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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_7" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 7"><h3>SB Canto 7</h3>
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<div id="SB7224_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="68" link="SB 7.2.24" link_text="SB 7.2.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.2.24|SB 7.2.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although Hiraṇyakaśipu was a great demon, he was not as foolish as the population of the modern world. Hiraṇyakaśipu had clear knowledge of the spirit soul and the subtle and gross bodies, but now we are so degraded that everyone, including the exalted scientists, philosophers and other leaders, is under the bodily conception of life, which is condemned in the śāstras. Sa eva go-kharaḥ: ([[Vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]]) such persons are nothing but cows and asses.</p>
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<div id="SB7248_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="89" link="SB 7.2.48" link_text="SB 7.2.48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.2.48|SB 7.2.48, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There is a Vedic statement apāma-somam amṛtā abhūma apsarobhir viharāma. With reference to such a conception, one wants to go to the heavenly planets to enjoy with the young girls there and drink soma-rasa. Such imaginary pleasure, however, has no value. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (7.23), antavat tu phalaṁ teṣāṁ tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām: "Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary." Even if by fruitive activity or worship of the demigods one is elevated to the higher planetary systems for sense enjoyment, his situation is condemned in Bhagavad-gītā as antavat, perishable. The happiness one enjoys in this way is like the pleasure of embracing a young woman in a dream; for some time it may be pleasing, but actually the basic principle is false. The mental concoctions of happiness and distress in this material world are compared to dreams because of their falseness. All thoughts of obtaining happiness by using the material senses have a false background and therefore have no meaning.</p>
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<div id="SB7512_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="189" link="SB 7.5.12" link_text="SB 7.5.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.5.12|SB 7.5.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone should be friendly for the service of the Lord. Everyone should praise another's service to the Lord and not be proud of his own service. This is the way of Vaiṣṇava thinking, Vaikuṇṭha thinking. There may be rivalries and apparent competition between servants in performing service, but in the Vaikuṇṭha planets the service of another servant is appreciated, not condemned. This is Vaikuṇṭha competition. There is no question of enmity between servants. Everyone should be allowed to render service to the Lord to the best of his ability, and everyone should appreciate the service of others. Such are the activities of Vaikuṇṭha.</p>
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<div id="SB755657_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="230" link="SB 7.5.56-57" link_text="SB 7.5.56-57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.5.56-57|SB 7.5.56-57, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, all the children were very much affectionate and respectful to Prahlāda Mahārāja, and because of their tender age they were not so polluted by the instructions and actions of their teachers, who were attached to condemned duality and bodily comfort. Thus the boys surrounded Prahlāda Mahārāja, giving up their playthings, and sat down to hear him. Their hearts and eyes being fixed upon him, they looked at him with great earnestness. Prahlāda Mahārāja, although born in a demon family, was an exalted devotee, and he desired their welfare. Thus he began instructing them about the futility of materialistic life.</p>
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<div id="SB764_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="235" link="SB 7.6.4" link_text="SB 7.6.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.6.4|SB 7.6.4, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Misguided by the blind leaders of society, people consider the body to be everything, and they are engaged in trying to keep the body materially comfortable. Such a civilization is condemned because it does not lead humanity toward knowing the real goal of life. People are simply wasting time and the valuable gift of the human form because a human being who does not cultivate spiritual life but dies like the cats and dogs is degraded in his next life. From human life, such a person is put into the cycle of continuous birth and death. Thus one loses the true benefit of human life, which is to become Kṛṣṇa conscious and solve life's problems.</p>
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<div id="SB7619_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="247" link="SB 7.6.19" link_text="SB 7.6.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.6.19|SB 7.6.19, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Ajāmila separated himself from the Supreme Personality of Godhead by performing many sinful activities and was condemned by Yamarāja to be very severely punished, but because at the time of death he chanted the name of Nārāyaṇa, although he was calling not for the Supreme Lord Nārāyaṇa but for his son named Nārāyaṇa, he was saved from the hands of Yamarāja. Therefore, pleasing Nārāyaṇa does not require as much endeavor as pleasing one's family, community and nation.</p>
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<div id="SB785_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="311" link="SB 7.8.5" link_text="SB 7.8.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.8.5|SB 7.8.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Hiraṇyakaśipu condemned his Vaiṣṇava son Prahlāda for being durvinīta-ungentle, uncivilized, or impudent. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, however, has derived a meaning from this word durvinīta by the mercy of the goddess of learning, Sarasvatī. He says that duḥ refers to this material world. This is confirmed by Lord Kṛṣṇa in His instruction in Bhagavad-gītā that this material world is duḥkhālayam, full of material conditions. Vi means viśeṣa, "specifically," and nīta means "brought in." By the mercy of the Supreme Lord, Prahlāda Mahārāja was especially brought to this material world to teach people how to get out of the material condition.</p>
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<div id="SB7853_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="354" link="SB 7.8.53" link_text="SB 7.8.53">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.8.53|SB 7.8.53, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The inhabitants of Kimpuruṣa-loka said: We are insignificant living entities, and You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller. Therefore how can we offer suitable prayers unto You? When this demon was condemned by devotees because they were disgusted with him, he was then killed by You.</p>
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<div id="SB7946_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="404" link="SB 7.9.46" link_text="SB 7.9.46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.46|SB 7.9.46, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are many who like to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra in a silent, solitary place, but if one is not interested in preaching, talking constantly to the nondevotees, the influence of the modes of nature is very difficult to surpass. Therefore unless one is extremely advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one should not imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura, who had no other business than chanting the holy name always, twenty-four hours a day. Prahlāda Mahārāja does not condemn such a process; he accepts it, but without active service to the Lord, simply by such methods one generally cannot attain liberation. One cannot attain liberation simply by false pride.</p>
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<div id="SB7105_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="419" link="SB 7.10.5" link_text="SB 7.10.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.10.5|SB 7.10.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A demigod cannot become master, for the real master is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The demigods, to keep their prestigious positions, bestow upon their worshipers whatever benedictions the worshipers want. For example, once it was found that an asura took a benediction from Lord Śiva by which the asura would be able to kill someone simply by placing his hands on that person's head. Such benedictions are possible to receive from the demigods. If one worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead, however, the Lord will never offer him such condemned benedictions.</p>
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<div id="SB71019_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="431" link="SB 7.10.19" link_text="SB 7.10.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.10.19|SB 7.10.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Whenever and wherever there are peaceful, equipoised devotees who are well behaved and decorated with all good qualities, that place and the dynasties there, even if condemned, are purified.</p>
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<div id="SB7117_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="487" link="SB 7.11.7" link_text="SB 7.11.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.11.7|SB 7.11.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Almost everything going on in this world as religion is devoid of any idea of devotional service and is therefore condemned by the verdict of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Without devotional service, so-called religious principles are only cheating.</p>
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<div id="SB71117_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="493" link="SB 7.11.17" link_text="SB 7.11.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.11.17|SB 7.11.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">At the present moment, society is in a chaotic condition, and everyone has given up the cultivation of spiritual life, which is especially meant for the brāhmaṇas. Because spiritual culture has been stopped all over the world, there is now an emergency, and therefore it is now time to train those who are considered lower and condemned, so that they may become brāhmaṇas and take up the work of spiritual progress. The spiritual progress of human society has been stopped, and this should be considered an emergency.</p>
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<div id="SB71128_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="501" link="SB 7.11.28" link_text="SB 7.11.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.11.28|SB 7.11.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who is a devotee is sinless. One who is not a devotee, however, is the most fallen and condemned.</p>
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<div id="SB71326_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="560" link="SB 7.13.26" link_text="SB 7.13.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.13.26|SB 7.13.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In material life, one commits sinful activities, especially in eating, and because of sinful activities one is condemned by nature's laws to accept another body, which is imposed as punishment.</p>
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<div id="SB71434_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="584" link="SB 7.14.3-4" link_text="SB 7.14.3-4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.14.3-4|SB 7.14.3-4, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should work eight hours at the most to earn his livelihood, and either in the afternoon or in the evening a householder should associate with devotees to hear about the incarnations of Kṛṣṇa and His activities and thus be gradually liberated from the clutches of māyā. However, instead of finding time to hear about Kṛṣṇa, the householders, after working hard in offices and factories, find time to go to a restaurant or a club where instead of hearing about Kṛṣṇa and His activities they are very much pleased to hear about the political activities of demons and nondevotees and to enjoy sex, wine, women and meat and in this way waste their time. This is not gṛhastha life, but demoniac life. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, however, with its centers all over the world, gives such fallen and condemned persons an opportunity to hear about Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="SB71510_16" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="626" link="SB 7.15.10" link_text="SB 7.15.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15.10|SB 7.15.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said that Lord Jesus Christ, when twelve years old, was shocked to see the Jews sacrificing birds and animals in the synagogues and that he therefore rejected the Jewish system of religion and started the religious system of Christianity, adhering to the Old Testament commandment "Thou shalt not kill." At the present day, however, not only are animals killed in the name of sacrifice, but the killing of animals has increased enormously because of the increasing number of slaughterhouses. Slaughtering animals, either for religion or for food, is most abominable and is condemned herein. Unless one is merciless, one cannot sacrifice animals, either in the name of religion or for food.</p>
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<div id="SB71536_17" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="651" link="SB 7.15.36" link_text="SB 7.15.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15.36|SB 7.15.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If one accepts sannyāsa at an immature stage, there is every possibility of his being attracted by women and lusty desires and thus again becoming a so-called gṛhastha or a victim of women. Such a person is most shameless, and he is called vāntāśī, or one who eats that which he has already vomited. He certainly leads a condemned life. In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement it is advised, therefore, that the sannyāsīs and brahmacārīs keep strictly aloof from the association of women so that there will be no chance of their falling down again as victims of lusty desires.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_8" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 8"><h3>SB Canto 8</h3>
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<div id="SB8114_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="15" link="SB 8.1.14" link_text="SB 8.1.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.1.14|SB 8.1.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender." ([[Vanisource:BG 3.6 (1972)|BG 3.6]]) One should act for Kṛṣṇa very seriously in order to become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious and should not sit down to imitate such great personalities as Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura condemned such imitation.</p>
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<div id="SB8115_1" 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 and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">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.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>There are undoubtedly different planetary systems for different persons. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (14.18), ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthāḥ: persons in the mode of goodness can go to the upper planets. Those in the modes of darkness and passion, however, are not allowed to enter the higher planets. The word divam refers to the higher planetary system known as Svargaloka. Indra, King of the higher planetary system, has the power to push down any conditioned soul attempting to go from the lower to the higher planets without proper qualifications. The modern attempt to go to the moon is also an attempt by inferior men to go to Svargaloka by artificial, mechanical means. This attempt cannot be successful. From this statement of Indra it appears that anyone attempting to go to the higher planetary systems by mechanical means, which are here called māyā, is condemned to go the hellish planets in the lower portion of the universe. To go to the higher planetary system, one needs sufficient good qualities. A sinful person situated in the mode of ignorance and addicted to drinking, meat-eating and illicit sex will never enter the higher planets by mechanical means.</p>
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<div id="SB81942_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="685" link="SB 8.19.42" link_text="SB 8.19.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.19.42|SB 8.19.42, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore, the safe course is to say no. Although it is a falsehood, it protects one completely, it draws the compassion of others toward oneself, and it gives one full facility to collect money from others for oneself. Nonetheless, if one always pleads that he has nothing, he is condemned, for he is a dead body while living, or while still breathing he should be killed.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Beggars always present themselves as possessing nothing, and this may be very good for them because in this way they are assured of not losing their money and of always drawing the attention and compassion of others for the sake of collection. But this is also condemned. If one purposely continues this professional begging, he is supposed to be dead while breathing, or, according to another interpretation, such a man of falsity should be killed while still breathing.</p>
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<div id="SB81943_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="686" link="SB 8.19.43" link_text="SB 8.19.43">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.19.43|SB 8.19.43, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In flattering a woman to bring her under control, in joking, in a marriage ceremony, in earning one's livelihood, when one's life is in danger, in protecting cows and brahminical culture, or in protecting a person from an enemy's hand, falsity is never condemned.</p>
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<div id="SB82423_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="814" link="SB 8.24.2-3" link_text="SB 8.24.2-3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.24.2-3|SB 8.24.2-3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">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.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_9" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 9"><h3>SB Canto 9</h3>
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<div id="SB9933_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="330" link="SB 9.9.33" link_text="SB 9.9.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.33|SB 9.9.33, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Being condemned by the curse of Vasiṣṭha, King Saudāsa devoured the brāhmaṇa, exactly as a tiger eats its prey. Even though the brāhmaṇa's wife spoke so pitiably, Saudāsa was unmoved by her lamentation.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This is an example of destiny. King Saudāsa was condemned by the curse of Vasiṣṭha, and therefore even though he was well qualified he could not restrain himself from becoming a tigerlike Rākṣasa, for this was his destiny. Tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukham ([[Vanisource:SB 1.5.18|SB 1.5.18]]). As one is put into distress by destiny, destiny can also put one in a happy situation. Destiny is extremely strong, but one can change destiny if one comes to the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="SB91015_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="361" link="SB 9.10.15" link_text="SB 9.10.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.15|SB 9.10.15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My Lord, You may use my water as You like. Indeed, You may cross it and go to the abode of Rāvaṇa, who is the great source of disturbance and crying for the three worlds. He is the son of Viśravā, but is condemned like urine. Please go kill him and thus regain Your wife, Sītādevī. O great hero, although my water presents no impediment to Your going to Laṅkā, please construct a bridge over it to spread Your transcendental fame. Upon seeing this wonderfully uncommon deed of Your Lordship, all the great heroes and kings in the future will glorify You.</p>
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<div id="SB91020_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="366" link="SB 9.10.20" link_text="SB 9.10.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.20|SB 9.10.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Aṅgada and the other commanders of the soldiers of Rāmacandra faced the elephants, infantry, horses and chariots of the enemy and hurled against them big trees, mountain peaks, clubs and arrows. Thus the soldiers of Lord Rāmacandra killed Rāvaṇa's soldiers, who had lost all good fortune because Rāvaṇa had been condemned by the anger of mother Sītā.</p>
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<div id="SB91020_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="366" link="SB 9.10.20" link_text="SB 9.10.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.20|SB 9.10.20, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The soldiers Lord Rāmacandra recruited in the jungle were all monkeys and did not have proper equipment with which to fight the soldiers of Rāvaṇa, for Rāvaṇa's soldiers were equipped with weapons of modern warfare whereas the monkeys could only throw stones, mountain peaks and trees. It was only Lord Rāmacandra and Lakṣmaṇa who shot some arrows. But because the soldiers of Rāvaṇa were condemned by the curse of mother Sītā, the monkeys were able to kill them simply by throwing stones and trees.</p>
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<div id="SB91027_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="373" link="SB 9.10.27" link_text="SB 9.10.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.27|SB 9.10.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"One who considers another's wife as his mother, another's possessions as a lump of dirt and treats all other living beings as he would himself, is considered to be learned." Thus Rāvaṇa was condemned not only by Lord Rāmacandra but even by his own wife, Mandodarī. Because she was a chaste woman, she knew the power of another chaste woman, especially such a wife as mother Sītādevī.</p>
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<div id="SB91028_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="374" link="SB 9.10.28" link_text="SB 9.10.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.28|SB 9.10.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who follows the path of Rāvaṇa is condemned in two ways: his body is fit to be eaten by dogs and vultures, and the soul goes to hell.</p>
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<div id="SB91028_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="374" link="SB 9.10.28" link_text="SB 9.10.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.28|SB 9.10.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life." Thus the destination of godless atheists such as Rāvaṇa, Hiraṇyakaśipu, Kaṁsa and Dantavakra is a hellish condition of life. Mandodarī, the wife of Rāvaṇa, could understand all this because she was a chaste woman. Although lamenting for the death of her husband, she knew what would happen to his body and soul, for although one cannot see directly with one's material eyes, one can see with eyes of knowledge (paśyanti jñāna-cakṣuṣaḥ). In Vedic history there are many instances of how one becomes godless and is condemned by the laws of nature.</p>
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<div id="SB91054_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="394" link="SB 9.10.54" link_text="SB 9.10.54">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.54|SB 9.10.54, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A householder should live according to the ideal of Lord Rāmacandra, who showed how to be a perfect person. Being a householder or living with a wife and children is never condemned, provided one lives according to the regulative principles of varṇāśrama-dharma. Those who live in accordance with these principles, whether as householders, brahmacārīs or vānaprasthas, are all equally important.</p>
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<div id="SB91311_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="456" link="SB 9.13.11" link_text="SB 9.13.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.13.11|SB 9.13.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The term "spiritual body" is sometimes taken to refer to a ghostly body. An impious man who dies after sinful activities is sometimes condemned so that he cannot possess a gross material body of five material elements, but must live in a subtle body of mind, intelligence and ego. However, as explained in Bhagavad-gītā, devotees can give up the material body and attain a spiritual body free from all material tinges, gross and subtle (tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so 'rjuna ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]])).</p>
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<div id="SB91825_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="628" link="SB 9.18.25" link_text="SB 9.18.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.18.25|SB 9.18.25, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As Śukrācārya listened to what had happened to Devayānī, his mind was very much aggrieved. Condemning the profession of priesthood and praising the profession of uñcha-vṛtti (collecting grains from the fields), he left home with his daughter.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>When a brāhmaṇa adopts the profession of a kapota, or pigeon, he lives by collecting grains from the field. This is called uñcha-vṛtti. A brāhmaṇa who takes to this uñcha-vṛtti profession is called first class because he depends completely on the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and does not beg from anyone.</p>
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<div id="SB92457_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="861" link="SB 9.24.57" link_text="SB 9.24.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.24.57|SB 9.24.57, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Foolish people who because of a poor fund of knowledge think that one can equal Kṛṣṇa or become Kṛṣṇa are condemned in every way. No one can equal or surpass Kṛṣṇa, who is therefore described as asamaurdhva. According to the Viśva-kośa dictionary, the word māyā is used in the sense of "false pride" and also in the sense of "compassion." For an ordinary living being, the body in which he appears is his punishment. As the Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā (7.14), daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā: "This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome." But when Kṛṣṇa comes the word māyā refers to His compassion or mercy upon the devotees and fallen souls. By His potency, the Lord can deliver everyone, whether sinful or pious.</p>
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<div id="SB92465_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="868" link="SB 9.24.65" link_text="SB 9.24.65">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.24.65|SB 9.24.65, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The inhabitants of Vṛndāvana saw Kṛṣṇa almost every moment, but when Kṛṣṇa left the village for the pasturing grounds, where He tended the cows and calves, the gopīs were very much afflicted because they saw Kṛṣṇa walking on the sand and thought that Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, which they dared not place on their breasts because they thought their breasts not soft enough, were being pierced by broken chips of stone. By even thinking of this, the gopīs were affected, and they cried at home. These gopīs, who were therefore the exalted friends of Kṛṣṇa, saw Kṛṣṇa constantly, but because their eyelids disturbed their vision of Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs condemned the creator, Lord Brahmā.</p>
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<div id="SB92465_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="868" link="SB 9.24.65" link_text="SB 9.24.65">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.24.65|SB 9.24.65, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The entire Śrīmad-Bhāgavata Purāṇa is the embodiment of Kṛṣṇa's form, and the Tenth Canto is His face. This verse gives a hint of how beautiful His face is. Kṛṣṇa's smiling face, with His cheeks, His lips, the ornaments in His ears, His chewing of betel nuts—all this was minutely observed by the gopīs, who thus enjoyed transcendental bliss, so much so that they were never fully satisfied to see Kṛṣṇa's face, but instead condemned the creator of the body for making eyelids that obstructed their vision. The beauty of Kṛṣṇa's face was therefore much more appreciated by the gopīs than by His friends the cowherd boys or even by Yaśodā Mātā, who was also interested in decorating the face of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_101_to_1013" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3>
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<div id="SB101Summary_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="1" link="SB 10.1 Summary" link_text="SB 10.1 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1 Summary|SB 10.1 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">After marrying Devakī, Vasudeva was returning home with her on a chariot driven by Kaṁsa, her brother, when an ominous voice addressed Kaṁsa, warning him that Devakī's eighth son would kill him. Upon hearing this omen, Kaṁsa was immediately ready to kill Devakī, but Vasudeva diplomatically began to instruct him. Vasudeva stressed that it would not be good for Kaṁsa to kill his younger sister, especially at the time of her marriage. Anyone who possesses a material body must die, Vasudeva advised him. Every living entity lives in a body for some time and then transmigrates to another body, but one is unfortunately misled into accepting the body as the soul. If a person under this mistaken conception wants to kill another body, he is condemned as hellish.</p>
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<div id="SB10134_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="32" link="SB 10.1.34" link_text="SB 10.1.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1.34|SB 10.1.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Devakī understood that Kaṁsa would be killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who would appear from her womb, she felt great joy. The word vahase is also significant because it indicates that the ominous vibration condemned Kaṁsa for acting just like a beast of burden by carrying his enemy's mother.</p>
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<div id="SB10135_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="33" link="SB 10.1.35" link_text="SB 10.1.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1.35|SB 10.1.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Kaṁsa was a condemned personality in the Bhoja dynasty because he was envious and sinful. Therefore, upon hearing this omen from the sky, he caught hold of his sister's hair with his left hand and took up his sword with his right hand to sever her head from her body.</p>
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<div id="SB10148_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="46" link="SB 10.1.48" link_text="SB 10.1.48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1.48|SB 10.1.48, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is natural for a person facing untimely death to try his best to save himself. This is one's duty. Although death is sure, everyone should try to avoid it and not meet death without opposition because every living soul is by nature eternal. Because death is a punishment imposed in the condemned life of material existence, the Vedic culture is based on avoiding death (tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]])). Everyone should try to avoid death and rebirth by cultivating spiritual life and should not submit to death without struggling to survive. One who is not trying to stop death is not an intelligent human being.</p>
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<div id="SB10222_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="84" link="SB 10.2.22" link_text="SB 10.2.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.2.22|SB 10.2.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A person who is very cruel is regarded as dead even while living, for while he is living or after his death, everyone condemns him. And after the death of a person in the bodily concept of life, he is undoubtedly transferred to the hell known as Andhatama.</p>
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<div id="SB10222_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="84" link="SB 10.2.22" link_text="SB 10.2.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.2.22|SB 10.2.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Kaṁsa considered that if he killed his sister, while living he would be condemned by everyone, and after death he would go to the darkest region of hellish life because of his cruelty. It is said that a cruel person like a butcher is advised not to live and not to die. While living, a cruel person creates a hellish condition for his next birth, and therefore he should not live; but he is also advised not to die, because after death he must go to the darkest region of hell. Thus in either circumstance he is condemned. Kaṁsa, therefore, having good sense about the science of the soul's transmigration, deliberately refrained from killing Devakī.</p>
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<div id="SB10322_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="119" link="SB 10.3.22" link_text="SB 10.3.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.3.22|SB 10.3.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">An uncivilized man can do anything for the satisfaction of his senses. He can kill children, he can kill cows, he can kill brāhmaṇas, he can kill old men; he has no mercy for anyone. According to the Vedic civilization, cows, women, children, old men and brāhmaṇas should be excused if they are at fault. But asuras, uncivilized men, do not care about that. At the present moment, the killing of cows and the killing of children is going on unrestrictedly, and therefore this civilization is not at all human, and those who are conducting this condemned civilization are uncivilized asuras.</p>
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<div id="SB10332_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="129" link="SB 10.3.32" link_text="SB 10.3.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.3.32|SB 10.3.32, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"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." One should try to understand the appearance and disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead from Vedic authorities, not from imagination. One who follows his imaginations about the Supreme Personality of Godhead is condemned.</p>
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<div id="SB1043_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="151" link="SB 10.4.3" link_text="SB 10.4.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.4.3|SB 10.4.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">At the time of death, the atheist must submit to this supreme kāla, and then the Supreme Personality of Godhead takes away all his possessions (mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham ([[Vanisource:BG 10.34 (1972)|BG 10.34]])) and forces him to accept another body (tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]])). This the atheists do not know, and if they do know, they neglect it so that they may go on with their normal life. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to teach them that although for a few years one may act as a great protector or great watchman, with the appearance of kāla, death, one must take another body by the laws of nature. Not knowing this, they unnecessarily waste their time in their occupation as watchdogs and do not try to get the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As it is clearly said, aprāpya māṁ nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani: ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3 (1972)|BG 9.3]]) without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one is condemned to continue wandering in birth and death, not knowing what will happen in one's next birth.</p>
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<div id="SB10510_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="203" link="SB 10.5.10" link_text="SB 10.5.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.5.10|SB 10.5.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The cowherd men and women in the villages lived a very natural life, and the women developed a natural feminine beauty, with full hips and breasts. Because women in modern civilization do not live naturally, their hips and breasts do not develop this natural fullness. Because of artificial living, women have lost their natural beauty, although they claim to be independent and advanced in material civilization. This description of the village women gives a clear example of the contrast between natural life and the artificial life of a condemned society, such as that of the Western countries, where topless, bottomless beauty may be easily purchased in clubs and shops and for public advertisements.</p>
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<div id="SB109Summary_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="344" link="SB 10.9 Summary" link_text="SB 10.9 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.9 Summary|SB 10.9 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">After mother Yaśodā bound Kṛṣṇa and became engaged in other household affairs, Kṛṣṇa observed two yamala-arjuna trees, which were actually Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva, two sons of Kuvera who had been condemned by Nārada Muni to become trees. Kṛṣṇa, by His mercy, now began to proceed toward the trees to fulfill the desire of Nārada Muni.</p>
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<div id="SB1012711_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="470" link="SB 10.12.7-11" link_text="SB 10.12.7-11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.12.7-11|SB 10.12.7-11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">ll the boys would be differently engaged. Some boys blew their flutes, and others blew bugles made of horn. Some imitated the buzzing of the bumblebees, and others imitated the voice of the cuckoo. Some boys imitated flying birds by running after the birds' shadows on the ground, some imitated the beautiful movements and attractive postures of the swans, some sat down with the ducks, sitting silently, and others imitated the dancing of the peacocks. Some boys attracted young monkeys in the trees, some jumped into the trees, imitating the monkeys, some made faces as the monkeys were accustomed to do, and others jumped from one branch to another. Some boys went to the waterfalls and crossed over the river, jumping with the frogs, and when they saw their own reflections on the water they would laugh. They would also condemn the sounds of their own echoes. In this way, all the cowherd boys used to play with Kṛṣṇa, who is the source of the Brahman effulgence for jñānīs desiring to merge into that effulgence, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead for devotees who have accepted eternal servitorship, and who for ordinary persons is but another ordinary child. The cowherd boys, having accumulated the results of pious activities for many lives, were able to associate in this way with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. How can one explain their great fortune?</p>
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<div id="SB101234_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="493" link="SB 10.12.34" link_text="SB 10.12.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.12.34|SB 10.12.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should be trained how to glorify the Supreme Personality of Godhead by one's respective qualities. Education, austerity, penance or, in the modern world, business, industry, education and so on-all should be engaged in glorifying the Lord. Then everyone in the world will be happy.</p>
<p>Kṛṣṇa comes, therefore, to exhibit His transcendental activities so that people may have the chance to glorify Him in every respect. To understand how to glorify the Lord is actual research work. It is not that everything should be understood without God. That is condemned.</p>
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<div id="SB101345_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="549" link="SB 10.13.45" link_text="SB 10.13.45">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.13.45|SB 10.13.45, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When one wants to supersede a superior power, one's own inferior power becomes ludicrous. Just as a glowworm in the daytime and snow at night have no value, Brahmā's mystic power became worthless in the presence of Kṛṣṇa, for greater mystic power condemns inferior mystic power. On a dark night, the darkness produced by snow has no meaning. The glowworm appears very important at night, but in the daytime its glow has no value; whatever little value it has is lost. Similarly, Brahmā became insignificant in the presence of Kṛṣṇa's mystic power. Kṛṣṇa's māyā was not diminished in value, but Brahmā's māyā was condemned. Therefore, one should not try to exhibit one's insignificant opulence before a greater power.</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="SB102339_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="394" link="SB 10.23.39" link_text="SB 10.23.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.23.39|SB 10.23.39, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Taking note of their wives' pure, transcendental devotion for Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and seeing their own lack of devotion, the brāhmaṇas felt most sorrowful and began to condemn themselves.</p>
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<div id="SB102340_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="395" link="SB 10.23.40" link_text="SB 10.23.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.23.40|SB 10.23.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">(The brāhmaṇas said:) To hell with our threefold birth, our vow of celibacy and our extensive learning! To hell with our aristocratic background and our expertise in the rituals of sacrifice! These are all condemned because we were inimical to the transcendental Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB102926_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="573" link="SB 10.29.26" link_text="SB 10.29.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.29.26|SB 10.29.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">For a woman from a respectable family, petty adulterous affairs are always condemned. They bar her from heaven, ruin her reputation and bring her difficulty and fear.</p>
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<div id="SB104919_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1330" link="SB 10.49.19" link_text="SB 10.49.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.49.19|SB 10.49.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">If you act otherwise, however, people will condemn you in this world, and in the next life you will enter the darkness of hell. Remain equally disposed, therefore, toward Pāṇḍu's sons and your own.</p>
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<div id="SB105840_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1757" link="SB 10.58.40" link_text="SB 10.58.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.58.40|SB 10.58.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Lord said: O ruler of men, learned authorities condemn begging for a person in the royal order who is executing his religious duties. Even so, desiring your friendship, I ask you for your daughter, though We offer no gifts in exchange.</p>
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<div id="SB108239_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2690" link="SB 10.82.39" link_text="SB 10.82.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.82.39|SB 10.82.39, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While gazing at their beloved Kṛṣṇa, the young gopīs used to condemn the creator of their eyelids, (which would momentarily block their vision of Him). Now, seeing Kṛṣṇa again after such a long separation, with their eyes they took Him into their hearts, and there they embraced Him to their full satisfaction. In this way they became totally absorbed in ecstatic meditation on Him, although those who constantly practice mystic yoga find such absorption difficult to achieve.</p>
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<div id="SB111020_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3512" link="SB 11.10.20" link_text="SB 11.10.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.10.20|SB 11.10.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Death is not at all pleasing, and since everyone is exactly like a condemned man being led to the place of execution, what possible happiness can people derive from material objects or the gratification they provide?</p>
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