View source for The Lord's lotus feet are like an umbrella for the surrendered souls, protecting them from all the miseries of material existence

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[[Category:Lotus Feet of the Lord]]
[[Category:Umbrella]]
[[Category:Surrendered Souls]]
[[Category:Protection]]
[[Category:Miseries]]
[[Category:Material Existence]]
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<div id="SB3539_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="182" link="SB 3.5.39" link_text="SB 3.5.39">
<div class="heading">The demigods said: O Lord, Your lotus feet are like an umbrella for the surrendered souls, protecting them from all the miseries of material existence.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.39|SB 3.5.39, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The demigods said: O Lord, Your lotus feet are like an umbrella for the surrendered souls, protecting them from all the miseries of material existence. All the sages under that shelter throw off all material miseries. We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>There are many sages and saints who engage in trying to conquer rebirth and all other material miseries. But of all of them, those who take shelter under the lotus feet of the Lord can completely throw off all such miseries without difficulty. Others, who are engaged in transcendental activities in different ways, cannot do so. For them it is very difficult. They may artificially think of becoming liberated without accepting the shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord, but that is not possible. One is sure to fall again to material existence from such false liberation, even though one may have undergone severe penances and austerities. This is the opinion of the demigods, who are not only well versed in Vedic knowledge but are also seers of the past, present and future. The opinions of the demigods are valuable because the demigods are authorized to hold positions in the affairs of universal management. They are appointed by the Lord as His confidential servants.</p>
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<div id="SB32117_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="833" link="SB 3.21.17" link_text="SB 3.21.17">
<div class="heading">Persons who have taken shelter of the umbrella of Your lotus feet by drinking the intoxicating nectar of Your qualities and activities in discussions with one another, can be freed from the primary necessities of the material body.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.21.17|SB 3.21.17, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">However, persons who have given up stereotyped worldly affairs and the beastly followers of these affairs, and who have taken shelter of the umbrella of Your lotus feet by drinking the intoxicating nectar of Your qualities and activities in discussions with one another, can be freed from the primary necessities of the material body.</p>
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<div id="SB_Cantos_1014_to_12_Translations_Only" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3>
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<div class="heading">I do not see any possible shelter other than Your two lotus feet, which are just like a refreshing umbrella that pours down showers of delicious nectar.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.19.9|SB 11.19.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear Lord, for one who is being tormented on the terrible path of birth and death and is constantly overwhelmed by the threefold miseries, I do not see any possible shelter other than Your two lotus feet, which are just like a refreshing umbrella that pours down showers of delicious nectar.</p>
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