QUOTES FROM THE BHAGAVATHA
"He...grew up, the way the waxing moon grows day by day."
"Parikchit said to the cow who had tears in her eyes...Is it because the offensive meat-eaters are to exploit you?"
"Parikchit by his prowess punished the master of Kali-yuga who, disguised as a king was hurting the legs of a cow and bull."
"How can this body and mind made up of the five elements [fire, water, air, earth and ether] that is under the control of time, action and the material modes of nature [kāla, karma and the sattvic, rajasic and tamasic gunas of goodness passion and sloth] protect others when it is as well bitten by that snake (of Time) as are all others?"
"One who knows the principles of religion is afraid to kill an enemy who is careless, intoxicated, insane, asleep, of tender age, ...foolish, a surrendered soul or someone who lost his chariot."
"He withdrew his speech into his mind, his mind with his other senses into his breath, his breath he withdrew in death,."
"That body [of the Yadu dynasty] was relinquished by the Unborn One the way a thorn used to extract another thorn is thrown away."
"Krishna, Lord of Love, being served by a white parasol, fans and a road covered by a shower of flowers, with His yellow garments and flower garlands, looked like a cloud surrounded by sun, moon, lightning and rainbow together."
"People think You (God) are partial, but You favor or dislike no one."
"When Yasodā, the cowherd foster mother of Krishna took up a rope to bind You (Krishna as toddler) because You were naughty, You were afraid and cried the make-up off Your eyes, although You are feared by fear personified."
"Noliving being troubled by anxieties, diseases or extreme temperatures, as always happens when a leader has no enemies."
"Giving gifts to Krishna is akin to offering lamps to the sun."
"Arjuna said Now I am bereft of the astounding power that even astonished the gods."
"Krishna's footprints show the mark of lotusflowers."
"Arjuna said: I took God mistakingly for a friend alike me in truth, while He tolerated me, like a father with a child."
"Just as one cannot filter mud through mud or clean wine stains with wine, it is of no avail to counteract killing by sacrifices of animals."
"Those who are lazy pass their days the way they sleep at night, in activities without a purpose."
"Money obtained by magic is as useless as seeds sewn on barren land'."
"Freed of grieft, by his spiritual capacity he managed to cut the doubts of duality caused by being merged with matter and he was .. freed from the entanglement of birth and death."
"They have gone to the southern side of the Himalayas where sages take shelter.The place is known as Saptasrota [seven sources] as the sacred Ganges there sprung from seven currents into seven branches."
"The relative of a learned one is not to be killed,."
"See how smoke circles in the sky and how the earth hills and mountains are throbbing with loud thunderbolts out of a blue cloudless sky.. The sun is shining less - see how the stars in the sky seem to clash into one another."
"Who is more patient than Mother Earth?"
"The ones intoxicated by striving for a good birth, opulences, education, and beauty will never ever deserve to address You, (God) who are easily approached by the ones destitute."
"Krishna is the Controller of the Thunderbolt."
"Women so beautiful they could make Cupid put down his bow
are unable to perturb the senses of God."
"Truthfulness, cleanliness, compassion, self-control, magnanimity, contentment, straightforwardness, concentration, sense-control, responsibility, equality, tolerance, equanimity, loyalty,knowledge, detachment, leadership, chivalry, influence, power, dutifulness, independence, dexterity, beauty, serenity and kindheartedness, ingenuity, gentility, mannerliness, determination, knowledgeability, propriety, pleasantness, joyfulness, immovability, faithfulness, fame and dignity - all these and many others are the everlasting qualities of God."
"About God are enlightened souls
as with a mirage of water to the fire of the sun."
"All reincarnate a certain number of times, but advanced souls desire to limit the performances of Yamaraja, controller of death."
"After hearing of God from Bhīshmadeva, lying on a bed of arrows, as he merged into God everyone fell silent like birds at the end of the day."
"You fall under the control of Time as clouds are carried
by the Wind."
"Where there is Yudhishthhira,Bhīma with his mighty club, Arjuna carrying his Gāndiva (bow) and our well-wisher Lord Krishna, is the effect of Time driven away."
"God is One, like the sun that looks different from every angle but is the Indweller in the hearts of all that are created by Him."
"Violence is a sign of the advent of Kali Yuga."
"(In a drought) the wind creates fire from friction between bamboos."
"Who can be detached from the feet of the Eternal One that are never quit by the goddess of fortune?"
"God has descended into this world in the form of Time, in order to eliminate all those who are against His will."
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