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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Mahātmās
deliver supreme asset, 404 
  know Kṛṣṇa to be the cause of all causes, 
  49 
  know Vāsudeva is everything, 499 
  Pāṇḍavas were all, 420 
  protected by internal potency, 126 
  See  also  Devotees, Transcendentalists
Mahat-tattva
different from the Lord, 139 
  divided into sixteen parts, 136 
  encompasses everything created, sustained, 
  and annihilated, 10 
  living beings merge into, 136 
  material manifestations products of, 823
Mahā-Viṣṇu
His glance impregnates material sky, 137 
  lies on Causal Ocean, 138
Manmanā bhava mad-bhakto madyājī māṁ 
  namaskuru , verses quoted, 807
Mantras
mostly begin with  praṇava omkāra , 204 
 parivrājakācāryas  not always expert in 
  pronouncing, 204 
  Vedic not different from  Purāṇas  and 
 Itahāsa , 204
Manus
as qualitative incarnations, 75 
  authors of civic codes, 357 
  incarnated from Brahmā, 142 
  prominent named, 143
Manu-saṁhitā
gives directions to kings, 473
Manu-smṛti
recommends fire sacrifice, 859
Marīci
as authority on fruitive work, 308 
  created from body of Lord, 306
Markaṇḍeya Purāṇa
cited, 153
Marriage
as formal agreement only, 861 
  compulsory, 920 
  not for sense gratification, 97 
 saṁskāra  undergone at, 215
Material body
as foreign dress, 494 
  develops by contact with living entity, 6 
  spiritual consciousness expressed through 
  medium of, 284
Material body
transformed to spiritual body, 314 
  See  also  Body
Material elements
and spiritual spark create knot, 104 
  emanate from Kṛṣṇa, 47 
  explained by Sāṅkhya philosophy, 148 
  five gross, 136 
  have no creative power, 138 
  senses made of, 276 
  twenty-four in all, 148
Material energy
called Durgā-sakti, 502 
  conditioned souls attacked by, 346 
  provokes doubts, 903 
  scientists, etc., dolls of, 233 
  souls rotting in kingdom of, 266 
  sprouted out of ignorance, 25 
  See  also  Modes of nature,  Māyā , Material 
  nature
Material existence
caused by skin relation, 427 
  conquered by  Purāṇas , 88 
  ended by hearing, 105 
  full of fear, 558 
  full of miseries, 267 
  full of undesirables, 741 
  holy names deliver one from, 10 
  like a mirage, 46 
  like a blazing forest fire, 344 
  temporary, illusory, full of miseries, 91
Materialists
cannot be happy, 86 
  cannot be happy name, 403 
  compared to camels, 86-87 
  fall down, 308 
  have many subject matters for hearing, 4 
  make foolish threats against devotees, 627 
  sure to commit sins, 435 
  their activities limited to selfishness, 94 
  their gain limited to time and space, 95 
  their own blood sweet to them, 87 
  their way of life described, 5-8 
  think creation is automatic, 48 
  two classes of, 179 
  worship Brahmā, 117
Material nature
accepted as all in all by conditioned souls, 
  250 
  as mother of all living beings, 517