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24 July 2023

• 09:5209:52, 24 July 2023 diff hist +2,993 This material world is a manifestation of the three modes goodness, passion and ignorance, and the Supreme Lord, for the creation, maintenance and destruction of the material world, accepts three predominating forms as Brahma, Visnu and Sankara - Siva No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 24 July 2023 diff hist −2 The words mam eva are also significant. Mam means unto Krsna (Visnu) only, and not Brahma or Siva. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,089 The visnu-tattvas are not to be compared to deities like Brahma and Siva, nor are they on the same level. Anyone who compares them is called a pasandi, or infidel No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 24 July 2023 diff hist +36 The three secondary incarnations-Brahma, Visnu and Siva - are the predominating deities of the three modes of material nature No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 24 July 2023 diff hist −21 The three predominating deities of the material universe (Brahma, Visnu and Siva) are called guna-avataras No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,244 The three modes of material nature, namely goodness, passion and ignorance, are under the control of three deities - Brahma, Visnu and Lord Siva No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 24 July 2023 diff hist +2,611 The S P of Godhead, Krsna, is the master of the three worlds and the three principal demigods (Brahma, Visnu and Siva). No one is equal to or greater than Him. By His spiritual potency, known as svarajya-laksmi, all His desires are fulfilled No edit summary
• 09:2509:25, 24 July 2023 diff hist +4,246 The secondary creation is made by Brahma, but Brahma is created by the Supreme Godhead. Lord Siva annihilates the whole creation, but at the end he is also annihilated by Visnu. Lord Visnu remains No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 24 July 2023 diff hist +1,758 The primary predominating deities of this material creation are Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and Lord Visnu. Nonetheless, they simply carry out the orders of Lord Krsna, who is master of them all No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 24 July 2023 diff hist +4,206 The partial manifestations of His personality are Brahma, Visnu and Siva, who are in charge of the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this universe. He is like the two threads that form the length and breadth of a woven cloth No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 24 July 2023 diff hist +16,578 The original demigods are Brahma, Visnu and Siva. Lord Krsna is Visnu, but He is the instructor of Brahma and Siva. Therefore it is said that Lord Krsna is the source of all the demigods No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 24 July 2023 diff hist +22,007 The most important demigods (devas) are Brahma, Siva & Visnu. In the beginning of the creation there is Lord Visnu, & from Lord Visnu, Brahma is born. From Lord Brahma, Lord Siva is born, & these three gods take charge of three modes of material nature No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,601 The material energy is a potency of the Lord which is displayed in time, accepting the three qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance in the forms of Visnu, Brahma and Siva No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 24 July 2023 diff hist +17 The Lord of sacrifice accepts Indra and Visnu. Visnu is the chief of the primal demigods, including Brahma and Siva, and Indra is the chief of the administrative demigods. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,703 The Lord manifests Himself in three features - as Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara - to control these three qualities. He personally takes charge of sattva-guna as Lord Visnu, and He entrusts the charge of rajo-guna and tamo-guna to Lord Brahma and Lord Siva No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 24 July 2023 diff hist +2,739 The Lord continued: One who does not consider Brahma, Visnu, Siva or the living entities in general to be separate from the Supreme, and who knows Brahman, actually realizes peace; others do not No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 24 July 2023 diff hist +4,165 The Lord as Visnu, Brahma and Siva conducts the three modes of material nature. From Visnu is born Brahma, and from Brahma is born Siva. Sometimes Brahma is a separated part of Visnu, and sometimes Brahma is Visnu Himself No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 24 July 2023 diff hist −2 The living entities, not only the human beings and the cats and dogs, but even the greater controllers of the material world-Brahma, Siva, & even Visnu-are all parts & parcels of the Supreme Lord. They are all eternal, not temporary. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 24 July 2023 diff hist +2,933 The lesson to be derived from this narration concerning Maharaja Ambarisa and Durvasa Muni is that all the demigods, including Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, are under the control of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 24 July 2023 diff hist +8,496 The karmis sometimes offer the results of their activities to Lord Vasudeva, and this offering is called karmarpanam. These are considered to be fruitive activities, for the karmis consider Visnu to be one of the demigods like Lord Siva and Lord Brahma No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,116 The influence of the material energy cannot touch Lord Visnu as she touches Lord Brahma and Lord Siva. Therefore it is said that Lord Visnu is transcendental to the material qualities No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,194 The incarnation of Lord Siva or Lord Brahma indicates the absence of the supreme power of Visnu. When the supreme power is not there, it is possible to associate with maya, the external energy No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 24 July 2023 diff hist −21 The guna-avataras are three - Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and Lord Visnu - SB 10.88.3 No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,784 The great sage Atri said: O Lord Brahma, Visnu and Siva, you have divided yourself into three bodies by accepting the three modes of material nature, as you do in every millennium for the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 24 July 2023 diff hist +4,244 The goddess of fortune, Laksmi, and all-powerful demigods like Brahma and Siva are engaged in the worship of Visnu or Lord Krsna; therefore who can be more powerful than Mukunda (Lord Krsna) to be factually called the Supreme Personality of Godhead? No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 24 July 2023 diff hist −20 The first incarnation (of Krsna) is divided into three purusavataras - namely, Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi Visnu. Then there are the three incarnations of the modes of nature - namely, Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara - Siva No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 24 July 2023 diff hist +2,489 The energies are acting by combination and permutation by the indication of the Lord, and the acting agents, like Brahma, Visnu and Siva, are also different incarnations of the Lord No edit summary
• 09:1609:16, 24 July 2023 diff hist +5,669 The Earth personified continued, "My dear Lord, as for the three gods Brahma, Visnu and Siva, they are also not independent of You (Krsna). When there is a necessity of creating this cosmic manifestation, You create Your passionate appearance of Brahma" No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 24 July 2023 diff hist +14,494 There are three guna-avataras (of Krsna), or incarnations of the qualitative modes of nature, and these are Brahma, Visnu and Siva No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 24 July 2023 diff hist +2,589 There are undoubtedly many demigods, the chiefs of whom are Brahma and Siva. Lord Visnu is the Lord of Brahma and Siva, not to speak of the brahmanas in this material world No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 24 July 2023 diff hist +2,374 There are twelve temples of Lord Siva located at Kumbhakonam, as well as four Visnu temples and one temple of Lord Brahma No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 24 July 2023 diff hist +36 There are qualitative incarnations such as Brahma, Visnu, and Siva (or Rudra) who take charge of the different modes of material nature No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 24 July 2023 diff hist +7,558 There are originally three deities - Lord Brahma, Lord Visnu and Lord Siva - and people with a poor fund of knowledge consider Lord Visnu no better than Lord Brahma or Lord Siva. This conclusion, however, is invalid No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,396 There are innumerable universes floating on the Causal Ocean, and in each of them the representation of the virat form of the Lord is there along with innumerable suns, moons, heavenly demigods, Brahmas, Visnus and Sivas No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 24 July 2023 diff hist +6,473 There are gradations of Brahman, and no one can deny this fact. Therefore the words atmesa-brahma-sambhavan indicate that Dattatreya was directly part and parcel of Visnu, whereas Durvasa and Soma were parts and parcels of Lord Siva and Lord Brahma No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 24 July 2023 diff hist +7,291 Their dancing (of many other Brahmas and Sivas and demigods) was accompanied by various kinds of music, and all of Them were worshiping Lord Visnu No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 24 July 2023 diff hist +36 Sri Krsna is the fountainhead of Lord Siva and the origin of Visnu and of Brahma, and, of course, of all other demigods and other living creatures No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 24 July 2023 diff hist +2,019 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu continued, "To say nothing of ordinary living entities, even Lord Brahma and Lord Siva cannot be considered on the level of Visnu or Narayana. If one considers them as such, he is immediately considered an offender and atheist" No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 24 July 2023 diff hist +5,783 Soma was a partial representation of Lord Brahma, Dattatreya was a partial representation of Lord Visnu, and Durvasa was a partial representation of Lord Siva No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 24 July 2023 diff hist +6,272 Siva and Brahma are also described as parts, so why not accept all of them as ordinary individual souls? The answer is that the manifestations of Visnu and those of the ordinary living entities are certainly all parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 24 July 2023 diff hist +4,539 Simply by Your orders and by Your partial representation as Visnu, You are maintaining the universes. In this way, O Krsna, O enemy of Kamsa, there are so many Brahmas and Sivas who are simply carrying out Your orders No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,619 Sankaracarya confirmed this: narayanah parah. Narayana, or Lord Visnu, is the origin, and Brahma and Siva are manifested after creation No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 24 July 2023 diff hist +7,313 One who considers Lord Visnu to be in the same category with devas like Lord Brahma or Lord Siva or who thinks Lord Brahma and Siva to be equal to Lord Visnu is to be considered as pasandi - a faithless nonbeliever No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 24 July 2023 diff hist +7,059 One should not think that Lord Visnu is in the same category with Lord Brahma and Siva. The sastras forbid us to think in this way No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,221 Of the three deities supervising the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the universe, Lord Visnu is never separate from the original Visnu. However, Lord Siva and Brahma, due to their association with maya, are different from Visnu No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 24 July 2023 diff hist +4,966 Of these three (Brahma, Visnu and Siva), all human beings can derive ultimate benefit from Visnu, the form of the quality of goodness No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 24 July 2023 diff hist +18,273 No one is equal to Him; everyone is lower. Ekale isvara krsna ara saba bhrtya: (CC Adi 5.142) the only master is Krsna, God, and everyone else is His servant, including even great demigods like Brahma, Visnu, and Siva, not to speak of others No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,584 Maharaja Vena was afraid of some of the great sages such as Bhrgu, whereas Hiranyakasipu ruled in such a way that everyone feared him but Lord Visnu, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 24 July 2023 diff hist +3,867 Lord Visnu replied: Brahma, Lord Siva and I are the supreme cause of the material manifestation. I am the Supersoul, the self sufficient witness. But impersonally there is no difference between Brahma, Lord Siva and Me No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 24 July 2023 diff hist +5,085 Lord Visnu is worshiped by devotional service only, and if anyone has to continue prison life in the material world, he may ask for relative facilities for temporary relief from the different demigods like Siva, Brahma, Indra and Varuna No edit summary current