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Bhagavad Gita As It IsReferences to text BG 18.61 |
BG 18.61: The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.
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| Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence. The Lord in the Heart |
| SB 2.2.6 |
| Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence. The Lord in the Heart |
| SB 2.2.6 |
| O NÄrada, best of the transcendentalists, the forms of the body cannot take place as long as these created parts, namely the elements, senses, mind and modes of nature, are not assembled. The Cause of All Causes |
| SB 2.5.32 |
| A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, must certainly search for it up to this, in all circumstances, in all space and time, and both directly and indirectly. Answers by Citing the Lord's Version |
| SB 2.9.36 |
| O great Supreme Lord, offensive persons whose internal vision has been too affected by external materialistic activities cannot see Your lotus feet, but they are seen by Your pure devotees, whose one and only aim is to transcendentally enjoy Your activities. Vidura's Talks with Maitreya |
| SB 3.5.45 |
| Pá¹›thu MahÄrÄja then offered the total designation of the living entity unto the supreme controller of illusory energy. Being released from all the designations by which the living entity became entrapped, he became free by knowledge and renunciation and by the spiritual force of his devotional service. In this way, being situated in his original constitutional position of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he gave up this body as a prabhu, or controller of the senses. Maharaja Prithu's Going Back Home |
| SB 4.23.18 |
| King Purañjana began to search for a suitable place to live, and thus he traveled all over the world. Even after a great deal of traveling, he could not find a place just to his liking. Finally he became morose and disappointed. The Descriptions of the Characteristics of King Puranjana |
| SB 4.25.11 |
| The great sage NÄrada continued: My dear King, once upon a time King Purañjana took up his great bow, and equipped with golden armor and a quiver of unlimited arrows and accompanied by eleven commanders, he sat on his chariot driven by five swift horses and went to the forest named Pañca-prastha. He took with him in that chariot two explosive arrows. The chariot itself was situated on two wheels and one revolving axle. On the chariot were three flags, one rein, one chariot driver, one sitting place, two poles to which the harness was fixed, five weapons and seven coverings. The chariot moved in five different styles, and five obstacles lay before it. All the decorations of the chariot were made of gold. King Puranjana Goes to the Forest to Hunt, and His Queen Becomes Angry |
| SB 4.26.1-3 |
| When King Purañjana was being dragged with great force by the powerful Yavana, out of his gross ignorance he still could not remember his friend and well-wisher, the Supersoul. Puranjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life |
| SB 4.28.25 |
| Śrī Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the Supersoul and guide of all living entities who have accepted material bodies within this world. He is the supreme controller of all material activities in material nature. He is also our best friend, and everyone should take shelter at His lotus feet. In doing so, one’s life will be auspicious. Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi |
| SB 4.29.50 |
| The living entity labors under the bodily conception of “I am this, I am that. My duty is this, and therefore I shall do it.†These are all mental impressions, and all these activities are temporary; nonetheless, by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the living entity gets a chance to execute all his mental concoctions. Thus he gets another body. Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi |
| SB 4.29.62 |
| Ṛṣabhadeva began to tour through cities, villages, mines, countrysides, valleys, gardens, military camps, cow pens, the homes of cowherd men, transient hotels, hills, forests and hermitages. Wherever He traveled, all bad elements surrounded Him, just as flies surround the body of an elephant coming from a forest. He was always being threatened, beaten, urinated upon and spat upon. Sometimes people threw stones, stool and dust at Him, and sometimes people passed foul air before Him. Thus people called Him many bad names and gave Him a great deal of trouble, but He did not care about this, for He understood that the body is simply meant for such an end. He was situated on the spiritual platform, and, being in His spiritual glory, He did not care for all these material insults. In other words, He completely understood that matter and spirit are separate, and He had no bodily conception. Thus, without being angry at anyone, He walked through the whole world alone. Lord Rishabhadeva's Teachings to His Sons |
| SB 5.5.30 |
| My dear Lord, just as a puppeteer controls his dancing dolls and a husband controls his wife, Your Lordship controls all the living entities in the universe, such as the brÄhmaṇas, ká¹£atriyas, vaiÅ›yas and śūdras. Although You are in everyone’s heart as the supreme witness and commander and are outside everyone as well, the so-called leaders of societies, communities and countries cannot realize You. Only those who hear the vibration of the Vedic mantras can appreciate You. The Prayers Offered to the Lord by the Residents of Jambudvipa |
| SB 5.18.26 |
| O my Lord, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who have assumed the form of a tortoise. You are the reservoir of all transcendental qualities, and being entirely untinged by matter, You are perfectly situated in pure goodness. You move here and there in the water, but no one can discern Your position. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. Because of Your transcendental position, You are not limited by past, present and future. You are present everywhere as the shelter of all things, and therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You again and again. The Prayers Offered to the Lord by the Residents of Jambudvipa |
| SB 5.18.30 |
| When bulls are yoked together and tied to a central post to thresh rice, they tread around that pivot without deviating from their proper positions — one bull being closest to the post, another in the middle, and a third on the outside. Similarly, all the planets and all the hundreds and thousands of stars revolve around the polestar, the planet of MahÄrÄja Dhruva, in their respective orbits, some higher and some lower. Fastened by the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the machine of material nature according to the results of their fruitive acts, they are driven around the polestar by the wind and will continue to be so until the end of creation. These planets float in the air within the vast sky, just as clouds with hundreds of tons of water float in the air or as the great Å›yena eagles, due to the results of past activities, fly high in the sky and have no chance of falling to the ground. The Sisumara Planetary Systems |
| SB 5.23.3 |
| The order carriers of YamarÄja were snatching the soul from the core of the heart of AjÄmila, the husband of the prostitute, but with resounding voices the messengers of Lord Viṣṇu, the ViṣṇudÅ«tas, forbade them to do so. The History of the Life of Ajamila |
| SB 6.1.31 |
| The living entity is eternal and imperishable because he actually has no beginning and no end. He never takes birth or dies. He is the basic principle of all types of bodies, yet he does not belong to the bodily category. The living being is so sublime that he is equal in quality to the Supreme Lord. Nonetheless, because he is extremely small, he is prone to be illusioned by the external energy, and thus he creates various bodies for himself according to his different desires. King Citraketu Meets the Supreme Lord |
| SB 6.16.9 |
| The all-pervading Personality of Godhead exists within the heart of every living being, and an expert thinker can perceive how He is present there to a large or small extent. Just as one can understand the supply of fire in wood, the water in a waterpot, or the sky within a pot, one can understand whether a living entity is a demon or a demigod by understanding that living entity’s devotional performances. A thoughtful man can understand how much a person is favored by the Supreme Lord by seeing his actions. The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone |
| SB 7.1.9 |
| The great sage ÅšrÄ« NÄradajÄ« said: O King, blasphemy and praise, chastisement and respect, are experienced because of ignorance. The body of the conditioned soul is planned by the Lord for suffering in the material world through the agency of the external energy. The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone |
| SB 7.1.23 |
| The spirit soul, the living entity, has no death, for he is eternal and inexhaustible. Being free from material contamination, he can go anywhere in the material or spiritual worlds. He is fully aware and completely different from the material body, but because of being misled by misuse of his slight independence, he is obliged to accept subtle and gross bodies created by the material energy and thus be subjected to so-called material happiness and distress. Therefore, no one should lament for the passing of the spirit soul from the body. Hiranyakasipu, King of the Demons |
| SB 7.2.22 |
| It is wonderful that these elderly women do not have a higher sense of life than we do. Indeed, we are most fortunate, for although we are children and have been left to struggle in material life, unprotected by father and mother, and although we are very weak, we have not been vanquished or eaten by ferocious animals. Thus we have a firm belief that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has given us protection even in the womb of the mother, will protect us everywhere. Hiranyakasipu, King of the Demons |
| SB 7.2.38 |
| In this material world, every materialist desires to achieve happiness and diminish his distress, and therefore he acts accordingly. Actually, however, one is happy as long as one does not endeavor for happiness; as soon as one begins his activities for happiness, his conditions of distress begin. What Prahlada Learned in the Womb |
| SB 7.7.42 |
| The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is the soul and the Supersoul of all living entities. Every living entity is a manifestation of His energy in terms of the living soul and the material body. Therefore the Lord is the most dear, and He is the supreme controller. What Prahlada Learned in the Womb |
| SB 7.7.49 |
| The living entity tries to achieve happiness and rid himself of the causes of distress, but because the various bodies of the living entities are under the full control of material nature, all his plans in different bodies, one after another, are ultimately baffled. The Behavior of a Perfect Person |
| SB 7.13.30 |
| Sometimes I lie on the surface of the earth, sometimes on leaves, grass or stone, sometimes on a pile of ashes, or sometimes, by the will of others, in a palace on a first-class bed with pillows. The Behavior of a Perfect Person |
| SB 7.13.40 |
| The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residential places like the bodies of human beings, animals, birds, saints and demigods. In all of these innumerable bodily forms, the Lord resides with the living being as ParamÄtmÄ. Thus He is known as the puruá¹£ÄvatÄra. Ideal Family Life |
| SB 7.14.37 |
| Within this universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His Supersoul feature is present everywhere, wherever there are animate or inanimate beings. Therefore, one should accept only that which is allotted to him; one should not desire to infringe upon the property of others. The Manus, Administrators of the Universe |
| SB 8.1.10 |
| After worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, those who are interested in the four principles of religion, economic development, sense gratification and liberation obtain from Him what they desire. What then is to be said of other benedictions? Indeed, sometimes the Lord gives a spiritual body to such ambitious worshipers. May that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is unlimitedly merciful, bestow upon me the benediction of liberation from this present danger and from the materialistic way of life. Gajendra's Prayers of Surrender |
| SB 8.3.19 |
| In the cycle of material activities, the material body resembles the wheel of a mental chariot. The ten senses [five for working and five for gathering knowledge] and the five life airs within the body form the fifteen spokes of the chariot’s wheel. The three modes of nature [goodness, passion and ignorance] are its center of activities, and the eight ingredients of nature [earth, water, fire, air, sky, mind, intelligence and false ego] comprise the rim of the wheel. The external, material energy moves this wheel like electrical energy. Thus the wheel revolves very quickly around its hub or central support, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul and the ultimate truth. We offer our respectful obeisances unto Him. The Demigods Appeal to the Lord for Protection |
| SB 8.5.28 |
| My dear Aditi, engage in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the master of everything, who can subdue everyone’s enemies, and who sits within everyone’s heart. Only that Supreme Person — Kṛṣṇa, or VÄsudeva — can bestow all auspicious benedictions upon everyone, for He is the spiritual master of the universe. Executing the Payo-vrata Process of Worship |
| SB 8.16.20 |
| Lord VÄmanadeva continued: O King of the demons, after Lord Viṣṇu made this decision, He entered the body of His enemy HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu, who was running after Him with great force. In a subtle body inconceivable to HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu, Lord Viṣṇu, who was in great anxiety, entered HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu’s nostril along with his breath. Lord Vamanadeva Begs Charity from Bali Maharaja |
| SB 8.19.10 |
| ÅšrÄ«matÄ« VindhyÄvali said: O my Lord, You have created the entire universe for the enjoyment of Your personal pastimes, but foolish, unintelligent men have claimed proprietorship for material enjoyment. Certainly they are shameless agnostics. Falsely claiming proprietorship, they think they can give charity and enjoy. In such a condition, what good can they do for You, who are the independent creator, maintainer and annihilator of this universe? Bali Maharaja Surrenders His Life |
| SB 8.22.20 |
| O King, MahÄrÄja ParÄ«ká¹£it, but for the Lord’s personal desire, there is no cause for His appearance, disappearance or activities. As the Supersoul, He knows everything. Consequently there is no cause that affects Him, not even the results of fruitive activities. Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead |
| SB 9.24.57 |
| To protect the Yadus, His personal devotees, from Kaá¹sa’s attack, the Personality of Godhead, ViÅ›vÄtmÄ, the Supreme Soul of everyone, ordered Yoga-mÄyÄ as follows. Prayers by the Demigods for Lord Krishna in the Womb |
| SB 10.2.6 |
| After speaking to Kaá¹sa in this way, the goddess DurgÄ, Yoga-mÄyÄ, appeared in different places, such as VÄrÄṇasÄ«, and became celebrated by different names, such as AnnapÅ«rṇÄ, DurgÄ, KÄlÄ« and BhadrÄ. The Atrocities of King Kamsa |
| SB 10.4.13 |
| In this world, we can see that pots, dolls and other products of the earth appear, break and then disappear, mixing with the earth. Similarly, the bodies of all conditioned living entities are annihilated, but the living entities, like the earth itself, are unchanging and never annihilated [na hanyate hanyamÄne Å›arÄ«re]. The Atrocities of King Kamsa |
| SB 10.4.19 |
| Only if they become Your faithful followers are those who breathe actually alive, otherwise their breathing is like that of a bellows. It is by Your mercy alone that the elements, beginning with the mahat-tattva and false ego, created the egg of this universe. Among the manifestations known as anna-maya and so forth, You are the ultimate one, entering within the material coverings along with the living entity and assuming the same forms as those he takes. Distinct from the gross and subtle material manifestations, You are the reality underlying them all. The Prayers of the Personified Vedas |
| SB 10.87.17 |