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• The Vedic knowledge is also very difficult to know and must be learned by the above-mentioned system (the parampara succession); otherwise it is not at all understood  + (14:34:49, 21 June 2020)
• Sukadeva Gosvami prayed for the mercy of the Lord so that he might be able to repeat the very same message that was spoken directly by the Lord to Brahma, or what was directly spoken by Brahma to Narada  + (14:40:38, 21 June 2020)
• The primeval Lord, being all-powerful, can do whatever He likes, and therefore His assuming the incarnation of a tortoise or a fish for serving a particular purpose is not at all astonishing  + (14:41:08, 21 June 2020)
• The statements of creation explained by Sukadeva Gosvami are not at all, as the mundaners suggest, theoretical, but are perfectly correct. One who hears these messages and tries to assimilate them gets perfect information of the material creation  + (14:46:15, 21 June 2020)
• The perfection of the parampara system, or the path of disciplic succession, is further confirmed  + (14:56:17, 21 June 2020)
• To help the demigods (churning the milk ocean) God assumed the incarnation of a gigantic tortoise, swimming in the milk ocean. At the same time, the mountain scratched His backbone as He was partially sleeping and thus relieved His itching sensation  + (15:18:04, 21 June 2020)
• In the previous chapter (SB 2.4) it has been established that Brahmaji, the firstborn living entity, received knowledge directly from the Supreme Lord, and the same knowledge was imparted to Narada, the next disciple  + (15:33:23, 21 June 2020)
• The history of Hiranyakasipu and his great devotee-son Prahlada Maharaja is narrated in the Seventh Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Hiranyakasipu became very powerful by material achievements and thought himself to be immortal by the grace of Brahmaji  + (15:33:47, 21 June 2020)
• This process (asking for transcendental knowledge from the right person and receiving it by disciplic succession) is recommended in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 4.2)  + (15:41:23, 21 June 2020)
• The inquiries by Narada Muni on the basis of factual cause and effect appear very reasonable  + (15:55:16, 21 June 2020)
• They (godless atheists) have put forward many theories manufactured by their fertile brains. Contrary to such mental speculative theories of creation, however, Narada Muni wanted to know all the facts of creation in truth, and not by theories  + (16:04:53, 21 June 2020)
• Transcendental knowledge regarding the soul and the Supersoul includes knowledge of the phenomenal world and the basis of its creation  + (16:14:18, 21 June 2020)
• The intelligent man can see that neither the living entity nor the phenomenal world are creations of chance  + (16:24:10, 21 June 2020)
• Three principal items, namely the living being, the phenomenal world and the controller, are all in continuous action - past, present and future  + (16:44:55, 21 June 2020)
• The direct manager is supposed to know everything of actions and reactions, as one knows about a walnut within the grip of one's palm  + (16:50:04, 21 June 2020)
• The direct manufacturer of a particular thing is supposed to know how he learned the art of manufacturing, where he got the ingredients, how he set it up and how the products in the manufacturing process are being turned out  + (16:59:40, 21 June 2020)
• Discoveries of progressive scientific achievements are not independent. The scientist has to attain the knowledge of a thing already existing by means of the wonderful brain made by someone else  + (17:14:54, 21 June 2020)
• A scientist can work with the help of such an awarded brain, but it is not possible for the scientist to create his own or a similar brain. No one is independent in the matter of any creation, nor is such creation automatic  + (17:23:43, 21 June 2020)
• The manifested world is full of varieties of created beings in 8,400,000 species of life, and some of them are superior and inferior to others  + (17:34:27, 21 June 2020)
• In human society the human being is considered to be the superior living being, and amongst the human beings there are also different varieties: good, bad, equal, etc  + (17:38:53, 21 June 2020)
• Narada Muni took for granted that none of them (human beings) has any source of generation besides his father, Brahmaji. Therefore he wanted to know all about them from Lord Brahma  + (17:44:18, 21 June 2020)
• Following in the footsteps of Sri Narada Muni, one should not blindly accept his spiritual master as God Himself. A spiritual master is duly respected on a par with God, but a spiritual master claiming to be God Himself should at once be rejected  + (17:57:03, 21 June 2020)
• The Supreme is supreme, and He (God) has no worshipable superior  + (18:05:26, 21 June 2020)
• The ahangrahopasita, or the one who worships himself with the idea of becoming God Himself, is misleading, but the intelligent disciple can at once detect that the Supreme God does not need to worship anyone, including Himself, in order to become God  + (18:13:15, 21 June 2020)
• Ahangrahopasana may be one of the processes for transcendental realization, but the ahangrahopasita can never be God Himself. No one becomes God by undergoing a process of transcendental realization  + (18:23:18, 21 June 2020)

• Narada Muni thought of Brahmaji as the Supreme Person, but when he saw Brahmaji engaged in the process of transcendental realization, doubts arose in him. So he wanted to be clearly informed  + (18:37:27, 21 June 2020)

• The inquiries made by Narada Muni are very important for everyone concerned  + (09:31:05, 22 June 2020)
• Brahmaji, being so questioned by Naradaji, congratulated him, for it is usual for the devotees to become very enthusiastic whenever they are questioned concerning the Almighty Personality of Godhead. That is the sign of a pure devotee of the Lord  + (09:43:51, 22 June 2020)
• Discourses on the transcendental activities of God purify the atmosphere in which such discussions are held, and the devotees become enlivened while answering such questions. It is purifying both for the questioners and for one who answers the questions  + (09:52:22, 22 June 2020)
• "The frog in the well" logic illustrates that a frog residing in the atmosphere and boundary of a well cannot imagine the length and breadth of the gigantic ocean  + (10:05:13, 22 June 2020)
• A frog, when informed of the gigantic length and breadth of the ocean, first of all does not believe that there is such an ocean  + (10:11:55, 22 June 2020)
• If someone assures him that there is such a thing the frog begins to measure it by imagination by means of pumping its belly as far as possible, with the result that the tiny abdomen bursts and the poor one dies without any experience of the actual ocean  + (10:18:47, 22 June 2020)
• The material scientists also want to challenge the inconceivable potency of the Lord by measuring Him with their froglike brains and their scientific achievements, but at the end they simply die unsuccessfully, like the frog  + (13:29:23, 22 June 2020)
• Sometimes a materially powerful man is accepted as God or the incarnation of God without any knowledge of the factual God  + (13:33:48, 22 June 2020)
• A material assessment may be gradually extended, and the attempt may reach to the highest limit of Brahmaji, who is the topmost living being within the universe and has a duration of life unimaginable to the material scientist  + (13:39:57, 22 June 2020)
• As we get information from the most authentic book of knowledge, the Bhagavad-gita (BG 8.17), Brahmaji's one day and night is calculated to be some hundreds of thousands of years on our planet  + (13:45:42, 22 June 2020)
• This long duration of life (Brahma's) may not be believed by "the frog in the well," but persons who have a realization of the truths mentioned in the BG accept the existence of a great personality who creates the variegatedness of the complete universe  + (13:52:32, 22 June 2020)
• It is understood from the revealed scriptures that the Brahmaji of this universe is younger than all the other Brahmas in charge of the many, many universes beyond this, but none of them can be equal to the Personality of Godhead  + (13:57:43, 22 June 2020)
• Naradaji is one of the liberated souls, and after his liberation he was known as Narada; otherwise, before his liberation, he was simply a son of a maidservant  + (15:58:21, 22 June 2020)
• The questions may be asked why Naradaji was not aware of the Supreme Lord and why he mis-conceived Brahmaji to be the Supreme Lord, although factually he was not  + (16:02:50, 22 June 2020)
• A liberated soul is never bewildered by a mistaken idea, so why did Naradaji ask all those questions just like an ordinary man with a poor fund of knowledge? There was such bewilderment in Arjuna also, although he is eternally the associate of the Lord  + (16:09:45, 22 June 2020)
• Such bewilderment in Arjuna or in Narada takes place by the will of the Lord so that other, nonliberated persons may realize the real truth and knowledge of the Lord  + (16:14:36, 22 June 2020)
• The doubt arising in the mind of Narada about Brahmaji's becoming all-powerful is a lesson for the frogs in the well, that they may not be bewildered in misconceiving the identity of the Personality of Godhead  + (16:19:33, 22 June 2020)
• There were many kings like Lord Ramacandra, the King of Ayodhya, but none of them are mentioned as God in the revealed scriptures  + (16:33:52, 22 June 2020)
• Lord Krsna asked Maharaja Yudhisthira to lie, but Maharaja Yudhisthira protested. But that does not mean that Maharaja Yudhisthira could be equal to Lord Ramacandra or Lord Krsna  + (16:42:55, 22 June 2020)
• The great authorities have estimated Maharaja Yudhisthira to be a pious man, but they have accepted Lord Rama or Krsna as the Personality of Godhead  + (16:47:01, 22 June 2020)
• Lord Brahmaji said to Narada that his impression that Brahma was not the supreme authority in the creation was correct. Sometimes less intelligent men have the foolish impression that Brahma is the cause of all causes  + (16:54:00, 22 June 2020)
• Narada wanted to clear the matter (of Brahma being or not the supreme authority in the creation) by the statements of Brahmaji, the supreme authority in the universe  + (16:58:53, 22 June 2020)
• Naradaji was a liberated soul; therefore, he was not one of the less intelligent men who accept a false god or gods in their own ways  + (17:14:08, 22 June 2020)
• He (Narada) represented himself as less intelligent and yet intelligently presented a doubt to be cleared by the supreme authority so that the uninformed might take note of it and be rightly informed about the intricacies of the creation and the creator  + (17:20:40, 22 June 2020)
• Lord Krsna is the background of the brahmajyoti (brahmano hi pratisthaham). In the Nirukti, or Vedic dictionary, the import of pratistha is mentioned as "that which establishes  + (17:27:31, 22 June 2020)