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     13:46  When Aghasura was being killed by Krsna, who was accompanied by His associates, Brahma was astonished, but when he saw that Krsna was very much enjoying His pastimes of lunch, he was even more astonished & wanted to test whether Krsna was actually there‎ diffhist +7‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:46  Since Lord Brahma had come to Priyavrata in accordance with the orders of the Supreme Lord, he first wanted to dispel any suspicions that he might be acting as Priyavrata's enemy‎ diffhist +7‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:44  Since Brahma had promised, he wanted to grant all the benedictions asked (by Hiranyakasipu). The word durlabhan indicates that one should not take benedictions one cannot enjoy peacefully‎ diffhist −14‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:43  Brahmaji wanted to create the whole cosmic situation as it was in the previous millennium, and because, in the last devastation, knowledge of the Absolute Truth was altogether erased from the universe, he desired that the same knowledge again be renovated‎ diffhist −14‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:43  Brahma, with his maya, wanted to test whether Krsna was actually present‎ diffhist −14‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:42  Brahma first wanted to impress upon Priyavrata that although these great personalities are all authorities, they cannot possibly disobey the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is described as deva, which means "always glorious‎ diffhist −14‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:42  Brahma adopted the aroha-pantha. He wanted to understand Krsna's mystic power by his own limited, conceivable power, and therefore he himself was mystified‎ diffhist −14‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:39  Herein (SB 2.7.43-45) Brahmaji, the greatest of all material living beings, acknowledges this truth (God is knowable only to surrendered souls) . Therefore, the fruitless spoiling of energy by pursuing the path of experimental knowledge must be given up‎ diffhist −10‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:36  Brahma, to test Krsna's Lordship, stole all the Lord's calves and cowherd boys with his own mystic power. Sri Krsna responded, however, by replacing all the calves and boys in the field‎ diffhist +11‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:35  You cannot calculate. You cannot go to Brahma, you cannot go even to the moon planet. And what to speak of Brahmaloka is the ultimate, the remotest part of this universe. So by your direct experience, you cannot calculate‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:35  Whoever executes his occupational duty (sva-dharma) for one hundred births (for instance, if a brahmana continues to act as a brahmana) becomes eligible for promotion to Brahmaloka, the planet where Lord Brahma lives‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:34  When Lord Brahma, who was born of a lotus flower, saw that the effulgence of his residence, Brahmaloka, had been reduced by the glaring effulgence from the toenails of Lord Vamanadeva, he approached the Supreme Personality of Godhead‎ diffhist −4‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:34  Virtuous persons who reach Brahmaloka by dint of their pious work become masters of various planets after the resurrection of Brahma‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:34  Those who are materialistic can go high up to Brahmaloka where Brahma is, but those who are Krsna conscious will reject even that. They neglect even the impersonal brahma-jyotir. They don't care for it‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:34  There are innumerable rulers all over the universe in different varieties of planets: the sun-god in the sun planet, the moon-god in the moon planet, Indra in the heavenly planet, Vayu, Varuna, and those in the Brahmaloka planet, where Brahma is living‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:33  The word paramesthyam is very significant in this connection. Paramesthyam is also called Brahmaloka; it is the planet on which Lord Brahma lives‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:33  The age of the inhabitants of the Brahmaloka planet is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita. The inhabitants of this small planet earth can hardly calculate even the duration of one day of Brahma‎ diffhist −10‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:33  Taking his own daughter, Revati, Kakudmi went to Lord Brahma in Brahmaloka, which is transcendental to the three modes of material nature, and inquired about a husband for her‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:33  One who has attained the place (Brahmaloka) by dint of virat or Hiranyagarbha worship is liberated along with the liberation of Brahma‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:32  Lord Brahma, who is situated in the highest planetary system (Brahmaloka), has to die. Lord Brahma's birth & death may be different from an ordinary man's, but within this material world he cannot avoid the distresses of birth, old age, disease and death‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:32  In the material world the topmost planet is called Satyaloka, or Brahmaloka. Beings of the greatest talents live on this planet. The presiding deity of Brahmaloka is Brahma, the first created being of this material world‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:31  In due course Brahma and all inhabitants of Brahmaloka are subject to death, according to the law of material nature. BG 1972 purports‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:31  Either you become Rockefeller or Ford in this life, and next life the king of moon planet or sun planet or in any way, up to the Brahmaloka, Lord Brahma, Krsna says, still, you have to die, either come down or remain there - there will be change of body‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:31  By following that path, one is certainly elevated gradually to the highest planetary system, Brahmaloka, from which one is promoted to the spiritual world along with Lord Brahma. Thus one's repetition of birth and death in the material world ceases‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:30  Below Vaikunthaloka is the material universe, where Lord Brahma and others in Brahmaloka can live until the annihilation of this universe; but that life is not permanent‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:30  Because of their exalted position, those who are on Brahmaloka at the time of dissolution go directly back home, back to Godhead, along with Lord Brahma‎ diffhist −38‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:30  At the time of dissolution, Lord Brahma, along with all the inhabitants of Brahmaloka, goes directly to the spiritual world. This is confirmed in the Vedas‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:30  Anywhere you go, the threefold miseries of material existence, that will continue. You cannot get free. Even Brahmaloka, the Brahma, he is subjected to die‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:30  Although the demons are insignificant in comparison to Lord Brahma, because of the strength of their guru they were so powerful that they could even seize Brahmaloka from Lord Brahma. We therefore pray to the spiritual master‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:29  Above the human form of life there are demigods, Caranas and Siddhas on up to Brahmaloka, where Lord Brahma lives, and among these demigods there are always different grades of knowledge‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:28  Mahajano yena gatah so panthah. Then you accept the mahajana. Mahajana means following the parampara system. According to Vedic system, there are twelve mahajanas. Svayambhur naradah sambhuh kumarah kapilo manuh, janako bhismah and vaiyasakir vayam‎ diffhist +17‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:27  Being a mahajana, it is the duty of Yamaraja to preach the cult of devotion to the people of the world, as Narada, Brahma, and other mahajanas do. But Yamaraja is always busy in his plutonic kingdom punishing the doers of sinful acts‎ diffhist −20‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:26  When demons become very powerful, they defy the supreme controller, the Personality of Godhead. Indra, though not a demon, was puffed up by his material position, and he wanted to challenge the supreme controller‎ diffhist +10‎ Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:24  Rohini said, "We do not want to enjoy such material opulences, nor do we desire to achieve the yogic perfections, nor the exalted post of Lord Brahma‎ diffhist +3‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:24  His abdomen is the foundation of all the planetary systems. Brahma holds the post of the creator of all planetary systems, but his engineering energy is generated from the abdomen of the Lord‎ diffhist +8‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:23  Living entities, beginning from Brahma, the highest demigod, down to the lowest ant, have right to use natural resources. Narada Muni points out that we can use these resources as much as we require, but if we take more than required, we become thieves‎ diffhist −31‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:22  From Brahma, the most gigantic entity, on down to the smallest ant, all are existing because the Lord has entered each and all and is sustaining them. BG 1972 purports‎ diffhist −30‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:22  We are all mudhas, for unless we are mudhas, we do not come into the material world. From Brahma down to the smallest ant, we are all mudhas of different degrees‎ diffhist −30‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:22  Tribhir gunamayair bhavair ebhih samam idam jagat: every entity, beginning from Brahma down to the ant, is individually bewildered by the three modes of material nature, namely goodness, passion and ignorance‎ diffhist −11‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:21  This forgetfulness of the living being - beginning from Brahma down to the lowest insignificant ant - is a tendency which can be counteracted by meditation on the virat-rupa of the Lord‎ diffhist −59‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:21  The sum total of the living entities is impregnated into this yonir mahad brahma, and they are born in different forms, beginning from Brahma down to the insignificant ant‎ diffhist −39‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:21  The external manifestation, the material energy, provides the covering bodies of the conditioned living entities, from Brahma down to the insignificant ant. This covering energy is manifested under the three modes of material nature‎ diffhist −39‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:20  The demigods are situated in the mode of goodness, but sometimes even one who is situated in such an exalted position as King Indra, the king of all the demigods, falls down because of material opulence. We are now actually seeing this in America‎ diffhist −29‎ Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:20  Sri Bhrgu 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, & thus they are ignorant of their constitutional position‎ diffhist −33‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:19  Some living entities have short durations of life, whereas others live for fantastic durations. Every one of them from Brahma down to the ant, acts according to the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is sitting in everyone's heart‎ diffhist −11‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:19  Nor can one use his power of religion, his material opulence or any other means, either by himself or with the help of others, to defy the orders of the Supreme Lord. That is not possible for any living being, from Brahma down to the ant‎ diffhist −11‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:18  My dear Lord, everyone in this material world is under the modes of material nature, being influenced by goodness, passion & ignorance. Everyone - from the greatest personality, Brahma, down to the small ant - works under the influence of these modes‎ diffhist −30‎ Deepali talk contribs
     13:17  Indra was ultimately relieved of all the reactions of his sinful deeds by strictly worshiping Lord Visnu. Then he was called back to the heavenly planets by the brahmanas and reinstated in his position‎ diffhist −11‎ Nabakumar talk contribs
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