ISKM Vedic Lectures

ŚB 5.11.15

My dear King Rahūgaṇa, as long as the conditioned soul accepts the material body and is not freed from the contamination of material enjoyment, and as long as he does not conquer his six enemies and come to the platform of self-realization by awakening his spiritual knowledge, he has to wander among different places and different species of life in this material world.

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ŚB 7.8.12

O most unfortunate Prahlāda, you have always described a supreme being other than me, a supreme being who is above everything, who is the controller of everyone, and who is all-pervading. But where is He? If He is everywhere, then why is He not present before me in this pillar?

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BG 11.8

But you cannot see Me with your present eyes. Therefore, I give you divine eyes. Behold My mystic opulence!

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ŚB 5.11.13-14

There are two kinds of kṣetrajña – the living entity, as explained above, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is explained as follows. He is the all-pervading cause of creation. He is full in Himself and is not dependent on others. He is perceived by hearing and direct perception. He is self-effulgent and does not experience birth, death, old age or disease. He is the controller of all the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahmā. He is called Nārāyaṇa, and He is the shelter of living entities after the annihilation of this material world. He is full of all opulences, and He is the resting place of everything material. He is therefore known as Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By His own potency, He is present within the hearts of all living entities, just as the air or vital force is within the bodies of all beings, moving and nonmoving. In this way He controls the body. In His partial feature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enters all bodies and controls them.

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CC Madhya 1.44-50: The Devotees' Contributions and Annual Pilgrimage

CC Madhya, Chapter 1: ⁠https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/1/⁠

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ŚB 5.11.12

The individual soul bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness has many ideas and activities created in the mind by the external energy. They have been existing from time immemorial. Sometimes they are manifest in the wakening state and in the dream state, but during deep sleep [unconsciousness] or trance, they disappear. A person who is liberated in this life [jīvan-mukta] can see all these things vividly.

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BG 2.69

What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.

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ŚB 5.11.9-11

There are five working senses and five knowledge-acquiring senses. There is also the false ego. In this way, there are eleven items for the mind’s functions. O hero, the objects of the senses [such as sound and touch], the organic activities [such as evacuation] and the different types of bodies, society, friendship, and personality are considered by learned scholars the fields of activity for the functions of the mind.Sound, touch, form, taste and smell are the objects of the five knowledge-acquiring senses. Speech, touch, movement, evacuation, and sexual intercourse are the objects of the working senses. Besides this, there is another conception by which one thinks, “This is my body, this is my society, this is my family, this is my nation,” and so forth. This eleventh function, that of the mind, is called the false ego. According to some philosophers, this is the twelfth function, and its field of activity is the body. The physical elements, nature, the original cause, culture, destiny and the time element are all material causes. Agitated by these material causes, the eleven functions transform into hundreds of functions and then into thousands and then into millions. But all these transformations do not take place automatically by mutual combination. Rather, they are under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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CC Madhya 1.1-7: Prayers by Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī

CC Madhya 1.8-14: Synopsis and Mood of Writing Madhya-līlā

CC Madhya 1.15-21: Divisions of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's Past Times

CC Madhya 1.22-23: Describes the Stay of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī in Brief

CC Madhya 1.24-30: Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu Spreads the Transcendental Loving Service of Lord Caitanya All Over the World

CC Madhya 1.30-43: CC Madhya 1.30-43: The Gosvāmī's Activities in Vraja-dhāma

CC Madhya, Chapter 1: https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/1/

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