Vasudeva

70 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

• SB 10.1.37 Vasudeva said: My dear brother-in-law Kaṁsa, you are the pride of your family, the Bhoja dynasty, and great heroes praise your qualities.…
• SB 10.1.38 O great hero, one who takes birth is sure to die, for death is born with the body. One may die today or after hundreds of years, but death…
• SB 10.1.39 When the present body turns to dust and is again reduced to five elements — earth, water, fire, air and ether — the proprietor of the…
• SB 10.1.40 Just as a person traveling on the road rests one foot on the ground and then lifts the other, or as a worm on a vegetable transfers itself…
• SB 10.1.41 Having experienced a situation by seeing or hearing about it, one contemplates and speculates about that situation, and thus one…
• SB 10.1.42 At the time of death, according to the thinking, feeling and willing of the mind, which is involved in fruitive activities, one receives a…
• SB 10.1.43 When the luminaries in the sky, such as the moon, the sun and the stars, are reflected in liquids like oil or water, they appear to be of…
• SB 10.1.44 Therefore, since envious, impious activities cause a body in which one suffers in the next life, why should one act impiously? Considering…
• SB 10.1.45 As your younger sister, this poor girl Devakī is like your own daughter and deserves to be affectionately maintained. You are merciful,…
• SB 10.1.46 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of the Kuru dynasty, Kaṁsa was fiercely cruel and was actually a follower of the Rākṣasas. Therefore he…
• SB 10.1.47 When Vasudeva saw that Kaṁsa was determined to kill his sister Devakī, he thought to himself very deeply. Considering the imminent danger…
• SB 10.1.48 As long as he has intelligence and bodily strength, an intelligent person must try to avoid death. This is the duty of every embodied…
• SB 10.1.49-50 Vasudeva considered: By delivering all my sons to Kaṁsa, who is death personified, I shall save the life of Devakī. Perhaps Kaṁsa will die…
• SB 10.1.51 When a fire, for some unseen reason, leaps over one piece of wood and sets fire to the next, the reason is destiny. Similarly, when a…
• SB 10.1.52 After thus considering the matter as far as his knowledge would allow, Vasudeva submitted his proposal to the sinful Kaṁsa with great…
• SB 10.1.53 Vasudeva’s mind was full of anxiety because his wife was facing danger, but in order to please the cruel, shameless and sinful Kaṁsa, he…
• SB 10.1.54 Vasudeva said: O best of the sober, you have nothing to fear from your sister Devakī because of what you have heard from the unseen omen.…
• SB 10.1.55 Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Kaṁsa agreed to the logical arguments of Vasudeva, and, having full faith in Vasudeva’s words, he…
• SB 10.1.56 Each year thereafter, in due course of time, Devakī, the mother of God and all the demigods, gave birth to a child. Thus she bore eight…
• SB 10.1.57 Vasudeva was very much disturbed by fear of becoming a liar by breaking his promise. Thus with great pain he delivered his first-born son,…
• SB 10.1.58 What is painful for saintly persons who strictly adhere to the truth? How could there not be independence for pure devotees who know the…
• SB 10.1.59 My dear King Parīkṣit, when Kaṁsa saw that Vasudeva, being situated in truthfulness, was completely equipoised in giving him the child, he…
• SB 10.1.60 O Vasudeva, you may take back your child and go home. I have no fear of your first child. It is the eighth child of you and Devakī I am…
• SB 10.1.61 Vasudeva agreed and took his child back home, but because Kaṁsa had no character and no self-control, Vasudeva knew that he could not rely…
• SB 10.1.62-63 The inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, headed by Nanda Mahārāja and including his associate cowherd men and their wives, were none but denizens of…
• SB 10.1.64 Once the great saint Nārada approached Kaṁsa and informed him of how the demoniac persons who were a great burden on the earth were going…
• SB 10.1.65-66 After the departure of the great saint Nārada, Kaṁsa thought that all the members of the Yadu dynasty were demigods and that any of the…
• SB 10.1.67 Kings greedy for sense gratification on this earth almost always kill their enemies indiscriminately. To satisfy their own whims, they may…
• SB 10.1.68 In his previous birth, Kaṁsa had been a great demon named Kālanemi and been killed by Viṣṇu. Upon learning this information from Nārada,…
• SB 10.1.69 Kaṁsa, the most powerful son of Ugrasena, even imprisoned his own father, the King of the Yadu, Bhoja and Andhaka dynasties, and…
• SB 10.3.13 Vasudeva said: My Lord, You are the Supreme Person, beyond material existence, and You are the Supersoul. Your form can be perceived by…
• SB 10.3.14 My Lord, You are the same person who in the beginning created this material world by His personal external energy. After the creation of…
• SB 10.3.15-17 The mahat-tattva, the total material energy, is undivided, but because of the material modes of nature, it appears to separate into earth,…
• SB 10.3.18 One who considers his visible body, which is a product of the three modes of nature, to be independent of the soul is unaware of the basis…
• SB 10.3.19 O my Lord, learned Vedic scholars conclude that the creation, maintenance and annihilation of the entire cosmic manifestation are…
• SB 10.3.20 My Lord, Your form is transcendental to the three material modes, yet for the maintenance of the three worlds, You assume the white color…
• SB 10.3.21 O my Lord, proprietor of all creation, You have now appeared in my house, desiring to protect this world. I am sure that You will kill all…
• SB 10.3.22 O my Lord, Lord of the demigods, after hearing the prophecy that You would take birth in our home and kill him, this uncivilized Kaṁsa…
• SB 10.3.23 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thereafter, having seen that her child had all the symptoms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Devakī, who…
• SB 10.82.20 Śrī Vasudeva said: Dear sister, please do not be angry with us. We are only ordinary men, playthings of fate. Indeed, whether a person…
• SB 10.82.21 Harassed by Kaṁsa, we all fled in various directions, but by the grace of Providence we have now finally been able to return to our homes,…
• SB 10.84.29 Śrī Vasudeva said: Obeisances to you, the residence of all the demigods. Please hear me, O sages. Kindly tell us how the reactions of…
• SB 10.84.61 Śrī Vasudeva said: My dear brother, God Himself has tied the knot called affection, which tightly binds human beings together. It seems to…
• SB 10.84.62 Indeed, the Supreme Lord must have created the bonds of affection, for such exalted saints as you have never stopped showing matchless…
• SB 10.84.63 Previously, dear brother, we did nothing to benefit you because we were unable to, yet even now that you are present before us, our eyes…
• SB 10.84.64 O most respectful one, may a person who wants the highest benefit in life never gain kingly opulence, for it leaves him blind to the needs…
• SB 10.85.3 [Vasudeva said:] O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, best of yogīs, O eternal Saṅkarṣaṇa! I know that You two are personally the source of universal creation…
• SB 10.85.4 You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who manifest as the Lord of both nature and the creator of nature [Mahā-Viṣṇu]. Everything…
• SB 10.85.5 O transcendental Lord, from Yourself You created this entire variegated universe, and then You entered within it in Your personal form as…
• SB 10.85.6 Whatever potencies the life air and other elements of universal creation exhibit are actually all personal energies of the Supreme Lord,…
• SB 10.85.7 The glow of the moon, the brilliance of fire, the radiance of the sun, the twinkling of the stars, the flash of lightning, the permanence…
• SB 10.85.8 My Lord, You are water, and also its taste and and its capacities to quench thirst and sustain life. You exhibit Your potencies through…
• SB 10.85.9 You are the directions and their accommodating capacity, the all-pervading ether and the elemental sound residing within it. You are the…
• SB 10.85.10 You are the power of the senses to reveal their objects, the senses’ presiding demigods, and the sanction these demigods give for sensory…
• SB 10.85.11 You are false ego in the mode of ignorance, which is the source of the physical elements; false ego in the mode of passion, which is the…
• SB 10.85.12 You are the one indestructible entity among all the destructible things of this world, like the underlying substance that is seen to…
• SB 10.85.13 The modes of material nature — namely goodness, passion and ignorance — together with all their functions, become directly manifest within…
• SB 10.85.14 Thus these created entities, transformations of material nature, do not exist except when material nature manifests them within You, at…
• SB 10.85.15 They are truly ignorant who, while imprisoned within the ceaseless flow of this world’s material qualities, fail to know You, the Supreme…
• SB 10.85.16 By good fortune a soul may obtain a healthy human life — an opportunity rarely achieved. But if he is nonetheless deluded about what is…
• SB 10.85.17 You keep this whole world bound up by the ropes of affection, and thus when people consider their material bodies, they think, “This is…
• SB 10.85.18 You are not our sons but the very Lords of both material nature and its creator [Mahā-Viṣṇu]. As You Yourself have told us, You have…
• SB 10.85.19 Therefore, O friend of the distressed, I now approach Your lotus feet for shelter — the same lotus feet that dispel all fear of worldly…
• SB 10.85.20 Indeed, while still in the maternity room You told us that You, the unborn Lord, had already been born several times as our son in…
• SB 11.2.4 Śrī Vasudeva said: My lord, your visit, like that of a father to his children, is for the benefit of all living beings. You especially…
• SB 11.2.5 The activities of demigods lead to both misery and happiness for living beings, but the activities of great saints like you, who have…
• SB 11.2.6 Those who worship the demigods receive reciprocation from the demigods in a way just corresponding to the offering. The demigods are…
• SB 11.2.7 O brāhmaṇa, although I am satisfied simply by seeing you, I still wish to inquire about those duties which give pleasure to the Supreme…
• SB 11.2.8 In a previous birth on this earth, I worshiped the Supreme Lord, Ananta, who alone can award liberation, but because I desired to have a…
• SB 11.2.9 My dear lord, you are always true to your vow. Please instruct me clearly, so that by your mercy I may easily free myself from material…