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Bhagavad Gita As It IsReferences to text BG 7.5 |
BG 7.5: Besides these, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is another, superior energy of Mine, which comprises the living entities who are exploiting the resources of this material, inferior nature.
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| The pure soul is pure consciousness and is never out of consciousness, either due to circumstances, time, situations, dreams or other causes. How then does he become engaged in nescience? Further Inquires by Vidura |
| SB 3.7.5 |
| The Lord continued: My dear Dakṣa Dvija, I am the original Personality of Godhead, but in order to create, maintain and annihilate this cosmic manifestation, I act through My material energy, and according to the different grades of activity, My representations are differently named. The Sacrifice Performed by Daksha |
| SB 4.7.51 |
| Lord Śiva continued: Any person who is surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the controller of everything — material nature as well as the living entity — is actually very dear to me. Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva |
| SB 4.24.28 |
| My dear Lord, after creating by Your own potencies, You enter within the creation in four kinds of forms. Being within the hearts of the living entities, You know them and know how they are enjoying their senses. The so-called happiness of this material creation is exactly like the bees’ enjoyment of honey after it has been collected in the honeycomb. Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva |
| SB 4.24.64 |
| 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 |
| The body [the total body and the individual body are of the same composition] may figuratively be called “the original tree.” From this tree, which fully depends on the ground of material nature, come two kinds of fruit — the enjoyment of happiness and the suffering of distress. The cause of the tree, forming its three roots, is association with the three modes of material nature — goodness, passion and ignorance. The fruits of bodily happiness have four tastes — religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation — which are experienced through five senses for acquiring knowledge in the midst of six circumstances: lamentation, illusion, old age, death, hunger and thirst. The seven layers of bark covering the tree are skin, blood, muscle, fat, bone, marrow and semen, and the eight branches of the tree are the five gross and three subtle elements — earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego. The tree of the body has nine hollows — the eyes, the ears, the nostrils, the mouth, the rectum and the genitals — and ten leaves, the ten airs passing through the body. In this tree of the body there are two birds: one is the individual soul, and the other is the Supersoul. Prayers by the Demigods for Lord Krishna in the Womb |
| SB 10.2.27 |
| O intelligent lady, the soul never undergoes contact with or separation from insubstantial, material objects, because the soul is their very origin and illuminator. Thus the soul resembles the sun, which neither comes in contact with nor separates from the sense of sight and what is seen. The Marriage of Krishna and Rukmini |
| SB 10.54.46 |
| Śrī Pippalāyana said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of the creation, maintenance and destruction of this universe, yet He has no prior cause. He pervades the various states of wakefulness, dreaming and unconscious deep sleep and also exists beyond them. By entering the body of every living being as the Supersoul, He enlivens the body, senses, life airs and mental activities, and thus all the subtle and gross organs of the body begin their functions. My dear King, know that Personality of Godhead to be the Supreme. Liberation from the Illusory Energy |
| SB 11.3.35 |
| O most intelligent Uddhava, the living entity, called jīva, is part and parcel of Me, but due to ignorance he has been suffering in material bondage since time immemorial. By knowledge, however, he can be liberated. The Symptoms of Conditioned and Liberated Living Entities |
| SB 11.11.4 |
| “The Lord is like a great blazing fire, and the living entities are like small sparks of that fire. Lord Caitanya in Five Features |
| CC 1.7.116 |
| “The living entities are energies, not the energetic. The energetic is Kṛṣṇa. This is very vividly described in the Bhagavad-gītā, the Viṣṇu Purāṇa and other Vedic literatures. Lord Caitanya in Five Features |
| CC 1.7.117 |
| “ ‘Besides these inferior energies, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is another, superior energy of Mine, which comprises the living entities who are exploiting the resources of this material, inferior nature.’ Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Instructs Sanatana Gosvami in the Science of the Absolute Truth |
| CC 2.20.116 |
| “To impregnate with the seeds of the living entities, the Lord Himself does not directly touch the material energy, but by His specific functional expansion He touches the material energy, and thus the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, are impregnated into material nature. Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Instructs Sanatana Gosvami in the Science of the Absolute Truth |
| CC 2.20.273 |
| “Expansions of His personal self — like the quadruple manifestations of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Vāsudeva — descend as incarnations from Vaikuṇṭha to this material world. The separated expansions are the living entities. Although they are expansions of Kṛṣṇa, they are counted among His different potencies. The Process of Devotional Service |
| CC 2.22.9 |
| Chapter 25: Personal and Impersonal Realization Teachings of Lord Caitanya |
| TLC 25 |
| The same jīva is eternal and is for eternity and without a beginning joined to the Supreme Lord by the tie of an eternal kinship. He is transcendental spiritual potency. |
| BS bs.21 |
| One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him? Sri Isopanishad |
| Iso 7 |
| New York, February 19-20, 1966 |
| LBG 0.4 |
| New York, February 19-20, 1966 |
| LBG 0.4 |
| London, July 14, 1973 Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruks?etra |
| LBG 1.13 |
| London, July 18, 1973 Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruks?etra |
| LBG 1.21-22 |
| London, July 18, 1973 Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruks?etra |
| LBG 1.21-22 |
| Manila, October 12, 1972 Contents of the Gita Summarized |
| LBG 2.13 |
| Manila, October 12, 1972 Contents of the Gita Summarized |
| LBG 2.13 |
| Hyderabad, November 18, 1972 Contents of the Gita Summarized |
| LBG 2.13 |
| London, August 31, 1973 Contents of the Gita Summarized |
| LBG 2.30 |
| New York, July 20, 1966 Transcendental Knowledge |
| LBG 4.6 |
| Bombay, March 28, 1974 Transcendental Knowledge |
| LBG 4.8 |
| New York, July 25, 1966 Transcendental Knowledge |
| LBG 4.9 |
| Calcutta, September 23, 1974 Transcendental Knowledge |
| LBG 4.10 |
| Bombay, April 15, 1974 Transcendental Knowledge |
| LBG 4.26 |
| Auckland, April 15, 1972 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.1 |
| Auckland, April 15, 1972 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.1 |
| Vrndavana, August 10, 1974 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.4 |
| Bombay, March 30, 1971 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.4 |
| Bombay, March 30, 1971 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.4 |
| Bombay, March 30, 1971 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.4 |
| Bombay, March 30, 1971 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.4 |
| Bombay, March 30, 1971 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.4 |
| Bombay, February 20, 1974 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.5 |
| Bombay, February 20, 1974 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.5 |
| Bombay, February 20, 1974 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.5 |
| Nairobi, November 1, 1975 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.5 |
| Nairobi, November 1, 1975 Knowledge of the Absolute |
| LBG 7.5 |
| Calcutta, March 9, 1972 The Most Confidential Knowledge |
| LBG 9.4 |
| Paris, August 10, 1973 Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness |
| LBG 13.1-2 |
| Miami, February 25, 1975 Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness |
| LBG 13.1-2 |
| Hyderabad, April 19, 1974 Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness |
| LBG 13.3 |
| Hyderabad, April 20, 1974 Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness |
| LBG 13.4 |
| Bombay, October 7, 1973 Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness |
| LBG 13.14 |
| Melbourne, June 25, 1974 Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness |
| LBG 13.22 |
| Bombay, October 28, 1973 The Yoga of the Supreme Person |
| LBG 15.1 |
| Hawaii, February 4, 1975 The Divine And Demoniac Natures |
| LBG 16.8 |
| Hawaii, February 4, 1975 The Divine And Demoniac Natures |
| LBG 16.8 |
| Aligarh, October 9, 1976 Divinity and Divine Service |
| LSB 1.2.5 |
| Hyderabad, November 26, 1972 Divinity and Divine Service |
| LSB 1.2.6 |
| Hyderabad, November 26, 1972 Divinity and Divine Service |
| LSB 1.2.6 |
| London, July 23, 1973 Divinity and Divine Service |
| LSB 1.2.6 |
| Mauritius, October 5, 1975 Divinity and Divine Service |
| LSB 1.2.6 |
| Los Angeles, August 16, 1972 Divinity and Divine Service |
| LSB 1.2.13 |
| Vrndavana, September 25, 1976 The Son of Drona Punished |
| LSB 1.7.28 |
| Vrndavana, September 25, 1976 The Son of Drona Punished |
| LSB 1.7.28 |
| New York, April 10, 1973 Prayers by Queen Kunti and Parikshit Saved |
| LSB 1.8.18 |
| Mayapura, September 28, 1974 Prayers by Queen Kunti and Parikshit Saved |
| LSB 1.8.18 |
| Los Angeles, December 12, 1973 The Pandavas Retire Timely |
| LSB 1.15.34 |
| Melbourne, June 26, 1974 The First Step in God Realization |
| LSB 2.1.1 |
| Delhi, November 8, 1973 The First Step in God Realization |
| LSB 2.1.5 |
| Delhi, November 8, 1973 The First Step in God Realization |
| LSB 2.1.5 |
| At Cross Maidan Pandal Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart |
| LSB 2.3.18 |
| At Cross Maidan Pandal Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart |
| LSB 2.3.20 |
| Melbourne, April 12, 1972 Answers by Citing the Lord's Version |
| LSB 2.9.13 |
| Bombay, November 3, 1974 The Glories of Devotional Service |
| LSB 3.25.3 |
| Bombay, November 4, 1974 The Glories of Devotional Service |
| LSB 3.25.4 |
| Bombay, December 14, 1974 Fundamental Principles of Material Nature |
| LSB 3.26.2 |
| Bombay, December 15, 1974 Fundamental Principles of Material Nature |
| LSB 3.26.3 |
| Bombay, December 15, 1974 Fundamental Principles of Material Nature |
| LSB 3.26.3 |
| Bombay, December 20, 1974 Fundamental Principles of Material Nature |
| LSB 3.26.8 |
| Delhi, November 28, 1975 Lord Rishabhadeva's Teachings to His Sons |
| LSB 5.5.1 |
| Bombay, December 25, 197 Lord Rishabhadeva's Teachings to His Sons |
| LSB 5.5.1 |
| Vrndavana, August 29, 1975 The History of the Life of Ajamila |
| LSB 6.1.62 |
| Vrndavana, September 1, 1975 The History of the Life of Ajamila |
| LSB 6.1.64 |
| Vrndavana, December 7, 1975 Prahlada Instructs His Demoniac Schoolmates |
| LSB 7.6.5 |
| Mayapur, February 26, 1977 Prahlada Pacifies Lord Nrisimhadeva with Prayers |
| LSB 7.9.6 |
| Calcutta, March 7, 1972 Prahlada Pacifies Lord Nrisimhadeva with Prayers |
| LSB 7.9.9 |
| Calcutta, March 7, 1972 Prahlada Pacifies Lord Nrisimhadeva with Prayers |
| LSB 7.9.9 |
| Montreal, August 21, 1968 Prahlada Pacifies Lord Nrisimhadeva with Prayers |
| LSB 7.9.13 |
| Montreal, August 22, 1968 Prahlada Pacifies Lord Nrisimhadeva with Prayers |
| LSB 7.9.13 |
| Mayapur, March 11, 1976 Prahlada Pacifies Lord Nrisimhadeva with Prayers |
| LSB 7.9.33 |
| Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg May 1969 |
| TLKS 1969.5.24796 |
| Interview with Reporters November 1971 |
| TLKS 1971.11.2484A |
| Room Conversation November 1971 |
| TLKS 1971.11.2484E |
| Morning Walk April 1973 |
| TLKS 1973.4.2494E |
| Morning Walk May 1973 |
| TLKS 1973.5.2496A |
| Morning Walk December 1973 |
| TLKS 1973.12.24A86 |
| Morning Walk March 1974 |
| TLKS 1974.3.24B92 |
| Morning Walk March 1974 |
| TLKS 1974.3.24B96 |
| Morning Walk March 1974 |
| TLKS 1974.3.24B96 |
| Morning Walk March 1974 |
| TLKS 1974.3.24B96 |
| Room Conversation with Biochemist, Dr. Sallaz June 1974 |
| TLKS 1974.6.24C4E |
| Room Conversation with Jesuit May 1975 |
| TLKS 1975.5.24E5A |
| Morning Walk November 1975 |
| TLKS 1975.11.250C2 |
| Morning Walk December 1975 |
| TLKS 1975.12.2511E |
| Morning Walk April 1976 |
| TLKS 1976.4.25282 |
| Morning Walk May 1976 |
| TLKS 1976.5.252F2 |
| Room Conversation With Scientists July 1976 |
| TLKS 1976.7.2543E |
| Room Conversation with Dr. Theodore Kneupper November 1976 |
| TLKS 1976.11.25672 |
| Morning Walk February 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.2.25826 |
| Room Conversation about BTG the Moon February 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.2.25872 |
| Room Conversation about BTG the Moon February 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.2.25872 |
| Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara February 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.2.258C2 |
| Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara February 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.2.258C2 |
| Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara February 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.2.258C2 |
| Room Conversation March 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.3.258DE |
| Room Conversation with Scientists, Svarupa Damodara, and Dr. Sharma March 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.3.258FE |
| Conversation with Yadubara (after seeing film) April 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.4.25932 |
| Discussions with Devotees and Conversation with Dr. Ghosh June 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.6.259EA |
| Talk with Svarupa Damodara June 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.6.259FE |
| Room Conversation October 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.10.25ADA |
| Room Conversation October 1977 |
| TLKS 1977.10.25ADE |
| Mayapur, April 2, 1975 |
| LCC 1.1.9 |
| San Francisco, February 24, 1967 |
| LCC 1.7.118 |
| Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971 |
| LCC 2.6.151 |
| Los Angeles, April 30, 1970 Lectures on Isopanishad |
| LISO 1 |
| Los Angeles, May 2, 1970 Lectures on Isopanishad |
| LISO 1 |
| Los Angeles, May 2, 1970 Lectures on Isopanishad |
| LISO 1 |