Srimad Bhagvatam

Question 1

Author of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

Answer 1

Vaysadeva

Question 2

Why was Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam written?

Answer 2

Maharaj Praikshat was dying

Question 3

1.9.14
Everyone has to bear the actions and reactions of time as long as one is

Answer 3

within the conditions of the material world.

Question 4

1.9.14
One should not be

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disturbed by the tricks of eternal time

Question 5

1.9.15
Kala is identical with

Answer 5

the Lord Himself

Question 6

1.9.15
The influence of kala indicates

Answer 6

the inexplicable wish of the Lord Himself.

Question 7

1.8.45
The almighty God is thus conquered only by

Answer 7

loving service and nothing else.

Question 8

1.8.47
The common man thinks of violence and nonviolence in terms of the body, but that is a

Answer 8

kind of delusion.

Question 9

1.8.52
Karma creates one action and another reaction simultaneously and thus increases the chain of material activities

Answer 9

binding the performer in material bondage

Question 10

1.8.44
No amount of chosen words is sufficient to enumerate the Lord’s glory, and yet

Answer 10

He is satisfied by such prayers as the father is satisfied even by the broken linguistic attempts of the growing child.

Question 11

1.8.42
This tie of affection in terms of material relation is the relation of maya because

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the relations of the body or the mind are due to the influence of the external energy.

Question 12

1.8.42
Relations of the soul, established in relation with the Supreme Soul,

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are factual relations.

Question 13

1.8.43
Service of the Lord and the service of the devotees

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are identical.

Question 14

1.8.30
Every action of the Lord is bewildering

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to the common man

Question 15

1.8.29
Foolish people think that devotional service is

Answer 15

flattering the Lord to get special mercy.

Question 16

1.8.27
The Lord is the property of the devotees and the

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devotees are the property of the Lord.

Question 17

1.8.28
We may forget the misdeed for which we may suffer at this present moment, but we must

Answer 17

remember that Paramatma is our constant companion

Question 18

1.8.29
Living beings are given as much freedom as they deserve, and misuse of that freedom

Answer 18

is the cause of suffering.

Question 19

1.8.29
Without His sanction not a

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blade of grass can move.

Question 20

1.8.29
In most cases the suffering man no longer cares to keep any connection with the Lord. The mercy of the Lord

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is open for him, but he is reluctant to receive it.

Question 21

1.8.27
Advancement of material vision or material civilization is a

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great stum­bling block for spiritual advancement

Question 22

1.8.27
A devotee renounces the material world not for nothing but for something

Answer 22

tangible in spiritual value.

Question 23

1.8.26
Sometimes it is seen that spiritually advanced persons become

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materially impoverished

Question 24

1.8.25
This material world is certified by the Lord in the Bhagavad-gitii as a

Answer 24

dangerous place full of calamities.

Question 25

1.2.22 The living entities are

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separated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead.

Question 26

1.2.26 Those who are serious about liberation are certainly

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nonenvious

Question 27

1.2.26 The demigods, being like other living entities in the material world, are all

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liquidated at the time of the annihilation of the material structure.

Question 28

Material assets are all products of the

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three modes of material nature

Question 29

1.2.26 One should work hard and worship the Supreme Lord by the

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fruits of one's hard labor for existence

Question 30

1.2.29 Those whose minds have been so broadened as to be engaged in the service of Lord Krishna, are under the influence of the

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internal potency

Question 31

1.2.31 The presence of the Lord as Paramatma can he felt by the process of legitimate

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hearing and chanting of the transcendental subjects

Question 32

1.2.33 He is so kind that He constantly remains with the living being as Paramatma and always tries

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to convert the living being towards the real happiness.

Question 33

1.3.2 No one is greater than or

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equal to Him

Question 34

1.3.4 With our present materialized senses we cannot perceive anything of the

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transcendental Lord

Question 35

1.3.6 The creation of the material world is effected, maintained and then again annihilated

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at certain intervals

Question 36

1.3.26 Lord Krishna and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are not incarnations

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,but the original source of all other incarnations

Question 37

1.2.34 The Lord wants the suffering living being to

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go back home, back to Godhead.

Question 38

1.3.29 Whoever carefully recites the mysterious appearances of the Lord, with devotion in the morning and in the evening,

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gets relief from all miseries of life.