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Srimad BhagavatamReferences to text SB 10.2.32 |
SB 10.2.32: [Someone may say that aside from devotees, who always seek shelter at the Lord’s lotus feet, there are those who are not devotees but who have accepted different processes for attaining salvation. What happens to them? In answer to this question, Lord BrahmÄ and the other demigods said:] O lotus-eyed Lord, although nondevotees who accept severe austerities and penances to achieve the highest position may think themselves liberated, their intelligence is impure. They fall down from their position of imagined superiority because they have no regard for Your lotus feet.
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| Such nondevotees engage their senses in very troublesome and extensive work, and they suffer insomnia at night because their intelligence constantly breaks their sleep with various mental speculations. They are frustrated in all their various plans by supernatural power. Even great sages, if they are against Your transcendental topics, must rotate in this material world. Brahma's Prayers for Creative Energy |
| SB 3.9.10 |
| My dear boy, I have already selected the following places for your residence: the heart, the senses, the air of life, the sky, the air, the fire, the water, the earth, the sun, the moon and austerity. Creation of the Kumaras and Others |
| SB 3.12.11 |
| The terrible fear of birth and death can never be forsaken by anyone who resorts to any shelter other than Myself, for I am the almighty Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original source of all creation, and also the Supreme Soul of all souls. The Glories of Devotional Service |
| SB 3.25.41 |
| Maitreya answered: Dhruva MahÄrÄja’s heart, which was pierced by the arrows of the harsh words of his stepmother, was greatly aggrieved, and thus when he fixed upon his goal of life he did not forget her misbehavior. He did not demand actual liberation from this material world, but at the end of his devotional service, when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared before him, he was simply ashamed of the material demands he had in his mind. Dhruva Maharaja Returns Home |
| SB 4.9.29 |
| By regularly discharging devotional service, Pá¹›thu MahÄrÄja became transcendental in mind and could therefore constantly think of the lotus feet of the Lord. Because of this, he became completely detached and attained perfect knowledge by which he could transcend all doubt. Thus he was freed from the clutches of false ego and the material conception of life. Maharaja Prithu's Going Back Home |
| SB 4.23.11 |
| Simply by expansion of His eyebrows, invincible time personified can immediately vanquish the entire universe. However, formidable time does not approach the devotee who has taken complete shelter at Your lotus feet. Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva |
| SB 4.24.56 |
| Dear Lord, we shall therefore pray for Your benediction because You are the Supreme, beyond all transcendence, and because there is no end to Your opulences. Consequently, You are celebrated by the name Ananta. The Activities of the Pracetas |
| SB 4.30.31 |
| As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life, one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance. Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions. If a person is engaged in any kind of karma, his mind is called karmÄtmaka, colored with fruitive activity. As long as the mind is impure, consciousness is unclear, and as long as one is absorbed in fruitive activity, he has to accept a material body. Lord Rishabhadeva's Teachings to His Sons |
| SB 5.5.5 |
| My dear King, if a diseased person eats the pure, uncontaminated food prescribed by a physician, he is gradually cured, and the infection of disease can no longer touch him. Similarly, if one follows the regulative principles of knowledge, he gradually progresses toward liberation from material contamination. The History of the Life of Ajamila |
| SB 6.1.12 |
| O great sage, among many millions who are liberated and perfect in knowledge of liberation, one may be a devotee of Lord NÄrÄyaṇa, or Kṛṣṇa. Such devotees, who are fully peaceful, are extremely rare. King Citraketu's Lamentation |
| SB 6.14.5 |
| The bodies of the inhabitants of Vaikuṇá¹ha are completely spiritual, having nothing to do with the material body, senses or life air. Therefore, kindly explain how associates of the Personality of Godhead were cursed to descend in material bodies like ordinary persons. The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone |
| SB 7.1.35 |
| As one can understand the presence of the air by the aromas it carries, so, under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can understand the living soul by these three divisions of intelligence. These three divisions, however, are not the soul; they are constituted of the three modes and are born of activities. What Prahlada Learned in the Womb |
| SB 7.7.26 |
| Upon delivering the King of the elephants from the clutches of the crocodile, and from material existence, which resembles a crocodile, the Lord awarded him the status of sÄrÅ«pya-mukti. In the presence of the Gandharvas, the Siddhas and the other demigods, who were praising the Lord for His wonderful transcendental activities, the Lord, sitting on the back of His carrier, Garuá¸a, returned to His all-wonderful abode and took Gajendra with Him. Gajendra Returns to the Spiritual World |
| SB 8.4.13 |
| After completing the sacrifice, Lord RÄmacandra, whose lotus feet were sometimes pierced by thorns when He lived in Daṇá¸akÄraṇya, placed those lotus feet in the hearts of those who always think of Him. Then He entered His own abode, the Vaikuṇá¹ha planet beyond the brahmajyoti. Lord Ramacandra Rules the World |
| SB 9.11.19 |
| The Supreme Personality of Godhead acts through His material energy in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation just to deliver the living entity by His compassion and stop the living entity’s birth, death and duration of materialistic life. Thus He enables the living being to return home, back to Godhead. Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead |
| SB 9.24.58 |
| O brÄhmaṇa, although I am satisfied simply by seeing you, I still wish to inquire about those duties which give pleasure to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Any mortal who faithfully hears about them is freed from all kinds of fear. Maharaja Nimi Meets the Nine Yogendras |
| SB 11.2.7 |
| O King, one who accepts this process of devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead will never blunder on his path in this world. Even while running with eyes closed, he will never trip or fall. Maharaja Nimi Meets the Nine Yogendras |
| SB 11.2.35 |
| Fear arises when a living entity misidentifies himself as the material body because of absorption in the external, illusory energy of the Lord. When the living entity thus turns away from the Supreme Lord, he also forgets his own constitutional position as a servant of the Lord. This bewildering, fearful condition is effected by the potency for illusion, called mÄyÄ. Therefore, an intelligent person should engage unflinchingly in the unalloyed devotional service of the Lord, under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, whom he should accept as his worshipable deity and as his very life and soul. Maharaja Nimi Meets the Nine Yogendras |
| SB 11.2.37 |