become — Bg. 14.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 14.21

Arjuna inquired: O my dear Lord, by what symptoms is one known who is transcendental to those modes? What is his behavior? And how does he transcend the modes of nature?, Bg. 17.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.2

The Supreme Lord said, according to the modes of nature acquired by the embodied soul, one's faith can be of three kinds—goodness, passion or ignorance. Now hear about these.

becomes — Bg. 6.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.2

What is called renunciation is the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme, for no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification., Bg. 6.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.17

He who is temperate in his habits of eating, sleeping, working and recreation can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system., Bg. 7.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 7.23

Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the planets of the demigods, but My devotees ultimately reach My supreme planet., Bg. 9.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 9.31

He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes., Bg. 14.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 14.3

The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is that Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births of all living beings, O son of Bharata., Bg. 17.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.3

According to one's existence under the various modes of nature, one evolves a particular kind of faith. The living being is said to be of a particular faith according to the modes he has acquired., Bg. 18.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.12

For one who is not renounced, the threefold fruits of action—desirable, undesirable and mixed—accrue after death. But those who are in the renounced order of life have no such results to suffer or enjoy., SB 4.23.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.34

Also, one who hears this narration three times will become very reputable if he is not recognized in society, and he will become a great scholar if he is illiterate. In other words, hearing of the narrations of Pṛthu Mahārāja is so auspicious that it drives away all bad luck., SB 5.14.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.4

Every year the plowman plows over his grain field, completely uprooting all weeds. Nonetheless, the seeds lie there and, not being completely burned, again come up with the plants sown in the field. Even after being plowed under, the weeds come up densely. Similarly, the gṛhastha-āśrama [family life] is a field of fruitive activity. Unless the desire to enjoy family life is completely burned out, it grows up again and again. Even though camphor may be removed from a pot, the pot nonetheless retains the aroma of camphor. As long as the seeds of desire are not destroyed, fruitive activities are not destroyed., SB 5.16.20-21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.16.20-21

The mud on both banks of the River Jambū-nadī, being moistened by the flowing juice and then dried by the air and the sunshine, produces huge quantities of gold called Jāmbū-nada. The denizens of heaven use this gold for various kinds of ornaments. Therefore all the inhabitants of the heavenly planets and their youthful wives are fully decorated with golden helmets, bangles and belts, and thus they enjoy life., SB 5.26.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.9

The destination of a person who slyly cheats another man and enjoys his wife and children is the hell known as Andhatāmisra. There his condition is exactly like that of a tree being chopped at its roots. Even before reaching Andhatāmisra, the sinful living being is subjected to various extreme miseries. These afflictions are so severe that he loses his intelligence and sight. It is for this reason that learned sages call this hell Andhatāmisra., SB 7.13.16-17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.13.16-17

Seeing the saintly person to be quite fat, Prahlāda Mahārāja said: My dear sir, you undergo no endeavor to earn your livelihood, but you have a stout body, exactly like that of a materialistic enjoyer. I know that if one is very rich and has nothing to do, he becomes extremely fat by eating and sleeping and performing no work., SB 9.4.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.12

If one hears and chants or remembers this narration in the morning and evening with great attention, he certainly becomes learned, experienced in understanding the Vedic hymns, and expert in self-realization., SB 9.5.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.16

What is impossible for the servants of the Lord? By the very hearing of His holy name one is purified., SB 10.12.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.12.42

O greatest yogī, my spiritual master, kindly describe why this happened. I am very much curious to know about it. I think that it was nothing but another illusion due to Kṛṣṇa., Madhya 8.72plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 8.72

" 'A man becomes purified simply by hearing the holy name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose lotus feet create the holy places of pilgrimage. Therefore what remains to be attained by those who have become His servants?', NoI 7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNectar of Instruction Text 7

The holy name, character, pastimes and activities of Kṛṣṇa are all transcendentally sweet like sugar candy. Although the tongue of one afflicted by the jaundice of avidyā [ignorance] cannot taste anything sweet, it is wonderful that simply by carefully chanting these sweet names every day, a natural relish awakens within his tongue, and his disease is gradually destroyed at the root., NBS 4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNBS 4

Sūtra 4

Text

" yal labdhvā pumān siddho bhavaty amṛto bhavati tṛpto bhavati"

Synonyms

yat---which; labdhvā---having gained; pumān---a person; siddhaḥ---perfect; bhavati---becomes; amṛtaḥ---immortal; bhavati---becomes; tṛptaḥ---peaceful; bhavati---becomes.

Translation

Upon achieving that stage of transcendental devotional service in pure love of God, a person becomes perfect, immortal, and peaceful., NBS 5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNBS 5

Sūtra 5

Text

" yat prāpya na kiñcid vāñchati na śocati na dveṣṭi na ramate notsāhī bhavati"

Synonyms

yat---which; prāpya---having attained; na kiñcit---nothing; vāñchati---hankers for; na śocati---does not lament; na dveṣṭi---does not hate; na ramate---does not rejoice; na---not; utsāhī---, NBS 6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNBS 6

Sūtra 6

Text

" yaj jñātvā matto bhavati stabdho bhavaty ātmārāmo bhavati"

Synonyms

yat---which; jñātvā---having known; mattaḥ---intoxicated; bhavati---becomes; stabdhaḥ---stunned (in ecstasy); bhavati---becomes; ātma-ārāmaḥ---self-content (because of being engaged in the service of the Lord);

becomes possible — Bg. 3.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.14

All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rain. Rains are produced by performance of yajña [sacrifice], and yajña is born of prescribed duties.

becomes prominent — Bg. 14.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 14.10

Sometimes the mode of passion becomes prominent, defeating the mode of goodness, O son of Bharata. And sometimes the mode of goodness defeats passion, and at other times the mode of ignorance defeats goodness and passion. In this way there is always competition for supremacy.

can it be — SB 6.16.45plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.45

Therefore, my dear Lord, simply seeing You has now wiped away all the contamination of sinful activities and their results of material attachment and lusty desires, which always filled my mind and the core of my heart. Whatever is predicted by the great sage Nārada Muni cannot be otherwise. In other words, I have obtained Your audience as a result of being trained by Nārada Muni.

come into being — SB 6.1.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.1.54

The fruitive activities a living being performs, whether pious or impious, are the unseen cause for the fulfillment of his desires. This unseen cause is the root for the living entity's different bodies. Because of his intense desire, the living entity takes birth in a particular family and receives a body which is either like that of his mother or like that of his father. The gross and subtle bodies are created according to his desire.

comes into being — SB 1.2.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.2.18

By regular attendance in classes on the Bhāgavatam and by rendering of service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact.

is — SB 3.26.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.7

Material consciousness is the cause of one's conditional life, in which conditions are enforced upon the living entity by the material energy. Although the spirit soul does not do anything and is transcendental to such activities, he is thus affected by conditional life., SB 5.11.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.7

The mind makes the living entity within this material world wander through different species of life, and thus the living entity experiences mundane affairs in different forms as a human being, demigod, fat person, skinny person and so forth. Learned scholars say that bodily appearance, bondage and liberation are caused by the mind., SB 5.26.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.3

Just as by executing various pious activities one achieves different positions in heavenly life, by acting impiously one achieves different positions in hellish life. Those who are activated by the material mode of ignorance engage in impious activities, and according to the extent of their ignorance, they are placed in different grades of hellish life. If one acts in the mode of ignorance because of madness, his resulting misery is the least severe. One who acts impiously but knows the distinction between pious and impious activities is placed in a hell of intermediate severity. And for one who acts impiously and ignorantly because of atheism, the resultant hellish life is the worst. Because of ignorance, every living entity has been carried by various desires into thousands of different hellish planets since time immemorial. I shall try to describe them as far as possible., SB 6.9.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.36

O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all contradictions can be reconciled in You. O Lord, since You are the Supreme Person, the reservoir of unlimited spiritual qualities, the supreme controller, Your unlimited glories are inconceivable to the conditioned souls. Many modern theologians argue about right and wrong without knowing what is actually right. Their arguments are always false and their judgments inconclusive because they have no authorized evidence with which to gain knowledge of You. Because their minds are agitated by scriptures containing false conclusions, they are unable to understand the truth concerning You. Furthermore, because of polluted eagerness to arrive at the right conclusion, their theories are incapable of revealing You, who are transcendental to their material conceptions. You are one without a second, and therefore in You contradictions like doing and not doing, happiness and distress, are not contradictory. Your potency is so great that it can do and undo anything as You like. With the help of that potency, what is impossible for You? Since there is no duality in Your constitutional position, You can do everything by the influence of Your energy., Ādi 3.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 3.27

" 'There may be many all-auspicious incarnations of the Personality of Godhead, but who other than Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa can bestow love of God upon the surrendered souls?', Madhya 25.128plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.128

" 'Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who destroys everything inauspicious for His devotees, does not leave the hearts of His devotees even if they remember Him and chant about Him inattentively. This is because the rope of love always binds the Lord within the devotees' hearts. Such devotees should be accepted as most elevated., Antya 7.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 7.15

"There may be many all-auspicious incarnations of the Personality of Godhead, but who other than Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa can bestow love of God upon the surrendered souls?' ", Antya 8.67-68plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 8.67-68

"My dear Arjuna, one cannot perform mystic yoga if he eats more than necessary or needlessly fasts, sleeps and dreams too much or does not sleep enough. One should eat and enjoy his senses as much as necessary, one should properly endeavor to execute his duties, and one should regulate his sleep and wakefulness. Thus one can become freed from material pains by executing mystic yoga.' "

is possible — SB 5.19.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.19

The people who take birth in this tract of land are divided according to the qualities of material nature—the modes of goodness [sattva-guṇa], passion [rajo-guṇa], and ignorance [tamo-guṇa]. Some of them are born as exalted personalities, some are ordinary human beings, and some are extremely abominable, for in Bhārata—varṣa one takes birth exactly according to one's past karma. If one's position is ascertained by a bona fide spiritual master and one is properly trained to engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu according to the four social divisions [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra] and the four spiritual divisions [brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa], one's life becomes perfect.

it is — SB 10.11.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.11.18

Mother Yaśodā further told Kṛṣṇa: My dear son, because of playing all day, Your body has become covered with dust and sand. Therefore, come back, take Your bath and cleanse Yourself. Today the moon is conjoined with the auspicious star of Your birth. Therefore, be pure and give cows in charity to the brāhmaṇas.

it so becomes — Bg. 1.43plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 1.43

O Kṛṣṇa, maintainer of the people, I have heard by disciplic succession that those who destroy family traditions dwell always in hell.

manifested, becomes — Bg. 4.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.7

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself.

takes birth — Bg. 6.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 6.42

Or he takes his birth in a family of transcendentalists who are surely great in wisdom. Verily, such a birth is rare in this world.

takes place — Bg. 2.63plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.63

From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.

there are — Bg. 17.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.7

Even food of which all partake is of three kinds, according to the three modes of material nature. The same is true of sacrifices, austerities and charity. Listen, and I shall tell you of the distinctions of these.

there is — Ādi 3.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 3.22

" 'Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion-at that time I descend Myself.

becomes factual and permanent — SB 8.9.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.9.29

In human society there are various activities performed for the protection of one's wealth and life by one's words, one's mind and one's actions, but they are all performed for one's personal or extended sense gratification with reference to the body. All these activities are baffled because of being separate from devotional service. But when the same activities are performed for the satisfaction of the Lord, the beneficial results are distributed to everyone, just as water poured on the root of a tree is distributed throughout the entire tree.

becomes successful — Bg. 4.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.12

Men in this world desire success in fruitive activities, and therefore they worship the demigods. Quickly, of course, men get results from fruitive work in this world.

becomes beneficial — SB 8.9.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.9.29

In human society there are various activities performed for the protection of one's wealth and life by one's words, one's mind and one's actions, but they are all performed for one's personal or extended sense gratification with reference to the body. All these activities are baffled because of being separate from devotional service. But when the same activities are performed for the satisfaction of the Lord, the beneficial results are distributed to everyone, just as water poured on the root of a tree is distributed throughout the entire tree.