User contributions for Deepali

11 June 2024

• 13:3213:32, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary
• 13:3113:31, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ In due course Brahma and all inhabitants of Brahmaloka are subject to death, according to the law of material nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3113:31, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3113:31, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −38‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 11 June 2024 diff hist +17‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 11 June 2024 diff hist +3‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 11 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 11 June 2024 diff hist −31‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 11 June 2024 diff hist −30‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 11 June 2024 diff hist −30‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 11 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 11 June 2024 diff hist −59‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 11 June 2024 diff hist −39‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 11 June 2024 diff hist −39‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 11 June 2024 diff hist −33‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 11 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ 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 ‎No edit summary
• 13:1913:19, 11 June 2024 diff hist −30‎ Pravrtti means here in this material world, anyone who has come, beginning from Lord Brahma down to the small ant, they have come on account of pravrtti, means for enjoying sense ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 11 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 11 June 2024 diff hist −30‎ 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 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 11 June 2024 diff hist −30‎ Any living entity who has come in contact with matter, beginning from Brahma, down to a small ant, is changing its body; therefore they are all fallible. In the spiritual world, however, they are always liberated in oneness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 13:1113:11, 11 June 2024 diff hist −39‎ Although there are varieties of personalities, from Brahma down to the insignificant ant, all of whom are living beings, their development of knowledge is different ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Beginning from Brahma, the topmost intelligent living entity within the universe, down to the smallest ant, every living entity's intelligence is overseen by the Lord in His transcendental position as the witness of all actions ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 11 June 2024 diff hist −39‎ Beginning from Lord Brahma down to the insignificant ant, everyone, without exception, is attracted by the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 11 June 2024 diff hist −39‎ Beginning from Brahmaji, the leader of this universe, down to the insignificant ant, all are abiding by the order of the Supreme Lord. Thus the constitutional position of the living being is subordination under the control of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 11 June 2024 diff hist −21‎ All living entities, from Brahma to the insignificant ant, are expansions of Vasudeva, as accepted in all the srutis and smrtis ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 11 June 2024 diff hist −30‎ All living entities in different statuses of life within the material creation, beginning from the first demigod, Brahma, down to the small ant, are conditioned under the law of material nature, or the external energy of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 11 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ After impregnation, material nature delivers all kinds of living entities, beginning from the greatest living creature, Lord Brahma, down to the insignificant ant, in all varieties of form ‎No edit summary
• 13:0513:05, 11 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ Conditioned souls, beginning from Brahma, the engineer of this particular universe, down to an insignificant ant, are all creating something, but none of them are independent of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary
• 13:0113:01, 11 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ After the creation of Brahma, the two kinds of demigods were born: demigods like the four brothers Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumara, who are representatives of renunciation of the world ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ You have also described (at the end of the Fifth Canto) the varieties of hellish life that result from impious activities & you have described (in the Fourth Canto) the first manvantara, which was presided over by Svayambhuva Manu, the son of Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 11 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ The wife of Vidhata, the eighth son of Aditi, was named Kriya. In her Vidhata begot the five fire-gods named the Purisyas. The wife of Varuna, the ninth son of Aditi, was named Carsani. Bhrgu, the son of Brahma, took birth again in her womb ‎No edit summary
• 06:3106:31, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear King Vidura, Sri Narada Muni, the son of Lord Brahma, thus described all these relationships with the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the Pracetas. Afterward, he returned to Brahmaloka ‎No edit summary
• 06:3106:31, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ The great sage Maitreya continued: Being thus enlightened in complete spiritual knowledge by the son of Brahma - one of the Kumaras, who was complete in spiritual knowledge - the King worshiped them in the following words ‎No edit summary
• 06:3106:31, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ The descendants of the first daughter, Akuti, will specifically be described. Svayambhuva Manu was the son of Brahma. Brahma had many other sons, but Manu's name is specifically mentioned first because he was a great devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ The atma-medhah is always thinking of Krsna's activities in Krsna consciousness. Since Sanat-kumara, who was a son of Lord Brahma, was fully Krsna conscious, he could point out the path of spiritual advancement ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ Svayambhuva Manu handed over his daughter Prasuti to the son of Brahma named Daksa, who was also one of the progenitors of the living entities. The descendants of Daksa are spread throughout the three worlds ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, in his Anubhasya, gives a list of Manus and their fathers’ names: (1) Svayambhuva Manu, the son of Lord Brahma; (2) Svarocisa, the son of Svarocis, or Agni, the predominating deity of fire ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ Since Lord Siva is the son of Lord Brahma, Brahma is considered superior, but Brahma is also subordinate to Me (Rsabhadeva), the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because I am inclined to the brahmanas, the brahmanas are best of all ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ Rudra is stated to be the son of Brahma. So Brahma is the son, or born out of the lotus flower from the abdomen of Visnu. Visnu is expansion of Krsna. In this way Krsna is the origin of everything. That is a fact ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 11 June 2024 diff hist −9‎ O son of Brahma, how did you (Narada) pass your life after initiation, and how did you attain this body, having quit your old one in due course? ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ O holy sage (Maitreya), tell me how the worshipful Ruci and Daksa, the son of Brahma, generated children after securing as their wives the other two daughters of Svayambhuva Manu ‎No edit summary
• 06:2806:28, 11 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ O best of the brahmanas, you are directly the son of Prajapati (Lord Brahma). Because of your austerities, mystic yoga and trance, you are considered the best of all of Lord Brahma's sons ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2706:27, 11 June 2024 diff hist −15‎ Narada is known as the son of Brahma, as Lord Krsna is known as the son of Vasudeva. The Personality of Godhead and His liberated devotees like Narada appear in the material world by the same process ‎No edit summary current