General Index 351

Bodily conception of life Brahma, Lord
scientists in, 162 as Saktydvesa-avatara, 260
surrender dispels, 114 Siva beyond, 273
See also: Duality, material Siva praised by, 282
Body, material at Svetadvipa, 164, 166
as desire machine, 13 Vaikuntha seen by, 147
fire in, 183 Brahma-bhitah prasannatma
as incomprehensible, 191 verse quoted, 114
karma causes, 13, 23, 172, 210 Brahmacari, Vibhu as, 32
as mortal, 67 Brahmajyoti
proprietors of, two listed, 89, 219 defined, 268
as punishment, 25 impersonalists enter, 269
soul and Supersoulin, 12, 13 See also: Brahman effulgence
soul vs., 116, 162-163 Brahmaloka
spiritualization of, 73, 80, 126 defined, 83
as wheel-like, 174 See also: Brahmajyoti; Brahman effulgence
Body of the Supreme Lord Brahman (impersonal Absolute)
beauty of, 208 beyond Brahma, 270
cosmos as, 20 defined, 270
demigods dazzled by, 205-206, 208 beyond Indra, 270
as eternal, 5-6 Krena above, 23
purifying power of, 126 as Parabrahman’s effulgence, 262
as sunlike, 205 Visnu disinterested in, 270
as transcendental, 210 See also: Brahmajyoti; Brahman effulgence
See also: Form of the Supreme Lord; Uni- Brahman, Supreme
versal form of the Supreme Lord Lord as, 82
Brahma, Lord, 299 transcendentalist realizes, 114
as authority, 211 See also: Supreme Lord
Brahman beyond, 270 Brahmanas (intellectuals)
as creator, 260 as dvijas, 220
as demigods’ chief, 122, 125, 142, 156 Gayatri mantra for, 220
demigods sought help of, 155, 156 from Lord’s universal form, 189
disciplic succession from, 170-171, 194, mantra recitation for, 135-136
211 Brahman effulgence
as fallible, 306 impersonalists aspire to, 87, 134
as guna-avatara, 157, 262 impersonalists fall from, 134
Lord above, 73, 74, 78, 103, 115, 157, as transcendental, 268
180, 201, 220 See also: Brahmajyoti; Brahman (imper-
Lord honored by, 208, 252 sonal Absolute); Liberation
from Lord’s universal form, 187 Brahman platform, devotee on, 114
Manus in day of, 5, 6 Brahma-samhitd, quotations from
passion mode controlled by, 201 on bhakti-yogi seeing Krena, 111
as a post, 30 on Krena as cause of all causes, 19, 76, 93
prayed to the Supreme Lord, 166-200, on Lord’s effulgence, 269
209-214, 217, 219-220 on sun, 184-185

quoted on the Supreme Lord, 157, 209 on surabhi cows, 288
