Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - (1 to 60)

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 60

Dear Lord, here is the great King Nâbhi, whose ultimate goal in life is to have a son like You. Your Lordship, his position is like that of a person approaching a very rich man and begging for a little grain. Mahârâja Nâbhi is so desirous of having a son that he is worshiping You for a son, although You can offer him any exalted position, including elevation to the heavenly planets or liberation back to Godhead.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 3 Verse 13

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 59

Seeing the Lord present before them, King Nâbhi and his priests and associates felt just like poor people who have suddenly attained great riches. They received the Lord and respectfully bent their heads and offered Him things in worship.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 3 Verse 3

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 58

Seeing the bumblebees following Pûrvacitti, Mahârâja Âgnîdhra said: My dear Lord, the bumblebees surrounding your body are like disciples surrounding your worshipable self. They are incessantly chanting the mantras of the Sâma Veda and the Upanishads, thus offering prayers to you. Just as great sages resort to the branches of Vedic literatures, the bumblebees are enjoying the showers of flowers falling from your hair.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 2 Verse 9

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 57

The King thus began criticizing himself: Alas, how condemned I have become because of my sense gratification! I have now fallen into material enjoyment, which is exactly like a covered well. I have had enough! I am not going to enjoy any more. Just see how I have become like a dancing monkey in the hands of my wife. Because of this, I am condemned.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 1 Verse 37

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 56

Even if one is liberated, he nevertheless accepts the body he has received according to his past karma. Without misconceptions, however, he regards his enjoyment and suffering due to that karma the way an awakened person regards a dream he had while sleeping. He thus remains steadfast and never works to achieve another material body under the influence of the three modes of material nature.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 1 Verse 16

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 55

Lord Brahma:

My dear Priyavrata, according to our association with different modes of material nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives us our specific bodies and the happiness and distress we achieve. One must therefore remain situated as he is and be conducted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exactly as a blind man is led by a person who has eyes with which to see.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 1 Verse 15

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 54

Lord Brahma to King Priyavrta:

My dear boy, all of us are bound by the Vedic injunctions to the divisions of varnâs'rama according to our qualities and work. These divisions are difficult to avoid because they are scientifically arranged. We must therefore carry out our duties of varnâs'rama-dharma, like bulls obliged to move according to the direction of a driver pulling on ropes knotted to their noses.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 1 Verse 14

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 53

Bhumidevi to King Prithu:

My dear Lord, please pacify your anger completely and hear patiently whatever I submit before you. Please turn your kind attention to this. I may be very poor, but a learned man takes the essence of knowledge from all places, just as a bumblebee collects honey from each and every flower.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 18 Verse 2

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 52

The cow-shaped earth continued: My dear King, I am just like a strong ship, and all the paraphernalia of the world is standing upon me. If you break me to pieces, how can you protect yourself and your subjects from drowning?

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 17 Verse 21

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 51

Just as a man cannot escape the cruel hands of death, the cow-shaped earth could not escape the hands of the son of Vena (King Prithu). At length the earth, fearful, her heart aggrieved, turned back in helplessness.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 17 Verse 17

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 50

When the earth saw that King Prithu was taking his bow and arrow to kill her, she became very much afraid and began to tremble. She then began to flee, exactly like a deer, which runs very swiftly when followed by a hunter. Being afraid of King Prithu, she took the shape of a cow and began to run.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 17 Verse 14

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 49

Citizens to King Prithu:

Dear King, just as a tree with a fire burning in the hollow of the trunk gradually dries up, we are drying up due to the fire of hunger in our stomachs.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 17 Verse 10

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 48

When the lion travels in the forest with its tail turned upward, all menial animals hide themselves. Similarly, when King Prithu will travel over his kingdom and vibrate the string of his bow, which is made of the horns of goats and bulls and is irresistible in battle, all demoniac rogues and thieves will hide themselves in all directions.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 16 Verse 23

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 47

King Prithu will be able to see all the internal and external activities of every one of his citizens. Still no one will be able to know his system of espionage, and he himself will remain neutral regarding all matters of glorification or vilification paid to him. He will be exactly like air, the life force within the body, which is exhibited internally and externally but is always neutral to all affairs.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 16 Verse 12

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 46

This King Prithu will be very, very kind to all citizens. Even though a poor person may trample over the King's head by violating the rules and regulations, the King, out of his causeless mercy, will be forgetful and forgiving. As a protector of the world, he will be as tolerant as the earth itself.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 16 Verse 7

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 45

This King Prithu will be as powerful as the sun-god, and just as the sun-god equally distributes his sunshine to everyone, King Prithu will distribute his mercy equally. Similarly, just as the sun-god evaporates water for eight months and, during the rainy season, returns it profusely, this King will also exact taxes from the citizens and return these monies in times of need.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 16 Verse 6

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 44

The great sages began to think that although a brâhmana is peaceful and impartial because he is equal to everyone, it is still not his duty to neglect poor humans. By such neglect, a brâhmana's spiritual power diminishes, just as water kept in a cracked pot leaks out.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 14 Verse 41

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 43

King Vena to the sages:

You are so much devoted to the devatas, but who are they? Indeed, your affection for these devatas is exactly like the affection of an unchaste woman who neglects her married life and gives all attention to her paramour.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 14 Verse 25

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 42

When the great sages consulted one another, they saw that the people were in a dangerous position from both directions. When a fire blazes on both ends of a log, the ants in the middle are in a very dangerous situation. Similarly, at that time the people in general were in a dangerous position due to an irresponsible king on one side and thieves and rogues on the other.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 14 Verse 8

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 41

When it was understood that the King had indifferently left home, all the citizens, priests, ministers, friends, and people in general were greatly aggrieved. They began to search for him all over the world, just as a less experienced mystic searches out the Supersoul within himself.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 13 Verse 48

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 40

Utkala (son of Dhruva maharaja) appeared to the less intelligent persons on the road to be foolish, blind, dumb, deaf and mad, although actually he was not so. He remained like fire covered with ashes, without blazing flames.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 13 Verse 10

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Within the jurisdiction of the time element, everyone enjoys or suffers the result of his own karma. As, when the wind blows, small particles of dust fly in the air, so, according to one's particular karma, one suffers or enjoys material life.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 20

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The Supreme Lord is the remote cause of the creation of this material cosmic manifestation. When He gives impetus, many other causes and effects are produced, and thus the whole universe moves, just as iron moves by the integrated force of a magnet.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 17

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Just as serpents agitated by Garuda rush towards Garuda with upraised hoods, all the Yaksha soldiers prepared to overcome Dhruva Maharaja with their upraised weapons.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 4

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Dhruva Maharaja's bow and arrows twanged and hissed, causing lamentation in the hearts of his enemies. He began to shoot incessant arrows, shattering all their different weapons, just as the blasting wind scatters the assembled clouds in the sky.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Capter 10 Verse 16

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Dhruva Maharaja was completely covered by an incessant shower of weapons, just as a mountain is covered by incessant rainfall.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 10 Verse 13

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Unto one who has transcendental qualities due to friendly behavior with the Supreme Lord, all living entities offer honor, just as water automatically flows down the nature.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 47

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Dhruva Maharaja:
Because of my state of complete foolishness and paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal service, I wanted material name, fame and prosperity. My case is just like that of the poor man who, when he satisfied a great emperor who wanted to give him anything he might ask, out of ignorance asked only a few broken grains of husked rice.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 35

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Lord Vishnu to Dhruva:
I shall award you the planet called polestar, which will continue to exist even after the dissolution.All the luminaries in the sky circumambulate this planet, just as bulls tread around a central pole for the purpose of crushing grains.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 21

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Dhruva Maharaja to Lord Vishnu:
To ignorant devotees like me, You are the causelessly merciful maintainer, just like a cow, who takes care of the newly born calf by supplying milk and giving it protection from attack.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 17

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Dhruva Maharaja continued:
O unlimited Lord, kindly bless me so that I may associate with great devotees, who engage in Your transcendental loving service constantly, as the waves of a river constantly flow.
By the process of devotional service I shall surely be able to cross the nescient ocean of material existence, which is filled with the waves of blazing, fire-like dangers.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 11

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Dhruva Maharaja to Lord Vishnu:

O my master, Lord Brahma is fully surrendered unto You. In the beginning You gave him knowledge, and thus he could see and understand the entire universe, just as a person awakens from sleep and visualizes his immediate duties.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 8

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 28

Dhruva to Lord Vishnu:

You are the Supreme Person, and through the temporary modes of material nature You create varieties of manifestation, just as fire, entering into wood of different shapes, burns brilliantly in different varieties.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 7

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 27

As a snake, when struck by a stick, breathes very heavily, Dhruva Maharaja, having been stuck by the strong words of his stepmother, began to breathe very heavily because of great anger.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 8 Verse 15

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The Siddhas prayed: Like an elephant that has suffered in a forest fire but can forget all its troubles by entering a river, our minds, O Lord, always merge in the nectarean river of Your transcendental pastimes.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 7 Verse 35

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The members of the assembly addressed the Lord: O exclusive shelter of all who are situated in troubled life, in this formidable fort of conditional existence the time element, like a snake, is always looking for an opportunity to strike.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 7 Verse 28

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 24

Elevated transcendentalists may sometimes forgo the rules and regulations of the Vedas, since they do not need to follow them, just as the devatas travel in space whereas ordinary men travel on the surface of the earth.

Srimad Bhagavatam- Canto 4 Chapter 4 Verse 19

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 23

If one is hurt by the arrows of an enemy, one is not aggrieved as when cut by the unkind words of a relative or friend, for such grief continues to rend one's heart day and night.

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 22

The woman, created by the Lord, is representative of maya, and one who associates with such maya by accepting services must certainly know that this is the way to death, just like a blind well covered with grass.

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 21

Just as a mass of clouds cannot understand the powerful influence of the wind that carries it, so a person in material consciousness cannot understand how is being carried by the powerful time factor.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 20

"Indeed, since these doorman are My servants, I consider Myself to be the one that has offended you and for this reason, I seek your forgiveness. Whatever wrong a servant commits causes people in general to blame the master, just as a single spot of white leprosy is considered to pollute the whole skin."

Lord Vishnu to Kumaras - Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 19

Uddhava to Vidura, "The sun of this world, Lord Krishna, has set and so what else can be said about welfare? The universe has been rendered unfortunate, and even more unfortunate were the Yadus, because they could not understand that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, any more than fish can identify the moon."

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 18

Just as doctors will differently diagnose the same patient, so it appears that the the great sages also put forward various opinions to help Parikshit Maharaja.

Canto -1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 16

When the world becomes bereft of a good king, rogues and thieves vanquish the unprotected subjects just as a lion easily kills scattered lambs.

Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 15

"O Rishis, as birds fly in the sky as far as their capacity allows, so I shall try to describe the transcendental pastimes of the Lord as far as my realization permits."

Suta Goswami to Sages - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 14

"As a cow is controlled by a rope through its nose, so humanity is conditioned to obey the orders of the Lord by being trained to follow the Vedic injunctions."

Narada Muni to Yudhisthira Maharaja - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 13

"My dear King, there is no cause for lamentation, for everyone is under the control of Supreme Lord. It is He alone who brings persons together and then disperses them, like a player who arranges and re-arranges his playthings."

Narada Muni to Yudhishthira Maharaja - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 12

"My dear uncle, do you remember how your partiality, like the wings of the bird, saved us, along with our mother from all sorts of calamities?"

Maharaja Yudhisthira to Vidura - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 11

Thereafter, the brahmanas departed and, gradually, just as the waxing moon develops day after day, Parkishit Maharaja grew up luxuriantly under the care of of his grandfathers.

Canto - 1

Sriamd Bhagavatam Analogy - 10

"This child will maintain the praja exactly like Ikshavaku; he will be true to his promise just like Lord Rama; and he will be a munificent giver of charity and protector of the surrendered like Shibi. He will be as great a bowman as Arjuna, and as strong as a lion. He will be forbearing like the earth, and as worthy a shelter as the Himalayas. In terms of equanimity of mind he will be like Yudhishthira maharaja; he will be munificent like Lord Shiva; and he will the resort of everyone like Lord Narayana. In magnanimity he will become as great as King Rantideva; he will be like Bali maharaja in patience; and he will become a great devotee of Lord Krishna like Prahalad maharaja. After hearing the prediction of his death at the hands of Takshka, he will inquire about self-realization from Shukadeva Goswami, and achieve a life of fearlessness."

Brahamana's predcitions about Parikshit Maharaja - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 9

Although the inhabitants of Dvaraka were accustomed to seeing the Lord daily, since He is reservoir of all beauty, they never became satisfied. With His bright yellow garments it appeared as if a dark cloud was surrounded simultaneously by the sun, moon, lightning and rainbows.

Canto - 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 8

The citizens of Dvaraka, "O Lord, now it is again possible to look into Your smiling face, which is full of affectionate glances. O Lotus eyed Lord, whenever You go away to Mathura or Hastinapur, every moment of Your absence seems like million years. At such times, our eyes become useless, as if bereft of the sun.

Canto - 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analaogy - 7

Upon arriving at Dvaraka's outskirts, Lord Krishna sounded His conch shell, the Panchajany, to herald His arrival. The pure white conch shell appeared to become reddened by the touch of Krishna's lips so that it seemed like a white swan was playing in the stems of red lotus flowers.

Canto -1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 6

Bhishma merged his mind, sight and speech into Lord Krishna, and finally, he became silent and his breathing stopped. Understanding that Bhishma had already gone back home, back to Godhead, everyone became silent, like birds at the end of the day.

Canto -1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 5

Lord Krishna picked up a broken chariot wheel and rushed at me just like a lion attacks an elephant.

Bhishma Deva - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 4

"Lord Krishna enjoyed all of these bodily decorations, including the wounds that were inflicted by my sharp arrows. Indeed, such wounds were as pleasing to Krishna as were the biting of His lovers while engaged in loving affairs."

Bhishma Deva - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy -3

"Just as dirty water cannot be filtered through mud, nor a wine-stained pot cleaned with wine, so I do not believe that this great slaughter of men can be counteracted by sacrificing animals."

Yudhisthira Maharaja to Lord Krishna - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 2

"I continually chanted the holy name and glories of the Supreme Lord. Thus, while fully absorbed in thinking of Lord Krishna, in due course of time, after having become freed from all taints of material attachment, I met with death. Instantaneously, I received a transcendental form that was befitting an associate of the Lord, just as lightning and illumination occur simultaneously."

Sripada Narada Muni to Srila Vyasadeva - Canto 1

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 1

"Those words that do not glorify the Lord are like a place of pilgrimage for crows."

Sripada Narada Muni to Srila Vyasadeva - Canto 1