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[[Category:Ascending]]</div>
<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2></div>
<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3></div>
<div id="SB3146_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="536" link="SB 3.14.6" link_text="SB 3.14.6">
<div class="heading">Dhruva ascended to the abode of the Lord.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.14.6|SB 3.14.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text">By hearing these topics from the sage (Nārada), the son of King Uttānapāda (Dhruva) was enlightened regarding the Personality of Godhead, and he ascended to the abode of the Lord, placing his feet over the head of death.</div>
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<div id="SB33140_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1307" link="SB 3.31.40" link_text="SB 3.31.40">
<div class="heading">Association with a woman is restricted for those who aspire to ascend to the transcendental platform.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.31.40|SB 3.31.40, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">Sometimes it happens that a rejected well is covered by grass, and an unwary traveler who does not know of the existence of the well falls down, and his death is assured. Similarly, association with a woman begins when one accepts service from her, because woman is especially created by the Lord to give service to man. By accepting her service, a man is entrapped. If he is not intelligent enough to know that she is the gateway to hellish life, he may indulge in her association very liberally. This is restricted for those who aspire to ascend to the transcendental platform. Even fifty years ago in Hindu society, such association was restricted. A wife could not see her husband during the daytime. Householders even had different residential quarters. The internal quarters of a residential house were for the woman, and the external quarters were for the man.</div>
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<div id="SB33141_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1308" link="SB 3.31.41" link_text="SB 3.31.41">
<div class="heading">The relationship between man and woman is very complicated, but the substance is that one who aspires to ascend to the transcendental stage of spiritual realization should be very careful in accepting the association of a woman.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.31.41|SB 3.31.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">A woman is generally fond of household prosperity, ornaments, furniture and dresses. She is satisfied when the husband supplies all these things sufficiently. The relationship between man and woman is very complicated, but the substance is that one who aspires to ascend to the transcendental stage of spiritual realization should be very careful in accepting the association of a woman. In the stage of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, however, such restriction of association may be slackened because if a man's and woman's attachment is not to each other but to Kṛṣṇa, then both of them are equally eligible to get out of the material entanglement and reach the abode of Kṛṣṇa.</div>
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<div id="SB_Canto_5" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h3>SB Canto 5</h3></div>
<div id="SB596_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="210" link="SB 5.9.6" link_text="SB 5.9.6">
<div class="heading">Lord Kṛṣṇa advised Arjuna to ascend to the platform of nistraiguṇya, the transcendental position above the Vedic principles.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.9.6|SB 5.9.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">When one is fully interested in the service of the Lord, he does not need to follow all the regulative principles enunciated in the Vedas. Of course, for an ordinary man, the Vedic principles are imperative. No one can avoid them. But when one has attained the perfection of devotional service, it is not very important to follow the Vedic principles. Lord Kṛṣṇa advised Arjuna to ascend to the platform of nistraiguṇya, the transcendental position above the Vedic principles.</div>
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<div id="SB_Canto_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h3>SB Canto 6</h3></div>
<div id="SB611_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="2" link="SB 6.1.1" link_text="SB 6.1.1">
<div class="heading">Yogīs, however, instead of going directly to the spiritual world, sometimes want to see other planetary systems, and therefore they ascend to the planetary system where Lord Brahmā lives, as indicated here by the word brahmaṇā.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.1.1|SB 6.1.1, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">Bhakti-yoga itself is so powerful that even an impious man with no assets in karma-yoga or an illiterate with no assets in jñāna-yoga can undoubtedly be elevated to the spiritual world if he simply adheres to bhakti-yoga. Mām evaiṣyasy asaṁśayaḥ. Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā (8.7) that by the process of bhakti-yoga one undoubtedly goes back to Godhead, back home to the spiritual world. Yogīs, however, instead of going directly to the spiritual world, sometimes want to see other planetary systems, and therefore they ascend to the planetary system where Lord Brahmā lives, as indicated here by the word brahmaṇā. At the time of dissolution, Lord Brahmā, along with all the inhabitants of Brahmaloka, goes directly to the spiritual world.</div>
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<div id="SB_Canto_8" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h3>SB Canto 8</h3></div>
<div id="SB8115_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="352" link="SB 8.11.5" link_text="SB 8.11.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.11.5|SB 8.11.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text">Those fools and rascals who want to ascend to the upper planetary system by mystic power or mechanical means, or who endeavor to cross even the upper planets and achieve the spiritual world or liberation, I cause to be sent to the lowest region of the universe.</div>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2></div>
<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3></div>
<div id="CCAdi191_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="85" link="CC Adi 1.91" link_text="CC Adi 1.91">
<div class="heading">Therefore because of his unclean state of mind, the empiric philosopher glides down again into material existence, even after having ascended to the highest stage of liberation. This falldown takes place due to his want of a locus standi in the service of the Supreme Lord.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 1.91|CC Adi 1.91, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">An empiric philosopher in search of spiritual knowledge may endeavor most laboriously for many, many births in mental speculation, but unless and until he reaches the stage of the purest quality of goodness—in other words, until he transcends the plane of material speculation—it is not possible for him to know that everything emanates from the Personality of Godhead Vāsudeva. His attachment to the impersonal feature of the Supreme Lord makes him unfit to rise to that transcendental stage of vasudeva understanding, and therefore because of his unclean state of mind he glides down again into material existence, even after having ascended to the highest stage of liberation. This falldown takes place due to his want of a locus standi in the service of the Supreme Lord.</div>
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