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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_Preface_and_Introduction" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Preface and Introduction"><h3>SB Preface and Introduction</h3>
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<div id="SBIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Preface_and_Introduction" book="SB" index="1" link="SB Introduction" link_text="SB Introduction">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB Introduction|SB Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"The Vedas inform us that He alone became many, and when He so desires He glances over material nature. Before He glanced over material nature there was no material cosmic creation. Therefore, His glance is not material. Material mind or senses were unborn when the Lord glanced over material nature. Thus evidence in the Vedas proves that beyond a doubt the Lord has transcendental eyes and a transcendental mind. They are not material. His impersonality therefore is a negation of His materiality, but not a denial of His transcendental personality.</p>
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<div id="SBIntroduction_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Preface_and_Introduction" book="SB" index="1" link="SB Introduction" link_text="SB Introduction">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB Introduction|SB Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One of His associates, Junior Haridāsa, committed a great mistake by lustfully glancing at a young woman. The Lord as Supersoul could detect this lust in the mind of Junior Haridāsa, who was at once banished from the Lord's association and was never accepted again, even though the Lord was implored to excuse Haridāsa for the mistake.</p>
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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="SB111_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="1" link="SB 1.1.1" link_text="SB 1.1.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">That the Supreme Lord is all-perfect is confirmed in all śruti-mantras. It is said in the śruti-mantras that the all-perfect Lord threw a glance over matter and thus created all living beings. The living beings are parts and parcels of the Lord, and He impregnates the vast material creation with seeds of spiritual sparks, and thus the creative energies are set in motion to enact so many wonderful creations.</p>
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<div id="SB132_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="58" link="SB 1.3.2" link_text="SB 1.3.2">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.3.2|SB 1.3.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In this śloka the subject matter of Mahā-viṣṇu is summarized. The Mahā-viṣṇu lies down in some part of the spiritual sky by His own free will. Thus He lies on the ocean of kāraṇa, from where He glances over His material nature, and the mahat-tattva is at once created. Thus electrified by the power of the Lord, the material nature at once creates innumerable universes, just as in due course a tree decorates itself with innumerable grown fruits.</p>
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<div id="SB1822_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="287" link="SB 1.8.22" link_text="SB 1.8.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.8.22|SB 1.8.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My respectful obeisances are unto You, O Lord, whose abdomen is marked with a depression like a lotus flower, who are always decorated with garlands of lotus flowers, whose glance is as cool as the lotus and whose feet are engraved with lotuses.</p>
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<div id="SB1840_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="305" link="SB 1.8.40" link_text="SB 1.8.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.8.40|SB 1.8.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All these cities and villages are flourishing in all respects because the herbs and grains are in abundance, the trees are full of fruits, the rivers are flowing, the hills are full of minerals and the oceans full of wealth. And this is all due to Your glancing over them.</p>
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<div id="SB1935_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="351" link="SB 1.9.35" link_text="SB 1.9.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.9.35|SB 1.9.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In obedience to the command of His friend, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa entered the arena of the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra between the soldiers of Arjuna and Duryodhana, and while there He shortened the life spans of the opposite party by His merciful glance. This was done simply by His looking at the enemy. Let my mind be fixed upon that Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="SB1935_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="351" link="SB 1.9.35" link_text="SB 1.9.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.9.35|SB 1.9.35, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord diminished the duration of life of the opposite party by His merciful glance. It is said that all the fighters who assembled on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra attained salvation by personally seeing the Lord at the time of death. Therefore, His diminishing the duration of life of Arjuna's enemy does not mean that He was partial to the cause of Arjuna. Factually He was merciful to the opposite party because they would not have attained salvation by dying at home in the ordinary course of life. Here was a chance to see the Lord at the time of death and thus attain salvation from material life.</p>
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<div id="SB11027_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="390" link="SB 1.10.27" link_text="SB 1.10.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.10.27|SB 1.10.27, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Undoubtedly it is wonderful that Dvārakā has defeated the glories of the heavenly planets and has enhanced the celebrity of the earth. The inhabitants of Dvārakā are always seeing the soul of all living beings (Kṛṣṇa) in His loving feature. He glances at them and favors them with sweet smiles.</p>
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<div id="SB11027_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="390" link="SB 1.10.27" link_text="SB 1.10.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.10.27|SB 1.10.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The heavenly planets may be very famous for offering better facilities of material enjoyment, but as we learn from the Bhagavad-gītā (9.20-21), one has to come back again to the earth planet as soon as the acquired virtue is finished. Dvārakā is certainly more important than the heavenly planets because whoever has been favored with the smiling glance of the Lord shall never come back again to this rotten earth, which is certified by the Lord Himself as a place of misery.</p>
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<div id="SB11031_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="394" link="SB 1.10.31" link_text="SB 1.10.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.10.31|SB 1.10.31, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While the ladies of the capital (Hastināpura) were greeting Him and talking in this way, the Lord, smiling, accepted their good feelings, and casting the grace of His glance over them, He departed from the city.</p>
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<div id="SB1118_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="405" link="SB 1.11.8" link_text="SB 1.11.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.11.8|SB 1.11.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Oh, it is our good luck that we have come again today under Your protection by Your presence. Although Your Lordship is rarely visited even by the denizens of heaven, now it is possible for us to look upon Your smiling face, which is full of affectionate glances. We can now see Your transcendental form, full of all auspiciousness.</p>
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<div id="SB11110_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="407" link="SB 1.11.10" link_text="SB 1.11.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.11.10|SB 1.11.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O master, if You live abroad all the time, then we cannot look at Your attractive face, whose smiles vanquish all our sufferings. How can we exist without Your presence?Upon hearing their speeches, the Lord, who is very kind to the citizens and the devotees, entered the city of Dvārakā and acknowledged all their greetings by casting His transcendental glance over them.</p>
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<div id="SB11136_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="432" link="SB 1.11.36" link_text="SB 1.11.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.11.36|SB 1.11.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Although the queens' beautiful smiles and furtive glances were all spotless and exciting, and although they could conquer Cupid himself by making him give up his bow in frustration, and although even the tolerant Śiva could fall victim to them, still, despite all their magical feats and attractions, they could not agitate the senses of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB1163233_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="645" link="SB 1.16.32-33" link_text="SB 1.16.32-33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.16.32-33|SB 1.16.32-33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lakṣmījī, the goddess of fortune, whose glance of grace was sought by demigods like Brahmā and for whom they surrendered many a day unto the Personality of Godhead, gave up her own abode in the forest of lotus flowers and engaged herself in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord. I was endowed with specific powers to supersede the fortune of all the three planetary systems by being decorated with the impressions of the flag, thunderbolt, elephant-driving rod and lotus flower, which are signs of the lotus feet of the Lord. But at the end, when I felt I was so fortunate, the Lord left me.</p>
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<div id="SB11635_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="647" link="SB 1.16.35" link_text="SB 1.16.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.16.35|SB 1.16.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Who, therefore, can tolerate the pangs of separation from that Supreme Personality of Godhead? He could conquer the gravity and passionate wrath of His sweethearts like Satyabhāmā by His sweet smile of love, pleasing glance and hearty appeals. When He traversed my (earth's) surface, I would be immersed in the dust of His lotus feet and thus would be sumptuously covered with grass which appeared like hairs standing on me out of pleasure.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_2" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3>
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<div id="SB2131_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="32" link="SB 2.1.31" link_text="SB 2.1.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.1.31|SB 2.1.31, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">They say that the Vedic hymns are the cerebral passage of the Lord, and His jaws of teeth are Yama, god of death, who punishes the sinners. The art of affection is His set of teeth, and the most alluring illusory material energy is His smile. This great ocean of material creation is but the casting of His glance over us.</p>
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<div id="SB2131_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="32" link="SB 2.1.31" link_text="SB 2.1.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.1.31|SB 2.1.31, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to Vedic assertion, this material creation is the result of the Lord's casting a glance over the material energy, which is described herein as the most alluring illusory energy. The conditioned souls who are allured by such materialism should know that the material temporary creation is simply an imitation of the reality and that those who are captivated by such alluring glances of the Lord are put under the direction of the controller of sinners called Yamarāja. The Lord smiles affectionately, displaying His teeth. The intelligent person who can grasp these truths about the Lord becomes a soul fully surrendered unto Him.</p>
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<div id="SB2138_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="39" link="SB 2.1.38" link_text="SB 2.1.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.1.38|SB 2.1.38, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Bhagavad-gītā (9.10), the Supreme Personality of Godhead has verily explained that the material nature is only an order-carrying agent of His. She is one of the different potencies of the Lord, and she acts under His direction only. As the supreme transcendental Lord, He simply casts a glance over the material principle, and thus the agitation of matter begins, and the resultant actions are manifested one after another by six kinds of gradual differentiations. All material creation is moving in that way, and thus it appears and disappears in due course.</p>
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<div id="SB2139_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="40" link="SB 2.1.39" link_text="SB 2.1.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.1.39|SB 2.1.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Vedic hymns, it is clearly said that first of all Nārāyaṇa cast a glance over matter and thus there was creation. Before creation, there was neither Brahmā nor Śiva, and what to speak of others. Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has definitely accepted this, that Nārāyaṇa is beyond the material creation and that all others are within the material creation. The whole material creation, therefore, is one with and different from Nārāyaṇa, simultaneously, and this supports the acintya-bhedābheda-tattva philosophy of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Being an emanation from the glancing potency of Nārāyaṇa, the whole material creation is nondifferent from Him. But because it is the effect of His external energy (bahiraṅgā māyā) and is aloof from the internal potency (ātma-māyā), the whole material creation is different from Him at the same time.</p>
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<div id="SB2212_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="52" link="SB 2.2.12" link_text="SB 2.2.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.2.12|SB 2.2.12, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord's magnanimous pastimes and the glowing glancing of His smiling face are all indications of His extensive benedictions. One must therefore concentrate on this transcendental form of the Lord, as long as the mind can be fixed on Him by meditation.</p>
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<div id="SB277_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="206" link="SB 2.7.7" link_text="SB 2.7.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.7.7|SB 2.7.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Great stalwarts like Lord Śiva can, by their wrathful glances, overcome lust and vanquish him, yet they cannot be free from the overwhelming effects of their own wrath. Such wrath can never enter into the heart of Him (the Lord), who is above all this. So how can lust take shelter in His mind?</p>
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<div id="SB277_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="206" link="SB 2.7.7" link_text="SB 2.7.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.7.7|SB 2.7.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Lord Śiva was engaged in severely austere meditation, Cupid, the demigod of lust, threw his arrow of sex desire. Lord Śiva, thus being angry at him, glanced at Cupid in great wrath, and at once the body of Cupid was annihilated. Although Lord Śiva was so powerful, he was unable to get free from the effects of such wrath. But in the behavior of Lord Viṣṇu there is no incident of such wrath at any time.</p>
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<div id="SB2724_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="223" link="SB 2.7.24" link_text="SB 2.7.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.7.24|SB 2.7.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Personality of Godhead Rāmacandra, being aggrieved for His distant intimate friend (Sītā), glanced over the city of the enemy Rāvaṇa with red-hot eyes like those of Hara (who wanted to burn the kingdom of heaven). The great ocean, trembling in fear, gave Him His way because its family members, the aquatics like the sharks, snakes and crocodiles, were being burnt by the heat of the angry red-hot eyes of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB2728_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="227" link="SB 2.7.28" link_text="SB 2.7.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.7.28|SB 2.7.28, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then also when the cowherd boys and their animals drank the poisoned water of the River Yamunā, and after the Lord (in His childhood) revived them by His merciful glance, just to purify the water of the River Yamunā He jumped into it as if playing and chastised the venomous Kāliya snake, which was lurking there, its tongue emitting waves of poison. Who can perform such herculean tasks but the Supreme Lord ?</p>
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<div id="SB2933_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="311" link="SB 2.9.33" link_text="SB 2.9.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.33|SB 2.9.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad (1.4.1) there is the hymn ātmaivedam agra āsīt puruṣa-vidhaḥ. This mantra indicates the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Kṛṣṇa) even before the appearance of the puruṣa incarnation. In the Bhagavad-gītā (15.18) it is said that Lord Kṛṣṇa is Puruṣottama because He is the supreme puruṣa, transcendental even to the puruṣa-akṣara and the puruṣa-kṣara. The akṣara-puruṣa, or the Mahā-viṣṇu, throws His glance over prakṛti, or material nature, but the Puruṣottama existed even before that. The Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad therefore confirms the statement of the Bhagavad-gītā that Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Person (Puruṣottama).</p>
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<div id="SB21010_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="334" link="SB 2.10.10" link_text="SB 2.10.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.10.10|SB 2.10.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"The material nature full of physical laws is one of My different energies; therefore it is neither independent nor blind. Because I am transcendentally all-powerful, simply by My glancing over material nature, the physical laws of nature work so wonderfully. The actions and reactions of the physical laws work on that account, and thus the material world is created, maintained and annihilated again and again."</p>
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<div id="SB21013_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="337" link="SB 2.10.13" link_text="SB 2.10.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.10.13|SB 2.10.13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">At the stage of nonmanifestation, the living energies remain potent in the Lord, and when they are let loose in the cosmic manifestation they are exhibited differently in terms of different desires under the modes of nature. Such differential manifestations of the living energies are conditional states of the living entities. The liberated living entities, however, in the sanātana (eternal) manifestation, are unconditionally surrendered souls, and therefore they are not subject to the conditions of creation and annihilation. So this creation takes place by the glance of the Lord from His bedstead of mystic slumber. And thus all the universes and the lord of the universe, Brahmā, are again and again manifested and annihilated.</p>
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<div id="SB21045_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="366" link="SB 2.10.45" link_text="SB 2.10.45">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.10.45|SB 2.10.45, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The material nature is one of the energies of the Lord, and she can work under the direction of the Lord (adhyakṣeṇa). When the Lord throws His transcendental glance over the material nature, then only can the material nature act, as a father contacts the mother, who is then able to conceive a child. Although it appears to the layman that the mother gives birth to the child, the experienced man knows that the father gives birth to the child. The material nature therefore produces the moving and standing manifestations of the material world after being contacted by the supreme father, and not independently.</p>
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<div id="SB21045_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="366" link="SB 2.10.45" link_text="SB 2.10.45">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.10.45|SB 2.10.45, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Because Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu is a plenary expansion of Kṛṣṇa, it is He who electrifies the matter to put it in motion. The example of electrification is quite appropriate. A piece of iron is certainly not fire, but when the iron is made red-hot, certainly it has the quality of fire through its burning capacity. Matter is compared to the piece of iron, and it is electrified or made red-hot by the glance or manipulation of the supreme consciousness of Viṣṇu. Only by such electrification is the energy of matter displayed in various actions and reactions. Therefore the inert matter is neither efficient nor the material cause of the cosmic manifestation.</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="SB3214_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="59" link="SB 3.2.14" link_text="SB 3.2.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.2.14|SB 3.2.14, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The damsels of Vraja, after pastimes of laughter, humor and exchanges of glances, were anguished when Kṛṣṇa left them. They used to follow Him with their eyes, and thus they sat down with stunned intelligence and could not finish their household duties.</p>
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<div id="SB3410_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="117" link="SB 3.4.10" link_text="SB 3.4.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.4.10|SB 3.4.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Maitreya Muni was greatly attached to Him (the Lord), and he was listening in a pleasing attitude, with his shoulder lowered. With a smile and a particular glance upon me, having allowed me to rest, the Lord spoke as follows.</p>
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<div id="SB3524_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="167" link="SB 3.5.24" link_text="SB 3.5.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.24|SB 3.5.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is the supreme seer because only by His glance did the material energy become active for cosmic manifestation. At that time the seer was there, but the external energy, over which the glance of the Lord is cast, was not present. He felt somewhat insufficient, like a husband feeling lonely in the absence of his wife. This is a poetic simile. The Lord wanted to create the cosmic manifestation to give another chance to the conditioned souls who were dormant in forgetfulness. The cosmic manifestation gives the conditioned souls a chance to go back home, back to Godhead, and that is its main purpose.</p>
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<div id="SB3526_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="169" link="SB 3.5.26" link_text="SB 3.5.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.26|SB 3.5.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The offspring of any living being is born after the father impregnates the mother with semen, and the living entity floating in the semen of the father takes the shape of the mother's form. Similarly, mother material nature cannot produce any living entity from her material elements unless and until she is impregnated with living entities by the Lord Himself. That is the mystery of the generation of the living entities. This impregnating process is performed by the first puruṣa incarnation, Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu. Simply by His glance over material nature, the whole matter is accomplished.</p>
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<div id="SB3533_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="176" link="SB 3.5.33" link_text="SB 3.5.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.33|SB 3.5.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter the Personality of Godhead glanced over the sky, partly mixed with eternal time and external energy, and thus developed the touch sensation, from which the air in the sky was produced.</p>
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<div id="SB3533_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="176" link="SB 3.5.33" link_text="SB 3.5.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.33|SB 3.5.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All material creations take place from subtle to gross. The entire universe has developed in that manner. From the sky developed the touch sensation, which is a mixture of eternal time, the external energy and the glance of the Personality of Godhead. The touch sensation developed into the air in the sky. Similarly, all other gross matter also developed from subtle to gross: sound developed into sky, touch developed into air, form developed into fire, taste developed into water, and smell developed into earth.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3535_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="178" link="SB 3.5.35" link_text="SB 3.5.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.35|SB 3.5.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When electricity was surcharged in the air and was glanced over by the Supreme, at that time, by a mixture of eternal time and external energy, there occurred the creation of water and taste.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="SB3536_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="179" link="SB 3.5.36" link_text="SB 3.5.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.36|SB 3.5.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter the water produced from electricity was glanced over by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and mixed with eternal time and external energy. Thus it was transformed into the earth, which is qualified primarily by smell.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3536_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="179" link="SB 3.5.36" link_text="SB 3.5.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.36|SB 3.5.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">From the descriptions of the physical elements in the above verses it is clear that in all stages the glance of the Supreme is needed with the other additions and alterations. In every transformation, the last finishing touch is the glance of the Lord, who acts as a painter does when he mixes different colors to transform them into a particular color.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3536_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="179" link="SB 3.5.36" link_text="SB 3.5.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.36|SB 3.5.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When one element mixes with another, the number of its qualities increases. For example, the sky is the cause of air. The sky has only one quality, namely sound, but by the interaction of the sky with the glance of the Lord, mixed with eternal time and external nature, the air is produced, which has two qualities—sound and touch. Similarly after the air is created, interaction of sky and air, touched by time and the external energy of the Lord, produces electricity. And after the interaction of electricity with air and sky, mixed with time, external energy and the Lord's glance over them, the water is produced. In the final stage of sky there is one quality, namely sound; in the air two qualities, sound and touch; in the electricity three qualities, namely sound, touch and form; in the water four qualities, sound, touch, form and taste; and in the last stage of physical development the result is earth, which has all five qualities—sound, touch, form, taste and smell.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3536_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="179" link="SB 3.5.36" link_text="SB 3.5.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.36|SB 3.5.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although they are different mixtures of different materials, such mixtures do not take place automatically, just as a mixture of colors does not take place automatically without the touch of the living painter. The automatic system is factually activated by the glancing touch of the Lord. Living consciousness is the final word in all physical changes.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3537_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="180" link="SB 3.5.37" link_text="SB 3.5.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.37|SB 3.5.37, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O gentle one, of all the physical elements, beginning from the sky down to the earth, all the inferior and superior qualities are due only to the final touch of the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3832_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="308" link="SB 3.8.32" link_text="SB 3.8.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.8.32|SB 3.8.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Lord Brahmā, the maker of the universal destination, thus saw the Lord, he simultaneously glanced over creation. Lord Brahmā saw the lake in Lord Viṣṇu's navel, and the lotus flower, as well as the devastating water, the drying air and the sky. All became visible to him.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB31327_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="507" link="SB 3.13.27" link_text="SB 3.13.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.13.27|SB 3.13.27, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Before entering the water to rescue the earth, Lord Boar flew in the sky, slashing His tail, His hard hairs quivering. His very glance was luminous, and He scattered the clouds in the sky with His hooves and His glittering white tusks.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB31327_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="507" link="SB 3.13.27" link_text="SB 3.13.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.13.27|SB 3.13.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When the Lord is offered prayers by His devotees, His transcendental activities are described. Here are some of the transcendental features of Lord Boar. As the residents of the upper three planetary systems offered their prayers to the Lord, it is understood that His body expanded throughout the sky, beginning from the topmost planet, Brahmaloka, or Satyaloka. It is stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā that His eyes are the sun and the moon; therefore His very glance over the sky was as illuminating as the sun or the moon.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB31328_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="508" link="SB 3.13.28" link_text="SB 3.13.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.13.28|SB 3.13.28, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">He was personally the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu and was therefore transcendental, yet because He had the body of a hog, He searched after the earth by smell. His tusks were fearful, and He glanced over the devotee-brāhmaṇas engaged in offering prayers. Thus He entered the water.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB31328_16" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="508" link="SB 3.13.28" link_text="SB 3.13.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.13.28|SB 3.13.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The gigantic feature of the boar was certainly very fearful for all nondevotees, but to the pure devotees of the Lord He was not at all fearful; on the contrary, He was so pleasingly glancing upon His devotees that all of them felt transcendental happiness.</p>
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<div id="SB31539_17" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="619" link="SB 3.15.39" link_text="SB 3.15.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.15.39|SB 3.15.39, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is the reservoir of all pleasure. His auspicious presence is meant for everyone's benediction, and His affectionate smiling and glancing touch the core of the heart. The Lord's beautiful bodily color is blackish, and His broad chest is the resting place of the goddess of fortune, who glorifies the entire spiritual world, the summit of all heavenly planets. Thus it appeared that the Lord was personally spreading the beauty and good fortune of the spiritual world.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB31539_18" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="619" link="SB 3.15.39" link_text="SB 3.15.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.15.39|SB 3.15.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is so kind that He gives shelter to everyone—both impersonalists and devotees. He gives shelter to the impersonalists in His impersonal Brahman effulgence, whereas He gives shelter to the devotees in His personal abodes known as the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. He is especially inclined to His devotee; He touches the core of the heart of the devotee simply by smiling and glancing over him.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3191_19" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="726" link="SB 3.19.1" link_text="SB 3.19.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.19.1|SB 3.19.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Maitreya said: After hearing the words of Brahmā, the creator, which were free from all sinful purposes and as sweet as nectar, the Lord heartily laughed and accepted his prayer with a glance laden with love.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB32012_20" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="775" link="SB 3.20.12" link_text="SB 3.20.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.20.12|SB 3.20.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are three Viṣṇus mentioned. One is Mahā-viṣṇu, another is Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and the third is Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. The First Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam discusses all these three Viṣṇus, and here also it is confirmed that Viṣṇu is the cause of creation. From Bhagavad-gītā also we learn that prakṛti begins to work and is still working under Kṛṣṇa's, or Viṣṇu's, glance of superintendence, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is unchangeable. One should not mistakenly think that because the creation emanates from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He has therefore transformed into this material cosmic manifestation. He exists in His personal form always, but the cosmic manifestation takes place by His inconceivable potency.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB32030_21" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="793" link="SB 3.20.30" link_text="SB 3.20.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.20.30|SB 3.20.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Her breasts projected upward because of their clinging to each other, and they were too contiguous to admit any intervening space. She had a shapely nose and beautiful teeth; a lovely smile played on her lips, and she cast a sportful glance at the asuras.</p>
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<div id="SB32110_22" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="826" link="SB 3.21.10" link_text="SB 3.21.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.21.10|SB 3.21.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Adorned with a crown and earrings, He held His characteristic conch, disc and mace in three of His hands and a white lily in the fourth. He glanced about in a happy, smiling mood whose sight captivates the hearts of all devotees.</p>
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<div id="SB3214547_23" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="859" link="SB 3.21.45-47" link_text="SB 3.21.45-47">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.21.45-47|SB 3.21.45-47, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Entering that most sacred spot with his daughter and going near the sage, the first monarch, Svāyambhuva Manu, saw the sage sitting in his hermitage, having just propitiated the sacred fire by pouring oblations into it. His body shone most brilliantly; though he had engaged in austere penance for a long time, he was not emaciated, for the Lord had cast His affectionate sidelong glance upon him and he had also heard the nectar flowing from the moonlike words of the Lord. The sage was tall, his eyes were large, like the petals of a lotus, and he had matted locks on his head. He was clad in rags. Svāyambhuva Manu approached and saw him to be somewhat soiled, like an unpolished gem.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3239_24" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="911" link="SB 3.23.9" link_text="SB 3.23.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.23.9|SB 3.23.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon hearing the speaking of her husband, who excelled in knowledge of all kinds of transcendental science, innocent Devahūti was very satisfied. Her smiling face shining with a slightly bashful glance, she spoke in a choked voice because of great humility and love.</p>
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<div id="SB3269_25" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1055" link="SB 3.26.9" link_text="SB 3.26.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.26.9|SB 3.26.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Vedic literatures it is said that by the glance of the Supreme Lord the total material energy is impregnated, and then everything is born of material nature. It is also confirmed in the Ninth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā that under His glance, adhyakṣeṇa—under His direction and by His will—nature is working. It is not that nature works blindly. After understanding the position of the conditioned souls in relation to material nature, Devahūti wanted to know how nature works under the direction of the Lord and what the relationship is between the material nature and the Lord. In other words, she wanted to learn the characteristics of the Supreme Lord in relation to the material nature.</p>
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<div id="SB32617_26" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1063" link="SB 3.26.17" link_text="SB 3.26.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.26.17|SB 3.26.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The unmanifested state of material nature, pradhāna, is being explained. The Lord says that when the unmanifested material nature is agitated by the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it begins to manifest itself in different ways. Before this agitation, it remains in the neutral state, without interaction by the three modes of material nature. In other words, material nature cannot produce any variety of manifestations without the contact of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is very nicely explained in Bhagavad-gītā. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of the products of material nature. Without His contact, material nature cannot produce anything.</p>
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<div id="SB32831_27" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1177" link="SB 3.28.31" link_text="SB 3.28.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.28.31|SB 3.28.31, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The yogīs should contemplate with full devotion the compassionate glances frequently cast by the Lord's eyes, for they soothe the most fearful threefold agonies of His devotees. His glances, accompanied by loving smiles, are full of abundant grace.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3327_28" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1321" link="SB 3.32.7" link_text="SB 3.32.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.32.7|SB 3.32.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All living entities other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead are very small, although they may be big by our calculation. Everyone is infinitesimal, and therefore in the Vedas the Supreme Lord is called the supreme eternal amongst all eternals. He is the proprietor of the material and spiritual worlds and the supreme cause of manifestation. Material nature is only the ingredient because actually the manifestation is caused by His energy. The material energy is also His energy; just as the combination of father and mother is the cause of childbirth, so the combination of the material energy and the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of the manifestation of the material world. The efficient cause, therefore, is not matter, but the Lord Himself.</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="SB4157_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="51" link="SB 4.1.57" link_text="SB 4.1.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.1.57|SB 4.1.57, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Let that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is understood by truly authorized Vedic literature and who has created peace and prosperity to destroy all calamities of the created world, be kind enough to bestow His glance upon the demigods. His merciful glance can supersede the beauty of the spotless lotus flower which is the home of the goddess of fortune.</p>
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<div id="SB4157_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="51" link="SB 4.1.57" link_text="SB 4.1.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.1.57|SB 4.1.57, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is very difficult to find the origin of the cosmic manifestation; therefore material scientists conclude that nature is the ultimate cause of all manifestations. But from śāstra, or authentic literature like Bhagavad-gītā and other Vedic scriptures, we understand that behind this wonderful cosmic manifestation is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and in order to maintain the regular procedures of the cosmic manifestation and to be visible to the eyes of persons who are in the mode of goodness, the Lord appears. He is the cause of the creation and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation. The demigods therefore prayed for His merciful glance upon them in order to be blessed.</p>
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<div id="SB4158_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="52" link="SB 4.1.58" link_text="SB 4.1.58">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.1.58|SB 4.1.58, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">(Maitreya said:) O Vidura, thus the demigods worshiped with prayers the Supreme Personality of Godhead appearing as the sage Nara-Nārāyaṇa. The Lord glanced upon them with mercy and then departed for Gandhamādana Hill.</p>
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<div id="SB4733_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="260" link="SB 4.7.33" link_text="SB 4.7.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.7.33|SB 4.7.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The wives of the performers of the sacrifice said: My dear Lord, this sacrifice was arranged under the instruction of Brahmā, but unfortunately Lord Śiva, being angry at Dakṣa, devastated the entire scene, and because of his anger the animals meant for sacrifice are lying dead. Therefore the preparations of the yajña have been lost. Now, by the glance of Your lotus eyes, the sanctity of this sacrificial arena may be again invoked.</p>
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<div id="SB4733_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="260" link="SB 4.7.33" link_text="SB 4.7.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.7.33|SB 4.7.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Viṣṇu, being the ultimate objective of such sacrificial ceremonies, was requested by the wives of the priests to glance over the yajña arena with His causeless mercy so that the routine work of the yajña might be continued. The purport here is that animals should not be unnecessarily killed. They were used to prove the strength of the mantras and were to have been rejuvenated by the use of the mantras. They should not have been killed, as they were by Lord Śiva to replace the head of Dakṣa with an animal's head. It was pleasing to see an animal sacrificed and rejuvenated, and that pleasing atmosphere had been lost. The wives of the priests requested that the animals be brought back to life by the glance of Lord Viṣṇu to make a pleasing yajña.</p>
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<div id="SB4915_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="384" link="SB 4.9.15" link_text="SB 4.9.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.9.15|SB 4.9.15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My Lord, by Your unbroken transcendental glance You are the supreme witness of all stages of intellectual activities. You are eternally liberated, Your existence is situated in pure goodness, and You are existent in the Supersoul without change. You are the original Personality of Godhead, full with six opulences, and You are eternally the master of the three modes of material nature. Thus, You are always different from the ordinary living entities. As Lord Viṣṇu, You maintain all the affairs of the entire universe, and yet You stand aloof and are the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB41117_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="477" link="SB 4.11.17" link_text="SB 4.11.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.11.17|SB 4.11.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are many causes for the earthen pots, but the original cause is the potter, who sets a force on the wheel. That force comes by his superintendence. The same idea is explained in Bhagavad-gītā—behind all material action and reaction there is Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa says that everything depends on His energy, and yet He is not everywhere. The pot is produced under certain conditions of action and reaction of material energy, but the potter is not in the pot. In a similar way, the material creation is set up by the Lord, but He remains aloof. As stated in the Vedas, He simply glanced over it, and the agitation of matter immediately began.</p>
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<div id="SB4169_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="670" link="SB 4.16.9" link_text="SB 4.16.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.16.9|SB 4.16.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This King, Pṛthu Mahārāja, by virtue of his affectionate glances and beautiful moonlike face, which is always smiling with great affection for the citizens, will enhance everyone's peaceful life.</p>
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<div id="SB42119_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="849" link="SB 4.21.19" link_text="SB 4.21.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.21.19|SB 4.21.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just to encourage the members of the assembly and to enhance their pleasure, King Pṛthu glanced over them with eyes that seemed like stars in a sky wet with dew. He then spoke to them in a great voice.</p>
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<div id="SB4244748_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1026" link="SB 4.24.47-48" link_text="SB 4.24.47-48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.24.47-48|SB 4.24.47-48, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is superexcellently beautiful on account of His open and merciful smile and His sidelong glance upon His devotees. His black hair is curly, and His garments, waving in the wind, appear like flying saffron pollen from lotus flowers. His glittering earrings, shining helmet, bangles, garland, ankle bells, waist belt and various other bodily ornaments combine with conchshell, disc, club and lotus flower to increase the natural beauty of the Kaustubha pearl on His chest.</p>
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<div id="SB4244748_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1026" link="SB 4.24.47-48" link_text="SB 4.24.47-48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.24.47-48|SB 4.24.47-48, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The word prahasitāpāṅga, referring to Kṛṣṇa's smile and sidelong glances at His devotees, specifically applies to His dealings with the gopīs. Kṛṣṇa is always in a joking mood when He increases the feelings of conjugal rasa in the hearts of the gopīs. The conchshell, club, disc and lotus flower can be either held in His hands or seen on the palms of His hands. According to palmistry, the signs of a conchshell, club, lotus flower and disc mark the palms of great personalities and especially indicate the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB42463_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1041" link="SB 4.24.63" link_text="SB 4.24.63">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.24.63|SB 4.24.63, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The distinction between matter and spirit is created by the sleeping energy of the Lord when the Lord wants to give some facility to those living entities who want to imitate the Lord in His enjoyment. It is only for them that this material world is created by the dormant energy of the Lord. For instance, sometimes children want to imitate their mother and cook in the kitchen, and at such a time the mother supplies them with some toys so that the children can imitate her cooking. Similarly, when some of the living entities want to imitate the activities of the Lord, this material cosmic manifestation is created for them by the Lord. The material creation is therefore caused by the Lord through His material energy. It is by the glance of the Lord that the material energy is activated. At that time the three material qualities are set into motion, and the material energy is manifested first in the form of the mahat-tattva, then egotism, then ether, then air, fire, water and earth. After the creation, the living entities are impregnated in the cosmic manifestation, and they emerge as Lord Brahmā and the seven great ṛṣis, then as different demigods. From the demigods come human beings, animals, trees, birds, beasts and everything else. The original cause, however, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead,</p>
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<div id="SB42530_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1087" link="SB 4.25.30" link_text="SB 4.25.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.25.30|SB 4.25.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Certainly your glancing upon me today has very much agitated my mind. Your smile, which is full of shyness but at the same time lusty, is agitating the most powerful cupid within me. Therefore, O most beautiful, I ask you to be merciful upon me.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB4307_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1317" link="SB 4.30.7" link_text="SB 4.30.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.30.7|SB 4.30.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Around the neck of the Personality of Godhead hung a flower garland that reached to His knees. His eight stout and elongated arms were decorated with that garland, which challenged the beauty of the goddess of fortune. With a merciful glance and a voice like thunder, the Lord addressed the sons of King Prācīnabarhiṣat, who were very much surrendered unto Him.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB43117_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1376" link="SB 4.31.17" link_text="SB 4.31.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.31.17|SB 4.31.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Lord casts His glance over material energy, and His glance agitates the three modes of nature. Creation then takes place. The conclusion is that nature is not the cause of the material manifestation. The Supreme Lord is the cause of all causes.</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="SB5110_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="11" link="SB 5.1.10" link_text="SB 5.1.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.1.10|SB 5.1.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Priyavrata was the grandson of Lord Brahmā, and as joking competition sometimes takes place between grandson and grandfather, in this case also Priyavrata was determined to remain in meditation, whereas Brahmā was determined that he rule the universe. Thus Lord Brahmā's affectionate smile and glance meant, "My dear Priyavrata, you have decided not to accept household life, but I have decided to convince you that you must accept it." Actually, Brahmā had come to praise Priyavrata for his high standard of renunciation, austerity, penance and devotion so that he would not be deviated from devotional service, even though he would accept household life.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB5129_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="30" link="SB 5.1.29" link_text="SB 5.1.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.1.29|SB 5.1.29, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After Kavi, Mahāvīra and Savana were completely trained in the paramahaṁsa stage of life, Mahārāja Priyavrata ruled the universe for eleven arbudas of years. Whenever he was determined to fix his arrow upon his bowstring with his two powerful arms, all opponents of the regulative principles of religious life would flee from his presence in fear of the unparalleled prowess he displayed in ruling the universe. He greatly loved his wife Barhiṣmatī, and with the increase of days, their exchange of nuptial love also increased. By her feminine behavior as she dressed herself, walked, got up, smiled, laughed, and glanced about, Queen Barhiṣmatī increased his energy. Thus although he was a great soul, he appeared lost in the feminine conduct of his wife. He behaved with her just like an ordinary man, but actually he was a great soul.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB526_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="49" link="SB 5.2.6" link_text="SB 5.2.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.2.6|SB 5.2.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Like a honeybee, the Apsarā smelled the beautiful and attractive flowers. She could attract the minds and vision of both humans and demigods by her playful movements, her shyness and humility, her glances, the very pleasing sounds that poured from her mouth as she spoke, and the motion of her limbs. By all these qualities, she opened for Cupid, who bears an arrow of flowers, a path of aural reception into the minds of men. When she spoke, nectar seemed to flow from her mouth. As she breathed, the bees, mad for the taste of her breath, tried to hover about her beautiful lotuslike eyes. Disturbed by the bees, she tried to move hastily, but as she raised her feet to walk quickly, her hair, the belt on her hips, and her breasts, which were like water jugs, also moved in a way that made her extremely beautiful and attractive. Indeed, she seemed to be making a path for the entrance of Cupid, who is most powerful. Therefore the prince, completely subdued by seeing her, spoke to her as follows.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB528_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="51" link="SB 5.2.8" link_text="SB 5.2.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.2.8|SB 5.2.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then Āgnīdhra observed the glancing eyes of Pūrvacitti and said: My dear friend, you have two very powerful arrows, namely your glancing eyes. Those arrows have feathers like the petals of a lotus flower. Although they have no shafts, they are very beautiful, and they have very sharp, piercing points. They appear very peaceful, and thus it seems that they will not be shot at anyone. You must be loitering in this forest to shoot those arrows at someone, but I cannot understand whom. My intelligence is dull, and I cannot combat you. Indeed, no one can equal you in prowess, and therefore I pray that your prowess will be for my good fortune.</p>
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<div id="SB528_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="51" link="SB 5.2.8" link_text="SB 5.2.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.2.8|SB 5.2.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Āgnīdhra thus began appreciating Pūrvacitti's powerful glance upon him. He compared her glancing eyes to very sharp arrows. Although her eyes were as beautiful as lotuses, they were simultaneously like shaftless arrows, and Āgnīdhra was therefore afraid of them. He hoped that her glances upon him would be favorable because he was already captivated, and the more captivated he became, the more impossible it would be for him to remain without her. Āgnīdhra therefore prayed to Pūrvacitti that her glances at him would be auspicious, not futile. In other words, he prayed that she would become his wife.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB51024_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="248" link="SB 5.10.24" link_text="SB 5.10.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.10.24|SB 5.10.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Whatever you have spoken appears to me to be contradictory. O best friend of the distressed, I have committed a great offense by insulting you. I was puffed up with false prestige due to possessing the body of a king. For this I have certainly become an offender. Therefore I pray that you kindly glance at me with your causeless mercy. If you do so, I can be relieved from sinful activities brought about by insulting you.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB51428_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="338" link="SB 5.14.28" link_text="SB 5.14.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.14.28|SB 5.14.28, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes the conditioned soul is attracted by illusion personified (his wife or girl friend) and becomes eager to be embraced by a woman. Thus he loses his intelligence as well as knowledge of life's goal. At that time, no longer attempting spiritual cultivation, he becomes overly attached to his wife or girl friend and tries to provide her with a suitable apartment. Again, he becomes very busy under the shelter of that home and is captivated by the talks, glances and activities of his wife and children. In this way he loses his Kṛṣṇa consciousness and throws himself in the dense darkness of material existence.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB51719_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="420" link="SB 5.17.19" link_text="SB 5.17.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.17.19|SB 5.17.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">We cannot control the force of our anger. Therefore when we look at material things, we cannot avoid feeling attraction or repulsion for them. But the Supreme Lord is never affected in this way. Although He glances over the material world for the purpose of creating, maintaining and destroying it, He is not affected, even to the slightest degree. Therefore, one who desires to conquer the force of the senses must take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord. Then he will be victorious.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB51719_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="420" link="SB 5.17.19" link_text="SB 5.17.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.17.19|SB 5.17.19, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always equipped with inconceivable potencies. Although creation takes place by His glancing over the material energy, He is not affected by the modes of material nature. Because of His eternally transcendental position, when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in this material world, the modes of material nature cannot affect Him. Therefore the Supreme Lord is called Transcendence, and anyone who wants to be secure from the influence of the modes of material nature must take shelter of Him.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB51816_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="441" link="SB 5.18.16" link_text="SB 5.18.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.18.16|SB 5.18.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In Ketumāla-varṣa, Lord Kāmadeva (Pradyumna) moves very graciously. His mild smile is very beautiful, and when He increases the beauty of His face by slightly raising His eyebrows and glancing playfully, He pleases the goddess of fortune. Thus He enjoys His transcendental senses.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB51838_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="463" link="SB 5.18.38" link_text="SB 5.18.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.18.38|SB 5.18.38, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Lord, You do not desire the creation, maintenance or annihilation of this material world, but You perform these activities for the conditioned souls by Your creative energy. Exactly as a piece of iron moves under the influence of a lodestone, inert matter moves when You glance over the total material energy.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB51838_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="463" link="SB 5.18.38" link_text="SB 5.18.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.18.38|SB 5.18.38, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The workings of nature are not going on automatically. It is only because the Lord glances over the material energy that it acts in wonderful ways, just as a lodestone causes a piece of iron to move here and there. Because materialistic scientists and so-called Sāṅkhya philosophers do not believe in God, they think that material nature is working without supervision. But that is not the fact.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB51838_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="463" link="SB 5.18.38" link_text="SB 5.18.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.18.38|SB 5.18.38, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sea waves are moved by the air, the air is created from ether, the ether is produced by the agitation of the three modes of material nature, and the three modes of material nature interact due to the Supreme Lord's glance over the total material energy. Therefore the background of all natural occurrences is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram ([[Vanisource:BG 9.10 (1972)|BG 9.10]])).</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB52416_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="604" link="SB 5.24.16" link_text="SB 5.24.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.24.16|SB 5.24.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear King, now I shall describe to you the lower planetary systems, one by one, beginning from Atala. In Atala there is a demon, the son of Maya Dānava named Bala, who created ninety-six kinds of mystic power. Some so-called yogīs and svāmīs take advantage of this mystic power to cheat people even today. Simply by yawning, the demon Bala created three kinds of women, known as svairiṇī, kāmiṇī and puṁścalī. The svairiṇīs like to marry men from their own group, the kāmiṇīs marry men from any group, and the puṁścalīs change husbands one after another. If a man enters the planet of Atala, these women immediately capture him and induce him to drink an intoxicating beverage made with a drug known as hāṭaka (cannabis indica). This intoxicant endows the man with great sexual prowess, of which the women take advantage for enjoyment. A woman will enchant him with attractive glances, intimate words, smiles of love and then embraces. In this way she induces him to enjoy sex with her to her full satisfaction. Because of his increased sexual power, the man thinks himself stronger than ten thousand elephants and considers himself most perfect. Indeed, illusioned and intoxicated by false pride, he thinks himself God, ignoring impending death.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB5259_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="629" link="SB 5.25.9" link_text="SB 5.25.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.25.9|SB 5.25.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">By His glance, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enables the modes of material nature to act as the causes of universal creation, maintenance and destruction. The Supreme Soul is unlimited and beginningless, and although He is one, He has manifested Himself in many forms. How can human society understand the ways of the Supreme?</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB5259_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="629" link="SB 5.25.9" link_text="SB 5.25.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.25.9|SB 5.25.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">From Vedic literature we learn that when the Supreme Lord glances (sa aikṣata) over the material energy, the three modes of material nature become manifest and create material variety. Before He glances over the material energy, there is no possibility of the creation, maintenance and annihilation of the material world. The Lord existed before the creation, and consequently He is eternal and unchanging. Therefore how can any human being, however great a scientist or philosopher he may be, understand the ways of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?</p>
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<div id="SB5259_17" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="629" link="SB 5.25.9" link_text="SB 5.25.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.25.9|SB 5.25.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Simply due to the glance of Lord Ananta, the three material modes of nature interact and produce creation, maintenance and annihilation. These modes of nature appear again and again.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB52635_18" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="671" link="SB 5.26.35" link_text="SB 5.26.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.26.35|SB 5.26.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A householder who receives guests or visitors with cruel glances, as if to burn them to ashes, is put into the hell called Paryāvartana, where he is gazed at by hard-eyed vultures, herons, crows and similar birds, which suddenly swoop down and pluck out his eyes with great force.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB_Canto_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 6"><h3>SB Canto 6</h3>
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<div id="SB6165_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="58" link="SB 6.1.65" link_text="SB 6.1.65">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.1.65|SB 6.1.65, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Because his intelligence was pierced by the lustful glance of the prostitute, the victimized brāhmaṇa Ajāmila engaged in sinful acts in her association. He even gave up the company of his very beautiful young wife, who came from a very respectable brāhmaṇa family.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB6165_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="58" link="SB 6.1.65" link_text="SB 6.1.65">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.1.65|SB 6.1.65, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Customarily everyone is eligible to inherit his father's property, and Ajāmila also inherited the money of his father. But what did he do with the money? Instead of engaging the money in the service of Kṛṣṇa, he engaged it in the service of a prostitute. Therefore he was condemned and was punishable by Yamarāja. How did this happen? He was victimized by the dangerous lustful glance of a prostitute.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB6532_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="217" link="SB 6.5.32" link_text="SB 6.5.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.5.32|SB 6.5.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of the advanced Āryans, after saying this much to the sons of Prajāpati Dakṣa, Nārada Muni, whose merciful glance never goes in vain, left as he had planned. The sons of Dakṣa followed their elder brothers. Not attempting to produce children, they engaged themselves in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB6941_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="370" link="SB 6.9.41" link_text="SB 6.9.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.9.41|SB 6.9.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O supreme protector, O grandfather, O supreme pure, O Lord! We are all surrendered souls at Your lotus feet. Indeed, our minds are bound to Your lotus feet in meditation by chains of love. Now please manifest Your incarnation. Accepting us as Your own eternal servants and devotees, be pleased with us and sympathetic toward us. By Your love-filled glance, with its cool and pleasing smile of sympathy, and by the sweet, nectarean words emanating from Your beautiful face, free us from the anxiety caused by this Vṛtrāsura, who always pains the cores of our hearts.</p>
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<div id="SB6182728_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="706" link="SB 6.18.27-28" link_text="SB 6.18.27-28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.18.27-28|SB 6.18.27-28, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thinking in this way (with a desire for a son to kill Indra), Diti began constantly acting to satisfy Kaśyapa by her pleasing behavior. O King, Diti always carried out Kaśyapa's orders very faithfully, as he desired. With service, love, humility and control, with words spoken very sweetly to satisfy her husband, and with smiles and glances at him, Diti attracted his mind and brought it under her control.</p>
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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="SB723_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="50" link="SB 7.2.3" link_text="SB 7.2.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.2.3|SB 7.2.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Exhibiting his terrible teeth, fierce glance and frowning eyebrows, terrible to see, he took up his weapon, a trident, and thus began speaking to his associates, the assembled demons.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB752324_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="200" link="SB 7.5.23-24" link_text="SB 7.5.23-24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23-24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is recommended that even if one commits offenses, one should continue chanting the holy name. In other words, the chanting of the holy name makes one offenseless. In the book Nāma-kaumudī it is recommended that if one is an offender at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava, he should submit to that Vaiṣṇava and be excused; similarly, if one is an offender in chanting the holy name, he should submit to the holy name and thus be freed from his offenses. In this connection there is the following statement, spoken by Dakṣa to Lord Śiva: "I did not know the glories of your personality, and therefore I committed an offense at your lotus feet in the open assembly. You are so kind, however, that you did not accept my offense. Instead, when I was falling down because of accusing you, you saved me by your merciful glance. You are most great. Kindly excuse me and be satisfied with your own exalted qualities."</p>
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<div id="SB7934_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="392" link="SB 7.9.34" link_text="SB 7.9.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.34|SB 7.9.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Modern scientists have tried to explain the origin of creation by a chunk theory, but no one can explain how such a chunk might have burst. The Vedic literature, however, explains clearly that the total material energy was agitated by the three modes of material nature because of the glance of the Supreme Lord. In other words, in terms of the chunk theory, the bursting of the chunk was caused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus one must accept the supreme cause, Lord Viṣṇu, as the cause of all causes.</p>
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<div id="SB7101517_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="429" link="SB 7.10.15-17" link_text="SB 7.10.15-17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.10.15-17|SB 7.10.15-17, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Prahlāda Mahārāja said: O Supreme Lord, because You are so merciful to the fallen souls, I ask You for only one benediction. I know that my father, at the time of his death, had already been purified by Your glance upon him, but because of his ignorance of Your beautiful power and supremacy, he was unnecessarily angry at You, falsely thinking that You were the killer of his brother. Thus he directly blasphemed Your Lordship, the spiritual master of all living beings, and committed heavily sinful activities directed against me, Your devotee. I wish that he be excused for these sinful activities.</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="SB8637_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="184" link="SB 8.6.37" link_text="SB 8.6.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.6.37|SB 8.6.37, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Observing that most of the demons and the demigods had been crushed by the falling of the mountain, the Lord glanced over them and brought them back to life. Thus they became free from grief, and they even had no bruises on their bodies.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8730_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="217" link="SB 8.7.30" link_text="SB 8.7.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.7.30|SB 8.7.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O lord, your shadow is seen in irreligion, which brings about varieties of irreligious creations. The three modes of nature—goodness, passion and ignorance—are your three eyes. All the Vedic literatures, which are full of verses, are emanations from you because their compilers wrote the various scriptures after receiving your glance.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8825_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="259" link="SB 8.8.25" link_text="SB 8.8.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.8.25|SB 8.8.25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the father of the three worlds, and His bosom is the residence of mother Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune, the proprietor of all opulences. The goddess of fortune, by her favorable and merciful glance, can increase the opulence of the three worlds, along with their inhabitants and their directors, the demigods.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8825_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="259" link="SB 8.8.25" link_text="SB 8.8.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.8.25|SB 8.8.25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the desire of Lakṣmīdevī, the goddess of fortune, the Supreme Personality of Godhead made His bosom her residence so that by her glance she could favor everyone, including the demigods and ordinary human beings. In other words, since the goddess of fortune stays on the bosom of Nārāyaṇa, she naturally sees any devotee who worships Nārāyaṇa.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8828_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="262" link="SB 8.8.28" link_text="SB 8.8.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.8.28|SB 8.8.28, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the demigods, along with the prajāpatis and their descendants, being blessed by Lakṣmījī's glance upon them, were immediately enriched with good behavior and transcendental qualities. Thus they were very much satisfied.</p>
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<div id="SB884146_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="274" link="SB 8.8.41-46" link_text="SB 8.8.41-46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.8.41-46|SB 8.8.41-46, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, who can counteract any unfavorable situation, then assumed the form of an extremely beautiful woman. This incarnation as a woman, Mohinī-mūrti, was most pleasing to the mind. Her complexion resembled in color a newly grown blackish lotus, and every part of Her body was beautifully situated. Her ears were equally decorated with earrings, Her cheeks were very beautiful, Her nose was raised and Her face full of youthful luster. Her large breasts made Her waist seem very thin. Attracted by the aroma of Her face and body, bumblebees hummed around Her, and thus Her eyes were restless. Her hair, which was extremely beautiful, was garlanded with mallikā flowers. Her attractively constructed neck was decorated with a necklace and other ornaments, Her arms were decorated with bangles, Her body was covered with a clean sari, and Her breasts seemed like islands in an ocean of beauty. Her legs were decorated with ankle bells. Because of the movements of Her eyebrows as She smiled with shyness and glanced over the demons, all the demons were saturated with lusty desires, and every one of them desired to possess Her.</p>
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<div id="SB8918_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="291" link="SB 8.9.18" link_text="SB 8.9.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.9.18|SB 8.9.18, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Her attractive nose and cheeks and Her ears, adorned with golden earrings, made Her face very beautiful. As She moved, Her sari's border on Her breasts moved slightly aside. When the demigods and demons saw these beautiful features of Mohinī-mūrti, who was glancing at them and slightly smiling, they were all completely enchanted.</p>
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<div id="SB81222_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="417" link="SB 8.12.22" link_text="SB 8.12.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.12.22|SB 8.12.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While Lord Śiva observed the beautiful woman playing with the ball, She sometimes glanced at him and slightly smiled in bashfulness. As he looked at the beautiful woman and She watched him, he forgot both himself and Umā, his most beautiful wife, as well as his associates nearby.</p>
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<div id="SB81222_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="417" link="SB 8.12.22" link_text="SB 8.12.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.12.22|SB 8.12.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The material bondage of this world is that a beautiful woman can captivate a handsome man and that a handsome man can captivate a beautiful woman. Such are the affairs that began when Lord Śiva observed the beautiful girl playing with the ball. In such activities, the influence of Cupid is very prominent. As both parties move their eyebrows and glance at one another, their lusty desires increase more and more.</p>
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<div id="SB81224_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="419" link="SB 8.12.24" link_text="SB 8.12.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.12.24|SB 8.12.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śiva was observing every part of the woman's body, and She was also glancing at him with restless eyes. Thus Śiva thought that She was also attracted to him, and now he wanted to touch Her.</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="SB95Summary_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="170" link="SB 9.5 Summary" link_text="SB 9.5 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.5 Summary|SB 9.5 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">What is this Sudarśana cakra? The Sudarśana cakra is the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by which He creates the entire material world. Sa aikṣata, sa asṛjata. This is the Vedic version. The Sudarśana cakra, which is the origin of creation and is most dear to the Lord, has thousands of spokes. This Sudarśana cakra is the killer of the prowess of all other weapons, the killer of darkness, and the manifester of the prowess of devotional service; it is the means of establishing religious principles, and it is the killer of all irreligious activities. Without his mercy, the universe cannot be maintained, and therefore the Sudarśana cakra is employed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB955_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="175" link="SB 9.5.5" link_text="SB 9.5.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.5.5|SB 9.5.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The word sudarśana means "auspicious vision." From Vedic instructions we understand that this material world is created by the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (sa aikṣata, sa asṛjata). The Supreme Personality of Godhead glanced over the mahat-tattva, or the total material energy, and when it was agitated, everything came into existence. Western philosophers sometimes think that the original cause of creation was a chunk that exploded. If one thinks of this chunk as the total material energy, the mahat-tattva, one can understand that the chunk was agitated by the glance of the Lord, and thus the Lord's glance is the original cause of material creation.</p>
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<div id="SB91013_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="359" link="SB 9.10.13" link_text="SB 9.10.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.13|SB 9.10.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After reaching the beach, Lord Rāmacandra fasted for three days, awaiting the arrival of the ocean personified. When the ocean did not come, the Lord exhibited His pastimes of anger, and simply by His glancing over the ocean, all the living entities within it, including the crocodiles and sharks, were agitated by fear. Then the personified ocean fearfully approached Lord Rāmacandra, taking all paraphernalia to worship Him. Falling at the Lord's lotus feet, the personified ocean spoke as follows.</p>
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<div id="SB92467_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="870" link="SB 9.24.67" link_text="SB 9.24.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.24.67|SB 9.24.67, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa created a misunderstanding between family members just to diminish the burden of the world. Simply by His glance, He annihilated all the demoniac kings on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra and declared victory for Arjuna. Finally, He instructed Uddhava about transcendental life and devotion and then returned to His abode in His original form.</p>
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<div id="SB92467_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="870" link="SB 9.24.67" link_text="SB 9.24.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.24.67|SB 9.24.67, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām ([[Vanisource:BG 4.8 (1972)|BG 4.8]]). The mission of Lord Kṛṣṇa was performed on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, for by the Lord's mercy Arjuna was victorious due to being a great devotee whereas the others were killed simply by the Lord's glance, which cleansed them of all sinful activities and enabled them to attain sārūpya. Finally, Lord Kṛṣṇa instructed Uddhava about the transcendental life of devotional service, and then, in due course of time, He returned to His abode.</p>
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