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Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]

śrī-bhagavān uvāca atha te sampravakṣyāmi tattvānāṁ lakṣaṇaṁ pṛthak yad viditvā vimucyeta puruṣaḥ prākṛtair guṇaiḥ

[SB 3.26.1]

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"The Personality of Godhead, Kapila, continued = My dear mother, now I shall describe unto you the different categories of …

Prabhupāda:

atha te sampravakṣyāmi tattvānāṁ lakṣaṇaṁ pṛthak yad viditvā vimucyeta puruṣaḥ prākṛtair guṇaiḥ

[SB 3.26.1]

This is the disease. This is called material disease. One is infected by the prākṛta-guṇa. The prākṛta-guṇa... Guṇa means quality, …

So the prākṛta-guṇa... So long we are in this material world, infected by the material qualities, sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa, that …

So Kapiladeva proposes to His mother... Kapiladeva is Bhagavān. We have explained several times, bhaga means opulence and vān means …

That is also very little estimation, because Kṛṣṇa says,

athavā bahunaitena kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna viṣṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛtsnam ekāṁśena sthito jagat

[Bg. 10.42]

Kṛṣṇa says that "By My one plenary portion I'm possessing, or controlling, the innumerable universes." We have no information of …

yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ viṣṇur mahān sa iha yasya kalā-viśeṣo govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ...

[Bs. 5.48]

There is one feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is called Mahā-Viṣṇu. That Mahā-Viṣṇu, that is the origin …

So you cannot claim to become Bhagavān so cheaply. Bhagavān is different thing. One who is devotee of Bhagavān, he …

yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ viṣṇur mahān sa iha yasya kalā-viśeṣo govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi