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	<div id="BG239_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="78" link="BG 2.39" link_text="BG 2.39">		<div id="BG239_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="78" link="BG 2.39" link_text="BG 2.39">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.39\|BG 2.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who works for the satisfaction of the Lord only, however difficult such work may be, is working under the principles of buddhi-yoga and finds himself always in transcendental bliss. By such transcendental engagement, one achieves all transcendental understanding automatically, by the grace of the Lord, and thus his liberation is complete in itself, without his making extraneous endeavors to acquire knowledge. There is much difference between work in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and work for fruitive results, especially in the matter of sense gratification for achieving results in terms of family or material happiness. Buddhi-yoga is therefore the transcendental quality of the work that we perform.</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.39 (1972)\|BG 2.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who works for the satisfaction of the Lord only, however difficult such work may be, is working under the principles of buddhi-yoga and finds himself always in transcendental bliss. By such transcendental engagement, one achieves all transcendental understanding automatically, by the grace of the Lord, and thus his liberation is complete in itself, without his making extraneous endeavors to acquire knowledge. There is much difference between work in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and work for fruitive results, especially in the matter of sense gratification for achieving results in terms of family or material happiness. Buddhi-yoga is therefore the transcendental quality of the work that we perform.</p>
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	<div id="BG435_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="188" link="BG 4.35" link_text="BG 4.35">		<div id="BG435_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="188" link="BG 4.35" link_text="BG 4.35">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.35\|BG 4.35, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The living entities, as separate parts and parcels of the Supreme, have a purpose to fulfill. Having forgotten that purpose since time immemorial, they are situated in different bodies, as men, animals, demigods, etc. Such bodily differences arise from forgetfulness of the transcendental service of the Lord. But when one is engaged in transcendental service through Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one becomes at once liberated from this illusion. One can acquire such pure knowledge only from the bona fide spiritual master and thereby avoid the delusion that the living entity is equal to Kṛṣṇa. Perfect knowledge is that the Supreme Soul, Kṛṣṇa, is the supreme shelter for all living entities, and giving up such shelter, the living entities are deluded by the material energy, imagining themselves to have a separate identity. Thus, under different standards of material identity, they become forgetful of Kṛṣṇa. When, however, such deluded living entities become situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is to be understood that they are on the path of liberation, as confirmed in the Bhāgavatam (2.10.6): muktir hitvānyathā-rūpaṁ svarūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ. Liberation means to be situated in one's constitutional position as an eternal servitor of Kṛṣṇa (Kṛṣṇa consciousness).</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.35 (1972)\|BG 4.35, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The living entities, as separate parts and parcels of the Supreme, have a purpose to fulfill. Having forgotten that purpose since time immemorial, they are situated in different bodies, as men, animals, demigods, etc. Such bodily differences arise from forgetfulness of the transcendental service of the Lord. But when one is engaged in transcendental service through Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one becomes at once liberated from this illusion. One can acquire such pure knowledge only from the bona fide spiritual master and thereby avoid the delusion that the living entity is equal to Kṛṣṇa. Perfect knowledge is that the Supreme Soul, Kṛṣṇa, is the supreme shelter for all living entities, and giving up such shelter, the living entities are deluded by the material energy, imagining themselves to have a separate identity. Thus, under different standards of material identity, they become forgetful of Kṛṣṇa. When, however, such deluded living entities become situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is to be understood that they are on the path of liberation, as confirmed in the Bhāgavatam (2.10.6): muktir hitvānyathā-rūpaṁ svarūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ. Liberation means to be situated in one's constitutional position as an eternal servitor of Kṛṣṇa (Kṛṣṇa consciousness).</p>
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	<div id="BG68_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="230" link="BG 6.8" link_text="BG 6.8">		<div id="BG68_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="230" link="BG 6.8" link_text="BG 6.8">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.8\|BG 6.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogī (or mystic) when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transcendence and is self-controlled. He sees everything—whether it be pebbles, stones or gold—as the same.</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.8 (1972)\|BG 6.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogī (or mystic) when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transcendence and is self-controlled. He sees everything—whether it be pebbles, stones or gold—as the same.</p>
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	<div id="BG812_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="42" link="BG 8.12" link_text="BG 8.12">		<div id="BG812_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="42" link="BG 8.12" link_text="BG 8.12">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 8.12\|BG 8.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">To practice yoga as suggested here, one first has to close the doors of all sense enjoyment. This practice is called pratyāhāra, or withdrawing the senses from the sense objects. The sense organs for acquiring knowledge—the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and touch—should be fully controlled and should not be allowed to engage in self-gratification. In this way the mind focuses on the Supersoul in the heart, and the life force is raised to the top of the head. In the Sixth Chapter this process is described in detail. But as mentioned before, this practice is not practical in this age. The best process is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If one is always able to fix his mind on Kṛṣṇa in devotional service, it is very easy for him to remain in an undisturbed transcendental trance, or in samādhi.</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 8.12 (1972)\|BG 8.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">To practice yoga as suggested here, one first has to close the doors of all sense enjoyment. This practice is called pratyāhāra, or withdrawing the senses from the sense objects. The sense organs for acquiring knowledge—the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and touch—should be fully controlled and should not be allowed to engage in self-gratification. In this way the mind focuses on the Supersoul in the heart, and the life force is raised to the top of the head. In the Sixth Chapter this process is described in detail. But as mentioned before, this practice is not practical in this age. The best process is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If one is always able to fix his mind on Kṛṣṇa in devotional service, it is very easy for him to remain in an undisturbed transcendental trance, or in samādhi.</p>
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	<div id="BG1367_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="5" link="BG 13.6-7" link_text="BG 13.6-7">		<div id="BG1367_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="5" link="BG 13.6-7" link_text="BG 13.6-7">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 13.6-7\|BG 13.6-7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">From all the authoritative statements of the great sages, the Vedic hymns and the aphorisms of the Vedānta-sūtra, the components of this world can be understood as follows. First there are earth, water, fire, air and ether. These are the five great elements (mahā-bhūta). Then there are false ego, intelligence and the unmanifested stage of the three modes of nature. Then there are five senses for acquiring knowledge: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. Then five working senses: voice, legs, hands, anus and genitals. Then, above the senses, there is the mind, which is within and which can be called the sense within. Therefore, including the mind, there are eleven senses altogether.</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 13.6-7 (1972)\|BG 13.6-7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">From all the authoritative statements of the great sages, the Vedic hymns and the aphorisms of the Vedānta-sūtra, the components of this world can be understood as follows. First there are earth, water, fire, air and ether. These are the five great elements (mahā-bhūta). Then there are false ego, intelligence and the unmanifested stage of the three modes of nature. Then there are five senses for acquiring knowledge: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. Then five working senses: voice, legs, hands, anus and genitals. Then, above the senses, there is the mind, which is within and which can be called the sense within. Therefore, including the mind, there are eleven senses altogether.</p>
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	<div id="BG142_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="31" link="BG 14.2" link_text="BG 14.2">		<div id="BG142_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="31" link="BG 14.2" link_text="BG 14.2">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.2\|BG 14.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">After acquiring perfect transcendental knowledge, one acquires qualitative equality with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, becoming free from the repetition of birth and death. One does not, however, lose his identity as an individual soul. It is understood from Vedic literature that the liberated souls who have reached the transcendental planets of the spiritual sky always look to the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, being engaged in His transcendental loving service. So, even after liberation, the devotees do not lose their individual identities.</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.2 (1972)\|BG 14.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">After acquiring perfect transcendental knowledge, one acquires qualitative equality with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, becoming free from the repetition of birth and death. One does not, however, lose his identity as an individual soul. It is understood from Vedic literature that the liberated souls who have reached the transcendental planets of the spiritual sky always look to the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, being engaged in His transcendental loving service. So, even after liberation, the devotees do not lose their individual identities.</p>
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	<div id="BG168_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="77" link="BG 16.8" link_text="BG 16.8">		<div id="BG168_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="77" link="BG 16.8" link_text="BG 16.8">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 16.8\|BG 16.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as in a dream we may create so many things which actually have no existence, so when we are awake we shall see that everything is simply a dream. But factually, although the demons say that life is a dream, they are very expert in enjoying this dream. And so, instead of acquiring knowledge, they become more and more implicated in their dreamland. They conclude that as a child is simply the result of sexual intercourse between man and woman, this world is born without any soul. For them it is only a combination of matter that has produced the living entities, and there is no question of the existence of the soul.</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 16.8 (1972)\|BG 16.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as in a dream we may create so many things which actually have no existence, so when we are awake we shall see that everything is simply a dream. But factually, although the demons say that life is a dream, they are very expert in enjoying this dream. And so, instead of acquiring knowledge, they become more and more implicated in their dreamland. They conclude that as a child is simply the result of sexual intercourse between man and woman, this world is born without any soul. For them it is only a combination of matter that has produced the living entities, and there is no question of the existence of the soul.</p>
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	<div id="SB514Summary_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="310" link="SB 5.14 Summary" link_text="SB 5.14 Summary">		<div id="SB514Summary_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="310" link="SB 5.14 Summary" link_text="SB 5.14 Summary">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.14 Summary\|SB 5.14 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Without the protection of an all-merciful Vaiṣṇava. the conditioned soul cannot get out of the clutches of māyā. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7\|BG 15.7]])), the living entity begins material life with his mind and the five knowledge-acquiring senses, and with these he struggles for existence within the material world. These senses are compared to rogues and thieves within the forest. They take away a man's knowledge and place him in a network of nescience. Thus the senses are like rogues and thieves that plunder his spiritual knowledge.</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.14 Summary\|SB 5.14 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Without the protection of an all-merciful Vaiṣṇava. the conditioned soul cannot get out of the clutches of māyā. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7 (1972)\|BG 15.7]])), the living entity begins material life with his mind and the five knowledge-acquiring senses, and with these he struggles for existence within the material world. These senses are compared to rogues and thieves within the forest. They take away a man's knowledge and place him in a network of nescience. Thus the senses are like rogues and thieves that plunder his spiritual knowledge.</p>
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	<div id="SB61624_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="602" link="SB 6.16.24" link_text="SB 6.16.24">		<div id="SB61624_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="602" link="SB 6.16.24" link_text="SB 6.16.24">
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.16.24\|SB 6.16.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says, mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca: ([[Vanisource:BG 15.15\|BG 15.15]]) "From Me the conditioned soul receives memory, knowledge and forgetfulness." The power for activities comes from the Supreme Lord, and when the Lord withdraws this power, the conditioned soul no longer has energy with which to act through his various senses. The body includes five knowledge-acquiring senses, five active senses and the mind, but actually these are merely lumps of matter. For example, the brain is nothing but matter, but when electrified by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the brain can act, just as iron can burn when made red-hot by the influence of fire.</p>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.16.24\|SB 6.16.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says, mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca: ([[Vanisource:BG 15.15 (1972)\|BG 15.15]]) "From Me the conditioned soul receives memory, knowledge and forgetfulness." The power for activities comes from the Supreme Lord, and when the Lord withdraws this power, the conditioned soul no longer has energy with which to act through his various senses. The body includes five knowledge-acquiring senses, five active senses and the mind, but actually these are merely lumps of matter. For example, the brain is nothing but matter, but when electrified by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the brain can act, just as iron can burn when made red-hot by the influence of fire.</p>
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