ISKM Vedic Lectures

ŚB 5.11.8

When the living entity’s mind becomes absorbed in the sense gratification of the material world, it brings about his conditioned life and suffering within the material situation. However, when the mind becomes unattached to material enjoyment, it becomes the cause of liberation. When the flame in a lamp burns the wick improperly, the lamp is blackened, but when the lamp is filled with ghee and is burning properly, there is bright illumination. Similarly, when the mind is absorbed in material sense gratification, it causes suffering, and when detached from material sense gratification, it brings about the original brightness of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

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BG 10.18

Tell me again in detail, O ⁠Janārdana⁠ [⁠Kṛṣṇa⁠], of Your mighty potencies and glories, for I never ⁠tire⁠ of hearing Your ambrosial words.

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BG 10.16-17

Please tell me in detail of Your divine powers by which You pervade all these worlds and abide in them. How should I meditate on You? In what various forms are You to be contemplated, O Blessed Lord?

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CC Ādi 17.277-293: Ecstatic Mood of the Gopīs

CC Ādi 17.294-301: Mood of the Personal Associates Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

CC Ādi 17.302-309: The Inconceivable Pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu

CC Ādi 17.310-330: Enumeration of the Chapters of Ādi-līlā

CC Ādi 17.331-336: Prayers by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī

CC Ādi, Chapter 17: https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/17/

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ŚB 5.11.6

The materialistic mind covering the living entity’s soul carries it to different species of life. This is called continued material existence. Due to the mind, the living entity suffers or enjoys material distress and happiness. Being thus illusioned, the mind further creates pious and impious activities and their karma, and thus the soul becomes conditioned.

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ŚB 5.11.5

Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust and anger. In this way, it becomes attracted to material sense enjoyment. In other words, the mind is conducted by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. There are eleven senses and five material elements, and out of these sixteen items, the mind is the chief. Therefore the mind brings about birth in different types of bodies among demigods, human beings, animals and birds. When the mind is situated in a higher or lower position, it accepts a higher or lower material body.

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BG 11.33

ŚB 5.11.3

A dream becomes automatically known to a person as false and immaterial, and similarly one eventually realizes that material happiness in this life or the next, on this planet or a higher planet, is insignificant. When one realizes this, the Vedas, although an excellent source, are insufficient to bring about direct knowledge of the truth.

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BG 10.15

Indeed, You alone know Yourself by Your own internal potency, O Supreme Person, origin of all, Lord of all beings, God of gods, Lord of the universe!

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BG 10.14

O Kṛṣṇa, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me. Neither the gods nor demons, O Lord, know Thy personality.

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