Śukadeva Gosvāmī

5446 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

• SB 2.1.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, your question is glorious because it is very beneficial to all kinds of people. The answer to…
• SB 2.1.2 Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many subject matters for hearing in human…
• SB 2.1.3 The lifetime of such an envious householder is passed at night either in sleeping or in sex indulgence, and in the daytime either in…
• SB 2.1.4 Persons devoid of ātma-tattva do not inquire into the problems of life, being too attached to the fallible soldiers like the body,…
• SB 2.1.5 O descendant of King Bharata, one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear about, glorify and also remember the Personality of…
• SB 2.1.6 The highest perfection of human life, achieved either by complete knowledge of matter and spirit, by practice of mystic powers, or by…
• SB 2.1.7 O King Parīkṣit, mainly the topmost transcendentalists, who are above the regulative principles and restrictions, take pleasure in…
• SB 2.1.8 At the end of the Dvāpara-yuga, I studied this great supplement of Vedic literature named Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is equal to all the…
• SB 2.1.9 O saintly King, I was certainly situated perfectly in transcendence, yet I was still attracted by the delineation of the pastimes of the…
• SB 2.1.10 That very Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam I shall recite before you because you are the most sincere devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. One who gives full attention…
• SB 2.1.11 O King, constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord after the ways of the great authorities is the doubtless and fearless way of…
• SB 2.1.12 What is the value of a prolonged life which is wasted, inexperienced by years in this world? Better a moment of full consciousness,…
• SB 2.1.13 The saintly King Khaṭvāṅga, after being informed that the duration of his life would be only a moment more, at once freed himself from all…
• SB 2.1.14 Mahārāja Parīkṣit, now your duration of life is limited to seven more days, so during this time you can perform all those rituals which…
• SB 2.1.15 At the last stage of one’s life, one should be bold enough not to be afraid of death. But one must cut off all attachment to the material…
• SB 2.1.16 One should leave home and practice self-control. In a sacred place he should bathe regularly and sit down in a lonely place duly sanctified.
• SB 2.1.17 After sitting in the above manner, make the mind remember the three transcendental letters [a-u-m], and by regulating the breathing…
• SB 2.1.18 Gradually, as the mind becomes progressively spiritualized, withdraw it from sense activities, and by intelligence the senses will be…
• SB 2.1.19 Thereafter, you should meditate upon the limbs of Viṣṇu, one after another, without being deviated from the conception of the complete…
• SB 2.1.20 One’s mind is always agitated by the passionate mode of material nature and bewildered by the ignorant mode of nature. But one can rectify…
• SB 2.1.21 O King, by this system of remembrance and by being fixed in the habit of seeing the all-good personal conception of the Lord, one can very…
• SB 2.2.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Formerly, prior to the manifestation of the cosmos, Lord Brahmā, by meditating on the virāṭ-rūpa, regained his…
• SB 2.2.2 The way of presentation of the Vedic sounds is so bewildering that it directs the intelligence of the people to meaningless things like…
• SB 2.2.3 For this reason the enlightened person should endeavor only for the minimum necessities of life while in the world of names. He should be…
• SB 2.2.4 When there are ample earthly flats to lie on, what is the necessity of cots and beds? When one can use his own arms, what is the necessity…
• SB 2.2.5 Are there no torn clothes lying on the common road? Do the trees, which exist for maintaining others, no longer give alms in charity? Do…
• SB 2.2.6 Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty…
• SB 2.2.7 Who else but the gross materialists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only, seeing the mass of…
• SB 2.2.8 Others conceive of the Personality of Godhead residing within the body in the region of the heart and measuring only eight inches, with…
• SB 2.2.9 His mouth expresses His happiness. His eyes spread like the petals of a lotus, and His garments, yellowish like the saffron of a kadamba…
• SB 2.2.10 His lotus feet are placed over the whorls of the lotuslike hearts of great mystics. On His chest is the Kaustubha jewel, engraved with a…
• SB 2.2.11 He is well decorated with an ornamental wreath about His waist and rings studded with valuable jewels on His fingers. His leglets, His…
• SB 2.2.12 The Lord’s magnanimous pastimes and the glowing glancing of His smiling face are all indications of His extensive benedictions. One must…
• SB 2.2.13 The process of meditation should begin from the lotus feet of the Lord and progress to His smiling face. The meditation should be…
• SB 2.2.14 Unless the gross materialist develops a sense of loving service unto the Supreme Lord, the seer of both the transcendental and material…
• SB 2.2.15 O King, whenever the yogī desires to leave this planet of human beings, he should not be perplexed about the proper time or place, but…
• SB 2.2.16 Thereafter, the yogī should merge his mind, by his unalloyed intelligence, into the living entity, and then merge the living entity into…
• SB 2.2.17 In that transcendental state of labdhopaśānti, there is no supremacy of devastating time, which controls even the celestial demigods who…
• SB 2.2.18 The transcendentalists desire to avoid everything godless, for they know that supreme situation in which everything is related with the…
• SB 2.2.19 By the strength of scientific knowledge, one should be well situated in absolute realization and thus be able to extinguish all material…
• SB 2.2.20 The meditative devotee should slowly push up the life air from the navel to the heart, from there to the chest, and from there to the root…
• SB 2.2.21 Thereafter the bhakti-yogī should push the life air up between the eyebrows, and then, blocking the seven outlets of the life air, he…
• SB 2.2.22 However, O King, if a yogī maintains a desire for improved material enjoyments, like transference to the topmost planet, Brahmaloka, or…
• SB 2.2.23 The transcendentalists are concerned with the spiritual body. As such, by the strength of their devotional service, austerities, mystic…
• SB 2.2.24 O King, when such a mystic passes over the Milky Way by the illuminating Suṣumṇā to reach the highest planet, Brahmaloka, he goes first to…
• SB 2.2.25 This Śiśumāra is the pivot for the turning of the complete universe, and it is called the navel of Viṣṇu [Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu]. The yogī…
• SB 2.2.26 At the time of the final devastation of the complete universe [the end of the duration of Brahmā’s life], a flame of fire emanates from…
• SB 2.2.27 In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age nor death. There is no pain of any kind, and therefore there are no…
• SB 2.2.28 After reaching Satyaloka, the devotee is specifically able to be incorporated fearlessly by the subtle body in an identity similar to that…
• SB 2.2.29 The devotee thus surpasses the subtle objects of different senses like aroma by smelling, the palate by tasting, vision by seeing forms,…
• SB 2.2.30 The devotee, thus surpassing the gross and the subtle forms of coverings, enters the plane of egoism. And in that status he merges the…
• SB 2.2.31 Only the purified soul can attain the perfection of associating with the Personality of Godhead in complete bliss and satisfaction in his…
• SB 2.2.32 Your Majesty Mahārāja Parīkṣit, know that all that I have described in reply to your proper inquiry is just according to the version of…
• SB 2.2.33 For those who are wandering in the material universe, there is no more auspicious means of deliverance than what is aimed at in the direct…
• SB 2.2.34 The great personality Brahmā, with great attention and concentration of the mind, studied the Vedas three times, and after scrutinizingly…
• SB 2.2.35 The Personality of Godhead Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is in every living being along with the individual soul. And this fact is perceived and…
• SB 2.2.36 O King, it is therefore essential that every human being hear about, glorify and remember the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 2.2.37 Those who drink through aural reception, fully filled with the nectarean message of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the beloved of the devotees, purify the…
• SB 2.3.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as you have inquired from me as to the duty of the intelligent man who is on the threshold…
• SB 2.3.2-7 One who desires to be absorbed in the impersonal brahmajyoti effulgence should worship the master of the Vedas [Lord Brahmā or Bṛhaspati,…
• SB 2.3.8 One should worship Lord Viṣṇu or His devotee for spiritual advancement in knowledge, and for protection of heredity and advancement of a…
• SB 2.3.9 One who desires domination over a kingdom or an empire should worship the Manus. One who desires victory over an enemy should worship the…
• SB 2.3.10 A person who has broader intelligence, whether he be full of all material desire, without any material desire, or desiring liberation,…
• SB 2.3.11 All the different kinds of worshipers of multidemigods can attain the highest perfectional benediction, which is spontaneous attraction…
• SB 2.3.12 Transcendental knowledge in relation with the Supreme Lord Hari is knowledge resulting in the complete suspension of the waves and…
• SB 2.4.12 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, for the creation of the…
• SB 2.4.13 I again offer my respectful obeisances unto the form of complete existence and transcendence, who is the liberator of the pious devotees…
• SB 2.4.14 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Him who is the associate of the members of the Yadu dynasty and who is always a problem for the…
• SB 2.4.15 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the all-auspicious Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, about whom glorification, remembrances, audience, prayers,…
• SB 2.4.16 Let me offer my respectful obeisances again and again unto the all-auspicious Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The highly intellectual, simply by…
• SB 2.4.17 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the all-auspicious Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa again and again because the great learned sages, the great…
• SB 2.4.18 Kirāta, Hūṇa, Āndhra, Pulinda, Pulkaśa, Ābhīra, Śumbha, Yavana, members of the Khasa races and even others addicted to sinful acts can be…
• SB 2.4.19 He is the Supersoul and the Supreme Lord of all self-realized souls. He is the personification of the Vedas, religious scriptures and…
• SB 2.4.20 May Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is the worshipable Lord of all devotees, the protector and glory of all the kings like Andhaka and Vṛṣṇi of the…
• SB 2.4.21 It is the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa who gives liberation. By thinking of His lotus feet at every second, following in the footsteps…
• SB 2.4.22 May the Lord, who in the beginning of the creation amplified the potent knowledge of Brahmā from within his heart and inspired him with…
• SB 2.4.23 May the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who enlivens the materially created bodies of the elements by lying down within the universe, and…
• SB 2.4.24 I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of Vāsudeva who compiled the Vedic scriptures. The pure devotees…
• SB 2.4.25 My dear King, Brahmā, the firstborn, on being questioned by Nārada, exactly apprised him on this subject as it had been directly spoken by…
• SB 2.5.1 Śrī Nārada Muni asked Brahmājī: O chief amongst the demigods, O firstborn living entity, I beg to offer my respectful obeisances unto you.…
• SB 2.5.2 My dear father, please describe factually the symptoms of this manifest world. What is its background? How is it created? How is it…
• SB 2.5.3 My dear father, all this is known to you scientifically because whatever was created in the past, whatever will be created in the future,…
• SB 2.5.4 My dear father, what is the source of your knowledge? Under whose protection are you standing? And under whom are you working? What is…
• SB 2.5.5 As the spider very easily creates the network of its cobweb and manifests its power of creation without being defeated by others, so also…
• SB 2.5.6 Whatever we can understand by the nomenclature, characteristics and features of a particular thing — superior, inferior or equal, eternal…
• SB 2.5.7 Yet we are moved to wonder about the existence of someone more powerful than you when we think of your great austerities in perfect…
• SB 2.5.8 My dear father, you know everything, and you are the controller of all. Therefore, may all that I have inquired from you be kindly…
• SB 2.9.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, unless one is influenced by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning to…
• SB 2.9.2 The illusioned living entity appears in so many forms offered by the external energy of the Lord. While enjoying in the modes of material…
• SB 2.9.3 As soon as the living entity becomes situated in his constitutional glory and begins to enjoy the transcendence beyond time and material…
• SB 2.9.4 O King, the Personality of Godhead, being very much pleased with Lord Brahmā because of his nondeceptive penance in bhakti-yoga, presented…
• SB 2.9.5 Lord Brahmā, the first spiritual master, supreme in the universe, could not trace out the source of his lotus seat, and while thinking of…
• SB 2.9.6 While thus engaged in thinking, in the water, Brahmājī heard twice from nearby two syllables joined together. One of the syllables was…
• SB 2.9.7 When he heard the sound, he tried to find the speaker, searching on all sides. But when he was unable to find anyone besides himself, he…
• SB 2.9.8 Lord Brahmā underwent penances for one thousand years by the calculations of the demigods. He heard this transcendental vibration from the…
• SB 2.9.9 The Personality of Godhead, being thus very much satisfied with the penance of Lord Brahmā, was pleased to manifest His personal abode,…
• SB 2.9.10 In that personal abode of the Lord, the material modes of ignorance and passion do not prevail, nor is there any of their influence in…
• SB 2.9.11 The inhabitants of the Vaikuṇṭha planets are described as having a glowing sky-bluish complexion. Their eyes resemble lotus flowers, their…
• SB 2.9.12 Some of them are effulgent like coral and diamonds in complexion and have garlands on their heads, blooming like lotus flowers, and some…
• SB 2.9.13 The Vaikuṇṭha planets are also surrounded by various airplanes, all glowing and brilliantly situated. These airplanes belong to the great…
• SB 2.9.14 The goddess of fortune in her transcendental form is engaged in the loving service of the Lord’s lotus feet, and being moved by the black…
• SB 2.9.15 Lord Brahmā saw in the Vaikuṇṭha planets the Personality of Godhead, who is the Lord of the entire devotee community, the Lord of the…
• SB 2.9.16 The Personality of Godhead, seen leaning favorably towards His loving servitors, His very sight intoxicating and attractive, appeared to…
• SB 2.9.17 The Lord was seated on His throne and was surrounded by different energies like the four, the sixteen, the five, and the six natural…
• SB 2.9.18 Lord Brahmā, thus seeing the Personality of Godhead in His fullness, was overwhelmed with joy within his heart, and thus in full…
• SB 2.9.19 And seeing Brahmā present before Him, the Lord accepted him as worthy to create living beings, to be controlled as He desired, and thus…
• SB 2.9.20 The beautiful Personality of Godhead addressed Lord Brahmā: O Brahmā, impregnated with the Vedas, I am very much pleased with your…
• SB 2.9.21 I wish you good luck. O Brahmā, you may ask from Me, the giver of all benediction, all that you may desire. You may know that the ultimate…
• SB 2.9.22 The highest perfectional ingenuity is the personal perception of My abodes, and this has been possible because of your submissive attitude…
• SB 2.9.23 O sinless Brahmā, you may know from Me that it was I who first ordered you to undergo penance when you were perplexed in your duty. Such…
• SB 2.9.24 I create this cosmos by such penance, I maintain it by the same energy, and I withdraw it all by the same energy. Therefore the potency is…
• SB 2.10.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there are ten divisions of statements regarding the following: the creation of the…
• SB 2.10.2 To isolate the transcendence of the summum bonum, the symptoms of the rest are described sometimes by Vedic inference, sometimes by direct…
• SB 2.10.3 The elementary creation of sixteen items of matter — namely the five elements [fire, water, land, air and sky], sound, form, taste, smell,…
• SB 2.10.4 The right situation for the living entities is to obey the laws of the Lord and thus be in perfect peace of mind under the protection of…
• SB 2.10.5 The science of God describes the incarnations of the Personality of Godhead and His different activities together with the activities of…
• SB 2.10.6 The merging of the living entity, along with his conditional living tendency, with the mystic lying down of the Mahā-Viṣṇu is called the…
• SB 2.10.7 The supreme one who is celebrated as the Supreme Being or the Supreme Soul is the supreme source of the cosmic manifestation as well as…
• SB 2.10.8 The individual person possessing different instruments of senses is called the adhyātmic person, and the individual controlling deity of…
• SB 2.10.9 All three of the above-mentioned stages of different living entities are interdependent. In the absence of one, another is not understood.…
• SB 2.10.10 After separating the different universes, the gigantic universal form of the Lord [Mahā-Viṣṇu], which came out of the Causal Ocean, the…
• SB 2.10.11 That Supreme Person is not impersonal and therefore is distinctively a nara, or person. Therefore the transcendental water created from…
• SB 2.10.12 One should definitely know that all material ingredients, activities, time and modes, and the living entities who are meant to enjoy them…
• SB 2.10.13 The Lord, while lying on His bed of mystic slumber, generated the seminal symbol, golden in hue, through external energy out of His desire…
• SB 2.10.14 Just hear from me how the potency of His Lordship divides one into three, called the controlling entities, the controlled entities and the…
• SB 2.10.15 From the sky situated within the transcendental body of the manifesting Mahā-Viṣṇu, sense energy, mental force and bodily strength are all…
• SB 2.10.16 As the followers of a king follow their lord, similarly when the total energy is in motion, all other living entities move, and when the…
• SB 2.10.17 The living force, being agitated by the virāṭ-puruṣa, generated hunger and thirst, and when He desired to drink and eat, the mouth opened.
• SB 2.10.18 From the mouth the palate became manifested, and thereupon the tongue was also generated. After this all the different tastes came into…
• SB 2.10.19 When the Supreme desired to speak, speeches were vibrated from the mouth. Then the controlling deity Fire was generated from the mouth.…
• SB 2.10.20 Thereafter, when the supreme puruṣa desired to smell odors, the nostrils and respiration were generated, the nasal instrument and odors…
• SB 2.10.21 Thus when everything existed in darkness, the Lord desired to see Himself and all that was created. Then the eyes, the illuminating god…
• SB 2.10.22 By development of the desire of the great sages to know, the ears, the power of hearing, the controlling deity of hearing, and the objects…
• SB 2.10.23 When there was a desire to perceive the physical characteristics of matter, such as softness, hardness, warmth, cold, lightness and…
• SB 2.10.24 Thereafter when the Supreme Person desired to perform varieties of work, the two hands and their controlling strength, and Indra, the…
• SB 2.10.25 Thereupon, because of His desiring to control movement, His legs became manifested, and from the legs the controlling deity named Viṣṇu…
• SB 2.10.26 Thereupon, for sexual pleasure, begetting offspring and tasting heavenly nectar, the Lord developed the genitals, and thus there is the…
• SB 2.10.27 Thereafter, when He desired to evacuate the refuse of eatables, the evacuating hole, anus, and the sensory organ thereof developed along…
• SB 2.10.28 Thereafter, when He desired to move from one body to another, the navel and the air of departure and death were combinedly created. The…
• SB 2.10.29 When there was a desire to have food and drink, the abdomen and the intestines and also the arteries became manifested. The rivers and…
• SB 2.10.30 When there was a desire to think about the activities of His own energy, then the heart (the seat of the mind), the mind, the moon,…
• SB 2.10.31 The seven elements of the body, namely the thin layer on the skin, the skin itself, the flesh, blood, fat, marrow and bone, are all made…
• SB 2.10.32 The sense organs are attached to the modes of material nature, and the modes of material nature are products of the false ego. The mind is…
• SB 2.10.33 Thus by all this, the external feature of the Personality of Godhead is covered by gross forms such as those of planets, which were…
• SB 2.10.34 Therefore beyond this [gross manifestation] is a transcendental manifestation finer than the finest form. It has no beginning, no…
• SB 2.10.35 Neither of the above forms of the Lord, as just described unto you from the material angle of vision, is accepted by the pure devotees of…
• SB 2.10.36 He, the Personality of Godhead, manifests Himself in a transcendental form, being the subject of His transcendental name, quality,…
• SB 2.10.37-40 O King, know from me that all living entities are created by the Supreme Lord according to their past deeds. This includes Brahmā and his…
• SB 2.10.41 According to the different modes of material nature — the mode of goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of darkness — there are…
• SB 2.10.42 He, the Personality of Godhead, as the maintainer of all in the universe, appears in different incarnations after establishing the…
• SB 2.10.43 Thereafter, at the end of the millennium, the Lord Himself in the form of Rudra, the destroyer, will annihilate the complete creation as…
• SB 2.10.44 The great transcendentalists thus describe the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but the pure devotees deserve to see more…
• SB 2.10.45 There is no direct engineering by the Lord for the creation and destruction of the material world. What is described in the Vedas about…
• SB 2.10.46 This process of creation and annihilation described in summary herein is the regulative principle during the duration of Brahmā’s one day.…
• SB 2.10.47 O King, I shall in due course explain the measurement of time in its gross and subtle features with the specific symptoms of each, but for…
• SB 2.10.48 Śaunaka Ṛṣi, after hearing all about the creation, inquired from Sūta Gosvāmī about Vidura, for Sūta Gosvāmī had previously informed him…
• SB 3.1.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After renouncing his prosperous home and entering the forest, King Vidura, the great devotee, asked this question…
• SB 3.1.2 What else is there to say about the residential house of the Pāṇḍavas? Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of everything, acted as your minister. He used…
• SB 3.1.3 The King asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī: Where and when did the meeting and discussion take place between Saint Vidura and His Grace Maitreya…
• SB 3.1.4 Saint Vidura was a great and pure devotee of the Lord, and therefore his questions to His Grace Ṛṣi Maitreya must have been very…
• SB 3.1.6 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: King Dhṛtarāṣṭra became blind under the influence of impious desires to nourish his dishonest sons, and thus he…
• SB 3.1.7 The King did not forbid his son Duḥśāsana’s abominable action of grabbing the hair of Draupadī, the wife of the godly King Yudhiṣṭhira,…
• SB 3.1.8 Yudhiṣṭhira, who was born without any enemy, was unfairly defeated in gambling. But because he had taken the vow of truthfulness, he went…
• SB 3.1.9 Lord Kṛṣṇa was sent by Arjuna into the assembly as the spiritual master of the whole world, and although His words were heard by some…
• SB 3.1.10 When Vidura was invited by his elder brother [Dhṛtarāṣṭra] for consultation, he entered the house and gave instructions which were exactly…
• SB 3.2.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the great devotee Uddhava was asked by Vidura to speak on the messages of the dearest [Lord Kṛṣṇa],…
• SB 3.2.2 He was one who even in his childhood, at the age of five years, was so absorbed in the service of Lord Kṛṣṇa that when he was called by…
• SB 3.2.3 Uddhava thus served the Lord continually from childhood, and in his old age that attitude of service never slackened. As soon as he was…
• SB 3.2.4 For a moment he remained dead silent, and his body did not move. He became absorbed in the nectar of remembering the Lord’s lotus feet in…
• SB 3.2.5 It was so observed by Vidura that Uddhava had all the transcendental bodily changes due to total ecstasy, and he was trying to wipe away…
• SB 3.2.6 The great devotee Uddhava soon came back from the abode of the Lord to the human plane, and wiping his eyes, he awakened his reminiscence…
• SB 3.2.7 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Vidura, the sun of the world, Lord Kṛṣṇa, has set, and our house has now been swallowed by the great snake of…
• SB 3.2.8 This universe with all its planets is most unfortunate. And even more unfortunate are the members of the Yadu dynasty because they could…
• SB 3.2.9 The Yadus were all experienced devotees, learned and expert in psychic study. Over and above this, they were always with the Lord in all…
• SB 3.2.10 Under no circumstances can the words of persons bewildered by the illusory energy of the Lord deviate the intelligence of those who are…
• SB 3.2.11 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who manifested His eternal form before the vision of all on the earth, performed His disappearance by removing His form…
• SB 3.2.12 The Lord appeared in the mortal world by His internal potency, yoga-māyā. He came in His eternal form, which is just suitable for His…
• SB 3.2.13 All the demigods from the upper, lower and middle universal planetary systems assembled at the altar of the rājasūya sacrifice performed…
• SB 3.2.14 The damsels of Vraja, after pastimes of laughter, humor and exchanges of glances, were anguished when Kṛṣṇa left them. They used to follow…
• SB 3.2.15 The Personality of Godhead, the all-compassionate controller of both the spiritual and material creations, is unborn, but when there is…
• SB 3.2.16 When I think of Lord Kṛṣṇa — how He was born in the prison house of Vasudeva although He is unborn, how He went away from His father’s…
• SB 3.2.17 Lord Kṛṣṇa begged pardon from His parents for Their [Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma’s] inability to serve their feet, due to being away from home…
• SB 3.2.18 Who, after smelling the dust of His lotus feet even once, could ever forget it? Simply by expanding the leaves of His eyebrows, Kṛṣṇa has…
• SB 3.2.19 You have personally seen how the King of Cedi [Śiśupāla] achieved success in yoga practice, although he hated Lord Kṛṣṇa. Even the actual…
• SB 3.2.20 Certainly others who were fighters on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra were purified by the onslaught of Arjuna’s arrows, and while seeing…
• SB 3.2.21 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the Lord of all kinds of threes and is independently supreme by achievement of all kinds of fortune. He is worshiped by…
• SB 3.2.22 Therefore, O Vidura, does it not pain us, His servitors, when we remember that He [Lord Kṛṣṇa] used to stand before King Ugrasena, who was…
• SB 3.2.23 Alas, how shall I take shelter of one more merciful than He who granted the position of mother to a she-demon [Pūtanā] although she was…
• SB 3.2.24 I consider the demons, who are inimical toward the Lord, to be more than the devotees because while fighting with the Lord, absorbed in…
• SB 3.2.25 The Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, being prayed to by Brahmā to bring welfare to the earth, was begotten by Vasudeva in the womb…
• SB 3.2.26 Thereafter, His father, being afraid of Kaṁsa, brought Him to the cow pastures of Mahārāja Nanda, and there He lived for eleven years like…
• SB 3.2.27 In His childhood, the Almighty Lord was surrounded by cowherd boys and calves, and thus He traveled on the shore of the Yamunā river,…
• SB 3.2.28 When the Lord displayed His activities just suitable for childhood, He was visible only to the residents of Vṛndāvana. Sometimes He would…
• SB 3.2.29 While herding the very beautiful bulls, the Lord, who was the reservoir of all opulence and fortune, used to blow His flute, and thus He…
• SB 3.2.30 The great wizards who were able to assume any form were engaged by the King of Bhoja, Kaṁsa, to kill Kṛṣṇa, but in the course of His…
• SB 3.2.31 The inhabitants of Vṛndāvana were perplexed by great difficulties because a certain portion of the Yamunā was poisoned by the chief of the…
• SB 3.2.32 The Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, desired to utilize the opulent financial strength of Mahārāja Nanda for worship of the cows, and also He wanted…
• SB 3.2.33 O sober Vidura, King Indra, his honor having been insulted, poured water incessantly on Vṛndāvana, and thus the inhabitants of Vraja, the…
• SB 3.2.34 In the third season of the year, the Lord enjoyed as the central beauty of the assembly of women by attracting them with His pleasing…
• SB 3.3.1 Śrī Uddhava said: Thereafter Lord Kṛṣṇa went to Mathurā City with Śrī Baladeva, and to please Their parents They dragged Kaṁsa, the leader…
• SB 3.3.2 The Lord learned all the Vedas with their different branches simply by hearing them once from His teacher, Sāndīpani Muni, whom He…
• SB 3.3.3 Attracted by the beauty and fortune of Rukmiṇī, the daughter of King Bhīṣmaka, many great princes and kings assembled to marry her. But…
• SB 3.3.4 By subduing seven bulls whose noses were not pierced, the Lord achieved the hand of Princess Nāgnijitī in the open competition to select…
• SB 3.3.5 Just to please His dear wife, the Lord brought back the pārijāta tree from heaven, just as an ordinary husband would do. But Indra, the…
• SB 3.3.6 Narakāsura, the son of Dharitrī, the earth, tried to grasp the whole sky, and for this he was killed by the Lord in a fight. His mother…
• SB 3.3.7 There in the house of the demon, all the princesses kidnapped by Narakāsura at once became alert upon seeing the Lord, the friend of the…
• SB 3.3.8 All those princesses were lodged in different apartments, and the Lord simultaneously assumed different bodily expansions exactly matching…
• SB 3.3.9 Just to expand Himself according to His transcendental features, the Lord begot in each and every one of them ten offspring with exactly…
• SB 3.3.10 Kālayavana, the King of Magadha and Sālva attacked the city of Mathurā, but when the city was encircled by their soldiers, the Lord…
• SB 3.3.11 Of kings like Śambara, Dvivida, Bāṇa, Mura, Balvala and many other demons, such as Dantavakra, some He killed Himself, and some He caused…
• SB 3.3.12 Then, O Vidura, the Lord caused all the kings, both the enemies and those on the side of your fighting nephews, to be killed in the Battle…
• SB 3.3.13 Duryodhana was bereft of his fortune and duration of life because of the intricacy of ill advice given by Karṇa, Duḥśāsana and Saubala.…
• SB 3.4.23 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After hearing from Uddhava all about the annihilation of his friends and relatives, the learned Vidura pacified…
• SB 3.4.24 While Uddhava, the chief and most confidential amongst the devotees of the Lord, was going away, Vidura, in affection and confidence,…
• SB 3.4.27 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, after thus discussing with Vidura the transcendental name, fame, qualities, etc., on the bank of the…
• SB 3.4.28 The King inquired: At the end of the pastimes of the Lord of the three worlds, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and after the disappearance of the members of…
• SB 3.4.29 Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied: My dear King, the cursing of the brāhmaṇas was only a plea, but the actual fact was the supreme desire of the…
• SB 3.4.30 Now I shall leave the vision of this mundane world, and I see that Uddhava, the foremost of My devotees, is the only one who can be…
• SB 3.4.31 Uddhava is not inferior to Me in any way because he is never affected by the modes of material nature. Therefore he may remain in this…
• SB 3.4.32 Śukadeva Gosvāmī informed the King that Uddhava, being thus instructed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the source of all…
• SB 3.4.33 Vidura also heard from Uddhava about the appearance and disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supersoul, in the mortal world, which is a…
• SB 3.4.34 The Lord’s glorious acts and His acceptance of various transcendental forms for the performance of extraordinary pastimes in the mortal…
• SB 3.4.35 Understanding that he was remembered by Lord Kṛṣṇa [while quitting this world], Vidura began to cry loudly, overwhelmed by the ecstasy of…
• SB 3.4.36 After passing a few days on the bank of the river Yamunā, Vidura, the self-realized soul, reached the bank of the Ganges, where the great…
• SB 3.5.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Vidura, the best amongst the Kuru dynasty, who was perfect in devotional service to the Lord, thus reached the…
• SB 3.5.17 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The great sage Maitreya Muni, after honoring Vidura very greatly, began to speak, at Vidura’s request, for the…
• SB 3.7.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, while Maitreya, the great sage, was thus speaking, Vidura, the learned son of Dvaipāyana Vyāsa,…
• SB 3.7.8 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, Maitreya, being thus agitated by the inquisitive Vidura, at first seemed astonished, but then he…
• SB 3.7.42 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus the chief of the sages, who was always enthusiastic about describing topics regarding the Personality of…
• SB 3.8.1 The great sage Maitreya Muni said to Vidura: The royal dynasty of King Pūru is worthy to serve the pure devotees because all the…
• SB 3.8.2 Let me now begin speaking on the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, which was directly spoken to the great sages by the Personality of Godhead for the…
• SB 3.8.3 Some time ago, being inquisitive to know, Sanat-kumāra, the chief of the boy-saints, accompanied by other great sages, inquired exactly…
• SB 3.8.4 At that time Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa was meditating upon His Supreme Lord, whom the learned esteem as Lord Vāsudeva, but for the sake of the…
• SB 3.8.5 The sages came from the highest planets down to the lower region through the water of the Ganges, and therefore the hair on their heads…
• SB 3.8.6 The four Kumāras, headed by Sanat-kumāra, who all knew the transcendental pastimes of the Lord, glorified the Lord in rhythmic accents…
• SB 3.8.7 Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa thus spoke the purport of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to the great sage Sanat-kumāra, who had already taken the vow of renunciation.…
• SB 3.8.8 The great sage Sāṅkhyāyana was the chief amongst the transcendentalists, and when he was describing the glories of the Lord in terms of…
• SB 3.8.9 The great sage Parāśara, as aforementioned, being so advised by the great sage Pulastya, spoke unto me the foremost of the Purāṇas…
• SB 3.8.10 At that time when the three worlds were submerged in water, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu was alone, lying on His bedstead, the great snake Ananta,…
• SB 3.8.11 Just like the strength of fire within fuel wood, the Lord remained within the water of dissolution, submerging all the living entities in…
• SB 3.8.12 The Lord lay down for a thousand cycles of four yugas in His internal potency, and by His external energy He appeared to be sleeping…
• SB 3.8.13 The subtle subject matter of creation, on which the Lord’s attention was fixed, was agitated by the material mode of passion, and thus the…
• SB 3.8.14 Piercing through, this sum total form of the fruitive activity of the living entities took the shape of the bud of a lotus flower…
• SB 3.8.15 Into that universal lotus flower Lord Viṣṇu personally entered as the Supersoul, and when it was thus impregnated with all the modes of…
• SB 3.8.16 Brahmā, born out of the lotus flower, could not see the world, although he was situated in the whorl. He therefore circumambulated all of…
• SB 3.8.17 Lord Brahmā, situated in that lotus, could not perfectly understand the creation, the lotus or himself. At the end of the millennium the…
• SB 3.8.18 Lord Brahmā, in his ignorance, contemplated: Who am I that am situated on the top of this lotus? Wherefrom has it sprouted? There must be…
• SB 3.8.19 Lord Brahmā, thus contemplating, entered the water through the channel of the stem of the lotus. But in spite of entering the stem and…
• SB 3.8.20 O Vidura, while searching in that way about his existence, Brahmā reached his ultimate time, which is the eternal wheel in the hand of…
• SB 3.8.21 Thereafter, being unable to achieve the desired destination, he retired from such searching and came back again to the top of the lotus.…
• SB 3.8.22 At the end of Brahmā’s one hundred years, when his meditation was complete, he developed the required knowledge, and as a result he could…
• SB 3.8.23 Brahmā could see that on the water there was a gigantic lotuslike white bedstead, the body of Śeṣa-nāga, on which the Personality of…
• SB 3.8.24 The luster of the transcendental body of the Lord mocked the beauty of the coral mountain. The coral mountain is very beautifully dressed…
• SB 3.8.25 His transcendental body, unlimited in length and breadth, occupied the three planetary systems, upper, middle and lower. His body was…
• SB 3.8.26 The Lord showed His lotus feet by raising them. His lotus feet are the source of all awards achieved by devotional service free from…
• SB 3.8.27 He also acknowledged the service of the devotees and vanquished their distress by His beautiful smile. The reflection of His face,…
• SB 3.8.28 O my dear Vidura, the Lord’s waist was covered with yellow cloth resembling the saffron dust of the kadamba flower, and it was encircled…
• SB 3.8.29 As a sandalwood tree is decorated with fragrant flowers and branches, the Lord’s body was decorated with valuable jewels and pearls. He…
• SB 3.8.30 Like a great mountain, the Lord stands as the abode for all moving and nonmoving living entities. He is the friend of the snakes because…
• SB 3.8.31 Lord Brahmā, thus looking upon the Lord in the shape of a mountain, concluded that He was Hari, the Personality of Godhead. He saw that…
• SB 3.8.32 When Lord Brahmā, the maker of the universal destination, thus saw the Lord, he simultaneously glanced over creation. Lord Brahmā saw the…
• SB 3.8.33 Lord Brahmā, thus being surcharged with the mode of passion, became inclined to create, and after seeing the five causes of creation…
• SB 3.13.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, after hearing all these most virtuous topics from the sage Maitreya, Vidura inquired further on the…
• SB 3.13.5 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, was pleased to place His lotus feet on the lap of Vidura because Vidura…
• SB 3.13.6 The sage Maitreya said to Vidura: After his appearance, Manu, the father of mankind, along with his wife, thus addressed the reservoir of…
• SB 3.13.7 You are the father of all living entities and the source of their subsistence because they are all born of you. Please order us how we may…
• SB 3.13.8 O worshipful one, please give us your direction for the execution of duty within our working capacity so that we can follow it for fame in…
• SB 3.14.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After hearing from the great sage Maitreya about the Lord’s incarnation as Varāha, Vidura, who had taken a vow,…
• SB 5.1.5 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: What you have said is correct. The glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is praised in eloquent,…
• SB 5.1.6 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, Prince Priyavrata was a great devotee because he sought the lotus feet of Nārada, his spiritual…
• SB 5.1.7 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The first created being and most powerful demigod in this universe is Lord Brahmā, who is always…
• SB 5.1.8 As Lord Brahmā descended on his carrier, the great swan, all the residents of the planets named Siddhaloka, Gandharvaloka, Sādhyaloka and…
• SB 5.1.9 Lord Brahmā, the father of Nārada Muni, is the supreme person within this universe. As soon as Nārada saw the great swan, he could…
• SB 5.1.10 My dear King Parīkṣit, because Lord Brahmā had finally descended from Satyaloka to Bhūloka, Nārada Muni, Prince Priyavrata and Svāyambhuva…
• SB 5.3.16 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The priests, who were even worshiped by King Nābhi, the Emperor of Bhārata-varṣa, offered prayers in prose…
• SB 5.3.17 The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: O great sages, I am certainly very pleased with your prayers. You are all truthful. You have…
• SB 5.3.18 Since I cannot find anyone equal to Me, I shall personally expand Myself into a plenary portion and thus advent Myself in the womb of…
• SB 5.3.19 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After saying this, the Lord disappeared. The wife of King Nābhi, Queen Merudevī, was sitting by the side of…
• SB 5.3.20 O Viṣṇudatta, Parīkṣit Mahārāja, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was pleased by the great sages at that sacrifice. Consequently the…
• SB 5.4.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: As soon as the Lord was born as the son of Mahārāja Nābhi, He manifested symptoms of the Supreme Lord, such as…
• SB 5.4.2 When the son of Mahārāja Nābhi became visible, He evinced all good qualities described by the great poets — namely, a well-built body with…
• SB 5.4.3 Indra, the King of heaven, who is very materially opulent, became envious of King Ṛṣabhadeva. Consequently he stopped pouring water on the…
• SB 5.4.4 Due to getting a perfect son according to his desire, King Nābhi was always overwhelmed with transcendental bliss and was very…
• SB 5.4.5 King Nābhi understood that his son, Ṛṣabhadeva, was very popular among the citizens and among government officers and ministers.…
• SB 5.4.6 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, to glorify Mahārāja Nābhi the old sages composed two verses. One of them is this: “Who can attain the perfection of…
• SB 5.4.7 [The second prayer is this.] “Who is a better worshiper of brāhmaṇas than Mahārāja Nābhi? Because he worshiped the qualified brāhmaṇas to…
• SB 5.4.8 After Nābhi Mahārāja departed for Badarikāśrama, the Supreme Lord, Ṛṣabhadeva, understood that His kingdom was His field of activities. He…
• SB 5.4.9 Of Ṛṣabhadeva’s one hundred sons, the eldest, named Bharata, was a great, exalted devotee qualified with the best attributes. In his…
• SB 5.4.10 Following Bharata, there were ninety-nine other sons. Among these were nine elderly sons, named Kuśāvarta, Ilāvarta, Brahmāvarta, Malaya,…
• SB 5.4.11-12 In addition to these sons were Kavi, Havi, Antarikṣa, Prabuddha, Pippalāyana, Āvirhotra, Drumila, Camasa and Karabhājana. These were all…
• SB 5.4.13 In addition to these nineteen sons mentioned above, there were eighty-one younger ones, all born of Ṛṣabhadeva and Jayantī. According to…
• SB 5.4.14 Being an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva was fully independent because His form was spiritual, eternal…
• SB 5.4.15 Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow.
• SB 5.4.16 Although Lord Ṛṣabhadeva knew everything about confidential Vedic knowledge, which includes information about all types of occupational…
• SB 5.4.17 Lord Ṛṣabhadeva performed all kinds of sacrifices one hundred times according to the instructions of the Vedic literatures. Thus He…
• SB 5.4.18 No one likes to possess anything that is like a will-o’-the-wisp or a flower in the sky, for everyone knows very well that such things do…
• SB 5.4.19 Once while touring the world, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, the Supreme Lord, reached a place known as Brahmāvarta. There was a great conference of…
• SB 5.5.1 Lord Ṛṣabhadeva told His sons: My dear boys, of all the living entities who have accepted material bodies in this world, one who has been…
• SB 5.5.2 One can attain the path of liberation from material bondage only by rendering service to highly advanced spiritual personalities. These…
• SB 5.5.3 Those who are interested in reviving Kṛṣṇa consciousness and increasing their love of Godhead do not like to do anything that is not…
• SB 5.5.4 When a person considers sense gratification the aim of life, he certainly becomes mad after materialistic living and engages in all kinds…
• SB 5.5.5 As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life, one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance. Be…
• SB 5.5.6 When the living entity is covered by the mode of ignorance, he does not understand the individual living being and the supreme living…
• SB 5.5.7 Even though one may be very learned and wise, he is mad if he does not understand that the endeavor for sense gratification is a useless…
• SB 5.5.8 The attraction between male and female is the basic principle of material existence. On the basis of this misconception, which ties…
• SB 5.5.9 When the strong knot in the heart of a person implicated in material life due to the results of past action is slackened, one turns away…
• SB 5.5.10-13 O My sons, you should accept a highly elevated paramahaṁsa, a spiritually advanced spiritual master. In this way, you should place your…
• SB 5.5.14 As I have advised you, My dear sons, you should act accordingly. Be very careful. By these means you will be freed from the ignorance of…
• SB 5.5.15 If one is serious about going back home, back to Godhead, he must consider the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the summum…
• SB 5.5.16 Due to ignorance, the materialistic person does not know anything about his real self-interest, the auspicious path in life. He is simply…
• SB 5.5.17 If someone is ignorant and addicted to the path of saṁsāra, how can one who is actually learned, merciful and advanced in spiritual…
• SB 5.5.18 One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a…
• SB 5.5.19 My transcendental body [sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha] looks exactly like a human form, but it is not a material human body. It is inconceivable.…
• SB 5.5.20 My dear boys, you are all born of My heart, which is the seat of all spiritual qualities. Therefore you should not be like materialistic…
• SB 5.5.21-22 Of the two energies manifest [spirit and dull matter], beings possessing living force [vegetables, grass, trees and plants] are superior…
• SB 5.5.23 O respectful brāhmaṇas, as far as I am concerned, no one is equal or superior to the brāhmaṇas in this world. I do not find anyone…
• SB 5.5.24 The Vedas are My eternal transcendental sound incarnation. Therefore the Vedas are śabda-brahma. In this world, the brāhmaṇas thoroughly…
• SB 5.5.25 I am fully opulent, almighty and superior to Lord Brahmā and Indra, the King of the heavenly planets. I am also the bestower of all…
• SB 5.5.26 My dear sons, you should not envy any living entity — be he moving or nonmoving. Knowing that I am situated in them, you should offer…
• SB 5.5.27 The true activity of the sense organs — mind, sight, words and all the knowledge-gathering and working senses — is to engage fully in My…
• SB 5.5.28 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus the great well-wisher of everyone, the Supreme Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, instructed His own sons. Although they were…
• SB 5.5.29 After accepting the feature of avadhūta, a great saintly person without material cares, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva passed through human society like…
• SB 5.5.30 Ṛṣabhadeva began to tour through cities, villages, mines, countrysides, valleys, gardens, military camps, cow pens, the homes of cowherd…
• SB 5.5.31 Lord Ṛṣabhadeva’s hands, feet and chest were very long. His shoulders, face and limbs were all very delicate and symmetrically…
• SB 5.5.32 When Lord Ṛṣabhadeva saw that the general populace was very antagonistic to His execution of mystic yoga, He accepted the behavior of a…
• SB 5.5.33 Because Lord Ṛṣabhadeva remained in that condition, the public did not disturb Him, but no bad aroma emanated from His stool and urine.…
• SB 5.5.34 In this way Lord Ṛṣabhadeva followed the behavior of cows, deer and crows. Sometimes He moved or walked, and sometimes He sat down in one…
• SB 5.5.35 O King Parīkṣit, just to show all the yogīs the mystic process, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, the plenary expansion of Lord Kṛṣṇa, performed wonderful…
• SB 5.6.1 King Parīkṣit asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear Lord, for those who are completely pure in heart, knowledge is attained by the practice of…
• SB 5.6.2 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied: My dear King, you have spoken correctly. However, after capturing animals, a cunning hunter does not put…
• SB 5.6.3 All the learned scholars have given their opinion. The mind is by nature very restless, and one should not make friends with it. If we…
• SB 5.6.4 An unchaste woman is very easily carried away by paramours, and it sometimes happens that her husband is violently killed by her…
• SB 5.6.5 The mind is the root cause of lust, anger, pride, greed, lamentation, illusion and fear. Combined, these constitute bondage to fruitive…
• SB 5.6.6 Lord Ṛṣabhadeva was the head of all kings and emperors within this universe, but assuming the dress and language of an avadhūta, He acted…
• SB 5.6.7 Actually Lord Ṛṣabhadeva had no material body, but due to yoga-māyā He considered His body material, and therefore, because He played like…
• SB 5.6.8 While He was wandering about, a wild forest fire began. This fire was caused by the friction of bamboos, which were being blown by the…
• SB 5.6.9 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued speaking to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, the King of Koṅka, Veṅka and Kuṭaka whose name was Arhat, heard of…
• SB 5.6.10 People who are lowest among men and bewildered by the illusory energy of the Supreme Lord will give up the original varṇāśrama-dharma and…
• SB 5.6.11 Low-class people, due to their gross ignorance, introduce a system of religion that deviates from the Vedic principles. Following their…
• SB 5.6.12 In this Age of Kali, people are overwhelmed by the modes of passion and ignorance. Lord Ṛṣabhadeva incarnated Himself to deliver them from…
• SB 5.6.13 Learned scholars chant about the transcendental qualities of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva in this way: “Oh, this earthly planet contains seven seas and…
• SB 5.6.14 “Oh, what shall I say of the dynasty of Priyavrata, which is pure and very much celebrated. In that dynasty, the Supreme Person, the…
• SB 5.6.15 “Who is that mystic yogī who can follow the examples of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva even with his mind? Lord Ṛṣabhadeva rejected all kinds of yogic…
• SB 5.6.16 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Lord Ṛṣabhadeva is the master of all Vedic knowledge, human beings, demigods, cows and brāhmaṇas. I have…
• SB 5.6.17 Devotees always bathe themselves in devotional service in order to be relieved from the various tribulations of material existence. By…
• SB 5.6.18 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, the Supreme Person, Mukunda, is actually the maintainer of all the members of the Pāṇḍava and…
• SB 5.6.19 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, was fully aware of His true identity; therefore He was self-sufficient, and He did…
• SB 5.7.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued speaking to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, Bharata Mahārāja was a topmost devotee. Following the orders of…
• SB 5.7.2 Just as the false ego creates the subtle sense objects, Mahārāja Bharata created five sons in the womb of Pañcajanī, his wife. These sons…
• SB 5.7.3 Formerly this planet was known as Ajanābha-varṣa, but since Mahārāja Bharata’s reign it has become known as Bhārata-varṣa.
• SB 5.7.4 Mahārāja Bharata was a very learned and experienced king on this earth. He perfectly ruled the citizens, being himself engaged in his own…
• SB 5.7.5 With great faith King Bharata performed various kinds of sacrifice. He performed the sacrifices known as agni-hotra, darśa, pūrṇamāsa,…
• SB 5.7.6 After performing the preliminaries of various sacrifices, Mahārāja Bharata offered the results in the name of religion to the Supreme…
• SB 5.7.7 In this way, being purified by ritualistic sacrifices, the heart of Mahārāja Bharata was completely uncontaminated. His devotional service…
• SB 5.7.8 Destiny fixed the time for Mahārāja Bharata’s enjoyment of material opulence at one thousand times ten thousand years. When that period…
• SB 5.7.9 At Pulaha-āśrama, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, out of His transcendental affection for His devotee, becomes visible to His…
• SB 5.7.10 In Pulaha-āśrama is the Gaṇḍakī River, which is the best of all rivers. The śālagrāma-śilā, the marble pebbles, purify all those places.…
• SB 5.7.11 In the gardens of Pulaha-āśrama, Mahārāja Bharata lived alone and collected a variety of flowers, twigs and tulasī leaves. He also…
• SB 5.7.12 That most exalted devotee, Mahārāja Bharata, in this way engaged constantly in the devotional service of the Lord. Naturally his love for…
• SB 5.7.13 Mahārāja Bharata appeared very beautiful. He had a wealth of curly hair on his head, which was wet from bathing three times daily. He…
• SB 5.7.14 “The Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated in pure goodness. He illuminates the entire universe and bestows all benedictions upon His…
• SB 5.8.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, one day, after finishing his morning duties — evacuating, urinating and bathing — Mahārāja…
• SB 5.8.2 O King, while Bharata Mahārāja was sitting on the bank of that river, a doe, being very thirsty, came there to drink.
• SB 5.8.3 While the doe was drinking with great satisfaction, a lion, which was very close, roared very loudly. This was frightful to every living…
• SB 5.8.4 By nature the doe was always afraid of being killed by others, and it was always looking about suspiciously. When it heard the lion’s…
• SB 5.8.5 The doe was pregnant, and when it jumped out of fear, the baby deer fell from its womb into the flowing waters of the river.
• SB 5.8.6 Being separated from its flock and distressed by its miscarriage, the black doe, having crossed the river, was very much distressed.…
• SB 5.8.7 The great King Bharata, while sitting on the bank of the river, saw the small deer, bereft of its mother, floating down the river. Seeing…
• SB 5.8.8 Gradually Mahārāja Bharata became very affectionate toward the deer. He began to raise it and maintain it by giving it grass. He was…
• SB 5.8.9 The great King Mahārāja Bharata began to think: Alas, this helpless young deer, by the force of time, an agent of the Supreme Personality…
• SB 5.8.10 Even though one is in the renounced order, one who is advanced certainly feels compassion for suffering living entities. One should…
• SB 5.8.11 Due to attachment for the deer, Mahārāja Bharata lay down with it, walked about with it, bathed with it and even ate with it. Thus his…
• SB 5.8.12 When Mahārāja Bharata wanted to enter the forest to collect kuśa grass, flowers, wood, leaves, fruits, roots and water, he would fear that…
• SB 5.8.13 When entering the forest, the animal would appear very attractive to Mahārāja Bharata due to its childish behavior. Mahārāja Bharata would…
• SB 5.8.14 When Mahārāja Bharata was actually worshiping the Lord or was engaged in some ritualistic ceremony, although his activities were…
• SB 5.8.15 If Bharata Mahārāja sometimes could not see the deer, his mind would be very agitated. He would become like a miser, who, having obtained…
• SB 5.8.16 Bharata Mahārāja would think: Alas, the deer is now helpless. I am now very unfortunate, and my mind is like a cunning hunter, for it is…
• SB 5.8.17 Alas, is it possible that I shall again see this animal protected by the Lord and fearless of tigers and other animals? Shall I again see…
• SB 5.8.18 I do not know, but the deer might have been eaten by a wolf or a dog or by the boars that flock together or the tiger who travels alone.
• SB 5.8.19 Alas, when the sun rises, all auspicious things begin. Unfortunately, they have not begun for me. The sun-god is the Vedas personified,…
• SB 5.8.20 That deer is exactly like a prince. When will it return? When will it again display its personal activities, which are so pleasing? When…
• SB 5.8.21 Alas, the small deer, while playing with me and seeing me feigning meditation with closed eyes, would circumambulate me due to anger…
• SB 5.8.22 When I placed all the sacrificial ingredients on the kuśa grass, the deer, when playing, would touch the grass with its teeth and thus…
• SB 5.8.23 After speaking like a madman in this way, Mahārāja Bharata got up and went outside. Seeing the footprints of the deer on the ground, he…
• SB 5.8.24 Mahārāja Bharata continued to speak like a madman. Seeing above his head the dark marks on the rising moon, which resembled a deer, he…
• SB 5.8.25 After perceiving the moonshine, Mahārāja Bharata continued speaking like a crazy person. He said: The deer’s son was so submissive and…
• SB 5.8.26 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, in this way Bharata Mahārāja was overwhelmed by an uncontrollable desire which was manifest in…
• SB 5.8.27 At the time of death, the King saw that the deer was sitting by his side, exactly like his own son, and was lamenting his death. Actually…
• SB 5.8.28 Although in the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja, due to his rigid devotional service in his past life, could understand the cause of his…
• SB 5.8.29 In the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja began to lament: What misfortune! I have fallen from the path of the self-realized. I gave up my…
• SB 5.8.30 Although Bharata Mahārāja received the body of a deer, by constant repentance he became completely detached from all material things. He…
• SB 5.8.31 Remaining in that āśrama, the great King Bharata Mahārāja was now very careful not to fall victim to bad association. Without disclosing…
• SB 5.9.1-2 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after giving up the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja took birth in a very pure brāhmaṇa…
• SB 5.9.3 Due to his being especially gifted with the Lord’s mercy, Bharata Mahārāja could remember the incidents of his past life. Although he…
• SB 5.9.4 The brāhmaṇa father’s mind was always filled with affection for his son, Jaḍa Bharata [Bharata Mahārāja]. Therefore he was always attached…
• SB 5.9.5 Jaḍa Bharata behaved before his father like a fool, despite his father’s adequately instructing him in Vedic knowledge. He behaved in that…
• SB 5.9.6 The brāhmaṇa father of Jaḍa Bharata considered his son his heart and soul, and therefore he was very much attached to him. He thought it…
• SB 5.9.7 Thereafter, the brāhmaṇa’s younger wife, after entrusting her twin children — the boy and girl — to the elder wife, departed for Patiloka,…
• SB 5.9.8 After the father died, the nine stepbrothers of Jaḍa Bharata, who considered Jaḍa Bharata dull and brainless, abandoned the father’s…
• SB 5.9.9-10 Degraded men are actually no better than animals. The only difference is that animals have four legs and such men have only two. These…
• SB 5.9.11 Jaḍa Bharata used to work only for food. His stepbrothers took advantage of this and engaged him in agricultural field work in exchange…
• SB 5.9.12 At this time, being desirous of obtaining a son, a leader of dacoits who came from a śūdra family wanted to worship the goddess Bhadra…
• SB 5.9.13 The leader of the dacoits captured a man-animal for sacrifice, but he escaped, and the leader ordered his followers to find him. They ran…
• SB 5.9.14 The followers and servants of the dacoit chief considered Jaḍa Bharata to possess qualities quite suitable for a man-animal, and they…
• SB 5.9.15 After this, all the thieves, according to their imaginative ritual for killing animalistic men, bathed Jaḍa Bharata, dressed him in new…
• SB 5.9.16 At this time, one of the thieves, acting as the chief priest, was ready to offer the blood of Jaḍa Bharata, whom they imagined to be an…
• SB 5.9.17 All the rogues and thieves who had made arrangements for the worship of Goddess Kālī were low minded and bound to the modes of passion and…
• SB 5.9.18 Intolerant of the offenses committed, the infuriated Goddess Kālī flashed her eyes and displayed her fierce, curved teeth. Her reddish…
• SB 5.9.19 When an envious person commits an offense before a great personality, he is always punished in the way mentioned above.
• SB 5.9.20 Śukadeva Gosvāmī then said to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: O Viṣṇudatta, those who already know that the soul is separate from the body, who are…
• SB 5.10.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after this, King Rahūgaṇa, ruler of the states known as Sindhu and Sauvīra, was going to…
• SB 5.10.2 The palanquin, however, was very erratically carried by Jaḍa Bharata due to his sense of nonviolence. As he stepped forward, he checked…
• SB 5.10.3 When the palanquin carriers heard the threatening words of Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa, they became very afraid of his punishment and began to speak…
• SB 5.10.4 O lord, please note that we are not at all negligent in discharging our duties. We have been faithfully carrying this palanquin according…
• SB 5.10.5 King Rahūgaṇa could understand the speeches given by the carriers, who were afraid of being punished. He could also understand that simply…
• SB 5.10.6 King Rahūgaṇa told Jaḍa Bharata: How troublesome this is, my dear brother. You certainly appear very fatigued because you have carried…
• SB 5.10.7 Thereafter, when the King saw that his palanquin was still being shaken by the carriers, he became very angry and said: You rascal, what…
• SB 5.10.8 Thinking himself a king, King Rahūgaṇa was in the bodily conception and was influenced by material nature’s modes of passion and…
• SB 5.10.9 The great brāhmaṇa Jaḍa Bharata said: My dear King and hero, whatever you have spoken sarcastically is certainly true. Actually these are…
• SB 5.10.10 Fatness, thinness, bodily and mental distress, thirst, hunger, fear, disagreement, desires for material happiness, old age, sleep,…
• SB 5.10.11 My dear King, you have unnecessarily accused me of being dead though alive. In this regard, I can only say that this is the case…
• SB 5.10.12 My dear King, if you still think that you are the King and that I am your servant, you should order me, and I should follow your order. I…
• SB 5.10.13 My dear King, you have said, “You rascal, you dull, crazy fellow! I am going to chastise you, and then you will come to your senses.” In…
• SB 5.10.14 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, when King Rahūgaṇa chastised the exalted devotee Jaḍa Bharata with harsh words, that peaceful,…
• SB 5.10.15 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of the Pāṇḍu dynasty [Mahārāja Parīkṣit], the King of the Sindhu and Sauvīra states [Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa]…
• SB 5.10.16 King Rahūgaṇa said: O brāhmaṇa, you appear to be moving in this world very much covered and unknown to others. Who are you? Are you a…
• SB 5.10.17 My dear sir, I am not at all afraid of the thunderbolt of King Indra, nor am I afraid of the serpentine, piercing trident of Lord Śiva. I…
• SB 5.10.18 My dear sir, it appears that the influence of your great spiritual knowledge is hidden. Factually you are bereft of all material…
• SB 5.10.19 I consider your good self the most exalted master of mystic power. You know the spiritual science perfectly well. You are the most exalted…
• SB 5.10.20 Is it not a fact that your good self is the direct representative of Kapiladeva, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? To…
• SB 5.10.21 You have said, “I am not fatigued from labor.” Although the soul is different from the body, there is fatigue because of bodily labor, and…
• SB 5.10.22 King Rahūgaṇa continued: My dear sir, you have said that designations like bodily fatness and thinness are not characteristics of the…
• SB 5.10.23 My dear sir, you have said that the relationship between the king and the subject or between the master and the servant are not eternal,…
• SB 5.10.24 Whatever you have spoken appears to me to be contradictory. O best friend of the distressed, I have committed a great offense by insulting…
• SB 5.10.25 O my dear lord, you are the friend of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the friend of all living entities. You are therefore…
• SB 5.11.1 The brāhmaṇa Jaḍa Bharata said: My dear King, although you are not at all experienced, you are trying to speak like a very experienced…
• SB 5.11.2 My dear King, talks of the relationship between the master and the servant, the king and the subject and so forth are simply talks about…
• SB 5.11.3 A dream becomes automatically known to a person as false and immaterial, and similarly one eventually realizes that material happiness in…
• SB 5.11.4 As long as the mind of the living entity is contaminated by the three modes of material nature (goodness, passion and ignorance), his mind…
• SB 5.11.5 Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust and…
• SB 5.11.6 The materialistic mind covering the living entity’s soul carries it to different species of life. This is called continued material…
• SB 5.11.7 The mind makes the living entity within this material world wander through different species of life, and thus the living entity…
• SB 5.11.8 When the living entity’s mind becomes absorbed in the sense gratification of the material world, it brings about his conditioned life and…
• SB 5.11.9 There are five working senses and five knowledge-acquiring senses. There is also the false ego. In this way, there are eleven items for…
• SB 5.11.10 Sound, touch, form, taste and smell are the objects of the five knowledge-acquiring senses. Speech, touch, movement, evacuation and sexual…
• SB 5.11.11 The physical elements, nature, the original cause, culture, destiny and the time element are all material causes. Agitated by these…
• SB 5.11.12 The individual soul bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness has many ideas and activities created in the mind by the external energy. They have been…
• SB 5.11.13-14 There are two kinds of kṣetrajña — the living entity, as explained above, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is explained as…
• SB 5.11.15 My dear King Rahūgaṇa, as long as the conditioned soul accepts the material body and is not freed from the contamination of material…
• SB 5.11.16 The soul’s designation, the mind, is the cause of all tribulations in the material world. As long as this fact is unknown to the…
• SB 5.11.17 This uncontrolled mind is the greatest enemy of the living entity. If one neglects it or gives it a chance, it will grow more and more…
• SB 5.12.1 King Rahūgaṇa said: O most exalted personality, you are not different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By the influence of your…
• SB 5.12.2 O best of the brāhmaṇas, my body is filled with dirty things, and my vision has been bitten by the serpent of pride. Due to my material…
• SB 5.12.3 Whatever doubts I have about a particular subject matter I shall ask you about later. For the time being, these mysterious yoga…
• SB 5.12.4 O master of yogic power, you said that fatigue resulting from moving the body here and there is appreciated by direct perception but…
• SB 5.12.5-6 The self-realized brāhmaṇa Jaḍa Bharata said: Among the various material combinations and permutations, there are various forms and…
• SB 5.12.7 It is a fact, however, that these innocent people carrying your palanquin without payment are certainly suffering due to this injustice.…
• SB 5.12.8 All of us on the surface of the globe are living entities in different forms. Some of us are moving and some not moving. All of us come…
• SB 5.12.9 One may say that varieties arise from the planet earth itself. However, although the universe may temporarily appear to be the truth, it…
• SB 5.12.10 Since this universe has no real ultimate existence, the things within it — shortness, differences, grossness, skinniness, smallness,…
• SB 5.12.11 What, then, is the ultimate truth? The answer is that nondual knowledge is the ultimate truth. It is devoid of the contamination of…
• SB 5.12.12 My dear King Rahūgaṇa, unless one has the opportunity to smear his entire body with the dust of the lotus feet of great devotees, one…
• SB 5.12.13 Who are the pure devotees mentioned here? In an assembly of pure devotees, there is no question of discussing material subjects like…
• SB 5.12.14 In a previous birth I was known as Mahārāja Bharata. I attained perfection by becoming completely detached from material activities…
• SB 5.12.15 My dear heroic King, due to my past sincere service to the Lord, I could remember everything of my past life even while in the body of a…
• SB 5.12.16 Simply by associating with exalted devotees, anyone can attain perfection of knowledge and with the sword of knowledge can cut to pieces…
• SB 5.13.1 Jaḍa Bharata, who had fully realized Brahman, continued: My dear King Rahūgaṇa, the living entity wanders on the path of the material…
• SB 5.13.2 O King Rahūgaṇa, in this forest of material existence there are six very powerful plunderers. When the conditioned soul enters the forest…
• SB 5.13.3 In this forest there are dense bowers composed of thickets of bushes, grass and creepers. In these bowers the conditioned soul is always…
• SB 5.13.4 My dear King, the merchant on the forest path of the material world, his intelligence victimized by home, wealth, relatives and so forth,…
• SB 5.13.5 Wandering in the forest of the material world, the conditioned soul sometimes hears an invisible cricket making harsh sounds, and his ears…
• SB 5.13.6 Sometimes the conditioned soul jumps into a shallow river, or being short of food grains, he goes to beg food from people who are not at…
• SB 5.13.7 Sometimes, being defeated or plundered by a superior, powerful agent, a living entity loses all his possessions. He then becomes very…
• SB 5.13.8 Sometimes the merchant in the forest wants to climb the hills and mountains, but due to insufficient footwear, his feet are pricked by…
• SB 5.13.9 The conditioned soul in the material forest is sometimes swallowed by a python or crushed. At such a time he is left lying in the forest…
• SB 5.13.10 Sometimes, in order to have a little insignificant sex enjoyment, one searches after debauched women. In this attempt, one is insulted and…
• SB 5.13.11 Sometimes the living entity is busy counteracting the natural disturbances of freezing cold, scorching heat, strong wind, excessive…
• SB 5.13.12 On the forest path of material existence, sometimes a person is without wealth and due to this does not have a proper home, bed or sitting…
• SB 5.13.13 Due to monetary transactions, relationships become very strained and end in enmity. Sometimes the husband and wife walk on the path of…
• SB 5.13.14 My dear King, on the forest path of material life, first a person is bereft of his father and mother, and after their death he becomes…
• SB 5.13.15 There were and are many political and social heroes who have conquered enemies of equal power, yet due to their ignorance in believing…
• SB 5.13.16 Sometimes the living entity in the forest of material existence takes shelter of creepers and desires to hear the chirping of the birds in…
• SB 5.13.17 Being cheated by them, the living entity in the forest of the material world tries to give up the association of these so-called yogīs,…
• SB 5.13.18 When the living entity becomes exactly like a monkey jumping from one branch to another, he remains in the tree of household life without…
• SB 5.13.19 O killer of enemies, Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa, if the conditioned soul somehow or other gets out of his dangerous position, he again returns to…
• SB 5.13.20 My dear King Rahūgaṇa, you are also a victim of the external energy, being situated on the path of attraction to material pleasure. So…
• SB 5.13.21 King Rahūgaṇa said: This birth as a human being is the best of all. Even birth among the demigods in the heavenly planets is not as…
• SB 5.13.22 It is not at all wonderful that simply by being covered by the dust of your lotus feet, one immediately attains the platform of pure…
• SB 5.13.23 I offer my respectful obeisances unto the great personalities, whether they walk on the earth’s surface as children, young boys, avadhūtas…
• SB 5.13.24 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, O son of mother Uttarā, there were some waves of dissatisfaction in the mind of Jaḍa…
• SB 5.13.25 After receiving lessons from the great devotee Jaḍa Bharata, King Rahūgaṇa of the state of Sauvīra became completely aware of the…
• SB 5.13.26 King Parīkṣit then told Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear lord, O great devotee sage, you are omniscient. You have very nicely described the…
• SB 5.14.1 When King Parīkṣit asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī about the direct meaning of the material forest, Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied as follows: My dear…
• SB 5.14.2 In the forest of material existence, the uncontrolled senses are like plunderers. The conditioned soul may earn some money for the…
• SB 5.14.3 My dear King, family members in this material world go under the names of wife and children, but actually they behave like tigers and…
• SB 5.14.4 Every year the plowman plows over his grain field, completely uprooting all weeds. Nonetheless, the seeds lie there and, not being…
• SB 5.14.5 Sometimes the conditioned soul in household life, being attached to material wealth and possessions, is disturbed by gadflies and…
• SB 5.14.6 Sometimes in this house in the sky [gandharva-pura] the conditioned soul drinks, eats and has sex. Being overly attached, he chases after…
• SB 5.14.7 Sometimes the living entity is interested in the yellow stool known as gold and runs after it. That gold is the source of material…
• SB 5.14.8 Sometimes the conditioned soul is absorbed in finding residential quarters or apartments and getting a supply of water and riches to…
• SB 5.14.9 Sometimes, as if blinded by the dust of a whirlwind, the conditioned soul sees the beauty of the opposite sex, which is called pramadā.…
• SB 5.14.10 The conditioned soul sometimes personally appreciates the futility of sense enjoyment in the material world, and he sometimes considers…
• SB 5.14.11 Sometimes the conditioned soul is very aggrieved by the chastisement of his enemies and government servants, who use harsh words against…
• SB 5.14.12 Due to his pious activities in previous lives, the conditioned soul attains material facilities in this life, but when they are finished,…
• SB 5.14.13 Sometimes, to mitigate distresses in this forest of the material world, the conditioned soul receives cheap blessings from atheists. He…
• SB 5.14.14 In this material world, when the conditioned soul cannot arrange for his own maintenance, despite exploiting others, he tries to exploit…
• SB 5.14.15 In this world, family life is exactly like a blazing fire in the forest. There is not the least happiness, and gradually one becomes more…
• SB 5.14.16 Government men are always like carnivorous demons called Rākṣasas [man-eaters]. Sometimes these government men turn against the…
• SB 5.14.17 Sometimes the conditioned soul imagines that his father or grandfather has again come in the form of his son or grandson. In this way he…
• SB 5.14.18 In household life one is ordered to execute many yajñas and fruitive activities, especially the vivāha-yajña [the marriage ceremony for…
• SB 5.14.19 Sometimes, due to bodily hunger and thirst, the conditioned soul becomes so disturbed that he loses his patience and becomes angry with…
• SB 5.14.20 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued speaking to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, sleep is exactly like a python. Those who wander in the forest of…
• SB 5.14.21 In the forest of the material world, the conditioned soul is sometimes bitten by envious enemies, which are compared to serpents and other…
• SB 5.14.22 The conditioned soul is sometimes attracted to the little happiness derived from sense gratification. Thus he has illicit sex or steals…
• SB 5.14.23 Learned scholars and transcendentalists therefore condemn the materialistic path of fruitive activity because it is the original source…
• SB 5.14.24 Stealing or cheating another person out of his money, the conditioned soul somehow or other keeps it in his possession and escapes…
• SB 5.14.25 Being unable to protect himself from the threefold miseries of material existence, the conditioned soul becomes very morose and lives a…
• SB 5.14.26 As far as transactions with money are concerned, if one person cheats another by a farthing or less, they become enemies.
• SB 5.14.27 In this materialistic life, there are many difficulties, as I have just mentioned, and all of these are insurmountable. In addition, there…
• SB 5.14.28 Sometimes the conditioned soul is attracted by illusion personified (his wife or girlfriend) and becomes eager to be embraced by a woman.…
• SB 5.14.29 The personal weapon used by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the disc, is called hari-cakra, the disc of Hari. This cakra is the wheel of time. It expands from…
• SB 5.14.30 The pseudo svāmīs, yogīs and incarnations who do not believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead are known as pāṣaṇḍīs. They themselves…
• SB 5.14.31 In this way the descendants of the monkeys intermingle with each other, and they are generally known as śūdras. Without hesitating, they…
• SB 5.14.32 Just as a monkey jumps from one tree to another, the conditioned soul jumps from one body to another. As the monkey is ultimately captured…
• SB 5.14.33 In this material world, when the conditioned soul forgets his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and does not care for…
• SB 5.14.34 The conditioned soul suffers many miserable bodily conditions, such as being affected by severe cold and strong winds. He also suffers due…
• SB 5.14.35 Sometimes conditioned souls exchange money, but in due course of time, enmity arises because of cheating. Although there may be a tiny…
• SB 5.14.36 Sometimes, having no money, the conditioned soul does not get sufficient accommodations. Sometimes he doesn’t even have a place to sit,…
• SB 5.14.37 Although people may be enemies, in order to fulfill their desires again and again, they sometimes get married. Unfortunately, these…
• SB 5.14.38 The path of this material world is full of material miseries, and various troubles disturb the conditioned souls. Sometimes he loses, and…
• SB 5.14.39 Saintly persons, who are friends to all living entities, have a peaceful consciousness. They have controlled their senses and minds, and…
• SB 5.14.40 There were many great saintly kings who were very expert in performing sacrificial rituals and very competent in conquering other…
• SB 5.14.41 When the conditioned soul accepts the shelter of the creeper of fruitive activity, he may be elevated by his pious activities to higher…
• SB 5.14.42 Having summarized the teachings of Jaḍa Bharata, Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, the path indicated by Jaḍa Bharata is like…
• SB 5.14.43 While in the prime of life, the great Mahārāja Bharata gave up everything because he was fond of serving the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 5.14.44 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, the activities of Bharata Mahārāja are wonderful. He gave up everything difficult for others to…
• SB 5.14.45 Even though in the body of a deer, Mahārāja Bharata did not forget the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore when he was giving up the…
• SB 5.14.46 Devotees interested in hearing and chanting [śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam] regularly discuss the pure characteristics of Bharata Mahārāja and praise…
• SB 5.15.1 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The son of Mahārāja Bharata known as Sumati followed the path of Ṛṣabhadeva, but in the Age of Kali some…
• SB 5.15.2 From Sumati, a son named Devatājit was born by the womb of his wife named Vṛddhasenā.
• SB 5.15.3 Thereafter, in the womb of Āsurī, the wife of Devatājit, a son named Devadyumna was begotten. Devadyumna begot in the womb of his wife,…
• SB 5.15.4 King Pratīha personally propagated the principles of self-realization. In this way, not only was he purified, but he became a great…
• SB 5.15.5 In the womb of his wife Suvarcalā, Pratīha begot three sons, named Pratihartā, Prastotā and Udgātā. These three sons were very expert in…
• SB 5.15.6 In the womb of his wife, Ṛṣikulyā, King Bhūmā begot a son named Udgītha. From Udgītha’s wife, Devakulyā, a son named Prastāva was born,…
• SB 5.15.7 King Gaya gave full protection and security to the citizens so that their personal property would not be disturbed by undesirable…
• SB 5.15.8 My dear King Parīkṣit, those who are learned scholars in the histories of the Purāṇas eulogize and glorify King Gaya with the following…
• SB 5.15.9 The great King Gaya used to perform all kinds of Vedic rituals. He was highly intelligent and expert in studying all the Vedic…
• SB 5.15.10 All the chaste and honest daughters of Mahārāja Dakṣa, such as Śraddhā, Maitrī and Dayā, whose blessings were always effective, bathed…
• SB 5.15.11 Although King Gaya had no personal desire for sense gratification, all his desires were fulfilled by virtue of his performance of Vedic…
• SB 5.15.12 In Mahārāja Gaya’s sacrifices, there was a great supply of the intoxicant known as soma. King Indra used to come and become intoxicated by…
• SB 5.15.13 When the Supreme Lord is pleased by a person’s actions, automatically all the demigods, human beings, animals, birds, bees, creepers,…
• SB 5.15.14-15 In the womb of Gayantī, Mahārāja Gaya begot three sons, named Citraratha, Sugati and Avarodhana. In the womb of his wife Ūrṇā, Citraratha…
• SB 5.15.16 There is a famous verse about King Viraja. “Because of his high qualities and wide fame, King Viraja became the jewel of the dynasty of…
• SB 5.16.1 King Parīkṣit said to Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O brāhmaṇa, you have already informed me that the radius of Bhū-maṇḍala extends as far as the sun…
• SB 5.16.2 My dear Lord, the rolling wheels of Mahārāja Priyavrata’s chariot created seven ditches, in which the seven oceans came into existence.…
• SB 5.16.3 When the mind is fixed upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His external feature made of the material modes of nature — the gross…
• SB 5.16.4 The great ṛṣi Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, there is no limit to the expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s material…
• SB 5.16.5 The planetary system known as Bhū-maṇḍala resembles a lotus flower, and its seven islands resemble the whorl of that flower. The length…
• SB 5.16.6 In Jambūdvīpa there are nine divisions of land, each with a length of 9,000 yojanas [72,000 miles]. There are eight mountains that mark…
• SB 5.16.7 Amidst these divisions, or varṣas, is the varṣa named Ilāvṛta, which is situated in the middle of the whorl of the lotus. Within…
• SB 5.16.8 Just north of Ilāvṛta-varṣa — and going further northward, one after another — are three mountains named Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgavān. These…
• SB 5.16.9 Similarly, south of Ilāvṛta-varṣa and extending from east to west are three great mountains named (from north to south) Niṣadha, Hemakūṭa…
• SB 5.16.10 In the same way, west and east of Ilāvṛta-varṣa are two great mountains named Mālyavān and Gandhamādana respectively. These two mountains,…
• SB 5.16.11 On the four sides of the great mountain known as Sumeru are four mountains — Mandara, Merumandara, Supārśva and Kumuda — which are like…
• SB 5.16.12 Standing like flagstaffs on the summits of these four mountains are a mango tree, a rose apple tree, a kadamba tree and a banyan tree.…
• SB 5.16.13-14 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, best of the Bharata dynasty, between these four mountains are four huge lakes. The water of the first tastes just…
• SB 5.16.15 The best of the demigods, along with their wives, who are like ornaments of heavenly beauty, meet together and enjoy within those gardens,…
• SB 5.16.16 On the lower slopes of Mandara Mountain is a mango tree named Devacūta. It is 1,100 yojanas high. Mangoes as big as mountain peaks and as…
• SB 5.16.17 When all those solid fruits fall from such a height, they break, and the sweet, fragrant juice within them flows out and becomes…
• SB 5.16.18 The pious wives of the Yakṣas act as personal maidservants to assist Bhavānī, the wife of Lord Śiva. Because they drink the water of the…
• SB 5.16.19 Similarly, the fruits of the jambū tree, which are full of pulp and have very small seeds, fall from a great height and break to pieces.…
• SB 5.16.20-21 The mud on both banks of the river Jambū-nadī, being moistened by the flowing juice and then dried by the air and the sunshine, produces…
• SB 5.16.22 On the side of Supārśva Mountain stands a big tree called Mahākadamba, which is very celebrated. From the hollows of this tree flow five…
• SB 5.16.23 The air carrying the scent from the mouths of those who drink that honey perfumes the land for a hundred yojanas around.
• SB 5.16.24 Similarly, on Kumuda Mountain there is a great banyan tree, which is called Śatavalśa because it has a hundred main branches. From those…
• SB 5.16.25 The residents of the material world who enjoy the products of these flowing rivers have no wrinkles on their bodies and no grey hair. They…
• SB 5.16.26 There are other mountains beautifully arranged around the foot of Mount Meru like the filaments around the whorl of a lotus flower. Their…
• SB 5.16.27 On the eastern side of Sumeru Mountain are two mountains named Jaṭhara and Devakūṭa, which extend to the north and south for 18,000…
• SB 5.16.28 In the middle of the summit of Meru is the township of Lord Brahmā. Each of its four sides is calculated to extend for ten million yojanas…
• SB 5.16.29 Surrounding Brahmapurī in all directions are the residences of the eight principal governors of the planetary systems, beginning with King…
• SB 5.17.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, Lord Viṣṇu, the enjoyer of all sacrifices, appeared as Vāmanadeva in the sacrificial arena of Bali…
• SB 5.17.2 Dhruva Mahārāja, the famous son of Mahārāja Uttānapāda, is known as the most exalted devotee of the Supreme Lord because of his firm…
• SB 5.17.3 The seven great sages [Marīci, Vasiṣṭha, Atri and so on] reside on planets beneath Dhruvaloka. Well aware of the influence of the water of…
• SB 5.17.4 After purifying the seven planets near Dhruvaloka [the polestar], the Ganges water is carried through the spaceways of the demigods in…
• SB 5.17.5 On top of Mount Meru, the Ganges divides into four branches, each of which gushes in a different direction [east, west, north and south].…
• SB 5.17.6 The branch of the Ganges known as the Sītā flows through Brahmapurī atop Mount Meru, and from there it runs down to the nearby peaks of…
• SB 5.17.7 The branch of the Ganges known as Cakṣu falls onto the summit of Mālyavān Mountain and from there cascades onto the land of…
• SB 5.17.8 The branch of the Ganges known as Bhadrā flows from the northern side of Mount Meru. Its waters fall onto the peaks of Kumuda Mountain,…
• SB 5.17.9 Similarly, the branch of the Ganges known as Alakanandā flows from the southern side of Brahmapurī [Brahma-sadana]. Passing over the tops…
• SB 5.17.10 Many other rivers, both big and small, flow from the top of Mount Meru. These rivers are like daughters of the mountain, and they flow to…
• SB 5.17.11 Among the nine varṣas, the tract of land known as Bhārata-varṣa is understood to be the field of fruitive activities. Learned scholars and…
• SB 5.17.12 In these eight varṣas, or tracts of land, human beings live ten thousand years according to earthly calculations. All the inhabitants are…
• SB 5.17.13 In each of those tracts of land, there are many gardens filled with flowers and fruits according to the season, and there are beautifully…
• SB 5.17.14 To show mercy to His devotees in each of these nine tracts of land, the Supreme Personality of Godhead known as Nārāyaṇa expands Himself…
• SB 5.17.15 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: In the tract of land known as Ilāvṛta-varṣa, the only male person is Lord Śiva, the most powerful demigod. Goddess…
• SB 5.17.16 In Ilāvṛta-varṣa, Lord Śiva is always encircled by ten billion maidservants of Goddess Durgā, who minister to him. The quadruple expansion…
• SB 5.17.17 The most powerful Lord Śiva says: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You in Your expansion as Lord…
• SB 5.17.18 O my Lord, You are the only worshipable person, for You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the reservoir of all opulences. Your…
• SB 5.17.19 We cannot control the force of our anger. Therefore when we look at material things, we cannot avoid feeling attraction or repulsion for…
• SB 5.17.20 For persons with impure vision, the Supreme Lord’s eyes appear like those of someone who indiscriminately drinks intoxicating beverages.…
• SB 5.17.21 Lord Śiva continued: All the great sages accept the Lord as the source of creation, maintenance and destruction, although He actually has…
• SB 5.17.22-23 From that Supreme Personality of Godhead appears Lord Brahmā, whose body is made from the total material energy, the reservoir of…
• SB 5.17.24 The illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead binds all of us conditioned souls to this material world. Therefore, without…
• SB 5.18.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Bhadraśravā, the son of Dharmarāja, rules the tract of land known as Bhadrāśva-varṣa. Just as Lord Śiva…
• SB 5.18.2 The ruler Bhadraśravā and his intimate associates utter the following prayer: We offer our respectful obeisances unto the Supreme…
• SB 5.18.3 Alas! How wonderful it is that the foolish materialist does not heed the great danger of impending death! He knows that death will surely…
• SB 5.18.4 O unborn one, learned Vedic scholars who are advanced in spiritual knowledge certainly know that this material world is perishable, as do…
• SB 5.18.5 O Lord, although You are completely detached from the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this material world and are not directly…
• SB 5.18.6 At the end of the millennium, ignorance personified assumed the form of a demon, stole all the Vedas and took them down to the planet of…
• SB 5.18.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva resides in the tract of land known as Hari-varṣa. In the Seventh Canto of…
• SB 5.18.8 I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, the source of all power. O my Lord who possess nails and teeth just like…
• SB 5.18.9 May there be good fortune throughout the universe, and may all envious persons be pacified. May all living entities become calm by…
• SB 5.18.10 My dear Lord, we pray that we may never feel attraction for the prison of family life, consisting of home, wife, children, friends, bank…
• SB 5.18.11 By associating with persons for whom the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mukunda, is the all in all, one can hear of His powerful…
• SB 5.18.12 All the demigods and their exalted qualities, such as religion, knowledge and renunciation, become manifest in the body of one who has…
• SB 5.18.13 Just as aquatics always desire to remain in the vast mass of water, all conditioned living entities naturally desire to remain in the vast…
• SB 5.18.14 Therefore, O demons, give up the so-called happiness of family life and simply take shelter of the lotus feet of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, which…
• SB 5.18.15 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In the tract of land called Ketumāla-varṣa, Lord Viṣṇu lives in the form of Kāmadeva, only for the…
• SB 5.18.16 In Ketumāla-varṣa, Lord Kāmadeva [Pradyumna] moves very graciously. His mild smile is very beautiful, and when He increases the beauty of…
• SB 5.18.17 Accompanied during the daytime by the sons of the Prajāpati [the predominating deities of the days] and accompanied at night by his…
• SB 5.18.18 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Hṛṣīkeśa, the controller of all my senses and the…
• SB 5.18.19 My dear Lord, You are certainly the fully independent master of all the senses. Therefore all women who worship You by strictly observing…
• SB 5.18.20 He alone who is never afraid but who, on the contrary, gives complete shelter to all fearful persons can actually become a husband and…
• SB 5.18.21 My dear Lord, You automatically fulfill all the desires of a woman who worships Your lotus feet in pure love. However, if a woman worships…
• SB 5.18.22 O supreme unconquerable Lord, when they become absorbed in thoughts of material enjoyment, Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, as well as other…
• SB 5.18.23 O infallible one, Your lotus palm is the source of all benediction. Therefore Your pure devotees worship it, and You very mercifully place…
• SB 5.18.24 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In Ramyaka-varṣa, where Vaivasvata Manu rules, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Lord Matsya at…
• SB 5.18.25 I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is pure transcendence. He is the origin of all life, bodily…
• SB 5.18.26 My dear Lord, just as a puppeteer controls his dancing dolls and a husband controls his wife, Your Lordship controls all the living…
• SB 5.18.27 My Lord, from the great leaders of the universe, such as Lord Brahmā and other demigods, down to the political leaders of this world, all…
• SB 5.18.28 O almighty Lord, at the end of the millennium this planet earth, which is the source of all kinds of herbs, drugs and trees, was inundated…
• SB 5.18.29 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, lives in the form of a tortoise [kūrma-śarīra]. This most dear…
• SB 5.18.30 O my Lord, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who have assumed the form of a tortoise. You are the reservoir of all transcendental…
• SB 5.18.31 My dear Lord, this visible cosmic manifestation is a demonstration of Your own creative energy. Since the countless varieties of forms…
• SB 5.18.32 My dear Lord, You manifest Your different energies in countless forms: as living entities born from wombs, from eggs and from…
• SB 5.18.33 O my Lord, Your name, form and bodily features are expanded in countless forms. No one can determine exactly how many forms exist, yet You…
• SB 5.18.34 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Dear King, the Supreme Lord in His boar incarnation, who accepts all sacrificial offerings, lives in the northern…
• SB 5.18.35 O Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You as the gigantic person. Simply by chanting mantras, we shall be able to understand You…
• SB 5.18.36 By manipulating a fire-generating stick, great saints and sages can bring forth the fire lying dormant within wood. In the same way, O…
• SB 5.18.37 The objects of material enjoyment [sound, form, taste, touch and smell], the activities of the senses, the controllers of sensory…
• SB 5.18.38 O Lord, You do not desire the creation, maintenance or annihilation of this material world, but You perform these activities for the…
• SB 5.18.39 My Lord, as the original boar within this universe, You fought and killed the great demon Hiraṇyakṣa. Then You lifted me [the earth] from…
• SB 5.19.1 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in Kimpuruṣa-varṣa the great devotee Hanumān is always engaged with the inhabitants of that…
• SB 5.19.2 A host of Gandharvas is always engaged in chanting the glories of Lord Rāmacandra. That chanting is always extremely auspicious. Hanumānjī…
• SB 5.19.3 Let me please Your Lordship by chanting the bīja-mantra oṁkāra. I wish to offer my respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 5.19.4 The Lord, whose pure form [sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha] is uncontaminated by the modes of material nature, can be perceived by pure…
• SB 5.19.5 It was ordained that Rāvaṇa, chief of the Rākṣasas, could not be killed by anyone but a man, and for this reason Lord Rāmacandra, the…
• SB 5.19.6 Since Lord Śrī Rāmacandra is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, He is not attached to anything in this material world. He is…
• SB 5.19.7 One cannot establish a friendship with the Supreme Lord Rāmacandra on the basis of material qualities such as one’s birth in an…
• SB 5.19.8 Therefore, whether one is a demigod or a demon, a man or a creature other than man, such as a beast or bird, everyone should worship Lord…
• SB 5.19.9 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are inconceivable. He has appeared in the form of…
• SB 5.19.10 In his own book, known as Nārada Pañcarātra, Bhagavān Nārada has very vividly described how to work to achieve the ultimate goal of life —…
• SB 5.19.11 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Nara-Nārāyaṇa, the best of all saintly persons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the…
• SB 5.19.12 Nārada, the most powerful saintly sage, also worships Nara-Nārāyaṇa by chanting the following mantra: The Supreme Personality of Godhead…
• SB 5.19.13 O my Lord, master of all mystic yoga, this is the explanation of the yogic process spoken of by Lord Brahmā [Hiraṇyagarbha], who is…
• SB 5.19.14 Materialists are generally very attached to their present bodily comforts and to the bodily comforts they expect in the future. Therefore…
• SB 5.19.15 Therefore, O Lord, O Transcendence, kindly help us by giving us the power to execute bhakti-yoga so that we can control our restless minds…
• SB 5.19.16 In the tract of land known as Bhārata-varṣa, as in Ilāvṛta-varṣa, there are many mountains and rivers. Some of the mountains are known as…
• SB 5.19.17-18 Two of the rivers — the Brahmaputra and the Śoṇa — are called nadas, or main rivers. These are other great rivers that are very prominent:…
• SB 5.19.19 The people who take birth in this tract of land are divided according to the qualities of material nature — the modes of goodness…
• SB 5.19.20 After many, many births, when the results of one’s pious activities mature, one gets an opportunity to associate with pure devotees. Then…
• SB 5.19.21 Since the human form of life is the sublime position for spiritual realization, all the demigods in heaven speak in this way: How…
• SB 5.19.22 The demigods continue: After performing the very difficult tasks of executing Vedic ritualistic sacrifices, undergoing austerities,…
• SB 5.19.23 A short life in the land of Bharata-varṣa is preferable to a life achieved in Brahmaloka for millions and billions of years because even…
• SB 5.19.24 An intelligent person does not take interest in a place, even in the topmost planetary system, if the pure Ganges of topics concerning the…
• SB 5.19.25 Bhārata-varṣa offers the proper land and circumstances in which to execute devotional service, which can free one from the results of…
• SB 5.19.26 In India [Bhārata-varṣa], there are many worshipers of the demigods, the various officials appointed by the Supreme Lord, such as Indra,…
• SB 5.19.27 The Supreme Personality of Godhead fulfills the material desires of a devotee who approaches Him with such motives, but He does not bestow…
• SB 5.19.28 We are now living in the heavenly planets, undoubtedly as a result of our having performed ritualistic ceremonies, pious activities and…
• SB 5.19.29-30 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in the opinion of some learned scholars, eight smaller islands surround Jambūdvīpa. When the sons…
• SB 5.19.31 My dear King Parīkṣit, O best of the descendants of Bharata Mahārāja, I have thus described to you, as I myself have been instructed, the…
• SB 5.20.1 The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hereafter I shall describe the dimensions, characteristics and forms of the six islands beginning…
• SB 5.20.2 As Sumeru Mountain is surrounded by Jambūdvīpa, Jambūdvīpa is also surrounded by an ocean of salt water. The breadth of Jambūdvīpa is…
• SB 5.20.3-4 The seven islands [varṣas] are named according to the names of those seven sons — Śiva, Yavasa, Subhadra, Śānta, Kṣema, Amṛta and Abhaya.…
• SB 5.20.5 [This is the mantra by which the inhabitants of Plakṣadvīpa worship the Supreme Lord.] Let us take shelter of the sun-god, who is a…
• SB 5.20.6 O King, longevity, sensory prowess, physical and mental strength, intelligence and bravery are naturally and equally manifested in all the…
• SB 5.20.7 Plakṣadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of sugarcane juice, equal in breadth to the island itself. Similarly, there is then another island —…
• SB 5.20.8 On Sālmalīdvīpa there is a śālmalī tree, from which the island takes its name. That tree is as broad and tall as the plakṣa tree — in…
• SB 5.20.9 The son of Mahārāja Priyavrata named Yajñabāhu, the master of Sālmalīdvīpa, divided the island into seven tracts of land, which he gave to…
• SB 5.20.10 In those tracts of land there are seven mountains — Svarasa, Śataśṛṅga, Vāmadeva, Kunda, Mukunda, Puṣpa-varṣa and Sahasra-śruti. There are…
• SB 5.20.11 Strictly following the cult of varṇāśrama-dharma, the inhabitants of those islands, who are known as Śrutidharas, Vīryadharas, Vasundharas…
• SB 5.20.12 [The inhabitants of Śālmalīdvīpa worship the demigod of the moon in the following words.] By his own rays, the moon-god has divided the…
• SB 5.20.13 Outside the ocean of liquor is another island, known as Kuśadvīpa, which is 800,000 yojanas [6,400,000 miles] wide, twice as wide as the…
• SB 5.20.14 O King, another son of Mahārāja Priyavrata, Hiraṇyaretā, was the king of this island. He divided it into seven parts, which he delivered…
• SB 5.20.15 In those seven islands there are seven boundary mountains, known as Cakra, Catuḥśṛṅga, Kapila, Citrakūṭa, Devānīka, Ūrdhvaromā and…
• SB 5.20.16 The inhabitants of the island of Kuśadvīpa are celebrated as the Kuśalas, Kovidas, Abhiyuktas and Kulakas. They are like the brāhmaṇas,…
• SB 5.20.17 [This is the mantra by which the inhabitants of Kuśadvīpa worship the fire-god.] O fire-god, you are a part of the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 5.20.18 Outside the ocean of clarified butter is another island, known as Krauñcadvīpa, which has a width of 1,600,000 yojanas [12,800,000 miles],…
• SB 5.20.19 Although the vegetables living on the slopes of Mount Krauñca were attacked and devastated by the weapons of Kārttikeya, the mountain has…
• SB 5.20.20 The ruler of this island was another son of Mahārāja Priyavrata. His name was Ghṛtapṛṣṭha, and he was a very learned scholar. He also…
• SB 5.20.21 The sons of Mahārāja Ghṛtapṛṣṭha were named Āma, Madhuruha, Meghapṛṣṭha, Sudhāmā, Bhrājiṣṭha, Lohitārṇa and Vanaspati. In their island…
• SB 5.20.22 The inhabitants of Krauñcadvīpa are divided into four castes, called the Puruṣas, Ṛṣabhas, Draviṇas and Devakas. Using the waters of those…
• SB 5.20.23 [The inhabitants of Krauñcadvīpa worship with this mantra.] O water of the rivers, you have obtained energy from the Supreme Personality…
• SB 5.20.24 Outside the Ocean of Milk is another island, Śākadvīpa, which has a width of 3,200,000 yojanas [25,600,000 miles]. As Krauñcadvīpa is…
• SB 5.20.25 The master of this island, also one of the sons of Priyavrata, was known as Medhātithi. He also divided his island into seven sections,…
• SB 5.20.26 For these lands also, there are seven boundary mountains and seven rivers. The mountains are Īśāna, Uruśṛṅga, Balabhadra, Śatakesara,…
• SB 5.20.27 The inhabitants of those islands are also divided into four castes — Ṛtavrata, Satyavrata, Dānavrata and Anuvrata — which exactly resemble…
• SB 5.20.28 [The inhabitants of Śākadvīpa worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the form of Vāyu in the following words.] O Supreme Person,…
• SB 5.20.29 Outside the ocean of yogurt is another island, known as Puṣkaradvīpa, which is 6,400,000 yojanas [51,200,000 miles] wide, twice as wide as…
• SB 5.20.30 In the middle of that island is a great mountain named Mānasottara, which forms the boundary between the inner side and the outer side of…
• SB 5.20.31 The ruler of this island, the son of Mahārāja Priyavrata named Vītihotra, had two sons named Ramaṇaka and Dhātaki. He granted the two…
• SB 5.20.32 For the fulfillment of material desires, the inhabitants of this tract of land worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead as represented…
• SB 5.20.33 Lord Brahmā is known as karma-maya, the form of ritualistic ceremonies, because by performing ritualistic ceremonies one may attain his…
• SB 5.20.34 Thereafter, beyond the ocean of sweet water and fully surrounding it, is a mountain named Lokāloka, which divides the countries that are…
• SB 5.20.35 Beyond the ocean of sweet water is a tract of land as broad as the area between the middle of Mount Sumeru and the boundary of Mānasottara…
• SB 5.20.36 Between the lands inhabited by living entities and those that are uninhabited stands the great mountain which separates the two and which…
• SB 5.20.37 By the supreme will of Kṛṣṇa, the mountain known as Lokāloka has been installed as the outer border of the three worlds — Bhūrloka,…
• SB 5.20.38 Learned scholars who are free from mistakes, illusions and propensities to cheat have thus described the planetary systems and their…
• SB 5.20.39 On the top of Lokāloka Mountain are the four gaja-patis, the best of elephants, which were established in the four directions by Lord…
• SB 5.20.40 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the master of all transcendental opulences and the master of the spiritual sky. He is the Supreme…
• SB 5.20.41 The various forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, such as Nārāyaṇa and Viṣṇu, are beautifully decorated with different weapons. The…
• SB 5.20.42 My dear King, outside Lokāloka Mountain is the tract of land known as Aloka-varṣa, which extends for the same breadth as the area within…
• SB 5.20.43 The sun is situated [vertically] in the middle of the universe, in the area between Bhūrloka and Bhuvarloka, which is called antarikṣa,…
• SB 5.20.44 The sun-god is also known as Vairāja, the total material body for all living entities. Because he entered this dull egg of the universe at…
• SB 5.20.45 O King, the sun-god and the sun planet divide all the directions of the universe. It is only because of the presence of the sun that we…
• SB 5.20.46 All living entities, including demigods, human beings, animals, birds, insects, reptiles, creepers and trees, depend upon the heat and…
• SB 5.21.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, I have thus far described the diameter of the universe [fifty crores of yojanas, or four billion…
• SB 5.21.2 As a grain of wheat is divided into two parts and one can estimate the size of the upper part by knowing that of the lower, so, expert…
• SB 5.21.3 In the midst of that region of outer space [antarikṣa] is the most opulent sun, the king of all the planets that emanate heat, such as the…
• SB 5.21.4 When the sun passes through Meṣa [Aries] and Tulā [Libra], the durations of day and night are equal. When it passes through the five signs…
• SB 5.21.5 When the sun passes through the five signs beginning with Vṛścika [Scorpio], the duration of the days decreases [until Capricorn], and…
• SB 5.21.6 Until the sun travels to the south the days grow longer, and until it travels to the north the nights grow longer.
• SB 5.21.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued; My dear King, as stated before, the learned say that the sun travels over all sides of Mānasottara Mountain in…
• SB 5.21.8-9 The living entities residing on Sumeru Mountain are always very warm, as at midday, because for them the sun is always overhead. Although…
• SB 5.21.10 When the sun travels from Devadhānī, the residence of Indra, to Saṁyamanī, the residence of Yamarāja, it travels 23,775,000 yojanas…
• SB 5.21.11 From the residence of Yamarāja the sun travels to Nimlocanī, the residence of Varuṇa, from there to Vibhāvarī, the residence of the…
• SB 5.21.12 Thus the chariot of the sun-god, which is trayīmaya, or worshiped by the words om bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ, travels through the four residences…
• SB 5.21.13 The chariot of the sun-god has only one wheel, which is known as Saṁvatsara. The twelve months are calculated to be its twelve spokes, the…
• SB 5.21.14 As in an oil-pressing machine, this first axle is attached to a second axle, which is one-fourth as long [3,937,500 yojanas, or 31,500,000…
• SB 5.21.15 My dear King, the carriage of the sun-god’s chariot is estimated to be 3,600,000 yojanas [28,800,000 miles] long and one-fourth as wide…
• SB 5.21.16 Although Aruṇadeva sits in front of the sun-god and is engaged in driving the chariot and controlling the horses, he looks backward toward…
• SB 5.21.17 There are sixty thousand saintly persons named Vālikhilyas, each the size of a thumb, who are located in front of the sun-god and who…
• SB 5.21.18 Similarly, fourteen other saints, Gandharvas, Apsarās, Nāgas, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas and demigods, who are divided into groups of two, assume…
• SB 5.21.19 My dear King, in his orbit through Bhū-maṇḍala, the sun-god traverses a distance of 95,100,000 yojanas [760,800,000 miles] at the speed of…
• SB 5.22.1 King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear lord, you have already affirmed the truth that the supremely powerful sun-god…
• SB 5.22.2 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī clearly answered: When a potter’s wheel is moving and small ants located on that big wheel are moving with it, one…
• SB 5.22.3 The original cause of the cosmic manifestation is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa. When great saintly persons, fully aware of…
• SB 5.22.4 According to the system of four varṇas and four āśramas, people generally worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, who is…
• SB 5.22.5 The sun-god, who is Nārāyaṇa, or Viṣṇu, the soul of all the worlds, is situated in outer space between the upper and lower portions of the…
• SB 5.22.6 Thus the time the sun takes to rotate through half of outer space is called an ayana, or its period of movement [in the north or in the…
• SB 5.22.7 The sun-god has three speeds — slow, fast and moderate. The time he takes to travel entirely around the spheres of heaven, earth and space…
• SB 5.22.8 Above the rays of the sunshine by a distance of 100,000 yojanas [800,000 miles] is the moon, which travels at a speed faster than that of…
• SB 5.22.9 When the moon is waxing, the illuminating portions of it increase daily, thus creating day for the demigods and night for the pitās. When…
• SB 5.22.10 Because the moon is full of all potentialities, it represents the influence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The moon is the…
• SB 5.22.11 There are many stars located 200,000 yojanas [1,600,000 miles] above the moon. By the supreme will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 5.22.12 Some 1,600,000 miles above this group of stars is the planet Venus, which moves at almost exactly the same pace as the sun according to…
• SB 5.22.13 Mercury is described to be similar to Venus, in that it moves sometimes behind the sun, sometimes in front of the sun and sometimes along…
• SB 5.22.14 Situated 1,600,000 miles above Mercury, or 8,800,000 miles above earth, is the planet Mars. If this planet does not travel in a crooked…
• SB 5.22.15 Situated 1,600,000 miles above Mars, or 10,400,000 miles above earth, is the planet Jupiter, which travels through one sign of the zodiac…
• SB 5.22.16 Situated 1,600,000 miles above Jupiter, or 12,000,000 miles above earth, is the planet Saturn, which passes through one sign of the zodiac…
• SB 5.22.17 Situated 8,800,000 miles above Saturn, or 20,800,000 miles above earth, are the seven saintly sages, who are always thinking of the…
• SB 5.23.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, 1,300,000 yojanas [10,400,000 miles] above the planets of the seven sages is the place that…
• SB 5.23.2 Established by the supreme will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the polestar, which is the planet of Mahārāja Dhruva, constantly…
• SB 5.23.3 When bulls are yoked together and tied to a central post to thresh rice, they tread around that pivot without deviating from their proper…
• SB 5.23.4 This great machine, consisting of the stars and planets, resembles the form of a śiśumāra [dolphin] in the water. It is sometimes…
• SB 5.23.5 This form of the śiśumāra has its head downward and its body coiled. On the end of its tail is the planet of Dhruva, on the body of its…
• SB 5.23.6 On the right and left sides of where the loins might be on the Śiśumāra-cakra are the stars named Punarvasu and Puṣyā. Ārdrā and Aśleṣā…
• SB 5.23.7 On the upper chin of the śiśumāra is Agasti; on its lower chin, Yamarāja; on its mouth, Mars; on its genitals, Saturn; on the back of its…
• SB 5.23.8 My dear King, the body of the śiśumāra, as thus described, should be considered the external form of Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality…
• SB 5.23.9 The body of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, which forms the Śiśumāra-cakra, is the resting place of all the demigods and all the stars and…
• SB 5.24.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, some historians, the speakers of the Purāṇas, say that 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles] below the…
• SB 5.24.2 The sun globe, which is a source of heat, extends for 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles]. The moon extends for 20,000 yojanas [160,000 miles],…
• SB 5.24.3 After hearing from the sun and moon demigods about Rāhu’s attack, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, engages His disc, known as…
• SB 5.24.4 Below Rāhu by 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles] are the planets known as Siddhaloka, Cāraṇaloka and Vidyādhara-loka.
• SB 5.24.5 Beneath Vidyādhara-loka, Cāraṇaloka and Siddhaloka, in the sky called antarikṣa, are the places of enjoyment for the Yakṣas, Rākṣasas,…
• SB 5.24.6 Below the abodes of the Yakṣas and Rākṣasas by a distance of 100 yojanas [800 miles] is the planet earth. Its upper limits extend as high…
• SB 5.24.7 My dear King, beneath this earth are seven other planets, known as Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talātala, Mahātala, Rasātala and Pātāla. I have…
• SB 5.24.8 In these seven planetary systems, which are also known as the subterranean heavens [bila-svarga], there are very beautiful houses, gardens…
• SB 5.24.9 My dear King, in the imitation heavens known as bila-svarga there is a great demon named Maya Dānava, who is an expert artist and…
• SB 5.24.10 The parks and gardens in the artificial heavens surpass in beauty those of the upper heavenly planets. The trees in those gardens,…
• SB 5.24.11 Since there is no sunshine in those subterranean planets, time is not divided into days and nights, and consequently fear produced by time…
• SB 5.24.12 Many great serpents reside there with gems on their hoods, and the effulgence of these gems dissipates the darkness in all directions.
• SB 5.24.13 Since the residents of these planets drink and bathe in juices and elixirs made from wonderful herbs, they are freed from all anxieties…
• SB 5.24.14 They live very auspiciously and do not fear death from anything but death’s established time, which is the effulgence of the Sudarśana…
• SB 5.24.15 When the Sudarśana disc enters those provinces, the pregnant wives of the demons all have miscarriages due to fear of its effulgence.
• SB 5.24.16 My dear King, now I shall describe to you the lower planetary systems, one by one, beginning from Atala. In Atala there is a demon, the…
• SB 5.24.17 The next planet below Atala is Vitala, wherein Lord Śiva, who is known as the master of gold mines, lives with his personal associates,…
• SB 5.24.18 Below the planet Vitala is another planet, known as Sutala, where the great son of Mahārāja Virocana, Bali Mahārāja, who is celebrated as…
• SB 5.24.19 My dear King, Bali Mahārāja donated all his possessions to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāmanadeva, but one should certainly not…
• SB 5.24.20 If one who is embarrassed by hunger or who falls down or stumbles chants the holy name of the Lord even once, willingly or unwillingly, he…
• SB 5.24.21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul, sells Himself to His devotees such as Nārada…
• SB 5.24.22 The Supreme Personality of Godhead did not award His mercy to Bali Mahārāja by giving him material happiness and opulence, for these make…
• SB 5.24.23 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead could see no other means of taking everything away from Bali Mahārāja, He adopted the trick of…
• SB 5.24.24 Alas, how pitiable it is for Indra, the King of heaven, that although he is very learned and powerful and although he chose Bṛhaspati as…
• SB 5.24.25 Bali Mahārāja said: My grandfather Prahlāda Mahārāja is the only person who understood his own self-interest. Upon the death of Prahlāda’s…
• SB 5.24.26 Bali Mahārāja said: Persons like us, who are still attached to material enjoyment, who are contaminated by the modes of material nature…
• SB 5.24.27 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, how shall I glorify the character of Bali Mahārāja? The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the…
• SB 5.24.28 Beneath the planet known as Sutala is another planet, called Talātala, which is ruled by the Dānava demon named Maya. Maya is known as the…
• SB 5.24.29 The planetary system below Talātala is known as Mahātala. It is the abode of many-hooded snakes, descendants of Kadrū, who are always very…
• SB 5.24.30 Beneath Mahātala is the planetary system known as Rasātala, which is the abode of the demoniac sons of Diti and Danu. They are called…
• SB 5.24.31 Beneath Rasātala is another planetary system, known as Pātāla or Nāgaloka, where there are many demoniac serpents, the masters of…
• SB 5.25.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, approximately 240,000 miles beneath the planet Pātāla lives another…
• SB 5.25.2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: This great universe, situated on one of Lord Anantadeva’s thousands of hoods, appears just like a white…
• SB 5.25.3 At the time of devastation, when Lord Anantadeva desires to destroy the entire creation, He becomes slightly angry. Then from between His…
• SB 5.25.4 The pink, transparent toenails on the Lord’s lotus feet are exactly like valuable gems polished to a mirror finish. When the unalloyed…
• SB 5.25.5 Lord Ananta’s arms are attractively long, beautifully decorated with bangles and completely spiritual. They are white, and so they appear…
• SB 5.25.6 Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa is the ocean of unlimited spiritual qualities, and thus He is known as Anantadeva. He is nondifferent from the Supreme…
• SB 5.25.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The demigods, the demons, the Uragas [serpentine demigods], the Siddhas, the Gandharvas, the Vidyādharas and…
• SB 5.25.8 If persons who are very serious about being liberated from material life hear the glories of Anantadeva from the mouth of a spiritual…
• SB 5.25.9 By His glance, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enables the modes of material nature to act as the causes of universal creation,…
• SB 5.25.10 This manifestation of subtle and gross matter exists within the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Out of causeless mercy toward His…
• SB 5.25.11 Even if he be distressed or degraded, any person who chants the holy name of the Lord, having heard it from a bona fide spiritual master,…
• SB 5.25.12 Because the Lord is unlimited, no one can estimate His power. This entire universe, filled with its many great mountains, rivers, oceans,…
• SB 5.25.13 There is no end to the great and glorious qualities of that powerful Lord Anantadeva. Indeed, His prowess is unlimited. Though…
• SB 5.25.14 My dear King, as I heard of it from my spiritual master, I have fully described to you the creation of this material world according to…
• SB 5.25.15 My dear King, I have thus described how people generally act according to their different desires and, as a result, get different types of…
• SB 5.26.1 King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear sir, why are the living entities put into different material situations? Kindly…
• SB 5.26.2 The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in this material world there are three kinds of activities — those in the mode of…
• SB 5.26.3 Just as by executing various pious activities one achieves different positions in heavenly life, by acting impiously one achieves…
• SB 5.26.4 King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear lord, are the hellish regions outside the universe, within the covering of the…
• SB 5.26.5 The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī answered: All the hellish planets are situated in the intermediate space between the three worlds and the…
• SB 5.26.6 The King of the pitās is Yamarāja, the very powerful son of the sun-god. He resides in Pitṛloka with his personal assistants and, while…
• SB 5.26.7 Some authorities say that there is a total of twenty-one hellish planets, and some say twenty-eight. My dear King, I shall outline all of…
• SB 5.26.8 My dear King, a person who appropriates another’s legitimate wife, children or money is arrested at the time of death by the fierce…
• SB 5.26.9 The destination of a person who slyly cheats another man and enjoys his wife and children is the hell known as Andhatāmisra. There his…
• SB 5.26.10 A person who accepts his body as his self works very hard day and night for money to maintain his own body and the bodies of his wife and…
• SB 5.26.11 In this life, an envious person commits violent acts against many living entities. Therefore after his death, when he is taken to hell by…
• SB 5.26.12 Punishment in the hell called Mahāraurava is compulsory for a person who maintains his own body by hurting others. In this hell, ruru…
• SB 5.26.13 For the maintenance of their bodies and the satisfaction of their tongues, cruel persons cook poor animals and birds alive. Such persons…
• SB 5.26.14 The killer of a brāhmaṇa is put into the hell known as Kālasūtra, which has a circumference of eighty thousand miles and which is made…
• SB 5.26.15 If a person deviates from the path of the Vedas in the absence of an emergency, the servants of Yamarāja put him into the hell called…
• SB 5.26.16 In his next life, a sinful king or governmental representative who punishes an innocent person, or who inflicts corporal punishment upon a…
• SB 5.26.17 By the arrangement of the Supreme Lord, low-grade living beings like bugs and mosquitoes suck the blood of human beings and other animals.…
• SB 5.26.18 A person is considered no better than a crow if after receiving some food, he does not divide it among guests, old men and children, but…
• SB 5.26.19 My dear King, a person who in the absence of an emergency robs a brāhmaṇa — or, indeed, anyone else — of his gems and gold is put into a…
• SB 5.26.20 A man or woman who indulges in sexual intercourse with an unworthy member of the opposite sex is punished after death by the assistants of…
• SB 5.26.21 A person who indulges in sex indiscriminately — even with animals — is taken after death to the hell known as Vajrakaṇṭaka-śālmalī. In…
• SB 5.26.22 A person who is born into a responsible family — such as a kṣatriya, a member of royalty or a government servant — but who neglects to…
• SB 5.26.23 The shameless husbands of lowborn śūdra women live exactly like animals, and therefore they have no good behavior, cleanliness or…
• SB 5.26.24 If in this life a man of the higher classes [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya and vaiśya] is very fond of taking his pet dogs, mules or asses into the…
• SB 5.26.25 A person who in this life is proud of his eminent position, and who heedlessly sacrifices animals simply for material prestige, is put…
• SB 5.26.26 If a foolish member of the twice-born classes [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya and vaiśya] forces his wife to drink his semen out of a lusty desire to…
• SB 5.26.27 In this world, some persons are professional plunderers who set fire to others’ houses or administer poison to them. Also, members of the…
• SB 5.26.28 A person who in this life bears false witness or lies while transacting business or giving charity is severely punished after death by the…
• SB 5.26.29 Any brāhmaṇa or brāhmaṇa’s wife who drinks liquor is taken by the agents of Yamarāja to the hell known as Ayaḥpāna. This hell also awaits…
• SB 5.26.30 A lowborn and abominable person who in this life becomes falsely proud, thinking “I am great,” and who thus fails to show proper respect…
• SB 5.26.31 There are men and women in this world who sacrifice human beings to Bhairava or Bhadra Kālī and then eat their victims’ flesh. Those who…
• SB 5.26.32 In this life some people give shelter to animals and birds that come to them for protection in the village or forest, and after making…
• SB 5.26.33 Those who in this life are like envious serpents, always angry and giving pain to other living entities, fall after death into the hell…
• SB 5.26.34 Those who in this life confine other living entities in dark wells, granaries or mountain caves are put after death into the hell known as…
• SB 5.26.35 A householder who receives guests or visitors with cruel glances, as if to burn them to ashes, is put into the hell called Paryāvartana,…
• SB 5.26.36 One who in this world or this life is very proud of his wealth always thinks, “I am so rich. Who can equal me?” His vision is twisted, and…
• SB 5.26.37 My dear King Parīkṣit, in the province of Yamarāja there are hundreds and thousands of hellish planets. The impious people I have…
• SB 5.26.38 In the beginning [the second and third cantos of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam] I have already described how one can progress on the path of…
• SB 5.26.39 One who is interested in liberation, who accepts the path of liberation and is not attracted to the path of conditional life, is called…
• SB 5.26.40 My dear King, I have now described for you this planet earth, other planetary systems, and their lands [varṣas], rivers and mountains. I…
• SB 6.2.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, the servants of Lord Viṣṇu are always very expert in logic and arguments. After hearing the…
• SB 6.2.2 The Viṣṇudūtas said: Alas, how painful it is that irreligion is being introduced into an assembly where religion should be maintained.…
• SB 6.2.3 A king or governmental official should be so well qualified that he acts as a father, maintainer and protector of the citizens because of…
• SB 6.2.4 The mass of people follow the example of a leader in society and imitate his behavior. They accept as evidence whatever the leader accepts.
• SB 6.2.5-6 People in general are not very advanced in knowledge by which to discriminate between religion and irreligion. The innocent, unenlightened…
• SB 6.2.7 Ajāmila has already atoned for all his sinful actions. Indeed, he has atoned not only for sins performed in one life but for those…
• SB 6.2.8 The Viṣṇudūtas continued: Even previously, while eating and at other times, this Ajāmila would call his son, saying, “My dear Nārāyaṇa,…
• SB 6.2.9-10 The chanting of the holy name of Lord Viṣṇu is the best process of atonement for a thief of gold or other valuables, for a drunkard, for…
• SB 6.2.11 By following the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies or undergoing atonement, sinful men do not become as purified as by chanting once the holy…
• SB 6.2.12 The ritualistic ceremonies of atonement recommended in the religious scriptures are insufficient to cleanse the heart absolutely because…
• SB 6.2.13 At the time of death, this Ajāmila helplessly and very loudly chanted the holy name of the Lord, Nārāyaṇa. That chanting alone has already…
• SB 6.2.14 One who chants the holy name of the Lord is immediately freed from the reactions of unlimited sins, even if he chants indirectly [to…
• SB 6.2.15 If one chants the holy name of Hari and then dies because of an accidental misfortune, such as falling from the top of a house, slipping…
• SB 6.2.16 Authorities who are learned scholars and sages have carefully ascertained that one should atone for the heaviest sins by undergoing a…
• SB 6.2.17 Although one may neutralize the reactions of sinful life through austerity, charity, vows and other such methods, these pious activities…
• SB 6.2.18 As a fire burns dry grass to ashes, so the holy name of the Lord, whether chanted knowingly or unknowingly, burns to ashes, without fail,…
• SB 6.2.19 If a person unaware of the effective potency of a certain medicine takes that medicine or is forced to take it, it will act even without…
• SB 6.2.20 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, having thus perfectly judged the principles of devotional service with reasoning and…
• SB 6.2.21 My dear Mahārāja Parīkṣit, O subduer of all enemies, after the servants of Yamarāja had been answered by the order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu,…
• SB 6.2.22 Having been released from the nooses of Yamarāja’s servants, the brāhmaṇa Ajāmila, now free from fear, came to his senses and immediately…
• SB 6.2.23 O sinless Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the order carriers of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Viṣṇudūtas, saw that Ajāmila was attempting to…
• SB 6.2.24-25 After hearing the discourses between the Yamadūtas and the Viṣṇudūtas, Ajāmila could understand the religious principles that act under…
• SB 6.2.26 Ajāmila said: Alas, being a servant of my senses, how degraded I became! I fell down from my position as a duly qualified brāhmaṇa and…
• SB 6.2.27 Alas, all condemnation upon me! I acted so sinfully that I degraded my family tradition. Indeed, I gave up my chaste and beautiful young…
• SB 6.2.28 My father and mother were old and had no other son or friend to look after them. Because I did not take care of them, they lived with…
• SB 6.2.29 It is now clear that as a consequence of such activities, a sinful person like me must be thrown into hellish conditions meant for those…
• SB 6.2.30 Was this a dream I saw, or was it reality? I saw fearsome men with ropes in their hands coming to arrest me and drag me away. Where have…
• SB 6.2.31 And where have those four liberated and very beautiful persons gone who released me from arrest and saved me from being dragged down to…
• SB 6.2.32 I am certainly most abominable and unfortunate to have merged in an ocean of sinful activities, but nevertheless, because of my previous…
• SB 6.2.33 Were it not for my past devotional service, how could I, a most unclean keeper of a prostitute, have gotten an opportunity to chant the…
• SB 6.2.34 Ajāmila continued: I am a shameless cheater who has killed his brahminical culture. Indeed, I am sin personified. Where am I in comparison…
• SB 6.2.35 I am such a sinful person, but since I have now gotten this opportunity, I must completely control my mind, life and senses and always…
• SB 6.2.36-37 Because of identifying oneself with the body, one is subjected to desires for sense gratification, and thus one engages in many different…
• SB 6.2.38 Simply because I chanted the holy name of the Lord in the association of devotees, my heart is now becoming purified. Therefore I shall…
• SB 6.2.39 Because of a moment’s association with devotees [the Viṣṇudūtas], Ajāmila detached himself from the material conception of life with…
• SB 6.2.40 In Hardwar, Ajāmila took shelter at a Viṣṇu temple, where he executed the process of bhakti-yoga. He controlled his senses and fully…
• SB 6.2.41 Ajāmila fully engaged in devotional service. Thus he detached his mind from the process of sense gratification and became fully absorbed…
• SB 6.2.42 When his intelligence and mind were fixed upon the form of the Lord, the brāhmaṇa Ajāmila once again saw before him four celestial…
• SB 6.2.43 Upon seeing the Viṣṇudūtas, Ajāmila gave up his material body at Hardwar on the bank of the Ganges. He regained his original spiritual…
• SB 6.2.44 Accompanied by the order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu, Ajāmila boarded an airplane made of gold. Passing through the airways, he went directly…
• SB 6.2.45 Ajāmila was a brāhmaṇa who because of bad association had given up all brahminical culture and religious principles. Becoming most fallen,…
• SB 6.2.46 Therefore one who desires freedom from material bondage should adopt the process of chanting and glorifying the name, fame, form and…
• SB 6.2.47-48 Because this very confidential historical narration has the potency to vanquish all sinful reactions, one who hears or describes it with…
• SB 6.2.49 While suffering at the time of death, Ajāmila chanted the holy name of the Lord, and although the chanting was directed toward his son, he…
• SB 6.3.11 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus having been questioned, Lord Yamarāja, the supreme controller of the living entities, was very pleased…
• SB 6.3.12 Yamarāja said: My dear servants, you have accepted me as the Supreme, but factually I am not. Above me, and above all the other demigods,…
• SB 6.3.13 Just as the driver of a bullock cart ties ropes through the nostrils of his bulls to control them, the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
• SB 6.3.14-15 I, Yamarāja; Indra, the King of heaven; Nirṛti; Varuṇa; Candra, the moon-god; Agni; Lord Śiva; Pavana; Lord Brahmā; Sūrya, the sun-god;…
• SB 6.3.16 As the different limbs of the body cannot see the eyes, the living entities cannot see the Supreme Lord, who is situated as the Supersoul…
• SB 6.3.17 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is self-sufficient and fully independent. He is the master of everyone and everything, including the…
• SB 6.3.18 The order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu, who are worshiped even by the demigods, possess wonderful bodily features exactly like those of Viṣṇu…
• SB 6.3.19 Real religious principles are enacted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although fully situated in the mode of goodness, even the…
• SB 6.3.20-21 Lord Brahmā, Bhagavān Nārada, Lord Śiva, the four Kumāras, Lord Kapila [the son of Devahūti], Svāyambhuva Manu, Prahlāda Mahārāja, Janaka…
• SB 6.3.22 Devotional service, beginning with the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, is the ultimate religious principle for the living entity in…
• SB 6.3.23 My dear servants, who are as good as my sons, just see how glorious is the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. The greatly sinful…
• SB 6.3.24 Therefore it should be understood that one is easily relieved from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name of the Lord and chanting…
• SB 6.3.25 Because they are bewildered by the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Yājñavalkya and Jaimini and other compilers of…
• SB 6.3.26 Considering all these points, therefore, intelligent men decide to solve all problems by adopting the devotional service of chanting the…
• SB 6.3.27 My dear servants, please do not approach such devotees, for they have fully surrendered to the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 6.3.28 Paramahaṁsas are exalted persons who have no taste for material enjoyment and who drink the honey of the Lord’s lotus feet. My dear…
• SB 6.3.29 My dear servants, please bring to me only those sinful persons who do not use their tongues to chant the holy name and qualities of Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 6.3.30 [Then Yamarāja, considering himself and his servants to be offenders, spoke as follows, begging pardon from the Lord.] O my Lord, my…
• SB 6.3.31 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, the chanting of the holy name of the Lord is able to uproot even the reactions of the greatest…
• SB 6.3.32 One who constantly hears and chants the holy name of the Lord and hears and chants about His activities can very easily attain the…
• SB 6.3.33 Devotees who always lick the honey from the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa do not care at all for material activities, which are performed under…
• SB 6.3.34 After hearing from the mouth of their master about the extraordinary glories of the Lord and His name, fame and attributes, the Yamadūtas…
• SB 6.3.35 When the great sage Agastya, the son of Kumbha, was residing in the Malaya Hills and worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I…
• SB 6.4.1-2 The blessed King said to Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear lord, the demigods, demons, human beings, Nāgas, beasts and birds were created during…
• SB 6.4.4 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the ten sons of Prācīnabarhi emerged from the waters, in which they were performing austerities, they saw that…
• SB 6.4.5 Because of having undergone long austerities in the water, the Pracetās were very angry at the trees. Desiring to burn them to ashes, they…
• SB 6.4.6 My dear King Parīkṣit, when Soma, the king of the trees and predominating deity of the moon, saw the fire and wind burning all the trees…
• SB 6.4.7 O greatly fortunate ones, you should not kill these poor trees by burning them to ashes. Your duty is to wish the citizens [prajās] all…
• SB 6.4.8 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Hari, is the master of all living entities, including all the prajāpatis, such as Lord Brahmā.…
• SB 6.4.9 By nature’s arrangement, fruits and flowers are considered the food of insects and birds; grass and other legless living entities are…
• SB 6.4.10 O pure-hearted ones, your father, Prācīnabarhi, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead have ordered you to generate population. Therefore…
• SB 6.4.11 The path of goodness traversed by your father, grandfather and great-grandfathers is that of maintaining the subjects [prajās], including…
• SB 6.4.12 As the father and mother are the friends and maintainers of their children, as the eyelid is the protector of the eye, as the husband is…
• SB 6.4.13 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated as the Supersoul within the cores of the hearts of all living entities, whether moving or…
• SB 6.4.14 One who inquires into self-realization and thus subdues his powerful anger — which awakens suddenly in the body as if falling from the sky…
• SB 6.4.15 There is no need to burn these poor trees any longer. Let whatever trees still remain be happy. Indeed, you should also be happy. Now,…
• SB 6.4.16 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after thus pacifying the Pracetās, Soma, the king of the moon, gave them the beautiful girl born…
• SB 6.4.17 In the womb of that girl the Pracetās all begot a son named Dakṣa, who filled the three worlds with living entities.
• SB 6.4.18 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Please hear from me with great attention how Prajāpati Dakṣa, who was very affectionate to his daughters,…
• SB 6.4.19 With his mind, Prajāpati Dakṣa first created all kinds of demigods, demons, human beings, birds, beasts, aquatics and so on.
• SB 6.4.20 But when Prajāpati Dakṣa saw that he was not properly generating all kinds of living entities, he approached a mountain near the Vindhya…
• SB 6.4.21 Near that mountain was a very holy place named Aghamarṣaṇa. There Prajāpati Dakṣa executed ritualistic ceremonies and satisfied the…
• SB 6.4.22 My dear King, I shall fully explain to you the Haṁsa-guhya prayers, which were offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by Dakṣa, and…
• SB 6.4.23 Prajāpati Dakṣa said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental to the illusory energy and the physical categories it produces.…
• SB 6.4.24 As the sense objects [form, taste, touch, smell and sound] cannot understand how the senses perceive them, so the conditioned soul,…
• SB 6.4.25 Because they are only matter, the body, the life airs, the external and internal senses, the five gross elements and the subtle sense…
• SB 6.4.26 When one’s consciousness is completely purified of the contamination of material existence, gross and subtle, without being agitated as in…
• SB 6.4.27-28 Just as great learned brāhmaṇas who are expert in performing ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices can extract the fire dormant within…
• SB 6.4.29 Anything expressed by material vibrations, anything ascertained by material intelligence and anything experienced by the material senses…
• SB 6.4.30 The Supreme Brahman, Kṛṣṇa, is the ultimate resting place and source of everything. Everything is done by Him, everything belongs to Him,…
• SB 6.4.31 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead, who possesses unlimited transcendental…
• SB 6.4.32 There are two parties — namely, the theists and the atheists. The theist, who accepts the Supersoul, finds the spiritual cause through…
• SB 6.4.33 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is inconceivably opulent, who is devoid of all material names, forms and pastimes, and who is…
• SB 6.4.34 As the air carries various characteristics of the physical elements, like the aroma of a flower or colors resulting from a mixture of dust…
• SB 6.4.35-39 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who is extremely affectionate to His devotees, was very pleased by…
• SB 6.4.40 Seeing that wonderful and effulgent form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Prajāpati Dakṣa was first somewhat afraid, but then he was…
• SB 6.4.41 As rivers are filled by water flowing from a mountain, all of Dakṣa’s senses were filled with pleasure. Because of his highly elevated…
• SB 6.4.42 Although Prajāpati Dakṣa could not say anything, when the Lord, who knows everyone’s heart, saw His devotee prostrate in that manner and…
• SB 6.5.10 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing these enigmatic words of Nārada Muni, the Haryaśvas considered them with their natural intelligence,…
• SB 6.5.11 [The Haryaśvas understood the meaning of Nārada’s words as follows.] The word “bhūḥ” [“the earth”] refers to the field of activities. The…
• SB 6.5.12 [Nārada Muni had said that there is a kingdom where there is only one male. The Haryaśvas realized the purport of this statement.] The…
• SB 6.5.13 [Nārada Muni had described that there is a bila, or hole, from which, having entered, one does not return. The Haryaśvas understood the…
• SB 6.5.14 [Nārada Muni had described a woman who is a professional prostitute. The Haryaśvas understood the identity of this woman.] Mixed with the…
• SB 6.5.15 [Nārada Muni had also spoken of a man who is the husband of the prostitute. The Haryaśvas understood this as follows.] If one becomes the…
• SB 6.5.16 [Nārada Muni had said that there is a river flowing in both directions. The Haryaśvas understood the purport of this statement.] Material…
• SB 6.5.17 [Nārada Muni had said that there is a house made of twenty-five elements. The Haryaśvas understood this analogy.] The Supreme Lord is the…
• SB 6.5.18 [Nārada Muni had spoken of a swan. That swan is explained in this verse.] The Vedic literatures [śāstras] vividly describe how to…
• SB 6.5.19 [Nārada Muni had spoken of a physical object made of sharp blades and thunderbolts. The Haryaśvas understood this allegory as follows.]…
• SB 6.5.20 [Nārada Muni had asked how one could ignorantly defy one’s own father. The Haryaśvas understood the meaning of this question.] One must…
• SB 6.5.21 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after hearing the instructions of Nārada, the Haryaśvas, the sons of Prajāpati Dakṣa, were…
• SB 6.5.22 The seven musical notes — ṣa, ṛ, gā, ma, pa, dha and ni — are used in musical instruments, but originally they come from the Sāma Veda.…
• SB 6.5.23 The Haryaśvas, the sons of Prajāpati Dakṣa, were very well-behaved, cultured sons, but unfortunately, because of the instructions of…
• SB 6.5.24 When Prajāpati Dakṣa was lamenting for his lost children, Lord Brahmā pacified him with instructions, and thereafter Dakṣa begot one…
• SB 6.5.25 In accordance with their father’s order to beget children, the second group of sons also went to Nārāyaṇa-saras, the same place where…
• SB 6.5.26 At Nārāyaṇa-saras, the second group of sons performed penances in the same way as the first. They bathed in the holy water, and by its…
• SB 6.5.27-28 For a few months the sons of Prajāpati Dakṣa drank only water and ate only air. Thus undergoing great austerities, they recited this…
• SB 6.5.29 O King Parīkṣit, Nārada Muni approached these sons of Prajāpati Dakṣa, who were engaged in tapasya to beget children, and spoke enigmatic…
• SB 6.5.30 O sons of Dakṣa, please hear my words of instruction attentively. You are all very affectionate to your elder brothers, the Haryaśvas.…
• SB 6.5.31 A brother aware of the principles of religion follows in the footsteps of his elder brothers. Because of being highly elevated, such a…
• SB 6.5.32 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of the advanced Āryans, after saying this much to the sons of Prajāpati Dakṣa, Nārada Muni, whose…
• SB 6.5.33 The Savalāśvas took to the correct path, which is obtainable by a mode of life meant to achieve devotional service, or the mercy of the…
• SB 6.5.34 At this time, Prajāpati Dakṣa observed many inauspicious signs, and he heard from various sources that his second group of sons, the…
• SB 6.5.35 When he heard that the Savalāśvas had also left this world to engage in devotional service, Dakṣa was angry at Nārada, and he almost…
• SB 6.5.36 Prajāpati Dakṣa said: Alas, Nārada Muni, you wear the dress of a saintly person, but you are not actually a saint. Indeed, although I am…
• SB 6.5.37 Prajāpati Dakṣa said: My sons were not at all freed from their three debts. Indeed, they did not properly consider their obligations. O…
• SB 6.5.38 Prajāpati Dakṣa continued: Thus committing violence against other living entities and yet claiming to be an associate of Lord Viṣṇu, you…
• SB 6.5.39 All the devotees of the Lord but you are very kind to the conditioned souls and are eager to benefit others. Although you wear the dress…
• SB 6.5.40 Prajāpati Dakṣa continued: If you think that simply awakening the sense of renunciation will detach one from the material world, I must…
• SB 6.5.41 Material enjoyment is indeed the cause of all unhappiness, but one cannot give it up unless one has personally experienced how much…
• SB 6.5.42 Although I live in household life with my wife and children, I honestly follow the Vedic injunctions by engaging in fruitive activities to…
• SB 6.5.43 You have made me lose my sons once, and now you have again done the same inauspicious thing. Therefore you are a rascal who does not know…
• SB 6.5.44 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, since Nārada Muni is an approved saintly person, when cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa he replied,…
• SB 6.6.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, thereafter, at the request of Lord Brahmā, Prajāpati Dakṣa, who is known as Prācetasa, begot…
• SB 6.6.2 He gave ten daughters in charity to Dharmarāja [Yamarāja], thirteen to Kaśyapa [first twelve and then one more], twenty-seven to the…
• SB 6.6.3 Now please hear from me the names of all these daughters and their descendants, who filled all the three worlds.
• SB 6.6.4 The ten daughters given to Yamarāja were named Bhānu, Lambā, Kakud, Yāmi, Viśvā, Sādhyā, Marutvatī, Vasu, Muhūrtā and Saṅkalpā. Now hear…
• SB 6.6.5 O King, a son named Deva-ṛṣabha was born from the womb of Bhānu, and from him came a son named Indrasena. From the womb of Lambā came a…
• SB 6.6.6 From the womb of Kakud came the son named Saṅkaṭa, whose son was named Kīkaṭa. From Kīkaṭa came the demigods named Durgā. From Yāmi came…
• SB 6.6.7 The sons of Viśvā were the Viśvadevas, who had no progeny. From the womb of Sādhyā came the Sādhyas, who had a son named Arthasiddhi.
• SB 6.6.8 The two sons who took birth from the womb of Marutvatī were Marutvān and Jayanta. Jayanta, who is an expansion of Lord Vāsudeva, is known…
• SB 6.6.9 The demigods named the Mauhūrtikas took birth from the womb of Muhūrtā. These demigods deliver the results of actions to the living…
• SB 6.6.10-11 The son of Saṅkalpā was known as Saṅkalpa, and from him lust was born. The sons of Vasu were known as the eight Vasus. Just hear their…
• SB 6.6.12 Ūrjasvatī, the wife of Prāṇa, gave birth to three sons, named Saha, Āyus and Purojava. The wife of Dhruva was known as Dharaṇi, and from…
• SB 6.6.13 From the womb of Vāsanā, the wife of Arka, came many sons, headed by Tarṣa. Dhārā, the wife of the Vasu named Agni, gave birth to many…
• SB 6.6.14 From Kṛttikā, another wife of Agni, came the son named Skanda, Kārttikeya, whose sons were headed by Viśākha. From the womb of Śarvarī,…
• SB 6.6.15 From Āṅgirasī, the wife of the Vasu named Vāstu, was born the great architect Viśvakarmā. Viśvakarmā became the husband of Ākṛtī, from…
• SB 6.6.16 Ūṣā, the wife of Vibhāvasu, gave birth to three sons — Vyuṣṭa, Rociṣa and Ātapa. From Ātapa came Pañcayāma, the span of day, who awakens…
• SB 6.6.17-18 Sarūpā, the wife of Bhūta, gave birth to the ten million Rudras, of whom the eleven principle Rudras were Raivata, Aja, Bhava, Bhīma,…
• SB 6.6.19 The prajāpati Aṅgirā had two wives, named Svadhā and Satī. The wife named Svadhā accepted all the Pitās as her sons, and Satī accepted the…
• SB 6.6.20 Kṛśāśva had two wives, named Arcis and Dhiṣaṇā. In the wife named Arcis he begot Dhūmaketu and in Dhiṣaṇā he begot four sons, named…
• SB 6.6.21-22 Kaśyapa, who is also named Tārkṣya, had four wives — Vinatā [Suparṇā], Kadrū, Pataṅgī and Yāminī. Pataṅgī gave birth to many kinds of…
• SB 6.6.23 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, best of the Bhāratas, the constellations named Kṛttikā were all wives of the moon-god. However, because Prajāpati…
• SB 6.6.24-26 Thereafter the King of the moon pacified Prajāpati Dakṣa with courteous words and thus regained the portions of light he had lost during…
• SB 6.6.27 My dear King Parīkṣit, from the womb of Surabhi the buffalo, cow and other animals with cloven hooves took birth, from the womb of Tāmrā…
• SB 6.6.28 The sons born of Krodhavaśā were the serpents known as dandaśūka, as well as other serpents and the mosquitoes. All the various creepers…
• SB 6.6.29-31 The Gandharvas were born from the womb of Ariṣṭā, and animals whose hooves are not split, such as the horse, were born from the womb of…
• SB 6.6.32 The daughter of Svarbhānu named Suprabhā was married by Namuci. The daughter of Vṛṣaparvā named Śarmiṣṭhā was given to the powerful King…
• SB 6.6.33-36 Vaiśvānara, the son of Danu, had four beautiful daughters, named Upadānavī, Hayaśirā, Pulomā and Kālakā. Hiraṇyākṣa married Upadānavī, and…
• SB 6.6.37 In his wife Siṁhikā, Vipracitti begot one hundred and one sons, of whom the eldest is Rāhu and the others are the one hundred Ketus. All…
• SB 6.6.38-39 Now please hear me as I describe the descendants of Aditi in chronological order. In this dynasty the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
• SB 6.6.40 Saṁjñā, the wife of Vivasvān, the sun-god, gave birth to the Manu named Śrāddhadeva, and the same fortunate wife also gave birth to the…
• SB 6.6.41 Chāyā, another wife of the sun-god, begot two sons named Śanaiścara and Sāvarṇi Manu, and one daughter, Tapatī, who married Saṁvaraṇa.
• SB 6.6.42 From the womb of Mātṛkā, the wife of Aryamā, were born many learned scholars. Among them Lord Brahmā created the human species, which are…
• SB 6.6.43 Pūṣā had no sons. When Lord Śiva was angry at Dakṣa, Pūṣā had laughed at Lord Śiva and shown his teeth. Therefore he lost his teeth and…
• SB 6.6.44 Racanā, the daughter of the Daityas, became the wife of Prajāpati Tvaṣṭā. By his semen he begot in her womb two very powerful sons named…
• SB 6.6.45 Although Viśvarūpa was the son of the daughter of their eternal enemies the demons, the demigods accepted him as their priest in…
• SB 6.7.1 Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great sage, why did the spiritual master of the demigods, Bṛhaspati, reject the…
• SB 6.7.2-8 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, once upon a time, the King of heaven, Indra, being extremely proud because of his great opulence of the…
• SB 6.7.9 Bṛhaspati knew everything that would happen in the future. Seeing Indra’s transgression of etiquette, he completely understood that Indra…
• SB 6.7.10 Indra, the King of heaven, could immediately understand his mistake. Realizing he had disrespected his spiritual master, he condemned…
• SB 6.7.11 Alas, what a regrettable deed I have committed because of my lack of intelligence and my pride in my material opulences. I failed to show…
• SB 6.7.12 Although I am King of the demigods, who are situated in the mode of goodness, I was proud of a little opulence and polluted by false ego.…
• SB 6.7.13 If a person says, “One who is situated on the exalted throne of a king should not stand up to show respect to another king or a brāhmaṇa,”…
• SB 6.7.14 Leaders who have fallen into ignorance and who mislead people by directing them to the path of destruction [as described in the previous…
• SB 6.8.3 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: King Indra, the leader of the demigods, inquired about the armor known as Nārāyaṇa-kavaca from Viśvarūpa, who…
• SB 6.8.4-6 Viśvarūpa said: If some form of fear arrives, one should first wash his hands and legs clean and then perform ācamana by chanting this…
• SB 6.8.7 Then one should chant the mantra composed of twelve syllables [oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya]. Preceding each syllable by the oṁkāra, one…
• SB 6.8.8-10 One must then chant the mantra of six syllables [oṁ viṣṇave namaḥ]. One should place the syllable om on his heart, the syllable vi on the…
• SB 6.8.11 After finishing this chanting, one should think himself qualitatively one with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full in six…
• SB 6.8.12 The Supreme Lord, who sits on the back of the bird Garuḍa, touching him with His lotus feet, holds eight weapons — the conchshell, disc,…
• SB 6.8.13 May the Lord, who assumes the body of a great fish, protect me in the water from the fierce animals that are associates of the demigod…
• SB 6.8.14 May Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, who appeared as the enemy of Hiraṇyakaśipu, protect me in all directions. His loud laughing vibrated in all…
• SB 6.8.15 The Supreme indestructible Lord is ascertained through the performance of ritualistic sacrifices and is therefore known as Yajñeśvara. In…
• SB 6.8.16 May Lord Nārāyaṇa protect me from unnecessarily following false religious systems and falling from my duties due to madness. May the Lord…
• SB 6.8.17 May Sanat-kumāra protect me from lusty desires. As I begin some auspicious activity, may Lord Hayagrīva protect me from being an offender…
• SB 6.8.18 May the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His incarnation as Dhanvantari relieve me from undesirable eatables and protect me from physical…
• SB 6.8.19 May the Personality of Godhead in His incarnation as Vyāsadeva protect me from all kinds of ignorance resulting from the absence of Vedic…
• SB 6.8.20 May Lord Keśava protect me with His club in the first portion of the day, and may Govinda, who is always engaged in playing His flute,…
• SB 6.8.21 May Lord Madhusūdana, who carries a bow very fearful for the demons, protect me during the fifth part of the day. In the evening, may Lord…
• SB 6.8.22 May the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who bears the Śrīvatsa on His chest, protect me after midnight until the sky becomes pinkish. May…
• SB 6.8.23 Set into motion by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and wandering in all the four directions, the disc of the Supreme Lord has sharp…
• SB 6.8.24 O club in the hand of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you produce sparks of fire as powerful as thunderbolts, and you are extremely…
• SB 6.8.25 O best of conchshells, O Pāñcajanya in the hands of the Lord, you are always filled with the breath of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Therefore you create a…
• SB 6.8.26 O king of sharp-edged swords, you are engaged by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Please cut the soldiers of my enemies to pieces.…
• SB 6.8.27-28 May the glorification of the transcendental name, form, qualities and paraphernalia of the Supreme Personality of Godhead protect us from…
• SB 6.8.29 Lord Garuḍa, the carrier of Lord Viṣṇu, is the most worshipable lord, for he is as powerful as the Supreme Lord Himself. He is the…
• SB 6.8.30 May the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s holy names, His transcendental forms, His carriers and all the weapons decorating Him as personal…
• SB 6.8.31 The subtle and gross cosmic manifestation is material, but nevertheless it is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead because…
• SB 6.8.32-33 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the living entities, the material energy, the spiritual energy and the entire creation are all…
• SB 6.8.34 Prahlāda Mahārāja loudly chanted the holy name of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva. May Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, roaring for His devotee Prahlāda Mahārāja,…
• SB 6.8.35 Viśvarūpa continued: O Indra, this mystic armor related to Lord Nārāyaṇa has been described by me to you. By putting on this protective…
• SB 6.8.36 If one employs this armor, whomever he sees with his eyes or touches with his feet is immediately freed from all the above-mentioned…
• SB 6.8.37 This prayer, Nārāyaṇa-kavaca, constitutes subtle knowledge transcendentally connected with Nārāyaṇa. One who employs this prayer is never…
• SB 6.8.38 O King of heaven, a brāhmaṇa named Kauśika formerly used this armor when he purposely gave up his body in the desert by mystic power.
• SB 6.8.39 Surrounded by many beautiful women, Citraratha, the King of Gandharvaloka, was once passing in his airplane over the brāhmaṇa’s body at…
• SB 6.8.40 Suddenly Citraratha was forced to fall from the sky headfirst with his airplane. Struck with wonder, he was ordered by the great sages…
• SB 6.8.41 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear Mahārāja Parīkṣit, one who employs this armor or hears about it with faith and veneration when afraid…
• SB 6.8.42 King Indra, who performed one hundred sacrifices, received this prayer of protection from Viśvarūpa. After conquering the demons, he…
• SB 6.9.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Viśvarūpa, who was engaged as the priest of the demigods, had three heads. He used one to drink the…
• SB 6.9.2 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the demigods were related to Viśvarūpa from his father’s side, and therefore he visibly offered clarified butter in…
• SB 6.9.3 Although offering clarified butter in the sacrificial fire in the name of the demigods, without the knowledge of the demigods he also…
• SB 6.9.4 Once upon a time, however, the King of heaven, Indra, understood that Viśvarūpa was secretly cheating the demigods by offering oblations…
• SB 6.9.5 Thereafter, the head meant for drinking soma-rasa was transformed into a kapiñjala [francolin partridge]. Similarly, the head meant for…
• SB 6.9.6 Although Indra was so powerful that he could neutralize the sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa, he repentantly accepted the burden of…
• SB 6.9.7 In return for King Indra’s benediction that ditches in the earth would be filled automatically, the land accepted one fourth of the sinful…
• SB 6.9.8 In return for Indra’s benediction that their branches and twigs would grow back when trimmed, the trees accepted one fourth of the…
• SB 6.9.9 In return for Lord Indra’s benediction that they would be able to enjoy lusty desires continuously, even during pregnancy for as long as…
• SB 6.9.10 And in return for King Indra’s benediction that water would increase the volume of other substances with which it was mixed, water…
• SB 6.9.11 After Viśvarūpa was killed, his father, Tvaṣṭā, performed ritualistic ceremonies to kill Indra. He offered oblations in the sacrificial…
• SB 6.9.12 Thereafter, from the southern side of the sacrificial fire known as Anvāhārya came a fearful personality who looked like the destroyer of…
• SB 6.9.13-17 Like arrows released in the four directions, the demon’s body grew, day after day. Tall and blackish, he appeared like a burnt hill and…
• SB 6.9.18 That very fearful demon, who was actually the son of Tvaṣṭā, covered all the planetary systems by dint of austerity. Therefore he was…
• SB 6.9.19 The demigods, headed by Indra, charged the demon with their soldiers, striking him with their own transcendental bows and arrows and other…
• SB 6.9.20 Struck with wonder and disappointment upon seeing the strength of the demon, the demigods lost their own strength. Therefore they all met…
• SB 6.9.21 The demigods said: The three worlds are created by the five elements — namely ether, air, fire, water and earth — which are controlled by…
• SB 6.9.22 Free from all material conceptions of existence and never wonder-struck by anything, the Lord is always jubilant and fully satisfied by…
• SB 6.9.23 The Manu named King Satyavrata formerly saved himself by tying the small boat of the entire world to the horn of the Matsya avatāra, the…
• SB 6.9.24 In the beginning of creation, a tremendous wind caused fierce waves of inundating water. The great waves made such a horrible sound that…
• SB 6.9.25 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who created us by His external potency and by whose mercy we expand the creation of the universe, is…
• SB 6.9.26-27 By His inconceivable internal potency, the Supreme Personality of Godhead expands into various transcendental bodies as Vāmanadeva, the…
• SB 6.9.28 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, when all the demigods offered Him their prayers, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Hari,…
• SB 6.9.29-30 Surrounding and serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, were sixteen personal attendants, decorated with ornaments and…
• SB 6.9.31 The demigods said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are competent to give the results of sacrifice, and You are also the time factor…
• SB 6.9.32 O supreme controller, You control the three destinations [promotion to the heavenly planets, birth as a human being, and condemnation in…
• SB 6.9.33 O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Nārāyaṇa, O Vāsudeva, original person! O most exalted person, supreme experience, welfare personified!…
• SB 6.9.34 O Lord, You need no support, and although You have no material body, You do not need cooperation from us. Since You are the cause of the…
• SB 6.9.35 These are our inquiries. The ordinary conditioned soul is subject to the material laws, and he thus receives the fruits of his actions.…
• SB 6.9.36 O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all contradictions can be reconciled in You. O Lord, since You are the Supreme Person, the reservoir of…
• SB 6.9.37 A rope causes fear for a bewildered person who considers it a snake, but not for a person with proper intelligence who knows it to be only…
• SB 6.9.38 With deliberation, one will see that the Supreme Soul, although manifested in different ways, is actually the basic principle of…
• SB 6.9.39 Therefore, O killer of the Madhu demon, incessant transcendental bliss flows in the minds of those who have even once tasted but a drop of…
• SB 6.9.40 O Lord, O personified three worlds, father of the three worlds! O strength of the three worlds, in the form of the Vāmana incarnation! O…
• SB 6.9.41 O supreme protector, O grandfather, O supreme pure, O Lord! We are all surrendered souls at Your lotus feet. Indeed, our minds are bound…
• SB 6.9.42 O Lord, as the small sparks of a fire cannot possibly perform the actions of the whole fire, we sparks of Your Lordship cannot inform You…
• SB 6.9.43 Dear Lord, You are omniscient, and therefore You know very well why we have taken shelter at Your lotus feet, which provide shade that…
• SB 6.9.44 Therefore, O Lord, O supreme controller, O Lord Kṛṣṇa, please annihilate this dangerous demon Vṛtrāsura, Tvaṣṭā’s son, who has already…
• SB 6.9.45 O Lord, O supreme pure, You live within the core of everyone’s heart and observe all the desires and activities of the conditioned souls.…
• SB 6.9.46 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King Parīkṣit, when the demigods offered the Lord their sincere prayers in this way, the Lord listened…
• SB 6.10.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After instructing Indra in this way, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, the cause of the cosmic…
• SB 6.10.2 O King Parīkṣit, following the Lord’s instructions, the demigods approached Dadhīci, the son of Atharvā. He was very liberal, and when…
• SB 6.10.3 O elevated demigods, at the time of death, severe, unbearable pain takes away the consciousness of all living entities who have accepted…
• SB 6.10.4 In this material world, every living entity is very much addicted to his material body. Struggling to keep his body forever, everyone…
• SB 6.10.5 The demigods replied: O exalted brāhmaṇa, pious persons like you, whose activities are praiseworthy, are very kind and affectionate to…
• SB 6.10.6 Those who are too self-interested beg something from others, not knowing of others’ pain. But if the beggar knew the difficulty of the…
• SB 6.10.7 The great sage Dadhīci said: Just to hear from you about religious principles, I refused to offer my body at your request. Now, although…
• SB 6.10.8 O demigods, one who has no compassion for humanity in its suffering and does not sacrifice his impermanent body for the higher causes of…
• SB 6.10.9 If one is unhappy to see the distress of other living beings and happy to see their happiness, his religious principles are appreciated as…
• SB 6.10.10 This body, which is eatable by jackals and dogs after death, does not actually do any good for me, the spirit soul. It is usable only for…
• SB 6.10.11 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Dadhīci Muni, the son of Atharvā, thus resolved to give his body to the service of the demigods. He placed…
• SB 6.10.12 Dadhīci Muni controlled his senses, life force, mind and intelligence and became absorbed in trance. Thus he cut all his material bonds.…
• SB 6.10.13-14 Thereafter, King Indra very firmly took up the thunderbolt manufactured by Viśvakarmā from the bones of Dadhīci. Charged with the exalted…
• SB 6.10.15 My dear King Parīkṣit, as Rudra, being very angry at Antaka [Yamarāja] had formerly run toward Antaka to kill him, Indra angrily and with…
• SB 6.10.16 Thereafter, at the end of Satya-yuga and the beginning of Tretā-yuga, a fierce battle took place between the demigods and the demons on…
• SB 6.10.17-18 O King, when all the asuras came onto the battlefield, headed by Vṛtrāsura, they saw King Indra carrying the thunderbolt and surrounded by…
• SB 6.10.19-22 Many hundreds and thousands of demons, demi-demons, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas [man-eaters] and others, headed by Sumāli and Māli, resisted the…
• SB 6.10.23 Armed with lances, tridents, axes, swords and other weapons like śataghnīs and bhuśuṇḍis, the demons attacked from different directions…
• SB 6.10.24 As the stars in the sky cannot be seen when covered by dense clouds, the demigods, being completely covered by networks of arrows falling…
• SB 6.10.25 The showers of various weapons and arrows released to kill the soldiers of the demigods did not reach them because the demigods, acting…
• SB 6.10.26 As their weapons and mantras decreased, the demons began showering mountain peaks, trees and stones upon the demigod soldiers, but the…
• SB 6.10.27 When the soldiers of the demons, commanded by Vṛtrāsura, saw that the soldiers of King Indra were quite well, having not been injured at…
• SB 6.10.28 When insignificant persons use rough words to cast false, angry accusations against saintly persons, their fruitless words do not disturb…
• SB 6.10.29 The asuras, who are never devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, lost their pride in fighting when they found all…
• SB 6.10.30 Seeing his army broken and all the asuras, even those known as great heroes, fleeing the battlefield out of intense fear, Vṛtrāsura, who…
• SB 6.10.31 According to his position and the time and circumstances, Vṛtrāsura, the hero among heroes, spoke words that were much to be appreciated…
• SB 6.10.32 Vṛtrāsura said: All living entities who have taken birth in this material world must die. Surely, no one in this world has found any means…
• SB 6.10.33 There are two ways to meet a glorious death, and both are very rare. One is to die after performing mystic yoga, especially bhakti-yoga,…
• SB 6.11.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, Vṛtrāsura, the commander in chief of the demons, advised his lieutenants in the principles of religion,…
• SB 6.11.2-3 O King Parīkṣit, the demigods, taking advantage of a favorable opportunity presented by time, attacked the army of the demons from the…
• SB 6.11.4 O demigods, these demoniac soldiers have taken birth uselessly. Indeed, they have come from the bodies of their mothers exactly like…
• SB 6.11.5 O insignificant demigods, if you truly have faith in your heroism, if you have patience in the cores of your hearts and if you are not…
• SB 6.11.6 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Vṛtrāsura, the angry and most powerful hero, terrified the demigods with his stout and strongly built body. When he…
• SB 6.11.7 When all the demigods heard Vṛtrāsura’s tumultuous roar, which resembled that of a lion, they fainted and fell to the ground as if struck…
• SB 6.11.8 As the demigods closed their eyes in fear, Vṛtrāsura, taking up his trident and making the earth tremble with his great strength, trampled…
• SB 6.11.9 Seeing Vṛtrāsura’s disposition, Indra, the King of heaven, became intolerant and threw at him one of his great clubs, which are extremely…
• SB 6.11.10 O King Parīkṣit, the powerful Vṛtrāsura, the enemy of King Indra, angrily struck the head of Indra’s elephant with that club, making a…
• SB 6.11.11 Struck with the club by Vṛtrāsura like a mountain struck by a thunderbolt, the elephant Airāvata, feeling great pain and spitting blood…
• SB 6.11.12 When he saw Indra’s carrier elephant thus fatigued and injured and when he saw Indra morose because his carrier had been harmed in that…
• SB 6.11.13 O King, when the great hero Vṛtrāsura saw Indra, his enemy, the killer of his brother, standing before him with a thunderbolt in his hand,…
• SB 6.11.14 Śrī Vṛtrāsura said: He who has killed a brāhmaṇa, he who has killed his spiritual master — indeed, he who has killed my brother — is now,…
• SB 6.11.15 Only for the sake of living in the heavenly planets, you killed my elder brother — a self-realized, sinless, qualified brāhmaṇa who had…
• SB 6.11.16 Indra, you are bereft of all shame, mercy, glory and good fortune. Deprived of these good qualities by the reactions of your fruitive…
• SB 6.11.17 You are naturally cruel. If the other demigods, unaware of my prowess, follow you by attacking me with raised weapons, I shall sever their…
• SB 6.11.18 But if in this battle you cut off my head with your thunderbolt and kill my soldiers, O Indra, O great hero, I shall take great pleasure…
• SB 6.11.19 O King of the demigods, since I, your enemy, am standing before you, why don’t you hurl your thunderbolt at me? Although your attack upon…
• SB 6.11.20 O Indra, King of heaven, the thunderbolt you carry to kill me has been empowered by the prowess of Lord Viṣṇu and the strength of…
• SB 6.11.21 By the force of your thunderbolt, I shall be freed of material bondage and shall give up this body and this world of material desires.…
• SB 6.11.22 Persons who fully surrender at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and always think of His lotus feet are accepted and…
• SB 6.11.23 Our Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, forbids His devotees to endeavor uselessly for religion, economic development and sense…
• SB 6.11.24 O my Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, will I again be able to be a servant of Your eternal servants who find shelter only at Your…
• SB 6.11.25 O my Lord, source of all opportunities, I do not desire to enjoy in Dhruvaloka, the heavenly planets or the planet where Lord Brahmā…
• SB 6.11.26 O lotus-eyed Lord, as baby birds that have not yet developed their wings always look for their mother to return and feed them, as small…
• SB 6.11.27 O my Lord, my master, I am wandering throughout this material world as a result of my fruitive activities. Therefore I simply seek…
• SB 6.12.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Desiring to give up his body, Vṛtrāsura considered death in the battle preferable to victory. O King Parīkṣit, he…
• SB 6.12.2 Then Vṛtrāsura, the great hero of the demons, whirled his trident, which had points like the flames of the blazing fire at the end of the…
• SB 6.12.3 Flying in the sky, Vṛtrāsura’s trident resembled a brilliant meteor. Although the blazing weapon was difficult to look upon, King Indra,…
• SB 6.12.4 Although one of his arms was severed from his body, Vṛtrāsura angrily approached King Indra and struck him on the jaw with an iron mace.…
• SB 6.12.5 The denizens of various planets, like the demigods, demons, Cāraṇas and Siddhas, praised Vṛtrāsura’s deed, but when they observed that…
• SB 6.12.6 Having dropped the thunderbolt from his hand in the presence of his enemy, Indra was practically defeated and was very much ashamed. He…
• SB 6.12.7 Vṛtrāsura continued: O Indra, no one is guaranteed of being always victorious but the original enjoyer, the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 6.12.8 All living beings in all the planets of this universe, including the presiding deities of all the planets, are fully under the control of…
• SB 6.12.9 Our sensory prowess, mental power, bodily strength, living force, immortality and mortality are all subject to the superintendence of the…
• SB 6.12.10 O King Indra, as a wooden doll that looks like a woman or as an animal made of grass and leaves cannot move or dance independently, but…
• SB 6.12.11 The three puruṣas — Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī-Viṣṇu — the material nature, the total material energy,…
• SB 6.12.12 A foolish, senseless person cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although always dependent, he falsely thinks himself the…
• SB 6.12.13 Just as a person not inclined to die must nonetheless give up his longevity, opulence, fame and everything else at the time of death, so,…
• SB 6.12.14 Since everything is dependent on the supreme will of the Personality of Godhead, one should be equipoised in fame and defamation, victory…
• SB 6.12.15 One who knows that the three qualities — goodness, passion and ignorance — are not qualities of the soul but qualities of material nature,…
• SB 6.12.16 O my enemy, just look at me. I have already been defeated, for my weapon and arm have been cut to pieces. You have already overwhelmed me,…
• SB 6.12.17 O my enemy, consider this battle a gambling match in which our lives are the stakes, the arrows are the dice, and the animals acting as…
• SB 6.12.18 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing the straightforward, instructive words of Vṛtrāsura, King Indra praised him and again took the thunderbolt…
• SB 6.12.23 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Vṛtrāsura and King Indra spoke about devotional service even on the battlefield, and then as a matter of duty…
• SB 6.12.24 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Vṛtrāsura, who was completely able to subdue his enemy, took his iron club, whirled it around, aimed it at Indra and…
• SB 6.12.25 With his thunderbolt named Śataparvan, Indra simultaneously cut to pieces Vṛtrāsura’s club and his remaining hand.
• SB 6.12.26 Vṛtrāsura, bleeding profusely, his two arms cut off at their roots, looked very beautiful, like a flying mountain whose wings have been…
• SB 6.12.27-29 Vṛtrāsura was very powerful in physical strength and influence. He placed his lower jaw on the ground and his upper jaw in the sky. His…
• SB 6.12.30 When the demigods, along with Brahmā, other prajāpatis and other great saintly persons, saw that Indra had been swallowed by the demon,…
• SB 6.12.31 The protective armor of Nārāyaṇa, which Indra possessed, was identical with Nārāyaṇa Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.…
• SB 6.12.32 With his thunderbolt, King Indra, who was also extremely powerful, pierced through Vṛtrāsura’s abdomen and came out. Indra, the killer of…
• SB 6.12.33 Although the thunderbolt revolved around Vṛtrāsura’s neck with great speed, separating his head from his body took one complete year — 360…
• SB 6.12.34 When Vṛtrāsura was killed, the Gandharvas and Siddhas in the heavenly planets beat kettledrums in jubilation. With Vedic hymns they…
• SB 6.12.35 O King Parīkṣit, subduer of enemies, the living spark then came forth from Vṛtrāsura’s body and returned home, back to Godhead. While all…
• SB 6.13.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, who are so charitably disposed, when Vṛtrāsura was killed, all the presiding deities and…
• SB 6.13.2 Thereafter, the demigods, the great saintly persons, the inhabitants of Pitṛloka and Bhūtaloka, the demons, the followers of the demigods,…
• SB 6.13.3 Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great sage, what was the reason for Indra’s unhappiness? I wish to hear about this.…
• SB 6.13.4 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī answered: When all the great sages and demigods were disturbed by the extraordinary power of Vṛtrāsura, they had…
• SB 6.13.5 King Indra replied: When I killed Viśvarūpa, I received extensive sinful reactions, but I was favored by the women, land, trees and water,…
• SB 6.13.6 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing this, the great sages replied to King Indra, “O King of heaven, all good fortune unto you. Do not fear.…
• SB 6.13.7 The ṛṣis continued: O King Indra, by performing an aśvamedha sacrifice and thereby pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the…
• SB 6.13.8-9 One who has killed a brāhmaṇa, one who has killed a cow or one who has killed his father, mother or spiritual master can be immediately…
• SB 6.13.10 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Encouraged by the words of the sages, Indra killed Vṛtrāsura, and when he was killed the sinful reaction for…
• SB 6.13.11 Following the advice of the demigods, Indra killed Vṛtrāsura, and he suffered because of this sinful killing. Although the other demigods…
• SB 6.13.12-13 Indra saw personified sinful reaction chasing him, appearing like a caṇḍāla woman, a woman of the lowest class. She seemed very old, and…
• SB 6.13.14 O King, Indra first fled to the sky, but there also he saw the woman of personified sin chasing him. This witch followed him wherever he…
• SB 6.13.15 Always thinking of how he could be relieved from the sinful reaction for killing a brāhmaṇa, King Indra, invisible to everyone, lived in…
• SB 6.13.16 As long as King Indra lived in the water, wrapped in the stem of the lotus, Nahuṣa was equipped with the ability to rule the heavenly…
• SB 6.13.17 Indra’s sins were diminished by the influence of Rudra, the demigod of all directions. Because Indra was protected by the goddess of…
• SB 6.13.18 O King, when Lord Indra reached the heavenly planets, the saintly brāhmaṇas approached him and properly initiated him into a horse…
• SB 6.13.19-20 The horse sacrifice performed by the saintly brāhmaṇas relieved Indra of the reactions to all his sins because he worshiped the Supreme…
• SB 6.13.21 King Indra was favored by Marīci and the other great sages. They performed the sacrifice just according to the rules and regulations,…
• SB 6.13.22-23 In this very great narrative there is glorification of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, there are statements about the…
• SB 6.14.1 King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O learned brāhmaṇa, demons are generally sinful, being obsessed with the modes of passion…
• SB 6.14.2 Demigods situated in the mode of goodness and great saints cleansed of the dirt of material enjoyment hardly ever render pure devotional…
• SB 6.14.3 In this material world there are as many living entities as atoms. Among these living entities, a very few are human beings, and among…
• SB 6.14.4 O best of the brāhmaṇas, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, out of many persons who follow religious principles, only a few desire liberation from the…
• SB 6.14.5 O great sage, among many millions who are liberated and perfect in knowledge of liberation, one may be a devotee of Lord Nārāyaṇa, or…
• SB 6.14.6 Vṛtrāsura was situated in the blazing fire of battle and was an infamous, sinful demon, always engaged in giving troubles and anxieties to…
• SB 6.14.7 My dear lord, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, although Vṛtrāsura was a sinful demon, he showed the prowess of a most exalted kṣatriya and satisfied Lord…
• SB 6.14.9 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, I shall speak to you the same history I have heard from the mouths of Vyāsadeva, Nārada and Devala.…
• SB 6.14.10 O King Parīkṣit, in the province of Śūrasena there was a king named Citraketu, who ruled the entire earth. During his reign, the earth…
• SB 6.14.11 This Citraketu had ten million wives, but although he was capable of producing children, he did not receive a child from any of them. By…
• SB 6.14.12 Citraketu, the husband of these millions of wives, was endowed with a beautiful form, magnanimity and youth. He was born in a high family,…
• SB 6.14.13 His queens all had beautiful faces and attractive eyes, yet neither his opulences, his hundreds and thousands of queens, nor the lands of…
• SB 6.14.14 Once upon a time, when the powerful sage named Aṅgirā was traveling all over the universe without engagement, by his sweet will he came to…
• SB 6.14.15 Citraketu immediately stood up from his throne and offered him worship. He offered drinking water and eatables and in this way performed…
• SB 6.14.16 O King Parīkṣit, when Citraketu, bent low in humility, was seated at the lotus feet of the great sage, the sage congratulated him for his…
• SB 6.14.17 The great sage Aṅgirā said: My dear King, I hope that your body and mind and your royal associates and paraphernalia are well. When the…
• SB 6.14.18 O King, O lord of humanity, when a king directly depends upon his associates and follows their instructions, he is happy. Similarly, when…
• SB 6.14.19 O King, are your wives, citizens, secretaries and servants and the merchants who sell spices and oil under your control? Are you also in…
• SB 6.14.20 If the king’s mind is fully controlled, all his family members and governmental officers are subordinate to him. His provincial governors…
• SB 6.14.21 O King Citraketu, I can observe that your mind is not pleased. You seem not to have achieved your desired goal. Is this because of you…
• SB 6.14.22 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, although the great sage Aṅgirā knew everything, he inquired from the King in this way. Thus King…
• SB 6.14.23 King Citraketu said: O great lord Aṅgirā, because of austerity, knowledge and transcendental samādhi, you are freed from all the reactions…
• SB 6.14.24 O great soul, you are aware of everything, yet you are asking me why I am full of anxiety. Therefore, in response to your order, let me…
• SB 6.14.25 As a person aggrieved by hunger and thirst is not pleased by the external gratification of flower garlands or sandalwood pulp, I am not…
• SB 6.14.26 Therefore, O great sage, please save me and my forefathers, who are descending to the darkness of hell because I have no progeny. Kindly…
• SB 6.14.27 In response to the request of Mahārāja Citraketu, Aṅgirā Ṛṣi, who was born of Lord Brahmā’s mind, was very merciful toward him. Because…
• SB 6.14.28 O Parīkṣit Mahārāja, best of the Bhāratas, the remnants of the food offered in the yajña were given by the great sage Aṅgirā to the first…
• SB 6.14.29 Thereafter, the great sage told the King, “O great King, now you will have a son who will be the cause of both jubilation and…
• SB 6.14.30 As Kṛttikādevī, after receiving the semen of Lord Śiva from Agni, conceived a child named Skanda [Kārttikeya], Kṛtadyuti, having received…
• SB 6.14.31 After receiving semen from Mahārāja Citraketu, the King of Śūrasena, Queen Kṛtadyuti gradually developed in her pregnancy, O King…
• SB 6.14.32 Thereafter, in due course of time, a son was born to the King. Hearing news of this, all the inhabitants of the state of Śūrasena were…
• SB 6.14.33 King Citraketu was especially pleased. After purifying himself by bathing and by decorating himself with ornaments, he engaged learned…
• SB 6.14.34 Unto the brāhmaṇas who took part in the ritualistic ceremony the King gave charity of gold, silver, garments, ornaments, villages, horses…
• SB 6.14.35 As a cloud indiscriminately pours water on the earth, the beneficent King Citraketu, to increase the reputation, opulence and longevity of…
• SB 6.14.36 When a poor man gets some money after great difficulty, his affection for the money increases daily. Similarly, when King Citraketu, after…
• SB 6.14.37 The mother’s attraction and attention to the son, like that of the child’s father, excessively increased. The other wives, seeing…
• SB 6.14.38 As King Citraketu fostered his son very carefully, his affection for Queen Kṛtadyuti increased, but gradually he lost affection for the…
• SB 6.14.39 The other queens were extremely unhappy due to their being sonless. Because of the King’s negligence toward them, they condemned…
• SB 6.14.40 A wife who has no sons is neglected at home by her husband and dishonored by her co-wives exactly like a maidservant. Certainly such a…
• SB 6.14.41 Even maidservants who are constantly engaged in rendering service to the husband are honored by the husband, and thus they have nothing…
• SB 6.14.42 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Being neglected by their husband and seeing Kṛtadyuti’s opulence in possessing a son, Kṛtadyuti’s co-wives…
• SB 6.14.43 As their envy increased, they lost their intelligence. Being extremely hardhearted and unable to tolerate the King’s neglect, they finally…
• SB 6.14.44 Unaware of the poison administered by her co-wives, Queen Kṛtadyuti walked within the house, thinking that her son was sleeping deeply.…
• SB 6.14.45 Thinking that her child had been sleeping for a long time, Queen Kṛtadyuti, who was certainly very intelligent, ordered the nurse, “My…
• SB 6.14.46 When the maidservant approached the child, who was lying down, she saw that his eyes were turned upward. There were no signs of life, all…
• SB 6.14.47 In great agitation, the maidservant struck her breast with both hands and cried loudly in regretful words. Hearing her loud voice, the…
• SB 6.14.48 In great lamentation, her hair and dress in disarray, the Queen fell to the ground unconscious.
• SB 6.14.49 O King Parīkṣit, hearing the loud crying, all the inhabitants of the palace came, both men and women. Being equally aggrieved, they also…
• SB 6.14.50-51 When King Citraketu heard of his son’s death from unknown causes, he became almost blind. Because of his great affection for his son, his…
• SB 6.14.52 When the Queen saw her husband, King Citraketu, merged in great lamentation and saw the dead child, who was the only son in the family,…
• SB 6.14.53 The garland of flowers decorating the Queen’s head fell, and her hair scattered. Falling tears melted the collyrium on her eyes and…
• SB 6.14.54 Alas, O Providence, O Creator, You are certainly inexperienced in creation, for during the lifetime of a father You have caused the death…
• SB 6.14.55 My Lord, You may say that there is no law that a father must die in the lifetime of his son and that a son must be born in the lifetime of…
• SB 6.14.56 My dear son, I am helpless and very much aggrieved. You should not give up my company. Just look at your lamenting father. We are helpless…
• SB 6.14.57 My dear son, you have slept a long time. Now please get up. Your playmates are calling you to play. Since you must be very hungry, please…
• SB 6.14.58 My dear son, I am certainly most unfortunate, for I can no longer see your mild smiling. You have closed your eyes forever. I therefore…
• SB 6.14.59 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Accompanied by his wife, who was thus lamenting for her dead son, King Citraketu began crying loudly with…
• SB 6.14.60 As the King and Queen lamented, all their male and female followers joined them in crying. Because of the sudden accident, all the…
• SB 6.14.61 When the great sage Aṅgirā understood that the King was almost dead in an ocean of lamentation, he went there with Nārada Ṛṣi.
• SB 6.15.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While King Citraketu, overcome by lamentation, lay like a dead body at the side of the dead body of his son,…
• SB 6.15.2 O King, what relationship does the dead body for which you lament have with you, and what relationship do you have with him? You may say…
• SB 6.15.3 O King, as small particles of sand sometimes come together and are sometimes separated due to the force of the waves, the living entities…
• SB 6.15.4 When seeds are sown in the ground, they sometimes grow into plants and sometimes do not. Sometimes the ground is not fertile, and the…
• SB 6.15.5 O King, both you and we — your advisers, wives and ministers — as well as everything moving and not moving throughout the entire cosmos at…
• SB 6.15.6 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master and proprietor of everything, is certainly not interested in the temporary cosmic…
• SB 6.15.7 As from one seed another seed is generated, O King, so from one body [the body of the father], through another body [the body of the…
• SB 6.15.8 Divisions of generalization and specification, such as nationality and individuality, are the imaginations of persons who are not advanced…
• SB 6.15.9 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thus enlightened by the instructions of Nārada and Aṅgirā, King Citraketu became hopeful with knowledge.…
• SB 6.15.10 King Citraketu said: You have both come here dressed like avadhūtas, liberated persons, just to cover your identities, but I see that of…
• SB 6.15.11 Brāhmaṇas who are exalted to the position of Vaiṣṇavas, the most dear servants of Kṛṣṇa, sometimes dress like madmen. Just to benefit…
• SB 6.15.12-15 O great souls, I have heard that among the great and perfect persons wandering the surface of the earth to instruct knowledge to people…
• SB 6.15.16 Because you are great personalities, you can give me real knowledge. I am as foolish as a village animal like a pig or dog because I am…
• SB 6.15.17 Aṅgirā said: My dear King, when you desired to have a son, I approached you. Indeed, I am the same Aṅgirā Ṛṣi who gave you this son. As…
• SB 6.15.18-19 My dear King, you are an advanced devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. To be absorbed in lamentation for the loss of something…
• SB 6.15.20 When I first came to your home, I could have given you the supreme transcendental knowledge, but when I saw that your mind was absorbed in…
• SB 6.15.21-23 My dear King, now you are actually experiencing the misery of a person who has sons and daughters. O King, owner of the state of Śūrasena,…
• SB 6.15.24 These visible objects like wife, children and property are like dreams and mental concoctions. Actually what we see has no permanent…
• SB 6.15.25 The living entity in the bodily conception of life is absorbed in the body, which is a combination of the physical elements, the five…
• SB 6.15.26 Therefore, O King Citraketu, carefully consider the position of the ātmā. In other words, try to understand who you are — whether body,…
• SB 6.15.27 The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King, attentively receive from me a mantra, which is most auspicious. After accepting it from me,…
• SB 6.15.28 My dear King, in former days Lord Śiva and other demigods took shelter of the lotus feet of Saṅkarṣaṇa. Thus they immediately got free…
• SB 6.16.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, by his mystic power the great sage Nārada brought the dead son into the vision of all…
• SB 6.17.1 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After offering obeisances to the direction from which Ananta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, had…
• SB 6.17.2-3 Being praised by great sages and saints and by the inhabitants of Siddhaloka and Cāraṇaloka, Citraketu, the most powerful mystic yogī,…
• SB 6.17.4-5 One time while King Citraketu was traveling in outer space on a brilliantly effulgent airplane given to him by Lord Viṣṇu, he saw Lord…
• SB 6.17.6 Citraketu said: Lord Śiva, the spiritual master of the general populace, is the best of all living entities who have accepted material…
• SB 6.17.7 Lord Śiva, whose hair is matted on his head, has certainly undergone great austerities and penances. Indeed, he is the president in the…
• SB 6.17.8 Ordinary conditioned persons generally embrace their wives and enjoy their company in solitary places. How wonderful it is that Lord…
• SB 6.17.9 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after hearing Citraketu’s statement, Lord Śiva, the most powerful personality, whose…
• SB 6.17.10 Not knowing the prowess of Lord Śiva and Pārvatī, Citraketu strongly criticized them. His statements were not at all pleasing, and…
• SB 6.17.11 The goddess Pārvatī said: Alas, has this upstart now received a post from which to punish shameless persons like us? Has he been appointed…
• SB 6.17.12 Alas, Lord Brahmā, who has taken his birth from the lotus flower, does not know the principles of religion, nor do the great saints like…
• SB 6.17.13 This Citraketu is the lowest of kṣatriyas, for he has impudently overridden Brahmā and the other demigods by insulting Lord Śiva, upon…
• SB 6.17.14 This person is puffed up because of his achievements, thinking, “I am the best.” He does not deserve to approach the shelter of Lord…
• SB 6.17.15 O impudent one, my dear son, now take birth in a low, sinful family of demons so that you will not commit such an offense again toward…
• SB 6.17.16 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King Parīkṣit, when Citraketu was cursed by Pārvatī, he descended from his airplane, bowed before…
• SB 6.17.17 Citraketu said: My dear mother, with my own hands folded together I accept the curse upon me. I do not mind the curse, for happiness and…
• SB 6.17.18 Deluded by ignorance, the living entity wanders in the forest of this material world, enjoying the happiness and distress resulting from…
• SB 6.17.19 In this material world, neither the living entity himself nor others [friends and enemies] are the cause of material happiness and…
• SB 6.17.20 This material world resembles the waves of a constantly flowing river. Therefore, what is a curse and what is a favor? What are the…
• SB 6.17.21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one. Unaffected by the conditions of the material world, He creates all the conditioned souls by His…
• SB 6.17.22 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is equally disposed toward all living entities. Therefore no one is very dear to Him, and no one is a…
• SB 6.17.23 Although the Supreme Lord is unattached to our happiness and distress according to karma, and although no one is His enemy or favorite, He…
• SB 6.17.24 O mother, you are now unnecessarily angry, but since all my happiness and distress are destined by my past activities, I do not plead to…
• SB 6.17.25 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King Parīkṣit, subduer of the enemy, after Citraketu satisfied Lord Śiva and his wife, Pārvatī, he…
• SB 6.17.26 Thereafter, in the presence of the great sage Nārada, the demons, the inhabitants of Siddhaloka, and his personal associates, Lord Śiva,…
• SB 6.17.27 Lord Śiva said: My dear beautiful Pārvatī, have you seen the greatness of the Vaiṣṇavas? Being servants of the servants of the Supreme…
• SB 6.17.28 Devotees solely engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, never fear any condition of life. For…
• SB 6.17.29 Because of the actions of the Supreme Lord’s external energy, the living entities are conditioned in contact with material bodies. The…
• SB 6.17.30 As one mistakenly considers a flower garland to be a snake or experiences happiness and distress in a dream, so, in the material world, by…
• SB 6.17.31 Persons engaged in devotional service to Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, have naturally perfect knowledge and detachment from this material world.…
• SB 6.17.32 Neither I [Lord Śiva], nor Brahmā, nor the Aśvinī-kumāras, nor Nārada or the other great sages who are Brahmā’s sons, nor even the…
• SB 6.17.33 He holds no one as very dear and no one as inimical. He has no one for His own relative, and no one is alien to Him. He is actually the…
• SB 6.17.34-35 This magnanimous Citraketu is a dear devotee of the Lord. He is equal to all living entities and is free from attachment and hatred.…
• SB 6.17.36 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, after hearing this speech by her husband, the demigoddess [Umā, the wife of Lord Śiva] gave up her…
• SB 6.17.37 The great devotee Citraketu was so powerful that he was quite competent to curse mother Pārvatī in retaliation, but instead of doing so he…
• SB 6.17.38 Being cursed by mother Durgā [Bhavānī, the wife of Lord Śiva], that same Citraketu accepted birth in a demoniac species of life. Although…
• SB 6.17.39 My dear King Parīkṣit, you inquired from me how Vṛtrāsura, a great devotee, took birth in a demoniac family. Thus I have tried to explain…
• SB 6.17.40 Citraketu was a great devotee [mahātmā]. If one hears this history of Citraketu from a pure devotee, the listener also is freed from the…
• SB 6.17.41 One who rises from bed early in the morning and recites this history of Citraketu, controlling his words and mind and remembering the…
• SB 6.18.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Pṛśni, who was the wife of Savitā, the fifth of the twelve sons of Aditi, gave birth to three daughters —…
• SB 6.18.2 O King, Siddhi, who was the wife of Bhaga, the sixth son of Aditi, bore three sons, named Mahimā, Vibhu and Prabhu, and one extremely…
• SB 6.18.3-4 Dhātā, the seventh son of Aditi, had four wives, named Kuhū, Sinīvālī, Rākā and Anumati. These wives begot four sons, named Sāyam, Darśa,…
• SB 6.18.5 By the semen of Varuṇa, the great mystic Vālmīki took birth from an anthill. Bhṛgu and Vālmīki were specific sons of Varuṇa, whereas…
• SB 6.18.6 Upon seeing Urvaśī, the celestial society girl, both Mitra and Varuṇa discharged semen, which they preserved in an earthen pot. The two…
• SB 6.18.7 O King Parīkṣit, Indra, the King of the heavenly planets and eleventh son of Aditi, begot three sons, named Jayanta, Ṛṣabha and Mīḍhuṣa,…
• SB 6.18.8 By His own potency, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has multifarious potencies, appeared in the form of a dwarf as Urukrama, the…
• SB 6.18.9 Later [in the Eighth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam] I shall describe how Urukrama, Lord Vāmanadeva, appeared as the son of the great sage…
• SB 6.18.10 Now let me describe the sons of Diti, who were begotten by Kaśyapa but who became demons. In this demoniac family the great devotee…
• SB 6.18.11 First the two sons named Hiraṇyakaśipu and Hiraṇyākṣa took birth from Diti’s womb. Both of them were very powerful and were worshiped by…
• SB 6.18.12-13 The wife of Hiraṇyakaśipu was known as Kayādhu. She was the daughter of Jambha and a descendant of Danu. She gave birth to four…
• SB 6.18.14 While Rāhu, in disguise, was drinking nectar among the demigods, the Supreme Personality of Godhead severed his head. The wife of Saṁhlāda…
• SB 6.18.15 The wife of Hlāda was named Dhamani. She gave birth to two sons, named Vātāpi and Ilvala. When Agastya Muni became Ilvala’s guest, Ilvala…
• SB 6.18.16 The wife of Anuhlāda was named Sūryā. She gave birth to two sons, named Bāṣkala and Mahiṣa. Prahlāda had one son, Virocana, whose wife…
• SB 6.18.17 Thereafter, Bali Mahārāja begot one hundred sons in the womb of Aśanā. Of these one hundred sons, King Bāṇa was the eldest. The activities…
• SB 6.18.18 Since King Bāṇa was a great worshiper of Lord Śiva, he became one of Lord Śiva’s most celebrated associates. Even now, Lord Śiva protects…
• SB 6.18.19 The forty-nine Marut demigods were also born from the womb of Diti. None of them had sons. Although they were born of Diti, King Indra…
• SB 6.18.20 King Parīkṣit inquired: My dear lord, due to their birth, the forty-nine Maruts must have been obsessed with a demoniac mentality. Why did…
• SB 6.18.21 My dear brāhmaṇa, I and all the sages present with me are eager to know about this. Therefore, O great soul, kindly explain to us the…
• SB 6.18.23 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Just to help Indra, Lord Viṣṇu killed the two brothers Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu. Because of their being…
• SB 6.18.24 Lord Indra, who is very much fond of sense gratification, has killed the two brothers Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu by means of Lord Viṣṇu.…
• SB 6.18.25 When dead, the bodies of all the rulers known as kings and great leaders will be transformed into worms, stool or ashes. If one enviously…
• SB 6.18.26 Diti thought: Indra considers his body eternal, and thus he has become unrestrained. I therefore wish to have a son who can remove Indra’s…
• SB 6.18.27-28 Thinking in this way [with a desire for a son to kill Indra], Diti began constantly acting to satisfy Kaśyapa by her pleasing behavior. O…
• SB 6.18.29 Although Kaśyapa Muni was a learned scholar, he was captivated by Diti’s artificial behavior, which brought him under her control.…
• SB 6.18.30 In the beginning of creation, Lord Brahmā, the father of the living entities of the universe, saw that all the living entities were…
• SB 6.18.31 O my dear one, the most powerful sage Kaśyapa, being extremely pleased by the mild behavior of his wife Diti, smiled and spoke to her as…
• SB 6.18.32 Kaśyapa Muni said: O beautiful woman, O irreproachable lady, since I am very much pleased by your behavior, you may ask me for any…
• SB 6.18.33-34 A husband is the supreme demigod for a woman. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Vāsudeva, the husband of the goddess of fortune, is…
• SB 6.18.35 My dear wife, whose body is so beautiful, your waist being thin, a conscientious wife should be chaste and should abide by the orders of…
• SB 6.18.36 My dear gentle wife, because you have worshiped me with great devotion, considering me a representative of the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 6.18.37 Diti replied: O my husband, O great soul, I have now lost my sons. If you want to give me a benediction, I ask you for an immortal son who…
• SB 6.18.38 Upon hearing Diti’s request, Kaśyapa Muni was very much aggrieved. “Alas,” he lamented, “now I face the danger of the impious act of…
• SB 6.18.39 Kaśyapa Muni thought: Alas, I have now become too attached to material enjoyment. Taking advantage of this, my mind has been attracted by…
• SB 6.18.40 This woman, my wife, has adopted a means that follows her nature, and therefore she is not to be blamed. But I am a man. Therefore, all…
• SB 6.18.41 A woman’s face is as attractive and beautiful as a blossoming lotus flower during autumn. Her words are very sweet, and they give pleasure…
• SB 6.18.42 To satisfy their own interests, women deal with men as if the men were most dear to them, but no one is actually dear to them. Women are…
• SB 6.18.43 I promised to give her a benediction, and this promise cannot be violated, but Indra does not deserve to be killed. In these…
• SB 6.18.44 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Kaśyapa Muni, thinking in this way, became somewhat angry. Condemning himself, O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, descendant…
• SB 6.18.45 Kaśyapa Muni said: My dear gentle wife, if you follow my instructions regarding this vow for at least one year, you will surely get a son…
• SB 6.18.46 Diti replied: My dear brāhmaṇa, I must accept your advice and follow the vow. Now let me understand what I have to do, what is forbidden…
• SB 6.18.47 Kaśyapa Muni said: My dear wife, to follow this vow, do not be violent or cause harm to anyone. Do not curse anyone, and do not speak…
• SB 6.18.48 Kaśyapa Muni continued: My dear gentle wife, never enter the water while bathing, never be angry, and do not even speak or associate with…
• SB 6.18.49 Never eat leftover food, never eat prasāda offered to the goddess Kālī [Durgā], and do not eat anything contaminated by flesh or fish. Do…
• SB 6.18.50 After eating, you should not go out to the street without having washed your mouth, hands and feet. You should not go out in the evening…
• SB 6.18.51 You should not lie down without having washed both of your feet or without being purified, nor with wet feet or with your head pointed…
• SB 6.18.52 Putting on washed clothing, being always pure and being adorned with turmeric, sandalwood pulp and other auspicious items, before…
• SB 6.18.53 With flower garlands, sandalwood pulp, ornaments and other paraphernalia, a woman following this vow should worship women who have sons…
• SB 6.18.54 Kaśyapa Muni continued: If you perform this ceremony called puṁsavana, adhering to the vow with faith for at least one year, you will give…
• SB 6.18.55 O King Parīkṣit, Diti, the wife of Kaśyapa, agreed to undergo the purificatory process known as puṁsavana. “Yes,” she said, “I shall do…
• SB 6.18.56 O King, who are respectful to everyone, Indra understood Diti’s purpose, and thus he contrived to fulfill his own interests. Following the…
• SB 6.18.57 Indra served his aunt daily by bringing flowers, fruits, roots and wood for yajñas from the forest. He also brought kuśa grass, leaves,…
• SB 6.18.58 O King Parīkṣit, as the hunter of a deer becomes like a deer by covering his body with deerskin and serving the deer, so Indra, although…
• SB 6.18.59 O master of the entire world, when Indra could find no faults, he thought, “How will there be good fortune for me?” Thus he was full of…
• SB 6.18.60 Having grown weak and thin because of strictly following the principles of the vow, Diti once unfortunately neglected to wash her mouth,…
• SB 6.18.61 Finding this fault, Indra, who has all the mystic powers [the yoga-siddhis such as aṇimā and laghimā], entered Diti’s womb while she was…
• SB 6.18.62 After entering Diti’s womb, Indra, with the help of his thunderbolt, cut into seven pieces her embryo, which appeared like glowing gold.…
• SB 6.18.63 O King, being very much aggrieved, they pleaded to Indra with folded hands, saying, “Dear Indra, we are the Maruts, your brothers. Why are…
• SB 6.18.64 When Indra saw that actually they were his devoted followers, he said to them: If you are all my brothers, you have nothing more to fear…
• SB 6.18.65 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, you were burned by the brahmāstra of Aśvatthāmā, but when Lord Kṛṣṇa entered the womb of…
• SB 6.18.66-67 If one worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original person, even once, he receives the benefit of being promoted to the…
• SB 6.18.68 Because of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Diti was completely purified. When she got up from bed, she saw her forty-nine…
• SB 6.18.69 Thereafter, Diti said to Indra: My dear son, I adhered to this difficult vow just to get a son to kill you twelve Ādityas.
• SB 6.18.70 I prayed for only one son, but now I see that there are forty-nine. How has this happened? My dear son Indra, if you know, please tell me…
• SB 6.18.71 Indra replied: My dear mother, because I was grossly blinded by selfish interests, I lost sight of religion. When I understood that you…
• SB 6.18.72 First I cut the child in the womb into seven pieces, which became seven children. Then I cut each of the children into seven pieces again.…
• SB 6.18.73 My dear mother, when I saw that all forty-nine sons were alive, I was certainly struck with wonder. I decided that this was a secondary…
• SB 6.18.74 Although those who are interested only in worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead do not desire anything material from the Lord and…
• SB 6.18.75 The ultimate goal of all ambitions is to become a servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If an intelligent man serves the most…
• SB 6.18.76 O my mother, O best of all women, I am a fool. Kindly excuse me for whatever offenses I have committed. Your forty-nine sons have been…
• SB 6.18.77 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Diti was extremely satisfied by Indra’s good behavior. Then Indra offered his respects to his aunt with…
• SB 6.18.78 My dear King Parīkṣit, I have replied as far as possible to the questions you have asked me, especially in regard to this pure, auspicious…
• SB 6.19.2-3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: On the first day of the bright fortnight of the month of Agrahāyaṇa [November-December], following the instructions…
• SB 6.19.4 [She should then pray to the Lord as follows.] My dear Lord, You are full in all opulences, but I do not beg You for opulence. I simply…
• SB 6.19.5 O my Lord, because You are endowed with causeless mercy, all opulences, all prowess and all glories, strength and transcendental…
• SB 6.19.6 [After profusely offering obeisances unto Lord Viṣṇu, the devotee should offer respectful obeisances unto mother Lakṣmī, the goddess of…
• SB 6.19.7 “My Lord Viṣṇu, full in six opulences, You are the best of all enjoyers and the most powerful. O husband of mother Lakṣmī, I offer my…
• SB 6.19.8 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After worshiping the Lord with all the paraphernalia mentioned above, one should chant the following mantra…
• SB 6.19.9 If one desires all opulences, his duty is to daily worship Lord Viṣṇu with His wife, Lakṣmī. With great devotion one should worship Him…
• SB 6.19.10 One should offer obeisances unto the Lord with a mind humbled through devotion. While offering daṇḍavats by falling on the ground like a…
• SB 6.19.11 My Lord Viṣṇu and mother Lakṣmī, goddess of fortune, you are the proprietors of the entire creation. Indeed, you are the cause of the…
• SB 6.19.12 My Lord, You are the master of energy, and therefore You are the Supreme Person. You are sacrifice [yajña] personified. Lakṣmī, the…
• SB 6.19.13 Mother Lakṣmī, who is here, is the reservoir of all spiritual qualities, whereas You manifest and enjoy all these qualities. Indeed, You…
• SB 6.19.14 You are both the supreme rulers and benedictors of the three worlds. Therefore, my Lord, Uttamaśloka, may my ambitions be fulfilled by…
• SB 6.19.15 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thus one should worship Lord Viṣṇu, who is known as Śrīnivāsa, along with mother Lakṣmī, the goddess of…
• SB 6.19.16 Thereafter, with devotion and humility, one should offer prayers to the Lord and mother Lakṣmī. Then one should smell the remnants of the…
• SB 6.19.17 Accepting her husband as the representative of the Supreme Person, a wife should worship him with unalloyed devotion by offering him…
• SB 6.19.18 Between the husband and wife, one person is sufficient to execute this devotional service. Because of their good relationship, both of…
• SB 6.19.19-20 One should accept this viṣṇu-vrata, which is a vow in devotional service, and should not deviate from its execution to engage in anything…
• SB 6.19.21 The chaste wife must perform such devotional service continuously for one year. After one year passes, she should fast on the full-moon…
• SB 6.19.22 On the morning of the next day, one should wash oneself, and after worshiping Lord Kṛṣṇa as before, one should cook as one cooks for…
• SB 6.19.23 Thereafter, he should satisfy the brāhmaṇas. When the satisfied brāhmaṇas bestow their blessings, he should devotedly offer them…
• SB 6.19.24 Before taking his meal, the husband must first seat the ācārya comfortably, and, along with his relatives and friends, should control his…
• SB 6.19.25 If this vow or ritualistic ceremony is observed according to the description of śāstra, even in this life a man will be able to achieve…
• SB 6.19.26-28 If an unmarried girl observes this vrata, she will be able to get a very good husband. If a woman who is avīrā — who has no husband or son…
• SB 7.1.1 King Parīkṣit inquired: My dear brāhmaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, being everyone’s well-wisher, is equal and extremely…
• SB 7.1.2 Lord Viṣṇu Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the reservoir of all pleasure. Therefore, what benefit would He derive from…
• SB 7.1.3 O greatly fortunate and learned brāhmaṇa, whether Nārāyaṇa is partial or impartial has become a subject of great doubt. Kindly dispel my…
• SB 7.1.4-5 The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, you have put before me an excellent question. Discourses concerning the activities of…
• SB 7.1.6 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is always transcendental to material qualities, and therefore He is called nirguṇa, or without…
• SB 7.1.7 My dear King Parīkṣit, the material qualities — sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa — all belong to the material world and do not even…
• SB 7.1.8 When the quality of goodness is prominent, the sages and demigods flourish with the help of that quality, with which they are infused and…
• SB 7.1.9 The all-pervading Personality of Godhead exists within the heart of every living being, and an expert thinker can perceive how He is…
• SB 7.1.10 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead creates different types of bodies, offering a particular body to each living entity according to…
• SB 7.1.11 O great King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the controller of the material and spiritual energies, who is certainly the creator of…
• SB 7.1.12 O King, this time factor enhances the sattva-guṇa. Thus although the Supreme Lord is the controller, He favors the demigods, who are…
• SB 7.1.13 Formerly, O King, when Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was performing the Rājasūya sacrifice, the great sage Nārada, responding to his inquiry,…
• SB 7.1.14-15 O King, at the Rājasūya sacrifice, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the son of Mahārāja Pāṇḍu, personally saw Śiśupāla merge into the body of the…
• SB 7.1.16 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired: It is very wonderful that the demon Śiśupāla merged into the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
• SB 7.1.17 O great sage, we are all eager to know the cause for this mercy of the Lord. I have heard that formerly a king named Vena blasphemed the…
• SB 7.1.18 From the very beginning of his childhood, when he could not even speak properly, Śiśupāla, the most sinful son of Damaghoṣa, began…
• SB 7.1.19 Although these two men — Śiśupāla and Dantavakra — repeatedly blasphemed the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu [Kṛṣṇa], the…
• SB 7.1.20 How was it possible for Śiśupāla and Dantavakra, in the presence of many exalted persons, to enter very easily into the body of Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 7.1.21 This matter is undoubtedly very wonderful. Indeed, my intelligence has become disturbed, just as the flame of a candle is disturbed by a…
• SB 7.1.22 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After hearing the request of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Nārada Muni, the most powerful spiritual master, who knew…
• SB 7.15.78 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the best member of the Bharata dynasty, thus learned everything from the descriptions of…
• SB 7.15.79 Nārada Muni, being worshiped by Kṛṣṇa and Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, bade them farewell and went away. Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, having heard that…
• SB 7.15.80 On all the planets within this universe, the varieties of living entities, moving and nonmoving, including the demigods, demons and human…
• SB 8.1.4 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: In the present kalpa there have already been six Manus. I have described to you Svāyambhuva Manu and the appearance…
• SB 8.1.5 Svāyambhuva Manu had two daughters, named Ākūti and Devahūti. From their wombs, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as two sons…
• SB 8.1.6 O best of the Kurus, I have already described [in the Third Canto] the activities of Kapila, the son of Devahūti. Now I shall describe the…
• SB 8.1.7 Svāyambhuva Manu, the husband of Śatarūpā, was by nature not at all attached to enjoyment of the senses. Thus he gave up his kingdom of…
• SB 8.1.8 O scion of Bharata, after Svāyambhuva Manu had thus entered the forest with his wife, he stood on one leg on the bank of the river…
• SB 8.1.9 Lord Manu said: The supreme living being has created this material world of animation; it is not that He was created by this material…
• SB 8.1.10 Within this universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His Supersoul feature is present everywhere, wherever there are animate or…
• SB 8.1.11 Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead constantly watches the activities of the world, no one sees Him. However, one should not think…
• SB 8.1.12 The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no beginning, no end and no middle. Nor does He belong to a particular person or nation. He has no…
• SB 8.1.13 The entire cosmic manifestation is the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, who has millions of names and…
• SB 8.1.14 Therefore, to enable people to reach the stage of activities that are not tinged by fruitive results, great saints first engage people in…
• SB 8.1.15 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full in opulence by His own gain, yet He acts as the creator, maintainer and annihilator of this…
• SB 8.1.16 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, works just like an ordinary human being, yet He does not desire to enjoy the fruits of work. He…
• SB 8.1.17 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Svāyambhuva Manu was thus in a trance, chanting the mantras of Vedic instruction known as the Upaniṣads. Upon…
• SB 8.1.18 The Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, who sits in everyone’s heart, appearing as Yajñapati, observed that the Rākṣasas and demons were going to devour…
• SB 8.1.19 The son of Agni named Svārociṣa became the second Manu. His several sons were headed by Dyumat, Suṣeṇa and Rociṣmat.
• SB 8.1.20 During the reign of Svārociṣa, the post of Indra was assumed by Rocana, the son of Yajña. Tuṣita and others became the principal demigods,…
• SB 8.1.21 Vedaśirā was a very celebrated ṛṣi. From the womb of his wife, whose name was Tuṣitā, came the avatāra named Vibhu.
• SB 8.1.22 Vibhu remained a brahmacāri and never married throughout his life. From him, eighty-eight thousand other saintly persons took lessons on…
• SB 8.1.23 O King, the third Manu, Uttama, was the son of King Priyavrata. Among the sons of this Manu were Pavana, Sṛñjaya and Yajñahotra.
• SB 8.1.24 During the reign of the third Manu, Pramada and other sons of Vasiṣṭha became the seven sages. The Satyas, Vedaśrutas and Bhadras became…
• SB 8.1.25 In this manvantara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared from the womb of Sūnṛtā, who was the wife of Dharma, the demigod in charge…
• SB 8.1.26 Satyasena, along with His friend Satyajit, who was the King of heaven, Indra, killed all the untruthful, impious and misbehaved Yakṣas,…
• SB 8.1.27 The brother of the third Manu, Uttama, was celebrated by the name Tāmasa, and he became the fourth Manu. Tāmasa had ten sons, headed by…
• SB 8.1.28 During the reign of Tāmasa Manu, among the demigods were the Satyakas, Haris and Vīras. The heavenly King, Indra, was Triśikha. The sages…
• SB 8.1.29 O King, in the Tāmasa manvantara the sons of Vidhṛti, who were known as the Vaidhṛtis, also became demigods. Since in course of time the…
• SB 8.1.30 Also in this manvantara, the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, took birth from the womb of Hariṇī, the wife of Harimedhā, and He was known as Hari.…
• SB 8.2.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, there is a very large mountain called Trikūṭa. It is ten thousand yojanas [eighty thousand miles]…
• SB 8.2.2-3 The length and breadth of the mountain are of the same measurement [eighty thousand miles]. Its three principal peaks, which are made of…
• SB 8.2.4 The ground at the foot of the mountain is always washed by waves of milk that produce emeralds all around in the eight directions [north,…
• SB 8.2.5 The inhabitants of the higher planets — the Siddhas, Cāraṇas, Gandharvas, Vidyādharas, serpents, Kinnaras and Apsarās — go to that…
• SB 8.2.6 Because of the resounding vibrations of the denizens of heaven singing in the caves, the lions there, being very proud of their strength,…
• SB 8.2.7 The valleys beneath Trikūṭa Mountain are beautifully decorated by many varieties of jungle animals, and in the trees, which are maintained…
• SB 8.2.8 Trikūṭa Mountain has many lakes and rivers, with beaches covered by small gems resembling grains of sand. The water is as clear as…
• SB 8.2.9-13 In a valley of Trikūṭa Mountain there was a garden called Ṛtumat. This garden belonged to the great devotee Varuṇa and was a sporting…
• SB 8.2.14-19 In that garden there was a very large lake filled with shining golden lotus flowers and the flowers known as kumuda, kahlāra, utpala and…
• SB 8.2.20 The leader of the elephants who lived in the forest of the mountain Trikūṭa once wandered toward the lake with his female elephants. He…
• SB 8.2.21 Simply by catching scent of that elephant, all the other elephants, the tigers and the other ferocious animals, such as lions,…
• SB 8.2.22 By the mercy of this elephant, animals like the foxes, wolves, buffalos, bears, boars, gopucchas, porcupines, monkeys, rabbits, the other…
• SB 8.2.23-24 Surrounded by the herd’s other elephants, including females, and followed by the young ones, Gajapati, the leader of the elephants, made…
• SB 8.2.25 The King of the elephants entered the lake, bathed thoroughly and was relieved of his fatigue. Then, with the aid of his trunk, he drank…
• SB 8.2.26 Like a human being who lacks spiritual knowledge and is too attached to the members of his family, the elephant, being illusioned by the…
• SB 8.2.27 By the arrangement of providence, O King, a strong crocodile was angry at the elephant and attacked the elephant’s leg in the water. The…
• SB 8.2.28 Thereafter, seeing Gajendra in that grave condition, his wives felt very, very sorry and began to cry. The other elephants wanted to help…
• SB 8.2.29 O King, the elephant and the crocodile fought in this way, pulling one another in and out of the water, for one thousand years. Upon…
• SB 8.2.30 Thereafter, because of being pulled into the water and fighting for many long years, the elephant became diminished in his mental,…
• SB 8.2.31 When the King of the elephants saw that he was under the clutches of the crocodile by the will of providence and, being embodied and…
• SB 8.2.32 The other elephants, who are my friends and relatives, could not rescue me from this danger. What then to speak of my wives? They cannot…
• SB 8.2.33 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is certainly not known to everyone, but He is very powerful and influential. Therefore, although the…
• SB 8.3.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thereafter, the King of the elephants, Gajendra, fixed his mind in his heart with perfect intelligence and…
• SB 8.3.2 The King of the elephants, Gajendra, said: I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Person, Vāsudeva [oṁ namo bhagavate…
• SB 8.3.3 The Supreme Godhead is the supreme platform on which everything rests, the ingredient by which everything has been produced, and the…
• SB 8.3.4 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by expanding His own energy, keeps this cosmic manifestation visible and again sometimes renders it…
• SB 8.3.5 In due course of time, when all the causative and effective manifestations of the universe, including the planets and their directors and…
• SB 8.3.6 An artist onstage, being covered by attractive dresses and dancing with different movements, is not understood by his audience; similarly,…
• SB 8.3.7 Renunciants and great sages who see all living beings equally, who are friendly to everyone and who flawlessly practice in the forest the…
• SB 8.3.8-9 The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no material birth, activities, name, form, qualities or faults. To fulfill the purpose for which…
• SB 8.3.10 I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self-effulgent Supersoul, who is the witness in everyone’s…
• SB 8.3.11 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is realized by pure devotees who act in the transcendental existence of bhakti-yoga. He is the bestower…
• SB 8.3.12 I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Vāsudeva, who is all-pervading, to the Lord’s fierce form as Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, to the Lord’s form…
• SB 8.3.13 I beg to offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are the Supersoul, the superintendent of everything, and the witness of all that…
• SB 8.3.14 My Lord, You are the observer of all the objectives of the senses. Without Your mercy, there is no possibility of solving the problem of…
• SB 8.3.15 My Lord, You are the cause of all causes, but You Yourself have no cause. Therefore You are the wonderful cause of everything. I offer my…
• SB 8.3.16 My Lord, as the fire in araṇi wood is covered, You and Your unlimited knowledge are covered by the material modes of nature. Your mind,…
• SB 8.3.17 Since an animal such as me has surrendered unto You, who are supremely liberated, certainly You will release me from this dangerous…
• SB 8.3.18 My Lord, those who are completely freed from material contamination always meditate upon You within the cores of their hearts. You are…
• SB 8.3.19 After worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, those who are interested in the four principles of religion, economic development,…
• SB 8.3.20-21 Unalloyed devotees, who have no desire other than to serve the Lord, worship Him in full surrender and always hear and chant about His…
• SB 8.3.22-24 The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates His minor parts and parcels, the jīva-tattva, beginning with Lord Brahmā, the demigods and the…
• SB 8.3.25 I do not wish to live anymore after I am released from the attack of the crocodile. What is the use of an elephant’s body covered…
• SB 8.3.26 Now, fully desiring release from material life, I offer my respectful obeisances unto that Supreme Person who is the creator of the…
• SB 8.3.27 I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme, the Supersoul, the master of all mystic yoga, who is seen in the core of the heart by…
• SB 8.3.28 My Lord, You are the controller of formidable strength in three kinds of energy. You appear as the reservoir of all sense pleasure and the…
• SB 8.3.29 I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by whose illusory energy the jīva, who is part and parcel of…
• SB 8.3.30 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When the King of the elephants was describing the supreme authority, without mentioning any particular…
• SB 8.3.31 After understanding the awkward condition of Gajendra, who had offered his prayers, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who lives…
• SB 8.3.32 Gajendra had been forcefully captured by the crocodile in the water and was feeling acute pain, but when he saw that Nārāyaṇa, wielding…
• SB 8.3.33 Thereafter, seeing Gajendra in such an aggrieved position, the unborn Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, immediately got down from the…
• SB 8.4.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the Lord delivered Gajendra, King of the elephants, all the demigods, sages and Gandharvas, headed by…
• SB 8.4.2 There was a beating of kettledrums in the heavenly planets, the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka began to dance and sing, while great sages…
• SB 8.4.3-4 The best of the Gandharvas, King Hūhū, having been cursed by Devala Muni, had become a crocodile. Now, having been delivered by the…
• SB 8.4.5 Having been favored by the causeless mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and having regained his original form, King Hūhū…
• SB 8.4.6 Because Gajendra, King of the elephants, had been touched directly by the hands of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he was immediately…
• SB 8.4.7 This Gajendra had formerly been a Vaiṣṇava and the king of the country known as Pāṇḍya, which is in the province of Draviḍa [South India].…
• SB 8.4.8 Indradyumna Mahārāja retired from family life and went to the Malaya Hills, where he had a small cottage for his āśrama. He wore matted…
• SB 8.4.9 While Indradyumna Mahārāja was engaged in ecstatic meditation, worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the great sage Agastya Muni…
• SB 8.4.10 Agastya Muni then spoke this curse against the King: This King Indradyumna is not at all gentle. Being low and uneducated, he has insulted…
• SB 8.4.11-12 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after Agastya Muni had thus cursed King Indradyumna, the Muni left that place along with his…
• SB 8.4.13 Upon delivering the King of the elephants from the clutches of the crocodile, and from material existence, which resembles a crocodile,…
• SB 8.4.14 My dear King Parīkṣit, I have now described the wonderful power of Kṛṣṇa, as displayed when the Lord delivered the King of the elephants.…
• SB 8.4.15 Therefore, after getting up from bed in the morning, those who desire their own welfare — especially the brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and…
• SB 8.4.16 O best of the Kuru dynasty, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul of everyone, being thus pleased, addressed Gajendra in the…
• SB 8.5.15-16 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the asuras, with their serpent weapons, severely attacked the demigods in a fight, many of the demigods fell…
• SB 8.5.17-18 Lord Indra, Varuṇa and the other demigods, seeing their lives in such a state, consulted among themselves, but they could not find any…
• SB 8.5.19-20 Upon seeing that the demigods were bereft of all influence and strength and that the three worlds were consequently devoid of…
• SB 8.6.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, being thus worshiped with prayers by the demigods…
• SB 8.6.2 The vision of all the demigods was blocked by the Lord’s effulgence. Thus they could see neither the sky, the directions, the land, nor…
• SB 8.6.3-7 Lord Brahmā, along with Lord Śiva, saw the crystal-clear personal beauty of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose blackish body…
• SB 8.7.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O best of the Kurus, Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the demigods and demons summoned Vāsuki, king of the serpents, requesting…
• SB 8.7.2 The Personality of Godhead, Ajita, grasped the front portion of the snake, and then the demigods followed.
• SB 8.7.3 The leaders of the demons thought it unwise to hold the tail, the inauspicious portion of the snake. Instead, they wanted to hold the…
• SB 8.7.4 Thus the demons remained silent, opposing the desire of the demigods. Seeing the demons and understanding their motive, the Personality of…
• SB 8.7.5 After thus adjusting how the snake was to be held, the sons of Kaśyapa, both demigods and demons, began their activities, desiring to get…
• SB 8.7.6 O son of the Pāṇḍu dynasty, when Mandara Mountain was thus being used as a churning rod in the Ocean of Milk, it had no support, and…
• SB 8.7.7 Because the mountain had been sunk by the strength of providence, the demigods and demons were disappointed, and their faces seemed to…
• SB 8.7.8 Seeing the situation that had been created by the will of the Supreme, the unlimitedly powerful Lord, whose determination is infallible,…
• SB 8.7.9 When the demigods and demons saw that Mandara Mountain had been lifted, they were enlivened and encouraged to begin churning again. The…
• SB 8.7.10 O King, when the demigods and demons, by the strength of their arms, rotated Mandara Mountain on the back of the extraordinary tortoise,…
• SB 8.7.11 Thereafter, Lord Viṣṇu entered the demons as the quality of passion, the demigods as the quality of goodness, and Vāsuki as the quality of…
• SB 8.7.12 Manifesting Himself with thousands of hands, the Lord then appeared on the summit of Mandara Mountain, like another great mountain, and…
• SB 8.7.13 The demigods and demons worked almost madly for the nectar, encouraged by the Lord, who was above and below the mountain and who had…
• SB 8.7.14 Vāsuki had thousands of eyes and mouths. From his mouths he breathed smoke and blazing fire, which affected the demons, headed by Pauloma,…
• SB 8.7.15 Because the demigods were also affected by the blazing breath of Vāsuki, their bodily lusters diminished, and their garments, garlands,…
• SB 8.7.16 When nectar did not come from the Ocean of Milk, despite so much endeavor by the best of the demigods and demons, the Supreme Personality…
• SB 8.7.17 The Lord appeared like a blackish cloud. He was dressed with yellow garments, His earrings shone on His ears like lightning, and His hair…
• SB 8.7.18 The fish, sharks, tortoises and snakes were most agitated and perturbed. The entire ocean became turbulent, and even the large aquatic…
• SB 8.7.19 O King, when that uncontrollable poison was forcefully spreading up and down in all directions, all the demigods, along with the Lord…
• SB 8.7.20 The demigods observed Lord Śiva sitting on the summit of Kailāsa Hill with his wife, Bhavānī, for the auspicious development of the three…
• SB 8.7.21 The prajāpatis said: O greatest of all demigods, Mahādeva, Supersoul of all living entities and cause of their happiness and prosperity,…
• SB 8.7.22 O lord, you are the cause of bondage and liberation of the entire universe because you are its ruler. Those who are advanced in spiritual…
• SB 8.7.23 O lord, you are self-effulgent and supreme. You create this material world by your personal energy, and you assume the names Brahmā, Viṣṇu…
• SB 8.7.24 You are the cause of all causes, the self-effulgent, inconceivable, impersonal Brahman, which is originally Parabrahman. You manifest…
• SB 8.7.25 O lord, you are the original source of Vedic literature. You are the original cause of material creation, the life force, the senses, the…
• SB 8.7.26 O father of all planets, learned scholars know that fire is your mouth, the surface of the globe is your lotus feet, eternal time is your…
• SB 8.7.27 O lord, the sky is your navel, the air is your breathing, the sun is your eyes, and the water is your semen. You are the shelter of all…
• SB 8.7.28 O lord, you are the three Vedas personified. The seven seas are your abdomen, and the mountains are your bones. All drugs, creepers and…
• SB 8.7.29 O lord, the five important Vedic mantras are represented by your five faces, from which the thirty-eight most celebrated Vedic mantras…
• SB 8.7.30 O lord, your shadow is seen in irreligion, which brings about varieties of irreligious creations. The three modes of nature — goodness,…
• SB 8.7.31 O Lord Girīśa, since the impersonal Brahman effulgence is transcendental to the material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance, the…
• SB 8.7.32 When annihilation is performed by the flames and sparks emanating from your eyes, the entire creation is burned to ashes. Nonetheless, you…
• SB 8.7.33 Exalted, self-satisfied persons who preach to the entire world think of your lotus feet constantly within their hearts. However, when…
• SB 8.7.34 Even personalities like Lord Brahmā and other demigods cannot understand your position, for you are beyond the moving and nonmoving…
• SB 8.7.35 O greatest of all rulers, your actual identity is impossible for us to understand. As far as we can see, your presence brings flourishing…
• SB 8.7.36 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Lord Śiva is always benevolent toward all living entities. When he saw that the living entities were…
• SB 8.7.37 Lord Śiva said: My dear Bhavānī, just see how all these living entities have been placed in danger because of the poison produced from the…
• SB 8.7.38 It is my duty to give protection and safety to all living entities struggling for existence. Certainly it is the duty of the master to…
• SB 8.7.39 People in general, being bewildered by the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are always engaged in animosity toward…
• SB 8.7.40 My dear gentle wife Bhavānī, when one performs benevolent activities for others, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is very…
• SB 8.7.41 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After informing Bhavānī in this way, Lord Śiva began to drink the poison, and Bhavānī, who knew…
• SB 8.7.42 Thereafter, Lord Śiva, who is dedicated to auspicious, benevolent work for humanity, compassionately took the whole quantity of poison in…
• SB 8.7.43 As if in defamation, the poison born from the Ocean of Milk manifested its potency by marking Lord Śiva’s neck with a bluish line. That…
• SB 8.7.44 It is said that great personalities almost always accept voluntary suffering because of the suffering of people in general. This is…
• SB 8.7.45 Upon hearing of this act, everyone, including Bhavānī [the daughter of Mahārāja Dakṣa], Lord Brahmā, Lord Viṣṇu, and the people in…
• SB 8.7.46 Scorpions, cobras, poisonous drugs and other animals whose bites are poisonous took the opportunity to drink whatever little poison had…
• SB 8.8.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Upon Lord Śiva’s drinking the poison, both the demigods and the demons, being very pleased, began to churn the…
• SB 8.8.2 O King Parīkṣit, great sages who were completely aware of the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies took charge of that surabhi cow, which produced…
• SB 8.8.3 Thereafter, a horse named Uccaiḥśravā, which was as white as the moon, was generated. Bali Mahārāja desired to possess this horse, and…
• SB 8.8.4 As the next result of the churning, the king of elephants, named Airāvata, was generated. This elephant was white, and with its four tusks…
• SB 8.8.5 Thereafter, O King, eight great elephants, which could go in any direction, were generated. They were headed by Airāvaṇa. Eight…
• SB 8.8.6 Generated thereafter from the great ocean were the celebrated gems Kaustubha-maṇi and Padmarāga-maṇi. Lord Viṣṇu, to decorate His chest,…
• SB 8.8.7 Next there appeared the Apsarās [who are used as prostitutes on the heavenly planets]. They were fully decorated with golden ornaments and…
• SB 8.8.8 Then there appeared the goddess of fortune, Ramā, who is absolutely dedicated to being enjoyed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. She…
• SB 8.8.9 Because of her exquisite beauty, her bodily features, her youth, her complexion and her glories, everyone, including the demigods, the…
• SB 8.8.10 The King of heaven, Indra, brought a suitable sitting place for the goddess of fortune. All the rivers of sacred water, such as the Ganges…
• SB 8.8.11 The land became a person and collected all the drugs and herbs needed for installing the Deity. The cows delivered five products, namely…
• SB 8.8.12 The great sages performed the bathing ceremony of the goddess of fortune as directed in the authorized scriptures, the Gandharvas chanted…
• SB 8.8.13 The clouds in personified form beat various types of drums, known as mṛdaṅgas, paṇavas, murajas and ānakas. They also blew conchshells and…
• SB 8.8.14 Thereafter, the great elephants from all the directions carried big water jugs full of Ganges water and bathed the goddess of fortune, to…
• SB 8.8.15 The ocean, which is the source of all valuable jewels, supplied the upper and lower portions of a yellow silken garment. The predominating…
• SB 8.8.16 Viśvakarmā, one of the prajāpatis, supplied varieties of decorated ornaments. The goddess of learning, Sarasvatī, supplied a necklace,…
• SB 8.8.17 Thereafter, mother Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune, having been properly celebrated with an auspicious ritualistic ceremony, began moving…
• SB 8.8.18 Her two breasts, which were symmetrical and nicely situated, were covered with sandalwood pulp and kuṅkuma powder, and her waist was very…
• SB 8.8.19 While walking among the Gandharvas, Yakṣas, asuras, Siddhas, Cāraṇas and denizens of heaven, Lakṣmīdevī, the goddess of fortune, was…
• SB 8.8.20 The goddess of fortune, examining the assembly, thought in this way: Someone who has undergone great austerity has not yet conquered…
• SB 8.8.21 Someone may possess full knowledge of religion but still not be kind to all living entities. In someone, whether human or demigod, there…
• SB 8.8.22 Someone may have longevity but not have auspiciousness or good behavior. Someone may have both auspiciousness and good behavior, but the…
• SB 8.8.23 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In this way, after full deliberation, the goddess of fortune accepted Mukunda as her husband because although…
• SB 8.8.24 Approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the goddess of fortune placed upon His shoulders the garland of newly grown lotus flowers,…
• SB 8.8.25 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the father of the three worlds, and His bosom is the residence of mother Lakṣmī, the goddess of…
• SB 8.8.26 The inhabitants of Gandharvaloka and Cāraṇaloka then took the opportunity to play their musical instruments, such as conchshells, bugles…
• SB 8.8.27 Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, the great sage Aṅgirā, and similar directors of universal management showered flowers and chanted mantras…
• SB 8.8.28 All the demigods, along with the prajāpatis and their descendants, being blessed by Lakṣmījī’s glance upon them, were immediately enriched…
• SB 8.8.29 O King, because of being neglected by the goddess of fortune, the demons and Rākṣasas were depressed, bewildered and frustrated, and thus…
• SB 8.8.30 Next appeared Vāruṇī, the lotus-eyed goddess who controls drunkards. With the permission of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the…
• SB 8.8.31 O King, thereafter, while the sons of Kaśyapa, both demons and demigods, were engaged in churning the Ocean of Milk, a very wonderful male…
• SB 8.8.32 He was strongly built; his arms were long, stout and strong; his neck, which was marked with three lines, resembled a conchshell; his eyes…
• SB 8.8.33 He was dressed in yellow garments and wore brightly polished earrings made of pearls. The tips of his hair were anointed with oil, and his…
• SB 8.8.34 This person was Dhanvantari, a plenary portion of a plenary portion of Lord Viṣṇu. He was very conversant with the science of medicine,…
• SB 8.8.35 Upon seeing Dhanvantari carrying the jug of nectar, the demons, desiring the jug and its contents, immediately snatched it away by force.
• SB 8.8.36 When the jug of nectar was carried off by the demons, the demigods were morose. Thus they sought shelter at the lotus feet of the Supreme…
• SB 8.8.37 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who always desires to fulfill the ambitions of His devotees, saw that the demigods were morose,…
• SB 8.8.38 O King, a quarrel then arose among the demons over who would get the nectar first. Each of them said, “You cannot drink it first. I must…
• SB 8.8.39-40 Some of the demons said, “All the demigods have taken part in churning the Ocean of Milk. Now, as everyone has an equal right to partake…
• SB 8.8.41-46 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, who can counteract any unfavorable situation, then assumed the form of an extremely beautiful…
• SB 8.9.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thereafter, the demons became inimical toward one another. Throwing and snatching the container of nectar, they…
• SB 8.9.2 Upon seeing the beautiful woman, the demons said, “Alas, how wonderful is Her beauty, how wonderful the luster of Her body, and how…
• SB 8.9.3 O wonderfully beautiful girl, You have such nice eyes, resembling the petals of a lotus flower. Who are You? Where do You come from? What…
• SB 8.9.4 What to speak of human beings, even the demigods, demons, Siddhas, Gandharvas, Cāraṇas and the various directors of the universe, the…
• SB 8.9.5 O beautiful girl with beautiful eyebrows, certainly Providence, by His causeless mercy, has sent You to please the senses and minds of all…
• SB 8.9.6 We are now all engaged in enmity among ourselves because of this one subject matter — the container of nectar. Although we have been born…
• SB 8.9.7 All of us, both demons and demigods, have been born of the same father, Kaśyapa, and thus we are related as brothers. But now we are…
• SB 8.9.8 Having thus been requested by the demons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had assumed the form of a beautiful woman, began to…
• SB 8.9.9 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the form of Mohinī, told the demons: O sons of Kaśyapa Muni, I am only a prostitute. How is it that…
• SB 8.9.10 O demons, as monkeys, jackals and dogs are unsteady in their sexual relationships and want newer and newer friends every day, women who…
• SB 8.9.11 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After the demons heard the words of Mohinī-mūrti, who had spoken as if jokingly, they were all very…
• SB 8.9.12 Thereafter, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, having taken possession of the container of nectar, smiled slightly and spoke in…
• SB 8.9.13 The chiefs of the demons were not very expert in deciding things. Upon hearing the sweet words of Mohinī-mūrti, they immediately assented.…
• SB 8.9.14-15 The demigods and demons then observed a fast. After bathing, they offered clarified butter and oblations into the fire and gave charity to…
• SB 8.9.16-17 O King, as the demigods and demons sat facing east in an arena fully decorated with flower garlands and lamps and fragrant with the smoke…
• SB 8.9.18 Her attractive nose and cheeks and Her ears, adorned with golden earrings, made Her face very beautiful. As She moved, Her sari’s border…
• SB 8.9.19 Demons are by nature crooked like snakes. Therefore, to distribute a share of the nectar to them was not at all feasible, since this would…
• SB 8.9.20 The Supreme Personality of Godhead as Mohinī-mūrti, the master of the universe, arranged separate lines of sitting places and seated the…
• SB 8.9.21 Taking the container of nectar in Her hands, She first approached the demons, satisfied them with sweet words and thus cheated them of…
• SB 8.9.22 O King, since the demons had promised to accept whatever the woman did, whether just or unjust, now, to keep this promise, to show their…
• SB 8.9.23 The demons had developed affection for Mohinī-mūrti and a kind of faith in Her, and they were afraid of disturbing their relationship.…
• SB 8.9.24 Rāhu, the demon who causes eclipses of the sun and moon, covered himself with the dress of a demigod and thus entered the assembly of the…
• SB 8.9.25 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, using His disc, which was sharp like a razor, at once cut off Rāhu’s head. When Rāhu’s head was…
• SB 8.9.26 Rāhu’s head, however, having been touched by the nectar, became immortal. Thus Lord Brahmā accepted Rāhu’s head as one of the planets.…
• SB 8.9.27 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the best friend and well-wisher of the three worlds. Thus when the demigods had almost finished…
• SB 8.9.28 The place, the time, the cause, the purpose, the activity and the ambition were all the same for both the demigods and the demons, but the…
• SB 8.9.29 In human society there are various activities performed for the protection of one’s wealth and life by one’s words, one’s mind and one’s…
• SB 8.10.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, the demons and Daityas all engaged with full attention and effort in churning the ocean, but because they…
• SB 8.10.2 O King, after the Supreme Personality of Godhead had brought to completion the affairs of churning the ocean and feeding the nectar to the…
• SB 8.10.3 Seeing the victory of the demigods, the demons became intolerant of their superior opulence. Thus they began to march toward the demigods…
• SB 8.10.4 Thereafter, being enlivened because of drinking the nectar, the demigods, who are always at the shelter of the lotus feet of Nārāyaṇa,…
• SB 8.10.5 O King, a fierce battle on the beach of the Ocean of Milk ensued between the demigods and the demons. The fighting was so terrible that…
• SB 8.10.6 Both parties in that fight were extremely angry at heart, and in enmity they beat one another with swords, arrows and varieties of other…
• SB 8.10.7 The sounds of the conchshells, bugles, drums, bherīs and ḍamarīs [kettledrums], as well as the sounds made by the elephants, horses and…
• SB 8.10.8 On that battlefield, the charioteers fought with the opposing charioteers, the infantry soldiers with the opposing infantry, the soldiers…
• SB 8.10.9 Some soldiers fought on the backs of camels, some on the backs of elephants, some on asses, some on white-faced and red-faced monkeys,…
• SB 8.10.10-12 O King, some soldiers fought on the backs of vultures, eagles, ducks, hawks and bhāsa birds. Some fought on the backs of timiṅgilas, which…
• SB 8.10.13-15 O King, O descendant of Mahārāja Pāṇḍu, the soldiers of both the demigods and demons were decorated by canopies, colorful flags, and…
• SB 8.10.16-18 For that battle the most celebrated commander in chief, Mahārāja Bali, son of Virocana, was seated on a wonderful airplane named…
• SB 8.10.19-24 Surrounding Mahārāja Bali on all sides were the commanders and captains of the demons, sitting on their respective chariots. Among them…
• SB 8.10.25 Sitting on Airāvata, an elephant who can go anywhere and who holds water and wine in reserve for showering, Lord Indra looked just like…
• SB 8.10.26 Surrounding Lord Indra, King of heaven, were the demigods, seated on various types of vehicles and decorated with flags and weapons.…
• SB 8.10.27 The demigods and demons came before each other and reproached one another with words piercing to the heart. Then they drew near and began…
• SB 8.10.28 O King, Mahārāja Bali fought with Indra, Kārttikeya with Tāraka, Varuṇa with Heti, and Mitra with Praheti.
• SB 8.10.29 Yamarāja fought with Kālanābha, Viśvakarmā with Maya Dānava, Tvaṣṭā with Śambara, and the sun-god with Virocana.
• SB 8.10.30-31 The demigod Aparājita fought with Namuci, and the two Aśvinī-kumāra brothers fought with Vṛṣaparvā. The sun-god fought with the one…
• SB 8.10.32-34 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, suppressor of enemies [Arindama], Lord Śiva fought with Jambha, and Vibhāvasu fought with Mahiṣāsura. Ilvala, along…
• SB 8.10.35 All of these demigods and demons assembled on the battlefield with a fighting spirit and attacked one another with great strength. All of…
• SB 8.10.36 They severed one another’s heads, using weapons like bhuśuṇḍis, cakras, clubs, ṛṣṭis, paṭṭiśas, śaktis, ulmukas, prāsas, paraśvadhas,…
• SB 8.10.37 The elephants, horses, chariots, charioteers, infantry soldiers and various kinds of carriers, along with their riders, were slashed to…
• SB 8.10.38 Because of the impact on the ground of the legs of the demons and demigods and the wheels of the chariots, particles of dust flew…
• SB 8.10.39 In the course of the battle, the warfield became strewn with the severed heads of heroes, their eyes still staring and their teeth still…
• SB 8.10.40 Many headless trunks were generated on that battlefield. With weapons in their arms, those ghostly trunks, which could see with the eyes…
• SB 8.10.41 Mahārāja Bali then attacked Indra with ten arrows and attacked Airāvata, Indra’s carrier elephant, with three arrows. With four arrows he…
• SB 8.10.42 Before Bali Mahārāja’s arrows could reach him, Indra, King of heaven, who is expert in dealing with arrows, smiled and counteracted the…
• SB 8.10.43 When Bali Mahārāja saw the expert military activities of Indra, he could not restrain his anger. Thus he took up another weapon, known as…
• SB 8.10.44 Thereafter, one by one, Bali Mahārāja used a lance, prāsa, tomara, ṛṣṭis and other weapons, but whatever weapons he took up, Indra…
• SB 8.10.45 My dear King, Bali Mahārāja then disappeared and resorted to demoniac illusions. A giant mountain, generated from illusion, then appeared…
• SB 8.10.46 From that mountain fell trees blazing in a forest fire. Chips of stone, with sharp edges like picks, also fell and smashed the heads of…
• SB 8.10.47 Scorpions, large snakes and many other poisonous animals, as well as lions, tigers, boars and great elephants, all began falling upon the…
• SB 8.10.48 O my King, many hundreds of male and female carnivorous demons, completely naked and carrying tridents in their hands, then appeared,…
• SB 8.10.49 Fierce clouds, harassed by strong winds, then appeared in the sky. Rumbling very gravely with the sound of thunder, they began to shower…
• SB 8.10.50 A great devastating fire created by Bali Mahārāja began burning all the soldiers of the demigods. This fire, accompanied by blasting…
• SB 8.10.51 Thereafter, whirlpools and sea waves, agitated by fierce blasts of wind, appeared everywhere, before everyone’s vision, in a furious flood.
• SB 8.10.52 While this magical atmosphere in the fight was being created by the invisible demons, who were expert in such illusions, the soldiers of…
• SB 8.10.53 O King, when the demigods could find no way to counteract the activities of the demons, they wholeheartedly meditated upon the Supreme…
• SB 8.10.54 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose eyes resemble the petals of a newly blossomed lotus, sat on the back of Garuḍa, spreading His…
• SB 8.10.55 As the dangers of a dream cease when the dreamer awakens, the illusions created by the jugglery of the demons were vanquished by the…
• SB 8.10.56 O King, when the demon Kālanemi, who was carried by a lion, saw that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, carried by Garuḍa, was on the…
• SB 8.10.57 Thereafter, two very powerful demons named Mālī and Sumālī were killed by the Supreme Lord, who severed their heads with His disc. Then…
• SB 8.11.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thereafter, by the supreme grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Hari, all the demigods, headed by Indra…
• SB 8.11.2 When the most powerful Indra became angry and took his thunderbolt in hand to kill Mahārāja Bali, the demons began lamenting, “Alas, alas!”
• SB 8.11.3 Sober and tolerant and well equipped with paraphernalia for fighting, Bali Mahārāja moved before Indra on the great battlefield. King…
• SB 8.11.10 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After thus rebuking Indra, King of heaven, with sharp words, Bali Mahārāja, who could subdue any other hero, drew…
• SB 8.11.11 Since Mahārāja Bali’s rebukes were truthful, King Indra did not at all become sorry, just as an elephant beaten by its driver’s rod does…
• SB 8.11.12 When Indra, the defeater of enemies, released his infallible thunderbolt scepter at Bali Mahārāja with a desire to kill him, Bali Mahārāja…
• SB 8.11.13 When the demon Jambhāsura saw that his friend Bali had fallen, he appeared before Indra, the enemy, just to serve Bali Mahārāja with…
• SB 8.11.14 The greatly powerful Jambhāsura, carried by a lion, approached Indra and forcefully struck him on the shoulder with his club. He also…
• SB 8.11.15 Being beaten by Jambhāsura’s club, Indra’s elephant was confused and aggrieved. Thus it touched its knees to the ground and fell…
• SB 8.11.16 Thereafter, Mātali, Indra’s chariot driver, brought Indra’s chariot, which was drawn by one thousand horses. Indra then left his elephant…
• SB 8.11.17 Appreciating Mātali’s service, Jambhāsura, the best of the demons, smiled. Nonetheless, he struck Mātali in the battle with a trident of…
• SB 8.11.18 Although the pain was extremely severe, Mātali tolerated it with great patience. Indra, however, became extremely angry at Jambhāsura. He…
• SB 8.11.19 When Nārada Ṛṣi informed Jambhāsura’s friends and relatives that Jambhāsura had been killed, the three demons named Namuci, Bala and Pāka…
• SB 8.11.20 Rebuking Indra with harsh, cruel words that were piercing to the heart, these demons showered him with arrows, just as torrents of rain…
• SB 8.11.21 Quickly handling the situation on the battlefield, the demon Bala put all of Indra’s one thousand horses into tribulation by…
• SB 8.11.22 Pāka, another demon, attacked both the chariot, with all its paraphernalia, and the chariot driver, Mātali, by fitting two hundred arrows…
• SB 8.11.23 Then Namuci, another demon, attacked Indra and injured him with fifteen very powerful golden-feathered arrows, which roared like a cloud…
• SB 8.11.24 Other demons covered Indra, along with his chariot and chariot driver, with incessant showers of arrows, just as clouds cover the sun in…
• SB 8.11.25 The demigods, being severely oppressed by their enemies and being unable to see Indra on the battlefield, were very anxious. Having no…
• SB 8.11.26 Thereafter, Indra released himself from the cage of the network of arrows. Appearing with his chariot, flag, horses and chariot driver and…
• SB 8.11.27 When Indra, who is known as Vajra-dhara, the carrier of the thunderbolt, saw his own soldiers so oppressed by the enemies on the…
• SB 8.11.28 O King Parīkṣit, King Indra used his thunderbolt to cut off the heads of both Bala and Pāka in the presence of all their relatives and…
• SB 8.11.29 O King, when Namuci, another demon, saw the killing of both Bala and Pāka, he was full of grief and lamentation. Thus he angrily made a…
• SB 8.11.30 Being angry and roaring like a lion, the demon Namuci took up a steel spear, which was bound with bells and decorated with ornaments of…
• SB 8.11.31 O King, when Indra, King of heaven, saw this very powerful spear falling toward the ground like a blazing meteor, he immediately cut it to…
• SB 8.11.32 Although King Indra hurled his thunderbolt at Namuci with great force, it could not even pierce his skin. It is very wonderful that the…
• SB 8.11.33 When Indra saw the thunderbolt return from the enemy, he was very much afraid. He began to wonder whether this had happened because of…
• SB 8.11.34 Indra thought: Formerly, when many mountains flying in the sky with wings would fall to the ground and kill people, I cut their wings with…
• SB 8.11.35 Vṛtrāsura was the essence of the austerities undergone by Tvaṣṭā, yet the thunderbolt killed him. Indeed, not only he but also many other…
• SB 8.11.36 But now, although the same thunderbolt has been released against a less important demon, it has been ineffectual. Therefore, although it…
• SB 8.11.37 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: While the morose Indra was lamenting in this way, an ominous, unembodied voice said from the sky, “This demon…
• SB 8.11.38 The voice also said, “O Indra, because I have given this demon the benediction that he will never be killed by any weapon that is dry or…
• SB 8.11.39 After hearing the ominous voice, Indra, with great attention, began to meditate on how to kill the demon. He then saw that foam would be…
• SB 8.11.40 Thus Indra, King of heaven, severed Namuci’s head with a weapon of foam, which was neither dry nor moist. Then all the sages satisfied…
• SB 8.11.41 Viśvāvasu and Parāvasu, the two chiefs of the Gandharvas, sang in great happiness. The kettledrums of the demigods sounded, and the…
• SB 8.11.42 Vāyu, Agni, Varuṇa and other demigods began killing the demons who opposed them, just as lions kill deer in a forest.
• SB 8.11.43 O King, when Lord Brahmā saw the imminent total annihilation of the demons, he sent a message with Nārada, who went before the demigods to…
• SB 8.11.45 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Accepting the words of Nārada, the demigods gave up their anger and stopped fighting. Being praised by their…
• SB 8.11.46 Following the order of Nārada Muni, whatever demons remained on the battlefield took Bali Mahārāja, who was in a precarious condition, to…
• SB 8.11.47 There, on that hill, Śukrācārya brought to life all the dead demoniac soldiers who had not lost their heads, trunks and limbs. He achieved…
• SB 8.11.48 Bali Mahārāja was very experienced in universal affairs. When he regained his senses and memory by the grace of Śukrācārya, he could…
• SB 8.12.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, in the form of a woman, captivated the demons and enabled the demigods to…
• SB 8.12.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead welcomed Lord Śiva and Umā with great respect, and after being seated comfortably, Lord Śiva duly…
• SB 8.12.4 Lord Mahādeva said: O chief demigod among the demigods, O all-pervading Lord, master of the universe, by Your energy You are transformed…
• SB 8.12.5 The manifest, the unmanifest, false ego and the beginning, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation all come from You,…
• SB 8.12.6 Pure devotees or great saintly persons who desire to achieve the highest goal in life and who are completely free from all material…
• SB 8.12.7 My Lord, You are the Supreme Brahman, complete in everything. Being completely spiritual, You are eternal, free from the material modes of…
• SB 8.12.8 My dear Lord, Your Lordship alone is the cause and the effect. Therefore, although You appear to be two, You are the absolute one. As…
• SB 8.12.9 Those who are known as the impersonalist Vedāntists regard You as the impersonal Brahman. Others, known as the Mīmāṁsaka philosophers,…
• SB 8.12.10 O my Lord, I, who am considered to be the best of the demigods, and Lord Brahmā and the great ṛṣis, headed by Marīci, are born of the mode…
• SB 8.12.11 My Lord, You are the supreme knowledge personified. You know everything about this creation and its beginning, maintenance and…
• SB 8.12.12 My Lord, I have seen all kinds of incarnations You have exhibited by Your transcendental qualities, and now that You have appeared as a…
• SB 8.12.13 My Lord, we have come here desiring to see that form of Your Lordship which You showed to the demons to captivate them completely and in…
• SB 8.12.14 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Lord Viṣṇu was thus requested by Lord Śiva, who carries a trident in his hand, He smiled with gravity and…
• SB 8.12.41 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, having thus been praised by the Supreme Personality, who bears the mark of Śrīvatsa on His chest, Lord Śiva…
• SB 8.12.42 O descendant of Bharata Mahārāja, Lord Śiva, in jubilation, then addressed his wife, Bhavānī, who is accepted by all authorities as the…
• SB 8.12.43 Lord Śiva said: O Goddess, you have now seen the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the unborn master of…
• SB 8.12.44 When I finished performing mystic yoga for one thousand years, you asked me upon whom I was meditating. Now, here is that Supreme Person…
• SB 8.12.45 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, the person who bore the great mountain on His back for the churning of the Ocean of Milk is the same…
• SB 8.12.46 The endeavor of one who constantly hears or describes this narration of the churning of the Ocean of Milk will never be fruitless. Indeed,…
• SB 8.12.47 Assuming the form of a young woman and thus bewildering the demons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead distributed to His devotees, the…
• SB 8.13.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The present Manu, who is named Śrāddhadeva, is the son of Vivasvān, the predominating deity on the sun planet.…
• SB 8.13.2-3 O King Parīkṣit, among the ten sons of Manu are Ikṣvāku, Nabhaga, Dhṛṣṭa, Śaryāti, Nariṣyanta and Nābhāga. The seventh son is known as…
• SB 8.13.4 In this manvantara, O King, the Ādityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the Viśvedevas, the Maruts, the two Aśvinī-kumāra brothers and the Ṛbhus…
• SB 8.13.5 Kaśyapa, Atri, Vasiṣṭha, Viśvāmitra, Gautama, Jamadagni and Bharadvāja are known as the seven sages.
• SB 8.13.6 In this manvantara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as the youngest of all the Ādityas, known as Vāmana, the dwarf. His father…
• SB 8.13.7 I have briefly explained to you the position of the seven Manus. Now I shall describe the future Manus, along with the incarnations of…
• SB 8.13.8 O King, I have previously described [in the Sixth Canto] the two daughters of Viśvakarmā, named Saṁjñā and Chāyā, who were the first two…
• SB 8.13.9 It is said that the sun-god had a third wife, named Vaḍavā. Of the three wives, the wife named Saṁjñā had three children — Yama, Yamī and…
• SB 8.13.10 Chāyā had a son named Sāvarṇi and a daughter named Tapatī, who later became the wife of King Saṁvaraṇa. Chāyā’s third child is known as…
• SB 8.13.11 O King, when the period of the eighth Manu arrives, Sāvarṇi will become the Manu. Nirmoka and Virajaska will be among his sons.
• SB 8.13.12 In the period of the eighth Manu, among the demigods will be the Sutapās, the Virajas and the Amṛtaprabhas. The king of the demigods,…
• SB 8.13.13 Bali Mahārāja gave a gift of three paces of land to Lord Viṣṇu, and because of this charity he lost all the three worlds. Later, however,…
• SB 8.13.14 With great affection, the Personality of Godhead bound Bali and then installed him in the kingdom of Sutala, which is more opulent than…
• SB 8.13.15-16 O King, during the eighth manvantara, the great personalities Gālava, Dīptimān, Paraśurāma, Aśvatthāmā, Kṛpācārya, Ṛṣyaśṛṅga and our…
• SB 8.13.17 In the eighth manvantara, the greatly powerful Personality of Godhead Sārvabhauma will take birth. His father will be Devaguhya, and His…
• SB 8.13.18 O King, the ninth Manu will be Dakṣa-sāvarṇi, who is born of Varuṇa. Among his sons will be Bhūtaketu, and Dīptaketu.
• SB 8.13.19 In this ninth manvantara, the Pāras and Marīcigarbhas will be among the demigods. The king of heaven, Indra, will be named Adbhuta, and…
• SB 8.13.20 Ṛṣabhadeva, a partial incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, will take birth from his father, Āyuṣmān, and his mother,…
• SB 8.13.21 The son of Upaśloka known as Brahma-sāvarṇi will be the tenth Manu. Bhūriṣeṇa will be among his sons, and the brāhmaṇas headed by Haviṣmān…
• SB 8.13.22 Haviṣmān, Sukṛta, Satya, Jaya, Mūrti and others will be the seven sages, the Suvāsanas and Viruddhas will be among the demigods, and…
• SB 8.13.23 In the home of Viśvasraṣṭā, a plenary portion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead will appear from the womb of Viṣūcī as the incarnation…
• SB 8.13.24 In the eleventh manvantara, the Manu will be Dharma-sāvarṇi, who will be extremely learned in spiritual knowledge. From him there will…
• SB 8.13.25 The Vihaṅgamas, Kāmagamas, Nirvāṇarucis and others will be the demigods. The king of the demigods, Indra, will be Vaidhṛta, and the seven…
• SB 8.13.26 The son of Āryaka known as Dharmasetu, a partial incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, will appear from the womb of Vaidhṛtā,…
• SB 8.13.27 O King, the twelfth Manu will be named Rudra-sāvarṇi. Devavān, Upadeva and Devaśreṣṭha will be among his sons.
• SB 8.13.28 In this manvantara, the name of Indra will be Ṛtadhāmā, and the demigods will be headed by the Haritas. Among the sages will be Tapomūrti,…
• SB 8.13.29 From the mother named Sunṛtā and the father named Satyasahā will come Svadhāmā, a partial incarnation of the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 8.13.30 The thirteenth Manu will be named Deva-sāvarṇi, and he will be very advanced in spiritual knowledge. Among his sons will be Citrasena and…
• SB 8.13.31 In the thirteenth manvantara, the Sukarmās and Sutrāmas will be among the demigods, Divaspati will be the king of heaven, and Nirmoka and…
• SB 8.13.32 The son of Devahotra known as Yogeśvara will appear as a partial incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. His mother’s name will…
• SB 8.13.33 The name of the fourteenth Manu will be Indra-sāvarṇi. He will have sons like Uru, Gambhīra and Budha.
• SB 8.13.34 The Pavitras and Cākṣuṣas will be among the demigods, and Śuci will be Indra, the king of heaven. Agni, Bāhu, Śuci, Śuddha, Māgadha and…
• SB 8.13.35 O King Parīkṣit, in the fourteenth manvantara the Supreme Personality of Godhead will appear from the womb of Vitānā, and His father’s…
• SB 8.13.36 O King, I have now described to you the fourteen Manus appearing in the past, present and future. The total duration of time ruled by…
• SB 8.14.1 Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired: O most opulent Śukadeva Gosvāmī, please explain to me how Manu and the others in each manvantara are engaged…
• SB 8.14.2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The Manus, the sons of Manu, the great sages, the Indras and all the demigods, O King, are appointed by the Supreme…
• SB 8.14.3 O King, I have already described to you various incarnations of the Lord, such as Yajña. The Manus and others are chosen by these…
• SB 8.14.4 At the end of every four yugas, the great saintly persons, upon seeing that the eternal occupational duties of mankind have been misused,…
• SB 8.14.5 Thereafter, O King, the Manus, being fully engaged according to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, directly…
• SB 8.14.6 To enjoy the results of sacrifices [yajñas], the rulers of the world, namely the sons and grandsons of Manu, discharge the orders of the…
• SB 8.14.7 Indra, King of heaven, receiving benedictions from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus enjoying highly developed opulences,…
• SB 8.14.8 In every yuga, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, assumes the form of Siddhas such as Sanaka to preach transcendental knowledge, He…
• SB 8.14.9 In the form of Prajāpati Marīci, the Supreme Personality of Godhead creates progeny; becoming the king, He kills the thieves and rogues;…
• SB 8.14.10 People in general are bewildered by the illusory energy, and therefore they try to find the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 8.14.11 In one kalpa, or one day of Brahmā, there take place the many changes called vikalpas. O King, all of these have been previously described…
• SB 8.15.1-2 Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the proprietor of everything. Why did He beg three paces of land from…
• SB 8.15.3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, when Bali Mahārāja lost all his opulence and died in the fight, Śukrācārya, a descendant of Bhṛgu Muni,…
• SB 8.15.4 The brāhmaṇa descendants of Bhṛgu Muni were very pleased with Bali Mahārāja, who desired to conquer the kingdom of Indra. Therefore, after…
• SB 8.15.5 When ghee [clarified butter] was offered in the fire of sacrifice, there appeared from the fire a celestial chariot covered with gold and…
• SB 8.15.6 A gilded bow, two quivers of infallible arrows, and celestial armor also appeared. Bali Mahārāja’s grandfather Prahlāda Mahārāja offered…
• SB 8.15.7 When Mahārāja Bali had thus performed the special ritualistic ceremony advised by the brāhmaṇas and had received, by their grace, the…
• SB 8.15.8-9 Then, after getting on the chariot given by Śukrācārya, Bali Mahārāja, decorated with a nice garland, put protective armor on his body,…
• SB 8.15.10-11 When he assembled with his own soldiers and the demon chiefs, who were equal to him in strength, opulence and beauty, they appeared as if…
• SB 8.15.12 King Indra’s city was full of pleasing orchards and gardens, such as the Nandana garden. Because of the weight of the flowers, leaves and…
• SB 8.15.13 Beautiful women protected by the demigods sported in the gardens, which had lotus ponds full of swans, cranes, cakravākas and ducks.
• SB 8.15.14 The city was surrounded by trenches full of Ganges water, known as Ākāśa-gaṅgā, and by a high wall, which was the color of fire. Upon this…
• SB 8.15.15 The doors were made of solid gold plates, and the gates were of excellent marble. These were linked by various public roads. The entire…
• SB 8.15.16 The city was full of courtyards, wide roads, assembly houses, and not less than one hundred million airplanes. The crossroads were made of…
• SB 8.15.17 Everlastingly beautiful and youthful women, who were dressed with clean garments, glittered in the city like fires with flames. They all…
• SB 8.15.18 The breezes blowing in the streets of the city bore the fragrance of the flowers falling from the hair of the women of the demigods.
• SB 8.15.19 Apsarās passed on the streets, which were covered with the white, fragrant smoke of aguru incense emanating from windows with golden…
• SB 8.15.20 The city was shaded by canopies decorated with pearls, and the domes of the palaces had flags of pearl and gold. The city always resounded…
• SB 8.15.21 The city was filled with the sounds of mṛdaṅgas, conchshells, kettledrums, flutes and well-tuned stringed instruments all playing in…
• SB 8.15.22 No one who was sinful, envious, violent toward other living entities, cunning, falsely proud, lusty or greedy could enter that city. The…
• SB 8.15.23 Bali Mahārāja, who was the commander of numberless soldiers, gathered his soldiers outside this abode of Indra and attacked it from all…
• SB 8.15.24 Seeing Bali Mahārāja’s indefatigable endeavor and understanding his motive, King Indra, along with the other demigods, approached his…
• SB 8.15.25 My lord, our old enemy Bali Mahārāja now has new enthusiasm, and he has obtained such astonishing power that we think that perhaps we…
• SB 8.15.26 No one anywhere can counteract this military arrangement of Bali’s. It now appears that Bali is trying to drink up the entire universe…
• SB 8.15.27 Kindly inform me. What is the cause for Bali Mahārāja’s strength, endeavor, influence and victory? How has he become so enthusiastic?
• SB 8.15.28 Bṛhaspati, the spiritual master of the demigods, said: O Indra, I know the cause for your enemy’s becoming so powerful. The brāhmaṇa…
• SB 8.15.29 Neither you nor your men can conquer the most powerful Bali. Indeed, no one but the Supreme Personality of Godhead can conquer him, for he…
• SB 8.15.30 Therefore, waiting until the situation of your enemies is reversed, you should all leave this heavenly planet and go elsewhere, where you…
• SB 8.15.31 Bali Mahārāja has now become extremely powerful because of the benedictions given him by the brāhmaṇas, but when he later insults the…
• SB 8.15.32 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The demigods, being thus advised by Bṛhaspati for their benefit, immediately accepted his words. Assuming…
• SB 8.15.33 When the demigods had disappeared, Bali Mahārāja, the son of Virocana, entered the heavenly kingdom, and from there he brought the three…
• SB 8.15.34 The brāhmaṇa descendants of Bhṛgu, being very pleased with their disciple, who had conquered the entire universe, now engaged him in…
• SB 8.15.35 When Bali Mahārāja performed these sacrifices, he gained a great reputation in all directions, throughout the three worlds. Thus he shone…
• SB 8.15.36 Because of the favor of the brāhmaṇas, the great soul Bali Mahārāja, thinking himself very satisfied, became very opulent and prosperous…
• SB 8.16.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, when Aditi’s sons, the demigods, had thus disappeared from heaven and the demons had occupied their places,…
• SB 8.16.2 After many, many days, the great powerful sage Kaśyapa Muni arose from a trance of meditation and returned home to see the āśrama of Aditi…
• SB 8.16.3 O best of the Kurus, when Kaśyapa Muni had been properly received and welcomed, he took his seat and then spoke as follows to his wife,…
• SB 8.16.4 O most gentle one, I wonder whether anything inauspicious has now taken place in regard to religious principles, the brāhmaṇas or the…
• SB 8.16.5 O my wife, who are very much attached to household life, if the principles of religion, economic development and satisfaction of the…
• SB 8.16.6 I wonder whether because of being too attached to the members of your family, you failed to properly receive uninvited guests, who…
• SB 8.16.7 Homes from which guests go away without having been received even with an offering of a little water are like those holes in the field…
• SB 8.16.8 O chaste and auspicious woman, when I left home for other places, were you in so much anxiety that you did not offer oblations of ghee…
• SB 8.16.9 By worshiping the fire and the brāhmaṇas, a householder can achieve the desired goal of residing in the higher planets, for the…
• SB 8.16.10 O great-minded lady, are all your sons faring well? Seeing your withered face, I can perceive that your mind is not tranquil. How is this…
• SB 8.16.11 Aditi said: O my respected brāhmaṇa husband, all is well with the brāhmaṇas, the cows, religion and the welfare of other people. O master…
• SB 8.16.12 O beloved husband, the fires, guests, servants and beggars are all being properly cared for by me. Because I always think of you, there is…
• SB 8.16.13 O my lord, since you are a Prajāpati and are personally my instructor in the principles of religion, where is the possibility that all my…
• SB 8.16.14 O son of Marīci, because you are a great personality you are equal toward all the demons and demigods, who are born either from your body…
• SB 8.16.15 Therefore, most gentle lord, kindly favor your maidservant. We have now been deprived of our opulence and residence by our competitors,…
• SB 8.16.16 The demons, our formidably powerful enemies, have taken away our opulence, our beauty, our fame and even our residence. Indeed, we have…
• SB 8.16.17 O best of sages, best of all those who grant auspicious benedictions, please consider our situation and bestow upon my sons the…
• SB 8.16.18 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When Kaśyapa Muni was thus requested by Aditi, he slightly smiled. “Alas,” he said, “how powerful is the…
• SB 8.16.19 Kaśyapa Muni continued: What is this material body, made of five elements? It is different from the spirit soul. Indeed, the spirit soul…
• SB 8.16.20 My dear Aditi, engage in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the master of everything, who can subdue…
• SB 8.16.21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is very merciful to the poor, will fulfill all of your desires, for devotional service unto Him is…
• SB 8.16.22 Śrīmatī Aditi said: O brāhmaṇa, tell me the regulative principles by which I may worship the supreme master of the world so that He will…
• SB 8.16.23 O best of the brāhmaṇas, kindly instruct me in the perfect method of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead in devotional service,…
• SB 8.16.24 Śrī Kaśyapa Muni said: When I desired offspring, I placed inquiries before Lord Brahmā, who is born from a lotus flower. Now I shall…
• SB 8.16.25 In the bright fortnight of the month of Phālguna [February and March], for twelve days ending with Dvādaśī, one should observe the vow of…
• SB 8.16.26 If dirt dug up by a boar is available, on the day of the dark moon one should smear this dirt on his body and then bathe in a flowing…
• SB 8.16.27 O mother earth, you were raised by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the form of a boar because of your desiring to have a place to…
• SB 8.16.28 Thereafter, one should perform his daily spiritual duties and then, with great attention, offer worship to the Deity of the Supreme…
• SB 8.16.29 O Supreme Personality of Godhead, greatest of all, who lives in everyone’s heart and in whom everyone lives, O witness of everything, O…
• SB 8.16.30 I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Person. Being very subtle, You are never visible to material eyes. You are the…
• SB 8.16.31 I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who have two heads [prāyaṇīya and udāyanīya], three legs…
• SB 8.16.32 I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, Lord Śiva, or Rudra, who are the reservoir of all potencies, the reservoir of all knowledge,…
• SB 8.16.33 I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are situated as Hiraṇyagarbha, the source of life, the Supersoul of every living entity.…
• SB 8.16.34 I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are the original Personality of Godhead, the witness in everyone’s heart, and the…
• SB 8.16.35 My Lord, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are dressed in yellow garments, whose bodily hue resembles the marakata gem, and…
• SB 8.16.36 O most exalted and worshipable Lord, best of those who bestow benediction, You can fulfill the desires of everyone, and therefore those…
• SB 8.16.37 All the demigods, as well as the goddess of fortune, engage in the service of His lotus feet. Indeed, they respect the fragrance of those…
• SB 8.16.38 Kaśyapa Muni continued: By chanting all these mantras, welcoming the Supreme Personality of Godhead with faith and devotion, and offering…
• SB 8.16.39 In the beginning, the devotee should chant the dvādaśākṣara-mantra and offer flower garlands, incense and so on. After worshiping the Lord…
• SB 8.16.40 If one can afford to, one should offer the Deity fine rice boiled in milk with clarified butter and molasses. While chanting the same…
• SB 8.16.41 One should offer all the prasāda to a Vaiṣṇava or offer him some of the prasāda and then take some oneself. After this, one should offer…
• SB 8.16.42 Thereafter, one should silently murmur the mantra 108 times and offer prayers to the Lord for His glorification. Then one should…
• SB 8.16.43 After touching to one’s head all the flowers and water offered to the Deity, one should throw them into a sacred place. Then one should…
• SB 8.16.44-45 One should perfectly honor the respectable brāhmaṇas one has fed, and then, after taking their permission, one should take prasāda with…
• SB 8.16.46 Worshiping Lord Viṣṇu with great faith and devotion and living only by drinking milk, one should follow this vow. One should also offer…
• SB 8.16.47 In this way, until twelve days have passed, one should observe this payo-vrata, worshiping the Lord every day, executing the routine…
• SB 8.16.48 From pratipat until the thirteenth day of the next bright moon [śukla-trayodaśī], one should observe complete celibacy, sleep on the…
• SB 8.16.49 During this period, one should not unnecessarily talk of material subjects or topics of sense gratification, one should be completely free…
• SB 8.16.50 Thereafter, following the directions of the śāstra with help from brāhmaṇas who know the śāstra, on the thirteenth day of the moon one…
• SB 8.16.51-52 Giving up the miserly habit of not spending money, one should arrange for the gorgeous worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 8.16.53 One should satisfy the spiritual master [ācārya], who is very learned in Vedic literature, and should satisfy his assistant priests [known…
• SB 8.16.54 O most auspicious lady, one should perform all the ceremonies under the direction of learned ācāryas and should satisfy them and their…
• SB 8.16.55 One should satisfy the spiritual master and assistant priests by giving them cloth, ornaments, cows and also some monetary contribution.…
• SB 8.16.56 One should distribute viṣṇu-prasāda to everyone, including the poor man, the blind man, the nondevotee and the non-brāhmaṇa. Knowing that…
• SB 8.16.57 Every day from pratipat to trayodaśī, one should continue the ceremony, to the accompaniment of dancing, singing, the beating of a drum,…
• SB 8.16.58 This is the religious ritualistic ceremony known as payo-vrata, by which one may worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I received…
• SB 8.16.59 O most fortunate lady, establishing your mind in a good spirit, execute this process of payo-vrata and thus worship the Supreme…
• SB 8.16.60 This payo-vrata is also known as sarva-yajña. In other words, by performing this sacrifice one can perform all other sacrifices…
• SB 8.16.61 This is the best process for pleasing the transcendental Supreme Personality of Godhead, known as Adhokṣaja. It is the best of all…
• SB 8.16.62 Therefore, my dear gentle lady, follow this ritualistic vow, strictly observing the regulative principles. By this process, the Supreme…
• SB 8.17.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, after Aditi was thus advised by her husband, Kaśyapa Muni, she strictly followed his instructions without…
• SB 8.17.2-3 With full, undiverted attention, Aditi thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and in this way brought under full control her mind…
• SB 8.17.4 My dear King, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, dressed in yellow garments and bearing a conchshell, disc, club and lotus in…
• SB 8.17.5 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead became visible to Aditi’s eyes, Aditi was so overwhelmed by transcendental bliss that she at once…
• SB 8.17.6 Aditi stood silently with folded hands, unable to offer prayers to the Lord. Because of transcendental bliss, tears filled her eyes, and…
• SB 8.17.7 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the demigoddess Aditi then began offering her prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead in a faltering voice and…
• SB 8.17.8 The goddess Aditi said: O master and enjoyer of all sacrificial ceremonies, O infallible and most famous person, whose name, when chanted,…
• SB 8.17.9 My Lord, You are the all-pervading universal form, the fully independent creator, maintainer and destroyer of this universe. Although You…
• SB 8.17.10 O unlimited one, if Your Lordship is satisfied, one can very easily obtain a lifetime as long as that of Lord Brahmā, a body either in the…
• SB 8.17.11 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, best of the Bharata dynasty, when the lotus-eyed Lord, the Supersoul of all living entities, was…
• SB 8.17.21 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After speaking in this way, the Supreme Personality of Godhead disappeared from that very spot. Aditi, having…
• SB 8.17.22 Being situated in a meditational trance, Kaśyapa Muni, whose vision is never mistaken, could see that a plenary portion of the Supreme…
• SB 8.17.23 O King, as the wind promotes friction between two pieces of wood and thus gives rise to fire, Kaśyapa Muni, whose transcendental position…
• SB 8.17.24 When Lord Brahmā understood that the Supreme Personality of Godhead was now within the womb of Aditi, he began to offer prayers to the…
• SB 8.18.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After Lord Brahmā had thus spoken, glorifying the Supreme Lord’s activities and prowess, the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 8.18.2 The body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, blackish in complexion, was free from all inebrieties. His lotus face, decorated with…
• SB 8.18.3 An uncommonly beautiful garland of flowers decorated His bosom, and because the flowers were extremely fragrant, a large group of bees,…
• SB 8.18.4 At that time, there was happiness in all directions, in the reservoirs of water like the rivers and oceans, and in the core of everyone’s…
• SB 8.18.5 On the day of Śravaṇa-dvādaśī [the twelfth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Bhādra], when the moon came into the lunar mansion…
• SB 8.18.6 O King, when the Lord appeared — on dvādaśī, the twelfth day of the moon — the sun was at the meridian, as every learned scholar knows.…
• SB 8.18.7 Conchshells, kettledrums, drums, paṇavas and ānakas vibrated in concert. The sound of these and various other instruments was tumultuous.
• SB 8.18.8 Being very pleased, the celestial dancing girls [Apsarās] danced in jubilation, the best of the Gandharvas sang songs, and the great…
• SB 8.18.9-10 The Siddhas, Vidyādharas, Kimpuruṣas, Kinnaras, Cāraṇas, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, Suparṇas, the best of serpents, and the followers of the…
• SB 8.18.11 When Aditi saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had appeared from her own womb, having accepted a transcendental body by His own…
• SB 8.18.12 The Lord appeared in His original form, with ornaments and weapons in His hands. Although this ever-existing form is not visible in the…
• SB 8.18.13 When the great sages saw the Lord as the brahmacārī-dwarf Vāmana, they were certainly very pleased. Thus they placed before them Kaśyapa…
• SB 8.18.14 At the sacred thread ceremony of Vāmanadeva, the sun-god personally uttered the Gāyatrī mantra, Bṛhaspati offered the sacred thread, and…
• SB 8.18.15 Mother earth gave Him a deerskin, and the demigod of the moon, who is the king of the forest, gave Him a brahma-daṇḍa [the rod of a…
• SB 8.18.16 O King, Lord Brahmā offered a waterpot to the inexhaustible Supreme Personality of Godhead, the seven sages offered Him kuśa grass, and…
• SB 8.18.17 When Vāmanadeva had thus been given the sacred thread, Kuvera, King of the Yakṣas, gave Him a pot for begging alms, and mother Bhagavatī,…
• SB 8.18.18 Having thus been welcomed by everyone, Lord Vāmanadeva, the best of the brahmacārīs, exhibited His Brahman effulgence. Thus He surpassed…
• SB 8.18.19 After Lord Śrī Vāmanadeva set a sacrificial fire, He offered worship and performed a fire sacrifice on the sacrificial field.
• SB 8.18.20 When the Lord heard that Bali Mahārāja was performing aśvamedha sacrifices under the patronage of brāhmaṇas belonging to the Bhṛgu…
• SB 8.18.21 While engaged in performing the sacrifice in the field known as Bhṛgukaccha, on the northern bank of the Narmadā River, the brahminical…
• SB 8.18.22 O King, because of Vāmanadeva’s bright effulgence, the priests, along with Bali Mahārāja and all the members of the assembly, were robbed…
• SB 8.18.23 While the priests of the Bhṛgu dynasty and their disciples talked and argued in various ways, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 8.18.24-25 Appearing as a brāhmaṇa boy, wearing a belt of straw, a sacred thread, an upper garment of deerskin, and matted locks of hair, Lord…
• SB 8.18.26 Bali Mahārāja, jubilant at seeing Lord Vāmanadeva, whose beautiful limbs contributed equally to the beauty of His entire body, offered Him…
• SB 8.18.27 Thus offering a proper reception to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is always beautiful to the liberated souls, Bali Mahārāja…
• SB 8.18.28 Lord Śiva, the best of demigods, who carries on his forehead the emblem of the moon, receives on his head with great devotion the Ganges…
• SB 8.18.29 Bali Mahārāja then said to Lord Vāmanadeva: O brāhmaṇa, I offer You my hearty welcome and my respectful obeisances. Please let us know…
• SB 8.18.30 O my Lord, because You have kindly arrived at our home, all my forefathers are satisfied, our family and entire dynasty have been…
• SB 8.18.31 O son of a brāhmaṇa, today the fire of sacrifice is ablaze according to the injunction of the śāstra, and I have been freed from all the…
• SB 8.18.32 O son of a brāhmaṇa, it appears that You have come here to ask me for something. Therefore, whatever You want You may take from me. O best…
• SB 8.19.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāmanadeva, heard Bali Mahārāja speaking in this pleasing way, He was…
• SB 8.20.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, when Bali Mahārāja was thus advised by his spiritual master, Śukrācārya, his family priest, he…
• SB 8.20.2 Bali Mahārāja said: As you have already stated, the principle of religion that does not hinder one’s economic development, sense…
• SB 8.20.3 I am the grandson of Mahārāja Prahlāda. How can I withdraw my promise because of greed for money when I have already said that I shall…
• SB 8.20.4 There is nothing more sinful than untruthfulness. Because of this, mother earth once said, “I can bear any heavy thing except a person who…
• SB 8.20.5 I do not fear hell, poverty, an ocean of distress, falldown from my position or even death itself as much as I fear cheating a brāhmaṇa.
• SB 8.20.6 My lord, you can also see that all the material opulences of this world are certainly separated from their possessor at death. Therefore,…
• SB 8.20.7 Dadhīci, Śibi and many other great personalities were willing to sacrifice even their lives for the benefit of the people in general. This…
• SB 8.20.8 O best of the brāhmaṇas, certainly the great demoniac kings who were never reluctant to fight enjoyed this world, but in due course of…
• SB 8.20.9 O best of the brāhmaṇas, many men have laid down their lives on the battlefield, being unafraid of fighting, but rarely has one gotten the…
• SB 8.20.10 By giving charity, a benevolent and merciful person undoubtedly becomes even more auspicious, especially when he gives charity to a person…
• SB 8.20.11 O great sage, great saintly persons like you, being completely aware of the Vedic principles for performing ritualistic ceremonies and…
• SB 8.20.12 Although He is Viṣṇu Himself, out of fear He has covered Himself in the form of a brāhmaṇa to come to me begging. Under the circumstances,…
• SB 8.20.13 If this brāhmaṇa really is Lord Viṣṇu, who is worshiped by Vedic hymns, He would never give up His widespread reputation; either He would…
• SB 8.20.14 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thereafter, the spiritual master, Śukrācārya, being inspired by the Supreme Lord, cursed his exalted…
• SB 8.20.15 Although you have no knowledge, you have become a so-called learned person, and therefore you dare be so impudent as to disobey my order.…
• SB 8.20.16 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Even after being cursed in this way by his own spiritual master, Bali Mahārāja, being a great personality,…
• SB 8.20.17 Bali Mahārāja’s wife, known as Vindhyāvali, who was decorated with a necklace of pearls, immediately came and had a large golden waterpot…
• SB 8.20.18 Bali Mahārāja, the worshiper of Lord Vāmanadeva, jubilantly washed the Lord’s lotus feet and then took the water on his head, for that…
• SB 8.20.19 At that time, the residents of the higher planetary system, namely the demigods, the Gandharvas, the Vidyādharas, the Siddhas and the…
• SB 8.20.20 The Gandharvas, the Kimpuruṣas and the Kinnaras sounded thousands and thousands of kettledrums and trumpets again and again, and they sang…
• SB 8.20.21 The unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had assumed the form of Vāmana, then began increasing in size, acting in terms of the…
• SB 8.20.22 Bali Mahārāja, along with all the priests, ācāryas and members of the assembly, observed the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s universal…
• SB 8.20.23 Thereafter, Bali Mahārāja, who was occupying the seat of King Indra, could see the lower planetary systems, such as Rasātala, on the soles…
• SB 8.20.24 Bali Mahārāja saw beneath the garments of the Lord, who acts wonderfully, the evening twilight. In the Lord’s private parts he saw the…
• SB 8.20.25-29 My dear King, on the heart of Lord Murāri he saw religion; on the chest, both pleasing words and truthfulness; in the mind, the moon; on…
• SB 8.20.30 O King, when all the demons, the followers of Mahārāja Bali, saw the universal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who held…
• SB 8.20.31 The Lord’s conchshell, named Pāñcajanya, which made sounds like that of a cloud; the very forceful club named Kaumodakī; the sword named…
• SB 8.20.32-33 These associates, headed by Sunanda and other chief associates and accompanied by all the predominating deities of the various planets,…
• SB 8.20.34 As the Lord took His second step, He covered the heavenly planets. And not even a spot remained for the third step, for the Lord’s foot…
• SB 8.21.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When Lord Brahmā, who was born of a lotus flower, saw that the effulgence of his residence, Brahmaloka, had…
• SB 8.21.2-3 Among the great personalities who came to worship the lotus feet of the Lord were those who had attained perfection in self-control and…
• SB 8.21.4 O King, the water from Lord Brahmā’s kamaṇḍalu washed the lotus feet of Lord Vāmanadeva, who is known as Urukrama, the wonderful actor.…
• SB 8.21.5 Lord Brahmā and all the predominating deities of the various planetary systems began to worship Lord Vāmanadeva, their supreme master, who…
• SB 8.21.6-7 They worshiped the Lord by offering fragrant flowers, water, pādya and arghya, sandalwood pulp and aguru pulp, incense, lamps, fused rice,…
• SB 8.21.8 Jāmbavān, king of the bears, also joined in the ceremony. Sounding his bugle in all directions, he declared a great festival for Lord…
• SB 8.21.9 When the demoniac followers of Mahārāja Bali saw that their master, who had been determined in performing sacrifice, had lost all his…
• SB 8.21.10 “This Vāmana is certainly not a brāhmaṇa but the best of cheaters, Lord Viṣṇu. Assuming the form of a brāhmaṇa, He has covered His own…
• SB 8.21.11 “Our lord, Bali Mahārāja, because of his position in performing the yajña, has given up the power to punish. Taking advantage of this, our…
• SB 8.21.12 “Our lord, Bali Mahārāja, is always fixed in truthfulness, and this is especially so at present, since he has been initiated into…
• SB 8.21.13 “Therefore it is our duty to kill this Vāmanadeva, Lord Viṣṇu. It is our religious principle and the way to serve our master.” After…
• SB 8.21.14 O King, the demons, aggravated by their usual anger, took their lances and tridents in hand, and against the will of Bali Mahārāja they…
• SB 8.21.15 O King, when the associates of Lord Viṣṇu saw the soldiers of the demons coming forward in violence, they smiled. Taking up their weapons,…
• SB 8.21.16-17 Nanda, Sunanda, Jaya, Vijaya, Prabala, Bala, Kumuda, Kumudākṣa, Viṣvaksena, Patattrirāṭ [Garuḍa], Jayanta, Śrutadeva, Puṣpadanta and…
• SB 8.21.18 When Bali Mahārāja saw that his own soldiers were being killed by the associates of Lord Viṣṇu, he remembered the curse of Śukrācārya and…
• SB 8.21.19 O Vipracitti, O Rāhu, O Nemi, please hear my words! Don’t fight. Stop immediately, for the present time is not in our favor.
• SB 8.21.20 O Daityas, by human efforts no one can supersede the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can bring happiness and distress to all living…
• SB 8.21.21 The supreme time factor, which represents the Supreme Person, was previously in our favor and not in favor of the demigods, but now that…
• SB 8.21.22 No one can surpass the time representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by material power, by the counsel of ministers, by…
• SB 8.21.23 Previously, being empowered by providence, you defeated a great number of such followers of Lord Viṣṇu. But today those same followers,…
• SB 8.21.24 Unless providence is in our favor, we shall not be able to gain victory. Therefore we must wait for that favorable time when our defeating…
• SB 8.21.25 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, in accordance with the order of their master, Bali Mahārāja, all the chiefs of the demons and the…
• SB 8.21.26 Thereafter, on the day of soma-pāna, after the sacrifice was finished, Garuḍa, king of the birds, understanding the desire of his master,…
• SB 8.21.27 When Bali Mahārāja was thus arrested by Lord Viṣṇu, who is the most powerful, there was a great roar of lamentation in all directions…
• SB 8.21.28 O King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāmanadeva, then spoke to Bali Mahārāja, the most liberal and celebrated personality whom He…
• SB 8.21.29 O King of the demons, you have promised to give Me three steps of land, but I have occupied the entire universe with two steps. Now think…
• SB 8.21.30 As far as the sun and moon shine with the stars and as far as the clouds pour rain, all the land throughout the universe is in your…
• SB 8.21.31 Of these possessions, with one step I have occupied Bhūrloka, and with My body I have occupied the entire sky and all directions. And in…
• SB 8.21.32 Because you have been unable to give charity according to your promise, the rule is that you should go down to live in the hellish…
• SB 8.21.33 Far from being elevated to the heavenly planets or fulfilling one’s desire, one who does not properly give a beggar what he has promised…
• SB 8.21.34 Being falsely proud of your possessions, you promised to give Me land, but you could not fulfill your promise. Therefore, because your…
• SB 8.22.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, although the Supreme Personality of Godhead was superficially seen to have acted mischievously toward Bali…
• SB 8.22.2 Bali Mahārāja said: O best Personality of Godhead, most worshipable for all the demigods, if You think that my promise has become false, I…
• SB 8.22.3 I do not fear being deprived of all my possessions, living in hellish life, being arrested for poverty by the ropes of Varuṇa or being…
• SB 8.22.4 Although a father, mother, brother or friend may sometimes punish one as a well-wisher, they never punish their subordinate like this. But…
• SB 8.22.5 Since Your Lordship is indirectly the greatest well-wisher of us demons, You act for our best welfare by posing as if our enemy. Because…
• SB 8.22.6-7 Many demons who were continuously inimical toward You finally achieved the perfection of great mystic yogīs. Your Lordship can perform one…
• SB 8.22.8 My grandfather Prahlāda Mahārāja is famous, being recognized by all Your devotees. Although harassed in many ways by his father,…
• SB 8.22.9 What is the use of the material body, which automatically leaves its owner at the end of life? And what is the use of all one’s family…
• SB 8.22.10 My grandfather, the best of all men, who achieved unlimited knowledge and was worshipable for everyone, was afraid of the common men in…
• SB 8.22.11 Only by providence have I been forcibly brought under Your lotus feet and deprived of all my opulence. Because of the illusion created by…
• SB 8.22.12 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O best of the Kurus, while Bali Mahārāja was describing his fortunate position in this way, the most dear devotee…
• SB 8.22.13 Then Bali Mahārāja saw his grandfather Prahlāda Mahārāja, the most fortunate personality, whose dark body resembled black ointment for the…
• SB 8.22.14 Being bound by the ropes of Varuṇa, Bali Mahārāja could not offer befitting respect to Prahlāda Mahārāja as he had before. Rather, he…
• SB 8.22.15 When the great personality Prahlāda Mahārāja saw that the Supreme Lord was sitting there, surrounded and worshiped by His intimate…
• SB 8.22.16 Prahlāda Mahārāja said: My Lord, it is Your Lordship who gave this Bali the very great opulence of the post of heavenly king, and now,…
• SB 8.22.17 Material opulence is so bewildering that it makes even a learned, self-controlled man forget to search for the goal of self-realization.…
• SB 8.22.18 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King Parīkṣit, Lord Brahmā then began to speak to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, within the hearing of…
• SB 8.22.19 But Bali Mahārāja’s chaste wife, afraid and aggrieved at seeing her husband arrested, immediately offered obeisances to Lord Vāmanadeva…
• SB 8.22.20 Śrīmatī Vindhyāvali said: O my Lord, You have created the entire universe for the enjoyment of Your personal pastimes, but foolish,…
• SB 8.23.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the supreme, ancient, eternal Personality of Godhead had thus spoken to Bali Mahārāja, who is universally…
• SB 8.23.2 Bali Mahārāja said: What a wonderful effect there is in even attempting to offer respectful obeisances to You! I merely endeavored to…
• SB 8.23.3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After speaking in this way, Bali Mahārāja offered his obeisances first to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 8.23.4 Thus having delivered the proprietorship of the heavenly planets to Indra and having fulfilled the desire of Aditi, mother of the…
• SB 8.23.5 When Prahlāda Mahārāja heard how Bali Mahārāja, his grandson and descendant, had been released from bondage and had achieved the…
• SB 8.23.6 Prahlāda Mahārāja said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are universally worshiped; even Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva worship Your lotus…
• SB 8.23.7 O supreme shelter of everyone, great personalities like Brahmā enjoy their perfection simply by tasting the honey of rendering service at…
• SB 8.23.8 O my Lord, Your pastimes are all wonderfully performed by Your inconceivable spiritual energy; and by her perverted reflection, the…
• SB 8.23.11-12 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Accompanied by Bali Mahārāja, my dear King Parīkṣit, Prahlāda Mahārāja, the master of all the chiefs of the…
• SB 8.23.13 Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, thereafter addressed Śukrācārya, who was sitting nearby in the midst of the assembly…
• SB 8.23.14 O best of the brāhmaṇas, Śukrācārya, please describe the fault or discrepancy in your disciple Bali Mahārāja, who engaged in performing…
• SB 8.23.15 Śukrācārya said: My Lord, You are the enjoyer and lawgiver in all performances of sacrifice, and You are the yajña-puruṣa, the person to…
• SB 8.23.16 There may be discrepancies in pronouncing the mantras and observing the regulative principles, and, moreover, there may be discrepancies…
• SB 8.23.17 Lord Viṣṇu, I must nonetheless act in obedience to Your order because obeying Your order is most auspicious and is the first duty of…
• SB 8.23.18 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In this way, the most powerful Śukrācārya accepted the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with full…
• SB 8.23.19 O King Parīkṣit, thus having taken all the land of Bali Mahārāja by begging, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Vāmanadeva,…
• SB 8.23.20-21 Lord Brahmā [the master of King Dakṣa and all other Prajāpatis], accompanied by all the demigods, the great saintly persons, the…
• SB 8.23.22-23 O King Parīkṣit, Indra was considered the King of all the universe, but the demigods, headed by Lord Brahmā, wanted Upendra, Lord…
• SB 8.23.24 Thereafter, along with all the leaders of the heavenly planets, Indra, the King of heaven, placed Lord Vāmanadeva before him and, with the…
• SB 8.23.25 Indra, King of heaven, being protected by the arms of Vāmanadeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, thus regained his rule of the three…
• SB 8.23.26-27 Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, Lord Kārttikeya, the great sage Bhṛgu, other saintly persons, the inhabitants of Pitṛloka and all other living…
• SB 8.23.28 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, pleasure of your dynasty, I have now described to you everything about the wonderful activities of the Supreme…
• SB 8.23.29 One who is subject to death cannot measure the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Trivikrama, Lord Viṣṇu, any more than he can…
• SB 8.23.30 If one hears about the uncommon activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His various incarnations, he is certainly elevated to…
• SB 8.23.31 Whenever the activities of Vāmanadeva are described in the course of a ritualistic ceremony, whether the ceremony be performed to please…
• SB 8.24.5 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, for the sake of protecting the cows, brāhmaṇas, demigods, devotees, the Vedic literature, religious…
• SB 8.24.6 Like the air passing through different types of atmosphere, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although appearing sometimes as a human…
• SB 8.24.7 O King Parīkṣit, at the end of the past millennium, at the end of Brahmā’s day, because Lord Brahmā sleeps during the night, annihilation…
• SB 8.24.8 At the end of Brahmā’s day, when Brahmā felt sleepy and desired to lie down, the Vedas were emanating from his mouth, and the great demon…
• SB 8.24.9 Understanding the acts of the great demon Hayagrīva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who is full of all opulences, assumed the…
• SB 8.24.10 During the Cākṣuṣa-manvantara there was a great king named Satyavrata who was a great devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.…
• SB 8.24.11 In this [the present] millennium King Satyavrata later became the son of Vivasvān, the king of the sun planet, and was known as…
• SB 8.24.12 One day while King Satyavrata was performing austerities by offering water on the bank of the river Kṛtamālā, a small fish appeared in the…
• SB 8.24.13 Satyavrata, the King of Draviḍadeśa, threw the fish into the water of the river along with the water in his palm, O King Parīkṣit,…
• SB 8.24.14 With an appealing voice, the poor small fish said to King Satyavrata, who was very merciful: My dear King, protector of the poor, why are…
• SB 8.24.15 To please himself, King Satyavrata, not knowing that the fish was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, decided with great pleasure to give…
• SB 8.24.16 The merciful King, being moved by the pitiable words of the fish, placed the fish in a water jug and brought Him to his own residence.
• SB 8.24.17 But in one night that fish grew so much that He could not move His body comfortably in the water of the pot. He then spoke to the King as…
• SB 8.24.18 O My dear King, I do not like living in this waterpot with such great difficulty. Therefore, please find some better reservoir of water…
• SB 8.24.19 Then, taking the fish out of the waterpot, the King threw Him in a large well. But within a moment the fish developed to the length of…
• SB 8.24.20 The fish then said: My dear King, this reservoir of water is not fit for My happy residence. Please give Me a more extensive pool of…
• SB 8.24.21 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the King took the fish from the well and threw Him in a lake, but the fish then assumed a gigantic form exceeding the…
• SB 8.24.22 The fish then said: O King, I am a large aquatic, and this water is not at all suitable for Me. Now kindly find some way to save Me. It…
• SB 8.24.23 When thus requested, King Satyavrata took the fish to the largest reservoir of water. But when that also proved insufficient, the King at…
• SB 8.24.24 While being thrown in the ocean, the fish said to King Satyavrata: O hero, in this water there are very powerful and dangerous sharks that…
• SB 8.24.25 After hearing these sweet words from the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the form of a fish, the King, being bewildered, asked Him: Who…
• SB 8.24.26 My Lord, in one day You have expanded Yourself for hundreds of miles, covering the water of the river and the ocean. Before this I had…
• SB 8.24.27 My Lord, You are certainly the inexhaustible Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, Śrī Hari. It is to show Your mercy to the living…
• SB 8.24.28 O my Lord, master of creation, maintenance and annihilation, O best of enjoyers, Lord Viṣṇu, You are the leader and destination of…
• SB 8.24.29 All Your pastimes and incarnations certainly appear for the welfare of all living entities. Therefore, my Lord, I wish to know the purpose…
• SB 8.24.30 O my Lord, possessing eyes like the petals of a lotus, the worship of the demigods, who are in the bodily concept of life, is fruitless in…
• SB 8.24.31 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When King Satyavrata spoke in this way, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who at the end of the yuga had assumed…
• SB 9.1.21 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, after the most famous and powerful Vasiṣṭha made this decision, he offered prayers to the Supreme…
• SB 9.1.22 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, being pleased with Vasiṣṭha, gave him the benediction he desired. Thus Ilā was…
• SB 9.1.23-24 O King Parīkṣit, that hero Sudyumna, accompanied by a few ministers and associates and riding on a horse brought from Sindhupradeśa, once…
• SB 9.1.25 There in the north, at the bottom of Mount Meru, is a forest known as Sukumāra where Lord Śiva always enjoys with Umā. Sudyumna entered…
• SB 9.1.26 O King Parīkṣit, as soon as Sudyumna, who was expert in subduing enemies, entered the forest, he saw himself transformed into a female and…
• SB 9.1.27 When his followers also saw their identities transformed and their sex reversed, they were all very morose and just looked at one another.
• SB 9.2.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thereafter, when his son Sudyumna had thus gone to the forest to accept the order of vānaprastha, Vaivasvata Manu…
• SB 9.2.2 Then, because of this desire for sons, the Manu known as Śrāddhadeva worshiped the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, the Lord of…
• SB 9.2.3 Among these sons, Pṛṣadhra, following the order of his spiritual master, was engaged as a protector of cows. He would stand all night with…
• SB 9.2.4 Once at night, while it was raining, a tiger entered the land of the cowshed. Upon seeing the tiger, all the cows, who were lying down,…
• SB 9.2.5-6 When the very strong tiger seized the cow, the cow screamed in distress and fear, and Pṛṣadhra, hearing the screaming, immediately…
• SB 9.2.7 Because the tiger’s ear had been cut by the edge of the sword, the tiger was very afraid, and it fled from that place, while bleeding on…
• SB 9.2.8 In the morning, when Pṛṣadhra, who was quite able to subdue his enemy, saw that he had killed the cow although at night he thought he had…
• SB 9.2.9 Although Pṛṣadhra had committed the sin unknowingly, his family priest, Vasiṣṭha, cursed him, saying, “In your next life you shall not be…
• SB 9.2.10 When the hero Pṛṣadhra was thus cursed by his spiritual master, he accepted the curse with folded hands. Then, having controlled his…
• SB 9.2.11-13 Thereafter, Pṛṣadhra gained relief from all responsibilities, became peaceful in mind, and established control over all his senses. Being…
• SB 9.2.14 With this attitude, Pṛṣadhra became a great saint, and when he entered the forest and saw a blazing forest fire, he took this opportunity…
• SB 9.2.15 Being reluctant to accept material enjoyment, Manu’s youngest son, whose name was Kavi, gave up the kingdom before attaining full youth.…
• SB 9.2.16 From Karūṣa, another son of Manu, came the Kārūṣa dynasty, a family of kṣatriyas. The Kārūṣa kṣatriyas were the kings of the northern…
• SB 9.2.17 From the son of Manu named Dhṛṣṭa came a kṣatriya caste called Dhārṣṭa, whose members achieved the position of brāhmaṇas in this world.…
• SB 9.2.18 The son of Vasu was Pratīka, whose son was Oghavān. Oghavān’s son was also known as Oghavān, and his daughter was Oghavatī. Sudarśana…
• SB 9.2.19 From Nariṣyanta came a son named Citrasena and from him a son named Ṛkṣa. From Ṛkṣa came Mīḍhvān, from Mīḍhvān came Pūrṇa, and from Pūrṇa…
• SB 9.2.20 From Indrasena came Vītihotra, from Vītihotra came Satyaśravā, from Satyaśravā came the son named Uruśravā, and from Uruśravā came…
• SB 9.2.21 From Devadatta came a son known as Agniveśya, who was the fire-god Agni himself. This son, who was a celebrated saint, was well known as…
• SB 9.2.22 O King, from Agniveśya came a brahminical dynasty known as Āgniveśyāyana. Now that I have described the descendants of Nariṣyanta, let me…
• SB 9.2.23-24 Diṣṭa had a son by the name Nābhāga. This Nābhāga, who was different from the Nābhāga described later, became a vaiśya by occupational…
• SB 9.2.25 The son of Viviṁśati was Rambha, whose son was the great and religious King Khanīnetra. O King, the son of Khanīnetra was King Karandhama.
• SB 9.2.26 From Karandhama came a son named Avīkṣit, and from Avīkṣit a son named Marutta, who was the emperor. The great mystic Saṁvarta, the son of…
• SB 9.2.27 The sacrificial paraphernalia of King Marutta was extremely beautiful, for everything was made of gold. Indeed, no other sacrifice could…
• SB 9.2.28 In that sacrifice, King Indra became intoxicated by drinking a large quantity of soma-rasa. The brāhmaṇas received ample contributions,…
• SB 9.2.29 Marutta’s son was Dama, Dama’s son was Rājyavardhana, Rājyavardhana’s son was Sudhṛti, and his son was Nara.
• SB 9.2.30 The son of Nara was Kevala, and his son was Dhundhumān, whose son was Vegavān. Vegavān’s son was Budha, and Budha’s son was Tṛṇabindu, who…
• SB 9.2.31 The best of the Apsarās, the highly qualified girl named Alambuṣā, accepted the similarly qualified Tṛṇabindu as her husband. She gave…
• SB 9.2.32 After the great saint Viśravā, the master of mystic yoga, received absolute knowledge from his father, he begot in the womb of Ilavilā the…
• SB 9.2.33 Tṛṇabindu had three sons, named Viśāla, Śūnyabandhu and Dhūmraketu. Among these three, Viśāla created a dynasty and constructed a palace…
• SB 9.2.34 The son of Viśāla was known as Hemacandra, his son was Dhūmrākṣa, and his son was Saṁyama, whose sons were Devaja and Kṛśāśva.
• SB 9.2.35-36 The son of Kṛśāśva was Somadatta, who performed aśvamedha sacrifices and thus satisfied the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu. By…
• SB 9.3.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, Śaryāti, another son of Manu, was a ruler completely aware of Vedic knowledge. He gave…
• SB 9.3.2 Śaryāti had a beautiful lotus-eyed daughter named Sukanyā, with whom he went to the forest to see the āśrama of Cyavana Muni.
• SB 9.3.3 While that Sukanyā, surrounded by her friends, was collecting various types of fruits from the trees in the forest, she saw within the…
• SB 9.3.4 As if induced by providence, the girl ignorantly pierced those two glowworms with a thorn, and when they were pierced, blood began to ooze…
• SB 9.3.5 Thereupon, all the soldiers of Śaryāti were immediately obstructed from passing urine and stool. Upon perceiving this, Śaryāti spoke to…
• SB 9.3.6 How strange it is that one of us has attempted to do something wrong to Cyavana Muni, the son of Bhṛgu. It certainly appears that someone…
• SB 9.3.7 Being very much afraid, the girl Sukanyā said to her father: I have done something wrong, for I have ignorantly pierced these two luminous…
• SB 9.3.8 After hearing this statement by his daughter, King Śaryāti was very much afraid. In various ways, he tried to appease Cyavana Muni, for it…
• SB 9.3.9 King Śaryāti, being very contemplative and thus understanding Cyavana Muni’s purpose, gave his daughter in charity to the sage. Thus…
• SB 9.3.10 Cyavana Muni was very irritable, but since Sukanyā had gotten him as her husband, she dealt with him carefully, according to his mood.…
• SB 9.3.11 Thereafter, some time having passed, the Aśvinī-kumāra brothers, the heavenly physicians, happened to come to Cyavana Muni’s āśrama. After…
• SB 9.3.12 Cyavana Muni said: Although you are ineligible to drink soma-rasa in sacrifices, I promise to give you a full pot of it. Kindly arrange…
• SB 9.3.13 The great physicians, the Aśvinī-kumāras, very gladly accepted Cyavana Muni’s proposal. Thus they told the brāhmaṇa, “Just dive into this…
• SB 9.3.14 After saying this, the Aśvinī-kumāras caught hold of Cyavana Muni, who was an old, diseased invalid with loose skin, white hair, and veins…
• SB 9.3.15 Thereafter, three men with very beautiful bodily features emerged from the lake. They were nicely dressed and decorated with earrings and…
• SB 9.3.16 The chaste and very beautiful Sukanyā could not distinguish her husband from the two Aśvinī-kumāras, for they were equally beautiful. Not…
• SB 9.3.17 The Aśvinī-kumāras were very pleased to see Sukanyā’s chastity and faithfulness. Thus they showed her Cyavana Muni, her husband, and after…
• SB 9.3.18 Thereafter, King Śaryāti, desiring to perform a sacrifice, went to the residence of Cyavana Muni. There he saw by the side of his daughter…
• SB 9.3.19 After receiving obeisances from his daughter, the King, instead of offering blessings to her, appeared very displeased and spoke as follows.
• SB 9.3.20 O unchaste girl, what is this that you have desired to do? You have cheated the most respectable husband, who is honored by everyone, for…
• SB 9.3.21 O my daughter, who were born in a respectable family, how have you degraded your consciousness in this way? How is it that you are…
• SB 9.3.22 Sukanyā, however, being very proud of her chastity, smiled upon hearing the rebukes of her father. She smilingly told him, “My dear…
• SB 9.3.23 Thus Sukanyā explained how her husband had received the beautiful body of a young man. When the King heard this he was very surprised, and…
• SB 9.3.24 Cyavana Muni, by his own prowess, enabled King Śaryāti to perform the soma-yajña. The muni offered a full pot of soma-rasa to the…
• SB 9.3.25 King Indra, being perturbed and angry, wanted to kill Cyavana Muni, and therefore he impetuously took up his thunderbolt. But Cyavana…
• SB 9.3.26 Although the Aśvinī-kumāras were only physicians and were therefore excluded from drinking soma-rasa in sacrifices, the demigods agreed to…
• SB 9.3.27 King Śaryāti begot three sons, named Uttānabarhi, Ānarta and Bhūriṣeṇa. From Ānarta came a son named Revata.
• SB 9.3.28 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, subduer of enemies, this Revata constructed a kingdom known as Kuśasthalī in the depths of the ocean. There he lived…
• SB 9.3.29 Taking his own daughter, Revatī, Kakudmī went to Lord Brahmā in Brahmaloka, which is transcendental to the three modes of material nature,…
• SB 9.3.30 When Kakudmī arrived there, Lord Brahmā was engaged in hearing musical performances by the Gandharvas and had not a moment to talk with…
• SB 9.3.31 After hearing his words, Lord Brahmā, who is most powerful, laughed loudly and said to Kakudmī: O King, all those whom you may have…
• SB 9.3.32 Twenty-seven catur-yugas have already passed. Those upon whom you may have decided are now gone, and so are their sons, grandsons and…
• SB 9.3.33 O King, leave here and offer your daughter to Lord Baladeva, who is still present. He is most powerful. Indeed, He is the Supreme…
• SB 9.3.34 Lord Baladeva is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One who hears and chants about Him is purified. Because He is always the well-wisher…
• SB 9.3.35 Having received this order from Lord Brahmā, Kakudmī offered obeisances unto him and returned to his own residence. He then saw that his…
• SB 9.3.36 Thereafter, the King gave his most beautiful daughter in charity to the supremely powerful Baladeva and then retired from worldly life and…
• SB 9.4.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The son of Nabhaga named Nābhāga lived for a long time at the place of his spiritual master. Therefore, his…
• SB 9.4.2 Nābhāga inquired, “My dear brothers, what have you given to me as my share of our father’s property?” His elder brothers answered, “We…
• SB 9.4.3 Nābhāga’s father said: All the descendants of Aṅgirā are now going to perform a great sacrifice, but although they are very intelligent,…
• SB 9.4.4-5 Nābhāga’s father continued: “Go to those great souls and describe two Vedic hymns pertaining to Vaiśvadeva. When the great sages have…
• SB 9.4.6 Thereafter, while Nābhāga was accepting the riches, a black-looking person from the north came to him and said, “All the wealth from this…
• SB 9.4.7 Nābhāga then said, “These riches belong to me. The great saintly persons have delivered them to me.” When Nābhāga said this, the…
• SB 9.4.8 The father of Nābhāga said: Whatever the great sages sacrificed in the arena of the Dakṣa-yajña, they offered to Lord Śiva as his share.…
• SB 9.4.9 Thereupon, after offering obeisances to Lord Śiva, Nābhāga said: O worshipable lord, everything in this arena of sacrifice is yours. This…
• SB 9.4.10 Lord Śiva said: Whatever your father has said is the truth, and you also are speaking the same truth. Therefore, I, who know the Vedic…
• SB 9.4.11 Lord Śiva said, “Now you may take all the wealth remaining from the sacrifice, for I give it to you.” After saying this, Lord Śiva, who is…
• SB 9.4.12 If one hears and chants or remembers this narration in the morning and evening with great attention, he certainly becomes learned,…
• SB 9.4.13 From Nābhāga, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa took birth. Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was an exalted devotee, celebrated for his great merits. Although he was…
• SB 9.4.14 King Parīkṣit inquired: O great personality, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was certainly most exalted and meritorious in character. I wish to hear…
• SB 9.4.15-16 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, the most fortunate personality, achieved the rule of the entire world, consisting of seven…
• SB 9.4.17 Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was a great devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, and of the saintly persons who are the Lord’s…
• SB 9.4.18-20 Mahārāja Ambarīṣa always engaged his mind in meditating upon the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, his words in describing the glories of the Lord, his…
• SB 9.4.21 In performing his prescribed duties as king, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa always offered the results of his royal activities to the Supreme…
• SB 9.4.22 In desert countries where there flowed the river Sarasvatī, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa performed great sacrifices like the aśvamedha-yajña and thus…
• SB 9.4.23 In the sacrifice arranged by Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, the members of the assembly and the priests [especially hotā, udgātā, brahmā and adhvaryu]…
• SB 9.4.24 The citizens of the state of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa were accustomed to chanting and hearing about the glorious activities of the Personality of…
• SB 9.4.25 Those who are saturated with the transcendental happiness of rendering service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead are uninterested even…
• SB 9.4.26 The king of this planet, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, thus performed devotional service to the Lord and in this endeavor practiced severe austerity.…
• SB 9.4.27 Mahārāja Ambarīṣa gave up all attachment to household affairs, wives, children, friends and relatives, to the best of powerful elephants,…
• SB 9.4.28 Being very pleased by the unalloyed devotion of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gave the King His disc, which is…
• SB 9.4.29 To worship Lord Kṛṣṇa, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, along with his queen, who was equally qualified, observed the vow of Ekādaśī and Dvādaśī for one…
• SB 9.4.30 In the month of Kārtika, after observing that vow for one year, after observing a fast for three nights and after bathing in the Yamunā,…
• SB 9.4.31-32 Following the regulative principles of mahābhiṣeka, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa performed the bathing ceremony for the Deity of Lord Kṛṣṇa with all…
• SB 9.4.33-35 Thereafter, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa satisfied all the guests who arrived at his house, especially the brāhmaṇas. He gave in charity sixty crores…
• SB 9.4.36 After standing up to receive Durvāsā Muni, King Ambarīṣa offered him a seat and paraphernalia of worship. Then, sitting at his feet, the…
• SB 9.4.37 Durvāsā Muni gladly accepted the request of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, but to perform the regulative ritualistic ceremonies he went to the river…
• SB 9.4.38 In the meantime, only a muhūrta of the Dvādaśī day was left on which to break the fast. Consequently, it was imperative that the fast be…
• SB 9.4.39-40 The King said: “To transgress the laws of respectful behavior toward the brāhmaṇas is certainly a great offense. On the other hand, if one…
• SB 9.4.41 O best of the Kuru dynasty, after he drank some water, King Ambarīṣa, meditating upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead within his heart,…
• SB 9.4.42 After executing the ritualistic ceremonies to be performed at noon, Durvāsā returned from the bank of the Yamunā. The King received him…
• SB 9.4.43 Still hungry, Durvāsā Muni, his body trembling, his face curved and his eyebrows crooked in a frown, angrily spoke as follows to King…
• SB 9.4.44 Alas, just see the behavior of this cruel man! He is not a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu. Being proud of his material opulence and his position,…
• SB 9.4.45 Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, you have invited me to eat as a guest, but instead of feeding me, you yourself have eaten first. Because of your…
• SB 9.4.46 As Durvāsā Muni said this, his face became red with anger. Uprooting a bunch of hair from his head, he created a demon resembling the…
• SB 9.4.47 Taking a trident in his hand and making the surface of the earth tremble with his footsteps, that blazing creature came before Mahārāja…
• SB 9.4.48 As fire in the forest immediately burns to ashes an angry snake, so, by the previous order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His…
• SB 9.4.49 Upon seeing that his own attempt had failed and that the Sudarśana cakra was moving toward him, Durvāsā Muni became very frightened and…
• SB 9.4.50 As the blazing flames of a forest fire pursue a snake, the disc of the Supreme Personality of Godhead began following Durvāsā Muni.…
• SB 9.4.51 Just to protect himself, Durvāsā Muni fled everywhere, in all directions — in the sky, on the surface of the earth, in caves, in the…
• SB 9.4.52 With a fearful heart, Durvāsā Muni went here and there seeking shelter, but when he could find no shelter, he finally approached Lord…
• SB 9.5.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When thus advised by Lord Viṣṇu, Durvāsā Muni, who was very much harassed by the Sudarśana cakra, immediately…
• SB 9.5.2 When Durvāsā touched his lotus feet, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was very much ashamed, and when he saw Durvāsā attempting to offer prayers, because…
• SB 9.5.3 Mahārāja Ambarīṣa said: O Sudarśana cakra, you are fire, you are the most powerful sun, and you are the moon, the master of all…
• SB 9.5.4 O most favorite of Acyuta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you have thousands of spokes. O master of the material world, destroyer of…
• SB 9.5.5 O Sudarśana wheel, you are religion, you are truth, you are encouraging statements, you are sacrifice, and you are the enjoyer of the…
• SB 9.5.6 O Sudarśana, you have a very auspicious hub, and therefore you are the upholder of all religion. You are just like an inauspicious comet…
• SB 9.5.7 O master of speech, by your effulgence, full of religious principles, the darkness of the world is dissipated, and the knowledge of…
• SB 9.5.8 O indefatigable one, when you are sent by the Supreme Personality of Godhead to enter among the soldiers of the Daityas and the Dānavas,…
• SB 9.5.9 O protector of the universe, you are engaged by the Supreme Personality of Godhead as His all-powerful weapon in killing the envious…
• SB 9.5.10 If our family has given charity to the proper persons, if we have performed ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices, if we have properly…
• SB 9.5.11 If the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is one without a second, who is the reservoir of all transcendental qualities, and who is the…
• SB 9.5.12 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When the King offered prayers to the Sudarśana cakra and Lord Viṣṇu, because of his prayers the Sudarśana…
• SB 9.5.13 Durvāsā Muni, the greatly powerful mystic, was indeed satisfied when freed from the fire of the Sudarśana cakra. Thus he praised the…
• SB 9.5.14 Durvāsā Muni said: My dear King, today I have experienced the greatness of devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for although I…
• SB 9.5.15 For those who have achieved the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of the pure devotees, what is impossible to do, and what is…
• SB 9.5.16 What is impossible for the servants of the Lord? By the very hearing of His holy name one is purified.
• SB 9.5.17 O King, overlooking my offenses, you have saved my life. Thus I am very much obliged to you because you are so merciful.
• SB 9.5.18 Expecting the return of Durvāsā Muni, the King had not taken his food. Therefore, when the sage returned, the King fell at his lotus feet,…
• SB 9.5.19 Thus the King respectfully received Durvāsā Muni, who after eating varieties of palatable food was so satisfied that with great affection…
• SB 9.5.20 Durvāsā Muni said: I am very pleased with you, my dear King. At first I thought of you as an ordinary human being and accepted your…
• SB 9.5.21 All the blessed women in the heavenly planets will continuously chant about your spotless character at every moment, and the people of…
• SB 9.5.22 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thus being satisfied in all respects, the great mystic yogī Durvāsā took permission and left, continuously…
• SB 9.5.23 Durvāsā Muni had left the place of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, and as long as he had not returned — for one complete year — the King had fasted,…
• SB 9.5.24 After one year, when Durvāsā Muni had returned, King Ambarīṣa sumptuously fed him all varieties of pure food, and then he himself also…
• SB 9.5.25 In this way, because of devotional service, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, who was endowed with varieties of transcendental qualities, was completely…
• SB 9.5.26 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thereafter, because of his advanced position in devotional life, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, who no longer…
• SB 9.5.27 Anyone who chants this narration or even thinks of this narration about the activities of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa certainly becomes a pure…
• SB 9.5.28 By the grace of the Lord, those who hear about the activities of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, the great devotee, certainly become liberated or…
• SB 9.6.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Ambarīṣa had three sons, named Virūpa, Ketumān and Śambhu. From Virūpa came a son named…
• SB 9.6.2 Rathītara had no sons, and therefore he requested the great sage Aṅgirā to beget sons for him. Because of this request, Aṅgirā begot sons…
• SB 9.6.3 Having been born from the womb of Rathītara’s wife, all these sons were known as the dynasty of Rathītara, but because they were born from…
• SB 9.6.4 The son of Manu was Ikṣvāku. When Manu was sneezing, Ikṣvāku was born from Manu’s nostrils. King Ikṣvāku had one hundred sons, of whom…
• SB 9.6.5 Of the one hundred sons, twenty-five became kings in the western side of Āryāvarta, a place between the Himālaya and Vindhya mountains.…
• SB 9.6.6 During the months of January, February and March, oblations offered to the forefathers are called aṣṭakā-śrāddha. The śrāddha ceremony is…
• SB 9.6.7 Thereafter, Ikṣvāku’s son Vikukṣi went to the forest and killed many animals suitable for being offered as oblations. But when fatigued…
• SB 9.6.8 Vikukṣi offered the remnants of the flesh to King Ikṣvāku, who gave it to Vasiṣṭha for purification. But Vasiṣṭha could immediately…
• SB 9.6.9 When King Ikṣvāku, thus informed by Vasiṣṭha, understood what his son Vikukṣi had done, he was extremely angry. Thus he ordered Vikukṣi to…
• SB 9.6.10 Having been instructed by the great and learned brāhmaṇa Vasiṣṭha, who discoursed about the Absolute Truth, Mahārāja Ikṣvāku became…
• SB 9.6.11 After his father’s disappearance, Vikukṣi returned to the country and thus became the king, ruling the planet earth and performing various…
• SB 9.6.12 The son of Śaśāda was Purañjaya, who is also known as Indravāha and sometimes as Kakutstha. Please hear from me how he received different…
• SB 9.6.13 Formerly, there was a devastating war between the demigods and the demons. The demigods, having been defeated, accepted Purañjaya as their…
• SB 9.6.14 Purañjaya agreed to kill all the demons, on the condition that Indra would be his carrier. Because of pride, Indra could not accept this…
• SB 9.6.15-16 Well protected by armor and desiring to fight, Purañjaya took up a transcendental bow and very sharp arrows, and, while being highly…
• SB 9.6.17 There was a fierce battle between the demons and Purañjaya. Indeed, it was so fierce that when one hears about it one’s hairs stand on…
• SB 9.6.18 To save themselves from the blazing arrows of Indravāha, which resembled the flames of devastation at the end of the millennium, the…
• SB 9.6.19 After conquering the enemy, the saintly king Purañjaya gave everything, including the enemy’s riches and wives, to Indra, who carries a…
• SB 9.6.20 The son of Purañjaya was known as Anenā, Anenā’s son was Pṛthu, and Pṛthu’s son was Viśvagandhi. Viśvagandhi’s son was Candra, and…
• SB 9.6.21 The son of Yuvanāśva was Śrāvasta, who constructed a township known as Śrāvastī Purī. The son of Śrāvasta was Bṛhadaśva, and his son was…
• SB 9.6.22 To satisfy the sage Utaṅka, the greatly powerful Kuvalayāśva killed a demon named Dhundhu. He did this with the assistance of his…
• SB 9.6.23-24 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, for this reason Kuvalayāśva is celebrated as Dhundhumāra [“the killer of Dhundhu”]. All but three of his sons,…
• SB 9.6.25 The son of Nikumbha was Bahulāśva, the son of Bahulāśva was Kṛśāśva, the son of Kṛśāśva was Senajit, and the son of Senajit was Yuvanāśva.…
• SB 9.6.26 Although Yuvanāśva went into the forest with his one hundred wives, all of them were very morose. The sages in the forest, however, being…
• SB 9.6.27 Being thirsty one night, the King entered the arena of sacrifice, and when he saw all the brāhmaṇas lying down, he personally drank the…
• SB 9.6.28 When the brāhmaṇas got up from bed and saw the waterpot empty, they inquired who had done this work of drinking the water meant for…
• SB 9.6.29 When the brāhmaṇas came to understand that the King, inspired by the supreme controller, had drunk the water, they all exclaimed “Alas!…
• SB 9.6.30 Thereafter, in due course of time, a son with all the good symptoms of a powerful king came forth from the lower right side of King…
• SB 9.6.31 The baby cried so much for breast milk that all the brāhmaṇas were very unhappy. “Who will take care of this baby?” they said. Then Indra,…
• SB 9.6.32 Because Yuvanāśva, the father of the baby, was blessed by the brāhmaṇas, he did not fall a victim to death. After this incident, he…
• SB 9.6.33-34 Māndhātā, the son of Yuvanāśva, was the cause of fear for Rāvaṇa and other thieves and rogues who caused anxiety. O King Parīkṣit, because…
• SB 9.6.35-36 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not different from the auspicious aspects of great sacrifices, such as the ingredients of the…
• SB 9.6.37 All places, from where the sun rises on the horizon, shining brilliantly, to where the sun sets, are known as the possession of the…
• SB 9.6.38 Māndhātā begot three sons in the womb of Bindumatī, the daughter of Śaśabindu. These sons were Purukutsa, Ambarīṣa, and Mucukunda, a great…
• SB 9.6.39-40 Saubhari Ṛṣi was engaged in austerity, deep in the water of the river Yamunā, when he saw a pair of fish engaged in sexual affairs. Thus…
• SB 9.6.41-42 Saubhari Muni thought: I am now feeble because of old age. My hair has become grey, my skin is slack, and my head always trembles.…
• SB 9.6.43 Thereafter, when Saubhari Muni became quite a young and beautiful person, the messenger of the palace took him inside the residential…
• SB 9.6.44 Thereafter, the princesses, being attracted by Saubhari Muni, gave up their sisterly relationship and quarreled among themselves, each one…
• SB 9.6.45-46 Because Saubhari Muni was expert in chanting mantras perfectly, his severe austerities resulted in an opulent home, with garments,…
• SB 9.6.47 Māndhātā, the King of the entire world, consisting of seven islands, was struck with wonder when he saw the household opulence of Saubhari…
• SB 9.6.48 In this way, Saubhari Muni enjoyed sense gratification in the material world, but he was not at all satisfied, just as a fire never ceases…
• SB 9.6.49 Thereafter, one day while Saubhari Muni, who was expert in chanting mantras, was sitting in a secluded place, he thought to himself about…
• SB 9.6.50 Alas! While practicing austerity, even within the depths of the water, and while observing all the rules and regulations practiced by…
• SB 9.6.51 A person desiring liberation from material bondage must give up the association of persons interested in sex life and should not employ…
• SB 9.6.52 In the beginning I was alone and engaged in performing the austerities of mystic yoga, but later, because of the association of fish…
• SB 9.6.53 In this way he passed his life in household affairs for some time, but then he became detached from material enjoyment. To renounce…
• SB 9.6.54 When Saubhari Muni, who was quite conversant with the self, went to the forest, he performed severe penances. In this way, in the fire at…
• SB 9.6.55 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, by observing their husband progressing in spiritual existence, Saubhari Muni’s wives were also able to enter the…
• SB 9.7.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The most prominent among the sons of Māndhātā was he who is celebrated as Ambarīṣa. Ambarīṣa was accepted as son by…
• SB 9.7.2 The serpent brothers of Narmadā gave Narmadā to Purukutsa. Being sent by Vāsuki, she took Purukutsa to the lower region of the universe.
• SB 9.7.3 There in Rasātala, the lower region of the universe, Purukutsa, being empowered by Lord Viṣṇu, was able to kill all the Gandharvas who…
• SB 9.7.4 The son of Purukutsa was Trasaddasyu, who was the father of Anaraṇya. Anaraṇya’s son was Haryaśva, the father of Prāruṇa. Prāruṇa was the…
• SB 9.7.5-6 The son of Tribandhana was Satyavrata, who is celebrated by the name Triśaṅku. Because he kidnapped the daughter of a brāhmaṇa when she…
• SB 9.7.7 The son of Triśaṅku was Hariścandra. Because of Hariścandra there was a quarrel between Viśvāmitra and Vasiṣṭha, who for many years fought…
• SB 9.7.8 Hariścandra had no son and was therefore extremely morose. Once, therefore, following the advice of Nārada, he took shelter of Varuṇa and…
• SB 9.7.9 O King Parīkṣit, Hariścandra begged Varuṇa, “My lord, if a son is born to me, with that son I shall perform a sacrifice for your…
• SB 9.7.10 Thereafter, when the child was born, Varuṇa approached Hariścandra and said, “Now you have a son. With this son you can offer me a…
• SB 9.7.11 After ten days, Varuṇa came again and said to Hariścandra, “Now you can perform the sacrifice.” Hariścandra replied, “When an animal grows…
• SB 9.7.12 When the teeth grew, Varuṇa came and said to Hariścandra, “Now the animal has grown teeth, and you can perform the sacrifice.” Hariścandra…
• SB 9.7.13 When the teeth had fallen out, Varuṇa returned and said to Hariścandra, “Now the animal’s teeth have fallen out, and you can perform the…
• SB 9.7.14 When the teeth grew in again, Varuṇa came and said to Hariścandra, “Now you can perform the sacrifice.” But Hariścandra then said, “O…
• SB 9.7.15 Hariścandra was certainly very much attached to his son. Because of this affection, he asked the demigod Varuṇa to wait. Thus Varuṇa…
• SB 9.7.16 Rohita could understand that his father intended to offer him as the animal for sacrifice. Therefore, just to save himself from death, he…
• SB 9.7.17 When Rohita heard that his father had been attacked by dropsy due to Varuṇa and that his abdomen had grown very large, he wanted to return…
• SB 9.7.18 King Indra advised Rohita to travel to different pilgrimage sites and holy places, for such activities are pious indeed. Following this…
• SB 9.7.19 In this way, at the end of the second, third, fourth and fifth years, when Rohita wanted to return to his capital, the King of heaven,…
• SB 9.7.20 Thereafter, in the sixth year, after wandering in the forest, Rohita returned to the capital of his father. He purchased from Ajīgarta his…
• SB 9.7.21 Thereafter, the famous King Hariścandra, one of the exalted persons in history, performed grand sacrifices by sacrificing a man and…
• SB 9.7.22 In that great human sacrifice, Viśvāmitra was the chief priest to offer oblations, the perfectly self-realized Jamadagni had the…
• SB 9.7.23 King Indra, being very pleased with Hariścandra, offered him a gift of a golden chariot. Śunaḥśepha’s glories will be presented along with…
• SB 9.7.24 The great sage Viśvāmitra saw that Mahārāja Hariścandra, along with his wife, was truthful, forbearing and concerned with the essence.…
• SB 9.7.25-26 Mahārāja Hariścandra first purified his mind, which was full of material enjoyment, by amalgamating it with the earth. Then he amalgamated…
• SB 9.8.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The son of Rohita was Harita, and Harita’s son was Campa, who constructed the town of Campāpurī. The son of…
• SB 9.8.2 The son of Vijaya was Bharuka, Bharuka’s son was Vṛka, and Vṛka’s son was Bāhuka. The enemies of King Bāhuka took away all his…
• SB 9.8.3 Bāhuka died when he was old, and one of his wives wanted to die with him, following the satī rite. At that time, however, Aurva Muni,…
• SB 9.8.4 Knowing that she was pregnant, the co-wives of the wife of Bāhuka conspired to give her poison with her food, but it did not act. Instead,…
• SB 9.8.5-6 Sagara Mahārāja, following the order of his spiritual master, Aurva, did not kill the uncivilized men like the Tālajaṅghas, Yavanas,…
• SB 9.8.7 Following the instructions of the great sage Aurva, Sagara Mahārāja performed aśvamedha sacrifices and thus satisfied the Supreme Lord,…
• SB 9.8.8 [King Sagara had two wives, Sumati and Keśinī.] The sons of Sumati, who were very proud of their prowess and influence, following the…
• SB 9.8.9-10 Thereafter, in the northeastern direction, they saw the horse near the āśrama of Kapila Muni. “Here is the man who has stolen the horse,”…
• SB 9.8.11 By the influence of Indra, the King of heaven, the sons of Sagara had lost their intelligence and disrespected a great personality.…
• SB 9.8.12 It is sometimes argued that the sons of King Sagara were burned to ashes by the fire emanating from the eyes of Kapila Muni. This…
• SB 9.8.13 Kapila Muni enunciated in this material world the Sāṅkhya philosophy, which is a strong boat with which to cross over the ocean of…
• SB 9.8.14 Among the sons of Sagara Mahārāja was one named Asamañjasa, who was born from the King’s second wife, Keśinī. The son of Asamañjasa was…
• SB 9.8.15-16 Formerly, in his previous birth, Asamañjasa had been a great mystic yogī, but by bad association he had fallen from his exalted position.…
• SB 9.8.17 Because Asamañjasa engaged in such abominable activities, his father gave up affection for him and had him exiled. Then Asamañjasa…
• SB 9.8.18 O King Parīkṣit, when all the inhabitants of Ayodhyā saw that their boys had come back to life, they were astounded, and King Sagara…
• SB 9.8.19 Thereafter, Aṁśumān, the grandson of Mahārāja Sagara, was ordered by the King to search for the horse. Following the same path traversed…
• SB 9.8.20 The great Aṁśumān saw the sage named Kapila, the saint who is an incarnation of Viṣṇu, sitting there by the horse. Aṁśumān offered Him…
• SB 9.8.21 Aṁśumān said: My Lord, even Lord Brahmā is to this very day unable to understand Your position, which is far beyond himself, either by…
• SB 9.8.22 My Lord, You are fully situated in everyone’s heart, but the living entities, covered by the material body, cannot see You, for they are…
• SB 9.8.23 O my Lord, sages freed from the influence of the three modes of material nature — sages such as the four Kumāras [Sanat, Sanaka, Sanandana…
• SB 9.8.24 O completely peaceful Lord, although material nature, fruitive activities and their consequent material names and forms are Your creation,…
• SB 9.8.25 O my Lord, those whose hearts are bewildered by the influence of lust, greed, envy and illusion are interested only in false hearth and…
• SB 9.8.26 O Supersoul of all living entities, O Personality of Godhead, simply by seeing You I have now been freed from all lusty desires, which are…
• SB 9.8.27 O King Parīkṣit, when Aṁśumān had glorified the Lord in this way, the great sage Kapila, the powerful incarnation of Viṣṇu, being very…
• SB 9.9.20-21 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Once Saudāsa went to live in the forest, where he killed a man-eater [Rākṣasa] but forgave and released the…
• SB 9.9.22 While examining the food given to him, Vasiṣṭha Muni, by his mystic power, could understand that it was unfit to eat, being the flesh of a…
• SB 9.9.23-24 When Vasiṣṭha understood that the human flesh had been served by the Rākṣasa, not by the King, he undertook twelve years of austerity to…
• SB 9.9.25 Saudāsa thus acquired the propensity of a man-eater and received on his leg a black spot, for which he was known as Kalmāṣapāda. Once King…
• SB 9.9.26-27 Being influenced by the propensity of a Rākṣasa and being very hungry, King Saudāsa seized the brāhmaṇa. Then the poor woman, the…
• SB 9.9.28 O King, O hero, this human body is meant for universal benefits. If you kill this body untimely, you will kill all the benefits of human…
• SB 9.9.29 Here is a learned, highly qualified brāhmaṇa, engaged in performing austerity and eagerly desiring to worship the Supreme Lord, the…
• SB 9.9.30 My lord, you are completely aware of the religious principles. As a son never deserves to be killed by his father, here is a brāhmaṇa who…
• SB 9.9.31 You are well known and worshiped in learned circles. How dare you kill this brāhmaṇa, who is a saintly, sinless person, well versed in…
• SB 9.9.32 Without my husband, I cannot live for a moment. If you want to eat my husband, it would be better to eat me first, for without my husband…
• SB 9.9.33 Being condemned by the curse of Vasiṣṭha, King Saudāsa devoured the brāhmaṇa, exactly as a tiger eats its prey. Even though the brāhmaṇa’s…
• SB 9.9.34 When the chaste wife of the brāhmaṇa saw that her husband, who was about to discharge semen, had been eaten by the man-eater, she was…
• SB 9.9.35 O foolish, sinful person, because you have eaten my husband when I was sexually inclined and desiring to have the seed of a child, I shall…
• SB 9.9.36 Thus the wife of the brāhmaṇa cursed King Saudāsa, known as Mitrasaha. Then, being inclined to go with her husband, she set fire to her…
• SB 9.9.37 After twelve years, when King Saudāsa was released from the curse by Vasiṣṭha, he wanted to have sexual intercourse with his wife. But the…
• SB 9.9.38 After being thus instructed, the King gave up the future happiness of sexual intercourse and by destiny remained sonless. Later, with the…
• SB 9.9.39 Madayantī bore the child within the womb for seven years and did not give birth. Therefore Vasiṣṭha struck her abdomen with a stone, and…
• SB 9.9.40 From Aśmaka, Bālika took birth. Because Bālika was surrounded by women and was therefore saved from the anger of Paraśurāma, he was known…
• SB 9.9.41 From Bālika came a son named Daśaratha, from Daśaratha came a son named Aiḍaviḍi, and from Aiḍaviḍi came King Viśvasaha. The son of King…
• SB 9.9.42 King Khaṭvāṅga was unconquerable in any fight. Requested by the demigods to join them in fighting the demons, he won victory, and the…
• SB 9.9.43 Mahārāja Khaṭvāṅga thought: Not even my life is dearer to me than the brahminical culture and the brāhmaṇas, who are worshiped by my…
• SB 9.9.44 I was never attracted, even in my childhood, by insignificant things or irreligious principles. I did not find anything more substantial…
• SB 9.9.45 The demigods, the directors of the three worlds, wanted to give me whatever benediction I desired. I did not want their benedictions,…
• SB 9.9.46 Even though the demigods have the advantages of being situated in the higher planetary system, their minds, senses and intelligence are…
• SB 9.9.47 Therefore I should now give up my attachment for things created by the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I should…
• SB 9.9.48 Thus Mahārāja Khaṭvāṅga, by his advanced intelligence in rendering service to the Lord, gave up false identification with the body full of…
• SB 9.9.49 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, is extremely difficult to understand for unintelligent men who accept Him as…
• SB 9.10.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The son of Mahārāja Khaṭvāṅga was Dīrghabāhu, and his son was the celebrated Mahārāja Raghu. From Mahārāja Raghu…
• SB 9.10.2 Being prayed for by the demigods, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth Himself, directly appeared with His expansion and…
• SB 9.10.3 O King Parīkṣit, the transcendental activities of Lord Rāmacandra have been described by great saintly persons who have seen the truth.…
• SB 9.10.4 To keep the promise of His father intact, Lord Rāmacandra immediately gave up the position of king and, accompanied by His wife, mother…
• SB 9.10.5 In the arena of the sacrifice performed by Viśvāmitra, Lord Rāmacandra, the King of Ayodhyā, killed many demons, Rākṣasas and uncivilized…
• SB 9.10.6-7 O King, the pastimes of Lord Rāmacandra were wonderful, like those of a baby elephant. In the assembly where mother Sītā was to choose her…
• SB 9.10.8 Carrying out the order of His father, who was bound by a promise to his wife, Lord Rāmacandra left behind His kingdom, opulence, friends,…
• SB 9.10.9 While wandering in the forest, where He accepted a life of hardship, carrying His invincible bow and arrows in His hand, Lord Rāmacandra…
• SB 9.10.10 O King Parīkṣit, when Rāvaṇa, who had ten heads on his shoulders, heard about the beautiful and attractive features of Sītā, his mind was…
• SB 9.10.11 When Rāmacandra entered the forest and Lakṣmaṇa was also absent, the worst of the Rākṣasas, Rāvaṇa, kidnapped Sītādevī, the daughter of…
• SB 9.10.12 Lord Rāmacandra, whose lotus feet are worshiped by Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, had assumed the form of a human being. Thus He performed the…
• SB 9.10.13 After reaching the beach, Lord Rāmacandra fasted for three days, awaiting the arrival of the ocean personified. When the ocean did not…
• SB 9.10.14 O all-pervading Supreme Person, we are dull-minded and did not understand who You are, but now we understand that You are the Supreme…
• SB 9.10.15 My Lord, You may use my water as You like. Indeed, You may cross it and go to the abode of Rāvaṇa, who is the great source of disturbance…
• SB 9.10.16 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After constructing a bridge over the ocean by throwing into the water the peaks of mountains whose trees and other…
• SB 9.10.17 After entering Laṅkā, the monkey soldiers, led by chiefs like Sugrīva, Nīla and Hanumān, occupied all the sporting houses, granaries,…
• SB 9.10.18 When Rāvaṇa, the master of the Rākṣasas, saw the disturbances created by the monkey soldiers, he called for Nikumbha, Kumbha, Dhūmrākṣa,…
• SB 9.10.19 Lord Rāmacandra, surrounded by Lakṣmaṇa and monkey soldiers like Sugrīva, Hanumān, Gandhamāda, Nīla, Aṅgada, Jāmbavān and Panasa, attacked…
• SB 9.10.20 Aṅgada and the other commanders of the soldiers of Rāmacandra faced the elephants, infantry, horses and chariots of the enemy and hurled…
• SB 9.10.21 Thereafter, when Rāvaṇa, the king of the Rākṣasas, observed that his soldiers had been lost, he was extremely angry. Thus he mounted his…
• SB 9.10.22 Lord Rāmacandra said to Rāvaṇa: You are the most abominable of the man-eaters. Indeed, you are like their stool. You resemble a dog, for…
• SB 9.10.23 After thus rebuking Rāvaṇa, Lord Rāmacandra fixed an arrow to His bow, aimed at Rāvaṇa, and released the arrow, which pierced Rāvaṇa’s…
• SB 9.10.24 Thereafter, all the women whose husbands had fallen in the battle, headed by Mandodarī, the wife of Rāvaṇa, came out of Laṅkā.…
• SB 9.10.25 Striking their breasts in affliction because their husbands had been killed by the arrows of Lakṣmaṇa, the women embraced their respective…
• SB 9.10.26 O my lord, O master! You epitomized trouble for others, and therefore you were called Rāvaṇa. But now that you have been defeated, we also…
• SB 9.10.27 O greatly fortunate one, you came under the influence of lusty desires, and therefore you could not understand the influence of mother…
• SB 9.10.28 O pleasure of the Rākṣasa dynasty, because of you the state of Laṅkā and also we ourselves now have no protector. By your deeds you have…
• SB 9.10.29 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Vibhīṣaṇa, the pious brother of Rāvaṇa and devotee of Lord Rāmacandra, received approval from Lord Rāmacandra,…
• SB 9.10.30 Thereafter, Lord Rāmacandra found Sītādevī sitting in a small cottage beneath the tree named Siṁśapā in a forest of Aśoka trees. She was…
• SB 9.10.31 Seeing His wife in that condition, Lord Rāmacandra was very compassionate. When Rāmacandra came before her, she was exceedingly happy to…
• SB 9.10.32 After giving Vibhīṣaṇa the power to rule the Rākṣasa population of Laṅkā for the duration of one kalpa, Lord Rāmacandra, the Supreme…
• SB 9.10.33 When Lord Rāmacandra returned to His capital, Ayodhyā, He was greeted on the road by the princely order, who showered His body with…
• SB 9.10.34 Upon reaching Ayodhyā, Lord Rāmacandra heard that in His absence His brother Bharata was eating barley cooked in the urine of a cow,…
• SB 9.10.35-38 When Lord Bharata understood that Lord Rāmacandra was returning to the capital, Ayodhyā, He immediately took upon His own head Lord…
• SB 9.10.39-40 After offering the wooden shoes before Lord Rāmacandra, Lord Bharata stood with folded hands, His eyes full of tears, and Lord Rāmacandra…
• SB 9.10.41 The citizens of Ayodhyā, upon seeing their King return after a long absence, offered Him flower garlands, waved their upper cloths, and…
• SB 9.10.42-43 O King, Lord Bharata carried Lord Rāmacandra’s wooden shoes, Sugrīva and Vibhīṣaṇa carried a whisk and an excellent fan, Hanumān carried a…
• SB 9.10.44 O King Parīkṣit, as the Lord sat on His airplane of flowers, with women offering Him prayers and reciters chanting about His…
• SB 9.10.45-46 Thereafter, having been welcomed by His brother Bharata, Lord Rāmacandra entered the city of Ayodhyā in the midst of a festival. When He…
• SB 9.10.47 Upon seeing their sons, the mothers of Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata and Śatrughna immediately arose, like unconscious bodies returning to…
• SB 9.10.48 The family priest or spiritual master, Vasiṣṭha, had Lord Rāmacandra cleanly shaved, freeing Him from His matted locks of hair. Then, with…
• SB 9.10.49 Lord Rāmacandra, fully bathed and His head clean-shaven, dressed Himself very nicely and was decorated with a garland and ornaments. Thus…
• SB 9.10.50 Being pleased by the full surrender and submission of Lord Bharata, Lord Rāmacandra then accepted the throne of the state. He cared for…
• SB 9.10.51 Lord Rāmacandra became King during Tretā-yuga, but because of His good government, the age was like Satya-yuga. Everyone was religious and…
• SB 9.10.52 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, best of the Bharata dynasty, during the reign of Lord Rāmacandra the forests, the rivers, the hills and mountains,…
• SB 9.10.53 When Lord Rāmacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, was the King of this world, all bodily and mental suffering, disease, old age,…
• SB 9.10.54 Lord Rāmacandra took a vow to accept only one wife and have no connection with any other women. He was a saintly king, and everything in…
• SB 9.10.55 Mother Sītā was very submissive, faithful, shy and chaste, always understanding the attitude of her husband. Thus by her character and her…
• SB 9.11.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thereafter, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Rāmacandra, accepted an ācārya and performed sacrifices…
• SB 9.11.2 Lord Rāmacandra gave the entire east to the hotā priest, the entire south to the brahmā priest, the west to the adhvaryu priest, and the…
• SB 9.11.3 Thereafter, thinking that because the brāhmaṇas have no material desires they should possess the entire world, Lord Rāmacandra delivered…
• SB 9.11.4 After thus giving everything in charity to the brāhmaṇas, Lord Rāmacandra retained only His personal garments and ornaments, and similarly…
• SB 9.11.5 All the brāhmaṇas who were engaged in the various activities of the sacrifice were very pleased with Lord Rāmacandra, who was greatly…
• SB 9.11.6 O Lord, You are the master of the entire universe. What have You not given to us? You have entered the core of our hearts and dissipated…
• SB 9.11.7 O Lord, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who have accepted the brāhmaṇas as Your worshipable deity. Your knowledge and memory…
• SB 9.11.8 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Once while Lord Rāmacandra was walking at night incognito, hiding Himself by a disguise to find out the…
• SB 9.11.9 [Speaking to his unchaste wife, the man said] You go to another man’s house, and therefore you are unchaste and polluted. I shall not…
• SB 9.11.10 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Men with a poor fund of knowledge and a heinous character speak nonsensically. Fearing such rascals, Lord…
• SB 9.11.11 When the time came, the pregnant mother Sītādevī gave birth to twin sons, later celebrated as Lava and Kuśa. The ritualistic ceremonies…
• SB 9.11.12 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Lord Lakṣmaṇa had two sons, named Aṅgada and Citraketu, and Lord Bharata also had two sons, named Takṣa and Puṣkala.
• SB 9.11.13-14 Śatrughna had two sons, named Subāhu and Śrutasena. When Lord Bharata went to conquer all directions, He had to kill many millions of…
• SB 9.11.15 Being forsaken by her husband, Sītādevī entrusted her two sons to the care of Vālmīki Muni. Then, meditating upon the lotus feet of Lord…
• SB 9.11.16 After hearing the news of mother Sītā’s entering the earth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was certainly aggrieved. Although He is the…
• SB 9.11.17 The attraction between man and woman, or male and female, always exists everywhere, making everyone always fearful. Such feelings are…
• SB 9.11.18 After mother Sītā entered the earth, Lord Rāmacandra observed complete celibacy and performed an uninterrupted Agnihotra-yajña for…
• SB 9.11.19 After completing the sacrifice, Lord Rāmacandra, whose lotus feet were sometimes pierced by thorns when He lived in Daṇḍakāraṇya, placed…
• SB 9.11.20 Lord Rāmacandra’s reputation for having killed Rāvaṇa with showers of arrows at the request of the demigods and for having built a bridge…
• SB 9.11.21 Lord Rāmacandra’s spotless name and fame, which vanquish all sinful reactions, are celebrated in all directions, like the ornamental cloth…
• SB 9.11.22 Lord Rāmacandra returned to His abode, to which bhakti-yogīs are promoted. This is the place to which all the inhabitants of Ayodhyā went…
• SB 9.11.23 O King Parīkṣit, anyone who aurally receives the narrations concerning the characteristics of Lord Rāmacandra’s pastimes will ultimately…
• SB 9.11.24 Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: How did the Lord conduct Himself, and how did He behave in relationship with His…
• SB 9.11.25 Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied: After accepting the throne of the government by the fervent request of His younger brother Bharata, Lord…
• SB 9.11.26 During the reign of Lord Rāmacandra, the streets of the capital, Ayodhyā, were sprinkled with perfumed water and drops of perfumed liquor,…
• SB 9.11.27 The palaces, the palace gates, the assembly houses, the platforms for meeting places, the temples and all such places were decorated with…
• SB 9.11.28 Wherever Lord Rāmacandra visited, auspicious welcome gates were constructed, with banana trees and betel-nut trees, full of flowers and…
• SB 9.11.29 Wherever Lord Rāmacandra visited, the people approached Him with paraphernalia of worship and begged the Lord’s blessings. “O Lord,” they…
• SB 9.11.30 Thereafter, not having seen the Lord for a long time, the citizens, both men and women, being very eager to see Him, left their homes and…
• SB 9.11.31-34 Thereafter, Lord Rāmacandra entered the palace of His forefathers. Within the palace were various treasures and valuable wardrobes. The…
• SB 9.11.35 Lord Rāmacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, chief of the best learned scholars, resided in that palace with His pleasure potency,…
• SB 9.11.36 Without transgressing the religious principles, Lord Rāmacandra, whose lotus feet are worshiped by devotees in meditation, enjoyed with…
• SB 9.12.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The son of Rāmacandra was Kuśa, the son of Kuśa was Atithi, the son of Atithi was Niṣadha, and the son of Niṣadha…
• SB 9.12.2 The son of Kṣemadhanvā was Devānīka, Devānīka’s son was Anīha, Anīha’s son was Pāriyātra, and Pāriyātra’s son was Balasthala. The son of…
• SB 9.12.3-4 The son of Vajranābha was Sagaṇa, and his son was Vidhṛti. The son of Vidhṛti was Hiraṇyanābha, who became a disciple of Jaimini and…
• SB 9.12.5 The son of Hiraṇyanābha was Puṣpa, and the son of Puṣpa was Dhruvasandhi. The son of Dhruvasandhi was Sudarśana, whose son was Agnivarṇa.…
• SB 9.12.6 Having achieved perfection in the power of mystic yoga, Maru still lives in a place known as Kalāpa-grāma. At the end of Kali-yuga, he…
• SB 9.12.7 From Maru was born a son named Prasuśruta, from Prasuśruta came Sandhi, from Sandhi came Amarṣaṇa, and from Amarṣaṇa a son named Mahasvān.…
• SB 9.12.8 From Viśvabāhu came a son named Prasenajit, from Prasenajit came Takṣaka, and from Takṣaka came Bṛhadbala, who was killed in a fight by…
• SB 9.12.9 All these kings in the dynasty of Ikṣvāku have passed away. Now please listen as I describe the kings who will be born in the future. From…
• SB 9.12.10 The son of Bṛhadraṇa will be Ūrukriya, who will have a son named Vatsavṛddha. Vatsavṛddha will have a son named Prativyoma, and Prativyoma…
• SB 9.12.11 Thereafter, from Divāka will come a son named Sahadeva, and from Sahadeva a great hero named Bṛhadaśva. From Bṛhadaśva will come Bhānumān,…
• SB 9.12.12 Thereafter, from Supratīka will come Marudeva; from Marudeva, Sunakṣatra; from Sunakṣatra, Puṣkara; and from Puṣkara, Antarikṣa. The son…
• SB 9.12.13 From Amitrajit will come a son named Bṛhadrāja, from Bṛhadrāja will come Barhi, and from Barhi will come Kṛtañjaya. The son of Kṛtañjaya…
• SB 9.12.14 From Sañjaya will come Śākya, from Śākya will come Śuddhoda, and from Śuddhoda will come Lāṅgala. From Lāṅgala will come Prasenajit, and…
• SB 9.12.15 From Kṣudraka will come Raṇaka, from Raṇaka will come Suratha, and from Suratha will come Sumitra, ending the dynasty. This is a…
• SB 9.12.16 The last king in the dynasty of Ikṣvāku will be Sumitra; after Sumitra there will be no more sons in the dynasty of the sun-god, and thus…
• SB 9.13.1 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After beginning sacrifices, Mahārāja Nimi, the son of Ikṣvāku, requested the great sage Vasiṣṭha to take the…
• SB 9.13.2 “I shall return here after finishing the yajña for Indra. Kindly wait for me until then.” Mahārāja Nimi remained silent, and Vasiṣṭha…
• SB 9.13.3 Mahārāja Nimi, being a self-realized soul, considered that this life is flickering. Therefore, instead of waiting long for Vasiṣṭha, he…
• SB 9.13.4 After completing the sacrificial performance for King Indra, the spiritual master Vasiṣṭha returned and found that his disciple Mahārāja…
• SB 9.13.5 For unnecessarily cursing him when he had committed no offense, Mahārāja Nimi countercursed his spiritual master. “For the sake of getting…
• SB 9.13.6 After saying this, Mahārāja Nimi, who was expert in the science of spiritual knowledge, gave up his body. Vasiṣṭha, the great-grandfather,…
• SB 9.13.7 During the performance of the yajña, the body relinquished by Mahārāja Nimi was preserved in fragrant substances, and at the end of the…
• SB 9.13.8 “If you are satisfied with this sacrifice and if you are actually able to do so, kindly bring Mahārāja Nimi back to life in this body.”…
• SB 9.13.9 Mahārāja Nimi continued: Māyāvādīs generally want freedom from accepting a material body because they fear having to give it up again. But…
• SB 9.13.10 I do not wish to accept a material body, for such a body is the source of all distress, lamentation and fear, everywhere in the universe,…
• SB 9.13.11 The demigods said: Let Mahārāja Nimi live without a material body. Let him live in a spiritual body as a personal associate of the Supreme…
• SB 9.13.12 Thereafter, to save the people from the danger of an unregulated government, the sages churned Mahārāja Nimi’s material body, from which,…
• SB 9.13.13 Because he was born in an unusual way, the son was called Janaka, and because he was born from the dead body of his father, he was known…
• SB 9.13.14 O King Parīkṣit, from Mithila came a son named Udāvasu; from Udāvasu, Nandivardhana; from Nandivardhana, Suketu; and from Suketu, Devarāta.
• SB 9.13.15 From Devarāta came a son named Bṛhadratha and from Bṛhadratha a son named Mahāvīrya, who became the father of Sudhṛti. The son of Sudhṛti…
• SB 9.13.16 The son of Maru was Pratīpaka, and the son of Pratīpaka was Kṛtaratha. From Kṛtaratha came Devamīḍha; from Devamīḍha, Viśruta; and from…
• SB 9.13.17 From Mahādhṛti was born a son named Kṛtirāta, from Kṛtirāta was born Mahāromā, from Mahāromā came a son named Svarṇaromā, and from…
• SB 9.13.18 From Hrasvaromā came a son named Śīradhvaja [also called Janaka]. When Śīradhvaja was plowing a field, from the front of his plow [śīra]…
• SB 9.13.19 The son of Śīradhvaja was Kuśadhvaja, and the son of Kuśadhvaja was King Dharmadhvaja, who had two sons, namely Kṛtadhvaja and Mitadhvaja.
• SB 9.13.20-21 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Kṛtadhvaja was Keśidhvaja, and the son of Mitadhvaja was Khāṇḍikya. The son of Kṛtadhvaja was expert in…
• SB 9.13.22 The son of Śatadyumna was named Śuci. From Śuci, Sanadvāja was born, and from Sanadvāja came a son named Ūrjaketu. The son of Ūrjaketu was…
• SB 9.13.23 The son of Purujit was Ariṣṭanemi, and his son was Śrutāyu. Śrutāyu begot a son named Supārśvaka, and Supārśvaka begot Citraratha. The son…
• SB 9.13.24 The son of Kṣemādhi was Samaratha, and his son was Satyaratha. The son of Satyaratha was Upaguru, and the son of Upaguru was Upagupta, a…
• SB 9.13.25 The son of Upagupta was Vasvananta, the son of Vasvananta was Yuyudha, the son of Yuyudha was Subhāṣaṇa, and the son of Subhāṣaṇa was…
• SB 9.13.26 The son of Ṛta was Śunaka, the son of Śunaka was Vītahavya, the son of Vītahavya was Dhṛti, and the son of Dhṛti was Bahulāśva. The son of…
• SB 9.13.27 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, all the kings of the dynasty of Mithila were completely in knowledge of their spiritual…
• SB 9.14.1 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: O King, thus far you have heard the description of the dynasty of the sun-god. Now hear…
• SB 9.14.2 Lord Viṣṇu [Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu] is also known as Sahasra-śīrṣā Puruṣa. From the lake of His navel sprang a lotus, on which Lord Brahmā…
• SB 9.14.3 From Atri’s tears of jubilation was born a son named Soma, the moon, who was full of soothing rays. Lord Brahmā appointed him the director…
• SB 9.14.4 After conquering the three worlds [the upper, middle and lower planetary systems], Soma, the moon-god, performed a great sacrifice known…
• SB 9.14.5 Although requested again and again by Bṛhaspati, the spiritual master of the demigods, Soma did not return Tārā. This was due to his false…
• SB 9.14.6 Because of enmity between Bṛhaspati and Śukra, Śukra took the side of the moon-god and was joined by the demons. But Lord Śiva, because of…
• SB 9.14.7 King Indra, accompanied by all kinds of demigods, joined the side of Bṛhaspati. Thus there was a great fight, destroying both demons and…
• SB 9.14.8 When Lord Brahmā was fully informed by Aṅgirā about the entire incident, he severely chastised the moon-god, Soma. Thus Lord Brahmā…
• SB 9.14.9 Bṛhaspati said: You foolish woman, your womb, which was meant for me to impregnate, has been impregnated by someone other than me.…
• SB 9.14.10 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: By Bṛhaspati’s order, Tārā, who was very much ashamed, immediately gave birth to the child, who was very…
• SB 9.14.11 Fighting again broke out between Bṛhaspati and the moon-god, both of whom claimed, “This is my child, not yours!” All the saints and…
• SB 9.14.12 The child then became very angry and demanded that his mother immediately tell the truth. “You unchaste woman,” he said, “what is the use…
• SB 9.14.13 Lord Brahmā then brought Tārā to a secluded place, and after pacifying her he asked to whom the child actually belonged. She replied very…
• SB 9.14.14 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, when Lord Brahmā saw that the child was deeply intelligent, he gave the child the name Budha. The moon-god, the ruler…
• SB 9.14.15-16 Thereafter, from Budha, through the womb of Ilā, a son was born named Purūravā, who was described in the beginning of the Ninth Canto.…
• SB 9.14.17-18 Having been cursed by Mitra and Varuṇa, the celestial woman Urvaśī had acquired the habits of a human being. Therefore, upon seeing…
• SB 9.14.19 King Purūravā said: O most beautiful woman, you are welcome. Please sit here and tell me what I can do for you. You may enjoy with me as…
• SB 9.14.20 Urvaśī replied: O most handsome man, who is the woman whose mind and sight would not be attracted by you? If a woman takes shelter of your…
• SB 9.14.21 My dear King Purūravā, please give protection to these two lambs, who have fallen down with me. Although I belong to the heavenly planets…
• SB 9.14.22 Urvaśī said: “My dear hero, only preparations made in ghee [clarified butter] will be my eatables, and I shall not want to see you naked…
• SB 9.14.23 Purūravā replied: O beautiful one, your beauty is wonderful and your gestures are also wonderful. Indeed, you are attractive to all human…
• SB 9.14.24 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The best of human beings, Purūravā, began freely enjoying the company of Urvaśī, who engaged in sexual…
• SB 9.14.25 Urvaśī’s body was as fragrant as the saffron of a lotus. Being enlivened by the fragrance of her face and body, Purūravā enjoyed her…
• SB 9.14.26 Not seeing Urvaśī in his assembly, the King of heaven, Lord Indra, said, “Without Urvaśī my assembly is no longer beautiful.” Considering…
• SB 9.14.27 Thus the Gandharvas came to earth, and at midnight, when everything was dark, they appeared in the house of Purūravā and stole the two…
• SB 9.14.28 Urvaśī treated the two lambs like her own sons. Therefore, when they were being taken by the Gandharvas and began crying, Urvaśī heard…
• SB 9.14.29 “Because I depended on him, the plunderers have deprived me of my two sons the lambs, and therefore I am now lost. My husband lies down at…
• SB 9.14.30 Purūravā, stricken by the sharp words of Urvaśī like an elephant struck by its driver’s pointed rod, became very angry. Not even dressing…
• SB 9.14.31 After giving up the two lambs, the Gandharvas shone brightly like lightning, thus illuminating the house of Purūravā. Urvaśī then saw her…
• SB 9.14.32 No longer seeing Urvaśī on his bed, Purūravā was most aggrieved. Because of his great attraction for her, he was very much disturbed.…
• SB 9.14.33 Once during his travels all over the world, Purūravā saw Urvaśī, accompanied by five companions, on the bank of the Sarasvatī at…
• SB 9.14.34 O my dear wife, O most cruel one, kindly stay, kindly stay. I know that I have never made you happy until now, but you should not give me…
• SB 9.14.35 O goddess, now that you have refused me, my beautiful body will fall down here, and because it is unsuitable for your pleasure, it will be…
• SB 9.14.36 Urvaśī said: My dear King, you are a man, a hero. Don’t be impatient and give up your life. Be sober and don’t allow the senses to…
• SB 9.14.37 Women as a class are merciless and cunning. They cannot tolerate even a slight offense. For their own pleasure they can do anything…
• SB 9.14.38 Women are very easily seduced by men. Therefore, polluted women give up the friendship of a man who is their well-wisher and establish…
• SB 9.14.39 O my dear King, you will be able to enjoy with me as my husband at the end of every year, for one night only. In this way you will have…
• SB 9.14.40 Understanding that Urvaśī was pregnant, Purūravā returned to his palace. At the end of the year, there at Kurukṣetra, he again obtained…
• SB 9.14.41 Having regained Urvaśī at the end of the year, King Purūravā was most jubilant, and he enjoyed her company in sex for one night. But then…
• SB 9.14.42 Urvaśī said: “My dear King, seek shelter of the Gandharvas, for they will be able to deliver me to you again.” In accordance with these…
• SB 9.14.43 King Purūravā then left Agnisthālī in the forest and returned home, where he meditated all night upon Urvaśī. In the course of his…
• SB 9.14.44-45 When the process of fruitive yajña became manifest within his heart, King Purūravā went to the same spot where he had left Agnisthālī.…
• SB 9.14.46 From Purūravā’s rubbing of the araṇis came a fire. By such a fire one can achieve all success in material enjoyment and be purified in…
• SB 9.14.47 By means of that fire, Purūravā, who desired to go to the planet where Urvaśī resided, performed a sacrifice, by which he satisfied the…
• SB 9.14.48 In the Satya-yuga, the first millennium, all the Vedic mantras were included in one mantra — praṇava, the root of all Vedic mantras. In…
• SB 9.14.49 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, at the beginning of Tretā-yuga, King Purūravā inaugurated a karma-kāṇḍa sacrifice. Thus Purūravā, who considered the…
• SB 9.15.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King Parīkṣit, from the womb of Urvaśī, six sons were generated by Purūravā. Their names were Āyu, Śrutāyu,…
• SB 9.15.2-3 The son of Śrutāyu was Vasumān; the son of Satyāyu, Śrutañjaya; the son of Raya, Eka; the son of Jaya, Amita; and the son of Vijaya,…
• SB 9.15.4 The son of Jahnu was Puru, the son of Puru was Balāka, the son of Balāka was Ajaka, and the son of Ajaka was Kuśa. Kuśa had four sons,…
• SB 9.15.5-6 King Gādhi had a daughter named Satyavatī, whom a brāhmaṇa sage named Ṛcīka requested from the King to be his wife. King Gādhi, however,…
• SB 9.15.7 When King Gādhi made this demand, the great sage Ṛcīka could understand the King’s mind. Therefore he went to the demigod Varuṇa and…
• SB 9.15.8 Thereafter, Ṛcīka Muni’s wife and mother-in-law, each desiring a son, requested the Muni to prepare an oblation. Thus Ṛcīka Muni prepared…
• SB 9.15.9 Meanwhile, because Satyavatī’s mother thought that the oblation prepared for her daughter, Ṛcīka’s wife, must be better, she asked her…
• SB 9.15.10 When the great sage Ṛcīka returned home after bathing and understood what had happened in his absence, he said to his wife, Satyavatī,…
• SB 9.15.11 Satyavatī, however, pacified Ṛcīka Muni with peaceful words and requested that her son not be like a fierce kṣatriya. Ṛcīka Muni replied,…
• SB 9.15.12-13 Satyavatī later became the sacred river Kauśikī to purify the entire world, and her son, Jamadagni, married Reṇukā, the daughter of Reṇu.…
• SB 9.15.14 Learned scholars accept this Paraśurāma as the celebrated incarnation of Vāsudeva who annihilated the dynasty of Kārtavīrya. Paraśurāma…
• SB 9.15.15 When the royal dynasty, being excessively proud because of the material modes of passion and ignorance, became irreligious and ceased to…
• SB 9.15.16 King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: What was the offense that the kṣatriyas who could not control their senses committed before…
• SB 9.15.17-19 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The best of the kṣatriyas, Kārtavīryārjuna, the King of the Haihayas, received one thousand arms by worshiping…
• SB 9.15.20 Once while enjoying in the water of the river Narmadā, the puffed-up Kārtavīryārjuna, surrounded by beautiful women and garlanded with a…
• SB 9.15.21 Because Kārtavīryārjuna made the water flow in the opposite direction, the camp of Rāvaṇa, which was set up on the bank of the Narmadā…
• SB 9.15.22 When Rāvaṇa attempted to insult Kārtavīryārjuna in the presence of the women and thus offended him, Kārtavīryārjuna easily arrested Rāvaṇa…
• SB 9.15.23 Once while Kārtavīryārjuna was wandering unengaged in a solitary forest and hunting, he approached the residence of Jamadagni.
• SB 9.15.24 The sage Jamadagni, who was engaged in great austerities in the forest, received the King very well, along with the King’s soldiers,…
• SB 9.15.25 Kārtavīryārjuna thought that Jamadagni was more powerful and wealthy than himself because of possessing a jewel in the form of the…
• SB 9.15.26 Being puffed up by material power, Kārtavīryārjuna encouraged his men to steal Jamadagni’s kāmadhenu. Thus the men forcibly took away the…
• SB 9.15.27 Thereafter, Kārtavīryārjuna having left with the kāmadhenu, Paraśurāma returned to the āśrama. When Paraśurāma, the youngest son of…
• SB 9.15.28 Taking up his fierce chopper, his shield, his bow and a quiver of arrows, Lord Paraśurāma, exceedingly angry, chased Kārtavīryārjuna just…
• SB 9.15.29 As King Kārtavīryārjuna entered his capital, Māhiṣmatī Purī, he saw Lord Paraśurāma, the best of the Bhṛgu dynasty, coming after him,…
• SB 9.15.30 Upon seeing Paraśurāma, Kārtavīryārjuna immediately feared him and sent many elephants, chariots, horses and infantry soldiers equipped…
• SB 9.15.31 Lord Paraśurāma, being expert in killing the military strength of the enemy, worked with the speed of the mind and the wind, slicing his…
• SB 9.15.32 By manipulating his axe and arrows, Lord Paraśurāma cut to pieces the shields, flags, bows and bodies of Kārtavīryārjuna’s soldiers, who…
• SB 9.15.33 Then Kārtavīryārjuna, with his one thousand arms, simultaneously fixed arrows on five hundred bows to kill Lord Paraśurāma. But Lord…
• SB 9.15.34 When his arrows were cut to pieces, Kārtavīryārjuna uprooted many trees and hills with his own hands and again rushed strongly toward Lord…
• SB 9.15.35-36 Thereafter, Paraśurāma cut off like a mountain peak the head of Kārtavīryārjuna, who had already lost his arms. When Kārtavīryārjuna’s ten…
• SB 9.15.37 Paraśurāma described to his father and brothers his activities in killing Kārtavīryārjuna. Upon hearing of these deeds, Jamadagni spoke to…
• SB 9.15.38 O great hero, my dear son Paraśurāma, you have unnecessarily killed the king, who is supposed to be the embodiment of all the demigods.…
• SB 9.15.39 My dear son, we are all brāhmaṇas and have become worshipable for the people in general because of our quality of forgiveness. It is…
• SB 9.15.40 The duty of a brāhmaṇa is to culture the quality of forgiveness, which is illuminating like the sun. The Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 9.15.41 My dear son, killing a king who is an emperor is more severely sinful than killing a brāhmaṇa. But now, if you become Kṛṣṇa conscious and…
• SB 9.16.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear Mahārāja Parīkṣit, son of the Kuru dynasty, when Lord Paraśurāma was given this order by his father, he…
• SB 9.16.2 Once when Reṇukā, the wife of Jamadagni, went to the bank of the Ganges to get water, she saw the King of the Gandharvas, decorated with a…
• SB 9.16.3 She had gone to bring water from the Ganges, but when she saw Citraratha, the King of the Gandharvas, sporting with the celestial girls,…
• SB 9.16.4 Later, understanding that the time for offering the sacrifice had passed, Reṇukā feared a curse from her husband. Therefore when she…
• SB 9.16.5 The great sage Jamadagni understood the adultery in the mind of his wife. Therefore he was very angry and told his sons, “My dear sons,…
• SB 9.16.6 Jamadagni then ordered his youngest son, Paraśurāma, to kill his brothers, who had disobeyed this order, and his mother, who had mentally…
• SB 9.16.7 Jamadagni, the son of Satyavatī, was very much pleased with Paraśurāma and asked him to take any benediction he liked. Lord Paraśurāma…
• SB 9.16.8 Thereafter, by the benediction of Jamadagni, Lord Paraśurāma’s mother and brothers immediately came alive and were very happy, as if…
• SB 9.16.9 My dear King Parīkṣit, the sons of Kārtavīryārjuna, who were defeated by the superior strength of Paraśurāma, never achieved happiness,…
• SB 9.16.10 Once when Paraśurāma left the āśrama for the forest with Vasumān and his other brothers, the sons of Kārtavīryārjuna took the opportunity…
• SB 9.16.11 The sons of Kārtavīryārjuna were determined to commit sinful deeds. Therefore when they saw Jamadagni sitting by the side of the fire to…
• SB 9.16.12 With pitiable prayers, Reṇukā, the mother of Paraśurāma and wife of Jamadagni, begged for the life of her husband. But the sons of…
• SB 9.16.13 Lamenting in grief for the death of her husband, the most chaste Reṇukā struck her own body with her hands and cried very loudly, “O Rāma,…
• SB 9.16.14 Although the sons of Jamadagni, including Lord Paraśurāma, were a long distance from home, as soon as they heard Reṇukā loudly calling “O…
• SB 9.16.15 Virtually bewildered by grief, anger, indignation, affliction and lamentation, the sons of Jamadagni cried, “O father, most religious,…
• SB 9.16.16 Thus lamenting, Lord Paraśurāma entrusted his father’s dead body to his brothers and personally took up his axe, having decided to put an…
• SB 9.16.17 O King, Lord Paraśurāma then went to Māhiṣmatī, which was already doomed by the sinful killing of a brāhmaṇa. In the midst of that city he…
• SB 9.16.18-19 With the blood of the bodies of these sons, Lord Paraśurāma created a ghastly river, which brought great fear to the kings who had no…
• SB 9.16.20 Thereafter, Paraśurāma joined his father’s head to the dead body and placed the whole body and head upon kuśa grass. By offering…
• SB 9.16.21-22 After completing the sacrifice, Lord Paraśurāma gave the eastern direction to the hotā as a gift, the south to the brahmā, the west to the…
• SB 9.16.23 Thereafter, having completed the ritualistic sacrificial ceremonies, Lord Paraśurāma took the bath known as the avabhṛtha-snāna. Standing…
• SB 9.16.24 Thus Jamadagni, being worshiped by Lord Paraśurāma, was brought back to life with full remembrance, and he became one of the seven sages…
• SB 9.16.25 My dear King Parīkṣit, in the next manvantara the lotus-eyed Personality of Godhead Lord Paraśurāma, the son of Jamadagni, will be a great…
• SB 9.16.26 Lord Paraśurāma still lives as an intelligent brāhmaṇa in the mountainous country known as Mahendra. Completely satisfied, having given up…
• SB 9.16.27 In this way the supreme soul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord and the supreme controller, descended as an incarnation in the…
• SB 9.16.28 Viśvāmitra, the son of Mahārāja Gādhi, was as powerful as the flames of fire. From the position of a kṣatriya, he achieved the position of…
• SB 9.16.29 O King Parīkṣit, Viśvāmitra had 101 sons, of whom the middle one was known as Madhucchandā. In relation to him, all the other sons were…
• SB 9.16.30 Viśvāmitra accepted the son of Ajīgarta known as Śunaḥśepha, who was born in the Bhṛgu dynasty and was also known as Devarāta, as one of…
• SB 9.16.31 Śunaḥśepha’s father sold Śunaḥśepha to be sacrificed as a man-animal in the yajña of King Hariścandra. When Śunaḥśepha was brought into…
• SB 9.16.32 Although Śunaḥśepha was born in the Bhārgava dynasty, he was greatly advanced in spiritual life, and therefore the demigods involved in…
• SB 9.16.33 When requested by their father to accept Śunaḥśepha as the eldest son, the elder fifty of the Madhucchandās, the sons of Viśvāmitra, did…
• SB 9.16.34 When the elder Madhucchandās were cursed, the younger fifty, along with Madhucchandā himself, approached their father and agreed to accept…
• SB 9.16.35 Thus the younger Madhucchandās accepted Śunaḥśepha as their eldest brother and told him, “We shall follow your orders.” Viśvāmitra then…
• SB 9.16.36 Viśvāmitra said, “O Kuśikas [descendants of Kauśika], this Devarāta is my son and is one of you. Please obey his orders.” O King Parīkṣit,…
• SB 9.16.37 Viśvāmitra cursed some of his sons and blessed the others, and he also adopted a son. Thus there were varieties in the Kauśika dynasty,…
• SB 9.17.1-3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: From Purūravā came a son named Āyu, whose very powerful sons were Nahuṣa, Kṣatravṛddha, Rajī, Rābha and Anenā. O…
• SB 9.17.4 The son of Kāśya was Kāśi, and his son was Rāṣṭra, the father of Dīrghatama. Dīrghatama had a son named Dhanvantari, who was the…
• SB 9.17.5 The son of Dhanvantari was Ketumān, and his son was Bhīmaratha. The son of Bhīmaratha was Divodāsa, and the son of Divodāsa was Dyumān,…
• SB 9.17.6 Dyumān was also known as Śatrujit, Vatsa, Ṛtadhvaja and Kuvalayāśva. From him were born Alarka and other sons.
• SB 9.17.7 Alarka, the son of Dyumān, reigned over the earth for sixty-six thousand years, my dear King Parīkṣit. No one other than him has reigned…
• SB 9.17.8 From Alarka came a son named Santati, and his son was Sunītha. The son of Sunītha was Niketana, the son of Niketana was Dharmaketu, and…
• SB 9.17.9 O King Parīkṣit, from Satyaketu came a son named Dhṛṣṭaketu, and from Dhṛṣṭaketu came Sukumāra, the emperor of the entire world. From…
• SB 9.17.10 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, all of these kings were descendants of Kāśi, and they could also be called descendants of Kṣatravṛddha. The son of…
• SB 9.17.11 The son of Akriya was known as Brahmavit, O King. Now hear about the descendants of Anenā. From Anenā came a son named Śuddha, and his son…
• SB 9.17.12 From Citrakṛt was born a son named Śāntaraja, a self-realized soul who performed all kinds of Vedic ritualistic ceremonies and therefore…
• SB 9.17.13 On the request of the demigods, Rajī killed the demons and thus returned the kingdom of heaven to Lord Indra. But Indra, fearing such…
• SB 9.17.14 Upon Rajī’s death, Indra begged Rajī’s sons for the return of the heavenly planet. They did not return it, however, although they agreed…
• SB 9.17.15 Thereafter, Bṛhaspati, the spiritual master of the demigods, offered oblations in the fire so that the sons of Rajī would fall from moral…
• SB 9.17.16 From Kuśa, the grandson of Kṣatravṛddha, was born a son named Prati. The son of Prati was Sañjaya, and the son of Sañjaya was Jaya. From…
• SB 9.17.17 From Haryabala came a son named Sahadeva, and from Sahadeva came Hīna. The son of Hīna was Jayasena, and the son of Jayasena was Saṅkṛti.…
• SB 9.18.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, as the embodied soul has six senses, King Nahuṣa had six sons, named Yati, Yayāti, Saṁyāti, Āyati,…
• SB 9.18.2 When one enters the post of king or head of the government, one cannot understand the meaning of self-realization. Knowing this, Yati, the…
• SB 9.18.3 Because Nahuṣa, the father of Yayāti, molested Indra’s wife, Śacī, who then complained to Agastya and other brāhmaṇas, these saintly…
• SB 9.18.4 King Yayāti had four younger brothers, whom he allowed to rule the four directions. Yayāti himself married Devayānī, the daughter of…
• SB 9.18.6-7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: One day Vṛṣaparvā’s daughter Śarmiṣṭhā, who was innocent but angry by nature, was walking with Devayānī, the…
• SB 9.18.8 When the young, lotus-eyed girls came to the bank of a reservoir of water, they wanted to enjoy by bathing. Thus they left their clothing…
• SB 9.18.9 While sporting in the water, the girls suddenly saw Lord Śiva passing by, seated on the back of his bull with his wife, Pārvatī. Ashamed…
• SB 9.18.10 Śarmiṣṭhā unknowingly put Devayānī’s dress on her own body, thus angering Devayānī, who then spoke as follows.
• SB 9.18.11 Oh, just see the activities of this servant-maid Śarmiṣṭhā! Disregarding all etiquette, she has put on my dress, just like a dog snatching…
• SB 9.18.12-14 We are among the qualified brāhmaṇas, who are accepted as the face of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The brāhmaṇas have created the…
• SB 9.18.15 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When thus rebuked in cruel words, Śarmiṣṭhā was very angry. Breathing heavily like a serpent and biting her lower…
• SB 9.18.16 You beggar, since you don’t understand your position, why should you unnecessarily talk so much? Don’t all of you wait at our house,…
• SB 9.18.17 Using such unkind words, Śarmiṣṭhā rebuked Devayānī, the daughter of Śukrācārya. In anger, she took away Devayānī’s garments and threw…
• SB 9.18.18 After throwing Devayānī into the well, Śarmiṣṭhā went home. Meanwhile, King Yayāti, while engaged in a hunting excursion, went to the well…
• SB 9.18.19 Seeing Devayānī naked in the well, King Yayāti immediately gave her his upper cloth. Being very kind to her, he caught her hand with his…
• SB 9.18.20-21 With words saturated with love and affection, Devayānī said to King Yayāti: O great hero, O King, conqueror of the cities of your enemies,…
• SB 9.18.22 Because of falling in the well, I met you. Indeed, this has been arranged by providence. After I cursed Kaca, the son of the learned…
• SB 9.18.23 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Because such a marriage is not sanctioned by regular scriptures, King Yayāti did not like it, but because it…
• SB 9.18.24 Thereafter, when the learned King returned to his palace, Devayānī returned home crying and told her father, Śukrācārya, about all that…
• SB 9.18.25 As Śukrācārya listened to what had happened to Devayānī, his mind was very much aggrieved. Condemning the profession of priesthood and…
• SB 9.18.26 King Vṛṣaparvā understood that Śukrācārya was coming to chastise or curse him. Consequently, before Śukrācārya came to his house,…
• SB 9.18.27 The powerful Śukrācārya was angry for a few moments, but upon being satisfied he said to Vṛṣaparvā: My dear King, kindly fulfill the…
• SB 9.18.28 After hearing Śukrācārya’s request, Vṛṣaparvā agreed to fulfill Devayānī’s desire, and he awaited her words. Devayānī then expressed her…
• SB 9.18.29 Vṛṣaparvā wisely thought that Śukrācārya’s displeasure would bring danger and that his pleasure would bring material gain. Therefore he…
• SB 9.18.30 When Śukrācārya gave Devayānī in marriage to Yayāti, he had Śarmiṣṭhā go with her, but he warned the King, “My dear King, never allow this…
• SB 9.18.31 O King Parīkṣit, upon seeing Devayānī with a nice son, Śarmiṣṭhā once approached King Yayāti at the appropriate time for conception. In a…
• SB 9.18.32 When Princess Śarmiṣṭhā begged King Yayāti for a son, the King was certainly aware of the principles of religion, and therefore he agreed…
• SB 9.18.33 Devayānī gave birth to Yadu and Turvasu, and Śarmiṣṭhā gave birth to Druhyu, Anu and Pūru.
• SB 9.18.34 When the proud Devayānī understood from outside sources that Śarmiṣṭhā was pregnant by her husband, she was frenzied with anger. Thus she…
• SB 9.18.35 King Yayāti, who was very lusty, followed his wife, caught her and tried to appease her by speaking pleasing words and massaging her feet,…
• SB 9.18.36 Śukrācārya was extremely angry. “You untruthful fool, lusting after women! You have done a great wrong,” he said. “I therefore curse you…
• SB 9.18.37 King Yayāti said, “O learned, worshipable brāhmaṇa, I have not yet satisfied my lusty desires with your daughter.” Śukrācārya then…
• SB 9.18.38 When Yayāti received this benediction from Śukrācārya, he requested his eldest son: My dear son Yadu, please give me your youth in…
• SB 9.18.39 My dear son, I am not yet satisfied in my sexual desires. But if you are kind to me, you can take the old age given by your maternal…
• SB 9.18.40 Yadu replied: My dear father, you have already achieved old age, although you also were a young man. But I do not welcome your old age and…
• SB 9.18.41 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Yayāti similarly requested his sons Turvasu, Druhyu and Anu to exchange their youth for his old age, but because they…
• SB 9.18.42 King Yayāti then requested Pūru, who was younger than these three brothers but more qualified, “My dear son, do not be disobedient like…
• SB 9.18.43 Pūru replied: O Your Majesty, who in this world can repay his debt to his father? By the mercy of one’s father, one gets the human form of…
• SB 9.18.44 A son who acts by anticipating what his father wants him to do is first class, one who acts upon receiving his father’s order is second…
• SB 9.18.45 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: In this way, O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son named Pūru was very pleased to accept the old age of his father, Yayāti,…
• SB 9.18.46 Thereafter, King Yayāti became the ruler of the entire world, consisting of seven islands, and ruled the citizens exactly like a father.…
• SB 9.18.47 In secluded places, engaging her mind, words, body and various paraphernalia, Devayānī, the dear wife of Mahārāja Yayāti, always brought…
• SB 9.18.48 King Yayāti performed various sacrifices, in which he offered abundant gifts to the brāhmaṇas to satisfy the Supreme Lord, Hari, who is…
• SB 9.18.49 The Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva, who created the cosmic manifestation, exhibits Himself as all-pervading, like the sky that holds clouds. And…
• SB 9.18.50 Without material desires, Mahārāja Yayāti worshiped the Supreme Lord, who is situated in everyone’s heart as Nārāyaṇa and is invisible to…
• SB 9.18.51 Although Mahārāja Yayāti was the king of the entire world and he engaged his mind and five senses in enjoying material possessions for one…
• SB 9.19.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Yayāti was very much attached to woman. In due course of time, however, when disgusted with…
• SB 9.19.2 My dearly beloved wife, daughter of Śukrācārya, in this world there was someone exactly like me. Please listen as I narrate the history of…
• SB 9.19.3 While wandering in the forest, eating to satisfy his senses, a he-goat by chance approached a well, in which he saw a she-goat standing…
• SB 9.19.4 After planning how to get the she-goat out of the well, the lusty he-goat dug up the earth on the well’s edge with the point of his horns…
• SB 9.19.5-6 When the she-goat, who had very nice hips, got out of the well and saw the very handsome he-goat, she desired to accept him as her…
• SB 9.19.7 When the she-goat who had fallen into the well saw her beloved goat engaged in sexual affairs with another she-goat, she could not…
• SB 9.19.8 Aggrieved by her husband’s behavior with another, the she-goat thought that the he-goat was not actually her friend but was hardhearted…
• SB 9.19.9 Being very sorry, the he-goat, who was subservient to his wife, followed the she-goat on the road and tried his best to flatter her, but…
• SB 9.19.10 The she-goat went to the residence of a brāhmaṇa who was the maintainer of another she-goat, and that brāhmaṇa angrily cut off the…
• SB 9.19.11 My dear wife, when the he-goat had his testicles restored, he enjoyed the she-goat he had gotten from the well, but although he continued…
• SB 9.19.12 O my dear wife with beautiful eyebrows, I am exactly like that he-goat, for I am so poor in intelligence that I am captivated by your…
• SB 9.19.13 A person who is lusty cannot satisfy his mind even if he has enough of everything in this world, including rice, barley and other food…
• SB 9.19.14 As supplying butter to a fire does not diminish the fire but instead increases it more and more, the endeavor to stop lusty desires by…
• SB 9.19.15 When a man is nonenvious and does not desire ill fortune for anyone, he is equipoised. For such a person, all directions appear happy.
• SB 9.19.16 For those who are too attached to material enjoyment, sense gratification is very difficult to give up. Even when one is an invalid…
• SB 9.19.17 One should not allow oneself to sit on the same seat even with one’s own mother, sister or daughter, for the senses are so strong that…
• SB 9.19.18 I have spent a full one thousand years enjoying sense gratification, yet my desire to enjoy such pleasure increases daily.
• SB 9.19.19 Therefore, I shall now give up all these desires and meditate upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Free from the dualities of mental…
• SB 9.19.20 One who knows that material happiness, whether good or bad, in this life or in the next, on this planet or on the heavenly planets, is…
• SB 9.19.21 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After speaking in this way to his wife, Devayānī, King Yayāti, who was now free from all material desires, called…
• SB 9.19.22 King Yayāti gave the southeast to his son Druhyu, the south to his son Yadu, the west to his son Turvasu, and the north to his son Anu. In…
• SB 9.19.23 Yayāti enthroned his youngest son, Pūru, as the emperor of the entire world and the proprietor of all its riches, and he placed all the…
• SB 9.19.24 Having enjoyed sense gratification for many, many years, O King Parīkṣit, Yayāti was accustomed to it, but he gave it up entirely in a…
• SB 9.19.25 Because King Yayāti completely surrendered unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, he was freed from all contamination of the…
• SB 9.19.26 When Devayānī heard Mahārāja Yayāti’s story of the he-goat and she-goat, she understood that this story, which was presented as if a funny…
• SB 9.19.27-28 Thereafter, Devayānī, the daughter of Śukrācārya, understood that the materialistic association of husband, friends and relatives is like…
• SB 9.19.29 O Lord Vāsudeva, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are the creator of the entire cosmic manifestation. You live as the Supersoul in…
• SB 9.20.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, descendant of Mahārāja Bharata, I shall now describe the dynasty of Pūru, in which you were…
• SB 9.20.2 King Janamejaya was born of this dynasty of Pūru. Janamejaya’s son was Pracinvān, and his son was Pravīra. Thereafter, Pravīra’s son was…
• SB 9.20.3 The son of Cārupada was Sudyu, and the son of Sudyu was Bahugava. Bahugava’s son was Saṁyāti. From Saṁyāti came a son named Ahaṁyāti, from…
• SB 9.20.4-5 Raudrāśva had ten sons, named Ṛteyu, Kakṣeyu, Sthaṇḍileyu, Kṛteyuka, Jaleyu, Sannateyu, Dharmeyu, Satyeyu, Vrateyu and Vaneyu. Of these…
• SB 9.20.6 Ṛteyu had a son named Rantināva, who had three sons, named Sumati, Dhruva and Apratiratha. Apratiratha had only one son, whose name was…
• SB 9.20.7 The son of Kaṇva was Medhātithi, whose sons, all brāhmaṇas, were headed by Praskanna. The son of Rantināva named Sumati had a son named…
• SB 9.20.8-9 Once when King Duṣmanta went to the forest to hunt and was very much fatigued, he approached the residence of Kaṇva Muni. There he saw a…
• SB 9.20.10 Seeing the beautiful woman, the King was very much enlivened, and the fatigue of his hunting excursion was relieved. He was of course very…
• SB 9.20.11 O beautiful lotus-eyed woman, who are you? Whose daughter are you? What purpose do you have in this solitary forest? Why are you staying…
• SB 9.20.12 O most beautiful one, it appears to my mind that you must be the daughter of a kṣatriya. Because I belong to the Pūru dynasty, my mind…
• SB 9.20.13 Śakuntalā said: I am the daughter of Viśvāmitra. My mother, Menakā, left me in the forest. O hero, the most powerful saint Kaṇva Muni…
• SB 9.20.14 O King with eyes like the petals of a lotus, kindly come sit down and accept whatever reception we can offer. We have a supply of nīvārā…
• SB 9.20.15 King Duṣmanta replied: O Śakuntalā, with beautiful eyebrows, you have taken your birth in the family of the great saint Viśvāmitra, and…
• SB 9.20.16 When Śakuntalā responded to Mahārāja Duṣmanta’s proposal with silence, the agreement was complete. Then the King, who knew the laws of…
• SB 9.20.17 King Duṣmanta, who never discharged semen without a result, placed his semen at night in the womb of his Queen, Śakuntalā, and in the…
• SB 9.20.18 In the forest, Kaṇva Muni performed all the ritualistic ceremonies concerning the newborn child. Later, the boy became so powerful that he…
• SB 9.20.19 Śakuntalā, the best of beautiful women, along with her son, whose strength was insurmountable and who was a partial expansion of the…
• SB 9.20.20 When the King refused to accept his wife and son, who were both irreproachable, an unembodied voice spoke from the sky as an omen and was…
• SB 9.20.21 The voice said: O Mahārāja Duṣmanta, a son actually belongs to his father, whereas the mother is only a container, like the skin of a…
• SB 9.20.22 O King Duṣmanta, he who discharges semen is the actual father, and his son saves him from the custody of Yamarāja. You are the actual…
• SB 9.20.23 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Mahārāja Duṣmanta passed away from this earth, his son became the emperor of the world, the proprietor of the…
• SB 9.20.24-26 Mahārāja Bharata, the son of Duṣmanta, had the mark of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s disc on the palm of his right hand, and he had the mark of a lotus…
• SB 9.20.27 Bharata, the son of Mahārāja Duṣmanta, bound thirty-three hundred horses for those sacrifices, and thus he astonished all other kings. He…
• SB 9.20.28 When Mahārāja Bharata performed the sacrifice known as Maṣṇāra [or a sacrifice in the place known as Maṣṇāra], he gave in charity fourteen…
• SB 9.20.29 As one cannot approach the heavenly planets simply by the strength of his arms (for who can touch the heavenly planets with his hands?),…
• SB 9.20.30 When Mahārāja Bharata was on tour, he defeated or killed all the Kirātas, Hūṇas, Yavanas, Pauṇḍras, Kaṅkas, Khaśas, Śakas and the kings…
• SB 9.20.31 Formerly, after conquering the demigods, all the demons had taken shelter in the lower planetary system known as Rasātala and had brought…
• SB 9.20.32 Mahārāja Bharata provided all necessities for his subjects, both on this earth and in the heavenly planets, for twenty-seven thousand…
• SB 9.20.33 As the ruler of the entire universe, Emperor Bharata had the opulences of a great kingdom and unconquerable soldiers. His sons and family…
• SB 9.20.34 O King Parīkṣit, Mahārāja Bharata had three pleasing wives, who were daughters of the King of Vidarbha. When all three of them bore…
• SB 9.20.35 The King, his attempt for progeny frustrated in this way, performed a sacrifice named marut-stoma to get a son. The demigods known as the…
• SB 9.20.36 When the demigod named Bṛhaspati was attracted by his brother’s wife, Mamatā, who at that time was pregnant, he desired to have sexual…
• SB 9.20.37 Mamatā very much feared being forsaken by her husband for giving birth to an illegitimate son, and therefore she considered giving up the…
• SB 9.20.38 Bṛhaspati said to Mamatā, “You foolish woman, although this child was born from the wife of one man through the semen discharged by…
• SB 9.20.39 Although encouraged by the demigods to maintain the child, Mamatā considered him useless because of his illicit birth, and therefore she…
• SB 9.21.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Because Bharadvāja was delivered by the Marut demigods, he was known as Vitatha. The son of Vitatha was Manyu, and…
• SB 9.21.2 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, descendant of Pāṇḍu, Saṅkṛti had two sons, named Guru and Rantideva. Rantideva is famous in both this world and the…
• SB 9.21.3-5 Rantideva never endeavored to earn anything. He would enjoy whatever he got by the arrangement of providence, but when guests came he…
• SB 9.21.6 Because Rantideva perceived the presence of the Supreme Godhead everywhere, and in every living entity, he received the guest with faith…
• SB 9.21.7 Thereafter, having divided the remaining food with his relatives, Rantideva was just about to eat his own share when a śūdra guest…
• SB 9.21.8 When the śūdra went away, another guest arrived, surrounded by dogs, and said, “O King, I and my company of dogs are very hungry. Please…
• SB 9.21.9 With great respect, King Rantideva offered the balance of the food to the dogs and the master of the dogs, who had come as guests. The…
• SB 9.21.10 Thereafter, only the drinking water remained, and there was only enough to satisfy one person, but when the King was just about to drink…
• SB 9.21.11 Aggrieved at hearing the pitiable words of the poor fatigued caṇḍāla, Mahārāja Rantideva spoke the following nectarean words.
• SB 9.21.12 I do not pray to the Supreme Personality of Godhead for the eight perfections of mystic yoga, nor for salvation from repeated birth and…
• SB 9.21.13 By offering my water to maintain the life of this poor caṇḍāla, who is struggling to live, I have been freed from all hunger, thirst,…
• SB 9.21.14 Having spoken thus, King Rantideva, although on the verge of death because of thirst, gave his own portion of water to the caṇḍāla without…
• SB 9.21.15 Demigods like Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, who can satisfy all materially ambitious men by giving them the rewards they desire, then…
• SB 9.21.16 King Rantideva had no ambition to enjoy material benefits from the demigods. He offered them obeisances, but because he was factually…
• SB 9.21.17 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, because King Rantideva was a pure devotee, always Kṛṣṇa conscious and free from all material desires, the Lord’s…
• SB 9.21.18 All those who followed the principles of King Rantideva were totally favored by his mercy and became pure devotees, attached to the…
• SB 9.21.19-20 From Garga came a son named Śini, and his son was Gārgya. Although Gārgya was a kṣatriya, there came from him a generation of brahmaṇas.…
• SB 9.21.21 From King Hastī came three sons, named Ajamīḍha, Dvimīḍha and Purumīḍha. The descendants of Ajamīḍha, headed by Priyamedha, all achieved…
• SB 9.21.22 From Ajamīḍha came a son named Bṛhadiṣu, from Bṛhadiṣu came a son named Bṛhaddhanu, from Bṛhaddhanu a son named Bṛhatkāya, and from…
• SB 9.21.23 The son of Jayadratha was Viśada, and his son was Syenajit. The sons of Syenajit were Rucirāśva, Dṛḍhahanu, Kāśya and Vatsa.
• SB 9.21.24 The son of Rucirāśva was Pāra, and the sons of Pāra were Pṛthusena and Nīpa. Nīpa had one hundred sons.
• SB 9.21.25 King Nīpa begot a son named Brahmadatta through the womb of his wife, Kṛtvī, who was the daughter of Śuka. And Brahmadatta, who was a…
• SB 9.21.26 Following the instructions of the great sage Jaigīṣavya, Viṣvaksena compiled an elaborate description of the mystic yoga system. From…
• SB 9.21.27 The son of Dvimīḍha was Yavīnara, whose son was Kṛtimān. The son of Kṛtimān was well known as Satyadhṛti. From Satyadhṛti came a son named…
• SB 9.21.28-29 From Supārśva came a son named Sumati, from Sumati came Sannatimān, and from Sannatimān came Kṛtī, who achieved mystic power from Brahmā…
• SB 9.21.30 From Ripuñjaya came a son named Bahuratha. Purumīḍha was sonless. Ajamīḍha had a son named Nīla by his wife known as Nalinī, and the son…
• SB 9.21.31-33 The son of Śānti was Suśānti, the son of Suśānti was Puruja, and the son of Puruja was Arka. From Arka came Bharmyāśva, and from…
• SB 9.21.34 Mudgala, the son of Bharmyāśva, had twin children, one male and the other female. The male child was named Divodāsa, and the female child…
• SB 9.21.35 The son of Śatānanda was Satyadhṛti, who was expert in archery, and the son of Satyadhṛti was Śaradvān. When Śaradvān met Urvaśī, he…
• SB 9.21.36 While Mahārāja Śāntanu was on a hunting excursion, he saw the male and female children lying in the forest, and out of compassion he took…
• SB 9.22.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, the son of Divodāsa was Mitrāyu, and from Mitrāyu came four sons, named Cyavana, Sudāsa, Sahadeva and…
• SB 9.22.2 Somaka had one hundred sons, of whom the youngest was Pṛṣata. From Pṛṣata was born King Drupada, who was opulent in all supremacy.
• SB 9.22.3 From Mahārāja Drupada, Draupadī was born. Mahārāja Drupada also had many sons, headed by Dhṛṣṭadyumna. From Dhṛṣṭadyumna came a son named…
• SB 9.22.4-5 Another son of Ajamīḍha was known as Ṛkṣa. From Ṛkṣa came a son named Saṁvaraṇa, and from Saṁvaraṇa through the womb of his wife, Tapatī,…
• SB 9.22.6 The son of Kṛtī was Uparicara Vasu, and among his sons, headed by Bṛhadratha, were Kuśāmba, Matsya, Pratyagra and Cedipa. All the sons of…
• SB 9.22.7 From Bṛhadratha, Kuśāgra was born; from Kuśāgra, Ṛṣabha; and from Ṛṣabha, Satyahita. The son of Satyahita was Puṣpavān, and the son of…
• SB 9.22.8 Through the womb of another wife, Bṛhadratha begot two halves of a son. When the mother saw those two halves she rejected them, but later…
• SB 9.22.9 From Jarāsandha came a son named Sahadeva; from Sahadeva, Somāpi; and from Somāpi, Śrutaśravā. The son of Kuru called Parīkṣi had no sons,…
• SB 9.22.10 From Suratha came a son named Vidūratha, from whom Sārvabhauma was born. From Sārvabhauma came Jayasena; from Jayasena, Rādhika; and from…
• SB 9.22.11 From Ayutāyu came a son named Akrodhana, and his son was Devātithi. The son of Devātithi was Ṛkṣa, the son of Ṛkṣa was Dilīpa, and the son…
• SB 9.22.12-13 The sons of Pratīpa were Devāpi, Śāntanu and Bāhlīka. Devāpi left the kingdom of his father and went to the forest, and therefore Śāntanu…
• SB 9.22.14-15 Because the King was able to make everyone happy for sense gratification, primarily by the touch of his hand, his name was Śāntanu. Once,…
• SB 9.22.16-17 When the brāhmaṇas said this, Mahārāja Śāntanu went to the forest and requested his elder brother Devāpi to take charge of the kingdom,…
• SB 9.22.18-19 After the dynasty of the moon-god comes to an end in this Age of Kali, Devāpi, in the beginning of the next Satya-yuga, will reestablish…
• SB 9.22.20 Bhīṣmadeva was the foremost of all warriors. When he defeated Lord Paraśurāma in a fight, Lord Paraśurāma was very satisfied with him. By…
• SB 9.22.21-24 Citrāṅgada, of whom Vicitravīrya was the younger brother, was killed by a Gandharva who was also named Citrāṅgada. Satyavatī, before her…
• SB 9.22.25 Bādarāyaṇa, Śrī Vyāsadeva, following the order of his mother, Satyavatī, begot three sons, two by the womb of Ambikā and Ambālikā, the two…
• SB 9.22.26 Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s wife, Gāndhārī, gave birth to one hundred sons and one daughter, O King. The oldest of the sons was Duryodhana, and the…
• SB 9.22.27-28 Pāṇḍu was restrained from sexual life because of having been cursed by a sage, and therefore his three sons Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma and Arjuna…
• SB 9.22.29 From Yudhiṣṭhira came a son named Prativindhya, from Bhīma a son named Śrutasena, from Arjuna a son named Śrutakīrti, and from Nakula a…
• SB 9.22.30-31 O King, the son of Sahadeva was Śrutakarmā. Furthermore, Yudhiṣṭhira and his brothers begot other sons in other wives. Yudhiṣṭhira begot a…
• SB 9.22.32 Nakula begot a son named Naramitra through his wife named Kareṇumatī. Similarly, Arjuna begot a son named Irāvān through his wife known as…
• SB 9.22.33 My dear King Parīkṣit, your father, Abhimanyu, was born from the womb of Subhadrā as the son of Arjuna. He was the conqueror of all…
• SB 9.22.34 After the Kuru dynasty was annihilated in the Battle of Kurukṣetra, you also were about to be destroyed by the brahmāstra atomic weapon…
• SB 9.22.35 My dear King, your four sons — Janamejaya, Śrutasena, Bhīmasena and Ugrasena — are very powerful. Janamejaya is the eldest.
• SB 9.22.36 Because of your death by the Takṣaka snake, your son Janamejaya will be very angry and will perform a sacrifice to kill all the snakes in…
• SB 9.22.37 After conquering throughout the world and after accepting Tura, the son of Kalaṣa, as his priest, Janamejaya will perform…
• SB 9.22.38 The son of Janamejaya known as Śatānīka will learn from Yājñavalkya the three Vedas and the art of performing ritualistic ceremonies. He…
• SB 9.22.39 The son of Śatānīka will be Sahasrānīka, and from him will come the son named Aśvamedhaja. From Aśvamedhaja will come Asīmakṛṣṇa, and his…
• SB 9.22.40 When the town of Hastināpura [New Delhi] is inundated by the river, Nemicakra will live in the place known as Kauśāmbī. His son will be…
• SB 9.22.41 From Śuciratha will come the son named Vṛṣṭimān, and his son, Suṣeṇa, will be the emperor of the entire world. The son of Suṣeṇa will be…
• SB 9.22.42 The son of Sukhīnala will be Pariplava, and his son will be Sunaya. From Sunaya will come a son named Medhāvī; from Medhāvī, Nṛpañjaya;…
• SB 9.22.43 From Timi will come Bṛhadratha; from Bṛhadratha, Sudāsa; and from Sudāsa, Śatānīka. From Śatānīka will come Durdamana, and from him will…
• SB 9.22.44-45 The son of Mahīnara will be Daṇḍapāṇi, and his son will be Nimi, from whom King Kṣemaka will be born. I have now described to you the…
• SB 9.22.46-48 Sahadeva, the son of Jarāsandha, will have a son named Mārjāri. From Mārjāri will come Śrutaśravā; from Śrutaśravā, Yutāyu; and from…
• SB 9.22.49 From Subala will come Sunītha; from Sunītha, Satyajit; from Satyajit, Viśvajit; and from Viśvajit, Ripuñjaya. All of these personalities…
• SB 9.23.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Anu, the fourth son of Yayāti, had three sons, named Sabhānara, Cakṣu and Pareṣṇu. O King, from Sabhānara came a…
• SB 9.23.2 From Sṛñjaya came a son named Janamejaya. From Janamejaya came Mahāśāla; from Mahāśāla, Mahāmanā; and from Mahāmanā two sons, named…
• SB 9.23.3-4 The four sons of Uśīnara were Śibi, Vara, Kṛmi and Dakṣa, and from Śibi again came four sons, named Vṛṣādarbha, Sudhīra, Madra and…
• SB 9.23.5 By the semen of Dīrghatamā in the wife of Bali, the emperor of the world, six sons took birth, namely Aṅga, Vaṅga, Kaliṅga, Suhma, Puṇḍra…
• SB 9.23.6 These six sons, headed by Aṅga, later became kings of six states in the eastern side of India. These states were known according to the…
• SB 9.23.7-10 From Diviratha came a son named Dharmaratha, and his son was Citraratha, who was celebrated as Romapāda. Romapāda, however, was without…
• SB 9.23.11 The sons of Pṛthulākṣa were Bṛhadratha, Bṛhatkarmā and Bṛhadbhānu. From the eldest, Bṛhadratha, came a son named Bṛhanmanā, and from…
• SB 9.23.12 The son of Jayadratha, by the womb of his wife Sambhūti, was Vijaya, and from Vijaya, Dhṛti was born. From Dhṛti came Dhṛtavrata; from…
• SB 9.23.13 While playing on the bank of the Ganges, Adhiratha found a baby wrapped up in a basket. The baby had been left by Kuntī because he was…
• SB 9.23.14 O King, the only son of Karṇa was Vṛṣasena. Druhyu, the third son of Yayāti, had a son named Babhru, and the son of Babhru was known as…
• SB 9.23.15 The son of Setu was Ārabdha, Ārabdha’s son was Gāndhāra, and Gāndhāra’s son was Dharma. Dharma’s son was Dhṛta, Dhṛta’s son was Durmada,…
• SB 9.23.16 The Pracetās [the sons of Pracetā] occupied the northern side of India, which was devoid of Vedic civilization, and became kings there.…
• SB 9.23.17 The son of Bhānumān was Tribhānu, and his son was the magnanimous Karandhama. Karandhama’s son was Maruta, who had no sons and who…
• SB 9.23.18-19 Mahārāja Duṣmanta, desiring to occupy the throne, returned to his original dynasty [the Pūru dynasty], even though he had accepted Maruta…
• SB 9.23.20-21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the Supersoul in the hearts of all living entities, descended in His original form as a human…
• SB 9.23.22 The son of Haihaya was Dharma, and the son of Dharma was Netra, the father of Kunti. From Kunti came a son named Sohañji, from Sohañji…
• SB 9.23.23 The sons of Bhadrasena were known as Durmada and Dhanaka. Dhanaka was the father of Kṛtavīrya and also of Kṛtāgni, Kṛtavarmā and Kṛtaujā.
• SB 9.23.24 The son of Kṛtavīrya was Arjuna. He [Kārtavīryārjuna] became the emperor of the entire world, consisting of seven islands, and received…
• SB 9.23.25 No other king in this world could equal Kārtavīryārjuna in sacrifices, charity, austerity, mystic power, education, strength or mercy.
• SB 9.23.26 For eighty-five thousand years, Kārtavīryārjuna continuously enjoyed material opulences with full bodily strength and unimpaired memory.…
• SB 9.23.27 Of the one thousand sons of Kārtavīryārjuna, only five remained alive after the fight with Paraśurāma. Their names were Jayadhvaja,…
• SB 9.23.28 Jayadhvaja had a son named Tālajaṅgha, who had one hundred sons. All the kṣatriyas in that dynasty, known as Tālajaṅgha, were annihilated…
• SB 9.23.29 Of the sons of Tālajaṅgha, Vītihotra was the eldest. The son of Vītihotra named Madhu had a celebrated son named Vṛṣṇi. Madhu had one…
• SB 9.23.30-31 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, because Yadu, Madhu and Vṛṣṇi each inaugurated a dynasty, their dynasties are known as Yādava, Mādhava and Vṛṣṇi. The…
• SB 9.23.32 The famous Śaśabindu had ten thousand wives, and by each he begot a lakh of sons. Therefore the number of his sons was ten thousand lakhs.
• SB 9.23.33 Among these many sons, six were the foremost, such as Pṛthuśravā and Pṛthukīrti. The son of Pṛthuśravā was known as Dharma, and his son…
• SB 9.23.34 The son of Uśanā was Rucaka, who had five sons — Purujit, Rukma, Rukmeṣu, Pṛthu and Jyāmagha. Please hear of these sons from me.
• SB 9.23.35-36 Jyāmagha had no sons, but because he was fearful of his wife, Śaibyā, he could not accept another wife. Jyāmagha once took from the house…
• SB 9.23.37 Śaibyā said, “I am sterile and have no co-wife. How can this girl be my daughter-in-law? Please tell me.” Jyāmagha replied, “My dear…
• SB 9.23.38 Long, long ago, Jyāmagha had satisfied the demigods and Pitās by worshiping them. Now, by their mercy, Jyāmagha’s words came true.…
• SB 9.24.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: By the womb of the girl brought by his father, Vidarbha begot three sons, named Kuśa, Kratha and Romapāda. Romapāda…
• SB 9.24.2 The son of Romapāda was Babhru, from whom there came a son named Kṛti. The son of Kṛti was Uśika, and the son of Uśika was Cedi. From Cedi…
• SB 9.24.3-4 The son of Kratha was Kunti; the son of Kunti, Vṛṣṇi; the son of Vṛṣṇi, Nirvṛti; and the son of Nirvṛti, Daśārha. From Daśārha came Vyoma;…
• SB 9.24.5 From Daśaratha came a son named Śakuni and from Śakuni a son named Karambhi. The son of Karambhi was Devarāta, and his son was Devakṣatra.…
• SB 9.24.6-8 The son of Anu was Puruhotra, the son of Puruhotra was Ayu, and the son of Ayu was Sātvata. O great Āryan King, Sātvata had seven sons,…
• SB 9.24.9 The son of Devāvṛdha was Babhru. Concerning Devāvṛdha and Babhru there are two famous songs of prayer, which were sung by our predecessors…
• SB 9.24.10-11 “It has been decided that among human beings Babhru is the best and that Devāvṛdha is equal to the demigods. Because of the association of…
• SB 9.24.12 O King, Mahārāja Parīkṣit, who can suppress your enemies, the sons of Vṛṣṇi were Sumitra and Yudhājit. From Yudhājit came Śini and…
• SB 9.24.13 The two sons of Nighna were Satrājita and Prasena. Another son of Anamitra was another Śini, and his son was Satyaka.
• SB 9.24.14 The son of Satyaka was Yuyudhāna, whose son was Jaya. From Jaya came a son named Kuṇi and from Kuṇi a son named Yugandhara. Another son of…
• SB 9.24.15 From Vṛṣṇi came the sons named Śvaphalka and Citraratha. From Śvaphalka by his wife Gāndinī came Akrūra. Akrūra was the eldest, but there…
• SB 9.24.16-18 The names of these twelve were Āsaṅga, Sārameya, Mṛdura, Mṛduvit, Giri, Dharmavṛddha, Sukarmā, Kṣetropekṣa, Arimardana, Śatrughna,…
• SB 9.24.19 Kukura, Bhajamāna, Śuci and Kambalabarhiṣa were the four sons of Andhaka. The son of Kukura was Vahni, and his son was Vilomā.
• SB 9.24.20 The son of Vilomā was Kapotaromā, and his son was Anu, whose friend was Tumburu. From Anu came Andhaka; from Andhaka, Dundubhi; and from…
• SB 9.24.21-23 Punarvasu had a son and a daughter, named Āhuka and Āhukī respectively, and Āhuka had two sons, named Devaka and Ugrasena. Devaka had four…
• SB 9.24.24 Kaṁsa, Sunāmā, Nyagrodha, Kaṅka, Śaṅku, Suhū, Rāṣṭrapāla, Dhṛṣṭi and Tuṣṭimān were the sons of Ugrasena.
• SB 9.24.25 Kaṁsā, Kaṁsavatī, Kaṅkā, Śūrabhū and Rāṣṭrapālikā were the daughters of Ugrasena. They became the wives of Vasudeva’s younger brothers.
• SB 9.24.26 The son of Citraratha was Vidūratha, the son of Vidūratha was Śūra, and his son was Bhajamāna. The son of Bhajamāna was Śini, the son of…
• SB 9.24.27 The three sons of Hṛdika were Devamīḍha, Śatadhanu and Kṛtavarmā. The son of Devamīḍha was Śūra, whose wife was named Māriṣā.
• SB 9.24.28-31 Through Māriṣā, King Śūra begot Vasudeva, Devabhāga, Devaśravā, Ānaka, Sṛñjaya, Śyāmaka, Kaṅka, Śamīka, Vatsaka and Vṛka. These ten sons…
• SB 9.24.32 Once when Durvāsā was a guest at the house of Pṛthā’s father, Kunti, Pṛthā satisfied Durvāsā by rendering service. Therefore she received…
• SB 9.24.33 As soon as Kuntī called for the demigod of the sun, he immediately appeared before her, and she was very much surprised. She told the…
• SB 9.24.34 The sun-god said: O beautiful Pṛthā, your meeting with the demigods cannot be fruitless. Therefore, let me place my seed in your womb so…
• SB 9.24.35 After saying this, the sun-god discharged his semen into the womb of Pṛthā and then returned to the celestial kingdom. Immediately…
• SB 9.24.36 Because Kuntī feared people’s criticisms, with great difficulty she had to give up her affection for her child. Unwillingly, she packed…
• SB 9.24.37 Vṛddhaśarmā, the King of Karūṣa, married Kuntī’s sister Śrutadevā, and from her womb Dantavakra was born. Having been cursed by the sages…
• SB 9.24.38 King Dhṛṣṭaketu, the King of Kekaya, married Śrutakīrti, another sister of Kuntī’s. Śrutakīrti had five sons, headed by Santardana.
• SB 9.24.39 Through the womb of Rājādhidevī, another sister of Kuntī’s, Jayasena begot two sons, named Vinda and Anuvinda. Similarly, the king of the…
• SB 9.24.40 The son of Śrutaśravā was Śiśupāla, whose birth has already been described [in the Seventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam]. Vasudeva’s brother…
• SB 9.24.41 Vasudeva’s brother named Devaśravā married Kaṁsavatī, by whom he begot two sons, named Suvīra and Iṣumān. Kaṅka, by his wife Kaṅkā, begot…
• SB 9.24.42 King Sṛñjaya, by his wife, Rāṣṭrapālikā, begot sons headed by Vṛṣa and Durmarṣaṇa. King Śyāmaka, by his wife, Śūrabhūmi, begot two sons,…
• SB 9.24.43 Thereafter, King Vatsaka, by the womb of his wife, Miśrakeśī, who was an Apsarā, begot sons headed by Vṛka. Vṛka, by his wife, Durvākṣī,…
• SB 9.24.44 From Samīka, by the womb of his wife, Sudāmanī, came Sumitra, Arjunapāla and other sons. King Ānaka, by his wife, Karṇikā, begot two sons,…
• SB 9.24.45 Devakī, Pauravī, Rohiṇī, Bhadrā, Madirā, Rocanā, Ilā and others were all wives of Ānakadundubhi [Vasudeva]. Among them all, Devakī was the…
• SB 9.24.46 Vasudeva, by the womb of his wife Rohiṇī, begot sons such as Bala, Gada, Sāraṇa, Durmada, Vipula, Dhruva, Kṛta and others.
• SB 9.24.47-48 From the womb of Pauravī came twelve sons, including Bhūta, Subhadra, Bhadrabāhu, Durmada and Bhadra. Nanda, Upananda, Kṛtaka, Śūra and…
• SB 9.24.49 Vasudeva, by another of his wives, whose name was Rocanā, begot Hasta, Hemāṅgada and other sons. And by his wife named Ilā he begot sons…
• SB 9.24.50 From the womb of Dhṛtadevā, one of the wives of Ānakadundubhi [Vasudeva], came a son named Vipṛṣṭha. The sons of Śāntidevā, another wife…
• SB 9.24.51 Vasudeva also had a wife named Upadevā, from whom came ten sons, headed by Rājanya, Kalpa and Varṣa. From Śrīdevā, another wife, came six…
• SB 9.24.52 By the semen of Vasudeva in the womb of Devarakṣitā, nine sons were born, headed by Gadā. Vasudeva, who was religion personified, also had…
• SB 9.24.53-55 The eight sons born of Sahadevā such as Pravara and Śruta, were exact incarnations of the eight Vasus in the heavenly planets. Vasudeva…
• SB 9.24.56 Whenever the principles of religion deteriorate and the principles of irreligion increase, the supreme controller, the Personality of…
• SB 9.24.57 O King, Mahārāja Parīkṣit, but for the Lord’s personal desire, there is no cause for His appearance, disappearance or activities. As the…
• SB 9.24.58 The Supreme Personality of Godhead acts through His material energy in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic…
• SB 9.24.59 Although the demons who take possession of the government are dressed like men of government, they do not know the duty of the government.…
• SB 9.24.60 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, with the cooperation of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Balarāma, performed activities beyond the mental…
• SB 9.24.61 To show causeless mercy to the devotees who would take birth in the future in this Age of Kali, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 9.24.62 Simply by receiving the glories of the Lord through purified transcendental ears, the devotees of the Lord are immediately freed from…
• SB 9.24.63-64 Assisted by the descendants of Bhoja, Vṛṣṇi, Andhaka, Madhu, Śūrasena, Daśārha, Kuru, Sṛñjaya and Pāṇḍu, Lord Kṛṣṇa performed various…
• SB 9.24.65 Kṛṣṇa’s face is decorated with ornaments, such as earrings resembling sharks. His ears are beautiful, His cheeks brilliant, and His…
• SB 9.24.66 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, known as līlā-puruṣottama, appeared as the son of Vasudeva but immediately left His…
• SB 9.24.67 Thereafter, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa created a misunderstanding between family members just to diminish the burden of the world. Simply by His…
• SB 10.1.15 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Your Majesty, best of all saintly kings, because you are greatly attracted to topics of Vāsudeva, it is…
• SB 10.1.16 The Ganges, emanating from the toe of Lord Viṣṇu, purifies the three worlds, the upper, middle and lower planetary systems. Similarly,…
• SB 10.1.17 Once when mother earth was overburdened by hundreds of thousands of military phalanxes of various conceited demons dressed like kings, she…
• SB 10.1.18 Mother earth assumed the form of a cow. Very much distressed, with tears in her eyes, she appeared before Lord Brahmā and told him about…
• SB 10.1.19 Thereafter, having heard of the distress of mother earth, Lord Brahmā, with mother earth, Lord Śiva and all the other demigods, approached…
• SB 10.1.20 After reaching the shore of the Ocean of Milk, the demigods worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, the master of the…
• SB 10.1.21 While in trance, Lord Brahmā heard the words of Lord Viṣṇu vibrating in the sky. Thus he told the demigods: O demigods, hear from me the…
• SB 10.1.22 Lord Brahmā informed the demigods: Before we submitted our petition to the Lord, He was already aware of the distress on earth.…
• SB 10.1.23 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who has full potency, will personally appear as the son of Vasudeva. Therefore all the…
• SB 10.1.24 The foremost manifestation of Kṛṣṇa is Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is known as Ananta. He is the origin of all incarnations within this material…
• SB 10.1.25 The potency of the Lord, known as viṣṇu-māyā, who is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, will also appear with Lord Kṛṣṇa. This…
• SB 10.1.26 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After thus advising the demigods and pacifying mother earth, the very powerful Lord Brahmā, who is the master…
• SB 10.1.27 Formerly, Śūrasena, the chief of the Yadu dynasty, had gone to live in the city of Mathurā. There he enjoyed the places known as Māthura…
• SB 10.1.28 Since that time, the city of Mathurā had been the capital of all the kings of the Yadu dynasty. The city and district of Mathurā are very…
• SB 10.1.29 Some time ago, Vasudeva, who belonged to the demigod family [or to the Śūra dynasty], married Devakī. After the marriage, he mounted his…
• SB 10.1.30 Kaṁsa, the son of King Ugrasena, in order to please his sister Devakī on the occasion of her marriage, took charge of the reins of the…
• SB 10.1.31-32 Devakī’s father, King Devaka, was very much affectionate to his daughter. Therefore, while she and her husband were leaving home, he gave…
• SB 10.1.33 O beloved son, Mahārāja Parīkṣit, when the bride and bridegroom were ready to start, conchshells, bugles, drums and kettledrums all…
• SB 10.1.34 While Kaṁsa, controlling the reins of the horses, was driving the chariot along the way, an unembodied voice addressed him, “You foolish…
• SB 10.1.35 Kaṁsa was a condemned personality in the Bhoja dynasty because he was envious and sinful. Therefore, upon hearing this omen from the sky,…
• SB 10.1.36 Wanting to pacify Kaṁsa, who was so cruel and envious that he was shamelessly ready to kill his sister, the great soul Vasudeva, who was…
• SB 10.2.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Under the protection of Magadharāja, Jarāsandha, the powerful Kaṁsa began persecuting the kings of the Yadu…
• SB 10.2.3 Persecuted by the demoniac kings, the Yādavas left their own kingdom and entered various others, like those of the Kurus, Pañcālas,…
• SB 10.2.4-5 Some of their relatives, however, began to follow Kaṁsa’s principles and act in his service. After Kaṁsa, the son of Ugrasena, killed the…
• SB 10.2.6 To protect the Yadus, His personal devotees, from Kaṁsa’s attack, the Personality of Godhead, Viśvātmā, the Supreme Soul of everyone,…
• SB 10.2.7 The Lord ordered Yoga-māyā: O My potency, who are worshipable for the entire world and whose nature is to bestow good fortune upon all…
• SB 10.2.8 Within the womb of Devakī is My partial plenary expansion known as Saṅkarṣaṇa or Śeṣa. Without difficulty, transfer Him into the womb of…
• SB 10.2.9 O all-auspicious Yoga-māyā, I shall then appear with My full six opulences as the son of Devakī, and you will appear as the daughter of…
• SB 10.2.10 By sacrifices of animals, ordinary human beings will worship you gorgeously, with various paraphernalia, because you are supreme in…
• SB 10.2.11-12 Lord Kṛṣṇa blessed Māyādevī by saying: In different places on the surface of the earth, people will give you different names, such as…
• SB 10.2.13 The son of Rohiṇī will also be celebrated as Saṅkarṣaṇa because of being sent from the womb of Devakī to the womb of Rohiṇī. He will be…
• SB 10.2.14 Thus instructed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Yoga-māyā immediately agreed. With the Vedic mantra om, she confirmed that she…
• SB 10.2.15 When the child of Devakī was attracted and transferred into the womb of Rohiṇī by Yoga-māyā, Devakī seemed to have a miscarriage. Thus all…
• SB 10.2.16 Thus the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul of all living entities and who vanquishes all the fear of His devotees,…
• SB 10.2.17 While carrying the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead within the core of his heart, Vasudeva bore the Lord’s transcendentally…
• SB 10.2.18 Thereafter, accompanied by plenary expansions, the fully opulent Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is all-auspicious for the entire…
• SB 10.2.19 Devakī then kept within herself the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all causes, the foundation of the entire cosmos, but…
• SB 10.2.20 Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead was within her womb, Devakī illuminated the entire atmosphere in the place where she was…
• SB 10.2.21 Kaṁsa thought: What is my duty now? The Supreme Lord, who knows His purpose will not give up His prowess. Devakī is a woman, she is my…
• SB 10.2.22 A person who is very cruel is regarded as dead even while living, for while he is living or after his death, everyone condemns him. And…
• SB 10.2.23 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Deliberating in this way, Kaṁsa, although determined to continue in enmity toward the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 10.2.24 While sitting on his throne or in his sitting room, while lying on his bed, or, indeed, while situated anywhere, and while eating,…
• SB 10.2.25 Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, accompanied by great sages like Nārada, Devala and Vyāsa and by other demigods like Indra, Candra and Varuṇa,…
• SB 10.2.26 The demigods prayed: O Lord, You never deviate from Your vow, which is always perfect because whatever You decide is perfectly correct and…
• SB 10.2.27 The body [the total body and the individual body are of the same composition] may figuratively be called “the original tree.” From this…
• SB 10.2.28 The efficient cause of this material world, manifested with its many varieties as the original tree, is You, O Lord. You are also the…
• SB 10.2.29 O Lord, You are always in full knowledge, and to bring all good fortune to all living entities, You appear in different incarnations, all…
• SB 10.2.30 O lotus-eyed Lord, by concentrating one’s meditation on Your lotus feet, which are the reservoir of all existence, and by accepting those…
• SB 10.2.31 O Lord, who resemble the shining sun, You are always ready to fulfill the desire of Your devotee, and therefore You are known as a desire…
• SB 10.2.32 [Someone may say that aside from devotees, who always seek shelter at the Lord’s lotus feet, there are those who are not devotees but who…
• SB 10.2.33 O Mādhava, Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord of the goddess of fortune, if devotees completely in love with You sometimes fall from the…
• SB 10.2.34 O Lord, during the time of maintenance You manifest several incarnations, all with transcendental bodies, beyond the material modes of…
• SB 10.2.35 O Lord, cause of all causes, if Your transcendental body were not beyond the modes of material nature, one could not understand the…
• SB 10.2.36 O Lord, Your transcendental name and form are not ascertained by those who merely speculate on the path of imagination. Your name, form…
• SB 10.2.37 Even while engaged in various activities, devotees whose minds are completely absorbed at Your lotus feet, and who constantly hear, chant,…
• SB 10.2.38 O Lord, we are fortunate because the heavy burden of the demons upon this earth is immediately removed by Your appearance. Indeed, we are…
• SB 10.2.39 O Supreme Lord, You are not an ordinary living entity appearing in this material world as a result of fruitive activities. Therefore Your…
• SB 10.2.40 O supreme controller, Your Lordship previously accepted incarnations as a fish, a horse, a tortoise, Narasiṁhadeva, a boar, a swan, Lord…
• SB 10.2.41 O mother Devakī, by your good fortune and ours, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, with all His plenary portions, such as…
• SB 10.2.42 After thus offering prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, the Transcendence, all the demigods, with Lord Brahmā and…
• SB 10.3.1-5 Thereafter, at the auspicious time for the appearance of the Lord, the entire universe was surcharged with all the qualities of goodness,…
• SB 10.3.6 The Kinnaras and Gandharvas began to sing auspicious songs, the Siddhas and Cāraṇas offered auspicious prayers, and the Vidyādharīs, along…
• SB 10.3.7-8 The demigods and great saintly persons showered flowers in a joyous mood, and clouds gathered in the sky and very mildly thundered, making…
• SB 10.3.9-10 Vasudeva then saw the newborn child, who had very wonderful lotuslike eyes and who bore in His four hands the four weapons śaṅkha, cakra,…
• SB 10.3.11 When Vasudeva saw his extraordinary son, his eyes were struck with wonder. In transcendental jubilation, he mentally collected ten…
• SB 10.3.12 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, descendant of King Bharata, Vasudeva could understand that this child was the Supreme Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 10.3.46 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After thus instructing His father and mother, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, remained silent. In their…
• SB 10.3.47 Thereafter, exactly when Vasudeva, being inspired by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, was about to take the newborn child from the…
• SB 10.3.48-49 By the influence of Yoga-māyā, all the doorkeepers fell fast asleep, their senses unable to work, and the other inhabitants of the house…
• SB 10.3.50 Because of constant rain sent by the demigod Indra, the river Yamunā was filled with deep water, foaming about with fiercely whirling…
• SB 10.3.51 When Vasudeva reached the house of Nanda Mahārāja, he saw that all the cowherd men were fast asleep. Thus he placed his own son on the bed…
• SB 10.3.52 Vasudeva placed the female child on the bed of Devakī, bound his legs with the iron shackles, and thus remained there as before.
• SB 10.3.53 Exhausted by the labor of childbirth, Yaśodā was overwhelmed with sleep and unable to understand what kind of child had been born to her.
• SB 10.4.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King Parīkṣit, the doors inside and outside the house closed as before. Thereafter, the inhabitants of…
• SB 10.4.2 Thereafter, all the watchmen very quickly approached King Kaṁsa, the ruler of the Bhoja dynasty, and submitted the news of the birth of…
• SB 10.4.3 Kaṁsa immediately got up from bed, thinking, “Here is Kāla, the supreme time factor, which has taken birth to kill me!” Thus overwhelmed,…
• SB 10.4.4 Devakī helplessly, piteously appealed to Kaṁsa: My dear brother, all good fortune unto you. Don’t kill this girl. She will be your…
• SB 10.4.5 My dear brother, by the influence of destiny you have already killed many babies, each of them as bright and beautiful as fire. But kindly…
• SB 10.4.6 My lord, my brother, I am very poor, being bereft of all my children, but still I am your younger sister, and therefore it would be worthy…
• SB 10.4.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Piteously embracing her daughter and crying, Devakī begged Kaṁsa for the child, but he was so cruel that he…
• SB 10.4.8 Having uprooted all relationships with his sister because of intense selfishness, Kaṁsa, who was sitting on his knees, grasped the newborn…
• SB 10.4.9 The child, Yoga-māyā-devī, the younger sister of Lord Viṣṇu, slipped upward from Kaṁsa’s hands and appeared in the sky as Devī, the…
• SB 10.4.10-11 The goddess Durgā was decorated with flower garlands, smeared with sandalwood pulp and dressed with excellent garments and ornaments made…
• SB 10.4.12 O Kaṁsa, you fool, what will be the use of killing me? The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has been your enemy from the very beginning…
• SB 10.4.13 After speaking to Kaṁsa in this way, the goddess Durgā, Yoga-māyā, appeared in different places, such as Vārāṇasī, and became celebrated…
• SB 10.4.14 After hearing the words of the goddess Durgā, Kaṁsa was struck with wonder. Thus he approached his sister Devakī and brother-in-law…
• SB 10.4.15 Alas, my sister! Alas, my brother-in-law! I am indeed so sinful that exactly like a man-eater [Rākṣasa] who eats his own child, I have…
• SB 10.4.16 Being merciless and cruel, I have forsaken all my relatives and friends. Therefore, like a person who has killed a brāhmaṇa, I do not know…
• SB 10.4.17 Alas, not only human beings but sometimes even providence lies. And I am so sinful that I believed the omen of providence and killed so…
• SB 10.4.18 O great souls, your children have suffered their own misfortune. Therefore, please do not lament for them. All living entities are under…
• SB 10.4.19 In this world, we can see that pots, dolls and other products of the earth appear, break and then disappear, mixing with the earth.…
• SB 10.4.20 One who does not understand the constitutional position of the body and the soul [ātmā] becomes too attached to the bodily concept of…
• SB 10.4.21 My dear sister Devakī, all good fortune unto you. Everyone suffers and enjoys the results of his own work under the control of providence.…
• SB 10.4.22 In the bodily conception of life, one remains in darkness, without self-realization, thinking, “I am being killed” or “I have killed my…
• SB 10.4.23 Kaṁsa begged, “My dear sister and brother-in-law, please be merciful to such a poor-hearted person as me, since both of you are saintly…
• SB 10.4.24 Fully believing in the words of the goddess Durgā, Kaṁsa exhibited his familial affection for Devakī and Vasudeva by immediately releasing…
• SB 10.4.25 When Devakī saw her brother actually repentant while explaining ordained events, she was relieved of all anger. Similarly, Vasudeva was…
• SB 10.4.26 O great personality Kaṁsa, only by the influence of ignorance does one accept the material body and bodily ego. What you have said about…
• SB 10.4.27 Persons with the vision of differentiation are imbued with the material qualities lamentation, jubilation, fear, envy, greed, illusion and…
• SB 10.4.28 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thus having been addressed in purity by Devakī and Vasudeva, who were very much appeased, Kaṁsa felt pleased,…
• SB 10.4.29 After that night passed, Kaṁsa summoned his ministers and informed them of all that had been spoken by Yoga-māyā [who had revealed that He…
• SB 10.4.30 After hearing their master’s statement, the envious asuras, who were enemies of the demigods and were not very expert in their dealings,…
• SB 10.4.31 If this is so, O King of the Bhoja dynasty, beginning today we shall kill all the children born in all the villages, towns and pasturing…
• SB 10.4.32 The demigods always fear the sound of your bowstring. They are constantly in anxiety, afraid of fighting. Therefore, what can they do by…
• SB 10.4.33 While being pierced by your arrows, which you discharged on all sides, some of them, who were injured by the multitude of arrows but who…
• SB 10.4.34 Defeated and bereft of all weapons, some of the demigods gave up fighting and praised you with folded hands, and some of them, appearing…
• SB 10.4.35 When the demigods are bereft of their chariots, when they forget how to use weapons, when they are fearful or attached to something other…
• SB 10.4.36 The demigods boast uselessly while away from the battlefield. Only where there is no fighting can they show their prowess. Therefore, from…
• SB 10.4.37 Nonetheless, because of their enmity, our opinion is that the demigods should not be neglected. Therefore, to uproot them completely,…
• SB 10.4.38 As a disease, if initially neglected, becomes acute and impossible to cure, or as the senses, if not controlled at first, are impossible…
• SB 10.4.39 The foundation of all the demigods is Lord Viṣṇu, who lives and is worshiped wherever there are religious principles, traditional culture,…
• SB 10.4.40 O King, we, who are your adherents in all respects, shall therefore kill the Vedic brāhmaṇas, the persons engaged in offering sacrifices…
• SB 10.4.41 The brāhmaṇas, the cows, Vedic knowledge, austerity, truthfulness, control of the mind and senses, faith, mercy, tolerance and sacrifice…
• SB 10.4.42 Lord Viṣṇu, the Supersoul within the core of everyone’s heart, is the ultimate enemy of the asuras and is therefore known as asura-dviṭ.…
• SB 10.4.43 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thus, having considered the instructions of his bad ministers, Kaṁsa, who was bound by the laws of Yamarāja…
• SB 10.4.44 These demons, the followers of Kaṁsa, were expert at persecuting others, especially the Vaiṣṇavas, and could assume any form they desired.…
• SB 10.4.45 Surcharged with passion and ignorance and not knowing what was good or bad for them, the asuras, for whom impending death was waiting,…
• SB 10.4.46 My dear King, when a man persecutes great souls, all his benedictions of longevity, beauty, fame, religion, blessings and promotion to…
• SB 10.5.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Nanda Mahārāja was naturally very magnanimous, and when Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared as his son, he was overwhelmed by…
• SB 10.5.3 Nanda Mahārāja gave two million cows, completely decorated with cloth and jewels, in charity to the brāhmaṇas. He also gave them seven…
• SB 10.5.4 O King, by the passing of time, land and other material possessions are purified; by bathing, the body is purified; and by being cleansed,…
• SB 10.5.5 The brāhmaṇas recited auspicious Vedic hymns, which purified the environment by their vibration. The experts in reciting old histories…
• SB 10.5.6 Vrajapura, the residence of Nanda Mahārāja, was fully decorated with varieties of festoons and flags, and in different places, gates were…
• SB 10.5.7 The cows, the bulls and the calves were thoroughly smeared with a mixture of turmeric and oil, mixed with varieties of minerals. Their…
• SB 10.5.8 O King Parīkṣit, the cowherd men dressed very opulently with valuable ornaments and garments such as coats and turbans. Decorated in this…
• SB 10.5.9 The gopī wives of the cowherd men were very pleased to hear that mother Yaśodā had given birth to a son, and they began to decorate…
• SB 10.5.10 Their lotuslike faces extraordinarily beautiful, being decorated with saffron and newly grown kuṅkuma, the wives of the cowherd men…
• SB 10.5.11 In the ears of the gopīs were brilliantly polished jeweled earrings, and from their necks hung metal lockets. Their hands were decorated…
• SB 10.5.12 Offering blessings to the newborn child, Kṛṣṇa, the wives and daughters of the cowherd men said, “May You become the King of Vraja and…
• SB 10.5.13 Now that the all-pervading, unlimited Lord Kṛṣṇa, the master of the cosmic manifestation, had arrived within the estate of Mahārāja Nanda,…
• SB 10.5.14 In gladness, the cowherd men enjoyed the great festival by splashing one another’s bodies with a mixture of curd, condensed milk, butter…
• SB 10.5.15-16 The great-minded Mahārāja Nanda gave clothing, ornaments and cows in charity to the cowherd men in order to please Lord Viṣṇu, and thus he…
• SB 10.5.17 The most fortunate Rohiṇī, the mother of Baladeva, was honored by Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodā, and thus she also dressed gorgeously and…
• SB 10.5.18 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the home of Nanda Mahārāja is eternally the abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His transcendental…
• SB 10.5.19 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thereafter, my dear King Parīkṣit, O best protector of the Kuru dynasty, Nanda Mahārāja appointed the local…
• SB 10.5.20 When Vasudeva heard that Nanda Mahārāja, his very dear friend and brother, had come to Mathurā and already paid the taxes to Kaṁsa, he…
• SB 10.5.21 When Nanda Mahārāja heard that Vasudeva had come, he was overwhelmed with love and affection, being as pleased as if his body had regained…
• SB 10.5.22 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, having thus been received and welcomed by Nanda Mahārāja with honor, Vasudeva sat down very peacefully and inquired…
• SB 10.5.23 My dear brother Nanda Mahārāja, at an advanced age you had no son at all and were hopeless of having one. Therefore, that you now have a…
• SB 10.5.24 It is also by good fortune that I am seeing you. Having obtained this opportunity, I feel as if I have taken birth again. Even though one…
• SB 10.5.25 Many planks and sticks, unable to stay together, are carried away by the force of a river’s waves. Similarly, although we are intimately…
• SB 10.5.26 My dear friend Nanda Mahārāja, in the place where you are living with your friends, is the forest favorable for the animals, the cows? I…
• SB 10.5.27 My son Baladeva, being raised by you and your wife, Yaśodādevī, considers you His father and mother. Is He living very peacefully in your…
• SB 10.5.28 When one’s friends and relatives are properly situated, one’s religion, economic development and sense gratification, as described in the…
• SB 10.5.32 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After Vasudeva advised Nanda Mahārāja in this way, Nanda Mahārāja and his associates, the cowherd men, took…
• SB 10.6.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, while Nanda Mahārāja was on the way home, he considered that what Vasudeva had said could not be…
• SB 10.6.2 While Nanda Mahārāja was returning to Gokula, the same fierce Pūtanā whom Kaṁsa had previously engaged to kill babies was wandering about…
• SB 10.6.3 My dear King, wherever people in any position perform their occupational duties of devotional service by chanting and hearing [śravaṇaṁ…
• SB 10.6.4 Once upon a time, Pūtanā Rākṣasī, who could move according to her desire and was wandering in outer space, converted herself by mystic…
• SB 10.6.5-6 Her hips were full, her breasts were large and firm, seeming to overburden her slim waist, and she was dressed very nicely. Her hair,…
• SB 10.6.7 While searching for small children, Pūtanā, whose business was to kill them, entered the house of Nanda Mahārāja unobstructed, having been…
• SB 10.6.8 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the all-pervading Supersoul, lying on the bed, understood that Pūtanā, a witch who was expert in killing small children,…
• SB 10.6.9 Pūtanā Rākṣasī’s heart was fierce and cruel, but she looked like a very affectionate mother. Thus she resembled a sharp sword in a soft…
• SB 10.6.10 On that very spot, the fiercely dangerous Rākṣasī took Kṛṣṇa on her lap and pushed her breast into His mouth. The nipple of her breast was…
• SB 10.6.11 Unbearably pressed in every vital point, the demon Pūtanā began to cry, “Please leave me, leave me! Suck my breast no longer!” Perspiring,…
• SB 10.6.12 As Pūtanā screamed loudly and forcefully, the earth with its mountains, and outer space with its planets, trembled. The lower planets and…
• SB 10.6.13 In this way the demon Pūtanā, very much aggrieved because her breast was being attacked by Kṛṣṇa, lost her life. O King Parīkṣit, opening…
• SB 10.6.14 O King Parīkṣit, when the gigantic body of Pūtanā fell to the ground, it smashed all the trees within a limit of twelve miles. Appearing…
• SB 10.6.15-17 The Rākṣasī’s mouth was full of teeth, each resembling the front of a plow, her nostrils were deep like mountain caves, and her breasts…
• SB 10.6.18 Without fear, the child Kṛṣṇa was playing on the upper portion of Pūtanā Rākṣasī’s breast, and when the gopīs saw the child’s wonderful…
• SB 10.6.19 Thereafter, mother Yaśodā and Rohiṇī, along with the other elderly gopīs, waved about the switch of a cow to give full protection to the…
• SB 10.6.20 The child was thoroughly washed with cow urine and then smeared with the dust raised by the movements of the cows. Then different names of…
• SB 10.6.21 The gopīs first executed the process of ācamana, drinking a sip of water from the right hand. They purified their bodies and hands with…
• SB 10.6.22-23 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī informed Mahārāja Parīkṣit that the gopīs, following the proper system, protected Kṛṣṇa, their child, with this mantra.]…
• SB 10.6.24 May Hṛṣīkeśa protect Your senses, and Nārāyaṇa Your life air. May the master of Śvetadvīpa protect the core of Your heart, and may Lord…
• SB 10.6.25-26 May Lord Pṛśnigarbha protect Your intelligence, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead Your soul. While You are playing, may Govinda…
• SB 10.6.27-29 The evil witches known as Ḍākinīs, Yātudhānīs and Kuṣmāṇḍas are the greatest enemies of children, and the evil spirits like Bhūtas,…
• SB 10.6.30 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: All the gopīs, headed by mother Yaśodā, were bound by maternal affection. After they thus chanted…
• SB 10.6.31 Meanwhile, all the cowherd men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, returned from Mathurā, and when they saw on the way the gigantic body of Pūtanā…
• SB 10.6.32 Nanda Mahārāja and the other gopas exclaimed: My dear friends, you must know that Ānakadundubhi, Vasudeva, has become a great saint or a…
• SB 10.6.33 The inhabitants of Vraja cut the gigantic body of Pūtanā into pieces with the help of axes. Then they threw the pieces far away, covered…
• SB 10.6.34 Because of Kṛṣṇa’s having sucked the breast of the Rākṣasī Pūtanā, when Kṛṣṇa killed her she was immediately freed of all material…
• SB 10.6.35-36 Pūtanā was always hankering for the blood of human children, and with that desire she came to kill Kṛṣṇa; but because she offered her…
• SB 10.6.37-38 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is always situated within the core of the heart of the pure devotee, and He is always offered…
• SB 10.6.39-40 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the bestower of many benedictions, including liberation [kaivalya], or oneness with the…
• SB 10.6.41 Upon smelling the fragrance of the smoke emanating from Pūtanā’s burning body, many inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi in distant places were…
• SB 10.6.42 When the inhabitants of Vraja who had come from distant places heard the whole story of how Pūtanā had come and then been killed by Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 10.6.43 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, best of the Kurus, Nanda Mahārāja was very liberal and simple. He immediately took his son Kṛṣṇa on his lap as if…
• SB 10.6.44 Any person who hears with faith and devotion about how Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, killed Pūtanā, and who thus invests his…
• SB 10.7.4 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When mother Yaśodā’s baby was slanting His body to attempt to rise and turn around, this attempt was observed by a…
• SB 10.7.5 After completing the bathing ceremony for the child, mother Yaśodā received the brāhmaṇas by worshiping them with proper respect and…
• SB 10.7.6 The liberal mother Yaśodā, absorbed in celebrating the utthāna ceremony, was busy receiving guests, worshiping them with all respect and…
• SB 10.7.7 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was lying down underneath the handcart in one corner of the courtyard, and although His little legs were as soft as leaves,…
• SB 10.7.8 When mother Yaśodā and the other ladies who had assembled for the utthāna festival, and all the men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, saw the…
• SB 10.7.9 The assembled cowherd men and ladies began to contemplate how this thing had happened. “Is it the work of some demon or evil planet?” they…
• SB 10.7.10 The assembled gopīs and gopas, unaware that Kṛṣṇa is always unlimited, could not believe that baby Kṛṣṇa had such inconceivable power.…
• SB 10.7.11 Thinking that some bad planet had attacked Kṛṣṇa, mother Yaśodā picked up the crying child and allowed Him to suck her breast. Then she…
• SB 10.7.12 After the strong, stout cowherd men assembled the pots and paraphernalia on the handcart and set it up as before, the brāhmaṇas performed…
• SB 10.7.13-15 When brāhmaṇas are free from envy, untruthfulness, unnecessary pride, grudges, disturbance by the opulence of others, and false prestige,…
• SB 10.7.16 Nanda Mahārāja, for the sake of the affluence of his own son Kṛṣṇa, gave the brāhmaṇas cows fully decorated with garments, flower garlands…
• SB 10.7.17 The brāhmaṇas, who were completely expert in chanting the Vedic hymns, were all yogīs fully equipped with mystic powers. Whatever…
• SB 10.7.18 One day, a year after Kṛṣṇa’s appearance, mother Yaśodā was patting her son on her lap. But suddenly she felt the child to be heavier than…
• SB 10.7.19 Feeling the child to be as heavy as the entire universe and therefore being anxious, thinking that perhaps the child was being attacked by…
• SB 10.7.20 While the child was sitting on the ground, a demon named Tṛṇāvarta, who was a servant of Kaṁsa’s, came there as a whirlwind, at Kaṁsa’s…
• SB 10.7.21 Covering the whole land of Gokula with particles of dust, that demon, acting as a strong whirlwind, covered everyone’s vision and began…
• SB 10.7.22 For a moment, the whole pasturing ground was overcast with dense darkness from the dust storm, and mother Yaśodā was unable to find her…
• SB 10.7.23 Because of the bits of sand thrown about by Tṛṇāvarta, people could not see themselves or anyone else, and thus they were illusioned and…
• SB 10.7.24 Because of the dust storm stirred up by the strong whirlwind, mother Yaśodā could find no trace of her son, nor could she understand why.…
• SB 10.7.25 When the force of the dust storm and the winds subsided, Yaśodā’s friends, the other gopīs, approached mother Yaśodā, hearing her pitiful…
• SB 10.7.26 Having assumed the form of a forceful whirlwind, the demon Tṛṇāvarta took Kṛṣṇa very high in the sky, but when Kṛṣṇa became heavier than…
• SB 10.7.27 Because of Kṛṣṇa’s weight, Tṛṇāvarta considered Him to be like a great mountain or a hunk of iron. But because Kṛṣṇa had caught the…
• SB 10.7.28 With Kṛṣṇa grasping him by the throat, Tṛṇāvarta choked, unable to make even a sound or even to move his hands and legs. His eyes popping…
• SB 10.7.29 While the gopīs who had gathered were crying for Kṛṣṇa, the demon fell from the sky onto a big slab of stone, his limbs dislocated, as if…
• SB 10.7.30 The gopīs immediately picked Kṛṣṇa up from the chest of the demon and delivered Him, free from all inauspiciousness, to mother Yaśodā.…
• SB 10.7.31 It is most astonishing that although this innocent child was taken away by the Rākṣasa to be eaten, He has returned without having been…
• SB 10.8.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the priest of the Yadu dynasty, namely Garga Muni, who was highly elevated in austerity and…
• SB 10.8.2 When Nanda Mahārāja saw Garga Muni present at his home, Nanda was so pleased that he stood up to receive him with folded hands. Although…
• SB 10.8.3 When Garga Muni had been properly received as a guest and was very comfortably seated, Nanda Mahārāja submitted with gentle and submissive…
• SB 10.8.4 O my lord, O great devotee, persons like you move from one place to another not for their own interests but for the sake of poor-hearted…
• SB 10.8.5 O great saintly person, you have compiled the astrological knowledge by which one can understand past and present unseen things. By the…
• SB 10.8.6 My lord, you are the best of the brāhmaṇas, especially because you are fully aware of the jyotiḥ-śāstra, the astrological science.…
• SB 10.8.7 Garga Muni said: My dear Nanda Mahārāja, I am the priestly guide of the Yadu dynasty. This is known everywhere. Therefore, if I perform…
• SB 10.8.8-9 Kaṁsa is both a great diplomat and a very sinful man. Therefore, having heard from Yoga-māyā, the daughter of Devakī, that the child who…
• SB 10.8.48 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: To follow the orders of Lord Brahmā, Droṇa, the best of the Vasus, along with his wife, Dharā, spoke to Lord Brahmā…
• SB 10.8.49 Droṇa and Dharā said: Please permit us to be born on the planet earth so that after our appearance, the Supreme Lord, the Personality of…
• SB 10.8.50 When Brahmā said, “Yes, let it be so,” the most fortune Droṇa, who was equal to Bhagavān, appeared in Vrajapura, Vṛndāvana, as the most…
• SB 10.8.51 Thereafter, O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, best of the Bhāratas, when the Supreme Personality of Godhead became the son of Nanda Mahārāja and…
• SB 10.8.52 Thus the Supreme Personality, Kṛṣṇa, along with Balarāma, lived in Vrajabhūmi, Vṛndāvana, just to substantiate the benediction of Brahmā.…
• SB 10.9.1-2 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: One day when mother Yaśodā saw that all the maidservants were engaged in other household affairs, she…
• SB 10.9.3 Dressed in a saffron-yellow sari, with a belt tied about her full hips, mother Yaśodā pulled on the churning rope, laboring considerably,…
• SB 10.9.4 While mother Yaśodā was churning butter, Lord Kṛṣṇa, desiring to drink the milk of her breast, appeared before her, and in order to…
• SB 10.9.5 Mother Yaśodā then embraced Kṛṣṇa, allowed Him to sit down on her lap, and began to look upon the face of the Lord with great love and…
• SB 10.9.6 Being very angry and biting His reddish lips with His teeth, Kṛṣṇa, with false tears in His eyes, broke the container of yogurt with a…
• SB 10.9.7 Mother Yaśodā, after taking down the hot milk from the oven, returned to the churning spot, and when she saw that the container of yogurt…
• SB 10.9.8 Kṛṣṇa, at that time, was sitting on an upside-down wooden mortar for grinding spices and was distributing milk preparations such as yogurt…
• SB 10.9.9 When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa saw His mother, stick in hand, He very quickly got down from the top of the mortar and began to flee as if very much…
• SB 10.9.10 While following Kṛṣṇa, mother Yaśodā, her thin waist overburdened by her heavy breasts, naturally had to reduce her speed. Because of…
• SB 10.9.11 When caught by mother Yaśodā, Kṛṣṇa became more and more afraid and admitted to being an offender. As she looked upon Him, she saw that He…
• SB 10.9.12 Mother Yaśodā was always overwhelmed by intense love for Kṛṣṇa, not knowing who Kṛṣṇa was or how powerful He was. Because of maternal…
• SB 10.9.13-14 The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no beginning and no end, no exterior and no interior, no front and no rear. In other words, He is…
• SB 10.9.15 When mother Yaśodā was trying to bind the offending child, she saw that the binding rope was short by a distance the width of two fingers.…
• SB 10.9.16 This new rope also was short by a measurement of two fingers, and when another rope was joined to it, it was still two fingers too short.…
• SB 10.9.17 Thus mother Yaśodā joined whatever ropes were available in the household, but still she failed in her attempt to bind Kṛṣṇa. Mother…
• SB 10.9.18 Because of mother Yaśodā’s hard labor, her whole body became covered with perspiration, and the flowers and comb were falling from her…
• SB 10.9.19 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, this entire universe, with its great, exalted demigods like Lord Śiva, Lord Brahmā and Lord Indra, is under the…
• SB 10.9.20 Neither Lord Brahmā, nor Lord Śiva, nor even the goddess of fortune, who is always the better half of the Supreme Lord, can obtain from…
• SB 10.9.21 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is accessible to devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service, but…
• SB 10.9.22 While mother Yaśodā was very busy with household affairs, the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, observed twin trees known as yamala-arjuna, which in a…
• SB 10.9.23 In their former birth, these two sons, known as Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva, were extremely opulent and fortunate. But because of pride and…
• SB 10.10.1 King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great and powerful saint, what was the cause of Nalakūvara’s and Maṇigrīva’s having been…
• SB 10.10.2-3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, because the two sons of Kuvera had been elevated to the association of Lord Śiva, of which they…
• SB 10.10.4 Within the waters of the Mandākinī Ganges, which were crowded with gardens of lotus flowers, the two sons of Kuvera would enjoy young…
• SB 10.10.5 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, by some auspicious opportunity for the two boys, the great saint Devarṣi Nārada once appeared there by chance. Seeing…
• SB 10.10.6 Upon seeing Nārada, the naked young girls of the demigods were very much ashamed. Afraid of being cursed, they covered their bodies with…
• SB 10.10.7 Seeing the two sons of the demigods naked and intoxicated by opulence and false prestige, Devarṣi Nārada, in order to show them special…
• SB 10.10.43 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead having spoken to the two demigods in this way, they circumambulated the Lord,…
• SB 10.11.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, when the yamala-arjuna trees fell, all the cowherd men in the neighborhood, hearing the…
• SB 10.11.2 There they saw the fallen yamala-arjuna trees on the ground, but they were bewildered because even though they could directly perceive…
• SB 10.11.3 Kṛṣṇa was bound by the rope to the ulūkhala, the mortar, which He was dragging. But how could He have pulled down the trees? Who had…
• SB 10.11.4 Then all the cowherd boys said: It is Kṛṣṇa who has done this. When He was in between the two trees, the mortar fell crosswise. Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.11.5 Because of intense paternal affection, the cowherd men, headed by Nanda, could not believe that Kṛṣṇa could have uprooted the trees in…
• SB 10.11.6 When Nanda Mahārāja saw his own son bound with ropes to the wooden mortar and dragging it, he smiled and released Kṛṣṇa from His bonds.
• SB 10.11.7 The gopīs would say, “If You dance, my dear Kṛṣṇa, then I shall give You half a sweetmeat.” By saying these words or by clapping their…
• SB 10.11.8 Sometimes mother Yaśodā and her gopī friends would tell Kṛṣṇa, “Bring this article” or “Bring that article.” Sometimes they would order…
• SB 10.11.9 To pure devotees throughout the world who could understand His activities, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, exhibited how much…
• SB 10.11.10 Once a woman selling fruit was calling, “O inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi, if you want to purchase some fruits, come here!” Upon hearing this,…
• SB 10.11.11 While Kṛṣṇa was going to the fruit vendor very hastily, most of the grains He was holding fell. Nonetheless, the fruit vendor filled…
• SB 10.11.12 Once, after the uprooting of the yamala-arjuna trees, Rohiṇīdevī went to call Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, who had both gone to the riverside and were…
• SB 10.11.13 Because of being too attached to playing with the other boys, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma did not return upon being called by Rohiṇī. Therefore…
• SB 10.11.14 Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, being attached to Their play, were playing with the other boys although it was very late. Therefore mother Yaśodā…
• SB 10.13.1 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O best of devotees, most fortunate Parīkṣit, you have inquired very nicely, for although constantly hearing…
• SB 10.13.2 Paramahaṁsas, devotees who have accepted the essence of life, are attached to Kṛṣṇa in the core of their hearts, and He is the aim of…
• SB 10.13.3 O King, kindly hear me with great attention. Although the activities of the Supreme Lord are very confidential, no ordinary man being able…
• SB 10.13.4 Then, after saving the boys and calves from the mouth of Aghāsura, who was death personified, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 10.13.5 My dear friends, just see how this riverbank is extremely beautiful because of its pleasing atmosphere. And just see how the blooming…
• SB 10.13.6 I think we should take our lunch here, since we are already hungry because the time is very late. Here the calves may drink water and go…
• SB 10.13.7 Accepting Lord Kṛṣṇa’s proposal, the cowherd boys allowed the calves to drink water from the river and then tied them to trees where there…
• SB 10.13.8 Like the whorl of a lotus flower surrounded by its petals and leaves, Kṛṣṇa sat in the center, encircled by lines of His friends, who all…
• SB 10.13.9 Among the cowherd boys, some placed their lunch on flowers, some on leaves, fruits, or bunches of leaves, some actually in their baskets,…
• SB 10.13.10 All the cowherd boys enjoyed their lunch with Kṛṣṇa, showing one another the different tastes of the different varieties of preparations…
• SB 10.13.11 Kṛṣṇa is yajña-bhuk — that is, He eats only offerings of yajña — but to exhibit His childhood pastimes, He now sat with His flute tucked…
• SB 10.13.12 O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, while the cowherd boys, who knew nothing within the core of their hearts but Kṛṣṇa, were thus engaged in eating their…
• SB 10.13.13 When Kṛṣṇa saw that His friends the cowherd boys were frightened, He, the fierce controller even of fear itself, said, just to mitigate…
• SB 10.14.41 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus offered his prayers, Brahmā circumambulated his worshipable Lord, the unlimited Personality of Godhead,…
• SB 10.14.42 After granting His son Brahmā permission to leave, the Supreme Personality of Godhead took the calves, who were still where they had been…
• SB 10.14.43 O King, although the boys had passed an entire year apart from the Lord of their very lives, they had been covered by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s…
• SB 10.14.44 What indeed is not forgotten by those whose minds are bewildered by the Lord’s illusory potency? By that power of Māyā, this entire…
• SB 10.14.45 The cowherd boyfriends said to Lord Kṛṣṇa: You have returned so quickly! We have not eaten even one morsel in Your absence. Please come…
• SB 10.14.46 Then Lord Hṛṣīkeśa, smiling, finished His lunch in the company of His cowherd friends. While they were returning from the forest to their…
• SB 10.14.47 Lord Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental body was decorated with peacock feathers and flowers and painted with forest minerals, and His bamboo flute…
• SB 10.14.48 As the cowherd boys reached the village of Vraja, they sang, “Today Kṛṣṇa saved us by killing a great serpent!” Some of the boys described…
• SB 10.14.50 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, for every created being the dearmost thing is certainly his own self. The dearness of everything else —…
• SB 10.14.51 For this reason, O best of kings, the embodied soul is self-centered: he is more attached to his own body and self than to his so-called…
• SB 10.14.52 Indeed, for persons who think the body is the self, O best of kings, those things whose importance lies only in their relationship to the…
• SB 10.14.53 If a person comes to the stage of considering the body “mine” instead of “me,” he will certainly not consider the body as dear as his own…
• SB 10.14.54 Therefore it is his own self that is most dear to every embodied living being, and it is simply for the satisfaction of this self that the…
• SB 10.14.55 You should know Kṛṣṇa to be the original Soul of all living entities. For the benefit of the whole universe, He has, out of His causeless…
• SB 10.14.56 Those in this world who understand Lord Kṛṣṇa as He is see all things, whether stationary or moving, as manifest forms of the Supreme…
• SB 10.14.57 The original, unmanifested form of material nature is the source of all material things, and the source of even that subtle material…
• SB 10.14.58 For those who have accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as…
• SB 10.14.59 Since you inquired from me, I have fully described to you those activities of Lord Hari that were performed in His fifth year but not…
• SB 10.14.60 Any person who hears or chants these pastimes Lord Murāri performed with His cowherd friends — the killing of Aghāsura, the taking of…
• SB 10.14.61 In this way the boys spent their childhood in the land of Vṛndāvana playing hide-and-go-seek, building play bridges, jumping about like…
• SB 10.15.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Lord Rāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa attained the age of paugaṇḍa [six to ten] while living in Vṛndāvana, the cowherd men…
• SB 10.15.2 Thus desiring to enjoy pastimes, Lord Mādhava, sounding His flute, surrounded by cowherd boys who were chanting His glories, and…
• SB 10.15.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead looked over that forest, which resounded with the charming sounds of bees, animals and birds, and which…
• SB 10.15.4 The primeval Lord saw that the stately trees, with their beautiful reddish buds and their heavy burden of fruits and flowers, were bending…
• SB 10.15.9 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus expressing His satisfaction with the beautiful forest of Vṛndāvana and its inhabitants, Lord Kṛṣṇa enjoyed…
• SB 10.15.10-12 Sometimes the honeybees in Vṛndāvana became so mad with ecstasy that they closed their eyes and began to sing. Lord Kṛṣṇa, moving along…
• SB 10.15.13 Sometimes He would cry out in imitation of birds such as the cakoras, krauñcas, cakrāhvas, bhāradvājas and peacocks, and sometimes He…
• SB 10.15.14 When His elder brother, fatigued from playing, would lie down with His head upon the lap of a cowherd boy, Lord Kṛṣṇa would help Him relax…
• SB 10.15.15 Sometimes, as the cowherd boys danced, sang, moved about and playfully fought with each other, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, standing nearby hand in…
• SB 10.15.16 Sometimes Lord Kṛṣṇa grew tired from fighting and lay down at the base of a tree, resting upon a bed made of soft twigs and buds and using…
• SB 10.15.17 Some of the cowherd boys, who were all great souls, would then massage His lotus feet, and others, qualified by being free of all sin,…
• SB 10.15.18 My dear King, other boys would sing enchanting songs appropriate to the occasion, and their hearts would melt out of love for the Lord.
• SB 10.15.19 In this way the Supreme Lord, whose soft lotus feet are personally attended by the goddess of fortune, concealed His transcendental…
• SB 10.15.20 Once, some of the cowherd boys — Śrīdāmā, the very close friend of Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, along with Subala, Stokakṛṣṇa and others — lovingly…
• SB 10.15.21 [The cowherd boys said:] O Rāma, Rāma, mighty-armed one! O Kṛṣṇa, destroyer of the miscreants! Not far from here is a very great forest…
• SB 10.15.22 In that Tālavana forest many fruits are falling from the trees, and many are already lying on the ground. But all the fruits are being…
• SB 10.15.23 O Rāma, O Kṛṣṇa! Dhenuka is a most powerful demon and has assumed the form of an ass. He is surrounded by many friends who have assumed a…
• SB 10.15.24 The demon Dhenuka has eaten men alive, and therefore all people and animals are terrified of going to the Tāla forest. O killer of the…
• SB 10.15.25 In the Tāla forest are sweet-smelling fruits no one has ever tasted. Indeed, even now we can smell the fragrance of the tāla fruits…
• SB 10.15.26 O Kṛṣṇa! Please get those fruits for us. Our minds are so attracted by their aroma! Dear Balarāma, our desire to have those fruits is very…
• SB 10.15.27 Hearing the words of Their dear companions, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma laughed and, desiring to please them, set off for the Tālavana surrounded…
• SB 10.15.28 Lord Balarāma entered the Tāla forest first. Then with His two arms He began forcefully shaking the trees with the power of a maddened…
• SB 10.15.29 Hearing the sound of the falling fruits, the ass demon Dhenuka ran forward to attack, making the earth and trees tremble.
• SB 10.15.30 The powerful demon rushed up to Lord Baladeva and sharply struck the Lord’s chest with the hooves of his hind legs. Then Dhenuka began to…
• SB 10.15.31 Moving again toward Lord Balarāma, O King, the furious ass situated himself with his back toward the Lord. Then, screaming in rage, the…
• SB 10.15.32 Lord Balarāma seized Dhenuka by his hooves, whirled him about with one hand and threw him into the top of a palm tree. The violent…
• SB 10.15.33 Lord Balarāma threw the dead body of Dhenukāsura into the tallest palm tree in the forest, and when the dead demon landed in the treetop,…
• SB 10.15.34 Because of Lord Balarāma’s pastime of throwing the body of the ass demon into the top of the tallest palm tree, all the trees began…
• SB 10.15.35 My dear Parīkṣit, that Lord Balarāma killed Dhenukāsura is not such a wonderful thing, considering that He is the unlimited Personality of…
• SB 10.15.36 The other ass demons, close friends of Dhenukāsura, were enraged upon seeing his death, and thus they all immediately ran to attack Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.15.37 O King, as the demons attacked, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma easily seized them one after another by their hind legs and threw them all into the…
• SB 10.15.38 The earth then appeared beautifully covered with heaps of fruits and with the dead bodies of the demons, which were entangled in the…
• SB 10.15.39 Hearing of this magnificent feat of the two brothers, the demigods and other elevated living beings rained down flowers and offered music…
• SB 10.15.40 People now felt free to return to the forest where Dhenuka had been killed, and without fear they ate the fruits of the palm trees. Also,…
• SB 10.15.41 Then lotus-eyed Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose glories are most pious to hear and chant, returned home to Vraja with His elder brother, Balarāma.…
• SB 10.15.42 Lord Kṛṣṇa’s hair, powdered with the dust raised by the cows, was decorated with a peacock feather and forest flowers. The Lord glanced…
• SB 10.15.43 With their beelike eyes, the women of Vṛndāvana drank the honey of the beautiful face of Lord Mukunda, and thus they gave up the distress…
• SB 10.15.44 Mother Yaśodā and mother Rohiṇī, acting most affectionately toward their two sons, offered all the best things to Them in response to…
• SB 10.15.45 By being bathed and massaged, the two young Lords were relieved of the weariness caused by walking on the country roads. Then They were…
• SB 10.15.46 After dining sumptuously on the delicious food given Them by Their mothers and being pampered in various ways, the two brothers lay down…
• SB 10.15.47 O King, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa thus wandered about the Vṛndāvana area, performing His pastimes. Once, surrounded by His boyfriends, He…
• SB 10.15.48 At that time the cows and cowherd boys were feeling acute distress from the glaring summer sun. Afflicted by thirst, they drank the water…
• SB 10.15.49-50 As soon as they touched the poisoned water, all the cows and boys lost their consciousness by the divine power of the Lord and fell…
• SB 10.15.51 Regaining their full consciousness, the cows and boys stood up out of the water and began to look at one another in great astonishment.
• SB 10.15.52 O King, the cowherd boys then considered that although they had drunk poison and in fact had died, simply by the merciful glance of…
• SB 10.16.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, seeing that the Yamunā River had been contaminated by the black…
• SB 10.16.2 King Parīkṣit inquired: O learned sage, please explain how the Supreme Personality of Godhead chastised the serpent Kāliya within the…
• SB 10.16.3 O brāhmaṇa, the unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead freely acts according to His own desires. Who could be satiated when hearing the…
• SB 10.16.4 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Within the river Kālindī [Yamunā] was a lake inhabited by the serpent Kāliya, whose fiery poison constantly…
• SB 10.16.5 The wind blowing over that deadly lake carried droplets of water to the shore. Simply by coming in contact with that poisonous breeze, all…
• SB 10.16.6 Lord Kṛṣṇa saw how the Kāliya serpent had polluted the Yamunā River with his terribly powerful poison. Since Kṛṣṇa had descended from the…
• SB 10.16.7 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead landed in the serpent’s lake, the snakes there became extremely agitated and began breathing…
• SB 10.16.8 Kṛṣṇa began sporting in Kāliya’s lake like a lordly elephant — swirling His mighty arms and making the water resound in various ways. When…
• SB 10.16.9 Kāliya saw that Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who wore yellow silken garments, was very delicate, His attractive body shining like a glowing white cloud, His…
• SB 10.16.10 When the members of the cowherd community, who had accepted Kṛṣṇa as their dearmost friend, saw Him enveloped in the snake’s coils,…
• SB 10.16.11 The cows, bulls and female calves, in great distress, called out piteously to Kṛṣṇa. Fixing their eyes on Him, they stood still in fear,…
• SB 10.16.12 In the Vṛndāvana area there then arose all three types of fearful omens — those on the earth, those in the sky and those in the bodies of…
• SB 10.16.13-15 Seeing the inauspicious omens, Nanda Mahārāja and the other cowherd men were fearful, for they knew that Kṛṣṇa had gone to herd the cows…
• SB 10.16.16 The Supreme Lord Balarāma, the master of all transcendental knowledge, smiled and said nothing when He saw the residents of Vṛndāvana in…
• SB 10.16.17 The residents hurried toward the banks of the Yamunā in search of their dearmost Kṛṣṇa, following the path marked by His footprints, which…
• SB 10.16.18 The footprints of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the master of the entire cowherd community, were marked with the lotus flower, barleycorn, elephant goad,…
• SB 10.16.19 As they hurried along the path to the bank of the Yamunā River, they saw from a distance that Kṛṣṇa was in the lake, motionless within the…
• SB 10.16.20 When the young gopīs, whose minds were constantly attached to Kṛṣṇa, the unlimited Supreme Lord, saw that He was now within the grips of…
• SB 10.16.21 Although the elder gopīs were feeling just as much distress as she and were pouring forth a flood of sorrowful tears, they had to forcibly…
• SB 10.16.22 Lord Balarāma then saw that Nanda Mahārāja and the other cowherd men, who had dedicated their very lives to Kṛṣṇa, were beginning to enter…
• SB 10.16.23 The Lord remained for some time within the coils of the serpent, imitating the behavior of an ordinary mortal. But when He understood that…
• SB 10.16.24 His coils tormented by the expanding body of the Lord, Kāliya released Him. In great anger the serpent then raised his hoods high and…
• SB 10.16.25 Again and again Kāliya licked his lips with his bifurcated tongues as He stared at Kṛṣṇa with a glance full of terrible, poisonous fire.…
• SB 10.16.26 Having severely depleted the serpent’s strength with His relentless circling, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the origin of everything, pushed down Kāliya’s…
• SB 10.16.27 Seeing the Lord dancing, His servants in the heavenly planets — the Gandharvas, Siddhas, sages, Cāraṇas and wives of the demigods —…
• SB 10.16.28 My dear King, Kāliya had 101 prominent heads, and when one of them would not bow down, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who inflicts punishment on cruel…
• SB 10.16.29 Exuding poisonous waste from his eyes, Kāliya, would occasionally dare to raise up one of his heads, which would breathe heavily with…
• SB 10.16.30 My dear King Parīkṣit, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s wonderful, powerful dancing trampled and broke all of Kāliya’s one thousand hoods. Then the serpent,…
• SB 10.16.31 When Kāliya’s wives saw how the serpent had become so fatigued from the excessive weight of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who carries the entire universe in…
• SB 10.16.32 Their minds very much disturbed, those saintly ladies placed their children before them and then bowed down to the Lord of all creatures,…
• SB 10.16.33 The wives of the Kāliya serpent said: The punishment this offender has been subjected to is certainly just. After all, You have incarnated…
• SB 10.16.34 What You have done here is actually mercy for us, since the punishment You give to the wicked certainly drives away all their…
• SB 10.16.35 Did our husband carefully perform austerities in a previous life, with his mind free of pride and full of respect for others? Is that why…
• SB 10.16.36 O Lord, we do not know how the serpent Kāliya has attained this great opportunity of being touched by the dust of Your lotus feet. For…
• SB 10.16.37 Those who have attained the dust of Your lotus feet never hanker for the kingship of heaven, limitless sovereignty, the position of Brahmā…
• SB 10.16.38 O Lord, although this Kāliya, the king of the serpents, has taken birth in the mode of ignorance and is controlled by anger, he has…
• SB 10.16.39 We offer our obeisances unto You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although present in the hearts of all living beings as the…
• SB 10.16.40 Obeisances unto You, the Absolute Truth, who are the reservoir of all transcendental consciousness and potency and the possessor of…
• SB 10.16.41 Obeisances unto You, who are time itself, the shelter of time and the witness of time in all its phases. You are the universe, and also…
• SB 10.16.42-43 Obeisances unto You, who are the ultimate soul of the physical elements, of the subtle basis of perception, of the senses, of the vital…
• SB 10.16.44 We offer our obeisances again and again to You, who are the basis of all authoritative evidence, who are the author and ultimate source of…
• SB 10.16.45 We offer our obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Rāma, the sons of Vasudeva, and to Lord Pradyumna and Lord Aniruddha. We offer our…
• SB 10.16.46 Obeisances to You, O Lord, who manifest varieties of material and spiritual qualities. You disguise Yourself with the material qualities,…
• SB 10.16.47 O Lord Hṛṣīkeśa, master of the senses, please let us offer our obeisances unto You, whose pastimes are inconceivably glorious. Your…
• SB 10.16.48 Obeisances unto You, who know the destination of all things, superior and inferior, and who are the presiding regulator of all that be.…
• SB 10.16.49 O almighty Lord, although You have no reason to become involved in material activity, still You act through Your eternal potency of time…
• SB 10.16.50 Therefore all material bodies throughout the three worlds — those that are peaceful, in the mode of goodness; those that are agitated, in…
• SB 10.16.51 At least once, a master should tolerate an offense committed by his child or subject. O supreme peaceful Soul, You should therefore…
• SB 10.16.52 O Supreme Lord, please be merciful. It is proper for the saintly to feel compassion for women like us. This serpent is about to give up…
• SB 10.16.53 Now please tell us, Your maidservants, what we should do. Certainly anyone who faithfully executes Your order is automatically freed from…
• SB 10.16.54 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus praised by the Nāgapatnīs, the Supreme Personality of Godhead released the serpent Kāliya, who had fallen…
• SB 10.16.55 Kāliya slowly regained his vital force and sensory functions. Then, breathing loudly and painfully, the poor serpent addressed Lord Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 10.16.56 The serpent Kāliya said: Our very birth as a snake has made us envious, ignorant and constantly angry. O my Lord, it is so difficult for…
• SB 10.16.57 O supreme creator, it is You who generate this universe, composed of the variegated arrangement of the material modes, and in the process…
• SB 10.16.58 O Supreme Personality of Godhead, among all the species within Your material creation, we serpents are by nature always enraged. Being…
• SB 10.16.59 O Lord, since You are the omniscient Lord of the universe, You are the actual cause of freedom from illusion. Please arrange for us…
• SB 10.16.60 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After hearing Kāliya’s words, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who was acting the role of a human being,…
• SB 10.16.61 If a mortal being attentively remembers My command to you — to leave Vṛndāvana and go to the ocean — and narrates this account at sunrise…
• SB 10.16.62 If one bathes in this place of My pastimes and offers the water of this lake to the demigods and other worshipable personalities, or if…
• SB 10.16.63 Out of fear of Garuḍa, you left Ramaṇaka Island and came to take shelter of this lake. But because you are now marked with My footprints,…
• SB 10.16.64 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, having been released by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose activities are…
• SB 10.16.65-67 Kāliya worshiped the Lord of the universe by offering Him fine garments, along with necklaces, jewels and other valuable ornaments,…
• SB 10.17.1 [Having thus heard how Lord Kṛṣṇa chastised Kāliya,] King Parīkṣit inquired: Why did Kāliya leave Ramaṇaka Island, the abode of the…
• SB 10.17.2-3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: To avoid being eaten by Garuḍa, the serpents had previously made an arrangement with him whereby they would each…
• SB 10.17.4 Although all the other serpents were dutifully making offerings to Garuḍa, one serpent — the arrogant Kāliya, son of Kadru — would eat all…
• SB 10.17.5 O King, the greatly powerful Garuḍa, who is very dear to the Supreme Lord, became angry when he heard of this. Desiring to kill Kāliya, he…
• SB 10.17.6 As Garuḍa swiftly fell upon him, Kāliya, who had the weapon of poison, raised his numerous heads to counterattack. Showing his ferocious…
• SB 10.17.7 The angry son of Tārkṣya moved with overwhelming speed in repelling Kāliya’s attack. That terribly powerful carrier of Lord Madhusūdana…
• SB 10.17.8 Beaten by Garuḍa’s wing, Kāliya was extremely distraught, and thus he took shelter of a lake adjoining the river Yamunā. Garuḍa could not…
• SB 10.17.9 In that very lake Garuḍa had once desired to eat a fish — fish being, after all, his normal food. Although forbidden by the sage Saubhari,…
• SB 10.17.10 Seeing how the unfortunate fish in that lake had become most unhappy at the death of their leader, Saubhari uttered the following curse…
• SB 10.17.11 If Garuḍa ever again enters this lake and eats the fish here, he will immediately lose his life. What I am saying is the truth.
• SB 10.17.12 Of all the serpents, only Kāliya came to know of this affair, and in fear of Garuḍa he took up residence in that Yamunā lake. Later Lord…
• SB 10.17.13-14 [Resuming his description of Kṛṣṇa’s chastisement of Kāliya, Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Kṛṣṇa rose up out of the lake wearing divine…
• SB 10.17.15 Having regained their vital functions, Yaśodā, Rohiṇī, Nanda and all the other cowherd women and men went up to Kṛṣṇa. O descendant of…
• SB 10.17.16 Lord Balarāma embraced His infallible brother and laughed, knowing well the extent of Kṛṣṇa’s potency. Out of great feelings of love,…
• SB 10.17.17 All the respectable brāhmaṇas, together with their wives, came forward to greet Nanda Mahārāja. They said to him, “Your son was in the…
• SB 10.17.18 The brāhmaṇas then advised Nanda Mahārāja, “To assure that your son Kṛṣṇa will always be free from danger, you should give charity to the…
• SB 10.17.19 The greatly fortunate mother Yaśodā, having lost her son and then regained Him, placed Him on her lap. That chaste lady cried constant…
• SB 10.17.20 O best of kings [Parīkṣit], because the residents of Vṛndāvana were feeling very weak from hunger, thirst and fatigue, they and the cows…
• SB 10.17.21 During the night, while all the people of Vṛndāvana were asleep, a great fire blazed up within the dry summer forest. The fire surrounded…
• SB 10.17.22 Then the residents of Vṛndāvana woke up, extremely disturbed by the great fire threatening to burn them. Thus they took shelter of Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 10.17.23 [Vṛndāvana’s residents said:] Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, O Lord of all opulence! O Rāma, possessor of unlimited power! This most terrible fire is about…
• SB 10.17.24 O Lord, we are Your true friends and devotees. Please protect us from this insurmountable fire of death. We can never give up Your lotus…
• SB 10.17.25 Seeing His devotees so disturbed, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the infinite Lord of the universe and possessor of infinite power, then swallowed the…
• SB 10.18.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Surrounded by His blissful companions, who constantly chanted His glories, Śrī Kṛṣṇa then entered the village of…
• SB 10.18.2 While Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma were thus enjoying life in Vṛndāvana in the guise of ordinary cowherd boys, the summer season gradually appeared.…
• SB 10.18.3 Nevertheless, because the Supreme Personality of Godhead was personally staying in Vṛndāvana along with Balarāma, summer manifested the…
• SB 10.18.4 In Vṛndāvana, the loud sound of waterfalls covered the crickets’ noise, and clusters of trees constantly moistened by spray from those…
• SB 10.18.5 The wind wafting over the waves of the lakes and flowing rivers carried away the pollen of many varieties of lotuses and water lilies and…
• SB 10.18.6 With their flowing waves the deep rivers drenched their banks, making them damp and muddy. Thus the rays of the sun, which were as fierce…
• SB 10.18.7 Flowers beautifully decorated the forest of Vṛndāvana, and many varieties of animals and birds filled it with sound. The peacocks and bees…
• SB 10.18.8 Intending to engage in pastimes, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, accompanied by Lord Balarāma and surrounded by the…
• SB 10.18.9 Decorating themselves with newly grown leaves, along with peacock feathers, garlands, clusters of flower buds, and colored minerals,…
• SB 10.18.10 As Kṛṣṇa danced, some of the boys accompanied Him by singing, and others by playing flutes, hand cymbals and buffalo horns, while still…
• SB 10.18.11 O King, demigods disguised themselves as members of the cowherd community and, just as dramatic dancers praise another dancer, worshiped…
• SB 10.18.12 Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma played with their cowherd boyfriends by whirling about, leaping, hurling, slapping and fighting. Sometimes Kṛṣṇa and…
• SB 10.18.13 While the other boys were dancing, O King, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma would sometimes accompany them with song and instrumental music, and…
• SB 10.18.14 Sometimes the cowherd boys would play with bilva or kumbha fruits, and sometimes with handfuls of āmalaka fruits. At other times they…
• SB 10.18.15 They would sometimes jump around like frogs, sometimes play various jokes, sometimes ride in swings and sometimes imitate monarchs.
• SB 10.18.16 In this way Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma played all sorts of well-known games as They wandered among the rivers, hills, valleys, bushes, trees and…
• SB 10.18.17 While Rāma, Kṛṣṇa and Their cowherd friends were thus tending the cows in that Vṛndāvana forest, the demon Pralamba entered their midst.…
• SB 10.18.18 Since the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, who had appeared in the Daśārha dynasty, sees everything, He understood who the demon was. Still, the Lord…
• SB 10.18.19 Kṛṣṇa, who knows all sports and games, then called together the cowherd boys and spoke as follows: “Hey cowherd boys! Let’s play now!…
• SB 10.18.20 The cowherd boys chose Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma as the leaders of the two parties. Some of the boys were on Kṛṣṇa’s side, and others joined…
• SB 10.18.21 The boys played various games involving carriers and passengers. In these games the winners would climb up on the backs of the losers, who…
• SB 10.18.22 Thus carrying and being carried by one another, and at the same time tending the cows, the boys followed Kṛṣṇa to a banyan tree known as…
• SB 10.18.23 My dear King Parīkṣit, when Śrīdāmā, Vṛṣabha and the other members of Lord Balarāma’s party were victorious in these games, Kṛṣṇa and His…
• SB 10.18.24 Defeated, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa carried Śrīdāmā. Bhadrasena carried Vṛṣabha, and Pralamba carried Balarāma, the son of Rohiṇī.
• SB 10.18.25 Considering Lord Kṛṣṇa invincible, that foremost demon [Pralamba] quickly carried Balarāma far beyond the spot where he was supposed to…
• SB 10.18.26 As the great demon carried Balarāma, the Lord became as heavy as massive Mount Sumeru, and Pralamba had to slow down. He then resumed his…
• SB 10.18.27 When Lord Balarāma, who carries the plow weapon, saw the gigantic body of the demon as he moved swiftly in the sky — with his blazing…
• SB 10.18.28 Remembering the actual situation, the fearless Balarāma understood that the demon was tṛying to kidnap Him and take Him away from His…
• SB 10.18.29 Thus smashed by Balarāma’s fist, Pralamba’s head immediately cracked open. The demon vomited blood from his mouth and lost all…
• SB 10.18.30 The cowherd boys were most astonished to see how the powerful Balarāma had killed the demon Pralamba, and they exclaimed, “Excellent!…
• SB 10.18.31 They offered Balarāma profuse benedictions and then glorified Him, who deserves all glorification. Their minds overwhelmed with ecstatic…
• SB 10.18.32 The sinful Pralamba having been killed, the demigods felt extremely happy, and they showered flower garlands upon Lord Balarāma and…
• SB 10.19.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While the cowherd boys were completely absorbed in playing, their cows wandered far away. They hungered for more…
• SB 10.19.2 Passing from one part of the great forest to another, the goats, cows and buffalo eventually entered an area overgrown with sharp canes.…
• SB 10.19.3 Not seeing the cows before them, Kṛṣṇa, Rāma and Their cowherd friends suddenly felt repentant for having neglected them. The boys…
• SB 10.19.4 Then the boys began tracing out the cows’ path by noting their hoofprints and the blades of grass the cows had broken with their hooves…
• SB 10.19.5 Within the Muñjā forest the cowherd boys finally found their valuable cows, who had lost their way and were crying. Then the boys, thirsty…
• SB 10.19.6 The Supreme Personality of Godhead called out to the animals in a voice that resounded like a rumbling cloud. Hearing the sound of their…
• SB 10.19.7 Suddenly a great forest fire appeared on all sides, threatening to destroy all the forest creatures. Like a chariot driver, the wind swept…
• SB 10.19.8 As the cows and cowherd boys stared at the forest fire attacking them on all sides, they became fearful. The boys then approached Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.19.9 [The cowherd boys said:] O Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Most powerful one! O Rāma! You whose prowess never fails! Please save Your devotees, who are…
• SB 10.19.10 Kṛṣṇa! Certainly Your own friends shouldn’t be destroyed. O knower of the nature of all things, we have accepted You as our Lord, and we…
• SB 10.19.11 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing these pitiful words from His friends, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa told them, “Just close your eyes and do not be…
• SB 10.19.12 “All right,” the boys replied, and immediately closed their eyes. Then the Supreme Lord, the master of all mystic power, opened His mouth…
• SB 10.19.13 The cowherd boys opened their eyes and were amazed to find not only that they and the cows had been saved from the terrible fire but that…
• SB 10.19.14 When the cowherd boys saw that they had been saved from the forest fire by the Lord’s mystic power, which is manifested by His internal…
• SB 10.19.15 It was now late in the afternoon, and Lord Kṛṣṇa, accompanied by Balarāma, turned the cows back toward home. Playing His flute in a…
• SB 10.19.16 The young gopīs took the greatest pleasure in seeing Govinda come home, since for them even a moment without His association seemed like a…
• SB 10.20.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said:To the ladies of Vṛndāvana, the cowherd boys then related in full detail Kṛṣṇa’s and Balarāma’s wonderful activities…
• SB 10.20.2 The elder cowherd men and ladies were amazed to hear this account, and they concluded that Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma must be exalted demigods who…
• SB 10.20.3 Then the rainy season began, giving life and sustenance to all living beings. The sky began to rumble with thunder, and lightning flashed…
• SB 10.20.4 The sky was then covered by dense blue clouds accompanied by lightning and thunder. Thus the sky and its natural illumination were covered…
• SB 10.20.5 With its rays, the sun had for eight months drunk up the earth’s wealth in the form of water. Now that the proper time had arrived, the…
• SB 10.20.6 Flashing with lightning, great clouds were shaken and swept about by fierce winds. Just like merciful persons, the clouds gave their lives…
• SB 10.20.7 The earth had been emaciated by the summer heat, but she became fully nourished again when moistened by the god of rain. Thus the earth…
• SB 10.20.8 In the evening twilight during the rainy season, the darkness allowed the glowworms but not the stars to shine forth, just as in the Age…
• SB 10.20.9 The frogs, who had all along been lying silent, suddenly began croaking when they heard the rumbling of the rain clouds, in the same way…
• SB 10.20.10 With the advent of the rainy season, the insignificant streams, which had become dry, began to swell and then strayed from their proper…
• SB 10.20.11 The newly grown grass made the earth emerald green, the indragopa insects added a reddish hue, and white mushrooms added further color and…
• SB 10.20.12 With their wealth of grains, the fields gave joy to the farmers. But those fields created remorse in the hearts of those who were too…
• SB 10.20.13 As all creatures of the land and water took advantage of the newly fallen rainwater, their forms became attractive and pleasing, just as a…
• SB 10.20.14 Where the rivers joined the ocean it became agitated, its waves blown about by the wind, just as the mind of an immature yogī becomes…
• SB 10.20.15 Just as devotees whose minds are absorbed in the Personality of Godhead remain peaceful even when attacked by all sorts of dangers, the…
• SB 10.20.16 During the rainy season the roads, not being cleansed, became covered with grass and debris and were thus difficult to make out. These…
• SB 10.20.17 Though the clouds are the well-wishing friends of all living beings, the lightning, fickle in its affinities, moved from one group of…
• SB 10.20.18 When the curved bow of Indra [the rainbow] appeared in the sky, which had the quality of thundering sound, it was unlike ordinary bows…
• SB 10.20.19 During the rainy season the moon was prevented from appearing directly by the covering of the clouds, which were themselves illumined by…
• SB 10.20.20 The peacocks became festive and cried out a joyful greeting when they saw the clouds arrive, just as people distressed in household life…
• SB 10.20.21 The trees had grown thin and dry, but after they drank the newly fallen rainwater through their feet, their various bodily features…
• SB 10.20.22 The cranes continued dwelling on the shores of the lakes, although the shores were agitated during the rainy season, just as materialistic…
• SB 10.20.23 When Indra sent forth his rains, the floodwaters broke through the irrigation dikes in the agricultural fields, just as in the Kali-yuga…
• SB 10.20.24 The clouds, impelled by the winds, released their nectarean water for the benefit of all living beings, just as kings, instructed by their…
• SB 10.20.25 When the Vṛndāvana forest had thus become resplendent, filled with ripe dates and jambu fruits, Lord Kṛṣṇa, surrounded by His cows and…
• SB 10.20.26 The cows had to move slowly because of their weighty milk bags, but they quickly ran to the Supreme Personality of Godhead as soon as He…
• SB 10.20.27 The Lord saw the joyful aborigine girls of the forest, the trees dripping sweet sap, and the mountain waterfalls, whose resounding…
• SB 10.20.28 When it rained, the Lord would sometimes enter a cave or the hollow of a tree to play and to eat roots and fruits.
• SB 10.20.29 Lord Kṛṣṇa would take His meal of boiled rice and yogurt, sent from home, in the company of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa and the cowherd boys who…
• SB 10.20.30-31 Lord Kṛṣṇa watched the contented bulls, calves and cows sitting on the green grass and grazing with closed eyes, and He saw that the cows…
• SB 10.20.32 While Lord Rāma and Lord Keśava were thus dwelling in Vṛndāvana, the fall season arrived, when the sky is cloudless, the water clear and…
• SB 10.20.33 The autumn season, which regenerated the lotus flowers, also restored the various bodies of water to their original purity, just as the…
• SB 10.20.34 Autumn cleared the sky of clouds, let the animals get out of their crowded living conditions, cleaned the earth of its covering of mud,…
• SB 10.20.35 The clouds, having given up all they possessed, shone forth with purified effulgence, just like peaceful sages who have given up all…
• SB 10.20.36 During this season the mountains sometimes released their pure water and sometimes did not, just as experts in transcendental science…
• SB 10.20.37 The fish swimming in the increasingly shallow water did not at all understand that the water was diminishing, just as foolish family men…
• SB 10.20.38 Just as a miserly, poverty-stricken person overly absorbed in family life suffers because he cannot control his senses, the fish swimming…
• SB 10.20.39 Gradually the different areas of land gave up their muddy condition and the plants grew past their unripe stage, in the same way that…
• SB 10.20.40 With the arrival of autumn, the ocean and the lakes became silent, their water still, just like a sage who has desisted from all material…
• SB 10.20.41 In the same way that the practitioners of yoga bring their senses under strict control to check their consciousness from flowing out…
• SB 10.20.42 The autumn moon relieved all creatures of the suffering caused by the sun’s rays, just as wisdom relieves a person of the misery caused by…
• SB 10.20.43 Free of clouds and filled with clearly visible stars, the autumn sky shone brilliantly, just like the spiritual consciousness of one who…
• SB 10.20.44 The full moon shone in the sky, surrounded by stars, just as Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of the Yadu dynasty, shone brilliantly on the earth,…
• SB 10.20.45 Except for the gopīs, whose hearts had been stolen by Kṛṣṇa, the people could forget their suffering by embracing the wind coming from the…
• SB 10.20.46 By the influence of the autumn season, all the cows, doe, women and female birds became fertile and were followed by their respective…
• SB 10.20.47 O King Parīkṣit, when the autumn sun rose, all the lotus flowers blossomed happily, except the night-blooming kumut, just as in the…
• SB 10.20.48 In all the towns and villages people held great festivals, performing the Vedic fire sacrifice for honoring and tasting the first grains…
• SB 10.20.49 The merchants, sages, kings and brahmacārī students, kept in by the rain, were at last free to go out and attain their desired objects,…
• SB 10.21.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus the Vṛndāvana forest was filled with transparent autumnal waters and cooled by breezes perfumed with the…
• SB 10.21.2 The lakes, rivers and hills of Vṛndāvana resounded with the sounds of maddened bees and flocks of birds moving about the flowering trees.…
• SB 10.21.3 When the young ladies in the cowherd village of Vraja heard the song of Kṛṣṇa’s flute, which arouses the influence of Cupid, some of them…
• SB 10.21.4 The cowherd girls began to speak about Kṛṣṇa, but when they remembered His activities, O King, the power of Cupid disturbed their minds,…
• SB 10.21.5 Wearing a peacock-feather ornament upon His head, blue karṇikāra flowers on His ears, a yellow garment as brilliant as gold, and the…
• SB 10.21.6 O King, when the young ladies in Vraja heard the sound of Kṛṣṇa’s flute, which captivates the minds of all living beings, they all…
• SB 10.21.7 The cowherd girls said: O friends, those eyes that see the beautiful faces of the sons of Mahārāja Nanda are certainly fortunate. As these…
• SB 10.21.8 Dressed in a charming variety of garments, upon which Their garlands rest, and decorating Themselves with peacock feathers, lotuses,…
• SB 10.21.9 My dear gopīs, what auspicious activities must the flute have performed to enjoy the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips independently and leave only a…
• SB 10.21.10 O friend, Vṛndāvana is spreading the glory of the earth, having obtained the treasure of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī. The…
• SB 10.21.11 Blessed are all these foolish deer because they have approached Mahārāja Nanda’s son, who is gorgeously dressed and is playing on His…
• SB 10.21.12 Kṛṣṇa’s beauty and character create a festival for all women. Indeed, when the demigods’ wives flying in airplanes with their husbands…
• SB 10.21.13 Using their upraised ears as vessels, the cows are drinking the nectar of the flute-song flowing out of Kṛṣṇa’s mouth. The calves, their…
• SB 10.21.14 O mother, in this forest all the birds have risen onto the beautiful branches of the trees to see Kṛṣṇa. With closed eyes they are simply…
• SB 10.21.15 When the rivers hear the flute-song of Kṛṣṇa, their minds begin to desire Him, and thus the flow of their currents is broken and their…
• SB 10.21.16 In the company of Balarāma and the cowherd boys, Lord Kṛṣṇa is continually vibrating His flute as He herds all the animals of Vraja, even…
• SB 10.21.17 The aborigine women of the Vṛndāvana area become disturbed by lust when they see the grass marked with reddish kuṅkuma powder. Endowed…
• SB 10.21.18 Of all the devotees, this Govardhana Hill is the best! O my friends, this hill supplies Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, along with Their calves, cows…
• SB 10.21.19 My dear friends, as Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma pass through the forest with Their cowherd friends, leading Their cows, They carry ropes to bind…
• SB 10.21.20 Thus narrating to one another the playful pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He wandered about in the Vṛndāvana forest, the…
• SB 10.22.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: During the first month of the winter season, the young unmarried girls of Gokula observed the vow of worshiping…
• SB 10.22.2-3 My dear King, after they had bathed in the water of the Yamunā just as the sun was rising, the gopīs made an earthen deity of goddess…
• SB 10.22.4 Each of the young unmarried girls performed her worship while chanting the following mantra. “O goddess Kātyāyanī, O great potency of the…
• SB 10.22.5 Thus for an entire month the girls carried out their vow and properly worshiped the goddess Bhadrakālī, fully absorbing their minds in…
• SB 10.22.6 Each day they rose at dawn. Calling out to one another by name, they all held hands and loudly sang the glories of Kṛṣṇa while going to…
• SB 10.22.7 One day they came to the riverbank and, putting aside their clothing as they had done before, happily played in the water while singing…
• SB 10.22.8 Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and master of all masters of mystic yoga, was aware of what the gopīs were doing, and thus…
• SB 10.22.9 Taking the girls’ garments, He quickly climbed to the top of a kadamba tree. Then, as He laughed loudly and His companions also laughed,…
• SB 10.22.28 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus instructed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the young girls, their desire now fulfilled, could bring…
• SB 10.22.29 Some time later Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī, surrounded by His cowherd friends and accompanied by His elder brother, Balarāma, went a…
• SB 10.22.30 When the sun’s heat became intense, Lord Kṛṣṇa saw that the trees were acting as umbrellas by shading Him, and thus He spoke as follows to…
• SB 10.23.2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus entreated by the cowherd boys, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the son of Devakī, replied as follows,…
• SB 10.23.34 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus instructed, the wives of the brāhmaṇas returned to the place of sacrifice. The brāhmaṇas did not find…
• SB 10.23.35 One of the ladies had been forcibly kept back by her husband. When she heard the others describe the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, she embraced Him…
• SB 10.23.36 Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, fed the cowherd boys with that food of four varieties. Then the all-powerful Lord Himself…
• SB 10.23.37 Thus the Supreme Lord, appearing like a human being to perform His pastimes, imitated the ways of human society. He enjoyed pleasing His…
• SB 10.23.38 The brāhmaṇas then came to their senses and began to feel great remorse. They thought, “We have sinned, for we have denied the request of…
• SB 10.23.39 Taking note of their wives’ pure, transcendental devotion for Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and seeing their own lack of…
• SB 10.23.40 [The brāhmaṇas said:] To hell with our threefold birth, our vow of celibacy and our extensive learning! To hell with our aristocratic…
• SB 10.23.41 The illusory potency of the Supreme Lord certainly bewilders even the great mystics, what to speak of us. As brāhmaṇas we are supposed to…
• SB 10.23.42 Just see the unlimited love these women have developed for Lord Kṛṣṇa, the spiritual master of the entire universe! This love has broken…
• SB 10.23.43-44 These women have never undergone the purificatory rites of the twice-born classes, nor have they lived as brahmacārīs in the āśrama of a…
• SB 10.23.45 Indeed, infatuated as we are with our household affairs, we have deviated completely from the real aim of our life. But now just see how…
• SB 10.23.46 Otherwise, why would the supreme controller — whose every desire is already fulfilled and who is the master of liberation and all other…
• SB 10.23.47 Hoping for the touch of His lotus feet, the goddess of fortune perpetually worships Him alone, leaving aside all others and renouncing her…
• SB 10.23.48-49 All the aspects of sacrifice — the auspicious place and time, the various items of paraphernalia, the Vedic hymns, the prescribed rituals,…
• SB 10.23.50 Let us offer our obeisances unto Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. His intelligence is never bewildered, whereas we,…
• SB 10.23.51 We were bewildered by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s illusory potency and thus could not understand His influence as the original Personality of Godhead.…
• SB 10.23.52 Thus reflecting on the sin they had committed by neglecting Lord Kṛṣṇa, they became very eager to see Him. But being afraid of King Kaṁsa,…
• SB 10.24.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While staying in that very place with His brother Baladeva, Lord Kṛṣṇa happened to see the cowherd men busily…
• SB 10.24.2 Being the omniscient Supersoul, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa already understood the situation, yet He still humbly inquired from the elders,…
• SB 10.24.12 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Lord Keśava [Kṛṣṇa] heard the statements of His father, Nanda, and other senior residents of Vraja, He…
• SB 10.24.31 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is Himself powerful time, desired to destroy the false pride of Lord Indra. When Nanda and the…
• SB 10.24.32-33 The cowherd community then did all that Madhusūdana had suggested. They arranged for the brāhmaṇas to recite the auspicious Vedic mantras,…
• SB 10.24.34 As the beautifully ornamented cowherd ladies followed along, riding on wagons drawn by oxen, they sang the glories of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and…
• SB 10.24.35 Kṛṣṇa then assumed an unprecedented, huge form to instill faith in the cowherd men. Declaring “I am Govardhana Mountain!” He ate the…
• SB 10.24.36 Together with the people of Vraja, the Lord bowed down to this form of Govardhana Hill, thus in effect offering obeisances to Himself.…
• SB 10.24.37 “This Govardhana Hill, assuming any form he wishes, will kill any residents of the forest who neglect him. Therefore let us pay our…
• SB 10.24.38 The members of the cowherd community, having thus been inspired by Lord Vāsudeva to properly execute the sacrifice to Govardhana Hill, the…
• SB 10.25.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, when Indra understood that his sacrifice had been put aside, he became furious with Nanda…
• SB 10.25.2 Angry Indra sent forth the clouds of universal destruction, known as Sāṁvartaka. Imagining himself the supreme controller, he spoke as…
• SB 10.25.8 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: On Indra’s order the clouds of universal destruction, released untimely from their bonds, went to the cowherd…
• SB 10.25.9 Propelled by the fearsome wind-gods, the clouds blazed with lightning bolts and roared with thunder as they hurled down hailstones.
• SB 10.25.10 As the clouds released torrents of rain as thick as massive columns, the earth was submerged in the flood, and high ground could no longer…
• SB 10.25.11 The cows and other animals, shivering from the excessive rain and wind, and the cowherd men and ladies, pained by the cold, all approached…
• SB 10.25.12 Trembling from the distress brought about by the severe rainfall, and trying to cover their heads and calves with their own bodies, the…
• SB 10.25.13 [The cowherd men and women addressed the Lord:] Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, O most fortunate one, please deliver the cows from the wrath of Indra! O…
• SB 10.25.14 Seeing the inhabitants of His Gokula rendered practically unconscious by the onslaught of hail and blasting wind, the Supreme Lord Hari…
• SB 10.25.15 [Śrī Kṛṣṇa said to Himself:] Because We have stopped his sacrifice, Indra has caused this unusually fierce, unseasonable rain, together…
• SB 10.25.16 By My mystic power I will completely counteract this disturbance caused by Indra. Demigods like Indra are proud of their opulence, and out…
• SB 10.25.17 Since the demigods are endowed with the mode of goodness, the false pride of considering oneself the Lord should certainly not affect…
• SB 10.25.18 I must therefore protect the cowherd community by My transcendental potency, for I am their shelter, I am their master, and indeed they…
• SB 10.25.19 Having said this, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is Viṣṇu Himself, picked up Govardhana Hill with one hand and held it aloft just as easily as a child…
• SB 10.25.20 The Lord then addressed the cowherd community: O Mother, O Father, O residents of Vraja, if you wish you may now come under this hill with…
• SB 10.25.21 You should have no fear that this mountain will fall from My hand. And don’t be afraid of the wind and rain, for your deliverance from…
• SB 10.25.22 Their minds thus pacified by Lord Kṛṣṇa, they all entered beneath the hill, where they found ample room for themselves and all their cows,…
• SB 10.25.23 Lord Kṛṣṇa, forgetting hunger and thirst and putting aside all considerations of personal pleasure, stood there holding up the hill for…
• SB 10.25.24 When Indra observed this exhibition of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s mystic power, he became most astonished. Pulled down from his platform of false pride,…
• SB 10.25.25 Seeing that the fierce wind and rain had now ceased, the sky had become clear of rainclouds, and the sun had risen, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the lifter…
• SB 10.26.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The cowherd men were astonished when they saw Kṛṣṇa’s activities, such as lifting Govardhana Hill. Unable to…
• SB 10.26.2 [The cowherd men said:] Since this boy performs such extraordinary activities, how could He warrant a birth among worldly men like us — a…
• SB 10.26.3 How could this seven-year-old boy playfully hold up the great hill Govardhana with one hand, just as a mighty elephant holds up a lotus…
• SB 10.26.4 As a mere infant who had hardly yet opened His eyes, He drank the breast milk of the powerful demoness Pūtanā and then sucked out her very…
• SB 10.26.5 Once, when only three months old, little Kṛṣṇa was crying and kicking up His feet as He lay beneath a huge cart. Then the cart fell and…
• SB 10.26.6 At the age of one, while sitting peacefully He was taken up into the sky by the demon Tṛṇāvarta. But baby Kṛṣṇa grabbed the demon’s neck,…
• SB 10.26.7 Once, His mother tied Him with ropes to a mortar because she had caught Him stealing butter. Then, crawling on His hands, He dragged the…
• SB 10.26.8 Another time, when Kṛṣṇa was tending the calves in the forest together with Balarāma and the cowherd boys, the demon Bakāsura came with…
• SB 10.26.9 Desiring to kill Kṛṣṇa, the demon Vatsa disguised himself as a calf and entered among Kṛṣṇa’s calves. But Kṛṣṇa killed the demon and,…
• SB 10.26.10 Together with Lord Balarāma, Kṛṣṇa killed the jackass demon and all his friends, thereby securing the safety of the Tālavana forest, which…
• SB 10.26.11 After arranging for the mighty Lord Balarāma to kill the terrible demon Pralamba, Kṛṣṇa saved Vraja’s cowherd boys and their animals from…
• SB 10.26.12 Kṛṣṇa chastised the most poisonous serpent, Kāliya, and after humbling him He drove him forcibly from the lake of the Yamunā. In this way…
• SB 10.26.13 Dear Nanda, how is it that we and all the other residents of Vraja cannot give up our constant affection for your son? And how is it that…
• SB 10.26.14 On the one hand this boy is only seven years old, and on the other we see that He has lifted the great hill Govardhana. Therefore, O King…
• SB 10.26.15 Nanda Mahārāja replied: O cowherd men, just hear my words and let all your doubts concerning my son be gone. Some time ago Garga Muni…
• SB 10.26.16 [Garga Muni had said:] Your son Kṛṣṇa appears as an incarnation in every millennium. In the past He assumed three different colors —…
• SB 10.26.17 For many reasons, this beautiful son of yours sometimes appeared previously as the son of Vasudeva. Therefore, those who are learned…
• SB 10.26.18 For this son of yours there are many forms and names according to His transcendental qualities and activities. These are known to me, but…
• SB 10.26.19 To increase the transcendental bliss of the cowherd men of Gokula, this child will always act auspiciously for you. And by His grace only,…
• SB 10.26.20 O Nanda Mahārāja, as recorded in history, when there was an irregular, incapable government, Indra having been dethroned, and when honest…
• SB 10.26.21 Demons cannot harm the demigods, who always have Lord Viṣṇu on their side. Similarly, any person or group attached to all-auspicious Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.26.22 Therefore, O Nanda Mahārāja, this child of yours is as good as Nārāyaṇa. In His transcendental qualities, opulence, name, fame and…
• SB 10.26.23 [Nanda Mahārāja continued:] After Garga Ṛṣi spoke these words to me and returned home, I began to consider that Kṛṣṇa, who keeps us free…
• SB 10.26.24 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Having heard Nanda Mahārāja relate the statements of Garga Muni, the residents of Vṛndāvana became…
• SB 10.26.25 Indra became angry when his sacrifice was disrupted, and thus he caused rain and hail to fall on Gokula, accompanied by lightning and…
• SB 10.27.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After Kṛṣṇa had lifted Govardhana Hill and thus protected the inhabitants of Vraja from the terrible rainfall,…
• SB 10.27.2 Indra was very ashamed of having offended the Lord. Approaching Him in a solitary place, Indra fell down and lay his helmet, whose…
• SB 10.27.3 Indra had now heard of and seen the transcendental power of omnipotent Kṛṣṇa, and his false pride in being the lord of the three worlds…
• SB 10.27.14 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus glorified by Indra, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, smiled and then spoke to him as follows in…
• SB 10.27.22-23 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus appealed to Lord Kṛṣṇa, mother Surabhi performed His bathing ceremony with her own milk, and Indra,…
• SB 10.27.24 Tumburu, Nārada and other Gandharvas, along with the Vidyādharas, Siddhas and Cāraṇas, came there to sing the glories of Lord Hari, which…
• SB 10.27.25 The most eminent demigods chanted the praises of the Lord and scattered wonderful showers of flowers all around Him. All three worlds felt…
• SB 10.27.26 Rivers flowed with various kinds of tasty liquids, trees exuded honey, edible plants came to maturity without cultivation, and hills gave…
• SB 10.27.27 O Parīkṣit, beloved of the Kuru dynasty, upon the ceremonial bathing of Lord Kṛṣṇa, all living creatures, even those cruel by nature,…
• SB 10.27.28 After he had ceremonially bathed Lord Govinda, who is the master of the cows and the cowherd community, King Indra took the Lord’s…
• SB 10.28.1 Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: Having worshiped Lord Janārdana and fasted on the Ekādaśī day, Nanda Mahārāja entered the water of the Kālindī on the…
• SB 10.28.2 Because Nanda Mahārāja entered the water in the dark of night, disregarding that the time was inauspicious, a demoniac servant of Varuṇa…
• SB 10.28.3 O King, not seeing Nanda Mahārāja, the cowherd men loudly cried out, “O Kṛṣṇa! O Rāma!” Lord Kṛṣṇa heard their cries and understood that…
• SB 10.28.4 Seeing that the Lord, Hṛṣīkeśa, had arrived, the demigod Varuṇa worshiped Him with elaborate offerings. Varuṇa was in a state of great…
• SB 10.28.5 Śrī Varuṇa said: Now my body has fulfilled its function. Indeed, now the goal of my life is achieved, O Lord. Those who accept Your lotus…
• SB 10.28.6 My obeisances unto You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Soul, within whom there is no trace of the…
• SB 10.28.7 Your father, who is sitting here, was brought to me by a foolish, ignorant servant of mine who did not understand his proper duty.…
• SB 10.28.8 O Kṛṣṇa, O seer of everything, please give Your mercy even to me. O Govinda, You are most affectionate to Your father. Please take him home.
• SB 10.28.9 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus satisfied by Lord Varuṇa, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord of lords, took His father and…
• SB 10.28.10 Nanda Mahārāja had been astonished to see for the first time the great opulence of Varuṇa, the ruler of the ocean planet, and also to see…
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• SB 10.28.12 Because He sees everything, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, automatically understood what the cowherd men were…
• SB 10.28.13 [Lord Kṛṣṇa thought:] Certainly people in this world are wandering among higher and lower destinations, which they achieve through…
• SB 10.28.14 Thus deeply considering the situation, the all-merciful Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari revealed to the cowherd men His abode, which…
• SB 10.28.15 Lord Kṛṣṇa revealed the indestructible spiritual effulgence, which is unlimited, conscious and eternal. Sages see that spiritual existence…
• SB 10.28.16 The cowherd men were brought by Lord Kṛṣṇa to the Brahma-hrada, made to submerge in the water, and then lifted up. From the same vantage…
• SB 10.28.17 Nanda Mahārāja and the other cowherd men felt the greatest happiness when they saw that transcendental abode. They were especially amazed…
• SB 10.29.1 Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, full in all opulences, yet upon seeing those autumn nights scented…
• SB 10.29.2 The moon then rose, anointing the face of the eastern horizon with the reddish hue of his comforting rays, and thus dispelling the pain of…
• SB 10.29.3 Lord Kṛṣṇa saw the unbroken disk of the full moon glowing with the red effulgence of newly applied vermilion, as if it were the face of…
• SB 10.29.4 When the young women of Vṛndāvana heard Kṛṣṇa’s flute-song, which arouses romantic feelings, their minds were captivated by the Lord. They…
• SB 10.29.5 Some of the gopīs were milking cows when they heard Kṛṣṇa’s flute. They stopped milking and went off to meet Him. Some left milk curdling…
• SB 10.29.6-7 Some of them were getting dressed, feeding milk to their infants or rendering personal service to their husbands, but they all gave up…
• SB 10.29.8 Their husbands, fathers, brothers and other relatives tried to stop them, but Kṛṣṇa had already stolen their hearts. Enchanted by the…
• SB 10.29.9 Some of the gopīs, however, could not manage to get out of their houses, and instead they remained home with eyes closed, meditating upon…
• SB 10.29.10-11 For those gopīs who could not go to see Kṛṣṇa, intolerable separation from their beloved caused an intense agony that burned away all…
• SB 10.29.13 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: This point was explained to you previously. Since even Śiśupāla, who hated Kṛṣṇa, achieved perfection, then what to…
• SB 10.29.14 O King, the Supreme Lord is inexhaustible and immeasurable, and He is untouched by the material modes because He is their controller. His…
• SB 10.29.15 Persons who constantly direct their lust, anger, fear, protective affection, feeling of impersonal oneness or friendship toward Lord Hari…
• SB 10.29.16 You should not be so astonished by Kṛṣṇa, the unborn master of all masters of mystic power, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. After all,…
• SB 10.29.17 Seeing that the girls of Vraja had arrived, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the best of speakers, greeted them with charming words that bewildered their minds.
• SB 10.29.28 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing these unpleasant words spoken by Govinda, the gopīs became morose. Their great hopes were frustrated and…
• SB 10.29.29 Their heads hanging down and their heavy, sorrowful breathing drying up their reddened lips, the gopīs scratched the ground with their…
• SB 10.29.30 Although Kṛṣṇa was their beloved, and although they had abandoned all other objects of desire for His sake, He had been speaking to them…
• SB 10.29.31 The beautiful gopīs said: O all-powerful one, You should not speak in this cruel way. Do not reject us, who have renounced all material…
• SB 10.29.32 Our dear Kṛṣṇa, as an expert in religion You have advised us that the proper religious duty for women is to faithfully serve their…
• SB 10.29.33 Expert transcendentalists always direct their affection toward You because they recognize You as their true Self and eternal beloved. What…
• SB 10.29.34 Until today our minds were absorbed in household affairs, but You easily stole both our minds and our hands away from our housework. Now…
• SB 10.29.35 Dear Kṛṣṇa, please pour the nectar of Your lips upon the fire within our hearts — a fire You ignited with Your smiling glances and the…
• SB 10.29.36 O lotus-eyed one, the goddess of fortune considers it a festive occasion whenever she touches the soles of Your lotus feet. You are very…
• SB 10.29.37 Goddess Lakṣmī, whose glance is sought after by the demigods with great endeavor, has achieved the unique position of always remaining on…
• SB 10.29.38 Therefore, O vanquisher of all distress, please show us mercy. To approach Your lotus feet we abandoned our families and homes, and we…
• SB 10.29.39 Seeing Your face encircled by curling locks of hair, Your cheeks beautified by earrings, Your lips full of nectar, and Your smiling…
• SB 10.29.40 Dear Kṛṣṇa, what woman in all the three worlds wouldn’t deviate from religious behavior when bewildered by the sweet, drawn-out melody of…
• SB 10.29.41 Clearly You have taken birth in this world to relieve the fear and distress of the people of Vraja, just as the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 10.29.42 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Smiling upon hearing these despondent words from the gopīs, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the supreme master of all masters of mystic…
• SB 10.29.43 Among the assembled gopīs, the infallible Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared just like the moon surrounded by stars. He whose activities are so…
• SB 10.29.44 As the gopīs sang His praises, that leader of hundreds of women sang loudly in reply. He moved among them, wearing His Vaijayantī garland,…
• SB 10.29.45-46 Śrī Kṛṣṇa went with the gopīs to the bank of the Yamunā, where the sand was cooling and the wind, enlivened by the river’s waves, bore the…
• SB 10.29.47 The gopīs became proud of themselves for having received such special attention from Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and each…
• SB 10.29.48 Lord Keśava, seeing the gopīs too proud of their good fortune, wanted to relieve them of this pride and show them further mercy. Thus He…
• SB 10.30.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Lord Kṛṣṇa disappeared so suddenly, the gopīs felt great sorrow at losing sight of Him, like a group of female…
• SB 10.30.2 As the cowherd women remembered Lord Kṛṣṇa, their hearts were overwhelmed by His movements and loving smiles, His playful glances and…
• SB 10.30.3 Because the beloved gopīs were absorbed in thoughts of their beloved Kṛṣṇa, their bodies imitated His way of moving and smiling, His way…
• SB 10.30.4 Singing loudly of Kṛṣṇa, they searched for Him throughout the Vṛndāvana forest like a band of madwomen. They even asked the trees about…
• SB 10.30.40 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While continuing to search out Kṛṣṇa’s path, the gopīs discovered their unhappy friend close by. She was bewildered…
• SB 10.30.41 She told them how Mādhava had given Her much respect, but how She then suffered dishonor because of Her misbehavior. The gopīs were…
• SB 10.30.42 In search of Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs then entered the depths of the forest as far as the light of the moon shone. But when they found themselves…
• SB 10.30.43 Their minds absorbed in thoughts of Him, they conversed about Him, acted out His pastimes and felt themselves filled with His presence.…
• SB 10.30.44 The gopīs again came to the bank of the Kālindī. Meditating on Kṛṣṇa and eagerly hoping He would come, they sat down together to sing of…
• SB 10.32.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, having thus sung and spoken their hearts out in various charming ways, the gopīs began to weep loudly. They…
• SB 10.32.2 Then Lord Kṛṣṇa, a smile on His lotus face, appeared before the gopīs. Wearing a garland and a yellow garment, He directly appeared as one…
• SB 10.32.3 When the gopīs saw that their dearmost Kṛṣṇa had returned to them, they all stood up at once, and out of their affection for Him their…
• SB 10.32.4 One gopī joyfully took Kṛṣṇa’s hand between her folded palms, and another placed His arm, anointed with sandalwood paste, on her shoulder.
• SB 10.32.5 A slender gopī respectfully took in her joined hands the betel nut He had chewed, and another gopī, burning with desire, put His lotus…
• SB 10.32.6 One gopī, beside herself with loving anger, bit her lips and stared at Him with frowning eyebrows, as if to wound Him with her harsh…
• SB 10.32.7 Another gopī looked with unblinking eyes upon His lotus face, but even after deeply relishing its sweetness She did not feel satiated,…
• SB 10.32.8 One gopī took the Lord through the aperture of her eyes and placed Him within her heart. Then, with her eyes closed and her bodily hairs…
• SB 10.32.9 All the gopīs enjoyed the greatest festivity when they saw their beloved Keśava again. They gave up the distress of separation, just as…
• SB 10.32.10 Encircled by the gopīs, who were now relieved of all distress, Lord Acyuta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, shone forth splendidly. My…
• SB 10.32.11-12 The almighty Lord then took the gopīs with Him to the bank of the Kālindī, who with the hands of her waves had scattered piles of soft…
• SB 10.32.13 Their heartache vanquished by the ecstasy of seeing Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs, like the personified Vedas before them, felt their desires…
• SB 10.32.14 Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for whom the great masters of mystic meditation arrange a seat within their hearts, took…
• SB 10.32.15 Śrī Kṛṣṇa had awakened romantic desires within the gopīs, and they honored Him by glancing at Him with playful smiles, gesturing amorously…
• SB 10.33.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the cowherd girls heard the Supreme Personality of Godhead speak these most charming words, they forgot their…
• SB 10.33.2 There on the Yamunā’s banks Lord Govinda then began the pastime of the rāsa dance in the company of those jewels among women, the faithful…
• SB 10.33.3 The festive rāsa dance commenced, with the gopīs arrayed in a circle. Lord Kṛṣṇa expanded Himself and entered between each pair of gopīs,…
• SB 10.33.4 Kettledrums then resounded in the sky while flowers rained down and the chief Gandharvas and their wives sang Lord Kṛṣṇa’s spotless glories.
• SB 10.33.5 A tumultuous sound arose from the armlets, ankle bells and waist bells of the gopīs as they sported with their beloved Kṛṣṇa in the circle…
• SB 10.33.6 In the midst of the dancing gopīs, Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared most brilliant, like an exquisite sapphire in the midst of golden ornaments.
• SB 10.33.7 As the gopīs sang in praise of Kṛṣṇa, their feet danced, their hands gestured, and their eyebrows moved with playful smiles. With their…
• SB 10.33.8 Eager to enjoy conjugal love, their throats colored with various pigments, the gopīs sang loudly and danced. They were overjoyed by…
• SB 10.33.9 One gopī, joining Lord Mukunda in His singing, sang pure melodious tones that rose harmoniously above His. Kṛṣṇa was pleased and showed…
• SB 10.33.10 When one gopī grew tired from the rāsa dance, She turned to Kṛṣṇa, standing at Her side holding a baton, and grasped His shoulder with Her…
• SB 10.33.11 Upon the shoulder of one gopī Kṛṣṇa placed His arm, whose natural blue-lotus fragrance was mixed with that of the sandalwood pulp…
• SB 10.33.12 Next to Kṛṣṇa’s cheek one gopī put her own, beautified by the effulgence of her earrings, which glittered as she danced. Kṛṣṇa then…
• SB 10.33.13 Another gopī became fatigued as she danced and sang, the bells on her ankles and waist tinkling. So she placed upon her breasts the…
• SB 10.33.14 Having attained as their intimate lover Lord Acyuta, the exclusive consort of the goddess of fortune, the gopīs enjoyed great pleasure.…
• SB 10.33.15 Enhancing the beauty of the gopīs ’ faces were the lotus flowers behind their ears, the locks of hair decorating their cheeks, and drops…
• SB 10.33.16 In this way Lord Kṛṣṇa, the original Lord Nārāyaṇa, master of the goddess of fortune, took pleasure in the company of the young women of…
• SB 10.33.17 Their senses overwhelmed by the joy of having His physical association, the gopīs could not prevent their hair, their dresses and the…
• SB 10.33.18 The wives of the demigods, observing Kṛṣṇa’s playful activities from their airplanes, were entranced and became agitated with lust.…
• SB 10.33.19 Expanding Himself as many times as there were cowherd women to associate with, the Supreme Lord, though self-satisfied, playfully enjoyed…
• SB 10.33.20 Seeing that the gopīs were fatigued from conjugal enjoyment, my dear King, merciful Kṛṣṇa lovingly wiped their faces with His comforting…
• SB 10.33.21 The gopīs honored their hero with smiling glances sweetened by the beauty of their cheeks and the effulgence of their curly locks and…
• SB 10.33.22 Lord Kṛṣṇa’s garland had been crushed during His conjugal dalliance with the gopīs and colored vermilion by the kuṅkuma powder on their…
• SB 10.33.23 My dear King, in the water Kṛṣṇa found Himself being splashed on all sides by the laughing gopīs, who looked at Him with love. As the…
• SB 10.33.24 Then the Lord strolled through a small forest on the bank of the Yamunā. This forest was filled to its limits with breezes carrying the…
• SB 10.33.25 Although the gopīs were firmly attached to Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose desires are always fulfilled, the Lord was not internally affected by any…
• SB 10.33.29 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The status of powerful controllers is not harmed by any apparently audacious transgression of morality we may see…
• SB 10.33.30 One who is not a great controller should never imitate the behavior of ruling personalities, even mentally. If out of foolishness an…
• SB 10.33.31 The statements of the Lord’s empowered servants are always true, and the acts they perform are exemplary when consistent with those…
• SB 10.33.32 My dear Prabhu, when these great persons who are free from false ego act piously in this world, they have no selfish motives to fulfill,…
• SB 10.33.33 How, then, could the Lord of all created beings — animals, men and demigods — have any connection with the piety and impiety that affect…
• SB 10.33.34 Material activities never entangle the devotees of the Supreme Lord, who are fully satisfied by serving the dust of His lotus feet. Nor do…
• SB 10.33.35 He who lives as the overseeing witness within the gopīs and their husbands, and indeed within all embodied living beings, assumes forms in…
• SB 10.33.36 When the Lord assumes a humanlike body to show mercy to His devotees, He engages in such pastimes as will attract those who hear about…
• SB 10.33.37 The cowherd men, bewildered by Kṛṣṇa’s illusory potency, thought their wives had remained home at their sides. Thus they did not harbor…
• SB 10.33.38 After an entire night of Brahmā had passed, Lord Kṛṣṇa advised the gopīs to return to their homes. Although they did not wish to do so,…
• SB 10.33.39 Anyone who faithfully hears or describes the Lord’s playful affairs with the young gopīs of Vṛndāvana will attain the Lord’s pure…
• SB 10.34.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: One day the cowherd men, eager to take a trip to worship Lord Śiva, traveled by bullock carts to the Ambikā forest.
• SB 10.34.2 O King, after arriving there, they bathed in the Sarasvatī and then devotedly worshiped with various paraphernalia the powerful Lord…
• SB 10.34.3 The cowherd men gave the brāhmaṇas gifts of cows, gold, clothing and cooked grains mixed with honey. Then the cowherds prayed, “May the…
• SB 10.34.4 Nanda, Sunanda and the other greatly fortunate cowherds spent that night on the bank of the Sarasvatī, strictly observing their vows. They…
• SB 10.34.5 During the night a huge and extremely hungry snake appeared in that thicket. Slithering on his belly up to the sleeping Nanda Mahārāja,…
• SB 10.34.6 In the clutches of the snake, Nanda Mahārāja cried out, “Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, my dear boy! This huge serpent is swallowing me! Please save me,…
• SB 10.34.7 When the cowherd men heard the cries of Nanda, they immediately rose up and saw that he was being swallowed. Distraught, they beat the…
• SB 10.34.8 But even though the firebrands were burning him, the serpent would not release Nanda Mahārāja. Then the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, master of His…
• SB 10.34.9 The snake had all his sinful reactions destroyed by the touch of the Supreme Lord’s divine foot, and thus he gave up his serpent body and…
• SB 10.34.10 The Supreme Lord Hṛṣīkeśa then questioned this personality, who was standing before Him with his head bowed, his brilliantly effulgent…
• SB 10.35.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Whenever Kṛṣṇa went to the forest, the minds of the gopīs would run after Him, and thus the young girls sadly spent…
• SB 10.35.26 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, thus during the daytime the women of Vṛndāvana took pleasure in continuously singing about the pastimes…
• SB 10.36.1 Śukadeva Goswāmī said: The demon Ariṣṭa then came to the cowherd village. Appearing in the form of a bull with a large hump, he made the…
• SB 10.36.2 Ariṣṭāsura bellowed very harshly and pawed the ground. With his tail raised and his eyes glaring, he began to tear up the embankments with…
• SB 10.36.3-4 My dear King, clouds hovered about sharp-horned Ariṣṭāsura’s hump, mistaking it for a mountain, and when the cowherd men and ladies caught…
• SB 10.36.5 The domestic animals fled the pasture in fear, O King, and all the inhabitants rushed to Lord Govinda for shelter, crying, “Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa!”
• SB 10.36.6 When the Supreme Lord saw the cowherd community distraught and fleeing in fear, He calmed them, saying, “Don’t be afraid.” Then He called…
• SB 10.36.7 You fool! What do you think you’re doing, you wicked rascal, frightening the cowherd community and their animals when I am here just to…
• SB 10.36.8 Having spoken these words, the infallible Lord Hari slapped His arms with His palms, further angering Ariṣṭa with the loud sound. The Lord…
• SB 10.36.9 Thus provoked, Ariṣṭa pawed the ground with one of his hooves and then, with the clouds hovering around his upraised tail, furiously…
• SB 10.36.10 Pointing the tips of his horns straight ahead and glaring menacingly at Lord Kṛṣṇa from the corners of his bloodshot eyes, Ariṣṭa rushed…
• SB 10.36.11 The Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa seized Ariṣṭāsura by the horns and threw him back eighteen steps, just as an elephant might do when fighting a…
• SB 10.36.12 Thus repulsed by the Supreme Lord, the bull demon got up and, breathing hard and sweating all over his body, again charged Him in a…
• SB 10.36.13 As Ariṣṭa attacked, Lord Kṛṣṇa seized him by the horns and knocked him to the ground with His foot. The Lord then thrashed him as if he…
• SB 10.36.14 Vomiting blood and profusely excreting stool and urine, kicking his legs and rolling his eyes about, Ariṣṭāsura thus went painfully to the…
• SB 10.36.15 Having thus killed the bull demon Ariṣṭa, He who is a festival for the gopīs’ eyes entered the cowherd village with Balarāma.
• SB 10.36.16 After Ariṣṭāsura had been killed by Kṛṣṇa, who acts wonderfully, Nārada Muni went to speak to King Kaṁsa. That powerful sage of godly…
• SB 10.36.17 [Nārada told Kaṁsa:] Yaśodā’s child was actually a daughter, and Kṛṣṇa is the son of Devakī. Also, Rāma is the son of Rohiṇī. Out of fear,…
• SB 10.36.18 Upon hearing this, the master of the Bhojas became furious and lost control of his senses. He picked up a sharp sword to kill Vasudeva.
• SB 10.36.19 But Nārada restrained Kaṁsa by reminding him that it was the two sons of Vasudeva who would cause his death. Kaṁsa then had Vasudeva and…
• SB 10.36.20 After Nārada left, King Kaṁsa summoned Keśī and ordered him, “Go kill Rāma and Kṛṣṇa.”
• SB 10.36.21 The King of the Bhojas next called for his ministers, headed by Muṣṭika, Cāṇūra, Śala and Tośala, and also for his elephant-keepers. The…
• SB 10.36.22-23 My dear heroic Cāṇūra and Muṣṭika, please hear this. Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, the sons of Ānakadundubhi [Vasudeva], are living in Nanda’s cowherd…
• SB 10.36.24 Erect a wrestling ring with many surrounding viewing stands, and bring all the residents of the city and the outlying districts to see the…
• SB 10.36.25 You, elephant-keeper, my good man, should position the elephant Kuvalayāpīḍa at the entrance to the wrestling arena and have him kill my…
• SB 10.36.26 Commence the bow sacrifice on the Caturdaśī day in accordance with the relevant Vedic injunctions. In ritual slaughter offer the…
• SB 10.36.27 Having thus commanded his ministers, Kaṁsa next called for Akrūra, the most eminent of the Yadus. Kaṁsa knew the art of securing personal…
• SB 10.36.28 My dear Akrūra, most charitable one, please do me a friendly favor out of respect. Among the Bhojas and Vṛṣṇis, there is no one else as…
• SB 10.36.29 Gentle Akrūra, you always carry out your duties soberly, and therefore I am depending on you, just as powerful Indra took shelter of Lord…
• SB 10.36.30 Please go to Nanda’s village, where the two sons of Ānakadundubhi are living, and without delay bring Them here on this chariot.
• SB 10.36.31 The demigods, who are under the protection of Viṣṇu, have sent these two boys as my death. Bring Them here, and also have Nanda and the…
• SB 10.36.32 After you bring Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, I will have Them killed by my elephant, who is as powerful as death itself. And if by chance They…
• SB 10.36.33 When these two have been killed, I will kill Vasudeva and all Their lamenting relatives — the Vṛṣṇis, Bhojas and Daśārhas.
• SB 10.36.34 I will also kill my old father, Ugrasena, who is greedy for my kingdom, and I will kill his brother Devaka and all my other enemies as well.
• SB 10.36.35 Then, my friend, this earth will be free of thorns.
• SB 10.36.36 My elder relative Jarāsandha and my dear friend Dvivida are solid well-wishers of mine, as are Śambara, Naraka and Bāṇa. I will use them…
• SB 10.36.37 Now that you understand my intentions, please go at once and bring Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma to watch the bow sacrifice and see the opulence of…
• SB 10.36.38 Śrī Akrūra said: O King, you have expertly devised a process to free yourself of misfortune. Still, one should be equal in success and…
• SB 10.36.39 An ordinary person is determined to act on his desires even when fate prevents their fulfillment. Therefore he encounters both happiness…
• SB 10.36.40 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus instructed Akrūra, King Kaṁsa dismissed his ministers and retired to his quarters, and Akrūra returned…
• SB 10.37.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The demon Keśī, sent by Kaṁsa, appeared in Vraja as a great horse. Running with the speed of the mind, he tore up…
• SB 10.37.3 Seeing the Lord standing before him, Keśī ran toward Him in extreme rage, his mouth gaping as if to swallow up the sky. Rushing with…
• SB 10.37.4 But the transcendental Lord dodged Keśī’s blow and then with His arms angrily seized the demon by the legs, whirled him around in the air…
• SB 10.37.5 Upon regaining consciousness Keśī angrily got up, opened his mouth wide and again rushed to attack Lord Kṛṣṇa. But the Lord just smiled…
• SB 10.37.6 Keśī’s teeth immediately fell out when they touched the Supreme Lord’s arm, which to the demon felt as hot as molten iron. Within Keśī’s…
• SB 10.37.7 As Lord Kṛṣṇa’s expanding arm completely blocked Keśī’s breathing, his legs kicked convulsively, his body became covered with sweat, and…
• SB 10.37.8 The mighty-armed Kṛṣṇa withdrew His arm from Keśī’s body, which now appeared like a long karkaṭikā fruit. Without the least display of…
• SB 10.37.9 My dear King, thereafter Lord Kṛṣṇa was approached in a solitary place by the great sage among the demigods, Nārada Muni. That most…
• SB 10.37.24 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus addressed Lord Kṛṣṇa, the chief of the Yadu dynasty, Nārada bowed down and offered Him obeisances. Then…
• SB 10.37.25 After killing the demon Keśī in battle, the Supreme Personality of Godhead continued to tend the cows and other animals in the company of…
• SB 10.37.26 One day the cowherd boys, while grazing their animals on the mountain slopes, played the game of stealing and hiding, acting out the roles…
• SB 10.37.27 In that game, O King, some acted as thieves, others as shepherds and others as sheep. They played their game happily, without fear of…
• SB 10.37.28 A powerful magician named Vyoma, son of the demon Maya, then appeared on the scene in the guise of a cowherd boy. Pretending to join the…
• SB 10.37.29 Gradually the great demon abducted more and more of the cowherd boys and cast them into a mountain cave, which he sealed shut with a…
• SB 10.37.30 Lord Kṛṣṇa, who shelters all saintly devotees, understood perfectly well what Vyomāsura was doing. Just as a lion grabs a wolf, Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.37.31 The demon changed into his original form, as big and powerful as a great mountain. But try as he might to free himself, he could not do…
• SB 10.37.32 Lord Acyuta clutched Vyomāsura between His arms and threw him to the ground. Then, while the demigods in heaven looked on, Kṛṣṇa killed…
• SB 10.37.33 Kṛṣṇa then smashed the boulder blocking the cave’s entrance and led the trapped cowherd boys to safety. Thereafter, as the demigods and…
• SB 10.38.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After passing the night in the city of Mathurā, the high-minded Akrūra mounted his chariot and set off for the…
• SB 10.38.2 As he traveled on the road, the great soul Akrūra felt tremendous devotion for the lotus-eyed Personality of Godhead, and thus he began to…
• SB 10.38.3 [Śrī Akrūra thought:] What pious deeds have I done, what severe austerities undergone, what worship performed or charity given so that…
• SB 10.38.4 Since I am a materialistic person absorbed simply in sense gratification, I think it is as difficult for me to have gotten this…
• SB 10.38.5 But enough of such thoughts! After all, even a fallen soul like me can have the chance to behold the infallible Supreme Lord, for one of…
• SB 10.38.6 Today all my sinful reactions have been eradicated and my birth has become worthwhile, since I will offer my obeisances to the Supreme…
• SB 10.38.7 Indeed, today King Kaṁsa has shown me extreme mercy by sending me to see the lotus feet of Lord Hari, who has now appeared in this world.…
• SB 10.38.8 Those lotus feet are worshiped by Brahmā, Śiva and all the other demigods, by the goddess of fortune, and also by the great sages and…
• SB 10.38.9 Surely I shall see the face of Lord Mukunda, since the deer are now walking past me on my right. That face, framed by His curly hair, is…
• SB 10.38.10 I am going to see the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu, the reservoir of all beauty, who by His own sweet will has now assumed a humanlike form to…
• SB 10.38.11 He is the witness of material cause and effect, yet He is always free from false identification with them. By His internal potency He…
• SB 10.38.12 All sins are destroyed and all good fortune is created by the Supreme Lord’s qualities, activities and appearances, and words that…
• SB 10.38.13 That same Supreme Lord has descended into the dynasty of the Sātvatas to delight the exalted demigods, who maintain the principles of…
• SB 10.38.14 Today I shall certainly see Him, the goal and spiritual master of the great souls. Seeing Him brings jubilation to all who have eyes, for…
• SB 10.38.15 Then I will at once alight from my chariot and bow down to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, the Supreme Personalities of Godhead.…
• SB 10.38.16 And when I have fallen at His feet, the almighty Lord will place His lotus hand upon my head. For those who seek shelter in Him because…
• SB 10.38.17 By offering charity to that lotus hand, Purandara and Bali earned the status of Indra, King of heaven, and during the pleasure pastimes of…
• SB 10.38.18 The infallible Lord will not consider me an enemy, even though Kaṁsa has sent me here as his messenger. After all, the omniscient Lord is…
• SB 10.38.19 Thus He will cast His smiling, affectionate glance upon me as I remain fixed with joined palms, fallen in obeisances at His feet. Then all…
• SB 10.38.20 Recognizing me as an intimate friend and relative, Kṛṣṇa will embrace me with His mighty arms, instantly sanctifying my body and…
• SB 10.38.21 Having been embraced by the all-famous Lord Kṛṣṇa, I will humbly stand before Him with bowed head and joined palms, and He will address…
• SB 10.38.22 The Supreme Lord has no favorite and no dearmost friend, nor does He consider anyone undesirable, despicable or fit to be neglected. All…
• SB 10.38.23 And then Lord Kṛṣṇa’s elder brother, the foremost of the Yadus, will grasp my joined hands while I am still standing with my head bowed,…
• SB 10.38.24 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, while the son of Śvaphalka, traveling on the road, thus meditated deeply on Śrī Kṛṣṇa, he…
• SB 10.38.25 In the cowherd pasture Akrūra saw the footprints of those feet whose pure dust the rulers of all the planets in the universe hold on their…
• SB 10.38.26 Increasingly agitated by ecstasy at seeing the Lord’s footprints, his bodily hairs standing on end because of his pure love, and his eyes…
• SB 10.38.27 The very goal of life for all embodied beings is this ecstasy, which Akrūra experienced when, upon receiving Kaṁsa’s order, he put aside…
• SB 10.38.28-33 Akrūra then saw Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma in the village of Vraja, going to milk the cows. Kṛṣṇa wore yellow garments, Balarāma blue, and Their…
• SB 10.38.34 Akrūra, overwhelmed with affection, quickly jumped down from his chariot and fell at the feet of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma like a rod.
• SB 10.38.35 The joy of seeing the Supreme Lord flooded Akrūra’s eyes with tears and decorated his limbs with eruptions of ecstasy. He felt such…
• SB 10.38.36 Recognizing Akrūra, Lord Kṛṣṇa drew him close with His hand, which bears the sign of the chariot wheel, and then embraced him. Kṛṣṇa felt…
• SB 10.38.37-38 As Akrūra stood with his head bowed, Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa [Balarāma] grasped his joined hands, and then Balarāma took him to His house in the…
• SB 10.38.39 The almighty Lord Balarāma presented Akrūra with the gift of a cow, massaged his feet to relieve him of fatigue and then with great…
• SB 10.38.40 When Akrūra had eaten to his satisfaction, Lord Balarāma, the supreme knower of religious duties, offered him aromatic herbs for…
• SB 10.38.41 Nanda Mahārāja asked Akrūra: O descendant of Daśārha, how are all of you maintaining yourselves while that merciless Kaṁsa remains alive?…
• SB 10.38.42 That cruel, self-serving Kaṁsa murdered the infants of his own sister in her presence, even as she cried in anguish. So why should we even…
• SB 10.38.43 Honored by Nanda Mahārāja with these true and pleasing words of inquiry, Akrūra forgot the fatigue of his journey.
• SB 10.39.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having been honored so much by Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa, Akrūra, seated comfortably on a couch, felt that all…
• SB 10.39.2 My dear King, what is unattainable for one who has satisfied the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the shelter of the goddess of fortune?…
• SB 10.39.3 After the evening meal, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī, asked Akrūra how Kaṁsa was treating their dear relatives and friends and what the…
• SB 10.39.8 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: In response to the Supreme Lord’s request, Akrūra, the descendant of Madhu, described the whole situation,…
• SB 10.39.9 Akrūra relayed the message he had been sent to deliver. He also described Kaṁsa’s real intentions and how Nārada had informed Kaṁsa that…
• SB 10.39.10 Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma, the vanquisher of heroic opponents, laughed when They heard Akrūra’s words. The Lords then informed Their…
• SB 10.39.11-12 Nanda Mahārāja then issued orders to the cowherd men by having the village constable make the following announcement throughout Nanda’s…
• SB 10.39.13 When the young gopīs heard that Akrūra had come to Vraja to take Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma to the city, they became extremely distressed.
• SB 10.39.14 Some gopīs felt so pained at heart that their faces turned pale from their heavy breathing. Others were so anguished that their dresses,…
• SB 10.39.15 Other gopīs entirely stopped their sensory activities and became fixed in meditation on Kṛṣṇa. They lost all awareness of the external…
• SB 10.39.16 And still other young women fainted simply by remembering the words of Lord Śauri [Kṛṣṇa]. These words, decorated with wonderful phrases…
• SB 10.39.17-18 The gopīs were frightened at the prospect of even the briefest separation from Lord Mukunda, so now, as they remembered His graceful gait,…
• SB 10.39.31 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After speaking these words, the ladies of Vraja, who were so attached to Kṛṣṇa, felt extremely agitated by their…
• SB 10.39.32 But even as the gopīs cried out in this way, Akrūra, having at sunrise performed His morning worship and other duties, began to drive the…
• SB 10.39.33 Led by Nanda Mahārāja, the cowherd men followed behind Lord Kṛṣṇa in their wagons. The men brought along many offerings for the King,…
• SB 10.39.34 [With His glances] Lord Kṛṣṇa somewhat pacified the gopīs, and they also followed behind for some time. Then, hoping He would give them…
• SB 10.39.35 As He departed, that best of the Yadus saw how the gopīs were lamenting, and thus He consoled them by sending a messenger with this loving…
• SB 10.39.36 Sending their minds after Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs stood as motionless as figures in a painting. They remained there as long as the flag atop the…
• SB 10.39.37 The gopīs then turned back, without hope that Govinda would ever return to them. Full of sorrow, they began to spend their days and nights…
• SB 10.39.38 My dear King, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, traveling as swiftly as the wind in that chariot with Lord Balarāma and Akrūra, arrived at the river…
• SB 10.39.39 The river’s sweet water was more effulgent than brilliant jewels. After Lord Kṛṣṇa had touched it for purification, He drank some from His…
• SB 10.39.40 Akrūra asked the two Lords to take Their seats on the chariot. Then, taking Their permission, he went to a pool in the Yamunā and took his…
• SB 10.39.41 While immersing himself in the water and reciting eternal mantras from the Vedas, Akrūra suddenly saw Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa before him.
• SB 10.39.42-43 Akrūra thought, “How can the two sons of Ānakadundubhi, who are sitting in the chariot, be standing here in the water? They must have left…
• SB 10.39.44-45 There Akrūra now saw Ananta Śeṣa, the Lord of the serpents, receiving praise from Siddhas, Cāraṇas, Gandharvas and demons, who all had…
• SB 10.39.46-48 Akrūra then saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead lying peacefully on the lap of Lord Ananta Śeṣa. The complexion of that Supreme Person…
• SB 10.39.49-50 He had large loins and hips, thighs like an elephant’s trunk, and shapely knees and shanks. His raised ankles reflected the brilliant…
• SB 10.39.51-52 Adorned with a helmet, bracelets and armlets, which were all bedecked with many priceless jewels, and also with a belt, a sacred thread,…
• SB 10.39.53-55 Encircling the Lord and worshiping Him were Nanda, Sunanda and His other personal attendants; Sanaka and the other Kumāras; Brahmā, Rudra…
• SB 10.39.56-57 As the great devotee Akrūra beheld all this, he became extremely pleased and felt enthused with transcendental devotion. His intense…
• SB 10.40.1 Śrī Akrūra said: I bow down to You, the cause of all causes, the original and inexhaustible Supreme Person, Nārāyaṇa. From the whorl of…
• SB 10.40.2 Earth; water; fire; air; ether and its source, false ego; the mahat-tattva; the total material nature and her source, the Supreme Lord’s…
• SB 10.40.3 The total material nature and these other elements of creation certainly cannot know You as You are, for they are manifested in the realm…
• SB 10.40.4 Pure yogīs worship You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by conceiving of You in the threefold form comprising the living entities, the…
• SB 10.40.5 Brāhmaṇas who follow the regulations concerning the three sacred fires worship You by chanting mantras from the three Vedas and performing…
• SB 10.40.6 In pursuit of spiritual knowledge, some persons renounce all material activities and, having thus become peaceful, perform the sacrifice…
• SB 10.40.7 And yet others — those whose intelligence is pure — follow the injunctions of Vaiṣṇava scriptures promulgated by You. Absorbing their…
• SB 10.40.8 There are still others, who worship You, the Supreme Lord, in the form of Lord Śiva. They follow the path described by him and interpreted…
• SB 10.40.9 But all these people, my Lord, even those who have turned their attention away from You and are worshiping other deities, are actually…
• SB 10.40.10 As rivers born from the mountains and filled by the rain flow from all sides into the sea, so do all these paths in the end reach You, O…
• SB 10.40.11 Goodness, passion and ignorance, the qualities of Your material nature, entangle all conditioned living beings, from Brahmā down to the…
• SB 10.40.12 I offer My obeisances to You, who as the Supreme Soul of all beings witness everyone’s consciousness with unbiased vision. The current of…
• SB 10.40.13-14 Fire is said to be Your face, the earth Your feet, the sun Your eye, and the sky Your navel. The directions are Your sense of hearing, the…
• SB 10.40.15 All the worlds, with their presiding demigods and teeming populations, originate in You, the inexhaustible Supreme Personality of Godhead.…
• SB 10.40.16 To enjoy Your pastimes You manifest Yourself in various forms in this material world, and these incarnations cleanse away all the…
• SB 10.40.17-18 I offer my obeisances to You, the cause of the creation, Lord Matsya, who swam about in the ocean of dissolution, to Lord Hayagrīva, the…
• SB 10.40.19 Obeisances to You, the amazing lion [Lord Nṛsiṁha], who remove Your saintly devotees’ fear, and to the dwarf Vāmana, who stepped over the…
• SB 10.40.20 Obeisances to You, Lord of the Bhṛgus, who cut down the forest of the conceited royal order, and to Lord Rāma, the best of the Raghu…
• SB 10.40.21 Obeisances to You, Lord of the Sātvatas, and to Your forms of Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha.
• SB 10.40.22 Obeisances to Your form as the faultless Lord Buddha, who will bewilder the Daityas and Dānavas, and to Lord Kalki, the annihilator of the…
• SB 10.40.23 O Supreme Lord, the living entities in this world are bewildered by Your illusory energy. Becoming involved in the false concepts of “I”…
• SB 10.40.24 I too am deluded in this way, O almighty Lord, foolishly thinking my body, children, home, wife, money and followers to be real, though…
• SB 10.40.25 Thus mistaking the temporary for the eternal, my body for my self, and sources of misery for sources of happiness, I have tried to take…
• SB 10.40.26 Just as a fool overlooks a body of water covered by the vegetation growing in it and chases a mirage, so I have turned away from You.
• SB 10.40.27 My intelligence is so crippled that I cannot find the strength to curb my mind, which is disturbed by material desires and activities and…
• SB 10.40.28 Being thus fallen, I am approaching Your feet for shelter, O Lord, because although the impure can never attain Your feet, I think it is…
• SB 10.40.29 Obeisances to the Supreme Absolute Truth, the possessor of unlimited energies. He is the embodiment of pure, transcendental knowledge, the…
• SB 10.40.30 O son of Vasudeva, obeisances to You, within whom all living beings reside. O Lord of the mind and senses, again I offer You my…
• SB 10.41.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While Akrūra was still offering prayers, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa withdrew His form that He had revealed in the…
• SB 10.41.2 When Akrūra saw the vision disappear, he came out of the water and quickly finished his various ritual duties. He then returned to the…
• SB 10.41.3 Lord Kṛṣṇa asked Akrūra: Have you seen something wonderful on the earth, in the sky or in the water? From your appearance, We think you…
• SB 10.41.4 Śrī Akrūra said: Whatever wonderful things the earth, sky or water contain, all exist in You. Since You encompass everything, when I am…
• SB 10.41.5 And now that I am seeing You, O Supreme Absolute Truth, in whom reside all amazing things on the earth, in the sky and in the water, what…
• SB 10.41.6 With these words, Akrūra, the son of Gāndinī, began driving the chariot onward. At the end of the day he arrived in Mathurā with Lord…
• SB 10.41.7 Wherever they passed along the road, O King, the village people came forward and looked upon the two sons of Vasudeva with great pleasure.…
• SB 10.41.8 Nanda Mahārāja and the other residents of Vṛndāvana, having reached Mathurā ahead of the chariot, had stopped at a garden on the outskirts…
• SB 10.41.9 After joining Nanda and the others, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, the controller of the universe, took humble Akrūra’s hand in His own and,…
• SB 10.41.18 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus addressed by the Lord, Akrūra entered the city with a heavy heart. He informed King Kaṁsa of the success of…
• SB 10.41.19 Lord Kṛṣṇa desired to see Mathurā, so toward evening He took Lord Balarāma and the cowherd boys with Him and entered the city.
• SB 10.41.20-23 The Lord saw Mathurā, with its tall gates and household entrances made of crystal, its immense archways and main doors of gold, its…
• SB 10.41.24 The women of Mathurā hurriedly assembled and went forth to see the two sons of Vasudeva as They entered the city on the King’s road,…
• SB 10.41.25 Some of the ladies put their clothes and ornaments on backwards, others forgot one of their earrings or ankle bells, and others applied…
• SB 10.41.26 Those who were taking their meals abandoned them, others went out without finishing their baths or massages, women who were sleeping at…
• SB 10.41.27 The lotus-eyed Lord, smiling as He recalled His bold pastimes, captivated those ladies’ minds with His glances. He walked with the gait of…
• SB 10.41.28 The ladies of Mathurā had repeatedly heard about Kṛṣṇa, and thus as soon as they saw Him their hearts melted. They felt honored that He…
• SB 10.41.29 Their lotus faces blooming with affection, the ladies who had climbed to the roofs of the mansions rained down showers of flowers upon…
• SB 10.41.30 Brāhmaṇas standing along the way honored the two Lords with presentations of yogurt, unbroken barleycorns, pots full of water, garlands,…
• SB 10.41.31 The women of Mathurā exclaimed: Oh, what severe austerities the gopīs must have performed to be able to regularly see Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma,…
• SB 10.41.32 Seeing a washerman approaching who had been dyeing some clothes, Kṛṣṇa asked him for the finest laundered garments he had.
• SB 10.42.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: As He walked down the King’s road, Lord Mādhava then saw a young hunchback woman with an attractive face, who…
• SB 10.43.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O chastiser of enemies, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, having executed all necessary purification, then heard the kettledrums…
• SB 10.43.2 When Lord Kṛṣṇa reached the entrance to the arena, He saw the elephant Kuvalayāpīḍa blocking His way at the urging of his keeper.
• SB 10.43.3 Securely binding up His clothes and tying back His curly locks, Lord Kṛṣṇa addressed the elephant-keeper with words as grave as the…
• SB 10.44.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus addressed, Lord Kṛṣṇa made up His mind to accept the challenge. He paired off with Cāṇūra, and Lord Balarāma…
• SB 10.44.2 Seizing each other’s hands and locking legs with each other, the opponents struggled powerfully, eager for victory.
• SB 10.44.3 They each struck fists against fists, knees against knees, head against head and chest against chest.
• SB 10.44.4 Each fighter contended with his opponent by dragging him about in circles, shoving and crushing him, throwing him down and running before…
• SB 10.44.5 Forcefully lifting and carrying each other, pushing each other away and holding each other down, the fighters hurt even their own bodies…
• SB 10.44.6 My dear King, all the women present, considering the match an unfair fight between the strong and the weak, felt extreme anxiety due to…
• SB 10.44.7 [The women said:] Alas, what a greatly irreligious act the members of this royal assembly are committing! As the King watches this fight…
• SB 10.44.8 What comparison can there be between these two professional wrestlers, with limbs as strong as lightning bolts and bodies resembling…
• SB 10.44.9 Religious principles have certainly been violated in this assembly. One should not remain for even a moment in a place where irreligion is…
• SB 10.44.10 A wise person should not enter an assembly if he knows the participants there are committing acts of impropriety. And if, having entered…
• SB 10.44.11 Just see the lotus face of Kṛṣṇa as He darts around His foe! That face, covered with drops of perspiration brought on by the strenuous…
• SB 10.44.12 Don’t you see the face of Lord Balarāma, with its eyes copper-red from His anger toward Muṣṭika and its beauty enhanced by His laughter…
• SB 10.44.13 How pious are the tracts of land in Vraja, for there the primeval Personality of Godhead, disguising Himself with human traits, wanders…
• SB 10.44.14 What austerities must the gopīs have performed! With their eyes they always drink the nectar of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s form, which is the essence of…
• SB 10.44.15 The ladies of Vraja are the most fortunate of women because, with their minds fully attached to Kṛṣṇa and their throats always choked up…
• SB 10.44.16 When the gopīs hear Kṛṣṇa playing His flute as He leaves Vraja in the morning with His cows or returns with them at sunset, the young…
• SB 10.44.17 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] As the women spoke thus, O hero of the Bhāratas, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the master of all mystic power, made up His…
• SB 10.44.18 Out of affection for the two Lords, Their parents [Devakī and Vasudeva] became overwhelmed with sorrow when they heard the women’s fearful…
• SB 10.44.19 Lord Balarāma and Muṣṭika, expertly displaying numerous wrestling techniques, battled each other in the same way that Lord Kṛṣṇa and His…
• SB 10.44.20 The harsh blows from the Supreme Lord’s limbs fell like crushing lightning bolts upon Cāṇūra, breaking every part of his body and causing…
• SB 10.44.21 Furious, Cāṇūra attacked Lord Vāsudeva with the speed of a hawk and struck His chest with both fists.
• SB 10.44.22-23 No more shaken by the demon’s mighty blows than an elephant struck with a flower garland, Lord Kṛṣṇa grabbed Cāṇūra by his arms, swung him…
• SB 10.44.24-25 Similarly, Muṣṭika struck Lord Balabhadra with his fist and was slain. Receiving a violent blow from the mighty Lord’s palm, the demon…
• SB 10.44.26 Confronted next by the wrestler Kūṭa, Lord Balarāma, the best of fighters, playfully and nonchalantly killed him with His left fist, O King.
• SB 10.44.27 Then Kṛṣṇa kicked in Śala’s head and tore Tośala in half, and both wrestlers fell down dead.
• SB 10.44.28 Cāṇūra, Muṣṭika, Kūṭa, Śala and Tośala having been killed, the remaining wrestlers all fled for their lives.
• SB 10.44.29 Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma then called Their young cowherd boyfriends to join Them, and in their company the Lords danced about and sported, Their…
• SB 10.44.30 Everyone except Kaṁsa rejoiced at the wonderful feat Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma had performed. The exalted brāhmaṇas and great saints exclaimed,…
• SB 10.44.31 The Bhoja king, seeing that his best wrestlers had all been killed or had fled, stopped the musical performance originally meant for his…
• SB 10.44.49 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After consoling the royal ladies, Lord Kṛṣṇa, sustainer of all the worlds, arranged for the prescribed funeral…
• SB 10.44.50 Then Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma released Their mother and father from bondage and offered obeisances to them, touching their feet with Their heads.
• SB 10.44.51 Devakī and Vasudeva, now knowing Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma to be the Lords of the universe, simply stood with joined palms. Being apprehensive,…
• SB 10.45.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Understanding that His parents were becoming aware of His transcendental opulences, the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 10.45.2 Lord Kṛṣṇa, the greatest of the Sātvatas, approached His parents with His elder brother. Humbly bowing His head and gratifying them by…
• SB 10.45.10 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus beguiled by the words of Lord Hari, the Supreme Soul of the universe, who by His internal illusory potency…
• SB 10.45.11 Pouring out a shower of tears upon the Lord, His parents, who were bound up by the rope of affection, could not speak. They were…
• SB 10.45.12 Thus having comforted His mother and father, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appearing as the son of Devakī, installed His maternal…
• SB 10.45.13 The Lord told him: O mighty King, We are your subjects, so please command Us. Indeed, because of the curse of Yayāti, no Yadu may sit on…
• SB 10.45.14 Since I am present in your entourage as your personal attendant, all the demigods and other exalted personalities will come with heads…
• SB 10.45.15-16 The Lord then brought all His close family members and other relatives back from the various places to which they had fled in fear of…
• SB 10.45.17-18 The members of these clans, protected by the arms of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa, felt that all their desires were fulfilled. Thus they…
• SB 10.45.19 Even the most elderly inhabitants of the city appeared youthful, full of strength and vitality, for with their eyes they constantly drank…
• SB 10.45.20 Then, O exalted Parīkṣit, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī, along with Lord Balarāma, approached Nanda Mahārāja. The two Lords…
• SB 10.46.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The supremely intelligent Uddhava was the best counselor of the Vṛṣṇi dynasty, a beloved friend of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.46.2 The Supreme Lord Hari, who relieves the distress of all who surrender to Him, once took the hand of His fully devoted, dearmost friend…
• SB 10.46.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus addressed, O King, Uddhava respectfully accepted his master’s message, mounted his chariot and set off for…
• SB 10.46.8 The fortunate Uddhava reached Nanda Mahārāja’s pastures just as the sun was setting, and since the returning cows and other animals were…
• SB 10.46.9-13 Gokula resounded on all sides with the sounds of bulls in rut fighting with one another for fertile cows; with the mooing of cows,…
• SB 10.46.14 As soon as Uddhava arrived at Nanda Mahārāja’s home, Nanda came forward to meet him. The cowherd King embraced him in great happiness and…
• SB 10.46.15 After Uddhava had eaten first-class food, been seated comfortably on a bed and been relieved of his fatigue by a foot massage and other…
• SB 10.46.27 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus intensely remembering Kṛṣṇa again and again, Nanda Mahārāja, his mind completely attached to the Lord, felt…
• SB 10.46.28 As mother Yaśodā heard the descriptions of her son’s activities, she poured out her tears, and milk flowed from her breasts out of love.
• SB 10.46.29 Uddhava then joyfully addressed Nanda Mahārāja, having clearly seen the supreme loving attraction he and Yaśodā felt for Kṛṣṇa, the…
• SB 10.46.30 Śrī Uddhava said: O respectful Nanda, certainly you and mother Yaśodā are the most praiseworthy persons in the entire world, since you…
• SB 10.46.31 These two Lords, Mukunda and Balarāma, are each the seed and womb of the universe, the creator and His creative potency. They enter the…
• SB 10.46.32-33 Anyone, even a person in an impure state, who absorbs his mind in Him for just a moment at the time of death burns up all traces of sinful…
• SB 10.46.34 Infallible Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of the devotees, will soon return to Vraja to satisfy His parents.
• SB 10.46.35 Having killed Kaṁsa, the enemy of all the Yadus, in the wrestling arena, Kṛṣṇa will now surely fulfill His promise to you by coming back.
• SB 10.46.36 O most fortunate ones, do not lament. You will see Kṛṣṇa again very soon. He is present in the hearts of all living beings, just as fire…
• SB 10.46.37 For Him no one is especially dear or despicable, superior or inferior, and yet He is not indifferent to anyone. He is free from all desire…
• SB 10.46.38 He has no mother, no father, no wife, children or other relatives. No one is related to Him, and yet no one is a stranger to Him. He has…
• SB 10.46.39 He has no work to do in this world that would oblige Him to take birth in pure, impure or mixed species of life. Yet to enjoy His pastimes…
• SB 10.46.40 Although beyond the three modes of material nature — goodness, passion and ignorance — the transcendental Lord accepts association with…
• SB 10.46.41 Just as a person who is whirling around perceives the ground to be turning, one who is affected by false ego thinks himself the doer, when…
• SB 10.46.42 The Supreme Lord Hari is certainly not your son alone. Rather, being the Lord, He is the son, Soul, father and mother of everyone.
• SB 10.46.43 Nothing can be said to exist independent of Lord Acyuta — nothing heard or seen, nothing in the past, present or future, nothing moving or…
• SB 10.46.44 While Kṛṣṇa’s messenger continued speaking with Nanda, the night ended, O King. The women of the cowherd village rose from bed and,…
• SB 10.46.45 As they pulled on the churning ropes with their bangled arms, the women of Vraja shone with the splendor of their jewels, which reflected…
• SB 10.46.46 As the ladies of Vraja loudly sang the glories of lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa, their songs blended with the sound of their churning, ascended to the…
• SB 10.46.47 When the godly sun had risen, the people of Vraja noticed the golden chariot in front of Nanda Mahārāja’s doorway. “Who does this belong…
• SB 10.46.48 “Perhaps Akrūra has returned — he who fulfilled Kaṁsa’s desire by taking lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa to Mathurā.
• SB 10.46.49 “Is he going to use our flesh to offer funeral oblations for his master, who was so satisfied with his service?” As the women were…
• SB 10.47.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The young women of Vraja became astonished upon seeing Lord Kṛṣṇa’s servant, who had long arms, whose eyes…
• SB 10.47.3 Bowing their heads in humility, the gopīs duly honored Uddhava with their shy, smiling glances and pleasing words. They took him to a…
• SB 10.47.22 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having heard this, Uddhava then tried to pacify the gopīs, who were most eager to see Lord Kṛṣṇa. He thus began…
• SB 10.47.23 Śrī Uddhava said: Certainly you gopīs are all-successful and are universally worshiped because you have dedicated your minds in this way…
• SB 10.47.24 Devotional service unto Lord Kṛṣṇa is attained by charity, strict vows, austerities and fire sacrifices, by japa, study of Vedic texts,…
• SB 10.47.25 By your great fortune you have established an unexcelled standard of pure devotion for the Lord, Uttamaḥśloka — a standard even the sages…
• SB 10.47.26 By your great fortune you have left your sons, husbands, bodily comforts, relatives and homes in favor of the supreme male, who is known…
• SB 10.47.27 You have rightfully claimed the privilege of unalloyed love for the transcendental Lord, O most glorious gopīs. Indeed, by exhibiting your…
• SB 10.47.28 My good ladies, now please hear your beloved’s message, which I, the confidential servant of my master, have come here to bring you.
• SB 10.47.38 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The women of Vraja were pleased to hear this message from their dearmost Kṛṣṇa. His words having revived their…
• SB 10.47.64 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Uddhava, the descendant of Daśārha, then took permission to leave from the gopīs and from mother Yaśodā and Nanda…
• SB 10.47.65 As Uddhava was about to leave, Nanda and the others approached him bearing various items of worship. With tears in their eyes they…
• SB 10.47.66 [Nanda and the other cowherds said:] May our mental functions always take shelter of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, may our words always chant His…
• SB 10.47.67 Wherever we are made to wander about this world by the Supreme Lord’s will, in accordance with the reactions to our fruitive work, may our…
• SB 10.47.68 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] O ruler of men, thus honored by the cowherd men with expressions of devotion for Lord Kṛṣṇa, Uddhava went…
• SB 10.47.69 After falling down to pay his homage, Uddhava described to Lord Kṛṣṇa the immense devotion of the residents of Vraja. Uddhava also…
• SB 10.48.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Next, after assimilating Uddhava’s report, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the omniscient Soul of…
• SB 10.48.2 Trivakrā’s home was opulently appointed with expensive furnishings and replete with sensual accoutrements meant to inspire sexual desire.…
• SB 10.48.3 When Trivakrā saw Him arriving at her house, she at once rose from her seat in a flurry. Coming forward graciously with her girlfriends,…
• SB 10.48.4 Uddhava also received a seat of honor, since he was a saintly person, but he simply touched it and sat on the floor. Then Lord Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 10.48.5 Trivakrā prepared herself by bathing, anointing her body, and dressing in fine garments, by putting on jewelry, garlands and perfume, and…
• SB 10.48.6 Calling forward His beloved, who was anxious and shy at the prospect of this new contact, the Lord pulled her by her bangled hands onto…
• SB 10.48.7 Simply by smelling the fragrance of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, Trivakrā cleansed away the burning lust Cupid had aroused in her breasts, chest…
• SB 10.48.8 Having thus gotten the hard-to-get Supreme Lord by the simple act of offering Him body ointment, unfortunate Trivakrā submitted to that…
• SB 10.48.9 [Trivakrā said:] O beloved, please stay here with me for a few days more and enjoy. I cannot bear to give up Your association, O…
• SB 10.48.10 Promising her the fulfillment of this lusty desire, considerate Kṛṣṇa, Lord of all beings, paid Trivakrā His respects and then returned…
• SB 10.48.11 Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Lord of all lords, is ordinarily difficult to approach. One who has properly worshiped Him and then chooses the…
• SB 10.48.12 Then Lord Kṛṣṇa, wanting to have some things done, went to Akrūra’s house with Balarāma and Uddhava. The Lord also desired to please Akrūra.
• SB 10.48.13-14 Akrūra stood up in great joy when he saw them, his own relatives and the greatest of exalted personalities, coming from a distance. After…
• SB 10.48.15-16 O King, Akrūra bathed the feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma and then poured the bath water on his head. He presented Them with gifts of…
• SB 10.48.17 [Akrūra said:] It is our good fortune that You two Lords have killed the evil Kaṁsa and his followers, thus delivering Your dynasty from…
• SB 10.48.18 You both are the original Supreme Person, the cause of the universe and its very substance. Not the slightest subtle cause or manifest…
• SB 10.48.19 O Supreme Absolute Truth, with Your personal energies You create this universe and then enter into it. Thus one can perceive You in many…
• SB 10.48.20 Just as the primary elements — earth and so on — manifest themselves in abundant variety among all the species of mobile and immobile…
• SB 10.48.21 You create, destroy and also maintain this universe with Your personal energies — the modes of passion, ignorance and goodness — yet You…
• SB 10.48.22 Since it has never been demonstrated that You are covered by material, bodily designations, it must be concluded that for You there is…
• SB 10.48.23 You originally enunciated the ancient religious path of the Vedas for the benefit of the whole universe. Whenever that path becomes…
• SB 10.48.24 You are that very same Supreme Person, my Lord, and You have now appeared in the home of Vasudeva with Your plenary portion. You have done…
• SB 10.48.25 Today, O Lord, my home has become most fortunate because You have entered it. As the Supreme Truth, You embody the forefathers, ordinary…
• SB 10.48.26 What learned person would approach anyone but You for shelter, when You are the affectionate, grateful and truthful well-wisher of Your…
• SB 10.48.27 It is by our great fortune, Janārdana, that You are now visible to us, for even the masters of yoga and the foremost demigods can achieve…
• SB 10.48.28 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus worshiped and fully glorified by His devotee, the Supreme Lord Hari smilingly addressed Akrūra,…
• SB 10.49.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Akrūra went to Hastināpura, the city distinguished by the glory of the Paurava rulers. There he saw Dhṛtarāṣṭra,…
• SB 10.49.3 After Akrūra, the son of Gāndinī, had appropriately greeted all his relatives and friends, they asked him for news of their family…
• SB 10.49.4 He remained in Hastināpura for several months to scrutinize the conduct of the weak-willed King, who had bad sons and who was inclined to…
• SB 10.49.5-6 Kuntī and Vidura described to Akrūra in detail the evil intentions of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s sons, who could not tolerate the great qualities of…
• SB 10.49.7 Kuntīdevī, taking advantage of her brother Akrūra’s visit, approached him confidentially. While remembering her birthplace, she spoke with…
• SB 10.49.8 [Queen Kuntī said:] O gentle one, do my parents, brothers, sisters, nephews, family women and girlhood friends still remember us?
• SB 10.49.9 Does my nephew Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality and the compassionate shelter of His devotees, still remember His aunt’s sons? And does…
• SB 10.49.10 Now that I am suffering in the midst of my enemies like a doe in the midst of wolves, will Kṛṣṇa come to console me and my fatherless sons…
• SB 10.49.11 Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa! O great yogi! O Supreme Soul and protector of the universe! O Govinda! Please protect me, who have surrendered to You. I and…
• SB 10.49.12 For persons fearful of death and rebirth, I see no shelter other than Your liberating lotus feet, for You are the Supreme Lord.
• SB 10.49.13 I offer my obeisances unto You, Kṛṣṇa, the supreme pure, the Absolute Truth and the Supersoul, the Lord of pure devotional service and the…
• SB 10.49.14 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus meditating on her family members and also on Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of the universe, your great-grandmother Kuntīdevī…
• SB 10.49.15 Both Akrūra, who shared Queen Kuntī’s distress and happiness, and the illustrious Vidura consoled the Queen by reminding her of the…
• SB 10.49.16 The ardent affection King Dhṛtarāṣṭra felt for his sons had made him act unjustly toward the Pāṇḍavas. Just before leaving, Akrūra…
• SB 10.49.17 Akrūra said: O my dear son of Vicitravīrya, O enhancer of the Kurus’ glory, your brother Pāṇḍu having passed away, you have now assumed…
• SB 10.49.18 By religiously protecting the earth, delighting your subjects with your noble character, and treating all your relatives equally, you will…
• SB 10.49.19 If you act otherwise, however, people will condemn you in this world, and in the next life you will enter the darkness of hell. Remain…
• SB 10.49.20 In this world no one has any permanent relationship with anyone else, O King. We cannot stay forever even with our own body, what to speak…
• SB 10.49.21 Every creature is born alone and dies alone, and alone one experiences the just rewards of his good and evil deeds.
• SB 10.49.22 In the guise of dear dependents, strangers steal the sinfully acquired wealth of a foolish man, just as the offspring of a fish drink up…
• SB 10.49.23 A fool indulges in sin to maintain his life, wealth and children and other relatives, for he thinks, “These things are mine.” In the end,…
• SB 10.49.24 Abandoned by his so-called dependents, ignorant of the actual goal of life, indifferent to his real duty, and having failed to fulfill his…
• SB 10.49.25 Therefore, O King, looking upon this world as a dream, a magician’s illusion or a flight of fancy, please control your mind with…
• SB 10.49.30 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus apprised himself of the King’s attitude, Akrūra, the descendant of Yadu, took permission from his…
• SB 10.49.31 Akrūra reported to Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa how Dhṛtarāṣṭra was behaving toward the Pāṇḍavas. Thus, O descendant of the Kurus, he…
• SB 10.50.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Kaṁsa was killed, O heroic descendant of Bharata, his two queens, Asti and Prāpti, went to their father’s…
• SB 10.50.2 The sorrowful queens told their father, King Jarāsandha of Magadha, all about how they had become widows.
• SB 10.50.3 Hearing this odious news, O King, Jarāsandha was filled with sorrow and anger, and he began the greatest possible endeavor to rid the…
• SB 10.50.4 With a force of twenty-three akṣauhiṇī divisions, he laid siege to the Yadu capital, Mathurā, on all sides.
• SB 10.50.5-6 Although Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the original cause of this world, when He descended to the earth He played the…
• SB 10.50.7-8 [The Supreme Lord thought:] Since it is such a burden on the earth, I will destroy Jarāsandha’s army, consisting of akṣauhiṇīs of foot…
• SB 10.50.9 This is the purpose of My present incarnation — to relieve the earth of its burden, protect the pious and kill the impious.
• SB 10.50.10 I also assume other bodies to protect religion and to end irreligion whenever it flourishes in the course of time.
• SB 10.50.11 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] As Lord Govinda was thinking in this way, two chariots as effulgent as the sun suddenly descended from the…
• SB 10.50.12 The Lord’s eternal divine weapons also appeared before Him spontaneously. Seeing these, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Lord of the senses, addressed Lord…
• SB 10.50.20 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Just as the wind covers the sun with clouds or a fire with dust, the son of Jarā marched toward the two descendants…
• SB 10.50.21 The women stood in the watchtowers, palaces and high gates of the city. When they could no longer see Kṛṣṇa’s and Balarāma’s chariots,…
• SB 10.50.22 Seeing His army tormented by the relentless and savage rain of arrows from the massive opposing forces gathered like clouds about Him,…
• SB 10.50.23 Lord Kṛṣṇa took arrows from His quiver, fixed them on the bowstring, pulled back, and released endless torrents of sharp shafts, which…
• SB 10.50.24 Elephants fell to the ground, their foreheads split open, cavalry horses fell with severed necks, chariots fell with their horses, flags,…
• SB 10.50.25-28
• SB 10.50.29 For Him who orchestrates the creation, maintenance and destruction of the three worlds and who possesses unlimited spiritual qualities, it…
• SB 10.50.30 Jarāsandha, with his chariot lost and all his soldiers dead, was left with only his breath. At that point Lord Balarāma forcibly seized…
• SB 10.50.31 With the divine noose of Varuṇa and other, mortal ropes, Balarāma began tying up Jarāsandha, who had killed so many foes. But Lord Govinda…
• SB 10.50.32-33 Jarāsandha, whom fighters had highly honored, was ashamed after being released by the two Lords of the universe, and thus he decided to…
• SB 10.50.34 All of his armies having been killed, and himself neglected by the Personality of Godhead, King Jarāsandha, son of Bṛhadratha, then sadly…
• SB 10.50.35-36 Lord Mukunda had crossed the ocean of His enemy’s armies with His own military force completely intact. He received congratulations from…
• SB 10.50.37-38 As the Lord entered His city, conchshells and kettledrums sounded, and many drums, horns, vīṇās, flutes and mṛdaṅgas played in concert.…
• SB 10.50.39 As the women of the city affectionately looked at the Lord, their eyes wide open with love, they scattered flower garlands, yogurt,…
• SB 10.50.40 Lord Kṛṣṇa then presented to the Yadu king all the wealth that had fallen on the battlefield — namely, the countless ornaments of the dead…
• SB 10.50.41 Seventeen times the King of Magadha met defeat in this very way. And yet throughout these defeats he fought on with his akṣauhiṇī…
• SB 10.50.42 By the power of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Vṛṣṇis would invariably annihilate all of Jarāsandha’s forces, and when all his soldiers had been killed,…
• SB 10.50.43 Just as the eighteenth battle was about to take place, a barbarian warrior named Kālayavana, sent by Nārada, appeared on the battlefield.
• SB 10.50.44 Arriving at Mathurā, this Yavana laid siege to the city with thirty million barbarian soldiers. He had never found a human rival worth…
• SB 10.50.45 When Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa saw Kālayavana, Kṛṣṇa thought about the situation and said, “Ah, a great danger now threatens the…
• SB 10.50.46 “This Yavana is besieging us already, and the mighty King of Magadha will soon arrive here, if not today then tomorrow or the next day.
• SB 10.50.47 “If powerful Jarāsandha comes while We two are busy fighting Kālayavana, Jarāsandha may kill Our relatives or else take them away to his…
• SB 10.50.48 “Therefore We will immediately construct a fortress that no human force can penetrate. Let Us settle our family members there and then…
• SB 10.50.49 After thus discussing the matter with Balarāma, the Supreme Personality of Godhead had a fortress twelve yojanas in circumference built…
• SB 10.50.50-53 In the construction of that city could be seen the full scientific knowledge and architectural skill of Viśvakarmā. There were wide…
• SB 10.50.54 Lord Indra brought Śrī Kṛṣṇa the Sudharmā assembly hall, standing within which a mortal man is not subject to the laws of mortality. Indra…
• SB 10.50.55 Lord Varuṇa offered horses as swift as the mind, some of which were pure dark-blue, others white. The treasurer of the demigods, Kuvera,…
• SB 10.50.56 The Supreme Lord having come to the earth, O King, these demigods now offered Him whatever powers of control He had previously delegated…
• SB 10.50.57 After transporting all His subjects to the new city by the power of His mystic Yoga-māyā, Lord Kṛṣṇa consulted with Lord Balarāma, who had…
• SB 10.51.1-6 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Kālayavana saw the Lord come out from Mathurā like the rising moon. The Lord was most beautiful to behold, with His…
• SB 10.51.7 Appearing virtually within reach of Kālayavana’s hands at every moment, Lord Hari led the King of the Yavanas far away to a mountain cave.
• SB 10.51.8 While chasing the Lord, the Yavana cast insults at Him, saying “You took birth in the Yadu dynasty. It’s not proper for You to run away!”…
• SB 10.51.9 Although insulted in this way, the Supreme Lord entered the mountain cave. Kālayavana also entered, and there he saw another man lying…
• SB 10.51.10
• SB 10.51.11 The man awoke after a long sleep and slowly opened his eyes. Looking all about, he saw Kālayavana standing beside him.
• SB 10.51.12 The awakened man was angry and cast his glance at Kālayavana, whose body burst into flames. In a single moment, O King Parīkṣit,…
• SB 10.51.14 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mucukunda was the name of this great personality, who was born in the Ikṣvāku dynasty as the son of Māndhātā. He…
• SB 10.51.15 Begged by Indra and the other demigods to help protect them when they were terrorized by the demons, Mucukunda defended them for a long…
• SB 10.51.16 When the demigods obtained Kārttikeya as their general, they told Mucukunda, “O King, you may now give up your troublesome duty of…
• SB 10.51.17 “Abandoning an unopposed kingdom in the world of men, O valiant one, you neglected all your personal desires while engaged in protecting us.
• SB 10.51.18 “The children, queens, relatives, ministers, advisers and subjects who were your contemporaries are no longer alive. They have all been…
• SB 10.51.19 “Inexhaustible time, stronger than the strong, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. Like a herdsman moving his animals along, He…
• SB 10.51.20 “All good fortune to you! Now please choose a benediction from us — anything but liberation, since only the infallible Supreme Lord,…
• SB 10.51.21 Addressed thus, King Mucukunda took his respectful leave of the demigods and went to a cave, where he lay down to enjoy the sleep they had…
• SB 10.51.22 After the Yavana was burnt to ashes, the Supreme Lord, chief of the Sātvatas, revealed Himself to the wise Mucukunda.
• SB 10.51.23-26 As he gazed at the Lord, King Mucukunda saw that He was dark blue like a cloud, had four arms, and wore a yellow silk garment. On His…
• SB 10.51.27 Śrī Mucukunda said: Who are You who have come to this mountain cave in the forest, having walked on the thorny ground with feet as soft as…
• SB 10.51.28 Perhaps You are the potency of all potent beings. Or maybe You are the powerful god of fire, or the sun-god, the moon-god, the King of…
• SB 10.51.29 I think You are the Supreme Personality among the three chief gods, since You drive away the darkness of this cave as a lamp dispels…
• SB 10.51.30 O best among men, if You like, please truly describe Your birth, activities and lineage to us, who are eager to hear.
• SB 10.51.31 As for ourselves, O tiger among men, we belong to a family of fallen kṣatriyas, descendants of King Ikṣvāku. My name is Mucukunda, my…
• SB 10.51.32 I was fatigued after remaining awake for a long time, and my senses were overwhelmed by sleep. Thus I slept comfortably here in this…
• SB 10.51.33 The man who woke me was burned to ashes by the reaction of his sins. Just then I saw You, possessing a glorious appearance and the power…
• SB 10.51.34 Your unbearably brilliant effulgence overwhelms our strength, and thus we cannot fix our gaze upon You. O exalted one, You are to be…
• SB 10.51.35 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus addressed by the King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, origin of all creation, smiled and then…
• SB 10.51.44 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mucukunda bowed down to the Lord when he heard this. Remembering the words of the sage Garga, he joyfully…
• SB 10.51.45 Śrī Mucukunda said: O Lord, the people of this world, both men and women, are bewildered by Your illusory energy. Unaware of their real…
• SB 10.51.46 That person has an impure mind who, despite having somehow or other automatically obtained the rare and highly evolved human form of life,…
• SB 10.51.47 I have wasted all this time, O unconquerable one, becoming more and more intoxicated by my domain and opulence as an earthly king.…
• SB 10.51.48 With deep arrogance I took myself to be the body, which is a material object like a pot or a wall. Thinking myself a god among men, I…
• SB 10.51.49 A man obsessed with thoughts of what he thinks needs to be done, intensely greedy, and delighting in sense enjoyment is suddenly…
• SB 10.51.50 The body that at first rides high on fierce elephants or chariots adorned with gold and is known by the name “king” is later, by Your…
• SB 10.51.51 Having conquered the entire circle of directions and being thus free of conflict, a man sits on a splendid throne, receiving praise from…
• SB 10.51.52 A king who desires even greater power than he already has strictly performs his duties, carefully practicing austerity and forgoing sense…
• SB 10.51.53 When the material life of a wandering soul has ceased, O Acyuta, he may attain the association of Your devotees. And when he associates…
• SB 10.51.54 My Lord, I think You have shown me mercy, since my attachment to my kingdom has spontaneously ceased. Such freedom is prayed for by…
• SB 10.51.55 O all-powerful one, I desire no boon other than service to Your lotus feet, the boon most eagerly sought by those free of material desire.…
• SB 10.51.56 Therefore, O Lord, having put aside all objects of material desire, which are bound to the modes of passion, ignorance and goodness, I am…
• SB 10.51.57 For so long I have been pained by troubles in this world and have been burning with lamentation. My six enemies are never satiated, and I…
• SB 10.52.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, thus graced by Lord Kṛṣṇa, Mucukunda circumambulated Him and bowed down to Him. Then Mucukunda, the…
• SB 10.52.2 Seeing that the size of all the human beings, animals, trees and plants was severely reduced, and thus realizing that the Age of Kali was…
• SB 10.52.3 The sober King, beyond material association and free of doubt, was convinced of the value of austerity. Absorbing his mind in Lord Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 10.52.4 There he arrived at Badarikāśrama, the abode of Lord Nara-Nārāyaṇa, where, remaining tolerant of all dualities, he peacefully worshiped…
• SB 10.52.5 The Lord returned to Mathurā, which was still surrounded by Yavanas. Then He destroyed the army of barbarians and began taking their…
• SB 10.52.6 As the wealth was being carried by oxen and men under Lord Kṛṣṇa’s direction, Jarāsandha appeared at the head of twenty-three armies.
• SB 10.52.7 O King, seeing the fierce waves of the enemy’s army, the two Mādhavas, imitating human behavior, ran swiftly away.
• SB 10.52.8 Abandoning the abundant riches, fearless but feigning fear, They went many yojanas on Their lotuslike feet.
• SB 10.52.9 When he saw Them fleeing, powerful Jarāsandha laughed loudly and then pursued Them with charioteers and foot soldiers. He could not…
• SB 10.52.10 Apparently exhausted after fleeing a long distance, the two Lords climbed a high mountain named Pravarṣaṇa, upon which Lord Indra showers…
• SB 10.52.11 Although he knew They were hiding on the mountain, Jarāsandha could find no trace of Them. Therefore, O King, he placed firewood on all…
• SB 10.52.12 The two of Them then suddenly jumped from the burning mountain, which was eleven yojanas high, and fell to the ground.
• SB 10.52.13 Unseen by Their opponent or his followers, O King, those two most exalted Yadus returned to Their city of Dvārakā, which had the ocean as…
• SB 10.52.14 Jarāsandha, moreover, mistakenly thought that Balarāma and Keśava had burned to death in the fire. Thus he withdrew his vast military…
• SB 10.52.15 As ordered by Lord Brahmā, Raivata, the opulent ruler of Ānarta, gave Lord Balarāma his daughter Raivatī in marriage. This has already…
• SB 10.52.16-17 O hero among the Kurus, the Supreme Lord Himself, Govinda, married Bhīṣmaka’s daughter, Vaidarbhī, who was a direct expansion of the…
• SB 10.53.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus hearing the confidential message of Princess Vaidarbhī, Lord Yadunandana took the brāhmaṇa’s hand and,…
• SB 10.53.4 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Madhusūdana also understood the exact lunar time for Rukmiṇī’s wedding. Thus He told His driver, “Dāruka,…
• SB 10.53.5 Dāruka brought the Lord’s chariot, yoked with the horses named Śaibya, Sugrīva, Meghapuṣpa and Balāhaka. He then stood before Lord Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.53.6 Lord Śauri mounted His chariot and had the brāhmaṇa do likewise. Then the Lord’s swift horses took them from the Ānarta district to…
• SB 10.53.7 King Bhīṣmaka, the master of Kuṇḍina, having succumbed to the sway of affection for his son, was about to give his daughter to Śiśupāla.…
• SB 10.53.8-9 The king had the main avenues, commercial roads and intersections thoroughly cleaned and then sprinkled with water, and he also had the…
• SB 10.53.10 O King, in accordance with prescribed rituals, Mahārāja Bhīṣmaka worshiped the forefathers, demigods and brāhmaṇas, feeding them all…
• SB 10.53.11 The bride cleaned her teeth and bathed, after which she put on the auspicious wedding necklace. Then she was dressed in brand-new upper…
• SB 10.53.12 The best of brāhmaṇas chanted mantras of the Ṛg, Sāma and Yajur Vedas for the bride’s protection, and the priest learned in the Atharva…
• SB 10.53.13 Outstanding in his knowledge of regulative principles, the King rewarded the brāhmaṇas with gold, silver, clothing, cows and sesame seeds…
• SB 10.53.14 Rājā Damaghoṣa, lord of Cedi, had also engaged brāhmaṇas expert in chanting mantras to perform all rituals necessary to assure his son’s…
• SB 10.53.15 King Damaghoṣa traveled to Kuṇḍina accompanied by armies of elephants exuding mada, chariots hung with golden chains, and numerous cavalry…
• SB 10.53.16 Bhīṣmaka, the lord of Vidarbha, came out of the city and met King Damaghoṣa, offering him tokens of respect. Bhīṣmaka then settled…
• SB 10.53.17 Śiśupāla’s supporters — Śālva, Jarāsandha, Dantavakra and Vidūratha — all came, along with Pauṇḍraka and thousands of other kings.
• SB 10.53.18-19 To secure the bride for Śiśupāla, the kings who envied Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma came to the following decision among themselves: “If Kṛṣṇa comes…
• SB 10.53.20-21 When Lord Balarāma heard about these preparations of the inimical kings and how Lord Kṛṣṇa had set off alone to steal the bride, He feared…
• SB 10.53.22 The lovely daughter of Bhīṣmaka anxiously awaited the arrival of Kṛṣṇa, but when she did not see the brāhmaṇa return she thought as follows.
• SB 10.53.23 [Princess Rukmiṇī thought:] Alas, my wedding is to take place when the night ends! How unlucky I am! Lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa does not come. I…
• SB 10.53.24 Perhaps the faultless Lord, even while preparing to come here, saw something contemptible in me and therefore has not come to take my hand.
• SB 10.53.25 I am extremely unfortunate, for the creator is not favorably disposed toward me, nor is the great Lord Śiva. Or perhaps Śiva’s wife, Devī,…
• SB 10.53.26 As she thought in this way, the young maiden, whose mind had been stolen by Kṛṣṇa, closed her tear-filled eyes, remembering that there was…
• SB 10.53.27 O King, as the bride thus awaited the arrival of Govinda, she felt a twitch in her left thigh, arm and eye. This was a sign that something…
• SB 10.53.28 Just then the purest of learned brāhmaṇas, following Kṛṣṇa’s order, came to see the divine Princess Rukmiṇī within the inner chambers of…
• SB 10.53.29 Noting the brāhmaṇa’s joyful face and serene movements, saintly Rukmiṇī, who could expertly interpret such symptoms, inquired from him…
• SB 10.53.30 The brāhmaṇa announced to her the arrival of Lord Yadunandana and relayed the Lord’s promise to marry her.
• SB 10.53.31 Princess Vaidarbhī was overjoyed to learn of Kṛṣṇa’s arrival. Not finding anything at hand suitable to offer the brāhmaṇa, she simply…
• SB 10.53.32 The King, upon hearing that Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma had come and were eager to witness his daughter’s wedding, went forth with abundant…
• SB 10.53.33 Presenting Them with madhu-parka, new clothing and other desirable gifts, he worshiped Them according to standard rituals.
• SB 10.53.34 Generous King Bhīṣmaka arranged opulent accommodations for the two Lords, and also for Their army and entourage. In this way he afforded…
• SB 10.53.35 Thus it was that Bhīṣmaka gave all desirable things to the kings who had assembled for the occasion, honoring them as befitted their…
• SB 10.53.36 When the residents of Vidarbha-pura heard that Lord Kṛṣṇa had come, they all went to see Him. With the cupped palms of their eyes they…
• SB 10.53.37 [The people of the city said:] Rukmiṇī, and no one else, deserves to become His wife, and He also, possessing such flawless beauty, is the…
• SB 10.53.38 May Acyuta, the creator of the three worlds, be satisfied with whatever pious work we may have done and show His mercy by taking the hand…
• SB 10.53.39 Bound by their swelling love, the city’s residents spoke in this way. Then the bride, protected by guards, left the inner palace to visit…
• SB 10.53.40-41 Rukmiṇī silently went out on foot to see the lotus feet of the deity Bhavānī. Accompanied by her mothers and girlfriends and protected by…
• SB 10.53.42-43 Behind the bride followed thousands of prominent courtesans bearing various offerings and presents, along with well-adorned brāhmaṇas’…
• SB 10.53.44 Upon reaching the goddess’s temple, Rukmiṇī first washed her lotus feet and hands and then sipped water for purification. Thus sanctified…
• SB 10.53.45 The older wives of brāhmaṇas, expert in the knowledge of rituals, led young Rukmiṇī in offering respects to Bhavānī, who appeared with her…
• SB 10.53.46 [Princess Rukmiṇī prayed:] O mother Ambikā, wife of Lord Siva, I repeatedly offer my obeisances unto you, together with your children. May…
• SB 10.53.47-48 Rukmiṇī worshiped the goddess with water, scents, whole grains, incense, clothing, garlands, necklaces, jewelry and other prescribed…
• SB 10.53.49 The ladies gave the bride the remnants of the offerings and then blessed her. She in turn bowed down to them and the deity and accepted…
• SB 10.53.50 The princess then gave up her vow of silence and left the Ambikā temple, holding on to a maidservant with her hand, which was adorned with…
• SB 10.53.51-55 Rukmiṇī appeared as enchanting as the Lord’s illusory potency, who enchants even the sober and grave. Thus the kings gazed upon her virgin…
• SB 10.53.56 Lifting the princess onto His chariot, whose flag bore the emblem of Garuḍa, Lord Mādhava drove back the circle of kings. With Balarāma in…
• SB 10.53.57 The kings inimical to the Lord, headed by Jarāsandha, could not tolerate this humiliating defeat. They exclaimed, “Oh, damn us! Though we…
• SB 10.54.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus spoken, all those infuriated kings donned their armor and mounted their conveyances. Each king, bow in…
• SB 10.54.2 The commanders of the Yādava army, seeing the enemy racing to attack, turned to face them and stood firm, O King, twanging their bows.
• SB 10.54.3 Mounted on the backs of horses, the shoulders of elephants and the seats of chariots, the enemy kings, expert with weapons, rained down…
• SB 10.54.4 Slender-waisted Rukmiṇī, seeing her Lord’s army covered by torrents of arrows, shyly looked at His face with fear-stricken eyes.
• SB 10.54.5 In response the Lord laughed and assured her, “Do not be afraid, beautiful-eyed one. This enemy force is about to be destroyed by your…
• SB 10.54.6 The heroes of the Lord’s army, headed by Gada and Saṅkarṣaṇa, could not tolerate the aggression of the opposing kings. Thus with iron…
• SB 10.54.7 The heads of soldiers fighting on chariots, horses and elephants fell to the ground by the millions; some heads wore earrings and helmets,…
• SB 10.54.8 Lying all around were thighs, legs and fingerless hands, along with hands clutching swords, clubs and bows, and also the heads of horses,…
• SB 10.54.9 Seeing their armies being struck down by the Vṛṣṇis, who were eager for victory, the kings headed by Jarāsandha were discouraged and left…
• SB 10.54.10 The kings approached Śiśupāla, who was disturbed like a man who has lost his wife. His complexion was drained of color, his enthusiasm was…
• SB 10.54.11 [Jarāsandha said:] Listen, Śiśupāla, O tiger among men, give up your depression. After all, embodied beings’ happiness and unhappiness is…
• SB 10.54.12 Just as a puppet in the form of a woman dances by the desire of the puppeteer, so this world, controlled by the Supreme Lord, struggles in…
• SB 10.54.13 In battle with Kṛṣṇa I and my twenty-three armies lost seventeen times; only once did I defeat Him.
• SB 10.54.14 But still I never lament or rejoice, because I know this world is driven by time and fate.
• SB 10.54.15 And now all of us, great commanders of military leaders, have been defeated by the Yadus and their small entourage, who are protected by…
• SB 10.54.16 Now our enemies have conquered because time favors them, but in the future, when time is auspicious for us, we shall conquer.
• SB 10.54.17 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus persuaded by his friends, Śiśupāla took his followers and went back to his capital. The surviving warriors…
• SB 10.54.18 Powerful Rukmī, however, was especially envious of Kṛṣṇa. He could not bear the fact that Kṛṣṇa had carried off his sister to marry her in…
• SB 10.54.19-20 Frustrated and enraged, mighty-armed Rukmī, dressed in armor and wielding his bow, had sworn before all the kings, “I shall not again…
• SB 10.54.21 Having said this, he had mounted his chariot and told his charioteer, “Drive the horses quickly to where Kṛṣṇa is. He and I must fight.
• SB 10.54.22 “This wicked-minded cowherd boy, infatuated with His prowess, has violently abducted my sister. But today I will remove His pride with my…
• SB 10.54.23 Boasting thus, foolish Rukmī, ignorant of the true extent of the Supreme Lord’s power, approached Lord Govinda in his lone chariot and…
• SB 10.54.24 Rukmī drew his bow with great strength and struck Lord Kṛṣṇa with three arrows. Then he said, “Stand here for a moment, O defiler of the…
• SB 10.54.25 “Wherever You go, carrying off my sister like a crow stealing sacrificial butter, I will follow. This very day I shall relieve You of Your…
• SB 10.54.26 “Release the girl before You are struck dead by my arrows and made to lie down!” In response to this, Lord Kṛṣṇa smiled, and with six…
• SB 10.54.27 The Lord struck Rukmī’s four horses with eight arrows, his chariot driver with two, and the chariot’s flag with three. Rukmī grabbed…
• SB 10.54.28 Although hit by these many arrows, Lord Acyuta again broke Rukmī’s bow. Rukmī picked up yet another bow, but the infallible Lord broke…
• SB 10.54.29 Iron bludgeon, three-pointed spear, sword and shield, pike, javelin — whatever weapon Rukmī picked up, Lord Hari smashed it to bits.
• SB 10.54.30 Then Rukmī leaped down from his chariot and, sword in hand, rushed furiously toward Kṛṣṇa to kill Him, like a bird flying into the wind.
• SB 10.54.31 As Rukmī attacked Him, the Lord shot arrows that broke Rukmī’s sword and shield into small pieces. Kṛṣṇa then took up His own sharp sword…
• SB 10.54.32 Seeing Lord Kṛṣṇa ready to kill her brother, saintly Rukmiṇī was filled with alarm. She fell at her husband’s feet and piteously spoke as…
• SB 10.54.33 Śrī Rukmiṇī said: O controller of all mystic power, immeasurable one, Lord of lords, master of the universe! O all auspicious and…
• SB 10.54.34 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Rukmiṇī’s utter fear caused her limbs to tremble and her mouth to dry up, while her throat choked up out of sorrow.…
• SB 10.54.35 Lord Kṛṣṇa tied up the evil-doer with a strip of cloth. He then proceeded to disfigure Rukmī by comically shaving him, leaving parts of…
• SB 10.54.36 As the Yadus approached Lord Kṛṣṇa, they saw Rukmī in this sorry condition, practically dying of shame. When the all-powerful Lord…
• SB 10.54.37 [Lord Balarāma said:] My dear Kṛṣṇa, You have acted improperly! This deed will bring shame on Us, for to disfigure a close relative by…
• SB 10.54.38 Saintly lady, please do not be displeased with Us out of anxiety for your brother’s disfigurement. No one but oneself is responsible for…
• SB 10.54.50 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus enlightened by Lord Balarāma, slender Rukmiṇī forgot her depression and steadied her mind by spiritual…
• SB 10.54.51 Left with only his life air, cast out by his enemies and deprived of his strength and bodily radiance, Rukmī could not forget how he had…
• SB 10.54.52 Because he had promised “I will not reenter Kuṇḍina until I have killed wicked Kṛṣṇa and brought back my younger sister,” in a mood of…
• SB 10.54.53 Thus defeating all the opposing kings, the Supreme Personality of Godhead brought the daughter of Bhīṣmaka to His capital and married her…
• SB 10.54.54 At that time, O King, there was great rejoicing in all the homes of Yadupurī, whose citizens loved only Kṛṣṇa, chief of the Yadus.
• SB 10.54.55 All the men and women, full of joy and adorned with shining jewels and earrings, brought wedding presents, which they reverently offered…
• SB 10.54.56 The city of the Vṛṣṇis appeared most beautiful: there were tall, festive columns, and also archways decorated with flower garlands, cloth…
• SB 10.54.57 The city’s streets were cleansed by the intoxicated elephants belonging to the beloved kings who were guests at the wedding, and these…
• SB 10.54.58 Those who belonged to the royal families of the Kuru, Sṛñjaya, Kaikeya, Vidarbha, Yadu and Kunti clans joyfully met one another in the…
• SB 10.54.59 The kings and their daughters were totally astonished to hear the story of Rukmiṇī’s abduction, which was being glorified in song…
• SB 10.54.60 Dvārakā’s citizens were overjoyed to see Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of all opulence, united with Rukmiṇī, the goddess of fortune.
• SB 10.55.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Kāmadeva [Cupid], an expansion of Vāsudeva, had previously been burned to ashes by Rudra’s anger. Now, to obtain a…
• SB 10.55.2 He took birth in the womb of Vaidarbhī from the seed of Lord Kṛṣṇa and received the name Pradyumna. In no respect was He inferior to His…
• SB 10.55.3 The demon Śambara, who could assume any form he desired, kidnapped the infant before He was even ten days old. Understanding Pradyumna to…
• SB 10.55.4 A powerful fish swallowed Pradyumna, and this fish, along with others, was caught in a huge net and seized by fishermen.
• SB 10.55.5 The fishermen presented that extraordinary fish to Śambara, who had his cooks bring it to the kitchen, where they began cutting it up with…
• SB 10.55.6 Seeing a male child in the belly of the fish, the cooks gave the infant to Māyāvatī, who was astonished. Nārada Muni then appeared and…
• SB 10.55.7-8 Māyāvatī was in fact Cupid’s renowned wife, Rati. While waiting for her husband to obtain a new body — his previous one having been burnt…
• SB 10.55.9 After a short time, this son of Kṛṣṇa — Pradyumna — attained His full youth. He enchanted all women who gazed upon Him.
• SB 10.55.10 My dear King, with a bashful smile and raised eyebrows, Māyāvatī exhibited various gestures of conjugal attraction as she lovingly…
• SB 10.55.11 Lord Pradyumna told her, “O mother, your attitude has changed. You are overstepping the proper feelings of a mother and behaving like a…
• SB 10.55.12 Rati said: You are the son of Lord Nārāyaṇa and were kidnapped from Your parents’ home by Śambara. I, Rati, am Your legitimate wife, O…
• SB 10.55.13 That demon, Śambara, threw You into the sea when You were not even ten days old, and a fish swallowed You. Then in this very place we…
• SB 10.55.14 Now kill this dreadful Śambara, Your formidable enemy. Although he knows hundreds of magic spells, You can defeat him with bewildering…
• SB 10.55.15 Your poor mother, having lost her son, cries for You like a kurarī bird. She is overwhelmed with love for her child, just like a cow that…
• SB 10.55.16 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Speaking thus, Māyāvatī gave to the great soul Pradyumna the mystic knowledge called Mahā-māyā, which…
• SB 10.55.17 Pradyumna approached Śambara and called him to battle, hurling intolerable insults at him to foment a conflict.
• SB 10.55.18 Offended by these harsh words, Śambara became as agitated as a kicked snake. He came out, club in hand, his eyes red with rage.
• SB 10.55.19 Śambara whirled his club swiftly about and then hurled it at the wise Pradyumna, producing a sound as sharp as a thunder crack.
• SB 10.55.20 As Śambara’s club came flying toward Him, Lord Pradyumna knocked it away with His own. Then, O King, Pradyumna angrily threw His club at…
• SB 10.55.21 Resorting to the black magic of the Daityas taught to him by Maya Dānava, Śambara suddenly appeared in the sky and released a downpour of…
• SB 10.55.22 Harassed by this rain of weapons, Lord Raukmiṇeya, the greatly powerful warrior, made use of the mystic science called Mahā-māyā, which…
• SB 10.55.23 The demon then unleashed hundreds of mystic weapons belonging to the Guhyakas, Gandharvas, Piśācas, Uragas and Rākṣasas, but Lord Kārṣṇi,…
• SB 10.55.24 Drawing His sharp-edged sword, Pradyumna forcefully cut off Śambara’s head, complete with red mustache, helmet and earrings.
• SB 10.55.25 As the residents of the higher planets showered Pradyumna with flowers and chanted His praises, His wife appeared in the sky and…
• SB 10.55.26 O King, Lord Pradyumna and His wife resembled a cloud accompanied by lightning as they descended from the sky into the inner quarters of…
• SB 10.55.27-28 The women of the palace thought He was Lord Kṛṣṇa when they saw His dark-blue complexion the color of a rain cloud, His yellow silk…
• SB 10.55.29 Gradually, from the slight differences between His appearance and Kṛṣṇa’s, the ladies realized He was not the Lord. Delighted and…
• SB 10.55.30 Seeing Pradyumna, sweet-voiced, dark-eyed Rukmiṇī remembered her lost son, and her breasts became moist out of affection.
• SB 10.55.31 [Śrīmatī Rukmiṇī-devī said:] Who is this lotus-eyed jewel among men? What man’s son is He, and what woman carried Him in her womb? And who…
• SB 10.55.32 If my lost son, who was kidnapped from the maternity room, were still alive somewhere, He would be of the same age and appearance as this…
• SB 10.55.33 But how is it that this young man so much resembles my own Lord, Kṛṣṇa, the wielder of Śārṅga, in His bodily form and His limbs, in His…
• SB 10.55.34 Yes, He must be the same child I bore in my womb, since I feel great affection for Him and my left arm is quivering.
• SB 10.55.35 As Queen Rukmiṇī conjectured in this way, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī, arrived on the scene with Vasudeva and Devakī.
• SB 10.55.36 Although Lord Janārdana knew perfectly well what had transpired, He remained silent. The sage Nārada, however, explained everything,…
• SB 10.55.37 When the women of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s palace heard this most amazing account, they joyfully greeted Pradyumna, who had been lost for many years…
• SB 10.55.38 Devakī, Vasudeva, Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma and all the women of the palace, especially Queen Rukmiṇī, embraced the young couple and rejoiced.
• SB 10.55.39 Hearing that lost Pradyumna had come home, the residents of Dvārakā declared, “Ah, providence has allowed this child to return as if from…
• SB 10.55.40 It is not astonishing that the palace women, who should have felt maternal affection for Pradyumna, privately felt ecstatic attraction for…
• SB 10.56.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having offended Lord Kṛṣṇa, Satrājit tried as best he could to atone by presenting Him with his daughter and the…
• SB 10.56.2 Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired: O brāhmaṇa, what did King Satrājit do to offend Lord Kṛṣṇa? Where did he get the Syamantaka jewel, and why did…
• SB 10.56.3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Sūrya, the sun-god, felt great affection for his devotee Satrājit. Acting as his greatest friend, the demigod gave…
• SB 10.56.4 Wearing the jewel on his neck, Satrājit entered Dvārakā. He shone as brightly as the sun itself, O King, and thus he went unrecognized…
• SB 10.56.5 As the people looked at Satrājit from a distance, his brilliance blinded them. They presumed he was the sun-god, Sūrya, and went to tell…
• SB 10.56.6 [The residents of Dvārakā said:] Obeisances unto You, O Nārāyaṇa, O holder of the conch, disc and club, O lotus-eyed Dāmodara, O Govinda,…
• SB 10.56.7 Lord Savitā has come to see You, O Lord of the universe. He is blinding everyone’s eyes with his intensely effulgent rays.
• SB 10.56.8 The most exalted demigods in the three worlds are certainly anxious to seek You out, O Lord, now that You have hidden Yourself among the…
• SB 10.56.9 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Hearing these innocent words, the lotus-eyed Lord smiled broadly and said, “This is not the sun-god, Ravi, but…
• SB 10.56.10 King Satrājit entered his opulent home, festively executing auspicious rituals. He had qualified brāhmaṇas install the Syamantaka jewel in…
• SB 10.56.11 Each day the gem would produce eight bhāras of gold, my dear Prabhu, and the place in which it was kept and properly worshiped would be…
• SB 10.56.12 On one occasion Lord Kṛṣṇa requested Satrājit to give the jewel to the Yadu king, Ugrasena, but Satrājit was so greedy that he refused. He…
• SB 10.56.13 Once Satrājit’s brother, Prasena, having hung the brilliant jewel about his neck, mounted a horse and went hunting in the forest.
• SB 10.56.14 A lion killed Prasena and his horse and took the jewel. But when the lion entered a mountain cave he was killed by Jāmbavān, who wanted…
• SB 10.56.15 Within the cave Jāmbavān let his young son have the Syamantaka jewel as a toy to play with. Meanwhile Satrājit, not seeing his brother…
• SB 10.56.16 He said, “Kṛṣṇa probably killed my brother, who went to the forest wearing the jewel on his neck.” The general populace heard this…
• SB 10.56.17 When Lord Kṛṣṇa heard this rumor, He wanted to remove the stain on His reputation. So He took some of Dvārakā’s citizens with Him and set…
• SB 10.56.18 In the forest they found Prasena and his horse, both killed by the lion. Further on they found the lion dead on a mountainside, slain by…
• SB 10.56.19 The Lord stationed His subjects outside the terrifying, pitch-dark cave of the king of the bears, and then He entered alone.
• SB 10.56.20 There Lord Kṛṣṇa saw that the most precious of jewels had been made into a child’s plaything. Determined to take it away, He approached…
• SB 10.56.21 The child’s nurse cried out in fear upon seeing that extraordinary person standing before them. Jāmbavān, strongest of the strong, heard…
• SB 10.56.22 Unaware of His true position and thinking Him an ordinary man, Jāmbavān angrily began fighting with the Supreme Lord, his master.
• SB 10.56.23 The two fought furiously in single combat, each determined to win. Contending against each other with various weapons and then with…
• SB 10.56.24 The fight went on without rest for twenty-eight days, the two opponents striking each other with their fists, which fell like the cracking…
• SB 10.56.25 His bulging muscles pummeled by the blows of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s fists, his strength faltering and his limbs perspiring, Jāmbavān, greatly…
• SB 10.56.26 [Jāmbavān said:] I know now that You are the life air and the sensory, mental and bodily strength of all living beings. You are Lord…
• SB 10.56.27 You are the ultimate creator of all creators of the universe, and of everything created You are the underlying substance. You are the…
• SB 10.56.28 You are He who impelled the ocean to give way when His sidelong glances, slightly manifesting His anger, disturbed the crocodiles and…
• SB 10.56.29-30 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] O King, Lord Kṛṣṇa then addressed the king of the bears, who had understood the truth. The lotus-eyed…
• SB 10.58.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Once, the supremely opulent Personality of Godhead went to Indraprastha to visit the Pāṇḍavas, who had again…
• SB 10.58.2 When the Pāṇḍavas saw that Lord Mukunda had arrived, those heroic sons of Pṛthā all stood up at once, like the senses responding to the…
• SB 10.58.3 The heroes embraced Lord Acyuta, and the touch of His body freed them of sin. Looking at His affectionate, smiling face, they were…
• SB 10.58.4 After the Lord bowed down at the feet of Yudhiṣṭhira and Bhīma and firmly embraced Arjuna, He accepted obeisances from the twin brothers,…
• SB 10.58.5 Faultless Draupadī, the Pāṇḍavas’ newly married wife, slowly and somewhat timidly approached Lord Kṛṣṇa, who sat on an exalted seat, and…
• SB 10.58.6 Sātyaki also accepted a seat of honor after receiving worship and welcome from the Pāṇḍavas, and the Lord’s other companions, being duly…
• SB 10.58.7 The Lord then went to see His aunt, Queen Kuntī. He bowed down to her and she embraced Him, her eyes moist with great affection. Lord…
• SB 10.58.8 So overcome by love that her throat choked up and her eyes filled with tears, Queen Kuntī remembered the many troubles she and her sons…
• SB 10.58.9 [Queen Kuntī said:] My dear Kṛṣṇa, our welfare was assured only when You remembered us, Your relatives, and gave us Your protection by…
• SB 10.58.10 For You, the well-wishing friend and Supreme Soul of the universe, there is never any illusion of “us” and “them.” Yet even so, residing…
• SB 10.58.11 King Yudhiṣṭhira said: O supreme controller, I do not know what pious deeds we fools have done so that we can see You, whom the masters of…
• SB 10.58.12 Requested by the King to stay with them, the almighty Lord remained happily in Indraprastha during the months of the rainy season, giving…
• SB 10.58.13-14 Once Arjuna, the slayer of powerful enemies, donned his armor, mounted his chariot flying the flag of Hanumān, took up his bow and his two…
• SB 10.58.15 With his arrows Arjuna shot tigers, boars and buffalo in that forest, along with rurus, śarabhas, gavayas, rhinoceroses, black deer,…
• SB 10.58.16 A crew of servants carried to King Yudhiṣṭhira the slain animals fit to be offered in sacrifice on some special occasion. Then, feeling…
• SB 10.58.17 After the two Kṛṣṇas bathed there, they drank the river’s clear water. The great warriors then saw an attractive young girl walking nearby.
• SB 10.58.18 Sent by his friend, Arjuna approached the exceptional young woman, who possessed beautiful hips, fine teeth and a lovely face, and…
• SB 10.58.24 [Describing a previous incident, Śukadeva Gosvāmī said:] Upon the request of the Pāṇḍavas, Lord Kṛṣṇa had Viśvakarmā build them a most…
• SB 10.58.25 The Supreme Lord stayed in that city for some time to please His devotees. On one occasion, Śrī Kṛṣṇa wanted to give the Khāṇḍava forest…
• SB 10.58.26 Being pleased, O King, Lord Agni presented Arjuna with a bow, a set of white horses, a chariot, a pair of inexhaustible quivers, and armor…
• SB 10.58.27 When the demon Maya was saved from the fire by his friend Arjuna, Maya presented him with an assembly hall, in which Duryodhana would…
• SB 10.58.28 Then Lord Kṛṣṇa, given leave by Arjuna and other well-wishing relatives and friends, returned to Dvārakā with Sātyaki and the rest of His…
• SB 10.58.29 The supremely auspicious Lord then married Kālindī on a day when the season, the lunar asterism and the configurations of the sun and…
• SB 10.58.30 Vindya and Anuvindya, who shared the throne of Avantī, were followers of Duryodhana’s. When the time came for their sister [Mitravindā] to…
• SB 10.58.31 My dear King, Lord Kṛṣṇa forcibly took away Princess Mitravindā, the daughter of His aunt Rājādhidevī, before the eyes of the rival kings.
• SB 10.58.32 O King, Nagnajit, the very pious King of Kośala, had a lovely daughter named Satyā, or Nāgnajitī.
• SB 10.58.33 The kings who came as suitors were not allowed to marry her unless they could subdue seven sharp-horned bulls. These bulls were extremely…
• SB 10.58.34 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of the Vaiṣṇavas, heard of the princess who was to be won by the conqueror of the…
• SB 10.58.35 The King of Kośala, pleased to see Lord Kṛṣṇa, worshiped Him by rising from his throne and offering Him a seat of honor and substantial…
• SB 10.58.36 When the King’s daughter saw that most agreeable suitor arrive, she immediately desired to have Him, the Lord of Goddess Rāma. She prayed,…
• SB 10.58.37 “Goddess Lakṣmī, Lord Brahma, Lord Śiva and the rulers of the various planets place the dust of His lotus feet on their heads, and to…
• SB 10.58.38 King Nagnajit first worshiped the Lord properly and then addressed Him: “O Nārāyaṇa, Lord of the universe, You are full in Your own…
• SB 10.58.39 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O beloved descendant of Kuru, the Supreme Lord was pleased, and after accepting a comfortable seat He smiled and…
• SB 10.59.2-3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After Bhauma had stolen the earrings belonging to Indra’s mother, along with Varuṇa’s umbrella and the demigods’…
• SB 10.59.4 With His club the Lord broke through the rock fortifications; with His arrows, the weapon fortifications; with His disc, the fire, water…
• SB 10.59.5 With the sound of His conchshell Lord Gadādhara then shattered the magic seals of the fortress, along with the hearts of its brave…
• SB 10.59.6 The five-headed demon Mura, who slept at the bottom of the city’s moat, awoke and rose up out of the water when he heard the vibration of…
• SB 10.59.7 Shining with the blinding, terrible effulgence of the sun’s fire at the end of a millennium, Mura seemed to be swallowing up the three…
• SB 10.59.8 Mura whirled his trident and then hurled it fiercely at Garuḍa, roaring from all five mouths. The sound filled the earth and sky, all…
• SB 10.59.9 Then with two arrows Lord Hari struck the trident flying toward Garuḍa and broke it into three pieces. Next the Lord hit Mura’s faces with…
• SB 10.59.10 As Mura’s club sped toward Him on the battlefield, Lord Gadāgraja intercepted it with His own and broke it into thousands of pieces. Mura…
• SB 10.59.11 Lifeless, Mura’s decapitated body fell into the water like a mountain whose peak has been severed by the power of Lord Indra’s…
• SB 10.59.12 Ordered by Bhaumāsura, Mura’s seven sons — Tāmra, Antarikṣa, Śravaṇa, Vibhāvasu, Vasu, Nabhasvān and Aruṇa — followed their general,…
• SB 10.59.13 These fierce warriors furiously attacked invincible Lord Kṛṣṇa with arrows, swords, clubs, spears, lances and tridents, but the Supreme…
• SB 10.59.14 The Lord severed the heads, thighs, arms, legs and armor of these opponents led by Pīṭha and sent them all to the abode of Yamarāja.…
• SB 10.59.15 Lord Kṛṣṇa and His wife, mounted upon Garuḍa, looked like a cloud with lightning sitting above the sun. Seeing the Lord, Bhauma released…
• SB 10.59.16 At that moment Lord Gadāgraja shot His sharp arrows at Bhaumāsura’s army. These arrows, displaying variegated feathers, soon reduced that…
• SB 10.59.17-19 Lord Hari then struck down all the missiles and weapons the enemy soldiers threw at Him, O hero of the Kurus, destroying each and every…
• SB 10.59.20 Seeing his army driven back and tormented by Garuḍa, Bhauma attacked him with his spear, which had once defeated Lord Indra’s thunderbolt.…
• SB 10.59.21 Bhauma, frustrated in all his attempts, took up his trident to kill Lord Kṛṣṇa. But even before he could release it, the Lord cut off his…
• SB 10.59.22 Fallen on the ground, Bhaumāsura’s head shone brilliantly, decorated as it was with earrings and an attractive helmet. As cries of “Alas,…
• SB 10.59.23 The goddess of the earth then approached Lord Kṛṣṇa and presented Him with Aditi’s earrings, which were made of glowing gold inlaid with…
• SB 10.59.24 O King, after bowing down to Him and then standing with joined palms, the goddess, her mind filled with devotion, began to praise the Lord…
• SB 10.59.25 Goddess Bhūmi said: Obeisances unto You, O Lord of the chief demigods, O holder of the conchshell, disc and club. O Supreme Soul within…
• SB 10.59.26 My respectful obeisances are unto You, O Lord, whose abdomen is marked with a depression like a lotus flower, who are always decorated…
• SB 10.59.27 Obeisances unto You, the Supreme Lord Vāsudeva, Viṣṇu, the primeval person, the original seed. Obeisances unto You, the omniscient one.
• SB 10.59.28 Obeisances unto You of unlimited energies, the unborn progenitor of this universe, the Absolute. O Soul of the high and the low, O Soul of…
• SB 10.59.29 Desiring to create, O unborn master, You increase and then assume the mode of passion. You do likewise with the mode of ignorance when You…
• SB 10.59.30 This is illusion: that earth, water, fire, air, ether, sense objects, demigods, mind, the senses, false ego and the total material energy…
• SB 10.59.31 Here is the son of Bhaumāsura. Frightened, he is approaching Your lotus feet, since You remove the distress of all who seek refuge in You.…
• SB 10.59.32 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus entreated by Goddess Bhūmi in words of humble devotion, the Supreme Lord bestowed fearlessness upon her…
• SB 10.59.33 There Lord Kṛṣṇa saw sixteen thousand royal maidens, whom Bhauma had taken by force from various kings.
• SB 10.59.34 The women became enchanted when they saw that most excellent of males enter. In their minds they each accepted Him, who had been brought…
• SB 10.59.35 With the thought “May providence grant that this man become my husband,” each and every princess absorbed her heart in contemplation of…
• SB 10.59.36 The Lord had the princesses arrayed in clean, spotless garments and then sent them in palanquins to Dvārakā, together with great treasures…
• SB 10.59.37 Lord Kṛṣṇa also dispatched sixty-four swift white elephants, descendants of Airāvata, who each sported four tusks.
• SB 10.59.38-39 The Lord then went to the abode of Indra, the demigods’ king, and gave mother Aditi her earrings; there Indra and his wife worshiped Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.59.40 Once planted, the pārijāta tree beautified the garden of Queen Satyabhāmā’s palace. Bees followed the tree all the way from heaven, greedy…
• SB 10.59.41 Even after Indra had bowed down to Lord Acyuta, touched His feet with the tips of his crown and begged the Lord to fulfill his desire,…
• SB 10.59.42 Then the imperishable Supreme Personality, assuming a separate form for each bride, duly married all the princesses simultaneously, each…
• SB 10.59.43 The Lord, performer of the inconceivable, constantly remained in each of His queens’ palaces, which were unequaled and unexcelled by any…
• SB 10.59.44 Thus those women obtained as their husband the husband of the goddess of fortune, although even great demigods like Brahmā do not know how…
• SB 10.59.45 Although the Supreme Lord’s queens each had hundreds of maidservants, they chose to personally serve the Lord by approaching Him humbly,…
• SB 10.60.1 Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: Once, in the company of her maidservants, Queen Rukmiṇī was personally serving her husband, the spiritual master of…
• SB 10.60.2 The unborn Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, who creates, maintains and then devours this universe simply as His play, took…
• SB 10.60.3-6 Queen Rukmiṇī’s quarters were extremely beautiful, boasting a canopy hung with brilliant strings of pearls, as well as effulgent jewels…
• SB 10.60.7 From her maidservant’s hand Goddess Rukmiṇī took a yak-hair fan with a jeweled handle, and then she began to worship her master by fanning…
• SB 10.60.8 Her hand adorned with rings, bangles and the cāmara fan, Queen Rukmiṇī looked resplendent standing near Lord Kṛṣṇa. Her jeweled…
• SB 10.60.9 As He contemplated her, the goddess of fortune herself, who desires only Him, Lord Kṛṣṇa smiled. The Lord assumes various forms to enact…
• SB 10.60.21 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Rukmiṇī had thought herself especially beloved by the Lord because He never left her company. By saying these…
• SB 10.60.22 Goddess Rukmiṇī had never before heard such unpleasantries from her beloved, the Lord of universal rulers, and she became frightened. A…
• SB 10.60.23 With her tender foot, effulgent with the reddish glow of her nails, she scratched the ground, and tears darkened by her eye makeup…
• SB 10.60.24 Rukmiṇī’s mind was overwhelmed with unhappiness, fear and grief. Her bangles slipped from her hand, and her fan fell to the ground. In her…
• SB 10.60.25 Seeing that His beloved was so bound to Him in love that she could not understand the full meaning of His teasing, merciful Lord Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 10.60.26 The Lord quickly got down from the bed. Manifesting four arms, He picked her up, gathered her hair and caressed her face with His lotus…
• SB 10.60.27-28 Wiping her tear-filled eyes and her breasts, which were stained by tears of grief, the Supreme Lord, the goal of His devotees, embraced…
• SB 10.60.32 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, Queen Vaidarbhī was fully pacified by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and understood that His words had…
• SB 10.60.33 Smiling bashfully as she cast charming, affectionate glances upon the face of the Lord, the best of males, Rukmiṇī spoke the following, O…
• SB 10.60.34 Śrī Rukmiṇī said: Actually, what You have said is true, O lotus-eyed one. I am indeed unsuitable for the almighty Personality of Godhead.…
• SB 10.60.35 Yes, my Lord Urukrama, You lay down within the ocean as if afraid of the material modes, and thus in pure consciousness You appear within…
• SB 10.60.36 Your movements, inscrutable even for sages who relish the honey of Your lotus feet, are certainly incomprehensible for human beings who…
• SB 10.60.37 You possess nothing because there is nothing beyond You. Even the great enjoyers of tribute — Brahmā and other demigods — pay tribute to…
• SB 10.60.38 You are the embodiment of all human goals and are Yourself the final aim of life. Desiring to attain You, O all-powerful Lord, intelligent…
• SB 10.60.39 Knowing that great sages who have renounced the sannyāsī’s daṇḍa proclaim Your glories, that You are the Supreme Soul of all the worlds,…
• SB 10.60.40 My Lord, as a lion drives away lesser animals to claim his proper tribute, You drove off the assembled kings with the resounding twang of…
• SB 10.60.41 Wanting Your association, the best of kings — Aṅga, Vainya, Jāyanta, Nāhuṣa, Gaya and others — abandoned their absolute sovereignty and…
• SB 10.60.42 The aroma of Your lotus feet, which is glorified by great saints, awards people liberation and is the abode of Goddess Lakṣmī. What woman…
• SB 10.60.43 Because You are suitable for me, I have chosen You, the master and Supreme Soul of all the worlds, who fulfill our desires in this life…
• SB 10.60.44 O infallible Kṛṣṇa, let each of the kings You named become the husband of a woman whose ears have never heard Your glories, which are sung…
• SB 10.60.45 A woman who fails to relish the fragrance of the honey of Your lotus feet becomes totally befooled, and thus she accepts as her husband or…
• SB 10.60.46 O lotus-eyed one, though You are satisfied within Yourself and thus rarely turn Your attention toward me, please bless me with steady love…
• SB 10.60.47 Actually, I don’t consider Your words false, Madhūsudana. Quite often an unmarried girl is attracted to a man, as in the case of Ambā.
• SB 10.60.48 The mind of a promiscuous woman always hankers for new lovers, even if she is married. An intelligent man should not keep such an unchaste…
• SB 10.60.58 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: And so the self-satisfied Supreme Lord of the universe enjoyed with the goddess of fortune, engaging her in lovers’…
• SB 10.60.59 The almighty Lord Hari, preceptor of all the worlds, similarly behaved like a conventional householder in the palaces of His other queens,…
• SB 10.61.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Each of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s wives gave birth to ten sons, who were not less than their father, having all His personal…
• SB 10.61.2 Because each of these princesses saw that Lord Acyuta never left her palace, each thought herself the Lord’s favorite. These women did not…
• SB 10.61.3 The Supreme Lord’s wives were fully enchanted by His lovely, lotuslike face, His long arms and large eyes, His loving glances imbued with…
• SB 10.61.4 The arched eyebrows of these sixteen thousand queens enchantingly expressed those ladies’ secret intentions through coyly smiling sidelong…
• SB 10.61.5 Thus these women obtained as their husband the master of the goddess of fortune, although even great demigods like Brahmā do not know how…
• SB 10.61.6 Although the Supreme Lord’s queens each had hundreds of maidservants, they chose to personally serve the Lord by approaching Him humbly,…
• SB 10.61.7 Among Lord Kṛṣṇa’s wives, each of whom had ten sons, I previously mentioned eight principal queens. I shall now recite for you the names…
• SB 10.61.8-9 The first son of Queen Rukmiṇī was Pradyumna, and also born of her were Cārudeṣṇa, Sudeṣṇa and the powerful Cārudeha, along with Sucāru,…
• SB 10.61.10-12 The ten sons of Satyabhāmā were Bhānu, Subhānu, Svarbhānu, Prabhānu, Bhānumān, Candrabhānu, Bṛhadbhānu, Atibhānu (the eighth), Śrībhānu…
• SB 10.61.13 The sons of Nāgnajitī were Vīra, Candra, Aśvasena, Citragu, Vegavān, Vṛṣa, Āma, Śaṅku, Vasu and the opulent Kunti.
• SB 10.61.14 Śruta, Kavi, Vṛṣa, Vīra, Subāhu, Bhadra, Śānti, Darśa and Pūrṇamāsa were sons of Kālindī. Her youngest son was Somaka.
• SB 10.61.15 Mādrā’s sons were Praghoṣa, Gātravān, Siṁha, Bala, Prabala, Ūrdhaga, Mahāśakti, Saha, Oja and Aparājita.
• SB 10.61.16 Mitravindā’s sons were Vṛka, Harṣa, Anila, Gṛdhra, Vardhana, Unnāda, Mahāṁsa, Pāvana, Vahni and Kṣudhi.
• SB 10.61.17 Saṅgrāmajit, Bṛhatsena, Śūra, Praharaṇa, Arijit, Jaya and Subhadra were the sons of Bhadrā, together with Vāma, Āyur and Satyaka.
• SB 10.61.18 Dīptimān, Tāmratapta and others were the sons of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Rohiṇī. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s son Pradyumna fathered the greatly powerful Aniruddha…
• SB 10.61.19 My dear King, the sons and grandsons of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s children numbered in the tens of millions. Sixteen thousand mothers gave rise to this…
• SB 10.61.22 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: At her svayaṁvara ceremony, Rukmavatī herself chose Pradyumna, who was the re-embodiment of Cupid. Then,…
• SB 10.61.23 Though Rukmī always remembered his enmity toward Lord Kṛṣṇa, who had insulted him, in order to please his sister he sanctioned his…
• SB 10.61.24 O King, Balī, the son of Kṛtavarmā, married Rukmiṇī’s young daughter, large-eyed Cārumatī.
• SB 10.61.25 Rukmī gave his granddaughter Rocanā to his daughter’s son, Aniruddha, despite Rukmī’s relentless feud with Lord Hari. Although Rukmī…
• SB 10.61.26 On the joyous occasion of that marriage, O King, Queen Rukmiṇī, Lord Balarāma, Lord Kṛṣṇa and several of the Lord’s sons, headed by Sāmba…
• SB 10.61.27-28 After the wedding, a group of arrogant kings headed by the King of Kaliṅga told Rukmī, “You should defeat Balarāma at dice. He’s not…
• SB 10.61.29 In that match Lord Balarāma first accepted a wager of one hundred coins, then one thousand, then ten thousand. Rukmī won this first round,…
• SB 10.61.30 Next Rukmī accepted a bet of one hundred thousand coins, which Lord Balarāma won. But Rukmī tried to cheat, declaring “I’m the winner!”
• SB 10.61.31 Shaking with anger like the ocean on the full-moon day, handsome Lord Balarāma, His naturally reddish eyes even redder in His fury,…
• SB 10.61.32 Lord Balarāma fairly won this wager also, but Rukmī again resorted to cheating and declared, “I have won! Let these witnesses here say…
• SB 10.61.33 Just then a voice from the sky declared, “Balarāma has fairly won this wager. Rukmī is surely lying.”
• SB 10.61.34 Urged on by the wicked kings, Rukmī ignored the divine voice. In fact destiny itself was urging Rukmī on, and thus he ridiculed Lord…
• SB 10.61.35 [Rukmī said:] You cowherds who wander about the forests know nothing about dice. Playing with dice and sporting with arrows are only for…
• SB 10.61.36 Thus insulted by Rukmī and ridiculed by the kings, Lord Balarāma was provoked to anger. In the midst of the auspicious wedding assembly,…
• SB 10.61.37 The King of Kaliṅga, who had laughed at Lord Balarāma and shown his teeth, tried to run away, but the furious Lord quickly seized him on…
• SB 10.61.38 Tormented by Lord Balarāma’s club, the other kings fled in fear, their arms, thighs and heads broken and their bodies drenched in blood.
• SB 10.61.39 When His brother-in-law Rukmī was slain, Lord Kṛṣṇa neither applauded nor protested, O King, for He feared jeopardizing His affectionate…
• SB 10.61.40 Then the descendants of Daśārha, headed by Lord Balarāma, seated Aniruddha and His bride on a fine chariot and set off from Bhojakaṭa for…
• SB 10.62.2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Bāṇa was the oldest of the hundred sons fathered by the great saint Bali Mahārāja, who gave the whole earth in…
• SB 10.62.3 The lord and master of all created beings, the compassionate refuge of his devotees, gladdened Bāṇāsura by offering him the benediction of…
• SB 10.62.4 Bāṇāsura was intoxicated with his strength. One day, when Lord Śiva was standing beside him, Bāṇāsura touched the lord’s lotus feet with…
• SB 10.62.5 [Bāṇāsura said:] O Lord Mahādeva, I bow down to you, the spiritual master and controller of the worlds. You are like the heavenly tree…
• SB 10.62.6 These one thousand arms you bestowed upon me have become merely a heavy burden. Besides you, I find no one in the three worlds worthy to…
• SB 10.62.7 Eager to fight with the elephants who rule the directions, O primeval lord, I went forth, pulverizing mountains with my arms, which were…
• SB 10.62.8 Hearing this, Lord Śiva became angry and replied, “Your flag will be broken, fool, when you have done battle with one who is my equal.…
• SB 10.62.9 Thus advised, unintelligent Bāṇāsura was delighted. The fool then went home, O King, to wait for that which Lord Giriśa had predicted: the…
• SB 10.62.10 In a dream Bāṇa’s daughter, the maiden Ūṣā, had an amorous encounter with the son of Pradyumna, though she had never before seen or heard…
• SB 10.62.11 Losing sight of Him in her dream, Ūṣā suddenly sat up in the midst of her girlfriends, crying out “Where are You, my lover?” She was…
• SB 10.62.12 Bāṇāsura had a minister named Kumbhāṇḍa, whose daughter was Citralekhā. A companion of Ūṣā’s, she was filled with curiosity, and thus she…
• SB 10.62.13 [Citralekhā said:] Who are you searching for, O fine-browed one? What is this hankering you’re feeling? Until now, O princess, I haven’t…
• SB 10.62.14 [Ūṣā said:] In my dream I saw a certain man who had a darkblue complexion, lotus eyes, yellow garments and mighty arms. He was the kind…
• SB 10.62.15 It is that lover I search for. After making me drink the honey of His lips, He has gone elsewhere, and thus He has thrown me, hankering…
• SB 10.62.16 Citralekhā said: I will remove your distress. If He is to be found anywhere in the three worlds, I will bring this future husband of yours…
• SB 10.62.17 Saying this, Citralekhā proceeded to draw accurate pictures of various demigods, Gandharvas, Siddhas, Cāraṇas, Pannagas, Daityas,…
• SB 10.62.18-19 O King, among the humans, Citralekhā drew pictures of the Vṛṣṇis, including Śūrasena, Ānakadundubhi, Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa. When Ūṣā saw the…
• SB 10.62.20 Citralekhā, endowed with mystic powers, recognized Him as Kṛṣṇa’s grandson [Aniruddha]. My dear King, she then traveled by the mystic…
• SB 10.62.21 There she found Pradyumna’s son Aniruddha sleeping upon a fine bed. With her yogic power she took Him away to Śoṇitapura, where she…
• SB 10.62.22 When Ūṣā beheld Him, the most beautiful of men, her face lit up with joy. She took the son of Pradyumna to her private quarters, which men…
• SB 10.62.23-24 Ūṣā worshiped Aniruddha with faithful service, offering Him priceless garments, along with garlands, fragrances, incense, lamps, sitting…
• SB 10.62.25-26 The female guards eventually noticed unmistakable symptoms of romantic involvement in Ūṣā, who, having broken her maiden vow, was being…
• SB 10.62.27 “We have been carefully watching over her, never leaving our posts, O master, so we cannot understand how this maiden, whom no man can…
• SB 10.62.28 Very agitated to hear of his daughter’s corruption, Bāṇāsura rushed at once to the maidens’ quarters. There he saw the pride of the Yadus,…
• SB 10.62.29-30 Bāṇāsura saw before him Cupid’s own son, possessed of unrivaled beauty, with dark-blue complexion, yellow garments, lotus eyes and…
• SB 10.62.31 Seeing Bāṇāsura enter with many armed guards, Aniruddha raised His iron club and stood resolute, ready to strike anyone who attacked Him.…
• SB 10.62.32 As the guards converged on Him from all sides, trying to capture Him, Aniruddha struck them just as the leader of a pack of boars strikes…
• SB 10.62.33 But even as Aniruddha was striking down the army of Bāṇa, that powerful son of Bali angrily caught Him with the mystic nāga-pāśa ropes.…
• SB 10.63.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O descendant of Bharata, the relatives of Aniruddha, not seeing Him return, continued to lament as the four rainy…
• SB 10.63.2 After hearing from Nārada the news of Aniruddha’s deeds and His capture, the Vṛṣṇis, who worshiped Lord Kṛṣṇa as their personal Deity,…
• SB 10.63.3-4 With Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa in the lead, the chiefs of the Sātvata clan — Pradyumna, Sātyaki, Gada, Sāmba, Sāraṇa, Nanda, Upananda,…
• SB 10.63.5 Bāṇāsura became filled with anger upon seeing them destroy his city’s suburban gardens, ramparts, watchtowers and gateways, and thus he…
• SB 10.63.6 Lord Rudra, accompanied by his son Kārtikeya and the Pramathas, came riding on Nandi, his bull carrier, to fight Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa on…
• SB 10.63.7 A most astonishing, tumultuous and hair-raising battle then commenced, with Lord Kṛṣṇa matched against Lord Śaṅkara, and Pradyumna against…
• SB 10.63.8 Lord Balarāma fought with Kumbhāṇḍa and Kūpakarṇa, Sāmba with Bāṇa’s son, and Sātyaki with Bāṇa.
• SB 10.63.9 Brahmā and the other ruling demigods, along with Siddhas, Cāraṇas and great sages, as well as Gandharvas, Apsarās and Yakṣas, all came in…
• SB 10.63.10-11 With sharp-pointed arrows discharged from His bow Śārṅga, Lord Kṛṣṇa drove away the various followers of Lord Śiva — Bhūtas, Pramathas,…
• SB 10.63.12 Lord Śiva, wielder of the trident, shot various weapons at Lord Kṛṣṇa, wielder of Śārṅga. But Lord Kṛṣṇa was not in the least perplexed:…
• SB 10.63.13 Lord Kṛṣṇa counteracted a brahmāstra with another brahmāstra, a wind weapon with a mountain weapon, a fire weapon with a rain weapon, and…
• SB 10.63.14 After bewildering Lord Śiva by making him yawn with a yawning weapon, Lord Kṛṣṇa proceeded to strike down Bāṇāsura’s army with His sword,…
• SB 10.63.15 Lord Kārtikeya was distressed by the flood of Pradyumna’s arrows raining down from all sides, and thus he fled the battlefield on his…
• SB 10.63.16 Kumbhāṇḍa and Kūpakarṇa, tormented by Lord Balarāma’s club, fell down dead. When the soldiers of these two demons saw that their leaders…
• SB 10.63.17 Bāṇāsura was furious to see his entire military force being torn apart. Leaving his fight with Sātyaki, he charged across the battlefield…
• SB 10.63.18 Excited to a frenzy by the fighting, Bāṇa simultaneously pulled taut all the strings of his five hundred bows and fixed two arrows on each…
• SB 10.63.19 Lord Śrī Hari split every one of Bāṇāsura’s bows simultaneously, and also struck down his chariot driver, chariot and horses. The Lord…
• SB 10.63.20 Just then Bāṇāsura’s mother, Koṭarā, desiring to save her son’s life, appeared before Lord Kṛṣṇa naked and with her hair undone.
• SB 10.63.21 Lord Gadāgraja turned His face away to avoid seeing the naked woman, and Bāṇāsura — deprived of his chariot, his bow shattered — took the…
• SB 10.63.22 After Lord Śiva’s followers had been driven away, the Śiva-jvara, who had three heads and three feet, pressed forward to attack Lord…
• SB 10.63.23 Seeing this personified weapon approach, Lord Nārāyaṇa then released His own personified fever weapon, the Viṣṇu-jvara. The Śiva-jvara and…
• SB 10.63.24 The Śiva-jvara, overwhelmed by the strength of the Viṣṇu-jvara, cried out in pain. But finding no refuge, the frightened Śiva-jvara…
• SB 10.63.25 The Śiva-jvara said: I bow down to You of unlimited potencies, the Supreme Lord, the Supersoul of all beings. You possess pure and…
• SB 10.63.26 Time; fate; karma; the jīva and his propensities; the subtle material elements; the material body; the life air; false ego; the various…
• SB 10.63.27 With various intentions, You perform pastimes to maintain the demigods, the saintly persons and the codes of religion for this world. By…
• SB 10.63.28 I am tortured by the fierce power of Your terrible fever weapon, which is cold yet burning. All embodied souls must suffer as long as they…
• SB 10.64.9 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus questioned by Kṛṣṇa, whose forms are unlimited, the King, his helmet as dazzling as the sun, bowed down to…
• SB 10.64.10 King Nṛga said: I am a king known as Nṛga, the son of Ikṣvāku. Perhaps, Lord, You have heard of me when lists of charitable men were…
• SB 10.64.11 What could possibly be unknown to You, O master? With vision undisturbed by time, You witness the minds of all living beings.…
• SB 10.64.12 I gave in charity as many cows as there are grains of sand on the earth, stars in the heavens, or drops in a rain shower.
• SB 10.64.13 Young, brown, milk-laden cows, who were well-behaved, beautiful and endowed with good qualities, who were all acquired honestly, and who…
• SB 10.64.14-15 I first honored the brāhmaṇas who were recipients of my charity by decorating them with fine ornaments. Those most exalted brāhmaṇas,…
• SB 10.64.16 Once a cow belonging to a certain first-class brāhmaṇa wandered away and entered my herd. Unaware of this, I gave that cow in charity to a…
• SB 10.64.17 When the cow’s first owner saw her being led away, he said, “She is mine!” The second brāhmaṇa, who had accepted her as a gift, replied,…
• SB 10.64.18 As the two brāhmaṇas argued, each trying to fulfill his own purpose, they came to me. One of them said, “You gave me this cow,” and the…
• SB 10.64.19-20 Finding myself in a terrible dilemma concerning my duty in the situation, I humbly entreated both the brāhmaṇas: “I will give one hundred…
• SB 10.64.21 The present owner of the cow said, “I don’t want anything in exchange for this cow, O King,” and went away. The other brāhmaṇa declared,…
• SB 10.64.22 O Lord of lords, O master of the universe, the agents of Yamarāja, taking advantage of the opportunity thus created, later carried me to…
• SB 10.64.23 [Yamarāja said:] My dear King, do you wish to experience the results of your sins first, or those of your piety? Indeed, I see no end to…
• SB 10.64.24 I replied, “First, my lord, let me suffer my sinful reactions,” and Yamarāja said, “Then fall!” At once I fell, and while falling I saw…
• SB 10.64.25 O Keśava, as Your servant I was devoted to the brāhmaṇas and generous to them, and I always hankered for Your audience. Therefore even…
• SB 10.64.26 O almighty one, how is it that my eyes see You here before me? You are the Supreme Soul, whom the greatest masters of mystic yoga can…
• SB 10.64.27-28 O Devadeva, Jagannātha, Govinda, Puruṣottama, Nārāyaṇa, Hṛṣīkeśa, Puṇyaśloka, Acyuta, Avyaya! O Kṛṣṇa, please permit me to depart for the…
• SB 10.64.29 I offer my repeated obeisances unto You, Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vasudeva. You are the source of all beings, the Supreme Absolute Truth, the…
• SB 10.64.30 Having spoken thus, Mahārāja Nṛga circumambulated Lord Kṛṣṇa and touched his crown to the Lord’s feet. Granted permission to depart, King…
• SB 10.64.31 The Supreme Personality of Godhead — Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī — who is especially devoted to the brāhmaṇas and who embodies the…
• SB 10.65.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O best of the Kurus, once Lord Balarāma, eager to visit His well-wishing friends, mounted His chariot and traveled…
• SB 10.65.2 Having long suffered the anxiety of separation, the cowherd men and their wives embraced Lord Balarāma. The Lord then offered respects to…
• SB 10.65.3 [Nanda and Yaśodā prayed,] “O descendant of Daśārha, O Lord of the universe, may You and Your younger brother Kṛṣṇa ever protect us.”…
• SB 10.65.4-6 Lord Balarāma then paid proper respects to the elder cowherd men, and the younger ones all greeted Him respectfully. He met them all with…
• SB 10.65.7 [The cowherds said:] O Rāma, are all our relatives doing well? And Rāma, do all of you, with your wives and children, still remember us?
• SB 10.65.8 It is our great fortune that sinful Kaṁsa has been killed and our dear relatives have been freed. And it is also our good fortune that our…
• SB 10.65.9 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Honored to have the personal audience of Lord Balarāma, the young gopīs smiled and asked Him, “Is Kṛṣṇa, the…
• SB 10.65.10 “Does He remember His family members, especially His father and mother? Do you think He will ever come back even once to see His mother?…
• SB 10.65.11-12 “For Kṛṣṇa’s sake, O descendant of Dāśārha, we abandoned our mothers, fathers, brothers, husbands, children and sisters, even though these…
• SB 10.65.13 “How can intelligent city women possibly trust the words of one whose heart is so unsteady and who is so ungrateful? They must believe Him…
• SB 10.65.14 “Why bother talking about Him, dear gopī? Please talk of something else. If He passes His time without us, then we shall similarly pass…
• SB 10.65.15 While speaking these words, the young cowherd women remembered Lord Śauri’s laughter, His pleasing conversations with them, His attractive…
• SB 10.65.16 The Supreme Lord Balarāma, the attractor of all, being expert at various kinds of conciliation, consoled the gopīs by relaying to them the…
• SB 10.65.17 Lord Balarāma, the Personality of Godhead, resided there for the two months of Madhu and Mādhava, and during the nights He gave His…
• SB 10.65.18 In the company of numerous women, Lord Balarāma enjoyed in a garden by the Yamunā River. This garden was bathed in the rays of the full…
• SB 10.65.19 Sent by the demigod Varuṇa, the divine vāruṇī liquor flowed from a tree hollow and made the entire forest even more fragrant with its…
• SB 10.65.20 The wind carried to Balarāma the fragrance of that flood of sweet liquor, and when He smelled it He went [to the tree]. There He and His…
• SB 10.65.21 As the Gandharvas sang His glories, Lord Balarāma enjoyed within the brilliant circle of young women. He appeared just like Indra’s…
• SB 10.65.22 At that time kettledrums resounded in the sky, the Gandharvas joyfully rained down flowers, and the great sages praised Lord Balarāma’s…
• SB 10.65.23 As His deeds were sung, Lord Halāyudha wandered as if inebriated among the various forests with His girlfriends. His eyes rolled from the…
• SB 10.65.24-25 Intoxicated with joy, Lord Balarāma sported flower garlands, including the famous Vaijayantī. He wore a single earring, and beads of…
• SB 10.65.26 [Lord Balarāma said:] O sinful one disrespecting Me, you do not come when I call you but rather move only by your own whim. Therefore with…
• SB 10.65.27 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus scolded by the Lord, O King, the frightened river-goddess Yamunā came and fell at the feet of Śrī…
• SB 10.65.28 [Goddess Yamunā said:] Rāma, Rāma, O mighty-armed one! I know nothing of Your prowess. With a single portion of Yourself You hold up the…
• SB 10.65.29 My Lord, please release me. O soul of the universe, I didn’t understand Your position as the Supreme Godhead, but now I have surrendered…
• SB 10.65.30 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thereupon Lord Balarāma released the Yamunā and, like the king of the elephants with his entourage of…
• SB 10.65.31 The Lord played in the water to His full satisfaction, and when He came out Goddess Kānti presented Him with blue garments, precious…
• SB 10.65.32 Lord Balarāma dressed Himself in the blue garments and put on the gold necklace. Anointed with fragrances and beautifully adorned, He…
• SB 10.65.33 Even today, O King, one can see how the Yamunā flows through the many channels created when it was dragged by the unlimitedly powerful…
• SB 10.65.34 Thus for Lord Balarāma all the nights passed like a single night as He enjoyed in Vraja, His mind enchanted by the exquisite charm and…
• SB 10.66.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, while Lord Balarāma was away visiting Nanda’s village of Vraja, the ruler of Karūṣa, foolishly thinking “I…
• SB 10.66.2 Pauṇḍraka was emboldened by the flattery of childish men, who told him, “You are Vāsudeva, the Supreme Lord and master of the universe,…
• SB 10.66.3 Thus slow-witted King Pauṇḍraka sent a messenger to the inscrutable Lord Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā. Pauṇḍraka was acting just like an unintelligent…
• SB 10.66.4 Arriving in Dvārakā, the messenger found lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa in His royal assembly and relayed the King’s message to that almighty Lord.
• SB 10.66.5 [On Pauṇḍraka’s behalf, the messenger said:] I am the one and only Lord Vāsudeva, and there is no other. It is I who have descended to…
• SB 10.66.6 O Sātvata, give up my personal symbols, which out of foolishness You now carry, and come to me for shelter. If You do not, then You must…
• SB 10.66.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: King Ugrasena and the other members of the assembly laughed loudly when they heard this vain boasting of…
• SB 10.66.8 The Personality of Godhead, after enjoying the jokes of the assembly, told the messenger [to relay a message to his master:] “You fool, I…
• SB 10.66.9 “When you lie dead, O fool, your face covered by vultures, herons and vaṭa birds, you will become the shelter of dogs.”
• SB 10.66.10 When the Lord had thus spoken, the messenger conveyed His insulting reply to his master in its entirety. Lord Kṛṣṇa then mounted His…
• SB 10.66.11 Upon observing Lord Kṛṣṇa’s preparations for battle, the mighty warrior Pauṇḍraka quickly went out of the city with two full military…
• SB 10.66.12-14 Pauṇḍraka’s friend, the King of Kāśī, followed behind, O King, leading the rear guard with three akṣauhiṇī divisions. Lord Kṛṣṇa saw that…
• SB 10.66.15 Lord Hari laughed heartily when He saw how the King had dressed up in exact imitation of His own appearance, just like an actor onstage.
• SB 10.66.16 The enemies of Lord Hari attacked Him with tridents, clubs, bludgeons, pikes, ṛṣtis, barbed darts, lances, swords, axes and arrows.
• SB 10.66.17 But Lord Kṛṣṇa fiercely struck back at the army of Pauṇḍraka and Kāśirāja, which consisted of elephants, chariots, cavalry and infantry.…
• SB 10.66.18 The battlefield, strewn with the dismembered chariots, horses, elephants, humans, mules and camels that had been cut to pieces by the…
• SB 10.66.19 Lord Kṛṣṇa then addressed Pauṇḍraka: My dear Pauṇḍraka, the very weapons you spoke of through your messenger, I now release unto you.
• SB 10.66.20 O fool, now I shall make you renounce My name, which you have falsely assumed. And I will certainly take shelter of you if I do not wish…
• SB 10.66.21 Having thus derided Pauṇḍraka, Lord Kṛṣṇa destroyed his chariot with His sharp arrows. The Lord then cut off his head with the Sudarśana…
• SB 10.66.22 With His arrows, Lord Kṛṣṇa similarly severed Kāśirāja’s head from his body, sending it flying into Kāśī city like a lotus flower thrown…
• SB 10.66.23 Having thus killed envious Pauṇḍraka and his ally, Lord Kṛṣṇa returned to Dvārakā. As He entered the city, the Siddhas of heaven chanted…
• SB 10.66.24 By constantly meditating upon the Supreme Lord, Pauṇḍraka shattered all his material bonds. Indeed, by imitating Lord Kṛṣṇa’s appearance,…
• SB 10.66.25 Seeing a head decorated with earrings lying at the gate of the royal palace, the people present were puzzled. Some of them asked, “What is…
• SB 10.66.26 My dear King, when they recognized it as the head of their King — the lord of Kāśi — his queens, sons and other relatives, along with all…
• SB 10.66.27-28 After the King’s son Sudakṣiṇa had performed the obligatory funeral rituals for his father, he resolved within his mind: “Only by killing…
• SB 10.66.29 Satisfied by the worship, the powerful Lord Śiva appeared in the sacred precinct of Avimukta and offered Sudakṣiṇa his choice of…
• SB 10.66.30-31 Lord Śiva told him, “Accompanied by brāhmaṇas, serve the Dakṣiṇāgni fire — the original priest — following the injunctions of the abhicāra…
• SB 10.66.32-33 Thereupon the fire rose up out of the altar pit, assuming the form of an extremely fearsome, naked person. The fiery creature’s beard and…
• SB 10.66.34 On legs as tall as palm trees, the monster raced toward Dvārakā in the company of ghostly spirits, shaking the ground and burning the…
• SB 10.66.35 Seeing the approacḥ of the fiery demon created by the abhicāra ritual, the residents of Dvārakā were all struck with fear, like animals…
• SB 10.66.36 Distraught with fear, the people cried out to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who was then playing at dice in the royal court: “Save…
• SB 10.66.37 When Lord Kṛṣṇa heard the people’s agitation and saw that even His own men were disturbed, that most worthy giver of shelter simply…
• SB 10.66.38 The almighty Lord, the internal and external witness of all, understood that the monster had been produced by Lord Śiva from the…
• SB 10.66.39 That Sudarśana, the disc weapon of Lord Mukunda, blazed forth like millions of suns. His effulgence blazed like the fire of universal…
• SB 10.66.40 Frustrated by the power of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s weapon, O King, the fiery creature produced by black magic turned his face away and retreated.…
• SB 10.66.41 Lord Viṣṇu’s disc also entered Vārāṇasī, in pursuit of the fiery demon, and proceeded to burn the city to the ground, including all its…
• SB 10.66.42 After burning down the entire city of Vārāṇasī, Lord Viṣṇu’s Sudarśana cakra returned to the side of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose actions are…
• SB 10.66.43 Any mortal who recounts this heroic pastime of Lord Uttamaḥ-śloka’s, or who simply hears it attentively, will become freed from all sins.
• SB 10.67.2 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: There was an ape named Dvivida who was a friend of Narakāsura’s. This powerful Dvivida, the brother of Mainda,…
• SB 10.67.3 To avenge the death of his friend [Naraka], the ape Dvivida ravaged the land, setting fires that burned cities, villages, mines and…
• SB 10.67.4 Once Dvivida tore up a number of mountains and used them to devastate all the neighboring kingdoms, especially the province of Ānarta,…
• SB 10.67.5 Another time he entered the ocean and, with the strength of ten thousand elephants, churned up its water with his arms and thus submerged…
• SB 10.67.6 The wicked ape tore down the trees in the hermitages of exalted sages and contaminated their sacrificial fires with his feces and urine.
• SB 10.67.7 Just as a wasp imprisons smaller insects, he arrogantly threw both men and women into caves in a mountain valley and sealed the caves shut…
• SB 10.67.8 Once, while Dvivida was thus engaged in harassing the neighboring kingdoms and polluting women of respectable families, he heard very…
• SB 10.67.9-10 There he saw Śrī Balarāma, the Lord of the Yadus, adorned with a garland of lotuses and appearing most attractive in every limb. He was…
• SB 10.67.11 The mischievous ape climbed a tree branch and then revealed his presence by shaking the trees and making the sound kilakilā.
• SB 10.67.12 When Lord Baladeva’s consorts saw the ape’s impudence, they began to laugh. They were, after all, young girls who were fond of joking and…
• SB 10.67.13 Even as Lord Balarāma looked on, Dvivida insulted the girls by making odd gestures with his eyebrows, coming right in front of them, and…
• SB 10.67.14-15 Angered, Lord Balarāma, the best of fighters, hurled a rock at him, but the cunning ape dodged the rock and grabbed the Lord’s pot of…
• SB 10.67.16 Lord Balarāma saw the ape’s rude behavior and thought of the disruptions he had created in the surrounding kingdoms. Thus the Lord angrily…
• SB 10.67.17 Mighty Dvivida also came forward to do battle. Uprooting a śāla tree with one hand, he rushed toward Balarāma and struck Him on the head…
• SB 10.67.18 But Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa remained as motionless as a mountain and simply grabbed the log as it fell upon His head. He then struck Dvivida with…
• SB 10.67.19-21 Struck on the skull by the Lord’s club, Dvivida became brilliantly decorated by the outpour of blood, like a mountain beautified by red…
• SB 10.67.22 Thus fighting the Lord, who again and again demolished the trees He was attacked with, Dvivida kept on uprooting trees from all sides…
• SB 10.67.23 The angry ape then released a rain of stones upon Lord Balarāma, but the wielder of the club easily pulverized them all.
• SB 10.67.24 Dvivida, the most powerful of apes, now clenched his fists at the end of his palm-tree-sized arms, came before Lord Balarāma and beat his…
• SB 10.67.25 The furious Lord of the Yādavas then threw aside His club and plow and with His bare hands hammered a blow upon Dvivida’s collarbone. The…
• SB 10.67.26 When he fell, O tiger among the Kurus, Raivataka Mountain shook, along with its cliffs and trees, like a wind-tossed boat at sea.
• SB 10.67.27 In the heavens the demigods, perfect mystics and great sages cried out, “Victory to You! Obeisances to You! Excellent! Well done!” and…
• SB 10.67.28 Having thus killed Dvivida, who had disturbed the whole world, the Supreme Lord returned to His capital as the people along the way…
• SB 10.68.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, Jāmbavatī’s son Sāmba, ever victorious in battle, kidnapped Duryodhana’s daughter Lakṣmaṇā from her…
• SB 10.68.2 The angry Kurus said: This ill-behaved boy has offended us, forcibly kidnapping our unmarried daughter against her will.
• SB 10.68.3 Arrest this ill-behaved Sāmba! What will the Vṛṣṇis do? By our grace they are ruling land that we have granted them.
• SB 10.68.4 If the Vṛṣṇis come here when they learn that their son has been captured, we will break their pride. Thus they’ll become subdued, like…
• SB 10.68.5 After saying this and having their plan sanctioned by the senior member of the Kuru dynasty, Karṇa, Śala, Bhūri, Yajñaketu and Suyodhana…
• SB 10.68.6 Seeing Duryodhana and his companions rushing toward him, Sāmba, the great chariot-fighter, took up his splendid bow and stood alone like a…
• SB 10.68.7 Determined to capture him, the angry bowmen led by Karṇa shouted at Sāmba, ‘Stand and fight! Stand and fight!’ They came straight for him…
• SB 10.68.8 O best of the Kurus, as Kṛṣṇa’s son Sāmba was being unjustly harassed by the Kurus, that darling of the Yadu dynasty did not tolerate…
• SB 10.68.9-10 Twanging his wonderful bow, heroic Sāmba struck with arrows the six warriors headed by Karṇa. He pierced the six chariots with as many…
• SB 10.68.11 But they forced him down from his chariot, and thereupon four of them struck his four horses, one of them struck down his chariot driver,…
• SB 10.68.12 Having deprived Sāmba of his chariot during the fight, the Kuru warriors tied him up with great difficulty and then returned victorious to…
• SB 10.68.13 O King, when the Yādavas heard news of this from Śrī Nārada, they became angry. Urged on by King Ugrasena, they prepared for war against…
• SB 10.68.14-15 Lord Balarāma, however, cooled the tempers of the Vṛṣṇi heroes, who had already put on their armor. He who purifies the age of quarrel did…
• SB 10.68.16 Upon arriving at Hastināpura, Lord Balarāma remained in a garden outside the city and sent Uddhava ahead to probe King Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s…
• SB 10.68.17 After he had offered proper respects to the son of Ambikā [Dhṛtarāṣṭra] and to Bhīṣma, Droṇa, Bāhlika and Duryodhana, Uddhava informed…
• SB 10.68.18 Overjoyed to hear that Balarāma, their dearmost friend, had come, they first honored Uddhava and then went forth to meet the Lord,…
• SB 10.68.19 They approached Lord Balarāma and worshiped Him with gifts of cows and arghya, as was fitting. Those among the Kurus who understood His…
• SB 10.68.20 After both parties had heard that their relatives were doing well and both had inquired into each other’s welfare and health, Lord…
• SB 10.68.21 [Lord Balarāma said:] King Ugrasena is our master and the ruler of kings. With undivided attention you should hear what he has ordered you…
• SB 10.68.22 [King Ugrasena has said:] Even though by irreligious means several of you defeated a single opponent who follows the religious codes,…
• SB 10.68.23 Upon hearing these words of Lord Baladeva’s, which were full of potency, courage and strength and were appropriate to His transcendental…
• SB 10.68.24 [The Kuru nobles said:] Oh, how amazing this is! The force of time is indeed insurmountable: a lowly shoe now wants to climb on the head…
• SB 10.68.25 It is because these Vṛṣṇis are bound to us by marital ties that we have granted them equality, allowing them to share our beds, seats and…
• SB 10.68.26 Only because we looked the other way could they enjoy the pair of yak-tail fans and the conchshell, white umbrella, throne, and royal bed.
• SB 10.68.27 No longer should the Yadus be allowed to use these royal symbols, which now cause trouble for those who gave them, like milk fed to…
• SB 10.68.28 How would even Indra dare usurp anything that Bhīṣma, Droṇa, Arjuna or the other Kurus have not given him? It would be like a lamb…
• SB 10.68.29 Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: O best of the Bhāratas, after the arrogant Kurus, thoroughly puffed up by the opulence of their high birth and…
• SB 10.68.30 Seeing the bad character of the Kurus and hearing their nasty words, the infallible Lord Balarāma became filled with rage. His countenance…
• SB 10.68.31 [Lord Balarāma said:] “Clearly the many passions of these scoundrels have made them so proud that they do not want peace. Then let them be…
• SB 10.68.32-33 “Ah, only gradually was I able to calm the furious Yadus and Lord Kṛṣṇa, who was also enraged. Desiring peace for these Kauravas, I came…
• SB 10.68.34 “King Ugrasena, the lord of the Bhojas, Vṛṣṇis and Andhakas, is not fit to command, when Indra and other planetary rulers obey his orders?
• SB 10.68.35 “That same Kṛṣṇa who occupies the Sudharmā assembly hall and for His enjoyment took the pārijāta tree from the immortal demigods — that…
• SB 10.68.36 “The goddess of fortune herself, ruler of the entire universe, worships His feet. And the master of the goddess of fortune does not…
• SB 10.68.37 “The dust of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, which is the source of holiness for all places of pilgrimage, is worshiped by all the great demigods. The…
• SB 10.68.38 “We Vṛṣṇis enjoy only whatever small parcel of land the Kurus allow us? And we are indeed shoes, whereas the Kurus are the head?
• SB 10.68.39 “Just see how these puffed-up Kurus are intoxicated with their so-called power, like ordinary drunken men! What actual ruler, with the…
• SB 10.68.40 “Today I shall rid the earth of the Kauravas!” declared the furious Balarāma. Thus He took His plow weapon and rose up as if to set the…
• SB 10.68.41 The Lord angrily dug up Hastināpura with the tip of His plow and began to drag it, intending to cast the entire city into the Ganges.
• SB 10.68.42-43 Seeing that their city was tumbling about like a raft at sea as it was being dragged away, and that it was about to fall into the Ganges,…
• SB 10.68.44 [The Kauravas said:] O Rāma, Rāma, foundation of everything! We know nothing of Your power. Please excuse our offense, for we are ignorant…
• SB 10.68.45 You alone cause the creation, maintenance and annihilation of the cosmos, and of You there is no prior cause. Indeed, O Lord, authorities…
• SB 10.68.46 O unlimited one of a thousand heads, as Your pastime You carry this earthly globe upon one of Your heads. At the time of annihilation You…
• SB 10.68.47 Your anger is meant for instructing everyone; it is not a manifestation of hatred or envy. O Supreme Lord, You sustain the pure mode of…
• SB 10.68.48 We bow down to You, O Soul of all beings, O wielder of all potencies, O tireless maker of the universe! Offering You obeisances, we take…
• SB 10.68.49 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus propitiated by the Kurus, whose city was trembling and who were surrendering to Him in great distress, Lord…
• SB 10.68.50-51 Duryodhana, being very affectionate to his daughter, gave as her dowry 1,200 sixty-year-old elephants, 120,000 horses, 6,000 golden…
• SB 10.68.52 The Supreme Lord, chief of the Yādavas, accepted all these gifts and then departed with His son and daughter-in-law as His well-wishers…
• SB 10.68.53 Then Lord Halāyudha entered His city [Dvārakā] and met His relatives, whose hearts were all bound to Him in loving attachment. In the…
• SB 10.68.54 Even today the city of Hastināpura is visibly elevated on its southern side along the Ganges, thus showing the signs of Lord Balarāma’s…
• SB 10.69.1-6 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing that Lord Kṛṣṇa had killed Narakāsura and had alone married many brides, Nārada Muni desired to see the…
• SB 10.69.7-8 In the city of Dvārakā was a beautiful private quarter worshiped by the planetary rulers. This district, where the demigod Viśvakarmā had…
• SB 10.69.9-12 Supporting the palace were coral pillars decoratively inlaid with vaidūrya gems. Sapphires bedecked the walls, and the floors glowed with…
• SB 10.69.13 In that palace the learned brāhmaṇa saw the Lord of the Sātvatas, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, together with His wife, who fanned Him with a gold-handled…
• SB 10.69.14 The Supreme Lord is the greatest upholder of religious principles. Thus when He noticed Nārada, He rose at once from Goddess Śrī’s bed,…
• SB 10.69.15 The Lord bathed Nārada’s feet and then put the water on His own head. Although Lord Kṛṣṇa is the supreme spiritual authority of the…
• SB 10.69.16 After fully worshiping the great sage of the demigods according to Vedic injunctions, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is Himself the original sage —…
• SB 10.69.41 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus in every palace Nārada saw the Lord in His same personal form, executing the transcendental principles of…
• SB 10.69.42 Having repeatedly seen the vast mystic display of Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose power is unlimited, the sage was amazed and filled with wonder.
• SB 10.69.43 Lord Kṛṣṇa greatly honored Nārada, faithfully presenting him with gifts related to economic prosperity, sense gratification and religious…
• SB 10.69.44 In this way Lord Nārāyaṇa imitated the ways of ordinary humans, manifesting His divine potencies for the benefit of all beings. Thus He…
• SB 10.69.45 Lord Hari is the ultimate cause of universal creation, maintenance and destruction. My dear King, anyone who chants about, hears about or…
• SB 10.70.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: As dawn approached, the wives of Lord Mādhava, each embraced around the neck by her husband, cursed the crowing…
• SB 10.70.2 The bees’ buzzing, caused by the fragrant breeze from the pārijāta garden, roused the birds from sleep. And when the birds began to sing…
• SB 10.70.3 Lying in her beloved’s arms, Queen Vaidarbhī did not like this most auspicious hour, for it meant she would lose His embrace.
• SB 10.70.4-5 Lord Mādhava would rise during the brāhma-muhūrta period and touch water. With a clear mind He would then meditate upon Himself, the…
• SB 10.70.6 That most saintly of personalities would then bathe in sanctified water, dress Himself in lower and upper garments and perform the entire…
• SB 10.70.7-9 Each day the Lord worshiped the rising sun and propitiated the demigods, sages and forefathers, who are all His expansions. The…
• SB 10.70.10 Lord Kṛṣṇa would offer obeisances to the cows, brāhmaṇas and demigods, His elders and spiritual masters, and all living beings — all of…
• SB 10.70.11 He would decorate His body, the very ornament of human society, with His own special clothes and jewelry and with divine flower garlands…
• SB 10.70.12 He would then look at ghee, a mirror, the cows and bulls, the brāhmaṇas and the demigods and see to it that the members of all the social…
• SB 10.70.13 After first distributing flower garlands, pān and sandalwood paste to the brāhmaṇas, He would give these gifts to His friends, ministers…
• SB 10.70.14 By then the Lord’s driver would have brought His supremely wonderful chariot, yoked with Sugrīva and His other horses. His charioteer…
• SB 10.70.15 Holding on to His charioteer’s hands, Lord Kṛṣṇa would mount the chariot, together with Sātyaki and Uddhava, just like the sun rising over…
• SB 10.70.16 The palace women would look upon Lord Kṛṣṇa with shy, loving glances, and thus He would get free from them only with difficulty. He would…
• SB 10.70.17 The Lord, attended by all the Vṛṣṇis, would enter the Sudharmā assembly hall, which protects those who enter it from the six waves of…
• SB 10.70.18 As the almighty Supreme Lord would seat Himself upon His exalted throne there in the assembly hall, He shone with His unique effulgence,…
• SB 10.70.19 And there, O King, jesters would entertain the Lord by displaying various comic moods, expert entertainers would perform for Him, and…
• SB 10.70.20 These performers would dance and sing to the sounds of mṛdaṅgas, vīṇās, murajas, flutes, cymbals and conchshells, while professional…
• SB 10.70.21 Some brāhmaṇas sitting in that assembly hall would fluently chant Vedic mantras, while others recounted stories of past kings of pious…
• SB 10.70.22 Once a certain person arrived in the assembly, O King, who had never been seen there before. The doorkeepers announced him to the Lord and…
• SB 10.70.23 That person bowed down to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and with joined palms he described to the Lord how a number of kings…
• SB 10.70.24 Twenty thousand kings who had refused to submit absolutely to Jarāsandha during his world conquest had been forcibly imprisoned by him in…
• SB 10.70.25 The kings said [as related through their messenger]: O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, O immeasurable Soul, destroyer of fear for those surrendered to You!…
• SB 10.70.26 People in this world are always engaged in sinful activities and are thus bewildered about their real duty, which is to worship You…
• SB 10.70.27 You are the predominating Lord of the universe and have descended into this world with Your personal power to protect the saintly and…
• SB 10.70.28 O Lord, with this corpselike body, always full of fear, we bear the burden of the relative happiness of kings, which is just like a dream.…
• SB 10.70.29 Therefore, since Your feet relieve the sorrow of those who surrender to them, please release us prisoners from the shackles of karma,…
• SB 10.70.30 O wielder of the disc! Your strength is unlimited, and thus seventeen times You crushed Jarāsandha in battle. But then, absorbed in human…
• SB 10.70.31 The messenger continued: This is the message of the kings imprisoned by Jarāsandha, who all hanker for Your audience, having surrendered…
• SB 10.70.32 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the kings’ messenger had thus spoken, the sage of the demigods, Nārada, suddenly appeared. Bearing a mass of…
• SB 10.70.33 Lord Kṛṣṇa is the worshipable master of even planetary rulers like Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, yet as soon as He saw that Nārada Muni had…
• SB 10.70.34 After Nārada had accepted the seat offered to him, Lord Kṛṣṇa honored the sage according to scriptural injunctions and, gratifying him…
• SB 10.70.45 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When His supporters, the Yādavas, objected to this proposal out of eagerness to defeat Jarāsandha, Lord Keśava…
• SB 10.71.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus heard the statements of Devarṣi Nārada, and understanding the opinions of both the assembly and Lord…
• SB 10.71.2 Śrī Uddhava said: O Lord, as the sage advised, You should help Your cousin fulfill his plan for performing the Rājasūya sacrifice, and You…
• SB 10.71.3 Only one who has conquered all opponents in every direction can perform the Rājasūya sacrifice, O almighty one. Thus, in my opinion,…
• SB 10.71.4 By this decision there will be great gain for us, and You will save the kings. Thus, Govinda, You will be glorified.
• SB 10.71.5 The invincible King Jarāsandha is as strong as ten thousand elephants. Indeed, other powerful warriors cannot defeat him. Only Bhīma is…
• SB 10.71.6 He will be defeated in a match of single chariots, not when he is with his hundred military divisions. Now, Jarāsandha is so devoted to…
• SB 10.71.7 Bhīma should go to him disguised as a brāhmaṇa and beg charity. Thus he will obtain single combat with Jarāsandha, and in Your presence…
• SB 10.71.8 Even Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva act only as Your instruments in cosmic creation and annihilation, which are ultimately done by You, the…
• SB 10.71.9 In their homes, the godly wives of the imprisoned kings sing of Your noble deeds — about how You will kill their husbands’ enemy and…
• SB 10.71.10 O Kṛṣṇa, the killing of Jarāsandha, which is certainly a reaction of his past sins, will bring immense benefit. Indeed, it will make…
• SB 10.71.11 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, Devarṣi Nārada, the Yadu elders and Lord Kṛṣṇa all welcomed Uddhava’s proposal, which was entirely…
• SB 10.71.12 The almighty Personality of Godhead, the son of Devakī, begged His superiors for permission to leave. Then He ordered His servants, headed…
• SB 10.71.13 O slayer of enemies, after He had arranged for the departure of His wives, children and baggage and taken leave of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa and…
• SB 10.71.14 As the vibrations resounding from mṛdaṅgas, bherīs, kettledrums, conchshells and gomukhas filled the sky in all directions, Lord Kṛṣṇa set…
• SB 10.71.15 Lord Acyuta’s faithful wives, along with their children, followed the Lord on golden palanquins carried by powerful men. The queens were…
• SB 10.71.16 On all sides proceeded finely adorned women-attendants of the royal household, as well as courtesans. They rode on palanquins and camels,…
• SB 10.71.17 The Lord’s army boasted royal umbrellas, cāmara fans and huge flagpoles with waving banners. During the day the sun’s rays reflected…
• SB 10.71.18 Honored by Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the chief of the Yadus, Nārada Muni bowed down to the Lord. All of Nārada’s senses were satisfied by his meeting…
• SB 10.71.19 With pleasing words the Lord addressed the messenger sent by the kings: “My dear messenger, I wish all good fortune to you. I shall…
• SB 10.71.20 Thus addressed, the messenger departed and accurately relayed the Lord’s message to the kings. Eager for freedom, they then waited…
• SB 10.71.21 As He traveled through the provinces of Ānarta, Sauvīra, Marudeśa and Vinaśana, Lord Hari crossed rivers and passed mountains, cities,…
• SB 10.71.22 After crossing the rivers Dṛṣadvatī and Sarasvatī, He passed through Pañcāla and Matsya and finally came to Indraprastha.
• SB 10.71.23 King Yudhiṣṭhira was delighted to hear that the Lord, whom human beings rarely see, had now arrived. Accompanied by his priests and dear…
• SB 10.71.24 As songs and musical instruments resounded along with the loud vibration of Vedic hymns, the King went forth with great reverence to meet…
• SB 10.71.25 The heart of King Yudhiṣṭhira melted with affection when he saw his dearmost friend, Lord Kṛṣṇa, after such a long separation, and he…
• SB 10.71.26 The eternal form of Lord Kṛṣṇa is the everlasting residence of the goddess of fortune. As soon as King Yudhiṣṭhira embraced Him, the King…
• SB 10.71.27 Then Bhīma, his eyes brimming with tears, laughed with joy as he embraced his maternal cousin, Kṛṣṇa. Arjuna and the twins — Nakula and…
• SB 10.71.28 After Arjuna had embraced Him once more and Nakula and Sahadeva had offered Him their obeisances, Lord Kṛṣṇa bowed down to the brāhmaṇas…
• SB 10.71.29 Sūtas, Māgadhas, Gandharvas, Vandīs, jesters and brāhmaṇas all glorified the lotus-eyed Lord — some reciting prayers, some dancing and…
• SB 10.71.30 Thus surrounded by His well-wishing relatives and praised on all sides, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the crest jewel of the justly renowned, entered the…
• SB 10.71.31-32 The roads of Indraprastha were sprinkled with water perfumed by the liquid from elephants’ foreheads, and colorful flags, golden gateways…
• SB 10.71.33 When the young women of the city heard that Lord Kṛṣṇa, the reservoir of pleasure for human eyes, had arrived, they hurriedly went onto…
• SB 10.71.34 The royal road being quite crowded with elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers, the women climbed to the top of their houses, where…
• SB 10.71.35 Observing Lord Mukunda’s wives passing on the road like stars accompanying the moon, the women exclaimed, “What have these ladies done so…
• SB 10.71.36 In various places citizens of the city came forward holding auspicious offerings for Lord Kṛṣṇa, and sinless leaders of occupational…
• SB 10.71.37 With wide-open eyes, the members of the royal household came forward in a flurry to lovingly greet Lord Mukunda, and thus the Lord entered…
• SB 10.71.38 When Queen Pṛthā saw her nephew Kṛṣṇa, the master of the three worlds, her heart became filled with love. Rising from her couch with her…
• SB 10.71.39 King Yudhiṣṭhira respectfully brought Lord Govinda, the Supreme God of gods, to his personal quarters. The King was so overcome with joy…
• SB 10.71.40 Lord Kṛṣṇa bowed down to His aunt and the wives of His elders, O King, and then Draupadī and the Lord’s sister bowed down to Him.
• SB 10.71.41-42 Encouraged by her mother-in-law, Draupadī worshiped all of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s wives, including Rukmiṇī; Satyabhāmā; Bhadrā; Jāmbavatī; Kālindī;…
• SB 10.71.43 King Yudhiṣṭhira arranged for Kṛṣṇa’s rest and saw to it that all who came along with Him — namely His queens, soldiers, ministers and…
• SB 10.71.44-45 Desiring to please King Yudhiṣṭhira, the Lord resided at Indraprastha for several months. During His stay, He and Arjuna satisfied the…
• SB 10.72.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: One day, as King Yudhiṣṭhira sat in the royal assembly surrounded by eminent sages, brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas and…
• SB 10.72.3 Śrī Yudhiṣṭhira said: O Govinda, I desire to worship Your auspicious, opulent expansions by the Rājasūya sacrifice, the king of Vedic…
• SB 10.72.4 Purified persons who constantly serve, meditate upon and glorify Your shoes, which destroy everything inauspicious, are sure to obtain…
• SB 10.72.5 Therefore, O Lord of lords, let the people of this world see the power of devotional service rendered to Your lotus feet. Please show…
• SB 10.72.6 Within Your mind there can be no such differentiation as “This one is mine, and that is another’s,” because You are the Supreme Absolute…
• SB 10.72.12 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Upon hearing these words sung by the Supreme Lord, King Yudhiṣṭhira became joyful, and his face blossomed like a…
• SB 10.72.13 He sent Sahadeva to the south with the Sṛñjayas, Nakula to the west with the Matsyas, Arjuna to the north with the Kekayas, and Bhīma to…
• SB 10.72.14 After defeating many kings with their prowess, these heroic brothers brought back abundant wealth for Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, who was intent…
• SB 10.72.15 When King Yudhiṣṭhira heard that Jarāsandha remained undefeated, he set to pondering, and then the primeval Lord, Hari, told him the means…
• SB 10.72.16 Thus Bhīmasena, Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa disguised themselves as brāhmaṇas and went to Girivraja, my dear King, where the son of Bṛhadratha was to…
• SB 10.72.17 Disguised as brāhmaṇas, the royal warriors approached Jarāsandha at home during the appointed hour for receiving guests. They submitted…
• SB 10.72.22 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: From the sound of their voices, their physical stature and the marks of bowstrings on their forearms, Jarāsandha…
• SB 10.72.23 [Jarāsandha thought:] These are surely members of the royal order dressed as brāhmaṇas, but still I must grant their request for charity,…
• SB 10.72.24-25 Indeed, the spotless glories of Bali Mahārāja are heard throughout the world. Lord Viṣṇu, wishing to recover Indra’s opulence from Bali,…
• SB 10.72.26 What is the use of an unqualified kṣatriya who goes on living but fails to gain everlasting glory by working with his perishable body for…
• SB 10.72.27 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus making up his mind, the generous Jarāsandha addressed Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna and Bhīma: “O learned brāhmaṇas,…
• SB 10.73.1-6 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Jarāsandha had defeated 20,800 kings in combat and thrown them into prison. As these kings emerged from the…
• SB 10.73.7 The ecstasy of beholding Lord Kṛṣṇa having dispelled the weariness of their imprisonment, the kings stood with joined palms and offered…
• SB 10.73.8 The kings said: Obeisances to You, O Lord of the ruling demigods, O destroyer of Your surrendered devotees’ distress. Since we have…
• SB 10.73.9 O master, Madhusūdana, we do not blame this King of Magadha, since it is actually by Your mercy that kings fall from their royal position,…
• SB 10.73.10 Infatuated with his opulence and ruling power, a king loses all self-restraint and cannot obtain his true welfare. Thus bewildered by Your…
• SB 10.73.11 Just as men of childish intelligence consider a mirage in the desert to be a pond of water, so those who are irrational look upon the…
• SB 10.73.12-13 Previously, blinded by the intoxication of riches, we wanted to conquer this earth, and thus we fought one another to achieve victory,…
• SB 10.73.14 Never again will we hanker for a miragelike kingdom — a kingdom that must be slavishly served by this mortal body, which is simply a…
• SB 10.73.15 Please tell us how we may constantly remember Your lotus feet, though we continue in the cycle of birth and death in this world.
• SB 10.73.16 Again and again we offer our obeisances unto Lord Kṛṣṇa, Hari, the son of Vasudeva. That Supreme Soul, Govinda, vanquishes the suffering…
• SB 10.73.17 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus the kings, now freed from bondage, glorified the Supreme Lord. Then, my dear Parīkṣit, that merciful bestower…
• SB 10.73.24 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus instructed the kings, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the supreme master of all the worlds, engaged male and female…
• SB 10.73.25 O descendant of Bharata, the Lord then had King Sahadeva honor them with offerings of clothing, jewelry, garlands and sandalwood paste,…
• SB 10.73.26 After they had been properly bathed and adorned, Lord Kṛṣṇa saw to it that they dined on excellent food. He also presented them with…
• SB 10.73.27 Honored by Lord Mukunda and freed from tribulation, the kings shone splendidly, their earrings gleaming, just as the moon and other…
• SB 10.73.28 Then the Lord arranged for the kings to be seated on chariots drawn by fine horses and adorned with jewels and gold, and pleasing them…
• SB 10.73.29 Thus liberated from all difficulty by Kṛṣṇa, the greatest of personalities, the kings departed, and as they went they thought only of Him,…
• SB 10.73.30 The kings told their ministers and other associates what the Personality of Godhead had done, and then they diligently carried out the…
• SB 10.73.31 Having arranged for Bhīmasena to kill Jarāsandha, Lord Keśava accepted worship from King Sahadeva and then departed with the two sons of…
• SB 10.73.32 When they arrived at Indraprastha, the victorious heroes blew their conchshells, bringing joy to their well-wishing friends and sorrow to…
• SB 10.73.33 The residents of Indraprastha were very pleased to hear that sound, for they understood that now the King of Magadha had been put to rest.…
• SB 10.73.34 Bhīma, Arjuna and Janārdana offered their respects to the King and informed him fully about what they had done.
• SB 10.73.35 Upon hearing their account of the great favor Lord Keśava had mercifully shown him, King Dharmarāja shed tears of ecstasy. He felt such…
• SB 10.74.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus heard of the killing of Jarāsandha, and also of almighty Kṛṣṇa’s wonderful power, King Yudhiṣṭhira…
• SB 10.74.2 Śrī Yudhiṣṭhira said: All the exalted spiritual masters of the three worlds, together with the inhabitants and rulers of the various…
• SB 10.74.3 That You, the lotus-eyed Supreme Lord, accept the orders of wretched fools who presume themselves rulers is a great pretense on Your part,…
• SB 10.74.4 But of course the power of the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Soul, the primeval one without a second, is neither increased nor diminished by…
• SB 10.74.5 O unconquerable Mādhava, even Your devotees make no distinctions of “I” and “mine,” “you” and “yours,” for this is the perverted mentality…
• SB 10.74.6 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having said this, King Yudhiṣṭhira waited until the proper time for the sacrifice was at hand. Then with Lord…
• SB 10.74.7-9 He selected Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana, Bharadvāja, Sumantu, Gotama and Asita, along with Vasiṣṭha, Cyavana, Kaṇva, Maitreya, Kavaṣa and Trita. He…
• SB 10.74.10-11 O King, others who were invited included Droṇa, Bhīṣma, Kṛpa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra with his sons, the wise Vidura, and many other brāhmaṇas,…
• SB 10.74.12 The brāhmaṇa priests then plowed the sacrificial ground with golden plowshares and initiated King Yudhiṣṭhira for the sacrifice in…
• SB 10.74.13-15 The utensils used in the sacrifice were made of gold, just as in the ancient Rājasūya performed by Lord Varuṇa. Indra, Brahmā, Śiva and…
• SB 10.74.16 The priests, as powerful as gods, performed the Rājasūya sacrifice for King Yudhiṣṭhira in accordance with the Vedic injunctions, just as…
• SB 10.74.17 On the day of extracting the soma juice, King Yudhiṣṭhira properly and very attentively worshiped the priests and the most exalted…
• SB 10.74.18 The members of the assembly then pondered over who among them should be worshiped first, but since there were many personalities qualified…
• SB 10.74.19 [Sahadeva said:] Certainly it is Acyuta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and chief of the Yādavas, who deserves the highest position.…
• SB 10.74.20-21 This entire universe is founded upon Him, as are the great sacrificial performances, with their sacred fires, oblations and mantras.…
• SB 10.74.22 He creates the many activities of this world, and thus by His grace the whole world endeavors for the ideals of religiosity, economic…
• SB 10.74.23 Therefore we should give the highest honor to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Lord. If we do so, we will be honoring all living beings and also our own…
• SB 10.74.24 Anyone who wishes the honor he gives to be reciprocated infinitely should honor Kṛṣṇa, the perfectly peaceful and perfectly complete Soul…
• SB 10.74.25 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Having said this, Sahadeva, who understood Lord Kṛṣṇa’s powers, fell silent. And having heard his words, all…
• SB 10.74.26 The King was delighted to hear this pronouncement of the brāhmaṇas, from which he understood the mood of the entire assembly. Overwhelmed…
• SB 10.74.27-28 After bathing Lord Kṛṣṇa’s feet, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira joyfully sprinkled the water upon his own head, and then upon the heads of his wife,…
• SB 10.74.29 When they saw Lord Kṛṣṇa thus honored, nearly all who were present joined their palms reverentially, exclaiming “Obeisances to You! All…
• SB 10.74.30 The intolerant son of Damaghoṣa became infuriated upon hearing the glorification of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental qualities. He stood up…
• SB 10.74.31 [Śiśupāla said:] The statement of the Vedas that time is the unavoidable controller of all has indeed been proven true, since the…
• SB 10.74.32 O leaders of the assembly, you know best who is a fit candidate for being honored. Therefore you should not heed the words of a child when…
• SB 10.74.33-34 How can you pass over the most exalted members of this assembly — topmost sages dedicated to the Absolute Truth endowed with powers of…
• SB 10.74.35 How does one who follows no principles of the social and spiritual orders or of family ethics, who has been excluded from all religious…
• SB 10.74.36 Yayāti cursed the dynasty of these Yādavas, and ever since then they have been ostracized by honest men and addicted to liquor. How, then,…
• SB 10.74.37 These Yādavas have abandoned the holy lands inhabited by saintly sages and have instead taken shelter of a fortress in the sea, a place…
• SB 10.74.38 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Bereft of all good fortune, Śiśupāla spoke these and other insults. But the Supreme Lord said nothing, just…
• SB 10.74.39 Upon hearing such intolerable blasphemy of the Lord, several members of the assembly covered their ears and walked out, angrily cursing…
• SB 10.74.40 Anyone who fails to immediately leave the place where he hears criticism of the Supreme Lord or His faithful devotee will certainly fall…
• SB 10.74.41 Then the sons of Pāṇḍu became furious, and together with the warriors of the Matsya, Kaikaya and Sṛñjaya clans, they rose up from their…
• SB 10.74.42 Undaunted, Śiśupāla then took up his sword and shield in the midst of all the assembled kings, O Bhārata, and hurled insults at those who…
• SB 10.74.43 At that point the Supreme Lord stood up and checked His devotees. He then angrily sent forth His razor-sharp disc and severed the head of…
• SB 10.74.44 When Śiśupāla was thus killed, a great roar and howl went up from the crowd. Taking advantage of that disturbance, the few kings who were…
• SB 10.74.45 An effulgent light rose from Śiśupāla’s body and, as everyone watched, entered Lord Kṛṣṇa just like a meteor falling from the sky to the…
• SB 10.74.46 Obsessed with hatred of Lord Kṛṣṇa throughout three lifetimes, Śiśupāla attained the Lord’s transcendental nature. Indeed, one’s…
• SB 10.74.47 Emperor Yudhiṣṭhira gave generous gifts to the sacrificial priests and the members of the assembly, properly honoring them all in the…
• SB 10.74.48 Thus Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of all masters of mystic yoga, saw to the successful execution of this great sacrifice on behalf of King…
• SB 10.74.49 Then the Lord, the son of Devakī, took the reluctant permission of the King and returned to His capital with His wives and ministers.
• SB 10.74.50 I have already described to you in detail the history of the two residents of Vaikuṇṭha who had to undergo repeated births in the material…
• SB 10.74.51 Purified in the final, avabhṛthya ritual, which marked the successful completion of the Rājasūya sacrifice, King Yudhiṣṭhira shone among…
• SB 10.74.52 The demigods, humans and residents of intermediate heavens, all properly honored by the King, happily set off for their respective domains…
• SB 10.74.53 [All were satisfied] except sinful Duryodhana, the personification of the age of quarrel and the disease of the Kuru dynasty. He could not…
• SB 10.74.54 One who recites these activities of Lord Viṣṇu, including the killing of Śiśupāla, the deliverance of the kings and the performance of the…
• SB 10.76.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Now please hear, O King, another wondrous deed performed by Lord Kṛṣṇa, who appeared in His humanlike body to enjoy…
• SB 10.76.2 Śālva was a friend of Śiśupāla’s. When he attended the wedding of Rukmiṇī, the Yadu warriors defeated him in battle, along with Jarāsandha…
• SB 10.76.3 Śālva swore in the presence of all the kings: “I will rid the earth of Yādavas. Just see my prowess!”
• SB 10.76.4 Having thus made his vow, the foolish King proceeded to worship Lord Paśupati [Śiva] as his deity by eating a handful of dust each day,…
• SB 10.76.5 The great Lord Umāpati is known as “he who is quickly pleased,” yet only at the end of a year did he gratify Śālva, who had approached him…
• SB 10.76.6 Śālva chose a vehicle that could be destroyed by neither demigods, demons, humans, Gandharvas, Uragas nor Rākṣasas, that could travel…
• SB 10.76.7 Lord Śiva said, “So be it.” On his order, Maya Dānava, who conquers his enemies’ cities, constructed a flying iron city named Saubha and…
• SB 10.76.8 This unassailable vehicle was filled with darkness and could go anywhere. Upon obtaining it, Śālva went to Dvārakā, remembering the…
• SB 10.76.9-11 Śālva besieged the city with a large army, O best of the Bharatas, decimating the outlying parks and gardens, the mansions along with…
• SB 10.76.12 Thus terribly tormented by the airship Saubha, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s city had no peace, O King, just like the earth when it was attacked by the…
• SB 10.76.13 Seeing His subjects so harassed, the glorious and heroic Lord Pradyumna told them, “Do not fear,” and mounted His chariot.
• SB 10.76.14-15 The chief commanders of the chariot warriors — Sātyaki, Cārudeṣṇa, Sāmba, Akrūra and his younger brothers, along with Hārdikya,…
• SB 10.76.16 A tumultuous, hair-raising battle then commenced between Śālva’s forces and the Yadus. It equaled the great battles between the demons and…
• SB 10.76.17 With His divine weapons Pradyumna instantly destroyed all of Śālva’s magic illusions, in the same way that the warm rays of the sun…
• SB 10.76.18-19 Lord Pradyumna’s arrows all had gold shafts, iron heads and perfectly smooth joints. With twenty-five of them He struck down Śālva’s…
• SB 10.76.20 When they saw the glorious Pradyumna perform that amazing and mighty feat, all the soldiers on both sides praised Him.
• SB 10.76.21 At one moment the magic airship built by Maya Dānava appeared in many identical forms, and the next moment it was again only one.…
• SB 10.76.22 From one moment to the next the Saubha airship appeared on the earth, in the sky, on a mountain peak or in the water. Like a whirling,…
• SB 10.76.23 Wherever Śālva would appear with his Saubha ship and his army, there the Yadu commanders would shoot their arrows.
• SB 10.76.24 Śālva became bewildered upon seeing his army and aerial city thus harassed by his enemy’s arrows, which struck like fire and the sun and…
• SB 10.76.25 Because the heroes of the Vṛṣṇi clan were eager for victory in this world and the next, they did not abandon their assigned posts on the…
• SB 10.76.26 Śālva’s minister Dyumān, previously wounded by Śrī Pradyumna, now ran up to Him and, roaring loudly, struck Him with his club of black…
• SB 10.76.27 Pradyumna’s driver, the son of Dāruka, thought that his valiant master’s chest had been shattered by the club. Knowing well his religious…
• SB 10.76.28 Quickly regaining consciousness, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s son Pradyumna said to His charioteer, “O driver, this is abominable — for Me to have been…
• SB 10.76.29 “Except for Me, no one born in the Yadu dynasty has ever been known to abandon the battlefield. My reputation has now been stained by a…
• SB 10.76.30 “What will I say to My fathers, Rāma and Keśava, when I return to Them after having simply fled the battle? What can I tell Them that will…
• SB 10.76.31 “Certainly My sisters-in-law will laugh at Me and say, ‘O hero, tell us how in the world Your enemies turned You into such a coward in…
• SB 10.76.32 The driver replied: O long-lived one, I have done this knowing full well my prescribed duty. O my Lord, the chariot driver must protect…
• SB 10.76.33 With this rule in mind, I removed You from the battlefield, since You had been struck unconscious by Your enemy’s club and I thought You…
• SB 10.77.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After refreshing Himself with water, putting on His armor and picking up His bow, Lord Pradyumna told His driver,…
• SB 10.77.2 In Pradyumna’s absence, Dyumān had been devastating His army, but now Pradyumna counterattacked Dyumān and, smiling, pierced him with…
• SB 10.77.3 With four of these arrows He struck Dyumān’s four horses, with one arrow, his driver, with two more arrows, his bow and chariot flag, and…
• SB 10.77.4 Gada, Sātyaki, Sāmba and others began killing Śālva’s army, and thus all the soldiers inside the airship began falling into the ocean,…
• SB 10.77.5 As the Yadus and Śālva’s followers thus went on attacking one another, the tumultuous, fearsome battle continued for twenty-seven days and…
• SB 10.77.6-7 Invited by Yudhiṣṭhira, the son of Dharma, Lord Kṛṣṇa had gone to Indraprastha. Now that the Rājasūya sacrifice had been completed and…
• SB 10.77.8 The Lord said to Himself: Because I have come here with My respected elder brother, kings partial to Śiśupāla may well be attacking My…
• SB 10.77.9 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] After He arrived at Dvārakā and saw how His people were threatened with destruction, and also saw Śālva and…
• SB 10.78.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Acting out of friendship for Śiśupāla, Śālva and Pauṇḍraka, who had all passed on to the next world, the wicked…
• SB 10.78.3 Seeing Dantavakra approach, Lord Kṛṣṇa quickly picked up His club, jumped down from His chariot and stopped His advancing opponent just as…
• SB 10.78.4 Raising his club, the reckless King of Karūṣa said to Lord Mukunda, “What luck! What luck — to have You come before me today!
• SB 10.78.5 “You are our maternal cousin, Kṛṣṇa, but You committed violence against my friends, and now You want to kill me also. Therefore, fool, I…
• SB 10.78.6 “Then, O unintelligent one, I who am obliged to my friends will have repaid my debt to them by killing You, my enemy disguised as a…
• SB 10.78.7 Thus trying to harass Lord Kṛṣṇa with harsh words, as one might prick an elephant with sharp goads, Dantavakra struck the Lord on the head…
• SB 10.78.8 Although hit by Dantavakra’s club, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the deliverer of the Yadus, did not budge from His place on the battlefield. Rather, with…
• SB 10.78.9 His heart shattered by the club’s blow, Dantavakra vomited blood and fell lifeless to the ground, his hair disheveled and his arms and…
• SB 10.78.10 A most subtle and wondrous spark of light then [rose from the demon’s body and] entered Lord Kṛṣṇa while everyone looked on, O King, just…
• SB 10.78.11 But then Dantavakra’s brother Vidūratha, immersed in sorrow over his brother’s death, came forward breathing heavily, sword and shield in…
• SB 10.78.12 O best of kings, as Vidūratha fell upon Him, Lord Kṛṣṇa used His razor-edged Sudarśana disc to remove his head, complete with its helmet…
• SB 10.78.13-15 Having thus destroyed Śālva and his Saubha airship, along with Dantavakra and his younger brother, all of whom were invincible before any…
• SB 10.78.16 Thus Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master all mystic power and Lord of the universe, is ever victorious. Only those…
• SB 10.78.17 Lord Balarāma then heard that the Kurus were preparing for war with the Pāṇḍavas. Being neutral, He departed on the pretext of going to…
• SB 10.78.18 After bathing at Prabhāsa and honoring the demigods, sages, forefathers and prominent human beings, He went in the company of brāhmaṇas to…
• SB 10.78.19-20 Lord Balarāma visited the broad Bindu-saras Lake, Tritakūpa, Sudarśana, Viśāla, Brahma-tīrtha, Cakra-tīrtha and the eastward-flowing…
• SB 10.78.21 Recognizing the Lord upon His arrival, the sages, who had been engaged in their sacrificial rituals for a long time, greeted Him properly…
• SB 10.78.22 After being thus worshiped along with His entourage, the Lord accepted a seat of honor. Then He noticed that Romaharṣaṇa, Vyāsadeva’s…
• SB 10.78.23 Lord Balarāma became extremely angry upon seeing how this member of the sūta caste had failed to stand up, bow down or join his palms, and…
• SB 10.78.24 [Lord Balarāma said:] Because this fool born from an improperly mixed marriage sits above all these brāhmaṇas and even above Me, the…
• SB 10.78.25-26 Although he is a disciple of the divine sage Vyāsa and has thoroughly learned many scriptures from him, including the lawbooks of…
• SB 10.78.27 The very purpose of My descent into this world is to kill such hypocrites who pretend to be religious. Indeed, they are the most sinful…
• SB 10.78.28 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Although Lord Balarāma had stopped killing the impious, Romaharṣaṇa’s death was inevitable. Thus, having…
• SB 10.78.29 All the sages cried out, “Alas, alas!” in great distress. They told Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa, “O master, You have committed an irreligious act!
• SB 10.78.30 “O favorite of the Yadus, we gave him the seat of the spiritual master and promised him long life and freedom from physical pain for as…
• SB 10.78.31-32 “You have unknowingly killed a brāhmaṇa. Of course, even the injunctions of revealed scripture cannot dictate to You, the Lord of all…
• SB 10.79.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Then, on the new-moon day, O King, a fierce and frightening wind arose, scattering dust all about and spreading the…
• SB 10.79.2 Next, onto the sacrificial arena came a downpour of abominable things sent by Balvala, after which the demon himself appeared, trident in…
• SB 10.79.3-4 The immense demon resembled a mass of black carbon. His topknot and beard were like molten copper, and his face had horrible fangs and…
• SB 10.79.5 With the tip of His plow Lord Balarāma caught hold of the demon Balvala as he flew through the sky, and with His club the Lord angrily…
• SB 10.79.6 Balvala cried out in agony and fell to the ground, his forehead cracked open and gushing blood. He resembled a red mountain struck by a…
• SB 10.79.7 The exalted sages honored Lord Rāma with sincere prayers and awarded Him infallible blessings. Then they performed His ritual bath, just…
• SB 10.79.8 They gave Lord Balarāma a Vaijayantī garland of unfading lotuses in which resided the goddess of fortune, and they also gave Him a set of…
• SB 10.79.9 Then, given leave by the sages, the Lord went with a contingent of brāhmaṇas to the Kauśikī River, where He bathed. From there He went to…
• SB 10.79.10 The Lord followed the course of the Sarayū until He came to Prayāga, where He bathed and then performed rituals to propitiate the demigods…
• SB 10.79.11-15 Lord Balarāma bathed in the Gomatī, Gaṇḍakī and Vipāśā rivers, and also immersed Himself in the Śoṇa. He went to Gayā, where He worshiped…
• SB 10.79.16-17 There at Setubandha [Rāmeśvaram] Lord Halāyudha gave brāhmaṇas ten thousand cows in charity. He then visited the Kṛtamālā and Tāmraparṇī…
• SB 10.79.18 Next He went to Phālguna-tīrtha and bathed in the sacred Pañcāpsarā Lake, where Lord Viṣṇu had directly manifested Himself. At this place…
• SB 10.79.19-21 The Supreme Lord then traveled through the kingdoms of Kerala and Trigarta, visiting Lord Śiva’s sacred city of Gokarṇa, where Lord…
• SB 10.79.22 The Lord heard from some brāhmaṇas how all the kings involved in the battle between the Kurus and Pāṇḍavas had been killed. From this He…
• SB 10.79.23 Wanting to stop the club fight then raging between Bhīma and Duryodhana on the battlefield, Lord Balarāma went to Kurukṣetra.
• SB 10.79.24 When Yudhiṣṭhira, Lord Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna and the twin brothers Nakula and Sahadeva saw Lord Balarāma, they offered Him respectful obeisances…
• SB 10.79.25 Lord Balarāma found Duryodhana and Bhīma with clubs in their hands, each furiously striving for victory over the other as they circled…
• SB 10.79.26 [Lord Balarāma said:] King Duryodhana! And Bhīma! Listen! You two warriors are equal in fighting prowess. I know that one of you has…
• SB 10.79.27 Since you are so evenly matched in fighting prowess, I do not see how either of you can win or lose this duel. Therefore please stop this…
• SB 10.79.28 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] They did not accept Lord Balarāma’s request, O King, although it was logical, for their mutual enmity was…
• SB 10.79.29 Concluding that the battle was the arrangement of fate, Lord Balarāma went back to Dvārakā. There He was greeted by Ugrasena and His other…
• SB 10.79.30 Later Lord Balarāma returned to Naimiṣāraṇya, where the sages joyfully engaged Him, the embodiment of all sacrifice, in performing various…
• SB 10.79.31 The all-powerful Lord Balarāma bestowed upon the sages pure spiritual knowledge, by which they could see the whole universe within Him and…
• SB 10.79.32 After executing with His wife the avabhṛtha ablutions, the beautifully dressed and ornamented Lord Balarāma, encircled by His immediate…
• SB 10.79.33 Countless other such pastimes were performed by mighty Balarāma, the unlimited and immeasurable Supreme Lord, whose mystic Yoga-māyā power…
• SB 10.79.34 All the activities of the unlimited Lord Balarāma are amazing. Anyone who regularly remembers them at dawn and dusk will become very dear…
• SB 10.80.6 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Kṛṣṇa had a certain brāhmaṇa friend [named Sudāmā] who was most learned in Vedic knowledge and detached from…
• SB 10.80.7 Living as a householder, he maintained himself with whatever came of its own accord. The wife of that poorly dressed brāhmaṇa suffered…
• SB 10.80.8 The chaste wife of the poverty-stricken brāhmaṇa once approached him, her face dried up because of her distress. Trembling with fear, she…
• SB 10.80.9 [Sudāmā’s wife said:] O brāhmaṇa, isn’t it true that the husband of the goddess of fortune is the personal friend of your exalted self?…
• SB 10.80.10 O fortunate one, please approach Him, the real shelter of all saints. He will certainly give abundant wealth to such a suffering…
• SB 10.80.11 Lord Kṛṣṇa is now the ruler of the Bhojas, Vṛṣṇis and Andhakas and is staying at Dvārakā. Since He gives even His own self to anyone who…
• SB 10.80.12-13 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] When his wife thus repeatedly implored him in various ways, the brāhmaṇa thought to himself, “To see Lord…
• SB 10.80.14 Sudāmā’s wife begged four handfuls of flat rice from neighboring brāhmaṇas, tied up the rice in a torn piece of cloth and gave it to her…
• SB 10.80.15 Taking the flat rice, the saintly brāhmaṇa set off for Dvārakā, all the while wondering “How will I be able to have Kṛṣṇa’s audience?”
• SB 10.80.16-17 The learned brāhmaṇa, joined by some local brāhmaṇas, passed three guard stations and went through three gateways, and then he walked by…
• SB 10.80.18 At that time Lord Acyuta was seated on His consort’s bed. Spotting the brāhmaṇa at some distance, the Lord immediately stood up, went…
• SB 10.80.19 The lotus-eyed Supreme Lord felt intense ecstasy upon touching the body of His dear friend, the wise brāhmaṇa, and thus He shed tears of…
• SB 10.80.20-22 Lord Kṛṣṇa seated His friend Sudāmā upon the bed. Then the Lord, who purifies the whole world, personally offered him various tokens of…
• SB 10.80.23 By fanning him with her cāmara, the divine goddess of fortune personally served that poor brāhmaṇa, whose clothing was torn and dirty and…
• SB 10.80.24 The people in the royal palace were astonished to see Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of spotless glory, so lovingly honor this shabbily dressed brāhmaṇa.
• SB 10.80.25-26 [The residents of the palace said:] What pious acts has this unkempt, impoverished brāhmaṇa performed? People regard him as lowly and…
• SB 10.80.27 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Taking each other’s hands, O King, Kṛṣṇa and Sudāmā talked pleasantly about how they once lived together in…
• SB 10.81.1-2 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī said:] Lord Hari, Kṛṣṇa, perfectly knows the hearts of all living beings, and He is especially devoted to the brāhmaṇas.…
• SB 10.82.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Once, while Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa were living in Dvārakā, there occurred a great eclipse of the sun, just as if the…
• SB 10.82.2 Knowing of this eclipse in advance, O King, many people went to the holy place known as Samanta-pañcaka in order to earn pious credit.
• SB 10.82.3-6 After ridding the earth of kings, Lord Paraśurāma, the foremost of warriors, created huge lakes from the kings’ blood at…
• SB 10.82.7-8 The mighty Yādavas passed with great majesty along the road. They were attended by their soldiers, who rode on chariots rivaling the…
• SB 10.82.9 At Samanta-pañcaka, the saintly Yādavas bathed and then observed a fast with careful attention. Afterward they presented brāhmaṇas with…
• SB 10.82.10 In accordance with scriptural injunctions, the descendants of Vṛṣṇi then bathed once more in Lord Paraśurāma’s lakes and fed first-class…
• SB 10.82.11 Then, with the permission of Lord Kṛṣṇa, their sole object of worship, the Vṛṣṇis ate breakfast and sat down at their leisure beneath…
• SB 10.82.12-13 The Yādavas saw that many of the kings who had arrived were old friends and relatives — the Matsyas, Uśīnaras, Kauśalyas, Vidarbhas,…
• SB 10.82.14 As the great joy of seeing one another made the lotuses of their hearts and faces bloom with fresh beauty, the men embraced one another…
• SB 10.82.15 The women glanced at one another with pure smiles of loving friendship. And when they embraced, their breasts, smeared with saffron paste,…
• SB 10.82.16 They all then offered obeisances to their elders and received respect in turn from their younger relatives. After inquiring from one…
• SB 10.82.17 Queen Kuntī met with her brothers and sisters and their children, and also with her parents, her brothers’ wives and Lord Mukunda. While…
• SB 10.82.18 Queen Kuntī said: My dear, respectable brother, I feel that my desires have been frustrated, because although all of you are most saintly,…
• SB 10.82.19 Friends and family members — even children, brothers and parents — forget a dear one whom Providence no longer favors.
• SB 10.82.22 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Vasudeva, Ugrasena and the other Yadus honored the various kings, who became supremely blissful and content upon…
• SB 10.82.23-26 All the royalty present, including Bhīṣma, Droṇa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Gāndhārī and her sons, the Pāṇḍavas and their wives, Kuntī, Sañjaya,…
• SB 10.82.27 After Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa had liberally honored them, with great joy and enthusiasm these kings began to praise the members of…
• SB 10.82.28 [The kings said:] O King of the Bhojas, you alone among men have achieved a truly exalted birth, for you continually behold Lord Kṛṣṇa,…
• SB 10.82.29-30 His fame, as broadcast by the Vedas, the water that has washed His feet, and the words He speaks in the form of the revealed scriptures —…
• SB 10.82.31 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Nanda Mahārāja learned that the Yadus had arrived, led by Kṛṣṇa, he immediately went to see them. The cowherds…
• SB 10.82.32 Seeing Nanda, the Vṛṣṇis were delighted and stood up like dead bodies coming back to life. Having felt much distress at not seeing him for…
• SB 10.82.33 Vasudeva embraced Nanda Mahārāja with great joy. Beside himself with ecstatic love, Vasudeva remembered the troubles Kaṁsa had caused him,…
• SB 10.82.34 O hero of the Kurus, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma embraced Their foster parents and bowed down to them, but Their throats were so choked up with…
• SB 10.82.35 Raising their two sons onto their laps and holding Them in their arms, Nanda and saintly mother Yaśodā forgot their sorrow.
• SB 10.82.36 Then Rohiṇī and Devakī both embraced the Queen of Vraja, remembering the faithful friendship she had shown them. Their throats choking…
• SB 10.82.39 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While gazing at their beloved Kṛṣṇa, the young gopīs used to condemn the creator of their eyelids, [which would…
• SB 10.82.40 The Supreme Lord approached the gopīs in a secluded place as they stood in their ecstatic trance. After embracing each of them and…
• SB 10.82.47 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus been instructed by Kṛṣṇa in spiritual matters, the gopīs were freed of all tinges of false ego because…
• SB 10.82.48 The gopīs spoke thus: Dear Lord, whose navel is just like a lotus flower, Your lotus feet are the only shelter for those who have fallen…
• SB 10.83.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus Lord Kṛṣṇa, the spiritual master of the gopīs and the very purpose of their life, showed them His mercy. He…
• SB 10.83.2 Feeling greatly honored, King Yudhiṣṭhira and the others, freed of all sinful reactions by seeing the feet of the Lord of the universe,…
• SB 10.83.5 The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: As Yudhiṣṭhira and the others were thus praising Lord Kṛṣṇa, the crest jewel of all sublimely…
• SB 10.83.6-7 Śrī Draupadī said: O Vaidarbhī, Bhadrā and Jāmbavatī, O Kauśalā, Satyabhāmā and Kālindī, O Śaibyā, Rohiṇī, Lakṣmaṇā and other wives of…
• SB 10.83.8 Śrī Rukmiṇī said: When all the kings held their bows at the ready to assure that I would be presented to Śiśupāla, He who puts the dust of…
• SB 10.83.9 Śrī Satyabhāmā said: My father, his heart tormented by his brother’s death, accused Kṛṣṇa of killing him. To remove the stain on His…
• SB 10.83.10 Śrī Jāmbavatī said: Unaware that Lord Kṛṣṇa was none other than his own master and worshipable Deity, the husband of Goddess Sītā, my…
• SB 10.83.11 Śrī Kālindī said: The Lord knew I was performing severe austerities and penances with the hope of one day touching His lotus feet. So He…
• SB 10.83.12 Śrī Mitravindā said: At my svayaṁvara ceremony He came forward, defeated all the kings present — including my brothers, who dared insult…
• SB 10.83.13-14 Śrī Satyā said: My father arranged for seven extremely powerful and vigorous bulls with deadly sharp horns to test the prowess of the…
• SB 10.83.15-16 Śrī Bhadrā said: My dear Draupadī, of his own free will my father invited his nephew Kṛṣṇa, to whom I had already dedicated my heart, and…
• SB 10.83.17 Śrī Lakṣmaṇā said: O Queen, I repeatedly heard Nārada Muni glorify the appearances and activities of Acyuta, and thus my heart also became…
• SB 10.83.18 My father, Bṛhatsena, was by nature compassionate to his daughter, and knowing how I felt, O saintly lady, he arranged to fulfill my desire.
• SB 10.83.19 Just as a fish was used as a target in your svayaṁvara ceremony, O Queen, to assure that you would obtain Arjuna as your husband, so a…
• SB 10.83.20 Hearing of this, thousands of kings expert in shooting arrows and in wielding other weapons converged from all directions on my father’s…
• SB 10.83.21 My father properly honored each king according to his strength and seniority. Then those whose minds were fixed on me took up the bow and…
• SB 10.83.22 Some of them picked up the bow but could not string it, and so they threw it aside in frustration. Some managed to pull the bowstring…
• SB 10.83.23 A few heroes — namely Jarāsandha, Śiśupāla, Bhīma, Duryodhana, Karṇa and the King of Ambaṣṭha — succeeded in stringing the bow, but none…
• SB 10.83.24 Then Arjuna looked at the reflection of the fish in the water and determined its position. When he carefully shot his arrow at it,…
• SB 10.83.25-26 After all the arrogant kings had given up, their pride broken, the Supreme Personality of Godhead picked up the bow, easily strung it and…
• SB 10.83.27 Kettledrums resounded in the sky, and on the earth people shouted “Jaya! Jaya!” Overjoyed, demigods showered flowers.
• SB 10.83.28 Just then I walked onto the ceremonial ground, the ankle bells on my feet gently tinkling. I was wearing new garments of the finest silk,…
• SB 10.83.29 I lifted my face, which was encircled by my abundant locks and effulgent from the glow of my earrings reflected from my cheeks. Smiling…
• SB 10.83.30 Just then there were loud sounds of conchshells and mṛdaṅga, paṭaha, bherī and ānaka drums, as well as other instruments. Men and women…
• SB 10.83.31 The leading kings there could not tolerate my having chosen the Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Draupadī. Burning with lust, they became…
• SB 10.83.32 The Lord then placed me on His chariot, drawn by four most excellent horses. Donning His armor and readying His bow Śārṅga, He stood on…
• SB 10.83.33 Dāruka drove the Lord’s gold-trimmed chariot as the kings looked on, O Queen, like small animals helplessly watching a lion.
• SB 10.83.34 The kings pursued the Lord like village dogs chasing a lion. Some kings, raising their bows, stationed themselves on the road to stop Him…
• SB 10.83.35 These warriors were deluged by arrows shot from the Lord’s bow, Śārṅga. Some of the kings fell on the battlefield with severed arms, legs…
• SB 10.83.36 The Lord of the Yadus then entered His capital city, Kuśasthalī [Dvārakā], which is glorified in heaven and on earth. The city was…
• SB 10.83.37 My father honored his friends, family and in-laws with priceless clothing and jewelry and with royal beds, thrones and other furnishings.
• SB 10.83.38 With devotion he presented the perfectly complete Lord with a number of maidservants bedecked with precious ornaments. Accompanying these…
• SB 10.83.39 Thus, by renouncing all material association and practicing austere penances, we queens have all become personal maidservants of the…
• SB 10.83.40 Rohiṇī-devi, speaking for the other queens, said: After killing Bhaumāsura and his followers, the Lord found us in the demon’s prison and…
• SB 10.83.41-42 O saintly lady, we do not desire dominion over the earth, the sovereignty of the King of heaven, unlimited facility for enjoyment, mystic…
• SB 10.83.43 We desire the same contact with the Supreme Lord’s feet that the young women of Vraja, the cowherd boys and even the aborigine Pulinda…
• SB 10.84.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Pṛthā, Gāndhārī, Draupadī, Subhadrā, the wives of other kings and the Lord’s cowherd girīfriends were all amazed to…
• SB 10.84.2-5 As the women thus talked among themselves and the men among themselves, a number of great sages arrived there, all of them eager to see…
• SB 10.84.6 As soon as they saw the sages approaching, the kings and other gentlemen who had been seated immediately stood up, including the Pāṇḍava…
• SB 10.84.7 Lord Kṛṣṇa, Lord Balarāma and the other kings and leaders properly worshiped the sages by offering them words of greeting, sitting places,…
• SB 10.84.8 After the sages were comfortably seated, the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose transcendental body protects religious principles, addressed them…
• SB 10.84.14 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing such unfathomable words from the unlimitedly wise Lord Kṛṣṇa, the learned brāhmaṇas remained silent, their…
• SB 10.84.15 For some time the sages pondered the Supreme Lord’s behavior, which resembled that of a subordinate living being. They concluded that He…
• SB 10.84.16 The great sages said: Your power of illusion has totally bewildered us, the most exalted knowers of the truth and leaders among the…
• SB 10.84.17 Indeed, the humanlike pastimes of the Almighty are simply a pretense! Effortlessly, He alone sends forth from His Self this variegated…
• SB 10.84.18 Nonetheless, at suitable times You assume the pure mode of goodness to protect Your devotees and punish the wicked. Thus You, the Soul of…
• SB 10.84.19 The Vedas are Your spotless heart, and through them one can perceive — by means of austerity, study and self-control — the manifest, the…
• SB 10.84.20 Therefore, O Supreme Brahman, You honor the members of the brahminical community, for they are the perfect agents by which one can realize…
• SB 10.84.21 Today our birth, education, austerity and vision have all become perfect because we have been able to associate with You, the goal of all…
• SB 10.84.22 Let us offer obeisances unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the infinitely intelligent Supersoul, who has disguised His…
• SB 10.84.23 Neither these kings nor even the Vṛṣṇis, who enjoy Your intimate association, know You as the Soul of all existence, the force of time and…
• SB 10.84.24-25 A sleeping person imagines an alternative reality for himself and, seeing himself as having various names and forms, forgets his waking…
• SB 10.84.26 Today we have directly seen Your feet, the source of the holy Ganges, which washes away volumes of sins. Perfected yogīs can at best…
• SB 10.84.27 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having thus spoken, O wise king, the sages then took leave of Lord Dāśārha, Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Yudhiṣṭhira and…
• SB 10.84.28 Seeing that they were about to leave, the renowned Vasudeva approached the sages. After bowing down to them and touching their feet, he…
• SB 10.84.42 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After hearing these statements of the sages, generous Vasudeva bowed his head to the ground and, praising them,…
• SB 10.84.43 Thus requested by him, O King, the sages engaged the pious Vasudeva in performing fire sacrifices at that holy place of Kurukṣetra…
• SB 10.84.44-45 When Mahārāja Vasudeva was about to be initiated for the sacrifice, O King, the Vṛṣṇis came to the initiation pavilion after bathing and…
• SB 10.84.46 Mṛdaṅgas, paṭahas, conchshells, bherīs, ānakas and other instruments resounded, male and female dancers danced, and sūtas and māgadhas…
• SB 10.84.47 After Vasudeva’s eyes had been decorated with black cosmetic and his body smeared with fresh butter, the priests initiated him according…
• SB 10.84.48 Vasudeva received initiation along with his wives, who wore silk saris and were adorned with bangles, necklaces, ankle bells and earrings.…
• SB 10.84.49 My dear Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Vasudeva’s priests and the officiating members of the assembly, dressed in silk dhotīs and jeweled ornaments,…
• SB 10.84.50 At that time Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa, the Lords of all living entities, shone forth with great majesty in the company of Their respective sons,…
• SB 10.84.51 Performing various kinds of Vedic sacrifice according to the proper regulations, Vasudeva worshiped the Lord of all sacrificial…
• SB 10.84.52 Then, at the appropriate time and according to scripture, Vasudeva remunerated the priests by decorating them with precious ornaments,…
• SB 10.84.53 After supervising the patnī-saṁyāja and avabhṛthya rituals, the great brāhmaṇa sages bathed in Lord Paraśurāma’s lake with the sponsor of…
• SB 10.84.54 His sacred bath complete, Vasudeva joined with his wives in giving the jewelry and clothes they had been wearing to the professional…
• SB 10.84.55-56 With opulent gifts he honored his relatives, including all their wives and children; the royalty of the Vidarbha, Kosala, Kuru, Kāśī,…
• SB 10.84.57-58 The Yadus were all embraced by their friends, close family members and other relatives, including Dhṛtarāṣṭra and his younger brother,…
• SB 10.84.59 Nanda Mahārāja showed his affection for his relatives, the Yadus, by remaining with them a little longer, together with his cowherds.…
• SB 10.84.60 Having so easily crossed over the vast ocean of his ambition, Vasudeva felt fully satisfied. In the company of his many well-wishers, he…
• SB 10.84.65 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: His heart softened by feelings of intimate sympathy, Vasudeva wept. His eyes brimmed with tears as he…
• SB 10.84.66 And on his part, Nanda was also full of affection for his friend Vasudeva. Thus during the following days Nanda would repeatedly announce,…
• SB 10.84.67-68 Then, after Vasudeva, Ugrasena, Kṛṣṇa, Uddhava, Balarāma and others had fulfilled his desires and presented him with precious ornaments,…
• SB 10.84.69 Unable to withdraw their minds from Lord Govinda’s lotus feet, where they had surrendered them, Nanda and the cowherd men and women…
• SB 10.84.70 Their relatives having thus departed, and seeing that the rainy season was approaching, the Vṛṣṇis, whose only Lord was Kṛṣṇa, went back…
• SB 10.84.71 They told the people of the city about the festive sacrifices performed by Vasudeva, lord of the Yadus, and about everything else that had…
• SB 10.85.1 Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: One day the two sons of Vasudeva — Saṅkarṣaṇa and Acyuta — came to pay him respects, bowing down at his feet.…
• SB 10.85.2 Having heard the great sages’ words concerning the power of his two sons, and having seen Their valorous deeds, Vasudeva became convinced…
• SB 10.85.21 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having heard His father’s words, the Supreme Lord, leader of the Sātvatas, replied in a gentle voice as He bowed…
• SB 10.85.26 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, hearing these instructions spoken to him by the Supreme Lord, Vasudeva became freed from all ideas of…
• SB 10.85.27-28 At that time, O best of the Kurus, the universally worshiped Devakī took the opportunity to address her two sons, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma.…
• SB 10.85.34 The sage Śukadeva said: Thus entreated by Their mother, O Bhārata, Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa employed Their mystic Yoga-māyā potency and entered…
• SB 10.85.35 When the King of the Daityas, Bali Mahārāja, noticed the arrival of the two Lords, his heart overflowed with joy, since he knew Them to be…
• SB 10.85.36 Bali took pleasure in offering Them elevated seats. After They sat down, he washed the feet of the two Supreme Personalities. Then he took…
• SB 10.85.37 He worshiped Them with all the riches at his disposal — priceless clothing, ornaments, fragrant sandalwood paste, betel nut, lamps,…
• SB 10.85.38 Taking hold of the Lords’ lotus feet again and again, Bali, the conqueror of Indra’s army, spoke from his heart, which was melting out of…
• SB 10.85.39 King Bali said: Obeisances to the unlimited Lord, Ananta, the greatest of all beings. And obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the creator of the…
• SB 10.85.40 Seeing You Lords is a rare achievement for most living beings. But even persons like us, situated in the modes of passion and ignorance,…
• SB 10.85.41-43 Many who had been constantly absorbed in enmity toward You ultimately became attracted to You, who are the direct embodiment of…
• SB 10.85.44 What to speak of ourselves, O Lord of all perfect yogīs, even the greatest mystics do not know what Your spiritual power of delusion is or…
• SB 10.85.45 Please be merciful to me so I may get out of the blind well of family life — my false home — and find the true shelter of Your lotus feet,…
• SB 10.85.46 O Lord of all subordinate creatures, please tell us what to do and thus free us of all sin. One who faithfully executes Your command, O…
• SB 10.86.2-3 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While traveling far and wide visiting various holy places of pilgrimage, Arjuna came to Prabhāsa. There he heard…
• SB 10.86.4 He stayed there during the monsoon months to fulfill his purpose. Lord Balarāma and the other residents of the city, not recognizing him,…
• SB 10.86.5 One day Lord Balarāma brought him to His home as His invited dinner guest, and Arjuna ate the food the Lord respectfully offered him.
• SB 10.86.6 There he saw the wonderful maiden Subhadrā, who was enchanting to heroes. His eyes opened wide with delight, and his mind became agitated…
• SB 10.86.7 Arjuna was very attractive to women, and as soon as Subhadrā saw him, she wanted to have him as her husband. Smiling bashfully with…
• SB 10.86.8 Meditating only on her and waiting for the opportunity to take her away, Arjuna had no peace. His heart trembled with passionate desire.
• SB 10.86.9 Once, on the occasion of a great temple festival in honor of the Supreme Lord, Subhadrā rode out of the fortresslike palace on a chariot,…
• SB 10.86.10 Standing on his chariot, Arjuna took up his bow and drove off the valiant fighters and palace guards who tried to block his way. As her…
• SB 10.86.11 When He heard of Subhadrā’s kidnapping, Lord Balarāma became as disturbed as the ocean during the full moon, but Lord Kṛṣṇa respectfully…
• SB 10.86.12 Lord Balarāma then happily sent the bride and groom very valuable wedding gifts consisting of elephants, chariots, horses and male and…
• SB 10.86.13 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: There was a devotee of Kṛṣṇa’s known as Śrutadeva, who was a first-class brāhmaṇa. Perfectly satisfied by…
• SB 10.86.14 Living as a religious householder in the city of Mithilā, within the kingdom of Videha, he managed to fulfill his obligations while…
• SB 10.86.15 By the will of Providence he obtained each day just what he needed for his maintenance, and no more. Satisfied with this much, he properly…
• SB 10.86.16 Similarly free from false ego was the ruler of that kingdom, my dear Parīkṣit, a descendant of the Mithila dynasty named Bahulāśva. Both…
• SB 10.86.17 Pleased with both of them, the Supreme Personality of Godhead mounted His chariot, which Dāruka had brought, and traveled to Videha with a…
• SB 10.86.18 Among these sages were Nārada, Vāmadeva, Atri, Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana Vyāsa, Paraśurāma, Asita, Aruṇi, myself, Bṛhaspati, Kaṇva, Maitreya and…
• SB 10.86.19 In every city and town the Lord passed along the way, O King, the people came forward to worship Him with offerings of arghya water in…
• SB 10.86.20 The men and women of Ānarta, Dhanva, Kuru-jāṅgala, Kaṅka, Matsya, Pañcāla, Kunti, Madhu, Kekaya, Kośala, Arṇa and many other kingdoms…
• SB 10.86.21 Simply by glancing at those who came to see Him, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the spiritual master of the three worlds, delivered them from the blindness…
• SB 10.86.22 Hearing that Lord Acyuta had arrived, O King, the residents of the cities and villages of Videha joyfully came forth to receive Him with…
• SB 10.86.23 As soon as the people saw Lord Uttamaḥśloka, their faces and hearts blossomed with affection. Joining their palms above their heads, they…
• SB 10.86.24 Both the King of Mithilā and Śrutadeva fell at the Lord’s feet, each thinking that the spiritual master of the universe had come there…
• SB 10.86.25 At exactly the same time, King Maithila and Śrutadeva each went forward with joined palms and invited the Lord of the Daśārhas to be his…
• SB 10.86.26 Wanting to please them both, the Lord accepted both their invitations. Thus He simultaneously went to both homes, and neither could see…
• SB 10.86.27-29 When King Bahulāśva, a descendant of Janaka, saw Lord Kṛṣṇa approaching his house from a distance with the sages, who were somewhat…
• SB 10.86.30 When they had eaten to their full satisfaction, for their further pleasure the King began to speak slowly and in a gentle voice as he held…
• SB 10.86.31 Śrī Bahulāśva said: O almighty Lord, You are the Soul of all created beings, their self-illumined witness, and now You are giving Your…
• SB 10.86.32 You have said, “Neither Ananta, Goddess Śrī nor unborn Brahmā is dearer to Me than My unalloyed devotee.” To prove Your own words true,…
• SB 10.86.33 What person who knows this truth would ever abandon Your lotus feet, when You are ready to give Your very self to peaceful sages who call…
• SB 10.86.34 Appearing in the Yadu dynasty, You have spread Your glories, which can remove all the sins of the three worlds, just to deliver those…
• SB 10.86.35 Obeisances to You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose intelligence is ever unrestricted. Obeisances to the sage…
• SB 10.86.36 Please stay a few days in our house, along with these brāhmaṇas, O all-pervading one, and with the dust of Your feet sanctify this dynasty…
• SB 10.86.37 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus invited by the King, the Supreme Lord, sustainer of the world, consented to stay for some time to…
• SB 10.86.38 Śrutadeva received Lord Acyuta into his home with as much enthusiasm as that shown by King Bahulāśva. After bowing down to the Lord and…
• SB 10.86.39 After bringing mats of grass and darbha straw and seating his guests upon them, he greeted them with words of welcome. Then he and his…
• SB 10.86.40 With the wash water, the virtuous Śrutadeva copiously sprinkled himself, his house and his family. Overjoyed, he felt that all his desires…
• SB 10.86.41 He worshiped them with offerings of auspicious items easily available to him, such as fruits, uśīra root, pure, nectarean water, fragrant…
• SB 10.86.42 He wondered: How is it that I, fallen into the blind well of family life, have been able to meet Lord Kṛṣṇa? And how have I also been…
• SB 10.86.43 When his guests were seated comfortably, having each received a proper welcome, Śrutadeva approached them and sat down nearby with his…
• SB 10.86.44 Śrutadeva said: It is not that we have attained the audience of the Supreme Person only today, for we have in fact been associating with…
• SB 10.86.45 The Lord is like a sleeping person who creates a separate world in his imagination and then enters his own dream and sees himself within it.
• SB 10.86.46 You reveal Yourself within the hearts of those persons of pure consciousness who constantly hear about You, chant about You, worship You,…
• SB 10.86.47 But although You reside within the heart, You are very far away from those whose minds are disturbed by their entanglement in material…
• SB 10.86.48 Let me offer my obeisances unto You. You are realized as the Supreme Soul by those who know the Absolute Truth, whereas in Your form of…
• SB 10.86.49 O Lord, You are that Supreme Soul, and we are Your servants. How shall we serve You? My Lord, simply seeing You puts an end to all the…
• SB 10.86.50 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After hearing Śrutadeva speak these words, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who relieves His surrendered…
• SB 10.87.2 Śukadeva Gosvamī said: The Supreme Lord manifested the material intelligence, senses, mind and vital air of the living entities so that…
• SB 10.87.3 Those who came before even our ancient predecessors meditated upon this same confidential knowledge of the Absolute Truth. Indeed, anyone…
• SB 10.87.4 In this connection I will relate to you a narration concerning the Supreme Lord Nārāyaṇa. It is about a conversation that once occurred…
• SB 10.87.5 Once, while traveling among the various planets of the universe, the Lord’s beloved devotee Nārada went to visit the primeval sage…
• SB 10.87.6 From the very beginning of Brahmā’s day Lord Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi has been undergoing austere penances in this land of Bhārata while perfectly…
• SB 10.87.7 There Nārada approached Lord Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi, who was sitting amidst sages of the village of Kalāpa. After bowing down to the Lord, O hero of…
• SB 10.87.8 As the sages listened, Lord Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi related to Nārada an ancient discussion about the Absolute Truth that took place among the…
• SB 10.87.45 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Śrī Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi ordered him in this way, the self-possessed sage Nārada, whose vow is as heroic as a…
• SB 10.88.3 Śrī Śukadeva said: Lord Śiva is always united with his personal energy, the material nature. Manifesting himself in three features in…
• SB 10.88.4 The sixteen elements have evolved as transformations of that false ego. When a devotee of Lord Śiva worships his manifestation in any one…
• SB 10.88.5 Lord Hari, however, has no connection with the material modes. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the all-seeing eternal witness,…
• SB 10.88.6 Your grandfather, King Yudhiṣṭhira, after completing his Aśvamedha sacrifices, asked Lord Acyuta this very same question while hearing the…
• SB 10.88.7 This question pleased Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the King’s Lord and master, who had descended into the family of Yadu for the purpose of bestowing the…
• SB 10.88.12 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Brahmā, Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Śiva and others are able to curse or bless one. Lord Śiva and Lord Brahmā are very…
• SB 10.88.13 In this connection, an ancient historical account is related concerning how the Lord of Kailāsa Mountain was put into danger by offering a…
• SB 10.88.14 The demon named Vṛka, a son of Śakuni’s, once met Nārada on the road. The wicked fellow asked him which of the three chief gods could be…
• SB 10.88.15 Nārada told him: Worship Lord Śiva and you will soon achieve success. He quickly becomes pleased by seeing his worshiper’s slightest good…
• SB 10.88.16 He became pleased with ten-headed Rāvaṇa, and also with Bāṇa, when they each chanted his glories, like bards in a royal court. Lord Śiva…
• SB 10.88.17 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus advised, the demon proceeded to worship Lord Śiva at Kedāranātha by taking pieces of flesh from his own…
• SB 10.88.18-19 Vṛkāsura became frustrated after failing to obtain a vision of the lord. Finally, on the seventh day, after dipping his hair into the holy…
• SB 10.88.20 Lord Śiva said to him: My friend, please stop, stop! Ask from me whatever you want, and I will bestow that boon upon you. Alas, you have…
• SB 10.88.21 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The benediction sinful Vṛka chose from the lord would terrify all living beings. Vṛka said, “May death come…
• SB 10.88.22 Upon hearing this, Lord Rudra seemed somewhat disturbed. Nonetheless, O descendant of Bharata, he vibrated om to signify his assent,…
• SB 10.88.23 To test Lord Śambhu’s benediction, the demon then tried to put his hand on the Lord’s head. Thus Śiva was frightened because of what he…
• SB 10.88.24 As the demon pursued him, Lord Śiva fled swiftly from his abode in the north, shaking with terror. He ran as far as the limits of the…
• SB 10.88.25-26 The great demigods could only remain silent, not knowing how to counteract the benediction. Then Lord Śiva reached the luminous realm of…
• SB 10.88.27-28 The Supreme Lord, who relieves His devotees’ distress, had seen from afar that Lord Śiva was in danger. Thus by His mystic Yoga-māyā…
• SB 10.88.31 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus questioned by the Personality of Godhead in language that poured down upon him like sweet nectar, Vṛka felt…
• SB 10.89.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Once, O King, as a group of sages were performing a Vedic sacrifice on the banks of the Sarasvatī River, a…
• SB 10.89.2 Eager to resolve this question, O King, the sages sent Lord Brahmā’s son Bhṛgu to find the answer. First he went to his father’s court.
• SB 10.89.3 To test how well Lord Brahmā was situated in the mode of goodness, Bhṛgu failed to bow down to him or glorify him with prayers. The lord…
• SB 10.89.4 Though anger toward his son was now rising within his heart, Lord Brahmā was able to subdue it by applying his intelligence, in the same…
• SB 10.89.5 Bhṛgu then went to Mount Kailāsa. There Lord Śiva stood up and happily came forward to embrace his brother.
• SB 10.89.6-7 But Bhṛgu refused his embrace, telling him, “You are a deviant heretic.” At this Lord Śiva became angry, and his eyes burned ferociously.…
• SB 10.89.8-9 There he went up to the Supreme Lord, who was lying with His head on the lap of His consort, Śrī, and kicked Him on the chest. The Lord…
• SB 10.89.10-11 “Please purify Me, My realm and the realms of the universal rulers devoted to Me by giving us the water that has washed your feet. This…
• SB 10.89.12 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Bhṛgu felt satisfied and delighted to hear the solemn words spoken by Lord Vaikuṇṭha. Overwhelmed with devotional…
• SB 10.89.13 O King, Bhṛgu then returned to the sacrificial arena of the wise Vedic authorities and described his entire experience to them.
• SB 10.89.14-17 Amazed upon hearing Bhṛgu’s account, the sages were freed from all doubts and became convinced that Viṣṇu is the greatest Lord. From Him…
• SB 10.89.18 The Lord expands into three kinds of manifest beings — the Rākṣasas, the demons and the demigods — all of whom are created by the Lord’s…
• SB 10.89.19 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The learned brāhmaṇas living along the river Sarasvatī came to this conclusion in order to dispel the doubts of all…
• SB 10.89.21 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Once, in Dvārakā, a brāhmaṇa’s wife gave birth to a son, but the newborn infant died as soon as he touched the…
• SB 10.89.22 The brāhmaṇa took the corpse and placed it at the door of King Ugrasena’s court. Then, agitated and lamenting miserably, he spoke the…
• SB 10.89.23 [The brāhmaṇa said:] This duplicitous, greedy enemy of brāhmaṇas, this unqualified ruler addicted to sense pleasure, has caused my son’s…
• SB 10.89.24 Citizens serving such a wicked king, who takes pleasure in violence and cannot control his senses, are doomed to suffer poverty and…
• SB 10.89.25 The wise brāhmaṇa suffered the same tragedy with his second and third child. Each time, he left the body of his dead son at the King’s…
• SB 10.89.26-27 When the ninth child died, Arjuna, who was near Lord Keśava, happened to overhear the brāhmaṇa lamenting. Thus Arjuna addressed the…
• SB 10.89.28 “The rulers of a kingdom in which brāhmaṇas lament over lost wealth, wives and children are merely imposters playing the role of kings…
• SB 10.89.29 “My lord, I will protect the progeny of you and your wife, who are in such distress. And if I fail to keep this promise, I will enter fire…
• SB 10.89.30-31 The brāhmaṇa said: Neither Saṅkarṣaṇa; Vāsudeva; Pradyumna, the best of bowmen; nor the unequaled warrior Aniruddha could save my sons.…
• SB 10.90.1-7 Śukadeva Gosvamī said: The master of the goddess of fortune resided happily in His capital city, Dvārakā, which was endowed with all…
• SB 10.90.8-9 As Gandharvas joyfully sang His praises to the accompaniment of mṛdaṅga, paṇava and ānaka drums, and as professional reciters known as…
• SB 10.90.10 Under the drenched clothing of the queens, their thighs and breasts would become visible. The flowers tied in their large braids would…
• SB 10.90.11 Lord Kṛṣṇa’s flower garland would become smeared with kuṅkuma from their breasts, and His abundant locks of hair would become disheveled…
• SB 10.90.12 Afterward, Lord Kṛṣṇa and His wives would give the ornaments and clothing they had worn during their water sports to the male and female…
• SB 10.90.13 In this way Lord Kṛṣṇa would sport with His queens, totally captivating their hearts with His gestures, talks, glances and smiles, and…
• SB 10.90.14 The queens would become stunned in ecstatic trance, their minds absorbed in Kṛṣṇa alone. Then, thinking of their lotus-eyed Lord, they…
• SB 10.90.15 The queens said: O kurarī bird, you are lamenting. Now it is night, and somewhere in this world the Supreme Lord is asleep in a hidden…
• SB 10.90.16 Poor cakravākī, even after closing your eyes, you continue to cry pitifully through the night for your unseen mate. Or is it that, like…
• SB 10.90.17 Dear ocean, you are always roaring, not sleeping at night. Are you suffering insomnia? Or is it that, as with us, Mukunda has taken your…
• SB 10.90.18 My dear moon, having contracted a severe case of tuberculosis, you have become so emaciated that you fail to dispel the darkness with your…
• SB 10.90.19 O Malayan breeze, what have we done to displease you, so that you stir up lust in our hearts, which have already been shattered by…
• SB 10.90.20 O revered cloud, you are indeed very dear to the chief of the Yādavas, who bears the mark of Śrīvatsa. Like us, you are bound to Him by…
• SB 10.90.21 O sweet-throated cuckoo, in a voice that could revive the dead you are vibrating the same sounds we once heard from our beloved, the most…
• SB 10.90.22 O magnanimous mountain, you neither move nor speak. You must be pondering some matter of great importance. Or do you, like us, desire to…
• SB 10.90.23 O rivers, wives of the ocean, your pools have now dried up. Alas, you have shriveled to nothing, and your wealth of lotuses has vanished.…
• SB 10.90.24 Welcome, swan. Please sit here and drink some milk. Give us some news of the descendant of Śūra, dear one. We know you are His messenger.…
• SB 10.90.25 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: By thus speaking and acting with such ecstatic love for Lord Kṛṣṇa, the master of all masters of mystic yoga, His…
• SB 10.90.26 The Lord, whom countless songs glorify in countless ways, forcibly attracts the minds of all women who simply hear about Him. What to…
• SB 10.90.27 And how could one possibly describe the great austerities that had been performed by the women who perfectly served Him, the spiritual…
• SB 10.90.28 Thus observing the principles of duty enunciated in the Vedas, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the goal of the saintly devotees, repeatedly demonstrated how…
• SB 10.90.29 While fulfilling the highest standards of religious householder life, Lord Kṛṣṇa maintained more than 16,100 wives.
• SB 10.90.30 Among these jewellike women were eight principal queens, headed by Rukmiṇī. I have already described them one after another, O King, along…
• SB 10.90.31 The Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose endeavor never fails, begot ten sons in each of His many wives.
• SB 10.90.32 Among these sons, all possessing unlimited valor, eighteen were mahā-rathas of great renown. Now hear their names from me.
• SB 10.90.33-34 They were Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Dīptimān, Bhānu, Sāmba, Madhu, Bṛhadbhānu, Citrabhānu, Vṛka, Aruṇa, Puṣkara, Vedabāhu, Śrutadeva,…
• SB 10.90.35 O best of kings, of these sons begotten by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Madhu, the most prominent was Rukmiṇī’s son Pradyumna. He was just…
• SB 10.90.36 The great warrior Pradyumna married Rukmī’s daughter [Rukmavatī], who gave birth to Aniruddha. He was as strong as ten thousand elephants.
• SB 10.90.37 Rukmī’s daughter’s son [Aniruddha] married Rukmī’s son’s daughter [Rocana]. From her was born Vajra, who would remain among the few…
• SB 10.90.38 From Vajra came Pratibāhu, whose son was Subāhu. Subāhu’s son was Śāntasena, from whom Śatasena was born.
• SB 10.90.39 No one born in this family was poor in wealth or progeny, short-lived, weak or neglectful of brahminical culture.
• SB 10.90.40 The Yadu dynasty produced innumerable great men of famous deeds. Even in tens of thousands of years, O King, one could never count them all.
• SB 10.90.41 I have heard from authoritative sources that the Yadu family employed 38,800,000 teachers just to educate their children.
• SB 10.90.42 Who can count all the great Yādavas, when among them King Ugrasena alone was accompanied by an entourage of thirty trillion attendants?
• SB 10.90.43 The savage descendants of Diti who had been killed in past ages in battles between the demigods and demons took birth among human beings…
• SB 10.90.44 To subdue these demons, Lord Hari told the demigods to descend into the dynasty of Yadu. They comprised 101 clans, O King.
• SB 10.90.45 Because Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Yādavas accepted Him as their ultimate authority. And among them, all those…
• SB 10.90.46 The Vṛṣṇis were so absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness that they forgot their own bodies while sleeping, sitting, walking, conversing,…
• SB 10.90.47 The heavenly Ganges is a holy place of pilgrimage because her waters wash Lord Kṛṣṇa’s feet. But when the Lord descended among the Yadus,…
• SB 10.90.48 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is He who is known as jana-nivāsa, the ultimate resort of all living entities, and who is also known as Devakīnandana or…
• SB 10.90.49 To protect the principles of devotional service to Himself, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the best of the Yadus, accepts the pastime forms that have been…
• SB 10.90.50 By regularly hearing, chanting and meditating on the beautiful topics of Lord Mukunda with ever-increasing sincerity, a mortal being will…
• SB 11.1.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, accompanied by Balarāma and surrounded by the Yadu dynasty, executed the killing of many…
• SB 11.1.2 Because the sons of Pāṇḍu were enraged by the numerous offenses of their enemies, such as duplicitous gambling, verbal insults, the…
• SB 11.1.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead used the Yadu dynasty, which was protected by His own arms, to eliminate the kings who with their…
• SB 11.1.4 Lord Kṛṣṇa thought, “No outside force could ever bring about the defeat of this family, the Yadu dynasty, whose members have always been…
• SB 11.1.5 My dear King Parīkṣit, when the supreme almighty Lord, whose desire always comes to pass, had thus made up His mind, He withdrew His own…
• SB 11.1.6-7 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the reservoir of all beauty. All beautiful things emanate from Him, and His personal form is…
• SB 11.1.8 King Parīkṣit inquired: How could the brāhmaṇas curse the Vṛṣṇis, who were always respectful to the brāhmaṇas, charitable, and inclined to…
• SB 11.1.9 King Parīkṣit continued inquiring: What was the motive for this curse? What did it consist of, O purest of the twice-born? And how could…
• SB 11.1.10 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The Lord, who bore His body as the amalgamation of everything beautiful, dutifully executed the most auspicious…
• SB 11.1.11-12 The sages Viśvāmitra, Asita, Kaṇva, Durvāsā, Bhṛgu, Aṅgirā, Kaśyapa, Vāmadeva, Atri and Vasiṣṭha, along with Nārada and others, once…
• SB 11.1.13-15 To that holy place, the young boys of the Yadu dynasty had brought Sāmba, son of Jāmbavatī, dressed in woman’s garb. Playfully approaching…
• SB 11.1.16 Thus ridiculed by deceit, the sages became angry, O King, and told the boys, “Fools! She will bear you an iron club that will destroy your…
• SB 11.1.17 Upon hearing the curse of the sages, the terrified boys quickly uncovered the belly of Sāmba, and indeed they observed that therein was an…
• SB 11.1.18 The young men of the Yadu dynasty said, “Oh, what have we done? We are so unfortunate! What will our family members say to us?” Speaking…
• SB 11.1.19 The Yadu boys, the luster of their faces completely faded, brought the club into the royal assembly, and in the presence of all the…
• SB 11.1.20 O King Parīkṣit, when the inhabitants of Dvārakā heard of the infallible curse of the brāhmaṇas and saw the club, they were astonished and…
• SB 11.1.21 After having the club ground to bits, King Āhuka [Ugrasena] of the Yadus personally threw the pieces, along with the remaining lump of…
• SB 11.1.22 A certain fish swallowed the iron lump, and the bits of iron, carried back to the shore by the waves, implanted themselves there and grew…
• SB 11.1.23 The fish was caught in the ocean along with other fish in a fishermen’s net. The iron lump in the fish’s stomach was taken by the hunter…
• SB 11.1.24 Knowing fully the significance of all these events, the Supreme Lord, though capable of reversing the brāhmaṇas’ curse, did not wish to do…
• SB 11.2.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Eager to engage in the worship of Lord Kṛṣṇa, O best of the Kurus, Nārada Muni stayed for some time in Dvārakā,…
• SB 11.2.2 My dear King, in the material world the conditioned souls are confronted by death at every step of life. Therefore, who among the…
• SB 11.2.3 One day the sage among the demigods, Nārada, came to the house of Vasudeva. After worshiping Nārada with suitable paraphernalia, seating…
• SB 11.2.10 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, Devarṣi Nārada was pleased by the questions of the highly intelligent Vasudeva. Because they suggested the…
• SB 11.6.1 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Brahmā then set off for Dvārakā, accompanied by his own sons as well as by the demigods and the great…
• SB 11.6.2-4 The powerful Lord Indra, along with the Maruts, Ādityas, Vasus, Aśvinīs, Ṛbhus, Aṅgirās, Rudras, Viśvedevas, Sādhyas, Gandharvas, Apsarās,…
• SB 11.6.5 In that resplendent city of Dvārakā, rich with all superior opulences, the demigods beheld with unsatiated eyes the wonderful form of Śrī…
• SB 11.6.6 The demigods covered the Supreme Lord of the universe with flower garlands brought from the gardens of heaven. Then they praised Him, the…
• SB 11.6.7 The demigods began to speak: Our dear Lord, advanced mystic yogīs, striving for liberation from the severe bondage of material work,…
• SB 11.6.8 O unconquerable Lord, You engage Your illusory energy, composed of three modes, to unleash, maintain and devastate the inconceivable…
• SB 11.6.9 O greatest of all, those whose consciousness is polluted by illusion cannot purify themselves merely by ordinary worship, study of the…
• SB 11.6.10 Great sages, desiring the highest benefit in life, always cherish Your lotus feet within their hearts, which are melted by love for You.…
• SB 11.6.11 Those about to offer oblations into the fire of sacrifice in accordance with the Ṛg, Yajur and Sāma Vedas meditate on Your lotus feet.…
• SB 11.6.12 O almighty Lord, You are so kind to Your servants that You have accepted the withered flower garland that we have placed on Your chest.…
• SB 11.6.13 O omnipotent Lord, in Your incarnation as Trivikrama, You raised Your leg like a flagpole to break the shell of the universe, allowing the…
• SB 11.6.14 You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the transcendental entity who is superior to both material nature and the enjoyer of nature.…
• SB 11.6.15 You are the cause of the creation, maintenance and destruction of this universe. As time, You regulate the subtle and manifest states of…
• SB 11.6.16 My dear Lord, the original puruṣa-avatāra, Mahā-Viṣṇu, acquires His creative potency from You. Thus with infallible energy He impregnates…
• SB 11.6.17 O Lord, You are the supreme creator of this universe and the ultimate controller of all moving and nonmoving living entities. You are…
• SB 11.6.18 My Lord, You are living with sixteen thousand exquisitely beautiful, aristocratic wives. By their irresistible coy and smiling glances and…
• SB 11.6.19 The nectar-bearing rivers of discussions about You, and also the holy rivers generated from the bathing of Your lotus feet, are able to…
• SB 11.6.20 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After Brahmā, along with Lord Śiva and the other demigods, thus offered prayers to the Supreme Lord,…
• SB 11.6.32 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus addressed by the Lord of the universe, the self-born Brahmā fell down in obeisances at the lotus feet of…
• SB 11.6.33 Thereafter, the Personality of Godhead observed that tremendous disturbances were taking place in the holy city of Dvārakā. Thus the Lord…
• SB 11.6.39 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O favorite son of the Kurus, thus advised by the Personality of Godhead, the Yādavas made up their minds to go to…
• SB 11.6.40-41 My dear King, Uddhava was a constantly faithful follower of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Upon seeing the imminent departure of the Yādavas, hearing from…
• SB 11.6.42 Śrī Uddhava said: O my Lord, O supreme God among all the demigods, real piety is invoked simply by hearing and chanting Your…
• SB 11.6.43 O Lord Keśava, my dear master, I cannot tolerate giving up Your lotus feet even for a fraction of a moment. I urge You to take me along…
• SB 11.6.44 O my dear Kṛṣṇa, Your pastimes are supremely auspicious for mankind and are an intoxicating beverage for the ears. Tasting such pastimes,…
• SB 11.6.45 My dear Lord, You are the Supreme Soul, and thus You are most dear to us. We are Your devotees, and how can we possibly reject You or live…
• SB 11.6.46 Simply by decorating ourselves with the garlands, fragrant oils, clothes and ornaments that You have already enjoyed, and by eating the…
• SB 11.6.47 Naked sages who seriously endeavor in spiritual practice, who have raised their semen upward, who are peaceful and sinless members of the…
• SB 11.6.48-49 O greatest of mystics, although we are conditioned souls wandering on the path of fruitive work, we will certainly cross beyond the…
• SB 11.6.50 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, thus addressed, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī, began to reply…
• SB 11.7.13 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmi said: O King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, thus instructed His pure devotee Uddhava, who was eager…
• SB 11.7.14 Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord, You alone award the results of yoga practice, and You are so kind that by Your own influence You…
• SB 11.7.15 My dear Lord, O Supreme Soul, for those whose minds are attached to sense gratification, and especially for those bereft of devotion unto…
• SB 11.7.16 O my Lord, I myself am most foolish because my consciousness is merged in the material body and bodily relations, which are all…
• SB 11.7.17 My dear Lord, You are the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and You reveal Yourself to Your devotees. Besides Your…
• SB 11.7.18 Therefore, O Lord, feeling weary of material life and tormented by its distresses, I now surrender unto You because You are the perfect…
• SB 11.7.19 The Supreme Lord replied: Generally those human beings who can expertly analyze the actual situation of the material world are able to…
• SB 11.7.20 An intelligent person, expert in perceiving the world around him and in applying sound logic, can achieve real benefit through his own…
• SB 11.7.21 In the human form of life, those who are self-controlled and expert in the spiritual science of Sāṅkhya can directly see Me along with all…
• SB 11.7.22 In this world there are many kinds of created bodies — some with one leg, others with two, three, four or more legs, and still others with…
• SB 11.7.23 Although I, the Supreme Lord, can never be captured by ordinary sense perception, those situated in human life may use their intelligence…
• SB 11.7.24 In this regard, sages cite a historical narration concerning the conversation between the greatly powerful King Yadu and an avadhūta.
• SB 11.7.25 Mahārāja Yadu once observed a certain brāhmaṇa avadhūta, who appeared to be quite young and learned, wandering about fearlessly. Being…
• SB 11.7.26 Śrī Yadu said: O brāhmaṇa, I see that you are not engaged in any practical religious activity, and yet you have acquired a most expert…
• SB 11.7.27 Generally human beings work hard to cultivate religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and also knowledge of the soul, and…
• SB 11.7.28 You, however, although capable, learned, expert, handsome and most eloquent, are not engaged in doing anything, nor do you desire…
• SB 11.7.29 Although all people within the material world are burning in the great forest fire of lust and greed, you remain free and are not burned…
• SB 11.7.30 O brāhmaṇa, we see that you are devoid of any contact with material enjoyment and that you are traveling alone, without any companions or…
• SB 11.7.31 Lord Kṛṣṇa continued: The intelligent King Yadu, always respectful to the brāhmaṇas, waited with bowed head as the brāhmaṇa, pleased with…
• SB 11.7.32 The brāhmaṇa said: My dear King, with my intelligence I have taken shelter of many spiritual masters. Having gained transcendental…
• SB 11.7.33-35 O King, I have taken shelter of twenty-four gurus, who are the following: the earth, air, sky, water, fire, moon, sun, pigeon and python;…
• SB 11.7.36 Please listen, O son of Mahārāja Yayāti, O tiger among men, as I explain to you what I have learned from each of these gurus.
• SB 11.7.37 A sober person, even when harassed by other living beings, should understand that his aggressors are acting helplessly under the control…
• SB 11.7.38 A saintly person should learn from the mountain to devote all his efforts to the service of others and to make the welfare of others the…
• SB 11.7.39 A learned sage should take his satisfaction in the simple maintenance of his existence and should not seek satisfaction through gratifying…
• SB 11.7.40 Even a transcendentalist is surrounded by innumerable material objects, which possess good and bad qualities. However, one who has…
• SB 11.7.41 Although a self-realized soul may live in various material bodies while in this world, experiencing their various qualities and functions,…
• SB 11.7.42 A thoughtful sage, even while living within a material body, should understand himself to be pure spirit soul. Similarly, one should see…
• SB 11.7.43 Although the mighty wind blows clouds and storms across the sky, the sky is never implicated or affected by these activities. Similarly,…
• SB 11.7.44 O King, a saintly person is just like water because he is free from all contamination, gentle by nature, and by speaking creates a…
• SB 11.7.45 Saintly persons become powerful by execution of austerities. Their consciousness is unshakable because they do not try to enjoy anything…
• SB 11.7.46 A saintly person, just like fire, sometimes appears in a concealed form and at other times reveals himself. For the welfare of the…
• SB 11.7.47 Just as fire manifests differently in pieces of wood of different sizes and qualities, the omnipotent Supreme Soul, having entered the…
• SB 11.7.48 The various phases of one’s material life, beginning with birth and culminating in death, are all properties of the body and do not affect…
• SB 11.7.49 The flames of a fire appear and disappear at every moment, and yet this creation and destruction is not noticed by the ordinary observer.…
• SB 11.7.50 Just as the sun evaporates large quantities of water by its potent rays and later returns the water to the earth in the form of rain,…
• SB 11.7.51 Even when reflected in various objects, the sun is never divided, nor does it merge into its reflection. Only those with dull brains would…
• SB 11.7.52 One should never indulge in excessive affection or concern for anyone or anything; otherwise one will have to experience great suffering,…
• SB 11.7.53 There once was a pigeon who lived in the forest along with his wife. He had built a nest within a tree and lived there for several years…
• SB 11.7.54 The two pigeons were very much devoted to their household duties. Their hearts being tied together by sentimental affection, they were…
• SB 11.7.55 Naively trusting in the future, they carried out their acts of resting, sitting, walking, standing, conversing, playing, eating and so…
• SB 11.7.56 Whenever she desired anything, O King, the she-pigeon would flatteringly cajole her husband, and he in turn would gratify her by…
• SB 11.7.57 Then the female pigeon experienced her first pregnancy. When the time arrived, the chaste lady delivered a number of eggs within the nest…
• SB 11.7.58 When the time was ripe, baby pigeons, with tender limbs and feathers created by the inconceivable potencies of the Lord, were born from…
• SB 11.7.59 The two pigeons became most affectionate to their children and took great pleasure in listening to their awkward chirping, which sounded…
• SB 11.7.60 The parent birds became very joyful by observing the soft wings of their children, their chirping, their lovely innocent movements around…
• SB 11.7.61 Their hearts bound to each other by affection, the foolish birds, completely bewildered by the illusory energy of Lord Viṣṇu, continued to…
• SB 11.7.62 One day the two heads of the family went out to find food for the children. Being very anxious to feed their offspring properly, they…
• SB 11.7.63 At that time a certain hunter who happened to be wandering through the forest saw the young pigeons moving about near their nest.…
• SB 11.7.64 The pigeon and his wife were always anxious for the maintenance of their children, and they were wandering in the forest for that purpose.…
• SB 11.7.65 When the lady pigeon caught sight of her own children trapped within the hunter’s net, she was overwhelmed with anguish, and crying out,…
• SB 11.7.66 The lady pigeon had always allowed herself to be bound by the ropes of intense material affection, and thus her mind was overwhelmed by…
• SB 11.7.67 Seeing his own children, who were more dear to him than life itself, fatally bound in the hunter’s net along with his dearmost wife, whom…
• SB 11.7.68 The male pigeon said: Alas, just see how I am now destroyed! I am obviously a great fool, for I did not properly execute pious activities.…
• SB 11.7.69 My wife and I were an ideal match. She always faithfully obeyed me and in fact accepted me as her worshipable deity. But now, seeing her…
• SB 11.7.70 Now I am a wretched person living in an empty home. My wife is dead; my children are dead. Why should I possibly want to live? My heart is…
• SB 11.7.71 As the father pigeon wretchedly stared at his poor children trapped in the net and on the verge of death, pathetically struggling to free…
• SB 11.7.72 The cruel hunter, having fulfilled his desire by capturing the head pigeon, his wife and all of their children, set off for his own home.
• SB 11.7.73 In this way, one who is too attached to family life becomes disturbed at heart. Like the pigeon, he tries to find pleasure in mundane sex…
• SB 11.7.74 The doors of liberation are opened wide to one who has achieved human life. But if a human being simply devotes himself to family life…
• SB 11.8.1 The saintly brāhmaṇa said: O King, the embodied living entity automatically experiences unhappiness in heaven or hell. Similarly,…
• SB 11.8.2 Following the example of the python, one should give up material endeavors and accept for one’s maintenance food that comes of its own…
• SB 11.8.3 If at any time food does not come, then a saintly person should fast for many days without making endeavor. He should understand that by…
• SB 11.8.4 A saintly person should remain peaceful and materially inactive, maintaining his body without much endeavor. Even though possessed of full…
• SB 11.8.5 A saintly sage is happy and pleasing in his external behavior, whereas internally he is most grave and thoughtful. Because his knowledge…
• SB 11.8.6 During the rainy season the swollen rivers rush into the ocean, and during the dry summer the rivers, now shallow, severely reduce their…
• SB 11.8.7 One who has failed to control his senses immediately feels attraction upon seeing a woman’s form, which is created by the illusory energy…
• SB 11.8.8 A foolish person with no intelligent discrimination is immediately aroused at the sight of a lusty woman beautifully decorated with golden…
• SB 11.8.9 A saintly person should accept only enough food to keep his body and soul together. He should go from door to door accepting just a little…
• SB 11.8.10 Just as the honeybee takes nectar from all flowers, big and small, an intelligent human being should take the essence from all religious…
• SB 11.8.11 A saintly person should not think, “This food I will keep to eat tonight and this other food I can save for tomorrow.” In other words, a…
• SB 11.8.12 A saintly mendicant should not even collect foodstuffs to eat later in the same day or the next day. If he disregards this injunction and…
• SB 11.8.13 A saintly person should never touch a young girl. In fact, he should not even let his foot touch a wooden doll in the shape of a woman. By…
• SB 11.8.14 A man possessing intelligent discrimination should not under any circumstances try to exploit the beautiful form of a woman for his sense…
• SB 11.8.15 A greedy person accumulates a large quantity of money with great struggle and pain, but the person who has struggled so much to acquire…
• SB 11.8.16 Just as a hunter takes away the honey laboriously produced by the honeybees, similarly, saintly mendicants such as brahmacārīs and…
• SB 11.8.17 A saintly person dwelling in the forest in the renounced order of life should never listen to songs or music promoting material enjoyment.…
• SB 11.8.18 Becoming attracted to the worldly singing, dancing and musical entertainment of beautiful women, even the great sage Ṛṣyaśṛṅga, the son of…
• SB 11.8.19 Just as a fish, incited by the desire to enjoy his tongue, is fatally trapped on the fisherman’s hook, similarly, a foolish person is…
• SB 11.8.20 By fasting, learned men quickly bring all of the senses except the tongue under control, because by abstaining from eating such men are…
• SB 11.8.21 Although one may conquer all of the other senses, as long as the tongue is not conquered it cannot be said that one has controlled his…
• SB 11.8.22 O son of kings, previously in the city of Videha there dwelled a prostitute named Piṅgalā. Now please hear what I have learned from that…
• SB 11.8.23 Once that prostitute, desiring to bring a lover into her house, stood outside in the doorway at night showing her beautiful form.
• SB 11.8.24 O best among men, this prostitute was very anxious to get money, and as she stood on the street at night she studied all the men who were…
• SB 11.8.25-26 As the prostitute Piṅgalā stood in the doorway, many men came and went, walking by her house. Her only means of sustenance was…
• SB 11.8.27 As the night wore on, the prostitute, who intensely desired money, gradually became morose, and her face dried up. Thus being filled with…
• SB 11.8.28 The prostitute felt disgusted with her material situation and thus became indifferent to it. Indeed, detachment acts like a sword, cutting…
• SB 11.8.29 O King, just as a human being who is bereft of spiritual knowledge never desires to give up his false sense of proprietorship over many…
• SB 11.8.30 The prostitute Piṅgalā said: Just see how greatly illusioned I am! Because I cannot control my mind, just like a fool I desire lusty…
• SB 11.8.31 I am such a fool that I have given up the service of that person who, being eternally situated within my heart, is actually most dear to…
• SB 11.8.32 Oh, how I have uselessly tortured my own soul! I have sold my body to lusty, greedy men who are themselves objects of pity. Thus…
• SB 11.8.33 This material body is like a house in which I, the soul, am living. The bones forming my spine, ribs, arms and legs are like the beams,…
• SB 11.8.34 Certainly in this city of Videha I alone am completely foolish. I neglected the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who awards us everything,…
• SB 11.8.35 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is absolutely the most dear one for all living beings because He is everyone’s well-wisher and Lord. He…
• SB 11.8.36 Men provide sense gratification for women, but all these men, and even the demigods in heaven, have a beginning and an end. They are all…
• SB 11.8.37 Although I most stubbornly hoped to enjoy the material world, somehow or other detachment has arisen in my heart, and it is making me very…
• SB 11.8.38 A person who has developed detachment can give up the bondage of material society, friendship and love, and a person who undergoes great…
• SB 11.8.39 With devotion I accept the great benefit that the Lord has bestowed upon me. Having given up my sinful desires for ordinary sense…
• SB 11.8.40 I am now completely satisfied, and I have full faith in the Lord’s mercy. Therefore I will maintain myself with whatever comes of its own…
• SB 11.8.41 The intelligence of the living entity is stolen away by activities of sense gratification, and thus he falls into the dark well of…
• SB 11.8.42 When the living entity sees that the entire universe has been seized by the serpent of time, he becomes sober and sane and at that time…
• SB 11.8.43 The avadhūta said: Thus, her mind completely made up, Piṅgalā cut off all her sinful desires to enjoy sex pleasure with lovers, and she…
• SB 11.8.44 Material desire is undoubtedly the cause of the greatest unhappiness, and freedom from such desire is the cause of the greatest happiness.…
• SB 11.9.1 The saintly brāhmaṇa said: Everyone considers certain things within the material world to be most dear to him, and because of attachment…
• SB 11.9.2 Once a group of large hawks who were unable to find any prey attacked another, weaker hawk who was holding some meat. At that time, being…
• SB 11.9.3 In family life, the parents are always in anxiety about their home, children and reputation. But I have nothing to do with these things. I…
• SB 11.9.4 In this world two types of people are free from all anxiety and merged in great happiness: one who is a retarded and childish fool and one…
• SB 11.9.5 Once a marriageable young girl was alone in her house because her parents and relatives had gone that day to another place. At that time a…
• SB 11.9.6 The girl went to a private place and began to make preparations so that the unexpected male guests could eat. As she was beating the rice,…
• SB 11.9.7 The young girl feared that the men would consider her family to be poor because their daughter was busily engaged in the menial task of…
• SB 11.9.8 Thereafter, as the young girl continued to husk the rice, the two bracelets on each wrist continued to collide and make noise. Therefore…
• SB 11.9.9 O subduer of the enemy, I travel throughout the surface of the earth learning constantly about the nature of this world, and thus I…
• SB 11.9.10 When many people live together in one place there will undoubtedly be quarreling. And even if only two people live together there will be…
• SB 11.9.11 Having perfected the yoga sitting postures and conquered the breathing process, one should make the mind steady by detachment and the…
• SB 11.9.12 The mind can be controlled when it is fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Having achieved a stable situation, the mind becomes…
• SB 11.9.13 Thus, when one’s consciousness is completely fixed on the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one no longer sees duality,…
• SB 11.9.14 A saintly person should remain alone and constantly travel without any fixed residence. Being alert, he should remain secluded and should…
• SB 11.9.15 When a person living in a temporary material body tries to construct a happy home, the result is fruitless and miserable. The snake,…
• SB 11.9.16 The Lord of the universe, Nārāyaṇa, is the worshipable God of all living entities. Without extraneous assistance, the Lord creates this…
• SB 11.9.17-18 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead displays His own potency in the form of time and guides His material potencies, such as the mode…
• SB 11.9.19 O subduer of the enemies, at the time of creation the Personality of Godhead expands His own transcendental potency in the form of time,…
• SB 11.9.20 According to great sages, that which is the basis of the three modes of material nature and which manifests the variegated universe is…
• SB 11.9.21 Just as from within himself the spider expands thread through his mouth, plays with it for some time and eventually swallows it,…
• SB 11.9.22 If out of love, hate or fear an embodied soul fixes his mind with intelligence and complete concentration upon a particular bodily form,…
• SB 11.9.23 O King, once a wasp forced a weaker insect to enter his hive and kept him trapped there. In great fear the weak insect constantly…
• SB 11.9.24 O King, from all these spiritual masters I have acquired great wisdom. Now please listen as I explain what I learned from my own body.
• SB 11.9.25 The material body is also my spiritual master because it teaches me detachment. Being subject to creation and destruction, it always comes…
• SB 11.9.26 A man attached to the body accumulates money with great struggle to expand and protect the position of his wife, children, property,…
• SB 11.9.27 A man who has many wives is constantly harassed by them. He is responsible for their maintenance, and thus all the ladies constantly pull…
• SB 11.9.28 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, expanding His own potency, māyā-śakti, created innumerable species of life to house the conditioned…
• SB 11.9.29 After many, many births and deaths one achieves the rare human form of life, which, although temporary, affords one the opportunity to…
• SB 11.9.30 Having learned from my spiritual masters, I remain situated in realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and, fully renounced and…
• SB 11.9.31 Although the Absolute Truth is one without a second, the sages have described Him in many different ways. Therefore one may not be able to…
• SB 11.17.8 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Śrī Uddhava, the best of devotees, thus inquired from the Lord. Hearing his question, the Personality of…
• SB 11.23.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Mukunda, the chief of the Dāśārhas, having thus been respectfully requested by the best of His devotees, Śrī…
• SB 11.29.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus questioned by the most affectionate Uddhava, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the supreme controller of all controllers, who takes…
• SB 11.29.35 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing these words spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa, and having thus been shown the entire path of yoga, Uddhava folded his…
• SB 11.29.36 Steadying his mind, which had become overwhelmed with love, Uddhava felt extremely grateful to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the greatest hero of the Yadu…
• SB 11.29.37 Śrī Uddhava said: O unborn, primeval Lord, although I had fallen into the great darkness of illusion, my ignorance has now been dispelled…
• SB 11.29.38 In return for my insignificant surrender, You have mercifully bestowed upon me, Your servant, the torchlight of transcendental knowledge.…
• SB 11.29.39 The firmly binding rope of my affection for the families of the Dāśārhas, Vṛṣṇis, Andhakas and Sātvatas — a rope You originally cast over…
• SB 11.29.40 Obeisances unto You, O greatest of yogīs. Please instruct me, who am surrendered unto You, how I may have undeviating attachment to Your…
• SB 11.29.45 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus addressed by Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose intelligence destroys all the suffering of material life, Śrī Uddhava…
• SB 11.29.46 Greatly fearing separation from Him for whom he felt such indestructible affection, Uddhava was distraught, and he could not give up the…
• SB 11.29.47 Thereupon, placing the Lord deeply within his heart, the great devotee Uddhava went to Badarikāśrama. By engaging there in austerities, he…
• SB 11.29.48 Thus Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose lotus feet are served by all great yoga masters, spoke to His devotee this nectarean knowledge, which comprises the…
• SB 11.29.49 I offer my obeisances to that Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original and greatest of all beings, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. He is the author of…
• SB 11.30.4 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having observed many disturbing signs in the sky, on the earth and in outer space, Lord Kṛṣṇa addressed the Yadus…
• SB 11.31.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Then Lord Brahmā arrived at Prabhāsa along with Lord Śiva and his consort, the sages, the Prajāpatis and all the…
• SB 11.31.2-3 The forefathers, Siddhas, Gandharvas, Vidyādharas and great serpents also came, along with the Cāraṇas, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, Kinnaras,…
• SB 11.31.4 O King, crowding the sky with their many airplanes, they showered down flowers with great devotion.
• SB 11.31.5 Seeing before Him Brahmā, the grandfather of the universe, along with the other demigods, who are all His personal and powerful…
• SB 11.31.6 Without employing the mystic āgneyī meditation to burn up His transcendental body, which is the all-attractive resting place of all the…
• SB 11.31.7 As soon as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa left the earth, Truth, Religion, Faithfulness, Glory and Beauty immediately followed Him. Kettledrums resounded…
• SB 11.31.8 Most of the demigods and other higher beings led by Brahmā could not see Lord Kṛṣṇa as He was entering His own abode, since He did not…
• SB 11.31.9 Just as ordinary men cannot ascertain the path of a lightning bolt as it leaves a cloud, the demigods could not trace out the movements of…
• SB 11.31.10 A few of the demigods, however — notably Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva — could ascertain how the Lord’s mystic power was working, and thus…
• SB 11.31.11 My dear King, you should understand that the Supreme Lord’s appearance and disappearance, which resemble those of embodied conditioned…
• SB 11.31.12 Lord Kṛṣṇa brought the son of His guru back from the planet of the lord of death in the boy’s selfsame body, and as the ultimate giver of…
• SB 11.31.13 Although Lord Kṛṣṇa, being the possessor of infinite powers, is the only cause of the creation, maintenance and destruction of innumerable…
• SB 11.31.14 Anyone who regularly rises early in the morning and carefully chants with devotion the glories of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental…
• SB 11.31.15 As soon as Dāruka reached Dvārakā, he threw himself at the feet of Vasudeva and Ugrasena and drenched their feet with his tears, lamenting…
• SB 11.31.16-17 Dāruka delivered the account of the total destruction of the Vṛṣṇis, and upon hearing this, O Parīkṣit, the people became deeply…
• SB 11.31.18 When Devakī, Rohiṇī and Vasudeva could not find their sons, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, they lost consciousness out of anguish.
• SB 11.31.19 Tormented by separation from the Lord, His parents gave up their lives at that very spot. My dear Parīkṣit, the wives of the Yādavas then…
• SB 11.31.20 The wives of Lord Balarāma also entered the fire and embraced His body, and Vasudeva’s wives entered his fire and embraced his body. The…
• SB 11.31.21 Arjuna felt great distress over separation from Lord Kṛṣṇa, his dearmost friend. But he consoled himself by remembering the transcendental…
• SB 11.31.22 Arjuna then saw to it that the funeral rites were properly carried out for the dead, who had no remaining male family members. He executed…
• SB 11.31.23 As soon as Dvārakā was abandoned by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ocean flooded it on all sides, O King, sparing only His palace.
• SB 11.31.24 Lord Madhusūdana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is eternally present in Dvārakā. It is the most auspicious of all auspicious places,…
• SB 11.31.25 Arjuna took the survivors of the Yadu dynasty — the women, children and old men — to Indraprastha, where he installed Vajra as ruler of…
• SB 11.31.26 Hearing from Arjuna of the death of their friend, my dear King, your grandfathers established you as the maintainer of the dynasty and…
• SB 11.31.27 A person who with faith engages in chanting the glories of these various pastimes and incarnations of Viṣṇu, the Lord of lords, will gain…
• SB 11.31.28 The all-auspicious exploits of the all-attractive incarnations of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and also the…
• SB 12.1.1-2 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The last king mentioned in our previous enumeration of the future rulers of the Māgadha dynasty was Purañjaya, who…
• SB 12.1.3 The son of Rājaka will be Nandivardhana, and thus in the Pradyotana dynasty there will be five kings, who will enjoy the earth for 138…
• SB 12.1.4 Nandivardhana will have a son named Śiśunāga, and his son will be known as Kākavarṇa. The son of Kākavarṇa will be Kṣemadharmā, and the…
• SB 12.1.5 The son of Kṣetrajña will be Vidhisāra, and his son will be Ajātaśatru. Ajātaśatru will have a son named Darbhaka, and his son will be…
• SB 12.1.6-8 Ajaya will father a second Nandivardhana, whose son will be Mahānandi. O best of the Kurus, these ten kings of the Śiśunāga dynasty will…
• SB 12.1.9 That lord of Mahāpadma, King Nanda, will rule over the entire earth just like a second Paraśurāma, and no one will challenge his authority.
• SB 12.1.10 He will have eight sons, headed by Sumālya, who will control the earth as powerful kings for one hundred years.
• SB 12.1.11 A certain brāhmaṇa [Cāṇakya] will betray the trust of King Nanda and his eight sons and will destroy their dynasty. In their absence the…
• SB 12.1.12 This brāhmaṇa will enthrone Candragupta, whose son will be named Vārisāra. The son of Vārisāra will be Aśokavardhana.
• SB 12.1.13 Aśokavardhana will be followed by Suyaśā, whose son will be Saṅgata. His son will be Śāliśūka, Śāliśūka’s son will be Somaśarmā, and…
• SB 12.1.14 O best of the Kurus, these ten Maurya kings will rule the earth for 137 years of the Kali-yuga.
• SB 12.1.15-17 My dear King Parīkṣit, Agnimitra will follow as king, and then Sujyeṣṭha. Sujyeṣṭha will be followed by Vasumitra, Bhadraka, and the son…
• SB 12.1.18 Vasudeva, an intelligent minister coming from the Kāṇva family, will kill the last of the Śuṅga kings, a lusty debauchee named Devabhūti,…
• SB 12.1.19 The son of Vasudeva will be Bhūmitra, and his son will be Nārāyaṇa. These kings of the Kāṇva dynasty will rule the earth for 345 more…
• SB 12.1.20 The last of the Kāṇvas, Suśarmā, will be murdered by his own servant, Balī, a low-class śūdra of the Andhra race. This most degraded…
• SB 12.1.21-26 The brother of Balī, named Kṛṣṇa, will become the next ruler of the earth. His son will be Śāntakarṇa, and his son will be Paurṇamāsa. The…
• SB 12.1.27 Then will follow seven kings of the Ābhīra race from the city of Avabhṛti, and then ten Gardabhīs. After them, sixteen kings of the Kaṅkas…
• SB 12.1.28 Eight Yavanas will then take power, followed by fourteen Turuṣkas, ten Guruṇḍas and eleven kings of the Maula dynasty.
• SB 12.1.29-31 These Ābhīras, Gardabhīs and Kaṅkas will enjoy the earth for 1,099 years, and the Maulas will rule for 300 years. When all of them have…
• SB 12.1.32-33 The Kilakilās will be followed by their thirteen sons, the Bāhlikas, and after them King Puṣpamitra, his son Durmitra, seven Andhras,…
• SB 12.1.34 There will then appear a king of the Māgadhas named Viśvasphūrji, who will be like another Purañjaya. He will turn all the civilized…
• SB 12.1.35 Foolish King Viśvasphūrji will maintain all the citizens in ungodliness and will use his power to completely disrupt the kṣatriya order.…
• SB 12.1.36 At that time the brāhmaṇas of such provinces as Śaurāṣṭra, Avantī, Ābhīra, Śūra, Arbuda and Mālava will forget all their regulative…
• SB 12.1.37 The land along the Sindhu River, as well as the districts of Candrabhāgā, Kauntī and Kāśmīra, will be ruled by śūdras, fallen brāhmaṇas…
• SB 12.1.38 There will be many such uncivilized kings ruling at the same time, O King Parīkṣit, and they will all be uncharitable, possessed of fierce…
• SB 12.1.39-40 These barbarians in the guise of kings will devour the citizenry, murdering innocent women, children, cows and brāhmaṇas and coveting the…
• SB 12.1.41 The citizens governed by these low-class kings will imitate the character, behavior and speech of their rulers. Harassed by their leaders…
• SB 12.2.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Then, O King, religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory…
• SB 12.2.2 In Kali-yuga, wealth alone will be considered the sign of a man’s good birth, proper behavior and fine qualities. And law and justice will…
• SB 12.2.3 Men and women will live together merely because of superficial attraction, and success in business will depend on deceit. Womanliness and…
• SB 12.2.4 A person’s spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols, and on that same basis people will change from one…
• SB 12.2.5 A person will be judged unholy if he does not have money, and hypocrisy will be accepted as virtue. Marriage will be arranged simply by…
• SB 12.2.6 A sacred place will be taken to consist of no more than a reservoir of water located at a distance, and beauty will be thought to depend…
• SB 12.2.7 As the earth thus becomes crowded with a corrupt population, whoever among any of the social classes shows himself to be the strongest…
• SB 12.2.8 Losing their wives and properties to such avaricious and merciless rulers, who will behave no better than ordinary thieves, the citizens…
• SB 12.2.9 Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, fruits, flowers and seeds. Struck…
• SB 12.2.10 The citizens will suffer greatly from cold, wind, heat, rain and snow. They will be further tormented by quarrels, hunger, thirst, disease…
• SB 12.2.11 The maximum duration of life for human beings in Kali-yuga will become fifty years.
• SB 12.2.12-16 By the time the Age of Kali ends, the bodies of all creatures will be greatly reduced in size, and the religious principles of followers…
• SB 12.2.17 Lord Viṣṇu — the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the spiritual master of all moving and nonmoving living beings, and the Supreme Soul of…
• SB 12.2.18 Lord Kalki will appear in the home of the most eminent brāhmaṇa of Śambhala village, the great soul Viṣṇuyaśā.
• SB 12.2.19-20 Lord Kalki, the Lord of the universe, will mount His swift horse Devadatta and, sword in hand, travel over the earth exhibiting His eight…
• SB 12.2.21 After all the impostor kings have been killed, the residents of the cities and towns will feel the breezes carrying the most sacred…
• SB 12.2.22 When Lord Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appears in their hearts in His transcendental form of goodness, the remaining…
• SB 12.2.23 When the Supreme Lord has appeared on earth as Kalki, the maintainer of religion, Satya-yuga will begin, and human society will bring…
• SB 12.2.24 When the moon, the sun and Bṛhaspatī are together in the constellation Karkaṭa, and all three enter simultaneously into the lunar mansion…
• SB 12.2.25 Thus I have described all the kings — past, present and future — who belong to the dynasties of the sun and the moon.
• SB 12.2.26 From your birth up to the coronation of King Nanda, 1,150 years will pass.
• SB 12.2.27-28 Of the seven stars forming the constellation of the seven sages, Pulaha and Kratu are the first to rise in the night sky. If a line…
• SB 12.2.29 The Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, is brilliant like the sun and is known as Kṛṣṇa. When He returned to the spiritual sky, Kali entered this world,…
• SB 12.2.30 As long as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the husband of the goddess of fortune, touched the earth with His lotus feet, Kali was powerless to subdue this…
• SB 12.2.31 When the constellation of the seven sages is passing through the lunar mansion Maghā, the Age of Kali begins. It comprises twelve hundred…
• SB 12.2.32 When the great sages of the Saptarṣi constellation pass from Maghā to Pūrvāsāḍhā, Kali will have his full strength, beginning from King…
• SB 12.2.33 Those who scientifically understand the past declare that on the very day that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa departed for the spiritual world, the…
• SB 12.2.34 After the one thousand celestial years of Kali-yuga, the Satya-yuga will manifest again. At that time the minds of all men will become…
• SB 12.2.35 Thus I have described the royal dynasty of Manu, as it is known on this earth. One can similarly study the history of the vaiśyas, śūdras…
• SB 12.2.36 These personalities, who were great souls, are now known only by their names. They exist only in accounts from the past, and only their…
• SB 12.2.37 Devāpi, the brother of Mahārāja Śāntanu, and Maru, the descendant of Ikṣvāku, both possess great mystic strength and are living even now…
• SB 12.2.38 At the end of the Age of Kali, these two kings, having received instruction directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva,…
• SB 12.2.39 The cycle of four ages — Satya, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali — continues perpetually among living beings on this earth, repeating the same…
• SB 12.2.40 My dear King Parīkṣit, all these kings I have described, as well as all other human beings, come to this earth and stake their claims, but…
• SB 12.2.41 Even though a person’s body may now have the designation “king,” in the end its name will be “worms,” “stool” or “ashes.” What can a…
• SB 12.2.42 [The materialistic king thinks:] “This unbounded earth was held by my predecessors and is now under my sovereignty. How can I arrange for…
• SB 12.2.43 Although the foolish accept the body made of earth, water and fire as “me” and this earth as “mine,” in every case they have ultimately…
• SB 12.2.44 My dear King Parīkṣit, all these kings who tried to enjoy the earth by their strength were reduced by the force of time to nothing more…
• SB 12.3.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Seeing the kings of this earth busy trying to conquer her, the earth herself laughed. She said: “Just see how these…
• SB 12.3.2 “Great rulers of men, even those who are learned, meet frustration and failure because of material lust. Driven by lust, these kings place…
• SB 12.3.3-4 “Kings and politicians imagine: ‘First I will conquer my senses and mind; then I will subdue my chief ministers and rid myself of the…
• SB 12.3.5 “After conquering all the land on my surface, these proud kings forcibly enter the ocean to conquer the sea itself. What is the use of…
• SB 12.3.6 O best of the Kurus, the earth continued as follows: “Although in the past great men and their descendants have left me, departing from…
• SB 12.3.7 “For the sake of conquering me, materialistic persons fight one another. Fathers oppose their sons, and brothers fight one another,…
• SB 12.3.8 “Political leaders challenge one another: ‘All this land is mine! It’s not yours, you fool!’ Thus they attack one another and die.
• SB 12.3.9-13 “Such kings as Pṛthu, Purūravā, Gādhi, Nahuṣa, Bharata, Kārtavīrya Arjuna, Māndhātā, Sagara, Rāma, Khaṭvāṅga, Dhundhuhā, Raghu, Tṛṇabindu,…
• SB 12.3.14 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O mighty Parīkṣit, I have related to you the narrations of all these great kings, who spread their fame throughout…
• SB 12.3.15 The person who desires pure devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa should hear the narrations of Lord Uttamaḥśloka’s glorious qualities, the…
• SB 12.3.18 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in the beginning, during Satya-yuga, the age of truth, religion is present with all four of its legs…
• SB 12.3.19 The people of Satya-yuga are for the most part self-satisfied, merciful, friendly to all, peaceful, sober and tolerant. They take their…
• SB 12.3.20 In Tretā-yuga each leg of religion is gradually reduced by one quarter by the influence of the four pillars of irreligion — lying,…
• SB 12.3.21 In the Tretā age people are devoted to ritual performances and severe austerities. They are not excessively violent or very lusty after…
• SB 12.3.22 In Dvāpara-yuga the religious qualities of austerity, truth, mercy and charity are reduced to one half by their irreligious counterparts —…
• SB 12.3.23 In the Dvāpara age people are interested in glory and are very noble. They devote themselves to the study of the Vedas, possess great…
• SB 12.3.24 In the Age of Kali only one fourth of the religious principles remains. That last remnant will continuously be decreased by the…
• SB 12.3.25 In the Kali age people tend to be greedy, ill-behaved and merciless, and they fight one another without good reason. Unfortunate and…
• SB 12.3.26 The material modes — goodness, passion and ignorance — whose permutations are observed within a person’s mind, are set into motion by the…
• SB 12.3.27 When the mind, intelligence and senses are solidly fixed in the mode of goodness, that time should be understood as Satya-yuga, the age of…
• SB 12.3.28 O most intelligent one, when the conditioned souls are devoted to their duties but have ulterior motives and seek personal prestige, you…
• SB 12.3.29 When greed, dissatisfaction, false pride, hypocrisy and envy become prominent, along with attraction for selfish activities, such a time…
• SB 12.3.30 When there is a predominance of cheating, lying, sloth, sleepiness, violence, depression, lamentation, bewilderment, fear and poverty,…
• SB 12.3.31 Because of the bad qualities of the Age of Kali, human beings will become shortsighted, unfortunate, gluttonous, lustful and…
• SB 12.3.32 Cities will be dominated by thieves, the Vedas will be contaminated by speculative interpretations of atheists, political leaders will…
• SB 12.3.33 The brahmacārīs will fail to execute their vows and become generally unclean, the householders will become beggars, the vānaprasthas will…
• SB 12.3.34 Women will become much smaller in size, and they will eat too much, have more children than they can properly take care of, and lose all…
• SB 12.3.35 Businessmen will engage in petty commerce and earn their money by cheating. Even when there is no emergency, people will consider any…
• SB 12.3.36 Servants will abandon a master who has lost his wealth, even if that master is a saintly person of exemplary character. Masters will…
• SB 12.3.37 In Kali-yuga men will be wretched and controlled by women. They will reject their fathers, brothers, other relatives and friends and will…
• SB 12.3.38 Uncultured men will accept charity on behalf of the Lord and will earn their livelihood by making a show of austerity and wearing a…
• SB 12.3.39-40 In the Age of Kali, people’s minds will always be agitated. They will become emaciated by famine and taxation, my dear King, and will…
• SB 12.3.41 In Kali-yuga men will develop hatred for each other even over a few coins. Giving up all friendly relations, they will be ready to lose…
• SB 12.3.42 Men will no longer protect their elderly parents, their children or their respectable wives. Thoroughly degraded, they will care only to…
• SB 12.3.43 O King, in the Age of Kali people’s intelligence will be diverted by atheism, and they will almost never offer sacrifice to the Supreme…
• SB 12.3.44 Terrified, about to die, a man collapses on his bed. Although his voice is faltering and he is hardly conscious of what he is saying, if…
• SB 12.3.45 In the Kali-yuga, objects, places and even individual personalities are all polluted. The almighty Personality of Godhead, however, can…
• SB 12.3.46 If a person hears about, glorifies, meditates upon, worships or simply offers great respect to the Supreme Lord, who is situated within…
• SB 12.3.47 Just as fire applied to gold removes any discoloration caused by traces of other metals, Lord Viṣṇu within the heart purifies the minds of…
• SB 12.3.48 By one’s engaging in the processes of demigod worship, austerities, breath control, compassion, bathing in holy places, strict vows,…
• SB 12.3.49 Therefore, O King, endeavor with all your might to fix the Supreme Lord Keśava within your heart. Maintain this concentration upon the…
• SB 12.3.50 My dear King, the Personality of Godhead is the ultimate controller. He is the Supreme Soul and the supreme shelter of all beings. When…
• SB 12.3.51 My dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa…
• SB 12.3.52 Whatever result was obtained in Satya-yuga by meditating on Viṣṇu, in Tretā-yuga by performing sacrifices, and in Dvāpara-yuga by serving…
• SB 12.4.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, I have already described to you the measurements of time, beginning from the smallest fraction…
• SB 12.4.2 One thousand cycles of four ages constitute a single day of Brahmā, known as a kalpa. In that period, O King, fourteen Manus come and go.
• SB 12.4.3 After one day of Brahmā, annihilation occurs during his night, which is of the same duration. At that time all the three planetary systems…
• SB 12.4.4 This is called the naimittika, or occasional, annihilation, during which the original creator, Lord Nārāyaṇa, lies down upon the bed of…
• SB 12.4.5 When the two halves of the lifetime of Lord Brahmā, the most elevated created being, are complete, the seven basic elements of creation…
• SB 12.4.6 O King, upon the annihilation of the material elements, the universal egg, comprising the elemental amalgamation of creation, is…
• SB 12.4.7 As annihilation approaches, O King, there will be no rain upon the earth for one hundred years. Drought will lead to famine, and the…
• SB 12.4.8 The sun in its annihilating form will drink up with its terrible rays all the water of the ocean, of living bodies and of the earth…
• SB 12.4.9 Next the great fire of annihilation will flare up from the mouth of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. Carried by the mighty force of the wind, this fire…
• SB 12.4.10 Burned from all sides — from above by the blazing sun and from below by the fire of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa — the universal sphere will glow like…
• SB 12.4.11 A great and terrible wind of destruction will begin to blow for more than one hundred years, and the sky, covered with dust, will turn gray.
• SB 12.4.12 After that, O King, groups of multicolored clouds will gather, roaring terribly with thunder, and will pour down floods of rain for one…
• SB 12.4.13 At that time, the shell of the universe will fill up with water, forming a single cosmic ocean.
• SB 12.4.14 As the entire universe is flooded, the water will rob the earth of its unique quality of fragrance, and the element earth, deprived of its…
• SB 12.4.15-19 The element fire then seizes the taste from the element water, which, deprived of its unique quality, taste, merges into fire. Air seizes…
• SB 12.4.20-21 In the unmanifest stage of material nature, called pradhāna, there is no expression of words, no mind and no manifestation of the subtle…
• SB 12.4.22 This is the annihilation called prākṛtika, during which the energies belonging to the Supreme Person and His unmanifest material nature,…
• SB 12.4.23 It is the Absolute Truth alone who manifests in the forms of intelligence, the senses and the objects of sense perception, and who is…
• SB 12.4.24 A lamp, the eye that views by the light of that lamp, and the visible form that is viewed are all basically nondifferent from the element…
• SB 12.4.25 The three states of intelligence are called waking consciousness, sleep and deep sleep. But, my dear King, the variegated experiences…
• SB 12.4.26 Just as clouds in the sky come into being and are then dispersed by the amalgamation and dissolution of their constituent elements, this…
• SB 12.4.27 My dear King, it is stated [in the Vedānta-sūtra] that the ingredient cause that constitutes any manifested product in this universe can…
• SB 12.4.28 Anything experienced in terms of general cause and specific effect must be an illusion, because such causes and effects exist only…
• SB 12.4.29 Although perceived, the transformation of even a single atom of material nature has no ultimate definition without reference to the…
• SB 12.4.30 There is no material duality in the Absolute Truth. The duality perceived by an ignorant person is like the difference between the sky…
• SB 12.4.31 According to their different purposes, men utilize gold in various ways, and gold is therefore perceived in various forms. In the same…
• SB 12.4.32 Although a cloud is a product of the sun and is also made visible by the sun, it nevertheless creates darkness for the viewing eye, which…
• SB 12.4.33 When the cloud originally produced from the sun is torn apart, the eye can see the actual form of the sun. Similarly, when the spirit soul…
• SB 12.4.34 My dear Parīkṣit, when the illusory false ego that binds the soul has been cut off with the sword of discriminating knowledge and one has…
• SB 12.4.35 Experts in the subtle workings of nature, O subduer of the enemy, have declared that there are continuous processes of creation and…
• SB 12.4.36 All material entities undergo transformation and are constantly and swiftly eroded by the mighty currents of time. The various stages of…
• SB 12.4.37 These stages of existence created by beginningless and endless time, the impersonal representative of the Supreme Lord, are not visible,…
• SB 12.4.38 In this way the progress of time is described in terms of the four kinds of annihilation — continuous, occasional, elemental and final.
• SB 12.4.39 O best of the Kurus, I have related to you these narrations of the pastimes of Lord Nārāyaṇa, the creator of this world and the ultimate…
• SB 12.4.40 For a person who is suffering in the fire of countless miseries and who desires to cross the insurmountable ocean of material existence,…
• SB 12.4.41 Long ago this essential anthology of all the Purāṇas was spoken by the infallible Lord Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi to Nārada, who then repeated it…
• SB 12.4.42 My dear Mahārāja Parīkṣit, that great personality Śrīla Vyāsadeva taught me this same scripture, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is equal in…
• SB 12.4.43 O best of the Kurus, the same Sūta Gosvāmī who is sitting before us will speak this Bhāgavatam to the sages assembled in the great…
• SB 12.5.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has elaborately described in various narrations the Supreme Soul of all that be — the…
• SB 12.5.2 O King, give up the animalistic mentality of thinking, “I am going to die.” Unlike the body, you have not taken birth. There was not a…
• SB 12.5.3 You will not take birth again in the form of your sons and grandsons, like a sprout taking birth from a seed and then generating a new…
• SB 12.5.4 In a dream one can see his own head being cut off and thus understand that his actual self is standing apart from the dream experience.…
• SB 12.5.5 When a pot is broken, the portion of sky within the pot remains as the element sky, just as before. In the same way, when the gross and…
• SB 12.5.6 The material bodies, qualities and activities of the spirit soul are created by the material mind. That mind is itself created by the…
• SB 12.5.7 A lamp functions as such only by the combination of its fuel, vessel, wick and fire. Similarly, material life, based on the soul’s…
• SB 12.5.8 The soul within the body is self-luminous and is separate from the visible gross body and invisible subtle body. It remains as the fixed…
• SB 12.5.9 My dear King, by constantly meditating upon the Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva, and by applying clear and logical intelligence, you should…
• SB 12.5.10 The snake-bird Takṣaka, sent by the curse of the brāhmaṇa, will not burn your true self. The agents of death will never burn such a master…
• SB 12.5.11-12 You should consider, “I am nondifferent from the Absolute Truth, the supreme abode, and that Absolute Truth, the supreme destination, is…
• SB 12.5.13 Beloved King Parīkṣit, I have narrated to you the topics you originally inquired about — the pastimes of Lord Hari, the Supreme Soul of…