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Attachment, material
See also:  Desires, material; Illusion; Lust
Austerities
for  brahmacārīs , of sex-life restriction, 68–69 chanting as aid to, 101 of disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda, 62 human life meant for, 62, 154 rejected by bogus spiritual masters, 62
Author (of this book).  See:  Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Authorities, spiritual.  See:  Spiritual master
Avatāra  defined, 135
Avatāras.   See:  Supreme Lord, incarnations of;  names of individual avatāras
Avicyuto 'rthaḥ kavibhir nirūpito  verse quoted, 267
Avidyā  defined, 100
Avidyayā mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā  verse quoted, 99
Avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ  verse quoted, 225
Avyayam  defined, 132, 142
B
Back to Godhead magazine, 151
beginning of, by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, 16
benefit from, 8 as propaganda for reality, 43
Bādarāyaṇa, 40
See also:  Vyāsadeva
Bahūnāṁ janmanāṁ ante
verse quoted, 100, 207, 256
Banyan tree, analogy of, 6, 8
Beauty
of Americans, 20 false, of material body, 37–38 of Kṛṣṇa described, 175
Lord has all, 19, 20
Truth, Absolute, has all, 36, 38
Beings.  See:  Living entities
Belief in God
vs. atheism, 108
conviction of, argument for, 24
lack of.  See:  Atheism
as scientific, 25, 27, 32–34
Benares, 151
Berkeley, festival at, 103
Bhagavad-gītā
See also:   Bhagavad-gītā As It Is;   Bhagavad-gītā  cited;  Bhagavad-gītā , quotations from age of, 196–197 as authority for Kṛṣṇa consciousness move- ment, 64
as authorized, 99
author of, 56
bogus commentaries given on, 84, 88
cited on chanting (by Dr. Staal), 93, 94
compared to cow, 99
compared to milk, 85
contradictory appearance of, 96
as famous, 20
government's duty to refer to, 5
hearing of, 83
India's culture in, 105
interpretations of, as bogus, 56
Kṛṣṇa &amp; Arjuna in, 82
Kṛṣṇa explains Himself in, 23
as Kṛṣṇa identically, 83
Kṛṣṇa "milks," 84
Kṛṣṇa's fame seen by fame of, 20
Kṛṣṇa's knowledge evidenced by, 20
love of God taught by, 11–12
in  Mahābhārata , 82, 83, 87
by Nārāyaṇa, 84
prayer to, 82
by Vyāsadeva, 72
worship of, Śaṅkarācārya orders, 84
yoga described in, 129–131
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
as best-selling, 20
recommended in peace formula, 193
Bhagavad-gītā  cited
See also:   Bhagavad-gītā , quotations from on chanting about Kṛṣṇa, 98
on demonic nature, 109
on incarnation's two missions, 133– 134
on Kṛṣṇa consciousness as inexhaustible &amp; indestructible, 142
on Kṛṣṇa consciousness as  rāja-vidyā , etc., 132
on Kṛṣṇa not known by  mūḍhas , fools, 138
on Kṛṣṇa's energies, greatness of, 135
on liberation by knowing Kṛṣṇa, 137