had a…
SB 4.28.54 My dear gentle friend, both you and I are exactly like two swans. We live together in the same heart, which is just like the Mānasa Lake.…
SB 4.28.55 My dear friend, you are now My very same friend. Since you left Me, you have become more and more materialistic, and not seeing Me, you…
SB 4.28.56 In that city [the material body] there are five gardens, nine gates, one protector, three apartments, six families, five stores, five…
SB 4.28.57 My dear friend, the five gardens are the five objects of sense enjoyment, and the protector is the life air, which passes through the nine…
SB 4.28.58 The five stores are the five working sensory organs. They transact their business through the combined forces of the five elements, which…
SB 4.28.59 My dear friend, when you enter such a body along with the woman of material desires, you become overly absorbed in sense enjoyment.…
SB 4.28.60 Actually, you are not the daughter of Vidarbha, nor is this man, Malayadhvaja, your well-wishing husband. Nor were you the actual husband…
SB 4.28.61 Sometimes you think yourself a man, sometimes a chaste woman and sometimes a neutral eunuch. This is all because of the body, which is…
SB 4.28.62 My dear friend, I, the Supersoul, and you, the individual soul, are not different in quality, for we are both spiritual. In fact, My dear…
SB 4.28.63 As a person sees the reflection of his body in a mirror to be one with himself and not different, whereas others actually see two bodies,…
SB 4.28.64 In this way both swans live together in the heart. When the one swan is instructed by the other, he is situated in his constitutional…
SB 4.28.65 My dear King Prācīnabarhi, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all causes, is celebrated to be known indirectly. Thus I have…
SB 4.29.1 King Prācīnabarhi replied: My dear lord, we could not appreciate completely the purport of your allegorical story of King Purañjana.…
SB 4.29.2 The great sage Nārada Muni continued: You must understand that Purañjana, the living entity, transmigrates according to his own work into…
SB 4.29.3 The person I have described as unknown is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master and eternal friend of the living entity. Since…
SB 4.29.4 When the living entity wants to enjoy the modes of material nature in their totality, he prefers, out of many bodily forms, to accept that…
SB 4.29.5 The great sage Nārada continued: The word pramadā mentioned in this regard refers to material intelligence, or ignorance. It is to be…
SB 4.29.6 The five working senses and the five senses that acquire knowledge are all male friends of Purañjanī. The living entity is assisted by…
SB 4.29.7 The eleventh attendant, who is the commander of the others, is known as the mind. He is the leader of the senses both in the acquisition…
SB 4.29.8 The eyes, nostrils and ears are pairs of gates situated in one place. The mouth, genitals and rectum are also different gates. Being…
SB 4.29.9 Two eyes, two nostrils and a mouth — all together five — are situated in the front. The right ear is accepted as the southern gate, and…
SB 4.29.10 The two gates named Khadyotā and Āvirmukhī, which have been spoken of, are the two eyes side by side in one place. The town named…
SB 4.29.11 The two doors named Nalinī and Nālinī should be known as the two nostrils, and the city named Saurabha represents aroma. The companion…
SB 4.29.12 The city called Āpaṇa represents engagement of the tongue in speech, and Bahūdana is the variety of foodstuffs. The right ear is called…
SB 4.29.13 Nārada Muni continued: The city spoken of as Dakṣiṇa-pañcāla represents the scriptures meant for directing pravṛtti, the process of sense…
SB 4.29.14 The city called Grāmaka, which is approached through the lower gate of Āsurī [the genital organ], is meant for sex, which is very pleasing…
SB 4.29.15 When it is said that Purañjana goes to Vaiśasa, it is meant that he goes to hell. He is accompanied by Lubdhaka, which is the working…
SB 4.29.16 The word antaḥ-pura refers to the heart. The word viṣūcīna, meaning “going everywhere,” indicates the mind. Within the mind the living…
SB 4.29.17 Formerly it was explained that the Queen is one’s intelligence. While one is awake or asleep, that intelligence creates different…
SB 4.29.18-20 Nārada Muni continued: What I referred to as the chariot was in actuality the body. The senses are the horses that pull that chariot. As…
SB 4.29.21 What was previously explained as Caṇḍavega, powerful time, is covered by days and nights, named Gandharvas and Gandharvīs. The body’s life…
SB 4.29.22 What was described as Kālakanyā should be understood as old age. No one wants to accept old age, but Yavaneśvara [Yavana-rāja], who is…
SB 4.29.23-25 The followers of Yavaneśvara [Yamarāja] are called the soldiers of death, and they are known as the various types of disturbances that…
SB 4.29.26-27 The living entity by nature has minute independence to choose his own good or bad fortune, but when he forgets his supreme master, the…
SB 4.29.28 Those who are situated in the mode of goodness act piously according to Vedic injunctions. Thus they are elevated to the higher planetary…
SB 4.29.29 Covered by the mode of ignorance in material nature, the living entity is sometimes a male, sometimes a female, sometimes a eunuch,…
SB 4.29.30-31 The living entity is exactly like a dog who, overcome with hunger, goes from door to door for some food. According to his destiny, he…
SB 4.29.32 The living entities are trying to counteract different miserable conditions pertaining to providence, other living entities or the body…
SB 4.29.33 A man may carry a burden on his head, and when he feels it to be too heavy, he sometimes gives relief to his head by putting the burden on…
SB 4.29.34 Nārada continued: O you who are free from all sinful activity! No one can counteract the effects of fruitive activity simply by…
SB 4.29.35 Sometimes we suffer because we see a tiger in a dream or a snake in a vision, but actually there is neither a tiger nor a snake. Thus we…
SB 4.29.36-37 The real interest of the living entity is to get out of the nescience that causes him to endure repeated birth and death. The only remedy…
SB 4.29.38 O best of kings, one who is faithful, who is always hearing the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is always engaged in…
SB 4.29.39-40 My dear King, in the place where pure devotees live, following the rules and regulations and thus purely conscious and engaged with great…
SB 4.29.41 Because the conditioned soul is always disturbed by the bodily necessities such as hunger and thirst, he has very little time to cultivate…
SB 4.29.42-44 The most powerful Lord Brahmā, the father of all progenitors; Lord Śiva; Manu, Dakṣa and the other rulers of humankind; the four saintly…
SB 4.29.45 Despite the cultivation of Vedic knowledge, which is unlimited, and the worship of different demigods by the symptoms of Vedic mantras,…
SB 4.29.46 When a person is fully engaged in devotional service, he is favored by the Lord, who bestows His causeless mercy. At such a time, the…
SB 4.29.47 My dear King Barhiṣmān, you should never out of ignorance take to the Vedic rituals or to fruitive activity, which may be pleasing to hear…
SB 4.29.48 Those who are less intelligent accept the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies as all in all. They do not know that the purpose of the Vedas is to…
SB 4.29.49 My dear King, the entire world is covered with the sharp points of kuśa grass, and on the strength of this you have become proud because…
SB 4.29.50 Śrī Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the Supersoul and guide of all living entities who have accepted material bodies within…
SB 4.29.51 One who is engaged in devotional service has not the least fear in material existence. This is because the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
SB 4.29.52 The great saint Nārada continued: O great personality, I have replied properly about all that you have asked me. Now hear another…
SB 4.29.53 My dear King, please search out that deer who is engaged in eating grass in a very nice flower garden along with his wife. That deer is…
SB 4.29.54 My dear King, woman, who is very attractive in the beginning but in the end very disturbing, is exactly like the flower, which is…
SB 4.29.55 My dear King, just try to understand the allegorical position of the deer. Be fully conscious of yourself, and give up the pleasure of…
SB 4.29.56 The King replied: My dear brāhmaṇa, whatever you have said I have heard with great attention and, considering all of it, have come to the…
SB 4.29.57 My dear brāhmaṇa, there are contradictions between your instructions and those of my spiritual teachers who engaged me in fruitive…
SB 4.29.58 The results of whatever a living entity does in this life are enjoyed in the next life.
SB 4.29.59 The expert knowers of the Vedic conclusions say that one enjoys or suffers the results of his past activities. But practically it is seen…
SB 4.29.60 The great sage Nārada continued: The living entity acts in a gross body in this life. This body is forced to act by the subtle body,…
SB 4.29.61 The living entity, while dreaming, gives up the actual living body. Through the activities of his mind and intelligence, he acts in…
SB 4.29.62 The living entity labors under the bodily conception of “I am this, I am that. My duty is this, and therefore I shall do it.” These are…
SB 4.29.63 One can understand the mental or conscious position of a living entity by the activities of two kinds of senses — the knowledge-acquiring…
SB 4.29.64 Sometimes we suddenly experience something that was never experienced in the present body by sight or hearing. Sometimes we see such…
SB 4.29.65 Therefore, my dear King, the living entity, who has a subtle mental covering, develops all kinds of thoughts and images because of his…
SB 4.29.66 O King, all good fortune unto you! The mind is the cause of the living entity’s attaining a certain type of body in accordance with his…
SB 4.29.67 Sometimes in a dream we see something never experienced or heard of in this life, but all these incidents have been experienced at…
SB 4.29.68 The mind of the living entity continues to exist in various gross bodies, and according to one’s desires for sense gratification, the mind…
SB 4.29.69 Kṛṣṇa consciousness means constantly associating with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in such a mental state that the devotee can…
SB 4.29.70 As long as there exists the subtle material body composed of intelligence, mind, senses, sense objects, and the reactions of the material…
SB 4.29.71 When the living entity is in deep sleep, when he faints, when there is some great shock on account of severe loss, at the time of death,…
SB 4.29.72 When one is a youth, all the ten senses and the mind are completely visible. However, in the mother’s womb or in the boyhood state, the…
SB 4.29.73 When the living entity dreams, the sense objects are not actually present. However, because one has associated with the sense objects,…
SB 4.29.74 The five sense objects, the five sense organs, the five knowledge-acquiring senses and the mind are the sixteen material expansions. These…
SB 4.29.75 By virtue of the processes of the subtle body, the living entity develops and gives up gross bodies. This is known as the transmigration…
SB 4.29.76-77 The caterpillar transports itself from one leaf to another by capturing one leaf before giving up the other. Similarly, according to his…
SB 4.29.78 As long as we desire to enjoy sense gratification, we create material activities. When the living entity acts in the material field, he…
SB 4.29.79 You should always know that this cosmic manifestation is created, maintained and annihilated by the will of the Supreme Personality of…
SB 4.29.80 The great sage Maitreya continued: The supreme devotee, the great saint Nārada, thus explained to King Prācīnabarhi the constitutional…
SB 4.29.81 In the presence of his ministers, the saintly King Prācīnabarhi left orders for his sons to protect the citizens. He then left home and…
SB 4.29.82 Having undergone austerities and penances at Kapilāśrama, King Prācīnabarhi attained full liberation from all material designations. He…
SB 4.29.83 My dear Vidura, one who hears this narration concerning the understanding of the living entity’s spiritual existence, as described by the…
SB 4.29.84 This narration spoken by the great sage Nārada is full of the transcendental fame of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently this…
SB 4.29.85 The allegory of King Purañjana, described herein according to authority, was heard by me from my spiritual master, and it is full of…
SB 4.29.1a A desire to maintain body, wife and children is also observed in animal society. The animals have full intelligence to manage such…
SB 4.29.2a A desire to maintain body, wife and children is also observed in animal society. The animals have full intelligence to manage such…
SB 4.29.1b If a living entity is developed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and is merciful to others, and if his spiritual knowledge of self-realization is…
SB 4.29.2b Everything happening within time, which consists of past, present and future, is merely a dream. That is the secret understanding in all…
SB 4.30.1 Vidura inquired from Maitreya: O brāhmaṇa, you formerly spoke about the sons of Prācīnabarhi and informed me that they satisfied the…
SB 4.30.2 My dear Bārhaspatya, what did the sons of King Barhiṣat, known as the Pracetās, obtain after meeting Lord Śiva, who is very dear to the…
SB 4.31.9 The great sage Nārada said: When a living entity is born to engage in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is…
SB 4.31.10 A civilized human being has three kinds of births. The first birth is by a pure father and mother, and this birth is called birth by…
SB 4.31.11 Without devotional service, what is the meaning of severe austerities, the process of hearing, the power of speech, the power of mental…
SB 4.31.12 Transcendental practices that do not ultimately help one realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead are useless, be they mystic yoga…
SB 4.31.13 Factually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source of all self-realization. Consequently, the goal of all auspicious…
SB 4.31.14 As pouring water on the root of a tree energizes the trunk, branches, twigs and everything else, and as supplying food to the stomach…
SB 4.31.15 During the rainy season, water is generated from the sun, and in due course of time, during the summer season, the very same water is…
SB 4.31.16 Just as the sunshine is nondifferent from the sun, the cosmic manifestation is also nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead.…
SB 4.31.17 My dear Kings, sometimes in the sky there are clouds, sometimes there is darkness, and sometimes there is illumination. The appearance of…
SB 4.31.18 Because the Supreme Lord is the cause of all causes, He is the Supersoul of all individual living entities, and He exists as both the…
SB 4.31.19 By showing mercy to all living entities, being satisfied somehow or other, and restricting the senses from sense enjoyment, one can very…
SB 4.31.20 Being completely cleansed of all material desires, the devotees are freed from all mental contamination. Thus they can always think of the…
SB 4.31.21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes very dear to those devotees who have no material possessions but are fully happy in possessing…
SB 4.31.22 Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead is self-sufficient, He becomes dependent on His devotees. He does not care for the goddess of…
SB 4.31.23 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear King Vidura, Śrī Nārada Muni, the son of Lord Brahmā, thus described all these relationships…
SB 4.31.24 Hearing from Nārada’s mouth the glories of the Lord, which vanquish all the ill fortune of the world, the Pracetās also became attached to…
SB 4.31.25 My dear Vidura, I have told you everything you wanted to know about the conversation between Nārada and the Pracetās, the conversation…
SB 4.31.26 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of kings [King Parīkṣit], I have now finished telling about the descendants of the first son of…
SB 4.31.27 Although Mahārāja Priyavrata received instructions from the great sage Nārada, he still engaged in ruling the earth. After fully enjoying…
SB 4.31.28 My dear King, in this way, after hearing the transcendental messages of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotees from the great…
SB 6.5.6-8 The great sage Nārada said: My dear Haryaśvas, you have not seen the extremities of the earth. There is a kingdom where only one man lives…
SB 6.5.9 Alas, your father is omniscient, but you do not know his actual order. Without knowing the actual purpose of your father, how will you…
SB 6.16.2 Śrī Nārada Muni said: O living entity, all good fortune unto you. Just see your father and mother. All your friends and relatives are…
SB 6.16.3 Because you died untimely, the balance of your lifetime still remains. Therefore you may reenter your body and enjoy the remainder of your…
SB 6.16.4 By the mystic power of Nārada Muni, the living entity reentered his dead body for a short time and spoke in reply to Nārada Muni’s…
SB 6.16.5 In this material world, which advances like a river that carries away the living entity, all people become friends, relatives and enemies…
SB 6.16.6 Just as gold and other commodities are continually transferred from one place to another in due course of purchase and sale, so the living…
SB 6.16.7 A few living entities are born in the human species, and others are born as animals. Although both are living entities, their…
SB 6.16.8 Even though one living entity becomes connected with another because of a relationship based on bodies that are perishable, the living…
SB 6.16.9 The living entity is eternal and imperishable because he actually has no beginning and no end. He never takes birth or dies. He is the…
SB 6.16.10 For this living entity, no one is dear, nor is anyone unfavorable. He makes no distinction between that which is his own and that which…
SB 6.16.11 The Supreme Lord [ātmā], the creator of cause and effect, does not accept the happiness and distress that result from fruitive actions. He…
SB 6.16.12 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When the conditioned soul [jīva] in the form of Mahārāja Citraketu’s son had spoken in this way and then…
SB 6.16.13 After the relatives had discharged their duties by performing the proper funeral ceremonies and burning the dead child’s body, they gave…
SB 6.16.14 Queen Kṛtyadyuti’s co-wives, who had poisoned the child, were very much ashamed, and they lost all their bodily luster. While lamenting, O…
SB 6.16.15 Thus enlightened by the instructions of the brāhmaṇas Aṅgirā and Nārada, King Citraketu became fully aware of spiritual knowledge. As an…
SB 6.16.16 The King bathed in the water of the Yamunā, and according to prescribed duties, he offered oblations of water to the forefathers and…
SB 6.16.17 Thereafter, being very much pleased with Citraketu, who was a self-controlled devotee and surrendered soul, Nārada, the most powerful…
SB 6.16.18-19 [Nārada gave Citraketu the following mantra.] O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, who are addressed by the oṁkāra [praṇava], I offer…
SB 6.16.20 Perceiving Your personal bliss, You are always transcendental to the waves of material nature. Therefore, my Lord, I offer my respectful…
SB 6.16.21 The words and mind of the conditioned soul cannot approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for material names and forms are not…
SB 6.16.22 As pots made completely of earth are situated on earth after being created and are transformed into earth again when broken, this cosmic…
SB 6.16.23 The Supreme Brahman emanates from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and expands like the sky. Although untouched by anything material, it…
SB 6.16.24 As iron has the power to burn when made red-hot in the association of fire, so the body, senses, living force, mind and intelligence,…
SB 6.16.25 O transcendental Lord, who are situated in the topmost planet of the spiritual world, Your two lotus feet are always massaged by a…
SB 6.16.26 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Nārada, having become the spiritual master of Citraketu, instructed him fully in this prayer because…
SB 6.16.27 Fasting and drinking only water, Citraketu for one week continuously chanted with great care and attention the mantra given by Nārada Muni.
SB 6.16.28 O King Parīkṣit, after only one week of repeatedly practicing the mantra received from the spiritual master, Citraketu achieved the rule…
SB 6.16.29 Thereafter, within a very few days, by the influence of the mantra that Citraketu had practiced, his mind became increasingly enlightened…
SB 6.16.30 Upon reaching the shelter of Lord Śeṣa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Citraketu saw that He was as white as the white fibers of a…
SB 6.16.31 As soon as Mahārāja Citraketu saw the Supreme Lord, he was cleansed of all material contamination and situated in his original Kṛṣṇa…
SB 6.16.32 With tears of love and affection, Citraketu repeatedly moistened the resting place of the Supreme Lord’s lotus feet. Because his voice was…
SB 6.16.33 Thereafter, by controlling his mind with his intelligence and thus restricting his senses from external engagements, he recovered suitable…
SB 6.16.34 Citraketu said: O unconquerable Lord, although You cannot be conquered by anyone, You are certainly conquered by devotees who have control…
SB 6.16.35 My dear Lord, this cosmic manifestation and its creation, maintenance and annihilation are all but Your opulences. Since Lord Brahmā and…
SB 6.16.36 You exist in the beginning, middle and end of everything, from the most minute particle of the cosmic manifestation — the atom — to the…
SB 6.16.37 Every universe is covered by seven layers — earth, water, fire, air, sky, the total energy and false ego — each ten times greater than the…
SB 6.16.38 O Lord, O Supreme, unintelligent persons who thirst for sense enjoyment and who worship various demigods are no better than animals in the…
SB 6.16.39 O Supreme Lord, if persons obsessed with material desires for sense gratification through material opulence worship You, who are the…
SB 6.16.40 O unconquerable one, when You spoke about bhāgavata-dharma, which is the uncontaminated religious system for achieving the shelter of Your…
SB 6.16.41 Being full of contradictions, all forms of religion but bhāgavata-dharma work under conceptions of fruitive results and distinctions of…
SB 6.16.42 How can a religious system that produces envy of one’s self and of others be beneficial for oneself and for them? What is auspicious about…
SB 6.16.43 My dear Lord, one’s occupational duty is instructed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā according to Your point of view, which never…
SB 6.16.44 My Lord, it is not impossible for one to be immediately freed from all material contamination by seeing You. Not to speak of seeing You…
SB 6.16.45 Therefore, my dear Lord, simply seeing You has now wiped away all the contamination of sinful activities and their results of material…
SB 6.16.46 O unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead, whatever a living entity does in this material world is well known to You because You are the…
SB 6.16.47 My dear Lord, You are the creator, maintainer and annihilator of this cosmic manifestation, but persons who are too materialistic and who…
SB 6.16.48 My dear Lord, it is after You endeavor that Lord Brahmā, Indra and the other directors of the cosmic manifestation become occupied with…
SB 6.16.49 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Anantadeva, being very much pleased with the prayers offered by…
SB 6.16.50 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Anantadeva, replied as follows: O King, as a result of your having accepted the instructions spoken…
SB 6.16.51 All living entities, moving and nonmoving, are My expansions and are separate from Me. I am the Supersoul of all living beings, who exist…
SB 6.16.52 In this world of matter, which the conditioned soul accepts as consisting of enjoyable resources, the conditioned soul expands, thinking…
SB 6.16.53-54 When a person is in deep sleep, he dreams and sees in himself many other objects, such as great mountains and rivers or perhaps even the…
SB 6.16.55 Know Me to be the Supreme Brahman, the all-pervading Supersoul through whom the sleeping living entity can understand his dreaming…
SB 6.16.56 If one’s dreams during sleep are merely subject matters witnessed by the Supersoul, how can the living entity, who is different from the…
SB 6.16.57 When a living entity, thinking himself different from Me, forgets his spiritual identity of qualitative oneness with Me in eternity,…
SB 6.16.58 A human being can attain perfection in life by self-realization through the Vedic literature and its practical application. This is…
SB 6.16.59 Remembering the great trouble found in the field of activities performed for fruitive results, and remembering how one receives the…
SB 6.16.60 As husband and wife, a man and woman plan together to attain happiness and decrease unhappiness, working jointly in many ways, but because…
SB 6.16.61-62 One should understand that the activities of persons who are proud of their material experience bring only results contradictory to those…
SB 6.16.63 Persons who try to reach the ultimate goal of life must expertly observe the Supreme Absolute Person and the living entity, who are one in…
SB 6.16.64 O King, if you accept this conclusion of Mine, being unattached to material enjoyment, adhering to Me with great faith and thus becoming…
SB 6.16.65 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After thus instructing Citraketu and assuring him of perfection in this way, the Supreme Personality of…
SB 7.1.23 The great sage Śrī Nāradajī said: O King, blasphemy and praise, chastisement and respect, are experienced because of ignorance. The body…
SB 7.1.24 My dear King, the conditioned soul, being in the bodily conception of life, considers his body to be his self and considers everything in…
SB 7.1.25 Because of the bodily conception of life, the conditioned soul thinks that when the body is annihilated the living being is annihilated.…
SB 7.1.26 Therefore by enmity or by devotional service, by fear, by affection or by lusty desire — by all of these or any one of them — if a…
SB 7.1.27 Nārada Muni continued: By devotional service one cannot achieve such intense absorption in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
SB 7.1.28-29 A grassworm confined in a hole of a wall by a bee always thinks of the bee in fear and enmity and later becomes a bee simply because of…
SB 7.1.30 Many, many persons have attained liberation simply by thinking of Kṛṣṇa with great attention and giving up sinful activities. This great…
SB 7.1.31 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, the gopīs by their lusty desires, Kaṁsa by his fear, Śiśupāla and other kings by envy, the Yadus by their…
SB 7.1.32 Somehow or other, one must consider the form of Kṛṣṇa very seriously. Then, by one of the five different processes mentioned above, one…
SB 7.1.33 Nārada Muni continued: O best of the Pāṇḍavas, your two cousins Śiśupāla and Dantavakra, the sons of your maternal aunt, were formerly…
SB 7.1.34 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired: What kind of great curse could affect even liberated viṣṇu-bhaktas, and what sort of person could curse…
SB 7.1.35 The bodies of the inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha are completely spiritual, having nothing to do with the material body, senses or life air.…
SB 7.1.36 The great saint Nārada said: Once upon a time when the four sons of Lord Brahmā named Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra were…
SB 7.1.37 Although these four great sages were older than Brahmā’s other sons like Marīci, they appeared like small naked children only five or six…
SB 7.1.38 Thus checked by the doorkeepers Jaya and Vijaya, Sanandana and the other great sages very angrily cursed them. “You two foolish…
SB 7.1.39 While Jaya and Vijaya, thus cursed by the sages, were falling to the material world, they were addressed as follows by the same sages, who…
SB 7.1.40 These two associates of the Lord — Jaya and Vijaya — later descended to the material world, taking birth as the two sons of Diti,…
SB 7.1.41 Appearing as Nṛsiṁhadeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Hari, killed Hiraṇyakaśipu. When the Lord delivered the planet earth,…
SB 7.1.42 Desiring to kill his son Prahlāda, who was a great devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, Hiraṇyakaśipu tortured him in many ways.
SB 7.1.43 The Lord, the Supersoul of all living entities, is sober, peaceful and equal to everyone. Since the great devotee Prahlāda was protected…
SB 7.1.44 Thereafter the same Jaya and Vijaya, the two doorkeepers of Lord Viṣṇu, took birth as Rāvaṇa and Kumbhakarṇa, begotten by Viśravā in the…
SB 7.1.45 Nārada Muni continued: My dear King, just to relieve Jaya and Vijaya of the brāhmaṇas’ curse, Lord Rāmacandra appeared in order to kill…
SB 7.1.46 In their third birth, the same Jaya and Vijaya appeared in a family of kṣatriyas as your cousins, the sons of your aunt. Because Lord…
SB 7.1.47 These two associates of Lord Viṣṇu — Jaya and Vijaya — maintained a feeling of enmity for a very long time. Because of always thinking of…
SB 7.1.48 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired: O my lord, Nārada Muni, why was there such enmity between Hiraṇyakaśipu and his beloved son Prahlāda…
SB 7.2.1 Śrī Nārada Muni said: My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, when Lord Viṣṇu, in the form of Varāha, the boar, killed Hiraṇyākṣa, Hiraṇyākṣa’s brother…
SB 7.2.2 Filled with rage and biting his lips, Hiraṇyakaśipu gazed at the sky with eyes that blazed in anger, making the whole sky smoky. Thus he…
SB 7.2.3 Exhibiting his terrible teeth, fierce glance and frowning eyebrows, terrible to see, he took up his weapon, a trident, and thus began…
SB 7.2.4-5 O Dānavas and Daityas! O Dvimūrdha, Tryakṣa, Śambara and Śatabāhu! O Hayagrīva, Namuci, Pāka and Ilvala! O Vipracitti, Puloman, Śakuna and…
SB 7.2.6 My insignificant enemies the demigods have combined to kill my very dear and obedient well-wisher, my brother Hiraṇyākṣa. Although the…
SB 7.2.7-8 The Supreme Personality of Godhead has given up His natural tendency of equality toward the demons and demigods. Although He is the…
SB 7.2.9 When the root of a tree is cut and the tree falls down, its branches and twigs automatically dry up. Similarly, when I have killed this…
SB 7.2.10 While I am engaged in the business of killing Lord Viṣṇu, go down to the planet earth, which is flourishing due to brahminical culture and…
SB 7.2.11 The basic principle of brahminical culture is to satisfy Lord Viṣṇu, the personification of sacrificial and ritualistic ceremonies. Lord…
SB 7.2.12 Immediately go wherever there is good protection for the cows and brāhmaṇas and wherever the Vedas are studied in terms of the varṇāśrama…
SB 7.2.13 Thus the demons, being fond of disastrous activities, took Hiraṇyakaśipu’s instructions on their heads with great respect and offered him…
SB 7.2.14 The demons set fire to the cities, villages, pasturing grounds, cowpens, gardens, agricultural fields and natural forests. They burned the…
SB 7.2.15 Some of the demons took digging instruments and broke down the bridges, the protective walls and the gates [gopuras] of the cities. Some…
SB 7.2.16 Thus disturbed again and again by the unnatural occurrences caused by the followers of Hiraṇyakaśipu, all the people had to cease the…
SB 7.2.17 After performing the ritualistic observances for the death of his brother, Hiraṇyakaśipu, being extremely unhappy, tried to pacify his…
SB 7.2.18-19 O King, Hiraṇyakaśipu was extremely angry, but since he was a great politician, he knew how to act according to the time and situation.…
SB 7.2.20 Hiraṇyakaśipu said: My dear mother, sister-in-law and nephews, you should not lament for the death of the great hero, for a hero’s death…
SB 7.2.21 My dear mother, in a restaurant or place for drinking cold water, many travelers are brought together, and after drinking water they…
SB 7.2.22 The spirit soul, the living entity, has no death, for he is eternal and inexhaustible. Being free from material contamination, he can go…
SB 7.2.23 Because of the movements of the water, the trees on the bank of a river, when reflected on the water, seem to move. Similarly, when the…
SB 7.2.24 In the same way, O my gentle mother, when the mind is agitated by the movements of the modes of material nature, the living entity,…
SB 7.2.25-26 In his bewildered state, the living entity, accepting the body and mind to be the self, considers some people to be his kinsmen and others…
SB 7.2.27 In this regard, an example is given from an old history. This involves a discourse between Yamarāja and the friends of a dead person.…
SB 7.2.28 In the state known as Uśīnara there was a celebrated king named Suyajña. When the King was killed in battle by his enemies, his kinsmen…
SB 7.2.29-31 His golden, bejeweled armor smashed, his ornaments and garlands fallen from their places, his hair scattered and his eyes lusterless, the…
SB 7.2.32 As the queens loudly cried, their tears glided down their breasts, becoming reddened by kuṅkuma powder, and fell upon the lotus feet of…
SB 7.2.33 O lord, you have now been removed by cruel providence to a state beyond our sight. You had previously sustained the livelihood of the…
SB 7.2.34 O King, O hero, you were a very grateful husband and the most sincere friend of all of us. How shall we exist without you? O hero,…
SB 7.2.35 The time was appropriate for the body to be burned, but the queens, not allowing it to be taken away, continued lamenting for the dead…
SB 7.2.36 While the queens were lamenting for the dead body of the King, their loud cries were heard even from the abode of Yamarāja. Assuming the…
SB 7.2.37 Śrī Yamarāja said: Alas, how amazing it is! These persons, who are older than me, have full experience that hundreds and thousands of…
SB 7.2.38 It is wonderful that these elderly women do not have a higher sense of life than we do. Indeed, we are most fortunate, for although we are…
SB 7.2.39 The boy addressed the women: O weak women! Only by the will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never diminished, is the entire…
SB 7.2.40 Sometimes one loses his money on a public street, where everyone can see it, and yet his money is protected by destiny and not seen by…
SB 7.2.41 Every conditioned soul receives a different type of body according to his work, and when the engagement is finished the body is finished.…
SB 7.2.42 Just as a householder, although different from the identity of his house, thinks his house to be identical with him, so the conditioned…
SB 7.2.43 As fire, although situated in wood, is perceived to be different from the wood, as air, although situated within the mouth and nostrils,…
SB 7.2.44 Yamarāja continued: O lamenters, you are all fools! The person named Suyajña, for whom you lament, is still lying before you and has not…
SB 7.2.45 In the body the most important substance is the life air, but that also is neither the listener nor the speaker. Beyond even the life air,…
SB 7.2.46 The five material elements, the ten senses and the mind all combine to form the various parts of the gross and subtle bodies. The living…
SB 7.2.47 As long as the spirit soul is covered by the subtle body, consisting of the mind, intelligence and false ego, he is bound to the results…
SB 7.2.48 It is fruitless to see and talk of the material modes of nature and their resultant so-called happiness and distress as if they were…
SB 7.2.49 Those who have full knowledge of self-realization, who know very well that the spirit soul is eternal whereas the body is perishable, are…
SB 7.2.50 There was once a hunter who lured birds with food and captured them after spreading a net. He lived as if appointed by death personified…
SB 7.2.51 While wandering in the forest, the hunter saw a pair of kuliṅga birds. Of the two, the female was captivated by the hunter’s lure.
SB 7.2.52 O queens of Suyajña, the male kuliṅga bird, seeing his wife put into the greatest danger in the grip of Providence, became very unhappy.…
SB 7.2.53 Alas, how merciless is Providence! My wife, unable to be helped by anyone, is in such an awkward position and lamenting for me. What will…
SB 7.2.54 If unkind Providence takes away my wife, who is half my body, why should He not take me also? What is the use of my living with half of my…
SB 7.2.55 The unfortunate baby birds, bereft of their mother, are waiting in the nest for her to feed them. They are still very small and have not…
SB 7.2.56 Because of the loss of his wife, the kuliṅga bird lamented with tears in his eyes. Meanwhile, following the dictations of mature time, the…
SB 7.2.57 Thus Yamarāja, in the guise of a small boy, told all the queens: You are all so foolish that you lament but do not see your own death.…
SB 7.2.58 Hiraṇyakaśipu said: While Yamarāja, in the form of a small boy, was instructing all the relatives surrounding the dead body of Suyajña,…
SB 7.2.59 After instructing all the foolish relatives of Suyajña, Yamarāja, in the form of a boy, disappeared from their vision. Then the relatives…
SB 7.2.60 Therefore none of you should be aggrieved for the loss of the body — whether your own or those of others. Only in ignorance does one make…
SB 7.2.61 Śrī Nārada Muni continued: Diti, the mother of Hiraṇyakaśipu and Hiraṇyākṣa, heard the instructions of Hiraṇyakaśipu along with her…
SB 7.3.1 Nārada Muni said to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira: The demoniac king Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to be unconquerable and free from old age and dwindling…
SB 7.3.2 In the valley of Mandara Hill, Hiraṇyakaśipu began performing his austerities by standing with his toes on the ground, keeping his arms…
SB 7.3.3 From the hair on Hiraṇyakaśipu’s head there emanated an effulgent light as brilliant and intolerable as the rays of the sun at the time of…
SB 7.3.4 Because of Hiraṇyakaśipu’s severe austerities, fire came from his head, and this fire and its smoke spread throughout the sky,…
SB 7.3.5 Because of the power of his severe austerities, all the rivers and oceans were agitated, the surface of the globe, with its mountains and…
SB 7.3.6 Scorched and extremely disturbed because of Hiraṇyakaśipu’s severe penances, all the demigods left the planets where they reside and went…
SB 7.3.7 O great person, chief of the universe, if you think it proper, kindly stop these disturbances, meant to destroy everything, before all…
SB 7.3.8 Hiraṇyakaśipu has undertaken a most severe type of austerity. Although his plan is not unknown to you, kindly listen as we submit his…
SB 7.3.9-10 “The supreme person within this universe, Lord Brahmā, has gotten his exalted post by dint of severe austerities, mystic power and trance.…
SB 7.3.11 “By dint of my severe austerities, I shall reverse the results of pious and impious activities. I shall overturn all the established…
SB 7.3.12 O lord, we have heard from reliable sources that in order to obtain your post, Hiraṇyakaśipu is now engaged in severe austerity. You are…
SB 7.3.13 O Lord Brahmā, your position within this universe is certainly most auspicious for everyone, especially the cows and brāhmaṇas.…
SB 7.3.14 O King, being thus informed by the demigods, the most powerful Lord Brahmā, accompanied by Bhṛgu, Dakṣa and other great sages, immediately…
SB 7.3.15-16 Lord Brahmā, who is carried by a swan airplane, at first could not see where Hiraṇyakaśipu was, for Hiraṇyakaśipu’s body was covered by an…
SB 7.5.1 The great saint Nārada Muni said: The demons, headed by Hiraṇyakaśipu, accepted Śukrācārya as their priest for ritualistic ceremonies.…
SB 7.5.2 Prahlāda Mahārāja was already educated in devotional life, but when his father sent him to those two sons of Śukrācārya to be educated,…
SB 7.5.3 Prahlāda certainly heard and recited the topics of politics and economics taught by the teachers, but he understood that political…
SB 7.5.4 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, once upon a time the King of the demons, Hiraṇyakaśipu, took his son Prahlāda on his lap and very affectionately…
SB 7.5.5 Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: O best of the asuras, King of the demons, as far as I have learned from my spiritual master, any person who has…
SB 7.5.6 Nārada Muni continued: When Prahlāda Mahārāja spoke about the path of self-realization in devotional service, thus being faithful to the…
SB 7.5.7 Hiraṇyakaśipu advised his assistants: My dear demons, give complete protection to this boy at the gurukula where he is instructed, so that…
SB 7.5.8 When Hiraṇyakaśipu’s servants brought the boy Prahlāda back to the gurukula [the place where the brāhmaṇas taught the boys], the priests…
SB 7.5.9 Dear son Prahlāda, all peace and good fortune unto you. Kindly do not speak lies; just reply with the truth. These boys you see are not…
SB 7.5.10 O best of your family, has this pollution of your intelligence been brought about by you or by the enemies? We are all your teachers and…
SB 7.5.11 Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose external energy has…
SB 7.5.12 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased with the living entity because of his devotional service, one becomes a paṇḍita and…
SB 7.5.13 Persons who always think in terms of “enemy” and “friend” are unable to ascertain the Supersoul within themselves. Not to speak of them,…
SB 7.5.14 O brāhmaṇas [teachers], as iron attracted by a magnetic stone moves automatically toward the magnet, my consciousness, having been changed…
SB 7.5.15 The great saint Nārada Muni continued: The great soul Prahlāda Mahārāja became silent after saying this to his teachers, Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka,…
SB 7.5.16 Oh, please bring me a stick! This Prahlāda is damaging our name and fame. Because of his bad intelligence, he has become like a cinder in…
SB 7.5.17 This rascal Prahlāda has appeared like a thorn tree in a forest of sandalwood. To cut down sandalwood trees, an axe is needed, and the…
SB 7.5.18 Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka, the teachers of Prahlāda Mahārāja, chastised and threatened their disciple in various ways and began teaching him about…
SB 7.5.19 After some time, the teachers Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka thought that Prahlāda Mahārāja was sufficiently educated in the diplomatic affairs of…
SB 7.5.20 When Hiraṇyakaśipu saw that his child had fallen at his feet and was offering obeisances, as an affectionate father he immediately began…
SB 7.5.21 Nārada Muni continued: My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, Hiraṇyakaśipu seated Prahlāda Mahārāja on his lap and began smelling his head. With…
SB 7.5.22 Hiraṇyakaśipu said: My dear Prahlāda, my dear son, O long-lived one, for so much time you have heard many things from your teachers. Now…
SB 7.5.23-24 Prahlāda Mahārāja said: Hearing and chanting about the transcendental holy name, form, qualities, paraphernalia and pastimes of Lord…
SB 7.5.25 After hearing these words of devotional service from the mouth of his son Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu was extremely angry. His lips trembling,…
SB 7.5.26 O unqualified, most heinous son of a brāhmaṇa, you have disobeyed my order and taken shelter of the party of my enemies. You have taught…
SB 7.5.27 In due course of time, various types of diseases are manifest in those who are sinful. Similarly, in this world there are many deceptive…
SB 7.5.28 The son of Śukrācārya, Hiraṇyakaśipu’s spiritual master, said: O enemy of King Indra, O King! Whatever your son Prahlāda has said was not…
SB 7.5.29 Śrī Nārada Muni continued: When Hiraṇyakaśipu received this reply from the teacher, he again addressed his son Prahlāda. Hiraṇyakaśipu…
SB 7.5.30 Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: Because of their uncontrolled senses, persons too addicted to materialistic life make progress toward hellish…
SB 7.5.31 Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru…
SB 7.5.32 Unless they smear upon their bodies the dust of the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava completely freed from material contamination, persons very…
SB 7.5.33 After Prahlāda Mahārāja had spoken in this way and become silent, Hiraṇyakaśipu, blinded by anger, threw him off his lap and onto the…
SB 7.5.34 Indignant and angry, his reddish eyes like molten copper, Hiraṇyakaśipu said to his servants: O demons, take this boy away from me! He…
SB 7.5.35 This boy Prahlāda is the killer of my brother, for he has given up his family to engage in the devotional service of the enemy, Lord…
SB 7.5.36 Although Prahlāda is only five years old, even at this young age he has given up his affectionate relationship with his father and mother.…
SB 7.5.37 Although a medicinal herb, being born in the forest, does not belong to the same category as a man, if beneficial it is kept very…
SB 7.5.38 Just as uncontrolled senses are the enemies of all yogīs engaged in advancing in spiritual life, this Prahlāda, who appears to be a…
SB 7.5.39-40 The demons [Rākṣasas], the servants of Hiraṇyakaśipu, thus began striking the tender parts of Prahlāda Mahārāja’s body with their…
SB 7.5.41 Even though a person who has no assets in pious activities performs some good deed, it will have no result. Thus the weapons of the demons…
SB 7.5.42 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, when all the attempts of the demons to kill Prahlāda Mahārāja were futile, the King of the demons,…
SB 7.5.43-44 Hiraṇyakaśipu could not kill his son by throwing him beneath the feet of big elephants, throwing him among huge, fearful snakes, employing…
SB 7.5.45 Hiraṇyakaśipu thought: I have used many ill names in chastising this boy Prahlāda and have devised many means of killing him, but despite…
SB 7.5.46 Although he is very near to me and is merely a child, he is situated in complete fearlessness. He resembles a dog’s curved tail, which can…
SB 7.5.47 I can see that this boy’s strength is unlimited, for he has not feared any of my punishments. He appears immortal. Therefore, because of…
SB 7.5.48 Thinking in this way, the King of the Daityas, morose and bereft of bodily luster, remained silent with his face downward. Then Ṣaṇḍa and…
SB 7.5.49 O lord, we know that when you simply move your eyebrows, all the commanders of the various planets are most afraid. Without the help of…
SB 7.5.50 Until the return of our spiritual master, Śukrācārya, arrest this child with the ropes of Varuṇa so that he will not flee in fear. In any…
SB 7.5.51 After hearing these instructions of Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka, the sons of his spiritual master, Hiraṇyakaśipu agreed and requested them to…
SB 7.5.52 Thereafter, Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka systematically and unceasingly taught Prahlāda Mahārāja, who was very submissive and humble, about mundane…
SB 7.5.53 The teachers Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka instructed Prahlāda Mahārāja in the three kinds of material advancement called religion, economic…
SB 7.5.54 When the teachers went home to attend to their household affairs, the students of the same age as Prahlāda Mahārāja would call him to take…
SB 7.5.55 Prahlāda Mahārāja, who was truly the supreme learned person, then addressed his class friends in very sweet language. Smiling, he began to…
SB 7.5.56-57 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, all the children were very much affectionate and respectful to Prahlāda Mahārāja, and because of their tender…
SB 7.6.1 Prahlāda Mahārāja said: One who is sufficiently intelligent should use the human form of body from the very beginning of life — in other…
SB 7.6.2 The human form of life affords one a chance to return home, back to Godhead. Therefore every living entity, especially in the human form…
SB 7.6.3 Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: My dear friends born of demoniac families, the happiness perceived with reference to the sense objects by…
SB 7.6.4 Endeavors merely for sense gratification or material happiness through economic development are not to be performed, for they result only…
SB 7.6.5 Therefore, while in material existence [bhavam āśritaḥ], a person fully competent to distinguish wrong from right must endeavor to achieve…
SB 7.6.6 Every human being has a maximum duration of life of one hundred years, but for one who cannot control his senses, half of those years are…
SB 7.6.7 In the tender age of childhood, when everyone is bewildered, one passes ten years. Similarly, in boyhood, engaged in sporting and playing,…
SB 7.6.8 One whose mind and senses are uncontrolled becomes increasingly attached to family life because of insatiable lusty desires and very…
SB 7.6.9 What person too attached to household life due to being unable to control his senses can liberate himself? An attached householder is…
SB 7.6.10 Money is so dear that one conceives of money as being sweeter than honey. Therefore, who can give up the desire to accumulate money,…
SB 7.6.11-13 How can a person who is most affectionate to his family, the core of his heart being always filled with their pictures, give up their…
SB 7.6.14 One who is too attached cannot understand that he is wasting his valuable life for the maintenance of his family. He also fails to…
SB 7.6.15 If a person too attached to the duties of family maintenance is unable to control his senses, the core of his heart is immersed in how to…
SB 7.6.16 O my friends, sons of demons! In this material world, even those who are apparently advanced in education have the propensity to consider,…
SB 7.6.17-18 My dear friends, O sons of the demons, it is certain that no one bereft of knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead has been able…
SB 7.6.19 My dear sons of demons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, is the original Supersoul, the father of all living entities.…
SB 7.6.20-23 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, who is infallible and indefatigable, is present in different forms of life,…
SB 7.6.24 Therefore, my dear young friends born of demons, please act in such a way that the Supreme Lord, who is beyond the conception of material…
SB 7.6.25 Nothing is unobtainable for devotees who have satisfied the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the cause of all causes, the original…
SB 7.6.26 Religion, economic development and sense gratification — these are described in the Vedas as tri-varga, or three ways to salvation. Within…
SB 7.6.27 Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the well-wisher and friend of all living entities, formerly explained this transcendental…
SB 7.6.28 Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: I received this knowledge from the great saint Nārada Muni, who is always engaged in devotional service. This…
SB 7.6.29-30 The sons of the demons replied: Dear Prahlāda, neither you nor we know any teacher or spiritual master other than Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka, the…
SB 7.7.1 Nārada Muni said: Although Prahlāda Mahārāja was born in a family of asuras, he was the greatest of all devotees. Having thus been…
SB 7.7.2 Prahlāda Mahārāja said: When our father, Hiraṇyakaśipu, went to Mandarācala Mountain to execute severe austerities, in his absence the…
SB 7.7.3 “Alas, as a serpent is eaten by small ants, so the troublesome Hiraṇyakaśipu, who always inflicted miseries upon all types of people, has…
SB 7.7.4-5 When the great leaders of the demons, who were being killed one after another, saw the unprecedented exertion of the demigods in fighting,…
SB 7.7.6 The victorious demigods plundered the palace of Hiraṇyakaśipu, the King of the demons, and destroyed everything within it. Then Indra,…
SB 7.7.7 As she was being led away, crying in fear like a kurarī captured by a vulture, the great sage Nārada, who at that time had no engagement,…
SB 7.7.8 Nārada Muni said: O Indra, King of the demigods, this woman is certainly sinless. You should not drag her off in this merciless way. O…
SB 7.9.51 The great saint Nārada said: Thus Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva was pacified by the devotee Prahlāda Mahārāja with prayers offered from the…
SB 7.9.55 Nārada Muni said: Prahlāda Mahārāja was the best person in the family of asuras, who always aspire for material happiness. Nonetheless,…
SB 7.10.1 The saint Nārada Muni continued: Although Prahlāda Mahārāja was only a boy, when he heard the benedictions offered by Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva he…
SB 7.10.2 Prahlāda Mahārāja said: My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, because I was born in an atheistic family I am naturally attached…
SB 7.10.3 O my worshipable Lord, because the seed of lusty desires, which is the root cause of material existence, is within the core of everyone’s…
SB 7.10.4 Otherwise, O my Lord, O supreme instructor of the entire world, You are so kind to Your devotee that You could not induce him to do…
SB 7.10.5 A servant who desires material profits from his master is certainly not a qualified servant or pure devotee. Similarly, a master who…
SB 7.10.6 O my Lord, I am Your unmotivated servant, and You are my eternal master. There is no need of our being anything other than master and…
SB 7.10.7 O my Lord, best of the givers of benediction, if You at all want to bestow a desirable benediction upon me, then I pray from Your Lordship…
SB 7.10.8 O my Lord, because of lusty desires from the very beginning of one’s birth, the functions of one’s senses, mind, life, body, religion,…
SB 7.10.9 O my Lord, when a human being is able to give up all the material desires in his mind, he becomes eligible to possess wealth and opulence…
SB 7.10.10 O my Lord, full of six opulences, O Supreme Person! O Supreme Soul, killer of all miseries! O Supreme Person in the form of a wonderful…
SB 7.10.53 Nārada Muni said: When the demigods, who are always powerful by the mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa, fought with the asuras, the asuras were defeated,…
SB 7.10.54-55 Maya Dānava, the great leader of the demons, prepared three invisible residences and gave them to the demons. These dwellings resembled…
SB 7.10.56 Thereafter, when the demons had begun to destroy the higher planetary systems, the rulers of those planets went to Lord Śiva, fully…
SB 7.10.57 The most powerful and able Lord Śiva reassured them and said, “Do not be afraid.” He then fixed his arrows to his bow and released them…
SB 7.10.58 The arrows released by Lord Śiva appeared like fiery beams emanating from the sun globe and covered the three residential airplanes, which…
SB 7.10.59 Attacked by Lord Śiva’s golden arrows, all the demoniac inhabitants of those three dwellings lost their lives and fell down. Then the…
SB 7.10.60 When the dead bodies of the demons came in touch with the nectar, their bodies became invincible to thunderbolts. Endowed with great…
SB 7.10.61 Seeing Lord Śiva very much aggrieved and disappointed, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, considered how to stop this…
SB 7.10.62 Then Lord Brahmā became a calf and Lord Viṣṇu a cow, and at noon they entered the residences and drank all the nectar in the well.
SB 7.10.63 The demons could see the calf and cow, but because of the illusion created by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the demons…
SB 7.10.64 Maya Dānava said: What has been destined by the Supreme Lord for oneself, for others, or for both oneself and others cannot be undone…
SB 7.10.65-66 Nārada Muni continued: Thereafter, Lord Kṛṣṇa, by His own personal potency, consisting of religion, knowledge, renunciation, opulence,…
SB 7.10.67 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, the most powerful Lord Śiva joined the arrows to his bow, and at noon he set fire to all three residences of the…
SB 7.10.68 Seated in their airplanes in the sky, the inhabitants of the higher planetary systems beat many kettledrums. The demigods, saints, Pitās,…
SB 7.10.69 O King Yudhiṣṭhira, thus Lord Śiva is known as Tripurāri, the annihilator of the three dwellings of the demons, because he burnt these…
SB 7.10.70 The Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, appeared as a human being, yet He performed many uncommon and wonderful pastimes by His own potency. How can I say…
SB 7.11.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After hearing about the activities and character of Prahlāda Mahārāja, which are adored and discussed among…
SB 7.11.2 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said: My dear lord, I wish to hear from you about the principles of religion by which one can attain the ultimate…
SB 7.11.3 O best of the brāhmaṇas, you are directly the son of Prajāpati [Lord Brahmā]. Because of your austerities, mystic yoga and trance, you are…
SB 7.11.4 No one is superior to you in peaceful life and mercy, and no one knows better than you how to execute devotional service or how to become…
SB 7.11.5 Śrī Nārada Muni said: After first offering my obeisances unto Lord Kṛṣṇa, the protector of the religious principles of all living…
SB 7.11.6 Lord Nārāyaṇa, along with His partial manifestation Nara, appeared in this world through the daughter of Dakṣa Mahārāja known as Mūrti. He…
SB 7.11.7 The Supreme Being, the Personality of Godhead, is the essence of all Vedic knowledge, the root of all religious principles, and the memory…
SB 7.11.8-12 These are the general principles to be followed by all human beings: truthfulness, mercy, austerity (observing fasts on certain days of…
SB 7.11.13 Those who have been reformed by the garbhādhāna ceremony and other prescribed reformatory methods, performed with Vedic mantras and…
SB 7.11.14 For a brāhmaṇa there are six occupational duties. A kṣatriya should not accept charity, but he may perform the other five of these duties.…
SB 7.11.15 The mercantile community should always follow the directions of the brāhmaṇas and engage in such occupational duties as agriculture,…
SB 7.11.16 As an alternative, a brāhmaṇa may also take to the vaiśya’s occupational duty of agriculture, cow protection, or trade. He may depend on…
SB 7.11.17 Except in a time of emergency, lower persons should not accept the occupational duties of those who are higher. When there is such an…
SB 7.11.18-20 In time of emergency, one may accept any of the various types of professions known as ṛta, amṛta, mṛta, pramṛta and satyānṛta, but one…
SB 7.11.21 The symptoms of a brāhmaṇa are control of the mind, control of the senses, austerity and penance, cleanliness, satisfaction, forgiveness,…
SB 7.11.22 To be influential in battle, unconquerable, patient, challenging and charitable, to control the bodily necessities, to be forgiving, to be…
SB 7.11.23 Being always devoted to the demigods, the spiritual master and the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu; endeavoring for advancement in religious…
SB 7.11.24 Offering obeisances to the higher sections of society [the brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas and vaiśyas], being always very clean, being free from…
SB 7.11.25 To render service to the husband, to be always favorably disposed toward the husband, to be equally well disposed toward the husband’s…
SB 7.11.26-27 A chaste woman must dress nicely and decorate herself with golden ornaments for the pleasure of her husband. Always wearing clean and…
SB 7.11.28 A chaste woman should not be greedy, but satisfied in all circumstances. She must be very expert in handling household affairs and should…
SB 7.11.29 The woman who engages in the service of her husband, following strictly in the footsteps of the goddess of fortune, surely returns home,…
SB 7.11.30 Among the mixed classes known as saṅkara, those who are not thieves are known as antevasāyī or caṇḍālas [dog-eaters], and they also have…
SB 7.11.31 My dear King, brāhmaṇas well conversant in Vedic knowledge have given their verdict that in every age [yuga] the conduct of different…
SB 7.11.32 If one acts in his profession according to his position in the modes of nature and gradually gives up these activities, he attains the…
SB 7.11.33-34 My dear King, if an agricultural field is cultivated again and again, the power of its production decreases, and whatever seeds are sown…
SB 7.11.35 If one shows the symptoms of being a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya or śūdra, as described above, even if he has appeared in a different…
SB 7.12.1 Nārada Muni said: A student should practice completely controlling his senses. He should be submissive and should have an attitude of firm…
SB 7.12.2 At both junctions of day and night, namely, in the early morning and in the evening, he should be fully absorbed in thoughts of the…
SB 7.12.3 Being called by the spiritual master, the student should study the Vedic mantras regularly. Every day, before beginning his studies and at…
SB 7.12.4 Carrying pure kuśa grass in his hand, the brahmacārī should dress regularly with a belt of straw and with deerskin garments. He should…
SB 7.12.5 The brahmacārī should go out morning and evening to collect alms, and he should offer all that he collects to the spiritual master. He…
SB 7.12.6 A brahmacārī should be quite well-behaved and gentle and should not eat or collect more than necessary. He must always be active and…
SB 7.12.7 A brahmacārī, or one who has not accepted the gṛhastha-āśrama [family life], must rigidly avoid talking with women or about women, for the…
SB 7.12.8 If the wife of the spiritual master is young, a young brahmacārī should not allow her to care for his hair, massage his body with oil, or…
SB 7.12.9 Woman is compared to fire, and man is compared to a butter pot. Therefore a man should avoid associating even with his own daughter in a…
SB 7.12.10 As long as a living entity is not completely self-realized — as long as he is not independent of the misconception of identifying with his…
SB 7.12.11 All the rules and regulations apply equally to the householder and the sannyāsī, the member of the renounced order of life. The gṛhastha,…
SB 7.12.12 Brahmacārīs or gṛhasthas who have taken the vow of celibacy as described above should not indulge in the following: applying powder or…
SB 7.12.13-14 According to the rules and regulations mentioned above, one who is twice-born, namely a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya, should reside in the…
SB 7.12.15 One should realize that in the fire, in the spiritual master, in one’s self and in all living entities — in all circumstances and…
SB 7.12.16 By practicing in this way, whether one be in the brahmacārī-āśrama, gṛhastha-āśrama, vānaprastha-āśrama or sannyāsa-āśrama, one must…
SB 7.12.17 O King, I shall now describe the qualifications for a vānaprastha, one who has retired from family life. By rigidly following the rules…
SB 7.12.18 A person in vānaprastha life should not eat grains grown by tilling of the fields. He should also not eat grains that have grown without…
SB 7.12.19 A vānaprastha should prepare cakes to be offered in sacrifice from fruits and grains grown naturally in the forest. When he obtains some…
SB 7.12.20 A vānaprastha should prepare a thatched cottage or take shelter of a cave in a mountain only to keep the sacred fire, but he should…
SB 7.12.21 The vānaprastha should wear matted locks of hair on his head and let his body hair, nails and moustache grow. He should not cleanse his…
SB 7.12.22 Being very thoughtful, a vānaprastha should remain in the forest for twelve years, eight years, four years, two years or at least one…
SB 7.12.23 When because of disease or old age one is unable to perform his prescribed duties for advancement in spiritual consciousness or study of…
SB 7.12.24 He should properly place the fire element in his own self and in this way give up bodily affinity, by which one thinks the body to be…
SB 7.12.25 A sober, self-realized person who has full knowledge should merge the various parts of the body in their original sources. The holes in…
SB 7.12.26-28 Thereafter, the object of speech, along with the sense of speech [the tongue], should be bestowed upon fire. Craftsmanship and the two…
SB 7.12.29-30 The mind, along with all material desires, should be merged in the moon demigod. All the subject matters of intelligence, along with the…
SB 7.12.31 When all the material designations have thus merged into their respective material elements, the living beings, who are all ultimately…
SB 7.13.1 Śrī Nārada Muni said: A person able to cultivate spiritual knowledge should renounce all material connections, and merely keeping the body…
SB 7.13.2 A person in the renounced order of life may try to avoid even a dress to cover himself. If he wears anything at all, it should be only a…
SB 7.13.3 The sannyāsī, completely satisfied in the self, should live on alms begged from door to door. Not being dependent on any person or any…
SB 7.13.4 The sannyāsī should always try to see the Supreme pervading everything and see everything, including this universe, resting on the Supreme.
SB 7.13.5 During unconsciousness and consciousness, and between the two, he should try to understand the self and be fully situated in the self. In…
SB 7.13.6 Since the material body is sure to be vanquished and the duration of one’s life is not fixed, neither death nor life is to be praised.…
SB 7.13.7 Literature that is a useless waste of time — in other words, literature without spiritual benefit — should be rejected. One should not…
SB 7.13.8 A sannyāsī must not present allurements of material benefits to gather many disciples, nor should he unnecessarily read many books or give…
SB 7.13.9 A peaceful, equipoised person who is factually advanced in spiritual consciousness does not need to accept the symbols of a sannyāsī, such…
SB 7.13.10 Although a saintly person may not expose himself to the vision of human society, by his behavior his purpose is disclosed. To human…
SB 7.13.11 As a historical example of this, learned sages recite the story of an ancient discussion between Prahlāda Mahārāja and a great saintly…
SB 7.13.12-13 Prahlāda Mahārāja, the most dear servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, once went out touring the universe with some of his…
SB 7.13.14 Neither by that saintly person’s activities, by his bodily features, by his words nor by the symptoms of his varṇāśrama status could…
SB 7.13.15 The advanced devotee Prahlāda Mahārāja duly worshiped and offered obeisances to the saintly person who had adopted a python’s means of…
SB 7.13.16-17 Seeing the saintly person to be quite fat, Prahlāda Mahārāja said: My dear sir, you undergo no endeavor to earn your livelihood, but you…
SB 7.13.18 O brāhmaṇa, fully in knowledge of transcendence, you have nothing to do, and therefore you are lying down. It is also understood that you…
SB 7.13.19 Your Honor appears learned, expert and intelligent in every way. You can speak very well, saying things that are pleasing to the heart.…
SB 7.13.20 Nārada Muni continued: When the saintly person was thus questioned by Prahlāda Mahārāja, the King of the Daityas, he was captivated by…
SB 7.13.21 The saintly brāhmaṇa said: O best of the asuras, Prahlāda Mahārāja, who are recognized by advanced and civilized men, you are aware of the…
SB 7.13.22 Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full of all opulences, is predominant within the core of your heart because of your…
SB 7.13.23 My dear King, although you know everything, you have posed some questions, which I shall try to answer according to what I have learned by…
SB 7.13.24 Because of insatiable material desires, I was being carried away by the waves of material nature’s laws, and thus I was engaging in…
SB 7.13.25 In the course of the evolutionary process, which is caused by fruitive activities due to undesirable material sense gratification, I have…
SB 7.13.26 In this human form of life, men and women unite for the sensual pleasure of sex, but by actual experience we have observed that none of…
SB 7.13.27 The actual form of life for the living entities is one of spiritual happiness, which is real happiness. This happiness can be achieved…
SB 7.13.28 In this way the conditioned soul living within the body forgets his self-interest because he identifies himself with the body. Because the…
SB 7.13.29 Just as a deer, because of ignorance, cannot see the water within a well covered by grass, but runs after water elsewhere, the living…
SB 7.13.30 The living entity tries to achieve happiness and rid himself of the causes of distress, but because the various bodies of the living…
SB 7.13.31 Materialistic activities are always mixed with three kinds of miserable conditions — adhyātmika, adhidaivika and adhibautika. Therefore,…
SB 7.13.32 The brāhmaṇa continued: I am actually seeing how a rich man, who is a victim of his senses, is very greedy to accumulate wealth, and…
SB 7.13.33 Those who are considered materially powerful and rich are always full of anxieties because of governmental laws, thieves and rogues,…
SB 7.13.34 Those in human society who are intelligent should give up the original cause of lamentation, illusion, fear, anger, attachment, poverty…
SB 7.13.35 The bee and the python are two excellent spiritual masters who give us exemplary instructions regarding how to be satisfied by collecting…
SB 7.13.36 From the bumblebee I have learned to be unattached to accumulating money, for although money is as good as honey, anyone can kill its…
SB 7.13.37 I do not endeavor to get anything, but am satisfied with whatever is achieved in its own way. If I do not get anything, I am patient and…
SB 7.13.38 Sometimes I eat a very small quantity and sometimes a great quantity. Sometimes the food is very palatable, and sometimes it is stale.…
SB 7.13.39 To cover my body I use whatever is available, whether it be linen, silk, cotton, bark or deerskin, according to my destiny, and I am fully…
SB 7.13.40 Sometimes I lie on the surface of the earth, sometimes on leaves, grass or stone, sometimes on a pile of ashes, or sometimes, by the will…
SB 7.13.41 O my lord, sometimes I bathe myself very nicely, smear sandalwood pulp all over my body, put on a flower garland, and dress in fine…
SB 7.13.42 Different people are of different mentalities. Therefore it is not my business either to praise them or to blaspheme them. I only desire…
SB 7.13.43 The mental concoction of discrimination between good and bad should be accepted as one unit and then invested in the mind, which should…
SB 7.13.44 A learned, thoughtful person must realize that material existence is illusion. This is possible only by self-realization. A self-realized…
SB 7.13.45 Prahlāda Mahārāja, you are certainly a self-realized soul and a devotee of the Supreme Lord. You do not care for public opinion or…
SB 7.13.46 Nārada Muni continued: After Prahlāda Mahārāja, the King of the demons, heard these instructions from the saint, he understood the…
SB 7.14.1 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired from Nārada Muni: O my lord, O great sage, kindly explain how we who are staying at home without knowledge…
SB 7.14.2 Nārada Muni replied: My dear King, those who stay at home as householders must act to earn their livelihood, and instead of trying to…
SB 7.14.3-4 A gṛhastha must associate again and again with saintly persons, and with great respect he must hear the nectar of the activities of the…
SB 7.14.5 While working to earn his livelihood as much as necessary to maintain body and soul together, one who is actually learned should live in…
SB 7.14.6 An intelligent man in human society should make his own program of activities very simple. If there are suggestions from his friends,…
SB 7.14.7 The natural products created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead should be utilized to maintain the bodies and souls of all living…
SB 7.14.8 One may claim proprietorship to as much wealth as required to maintain body and soul together, but one who desires proprietorship over…
SB 7.14.9 One should treat animals such as deer, camels, asses, monkeys, mice, snakes, birds and flies exactly like one’s own son. How little…
SB 7.14.10 Even if one is a householder rather than a brahmacārī, a sannyāsī or a vānaprastha, one should not endeavor very hard for religiosity,…
SB 7.14.11 Dogs, fallen persons and untouchables, including caṇḍālas [dog-eaters], should all be maintained with their proper necessities, which…
SB 7.14.12 One so seriously considers one’s wife to be his own that he sometimes kills himself for her or kills others, including even his parents or…
SB 7.14.13 Through proper deliberation, one should give up attraction to his wife’s body because that body will ultimately be transformed into small…
SB 7.14.14 An intelligent person should be satisfied with eating prasāda [food offered to the Lord] or with performing the five different kinds of…
SB 7.14.15 Every day, one should worship the Supreme Being who is situated in everyone’s heart, and on this basis one should separately worship the…
SB 7.14.16 When one is enriched with wealth and knowledge which are under his full control and by means of which he can perform yajña or please the…
SB 7.14.17 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is the enjoyer of sacrificial offerings. Yet although His Lordship eats the oblations…
SB 7.14.18 Therefore, my dear King, first offer prasāda unto the brāhmaṇas and the demigods, and after sumptuously feeding them you may distribute…
SB 7.14.19 A brāhmaṇa who is sufficiently rich must offer oblations to the forefathers during the dark-moon fortnight in the latter part of the month…
SB 7.14.20-23 One should perform the śrāddha ceremony on the Makara-saṅkrānti [the day when the sun begins to move north] or on the Karkaṭa-saṅkrānti…
SB 7.14.24 All of these seasonal times are considered extremely auspicious for humanity. At such times, one should perform all auspicious activities,…
SB 7.14.25 During these periods of seasonal change, if one bathes in the Ganges, in the Yamunā or in another sacred place, if one chants, offers fire…
SB 7.14.26 O King Yudhiṣṭhira, at the time prescribed for reformatory ritualistic ceremonies for one’s self, one’s wife or one’s children, or during…
SB 7.14.27-28 Nārada Muni continued: Now I shall describe the places where religious performances may be well executed. Any place where a Vaiṣṇava is…
SB 7.14.29 Auspicious indeed are the places where there is a temple of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, in which He is duly worshiped, and…
SB 7.14.30-33 The sacred lakes like Puṣkara and places where saintly persons live, like Kurukṣetra, Gayā, Prayāga, Pulahāśrama, Naimiṣāraṇya, the banks…
SB 7.14.34 O King of the earth, it has been decided by expert, learned scholars that only the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, in whom all that…
SB 7.14.35 O King Yudhiṣṭhira, the demigods, many great sages and saints including even the four sons of Lord Brahmā, and I myself were present at…
SB 7.14.36 The entire universe, which is full of living entities, is like a tree whose root is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Acyuta [Kṛṣṇa].…
SB 7.14.37 The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residential places like the bodies of human beings, animals, birds, saints and…
SB 7.14.38 O King Yudhiṣṭhira, the Supersoul in every body gives intelligence to the individual soul according to his capacity for understanding.…
SB 7.14.39 My dear King, when great sages and saintly persons saw mutually disrespectful dealings at the beginning of Tretā-yuga, Deity worship in…
SB 7.14.40 Sometimes a neophyte devotee offers all the paraphernalia for worshiping the Lord, and he factually worships the Lord as the Deity, but…
SB 7.14.41 My dear King, of all persons a qualified brāhmaṇa must be accepted as the best within this material world because such a brāhmaṇa, by…
SB 7.14.42 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, the brāhmaṇas, especially those engaged in preaching the glories of the Lord throughout the entire world, are…
SB 7.15.1 Nārada Muni continued: My dear King, some brāhmaṇas are very much attached to fruitive activities, some are attached to austerities and…
SB 7.15.2 A person desiring liberation for his forefathers or himself should give charity to a brāhmaṇa who adheres to impersonal monism…
SB 7.15.3 During the period for offering oblations to the demigods, one should invite only two brāhmaṇas, and while offering oblations to the…
SB 7.15.4 If one arranges to feed many brāhmaṇas or relatives during the śrāddha ceremony, there will be discrepancies in the time, place,…
SB 7.15.5 When one gets the opportunity of a suitable auspicious time and place, one should, with love, offer food prepared with ghee to the Deity…
SB 7.15.6 One should offer prasāda to the demigods, the saintly persons, one’s forefathers, the people in general, one’s family members, one’s…
SB 7.15.7 A person fully aware of religious principles should never offer anything like meat, eggs or fish in the śrāddha ceremony, and even if one…
SB 7.15.8 Persons who want to advance in superior religion are advised to give up all envy of other living entities, whether in relationship to the…
SB 7.15.9 Because of an awakening of spiritual knowledge, those who are intelligent in regard to sacrifice, who are actually aware of religious…
SB 7.15.10 Upon seeing the person engaged in performing the sacrifice, animals meant to be sacrificed are extremely afraid, thinking, “This merciless…
SB 7.15.11 Therefore, day by day, one who is actually aware of religious principles and is not heinously envious of poor animals should happily…
SB 7.15.12 There are five branches of irreligion, appropriately known as irreligion [vidharma], religious principles for which one is unfit…
SB 7.15.13 Religious principles that obstruct one from following his own religion are called vidharma. Religious principles introduced by others are…
SB 7.15.14 A pretentious religious system manufactured by one who willfully neglects the prescribed duties of his order of life is called ābhāsa [a…
SB 7.15.15 Even if a man is poor, he should not endeavor to improve his economic condition just to maintain his body and soul together or to become a…
SB 7.15.16 One who is content and satisfied and who links his activities with the Supreme Personality of Godhead residing in everyone’s heart enjoys…
SB 7.15.17 For a person who has suitable shoes on his feet, there is no danger even when he walks on pebbles and thorns. For him, everything is…
SB 7.15.18 My dear King, a self-satisfied person can be happy even with only drinking water. However, one who is driven by the senses, especially by…
SB 7.15.19 Because of greed for the sake of the senses, the spiritual strength, education, austerity and reputation of a devotee or brāhmaṇa who is…
SB 7.15.20 The strong bodily desires and needs of a person disturbed by hunger and thirst are certainly satisfied when he eats. Similarly, if one…
SB 7.15.21 O King Yudhiṣṭhira, many persons with varied experience, many legal advisers, many learned scholars and many persons eligible to become…
SB 7.15.22 By making plans with determination, one should give up lusty desires for sense gratification. Similarly, by giving up envy one should…
SB 7.15.23 By discussing spiritual knowledge one can conquer lamentation and illusion, by serving a great devotee one can become prideless, by…
SB 7.15.24 By good behavior and freedom from envy one should counteract sufferings due to other living entities, by meditation in trance one should…
SB 7.15.25 One must conquer the modes of passion and ignorance by developing the mode of goodness, and then one must become detached from the mode of…
SB 7.15.26 The spiritual master should be considered to be directly the Supreme Lord because he gives transcendental knowledge for enlightenment.…
SB 7.15.27 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, is the master of all other living entities and of the material nature. His lotus feet are…
SB 7.15.28 Ritualistic ceremonies, regulative principles, austerities and the practice of yoga are all meant to control the senses and mind, but even…
SB 7.15.29 As professional activities or business profits cannot help one in spiritual advancement but are a source of material entanglement, the…
SB 7.15.30 One who desires to conquer the mind must leave the company of his family and live in a solitary place, free from contaminated association.…
SB 7.15.31 My dear King, in a sacred and holy place of pilgrimage one should select a place in which to perform yoga. The place must be level and not…
SB 7.15.32-33 While continuously staring at the tip of the nose, a learned yogī practices the breathing exercises through the technical means known as…
SB 7.15.34 When the yogī regularly practices in this way, in a short time his heart becomes fixed and free from disturbance, like a fire without…
SB 7.15.35 When one’s consciousness is uncontaminated by material lusty desires, it becomes calm and peaceful in all activities, for one is situated…
SB 7.15.36 One who accepts the sannyāsa order gives up the three principles of materialistic activities in which one indulges in the field of…
SB 7.15.37 Sannyāsīs who first consider that the body is subject to death, when it will be transformed into stool, worms or ashes, but who again give…
SB 7.15.38-39 It is abominable for a person living in the gṛhastha-āśrama to give up the regulative principles, for a brahmacārī not to follow the…
SB 7.15.40 The human form of body is meant for understanding the self and the Supreme Self, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, both of whom are…
SB 7.15.41 Transcendentalists who are advanced in knowledge compare the body, which is made by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to a…
SB 7.15.42 The ten kinds of air acting within the body are compared to the spokes of the chariot’s wheels, and the top and bottom of the wheel itself…
SB 7.15.43-44 In the conditioned stage, one’s conceptions of life are sometimes polluted by passion and ignorance, which are exhibited by attachment,…
SB 7.15.45 As long as one has to accept a material body, with its different parts and paraphernalia, which are not fully under one’s control, one…
SB 7.15.46 Otherwise, if one does not take shelter of Acyuta and Baladeva, then the senses, acting as the horses, and the intelligence, acting as the…
SB 7.15.47 According to the Vedas, there are two kinds of activities — pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Pravṛtti activities involve raising oneself from a lower…
SB 7.15.48-49 The ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices known as agni-hotra-yajña, darśa-yajña, pūrṇamāsa-yajña, cāturmāsya-yajña, paśu-yajña and…
SB 7.15.50-51 My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, when oblations of ghee and food grains like barley and sesame are offered in sacrifice, they turn into celestial…
SB 7.15.52 A twice-born brāhmaṇa [dvija] gains his life by the grace of his parents through the process of purification known as garbhādhāna. There…
SB 7.15.53 The mind is always agitated by waves of acceptance and rejection. Therefore all the activities of the senses should be offered into the…
SB 7.15.54 On his path of ascent, the progressive living entity enters the different worlds of fire, the sun, the day, the end of the day, the bright…
SB 7.15.55 This gradual process of elevation for self-realization is meant for those who are truly aware of the Absolute Truth. After repeated birth…
SB 7.15.56 Even though situated in a material body, one who is fully aware of the paths known as pitṛ-yāna and deva-yāna, and who thus opens his eyes…
SB 7.15.57 He who exists internally and externally, at the beginning and end of everything and of all living beings, as that which is enjoyable and…
SB 7.15.58 Although one may consider the reflection of the sun from a mirror to be false, it has its factual existence. Accordingly, to prove by…
SB 7.15.59 In this world there are five elements — namely earth, water, fire, air and ether — but the body is not a reflection of them, nor a…
SB 7.15.60 Because the body is formed of the five elements, it cannot exist without the subtle sense objects. Therefore, since the body is false, the…
SB 7.15.61 When a substance and its parts are separated, the acceptance of similarity between one and the other is called illusion. While dreaming,…
SB 7.15.62 After considering the oneness of existence, activity and paraphernalia and after realizing the self to be different from all actions and…
SB 7.15.63 When one understands that result and cause are one and that duality is ultimately unreal, like the idea that the threads of a cloth are…
SB 7.15.64 My dear Yudhiṣṭhira [Pārtha], when all the activities one performs with his mind, words and body are dedicated directly to the service of…
SB 7.15.65 When the ultimate goal and interest of one’s self, one’s wife, one’s children, one’s relatives and all other embodied living beings is…
SB 7.15.66 In normal conditions, in the absence of danger, O King Yudhiṣṭhira, a man should perform his prescribed activities according to his status…
SB 7.15.67 O King, one should perform his occupational duties according to these instructions, as well as other instructions given in the Vedic…
SB 7.15.68 O King Yudhiṣṭhira, because of your service to the Supreme Lord, all of you Pāṇḍavas defeated the greatest dangers posed by numerous kings…
SB 7.15.69 Long, long ago, in another mahā-kalpa [millennium of Brahmā], I existed as the Gandharva known as Upabarhaṇa. I was very respected by the…
SB 7.15.70 I had a beautiful face and a pleasing, attractive bodily structure. Decorated with flower garlands and sandalwood pulp, I was most…
SB 7.15.71 Once there was a saṅkīrtana festival to glorify the Supreme Lord in an assembly of the demigods, and the Gandharvas and Apsarās were…
SB 7.15.72 Nārada Muni continued: Being invited to that festival, I also joined, and, surrounded by women, I began musically singing the glories of…
SB 7.15.73 Although I took birth as a śūdra from the womb of a maidservant, I engaged in the service of Vaiṣṇavas who were well-versed in Vedic…
SB 7.15.74 The process of chanting the holy name of the Lord is so powerful that by this chanting even householders [gṛhasthas] can very easily gain…
SB 7.15.75 My dear Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, you Pāṇḍavas are so very fortunate in this world that many, many great saints, who can purify all the…
SB 7.15.76 How wonderful it is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Parabrahman, Kṛṣṇa, who is sought by great, great sages for the sake of…
SB 7.15.77 Present here now is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead whose true form cannot be understood even by such great personalities as Lord…
SB 8.11.44 The great sage Nārada said: All of you demigods are protected by the arms of Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and by His…
SB 10.10.8 Nārada Muni said: Among all the attractions of material enjoyment, the attraction of riches bewilders one’s intelligence more than having…
SB 10.10.9 Unable to control their senses, rascals who are falsely proud of their riches or their birth in aristocratic families are so cruel that to…
SB 10.10.10 While living one may be proud of one’s body, thinking oneself a very big man, minister, president or even demigod, but whatever one may…
SB 10.10.11 While alive, does this body belong to its employer, to the self, to the father, the mother, or the mother’s father? Does it belong to the…
SB 10.10.12 This body, after all, is produced by the unmanifested nature and again annihilated and merged in the natural elements. Therefore, it is…
SB 10.10.13 Atheistic fools and rascals who are very much proud of wealth fail to see things as they are. Therefore, returning them to poverty is the…
SB 10.10.14 By seeing their faces, one whose body has been pricked by pins can understand the pain of others who are pinpricked. Realizing that this…
SB 10.10.15 A poverty-stricken man must automatically undergo austerities and penances because he does not have the wealth to possess anything. Thus…
SB 10.10.16 Always hungry, longing for sufficient food, a poverty-stricken man gradually becomes weaker and weaker. Having no extra potency, his…
SB 10.10.17 Saintly persons may freely associate with those who are poverty-stricken, but not with those who are rich. A poverty-stricken man, by…
SB 10.10.18 Saintly persons [sādhus] think of Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours a day. They have no other interest. Why should people neglect the association of…
SB 10.10.19 Therefore, since these two persons, drunk with the liquor named Vāruṇī, or Mādhvī, and unable to control their senses, have been blinded…
SB 10.10.20-22 These two young men, Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva, are by fortune the sons of the great demigod Kuvera, but because of false prestige and…
SB 10.10.23 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Having thus spoken, the great saint Devarṣi Nārada returned to his āśrama, known as Nārāyaṇa-āśrama, and…
SB 10.10.24 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, to fulfill the truthfulness of the words of the greatest devotee, Nārada, slowly went to…
SB 10.10.25 “Although these two young men are the sons of the very rich Kuvera and I have nothing to do with them, Devarṣi Nārada is My very dear and…
SB 10.10.26 Having thus spoken, Kṛṣṇa soon entered between the two arjuna trees, and thus the big mortar to which He was bound turned crosswise and…
SB 10.10.27 By dragging behind Him with great force the wooden mortar tied to His belly, the boy Kṛṣṇa uprooted the two trees. By the great strength…
SB 10.10.28 Thereafter, in that very place where the two arjuna trees had fallen, two great, perfect personalities, who appeared like fire…
SB 10.10.29 O Lord Kṛṣṇa, Lord Kṛṣṇa, Your opulent mysticism is inconceivable. You are the supreme, original person, the cause of all causes,…
SB 10.10.30-31 You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the controller of everything. The body, life, ego and senses of every living entity are Your…
SB 10.10.32 O Lord, You exist before the creation. Therefore, who, trapped by a body of material qualities in this material world, can understand You?
SB 10.10.33 O Lord, whose glories are covered by Your own energy, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You are Saṅkarṣaṇa, the origin of…
SB 10.10.34-35 Appearing in bodies like those of an ordinary fish, tortoise and hog, You exhibit activities impossible for such creatures to perform —…
SB 10.10.36 O supremely auspicious, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You, who are the supreme good. O most famous descendant and controller of…
SB 10.10.37 O supreme form, we are always servants of Your servants, especially of Nārada Muni. Now give us permission to leave for our home. It is by…
SB 10.10.38 Henceforward, may all our words describe Your pastimes, may our ears engage in aural reception of Your glories, may our hands, legs and…
SB 10.10.39 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The two young demigods thus offered prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the…
SB 10.37.10-11 [Nārada Muni said:] O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, unlimited Lord, source of all mystic power, Lord of the universe! O Vāsudeva, shelter of all beings…
SB 10.37.12 You are the shelter of all souls, and being the supreme controller, You fulfill Your desires simply by Your will. By Your personal…
SB 10.37.13 You, that very same creator, have now descended to the earth to annihilate the Daitya, Pramatha and Rākṣasa demons who are posing as…
SB 10.37.14 The horse demon was so terrifying that his neighing frightened the demigods into leaving their heavenly kingdom. But by our good fortune…
SB 10.37.15-20 In just two days, O almighty Lord, I will see the deaths of Cāṇūra, Muṣṭika and other wrestlers, along with those of the elephant…
SB 10.37.21 Subsequently I will see You appear as time personified, serving as Arjuna’s chariot driver and destroying entire armies of soldiers to rid…
SB 10.37.22 Let us approach You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for shelter. You are full of perfectly pure spiritual awareness and are always…
SB 10.37.23 I bow down to You, the supreme controller, who are dependent only on Yourself. By Your potency You have constructed the unlimited…
SB 10.69.17 Śrī Nārada said: O almighty Lord, it is no surprise that You, the ruler of all worlds, show friendship for all people and yet subdue the…
SB 10.69.18 Now I have seen Your feet, which grant liberation to Your devotees, which even Lord Brahmā and other great personalities of unfathomable…
SB 10.69.19 Nārada then entered the palace of another of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s wives, my dear King. He was eager to witness the spiritual potency possessed by…
SB 10.69.20-22 There he saw the Lord playing at dice with His beloved consort and His friend Uddhava. Lord Kṛṣṇa worshiped Nārada by standing up,…
SB 10.69.23 This time Nāradajī saw that Lord Kṛṣṇa was engaged as an affectionate father petting His small children. From there he entered another…
SB 10.69.24 In one place the Lord was offering oblations into the sacrificial fires; in another, worshiping through the five mahā-yajñas; in another,…
SB 10.69.25 Somewhere Lord Kṛṣṇa was observing the rituals for worship at sunset by refraining from speech and quietly chanting the Gāyatrī mantra,…
SB 10.69.26 In one place Lord Gadāgraja was riding on horses, elephants and chariots, and in another place He was resting on His bed while bards…
SB 10.69.27 Somewhere He was consulting with royal ministers like Uddhava, and somewhere else He was enjoying in the water, surrounded by many society…
SB 10.69.28 Somewhere He was giving well-decorated cows to exalted brāhmaṇas, and elsewhere he was listening to the auspicious narration of epic…
SB 10.69.29 Somewhere Lord Kṛṣṇa was found enjoying the company of a particular wife by exchanging joking words with her. Somewhere else He was found…
SB 10.69.30 Somewhere He was sitting alone, meditating on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is transcendental to material nature, and somewhere…
SB 10.69.31 In one place He was planning battles in consultation with some of His advisers, and in another place He was making peace. Somewhere Lord…
SB 10.69.32 Nārada saw Lord Kṛṣṇa engaged in getting His sons and daughters married to suitable brides and bridegrooms at the appropriate time, and…
SB 10.69.33 Nārada observed how Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the master of all yoga masters, arranged to send away His daughters and sons-in-law, and also to receive…
SB 10.69.34 Somewhere He was worshiping all the demigods with elaborate sacrifices, and elsewhere He was fulfilling His religious obligations by doing…
SB 10.69.35 In another place He was on a hunting expedition. Mounted on His Sindhī horse and accompanied by the most heroic of the Yadus, He was…
SB 10.69.36 Somewhere Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of mystic power, was moving about in disguise among the homes of ministers and other citizens in order to…
SB 10.69.37 Having thus seen this display of the Lord’s Yoga-māyā, Nārada mildly laughed and then addressed Lord Hṛṣīkeśa, who was adopting the…
SB 10.69.38 [Nārada said:] Now we understand Your mystic potencies, which are difficult to comprehend, even for great mystics, O Supreme Soul, master…
SB 10.69.39 O Lord, please give me Your leave. I will wander about the worlds, which are flooded with Your fame, loudly singing about Your pastimes,…
SB 10.70.37 Śrī Nārada said: I have seen many times the insurmountable power of Your Māyā, O almighty one, by which You bewilder even the creator of…
SB 10.70.38 Who can properly understand Your purpose? With Your material energy You expand and also withdraw this creation, which thus appears to have…
SB 10.70.39 The living being caught in the cycle of birth and death does not know how he can be delivered from the material body, which brings him so…
SB 10.70.40 Nonetheless, O Supreme Truth playing the part of a human being, I shall tell You what Your devotee Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, the son of Your…
SB 10.70.41 Desiring unrivaled sovereignty, King Yudhiṣṭhira intends to worship You with the greatest fire sacrifice, the Rājasūya. Please bless his…
SB 10.70.42 O Lord, exalted demigods and glorious kings, eager to see You, will all come to that best of sacrifices.
SB 10.70.43 O Lord, even outcastes are purified by hearing and chanting Your glories and meditating upon You, the Absolute Truth. What then to speak…
SB 10.70.44 My dear Lord, You are the symbol of everything auspicious. Your transcendental name and fame is spread like a canopy all over the…
SB 10.84.30 Śrī Nārada Muni said: O brāhmaṇas, it is not so amazing that in his eagerness to know, Vasudeva has asked us about his ultimate benefit,…
SB 10.84.31 In this world familiarity breeds contempt. For example, one who lives on the banks of the Ganges might travel to some other body of water…
SB 10.84.32-33 The Supreme Lord’s awareness is never disturbed by time, by the creation and destruction of the universe, by changes in its own qualities,…
SB 10.84.34 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The sages then spoke again, O King, addressing Vasudeva while all the kings, along with Lord Acyuta and Lord…
SB 10.84.35 [The sages said:] It has been definitely concluded that work is counteracted by further work when one executes Vedic sacrifices as a means…
SB 10.84.36 Learned authorities who see through the eye of scripture have demonstrated that this is the easiest method of subduing the agitated mind…
SB 10.84.37 This is the most auspicious path for a religious householder of the twice-born orders — to selflessly worship the Personality of Godhead…
SB 10.84.38 An intelligent person should learn to renounce his desire for wealth by performing sacrifices and acts of charity. He should learn to…
SB 10.84.39 Dear Prabhu, a member of the twice-born classes is born with three kinds of debts — those owed to the demigods, to the sages and to his…
SB 10.84.40 But you, O magnanimous soul, are already free from two of your debts — those to the sages and the forefathers. Now absolve yourself of…
SB 10.84.41 O Vasudeva, without doubt you must have previously worshiped Lord Hari, the master of all worlds. Both you and your wife must have…
SB 10.87.46 Śrī Nārada said: I offer my obeisances to Him of spotless fame, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, who manifests His all-attractive personal…
SB 10.87.47 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] After saying this, Nārada bowed down to Śrī Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi, the foremost of sages, and also to His saintly…
SB 10.87.48 Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of the Personality of Godhead, respectfully greeted Nārada Muni and offered him a seat, which he accepted.…
SB 10.87.49 Thus I have replied to the question you asked me, O King, concerning how the mind can have access to the Absolute Truth, which is…
SB 10.87.50 He is the Lord who eternally watches over this universe, who exists before, during and after its manifestation. He is the master of both…
SB 11.2.11 Śrī Nārada said: O best of the Sātvatas, you have quite correctly asked about the eternal duty of the living entity toward the Supreme…
SB 11.2.12 Pure devotional service rendered to the Supreme Lord is spiritually so potent that simply by hearing about such transcendental service, by…
SB 11.2.13 Today you have made me remember my Lord, the supremely blissful Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa. The Supreme Lord is so auspicious that…
SB 11.2.14 To explain the devotional service of the Lord, sages have related the ancient history of the conversation between the great soul King…
SB 11.2.15 Svāyambhuva Manu had a son named Mahārāja Priyavrata, and among Priyavrata’s sons was Āgnīdhra. From Āgnīdhra was born Nābhi, whose son…
SB 11.2.16 Śrī Ṛṣabhadeva is accepted as an expansion of the Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva. He incarnated in this world to propagate those religious…
SB 11.2.17 Of the one hundred sons of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, the eldest, Bharata, was completely devoted to Lord Nārāyaṇa. It is because of Bharata’s fame…
SB 11.2.18 King Bharata rejected this material world, considering all types of material pleasure temporary and useless. Leaving his beautiful young…
SB 11.2.19 Nine of the remaining sons of Ṛṣabhadeva became the rulers of the nine islands of Bhārata-varṣa, and they exercised complete sovereignty…
SB 11.2.20-21 The nine remaining sons of Ṛṣabha were greatly fortunate sages who worked vigorously to spread knowledge of the Absolute Truth. They…
SB 11.2.22 These sages wandered the earth seeing the entire universe, with all its gross and subtle objects, as a manifestation of the Supreme Lord…
SB 11.2.23 The nine Yogendras are liberated souls who travel freely to the planets of the demigods, the perfected mystics, the Sādhyas, the heavenly…
SB 11.2.24 Once in Ajanābha [the former name of the earth], they came upon the sacrificial performance of the great soul Mahārāja Nimi, which was…
SB 11.2.25 My dear King, seeing those pure devotees of the Lord, who rival the sun in brilliance, everyone present — the performer of the sacrifice,…
SB 11.2.26 King Videha [Nimi] understood that the nine sages were exalted devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, overjoyed at…
SB 11.2.27 Overwhelmed by transcendental joy, the King humbly bowed his head and then proceeded to question the nine sages. These nine great souls…
SB 11.2.28 King Videha said: I think that you must be direct associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is famous as the enemy of the…
SB 11.2.29 For the conditioned souls, the human body is most difficult to achieve, and it can be lost at any moment. But I think that even those who…
SB 11.2.30 Therefore, O completely sinless ones, I ask you to kindly tell me what the supreme good is. After all, even half a moment’s association…
SB 11.2.31 Please speak about how one engages in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord, if you consider me capable of properly hearing these…
SB 11.2.32 Śrī Nārada said: O Vasudeva, when Mahārāja Nimi had thus inquired from the nine Yogendras about devotional service to the Lord, those best…
SB 11.2.33 Śrī Kavi said: I consider that one whose intelligence is constantly disturbed by his falsely identifying himself with the temporary…
SB 11.2.34 Even ignorant living entities can very easily come to know the Supreme Lord if they adopt those means prescribed by the Supreme Lord…
SB 11.2.35 O King, one who accepts this process of devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead will never blunder on his path in this…
SB 11.2.36 In accordance with the particular nature one has acquired in conditioned life, whatever one does with body, words, mind, senses,…
SB 11.2.37 Fear arises when a living entity misidentifies himself as the material body because of absorption in the external, illusory energy of the…
SB 11.2.38 Although the duality of the material world does not ultimately exist, the conditioned soul experiences it as real under the influence of…
SB 11.2.39 An intelligent person who has controlled his mind and conquered fear should give up all attachment to material objects such as wife,…
SB 11.2.40 By chanting the holy name of the Supreme Lord, one comes to the stage of love of Godhead. Then the devotee is fixed in his vow as an…
SB 11.2.41 A devotee should not see anything as being separate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Ether, fire, air, water, earth, the…
SB 11.2.42 Devotion, direct experience of the Supreme Lord, and detachment from other things — these three occur simultaneously for one who has taken…
SB 11.2.43 My dear King, the devotee who worships the lotus feet of the infallible Personality of Godhead with constant endeavor thus achieves…
SB 11.2.44 Mahārāja Nimi said: Now please tell me in greater detail about the devotees of the Supreme Lord. What are the natural symptoms by which I…
SB 11.2.45 Śrī Havir said: The most advanced devotee sees within everything the soul of all souls, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.…
SB 11.2.46 An intermediate or second-class devotee, called madhyama-adhikārī, offers his love to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is a sincere…
SB 11.2.47 A devotee who faithfully engages in the worship of the Deity in the temple but does not behave properly toward other devotees or people in…
SB 11.2.48 Even while engaging his senses in contact with their objects, one who sees this whole world as the energy of Lord Viṣṇu is neither…
SB 11.2.49 Within the material world, one’s material body is always subject to birth and decay. Similarly, the life air [prāṇa] is harassed by hunger…
SB 11.2.50 One who has taken exclusive shelter of the Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva, becomes free from fruitive activities, which are based on material…
SB 11.2.51 Birth in an aristocratic family and the execution of austere and pious activities certainly cause one to take pride in himself. Similarly,…
SB 11.2.52 When a devotee gives up the selfish conception by which one thinks “This is my property, and that is his,” and when he is no longer…
SB 11.2.53 The lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are sought even by the greatest of demigods, such as Brahmā and Śiva, who have all…
SB 11.2.54 How can the fire of material suffering continue to burn the hearts of those who worship the Supreme Lord? The Lord’s lotus feet have…
SB 11.2.55 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is so kind to the conditioned souls that if they call upon Him by speaking His holy name, even…
SB 11.3.1 King Nimi said: Now we wish to learn about the illusory potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Viṣṇu, which bewilders even…
SB 11.3.2 Although I am drinking the nectar of your statements about the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, my thirst is not yet…
SB 11.3.3 Śrī Antarīkṣa said: O mighty-armed King, by activating the material elements, the primeval Soul of all creation has sent forth all living…
SB 11.3.4 The Supersoul enters the material bodies of the created beings, activates the mind and senses, and thus causes the conditioned souls to…
SB 11.3.5 The individual living being, the master of the material body, uses his material senses, which have been activated by the Supersoul, to try…
SB 11.3.6 Impelled by deep-rooted material desires, the embodied living entity engages his active sense organs in fruitive activities. He then…
SB 11.3.7 Thus the conditioned living entity is forced to experience repeated birth and death. Impelled by the reactions of his own activities, he…
SB 11.3.8 When the annihilation of the material elements is imminent, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His form of eternal time withdraws the…
SB 11.3.9 As cosmic annihilation approaches, a terrible drought takes place on earth for one hundred years. For one hundred years the heat of the…
SB 11.3.10 Beginning from Pātālaloka, a fire grows, emanating from the mouth of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. Its flames shooting upward, driven by great winds,…
SB 11.3.11 Hordes of clouds called Saṁvartaka pour torrents of rain for one hundred years. Flooding down in raindrops as long as the trunk of an…
SB 11.3.12 Then Vairāja Brahmā, the soul of the universal form, gives up his universal body, O King, and enters into the subtle unmanifest nature,…
SB 11.3.13 Deprived of its quality of aroma by the wind, the element earth is transformed into water; and water, deprived of its taste by that same…
SB 11.3.14 Fire, deprived of its form by darkness, dissolves into the element air. When the air loses its quality of touch by the influence of space,…
SB 11.3.15 My dear King, the material senses and intelligence merge into false ego in the mode of passion, from which they arose; and the mind, along…
SB 11.3.16 I have now described māyā, the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This illusory potency, consisting of the three modes…
SB 11.3.17 King Nimi said: O great sage, please explain how even a foolish materialist can easily cross over the illusory energy of the Supreme Lord,…
SB 11.3.18 Śrī Prabuddha said: Accepting the roles of male and female in human society, the conditioned souls unite in sexual relationships. Thus…
SB 11.3.19 Wealth is a perpetual source of distress, it is most difficult to acquire, and it is virtual death for the soul. What satisfaction does…
SB 11.3.20 One cannot find permanent happiness even on the heavenly planets, which one can attain in the next life by ritualistic ceremonies and…
SB 11.3.21 Therefore any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation.…
SB 11.3.22 Accepting the bona fide spiritual master as one’s life and soul and worshipable deity, the disciple should learn from him the process of…
SB 11.3.23 A sincere disciple should learn to dissociate the mind from everything material and positively cultivate association with his spiritual…
SB 11.3.24 To serve the spiritual master the disciple should learn cleanliness, austerity, tolerance, silence, study of Vedic knowledge, simplicity,…
SB 11.3.25 One should practice meditation by constantly seeing oneself to be an eternal cognizant spirit soul and seeing the Lord to be the absolute…
SB 11.3.26 One should have firm faith that he will achieve all success in life by following those scriptures that describe the glories of the Supreme…
SB 11.3.27-28 One should hear, glorify and meditate upon the wonderful transcendental activities of the Lord. One should specifically become absorbed in…
SB 11.3.29 One who desires his ultimate self-interest should cultivate friendship with those persons who have accepted Kṛṣṇa as the Lord of their…
SB 11.3.30 One should learn how to associate with the devotees of the Lord by gathering with them to chant the glories of the Lord. This process is…
SB 11.3.31 The devotees of the Lord constantly discuss the glories of the Personality of Godhead among themselves. Thus they constantly remember the…
SB 11.3.32 Having achieved love of Godhead, the devotees sometimes weep loudly, absorbed in thought of the infallible Lord. Sometimes they laugh,…
SB 11.3.33 Thus learning the science of devotional service and practically engaging in the devotional service of the Lord, the devotee comes to the…
SB 11.3.34 King Nimi inquired: Please explain to me the transcendental situation of the Supreme Lord, Nārāyaṇa, who is Himself the Absolute Truth and…
SB 11.3.35 Śrī Pippalāyana said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of the creation, maintenance and destruction of this universe, yet…
SB 11.3.36 Neither the mind nor the faculties of speech, sight, intelligence, the life air or any of the senses are capable of penetrating that…
SB 11.3.37 Originally one, the Absolute, Brahman, comes to be known as threefold, manifesting itself as the three modes of material nature —…
SB 11.3.38 Brahman, the eternal soul, was never born and will never die, nor does it grow or decay. That spiritual soul is actually the knower of the…
SB 11.3.39 The spirit soul is born in many different species of life within the material world. Some species are born from eggs, others from embryos,…
SB 11.3.40 When one seriously engages in the devotional service of the Personality of Godhead, fixing the Lord’s lotus feet within one’s heart as the…
SB 11.3.41 King Nimi said: O great sages, please speak to us about the process of karma-yoga. Purified by this process of dedicating one’s practical…
SB 11.3.42 Once in the past, in the presence of my father, Mahārāja Ikṣvāku, I placed a similar question before four great sages who were sons of…
SB 11.3.43 Śrī Āvirhotra replied: Prescribed duties, nonperformance of such duties, and forbidden activities are topics one can properly understand…
SB 11.3.44 Childish and foolish people are attached to materialistic, fruitive activities, although the actual goal of life is to become free from…
SB 11.3.45 If an ignorant person who has not conquered the material senses does not adhere to the Vedic injunctions, certainly he will engage in…
SB 11.3.46 By executing without attachment the regulated activities prescribed in the Vedas, offering the results of such work to the Supreme Lord,…
SB 11.3.47 One who desires to quickly cut the knot of false ego, which binds the spirit soul, should worship the Supreme Lord, Keśava, by the…
SB 11.3.48 Having obtained the mercy of his spiritual master, who reveals to the disciple the injunctions of Vedic scriptures, the devotee should…
SB 11.3.49 After cleansing oneself, purifying the body by prāṇāyāma, bhūta-śuddhi and other processes, and marking the body with sacred tilaka for…
SB 11.3.50-51 The devotee should gather whatever ingredients for worshiping the Deity are available, make ready the offerings, the ground, his mind and…
SB 11.3.52-53 One should worship the Deity along with each of the limbs of His transcendental body, His weapons such as the Sudarśana cakra, His other…
SB 11.3.54 The worshiper should become fully absorbed in meditating upon himself as an eternal servant of the Lord and should thus perfectly worship…
SB 11.3.55 Thus the worshiper of the Supreme Lord should recognize that the Personality of Godhead is all-pervading and should worship Him through…
SB 11.4.1 King Nimi said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead descends into the material world by His internal potency and according to His own…
SB 11.4.2 Śrī Drumila said: Anyone trying to enumerate or describe fully the unlimited qualities of the unlimited Supreme Lord has the intelligence…
SB 11.4.3 When the primeval Lord Nārāyaṇa created His universal body out of the five elements produced from Himself and then entered within that…
SB 11.4.4 Within His body are elaborately arranged the three planetary systems of this universe. His transcendental senses generate the…
SB 11.4.5 In the beginning, the original Supreme Personality manifested the form of Brahmā through the material mode of passion in order to create…
SB 11.4.6 Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi, who is perfectly peaceful and is the best of sages, was born as the son of Dharma and his wife Mūrti, the daughter of…
SB 11.4.7 King Indra became fearful, thinking that Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi would become very powerful by His severe penances and seize Indra’s heavenly…
SB 11.4.8 The primeval Lord, understanding the offense committed by Indra, did not become proud. Instead He spoke laughingly as follows to Cupid and…
SB 11.4.9 My dear King Nimi, when Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi thus spoke, eradicating the fear of the demigods, they bowed their heads with shame and…
SB 11.4.10 The demigods place many obstacles on the path of those who worship You to transcend the temporary abodes of the demigods and reach Your…
SB 11.4.11 Some men practice severe penances to cross beyond our influence, which is like an immeasurable ocean with endless waves of hunger, thirst,…
SB 11.4.12 While the demigods were thus praising the Supreme Lord, the all-powerful Lord suddenly manifested before their eyes many women, who were…
SB 11.4.13 When the followers of the demigods gazed upon the fascinating mystic beauty of the women created by Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi and smelled the…
SB 11.4.14 The Supreme Lord of lords then smiled slightly and told the representatives of heaven, who were bowing down before Him, “Please choose one…
SB 11.4.15 Vibrating the sacred syllable om, the servants of the demigods selected Urvaśī, the best of the Apsarās. Placing her in front of them out…
SB 11.4.16 The servants of the demigods reached the assembly of Indra, and thus, while all the residents of the three heavens listened, they…
SB 11.4.17 The infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, has descended into this world by His various partial incarnations such as Lord Haṁsa…
SB 11.4.18 In His appearance as a fish, the Lord protected Satyavrata Manu, the earth and her valuable herbs. He protected them from the waters of…
SB 11.4.19 The Lord also delivered the tiny ascetic sages called the Vālakhilyas when they fell into the water in a cow’s hoofprint and Indra was…
SB 11.4.20 The Supreme Lord regularly takes advantage of the wars between the demons and demigods to kill the leaders of the demons. The Lord thus…
SB 11.4.21 Lord Paraśurāma appeared in the family of Bhṛgu as a fire that burned to ashes the dynasty of Haihaya. Thus Lord Paraśurāma rid the earth…
SB 11.4.22 To diminish the burden of the earth, the unborn Lord will take birth in the Yadu dynasty and perform feats impossible even for the…
SB 11.4.23 O mighty-armed King, there are innumerable appearances and activities of the Supreme Lord of the universe similar to those I have already…
SB 11.5.1 King Nimi further inquired: My dear Yogendras, all of you are most perfect in knowledge of the science of the self. Therefore, kindly…
SB 11.5.2 Śrī Camasa said: Each of the four social orders, headed by the brāhmaṇas, was born through different combinations of the modes of nature,…
SB 11.5.3 If any of the members of the four varṇas and four āśramas fail to worship or intentionally disrespect the Personality of Godhead, who is…
SB 11.5.4 There are many persons who have little opportunity to take part in discussions about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, and thus it…
SB 11.5.5 On the other hand, brāhmaṇas, members of the royal order and vaiśyas, even after being allowed to approach the lotus feet of the Supreme…
SB 11.5.6 Ignorant of the art of work, such arrogantly proud fools, enchanted and enlivened by the sweet words of the Vedas, pose as learned…
SB 11.5.7 Due to the influence of the mode of passion, the materialistic followers of the Vedas become subject to violent desires and are…
SB 11.5.8 The materialistic followers of Vedic rituals, giving up the worship of the Lord, instead practically worship their wives, and thus their…
SB 11.5.9 The intelligence of cruel-minded persons is blinded by false pride based on great wealth, opulence, prestigious family connections,…
SB 11.5.10 The Personality of Godhead is eternally situated within the heart of every embodied being; still the Lord remains situated apart, just as…
SB 11.5.11 In this material world the conditioned soul is always inclined to sex, meat-eating and intoxication. Therefore religious scriptures never…
SB 11.5.12 The only proper fruit of acquired wealth is religiosity, on the basis of which one can acquire a philosophical understanding of life that…
SB 11.5.13 According to the Vedic injunctions, when wine is offered in sacrificial ceremonies it is later to be consumed by smelling, and not by…
SB 11.5.14 Those sinful persons who are ignorant of actual religious principles, yet consider themselves to be completely pious, without compunction…
SB 11.5.15 The conditioned souls become completely bound in affection to their own corpselike material bodies and their relatives and paraphernalia.…
SB 11.5.16 Those who have not achieved knowledge of the Absolute Truth, yet who are still beyond the darkness of complete ignorance, generally follow…
SB 11.5.17 The killers of the soul are never peaceful, because they consider that human intelligence is ultimately meant for expanding material life.…
SB 11.5.18 Those who have turned away from the Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva, being under the spell of the Lord’s illusory energy, are eventually forced to…
SB 11.5.19 King Nimi inquired: In what colors and forms does the Supreme Personality of Godhead appear in each of the different ages, and with what…
SB 11.5.20 Śrī Karabhājana replied: In each of the four yugas, or ages — Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali — Lord Keśava appears with various…
SB 11.5.21 In Satya-yuga the Lord is white and four-armed, has matted locks and wears a garment of tree bark. He carries a black deerskin, a sacred…
SB 11.5.22 People in Satya-yuga are peaceful, nonenvious, friendly to every creature and steady in all situations. They worship the Supreme…
SB 11.5.23 In Satya-yuga the Lord is glorified by the names Haṁsa, Suparṇa, Vaikuṇṭha, Dharma, Yogeśvara, Amala, Īśvara, Puruṣa, Avyakta and Paramātmā.
SB 11.5.24 In Tretā-yuga the Lord appears with a red complexion. He has four arms, golden hair, and wears a triple belt representing initiation into…
SB 11.5.25 In Tretā-yuga, those members of human society who are fixed in religiosity and are sincerely interested in achieving the Absolute Truth…
SB 11.5.26 In Tretā-yuga the Lord is glorified by the names Viṣṇu, Yajña, Pṛśnigarbha, Sarvadeva, Urukrama, Vṛṣākapi, Jayanta and Urugāya.
SB 11.5.27 In Dvāpara-yuga the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears with a dark blue complexion, wearing yellow garments. The Lord’s transcendental…
SB 11.5.28 My dear King, in Dvāpara-yuga men who desire to know the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme enjoyer, worship Him in the…
SB 11.5.29-30 “Obeisances to You, O Supreme Lord Vāsudeva, and to Your forms of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. O Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
SB 11.5.31 O King, in this way people in Dvāpara-yuga glorified the Lord of the universe. In Kali-yuga also people worship the Supreme Personality of…
SB 11.5.32 In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the…
SB 11.5.33 My dear Lord, You are the Mahā-puruṣa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and I worship Your lotus feet, which are the only eternal…
SB 11.5.34 O Mahā-puruṣa, I worship Your lotus feet. You gave up the association of the goddess of fortune and all her opulence, which is most…
SB 11.5.35 Thus, O King, the Supreme Lord Hari is the giver of all desirable benefits of life. Intelligent human beings worship the particular forms…
SB 11.5.36 Those who are actually advanced in knowledge are able to appreciate the essential value of this Age of Kali. Such enlightened persons…
SB 11.5.37 Indeed, there is no higher possible gain for embodied souls forced to wander throughout the material world than the Supreme Lord’s…
SB 11.5.38-40 My dear King, the inhabitants of Satya-yuga and other ages eagerly desire to take birth in this Age of Kali, since in this age there will…
SB 11.5.41 O King, one who has given up all material duties and has taken full shelter of the lotus feet of Mukunda, who offers shelter to all, is…
SB 11.5.42 One who has thus given up all other engagements and has taken full shelter at the lotus feet of Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
SB 11.5.43 Nārada Muni said: Having thus heard the science of devotional service, Nimi, the King of Mithilā, felt extremely satisfied and, along with…
SB 11.5.44 The perfect sages then disappeared before the eyes of everyone present. King Nimi faithfully practiced the principles of spiritual life he…
SB 11.5.45 O greatly fortunate Vasudeva, simply apply with faith these principles of devotional service which you have heard, and thus, being free…
SB 11.5.46 Indeed, the whole world has become filled with the glories of you and your good wife because the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord…
SB 11.5.47 My dear Vasudeva, you and your good wife Devakī have manifested great transcendental love for Kṛṣṇa, accepting Him as your son. Indeed,…
SB 11.5.48 Inimical kings like Śiśupāla, Pauṇḍraka and Śālva were always thinking about Lord Kṛṣṇa. Even while they were lying down, sitting or…
SB 11.5.49 Do not think of Kṛṣṇa as an ordinary child, because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, inexhaustible and the Soul of all beings.…
SB 11.5.50 The Supreme Personality of Godhead descended to kill the demoniac kings who were the burden of the earth and to protect the saintly…
SB 11.5.51 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Having heard this narration, the greatly fortunate Vasudeva was completely struck with wonder. Thus he and…
SB 11.5.52 Anyone who meditates on this pious historical narration with fixed attention will purify himself of all contamination in this very life…