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The residents of the water are the fish, frogs, and so on, and the residents of the land are the cows , deer, and so on. By constantly drinking and taking bath in the fresh rainwater of the rainy season, the tired and parched animals are refreshed, and their complexions become brilliant as their health is invigorated by the The lakes, ponds, and rivers are cleansed and invigorated by the downpour of new rainwater and thus become

The three modes of nature divide human activities into two different spheres, one external and the other As long as a man is dominated by the modes of ignorance and passion, he is active externally in desire and lust. Men absorbed in desire and lust are called asuras, and they are always chasing after women and money. For the sake of women and money the asuras exploit every source of economic development.

With the progress of the autumn season the moist earth and muddy places begin to dry up, and the green This drying up and fading resembles the gradual disappearance of the false sense of affinity and ego.

After good rains the grazing ground for the animals was full of green pasture, and both the bulls and Calmly and quietly the cows and calves rested and ruminated, chewing their cud.

After heavy rain showers, the fields and forests in all directions appear green and healthy. Thus they resemble a man who has undergone severe austerities for some material gain and has achieved his end, for such a man is strong, hearty, and good-looking.

By His inconceivable energy, the Supreme Lord can appear and disappear like a rainbow, which appears and disappears without being affected by the roaring thunder and the cloudy sky. The Lord is eternally the biggest of the big and the smallest of the small. The living beings, who are His parts and parcels, are the smallest of the small, and He is the biggest

The universes within the material energy are called Devī-dhāma, and within Devī-dhāma the predominating Deity is Viṣṇu, who is assisted by Brahmā and Śiva. Devī-dhāma is controlled by three modes, namely goodness, passion, and ignorance. Viṣṇu is the incarnation of goodness, Brahmā of passion, and Śiva of ignorance. Brahmā creates, Viṣṇu maintains, and Śiva destroys the material creation.

He has a good residential bungalow with sufficient property and a well-trimmed garden. The bungalow is decorated with up-to-date furniture and carpets. There are motorcars with dazzling polish, and a radio set receiving and broadcasting colorful news and

The Lord enjoyed in the company of Lord Baladeva and the other cowherd boys and sometimes sat with them While sitting they ate simple food like rice, dal, vegetables, bread, and curd, which they had brought from their homes and which they shared in friendly exchanges.

said that when the daytime of Brahmā is over, the manifested creations of the universe all vanish, and Thus the cosmic creation, in its manifestation and nonmanifestation, resembles the creepers and plants that appear during the rainy season and gradually vanish when the season is over.

The scorching heat of the sun evaporates water from the seas, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, and there The people become thirsty and always look overhead for rain, but in despair. at the right moment, torrents of rain begin to fall everywhere in the land, even on the hard stones, and

The almighty Lord, being full of inconceivable energies, expands Himself in various forms and energies He has innumerable energies, and therefore He can do anything and everything as He desires, and these His energies are like the heat and light that expand from a fire. cosmic manifestation is nothing but an expansion of His energies; the energies are emanations from Him, and therefore the emanations are simultaneously one with and different from Him.

Many plants and creepers that were almost dead during the months of April and May are now visible again These numberless plants and creepers resemble persons who dry up in severe penances for some material gain but then achieve their objectives and become luxuriously fat, nourished by sense enjoyment.

Covered by ignorance, passion, and so-called goodness, the spirit soul thinks himself all in all and Thus he falsely identifies the soul with the body, and his bodily relations with material things become This false identification and attraction for matter gradually dry up and fade away by success in the Progress in spiritual culture brings about the disintegration of false ego and material attraction.

In the autumn season all the birds, beasts, and men become sexually disposed, and the bull, the stag, the male bird, the man, and other male creatures forcibly impregnate the fair sex.

The merchants, preachers, kings, and students who were confined to home during the four months June, July, August, and September began to flow out and attain success in life, just as perfected souls attain

to maintain the members of all three of the other āśramas, namely the brahmacārīs, the vānaprasthas, and way, every member of society was given a chance to retire for a higher order of spiritual culture, and The brahmacārīs, vānaprasthas, and sannyāsīs all curtailed their necessities to the minimum, and therefore

On these planets the predominating Deity is Hari, and the predominated deities are the liberated souls The features of the liberated souls and those of Hari are almost the same, yet Hari is predominator and The innumerable planets in Hari-dhāma are predominated by different formal expansions of the Lord, and

were systematically distorted by the onslaught of the age of Kali, as the walls of the paddy field and distortion are offered by atheistic philosophers who are concerned only with eating, drinking, being merry, and all against the revealed scriptures because such persons are intimately attached to sense pleasures and Some of them propose that life is ultimately to be annihilated and that only the material energy is conserved And still others equate spirit and matter and declare the distinction between them to be illusory.

The Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, appeared in the family of Yadu, and since then the Yadu dynasty The appearance and disappearance of the Lord are similar to the appearance and disappearance of the sun The sun is fixed in its own orbit, and it neither rises nor sets. He is fully independent and may appear and disappear. anywhere and everywhere, because He is all-pervading