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hierarchy: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa)
hierarchy: Canto 11: General History
hierarchy: CHAPTER THIRTEEN
ŚB 11.13
The Haṁsa-avatāra Answers the Questions of the Sons of Brahmā
ŚB 11.13
In this chapter, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa explains to Uddhava how human beings, overwhelmed by sense gratification, become bound by the …
ŚB 11.13
The three modes — goodness, passion and ignorance — are related to material intelligence, not to the soul. One should …
ŚB 11.13
Lacking discrimination, one identifies with the material body, and consequently the mode of passion, which produces misery, takes over the …
ŚB 11.13
Lord Brahmā himself has no material cause. He is the cause of the creation of all living beings and is …
ŚB 11.13.1
Goodness in the material world never exists in a pure form. Therefore, it is common knowledge that on the material …
ŚB 11.13.2
Since the three modes of material nature are constantly in conflict, vying for supremacy, how is it possible that the …
ŚB 11.13.2
Śrīla Madhvācārya points out in this regard that an increase in the mode of goodness strengthens religious principles and the …
ŚB 11.13.4
The ten items mentioned above possess superior and inferior qualities and are thus identified as being in goodness, passion or …
ŚB 11.13.6
One who desires to cultivate the mode of goodness must consider the following points. One should study religious scriptures that …
ŚB 11.13.6
One who increases the mode of goodness will certainly become fixed in religious principles, and automatically knowledge will arise. As …
ŚB 11.13.7
The word guṇa-vyatyaya-jaḥ is significant in this verse. Vyatyaya indicates change or inversion in the normal order of things. Śrīla …