Sūta Gosvāmī

1198 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

SB 1.2.2 Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that great sage [Śukadeva Gosvāmī] who can enter the hearts of all.…
SB 1.2.3 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto him [Śuka], the spiritual master of all sages, the son of Vyāsadeva, who, out of his great…
SB 1.2.4 Before reciting this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is the very means of conquest, one should offer respectful obeisances unto the Personality…
SB 1.2.5 O sages, I have been justly questioned by you. Your questions are worthy because they relate to Lord Kṛṣṇa and so are of relevance to the…
SB 1.2.6 The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord.…
SB 1.2.7 By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment…
SB 1.2.8 The occupational activities a man performs according to his own position are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke attraction…
SB 1.2.9 All occupational engagements are certainly meant for ultimate liberation. They should never be performed for material gain. Furthermore,…
SB 1.2.10 Life’s desires should never be directed toward sense gratification. One should desire only a healthy life, or self-preservation, since a…
SB 1.2.11 Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān.
SB 1.2.12 The seriously inquisitive student or sage, well equipped with knowledge and detachment, realizes that Absolute Truth by rendering…
SB 1.2.13 O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed…
SB 1.2.14 Therefore, with one-pointed attention, one should constantly hear about, glorify, remember and worship the Personality of Godhead, who is…
SB 1.2.15 With sword in hand, intelligent men cut through the binding knots of reactionary work [karma] by remembering the Personality of Godhead.…
SB 1.2.16 O twice-born sages, by serving those devotees who are completely freed from all vice, great service is done. By such service, one gains…
SB 1.2.17 Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee,…
SB 1.2.18 By regular attendance in classes on the Bhāgavatam and by rendering of service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart…
SB 1.2.19 As soon as irrevocable loving service is established in the heart, the effects of nature’s modes of passion and ignorance, such as lust,…
SB 1.2.20 Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional service to the Lord…
SB 1.2.21 Thus the knot in the heart is pierced, and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The chain of fruitive actions is terminated when one sees the…
SB 1.2.22 Certainly, therefore, since time immemorial, all transcendentalists have been rendering devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Personality…
SB 1.2.23 The transcendental Personality of Godhead is indirectly associated with the three modes of material nature, namely passion, goodness and…
SB 1.2.24 Firewood is a transformation of earth, but smoke is better than the raw wood. And fire is still better, for by fire we can derive the…
SB 1.2.25 Previously all the great sages rendered service unto the Personality of Godhead due to His existence above the three modes of material…
SB 1.2.26 Those who are serious about liberation are certainly nonenvious, and they respect all. Yet they reject the horrible and ghastly forms of…
SB 1.2.27 Those who are in the modes of passion and ignorance worship those in the same category — namely the forefathers, other living beings and…
SB 1.2.28-29 In the revealed scriptures, the ultimate object of knowledge is Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. The purpose of performing sacrifice…
SB 1.2.30 In the beginning of the material creation, that Absolute Personality of Godhead [Vāsudeva], in His transcendental position, created the…
SB 1.2.31 After creating the material substance, the Lord [Vāsudeva] expands Himself and enters into it. And although He is within the material…
SB 1.2.32 The Lord, as Supersoul, pervades all things, just as fire permeates wood, and so He appears to be of many varieties, though He is the…
SB 1.2.33 The Supersoul enters into the bodies of the created beings who are influenced by the modes of material nature and causes them to enjoy the…
SB 1.2.34 Thus the Lord of the universes maintains all planets inhabited by demigods, men and lower animals. Assuming the roles of incarnations, He…
SB 1.3.1 Sūta said: In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded Himself in the universal form of the puruṣa incarnation and…
SB 1.3.2 A part of the puruṣa lies down within the water of the universe, from the navel lake of His body sprouts a lotus stem, and from the lotus…
SB 1.3.3 It is believed that all the universal planetary systems are situated on the extensive body of the puruṣa, but He has nothing to do with…
SB 1.3.4 The devotees, with their perfect eyes, see the transcendental form of the puruṣa who has thousands of legs, thighs, arms and faces — all…
SB 1.3.5 This form [the second manifestation of the puruṣa] is the source and indestructible seed of multifarious incarnations within the universe.…
SB 1.3.6 First of all, in the beginning of creation, there were the four unmarried sons of Brahmā [the Kumāras], who, being situated in a vow of…
SB 1.3.7 The supreme enjoyer of all sacrifices accepted the incarnation of a boar [the second incarnation], and for the welfare of the earth He…
SB 1.3.8 In the millennium of the ṛṣis, the Personality of Godhead accepted the third empowered incarnation in the form of Devarṣi Nārada, who is a…
SB 1.3.9 In the fourth incarnation, the Lord became Nara and Nārāyaṇa, the twin sons of the wife of King Dharma. Thus He undertook severe and…
SB 1.3.10 The fifth incarnation, named Lord Kapila, is foremost among perfected beings. He gave an exposition of the creative elements and…
SB 1.3.11 The sixth incarnation of the puruṣa was the son of the sage Atri. He was born from the womb of Anasūyā, who prayed for an incarnation. He…
SB 1.3.12 The seventh incarnation was Yajña, the son of Prajāpati Ruci and his wife Ākūti. He controlled the period during the change of the…
SB 1.3.13 The eighth incarnation was King Ṛṣabha, son of King Nābhi and his wife Merudevī. In this incarnation the Lord showed the path of…
SB 1.3.14 O brāhmaṇas, in the ninth incarnation, the Lord, prayed for by sages, accepted the body of a king [Pṛthu] who cultivated the land to yield…
SB 1.3.15 When there was a complete inundation after the period of the Cākṣuṣa Manu and the whole world was deep within water, the Lord accepted the…
SB 1.3.16 The eleventh incarnation of the Lord took the form of a tortoise whose shell served as a pivot for the Mandarācala Hill, which was being…
SB 1.3.17 In the twelfth incarnation, the Lord appeared as Dhanvantari, and in the thirteenth He allured the atheists by the charming beauty of a…
SB 1.3.18 In the fourteenth incarnation, the Lord appeared as Nṛsiṁha and bifurcated the strong body of the atheist Hiraṇyakaśipu with His nails,…
SB 1.3.19 In the fifteenth incarnation, the Lord assumed the form of a dwarf brāhmaṇa [Vāmana] and visited the arena of sacrifice arranged by…
SB 1.3.20 In the sixteenth incarnation of the Godhead, the Lord [as Bhṛgupati] annihilated the administrative class [kṣatriyas] twenty-one times,…
SB 1.3.21 Thereafter, in the seventeenth incarnation of Godhead, Śrī Vyāsadeva appeared in the womb of Satyavatī through Parāśara Muni, and he…
SB 1.3.22 In the eighteenth incarnation, the Lord appeared as King Rāma. In order to perform some pleasing work for the demigods, He exhibited…
SB 1.3.23 In the nineteenth and twentieth incarnations, the Lord advented Himself as Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa in the family of Vṛṣṇi [the Yadu…
SB 1.3.24 Then, in the beginning of Kali-yuga, the Lord will appear as Lord Buddha, the son of Añjanā, in the province of Gayā, just for the purpose…
SB 1.3.25 Thereafter, at the conjunction of two yugas, the Lord of the creation will take His birth as the Kalki incarnation and become the son of…
SB 1.3.26 O brāhmaṇas, the incarnations of the Lord are innumerable, like rivulets flowing from inexhaustible sources of water.
SB 1.3.27 All the ṛṣis, Manus, demigods and descendants of Manu, who are especially powerful, are plenary portions or portions of the plenary…
SB 1.3.28 All of the above-mentioned incarnations are either plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is…
SB 1.3.29 Whoever carefully recites the mysterious appearances of the Lord, with devotion in the morning and in the evening, gets relief from all…
SB 1.3.30 The conception of the virāṭ universal form of the Lord, as appearing in the material world, is imaginary. It is to enable the less…
SB 1.3.31 Clouds and dust are carried by the air, but less intelligent persons say that the sky is cloudy and the air is dirty. Similarly, they also…
SB 1.3.32 Beyond this gross conception of form is another, subtle conception of form which is without formal shape and is unseen, unheard and…
SB 1.3.33 Whenever a person experiences, by self-realization, that both the gross and subtle bodies have nothing to do with the pure self, at that…
SB 1.3.34 If the illusory energy subsides and the living entity becomes fully enriched with knowledge by the grace of the Lord, then he becomes at…
SB 1.3.35 Thus learned men describe the births and activities of the unborn and inactive, which is undiscoverable even in the Vedic literatures. He…
SB 1.3.36 The Lord, whose activities are always spotless, is the master of the six senses and is fully omnipotent with six opulences. He creates the…
SB 1.3.37 The foolish with a poor fund of knowledge cannot know the transcendental nature of the forms, names and activities of the Lord, who is…
SB 1.3.38 Only those who render unreserved, uninterrupted, favorable service unto the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who carries the wheel of the chariot…
SB 1.3.39 Only by making such inquiries in this world can one be successful and perfectly cognizant, for such inquiries invoke transcendental…
SB 1.3.40 This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the literary incarnation of God, and it is compiled by Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of God. It is meant for…
SB 1.3.41 Śrī Vyāsadeva delivered it to his son, who is the most respected among the self-realized, after extracting the cream of all Vedic…
SB 1.3.42 Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vyāsadeva, in his turn delivered the Bhāgavatam to the great Emperor Parīkṣit, who sat surrounded by sages on…
SB 1.3.43 This Bhāgavata Purāṇa is as brilliant as the sun, and it has arisen just after the departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa to His own abode, accompanied…
SB 1.3.44 O learned brāhmaṇas, when Śukadeva Gosvāmī recited Bhāgavatam there [in the presence of Emperor Parīkṣit], I heard him with rapt…
SB 1.4.1 Vyāsadeva said: On hearing Sūta Gosvāmī speak thus, Śaunaka Muni, who was the elderly, learned leader of all the ṛṣis engaged in that…
SB 1.4.14 Sūta Gosvāmī said: When the second millennium overlapped the third, the great sage [Vyāsadeva] was born to Parāśara in the womb of…
SB 1.4.15 Once upon a time he [Vyāsadeva], as the sun rose, took his morning ablution in the waters of the Sarasvatī and sat alone to concentrate.
SB 1.4.16 The great sage Vyāsadeva saw anomalies in the duties of the millennium. This happens on the earth in different ages, due to the unseen…
SB 1.4.17-18 The great sage, who was fully equipped in knowledge, could see through his transcendental vision the deterioration of everything material…
SB 1.4.19 He saw that the sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas were means by which the people’s occupations could be purified. And to simplify the…
SB 1.4.20 The four divisions of the original sources of knowledge [the Vedas] were made separately. But the historical facts and authentic stories…
SB 1.4.21 After the Vedas were divided into four divisions, Paila Ṛṣi became the professor of the Ṛg Veda, Jaimini the professor of the Sāma Veda,…
SB 1.4.22 The Sumantu Muni Aṅgirā, who was very devotedly engaged, was entrusted with the Atharva Veda. And my father, Romaharṣaṇa, was entrusted…
SB 1.4.23 All these learned scholars, in their turn, rendered their entrusted Vedas unto their many disciples, granddisciples and…
SB 1.4.24 Thus the great sage Vyāsadeva, who is very kind to the ignorant masses, edited the Vedas so they might be assimilated by less intellectual…
SB 1.4.25 Out of compassion, the great sage thought it wise that this would enable men to achieve the ultimate goal of life. Thus he compiled the…
SB 1.4.26 O twice-born brāhmaṇas, still his mind was not satisfied, although he engaged himself in working for the total welfare of all people.
SB 1.4.27 Thus the sage, being dissatisfied at heart, at once began to reflect, because he knew the essence of religion, and he said within himself:
SB 1.4.28-29 I have, under strict disciplinary vows, unpretentiously worshiped the Vedas, the spiritual masters and the altar of sacrifice. I have also…
SB 1.4.30 I am feeling incomplete, though I myself am fully equipped with everything required by the Vedas.
SB 1.4.31 This may be because I did not specifically point out the devotional service of the Lord, which is dear both to perfect beings and to the…
SB 1.4.32 As mentioned before, Nārada reached the cottage of Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana Vyāsa on the banks of the Sarasvatī just as Vyāsadeva was regretting…
SB 1.4.33 At the auspicious arrival of Śrī Nārada, Śrī Vyāsadeva got up respectfully and worshiped him, giving him veneration equal to that given to…
SB 1.5.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus the sage amongst the gods [Nārada], comfortably seated and apparently smiling, addressed the ṛṣi amongst the…
SB 1.5.2 Addressing Vyāsadeva, the son of Parāśara, Nārada inquired: Are you satisfied by identifying with the body or the mind as objects of…
SB 1.5.3 Your inquiries were full and your studies were also well fulfilled, and there is no doubt that you have prepared a great and wonderful…
SB 1.5.4 You have fully delineated the subject of impersonal Brahman as well as the knowledge derived therefrom. Why should you be despondent in…
SB 1.5.5 Śrī Vyāsadeva said: All you have said about me is perfectly correct. Despite all this, I am not pacified. I therefore question you about…
SB 1.5.6 My lord! Everything that is mysterious is known to you because you worship the creator and destroyer of the material world and the…
SB 1.5.7 Like the sun, Your Goodness can travel everywhere in the three worlds, and like the air you can penetrate the internal region of everyone.…
SB 1.6.1 Sūta said: O brāhmaṇas, thus hearing all about Śrī Nārada’s birth and activities, Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of God and son of Satyavatī,…
SB 1.6.2 Śrī Vyāsadeva said: What did you [Nārada] do after the departure of the great sages who had instructed you in scientific transcendental…
SB 1.6.3 O son of Brahmā, how did you pass your life after initiation, and how did you attain this body, having quit your old one in due course?
SB 1.6.4 O great sage, time annihilates everything in due course, so how is it that this subject matter, which happened prior to this day of…
SB 1.6.37 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus addressing Vyāsadeva, Śrīla Nārada Muni took leave of him, and vibrating on his vīṇā instrument, he left to wander…
SB 1.6.38 All glory and success to Śrīla Nārada Muni because he glorifies the activities of the Personality of Godhead, and so doing he himself…
SB 1.7.1 Ṛṣi Śaunaka asked: O Sūta, the great and transcendentally powerful Vyāsadeva heard everything from Śrī Nārada Muni. So after Nārada’s…
SB 1.7.2 Śrī Sūta said: On the western bank of the river Sarasvatī, which is intimately related with the Vedas, there is a cottage for meditation…
SB 1.7.3 In that place, Śrīla Vyāsadeva, in his own āśrama, which was surrounded by berry trees, sat down to meditate after touching water for…
SB 1.7.4 Thus he fixed his mind, perfectly engaging it by linking it in devotional service [bhakti-yoga] without any tinge of materialism, and thus…
SB 1.7.5 Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a…
SB 1.7.6 The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional…
SB 1.7.7 Simply by giving aural reception to this Vedic literature, the feeling for loving devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme…
SB 1.7.8 The great sage Vyāsadeva, after compiling the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and revising it, taught it to his own son, Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who was…
SB 1.7.9 Śrī Śaunaka asked Sūta Gosvāmī: Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī was already on the path of self-realization, and thus he was pleased with his own…
SB 1.7.10 Sūta Gosvāmī said: All different varieties of ātmārāmas [those who take pleasure in the ātmā, or spirit self], especially those…
SB 1.7.11 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, son of Śrīla Vyāsadeva, was not only transcendentally powerful. He was also very dear to the devotees of the Lord.…
SB 1.7.12 Sūta Gosvāmī thus addressed the ṛṣis headed by Śaunaka: Now I shall begin the transcendental narration of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and topics of…
SB 1.7.13-14 When the respective warriors of both camps, namely the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas, were killed on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra and the…
SB 1.7.15 Draupadī, the mother of the five children of the Pāṇḍavas, after hearing of the massacre of her sons, began to cry in distress with eyes…
SB 1.7.16 O gentle lady, when I present you with the head of that brāhmaṇa, after beheading him with arrows from my Gāṇḍīva bow, I shall then wipe…
SB 1.7.17 Arjuna, who is guided by the infallible Lord as friend and driver, thus satisfied the dear lady by such statements. Then he dressed in…
SB 1.7.18 Aśvatthāmā, the murderer of the princes, seeing from a great distance Arjuna coming at him with great speed, fled in his chariot, panic…
SB 1.7.19 When the son of the brāhmaṇa [Aśvatthāmā] saw that his horses were tired, he considered that there was no alternative for protection…
SB 1.7.20 Since his life was in danger, he touched water in sanctity and concentrated upon the chanting of the hymns for throwing nuclear weapons,…
SB 1.7.21 Thereupon a glaring light spread in all directions. It was so fierce that Arjuna thought his own life in danger, and so he began to…
SB 1.7.29 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: Hearing this from the Personality of Godhead, Arjuna touched water for purification, and after circumambulating…
SB 1.7.30 When the rays of the two brahmāstras combined, a great circle of fire, like the disc of the sun, covered all outer space and the whole…
SB 1.7.31 All the population of the three worlds was scorched by the combined heat of the weapons. Everyone was reminded of the sāṁvartaka fire…
SB 1.7.32 Thus seeing the disturbance of the general populace and the imminent destruction of the planets, Arjuna at once retracted both brahmāstra…
SB 1.7.33 Arjuna, his eyes blazing in anger like two red balls of copper, dexterously arrested the son of Gautamī and bound him with ropes like an…
SB 1.7.34 After binding Aśvatthāmā, Arjuna wanted to take him to the military camp. The Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, looking on with His lotus…
SB 1.7.40 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Although Kṛṣṇa, who was examining Arjuna in religion, encouraged Arjuna to kill the son of Droṇācārya, Arjuna, a great…
SB 1.7.41 After reaching his own camp, Arjuna, along with his dear friend and charioteer [Śrī Kṛṣṇa], entrusted the murderer unto his dear wife, who…
SB 1.7.42 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: Draupadī then saw Aśvatthāmā, who was bound with ropes like an animal and silent for having enacted the most…
SB 1.7.43 She could not tolerate Aśvatthāmā’s being bound by ropes, and being a devoted lady, she said: Release him, release him, for he is a…
SB 1.7.44 It was by Droṇācārya’s mercy that you learned the military art of throwing arrows and the confidential art of controlling weapons.
SB 1.7.45 He [Droṇācārya] is certainly still existing, being represented by his son. His wife Kṛpī did not undergo a satī with him because she had a…
SB 1.7.46 O most fortunate one who know the principles of religion, it is not good for you to cause grief to glorious family members who are always…
SB 1.7.47 My lord, do not make the wife of Droṇācārya cry like me. I am aggrieved for the death of my sons. She need not cry constantly like me.
SB 1.7.48 If the kingly administrative order, being unrestricted in sense control, offends the brāhmaṇa order and enrages them, then the fire of…
SB 1.7.49 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O brāhmaṇas, King Yudhiṣṭhira fully supported the statements of the Queen, which were in accordance with the principles…
SB 1.7.50 Nakula and Sahadeva [the younger brothers of the King] and also Sātyaki, Arjuna, the Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Kṛṣṇa, son of Devakī,…
SB 1.7.51 Bhīma, however, angrily disagreed with them and recommended killing this culprit, who had murdered sleeping children for no purpose and…
SB 1.7.52 Caturbhuja [the four-armed one], or the Personality of Godhead, after hearing the words of Bhīma, Draupadī and others, saw the face of His…
SB 1.7.55 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Just then Arjuna could understand the motive of the Lord by His equivocal orders, and thus with his sword he severed…
SB 1.7.56 He [Aśvatthāmā] had already lost his bodily luster due to infanticide, and now, moreover, having lost the jewel from his head, he lost…
SB 1.7.57 Cutting the hair from his head, depriving him of his wealth and driving him from his residence are the prescribed punishments for the…
SB 1.7.58 Thereafter, the sons of Pāṇḍu, and Draupadī, overwhelmed with grief, performed the proper rituals for the dead bodies of their relatives.
SB 1.8.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thereafter the Pāṇḍavas, desiring to deliver water to the dead relatives who had desired it, went to the Ganges with…
SB 1.8.2 Having lamented over them and sufficiently offered Ganges water, they bathed in the Ganges, whose water is sanctified due to being mixed…
SB 1.8.3 There sat the King of the Kurus, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, along with his younger brothers and Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Gāndhārī, Kuntī and Draupadī, all…
SB 1.8.4 Citing the stringent laws of the Almighty and their reactions upon living beings, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the munis began to pacify those who…
SB 1.8.5 The clever Duryodhana and his party cunningly usurped the kingdom of Yudhiṣṭhira, who had no enemy. By the grace of the Lord, the recovery…
SB 1.8.6 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa caused three well-performed aśvamedha-yajñas [horse sacrifices] to be conducted by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira and thus caused his…
SB 1.8.7 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa then prepared for His departure. He invited the sons of Pāṇḍu, after having been worshiped by the brāhmaṇas, headed by…
SB 1.8.8 As soon as He seated Himself on the chariot to start for Dvārakā, He saw Uttarā hurrying toward Him in fear.
SB 1.8.9 Uttarā said: O Lord of lords, Lord of the universe! You are the greatest of mystics. Please protect me, protect me, for there is no one…
SB 1.8.10 O my Lord, You are all-powerful. A fiery iron arrow is coming towards me fast. My Lord, let it burn me personally, if You so desire, but…
SB 1.8.11 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Having patiently heard her words, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is always very affectionate to His devotees, could at once…
SB 1.8.12 O foremost among the great thinkers [munis] [Śaunaka], seeing the glaring brahmāstra proceeding towards them, the Pāṇḍavas took up their…
SB 1.8.13 The almighty Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, having observed that a great danger was befalling His unalloyed devotees, who were fully…
SB 1.8.14 The Lord of supreme mysticism, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, resides within everyone’s heart as the Paramātmā. As such, just to protect the progeny of the…
SB 1.8.15 O Śaunaka, glory of Bhṛgu’s family, although the supreme brahmāstra weapon released by Aśvatthāmā was irresistible and without check or…
SB 1.8.16 O brāhmaṇas, do not think this to be especially wonderful in the activities of the mysterious and infallible Personality of Godhead. By…
SB 1.8.17 Thus saved from the radiation of the brahmāstra, Kuntī, the chaste devotee of the Lord, and her five sons and Draupadī addressed Lord…
SB 1.8.18 Śrīmatī Kuntī said: O Kṛṣṇa, I offer my obeisances unto You because You are the original personality and are unaffected by the qualities…
SB 1.8.19 Being beyond the range of limited sense perception, You are the eternally irreproachable factor covered by the curtain of deluding energy.…
SB 1.8.20 You Yourself descend to propagate the transcendental science of devotional service unto the hearts of the advanced transcendentalists and…
SB 1.8.21 Let me therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devakī, the boy of…
SB 1.8.22 My respectful obeisances are unto You, O Lord, whose abdomen is marked with a depression like a lotus flower, who are always decorated…
SB 1.8.23 O Hṛṣīkeśa, master of the senses and Lord of lords, You have released Your mother, Devakī, who was long imprisoned and distressed by the…
SB 1.8.24 My dear Kṛṣṇa, Your Lordship has protected us from a poisoned cake, from a great fire, from cannibals, from the vicious assembly, from…
SB 1.8.25 I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will…
SB 1.8.26 My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material]…
SB 1.8.27 My obeisances are unto You, who are the property of the materially impoverished. You have nothing to do with the actions and reactions of…
SB 1.8.28 My Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all-pervasive one. In…
SB 1.8.29 O Lord, no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes, which appear to be human and so are misleading. You have no specific object of…
SB 1.8.30 Of course it is bewildering, O soul of the universe, that You work, though You are inactive, and that You take birth, though You are the…
SB 1.8.31 My dear Kṛṣṇa, Yaśodā took up a rope to bind You when You committed an offense, and Your perturbed eyes overflooded with tears, which…
SB 1.8.32 Some say that the Unborn is born for the glorification of pious kings, and others say that He is born to please King Yadu, one of Your…
SB 1.8.33 Others say that since both Vasudeva and Devakī prayed for You, You have taken Your birth as their son. Undoubtedly You are unborn, yet You…
SB 1.8.34 Others say that the world, being overburdened like a boat at sea, is much aggrieved, and that Brahmā, who is Your son, prayed for You, and…
SB 1.8.35 And yet others say that You appeared for the sake of rejuvenating the devotional service of hearing, remembering, worshiping and so on in…
SB 1.8.36 O Kṛṣṇa, those who continuously hear, chant and repeat Your transcendental activities, or take pleasure in others’ doing so, certainly see…
SB 1.8.37 O my Lord, You have executed all duties Yourself. Are you leaving us today, though we are completely dependent on Your mercy and have no…
SB 1.8.38 As the name and fame of a particular body is finished with the disappearance of the living spirit, similarly if You do not look upon us,…
SB 1.8.39 O Gadādhara [Kṛṣṇa], our kingdom is now being marked by the impressions of Your feet, and therefore it appears beautiful. But when You…
SB 1.8.40 All these cities and villages are flourishing in all respects because the herbs and grains are in abundance, the trees are full of fruits,…
SB 1.8.41 O Lord of the universe, soul of the universe, O personality of the form of the universe, please, therefore, sever my tie of affection for…
SB 1.8.42 O Lord of Madhu, as the Ganges forever flows to the sea without hindrance, let my attraction be constantly drawn unto You without being…
SB 1.8.43 O Kṛṣṇa, O friend of Arjuna, O chief amongst the descendants of Vṛṣṇi, You are the destroyer of those political parties which are…
SB 1.8.44 Sūta Gosvāmī said: The Lord, thus hearing the prayers of Kuntīdevī, composed in choice words for His glorification, mildly smiled. That…
SB 1.8.45 Thus accepting the prayers of Śrīmatī Kuntīdevī, the Lord subsequently informed other ladies of His departure by entering the palace of…
SB 1.8.46 King Yudhiṣṭhira, who was much aggrieved, could not be convinced, despite instructions by great sages headed by Vyāsa and the Lord Kṛṣṇa…
SB 1.8.47 King Yudhiṣṭhira, son of Dharma, overwhelmed by the death of his friends, was aggrieved just like a common, materialistic man. O sages,…
SB 1.8.48 King Yudhiṣṭhira said: O my lot! I am the most sinful man! Just see my heart, which is full of ignorance! This body, which is ultimately…
SB 1.8.49 I have killed many boys, brāhmaṇas, well-wishers, friends, parents, preceptors and brothers. Though I live millions of years, I will not…
SB 1.8.50 There is no sin for a king who kills for the right cause, who is engaged in maintaining his citizens. But this injunction is not…
SB 1.8.51 I have killed many friends of women, and I have thus caused enmity to such an extent that it is not possible to undo it by material…
SB 1.8.52 As it is not possible to filter muddy water through mud, or purify a wine-stained pot with wine, it is not possible to counteract the…
SB 1.9.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Being afraid for having killed so many subjects on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira went to the…
SB 1.9.2 At that time all his brothers followed him on beautiful chariots drawn by first-class horses decorated with gold ornaments. With them were…
SB 1.9.3 O sage amongst the brāhmaṇas, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, also followed, seated on a chariot with Arjuna. Thus King…
SB 1.9.4 Seeing him [Bhīṣma] lying on the ground, like a demigod fallen from the sky, the Pāṇḍava King Yudhiṣṭhira, along with his younger brothers…
SB 1.9.5 Just to see the chief of the descendants of King Bharata [Bhīṣma], all the great souls in the universe, namely the ṛṣis amongst the…
SB 1.9.6-7 All the sages like Parvata Muni, Nārada, Dhaumya, Vyāsa the incarnation of God, Bṛhadaśva, Bharadvāja and Paraśurāma and disciples,…
SB 1.9.8 And many others like Śukadeva Gosvāmī and other purified souls, Kaśyapa and Āṅgirasa and others, all accompanied by their respective…
SB 1.9.9 Bhīṣmadeva, who was the best amongst the eight Vasus, received and welcomed all the great and powerful ṛṣis who were assembled there, for…
SB 1.9.10 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is situated in everyone’s heart, yet He manifests His transcendental form by His internal potency. This very Lord was…
SB 1.9.11 The sons of Mahārāja Pāṇḍu were sitting silently nearby, overtaken with affection for their dying grandfather. Seeing this, Bhīṣmadeva…
SB 1.9.12 Bhīṣmadeva said: Oh, what terrible sufferings and what terrible injustices you good souls suffer for being the sons of religion…
SB 1.9.13 As far as my daughter-in-law Kuntī is concerned, upon the great General Pāṇḍu’s death, she became a widow with many children, and…
SB 1.9.14 In my opinion, this is all due to inevitable time, under whose control everyone in every planet is carried, just as the clouds are carried…
SB 1.9.15 Oh, how wonderful is the influence of inevitable time! It is irreversible — otherwise, how can there be reverses in the presence of King…
SB 1.9.16 O King, no one can know the plan of the Lord [Śrī Kṛṣṇa]. Even though great philosophers inquire exhaustively, they are bewildered.
SB 1.9.17 O best among the descendants of Bharata [Yudhiṣṭhira], I maintain, therefore, that all this is within the plan of the Lord. Accepting the…
SB 1.9.18 This Śrī Kṛṣṇa is no other than the inconceivable, original Personality of Godhead. He is the first Nārāyaṇa, the supreme enjoyer. But He…
SB 1.9.19 O King, Lord Śiva, Nārada the sage amongst the demigods, and Kapila, the incarnation of Godhead, all know very confidentially about His…
SB 1.9.20 O King, that personality whom, out of ignorance only, you thought to be your maternal cousin, your very dear friend, well-wisher,…
SB 1.9.21 Being the Absolute Personality of Godhead, He is present in everyone’s heart. He is equally kind to everyone, and He is free from the…
SB 1.9.22 Yet, despite His being equally kind to everyone, He has graciously come before me while I am ending my life, for I am His unflinching…
SB 1.9.23 The Personality of Godhead, who appears in the mind of the devotee by attentive devotion and meditation and by chanting of the holy name,…
SB 1.9.24 May my Lord, who is four-handed and whose beautifully decorated lotus face, with eyes as red as the rising sun, is smiling, kindly await…
SB 1.9.25 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, after hearing Bhīṣmadeva speak in that appealing tone, asked him, in the presence of all the…
SB 1.9.26 At Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira’s inquiry, Bhīṣmadeva first defined all the classifications of castes and orders of life in terms of the…
SB 1.9.27 He then explained, by divisions, acts of charity, the pragmatic activities of a king and activities for salvation. Then he described the…
SB 1.9.28 Then he described the occupational duties of different orders and statuses of life, citing instances from history, for he was himself well…
SB 1.9.29 While Bhīṣmadeva was describing occupational duties, the sun’s course ran into the northern hemisphere. This period is desired by mystics…
SB 1.9.30 Thereupon that man who spoke on different subjects with thousands of meanings, and who fought on thousands of battlefields and protected…
SB 1.9.31 By pure meditation, looking at Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, he at once was freed from all material inauspiciousness and was relieved of all bodily…
SB 1.9.32 Bhīṣmadeva said: Let me now invest my thinking, feeling and willing, which were so long engaged in different subjects and occupational…
SB 1.9.33 Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the intimate friend of Arjuna. He has appeared on this earth in His transcendental body, which resembles the bluish color of…
SB 1.9.34 On the battlefield [where Śrī Kṛṣṇa attended Arjuna out of friendship], the flowing hair of Lord Kṛṣṇa turned ashen due to the dust raised…
SB 1.9.35 In obedience to the command of His friend, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa entered the arena of the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra between the soldiers of…
SB 1.9.36 When Arjuna was seemingly polluted by ignorance upon observing the soldiers and commanders before him on the battlefield, the Lord…
SB 1.9.37 Fulfilling my vow and sacrificing His own promise, He got down from the chariot, took up its wheel, and ran towards me hurriedly, just as…
SB 1.9.38 May He, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who awards salvation, be my ultimate destination. On the battlefield He charged me, as…
SB 1.9.39 At the moment of death, let my ultimate attraction be to Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. I concentrate my mind upon the chariot…
SB 1.9.40 Let my mind be fixed upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose motions and smiles of love attracted the damsels of Vrajadhāma [the gopīs]. The damsels…
SB 1.9.41 At the Rājasūya-yajña [sacrifice] performed by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, there was the greatest assembly of all the elite men of the world,…
SB 1.9.42 Now I can meditate with full concentration upon that one Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, now present before me because now I have transcended the…
SB 1.9.43 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus Bhīṣmadeva merged himself in the Supersoul, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with his mind,…
SB 1.9.44 Knowing that Bhīṣmadeva had merged into the unlimited eternity of the Supreme Absolute, all present there became silent like birds at the…
SB 1.9.45 Thereafter, both men and demigods sounded drums in honor, and the honest royal order commenced demonstrations of honor and respect. And…
SB 1.9.46 O descendant of Bhṛgu [Śaunaka], after performing funeral rituals for the dead body of Bhīṣmadeva, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was momentarily…
SB 1.9.47 All the great sages then glorified Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who was present there, by confidential Vedic hymns. Then all of them returned to their…
SB 1.9.48 Thereafter, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira at once went to his capital, Hastināpura, accompanied by Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and there he consoled his uncle…
SB 1.9.49 After this, the great religious King, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, executed the royal power in the kingdom strictly according to the codes of…
SB 1.10.1 Śaunaka Muni asked: After killing his enemies who desired to usurp his rightful inheritance, how did the greatest of all religious men,…
SB 1.10.2 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the maintainer of the world, became pleased after…
SB 1.10.3 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, after being enlightened by what was spoken by Bhīṣmadeva and Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the infallible, engaged himself in…
SB 1.10.4 During the reign of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the clouds showered all the water that people needed, and the earth produced all the necessities…
SB 1.10.5 The rivers, oceans, hills, mountains, forests, creepers and active drugs, in every season, paid their tax quota to the King in profusion.
SB 1.10.6 Because of the King’s having no enemy, the living beings were not at any time disturbed by mental agonies, diseases, or excessive heat or…
SB 1.10.7 Śrī Hari, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, resided at Hastināpura for a few months to pacify His relatives and please His own sister [Subhadrā].
SB 1.10.8 Afterwards, when the Lord asked permission to depart and the King gave it, the Lord offered His respects to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira by bowing…
SB 1.10.9-10 At that time Subhadrā, Draupadī, Kuntī, Uttarā, Gāndhārī, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Yuyutsu, Kṛpācārya, Nakula, Sahadeva, Bhīmasena, Dhaumya and…
SB 1.10.11-12 The intelligent, who have understood the Supreme Lord in association with pure devotees and have become freed from bad materialistic…
SB 1.10.13 All their hearts were melting for Him on the pot of attraction. They looked at Him without blinking their eyes, and they moved hither and…
SB 1.10.14 The female relatives, whose eyes were flooded with tears out of anxiety for Kṛṣṇa, came out of the palace. They could stop their tears…
SB 1.10.15 While the Lord was departing from the palace of Hastināpura, different types of drums — like the mṛdaṅga, dhola, nagra, dhundhurī and…
SB 1.10.16 Out of a loving desire to see the Lord, the royal ladies of the Kurus got up on top of the palace, and smiling with affection and shyness,…
SB 1.10.17 At that time Arjuna, the great warrior and conqueror of sleep, who is the intimate friend of the most beloved Supreme Lord, took up an…
SB 1.10.18 Uddhava and Sātyaki began to fan the Lord with decorated fans, and the Lord, as the master of Madhu, seated on scattered flowers,…
SB 1.10.19 It was being heard here and there that the benedictions being paid to Kṛṣṇa were neither befitting nor unbefitting because they were all…
SB 1.10.20 Absorbed in the thought of the transcendental qualities of the Lord, who is sung in select poetry, the ladies on the roofs of all the…
SB 1.10.21 They said: Here He is, the original Personality of Godhead as we definitely remember Him. He alone existed before the manifested creation…
SB 1.10.22 The Personality of Godhead, again desiring to give names and forms to His parts and parcels, the living entities, placed them under the…
SB 1.10.23 Here is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead whose transcendental form is experienced by the great devotees who are completely cleansed…
SB 1.10.24 O dear friends, here is that very Personality of Godhead whose attractive and confidential pastimes are described in the confidential…
SB 1.10.25 Whenever there are kings and administrators living like animals in the lowest modes of existence, the Lord in His transcendental form…
SB 1.10.26 Oh, how supremely glorified is the dynasty of King Yadu, and how virtuous is the land of Mathurā, where the supreme leader of all living…
SB 1.10.27 Undoubtedly it is wonderful that Dvārakā has defeated the glories of the heavenly planets and has enhanced the celebrity of the earth. The…
SB 1.10.28 O friends, just think of His wives, whose hands He has accepted. How they must have undergone vows, baths, fire sacrifices and perfect…
SB 1.10.29 The children of these ladies are Pradyumna, Sāmba, Amba, etc. Ladies like Rukmiṇī, Satyabhāmā and Jāmbavatī were forcibly taken away by…
SB 1.10.30 All these women auspiciously glorified their lives despite their being without individuality and without purity. Their husband, the…
SB 1.10.31 While the ladies of the capital [Hastināpura] were greeting Him and talking in this way, the Lord, smiling, accepted their good greetings,…
SB 1.10.32 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, although no one’s enemy, engaged four divisions of defense [horse, elephant, chariot and army] to accompany Lord…
SB 1.10.33 Out of profound affection for Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Pāṇḍavas, who were of the Kuru dynasty, accompanied Him a considerable distance to see Him…
SB 1.10.34-35 O Śaunaka, the Lord then proceeded towards Kurujāṅgala, Pāñcālā, Śūrasenā, the land on the bank of the river Yamunā, Brahmāvarta,…
SB 1.10.36 On His journey through these provinces He was welcomed, worshiped and given various presentations. In the evening, in all places, the Lord…
SB 1.11.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Upon reaching the border of His most prosperous metropolis, known as the country of the Ānartas [Dvārakā], the Lord…
SB 1.11.2 The white and fat-bowled conchshell, being gripped by the hand of Lord Kṛṣṇa and sounded by Him, appeared to be reddened by the touch of…
SB 1.11.3 The citizens of Dvārakā, having heard that sound which threatens fear personified in the material world, began to run towards Him fast,…
SB 1.11.4-5 The citizens arrived before the Lord with their respective presentations, offering them to the fully satisfied and self-sufficient one,…
SB 1.11.6 The citizens said: O Lord, You are worshiped by all demigods like Brahmā, the four Sanas and even the King of heaven. You are the ultimate…
SB 1.11.7 O creator of the universe, You are our mother, well-wisher, Lord, father, spiritual master and worshipable Deity. By following in Your…
SB 1.11.8 Oh, it is our good luck that we have come again today under Your protection by Your presence, for Your Lordship rarely visits even the…
SB 1.11.9 O lotus-eyed Lord, whenever You go away to Mathurā-Vṛndāvana or Hastināpura to meet Your friends and relatives, every moment of Your…
SB 1.11.10 O master, if You live abroad all the time, then we cannot look at Your attractive face, whose smiles vanquish all our sufferings. How can…
SB 1.11.11 As Bhogavatī, the capital of Nāgaloka, is protected by the Nāgas, so was Dvārakā protected by the descendants of Vṛṣṇi — Bhoja, Madhu,…
SB 1.11.12 The city of Dvārakāpurī was filled with the opulences of all seasons. There were hermitages, orchards, flower gardens, parks and…
SB 1.11.13 The city gateway, the household doors and festooned arches along the roads were all nicely decorated with festive signs like plantain…
SB 1.11.14 The highways, subways, lanes, markets and public meeting places were all thoroughly cleansed and then moistened with scented water. And to…
SB 1.11.15 In each and every door of the residential houses, auspicious things like curd, unbroken fruits, sugarcane and full waterpots with articles…
SB 1.11.16-17 On hearing that the most dear Kṛṣṇa was approaching Dvārakā-dhāma, magnanimous Vasudeva, Akrūra, Ugrasena, Balarāma (the superhumanly…
SB 1.11.18 They hastened toward the Lord on chariots with brāhmaṇas bearing flowers. Before them were elephants, emblems of good fortune. Conchshells…
SB 1.11.19 At the same time, many hundreds of well-known prostitutes began to proceed on various vehicles. They were all very eager to meet the Lord,…
SB 1.11.20 Expert dramatists, artists, dancers, singers, historians, genealogists and learned speakers all gave their respective contributions, being…
SB 1.11.21 Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, approached them and offered due honor and respect to each and every one of the friends, relatives,…
SB 1.11.22 The almighty Lord greeted everyone present by bowing His head, exchanging greetings, embracing, shaking hands, looking and smiling, giving…
SB 1.11.23 Then the Lord personally entered the city accompanied by elderly relatives and invalid brāhmaṇas with their wives, all offering…
SB 1.11.24 When Lord Kṛṣṇa passed over the public roads, all the ladies from the respectable families of Dvārakā went up to the roofs of their…
SB 1.11.25 The inhabitants of Dvārakā were regularly accustomed to look upon the reservoir of all beauty, the infallible Lord, yet they were never…
SB 1.11.26 The Lord’s chest is the abode of the goddess of fortune. His moonlike face is the drinking vessel for eyes which hanker after all that is…
SB 1.11.27 As the Lord passed along the public road of Dvārakā, His head was protected from the sunshine by a white umbrella. White feathered fans…
SB 1.11.28 After entering the house of His father, He was embraced by the mothers present, and the Lord offered His obeisances unto them by placing…
SB 1.11.29 The mothers, after embracing their son, sat Him on their laps. Due to pure affection, milk sprang from their breasts. They were…
SB 1.11.30 Thereafter, the Lord entered His palaces, which were perfect to the fullest extent. His wives lived in them, and they numbered over…
SB 1.11.31 The queens of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa rejoiced within their minds to see their husband home after a long period abroad. The queens got up at once…
SB 1.11.32 The insuperable ecstasy was so strong that the queens, who were shy, first embraced the Lord in the innermost recesses of their hearts.…
SB 1.11.33 Although Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was constantly by their sides, as well as exclusively alone, His feet appeared to them to be newer and newer. The…
SB 1.11.34 The Lord was pacified after killing those kings who were burdensome to the earth. They were puffed up with their military strength, their…
SB 1.11.35 That Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, out of His causeless mercy, appeared on this planet by His internal potency and enjoyed…
SB 1.11.36 Although the queens’ beautiful smiles and furtive glances were all spotless and exciting, and although they could conquer Cupid himself by…
SB 1.11.37 The common materialistic conditioned souls speculate that the Lord is one of them. Out of their ignorance they think that the Lord is…
SB 1.11.38 This is the divinity of the Personality of Godhead: He is not affected by the qualities of material nature, even though He is in contact…
SB 1.11.39 The simple and delicate women truly thought that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, their beloved husband, followed them and was dominated by them. They were…
SB 1.12.4 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: Emperor Yudhiṣṭhira administered generously to everyone during his reign. He was exactly like his father. He had no…
SB 1.12.5 News even reached the celestial planets about Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira’s worldly possessions, the sacrifices by which he would attain a better…
SB 1.12.6 O brāhmaṇas, the opulence of the King was so enchanting that the denizens of heaven aspired for it. But because he was absorbed in the…
SB 1.12.7 O son of Bhṛgu [Śaunaka], when the child Parīkṣit, the great fighter, was in the womb of his mother, Uttarā, and was suffering from the…
SB 1.12.8 He [the Lord] was only thumb high, but He was all transcendental. He had a very beautiful, blackish, infallible body, and He wore a dress…
SB 1.12.9 The Lord was enriched with four hands, earrings of molten gold and eyes blood red with fury. As He loitered about, His club constantly…
SB 1.12.10 The Lord was thus engaged in vanquishing the radiation of the brahmāstra, just as the sun evaporates a drop of dew. He was observed by the…
SB 1.12.11 While thus being observed by the child, the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul of everyone and the protector of the…
SB 1.12.12 Thereupon, when all the good signs of the zodiac gradually evolved, the heir apparent of Pāṇḍu, who would be exactly like him in prowess,…
SB 1.12.13 King Yudhiṣṭhira, who was very satisfied with the birth of Mahārāja Parīkṣit, had the purificatory process of birth performed. Learned…
SB 1.12.14 Upon the birth of a son, the King, who knew how, where and when charity should be given, gave gold, land, villages, elephants, horses and…
SB 1.12.15 The learned brāhmaṇas, who were very satisfied with the charities of the King, addressed him as the chief amongst the Pūrus and informed…
SB 1.12.16 The brāhmaṇas said: This spotless son has been restored by the all-powerful and all-pervasive Lord Viṣṇu, the Personality of Godhead, in…
SB 1.12.17 For this reason this child will be well known in the world as one who is protected by the Personality of Godhead. O most fortunate one,…
SB 1.12.18 The good King [Yudhiṣṭhira] inquired: O great souls, will he become as saintly a king, as pious in his very name and as famous and…
SB 1.12.19 The learned brāhmaṇas said: O son of Pṛthā, this child shall be exactly like King Ikṣvāku, son of Manu, in maintaining all those who are…
SB 1.12.20 This child will be a munificent donor of charity and protector of the surrendered, like the famous King Śibi of the Uśīnara country. And…
SB 1.12.21 Amongst great bowmen, this child will be as good as Arjuna. He will be as irresistible as fire and as unsurpassable as the ocean.
SB 1.12.22 This child will be as strong as a lion, and as worthy a shelter as the Himālaya Mountains. He will be forbearing like the earth, and as…
SB 1.12.23 This child will be like his grandfather Yudhiṣṭhira or Brahmā in equanimity of mind. He will be munificent like the lord of the Kailāsa…
SB 1.12.24 This child will be almost as good as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa by following in His footsteps. In magnanimity he will become as great as King…
SB 1.12.25 This child will be like Bali Mahārāja in patience, a staunch devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa like Prahlāda Mahārāja, a performer of many aśvamedha…
SB 1.12.26 This child will be the father of kings who will be like sages. For world peace and for the sake of religion, he will be the chastiser of…
SB 1.12.27 After hearing about his death, which will be caused by the bite of a snakebird sent by a son of a brāhmaṇa, he will get himself freed from…
SB 1.12.28 After inquiring about proper self-knowledge from the son of Vyāsadeva, who will be a great philosopher, he will renounce all material…
SB 1.12.29 Thus those who were expert in astrological knowledge and in performance of the birth ceremony instructed King Yudhiṣṭhira about the future…
SB 1.12.30 So his son would become famous in the world as Parīkṣit [examiner] because he would come to examine all human beings in his search after…
SB 1.12.31 As the moon, in its waxing fortnight, develops day after day, so the royal prince [Parīkṣit] very soon developed luxuriantly under the…
SB 1.12.32 Just at this time, King Yudhiṣṭhira was considering performing a horse sacrifice to get freed from sins incurred from fighting with…
SB 1.12.33 Understanding the hearty wishes of the King, his brothers, as advised by the infallible Lord Kṛṣṇa, collected sufficient riches from the…
SB 1.12.34 By those riches, the King could procure the ingredients for three horse sacrifices. Thus the pious King Yudhiṣṭhira, who was very fearful…
SB 1.12.35 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, being invited to the sacrifices by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, saw to it that they were performed by…
SB 1.12.36 O Śaunaka, thereafter the Lord, having bade farewell to King Yudhiṣṭhira, Draupadī and other relatives, started for the city of Dvārakā,…
SB 1.13.1 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: While traveling on a pilgrimage, Vidura received knowledge of the destination of the self from the great sage…
SB 1.13.2 After asking various questions and becoming established in the transcendental loving service of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Vidura retired from putting…
SB 1.13.3-4 When they saw Vidura return to the palace, all the inhabitants — Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, his younger brothers, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Sātyaki,…
SB 1.13.5 With great delight they all approached him, as if life had returned to their bodies. They exchanged obeisances and welcomed each other…
SB 1.13.6 Due to anxieties and long separation, they all cried out of affection. King Yudhiṣṭhira then arranged to offer sitting accommodations and…
SB 1.13.7 After Vidura ate sumptuously and took sufficient rest, he was comfortably seated. Then the King began to speak to him, and all who were…
SB 1.13.8 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said: My uncle, do you remember how you always protected us, along with our mother, from all sorts of calamities?…
SB 1.13.9 While traveling on the surface of the earth, how did you maintain your livelihood? At which holy places and pilgrimage sites did you…
SB 1.13.10 My lord, devotees like your good self are verily holy places personified. Because you carry the Personality of Godhead within your heart,…
SB 1.13.11 My uncle, you must have visited Dvārakā. In that holy place are our friends and well-wishers, the descendants of Yadu, who are always rapt…
SB 1.13.12 Thus being questioned by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Mahātmā Vidura gradually described everything he had personally experienced, except news of…
SB 1.13.13 Compassionate Mahātmā Vidura could not stand to see the Pāṇḍavas distressed at any time. Therefore he did not disclose this unpalatable…
SB 1.13.14 Thus Mahātmā Vidura, being treated just like a godly person by his kinsmen, remained there for a certain period just to rectify the…
SB 1.13.15 As long as Vidura played the part of a śūdra, being cursed by Maṇḍūka Muni, Aryamā officiated at the post of Yamarāja to punish those who…
SB 1.13.16 Having won his kingdom and observed the birth of one grandson competent to continue the noble tradition of his family, Mahārāja…
SB 1.13.17 Insurmountable eternal time imperceptibly overcomes those who are too much attached to family affairs and are always engrossed in their…
SB 1.13.18 Mahātmā Vidura knew all this, and therefore he addressed Dhṛtarāṣṭra, saying: My dear King, please get out of here immediately. Do not…
SB 1.13.19 This frightful situation cannot be remedied by any person in this material world. My lord, it is the Supreme Personality of Godhead as…
SB 1.13.20 Whoever is under the influence of supreme kāla [eternal time] must surrender his most dear life, and what to speak of other things, such…
SB 1.13.21 Your father, brother, well-wishers and sons are all dead and passed away. You yourself have expended the major portion of your life, your…
SB 1.13.22 You have been blind from your very birth, and recently you have become hard of hearing. Your memory is shortened, and your intelligence is…
SB 1.13.23 Alas, how powerful are the hopes of a living being to continue his life. Verily, you are living just like a household dog and are eating…
SB 1.13.24 There is no need to live a degraded life and subsist on the charity of those whom you tried to kill by arson and poisoning. You also…
SB 1.13.25 Despite your unwillingness to die and your desire to live even at the cost of honor and prestige, your miserly body will certainly dwindle…
SB 1.13.26 He is called undisturbed who goes to an unknown, remote place and, freed from all obligations, quits his material body when it has become…
SB 1.13.27 He is certainly a first-class man who awakens and understands, either by himself or from others, the falsity and misery of this material…
SB 1.13.28 Please, therefore, leave for the North immediately, without letting your relatives know, for soon that time will approach which will…
SB 1.13.29 Thus Mahārāja Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the scion of the family of Ajamīḍha, firmly convinced by introspective knowledge [prajñā], broke at once the…
SB 1.13.30 The gentle and chaste Gāndhārī, who was the daughter of King Subala of Kandahar [or Gāndhāra], followed her husband, seeing that he was…
SB 1.13.31 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, whose enemy was never born, performed his daily morning duties by praying, offering fire sacrifice to the sun-god,…
SB 1.13.32 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, full of anxiety, turned to Sañjaya, who was sitting there, and said: O Sañjaya, where is our uncle, who is old and…
SB 1.13.33 Where is my well-wisher, uncle Vidura, and mother Gāndhārī, who is very afflicted due to all her sons’ demise? My uncle Dhṛtarāṣṭra was…
SB 1.13.34 When my father, Pāṇḍu, fell down and we were all small children, these two uncles gave us protection from all kinds of calamities. They…
SB 1.13.35 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Because of compassion and mental agitation, Sañjaya, not having seen his own master, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, was aggrieved and…
SB 1.13.36 First he slowly pacified his mind by intelligence, and wiping away his tears and thinking of the feet of his master, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, he began…
SB 1.14.1 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: Arjuna went to Dvārakā to see Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and other friends and also to learn from the Lord of His next…
SB 1.14.2 A few months passed, and Arjuna did not return. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira then began to observe some inauspicious omens, which were fearful in…
SB 1.14.3 He saw that the direction of eternal time had changed, and this was very fearful. There were disruptions in the seasonal regularities. The…
SB 1.14.4 All ordinary transactions and dealings became polluted with cheating, even between friends. And in familial affairs, there was always…
SB 1.14.5 In course of time it came to pass that people in general became accustomed to greed, anger, pride, etc. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, observing…
SB 1.14.6 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said to his younger brother Bhīmasena: I sent Arjuna to Dvārakā to meet his friends and to learn from the Personality…
SB 1.14.7 Since he departed, seven months have passed, yet he has not returned. I do not know factually how things are going there.
SB 1.14.8 Is He going to quit His earthly pastimes, as Devarṣi Nārada indicated? Has that time already arrived?
SB 1.14.9 From Him only, all our kingly opulence, good wives, lives, progeny, control over our subjects, victory over our enemies, and future…
SB 1.14.10 Just see, O man with a tiger’s strength, how many miseries due to celestial influences, earthly reactions and bodily pains — all very…
SB 1.14.11 The left side of my body — my thighs, arms and eyes — are all quivering again and again. I am having heart palpitations due to fear. All…
SB 1.14.12 Just see, O Bhīma, how the she-jackal cries at the rising sun and vomits fire, and how the dog barks at me fearlessly.
SB 1.14.13 O Bhīmasena, tiger amongst men, now useful animals like cows are passing me on my left side, and lower animals like the asses are…
SB 1.14.14 Just see! This pigeon is like a messenger of death. The shrieks of the owls and their rival crows make my heart tremble. It appears that…
SB 1.14.15 Just see how the smoke encircles the sky. It appears that the earth and mountains are throbbing. Just hear the cloudless thunder and see…
SB 1.14.16 The wind blows violently, blasting dust everywhere and creating darkness. Clouds are raining everywhere with bloody disasters.
SB 1.14.17 The rays of the sun are declining, and the stars appear to be fighting amongst themselves. Confused living entities appear to be ablaze…
SB 1.14.18 Rivers, tributaries, ponds, reservoirs and the mind are all perturbed. Butter no longer ignites fire. What is this extraordinary time?…
SB 1.14.19 The calves do not suck the teats of the cows, nor do the cows give milk. They are standing, crying, tears in their eyes, and the bulls…
SB 1.14.20 The Deities seem to be crying in the temple, lamenting and perspiring. They seem about to leave. All the cities, villages, towns, gardens,…
SB 1.14.21 I think that all these earthly disturbances indicate some greater loss to the good fortune of the world. The world was fortunate to have…
SB 1.14.22 O Brāhmaṇa Śaunaka, while Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, observing the inauspicious signs on the earth at that time, was thus thinking to himself,…
SB 1.14.23 When he bowed at his feet, the King saw that his dejection was unprecedented. His head was down, and tears glided from his lotus eyes.
SB 1.14.24 Seeing Arjuna pale due to heartfelt anxieties, the King, remembering the indications of the sage Nārada, questioned him in the midst of…
SB 1.14.25 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said: My dear brother, please tell me whether our friends and relatives, such as Madhu, Bhoja, Daśārha, Ārha,…
SB 1.14.26 Is my respectable grandfather Śūrasena in a happy mood? And are my maternal uncle Vasudeva and his younger brothers all doing well?
SB 1.14.27 His seven wives, headed by Devakī, are all sisters. Are they and their sons and daughters-in-law all happy?
SB 1.14.28-29 Are Ugrasena, whose son was the mischievous Kaṁsa, and his younger brother still living? Are Hṛdīka and his son Kṛtavarmā happy? Are…
SB 1.14.30 How is Pradyumna, the great general of the Vṛṣṇi family? Is He happy? And is Aniruddha, the plenary expansion of the Personality of…
SB 1.14.31 Are all the chieftain sons of Lord Kṛṣṇa, such as Suṣeṇa, Cārudeṣṇa, Sāmba the son of Jāmbavatī, and Ṛṣabha, along with their sons, all…
SB 1.14.32-33 Also, Śrutadeva, Uddhava and others, Nanda, Sunanda and other leaders of liberated souls who are constant companions of the Lord are…
SB 1.14.34 Is Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who gives pleasure to the cows, the senses and the brāhmaṇas, who is very affectionate…
SB 1.14.35-36 The original Personality of Godhead, the enjoyer, and Balarāma, the primeval Lord Ananta, are staying in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty for…
SB 1.14.37 Simply by administering comforts at the lotus feet of the Lord, which is the most important of all services, the queens at Dvārakā, headed…
SB 1.14.38 The great heroes of the Yadu dynasty, being protected by the arms of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, always remain fearless in every respect. And…
SB 1.14.39 My brother Arjuna, please tell me whether your health is all right. You appear to have lost your bodily luster. Is this due to others…
SB 1.14.40 Has someone addressed you with unfriendly words or threatened you? Could you not give charity to one who asked, or could you not keep your…
SB 1.14.41 You are always the protector of the deserving living beings, such as brāhmaṇas, children, cows, women and the diseased. Could you not give…
SB 1.14.42 Have you contacted a woman of impeachable character, or have you not properly treated a deserving woman? Or have you been defeated on the…
SB 1.14.43 Have you not taken care of old men and boys who deserve to dine with you? Have you left them and taken your meals alone? Have you…
SB 1.14.44 Or is it that you are feeling empty for all time because you might have lost your most intimate friend, Lord Kṛṣṇa? O my brother Arjuna, I…
SB 1.15.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Arjuna, the celebrated friend of Lord Kṛṣṇa, was griefstricken because of his strong feeling of separation from Kṛṣṇa,…
SB 1.15.2 Due to grief, Arjuna’s mouth and lotuslike heart had dried up. Therefore his body lost all luster. Now, remembering the Supreme Lord, he…
SB 1.15.3 With great difficulty he checked the tears of grief that smeared his eyes. He was very distressed because Lord Kṛṣṇa was out of his sight,…
SB 1.15.4 Remembering Lord Kṛṣṇa and His well wishes, benefactions, intimate familial relations and His chariot driving, Arjuna, overwhelmed and…
SB 1.15.28 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus being deeply absorbed in thinking of the instructions of the Lord, which were imparted in the great intimacy of…
SB 1.15.29 Arjuna’s constant remembrance of the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa rapidly increased his devotion, and as a result all the trash in his…
SB 1.15.30 Because of the Lord’s pastimes and activities and because of His absence, it appeared that Arjuna forgot the instructions left by the…
SB 1.15.31 Because of his possessing spiritual assets, the doubts of duality were completely cut off. Thus he was freed from the three modes of…
SB 1.15.32 Upon hearing of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s returning to His abode, and upon understanding the end of the Yadu dynasty’s earthly manifestation, Mahārāja…
SB 1.15.33 Kuntī, after overhearing Arjuna’s telling of the end of the Yadu dynasty and disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa, engaged in the devotional…
SB 1.15.34 The supreme unborn, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, caused the members of the Yadu dynasty to relinquish their bodies, and thus He relieved the burden of…
SB 1.15.35 The Supreme Lord relinquished the body which He manifested to diminish the burden of the earth. Just like a magician, He relinquishes one…
SB 1.15.36 When the Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, left this earthly planet in His selfsame form, from that very day Kali, who had already…
SB 1.15.37 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was intelligent enough to understand the influence of the Age of Kali, characterized by increasing avarice,…
SB 1.15.38 Thereafter, in the capital of Hastināpura, he enthroned his grandson, who was trained and equally qualified, as the emperor and master of…
SB 1.15.39 Then he posted Vajra, the son of Aniruddha [grandson of Lord Kṛṣṇa], at Mathurā as the King of Śūrasena. Afterwards Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira…
SB 1.15.40 Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira at once relinquished all his garments, belt and ornaments of the royal order and became completely disinterested and…
SB 1.15.41 Then he amalgamated all the sense organs into the mind, then the mind into life, life into breathing, his total existence into the…
SB 1.15.42 Thus annihilating the gross body of five elements into the three qualitative modes of material nature, he merged them in one nescience and…
SB 1.15.43 After that, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira dressed himself in torn clothing, gave up eating all solid foods, voluntarily became dumb and let his…
SB 1.15.44 He then started towards the north, treading the path accepted by his forefathers and great men, to devote himself completely to the…
SB 1.15.45 The younger brothers of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira observed that the Age of Kali had already arrived throughout the world and that the citizens…
SB 1.15.46 They all had performed all the principles of religion and as a result rightly decided that the lotus feet of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa are the…
SB 1.15.47-48 Thus by pure consciousness due to constant devotional remembrance, they attained the spiritual sky, which is ruled over by the Supreme…
SB 1.15.49 Vidura, while on pilgrimage, left his body at Prabhāsa. Because he was absorbed in thought of Kṛṣṇa, he was received by the denizens of…
SB 1.15.50 Draupadī also saw that her husbands, without caring for her, were leaving home. She knew well about Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, the Personality…
SB 1.15.51 The subject of the departure of the sons of Pāṇḍu for the ultimate goal of life, back to Godhead, is fully auspicious and is perfectly…
SB 1.16.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O learned brāhmaṇas, Mahārāja Parīkṣit then began to rule over the world as a great devotee of the Lord under the…
SB 1.16.2 King Parīkṣit married the daughter of King Uttara and begot four sons, headed by Mahārāja Janamejaya.
SB 1.16.3 Mahārāja Parīkṣit, after having selected Kṛpācārya for guidance as his spiritual master, performed three horse sacrifices on the banks of…
SB 1.16.4 Once, when Mahārāja Parīkṣit was on his way to conquer the world, he saw the master of Kali-yuga, who was lower than a śūdra, disguised as…
SB 1.16.5 Śaunaka Ṛṣi inquired: Why did Mahārāja Parīkṣit simply punish him, since he was the lowest of the śūdras, having dressed as a king and…
SB 1.16.6 The devotees of the Lord are accustomed to licking up the honey available from the lotus feet of the Lord. What is the use of topics which…
SB 1.16.7 O Sūta Gosvāmī, there are those amongst men who desire freedom from death and get eternal life. They escape the slaughtering process by…
SB 1.16.8 As long as Yamarāja, who causes everyone’s death, is present here, no one shall meet with death. The great sages have invited the…
SB 1.16.9 Lazy human beings with paltry intelligence and a short duration of life pass the night sleeping and the day performing activities that are…
SB 1.16.10 Sūta Gosvāmī said: While Mahārāja Parīkṣit was residing in the capital of the Kuru empire, the symptoms of the Age of Kali began to…
SB 1.16.11 Mahārāja Parīkṣit sat on a chariot drawn by black horses. His flag was marked with the sign of a lion. Being so decorated and surrounded…
SB 1.16.12 Mahārāja Parīkṣit then conquered all parts of the earthly planet — Bhadrāśva, Ketumāla, Bhārata, the northern Kuru, Kimpuruṣa, etc. — and…
SB 1.16.13-15 Wherever the King visited, he continuously heard the glories of his great forefathers, who were all devotees of the Lord, and also of the…
SB 1.16.16 Mahārāja Parīkṣit heard that out of His causeless mercy Lord Kṛṣṇa [Viṣṇu], who is universally obeyed, rendered all kinds of service to…
SB 1.16.17 Now you may hear from me of what happened while Mahārāja Parīkṣit was passing his days hearing of the good occupations of his forefathers…
SB 1.16.18 The personality of religious principles, Dharma, was wandering about in the form of a bull. And he met the personality of earth in the…
SB 1.16.19 Dharma [in the form of a bull] asked: Madam, are you not hale and hearty? Why are you covered with the shadow of grief? It appears by your…
SB 1.16.20 I have lost my three legs and am now standing on one only. Are you lamenting for my state of existence? Or are you in great anxiety…
SB 1.16.21 Are you feeling compunction for the unhappy women and children who are left forlorn by unscrupulous persons? Or are you unhappy because…
SB 1.16.22 The so-called administrators are now bewildered by the influence of this Age of Kali, and thus they have put all state affairs into…
SB 1.16.23 O mother earth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, incarnated Himself as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa just to unload your heavy burden. All His…
SB 1.16.24 Mother, you are the reservoir of all riches. Please inform me of the root cause of your tribulations by which you have been reduced to…
SB 1.16.25 The earthly deity [in the form of a cow] thus replied to the personality of religious principles [in the form of a bull]: O Dharma,…
SB 1.16.26-30 In Him reside (1) truthfulness, (2) cleanliness, (3) intolerance of another’s unhappiness, (4) the power to control anger, (5)…
SB 1.16.31 I am thinking about myself and also, O best amongst the demigods, about you, as well as about all the demigods, sages, denizens of…
SB 1.16.32-33 Lakṣmījī, the goddess of fortune, whose glance of grace was sought by demigods like Brahmā and for whom they surrendered many a day unto…
SB 1.16.34 O personality of religion, I was greatly overburdened by the undue military phalanxes arranged by atheistic kings, and I was relieved by…
SB 1.16.35 Who, therefore, can tolerate the pangs of separation from that Supreme Personality of Godhead? He could conquer the gravity and passionate…
SB 1.16.36 While the earth and the personality of religion were thus engaged in conversation, the saintly King Parīkṣit reached the shore of the…
SB 1.17.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: After reaching that place, Mahārāja Parīkṣit observed that a lower-caste śūdra, dressed like a king, was beating a cow…
SB 1.17.2 The bull was as white as a white lotus flower. He was terrified of the śūdra who was beating him, and he was so afraid that he was…
SB 1.17.3 Although the cow is beneficial because one can draw religious principles from her, she was now rendered poor and calfless. Her legs were…
SB 1.17.4 Mahārāja Parīkṣit, well equipped with arrows and bow and seated on a gold-embossed chariot, spoke to him [the śūdra] with a deep voice…
SB 1.17.5 Oh, who are you? You appear to be strong and yet you dare kill, within my protection, those who are helpless! By your dress you pose…
SB 1.17.6 You rogue, do you dare beat an innocent cow because Lord Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, the carrier of the Gāṇḍīva bow, are out of sight? Since you are…
SB 1.17.7 Then he [Mahārāja Parīkṣit] asked the bull: Oh, who are you? Are you a bull as white as a white lotus, or are you a demigod? You have lost…
SB 1.17.8 Now for the first time in a kingdom well protected by the arms of the kings of the Kuru dynasty, I see you grieving with tears in your…
SB 1.17.9 O son of Surabhi, you need lament no longer now. There is no need to fear this low-class śūdra. And, O mother cow, as long as I am living…
SB 1.17.10-11 O chaste one, the king’s good name, duration of life and good rebirth vanish when all kinds of living beings are terrified by miscreants…
SB 1.17.12 He [Mahārāja Parīkṣit] repeatedly addressed and questioned the bull thus: O son of Surabhi, who has cut off your three legs? In the state…
SB 1.17.13 O bull, you are offenseless and thoroughly honest; therefore I wish all good to you. Please tell me of the perpetrator of these…
SB 1.17.14 Whoever causes offenseless living beings to suffer must fear me anywhere and everywhere in the world. By curbing dishonest miscreants, one…
SB 1.17.15 An upstart living being who commits offenses by torturing those who are offenseless shall be directly uprooted by me, even though he be a…
SB 1.17.16 The supreme duty of the ruling king is to give all protection to law-abiding persons and to chastise those who stray from the ordinances…
SB 1.17.17 The personality of religion said: These words just spoken by you befit a person of the Pāṇḍava dynasty. Captivated by the devotional…
SB 1.17.18 O greatest among human beings, it is very difficult to ascertain the particular miscreant who has caused our sufferings, because we are…
SB 1.17.19 Some of the philosophers, who deny all sorts of duality, declare that one’s own self is responsible for his personal happiness and…
SB 1.17.20 There are also some thinkers who believe that no one can ascertain the cause of distress by argumentation, nor know it by imagination, nor…
SB 1.17.21 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O best among the brāhmaṇas, the Emperor Parīkṣit, thus hearing the personality of religion speak, was fully satisfied,…
SB 1.17.22 The King said: O you, who are in the form of a bull! You know the truth of religion, and you are speaking according to the principle that…
SB 1.17.23 Thus it is concluded that the Lord’s energies are inconceivable. No one can estimate them by mental speculation or by word jugglery.
SB 1.17.24 In the age of Satya [truthfulness] your four legs were established by the four principles of austerity, cleanliness, mercy and…
SB 1.17.25 You are now standing on one leg only, which is your truthfulness, and you are somehow or other hobbling along. But quarrel personified…
SB 1.17.26 The burden of the earth was certainly diminished by the Personality of Godhead and by others as well. When He was present as an…
SB 1.17.27 Now she, the chaste one, being unfortunately forsaken by the Personality of Godhead, laments her future with tears in her eyes, for now…
SB 1.17.28 Mahārāja Parīkṣit, who could fight one thousand enemies single-handedly, thus pacified the personality of religion and the earth. Then he…
SB 1.17.29 When the personality of Kali understood that the King was willing to kill him, he at once abandoned the dress of a king and, under…
SB 1.17.30 Mahārāja Parīkṣit, who was qualified to accept surrender and worthy of being sung in history, did not kill the poor surrendered and fallen…
SB 1.17.31 The King thus said: We have inherited the fame of Arjuna; therefore since you have surrendered yourself with folded hands you need not…
SB 1.17.32 If the personality of Kali, irreligion, is allowed to act as a man-god or an executive head, certainly irreligious principles like greed,…
SB 1.17.33 Therefore, O friend of irreligion, you do not deserve to remain in a place where experts perform sacrifices according to truth and…
SB 1.17.34 In all sacrificial ceremonies, although sometimes a demigod is worshiped, the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is worshiped because He…
SB 1.17.35 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: The personality of Kali, thus being ordered by Mahārāja Parīkṣit, began to tremble in fear. Seeing the King before…
SB 1.17.36 O Your Majesty, though I may live anywhere and everywhere under your order, I shall but see you with bow and arrows wherever I look.
SB 1.17.37 Therefore, O chief amongst the protectors of religion, please fix some place for me where I can live permanently under the protection of…
SB 1.17.38 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, thus being petitioned by the personality of Kali, gave him permission to reside in places where…
SB 1.17.39 The personality of Kali asked for something more, and because of his begging, the King gave him permission to live where there is gold…
SB 1.17.40 Thus the personality of Kali, by the directions of Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Uttarā, was allowed to live in those five places.
SB 1.17.41 Therefore, whoever desires progressive well-being, especially kings, religionists, public leaders, brāhmaṇas and sannyāsīs, should never…
SB 1.17.42 Thereafter the King reestablished the lost legs of the personality of religion [the bull], and by encouraging activities he sufficiently…
SB 1.17.43-44 The most fortunate emperor Mahārāja Parīkṣit, who was entrusted with the kingdom of Hastināpura by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira when he desired to…
SB 1.17.45 Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Abhimanyu, is so experienced that by dint of his expert administration and patronage, it has been possible…
SB 1.18.1 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: Due to the mercy of the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who acts wonderfully, Mahārāja Parīkṣit, though struck…
SB 1.18.2 Furthermore, Mahārāja Parīkṣit was always consciously surrendered to the Personality of Godhead, and therefore he was neither afraid nor…
SB 1.18.3 Furthermore, after leaving all his associates, the King surrendered himself as a disciple to the son of Vyāsa [Śukadeva Gosvāmī], and thus…
SB 1.18.4 This was so because those who have dedicated their lives to the transcendental topics of the Personality of Godhead, of whom the Vedic…
SB 1.18.5 As long as the great, powerful son of Abhimanyu remains the Emperor of the world, there is no chance that the personality of Kali will…
SB 1.18.6 The very day and moment the Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, left this earth, the personality of Kali, who promotes all kinds of…
SB 1.18.7 Mahārāja Parīkṣit was a realist, like the bees who only accept the essence [of a flower]. He knew perfectly well that in this Age of Kali,…
SB 1.18.8 Mahārāja Parīkṣit considered that less intelligent men might find the personality of Kali to be very powerful, but that those who are…
SB 1.18.9 O sages, as you did ask me, now I have described almost everything regarding the narrations about Lord Kṛṣṇa in connection with the…
SB 1.18.10 Those who are desirous of achieving complete perfection in life must submissively hear all topics that are connected with the…
SB 1.18.11 The good sages said: O grave Sūta Gosvāmī! May you live many years and have eternal fame, for you are speaking very nicely about the…
SB 1.18.12 We have just begun the performance of this fruitive activity, a sacrificial fire, without certainty of its result due to the many…
SB 1.18.13 The value of a moment’s association with the devotee of the Lord cannot even be compared to the attainment of heavenly planets or…
SB 1.18.14 The Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa [Govinda], is the exclusive shelter for all great living beings, and His transcendental attributes…
SB 1.18.15 O Sūta Gosvāmī, you are a learned and pure devotee of the Lord because the Personality of Godhead is your chief object of service.…
SB 1.18.16 O Sūta Gosvāmī, please describe those topics of the Lord by which Mahārāja Parīkṣit, whose intelligence was fixed on liberation, attained…
SB 1.18.17 Thus please narrate to us the narrations of the Unlimited, for they are purifying and supreme. They were spoken to Mahārāja Parīkṣit, and…
SB 1.18.18 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: O God, although we are born in a mixed caste, we are still promoted in birthright simply by serving and following…
SB 1.18.19 And what to speak of those who are under the direction of the great devotees, chanting the holy name of the Unlimited, who has unlimited…
SB 1.18.20 It is now ascertained that He [the Personality of Godhead] is unlimited and there is none equal to Him. Consequently no one can speak of…
SB 1.18.21 Who can be worthy of the name of the Supreme Lord but the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa? Brahmājī collected the water emanating from…
SB 1.18.22 Self-controlled persons who are attached to the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa can all of a sudden give up the world of material attachment,…
SB 1.18.23 O ṛṣis, who are as powerfully pure as the sun, I shall try to describe to you the transcendental pastimes of Viṣṇu as far as my knowledge…
SB 1.18.24-25 Once upon a time Mahārāja Parīkṣit, while engaged in hunting in the forest with bow and arrows, became extremely fatigued, hungry and…
SB 1.18.26 The muni’s sense organs, breath, mind and intelligence were all restrained from material activities, and he was situated in a trance apart…
SB 1.18.27 The sage, in meditation, was covered by the skin of a stag, and long, compressed hair was scattered all over him. The King, whose palate…
SB 1.18.28 The King, not received by any formal welcome by means of being offered a seat, place, water and sweet addresses, considered himself…
SB 1.18.29 O brāhmaṇas, the circumstances having distressed him with extreme hunger and thirst, the King directed toward the sage his anger and envy,…
SB 1.18.30 While leaving, the King, being so insulted, picked up a lifeless snake with his bow and angrily placed it on the shoulder of the sage.…
SB 1.18.31 Upon returning, he began to contemplate and argue within himself whether the sage had actually been in meditation, with senses…
SB 1.18.32 The sage had a son who was very powerful, being a brāhmaṇa’s son. While he was playing with inexperienced boys, he heard of his father’s…
SB 1.18.33 [The brāhmaṇa’s son, Śṛṅgi, said:] O just look at the sins of the rulers who, like crows and watchdogs at the door, perpetrate sins…
SB 1.18.34 The descendants of the kingly orders are definitely designated as watchdogs, and they must keep themselves at the door. On what grounds…
SB 1.18.35 After the departure of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead and supreme ruler of everyone, these upstarts have flourished, our…
SB 1.18.36 The son of the ṛṣi, his eyes red-hot with anger, touched the water of the River Kauśika while speaking to his playmates and discharged the…
SB 1.18.37 The brāhmaṇa’s son cursed the King thus: On the seventh day from today a snake-bird will bite the most wretched one of that dynasty…
SB 1.18.38 Thereafter, when the boy returned to the hermitage, he saw a snake on his father’s shoulder, and out of his grief he cried very loudly.
SB 1.18.39 O brāhmaṇas, the ṛṣi, who was born in the family of Aṅgirā Muni, hearing his son crying, gradually opened his eyes and saw the dead snake…
SB 1.18.40 He threw the dead snake aside and asked his son why he was crying, whether anyone had done him harm. On hearing this, the son explained to…
SB 1.18.41 The father heard from his son that the King had been cursed, although he should never have been condemned, for he was the best amongst all…
SB 1.18.42 O my boy, your intelligence is immature, and therefore you have no knowledge that the king, who is the best amongst human beings, is as…
SB 1.18.43 My dear boy, the Lord, who carries the wheel of a chariot, is represented by the monarchical regime, and when this regime is abolished the…
SB 1.18.44 Due to the termination of the monarchical regimes and the plundering of the people’s wealth by rogues and thieves, there will be great…
SB 1.18.45 At that time the people in general will fall systematically from the path of a progressive civilization in respect to the qualitative…
SB 1.18.46 The Emperor Parīkṣit is a pious king. He is highly celebrated and is a first-class devotee of the Personality of Godhead. He is a saint…
SB 1.18.47 Then the ṛṣi prayed to the all-pervading Personality of Godhead to pardon his immature boy, who had no intelligence and who committed the…
SB 1.18.48 The devotees of the Lord are so forbearing that even though they are defamed, cheated, cursed, disturbed, neglected or even killed, they…
SB 1.18.49 The sage thus regretted the sin committed by his own son. He did not take the insult paid by the King very seriously.
SB 1.18.50 Generally the transcendentalists, even though engaged by others in the dualities of the material world, are not distressed. Nor do they…
SB 1.19.1 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: While returning home, the King [Mahārāja Parīkṣit] felt that the act he had committed against the faultless and…
SB 1.19.2 [King Parīkṣit thought:] Due to my neglecting the injunctions of the Supreme Lord I must certainly expect some difficulty to overcome me…
SB 1.19.3 I am uncivilized and sinful due to my neglect of brahminical culture, God consciousness and cow protection. Therefore I wish that my…
SB 1.19.4 While the King was thus repenting, he received news of his imminent death, which would be due to the bite of a snake-bird, occasioned by…
SB 1.19.5 Mahārāja Parīkṣit sat down firmly on the banks of the Ganges to concentrate his mind in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, rejecting all other practices…
SB 1.19.6 The river [by which the King sat to fast] carries the most auspicious water, which is mixed with the dust of the lotus feet of the Lord…
SB 1.19.7 Thus the King, the worthy descendant of the Pāṇḍavas, decided once and for all and sat on the Ganges’ bank to fast until death and give…
SB 1.19.8 At that time all the great minds and thinkers, accompanied by their disciples, and sages who could verily sanctify a place of pilgrimage…
SB 1.19.9-10 From different parts of the universe there arrived great sages like Atri, Cyavana, Śaradvān, Ariṣṭanemi, Bhṛgu, Vasiṣṭha, Parāśara,…
SB 1.19.11 There were also many other saintly demigods, kings and special royal orders called aruṇādayas [a special rank of rājarṣis] from different…
SB 1.19.12 After all the ṛṣis and others had seated themselves comfortably, the King, humbly standing before them with folded hands, told them of his…
SB 1.19.13 The fortunate King said: Indeed, we are the most grateful of all the kings who are trained to get favors from the great souls. Generally…
SB 1.19.14 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the controller of both the transcendental and mundane worlds, has graciously overtaken me in the form…
SB 1.19.15 O brāhmaṇas, just accept me as a completely surrendered soul, and let mother Ganges, the representative of the Lord, also accept me in…
SB 1.19.16 Again, offering obeisances unto all you brāhmaṇas, I pray that if I should again take my birth in the material world I will have complete…
SB 1.19.17 In perfect self-control, Mahārāja Parīkṣit sat down on a seat of straw, with straw-roots facing the east, placed on the southern bank of…
SB 1.19.18 Thus the King, Mahārāja Parīkṣit, sat to fast until death. All the demigods of the higher planets praised the King’s actions and in…
SB 1.19.19 All the great sages who were assembled there also praised the decision of Mahārāja Parīkṣit, and they expressed their approval by saying…
SB 1.19.20 [The sages said:] O chief of all the saintly kings of the Pāṇḍu dynasty who are strictly in the line of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa! It is not at all…
SB 1.19.21 We shall all wait here until the foremost devotee of the Lord, Mahārāja Parīkṣit, returns to the supreme planet, which is completely free…
SB 1.19.22 All that was spoken by the great sages was very sweet to hear, full of meaning and appropriately presented as perfectly true. So after…
SB 1.19.23 The King said: O great sages, you have all very kindly assembled here, having come from all parts of the universe. You are all as good as…
SB 1.19.24 O trustworthy brāhmaṇas, I now ask you about my immediate duty. Please, after proper deliberation, tell me of the unalloyed duty of…
SB 1.19.25 At that moment there appeared the powerful son of Vyāsadeva, who traveled over the earth disinterested and satisfied with himself. He did…
SB 1.19.26 This son of Vyāsadeva was only sixteen years old. His legs, hands, thighs, arms, shoulders, forehead and the other parts of his body were…
SB 1.19.27 His collarbone was fleshy, his chest broad and thick, his navel deep and his abdomen beautifully striped. His arms were long, and curly…
SB 1.19.28 He was blackish and very beautiful due to his youth. Because of the glamor of his body and his attractive smiles, he was pleasing to…
SB 1.19.29 Mahārāja Parīkṣit, who is also known as Viṣṇurāta [one who is always protected by Viṣṇu], bowed his head to receive the chief guest,…
SB 1.19.30 Śukadeva Gosvāmī was then surrounded by saintly sages and demigods just as the moon is surrounded by stars, planets and other heavenly…
SB 1.19.31 The sage Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī sat perfectly pacified, intelligent and ready to answer any question without hesitation. The great devotee,…
SB 1.19.40 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: The King thus spoke and questioned the sage, using sweet language. Then the great and powerful personality, the son…
SB 2.4.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Uttarā, after hearing the speeches of Śukadeva Gosvāmī, which were all about the truth of…
SB 2.4.2 Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as a result of his wholehearted attraction for Lord Kṛṣṇa, was able to give up all deep-rooted affection for his…
SB 2.4.3-4 O great sages, the great soul Mahārāja Parīkṣit, constantly rapt in thought of Lord Kṛṣṇa, knowing well of his imminent death, renounced…
SB 2.4.11 Sūta Gosvāmī said: When Śukadeva Gosvāmī was thus requested by the King to describe the creative energy of the Personality of Godhead, he…
SB 2.8.27 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus Śukadeva Gosvāmī, being invited by Mahārāja Parīkṣit to speak on topics of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa with the devotees,…
SB 2.8.28 He began to reply to the inquiries of Mahārāja Parīkṣit by saying that the science of the Personality of Godhead was spoken first by the…
SB 2.8.29 He also prepared himself to reply to all that King Parīkṣit had inquired from him. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was the best in the dynasty of the…
SB 3.1.5 Śrī Suta Gosvāmī said: The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī was highly experienced and was pleased with the King. Thus being questioned by the…
SB 3.10.3 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O son of Bhṛgu, the great sage Maitreya Muni, thus hearing from Vidura, felt very much enlivened. Everything was in his…
SB 3.25.4 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: The most powerful sage Maitreya was a friend of Vyāsadeva. Being encouraged and pleased by Vidura’s inquiry about…
SB 4.13.1 Sūta Gosvāmī, continuing to speak to all the ṛṣis, headed by Śaunaka, said: After hearing Maitreya Ṛṣi describe Dhruva Mahārāja’s ascent…
SB 4.13.2 Vidura inquired from Maitreya: O greatly advanced devotee, who were the Pracetās? To which family did they belong? Whose sons were they,…
SB 4.13.3 Vidura continued: I know that the great sage Nārada is the greatest of all devotees. He has compiled the pāñcarātrika procedure of…
SB 4.13.4 While all the Pracetās were executing religious rituals and sacrificial ceremonies and thus worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
SB 4.13.5 My dear brāhmaṇa, how did Nārada Muni glorify the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and what pastimes were described in that meeting? I am…
SB 4.13.6 The great sage Maitreya replied: My dear Vidura, when Mahārāja Dhruva departed for the forest, his son, Utkala, did not desire to accept…
SB 4.13.7 From his very birth, Utkala was fully satisfied and unattached to the world. He was equipoised, for he could see everything resting in the…
SB 4.13.8-9 By expansion of his knowledge of the Supreme Brahman, he had already attained liberation from the bondage of the body. This liberation is…
SB 4.13.10 Utkala appeared to the less intelligent persons on the road to be foolish, blind, dumb, deaf and mad, although actually he was not so. He…
SB 4.13.11 For this reason the ministers and all the elderly members of the family thought Utkala to be without intelligence and, in fact, mad. Thus…
SB 4.13.12 King Vatsara had a very dear wife whose name was Svarvīthi, and she gave birth to six sons, named Puṣpārṇa, Tigmaketu, Iṣa, Ūrja, Vasu and…
SB 4.13.13 Puṣpārṇa had two wives, named Prabhā and Doṣā. Prabhā had three sons, named Prātar, Madhyandinam and Sāyam.
SB 4.13.14 Doṣā had three sons — Pradoṣa, Niśitha and Vyuṣṭa. Vyuṣṭa’s wife was named Puṣkariṇī, and she gave birth to a very powerful son named…
SB 4.13.15-16 Sarvatejā’s wife, Ākūti, gave birth to a son named Cākṣuṣa, who became the sixth Manu at the end of the Manu millennium. Naḍvalā, the wife…
SB 4.13.17 Of the twelve sons, Ulmuka begot six sons in his wife Puṣkariṇī. They were all very good sons, and their names were Aṅga, Sumanā, Khyāti,…
SB 4.13.18 The wife of Aṅga, Sunīthā, gave birth to a son named Vena, who was very crooked. The saintly King Aṅga was very disappointed with Vena’s…
SB 4.13.19-20 My dear Vidura, when great sages curse, their words are as invincible as a thunderbolt. Thus when they cursed King Vena out of anger, he…
SB 4.13.21 Vidura inquired from the sage Maitreya: My dear brāhmaṇa, King Aṅga was very gentle. He had high character and was a saintly personality…
SB 4.13.22 Vidura also inquired: How is it that the great sages, who were completely conversant with religious principles, desired to curse King…
SB 4.13.23 It is the duty of all citizens in a state never to insult the king, even though he sometimes appears to have done something very sinful.…
SB 4.13.24 Vidura requested Maitreya: My dear brāhmaṇa, you are well conversant with all subjects, both past and future. Therefore I wish to hear…
SB 4.13.25 Śrī Maitreya replied: My dear Vidura, once the great King Aṅga arranged to perform the great sacrifice known as aśvamedha. All the expert…
SB 4.13.26 The priests engaged in the sacrifice then informed King Aṅga: O King, we are properly offering the clarified butter in the sacrifice, but…
SB 4.13.27 O King, we know that the paraphernalia to perform the sacrifice is well collected by you with great faith and care and is not polluted.…
SB 4.13.28 Dear King, we do not find any reason that the demigods should feel insulted or neglected in any way, but still the demigods who are…
SB 4.13.29 Maitreya explained that King Aṅga, after hearing the statements of the priests, was greatly aggrieved. At that time he took permission…
SB 4.13.30 King Aṅga addressed the priestly order: My dear priests, kindly tell me what offense I have committed. Although invited, the demigods are…
SB 4.13.31 The head priests said: O King, in this life we do not find any sinful activity, even within your mind, so you are not in the least…
SB 4.13.32 O King, we wish all good fortune for you. You have no son, but if you pray at once to the Supreme Lord and ask for a son, and if you…
SB 4.13.33 When Hari, the supreme enjoyer of all sacrifices, is invited to fulfill your desire for a son, all the demigods will come with Him and…
SB 4.13.34 The performer of the sacrifices [under karma-kāṇḍa activities] achieves the fulfillment of the desire for which he worships the Lord.
SB 4.13.35 Thus for the sake of a son for King Aṅga, they decided to offer oblations to Lord Viṣṇu, who is situated in the hearts of all living…
SB 4.13.36 As soon as the oblation was offered in the fire, a person appeared from the fire altar wearing a golden garland and a white dress. He was…
SB 4.13.37 The King was very liberal, and after taking permission from the priests, he took the preparation in his joined palms, and after smelling…
SB 4.13.38 Although the Queen had no son, after eating that food, which had the power to produce a male child, she became pregnant by her husband,…
SB 4.13.39 That boy was born partially in the dynasty of irreligion. His grandfather was death personified, and the boy grew up as his follower; he…
SB 4.13.40 After fixing his bow and arrow, the cruel boy used to go to the forest and unnecessarily kill innocent deer, and as soon as he came all…
SB 4.13.41 The boy was so cruel that while playing with young boys of his age he would kill them very mercilessly, as if they were animals meant for…
SB 4.13.42 After seeing the cruel and merciless behavior of his son, Vena, King Aṅga punished him in different ways to reform him, but was unable to…
SB 4.13.43 The King thought to himself: Persons who have no son are certainly fortunate. They must have worshiped the Lord in their previous lives so…
SB 4.13.44 A sinful son causes a person’s reputation to vanish. His irreligious activities at home cause irreligion and quarrel among everyone, and…
SB 4.13.45 Who, if he is considerate and intelligent, would desire such a worthless son? Such a son is nothing but a bond of illusion for the living…
SB 4.13.46 Then the King thought: A bad son is better than a good son because a good son creates an attachment for home, whereas a bad son does not.…
SB 4.13.47 Thinking like that, King Aṅga could not sleep at night. He became completely indifferent to household life. Once, therefore, in the dead…
SB 4.13.48 When it was understood that the King had indifferently left home, all the citizens, priests, ministers, friends, and people in general…
SB 4.13.49 When the citizens could not find any trace of the King after searching for him everywhere, they were very disappointed, and they returned…
SB 4.14.1 The great sage Maitreya continued: O great hero Vidura, the great sages, headed by Bhṛgu, were always thinking of the welfare of the…
SB 4.14.2 The great sages then called for the Queen Mother, Sunīthā, and with her permission they installed Vena on the throne as master of the…
SB 4.14.3 It was already known that Vena was very severe and cruel; therefore, as soon as all the thieves and rogues in the state heard of his…
SB 4.14.4 When the King ascended to the throne, he became all-powerful with eight kinds of opulences. Consequently he became too proud. By virtue of…
SB 4.14.5 When he became overly blind due to his opulences, King Vena mounted a chariot and, like an uncontrolled elephant, began to travel through…
SB 4.14.6 All the twice-born [brāhmaṇas] were forbidden henceforward to perform any sacrifice, and they were also forbidden to give charity or offer…
SB 4.14.7 Therefore all the great sages assembled together and, after observing cruel Vena’s atrocities, concluded that a great danger and…
SB 4.14.8 When the great sages consulted one another, they saw that the people were in a dangerous position from both directions. When a fire blazes…
SB 4.14.9 Thinking to save the state from irregularity, the sages began to consider that it was due to a political crisis that they made Vena king…
SB 4.14.10 The sages began to think within themselves: Because he was born from the womb of Sunīthā, King Vena is by nature very mischievous.…
SB 4.14.11 We appointed this Vena king of the state in order to give protection to the citizens, but now he has become the enemy of the citizens.…
SB 4.14.12 The saintly sages continued thinking: Of course, we were completely aware of his mischievous nature, yet we nevertheless enthroned Vena.…
SB 4.14.13 The great sages, having thus decided, approached King Vena. Concealing their real anger, they pacified him with sweet words and then spoke…
SB 4.14.14 The great sages said: Dear King, we have come to give you good advice. Kindly hear us with great attention. By doing so, your duration of…
SB 4.14.15 Those who live according to religious principles and who follow them by words, mind, body and intelligence are elevated to the heavenly…
SB 4.14.16 The sages continued: O great hero, for this reason you should not be the cause of spoiling the spiritual life of the general populace. If…
SB 4.14.17 The saintly persons continued: When the king protects the citizens from the disturbances of mischievous ministers as well as from thieves…
SB 4.14.18 The king is supposed to be pious in whose state and cities the general populace strictly observes the system of eight social orders of…
SB 4.14.19 O noble one, if the king sees that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original cause of the cosmic manifestation and the Supersoul…
SB 4.14.20 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is worshiped by the great demigods who are controllers of universal affairs. When He is satisfied,…
SB 4.14.21 Dear King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with the predominating deities, is the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices in…
SB 4.14.22 When all the brāhmaṇas engage in performing sacrifices in your kingdom, all the demigods, who are plenary expansions of the Lord, will be…
SB 4.14.23 King Vena replied: You are not at all experienced. It is very much regrettable that you are maintaining something which is not religious…
SB 4.14.24 Those who, out of gross ignorance, do not worship the king, who is actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead, experience happiness…
SB 4.14.25 You are so much devoted to the demigods, but who are they? Indeed, your affection for these demigods is exactly like the affection of an…
SB 4.14.26-27 Lord Viṣṇu; Lord Brahmā; Lord Śiva; Lord Indra; Vāyu, the master of air; Yama, the superintendent of death; the sun-god; the director of…
SB 4.14.28 King Vena continued: For this reason, O brāhmaṇas, you should abandon your envy of me, and by your ritualistic activities you should…
SB 4.14.29 The great sage Maitreya continued: Thus the King, who became unintelligent due to his sinful life and deviation from the right path,…
SB 4.14.30 My dear Vidura, all good fortune unto you. The foolish King, who thought himself very learned, thus insulted the great sages, and the…
SB 4.14.31 All the great saintly sages immediately cried: Kill him! Kill him! He is the most dreadful, sinful person. If he lives, he will certainly…
SB 4.14.32 The saintly sages continued: This impious, impudent man does not deserve to sit on the throne at all. He is so shameless that he even…
SB 4.14.33 But for King Vena, who is simply inauspicious, who would blaspheme the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by whose mercy one is awarded all…
SB 4.14.34 The great sages, thus manifesting their covert anger, immediately decided to kill the King. King Vena was already as good as dead due to…
SB 4.14.35 After all the sages returned to their respective hermitages, the mother of King Vena, Sunīthā, became very much aggrieved because of her…
SB 4.14.36 Once upon a time, the same saintly persons, after taking their bath in the river Sarasvatī, began to perform their daily duties by…
SB 4.14.37 In those days there were various disturbances in the country that were creating a panic in society. Therefore all the sages began to talk…
SB 4.14.38 When the great sages were carrying on their discussion in this way, they saw a dust storm arising from all directions. This storm was…
SB 4.14.39-40 Upon seeing the dust storm, the saintly persons could understand that there were a great deal of irregularities due to the death of King…
SB 4.14.41 The great sages began to think that although a brāhmaṇa is peaceful and impartial because he is equal to everyone, it is still not his…
SB 4.14.42 The sages decided that the descendants of the family of the saintly King Aṅga should not be stopped, for in this family the semen was very…
SB 4.14.43 After making a decision, the saintly persons and sages churned the thighs of the dead body of King Vena with great force and according to…
SB 4.14.44 This person born from King Vena’s thighs was named Bāhuka, and his complexion was as black as a crow’s. All the limbs of his body were…
SB 4.14.45 He was very submissive and meek, and immediately after his birth he bowed down and inquired, “Sirs, what shall I do?” The great sages…
SB 4.14.46 After his [Niṣāda’s] birth, he immediately took charge of all the resultant actions of King Vena’s sinful activities. As such, this…
SB 4.15.1 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, thus the brāhmaṇas and the great sages again churned the two arms of King Vena’s dead…
SB 4.15.2 The great sages were highly learned in Vedic knowledge. When they saw the male and female born of the arms of Vena’s body, they were very…
SB 4.15.3 The great sages said: The male is a plenary expansion of the power of Lord Viṣṇu, who maintains the entire universe, and the female is a…
SB 4.15.4 Of the two, the male will be able to expand his reputation throughout the world. His name will be Pṛthu. Indeed, he will be the first…
SB 4.15.5 The female has such beautiful teeth and beautiful qualities that she will actually beautify the ornaments she wears. Her name will be…
SB 4.15.6 In the form of King Pṛthu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has appeared through a part of His potency to protect the people of the…
SB 4.15.7 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidurajī, at that time all the brāhmaṇas highly praised and glorified King Pṛthu, and the best…
SB 4.15.8 Conchshells, bugles, drums and kettledrums vibrated in outer space. Great sages, forefathers and personalities from the heavenly planets…
SB 4.15.9-10 Lord Brahmā, the master of the entire universe, arrived there accompanied by all the demigods and their chiefs. Seeing the lines of Lord…
SB 4.15.11 The learned brāhmaṇas, who were very attached to the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies, then arranged for the King’s coronation. People from…
SB 4.15.12 All the rivers, seas, hills, mountains, serpents, cows, birds, animals, heavenly planets, the earthly planet and all other living entities…
SB 4.15.13 Thus the great King Pṛthu, exquisitely dressed with garments and ornaments, was coronated and placed on the throne. The King and his wife,…
SB 4.15.14 The great sage continued: My dear Vidura, Kuvera presented the great King Pṛthu with a golden throne. The demigod Varuṇa presented him…
SB 4.15.15 The demigod of air, Vāyu, presented King Pṛthu with two whisks [cāmaras] of hair; the King of religion, Dharma, presented him with a…
SB 4.15.16 Lord Brahmā presented King Pṛthu with a protective garment made of spiritual knowledge. Bhāratī [Sarasvatī], the wife of Brahmā, gave him…
SB 4.15.17 Lord Śiva presented him with a sword within a sheath marked with ten moons, and his wife, the goddess Durgā, presented him with a shield…
SB 4.15.18 The demigod of fire, Agni, presented him with a bow made of the horns of goats and cows. The sun-god presented him with arrows as…
SB 4.15.19 The demigods who always travel in outer space gave King Pṛthu the arts to perform dramas, sing songs, play musical instruments and…
SB 4.15.20 The seas, mountains and rivers gave him room to drive his chariot without impediments, and a sūta, a māgadha and a vandī offered prayers…
SB 4.15.21 Thus when the greatly powerful King Pṛthu, the son of Vena, saw the professionals before him, to congratulate them he smiled, and with the…
SB 4.15.22 King Pṛthu said: O gentle sūta, māgadha and other devotee offering prayers, the qualities of which you have spoken are not distinct in me.…
SB 4.15.23 O gentle reciters, offer such prayers in due course of time, when the qualities of which you have spoken actually manifest themselves in…
SB 4.15.24 How could an intelligent man competent enough to possess such exalted qualities allow his followers to praise him if he did not actually…
SB 4.15.25 As a person with a sense of honor and magnanimity does not like to hear about his abominable actions, a person who is very famous and…
SB 4.15.26 King Pṛthu continued: My dear devotees, headed by the sūta, just now I am not very famous for my personal activities because I have not…
SB 4.16.1 The great sage Maitreya continued: While King Pṛthu thus spoke, the humility of his nectarean speeches pleased the reciters very much.…
SB 4.16.2 The reciters continued: Dear King, you are a direct incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, and by His causeless…
SB 4.16.3 Although we are unable to glorify you adequately, we nonetheless have a transcendental taste for glorifying your activities. We shall try…
SB 4.16.4 This King, Mahārāja Pṛthu, is the best amongst those who are following religious principles. As such, he will engage everyone in the…
SB 4.16.5 This King alone, in his own body, will be able in due course of time to maintain all living entities and keep them in a pleasant condition…
SB 4.16.6 This King Pṛthu will be as powerful as the sun-god, and just as the sun-god equally distributes his sunshine to everyone, King Pṛthu will…
SB 4.16.7 This King Pṛthu will be very, very kind to all citizens. Even though a poor person may trample over the King’s head by violating the rules…
SB 4.16.8 When there is no rainfall and the citizens are in great danger due to the scarcity of water, this royal Personality of Godhead will be…
SB 4.16.9 This King, Pṛthu Mahārāja, by virtue of his affectionate glances and beautiful moonlike face, which is always smiling with great affection…
SB 4.16.10 The reciters continued: No one will be able to understand the policies the King will follow. His activities will also be very…
SB 4.16.11 King Pṛthu was born of the dead body of King Vena as fire is produced from araṇi wood. Thus King Pṛthu will always remain just like fire,…
SB 4.16.12 King Pṛthu will be able to see all the internal and external activities of every one of his citizens. Still, no one will be able to know…
SB 4.16.13 Since this King will always remain on the path of piety, he will be neutral to both his son and the son of his enemy. If the son of his…
SB 4.16.14 Just as the sun-god expands his shining rays up to the Arctic region without impedance, the influence of King Pṛthu will cover all tracts…
SB 4.16.15 This King will please everyone by his practical activities, and all of his citizens will remain very satisfied. Because of this the…
SB 4.16.16 The King will be firmly determined and always situated in truth. He will be a lover of the brahminical culture and will render all service…
SB 4.16.17 The King will respect all women as if they were his own mother, and he will treat his own wife as the other half of his body. He will be…
SB 4.16.18 The King will consider all embodied living entities as dear as his own self, and he will always be increasing the pleasures of his…
SB 4.16.19 This King is the master of the three worlds, and he is directly empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is without change, and…
SB 4.16.20 This King, being uniquely powerful and heroic, will have no competitor. He will travel around the globe on his victorious chariot, holding…
SB 4.16.21 When the King travels all over the world, other kings, as well as the demigods, will offer him all kinds of presentations. Their queens…
SB 4.16.22 This King, this protector of the citizens, is an extraordinary king and is equal to the Prajāpati demigods. For the living facility of all…
SB 4.16.23 When the lion travels in the forest with its tail turned upward, all menial animals hide themselves. Similarly, when King Pṛthu will…
SB 4.16.24 At the source of the river Sarasvatī, this King will perform one hundred sacrifices known as aśvamedha. In the course of the last…
SB 4.16.25 This King Pṛthu will meet Sanat-kumāra, one of the four Kumāras, in the garden of his palace compound. The King will worship him with…
SB 4.16.26 In this way, when the chivalrous activities of King Pṛthu come to be known to the people in general, King Pṛthu will always hear about…
SB 4.16.27 No one will be able to disobey the orders of Pṛthu Mahārāja. After conquering the world, he will completely eradicate the threefold…
SB 4.17.1 The great sage Maitreya continued: In this way the reciters who were glorifying Mahārāja Pṛthu readily described his qualities and…
SB 4.17.2 King Pṛthu thus satisfied and offered all respect to all the leaders of the brāhmaṇas and other castes, to his servants, to his ministers…
SB 4.17.3 Vidura inquired from the great sage Maitreya: My dear brāhmaṇa, since mother earth can appear in different shapes, why did she take the…
SB 4.17.4 The surface of the earth is by nature low in some places and high in others. How did King Pṛthu level the surface of the earth, and why…
SB 4.17.5 The great saintly King, Mahārāja Pṛthu, received knowledge from Sanat-kumāra, who was the greatest Vedic scholar. After receiving…
SB 4.17.6-7 Pṛthu Mahārāja was a powerful incarnation of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s potencies; consequently any narration concerning his activities is surely very…
SB 4.17.8 Sūta Gosvāmī continued: When Vidura became inspired to hear of the activities of Lord Kṛṣṇa in His various incarnations, Maitreya, also…
SB 4.17.9 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, at the time King Pṛthu was enthroned by the great sages and brāhmaṇas and declared to…
SB 4.17.10-11 Dear King, just as a tree with a fire burning in the hollow of the trunk gradually dries up, we are drying up due to the fire of hunger in…
SB 4.17.12 After hearing this lamentation and seeing the pitiable condition of the citizens, King Pṛthu contemplated this matter for a long time to…
SB 4.17.13 Having arrived at a conclusion, the King took up his bow and arrow and aimed them at the earth, exactly like Lord Śiva, who destroys the…
SB 4.17.14 When the earth saw that King Pṛthu was taking his bow and arrow to kill her, she became very much afraid and began to tremble. She then…
SB 4.17.15 Seeing this, Mahārāja Pṛthu became very angry, and his eyes became as red as the early-morning sun. Placing an arrow on his bow, he chased…
SB 4.17.16 The cow-shaped earth ran here and there in outer space between the heavenly planets and the earth, and wherever she ran, the King chased…
SB 4.17.17 Just as a man cannot escape the cruel hands of death, the cow-shaped earth could not escape the hands of the son of Vena. At length the…
SB 4.17.18 Addressing the great, opulent King Pṛthu as the knower of religious principles and shelter of the surrendered, she said: Please save me.…
SB 4.17.19 The cow-shaped earth continued to appeal to the King: I am very poor and have not committed any sinful activities. I do not know why you…
SB 4.17.20 Even if a woman does commit some sinful activity, no one should place his hand upon her. And what to speak of you, dear King, who are so…
SB 4.17.21 The cow-shaped earth continued: My dear King, I am just like a strong boat, and all the paraphernalia of the world is standing upon me. If…
SB 4.17.22 King Pṛthu replied to the earthly planet: My dear earth, you have disobeyed my orders and rulings. In the form of a demigod you accepted…
SB 4.17.23 Although you are eating green grass every day, you are not filling your milk bag so we can utilize your milk. Since you are willfully…
SB 4.17.24 You have so lost your intelligence that, despite my orders, you do not deliver the seeds of herbs and grains formerly created by Brahmā…
SB 4.17.25 Now, with the help of my arrows, I shall cut you to pieces and with your flesh satisfy the hunger-stricken citizens, who are now crying…
SB 4.17.26 Any cruel person — be he a man, woman or impotent eunuch — who is only interested in his personal maintenance and has no compassion for…
SB 4.17.27 You are very much puffed up with pride and have become almost insane. Presently you have assumed the form of a cow by your mystic powers.…
SB 4.17.28 At this time Pṛthu Mahārāja became exactly like Yamarāja, and his whole body appeared very angry. In other words, he was anger…
SB 4.17.29 The planet earth spoke: My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are transcendental in Your position, and by Your material…
SB 4.17.30 The planet earth continued: My dear Lord, You are the complete conductor of the material creation. You have created this cosmic…
SB 4.17.31 In the beginning of creation You created all these moving and nonmoving living entities by Your inconceivable energy. Through this very…
SB 4.17.32 My dear Lord, although You are one, by Your inconceivable potencies You have expanded Yourself in many forms. Through the agency of…
SB 4.17.33 My dear Lord, by Your own potencies You are the original cause of the material elements, the performing instruments (the senses), the…
SB 4.17.34 My dear Lord, You are always unborn. Once, in the form of the original boar, You rescued me from the waters in the bottom of the universe.…
SB 4.17.35 My dear Lord, in this way You once protected me by rescuing me from the water, and consequently Your name has been famous as Dharādhara —…
SB 4.17.36 My dear Lord, I am also the creation of one of Your energies, composed of the three modes of material nature. Consequently I am bewildered…
SB 4.18.1 The great saint Maitreya continued to address Vidura: My dear Vidura, at that time, after the planet earth finished her prayers, King…
SB 4.18.2 My dear Lord, please pacify your anger completely and hear patiently whatever I submit before you. Please turn your kind attention to…
SB 4.18.3 To benefit all human society, not only in this life but in the next, the great seers and sages have prescribed various methods conducive…
SB 4.18.4 One who follows the principles and instructions enjoined by the great sages of the past can utilize these instructions for practical…
SB 4.18.5 A foolish person who manufactures his own ways and means through mental speculation and does not recognize the authority of the sages who…
SB 4.18.6 My dear King, the seeds, roots, herbs and grains, which were created by Lord Brahmā in the past, are now being used by nondevotees, who…
SB 4.18.7 My dear King, not only are grains and herbs being used by nondevotees, but, as far as I am concerned, I am not being properly maintained.…
SB 4.18.8 Due to being stocked for a very long time, all the grain seeds within me have certainly deteriorated. Therefore you should immediately…
SB 4.18.9-10 O great hero, protector of living entities, if you desire to relieve the living entities by supplying them sufficient grain, and if you…
SB 4.18.11 My dear King, may I inform you that you have to make the entire surface of the globe level. This will help me, even when the rainy season…
SB 4.18.12 After hearing the auspicious and pleasing words of the planet earth, the King accepted them. He then transformed Svāyambhuva Manu into a…
SB 4.18.13 Others, who were as intelligent as King Pṛthu, also took the essence out of the earthly planet. Indeed, everyone took this opportunity to…
SB 4.18.14 All the great sages transformed Bṛhaspati into a calf, and making the senses into a pot, they milked all kinds of Vedic knowledge to…
SB 4.18.15 All the demigods made Indra, the King of heaven, into a calf, and from the earth they milked the beverage soma, which is nectar. Thus they…
SB 4.18.16 The sons of Diti and the demons transformed Prahlāda Mahārāja, who was born in an asura family, into a calf, and they extracted various…
SB 4.18.17 The inhabitants of Gandharvaloka and Apsaroloka made Viśvāvasu into a calf, and they drew the milk into a lotus-flower pot. The milk took…
SB 4.18.18 The fortunate inhabitants of Pitṛloka, who preside over the funeral ceremonies, made Aryamā into a calf. With great faith they milked…
SB 4.18.19 After this, the inhabitants of Siddhaloka, as well as the inhabitants of Vidyādhara-loka, transformed the great sage Kapila into a calf,…
SB 4.18.20 Others also, the inhabitants of planets known as Kimpuruṣa-loka, made the demon Maya into a calf, and they milked out mystic powers by…
SB 4.18.21 Then the Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, ghosts and witches, who are habituated to eating flesh, transformed Lord Śiva’s incarnation Rudra [Bhūtanātha]…
SB 4.18.22 Thereafter cobras and snakes without hoods, large snakes, scorpions and many other poisonous animals took poison out of the planet earth…
SB 4.18.23-24 The four-legged animals like the cows made a calf out of the bull who carries Lord Śiva and made a milking pot out of the forest. Thus…
SB 4.18.25 The trees made a calf out of the banyan tree, and thus they derived milk in the form of many delicious juices. The mountains transformed…
SB 4.18.26 The planet earth supplied everyone his respective food. During the time of King Pṛthu, the earth was fully under the control of the King.…
SB 4.18.27 My dear Vidura, chief of the Kurus, in this way King Pṛthu and all the others who subsist on food created different types of calves and…
SB 4.18.28 Thereafter King Pṛthu was very satisfied with the planet earth, for she sufficiently supplied all food to various living entities. Thus he…
SB 4.18.29 After this, the king of all kings, Mahārāja Pṛthu, leveled all rough places on the surface of the globe by breaking up the hills with the…
SB 4.18.30 To all the citizens of the state, King Pṛthu was as good as a father. Thus he was visibly engaged in giving them proper subsistence and…
SB 4.18.31 In this way the King founded many types of villages, settlements and towns and built forts, residences for cowherdsmen, stables for the…
SB 4.18.32 Before the reign of King Pṛthu there was no planned arrangement for different cities, villages, pasturing grounds, etc. Everything was…
SB 4.19.1 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, King Pṛthu initiated the performance of one hundred horse sacrifices at the spot where…
SB 4.19.2 When the most powerful Indra, the King of heaven, saw this, he considered the fact that King Pṛthu was going to exceed him in fruitive…
SB 4.19.3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, is present in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul, and He is the proprietor of all planets…
SB 4.19.4 When Lord Viṣṇu appeared in the sacrificial arena, Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and all the chief predominating personalities of every planet,…
SB 4.19.5 The Lord was accompanied by the residents of Siddhaloka and Vidyādhara-loka, all the descendants of Diti, and the demons and the Yakṣas.…
SB 4.19.6 Great devotees, who were always engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as well as the great sages named Kapila,…
SB 4.19.7 My dear Vidura, in that great sacrifice the entire land came to be like the milk-producing kāma-dhenu, and thus, by the performance of…
SB 4.19.8 The flowing rivers supplied all kinds of tastes — sweet, pungent, sour, etc. — and very big trees supplied fruit and honey in abundance.…
SB 4.19.9 King Pṛthu was presented with various gifts from the general populace and predominating deities of all planets. The oceans and seas were…
SB 4.19.10 King Pṛthu was dependent on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Adhokṣaja. Because King Pṛthu performed so many…
SB 4.19.11 When Pṛthu Mahārāja was performing the last horse sacrifice [aśvamedha-yajña], King Indra, invisible to everyone, stole the horse intended…
SB 4.19.12 When King Indra was taking away the horse, he dressed himself to appear as a liberated person. Actually this dress was a form of cheating,…
SB 4.19.13 When the son of King Pṛthu was informed by Atri of King Indra’s trick, he immediately became very angry and followed Indra to kill him,…
SB 4.19.14 King Indra was fraudulently dressed as a sannyāsī, having knotted his hair on his head and smeared ashes all over his body. Upon seeing…
SB 4.19.15 When Atri Muni saw that the son of King Pṛthu did not kill Indra but returned deceived by him, Atri Muni again instructed him to kill the…
SB 4.19.16 Being thus informed, the grandson of King Vena immediately began to follow Indra, who was fleeing through the sky in great haste. He was…
SB 4.19.17 When Indra saw that the son of Pṛthu was chasing him, he immediately abandoned his false dress and left the horse. Indeed, he disappeared…
SB 4.19.18 My dear Lord Vidura, when the great sages observed the wonderful prowess of the son of King Pṛthu, they all agreed to give him the name…
SB 4.19.19 My dear Vidura, Indra, being the King of heaven and very powerful, immediately brought a dense darkness upon the sacrificial arena.…
SB 4.19.20 The great sage Atri again pointed out to the son of King Pṛthu that Indra was fleeing through the sky. The great hero, the son of Pṛthu,…
SB 4.19.21 When the great sage Atri again gave directions, the son of King Pṛthu became very angry and placed an arrow on his bow. Upon seeing this,…
SB 4.19.22 Then the great hero, Vijitāśva, the son of King Pṛthu, again took the horse and returned to his father’s sacrificial arena. Since that…
SB 4.19.23 Whatever different forms Indra assumed as a mendicant because of his desire to seize the horse were symbols of atheistic philosophy.
SB 4.19.24-25 In this way King Indra, in order to steal the horse from King Pṛthu’s sacrifice, adopted several orders of sannyāsa. Some sannyāsīs go…
SB 4.19.26 Mahārāja Pṛthu, who was celebrated as very powerful, immediately took up his bow and arrows and prepared to kill Indra himself, because…
SB 4.19.27 When the priests and all the others saw Mahārāja Pṛthu very angry and prepared to kill Indra, they requested him: O great soul, do not…
SB 4.19.28 Dear King, Indra’s powers are already reduced due to his attempt to impede the execution of your sacrifice. We shall call him by Vedic…
SB 4.19.29 My dear Vidura, after giving the King this advice, the priests who had been engaged in performing the sacrifice called for Indra, the King…
SB 4.19.30 Lord Brahmā addressed them thus: My dear sacrificial performers, you cannot kill Indra, the King of heaven. It is not your duty. You…
SB 4.19.31 In order to make trouble and impede the performance of King Pṛthu’s great sacrifice, King Indra has adopted some means that in the future…
SB 4.19.32 “Let there be only ninety-nine sacrificial performances for Mahārāja Pṛthu,” Lord Brahmā concluded. Lord Brahmā then turned towards…
SB 4.19.33 Lord Brahmā continued: Let there be good fortune to both of you, for you and King Indra are both part and parcel of the Supreme…
SB 4.19.34 My dear King, do not be agitated and anxious because your sacrifices have not been properly executed due to providential impediments.…
SB 4.19.35 Lord Brahmā continued: Stop the performance of these sacrifices, for they have induced Indra to introduce so many irreligious aspects. You…
SB 4.19.36 Just see how Indra, the King of heaven, was creating a disturbance in the midst of the sacrifice by stealing the sacrificial horse. These…
SB 4.19.37 O King Pṛthu, son of Vena, you are the part-and-parcel expansion of Lord Viṣṇu. Due to the mischievous activities of King Vena, religious…
SB 4.19.38 O protector of the people in general, please consider the purpose of your being incarnated by Lord Viṣṇu. The irreligious principles…
SB 4.19.39 The great sage Maitreya continued: When King Pṛthu was thus advised by the supreme teacher, Lord Brahmā, he abandoned his eagerness to…
SB 4.19.40 After this, Pṛthu Mahārāja took his bath, which is customarily taken after the performance of a yajña, and received the benedictions and…
SB 4.19.41 With great respect, the original king, Pṛthu, offered all kinds of rewards to the brāhmaṇas present at the sacrifice. Since all these…
SB 4.19.42 All the great sages and brāhmaṇas said: O mighty King, by your invitation all classes of living entities have attended this assembly. They…
SB 4.20.1 The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, being very much satisfied by the performance of ninety-nine horse sacrifices, the…
SB 6.4.3 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O great sages [assembled at Naimiṣāraṇya], after the great yogi Śukadeva Gosvāmī heard King Parīkṣit’s inquiry, he…
SB 6.14.8 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: After hearing Mahārāja Parīkṣit’s very intelligent question, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the most powerful sage, began…
SB 6.18.22 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: O great sage Śaunaka, after hearing Mahārāja Parīkṣit speak respectfully and briefly on topics essential to hear,…
SB 8.1.33 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: O brāhmaṇas, when Parīkṣit Mahārāja, who was awaiting impending death, thus requested Śukadeva Gosvāmī to speak,…
SB 8.5.14 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: O learned brāhmaṇas assembled here at Naimiṣāraṇya, when Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Dvaipāyana, was thus…
SB 8.24.4 Sūta Gosvāmī said: When Parīkṣit Mahārāja thus inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī, that most powerful saintly person began describing the…
SB 9.1.6 Sūta Gosvāmī said: When Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the greatest knower of religious principles, was thus requested by Mahārāja Parīkṣit in the…
SB 9.1.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, subduer of your enemies, now hear from me in great detail about the dynasty of Manu. I shall explain…
SB 9.1.8 The transcendental Supreme Person, the Supersoul of all living entities, who are in different statuses of life, high and low, existed at…
SB 9.1.9 O King Parīkṣit, from the navel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead was generated a golden lotus, on which the four-faced Lord Brahmā…
SB 9.1.10 From the mind of Lord Brahmā, Marīci took birth, from the semen of Marīci, Kaśyapa appeared, and from Kaśyapa, by the womb of Dakṣa’s…
SB 9.1.11-12 O King, best of the Bhārata dynasty, from Vivasvān, by the womb of Saṁjñā, Śrāddhadeva Manu was born. Śrāddhadeva Manu, having conquered…
SB 9.1.13 Manu at first had no sons. Therefore, in order to get a son for him, the great saint Vasiṣṭha, who was very powerful in spiritual…
SB 9.1.14 During that sacrifice, Śraddhā, Manu’s wife, who was observing the vow of subsisting only by drinking milk, approached the priest offering…
SB 9.1.15 Told by the chief priest “Now offer oblations,” the person in charge of oblations took clarified butter to offer. He then remembered the…
SB 9.1.16 Manu had begun that sacrifice for the sake of getting a son, but because the priest was diverted by the request of Manu’s wife, a daughter…
SB 9.1.17 My lord, all of you are expert in chanting the Vedic mantras. How then has the result been opposite to the one desired? This is a matter…
SB 9.1.18 You are all self-controlled, well balanced in mind, and aware of the Absolute Truth. And because of austerities and penances you are…
SB 9.1.19 The most powerful great-grandfather Vasiṣṭha, after hearing these words of Manu, understood the discrepancy on the part of the priest.…
SB 9.1.20 This discrepancy in the objective is due to your priest’s deviation from the original purpose. However, by my own prowess I shall give you…
SB 10.1.14 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O son of Bhṛgu, after Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the most respectable devotee, the son of Vyāsadeva, heard the pious questions…
SB 10.12.40 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: O learned saints, the childhood pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa are very wonderful. Mahārāja Parīkṣit, after hearing about…
SB 10.12.41 Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired: O great sage, how could things done in the past have been described as being done at the present? Lord Śrī…
SB 10.12.42 O greatest yogī, my spiritual master, kindly describe why this happened. I am very much curious to know about it. I think that it was…
SB 10.12.43 O my lord, my spiritual master, although we are the lowest of kṣatriyas, we are glorified and benefited because we have the opportunity of…
SB 10.12.44 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O Śaunaka, greatest of saints and devotees, when Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī in this way, Śukadeva…
SB 10.80.5 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus questioned by King Viṣṇurāta, the powerful sage Bādarāyaṇi replied, his heart fully absorbed in meditation on the…
SB 10.85.59 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: This pastime enacted by Lord Murāri, whose fame is eternal, totally destroys the sins of the universe and serves as…
SB 10.89.20 Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus did this fragrant nectar flow from the lotus mouth of Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of the sage Vyāsadeva. This…
SB 12.6.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: After hearing all that was narrated to him by the self-realized and equipoised Śukadeva, the son of Vyāsadeva, Mahārāja…
SB 12.6.8 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus requested, the saintly son of Śrīla Vyāsadeva gave his permission to King Parīkṣit. Then, after being worshiped by…
SB 12.6.9-10 Mahārāja Parīkṣit then sat down on the bank of the Ganges, upon a seat made of darbha grass with the tips of its stalks facing east, and…
SB 12.6.11 O learned brāhmaṇas, the snake-bird Takṣaka, who had been sent by the angry son of a brāhmaṇa, was going toward the King to kill him when…
SB 12.6.12 Takṣaka flattered Kaśyapa by presenting him with valuable offerings and thereby stopped the sage, who was expert in counteracting poison,…
SB 12.6.13 While living beings all over the universe looked on, the body of the great self-realized saint among kings was immediately burned to ashes…
SB 12.6.14 There arose a terrible cry of lamentation in all directions on the earth and in the heavens, and all the demigods, demons, human beings…
SB 12.6.15 Kettledrums sounded in the regions of the demigods, and the celestial Gandharvas and Apsarās sang. The demigods showered flowers and spoke…
SB 12.6.16 Hearing that his father had been fatally bitten by the snake-bird, Mahārāja Janamejaya became extremely angry and had brāhmaṇas perform a…
SB 12.6.17 When Takṣaka saw even the most powerful serpents being burned in the blazing fire of that snake sacrifice, he was overwhelmed with fear…
SB 12.6.18 When King Janamejaya did not see Takṣaka entering his sacrificial fire, he said to the brāhmaṇas : Why is not Takṣaka, the lowest of all…
SB 12.6.19 The brāhmaṇas replied: O best of kings, the snake Takṣaka has not fallen into the fire because he is being protected by Indra, whom he has…
SB 12.6.20 The intelligent King Janamejaya, hearing these words, replied to the priests: Then, my dear brāhmaṇas, why not make Takṣaka fall into the…
SB 12.6.21 Hearing this, the priests then chanted this mantra for offering Takṣaka together with Indra as an oblation into the sacrificial fire: O…
SB 12.6.22 When Lord Indra, along with his airplane and Takṣaka, was suddenly thrown from his position by these insulting words of the brāhmaṇas, he…
SB 12.6.23 Bṛhaspati, the son of Aṅgirā Muni, seeing Indra falling from the sky in his airplane along with Takṣaka, approached King Janamejaya and…
SB 12.6.24 O King among men, it is not fitting that this king of snakes meet death at your hands, for he has drunk the nectar of the immortal…
SB 12.6.25 The life and death of an embodied soul and his destination in the next life are all caused by himself through his own activity. Therefore,…
SB 12.6.26 When a conditioned soul is killed by snakes, thieves, fire, lightning, hunger, disease or anything else, he is experiencing the reaction…
SB 12.6.27 Therefore, my dear King, please stop this sacrificial performance, which was initiated with the intent of doing harm to others. Many…
SB 12.6.28 Sūta Gosvāmī continued: Advised in this manner, Mahārāja Janamejaya replied, “So be it.” Honoring the words of the great sage, he desisted…
SB 12.6.29 This is indeed the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu’s illusory energy, which is unstoppable and difficult to perceive. Although the individual spirit…
SB 12.6.30-31 But there exists a supreme reality, in which the illusory energy cannot fearlessly dominate, thinking, “I can control this person because…
SB 12.6.32 Those who desire to give up all that is not essentially real move systematically, by negative discrimination of the extraneous, to the…
SB 12.6.33 Such devotees come to understand the supreme transcendental situation of the Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, because they are no…
SB 12.6.34 One should tolerate all insults and never fail to show proper respect to any person. Avoiding identification with the material body, one…
SB 12.6.35 I offer my obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the invincible Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Simply by meditating upon His lotus feet I…
SB 12.6.37 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O brāhmaṇa, first the subtle vibration of transcendental sound appeared from the sky of the heart of the most elevated…
SB 12.6.38 By worship of this subtle form of the Vedas, O brāhmaṇa, mystic sages cleanse their hearts of all contamination caused by impurity of…
SB 12.6.39 From that transcendental subtle vibration arose the oṁkāra composed of three sounds. The oṁkāra has unseen potencies and manifests…
SB 12.6.40-41 This oṁkāra, ultimately nonmaterial and imperceptible, is heard by the Supersoul without His possessing material ears or any other…
SB 12.6.42 Oṁkāra exhibited the three original sounds of the alphabet — A, U and M. These three, O most eminent descendant of Bhṛgu, sustain all the…
SB 12.6.43 From that oṁkāra Lord Brahmā created all the sounds of the alphabet — the vowels, consonants, semivowels, sibilants and others —…
SB 12.6.44 All-powerful Brahmā made use of this collection of sounds to produce from his four faces the four Vedas, which appeared together with the…
SB 12.6.45 Brahmā taught these Vedas to his sons, who were great sages among the brāhmaṇas and experts in the art of Vedic recitation. They in turn…
SB 12.6.46 In this way, throughout the cycles of four ages, generation after generation of disciples — all firmly fixed in their spiritual vows —…
SB 12.6.47 Observing that people in general were diminished in their life span, strength and intelligence by the influence of time, great sages took…
SB 12.6.48-49 O brāhmaṇa, in the present age of Vaivasvata Manu, the leaders of the universe, led by Brahmā and Śiva, requested the Supreme Personality…
SB 12.6.50 Śrīla Vyāsadeva separated the mantras of the Ṛg, Atharva, Yajur and Sāma Vedas into four divisions, just as one sorts out a mixed…
SB 12.6.51 The most powerful and intelligent Vyāsadeva called four of his disciples, O brāhmaṇa, and entrusted to each of them one of these four…
SB 12.6.52-53 Śrīla Vyāsadeva taught the first saṁhitā, the Ṛg Veda, to Paila and gave this collection the name Bahvṛca. To the sage Vaiśampāyana he…
SB 12.6.54-56 After dividing his saṁhitā into two parts, the wise Paila spoke it to Indrapramiti and Bāṣkala. Bāṣkala further divided his collection…
SB 12.6.57 The son of Māṇḍūkeya, named Śākalya, divided his own collection into five, entrusting one subdivision each to Vātsya, Mudgala, Śālīya,…
SB 12.6.58 The sage Jātūkarṇya was also a disciple of Śākalya, and after dividing the saṁhitā he received from Śākalya into three parts, he added a…
SB 12.6.59 Bāṣkali assembled the Vālakhilya-saṁhitā, a collection from all the branches of the Ṛg Veda. This collection was received by Vālāyani,…
SB 12.6.60 Thus these various saṁhitās of the Ṛg Veda were maintained through disciplic succession by these saintly brāhmaṇas. Simply by hearing of…
SB 12.6.61 The disciples of Vaiśampāyana became authorities in the Atharva Veda. They were known as the Carakas because they executed strict vows to…
SB 12.6.62 Once Yājñavalkya, one of the disciples of Vaiśampāyana, said: O master, how much benefit will be derived from the feeble endeavors of…
SB 12.6.63 Addressed thus, the spiritual master Vaiśampāyana became angry and said: Go away from here! Enough of you, O disciple who insults…
SB 12.6.64-65 Yājñavalkya, the son of Devarāta, then vomited the mantras of the Yajur Veda and went away from there. The assembled disciples, looking…
SB 12.6.66 My dear brāhmaṇa Śaunaka, Yājñavalkya then desired to find out new yajur-mantras unknown to even his spiritual master. With this in mind…
SB 12.6.67 Śrī Yājñavalkya said: I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead appearing as the sun. You are present as the…
SB 12.6.68 O glowing one, O powerful lord of the sun, you are the chief of all the demigods. I meditate with careful attention on your fiery globe,…
SB 12.6.69 You are personally present as the indwelling lord in the hearts of all moving and nonmoving beings, who depend completely on your shelter.…
SB 12.6.70 The world has been seized and swallowed by the python of darkness in its horrible mouth and has become unconscious, as if dead. But…
SB 12.6.71 Just like an earthly king, you travel about everywhere spreading fear among the unholy as the powerful deities of the directions offer you…
SB 12.6.72 Therefore, my lord, I am prayerfully approaching your lotus feet, which are honored by the spiritual masters of the three worlds, because…
SB 12.6.73 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Satisfied by such glorification, the powerful sun-god assumed the form of a horse and presented to the sage Yājñavalkya…
SB 12.6.74 From these countless hundreds of mantras of the Yajur Veda, the powerful sage compiled fifteen new branches of Vedic literature. These…
SB 12.6.75 Jaimini Ṛṣi, the authority of the Sāma Veda, had a son named Sumantu, and the son of Sumantu was Sutvān. The sage Jaimini spoke to each of…
SB 12.6.76-77 Sukarmā, another disciple of Jaimini, was a great scholar. He divided the mighty tree of the Sāma Veda into one thousand saṁhitās. Then, O…
SB 12.6.78 The five hundred disciples of Pauṣyañji and Āvantya became known as the northern singers of the Sāma Veda, and in later times some of them…
SB 12.6.79 Five other disciples of Pauṣyañji, namely Laugākṣi, Māṅgali, Kulya, Kuśīda and Kukṣi, each received one hundred saṁhitās.
SB 12.6.80 Kṛta, the disciple of Hiraṇyanābha, spoke twenty-four saṁhitās to his own disciples, and the remaining collections were passed down by the…
SB 12.7.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Sumantu Ṛṣi, the authority on the Atharva Veda, taught his saṁhitā to his disciple Kabandha, who in turn spoke it to…
SB 12.7.2 Śauklāyani, Brahmabali, Modoṣa and Pippalāyani were disciples of Vedadarśa. Hear from me also the names of the disciples of Pathya. My…
SB 12.7.3 Babhru and Saindhavāyana, disciples of Śunaka, studied the two divisions of their spiritual master’s compilation of the Atharva Veda.…
SB 12.7.4 Nakṣatrakalpa, Śāntikalpa, Kaśyapa, Āṅgirasa and others were also among the ācāryas of the Atharva Veda. Now, O sage, listen as I name the…
SB 12.7.5 Trayyāruṇi, Kaśyapa, Sāvarṇi, Akṛtavraṇa, Vaiśampāyana and Hārīta are the six masters of the Purāṇas.
SB 12.7.6 Each of them studied one of the six anthologies of the Purāṇas from my father, Romaharṣaṇa, who was a disciple of Śrīla Vyāsadeva. I…
SB 12.7.7 Romaharṣaṇa, a disciple of Vedavyāsa, divided the Purāṇas into four basic compilations. The sage Kaśyapa and I, along with Sāvarṇi and…
SB 12.7.8 O Śaunaka, please hear with attention the characteristics of a Purāṇa, which have been defined by the most eminent learned brāhmaṇas in…
SB 12.7.9-10 O brāhmaṇa, authorities on the matter understand a Purāṇa to contain ten characteristic topics: the creation of this universe, the…
SB 12.7.11 From the agitation of the original modes within the unmanifest material nature, the mahat-tattva arises. From the mahat-tattva comes the…
SB 12.7.12 The secondary creation, which exists by the mercy of the Lord, is the manifest amalgamation of the desires of the living entities. Just as…
SB 12.7.13 Vṛtti means the process of sustenance, by which the moving beings live upon the nonmoving. For a human, vṛtti specifically means acting…
SB 12.7.14 In each age, the infallible Lord appears in this world among the animals, human beings, sages and demigods. By His activities in these…
SB 12.7.15 In each reign of Manu, six types of personalities appear as manifestations of Lord Hari: the ruling Manu, the chief demigods, the sons of…
SB 12.7.16 Dynasties are lines of kings originating with Lord Brahmā and extending continuously through past, present and future. The accounts of…
SB 12.7.17 There are four types of cosmic annihilation — occasional, elemental, continuous and ultimate — all of which are effected by the inherent…
SB 12.7.18 Out of ignorance the living being performs material activities and thereby becomes in one sense the cause of the creation, maintenance and…
SB 12.7.19 The Supreme Absolute Truth is present throughout all the stages of awareness — waking consciousness, sleep and deep sleep — throughout all…
SB 12.7.20 Although a material object may assume various forms and names, its essential ingredient is always present as the basis of its existence.…
SB 12.7.21 Either automatically or because of one’s regulated spiritual practice, one’s mind may stop functioning on the material platform of waking…
SB 12.7.22 Sages expert in ancient histories have declared that the Purāṇas, according to their various characteristics, can be divided into eighteen…
SB 12.7.23-24 The eighteen major Purāṇas are the Brahma, Padma, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Liṅga, Garuḍa, Nārada, Bhāgavata, Agni, Skanda, Bhaviṣya, Brahma-vaivarta,…
SB 12.7.25 I have thoroughly described to you, O brāhmaṇa, the expansion of the branches of the Vedas by the great sage Vyāsadeva, his disciples and…
SB 12.8.6 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O great sage Śaunaka, your very question will help remove everyone’s illusion, for it leads to the topics of Lord…
SB 12.8.7-11 After being purified by his father’s performance of the prescribed rituals leading to Mārkaṇḍeya’s brahminical initiation, Mārkaṇḍeya…
SB 12.8.12 Lord Brahmā, Bhṛgu Muni, Lord Śiva, Prajāpati Dakṣa, the great sons of Brahmā, and many others among the human beings, demigods,…
SB 12.8.13 In this way the devotional mystic Mārkaṇḍeya maintained rigid celibacy through penance, study of the Vedas and self-discipline. With his…
SB 12.8.14 While the mystic sage thus concentrated his mind by powerful yoga practice, the tremendous period of six lifetimes of Manu passed by.
SB 12.8.15 O brāhmaṇa, during the seventh reign of Manu, the current age, Lord Indra came to know of Mārkaṇḍeya’s austerities and became fearful of…
SB 12.8.16 To ruin the sage’s spiritual practice, Lord Indra sent Cupid, beautiful celestial singers, dancing girls, the season of spring and the…
SB 12.8.17 O most powerful Śaunaka, they went to Mārkaṇḍeya’s hermitage, on the northern side of the Himālaya Mountains where the Puṣpabhadrā River…
SB 12.8.18-20 Groves of pious trees decorated the holy āśrama of Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi, and many saintly brāhmaṇas lived there, enjoying the abundant pure,…
SB 12.8.21 Springtime then appeared in Mārkaṇḍeya’s āśrama. Indeed, the evening sky, glowing with the light of the rising moon, became the very face…
SB 12.8.22 Cupid, the master of many heavenly women, then came there holding his bow and arrows. He was followed by groups of Gandharvas playing…
SB 12.8.23 These servants of Indra found the sage sitting in meditation, having just offered his prescribed oblations into the sacrificial fire. His…
SB 12.8.24 The women danced before the sage, and the celestial singers sang to the charming accompaniment of drums, cymbals and vīṇās.
SB 12.8.25 While the son of passion [greed personified], spring and the other servants of Indra all tried to agitate Mārkaṇḍeya’s mind, Cupid drew…
SB 12.8.26-27 The Apsarā Puñjikasthalī made a show of playing with a number of toy balls. Her waist seemed weighed down by her heavy breasts, and the…
SB 12.8.28 Cupid, thinking he had conquered the sage, then shot his arrow. But all these attempts to seduce Mārkaṇḍeya proved futile, just like the…
SB 12.8.29 O learned Śaunaka, while Cupid and his followers tried to harm the sage, they felt themselves being burned alive by his potency. Thus they…
SB 12.8.30 O brāhmaṇa, the followers of Lord Indra had impudently attacked the saintly Mārkaṇḍeya, yet he did not succumb to any influence of false…
SB 12.8.31 The mighty King Indra was most astonished when he heard of the mystic prowess of the exalted sage Mārkaṇḍeya and saw how Cupid and his…
SB 12.8.32 Desiring to bestow His mercy upon the saintly Mārkaṇḍeya, who had perfectly fixed his mind in self-realization through penance, Vedic…
SB 12.8.33-34 One of Them was of a whitish complexion, the other blackish, and They both had four arms. Their eyes resembled the petals of blooming…
SB 12.8.35 These two sages, Nara and Nārāyaṇa, were the direct personal forms of the Supreme Lord. When Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi saw Them, he immediately stood…
SB 12.8.36 The ecstasy of seeing Them completely satisfied Mārkaṇḍeya’s body, mind and senses and caused the hairs on his body to stand on end and…
SB 12.8.37 Standing with his hands folded in supplication and his head bowed in humility, Mārkaṇḍeya felt such eagerness that he imagined he was…
SB 12.8.38 He gave Them sitting places and washed Their feet, and then he worshiped Them with presentations of arghya, sandalwood pulp, fragrant…
SB 12.8.39 Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi once again bowed down at the lotus feet of those two most worshipable sages, who were sitting at ease, ready to bestow all…
SB 12.8.40 Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: O Almighty Lord, how can I possibly describe You? You awaken the vital air, which then impels the mind, senses and…
SB 12.8.41 O Supreme Personality of Godhead, these two personal forms of Yours have appeared to bestow the ultimate benefit for the three worlds —…
SB 12.8.42 Because You are the protector and the supreme controller of all moving and nonmoving beings, anyone who takes shelter of Your lotus feet…
SB 12.8.43 My dear Lord, even Lord Brahmā, who enjoys his exalted position for the entire duration of the universe, fears the passage of time. Then…
SB 12.8.44 Therefore I worship Your lotus feet, having renounced my identification with the material body and everything else that covers my true…
SB 12.8.45 O my Lord, O supreme friend of the conditioned soul, although for the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this world You accept the…
SB 12.8.46 O Lord, because fearlessness, spiritual happiness and the kingdom of God are all achieved through the mode of pure goodness, Your devotees…
SB 12.8.47 I offer my humble obeisances to Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the all-pervading and all-inclusive form of the universe,…
SB 12.8.48 A materialist, his intelligence perverted by the action of his deceptive senses, cannot recognize You at all, although You are always…
SB 12.8.49 My dear Lord, the Vedic literatures alone reveal confidential knowledge of Your supreme personality, and thus even such great scholars as…
SB 12.9.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: The Supreme Lord Nārāyaṇa, the friend of Nara, was satisfied by the proper glorification offered by the intelligent…
SB 12.9.7 Sūta Gosvāmī said: O wise Śaunaka, thus satisfied by Mārkaṇḍeya’s praise and worship, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, smiling,…
SB 12.9.8-9 Thinking always of his desire to see the Lord’s illusory energy, the sage remained in his āśrama, meditating constantly upon the Lord…
SB 12.9.10 O brāhmaṇa Śaunaka, best of the Bhṛgus, one day while Mārkaṇḍeya was performing his evening worship on the bank of the Puṣpabhadrā, a…
SB 12.9.11 That wind created a terrible sound and brought in its wake fearsome clouds that were accompanied by lightning and roaring thunder and that…
SB 12.9.12 Then the four great oceans appeared on all sides, swallowing up the surface of the earth with their wind-tossed waves. In these oceans…
SB 12.9.13 The sage saw all the inhabitants of the universe, including himself, tormented within and without by the harsh winds, the bolts of…
SB 12.9.14 Even as Mārkaṇḍeya looked on, the rain pouring down from the clouds filled the ocean more and more until that great sea, its waters…
SB 12.9.15 The water inundated the earth, outer space, heaven and the celestial region. Indeed, the entire expanse of the universe was flooded in all…
SB 12.9.16 Tormented by hunger and thirst, attacked by monstrous makaras and timiṅgila fish and battered by the wind and waves, he moved aimlessly…
SB 12.9.17-18 At times he was engulfed by the great whirlpools, sometimes he was beaten by the mighty waves, and at other times the aquatic monsters…
SB 12.9.19 Countless millions of years passed as Mārkaṇḍeya wandered about in that deluge, his mind bewildered by the illusory energy of Lord Viṣṇu,…
SB 12.9.20 Once, while wandering in the water, the brāhmaṇa Mārkaṇḍeya discovered a small island, upon which stood a young banyan tree bearing…
SB 12.9.21 Upon a branch of the northeast portion of that tree he saw an infant boy lying within a leaf. The child’s effulgence was swallowing up the…
SB 12.9.22-25 The infant’s dark-blue complexion was the color of a flawless emerald, His lotus face shone with a wealth of beauty, and His throat bore…
SB 12.9.26 As Mārkaṇḍeya beheld the child, all his weariness vanished. Indeed, so great was his pleasure that the lotus of his heart, along with his…
SB 12.9.27 Just then the child inhaled, drawing Mārkaṇḍeya within His body like a mosquito. There the sage found the entire universe arrayed as it…
SB 12.9.28-29 The sage saw the entire universe: the sky, heavens and earth, the stars, mountains, oceans, great islands and continents, the expanses in…
SB 12.9.30 He saw before him the Himālaya Mountains, the Puṣpabhadrā River, and his own hermitage, where he had had the audience of the sages…
SB 12.9.31-32 In that vast sea he again saw the banyan tree growing on the tiny island and the infant boy lying within the leaf. The child glanced at…
SB 12.9.33 At that moment the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the original master of all mysticism and who is hidden within everyone’s heart,…
SB 12.9.34 After the Lord disappeared, O brāhmaṇa, the banyan tree, the great water and the dissolution of the universe all vanished as well, and in…
SB 12.10.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: The Supreme Lord Nārāyaṇa had arranged this opulent display of His bewildering potency. Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi, having…
SB 12.10.2 Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: O Lord Hari, I take shelter of the soles of Your lotus feet, which bestow fearlessness upon all who surrender to…
SB 12.10.3 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Lord Rudra, traveling in the sky on his bull and accompanied by his consort, Rudrāṇī, as well as his personal…
SB 12.10.4 Goddess Umā, seeing the sage, addressed Lord Giriśa: My lord, just see this learned brāhmaṇa, his body, mind and senses motionless in…
SB 12.10.5 He is as calm as the waters of the ocean when the wind has ceased and the fish remain still. Therefore, my lord, since you bestow…
SB 12.10.6 Lord Śiva replied: Surely this saintly brāhmaṇa does not desire any benediction, not even liberation itself, for he has attained pure…
SB 12.10.7 Still, my dear Bhavānī, let us talk with this saintly personality. After all, association with saintly devotees is man’s highest…
SB 12.10.8 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Having spoken thus, Lord Śaṅkara — the shelter of pure souls, master of all spiritual sciences and controller of all…
SB 12.10.9 Because Mārkaṇḍeya’s material mind had stopped functioning, the sage failed to notice that Lord Śiva and his wife, the controllers of the…
SB 12.10.10 Understanding the situation very well, the powerful Lord Śiva employed his mystic power to enter within the sky of Mārkaṇḍeya’s heart,…
SB 12.10.11-13 Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya saw Lord Śiva suddenly appear within his heart. Lord Śiva’s golden hair resembled lightning, and he had three eyes, ten…
SB 12.10.14 Opening his eyes, the sage saw Lord Rudra, the spiritual master of the three worlds, together with Umā and Rudra’s followers. Mārkaṇḍeya…
SB 12.10.15 Mārkaṇḍeya worshiped Lord Śiva, along with Umā and Śiva’s associates, by offering them words of welcome, sitting places, water for washing…
SB 12.10.16 Mārkaṇḍeya said: O mighty lord, what can I possibly do for you, who are fully satisfied by your own ecstasy? Indeed, by your mercy you…
SB 12.10.17 Again and again I offer my obeisances unto you, O all-auspicious transcendental personality. As the lord of goodness you give pleasure, in…
SB 12.10.18 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Lord Śiva, the foremost demigod and the shelter of the saintly devotees, was satisfied by Mārkaṇḍeya’s praise. Pleased,…
SB 12.10.19 Lord Śiva said: Please ask me for some benediction, since among all givers of benedictions, we three — Brahmā, Viṣṇu and I — are the best.…
SB 12.10.20-21 The inhabitants and ruling demigods of all planets, along with Lord Brahmā, the Supreme Lord Hari and I, glorify, worship and assist those…
SB 12.10.22 These devotees do not differentiate between Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Brahmā and me, nor do they differentiate between themselves and other living…
SB 12.10.23 Mere bodies of water do not constitute holy places, nor are lifeless statues of the demigods actual worshipable deities. Because external…
SB 12.10.24 By meditating upon the Supreme Soul, performing austerities, engaging in Vedic study and following regulative principles, the brāhmaṇas…
SB 12.10.25 Even the worst sinners and social outcastes are purified just by hearing about or seeing personalities like you. Imagine, then, how…
SB 12.10.26 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Drinking with his ears Lord Śiva’s nectarean words, full of the confidential essence of religion, Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi could…
SB 12.10.27 Mārkaṇḍeya, having been forced by Lord Viṣṇu’s illusory energy to wander about for a long time in the water of dissolution, had become…
SB 12.10.28 Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: It is indeed most difficult for embodied souls to understand the pastimes of the universal controllers, for such…
SB 12.10.29 Generally it is to induce embodied souls to accept religious principles that the authorized teachers of religion exhibit ideal behavior…
SB 12.10.30 This apparent humility is simply a show of mercy. Such behavior of the Supreme Lord and His personal associates, which the Lord effects by…
SB 12.10.31-32 I offer my obeisances to that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has created this entire universe simply by His desire and then entered…
SB 12.10.33 O all-pervading lord, since I have received the benediction of seeing you, what other benediction can I ask for? Simply by seeing you, a…
SB 12.10.34 But I do request one benediction from you, who are full of all perfection and able to shower down the fulfillment of all desires. I ask to…
SB 12.10.35 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus worshiped and glorified by the eloquent statements of the sage Mārkaṇḍeya, Lord Śarva [Śiva], encouraged by his…
SB 12.10.36 O great sage, because you are devoted to Lord Adhokṣaja, all your desires will be fulfilled. Until the very end of this creation cycle,…
SB 12.10.37 O brāhmaṇa, may you have perfect knowledge of past, present and future, along with transcendental realization of the Supreme, enriched by…
SB 12.10.38 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Having thus granted Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi benedictions, Lord Śiva went on his way, continuing to describe to goddess Devī the…
SB 12.10.39 Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi, the best of the descendants of Bhṛgu, is glorious because of his achievement of perfection in mystic yoga. Even today he…
SB 12.10.40 I have thus narrated to you the activities of the highly intelligent sage Mārkaṇḍeya, especially how he experienced the amazing power of…
SB 12.10.41 Although this event was unique and unprecedented, some unintelligent persons compare it to the cycle of illusory material existence the…
SB 12.10.42 O best of the Bhṛgus, this account concerning Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi conveys the transcendental potency of the Supreme Lord. Anyone who properly…
SB 12.11.4 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Offering obeisances to my spiritual masters, I shall repeat to you the description of the opulences of Lord Viṣṇu given…
SB 12.11.5 The universal form [virāṭ] of the Personality of Godhead includes the nine basic elements of creation, starting with the unmanifest…
SB 12.11.6-8 This is the representation of the Supreme Lord as the universal person, in which the earth is His feet, the sky His navel, the sun His…
SB 12.11.9 Just as one can determine the dimensions of an ordinary person of this world by measuring his various limbs, one can determine the…
SB 12.11.10 Upon His chest the almighty, unborn Personality of Godhead bears the Kaustubha gem, which represents the pure spirit soul, along with the…
SB 12.11.11-12 His flower garland is His material energy, comprising various combinations of the modes of nature. His yellow garment is the Vedic meters,…
SB 12.11.13 Ananta, the Lord’s sitting place, is the unmanifest phase of material nature, and the Lord’s lotus throne is the mode of goodness, endowed…
SB 12.11.14-15 The club the Lord carries is the chief element, prāṇa, incorporating the potencies of sensory, mental and physical strength. His excellent…
SB 12.11.16 His arrows are said to be the senses, and His chariot is the active, forceful mind. His external appearance is the subtle objects of…
SB 12.11.17 The sun globe is the place where the Supreme Lord is worshiped, spiritual initiation is the means of purification for the spirit soul, and…
SB 12.11.18 Playfully carrying a lotus, which represents the various opulences designated by the word bhaga, the Supreme Lord accepts service from a…
SB 12.11.19 O brāhmaṇas, the Lord’s umbrella is His spiritual abode, Vaikuṇṭha, where there is no fear, and Garuḍa, who carries the Lord of sacrifice,…
SB 12.11.20 The goddess of fortune, Śrī, who never leaves the Lord’s side, appears with Him in this world as the representation of His internal…
SB 12.11.21 Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are the names of the direct personal expansions of the Supreme Godhead, O brāhmaṇa Śaunaka.
SB 12.11.22 One can conceive of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in terms of awakened consciousness, sleep and deep sleep — which function…
SB 12.11.23 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Hari, thus appears in four personal expansions, each exhibiting major limbs, minor limbs, weapons…
SB 12.11.24 O best of brāhmaṇas, He alone is the self-luminous, original source of the Vedas, perfect and complete in His own glory. By His material…
SB 12.11.25 O Kṛṣṇa, O friend of Arjuna, O chief among the descendants of Vṛṣṇi, You are the destroyer of those political parties that are disturbing…
SB 12.11.26 Anyone who rises early in the morning and, with a purified mind fixed upon the Mahāpuruṣa, quietly chants this description of His…
SB 12.11.29 Sūta Gosvāmī said: The sun travels among all the planets and thus regulates their movements. It has been created by Lord Viṣṇu, the…
SB 12.11.30 The sun-god, being nondifferent from Lord Hari, is the one soul of all the worlds and their original creator. He is the source of all the…
SB 12.11.31 Being the source of the material energy, the Personality of Godhead Lord Hari in His expansion as the sun-god is described in nine…
SB 12.11.32 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, manifesting His potency of time as the sun-god, travels about in each of the twelve months, beginning…
SB 12.11.33 My dear sage, Dhātā as the sun-god, Kṛtasthalī as the Apsarā, Heti as the Rākṣasa, Vāsuki as the Nāga, Rathakṛt as the Yakṣa, Pulastya as…
SB 12.11.34 Aryamā as the sun-god, Pulaha as the sage, Athaujā as the Yakṣa, Praheti as the Rākṣasa, Puñjikasthalī as the Apsarā, Nārada as the…
SB 12.11.35 Mitra as the sun-god, Atri as the sage, Pauruṣeya as the Rākṣasa, Takṣaka as the Nāga, Menakā as the Apsarā, Hāhā as the Gandharva and…
SB 12.11.36 Vasiṣṭha as the sage, Varuṇa as the sun-god, Rambhā as the Apsarā, Sahajanya as the Rākṣasa, Hūhū as the Gandharva, Śukra as the Nāga and…
SB 12.11.37 Indra as the sun-god, Viśvāvasu as the Gandharva, Śrotā as the Yakṣa, Elāpatra as the Nāga, Aṅgirā as the sage, Pramlocā as the Apsarā and…
SB 12.11.38 Vivasvān as the sun-god, Ugrasena as the Gandharva, Vyāghra as the Rākṣasa, Āsāraṇa as the Yakṣa, Bhṛgu as the sage, Anumlocā as the…
SB 12.11.39 Pūṣā as the sun-god, Dhanañjaya as the Nāga, Vāta as the Rākṣasa, Suṣeṇa as the Gandharva, Suruci as the Yakṣa, Ghṛtācī as the Apsarā and…
SB 12.11.40 Ṛtu as the Yakṣa, Varcā as the Rākṣasa, Bharadvāja as the sage, Parjanya as the sun-god, Senajit as the Apsarā, Viśva as the Gandharva and…
SB 12.11.41 Aṁśu as the sun-god, Kaśyapa as the sage, Tārkṣya as the Yakṣa, Ṛtasena as the Gandharva, Urvaśī as the Apsarā, Vidyucchatru as the…
SB 12.11.42 Bhaga as the sun-god, Sphūrja as the Rākṣasa, Ariṣṭanemi as the Gandharva, Ūrṇa as the Yakṣa, Āyur as the sage, Karkoṭaka as the Nāga and…
SB 12.11.43 Tvaṣṭā as the sun-god; Jamadagni, the son of Ṛcīka, as the sage; Kambalāśva as the Nāga; Tilottamā as the Apsarā; Brahmāpeta as the…
SB 12.11.44 Viṣṇu as the sun-god, Aśvatara as the Nāga, Rambhā as the Apsarā, Sūryavarcā as the Gandharva, Satyajit as the Yakṣa, Viśvāmitra as the…
SB 12.11.45 All these personalities are the opulent expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, in the form of the sun-god. These deities…
SB 12.11.46 Thus, throughout the twelve months, the lord of the sun travels in all directions with his six types of associates, disseminating among…
SB 12.11.47-48 While the sages glorify the sun-god with the hymns of the Sāma, Ṛg and Yajur Vedas, which reveal his identity, the Gandharvas also sing…
SB 12.11.49 Facing the chariot, the sixty thousand brāhmaṇa sages known as Vālakhilyas travel in front and offer prayers to the almighty sun-god with…
SB 12.11.50 For the protection of all the worlds, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari, who is unborn and without beginning or end, thus expands…
SB 12.12.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Offering my obeisances to the supreme religious principle, devotional service; to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the supreme creator; and…
SB 12.12.2 O great sages, I have narrated to you the wonderful pastimes of Lord Viṣṇu, as you inquired about them from me. Hearing such narrations is…
SB 12.12.3 This literature fully glorifies the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari, who removes all His devotees’ sinful reactions. The Lord is…
SB 12.12.4 This literature describes the mystery of the Supreme Absolute Truth, the source of the creation and annihilation of this universe. Also…
SB 12.12.5 The following topics are also narrated: the process of devotional service together with its subsidiary feature of renunciation, and the…
SB 12.12.6 Also described are saintly King Parīkṣit’s sitting down to fast until death in response to the curse of a brāhmaṇa’s son, and the…
SB 12.12.7 The Bhāgavatam explains how one can attain liberation at the time of death by practicing fixed meditation in yoga. It also contains a…
SB 12.12.8 This scripture also relates the discussions Vidura had with Uddhava and with Maitreya, inquiries about the subject matter of this Purāṇa,…
SB 12.12.9 The creation effected by the agitation of the modes of material nature, the seven stages of evolution by elemental transformation, and the…
SB 12.12.10 Other topics include the subtle and gross movements of time, the generation of the lotus from the navel of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and the…
SB 12.12.11 The Bhāgavatam also describes the creation of demigods, animals and demoniac species of life; the birth of Lord Rudra; and the appearance…
SB 12.12.12 Also related are the appearance of the first woman, Śatarūpā, who was the excellent consort of Manu, and the offspring of the pious wives…
SB 12.12.13 The Bhāgavatam describes the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the exalted sage Kapila and records the conversation…
SB 12.12.14-15 Also described are the progeny of the nine great brāhmaṇas, the destruction of Dakṣa’s sacrifice, and the history of Dhruva Mahārāja,…
SB 12.12.16 The Bhāgavatam gives an elaborate description of the earth’s continents, regions, oceans, mountains and rivers. Also described are the…
SB 12.12.17 The rebirth of Prajāpati Dakṣa as the son of the Pracetās, and the progeny of Dakṣa’s daughters, who initiated the races of demigods,…
SB 12.12.18 O brāhmaṇas, also recounted are the births and deaths of Vṛtrāsura and of Diti’s sons Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu, as well as the history…
SB 12.12.19 The reign of each Manu, the liberation of Gajendra, and the special incarnations of Lord Viṣṇu in each manvantara, such as Lord Hayaśīrṣā,…
SB 12.12.20 The Bhāgavatam also tells of the appearances of the Lord of the universe as Kūrma, Matsya, Narasiṁha and Vāmana, and of the demigods’…
SB 12.12.21 An account of the great battle fought between the demigods and the demons, a systematic description of the dynasties of various kings, and…
SB 12.12.22 Also related are the histories of Ilā and Tārā, and the description of the descendants of the sun-god, including such kings as Śaśāda and…
SB 12.12.23 The histories of Sukanyā, Śaryāti, the intelligent Kakutstha, Khaṭvāṅga, Māndhātā, Saubhari and Sagara are narrated.
SB 12.12.24 The Bhāgavatam narrates the sanctifying pastimes of Lord Rāmacandra, the King of Kośala, and also explains how King Nimi abandoned his…
SB 12.12.25-26 The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam describes how Lord Paraśurāma, the greatest descendant of Bhṛgu, annihilated all the kṣatriyas on the face of the…
SB 12.12.27 How Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and Lord of the universe, descended into this Yadu dynasty, how He took birth in the…
SB 12.12.28-29 Also glorified are the innumerable pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of the demons, including His childhood pastimes of sucking out…
SB 12.12.30 The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam tells how Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma killed the demon Dhenukāsura and his companions, how Lord Balarāma destroyed…
SB 12.12.31-33 The chastisement of the serpent Kāliya; the rescue of Nanda Mahārāja from a great snake; the severe vows performed by the young gopīs, who…
SB 12.12.34 The Bhāgavatam describes the arrival of Akrūra, the subsequent departure of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, the lamentation of the gopīs and the…
SB 12.12.35 Also narrated are how Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma killed the elephant Kuvalayāpīḍa, the wrestlers Muṣṭika and Cāṇūra, and Kaṁsa and other demons,…
SB 12.12.36 Then, O brāhmaṇas, this scripture recounts how Lord Hari, while residing in Mathurā in the company of Uddhava and Balarāma, performed…
SB 12.12.37 Also described are the annihilation of each of the many armies brought by Jarāsandha, the killing of the barbarian king Kālayavana and the…
SB 12.12.38 This work also describes how Lord Kṛṣṇa brought from heaven the pārijāta tree and the Sudharmā assembly hall, and how He kidnapped Rukmiṇī…
SB 12.12.39 Also narrated are how Lord Kṛṣṇa, in the battle with Bāṇāsura, defeated Lord Śiva by making him yawn, how the Lord cut off Bāṇāsura’s…
SB 12.12.40-41 There are descriptions of the powers and the deaths of the King of Cedi, Pauṇḍraka, Śālva, the foolish Dantavakra, Śambara, Dvivida,…
SB 12.12.42-43 How the Lord withdrew His own dynasty on the pretext of the brāhmaṇas’ curse; Vasudeva’s conversation with Nārada; the extraordinary…
SB 12.12.44 This work also describes people’s characteristics and behavior in the different ages, the chaos men experience in the Age of Kali, the…
SB 12.12.45 There are also an account of the passing away of the wise and saintly King Viṣṇurāta [Parīkṣit], an explanation of how Śrīla Vyāsadeva…
SB 12.12.46 Thus, O best of the brāhmaṇas , I have explained herein what you have inquired from me. This literature has glorified in full detail the…
SB 12.12.47 If when falling, slipping, feeling pain or sneezing one involuntarily cries out in a loud voice, “Obeisances to Lord Hari!” one will be…
SB 12.12.48 When people properly glorify the Supreme Personality of Godhead or simply hear about His power, the Lord personally enters their hearts…
SB 12.12.49 Words that do not describe the transcendental Personality of Godhead but instead deal with temporary matters are simply false and useless.…
SB 12.12.50 Those words describing the glories of the all-famous Personality of Godhead are attractive, relishable and ever fresh. Indeed, such words…
SB 12.12.51 Those words that do not describe the glories of the Lord, who alone can sanctify the atmosphere of the whole universe, are considered to…
SB 12.12.52 On the other hand, that literature which is full of descriptions of the transcendental glories of the name, fame, forms, pastimes and so…
SB 12.12.53 Knowledge of self-realization, even though free from all material affinity, does not look well if devoid of a conception of the Infallible…
SB 12.12.54 The great endeavor one undergoes in executing the ordinary social and religious duties of the varṇāśrama system, in performing…
SB 12.12.55 Remembrance of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet destroys everything inauspicious and awards the greatest good fortune. It purifies the heart and…
SB 12.12.56 O most eminent of brāhmaṇas, you are all indeed extremely fortunate, since you have already placed within your hearts Lord Śrī Nārāyaṇa —…
SB 12.12.57 I also have now been fully reminded of the science of God, which I previously heard from the mouth of the great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī. I…
SB 12.12.58 O brāhmaṇas, I have thus described to you the glories of the Supreme Lord Vāsudeva, whose extraordinary activities are most worthy of…
SB 12.12.59 One who with undeviating attention constantly recites this literature at every moment of every hour, as well as one who faithfully hears…
SB 12.12.60 One who hears this Bhāgavatam on the Ekādaśī or Dvādaśī day is assured of long life, and one who recites it with careful attention while…
SB 12.12.61 One who controls his mind, fasts at the holy places Puṣkara, Mathurā or Dvārakā, and studies this scripture will be freed from all fear.
SB 12.12.62 Upon the person who glorifies this Purāṇa by chanting or hearing it, the demigods, sages, Siddhas, Pitās, Manus and kings of the earth…
SB 12.12.63 By studying this Bhāgavatam, a brāhmaṇa can enjoy the same rivers of honey, ghee and milk he enjoys by studying the hymns of the Ṛg, Yajur…
SB 12.12.64 A brāhmaṇa who diligently reads this essential compilation of all the Purāṇas will go to the supreme destination, which the Supreme Lord…
SB 12.12.65 A brāhmaṇa who studies the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam achieves firm intelligence in devotional service, a king who studies it gains sovereignty…
SB 12.12.66 Lord Hari, the supreme controller of all beings, annihilates the accumulated sins of the Kali age, yet other literatures do not constantly…
SB 12.12.67 I bow down to that unborn and infinite Supreme Soul, whose personal energies effect the creation, maintenance and destruction of the…
SB 12.12.68 I offer my obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the eternal Lord and the leader of all other deities, who by evolving…
SB 12.12.69 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, the son of Vyāsadeva, Śukadeva Gosvāmī. It is he who defeats all…
SB 12.13.1 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Unto that personality whom Brahmā, Varuṇa, Indra, Rudra and the Maruts praise by chanting transcendental hymns and…
SB 12.13.2 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Lord Kūrma, a tortoise, His back was scratched by the sharp-edged stones lying on…
SB 12.13.3 Now please hear a summation of the verse length of each of the Purāṇas. Then hear of the prime subject and purpose of this Bhāgavata…
SB 12.13.4-9 The Brahma Purāṇa consists of ten thousand verses, the Padma Purāṇa of fifty-five thousand, Śrī Viṣṇu Purāṇa of twenty-three thousand, the…
SB 12.13.10 It was to Lord Brahmā that the Supreme Personality of Godhead first revealed the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in full. At the time, Brahmā,…
SB 12.13.11-12 From beginning to end, the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is full of narrations that encourage renunciation of material life, as well as nectarean…
SB 12.13.13 If on the full moon day of the month of Bhādra one places Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam on a golden throne and gives it as a gift, he will attain the…
SB 12.13.14 All other Purāṇic scriptures shine forth in the assembly of saintly devotees only as long as that great ocean of nectar,…
SB 12.13.15 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is declared to be the essence of all Vedānta philosophy. One who has felt satisfaction from its nectarean mellow will…
SB 12.13.16 Just as the Gaṅgā is the greatest of all rivers, Lord Acyuta the supreme among deities and Lord Śambhu [Śiva] the greatest of Vaiṣṇavas,…
SB 12.13.17 O brāhmaṇas, in the same way that the city of Kāśī is unexcelled among holy places, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is supreme among all the Purāṇas.
SB 12.13.18 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the spotless Purāṇa. It is most dear to the Vaiṣṇavas because it describes the pure and supreme knowledge of the…
SB 12.13.19 I meditate upon that pure and spotless Supreme Absolute Truth, who is free from suffering and death and who in the beginning personally…
SB 12.13.20 We offer our obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Vāsudeva, the all-pervading witness, who mercifully explained this…
SB 12.13.21 I offer my humble obeisances to Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the best of mystic sages and a personal manifestation of the Absolute Truth. He…
SB 12.13.22 O Lord of lords, O master, please grant us pure devotional service at Your lotus feet, life after life.
SB 12.13.23 I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Hari, the congregational chanting of whose holy names destroys all sinful…