ātmanaḥ
- and one’s own self — SB 7.14.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.26
O King Yudhiṣṭhira, at the time prescribed for reformatory ritualistic ceremonies for one's self, one's wife or one's children, or during funeral ceremonies and annual death ceremonies, one must perform the auspicious ceremonies mentioned above in order to flourish in fruitive activities. - children — 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. - consisting of — SB 4.20.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.12
Lord Viṣṇu told King Pṛthu: My dear King, the constant change of this material world is due to the interaction of the three modes of material nature. The five elements, the senses, the demigods who control the senses, as well as the mind, which is agitated by the spirit soul—all these taken together comprise the body. Since the spirit soul is completely different from this combination of gross and subtle material elements, My devotee who is connected with Me in intense friendship and affection, being completely in knowledge, is never agitated by material happiness and distress. - done by himself — SB 6.2.24-25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.24-25
After hearing the discourses between the Yamadūtas and the Viṣṇudūtas, Ajāmila could understand the religious principles that act under the three modes of material nature. These principles are mentioned in the three Vedas. He could also understand the transcendental religious principles, which are above the modes of material nature and which concern the relationship between the living being and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Furthermore, Ajāmila heard glorification of the name, fame, qualities and pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He thus became a perfectly pure devotee. He could then remember his past sinful activities, which he greatly regretted having performed. - expansions — SB 10.13.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.55
Thus Lord Brahmā saw the Supreme Brahman, by whose energy this entire universe, with its moving and nonmoving living beings, is manifested. He also saw at the same time all the calves and boys as the Lord's expansions. - expansions of His person — SB 9.11.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.11.24
Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: How did the Lord conduct Himself, and how did He behave in relationship with His brothers, who were expansions of His own self? And how did His brothers and the inhabitants of Ayodhyā treat Him? - for herself — SB 8.8.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.8.19
While walking among the Gandharvas, Yakṣas, asuras, Siddhas, Cāraṇas and denizens of heaven, Lakṣmīdevī, the goddess of fortune, was scrutinizingly examining them, but she could not find anyone naturally endowed with all good qualities. None of them was devoid of faults, and therefore she could not take shelter of any of them. - for himself — SB 3.29.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.32
Better than the brāhmaṇa who knows the purpose of the Vedas is he who can dissipate all doubts, and better than him is one who strictly follows the brahminical principles. Better than him is one who is liberated from all material contamination, and better than him is a pure devotee, who executes devotional service without expectation of reward., SB 5.4.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.18
No one likes to possess anything that is like a will-o'-the-wisp or a flower in the sky, for everyone knows very well that such things do not exist. When Lord Ṛṣabhadeva ruled this planet of Bhāratavarṣa, even common men did not want to ask for anything, at any time or by any means. No one ever asks for a will-o'-the-wisp. In other words, everyone was completely satisfied, and therefore there was no chance of anyone's asking for anything. The people were absorbed in great affection for the King. Since this affection was always expanding, they were not inclined to ask for anything., SB 5.14.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.46
Devotees interested in hearing and chanting [śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam] regularly discuss the pure characteristics of Bharata Mahārāja and praise his activities. If one submissively hears and chants about the all-auspicious Mahārāja Bharata, one's life span and material opulences certainly increase. One can become very famous and easily attain promotion to the heavenly planets, or attain liberation by merging into the existence of the Lord. Whatever one desires can be attained simply by hearing, chanting and glorifying the activities of Mahārāja Bharata. In this way, one can fulfill all his material and spiritual desires. One does not have to ask anyone else for these things, for simply by studying the life of Mahārāja Bharata, one can attain all desirable things., SB 5.24.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.24.24
Alas, how pitiable it is for Indra, the King of heaven, that although he is very learned and powerful and although he chose Bṛhaspati as his prime minister to instruct him, he is completely ignorant concerning spiritual advancement. Bṛhaspati is also unintelligent because he did not properly instruct his disciple Indra. Lord Vāmanadeva was standing at Indra's door, but King Indra, instead of begging Him for an opportunity to render transcendental loving service, engaged Him in asking me for alms to gain the three worlds for his sense gratification. Sovereignty over the three worlds is very insignificant because whatever material opulence one may possess lasts only for an age of Manu, which is but a tiny fraction of endless time., SB 9.19.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.3
While wandering in the forest, eating to satisfy his senses, a he-goat by chance approached a well, in which he saw a she-goat standing helplessly, having fallen into it by the influence of the results of fruitive activities. - for His personal benefit — SB 7.9.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.11
The Supreme Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is always fully satisfied in Himself. Therefore when something is offered to Him, the offering, by the Lord's mercy, is for the benefit of the devotee, for the Lord does not need service from anyone. To give an example, if one's face is decorated, the reflection of one's face in a mirror is also seen to be decorated. - for my personal self — SB 7.3.9-10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.9-10
"The supreme person within this universe, Lord Brahmā, has gotten his exalted post by dint of severe austerities, mystic power and trance. Consequently, after creating the universe, he has become the most worshipable demigod within it. Since I am eternal and time is eternal, I shall endeavor for such austerity, mystic power and trance for many, many births, and thus I shall occupy the same post occupied by Lord Brahmā. - for personal sense gratification — SB 7.10.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.5
A servant who desires material profits from his master is certainly not a qualified servant or pure devotee. Similarly, a master who bestows benedictions upon his servant because of a desire to maintain a prestigious position as master is also not a pure master. - for personal service — SB 7.12.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.12.8
If the wife of the spiritual master is young, a young brahmacārī should not allow her to care for his hair, massage his body with oil, or bathe him with affection like a mother. - for self-preservation — SB 4.18.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.18.27
My dear Vidura, chief of the Kurus, in this way King Pṛthu and all the others who subsist on food created different types of calves and milked out their respective eatables. Thus they received their various foodstuffs, which were symbolized as milk. - for the benefit of the soul — 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. - for the body — SB 7.5.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.37
Although a medicinal herb, being born in the forest, does not belong to the same category as a man, if beneficial it is kept very carefully. Similarly, if someone outside one's family is favorable, he should be given protection like a son. On the other hand, if a limb of one's body is poisoned by disease, it must be amputated so that the rest of the body may live happily. Similarly, even one's own son, if unfavorable, must be rejected, although born of one's own body. - for the living entities — SB 7.1.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.10
When the Supreme Personality of Godhead creates different types of bodies, offering a particular body to each living entity according to his character and fruitive actions, the Lord revives all the qualities of material nature—sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa. Then, as the Supersoul, He enters each body and influences the qualities of creation, maintenance and annihilation, using sattva-guṇa for maintenance, rajo-guṇa for creation and tamo-guṇa for annihilation. - for the real self — SB 7.7.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.45
All this paraphernalia is very near and dear as long as the body exists, but as soon as the body is destroyed, all things related to the body are also finished. Therefore, actually one has nothing to do with them, but because of ignorance one accepts them as valuable. Compared to the ocean of eternal happiness, they are most insignificant. What is the use of such insignificant relationships for the eternal living being? - for the self — SB 4.22.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.32
There is no stronger obstruction to one's self-interest than thinking other subject matters to be more pleasing than one's self-realization., SB 7.14.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.14
An intelligent person should be satisfied with eating prasāda [food offered to the Lord] or with performing the five different kinds of yajña [pañca-sūnā]. By such activities, one can give up attachment for the body and so-called proprietorship with reference to the body. When one is able to do this, he is firmly fixed in the position of a mahātmā. - for the soul — SB 4.13.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.13.45
Who, if he is considerate and intelligent, would desire such a worthless son? Such a son is nothing but a bond of illusion for the living entity, and he makes one's home miserable. - for themselves — SB 4.9.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.36
The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, persons like you, who are pure devotees of the lotus feet of Mukunda [the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can offer liberation] and who are always attached to the honey of His lotus feet, are always satisfied in serving at the lotus feet of the Lord. In any condition of life, such persons remain satisfied, and thus they never ask the Lord for material prosperity. - from my body — SB 3.22.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.22.19
Therefore I shall accept this chaste girl as my wife, on the condition that after she bears semen from my body, I shall accept the life of devotional service accepted by the most perfect human beings. That process was described by Lord Viṣṇu. It is free from envy. - from the self — SB 4.20.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.31
My Lord, due to Your illusory energy, all living beings in this material world have forgotten their real constitutional position, and out of ignorance they are always desirous of material happiness in the form of society, friendship and love. Therefore, please do not ask me to take some material benefits from You, but as a father, not waiting for the son's demand, does everything for the benefit of the son, please bestow upon me whatever You think best for me. - from the Supreme Soul — SB 6.16.57plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.57
When a living entity, thinking himself different from Me, forgets his spiritual identity of qualitative oneness with Me in eternity, knowledge and bliss, his material, conditional life begins. In other words, instead of identifying his interest with Mine, he becomes interested in his bodily expansions like his wife, children and material possessions. In this way, by the influence of his actions, one body comes from another, and after one death, another death takes place. - her own — SB 3.23.36-37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.36-37
The sage could see that Devahūti had washed herself clean and was shining forth as though no longer his former wife. She had regained her own original beauty as the daughter of a prince. Dressed in excellent robes, her charming breasts duly girded, she was waited upon by a thousand Gandharva girls. O destroyer of the enemy, his fondness for her grew, and he placed her on the aerial mansion. - himself — 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. - His — SB 4.31.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.20
Being completely cleansed of all material desires, the devotees are freed from all mental contamination. Thus they can always think of the Lord constantly and address Him very feelingly. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, knowing Himself to be controlled by His devotees, does not leave them for a second, just as the sky overhead never becomes invisible., SB 6.18.64plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.18.64
When Indra saw that actually they were his devoted followers, he said to them: If you are all my brothers, you have nothing more to fear from me. - his own — SB 3.20.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.19
Out of disgust, Brahmā threw off the body of ignorance, and taking this opportunity, Yakṣas and Rākṣasas sprang for possession of the body, which continued to exist in the form of night. Night is the source of hunger and thirst., SB 6.7.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.7.10
Indra, the King of heaven, could immediately understand his mistake. Realizing he had disrespected his spiritual master, he condemned himself in the presence of all the members of the assembly., SB 10.1.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.1.44
Therefore, since envious, impious activities cause a body in which one suffers in the next life, why should one act impiously? Considering one's welfare, one should not envy anyone, for an envious person must always fear harm from his enemies, either in this life or in the next. - his own self — SB 1.15.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.15.38
Thereafter, in the capital of Hastināpura, he enthroned his grandson, who was trained and equally qualified, as the emperor and master of all land bordered by the seas. - His personal — SB 4.9.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.26
The great sage Maitreya said: After being worshiped and honored by the boy, Dhruva Mahārāja, and after offering him His abode, Lord Viṣṇu, on the back of Garuḍa, returned to His abode, as Dhruva Mahārāja looked on. - his personal interest — SB 9.18.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.18.23
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Because such a marriage is not sanctioned by regular scriptures, King Yayāti did not like it, but because it was arranged by providence and because he was attracted by Devayānī's beauty, he accepted her request. - in the self — SB 2.4.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.4.1
Sūta Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Uttarā, after hearing the speeches of Śukadeva Gosvāmī, which were all about the truth of the self, applied his concentration faithfully upon Lord Kṛṣṇa. - mind — SB 3.5.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.18
Śrī Maitreya said: O Vidura, all glory unto you. You have inquired from me of the greatest of all goodness, and thus you have shown your mercy both to the world and to me because your mind is always absorbed in thoughts of the Transcendence. - My — SB 2.9.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.34
O Brahmā, whatever appears to be of any value, if it is without relation to Me, has no reality. Know it as My illusory energy, that reflection which appears to be in darkness., Ādi 1.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.54
"What appears to be truth without Me is certainly My illusory energy, for nothing can exist without Me. It is like a reflection of a real light in the shadows, for in the light there are neither shadows nor reflections., Madhya 25.119plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.119
" 'What appears to be truth without Me, is certainly My illusory energy, for nothing can exist without Me. It is like a reflection of a real light in the shadows, for in the light there are neither shadows nor reflections. - my own — SB 6.17.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.17.17
Citraketu said: My dear mother, with my own hands folded together I accept the curse upon me. I do not mind the curse, for happiness and distress are given by the demigods as a result of one's past deeds. - of all living entities — SB 4.25.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.34
O great hero, we only know that we are existing in this place. We do not know what will come after. Indeed, we are so foolish that we do not care to understand who has created this beautiful place for our residence. - of herself — SB 3.31.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.42
A woman, therefore, should consider her husband, her house and her children to be the arrangement of the external energy of the Lord for her death, just as the sweet singing of the hunter is death for the deer., SB 4.1.65plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.65
The sixteenth daughter, whose name was Satī, was the wife of Lord Śiva. She could not produce a child, although she always faithfully engaged in the service of her husband., SB 4.27.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.27.20
The daughter of Time [Jarā] was very unfortunate. Consequently she was known as Durbhagā ["ill-fated"]. However, she was once pleased with a great king, and because the king accepted her, she granted him a great benediction. - of Him — SB 7.10.70plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.70
The Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, appeared as a human being, yet He performed many uncommon and wonderful pastimes by His own potency. How can I say more about His activities than what has already been said by great saintly persons? Everyone can be purified by His activities, simply by hearing about them from the right source. - of himself (Lord Śiva) — 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. - of himself — SB 1.15.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.15.43
After that, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira dressed himself in torn clothing, gave up eating all solid foods, voluntarily became dumb and let his hair hang loose. All this combined to make him look like an urchin or madman with no occupation. He did not depend on his brothers for anything. And, just like a deaf man, he heard nothing., SB 2.10.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.10
After separating the different universes, the gigantic universal form of the Lord [Mahā-Viṣṇu], which came out of the causal ocean, the place of appearance for the first puruṣa-avatāra, entered into each of the separate universes, desiring to lie on the created transcendental water [Garbhodaka]., SB 3.4.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.19
When I thus expressed my heartfelt desires unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the lotus-eyed Lord instructed me about His transcendental situation., SB 3.9.27-28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.27-28
The Lord saw that Brahmā was very anxious about the planning and construction of the different planetary systems and was depressed upon seeing the devastating water. He could understand the intention of Brahmā, and thus He spoke in deep, thoughtful words, removing all the illusion that had arisen., SB 3.29.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.26
As the blazing fire of death, I cause great fear to whoever makes the least discrimination between himself and other living entities because of a differential outlook., 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., SB 4.19.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.2
When the most powerful Indra, the King of heaven, saw this, he considered the fact that King Pṛthu was going to exceed him in fruitive activities. Thus Indra could not tolerate the great sacrificial ceremonies performed by King Pṛthu., SB 4.28.35-36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.28.35-36
In the province of Kulācala, there were rivers named Candravasā, Tāmraparṇī and Vaṭodakā. King Malayadhvaja used to go to those pious rivers regularly and take his bath there. Thus he purified himself externally and internally. He took his bath and ate bulbs, seeds, leaves, flowers, roots, fruits and grasses and drank water. In this way he underwent severe austerities. Eventually he became very skinny., SB 4.29.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.2
The great sage Nārada Muni continued: You must understand that Purañjana, the living entity, transmigrates according to his own work into different types of bodies, which may be one-legged, two-legged, three-legged, four-legged, many-legged or simply legless. Transmigrating into these various types of bodies, the living entity, as the so-called enjoyer, is known as Purañjana., SB 5.1.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.6
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, Prince Priyavrata was a great devotee because he sought the lotus feet of Nārada, his spiritual master, and thus achieved the highest perfection in transcendental knowledge. With advanced knowledge, he always engaged in discussing spiritual subjects and did not divert his attention to anything else. The Prince's father then asked him to take charge of ruling the world. He tried to convince Priyavrata that this was his duty as indicated in the revealed scriptures. Prince Priyavrata, however, was continuously practicing bhakti-yoga by constantly remembering the Supreme Personality of Godhead, thus engaging all his senses in the service of the Lord. Therefore, although the order of his father could not be rejected, the Prince did not welcome it. Thus he very conscientiously raised the question of whether he might be diverted from devotional service by accepting the responsibility of ruling over the world., SB 5.1.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.20
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After thus being fully instructed by Lord Brahmā, who is the spiritual master of the three worlds, Priyavrata, his own position being inferior, offered obeisances, accepted the order and carried it out with great respect., 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., SB 5.8.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.28
Although in the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja, due to his rigid devotional service in his past life, could understand the cause of his birth in that body. Considering his past and present life, he constantly repented his activities, speaking in the following way., SB 5.20.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.40
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the master of all transcendental opulences and the master of the spiritual sky. He is the Supreme Person, Bhagavān, the Supersoul of everyone. The demigods, led by Indra, the King of heaven, are entrusted with seeing to the affairs of the material world. To benefit all living beings in all the varied planets and to increase the power of those elephants and of the demigods, the Lord manifests Himself on top of that mountain in a spiritual body, uncontaminated by the modes of material nature. Surrounded by His personal expansions and assistants like Viṣvaksena, He exhibits all His perfect opulences, such as religion and knowledge, and His mystic powers such as aṇimā, laghimā and mahimā. He is beautifully situated, and He is decorated by the different weapons in His four hands., SB 6.7.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.7.1
Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great sage, why did the spiritual master of the demigods, Bṛhaspati, reject the demigods, who were his own disciples? What offense did the demigods commit against their spiritual master? Please describe to me this incident., SB 6.7.2-8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.7.2-8
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, once upon a time, the King of heaven, Indra, being extremely proud because of his great opulence of the three worlds, transgressed the law of Vedic etiquette. Seated on his throne, he was surrounded by the Maruts, Vasus, Rudras, Ādityas, Ṛbhus, Viśvadevas, Sādhyas, Aśvinī-kumāras, Siddhas, Cāraṇas and Gandharvas and by great saintly persons. Also surrounding him were the Vidyādharas, Apsarās, Kinnaras, Patagas [birds] and Uragas [snakes]. All of them were offering Indra their respects and services, and the Apsarās and Gandharvas were dancing and singing with very sweet musical instruments. Over Indra's head was a white umbrella as effulgent as the full moon. Fanned by yak-tail whisks and served with all the paraphernalia of a great king, Indra was sitting with his wife, Śacīdevī, who occupied half the throne, when the great sage Bṛhaspati appeared in that assembly. Bṛhaspati, the best of the sages, was the spiritual master of Indra and the demigods and was respected by the demigods and demons alike. Nevertheless, although Indra saw his spiritual master before him, he did not rise from his own seat or offer a seat to his spiritual master, nor did Indra offer him a respectful welcome. Indra did nothing to show him respect., SB 6.16.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.55
Know Me to be the Supreme Brahman, the all-pervading Supersoul through whom the sleeping living entity can understand his dreaming condition and his happiness beyond the activities of the material senses. That is to say, I am the cause of the activities of the sleeping living being., SB 7.8.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.8.17
To prove that the statement of His servant Prahlāda Mahārāja was substantial—in other words, to prove that the Supreme Lord is present everywhere, even within the pillar of an assembly hall—the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, exhibited a wonderful form never before seen. The form was neither that of a man nor that of a lion. Thus the Lord appeared in His wonderful form in the assembly hall., SB 7.11.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.6
Lord Nārāyaṇa, along with His partial manifestation Nara, appeared in this world through the daughter of Dakṣa Mahārāja known as Mūrti. He was begotten by Dharma Mahārāja for the benefit of all living entities. Even now, He is still engaged in executing great austerities near the place known as Badarikāśrama., SB 8.12.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.36
Thus Lord Śiva could understand his position and that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has unlimited potencies. Having reached this understanding, he was not at all surprised by the wonderful way Lord Viṣṇu had acted upon him., SB 10.11.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.11.9
To pure devotees throughout the world who could understand His activities, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, exhibited how much He can be subdued by His devotees, His servants. In this way He increased the pleasure of the Vrajavāsīs by His childhood activities. - of himself, personally (the head of the state) — 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. - of his body — SB 4.4.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.3
Thereafter Satī left her husband, Lord Śiva, who had given her half his body due to affection. Breathing very heavily because of anger and bereavement, she went to the house of her father. This less intelligent act was due to her being a weak woman., SB 4.16.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.16.17
The King will respect all women as if they were his own mother, and he will treat his own wife as the other half of his body. He will be just like an affectionate father to his citizens, and he will treat himself as the most obedient servant of the devotees, who always preach the glories of the Lord. - of His own — SB 2.7.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.6
To exhibit His personal way of austerity and penance, He appeared in twin forms as Nārāyaṇa and Nara in the womb of Mūrti, the wife of Dharma and the daughter of Dakṣa. Celestial beauties, the companions of Cupid, went to try to break His vows, but they were unsuccessful, for they saw that many beauties like them were emanating from Him, the Personality of Godhead., 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., SB 3.12.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.38
He also created the medical science, military art, musical art and architectural science, all from the Vedas. They all emanated one after another, beginning from the front face., SB 5.19.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.19
The people who take birth in this tract of land are divided according to the qualities of material nature—the modes of goodness [sattva-guṇa], passion [rajo-guṇa], and ignorance [tamo-guṇa]. Some of them are born as exalted personalities, some are ordinary human beings, and some are extremely abominable, for in Bhārata—varṣa one takes birth exactly according to one's past karma. If one's position is ascertained by a bona fide spiritual master and one is properly trained to engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu according to the four social divisions [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra] and the four spiritual divisions [brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa], one's life becomes perfect. - of his own real identity, the soul — SB 10.3.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.3.18
One who considers his visible body, which is a product of the three modes of nature, to be independent of the soul is unaware of the basis of existence, and therefore he is a rascal. Those who are learned have rejected his conclusion because one can understand through full discussion that with no basis in soul, the visible body and senses would be insubstantial. Nonetheless, although his conclusion has been rejected, a foolish person considers it a reality. - of his own self — SB 1.7.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.7.51
Bhīma, however, disagreed with them and recommended killing this culprit who, in an angry mood, had murdered sleeping children for no purpose and for neither his nor his master's interest., SB 1.14.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.14.8
Is He going to quit His earthly pastimes, as Devarṣi Nārada indicated? Has that time already arrived? - of his own welfare — SB 9.19.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.1
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Yayāti was very much attached to woman. In due course of time, however, when disgusted with sexual enjoyment and its bad effects, he renounced this way of life and narrated the following story to his beloved wife. - of his personal self — SB 1.12.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.12.27
After hearing about his death, which will be caused by the bite of a snake-bird sent by a son of a brāhmaṇa, he will get himself freed from all material attachment and surrender unto the Personality of Godhead, taking shelter of Him. - of his self — SB 1.18.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.18.29
O brāhmaṇas, the King's anger and envy, directed toward the brāhmaṇa sage, were unprecedented, being that circumstances had made him hungry and thirsty., SB 3.12.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.47
Brahmā's soul was manifested as the touch alphabets, his body as the vowels, his senses as the sibilant alphabets, his strength as the intermediate alphabets and his sensual activities as the seven notes of music., SB 6.1.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.1.9
Mahārāja Parīkṣit said: One may know that sinful activity is injurious for him because he actually sees that a criminal is punished by the government and rebuked by people in general and because he hears from scriptures and learned scholars that one is thrown into hellish conditions in the next life for committing sinful acts. Nevertheless, in spite of such knowledge, one is forced to commit sins again and again, even after performing acts of atonement. Therefore, what is the value of such atonement?, SB 7.13.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.28
In this way the conditioned soul living within the body forgets his self-interest because he identifies himself with the body. Because the body is material, his natural tendency is to be attracted by the varieties of the material world. Thus the living entity suffers the miseries of material existence. - of his soul — SB 3.31.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.29
With the growth of the body, the living entity, in order to vanquish his soul, increases his false prestige and anger and thereby creates enmity towards similarly lusty people., SB 4.21.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.21.40
By regular service to the brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas, one can clear the dirt from his heart and thus enjoy supreme peace and liberation from material attachment and be satisfied. In this world there is no fruitive activity superior to serving the brāhmaṇa class, for this can bring pleasure to the demigods, for whom the many sacrifices are recommended., SB 5.9.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.3
Due to his being especially gifted with the Lord's mercy, Bharata Mahārāja could remember the incidents of his past life. Although he received the body of a brāhmaṇa, he was still very much afraid of his relatives and friends who were not devotees. He was always very cautious of such association because he feared that he would again fall down. Consequently he manifested himself before the public eye as a madman—dull, blind and deaf—so that others would not try to talk to him. In this way he saved himself from bad association. Within he was always thinking of the lotus feet of the Lord and chanting the Lord's glories, which save one from the bondage of fruitive action. In this way he saved himself from the onslaught of nondevotee associates. - of myself — SB 4.25.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.33
The girl said: O best of human beings, I do not know who has begotten me. I cannot speak to you perfectly about this. Nor do I know the names or the origin of the associates with me. - of one’s own — SB 2.1.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.1.20
One's mind is always agitated by the passionate mode of material nature and bewildered by the ignorant mode of nature. But one can rectify such conceptions by the relation of Viṣṇu and thus become pacified by cleansing the dirty things created by them. - of one’s own self — Bg. 17.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.19
And those penances and austerities which are performed foolishly by means of obstinant self-torture, or to destroy or injure others, are said to be in the mode of ignorance. - of one’s self — SB 4.29.1bplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.16
If a living entity is developed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and is merciful to others, and if his spiritual knowledge of self-realization is perfect, he will immediately attain liberation from the bondage of material existence., SB 4.29.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.54
My dear King, woman, who is very attractive in the beginning but in the end very disturbing, is exactly like the flower, which is attractive in the beginning and detestable at the end. With woman, the living entity is entangled with lusty desires, and he enjoys sex, just as one enjoys the aroma of a flower. He thus enjoys a life of sense gratification—from his tongue to his genitals—and in this way the living entity considers himself very happy in family life. United with his wife, he always remains absorbed in such thoughts. He feels great pleasure in hearing the talks of his wife and children, which are like the sweet humming of bumblebees that collect honey from flower to flower. He forgets that before him is time, which is taking away his life-span with the passing of day and night. He does not see the gradual diminishing of his life, nor does he care about the superintendent of death, who is trying to kill him from behind. Just try to understand this. You are in a precarious position and are threatened from all sides., SB 7.14.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.9
One should treat animals such as deer, camels, asses, monkeys, mice, snakes, birds and flies exactly like one's own son. How little difference there actually is between children and these innocent animals., SB 7.14.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.16
When one is enriched with wealth and knowledge which are under his full control and by means of which he can perform yajña or please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one must perform sacrifices, offering oblations to the fire according to the directions of the śāstras. In this way one should worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead., SB 8.24.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.48
One who wants to be free of material entanglement should take to the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and give up the contamination of ignorance, involving pious and impious activities. Thus one regains his original identity, just as a block of gold or silver sheds all dirt and becomes purified when treated with fire. May that inexhaustible Supreme Personality of Godhead become our spiritual master, for He is the original spiritual master of all other spiritual masters. - of oneself — SB 4.25.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.40
The woman continued: According to authorities, the householder life is pleasing not only to oneself but to all the forefathers, demigods, great sages, saintly persons and everyone else. A householder life is thus beneficial., 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., SB 10.5.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.30
Every man is certainly controlled by destiny, which determines the results of one's fruitive activities. In other words, one has a son or daughter because of unseen destiny, and when the son or daughter is no longer present, this also is due to unseen destiny. Destiny is the ultimate controller of everyone. One who knows this is never bewildered. - of self-realization — SB 3.33.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.33.12
Śrī Maitreya said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead Kapila, after instructing His beloved mother, took permission from her and left His home, His mission having been fulfilled. - of the Absolute — SB 2.9.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.38
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, after being seen in His transcendental form, instructing Brahmājī, the leader of the living entities, disappeared. - of the body — SB 1.7.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.7.45
He [Droṇācārya] is certainly still existing, being represented by his son. His wife Kṛpī did not undergo a satī with him because she had a son., SB 3.9.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.9
O my Lord, the material miseries are without factual existence for the soul. Yet as long as the conditioned soul sees the body as meant for sense enjoyment, he cannot get out of the entanglement of material miseries, being influenced by Your external energy., SB 3.14.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.14.19
O respectful one, a wife is so helpful that she is called the better half of a man's body because of her sharing in all auspicious activities. A man can move without anxiety entrusting all responsibilities to his wife., SB 7.2.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.54
If unkind Providence takes away my wife, who is half my body, why should He not take me also? What is the use of my living with half of my body, bereaved by loss of my wife? What shall I gain in this way?, 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. - of the conditioned soul — 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. - of the living being — SB 1.15.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.15.46
They all had performed all the principles of religion and as a result rightly decided that the lotus feet of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa are the supreme goal of all. Therefore they meditated upon His feet without interruption. - of the living beings — SB 2.8.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.22
Please also explain how, merged in the body of the Lord, living beings are created, and how the infidels appear in the world. Also please explain how the unconditioned living entities exist. - of the living entities — SB 2.10.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.6
The merging of the living entity, along with his conditional living tendency, with the mystic lying down of the Mahā-Viṣṇu is called the winding up of the cosmic manifestation. Liberation is the permanent situation of the form of the living entity after he gives up the changeable gross and subtle material bodies. - of the living entity — Bg. 5.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.16
When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun lights up everything in the daytime., 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., SB 3.25.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.15
The stage in which the consciousness of the living entity is attracted by the three modes of material nature is called conditional life. But when that same consciousness is attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one is situated in the consciousness of liberation., SB 4.29.36-37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.36-37
The real interest of the living entity is to get out of the nescience that causes him to endure repeated birth and death. The only remedy is to surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead through His representative. Unless one renders devotional service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, one cannot possibly become completely detached from this material world, nor can he possibly manifest real knowledge., SB 5.14.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.23
Learned scholars and transcendentalists therefore condemn the materialistic path of fruitive activity because it is the original source and breeding ground of material miseries, both in this life and in the next., SB 6.5.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.14
[Nārada Muni had described a woman who is a professional prostitute. The Haryaśvas understood the identity of this woman.] Mixed with the mode of passion, the unsteady intelligence of every living entity is like a prostitute who changes dresses just to attract one's attention. If one fully engages in temporary fruitive activities, not understanding how this is taking place, what does he actually gain?, SB 7.13.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.27
The actual form of life for the living entities is one of spiritual happiness, which is real happiness. This happiness can be achieved only when one stops all materialistic activities. Material sense enjoyment is simply imagination. Therefore, considering this subject matter, I have ceased from all material activities and am lying down here. - of the mind — SB 3.14.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.14.38
The learned Kaśyapa said: Because of your mind's being polluted, because of defilement of the particular time, because of your negligence of my directions, and because of your being apathetic to the demigods, everything was inauspicious., SB 3.28.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.6
Fixing the vital air and the mind in one of the six circles of vital air circulation within the body, thus concentrating one's mind on the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is called samādhi, or samādhāna, of the mind., SB 4.23.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.11
By regularly discharging devotional service, Pṛthu Mahārāja became transcendental in mind and could therefore constantly think of the lotus feet of the Lord. Because of this, he became completely detached and attained perfect knowledge by which he could transcend all doubt. Thus he was freed from the clutches of false ego and the material conception of life., SB 6.7.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.7.17
Although Indra searched vigorously with the assistance of the other demigods, he could not find Bṛhaspati. Then Indra thought, "Alas, my spiritual master has become dissatisfied with me, and now I have no means of achieving good fortune." Although Indra was surrounded by demigods, he could not find peace of mind. - of the most dear — SB 2.2.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.2.37
Those who drink through aural reception, fully filled with the nectarean message of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the beloved of the devotees, purify the polluted aim of life known as material enjoyment and thus go back to Godhead, to the lotus feet of Him [the Personality of Godhead]. - of the 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. - of the same category as You (viṣṇu-tattva) — SB 10.3.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.3.20
My Lord, Your form is transcendental to the three material modes, yet for the maintenance of the three worlds, You assume the white color of Viṣṇu in goodness; for creation, which is surrounded by the quality of passion, You appear reddish; and at the end, when there is a need for annihilation, which is surrounded by ignorance, You appear blackish. - of the self — Bg. 4.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.42
Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance should be slashed by the weapon of knowledge. Armed with yoga, O Bhārata, stand and fight., Bg. 16.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 16.21
There are three gates leading to this hell—lust, anger, and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul., Bg. 18.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.39
And that happiness which is blind to self-realization, which is delusion from beginning to end and which arises from sleep, laziness and illusion is said to be of the nature of ignorance., SB 1.13.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.1
Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: While traveling on a pilgrimage, Vidura received knowledge of the destination of the self from the great sage Maitreya and then returned to Hastināpura. He became as well versed in the subject as he desired., SB 1.17.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.17.19
Some of the philosophers, who deny all sorts of duality, declare that one's own self is responsible for his personal happiness and distress. Others say that superhuman powers are responsible, while yet others say that activity is responsible, and the gross materialists maintain that nature is the ultimate cause., SB 2.9.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.36
A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, must certainly search for it up to this, in all circumstances, in all space and time, and both directly and indirectly., SB 3.5.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.18
Śrī Maitreya said: O Vidura, all glory unto you. You have inquired from me of the greatest of all goodness, and thus you have shown your mercy both to the world and to me because your mind is always absorbed in thoughts of the Transcendence., SB 3.7.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.11
As the moon reflected on water appears to the seer to tremble due to being associated with the quality of the water, so the self associated with matter appears to be qualified as matter., SB 3.7.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.18
But, my dear sir, I am obliged to you because now I can understand that this material manifestation is without substance, although it appears real. I am confident that by serving your feet it will be possible for me to give up the false idea., SB 4.8.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.41
Any person who desires the fruits of the four principles religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and, at the end, liberation, should engage himself in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for worship of His lotus feet yields the fulfillment of all of these., SB 4.8.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.43
Nārada Muni instructed: My dear boy, in the waters of the Yamunā River, which is known as Kālindī, you should take three baths daily because the water is very auspicious, sacred and clear. After bathing, you should perform the necessary regulative principles for aṣṭāṅga-yoga and then sit down on your āsana [sitting place] in a calm and quiet position., SB 4.9.67plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.67
After considering his advanced age and deliberating on the welfare of his spiritual self, King Uttānapāda detached himself from worldly affairs and entered the forest., SB 4.11.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.11.32
A person who desires liberation from this material world should not fall under the control of anger because when bewildered by anger one becomes a source of dread for all others., SB 4.29.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.55
My dear King, just try to understand the allegorical position of the deer. Be fully conscious of yourself, and give up the pleasure of hearing about promotion to heavenly planets by fruitive activity. Give up household life, which is full of sex, as well as stories about such things, and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the mercy of the liberated souls. In this way, please give up your attraction for material existence., 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., SB 6.16.61-62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.61-62
One should understand that the activities of persons who are proud of their material experience bring only results contradictory to those such persons conceive while awake, sleeping and deeply sleeping. One should further understand that the spirit soul, although very difficult for the materialist to perceive, is above all these conditions, and by the strength of one's discrimination, one should give up the desire for fruitive results in the present life and in the next. Thus becoming experienced in transcendental knowledge, one should become My devotee., 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., SB 7.7.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.26
As one can understand the presence of the air by the aromas it carries, so, under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can understand the living soul by these three divisions of intelligence. These three divisions, however, are not the soul; they are constituted of the three modes and are born of activities., SB 7.13.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.23
My dear King, although you know everything, you have posed some questions, which I shall try to answer according to what I have learned by hearing from authorities. I cannot remain silent in this regard, for a personality like you is just fit to be spoken to by one who desires self-purification., SB 7.13.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.30
The living entity tries to achieve happiness and rid himself of the causes of distress, but because the various bodies of the living entities are under the full control of material nature, all his plans in different bodies, one after another, are ultimately baffled., SB 8.22.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.17
Material opulence is so bewildering that it makes even a learned, self-controlled man forget to search for the goal of self-realization. But the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, the Lord of the universe, can see everything by His will. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him., Ādi 1.56plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.56
"A person interested in transcendental knowledge must therefore always directly and indirectly inquire about it to know the all-pervading truth.", Madhya 25.123plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.123
" 'A person interested in transcendental knowledge must therefore always directly and indirectly inquire about it to know about the all-pervading truth. - of the soul — SB 3.25.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.20
Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment, when applied to the self-realized devotees, opens the door of liberation., SB 3.31.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.40
The woman, created by the Lord, is the representation of māyā, and one who associates with such māyā by accepting services must certainly know that this is the way of death, just like a blind well covered with grass., SB 4.8.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.5
My dear Vidura, I have summarily explained the causes of devastation. One who hears this description three times attains piety and washes the sinful contamination from his 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 4.25.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.4
Nārada Muni asked King Prācīnabarhiṣat: My dear King, what do you desire to achieve by performing these fruitive activities? The chief aim of life is to get rid of all miseries and enjoy happiness, but these two things cannot be realized by fruitive activity., SB 5.5.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.4
When a person considers sense gratification the aim of life, he certainly becomes mad after materialistic living and engages in all kinds of sinful activity. He does not know that due to his past misdeeds he has already received a body which, although temporary, is the cause of his misery. Actually the living entity should not have taken on a material body, but he has been awarded the material body for sense gratification. Therefore I think it not befitting an intelligent man to involve himself again in the activities of sense gratification by which he perpetually gets material bodies one after another., SB 5.10.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.10.21
You have said, "I am not fatigued from labor." Although the soul is different from the body, there is fatigue because of bodily labor, and it appears to be the fatigue of the soul. When you are carrying the palanquin, there is certainly labor for the soul. This is my conjecture. You have also said that the external behavior exhibited between the master and the servant is not factual, but although in the phenomenal world it is not factual, the products of the phenomenal world can actually affect things. That is visible and experienced. As such, even though material activities are impermanent, they cannot be said to be untrue., SB 6.9.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.49
Those who think material assets to be everything or to be the ultimate goal of life are called misers [kṛpaṇas]. They do not know the ultimate necessity of the soul. Moreover, if one awards that which is desired by such fools, he must also be considered foolish., SB 7.7.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.18
Just as the fruits and flowers of a tree in due course of time undergo six changes—birth, existence, growth, transformation, dwindling and then death—the material body, which is obtained by the spirit soul under different circumstances, undergoes similar changes. However, there are no such changes for the spirit soul., SB 7.15.62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.62
After considering the oneness of existence, activity and paraphernalia and after realizing the self to be different from all actions and reactions, the mental speculator [muni], according to his own realization, gives up the three states of wakefulness, dreaming and sleep., SB 9.19.27-28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.27-28
Thereafter, Devayānī, the daughter of Śukrācārya, understood that the materialistic association of husband, friends and relatives is like the association in a hotel full of tourists. The relationships of society, friendship and love are created by the māyā of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exactly as in a dream. By the grace of Kṛṣṇa, Devayānī gave up her imaginary position in the material world. Completely fixing her mind upon Kṛṣṇa, she achieved liberation from the gross and subtle bodies. - of the spirit soul — SB 6.12.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.12.15
One who knows that the three qualities—goodness, passion and ignorance—are not qualities of the soul but qualities of material nature, and who knows that the pure soul is simply an observer of the actions and reactions of these qualities, should be understood to be a liberated person. He is not bound by these qualities., SB 7.1.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.7
My dear King Parīkṣit, the material qualities—sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa—all belong to the material world and do not even touch the Supreme Personality of Godhead. These three guṇas cannot act by increasing or decreasing simultaneously., SB 7.4.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.4.42
Because of his association with perfect, unalloyed devotees who had nothing to do with anything material, Prahlāda Mahārāja constantly engaged in the service of the Lord's lotus feet. By seeing his bodily features when he was in perfect ecstasy, persons very poor in spiritual understanding became purified. In other words, Prahlāda Mahārāja bestowed upon them transcendental bliss., 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." - of the Supersoul — SB 7.7.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.38
O my friends, sons of the asuras, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His Supersoul feature always exists within the cores of the hearts of all living entities. Indeed, He is the well-wisher and friend of all living entities, and there is no difficulty in worshiping the Lord. Why, then, should people not engage in His devotional service? Why are they so addicted to unnecessarily producing artificial paraphernalia for sense gratification?, SB 8.5.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.49
When one pours water on the root of a tree, the trunk and branches of the tree are automatically pleased. Similarly, when one becomes a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, everyone is served, for the Lord is the Supersoul of everyone. - of the Supersoul of everyone — 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. - of the Supreme — SB 3.10.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.10.15
Of the nine creations, the first one is the creation of the mahat-tattva, or the sum total of the material ingredients, wherein the modes interact due to the presence of the Supreme Lord. In the second, the false ego is generated in which the material ingredients, material knowledge and material activities arise. - of the Supreme Being — SB 2.10.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.22
By development of the desire of the great sages to know, the ears, the power of hearing, the controlling deity of hearing, and the objects of hearing became manifested. The great sages desired to hear about the Self. - of the Supreme Lord — SB 3.12.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.48
Brahmā is the personal representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the source of transcendental sound and is therefore above the conception of manifested and unmanifested. Brahmā is the complete form of the Absolute Truth and is invested with multifarious energies., Madhya 24.135plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.135
" 'The living entities and other potencies merge in the Mahā-Viṣṇu as the Lord lies down and winds up [destroys] the cosmic manifestation. Liberation means being situated in one's eternal original form, which he attains after giving up the changeable gross and subtle bodies.' - of the Supreme Lord and of oneself — SB 2.4.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.4.21
It is the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa who gives liberation. By thinking of His lotus feet at every second, following in the footsteps of authorities, the devotee in trance can see the Absolute Truth. The learned mental speculators, however, think of Him according to their whims. May the Lord be pleased with me. - of the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu — 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. - of the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 3.19.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.19.37
O brāhmaṇas, anyone who hears, chants, or takes pleasure in the wonderful narration of the killing of the Hiraṇyākṣa demon by the Lord, who appeared as the first boar in order to deliver the world, is at once relieved of the results of sinful activities, even the killing of a brāhmaṇa., SB 6.16.53-54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.53-54
When a person is in deep sleep, he dreams and sees in himself many other objects, such as great mountains and rivers or perhaps even the entire universe, although they are far away. Sometimes when one awakens from a dream he sees that he is in a human form, lying in his bed in one place. Then he sees himself, in terms of various conditions, as belonging to a particular nationality, family and so on. All the conditions of deep sleep, dreaming and wakefulness are but energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One should always remember the original creator of these conditions, the Supreme Lord, who is unaffected by them. - of the Supreme Soul — SB 3.5.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.32
The sky is a product of sound, and sound is the transformation of egoistic passion. In other words, the sky is the symbolic representation of the Supreme Soul., SB 3.6.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.38
O my son, the original poet, Brahmā, after mature meditation for one thousand celestial years, could know only that the glories of the Supreme Soul are inconceivable. - of the supreme spirit soul or the Transcendence beyond the material conception of life — Madhya 8.275plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.275
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, " 'A person advanced in devotional service sees within everything the soul of souls, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Consequently he always sees the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the cause of all causes and understands that all things are situated in Him.', Madhya 22.72plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.72
" 'A person advanced in devotional service sees within everything the soul of souls, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Consequently he always sees the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the cause of all causes and understands that all things are situated in Him. - of the Supreme Spirit Soul, or the transcendence beyond the material conception of life — Madhya 25.129plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.129
" 'A person advanced in devotional service sees within everything the soul of souls, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Consequently he always sees the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the cause of all causes and understands that all things are situated in Him. - of the vital energy — SB 1.8.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.8.30
Of course it is bewildering, O soul of the universe, that You work, though You are inactive, and that You take birth, though You are the vital force and the unborn. You Yourself descend amongst animals, men, sages and aquatics. Verily, this is bewildering. - of themselves — SB 4.15.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.15.25
As a person with a sense of honor and magnanimity does not like to hear about his abominable actions, a person who is very famous and powerful does not like to hear himself praised. - of us living beings — SB 9.8.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.8.21
Aṁśumān said: My Lord, even Lord Brahmā is to this very day unable to understand Your position, which is far beyond himself, either by meditation or by mental speculation. So what to speak of others like us, who have been created by Brahmā in various forms as demigods, animals, human beings, birds and beasts? We are completely in ignorance. Therefore, how can we know You, who are the Transcendence? - of you — 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. - of your own body — SB 4.3.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.3.14
O immortal Śiva, please be kind towards me and fulfill my desire. You have accepted me as half of your body; therefore please show kindness towards me and accept my request. - of your own body, mind and soul — SB 6.14.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.17
The great sage Aṅgirā said: My dear King, I hope that your body and mind and your royal associates and paraphernalia are well. When the seven properties of material nature [the total material energy, the ego and the five objects of sense gratification] are in proper order, the living entity within the material elements is happy. Without these seven elements one cannot exist. Similarly, a king is always protected by seven elements—his instructor (svāmī or guru), his ministers, his kingdom, his fort, his treasury, his royal order and his friends. - of Yourself — Bg. 10.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 10.18
Tell me again in detail, O Janārdana [Kṛṣṇa], of Your mighty potencies and glories, for I never tire of hearing Your ambrosial words., SB 1.13.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.45
Therefore give up your anxiety due to ignorance of the self. You are now thinking of how they, who are helpless poor creatures, will exist without you., SB 3.13.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.11
Since you are my very obedient son, I ask you to beget children qualified like yourself in the womb of your wife. Rule the world in pursuance of the principles of devotional service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus worship the Lord by performances of yajña., SB 5.2.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.2.7
The Prince mistakenly addressed the Apsarā: O best of saintly persons, who are you? Why are you on this hill, and what do you want to do? Are you one of the illusory potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? You seem to be carrying two bows without strings, What is the reason you carry these bows? Is it for some purpose of your own or for the sake of a friend? Perhaps you carry them to kill the mad animals in this forest., SB 6.15.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.15.26
Therefore, O King Citraketu, carefully consider the position of the ātmā. In other words, try to understand who you are—whether body, mind or soul. Consider where you have come from, where you are going after giving up this body, and why you are under the control of material lamentation. Try to understand your real position in this way, and then you will be able to give up your unnecessary attachment. You will also be able to give up the belief that this material world, or anything not directly in touch with service to Kṛṣṇa, is eternal. Thus you will obtain peace., SB 7.3.37-38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.37-38
Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving. Grant me, further, that I not be killed by any demigod or demon or by any great snake from the lower planets. Since no one can kill you in the battlefield, you have no competitor. Therefore, grant me the benediction that I too may have no rival. Give me sole lordship over all the living entities and presiding deities, and give me all the glories obtained by that position. Furthermore, give me all the mystic powers attained by long austerities and the practice of yoga, for these cannot be lost at any time., SB 7.8.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.8.9
Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: My dear father, please give up your demoniac mentality. Do not discriminate in your heart between enemies and friends; make your mind equipoised toward everyone. Except for the uncontrolled and misguided mind, there is no enemy within this world. When one sees everyone on the platform of equality, one then comes to the position of worshiping the Lord perfectly., SB 8.22.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.20
Śrīmatī Vindhyāvali said: O my Lord, You have created the entire universe for the enjoyment of Your personal pastimes, but foolish, unintelligent men have claimed proprietorship for material enjoyment. Certainly they are shameless agnostics. Falsely claiming proprietorship, they think they can give charity and enjoy. In such a condition, what good can they do for You, who are the independent creator, maintainer and annihilator of this universe? - of yourselves — SB 8.6.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.6.19
As long as you are not flourishing, you should make a truce with the demons and asuras, who are now being favored by time. - on Transcendence — Bg. 6.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.19
As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent Self. - one’s own — SB 7.10.64plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.64
Maya Dānava said: What has been destined by the Supreme Lord for oneself, for others, or for both oneself and others cannot be undone anywhere or by anyone, whether one be a demigod, a demon, a human being or anyone else. - one’s self — SB 7.15.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.31
My dear King, in a sacred and holy place of pilgrimage one should select a place in which to perform yoga. The place must be level and not too high or low. There one should sit very comfortably, being steady and equipoised, keeping his body straight, and thus begin chanting the Vedic praṇava. - oneself — SB 4.22.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.29
Only because of different causes does a person see a difference between himself and others, just as one sees the reflection of a body appearing differently manifested on water, on oil or in a mirror. - own — SB 1.4.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.4.11
He was such a great emperor that all his enemies would come and bow down at his feet and surrender all their wealth for their own benefit. He was full of youth and strength, and he possessed insuperable kingly opulences. Why did he want to give up everything, including his life?, SB 1.12.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.12.9
The Lord was enriched with four hands, earrings of molten gold and eyes blood red with fury. As He loitered about, His club constantly encircled Him like a shooting star., SB 5.3.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.3.9
O Lord of lords, we are completely ignorant of the execution of dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa, the process of liberation, because we do not actually know the goal of life. You have appeared personally before us like a person soliciting worship, but actually You are present here just so we can see You. You have come out of Your abundant and causeless mercy in order to serve our purpose, our interest, and give us the benefit of Your personal glory called apavarga, liberation. You have come, although You are not properly worshiped by us due to our ignorance., SB 7.14.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.11
Dogs, fallen persons and untouchables, including caṇḍālas [dog-eaters], should all be maintained with their proper necessities, which should be contributed by the householders. Even one's wife at home, with whom one is most intimately attached, should be offered for the reception of guests and people in general., SB 7.15.68plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.68
O King Yudhiṣṭhira, because of your service to the Supreme Lord, all of you Pāṇḍavas defeated the greatest dangers posed by numerous kings and demigods. By serving the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, you conquered great enemies, who were like elephants, and thus you collected ingredients for sacrifice. By His grace, may you be delivered from material involvement. - own selves — SB 1.8.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.8.12
O foremost among the great thinkers [munis] [Śaunaka], seeing the glaring brahmāstra proceeding towards them, the Pāṇḍavas took up their five respective weapons. - personal — SB 8.24.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.15
To please himself, King Satyavrata, not knowing that the fish was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, decided with great pleasure to give the fish protection. - self — Bg. 16.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 16.22
The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kuntī, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination., SB 1.16.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.16.19
Dharma [in the form of a bull] asked: Madam, are you not hale and hearty? Why are you covered with the shadow of grief? It appears by your face that you have become black. Are you suffering from some internal disease, or are you thinking of some relative who is away in a distant place? - self-caused — 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. - self-dependant — 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. - self-sufficiently — SB 5.3.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.3.8
All of life's goals and opulences are directly, self-sufficiently, unceasingly and unlimitedly increasing in You at every moment. Indeed, You are unlimited enjoyment and blissful existence itself. As far as we are concerned, O Lord, we are always after material enjoyment. You do not need all these sacrificial arrangements, but they are meant for us so that we may be benedicted by Your Lordship. All these sacrifices are performed for our fruitive results, and they are not actually needed by You. - soul — Bg. 8.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 8.12
The yogic situation is that of detachment from all sensual engagements. Closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and the life air at the top of the head, one establishes himself in yoga. - than the Supreme Soul — SB 4.13.8-9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.13.8-9
By expansion of his knowledge of the Supreme Brahman, he had already attained liberation from the bondage of the body. This liberation is known as nirvāṇa. He was situated in transcendental bliss, and he continued always in that blissful existence, which expanded more and more. This was possible for him by continual practice of bhakti-yoga, which is compared to fire because it burns away all dirty, material things. He was always situated in his constitutional position of self-realization, and he could not see anything else but the Supreme Lord and himself engaged in discharging devotional service. - the living entities — SB 3.9.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.31
O Brahmā, when you are absorbed in devotional service, in the course of your creative activities, you will see Me in you and throughout the universe, and you will see that you yourself, the universe and the living entities are all in Me., SB 4.7.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.38
The great mystics said: Dear Lord, persons who see You as nondifferent from themselves, knowing that You are the Supersoul of all living entities, are certainly very, very dear to You. You are very favorable toward those who engage in devotional service, accepting You as the Lord and themselves as the servants. By Your mercy, You are always inclined in their favor. - the mind — SB 7.8.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.8.9
Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: My dear father, please give up your demoniac mentality. Do not discriminate in your heart between enemies and friends; make your mind equipoised toward everyone. Except for the uncontrolled and misguided mind, there is no enemy within this world. When one sees everyone on the platform of equality, one then comes to the position of worshiping the Lord perfectly. - the senses — SB 5.17.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.19
We cannot control the force of our anger. Therefore when we look at material things, we cannot avoid feeling attraction or repulsion for them. But the Supreme Lord is never affected in this way. Although He glances over the material world for the purpose of creating, maintaining and destroying it, He is not affected, even to the slightest degree. Therefore, one who desires to conquer the force of the senses must take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord. Then he will be victorious. - the soul — SB 3.25.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.41
The terrible fear of birth and death can never be forsaken by anyone who resorts to any shelter other than Myself, for I am the almighty Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original source of all creation, and also the Supreme Soul of all souls. - the soul or the Supersoul — SB 4.22.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.27
When a person becomes devoid of all material desires and liberated from all material qualities, he transcends distinctions between actions executed externally and internally. At that time the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, which was existing before self-realization, is annihilated. When a dream is over, there is no longer a distinction between the dream and the dreamer. - the spiritual identity of the universe — SB 5.19.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.5
It was ordained that Rāvaṇa, chief of the Rākṣasas, could not be killed by anyone but a man, and for this reason Lord Rāmacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appeared in the form of a human being. Lord Rāmacandra's mission, however, was not only to kill Rāvaṇa but also to teach mortal beings that material happiness centered around sex life or centered around one's wife is the cause of many miseries. He is the self-sufficient Supreme Personality of Godhead, and nothing is lamentable for Him. Therefore why else could He be subjected to tribulations by the kidnapping of mother Sītā? - the Supersoul of everyone — SB 8.24.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.30
O my Lord, possessing eyes like the petals of a lotus, the worship of the demigods, who are in the bodily concept of life, is fruitless in all respects. But because You are the supreme friend and dearmost Supersoul of everyone, worship of Your lotus feet is never useless. You have therefore manifested Your form as a fish. - their minds — SB 3.25.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.36
Upon seeing the charming forms of the Lord, smiling and attractive, and hearing His very pleasing words, the pure devotee almost loses all other consciousness. His senses are freed from all other engagements, and he becomes absorbed in devotional service. Thus in spite of his unwillingness, he attains liberation without separate endeavor. - their own property — SB 9.4.4-5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.4-5
Nābhāga's father continued: "Go to those great souls and describe two Vedic hymns pertaining to Vaiśvadeva. When the great sages have completed the sacrifice and are going to the heavenly planets, they will give you the remnants of the money they have received from the sacrifice. Therefore, go there immediately." Thus Nābhāga acted exactly according to the advice of his father, and the great sages of the Aṅgirā dynasty gave him all their wealth and then went to the heavenly planets. - to himself (Kardama) — SB 3.23.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.21
The castle had pleasure grounds, resting chambers, bedrooms and inner and outer yards designed with an eye to comfort. All this caused astonishment to the sage himself. - unto His own (Brahmā) — 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. - whose mind — 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. - whose minds — SB 4.31.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.3
After practicing the yogāsana for mystic yoga, the Pracetās managed to control their life air, mind, words and external vision. Thus by the prāṇāyāma process they were completely relieved of material attachment. By remaining perpendicular, they could concentrate their minds on the uppermost Brahman. While they were practicing this prāṇāyāma, the great sage Nārada, who is worshiped both by demons and by demigods, came to see them. - whose nature — SB 7.1.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.2
Lord Viṣṇu Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the reservoir of all pleasure. Therefore, what benefit would He derive from siding with the demigods? What interest would He fulfill in this way? Since the Lord is transcendental, why should He fear the asuras, and how could He be envious of them?
ātmānaḥ
- self — Bg. 16.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 16.9
Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world.
ātmanaḥ guru-mattayā
- because of being heavier than he could personally perceive — SB 10.7.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.7.27
Because of Kṛṣṇa's weight, Tṛṇāvarta considered Him to be like a great mountain or a hunk of iron. But because Kṛṣṇa had caught the demon's neck, the demon was unable to throw Him off. He therefore thought of the child as wonderful, since he could neither bear the child nor cast aside the burden.
ajita-ātmanaḥ
- of a person who is a servant of his senses — SB 7.6.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.6.6
Every human being has a maximum duration of life of one hundred years, but for one who cannot control his senses, half of those years are completely lost because at night he sleeps twelve hours, being covered by ignorance. Therefore such a person has a lifetime of only fifty years. - who has not controlled himself — SB 5.14.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.2
In the forest of material existence, the uncontrolled senses are like plunderers. The conditioned soul may earn some money for the advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but unfortunately the uncontrolled senses plunder his money through sense gratification. The senses are plunderers because they make one spend his money unnecessarily for seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, hearing, desiring and willing. In this way the conditioned soul is obliged to gratify his senses, and thus all his money is spent. This money is actually acquired for the execution of religious principles, but it is taken away by the plundering senses.
akhila-ātmanaḥ
- of the Supersoul — SB 2.5.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.17
Inspired by Him only, I discover what is already created by Him [Nārāyaṇa] under His vision as the all-pervading Supersoul, and I also am created by Him only. - of the Supersoul of all living entities — SB 7.1.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.25
Because of the bodily conception of life, the conditioned soul thinks that when the body is annihilated the living being is annihilated. Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the supreme controller, the Supersoul of all living entities. Because He has no material body, He has no false conception of "I and mine." It is therefore incorrect to think that He feels pleasure or pain when blasphemed or offered prayers. This is impossible for Him. Thus He has no enemy and no friend. When He chastises the demons it is for their good, and when He accepts the prayers of the devotees it is for their good. He is affected neither by prayers nor by blasphemy. - who is the Supersoul of everyone — SB 8.7.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.44
It is said that great personalities almost always accept voluntary suffering because of the suffering of people in general. This is considered the highest method of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is present in everyone's heart.
akhila-devatā-ātmanaḥ
- the total aggregate of all the 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.
akṛta-ātmānaḥ
- without self-realization — Bg. 15.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 15.11
The endeavoring transcendentalist, who is situated in self-realization, can see all this clearly. But those who are not situated in self-realization cannot see what is taking place, though they may try to.
amala-ātmanaḥ
- being freed from all material contamination — SB 3.15.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.15.13
After thus traveling all over the universes, they also entered into the spiritual sky, for they were freed from all material contamination. In the spiritual sky there are spiritual planets known as Vaikuṇṭhas, which are the residence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His pure devotees and are worshiped by the residents of all the material planets. - of one who is completely free from all material dirt — SB 1.6.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.27
And so, O Brāhmaṇa Vyāsadeva, in due course of time I, who was fully absorbed in thinking of Kṛṣṇa and who therefore had no attachments, being completely freed from all material taints, met with death, as lightning and illumination occur simultaneously. - of the saintly man — SB 3.1.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.1.4
Saint Vidura was a great and pure devotee of the Lord, and therefore his questions to His Grace Ṛṣi Maitreya must have been very purposeful, on the highest level, and approved by learned circles.
antaḥ-ātmanaḥ
- from the core of the heart — SB 4.22.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.20
Sanat-kumāra continued: My dear King, you already have an inclination to glorify the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such attachment is very difficult to achieve, but when one has attained such unflinching faith in the Lord, it automatically cleanses lusty desires from the core of the heart. - of the heart and soul — SB 2.4.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.4.16
Let me offer my respectful obeisances again and again unto the all-auspicious Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The highly intellectual, simply by surrendering unto His lotus feet, are relieved of all attachments to present and future existences and without difficulty progress toward spiritual existence.
anubhava-ātmanaḥ
- of the purely conscious — 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.
asthira-ātmanaḥ
- who is always restless and changing — SB 7.2.7-8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.7-8
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has given up His natural tendency of equality toward the demons and demigods. Although He is the Supreme Person, now, influenced by māyā, He has assumed the form of a boar to please His devotees, the demigods, just as a restless child leans toward someone. I shall therefore sever Lord Viṣṇu's head from His trunk by my trident, and with the profuse blood from His body I shall please my brother Hiraṇyākṣa, who was so fond of sucking blood. Thus shall I too be peaceful.
aśubha-ātmanaḥ
- whose mind is materially contaminated — SB 7.7.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.37
The real problem of life is the repetition of birth and death, which is like a wheel rolling repeatedly up and down. This wheel, however, completely stops when one is in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In other words, by the transcendental bliss realized from constant engagement in devotional service, one is completely liberated from material existence. All learned men know this. Therefore, my dear friends, O sons of the asuras, immediately begin meditating upon and worshiping the Supersoul within everyone's heart.
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.
avahita-ātmanaḥ
- attentive — SB 5.4.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.19
Once while touring the world, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, the Supreme Lord, reached a place known as Brahmāvarta. There was a great conference of learned brāhmaṇas at that place, and all the King's sons attentively heard the instructions of the brāhmaṇas there. At that assembly, within the hearing of the citizens, Ṛṣabhadeva instructed His sons, although they were already very well behaved, devoted and qualified. He instructed them so that in the future they could rule the world very perfectly. Thus he spoke as follows.
avijita-ātmanaḥ
- and without self-control — SB 10.1.61plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.1.61
Vasudeva agreed and took his child back home, but because Kaṁsa had no character and no self-control, Vasudeva knew that he could not rely on Kaṁsa's word. - because my senses were uncontrolled — SB 6.2.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.26
Ajāmila said: Alas, being a servant of my senses, how degraded I became! I fell down from my position as a duly qualified brāhmaṇa and begot children in the womb of a prostitute.
avyakta-ātmanaḥ
- of the unmanifested — SB 3.12.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.48
Brahmā is the personal representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the source of transcendental sound and is therefore above the conception of manifested and unmanifested. Brahmā is the complete form of the Absolute Truth and is invested with multifarious energies.
avyaya-ātmanaḥ
- to the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 8.18.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.18.16
O King, Lord Brahmā offered a waterpot to the inexhaustible Supreme Personality of Godhead, the seven sages offered Him kuśa grass, and mother Sarasvatī gave Him a string of Rudrākṣa beads.
ca ātmanaḥ
- also of herself — SB 4.23.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.21
When Queen Arci saw that her husband, who had been so merciful to her and the earth, no longer showed symptoms of life, she lamented for a little while and then built a fiery pyre on top of a hill and placed the body of her husband on it.
cit-ātmanaḥ
- of the Transcendence — SB 1.3.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.3.30
The conception of the virāṭ universal form of the Lord, as appearing in the material world, is imaginary. It is to enable the less intelligent [and neophytes] to adjust to the idea of the Lord's having form. But factually the Lord has no material form.
deham ātmanaḥ
- his body — SB 1.15.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.15.49
Vidura, while on pilgrimage, left his body at Prabhāsa. Because he was absorbed in thought of Lord Kṛṣṇa, he was received by the denizens of Pitṛloka planet, where he returned to his original post.
guṇa-ātmanaḥ
- playing the role of a human being — SB 1.10.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.10.19
It was being heard here and there that the benedictions being paid to Kṛṣṇa were neither befitting nor unbefitting because they were all for the Absolute, who was now playing the part of a human being. - the overseer of the three qualities — Madhya 21.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.11
" 'In time, great scientists may be able to count all the atoms of the universe, all the stars and planets in the sky, and all the particles of snow, but who among them can count the unlimited transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? He descends on the surface of the globe for the benefit of all living entities.'
jagat-ātmanaḥ
- and of the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 8.12.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.36
Thus Lord Śiva could understand his position and that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has unlimited potencies. Having reached this understanding, he was not at all surprised by the wonderful way Lord Viṣṇu had acted upon him. - of the soul of the universe — SB 3.11.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.11.38
The duration of the two parts of Brahmā's life, as above mentioned, is calculated to be equal to one nimeṣa [less than a second] for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is unchanging and unlimited and is the cause of all causes of the universe. - of the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 4.31.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.16
Just as the sunshine is nondifferent from the sun, the cosmic manifestation is also nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Personality is therefore all-pervasive within this material creation. When the senses are active, they appear to be part and parcel of the body, but when the body is asleep, their activities are unmanifest. Similarly, the whole cosmic creation appears different and yet nondifferent from the Supreme Person. - the living force of the entire universe — SB 9.20.4-5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.20.4-5
Raudrāśva had ten sons, named Ṛteyu, Kakṣeyu, Sthaṇḍileyu, Kṛteyuka, Jaleyu, Sannateyu, Dharmeyu, Satyeyu, Vrateyu and Vaneyu. Of these ten sons, Vaneyu was the youngest. As the ten senses, which are products of the universal life, act under the control of life, these ten sons of Raudrāśva acted under Raudrāśva's full control. All of them were born of the Apsarā named Ghṛtācī. - who are the Supersoul of all living entities — SB 6.16.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.46
O unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead, whatever a living entity does in this material world is well known to You because You are the Supersoul. In the presence of the sun there is nothing to be revealed by the light of a glowworm. Similarly, because You know everything, in Your presence there is nothing for me to make known. - who is the life and soul of the whole creation — SB 7.14.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.42
My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, the brāhmaṇas, especially those engaged in preaching the glories of the Lord throughout the entire world, are recognized and worshiped by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the heart and soul of all creation. The brāhmaṇas, by their preaching, sanctify the three worlds with the dust of their lotus feet, and thus they are worshipable even for Kṛṣṇa.
jita-ātmanaḥ
- of one who has conquered his mind — Bg. 6.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.7
For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquility. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor are all the same. - one who has conquered the senses — SB 7.8.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.8.10
In former times there were many fools like you who did not conquer the six enemies that steal away the wealth of the body. These fools were very proud, thinking, "I have conquered all enemies in all the ten directions." But if a person is victorious over the six enemies and is equipoised toward all living entities, for him there are no enemies. Enemies are merely imagined by one in ignorance.
kāla-ātmanaḥ
- of He who is the controller of eternal time — SB 3.4.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.16
My Lord, even the learned sages become disturbed in their intelligence when they see that Your Greatness engages in fruitive work although You are free from all desires, that You take birth although You are unborn, that You flee out of fear of the enemy and take shelter in a fort although You are the controller of invincible time, and that You enjoy householder life surrounded by many women although You enjoy in Your Self. - of the form of destruction — SB 9.4.53-54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.53-54
Lord Brahmā said: At the end of the dvi-parārdha, when the pastimes of the Lord come to an end, Lord Viṣṇu, by a flick of His eyebrows, vanquishes the entire universe, including our places of residence. Such personalities as me and Lord Śiva, as well as Dakṣa, Bhṛgu and similar great saints of which they are the head, and also the rulers of the living entities, the rulers of human society and the rulers of the demigods—all of us surrender to that Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, bowing our heads, to carry out His orders for the benefit of all living entities.
kāma-ātmānaḥ
- aspiring for sense gratification — SB 3.32.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.17
Such persons, impelled by the mode of passion, are full of anxieties and always aspire for sense gratification due to uncontrolled senses. They worship the forefathers and are busy day and night improving the economic condition of their family, social or national life. - desirous of sense gratification — Bg. 2.42-43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.42-43
Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words of the Vedas, which recommend various fruitive activities for elevation to heavenly planets, resultant good birth, power, and so forth. Being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life, they say that there is nothing more than this.
karuṇā-ātmanaḥ
- the Supreme Person, who is extremely kind to His devotees — SB 7.10.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.4
Otherwise, O my Lord, O supreme instructor of the entire world, You are so kind to Your devotee that You could not induce him to do something unbeneficial for him. On the other hand, one who desires some material benefit in exchange for devotional service cannot be Your pure devotee. Indeed, he is no better than a merchant who wants profit in exchange for service.
mahā-ātmanaḥ
- all great souls — SB 1.12.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.12.18
The good King [Yudhiṣṭhira] inquired: O great souls, will he become as saintly a king, as pious in his very name and as famous and glorified in his achievements, as others who appeared in this great royal family? - great personalities — SB 5.17.22-23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.22-23
From that Supreme Personality of Godhead appears Lord Brahmā, whose body is made from the total material energy, the reservoir of intelligence predominated by the passionate mode of material nature. From Lord Brahmā, I myself am born as a representation of false ego known as Rudra. By my own power I create all the other demigods, the five elements and the senses. Therefore, I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than any of us and under whose control are situated all the demigods, material elements and senses, and even Lord Brahmā and I myself, like birds bound by a rope. Only by the Lord's grace can we create, maintain and annihilate the material world. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Being. - of the great devotee — SB 1.12.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.12.2
How was the great emperor Parīkṣit, who was a highly intelligent and great devotee, born in that womb? How did his death take place, and what did he achieve after his death? - of the great person — SB 2.6.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.23
When I was born from the abdominal lotus flower of the Lord [Mahā-Viṣṇu], the great person, I had no ingredients for sacrificial performances except the bodily limbs of the great Personality of Godhead. - of the great personality (Lord Śiva) — SB 8.12.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.12.33
O King, wheresoever on the surface of the globe fell the semen of the great personality of Lord Śiva, mines of gold and silver later appeared. - of the great personality Jaḍa Bharata — SB 5.14.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.42
Having summarized the teachings of Jaḍa Bharata, Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, the path indicated by Jaḍa Bharata is like the path followed by Garuḍa, the carrier of the Lord, and ordinary kings are just like flies. Flies cannot follow the path of Garuḍa, and to date none of the great kings and victorious leaders could follow this path of devotional service, not even mentally. - of the great personality, the great devotee — SB 9.5.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.28
By the grace of the Lord, those who hear about the activities of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, the great devotee, certainly become liberated or become devotees without delay. - of the great soul — SB 4.15.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.15.20
The seas, mountains and rivers gave him room to drive his chariot without impediments, and a sūta, a māgadha and a vandī offered prayers and praises. They all presented themselves before him to perform their respective duties., SB 9.9.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.9.19
King Parīkṣit said: O Śukadeva Gosvāmī, why did Vasiṣṭha, the spiritual master of Saudāsa, curse that great soul? I wish to know of this. If it is not a confidential matter, please describe it to me., Madhya 10.146plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 10.146
" 'The order of a great personality like a father must be executed without consideration because there is good fortune in such an order for both of us. In particular, there is good fortune for Me.' " - of the Supreme Lord — SB 3.18.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.18.20
O descendant of Kuru, Brahmā, the most independent demigod of the universe, accompanied by his followers, came to see the terrible fight for the sake of the world between the demon and the Personality of Godhead, who appeared in the form of a boar. - of the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 2.5.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.38
The lower planetary systems, up to the limit of the earthly stratum, are said to be situated in His legs. The middle planetary systems, beginning from Bhuvarloka, are situated in His navel. And the still higher planetary systems, occupied by the demigods and highly cultured sages and saints, are situated in the chest of the Supreme Lord., Ādi 6.64plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 6.64
"Some of the friends of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, massaged His feet, and others whose sinful reactions had been destroyed fanned Him with hand-held fans." - of the Supreme Soul — 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. - stronghearted — SB 4.5.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.5.12
While all the people talked amongst themselves, Dakṣa saw dangerous omens from all sides, from the earth and from the sky. - the exalted devotee — SB 6.17.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.17.40
Citraketu was a great devotee [mahātmā]. If one hears this history of Citraketu from a pure devotee, the listener also is freed from the conditional life of material existence. - the great soul — SB 6.18.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.18.9
Later [in the Eighth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam] I shall describe how Urukrama, Lord Vāmanadeva, appeared as the son of the great sage Kaśyapa and how He covered the three worlds with three steps. I shall describe the uncommon activities He performed, His qualities, His power and how He took birth from the womb of Aditi. - the Supersoul — SB 7.10.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.42
In this narration about Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, various expansions or incarnations of the Lord have been described, and the killing of the two demons Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu has also been described., SB 9.6.15-16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.15-16
Well protected by armor and desiring to fight, Purañjaya took up a transcendental bow and very sharp arrows, and, while being highly praised by the demigods, he got up on the back of the bull [Indra] and sat on its hump. Thus he is known as Kakutstha. Being empowered by Lord Viṣṇu, who is the Supersoul and the Supreme Person, Purañjaya sat on the great bull and is therefore known as Indravāha. Surrounded by the demigods, he attacked the residence of the demons in the west. - who is a great devotee of the Lord — SB 8.2.9-13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.2.9-13
In a valley of Trikūṭa Mountain there was a garden called Ṛtumat. This garden belonged to the great devotee Varuṇa and was a sporting place for the damsels of the demigods. Flowers and fruits grew there in all seasons. Among them were mandāras, pārijātas, pāṭalas, aśokas, campakas, cūtas, piyālas, panasas, mangoes, āmrātakas, kramukas, coconut trees, date trees and pomegranates. There were madhukas, palm trees, tamālas, asanas, arjunas, ariṣṭas, uḍumbaras, plakṣas, banyan trees, kiṁśukas and sandalwood trees. There were also picumardas, kovidāras, saralas, sura-dārus, grapes, sugarcane, bananas, jambu, badarīs, akṣas, abhayas and āmalakīs. - who is factually exalted and advanced — SB 7.13.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.9
A peaceful, equipoised person who is factually advanced in spiritual consciousness does not need to accept the symbols of a sannyāsī, such as the tridaṇḍa and kamaṇḍalu. According to necessity, he may sometimes accept those symbols and sometimes reject them.
mahā-ātmānaḥ
- the great sages — SB 2.10.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.2
To isolate the transcendence of the summum bonum, the symptoms of the rest are described sometimes by Vedic inference, sometimes by direct explanation, and sometimes by summary explanations given by the great sages. - the great souls — Ādi 2.91-92plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.91-92
" 'Here [in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam] ten subjects are described: (1) the creation of the ingredients of the cosmos, (2) the creations of Brahmā, (3) the maintenance of the creation, (4) special favor given to the faithful, (5) impetuses for activity, (6) prescribed duties for law-abiding men, (7) a description of the incarnations of the Lord, (8) the winding up of the creation, (9) liberation from gross and subtle material existence, and (10) the ultimate shelter, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The tenth item is the shelter of all the others. To distinguish this ultimate shelter from the other nine subjects, the mahājanas have described these nine, directly or indirectly, through prayers or direct explanations.'
mat-ātmanaḥ
- whose mind is always engaged in Me — Madhya 22.146plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.146
" 'For one who is fully engaged in My devotional service, whose mind is fixed on Me in bhakti-yoga, the path of speculative knowledge and dry renunciation is not very beneficial.'
nirvṛta-ātmanaḥ
- joyful by nature — SB 3.26.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.7
Material consciousness is the cause of one's conditional life, in which conditions are enforced upon the living entity by the material energy. Although the spirit soul does not do anything and is transcendental to such activities, he is thus affected by conditional life.
para-ātmanaḥ
- knowledge of the Supreme Lord — SB 3.23.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.53
Until now we have simply wasted so much of our time in sense gratification, neglecting to cultivate knowledge of the Supreme Lord.
parama-ātmanaḥ
- of Paramātmā — SB 3.29.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.36
This puruṣa whom the individual soul must approach is the eternal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Brahman and Paramātmā. He is the transcendental chief personality, and His activities are all spiritual. - of the Supersoul — SB 3.4.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.4.33
Vidura also heard from Uddhava about the appearance and disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supersoul, in the mortal world, which is a subject matter sought after with great perseverance by the great sages., 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. - of the Supreme Person — SB 7.10.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.29
My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are the Supreme Soul. If one meditates upon Your transcendental body, You naturally protect him from all sources of fear, even the imminent danger of death. - of the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 4.11.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.11.16
Manu continued: My dear King Dhruva, it is simply by the illusory, material energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and by the interaction of the three modes of material nature that creation, maintenance and annihilation take place. - the Supersoul of everyone — SB 4.24.79plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.79
My dear sons of the King, the prayers I have recited to you are meant for pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul. I advise you to recite these prayers, which are as effective as great austerities. In this way, when you are mature, your life will be successful, and you will certainly achieve all your desired objectives without fail.
parikliṣṭa-ātmanaḥ
- whose mind is agitated — SB 3.22.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.22.8
O great sage, graciously be pleased to listen to the prayer of my humble self, for my mind is troubled by affection for my daughter.
prastobham ātmanaḥ
- when instructed for her self-realization — SB 9.19.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.26
When Devayānī heard Mahārāja Yayāti's story of the he-goat and she-goat, she understood that this story, which was presented as if a funny joke for entertainment between husband and wife, was intended to awaken her to her constitutional position.
prayata-ātmanaḥ
- of one in pure consciousness — Bg. 9.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 9.26
If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.
priya-ātmanaḥ
- who is the most beloved — SB 4.4.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.11
The blessed goddess said: Lord Śiva is the most beloved of all living entities. He has no rival. No one is very dear to him, and no one is his enemy. No one but you could be envious of such a universal being, who is free from all enmity.
prota-ātmānaḥ
- whose bodies are fixed — 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.
sa-ātmanaḥ
- along with Me — SB 10.13.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.36
What is this wonderful phenomenon? The affection of all the inhabitants of Vraja, including Me, toward these boys and calves is increasing as never before, just like our affection for Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supersoul of all living entities.
saṁskṛta-ātmānaḥ
- persons who are purified — Madhya 20.173plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.173
" 'In different Vedic scriptures, there are prescribed rules and regulative principles for worshiping different types of forms. When one is purified by these rules and regulations, he worships You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although manifest in many forms, You are one.'
saṁyata-ātmānaḥ
- having controlled minds — 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.
sāṅkhya-ātmanaḥ
- the origin of all Vedic literatures — SB 8.7.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.30
O lord, your shadow is seen in irreligion, which brings about varieties of irreligious creations. The three modes of nature—goodness, passion and ignorance—are your three eyes. All the Vedic literatures, which are full of verses, are emanations from you because their compilers wrote the various scriptures after receiving your glance.
sarva-ātmanaḥ
- of one who is present in everyone’s heart — SB 1.9.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.9.21
Being the Absolute Personality of Godhead, He is present in everyone's heart. He is equally kind to everyone, and He is free from the false ego of differentiation. Therefore whatever He does is free from material inebriety. He is equibalanced. - of the omnipresent — SB 2.1.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.1.35
The principle of matter [mahat-tattva] is the consciousness of the omnipresent Lord, as asserted by the experts, and Rudradeva is His ego. The horse, mule, camel and elephant are His nails, and wild animals and all quadrupeds are situated in the belt zone of the Lord. - of Your Lordship, who pervade all — SB 8.23.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.8
O my Lord, Your pastimes are all wonderfully performed by Your inconceivable spiritual energy; and by her perverted reflection, the material energy, You have created all the universes. As the Supersoul of all living entities, You are aware of everything, and therefore You are certainly equal toward everyone. Nonetheless, You favor Your devotees. This is not partiality, however, for Your characteristic is just like that of a desire tree, which yields everything according to one's desire. - You are the root 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.
sarva-deva-ātmanaḥ
- the soul of all the demigods — SB 8.16.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.16.9
By worshiping the fire and the brāhmaṇas, a householder can achieve the desired goal of residing in the higher planets, for the sacrificial fire and the brāhmaṇas are to be considered the mouth of Lord Viṣṇu, who is the Supersoul of all the demigods.
sūkara-ātmanaḥ
- of the boar incarnation — SB 3.14.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.14.1
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After hearing from the great sage Maitreya about the Lord's incarnation as Varāha, Vidura, who had taken a vow, begged him with folded hands to please narrate further transcendental activities of the Lord, since he [Vidura] did not yet feel satisfied.
tad-ātmānaḥ
- one whose mind is always in the Supreme — Bg. 5.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.17
When one's intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete knowledge and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation.
tat-ātmānaḥ
- attaining the same spiritual body and form — SB 7.10.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.39
Not only Śiśupāla and Dantavakra but also many, many other kings who acted as enemies of Kṛṣṇa attained salvation at the time of death. Because they thought of the Lord, they received spiritual bodies and forms the same as His, just as worms captured by a black drone obtain the same type of body as the drone.
tathā ātmanaḥ
- like that of the self-realized soul — SB 9.4.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.12
If one hears and chants or remembers this narration in the morning and evening with great attention, he certainly becomes learned, experienced in understanding the Vedic hymns, and expert in self-realization.
unmathita-ātmānaḥ
- whose minds have become dull — SB 4.2.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.25
May those who are envious of Lord Śiva, being attracted by the flowery language of the enchanting Vedic promises, and who have thus become dull, always remain attached to fruitive activities.
uparata-ātmānaḥ
- who have control over the mind and senses — SB 5.14.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.39
Saintly persons, who are friends to all living entities, have a peaceful consciousness. They have controlled their senses and minds, and they easily attain the path of liberation, the path back to Godhead. Being unfortunate and attached to the miserable material conditions, a materialistic person cannot associate with them.
upta-ātmanaḥ
- surrendered souls — SB 3.2.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.2.10
Under no circumstances can the words of persons bewildered by the illusory energy of the Lord deviate the intelligence of those who are completely surrendered souls.
urukrama-ātmanaḥ
- of he (Prahlāda Mahārāja) whose mind is always engaged upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who always acts uncommonly — SB 7.11.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.1
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After hearing about the activities and character of Prahlāda Mahārāja, which are adored and discussed among great personalities like Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, the most respectful king among exalted personalities, again inquired from the great saint Nārada Muni in a mood of great pleasure.
vihvalita-ātmānaḥ
- overwhelmed by — SB 1.11.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.11.29
The mothers, after embracing their son, sat Him on their laps. Due to pure affection, milk sprang from their breasts. They were overwhelmed with delight, and the tears from their eyes wetted the Lord.
viśva-ātmanaḥ
- the Supersoul of the entire creation — SB 9.6.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.14
Purañjaya agreed to kill all the demons, on the condition that Indra would be his carrier. Because of pride, Indra could not accept this proposal, but later, by the order of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, Indra did accept it and became a great bull carrier for Purañjaya.
viśvam ātmanaḥ
- the total body of the universe — SB 4.8.80plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.80
When Dhruva Mahārāja became practically one in heaviness with Lord Viṣṇu, the total consciousness, due to his fully concentrating, and closing all the holes of his body, the total universal breathing became choked up, and all the great demigods in all the planetary systems felt suffocated and thus took shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
yata-ātmānaḥ
- engaged in self-realization — Bg. 5.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.25
One who is beyond duality and doubt, whose mind is engaged within, who is always busy working for the welfare of all sentient beings, and who is free from all sins, achieves liberation in the Supreme.