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| [[Category:Sinful Reactions|1]] | | [[Category:Sinful Reactions|1]] |
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| <div id="BGIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Preface_and_Introduction" book="BG" index="3" link="BG Introduction" link_text="BG Introduction"> | | <div id="BGIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Preface_and_Introduction" book="BG" index="3" link="BG Introduction" link_text="BG Introduction"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG Introduction|BG Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord says very loudly in the last portion of Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG (1972) Introduction|BG Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord says very loudly in the last portion of Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> |
| :sarva-dharmān parityajya | | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja | | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG141_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="34" link="BG 1.41" link_text="BG 1.41"> | | <div id="BG141_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="34" link="BG 1.41" link_text="BG 1.41"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 1.41|BG 1.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes the forefathers may be suffering from various types of sinful reactions, and sometimes some of them cannot even acquire a gross material body and are forced to remain in subtle bodies as ghosts. Thus, when remnants of prasādam food are offered to forefathers by descendants, the forefathers are released from ghostly or other kinds of miserable life.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 1.41 (1972)|BG 1.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes the forefathers may be suffering from various types of sinful reactions, and sometimes some of them cannot even acquire a gross material body and are forced to remain in subtle bodies as ghosts. Thus, when remnants of prasādam food are offered to forefathers by descendants, the forefathers are released from ghostly or other kinds of miserable life.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG221_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="60" link="BG 2.21" link_text="BG 2.21"> | | <div id="BG221_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="60" link="BG 2.21" link_text="BG 2.21"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.21|BG 2.21, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A surgical operation is not meant to kill the patient, but to cure him. Therefore the fighting to be executed by Arjuna at the instruction of Kṛṣṇa is with full knowledge, so there is no possibility of sinful reaction.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.21 (1972)|BG 2.21, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A surgical operation is not meant to kill the patient, but to cure him. Therefore the fighting to be executed by Arjuna at the instruction of Kṛṣṇa is with full knowledge, so there is no possibility of sinful reaction.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG226_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="65" link="BG 2.26" link_text="BG 2.26"> | | <div id="BG226_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="65" link="BG 2.26" link_text="BG 2.26"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.26|BG 2.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to this theory, since there are so many living entities generating out of matter every moment, and so many of them are being vanquished every moment, there is no need to grieve for such incidents. If there were no rebirth for the soul, Arjuna had no reason to be afraid of being affected by sinful reactions due to his killing his grandfather and teacher.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.26 (1972)|BG 2.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to this theory, since there are so many living entities generating out of matter every moment, and so many of them are being vanquished every moment, there is no need to grieve for such incidents. If there were no rebirth for the soul, Arjuna had no reason to be afraid of being affected by sinful reactions due to his killing his grandfather and teacher.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG314_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="124" link="BG 3.14" link_text="BG 3.14"> | | <div id="BG314_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="124" link="BG 3.14" link_text="BG 3.14"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 3.14|BG 3.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Lord Kṛṣṇa is worshiped, the demigods, who are different limbs of the Lord, are also automatically worshiped; therefore there is no separate need to worship the demigods. For this reason, the devotees of the Lord, who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, offer food to Kṛṣṇa and then eat—a process which nourishes the body spiritually. By such action not only are past sinful reactions in the body vanquished, but the body becomes immunized to all contamination of material nature.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 3.14 (1972)|BG 3.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Lord Kṛṣṇa is worshiped, the demigods, who are different limbs of the Lord, are also automatically worshiped; therefore there is no separate need to worship the demigods. For this reason, the devotees of the Lord, who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, offer food to Kṛṣṇa and then eat—a process which nourishes the body spiritually. By such action not only are past sinful reactions in the body vanquished, but the body becomes immunized to all contamination of material nature.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG421_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="174" link="BG 4.21" link_text="BG 4.21"> | | <div id="BG421_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="174" link="BG 4.21" link_text="BG 4.21"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.21|BG 4.21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Such a man of understanding acts with mind and intelligence perfectly controlled, gives up all sense of proprietorship over his possessions, and acts only for the bare necessities of life. Thus working, he is not affected by sinful reactions.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.21 (1972)|BG 4.21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Such a man of understanding acts with mind and intelligence perfectly controlled, gives up all sense of proprietorship over his possessions, and acts only for the bare necessities of life. Thus working, he is not affected by sinful reactions.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG430_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="183" link="BG 4.30" link_text="BG 4.30"> | | <div id="BG430_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="183" link="BG 4.30" link_text="BG 4.30"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.30|BG 4.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All these performers who know the meaning of sacrifice become cleansed of sinful reactions, and, having tasted the nectar of the results of sacrifices, they advance toward the supreme eternal atmosphere.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.30 (1972)|BG 4.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All these performers who know the meaning of sacrifice become cleansed of sinful reactions, and, having tasted the nectar of the results of sacrifices, they advance toward the supreme eternal atmosphere.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG430_6" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="183" link="BG 4.30" link_text="BG 4.30"> | | <div id="BG430_6" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="183" link="BG 4.30" link_text="BG 4.30"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.30|BG 4.30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All the above-mentioned sacrifices help one to become cleansed of the sinful reactions of material existence.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.30 (1972)|BG 4.30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All the above-mentioned sacrifices help one to become cleansed of the sinful reactions of material existence.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG510_7" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="204" link="BG 5.10" link_text="BG 5.10"> | | <div id="BG510_7" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="204" link="BG 5.10" link_text="BG 5.10"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 5.10|BG 5.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Even one's material body, being a gift of the Lord for carrying out a particular type of action, can be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is then beyond contamination by sinful reactions, exactly as the lotus leaf, though remaining in the water, is not wet.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 5.10 (1972)|BG 5.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Even one's material body, being a gift of the Lord for carrying out a particular type of action, can be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is then beyond contamination by sinful reactions, exactly as the lotus leaf, though remaining in the water, is not wet.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG616_8" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="236" link="BG 6.16" link_text="BG 6.16"> | | <div id="BG616_8" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="236" link="BG 6.16" link_text="BG 6.16"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.16|BG 6.16, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Animal food is for those in the mode of ignorance. Therefore, those who indulge in animal food, drinking, smoking and eating food which is not first offered to Kṛṣṇa will suffer sinful reactions because of eating only polluted things.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.16 (1972)|BG 6.16, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Animal food is for those in the mode of ignorance. Therefore, those who indulge in animal food, drinking, smoking and eating food which is not first offered to Kṛṣṇa will suffer sinful reactions because of eating only polluted things.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
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| <div id="BG728_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="28" link="BG 7.28" link_text="BG 7.28"> | | <div id="BG728_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="28" link="BG 7.28" link_text="BG 7.28"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 7.28|BG 7.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Only those who have passed their lives in practicing the regulative principles of religion, who have acted piously and who have conquered sinful reactions can accept devotional service and gradually rise to the pure knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 7.28 (1972)|BG 7.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Only those who have passed their lives in practicing the regulative principles of religion, who have acted piously and who have conquered sinful reactions can accept devotional service and gradually rise to the pure knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG92_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="60" link="BG 9.2" link_text="BG 9.2"> | | <div id="BG92_1" 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|BG 9.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Padma Purāṇa, man's sinful activities have been analyzed and are shown to be the results of sin after sin. Those who are engaged in fruitive activities are entangled in different stages and forms of sinful reactions.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.2 (1972)|BG 9.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Padma Purāṇa, man's sinful activities have been analyzed and are shown to be the results of sin after sin. Those who are engaged in fruitive activities are entangled in different stages and forms of sinful reactions.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG92_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="60" link="BG 9.2" link_text="BG 9.2"> | | <div id="BG92_2" 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|BG 9.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">For those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all sinful reactions, whether fructified, in the stock, or in the form of a seed, gradually vanish. Therefore the purifying potency of devotional service is very strong, and it is called pavitram uttamam, the purest.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.2 (1972)|BG 9.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">For those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all sinful reactions, whether fructified, in the stock, or in the form of a seed, gradually vanish. Therefore the purifying potency of devotional service is very strong, and it is called pavitram uttamam, the purest.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG92_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="60" link="BG 9.2" link_text="BG 9.2"> | | <div id="BG92_3" 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|BG 9.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes those sages left remnants of food on their dishes, and the boy, who would wash their dishes, wanted to taste the remnants. So he asked the great devotees for their permission, and when they gave it Nārada ate those remnants and consequently became freed from all sinful reactions. As he went on eating, he gradually became as pure-hearted as the sages.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.2 (1972)|BG 9.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes those sages left remnants of food on their dishes, and the boy, who would wash their dishes, wanted to taste the remnants. So he asked the great devotees for their permission, and when they gave it Nārada ate those remnants and consequently became freed from all sinful reactions. As he went on eating, he gradually became as pure-hearted as the sages.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG920_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="78" link="BG 9.20" link_text="BG 9.20"> | | <div id="BG920_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="78" link="BG 9.20" link_text="BG 9.20"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.20|BG 9.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who study the Vedas and drink the soma juice, seeking the heavenly planets, worship Me indirectly. Purified of sinful reactions, they take birth on the pious, heavenly planet of Indra, where they enjoy godly delights.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.20 (1972)|BG 9.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who study the Vedas and drink the soma juice, seeking the heavenly planets, worship Me indirectly. Purified of sinful reactions, they take birth on the pious, heavenly planet of Indra, where they enjoy godly delights.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG103_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="95" link="BG 10.3" link_text="BG 10.3"> | | <div id="BG103_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="95" link="BG 10.3" link_text="BG 10.3"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.3|BG 10.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">But out of those actually trying to understand their spiritual situation, one who can come to the understanding that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the proprietor of everything, the unborn, is the most successful spiritually realized person. In that stage only, when one has fully understood Kṛṣṇa's supreme position, can one be free completely from all sinful reactions.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.3 (1972)|BG 10.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">But out of those actually trying to understand their spiritual situation, one who can come to the understanding that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the proprietor of everything, the unborn, is the most successful spiritually realized person. In that stage only, when one has fully understood Kṛṣṇa's supreme position, can one be free completely from all sinful reactions.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG103_6" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="95" link="BG 10.3" link_text="BG 10.3"> | | <div id="BG103_6" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="95" link="BG 10.3" link_text="BG 10.3"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.3|BG 10.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Kṛṣṇa is therefore different from everything that is created, and anyone who knows Him as such immediately becomes liberated from all sinful reactions. One must be liberated from all sinful activities to be in the knowledge of the Supreme Lord. Only by devotional service can He be known and not by any other means, as stated in Bhagavad-gītā.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.3 (1972)|BG 10.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Kṛṣṇa is therefore different from everything that is created, and anyone who knows Him as such immediately becomes liberated from all sinful reactions. One must be liberated from all sinful activities to be in the knowledge of the Supreme Lord. Only by devotional service can He be known and not by any other means, as stated in Bhagavad-gītā.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG103_7" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="95" link="BG 10.3" link_text="BG 10.3"> | | <div id="BG103_7" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="95" link="BG 10.3" link_text="BG 10.3"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.3|BG 10.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should not try to understand Kṛṣṇa as a human being. As stated previously, only a foolish person thinks Him to be a human being. This is again expressed here in a different way. A man who is not foolish, who is intelligent enough to understand the constitutional position of the Godhead, is always free from all sinful reactions.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.3 (1972)|BG 10.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should not try to understand Kṛṣṇa as a human being. As stated previously, only a foolish person thinks Him to be a human being. This is again expressed here in a different way. A man who is not foolish, who is intelligent enough to understand the constitutional position of the Godhead, is always free from all sinful reactions.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG146_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="35" link="BG 14.6" link_text="BG 14.6"> | | <div id="BG146_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="35" link="BG 14.6" link_text="BG 14.6"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.6|BG 14.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O sinless one, the mode of goodness, being purer than the others, is illuminating, and it frees one from all sinful reactions. Those situated in that mode become conditioned by a sense of happiness and knowledge.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.6 (1972)|BG 14.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O sinless one, the mode of goodness, being purer than the others, is illuminating, and it frees one from all sinful reactions. Those situated in that mode become conditioned by a sense of happiness and knowledge.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG146_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="35" link="BG 14.6" link_text="BG 14.6"> | | <div id="BG146_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="35" link="BG 14.6" link_text="BG 14.6"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.6|BG 14.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The representative type is the brāhmaṇa, who is supposed to be situated in the mode of goodness. This sense of happiness is due to understanding that, in the mode of goodness, one is more or less free from sinful reactions. Actually, in the Vedic literature it is said that the mode of goodness means greater knowledge and a greater sense of happiness.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.6 (1972)|BG 14.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The representative type is the brāhmaṇa, who is supposed to be situated in the mode of goodness. This sense of happiness is due to understanding that, in the mode of goodness, one is more or less free from sinful reactions. Actually, in the Vedic literature it is said that the mode of goodness means greater knowledge and a greater sense of happiness.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1520_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="71" link="BG 15.20" link_text="BG 15.20"> | | <div id="BG1520_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="71" link="BG 15.20" link_text="BG 15.20"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 15.20|BG 15.20, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The word anagha, by which Arjuna is addressed, is significant. Anagha, "O sinless one," means that unless one is free from all sinful reactions it is very difficult to understand Kṛṣṇa. One has to become free from all contamination, all sinful activities; then he can understand. But devotional service is so pure and potent that once one is engaged in devotional service he automatically comes to the stage of sinlessness.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 15.20 (1972)|BG 15.20, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The word anagha, by which Arjuna is addressed, is significant. Anagha, "O sinless one," means that unless one is free from all sinful reactions it is very difficult to understand Kṛṣṇa. One has to become free from all contamination, all sinful activities; then he can understand. But devotional service is so pure and potent that once one is engaged in devotional service he automatically comes to the stage of sinlessness.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1847_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="163" link="BG 18.47" link_text="BG 18.47"> | | <div id="BG1847_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="163" link="BG 18.47" link_text="BG 18.47"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.47|BG 18.47, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">It is better to engage in one's own occupation, even though one may perform it imperfectly, than to accept another's occupation and perform it perfectly. Duties prescribed according to one's nature are never affected by sinful reactions.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.47 (1972)|BG 18.47, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">It is better to engage in one's own occupation, even though one may perform it imperfectly, than to accept another's occupation and perform it perfectly. Duties prescribed according to one's nature are never affected by sinful reactions.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1859_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="173" link="BG 18.59" link_text="BG 18.59"> | | <div id="BG1859_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="173" link="BG 18.59" link_text="BG 18.59"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.59|BG 18.59, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Arjuna was a military man, and born of the nature of the kṣatriya. Therefore his natural duty was to fight. But due to false ego he was fearing that by killing his teacher, grandfather and friends he would incur sinful reactions.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.59 (1972)|BG 18.59, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Arjuna was a military man, and born of the nature of the kṣatriya. Therefore his natural duty was to fight. But due to false ego he was fearing that by killing his teacher, grandfather and friends he would incur sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="BG1866_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="180" link="BG 18.66" link_text="BG 18.66"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1866_6" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="180" link="BG 18.66" link_text="BG 18.66"> | | <div id="BG1866_6" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="180" link="BG 18.66" link_text="BG 18.66"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Now, in summarizing Bhagavad-gītā, the Lord says that Arjuna should give up all the processes that have been explained to him; he should simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That surrender will save him from all kinds of sinful reactions, for the Lord personally promises to protect him.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1866_7" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="180" link="BG 18.66" link_text="BG 18.66"> | | <div id="BG1866_7" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="180" link="BG 18.66" link_text="BG 18.66"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Now, in summarizing Bhagavad-gītā, the Lord says that Arjuna should give up all the processes that have been explained to him; he should simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That surrender will save him from all kinds of sinful reactions, for the Lord personally promises to protect him.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Seventh Chapter it was said that only one who has become free from all sinful reactions can take to the worship of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Thus one may think that unless he is free from all sinful reactions he cannot take to the surrendering process. To such doubts it is here said that even if one is not free from all sinful reactions, simply by the process of surrendering to Śrī Kṛṣṇa he is automatically freed. There is no need of strenuous effort to free oneself from sinful reactions. One should unhesitatingly accept Kṛṣṇa as the supreme savior of all living entities. With faith and love, one should surrender unto Him.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1866_8" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="180" link="BG 18.66" link_text="BG 18.66"> | | <div id="BG1866_8" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="180" link="BG 18.66" link_text="BG 18.66"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Seventh Chapter it was said that only one who has become free from all sinful reactions can take to the worship of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Thus one may think that unless he is free from all sinful reactions he cannot take to the surrendering process. To such doubts it is here said that even if one is not free from all sinful reactions, simply by the process of surrendering to Śrī Kṛṣṇa he is automatically freed. There is no need of strenuous effort to free oneself from sinful reactions. One should unhesitatingly accept Kṛṣṇa as the supreme savior of all living entities. With faith and love, one should surrender unto Him.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are different processes of religion and purificatory processes by cultivation of knowledge, meditation in the mystic yoga system, etc., but one who surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa does not have to execute so many methods. That simple surrender unto Kṛṣṇa will save him from unnecessarily wasting time. One can thus make all progress at once and be freed from all sinful reactions.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1866_9" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="180" link="BG 18.66" link_text="BG 18.66"> | | <div id="BG1871_9" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="185" link="BG 18.71" link_text="BG 18.71"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are different processes of religion and purificatory processes by cultivation of knowledge, meditation in the mystic yoga system, etc., but one who surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa does not have to execute so many methods. That simple surrender unto Kṛṣṇa will save him from unnecessarily wasting time. One can thus make all progress at once and be freed from all sinful reactions.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.71 (1972)|BG 18.71, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">And one who listens with faith and without envy becomes free from sinful reactions and attains to the auspicious planets where the pious dwell.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1871_10" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="185" link="BG 18.71" link_text="BG 18.71"> | | <div id="BG1871_10" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="185" link="BG 18.71" link_text="BG 18.71"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.71|BG 18.71, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">And one who listens with faith and without envy becomes free from sinful reactions and attains to the auspicious planets where the pious dwell.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.71 (1972)|BG 18.71, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is explained here that although not everyone is a devotee, still there are many men who are not envious of Kṛṣṇa. They have faith in Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If such persons hear from a bona fide devotee about the Lord, the result is that they become at once free from all sinful reactions and after that attain to the planetary system where all righteous persons are situated. Therefore simply by hearing Bhagavad-gītā, even a person who does not try to be a pure devotee attains the result of righteous activities. Thus a pure devotee of the Lord gives everyone a chance to become free from all sinful reactions and to become a devotee of the Lord.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="BG1871_11" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="185" link="BG 18.71" link_text="BG 18.71"> | | <div id="BG1871_11" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="185" link="BG 18.71" link_text="BG 18.71"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.71|BG 18.71, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is explained here that although not everyone is a devotee, still there are many men who are not envious of Kṛṣṇa. They have faith in Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If such persons hear from a bona fide devotee about the Lord, the result is that they become at once free from all sinful reactions and after that attain to the planetary system where all righteous persons are situated. Therefore simply by hearing Bhagavad-gītā, even a person who does not try to be a pure devotee attains the result of righteous activities. Thus a pure devotee of the Lord gives everyone a chance to become free from all sinful reactions and to become a devotee of the Lord.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.71 (1972)|BG 18.71, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Generally those who are free from sinful reactions, those who are righteous, very easily take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> |
| </div>
| |
| </div>
| |
| <div id="BG1871_12" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="185" link="BG 18.71" link_text="BG 18.71">
| |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.71|BG 18.71, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Generally those who are free from sinful reactions, those who are righteous, very easily take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
| |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
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| :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo | | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ | | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]) The word sarva-pāpebhyaḥ means "from all sinful activities." A person who surrenders unto Him by utilizing the chance to associate with the pure devotee, spiritual master or other authorized incarnations of Godhead, like Pṛthu Mahārāja, is saved by Kṛṣṇa. Then his life becomes successful.</p> | | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]) The word sarva-pāpebhyaḥ means "from all sinful activities." A person who surrenders unto Him by utilizing the chance to associate with the pure devotee, spiritual master or other authorized incarnations of Godhead, like Pṛthu Mahārāja, is saved by Kṛṣṇa. Then his life becomes successful.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="SB42458_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1036" link="SB 4.24.58" link_text="SB 4.24.58"> | | <div id="SB42458_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1036" link="SB 4.24.58" link_text="SB 4.24.58"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.24.58|SB 4.24.58, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Ganges water is celebrated as being able to eradicate all kinds of sinful reactions. In other words, when a person takes his bath in the Ganges, he becomes freed from all life's contaminations. The Ganges water is celebrated in this way because it emanates from the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, those who are directly in touch with the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and who are absorbed in the chanting of His glories are freed from all material contamination.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.24.58|SB 4.24.58, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Ganges water is celebrated as being able to eradicate all kinds of sinful reactions. In other words, when a person takes his bath in the Ganges, he becomes freed from all life's contaminations. The Ganges water is celebrated in this way because it emanates from the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, those who are directly in touch with the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and who are absorbed in the chanting of His glories are freed from all material contamination.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="SB42511_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1068" link="SB 4.25.11" link_text="SB 4.25.11"> | | <div id="SB42511_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1068" link="SB 4.25.11" link_text="SB 4.25.11"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.25.11|SB 4.25.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura asks the living entity why he is being carried away in these bodily machines to be placed in so many different circumstances. He advises that one surmount the waves of māyā by surrendering unto Kṛṣṇa.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.25.11|SB 4.25.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura asks the living entity why he is being carried away in these bodily machines to be placed in so many different circumstances. He advises that one surmount the waves of māyā by surrendering unto Kṛṣṇa.</p> |
| :jīva kṛṣṇa-dāsa, ei viśvāsa, | | :jīva kṛṣṇa-dāsa, ei viśvāsa, |
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| :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo | | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ | | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]])</p> | | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]])</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="SB42613_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1116" link="SB 4.26.1-3" link_text="SB 4.26.1-3"> | | <div id="SB42613_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1116" link="SB 4.26.1-3" link_text="SB 4.26.1-3"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.26.1-3|SB 4.26.1-3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">However, when the religious system is transcendental, like the Vaiṣṇava religion, there is no place for animal sacrifice. Such a transcendental religious system is recommended by Kṛṣṇa in Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.26.1-3|SB 4.26.1-3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">However, when the religious system is transcendental, like the Vaiṣṇava religion, there is no place for animal sacrifice. Such a transcendental religious system is recommended by Kṛṣṇa in Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> |
| :sarva-dharmān parityajya | | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="SB4275_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1144" link="SB 4.27.5" link_text="SB 4.27.5"> | | <div id="SB4275_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1144" link="SB 4.27.5" link_text="SB 4.27.5"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.27.5|SB 4.27.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, in this way King Purañjana, with his heart full of lust and sinful reactions, began to enjoy sex with his wife, and in this way his new life and youth expired in half a moment.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.27.5|SB 4.27.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, in this way King Purañjana, with his heart full of lust and sinful reactions, began to enjoy sex with his wife, and in this way his new life and youth expired in half a moment.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="SB42957_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1280" link="SB 4.29.57" link_text="SB 4.29.57"> | | <div id="SB42957_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1280" link="SB 4.29.57" link_text="SB 4.29.57"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.29.57|SB 4.29.57, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu had to lead a civil disobedience movement against the propaganda of the so-called followers of Vedic principles. These people are described as karma jaḍa-smārtas, which indicates that they are priests engaged in ritualistic ceremonies. It is here stated that such people become bewildered (ṛṣayo 'pi hi muhyanti). To save oneself from the hands of these karma jaḍa-smārtas, one should strictly follow the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.29.57|SB 4.29.57, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu had to lead a civil disobedience movement against the propaganda of the so-called followers of Vedic principles. These people are described as karma jaḍa-smārtas, which indicates that they are priests engaged in ritualistic ceremonies. It is here stated that such people become bewildered (ṛṣayo 'pi hi muhyanti). To save oneself from the hands of these karma jaḍa-smārtas, one should strictly follow the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> |
| :sarva-dharmān parityajya | | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
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| :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo | | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ | | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]])</p> | | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]])</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="SB43037_16" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1347" link="SB 4.30.37" link_text="SB 4.30.37"> | | <div id="SB43037_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1347" link="SB 4.30.37" link_text="SB 4.30.37"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.30.37|SB 4.30.37, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When a devotee comes to take his bath at those places of pilgrimage, the sinful reactions left by the sinful men are neutralized by the devotee.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.30.37|SB 4.30.37, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When a devotee comes to take his bath at those places of pilgrimage, the sinful reactions left by the sinful men are neutralized by the devotee.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
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| <div id="SB6324_20" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="129" link="SB 6.3.24" link_text="SB 6.3.24"> | | <div id="SB6324_20" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="129" link="SB 6.3.24" link_text="SB 6.3.24"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.24|SB 6.3.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore it should be understood that one is easily relieved from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name of the Lord and chanting of His qualities and activities. This is the only process recommended for relief from sinful reactions. Even if one chants the holy name of the Lord with improper pronunciation, he will achieve relief from material bondage if he chants without offenses. Ajāmila, for example, was extremely sinful, but while dying he merely chanted the holy name, and although calling his son, he achieved complete liberation because he remembered the name of Nārāyaṇa.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.24|SB 6.3.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore it should be understood that one is easily relieved from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name of the Lord and chanting of His qualities and activities. This is the only process recommended for relief from sinful reactions. Even if one chants the holy name of the Lord with improper pronunciation, he will achieve relief from material bondage if he chants without offenses. Ajāmila, for example, was extremely sinful, but while dying he merely chanted the holy name, and although calling his son, he achieved complete liberation because he remembered the name of Nārāyaṇa.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6324_21" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="129" link="SB 6.3.24" link_text="SB 6.3.24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.24|SB 6.3.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore it should be understood that one is easily relieved from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name of the Lord and chanting of His qualities and activities. This is the only process recommended for relief from sinful reactions. Even if one chants the holy name of the Lord with improper pronunciation, he will achieve relief from material bondage if he chants without offenses. Ajāmila, for example, was extremely sinful, but while dying he merely chanted the holy name, and although calling his son, he achieved complete liberation because he remembered the name of Nārāyaṇa.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6324_23" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="129" link="SB 6.3.24" link_text="SB 6.3.24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.24|SB 6.3.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīdhara Svāmī also quotes from the Purāṇas, pāpa-kṣayaś ca bhavati smaratāṁ tam ahar-niśam: "One can become free from all sinful reactions simply by remembering the lotus feet of the Lord day and night (ahar-niśam)." Furthermore, he quotes from Bhāgavatam (6.3.31):</p> |
| | :tasmāt saṅkīrtanaṁ viṣṇor |
| | :jagan-maṅgalam aṁhasām |
| | :mahatām api kauravya |
| | :viddhy aikāntika-niṣkṛtam |
| | <p>All these quotations prove that one who constantly engages in chanting and hearing of the holy activities, name, fame and form of the Lord is liberated. As stated wonderfully in this verse, etāvatālam agha-nirharaṇāya puṁsām: simply by uttering the name of the Lord, one is freed from all sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6324_24" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="129" link="SB 6.3.24" link_text="SB 6.3.24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.24|SB 6.3.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Here the word alam is used to indicate that there is no need of any other process, for the chanting of the holy name of the Lord is sufficient. Even if one chants imperfectly, one becomes free from all sinful reactions by chanting.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6324_25" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="129" link="SB 6.3.24" link_text="SB 6.3.24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.24|SB 6.3.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Even if in the beginning one chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra with offenses, one will become free from such offenses by chanting again and again. Pāpa-kṣayaś ca bhavati smaratāṁ tam ahar-niśam: one becomes free from all sinful reactions if one chants day and night, following the recommendation of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6326_26" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="131" link="SB 6.3.26" link_text="SB 6.3.26"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.26|SB 6.3.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Considering all these points, therefore, intelligent men decide to solve all problems by adopting the devotional service of chanting the holy name of the Lord, who is situated in everyone's heart and who is a mine of all auspicious qualities. Such persons are not within my jurisdiction for punishment. Generally they never commit sinful activities, but even if by mistake or because of bewilderment or illusion they sometimes commit sinful acts, they are protected from sinful reactions because they always chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6331_27" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="136" link="SB 6.3.31" link_text="SB 6.3.31"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.31|SB 6.3.31, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">We should note that although Ajāmila chanted the name of Nārāyaṇa imperfectly, he was delivered from all sinful reactions. The chanting of the holy name is so auspicious that it can free everyone from the reactions of sinful activities. One should not conclude that one may continue to sin with the intention of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa to neutralize the reactions. Rather, one should be very careful to be free from all sins and never think of counteracting sinful activities by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, for this is another offense. If by chance a devotee accidentally performs some sinful activity, the Lord will excuse him, but one should not intentionally perform sinful acts.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6332_28" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="137" link="SB 6.3.32" link_text="SB 6.3.32"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.3.32|SB 6.3.32, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Even if one chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra offensively, one can avoid offenses by continuously chanting without deviation. One who becomes accustomed to this practice will always remain in a pure transcendental position, untouchable by sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6522_29" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="208" link="SB 6.5.22" link_text="SB 6.5.22"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.5.22|SB 6.5.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Both Nārada Muni and the present spiritual master speak the same teachings of Kṛṣṇa, who says in Bhagavad-gītā (18.65-66):</p> |
| | :man-manā bhava mad-bhakto |
| | :mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru |
| | :mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te |
| | :pratijāne priyo 'si me |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Always think of Me and become My devotee. Worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend. Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6542_30" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="227" link="SB 6.5.42" link_text="SB 6.5.42"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.5.42|SB 6.5.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Although I live in household life with my wife and children, I honestly follow the Vedic injunctions by engaging in fruitive activities to enjoy life without sinful reactions. I have performed all kinds of yajñas, including the deva-yajña, ṛṣi-yajña, pitṛ-yajña and nṛ-yajña. Because these yajñas are called vratas (vows), I am known as a gṛhavrata. Unfortunately, you have given me great displeasure by misguiding my sons, for no reason, to the path of renunciation. This can be tolerated once.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6735_31" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="293" link="SB 6.7.35" link_text="SB 6.7.35"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.7.35|SB 6.7.35, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The words yajana and yājana mean that a brāhmaṇa becomes the priest of the populace for the sake of their elevation. One who accepts the post of spiritual master neutralizes the sinful reactions of the yajamāna, the one on whose behalf he performs yajña. Thus the results of the pious acts previously performed by the priest or spiritual master are diminished.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB69Summary_32" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="335" link="SB 6.9 Summary" link_text="SB 6.9 Summary"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.9 Summary|SB 6.9 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Because of affection for the demons, Viśvarūpa secretly supplied them the remnants of yajña. When Indra learned about this, he beheaded Viśvarūpa, but he later regretted killing Viśvarūpa because Viśvarūpa was a brāhmaṇa. Although competent to neutralize the sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa, Indra did not do so. Instead he accepted the reactions. Later, he distributed these reactions among the land, water, trees and women in general. Since the land accepted one fourth of the sinful reactions, a portion of the land turned into desert. The trees were also given one fourth of the sinful reactions, and therefore they drip sap, which is prohibited for drinking. Because women accepted one fourth of the sinful reactions, they are untouchable during their menstrual period. Since water was also infested with sinful reactions, when bubbles appear in water it cannot be used for any purpose.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB696_33" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="341" link="SB 6.9.6" link_text="SB 6.9.6"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.9.6|SB 6.9.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Although Indra was so powerful that he could neutralize the sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa, he repentantly accepted the burden of these reactions with folded hands. He suffered for one year, and then to purify himself he distributed the reactions for this sinful killing among the earth, water, trees and women.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB697_34" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="342" link="SB 6.9.7" link_text="SB 6.9.7"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.9.7|SB 6.9.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In return for King Indra's benediction that ditches in the earth would be filled automatically, the land accepted one fourth of the sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa. Because of those sinful reactions, we find many deserts on the surface of the earth.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB699_35" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="344" link="SB 6.9.9" link_text="SB 6.9.9"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.9.9|SB 6.9.9, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In return for Lord Indra's benediction that they would be able to enjoy lusty desires continuously, even during pregnancy for as long as sex is not injurious to the embryo, women accepted one fourth of the sinful reactions. As a result of those reactions, women manifest the signs of menstruation every month.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | <div class="purport text"><p>Women as a class are very lusty, and apparently their continuous lusty desires are never satisfied. In return for Lord Indra's benediction that there would be no cessation to their lusty desires, women accepted one fourth of the sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6910_36" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="345" link="SB 6.9.10" link_text="SB 6.9.10"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.9.10|SB 6.9.10, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">And in return for King Indra's benediction that water would increase the volume of other substances with which it was mixed, water accepted one fourth of the sinful reactions. Therefore there are bubbles and foam in water. When one collects water, these should be avoided.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | <div class="purport text"><p>If water is mixed with milk, fruit juice or other similar substances, it increases their volume, and no one can understand which has increased. In return for this benediction, water accepted one fourth of Indra's sinful reactions. These sinful reactions are visible in foam and bubbles. Therefore one should avoid foam and bubbles while collecting drinking water.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB613Summary_37" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="475" link="SB 6.13 Summary" link_text="SB 6.13 Summary"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13 Summary|SB 6.13 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even by a glimpse of the chanting of Nārāyaṇa's name, one becomes free from all the sinful reactions of killing a woman, a cow or a brāhmaṇa. The demigods advised Indra to perform an aśvamedha sacrifice, by which Nārāyaṇa would be pleased, for the performer of such a sacrifice is not implicated in sinful reactions even if he kills the entire universe.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB613Summary_38" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="475" link="SB 6.13 Summary" link_text="SB 6.13 Summary"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13 Summary|SB 6.13 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even if a great personality acquires some opulence, he is always ashamed and regretful if he acquires it illegally. Indra could understand that he was certainly entangled by sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa. Indeed, he could see sinful reaction personified following him, and thus he fled here and there in fear, thinking of how to rid himself of his sins.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6132_39" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="477" link="SB 6.13.2" link_text="SB 6.13.2"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.2|SB 6.13.2, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and the other demigods returned to their respective abodes, but Indra did not, for he was disturbed at having killed Vṛtrāsura, who was actually a brāhmaṇa. After killing Vṛtrāsura, Indra went to the Mānasa-sarovara Lake to become free from sinful reactions. When he left the lake, he performed an aśvamedha-yajña and then returned to his own abode.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6135_40" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="480" link="SB 6.13.5" link_text="SB 6.13.5"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.5|SB 6.13.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">King Indra replied: When I killed Viśvarūpa, I received extensive sinful reactions, but I was favored by the women, land, trees and water, and therefore I was able to divide the sin among them. But now if I kill Vṛtrāsura, another brāhmaṇa, how shall I free myself from the sinful reactions?</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6137_41" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="482" link="SB 6.13.7" link_text="SB 6.13.7"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.7|SB 6.13.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The ṛṣis continued: O King Indra, by performing an aśvamedha sacrifice and thereby pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, Lord Nārāyaṇa, the supreme controller, one can be relieved even of the sinful reactions for killing the entire world, not to speak of killing a demon like Vṛtrāsura.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB61389_42" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="483" link="SB 6.13.8-9" link_text="SB 6.13.8-9"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.8-9|SB 6.13.8-9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who has killed a brāhmaṇa, one who has killed a cow or one who has killed his father, mother or spiritual master can be immediately freed from all sinful reactions simply by chanting the holy name of Lord Nārāyaṇa. Other sinful persons, such as dog-eaters and caṇḍālas, who are less than śūdras, can also be freed in this way. But you are a devotee, and we shall help you by performing the great horse sacrifice. If you please Lord Nārāyaṇa in that way, why should you be afraid? You will be freed even if you kill the entire universe, including the brāhmaṇas, not to speak of killing a disturbing demon like Vṛtrāsura.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB61389_43" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="483" link="SB 6.13.8-9" link_text="SB 6.13.8-9"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.8-9|SB 6.13.8-9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The holy name is so spiritually potent that simply by chanting the holy name one can be freed from the reactions to all sinful activities. What, then, is to be said of those who chant the holy name regularly or worship the Deity regularly? For such purified devotees, freedom from sinful reaction is certainly assured. This does not mean, however, that one should intentionally commit sinful acts and think himself free from the reactions because he is chanting the holy name. Such a mentality is a most abominable offense at the lotus feet of the holy name.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB61389_44" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="483" link="SB 6.13.8-9" link_text="SB 6.13.8-9"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.8-9|SB 6.13.8-9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Herein the sages encourage King Indra to kill Vṛtrāsura even at the risk of brahma-hatyā, the killing of a brāhmaṇa, and they guarantee to release him from sinful reactions by performing an aśvamedha-yajña. Such purposefully devised atonement, however, cannot relieve the performer of sinful acts. This will be seen from the following verse.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB61310_45" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="484" link="SB 6.13.10" link_text="SB 6.13.10"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.10|SB 6.13.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Encouraged by the words of the sages, Indra killed Vṛtrāsura, and when he was killed the sinful reaction for killing a brāhmaṇa (brahma-hatyā) certainly took shelter of Indra.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB61310_46" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="484" link="SB 6.13.10" link_text="SB 6.13.10"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.10|SB 6.13.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">After killing Vṛtrāsura, Indra could not surpass the brahma-hatyā, the sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa. Formerly he had killed one brāhmaṇa, Viśvarūpa, out of circumstantial anger, but this time, following the advice of the sages, he killed another brāhmaṇa purposely. Therefore the sinful reaction was greater than before. Indra could not be relieved from the reaction simply by performing sacrifices for atonement. He had to undergo a severe series of sinful reactions, and when he was freed by such suffering, the brāhmaṇas allowed him to perform the horse sacrifice. The planned execution of sinful deeds on the strength of chanting the holy name of the Lord or undergoing prāyaścitta, atonement, cannot give relief to anyone, even to Indra or Nahuṣa. Nahuṣa was officiating for Indra while Indra, absent from heaven, was going here and there to gain release from his sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6131213_47" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="486" link="SB 6.13.12-13" link_text="SB 6.13.12-13"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.12-13|SB 6.13.12-13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Indra saw personified sinful reaction chasing him, appearing like a caṇḍāla woman, a woman of the lowest class. She seemed very old, and all the limbs of her body trembled. Because she was afflicted with tuberculosis, her body and garments were covered with blood. Breathing an unbearable fishy odor that polluted the entire street, she called to Indra, "Wait! Wait!"</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB61315_48" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="488" link="SB 6.13.15" link_text="SB 6.13.15"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.15|SB 6.13.15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Always thinking of how he could be relieved from the sinful reaction for killing a brāhmaṇa, King Indra, invisible to everyone, lived in the lake for one thousand years in the subtle fibers of the stem of a lotus. The fire-god used to bring him his share of all yajñas, but because the fire-god was afraid to enter the water, Indra was practically starving.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB6132223_49" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="494" link="SB 6.13.22-23" link_text="SB 6.13.22-23"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.13.22-23|SB 6.13.22-23, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this very great narrative there is glorification of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, there are statements about the exaltedness of devotional service, there are descriptions of devotees like Indra and Vṛtrāsura, and there are statements about King Indra's release from sinful life and about his victory in fighting the demons. By understanding this incident, one is relieved of all sinful reactions. Therefore the learned are always advised to read this narration. If one does so, one will become expert in the activities of the senses, his opulence will increase, and his reputation will become widespread. One will also be relieved of all sinful reactions, he will conquer all his enemies, and the duration of his life will increase. Because this narration is auspicious in all respects, learned scholars regularly hear and repeat it on every festival day.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB61645_50" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="623" link="SB 6.16.45" link_text="SB 6.16.45"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.16.45|SB 6.16.45, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">With our blunt eyes and other senses we cannot perceive the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but if we engage our senses in the service of the Lord according to the instructions of the authorities, it will be possible to see Him. As soon as one sees the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all the sinful reactions in the core of one's heart are certainly vanquished.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <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="SB712829_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="27" link="SB 7.1.28-29" link_text="SB 7.1.28-29"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.1.28-29|SB 7.1.28-29, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When a demon continuously thinks of Kṛṣṇa because of enmity toward Him, he is certainly freed from the sinful reactions of his life. To think of Kṛṣṇa in any way, in terms of His name, form, qualities, paraphernalia or anything pertaining to Him, is beneficial for everyone.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB7130_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="28" link="SB 7.1.30" link_text="SB 7.1.30"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.1.30|SB 7.1.30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When the mind is somehow or other fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa, the material part is very soon vanquished, and the spiritual part—attraction to Kṛṣṇa—becomes manifest. This indirectly confirms that if one thinks of Kṛṣṇa enviously, simply because of thinking of Kṛṣṇa he becomes free from all sinful reactions and thus becomes a pure devotee. Examples of this are given in the following verse.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB7146_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="44" link="SB 7.1.46" link_text="SB 7.1.46"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.1.46|SB 7.1.46, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In their third birth, the same Jaya and Vijaya appeared in a family of kṣatriyas as your cousins, the sons of your aunt. Because Lord Kṛṣṇa has struck them with His disc, all their sinful reactions have been destroyed, and now they are free from the curse.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | <div class="purport text"><p>In their last birth, Jaya and Vijaya did not become demons or Rākṣasas. Instead they took birth in a very exalted kṣatriya family related to Kṛṣṇa's family. They became first cousins of Lord Kṛṣṇa and were practically on an equal footing with Him. By personally killing them with His own disc, Lord Kṛṣṇa destroyed whatever sinful reactions were left in them because of the curse of the brāhmaṇas. Nārada Muni explained to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira that by entering Kṛṣṇa's body, Śiśupāla reentered Vaikuṇṭhaloka as the Lord's associate. Everyone had seen this incident.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB752324_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="200" link="SB 7.5.23-24" link_text="SB 7.5.23-24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23-24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.5.11) there is this verse:</p> |
| | :tad-vāg-visargo janatāgha-viplavo |
| | :yasmin prati-ślokam abaddhavaty api |
| | :nāmāny anantasya yaśo-'ṅkitāni yat |
| | :śṛṇvanti gāyanti gṛṇanti sādhavaḥ |
| | <p>"Verses describing the name, form and qualities of Anantadeva, the unlimited Supreme Lord, are able to vanquish all the sinful reactions of the entire world. Therefore even if such verses are improperly composed, devotees hear them, describe them and accept them as bona fide and authorized."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB7729_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="282" link="SB 7.7.29" link_text="SB 7.7.29"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.7.29|SB 7.7.29, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Among the linking processes that elevate one from bondage to material contamination, the one recommended by the Supreme Personality of Godhead should be accepted as the best. That process is clearly explained in Bhagavad-gītā, where the Lord says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja: ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]) "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me." This process is the best because the Lord assures, ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ: "I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB7922_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="380" link="SB 7.9.22" link_text="SB 7.9.22"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.22|SB 7.9.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore suffering humanity must surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as Kṛṣṇa Himself demands in the last instruction of Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." All of human society must take advantage of this offer and thus be saved by Kṛṣṇa from the danger of being crushed by the wheel of time, the wheel of past, present and future.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB7939_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="397" link="SB 7.9.39" link_text="SB 7.9.39"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.39|SB 7.9.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Anything not connected with Kṛṣṇa consciousness should be understood to be sinful. Indeed, Kṛṣṇa demands in Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." As soon as one surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa immediately relieves one of the reactions of sinful activities.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB7939_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="397" link="SB 7.9.39" link_text="SB 7.9.39"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.39|SB 7.9.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In this age, the process of chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra is the only method by which to cleanse the sinful mind. When the mind is completely cleansed of all sinful reactions, one can then understand his duty in the human form of life. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is meant to educate sinful men so that they may become pious simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB71553_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="664" link="SB 7.15.53" link_text="SB 7.15.53"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15.53|SB 7.15.53, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa instructs in Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." Therefore if we simply place ourselves at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa by taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and keeping always in touch with Him by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, we need not take much trouble in arranging to return to the spiritual world.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB_Canto_8" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 8"><h3>SB Canto 8</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB845_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="92" link="SB 8.4.5" link_text="SB 8.4.5"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.4.5|SB 8.4.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Having been favored by the causeless mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and having regained his original form, King Hūhū circumambulated the Lord and offered his obeisances. Then, in the presence of all the demigods, headed by Brahmā, he returned to Gandharvaloka. He had been freed of all sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB8415_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="101" link="SB 8.4.15" link_text="SB 8.4.15"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.4.15|SB 8.4.15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A devotee sometimes accepts a sinful person as his disciple, and to counteract the sinful reactions he accepts from the disciple, he has to see a bad dream. Nonetheless, the spiritual master is so kind that in spite of having bad dreams due to the sinful disciple, he accepts this troublesome business for the deliverance of the victims of Kali-yuga.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB841724_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="103" link="SB 8.4.17-24" link_text="SB 8.4.17-24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.4.17-24|SB 8.4.17-24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Freed from all sinful reactions are those who rise from bed at the end of night, early in the morning, and fully concentrate their minds with great attention upon My form; your form; this lake; this mountain; the caves; the gardens; the cane plants; the bamboo plants; the celestial trees; the residential quarters of Me, Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva; the three peaks of Trikūṭa Mountain, made of gold, silver and iron; My very pleasing abode (the ocean of milk); the white island, Śvetadvīpa, which is always brilliant with spiritual rays; My mark of Śrīvatsa; the Kaustubha gem; My Vaijayantī garland; My club, Kaumodakī; My Sudarśana disc and Pāñcajanya conchshell; My bearer, Garuḍa, the king of the birds; My bed, Śeṣa Nāga; My expansion of energy the goddess of fortune; Lord Brahmā; Nārada Muni; Lord Śiva; Prahlāda; My incarnations like Matsya, Kūrma and Varāha; My unlimited all-auspicious activities, which yield piety to he who hears them; the sun; the moon; fire; the mantra oṁkāra; the Absolute Truth; the total material energy; the cows and brāhmaṇas; devotional service; the wives of Soma and Kaśyapa, who are all daughters of King Dakṣa; the Rivers Ganges, Sarasvatī, Nandā and Yamunā (Kālindī); the elephant Airāvata; Dhruva Mahārāja; the seven ṛṣis; and the pious human beings.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB851_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="107" link="SB 8.5.1" link_text="SB 8.5.1"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.5.1|SB 8.5.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, I have described to you the pastime of Gajendra-mokṣaṇa, which is most pious to hear. By hearing of such activities of the Lord, one can be freed from all sinful reactions. Now please listen as I describe Raivata Manu.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB8523_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="125" link="SB 8.5.23" link_text="SB 8.5.23"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.5.23|SB 8.5.23, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Surrendering unto the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa means achieving complete purification. Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." Thus as soon as one surrenders unto the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, one certainly becomes free from all contamination.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB81661_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="582" link="SB 8.16.61" link_text="SB 8.16.61"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.16.61|SB 8.16.61, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." Unless one pleases the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to His demand, no good result will come from any of his actions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB81831_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="641" link="SB 8.18.31" link_text="SB 8.18.31"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.18.31|SB 8.18.31, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O son of a brāhmaṇa, today the fire of sacrifice is ablaze according to the injunction of the śāstra, and I have been freed from all the sinful reactions of my life by the water that has washed Your lotus feet. O my Lord, by the touch of Your small lotus feet the entire surface of the world has been sanctified.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB820Summary_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="687" link="SB 8.20 Summary" link_text="SB 8.20 Summary"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.20 Summary|SB 8.20 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">To lie or fail to honor a promise given to a brahmacārī is never proper, for lying is the most sinful activity. Everyone should be afraid of the sinful reactions to lying, for mother earth cannot even bear the weight of a sinful liar.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB8204_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="691" link="SB 8.20.4" link_text="SB 8.20.4"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.20.4|SB 8.20.4, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said that in Kali-yuga lying is a common affair: māyaiva vyāvahārike ([[Vanisource:SB 12.2.3|SB 12.2.3]]). Even in the most common dealings, people are accustomed to speaking so many lies. No one is free from the sinful reactions of speaking lies. Under the circumstances, one can just imagine how this has overburdened the earth, and indeed the entire universe.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB82449_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="859" link="SB 8.24.49" link_text="SB 8.24.49"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.24.49|SB 8.24.49, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should not, therefore, try to obtain benedictions from the demigods or false gurus. One should aspire only for the benediction offered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As the Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā (18.66):</p> |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." This is the greatest benediction.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </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="SB99Summary_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="301" link="SB 9.9 Summary" link_text="SB 9.9 Summary"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9 Summary|SB 9.9 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Although mother Ganges agreed to come down to earth, she made two conditions: first, she wanted some suitable male to be able to control her waves; second, although all sinful men would be freed from sinful reactions by bathing in the Ganges, mother Ganges did not want to keep all these sinful reactions. These two conditions were subject matters for consideration. Bhagīratha replied to mother Ganges, "The Personality of Godhead Lord Śiva will be completely able to control the waves of your water, and when pure devotees bathe in your water, the sinful reactions left by sinful men will be counteracted."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB995_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="306" link="SB 9.9.5" link_text="SB 9.9.5"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.5|SB 9.9.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O King, I do not wish to go down to the planet earth, for there the people in general will bathe in my water to cleanse themselves of the reactions of their sinful deeds. When all these sinful reactions accumulate in me, how shall I become free from them? You must consider this very carefully.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB995_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="306" link="SB 9.9.5" link_text="SB 9.9.5"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.5|SB 9.9.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead says:</p> |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]) The Supreme Personality of Godhead can accept the reactions of anyone's sinful deeds and neutralize them because He is pavitra, pure, like the sun, which is never contaminated by any worldly infection.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB995_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="306" link="SB 9.9.5" link_text="SB 9.9.5"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.5|SB 9.9.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes the spiritual master, after accepting a disciple, must take charge of that disciple's past sinful activities and, being overloaded, must sometimes suffer—if not fully, then partially—for the sinful acts of the disciple. Every disciple, therefore, must be very careful not to commit sinful activities after initiation. The poor spiritual master is kind and merciful enough to accept a disciple and partially suffer for that disciple's sinful activities, but Kṛṣṇa, being merciful to His servant, neutralizes the reactions of sinful deeds for the servant who engages in preaching His glories. Even mother Ganges feared the sinful reactions of the people in general and was anxious about how she would counteract the burden of these sins.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB996_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="307" link="SB 9.9.6" link_text="SB 9.9.6"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.6|SB 9.9.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhagīratha said: Those who are saintly because of devotional service and are therefore in the renounced order, free from material desires, and who are pure devotees, expert in following the regulative principles mentioned in the Vedas, are always glorious and pure in behavior and are able to deliver all fallen souls. When such pure devotees bathe in your water, the sinful reactions accumulated from other people will certainly be counteracted, for such devotees always keep in the core of their hearts the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can vanquish all sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB996_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="307" link="SB 9.9.6" link_text="SB 9.9.6"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.6|SB 9.9.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotees and saintly persons advanced in the renounced order can deliver even the Ganges. Tīrthī-kurvanti tīrthāni svāntaḥ-sthena gadābhṛtā ([[Vanisource:SB 1.13.10|SB 1.13.10]]). Because saintly devotees always keep the Lord within the core of their hearts, they can perfectly cleanse the holy places of all sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB996_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="307" link="SB 9.9.6" link_text="SB 9.9.6"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.6|SB 9.9.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are methods of prāyaścitta, or atonement, but they are inadequate to cleanse one of sinful reactions. One can be cleansed of sinful reactions only by devotional service, as stated in regard to the history of Ajāmila:</p> |
| | :kecit kevalayā bhaktyā |
| | :vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ |
| | :aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena |
| | :nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ |
| | <p>"Only a rare person who has adopted complete, unalloyed devotional service to Kṛṣṇa can uproot the weeds of sinful actions with no possibility that they will revive. He can do this simply by discharging devotional service, just as the sun can immediately dissipate fog by its rays." ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.15|SB 6.1.15]]) If one is under the protection of a devotee and sincerely renders service unto him, by this process of bhakti-yoga one is certainly able to counteract all sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB998_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="309" link="SB 9.9.8" link_text="SB 9.9.8"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.8|SB 9.9.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">They do not actually want spiritual happiness, for it is almost unknown to them. But if one is serious about being happy spiritually, he must take shelter of Lord Viṣṇu, as the Lord personally demands:</p> |
| | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| | :mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ |
| | <p>"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]])</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB9914_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="315" link="SB 9.9.14" link_text="SB 9.9.14"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.9.14|SB 9.9.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Bathing in the Ganges is recommended in all Vedic śāstras, and one who takes to this path will certainly be completely freed from all sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB91121_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="416" link="SB 9.11.21" link_text="SB 9.11.21"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.11.21|SB 9.11.21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Rāmacandra's spotless name and fame, which vanquish all sinful reactions, are celebrated in all directions, like the ornamental cloth of the victorious elephant that conquers all directions. Great saintly persons like Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi still glorify His characteristics in the assemblies of great emperors like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira. Similarly, all the saintly kings and all the demigods, including Lord Śiva and Lord Brahmā, worship the Lord by bowing down with their helmets. Let me offer my obeisances unto His lotus feet.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB91541_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="554" link="SB 9.15.41" link_text="SB 9.15.41"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.15.41|SB 9.15.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Because an ordinary person cannot immediately surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is advised to go from one holy place to another to find saintly persons and thus gradually be released from sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB92112_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="729" link="SB 9.21.12" link_text="SB 9.21.12"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.21.12|SB 9.21.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Vāsudeva Datta submitted that if they were unfit to be liberated, he himself would take all their sinful reactions and suffer personally so that the Lord might deliver them. A Vaiṣṇava is therefore described as being para-duḥkha-duḥkhī, very much aggrieved by the sufferings of others. As such, a Vaiṣṇava engages in activities for the real welfare of human society.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB9231819_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="801" link="SB 9.23.18-19" link_text="SB 9.23.18-19"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.23.18-19|SB 9.23.18-19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Mahārāja Duṣmanta, desiring to occupy the throne, returned to his original dynasty (the Pūru dynasty), even though he had accepted Maruta as his father. O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, let me now describe the dynasty of Yadu, the eldest son of Mahārāja Yayāti. This description is supremely pious, and it vanquishes the reactions of sinful activities in human society. Simply by hearing this description, one is freed from all sinful reactions.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <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> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB10157_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="6" link="SB 10.1.5-7" link_text="SB 10.1.5-7"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.1.5-7|SB 10.1.5-7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who seeks shelter at the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa is immediately protected by the Lord. As the Lord promises in Bhagavad-gītā (18.66), ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ: "I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear." By taking shelter of Lord Kṛṣṇa, one comes under the safest protection.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="SB10634_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="252" link="SB 10.6.34" link_text="SB 10.6.34"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.6.34|SB 10.6.34, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Because of Kṛṣṇa's having sucked the breast of the Rākṣasī Pūtanā, when Kṛṣṇa killed her she was immediately freed of all material contamination. Her sinful reactions automatically vanished, and therefore when her gigantic body was being burnt, the smoke emanating from her body was fragrant like aguru incense.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </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="SB101662_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="172" link="SB 10.16.62" link_text="SB 10.16.62"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.16.62|SB 10.16.62, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">If one bathes in this place of My pastimes and offers the water of this lake to the demigods and other worshipable personalities, or if one observes a fast and duly worships and remembers Me, he is sure to become free from all sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB103029_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="624" link="SB 10.30.29" link_text="SB 10.30.29"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.30.29|SB 10.30.29, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O girls! The dust of Govinda's lotus feet is so sacred that even Brahmā, Śiva and the goddess Ramā take that dust upon their heads to dispel sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB10319_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="648" link="SB 10.31.9" link_text="SB 10.31.9"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.31.9|SB 10.31.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The nectar of Your words and the descriptions of Your activities are the life and soul of those suffering in this material world. These narrations, transmitted by learned sages, eradicate one's sinful reactions and bestow good fortune upon whoever hears them. These narrations are broadcast all over the world and are filled with spiritual power. Certainly those who spread the message of Godhead are most munificent.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB103332_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="712" link="SB 10.33.32" link_text="SB 10.33.32"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.33.32|SB 10.33.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear Prabhu, when these great persons who are free from false ego act piously in this world, they have no selfish motives to fulfill, and even when they act in apparent contradiction to the laws of piety, they are not subject to sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB10349_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="729" link="SB 10.34.9" link_text="SB 10.34.9"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.34.9|SB 10.34.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The snake had all his sinful reactions destroyed by the touch of the Supreme Lord's divine foot, and thus he gave up his serpent body and appeared in the form of a worshipable Vidyādhara.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB10386_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="838" link="SB 10.38.6" link_text="SB 10.38.6"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.38.6|SB 10.38.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Today all my sinful reactions have been eradicated and my birth has become worthwhile, since I will offer my obeisances to the Supreme Lord's lotus feet, which mystic yogīs meditate upon.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB10463233_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1193" link="SB 10.46.32-33" link_text="SB 10.46.32-33"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.46.32-33|SB 10.46.32-33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone, even a person in an impure state, who absorbs his mind in Him for just a moment at the time of death burns up all traces of sinful reactions and immediately attains the supreme transcendental destination in a pure, spiritual form as effulgent as the sun. You two have rendered exceptional loving service to Him, Lord Nārāyaṇa, the Supersoul of all and the cause of all existence, the great soul who, although the original cause of everything, has a humanlike form. What pious deeds could still be required of you?</p> |
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| | <div id="SB104924_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1335" link="SB 10.49.24" link_text="SB 10.49.24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.49.24|SB 10.49.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Abandoned by his so-called dependents, ignorant of the actual goal of life, indifferent to his real duty, and having failed to fulfill his purposes, the foolish soul enters the blindness of hell, taking his sinful reactions with him.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB10518_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1392" link="SB 10.51.8" link_text="SB 10.51.8"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.51.8|SB 10.51.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While chasing the Lord, the Yavana cast insults at Him, saying "You took birth in the Yadu dynasty. It's not proper for You to run away!" But still Kālayavana could not reach Lord Kṛṣṇa, because his sinful reactions had not been cleansed away.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB105742_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1717" link="SB 10.57.42" link_text="SB 10.57.42"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.57.42|SB 10.57.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This narration, rich with descriptions of the prowess of Lord Śrī Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, removes sinful reactions and bestows all auspiciousness. Anyone who recites, hears or remembers it will drive away his own infamy and sins and attain peace.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB106424_10" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2013" link="SB 10.64.24" link_text="SB 10.64.24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.64.24|SB 10.64.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I replied, "First, my lord, let me suffer my sinful reactions," and Yamarāja said, "Then fall!" At once I fell, and while falling I saw myself becoming a lizard, O master.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB107521_11" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2439" link="SB 10.75.21" link_text="SB 10.75.21"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.75.21|SB 10.75.21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the citizens belonging to the various orders of varṇa and āśrama then bathed in that place, where even the most grievous sinner can immediately be freed from all sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB10832_12" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2702" link="SB 10.83.2" link_text="SB 10.83.2"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.83.2|SB 10.83.2, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Feeling greatly honored, King Yudhiṣṭhira and the others, freed of all sinful reactions by seeing the feet of the Lord of the universe, gladly answered His inquiries.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB10883839_13" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="2998" link="SB 10.88.38-39" link_text="SB 10.88.38-39"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.88.38-39|SB 10.88.38-39, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead then addressed Lord Giriśa, who was now out of danger: "Just see, O Mahādeva, My lord, how this wicked man has been killed by his own sinful reactions. Indeed, what living being can hope for good fortune if he offends exalted saints, what to speak of offending the lord and spiritual master of the universe?"</p> |
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| | <div id="SB11255_14" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3171" link="SB 11.2.55" link_text="SB 11.2.55"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.2.55|SB 11.2.55, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead is so kind to the conditioned souls that if they call upon Him by speaking His holy name, even unintentionally or unwillingly, the Lord is inclined to destroy innumerable sinful reactions in their hearts. Therefore, when a devotee who has taken shelter of the Lord's lotus feet chants the holy name of Kṛṣṇa with genuine love, the Supreme Personality of Godhead can never give up the heart of such a devotee. One who has thus captured the Supreme Lord within his heart is to be known as bhāgavata-pradhāna, the most exalted devotee of the Lord.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB11419_15" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3244" link="SB 11.4.19" link_text="SB 11.4.19"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.4.19|SB 11.4.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord also delivered the tiny ascetic sages called the Vālakhilyas when they fell into the water in a cow's hoofprint and Indra was laughing at them. The Lord then saved Indra when Indra was covered by darkness due to the sinful reaction for killing Vṛtrāsura. When the wives of the demigods were trapped in the palace of the demons without any shelter, the Lord saved them. In His incarnation as Nṛsiṁha, the Lord killed Hiraṇyakaśipu, the king of demons, to free the saintly devotees from fear.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB11613_16" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3310" link="SB 11.6.13" link_text="SB 11.6.13"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.6.13|SB 11.6.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O omnipotent Lord, in Your incarnation as Trivikrama, You raised Your leg like a flagpole to break the shell of the universe, allowing the holy Ganges to flow down, like a banner of victory, in three branches throughout the three planetary systems. By three mighty steps of Your lotus feet, Your Lordship captured Bali Mahārāja, along with his universal kingdom. Your lotus feet inspire fear in the demons by driving them down to hell and fearlessness among Your devotees by elevating them to the perfection of heavenly life. We are sincerely trying to worship You, our Lord; therefore may Your lotus feet kindly free us from all of our sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB11636_17" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3332" link="SB 11.6.36" link_text="SB 11.6.36"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.6.36|SB 11.6.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Once, the moon was afflicted with consumption because of the curse of Dakṣa, but just by taking bath at Prabhāsa-kṣetra, the moon was immediately freed from his sinful reaction and again resumed the waxing of his phases.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB11746_18" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3388" link="SB 11.7.46" link_text="SB 11.7.46"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.7.46|SB 11.7.46, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A saintly person, just like fire, sometimes appears in a concealed form and at other times reveals himself. For the welfare of the conditioned souls who desire real happiness, a saintly person may accept the worshipable position of spiritual master, and thus like fire he burns to ashes all the past and future sinful reactions of his worshipers by mercifully accepting their offerings.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB112025_19" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3896" link="SB 11.20.25" link_text="SB 11.20.25"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.20.25|SB 11.20.25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">If, because of momentary inattention, a yogi accidentally commits an abominable activity, then by the very practice of yoga he should burn to ashes the sinful reaction, without at any time employing any other procedure.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB112111_20" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="3918" link="SB 11.21.11" link_text="SB 11.21.11"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.21.11|SB 11.21.11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Impure things may or may not impose sinful reactions upon a person, depending on that person's strength or weakness, intelligence, wealth, location and physical condition.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB11294144_21" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4291" link="SB 11.29.41-44" link_text="SB 11.29.41-44"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.29.41-44|SB 11.29.41-44, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, take My order and go to My āśrama called Badarikā. Purify yourself by both touching and also bathing in the holy waters there, which have emanated from My lotus feet. Rid yourself of all sinful reactions with the sight of the sacred Alakanandā River. Dress yourself in bark and eat whatever is naturally available in the forest. Thus you should remain content and free from desire, tolerant of all dualities, good-natured, self-controlled, peaceful and endowed with transcendental knowledge and realization. With fixed attention, meditate constantly upon these instructions I have imparted to you and assimilate their essence. Fix your words and thoughts upon Me, and always endeavor to increase your realization of My transcendental qualities. In this way you will cross beyond the destinations of the three modes of nature and finally come back to Me.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB121117_22" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4751" link="SB 12.11.17" link_text="SB 12.11.17"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.11.17|SB 12.11.17, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The sun globe is the place where the Supreme Lord is worshiped, spiritual initiation is the means of purification for the spirit soul, and rendering devotional service to the Personality of Godhead is the process for eradicating all one's sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB121145_23" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4778" link="SB 12.11.45" link_text="SB 12.11.45"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.11.45|SB 12.11.45, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All these personalities are the opulent expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, in the form of the sun-god. These deities take away all the sinful reactions of those who remember them each day at dawn and sunset.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB12123_24" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4786" link="SB 12.12.3" link_text="SB 12.12.3"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.12.3|SB 12.12.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This literature fully glorifies the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari, who removes all His devotees' sinful reactions. The Lord is glorified as Nārāyaṇa, Hṛṣīkeśa and the Lord of the Sātvatas.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB121247_25" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4823" link="SB 12.12.47" link_text="SB 12.12.47"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.12.47|SB 12.12.47, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">If when falling, slipping, feeling pain or sneezing one involuntarily cries out in a loud voice, "Obeisances to Lord Hari!" one will be automatically freed from all his sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB121260_26" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4836" link="SB 12.12.60" link_text="SB 12.12.60"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.12.60|SB 12.12.60, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who hears this Bhāgavatam on the Ekādaśī or Dvādaśī day is assured of long life, and one who recites it with careful attention while fasting is purified of all sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB121265_27" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4841" link="SB 12.12.65" link_text="SB 12.12.65"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.12.65|SB 12.12.65, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A brāhmaṇa who studies the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam achieves firm intelligence in devotional service, a king who studies it gains sovereignty over the earth, a vaiśya acquires great treasure and a śūdra is freed from sinful reactions.</p> |
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| | <div id="SB121323_28" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4863" link="SB 12.13.23" link_text="SB 12.13.23"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.13.23|SB 12.13.23, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Hari, the congregational chanting of whose holy names destroys all sinful reactions, and the offering of obeisances unto whom relieves all material suffering.</p> |
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