Bhagavad Gita As It Is

References to text BG 4.8
BG 4.8: To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.

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Is He going to quit His earthly pastimes, as Devará¹£i NÄrada indicated? Has that time already arrived?
The Disappearance of Lord Krishna
SB 1.14.8
Also, Åšrutadeva, Uddhava and others, Nanda, Sunanda and other leaders of liberated souls who are constant companions of the Lord are protected by Lord BalarÄma and Kṛṣṇa. Are they all doing well in their respective functions? Do they, who are all eternally bound in friendship with us, remember our welfare?
The Disappearance of Lord Krishna
SB 1.14.32-33
The Personality of Godhead, Lord ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa, being prayed to by BrahmÄ to bring welfare to the earth, was begotten by Vasudeva in the womb of his wife DevakÄ« in the prison of the King of Bhoja.
Remembrance of Lord Krishna
SB 3.2.25
At that time the Lord of the universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the well-wisher of all living entities, will descend and kill them, just as Indra smashes the mountains with his thunderbolts.
Pregnancy of Diti in the Evening
SB 3.14.41
The Lord replied: O brÄhmaṇas, know that the punishment you inflicted on them was originally ordained by Me, and therefore they will fall to a birth in a demoniac family. But they will be firmly united with Me in thought through mental concentration intensified by anger, and they will return to My presence shortly.
The Two Doorkeepers of Vaikuntha, Jaya and Vijaya, Cursed by the Sages
SB 3.16.26
The tour you have undertaken, O lord, is surely intended to protect the virtuous and kill the demons, since you embody the protecting energy of Śrī Hari.
Conversation Between Manu and Kardama
SB 3.21.50
O King Pṛthu, son of Vena, you are the part-and-parcel expansion of Lord Viṣṇu. Due to the mischievous activities of King Vena, religious principles were almost lost. At that opportune moment you descended as the incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu. Indeed, for the protection of religious principles you have appeared from the body of King Vena.
King Prithu's One Hundred Horse Sacrifices
SB 4.19.37
Dear Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You because Your existence is completely independent of all material influences. Your Lordship always takes away the devotee’s miserable conditions, for Your brain plans how to do so. You live everywhere as ParamÄtmÄ; therefore You are known as VÄsudeva. You also accept Vasudeva as Your father, and You are celebrated by the name Kṛṣṇa. You are so kind that You always increase the influence of all kinds of devotees.
The Activities of the Pracetas
SB 4.30.24
Dear Lord, we conditioned souls are always covered by ignorance in the bodily conception of life. We therefore always prefer the miserable conditions of material existence. To deliver us from these miserable conditions, You have advented Yourself in this transcendental form. This is evidence of Your unlimited causeless mercy upon those of us who are suffering in this way. Then what to speak of the devotees to whom You are always so favorably disposed?
The Activities of the Pracetas
SB 4.30.27
Chapter Summary
SB 5..0
O most worshipable of all, You are the best of all benefactors, and Your appearance at saintly King NÄbhi’s sacrificial arena is meant for our benediction. Because You have been seen by us, You have bestowed upon us the most valuable benediction.
Rishabhadeva's Appearance in the Womb of Merudevi, the Wife of King Nabhi
SB 5.3.10
Chapter Summary
SB 8..0
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no material birth, activities, name, form, qualities or faults. To fulfill the purpose for which this material world is created and destroyed, He comes in the form of a human being like Lord RÄma or Lord Kṛṣṇa by His original internal potency. He has immense potency, and in various forms, all free from material contamination, He acts wonderfully. He is therefore the Supreme Brahman. I offer my respects to Him.
Gajendra's Prayers of Surrender
SB 8.3.8-9
For the Supreme Personality of Godhead there is no one to be killed, no one to be protected, no one to be neglected and no one to be worshiped. Nonetheless, for the sake of creation, maintenance and annihilation according to time, He accepts different forms as incarnations either in the mode of goodness, the mode of passion or the mode of ignorance.
The Demigods Appeal to the Lord for Protection
SB 8.5.22
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
Although the demons who take possession of the government are dressed like men of government, they do not know the duty of the government. Consequently, by the arrangement of God, such demons, who possess great military strength, fight with one another, and thus the great burden of demons on the surface of the earth is reduced. The demons increase their military power by the will of the Supreme, so that their numbers will be diminished and the devotees will have a chance to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead
SB 9.24.59
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa, known as lÄ«lÄ-puruá¹£ottama, appeared as the son of Vasudeva but immediately left His father’s home and went to Vá¹›ndÄvana to expand His loving relationship with His confidential devotees. In Vá¹›ndÄvana the Lord killed many demons, and afterwards He returned to DvÄrakÄ, where according to Vedic principles He married many wives who were the best of women, begot through them hundreds of sons, and performed sacrifices for His own worship to establish the principles of householder life.
Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead
SB 9.24.66
Thereafter, having heard of the distress of mother earth, Lord BrahmÄ, with mother earth, Lord Åšiva and all the other demigods, approached the shore of the Ocean of Milk.
The Advent of Lord Krishna: Introduction
SB 10.1.19
The inhabitants of Vá¹›ndÄvana, headed by Nanda MahÄrÄja and including his associate cowherd men and their wives, were none but denizens of the heavenly planets, O MahÄrÄja ParÄ«ká¹£it, best of the descendants of Bharata, and so too were the descendants of the Vṛṣṇi dynasty, headed by Vasudeva and DevakÄ« and the other women of the dynasty of Yadu. The friends, relatives and well-wishers of both Nanda MahÄrÄja and Vasudeva and even those who externally appeared to be followers of Kaá¹sa were all demigods.
The Advent of Lord Krishna: Introduction
SB 10.1.62-63
Once the great saint NÄrada approached Kaá¹sa and informed him of how the demoniac persons who were a great burden on the earth were going to be killed. Thus Kaá¹sa was placed into great fear and doubt.
The Advent of Lord Krishna: Introduction
SB 10.1.64
Although the causes of death, the daityas, were very fierce, they could not kill this boy Kṛṣṇa. Rather, because they came to kill innocent boys, as soon as they approached they themselves were killed, exactly like flies attacking a fire.
The Childhood Pastimes of Krishna
SB 10.11.56
When the invincible Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, heard the demigods crying “Alas! Alas!†from behind the clouds, He immediately enlarged Himself within the demon’s throat, just to save Himself and the cowherd boys, His own associates, from the demon who wished to smash them.
The Killing of the Demon Aghasura
SB 10.12.30
The Personality of Godhead said: If I especially favor someone, I gradually deprive him of his wealth. Then the relatives and friends of such a poverty-stricken man abandon him. In this way he suffers one distress after another.
Lord Siva Saved from Vrikasura
SB 10.88.8
An intermediate or second-class devotee, called madhyama-adhikÄrÄ«, offers his love to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is a sincere friend to all the devotees of the Lord, shows mercy to ignorant people who are innocent and disregards those who are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Maharaja Nimi Meets the Nine Yogendras
SB 11.2.46