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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_1" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3>
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<div id="SB11111_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="408" link="SB 1.11.11" link_text="SB 1.11.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.11.11|SB 1.11.11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As Bhogavatī, the capital of Nāgaloka, is protected by the Nāgas, so was Dvārakā protected by the descendants of Vṛṣṇi—Bhoja, Madhu, Daśārha, Arha, Kukura, Andhaka, etc.—who were as strong as Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="SB11222_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="457" link="SB 1.12.22" link_text="SB 1.12.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.12.22|SB 1.12.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This child will be as strong as a lion, and as worthy a shelter as the Himalaya Mountains. He will be forbearing like the earth, and as tolerant as his parents.</p>
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<div id="SB11715_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="662" link="SB 1.17.15" link_text="SB 1.17.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.17.15|SB 1.17.15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Mahārāja Parīkṣit challenges even such denizens of heaven if they torture the offenseless. This means that the state executive head must be as strong as Mahārāja Parīkṣit so that he may be determined to punish the strongest offenders. It should be the principle of a state executive head that the offender of the codes of God is always punished.</p>
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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="SB3139_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="39" link="SB 3.1.39" link_text="SB 3.1.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.1.39|SB 3.1.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Indra, the King of heaven, carries a thunderbolt in his hand and is very strong, yet Garuḍa, the carrier of Lord Viṣṇu, was able to snatch nectar from his mouth. Similarly, Duryodhana was as strong as the King of heaven, and still the sons of Pṛthā, the Pāṇḍavas, were able to snatch away their kingdom from Duryodhana. Both Garuḍa and the Pārthas are pet devotees of the Lord, and thus it was possible for them to face such strong enemies.</p>
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<div id="SB31716_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="683" link="SB 3.17.16" link_text="SB 3.17.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.17.16|SB 3.17.16, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The demigods concern themselves with the spiritual upliftment of human society, whereas the demons are concerned with physical and material upliftment. The two demons born of Diti began to make their bodies as strong as iron frames, and they were so tall that they seemed to touch outer space. They were decorated with valuable ornaments, and they thought that this was success in life.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_4" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 4"><h3>SB Canto 4</h3>
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<div id="SB4922_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="390" link="SB 4.9.22" link_text="SB 4.9.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.9.22|SB 4.9.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After your father goes to the forest and awards you the rule of his kingdom, you will rule continuously the entire world for thirty-six thousand years, and all your senses will continue to be as strong as they are now. You will never become old.</p>
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<div id="SB41233_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="528" link="SB 4.12.33" link_text="SB 4.12.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.12.33|SB 4.12.33, Purport]]: </span><div class="purport text">The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spreading now all over the world, and sometimes I think that even though I am crippled in many ways, if one of my disciples becomes as strong as Dhruva Mahārāja, then he will be able to carry me with him to Vaikuṇṭhaloka.
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<div id="SB42260_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="941" link="SB 4.22.60" link_text="SB 4.22.60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.22.60|SB 4.22.60, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In his bodily strength and in the strength of his senses, Mahārāja Pṛthu was as strong as the wind, which can go anywhere and everywhere. As far as his intolerance was concerned, he was just like the all-powerful Rudra expansion of Lord Śiva, or Sadāśiva.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_5" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 5"><h3>SB Canto 5</h3>
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<div id="SB558_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="114" link="SB 5.5.8" link_text="SB 5.5.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.5.8|SB 5.5.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes, even after renunciation, one becomes attached to a temple or to the few things that constitute the property of a sannyāsī, but such attachment is not as strong as family attachment. The attachment to the family is the strongest illusion.</p>
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<div id="SB59910_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="213" link="SB 5.9.9-10" link_text="SB 5.9.9-10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.9.9-10|SB 5.9.9-10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Degraded men are actually no better than animals. The only difference is that animals have four legs and such men have only two. These two-legged, animalistic men used to call Jaḍa Bharata mad, dull, deaf and dumb. They mistreated him, and Jaḍa Bharata behaved for them like a madman who was deaf, blind or dull. He did not protest or try to convince them that he was not so. If others wanted him to do something, he acted according to their desires. Whatever food he could acquire by begging or by wages, and whatever came of its own accord—be it a small quantity, palatable, stale or tasteless—he would accept and eat. He never ate anything for sense gratification because he was already liberated from the bodily conception, which induces one to accept palatable or unpalatable food. He was full in the transcendental consciousness of devotional service, and therefore he was unaffected by the dualities arising from the bodily conception. Actually his body was as strong as a bull's, and his limbs were very muscular. He didn't care for winter or summer, wind or rain, and he never covered his body at any time. He lay on the ground, and never smeared oil on his body or took a bath. Because his body was dirty, his spiritual effulgence and knowledge were covered, just as the splendor of a valuable gem is covered by dirt. He only wore a dirty loincloth and his sacred thread, which was blackish. Understanding that he was born in a brāhmaṇa family, people would call him a brahma-bandhu and other names. Being thus insulted and neglected by materialistic people, he wandered here and there.</p>
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<div id="SB51025_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="249" link="SB 5.10.25" link_text="SB 5.10.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.10.25|SB 5.10.25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O my dear lord, you are the friend of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the friend of all living entities. You are therefore equal to everyone, and you are free from the bodily conception. Although I have committed an offense by insulting you, I know that there is no loss or gain for you due to my insult. You are fixed in your determination, but I have committed an offense. Because of this, even though I may be as strong as Lord Śiva, I shall be vanquished without delay due to my offense at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div id="SB51025_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="249" link="SB 5.10.25" link_text="SB 5.10.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.10.25|SB 5.10.25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura in the Caitanya-bhāgavata (Madhya 13) says:</p>
:śūlapāṇi-sama yadi bhakta-nindā kare
:bhāgavata pramāṇa—tathāpi śīghra mare
:hena vaiṣṇavere ninde sarvajña ha-i
:se janera adhaḥ-pāta sarva-śāstre ka-i
<p>"Even if one is as strong as Lord Śiva, who carries a trident in his hand, one will nonetheless fall down from his spiritual position if he tries to insult a Vaiṣṇava. That is the verdict of all Vedic scriptures."</p>
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<div id="SB51025_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="249" link="SB 5.10.25" link_text="SB 5.10.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.10.25|SB 5.10.25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">He also says this in Caitanya-bhāgavata (Madhya 22):</p>
:vaiṣṇavera nindā karibeka yāra gaṇa
:tāra rakṣā sāmarthya nāhika kona jana
:śūlapāṇi-sama yadi vaiṣṇavere ninde
:tathāpiha nāśa yāya—kahe śāstra-vṛnde
:ihā nā māniyā ye sujana nindā kare
:janme janme se pāpiṣṭha daiva-doṣe mare
<p>"One who blasphemes a Vaiṣṇava cannot be protected by anyone. Even if a person is as strong as Lord Śiva, if he blasphemes a Vaiṣṇava, he is sure to be destroyed. This is the verdict of all śāstras. If one does not care for the verdict of the śāstras and dares blaspheme a Vaiṣṇava, he suffers life after life because of this."</p>
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<div id="SB52621_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="657" link="SB 5.26.21" link_text="SB 5.26.21">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.26.21|SB 5.26.21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A person who indulges in sex indiscriminately—even with animals—is taken after death to the hell known as Vajrakaṇṭaka-śālmalī. In this hell there is a silk-cotton tree full of thorns as strong as thunderbolts. The agents of Yamarāja hang the sinful man on that tree and pull him down forcibly so that the thorns very severely tear his body.</p>
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<div id="SB52627_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="663" link="SB 5.26.27" link_text="SB 5.26.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.26.27|SB 5.26.27, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this world, some persons are professional plunderers who set fire to others' houses or administer poison to them. Also, members of the royalty or government officials sometimes plunder mercantile men by forcing them to pay income tax and by other methods. After death such demons are put into the hell known as Sārameyādana. On that planet there are 720 dogs with teeth as strong as thunderbolts. Under the orders of the agents of Yamarāja, these dogs voraciously devour such sinful people.</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 id="SB103632_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="796" link="SB 10.36.32" link_text="SB 10.36.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.36.32|SB 10.36.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After you bring Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, I will have Them killed by my elephant, who is as powerful as death itself. And if by chance They escape from him, I will have Them killed by my wrestlers, who are as strong as lightning.</p>
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<div id="SB10448_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1078" link="SB 10.44.8" link_text="SB 10.44.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.44.8|SB 10.44.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">What comparison can there be between these two professional wrestlers, with limbs as strong as lightning bolts and bodies resembling mighty mountains, and these two young, immature boys with exceedingly tender limbs?</p>
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<div id="SB104624_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1185" link="SB 10.46.24" link_text="SB 10.46.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.46.24|SB 10.46.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After all, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma killed Kaṁsa, who was as strong as ten thousand elephants, as well as the wrestlers Cāṇūra and Muṣṭika and the elephant Kuvalayāpīḍa. They killed them all sportingly, as easily as a lion disposes of small animals.</p>
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<div id="SB10715_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2262" link="SB 10.71.5" link_text="SB 10.71.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.71.5|SB 10.71.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The invincible King Jarāsandha is as strong as ten thousand elephants. Indeed, other powerful warriors cannot defeat him. Only Bhīma is equal to him in strength.</p>
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<div id="SB107232_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2330" link="SB 10.72.32" link_text="SB 10.72.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.72.32|SB 10.72.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"As for this one, Arjuna, he is not as old as I, nor is he very strong. Since he is no match for me, he should not be the contender. Bhīma, however, is as strong as I am."</p>
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<div id="SB109036_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3081" link="SB 10.90.36" link_text="SB 10.90.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.90.36|SB 10.90.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The great warrior Pradyumna married Rukmī's daughter (Rukmavatī), who gave birth to Aniruddha. He was as strong as ten thousand elephants.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya91_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1718" link="CC Madhya 9.1" link_text="CC Madhya 9.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.1|CC Madhya 9.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu converted the inhabitants of South India. These people were as strong as elephants, but they were in the clutches of the crocodiles of various philosophies, such as the Buddhist, Jain and Māyāvāda philosophies. With His disc of mercy the Lord delivered them all by converting them into Vaiṣṇavas, devotees of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya91_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1718" link="CC Madhya 9.1" link_text="CC Madhya 9.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.1|CC Madhya 9.1, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited southern India, almost all the residents were within the jaws of the crocodiles of Buddhist, Jain and Māyāvāda philosophy. Here Kavirāja Gosvāmī states that although these people were as strong as elephants, they were almost in the clutches of death because they were being attacked by the crocodiles of various philosophies.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10177_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2256" link="CC Madhya 10.177" link_text="CC Madhya 10.177">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.177|CC Madhya 10.177, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The devotee doesn’t have to control his senses, for his senses are already engaged in the Lord's service. Consequently there is no possibility that the senses will act like serpents. In the material condition, the senses are as strong as poisonous snakes. But when the senses are engaged in the Lord's service, they are like poisonous snakes with their fangs removed, and so they are no longer dangerous.</p>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAntya1578_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2566" link="CC Antya 15.78" link_text="CC Antya 15.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.78|CC Antya 15.78, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"My dear friend, Kṛṣṇa"s chest is as broad and attractive as a door made of indranīla gems, and His two arms, as strong as bolts, can relieve the mental anguish of young girls distressed by lusty desires for Him. His body is cooler than the moon, sandalwood, the lotus flower and camphor. In this way, Madana-mohana, the attractor of Cupid, is increasing the desire of My breasts.’”</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Devotion"><h3>Nectar of Devotion</h3>
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<div id="NOD33_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="269" link="NOD 33" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 33|Nectar of Devotion 33]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One friend addressed Kṛṣṇa in this manner: "My dear Madhusūdana, You know my strength, yet You are encouraging Bhadrasena, and not me, to challenge mighty Baladeva. By this action You are simply insulting me, because my arms are as strong as the bolts of the gate!"</p>
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<div id="NOD50_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="301" link="NOD 50" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 50">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 50|Nectar of Devotion 50]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nanda Mahārāja told his wife, "My dear Yaśodā, although your son, Kṛṣṇa, is as delicate and soft as the mallikā flower, He has gone to kill the Keśī demon, who is as strong as a mountain. Therefore I have become a little disturbed. But never mind, all auspiciousness to my son! I shall raise this hand, which is as strong as a pillar, and I shall kill the Keśī demon, just to give freedom from all anxieties to the inhabitants of Vraja-maṇḍala!" In this statement there are two kinds of mellows: chivalry and dread. Both of them, however, improve the position of parental love, and therefore there is no incompatibility.</p>
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<div id="NOD51_2" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="302" link="NOD 51" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 51">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 51|Nectar of Devotion 51]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kaṁsa once addressed his sister Devakī as follows: "My dear sister, having seen your dear son Kṛṣṇa, I think that He is so strong that He can kill even wrestlers as strong as the mountains. So I will have no more anxieties about Him, even if He is engaged in a terrible fight." This is an instance of uparasa in a perverted reflection of parental love.</p>
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<div id="Krsna_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3>
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<div id="KB11_0" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="15" link="KB 11" link_text="Krsna Book 11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 11|Krsna Book 11]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">After drinking, when they were sitting on the bank of the river, they saw a huge animal which looked something like a heron and was as big as a hill. Its top was as strong as a thunderbolt. When they saw that unusual animal, they became afraid of it. The name of this beast was Bakāsura, and he was a friend of Kaṁsa's.</p>
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<div id="KB38_1" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="42" link="KB 38" link_text="Krsna Book 38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 38|Krsna Book 38]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Although They had the same bodily features, Kṛṣṇa was blackish in complexion, whereas Balarāma was whitish. Both were the shelter of the goddess of fortune. They had well-constructed bodies, beautiful hands and pleasing faces, and They were as strong as elephants.</p>
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<div id="KB44_2" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="48" link="KB 44" link_text="Krsna Book 44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 44|Krsna Book 44]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The ladies had lost their sense of enjoyment. They could not encourage the fighting between the strong and the weak. “Muṣṭika and Cāṇūra are just like thunderbolts, as strong as great mountains, and Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma are two delicate boys of very tender age. The principle of justice has already left this assembly.</p>
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<div id="KB72_3" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="76" link="KB 72" link_text="Krsna Book 72">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 72|Krsna Book 72]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhīmasena and King Jarāsandha engaged themselves in fighting, and with their respective clubs, which were as strong as thunderbolts, they began to strike each other very severely, both of them being eager to fight.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB1589NewVrindabanMay241969_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="133" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.8-9 -- New Vrindaban, May 24, 1969" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.8-9 -- New Vrindaban, May 24, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.8-9 -- New Vrindaban, May 24, 1969|Lecture on SB 1.5.8-9 -- New Vrindaban, May 24, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore the same example, that these senses are very strong undoubtedly, as strong as the snake. But if you break the poison teeth, the poison teeth, then it is no more fierceful. Similarly, if you engage your senses in Kṛṣṇa, no more controlling. It is already controlled.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1522VrndavanaAugust31974_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="144" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.22 -- Vrndavana, August 3, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.22 -- Vrndavana, August 3, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.22 -- Vrndavana, August 3, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.5.22 -- Vrndavana, August 3, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This philosophy is going on. Bala-hīnena... "Unless you become as strong as a tiger, you cannot realize yourself." This interpretation is going on.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1161LosAngelesDecember291973_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="318" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.1 -- Los Angeles, December 29, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.1 -- Los Angeles, December 29, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.1 -- Los Angeles, December 29, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.16.1 -- Los Angeles, December 29, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">What is that perfection? That perfection is to understand God and become His devotee. That is perfection, not that to become very stout and strong, as strong as the tiger, or as cunning as the jackal. Not that. That is not training.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11619HawaiiJanuary151974_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="332" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.19 -- Hawaii, January 15, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.19 -- Hawaii, January 15, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.19 -- Hawaii, January 15, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.16.19 -- Hawaii, January 15, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We have several times discussed that in this age, people's duration of life, mercifulness, bodily strength and so many things, eight kinds of things, will be reduced. The age is reducing; the bodily strength is also reducing. Now you American generation, you are not as strong as your father or grandfather. You can understand that. You are not so luxuriantly grown up, bodily growth. There are so many reasons, but this is the symptom of age of Kali.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB3259BombayNovember91974_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="430" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.9 -- Bombay, November 9, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.9 -- Bombay, November 9, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.9 -- Bombay, November 9, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.9 -- Bombay, November 9, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually, we find, even in Western countries, the present generation, they are not as strong as their father or grandfather. Bodily strength decreasing. Memory is decreasing. There is no mercifulness. Now, at the present moment, if somebody is being killed and you are passing, nobody takes care.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Lectures" text="Nectar of Devotion Lectures"><h3>Nectar of Devotion Lectures</h3>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionBombayJanuary91973_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="22" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 9, 1973" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 9, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 9, 1973|The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 9, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">just like Himalayan mountain, nobody can push it. Very simple thing. It is so powerful. Yaha hoite sarva-siddhi haya. This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's request. Don't deviate from the instruction. Then you will stand as strong as the Himalayan mountain. Very simple thing. Anyone can do. We are asking, following the footsteps of predecessor, Rūpa Gosvāmī, Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila20105NewYorkJuly111976_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="59" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.105 -- New York, July 11, 1976" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.105 -- New York, July 11, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.105 -- New York, July 11, 1976|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.105 -- New York, July 11, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And as soon as one sense touches another sense, then the spiritual life is finished. Just like the serpent, if he touches even little, immediately your life is finished, similarly, our senses are very strong, just like as strong as the serpent, uncontrollable. So why it is so dangerous? Because it has got the fang. He has got fang, poison. But there are physicians, in the Āyurvedic physician. They know.</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember111973LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="97" link="Morning Walk -- December 11, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 11, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 11, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 11, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text">Prabhupāda: Human life is meant for tapasya, for understanding God. That is human life. This dog's life, cat's life, this is not human life. If you become a very powerful tiger, is that human life? They're thinking like that. "If I become as strong as a tiger, then there we are perfect nation." Then what is the use of tiger? It is simply kill only. What other intelligence he has got? So in your country there are so many things to be done. I give you the idea, now you take the leaders.
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="ReportersInterviewJune291974Melbourne_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="132" link="Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne" link_text="Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne|Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (3): Your Divine Grace, is there a Hare Kṛṣṇa Movement in India?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (3): How strong is it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How strong? As strong as you think because in every village, every town, every home, there is Hare Kṛṣṇa, still.</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="ConversationwithDevoteesApril141975Hyderabad_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="53" link="Conversation with Devotees -- April 14, 1975, Hyderabad" link_text="Conversation with Devotees -- April 14, 1975, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Devotees -- April 14, 1975, Hyderabad|Conversation with Devotees -- April 14, 1975, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, they don't live any more. Now we are more intelligent. Previously there were pygmy men, very less intelligent, small, not nice looking. Now we have got more...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: According to our śāstra you are going to be pygmy men. That is, there is proof, because you are not as strong as your forefathers. That's a fact. You are becoming dwarfer, dwarfer. According to our śāstra you come to that pygmy, (indistinct) in due course of time. As it was before, so again the time is repeating, history repeating.</p>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithSiddhasvarupaMay31976Honolulu_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="95" link="Room Conversation with Siddha-svarupa -- May 3, 1976, Honolulu" link_text="Room Conversation with Siddha-svarupa -- May 3, 1976, Honolulu">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Siddha-svarupa -- May 3, 1976, Honolulu|Room Conversation with Siddha-svarupa -- May 3, 1976, Honolulu]]: </span><div class="text">Prabhupāda: Same thing, just like a stone doll, when it is worshiped according to the regulative principles—Kṛṣṇa. And the same doll, kept in the sculptor's showroom, it is stone. So if we keep our movement pure, then you are as strong as Kṛṣṇa. And as soon as you deviate from it, immediately, ordinary. This is the secret. Now it is up to us, how to keep it pure. Then no enemy can kill us. Nobody can kill you. That purity is wanted, then it will... So what is there difficulty? Their purity to kill him(?). Follow the rules and regulations, worship the Deity, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, as you have given, then you will remain as strong as Kṛṣṇa. And if we manufacture some idea also, that is no good. Kṛṣṇa cannot be manufactured; Kṛṣṇa is Kṛṣṇa. You cannot manufacture another form competitor of Kṛṣṇa. That is no good. Then failure. Just like the, your one competitor came to, even in the lifetime of Kṛṣṇa, Pauṇḍraka.
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniSanFrancisco16December1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="235" link="Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967|Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So your examples are great encouragement for an old man like me. I have got the same spirit of being overloaded with Krishna Conscious work, but physically I am not as strong as you are all young boys and girls. You can pray to Krishna that I may get your strength to serve the cause of Krishna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSyamasundaraLosAngeles19July1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="439" link="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970|Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I was expecting your letter since a long time, but I could understand that you were very busy with Rathayatra festival, and I am very glad to learn that this time you made Lord Jagannatha's car as strong as a warship. I can see from the picture it is very sturdy and tall also.</p>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaNairobi5October1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="484" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Nairobi 5 October, 1971" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Nairobi 5 October, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Nairobi 5 October, 1971|Letter to Gurudasa -- Nairobi 5 October, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Activities are going on here nicely. There are TV engagements and a very large meeting is scheduled at the university of Nairobi for tomorrow. Many respectful Hindus are inviting us and I am staying in everyone's house for four to five days. Most probably our center here in Nairobi will be a strong one, as strong as any of our other centers. Two black devotees have come here today from N.Y. to make propoganda and the local Africans also are becoming very much interested.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaNairobi5October1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="485" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Nairobi 5 October, 1971" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Nairobi 5 October, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Nairobi 5 October, 1971|Letter to Jayapataka -- Nairobi 5 October, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Here in Nairobi our program is going on very nicely. There are TV engagements and a very large meeting is scheduled at the University of Nairobi for tomorrow. Many respectful Hindus are inviting us and I am staying in everyone's house for four to five days. Most probably our center here in Nairobi will be a strong one, as strong as any of our other centers. Two black devotees have come here today from N.Y. and Dinanatha should come here from there as soon as possible.</p>
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