Verses
Verse topic
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.14
"The five elementary ingredients of creation, the interaction thereof set up by eternal time, and the intuition or nature of the individual living beings are all differentiated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, and in truth there is no other value in them." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/14
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.15-16
"The Vedic literatures are made by and are meant for the Supreme Lord, the demigods are also meant for serving the Lord as parts of His body, the different planets are also meant for the sake of the Lord, and different sacrifices are performed just to please Him." "All different types of meditation or mysticism are means for realizing Nārāyaṇa. All austerities are aimed at achieving Nārāyaṇa. Culture of transcendental knowledge is for getting a glimpse of Nārāyaṇa, and ultimately salvation is entering the kingdom of Nārāyaṇa." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/15 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/16
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.18-19
"The Supreme Lord is pure, spiritual form, transcendental to all material qualities, yet for the sake of the creation of the material world and its maintenance and annihilation, He accepts through His external energy the material modes of nature called goodness, passion and ignorance." "These three modes of material nature, being further manifested as matter, knowledge and activities, put the eternally transcendental living entity under conditions of cause and effect and make him responsible for such activities." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/18 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/19
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.21
"The Lord, who is the controller of all energies, thus creates, by His own potency, eternal time, the fate of all living entities, and their particular nature, for which they were created, and He again merges them independently." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.25
"From the darkness of false ego, the first of the five elements, namely the sky, is generated. Its subtle form is the quality of sound, exactly as the seer is in relationship with the seen." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.17
"The sun illuminates both internally and externally by expanding its radiation; similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by expanding His universal form, maintains everything in the creation both internally and externally." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/6/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.19
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be known as the supreme reservoir of all material opulences by the one fourth of His energy in which all the living entities exist. Deathlessness, fearlessness and freedom from the anxieties of old age and disease exist in the kingdom of God, which is beyond the three higher planetary systems and beyond the material coverings." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/6/19
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.21-22
"By His energies, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead is thus comprehensively the master in the activities of controlling and in devotional service. He is the ultimate master of both nescience and factual knowledge of all situations." "From that Personality of Godhead, all the universal globes and the universal form with all material elements, qualities and senses are generated. Yet He is aloof from such material manifestations, like the sun, which is separate from its rays and heat." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/6/21 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/6/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.31 & 2.6.33
"All the material manifestations of the universes are therefore situated in His powerful material energies, which He accepts self-sufficiently, although He is eternally without affinity for the material modes." "My dear son, whatever you inquired from me I have thus explained unto you, and you must know for certain that whatever there is (either as cause or as effect, both in the material and spiritual worlds) is dependent on the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/6/31 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/6/33
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.39
"That supreme original Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, expanding His plenary portion as Mahā-Viṣṇu, the first incarnation, creates this manifested cosmos, but He is unborn. The creation, however, takes place in Him, and the material substance and manifestations are all Himself. He maintains them for some time and absorbs them into Himself again." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/6/39
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.40-41
"The Personality of Godhead is pure, being free from all contaminations of material tinges. He is the Absolute Truth and the embodiment of full and perfect knowledge. He is all-pervading, without beginning or end, and without rival. O Nārada, O great sage, the great thinkers can know Him when completely freed from all material hankerings and when sheltered under undisturbed conditions of the senses. Otherwise, by untenable arguments, all is distorted, and the Lord disappears from our sight." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.40-41
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.7.42
"But anyone who is specifically favored by the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, due to unalloyed surrender unto the service of the Lord, can overcome the insurmountable ocean of illusion and can understand the Lord. But those who are attached to this body, which is meant to be eaten at the end by dogs and jackals, cannot do so." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/7/42