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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 1 - 6"><h3>BG Chapters 1 - 6</h3>
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<div id="BG12122_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="19" link="BG 1.21-22" link_text="BG 1.21-22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 1.21-22 (1972)|BG 1.21-22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Since He is master, everyone is under His orders, and no one is above Him to order Him. But when He finds that a pure devotee is ordering Him, He obtains transcendental pleasure, although He is the infallible master in all circumstances.</p>
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<div id="BG269_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="107" link="BG 2.69" link_text="BG 2.69">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.69 (1972)|BG 2.69, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The introspective sage remains alert in the "night" of the materialistic men. The sage feels transcendental pleasure in the gradual advancement of spiritual culture, whereas the man in materialistic activities, being asleep to self-realization, dreams of varieties of sense pleasure, feeling sometimes happy and sometimes distressed in his sleeping condition. The introspective man is always indifferent to materialistic happiness and distress. He goes on with his self-realization activities undisturbed by material reactions.</p>
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<div id="BG522_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="216" link="BG 5.22" link_text="BG 5.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 5.22 (1972)|BG 5.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A liberated soul is not interested in anything which is temporary. Knowing well the joys of transcendental pleasures, how can a liberated soul agree to enjoy false pleasure?</p>
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<div id="BG522_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="216" link="BG 5.22" link_text="BG 5.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 5.22 (1972)|BG 5.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Padma Purāṇa it is said:</p>
:ramante yogino 'nante
:satyānande cid-ātmani
:iti rāma-padenāsau
:paraṁ brahmābhidhīyate
:([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.29|CC Madhya 9.29]])
<p>"The mystics derive unlimited transcendental pleasures from the Absolute Truth, and therefore the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is also known as Rāma."</p>
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<div id="BG62023_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="240" link="BG 6.20-23" link_text="BG 6.20-23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.20-23 (1972)|BG 6.20-23, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Some unauthorized commentators try to identify the individual soul with the Supersoul, and the monists think this to be liberation, but they do not understand the real purpose of the Patañjali system of yoga. There is an acceptance of transcendental pleasure in the Patañjali system, but the monists do not accept this transcendental pleasure, out of fear of jeopardizing the theory of oneness. The duality of knowledge and knower is not accepted by the nondualist, but in this verse transcendental pleasure—realized through transcendental senses—is accepted.</p>
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<div id="BG62023_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="240" link="BG 6.20-23" link_text="BG 6.20-23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.20-23 (1972)|BG 6.20-23, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This citi-śakti, or transcendental pleasure, is real life. This is confirmed in the Vedānta-sūtra (1.1.12) as ānanda-mayo 'bhyāsāt. This natural transcendental pleasure is the ultimate goal of yoga and is easily achieved by execution of devotional service, or bhakti-yoga.</p>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 7 - 12"><h3>BG Chapters 7 - 12</h3>
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<div id="BG92_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="60" link="BG 9.2" link_text="BG 9.2">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.2 (1972)|BG 9.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said that the execution of devotional service is so perfect that one can perceive the results directly. This direct result is actually perceived, and we have practical experience that any person who is chanting the holy names of Kṛṣṇa (Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare) in course of chanting without offenses feels some transcendental pleasure and very quickly becomes purified of all material contamination. This is actually seen.</p>
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<div id="BG109_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="100" link="BG 10.9" link_text="BG 10.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.9 (1972)|BG 10.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotees of the Supreme Lord are twenty-four hours daily engaged in glorifying the qualities and pastimes of the Supreme Lord. Their hearts and souls are constantly submerged in Kṛṣṇa, and they take pleasure in discussing Him with other devotees.</p>
<p>In the preliminary stage of devotional service they relish the transcendental pleasure from the service itself, and in the mature stage they are actually situated in love of God. Once situated in that transcendental position, they can relish the highest perfection which is exhibited by the Lord in His abode.</p>
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<div id="BG1019_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="109" link="BG 10.19" link_text="BG 10.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.19 (1972)|BG 10.19, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The senses of the individual soul are limited and do not permit him to understand the totality of Kṛṣṇa's affairs. Still the devotees try to understand Kṛṣṇa, but not on the principle that they will be able to understand Kṛṣṇa fully at any specific time or in any state of life. Rather, the very topics of Kṛṣṇa are so relishable that they appear to the devotees as nectar. Thus the devotees enjoy them. In discussing Kṛṣṇa's opulences and His diverse energies, the pure devotees take transcendental pleasure. Therefore they want to hear and discuss them.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_1" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3>
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<div id="SB1932_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="348" link="SB 1.9.32" link_text="SB 1.9.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.9.32|SB 1.9.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhīṣmadeva said: Let me now invest my thinking, feeling and willing, which were so long engaged in different subjects and occupational duties, in the all-powerful Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. He is always self-satisfied, but sometimes, being the leader of the devotees, He enjoys transcendental pleasure by descending on the material world, although from Him only the material world is created.</p>
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<div id="SB1934_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="350" link="SB 1.9.34" link_text="SB 1.9.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.9.34|SB 1.9.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, a great ācārya and devotee in the humor of conjugal love with the Lord, remarks very saliently in this regard. He says that the wounds created on the body of the Lord by the sharpened arrows of Bhīṣmadeva were as pleasing to the Lord as the biting of a fiancee who bites the body of the Lord directed by a strong sense of sex desire. Such biting by the opposite sex is never taken as a sign of enmity, even if there is a wound on the body. Therefore, the fighting as an exchange of transcendental pleasure between the Lord and His pure devotee, Śrī Bhīṣmadeva, was not at all mundane. Besides that, since the Lord's body and the Lord are identical, there was no possibility of wounds in the absolute body.</p>
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<div id="SB11131_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="427" link="SB 1.11.31" link_text="SB 1.11.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.11.31|SB 1.11.31, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Unbelievers become astonished to learn that Lord Kṛṣṇa married more than 16,000 queens because they think of Lord Kṛṣṇa as one of them and measure the potency of the Lord by their own limited potency. One should know, therefore, that the Lord is never on the level of the living beings, who are but expansions of His marginal potency, and one should never equalize the potent and the potency, although there is very little difference of quality between the potent and the potency. The queens were also expansions of His internal potency, and thus the potent and potencies are perpetually exchanging transcendental pleasures, known as pastimes of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB1126_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="441" link="SB 1.12.6" link_text="SB 1.12.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.12.6|SB 1.12.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When the living being is hungry for spiritual satisfaction, he is misrepresented by material hunger. But the foolish leaders cannot see that even the people who are most sumptuously materially satisfied are still hungry. And what is their hunger and poverty? This hunger is actually for spiritual food, spiritual shelter, spiritual defense and spiritual sense gratification. These can be obtained in the association of the Supreme Spirit, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and therefore one who has them cannot be attracted by the so-called food, shelter, defense and sense gratification of the material world, even if they are relished by the denizens of the heavenly planets. Therefore, in the Bhagavad-gītā (8.16) it is said by the Lord that even in the topmost planet of the universe, namely the Brahmaloka, where the duration of life is multiplied by millions of years by earth calculation, one cannot satisfy his hunger. Such hunger can be satisfied only when the living being is situated in immortality, which is attained in the spiritual sky, far, far above the Brahmaloka, in the association of Lord Mukunda, the Lord who awards His devotees the transcendental pleasure of liberation.</p>
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<div id="SB11434_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="562" link="SB 1.14.34" link_text="SB 1.14.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.14.34|SB 1.14.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Here in this particular verse the Lord is described as bhagavān, govinda, brahmaṇya and bhakta-vatsala. He is bhagavān svayam, or the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, full with all opulences, all power, all knowledge, all beauty, all fame and all renunciation. No one is equal to or greater than Him. He is Govinda because He is the pleasure of the cows and the senses. Those who have purified their senses by the devotional service of the Lord can render unto Him real service and thereby derive transcendental pleasure out of such purified senses.</p>
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<div id="SB11814_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="705" link="SB 1.18.14" link_text="SB 1.18.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.18.14|SB 1.18.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is unlimited, and His name, attributes, pastimes, entourage, variegatedness, etc. are unlimited, and those who relish them can do so unlimitedly and still not feel satiated. This fact is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa:</p>
:ramante yogino 'nante
:satyānanda-cid-ātmani
:iti rāma-padenāsau
:paraṁ brahmābhidhīyate
:([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.29|CC Madhya 9.29]])
<p>"The mystics derive unlimited transcendental pleasures from the Absolute Truth, and therefore the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is also known as Rāma."</p>
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<div id="SB11815_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="706" link="SB 1.18.15" link_text="SB 1.18.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.18.15|SB 1.18.15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Professional speakers make a show of Bhāgavata-saptāha for the sake of family maintenance, and the materially disposed audience hears such discourses of Bhāgavata-saptāha for some material benefit, namely religiosity, wealth, gratification of the senses, or liberation. Such Bhāgavatam discourses are not purified from the contamination of the material qualities. But the discourses between the saints of Naimiṣāraṇya and Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī are on the transcendental level. There is no motive for material gain. In such discourses, unlimited transcendental pleasure is relished both by the audience and by the speaker, and therefore they can continue the topics for many thousands of years.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_2" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3>
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<div id="SB217_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="8" link="SB 2.1.7" link_text="SB 2.1.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.1.7|SB 2.1.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Real transcendental pleasure is realized in the glorification of the transcendental Lord, and not in the feeling of being situated in His impersonal feature.</p>
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<div id="SB2420_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="116" link="SB 2.4.20" link_text="SB 2.4.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.4.20|SB 2.4.20, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is said that the Lord, in His transcendental abode Goloka Vṛndāvana, is accustomed to herding the surabhi cows and is served there by hundreds of thousands of goddesses of fortune. All these goddesses of fortune are manifestations of His transcendental pleasure potency (hlādinī-śakti) in His internal energy, and when the Lord manifested Himself on this earth He partially displayed the activities of His pleasure potency in His rāsa-līlā just to attract the conditioned souls, who are all after the phantasmagoria pleasure potency in degraded sex enjoyment.</p>
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<div id="SB2421_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="117" link="SB 2.4.21" link_text="SB 2.4.21">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.4.21|SB 2.4.21, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is revealed not by one's speculative power or by one's verbal jugglery over the Absolute Truth. Rather, He reveals Himself to a devotee when He is fully satisfied by the devotee's service attitude. Śukadeva Gosvāmī is not a mental speculator or compromiser of the theory of "as many ways, as many conclusions." Rather, he prays to the Lord only, invoking His transcendental pleasure. That is the way of knowing the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB2727_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="226" link="SB 2.7.27" link_text="SB 2.7.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.7.27|SB 2.7.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the case of felling the gigantic arjuna trees, the Lord's mission was to deliver the two sons of Kuvera, who were condemned to become trees by the curse of Nārada, as well as to play like a crawling child in the yard of Yaśodā, who took transcendental pleasure in seeing such activities of the Lord in the very yard of her home.</p>
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<div id="SB286_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="255" link="SB 2.8.6" link_text="SB 2.8.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.8.6|SB 2.8.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is not a pure devotee of the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa is not completely cleansed in the heart. But a perfectly cleansed person never quits the devotional service of the Lord. In discharging such devotional service, as ordered by Brahmājī to Nārada in the preaching of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, sometimes a representative of the Lord engaged in preaching work meets various so-called difficulties. This was exhibited by Lord Nityānanda when He delivered the two fallen souls Jagāi and Mādhāi, and similarly Lord Jesus Christ was crucified by the nonbelievers. But such difficulties are very gladly suffered by the devotees in preaching because in such activities, although apparently very severe, the devotees of the Lord feel transcendental pleasure because the Lord is satisfied. Prahlāda Mahārāja suffered greatly, but still he never forgot the lotus feet of the Lord. This is because a pure devotee of the Lord is so purified in his heart that he cannot leave the shelter of Lord Kṛṣṇa in any circumstances. There is no self-interest in such service.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<div id="SB3228_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="73" link="SB 3.2.28" link_text="SB 3.2.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.2.28|SB 3.2.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A child may insist on having something and cry like anything to get it, disturbing the whole neighborhood, and then immediately after achieving the desired thing, he laughs. Such crying and laughing is enjoyable to the parents and elderly members of the family, so the Lord would simultaneously cry and laugh in this way and merge His devotee-parents in the humor of transcendental pleasure.</p>
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<div id="SB3229_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="74" link="SB 3.2.29" link_text="SB 3.2.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.2.29|SB 3.2.29, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Over and above all, the Lord used to play His celebrated flute. The sound vibrated by His flute would give His friends such transcendental pleasure that they would forget all the talks of the brahmānanda which is so praised by the impersonalists.</p>
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<div id="SB3547_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="190" link="SB 3.5.47" link_text="SB 3.5.47">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.47|SB 3.5.47, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One may suggest that there is sufficient labor for the devotees also in the matter of discharging devotional service. But that labor is compensated by the enhancement of transcendental pleasure. The devotees derive more transcendental pleasure while engaged continuously in the service of the Lord than when they have no such engagement. In the family combination of a man and a woman there is much labor and responsibility for both of them, yet when they are single they feel more trouble for want of their united activities.</p>
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<div id="SB3547_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="190" link="SB 3.5.47" link_text="SB 3.5.47">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.47|SB 3.5.47, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The devotees attain mukti automatically, while continuing the transcendental pleasure of maintaining individuality. As explained in the previous verse, the destination of the devotees is Vaikuṇṭha, or akuṇṭha-dhiṣṇya, the place where anxieties are completely eradicated. One should not mistake the destination of the devotees and that of the impersonalists to be one and the same. The destinations are distinctly different, and the transcendental pleasure derived by the devotee is also distinct from cin-mātra, or spiritual feelings alone.</p>
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<div id="SB3548_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="191" link="SB 3.5.48" link_text="SB 3.5.48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.48|SB 3.5.48, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Original Person, we are therefore but Yours only. Although we are Your creatures, we are born one after another under the influence of the three modes of nature, and for this reason we are separated in action. Therefore, after the creation we could not act concertedly for Your transcendental pleasure.</p>
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<div id="SB3551_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="194" link="SB 3.5.51" link_text="SB 3.5.51">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.51|SB 3.5.51, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is one without a second, and He expands Himself into many for His transcendental pleasure. All the expansions—the viṣṇu-tattvas, the jīva-tattvas and the śakti-tattvas (the Personalities of Godhead, the living entities and the different potential energies)—are different offshoots from the same one Supreme Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB31517_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="597" link="SB 3.15.17" link_text="SB 3.15.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.15.17|SB 3.15.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha give first preference to the service of the Lord, not their own sense gratification. Serving the Lord in transcendental love yields such transcendental pleasure that, in comparison, sense gratification is counted as insignificant.</p>
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<div id="SB31543_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="623" link="SB 3.15.43" link_text="SB 3.15.43">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.15.43|SB 3.15.43, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It appears from this verse that the four Kumāras were impersonalists or protagonists of the philosophy of monism, becoming one with the Lord. But as soon as they saw the Lord's features, their minds changed. In other words, the impersonalist who feels transcendental pleasure in striving to become one with the Lord is defeated when he sees the beautiful transcendental features of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB31548_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="628" link="SB 3.15.48" link_text="SB 3.15.48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.15.48|SB 3.15.48, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Pure devotees, who take transcendental pleasure in hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord, do not care for any kind of liberation; even if they are offered the five liberations, they refuse to accept them, as stated in the Bhāgavatam in the Third Canto.</p>
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<div id="SB31548_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="628" link="SB 3.15.48" link_text="SB 3.15.48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.15.48|SB 3.15.48, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">From Vedic scriptures it is understood that sometimes even Brahmā and Indra fall down, but a devotee in the transcendental abode of the Lord never falls. This transcendental stage of life, in which one feels transcendental pleasure in hearing the Lord's pastimes, is also recommended by Lord Caitanya. When Lord Caitanya was talking with Rāmānanda Rāya, there were varieties of suggestions offered by Rāmānanda regarding spiritual realization, but Lord Caitanya rejected all but one—that one should hear the glories of the Lord in association with pure devotees.</p>
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<div id="SB31933_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="758" link="SB 3.19.33" link_text="SB 3.19.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.19.33|SB 3.19.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If anyone wants to derive transcendental pleasure by hearing the pastimes of the Lord, he must hear from the authoritative source, as explained here.</p>
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<div id="SB31933_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="758" link="SB 3.19.33" link_text="SB 3.19.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.19.33|SB 3.19.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One becomes an authority simply by presenting whatever he has heard from his spiritual master, and one who does not accept a bona fide spiritual master cannot be an authority. This is clearly explained here. If one wants to have transcendental pleasure, he must find a person with authority. It is also stated in the Bhāgavatam that simply by hearing from an authoritative source, with the ear and the heart, one can relish the pastimes of the Lord, otherwise it is not possible.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB31933_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="758" link="SB 3.19.33" link_text="SB 3.19.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.19.33|SB 3.19.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Nondevotees are considered to be like serpents; as milk is poisoned by a serpent's touch, so, although the narration of the pastimes of the Lord is as pure as milk, when administered by serpentlike nondevotees it becomes poisonous. Not only does it have no effect in transcendental pleasure, but it is dangerous also. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu has warned that no description of the pastimes of the Lord should be heard from the Māyāvāda, or impersonalist, school. He has clearly said, māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva nāśa: if anyone hears the Māyāvādīs' interpretation of the pastimes of the Lord, or their interpretation of Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or any other Vedic literature, then he is doomed.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB31934_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="759" link="SB 3.19.34" link_text="SB 3.19.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.19.34|SB 3.19.34, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">What to speak of hearing the pastimes of the Lord, whose chest is marked with Śrīvatsa, people may take transcendental pleasure even in hearing of the works and deeds of the devotees, whose fame is immortal.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB32112_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="828" link="SB 3.21.12" link_text="SB 3.21.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.21.12|SB 3.21.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Samādhi is described in authoritative yoga scriptures, such as the Patañjali-sūtras, to be a transcendental pleasure. The yoga system described in the books of Patañjali is authoritative, and the modern so-called yogīs who have manufactured their own ways, not consulting the authorities, are simply ludicrous.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB32724_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1141" link="SB 3.27.24" link_text="SB 3.27.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.27.24|SB 3.27.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The living entity is īśvara only when engaged in the service of the Lord. In other words, transcendental pleasure derived from loving service to the Lord is actual independence.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB32826_16" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1172" link="SB 3.28.26" link_text="SB 3.28.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.28.26|SB 3.28.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The yogī should then meditate on the chest of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the abode of goddess Mahā-Lakṣmī. The Lord's chest is the source of all transcendental pleasure for the mind and full satisfaction for the eyes. The yogī should then imprint on his mind the neck of the Personality of Godhead, who is adored by the entire universe. The neck of the Lord serves to enhance the beauty of the Kaustubha gem, which hangs on His chest.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB32826_17" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1172" link="SB 3.28.26" link_text="SB 3.28.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.28.26|SB 3.28.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Either by hearing, seeing or meditating, the objective is the transcendental form of the Lord; there is no question of voidness or impersonalism. The Lord can bestow the blessings of transcendental pleasure upon either the visitor of the temple, the meditator-yogī or one who hears about the Lord's transcendental form from scriptures like the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB33138_18" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1305" link="SB 3.31.38" link_text="SB 3.31.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.31.38|SB 3.31.38, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This material attraction, therefore, certainly cannot attract the Supreme Lord. When He wants to be attracted by a woman, He has to create such a woman from His own energy. That woman is Rādhārāṇī. It is explained by the Gosvāmīs that Rādhārāṇī is the manifestation of the pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When the Supreme Lord wants to derive transcendental pleasure, He has to create a woman from His internal potency. Thus the tendency to be attracted by womanly beauty is natural because it exists in the spiritual world. In the material world it is reflected pervertedly, and therefore there are so many inebrieties.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB33233_19" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1344" link="SB 3.32.33" link_text="SB 3.32.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.32.33|SB 3.32.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">By following various scriptural paths, one may come to the impersonal effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The transcendental pleasure derived from merging with or understanding the impersonal Brahman is very extensive because Brahman is ananta. Tad brahma niṣkalaṁ anantam: brahmānanda is unlimited. But that unlimited pleasure can also be surpassed. That is the nature of the Transcendence. The unlimited can be surpassed also, and that higher platform is Kṛṣṇa. When one deals directly with Kṛṣṇa, the mellow and the humor relished by reciprocation of devotional service is incomparable, even with the pleasure derived from transcendental Brahman.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB3334_20" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1356" link="SB 3.33.4" link_text="SB 3.33.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.33.4|SB 3.33.4, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Since all the great sages and devotees apply all energy and all activities in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord, there must be some transcendental pleasure in the toes of His lotus feet. The Lord licks His toe to taste the nectar for which the devotees always aspire. Sometimes the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself wonders how much transcendental pleasure is within Himself, and in order to taste His own potency, He sometimes takes the position of tasting Himself. Lord Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa Himself, but He appears as a devotee to taste the sweetness of the transcendental mellow in Himself which is tasted by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, the greatest of all devotees.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_4" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 4"><h3>SB Canto 4</h3>
</div>
<div id="SB4315_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="107" link="SB 4.3.15" link_text="SB 4.3.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.3.15|SB 4.3.15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The difference between the pleasure and pain of this material world and that of the spiritual world is that in the spiritual world the effect is qualitatively absolute. Therefore one may feel sorry in the absolute world, but the manifestation of so-called pain is always full of bliss. For instance, once Lord Kṛṣṇa, in His childhood, was chastised by His mother, Yaśodā, and Lord Kṛṣṇa cried. But although He shed tears from His eyes, this is not to be considered a reaction of the mode of ignorance, for the incident was full of transcendental pleasure. When Kṛṣṇa was playing in so many ways, sometimes it appeared that He caused distress to the gopīs, but actually such dealings were full of transcendental bliss. That is the difference between the material and spiritual worlds.</p>
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<div id="SB43128_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1387" link="SB 4.31.28" link_text="SB 4.31.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.31.28|SB 4.31.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A devotee takes instructions from a liberated soul and is thus overwhelmed by ecstasy from transcendental pleasure.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB_Canto_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 6"><h3>SB Canto 6</h3>
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<div id="SB6939_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="368" link="SB 6.9.39" link_text="SB 6.9.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.9.39|SB 6.9.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although nondevotees, because of their meager knowledge and speculative habits, cannot understand the real nature of the Lord, a devotee who has once tasted the nectar from the Lord's lotus feet can realize what transcendental pleasure there is in the Lord's devotional service. A devotee knows that simply by rendering service to the Lord, he serves everyone.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_7" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 7"><h3>SB Canto 7</h3>
</div>
<div id="SB7248_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="89" link="SB 7.2.48" link_text="SB 7.2.48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.2.48|SB 7.2.48, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When our senses are purified of material contamination, they become atīndriya, transcendental senses, and when the transcendental senses are engaged in the service of the master of the senses, Hṛṣīkeśa, one can derive real transcendental pleasure.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB_Canto_9" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 9"><h3>SB Canto 9</h3>
</div>
<div id="SB91136_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="428" link="SB 9.11.36" link_text="SB 9.11.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.11.36|SB 9.11.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Without transgressing the religious principles, Lord Rāmacandra, whose lotus feet are worshiped by devotees in meditation, enjoyed with all the paraphernalia of transcendental pleasure for as long as needed.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_101_to_1013" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3>
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<div id="SB10169_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="64" link="SB 10.1.69" link_text="SB 10.1.69">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1.69|SB 10.1.69, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In this world there are three kinds of men: those who are liberated, those trying to be liberated, and those entangled in sense enjoyment. Of these three, those who are already liberated chant and hear the holy name of the Lord, knowing perfectly that to glorify the Lord is the only way to keep oneself in a transcendental position. Those who are trying to be liberated, the second class, may regard the chanting and hearing of the Lord's holy name as a process of liberation, and they too will feel the transcendental pleasure of this chanting. As for karmīs and persons engaged in sense gratification, they also may take pleasure in hearing the pastimes of the Lord, like His fighting on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra and His dancing in Vṛndāvana with the gopīs.</p>
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<div id="SB10169_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="64" link="SB 10.1.69" link_text="SB 10.1.69">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1.69|SB 10.1.69, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">To distinguish persons who are bereft of these transcendental pleasures, Parīkṣit Mahārāja has used the words virajyeta pumān. The word pumān refers to any person, whether man, woman or in-between. Because of the bodily conception of life, we are subject to lamentation, but one who has no such bodily conceptions can take pleasure in transcendental hearing and chanting.</p>
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<div id="SB10169_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="64" link="SB 10.1.69" link_text="SB 10.1.69">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1.69|SB 10.1.69, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Animal hunters are completely different from ordinary karmīs, and thus they have been excluded from the process of hearing and chanting. Vinā paśu-ghnāt. They cannot enter into the transcendental pleasure of chanting and hearing the holy name of the Lord.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB10720_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="277" link="SB 10.7.20" link_text="SB 10.7.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.7.20|SB 10.7.20, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa's heaviness was unbearable for the child's mother, but when Tṛṇāvartāsura came, he immediately carried the child away. This was another demonstration of Kṛṣṇa's inconceivable energy. When the Tṛṇāvarta demon came, Kṛṣṇa became lighter than the grass so that the demon could carry Him away. This was ānanda-cinmaya-rasa, Kṛṣṇa's blissful, transcendental pleasure.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB10737_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="293" link="SB 10.7.37" link_text="SB 10.7.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.7.37|SB 10.7.37, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"To increase the transcendental pleasure of the gopas and the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa, the killer of all demons, was thus raised by His father and mother, Nanda and Yaśodā."</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB10823_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="316" link="SB 10.8.23" link_text="SB 10.8.23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.8.23|SB 10.8.23, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When the mothers saw small teeth coming in, they would count them and be happy, and when the babies saw Their mothers allowing Them to drink their breast milk, the babies also felt transcendental pleasure. As this transcendental affection continued between Rohiṇī and Balarāma and Yaśodā and Kṛṣṇa, they all enjoyed transcendental bliss.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB10852_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="343" link="SB 10.8.52" link_text="SB 10.8.52">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.8.52|SB 10.8.52, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus the Supreme Personality, Kṛṣṇa, along with Balarāma, lived in Vrajabhūmi, Vṛndāvana, just to substantiate the benediction of Brahmā. By exhibiting different pastimes in His childhood, He increased the transcendental pleasure of Nanda and the other inhabitants of Vṛndāvana.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB1094_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="347" link="SB 10.9.4" link_text="SB 10.9.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.9.4|SB 10.9.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While mother Yaśodā was churning butter, Lord Kṛṣṇa, desiring to drink the milk of her breast, appeared before her, and in order to increase her transcendental pleasure, He caught hold of the churning rod and began to prevent her from churning.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB10919_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="361" link="SB 10.9.19" link_text="SB 10.9.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.9.19|SB 10.9.19, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa is always fully independent; when He becomes subordinate to His devotees, this is a display of ānanda-cinmaya-rasa, the humor of transcendental qualities that increases His transcendental pleasure. Everyone worships Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore He sometimes desires to be controlled by someone else. Such a controller can be no one else but a pure devotee.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB101137_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="441" link="SB 10.11.37" link_text="SB 10.11.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.11.37|SB 10.11.37, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, acting like small boys and talking in half-broken language, gave transcendental pleasure to all the inhabitants of Vraja. In due course of time, They became old enough to take care of the calves.</p>
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<div id="SB101158_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="461" link="SB 10.11.58" link_text="SB 10.11.58">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.11.58|SB 10.11.58, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way all the cowherd men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, enjoyed topics about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma with great transcendental pleasure, and they could not even perceive material tribulations.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB101213_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="472" link="SB 10.12.13" link_text="SB 10.12.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.12.13|SB 10.12.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear King Parīkṣit, thereafter there appeared a great demon named Aghāsura, whose death was being awaited even by the demigods. The demigods drank nectar every day, but still they feared this great demon and awaited his death. This demon could not tolerate the transcendental pleasure being enjoyed in the forest by the cowherd boys.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB101213_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="472" link="SB 10.12.13" link_text="SB 10.12.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.12.13|SB 10.12.13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One may ask how Kṛṣṇa's pastimes could be interrupted by a demon. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura answers this question by saying that although the transcendental pleasure being enjoyed by the cowherd boys could not be stopped, unless they stopped the transcendental pleasure of their various activities they could not eat their lunch.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB10137_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="511" link="SB 10.13.7" link_text="SB 10.13.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.13.7|SB 10.13.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Accepting Lord Kṛṣṇa's proposal, the cowherd boys allowed the calves to drink water from the river and then tied them to trees where there was green, tender grass. Then the boys opened their baskets of food and began eating with Kṛṣṇa in great transcendental pleasure.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB101322_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="526" link="SB 10.13.22" link_text="SB 10.13.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.13.22|SB 10.13.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although all the elderly gopīs knew that Kṛṣṇa was the son of mother Yaśodā, they still desired, "If Kṛṣṇa had become my son, I would also have taken care of Him like mother Yaśodā. "This was their inner ambition. Now, in order to please them, Kṛṣṇa personally took the role of their sons and fulfilled their desire. They enhanced their special love for Kṛṣṇa by embracing Him and feeding Him, and Kṛṣṇa tasted their breast milk to be just like a nectarean beverage. While thus bewildering Brahmā, He enjoyed the special transcendental pleasure created by yogamāyā between all the other mothers and Himself.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB101323_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="527" link="SB 10.13.23" link_text="SB 10.13.23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.13.23|SB 10.13.23, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter, O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as required according to the scheduled round of His pastimes, Kṛṣṇa returned in the evening, entered the house of each of the cowherd boys, and engaged exactly like the former boys, thus enlivening their mothers with transcendental pleasure. The mothers took care of the boys by massaging them with oil, bathing them, smearing their bodies with sandalwood pulp, decorating them with ornaments, chanting protective mantras, decorating their bodies with tilaka and giving them food. In this way, the mothers served Kṛṣṇa personally.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB_Cantos_1014_to_12_Translations_Only" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3>
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<div id="SB108734_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2946" link="SB 10.87.34" link_text="SB 10.87.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.87.34|SB 10.87.34, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">To those persons who take shelter of You, You reveal Yourself as the Supersoul, the embodiment of all transcendental pleasure. What further use have such devotees for their servants, children or bodies, their wives, money or houses, their land, good health or conveyances? And for those who fail to appreciate the truth about You and go on pursuing the pleasures of sex, what could there be in this entire world—a place inherently doomed to destruction and devoid of significance—that could give them real happiness?</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB11614_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3311" link="SB 11.6.14" link_text="SB 11.6.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.6.14|SB 11.6.14, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the transcendental entity who is superior to both material nature and the enjoyer of nature. May Your lotus feet bestow transcendental pleasure upon us. All of the great demigods, beginning with Brahmā, are embodied living entities. Struggling painfully with one another under the strict control of Your time factor, they are just like bulls dragged by ropes tied through their pierced noses.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB11213840_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3943" link="SB 11.21.38-40" link_text="SB 11.21.38-40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.21.38-40|SB 11.21.38-40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as a spider brings forth from its heart its web and emits it through its mouth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself as the reverberating primeval vital air, comprising all sacred Vedic meters and full of transcendental pleasure. Thus the Lord, from the ethereal sky of His heart, creates the great and limitless Vedic sound by the agency of His mind, which conceives of variegated sounds such as the sparśas. The Vedic sound branches out in thousands of directions, adorned with the different letters expanded from the syllable oṁ: the consonants, vowels, sibilants and semivowels. The Veda is then elaborated by many verbal varieties, expressed in different meters, each having four more syllables than the previous one. Ultimately the Lord again withdraws His manifestation of Vedic sound within Himself.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi22_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="107" link="CC Adi 2.2" link_text="CC Adi 2.2">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.2|CC Adi 2.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Water is the substance most needed in the desert. The transient pleasure derived from mundane topics of art, culture, politics, sociology, dry philosophy, poetry and so on is compared to a mere drop of water because although such topics have a qualitative feature of transcendental pleasure, they are saturated with the modes of material nature. Therefore neither collectively nor individually can they satisfy the vast requirements of the desertlike tongue.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi22_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="107" link="CC Adi 2.2" link_text="CC Adi 2.2">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.2|CC Adi 2.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Despite crying in various conferences, therefore, the desertlike tongue continues to be parched. For this reason, people from all parts of the world must call for the devotees of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who are compared to swans swimming around the beautiful lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu or bees humming around His lotus feet in transcendental pleasure, searching for honey. The dryness of material happiness cannot be moistened by so-called philosophers who cry for Brahman, liberation and similar dry speculative objects. The urge of the soul proper is different. The soul can be solaced only by the mercy of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His many bona fide devotees, who never leave the lotus feet of the Lord to become imitation Mahāprabhus but all cling to His lotus feet like bees that never leave a honey-soaked lotus flower.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4Summary_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="340" link="CC Adi 4 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 4 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4 Summary|CC Adi 4 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The third reason that Lord Caitanya appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Rādhārāṇī. The Lord thought that undoubtedly Rādhārāṇī enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the company of Rādhārāṇī, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī than to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Rādhārāṇī felt more transcendental pleasure in the company of Kṛṣṇa than He could understand without taking Her position, but for Śrī Kṛṣṇa to enjoy in the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was impossible because that position was completely foreign to Him. Kṛṣṇa is the transcendental male, and Rādhārāṇī is the transcendental female. Therefore, to know the transcendental pleasure of loving Kṛṣṇa, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself appeared as Lord Caitanya, accepting the emotions and bodily luster of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi460_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="395" link="CC Adi 4.60" link_text="CC Adi 4.60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.60|CC Adi 4.60, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The impersonalist conclusion is against the Vedic version that the Lord possesses a transcendental pleasure potency. When the pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is exhibited by His grace in the person of a devotee, that manifestation is called love of God. "Love of God" is an epithet for the pleasure potency of the Lord. Therefore devotional service reciprocated between the Lord and His devotee is an exhibition of the transcendental pleasure potency of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi460_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="395" link="CC Adi 4.60" link_text="CC Adi 4.60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.60|CC Adi 4.60, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The hlādinī potency gives the Lord all transcendental pleasure, and the Lord bestows such a potency upon His pure devotee.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4255_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="582" link="CC Adi 4.255" link_text="CC Adi 4.255">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.255|CC Adi 4.255, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Even with hundreds of mouths I could not express the transcendental pleasure She derives from My association."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi642_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="877" link="CC Adi 6.42" link_text="CC Adi 6.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 6.42|CC Adi 6.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu of Rūpa Gosvāmī explains the superexcellent quality of devotional service as follows:</p>
:brahmānando bhaved eṣa cet parārdha-guṇī-kṛtaḥ
:naiti bhakti-sukhāmbhodheḥ paramāṇu-tulām api
<p>"If multiplied billions of times, the transcendental pleasure derived from impersonal Brahman realization still could not compare to even an atomic portion of the ocean of bhakti, or transcendental service." (B.r.s. 1.1.38)</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya3114_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="495" link="CC Madhya 3.114" link_text="CC Madhya 3.114">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.114|CC Madhya 3.114, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Advaita Ācārya said, "My dear friends, what shall I say? Today I have received the highest transcendental pleasure. After many, many days, Lord Kṛṣṇa is in My house."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4182_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="779" link="CC Madhya 4.182" link_text="CC Madhya 4.182">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.182|CC Madhya 4.182, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Without considering his personal comforts, Mādhavendra Purī carried one maund (about eighty-two pounds) of sandalwood and twenty tolās (about eight ounces) of camphor to smear over the body of Gopāla. This transcendental pleasure was sufficient for him."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya699_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1069" link="CC Madhya 6.99" link_text="CC Madhya 6.99">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.99|CC Madhya 6.99, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A līlā-avatāra is an incarnation of the Lord who performs a variety of activities without making any special endeavor. He always has one pastime after another, all full of transcendental pleasure, and these pastimes are fully controlled by the Supreme Person. The Supreme Person is totally independent of all others in these pastimes.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8157_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1562" link="CC Madhya 8.157" link_text="CC Madhya 8.157">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.157|CC Madhya 8.157, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"The potency called hlādinī gives Kṛṣṇa transcendental pleasure. Through this pleasure potency, Kṛṣṇa personally tastes all spiritual pleasure."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8210_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1613" link="CC Madhya 8.210" link_text="CC Madhya 8.210">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.210|CC Madhya 8.210, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura states, "Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the creeper of love of Godhead, and the gopīs are exactly like twigs, flowers and leaves. When water is sprinkled on the creeper, the twigs, flowers and leaves indirectly receive all the benefits of the creeper itself. But water sprinkled directly on the twigs, leaves and flowers is not as effective as water sprinkled on the creeper's root. The gopīs are not as pleased when they directly mix with Kṛṣṇa as when they serve to unite Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī with Kṛṣṇa. Their transcendental pleasure lies in uniting Them."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8215_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1618" link="CC Madhya 8.215" link_text="CC Madhya 8.215">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.215|CC Madhya 8.215, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The lusty affairs of the gopīs actually constitute the topmost love of Godhead because the gopīs never act for their own personal satisfaction. They are simply pleased by engaging other gopīs in the service of the Lord. The gopīs derive more transcendental pleasure from indirectly engaging other gopīs in the service of Kṛṣṇa than from engaging in His service themselves. That is the difference between material lust and love of Godhead. Lust applies to the material world, and love of Godhead applies only to Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8288_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1691" link="CC Madhya 8.288" link_text="CC Madhya 8.288">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.288|CC Madhya 8.288, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Gaurasundara here informed Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya, "My dear Rāmānanda Rāya, you were actually seeing a separate person with a fair-complexioned body. Actually I am not fair. Being Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja, I am blackish, but when I come in touch with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī I become fair-complexioned externally. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī does not touch the body of anyone but Kṛṣṇa. I taste My own transcendental features by accepting the complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Without Rādhārāṇī, one cannot taste the transcendental pleasure of Kṛṣṇa's conjugal love."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8288_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1691" link="CC Madhya 8.288" link_text="CC Madhya 8.288">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.288|CC Madhya 8.288, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the embodiment of spiritual energy, personified as ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa; therefore only Kṛṣṇa can touch Her. The dhīra-lalita aspect is not seen in any other form of the Lord, including Viṣṇu and Nārāyaṇa. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is therefore known as Govinda-nandinī and Govinda-mohinī, for She is the only source of transcendental pleasure for Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the only person who can enchant His mind.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya997_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1813" link="CC Madhya 9.97" link_text="CC Madhya 9.97">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.97|CC Madhya 9.97, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked the brāhmaṇa, "My dear sir, why are you in such ecstatic love? Which portion of the Bhagavad-gītā gives you such transcendental pleasure?"</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11135136_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2403" link="CC Madhya 11.135-136" link_text="CC Madhya 11.135-136">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.135-136|CC Madhya 11.135-136, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Advaita Ācārya Prabhu replied, "This is a natural characteristic of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although He is personally complete and full in all opulences, He takes transcendental pleasure in the association of His devotees, with whom He has a variety of eternal pastimes."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1330_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2760" link="CC Madhya 13.30" link_text="CC Madhya 13.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.30|CC Madhya 13.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Paramānanda Purī and Brahmānanda Bhāratī were both personally given garlands and sandalwood pulp from the very hands of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. This increased their transcendental pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25264_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5935" link="CC Madhya 25.264" link_text="CC Madhya 25.264">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.264|CC Madhya 25.264, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">To deliver all fallen souls, the Lord traveled from country to country. He personally tasted the transcendental pleasure of devotional service, and He simultaneously spread the cult of devotion everywhere.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25278_12" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5949" link="CC Madhya 25.278" link_text="CC Madhya 25.278">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.278|CC Madhya 25.278, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All the devotees connected with the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement must read all the books that have been translated (the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Bhagavad-gītā and others); otherwise, after some time, they will simply eat, sleep and fall down from their position. Thus they will miss the opportunity to attain an eternal, blissful life of transcendental pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAntya1158_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="157" link="CC Antya 1.158" link_text="CC Antya 1.158">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.158|CC Antya 1.158, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"The sweet, fragrant honey oozing from newly grown mango buds is again and again attracting groups of bumblebees, and this forest is trembling in the softly moving breezes from the Malaya Hills, which are full of sandalwood trees. Thus the forest of Vṛndāvana is increasing My transcendental pleasure."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya557_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="951" link="CC Antya 5.57" link_text="CC Antya 5.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.57|CC Antya 5.57, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing this, Rāmānanda Rāya became absorbed in ecstatic love and began to speak with great transcendental pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5108_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1001" link="CC Antya 5.108" link_text="CC Antya 5.108">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.108|CC Antya 5.108, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"The standard for writing dramas has been set by Rūpa Gosvāmī. If a devotee hears the introductory portions of his two dramas, they enhance his transcendental pleasure."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya63_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1060" link="CC Antya 6.3" link_text="CC Antya 6.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.3|CC Antya 6.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus Lord Gauracandra performed various pastimes with His associates at Jagannātha Purī in varieties of transcendental pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1970_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3003" link="CC Antya 19.70" link_text="CC Antya 19.70">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.70|CC Antya 19.70, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"When submissive Vidura, the resting place of the legs of Lord Kṛṣṇa, had thus spoken to Maitreya, Maitreya began speaking, his hair standing on end due to the transcendental pleasure of discussing topics concerning Lord Kṛṣṇa."</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3>
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<div id="TLC13_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="19" link="TLC 13" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 13|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 13]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Love of Godhead can gradually develop in such a way that transcendental pleasure is increased to the highest stage for the real devotee.</p>
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