Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 43

King Vena to the sages:

You are so much devoted to the devatas, but who are they? Indeed, your affection for these devatas is exactly like the affection of an unchaste woman who neglects her married life and gives all attention to her paramour.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 14 Verse 25

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 42

When the great sages consulted one another, they saw that the people were in a dangerous position from both directions. When a fire blazes on both ends of a log, the ants in the middle are in a very dangerous situation. Similarly, at that time the people in general were in a dangerous position due to an irresponsible king on one side and thieves and rogues on the other.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 14 Verse 8

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 41

When it was understood that the King had indifferently left home, all the citizens, priests, ministers, friends, and people in general were greatly aggrieved. They began to search for him all over the world, just as a less experienced mystic searches out the Supersoul within himself.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 13 Verse 48

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 40

Utkala (son of Dhruva maharaja) appeared to the less intelligent persons on the road to be foolish, blind, dumb, deaf and mad, although actually he was not so. He remained like fire covered with ashes, without blazing flames.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 13 Verse 10

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A person who desires liberation from this material world should not fall under the control of anger because when bewildered by anger one becomes a source of dread for all others.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 32

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The Absolute Truth, is never subject to the understanding of imperfect senses, nor is He subject to direct experience. He is the master of varieties of energies, like the full material energy, and no one can understand His plans or actions; therefore it should be concluded that although He is the original cause of all causes, no one can know Him by mental speculation.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 23

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The differentiation among varieties of life and their suffering and enjoyment is explained by some to be the result of karma. Others say it is due to nature, others due to time, others due to fate, and still others say that it is due to desire.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 22

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy -39

Within the jurisdiction of the time element, everyone enjoys or suffers the result of his own karma. As, when the wind blows, small particles of dust fly in the air, so, according to one's particular karma, one suffers or enjoys material life.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 20

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The Supreme Lord is ever existing, but in the form of time, He is the killer of everything. He has no beginning, although, He is the beginning of everything, nor He is ever exhaustible, although everything is exhausted in due course of time. The living entities are created through the agency of the father and killed through the agency of death, but He is perpetually free of birth and death.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 19

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The Supreme Lord, by His inconceivable supreme energy, time, causes the interaction of the three modes of material nature, and thus varieties of energy become manifest. It appears that He is acting, but He is not the actor. He is killing, but He is not the killer. Thus it is understood that only by His inconceivable power is everything happening.

Srimad Bhagavatm - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 18

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy -38

The Supreme Lord is the remote cause of the creation of this material cosmic manifestation. When He gives impetus, many other causes and effects are produced, and thus the whole universe moves, just as iron moves by the integrated force of a magnet.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 17

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Just as serpents agitated by Garuda rush towards Garuda with upraised hoods, all the Yaksha soldiers prepared to overcome Dhruva Maharaja with their upraised weapons.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 4

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Dhruva Maharaja's bow and arrows twanged and hissed, causing lamentation in the hearts of his enemies. He began to shoot incessant arrows, shattering all their different weapons, just as the blasting wind scatters the assembled clouds in the sky.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Capter 10 Verse 16

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 35

Dhruva Maharaja was completely covered by an incessant shower of weapons, just as a mountain is covered by incessant rainfall.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 10 Verse 13

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 34

Unto one who has transcendental qualities due to friendly behavior with the Supreme Lord, all living entities offer honor, just as water automatically flows down the nature.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 47

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Maitreya Rishi to Vidura:
Persons like you, who are pure devotees of the lotus feet of Mukunda and who are always attached to the honey of His lotus feet, are always satisfied in serving at the lotus feet of the Lord. In any condition of life, such persons remain satisfied, and thus they never ask the Lord for material prosperity.

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 36

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 33

Dhruva Maharaja:
Because of my state of complete foolishness and paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal service, I wanted material name, fame and prosperity. My case is is just like that of the poor man who, when he satisfied a great emperor who wanted to give him anything he might ask, out of ignorance asked only a few broken grains of husked rice.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 35

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 32

Lord Vishnu to Dhruva:
I shall award you the planet called polestar, which will continue to exist even after the dissolution.All the luminaries in the sky circumambulate this planet, just as bulls tread around a central pole for the purpose of crushing grains.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 21

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Dhruva Maharaja to Lord Vishnu:
To ignorant devotees like me, You are the causelessly merciful maintainer, just like a cow, who takes care of the newly born calf by supplying milk and giving it protection from attack.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 17

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Dhruva Maharaja continued:
My Lord, O Supreme Lord, You are the supreme personified form of all benedictions. Therefore, for one who abides in Your devotional service with no other desire, worshiping Your lotus feet is better than becoming king and lording it over a kingdom. That is the benediction of worshiping Your lotus feet.

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto - 4 Chapter 9 Verse 17

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Dhruva Maharaja continued:
My dear Lord, in Your impersonal manifsestation of Brahman there are always two opposing elements - knowledge and ignorance. Your multienergies are continually manifest, but the impersonal Brahman, which is undivided, original, changeless, unlimited and blissful, is the cause of of the material manifestation. Because You are the same impersonal Brahman, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 16

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Dhruva Maharaja continued:
My Lord, by Your unbroken transcendental glance You are the supreme witness of all stages of intellectual activities. You are eternally liberated. Your existence is situated in pure goodness, and You are existent in Supersoul without change. You are the original Personality of Godhead, full with six opulences, and You are eternally the master of the three modes of material nature. Thus, You are always different from the ordinary living entities. As Lord Vishnu, You maintain all the affairs of the entire universe, and yet You stand aloof and are enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 15

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Dhruva Maharaja continued:
My dear Lord, O Supreme Unborn, I know that the different varieties of living entities, such as animals, trees, birds, reptiles, devatas and human beings, are spread throughout the universe, which is caused by the total material energy, and I know that they are sometimes manifest and sometimes unmanifest; but I have never experienced the Supreme form I behold as I see You now. Now all kinds of methods of theorizing have come to an end.

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 13

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 30

Dhruva Maharaja continued:
O unlimited Lord, kindly bless me so that I may associate with great devotees, who engage in Your transcendental loving service constantly, as the waves of a river constantly flow.
By the process of devotional service I shall surely be able to cross the nescient ocean of material existence, which is filled with the waves of blazing, fire-like dangers.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 11

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Dhruva Maharaja to Lord Vishnu:
My Lord, the transcendental bliss derived from meditating upon Your lotus feet or hearing about Your glories from pure devotees is so unlimited that it is far beyond the stage of brahmananda, wherein one thinks himself merged in impersonal Brahman as one with Supreme. Since brahmananda is also defeated by the transcendental bliss derived from devotional service, then what to speak of the temporary blissfulness of elevating oneself to the heavenly planets , which is ended by the seperating sword of time? Although one may be elevated to heavenly planets, he falls down in due course of time.

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 10

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Dhruva Maharaja to Lord Vishnu:
Persons who worship You simply for the sense gratification of this bag of skin are certainly influenced by maya. In spite of having You, who are like a desire tree and are the cause of liberation from birth and death, foolish persons, desire benedictions from You for sense gratification, which is available even for those who live in hellish conditions.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 9

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Dhruva Maharaja to Lord Vishnu:

O my master, You are the only shelter of all persons who desire liberation, and You are the friend of all who are distressed. How, therefore, can a learned person who has perfect knowledge ever forget You?

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 8

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 29

Dhruva Maharaja to Lord Vishnu:

O my master, Lord Brahma is fully surrendered unto You. In the beginning You gave him knowledge, and thus he could see and understand the entire universe, just as a person awakens from sleep and visualizes his immediate duties.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 8

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 28

Dhruva to Lord Vishnu:

You are the Supreme Person, and through the temporary modes of material nature You create varieties of manifestation, just as fire, entering into wood of different shapes, burns brilliantly in different varieties.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 7

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Narada Muni to Dhruva:

Anyone who engages in the devotional service of the Lord, seriously and sincerely, with his mind, words and body, and who is fixed in the activities of the prescribed devotional methods, is blessed by the Lord according to his desire. If a devotee desires material religiosity, economic development, sense gratification or liberation from the material world, he is rewarded this results.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verses 59-60

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Narada Muni to Dhruva:
One should follow in the footsteps of previous devotees regarding how to worship the Supreme Lord with the prescribed paraphernalia, one should offer worship within the heart by reciting the mantra to the Personality of Godhad, who is non-different from the mantra.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verse 59

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Narada Muni to Dhruva: One should worship the Lord by offering pure water, pure flower garlands, fruits, flowers and vegetables, newly gown grasses, small buds of flowers and tulasi leaves, which are very dear to the Supreme Lord.

It is possible to worship the form of the Lord made of physical elements such as earth, water, pulp, wood and metal. A devotee who has full control over his self should be very sober and peaceful and must be staisfied simply with eating remanants of the food offered to the Lord.

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verses 55 & 56

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Narada Muni to Dhruva: One should install the physical forms of the Lord, and with chanting of mantras one should offer flowers and fruits and other varieties of foodstuff exactly according to the rules and regulations prescribed by authorities. But this should be done in consideration of place, time, and attendent conveniences and inconveniences.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verse 54

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Narada Muni describes the form of Supreme Lord to Dhruva: (Continued...)

The Lord is decorated with small golden bells around His waist, and His lotus feet are decorated with golden ankle bells. All His bodily features are very attractive and pleasing to the eyes. He is always peaceful, calm and quiet and very pleasing to the eyes and the mind.

Real yogis meditate upon the transcendental form of the Lord as He stands on the whorl of the lotus of their hearts, the jewel like nails of His lotus feet glittering.

The Lord is always smiling, and the devotee should constantly see the Lord in this form, as He looks very mercifully towards the devotee. In this way the meditator should look toward the Supreme Lord, the bestower of of all benedictions.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verses 49-51

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Narada Muni describes the form of Supreme Lord to Dhruva: (Continued...)
The Lord is having the mark of Srivatsa, or the sitting place of Lakshmi, and His bodily hue is deep bluish. The Lord is a person (purusha), He wears a garland of flowers and He is eternally manifest with four hands, which hold a conchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower.

The entire body of the Supreme Lord, Vasudeva, is decorated. He wears a valuable jeweled helmet, necklaces and bracelets. His neck is adorned with the Kaustubha jewel, and He is dressed in yellow silk garments.

(To be continued....)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verses 47 & 48

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Narada Muni describes the form of Supreme Lord to Dhruva: The Lord's face is perpetually very beautiful and pleasing in attitude. To the devotees who see Him, He appears never to be displeased, and He is always prepared to award benedictions to them. His eyes, His nicely decorated eyebrows, His raised nose and His broad forehead are all very beautiful. He is more beautiful than all the devatas.

The Lord's form is always youthful. Every limb and every part of His body is properly formed, free from defect. His eyes and lips are pinkish like the rising sun. He is always prepared to give shelter to the surrendered soul, and anyone so fortunate as to look upon Him feels all satisfaction. The Lord is always worthy to be the master of the surrendered soul, for He is the ocean of mercy.

(To be continued...)

Srimad Bhagavatam - canto 4 Chapter8 Verses 45 & 46

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Narada Muni to Bhakta Dhruva: Every man should act like this: when he meets a person more qualified than himself, he should be very pleased; when he meets someone less qualified than himself, he should be compassionate toward him; and when he meets someone equal to himself, he should make friendship with him. In this way one is never affected by the threefold miseries of the material world.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verse 34

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 27

As a snake, when struck by a stick, breathes very heavily, Dhruva Maharaja, having been stuck by the strong words of his stepmother, began to breathe very heavily because of great anger.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verse 15

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 26

The Siddhas prayed: Like an elephant that has suffered in a forest fire but can forget all its troubles by entering a river, our minds, O Lord, always merge in the nectarean river of Your transcendental pastimes.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 7 Verse 35

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Sri Bhrigu said: My dear Lord, all living entities, beginning from the highest, namely Lord Brahma, down to the ordinary ant, are under the influence of the insurmountable spell of illusory energy, and thus they are ignorant of their constitutional position. Everyone believes in the concept of the body, and all are thus submerged in the darkness of illusion. They are actually unable to understand Your absolute position. But You are the eternal friend and protector of all surrendered souls. Therefore, please be kind toward us and forgive all our offenses.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 7 Verse 30

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The sages to the Supreme Lord: This world is full of ditches of so-called distress and happiness, and there are many ferocious animals always ready to attack. The fire of lamentation is always blazing, and the mirage of false happiness is always alluring, but one has no shelter from them. Thus foolish persons live in the cycle of birth and death, always overburdened in discharging their so-called duties, and we do not know when they will accept the shelter of Your lotus feet.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 7 Verse 28

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 25

The members of the assembly addressed the Lord: O exclusive shelter of all who are situated in troubled life, in this formidable fort of conditional existence the time element, like a snake, is always looking for an opportunity to strike.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 7 Verse 28

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If in some places materialists, who are already bewildered by the insurmountable illusory energy of the Supreme God, sometimes commit offenses, a saintly person, with compassion, does not take it seriously. Knowing that they commit offenses because they are overpowered by the illusory energy he does not show his prowess to counteract them.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 6 Verse 48

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Lord Brahma to Lord Shiva: Persons who observe everything with differentiation, who are simply attached to fruitive activities, who are mean minded, who are always pained to see the happiness of others and who thus give distress to them bu uttering harsh and piercing words have been already killed by providence. Thus there is no need for them to be killed by an exalted personality like yours.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 6 Verse 47

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In the Vedas there are directions for two kinds of activities - activities for those who are attached to material enjoyment and activities for those who are materially detached. In consideration of these two kinds of activities, there are two kinds of people, who have different symptoms. If one wants to see two kinds of activities in one one person, that is contradictory. But both kinds of activities may be neglected by a person who is transcendentally situated.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 4 Verse 20

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 24

Elevated transcendentalists may sometimes forgo the rules and regulations of the Vedas, since they do not need to follow them, just as the devatas travel in space whereas ordinary men travel on the surface of the earth.

Srimad Bhagavatam- Canto 4 Chapter 4 Verse 19

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Lord Siva to mother Parvati: My dear young wife, certainly friends and relatives offer mutual greetings by standing up, welcoming one another and offering obeisances. But those who are elevated to the transcendental platform, being intelligent, offer such respects to the Supersoul, who is sitting within the body, not to the person who identifies with the body.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 22

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Lord Shiva to Mother Parvati: One who is conducted by false ego and thus always distressed, both mentally and sensually, cannot tolerate the opulence of self-realized persons. Being unable to rise to the standard of self-realization, he envies such persons as much as demons envy the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 21

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 23

If one is hurt by the arrows of an enemy, one is not aggrieved as when cut by the unkind words of a relative or friend, for such grief continues to rend one's heart day and night.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 19

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Lord Shiva to Mother Parvati: One should not go to anyone's house, even on the consideration of his being a relative or friend, when the man is disturbed in his mind and looks upon the guest with raised eyebrows and angry eyes.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 18

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Lord Shiva to Mother Parvati: Although the six qualities education, austerity, wealth, beauty, youth and heritage are for the highly elevated, one who is proud of possessing them becomes blind, and thus he loses his good sense and cannot appreciate the glories of great personalities.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 17

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Lord Shiva to Mother Parvati: "My dear beautiful wife, it is true that one may go to a friend's house without an invitation. But this is true only if such a friend does not find fault with one and become angry, due to being in bodily conception of life."

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 16

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By executing one's occupational duties, acting with detachment and without a sense of proprietorship or false egoism, one is posted in one's constitutional position by dint of complete purification of consciousness, and by thus executing so-called material duties he can enter into the kingdom of God.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 32 Verse 6

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Those who are intelligent and are of purified consciousness are completely satisfied in Krishna consciousness. Freed from all the modes of material nature, they do not act for sense gratification; rather, since they are situated in their own occupational duties, they act as one is expected to act.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 32 Verse 5

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Lord Kapila to mother Devahuti,

The person who lives in the center of household life derives material benefits by performing religious rituals, and thereby fulfills his desire for economic development and sense gratification. Again and again he acts the same way.

Such persons are bereft of devotional service due to being too attached to sense gratification, and therefore, although they perform various kinds of sacrifices and take great vows to satisfy devatas and forefathers, they are not interested in Krishna Consciousness, devotional service.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 32 Verses 1-2

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 22

The woman, created by the Lord, is representative of maya, and one who associates with such maya by accepting services must certainly know that this is the way to death, just like a blind well covered with grass.

Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verse 40

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Lord Kapila to mother Devahuti: Just try to understand the mighty strength of My maya in the shape of a woman, who by the mere movement of her eyebrows can keep even the greatest conquerors of the world under her grip.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verse 38

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Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

The soul continues to pray: Therefore, without being agitated any more, I shall deliver myself from the darkness of nescience with the help of my friend, clear consciousness. Simply, by keeping the lotus feet of Lord Vishnu in my mind, I shall be saved from entering into the wombs of many mothers for repeated birth and death.

Lord Kapila continued: The ten-month-old living entity has these desires even while in the womb. But while he thus extols the Lord, the wind that helps parturition propels him forth with his face turned downwards so that he may be born.

The child thus falls, smeared with stool and blood, and plays just like a worm germinated from the stool. He loses his superior knowledge and cries under the spell of maya.

(Concluded)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 22-24

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Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

The living entity in another type of body sees only by instinct; he knows only the agreeable and disagreeable sense perception of that particular body. But I have a body in which I can control my senses and can understand my destination; therefore, I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Lord, by whom I have been blessed with this body and by whose grace I can see Him within or without.

Therefore, my Lord, although I am living in a terrible condition, I do not wish to depart from my mother's abdomen to fall again into the blind well of materialistic life. Your external energy, called deva-maya, at once captures the newly born child, and immediately false identification, which is the beginning of the cycle of continual birth and death, begins.

(To be continued...)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 19-20

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Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

Fallen into a pool of blood, stool and urine within the abdomen of his mother, his own body scorched by the mother's gastric fire, the embodied soul, anxious to get out, counts his months and prays, "O my Lord, when shall I, a wretched soul, be released from this confinement?"

My dear Lord, by Your causeless mercy I am awakened to consciousness, although I am only ten months old. For this causeless mercy of the Supreme Lord, the friend of all fallen souls, there is no way to express my gratitude but to pray with folded hands.

(To be continued...)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 17-18

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Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

The human soul further prays: The living entity is put under the influence of material nature and continues a hard struggle for existence on the path of repeated birth and death. This conditional life is due to his forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord. Therefore, without the Lord's mercy, how can he again engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord?

No one other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the localized Parmatma, the partial presentation of the Lord, is directing all inanimate and animate objects. He is present in the three phases of time- past, present and future. Therefore, the conditioned soul is engaged in different activities by His direction, and in order to get free from the threefold miseries of this conditional life, we have to surrender unto Him only.

(To be continued...)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 15-16