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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Bhakti-yoga.  See: Devotional service; Kṛṣṇa consciousness
Bhallāṭa, 141
Bhānumān, 188, 189
Bharadvāja (Vitatha), 114, 116–118, 121
Bharata Mahārāja, 106–107, 109–114, 118
Bharga, son of Vahni, 188
Bharga, son of Vitihotra, 6
Bhārgabhūmi, 6
Bharmyāśva, 144, 145, 150
Bhīma, 165–167
Bhīmaratha, son of Ketumān, 4
Bhīmaratha, son of Vikṛti, 208
Bhīmasena, son of Parikṣit, 170
Bhīṣmadeva
Paraśurāma defeated by, 160 parents of, 159
Bhoja, son of Śini, 219
Bhoja kings, 212
Bhṛgu Muni, 22, 106, 107
Bhūri, 159
Bhūriśravā, 159
Bhūta, 231
Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate
quoted, 76
Bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānām
quoted, 103
Bird and surrendered soul, analogy of, 79
Birth
of higher planets' rejects on earth, 118 of Jarāsandha, 153
ritualistic ceremonies at, 116
social status not determined by, 88–89, 137
of Śukadeva, 140
types of, three listed, 29
Birth and death, repeated
devotee surpasses, 46
freedom from, 74
stopping, 239, 241
See also: Transmigration
Bliss, transcendental
gopīs  in, 250
See also: Happiness; Pleasure
Bodily concept of life
materialists in, 61
Bodily concept of life
See also: Attachment; Desires, material
Body, material
compared to machine, 238
dead, revived, 27–28
in goodness, 243
gross and subtle, 84
human, 46
karma  determines, 237–238
via mother &amp; father, 103
soul in, 61, 75–76, 83–84
See also: Birth and death, repeated; Bodily concept of life; Senses; Transmigration
Bondage, material
freedom from, 73–74, 76, 79–80, 84
material happiness causes, 59, 75, 76
See also: Life, material;  Māyā ; Modes of material nature; Suffering
Brahmā, Lord
gopīs  condemned, 250
Kumāras disobeyed, 44
as living entity's first material life, 240
Rantideva saw, 131, 132
Brahma-bhūta  defined, 69
Brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
quoted, 247
Brahmacārī  (celibate)
Bhīṣma as, 160
Kumāras as, 44
spiritual master's wife and, 72
Śukadeva as, 140
Brahmadatta, 139
Brahma-jījñāsā  defined, 241
Brahmajyoti.  See: Brahman (impersonal Absolute)
Brahmaloka, 76
Brahman (impersonal Absolute)
as Absolute Truth feature, 191–192
falling from, 240
See also: Māyāvāda philosophy
Brahman, Supreme. See: Supreme Lord
Brāhmaṇas  (saintly intellectuals)
Bharata's charity to, 107
birth ceremonies by, 116
in goat story, 64