asat
- all temporary and bad — SB 9.19.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.20
One who knows that material happiness, whether good or bad, in this life or in the next, on this planet or on the heavenly planets, is temporary and useless, and that an intelligent person should not try to enjoy or even think of such things, is the knower of the self. Such a self-realized person knows quite well that material happiness is the very cause of continued material existence and forgetfulness of one's own constitutional position. - although long dead (and although no one knows that the soul has gone) — SB 5.14.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.17
Sometimes the conditioned soul imagines that his father or grandfather has again come in the form of his son or grandson. In this way he feels the happiness one sometimes feels in a dream, and the conditioned soul sometimes takes pleasure in such mental concoctions. - bad — SB 3.27.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.3
The conditioned soul therefore transmigrates into different species of life, higher and lower, because of his association with the modes of material nature. Unless he is relieved of material activities, he has to accept this position because of his faulty work. - cause — SB 2.6.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.42
Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu is the first incarnation of the Supreme Lord, and He is the master of eternal time, space, cause and effects, mind, the elements, the material ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form of the Lord, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and the sum total of all living beings, both moving and nonmoving., SB 3.15.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.15.6
O lord, all these planets exist within your self, and all the living entities are generated from you. Therefore you are the cause of this universe, and anyone who meditates upon you without deviation attains devotional service. - effect — Bg. 13.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 13.13
I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. This is beginningless, and it is subordinate to Me. It is called Brahman, the spirit, and it lies beyond the cause and effect of this material world., SB 2.6.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.33
My dear son, whatever you inquired from me I have thus explained unto you, and you must know for certain that whatever there is (either as cause or as effect, both in the material and spiritual worlds) is dependent on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - falls — Bg. 17.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.28
But sacrifices, austerities and charities performed without faith in the Supreme are nonpermanent, O son of Pṛthā, regardless of whatever rites are performed. They are called asat and are useless both in this life and the next. - illusory — SB 1.16.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 simply waste one's valuable life?, SB 3.2.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.2.10
Under no circumstances can the words of persons bewildered by the illusory energy of the Lord deviate the intelligence of those who are completely surrendered souls. - impermanent — SB 3.25.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.7
Devahūti said: I am very sick of the disturbance caused by my material senses, for because of this sense disturbance, my Lord, I have fallen into the abyss of ignorance., SB 5.12.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.12.10
Since this universe has no real ultimate existence, the things within it—shortness, differences, grossness, skinniness, smallness, bigness, result, cause, living symptoms, and materials—are all imagined. They are all pots made of the same substance, earth, but they are named differently. The differences are characterized by the substance, nature, predisposition, time and activity. You should know that all these are simply mechanical manifestations created by material nature. - impermanent, transient — SB 8.9.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.9.29
In human society there are various activities performed for the protection of one's wealth and life by one's words, one's mind and one's actions, but they are all performed for one's personal or extended sense gratification with reference to the body. All these activities are baffled because of being separate from devotional service. But when the same activities are performed for the satisfaction of the Lord, the beneficial results are distributed to everyone, just as water poured on the root of a tree is distributed throughout the entire tree. - impudence — SB 6.3.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.30
[Then Yamarāja, considering himself and his servants to be offenders, spoke as follows, begging pardon from the Lord.] O my Lord, my servants have surely committed a great offense by arresting a Vaiṣṇava such as Ajāmila. O Nārāyaṇa, O supreme and oldest person, please forgive us. Because of our ignorance, we failed to recognize Ajāmila as a servant of Your Lordship, and thus we have certainly committed a great offense. Therefore with folded hands we beg Your pardon. My Lord, since You are supremely merciful and are always full of good qualities, please pardon us. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You. - material happiness — SB 5.18.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.3
Alas! How wonderful it is that the foolish materialist does not heed the great danger of impending death! He knows that death will surely come, yet he is nevertheless callous and neglectful. If his father dies, he wants to enjoy his father's property, and if his son dies, he wants to enjoy his son's possessions as well. In either case, he heedlessly tries to enjoy material happiness with the acquired money. - materialistic — SB 3.5.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.45
O great Supreme Lord, offensive persons whose internal vision has been too affected by external materialistic activities cannot see Your lotus feet, but they are seen by Your pure devotees, whose one and only aim is to transcendentally enjoy Your activities. - mischievous — SB 1.14.28-29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 Akrūra, Jayanta, Gada, Sāraṇa and Śatrujit all happy? How is Balarāma, the Personality of Godhead and the protector of devotees? - nonbeing — Bg. 9.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 9.19
O Arjuna, I control heat, the rain and the drought. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both being and nonbeing are in Me. - nondevotee — SB 3.9.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.12
My Lord, You are not very much satisfied by the worship of the demigods, who arrange for Your worship very pompously, with various paraphernalia, but who are full of material hankerings. You are situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul just to show Your causeless mercy, and You are the eternal well-wisher, but You are unavailable for the nondevotee. - nonmanifestation — SB 8.3.22-24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.22-24
The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates His minor parts and parcels, the jīva-tattva, beginning with Lord Brahmā, the demigods and the expansions of Vedic knowledge [Sāma, Ṛg, Yajur and Atharva] and including all other living entities, moving and nonmoving, with their different names and characteristics. As the sparks of a fire or the shining rays of the sun emanate from their source and merge into it again and again, the mind, the intelligence, the senses, the gross and subtle material bodies, and the continuous transformations of the different modes of nature all emanate from the Lord and again merge into Him. He is neither demigod nor demon, neither human nor bird or beast. He is not woman, man, or neuter, nor is He an animal. He is not a material quality, a fruitive activity, a manifestation or nonmanifestation. He is the last word in the discrimination of "not this, not this," and He is unlimited. All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead! - nonpermanent — Bg. 16.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 16.10
The demoniac, taking shelter of insatiable lust, pride and false prestige, and being thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent. - nonpermanent things — SB 3.31.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.30
By such ignorance the living entity accepts the material body, which is made of five elements, as himself. With this misunderstanding, he accepts nonpermanent things as his own and increases his ignorance in the darkest region. - not real — SB 5.12.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.12.9
One may say that varieties arise from the planet earth itself. However, although the universe may temporarily appear to be the truth, it ultimately has no real existence. The earth was originally created by a combination of atomic particles, but these particles are impermanent. Actually the atom is not the cause of the universe, although some philosophers think so. It is not a fact that the varieties found in this material world simply result from atomic juxtaposition or combination. - noumenal — SB 2.7.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.50
My dear son, I have now explained in brief the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is creator of the manifested worlds. Without Him, Hari, the Lord, there are no other causes of the phenomenal and noumenal existences. - perishable — SB 3.9.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.6
O my Lord, the people of the world are embarrassed by all material anxieties—they are always afraid. They always try to protect wealth, body and friends, they are filled with lamentation and unlawful desires and paraphernalia, and they avariciously base their undertakings on the perishable conceptions of "my" and "mine." As long as they do not take shelter of Your safe lotus feet, they are full of such anxieties. - temporary — SB 2.5.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.6
Whatever we can understand by the nomenclature, characteristics and features of a particular thing—superior, inferior or equal, eternal or temporary—is not created from any source other than that of Your Lordship, thou so great., SB 4.7.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.44
The Vidyādharas said: Dear Lord, this human form of body is meant for attaining the highest perfectional objective, but, impelled by Your external energy, the living entity misidentifies himself with his body and with the material energy, and therefore, influenced by māyā, he wants to become happy by material enjoyment. He is misled and always attracted by temporary, illusory happiness. But Your transcendental activities are so powerful that if one engages in the hearing and chanting of such topics, he can be delivered from illusion. - the cause — SB 2.9.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.33
Brahmā, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of Godhead., Ādi 1.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.53
"Prior to the cosmic creation, only I exist, and no phenomena exist, either gross, subtle or primordial. After creation, only I exist in everything, and after annihilation, only I remain eternally., Madhya 24.76plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.76
" 'Prior to the cosmic creation, only I exist, and no phenomena exist, either gross, subtle or primordial. After creation, only I exist in everything, and after annihilation only I remain eternally.', Madhya 25.113plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.113
" 'Prior to the cosmic manifestation, only I exist, and no phenomena exist, either gross, subtle or primordial. After creation, only I exist in everything, and after annihilation, only I remain eternally. - the effect — SB 1.2.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.2.30
In the beginning of the material creation, that Absolute Personality of Godhead [Vāsudeva], in His transcendental position, created the energies of cause and effect by His own internal energy. - the foolish — SB 4.27.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.27.25
One who does not give charity according to the customs or injunctions of the scriptures and one who does not accept charity in that way are considered to be in the mode of ignorance. Such persons follow the path of the foolish. Surely they must lament at the end. - unmanifested — SB 6.8.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.8.31
The subtle and gross cosmic manifestation is material, but nevertheless it is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead because He is ultimately the cause of all causes. Cause and effect are factually one because the cause is present in the effect. Therefore the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, can destroy all our dangers by any of His potent parts. - unpalatable — SB 4.8.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.26
How wonderful are the powerful kṣatriyas. They cannot tolerate even a slight infringement upon their prestige. Just imagine! This boy is only a small child, yet harsh words from his stepmother proved unbearable to him. - unreal — SB 4.11.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.11.29
My dear Dhruva, please, therefore, turn your attention to the Supreme Person, who is the infallible Brahman. Face the Supreme Personality of Godhead in your original position, and thus, by self-realization, you will find this material differentiation to be merely flickering. - untenable — SB 2.6.40-41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.40-41
The Personality of Godhead is pure, being free from all contaminations of material tinges. He is the Absolute Truth and the embodiment of full and perfect knowledge. He is all-pervading, without beginning or end, and without rival. O Nārada, O great sage, the great thinkers can know Him when completely freed from all material hankerings and when sheltered under undisturbed conditions of the senses. Otherwise, by untenable arguments, all is distorted, and the Lord disappears from our sight. - useless — SB 1.15.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.15.21
I have the very same Gāṇḍīva bow, the same arrows, the same chariot drawn by the same horses, and I use them as the same Arjuna to whom all the kings offered their due respects. But in the absence of Lord Kṛṣṇa, all of them, at a moment's notice, have become null and void. It is exactly like offering clarified butter on ashes, accumulating money with a magic wand or sowing seeds on barren land. - vicious — SB 1.8.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 sufferings during our exile in the forest and from the battle where great generals fought. And now You have saved us from the weapon of Aśvatthāmā. - which are always prone to material consciousness — SB 7.15.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.46
Otherwise, if one does not take shelter of Acyuta and Baladeva, then the senses, acting as the horses, and the intelligence, acting as the driver, both being prone to material contamination, inattentively bring the body, which acts as the chariot, to the path of sense gratification. When one is thus attracted again by the rogues of viṣaya—eating, sleeping and mating—the horses and chariot driver are thrown into the blinding dark well of material existence, and one is again put into a dangerous and extremely fearful situation of repeated birth and death. - which is nonexistent, as the cause — SB 8.12.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.8
My dear Lord, Your Lordship alone is the cause and the effect. Therefore, although You appear to be two, You are the absolute one. As there is no difference between the gold of a golden ornament and the gold in a mine, there is no difference between cause and effect; both of them are the same. Only because of ignorance do people concoct differences and dualities. You are free from material contamination, and since the entire cosmos is caused by You and cannot exist without You, it is an effect of Your transcendental qualities. Thus the conception that Brahman is true and the world false cannot be maintained.
āśāt
- from your enjoyment of eating — SB 10.13.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.13
When Kṛṣṇa saw that His friends the cowherd boys were frightened, He, the fierce controller even of fear itself, said, just to mitigate their fear, "My dear friends, do not stop eating. I shall bring your calves back to this spot by personally going after them Myself."
asat-āgrahaḥ
- having unsuitable obstinacy — SB 5.9.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.6
The brāhmaṇa father of Jaḍa Bharata considered his son his heart and soul, and therefore he was very much attached to him. He thought it wise to educate his son properly, and being absorbed in this unsuccessful endeavor, he tried to teach his son the rules and regulations of brahmacarya—including the execution of the Vedic vows, cleanliness, study of the Vedas, the regulative methods, service to the spiritual master and the method of offering a fire sacrifice. He tried his best to teach his son in this way, but all his endeavors failed. In his heart he hoped that his son would be a learned scholar, but all his attempts were unsuccessful. Like everyone, this brāhmaṇa was attached to his home, and he had forgotten that someday he would die. Death, however, was not forgetful. At the proper time, death appeared and took him away.
asat-āgraham
- bodily concept of life — SB 3.27.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.9
One's seeing power should be increased through knowledge of spirit and matter, and one should not unnecessarily identify himself with the body and thus become attracted by bodily relationships.
asat-ālāpam
- unnecessary talk on material subject matters — SB 8.16.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.16.49
During this period, one should not unnecessarily talk of material subjects or topics of sense gratification, one should be completely free from envy of all living entities, and one should be a pure and simple devotee of Lord Vāsudeva.
asat-antakam
- who could kill all demons — SB 10.6.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.6.7
While searching for small children, Pūtanā, whose business was to kill them, entered the house of Nanda Mahārāja unobstructed, having been sent by the superior potency of the Lord. Without asking anyone's permission, she entered Nanda Mahārāja's room, where she saw the child sleeping in bed, His unlimited power covered like a powerful fire covered by ashes. She could understand that this child was not ordinary, but was meant to kill all demons.
asat-āśrayaiḥ
- taking shelter of those who are asat, or nondevotees — SB 10.10.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.10.18
Saintly persons [sādhus] think of Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours a day. They have no other interest. Why should people neglect the association of such exalted spiritual personalities and try to associate with materialists, taking shelter of nondevotees, most of whom are proud and rich?
asat-aviṣayam
- not understood by the atheists — SB 8.12.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.47
Assuming the form of a young woman and thus bewildering the demons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead distributed to His devotees, the demigods, the nectar produced from the churning of the ocean of milk. Unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who always fulfills the desires of His devotees, I offer my respectful obeisances.
asat-bhāvam
- a false conception of life — SB 7.7.19-20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.19-20
"Ātmā" refers to the Supreme Lord or the living entities. Both of them are spiritual, free from birth and death, free from deterioration and free from material contamination. They are individual, they are the knowers of the external body, and they are the foundation or shelter of everything. They are free from material change, they are self-illuminated, they are the cause of all causes, and they are all-pervading. They have nothing to do with the material body, and therefore they are always uncovered. With these transcendental qualities, one who is actually learned must give up the illusory conception of life, in which one thinks, "I am this material body, and everything in relationship with this body is mine."
asat-cakṣuḥ
- the eye (revealer) of the illusory energy — SB 3.27.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.11
A liberated soul realizes the Absolute Personality of Godhead, who is transcendental and who is manifest as a reflection even in the false ego. He is the support of the material cause and He enters into everything. He is absolute, one without a second, and He is the eyes of the illusory energy.
asat-dharmaiḥ
- abominable actions — SB 7.5.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.45
Hiraṇyakaśipu thought: I have used many ill names in chastising this boy Prahlāda and have devised many means of killing him, but despite all my endeavors, he could not be killed. Indeed, he saved himself by his own powers, without being affected in the least by these treacherous and abominable actions.
asat-dṛśaḥ
- for a person with polluted vision — SB 5.17.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.20
For persons with impure vision, the Supreme Lord's eyes appear like those of someone who indiscriminately drinks intoxicating beverages. Thus bewildered, such unintelligent persons become angry at the Supreme Lord, and due to their angry mood the Lord Himself appears angry and very fearful. However, this is an illusion. When the wives of the serpent demon were agitated by the touch of the Lord's lotus feet, due to shyness they could proceed no further in their worship of Him. Yet the Lord remained unagitated by their touch, for He is equipoised in all circumstances. Therefore who will not worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead ?
asat-gāthāḥ
- stories about materialistic persons — SB 3.32.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.19
Such persons are condemned by the supreme order of the Lord. Because they are averse to the nectar of the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are compared to stool-eating hogs. They give up hearing the transcendental activities of the Lord and indulge in hearing of the abominable activities of materialistic persons.
asat-gatim
- to take birth in a demoniac family — SB 3.19.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.19.29
These two personal assistants of the Supreme Lord, having been cursed, have been destined to take birth in demoniac families. After a few such births, they will return to their own positions.
asat-graha
- by the bad philosophy — SB 7.5.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.3
Prahlāda certainly heard and recited the topics of politics and economics taught by the teachers, but he understood that political philosophy involves considering someone a friend and someone else an enemy, and thus he did not like it.
asat-grāhaḥ
- material conception of life — SB 7.5.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.11
Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose external energy has created the distinctions of "my friend" and "my enemy" by deluding the intelligence of men. Indeed, I am now actually experiencing this, although I have previously heard of it from authoritative sources.
asat-grahaiḥ
- revealing the cosmic manifestation — SB 4.7.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.37
The governors of various planets spoke as follows: Dear Lord, we believe only in our direct perception, but under the circumstances we do not know whether we have actually seen You with our material senses. By our material senses we can simply perceive the cosmic manifestation, but You are beyond the five elements. You are the sixth. We see You, therefore, as a creation of the material world.
asat-graham
- an incorrect conception of life — SB 4.29.1a-2aplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.1a-2a
A desire to maintain body, wife and children is also observed in animal society. The animals have full intelligence to manage such affairs. If a human being is simply advanced in this respect, what is the difference between him and an animal? One should be very careful to understand that this human life is attained after many, many births in the evolutionary process. A learned man who gives up the bodily conception of life, both gross and subtle, will, by the enlightenment of spiritual knowledge, become a prominent individual spirit soul, as the Supreme Lord is also.
asat-grahāt
- because of accepting the temporary body or bodily relations as real (thinking “I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine”) — SB 7.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.5
Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: O best of the asuras, King of the demons, as far as I have learned from my spiritual master, any person who has accepted a temporary body and temporary household life is certainly embarrassed by anxiety because of having fallen in a dark well where there is no water but only suffering. One should give up this position and go to the forest [vana]. More clearly, one should go to Vṛndāvana, where only Kṛṣṇa consciousness is prevalent, and should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
asat-guṇeṣu
- into the temporarily manifested qualities — SB 4.9.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.7
My Lord, You are the supreme one, but by Your different energies You appear differently in the spiritual and material worlds. You create the total energy of the material world by Your external potency, and after creation You enter within the material world as the Supersoul. You are the Supreme Person, and through the temporary modes of material nature You create varieties of manifestation, just as fire, entering into wood of different shapes, burns brilliantly in different varieties.
asat-jita-ātmā
- whose mind is not attracted to the material pleasure of life — SB 5.13.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.13.20
My dear King Rahūgaṇa, you are also a victim of the external energy, being situated on the path of attraction to material pleasure. So that you may become an equal friend to all living entities, I now advise you to give up your kingly position and the rod by which you punish criminals. Give up attraction to the sense objects and take up the sword of knowledge sharpened by devotional service. Then you will be able to cut the hard knot of illusory energy and cross to the other side of the ocean of nescience.
asat-karmabhiḥ
- with temporary fruitive activities — SB 6.5.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.11
[The Haryaśvas understood the meaning of Nārada's words as follows.] The word "bhūḥ" ["the earth"] refers to the field of activities. The material body, which is a result of the living being's actions, is his field of activities, and it gives him false designations. Since time immemorial, he has received various types of material bodies, which are the roots of bondage to the material world. If one foolishly engages in temporary fruitive activities and does not look toward the cessation of this bondage, what will be the benefit of his actions?, SB 6.5.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.12
[Nārada Muni had said that there is a kingdom where there is only one male. The Haryaśvas realized the purport of this statement.] The only enjoyer is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who observes everything, everywhere. He is full of six opulences and fully independent of everyone else. He is never subject to the three modes of material nature, for He is always transcendental to this material creation. If the members of human society do not understand Him, the Supreme, through their advancement in knowledge and activities, but simply work very hard like cats and dogs all day and night for temporary happiness, what will be the benefit of their activities?, SB 6.5.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.13
[Nārada Muni had described that there is a bila, or hole, from which, having entered, one does not return. The Haryaśvas understood the meaning of this allegory.] Hardly once has a person who has entered the lower planetary system called Pātāla been seen to return. Similarly, if one enters the Vaikuṇṭha-dhāma [pratyag-dhāma], he does not return to this material world. If there is such a place, from which, having gone, one does not return to the miserable material condition of life, what is the use of jumping like monkeys in the temporary material world and not seeing or understanding that place? What will be the profit?
asat-kṛtaḥ
- insulted — SB 3.1.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.1.14
While speaking thus, Vidura, whose personal character was esteemed by respectable persons, was insulted by Duryodhana, who was swollen with anger and whose lips were trembling. Duryodhana was in company with Karṇa, his younger brothers and his maternal uncle Śakuni., Madhya 19.199-200plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.199-200
" 'I have in the past addressed You as "O Kṛṣṇa," "O Yādava," "O my friend" without knowing Your glories. Please forgive whatever I have done in madness or in love. I have dishonored You many times while we were relaxing, lying on the same bed or eating together, sometimes alone and sometimes in front of many friends. Please excuse me for all my offenses.'
asat-kṛtāḥ
- being insulted — SB 4.14.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 sages, being brokenhearted by the King's words, became very angry at him. - having been disrespected — SB 3.16.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.16.4
To Me, the brāhmaṇa is the highest and most beloved personality. The disrespect shown by My attendants has actually been displayed by Me because the doormen are My servitors. I take this to be an offense by Myself; therefore I seek your forgiveness for the incident that has arisen.
asat-kṛtām
- improperly treated — SB 1.14.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 way by someone who is inferior or equal to you?
asat-kṛtāyāḥ
- having been insulted — SB 4.5.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.5.1
Maitreya said: When Lord Śiva heard from Nārada that Satī, his wife, was now dead because of Prajāpati Dakṣa's insult to her and that his soldiers had been driven away by the Ṛbhu demigods, he became greatly angry.
asat-mataḥ
- not desired by them — SB 9.6.41-42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.41-42
Saubhari Muni thought: I am now feeble because of old age. My hair has become grey, my skin is slack, and my head always trembles. Besides, I am a yogī. Therefore women do not like me. Since the King has thus rejected me, I shall reform my body in such a way as to be desirable even to celestial women, what to speak of the daughters of worldly kings.
asat-matim
- no attachment — SB 9.4.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.27
Mahārāja Ambarīṣa gave up all attachment to household affairs, wives, children, friends and relatives, to the best of powerful elephants, to beautiful chariots, carts, horses and inexhaustible jewels, and to ornaments, garments and an inexhaustible treasury. He gave up attachment to all of them, regarding them as temporary and material. - the unclean mentality (accepting the body as the self) — SB 8.24.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.47
In hopes of becoming happy in this material world, the foolish conditioned soul performs fruitive activities that result only in suffering. But by rendering service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one becomes free from such false desires for happiness. May my supreme spiritual master cut the knot of false desires from the core of my heart.
asat-patham
- on the path of material enjoyment — SB 3.28.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.7
By these processes, or any other true process, one must control the contaminated, unbridled mind, which is always attracted by material enjoyment, and thus fix himself in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
asat-pathe
- in temporary matter — SB 2.6.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.34
O Nārada, because I have caught hold of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, with great zeal, whatever I say has never proved to have been false. Nor is the progress of my mind ever deterred. Nor are my senses ever degraded by temporary attachment to matter. - on the path of material activities — SB 6.2.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.12
The ritualistic ceremonies of atonement recommended in the religious scriptures are insufficient to cleanse the heart absolutely because after atonement one's mind again runs toward material activities. Consequently, for one who wants liberation from the fruitive reactions of material activities, the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, or glorification of the name, fame and pastimes of the Lord, is recommended as the most perfect process of atonement because such chanting eradicates the dirt from one's heart completely.
asat-prasaṅgaiḥ
- by material topics — SB 3.9.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.4
This present form, or any transcendental form expanded by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is equally auspicious for all the universes. Since You have manifested this eternal personal form upon whom Your devotees meditate, I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You. Those who are destined to be dispatched to the path of hell neglect Your personal form because of speculating on material topics., Antya 5.124-125plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 5.124-125
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" nātaḥ paraṁ parama yad bhavataḥ svarūpam ānanda-mātram avikalpam aviddha-varcaḥ paśyāmi viśva-sṛjam ekam aviśvam ātman bhūtendriyātmaka-madas ta upāśrito ‘smi
tad vā idaṁ bhuvana-maṅgala maṅgalāya - who discuss the Supreme Personality of Godhead illogically — Madhya 25.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.38
" 'O most auspicious one! For our benefit You are worshiped by us. You manifest Your transcendental form, which You show to us in our meditation. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Person, and we worship You whom impersonalists do not accept due to their poor fund of knowledge. Thus they are liable to descend into a hellish condition.'
asat-prasaṅgāt
- by association of nondevotees who are against the Vedic principles and who manufacture different paths of religion — SB 5.14.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.13
Sometimes, to mitigate distresses in this forest of the material world, the conditioned soul receives cheap blessings from atheists. He then loses all intelligence in their association. This is exactly like jumping in a shallow river. As a result one simply breaks his head. He is not able to mitigate his sufferings from the heat, and in both ways he suffers. The misguided conditioned soul also approaches so-called sādhus and svāmīs who preach against the principles of the Vedas. He does not receive benefit from them, either in the present or in the future.
asat-saṁsthāne
- habitat not fit for a gentleman — SB 5.5.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.30
Ṛṣabhadeva began to tour through cities, villages, mines, countrysides, valleys, gardens, military camps, cow pens, the homes of cowherd men, transient hotels, hills, forests and hermitages. Wherever He traveled, all bad elements surrounded Him, just as flies surround the body of an elephant coming from a forest. He was always being threatened, beaten, urinated upon and spat upon. Sometimes people threw stones, stool and dust at Him, and sometimes people passed foul air before Him. Thus people called Him many bad names and gave Him a great deal of trouble, but He did not care about this, for He understood that the body is simply meant for such an end. He was situated on the spiritual platform, and, being in His spiritual glory, He did not care for all these material insults. In other words, He completely understood that matter and spirit are separate, and He had no bodily conception. Thus, without being angry at anyone, He walked through the whole world alone.
asat-saṅga-tyāga
- giving up the company of nondevotees — Madhya 24.339plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.339
"One should know the symptoms of a devotee and how to associate with devotees. One should know how to satisfy the devotee by rendering service, and one should know how to give up the association of nondevotees. One should also regularly hear the recitation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. - rejection of the association of nondevotees — Madhya 22.87plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.87
"A Vaiṣṇava should always avoid the association of ordinary people. Common people are very much materially attached, especially to women. Vaiṣṇavas should also avoid the company of those who are not devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
asat-śāstram
- false scriptures — Madhya 6.182plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.182
"[Lord Śiva informed the Goddess Durgā, the superintendent of the material world,] 'In the Age of Kali I take the form of a brāhmaṇa and explain the Vedas through false scriptures in an atheistic way, similar to Buddhist philosophy.' "
asat-śāstreṣu
- literature like newspapers, novels, dramas and fiction — SB 7.13.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.7
Literature that is a useless waste of time—in other words, literature without spiritual benefit—should be rejected. One should not become a professional teacher as a means of earning one's livelihood, nor should one indulge in arguments and counter-arguments. Nor should one take shelter of any cause or faction.
asat-tama
- most abominable — SB 4.29.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.55
My dear King, just try to understand the allegorical position of the deer. Be fully conscious of yourself, and give up the pleasure of hearing about promotion to heavenly planets by fruitive activity. Give up household life, which is full of sex, as well as stories about such things, and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the mercy of the liberated souls. In this way, please give up your attraction for material existence. - O most abominable one — SB 6.11.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.11.14
Śrī Vṛtrāsura said: He who has killed a brāhmaṇa, he who has killed his spiritual master—indeed, he who has killed my brother—is now, by good fortune, standing before me face to face as my enemy. O most abominable one, when I pierce your stonelike heart with my trident, I shall be freed from my debt to my brother.
asat-tamaḥ
- the most cruel — SB 4.8.67plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.67
Alas, just see how I was conquered by my wife! Just imagine my cruelty! Out of love and affection the boy was trying to get up on my lap, but I did not receive him, nor did I even pat him for a moment. Just imagine how hardhearted I am. - the most wretched — SB 4.9.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.32
Since all the demigods who are situated in the higher planetary system will have to come down again, they are all envious of my being elevated to Vaikuṇṭhaloka by devotional service. These intolerant demigods have dissipated my intelligence, and only for this reason could I not accept the genuine benediction of the instructions of Sage Nārada.
asat-tamāḥ
- the greatest rascals — SB 7.15.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.37
Sannyāsīs who first consider that the body is subject to death, when it will be transformed into stool, worms or ashes, but who again give importance to the body and glorify it as the self, are to be considered the greatest rascals.
asat-tamam
- most wicked — SB 3.18.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.18.24
Lord Brahmā continued: My dear Lord, there is no need to play with this serpentine demon, who is always very skilled in conjuring tricks and is arrogant, self-sufficient and most wicked. - the most wretched — SB 1.17.10-11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 in his kingdom. It is certainly the prime duty of the king to subdue first the sufferings of those who suffer. Therefore I must kill this most wretched man because he is violent against other living beings.
asat-varaiḥ
- very sober — SB 7.7.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.24
Sober and expert persons should search for the spirit soul with minds purified through analytical study in terms of the soul's connection with and distinction from all things that undergo creation, maintenance and destruction.
asat-vidhitsuḥ
- desiring to act very impiously — SB 7.9.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.29
My Lord, O unlimited reservoir of transcendental qualities, You have killed my father, Hiraṇyakaśipu, and saved me from his sword. He had said very angrily, "If there is any supreme controller other than me, let Him save you. I shall now sever your head from your body." Therefore I think that both in saving me and in killing him, You have acted just to prove true the words of Your devotee. There is no other cause.
asat-vṛttaḥ
- full of impious activities — SB 4.14.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 dared insult the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu. - impious — SB 4.14.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.14.12
The saintly sages continued thinking: Of course we are completely aware of his mischievous nature. Yet nevertheless we enthroned Vena. If we cannot persuade King Vena to accept our advice, he will be condemned by the public, and we will join them. Thus by our prowess we shall burn him to ashes.
asat-vṛtte
- O unchaste woman — SB 9.14.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.14.12
The child then became very angry and demanded that his mother immediately tell the truth. "You unchaste woman," he said, "what is the use of your unnecessary shame? Why do you not admit your fault? Immediately tell me about your faulty behavior."
asat-vyaya nā kariha
- do not spend for sinful activities — Antya 9.144plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 9.144
"Don't spend a farthing for sinful activities for which you will be the loser both in this life and the next." After saying this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bade them farewell.
asat-vyayaḥ
- unnecessary waste of life — SB 1.16.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 simply waste one's valuable life?
kim asat-karmabhiḥ bhavet
- what benefit can there be by performing temporary fruitive activities — SB 6.5.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.16
[Nārada Muni had said that there is a river flowing in both directions. The Haryaśvas understood the purport of this statement.] Material nature functions in two ways—by creation and dissolution. Thus the river of material nature flows both ways. A living entity who unknowingly falls in this river is submerged in its waves, and since the current is swifter near the banks of the river, he is unable to get out. What will be the benefit of performing fruitive activities in that river of māyā? - what can be the benefit of engaging in temporary fruitive activities — SB 6.5.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.17
[Nārada Muni had said that there is a house made of twenty-five elements. The Haryaśvas understood this analogy.] The Supreme Lord is the reservoir of the twenty-five elements, and as the Supreme Being, the conductor of cause and effect, He causes their manifestation. If one engages in temporary fruitive activities, not knowing that Supreme Person, what benefit will he derive? - what can be the benefit of performing temporary fruitive activities — SB 6.5.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.15
[Nārada Muni had also spoken of a man who is the husband of the prostitute. The Haryaśvas understood this as follows.] If one becomes the husband of a prostitute, he loses all independence. Similarly, if a living entity has polluted intelligence, he prolongs his materialistic life. Frustrated by material nature, he must follow the movements of the intelligence, which brings various conditions of happiness and distress. If one performs fruitive activities under such conditions, what will be the benefit? - what can be the use of temporary fruitive activities — SB 6.5.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.18
[Nārada Muni had spoken of a swan. That swan is explained in this verse.] The Vedic literatures [śāstras] vividly describe how to understand the Supreme Lord, the source of all material and spiritual energy. Indeed, they elaborately explain these two energies. The swan [haṁsa] is one who discriminates between matter and spirit, who accepts the essence of everything, and who explains the means of bondage and the means of liberation. The words of scriptures consist of variegated vibrations. If a foolish rascal leaves aside the study of these śāstras to engage in temporary activities, what will be the result? - what is the use of engaging in temporary fruitive activities — SB 6.5.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.19
[Nārada Muni had spoken of a physical object made of sharp blades and thunderbolts. The Haryaśvas understood this allegory as follows.] Eternal time moves very sharply, as if made of razors and thunderbolts. Uninterrupted and fully independent, it drives the activities of the entire world. If one does not try to study the eternal element of time, what benefit can he derive from performing temporary material activities? - what is the use of performing temporary fruitive activities — SB 6.5.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.14
[Nārada Muni had described a woman who is a professional prostitute. The Haryaśvas understood the identity of this woman.] Mixed with the mode of passion, the unsteady intelligence of every living entity is like a prostitute who changes dresses just to attract one's attention. If one fully engages in temporary fruitive activities, not understanding how this is taking place, what does he actually gain?
martya-asat-dhīḥ
- considers the spiritual master to be like an ordinary human being and maintains such an unfavorable attitude — SB 7.15.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.26
The spiritual master should be considered to be directly the Supreme Lord because he gives transcendental knowledge for enlightenment. Consequently, for one who maintains the material conception that the spiritual master is an ordinary human being, everything is frustrated. His enlightenment and his Vedic studies and knowledge are like the bathing of an elephant.
mora habe asat-gati
- I shall not get my destination — Antya 8.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 8.24
"Don't show your face to me! Go anywhere else you like. If I die seeing your face, I shall not achieve the destination of my life.
nānā asat-pathe
- in various sinful activities — Antya 9.88plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 9.88
"Because he is mad after sense gratification,' the Lord said, 'he acts as a government servant but spends the government's revenue for various sinful activities.
prātaḥ-āśāt prāk
- before breakfast — SB 6.18.52plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.18.52
Putting on washed clothing, being always pure and being adorned with turmeric, sandalwood pulp and other auspicious items, before breakfast one should worship the cows, the brāhmaṇas, the goddess of fortune and the Supreme Personality of Godhead., SB 6.19.2-3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.19.2-3
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: On the first day of the bright fortnight of the month of Agrahāyaṇa [November-December], following the instructions of her husband, a woman should begin this regulative devotional service with a vow of penance, for it can fulfill all one's desires. Before beginning the worship of Lord Viṣṇu, the woman should hear the story of how the Maruts were born. Under the instructions of qualified brāhmaṇas, in the morning she should wash her teeth, bathe, and dress herself with white cloth and ornaments, and before taking breakfast she should worship Lord Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī.
sat-asat
- cause and effect — Bg. 11.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 11.37
O great one, who stands above even Brahmā, You are the original master. Why should they not offer their homage up to You, O limitless one? O refuge of the universe, You are the invincible source, the cause of all causes, transcendental to this material manifestation., Ādi 5.83plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 5.83
"The puruṣa is the primary incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Time, nature, prakṛti (as cause and effect), the mind, the material elements, false ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form, complete independence and the moving and nonmoving beings appear subsequently as His opulences.", Madhya 20.267plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.267
" 'Kāraṇābdhiśāyī Viṣṇu [Mahā-Viṣṇu] is the first incarnation of the Supreme Lord, and He is the master of eternal time, space, cause and effects, mind, elements, material ego, modes of nature, senses, the universal form of the Lord, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and the sum total of all living beings, both moving and nonmoving.' - consisting of cause and effect (You are the cause, and Your energy is the effect) — SB 7.9.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.31
My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, the entire cosmic creation is caused by You, and the cosmic manifestation is an effect of Your energy. Although the entire cosmos is but You alone, You keep Yourself aloof from it. The conception of "mine and yours," is certainly a type of illusion [māyā] because everything is an emanation from You and is therefore not different from You. Indeed, the cosmic manifestation is nondifferent from You, and the annihilation is also caused by You. This relationship between Your Lordship and the cosmos is illustrated by the example of the seed and the tree, or the subtle cause and the gross manifestation. - good and bad — Bg. 13.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 13.22
The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongst various species. - gross and subtle — SB 1.3.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 time he sees himself as well as the Lord., SB 1.5.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.27
O great sage, as soon as I got a taste for the Personality of Godhead, my attention to hear of the Lord was unflinching. And as my taste developed, I could realize that it was only in my ignorance that I had accepted gross and subtle coverings, for both the Lord and I are transcendental. - in the cause and in the effect — SB 7.13.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.4
The sannyāsī should always try to see the Supreme pervading everything and see everything, including this universe, resting on the Supreme. - manifest and unmanifest — SB 3.26.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.9
Devahūti said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, kindly explain the characteristics of the Supreme Person and His energies, for both of these are the causes of this manifest and unmanifest creation. - manifested and unmanifested — SB 9.5.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.7
O master of speech, by your effulgence, full of religious principles, the darkness of the world is dissipated, and the knowledge of learned persons or great souls is manifested. Indeed, no one can surpass your effulgence, for all things, manifested and unmanifested, gross and subtle, superior and inferior, are but various forms of you that are manifested by your effulgence. - the Supreme Lord and His different energies — SB 4.22.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.38
The Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself as one with the cause and effect within this body, but one who has transcended the illusory energy by deliberate consideration, which clears the misconception of a snake for a rope, can understand that the Paramātmā is eternally transcendental to the material creation and situated in pure internal energy. Thus the Lord is transcendental to all material contamination. Unto Him only must one surrender.
sat-asat idam
- this material manifestation of cause and effect — SB 5.25.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.25.10
This manifestation of subtle and gross matter exists within the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Out of causeless mercy toward His devotees, He exhibits various forms, which are all transcendental. The Supreme Lord is most liberal, and He possesses all mystic power. To conquer the minds of His devotees and give pleasure to their hearts, He appears in different incarnations and manifests many pastimes.
sat-asat-ātmakaḥ
- the form of the cause and effect — SB 3.22.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.22.4
That is why the brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas protect each other, as well as themselves; and the Lord Himself, who is both the cause and effect and is yet immutable, protects them through each other.
sat-asat-ātmakam
- consisting of cause and effect — SB 3.26.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.10
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The unmanifested eternal combination of the three modes is the cause of the manifest state and is called pradhāna. It is called prakṛti when in the manifested stage of existence.
sat-asat-ātmikā
- as both the cause and the effect — SB 3.5.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.25
The Lord is the seer, and the external energy, which is seen, works as both cause and effect in the cosmic manifestation. O greatly fortunate Vidura, this external energy is known as māyā or illusion, and through her agency only is the entire material manifestation made possible.
sat-asat-ātmikām
- consisting of cause and effect — SB 3.28.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.44
Thus the yogī can be in the self-realized position after conquering the insurmountable spell of māyā, who presents herself as both the cause and effect of this material manifestation and is therefore very difficult to understand.
sat-asat-bhāva-bhāvanam
- the cause of varieties of creation, its cause and effect — SB 8.7.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.24
You are the cause of all causes, the self-effulgent, inconceivable, impersonal Brahman, which is originally Parabrahman. You manifest various potencies in this cosmic manifestation.
sat-asat-paraḥ
- who is the cause of all causes (the supreme cause) — SB 6.16.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.21
The words and mind of the conditioned soul cannot approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for material names and forms are not applicable to the Lord, who is entirely spiritual, beyond the conception of gross and subtle forms. The impersonal Brahman is another of His forms. May He, by His pleasure, protect us.
sat-asat-vimuktam
- transcendental to the manifested and nonmanifested modes of material nature — SB 9.8.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.8.24
O completely peaceful Lord, although material nature, fruitive activities and their consequent material names and forms are Your creation, You are unaffected by them. Therefore, Your transcendental name is different from material names, and Your form is different from material forms. You assume a form resembling a material body just to give us instructions like those of Bhagavad-gītā, but actually You are the supreme original person. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
sat-asat-viśeṣam
- with varieties manifest and unmanifest — SB 4.9.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.13
My dear Lord, O Supreme Unborn, I know that the different varieties of living entities, such as animals, trees, birds, reptiles, demigods and human beings, are spread throughout the universe, which is caused by the total material energy, and I know that they are sometimes manifest and sometimes unmanifest; but I have never experienced the supreme form I behold as I see You now. Now all kinds of methods of theorizing have come to an end.