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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_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="SB517_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="8" link="SB 5.1.7" link_text="SB 5.1.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.1.7|SB 5.1.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Self (ātmā), is the source of everything, as explained in the Vedānta-sūtra: janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). Because Brahmā was born directly from Lord Viṣṇu, he is called ātma-yoni. He is also called bhagavān, although generally bhagavān refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Viṣṇu or Lord Kṛṣṇa). Sometimes great personalities—such as demigods like Lord Brahmā, Nārada or Lord Śiva—are also addressed as bhagavān because they carry out the purpose of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Brahmā is called bhagavān because he is the secondary creator of this universe. He is always thinking of how to improve the situation of the conditioned souls who have come to the material world to enjoy material activities. For this reason, he disseminates the Vedic knowledge throughout the universe for everyone's guidance.</p>
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<div id="SB518_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="9" link="SB 5.1.8" link_text="SB 5.1.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.1.8|SB 5.1.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It appears from this description that there is regular interplanetary travel between the planets of the demigods. Another significant point is that there is a planet covered mostly by great mountains, one of which is Gandhamādana Hill. Three great personalities—Priyavrata, Nārada and Svāyambhuva Manu—were sitting on this hill. According to Brahmā-saṁhitā, each universe is filled with different planetary systems, and every system has a unique opulence. For example, on Siddhaloka, all the residents are very advanced in the powers of mystic yoga. They can fly from one planet to another without airplanes or other flying machines. Similarly, the residents of Gandharvaloka are expert in musical science, and those on Sādhyaloka are all great saints. The interplanetary system undoubtedly exists, and residents of different planets may go from one to another. On this earth, however, we have not invented any machine that can go directly from one planet to another, although an unsuccessful attempt has been made to go directly to the moon.</p>
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<div id="SB5111_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="12" link="SB 5.1.11" link_text="SB 5.1.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.1.11|SB 5.1.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Of the twelve great authorities in devotional service, four—Lord Brahmā himself, his son Nārada, Svāyambhuva Manu and Lord Śiva—were present before Priyavrata. They were accompanied by many other authoritative sages. Brahmā first wanted to impress upon Priyavrata that although these great personalities are all authorities, they cannot possibly disobey the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is described in this verse as deva, which means "always glorious." The power, glory and potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead can never be diminished. In the Īśopaniṣad, the Lord is described as apāpa-viddha, which indicates that He is never affected by anything materially considered sinful. Similarly, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam describes the Supreme Personality of Godhead as being so powerful that nothing we might consider abominable can affect Him. An example sometimes given to explain the position of the Supreme Lord is that of the sun, which evaporates urine from the earth but is never affected by contamination. The Supreme Lord can never be accused of doing anything wrong.</p>
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<div id="SB5122_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="23" link="SB 5.1.22" link_text="SB 5.1.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.1.22|SB 5.1.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Svāyambhuva Manu was practically hopeless because such a great personality as Nārada was instructing his son Priyavrata not to accept household life. Now he was very pleased that Lord Brahmā had interfered by inducing his son to accept the responsibility for ruling the government of the universe. From Bhagavad-gītā we get information that Vaivasvata Manu was the son of the sun-god and that his son, Mahārāja Ikṣvāku, ruled this planet earth. Svāyambhuva Manu, however, appears to have been in charge of the entire universe, and he entrusted to his son, Mahārāja Priyavrata, the responsibility for maintaining and protecting all the planetary systems. Dharā-maṇḍala means "planet." This earth, for instance, is called dharā-maṇḍala. Akhila, however, means "all" or "universal." It is therefore difficult to understand where Mahārāja Priyavrata was situated, but from this literature his position certainly appears greater than that of Vaivasvata Manu, for he was entrusted with all the planetary systems of the entire universe.</p>
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<div id="SB5919_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="222" link="SB 5.9.19" link_text="SB 5.9.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.9.19|SB 5.9.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When an envious person commits an offense before a great personality, he is always punished in the way mentioned above.</p>
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<div id="SB51018_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="242" link="SB 5.10.18" link_text="SB 5.10.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.10.18|SB 5.10.18, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The listener must also be advanced to understand the words of such exalted, spiritually advanced people as Jaḍa Bharata. Bhagavad-gītā was spoken to Arjuna, not to others. Lord Kṛṣṇa especially selected Arjuna for instruction in spiritual knowledge because Arjuna happened to be a great devotee and confidential friend. Similarly, great personalities also speak to the advanced, not to śūdras, vaiśyas, women or unintelligent men. Sometimes it is very risky to give great philosophical instructions to ordinary people, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for the benefit of the fallen souls of Kali-yuga, has given us a very nice instrument, the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. The general mass of people, although śūdras and less, can be purified by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Then they can understand the exalted philosophical statements of Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has therefore adopted the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra for the general masses.</p>
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<div id="SB51323_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="306" link="SB 5.13.23" link_text="SB 5.13.23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.13.23|SB 5.13.23, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I offer my respectful obeisances unto the great personalities, whether they walk on the earth's surface as children, young boys, avadhūtas or great brāhmaṇas. Even if they are hidden under different guises, I offer my respects to all of them. By their mercy, may there be good fortune in the royal dynasties that are always offending them.</p>
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<div id="SB51323_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="306" link="SB 5.13.23" link_text="SB 5.13.23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.13.23|SB 5.13.23, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The four Kumāras walked everywhere in the guise of five-year-old boys, and similarly there are many brāhmaṇas, knowers of Brahman, who traverse the globe either as young men, children or avadhūtas. Being puffed up due to their position, the royal dynasties generally offend these great personalities. Therefore King Rahūgaṇa began to offer his respectful obeisances unto them so that the offensive royal dynasties might not glide down into a hellish condition. If one offends a great personality, the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not excuse one, although the great personalities themselves might not take offense. Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was offended by Durvāsā, who even approached Lord Viṣṇu for pardon. Lord Viṣṇu would not grant him pardon; therefore he had to fall down at the lotus feet of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, even though Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was a kṣatriya-gṛhastha. One should be very careful not to offend the lotus feet of Vaiṣṇavas and brāhmaṇas.</p>
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<div id="SB51324_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="307" link="SB 5.13.24" link_text="SB 5.13.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.13.24|SB 5.13.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.25.21), Kapiladeva describes the symptoms of great personalities: titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām. A saintly devotee is certainly very tolerant. He is the friend of all living entities, and he does not create enemies within the world. A pure devotee has all the qualities of a sādhu. Jaḍa Bharata is an example of this. Due to the material body, his senses were certainly agitated when he was insulted by King Rahūgaṇa, but later, due to the King's humble submission, Jaḍa Bharata excused him. It is the duty of everyone desiring to return to Godhead to become submissive like King Rahūgaṇa and beg pardon of Vaiṣṇavas one may have offended. Vaiṣṇavas are generally very kindhearted; therefore if one immediately submits himself at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava, one is immediately cleared of offensive reactions. If one does not do so, the reactions will remain, and the results will not be very palatable.</p>
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<div id="SB51441_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="351" link="SB 5.14.41" link_text="SB 5.14.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.14.41|SB 5.14.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Any person who seriously desires to achieve real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of his spiritual master is that he must have realized the conclusion of the scriptures by deliberation and be able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great personalities, who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, are to be understood as bona fide spiritual masters." Similarly, Viśvanātha Cakravartī, a great Vaiṣṇava, also advises, yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ: ** "By the mercy of the spiritual master one receives the mercy of Kṛṣṇa." This is the same advice given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu (guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.151|CC Madhya 19.151]])). This is essential. One must come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and therefore one must take shelter of a pure devotee. Thus one can become free from the clutches of matter.</p>
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<div id="SB51444_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="354" link="SB 5.14.44" link_text="SB 5.14.44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.14.44|SB 5.14.44, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, the activities of Bharata Mahārāja are wonderful. He gave up everything difficult for others to give up. He gave up his kingdom, his wife and his family. His opulence was so great that even the demigods envied it, yet he gave it up. It was quite befitting a great personality like him to be a great devotee. He could renounce everything because he was so attracted to the beauty, opulence, reputation, knowledge, strength and renunciation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is so attractive that one can give up all desirable things for His sake. Indeed, even liberation is considered insignificant for those whose minds are attracted to the loving service of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB5187_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="432" link="SB 5.18.7" link_text="SB 5.18.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.18.7|SB 5.18.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva resides in the tract of land known as Hari-varṣa. In the Seventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, I shall describe to you how Prahlāda Mahārāja caused the Lord to assume the form of Nṛsiṁhadeva. Prahlāda Mahārāja, the topmost devotee of the Lord, is a reservoir of all the good qualities of great personalities. His character and activities have delivered all the fallen members of his demoniac family. Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva is very dear to this exalted personality. Thus Prahlāda Mahārāja, along with his servants and all the denizens of Hari-varṣa, worships Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva by chanting the following mantra.</p>
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<div id="SB52426_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="614" link="SB 5.24.26" link_text="SB 5.24.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.24.26|SB 5.24.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said that for spiritual realization one must follow great personalities like Lord Brahmā, Devarṣi Nārada, Lord Śiva and Prahlāda Mahārāja. The path of bhakti is not at all difficult if we follow in the footsteps of previous ācāryas and authorities, but those who are too materially contaminated by the modes of material nature cannot follow them. Although Bali Mahārāja was actually following the path of his grandfather, because of his great humility he thought that he was not. It is characteristic of advanced Vaiṣṇavas following the principles of bhakti that they think themselves ordinary human beings. This is not an artificial exhibition of humility; a Vaiṣṇava sincerely thinks this way and therefore never admits his exalted position.</p>
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<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="SB6117_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="16" link="SB 6.1.17" link_text="SB 6.1.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.1.17|SB 6.1.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Regardless of whether or not one is educated or aristocratic, one must follow in their footsteps. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ: ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]]) one must follow the path of the mahājanas. The mahājanas are those who have taken to the path of devotional service (suśīlāḥ sādhavo yatra nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇāḥ), for these great personalities are the perfect persons. As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (5.18.12):</p>
:yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā
:sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ
<p>"One who has unflinching devotion to the Personality of Godhead has all the good qualities of the demigods." The less intelligent, however, misunderstand the bhakti path and therefore allege that it is for one who cannot execute ritualistic ceremonies or speculate.</p>
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<div id="SB691_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="336" link="SB 6.9.1" link_text="SB 6.9.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.9.1|SB 6.9.1, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One cannot directly perceive the kingdom of heaven, its king and other inhabitants, or how they perform their various engagements, for no one can go to the heavenly planets. Although modern scientists have invented many powerful space vehicles, they cannot even go to the moon, not to speak of other planets. By direct experience one cannot learn anything beyond the range of human perception. One must hear from authorities. Therefore Śukadeva Gosvāmī, a great personality, says, "What I am describing to you, O King, is what I have heard from authoritative sources." This is the Vedic system. The Vedic knowledge is called śruti because it must be received by being heard from authorities. It is beyond the realm of our false experimental knowledge.</p>
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<div id="SB6108_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="393" link="SB 6.10.8" link_text="SB 6.10.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.10.8|SB 6.10.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Similarly. everyone else with a materially comfortable condition in this world should join the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to elevate the fallen souls. The words bhūta-dayayā, māyā-mṛgaṁ dayitayepsitam and dīna-gaṇeśakau karuṇayā all convey the same sense. These are very significant words for those interested in elevating human society to a proper understanding of life. One should join the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, following the examples of such great personalities as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the six Gosvāmīs and, before them, the great sage Dadhīci. Instead of wasting one's life for temporary bodily comforts. one should always be prepared to give up one's life for better causes. After all, the body will be destroyed. Therefore one should sacrifice it for the glory of distributing religious principles throughout the world.</p>
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<div id="SB61028_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="408" link="SB 6.10.28" link_text="SB 6.10.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.10.28|SB 6.10.28, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When insignificant persons use rough words to cast false, angry accusations against saintly persons, their fruitless words do not disturb the great personalities. Similarly, all the efforts of the demons against the demigods, who were favorably situated under the protection of Kṛṣṇa, were futile.</p>
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<div id="SB613Summary_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="475" link="SB 6.13 Summary" link_text="SB 6.13 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13 Summary|SB 6.13 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Following this instruction from the demigods, King Indra fought Vṛtrāsura, but when Vṛtrāsura was killed, everyone was satisfied but King Indra, who knew Vṛtrāsura's position. This is the nature of a great personality. Even if a great personality acquires some opulence, he is always ashamed and regretful if he acquires it illegally. Indra could understand that he was certainly entangled by sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa. Indeed, he could see sinful reaction personified following him, and thus he fled here and there in fear, thinking of how to rid himself of his sins. He went to Mānasa-sarovara, and there, under the protection of the goddess of fortune, he meditated for one thousand years. During this time, Nahuṣa reigned over the heavenly planets as the representative of Indra. Unfortunately, however, he was attracted by the beauty of Indra's wife, Śacīdevī, and because of his sinful desire he had to accept the body of a serpent in his next life. Indra later performed a great sacrifice with the help of exalted brāhmaṇas and saints. In this way he was released from the reactions of his sinful killing of a brāhmaṇa.</p>
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<div id="SB61510_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="566" link="SB 6.15.10" link_text="SB 6.15.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.15.10|SB 6.15.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">King Citraketu said: You have both come here dressed like avadhūtas, liberated persons, just to cover your identities, but I see that of all men, you are the most elevated in awareness. You know everything as it is. Therefore you are the greatest of all great personalities.</p>
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<div id="SB6151215_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="568" link="SB 6.15.12-15" link_text="SB 6.15.12-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.15.12-15|SB 6.15.12-15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The word jñāna-hetavaḥ is very significant because great personalities like those listed in these verses wander on the surface of the globe not to mislead the populace, but to distribute real knowledge. Without this knowledge, human life is wasted. The human form of life is meant for realization of one's relationship with Kṛṣṇa, or God. One who lacks this knowledge is categorized among the animals. The Lord Himself says in Bhagavad-gītā (7.15):</p>
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<div id="SB61516_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="569" link="SB 6.15.16" link_text="SB 6.15.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.15.16|SB 6.15.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Because you are great personalities, you can give me real knowledge. I am as foolish as a village animal like a pig or dog because I am merged in the darkness of ignorance. Therefore, please ignite the torch of knowledge to save me.</p>
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<div id="SB61516_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="569" link="SB 6.15.16" link_text="SB 6.15.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.15.16|SB 6.15.16, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the way to receive knowledge. One must submit oneself at the lotus feet of great personalities who can actually deliver transcendental knowledge. It is therefore said, tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam: ([[Vanisource:SB 11.3.21|SB 11.3.21]]) "One who is inquisitive to understand the highest goal and benefit of life must approach a bona fide spiritual master and surrender unto him." Only one who is actually eager to receive knowledge to eradicate the darkness of ignorance is eligible to approach a guru, or spiritual master. The guru should not be approached for material benefits. One should not approach a guru just to cure some disease or receive some miraculous benefit. This is not the way to approach the guru. Tad-vijñānārtham: one should approach the guru to understand the transcendental science of spiritual life. Unfortunately, in this age of Kali there are many bogus gurus who display magic to their disciples, and many foolish disciples want to see such magic for material benefits. These disciples are not interested in pursuing spiritual life to save themselves from the darkness of ignorance. It is said:</p>
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<div id="SB61710_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="650" link="SB 6.17.10" link_text="SB 6.17.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.17.10|SB 6.17.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said, tejīyasāṁ na doṣāya: one who is very powerful should be understood to be faultless. For example, one should not find faults with the sun, although it evaporates urine from the street. The most powerful cannot be criticized by an ordinary man, or even by a great personality. Citraketu should have known that Lord Śiva, although sitting in that way, was not to be criticized. The difficulty was that Citraketu, having become a great devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, Saṅkarṣaṇa, was somewhat proud at having achieved Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa's favor and therefore thought that he could now criticize anyone, even Lord Śiva. This kind of pride in a devotee is never tolerated. A Vaiṣṇava should always remain very humble and meek and offer respect to others.</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="SB73Summary_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="103" link="SB 7.3 Summary" link_text="SB 7.3 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.3 Summary|SB 7.3 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon hearing about the purpose of Hiraṇyakaśipu's austere meditation, Lord Brahmā, accompanied by the great sage Bhṛgu and great personalities like Dakṣa, went to see Hiraṇyakaśipu. He then sprinkled water from his kamaṇḍalu, a type of waterpot, upon Hiraṇyakaśipu's head.</p>
<p>Hiraṇyakaśipu, the King of the Daityas, bowed down before Lord Brahmā, the creator of this universe, offering respectful obeisances again and again and offering prayers. When Lord Brahmā agreed to give him benedictions, he prayed not be killed by any living entity, not to be killed in any place, covered or uncovered, not to die in the daytime or at night, not to be killed by any weapon, on land or in the air, and not to be killed by any human being, animal, demigod or any other entity, living or nonliving. He further prayed for supremacy over the entire universe and requested the eight yogic perfections, such as aṇimā and laghimā.</p>
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<div id="SB7414_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="147" link="SB 7.4.14" link_text="SB 7.4.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.4.14|SB 7.4.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The asuras sometimes become so powerful that they can engage even Nārada Muni and similar devotees in their service. This does not mean that Nārada was subordinate to Hiraṇyakaśipu. Sometimes, however, it so happens in this material world that great personalities, even great devotees, can also be controlled by the asuras.</p>
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<div id="SB7530_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="206" link="SB 7.5.30" link_text="SB 7.5.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.5.30|SB 7.5.30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible." ([[Vanisource:BG 9.13 (1972)|BG 9.13]]) A mahātmā is one who is constantly engaged in devotional service, twenty-four hours a day. As explained in the following verses, unless one adheres to such a great personality, one cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to know where Prahlāda had gotten this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Who had taught him? Prahlāda sarcastically replied, "My dear father, persons like you never understand Kṛṣṇa. One can understand Kṛṣṇa only by serving a mahat, a great soul. Those who try to adjust material conditions are said to be chewing the chewed. No one has been able to adjust material conditions, but life after life, generation after generation, people try and repeatedly fail. Unless one is properly trained by a mahat—a mahātmā, or unalloyed devotee of the Lord—there is no possibility of one's understanding Kṛṣṇa and His devotional service."</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7553_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="227" link="SB 7.5.53" link_text="SB 7.5.53">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.5.53|SB 7.5.53, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The entire world is interested in the materialistic way of life. Indeed, practically 99.9 percent of the people in the three worlds are uninterested in liberation or spiritual education. Only the devotees of the Lord, headed by such great personalities as Prahlāda Mahārāja and Nārada Muni, are interested in the real education of spiritual life. One cannot understand the principles of religion while staying on the material platform. Therefore one must follow these great personalities. As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (6.3.20):</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7553_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="227" link="SB 7.5.53" link_text="SB 7.5.53">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.5.53|SB 7.5.53, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One must follow in the footsteps of such great personalities as Lord Brahmā, Nārada, Lord Śiva, Kapila, Manu, the Kumāras, Prahlāda Mahārāja, Bhīṣma, Janaka, Bali Mahārāja, Śukadeva Gosvāmī and Yamarāja. Those interested in spiritual life should follow Prahlāda Mahārāja in rejecting the education of religion, economic development and sense gratification. One should be interested in spiritual education. Therefore the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spreading all over the world, following in the footsteps of Prahlāda Mahārāja, who did not like any of the materialistic education he received from his teachers.</p>
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<div id="SB762930_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="254" link="SB 7.6.29-30" link_text="SB 7.6.29-30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.6.29-30|SB 7.6.29-30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The sons of the demons replied: Dear Prahlāda, neither you nor we know any teacher or spiritual master other than Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka, the sons of Śukrācārya. After all, we are children and they our controllers. For you especially, who always remain within the palace, it is very difficult to associate with a great personality. Dear friend, most gentle one, would you kindly explain how it was possible for you to hear Nārada? Kindly dispel our doubts in this regard.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB785_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="311" link="SB 7.8.5" link_text="SB 7.8.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.8.5|SB 7.8.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Prahlāda Mahārāja is the guide of all the mandas, or bad living entities who are under the influence of māyā. He is the benefactor even of the slow and bad living entities in this material world. Kula-bheda-karādhama: by his actions, Prahlāda Mahārāja made great personalities who established big, big families seem insignificant. Everyone is interested in his own family and in making his dynasty famous, but Prahlāda Mahārāja was so liberal that he made no distinction between one living entity and another. Therefore he was greater than the great prajāpatis who established their dynasties. The word stabdham means obstinate. A devotee does not care for the instructions of the asuras. When they give instructions, he remains silent. A devotee cares about the instructions of Kṛṣṇa, not those of demons or nondevotees. He does not give any respect to a demon, even though the demon be his father. Mac-chāsanodvṛttam: Prahlāda Mahārāja was disobedient to the orders of his demoniac father. Yama-kṣayam: every conditioned soul is under the control of Yamarāja, but Hiraṇyakaśipu said that he considered Prahlāda Mahārāja his deliverer, for Prahlāda would stop Hiraṇyakaśipu's repetition of birth and death.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7942_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="400" link="SB 7.9.42" link_text="SB 7.9.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.42|SB 7.9.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O my Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, original spiritual master of the entire world, what is the difficulty for You, who manage the affairs of the universe, in delivering the fallen souls engaged in Your devotional service? You are the friend of all suffering humanity, and for great personalities it is necessary to show mercy to the foolish. Therefore I think that You will show Your causeless mercy to persons like us, who engage in Your service.</p>
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<div id="SB7943_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="401" link="SB 7.9.43" link_text="SB 7.9.43">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.43|SB 7.9.43, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O best of the great personalities, I am not at all afraid of material existence, for wherever I stay I am fully absorbed in thoughts of Your glories and activities. My concern is only for the fools and rascals who are making elaborate plans for material happiness and maintaining their families, societies and countries. I am simply concerned with love for them.</p>
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<div id="SB7944_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="402" link="SB 7.9.44" link_text="SB 7.9.44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.44|SB 7.9.44, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the decision of the Vaiṣṇava, the pure devotee of the Lord. For himself he has no problems, even if he has to stay in this material world, because his only business is to remain in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The Kṛṣṇa conscious person can go even to hell and still be happy. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja said, naivodvije para duratyaya-vaitaraṇyāḥ: "O best of the great personalities, I am not at all afraid of material existence." The pure devotee is never unhappy in any condition of life. This is confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (6.17.28):</p>
:nārāyaṇa-parāḥ sarve
:na kutaścana bibhyati
:svargāpavarga-narakeṣv
:api tulyārtha-darśinaḥ
<p>"Devotees solely engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, never fear any condition of life. For them the heavenly planets, liberation and the hellish planets are all the same, for such devotees are interested only in the service of the Lord."</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB71068_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="477" link="SB 7.10.68" link_text="SB 7.10.68">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.10.68|SB 7.10.68, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Seated in their airplanes in the sky, the inhabitants of the higher planetary systems beat many kettledrums. The demigods, saints, Pitās, Siddhas and various great personalities showered flowers on the head of Lord Śiva, wishing him all victory, and the Apsarās began to chant and dance with great pleasure.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB711Summary_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="480" link="SB 7.11 Summary" link_text="SB 7.11 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.11 Summary|SB 7.11 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nārada Muni also described that the symptom of a brāhmaṇa is controlled senses, the symptoms of a kṣatriya are power and fame, the symptom of a vaiśya is service to the brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas, and the symptom of a śūdra is service to the three higher classes. The qualification for a woman is to be a very faithful and chaste wife. In this way, Nārada Muni described the characteristics of higher and lower grades of people and recommended that one follow the principles of his caste or his hereditary occupation. One cannot suddenly give up a profession to which he is accustomed, and therefore it is recommended that one gradually be awakened. The symptoms of brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas, and śūdras are very important, and therefore one should be designated only by these symptoms, and not by birth. Designation by birth is strictly forbidden by Nārada Muni and all great personalities.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7111_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="481" link="SB 7.11.1" link_text="SB 7.11.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.11.1|SB 7.11.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After hearing about the activities and character of Prahlāda Mahārāja, which are adored and discussed among great personalities like Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, the most respectful king among exalted personalities, again inquired from the great saint Nārada Muni in a mood of great pleasure.</p>
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<div id="SB71310_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="546" link="SB 7.13.10" link_text="SB 7.13.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.13.10|SB 7.13.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A great personality very much advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness may not expose himself by the signs of a sannyāsī. To cover himself, he may live like a restless child or a dumb person, although he is the greatest orator or poet.</p>
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<div id="SB71439_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="612" link="SB 7.14.39" link_text="SB 7.14.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.14.39|SB 7.14.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Whatever result one obtained in Satya-yuga by meditating on Viṣṇu, in Tretā-yuga by performing sacrifices and in Dvāpara-yuga by serving the Lord's lotus feet one can also obtain in Kali-yuga simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra." In Satya-yuga, every person was spiritually advanced, and there was no envy between great personalities. Gradually, however, because of material contamination with the advance of the ages, disrespectful dealings appeared even among brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas. Actually, an advanced Vaiṣṇava is to be respected more than Viṣṇu. As stated in the Padma Purāṇa, ārādhanānāṁ sarveṣāṁ viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ param: of all kinds of worship, worship of Lord Viṣṇu is the best. Tasmāt parataraṁ devi tadīyānāṁ samarcanam: and recommended more than worship of Viṣṇu is worship of the Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div id="SB71577_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="688" link="SB 7.15.77" link_text="SB 7.15.77">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15.77|SB 7.15.77, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Present here now is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead whose true form cannot be understood even by such great personalities as Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva. He is realized by devotees because of their unflinching surrender. May that same Personality of Godhead, who is the maintainer of His devotees and who is worshiped by silence, by devotional service and by cessation of material activities, be pleased with us.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB71578_16" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="689" link="SB 7.15.78" link_text="SB 7.15.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15.78|SB 7.15.78, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is natural that when someone belonging to one's family circle is understood to be very great, one becomes ecstatic in love, thinking, "Oh, such a great personality is our relative!" When Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who was already known to the Pāṇḍavas, was further described by Nārada Muni to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead, naturally the Pāṇḍavas were amazed, thinking, "The Supreme Personality of Godhead is with us as our cousin!" Certainly their ecstasy was extraordinary.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_8" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 8"><h3>SB Canto 8</h3>
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<div id="SB8114_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="15" link="SB 8.1.14" link_text="SB 8.1.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.1.14|SB 8.1.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender." ([[Vanisource:BG 3.6 (1972)|BG 3.6]]) One should act for Kṛṣṇa very seriously in order to become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious and should not sit down to imitate such great personalities as Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura condemned such imitation. Me said:</p>
<p>duṣṭa mana! tumi kisera vaiṣṇava?</p>
<p>pratiṣṭhāra tare, nirjanera ghare,</p>
:tava hari-nāma kevala kaitava
<p>"My dear mind, what kind of devotee are you? Simply for cheap adoration, you sit in a solitary place and pretend to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, but this is all cheating." Recently at Māyāpur an African devotee wanted to imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura, but after fifteen days he became restless and went away. Do not suddenly try to imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, and gradually you will come to the stage of liberation (muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ svarūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 2.10.6|SB 2.10.6]])).</p>
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<div id="SB8232_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="56" link="SB 8.2.32" link_text="SB 8.2.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.2.32|SB 8.2.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The other elephants, who are my friends and relatives, could not rescue me from this danger. What then to speak of my wives? They cannot do anything. It is by the will of providence that I have been attacked by this crocodile, and therefore I shall seek shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is always the shelter of everyone, even of great personalities.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB832021_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="77" link="SB 8.3.20-21" link_text="SB 8.3.20-21">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.3.20-21|SB 8.3.20-21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Unalloyed devotees, who have no desire other than to serve the Lord, worship Him in full surrender and always hear and chant about His activities, which are most wonderful and auspicious. Thus they always merge in an ocean of transcendental bliss. Such devotees never ask the Lord for any benediction. I, however, am in danger. Thus I pray to that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is eternally existing, who is invisible, who is the Lord of all great personalities, such as Brahmā, and who is available only by transcendental bhakti-yoga. Being extremely subtle, He is beyond the reach of my senses and transcendental to all external realization. He is unlimited, He is the original cause, and He is completely full in everything. I offer my obeisances unto Him.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB851516_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="120" link="SB 8.5.15-16" link_text="SB 8.5.15-16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.5.15-16|SB 8.5.15-16, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">To be extremely opulent in materialistic advancement is sometimes very risky. The materially opulent person does not care about anyone, and thus he commits offenses to great personalities, such as devotees and great saints. This is the way of material opulence. As described by Śukadeva Gosvāmī, dhana-durmadāndha: too much wealth makes one blind. This happens even to Indra in his heavenly kingdom, and what to speak of others in this material world? When one is materially opulent, he should learn to be sober and well-behaved toward Vaiṣṇavas and saintly persons; otherwise he will fall down.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8744_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="231" link="SB 8.7.44" link_text="SB 8.7.44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.7.44|SB 8.7.44, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said that great personalities almost always accept voluntary suffering because of the suffering of people in general. This is considered the highest method of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is present in everyone's heart.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8820_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="254" link="SB 8.8.20" link_text="SB 8.8.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.8.20|SB 8.8.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The goddess of fortune, examining the assembly, thought in this way: Someone who has undergone great austerity has not yet conquered anger. Someone possesses knowledge, but he has not conquered material desires. Someone is a very great personality, but he cannot conquer lusty desires. Even a great personality depends on something else. How, then, can he be the supreme controller?</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8117_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="354" link="SB 8.11.7" link_text="SB 8.11.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.11.7|SB 8.11.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Everything takes place according to the laws of nature (prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27 (1972)|BG 3.27]])). Since everyone, without exception, is subject to the modes of material nature, whether one is victorious or defeated he is not independent, but is under the control of material nature. Bali Mahārāja, therefore, was very sensible. He knew that the fighting was arranged by eternal time and that under time's influence one must accept the results of one's own activities. Therefore even though Indra threatened that he would now kill Bali Mahārāja by releasing the thunderbolt, Bali Mahārāja was not at all afraid. This is the spirit of a kṣatriya: yuddhe cāpy apalāyanam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.43 (1972)|BG 18.43]]). A kṣatriya must be tolerant in all circumstances, especially on the battlefield. Thus Bali Mahārāja asserted that he was not at all afraid of death, although he was threatened by such a great personality as the King of heaven.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB81233_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="427" link="SB 8.12.33" link_text="SB 8.12.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.12.33|SB 8.12.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O King, wheresoever on the surface of the globe fell the semen of the great personality of Lord Śiva, mines of gold and silver later appeared.</p>
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<div id="SB8131516_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="456" link="SB 8.13.15-16" link_text="SB 8.13.15-16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.13.15-16|SB 8.13.15-16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O King, during the eighth manvantara, the great personalities Gālava, Dīptimān, Paraśurāma, Aśvatthāmā, Kṛpācārya, Ṛṣyaśṛṅga and our father, Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of Nārāyaṇa, will be the seven sages. For the present, they are all residing in their respective āśramas.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB81614_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="537" link="SB 8.16.14" link_text="SB 8.16.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.16.14|SB 8.16.14, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O son of Marīci, because you are a great personality you are equal toward all the demons and demigods, who are born either from your body or from your mind and who possess one or another of the three qualities—sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa or tamo-guṇa. But although the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, is equal toward all living entities, He is especially favorable to the devotees.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB81915_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="658" link="SB 8.19.15" link_text="SB 8.19.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.19.15|SB 8.19.15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">You also have observed the principles followed by great personalities who are householder brāhmaṇas, by your forefathers and by great heroes who are extremely famous for their exalted activities.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8207_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="694" link="SB 8.20.7" link_text="SB 8.20.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.20.7|SB 8.20.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Dadhīci, Śibi and many other great personalities were willing to sacrifice even their lives for the benefit of the people in general. This is the evidence of history. So why not give up this insignificant land? What is the serious consideration against it?</p>
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<div id="SB82010_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="697" link="SB 8.20.10" link_text="SB 8.20.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.20.10|SB 8.20.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If one accepts a poverty-stricken position because of losing money in business, gambling, prostitution or intoxication, no one will praise him, but if one becomes poverty-stricken by giving all of his possessions in charity, he becomes adored all over the world. Aside from this, if a benevolent and merciful person exhibits his pride in becoming poverty-stricken by giving his possessions in charity for good causes, his poverty is a welcome and auspicious sign of a great personality. Bali Mahārāja decided that even though he would become poverty-stricken by giving everything to Vāmanadeva, this is what he would prefer.</p>
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<div id="SB82016_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="703" link="SB 8.20.16" link_text="SB 8.20.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.20.16|SB 8.20.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Even after being cursed in this way by his own spiritual master, Bali Mahārāja, being a great personality, never deviated from his determination. Therefore, according to custom, he first offered water to Vāmanadeva and then offered Him the gift of land he had promised.</p>
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<div id="SB82123_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="719" link="SB 8.21.2-3" link_text="SB 8.21.2-3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.21.2-3|SB 8.21.2-3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Among the great personalities who came to worship the lotus feet of the Lord were those who had attained perfection in self-control and regulative principles, as well as experts in logic, history, general education and the Vedic literature known as kalpe (dealing with old historical incidents). Others were experts in the Vedic corollaries like Brahma-saṁhitā, all the other knowledge of the Vedas (Sāma, Yajur, Ṛg and Atharva), and also the supplementary Vedic knowledge (Āyur-veda, Dhanur-veda, etc.). Others were those who had been freed of the reactions to fruitive activities by transcendental knowledge awakened by practice of yoga. And still others were those who had attained residence in Brahmaloka not by ordinary karma but by advanced Vedic knowledge. After devotedly worshiping the upraised lotus feet of the Supreme Lord with oblations of water, Lord Brahmā, who was born of the lotus emanating from Lord Viṣṇu's navel, offered prayers to the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB822Summary_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="749" link="SB 8.22 Summary" link_text="SB 8.22 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.22 Summary|SB 8.22 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bali Mahārāja specifically remembered the determination of Prahlāda Mahārāja in devotional service. Considering all these points, he decided to give his head in charity as the place for Viṣṇu's third step. Bali Mahārāja also considered how great personalities give up their family relationships and material possessions to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Indeed, they sometimes even sacrifice their lives for the satisfaction of the Lord, just to become His personal servants. Accordingly, by following in the footsteps of previous ācāryas and devotees, Bali Mahārāja perceived himself successful.</p>
<p>While Bali Mahārāja, having been arrested by the ropes of Varuṇa, was offering prayers to the Lord, his grandfather Prahlāda Mahārāja appeared there and described how the Supreme Personality of Godhead had delivered Bali Mahārāja by taking his possessions in a tricky way.</p>
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<div id="SB8229_16" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="757" link="SB 8.22.9" link_text="SB 8.22.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.22.9|SB 8.22.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The common man does not appreciate such a statement by the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he thinks that during his lifetime his family, society, country, body and relatives are everything. Why should one give up any one of them and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? But from the behavior of great personalities like Prahlāda Mahārāja and Bali Mahārāja we understand that surrendering to the Lord is the right action for an intelligent person. Prahlāda Mahārāja took shelter of Viṣṇu against the will of his father. Similarly, Bali Mahārāja took shelter of Vāmanadeva against the will of his spiritual master, Śukrācārya, and all the leading demons. People may be surprised that devotees like Prahlāda Mahārāja and Bali Mahārāja could seek shelter of the side of the enemy, giving up the natural affinity for family, hearth and home. In this connection, Bali Mahārāja explains that the body, which is the center of all material activities, is also a foreign element.</p>
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<div id="SB82215_17" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="763" link="SB 8.22.15" link_text="SB 8.22.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.22.15|SB 8.22.15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the great personality Prahlāda Mahārāja saw that the Supreme Lord was sitting there, surrounded and worshiped by His intimate associates like Sunanda, he was overwhelmed with tears of jubilation. Approaching the Lord and falling to the ground, he offered obeisances to the Lord with his head.</p>
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<div id="SB8236_18" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="790" link="SB 8.23.6" link_text="SB 8.23.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.23.6|SB 8.23.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Prahlāda Mahārāja said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are universally worshiped; even Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva worship Your lotus feet. Yet although You are such a great personality, You have kindly promised to protect us, the demons. I think that such kindness has never been achieved even by Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva or the goddess of fortune, Lakṣmī, what to speak of other demigods or common people.</p>
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<div id="SB8237_19" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="791" link="SB 8.23.7" link_text="SB 8.23.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.23.7|SB 8.23.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O supreme shelter of everyone, great personalities like Brahmā enjoy their perfection simply by tasting the honey of rendering service at Your lotus feet. But as for us, who are all rogues and debauchees born of an envious family of demons, how have we received Your mercy? It has been possible only because Your mercy is causeless.</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="SB9310_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="82" link="SB 9.3.10" link_text="SB 9.3.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.3.10|SB 9.3.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is an indication of the relationship between husband and wife. A great personality like Cyavana Muni has the temperament of always wanting to be in a superior position. Such a person cannot submit to anyone. Therefore, Cyavana Muni had an irritable temperament. His wife, Sukanyā, could understand his attitude, and under the circumstances she treated him accordingly. If any wife wants to be happy with her husband, she must try to understand her husband's temperament and please him. This is victory for a woman. Even in the dealings of Lord Kṛṣṇa with His different queens, it has been seen that although the queens were the daughters of great kings, they placed themselves before Lord Kṛṣṇa as His maidservants. However great a woman may be, she must place herself before her husband in this way; that is to say, she must be ready to carry out her husband's orders and please him in all circumstances. Then her life will be successful. When the wife becomes as irritable as the husband, their life at home is sure to be disturbed or ultimately completely broken. In the modern day, the wife is never submissive, and therefore home life is broken even by slight incidents.</p>
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<div id="SB9332_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="104" link="SB 9.3.32" link_text="SB 9.3.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.3.32|SB 9.3.32, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">During Lord Brahmā's day, fourteen Manus or one thousand mahā-yugas pass away. Brahmā informed King Kakudmī that twenty-seven mahā-yugas, each consisting of the four periods Satya, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali, had already passed. All the kings and other great personalities born in those yugas had now departed from memory into obscurity. This is the way of time as it moves through past, present and future.</p>
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<div id="SB9414_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="122" link="SB 9.4.14" link_text="SB 9.4.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.4.14|SB 9.4.14, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">King Parīkṣit inquired: O great personality, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was certainly most exalted and meritorious in character. I wish to hear about him. How surprising it is that the curse of a brāhmaṇa, which is insurmountable, could not act upon him.</p>
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<div id="SB9422_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="127" link="SB 9.4.22" link_text="SB 9.4.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.4.22|SB 9.4.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In desert countries where there flowed the River Sarasvatī, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa performed great sacrifices like the aśvamedha-yajña and thus satisfied the master of all yajñas, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such sacrifices were performed with great opulence and suitable paraphernalia and with contributions of dakṣiṇā to the brāhmaṇas, who were supervised by great personalities like Vasiṣṭha, Asita and Gautama, representing the king, the performer of the sacrifices.</p>
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<div id="SB9422_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="127" link="SB 9.4.22" link_text="SB 9.4.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.4.22|SB 9.4.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Without food grains, both men and animals will starve. Therefore yajña is necessary for the state to perform because by yajña the people in general will be fed sumptuously. The brāhmaṇas and yājñika priests should be sufficiently paid for their expert service. This payment is called dakṣiṇā. Ambarīṣa Mahārāja, as the head of the state, performed all these yajñas through great personalities like Vasiṣṭha, Gautama and Asita. Personally, however, he was engaged in devotional service, as mentioned before (sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 9.4.18-20|SB 9.4.18]])). The king or head of state must see that things go on well under proper guidance, and he must be an ideal devotee, as exemplified by Mahārāja Ambarīṣa. It is the duty of the king to see that food grains are produced even in desert countries, what to speak of elsewhere.</p>
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<div id="SB9463_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="161" link="SB 9.4.63" link_text="SB 9.4.63">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.4.63|SB 9.4.63, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All the great stalwart personalities in the universe, including Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, are fully under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is fully under the control of His devotee. Why is this? Because the devotee is anyābhilāṣitā-śūnya; in other words, he has no material desires in his heart. His only desire is to think always of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and how to serve Him best. Because of this transcendental qualification, the Supreme Lord is extremely favorable to the devotees—indeed, not only the devotees, but also the devotees of the devotees. Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says, chāḍiyā vaiṣṇava-sevā nistāra pāyeche kebā: without being a devotee of a devotee, one cannot be released from material entanglement. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu identified Himself as gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.80|CC Madhya 13.80]]). Thus he instructed us to become not directly servants of Kṛṣṇa but servants of the servant of Kṛṣṇa. Devotees like Brahmā, Nārada, Vyāsadeva and Śukadeva Gosvāmī are directly servants of Kṛṣṇa, and one who becomes a servant of Nārada, Vyāsadeva and Śukadeva, like the six Gosvāmīs, is still more devoted.</p>
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<div id="SB9525_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="195" link="SB 9.5.25" link_text="SB 9.5.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.5.25|SB 9.5.25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">For one who becomes a pure devotee through devotional service to great personalities like Caitanya Mahāprabhu, kaivalya, or merging into Brahman, appears no better than hell. As far as the heavenly planets are concerned, to a devotee they are like a phantasmagoria or will-o'-the-wisp, and as far as yogic perfection is concerned, a devotee does not care a fig for such perfection, since the purpose of yogic perfection is achieved automatically by the devotee. This is all possible when one becomes a devotee of the Lord through the medium of Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instructions.</p>
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<div id="SB98Summary_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="273" link="SB 9.8 Summary" link_text="SB 9.8 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.8 Summary|SB 9.8 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">While searching for the horse, the sons of Sumati extensively dug up the surface of the earth and in this way dug a trench, which later became known as the Sāgara Ocean. In the course of this search, they came upon the great personality Kapiladeva and thought Him to have stolen the horse. With this offensive understanding, they attacked Him and were all burned to ashes. Keśinī, the second wife of King Sagara, had a son named Asamañjasa, whose son Aṁśumān later searched for the horse and delivered his uncles. Upon approaching Kapiladeva, Aṁśumān saw both the horse meant for sacrifice and a pile of ashes. Aṁśumān offered prayers to Kapiladeva, who was very pleased by his prayers and who returned the horse. After getting back the horse, however, Aṁśumān still stood before Kapiladeva, and Kapiladeva could understand that Aṁśumān was praying for the deliverance of his forefathers.</p>
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<div id="SB9811_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="282" link="SB 9.8.11" link_text="SB 9.8.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.8.11|SB 9.8.11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">By the influence of Indra, the King of heaven, the sons of Sagara had lost their intelligence and disrespected a great personality. Consequently, fire emanated from their own bodies, and they were immediately burned to ashes.</p>
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<div id="SB9811_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="282" link="SB 9.8.11" link_text="SB 9.8.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.8.11|SB 9.8.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The material body is a combination of earth, water, fire, air and ether. There is already fire within the body, and our practical experience is that the heat of this fire sometimes increases and sometimes decreases. The fire within the bodies of the sons of Sagara Mahārāja became so much hotter that all of them burned to ashes. The fire's increased heat was due to their misbehavior toward a great personality. Such misbehavior is called mahad-vyatikrama. They were killed by the fire of their own bodies because of insulting a great personality.</p>
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<div id="SB9912_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="313" link="SB 9.9.12" link_text="SB 9.9.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.12|SB 9.9.12, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Because the sons of Sagara Mahārāja had offended a great personality, the heat of their bodies had increased, and they were burnt to ashes. But simply by being sprinkled with water from the Ganges, all of them became eligible to go to the heavenly planets. What then is to be said of those who use the water of mother Ganges to worship her?</p>
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<div id="SB9101_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="348" link="SB 9.10.1" link_text="SB 9.10.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.1|SB 9.10.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The son of Mahārāja Khaṭvāṅga was Dīrghabāhu, and his son was the celebrated Mahārāja Raghu. From Mahārāja Raghu came Aja, and from Aja was born the great personality Mahārāja Daśaratha.</p>
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<div id="SB91027_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="373" link="SB 9.10.27" link_text="SB 9.10.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.27|SB 9.10.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are many instances of this in the history of Vedic literature. Whenever we find a description of ideal chaste women, mother Sītā is among them. Mandodarī, the wife of Rāvaṇa, was also very chaste. Similarly, Draupadī was one of five exalted chaste women. As a man must follow great personalities like Brahmā and Nārada, a woman must follow the path of such ideal women as Sītā, Mandodarī and Draupadī. By staying chaste and faithful to her husband, a woman enriches herself with supernatural power. It is a moral principle that one should not be influenced by lusty desires for another's wife. Mātṛvat para-dāreṣu: an intelligent person must look upon another's wife as being like his mother. This is a moral injunction from Cāṇakya-śloka (10).</p>
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<div id="SB91033_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="379" link="SB 9.10.33" link_text="SB 9.10.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.33|SB 9.10.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Lord Rāmacandra returned to His capital, Ayodhyā, He was greeted on the road by the princely order, who showered His body with beautiful, fragrant flowers, while great personalities like Lord Brahmā and other demigods glorified the activities of the Lord in great jubilation.</p>
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<div id="SB9133_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="448" link="SB 9.13.3" link_text="SB 9.13.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.13.3|SB 9.13.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says, śarīraṁ kṣaṇa-vidhvāṁsi kalpānta-sthāyino guṇāḥ: "The duration of one's life in the material world may end at any moment, but if within this life one does something worthy, that qualification is depicted in history eternally." Here is a great personality, Mahārāja Nimi, who knew this fact. In the human form of life one should perform activities in such a way that at the end he goes back home, back to Godhead. This is self-realization.</p>
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<div id="SB91827_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="630" link="SB 9.18.27" link_text="SB 9.18.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.18.27|SB 9.18.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes a great personality like Śukrācārya cannot neglect sons and daughters, for sons and daughters are by nature dependent on their father and the father has affection for them. Although Śukrācārya knew that the quarrel between Devayānī and Śarmiṣṭhā was childish, as Devayānī's father he had to side with his daughter. He did not like to do this, but he was obliged to because of affection. He plainly admitted that although he should not have asked the King for mercy for his daughter, because of affection he could not avoid doing so.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_101_to_1013" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3>
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<div id="SB10136_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="34" link="SB 10.1.36" link_text="SB 10.1.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1.36|SB 10.1.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Vasudeva, who was to be the father of Kṛṣṇa, is described here as mahā-bhāga, a very upright and sober personality, because although Kaṁsa was ready to kill Vasudeva's wife, Vasudeva remained sober and unagitated. In a peaceful attitude, Vasudeva began to address Kaṁsa by putting forward reasonable arguments. Vasudeva was a great personality because he knew how to pacify a cruel person and how to forgive even the bitterest enemy. One who is fortunate is never caught, even by tigers or snakes.</p>
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<div id="SB10230_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="92" link="SB 10.2.30" link_text="SB 10.2.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.2.30|SB 10.2.30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This process is recommended here by authorities like Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva (svayambhūr nāradaḥ śambhuḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 6.3.20-21|SB 6.3.20]])), and therefore we must take to this process in order to transcend nescience. This is very easy, but we must follow in the footsteps of great personalities, and then success will be possible.</p>
<p>In regard to the word mahat-kṛtena, it is also significant that the process shown by great devotees is not only for them but also for others. If things are made easy, this affords facility for the person who has made them easy and also for others who follow the same principles. The process recommended in this verse for crossing the ocean of nescience is easy not only for the devotee but also for common persons who follow the devotee (mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]])).</p>
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<div id="SB10378_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="108" link="SB 10.3.7-8" link_text="SB 10.3.7-8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.3.7-8|SB 10.3.7-8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead is already situated within the core of everyone's heart as antaryāmī, the Supersoul. Thus because He was present in full potency in Devakī's heart, He was also able to appear outside her body.</p>
<p>One of the twelve great personalities is Bhīṣmadeva (svayambhūr nāradaḥ śambhuḥ kumāraḥ kapilo manuḥ prahlāda, janako bhīṣmaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 6.3.20-21|SB 6.3.20]])). In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.9.42), Bhīṣma, a great authority to be followed by devotees, says that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated in the core of everyone's heart, just as the sun may be on everyone's head. Yet although the sun may be on the heads of millions and millions of people, this does not mean that the sun is variously situated. Similarly, because the Supreme Personality of Godhead has inconceivable potencies, He can be within everyone's heart and yet not be situated variously.</p>
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<div id="SB1033738_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="133" link="SB 10.3.37-38" link_text="SB 10.3.37-38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.3.37-38|SB 10.3.37-38, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Then one can very easily go back home, back to Godhead. Instead of bringing the Lord here for some material purpose, to have a son or whatever else, if we go back home, back to Godhead, our real relationship with the Lord is revealed, and we eternally engage in our eternal relationship. By chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, we gradually develop our eternal relationship with the Supreme Person and thus attain the perfection called svarūpa-siddhi. We should take advantage of this benediction and go back home, back to Godhead. Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has therefore sung, patita-pāvana-hetu tava avatāra: Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared as an incarnation to deliver all fallen souls like us and directly bestow upon us love of Godhead. We must take advantage of this great benediction of the great Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB10426_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="173" link="SB 10.4.26" link_text="SB 10.4.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.4.26|SB 10.4.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O great personality Kaṁsa, only by the influence of ignorance does one accept the material body and bodily ego. What you have said about this philosophy is correct. Persons in the bodily concept of life, lacking self-realization, differentiate in terms of "This is mine" and "This belongs to another."</p>
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<div id="SB1085_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="299" link="SB 10.8.5" link_text="SB 10.8.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.8.5|SB 10.8.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]) Kṛṣṇa, the greatest authority, says that the body will change. And as soon as the body changes, one's whole program of work changes also. Today I am a human being or a great personality, but with a little deviation from nature's law, I shall have to accept a different type of body. Today I am a human being, but tomorrow I may become a dog, and then whatever activities I have performed in this life will be a failure. This simple truth is now rarely understood, but one who is a dhīra can understand this. Those in this material world for material enjoyment should know that because their present position will cease to exist, they must be careful in how they act. This is also stated by Ṛṣabhadeva. Na sādhu manye yata ātmano 'yam asann api kleśada āsa dehaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.4|SB 5.5.4]]). Although this body is temporary, as long as we have to live in this body we must suffer.</p>
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<div id="SB10813_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="306" link="SB 10.8.13" link_text="SB 10.8.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.8.13|SB 10.8.13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Partially explaining the position of Lord Kṛṣṇa and partially covering the facts, Gargamuni indicated, "Your son is a great personality, and He can change the color of His body in different ages." The word gṛhṇataḥ indicates that Kṛṣṇa is free to make His choice. In other words, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and may therefore do whatever He desires. In Vedic literature the different colors assumed by the Personality of Godhead in different millenniums are stated, and therefore when Gargamuni said, "Your son has assumed these colors," he indirectly said, "He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Because of Kaṁsa's atrocities, Gargamuni tried to avoid disclosing this fact, but he indirectly informed Nanda Mahārāja that Kṛṣṇa, his son, was the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB101028_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="391" link="SB 10.10.28" link_text="SB 10.10.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.10.28|SB 10.10.28, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter, in that very place where the two arjuna trees had fallen, two great, perfect personalities, who appeared like fire personified, came out of the two trees. The effulgence of their beauty illuminating all directions, with bowed heads they offered obeisances to Kṛṣṇa, and with hands folded they spoke the following words.</p>
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<div id="SB_Cantos_1014_to_12_Translations_Only" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3>
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<div id="SB102233_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="351" link="SB 10.22.33" link_text="SB 10.22.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.22.33|SB 10.22.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just see how these trees are maintaining every living entity! Their birth is successful. Their behavior is just like that of great personalities, for anyone who asks anything from a tree never goes away disappointed.</p>
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<div id="SB103416_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="735" link="SB 10.34.16" link_text="SB 10.34.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.34.16|SB 10.34.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O master of mystic power, O great personality, O Lord of the devotees, I surrender to You. Please command me as You will, O supreme God, Lord of all lords of the universe.</p>
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<div id="SB10351213_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="758" link="SB 10.35.12-13" link_text="SB 10.35.12-13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.35.12-13|SB 10.35.12-13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O goddesses of Vraja, when Kṛṣṇa is enjoying Himself with Balarāma on the mountain slopes, playfully wearing a flower garland on the top of His head, He engladdens all with the resonant vibrations of His flute. Thus He delights the entire world. At that time the nearby cloud, afraid of offending a great personality, thunders very gently in accompaniment. The cloud showers flowers onto his dear friend Kṛṣṇa and shades Him from the sun like an umbrella.</p>
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<div id="SB10395355_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="915" link="SB 10.39.53-55" link_text="SB 10.39.53-55">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.39.53-55|SB 10.39.53-55, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Encircling the Lord and worshiping Him were Nanda, Sunanda and His other personal attendants; Sanaka and the other Kumāras; Brahmā, Rudra and other chief demigods; the nine chief brāhmaṇas;  and the best of the saintly devotees, headed by Prahlāda, Nārada and Uparicara Vasu. Each of these great personalities was worshiping the Lord by chanting sanctified words of praise in his own unique mood. Also in attendance were the Lord's principal internal potencies—Śrī, Puṣṭi, Gīr, Kānti, Kīrti, Tuṣṭi, Ilā and Ūrjā—as were His material potencies Vidyā, Avidyā and Māyā, and His internal pleasure potency, Śakti.</p>
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<div id="SB105114_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1398" link="SB 10.51.14" link_text="SB 10.51.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.51.14|SB 10.51.14, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mucukunda was the name of this great personality, who was born in the Ikṣvāku dynasty as the son of Māndhātā. He was devoted to brahminical culture and always true to his vow in battle.</p>
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<div id="SB106918_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2186" link="SB 10.69.18" link_text="SB 10.69.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.69.18|SB 10.69.18, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I have seen Your feet, which grant liberation to Your devotees, which even Lord Brahmā and other great personalities of unfathomable intelligence can only meditate upon within their hearts, and which those who have fallen into the well of material existence resort to for deliverance. Please favor me so that I may constantly think of You as I travel about. Please grant Me the power to remember You.</p>
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<div id="SB107035_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2244" link="SB 10.70.35" link_text="SB 10.70.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.70.35|SB 10.70.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">(Lord Kṛṣṇa said:) It is certain that today the three worlds have attained freedom from all fear, for that is the influence of such a great personality as you, who travel at will throughout all the worlds.</p>
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<div id="SB11321_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3193" link="SB 11.3.21" link_text="SB 11.3.21">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.3.21|SB 11.3.21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of the bona fide guru is that he has realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great personalities, who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, should be understood to be bona fide spiritual masters.</p>
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<div id="SB1154_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3253" link="SB 11.5.4" link_text="SB 11.5.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.5.4|SB 11.5.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">There are many persons who have little opportunity to take part in discussions about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, and thus it is difficult for them to chant His infallible glories. Persons such as women, śūdras and other fallen classes always deserve the mercy of great personalities like yourself.</p>
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<div id="SB111622_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3717" link="SB 11.16.22" link_text="SB 11.16.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.16.22|SB 11.16.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Among priests I am Vasiṣṭha Muni, and among those highly situated in Vedic culture I am Bṛhaspati. I am Kārtikeya among great military leaders, and among those advancing in superior ways of life I am the great personality Lord Brahmā.</p>
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<div id="SB12343_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4475" link="SB 12.3.43" link_text="SB 12.3.43">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.3.43|SB 12.3.43, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O King, in the age of Kali people's intelligence will be diverted by atheism, and they will almost never offer sacrifice to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme spiritual master of the universe. Although the great personalities who control the three worlds all bow down to the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, the petty and miserable human beings of this age will not do so.</p>
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<div id="SB12442_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4522" link="SB 12.4.42" link_text="SB 12.4.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.4.42|SB 12.4.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear Mahārāja Parīkṣit, that great personality Śrīla Vyāsadeva taught me this same scripture, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is equal in stature to the four Vedas.</p>
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