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     10:30  O Vidura, we (Maitreya) have heard that Brahma had a daughter named Vak who was born from his body and who attracted his mind toward sex, although she was not sexually inclined towards him diffhist −20 Deepali talk contribs
     10:29  I have previously captivated the mind of even Brahma, what to speak of others. Your mind alone have I failed to attract diffhist −20 Deepali talk contribs
     10:26  Until today they are known as the kayam (the two bodies that came out from the body of Brahma), or the body of Brahma, with no indication of their relationship as his son or daughter diffhist −1 Deepali talk contribs
     10:24  Whom to accept would be a puzzle for Priyavrata because both Lord Brahma and Narada Muni are authorities diffhist +19 Deepali talk contribs
     10:24  This (reading or hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam starting from the Tenth Canto) is forbidden by such authorities as Sri Brahmaji diffhist +19 Deepali talk contribs
     10:24  These Vedic versions corroborate the one of the Bhagavatam which is further confirmed by Sukadeva Gosvami, who affirms that the truth was disclosed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krsna, Vasudeva, to Brahma the first authority on the Vedas diffhist +19 Deepali talk contribs
     10:23  Therefore according to the authority of Brahma, the Narayana who is the predominating Deity in the transcendental world is but the vilasa feature of Krsna. This has now been conclusively proved diffhist −4 Deepali talk contribs
     10:23  The use of the word manisaya is very appropriate, for it indicates that since both Narada Muni and Lord Brahma are authorized to give instruction, Priyavrata should neglect neither of them but should use his intelligence to follow the advice of both diffhist −5 Deepali talk contribs
     10:21  The demigods prayed - Ajnana-bhidapamarjanam - by Your (Krsna's) appearance the speculative knowledge of ignorance will be vanquished, and the real, experienced knowledge of authorities like Lord Brahma will be established diffhist +19 Deepali talk contribs
     10:21  Sri Sukadeva Gosvami is referring to the highest Vedic authority, Lord Brahma, who is the qualitative incarnation of Godhead. The Vedas were taught to Brahmaji in the beginning of the material creation diffhist +19 Deepali talk contribs
     10:21  Lord Brahma is one of these self-realized authorities - svayambhur naradah sambhuh kumarah kapilo manuh - SB 6.3.20 diffhist −4 Deepali talk contribs
     10:19  I have described the authorities. Brahma is authority, Lord Siva is authority, and Kapila is authority, Kumara, four Kumaras and Manu is authority. Similarly, Prahlada Maharaja is authority. Janaka Maharaja is authority. The twelve authorities diffhist +19 Deepali talk contribs
     10:19  Brahmaji is the highest authority in Vedic wisdom, and his assertion in this connection is therefore the supreme information diffhist −40 Deepali talk contribs
     10:18  As the decision of the supreme court of a state is final, similarly the judgment of Brahmaji, the supreme authority in the universe, is final in the Vedic process of acquiring knowledge diffhist −40 Deepali talk contribs
     10:16  This is Prahlada Maharaja. He is one of the authorities of Krsna consciousness. There are twelve authorities mentioned in the sastras: svayambhur naradah sambhuh kumarah kapilo manuh prahlado janako bhismo balir vaiyasakir vayam diffhist +17 Deepali talk contribs
     10:16  Out of the twelve authorities, first is Lord Brahma; the next, Narada; the next, Lord Siva; then next, the Kumaras; then Kapiladeva; then Manu, Vaivasvata Manu; then Prahlada Maharaja; then Janaka Maharaja; then Bhismadeva; then Bali Maharaja diffhist +17 Deepali talk contribs
     10:16  Ordinarily there are twelve great devotees of the Lord, namely Brahma, Narada, Siva, Kumara, Kapila, Manu, Prahlada, Bhisma, Janaka, Sukadeva Gosvami, Bali Maharaja and Yamaraja diffhist +17 Deepali talk contribs
     10:15  Of the twelve authorized devotees - Lord Brahma, Narada, Lord Siva, Kapila, Manu and so on - Prahlada Maharaja is understood to be the best example diffhist +17 Deepali talk contribs
     10:14  Lord Siva is also great devotee. Out of twelve great authorities, Lord Siva is one. Lord Siva, Lord Brahma and Narada. Svayambhur naradah sambhuh (SB 6.3.20). Svayambhuh means Lord Brahma diffhist +17 Deepali talk contribs
     09:57  They (devotees of God) will simply change their material bodies for spiritual bodies. Unlike the demons, they no longer have to change material bodies. The Lord, therefore, is simultaneously death and immortality diffhist +7 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:56  These persons (who died in Mathura) had a slight breathing exhiliration, their eyes were wide open, the colors of their bodies were changed, and they began to utter the holy name of Krsna. In this condition they gave up their material bodies diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:55  These modes of material nature belong to the material energy, and the living entities under these different modes of material nature have different kinds of material bodies diffhist +24 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:54  These material bodies are perishable in due course of time (nityasyoktah saririnah) but that the soul is eternal, then we must remember always that the body is like a dress; therefore why lament the changing of a dress diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:54  Therefore, kindly explain how associates of the Personality of Godhead were cursed to descend in material bodies like ordinary persons diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:53  There is a distinction between the body and the soul of the materially existing living being, but because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Jagannatha do not possess material bodies, there is no distinction between Their bodies and souls diffhist +27 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:53  There are two kinds of liberated souls having material bodies: the soul liberated by devotional service and the soul liberated by the cultivation of knowledge diffhist +10 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:37  There are no such differences for Krsna, because His body is full of knowledge. Here we receive material bodies because of a lack of knowledge, but because Krsna, Vasudeva, is full of knowledge, there is no difference between His body and His soul diffhist +10 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:37  The words lingad vinirgame, which are used here (in SB 3.27.28-29), mean "after being freed from the two kinds of material bodies, subtle and gross diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:28  The word sattvaya indicates that the form of the Lord is not material. It is sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah. Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah (BS 5.1). His body is different from our material bodies diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:27  The Supreme Lord said, The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called the self. Action pertaining to the development of these material bodies is called karma, or fruitive activities. BG 8.3 - 1972 diffhist +16 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:26  The Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has no material body, and because He has no material body, He is not affected by any work He executes diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:26  The result is that instead of attaining an unconditional life of full freedom, the mad conditioned soul is entangled again and again in different types of bondage in material bodies diffhist +24 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:07  The real truth is knowledge of how to get out of the material body, which is the source of all trouble diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:06  The parts of the body, such as the senses, are the creation of the mahat-tattva, and when they are assembled by the will of the Lord, the material body comes into existence, and the living entity is allowed to use it for further activities diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:06  The ordinary living entities who are manifested in this material world have bodies created by the material energy diffhist +10 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:05  The material body is symptomized by birth, death, old age and diseases, but the spiritual body is conspicuous by the absence of those symptoms diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     09:05  The material bodies of all living entities cannot exist unless sheltered by the spirit soul and the Supersoul diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:38  The Lord is described as amrta, or deathless, because He has no material body. Under the circumstances, the Lord's dying or quitting His body is like the jugglery of a magician diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:38  The living entity, who has received his present body because of his past fruitive activity, may end the results of his actions in this life, but this does not mean that he is liberated from bondage to material bodies diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:37  The living entity should know that his only real concern is how to get free from material contact, for by absorbing his mind in material activities he takes material bodies again and again diffhist +59 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:36  The living entity is contaminated and suffering because he has a material body, but that does not mean that because the Lord is also with him, He also has a material body diffhist +10 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:35  The living entity changes his body as soon as the higher authorities decide on his next body. As long as a living entity is conditioned within this material world, he must take material bodies one after another diffhist +45 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:34  The living entities, who are struggling in this world with the mind and five senses, have their material bodies which are changing as long as the living entities are conditioned. BG 1972 purports diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:11  The living entities change their material bodies in different shapes and forms under the influence of the different modes of nature, but in the transcendental state the devotee is guna-tita, or above the material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:10  The living entities are conditioned in contact with material bodies because of the actions of the Supreme Lord's external energy diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:10  The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called adhyatma, the self. Action pertaining to the development of the material bodies of the living entities is called karma, or fruitive activities diffhist +35 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:08  The hospital-making business is being conducted by the government; it is the duty of a sannyasa to make hospitals whereby people can actually get rid of their material bodies, not patch them up diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:08  The highest peak of the ignorance of the living entities who are conditioned by material bodies is that they are unaware of the supreme cause of the cosmic manifestation diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:07  The gross material elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether) combine with the subtle material elements (mind, intelligence and false ego) to construct the bodies of this material world, and yet they are beyond these bodies as well diffhist −2 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:52  The gopis who concentrated their minds on Krsna in the spirit of paramour love became fully purified of all the fruitive reactions of material nature, & some of them immediately gave up their material bodies developed under the 3 modes of material nature diffhist +1 Nabakumar talk contribs