karma

  • karma — SB 8.14.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.14.8

    In every yuga, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, assumes the form of Siddhas such as Sanaka to preach transcendental knowledge, He assumes the form of great saintly persons such as Yājñavalkya to teach the way of karma, and He assumes the form of great yogīs such as Dattātreya to teach the system of mystic yoga.
  • according to work — Bg. 15.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 15.2

    The branches of this tree extend downward and upward, nourished by the three modes of material nature. The twigs are the objects of the senses. This tree also has roots going down, and these are bound to the fruitive actions of human society.
  • act — SB 1.7.13-14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.7.13-14

    When the respective warriors of both camps, namely the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas, were killed on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra and the dead warriors obtained their deserved destinations, and when the son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra fell down lamenting, his spine broken, being beaten by the club of Bhīmasena, the son of Droṇācārya [Aśvatthāmā] beheaded the five sleeping sons of Draupadī and delivered them as a prize to his master, foolishly thinking that he would be pleased. Duryodhana, however, disapproved of the heinous act, and he was not pleased in the least.    , SB 1.19.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.19.1

    Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: While returning home, the King [Mahārāja Parīkṣit] felt that the act he had committed against the faultless and powerful brāhmaṇa was heinous and uncivilized. Consequently he was distressed.    , SB 3.14.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.14.33

    O son of the Bharata family, Diti, after this, went nearer to her husband, her face lowered because of her faulty action. She spoke as follows.    , SB 9.6.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.28

    When the brāhmaṇas got up from bed and saw the waterpot empty, they inquired who had done this work of drinking the water meant for begetting a child.    , SB 10.10.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.10.1

    King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great and powerful saint, what was the cause of Nalakūvara's and Maṇigrīva's having been cursed by Nārada Muni? What did they do that was so abominable that even Nārada, the great sage, became angry at them? Kindly describe this to me.
  • action — Bg. 4.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.16

    Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what is inaction. Now I shall explain to you what action is, knowing which you shall be liberated from all sins.    , Bg. 9.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 9.28

    In this way you will be freed from all reactions to good and evil deeds, and by this principle of renunciation you will be liberated and come to Me.    , SB 1.13.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.46

    This gross material body made of five elements is already under the control of eternal time [kāla], action [karma] and the modes of material nature [guṇa]. How, then, can it, being already in the jaws of the serpent, protect others?    , SB 1.14.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.14.43

    Have you not taken care of old men and boys who deserve to dine with you? Have you left them and taken your meals alone? Have you committed some unpardonable mistake which is considered to be abominable?    , SB 2.5.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.34

    Thus all the universes remained thousands of eons within the water [the Causal Ocean], and the Lord of living beings, entering in each of them, caused them to be fully animated.    , SB 2.10.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.12

    One should definitely know that all material ingredients, activities, time and modes, and the living entities who are meant to enjoy them all, exist by His mercy only, and as soon as He does not care for them, everything becomes nonexistent.    , SB 3.12.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.12.35

    The four kinds of paraphernalia for conducting the fire sacrifice became manifest: the performer [the chanter], the offerer, the fire, and the action performed in terms of the supplementary Vedas. Also the four principles of religiosity [truth, austerity, mercy and cleanliness] and the duties in the four social orders all became manifest.    , SB 4.5.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.5.25

    Upon seeing the action of Vīrabhadra, the party of Lord Śiva was pleased and cried out joyfully, and all the bhūtas, ghosts and demons that had come made a tumultuous sound. On the other hand, the brāhmaṇas in charge of the sacrifice cried out in grief at the death of Dakṣa.    , SB 4.10.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.10.9

    When the heroes of the Yakṣas saw that all their heads were being thus threatened by Dhruva Mahārāja, they could very easily understand their awkward position, and they concluded that they would certainly be defeated. But, as heroes, they lauded the action of Dhruva.    , SB 4.11.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.11.8

    My dear son, the killing of the sinless Yakṣas which you have undertaken is not at all approved by authorities, and it does not befit our family, which is supposed to know the laws of religion and irreligion.    , SB 8.20.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.20.19

    At that time, the residents of the higher planetary system, namely the demigods, the Gandharvas, the Vidyādharas, the Siddhas and the Cāraṇas, all being very pleased by Bali Mahārāja's simple, nonduplicitous act, praised his qualities and showered upon him millions of flowers.    , SB 9.6.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.9

    When King Ikṣvāku, thus informed by Vasiṣṭha, understood what his son Vikukṣi had done, he was extremely angry. Thus he ordered Vikukṣi to leave the country because Vikukṣi had violated the regulative principles.    , SB 9.7.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.7.16

    Rohita could understand that his father intended to offer him as the animal for sacrifice. Therefore, just to save himself from death, he equipped himself with bow and arrows and went to the forest.    , Ādi 3.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 3.24

    " 'If I did not show the proper principles of religion, all these worlds would fall into ruin. I would be a cause of unwanted population and would spoil all these living beings.'    , Madhya 8.289plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.289

    Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu then admitted to His pure devotee, Rāmānanda Rāya, "Now there is no confidential activity unknown to you. Even though I try to conceal My activities, you can understand everything in detail by virtue of your advanced love for Me."
  • actions — Bg. 5.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.11

    The yogīs, abandoning attachment, act with body, mind, intelligence, and even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification.    , SB 2.8.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.14

    Then again, kindly describe how the proportionate accumulation of the reactions resulting from the different modes of material nature act upon the desiring living being, promoting or degrading him among the different species of life, beginning from the demigods down to the most insignificant creatures.    , SB 3.31.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.31

    For the sake of the body, which is a source of constant trouble to him and which follows him because he is bound by ties of ignorance and fruitive activities, he performs various actions which cause him to be subjected to repeated birth and death.
  • activities (to support the Daityas) — SB 6.7.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.7.25

    O demigods, I instruct you to approach Viśvarūpa, the son of Tvaṣṭā, and accept him as your guru. He is a pure and very powerful brāhmaṇa undergoing austerity and penances. Pleased by your worship, he will fulfill your desires, provided that you tolerate his being inclined to side with the demons.
  • activities — Bg. 2.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.49

    O Dhanañjaya, rid yourself of all fruitive activities by devotional service, and surrender fully to that consciousness. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their work are misers.    , Bg. 4.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.24

    A person who is fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is sure to attain the spiritual kingdom because of his full contribution to spiritual activities, in which the consummation is absolute and that which is offered is of the same spiritual nature.    , Bg. 4.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.33

    O chastiser of the enemy, the sacrifice of knowledge is greater than the sacrifice of material possessions. O son of Pṛthā, after all, the sacrifice of work culminates in transcendental knowledge.    , Bg. 18.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.2

    The Supreme Lord said, To give up the results of all activities is called renunciation [tyāga] by the wise. And that state is called the renounced order of life [sannyāsa] by great learned men.    , Bg. 18.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.5

    Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not to be given up but should be performed. Indeed, sacrifice, charity and penance purify even the great souls.    , SB 1.6.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.36

    O Vyāsadeva, you are freed from all sins. Thus I have explained my birth and activities for self-realization, as you asked. All this will be conducive for your personal satisfaction also.    , SB 1.7.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.7.12

    Sūta Gosvāmī thus addressed the ṛṣis headed by Śaunaka: Now I shall begin the transcendental narration of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and topics of the birth, activities and deliverance of King Parīkṣit, the sage amongst kings, as well as topics of the renunciation of the worldly order by the sons of Pāṇḍu.    , SB 1.7.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.7.42

    Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: Draupadī then saw Aśvatthāmā, who was bound with ropes like an animal and silent for having enacted the most inglorious murder. Due to her female nature, and due to her being naturally good and well-behaved, she showed him due respects as a brāhmaṇa.    , SB 1.19.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.19.13

    The fortunate King said: Indeed, we are the most grateful of all the kings who are trained to get favors from the great souls. Generally you [sages] consider royalty as refuse to be rejected and left in a distant place.    , SB 2.1.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.1.37

    The virāṭ-puruṣa's face is the brāhmaṇas, His arms are the kṣatriyas, His thighs are the vaiśyas, and the śūdras are under the protection of His feet. All the worshipable demigods are also overtaken by Him, and it is the duty of everyone to perform sacrifices with feasible goods to appease the Lord.    , SB 3.9.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.15

    Let me take shelter of the lotus feet of Him whose incarnations, qualities and activities are mysterious imitations of worldly affairs. One who invokes His transcendental names, even unconsciously, at the time he quits this life, is certainly washed immediately of the sins of many, many births and attains Him without fail.    , SB 3.16.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.16.8

    I do not enjoy the oblations offered by the sacrificers in the sacrificial fire, which is one of My own mouths, with the same relish as I do the delicacies overflowing with ghee which are offered to the mouths of the brāhmaṇas who have dedicated to Me the results of their activities and who are ever satisfied with My prasāda.    , SB 3.28.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.38

    The body of such a liberated yogī, along with the senses, is taken charge of by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it functions until its destined activities are finished. The liberated devotee, being awake to his constitutional position and thus situated in samādhi, the highest perfectional stage of yoga, does not accept the by-products of the material body as his own. Thus he considers his bodily activities to be like the activities of a body in a dream.    , SB 3.31.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.9

    The child thus remains just like a bird in a cage, without freedom of movement. At that time, if the child is fortunate, he can remember all the troubles of his past one hundred births, and he grieves wretchedly. What is the possibility of peace of mind in that condition?    , SB 3.31.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.15

    The human soul further prays: The living entity is put under the influence of material nature and continues a hard struggle for existence on the path of repeated birth and death. This conditional life is due to his forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, without the Lord's mercy, how can he again engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord?    , SB 4.4.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.20

    In the Vedas there are directions for two kinds of activities—activities for those who are attached to material enjoyment and activities for those who are materially detached. In consideration of these two kinds of activities, there are two kinds of people, who have different symptoms. If one wants to see two kinds of activities in one person, that is contradictory. But both kinds of activities may be neglected by a person who is transcendentally situated.    , SB 4.21.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.21.10

    Pṛthu Mahārāja was so great in his activities and magnanimous in his method of ruling that all the kings and demigods on the various planets still follow in his footsteps. Who is there who will not try to hear about his glorious activities? I wish to hear more and more about Pṛthu Mahārāja because his activities are so pious and auspicious.    , SB 4.26.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.26.7

    Nārada Muni continued to speak to King Prācīnabarhiṣat: My dear King, any person who works according to the directions of the Vedic scriptures does not become involved in fruitive activities.    , SB 4.29.18-20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.18-20

    Nārada Muni continued: What I referred to as the chariot was in actuality the body. The senses are the horses that pull that chariot. As time passes, year after year, these horses run without obstruction, but in fact they make no progress. Pious and impious activities are the two wheels of the chariot. The three modes of material nature are the chariot's flags. The five types of life air constitute the living entity's bondage, and the mind is considered to be the rope. Intelligence is the chariot driver. The heart is the sitting place in the chariot, and the dualities of life, such as pleasure and pain, are the knotting place. The seven elements are the coverings of the chariot, and the working senses are the five external processes. The eleven senses are the soldiers. Being engrossed in sense enjoyment, the living entity, seated on the chariot, hankers after fulfillment of his false desires and runs after sense enjoyment life after life.    , SB 4.29.63plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.63

    One can understand the mental or conscious position of a living entity by the activities of two kinds of senses—the knowledge—acquiring senses and the executive senses. Similarly, by the mental condition or consciousness of a person, one can understand his position in the previous life.    , SB 5.1.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.24

    Thereafter, Mahārāja Priyavrata married Barhiṣmatī, the daughter of the prajāpati named Viśvakarmā. In her he begot ten sons equal to him in beauty, character, magnanimity and other qualities. He also begot a daughter, the youngest of all, named Ūrjasvatī.    , SB 5.1.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.39

    There are many famous verses regarding Mahārāja Priyavrata's activities:    , SB 5.4.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.8

    After Nābhi Mahārāja departed for Badarikāśrama, the Supreme Lord, Ṛṣabhadeva, understood that His kingdom was His field of activities. He therefore showed Himself as an example and taught the duties of a householder by first accepting brahmacarya under the direction of spiritual masters. He also went to live at the spiritual masters' place, gurukula. After His education was finished, He gave gifts (guru-dakṣiṇā) to His spiritual masters and then accepted the life of a householder. He took a wife named Jayantī and begot one hundred sons who were as powerful and qualified as He Himself. His wife Jayantī had been offered to Him by Indra, the King of heaven. Ṛṣabhadeva and Jayantī performed householder life in an exemplary way, carrying out ritualistic activities ordained by the śruti and smṛti śāstra.    , SB 5.12.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.12.10

    Since this universe has no real ultimate existence, the things within it—shortness, differences, grossness, skinniness, smallness, bigness, result, cause, living symptoms, and materials—are all imagined. They are all pots made of the same substance, earth, but they are named differently. The differences are characterized by the substance, nature, predisposition, time and activity. You should know that all these are simply mechanical manifestations created by material nature.    , SB 6.3.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.33

    Devotees who always lick the honey from the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa do not care at all for material activities, which are performed under the three modes of material nature and which bring only misery. Indeed, devotees never give up the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa to return to material activities. Others, however, who are addicted to Vedic rituals because they have neglected the service of the Lord's lotus feet and are enchanted by lusty desires, sometimes perform acts of atonement. Nevertheless, being incompletely purified, they return to sinful activities again and again.    , 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.    , SB 7.11.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.32

    If one acts in his profession according to his position in the modes of nature and gradually gives up these activities, he attains the niṣkāma stage.    , SB 7.15.64plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.64

    My dear Yudhiṣṭhira [Pārtha], when all the activities one performs with his mind, words and body are dedicated directly to the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one reaches oneness of activities, called kriyādvaita.    , SB 8.3.8-9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.8-9

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no material birth, activities, name, form, qualities or faults. To fulfill the purpose for which this material world is created and destroyed, He comes in the form of a human being like Lord Rāma or Lord Kṛṣṇa by His original internal potency. He has immense potency, and in various forms, all free from material contamination, He acts wonderfully. He is therefore the Supreme Brahman. I offer my respects to Him.    , SB 8.5.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.46

    O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, by Your sweet will You appear in various incarnations, millennium after millennium, and act wonderfully, performing uncommon activities that would be impossible for us.    , SB 8.5.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.48

    Activities dedicated to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even if performed in small measure, never go in vain. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, being the supreme father, is naturally very dear and always ready to act for the good of the living entities.    , SB 8.9.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.9.28

    The place, the time, the cause, the purpose, the activity and the ambition were all the same for both the demigods and the demons, but the demigods achieved one result and the demons another. Because the demigods are always under the shelter of the dust of the Lord's lotus feet, they could very easily drink the nectar and get its result. The demons, however, not having sought shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord, were unable to achieve the result they desired.    , SB 8.9.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.9.29

    In human society there are various activities performed for the protection of one's wealth and life by one's words, one's mind and one's actions, but they are all performed for one's personal or extended sense gratification with reference to the body. All these activities are baffled because of being separate from devotional service. But when the same activities are performed for the satisfaction of the Lord, the beneficial results are distributed to everyone, just as water poured on the root of a tree is distributed throughout the entire tree.    , SB 8.23.26-27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.26-27

    Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, Lord Kārttikeya, the great sage Bhṛgu, other saintly persons, the inhabitants of Pitṛloka and all other living entities present, including the inhabitants of Siddhaloka and living entities who travel in outer space by airplane, all glorified the uncommon activities of Lord Vāmanadeva. O King, while chanting about and glorifying the Lord, they returned to their respective heavenly planets. They also praised the position of Aditi.    , SB 9.8.15-16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.8.15-16

    Formerly, in his previous birth, Asamañjasa had been a great mystic yogi, but by bad association he had fallen from his exalted position. Now, in this life, he was born in a royal family and was a jāti-smara; that is, he had the special advantage of being able to remember his past birth. Nonetheless, he wanted to display himself as a miscreant, and therefore he would do things that were abominable in the eyes of the public and unfavorable to his relatives. He would disturb the boys sporting in the River Sarayū by throwing them into the depths of the water.    , SB 9.18.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.18.11

    Oh, just see the activities of this servant-maid Śarmiṣṭhā! Disregarding all etiquette, she has put on my dress, just like a dog snatching clarified butter meant for use in a sacrifice.    , SB 9.20.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.20.29

    As one cannot approach the heavenly planets simply by the strength of his arms (for who can touch the heavenly planets with his hands?), one cannot imitate the wonderful activities of Mahārāja Bharata. No one could perform such activities in the past, nor will anyone be able to do so in the future.    , Ādi 3.85plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 3.85

    One can also directly see Lord Caitanya's manifest influence in His uncommon deeds and uncommon Kṛṣṇa conscious realization.    , Ādi 7.69plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.69

    "Meditation and the study of Vedānta are the sole duties of a sannyāsī. Why do You abandon these to dance with fanatics?    , Ādi 9.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 9.8

    Thinking in this way, He accepted the duty of a planter and began to grow a garden in Navadvīpa.    , Ādi 9.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 9.32

    "Since the tree of devotional service is transcendental, every one of its parts can perform the action of all the others. Although a tree is supposed to be immovable, this tree nevertheless moves.    , Ādi 17.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 17.43

    Then all the assembled gentlemen exclaimed, "What is this? What is this? Who has performed such mischievous activities? Who is that sinful man?"    , Madhya 1.89plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 1.89

    For the twenty-four years after Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the renounced order, whatever pastimes He executed were unlimited and unfathomable. Who can understand the purport of such pastimes ?    , Madhya 1.198plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 1.198

    The two brothers, Sākara Mallika and Dabira Khāsa, very humbly submitted that due to their abominable activities they were now bound by the neck and hands and had been thrown into a ditch filled with abominable stoollike objects of material sense enjoyment.    , Madhya 22.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.19

    " 'When pure knowledge is beyond all material affinity but is not dedicated to the Supreme PersonaIity of Godhead [Kṛṣṇa], it does not appear very beautiful, although it is knowledge without a material tinge. What, then, is the use of fruitive activities-which are naturally painful from the beginning and transient by nature-if they are not utilized for the devotional service of the Lord? How can they be very attractive?'    , Madhya 24.62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.62

    "In this way, when all sinful activities are vanquished by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one gradually vanquishes all kinds of impediments on the path of devotional service, as well as the ignorance resulting from these impediments. After this, one totally manifests his original love of Godhead through devotional service in nine different ways-hearing, chanting and so forth.    , Madhya 25.107plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.107

    " 'I shall explain to you My actual form and situation, My attributes, activities and six opulences.'    , Antya 6.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 6.15

    Raghunātha dāsa was inwardly completely renounced, even in family life, but he did not express his renunciation externally. Instead, he acted just like an ordinary businessman. Seeing this, his father and mother were satisfied.    , Antya 8.77plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 8.77

    "The two kinds of activity rejected in the revealed scriptures constitute his daily affairs.    , Antya 12.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 12.30

    "Today my birth, my family and my activities have all become successful. Today I have achieved the fulfillment of religious principles, economic development, satisfaction of the senses and ultimately devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa."
  • activities being dedicated to You — SB 7.9.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.50

    Therefore, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, the best of all persons to whom prayers are offered, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You because without rendering six kinds of devotional service unto You—offering prayers, dedicating all the results of activities, worshiping You, working on Your behalf, always remembering Your lotus feet and hearing about Your glories—who can achieve that which is meant for the paramahaṁsas?
  • activities of service to You — SB 6.11.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.11.24

    O my Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, will I again be able to be a servant of Your eternal servants who find shelter only at Your lotus feet? O Lord of my life, may I again become their servant so that my mind may always think of Your transcendental attributes, my words always glorify those attributes, and my body always engage in the loving service of Your Lordship?
  • activity — 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.    , 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 2.1.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.1.33

    O King, the rivers are the veins of the gigantic body, the trees are the hairs of His body, and the omnipotent air is His breath. The passing ages are His movements, and His activities are the reactions of the three modes of material nature.    , SB 2.7.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.29

    On the very night of the day of the chastisement of the Kāliya snake, when the inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi were sleeping carefreely, there was a forest fire ablaze due to dry leaves, and it appeared that all the inhabitants were sure to meet their death. But the Lord, along with Balarāma, saved them simply by closing His eyes. Such are the superhuman activities of the Lord.    , SB 4.19.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.18

    My dear Lord Vidura, when the great sages observed the wonderful prowess of the son of King Pṛthu, they all agreed to give him the name Vijitāśva.    , SB 4.19.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.31

    In order to make trouble and impede the performance of King Pṛthu's great sacrifice, King Indra has adopted some means that in the future will destroy the clear path of religious life. I draw your attention to this fact. If you oppose him any further, he will further misuse his power and introduce many other irreligious systems.    , SB 4.22.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.51

    Mahārāja Pṛthu completely dedicated himself to be an eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, transcendental to material nature. Consequently all the fruits of his activities were dedicated to the Lord, and he always thought of himself as the servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of everything.    , SB 4.29.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.6

    The five working senses and the five senses that acquire knowledge are all male friends of Purañjanī. The living entity is assisted by these senses in acquiring knowledge and engaging in activity. The engagements of the senses are known as girl friends, and the serpent, which was described as having five heads, is the life air acting within the five circulatory processes.    , SB 4.29.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.49

    My dear King, the entire world is covered with the sharp points of kuśa grass, and on the strength of this you have become proud because you have killed various types of animals in sacrifices. Because of your foolishness, you do not know that devotional service is the only way one can please the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You cannot understand this fact. Your only activities should be those that can please the Personality of Godhead. Our education should be such that we can become elevated to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.    , SB 4.29.61plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.61

    The living entity, while dreaming, gives up the actual living body. Through the activities of his mind and intelligence, he acts in another body, either as a god or a dog. After giving up this gross body, the living entity enters either an animal body or a demigod's body on this planet or on another planet. He thus enjoys the results of the actions of his past life.    , SB 5.1.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.13

    My dear Priyavrata, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all living entities accept different types of bodies for birth and death, activity, lamentation, illusion, fear of future dangers, and happiness and distress.    , SB 5.5.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.32

    When Lord Ṛṣabhadeva saw that the general populace was very antagonistic to His execution of mystic yoga, He accepted the behavior of a python in order to counteract their opposition. Thus He stayed in one place and lay down. While lying down, He ate and drank, and He passed stool and urine and rolled in it. Indeed, He smeared His whole body with His own stool and urine so that opposing elements might not come and disturb Him.    , SB 6.3.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.4

    The Yamadūtas said: Our dear lord, how many controllers or rulers are there in this material world? How many causes are responsible for manifesting the various results of activities performed under the three modes of material nature [sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa]?    , SB 8.5.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.1

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, I have described to you the pastime of Gajendra-mokṣaṇa, which is most pious to hear. By hearing of such activities of the Lord, one can be freed from all sinful reactions. Now please listen as I describe Raivata Manu.    , SB 9.5.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.21

    All the blessed women in the heavenly planets will continuously chant about your spotless character at every moment, and the people of this world will also chant your glories continuously.    , Ādi 1.94plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.94

    All kinds of activities, both auspicious and inauspicious, that are detrimental to the discharge of transcendental loving service to Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa are actions of the darkness of ignorance.    , Ādi 3.61plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 3.61

    The greatest ignorance consists of activities, whether religious or irreligious, that are opposed to devotional service. They are to be known as sins [kalmaṣa].    , Ādi 5.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 5.29

    Although His pastimes are His only characteristic functions, by His causeless mercy He performs one activity for the fallen souls.    , Antya 7.126plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 7.126

    Vallabha Bhaṭṭa admitted, "I am a great fool, and indeed I have acted like a fool by trying to demonstrate to You my learning.
  • activity of life — SB 3.6.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.7

    The total energy of the mahat-tattva, in the form of the gigantic virāṭ-rūpa, divided Himself by Himself into the consciousness of the living entities, the life of activity, and self-identification, which are subdivided into one, ten and three respectively.
  • acts — Bg. 18.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.23

    As for actions, that action in accordance with duty, which is performed without attachment, without love or hate, by one who has renounced fruitive results, is called action in the mode of goodness.
  • and activities — SB 7.10.43-44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.43-44

    This narration describes the characteristics of the great and exalted devotee Prahlāda Mahārāja, his staunch devotional service, his perfect knowledge, and his perfect detachment from material contamination. It also describes the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the cause of creation, maintenance and annihilation. Prahlāda Mahārāja, in his prayers, has described the transcendental qualities of the Lord and has also described how the various abodes of the demigods and demons, regardless of how materially opulent, are destroyed by the mere direction of the Lord.    , SB 7.11.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.13

    Those who have been reformed by the garbhādhāna ceremony and other prescribed reformatory methods, performed with Vedic mantras and without interruption, and who have been approved by Lord Brahmā, are dvijas, or twice-born. Such brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas and vaiśyas, purified by their family traditions and by their behavior, should worship the Lord, study the Vedas and give charity. In this system, they should follow the principles of the four āśramas [brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa].
  • and fruitive activities — Madhya 6.154plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.154

    " 'The internal potency of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, is spiritual, as verified by the śāstras. There is another spiritual potency, known as kṣetra-jña, or the living entity. The third potency, which is known as nescience, makes the living entity godless and fills him with fruitive activity.
  • and work — SB 5.1.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.14

    My dear boy, all of us are bound by the Vedic injunctions to the divisions of varṇāśrama according to our qualities and work. These divisions are difficult to avoid because they are scientifically arranged. We must therefore carry out our duties of varṇāśrama-dharma, like bulls obliged to move according to the direction of a driver pulling on ropes knotted to their noses.
  • another activity — SB 4.29.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.34

    Nārada continued: O you who are free from all sinful activity! No one can counteract the effects of fruitive activity simply by manufacturing a different activity devoid of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. All such activity is due to our ignorance. When we have a troublesome dream, we cannot relieve it with a troublesome hallucination. One can counteract a dream only by awaking. Similarly, our material existence is due to our ignorance and illusion. Unless we awaken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we cannot be relieved of such dreams. For the ultimate solution to all problems, we must awaken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
  • by actions — SB 3.26.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.37

    The action of the air is exhibited in movements, mixing, allowing approach to the objects of sound and other sense perceptions, and providing for the proper functioning of all other senses.
  • by activities — SB 10.8.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.8.41

    Therefore let me surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead and offer my obeisances unto Him, who is beyond the conception of human speculation, the mind, activities, words and arguments, who is the original cause of this cosmic manifestation, by whom the entire cosmos is maintained, and by whom we can conceive of its existence. Let me simply offer my obeisances, for He is beyond my contemplation, speculation and meditation. He is beyond all of my material activities.
  • by fruitive activities — SB 3.31.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.31

    For the sake of the body, which is a source of constant trouble to him and which follows him because he is bound by ties of ignorance and fruitive activities, he performs various actions which cause him to be subjected to repeated birth and death.    , SB 4.25.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.5

    The King replied: O great soul, Nārada, my intelligence is entangled in fruitive activities; therefore I do not know the ultimate goal of life. Kindly instruct me in pure knowledge so that I can get out of the entanglement of fruitive activities.    , SB 4.29.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.1

    King Prācīnabarhi replied: My dear lord, we could not appreciate completely the purport of your allegorical story of King Purañjana. Actually, those who are perfect in spiritual knowledge can understand, but for us, who are overly attached to fruitive activities, to realize the purpose of your story is very difficult.    , SB 5.1.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.41

    "As a great follower and devotee of the sage Nārada, Mahārāja Priyavrata considered hellish the opulences he had achieved by dint of fruitive activities and mystic power, whether in the lower or heavenly planetary systems or in human society."    , Madhya 19.167plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.167

    "When first-class devotional service develops, one must be devoid of all material desires, knowledge obtained by monistic philosophy, and fruitive action. The devotee must constantly serve Kṛṣṇa favorably, as Kṛṣṇa desires.
  • by predestined resultant actions — SB 5.11.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.11

    The physical elements, nature, the original cause, culture, destiny and the time element are all material causes. Agitated by these material causes, the eleven functions transform into hundreds of functions and then into thousands and then into millions. But all these transformations do not take place automatically by mutual combination. Rather, they are under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
  • by wonderful activities, pious activities — SB 8.22.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.26

    If a human being is born in an aristocratic family or a higher status of life, if he performs wonderful activities, if he is youthful, if he has personal beauty, a good education and good wealth, and if he is nonetheless not proud of his opulences, it is to be understood that he is especially favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
  • by work — 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.
  • duties — Bg. 3.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.8

    Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work.    , Ādi 14.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 14.25

    But when she returned to her household duties, the child hid from His mother and began to eat dirt.
  • duty — Bg. 18.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.42

    Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, wisdom, knowledge, and religiousness—these are the qualities by which the brāhmaṇas work.    , Bg. 18.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.43

    Heroism, power, determination, resourcefulness, courage in battle, generosity, and leadership are the qualities of work for the kṣatriyas.    , Bg. 18.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.44

    Farming, cow protection and business are the qualities of work for the vaiśyas, and for the śūdras there is labor and service to others.    , SB 2.9.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.23

    O sinless Brahmā, you may know from Me that it was I who first ordered you to undergo penance when you were perplexed in your duty. Such penance is My heart and soul, and therefore penance and I are nondifferent.
  • fruitive action — Bg. 4.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.18

    One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.    , SB 10.13.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.53

    Then Lord Brahmā saw that kāla (the time factor), svabhāva (one's own nature by association), saṁskāra (reformation), kāma (desire), karma (fruitive activity) and the guṇas (the three modes of material nature), their own independence being completely subordinate to the potency of the Lord, had all taken forms and were also worshiping those viṣṇu-mūrtis.
  • fruitive activities — Bg. 7.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 7.29

    Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old age and death take refuge in Me in devotional service. They are actually Brahman because they entirely know everything about transcendental and fruitive activities.    , Bg. 8.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 8.1

    Arjuna inquired: O my Lord, O Supreme Person, what is Brahman? What is the self? What are fruitive activities? What is this material manifestation? And what are the demigods? Please explain this to me.    , Bg. 8.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 8.3

    The Supreme Lord said, The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called the self. Action pertaining to the development of these material bodies is called karma, or fruitive activities.    , SB 2.4.3-4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.4.3-4

    O great sages, the great soul Mahārāja Parīkṣit, constantly rapt in thought of Lord Kṛṣṇa, knowing well of his imminent death, renounced all sorts of fruitive activities, namely acts of religion, economic development and sense gratification, and thus fixed himself firmly in his natural love for Kṛṣṇa and asked all these questions, exactly as you are asking me.    , SB 3.5.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.31

    The senses are certainly products of the mode of passion in false ego, and therefore philosophical speculative knowledge and fruitive activities are predominantly products of the mode of passion.    , SB 3.8.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.8.14

    Piercing through, this sum total form of the fruitive activity of the living entities took the shape of the bud of a lotus flower generated from the Personality of Viṣṇu, and by His supreme will it illuminated everything, like the sun, and dried up the vast waters of devastation.    , SB 3.29.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.10

    When a devotee worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead and offers the results of his activities in order to free himself from the inebrieties of fruitive activities, his devotion is in the mode of goodness.    , SB 4.6.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.6.47

    Persons who observe everything with differentiation, who are simply attached to fruitive activities, who are mean minded, who are always pained to see the flourishing condition of others and who thus give distress to them by uttering harsh and piercing words have already been killed by providence. Thus there is no need for them to be killed again by an exalted personality like you.    , SB 4.11.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.11.22

    The differentiation among varieties of life and their suffering and enjoyment is explained by some to be the result of karma. Others say it is due to nature, others due to time, others due to fate, and still others say that it is due to desire.    , SB 4.20.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.30

    My dear Lord, what You have said to Your unalloyed devotee is certainly very much bewildering. The allurements You offer in the Vedas are certainly not suitable for pure devotees. People in general, bound by the sweet words of the Vedas, engage themselves again and again in fruitive activities, enamored by the results of their actions.    , SB 4.22.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.38

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself as one with the cause and effect within this body, but one who has transcended the illusory energy by deliberate consideration, which clears the misconception of a snake for a rope, can understand that the Paramātmā is eternally transcendental to the material creation and situated in pure internal energy. Thus the Lord is transcendental to all material contamination. Unto Him only must one surrender.    , SB 4.22.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.39

    The devotees, who are always engaged in the service of the toes of the lotus feet of the Lord, can very easily overcome hard-knotted desires for fruitive activities. Because this is very difficult, the nondevotees—the jñānīs and yogīs—although trying to stop the waves of sense gratification, cannot do so. Therefore you are advised to engage in the devotional service of Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vasudeva.    , SB 4.23.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.8

    By thus practicing severe austerities, Mahārāja Pṛthu gradually became steadfast in spiritual life and completely free of all desires for fruitive activities. He also practiced breathing exercises to control his mind and senses, and by such control he became completely free from all desires for fruitive activity.    , SB 4.26.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.26.8

    Otherwise, a person who acts whimsically falls down due to false prestige. Thus he becomes involved in the laws of nature, which are composed of the three qualities [goodness, passion and ignorance]. In this way a living entity becomes devoid of his real intelligence and becomes perpetually lost in the cycle of birth and death. Thus he goes up and down from a microbe in stool to a high position in the Brahmaloka planet.    , SB 4.29.60plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.60

    The great sage Nārada continued: The living entity acts in a gross body in this life. This body is forced to act by the subtle body, composed of mind, intelligence and ego. After the gross body is lost, the subtle body is still there to enjoy or suffer. Thus there is no change.    , 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 6.1.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.1.53

    Not a single living entity can remain unengaged even for a moment. One must act by his natural tendency according to the three modes of material nature because this natural tendency forcibly makes him work in a particular way.    , SB 6.9.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.50

    A pure devotee who is fully accomplished in the science of devotional service will never instruct a foolish person to engage in fruitive activities for material enjoyment, not to speak of helping him in such activities. Such a devotee is like an experienced physician, who never encourages a patient to eat food injurious to his health, even if the patient desires it.    , SB 7.10.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.12

    It does not matter that you are in the material world. You should always, continuously, hear the instructions and messages given by Me and always be absorbed in thought of Me, for I am the Supersoul existing in the core of everyone's heart. Therefore, give up fruitive activities and worship Me.    , SB 8.5.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.43

    All learned men say that the five elements, eternal time, fruitive activity, the three modes of material nature, and the varieties produced by these modes are all creations of yogamāyā. This material world is therefore extremely difficult to understand, but those who are highly learned have rejected it. May the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the controller of everything, be pleased with us.    , SB 8.19.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.19.36

    Learned scholars do not praise that charity which endangers one's own livelihood. Charity, sacrifice, austerity and fruitive activities are possible for one who is competent to earn his livelihood properly. [They are not possible for one who cannot maintain himself.]    , SB 8.24.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.47

    In hopes of becoming happy in this material world, the foolish conditioned soul performs fruitive activities that result only in suffering. But by rendering service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one becomes free from such false desires for happiness. May my supreme spiritual master cut the knot of false desires from the core of my heart.    , SB 9.1.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.1.17

    My lord, all of you are expert in chanting the Vedic mantras. How then has the result been opposite to the one desired? This is a matter for lamentation. There should not have been such a reversal of the results of the Vedic mantras.    , Ādi 7.119plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.119

    " 'The potency of Lord Viṣṇu is summarized in three categories-namely, the spiritual potency, the living entities and ignorance. The spiritual potency is full of knowledge; the living entities, although belonging to the spiritual potency, are subject to bewilderment; and the third energy, which is full of ignorance, is always visible in fruitive activities.'    , Ādi 17.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 17.24

    "The use of the word 'kevala' ['only'] prohibits all other processes, such as cultivation of knowledge, practice of mystic yoga, and performance of austerities and fruitive activities.    , Ādi 17.75plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 17.75

    "By following the paths of speculative philosophical knowledge, fruitive activity or mystic yoga to control the senses, one cannot satisfy Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Lord. Unalloyed devotional love for Kṛṣṇa is the only cause for the Lord's satisfaction.    , Madhya 8.153plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.153

    " 'The original potency of Lord Viṣṇu is superior, or spiritual. The living entity actually belongs to that superior energy, but there is another energy, called the material energy, and this third energy is full of ignorance.'    , Madhya 9.271plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 9.271

    "Both liberation and fruitive activity are rejected by devotees. You are trying to establish these things as life's goal and the process for attaining it."    , Madhya 18.196plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 18.196

    "In the Koran there are descriptions of fruitive activity, speculative knowledge, mystic power and union with the Supreme, but ultimately everything is refuted as the Lord's personal feature and His devotional service is established.    , Madhya 20.112plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.112

    " 'Originally, Kṛṣṇa's energy is spiritual, and the energy known as the living entity is also spiritual. However, there is another energy, called illusion, which consists of fruitive activity. That is the Lord's third potency.'    , Madhya 20.136plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.136

    "Revealed scriptures conclude that one should give up fruitive activity, speculative knowledge and the mystic yoga system and instead take to devotional service, by which Kṛṣṇa can be fully satisfied.    , Madhya 21.119plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.119

    "The transcendental mellows generated from the dealings between the gopīs and Kṛṣṇa cannot be tasted by fruitive activity, yogic austerities, speculative knowledge, regulative devotional service, mantra-yoga or meditation. This sweetness can be tasted only through the spontaneous love of liberated persons who chant the holy names with great ecstatic love.    , Madhya 22.59plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.59

    "Although Kṛṣṇa has previously explained the proficiency of executing Vedic rituals, performing fruitive activity as enjoined in the Vedas, practicing yoga and cultivating jñāna, these last instructions are most powerful and stand above all the others.    , Madhya 24.308plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.308

    " 'The potency of Lord Viṣṇu is summarized in three categories-namely the spiritual potency, the living entities and ignorance. The spiritual potency is full of knowledge; the living entities, although belonging to the spiritual potency, are subject to bewilderment; and the third energy, which is full of ignorance, is always visible in fruitive activities.'
  • fruitive activity — SB 8.3.22-24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.3.22-24

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates His minor parts and parcels, the jīva-tattva, beginning with Lord Brahmā, the demigods and the expansions of Vedic knowledge [Sāma, Ṛg, Yajur and Atharva] and including all other living entities, moving and nonmoving, with their different names and characteristics. As the sparks of a fire or the shining rays of the sun emanate from their source and merge into it again and again, the mind, the intelligence, the senses, the gross and subtle material bodies, and the continuous transformations of the different modes of nature all emanate from the Lord and again merge into Him. He is neither demigod nor demon, neither human nor bird or beast. He is not woman, man, or neuter, nor is He an animal. He is not a material quality, a fruitive activity, a manifestation or nonmanifestation. He is the last word in the discrimination of "not this, not this," and He is unlimited. All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead!    , Ādi 4.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.33

    "Then, by hearing about the pure love of the residents of Vraja, devotees will worship Me on the path of spontaneous love, abandoning all rituals of religiosity and fruitive activity."    , Ādi 13.64plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 13.64

    In these meetings of the Vaiṣṇavas, Advaita Ācārya used to recite Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, decrying the paths of philosophical speculation and fruitive activity and establishing the superexcellence of devotional service.
  • fruitive desires — 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.
  • fruitive work — SB 1.5.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.12

    Knowledge of self-realization, even though free from all material affinity, does not look well if devoid of a conception of the Infallible [God]. What, then, is the use of fruitive activities, which are naturally painful from the very beginning and transient by nature, if they are not utilized for the devotional service of the Lord?    , SB 1.6.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.28

    Having been awarded a transcendental body befitting an associate of the Personality of Godhead, I quit the body made of five material elements, and thus all acquired fruitive results of work [karma] stopped.    , SB 7.13.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.19

    Your Honor appears learned, expert and intelligent in every way. You can speak very well, saying things that are pleasing to the heart. You see that people in general are engaged in fruitive activities, yet you are lying here inactive.    , Ādi 4.167-169plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.167-169

    Social customs, scriptural injunctions, bodily demands, fruitive action, shyness, patience, bodily pleasures, self-gratification and the path of varṇāśrama-dharma, which is difficult to give up—the gopīs have forsaken all these, as well as their own relatives and their punishment and scolding, for the sake of serving Lord Kṛṣṇa. They render loving service to Him for the sake of His enjoyment.
  • in activities — SB 1.4.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.4.25

    Out of compassion, the great sage thought it wise that this would enable men to achieve the ultimate goal of life. Thus he compiled the great historical narration called the Mahābhārata for women, laborers and friends of the twice-born.    , SB 3.10.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.10.8

    Thus engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Brahmā entered into the whorl of the lotus, and as it spread all over the universe he divided it into three divisions of worlds and later into fourteen divisions.
  • material activities — Madhya 19.168plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.168

    "A pure devotee must not cherish any other desire than to serve Kṛṣṇa. He should not offer worship to the demigods or to mundane personalities. He should not cultivate artificial knowledge, which is devoid of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and he should not engage himself in anything other than Kṛṣṇa conscious activities. One must engage all one's purified senses in the service of the Lord. This is the favorable execution of Kṛṣṇa conscious activities.
  • my deeds — MM 5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMukunda-mālā-stotra, Sūtra 5

    O my Lord! I have no attachment for religiosity, or for accumulating wealth, or for enjoying sense gratification. Let these come as they inevitably must, in accordance with my past deeds. But I do pray for this most cherished boon: birth after birth, let me render unflinching devotional service unto Your two lotus feet.
  • of activities — SB 4.29.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.29

    Covered by the mode of ignorance in material nature, the living entity is sometimes a male, sometimes a female, sometimes a eunuch, sometimes a human being, sometimes a demigod, sometimes a bird, an animal, and so on. In this way he is wandering within the material world. His acceptance of different types of bodies is brought about by his activities under the influence of the modes of nature.    , 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 7.15.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.47

    According to the Vedas, there are two kinds of activities-pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Pravṛtti activities involve raising oneself from a lower to a higher condition of materialistic life, whereas nivṛtti means the cessation of material desire. Through pravṛtti activities one suffers from material entanglement, but by nivṛtti activities one is purified and becomes fit to enjoy eternal, blissful life.
  • of fruitive activities — SB 7.2.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.47

    As long as the spirit soul is covered by the subtle body, consisting of the mind, intelligence and false ego, he is bound to the results of his fruitive activities. Because of this covering, the spirit soul is connected with the material energy and must accordingly suffer material conditions and reversals, continually, life after life.
  • of the activities — SB 3.22.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.22.1

    Śrī Maitreya said: After describing the greatness of the Emperor's manifold qualities and activities, the sage became silent, and the Emperor, feeling modesty, addressed him as follows.
  • one’s prescribed activities — SB 1.5.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.32

    O Brāhmaṇa Vyāsadeva, it is decided by the learned that the best remedial measure for removing all troubles and miseries is to dedicate one's activities to the service of the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead [Śrī Kṛṣṇa].
  • pastimes — SB 3.7.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.40

    My dear sage, I have put all these questions before you with a view to knowing the pastimes of Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You are the friend of all, so kindly describe them for all those who have lost their vision.
  • pastimes, activities — SB 8.5.11-12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.5.11-12

    King Parīkṣit inquired: O great brāhmaṇa, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, why and how did Lord Viṣṇu churn the ocean of milk? For what reason did He stay in the water as a tortoise and hold up Mandara Mountain? How did the demigods obtain the nectar, and what other things were produced from the churning of the ocean? Kindly describe all these wonderful activities of the Lord.
  • prescribed duties — Bg. 3.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.14

    All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rain. Rains are produced by performance of yajña [sacrifice], and yajña is born of prescribed duties.    , Bg. 3.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.24

    If I should cease to work, then all these worlds would be put to ruination. I would also be the cause of creating unwanted population, and I would thereby destroy the peace of all sentient beings.    , SB 3.29.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.25

    Performing his prescribed duties, one should worship the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead until one realizes My presence in his own heart and in the hearts of other living entities as well.
  • prescribed duty — Bg. 4.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.15

    All the liberated souls in ancient times acted with this understanding and so attained liberation. Therefore, as the ancients, you should perform your duty in this divine consciousness.
  • reaction of the past — SB 2.5.26-29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.26-29

    Because the sky is transformed, the air is generated with the quality of touch, and by previous succession the air is also full of sound and the basic principles of duration of life: sense perception, mental power and bodily strength. When the air is transformed in course of time and nature's course, fire is generated, taking shape with the sense of touch and sound. Since fire is also transformed, there is a manifestation of water, full of juice and taste. As previously, it also has form and touch and is also full of sound. And water, being transformed from all variegatedness on earth, appears odorous and, as previously, becomes qualitatively full of juice, touch, sound and form respectively.
  • reactionary work — SB 1.2.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.2.15

    With sword in hand, intelligent men cut through the binding knots of reactionary work [karma] by remembering the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, who will not pay attention to His message?
  • story — SB 4.7.60plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.60

    Maitreya said: My dear Vidura, I heard this story of the Dakṣa yajña, which was devastated by Lord Śiva, from Uddhava, a great devotee and a disciple of Bṛhaspati.
  • such service to the master — SB 8.11.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.11.17

    Appreciating Mātali's service, Jambhāsura, the best of the demons, smiled. Nonetheless, he struck Mātali in the battle with a trident of blazing fire.
  • the accomplishment — SB 6.12.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.12.5

    The denizens of various planets, like the demigods, demons, Cāraṇas and Siddhas, praised Vṛtrāsura's deed, but when they observed that Indra was in great danger, they lamented, "Alas! Alas!"
  • the act — SB 8.7.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.7.45

    Upon hearing of this act, everyone, including Bhavānī [the daughter of Mahārāja Dakṣa], Lord Brahmā, Lord Viṣṇu, and the people in general, very highly praised this deed performed by Lord Śiva, who is worshiped by the demigods and who bestows benedictions upon the people.
  • the activities — Ādi 2.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 2.44

    "Both in this material world and in the transcendental world, You see all the deeds of all living beings, in the past, present and future. Since You are the witness of all such deeds, You know the essence of everything.
  • the activity — SB 4.29.59plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.59

    The expert knowers of the Vedic conclusions say that one enjoys or suffers the results of his past activities. But practically it is seen that the body that performed the work in the last birth is already lost. So how is it possible to enjoy or suffer the reactions of that work in a different body?    , SB 5.9.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.17

    All the rogues and thieves who had made arrangements for the worship of goddess Kālī were low minded and bound to the modes of passion and ignorance. They were overpowered by the desire to become very rich; therefore they had the audacity to disobey the injunctions of the Vedas, so much so that they were prepared to kill Jaḍa Bharata, a self-realized soul born in a brāhmaṇa family. Due to their envy, these dacoits brought him before the goddess Kālī for sacrifice. Such people are always addicted to envious activities, and therefore they dared to try to kill Jaḍa Bharata. Jaḍa Bharata was the best friend of all living entities. He was no one's enemy, and he was always absorbed in meditation on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was born of a good brāhmaṇa father, and killing him was forbidden, even though he might have been an enemy or aggressive person. In any case, there was no reason to kill Jaḍa Bharata, and the goddess Kālī could not bear this. She could immediately understand that these sinful dacoits were about to kill a great devotee of the Lord. Suddenly the deity's body burst asunder, and the goddess Kālī personally emerged from it in a body burning with an intense and intolerable effulgence.
  • the business — Ādi 4.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.8

    To take away this burden, however, is not the work of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The maintainer, Lord Viṣṇu, is the one who protects the universe.
  • the fate of the living entity — SB 2.5.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.21

    The Lord, who is the controller of all energies, thus creates, by His own potency, eternal time, the fate of all living entities, and their particular nature, for which they were created, and He again merges them independently.
  • the fruits of action — SB 7.2.25-26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.25-26

    In his bewildered state, the living entity, accepting the body and mind to be the self, considers some people to be his kinsmen and others to be outsiders. Because of this misconception, he suffers. Indeed, the accumulation of such concocted material ideas is the cause of suffering and so-called happiness in the material world. The conditioned soul thus situated must take birth in different species and work in various types of consciousness, thus creating new bodies. This continued material life is called saṁsāra. Birth, death, lamentation, foolishness and anxiety are due to such material considerations. Thus we sometimes come to a proper understanding and sometimes fall again to a wrong conception of life.
  • the fruits of activities — SB 5.14.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.1

    When King Parīkṣit asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī about the direct meaning of the material forest, Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied as follows: My dear King, a man belonging to the mercantile community [vaṇik] is always interested in earning money. Sometimes he enters the forest to acquire some cheap commodities like wood and earth and sell them in the city at good prices. Similarly, the conditioned soul, being greedy, enters this material world for some material profit. Gradually he enters the deepest part of the forest, not really knowing how to get out. Having entered the material world, the pure soul becomes conditioned by the material atmosphere, which is created by the external energy under the control of Lord Viṣṇu. Thus the living entity comes under the control of the external energy, daivī māyā. Living independently and bewildered in the forest, he does not attain the association of devotees who are always engaged in the service of the Lord. Once in the bodily conception, he gets different types of bodies one after the other under the influence of material energy and impelled by the modes of material nature [sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa]. In this way the conditioned soul goes sometimes to the heavenly planets, sometimes to the earthly planets and sometimes to the lower planets and lower species. Thus he suffers continuously due to different types of bodies. These sufferings and pains are sometimes mixed. Sometimes they are very severe, and sometimes they are not. These bodily conditions are acquired due to the conditioned soul's mental speculation. He uses his mind and five senses to acquire knowledge, and these bring about the different bodies and different conditions. Using the senses under the control of the external energy, māyā, the living entity suffers the miserable conditions of material existence. He is actually searching for relief, but he is generally baffled, although sometimes he is relieved after great difficulty. Struggling for existence in this way, he cannot get the shelter of pure devotees, who are like bumblebees engaged in loving service at the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu.
  • the interaction — SB 2.5.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.5.14

    The five elementary ingredients of creation, the interaction thereof set up by eternal time, and the intuition or nature of the individual living beings are all differentiated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, and in truth there is no other value in them.
  • the objective — SB 4.12.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.12.10

    As long as he remained at home, Dhruva Mahārāja performed many great ceremonial sacrifices in order to please the enjoyer of all sacrifices, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Prescribed ceremonial sacrifices are especially meant to please Lord Viṣṇu, who is the objective of all such sacrifices and who awards the resultant benedictions.
  • the sacrifice — SB 4.7.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.16

    The great sage Maitreya said: Thus being pardoned by Lord Śiva, King Dakṣa, with the permission of Lord Brahmā, again began the performance of the yajña, along with the great learned sages, the priests and others.
  • these activities — SB 5.18.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.5

    O Lord, although You are completely detached from the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this material world and are not directly affected by these activities, they are all attributed to You. We do not wonder at this, for Your inconceivable energies perfectly qualify You to be the cause of all causes. You are the active principle in everything, although You are separate from everything. Thus we can realize that everything is happening because of Your inconceivable energy.
  • to such activities — SB 4.7.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.34

    The sages prayed: Dear Lord, Your activities are most wonderful, and although You do everything by Your different potencies, You are not at all attached to such activities. You are not even attached to the goddess of fortune, who is worshiped by the great demigods like Brahmā, who pray to achieve her mercy.
  • transcendental activity — SB 8.4.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.4.1

    Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the Lord delivered Gajendra, King of the elephants, all the demigods, sages and Gandharvas, headed by Brahmā and Śiva, praised this activity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and showered flowers upon both the Lord and Gajendra.
  • uncommon deeds — SB 1.18.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.18.10

    Those who are desirous of achieving complete perfection in life must submissively hear all topics that are connected with the transcendental activities and qualities of the Personality of Godhead, who acts wonderfully.
  • whose transcendental activities — SB 8.4.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.4.13

    Upon delivering the King of the elephants from the clutches of the crocodile, and from material existence, which resembles a crocodile, the Lord awarded him the status of sārūpya-mukti. In the presence of the Gandharvas, the Siddhas and the other demigods, who were praising the Lord for His wonderful transcendental activities, the Lord, sitting on the back of His carrier, Garuḍa, returned to His all-wonderful abode and took Gajendra with Him.
  • work — Bg. 3.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.5

    All men are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses born of the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.    , Bg. 3.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.8

    Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work.    , Bg. 3.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.9

    Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed, otherwise work binds one to this material world. Therefore, O son of Kuntī, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain unattached and free from bondage.    , Bg. 3.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.15

    Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently the all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in acts of sacrifice.    , Bg. 3.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.19

    Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty; for by working without attachment, one attains the Supreme.    , Bg. 4.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.9

    One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.    , Bg. 4.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.13

    According to the three modes of material nature and the work ascribed to them, the four divisions of human society were created by Me. And, although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the non-doer, being unchangeable.    , Bg. 4.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.15

    All the liberated souls in ancient times acted with this understanding and so attained liberation. Therefore, as the ancients, you should perform your duty in this divine consciousness.    , Bg. 4.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.16

    Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what is inaction. Now I shall explain to you what action is, knowing which you shall be liberated from all sins.    , Bg. 4.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.21

    Such a man of understanding acts with mind and intelligence perfectly controlled, gives up all sense of proprietorship over his possessions and acts only for the bare necessities of life. Thus working, he is not affected by sinful reactions.    , Bg. 4.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.23

    The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence.    , Bg. 6.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.1

    The Blessed Lord said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic: not he who lights no fire and performs no work.    , Bg. 6.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.3

    For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means; and for one who has already attained to yoga, cessation of all material activities is said to be the means.    , Bg. 16.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 16.24

    One should understand what is duty and what is not duty by the regulations of the scriptures. Knowing such rules and regulations, one should act so that he may gradually be elevated.    , Bg. 17.26-27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.26-27

    The Absolute Truth is the objective of devotional sacrifice, and it is indicated by the word sat. These works of sacrifice, of penance and of charity, true to the absolute nature, are performed to please the Supreme Person, O son of Pṛthā.    , Bg. 18.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.3

    Some learned men declare that all kinds of fruitive activities should be given up, but there are yet other sages who maintain that acts of sacrifice, charity and penance should never be abandoned.    , Bg. 18.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.8

    Anyone who gives up prescribed duties as troublesome, or out of fear, is said to be in the mode of passion. Such action never leads to the elevation of renunciation.    , Bg. 18.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.9

    But he who performs his prescribed duty only because it ought to be done, and renounces all attachment to the fruit—his renunciation is of the nature of goodness, O Arjuna.    , Bg. 18.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.10

    Those who are situated in the mode of goodness, who neither hate inauspicious work nor are attached to auspicious work, have no doubts about work.    , Bg. 18.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.11

    It is indeed impossible for an embodied being to give up all activities. Therefore it is said that he who renounces the fruits of action is one who has truly renounced.    , Bg. 18.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.15

    Whatever right or wrong action a man performs by body, mind or speech is caused by these five factors.    , Bg. 18.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.18

    Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.    , Bg. 18.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.19

    In accordance with the three modes of material nature, there are three kinds of knowledge, action, and performers of action. Listen as I describe them.    , Bg. 18.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.24

    But action performed with great effort by one seeking to gratify his desires, and which is enacted from a sense of false ego, is called action in the mode of passion.    , Bg. 18.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.25

    And that action performed in ignorance and delusion without consideration of future bondage or consequences, which inflicts injury and is impractical, is said to be action in the mode of ignorance.    , Bg. 18.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.47

    It is better to engage in one's own occupation, even though one may perform it imperfectly, than to accept another's occupation and perform it perfectly. Prescribed duties, according to one's nature, are never affected by sinful reactions.    , Bg. 18.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.48

    Every endeavor is covered by some sort of fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work which is born of his nature, O son of Kuntī, even if such work is full of fault.    , SB 1.5.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.35

    Whatever work is done here in this life for the satisfaction of the mission of the Lord is called bhakti-yoga, or transcendental loving service to the Lord, and what is called knowledge becomes a concomitant factor.    , SB 1.6.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.1

    Sūta said: O brāhmaṇas, thus hearing all about Śrī Nārada's birth and activities, Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of God and son of Satyavatī, inquired as follows.    , SB 2.10.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.24

    Thereafter when the Supreme Person desired to perform varieties of work, the two hands and their controlling strength, and Indra, the demigod in heaven, became manifested, as also the acts dependent on both the hands and the demigod.    , SB 3.6.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.3

    Thus when the Personality of Godhead entered into the elements by His energy, all the living entities were enlivened into different activities, just as one is engaged in his work after awakening from sleep.    , SB 3.9.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.23

    The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is always the benefactor of the surrendered souls. His activities are always enacted through His internal potency, Ramā, or the goddess of fortune. I pray only to engage in His service in the creation of the material world, and I pray that I not be materially affected by my works, for thus I may be able to give up the false prestige of being the creator.    , SB 3.23.56plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.56

    Anyone whose work is not meant to elevate him to religious life, anyone whose religious ritualistic performances do not raise him to renunciation, and anyone situated in renunciation that does not lead him to devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, must be considered dead, although he is breathing.    , SB 3.26.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.50

    When all these elements were unmixed, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the origin of creation, along with time, work, and the qualities of the modes of material nature, entered into the universe with the total material energy in seven divisions.    , SB 4.8.69plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.69

    My dear King, your son is very competent. He will perform activities which would he impossible even for great kings and sages. Very soon he will complete his task and come back home. You should know that he will also spread your reputation all over the world.    , SB 4.29.26-27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.26-27

    The living entity by nature has minute independence to choose his own good or bad fortune, but when he forgets his supreme master, the Personality of Godhead, he gives himself up unto the modes of material nature. Being influenced by the modes of material nature, he identifies himself with the body and, for the interest of the body, becomes attached to various activities. Sometimes he is under the influence of the mode of ignorance, sometimes the mode of passion and sometimes the mode of goodness. The living entity thus gets different types of bodies under the modes of material nature.    , SB 4.29.62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.62

    The living entity labors under the bodily conception of "I am this, I am that. My duty is this, and therefore I shall do it." These are all mental impressions, and all these activities are temporary; nonetheless, by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the living entity gets a chance to execute all his mental concoctions. Thus he gets another body.    , SB 5.4.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.6

    O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, to glorify Mahārāja Nābhi, the old sages composed two verses. One of them is this: "Who can attain the perfection of Mahārāja Nābhi? Who can attain his activities? Because of his devotional service, the Supreme Personality of Godhead agreed to become his son."    , SB 10.9.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.9.7

    Mother Yaśodā, after taking down the hot milk from the oven, returned to the churning spot, and when she saw that the container of yogurt was broken and that Kṛṣṇa was not present, she concluded that the breaking of the pot was the work of Kṛṣṇa.    , Ādi 12.52plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 12.52

    "Thus one becomes unpopular in the eyes of the people in general, for this damages his religiosity and fame. A Vaiṣṇava, especially one who acts as a spiritual master, must not act in such a way. One should always be conscious of this fact."    , Madhya 12.116plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 12.116

    When He saw someone doing nicely, the Lord praised him, but if He saw that someone was not working to His satisfaction, He immediately chastised that person, not bearing him any grudge.    , Madhya 14.208plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 14.208

    " 'Your master is so expert at everything, but why does He do such things? Please bring your master before the goddess of fortune.'    , Madhya 16.65plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 16.65

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, "You can perform a task that even I cannot do. But for You, I cannot find anyone in Gauḍa-deśa who can fulfill My mission there."    , Madhya 24.159plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.159

    " 'Those who wish to rise to the platform of yogic perfection practice the yoga system and strictly follow its regulative principles. They practice the yoga postures, āsanas and breathing exercises. Those who are already elevated to this platform practice meditation and keep their minds on the Supreme Lord. They reject all material activity and keep their minds in an equipoised condition [śama].    , Antya 4.83plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 4.83

    "I have to do all this work through your body, but you want to give it up. How can I tolerate this?"    , Īśo 2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 2

    One may aspire to live for hundreds of years if he continuously goes on working in that way, for that sort of work will not bind him to the law of karma. There is no alternative to this way for man.

karmā

  • activities — SB 3.6.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.4

    When the twenty-three principal elements were set in action by the will of the Supreme, the gigantic universal form, or the viśvarūpa body of the Lord, came into existence.
  • fruitive activities — Madhya 22.103plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.103

    " 'The living entity who is subjected to birth and death attains immortality when he gives up all material activities, dedicates his life to the execution of My order, and acts according to My directions. In this way he becomes fit to enjoy the spiritual bliss derived from exchanging loving mellows with Me.'

karma haite

  • from fruitive activities — Madhya 9.263plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 9.263

    "In every revealed scripture there is condemnation of fruitive activities. It is advised everywhere to give up engagement in fruitive activities, for by executing them no one can attain the highest goal of life, love of Godhead.

karma kare

  • do work — Madhya 12.118plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 12.118

    As soon as they heard Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu say this, everyone became ashamed. Thus the devotees began to work with great attention.

karma śuddham

  • purification of work — SB 1.4.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.4.19

    He saw that the sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas were means by which the people's occupations could be purified. And to simplify the process he divided the one Veda into four, in order to expand them among men.

karma tyaji’

  • giving up such fruitive activities — Madhya 24.214plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.214

    "Those who are in the bodily conception mainly engage in fruitive activity. Those who perform yajñas and ritualistic ceremonies are also considered in the same category. However, when they are all in contact with the pure devotee, they give up their fruitive activity and fully engage in the service of the Lord.

karma-adhikāraḥ

  • in material affairs — SB 5.1.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.23

    Following the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mahārāja Priyavrata fully engaged in worldly affairs, yet he always thought of the lotus feet of the Lord, which are the cause of liberation from all material attachment. Although Priyavrata Mahārāja was completely freed from all material contamination, he ruled the material world just to honor the orders of his superiors.

karma-antara

  • in other household affairs — SB 10.9.1-2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.9.1-2

    Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: One day when mother Yaśodā saw that all the maidservants were engaged in other household affairs, she personally began to churn the yogurt. While churning, she remembered the childish activities of Kṛṣṇa, and in her own way she composed songs and enjoyed singing to herself about all those activities.

karma-anubaddhaḥ

  • bound by the results of his past deeds — SB 5.5.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.9

    When the strong knot in the heart of a person implicated in material life due to the results of past action is slackened, one turns away from his attachment to home, wife and children. In this way, one gives up the basic principle of illusion [I and mine] and becomes liberated. Thus one goes to the transcendental world.

karma-anugaḥ

  • following the reactions of his own fruitive activities — SB 10.1.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.1.39

    When the present body turns to dust and is again reduced to five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether—the proprietor of the body, the living being, automatically receives another body of material elements according to his fruitive activities. When the next body is obtained, he gives up the present body.

karma-anurodhena

  • with consideration of the activities performed — SB 6.1.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.1.43

    The candidates for punishment are those who are confirmed by these many witnesses to have deviated from their prescribed regulative duties. Everyone engaged in fruitive activities is suitable to be subjected to punishment according to his sinful acts.

karma-anuṣṭhānena

  • the performance of activities — SB 5.14.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.30

    The pseudo svāmīs, yogīs and incarnations who do not believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead are known as pāṣaṇḍīs. They themselves are fallen and cheated because they do not know the real path of spiritual advancement, and whoever goes to them is certainly cheated in his turn. When one is thus cheated, he sometimes takes shelter of the real followers of Vedic principles [brāhmaṇas or those in Kṛṣṇa consciousness], who teach everyone how to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to the Vedic rituals. However, being unable to stick to these principles, these rascals again fall down and take shelter among śūdras who are very expert in making arrangements for sex indulgence. Sex is very prominent among animals like monkeys, and such people who are enlivened by sex may be called descendants of monkeys.

karma-ārabdham

  • the resultant action now attained — SB 5.10.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.10.14

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, when King Rahūgaṇa chastised the exalted devotee Jaḍa Bharata with harsh words, that peaceful, saintly person tolerated it all and replied properly. Nescience is due to the bodily conception, and Jaḍa Bharata was not affected by this false conception. Out of his natural humility, he never considered himself a great devotee, and he agreed to suffer the results of his past karma. Like an ordinary man, he thought that by carrying the palanquin, he was destroying the reactions of his past misdeeds. Thinking in this way, he began to carry the palanquin as before.

karma-arjitāḥ ca

  • whatever he achieved by his pious activities — SB 8.22.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.22

    Bali Mahārāja had already offered everything to Your Lordship. Without hesitation, he has offered his land, the planets and whatever else he earned by his pious activities, including even his own body.

karma-arpaṇa

  • offering the results of activities — Madhya 8.59plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.59

    The Lord replied, "This is external. You had better tell Me of some other means." Rāmānanda replied, "To offer the results of one's activities to Kṛṣṇa is the essence of all perfection."

karma-āśaya

  • resultant action and desire for material enjoyment — SB 10.8.37-39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.8.37-39

    When Kṛṣṇa opened His mouth wide by the order of mother Yaśodā, she saw within His mouth all moving and nonmoving entities, outer space, and all directions, along with mountains, islands, oceans, the surface of the earth, the blowing wind, fire, the moon and the stars. She saw the planetary systems, water, light, air, sky, and creation by transformation of ahaṅkāra. She also saw the senses, the mind, sense perception, and the three qualities goodness, passion and ignorance. She saw the time allotted for the living entities, she saw natural instinct and the reactions of karma, and she saw desires and different varieties of bodies, moving and nonmoving. Seeing all these aspects of the cosmic manifestation, along with herself and Vṛndāvana-dhāma, she became doubtful and fearful of her son's nature.

karma-āśayam

  • the desire for fruitive activities — SB 5.5.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.14

    As I have advised you, My dear sons, you should act accordingly. Be very careful. By these means you will be freed from the ignorance of the desire for fruitive activity, and the knot of bondage in the heart will be completely severed. For further advancement, you should also give up the means. That is, you should not become attached to the process of liberation itself.

karma-āśayān

  • demoniac desires to be happy by material activities — SB 5.18.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.8

    I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, the source of all power. O my Lord who possesses nails and teeth just like thunderbolts, kindly vanquish our demonlike desires for fruitive activity in this material world. Please appear in our hearts and drive away our ignorance so that by Your mercy we may become fearless in the struggle for existence in this material world.

karma-atiśayam

  • excelling in fruitive activities — 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.

karma-ātmakam

  • absorbed in material activities — SB 5.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.5

    As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life, one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance. Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions. If a person is engaged in any kind of karma, his mind is called karmātmaka, colored with fruitive activity. As long as the mind is impure, consciousness is unclear, and as long as one is absorbed in fruitive activity, he has to accept a material body.

karma-bandha

  • the bondage of the reactions of fruitive activities — 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.

karma-bandhaḥ

  • bondage to fruitive activities — SB 3.27.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.19

    Hence even though he is the passive performer of all activities, how can there be freedom for the soul as long as material nature acts on him and binds him?    , SB 5.6.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.6.5

    The mind is the root cause of lust, anger, pride, greed, lamentation, illusion and fear. Combined, these constitute bondage to fruitive activity. What learned man would put faith in the mind?
  • the bondage of fruitive activities — SB 5.1.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.1

    King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great sage, why did King Priyavrata, who was a great, self-realized devotee of the Lord, remain in household life, which is the root cause of the bondage of karma [fruitive activities] and which defeats the mission of human life?

karma-bandhaiḥ

  • by the bondage of fruitive activities — SB 9.11.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.11.23

    O King Parīkṣit, anyone who aurally receives the narrations concerning the characteristics of Lord Rāmacandra's pastimes will ultimately be freed from the disease of envy and thus be liberated from the bondage of fruitive activities.

karma-bandham

  • bondage of reaction — Bg. 2.39plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.39

    Thus far I have declared to you the analytical knowledge of sāṅkhya philosophy. Now listen to the knowledge of yoga whereby one works without fruitive result. O son of Pṛthā, when you act by such intelligence, you can free yourself from the bondage of works.

karma-bandhanaḥ

  • bondage by work — Bg. 3.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.9

    Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed, otherwise work binds one to this material world. Therefore, O son of Kuntī, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain unattached and free from bondage.

karma-bandhanaiḥ

  • from all kinds of actions resulting from fruitive activities — SB 4.24.78plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.78

    A devotee who rises early in the morning and with folded hands chants these prayers sung by Lord Śiva and gives facility to others to hear them certainly becomes free from all bondage to fruitive activities.

karma-bandhanam

  • the bondage of fruitive activity — SB 5.24.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.24.20

    If one who is embarrassed by hunger or who falls down or stumbles chants the holy name of the Lord even once, willingly or unwillingly, he is immediately freed from the reactions of his past deeds. Karmīs entangled in material activities face many difficulties in the practice of mystic yoga and other endeavors to achieve that same freedom.

karma-bandhāt

  • from the bondage of fruitive activities — SB 6.8.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.8.16

    May Lord Nārāyaṇa protect me from unnecessarily following false religious systems and falling from my duties due to madness. May the Lord in His appearance as Nara protect me from unnecessary pride. May Lord Dattātreya, the master of all mystic power, protect me from falling while performing bhakti-yoga, and may Lord Kapila, the master of all good qualities, protect me from the material bondage of fruitive activities.
  • from the bondage of material activities — SB 7.10.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.14

    One who always remembers your activities and My activities also, and who chants the prayers you have offered, becomes free, in due course of time, from the reactions of material activities.

karma-bījam

  • seed of worldly activities — SB 3.8.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.8.33

    Lord Brahmā, thus being surcharged with the mode of passion, became inclined to create, and after seeing the five causes of creation indicated by the Personality of Godhead, he began to offer his respectful prayers on the path of the creative mentality.

karma-bījānām

  • of those whose seeds of fruitive activities — SB 5.6.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.6.1

    King Parīkṣit asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear Lord, for those who are completely pure in heart, knowledge is attained by the practice of bhakti-yoga, and attachment for fruitive activity is completely burned to ashes. For such people, the powers of mystic yoga automatically arise. They do not cause distress. Why, then, did Ṛṣabhadeva neglect them?

karma-chidram

  • the discrepancies in the fruitive activities — SB 8.23.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.14

    O best of the brāhmaṇas, Śukrācārya, please describe the fault or discrepancy in your disciple Bali Mahārāja, who engaged in performing sacrifices. This fault will be nullified when judged in the presence of qualified brāhmaṇas.

karma-codana

  • of the rules of fruitive activity — SB 5.14.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.18

    In household life one is ordered to execute many yajñas and fruitive activities, especially the vivāha-yajña [the marriage ceremony for sons and daughters] and the sacred thread ceremony. These are all the duties of a gṛhastha, and they are very extensive and troublesome to execute. They are compared to a big hill over which one must cross when one is attached to material activities. A person desiring to cross over these ritualistic ceremonies certainly feels pains like the piercing of thorns and pebbles endured by one attempting to climb a hill. Thus the conditioned soul suffers unlimitedly.

karma-doṣaiḥ

  • by faulty actions — SB 3.27.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.27.3

    The conditioned soul therefore transmigrates into different species of life, higher and lower, because of his association with the modes of material nature. Unless he is relieved of material activities, he has to accept this position because of his faulty work.

karma-gatayaḥ

  • destinations resulting from activity — SB 5.26.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.2

    The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in this material world there are three kinds of activities—those in the mode of goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of ignorance. Because all people are influenced by the three modes of material nature, the results of their activities are also divided into three. One who acts in the mode of goodness is religious and happy, one who acts in passion achieves mixed misery and happiness, and one who acts under the influence of ignorance is always unhappy and lives like an animal. Because of the varying degrees to which the living entities are influenced by the different modes of nature, their destinations are also of different varieties.
  • in terms of the work performed — SB 2.8.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.8.13

    O purest of the brāhmaṇas, please also explain the cause of the different durations of time, both short and long, as well as the beginning of time, following the course of action.

karma-gatim

  • the reactions of fruitive activities — SB 10.1.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.1.40

    Just as a person traveling on the road rests one foot on the ground and then lifts the other, or as a worm on a vegetable transfers itself to one leaf and then gives up the previous one, the conditioned soul takes shelter of another body and then gives up the one he had before.

karma-grastaḥ

  • one who is under the laws of karma — SB 8.24.2-3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.2-3

    What was the purpose for which the Supreme Personality of Godhead accepted the abominable form of a fish, exactly as an ordinary living being accepts different forms under the laws of karma? The form of a fish is certainly condemned and full of terrible pain. O my lord, what was the purpose of this incarnation? Kindly explain this to us, for hearing about the pastimes of the Lord is auspicious for everyone.

karma-indriyaiḥ

  • by the active sense organs — Bg. 3.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.7

    On the other hand, he who controls the senses by the mind and engages his active organs in works of devotion, without attachment, is by far superior.

karma-indriyāṇi

  • the five working sense organs — Bg. 3.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.6

    One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.

karma-īśvaraḥ

  • the master of all fruitive activities — SB 8.23.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.15

    Śukrācārya said: My Lord, You are the enjoyer and lawgiver in all performances of sacrifice, and You are the yajña-puruṣa, the person to whom all sacrifices are offered. If one has fully satisfied You, where is the chance of discrepancies or faults in his performances of sacrifice?

karma-jāḥ

  • generated by different work — SB 3.7.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.7.31

    Please also describe the imperfections and contradictions of the faithless atheists, the situation of crossbreeding, and the movements of the living entities in various species of life according to their particular modes of nature and work.

karma-jam

  • because of fruitive activities — Bg. 2.51plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.51

    The wise, engaged in devotional service, take refuge in the Lord, and free themselves from the cycle of birth and death by renouncing the fruits of action in the material world. In this way they can attain that state beyond all miseries.
  • caused by activities — SB 6.2.36-37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.36-37

    Because of identifying oneself with the body, one is subjected to desires for sense gratification, and thus one engages in many different types of pious and impious action. This is what constitutes material bondage. Now I shall disentangle myself from my material bondage, which has been caused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead's illusory energy in the form of a woman. Being a most fallen soul, I was victimized by the illusory energy and have become like a dancing dog led around by a woman's hand. Now I shall give up all lusty desires and free myself from this illusion. I shall become a merciful, well-wishing friend to all living entities and always absorb myself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

karma-jān

  • born of work — Bg. 4.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.32

    All these different types of sacrifice are approved by the Vedas, and all of them are born of different types of work. Knowing them as such, you will become liberated.

karma-kalāpam

  • the prescribed occupational duties as a kṣatriya king — 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.

karma-karīḥ

  • maidservants — SB 3.23.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.23.27

    Seeing her, the damsels suddenly rose and said with folded hands, "We are your maidservants. Tell us what we can do for you."

karma-kauśalena

  • by expertise in ritualistic ceremonies — SB 5.20.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.16

    The inhabitants of the island of Kuśadvīpa are celebrated as the Kuśalas, Kovidas, Abhiyuktas and Kulakas. They are like the brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras respectively. By bathing in the waters of those rivers, they all become purified. They are expert in performing ritualistic ceremonies according to the orders of the Vedic scriptures. Thus they worship the Lord in His aspect as the demigod of fire.

karma-kṛt

  • the actor — SB 4.29.23-25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.23-25

    The followers of Yavaneśvara [Yamarāja] are called the soldiers of death, and they are known as the various types of disturbances that pertain to the body and mind. Prajvāra represents the two types of fever: extreme heat and extreme cold—typhoid and pneumonia. The living entity lying down within the body is disturbed by many tribulations pertaining to providence, to other living entities and to his own body and mind. Despite all kinds of tribulations, the living entity, subjected to the necessities of the body, mind and senses and suffering from various types of disease, is carried away by many plans due to his lust to enjoy the world. Although transcendental to this material existence, the living entity, out of ignorance, accepts all these material miseries under the pretext of false egoism ("I" and "mine"). In this way he lives for a hundred years within this body.

karma-kṣetram

  • the field of activities — SB 5.4.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.8

    After Nābhi Mahārāja departed for Badarikāśrama, the Supreme Lord, Ṛṣabhadeva, understood that His kingdom was His field of activities. He therefore showed Himself as an example and taught the duties of a householder by first accepting brahmacarya under the direction of spiritual masters. He also went to live at the spiritual masters' place, gurukula. After His education was finished, He gave gifts (guru-dakṣiṇā) to His spiritual masters and then accepted the life of a householder. He took a wife named Jayantī and begot one hundred sons who were as powerful and qualified as He Himself. His wife Jayantī had been offered to Him by Indra, the King of heaven. Ṛṣabhadeva and Jayantī performed householder life in an exemplary way, carrying out ritualistic activities ordained by the śruti and smṛti śāstra.    , SB 5.14.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.4

    Every year the plowman plows over his grain field, completely uprooting all weeds. Nonetheless, the seeds lie there and, not being completely burned, again come up with the plants sown in the field. Even after being plowed under, the weeds come up densely. Similarly, the gṛhastha-āśrama [family life] is a field of fruitive activity. Unless the desire to enjoy family life is completely burned out, it grows up again and again. Even though camphor may be removed from a pot, the pot nonetheless retains the aroma of camphor. As long as the seeds of desire are not destroyed, fruitive activities are not destroyed.    , SB 5.17.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.11

    Among the nine varṣas, the tract of land known as Bhārata-varṣa is understood to be the field of fruitive activities. Learned scholars and saintly persons declare the other eight varṣas to be meant for very highly elevated pious persons. After returning from the heavenly planets, they enjoy the remaining results of their pious activities in these eight earthly varṣas.

karma-liṅgam

  • symptomized by fruitive activities — SB 9.8.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.8.24

    O completely peaceful Lord, although material nature, fruitive activities and their consequent material names and forms are Your creation, You are unaffected by them. Therefore, Your transcendental name is different from material names, and Your form is different from material forms. You assume a form resembling a material body just to give us instructions like those of Bhagavad-gītā, but actually You are the supreme original person. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

karma-mayam

  • obtainable by the Vedic ritualistic system — SB 5.20.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.33

    Lord Brahmā is known as karma-maya, the form of ritualistic ceremonies, because by performing ritualistic ceremonies one may attain his position and because the Vedic ritualistic hymns become manifest from him. He is devoted to the Supreme Personality of Godhead without deviation, and therefore in one sense he is not different from the Lord. Nevertheless, he should be worshiped not as the monists worship him, but in duality. One should always remain a servitor of the Supreme Lord, the supreme worshipable Deity. We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto Lord Brahmā, the form of manifest Vedic knowledge.
  • producing hundreds and thousands of desires and acting accordingly — SB 7.9.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.21

    O Lord, O supreme eternal, by expanding Your plenary portion You have created the subtle bodies of the living entities through the agency of Your external energy, which is agitated by time. Thus the mind entraps the living entity in unlimited varieties of desires to be fulfilled by the Vedic directions of karma-kāṇḍa [fruitive activity] and the sixteen elements. Who can get free from this entanglement unless he takes shelter at Your lotus feet?

karma-mayān

  • resulting in a reaction (such as the killing of animals) — SB 7.15.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.9

    Because of an awakening of spiritual knowledge, those who are intelligent in regard to sacrifice, who are actually aware of religious principles and who are free from material desires, control the self in the fire of spiritual knowledge, or knowledge of the Absolute Truth. They may give up the process of ritualistic ceremonies.

karma-mayyām

  • formed of fruitive activities — SB 4.2.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.24

    Those who have become as dull as matter by cultivating materialistic education and intelligence are nesciently involved in fruitive activities. Such men have purposely insulted Lord Śiva. May they continue in the cycle of repeated birth and death.

karma-mūḍhān

  • simply engaged in pious or impious activities — SB 5.5.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.15

    If one is serious about going back home, back to Godhead, he must consider the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the summum bonum and chief aim of life. If he is a father instructing his sons, a spiritual master instructing his disciples, or a king instructing his citizens, he must instruct them as I have advised. Without being angry, he should continue giving instructions, even if his disciple, son or citizen is sometimes unable to follow his order. Ignorant people who engage in pious and impious activities should be engaged in devotional service by all means. They should always avoid fruitive activity. If one puts into the bondage of karmic activity his disciple, son or citizen who is bereft of transcendental vision, how will one profit? It is like leading a blind man to a dark well and causing him to fall in.

karma-nāmnām

  • and of His names according to His activities and pastimes — SB 6.3.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.24

    Therefore it should be understood that one is easily relieved from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name of the Lord and chanting of His qualities and activities. This is the only process recommended for relief from sinful reactions. Even if one chants the holy name of the Lord with improper pronunciation, he will achieve relief from material bondage if he chants without offenses. Ajāmila, for example, was extremely sinful, but while dying he merely chanted the holy name, and although calling his son, he achieved complete liberation because he remembered the name of Nārāyaṇa.

karma-nibandha

  • the obligation to suffer or undergo tribulations as a result of fruitive activities — SB 6.2.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.46

    Therefore one who desires freedom from material bondage should adopt the process of chanting and glorifying the name, fame, form and pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, at whose feet all the holy places stand. One cannot derive the proper benefit from other methods, such as pious atonement, speculative knowledge and meditation in mystic yoga, because even after following such methods one takes to fruitive activities again, unable to control his mind, which is contaminated by the base qualities of nature, namely passion and ignorance.

karma-nibandhanaḥ

  • the bondage of fruitive activities — SB 8.23.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.10

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead assured Prahlāda Mahārāja: You shall be able to see Me there in My usual feature with conchshell, disc, club and lotus in My hand. Because of your transcendental bliss due to always personally seeing Me, you will have no further bondage to fruitive activities.

karma-nindā

  • condemnation of fruitive activities — Madhya 9.263plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 9.263

    "In every revealed scripture there is condemnation of fruitive activities. It is advised everywhere to give up engagement in fruitive activities, for by executing them no one can attain the highest goal of life, love of Godhead.

karma-nirhāraḥ

  • counteraction of fruitive activities — SB 6.1.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.1.11

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vedavyāsa, answered: My dear King, since acts meant to neutralize impious actions are also fruitive, they will not release one from the tendency to act fruitively. Persons who subject themselves to the rules and regulations of atonement are not at all intelligent. Indeed, they are in the mode of darkness. Unless one is freed from the mode of ignorance, trying to counteract one action through another is useless because this will not uproot one's desires. Thus even though one may superficially seem pious, he will undoubtedly be prone to act impiously. Therefore real atonement is enlightenment in perfect knowledge, Vedānta, by which one understands the Supreme Absolute Truth.

karma-nirhāram

  • cessation of the fruitive reactions of material activities — SB 6.2.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.2.12

    The ritualistic ceremonies of atonement recommended in the religious scriptures are insufficient to cleanse the heart absolutely because after atonement one's mind again runs toward material activities. Consequently, for one who wants liberation from the fruitive reactions of material activities, the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, or glorification of the name, fame and pastimes of the Lord, is recommended as the most perfect process of atonement because such chanting eradicates the dirt from one's heart completely.

karma-nirmita

  • caused by their own past fruitive activities — SB 5.23.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.3

    When bulls are yoked together and tied to a central post to thresh rice, they tread around that pivot without deviating from their proper positions—one bull being closest to the post, another in the middle, and a third on the outside. Similarly, all the planets and all the hundreds and thousands of stars revolve around the polestar, the planet of Mahārāja Dhruva, in their respective orbits, some higher and some lower. Fastened by the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the machine of material nature according to the results of their fruitive acts, they are driven around the polestar by the wind and will continue to be so until the end of creation. These planets float in the air within the vast sky, just as clouds with hundreds of tons of water float in the air or as the great śyena eagles, due to the results of past activities, fly high in the sky and have no chance of falling to the ground.

karma-niṣṭha

  • attracted to fruitive activities — Madhya 19.147plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.147

    "Among the followers of Vedic knowledge, most are following the process of fruitive activity and distinguishing between good and bad work. Out of many such sincere fruitive actors, there may be one who is actually wise.    , Madhya 24.214plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.214

    "Those who are in the bodily conception mainly engage in fruitive activity. Those who perform yajñas and ritualistic ceremonies are also considered in the same category. However, when they are all in contact with the pure devotee, they give up their fruitive activity and fully engage in the service of the Lord.
  • the fruitive workers — Ādi 7.29-30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.29-30

    The impersonalists, fruitive workers, false logicians, blasphemers, nondevotees and lowest among the student community are very expert in avoiding the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and therefore the inundation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot touch them.

karma-niṣṭhāḥ

  • attached to ritualistic ceremonies (according to one’s social status as a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya or śūdra) — SB 7.15.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.1

    Nārada Muni continued: My dear King, some brāhmaṇas are very much attached to fruitive activities, some are attached to austerities and penances, and still others study the Vedic literature, whereas some, although very few, cultivate knowledge and practice different yogas, especially bhakti-yoga.

karma-niyamān

  • the regulative principles of fruitive activities — SB 5.9.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.4

    The brāhmaṇa father's mind was always filled with affection for his son, Jaḍa Bharata [Bharata Mahārāja]. Therefore he was always attached to Jaḍa Bharata. Because Jaḍa Bharata was unfit to enter the gṛhastha-āśrama, he simply executed the purificatory process up to the end of the brahmacarya-āśrama. Although Jaḍa Bharata was unwilling to accept his father's instructions, the brāhmaṇa nonetheless instructed him in how to keep clean and how to wash, thinking that the son should be taught by the father.

karma-padavīm

  • the path of fruitive activities — SB 3.31.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.31.16

    No one other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the localized Paramātmā, the partial representation of the Lord, is directing all inanimate and animate objects. He is present in the three phases of time-past, present and future. Therefore, the conditioned soul is engaged in different activities by His direction, and in order to get free from the threefold miseries of this conditional life, we have to surrender unto Him only.

karma-pākam

  • the result of his impious activities — SB 5.26.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.22

    A person who is born into a responsible family—such as a kṣatriya, a member of royalty or a government servant—but who neglects to execute his prescribed duties according to religious principles, and who thus becomes degraded, falls down at the time of death into the river of hell known as Vaitaraṇī. This river, which is a moat surrounding hell, is full of ferocious aquatic animals. When a sinful man is thrown into the River Vaitaraṇī, the aquatic animals there immediately begin to eat him, but because of his extremely sinful life, he does not leave his body. He constantly remembers his sinful activities and suffers terribly in that river, which is full of stool, urine, pus, blood, hair, nails, bones, marrow, flesh and fat.

karma-parāḥ

  • interested in working — SB 3.10.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.10.26

    The creation of the human beings, who are of one species only and who stock their eatables in the belly, is the ninth in the rotation. In the human race, the mode of passion is very prominent. Humans are always busy in the midst of miserable life, but they think themselves happy in all respects.

karma-parvaṇīm

  • which ties the knots of fruitive activity — SB 5.17.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.24

    The illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead binds all of us conditioned souls to this material world. Therefore, without being favored by Him, persons like us cannot understand how to get out of that illusory energy. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who is the cause of creation and annihilation.

karma-pāśaiḥ

  • from the bondage of fruitive activities — SB 7.10.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.46

    One who hears and chants this narration about the omnipotence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is certainly liberated from material bondage without fail.

karma-phala

  • in the result of the work — Bg. 2.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.47

    You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
  • results of activities — Bg. 5.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.14

    The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body, does not create activities, nor does he induce people to act, nor does he create the fruits of action. All this is enacted by the modes of material nature.
  • the result of activities — SB 4.12.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.12.10

    As long as he remained at home, Dhruva Mahārāja performed many great ceremonial sacrifices in order to please the enjoyer of all sacrifices, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Prescribed ceremonial sacrifices are especially meant to please Lord Viṣṇu, who is the objective of all such sacrifices and who awards the resultant benedictions.
  • to the fruit of the work — Bg. 18.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.27

    But that worker who is attached to the fruits of his labor and who passionately wants to enjoy them, who is greedy, envious and impure and moved by happiness and distress, is a worker in the mode of passion.

karma-phala-āsaṅgam

  • attachment for fruitive results — Bg. 4.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.20

    Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and independent, he performs no fruitive action, although engaged in all kinds of undertakings.

karma-phala-tyāgaḥ

  • renunciation of the results of fruitive action — Bg. 12.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 12.12

    If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation one can attain peace of mind.

karma-phalam

  • the reaction of fruitive activities — SB 5.26.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.3

    Just as by executing various pious activities one achieves different positions in heavenly life, by acting impiously one achieves different positions in hellish life. Those who are activated by the material mode of ignorance engage in impious activities, and according to the extent of their ignorance, they are placed in different grades of hellish life. If one acts in the mode of ignorance because of madness, his resulting misery is the least severe. One who acts impiously but knows the distinction between pious and impious activities is placed in a hell of intermediate severity. And for one who acts impiously and ignorantly because of atheism, the resultant hellish life is the worst. Because of ignorance, every living entity has been carried by various desires into thousands of different hellish planets since time immemorial. I shall try to describe them as far as possible.
  • the result of work — Bg. 6.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.1

    The Blessed Lord said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic: not he who lights no fire and performs no work.
  • the results of all activities — Bg. 5.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.12

    The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace because he offers the result of all activities to Me; whereas a person who is not in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor, becomes entangled.

karma-phale

  • in fruitive action — Bg. 4.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.14

    There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the fruits of action. One who understands this truth about Me also does not become entangled in the fruitive reactions of work.

karma-sākṣiṇaḥ

  • witnesses for the sacrifice — SB 4.13.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.13.28

    Dear King, we do not find any reason that the demigods should feel insulted or neglected in any way, but still the demigods who are witnesses for the sacrifice do not accept their shares. We do not know why this is so.

karma-śaktiḥ

  • the active senses — SB 7.9.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.40

    My dear Lord, O infallible one, my position is like that of a person who has many wives, all trying to attract him in their own way. For example, the tongue is attracted to palatable dishes, the genitals to sex with an attractive woman, and the sense of touch to contact with soft things. The belly, although filled, still wants to eat more, and the ear, not attempting to hear about You, is generally attracted to cinema songs. The sense of smell is attracted to yet another side, the restless eyes are attracted to scenes of sense gratification, and the active senses are attracted elsewhere. In this way I am certainly embarrassed.

karma-sandhānām

  • who strictly follow the fruitive ritualistic ceremonies according to Vedic injunctions — SB 6.5.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.42

    Although I live in household life with my wife and children, I honestly follow the Vedic injunctions by engaging in fruitive activities to enjoy life without sinful reactions. I have performed all kinds of yajñas, including the deva-yajña, ṛṣi-yajña, pitṛ-yajña and nṛ-yajña. Because these yajñas are called vratas [vows], I am known as a gṛhavrata. Unfortunately, you have given me great displeasure by misguiding my sons, for no reason, to the path of renunciation. This can be tolerated once.

karma-saṅgena

  • association with fruitive activity — Bg. 14.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 14.7

    The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kuntī, and because of this one is bound to material fruitive activities.

karma-saṅginām

  • attached to fruitive work — Bg. 3.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.26

    Let not the wise disrupt the minds of the ignorant who are attached to fruitive action. They should not be encouraged to refrain from work, but to engage in work in the spirit of devotion.

karma-saṅgiṣu

  • in the association of fruitive activities — Bg. 14.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 14.15

    When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities; and when he dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in the animal kingdom.

karma-sannyāsāt

  • in comparison to the renunciation of fruitive work — Bg. 5.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.2

    The Blessed Lord said: The renunciation of work and work in devotion are both good for liberation. But, of the two, work in devotional service is better than renunciation of works.

karma-sārathayaḥ

  • whose chariot drivers are the results of their own past activities — SB 5.23.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.3

    When bulls are yoked together and tied to a central post to thresh rice, they tread around that pivot without deviating from their proper positions—one bull being closest to the post, another in the middle, and a third on the outside. Similarly, all the planets and all the hundreds and thousands of stars revolve around the polestar, the planet of Mahārāja Dhruva, in their respective orbits, some higher and some lower. Fastened by the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the machine of material nature according to the results of their fruitive acts, they are driven around the polestar by the wind and will continue to be so until the end of creation. These planets float in the air within the vast sky, just as clouds with hundreds of tons of water float in the air or as the great śyena eagles, due to the results of past activities, fly high in the sky and have no chance of falling to the ground.

karma-śreṣṭham

  • very expert in fruitive activities — SB 4.1.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.38

    Gati, the wife of the sage Pulaha, gave birth to three sons, named Karmaśreṣṭha, Varīyān and Sahiṣṇu, and all of them were great sages.

karma-śuklāya

  • who purifies the fruitive activities of the living entities — SB 5.18.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.35

    O Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You as the gigantic person. Simply by chanting mantras, we shall be able to understand You fully. You are yajña [sacrifice], and You are the kratu [ritual]. Therefore all the ritualistic ceremonies of sacrifice are part of Your transcendental body, and You are the only enjoyer of all sacrifices. Your form is composed of transcendental goodness. You are known as tri-yuga because in Kali-yuga You appeared as a concealed incarnation and because You always fully possess the three pairs of opulences.

karma-tantraḥ

  • in the matter of fruitive activities — SB 3.8.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.8.12

    The Lord lay down for four thousand yuga cycles in His internal potency, and by His external energy He appeared to be sleeping within the water. When the living entities were coming out for further development of their fruitive activities, actuated by the energy called kāla-śakti, He saw His transcendental body as bluish.

karma-tantram

  • fruitive activities — SB 4.2.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.22

    Pretentiously religious householder life, in which one is attracted to material happiness and thus also attracted to the superficial explanation of the Vedas, robs one of all intelligence and attaches one to fruitive activities as all in all.
  • the law of action and reaction — SB 3.1.44plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.1.44

    The appearance of the Lord is manifested for the annihilation of the upstarts. His activities are transcendental and are enacted for the understanding of all persons. Otherwise, since the Lord is transcendental to all material modes, what purpose could He serve by coming to earth?

karma-tattva-jñaḥ

  • expert in Vedic ritualistic ceremonies — SB 9.13.20-21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.13.20-21

    O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Kṛtadhvaja was Keśidhvaja, and the son of Mitadhvaja was Khāṇḍikya. The son of Kṛtadhvaja was expert in spiritual knowledge, and the son of Mitadhvaja was expert in Vedic ritualistic ceremonies. Khāṇḍikya fled in fear of Keśidhvaja. The son of Keśidhvaja was Bhānumān, and the son of Bhānumān was Śatadyumna.

karma-tyāga

  • renunciation of fruitive activities — Madhya 9.263plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 9.263

    "In every revealed scripture there is condemnation of fruitive activities. It is advised everywhere to give up engagement in fruitive activities, for by executing them no one can attain the highest goal of life, love of Godhead.

karma-uttamam

  • the very expert service in military art — SB 8.10.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.10.43

    When Bali Mahārāja saw the expert military activities of Indra, he could not restrain his anger. Thus he took up another weapon, known as śakti, which blazed like a great firebrand. But Indra cut that weapon to pieces while it was still in Bali's hand.

karma-vaiṣamyam

  • discrepancy in discharging fruitive activities — SB 8.23.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.15

    Śukrācārya said: My Lord, You are the enjoyer and lawgiver in all performances of sacrifice, and You are the yajña-puruṣa, the person to whom all sacrifices are offered. If one has fully satisfied You, where is the chance of discrepancies or faults in his performances of sacrifice?

karma-vallīm

  • the creeper of fruitive activities — SB 5.14.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.41

    When the conditioned soul accepts the shelter of the creeper of fruitive activity, he may be elevated by his pious activities to higher planetary systems and thus gain liberation from hellish conditions, but unfortunately he cannot remain there. After reaping the results of his pious activities, he has to return to the lower planetary systems. In this way he perpetually goes up and comes down.

karma-vaśam

  • subjugated by fruitive activities — SB 5.5.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.6

    When the living entity is covered by the mode of ignorance, he does not understand the individual living being and the supreme living being, and his mind is subjugated to fruitive activity. Therefore, until one has love for Lord Vāsudeva, who is none other than Myself, he is certainly not delivered from having to accept a material body again and again.

karma-vāsanā

  • by the desire for fruitive activities — SB 5.25.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.25.8

    If persons who are very serious about being liberated from material life hear the glories of Anantadeva from the mouth of a spiritual master in the chain of disciplic succession, and if they always meditate upon Saṅkarṣaṇa, the Lord enters the cores of their hearts, vanquishes all the dirty contamination of the material modes of nature, and cuts to pieces the hard knot within the heart, which has been tied tightly since time immemorial by the desire to dominate material nature through fruitive activities. Nārada Muni, the son of Lord Brahmā, always glorifies Anantadeva in his father's assembly. There he sings blissful verses of his own composition, accompanied by his stringed instrument [or a celestial singer] known as Tumburu.

karma-vāsanāḥ

  • desire for fruitive work — SB 2.10.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.4

    The right situation for the living entities is to obey the laws of the Lord and thus be in perfect peace of mind under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Manus and their laws are meant to give right direction in life. The impetus for activity is the desire for fruitive work.

karma-vāsanām

  • the strong desire for fruitive activities — SB 9.24.62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.24.62

    Simply by receiving the glories of the Lord through purified transcendental ears, the devotees of the Lord are immediately freed from strong material desires and engagement in fruitive activities.

karma-vetanataḥ

  • in exchange for wages from working — SB 5.9.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.11

    Jaḍa Bharata used to work only for food. His stepbrothers took advantage of this and engaged him in agricultural field work in exchange for some food, but actually he did not know how to work very well in the field. He did not know where to spread dirt or where to make the ground level or uneven. His brothers used to give him broken rice, oil cakes, the chaff of rice, worm-eaten grains and burned grains that had stuck to the pot, but he gladly accepted all this as if it were nectar. He did not hold any grudges and ate all this very gladly.

karma-viceṣṭitam

  • whose activities — 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.

karma-vinirmitam

  • manufactured by fruitive activities — SB 4.27.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.27.29

    This world is a product of fruitive activities. Therefore you may imperceptibly attack people in general. Helped by my soldiers, you can kill them without opposition.

karma-viśuddhāḥ

  • very pure in their activities — SB 5.4.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.13

    In addition to these nineteen sons mentioned above, there were eighty-one younger ones, all born of Ṛṣabhadeva and Jayantī. According to the order of their father, they became well cultured, well behaved, very pure in their activities and expert in Vedic knowledge and the performance of Vedic rituals. Thus they all became perfectly qualified brāhmaṇas.

karma-viśuddhi

  • of purification of fruitive activities — SB 5.22.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.22.3

    The original cause of the cosmic manifestation is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa. When great saintly persons, fully aware of the Vedic knowledge, offered prayers to the Supreme Person, He descended to this material world in the form of the sun to benefit all the planets and purify fruitive activities. He divided Himself into twelve parts and created seasonal forms, beginning with spring. In this way He created the seasonal qualities, such as heat, cold and so on.

karma-viśuddhyā

  • by offering everything for the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and not desiring any results of his pious activities — SB 5.7.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.7.7

    In this way, being purified by ritualistic sacrifices, the heart of Mahārāja Bharata was completely uncontaminated. His devotional service unto Vāsudeva, Lord Kṛṣṇa, increased day after day. Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vasudeva, is the original Personality of Godhead manifest as the Supersoul [Paramātmā] as well as the impersonal Brahman. Yogīs meditate upon the localized Paramātmā situated in the heart, jñānīs worship the impersonal Brahman as the Supreme Absolute Truth, and devotees worship Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose transcendental body is described in the śāstras. His body is decorated with the Śrīvatsa, the Kaustubha jewel and a flower garland, and His hands hold a conchshell, disc, club and lotus flower. Devotees like Nārada always think of Him within their hearts.

karma-yoga-jñāna

  • fruitive activities, mystic yoga and speculative knowledge — Madhya 22.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.17

    "Devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is the chief function of the living entity. There are different methods for the liberation of the conditioned soul-karma, jñāna, yoga and bhakti—but all are dependent on bhakti.

karma-yogaḥ

  • work in devotion — Bg. 5.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.2

    The Blessed Lord said: The renunciation of work and work in devotion are both good for liberation. But, of the two, work in devotional service is better than renunciation of works.

karma-yogam

  • devotion — Bg. 3.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.7

    On the other hand, he who controls the senses by the mind and engages his active organs in works of devotion, without attachment, is by far superior.

karma-yogena

  • by activities without fruitive desire — Bg. 13.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 13.25

    That Supersoul is perceived by some through meditation, by some through the cultivation of knowledge, and by others through working without fruitive desire.
  • by the linking process of devotion — Bg. 3.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.3

    The Blessed Lord said: O sinless Arjuna, I have already explained that there are two classes of men who realize the Self. Some are inclined to understand Him by empirical, philosophical speculation, and others are inclined to know Him by devotional work.

ānuṣaṅga-karma

  • secondary work — Ādi 4.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.14

    Thus the killing of the demons is but secondary work. I shall now speak of the main reason for the Lord's incarnation.

āpanāra karma-doṣa

  • it is the result of My own fate — Antya 19.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 19.50

    "But this is the fault of My own destiny. Why should I needlessly accuse you? There is no intimate relationship between you and Me. Kṛṣṇa, however, is My life and soul. It is We who live together, and it is He who has become so cruel.

ātma-karma

  • destined engagement — SB 3.5.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.9

    O chief amongst the brāhmaṇas, please also describe how Nārāyaṇa, the creator of the universe and the self-sufficient Lord, has differently created the natures, activities, forms, features and names of the different living creatures.

avasita-karma-nirvāṇa-avasaraḥ

  • Mahārāja Bharata who ascertained the moment of the end of his royal opulence — SB 5.7.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.7.8

    Destiny fixed the time for Mahārāja Bharata's enjoyment of material opulence at one thousand times ten thousand years. When that period was finished, he retired from family life and divided the wealth he had received from his forefathers among his sons. He left his paternal home, the reservoir of all opulence, and started for Pulahāśrama, which is situated in Hardwar. The śālagrāma-śilās are obtainable there.

basta-karma

  • the business of the goat — SB 9.19.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.7

    When the she-goat who had fallen into the well saw her beloved goat engaged in sexual affairs with another she-goat, she could not tolerate the goat's activities.

bhagavat-karma-śīlaḥ

  • being absorbed in activities to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 5.20.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.31

    The ruler of this island, the son of Mahārāja Priyavrata named Vītihotra, had two sons named Ramaṇaka and Dhātaki. He granted the two sides of the island to these two sons and then personally engaged himself in activities for the sake of the Supreme Personality of Godhead like his elder brother Medhātithi.

bhāla karma

  • good work — Madhya 12.117plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 12.117

    The Lord would say, "You have done well. Please teach this to others so that they may act in the same way."

bhartṛ-karma-niṣpattim

  • the accomplishment of their master’s work — SB 5.9.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.14

    The followers and servants of the dacoit chief considered Jaḍa Bharata to possess qualities quite suitable for a man-animal, and they decided that he was a perfect choice for sacrifice. Their faces bright with happiness, they bound him with ropes and brought him to the temple of the goddess Kālī.

bhīma-karmā

  • one who performs Herculean tasks — Bg. 1.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 1.15

    Then, Lord Kṛṣṇa blew His conchshell, called Pāñcajanya; Arjuna blew his, the Devadatta; and Bhīma, the voracious eater and performer of Herculean tasks, blew his terrific conchshell called Pauṇḍram.

daiva-karma-ātma-rūpiṇaḥ

  • of the gigantic form of transcendental work, time and nature — SB 3.6.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.35

    O Vidura, who can estimate or measure the transcendental time, work and potency of the gigantic form manifested by the internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?

dharma-karma

  • all prescribed duties — Madhya 16.148plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 16.148

    All the devotees would abandon all kinds of duties for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's sake, yet the Lord did not like the devotees' giving up their promised duties.
  • all religious activities and regulative principles — Antya 3.184plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.184

    "With the first glimpse of sunlight, fear of thieves, ghosts and demons immediately disappears, and when the sun is actually visible, everything is manifest, and everyone begins performing his religious activities and regulative duties.

dravya-guṇa-karma-āśaya

  • in a combination of material elements, material qualities, and the results of past activities and desires — SB 5.10.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.10.6

    King Rahūgaṇa told Jaḍa Bharata: How troublesome this is, my dear brother. You certainly appear very fatigued because you have carried this palanquin alone without assistance for a long time and for a long distance. Besides that, due to your old age you have become greatly troubled. My dear friend, I see that you are not very firm, nor very strong and stout. Aren't your fellow carriers cooperating with you?

ei āmāra karma

  • I have been taught this business (half-killing animals) — Madhya 24.253plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.253

    "The hunter then admitted that he was convinced of his sinful activity, and he said, 'I have been taught this business from my very childhood. Now I am wondering how I can become freed from these unlimited volumes of sinful activity.'

ei karma

  • this work — Antya 7.150plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 7.150

    Vallabha Bhaṭṭa wanted to be initiated by Gadādhara Paṇḍita, but Gadādhara Paṇḍita refused, saying, "The work of acting as a spiritual master is not possible for me.

guṇa-karma

  • with quality and work — SB 5.1.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.15

    My dear Priyavrata, according to our association with different modes of material nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives us our specific bodies and the happiness and distress we achieve. One must therefore remain situated as he is and be conducted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exactly as a blind man is led by a person who has eyes with which to see.
  • works under material influence — Bg. 3.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.28

    One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results.

guṇa-karma-anu-rūpāṇi

  • according to His attributes and activities — SB 10.8.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.8.15

    For this son of yours there are many forms and names according to His transcendental qualities and activities. These are known to me, but people in general do not understand them.

guṇa-karma-anubaddham

  • bound by the modes of nature and the reactions of material activities — SB 5.11.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.8

    When the living entity's mind becomes absorbed in the sense gratification of the material world, it brings about his conditioned life and suffering within the material situation. However, when the mind becomes unattached to material enjoyment, it becomes the cause of liberation. When the flame in a lamp burns the wick improperly, the lamp is blackened, but when the lamp is filled with ghee and is burning properly, there is bright illumination. Similarly, when the mind is absorbed in material sense gratification, it causes suffering, and when detached from material sense gratification, it brings about the original brightness of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

guṇa-karma-nibandhanaḥ

  • captivation by the three modes of material nature — SB 7.7.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.7.27

    Through polluted intelligence one is subjected to the modes of nature, and thus one is conditioned by material existence. Like a dreaming state in which one falsely suffers, material existence, which is due to ignorance, must be considered unwanted and temporary.

guṇa-karma-sākṣiṇe

  • the witness of the actions and reactions of material nature — SB 5.18.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.38

    O Lord, You do not desire the creation, maintenance or annihilation of this material world, but You perform these activities for the conditioned souls by Your creative energy. Exactly as a piece of iron moves under the influence of a lodestone, inert matter moves when You glance over the total material energy.

guṇa-karma-yonau

  • unto the cause of the material modes and activities — SB 3.5.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.5.50

    You are the original personal founder of all the demigods and the orders of different gradations, yet You are the oldest and are unchanged. O Lord, You have no source or superior. You have impregnated the external energy with the semen of the total living entities, yet You are unborn.

janma-karma-phala-pradām

  • resulting in fruitive action, good birth, etc — 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.

jāta-karma

  • the auspicious ceremony at the time of birth — Ādi 13.108plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 13.108

    Candraśekhara Ācārya and Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura both came to Jagannātha Miśra and drew his attention in various ways. They performed the ritualistic ceremonies prescribed at the time of birth according to religious principles. Jagannātha Miśra also gave varieties of charity.
  • the festival for the birth of the child — SB 10.5.1-2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.1-2

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Nanda Mahārāja was naturally very magnanimous, and when Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared as his son, he was overwhelmed by jubilation. Therefore, after bathing and purifying himself and dressing himself properly, he invited brāhmaṇas who knew how to recite Vedic mantras. After having these qualified brāhmaṇas recite auspicious Vedic hymns, he arranged to have the Vedic birth ceremony celebrated for his newborn child according to the rules and regulations, and he also arranged for worship of the demigods and forefathers.

jñāna-karma

  • of speculation and fruitive activities — Madhya 6.284-285plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.284-285

    If one hears with faith and love these pastimes concerning Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's meeting with Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, he very soon is freed from the net of speculation and fruitive activity and attains the shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's lotus feet.

kāla-karma

  • time and actions — SB 1.15.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.15.30

    Because of the Lord's pastimes and activities and because of His absence, it appeared that Arjuna forgot the instructions left by the Personality of Godhead. But factually this was not the case, and again he became lord of his senses.

kāma-karma-indriya-āśayaḥ

  • being under the influence of lusty desires and fruitive activities — SB 9.8.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.8.26

    O Supersoul of all living entities, O Personality of Godhead, simply by seeing You I have now been freed from all lusty desires, which are the root cause of insurmountable illusion and bondage in the material world.

kaumāra-jam karma

  • performed during their kaumāra age (the age of five years) — SB 10.12.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.12.37

    This incident of Kṛṣṇa's saving Himself and His associates from death and of giving deliverance to Aghāsura, who had assumed the form of a python, took place when Kṛṣṇa was five years old. It was disclosed in Vrajabhūmi after one year, as if it had taken place on that very day.

koṭi-karma-niṣṭha-madhye

  • among millions of such performers of fruitive activities according to Vedic principles — Madhya 19.147plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.147

    "Among the followers of Vedic knowledge, most are following the process of fruitive activity and distinguishing between good and bad work. Out of many such sincere fruitive actors, there may be one who is actually wise.

kṛṣṇa-arcana-karma

  • the activities of worshiping Lord Kṛṣṇa — Madhya 20.336plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.336

    "In Dvāpara-yuga the people's occupational duty was to worship the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa, appearing in a blackish body, personally induced people to worship Him.

kṛtsna-karma-kṛt

  • although engaged in all activities — Bg. 4.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.18

    One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.

kūṭa-karma-jā

  • because of the illusory, magical activities — SB 8.10.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.10.55

    As the dangers of a dream cease when the dreamer awakens, the illusions created by the jugglery of the demons were vanquished by the transcendental prowess of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as soon as He entered the battlefield. Indeed, simply by remembrance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one becomes free from all dangers.

mat-karma

  • My work — Bg. 12.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 12.10

    If you cannot practice the regulations of bhakti-yoga, then just try to work for Me, because by working for Me you will come to the perfect stage.

mat-karma-kṛt

  • engaged in doing My work — Bg. 11.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 11.55

    My dear Arjuna, one who is engaged in My pure devotional service, free from the contaminations of previous activities and from mental speculation, who is friendly to every living entity, certainly comes to Me.

mleccha-karma

  • the work of meat-eaters — Madhya 1.197plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 1.197

    "Actually we belong to the caste of meat-eaters because we are servants of meat-eaters. Indeed, our activities are exactly like those of the meat-eaters. Because we always associate with such people, we are inimical toward the cows and brāhmaṇas."

nāma-karma

  • of names and different activities — SB 6.3.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.13

    Just as the driver of a bullock cart ties ropes through the nostrils of his bulls to control them, the Supreme Personality of Godhead binds all men through the ropes of His words in the Vedas, which set forth the names and activities of the distinct orders of human society [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra]. In fear, the members of these orders all worship the Supreme Lord by offering Him presentations according to their respective activities.

nānā-karma

  • varieties of service — SB 3.9.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.9.34

    Since you have desired to increase the population innumerably and expand your varieties of service, you shall never be deprived in this matter because My causeless mercy upon you will always increase for all time.

nija-karma

  • Your activities — Madhya 9.126plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 9.126

    "You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa Himself. You know the purpose of Your activities, and the person whom You enlighten can also understand Your pastimes."

nija-karma-bandhanaḥ

  • accepting different bodily forms as a result of his sinful activities — SB 8.24.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.24.47

    In hopes of becoming happy in this material world, the foolish conditioned soul performs fruitive activities that result only in suffering. But by rendering service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one becomes free from such false desires for happiness. May my supreme spiritual master cut the knot of false desires from the core of my heart.

nindya-karma

  • forbidden actions — Madhya 8.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.37

    "You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself; therefore no one can understand Your purpose. By Your mercy You are touching me, although this is not sanctioned by the Vedas.
  • reproachable activities — Antya 13.133plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 13.133

    He would not listen to blasphemy of a Vaiṣṇava, nor would he listen to talk of a Vaiṣṇava's misbehavior. He knew only that everyone was engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service; he did not understand anything else.

priya-karma

  • activities of the dearmost — SB 2.9.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.14

    The goddess of fortune in her transcendental form is engaged in the loving service of the Lord's lotus feet, and being moved by the black bees, followers of spring, she is not only engaged in variegated pleasure—service to the Lord, along with her constant companions—but is also engaged in singing the glories of the Lord's activities.

rajaḥ-tamaḥ-sattva-vibhakta-karma-dṛk

  • a conditioned soul who sees only immediately beneficial fruitive activities and their results, which are divided into three groups by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance — SB 5.13.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.13.1

    Jaḍa Bharata, who had fully realized Brahman, continued: My dear King Rahūgaṇa, the living entity wanders on the path of the material world, which is very difficult for him to traverse, and he accepts repeated birth and death. Being captivated by the material world under the influence of the three modes of material nature (sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa), the living entity can see only the three fruits of activities under the spell of material nature. These fruits are auspicious, inauspicious and mixed. He thus becomes attached to religion, economic development, sense gratification and the monistic theory of liberation (merging with the Supreme). He works very hard day and night exactly like a merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this material world.

randhita-karma-kalmaṣāḥ

  • those for whom all pollution of fruitive activities has been stopped — SB 8.21.2-3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.21.2-3

    Among the great personalities who came to worship the lotus feet of the Lord were those who had attained perfection in self-control and regulative principles, as well as experts in logic, history, general education and the Vedic literature known as kalpe [dealing with old historical incidents]. Others were experts in the Vedic corollaries like Brahma-saṁhitā, all the other knowledge of the Vedas [Sāma, Yajur, Ṛg and Atharva], and also the supplementary Vedic knowledge [Āyur-veda, Dhanur-veda, etc.]. Others were those who had been freed of the reactions to fruitive activities by transcendental knowledge awakened by practice of yoga. And still others were those who had attained residence in Brahmaloka not by ordinary karma but by advanced Vedic knowledge. After devotedly worshiping the upraised lotus feet of the Supreme Lord with oblations of water, Lord Brahmā, who was born of the lotus emanating from Lord Viṣṇu's navel, offered prayers to the Lord.

sa-karma

  • engaged in work — SB 2.10.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.36

    He, the Personality of Godhead, manifests Himself in a transcendental form, being the subject of His transcendental name, quality, pastimes, entourage and transcendental variegatedness. Although He is unaffected by all such activities, He appears to be so engaged.

saba karma

  • all activities — Madhya 15.203plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 15.203

    Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya personally began to help his wife cook. His wife, the mother of Ṣāṭhī, was very experienced, and she knew how to cook nicely.

sarva-karma

  • all activities — Bg. 12.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 12.11

    If, however, you are unable to work in this consciousness, then try to act giving up all results of your work and try to be self-situated.    , Madhya 22.62plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.62

    "By rendering transcendental loving service to Kṛṣṇa, one automatically performs all subsidiary activities. This confident, firm faith, favorable to the discharge of devotional service, is called śraddhā.
  • all other activities, material and spiritual — Madhya 22.60plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.60

    "If the devotee has faith in the strength of this order, he worships Lord Kṛṣṇa and gives up all other activities.

sei karma karāya

  • causes one to act in that way — Antya 6.199plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 6.199

    "Those who are attached to materialistic life and are blind to spiritual life must act in such a way that they are bound to repeated birth and death by the actions and reactions of their activities.

stuti-karma-pūjāḥ

  • worshiping Your Lordship by offering prayers and other devotional activities — SB 7.9.50plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.50

    Therefore, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, the best of all persons to whom prayers are offered, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You because without rendering six kinds of devotional service unto You—offering prayers, dedicating all the results of activities, worshiping You, working on Your behalf, always remembering Your lotus feet and hearing about Your glories—who can achieve that which is meant for the paramahaṁsas?

śubha-karma

  • pious activities — Madhya 23.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.29

    " 'O my Lord, I do not have any love for You, nor am I qualified for discharging devotional service by chanting and hearing. Nor do I possess the mystic power of a Vaiṣṇava, knowledge or pious activities. Nor do I belong to a very high-caste family. On the whole, I do not possess anything. Still, O beloved of the gopīs, because You bestow Your mercy on the most fallen, I have an unbreakable hope that is constantly in my heart. That hope is always giving me pain.'

suta-karma

  • action taken by his son — SB 3.1.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.1.7

    The King did not forbid his son Duḥśāsana's abominable action of grabbing the hair of Draupadī, the wife of the godly King Yudhiṣṭhira, even though her tears washed the red dust on her breast.

sva-karma

  • his own activities — SB 9.15.37plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.15.37

    Paraśurāma described to his father and brothers his activities in killing Kārtavīryārjuna. Upon hearing of these deeds, Jamadagni spoke to his son as follows.
  • his prescribed duties — 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.
  • of one’s own fruitive activities — Madhya 15.170plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 15.170

    " 'Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the original Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who regulates the sufferings and enjoyments of fruitive activity for everyone-from the heavenly King Indra down to the smallest insect [indra-gopa]. That very Personality of Godhead destroys the fruitive karma of one engaged in devotional service.'

sva-karma karite

  • performing his duty in life — Madhya 22.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.26

    "The followers of the varṇāśrama institution accept the regulative principles of the four social orders [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra] and four spiritual orders [brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa]. However, if one carries out the regulative principles of these orders but does not render transcendental service to Kṛṣṇa, he falls into the hellish condition of material life.

sva-karma-jān

  • produced from one’s own work — SB 2.2.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.2.7

    Who else but the gross materialists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only, seeing the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering as the consequence of accruing the result of their own work?

sva-karma-kṛt

  • executing his own work — SB 7.11.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.11.32

    If one acts in his profession according to his position in the modes of nature and gradually gives up these activities, he attains the niṣkāma stage.

sva-karma-patitam

  • fallen because of the reactions of one’s own material activities — SB 7.9.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.41

    My dear Lord, You are always transcendentally situated on the other side of the river of death, but because of the reactions of our own activities, we are suffering on this side. Indeed, we have fallen into this river and are repeatedly suffering the pains of birth and death and eating horrible things. Now kindly look upon us—not only upon me but also upon all others who are suffering—and by Your causeless mercy and compassion, deliver us and maintain us.

sva-karma-phala-bhuk

  • sure to accept the resultant action of his fruitive activities — Antya 2.163plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 2.163

    When Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura inquired from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "Where is Junior Haridāsa?" The Lord replied, "A person is sure to achieve the results of his fruitive activities."

sva-karma-vaśa-gām

  • under the influence of the results of fruitive activities — 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.

tat karma

  • that action (striking the head of Indra’s elephant with the club in his left hand) — SB 6.11.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.11.10

    O King Parīkṣit, the powerful Vṛtrāsura, the enemy of King Indra, angrily struck the head of Indra's elephant with that club, making a tumultuous sound on the battlefield. For this heroic deed, the soldiers on both sides glorified him.

tat-karma

  • his activities — SB 6.11.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.11.13

    O King, when the great hero Vṛtrāsura saw Indra, his enemy, the killer of his brother, standing before him with a thunderbolt in his hand, desiring to fight, Vṛtrāsura remembered how Indra had cruelly killed his brother. Thinking of Indra's sinful activities, he became mad with lamentation and forgetfulness. Laughing sarcastically, he spoke as follows.

tat-tat-karma

  • various activities favorable for devotional service — NoI 3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNectar of Instruction Text 3

    There are six principles favorable to the execution of pure devotional service: (1) being enthusiastic, (2) endeavoring with confidence, (3) being patient, (4) acting according to regulative principles [such as śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇam—hearing, chanting and remembering Kṛṣṇa], (5) abandoning the association of nondevotees, and (6) following in the footsteps of the previous ācāryas. These six principles undoubtedly assure the complete success of pure devotional service.

vātulera karma

  • the acts of a madman — Madhya 15.49plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 15.49

    "I am subordinate to the love of My mother, and it is My duty to serve her in return. Instead of doing so, I have accepted this renounced order. Certainly this is the act of a madman.

viriñca-stuta-karma-vīryaḥ

  • the Personality of Godhead, whose activities and prowess are always praised by Lord Brahmā — SB 8.18.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.18.1

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After Lord Brahmā had thus spoken, glorifying the Supreme Lord's activities and prowess, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never subject to death like an ordinary living being, appeared from the womb of Aditi. His four hands were decorated with a conchshell, club, lotus and disc, He was dressed in yellow garments, and His eyes appeared like the petals of a blooming lotus.

viśva-karmā

  • creative person — Antya 1.167plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 1.167

    'O beautiful-faced one, who is this creative person standing before us? With the sharp chisels of His loving glances, He is splitting the hard stones of many women's devotion to their husbands. And with the luster of His body, surpassing the brilliance of countless emeralds, He is simultaneously constructing private meeting places for His pastimes.'

yathā-karma

  • according to one’s past activities — SB 5.25.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.25.14

    My dear King, as I heard of it from my spiritual master, I have fully described to you the creation of this material world according to the fruitive activities and desires of the conditioned souls. Those conditioned souls, who are full of material desires, achieve various situations in different planetary systems, and in this way they live within this material creation.

yathā-karma-avadyam

  • according to how much they have violated the rules and regulations of conditional life — SB 5.26.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.6

    The King of the pitās is Yamarāja, the very powerful son of the sun-god. He resides in Pitṛloka with his personal assistants and, while abiding by the rules and regulations set down by the Supreme Lord, has his agents, the Yamadūtas, bring all the sinful men to him immediately upon their death. After bringing them within his jurisdiction, he properly judges them according to their specific sinful activities and sends them to one of the many hellish planets for suitable punishments.