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Bandhāya viṣayāsaṅgi  verse quoted, 22 
  Bandhur ātmātmanas tasya  verse quoted, 25 
 Beings.  See:  Living entities 
 Belly, 75 
 Benedictions, 16–17 
 Bengali proverb, cited on test at death, 122 
  Bhagavad-gītā   See also:   Bhagavad-gītā , cited;  Bhagavad-gītā , quotations from as authority, 145 ever fresh, 60 first instruction of, 55, 97 
 God's greatness known via, 118 as inspiration to serve Kṛṣṇa, 6–7 knowledge by hearing, 140 known by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, 32 
 Kṛṣṇa speaks, 77, 145 material &amp; spiritual natures in, 139 opportune instruction in, 89 seeing Kṛṣṇa via, 80–81 spiritual sky in, 53  yoga  in, 1 
  Bhagavad-gītā , cited on big businessman, 15 on eating too much or too little, 59 on Kṛṣṇa providing for devotees, 5–6 on mind difficult to control, 8 on serving the senses, 115 on  yoga  system, 1 on  yogī , highest, 107–8 
  Bhagavad-gītā , quotations from on Arjuna rejecting  yoga  system, 8 on Arjuna's impurities, 7 on  aṣṭāṅga-yoga , 45 on birth in good family, 118 on Brahmā's day &amp; night, 136–37, 138 on demigod worship, 108 on deviation from Transcendence, 99 on devotee never perishing, 81 on devotees knowing paths of passing away, 150–51 on devotional service on Brahman platform, 87 on eating &amp; sleeping, 51
Bhagavad-gītā , quotations from on embodied soul, sense enjoyment, &amp; higher taste, 146 on failure in self-realization, 97 on going to God at death, 121–22 on great souls attaining perfection, 133 on impersonal meditation, 95–96 on knowers of Supreme Brahman passing away, 149 on knowing Kṛṣṇa's advent &amp; activities, 106 on knowledge joyfully realized, 76 on Kṛṣṇa as seed-giving father, 52 on Kṛṣṇa dispelling doubt, 99 on Kṛṣṇa in water, light, sound, &amp; ability, 80 on Kṛṣṇa revealing knowledge of Himself, 44 on Kṛṣṇa's abode, 52, 142 on Kṛṣṇa's impartiality &amp; favoritism, 66 on learned words &amp; lamentation, 55 on living entities as Lord's parts &amp; parcels, 65 on Lord as all-pervading, in His abode, &amp; attained by pure devotion, 147 on Lord in heart, 86 on Lord known by devotional service, 44, 112 on material world as place of misery, 135 on millenial cosmic manifestations, 85 on mind, control of, 73, 94, 95 on mind, Supersoul, &amp; tranquillity, 26 on mind as friend or enemy, 18, 25 on mind fixed on Self, 69 on mystic passing away &amp; returning, 150 on mystic transcendentalist attaining God's kingdom, 48 on nature, material &amp; transcendental, 139 on offerings acceptable to God, 30 on  oṁ , God, &amp; spiritual planets, 124 on one seeing Kṛṣṇa everywhere never lost, 81
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Bhagavad-gītā , quotations from on  yogī 's sitting place, 37–38 
 Bhagavān.  See:  Kṛṣṇa, Lord 
  Bhāgavata. See:   Śrimad-Bhāgavatam  
  Bhajate  defined, 107 
  Bhakti  defined, 21, 117  See also:  Devotional service; Kṛṣṇa, love for 
  Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra ca  quoted, 145 
  Bhaktiṁ mayi parāṁ kṛtvā  verse quoted, 70 
  Bhakti-rasāṃṛta-sindhu , quoted on devotee as liberated, 87 
 Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, A. C. (the author) in Calcutta bombing (1942), 116 son of, question of, 151 in Vṛndāvana always, 128 
  Bhakti-yogīs. See:  Devotees 
  Bhakti-yoga  blissful, 9, 11 "chance" destiny not in, 151 compared to elevator, 111–12 completed in this life, 118–19 as descending process, 43 easy for everyone, 93–94 in essence, 2 God as goal of, 117–18 in Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, 48 Kṛṣṇa obtained via, 129 perfection by, 106–7, 111 practical for present Age, 98 process of, 6, 44–45 as pure devotion, 112, 113 as recreation, 9 as servitor, served, &amp; service, 118 spiritual master in, 118 success in, 68–69 temple sacred in, 38  See also:  Devotional service; Kṛṣṇa consciousness 
  Bhakti-yogena manasi  verse quoted, 22–23 
  Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti  verse quoted, 44, 112