darśanam
- audience — SB 4.7.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.47
Dear Lord, we were awaiting Your audience because we have been unable to perform the yajñas according to the Vedic rituals. We pray unto You, therefore, to be pleased with us. Simply by chanting Your holy name, one can surpass all obstacles. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You in Your presence., SB 4.22.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.7
King Pṛthu spoke: My dear great sages, auspiciousness personified, it is very difficult for even the mystic yogīs to see you. Indeed, you are very rarely seen. I do not know what kind of pious activity I performed for you to grace me by appearing before me without difficulty., SB 4.24.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.27
Lord Śiva said: You are all the sons of King Prācīnabarhi, and I wish all good fortune to you. I also know what you are going to do, and therefore I am visible to you just to show my mercy upon you., SB 4.31.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.5
All the Pracetās began to address the great sage Nārada: O great sage, O brāhmaṇa, we hope you met with no disturbances while coming here. It is due to our great fortune that we are now able to see you. By the traveling of the sun, people are relieved from the fear of the darkness of night—a fear brought about by thieves and rogues. Similarly, your traveling is like the sun's, for you drive away all kinds of fear. - in my view — SB 1.9.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.9.22
Yet, despite His being equally kind to everyone, He has graciously come before me while I am ending my life, for I am His unflinching servitor. - meeting — SB 1.8.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.8.25
I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths., SB 1.19.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.19.36
Otherwise [without being inspired by Lord Kṛṣṇa] how is it that you have voluntarily appeared here, though you are moving incognito to the common man and are not visible to us who are on the verge of death?, SB 9.18.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.18.22
Because of falling in the well, I met you. Indeed, this has been arranged by providence. After I cursed Kaca, the son of the learned scholar Bṛhaspati, he cursed me by saying that I would not have a brāhmaṇa for a husband. Therefore, O mighty-armed one, there is no possibility of my becoming the wife of a brāhmaṇa. - observation — SB 7.15.63plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.63
When one understands that result and cause are one and that duality is ultimately unreal, like the idea that the threads of a cloth are different from the cloth itself, one reaches the conception of oneness called bhāvādvaita. - philosophy — Bg. 13.8-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 13.8-12
Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; nonattachment to children, wife, home and the rest, and evenmindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me, resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization, and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I thus declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to these is ignorance., SB 1.5.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.8
Śrī Nārada said: You have not actually broadcast the sublime and spotless glories of the Personality of Godhead. That philosophy which does not satisfy the transcendental senses of the Lord is considered worthless., SB 4.31.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.31.7
Dear master, kindly enlighten us in transcendental knowledge, which may act as a torchlight by which we may cross the dark nescience of material existence. - realization — SB 1.2.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.2.24
Firewood is a transformation of earth, but smoke is better than the raw wood. And fire is still better, for by fire we can derive the benefits of superior knowledge [through Vedic sacrifices]. Similarly, passion [rajas] is better than ignorance [tamas], but goodness [sattva] is best because by goodness one can come to realize the Absolute Truth. - revealing — SB 3.32.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.31
My dear respectful mother, I have already described the path of understanding the Absolute Truth, by which one can come to understand the real truth of matter and spirit and their relationship. - seeing — SB 7.9.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.53
My dear Prahlāda, may you live a long time. One cannot appreciate or understand Me without pleasing Me, but one who has seen or pleased Me has nothing more for which to lament for his own satisfaction. - sight — Bg. 11.10-11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 11.10-11
Arjuna saw in that universal form unlimited mouths and unlimited eyes. It was all wondrous. The form was decorated with divine, dazzling ornaments and arrayed in many garbs. He was garlanded gloriously, and there were many scents smeared over His body. All was magnificent, all-expanding, unlimited. This was seen by Arjuna., SB 1.6.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.33
The Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose glories and activities are pleasing to hear, at once appears on the seat of my heart, as if called for, as soon as I begin to chant His holy activities., SB 3.21.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.13
The great sage Kardama said: O supreme worshipful Lord, my power of sight is now fulfilled, having attained the greatest perfection of the sight of You, who are the reservoir of all existences. Through many successive births of deep meditation, advanced yogīs aspire to see Your transcendental form. - the audience — SB 7.3.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.3.21
O best of the asuras, for this reason I am now prepared to give you all benedictions, according to your desire. I belong to the celestial world of demigods, who do not die like human beings. Therefore, although you are subject to death, your audience with me will not go in vain. - to look at — SB 1.12.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.12.8
He [the Lord] was only thumb high, but He was all transcendental. He had a very beautiful, blackish, infallible body, and He wore a dress of lightning yellow and a helmet of blazing gold. Thus He was seen by the child. - to see — Madhya 20.61plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.61
" 'My dear Vaiṣṇava, seeing a person like you is the perfection of one's eyesight. Touching your lotus feet is the perfection of the sense of touch. Glorifying your good qualities is the tongue's real activity, for in the material world it is very difficult to find a pure devotee of the Lord.' " - to see personally — SB 10.10.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.10.37
O supreme form, we are always servants of Your servants, especially of Nārada Muni. Now give us permission to leave for our home. It is by the grace and mercy of Nārada Muni that we have been able to see You face to face. - understanding — SB 6.16.63plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.63
Persons who try to reach the ultimate goal of life must expertly observe the Supreme Absolute Person and the living entity, who are one in quality in their relationship as part and whole. This is the ultimate understanding of life. There is no better truth than this. - viewing — SB 3.31.45-46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.45-46
When the eyes lose their power to see color or form due to morbid affliction of the optic nerve, the sense of sight becomes deadened. The living entity, who is the seer of both the eyes and the sight, loses his power of vision. In the same way, when the physical body, the place where perception of objects occurs, is rendered incapable of perceiving, that is known as death. When one begins to view the physical body as one's very self, that is called birth. - vision — SB 4.24.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.44
My dear Lord, I wish to see You exactly in the form that Your very dear devotees worship. You have many other forms, but I wish to see Your form that is especially liked by the devotees. Please be merciful upon me and show me that form, for only that form worshiped by the devotees can perfectly satisfy all the demands of the senses. - who could show — SB 3.25.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.6
When Kapila, who could show her the ultimate goal of the Absolute Truth, was sitting leisurely before her, Devahūti remembered the words Brahmā had spoken to her, and she therefore began to question Kapila as follows. - who met — SB 4.13.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.13.3
Vidura continued: I know that the great sage Nārada is the greatest of all devotees. He has compiled the pāñcarātrika procedure of devotional service and has directly met the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
acyuta-darśanam
- seeing of the Supreme Personality of Godhead — Madhya 22.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.44
"Because I am so fallen, I shall never get a chance to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead." This was my false apprehension. Rather, by chance a person as fallen as I am may get to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although one is being carried away by the waves of the river of time, one may eventually reach the shore.'
apīcya-darśanam
- very beautiful to see — SB 3.28.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.17
The Lord is eternally very beautiful, and He is worshipable by all the inhabitants of every planet. He is ever youthful and always eager to bestow His blessing upon His devotees.
ātma-darśanam
- self-realization — SB 3.26.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.2
Knowledge is the ultimate perfection of self-realization. I shall explain that knowledge unto you by which the knots of attachment to the material world are cut. - which helps self-realization — SB 9.6.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.54
When Saubhari Muni, who was quite conversant with the self, went to the forest, he performed severe penances. In this way, in the fire at the time of death, he ultimately engaged himself in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. - who manifests Himself — SB 3.20.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.25
He approached the Personality of Godhead, who bestows all boons and who dispels the agony of His devotees and of those who take shelter of His lotus feet. He manifests His innumerable transcendental forms for the satisfaction of His devotees.
ātmani-darśanam
- with all the intelligence possible within himself — SB 10.1.52plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.1.52
After thus considering the matter as far as his knowledge would allow, Vasudeva submitted his proposal to the sinful Kaṁsa with great respect.
bhava-darśanam
- seeing repetition of birth and death — SB 1.8.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.8.25
I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths.
brahma-darśanam
- self-realization — SB 3.32.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.23
Engagement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and application of devotional service unto Kṛṣṇa make it possible to advance in knowledge and detachment, as well as in self-realization. - the process of seeing the Absolute — SB 1.3.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.3.33
Whenever a person experiences, by self-realization, that both the gross and subtle bodies have nothing to do with the pure self, at that time he sees himself as well as the Lord.
dūra-darśanam
- very rarely seen — SB 1.11.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.11.8
Oh, it is our good luck that we have come again today under Your protection by Your presence, for Your Lordship rarely visits even the denizens of heaven. Now it is possible for us to look into Your smiling face, which is full of affectionate glances. We can now see Your transcendental form, full of all auspiciousness.
mat-darśanam
- the seeing of Me (or offering of prayers to Me or hearing about Me, all of which are absolute) — SB 7.4.25-26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.4.25-26
The voice of the Lord vibrated as follows: O best of learned persons, do not fear! I wish all good fortune to you. Become My devotees by hearing and chanting about Me and offering Me prayers, for these are certainly meant to award benedictions to all living entities. I know all about the activities of Hiraṇyakaśipu and shall surely stop them very soon. Please wait patiently until that time.
priya-darśanam
- beautiful — SB 4.25.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.41
O my dear hero, who in this world will not accept a husband like you? You are so famous, so magnanimous, so beautiful and so easily gotten. - to see you again, my very dear friend and brother — SB 10.5.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.24
It is also by good fortune that I am seeing you. Having obtained this opportunity, I feel as if I have taken birth again. Even though one is present in this world, to meet with intimate friends and dear relatives in this material world is extremely difficult.
sama-darśanam
- equal to everyone — SB 7.1.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.43
The Lord, the Supersoul of all living entities, is sober, peaceful and equal to everyone. Since the great devotee Prahlāda was protected by the Lord's potency, Hiraṇyakaśipu was unable to kill him, in spite of endeavoring to do so in various ways. - equipoised in vision — SB 3.32.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.32.25
Because of his transcendental intelligence, the pure devotee is equipoised in his vision and sees himself to be uncontaminated by matter. He does not see anything as superior or inferior, and he feels himself elevated to the transcendental platform of being equal in qualities with the Supreme Person.
su-darśanam
- Sudarśana — 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. - very beautiful — SB 4.24.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.51
The lower part of the Lord's waist is dark and covered with yellow garments and a belt bedecked with golden embroidery work. His symmetrical lotus feet and the calves, thighs and joints of His legs are extraordinarily beautiful. Indeed, the Lord's entire body appears to be well built.