oṁ namo bhagavate narasiṁhāya
namas tejas-tejase āvir-āvirbhava vajra-nakha vajra-daṁṣṭra karmāśayān randhaya
randhaya tamo grasa grasa oṁ svāhā;
abhayam abhayam ātmani bhūyiṣṭhā oṁ kṣraum
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, the source of all power. O
my Lord who possess nails and teeth just like thunderbolts, kindly vanquish our
demonlike desires for fruitive activity in this material world. Please appear in
our hearts and drive away our ignorance so that by Your mercy we may become
fearless in the struggle for existence in this material world.
Srimad Bhagavatam 5.18.8
svasty astu viśvasya khalaḥ prasīdatāṁ
dhyāyantu bhūtāni śivaṁ mitho dhiyā
manaś ca bhadraṁ bhajatād adhokṣaje
āveśyatāṁ no matir apy ahaitukī
"May there be good fortune throughout the universe, and may all envious persons be
pacified. May all living entities become calm by practicing bhakti-yoga, for by
accepting devotional service they will think of each other’s welfare. Therefore let
us all engage in the service of the supreme transcendence, Lord Sri Krsna, and
always remain absorbed in thought of Him."
( Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5: The Creative Impetus, Text 5.18.9 - purport )
īśābhisṛṣṭaṁ hy avarundhmahe ’ṅga
duḥkhaṁ sukhaṁ vā guṇa-karma-saṅgāt
āsthāya tat tad yad ayuṅkta nāthaś
cakṣuṣmatāndhā iva nīyamānāḥ
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: The Creative Impetus, Text 5.1.15 - purport )
yatreḍyante kathā mṛṣṭās
tṛṣṇāyāḥ praśamo yataḥ
nirvairaṁ yatra bhūteṣu
nodvego yatra kaścana
Whenever pure topics of the transcendental world are discussed, the members of the
audience forget all kinds of material hankerings, at least for the time being. Not
only that, but they are no longer envious of one another, nor do they suffer from
anxiety or fear.
(Srimad Bhagavatam 4.30.35)
oṁ hrāṁ hrīṁ hrūṁ oṁ namo bhagavate hṛṣīkeśāya sarva-guṇa-viśeṣair vilakṣitātmane
ākūtīnāṁ cittīnāṁ cetasāṁ viśeṣāṇāṁ cādhipataye ṣoḍaśa-kalāya cchando-mayāyānna-
mayāyāmṛta-mayāya sarva-mayāya sahase ojase
balāya kāntāya kāmāya
namas te ubhayatra bhūyāt
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord
Hṛṣīkeśa, the controller of all my senses and the origin of everything. As the
supreme master of all bodily, mental and intellectual activities, He is the only
enjoyer of their results. The five sense objects and eleven senses, including the
mind, are His partial manifestations. He supplies all the necessities of life,
which are His energy and thus nondifferent from Him, and He is the cause of
everyone’s bodily and mental prowess, which is also nondifferent from Him. Indeed,
He is the husband and provider of necessities for all living entities. The purpose
of all the Vedas is to worship Him. Therefore let us all offer Him our respectful
obeisances. May He always be favorable toward us in this life and the next. SB
5.18.18
sa vai patiḥ syād akutobhayaḥ svayaṁ
samantataḥ pāti bhayāturaṁ janam
sa eka evetarathā mitho bhayaṁ
naivātmalābhād adhi manyate param
He alone who is never afraid but who, on the contrary, gives complete shelter to
all fearful persons can actually become a husband and protector. Therefore, my
Lord, You are the only husband, and no one else can claim this position. If You
were not the only husband, You would be afraid of others. Therefore persons learned
in all Vedic literature accept only Your Lordship as everyone’s master, and they
think no one else a better husband and protector than You.
tan naḥ prabho tvaṁ kukalevarārpitāṁ
tvan-māyayāhaṁ-mamatām adhokṣaja
bhindyāma yenāśu vayaṁ sudurbhidāṁ
vidhehi yogaṁ tvayi naḥ svabhāvam iti
Therefore, O Lord, O Transcendence, kindly help us by giving us the power to
execute bhakti-yoga so that we can control our restless minds and fix them upon
You. We are all infected by Your illusory energy; therefore we are very attached to
the body, which is full of stool and urine, and to anything related with the body.
Except for devotional service, there is no way to give up this attachment.
Therefore kindly bestow upon us this benediction.
SB 5.19.15
The earth, which is always visible to me, is the expansion of the lotus feet of my
Lord, who is always to be meditated upon. All moving and nonmoving living beings
have taken shelter of the earth and are thus sheltered at the lotus feet of my
Lord. For this reason I should respect every living being and not envy anyone. In
fact, all living entities constitute the Kaustubha gem on My Lord’s chest.
Therefore I should never envy or deride any living entity.” SB 12.11.24 purport
Vishwanath Cakravarti Thakur
āpannaḥ saṁsṛtiṁ ghorāṁ
yan-nāma vivaśo gṛṇan
tataḥ sadyo vimucyeta
yad bibheti svayaṁ bhayam
Living beings who are entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be
freed immediately by even unconsciously chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, which is
feared by fear personified. SB 1.1.14
yad-anudhyāsinā yuktāḥ
karma-granthi-nibandhanam
chindanti kovidās tasya
ko na kuryāt kathā-ratim
With sword in hand, intelligent men cut through the binding knots of reactionary
work [karma] by remembering the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, who will not pay
attention to His message?
( Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1: Creation, Text 1.2.15)
srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah
punya-sravana-kirtanah
hrdy antah stho hy abhadrani
vidhunoti suhrt satam
Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramatma [Supersoul] in
everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for
material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear
His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.
( Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1: Creation, Text 1.2.17 - purport )
bālasya neha śaraṇaṁ pitarau nṛsiṁha
nārtasya cāgadam udanvati majjato nauḥ
taptasya tat-pratividhir ya ihāñjaseṣṭas
tāvad vibho tanu-bhṛtāṁ tvad-upekṣitānām
My Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, O Supreme, because of a bodily conception of life, embodied
souls neglected and not cared for by You cannot do anything for their betterment.
Whatever remedies they accept, although perhaps temporarily beneficial, are
certainly impermanent. For example, a father and mother cannot protect their child,
a physician and medicine cannot relieve a suffering patient, and a boat on the
ocean cannot protect a drowning man.
(Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.19)
Yatreme sad-asad-rupe
pratisiddhe sva-samvida
avidyayatmani krte
iti tad brahma-darsanam
Whenever a person experiences, by self-realization, that both the gross and subtle
bodies have nothing to do with the pure self, at that time he sees himself as well
as the Lord.
( Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1: Creation, Text 1.3.33 - purport )
śivāya lokasya bhavāya bhūtaye
ya uttama-śloka-parāyaṇā janāḥ
jīvanti nātmārtham asau parāśrayaṁ
mumoca nirvidya kutaḥ kalevaram
Those who are devoted to the cause of the Personality of Godhead live only for the
welfare, development and happiness of others. They do not live for any selfish
interest. So even though the Emperor [Parīkṣit] was free from all attachment to
worldly possessions, how could he give up his mortal body, which was the shelter
for others? (SB 1.4.12)
"tyaktva sva-dharmam caranambujam harer
bhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi
yatra kva vabhadram abhud amusya kim
ko vartha apto 'bhajatam sva-dharmatah
One who has forsaken his material occupations to engage in the devotional service
of the Lord may sometimes fall down while in an immature stage, yet there is no
danger of his being unsuccessful. On the other hand, a nondevotee, though fully
engaged in occupational duties, does not gain anything.
"
( Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1: Creation, Text 1.5.17 - purport )
yadṛcchā-lābha-tuṣṭasya
tejo viprasya vardhate
tat praśāmyaty asantoṣād
ambhasevāśuśukṣaṇiḥ
A brāhmaṇa who is satisfied with whatever is providentially obtained is
increasingly enlightened with spiritual power, but the spiritual potency of a
dissatisfied brāhmaṇa decreases, as fire diminishes in potency when water is
sprinkled upon it. SB 8.19.26
yasyāṁ vai śrūyamāṇāyāṁ
kṛṣṇe parama-pūruṣe
bhaktir utpadyate puṁsaḥ
śoka-moha-bhayāpahā.
Simply by giving aural reception to this Vedic literature, the feeling for loving
devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, sprouts up at
once to extinguish the fire of lamentation, illusion and fearfulness. SB 1 7.7.
