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- and of the soul — SB 6.16.63plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.63
Persons who try to reach the ultimate goal of life must expertly observe the Supreme Absolute Person and the living entity, who are one in quality in their relationship as part and whole. This is the ultimate understanding of life. There is no better truth than this. - and of the Supersoul (Paramātmā) — Ādi 2.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.26
Those who walk the paths of knowledge and yoga worship only Him, for it is Him they perceive as the impersonal Brahman and localized Paramātmā. - and the mind — SB 3.26.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.34
The activities and characteristics of the ethereal element can be observed as accommodation for the room for the external and internal existences of all living entities, namely the field of activities of the vital air, the senses and the mind. - body — SB 2.4.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 personal body, his wife, his children, his palace, his animals like horses and elephants, his treasury house, his friends and relatives, and his undisputed kingdom., SB 3.30.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.30.6
Such satisfaction with one's standard of living is due to deep-rooted attraction for body, wife, home, children, animals, wealth and friends. In such association, the conditioned soul thinks himself quite perfect., SB 4.7.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.28
The members of the assembly addressed the Lord: O exclusive shelter for all who are situated in troubled life, in this formidable fort of conditional existence the time element, like a snake, is always looking for an opportunity to strike. This world is full of ditches of so-called distress and happiness, and there are many ferocious animals always ready to attack. The fire of lamentation is always blazing, and the mirage of false happiness is always alluring, but one has no shelter from them. Thus foolish persons live in the cycle of birth and death, always overburdened in discharging their so-called duties, and we do not know when they will accept the shelter of Your lotus feet., SB 4.12.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.12.16
Thus Dhruva Mahārāja, at the end, left his kingdom, which extended all over the earth and was bounded by the great oceans. He considered his body, his wives, his children, his friends, his army, his rich treasury, his very comfortable palaces and his many enjoyable pleasure-grounds to be creations of the illusory energy. Thus in due course of time he retired to the forest in the Himalayas known as Badarikāśrama. - by a manifestation of Yourself — SB 7.9.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.32
O my Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, after the annihilation the creative energy is kept in You, who appear to sleep with half-closed eyes. Actually, however, You do not sleep like an ordinary human being, for You are always in a transcendental stage, beyond the creation of the material world, and You always feel transcendental bliss. As Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, You thus remain in Your transcendental status, not touching material objects. Although You appear to sleep, this sleeping is distinct from sleeping in ignorance. - by the body and mind — SB 4.29.23-25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.23-25
The followers of Yavaneśvara [Yamarāja] are called the soldiers of death, and they are known as the various types of disturbances that pertain to the body and mind. Prajvāra represents the two types of fever: extreme heat and extreme cold—typhoid and pneumonia. The living entity lying down within the body is disturbed by many tribulations pertaining to providence, to other living entities and to his own body and mind. Despite all kinds of tribulations, the living entity, subjected to the necessities of the body, mind and senses and suffering from various types of disease, is carried away by many plans due to his lust to enjoy the world. Although transcendental to this material existence, the living entity, out of ignorance, accepts all these material miseries under the pretext of false egoism ("I" and "mine"). In this way he lives for a hundred years within this body. - by the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 3.24.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.24.42
The sage Kardama accepted silence as a vow in order to think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and take shelter of Him exclusively. Without association, he traveled over the surface of the globe as a sannyāsī, devoid of any relationship with fire or shelter. - by themselves — Ādi 2.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.21
[Grandfather Bhīṣma said:] "As the one sun appears differently situated to different seers, so also do You, the unborn, appear differently represented as the Paramātmā in every living being. But when a seer knows himself to be one of Your own servitors, no longer does he maintain such duality. Thus I am now able to comprehend Your eternal forms, knowing well the Paramātmā to be only Your plenary portion." - by Yourself — SB 4.17.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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. Through Your own energy You created all the physical elements, the senses and the heart, for the maintenance of the world. - heart — Bg. 6.11-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.11-12
To practice yoga, one should go to a secluded place and should lay kuśa-grass on the ground and then cover it with a deerskin and a soft cloth. The seat should neither be too high nor too low and should be situated in a sacred place. The yogī should then sit on it very firmly and should practice yoga by controlling the mind and the senses, purifying the heart and fixing the mind on one point., SB 3.30.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.30.8
He gives heart and senses to a woman, who falsely charms him with māyā. He enjoys solitary embraces and talking with her, and he is enchanted by the sweet words of the small children. - Himself — Ādi 14.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 14.33
The Lord replied to His mother, "Why did you conceal self-realization by not teaching Me this practical philosophy in the beginning? - his — SB 3.20.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.40
The glorious Brahmā next evolved from his sloth the ghosts and fiends, but he closed his eyes when he saw them stand naked with their hair scattered. - in Himself — SB 3.24.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.24.33
I surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, descended in the form of Kapila, who is independently powerful and transcendental, who is the Supreme Person and the Lord of the sum total of matter and the element of time, who is the fully cognizant maintainer of all the universes under the three modes of material nature, and who absorbs the material manifestations after their dissolution. - in the body — SB 7.14.3-4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.3-4
A gṛhastha must associate again and again with saintly persons, and with great respect he must hear the nectar of the activities of the Supreme Lord and His incarnations as these activities are described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and other Purāṇas. Thus one should gradually become detached from affection for his wife and children, exactly like a man awakening from a dream. - in the living entities — SB 4.7.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.39
We offer our respectful obeisances unto the Supreme, who has created varieties of manifestations and put them under the spell of the three qualities of the material world in order to create, maintain and annihilate them. He Himself is not under the control of the external energy; in His personal feature He is completely devoid of the variegated manifestation of material qualities, and He is under no illusion of false identification. - into the self — SB 7.11.8-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.8-12
These are the general principles to be followed by all human beings: truthfulness, mercy, austerity (observing fasts on certain days of the month), bathing twice a day, tolerance, discrimination between right and wrong, control of the mind, control of the senses, nonviolence, celibacy, charity, reading of scripture, simplicity, satisfaction, rendering service to saintly persons, gradually taking leave of unnecessary engagements, observing the futility of the unnecessary activities of human society, remaining silent and grave and avoiding unnecessary talk, considering whether one is the body or the soul, distributing food equally to all living entities (both men and animals), seeing every soul (especially in the human form) as a part of the Supreme Lord, hearing about the activities and instructions given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead (who is the shelter of the saintly persons), chanting about these activities and instructions, always remembering these activities and instructions, trying to render service, performing worship, offering obeisances, becoming a servant, becoming a friend, and surrendering one's whole self. O King Yudhiṣṭhira, these thirty qualifications must be acquired in the human form of life. Simply by acquiring these qualifications, one can satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - living being — SB 1.5.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.28
Thus during two seasons-the rainy season and autumn-I had the opportunity to hear these great-souled sages constantly chant the unadulterated glories of the Lord Hari. As the flow of my devotional service began, the coverings of the modes of passion and ignorance vanished. - mind — Antya 10.76plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 10.76
The ocean of transcendental bliss overflowed, and everyone present forgot his body, mind and home. - of all living entities — SB 10.12.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.12.39
If even only once or even by force one brings the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead into one's mind, one can attain the supreme salvation by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, as did Aghāsura. What then is to be said of those whose hearts the Supreme Personality of Godhead enters when He appears as an incarnation, or those who always think of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the source of transcendental bliss for all living entities and by whom all illusion is completely removed? - of Himself — SB 3.13.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.26
Playing like an elephant, He entered into the water after roaring again in reply to the Vedic prayers by the great devotees. The Lord is the object of the Vedic prayers, and thus He understood that the devotees' prayers were meant for Him., Antya 4.192plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 4.192
"At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders unto the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as Himself. - of one’s self — SB 7.15.65plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.65
When the ultimate goal and interest of one's self, one's wife, one's children, one's relatives and all other embodied living beings is one, this is called dravyādvaita, or oneness of interest. - of spiritual knowledge — 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. - of the mind — SB 4.27.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.27.28
The King of the Yavanas replied: After much consideration, I have arrived at a husband for you. Actually, as far as everyone is concerned, you are inauspicious and mischievous. Since no one likes you, how can anyone accept you as his wife?, SB 5.2.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.2.2
Desiring to get a perfect son and become an inhabitant of Pitṛloka, Mahārāja Āgnīdhra once worshiped Lord Brahmā, the master of those in charge of material creation. He went to a valley of Mandara Hill, where the damsels of the heavenly planets come down to stroll. There he collected garden flowers and other necessary paraphernalia and then engaged in severe austerities and worship. - of the mind and senses — SB 3.21.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.23
The Supreme Lord said: Having come to know what was in your mind, I have already arranged for that for which you have worshiped Me well through your mental and sensory discipline. - of the soul — SB 4.22.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.31
When one deviates from his original consciousness, he loses the capacity to remember his previous position or recognize his present one. When remembrance is lost, all knowledge acquired is based on a false foundation. When this occurs, learned scholars consider that the soul is lost., SB 10.10.30-31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.10.30-31
You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the controller of everything. The body, life, ego and senses of every living entity are Your own self. You are the Supreme Person, Viṣṇu, the imperishable controller. You are the time factor, the immediate cause, and You are material nature, consisting of the three modes passion, goodness and ignorance. You are the original cause of this material manifestation. You are the Supersoul, and therefore You know everything within the core of the heart of every living entity. - of the Supreme — Madhya 25.133plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.133
" 'Before the cosmic manifestation was created, the creative propensity was merged in His person. At that time all potencies and manifestations were preserved in the personality of the Supreme Lord. The Lord is the cause of all causes, and He is the all-pervading, self-sufficient person. Before the creation, He existed with His spiritual potency in the spiritual world, wherein various Vaikuṇṭha planets are manifest.' - one’s own — Bg. 16.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 16.18
Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demon becomes envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in his own body and in the bodies of others, and blasphemes against the real religion. - own — SB 1.7.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.7.39
This man is an assassin and murderer of your own family members. Not only that, but he has also dissatisfied his master. He is but the burnt remnants of his family. Kill him immediately., SB 2.1.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.1.4
Persons devoid of ātma-tattva do not inquire into the problems of life, being too attached to the fallible soldiers like the body, children and wife. Although sufficiently experienced, they still do not see their inevitable destruction., SB 2.9.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.27
And [please inform me] how You, by Your own Self, manifest different energies for annihilation, generation, acceptance and maintenance by combination and permutation., SB 3.17.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.17.16
These two demons who appeared in ancient times soon began to exhibit uncommon bodily features; they had steellike frames which began to grow just like two great mountains., SB 4.21.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.21.33
Pṛthu Mahārāja advised his citizens: Engaging your minds, your words, your bodies and the results of your occupational duties, and being always open-minded, you should all render devotional service to the Lord. According to your abilities and the occupations in which you are situated, you should engage your service at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with full confidence and without reservation. Then you will surely be successful in achieving the final objective in your lives., SB 4.22.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.53
Being situated in the liberated position of devotional service, Pṛthu Mahārāja not only performed all fruitive activities but also begot five sons by his wife, Arci. Indeed, all his sons were begotten according to his own desire. - personal — SB 1.1.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.1.18
O wise Sūta, please narrate to us the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Godhead's multi-incarnations. Such auspicious adventures and pastimes of the Lord, the supreme controller, are performed by His internal powers., SB 2.4.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.4.6
I beg to know from you how the Personality of Godhead, by His personal energies, creates these phenomenal universes as they are, which are inconceivable even to the great demigods., SB 4.16.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 citizens will take great satisfaction in accepting him as their ruling king., SB 4.17.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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. Nonetheless I shall cut you into small pieces like grain, and I will uphold the entire population by my personal mystic powers., Antya 4.63plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 4.63
" 'O lotus-eyed one, great personalities like Lord Śiva desire to bathe in the dust of Your lotus feet to drive away ignorance. If I do not get the mercy of Your Lordship, I shall observe vows to reduce the duration of my life, and thus I shall give up bodies for hundreds of births if it is possible to get Your mercy in that way.' - self — Bg. 5.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.11
The yogīs, abandoning attachment, act with body, mind, intelligence, and even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification., Bg. 6.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.32
He is a perfect yogī who, by comparison to his own self, sees the true equality of all beings, both in their happiness and distress, O Arjuna!, Bg. 17.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.16
And serenity, simplicity, gravity, self-control and purity of thought are the austerities of the mind., Bg. 18.36-37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.36-37
O best of the Bhāratas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the end of all distress. That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness., SB 1.2.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.2.22
Certainly, therefore, since time immemorial, all transcendentalists have been rendering devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, with great delight, because such devotional service is enlivening to the self., SB 1.6.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.36
O Vyāsadeva, you are freed from all sins. Thus I have explained my birth and activities for self-realization, as you asked. All this will be conducive for your personal satisfaction also., SB 1.11.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 affected by matter, although He is unattached., SB 2.5.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.4
My dear father, what is the source of your knowledge? Under whose protection are you standing? And under whom are you working? What is your real position? Do you alone create all entities with material elements by your personal energy?, SB 2.6.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.35
Although I am known as the great Brahmā, perfect in the disciplic succession of Vedic wisdom, and although I have undergone all austerities and am an expert in mystic powers and self-realization, and although I am recognized as such by the great forefathers of the living entities, who offer me respectful obeisances, still I cannot understand Him, the Lord, the very source of my birth., 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., SB 3.4.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.17
O my Lord, Your eternal Self is never divided by the influence of time, and there is no limitation to Your perfect knowledge. Thus You were sufficiently able to consult with Yourself, yet You called upon me for consultation, as if bewildered, although You are never bewildered. And this act of Yours bewilders me., SB 3.6.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.7
The total energy of the mahat-tattva, in the form of the gigantic virāṭ-rūpa, divided Himself by Himself into the consciousness of the living entities, the life of activity, and self-identification, which are subdivided into one, ten and three respectively., SB 3.6.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.34
All these different social divisions are born, with their occupational duties and living conditions, from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus for unconditional life and self-realization one has to worship the Supreme Lord under the direction of the spiritual master., SB 3.7.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.4
By His self-sheltered potency of the three modes of material nature, the Lord has caused the creation of this universe. By her He maintains the creation and conversely dissolves it, again and again., SB 3.9.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.19
O my Lord, by Your own will You appear in the various species of living entities, among animals lower than human beings as well as among the demigods, to perform Your transcendental pastimes. You are not affected by material contamination. You come just to fulfill the obligations of Your own principles of religion, and therefore, O Supreme Personality, I offer my obeisances unto You for manifesting such different forms., SB 3.10.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.10.6
Long penance and transcendental knowledge of self-realization had matured Brahmā in practical knowledge, and thus he drank the wind completely, along with the water., SB 4.24.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.53
My dear Lord, those who desire to purify their existence must always engage in meditation upon Your lotus feet, as described above. Those who are serious about executing their occupational duties and who want freedom from fear must take to this process of bhakti-yoga., SB 4.31.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.18
Because the Supreme Lord is the cause of all causes, He is the Supersoul of all individual living entities, and He exists as both the remote and immediate cause. Since He is aloof from the material emanations, He is free from their interactions and is Lord of material nature. You should therefore engage in His devotional service, thinking yourself qualitatively one with Him., SB 5.1.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.36
While enjoying his material opulences with full strength and influence, Mahārāja Priyavrata once began to consider that although he had fully surrendered to the great saint Nārada and was actually on the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he had somehow become again entangled in material activities. Thus his mind now became restless, and he began to speak in a spirit of renunciation., Ādi 9.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 9.38
"By the transcendental desire of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, water has been sprinkled all over the tree, and thus there are innumerable fruits of love of Godhead. - self-realized — SB 1.5.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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. As such, you are as good as the all-pervasive Supersoul. Please, therefore, find out the deficiency in me, despite my being absorbed in transcendence under disciplinary regulations and vows. - soul — SB 4.24.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.39
My dear Lord, You are the gigantic universal form which contains all the individual bodies of the living entities. You are the maintainer of the three worlds, and as such You maintain the mind, senses, body, and air of life within them. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You. - spirit — SB 1.3.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.3.39
Only by making such inquiries in this world can one be successful and perfectly cognizant, for such inquiries invoke transcendental ecstatic love unto the Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of all the universes, and guarantee cent-percent immunity from the dreadful repetition of birth and death. - Supersoul — SB 1.10.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.10.24
O dear friends, here is that very Personality of Godhead whose attractive and confidential pastimes are described in the confidential parts of Vedic literature by His great devotees. It is He only who creates, maintains and annihilates the material world and yet remains unaffected. - the body and mind — SB 4.29.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.32
The living entities are trying to counteract different miserable conditions pertaining to providence, other living entities or the body and mind. Still, they must remain conditioned by the laws of nature, despite all attempts to counter these laws. - the devotees are the Lord’s heart and soul — SB 10.12.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.12.37
This incident of Kṛṣṇa's saving Himself and His associates from death and of giving deliverance to Aghāsura, who had assumed the form of a python, took place when Kṛṣṇa was five years old. It was disclosed in Vrajabhūmi after one year, as if it had taken place on that very day. - the mind — SB 3.33.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.33.2
Devahūti said: Brahmā is said to be unborn because he takes birth from the lotus flower which grows from Your abdomen while You lie in the ocean at the bottom of the universe. But even Brahmā simply meditated upon You, whose body is the source of unlimited universes., SB 5.5.10-13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.10-13
O My sons, you should accept a highly elevated paramahaṁsa, a spiritually advanced spiritual master. In this way, you should place your faith and love in Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You should detest sense gratification and tolerate the duality of pleasure and pain, which are like the seasonal changes of summer and winter. Try to realize the miserable condition of living entities, who are miserable even in the higher planetary systems. Philosophically inquire about the truth. Then undergo all kinds of austerities and penances for the sake of devotional service. Give up the endeavor for sense enjoyment and engage in the service of the Lord. Listen to discussions about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and always associate with devotees. Chant about and glorify the Supreme Lord, and look upon everyone equally on the spiritual platform. Give up enmity and subdue anger and lamentation. Abandon identifying the self with the body and the home, and practice reading the revealed scriptures. Live in a secluded place and practice the process by which you can completely control your life air, mind and senses. Have full faith in the revealed scriptures, the Vedic literatures, and always observe celibacy. Perform your prescribed duties and avoid unnecessary talks. Always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, acquire knowledge from the right source. Thus practicing bhakti-yoga, you will patiently and enthusiastically be elevated in knowledge and will be able to give up the false ego. - the mind and body — SB 8.3.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.18
My Lord, those who are completely freed from material contamination always meditate upon You within the cores of their hearts. You are extremely difficult to attain for those like me who are too attached to mental concoction, home, relatives, friends, money, servants and assistants. You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, uncontaminated by the modes of nature. You are the reservoir of all enlightenment, the supreme controller. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You. - the self — SB 2.7.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.19
O Nārada, you were taught about the science of God and His transcendental loving service by the Personality of Godhead in His incarnation of Haṁsāvatāra. He was very much pleased with you, due to your intense proportion of devotional service. He also explained unto you, lucidly, the full science of devotional service, which is especially understandable by persons who are souls surrendered unto Lord Vāsudeva, the Personality of Godhead., SB 3.7.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.16
O learned sage, your explanations are very good, as they should be. Disturbances to the conditioned soul have no other basis than the movement of the external energy of the Lord., SB 3.16.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.16.17
O Lord, You are the supreme director of the brahminical culture. Your considering the brāhmaṇas to be in the highest position is Your example for teaching others. Actually You are the supreme worshipable Deity, not only for the gods but for the brāhmaṇas also., SB 6.7.29-30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.7.29-30
The ācārya, the spiritual master who teaches all the Vedic knowledge and gives initiation by offering the sacred thread, is the personification of all the Vedas. Similarly, a father personifies Lord Brahmā; a brother, King Indra; a mother, the planet earth; and a sister, mercy. A guest personifies religious principles, an invited guest personifies the demigod Agni, and all living entities personify Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - the spirit — SB 2.7.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.5
To create different planetary systems I had to undergo austerities and penance, and the Lord, thus being pleased with me, incarnated in four sanas [Sanaka, Sanat-kumāra, Sanandana and Sanātana]. In the previous creation the spiritual truth was devastated, but the four sanas explained it so nicely that the truth at once became clearly perceived by the sages. - the Supersoul — SB 1.9.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 misconceptions of duality in regard to His presence in everyone's heart, even in the hearts of the mental speculators. He is in everyone's heart. The sun may be perceived differently, but the sun is one., SB 4.1.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.15
Anasūyā, the wife of Atri Muni, gave birth to three very famous sons—Soma, Dattātreya and Durvāsā—who were partial representations of Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Śiva and Lord Brahmā. Soma was a partial representation of Lord Brahmā, Dattātreya was a partial representation of Lord Viṣṇu, and Durvāsā was a partial representation of Lord Śiva., SB 4.12.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.12.5
My dear Dhruva, come forward. May the Lord always grace you with good fortune. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is beyond our sensory perception, is the Supersoul of all living entities, and thus all entities are one, without distinction. Begin, therefore, to render service unto the transcendental form of the Lord, who is the ultimate shelter of all living entities., SB 8.1.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.1.10
Within this universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His Supersoul feature is present everywhere, wherever there are animate or inanimate beings. Therefore, one should accept only that which is allotted to him; one should not desire to infringe upon the property of others. - the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 2.9.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.1
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, unless one is influenced by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning to the relationship of the pure soul in pure consciousness with the material body. That relationship is just like a dreamer's seeing his own body working., SB 3.15.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.15.39
The Lord is the reservoir of all pleasure. His auspicious presence is meant for everyone's benediction, and His affectionate smiling and glancing touch the core of the heart. The Lord's beautiful bodily color is blackish, and His broad chest is the resting place of the goddess of fortune, who glorifies the entire spiritual world, the summit of all heavenly planets. Thus it appeared that the Lord was personally spreading the beauty and good fortune of the spiritual world. - the Supreme Self — SB 5.1.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.7
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The first created being and most powerful demigod in this universe is Lord Brahmā, who is always responsible for developing universal affairs. Born directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he dedicates his activities to the welfare of the entire universe, for he knows the purpose of the universal creation. This supremely powerful Lord Brahmā, accompanied by his associates and the personified Vedas, left his own abode in the highest planetary system and descended to the place of Prince Priyavrata's meditation. - the tree of work — SB 1.5.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.34
Thus when all a man's activities are dedicated to the service of the Lord, those very activities which caused his perpetual bondage become the destroyer of the tree of work. - to the body — SB 6.11.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.11.27
O my Lord, my master, I am wandering throughout this material world as a result of my fruitive activities. Therefore I simply seek friendship in the association of Your pious and enlightened devotees. My attachment to my body, wife, children and home is continuing by the spell of Your external energy, but I wish to be attached to them no longer. Let my mind, my consciousness and everything I have be attached only to You. - upon the Supersoul — SB 4.11.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.11.11
It is very difficult to achieve the spiritual abode of Hari, in the Vaikuṇṭha planets, but you are so fortunate that you are already destined to go to that abode by worshiping Him as the supreme abode of all living entities. - within — Bg. 10.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 10.11
Out of compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance. - Yourself — Bg. 10.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 10.16
Please tell me in detail of Your divine powers by which You pervade all these worlds and abide in them. - ātmā — Madhya 24.77plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.77
"The word ātmā [self] indicates the highest truth, Kṛṣṇa. He is the all-pervasive witness of all, and He is the supreme form.
ātmā
- ātmā — Madhya 17.129plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 17.129
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied, "Māyāvādī impersonalists are great offenders unto Lord Kṛṣṇa; therefore they simply utter the words Brahman, ātmā and caitanya. - all-pervading, present everywhere — SB 5.11.13-14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.13-14
There are two kinds of kṣetrajña—the living entity, as explained above, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is explained as follows. He is the all-pervading cause of creation. He is full in Himself and is not dependent on others. He is perceived by hearing and direct perception. He is self-effulgent and does not experience birth, death, old age or disease. He is the controller of all the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahmā. He is called Nārāyaṇa, and He is the shelter of living entities after the annihilation of this material world. He is full of all opulences, and He is the resting place of everything material. He is therefore known as Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By His own potency, He is present within the hearts of all living entities, just as the air or vital force is within the bodies of all beings, moving and nonmoving. In this way He controls the body. In His partial feature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enters all bodies and controls them. - and your soul — SB 9.10.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.10.28
O pleasure of the Rākṣasa dynasty, because of you the state of Laṅkā and also we ourselves now have no protector. By your deeds you have made your body fit to be eaten by vultures and your soul fit to go to hell. - body — Bg. 4.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.6
Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form., SB 3.23.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.11
Devahūti continued: My dear lord, I am struck by excited emotion for you. Therefore kindly make what arrangements must be made according to the scriptures so that my skinny body, emaciated through unsatisfied passion, may be rendered fit for you. Also, my lord, please think of a suitable house for this purpose. - consciousness — SB 2.6.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.12
Also, the consciousness of that great personality is the abode of religious principles—mine, yours, and those of the four bachelors Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanat-kumāra and Sanandana. That consciousness is also the abode of truth and transcendental knowledge. - consciousness, heart — SB 4.26.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.26.5
At that time King Purañjana was very much influenced by demoniac propensities. Because of this, his heart became very hard and merciless, and with sharp arrows he killed many innocent animals in the forest, taking no consideration. - even his body — SB 8.22.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.22
Bali Mahārāja had already offered everything to Your Lordship. Without hesitation, he has offered his land, the planets and whatever else he earned by his pious activities, including even his own body. - exactly like body and soul together — SB 7.10.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.49
The impersonal Brahman is Kṛṣṇa Himself because Kṛṣṇa is the source of the impersonal Brahman. He is the origin of the transcendental bliss sought by great saintly persons, yet He, the Supreme Person, is your most dear friend and constant well-wisher and is intimately related to you as the son of your maternal uncle. Indeed, He is always like your body and soul. He is worshipable, yet He acts as your servant and sometimes as your spiritual master. - form — SB 2.10.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.32
The sense organs are attached to the modes of material nature, and the modes of material nature are products of the false ego. The mind is subjected to all kinds of material experiences (happiness and distress), and the intelligence is the feature of the mind's deliberation. - full consciousness — SB 3.5.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.28
Thereafter the mahat-tattva differentiated itself into many different forms as the reservoir of the would-be entities. The mahat-tattva is chiefly in the mode of ignorance, and it generates the false ego. It is a plenary expansion of the Personality of Godhead, with full consciousness of creative principles and time for fructification. - heart and soul — SB 7.15.76plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.76
How wonderful it is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Parabrahman, Kṛṣṇa, who is sought by great, great sages for the sake of liberation and transcendental bliss, is acting as your best well-wisher, your friend, your cousin, your heart and soul, your worshipable director, and your spiritual master. - himself — SB 7.6.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.6.14
One who is too attached cannot understand that he is wasting his valuable life for the maintenance of his family. He also fails to understand that the purpose of human life, a life suitable for realization of the Absolute Truth, is being imperceptibly spoiled. However, he is very cleverly attentive to seeing that not a single farthing is lost by mismanagement. Thus although an attached person in material existence always suffers from threefold miseries, he does not develop a distaste for the way of material existence., Ādi 3.107plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 3.107
Thus the Lord liquidates the debt by offering Himself to the devotee. Considering this, the Ācārya began worshiping the Lord. - his mind — SB 3.30.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.30.18
Thus the man, who engaged with uncontrolled senses in maintaining a family, dies in great grief, seeing his relatives crying. He dies most pathetically, in great pain and without consciousness. - his personal self — Madhya 10.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 10.32
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu arrived at his house, Kāśī Miśra immediately fell down at His lotus feet and surrendered himself and all his possessions. - in His own form — SB 3.5.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.23
The Personality of Godhead, the master of all living entities, existed prior to the creation as one without a second. It is by His will only that creation is made possible and again everything merges in Him. This Supreme Self is symptomized by different names. - life and soul — SB 2.9.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.23
O sinless Brahmā, you may know from Me that it was I who first ordered you to undergo penance when you were perplexed in your duty. Such penance is My heart and soul, and therefore penance and I are nondifferent. - life, soul — SB 3.29.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.33
Therefore I do not find a greater person than he who has no interest outside of Mine and who therefore engages and dedicates all his activities and all his life—everything—unto Me without cessation. - living being — SB 1.4.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.4.30
I am feeling incomplete, though I myself am fully equipped with everything required by the Vedas. - living entity — Bg. 6.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.8
A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogī [or mystic] when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transcendence and is self-controlled. He sees everything—whether it be pebbles, stones or gold—as the same., Antya 4.178plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 4.178
" 'One who is fully satisfied in knowledge obtained and practically applied in life, who is always determined and fixed in his spiritual position, who completely controls his senses, and who sees pebbles, stone and gold on the same level, is understood to be a perfect yogī.' - localized Paramātmā — Madhya 20.157plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.157
"There are three kinds of spiritual processes for understanding the Absolute Truth—the processes of speculative knowledge, mystic yoga and bhakti-yoga. According to these three processes, the Absolute Truth is manifested as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. - mentally — SB 1.6.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.14
Thus traveling, I felt tired, both bodily and mentally, and I was both thirsty and hungry. So I took a bath in a river lake and also drank water. By contacting water, I got relief from my exhaustion. - mind — Bg. 6.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.5
A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well., Bg. 6.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.6
For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy., Bg. 6.13-14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.13-14
One should hold one's body, neck and head erect in a straight line and stare steadily at the tip of the nose. Thus with an unagitated, subdued mind, devoid of fear, completely free from sex life, one should meditate upon Me within the heart and make Me the ultimate goal of life., SB 1.9.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 by the hoofs of the horses. And because of His labor, beads of sweat wetted His face. All these decorations, intensified by the wounds dealt by my sharp arrows, were enjoyed by Him. Let my mind thus go unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa., SB 2.9.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.8
Lord Brahmā underwent penances for one thousand years by the calculations of the demigods. He heard this transcendental vibration from the sky, and he accepted it as divine. Thus he controlled his mind and senses, and the penances he executed were a great lesson for the living entities. Thus he is known as the greatest of all ascetics., SB 3.8.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.8.33
Lord Brahmā, thus being surcharged with the mode of passion, became inclined to create, and after seeing the five causes of creation indicated by the Personality of Godhead, he began to offer his respectful prayers on the path of the creative mentality., SB 6.14.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.20
If the king's mind is fully controlled, all his family members and governmental officers are subordinate to him. His provincial governors present taxes on time, without resistance, and what to speak of lesser servants?, SB 8.5.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.38
May the supremely powerful Personality of Godhead be pleased with us. The different directions are generated from His ears, the holes of the body come from His heart, and the vital force, the senses, the mind, the air within the body, and the ether, which is the shelter of the body, come from His navel., Antya 14.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 14.41
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "At first My mind somehow achieved the treasure of Kṛṣṇa, but it again lost Him. Therefore it gave up My body and home because of lamentation and accepted the religious principles of a kāpālika-yogī. Then My mind went to Vṛndāvana with its disciples, My senses.," - My self — Ādi 6.102plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 6.102
"O Uddhava! Neither Brahmā, nor Śaṅkara, nor Saṅkarṣaṇa, nor Lakṣmī, nor even My own self is as dear to Me as you." - My soul — SB 6.4.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.4.46
My dear brāhmaṇa, austerity in the form of meditation is My heart, Vedic knowledge in the form of hymns and mantras constitutes My body, and spiritual activities and ecstatic emotions are My actual form. The ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices, when properly conducted, are the various limbs of My body, the unseen good fortune proceeding from pious or spiritual activities constitutes My mind, and the demigods who execute My orders in various departments are My life and soul. - Paramātmā — Ādi 2.65plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.65
Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself is the one undivided Absolute Truth, the ultimate reality. He manifests Himself in three features-as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. - person — Bg. 4.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.40
But ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed scriptures do not attain God consciousness. For the doubting soul there is happiness neither in this world nor in the next. - pure self — SB 3.7.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.5
The pure soul is pure consciousness and is never out of consciousness, either due to circumstances, time, situations, dreams or other causes. How then does he become engaged in nescience? - reservoir — SB 3.5.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.28
Thereafter the mahat-tattva differentiated itself into many different forms as the reservoir of the would-be entities. The mahat-tattva is chiefly in the mode of ignorance, and it generates the false ego. It is a plenary expansion of the Personality of Godhead, with full consciousness of creative principles and time for fructification. - Self — Bg. 9.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 9.5
And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities, and although I am everywhere, still My Self is the very source of creation., Bg. 15.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 15.17
Besides these two, there is the greatest living personality, the Lord Himself, who has entered into these worlds and is maintaining them., SB 1.2.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 world's welfare. Only questions of this sort are capable of completely satisfying the self., SB 1.5.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 self-realization?, SB 1.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 the root cause of my dissatisfaction, for you are a man of unlimited knowledge due to your being the offspring of one [Brahmā] who is self-born [without mundane father and mother]., SB 1.18.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.18.50
Generally the transcendentalists, even though engaged by others in the dualities of the material world, are not distressed. Nor do they take pleasure [in worldly things], for they are transcendentally engaged., SB 2.6.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.39
That supreme original Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, expanding His plenary portion as Mahā-Viṣṇu, the first incarnation, creates this manifested cosmos, but He is unborn. The creation, however, takes place in Him, and the material substance and manifestations are all Himself. He maintains them for some time and absorbs them into Himself again., SB 3.5.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.23
The Personality of Godhead, the master of all living entities, existed prior to the creation as one without a second. It is by His will only that creation is made possible and again everything merges in Him. This Supreme Self is symptomized by different names., SB 3.6.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.8
The gigantic universal form of the Supreme Lord is the first incarnation and plenary portion of the Supersoul. He is the Self of an unlimited number of living entities, and in Him rests the aggregate creation, which thus flourishes., SB 3.6.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.39
The wonderful potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is bewildering even to the jugglers. That potential power is unknown even to the self-sufficient Lord, so it is certainly unknown to others., SB 3.9.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.34
Since you have desired to increase the population innumerably and expand your varieties of service, you shall never be deprived in this matter because My causeless mercy upon you will always increase for all time., SB 3.9.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.37
When you were contemplating whether there was a source to the stem of the lotus of your birth and you even entered into that stem, you could not trace out anything. But at that time I manifested My form from within., SB 3.25.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.38
The Lord continued: My dear mother, devotees who receive such transcendental opulences are never bereft of them; neither weapons nor the change of time can destroy such opulences. Because the devotees accept Me as their friend, their relative, their son, preceptor, benefactor and Supreme Deity, they cannot be deprived of their possessions at any time., SB 4.16.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 confidential, and it will not be possible for anyone to know how he will make every activity successful. His treasury will always remain unknown to everyone. He will be the reservoir of unlimited glories and good qualities, and his position will be maintained and covered just as Varuṇa, the deity of the seas, is covered all around by water., SB 6.2.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.32
I am certainly most abominable and unfortunate to have merged in an ocean of sinful activities, but nevertheless, because of my previous spiritual activities, I could see those four exalted personalities who came to rescue me. Now I feel exceedingly happy because of their visit., SB 7.2.60plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.60
Therefore none of you should be aggrieved for the loss of the body—whether your own or those of others. Only in ignorance does one make bodily distinctions, thinking "Who am I? Who are the others? What is mine? What is for others?", SB 7.13.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.37
I do not endeavor to get anything, but am satisfied with whatever is achieved in its own way. If I do not get anything, I am patient and unagitated like a python and lie down in this way for many days., SB 8.7.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.27
O lord, the sky is your navel, the air is your breathing, the sun is your eyes, and the water is your semen. You are the shelter of all kinds of living entities, high and low. The god of the moon is your mind, and the upper planetary system is your head., Ādi 4.56plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.56
Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one and the same, but They have assumed two bodies. Thus They enjoy each other, tasting the mellows of love., Madhya 10.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 10.55
Appreciating Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's favor, Bhavānanda Rāya also said, "Along with my home, riches, servants and five sons, I surrender myself at Your lotus feet. - soul — Bg. 3.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.6
One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender., Bg. 10.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 10.20
I am the Self, O Guḍākeśa, seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings., Bg. 11.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 11.24
O all-pervading Viṣṇu, I can no longer maintain my equilibrium. Seeing Your radiant colors fill the skies and beholding Your eyes and mouths, I am afraid., SB 1.8.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 Kuru dynasty, He covered the embryo of Uttarā by His personal energy., SB 4.13.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 Supersoul and the Supersoul present in everyone's heart. - soul or source — SB 3.5.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.29
Mahat-tattva, or the great causal truth, transforms into false ego, which is manifested in three phases—cause, effect and the doer. All such activities are on the mental plane and are based on the material elements, gross senses and mental speculation. The false ego is represented in three different modes—goodness, passion and ignorance. - spirit — Bg. 13.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 13.32
Those with the vision of eternity can see that the soul is transcendental, eternal, and beyond the modes of nature. Despite contact with the material body, O Arjuna, the soul neither does anything nor is entangled. - spirit soul — SB 1.17.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.17.34
In all sacrificial ceremonies, although sometimes a demigod is worshiped, the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is worshiped because He is the Supersoul of everyone, and exists both inside and outside like the air. Thus it is He only who awards all welfare to the worshiper., SB 7.2.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.22
The spirit soul, the living entity, has no death, for he is eternal and inexhaustible. Being free from material contamination, he can go anywhere in the material or spiritual worlds. He is fully aware and completely different from the material body, but because of being misled by misuse of his slight independence, he is obliged to accept subtle and gross bodies created by the material energy and thus be subjected to so-called material happiness and distress. Therefore, no one should lament for the passing of the spirit soul from the body. - Supersoul — 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., SB 4.29.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.51
One who is engaged in devotional service has not the least fear in material existence. This is because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supersoul and friend of everyone. One who knows this secret is actually educated, and one thus educated can become the spiritual master of the world. One who is an actually bona fide spiritual master, representative of Kṛṣṇa, is not different from Kṛṣṇa., Ādi 2.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.50
"These three Viṣṇus lying in the water are the Supersoul of everything. The Supersoul of all the universes is known as the first puruṣa., Ādi 2.60plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.60
Not knowing that Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān are all features of Kṛṣṇa, foolish scholars speculate in various ways., Madhya 24.137plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.137
" 'When the living entity is attracted by the material energy that is separate from Kṛṣṇa, he is overpowered by fear. Because he is separated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the material energy, his conception of life is reversed. In other words, instead of being the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, he becomes Kṛṣṇa's competitor. This is called viparyayaḥ asmṛtiḥ. To nullify this mistake, one who is actually learned and advanced worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead as his spiritual master, worshipful Deity and source of life. Be thus worships the Lord by the process of unalloyed devotional service.', Madhya 25.138plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.138
" 'When the living entity is attracted by the material energy, which is separate from Kṛṣṇa, he is overpowered by fear. Because he is separated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the material energy, his conception of life is reversed. In other words, instead of being the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, he becomes Kṛṣṇa's competitor. This is called viparyayo 'smṛtiḥ. To nullify this mistake, one who is actually learned and advanced worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead as his spiritual master, worshipful Deity and source of life. He thus worships the Lord by the process of unalloyed devotional service.' - Supersoul situated in everyone’s heart — SB 7.5.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.13
Persons who always think in terms of "enemy" and "friend" are unable to ascertain the Supersoul within themselves. Not to speak of them, even such exalted persons as Lord Brahmā, who are fully conversant with the Vedic literature, are sometimes bewildered in following the principles of devotional service. The same Supreme Personality of Godhead who has created this situation has certainly given me the intelligence to take the side of your so-called enemy. - the body — SB 1.13.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 body is now overtaken by invalidity, and you are living in the home of another., SB 6.10.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.10.4
In this material world, every living entity is very much addicted to his material body. Struggling to keep his body forever, everyone tries to protect it by all means, even at the sacrifice of all his possessions. Therefore, who would be prepared to deliver his body to anyone, even if it were demanded by Lord Viṣṇu?, SB 7.10.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.8
O my Lord, because of lusty desires from the very beginning of one's birth, the functions of one's senses, mind, life, body, religion, patience, intelligence, shyness, opulence, strength, memory and truthfulness are vanquished., SB 8.19.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.19.40
When a tree is uprooted it immediately falls down and begins to dry up. Similarly, if one doesn't take care of the body, which is supposed to be untruth—in other words, if the untruth is uprooted—the body undoubtedly becomes dry. - the cit-kaṇa, or spiritual spark — Īśo 7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 7
One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him? - the degree of understanding — SB 7.14.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.38
O King Yudhiṣṭhira, the Supersoul in every body gives intelligence to the individual soul according to his capacity for understanding. Therefore the Supersoul is the chief within the body. The Supersoul is manifested to the individual soul according to the individual's comparative development of knowledge, austerity, penance and so on. - the false ego — SB 6.12.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.12.11
The three puruṣas—Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī-Viṣṇu—the material nature, the total material energy, the false ego, the five material elements, the material senses, the mind, the intelligence and consciousness cannot create the material manifestation without the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - the goal of life — SB 4.22.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.16
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always anxious to elevate the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, and for their special benefit, the Lord travels all over the world in the form of self-realized persons like you. - the gross senses and the subtle mind — SB 1.13.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.53
On the banks at Saptasrota, Dhṛtarāṣṭra is now engaged in beginning aṣṭāṅga-yoga by bathing three times daily, in the morning, noon and evening, by performing the Agni-hotra sacrifice with fire and by drinking only water. This helps one control the mind and the senses and frees one completely from thoughts of familial affection. - the heart and soul — SB 6.3.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.32
One who constantly hears and chants the holy name of the Lord and hears and chants about His activities can very easily attain the platform of pure devotional service, which can cleanse the dirt from one's heart. One cannot achieve such purification merely by observing vows and performing Vedic ritualistic ceremonies. - the individual soul — SB 3.27.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.2
When the soul is under the spell of material nature and false ego, identifying his body as the self, he becomes absorbed in material activities, and by the influence of false ego he thinks that he is the proprietor of everything. - the life and soul — SB 5.18.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.13
Just as aquatics always desire to remain in the vast mass of water, all conditioned living entities naturally desire to remain in the vast existence of the Supreme Lord. Therefore if someone very great by material calculations fails to take shelter of the Supreme Soul but instead becomes attached to material household life, his greatness is like that of a young, low-class couple. One who is too attached to material life loses all good spiritual qualities., SB 5.20.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.46
All living entities, including demigods, human beings, animals, birds, insects, reptiles, creepers and trees, depend upon the heat and light given by the sun-god from the sun planet. Furthermore, it is because of the sun's presence that all living entities can see, and therefore he is called dṛg-īśvara, the Personality of Godhead presiding over sight. - the living entities — SB 8.5.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.30
No one can overcome the Supreme Personality of Godhead's illusory energy [māyā], which is so strong that it bewilders everyone, making one lose the sense to understand the aim of life. That same māyā, however, is subdued by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who rules everyone and who is equally disposed toward all living entities. Let us offer our obeisances unto Him. - the living entity — SB 2.7.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.53
The Lord's activities in association with His different energies should be described, appreciated and heard in accordance with the teachings of the Supreme Lord. If this is done regularly with devotion and respect, one is sure to get out of the illusory energy of the Lord., SB 3.32.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.38
There are varieties of material existence for the living entity according to the work he performs in ignorance or forgetfulness of his real identity. My dear mother, if anyone enters into that forgetfulness, he is unable to understand where his movements will end., Madhya 24.309plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.309
" 'The word kṣetrajña refers to the living entity, the enjoyer, the chief and material nature.' - the living force — SB 4.16.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 his system of espionage, and he himself will remain neutral regarding all matters of glorification or vilification paid to him. He will be exactly like air, the life force within the body, which is exhibited internally and externally but is always neutral to all affairs., SB 5.22.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.22.5
The sun-god, who is Nārāyaṇa, or Viṣṇu, the soul of all the worlds, is situated in outer space between the upper and lower portions of the universe. Passing through twelve months on the wheel of time, the sun comes in touch with twelve different signs of the zodiac and assumes twelve different names according to those signs. The aggregate of those twelve months is called a saṁvatsara, or an entire year. According to lunar calculations, two fortnights—one of the waxing moon and the other of the waning—form one month. That same period is one day and night for the planet Pitṛloka. According to stellar calculations, a month equals two and one quarter constellations. When the sun travels for two months, a season passes, and therefore the seasonal changes are considered parts of the body of the year., Madhya 25.133plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.133
" 'Before the cosmic manifestation was created, the creative propensity was merged in His person. At that time all potencies and manifestations were preserved in the personality of the Supreme Lord. The Lord is the cause of all causes, and He is the all-pervading, self-sufficient person. Before the creation, He existed with His spiritual potency in the spiritual world, wherein various Vaikuṇṭha planets are manifest.' - the localized Paramātmā — Ādi 2.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.6
Impersonal Brahman, localized Paramātmā and the Personality of Godhead are three subjects, and the glowing effulgence, the partial manifestation and the original form are their three respective predicates. - the mind — SB 3.16.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.16.13
Brahmā continued: Even though the sages had been bitten by the serpent of anger, their souls were not satiated with hearing the Lord's lovely and illuminating speech, which was like a series of Vedic hymns., SB 5.11.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.5
Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust and anger. In this way, it becomes attracted to material sense enjoyment. In other words, the mind is conducted by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. There are eleven senses and five material elements, and out of these sixteen items, the mind is the chief. Therefore the mind brings about birth in different types of bodies among demigods, human beings, animals and birds. When the mind is situated in a higher or lower position, it accepts a higher or lower material body., SB 6.10.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.10.9
If one is unhappy to see the distress of other living beings and happy to see their happiness, his religious principles are appreciated as imperishable by exalted persons who are considered pious and benevolent., SB 6.14.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.21
O King Citraketu, I can observe that your mind is not pleased. You seem not to have achieved your desired goal. Is this because of you yourself, or has it been caused by others? Your pale face reflects your deep anxiety. - the most dear — Madhya 20.138plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.138
" 'Being very dear to the devotees and sādhus, I am attained through unflinching faith and devotional service. This bhakti-yoga system, which gradually increases attachment for Me, purifies even a human being born among dog-eaters. That is to say, everyone can be elevated to the spiritual platform by the process of bhakti-yoga.', Madhya 25.136plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.136
" 'Being very dear to the devotees and sādhus, I am attained through unflinching faith and devotional service. This bhakti-yoga system, which gradually increases attachment for Me, purifies even a human being born among dog-eaters. That is to say, everyone can be elevated to the spiritual platform by the process of bhakti-yoga.' - the moving force — SB 8.12.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.4
Lord Mahādeva said: O chief demigod among the demigods, O all-pervading Lord, master of the universe, by Your energy You are transformed into the creation. You are the root and efficient cause of everything. You are not material. Indeed, You are the Supersoul or supreme living force of everything. Therefore, You are Parameśvara, the supreme controller of all controllers. - the original source — SB 7.6.20-23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.6.20-23
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, who is infallible and indefatigable, is present in different forms of life, from the inert living beings [sthāvara], such as the plants, to Brahmā, the foremost created living being. He is also present in the varieties of material creations and in the material elements, the total material energy and the modes of material nature [sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa], as well as the unmanifested material nature and the false ego. Although He is one, He is present everywhere, and He is also the transcendental Supersoul, the cause of all causes, who is present as the observer in the cores of the hearts of all living entities. He is indicated as that which is pervaded and as the all-pervading Supersoul, but actually He cannot be indicated. He is changeless and undivided. He is simply perceived as the supreme sac-cid-ānanda [eternity, knowledge and bliss]. Being covered by the curtain of the external energy, to the atheist He appears nonexistent. - the original source of life — SB 7.7.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.49
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is the soul and the Supersoul of all living entities. Every living entity is a manifestation of His energy in terms of the living soul and the material body. Therefore the Lord is the most dear, and He is the supreme controller. - the Paramātmā — SB 3.28.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.41
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Parambrahma, is the seer. He is different from the jīva soul, or individual living entity, who is combined with the senses, the five elements and consciousness. - the pure soul — SB 3.31.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.13
I, the pure soul, appearing now bound by my activities, am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of māyā. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him who is also here with me but who is unaffected and changeless. He is unlimited, but He is perceived in the repentant heart. To Him I offer my respectful obeisances. - the self — Bg. 13.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 13.33
The sky, due to its subtle nature, does not mix with anything, although it is all-pervading. Similarly, the soul, situated in Brahman vision, does not mix with the body, though situated in that body., SB 1.1.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.1.11
There are many varieties of scriptures, and in all of them there are many prescribed duties, which can be learned only after many years of study in their various divisions. Therefore, O sage, please select the essence of all these scriptures and explain it for the good of all living beings, that by such instruction their hearts may be fully satisfied., SB 1.2.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self., SB 4.31.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.13
Factually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source of all self-realization. Consequently, the goal of all auspicious activities—karma, jñāna, yoga and bhakti—is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - the self or soul — SB 4.20.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.3
O King, one who is advanced in intelligence and eager to perform welfare activities for others is considered best amongst human beings. An advanced human being is never malicious to others. Those with advanced intelligence are always conscious that this material body is different from the soul. - the soul (becomes purified) — SB 10.5.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.4
O King, by the passing of time, land and other material possessions are purified; by bathing, the body is purified; and by being cleansed, unclean things are purified. By purificatory ceremonies, birth is purified; by austerity, the senses are purified; and by worship and charity offered to the brāhmaṇas, material possessions are purified. By satisfaction, the mind is purified; and by self-realization, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the soul is purified. - the soul — SB 1.6.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.35
It is true that by practicing restraint of the senses by the yoga system one can get relief from the disturbances of desire and lust, but this is not sufficient to give satisfaction to the soul, for this [satisfaction] is derived from devotional service to the Personality of Godhead., SB 1.9.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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, the royal and learned orders, and in that great assembly Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was worshiped by one and all as the most exalted Personality of Godhead. This happened during my presence, and I remembered the incident in order to keep my mind upon the Lord., SB 4.29.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.17
Formerly it was explained that the Queen is one's intelligence. While one is awake or asleep, that intelligence creates different situations. Being influenced by contaminated intelligence, the living entity envisions something and simply imitates the actions and reactions of his intelligence., SB 7.2.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.41
Every conditioned soul receives a different type of body according to his work, and when the engagement is finished the body is finished. Although the spirit soul is situated in subtle and gross material bodies in different forms of life, he is not bound by them, for he is always understood to be completely different from the manifested body., SB 7.2.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.45
In the body the most important substance is the life air, but that also is neither the listener nor the speaker. Beyond even the life air, the soul also can do nothing, for the Supersoul is actually the director, in cooperation with the individual soul. The Supersoul conducting the activities of the body is different from the body and living force., SB 7.2.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.47
As long as the spirit soul is covered by the subtle body, consisting of the mind, intelligence and false ego, he is bound to the results of his fruitive activities. Because of this covering, the spirit soul is connected with the material energy and must accordingly suffer material conditions and reversals, continually, life after life., SB 7.3.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.33
O my lord, being changelessly situated in your own abode, you expand your universal form within this cosmic manifestation, thus appearing to taste the material world. You are Brahman, the Supersoul, the oldest, the Personality of Godhead., SB 7.15.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.54
On his path of ascent, the progressive living entity enters the different worlds of fire, the sun, the day, the end of the day, the bright fortnight, the full moon, and the passing of the sun in the north, along with their presiding demigods. When he enters Brahmaloka, he enjoys life for many millions of years, and finally his material designation comes to an end. He then comes to a subtle designation, from which he attains the causal designation, witnessing all previous states. Upon the annihilation of this causal state, he attains his pure state, in which he identifies with the Supersoul. In this way the living entity becomes transcendental., SB 8.7.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.25
O lord, you are the original source of Vedic literature. You are the original cause of material creation, the life force, the senses, the five elements, the three modes and the mahat-tattva. You are eternal time, determination and the two religious systems called truth [satya] and truthfulness [ṛta]. You are the shelter of the syllable oṁ, which consists of three letters a-u-m., Madhya 20.161plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.161
"The Paramātmā, the Supersoul feature, is the partial plenary portion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the original source of all living entities. It is also Kṛṣṇa who is the original source of Paramātmā., Madhya 24.78plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.78
" 'Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is the all-pervasive original source of everything; He is therefore the Supersoul of everything.' - the soul, mind, body and everything — SB 7.11.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.7
The Supreme Being, the Personality of Godhead, is the essence of all Vedic knowledge, the root of all religious principles, and the memory of great authorities. O King Yudhiṣṭhira, this principle of religion is to be understood as evidence. On the basis of this religious principle, everything is satisfied, including one's mind, soul and even one's body. - the spirit soul — Bg. 3.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.27
The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature., SB 3.28.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.43
As fire is exhibited in different forms of wood, so, under different conditions of the modes of material nature, the pure spirit soul manifests itself in different bodies., SB 6.17.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.17.19
In this material world, neither the living entity himself nor others [friends and enemies] are the cause of material happiness and distress. But because of gross ignorance, the living entity thinks that he and others are the cause., SB 8.16.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.16.19
Kaśyapa Muni continued: What is this material body, made of five elements? It is different from the spirit soul. Indeed, the spirit soul is completely different from the material elements from which the body is made. But because of bodily attachment, one is regarded as a husband or son. These illusory relationships are caused by misunderstanding. - the spirit soul, the part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead — 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." - the Supersoul — SB 1.13.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.48
Therefore, O King, you should look to the Supreme Lord only, who is one without a second and who manifests Himself by different energies and is both within and without., SB 2.1.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.1.39
One should concentrate his mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who alone distributes Himself in so many manifestations just as ordinary persons create thousands of manifestations in dreams. One must concentrate the mind on Him, the only all-blissful Absolute Truth. Otherwise one will be misled and will cause his own degradation., SB 2.2.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.2.6
Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one's own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence., SB 2.4.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.4.19
He is the Supersoul and the Supreme Lord of all self-realized souls. He is the personification of the Vedas, religious scriptures and austerities. He is worshiped by Lord Brahmā and Śiva and all those who are transcendental to all pretensions. Being so revered with awe and veneration, may that Supreme Absolute be pleased with me., SB 2.10.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.9
All three of the above-mentioned stages of different living entities are interdependent. In the absence of one, another is not understood. But the Supreme Being who sees every one of them as the shelter of the shelter is independent of all, and therefore He is the supreme shelter., SB 3.9.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.22
Let the Supreme Lord be merciful towards me. He is the one friend and soul of all living entities in the world, and He maintains all, for their ultimate happiness, by His six transcendental opulences. May He be merciful towards me so that I, as before, may be empowered with the introspection to create, for I am also one of the surrendered souls who are dear to the Lord. , SB 3.9.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.42
I am the Supersoul of every individual. I am the supreme director and the dearest. People are wrongly attached to the gross and subtle bodies, but they should be attached to Me only., SB 4.16.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 he is an incarnation of the Supreme known as a śaktyāveśa-avatāra. Being a liberated soul and completely learned, he sees all material varieties as meaningless because their basic principle is nescience., SB 4.29.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.50
Śrī Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the Supersoul and guide of all living entities who have accepted material bodies within this world. He is the supreme controller of all material activities in material nature. He is also our best friend, and everyone should take shelter at His lotus feet. In doing so, one's life will be auspicious., SB 4.31.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.13
Factually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source of all self-realization. Consequently, the goal of all auspicious activities—karma, jñāna, yoga and bhakti—is the Supreme Personality of Godhead., SB 6.4.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.4.13
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated as the Supersoul within the cores of the hearts of all living entities, whether moving or nonmoving, including men, birds, animals, trees and, indeed, all living entities. Therefore you should consider every body a residence or temple of the Lord. By such vision you will satisfy the Lord. You should not angrily kill these living entities in the forms of trees., SB 7.3.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.30
My dear lord, by your form as the Vedas personified and through knowledge relating to the activities of all the yajñic brāhmaṇas, you spread the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies of the seven kinds of sacrifices, headed by agniṣṭoma. Indeed, you inspire the yajñic brāhmaṇas to perform the rituals mentioned in the three Vedas. Being the Supreme Soul, the Supersoul of all living entities, you are beginningless, endless and omniscient, beyond the limits of time and space., SB 7.3.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.31
O my lord, Your Lordship is eternally awake, seeing everything that happens. As eternal time, you reduce the duration of life for all living entities through your different parts, such as moments, seconds, minutes and hours. Nonetheless, you are unchanged, resting in one place as the Supersoul, witness and Supreme Lord, the birthless, all-pervading controller who is the cause of life for all living entities., SB 7.4.22-23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.4.22-23
"Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto that direction where the Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated, where those purified souls in the renounced order of life, the great saintly persons, go, and from which, having gone, they never return." Without sleep, fully controlling their minds, and living on only their breath, the predominating deities of the various planets began worshiping Hṛṣīkeśa with this meditation., 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., SB 9.1.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 the end of the millennium, when neither this manifested cosmos nor anything else but Him existed., SB 9.9.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.9.7
Like a cloth woven of threads extending for its length and breadth, this entire universe, in all its latitude and longitude, is situated under different potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Śiva is the incarnation of the Lord, and thus he represents the Supersoul in the embodied soul. He can sustain your forceful waves on his head., Ādi 1.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.3
What the Upaniṣads describe as the impersonal Brahman is but the effulgence of His body, and the Lord known as the Supersoul is but His localized plenary portion. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa Himself, full with six opulences. He is the Absolute Truth, and no other truth is greater than or equal to Him., Ādi 2.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.5
What the Upaniṣads describe as the impersonal Brahman is but the effulgence of His body, and the Lord known as the Supersoul is but His localized plenary portion. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa Himself, full with six opulences. He is the Absolute Truth, and no other truth is greater than or equal to Him., Ādi 2.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.30
"O Lord of lords, You are the seer of all creation. You are indeed everyone's dearest life. Are You not, therefore, my father, Nārāyaṇa? Nārāyaṇa refers to one whose abode is in the water born from Nara [Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu], and that Nārāyaṇa is Your plenary portion. All Your plenary portions are transcendental. They are absolute and are not creations of māyā.", Ādi 2.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.36
"All the living beings within the material and spiritual worlds are ultimately born of You, for You are the Supersoul of them all., Ādi 2.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.51
"Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is the Supersoul of the aggregate of living entities, and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is the Supersoul of each individual living being., Ādi 3.69plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 3.69
"O Lord of lords, You are the seer of all creation. You are indeed everyone's dearest life. Are You not, therefore, my father, Nārāyaṇa? 'Nārāyaṇa' refers to one whose abode is in the water born from Nara [Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu], and that Nārāyaṇa is Your plenary portion. All Your plenary portions are transcendental. They are absolute and are not creations of māyā.", Ādi 6.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 6.23
"O Lord of lords, You are the seer of all creation. You are indeed everyone's dearest life. Are You not, therefore, my father, Nārāyaṇa? 'Nārāyaṇa' refers to one whose abode is in the water born from Nara [Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu ], and that Nārāyaṇa is Your plenary portion. All Your plenary portions are transcendental. They are absolute and are not creations of māyā.", Madhya 20.119plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.119
" 'When the living entity is attracted by the material energy, which is separate from Kṛṣṇa, he is overpowered by fear. Because he is separated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the material energy, his conception of life is reversed. In other words, instead of being the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, he becomes Kṛṣṇa's competitor. This is called viparyayo 'smṛtiḥ. To nullify this mistake, one who is actually learned and advanced worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead as his spiritual master, worshipful Deity and source of life. He thus worships the Lord by the process of unalloyed devotional service.', Madhya 22.162plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.162
" 'My dear mother, Devahūti! O emblem of peace! My weapon, the disc of time, never vanquishes those for whom I am very dear, for whom I am the Supersoul, the son, friend, spiritual master, well-wisher, worshipable Deity and desired goal. Since the devotees are always attached to Me, they are never vanquished by the agents of time.', Madhya 25.133plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.133
" 'Before the cosmic manifestation was created, the creative propensity was merged in His person. At that time all potencies and manifestations were preserved in the personality of the Supreme Lord. The Lord is the cause of all causes, and He is the all-pervading, self-sufficient person. Before the creation, He existed with His spiritual potency in the spiritual world, wherein various Vaikuṇṭha planets are manifest.', Antya 14.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 14.46
"The great yogī of My mind always studies the poetry and discussions of Lord Kṛṣṇa's Vṛndāvana pastimes. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and other scriptures, great saintly yogīs like Vyāsadeva and Śukadeva Gosvāmī have described Lord Kṛṣṇa as the Supersoul, beyond all material contamination., Antya 14.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 14.50
"There is a solitary garden where Kṛṣṇa enjoys His pastimes, and in one corner of a pavilion in that garden, the yogī of My mind, along with his disciples, practices mystic yoga. Wanting to see Kṛṣṇa directly, this yogī remains awake throughout the night, meditating on Kṛṣṇa who is the Supersoul, uncontaminated by the three modes of nature. - the Supersoul, the supreme father — SB 8.5.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.48
Activities dedicated to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even if performed in small measure, never go in vain. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, being the supreme father, is naturally very dear and always ready to act for the good of the living entities. - the Supreme Lord — SB 6.16.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.11
The Supreme Lord [ātmā], the creator of cause and effect, does not accept the happiness and distress that result from fruitive actions. He is completely independent of having to accept a material body, and because He has no material body, He is always neutral. The living entities, being part and parcel of the Lord, possess His qualities in a minute quantity. Therefore one should not be affected by lamentation. - the Supreme Soul — SB 3.13.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.13
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Janārdana [Lord Kṛṣṇa], is the form to accept all the results of sacrifice. If He is not satisfied, then one's labor for advancement is futile. He is the ultimate Self, and therefore one who does not satisfy Him certainly neglects his own interests., SB 3.26.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.3
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supreme Soul, and He has no beginning. He is transcendental to the material modes of nature and beyond the existence of this material world. He is perceivable everywhere because He is self-effulgent, and by His self-effulgent luster the entire creation is maintained., SB 4.9.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.15
My Lord, by Your unbroken transcendental glance You are the supreme witness of all stages of intellectual activities. You are eternally liberated, Your existence is situated in pure goodness, and You are existent in the Supersoul without change. You are the original Personality of Godhead, full with six opulences, and You are eternally the master of the three modes of material nature. Thus, You are always different from the ordinary living entities. As Lord Viṣṇu, You maintain all the affairs of the entire universe, and yet You stand aloof and are the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices., SB 5.19.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.6
Since Lord Śrī Rāmacandra is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, He is not attached to anything in this material world. He is the most beloved Supersoul of all self-realized souls, and He is their very intimate friend. He is full of all opulences. Therefore He could not possibly have suffered because of separation from His wife, nor could He have given up His wife and Lakṣmaṇa, His younger brother. To give up either would have been absolutely impossible., SB 7.14.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.13
Through proper deliberation, one should give up attraction to his wife's body because that body will ultimately be transformed into small insects, stool or ashes. What is the value of this insignificant body? How much greater is the Supreme Being, who is all-pervading like the sky?, SB 8.24.52plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.52
My Lord, You are the supreme well-wishing friend of everyone, the dearmost friend, the controller, the Supersoul, the supreme instructor and the giver of supreme knowledge and the fulfillment of all desires. But although You are within the heart, the foolish, because of lusty desires in the heart, cannot understand You. - the Supreme Soul, Kṛṣṇa — SB 10.13.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.27
In this way, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, having Himself become the cowherd boys and groups of calves, maintained Himself by Himself. Thus He continued His pastimes, both in Vṛndāvana and in the forest, for one year. - the very self — SB 7.8.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.8.8
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme controller and time factor, is the power of the senses, the power of the mind, the power of the body, and the vital force of the senses. His influence is unlimited. He is the best of all living entities, the controller of the three modes of material nature. By His own power, He creates this cosmic manifestation, maintains it and annihilates it also. - the vital force — SB 5.11.13-14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.13-14
There are two kinds of kṣetrajña—the living entity, as explained above, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is explained as follows. He is the all-pervading cause of creation. He is full in Himself and is not dependent on others. He is perceived by hearing and direct perception. He is self-effulgent and does not experience birth, death, old age or disease. He is the controller of all the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahmā. He is called Nārāyaṇa, and He is the shelter of living entities after the annihilation of this material world. He is full of all opulences, and He is the resting place of everything material. He is therefore known as Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By His own potency, He is present within the hearts of all living entities, just as the air or vital force is within the bodies of all beings, moving and nonmoving. In this way He controls the body. In His partial feature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enters all bodies and controls them. - the word ātmā — Madhya 24.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.12
" 'The following are synonyms of the word ātmā: the body, mind, Absolute Truth, natural characteristics, firmness, intelligence and endeavor.' - whose mind — SB 4.31.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.8
The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, being thus petitioned by the Pracetās, the supreme devotee Nārada, who is always absorbed in thoughts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, began to reply., SB 6.14.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.5
O great sage, among many millions who are liberated and perfect in knowledge of liberation, one may be a devotee of Lord Nārāyaṇa, or Kṛṣṇa. Such devotees, who are fully peaceful, are extremely rare. - whose nature — Madhya 23.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.5
" 'When devotional service is situated on the transcendental platform of pure goodness, it is like a ray of the sunlight of love for Kṛṣṇa. At such a time, devotional service causes the heart to be softened by various tastes, and it is called bhāva [emotion].' - whose self — SB 5.14.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.28
Sometimes the conditioned soul is attracted by illusion personified (his wife or girl friend) and becomes eager to be embraced by a woman. Thus he loses his intelligence as well as knowledge of life's goal. At that time, no longer attempting spiritual cultivation, he becomes overly attached to his wife or girl friend and tries to provide her with a suitable apartment. Again, he becomes very busy under the shelter of that home and is captivated by the talks, glances and activities of his wife and children. In this way he loses his Kṛṣṇa consciousness and throws himself in the dense darkness of material existence. - you — SB 3.9.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.43
By following My instructions you can now generate the living entities as before, by dint of your complete Vedic wisdom and the body you have directly received from Me, the supreme cause of everything. - ātmā — Madhya 24.165plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.165
"The word ātmā sometimes means 'the mind.' In this case, the word ātmārāma means 'a person who is satisfied by mental speculation.' When such a person associates with a pure devotee, he takes to devotional service at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.
ātmā antaḥ-yāmī
- in-dwelling Supersoul — Ādi 2.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.18
He who is described in the yoga-śāstras as the indwelling Supersoul [ātmā antar-yāmī] is also a plenary portion of Govinda's personal expansion.
ātmā eva
- He Himself — SB 3.10.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.10.30
Now I shall describe the descendants of the Manus. The creator, Brahmā, as the incarnation of the passion mode of the Personality of Godhead, creates the universal affairs with unfailing desires in every millennium by the force of the Lord's energy. - just like Myself — Bg. 7.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 7.18
All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider verily to dwell in Me. Being engaged in My transcendental service, he attains Me. - the very mind — Bg. 6.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.6
For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy.
ātmā haite
- than His own self — Ādi 6.100plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 6.100
The position of being a devotee is higher than that of equality with Lord Kṛṣṇa, for the devotees are dearer to Lord Kṛṣṇa than His own self., Ādi 6.101plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 6.101
Lord Kṛṣṇa considers His devotees greater than Himself. In this connection the scriptures provide an abundance of evidence.
ātma pavitrite
- to purify Myself — Madhya 20.56plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.56
The Lord replied, "I am touching you just to purify Myself because by the force of your devotional service you can purify the whole universe.
ātmā vai jāyate putraḥ
- his self appears as the son — Madhya 12.56plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 12.56
"It is indicated in the revealed scriptures that the son represents the father; therefore the son's meeting with Me would be just as good as the King's meeting with Me."
ātma-ābhāsam
- his reflection — SB 3.20.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.45
One day, Brahmā, the creator of the living entities, beheld his own reflection in the water, and admiring himself, he evolved Kimpuruṣas as well as Kinnaras out of that reflection.
ātma-abhicāraḥ
- self-envy or envious of yourself (your mind has become your enemy) — SB 9.4.69plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.69
O brāhmaṇa, let Me now advise you for your own protection. Please hear from Me. By offending Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, you have acted with self-envy. Therefore you should go to him immediately, without a moment's delay. One's so-called prowess, when employed against the devotee, certainly harms he who employs it. Thus it is the subject, not the object, who is harmed.
ātma-ādi-stamba-paryantaiḥ
- from Lord Brahmā to the insignificant living entity — SB 10.13.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.51
All beings, both moving and nonmoving, from the four-headed Lord Brahmā down to the most insignificant living entity, had taken forms and were differently worshiping those viṣṇu-mūrtis, according to their respective capacities, with various means of worship, such as dancing and singing.
ātma-aiśvarya
- his own personal opulence — SB 9.15.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.15.25
Kārtavīryārjuna thought that Jamadagni was more powerful and wealthy than himself because of possessing a jewel in the form of the kāmadhenu. Therefore he and his own men, the Haihayas, were not very much appreciative of Jamadagni's reception. On the contrary, they wanted to possess that kāmadhenu, which was useful for the execution of the agnihotra sacrifice.
ātma-aiśvarya-smṛtiḥ
- remembrance of the exalted transcendental position of Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 6.9.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.47
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O beloved demigods, you have offered your prayers to Me with great knowledge, and I am certainly most pleased with you. A person is liberated by such knowledge, and thus he remembers My exalted position, which is above the conditions of material life. Such a devotee is fully purified by offering prayers in full knowledge. This is the source of devotional service to Me.
ātma-aṁśa-bhūtām
- a potency of the Supreme Soul — SB 8.12.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.42
O descendant of Bharata Mahārāja, Lord Śiva, in jubilation, then addressed his wife, Bhavānī, who is accepted by all authorities as the potency of Lord Viṣṇu.
ātma-aṁśakena
- by Your own part and parcel — SB 4.24.64plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.64
My dear Lord, after creating by Your own potencies, You enter within the creation in four kinds of forms. Being within the hearts of the living entities, You know them and know how they are enjoying their senses. The so-called happiness of this material creation is exactly like the bees' enjoyment of honey after it has been collected in the honeycomb.
ātma-ānanda
- of Your personal bliss — SB 6.16.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.20
Perceiving Your personal bliss, You are always transcendental to the waves of material nature. Therefore, my Lord, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. You are the supreme controller of the senses, and Your expansions of form are unlimited. You are the greatest, and therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
ātma-anubhūtau
- unto self-realization — SB 7.13.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.44
A learned, thoughtful person must realize that material existence is illusion. This is possible only by self-realization. A self-realized person, who has actually seen the truth, should retire from all material activities, being situated in self-realization.
ātma-anubhūtyā
- simply by understanding his constitutional position — SB 9.19.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.25
Because King Yayāti completely surrendered unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, he was freed from all contamination of the material modes of nature. Because of his self-realization, he was able to fix his mind upon the Transcendence [Parabrahman, Vāsudeva], and thus he ultimately achieved the position of an associate of the Lord.
ātma-anusmṛti
- of remembrance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 5.24.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.24.22
The Supreme Personality of Godhead did not award His mercy to Bali Mahārāja by giving him material happiness and opulence, for these make one forget loving service to the Lord. The result of material opulence is that one can no longer absorb his mind in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
ātma-anuvartinā
- which is received according to his desire and past activities — SB 7.7.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.47
The living entity, who has received his present body because of his past fruitive activity, may end the results of his actions in this life, but this does not mean that he is liberated from bondage to material bodies. The living entity receives one type of body, and by performing actions with that body he creates another. Thus he transmigrates from one body to another, through repeated birth and death, because of his gross ignorance.
ātma-apahnavam
- degrading oneself from the platform of tapasya — SB 9.6.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.49
Thereafter, one day while Saubhari Muni, who was expert in chanting mantras, was sitting in a secluded place, he thought to himself about the cause of his falldown, which was simply that he had associated himself with the sexual affairs of the fish.
ātma-apāyam
- own death — SB 7.2.57plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.57
Thus Yamarāja, in the guise of a small boy, told all the queens: You are all so foolish that you lament but do not see your own death. Afflicted by a poor fund of knowledge, you do not know that even if you lament for your dead husband for hundreds of years, you will never get him back alive, and in the meantime your lives will be finished.
ātmā-ārāma
- self-satisfied — Madhya 6.185plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.185
"Even the self-satisfied sages perform devotional service to the Supreme Lord. Such are the transcendental qualities of the Lord. They are full of inconceivable spiritual potency.
ātma-ārāmaḥ
- fully satisfied in the self — SB 7.13.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.3
The sannyāsī, completely satisfied in the self, should live on alms begged from door to door. Not being dependent on any person or any place, he should always be a friendly well-wisher to all living beings and be a peaceful, unalloyed devotee of Nārāyaṇa. In this way he should move from one place to another. - one who is pleased in himself — SB 1.7.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 self. So why did he take the trouble to undergo the study of such a vast literature? - persons who take pleasure in being transcendentally situated in the service of the Lord — Madhya 17.140plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 17.140
" 'Those who are self-satisfied and unattracted by external material desires are also attracted to the loving service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose qualities are transcendental and whose activities are wonderful. Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is called Kṛṣṇa because He has such transcendentally attractive features.' - self-content (because of being engaged in the service of the Lord) — NBS 6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNBS 6
Sūtra 6
Text
" yaj jñātvā matto bhavati stabdho bhavaty ātmārāmo bhavati"
Synonyms
yat---which; jñātvā---having known; mattaḥ---intoxicated; bhavati---becomes; stabdhaḥ---stunned (in ecstasy); bhavati---becomes; ātma-ārāmaḥ---self-content (because of being engaged in the service of the Lord); - self-satisfied — SB 4.24.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.18
Lord Śiva, the most powerful demigod, second only to Lord Viṣṇu, is self-sufficient. Although he has nothing to aspire for in the material world, for the benefit of those in the material world he is always busily engaged everywhere and is accompanied by his dangerous energies like goddess Kālī and goddess Durgā. - who takes pleasure in self-realization — SB 5.1.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.1
King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great sage, why did King Priyavrata, who was a great, self-realized devotee of the Lord, remain in household life, which is the root cause of the bondage of karma [fruitive activities] and which defeats the mission of human life?
ātma-ārāmāḥ
- persons who take pleasure in being transcendentally situated in the service of the Lord — Madhya 24.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.5
" 'Those who are self-satisfied and unattracted by external material desires are also attracted to the loving service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose qualities are transcendental and whose activities are wonderful. Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is called Kṛṣṇa because He has such transcendentally attractive features.', Madhya 25.159plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.159
" 'Those who are self-satisfied and unattracted by external material desires are also attracted to the loving service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose qualities are transcendental and whose activities are wonderful. Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is called Kṛṣṇa because He has such transcendentally attractive features.' " - who are self-satisfied (being completely aware of their constitutional position as eternal servants of the Lord) — SB 6.16.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.40
O unconquerable one, when You spoke about bhāgavata-dharma, which is the uncontaminated religious system for achieving the shelter of Your lotus feet, that was Your victory. Persons who have no material desires, like the Kumāras, who are self-satisfied sages, worship You to be liberated from material contamination. In other words, they accept the process of bhāgavata-dharma to achieve shelter at Your lotus feet.
ātmā-ārāmāḥ
- persons who take pleasure in being transcendentally situated in the service of the Lord — Madhya 6.186plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.186
" 'Those who are self-satisfied and unattracted by external material desires are also attracted to the loving service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose qualities are transcendental and whose activities are wonderful. Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is called Kṛṣṇa because He has such transcendentally attractive features.' "
ātma-ārāmam
- satisfied in himself — SB 4.2.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.2
Lord Śiva, the spiritual master of the entire world, is free from enmity, is a peaceful personality, and is always satisfied in himself. He is the greatest among the demigods. How is it possible that Dakṣa could be inimical towards such an auspicious personality? - unto the self-sufficient — SB 1.11.4-5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.11.4-5
The citizens arrived before the Lord with their respective presentations, offering them to the fully satisfied and self-sufficient one, who, by His own potency, incessantly supplies others. These presentations were like the offering of a lamp to the sun. Yet the citizens began to speak in ecstatic language to receive the Lord, just as wards welcome their guardian and father.
ātma-ārāmāṇām
- who are self-satisfied — SB 5.3.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.3.11
Dear Lord, all the great sages who are thoughtful and saintly persons incessantly recount Your spiritual qualities. These sages have already burned up all the unlimited dirty things and, by the fire of knowledge, strengthened their detachment from the material world. Thus they have attained Your qualities and are self-satisfied. Yet even for those who feel spiritual bliss in chanting Your attributes, Your personal presence is very rare.
ātma-ārāmasya
- to one who rejoices in the self — SB 3.27.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.26
The influence of material nature cannot harm an enlightened soul, even though he engages in material activities, because he knows the truth of the Absolute, and his mind is fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - who is self-satisfied — SB 7.15.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.16
One who is content and satisfied and who links his activities with the Supreme Personality of Godhead residing in everyone's heart enjoys transcendental happiness without endeavoring for his livelihood. Where is such happiness for a materialistic man who is impelled by lust and greed and who therefore wanders in all directions with a desire to accumulate wealth?
ātma-ārāmāya
- one who is self-satisfied — SB 1.8.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 the material modes of nature. You are self-satisfied, and therefore You are the most gentle and are master of the monists. - unto the Lord, who is self-sufficient — SB 6.16.18-19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.18-19
[Nārada gave Citraketu the following mantra.] O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, who are addressed by the oṁkāra [praṇava], I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. O Lord Vāsudeva, I meditate upon You. O Lord Pradyumna, Lord Aniruddha and Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa, I offer You my respectful obeisances. O reservoir of spiritual potency, O supreme bliss, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are self-sufficient and most peaceful. O ultimate truth, one without a second, You are realized as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān and are therefore the reservoir of all knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
ātma-ārāmera
- of self-realized persons — Madhya 17.141plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 17.141
"Apart from the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa, when tulasī leaves are offered at the lotus feet of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, even the aroma of the leaves attracts the minds of self-realized persons.
ātma-ārāmeṣu
- one who is always engaged in spiritual bliss — SB 4.22.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.14
Pṛthu Mahārāja continued: My dear sirs, there is no need to ask about your good and bad fortune because you are always absorbed in spiritual bliss. The mental concoction of the auspicious and inauspicious does not exist in you.
ātma-artham
- selfish interest — SB 1.4.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.4.12
Those who are devoted to the cause of the Personality of Godhead live only for the welfare, development and happiness of others. They do not live for any selfish interest. So even though the Emperor [Parīkṣit] was free from all attachment to worldly possessions, how could he give up his mortal body, which was shelter for others?
ātma-āśrayayā
- sheltered under His own protection — SB 4.17.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.17.31
In the beginning of creation You created all these moving and nonmoving living entities by Your inconceivable energy. Through this very same energy You are now prepared to protect the living entities. Indeed, You are the supreme protector of religious principles. Why are You so anxious to kill me, even though I am in the form of a cow? - whose existence is under Your shelter — SB 8.6.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.6.11
O Supreme, You are independent in Your self and do not take help from others. Through Your own potency, You create this cosmic manifestation and enter into it. Those who are advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, who are fully in knowledge of the authoritative śāstra, and who, through the practice of bhakti-yoga, are cleansed of all material contamination, can see with clear minds that although You exist within the transformations of the material qualities, Your presence is untouched by these qualities.
ātma-āśritāḥ
- about himself — SB 4.16.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 himself and his uniquely powerful activities.
ātma-ātmanaḥ
- to the body and mind — SB 4.20.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.7
The individual soul is one, Pure, nonmaterial and self-effulgent. He is the reservoir of all good qualities, and He is all-pervading. He is without material covering, and He is the witness of all activities. He is completely distinguished from other living entities, and He is transcendental to all embodied souls.
ātma-aupamyena
- just as one’s own self — SB 7.7.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.53
My dear friends, O sons of the demons, in the same favorable way that one sees himself and takes care of himself, take to devotional service to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is present everywhere as the Supersoul of all living entities. - with comparison to himself — SB 10.10.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.10.13
Atheistic fools and rascals who are very much proud of wealth fail to see things as they are. Therefore, returning them to poverty is the proper ointment for their eyes so they may see things as they are. At least a poverty-stricken man can realize how painful poverty is, and therefore he will not want others to be in a painful condition like his own.
ātma-avadyam
- the fault you have committed — 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."
ātma-avagamaḥ
- as far as my knowledge is concerned — SB 1.18.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 is concerned. As the birds fly in the sky as far as their capacity allows, so do the learned devotees describe the Lord as far as their realization allows.
ātma-avakāśam
- a comfortable position for His body — SB 8.24.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.17
But in one night that fish grew so much that He could not move His body comfortably in the water of the pot. He then spoke to the King as follows.
ātma-āvāsyam
- the expansion of the energy of the Supreme Soul, the Personality of Godhead — Madhya 25.101plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.101
" 'Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things for himself that are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.'
ātma-āyatanam
- resting place of all living entities — SB 4.17.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.17.30
The planet earth continued: My dear Lord, You are the complete conductor of the material creation. You have created this cosmic manifestation and the three material qualities, and therefore You have created me, the planet earth, the resting place of all living entities. Yet You are always fully independent, my Lord. Now that You are present before me and ready to kill me with Your weapons, let me know where I should go to take shelter, and tell me who can give me protection.
ātma-bandhunā
- own friend Lord Kṛṣṇa — SB 1.14.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 can think of no other reason for your becoming so dejected.
ātma-bhāsā
- by its own illuminating rays — SB 5.21.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.21.3
In the midst of that region of outer space [antarikṣa] is the most opulent sun, the king of all the planets that emanate heat, such as the moon. By the influence of its radiation, the sun heats the universe and maintains its proper order. It also gives light to help all living entities see. While passing toward the north, toward the south or through the equator, in accordance with the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is said to move slowly, swiftly or moderately. According to its movements in rising above, going beneath or passing through the equator—and correspondingly coming in touch with various signs of the zodiac, headed by Makara [Capricorn]—days and nights are short, long or equal to one another.
ātma-bhava
- self-born — SB 1.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 the root cause of my dissatisfaction, for you are a man of unlimited knowledge due to your being the offspring of one [Brahmā] who is self-born [without mundane father and mother].
ātma-bhāvam
- attraction of love — SB 2.4.3-4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 all sorts of fruitive activities, namely acts of religion, economic development and sense gratification, and thus fixed himself firmly in his natural love for Kṛṣṇa and asked all these questions, exactly as you are asking me.
ātma-bhāvanaḥ
- always wishing to elevate the living entities — SB 4.22.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.16
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always anxious to elevate the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, and for their special benefit, the Lord travels all over the world in the form of self-realized persons like you.
ātma-bhāvanam
- who generates all living entities — 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.
ātma-bhāvena
- as the Supersoul — SB 9.9.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.9.29
Here is a learned, highly qualified brāhmaṇa, engaged in performing austerity and eagerly desiring to worship the Supreme Lord, the Supersoul who lives within the core of the heart in all living entities. - by thinking of them as one — SB 4.12.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.12.5
My dear Dhruva, come forward. May the Lord always grace you with good fortune. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is beyond our sensory perception, is the Supersoul of all living entities, and thus all entities are one, without distinction. Begin, therefore, to render service unto the transcendental form of the Lord, who is the ultimate shelter of all living entities.
ātma-bhāvitaḥ
- realized by a devotee — SB 4.29.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.46
When a person is fully engaged in devotional service, he is favored by the Lord, who bestows His causeless mercy. At such a time, the awakened devotee gives up all material activities and ritualistic performances mentioned in the Vedas. - who is seated in everyone’s heart — Madhya 11.118plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 11.118
" 'When one is inspired by the Lord, who is sitting in everyone's heart, he does not care for social custom or Vedic regulative principles.' "
ātma-bhṛtam
- sown in her — SB 3.21.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.29
She will bring forth nine daughters from the seed sown in her by you, and through the daughters you beget, the sages will duly beget children.
ātma-bhūḥ
- born directly from the Lord — SB 2.8.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.25
O great sage, you are as good as Brahmā, the original living being. Others follow custom only, as followed by the previous philosophical speculators. - Brahmā, who is self-born — SB 3.12.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.4
In the beginning, Brahmā created four great sages named Sanaka, Sananda, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra. All of them were unwilling to adopt materialistic activities because they were highly elevated due to their semen's flowing upwards. - Lord Brahmā — SB 3.15.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.15.11
Śrī Maitreya said: Thus Lord Brahmā, who is understood by transcendental vibration, tried to satisfy the demigods, being pleased with their words of prayer., SB 6.7.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.7.20
When the most powerful Lord Brahmā saw the demigods coming toward him, their bodies gravely injured by the arrows of the demons, he pacified them by his great causeless mercy and spoke as follows., SB 10.13.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.40
When Lord Brahmā returned after a moment of time had passed (according to his own measurement), he saw that although by human measurement a complete year had passed, Lord Kṛṣṇa, after all that time, was engaged just as before in playing with the boys and calves, who were His expansions., SB 10.13.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.43
Thus Lord Brahmā, thinking and thinking for a long time, tried to distinguish between those two sets of boys, who were each separately existing. He tried to understand who was real and who was not real, but he couldn't understand at all. - Lord Brahmā, who was born from the lotus flower — SB 7.3.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.14
O King, being thus informed by the demigods, the most powerful Lord Brahmā, accompanied by Bhṛgu, Dakṣa and other great sages, immediately started for the place where Hiraṇyakaśipu was performing his penances and austerities. - self-advent — SB 3.10.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.10.30
Now I shall describe the descendants of the Manus. The creator, Brahmā, as the incarnation of the passion mode of the Personality of Godhead, creates the universal affairs with unfailing desires in every millennium by the force of the Lord's energy. - the firstborn (Brahmājī) — SB 2.4.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.4.25
My dear King, Brahmā, the firstborn, on being questioned by Nārada, exactly apprised him on this subject, as it was directly spoken by the Lord to His own son, who was impregnated with Vedic knowledge from his very birth.
ātma-bhūta-śabde
- the word ātma-bhūta — Antya 7.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 7.28
"The word 'ātma-bhūta' means 'personal associates.' Through the understanding of opulence, the goddess of fortune could not receive the shelter of Kṛṣṇa; the son of Nanda Mahārāja.
ātma-bhūtam
- offspring — SB 1.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 the root cause of my dissatisfaction, for you are a man of unlimited knowledge due to your being the offspring of one [Brahmā] who is self-born [without mundane father and mother]. - the cause of all causes — SB 10.2.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.2.18
Thereafter, accompanied by plenary expansions, the fully opulent Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is all-auspicious for the entire universe, was transferred from the mind of Vasudeva to the mind of Devakī. Devakī, having thus been initiated by Vasudeva, became beautiful by carrying Lord Kṛṣṇa, the original consciousness for everyone, the cause of all causes, within the core of her heart, just as the east becomes beautiful by carrying the rising moon.
ātma-bhūtānām
- for persons performing severe austerities and penances — Madhya 8.227plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.227
" 'The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is accessible to those devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service, but He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those striving for self-realization by severe austerities and penances, or to those who consider the body the same as the self.', Madhya 9.132plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 9.132
Caitanya Mahāprabhu then quoted, " 'The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is accessible to those devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service, but He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those striving for self-realization by severe austerities and penances, or to those who consider the body the same as the self.', Madhya 24.86plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.86
" 'The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is accessible to those devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service, but He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those striving for self-realization by severe austerities and penances, or to those who consider the body the same as the self.' - for persons performing severe austerities and penances or for personal associates — Antya 7.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 7.27
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is accessible to those devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service, but He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those striving for self-realization by severe austerities and penances, or to those who consider the body the same as the self.' - of self-sufficient yogīs — SB 10.9.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.9.21
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is accessible to devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service, but He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those striving for self-realization by severe austerities and penances, or to those who consider the body the same as the self.
ātma-bhūtasya
- the soul of all souls — SB 5.20.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.20
The ruler of this island was another son of Mahārāja Priyavrata. His name was Ghṛtapṛṣṭha, and he was a very learned scholar. He also divided his own island among his seven sons. After dividing the island into seven parts, named according to the names of his sons, Ghṛtapṛṣṭha Mahārāja completely retired from family life and took shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord, the soul of all souls, who has all auspicious qualities. Thus he attained perfection.
ātma-bhūte
- situated in the heart — SB 5.5.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.35
O King Parīkṣit, just to show all the yogīs the mystic process, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, the partial expansion of Lord Kṛṣṇa, performed wonderful activities. Actually He was the master of liberation and was fully absorbed in transcendental bliss, which increased a thousandfold. Lord Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva, the son of Vasudeva, is the original source of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva. There is no difference in Their constitution, and consequently Lord Ṛṣabhadeva awakened the loving symptoms of crying, laughing and shivering. He was always absorbed in transcendental love. Due to this, all mystic powers automatically approached Him, such as the ability to travel in outer space at the speed of mind, to appear and disappear, to enter the bodies of others, and to see things far, far away. Although He could do all this, He did not exercise these powers. - situated within the body — SB 5.1.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.27
Thus situated in the renounced order from the beginning of their lives, all three of them completely controlled the activities of their senses and thus became great saints. They concentrated their minds always upon the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the resting place of the totality of living entities and who is therefore celebrated as Vāsudeva. Lord Vāsudeva is the only shelter of those who are actually afraid of material existence. By constantly thinking of His lotus feet, these three sons of Mahārāja Priyavrata became advanced in pure devotional service. By the prowess of their devotional service, they could directly perceive the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul, and realize that there was qualitatively no difference between themselves and Him.
ātma-bhūtena
- who is an expansion of His personal self — Madhya 20.275plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.275
" 'In due course of time, the Supreme Personality of Godhead [Mahā-Viṣṇu or Mahā-Vaikuṇṭhanātha], by the agency of a further expansion of His personal self, places the seed of the living entities within the womb of material nature.' - who is the plenary expansion of the Lord — SB 3.5.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.26
The Supreme Living Being in His feature as the transcendental puruṣa incarnation, who is the Lord's plenary expansion, impregnates the material nature of three modes, and thus by the influence of eternal time the living entities appear.
ātma-bhuvā
- by Brahmā — SB 1.8.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 so You have appeared to diminish the trouble., SB 3.12.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.20
Śrī Maitreya said: Thus Rudra, having been ordered by Brahmā, circumambulated his father, the master of the Vedas. Addressing him with words of assent, he entered the forest to perform austere penances., SB 3.17.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.17.1
Śrī Maitreya said: The demigods, the inhabitants of the higher planets, were freed from all fear upon hearing the cause of the darkness explained by Brahmā, who was born from Viṣṇu. Thus they all returned to their respective planets.
ātma-bhūyāya
- for becoming of a similar nature — Madhya 22.103plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.103
" 'The living entity who is subjected to birth and death attains immortality when he gives up all material activities, dedicates his life to the execution of My order, and acts according to My directions. In this way he becomes fit to enjoy the spiritual bliss derived from exchanging loving mellows with Me.', Antya 4.194plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 4.194
" 'The living entity who is subjected to birth and death, when he gives up all material activities dedicating his life to Me for executing My order, and thus acts according to My direction, at that time he reaches the platform of immortality, and becomes fit to enjoy the spiritual bliss of exchange of loving mellows with Me.'
ātma-bodhāḥ
- knowledge of the constitutional position — SB 4.7.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.30
Śrī Bhṛgu said: My dear Lord, all living entities, beginning from the highest, namely Lord Brahmā, down to the ordinary ant, are under the influence of the insurmountable spell of illusory energy, and thus they are ignorant of their constitutional position. Everyone believes in the concept of the body, and all are thus submerged in the darkness of illusion. They are actually unable to understand how You live in every living entity as the Supersoul, nor can they understand Your absolute position. But You are the eternal friend and protector of all surrendered souls. Therefore, please be kind toward us and forgive all our offenses.
ātma-buddheḥ
- identification of the self — SB 5.5.10-13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.10-13
O My sons, you should accept a highly elevated paramahaṁsa, a spiritually advanced spiritual master. In this way, you should place your faith and love in Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You should detest sense gratification and tolerate the duality of pleasure and pain, which are like the seasonal changes of summer and winter. Try to realize the miserable condition of living entities, who are miserable even in the higher planetary systems. Philosophically inquire about the truth. Then undergo all kinds of austerities and penances for the sake of devotional service. Give up the endeavor for sense enjoyment and engage in the service of the Lord. Listen to discussions about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and always associate with devotees. Chant about and glorify the Supreme Lord, and look upon everyone equally on the spiritual platform. Give up enmity and subdue anger and lamentation. Abandon identifying the self with the body and the home, and practice reading the revealed scriptures. Live in a secluded place and practice the process by which you can completely control your life air, mind and senses. Have full faith in the revealed scriptures, the Vedic literatures, and always observe celibacy. Perform your prescribed duties and avoid unnecessary talks. Always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, acquire knowledge from the right source. Thus practicing bhakti-yoga, you will patiently and enthusiastically be elevated in knowledge and will be able to give up the false ego.
ātma-buddhi
- concept of self — Ādi 7.123plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.123
"Transformation of energy is a proven fact. It is the false bodily conception of the self that is an illusion. - considering as the self — Madhya 6.173plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.173
"The theory of illusion can be applied only when the living entity identifies himself with the body. As far as the cosmic manifestation is concerned, it cannot be called false, although it is certainly temporary.
ātma-buddhiḥ
- who considers these material things the ātma, or self — SB 5.13.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.13.4
My dear King, the merchant on the forest path of the material world, his intelligence victimized by home, wealth, relatives and so forth, runs from one place to another in search of success. Sometimes his eyes are covered by the dust of a whirlwind—that is to say, in his lust he is captivated by the beauty of his wife, especially during her menstrual period. Thus his eyes are blinded, and he cannot see where to go or what he is doing.
ātma-daḥ
- giving Yourself — SB 6.16.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.34
Citraketu said: O unconquerable Lord, although You cannot be conquered by anyone, You are certainly conquered by devotees who have control of the mind and senses. They can keep You under their control because You are causelessly merciful to devotees who desire no material profit from You. Indeed, You give Yourself to them, and because of this You also have full control over Your devotees. - one who delivers — SB 1.15.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.15.17
It was by His mercy only that my enemies neglected to kill me when I descended from my chariot to get water for my thirsty horses. And it was due to my lack of esteem for my Lord that I dared engage Him as my chariot driver, for He is worshiped and offered services by the best men to attain salvation. - who can give us our original identity — SB 4.31.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.13
Factually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source of all self-realization. Consequently, the goal of all auspicious activities—karma, jñāna, yoga and bhakti—is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
ātma-daivam
- their worshipable Deity — Madhya 24.177plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.177
" 'O good fortune personified! O original Personality of Godhead, all these bees are chanting about Your transcendental fame, which will purify the entire universe. Indeed, they are following Your path in the forest and are worshiping You. Actually they are all saintly persons, but now they have taken the form of bees. Although You are playing like a human being, they could not forget that You are their worshipable Deity.'
ātma-daivatam
- the Lord of all living entities — SB 6.9.26-27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.26-27
By His inconceivable internal potency, the Supreme Personality of Godhead expands into various transcendental bodies as Vāmanadeva, the incarnation of strength among the demigods; Paraśurāma, the incarnation among saints; Nṛsiṁhadeva and Varāha, incarnations among animals; and Matsya and Kūrma, incarnations among aquatics. He accepts various transcendental bodies among all types of living entities, and among human beings He especially appears as Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Rāma. By His causeless mercy, He protects the demigods, who are always harassed by the demons. He is the supreme worshipable Deity of all living entities. He is the supreme cause, represented as the male and female creative energies. Although different from this universe, He exists in His universal form [virāṭ-rūpa]. In our fearful condition, let us take shelter of Him, for we are sure that the Supreme Lord, the Supreme Soul, will give us His protection.
ātma-darśanam
- self-realization — SB 3.26.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.2
Knowledge is the ultimate perfection of self-realization. I shall explain that knowledge unto you by which the knots of attachment to the material world are cut. - which helps self-realization — SB 9.6.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.54
When Saubhari Muni, who was quite conversant with the self, went to the forest, he performed severe penances. In this way, in the fire at the time of death, he ultimately engaged himself in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - who manifests Himself — SB 3.20.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.25
He approached the Personality of Godhead, who bestows all boons and who dispels the agony of His devotees and of those who take shelter of His lotus feet. He manifests His innumerable transcendental forms for the satisfaction of His devotees.
ātma-darśane
- in self-realization — SB 3.24.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.24.36
My appearance in this world is especially to explain the philosophy of Sāṅkhya, which is highly esteemed for self-realization by those desiring freedom from the entanglement of unnecessary material desires.
ātma-dāsye
- in Your personal service — Madhya 22.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.16
" 'O my Lord, there is no limit to the unwanted orders of lusty desires. Although I have rendered them so much service, they have not shown any mercy to me. I have not been ashamed to serve them, nor have I even desired to give them up. O my Lord, O head of the Yadu dynasty, recently, however, my intelligence has been awakened, and now I am giving them up. Due to transcendental intelligence, I now refuse to obey the unwanted orders of these desires, and I now come to You to surrender myself at Your fearless lotus feet. Kindly engage me in Your personal service and save me.'
ātma-de
- who gives Himself without hesitation — SB 5.24.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.24.21
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul, sells Himself to His devotees such as Nārada Muni. In other words, the Lord gives pure love to such devotees and gives Himself to those who love Him purely. Great, self-realized mystic yogīs such as the four Kumāras also derive great transcendental bliss from realizing the Supersoul within themselves.
ātma-deha-stham
- situated on the bodily self — SB 3.5.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.27
Thereafter, influenced by the interactions of eternal time, the supreme sum total of matter called the mahat-tattva became manifested, and in this mahat-tattva the unalloyed goodness, the Supreme Lord, sowed the seeds of universal manifestation out of His own body.
ātma-devatā-buddhiḥ
- accepting as the self or the demigods — SB 7.11.8-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.8-12
These are the general principles to be followed by all human beings: truthfulness, mercy, austerity (observing fasts on certain days of the month), bathing twice a day, tolerance, discrimination between right and wrong, control of the mind, control of the senses, nonviolence, celibacy, charity, reading of scripture, simplicity, satisfaction, rendering service to saintly persons, gradually taking leave of unnecessary engagements, observing the futility of the unnecessary activities of human society, remaining silent and grave and avoiding unnecessary talk, considering whether one is the body or the soul, distributing food equally to all living entities (both men and animals), seeing every soul (especially in the human form) as a part of the Supreme Lord, hearing about the activities and instructions given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead (who is the shelter of the saintly persons), chanting about these activities and instructions, always remembering these activities and instructions, trying to render service, performing worship, offering obeisances, becoming a servant, becoming a friend, and surrendering one's whole self. O King Yudhiṣṭhira, these thirty qualifications must be acquired in the human form of life. Simply by acquiring these qualifications, one can satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
ātma-dhana
- simply dependent on the Lord — SB 4.31.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.21
The Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes very dear to those devotees who have no material possessions but are fully happy in possessing the devotional service of the Lord. Indeed, the Lord relishes the devotional activities of such devotees. Those who are puffed up with material education, wealth, aristocracy and fruitive activity are very proud of possessing material things, and they often deride the devotees. Even if such people offer the Lord worship, the Lord never accepts them.
ātma-dhruk
- envious of himself — SB 4.23.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.28
Any person who engages himself within this material world in performing activities that necessitate great struggle, and who, after obtaining a human form of life—which is a chance to attain liberation from miseries—undertakes the difficult tasks of fruitive activities, must be considered to be cheated and envious of his own self.
ātma-dṛk
- a self-realized soul — 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. - facing towards the Supersoul — 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. - one who can actually see the self — SB 7.13.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.5
During unconsciousness and consciousness, and between the two, he should try to understand the self and be fully situated in the self. In this way, he should realize that the conditional and liberated stages of life are only illusory and not actually factual. With such a higher understanding, he should see only the Absolute Truth pervading everything. - one who has seen or acquired self-realization — SB 4.24.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.7
Although Mahārāja Antardhāna was engaged in performing sacrifices, because he was a self-realized soul he very intelligently rendered devotional service to the Lord, who eradicates all the fears of His devotees. By thus worshiping the Supreme Lord, Mahārāja Antardhāna, rapt in ecstasy, attained His planet very easily. - the self-realized — SB 3.27.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.10
One should be situated in the transcendental position, beyond the stages of material consciousness, and should be aloof from all other conceptions of life. Thus realizing freedom from false ego, one should see his own self just as he sees the sun in the sky.
ātma-duḥsthayā
- giving trouble to oneself — SB 4.24.61plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.61
My dear Lord, You have manifold energies, and these energies are manifested in manifold forms. With such energies You have also created this cosmic manifestation, and although You maintain it as if it were permanent, You ultimately annihilate it. Although You are never disturbed by such changes and alterations, the living entities are disturbed by them, and therefore they find the cosmic manifestation to be different or separated from You. My Lord, You are always independent, and I can clearly see this fact.
ātma-dviṣām
- of his enemies — SB 4.16.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 enemy is not punishable, he will not punish him, but if his own son is punishable, he will immediately punish him.
ātma-dyota-guṇaiḥ channa-mahimne
- unto You whose glories are covered by Your personal energy — SB 10.10.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.10.33
O Lord, whose glories are covered by Your own energy, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You are Saṅkarṣaṇa, the origin of creation, and You are Vāsudeva, the origin of the caturvyūha. Because You are everything and are therefore the Supreme Brahman, we simply offer our respectful obeisances unto You.
ātma-gatam
- contained within itself — SB 3.26.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.20
Thus, after manifesting variegatedness, the effulgent mahat-tattva, which contains all the universes within itself, which is the root of all cosmic manifestations and which is not destroyed at the time of annihilation, swallows the darkness that covered the effulgence at the time of dissolution. - merged within Yourself — SB 7.8.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.8.43
All the saintly persons present offered their prayers in this way: O Lord, O supreme maintainer of those sheltered at Your lotus feet, O original Personality of Godhead, the process of austerity and penance, in which You instructed us before, is the spiritual power of Your very self. It is by austerity that You create the material world, which lies dormant within You. This austerity was almost stopped by the activities of this demon, but now, by Yourself appearing in the form of Nṛsiṁhadeva, which is meant just to give us protection, and by killing this demon, You have again approved the process of austerity.
ātma-gataye
- whose own position — SB 6.16.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.47
My dear Lord, You are the creator, maintainer and annihilator of this cosmic manifestation, but persons who are too materialistic and who always see separateness do not have eyes with which to see You. They cannot understand Your real position, and therefore they conclude that the cosmic manifestation is independent of Your opulence. My Lord, You are the supreme pure, and You are full in all six opulences. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
ātma-gati
- real purpose of life — SB 4.28.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.28.9
The objects of enjoyment became stale by the influence of Kālakanyā. Due to the continuance of his lusty desires, King Purañjana became very poor in everything. Thus he did not understand the aim of life. He was still very affectionate toward his wife and children, and he worried about maintaining them.
ātma-gatiḥ
- spiritual advancement — SB 4.22.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.41
The great sage Maitreya continued: Being thus enlightened in complete spiritual knowledge by the son of Brahmā—one of the Kumāras, who was complete in spiritual knowledge—the King worshiped them in the following words. - the supreme destination — SB 8.24.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.28
O my Lord, master of creation, maintenance and annihilation, O best of enjoyers, Lord Viṣṇu, You are the leader and destination of surrendered devotees like us. Therefore let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You. - the ultimate goal of spiritual life — SB 4.23.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.12
When he became completely free from the conception of bodily life, Mahārāja Pṛthu realized Lord Kṛṣṇa sitting in everyone's heart as the Paramātmā. Being thus able to get all instructions from Him, he gave up all other practices of yoga and jñāna. He was not even interested in the perfection of the yoga and jñāna systems, for he thoroughly realized that devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate goal of life and that unless the yogīs and jñānīs become attracted to kṛṣṇa-kathā [narrations about Kṛṣṇa], their illusions concerning existence can never be dispelled.
ātma-gatim
- spiritual realization — SB 2.7.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.3
The Lord then appeared as the Kapila incarnation, being the son of the prajāpati brāhmaṇa Kardama and his wife, Devahūti, along with nine other women [sisters]. He spoke to His mother about self-realization, by which, in that very lifetime, she became fully cleansed of the mud of the material modes and thereby achieved liberation, the path of Kapila.
ātma-ghāta kaila
- has committed suicide — Antya 2.156plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 2.156
"Haridāsa must have committed suicide by drinking poison, and because of this sinful act, he has now become a brāhmaṇa ghost.
ātma-go-vatsān
- now expanded into calves that were also He Himself — SB 10.13.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.20
Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time appear as their leader, Kṛṣṇa entered Vrajabhūmi, the land of His father, Nanda Mahārāja, just as He usually did while enjoying their company.
ātma-gopam
- worthy to be protected by You — SB 3.16.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.16.23
O Lord, You are the protector of the highest of the twice-born. If You do not protect them by offering worship and mild words, then certainly the auspicious path of worship will be rejected by people in general, who act on the strength and authority of Your Lordship.
ātma-gūḍham
- dormant in Yourself — SB 7.9.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.33
This cosmic manifestation, the material world, is also Your body. This total lump of matter is agitated by Your potent energy known as kāla-śakti, and thus the three modes of material nature are manifested. You awaken from the bed of Śeṣa, Ananta, and from Your navel a small transcendental seed is generated. It is from this seed that the lotus flower of the gigantic universe is manifested, exactly as a banyan tree grows from a small seed.
ātma-guhyam
- all the mysteries of self-realization — SB 8.24.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.55
The Supreme Personality of Godhead thus explained to King Satyavrata the spiritual science known as sāṅkhya-yoga, the science by which one distinguishes between matter and spirit [in other words, bhakti-yoga], along with the instructions contained in the Purāṇas [the old histories] and the saṁhitās. The Lord explained Himself in all these literatures.
ātma-guṇaiḥ
- by the transcendental qualities — SB 10.5.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.18
O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the home of Nanda Mahārāja is eternally the abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His transcendental qualities and is therefore always naturally endowed with the opulence of all wealth. Yet beginning from Lord Kṛṣṇa's appearance there, it became the place for the pastimes of the goddess of fortune.
ātma-guṇam
- and His external energy — SB 8.5.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.30
No one can overcome the Supreme Personality of Godhead's illusory energy [māyā], which is so strong that it bewilders everyone, making one lose the sense to understand the aim of life. That same māyā, however, is subdued by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who rules everyone and who is equally disposed toward all living entities. Let us offer our obeisances unto Him. - its own potency — SB 6.2.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.19
If a person unaware of the effective potency of a certain medicine takes that medicine or is forced to take it, it will act even without his knowledge because its potency does not depend on the patient's understanding. Similarly, even though one does not know the value of chanting the holy name of the Lord, if one chants knowingly or unknowingly, the chanting will be very effective.
ātma-hanaḥ
- the killers of the soul — Īśo 3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 3
The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the worlds of the faithless, full of darkness and ignorance.
ātma-hanam
- murderer of sons — SB 1.7.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 soul, did not like the idea of killing him, although Aśvatthāmā was a heinous murderer of Arjuna's family members.
ātma-indriya-jayena
- by controlling the mind and senses — SB 3.32.34-36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.34-36
By performing fruitive activities and sacrifices, by distributing charity, by performing austerities, by studying various literatures, by conducting philosophical research, by controlling the mind, by subduing the senses, by accepting the renounced order of life and by performing the prescribed duties of one's social order; by performing the different divisions of yoga practice, by performing devotional service and by exhibiting the process of devotional service containing the symptoms of both attachment and detachment; by understanding the science of self-realization and by developing a strong sense of detachment, one who is expert in understanding the different processes of self-realization realizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is represented in the material world as well as in transcendence.
ātma-indriya-prīti
- for the pleasure of one’s own senses — Ādi 4.165plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.165
The desire to gratify one's own senses is kāma [lust], but the desire to please the senses of Lord Kṛṣṇa is prema [love].
ātma-īśvaraḥ
- the Lord of all living entities — SB 3.33.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.33.3
My dear Lord, although personally You have nothing to do, You have distributed Your energies in the interactions of the material modes of nature, and for that reason the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation take place. My dear Lord, You are self-determined and are the Supreme Personality of Godhead for all living entities. For them You created this material manifestation, and although You are one, Your diverse energies can act multifariously. This is inconceivable to us. - the master of the soul, the Supersoul — SB 7.6.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.6.2
The human form of life affords one a chance to return home, back to Godhead. Therefore every living entity, especially in the human form of life, must engage in devotional service to the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu. This devotional service is natural because Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the most beloved, the master of the soul, and the well-wisher of all other living beings. - the Supersoul — SB 4.7.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.50
Lord Viṣṇu replied: Brahmā, Lord Śiva and I are the supreme cause of the material manifestation. I am the Supersoul, the self sufficient witness. But impersonally there is no difference between Brahmā, Lord Śiva and Me. - the Supersoul giving direction to everyone — SB 8.12.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.7
My Lord, You are the Supreme Brahman, complete in everything. Being completely spiritual, You are eternal, free from the material modes of nature, and full of transcendental bliss. Indeed, for You there is no question of lamentation. Since You are the supreme cause, the cause of all causes, nothing can exist without You. Yet we are different from You in a relationship of cause and effect, for in one sense the cause and effect are different. You are the original cause of creation, manifestation and annihilation, and You bestow benedictions upon all living entities. Everyone depends upon You for the results of his activities, but You are always independent.
ātma-īśvaram
- his master — SB 1.13.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.35
Sūta Gosvāmī said: Because of compassion and mental agitation, Sañjaya, not having seen his own master, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, was aggrieved and could not properly reply to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira.
ātma-ja
- children — SB 4.25.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.55
Sometimes he used to go to his private home with one of his chief servants [the mind], who was named Viṣūcīna. At that time, illusion, satisfaction and happiness used to be produced from his wife and children., SB 5.5.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.3
Those who are interested in reviving Kṛṣṇa consciousness and increasing their love of Godhead do not like to do anything that is not related to Kṛṣṇa. They are not interested in mingling with people who are busy maintaining their bodies, eating, sleeping, mating and defending. They are not attached to their homes, although they may be householders. Nor are they attached to wives, children, friends or wealth. At the same time, they are not indifferent to the execution of their duties. Such people are interested in collecting only enough money to keep the body and soul together., SB 5.18.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.10
My dear Lord, we pray that we may never feel attraction for the prison of family life, consisting of home, wife, children, friends, bank balance, relatives and so on. If we do have some attachment, let it be for devotees, whose only dear friend is Kṛṣṇa. A person who is actually self-realized and who has controlled his mind is perfectly satisfied with the bare necessities of life. He does not try to gratify his senses. Such a person quickly advances in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whereas others, who are too attached to material things, find advancement very difficult., SB 6.11.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.11.27
O my Lord, my master, I am wandering throughout this material world as a result of my fruitive activities. Therefore I simply seek friendship in the association of Your pious and enlightened devotees. My attachment to my body, wife, children and home is continuing by the spell of Your external energy, but I wish to be attached to them no longer. Let my mind, my consciousness and everything I have be attached only to You. - from the son — SB 5.8.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.25
After perceiving the moonshine, Mahārāja Bharata continued speaking like a crazy person. He said: The deer's son was so submissive and dear to me that due to its separation I am feeling separation from my own son. Due to the burning fever of this separation, I am suffering as if inflamed by a forest fire. My heart, which is like the lily of the land, is now burning. Seeing me so distressed, the moon is certainly splashing its shining nectar upon me—just as a friend throws water on another friend who has a high fever. In this way, the moon is bringing me happiness. - son — SB 4.9.39-40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.39-40
Then King Uttānapāda, being very eager to see the face of his lost son, mounted a chariot drawn by excellent horses and bedecked with golden filigree. Taking with him many learned brāhmaṇas, all the elderly personalities of his family, his officers, his ministers and his immediate friends, he immediately left the city. As he proceeded in this parade, there were auspicious sounds of conchshells, kettledrums, flutes, and the chanting of Vedic mantras to indicate all good fortune. - sons and daughters — SB 8.3.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.18
My Lord, those who are completely freed from material contamination always meditate upon You within the cores of their hearts. You are extremely difficult to attain for those like me who are too attached to mental concoction, home, relatives, friends, money, servants and assistants. You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, uncontaminated by the modes of nature. You are the reservoir of all enlightenment, the supreme controller. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
ātma-jā
- daughter — SB 3.22.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.22.15
The great sage replied: Certainly I have a desire to marry, and your daughter has not yet married or given her word to anyone. Therefore our marriage according to the Vedic system can take place. - his own daughter — SB 4.4.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.29
It was astonishing that Dakṣa, who was Prajāpati, the maintainer of all living entities, was so disrespectful to his own daughter, Satī, who was not only chaste but was also a great soul, that she gave up her body because of his neglect.
ātma-ja-ādiṣu
- as well as in children — SB 7.14.3-4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.3-4
A gṛhastha must associate again and again with saintly persons, and with great respect he must hear the nectar of the activities of the Supreme Lord and His incarnations as these activities are described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and other Purāṇas. Thus one should gradually become detached from affection for his wife and children, exactly like a man awakening from a dream.
ātma-jaḥ
- a son — SB 5.3.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.3.17
The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: O great sages, I am certainly very pleased with your prayers. You are all truthful. You have prayed for the benediction of a son like Me for King Nābhi, but this is very difficult to obtain. Since I am the Supreme Person without a second and since no one is equal to Me, another personality like Me is not possible to find. In any case, because you are all qualified brāhmaṇas, your vibrations should not prove untrue. I consider the brāhmaṇas who are well qualified with brahminical qualities to be as good as My own mouth. - son — SB 4.28.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.28.32
The great sage named Agastya married the first-born daughter of Malayadhvaja, the avowed devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. From her one son was born, whose name was Dṛḍhacyuta, and from him another son was born, whose name was Idhmavāha. - the son — SB 5.15.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.15.1
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The son of Mahārāja Bharata known as Sumati followed the path of Ṛṣabhadeva, but some unscrupulous people imagined him to be Lord Buddha himself. These people, who were actually atheistic and of bad character, took up the Vedic principles in an imaginary, infamous way to support their activities. Thus these sinful people accepted Sumati as Lord Buddhadeva and propagated the theory that everyone should follow the principles of Sumati. In this way they were carried away by mental concoction., SB 7.11.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.3
O best of the brāhmaṇas, you are directly the son of Prajāpati [Lord Brahmā]. Because of your austerities, mystic yoga and trance, you are considered the best of all of Lord Brahmā's sons., SB 9.8.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.8.1
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The son of Rohita was Harita, and Harita's son was Campa, who constructed the town of Campāpurī. The son of Campa was Sudeva, and his son was Vijaya., SB 9.22.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.22.11
From Ayutāyu came a son named Akrodhana, and his son was Devātithi. The son of Devātithi was Ṛkṣa, the son of Ṛkṣa was Dilīpa, and the son of Dilīpa was Pratīpa.
ātma-jāḥ
- sons — SB 6.14.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.19
O King, are your wives, citizens, secretaries and servants and the merchants who sell spices and oil under your control? Are you also in full control of ministers, the inhabitants of your palace, your provincial governors, your sons and your other dependents?, SB 8.1.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.1.19
The son of Agni named Svārociṣa became the second Manu. His several sons were headed by Dyumat, Suṣeṇa and Rociṣmat. - sons and grandsons — SB 1.14.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.14.27
His seven wives, headed by Devakī, are all sisters. Are they and their sons and daughters-in-law all happy? - the sons — SB 9.22.12-13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.22.12-13
The sons of Pratīpa were Devāpi, Śāntanu and Bāhlīka. Devāpi left the kingdom of his father and went to the forest, and therefore Śāntanu became the king. Śāntanu, who in his previous birth was known as Mahābhiṣa, had the ability to transform anyone from old age to youth simply by touching that person with his hands. - your daughters — SB 3.24.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.24.15
Therefore, today please give away your daughters to the foremost of the sages, with due regard for the girls' temperaments and likings, and thereby spread your fame all over the universe.
ātma-jaiḥ
- along with her sons — SB 1.8.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 Kṛṣṇa as He started for home. - by the sons — SB 1.11.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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. Then they embraced Him visually, and then they sent their sons to embrace Him [which is equal to personal embracing]. But, O chief amongst the Bhṛgus, though they tried to restrain their feelings, they inadvertently shed tears.
ātma-jam
- a son — SB 6.14.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.30
As Kṛttikādevī, after receiving the semen of Lord Śiva from Agni, conceived a child named Skanda [Kārttikeya], Kṛtadyuti, having received semen from Citraketu, became pregnant after eating remnants of food from the yajña performed by Aṅgirā., SB 9.1.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.1.35
The beautiful woman also desired to accept Budha, the son of the king of the moon, as her husband. Thus Budha begot in her womb a son named Purūravā. - as her own son, born of her body — Madhya 19.204plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.204
" 'When mother Yaśodā saw all the universes within Kṛṣṇa's mouth, she was astonished for the time being. The Lord is worshiped like Indra and other demigods by the followers of the three Vedas, who offer Him sacrifices. He is worshiped as impersonal Brahman by saintly persons who understand His greatness through studying the Upaniṣads, as the puruṣa by great philosophers who analytically study the universe, as the all-pervading Supersoul by great yogīs, and as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by devotees. Nevertheless, mother Yaśodā considered the Lord her own son.' - her own son, born out of her body — Antya 7.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 7.33
"When mother Yaśodā saw all the universes within the mouth of Kṛṣṇa, she was certainly astonished for the time being. Nevertheless, she still considered the Lord her own son, although He is worshiped by great personalities who offer him sacrifices, great saints who understand the greatness of the Lord by studying the Upaniṣads, great philosophers who analytically study the universe, great yogīs who know him as the all-pervading Supersoul, and even devotees who accept the Lord as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.' - his own son — SB 1.7.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 already engaged in self-realization., SB 1.18.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 human beings. The ṛṣi did not congratulate his son, but, on the contrary, began to repent, saying: Alas! What a great sinful act was performed by my son. He has awarded heavy punishment for an insignificant offense., SB 4.16.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 enemy is not punishable, he will not punish him, but if his own son is punishable, he will immediately punish him., SB 5.8.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.27
At the time of death, the King saw that the deer was sitting by his side, exactly like his own son, and was lamenting his death. Actually the mind of the King was absorbed in the body of the deer, and consequently—like those bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness—he left the world, the deer, and his material body and acquired the body of a deer. However, there was one advantage. Although he lost his human body and received the body of a deer, he did not forget the incidents of his past life. - his son — SB 4.9.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.37
When King Uttānapāda heard that his son Dhruva was coming back home, as if coming back to life after death, he could not put his faith in this message, for he was doubtful of how it could happen. He considered himself the most wretched, and therefore he thought that it was not possible for him to attain such good fortune., SB 5.1.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.22
Svāyambhuva Manu, with the assistance of Lord Brahmā, thus fulfilled his desires. With the permission of the great sage Nārada, he delivered to his son the governmental responsibility for maintaining and protecting all the planets of the universe. He thus achieved relief from the most dangerous, poisonous ocean of material desires. - produced from himself — SB 4.15.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 disappear at his will. The great sages also offered him infallible blessings. The ocean offered him a conchshell produced from the ocean. - sufferings due to the body and mind — SB 7.15.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.24
By good behavior and freedom from envy one should counteract sufferings due to other living entities, by meditation in trance one should counteract sufferings due to providence, and by practicing haṭha-yoga, prāṇāyāma and so forth one should counteract sufferings due to the body and mind. Similarly, by developing the mode of goodness, especially in regard to eating, one should conquer sleep.
ātma-jām
- his own daughter — SB 3.21.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.27
He has a grown-up daughter whose eyes are black. She is ready for marriage, and she has good character and all good qualities. She is also searching for a good husband. My dear sir, her parents will come to see you, who are exactly suitable for her, just to deliver their daughter as your wife. - the earth — SB 4.23.1-3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.1-3
At the last stage of his life, when Mahārāja Pṛthu saw himself getting old, that great soul, who was king of the world, divided whatever opulence he had accumulated amongst all kinds of living entities, moving and nonmoving. He arranged pensions for everyone according to religious principles, and after executing the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in complete coordination with Him, he dedicated his sons unto the earth, which was considered to be his daughter. Then Mahārāja Pṛthu left the presence of his citizens, who were almost lamenting and crying from feeling separation from the King, and went to the forest alone with his wife to perform austerities.
ātma-jān
- His sons — SB 5.5.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.28
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus the great well-wisher of everyone, the Supreme Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, instructed His own sons. Although they were perfectly educated and cultured, He instructed them just to set an example of how a father should instruct his sons before retiring from family life. Sannyāsīs, who are no longer bound by fruitive activity and who have taken to devotional service after all their material desires have been vanquished, also learn by these instructions. Lord Ṛṣabhadeva instructed His one hundred sons, of whom the eldest, Bharata, was a very advanced devotee and a follower of Vaiṣṇavas. In order to rule the whole world, the Lord enthroned His eldest son on the royal seat. Thereafter, although still at home, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva lived like a madman, naked and with disheveled hair. Then the Lord took the sacrificial fire within Himself, and He left Brahmāvarta to tour the whole world. - own sons — SB 1.7.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 was lamenting for her murdered sons. - sons — SB 5.1.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.24
Thereafter, Mahārāja Priyavrata married Barhiṣmatī, the daughter of the prajāpati named Viśvakarmā. In her he begot ten sons equal to him in beauty, character, magnanimity and other qualities. He also begot a daughter, the youngest of all, named Ūrjasvatī., SB 5.1.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.33
The seven oceans respectively contain salt water, sugarcane juice, liquor, clarified butter, milk, emulsified yogurt, and sweet drinking water. All the islands are completely surrounded by these oceans, and each ocean is equal in breadth to the island it surrounds. Mahārāja Priyavrata, the husband of Queen Barhiṣmatī, gave sovereignty over these islands to his respective sons, namely Āgnīdhra, Idhmajihva, Yajñabāhu, Hiraṇyaretā, Ghṛtapṛṣṭha, Medhātithi and Vītihotra. Thus they all became kings by the order of their father., SB 5.2.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.2.19
In the womb of Pūrvacitti, Mahārāja Āgnīdhra, the best of kings, begot nine sons, named Nābhi, Kiṁpuruṣa, Harivarṣa, Ilāvṛta, Ramyaka, Hiraṇmaya, Kuru, Bhadrāśva and Ketumāla., SB 5.7.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.7.2
Just as the false ego creates the subtle sense objects, Mahārāja Bharata created five sons in the womb of Pañcajanī, his wife. These sons were named Sumati, Rāṣṭrabhṛta, Sudarśana, Āvaraṇa and Dhūmraketu. - your own sons — SB 8.17.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.17.15
You want your sons to regain their lost reputation and opulence and live again on their heavenly planet as usual.
ātma-jānām
- of the daughters — SB 3.14.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.14.14
Our well-wishing father, Dakṣa, after knowing our intentions, handed over thirteen of his daughters unto you, and since then we have all been faithful.
ātma-jasya
- of his son — SB 5.9.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.4
The brāhmaṇa father's mind was always filled with affection for his son, Jaḍa Bharata [Bharata Mahārāja]. Therefore he was always attached to Jaḍa Bharata. Because Jaḍa Bharata was unfit to enter the gṛhastha-āśrama, he simply executed the purificatory process up to the end of the brahmacarya-āśrama. Although Jaḍa Bharata was unwilling to accept his father's instructions, the brāhmaṇa nonetheless instructed him in how to keep clean and how to wash, thinking that the son should be taught by the father.
ātma-jau
- unto the two sons — SB 5.20.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.31
The ruler of this island, the son of Mahārāja Priyavrata named Vītihotra, had two sons named Ramaṇaka and Dhātaki. He granted the two sides of the island to these two sons and then personally engaged himself in activities for the sake of the Supreme Personality of Godhead like his elder brother Medhātithi.
ātma-jāya
- unto his own son — SB 7.4.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.4.44
Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said: O best of the saints among the demigods, O best of spiritual leaders, how did Hiraṇyakaśipu give so much trouble to Prahlāda Mahārāja, the pure and exalted saint, although Prahlāda was his own son? I wish to know about this subject from you.
ātma-jaya-anubhāvita
- perceivable by conquering the mind — SB 3.13.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.39
O Lord, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are worshipable by universal prayers, Vedic hymns and sacrificial ingredients. We offer our obeisances unto You. You can be realized by the pure mind freed from all visible and invisible material contamination. We offer our respectful obeisances to You as the supreme spiritual master of knowledge in devotional service.
ātma-jayaḥ
- not being overwhelmed by bodily necessities — SB 7.11.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.22
To be influential in battle, unconquerable, patient, challenging and charitable, to control the bodily necessities, to be forgiving, to be attached to the brahminical nature and to be always jolly and truthful—these are the symptoms of the kṣatriya.
ātma-je
- to his own son — SB 7.4.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.4.43
My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu tormented this exalted, fortunate devotee, although Prahlāda was his own son. - unto their son — SB 4.31.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.1
The great saint Maitreya continued: After that, the Pracetās lived at home for thousands of years and developed perfect knowledge in spiritual consciousness. At last they remembered the blessings of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and left home, putting their wife in charge of a perfect son.
ātma-jeṣu
- unto his sons — SB 4.23.1-3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.1-3
At the last stage of his life, when Mahārāja Pṛthu saw himself getting old, that great soul, who was king of the world, divided whatever opulence he had accumulated amongst all kinds of living entities, moving and nonmoving. He arranged pensions for everyone according to religious principles, and after executing the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in complete coordination with Him, he dedicated his sons unto the earth, which was considered to be his daughter. Then Mahārāja Pṛthu left the presence of his citizens, who were almost lamenting and crying from feeling separation from the King, and went to the forest alone with his wife to perform austerities.
ātma-jijñāsayā
- by inquiry into spiritual realization or self-realization — SB 6.4.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.4.14
One who inquires into self-realization and thus subdues his powerful anger—which awakens suddenly in the body as if falling from the sky—transcends the influence of the modes of material nature.
ātma-jñāna-ānanda
- satisfied in self-realization — SB 5.9.1-2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.1-2
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after giving up the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja took birth in a very pure brāhmaṇa family. There was a brāhmaṇa who belonged to the dynasty of Aṅgirā. He was fully qualified with brahminical qualifications. He could control his mind and senses, and he had studied the Vedic literatures and other subsidiary literatures. He was expert in giving charity, and he was always satisfied, tolerant, very gentle, learned and nonenvious. He was self-realized and engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. He remained always in a trance. He had nine equally qualified sons by his first wife, and by his second wife he begot twins—a brother and a sister, of which the male child was said to be the topmost devotee and foremost of saintly kings—Bharata Mahārāja. This, then, is the story of the birth he took after giving up the body of a deer.
ātma-jñāne
- by the conception of the self — Madhya 24.201plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.201
"The original nature of every living entity is to consider himself the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. However, under the influence of māyā, he thinks himself to be the body, and thus his original consciousness is covered.
ātma-jyotiḥ
- the rays of His bodily luster, known as the brahmajyoti — SB 9.11.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.11.19
After completing the sacrifice, Lord Rāmacandra, whose lotus feet were sometimes pierced by thorns when He lived in Daṇḍakāraṇya, placed those lotus feet in the hearts of those who always think of Him. Then He entered His own abode, the Vaikuṇṭha planet beyond the brahmajyoti. - the spirit soul, which was as brilliant as the effulgence of Brahman — SB 6.12.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.12.35
O King Parīkṣit, subduer of enemies, the living spark then came forth from Vṛtrāsura's body and returned home, back to Godhead. While all the demigods looked on, he entered the transcendental world to become an associate of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa.
ātma-jyotiṣi
- who is full of Brahman effulgence — SB 5.16.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.16.3
When the mind is fixed upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His external feature made of the material modes of nature—the gross universal form—it is brought to the platform of pure goodness. In that transcendental position, one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, who in His subtler form is self-effulgent and beyond the modes of nature. O my lord, please describe vividly how that form, which covers the entire universe, is perceived.
ātma-kanyā
- my own daughter — Madhya 5.71plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 5.71
" 'I have offered you my daughter. Do not hesitate. She is my daughter, and I shall give her to you. Who can forbid me?'
ātma-kāraṇāt
- for sense enjoyment — Bg. 3.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.13
The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.
ātma-karma
- destined engagement — SB 3.5.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.9
O chief amongst the brāhmaṇas, please also describe how Nārāyaṇa, the creator of the universe and the self-sufficient Lord, has differently created the natures, activities, forms, features and names of the different living creatures.
ātma-karmabhiḥ
- by the results of one’s karma (fruitive activities) — SB 6.14.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.55
My Lord, You may say that there is no law that a father must die in the lifetime of his son and that a son must be born in the lifetime of his father, since everyone lives and dies according to his own fruitive activity. However, if fruitive activity is so strong that birth and death depend upon it, there is no need of a controller, or God. Again, if You say that a controller is needed because the material energy does not have the power to act, one may answer that if the bonds of affection You have created are disturbed by fruitive action, no one will raise children with affection; instead, everyone will cruelly neglect his children. Since You have cut the bonds of affection that compel a parent to raise his child, You appear inexperienced and unintelligent.
ātma-ketubhiḥ
- by the functions of the inner airs (prāṇa, apāna, etc.) — SB 5.20.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.28
[The inhabitants of Śākadvīpa worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the form of Vāyu in the following words.] O Supreme Person, situated as the Supersoul within the body, You direct the various actions of the different airs, such as prāṇa, and thus You maintain all living entities. O Lord, O Supersoul of everyone, O controller of the cosmic manifestation under whom everything exists, may You protect us from all dangers.
ātma-kṛṣṇa-saṅga
- personal association with Kṛṣṇa — Madhya 8.213plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.213
"Presenting various pleas for the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī sometimes sends the gopīs to Kṛṣṇa just to enable them to associate with Him directly. At such times, She enjoys a happiness ten million times greater than that enjoyed through direct association.
ātma-kṛta
- self-created — SB 3.9.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.19
O my Lord, by Your own will You appear in the various species of living entities, among animals lower than human beings as well as among the demigods, to perform Your transcendental pastimes. You are not affected by material contamination. You come just to fulfill the obligations of Your own principles of religion, and therefore, O Supreme Personality, I offer my obeisances unto You for manifesting such different forms.
ātma-kṛtaḥ
- who has given this body — SB 9.18.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.18.43
Pūru replied: O Your Majesty, who in this world can repay his debt to his father? By the mercy of one's father, one gets the human form of life, which can enable one to become an associate of the Supreme Lord.
ātma-kṛtam
- done by himself — SB 1.19.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 powerful brāhmaṇa was heinous and uncivilized. Consequently he was distressed., Madhya 6.261plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.261
[The verse read:] "One who seeks Your compassion and thus tolerates all kinds of adverse conditions due to the karma of his past deeds, who engages always in Your devotional service with his mind, words and body, and who always offers obeisances unto You is certainly a bona fide candidate for becoming Your unalloyed devotee.", Antya 9.77plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 9.77
"One who seeks Your compassion and thus tolerates all kinds of adverse conditions due to the karma of his past deeds, who engages always in Your devotional service with his mind, words and body, and who always offers obeisances unto You is certainly a bona fide candidate for becoming Your unalloyed devotee.' - done by Me — 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. - done by yourself — SB 8.7.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.32
When annihilation is performed by the flames and sparks emanating from your eyes, the entire creation is burned to ashes. Nonetheless, you do not know how this happens. What then is to be said of your destroying the Dakṣa-yajña, Tripurāsura and the kālakūṭa poison? Such activities cannot be subject matters for prayers offered to you.
ātma-kṛtya-hata-kṛtyam
- after performing religious rituals required after the death of Jaṭāyu, who died for the Lord’s cause — SB 9.10.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.10.12
Lord Rāmacandra, whose lotus feet are worshiped by Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, had assumed the form of a human being. Thus He performed the funeral ceremony of Jaṭāyu, who was killed by Rāvaṇa. The Lord then killed the demon named Kabandha, and after making friends with the monkey chiefs, killing Vāli and arranging for the deliverance of mother Sītā, He went to the beach of the ocean.
ātma-labdhā
- those who have gained such self-achievement — SB 3.7.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.14
Simply by chanting and hearing of the transcendental name, form, etc., of the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one can achieve the cessation of unlimited miserable conditions. Therefore what to speak of those who have attained attraction for serving the flavor of the dust of the Lord's lotus feet?
ātma-labdhaye
- for self-realization — SB 7.7.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.40
It is learned from Vedic literature that by performing great sacrifices one may elevate himself to the heavenly planets. However, although life on the heavenly planets is hundreds and thousands of times more comfortable than life on earth, the heavenly planets are not pure [nirmalam], or free from the taint of material existence. The heavenly planets are also temporary, and therefore they are not the goal of life. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, however, has never been seen or heard to possess inebriety. Consequently, for your own benefit and self-realization, you must worship the Lord with great devotion, as described in the revealed scriptures.
ātma-lābhaḥ
- self-realization — SB 3.31.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.39
One who aspires to reach the culmination of yoga and has realized his self by rendering service unto Me should never associate with an attractive woman, for such a woman is declared in the scripture to be the gateway to hell for the advancing devotee.
ātma-lābhāt
- than the attainment of You — SB 5.18.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.20
He alone who is never afraid but who, on the contrary, gives complete shelter to all fearful persons can actually become a husband and protector. Therefore, my Lord, you are the only husband, and no one else can claim this position. If you were not the only husband, You would be afraid of others. Therefore persons learned in all Vedic literature accept only Your Lordship as everyone's master, and they think no one else a better husband and protector than You.
ātma-lābhāya
- thus going home, back to Godhead — SB 9.24.58plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.24.58
The Supreme Personality of Godhead acts through His material energy in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation just to deliver the living entity by His compassion and stop the living entity's birth, death and duration of materialistic life. Thus He enables the living being to return home, back to Godhead.
ātma-lābhena
- because of His own gain — SB 8.1.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.1.15
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full in opulence by His own gain, yet He acts as the creator, maintainer and annihilator of this material world. In spite of acting in that way, He is never entangled. Hence devotees who follow in His footsteps are also never entangled.
ātma-liṅga-viparyayam
- the transformation of their sex into the opposite — SB 9.1.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.1.27
When his followers also saw their identities transformed and their sex reversed, they were all very morose and just looked at one another.
ātma-liṅgam
- existing as the false designation of the soul — SB 5.11.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.16
The soul's designation, the mind, is the cause of all tribulations in the material world. As long as this fact is unknown to the conditioned living entity, he has to accept the miserable condition of the material body and wander within this universe in different positions. Because the mind is affected by disease, lamentation, illusion, attachment, greed and enmity, it creates bondage and a false sense of intimacy within this material world. - the real form of the self — SB 2.2.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.2.28
After reaching Satyaloka, the devotee is specifically able to be incorporated fearlessly by the subtle body in an identity similar to that of the gross body, and one after another he gradually attains stages of existence from earthly to watery, fiery, glowing and airy, until he reaches the ethereal stage.
ātma-loka-āvaraṇasya
- from the covering of self-realization — SB 8.3.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.25
I do not wish to live anymore after I am released from the attack of the crocodile. What is the use of an elephant's body covered externally and internally by ignorance? I simply desire eternal liberation from the covering of ignorance. That covering is not destroyed by the influence of time.
ātma-lokam
- the real identity of the self — SB 5.6.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.6.19
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, was fully aware of His true identity; therefore He was self-sufficient, and He did not desire external gratification. There was no need for Him to aspire for success, since He was complete in Himself. Those who unnecessarily engage in bodily conceptions and create an atmosphere of materialism are always ignorant of their real self-interest. Out of His causeless mercy, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva taught the self's real identity and the goal of life. We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who appeared as Lord Ṛṣabhadeva.
ātma-loke
- in the spiritual world — SB 6.9.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.33
O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Nārāyaṇa, O Vāsudeva, original person! O most exalted person, supreme experience, welfare personified! O supreme benediction, supremely merciful and changeless! O support of the cosmic manifestation, sole proprietor of all planetary systems, master of everything and husband of the goddess of fortune! Your Lordship is realized by the topmost sannyāsīs, who wander about the world to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, fully absorbed in samādhi through bhakti-yoga. Because their minds are concentrated upon You, they can receive the conception of Your personality in their fully purified hearts. When the darkness in their hearts is completely eradicated and You are revealed to them, the transcendental bliss they enjoy is the transcendental form of Your Lordship. No one but such persons can realize You. Therefore we simply offer You our respectful obeisances.
ātma-madhye
- among themselves — Madhya 25.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.22
All the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs offered their obeisances unto Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and then began to discuss His movement, giving up their studies of Vedānta and Māyāvāda philosophy.
ātma-mahimā
- glories of the Lord Himself — SB 2.7.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.26
When the world is overburdened by the fighting strength of kings who have no faith in God, the Lord, just to diminish the distress of the world, descends with His plenary portion. The Lord comes in His original form, with beautiful black hair. And just to expand His transcendental glories, He acts extraordinarily. No one can properly estimate how great He is.
ātma-māṁsa
- of his own flesh — SB 3.30.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.30.25
He is placed in the midst of burning pieces of wood, and his limbs are set on fire. In some cases he is made to eat his own flesh or have it eaten by others.
ātma-mana
- body and mind — Madhya 8.288plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.288
"I have now converted My body and mind into the ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; thus I am tasting My own personal sweetness in that form."
ātma-mānena
- by his (Brahmā’s) own measurement — SB 10.13.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.40
When Lord Brahmā returned after a moment of time had passed (according to his own measurement), he saw that although by human measurement a complete year had passed, Lord Kṛṣṇa, after all that time, was engaged just as before in playing with the boys and calves, who were His expansions.
ātma-matiḥ
- fully absorbed in thoughts of the Supreme Lord — SB 7.7.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.35
When a devotee becomes like a person haunted by a ghost, he laughs and very loudly chants about the qualities of the Lord. Sometimes he sits to perform meditation, and he offers respects to every living entity, considering him a devotee of the Lord. Constantly breathing very heavily, he becomes careless of social etiquette and loudly chants like a madman, "Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa! O my Lord, O master of the universe!"
ātma-matim
- the concept of the self — SB 5.13.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.13.25
After receiving lessons from the great devotee Jaḍa Bharata, King Rahūgaṇa of the state of Sauvīra became completely aware of the constitutional position of the soul. He thus gave up the bodily conception completely. My dear King, whoever takes shelter of the servant of the servant of the Lord is certainly glorified because he can without difficulty give up the bodily conception [[books:cc:madhya:13:80|[Cc. Madhya 13.80]]].
ātma-māyā
- of His own energy — SB 5.26.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.38
In the beginning [the Second and Third Cantos of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam] I have already described how one can progress on the path of liberation. In the Purāṇas the vast universal existence, which is like an egg divided into fourteen parts, is described. This vast form is considered the external body of the Lord, created by His energy and qualities. It is generally called the virāṭ-rūpa. If one reads the description of this external form of the Lord with great faith, or if one hears about it or explains it to others to propagate bhāgavata-dharma, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his faith and devotion in spiritual consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, will gradually increase. Although developing this consciousness is very difficult, by this process one can purify himself and gradually come to an awareness of the Supreme Absolute Truth. - personal energies — SB 2.6.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.36
Therefore it is best for me to surrender unto His feet, which alone can deliver one from the miseries of repeated birth and death. Such surrender is all-auspicious and allows one to perceive all happiness. Even the sky cannot estimate the limits of its own expansion. So what can others do when the Lord Himself is unable to estimate His own limits?
ātma-māyā-guṇaiḥ
- by the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s modes of material nature — SB 6.16.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.9
The living entity is eternal and imperishable because he actually has no beginning and no end. He never takes birth or dies. He is the basic principle of all types of bodies, yet he does not belong to the bodily category. The living being is so sublime that he is equal in quality to the Supreme Lord. Nonetheless, because he is extremely small, he is prone to be illusioned by the external energy, and thus he creates various bodies for himself according to his different desires.
ātma-māyām
- His supreme compassion for the fallen souls — SB 9.24.57plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.24.57
O King, Mahārāja Parīkṣit, but for the Lord's personal desire, there is no cause for His appearance, disappearance or activities. As the Supersoul, He knows everything. Consequently there is no cause that affects Him, not even the results of fruitive activities. - My energy — SB 4.7.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.51
The Lord continued: My dear Dakṣa Dvija, I am the original Personality of Godhead, but in order to create, maintain and annihilate this cosmic manifestation, I act through My material energy, and according to the different grades of activity, My representations are differently named. - own energy — SB 2.8.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.10
Please also explain the Personality of Godhead, who lies in every heart as the Supersoul, and as the Lord of all energies, but is untouched by His external energy., SB 2.10.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.30
When there was a desire to think about the activities of His own energy, then the heart (the seat of the mind), the mind, the moon, determination and all desire became manifested. - the illusory energy, which can do and undo the inconceivable — SB 6.9.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.36
O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all contradictions can be reconciled in You. O Lord, since You are the Supreme Person, the reservoir of unlimited spiritual qualities, the supreme controller, Your unlimited glories are inconceivable to the conditioned souls. Many modern theologians argue about right and wrong without knowing what is actually right. Their arguments are always false and their judgments inconclusive because they have no authorized evidence with which to gain knowledge of You. Because their minds are agitated by scriptures containing false conclusions, they are unable to understand the truth concerning You. Furthermore, because of polluted eagerness to arrive at the right conclusion, their theories are incapable of revealing You, who are transcendental to their material conceptions. You are one without a second, and therefore in You contradictions like doing and not doing, happiness and distress, are not contradictory. Your potency is so great that it can do and undo anything as You like. With the help of that potency, what is impossible for You? Since there is no duality in Your constitutional position, You can do everything by the influence of Your energy.
ātma-māyayā
- by acting in His own spiritual energy — SB 10.3.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.3.46
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After thus instructing His father and mother, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, remained silent. In their presence, by His internal energy, He then transformed Himself into a small human child. [In other words, He transformed Himself into His original form: kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam. - by His inconceivable potency — SB 4.12.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.12.6
Engage yourself fully, therefore, in the devotional service of the Lord, for only He can deliver us from this entanglement of materialistic existence. Although the Lord is attached to His material potency, He is aloof from her activities. Everything in this material world is happening by the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - by His internal potency — SB 2.8.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.23
The independent Personality of Godhead enjoys His pastimes by His internal potency and at the time of annihilation gives them up to the external potency, and He remains a witness to it all., SB 3.25.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.1
Śrī Śaunaka said: Although He is unborn, the Supreme Personality of Godhead took birth as Kapila Muni by His internal potency. He descended to disseminate transcendental knowledge for the benefit of the whole human race., SB 3.25.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.3
Therefore please precisely describe all the activities and pastimes of the Personality of Godhead, who is full of self-desire and who assumes all these activities by His internal potency. - by His material energy — SB 4.7.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.39
We offer our respectful obeisances unto the Supreme, who has created varieties of manifestations and put them under the spell of the three qualities of the material world in order to create, maintain and annihilate them. He Himself is not under the control of the external energy; in His personal feature He is completely devoid of the variegated manifestation of material qualities, and He is under no illusion of false identification. - by His personal potencies — SB 6.17.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.17.21
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one. Unaffected by the conditions of the material world, He creates all the conditioned souls by His own personal potency. Because of being contaminated by the material energy, the living entity is put into ignorance and thus into different conditions of bondage. Sometimes, by knowledge, the living entity is given liberation. In sattva-guṇa and rajo-guṇa, he is subjected to happiness and distress. - by His personal potency — 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. - by His potencies — SB 3.26.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.18
By exhibiting His potencies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead adjusts all these different elements, keeping Himself within as the Supersoul and without as time. - by My internal energy — Bg. 4.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.6
Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form. - by the external energy of the Lord — SB 8.7.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.39
People in general, being bewildered by the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are always engaged in animosity toward one another. But devotees, even at the risk of their own temporary lives, try to save them. - by the external energy of the Supreme Lord — SB 4.3.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.3.11
This manifested cosmos is a wonderful creation of the interaction of the three material modes, or the external energy of the Supreme Lord. This truth is fully known to you. Yet I am but a poor woman, and, as you know, I am not conversant with the truth. Therefore I wish to see my birthplace once more. - by the illusory energy of the Lord — SB 6.2.36-37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.36-37
Because of identifying oneself with the body, one is subjected to desires for sense gratification, and thus one engages in many different types of pious and impious action. This is what constitutes material bondage. Now I shall disentangle myself from my material bondage, which has been caused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead's illusory energy in the form of a woman. Being a most fallen soul, I was victimized by the illusory energy and have become like a dancing dog led around by a woman's hand. Now I shall give up all lusty desires and free myself from this illusion. I shall become a merciful, well-wishing friend to all living entities and always absorb myself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. - by the spiritual potency, the internal energy — SB 8.12.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.21
As She played with the ball, the sari covering Her body became loose, and Her hair scattered. She tried to bind Her hair with Her beautiful left hand, and at the same time She played with the ball by striking it with Her right hand. This was so attractive that the Supreme Lord, by His internal potency, in this way captivated everyone.
ātma-medhasā
- by my own intelligence — SB 9.5.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.20
Durvāsā Muni said: I am very pleased with you, my dear King. At first I thought of you as an ordinary human being and accepted your hospitality, but later I could understand, by my own intelligence, that you are the most exalted devotee of the Lord. Therefore, simply by seeing you, touching your feet and talking with you, I have been pleased and have become obliged to you. - considering like one’s self — SB 4.31.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.2
The Pracetās went to the seashore in the west where the great liberated sage Jājali was residing. After perfecting the spiritual knowledge by which one becomes equal toward all living entities, the Pracetās became perfect in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. - well versed in spiritual knowledge — SB 4.22.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.41
The great sage Maitreya continued: Being thus enlightened in complete spiritual knowledge by the son of Brahmā—one of the Kumāras, who was complete in spiritual knowledge—the King worshiped them in the following words.
ātma-moham
- bewilderment regarding the existence of the soul — SB 6.4.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.4.31
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead, who possesses unlimited transcendental qualities. Acting from within the cores of the hearts of all philosophers, who propagate various views, He causes them to forget their own souls while sometimes agreeing and sometimes disagreeing among themselves. Thus He creates within this material world a situation in which they are unable to come to a conclusion. I offer my obeisances unto Him. - illusion of the self — Madhya 6.108plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.108
" 'I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full of unlimited qualities and whose different potencies bring about agreement and disagreement between disputants. Thus the illusory energy again and again covers the self-realization of both disputants.' - the illusion of the body as the self — 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.
ātma-mohanāt
- which was covering the process of self-realization — SB 8.22.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.16
Prahlāda Mahārāja said: My Lord, it is Your Lordship who gave this Bali the very great opulence of the post of heavenly king, and now, today, it is You who have taken it all away. I think You have acted with equal beauty in both ways. Because his exalted position as King of heaven was putting him in the darkness of ignorance, You have done him a very merciful favor by taking away all his opulence.
ātma-moṣam
- which covers the constitutional position of the living entity — SB 5.11.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.17
This uncontrolled mind is the greatest enemy of the living entity. If one neglects it or gives it a chance, it will grow more and more powerful and will become victorious. Although it is not factual, it is very strong. It covers the constitutional position of the soul. O King, please try to conquer this mind by the weapon of service to the lotus feet of the spiritual master and of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Do this with great care.
ātma-mukhyān
- the confidential ministers of Bali Mahārāja — SB 8.20.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.20.24
Bali Mahārāja saw beneath the garments of the Lord, who acts wonderfully, the evening twilight. In the Lord's private parts he saw the Prajāpatis, and in the round portion of the waist he saw himself with his confidential associates. In the Lord's navel he saw the sky, on the Lord's waist he saw the seven oceans, and on the Lord's bosom he saw all the clusters of stars.
ātma-mūlaḥ
- self-sufficient, having no other cause — SB 8.3.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.4
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by expanding His own energy, keeps this cosmic manifestation visible and again sometimes renders it invisible. He is both the supreme cause and the supreme result, the observer and the witness, in all circumstances. Thus He is transcendental to everything. May that Supreme Personality of Godhead give me protection.
ātma-mūlam
- self-rooted — SB 3.9.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.16
Your Lordship is the prime root of the tree of the planetary systems. This tree has grown by first penetrating the material nature in three trunks—as me, Śiva and You, the Almighty—for creation, maintenance and dissolution, and we three have grown with many branches. Therefore I offer my obeisances unto You, the tree of the cosmic manifestation.
ātma-mūlāya
- who are the original source of everything — SB 8.3.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.13
I beg to offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are the Supersoul, the superintendent of everything, and the witness of all that occurs. You are the Supreme Person, the origin of material nature and of the total material energy. You are also the owner of the material body. Therefore, You are the supreme complete. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
ātma-naipuṇya-mṛdita-kaṣāyaḥ
- freed from all lust and anger by his expertise in such thinking — SB 5.7.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.7.6
After performing the preliminaries of various sacrifices, Mahārāja Bharata offered the results in the name of religion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. In other words, he performed all the yajñas for the satisfaction of Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa. Mahārāja Bharata thought that since the demigods were different parts of Vāsudeva's body, He controls those who are explained in the Vedic mantras. By thinking in this way, Mahārāja Bharata was freed from all material contamination, such as attachment, lust and greed. When the priests were about to offer the sacrificial ingredients into the fire, Mahārāja Bharata expertly understood how the offering made to different demigods was simply an offering to the different limbs of the Lord. For instance, Indra is the arm of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Sūrya [the sun] is His eye. Thus Mahārāja Bharata considered that the oblations offered to different demigods were actually offered unto the different limbs of Lord Vāsudeva.
ātma-nāśam
- forgetfulness of one’s own constitutional position — 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.
ātma-nigamam
- exactly according to the ritualistic ceremonies of the Vedas — SB 9.24.66plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.24.66
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, known as līlā-puruṣottama, appeared as the son of Vasudeva but immediately left His father's home and went to Vṛndāvana to expand His loving relationship with His confidential devotees. In Vṛndāvana the Lord killed many demons, and afterwards He returned to Dvārakā, where according to Vedic principles He married many wives who were the best of women, begot through them hundreds of sons, and performed sacrifices for His own worship to establish the principles of householder life.
ātma-nikṣepa
- full self-surrender — Madhya 22.100plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.100
" 'The six divisions of surrender are the acceptance of those things favorable to devotional service, the rejection of unfavorable things, the conviction that Kṛṣṇa will give protection, the acceptance of the Lord as one's guardian or master, full self-surrender and humility.
ātma-nindā
- self-indictment — Madhya 6.201plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.201
When Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya denounced himself as an offender and took shelter of the Lord, the Lord desired to show him mercy.
ātma-nindā kaila
- made self-reproach — Madhya 15.259plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 15.259
Falling down at the Lord's feet, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya said many things in self-reproach. The Lord then pacified him and sent him back to his home.
ātma-nirveśa-mātreṇa
- as soon as He entered (between the two trees) — SB 10.10.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.10.26
Having thus spoken, Kṛṣṇa soon entered between the two arjuna trees, and thus the big mortar to which He was bound turned crosswise and stuck between them.
ātma-nivedana
- surrendering fully — Madhya 22.121plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.121
"After one is established in devotional service, the positive actions are (1) hearing, (2) chanting, (3) remembering, (4) worshiping, (5) praying, (6) serving, (7) accepting servitorship, (8) becoming a friend and (9) surrendering fully.
ātma-nivedanam
- dedicating everything (body, mind and soul) for the service of the Lord — Madhya 9.259-260plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 9.259-260
" 'This process entails hearing, chanting and remembering the holy name, form, pastimes, qualities and entourage of the Lord, offering service according to the time, place and performer, worshiping the Deity, offering prayers, always considering oneself the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, making friends with Him and dedicating everything unto Him. These nine items of devotional service, when directly offered to Kṛṣṇa, constitute the highest attainment of life. This is the verdict of the revealed scriptures.' - surrendering everything, whatever one has — SB 7.5.23-24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.23-24
Prahlāda Mahārāja said: Hearing and chanting about the transcendental holy name, form, qualities, paraphernalia and pastimes of Lord Viṣṇu, remembering them, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, offering the Lord respectful worship with sixteen types of paraphernalia, offering prayers to the Lord, becoming His servant, considering the Lord one's best friend, and surrendering everything unto Him (in other words, serving Him with the body, mind and words)—these nine processes are accepted as pure devotional service. One who has dedicated his life to the service of Kṛṣṇa through these nine methods should be understood to be the most learned person, for he has acquired complete knowledge.
ātma-niyamaḥ
- the daily duties of washing, chanting other mantras and so on, according to one’s practice — SB 8.16.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.16.28
Thereafter, one should perform his daily spiritual duties and then, with great attention, offer worship to the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and also to the altar, the sun, water, fire and the spiritual master.
ātma-niyamāḥ
- his personal activities for taking care of his body — SB 5.8.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.8
Gradually Mahārāja Bharata became very affectionate toward the deer. He began to raise it and maintain it by giving it grass. He was always careful to protect it from the attacks of tigers and other animals. When it itched, he petted it, and in this way he always tried to keep it in a comfortable condition. He sometimes kissed it out of love. Being attached to raising the deer, Mahārāja Bharata forgot the rules and regulations for the advancement of spiritual life, and he gradually forgot to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. After a few days, he forgot everything about his spiritual advancement.
ātma-para-buddhiḥ
- the conception of one’s own and another’s — 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.
ātma-parīpsayā
- to protect himself by expanding — SB 3.22.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.22.2
Manu replied: To expand himself in Vedic knowledge, Lord Brahmā, the personified Veda, from his face created you, the brāhmaṇas, who are full of austerity, knowledge and mystic power and are averse to sense gratification.
ātma-paryanta
- even up to His own self — Madhya 8.143plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.143
"Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive for devotees in all devotional mellows because He is the personification of the conjugal mellow. Kṛṣṇa is attractive not only to all the devotees, but to Himself as well. - giving Himself — Antya 1.107plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 1.107
Characteristically, the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not take seriously an offense committed by a pure devotee. The Lord accepts whatever small service a devotee renders as being such a great service that He is prepared to give even Himself, not to speak of other benedictions. - up to the point of His personal self — Madhya 24.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.42
"Kṛṣṇa's transcendental qualities such as opulence, sweetness and mercy are perfect and full. As far as Kṛṣṇa's affectionate leaning toward His devotees is concerned, He is so magnanimous that He can give Himself to His devotees.
ātma-pātaḥ
- degradation of oneself — SB 2.1.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.1.39
One should concentrate his mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who alone distributes Himself in so many manifestations just as ordinary persons create thousands of manifestations in dreams. One must concentrate the mind on Him, the only all-blissful Absolute Truth. Otherwise one will be misled and will cause his own degradation.
ātma-pātam
- the place where spiritual culture or self-realization is stopped — 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.
ātma-patha
- the path of self-realization — SB 3.33.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.33.5
My dear Lord, You have assumed this body in order to diminish the sinful activities of the fallen and to enrich their knowledge in devotion and liberation. Since these sinful people are dependent on Your direction, by Your own will You assume incarnations as a boar and as other forms. Similarly, You have appeared in order to distribute transcendental knowledge to Your dependents.
ātma-pathaḥ
- path of self-realization — SB 3.24.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.24.37
This path of self-realization, which is difficult to understand, has now been lost in the course of time. Please know that I have assumed this body of Kapila to introduce and explain this philosophy to human society again.
ātma-pavitratā
- of self-purification — Ādi 11.57plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 11.57
No one can count the unlimited followers of Nityānanda Prabhu. I have mentioned some of them just for my self-purification.
ātma-prabhavam
- the source of everyone — Madhya 22.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.28
" 'If one simply maintains an official position in the four varṇas and āśramas but does not worship the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu, he falls down from his puffed-up position into a heIlish condition.', Madhya 22.112plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.112
" 'If one simply maintains an official position in the four varṇas and āśramas but does not worship the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu, he falls down from his puffed-up position into a hellish condition.', Madhya 24.142plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.142
" 'If one simply maintains an official position in the four varṇas and āśramas but does not worship the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu, he falls down from his puffed up position into a hellish condition.'
ātma-pradaḥ
- full satisfaction of self — SB 4.31.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.12
Transcendental practices that do not ultimately help one realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead are useless, be they mystic yoga practices, the analytical study of matter, severe austerity, the acceptance of sannyāsa, or the study of Vedic literature. All these may be very important aspects of spiritual advancement, but unless one understands the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, all these processes are useless.
ātma-pradam
- who gives Himself — SB 6.18.75plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.18.75
The ultimate goal of all ambitions is to become a servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If an intelligent man serves the most dear Lord, who gives Himself to His devotees, how can he desire material happiness, which is available even in hell?
ātma-pradīpāya
- unto Him who is self-effulgent or who gives enlightenment to the living entities — SB 8.3.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.10
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self-effulgent Supersoul, who is the witness in everyone's heart, who enlightens the individual soul and who cannot be reached by exercises of the mind, words or consciousness.
ātma-prajñaptaye
- to disseminate transcendental knowledge — SB 3.25.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.1
Śrī Śaunaka said: Although He is unborn, the Supreme Personality of Godhead took birth as Kapila Muni by His internal potency. He descended to disseminate transcendental knowledge for the benefit of the whole human race.
ātma-prasādaḥ
- self-satisfaction — SB 2.3.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.3.12
Transcendental knowledge in relation with the Supreme Lord Hari is knowledge resulting in the complete suspension of the waves and whirlpools of the material modes. Such knowledge is self-satisfying due to its being free from material attachment, and being transcendental it is approved by authorities. Who could fail to be attracted?
ātma-prasvāpanam
- which had covered the mahat-tattva — SB 3.26.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.20
Thus, after manifesting variegatedness, the effulgent mahat-tattva, which contains all the universes within itself, which is the root of all cosmic manifestations and which is not destroyed at the time of annihilation, swallows the darkness that covered the effulgence at the time of dissolution.
ātma-pratyavamarśena
- by self-realization — SB 5.1.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.38
By the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mahārāja Priyavrata reawakened to his senses. He divided all his earthly possessions among his obedient sons. He gave up everything, including his wife, with whom he had enjoyed so much sense gratification, and his great and opulent kingdom, and he completely renounced all attachment. His heart, having been cleansed, became a place of pastimes for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus he was able to return to the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, spiritual life, and resume the position he had attained by the grace of the great saint Nārada.
ātma-pratyayena
- by assuming me to be like himself — SB 5.8.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.16
Bharata Mahārāja would think: Alas, the deer is now helpless. I am now very unfortunate, and my mind is like a cunning hunter, for it is always filled with cheating propensities and cruelty. The deer has put its faith in me, just as a good man who has a natural interest in good behavior forgets the misbehavior of a cunning friend and puts his faith in him. Although I have proved faithless, will this deer return and place its faith in me?
ātma-priya-suhṛdaḥ
- who have accepted You as the Supersoul, dearmost lover and friend — SB 6.9.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.39
Therefore, O killer of the Madhu demon, incessant transcendental bliss flows in the minds of those who have even once tasted but a drop of the nectar from the ocean of Your glories. Such exalted devotees forget the tiny reflection of so-called material happiness produced from the material senses of sight and sound. Free from all desires, such devotees are the real friends of all living entities. Offering their minds unto You and enjoying transcendental bliss, they are expert in achieving the real goal of life. O Lord, You are the soul and dear friend of such devotees, who never need return to this material world. How could they give up engagement in Your devotional service?
ātma-rajaḥ
- the sinful infection of the heart — SB 6.3.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.33
Devotees who always lick the honey from the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa do not care at all for material activities, which are performed under the three modes of material nature and which bring only misery. Indeed, devotees never give up the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa to return to material activities. Others, however, who are addicted to Vedic rituals because they have neglected the service of the Lord's lotus feet and are enchanted by lusty desires, sometimes perform acts of atonement. Nevertheless, being incompletely purified, they return to sinful activities again and again.
ātma-rāma-gurubhiḥ
- by those who are self-satisfied and who are considered to be spiritual masters of the world — SB 8.7.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.33
Exalted, self-satisfied persons who preach to the entire world think of your lotus feet constantly within their hearts. However, when persons who do not know your austerity see you moving with Umā, they misunderstand you to be lusty, or when they see you wandering in the crematorium they mistakenly think that you are ferocious and envious. Certainly they are shameless. They cannot understand your activities.
ātmā-rāmera mana
- the minds of self-realized persons — Madhya 17.139plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 17.139
"The transcendental qualities of Śrī Kṛṣṇa are completely blissful and relishable. Consequently Lord Kṛṣṇa's qualities attract even the minds of self-realized persons from the bliss of self-realization.
ātma-rateḥ
- self-satisfied — SB 5.1.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.17
Even if he goes from forest to forest, one who is not self-controlled must always fear material bondage because he is living with six co-wives—the mind and knowledge-acquiring senses. Even householder life, however, cannot harm a self-satisfied, learned man who has conquered his senses.
ātma-ratiḥ
- takes pleasure — Bg. 3.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.17
One who is, however, taking pleasure in the self, who is illumined in the self, who rejoices in and is satisfied with the self only, fully satiated—for him there is no duty.
ātma-ripoḥ
- who are the traditional enemy of the family — SB 8.22.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.11
Only by providence have I been forcibly brought under Your lotus feet and deprived of all my opulence. Because of the illusion created by temporary opulence, people in general, who live under material conditions, facing accidental death at every moment, do not understand that this life is temporary. Only by providence have I been saved from that condition.
ātma-ruciḥ
- transcendental attraction — SB 1.5.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.25
Once only, by their permission, I took the remnants of their food, and by so doing all my sins were at once eradicated. Thus being engaged, I became purified in heart, and at that time the very nature of the transcendentalist became attractive to me.
ātma-ruddhāni
- hidden within yourself — SB 4.17.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 and now hidden within yourself.
ātma-sa-tattvam
- the actual constitutional position of the soul — SB 5.13.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.13.24
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, O son of mother Uttarā, there were some waves of dissatisfaction in the mind of Jaḍa Bharata due to his being insulted by King Rahūgaṇa, who made him carry his palanquin, but Jaḍa Bharata neglected this, and his heart again became calm and quiet like an ocean. Although King Rahūgaṇa had insulted him, he was a great paramahaṁsa. Being a Vaiṣṇava, he was naturally very kindhearted, and he therefore told the King about the constitutional position of the soul. He then forgot the insult because King Rahūgaṇa pitifully begged pardon at his lotus feet. After this, he began to wander all over the earth, just as before.
ātma-śabde
- by the word ātma — Madhya 24.211plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.211
"I have already explained nineteen different meanings. Now please hear further meanings. The word ātma also refers to the body, and this can be taken in four ways.
ātmā-śabde
- by the word ātmā — Madhya 24.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.11
"The seven different meanings of the word ātmā are the Absolute Truth, the body, the mind, endeavor, firmness, intelligence and nature., Madhya 24.168plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.168
"Ātmā also means 'endeavor.' Being attracted by Kṛṣṇa's transcendental qualities, some saints make a great endeavor to come to the point of rendering service to Him., Madhya 24.174plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.174
"Another meaning of ātmā is dhṛti, or endurance. A person who endeavors with endurance is ātmārāma. With endurance, such a person engages in devotional service., Madhya 24.186plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.186
"The word ātmā is also used for a particular type of intelligence. Since all living entities generally have some intelligence, more or less, they are included., Madhya 24.200plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.200
"Another meaning of the word ātmā is 'one's characteristic nature.' Whoever enjoys his particular type of nature is called ātmārāma. Therefore, all living entities-be they moving or nonmoving-are also called ātmārāma., Madhya 24.285plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.285
"The word ātmā refers to all the different expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One of them is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Kṛṣṇa, and the others are different incarnations or expansions of Kṛṣṇa., Madhya 24.307plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.307
"The word ātmā also refers to the living entity who knows about his body. That is another symptom. From Lord Brahmā down to the insignificant ant, everyone is counted as the marginal potency of the Lord.
ātma-sadṛśa
- and exactly like himself — SB 5.9.1-2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.1-2
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after giving up the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja took birth in a very pure brāhmaṇa family. There was a brāhmaṇa who belonged to the dynasty of Aṅgirā. He was fully qualified with brahminical qualifications. He could control his mind and senses, and he had studied the Vedic literatures and other subsidiary literatures. He was expert in giving charity, and he was always satisfied, tolerant, very gentle, learned and nonenvious. He was self-realized and engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. He remained always in a trance. He had nine equally qualified sons by his first wife, and by his second wife he begot twins—a brother and a sister, of which the male child was said to be the topmost devotee and foremost of saintly kings—Bharata Mahārāja. This, then, is the story of the birth he took after giving up the body of a deer.
ātma-sahacaraḥ
- having the Supersoul as the only constant companion (no one should think of being alone) — SB 5.8.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.31
Remaining in that āśrama, the great King Bharata Mahārāja was now very careful not to fall victim to bad association. Without disclosing his past to anyone, he remained in that āśrama and ate dry leaves only. He was not exactly alone, for he had the association of the Supersoul. In this way he waited for death in the body of a deer. Bathing in that holy place, he finally gave up that body.
ātma-śaktiḥ
- the reservoir of all spiritual potencies — SB 6.4.27-28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.4.27-28
Just as great learned brāhmaṇas who are expert in performing ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices can extract the fire dormant within wooden fuel by chanting the fifteen Sāmidhenī mantras, thus proving the efficacy of the Vedic mantras, so those who are actually advanced in consciousness—in other words, those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious—can find the Supersoul, who by His own spiritual potency is situated within the heart. The heart is covered by the three modes of material nature and the nine material elements [material nature, the total material energy, the ego, the mind and the five objects of sense gratification], and also by the five material elements and the ten senses. These twenty-seven elements constitute the external energy of the Lord. Great yogīs meditate upon the Lord, who is situated as the Supersoul, Paramātmā, within the core of the heart. May that Supersoul be pleased with me. The Supersoul is realized when one is eager for liberation from the unlimited varieties of material life. One actually attains such liberation when he engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord and realizes the Lord because of his attitude of service. The Lord may be addressed by various spiritual names, which are inconceivable to the material senses. When will that Supreme Personality of Godhead be pleased with me?
ātma-śaktim
- self-sufficient power — SB 2.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.5
As the spider very easily creates the network of its cobweb and manifests its power of creation without being defeated by others, so also you yourself, by employment of your self-sufficient energy, create without any other's help.
ātma-śaktiṣu
- within our working capacity — SB 3.13.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.8
O worshipful one, please give us your direction for the execution of duty within our working capacity so that we can follow it for fame in this life and progress in the next.
ātma-śaktyā
- by His personal potency — SB 8.1.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.1.13
The entire cosmic manifestation is the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, who has millions of names and unlimited potencies. He is self-effulgent, unborn and changeless. He is the beginning of everything, but He has no beginning. Because He has created this cosmic manifestation by His external energy, the universe appears to be created, maintained and annihilated by Him. Nonetheless, He remains inactive in His spiritual energy and is untouched by the activities of the material energy. - by Your own potency — 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. - with His internal potency — SB 3.9.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.23
The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is always the benefactor of the surrendered souls. His activities are always enacted through His internal potency, Ramā, or the goddess of fortune. I pray only to engage in His service in the creation of the material world, and I pray that I not be materially affected by my works, for thus I may be able to give up the false prestige of being the creator.
ātma-sama
- as my relatives — Antya 9.120plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 9.120
"Inform Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu that all the sons of Bhavānanda Rāya are especially dear to me. I consider them like members of my family. - as spiritual as Himself — Antya 4.192plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 4.192
"At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders unto the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as Himself. - one of His confidential associates — Madhya 22.102plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.102
"When a devotee thus fully surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, Kṛṣṇa accepts him as one of His confidential associates.
ātma-sama jñāna
- the notion of equality — Madhya 19.225plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.225
"On the platform of sakhya-rasa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is obliged to the devotees who are intimate with Kṛṣṇa and think themselves equal to Him.
ātma-sama mānoṅ
- I considered like my relatives — Antya 9.125plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 9.125
"The prince created this situation without my knowledge, but actually I consider all the sons of Bhavānanda Rāya to be like my relatives.
ātma-samādhi
- transcendental self-realization — SB 3.5.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.47
Others, who are pacified by means of transcendental self-realization and have conquered over the modes of nature by dint of strong power and knowledge, also enter into You, but for them there is much pain, whereas the devotee simply discharges devotional service and thus feels no such pain.
ātma-samādhi-rūpeṇa
- by meditating upon Him in trance — SB 5.17.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.16
In Ilāvṛta-varṣa, Lord Śiva is always encircled by ten billion maidservants of goddess Durgā, who minister to him. The quadruple expansion of the Supreme Lord is composed of Vāsudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Saṅkarṣaṇa. Saṅkarṣaṇa, the fourth expansion, is certainly transcendental, but because his activities of destruction in the material world are in the mode of ignorance, He is known as tāmasī, the Lord's form in the mode of ignorance. Lord Śiva knows that Saṅkarṣaṇa is the original cause of his own existence, and thus he always meditates upon Him in trance by chanting the following mantra.
ātma-samādhinā
- by being fully engaged in devotional service — SB 6.2.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.41
Ajāmila fully engaged in devotional service. Thus he detached his mind from the process of sense gratification and became fully absorbed in thinking of the form of the Lord. - by self-absorption — SB 3.27.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.22
This devotional service has to be performed strongly in perfect knowledge and with transcendental vision. One must be strongly renounced and must engage in austerity and perform mystic yoga in order to be firmly fixed in self-absorption.
ātma-samāḥ
- like his own prototype — SB 3.12.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.15
The most powerful Rudra, whose bodily color was blue mixed with red, created many offspring exactly resembling him in features, strength and furious nature.
ātma-śamalam
- coverings of the spirit soul — SB 2.7.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.3
The Lord then appeared as the Kapila incarnation, being the son of the prajāpati brāhmaṇa Kardama and his wife, Devahūti, along with nine other women [sisters]. He spoke to His mother about self-realization, by which, in that very lifetime, she became fully cleansed of the mud of the material modes and thereby achieved liberation, the path of Kapila. - own sinful activities — SB 5.26.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.32
In this life some people give shelter to animals and birds that come to them for protection in the village or forest, and after making them believe that they will be protected, such people pierce them with lances or threads and play with them like toys, giving them great pain. After death such people are brought by the assistants of Yamarāja to the hell known as Śūlaprota, where their bodies are pierced with sharp, needlelike lances. They suffer from hunger and thirst, and sharp-beaked birds such as vultures and herons come at them from all sides to tear at their bodies. Tortured and suffering, they can then remember the sinful activities they committed in the past.
ātma-samam
- according to capacity — SB 4.30.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.30.41
Dear Lord, even great yogīs and mystics who are very much advanced by virtue of austerities and knowledge and who have completely situated themselves in pure existence, as well as great personalities like Manu, Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, cannot fully understand Your glories and potencies. Nonetheless they have offered their prayers according to their own capacities. In the same way, we, although much lower than these personalities, also offer our prayers according to our own capability. - as far as it can — SB 1.18.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 is concerned. As the birds fly in the sky as far as their capacity allows, so do the learned devotees describe the Lord as far as their realization allows. - by dint of one’s personal ability — SB 2.6.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.37
Since neither Lord Śiva nor you nor I could ascertain the limits of spiritual happiness, how can other demigods know it? And because all of us are bewildered by the illusory external energy of the Supreme Lord, we can see only this manifested cosmos according to our individual ability. - self-similar — Ādi 1.77plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.77
"When the Lord displays numerous forms with different features by His inconceivable potency, such forms are called vilāsa-vigrahas."
ātma-samām
- like Himself — SB 4.1.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.20
He was thinking: May the Lord of the universe, of whom I have taken shelter, kindly he pleased to offer me a son exactly like Him.
ātma-samāna
- exactly equal to him — SB 5.1.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.24
Thereafter, Mahārāja Priyavrata married Barhiṣmatī, the daughter of the prajāpati named Viśvakarmā. In her he begot ten sons equal to him in beauty, character, magnanimity and other qualities. He also begot a daughter, the youngest of all, named Ūrjasvatī.
ātma-samānānām
- exactly like Himself — SB 5.4.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.8
After Nābhi Mahārāja departed for Badarikāśrama, the Supreme Lord, Ṛṣabhadeva, understood that His kingdom was His field of activities. He therefore showed Himself as an example and taught the duties of a householder by first accepting brahmacarya under the direction of spiritual masters. He also went to live at the spiritual masters' place, gurukula. After His education was finished, He gave gifts (guru-dakṣiṇā) to His spiritual masters and then accepted the life of a householder. He took a wife named Jayantī and begot one hundred sons who were as powerful and qualified as He Himself. His wife Jayantī had been offered to Him by Indra, the King of heaven. Ṛṣabhadeva and Jayantī performed householder life in an exemplary way, carrying out ritualistic activities ordained by the śruti and smṛti śāstra.
ātma-samarpaṇa
- complete surrender — Antya 4.76plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 4.76
Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "Your body is My property. You have already surrendered unto Me. Therefore you no longer have any claim to your body. - full surrender — Madhya 22.99plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.99
"There are two kinds of devotees—those who are fully satiated and free from all material desires and those who are fully surrendered to the lotus feet of the Lord. Their qualities are one and the same, but those who are fully surrendered to Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet are qualified with another transcendental quality-ātma-samarpaṇa, full surrender without reservation. - fully surrendering — Madhya 22.102plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.102
"When a devotee thus fully surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, Kṛṣṇa accepts him as one of His confidential associates. - self-surrender — Madhya 4.66plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 4.66
After the last offering of tāmbūla and pan, bhoga-ārātrika was performed. Finally everyone offered various prayers and then obeisances, falling flat before the Deity in full surrender.
ātma-samarpaṇam
- surrendering one’s whole self — SB 7.11.8-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.8-12
These are the general principles to be followed by all human beings: truthfulness, mercy, austerity (observing fasts on certain days of the month), bathing twice a day, tolerance, discrimination between right and wrong, control of the mind, control of the senses, nonviolence, celibacy, charity, reading of scripture, simplicity, satisfaction, rendering service to saintly persons, gradually taking leave of unnecessary engagements, observing the futility of the unnecessary activities of human society, remaining silent and grave and avoiding unnecessary talk, considering whether one is the body or the soul, distributing food equally to all living entities (both men and animals), seeing every soul (especially in the human form) as a part of the Supreme Lord, hearing about the activities and instructions given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead (who is the shelter of the saintly persons), chanting about these activities and instructions, always remembering these activities and instructions, trying to render service, performing worship, offering obeisances, becoming a servant, becoming a friend, and surrendering one's whole self. O King Yudhiṣṭhira, these thirty qualifications must be acquired in the human form of life. Simply by acquiring these qualifications, one can satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
ātma-sambhāvanaḥ
- interested in self -maintenance — SB 4.17.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 other living entities may be killed by the king. Such killing can never be considered actual killing.
ātma-sambhāvanena
- by false prestige — SB 5.26.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.30
A lowborn and abominable person who in this life becomes falsely proud, thinking "I am great," and who thus fails to show proper respect to one more elevated than he by birth, austerity, education, behavior, caste or spiritual order, is like a dead man even in this lifetime, and after death he is thrown headfirst into the hell known as Kṣārakardama. There he must great suffer great tribulation at the hands of the agents of Yamarāja.
ātma-sambhāvitāḥ
- self-complacent — Bg. 16.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 16.17
Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes perform sacrifices in name only without following any rules or regulations.
ātma-saṁśraye
- residing in all living entities — SB 3.33.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.33.26
Her mind became completely engaged in the Supreme Lord, and she automatically realized the knowledge of the impersonal Brahman. As a Brahman-realized soul, she was freed from the designations of the materialistic concept of life. Thus all material pangs disappeared, and she attained transcendental bliss.
ātma-saṁstham
- placed in transcendence — Bg. 6.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.25
Gradually, step by step, with full conviction, one should become situated in trance by means of intelligence, and thus the mind should be fixed on the Self alone and should think of nothing else.
ātma-saṁstutiḥ
- in praise of himself — Bg. 14.22-25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 14.22-25
The Blessed Lord said: He who does not hate illumination, attachment and delusion when they are present, nor longs for them when they disappear; who is seated like one unconcerned, being situated beyond these material reactions of the modes of nature, who remains firm, knowing that the modes alone are active; who regards alike pleasure and pain, and looks on a clod, a stone and a piece of gold with an equal eye; who is wise and holds praise and blame to be the same; who is unchanged in honor and dishonor, who treats friend and foe alike, who has abandoned all fruitive undertakings—such a man is said to have transcended the modes of nature.
ātma-saṁvidaḥ
- knowledge about the self — SB 8.24.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.46
The King said: By the grace of the Lord, those who have lost their self-knowledge since time immemorial, and who because of this ignorance are involved in a material, conditional life full of miseries, obtain the chance to meet the Lord's devotee. I accept that Supreme Personality of Godhead as the supreme spiritual master.
ātma-sāmyam
- personal equality — SB 4.30.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.30.9
The Lord continued: Those who remember you every evening of every day will become friendly with their brothers and with all other living entities. - to a body exactly resembling that of Nārāyaṇa — SB 10.12.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.12.38
Kṛṣṇa is the cause of all causes. The causes and effects of the material world, both higher and lower, are all created by the Supreme Lord, the original controller. When Kṛṣṇa appeared as the son of Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodā, He did so by His causeless mercy. Consequently, for Him to exhibit His unlimited opulence was not at all wonderful. Indeed, He showed such great mercy that even Aghāsura, the most sinful miscreant, was elevated to being one of His associates and achieving sārūpya-mukti, which is actually impossible for materially contaminated persons to attain.
ātma-saṁyama
- controlling the mind — Bg. 4.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.27
Those who are interested in self-realization, in terms of mind and sense control, offer the functions of all the senses, as well as the vital force [breath], as oblations into the fire of the controlled mind.
ātma-saṁyamane
- by self-control — SB 7.15.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.9
Because of an awakening of spiritual knowledge, those who are intelligent in regard to sacrifice, who are actually aware of religious principles and who are free from material desires, control the self in the fire of spiritual knowledge, or knowledge of the Absolute Truth. They may give up the process of ritualistic ceremonies.
ātma-sandarśana
- when one sees his beloved — SB 9.10.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.10.31
Seeing His wife in that condition, Lord Rāmacandra was very compassionate. When Rāmacandra came before her, she was exceedingly happy to see her beloved, and her lotuslike mouth showed her joy.
ātma-sargam
- source of their existence — SB 3.20.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.43
The Pitās themselves took possession of the invisible body, the source of their existence. It is through the medium of this invisible body that those well versed in the rituals offer oblations to the Sādhyas and Pitās [in the form of their departed ancestors] on the occasion of śrāddha. - the cause of his creation — SB 3.8.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.8.20
O Vidura, while searching in that way about his existence, Brahmā reached his ultimate time, which is the eternal wheel in the hand of Viṣṇu and which generates fear in the mind of the living entity like the fear of death.
ātma-sātha
- merged — Antya 20.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 20.48
"I am a maidservant at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. He is the embodiment of transcendental happiness and mellows. If He likes He can tightly embrace Me and make Me feel oneness with Him, or by not giving Me His audience, He may corrode My mind and body. Nevertheless, it is He who is the Lord of My life.
ātma-śaucam
- purifying the heart — SB 4.29.84plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.84
This narration spoken by the great sage Nārada is full of the transcendental fame of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently this narration, when described, certainly sanctifies this material world. It purifies the heart of the living entity and helps him attain his spiritual identity. One who relates this transcendental narration will be liberated from all material bondage and will no longer have to wander within this material world.
ātma-śaucena
- with purity of mind and body — SB 3.23.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.2
O Vidura, Devahūti served her husband with intimacy and great respect, with control of the senses, with love and with sweet words.
ātma-sauhṛdam
- his family relationship — SB 10.4.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.4.24
Fully believing in the words of the goddess Durgā, Kaṁsa exhibited his familial affection for Devakī and Vasudeva by immediately releasing them from their iron shackles.
ātma-śīlam
- own nature — SB 1.19.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 supreme knowledge personified, who resides in the planet above the three worlds [Satyaloka]. Consequently you are naturally inclined to do good to others, and but for this you have no interest, either in this life or in the next.
ātma-smṛti
- remembrance of one’s identity — SB 8.4.11-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.4.11-12
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after Agastya Muni had thus cursed King Indradyumna, the Muni left that place along with his disciples. Since the King was a devotee, he accepted Agastya Muni's curse as welcome because it was the desire of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, although in his next life he got the body of an elephant, because of devotional service he remembered how to worship and offer prayers to the Lord.
ātma-smṛti nāhi
- there was no bodily consciousness — Antya 5.65plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 5.65
The speaker and listener spoke and heard in ecstatic love. Thus they forgot their bodily consciousness. How, then, could they perceive the end of the day?
ātma-snapanam
- bathing of the self — Antya 20.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 20.12
"Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, which can cleanse the mirror of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon that spreads the white lotus of good fortune for all living entities. It is the life and soul of all education. The chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa expands the blissful ocean of transcendental life. It gives a cooling effect to everyone and enables one to taste full nectar at every step.
ātma-sneha
- of affection due to a relationship — SB 6.16.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.12
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When the conditioned soul [jīva] in the form of Mahārāja Citraketu's son had spoken in this way and then left, Citraketu and the other relatives of the dead son were all astonished. Thus they cut off the shackles of their affection, which was due to their relationship with him, and gave up their lamentation.
ātma-sphūrti nāhi
- forgot Himself — Antya 15.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 15.4
Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu forgot Himself throughout the entire day and night, being merged in an ocean of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
ātma-sṛṣṭaiḥ
- who are created by Him — SB 6.15.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.15.6
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master and proprietor of everything, is certainly not interested in the temporary cosmic manifestation. Nonetheless, just as a boy at the beach creates something in which he is not interested, the Lord, keeping everything under His control, causes creation, maintenance and annihilation. He creates by engaging a father to beget a son, He maintains by engaging a government or king to see to the public's welfare, and He annihilates through agents for killing, such as snakes. The agents for creation, maintenance and annihilation have no independent potency, but because of the spell of the illusory energy, one thinks himself the creator, maintainer and annihilator.
ātma-sṛṣṭi
- of Your own creation — SB 6.14.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.54
Alas, O Providence, O Creator, You are certainly inexperienced in creation, for during the lifetime of a father You have caused the death of his son, thus acting in opposition to Your creative laws. If You are determined to contradict these laws, You are certainly the enemy of living entities and are never merciful.
ātma-sthaḥ
- situated in his own self — SB 7.15.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.55
This gradual process of elevation for self-realization is meant for those who are truly aware of the Absolute Truth. After repeated birth on this path, which is known as deva-yāna, one attains these consecutive stages. One who is completely free from all material desires, being situated in the self, need not traverse the path of repeated birth and death.
ātma-sthaiḥ
- situated in His own energy — Ādi 5.87plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 5.87
"This is the opulence of the Lord. Although situated within the material nature, He is never affected by the modes of nature. Similarly, those who have surrendered to Him and have fixed their intelligence upon Him are not influenced by the modes of nature." - which are situated in His own energy — Ādi 2.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.55
" 'This is the opulence of the Lord: Although situated in the material nature, He is never affected by the modes of nature. Similarly, those who have surrendered to Him and fixed their intelligence upon Him are not influenced by the modes of nature.'
ātma-stham
- situated in Himself — SB 3.12.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.32
Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead, who, by His own effulgence, while situated in Himself, has manifested this cosmos. May He also protect religion for all goodness. - situated in self-realization — SB 4.23.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.18
Pṛthu Mahārāja then offered the total designation of the living entity unto the supreme controller of illusory energy. Being released from all the designations by which the living entity became entrapped, he became free by knowledge and renunciation and by the spiritual force of his devotional service. In this way, being situated in his original constitutional position of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he gave up this body as a prabhu, or controller of the senses. - situated in the heart — SB 7.1.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.9
The all-pervading Personality of Godhead exists within the heart of every living being, and an expert thinker can perceive how He is present there to a large or small extent. Just as one can understand the supply of fire in wood, the water in a waterpot, or the sky within a pot, one can understand whether a living entity is a demon or a demigod by understanding that living entity's devotional performances. A thoughtful man can understand how much a person is favored by the Supreme Lord by seeing his actions. - situated within his body — SB 4.20.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.8
Although within the material nature, one who is thus situated in full knowledge of the Paramātmā and ātmā is never affected by the modes of material nature, for he is always situated in My transcendental loving service. - situated within myself — SB 1.6.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.15
After that, under the shadow of a banyan tree in an uninhabited forest I began to meditate upon the Supersoul situated within, using my intelligence, as I had learned from liberated souls. - within your hearts — SB 4.24.70plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.70
Therefore, O sons of the King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is situated in everyone's heart. He is also within your hearts. Therefore chant the glories of the Lord and always meditate upon Him continuously.
ātma-suhṛdaḥ
- of one who is the friend — SB 7.9.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.27
Unlike an ordinary living entity, my Lord, You do not discriminate between friends and enemies, the favorable and the unfavorable, because for You there is no conception of higher and lower. Nonetheless, You offer Your benedictions according to the level of one's service, exactly as a desire tree delivers fruits according to one's desires and makes no distinction between the lower and the higher.
ātma-sukha
- the happiness of the self — Ādi 4.167-169plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.167-169
Social customs, scriptural injunctions, bodily demands, fruitive action, shyness, patience, bodily pleasures, self-gratification and the path of varṇāśrama-dharma, which is difficult to give up—the gopīs have forsaken all these, as well as their own relatives and their punishment and scolding, for the sake of serving Lord Kṛṣṇa. They render loving service to Him for the sake of His enjoyment.
ātma-sukha-duḥkhe
- in personal happiness or distress — Ādi 4.174plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.174
The gopīs do not care for their own pleasures or pains. All their physical and mental activities are directed toward offering enjoyment to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
ātma-sukhāya
- for personal satisfaction by such pastimes — SB 7.9.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.13
O my Lord, all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahmā, are sincere servants of Your Lordship, who are situated in a transcendental position. Therefore they are not like us [Prahlāda and his father, the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu]. Your appearance in this fearsome form is Your pastime for Your own pleasure. Such an incarnation is always meant for the protection and improvement of the universe.
ātma-sukhera
- of personal sense gratification — Antya 20.62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 20.62
The pure devotional service in Vṛndāvana is like the golden particles in the River Jāmbū. In Vṛndāvana there is not a trace of personal sense gratification. It is to advertise such pure love in this material world that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has written the previous verse and explained its meaning.
ātma-svarūpeṇa
- by His expansion as the Supersoul — SB 5.11.13-14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.13-14
There are two kinds of kṣetrajña—the living entity, as explained above, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is explained as follows. He is the all-pervading cause of creation. He is full in Himself and is not dependent on others. He is perceived by hearing and direct perception. He is self-effulgent and does not experience birth, death, old age or disease. He is the controller of all the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahmā. He is called Nārāyaṇa, and He is the shelter of living entities after the annihilation of this material world. He is full of all opulences, and He is the resting place of everything material. He is therefore known as Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By His own potency, He is present within the hearts of all living entities, just as the air or vital force is within the bodies of all beings, moving and nonmoving. In this way He controls the body. In His partial feature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enters all bodies and controls them. - by His original constitutional position as the Supersoul — SB 7.6.20-23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.6.20-23
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, who is infallible and indefatigable, is present in different forms of life, from the inert living beings [sthāvara], such as the plants, to Brahmā, the foremost created living being. He is also present in the varieties of material creations and in the material elements, the total material energy and the modes of material nature [sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa], as well as the unmanifested material nature and the false ego. Although He is one, He is present everywhere, and He is also the transcendental Supersoul, the cause of all causes, who is present as the observer in the cores of the hearts of all living entities. He is indicated as that which is pervaded and as the all-pervading Supersoul, but actually He cannot be indicated. He is changeless and undivided. He is simply perceived as the supreme sac-cid-ānanda [eternity, knowledge and bliss]. Being covered by the curtain of the external energy, to the atheist He appears nonexistent.
ātma-tamase
- the illusory energy of Your Lordship — SB 8.17.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.17.9
My Lord, You are the all-pervading universal form, the fully independent creator, maintainer and destroyer of this universe. Although You engage Your energy in matter, You are always situated in Your original form and never fall from that position, for Your knowledge is infallible and always suitable to any situation. You are never bewildered by illusion. O my Lord, let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
ātma-tantraḥ
- completely self-sufficient — SB 5.25.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.25.13
There is no end to the great and glorious qualities of that powerful Lord Anantadeva. Indeed, His prowess is unlimited. Though self-sufficient, He Himself is the support of everything. He resides beneath the lower planetary systems and easily sustains the entire universe. - fully independent — SB 5.4.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.14
Being an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva was fully independent because His form was spiritual, eternal and full of transcendental bliss. He eternally had nothing to do with the four principles of material misery [birth, death, old age and disease]. Nor was He materially attached. He was always equipoised, and He saw everyone on the same level. He was unhappy to see others unhappy, and He was the well-wisher of all living entities. Although He was a perfect personality, the Supreme Lord and controller of all, He nonetheless acted as if He were an ordinary conditioned soul. Therefore He strictly followed the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma and acted accordingly. In due course of time, the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma had become neglected; therefore through His personal characteristics and behavior, He taught the ignorant public how to perform duties within the varṇāśrama-dharma. In this way He regulated the general populace in householder life, enabling them to develop religion and economic well-being and to attain reputations, sons and daughters, material pleasure and finally eternal life. By His instructions, He showed how people could remain householders and at the same time become perfect by following the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma. - independent — SB 2.8.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.23
The independent Personality of Godhead enjoys His pastimes by His internal potency and at the time of annihilation gives them up to the external potency, and He remains a witness to it all. - self-independent — SB 1.3.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 manifested universes, maintains them and annihilates them without being in the least affected. He is within every living being and is always independent., SB 3.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.5
O great sage, kindly narrate how the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the independent, desireless Lord of the three worlds and the controller of all energies, accepts incarnations and creates the cosmic manifestation with perfectly arranged regulative principles for its maintenance. - self-sufficient — SB 1.16.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 the grace of the Personality of Godhead. Similarly you were also in a distressed condition, weakened in your standing strength, and thus He also incarnated by His internal energy in the family of the Yadus to relieve you., SB 4.7.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.26
Dakṣa addressed the Supreme Personality of Godhead: My dear Lord, You are transcendental to all speculative positions. You are completely spiritual, devoid of all fear, and You are always in control of the material energy. Even though You appear in the material energy, You are situated transcendentally. You are always free from material contamination because You are completely self-sufficient., SB 8.5.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.32
On this earth there are four kinds of living entities, who are all created by Him. The material creation rests on His lotus feet. He is the great Supreme Person, full of opulence and power. May He be pleased with us.
ātma-tantram
- fully self-independent — SB 4.24.61plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.61
My dear Lord, You have manifold energies, and these energies are manifested in manifold forms. With such energies You have also created this cosmic manifestation, and although You maintain it as if it were permanent, You ultimately annihilate it. Although You are never disturbed by such changes and alterations, the living entities are disturbed by them, and therefore they find the cosmic manifestation to be different or separated from You. My Lord, You are always independent, and I can clearly see this fact. - supremely independent — SB 8.12.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.9
Those who are known as the impersonalist Vedāntists regard You as the impersonal Brahman. Others, known as the Mīmāṁsaka philosophers, regard You as religion. The Sāṅkhya philosophers regard You as the transcendental person who is beyond prakṛti and puruṣa and who is the controller of even the demigods. The followers of the codes of devotional service known as the Pañcarātras regard You as being endowed with nine different potencies. And the Patañjala philosophers, the followers of Patañjali Muni, regard You as the supreme independent Personality of Godhead, who has no equal or superior.
ātma-tantrasya
- being self-sufficient, not dependent on any other person — SB 6.3.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.17
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is self-sufficient and fully independent. He is the master of everyone and everything, including the illusory energy. He has His form, qualities and features; and similarly His order carriers, the Vaiṣṇavas, who are very beautiful, possess bodily features, transcendental qualities and a transcendental nature almost like His. They always wander within this world with full independence. - of Lord Śiva, who is self-dependent — SB 4.6.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.6.7
Lord Brahmā said that no one, not even himself, Indra, all the members assembled in the sacrificial arena, or all the sages, could know how powerful Lord Śiva is. Under the circumstances, who would dare to commit an offense at his lotus feet?.
ātma-tantre
- fully under Your control — SB 8.6.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.6.10
My dear Lord, who are always fully independent, this entire cosmic manifestation arises from You, rests upon You and ends in You. Your Lordship is the beginning, sustenance and end of everything, like the earth, which is the cause of an earthen pot, which supports the pot, and to which the pot, when broken, finally returns.
ātma-tanum
- your body — SB 3.20.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.28
The Lord, who can distinctly see the minds of others, perceived Brahmā's distress and said to him: "Cast off this impure body of yours." Thus commanded by the Lord, Brahmā cast off his body.
ātma-tattva
- the science of God or that of the living entity — SB 2.9.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.4
O King, the Personality of Godhead, being very much pleased with Lord Brahmā because of his nondeceptive penance in bhakti-yoga, presented His eternal and transcendental form before Brahmā. And that is the objective goal for purifying the conditioned soul. - the science of self-realization — SB 3.32.34-36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.34-36
By performing fruitive activities and sacrifices, by distributing charity, by performing austerities, by studying various literatures, by conducting philosophical research, by controlling the mind, by subduing the senses, by accepting the renounced order of life and by performing the prescribed duties of one's social order; by performing the different divisions of yoga practice, by performing devotional service and by exhibiting the process of devotional service containing the symptoms of both attachment and detachment; by understanding the science of self-realization and by developing a strong sense of detachment, one who is expert in understanding the different processes of self-realization realizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is represented in the material world as well as in transcendence. - transcendental — SB 2.5.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.1
Śrī Nārada Muni asked Brahmājī: O chief amongst the demigods, O firstborn living entity, I beg to offer my respectful obeisances unto you. Please tell me that transcendental knowledge which specifically directs one to the truth of the individual soul and the Supersoul.
ātma-tattva-vidām
- of the learned scholars who are aware of the spiritual science — SB 5.10.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.10.19
I consider your good self the most exalted master of mystic power. You know the spiritual science perfectly well. You are the most exalted of all learned sages, and you have descended for the benefit of all human society. You have come to give spiritual knowledge, and you are a direct representative of Kapiladeva, the incarnation of God and the plenary portion of knowledge. I am therefore asking you, O spiritual master, what is the most secure shelter in this world?
ātma-tattva-vyūhena
- by expansions of Himself in the quadruple forms Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha — SB 5.17.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.14
To show mercy to His devotees in each of these nine tracts of land, the Supreme Personality of Godhead known as Nārāyaṇa expands Himself in His quadruple principles of Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. In this way He remains near His devotees to accept their service.
ātma-tattvam
- Absolute Truth — SB 3.15.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.15.47
We know that You are the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, who manifests His transcendental form in the uncontaminated mode of pure goodness. This transcendental, eternal form of Your personality can be understood only by Your mercy, through unflinching devotional service, by great sages whose hearts have been purified in the devotional way. - knowledge of self, the ultimate truth — SB 2.1.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.1.2
Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many subject matters for hearing in human society, O Emperor. - self-realization — SB 4.7.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.14
My dear great and powerful Lord Śiva, you were created first from the mouth of Lord Brahmā in order to protect the brāhmaṇas in pursuing education, austerities, vows and self-realization. As protector of the brāhmaṇas, you always protect the regulative principles they follow, just as a cowherd boy keeps a stick in his hand to give protection to the cows. - spiritual truth — SB 5.11.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.15
My dear King Rahūgaṇa, as long as the conditioned soul accepts the material body and is not freed from the contamination of material enjoyment, and as long as he does not conquer his six enemies and come to the platform of self-realization by awakening his spiritual knowledge, he has to wander among different places and different species of life in this material world. - the science of self-realization — SB 8.24.56plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.56
While sitting in the boat, King Satyavrata, accompanied by the great saintly persons, listened to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in regard to self-realization. These instructions were all from the eternal Vedic literature [brahma]. Thus the King and sages had no doubt about the Absolute Truth. - the truth of the self — SB 5.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.5
As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life, one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance. Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions. If a person is engaged in any kind of karma, his mind is called karmātmaka, colored with fruitive activity. As long as the mind is impure, consciousness is unclear, and as long as one is absorbed in fruitive activity, he has to accept a material body.
ātma-tattvān
- the truth of the self — SB 3.15.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.15.30
The four boy-sages, who had nothing to cover their bodies but the atmosphere, looked only five years old, even though they were the oldest of all living creatures and had realized the truth of the self. But when the porters, who happened to possess a disposition quite unpalatable to the Lord, saw the sages, they blocked their way with their staffs, despising their glories, although the sages did not deserve such treatment at their hands.
ātma-tejaḥ
- Your spiritual power — SB 7.8.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.8.43
All the saintly persons present offered their prayers in this way: O Lord, O supreme maintainer of those sheltered at Your lotus feet, O original Personality of Godhead, the process of austerity and penance, in which You instructed us before, is the spiritual power of Your very self. It is by austerity that You create the material world, which lies dormant within You. This austerity was almost stopped by the activities of this demon, but now, by Yourself appearing in the form of Nṛsiṁhadeva, which is meant just to give us protection, and by killing this demon, You have again approved the process of austerity.
ātma-trāṇam
- just to save himself — SB 1.7.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 outside of his using the ultimate weapon, the brahmāstra [nuclear weapon].
ātma-tṛptaḥ
- self-illuminated — Bg. 3.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.17
One who is, however, taking pleasure in the self, who is illumined in the self, who rejoices in and is satisfied with the self only, fully satiated—for him there is no duty.
ātma-tulya
- as good as Himself — SB 1.11.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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, Daśārha, Arha, Kukura, Andhaka, etc.—who were as strong as Lord Kṛṣṇa. - following their own — SB 5.2.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.2.21
Because of drinking the breast milk of their mother, the nine sons of Āgnīdhra naturally had strong, well-built bodies. Their father gave them each a kingdom in a different part of Jambūdvīpa. The kingdoms were named according to the names of the sons. Thus the sons of Āgnīdhra ruled the kingdoms they received from their father.
ātma-tulyaḥ
- exactly like his personal interest — SB 4.22.62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.62
In his personal behavior, Pṛthu Mahārāja exhibited all good qualities, and in spiritual knowledge he was exactly like Bṛhaspati. In self-control he was like the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. As far as his devotional service was concerned, he was a great follower of devotees who were attached to cow protection and the rendering of all service to the spiritual master and the brāhmaṇas. He was perfect in his shyness and in his gentle behavior, and when he engaged in some philanthropic activity, he worked as if he were working for his own personal self.
ātma-tulyaiḥ
- almost equal to Himself — SB 6.9.29-30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.29-30
Surrounding and serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, were sixteen personal attendants, decorated with ornaments and appearing exactly like Him but without the mark of Śrīvatsa and the Kaustubha jewel. O King, when all the demigods saw the Supreme Lord in that posture, smiling with eyes like the petals of lotuses grown in autumn, they were overwhelmed with happiness and immediately fell down like rods, offering daṇḍavats. Then they slowly rose and pleased the Lord by offering Him prayers.
ātma-tulyam
- My equal — SB 5.3.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.3.18
Since I cannot find anyone equal to Me, I shall personally expand Myself into a plenary portion and thus advent Myself in the womb of Merudevī, the wife of Mahārāja Nābhi, the son of Āgnīdhra.
ātma-tulyāni
- all like Himself — SB 3.3.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.3.9
Just to expand Himself according to His transcendental features, the Lord begot in each and every one of them ten offspring with exactly His own qualities.
ātma-tulyeṣu
- to persons who are equals — SB 3.29.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.17
The pure devotee should execute devotional service by giving the greatest respect to the spiritual master and the ācāryas. He should be compassionate to the poor and make friendship with persons who are his equals, but all his activities should be executed under regulation and with control of the senses.
ātma-upajīvana
- which are considered necessary to maintain body and soul together — SB 5.14.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.8
Sometimes the conditioned soul is absorbed in finding residential quarters or apartments and getting a supply of water and riches to maintain his body. Absorbed in acquiring a variety of necessities, he forgets everything and perpetually runs around the forest of material existence.
ātma-upalambhanam
- self-realization — SB 5.19.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.9
[Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are inconceivable. He has appeared in the form of Nara-Nārāyaṇa in the land of Bhārata-varṣa, at the place known as Badarikāśrama, to favor His devotees by teaching them religion, knowledge, renunciation, spiritual power, sense control and freedom from false ego. He is advanced in the opulence of spiritual assets, and He engages in executing austerity until the end of this millennium. This is the process of self-realization.
ātma-upaśama
- controlling the senses — SB 1.3.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 exemplary penances to control the senses.
ātma-vāde
- spiritual consideration — SB 4.22.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.47
Pṛthu Mahārāja continued: How can such persons, who have rendered unlimited service by explaining the path of self-realization in relation to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and whose explanations are given for our enlightenment with complete conviction and Vedic evidence, be repaid except by folded palms containing water for their satisfaction? Such great personalities can be satisfied only by their own activities, which are distributed amongst human society out of their unlimited mercy.
ātma-vairūpya
- deformation of the self — SB 1.17.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 mutilations, which blackmail the reputation of the sons of Pṛthā.
ātma-vaiśasam
- torment of himself — SB 3.30.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.30.26
His entrails are pulled out by the hounds and vultures of hell, even though he is still alive to see it, and he is subjected to torment by serpents, scorpions, gnats and other creatures that bite him.
ātma-vān
- a person who knows the self — SB 7.12.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.12.25
A sober, self-realized person who has full knowledge should merge the various parts of the body in their original sources. The holes in the body are caused by the sky, the process of breathing is caused by the air, the heat of the body is caused by fire, and semen, blood and mucus are caused by water. The hard substances, like skin, muscle and bone, are caused by earth. In this way all the constituents of the body are caused by various elements, and they should be merged again into those elements. - fully conversant in spiritual education — SB 4.23.1-3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.1-3
At the last stage of his life, when Mahārāja Pṛthu saw himself getting old, that great soul, who was king of the world, divided whatever opulence he had accumulated amongst all kinds of living entities, moving and nonmoving. He arranged pensions for everyone according to religious principles, and after executing the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in complete coordination with Him, he dedicated his sons unto the earth, which was considered to be his daughter. Then Mahārāja Pṛthu left the presence of his citizens, who were almost lamenting and crying from feeling separation from the King, and went to the forest alone with his wife to perform austerities. - self-possessed — SB 3.20.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.50
The self-possessed creator gave them his own human form. On seeing the Manus, those who had been created earlier—the demigods, the Gandharvas and so on—applauded Brahmā, the lord of the universe. - self-possessed, self-realized — SB 3.27.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.8
For his income a devotee should be satisfied with what he earns without great difficulty. He should not eat more than what is necessary. He should live in a secluded place and always be thoughtful, peaceful, friendly, compassionate and self-realized. - self-realized — SB 3.21.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.31
Showing compassion to all living entities, you will attain self-realization. Giving assurance of safety to all, you will perceive your own self as well as all the universes in Me, and Myself in you., SB 6.2.36-37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.36-37
Because of identifying oneself with the body, one is subjected to desires for sense gratification, and thus one engages in many different types of pious and impious action. This is what constitutes material bondage. Now I shall disentangle myself from my material bondage, which has been caused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead's illusory energy in the form of a woman. Being a most fallen soul, I was victimized by the illusory energy and have become like a dancing dog led around by a woman's hand. Now I shall give up all lusty desires and free myself from this illusion. I shall become a merciful, well-wishing friend to all living entities and always absorb myself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. - who has controlled his mind and realized his self — SB 5.18.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.10
My dear Lord, we pray that we may never feel attraction for the prison of family life, consisting of home, wife, children, friends, bank balance, relatives and so on. If we do have some attachment, let it be for devotees, whose only dear friend is Kṛṣṇa. A person who is actually self-realized and who has controlled his mind is perfectly satisfied with the bare necessities of life. He does not try to gratify his senses. Such a person quickly advances in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whereas others, who are too attached to material things, find advancement very difficult.
ātma-vañcanā
- cheating oneself — Madhya 24.99plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.99
"Cheating oneself and cheating others is called kaitava. Associating with cheaters is called duḥsaṅga, bad association. Those who desire things other than Kṛṣṇa's service are also called duḥsaṅga, bad association.
ātma-vañcitaiḥ
- who themselves are cheated — SB 5.14.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.30
The pseudo svāmīs, yogīs and incarnations who do not believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead are known as pāṣaṇḍīs. They themselves are fallen and cheated because they do not know the real path of spiritual advancement, and whoever goes to them is certainly cheated in his turn. When one is thus cheated, he sometimes takes shelter of the real followers of Vedic principles [brāhmaṇas or those in Kṛṣṇa consciousness], who teach everyone how to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to the Vedic rituals. However, being unable to stick to these principles, these rascals again fall down and take shelter among śūdras who are very expert in making arrangements for sex indulgence. Sex is very prominent among animals like monkeys, and such people who are enlivened by sex may be called descendants of monkeys.
ātma-vantam
- situated in the self — Bg. 4.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.41
Therefore, one who has renounced the fruits of his action, whose doubts are destroyed by transcendental knowledge, and who is situated firmly in the self, is not bound by works, O conqueror of riches. - very independent — SB 6.7.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.7.25
O demigods, I instruct you to approach Viśvarūpa, the son of Tvaṣṭā, and accept him as your guru. He is a pure and very powerful brāhmaṇa undergoing austerity and penances. Pleased by your worship, he will fulfill your desires, provided that you tolerate his being inclined to side with the demons.
ātma-vartma
- self-sufficient — SB 3.6.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.39
The wonderful potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is bewildering even to the jugglers. That potential power is unknown even to the self-sufficient Lord, so it is certainly unknown to others.
ātma-vaśa
- dependent upon one’s own control — SB 7.15.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.45
As long as one has to accept a material body, with its different parts and paraphernalia, which are not fully under one's control, one must have the lotus feet of his superiors, namely his spiritual master and the spiritual master's predecessors. By their mercy, one can sharpen the sword of knowledge, and with the power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's mercy one must then conquer the enemies mentioned above. In this way, the devotee should be able to merge into his own transcendental bliss, and then he may give up his body and resume his spiritual identity. - subordinate to Kṛṣṇa — Madhya 17.137plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 17.137
"The mellows of Lord Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, which are full of bliss, attract the jñānī from the pleasure of Brahman realization and conquer him. - under their control — Antya 16.121-122plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 16.121-122
"My dear lover," He said, "let Me describe some of the characteristics of Your transcendental lips. They agitate the mind and body of everyone, they increase lusty desires for enjoyment, they destroy the burden of material happiness and lamentation, and they make one forget all material tastes. The whole world falls under their control. They vanquish shame, religion and patience, especially in women. Indeed, they inspire madness in the minds of all women. Your lips increase the greed of the tongue and thus attract it. Considering all this, we see that the activities of Your transcendental lips are always perplexing.
ātma-vastunaḥ
- everything belongs to You, but You are outside and inside of everything — SB 10.3.15-17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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, water, fire, air and ether. Because of the living energy [jīva-bhūta], these separated energies combine to make the cosmic manifestation visible, but in fact, before the creation of the cosmos, the total energy is already present. Therefore, the total material energy never actually enters the creation. Similarly, although You are perceived by our senses because of Your presence, You cannot be perceived by the senses, nor experienced by the mind or words [avāṅ-mānasa-gocara]. With our senses we can perceive some things, but not everything; for example, we can use our eyes to see, but not to taste. Consequently, You are beyond perception by the senses. Although in touch with the modes of material nature, You are unaffected by them. You are the prime factor in everything, the all-pervading, undivided Supersoul. For You, therefore, there is no external or internal. You never entered the womb of Devakī; rather, You existed there already.
ātma-vaśyaiḥ
- one who has control over — Bg. 2.64plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.64
One who can control his senses by practicing the regulated principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord and thus become free from all attachment and aversion.
ātma-vat
- as himself — SB 4.16.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 friends. He will intimately associate with liberated persons, and he will be a chastising hand to all impious persons. - like the Supersoul — SB 7.4.31-32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.4.31-32
[The qualities of Mahārāja Prahlāda, the son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, are described herewith.] He was completely cultured as a qualified brāhmaṇa, having very good character and being determined to understand the Absolute Truth. He had full control of his senses and mind. Like the Supersoul, he was kind to every living entity and was the best friend of everyone. To respectable persons he acted exactly like a menial servant, to the poor he was like a father, to his equals he was attached like a sympathetic brother, and he considered his teachers, spiritual masters and older Godbrothers to be as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was completely free from unnatural pride that might have arisen from his good education, riches, beauty, aristocracy and so on. - like yourselves — SB 3.15.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.15.32
The sages said: Who are these two persons who have developed such a discordant mentality even though they are posted in the service of the Lord in the highest position and are expected to have developed the same qualities as the Lord? How are these two persons living in Vaikuṇṭha? Where is the possibility of an enemy's coming into this kingdom of God? The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no enemy. Who could be envious of Him? Probably these two persons are imposters; therefore they suspect others to be like themselves.
ātma-vataḥ
- of one who had become perfectly situated on the transcendental platform — SB 5.8.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.29
In the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja began to lament: What misfortune! I have fallen from the path of the self-realized. I gave up my real sons, wife and home to advance in spiritual life, and I took shelter in a solitary holy place in the forest. I became self-controlled and self-realized, and I engaged constantly in devotional service, hearing, thinking, chanting, worshiping and remembering the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. I was successful in my attempt, so much so that my mind was always absorbed in devotional service. However, due to my personal foolishness, my mind again became attached—this time to a deer. Now I have obtained the body of a deer and have fallen far from my devotional practices.
ātma-vatām
- interested in self-realization — SB 3.25.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.12
Maitreya said: After hearing of His mother's uncontaminated desire for transcendental realization, the Lord thanked her within Himself for her questions, and thus, His face smiling, He explained the path of the transcendentalists, who are interested in self-realization. - of all living entities — SB 7.3.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.30
My dear lord, by your form as the Vedas personified and through knowledge relating to the activities of all the yajñic brāhmaṇas, you spread the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies of the seven kinds of sacrifices, headed by agniṣṭoma. Indeed, you inspire the yajñic brāhmaṇas to perform the rituals mentioned in the three Vedas. Being the Supreme Soul, the Supersoul of all living entities, you are beginningless, endless and omniscient, beyond the limits of time and space. - of great devotees who have achieved perfection — SB 5.8.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.29
In the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja began to lament: What misfortune! I have fallen from the path of the self-realized. I gave up my real sons, wife and home to advance in spiritual life, and I took shelter in a solitary holy place in the forest. I became self-controlled and self-realized, and I engaged constantly in devotional service, hearing, thinking, chanting, worshiping and remembering the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. I was successful in my attempt, so much so that my mind was always absorbed in devotional service. However, due to my personal foolishness, my mind again became attached—this time to a deer. Now I have obtained the body of a deer and have fallen far from my devotional practices. - of self-realized persons like Sanaka and Sanātana — SB 5.24.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.24.21
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul, sells Himself to His devotees such as Nārada Muni. In other words, the Lord gives pure love to such devotees and gives Himself to those who love Him purely. Great, self-realized mystic yogīs such as the four Kumāras also derive great transcendental bliss from realizing the Supersoul within themselves. - of the transcendentalists — SB 4.22.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.16
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always anxious to elevate the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, and for their special benefit, the Lord travels all over the world in the form of self-realized persons like you. - unto persons interested in self-realization — SB 5.19.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.9
[Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are inconceivable. He has appeared in the form of Nara-Nārāyaṇa in the land of Bhārata-varṣa, at the place known as Badarikāśrama, to favor His devotees by teaching them religion, knowledge, renunciation, spiritual power, sense control and freedom from false ego. He is advanced in the opulence of spiritual assets, and He engages in executing austerity until the end of this millennium. This is the process of self-realization.
ātma-vatsakān
- the calves belonging to His own personal friends — SB 10.13.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.14
"Let Me go and search for the calves," Kṛṣṇa said. "Don't disturb your enjoyment." Then, carrying His yogurt and rice in His hand, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, immediately went out to search for the calves of His friends. To please His friends, He began searching in all the mountains, mountain caves, bushes and narrow passages.
ātma-vattve
- in the matter of self-control — SB 4.22.62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.62
In his personal behavior, Pṛthu Mahārāja exhibited all good qualities, and in spiritual knowledge he was exactly like Bṛhaspati. In self-control he was like the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. As far as his devotional service was concerned, he was a great follower of devotees who were attached to cow protection and the rendering of all service to the spiritual master and the brāhmaṇas. He was perfect in his shyness and in his gentle behavior, and when he engaged in some philanthropic activity, he worked as if he were working for his own personal self.
ātma-vibhūtayaḥ
- personal opulences — Bg. 10.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 10.19
The Blessed Lord said: Yes, I will tell you of My splendorous manifestations, but only of those which are prominent, O Arjuna, for My opulence is limitless.
ātma-vidaḥ
- who was fully self-realized — SB 6.11.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.11.15
Only for the sake of living in the heavenly planets, you killed my elder brother—a self-realized, sinless, qualified brāhmaṇa who had been appointed your chief priest. He was your spiritual master, but although you entrusted him with the performance of your sacrifice, you later mercilessly severed his heads from his body the way one butchers an animal.
ātma-vidām
- of the self-realized souls — SB 4.23.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.29
The great sage Maitreya continued speaking: My dear Vidura, when the wives of the denizens of heaven were thus talking amongst themselves, Queen Arci reached the planet which her husband, Mahārāja Pṛthu, the topmost self-realized soul, had attained.
ātma-vidyā
- transcendental knowledge — SB 2.3.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.3.25
O Sūta Gosvāmī, your words are pleasing to our minds. Please therefore explain this to us as it was spoken by the great devotee Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who is very expert in transcendental knowledge, and who spoke to Mahārāja Parīkṣit upon being asked.
ātma-vidyā-viśāradaḥ
- expert in transcendental science — SB 9.13.20-21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.13.20-21
O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Kṛtadhvaja was Keśidhvaja, and the son of Mitadhvaja was Khāṇḍikya. The son of Kṛtadhvaja was expert in spiritual knowledge, and the son of Mitadhvaja was expert in Vedic ritualistic ceremonies. Khāṇḍikya fled in fear of Keśidhvaja. The son of Keśidhvaja was Bhānumān, and the son of Bhānumān was Śatadyumna.
ātma-vidyā-viśāradāḥ
- expert in spiritual knowledge — SB 9.13.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.13.27
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, all the kings of the dynasty of Mithila were completely in knowledge of their spiritual identity. Therefore, even though staying at home, they were liberated from the duality of material existence.
ātma-vidyām
- spiritual knowledge — SB 4.31.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.27
Although Mahārāja Priyavrata received instructions from the great sage Nārada, he still engaged in ruling the earth. After fully enjoying material possessions, he divided his property among his sons. He then attained a position by which he could return home, back to Godhead.
ātma-vidyām ākhyāya
- after instructing many people about self-realization — SB 5.15.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.15.4
King Pratīha personally propagated the principles of self-realization. In this way, not only was he purified, but he became a great devotee of the Supreme Person, Lord Viṣṇu, and directly realized Him.
ātma-vidyayā
- by self-realization — SB 10.5.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.4
O King, by the passing of time, land and other material possessions are purified; by bathing, the body is purified; and by being cleansed, unclean things are purified. By purificatory ceremonies, birth is purified; by austerity, the senses are purified; and by worship and charity offered to the brāhmaṇas, material possessions are purified. By satisfaction, the mind is purified; and by self-realization, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the soul is purified. - by transcendental knowledge — SB 1.9.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.9.36
When Arjuna was seemingly polluted by ignorance upon observing the soldiers and commanders before him on the battlefield, the Lord eradicated his ignorance by delivering transcendental knowledge. May His lotus feet always remain the object of my attraction.
ātma-vidyāyām
- in transcendental knowledge — SB 5.1.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.26
Three among these ten—namely Kavi, Mahāvīra and Savana—lived in complete celibacy. Thus trained in brahmacārī life from the beginning of childhood, they were very conversant with the highest perfection, known as the paramahaṁsa-āśrama.
ātma-vihāraiḥ ca
- enjoying Himself by Himself in different ways — SB 10.13.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.20
Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time appear as their leader, Kṛṣṇa entered Vrajabhūmi, the land of His father, Nanda Mahārāja, just as He usually did while enjoying their company.
ātma-vimocane
- release from the internment — Madhya 19.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.34
Rūpa Gosvāmī further informed Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī: "I have left a deposit of ten thousand coins with the grocer. Use that money to get out of prison.
ātma-vimokṣaṇe
- to save himself — SB 8.2.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.2.31
When the King of the elephants saw that he was under the clutches of the crocodile by the will of providence and, being embodied and circumstantially helpless, could not save himself from danger, he was extremely afraid of being killed. He consequently thought for a long time and finally reached the following decision.
ātma-vinigrahaḥ
- control — Bg. 13.8-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 13.8-12
Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; nonattachment to children, wife, home and the rest, and evenmindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me, resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization, and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I thus declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to these is ignorance.
ātma-viparyāsaḥ
- bewilderment of the living being — SB 7.2.25-26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.25-26
In his bewildered state, the living entity, accepting the body and mind to be the self, considers some people to be his kinsmen and others to be outsiders. Because of this misconception, he suffers. Indeed, the accumulation of such concocted material ideas is the cause of suffering and so-called happiness in the material world. The conditioned soul thus situated must take birth in different species and work in various types of consciousness, thus creating new bodies. This continued material life is called saṁsāra. Birth, death, lamentation, foolishness and anxiety are due to such material considerations. Thus we sometimes come to a proper understanding and sometimes fall again to a wrong conception of life.
ātma-viparyayaḥ
- the foolish understanding that one is the body — SB 10.4.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.4.20
One who does not understand the constitutional position of the body and the soul [ātmā] becomes too attached to the bodily concept of life. Consequently, because of attachment to the body and its by-products, he feels affected by union with and separation from his family, society and nation. As long as this continues, one continues his material life. [Otherwise, one is liberated.] - upset about self-identification — SB 3.7.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.10
The living entity is in distress regarding his self-identity. He has no factual background, like a man who dreams that he sees his head cut off.
ātma-vīryeṇa
- by his progeny — SB 4.30.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.30.12
You will have a nice son, who will be in no way inferior to Lord Brahmā. Consequently, he will be very famous all over the universe, and the sons and grandsons generated by him will fill the three worlds.
ātma-viṣāṇe
- on the two horns — SB 5.2.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.2.11
Āgnīdhra then praised Pūrvacitti's raised breasts. He said: My dear brāhmaṇa your waist is very thin, yet with great difficulty you are carefully carrying two horns, to which my eyes have become attracted. What is filling those two beautiful horns? You seem to have spread fragrant red powder upon them, powder that is like the rising morning sun. O most fortunate one, I beg to inquire where you have gotten this fragrant powder that is perfuming my āśrama, my place of residence.
ātma-viśodhanāya
- who purifies us of material contamination — SB 5.18.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.2
The ruler Bhadraśravā and his intimate associates utter the following prayer: We offer our respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the reservoir of all religious principles, who cleanses the heart of the conditioned soul in this material world. Again and again we offer our respectful obeisances unto Him.
ātma-viśuddhi-artham
- for self-purification — SB 6.19.19-20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.19.19-20
One should accept this viṣṇu-vrata, which is a vow in devotional service, and should not deviate from its execution to engage in anything else. By offering the remnants of prasāda, flower garlands, sandalwood pulp and ornaments, one should daily worship the brāhmaṇas and worship women who peacefully live with their husbands and children. Every day the wife must continue following the regulative principles to worship Lord Viṣṇu with great devotion. Thereafter, Lord Viṣṇu should be laid in His bed, and then one should take prasāda. In this way, husband and wife will be purified and will have all their desires fulfilled.
ātma-vit
- a knower of spirit soul — SB 3.23.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.47
The powerful Kardama Muni was the knower of everyone's heart, and he could grant whatever one desired. Knowing the spiritual soul, he regarded her as half of his body. Dividing himself into nine forms, he impregnated Devahūti with nine discharges of semen. - fully conscious by self-realization — SB 9.6.35-36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.35-36
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not different from the auspicious aspects of great sacrifices, such as the ingredients of the sacrifice, the chanting of Vedic hymns, the regulative principles, the performer, the priests, the result of the sacrifice, the arena of sacrifice, and the time of sacrifice. Knowing the principles of self-realization, Māndhātā worshiped that transcendentally situated Supreme Soul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, who comprises all the demigods. He also gave immense charity to the brāhmaṇas, and thus he performed yajña to worship the Lord. - of the self-realized — SB 4.24.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.54
My dear Lord, the king in charge of the heavenly kingdom is also desirous of obtaining the ultimate goal of life-devotional service. Similarly, You are the ultimate destination of those who identify themselves with You [ahaṁ brahmāsmi]. However, it is very difficult for them to attain You, whereas a devotee can very easily attain Your Lordship. - of the self-realized soul — SB 3.28.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.2
One should execute his prescribed duties to the best of his ability and avoid performing duties not allotted to him. One should be satisfied with as much gain as he achieves by the grace of the Lord, and one should worship the lotus feet of a spiritual master. - self-realized — SB 4.24.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.33
Lord Śiva addressed the Supreme Personality of Godhead with the following prayer: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all glories unto You. You are the most exalted of all self-realized souls. Since You are always auspicious for the self-realized, I wish that You be auspicious for me. You are worshipable by virtue of the all-perfect instructions You give. You are the Supersoul; therefore I offer my obeisances unto You as the supreme living being.
ātma-vṛkṣasya
- of the tree of the body — SB 8.19.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.19.39
The Vedas enjoin that the factual result of the tree of the body is the good fruits and flowers derived from it. But if the bodily tree does not exist, there is no possibility of factual fruits and flowers. Even if the body is based on untruth, there cannot be factual fruits and flowers without the help of the bodily tree.
ātma-vṛndaiḥ
- with His associates — Madhya 12.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 12.1
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu washed and cleansed the Guṇḍicā temple with His devotees and associates. In this way He made the temple as cool and bright as His own heart, and thus He made the place befitting for Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa to sit. - with His personal associates — Madhya 14.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 14.1
Accompanied by His personal devotees, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the festival known as Lakṣmī-vijayotsava. There He discussed the superexcellent love of the gopīs. Just by hearing about them, He became very pleased and danced in great ecstatic love for the Lord.
ātma-vṛttam
- one’s own position — SB 9.18.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.18.16
You beggar, since you don't understand your position, why should you unnecessarily talk so much? Don't all of you wait at our house, depending on us for your livelihood like crows?
ātma-vṛtti
- just to preserve the body — SB 4.8.72plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.72
For the first month Dhruva Mahārāja ate only fruits and berries on every third day, only to keep his body and soul together, and in this way he progressed in his worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - own profession — Ādi 10.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 10.50
Śrīla Murāri Gupta never accepted charity from friends, nor did he accept money from anyone. He practiced as a physician and maintained his family with his earnings.
ātma-vṛttiḥ
- food for maintenance of the body — SB 5.2.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.2.13
My dear friend, what do you eat to maintain your body? Because you are chewing betel, a pleasing scent is emanating from your mouth. This proves that you always eat the remnants of food offered to Viṣṇu. Indeed, you must also be an expansion of Lord Viṣṇu's body. Your face is as beautiful as a pleasing lake. Your jeweled earrings resemble two brilliant sharks with unblinking eyes like those of Viṣṇu, and your own eyes resemble two restless fish. Simultaneously, therefore, two sharks and two restless fish are swimming in the lake of your face. Besides them, the white rows of your teeth seem like rows of very beautiful swans in the water, and your scattered hair resembles swarms of bumblebees following the beauty of your face.
ātma-vyatirikte
- the bodily concept of life — SB 4.22.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.21
It has been conclusively decided in the scriptures, after due consideration, that the ultimate goal for the welfare of human society is detachment from the bodily concept of life and increased and steadfast attachment for the Supreme Lord, who is transcendental, beyond the modes of material nature.
ātma-yājī
- one who is eager for self-realization — SB 7.15.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.55
This gradual process of elevation for self-realization is meant for those who are truly aware of the Absolute Truth. After repeated birth on this path, which is known as deva-yāna, one attains these consecutive stages. One who is completely free from all material desires, being situated in the self, need not traverse the path of repeated birth and death.
ātma-yāthārthyaḥ
- right knowledge of one’s own self — SB 1.12.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 attachment and achieve a life of fearlessness.
ātma-yoga
- based on meditation on the Lord — SB 3.33.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.33.37
The description of the dealings of Kapiladeva and His mother is very confidential, and anyone who hears or reads this narration becomes a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is carried by Garuḍa, and he thereafter enters into the abode of the Supreme Lord to engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. - by fixing the mind — SB 3.23.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.7
Kardama Muni continued: I have achieved the blessings of the Lord in discharging my own religious life of austerity, meditation and Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Although you have not yet experienced these achievements, which are free from fear and lamentation, I shall offer them all to you because you are engaged in my service. Now just look at them. I am giving you the transcendental vision to see how nice they are.
ātma-yoga-māyayā
- by His own spiritual potency — SB 5.4.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.3
Indra, the King of heaven, who is very materially opulent, became envious of King Ṛṣabhadeva. Consequently he stopped pouring water on the planet known as Bhārata-varṣa. At that time the Supreme Lord, Ṛṣabhadeva, the master of all mystic power, understood King Indra's purpose and smiled a little. Then, by His own prowess, through yogamāyā [His internal potency], He profusely poured water upon His own place, which was known as Ajanābha., SB 5.20.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.41
The various forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, such as Nārāyaṇa and Viṣṇu, are beautifully decorated with different weapons. The Lord exhibits those forms to maintain all the varied planets created by His personal potency, yogamāyā.
ātma-yoga-patayaḥ
- the masters of self-realization by devotional service — SB 4.22.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.48
The great sage Maitreya continued: Being thus worshiped by Mahārāja Pṛthu, the four Kumāras, who were masters of devotional service, became very pleased. Indeed, they appeared in the sky and praised the character of the King, and everyone observed them.
ātma-yoga-samādhinā
- absorption in bhakti-yoga — SB 6.9.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.33
O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Nārāyaṇa, O Vāsudeva, original person! O most exalted person, supreme experience, welfare personified! O supreme benediction, supremely merciful and changeless! O support of the cosmic manifestation, sole proprietor of all planetary systems, master of everything and husband of the goddess of fortune! Your Lordship is realized by the topmost sannyāsīs, who wander about the world to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, fully absorbed in samādhi through bhakti-yoga. Because their minds are concentrated upon You, they can receive the conception of Your personality in their fully purified hearts. When the darkness in their hearts is completely eradicated and You are revealed to them, the transcendental bliss they enjoy is the transcendental form of Your Lordship. No one but such persons can realize You. Therefore we simply offer You our respectful obeisances.
ātma-yogaḥ
- personal mystic power — SB 10.8.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.8.40
[Mother Yaśodā began to argue within herself:] Is this a dream, or is it an illusory creation by the external energy? Has this been manifested by my own intelligence, or is it some mystic power of my child?
ātma-yogaiḥ
- by spiritual processes — SB 7.7.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.21
An expert geologist can understand where there is gold and by various processes can extract it from the gold ore. Similarly, a spiritually advanced person can understand how the spiritual particle exists within the body, and thus by cultivating spiritual knowledge he can attain perfection in spiritual life. However, as one who is not expert cannot understand where there is gold, a foolish person who has not cultivated spiritual knowledge cannot understand how the spirit exists within the body.
ātma-yogāt
- by My internal potency — Bg. 11.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 11.47
The Blessed Lord said: My dear Arjuna, happily do I show you this universal form within the material world by My internal potency. No one before you has ever seen this unlimited and glaringly effulgent form.
ātma-yogena
- by the devotional service of the Lord — SB 5.20.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.2
As Sumeru Mountain is surrounded by Jambūdvīpa, Jambūdvīpa is also surrounded by an ocean of salt water. The breadth of Jambūdvīpa is 100,000 yojanas [800,000 miles], and the breadth of the saltwater ocean is the same. As a moat around a fort is sometimes surrounded by gardenlike forest, the saltwater ocean surrounding Jambūdvīpa is itself surrounded by Plakṣadvīpa. The breadth of Plakṣadvīpa is twice that of the saltwater ocean—in other words 200,000 yojanas [1,600,000 miles]. On Plakṣadvīpa there is a tree shining like gold and as tall as the jambū tree on Jambūdvīpa. At its root is a fire with seven flames. It is because this tree is a plakṣa tree that the island is called Plakṣadvīpa. Plakṣadvīpa was governed by Idhmajihva, one of the sons of Mahārāja Priyavrata. He endowed the seven islands with the names of his seven sons, divided the islands among the sons, and then retired from active life to engage in the devotional service of the Lord.
ātma-yone
- O Lord Brahmā — SB 9.4.52plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.52
With a fearful heart, Durvāsā Muni went here and there seeking shelter, but when he could find no shelter, he finally approached Lord Brahmā and said, "O my lord, O Lord Brahmā, kindly protect me from the blazing Sudarśana cakra sent by the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
ātma-yoneḥ
- of Lord Brahmā — SB 5.16.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.16.28
In the middle of the summit of Meru is the township of Lord Brahmā. Each of its four sides is calculated to extend for ten million yojanas [eighty million miles]. It is made entirely of gold, and therefore learned scholars and sages call it Śātakaumbhī.
ātma-yoni
- of Brahmā — SB 3.28.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.25
The yogī should then meditate on His moonlike navel in the center of His abdomen. From His navel, which is the foundation of the entire universe, sprang the lotus stem containing all the different planetary systems. The lotus is the residence of Brahmā, the first created being. In the same way, the yogī should concentrate his mind on the Lord's nipples, which resemble a pair of most exquisite emeralds and which appear whitish because of the rays of the milk-white pearl necklaces adorning His chest.
ātma-yoniḥ
- generating from the Personality of Viṣṇu — SB 3.8.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.8.14
Piercing through, this sum total form of the fruitive activity of the living entities took the shape of the bud of a lotus flower generated from the Personality of Viṣṇu, and by His supreme will it illuminated everything, like the sun, and dried up the vast waters of devastation. - Lord Brahmā — SB 9.14.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.14.14
O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, when Lord Brahmā saw that the child was deeply intelligent, he gave the child the name Budha. The moon-god, the ruler of the stars, enjoyed great jubilation because of this son., Ādi 6.102plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 6.102
"O Uddhava! Neither Brahmā, nor Śaṅkara, nor Saṅkarṣaṇa, nor Lakṣmī, nor even My own self is as dear to Me as you." - of Brahmājī — SB 2.2.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.2.1
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Formerly, prior to the manifestation of the cosmos, Lord Brahmā, by meditating on the virāṭ-rūpa, regained his lost consciousness by appeasing the Lord. Thus he was able to rebuild the creation as it was before. - self-sufficient — SB 3.5.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.9
O chief amongst the brāhmaṇas, please also describe how Nārāyaṇa, the creator of the universe and the self-sufficient Lord, has differently created the natures, activities, forms, features and names of the different living creatures. - who is born without a mother (directly begotten by the father, Lord Viṣṇu) — SB 7.9.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.35
Lord Brahmā, who is celebrated as ātma-yoni, having been born without a mother, was struck with wonder. Thus he took shelter of the lotus flower, and when he had been purified after undergoing severe austerities for many hundreds of years, he could see that the cause of all causes, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, was spread throughout his own body and senses, just as aroma, although very subtle, is perceived in the earth.
ātma-yonim
- Lord Brahmā — SB 4.6.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.6.40
Lord Śiva's lotus feet were worshiped by both the demigods and demons, but still, in spite of his exalted position, as soon as he saw that Lord Brahmā was there among all the other demigods, he immediately stood up and offered him respect by bowing down and touching his lotus feet, just as Vāmanadeva offered His respectful obeisances to Kaśyapa Muni.
ātma-yoninā
- by Lord Brahmā — SB 5.20.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.39
On the top of Lokāloka Mountain are the four gaja-patis, the best of elephants, which were established in the four directions by Lord Brahmā, the supreme spiritual master of the entire universe. The names of those elephants are Ṛṣabha, Puṣkaracūḍa, Vāmana and Aparājita. They are responsible for maintaining the planetary systems of the universe. - directly born of the Lord — SB 3.9.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.43
By following My instructions you can now generate the living entities as before, by dint of your complete Vedic wisdom and the body you have directly received from Me, the supreme cause of everything.
abhinna-ātmā
- without being disturbed in body or mind — SB 8.22.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.1
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, although the Supreme Personality of Godhead was superficially seen to have acted mischievously toward Bali Mahārāja, Bali Mahārāja was fixed in his determination. Considering himself not to have fulfilled his promise, he spoke as follows.
ābhṛta-ātmā
- one who is fully self-controlled — SB 4.8.56plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.56
It is possible to worship a form of the Lord made of physical elements such as earth, water, pulp, wood and metal. In the forest one can make a form with no more than earth and water and worship Him according to the above principles. A devotee who has full control over his self should be very sober and peaceful and must be satisfied simply with eating whatever fruits and vegetables are available in the forest.
adhvara-ātmā
- the supreme enjoyer of all sacrifices, the yajña-puruṣa — SB 5.15.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.15.12
In Mahārāja Gaya's sacrifices, there was a great supply of the intoxicant known as soma. King Indra used to come and become intoxicated by drinking large quantities of soma-rasa. Also, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu [the yajña-puruṣa] also came and personally accepted all the sacrifices offered unto Him with pure and firm devotion in the sacrificial arena.
adīna-ātmā
- Mahārāja Nanda, who was so magnanimous — SB 10.5.15-16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.15-16
The great-minded Mahārāja Nanda gave clothing, ornaments and cows in charity to the cowherd men in order to please Lord Viṣṇu, and thus he improved the condition of his own son in all respects. He distributed charity to the sūtas, the māgadhas, the vandīs, and men of all other professions, according to their educational qualifications, and satisfied everyone's desires.
ādṛta-ātmā
- being very respectful — SB 4.19.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.34
My dear King, do not be agitated and anxious because your sacrifices have not been properly executed due to providential impediments. Kindly take my words with great respect. We should always remember that if something happens by providential arrangement, we should not be very sorry. The more we try to rectify such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest region of materialistic thought.
ajita-ātmā
- one who cannot control his senses — SB 8.19.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.19.24
One should be satisfied with whatever he achieves by his previous destiny, for discontent can never bring happiness. A person who is not self-controlled will not be happy even with possessing the three worlds.
akhila-ātma
- as the soul of all — Ādi 4.72plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.72
"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency [hlādinī]. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa.", Madhya 8.163plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.163
" 'I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency [hlādinī]. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa.'
akhila-devatā-ātmā
- the origin of all demigods — SB 8.7.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.26
O father of all planets, learned scholars know that fire is your mouth, the surface of the globe is your lotus feet, eternal time is your movement, all the directions are your ears, and Varuṇa, master of the waters, is your tongue.
andhīkṛta-ātmā
- made blind to self-realization — SB 7.5.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.33
After Prahlāda Mahārāja had spoken in this way and become silent, Hiraṇyakaśipu, blinded by anger, threw him off his lap and onto the ground.
antaḥ-ātmā
- the mind — SB 5.11.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.6
The materialistic mind covering the living entity's soul carries it to different species of life. This is called continued material existence. Due to the mind, the living entity suffers or enjoys material distress and happiness. Being thus illusioned, the mind further creates pious and impious activities and their karma, and thus the soul becomes conditioned. - the Supersoul within the core of the heart — SB 7.3.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.30
My dear lord, by your form as the Vedas personified and through knowledge relating to the activities of all the yajñic brāhmaṇas, you spread the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies of the seven kinds of sacrifices, headed by agniṣṭoma. Indeed, you inspire the yajñic brāhmaṇas to perform the rituals mentioned in the three Vedas. Being the Supreme Soul, the Supersoul of all living entities, you are beginningless, endless and omniscient, beyond the limits of time and space. - whose mind and heart — SB 5.13.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.13.5
Wandering in the forest of the material world, the conditioned soul sometimes hears an invisible cricket making harsh sounds, and his ears become very much aggrieved. Sometimes his heart is pained by the sounds of owls, which are just like the harsh words of his enemies. Sometimes he takes shelter of a tree that has no fruits or flowers. He approaches such a tree due to his strong appetite, and thus he suffers. He would like to acquire water, but he is simply illusioned by a mirage, and he runs after it.
antaḥ-ātmā-rūpe
- in the form of the Supersoul — Ādi 5.85plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 5.85
Although the Lord is the shelter of everything and although all the universes rest in Him, He, as the Supersoul, is also the support of everything.
anukampita-ātmā
- the all-compassionate Lord — SB 3.2.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.2.15
The Personality of Godhead, the all-compassionate controller of both the spiritual and material creations, is unborn, but when there is friction between His peaceful devotees and persons who are in the material modes of nature, He takes birth just like fire, accompanied by the mahat-tattva.
artha-ātma-gatayaḥ
- all other means of perfection (namely religion, economic development, sense gratification and liberation) — SB 5.17.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.3
The seven great sages [Marīci, Vasiṣṭha, Atri and so on] reside on planets beneath Dhruvaloka. Well aware of the influence of the water of the Ganges, to this day they keep Ganges water on the tufts of hair on their heads. They have concluded that this is the ultimate wealth, the perfection of all austerities, and the best means of prosecuting transcendental life. Having obtained uninterrupted devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they neglect all other beneficial processes like religion, economic development, sense gratification and even merging into the Supreme. Just as jñānīs think that merging into the existence of the Lord is the highest truth, these seven exalted personalities accept devotional service as the perfection of life.
asakta-ātmā
- one who is not so attached — Bg. 5.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.21
Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure or external objects but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure within. In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he concentrates on the Supreme.
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.
asmṛta-ātmā
- as if they had forgotten themselves — SB 10.13.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.30
When the cows saw their own calves from the top of Govardhana Hill, they forgot themselves and their caretakers because of increased affection, and although the path was very rough, they ran toward their calves with great anxiety, each running as if with one pair of legs. Their milk bags full and flowing with milk, their heads and tails raised, and their humps moving with their necks, they ran forcefully until they reached their calves to feed them.
asura-ātma-jāḥ
- O descendants of asuras — SB 7.7.51-52plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.51-52
My dear friends, O sons of the demons, you cannot please the Supreme Personality of Godhead by becoming perfect brāhmaṇas, demigods or great saints or by becoming perfectly good in etiquette or vast learning. None of these qualifications can awaken the pleasure of the Lord. Nor by charity, austerity, sacrifice, cleanliness or vows can one satisfy the Lord. The Lord is pleased only if one has unflinching, unalloyed devotion to Him. Without sincere devotional service, everything is simply a show. - O sons of demons — SB 7.6.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.6.19
My dear sons of demons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, is the original Supersoul, the father of all living entities. Consequently there are no impediments to pleasing Him or worshiping Him under any conditions, whether one be a child or an old man. The relationship between the living entities and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always a fact, and therefore there is no difficulty in pleasing the Lord.
ati-ātma-pa-durga-mārgaḥ
- escaping their caretakers because of increased affection for the calves, although the way was very rough and hard — SB 10.13.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.30
When the cows saw their own calves from the top of Govardhana Hill, they forgot themselves and their caretakers because of increased affection, and although the path was very rough, they ran toward their calves with great anxiety, each running as if with one pair of legs. Their milk bags full and flowing with milk, their heads and tails raised, and their humps moving with their necks, they ran forcefully until they reached their calves to feed them.
ati-dharma-ātmā
- exceedingly religious — SB 9.24.10-11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.24.10-11
"It has been decided that among human beings Babhru is the best and that Devāvṛdha is equal to the demigods. Because of the association of Babhru and Devāvṛdha, all of their descendants, numbering 14,065, achieved liberation." In the dynasty of King Mahābhoja, who was exceedingly religious, there appeared the Bhoja kings.
atiśaya-ātma-buddhibhiḥ
- by those whose intelligence has become fixed — SB 5.18.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.37
The objects of material enjoyment [sound, form, taste, touch and smell], the activities of the senses, the controllers of sensory activities [the demigods], the body, eternal time and egotism are all creations of Your material energy. Those whose intelligence has become fixed by perfect execution of mystic yoga can see that all these elements result from the actions of Your external energy. They can also see Your transcendental form as Supersoul in the background of everything. Therefore I repeatedly offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
ātura-ātmā
- aggrieved in self — SB 3.4.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.20
I have studied the path of understanding self-knowledge from my spiritual master, the Personality of Godhead, and thus after circumambulating Him I have come to this place, very much aggrieved due to separation.
avabodhaḥ ātmā
- in spite of having different incarnations, You remain the Supreme, full of knowledge — SB 10.2.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.2.29
O Lord, You are always in full knowledge, and to bring all good fortune to all living entities, You appear in different incarnations, all of them transcendental to the material creation. When You appear in these incarnations, You are pleasing to the pious and religious devotees, but for nondevotees You are the annihilator.
avahita-ātmā
- with great attention — SB 5.3.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.3.1
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak: Mahārāja Nābhi, the son of Āgnīdhra, wished to have sons, and therefore he attentively began to offer prayers and worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, the master and enjoyer of all sacrifices. Mahārāja Nābhi's wife, Merudevī, who had not given birth to any children at that time, also worshiped Lord Viṣṇu along with her husband.
ayam ātmā
- the soul or spiritual identity — SB 10.4.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.4.19
In this world, we can see that pots, dolls and other products of the earth appear, break and then disappear, mixing with the earth. Similarly, the bodies of all conditioned living entities are annihilated, but the living entities, like the earth itself, are unchanging and never annihilated [na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre].
bhūta-ātmā
- having a body of matter — SB 2.8.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.9
Brahmā, who was not born of a material source but of the lotus flower coming out of the navel abdomen of the Lord, is the creator of all those who are materially born. Of course, by the grace of the Lord, Brahmā was able to see the form of the Lord. - the Supersoul in all beings — SB 3.29.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.21
I am present in every living entity as the Supersoul. If someone neglects or disregards that Supersoul everywhere and engages himself in the worship of the Deity in the temple, that is simply imitation. - the Supersoul of all living entities (the supreme director and enjoyer of them) — SB 6.16.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.51
All living entities, moving and nonmoving, are My expansions and are separate from Me. I am the Supersoul of all living beings, who exist because I manifest them. I am the form of the transcendental vibrations like oṁkāra and Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Rāma, and I am the Supreme Absolute Truth. These two forms of Mine—namely, the transcendental sound and the eternally blissful spiritual form of the Deity, are My eternal forms; they are not material. - the Supersoul of all living entities — SB 4.11.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.11.26
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supersoul of all living entities. He is the controller and maintainer of everyone; through the agency of His external energy, He creates, maintains and annihilates everyone.
bhūta-ātma-bhūtāḥ
- those who are equal to all living entities — SB 8.3.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.7
Renunciants and great sages who see all living beings equally, who are friendly to everyone and who flawlessly practice in the forest the vows of brahmacarya, vānaprastha and sannyāsa desire to see the all-auspicious lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. May that same Supreme Personality of Godhead be my destination.
brahma-ātmā
- brahma and ātmā — Madhya 24.82plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.82
"Although the words brahma and ātmā indicate Kṛṣṇa, their direct meaning refers only to the impersonal Brahman and the Supersoul.
brahma-ātma-anubhavaḥ
- perception of his own position as the Supreme Spirit — SB 5.15.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.15.7
King Gaya gave full protection and security to the citizens so that their personal property would not be disturbed by undesirable elements. He also saw that there was sufficient food to feed all the citizens. [This is called poṣaṇa.] He would sometimes distribute gifts to the citizens to satisfy them. [This is called prīṇana.] He would sometimes call meetings and satisfy the citizens with sweet words. [This is called upalālana.] He would also give them good instructions on how to become first-class citizens. [This is called anuśāsana.] Such were the characteristics of King Gaya's royal order. Besides all this, King Gaya was a householder who strictly observed the rules and regulations of household life. He performed sacrifices and was an unalloyed pure devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was called Mahāpuruṣa because as a king he gave the citizens all facilities, and as a householder he executed all his duties so that at the end he became a strict devotee of the Supreme Lord. As a devotee, he was always ready to give respect to other devotees and to engage in the devotional service of the Lord. This is the bhakti-yoga process. Due to all these transcendental activities, King Gaya was always free from the bodily conception. He was full in Brahman realization, and consequently he was always jubilant. He did not experience material lamentation. Although he was perfect in all respects, he was not proud, nor was he anxious to rule the kingdom.
brahma-ātma-jādiṣu
- and the sons of Lord Brahmā (such as Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanat and Sanātana) — SB 7.14.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.35
O King Yudhiṣṭhira, the demigods, many great sages and saints including even the four sons of Lord Brahmā, and I myself were present at your Rājasūya sacrificial ceremony, but when there was a question of who should be the first person worshiped, everyone decided upon Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Person.
cākṣuṣa-ātma-jāḥ
- the sons of Cākṣuṣa — SB 8.5.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.7
The son of Cakṣu known as Cākṣuṣa was the sixth Manu. He had many sons, headed by Pūru, Pūruṣa and Sudyumna.
cara-acara-ātmā
- Kṛṣṇa, the all-pervading Supersoul — SB 10.6.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.6.8
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the all-pervading Supersoul, lying on the bed, understood that Pūtanā, a witch who was expert in killing small children, had come to kill Him. Therefore, as if afraid of her, Kṛṣṇa closed His eyes. Thus Pūtanā took upon her lap Him who was to be her own annihilation, just as an unintelligent person places a sleeping snake on his lap, thinking the snake to be a rope.
citta-ātmā
- mind and intelligence — Bg. 4.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.21
Such a man of understanding acts with mind and intelligence perfectly controlled, gives up all sense of proprietorship over his possessions and acts only for the bare necessities of life. Thus working, he is not affected by sinful reactions.
daitya-ātma-jā
- the daughter of a demon — SB 6.6.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.6.44
Racanā, the daughter of the Daityas, became the wife of Prajāpati Tvaṣṭā. By his semina he begot in her womb two very powerful sons named Sanniveśa and Viśvarūpa.
daitya-ātma-jasya
- of Prahlāda Mahārāja, the son of the demon — SB 7.10.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.47
Prahlāda Mahārāja was the best among exalted devotees. Anyone who with great attention hears this narration concerning the activities of Prahlāda Mahārāja, the killing of Hiraṇyakaśipu, and the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nṛsiṁhadeva, surely reaches the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.
daiva-bhūta-ātma
- all due to the body, supernatural power and other living beings — SB 1.10.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 cold.
daiva-karma-ātma-rūpiṇaḥ
- of the gigantic form of transcendental work, time and nature — SB 3.6.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.35
O Vidura, who can estimate or measure the transcendental time, work and potency of the gigantic form manifested by the internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
deha-ādi-ātma-bhāva
- the false bodily concept of life — SB 5.9.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.20
Śukadeva Gosvāmī then said to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: O Viṣṇudatta, those who already know that the soul is separate from the body, who are liberated from the invincible knot in the heart, who are always engaged in welfare activities for all living entities and who never contemplate harming anyone are always protected by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who carries His disc [the Sudarśana cakra] and acts as supreme time to kill the demons and protect His devotees. The devotees always take shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord. Therefore at all times, even if threatened by decapitation, they remain unagitated. For them, this is not at all wonderful.
deha-ātma-ja-ādiṣu
- for the sake of one’s personal body or family, etc., with reference to the body — 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.
deha-ātma-māninām
- of those who foolishly take the body to be the self — SB 5.14.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.1
When King Parīkṣit asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī about the direct meaning of the material forest, Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied as follows: My dear King, a man belonging to the mercantile community [vaṇik] is always interested in earning money. Sometimes he enters the forest to acquire some cheap commodities like wood and earth and sell them in the city at good prices. Similarly, the conditioned soul, being greedy, enters this material world for some material profit. Gradually he enters the deepest part of the forest, not really knowing how to get out. Having entered the material world, the pure soul becomes conditioned by the material atmosphere, which is created by the external energy under the control of Lord Viṣṇu. Thus the living entity comes under the control of the external energy, daivī māyā. Living independently and bewildered in the forest, he does not attain the association of devotees who are always engaged in the service of the Lord. Once in the bodily conception, he gets different types of bodies one after the other under the influence of material energy and impelled by the modes of material nature [sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa]. In this way the conditioned soul goes sometimes to the heavenly planets, sometimes to the earthly planets and sometimes to the lower planets and lower species. Thus he suffers continuously due to different types of bodies. These sufferings and pains are sometimes mixed. Sometimes they are very severe, and sometimes they are not. These bodily conditions are acquired due to the conditioned soul's mental speculation. He uses his mind and five senses to acquire knowledge, and these bring about the different bodies and different conditions. Using the senses under the control of the external energy, māyā, the living entity suffers the miserable conditions of material existence. He is actually searching for relief, but he is generally baffled, although sometimes he is relieved after great difficulty. Struggling for existence in this way, he cannot get the shelter of pure devotees, who are like bumblebees engaged in loving service at the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu.
devatā-ātmā
- the soul of the demigods — SB 2.7.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.11
The Lord appeared as the Hayagrīva incarnation in a sacrifice performed by me [Brahmā]. He is the personified sacrifices, and the hue of His body is golden. He is the personified Vedas as well, and the Supersoul of all demigods. When He breathed, all the sweet sounds of the Vedic hymns came out of His nostrils.
dharma-ātmā
- righteous — Bg. 9.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 9.31
He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.
dhauta-ātmā
- whose heart has been cleansed — SB 2.8.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.6
A pure devotee of the Lord whose heart has once been cleansed by the process of devotional service never relinquishes the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa, for they fully satisfy him, as a traveler is satisfied at home after a troubled journey.
durvitarkya-ātma-karmaṇe
- unto You, who perform inconceivable activities — SB 8.5.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.50
My Lord, all obeisances unto You, who are eternal, beyond time's limits of past, present and future. You are inconceivable in Your activities, You are the master of the three modes of material nature, and, being transcendental to all material qualities, You are free from material contamination. You are the controller of all three of the modes of nature, but at the present You are in favor of the quality of goodness. Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto You.
dvija-ātma-jaḥ
- the son of a brāhmaṇa — SB 1.7.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 outside of his using the ultimate weapon, the brahmāstra [nuclear weapon].
dvija-ātma-jāḥ
- the sons of the brāhmaṇa — Madhya 8.146plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.146
"Addressing Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu [the Mahāpuruṣa] said, 'I wanted to see both of you, and therefore I have brought the sons of the brāhmaṇa here. Both of you have appeared in the material world to reestablish religious principles, and you have both appeared here with all your potencies. After killing all the demons, please quickly return to the spiritual world.'
gṛhīta-ātmā
- whose mind was fully attracted — SB 7.4.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.4.37
From the very beginning of his childhood, Prahlāda Mahārāja was uninterested in childish playthings. Indeed, he gave them up altogether and remained silent and dull, being fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Since his mind was always affected by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he could not understand how the world goes on being fully absorbed in the activities of sense gratification.
guṇa-traya-ātmā
- consisting of the three modes — SB 3.32.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.9
After experiencing the inhabitable time of the three modes of material nature, known as two parārdhas, Lord Brahmā closes the material universe, which is covered by layers of earth, water, air, fire, ether, mind, ego, etc., and goes back to Godhead.
ijya-ātma
- the soul of all worshipable deities — SB 1.17.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.17.34
In all sacrificial ceremonies, although sometimes a demigod is worshiped, the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is worshiped because He is the Supersoul of everyone, and exists both inside and outside like the air. Thus it is He only who awards all welfare to the worshiper.
jita-ātma
- one who has conquered his mind — SB 4.8.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.20
Sunīti continued: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is so great that simply by worshiping His lotus feet, your great-grandfather, Lord Brahmā, acquired the necessary qualifications to create this universe. Although he is unborn and is the chief of all living creatures, he is situated in that exalted post because of the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whom even great yogīs worship by controlling the mind and regulating the life air [prāṇa].
jita-ātmā
- control of the mind — Bg. 18.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.49
One can obtain the results of renunciation simply by self-control and by becoming unattached to material things and disregarding material enjoyments. That is the highest perfectional stage of renunciation.
jīva-ātma
- living entities — SB 7.14.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.36
The entire universe, which is full of living entities, is like a tree whose root is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Acyuta [Kṛṣṇa]. Therefore simply by worshiping Lord Kṛṣṇa one can worship all living entities.
jīva-ātmā
- the individual spirit soul — 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. - the living entity — SB 8.22.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.25
While rotating in the cycle of birth and death again and again in different species because of his own fruitive activities, the dependent living entity, by good fortune, may happen to become a human being. This human birth is very rarely obtained.
jīva-bhūta-ātma-bhūte
- who is the life and the Supersoul — SB 5.24.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.24.19
My dear King, Bali Mahārāja donated all his possessions to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāmanadeva, but one should certainly not conclude that he achieved his great worldly opulence in bila-svarga as a result of his charitable disposition. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the source of life for all living entities, lives within everyone as the friendly Supersoul, and under His direction a living entity enjoys or suffers in the material world. Greatly appreciating the transcendental qualities of the Lord, Bali Mahārāja offered everything at His lotus feet. His purpose, however, was not to gain anything material, but to become a pure devotee. For a pure devotee, the door of liberation is automatically opened. One should not think that Bali Mahārāja was given so much material opulence merely because of his charity. When one becomes a pure devotee in love, he may also be blessed with a good material position by the will of the Supreme Lord. However, one should not mistakenly think that the material opulence of a devotee is the result of his devotional service. The real result of devotional service is the awakening of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which continues under all circumstances.
kailā ātma-samarpaṇa
- he surrendered himself fully — Antya 13.130plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 13.130
Thus Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa surrendered fully at the lotus feet of Lord Govinda, and those lotus feet became his life and soul.
kalā-ātma-vattva-ādi
- of being a direct incarnation of the Lord — SB 5.15.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.15.6
In the womb of his wife, Ṛṣikulyā, King Bhūmā begot a son named Udgītha. From Udgītha's wife, Devakulyā, a son named Prastāva was born, and Prastāva begot a son named Vibhu through his wife, Niyutsā. In the womb of his wife, Ratī, Vibhu begot a son named Pṛthuṣeṇa. Pṛthuṣeṇa begot a son named Nakta in the womb of his wife, named Ākūti. Nakta's wife was Druti, and from her womb the great King Gaya was born. Gaya was very famous and pious; he was the best of saintly kings. Lord Viṣṇu and His expansions, who are meant to protect the universe, are always situated in the transcendental mode of goodness, known as viśuddha-sattva. Being the direct expansion of Lord Viṣṇu, King Gaya was also situated in the viśuddha-sattva. Because of this, Mahārāja Gaya was fully equipped with transcendental knowledge. Therefore he was called Mahāpuruṣa.
kalila-ātmā
- polluted heart — SB 4.7.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.10
At that time, when Dakṣa saw Lord Śiva, who rides upon a bull, his heart, which was polluted by envy of Lord Śiva, was immediately cleansed, just as the water in a lake is cleansed by autumn rains.
kāma-ātmā
- lusty — SB 4.25.56plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.56
Being thus entangled in different types of mental concoction and engaged in fruitive activities, King Purañjana came completely under the control of material intelligence and was thus cheated. Indeed, he used to fulfill all the desires of his wife, the Queen.
krodhavaśā-ātma-jāḥ
- born from Krodhavaśā — SB 6.6.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.6.28
The sons born of Krodhavaśā were the serpents known as dandaśūka, as well as other serpents and the mosquitoes. All the various creepers and trees were born from the womb of Ilā. The Rākṣasas, bad spirits, were born from the womb of Surasā.
kṛṣṇera ātma-svarūpa
- identical with Kṛṣṇa — Antya 5.148plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 5.148
"There is no difference between Lord Jagannātha and Kṛṣṇa, but here Lord Jagannātha is fixed as the Absolute Person appearing in wood. Therefore He does not move.
kuṇapa-ātma-vādiṣu
- among those who have accepted the dead body as the self — SB 4.4.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.13
It is not wonderful for persons who have accepted the transient material body as the self to engage always in deriding great souls. Such envy on the part of materialistic persons is very good because that is the way they fall down. They are diminished by the dust of the feet of great personalities.
labdha-ātmā
- being situated in himself — SB 3.24.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.24.45
He thus became liberated from conditioned life and became self-situated in transcendental devotional service to the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, the omniscient Supersoul within everyone.
mahā-ātmā
- expanded intelligence — SB 3.14.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.14.48
That topmost devotee of the Lord will have expanded intelligence and expanded influence and will be the greatest of the great souls. Due to matured devotional service, he will certainly be situated in transcendental ecstasy and will enter the spiritual sky after quitting this material world. - great soul — SB 4.12.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.12.14
The self-controlled great soul Dhruva Mahārāja thus passed many, many years favorably executing three kinds of worldly activities, namely religiosity, economic development and satisfaction of all material desires. Thereafter he handed over the charge of the royal throne to his son. - the great soul (who refrained from striking Indra with the club when he saw Indra morose and aggrieved) — SB 6.11.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.11.12
When he saw Indra's carrier elephant thus fatigued and injured and when he saw Indra morose because his carrier had been harmed in that way, the great soul Vṛtrāsura, following religious principles, refrained from again striking Indra with the club. Taking this opportunity, Indra touched the elephant with his nectar-producing hand, thus relieving the animal's pain and curing its injuries. Then the elephant and Indra both stood silently.
mātṛ-svasṛ-ātma-jau
- the sons of the mother’s sister — SB 7.1.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.46
In their third birth, the same Jaya and Vijaya appeared in a family of kṣatriyas as your cousins, the sons of your aunt. Because Lord Kṛṣṇa has struck them with His disc, all their sinful reactions have been destroyed, and now they are free from the curse.
nibhṛta-ātmā
- lonely and alone — SB 1.15.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 Yudhiṣṭhira decided to go back home, back to Godhead.
nija-ātma
- of one’s own self — SB 3.1.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.1.35
O sober one, others, such as Hṛdīka, Cārudeṣṇa, Gada and the son of Satyabhāmā, who accept Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa as the soul of the self and thus follow His path without deviation—are they well?
nirjita-ātma
- as one who has controlled his senses — SB 6.17.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.17.10
Not knowing the prowess of Lord Śiva and Pārvatī, Citraketu strongly criticized them. His statements were not at all pleasing, and therefore the goddess Pārvatī, being very angry, spoke as follows to Citraketu, who thought himself better than Lord Śiva in controlling the senses.
nirjita-ātmā
- who fully controlled his mind and self — SB 6.8.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.8.18
May the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His incarnation as Dhanvantari relieve me from undesirable eatables and protect me from physical illness. May Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, who conquered His inner and outer senses, protect me from fear produced by the duality of heat and cold. May Yajña protect me from defamation and harm from the populace, and may Lord Balarāma as Śeṣa protect me from envious serpents.
nivedita-ātmā
- a fully surrendered soul — Madhya 22.103plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.103
" 'The living entity who is subjected to birth and death attains immortality when he gives up all material activities, dedicates his life to the execution of My order, and acts according to My directions. In this way he becomes fit to enjoy the spiritual bliss derived from exchanging loving mellows with Me.', Antya 4.194plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 4.194
" 'The living entity who is subjected to birth and death, when he gives up all material activities dedicating his life to Me for executing My order, and thus acts according to My direction, at that time he reaches the platform of immortality, and becomes fit to enjoy the spiritual bliss of exchange of loving mellows with Me.'
niveśita-ātmā
- with full attention — SB 1.15.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 service of the transcendental Personality of Godhead with full attention and thus gained release from the course of material existence.
niyata-ātmā
- controlling oneself — SB 8.16.59plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.16.59
O most fortunate lady, establishing your mind in a good spirit, execute this process of payo-vrata and thus worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Keśava, who is inexhaustible.
nṛpa-ātma-je
- O daughter of the King — SB 3.28.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.1
The Personality of Godhead said: My dear mother, O daughter of the King, now I shall explain to you the system of yoga, the object of which is to concentrate the mind. By practicing this system one can become joyful and progressively advance towards the path of the Absolute Truth.
pāpa-ātmā
- sinful man — Madhya 1.190plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 1.190
"Dear Lord, let us inform you that no one is more sinful than us, nor is there any offender like us. Even if we wanted to mention our sinful activities, we would immediately become ashamed. And what to speak of giving them up!"
para-ātma
- of the Personality of Godhead — SB 3.28.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.36
Thus situated in the highest transcendental stage, the mind ceases from all material reaction and becomes situated in its own glory, transcendental to all material conceptions of happiness and distress. At that time the yogī realizes the truth of his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He discovers that pleasure and pain as well as their interactions, which he attributed to his own self, are actually due to the false ego, which is a product of ignorance. - of the Supreme Soul — SB 4.9.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.5
At that time Dhruva Mahārāja became perfectly aware of the Vedic conclusion and understood the Absolute Truth and His relationship with all living entities. In accordance with the line of devotional service to the Supreme Lord, whose fame is widespread, Dhruva, who in the future would receive a planet which would never be annihilated, even during the time of dissolution, offered his deliberate and conclusive prayers.
para-ātmā
- the Supersoul — Ādi 1.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.11
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose secondary part is the Viṣṇu lying in the ocean of milk. That Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is the Supersoul of all living entities and the maintainer of all the universes. Śeṣa Nāga is His further sub-part., Ādi 5.109plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 5.109
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose secondary part is the Viṣṇu lying in the ocean of milk. That Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is the Supersoul of all living entities and the maintainer of all the universes. Śeṣa Nāga is His further subpart.
para-ātma-darśanaḥ
- realization of the Supreme Soul (spiritual knowledge) — SB 7.9.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.6
By the touch of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva's hand on Prahlāda Mahārāja's head, Prahlāda was completely freed of all material contaminations and desires, as if he had been thoroughly cleansed. Therefore he at once became transcendentally situated, and all the symptoms of ecstasy became manifest in his body. His heart filled with love, and his eyes with tears, and thus he was able to completely capture the lotus feet of the Lord within the core of his heart.
para-ātma-niṣṭhā-mātra
- only for the determination to serve Kṛṣṇa — Madhya 3.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.8
The real purpose of accepting sannyāsa is to dedicate oneself to the service of Mukunda. By serving Mukunda, one can actually be liberated from the bondage of material existence.
para-ātma-niṣṭhām
- devotion to the Supreme Person, Kṛṣṇa — Madhya 3.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.6
"[As a brāhmaṇa from Avantī-deśa said:] 'I shall cross over the insurmountable ocean of nescience by being firmly fixed in the service of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. This was approved by the previous ācāryas, who were fixed in firm devotion to the Lord, Paramātmā, the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
para-avara-ātma-āśrayaṇam
- the shelter of all living entities, low and high — SB 8.7.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.27
O lord, the sky is your navel, the air is your breathing, the sun is your eyes, and the water is your semen. You are the shelter of all kinds of living entities, high and low. The god of the moon is your mind, and the upper planetary system is your head.
parama-ātmā
- Paramātmā — SB 3.32.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.26
The Supreme Personality of Godhead alone is complete transcendental knowledge, but according to the different processes of understanding He appears differently, either as impersonal Brahman, as Paramātmā, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead or as the puruṣa-avatāra.
prahṛṣṭa-ātmā
- being pleased in his body, mind and soul — SB 6.4.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.4.40
Seeing that wonderful and effulgent form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Prajāpati Dakṣa was first somewhat afraid, but then he was very pleased to see the Lord, and he fell to the ground like a stick [daṇḍavat] to offer his respects to the Lord.
praṇata-ātma
- surrendered soul — SB 4.7.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.30
Śrī Bhṛgu said: My dear Lord, all living entities, beginning from the highest, namely Lord Brahmā, down to the ordinary ant, are under the influence of the insurmountable spell of illusory energy, and thus they are ignorant of their constitutional position. Everyone believes in the concept of the body, and all are thus submerged in the darkness of illusion. They are actually unable to understand how You live in every living entity as the Supersoul, nor can they understand Your absolute position. But You are the eternal friend and protector of all surrendered souls. Therefore, please be kind toward us and forgive all our offenses.
prasanna-ātmā
- fully joyful — Bg. 18.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.54
One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me., Madhya 8.65plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.65
Rāmānanda Rāya continued, "According to the Bhagavad-gītā, 'One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything. He is equally disposed toward every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.' ", Madhya 24.132plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.132
" 'One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and is fully joyful. Be never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.', Madhya 25.155plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.155
" 'One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.'
praśānta-ātmā
- completely satisfied, desireless — Madhya 19.150plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.150
" 'O great sage, out of many millions of materially liberated people who are free from ignorance, and out of many millions of siddhas who have nearly attained perfection, there is hardly one pure devotee of Nārāyaṇa. Only such a devotee is actually completely satisfied and peaceful.', Madhya 25.83plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.83
" 'O great sage, out of many millions of materially liberated people who are free from ignorance, and out of many millions of siddhas who have nearly attained perfection, there is hardly one pure devotee of Nārāyaṇa. Only such a devotee is actually completely satisfied and peaceful.'
pratibuddha-ātmā
- being fully aware of spiritual knowledge — SB 6.16.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.15
Thus enlightened by the instructions of the brāhmaṇas Aṅgirā and Nārada, King Citraketu became fully aware of spiritual knowledge. As an elephant becomes free from a muddy reservoir of water, King Citraketu came out of the dark well of family life.
prativārya ātma-vatsapaiḥ
- again He Himself was represented as the cowherd boys controlling and commanding the calves — SB 10.13.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.20
Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time appear as their leader, Kṛṣṇa entered Vrajabhūmi, the land of His father, Nanda Mahārāja, just as He usually did while enjoying their company.
pratyak-ātma
- of the Supersoul — SB 6.9.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.42
O Lord, as the small sparks of a fire cannot possibly perform the actions of the whole fire, we sparks of Your Lordship cannot inform You of the necessities of our lives. You are the complete whole. Therefore, of what do we need to inform You? You know everything because You are the original cause of the cosmic manifestation, the maintainer and the annihilator of the entire universal creation. You always engage in Your pastimes with Your spiritual and material energies, for You are the controller of all these varied energies. You exist within all living entities, within the cosmic manifestation, and also beyond them. You exist internally as Parabrahman and externally as the ingredients of the material creation. Therefore, although manifested in various stages, at different times and places, and in various bodies, You, the Personality of Godhead, are the original cause of all causes. Indeed, You are the original element. You are the witness of all activities, but because You are as great as the sky, You are never touched by any of them. You are the witness of everything as Parabrahman and Paramātmā. O Supreme Personality of Godhead, nothing is unknown to You.
prīta-ātmā
- fully satisfied — SB 3.1.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 King, he said to him, "Please hear the topics attentively."
prīti-svabhāva-ātmā
- whose heart is by nature always full of love — SB 3.21.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.12
When Kardama Muni actually realized the Supreme Personality of Godhead in person, he was greatly satisfied because his transcendental desire was fulfilled. He fell on the ground with his head bowed to offer obeisances unto the lotus feet of the Lord. His heart naturally full of love of God, with folded hands he satisfied the Lord with prayers.
rudra-ātmā
- in the form of Rudra — SB 2.10.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.43
Thereafter, at the end of the millennium, the Lord Himself in the form of Rudra, the destroyer, will annihilate the complete creation as the wind displaces the clouds.
sadā ātma-sthaiḥ
- by those who are situated in eternity — SB 1.11.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 with them. Similarly, the devotees who have taken shelter of the Lord do not become influenced by the material qualities.
sagara-ātma-jaiḥ
- by the sons of Mahārāja Sagara — SB 5.19.29-30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.29-30
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in the opinion of some learned scholars, eight smaller islands surround Jambūdvīpa. When the sons of Mahārāja Sagara were searching all over the world for their lost horse, they dug up the earth, and in this way eight adjoining islands came into existence. The names of these islands are Svarṇaprastha, Candraśukla, Āvartana, Ramaṇaka, Mandara-hariṇa, Pāñcajanya, Siṁhala and Laṅkā.
saha-ātma-jā
- along with my children — SB 1.8.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 envious King Kaṁsa, and me and my children from a series of constant dangers.
samāhita-ātmā
- he whose mind is fixed — SB 3.32.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.30
This perfect knowledge can be achieved by a person who is already engaged in devotional service with faith, steadiness and full detachment, and who is always absorbed in thought of the Supreme. He is aloof from material association.
sāndra-ātmā
- whose nature is very condensed — Madhya 23.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.7
" 'When that bhāva softens the heart completely, becomes endowed with a great feeling of possessiveness in relation to the Lord and becomes very much condensed and intensified, it is called prema [love of Godhead] by learned scholars.
saṅgata-ātmā
- fully absorbed in thought of Me — SB 4.8.82plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.82
The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: My dear demigods, do not be perturbed by this. It is due to the severe austerity and full determination of the son of King Uttānapāda, who is now fully absorbed in thought of Me. He has obstructed the universal breathing process. You can safely return to your respective homes. I shall stop this boy in his severe acts of austerities, and you will be saved from this situation.
saṅkṣipta-ātma-vibhūtaye
- unto the Lord, who had expanded His personal opulence but had now reduced His size to the Vāmana form — SB 8.21.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.21.5
Lord Brahmā and all the predominating deities of the various planetary systems began to worship Lord Vāmanadeva, their supreme master, who had reduced Himself from His all-pervading form to His original form. They collected all the ingredients and paraphernalia for this worship.
śānta-ātmā
- a peaceful attitude — SB 9.2.11-13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.2.11-13
Thereafter, Pṛṣadhra gained relief from all responsibilities, became peaceful in mind, and established control over all his senses. Being unaffected by material conditions, being pleased with whatever was available by the grace of the Lord to maintain body and soul together, and being equal toward everyone, he gave full attention to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, who is the transcendental Supersoul, free from material contamination. Thus Pṛṣadhra, fully satisfied in pure knowledge, always keeping his mind on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, achieved pure devotional service to the Lord and began traveling all over the world, without affection for material activities, as if he were deaf, dumb and blind.
sarva-ātmā
- all-pervading — SB 4.22.60plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.60
In his bodily strength and in the strength of his senses, Mahārāja Pṛthu was as strong as the wind, which can go anywhere and everywhere. As far as his intolerance was concerned, he was just like the all-powerful Rudra expansion of Lord Śiva, or Sadāśiva., SB 9.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.5
O Sudarśana wheel, you are religion, you are truth, you are encouraging statements, you are sacrifice, and you are the enjoyer of the fruits of sacrifice. You are the maintainer of the entire universe, and you are the supreme transcendental prowess in the hands of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You are the original vision of the Lord, and therefore you are known as Sudarśana. Everything has been created by your activities, and therefore you are all-pervading., Madhya 18.191plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 18.191
"According to the Koran, the Lord has a supreme, blissful, transcendental body. He is the Absolute Truth, the all-pervading, omniscient and eternal being. He is the origin of everything. - the all pervasive Lord, who is situated in everyone’s heart — Madhya 22.110plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.110
" 'O descendant of Bharata! O Mahārāja Parīkṣit! The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in everyone's heart as Paramātmā, who is the supreme controller and who always removes the miseries of living entities, must always be heard about from reliable sources, and He must be glorified and remembered by one who wishes to become fearless.' - the Supersoul — SB 4.11.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.11.13
The Lord is very satisfied with His devotee when the devotee greets other people with tolerance, mercy, friendship and equality., SB 8.7.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.40
My dear gentle wife Bhavānī, when one performs benevolent activities for others, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is very pleased. And when the Lord is pleased, I am also pleased, along with all other living creatures. Therefore, let me drink this poison, for all the living entities may thus become happy because of me. - the Supersoul of all living entities — SB 4.7.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.49
Maitreya continued: My dear sinless Vidura, Lord Viṣṇu is actually the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices. Yet because of His being the Supersoul of all living entities, He was satisfied simply with His share of the sacrificial offerings. He therefore addressed Dakṣa in a pleasing attitude. - the Supersoul of everyone — SB 4.19.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 and the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices. He was personally present at the sacrifices made by King Pṛthu. - the Supersoul, Kṛṣṇa — SB 10.13.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.20
Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time appear as their leader, Kṛṣṇa entered Vrajabhūmi, the land of His father, Nanda Mahārāja, just as He usually did while enjoying their company. - the Supreme Lord, the Supersoul of all — SB 7.11.8-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.8-12
These are the general principles to be followed by all human beings: truthfulness, mercy, austerity (observing fasts on certain days of the month), bathing twice a day, tolerance, discrimination between right and wrong, control of the mind, control of the senses, nonviolence, celibacy, charity, reading of scripture, simplicity, satisfaction, rendering service to saintly persons, gradually taking leave of unnecessary engagements, observing the futility of the unnecessary activities of human society, remaining silent and grave and avoiding unnecessary talk, considering whether one is the body or the soul, distributing food equally to all living entities (both men and animals), seeing every soul (especially in the human form) as a part of the Supreme Lord, hearing about the activities and instructions given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead (who is the shelter of the saintly persons), chanting about these activities and instructions, always remembering these activities and instructions, trying to render service, performing worship, offering obeisances, becoming a servant, becoming a friend, and surrendering one's whole self. O King Yudhiṣṭhira, these thirty qualifications must be acquired in the human form of life. Simply by acquiring these qualifications, one can satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - who is all-pervading — SB 1.18.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 great sin of cursing a person who was completely free from all sins, who was subordinate and who deserved to be protected.
sarva-ātma-bhāvam
- all different varieties of devotional service — SB 9.4.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.21
In performing his prescribed duties as king, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa always offered the results of his royal activities to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, who is the enjoyer of everything and is beyond the perception of material senses. He certainly took advice from brāhmaṇas who were faithful devotees of the Lord, and thus he ruled the planet earth without difficulty.
sarva-bhūta-ātma-bhāvena
- by a merciful attitude toward all living entities — SB 9.5.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.11
If the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is one without a second, who is the reservoir of all transcendental qualities, and who is the life and soul of all living entities, is pleased with us, we wish that this brāhmaṇa, Durvāsā Muni, be freed from the pain of being burned.
sarva-bhūta-ātma-bhūtam
- the soul in all entities — SB 7.1.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.43
The Lord, the Supersoul of all living entities, is sober, peaceful and equal to everyone. Since the great devotee Prahlāda was protected by the Lord's potency, Hiraṇyakaśipu was unable to kill him, in spite of endeavoring to do so in various ways.
sarva-bhūta-suhṛt-ātmā
- who was thus the friend of all living entities — SB 5.10.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.10.8
Thinking himself a king, King Rahūgaṇa was in the bodily conception and was influenced by material nature's modes of passion and ignorance. Due to madness, he chastised Jaḍa Bharata with uncalled-for and contradictory words. Jaḍa Bharata was a topmost devotee and the dear abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although considering himself very learned, the King did not know about the position of an advanced devotee situated in devotional service, nor did he know his characteristics. Jaḍa Bharata was the residence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; he always carried the form of the Lord within his heart. He was the dear friend of all living beings, and he did not entertain any bodily conception. He therefore smiled and spoke the following words.
sarva-śarīrī ātmā
- the Supersoul of all living entities — SB 6.19.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.19.13
Mother Lakṣmī, who is here, is the reservoir of all spiritual qualities, whereas You manifest and enjoy all these qualities. Indeed, You are actually the enjoyer of everything. You live as the Supersoul of all living entities, and the goddess of fortune is the form of their bodies, senses and minds. She also has a holy name and form, whereas You are the support of all such names and forms and the cause for their manifestation.
sarvabhuta-ātmabhūta-ātmā
- compassionate to all living entities — Bg. 5.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.7
One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul, and who controls his mind and senses, is dear to everyone, and everyone is dear to him. Though always working, such a man is never entangled.
sarvasva-ātma-nivedane
- in fully dedicating oneself — Madhya 22.136plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.136
" 'Mahārāja Parīkṣit attained the highest perfection, shelter at Lord Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, simply by hearing about Lord Viṣṇu. Śukadeva Gosvāmī attained perfection simply by reciting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Prahlāda Mahārāja attained perfection by remembering the Lord. The goddess of fortune attained perfection by massaging the transcendental legs of Mahā-Viṣṇu. Mahārāja Pṛthu attained perfection by worshiping the Deity, and Akrūra attained perfection by offering prayers unto the Lord. Vajrāṅgajī [Hanumān] attained perfection by rendering service to Lord Rāmacandra, and Arjuna attained perfection simply by being Kṛṣṇa's friend. Bali Mahārāja attained perfection by dedicating everything to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.'
śāstra-guru-ātma-rūpe
- in the form of Vedic literature, the spiritual master and the Supersoul — Madhya 20.123plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.123
"The forgetful conditioned soul is educated by Kṛṣṇa through the Vedic literatures, the realized spiritual master and the Supersoul. Through these, he can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is, and he can understand that Lord Kṛṣṇa is his eternal master and deliverer from the clutches of māyā. In this way one can acquire real knowledge of his conditioned life and can come to understand how to attain liberation.
ṣaṭ-ātmā
- six circumstances (lamentation, illusion, old age, death, hunger and thirst) — SB 10.2.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.2.27
The body [the total body and the individual body are of the same composition] may figuratively be called "the original tree." From this tree, which fully depends on the ground of material nature, come two kinds of fruit—the enjoyment of happiness and the suffering of distress. The cause of the tree, forming its three roots, is association with the three modes of material nature—goodness, passion and ignorance. The fruits of bodily happiness have four tastes—religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation—which are experienced through five senses for acquiring knowledge in the midst of six circumstances: lamentation, illusion, old age, death, hunger and thirst. The seven layers of bark covering the tree are skin, blood, muscle, fat, bone, marrow and semen, and the eight branches of the tree are the five gross and three subtle elements—earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego. The tree of the body has nine hollows—the eyes, the ears, the nostrils, the mouth, the rectum and the genitals—and ten leaves, the ten airs passing through the body. In this tree of the body there are two birds: one is the individual soul, and the other is the Supersoul.
ṣoḍaśa-ātmā
- the chief of the sixteen material elements (the five gross elements, the ten senses and the mind) — SB 5.11.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.5
Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust and anger. In this way, it becomes attracted to material sense enjoyment. In other words, the mind is conducted by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. There are eleven senses and five material elements, and out of these sixteen items, the mind is the chief. Therefore the mind brings about birth in different types of bodies among demigods, human beings, animals and birds. When the mind is situated in a higher or lower position, it accepts a higher or lower material body.
sva-ātma
- own self — SB 3.4.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.18
My Lord, kindly explain to us, if You think us competent to receive it, that transcendental knowledge which gives enlightenment about Yourself and which You explained before to Brahmājī. - regarding the self — SB 3.4.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.25
Vidura said: O Uddhava, because the servants of Viṣṇu, the Lord, wander in the interest of serving others, it is quite fit that you kindly describe the self-knowledge with which you have been enlightened by the Lord Himself.
sva-ātma-arpaṇam
- the full surrendering of one’s self — SB 7.6.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.6.26
Religion, economic development and sense gratification—these are described in the Vedas as tri-varga, or three ways to salvation. Within these three categories are education and self-realization; ritualistic ceremonies performed according to Vedic injunction; logic; the science of law and order; and the various means of earning one's livelihood. These are the external subject matters of study in the Vedas, and therefore I consider them material. However, I consider surrender to the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu to be transcendental.
sva-ātma-lābha-adhigamaḥ
- who has achieved knowledge of the self — SB 5.9.9-10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.9-10
Degraded men are actually no better than animals. The only difference is that animals have four legs and such men have only two. These two-legged, animalistic men used to call Jaḍa Bharata mad, dull, deaf and dumb. They mistreated him, and Jaḍa Bharata behaved for them like a madman who was deaf, blind or dull. He did not protest or try to convince them that he was not so. If others wanted him to do something, he acted according to their desires. Whatever food he could acquire by begging or by wages, and whatever came of its own accord—be it a small quantity, palatable, stale or tasteless—he would accept and eat. He never ate anything for sense gratification because he was already liberated from the bodily conception, which induces one to accept palatable or unpalatable food. He was full in the transcendental consciousness of devotional service, and therefore he was unaffected by the dualities arising from the bodily conception. Actually his body was as strong as a bull's, and his limbs were very muscular. He didn't care for winter or summer, wind or rain, and he never covered his body at any time. He lay on the ground, and never smeared oil on his body or took a bath. Because his body was dirty, his spiritual effulgence and knowledge were covered, just as the splendor of a valuable gem is covered by dirt. He only wore a dirty loincloth and his sacred thread, which was blackish. Understanding that he was born in a brāhmaṇa family, people would call him a brahma-bandhu and other names. Being thus insulted and neglected by materialistic people, he wandered here and there.
sva-ātma-māyayā
- by Your own energy — SB 6.9.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.40
O Lord, O personified three worlds, father of the three worlds! O strength of the three worlds, in the form of the Vāmana incarnation! O three-eyed form of Nṛsiṁhadeva! O most beautiful person within the three worlds! Everything and everyone, including human beings and even the Daitya demons and the Dānavas, is but an expansion of Your energy. O supremely powerful one, You have always appeared in Your forms as the various incarnations to punish the demons as soon as they become very powerful. You appear as Lord Vāmanadeva, Lord Rāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa. You appear sometimes as an animal like Lord Boar, sometimes a mixed incarnation like Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva and Lord Hayagrīva, and sometimes an aquatic like Lord Fish and Lord Tortoise. Assuming such various forms, You have always punished the demons and Dānavas. We therefore pray that Your Lordship appear today as another incarnation, if You so desire, to kill the great demon Vṛtrāsura.
sva-ātma-māyāyāḥ
- by His internal potency — SB 3.4.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.3
The Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, after foreseeing the end [of His family] by His internal potency, went to the bank of the River Sarasvatī, sipped water, and sat down underneath a tree.
sva-ātma-ratau
- enjoying in His internal potency — SB 3.8.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.8.10
At that time when the three worlds were submerged in water, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu was alone, lying on His bedstead, the great snake Ananta, and although He appeared to be in slumber in His own internal potency, free from the action of the external energy, His eyes were not completely closed.
sva-ātma-vṛttam
- the information of the history of self-realization — SB 7.13.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.45
Prahlāda Mahārāja, you are certainly a self-realized soul and a devotee of the Supreme Lord. You do not care for public opinion or so-called scriptures. For this reason I have described to you without hesitation the history of my self-realization.
sva-chanda-ātmā
- full of self-desire — SB 3.25.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.3
Therefore please precisely describe all the activities and pastimes of the Personality of Godhead, who is full of self-desire and who assumes all these activities by His internal potency.
svayam ātmā
- Kṛṣṇa, who is personally the Supreme Soul, the Supersoul — SB 10.13.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.20
Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time appear as their leader, Kṛṣṇa entered Vrajabhūmi, the land of His father, Nanda Mahārāja, just as He usually did while enjoying their company.
tat-ātma-jāḥ ca
- and his children like Priyavrata, Uttānapāda, Devahūti, etc — SB 2.7.43-45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.43-45
O Nārada, although the potencies of the Lord are unknowable and immeasurable, still, because we are all surrendered souls, we know how He acts through yogamāyā potencies. And, similarly, the potencies of the Lord are also known to the all-powerful Śiva, the great king of the atheist family, namely Prahlāda Mahārāja, Svāyambhuva Manu, his wife Śatarūpā, his sons and daughters like Priyavrata, Uttānapāda, Ākūti, Devahūti and Prasūti, Prācīnabarhi, Ṛbhu, Aṅga the father of Vena, Mahārāja Dhruva, Ikṣvāku, Aila, Mucukunda, Mahārāja Janaka, Gādhi, Raghu, Ambarīṣa, Sagara, Gaya, Nāhuṣa, Māndhātā, Alarka, Śatadhanve, Anu, Rantideva, Bhīṣma, Bali, Amūrttaraya, Dilīpa, Saubhari, Utaṅka, Śibi, Devala, Pippalāda, Sārasvata, Uddhava, Parāśara, Bhūriṣeṇa, Vibhīṣaṇa, Hanumān, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Arjuna, Ārṣṭiṣeṇa, Vidura, Śrutadeva, etc.
tat-tat-ātmā
- as originally different individual souls — SB 10.13.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.21
O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Kṛṣṇa, who had divided Himself as different calves and also as different cowherd boys, entered different cow sheds as the calves and then different homes as different boys.
tattva-ātma
- self-knowledge — SB 3.4.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.20
I have studied the path of understanding self-knowledge from my spiritual master, the Personality of Godhead, and thus after circumambulating Him I have come to this place, very much aggrieved due to separation.
trayī-ātmā
- who consists of the three Vedas — SB 5.8.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.19
Alas, when the sun rises, all auspicious things begin. Unfortunately, they have not begun for me. The sun-god is the Vedas personified, but I am bereft of all Vedic principles. That sun-god is now setting, yet the poor animal who trusted in me since its mother died has not returned. - whose form manifests the Vedas — Madhya 20.333plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.333
" 'In the Tretā-yuga, the Lord appeared in a body that had a reddish hue and four arms. There were three distinctive lines on His abdomen, and His hair was golden. His form manifested the Vedic knowledge, and He bore the symbols of a sacrificial spoon, ladle and so on.'
tri-bhuvana-ātma-bhavana
- O Lord, You are the shelter of the three worlds because You are the Supersoul of the three worlds — SB 6.9.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.40
O Lord, O personified three worlds, father of the three worlds! O strength of the three worlds, in the form of the Vāmana incarnation! O three-eyed form of Nṛsiṁhadeva! O most beautiful person within the three worlds! Everything and everyone, including human beings and even the Daitya demons and the Dānavas, is but an expansion of Your energy. O supremely powerful one, You have always appeared in Your forms as the various incarnations to punish the demons as soon as they become very powerful. You appear as Lord Vāmanadeva, Lord Rāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa. You appear sometimes as an animal like Lord Boar, sometimes a mixed incarnation like Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva and Lord Hayagrīva, and sometimes an aquatic like Lord Fish and Lord Tortoise. Assuming such various forms, You have always punished the demons and Dānavas. We therefore pray that Your Lordship appear today as another incarnation, if You so desire, to kill the great demon Vṛtrāsura.
tṛpta-ātmā
- thus being fully satisfied — SB 9.5.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.19
Thus the King respectfully received Durvāsā Muni, who after eating varieties of palatable food was so satisfied that with great affection he requested the King to eat also, saying, "Please take your meal."
upaśānta-ātmā
- completely free from all material desires — SB 7.15.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.55
This gradual process of elevation for self-realization is meant for those who are truly aware of the Absolute Truth. After repeated birth on this path, which is known as deva-yāna, one attains these consecutive stages. One who is completely free from all material desires, being situated in the self, need not traverse the path of repeated birth and death.
vaḍavā-ātma-jau
- the sons of the wife known as Vaḍavā — SB 8.13.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.13.10
Chāyā had a son named Sāvarṇi and a daughter named Tapatī, who later became the wife of King Saṁvaraṇa. Chāyā's third child is known as Śanaiścara [Saturn]. Vaḍavā gave birth to two sons, namely the Aśvinī brothers.
vihvala-ātmā
- whose mind was agitated — SB 8.12.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.22
While Lord Śiva observed the beautiful woman playing with the ball, She sometimes glanced at him and slightly smiled in bashfulness. As he looked at the beautiful woman and She watched him, he forgot both himself and Umā, his most beautiful wife, as well as his associates nearby.
vijita-ātma
- conquered — SB 7.9.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.22
My dear Lord, O supreme great, You have created this material world of sixteen constituents, but You are transcendental to their material qualities. In other words, these material qualities are under Your full control, and You are never conquered by them. Therefore the time element is Your representation. My Lord, O Supreme, no one can conquer You. As for me, however, I am being crushed by the wheel of time, and therefore I surrender fully unto You. Now kindly take me under the protection of Your lotus feet.
vijita-ātmā
- self-controlled — Bg. 5.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.7
One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul, and who controls his mind and senses, is dear to everyone, and everyone is dear to him. Though always working, such a man is never entangled.
vijñāna-ātmā
- unalloyed goodness — SB 3.5.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.27
Thereafter, influenced by the interactions of eternal time, the supreme sum total of matter called the mahat-tattva became manifested, and in this mahat-tattva the unalloyed goodness, the Supreme Lord, sowed the seeds of universal manifestation out of His own body.
viṣaṇṇa-ātmā
- therefore very morose — SB 9.7.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.7.8
Hariścandra had no son and was therefore extremely morose. Once, therefore, following the advice of Nārada, he took shelter of Varuṇa and said to him "My lord I have no son. Would you kindly give me one?"
viṣaya-ātma-keṣu
- who are too addicted to sense enjoyment — SB 7.6.17-18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.6.17-18
My dear friends, O sons of the demons, it is certain that no one bereft of knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead has been able to liberate himself from material bondage at any time or in any country. Rather, those bereft of knowledge of the Lord are bound by the material laws. They are factually addicted to sense gratification, and their target is woman. Indeed, they are actually playthings in the hands of attractive women. Victimized by such a conception of life, they become surrounded by children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and thus they are shackled to material bondage. Those who are very much addicted to this conception of life are called demons. Therefore, although you are sons of demons, keep aloof from such persons and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, the origin of all the demigods, because the ultimate goal for the devotees of Nārāyaṇa is liberation from the bondage of material existence.
vismṛta-ātma-gatiḥ
- having forgotten the knowledge of Viṣṇu — SB 4.2.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.23
Dakṣa has accepted the body as all in all. Therefore, since he has forgotten the viṣṇu-pāda, or viṣṇu-gati, and is attached to sex life only, within a short time he will have the face of a goat.
viśuddha-ātmā
- a purified soul — Bg. 5.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.7
One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul, and who controls his mind and senses, is dear to everyone, and everyone is dear to him. Though always working, such a man is never entangled.
viśva-ātmā
- the Lord as Paramātmā — SB 1.2.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 absolute one without a second. - the soul of the universe, the Supersoul — SB 9.16.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.16.27
In this way the supreme soul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord and the supreme controller, descended as an incarnation in the Bhṛgu dynasty and released the universe from the burden of undesirable kings by killing them many times. - the Supersoul — SB 4.20.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.19
King Pṛthu abundantly worshiped the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who was so merciful to him. While worshiping the lotus feet of the Lord, Pṛthu Mahārāja gradually increased his ecstasy in devotional service., SB 4.31.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.9
The great sage Nārada said: When a living entity is born to engage in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme controller, his birth, all his fruitive activities, his life-span, his mind and his words are all factually perfect., SB 9.18.12-14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.18.12-14
We are among the qualified brāhmaṇas, who are accepted as the face of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The brāhmaṇas have created the entire universe by their austerity, and they always keep the Absolute Truth within the core of their hearts. They have directed the path of good fortune, the path of Vedic civilization, and because they are the only worshipable objects within this world, they are offered prayers and worshiped even by the great demigods, the directors of the various planets, and even by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul, the supreme purifier, the husband of the goddess of fortune. And we are even more respectable because we are in the dynasty of Bhṛgu. Yet although this woman's father, being among the demons, is our disciple, she has put on my dress, exactly like a śūdra taking charge of Vedic knowledge. - the Supersoul of the entire universe — SB 4.6.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.6.3
Both Lord Brahmā and Viṣṇu had already known that such events would occur in the sacrificial arena of Dakṣa, and knowing beforehand, they did not go to the sacrifice., SB 4.14.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 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 within everyone, is worshiped, the Lord will be satisfied., SB 10.1.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.1.3
The Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the cause of the cosmic manifestation, appeared in the dynasty of Yadu. Please tell me elaborately about His glorious activities and character, from the beginning to the end of His life. - the Supersoul of the universe — SB 3.3.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.3.19
Simultaneously, the Personality of Godhead enjoyed life in the city of Dvārakā, strictly in conformity with the Vedic customs of society. He was situated in detachment and knowledge, as enunciated by the Sāṅkhya system of philosophy. - the Supersoul of the whole universe — SB 6.16.65plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.65
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After thus instructing Citraketu and assuring him of perfection in this way, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme spiritual master, the supreme soul, Saṅkarṣaṇa, disappeared from that place as Citraketu looked on.
yatā-atmā
- endeavoring — Bg. 12.13-14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 12.13-14
One who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego and equal both in happiness and distress, who is always satisfied and engaged in devotional service with determination and whose mind and intelligence are in agreement with Me—he is very dear to Me.
yata-ātmā
- having controlled the senses and mind — Madhya 23.106-107plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.106-107
" 'One who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego, equal in both happiness and distress, always satisfied, forgiving and self-controlled, who is engaged in devotional service with determination and whose mind and intelligence are dedicated to Me-he is very dear to Me.
yoga-yukta-ātmā
- one who is dovetailed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness — Bg. 6.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.29
A true yogī observes Me in all beings, and also sees every being in Me. Indeed, the self-realized man sees Me everywhere.
yukta-ātmā
- engaged in devotional service — Bg. 7.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 7.18
All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider verily to dwell in Me. Being engaged in My transcendental service, he attains Me. - having the mind firmly set on — Bg. 9.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 9.28
In this way you will be freed from all reactions to good and evil deeds, and by this principle of renunciation you will be liberated and come to Me. - self-connected — Bg. 5.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.21
Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure or external objects but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure within. In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he concentrates on the Supreme.