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TEXT 4 Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance - these qualities belong to those of demonic nature, O son of Pṛthā. PURPORT It is very remarkable that Śrīla Prabhupāda's description of demons begins with the demons in religion: “In this verse, the royal road to hell is described. ...

Chapter 16. The Divine and Demoniac Natures TEXTS 1-3 The Blessed Lord said: Fearlessness, purification of one's existence, cultivation of spiritual knowledge, charity, self-control, performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity and simplicity; nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from ange...

TEXT 18 Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person. PURPORT God is superior to both the conditioned souls and the liberated ones, and to understand God in His high...

TEXT 14 I am the fire of digestion in every living body, and I am the air of life, outgoing and incoming, by which I digest the four kinds of foodstuff. PURPORT We eat food and have no control over what happens next. How food is digested, how nutrients enter the blood, how and which way they are de...

TEXT 10 The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this. PURPORT Kṛṣṇa says that when a person is stupid and uneducated, he d...

TEXT 6 That abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by electricity. One who reaches it never returns to this material world. PURPORT The material world is mostly in darkness, which is the result of the dominance of ignorance in it. Matter gives birth to living beings and after a whil...

Chapter 15. The Yoga of the Supreme Person TEXT 1 The Blessed Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas. PURPORT of A.C. Bhaktisiddhānta Swami Prabhupāda: After the disc...

TEXT 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? PURPORT God explained that the best thing for us is to get out of the influence of material nature. And then Arjuna asks,...

TEXT 17 From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, grief develops; and from the mode of ignorance, foolishness, madness and illusion develop. PURPORT Goodness is basically God-realization mixed with pious activities. Any action performed without realization of God...

TEXT 13 O son of Kuru, when there is an increase in the mode of ignorance madness, illusion, inertia and darkness are manifested. PURPORT At the present time, most everyone is in the mode of ignorance, where passion and goodness can be mixed. Even trying to follow this or that religion, it is diffi...