SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM: CANTO 5

The brahmin [Jada Bharata] said: 'Lacking in experience do you, using the terms of the experienced ones, not speak of the most important; these matters of mundane and social behavior one should in fact discuss with the intelligent who do have such a refined sense of truth.

The brahmin [Jada Bharata] said: 'From lacking experience you do not speak of the most important in use of the terms of those who have the experience; these matters of mundane and social behavior one should in fact discuss with the intelligent who do have such a refined sense of truth. (Vedabase)

Text 2

Because of this, o King, is indeed among those, who notably by the Vedas [veda-vâdî], take interest in the endlessly increasing concern with the rituals of a material household, as good as never the actual spiritual science [tattva-vâda] found that manifests itself so clearly with the advanced of purity.

Because of this, o King, is indeed among those, who notably by the Vedas [veda-vâdî] take interest in the endlessly increasing concern with the rituals of a material household, as good as never the actual spiritual science [tattva-vâda] found that manifests itself so clearly with the advanced of purity. (Vedabase)

Text 3

Although sufficiently known with the words, is the very exalted vision of the real purpose of the Veda not directly theirs, because the happiness of a worldly life compares to a dream of which one naturally later on realizes that it is unreal.

Although sufficiently known with the words, is the very exalted direct vision of the real purpose of the Veda not theirs, as the happiness of a worldly life for example is like a dream of which one naturally will come to realize that it is unreal. (Vedabase)

Text 4

As long as the mind of someone is under the control of the mode of passion, of goodness or of darkness, are actions, auspicious or otherwise, by the power of the senses of action and perception, automatically the result, just like it is with an elephant that is roaming unchecked.

As long as the mind of someone is under the control of the mode of passion, of goodness or of darkness, do actions, auspicious or otherwise, by the senses of action and perception, expand like with an elephant that is roaming freely. (Vedabase)

Text 5

That mind endowed with many a desire is, driven by the modes of nature, attached to material happiness; as the chief of the sixteen elements of a material existence [the physical, the active and the perceptual ones plus the mind] does the mind, estranged, wander around in names [in upâdhis - representations] and does it manifest with bodies of a higher or lower quality in different forms [compare B.G. 3: 27].

That mind endowed with many a desire is, driven by the modes of nature, attached to material happiness; as the chief of the sixteen elements of the material existence [the physical, the active and the perceptual ones plus the mind] does it, estranged, wander around in names [in upâdhis - suppositions] and does it manifest with bodies of a higher or lower quality in different forms [compare B.G. 3:27]. (Vedabase)

Text 6

With the unhappiness, happiness and severe immoderation obtained in the course of time as a consequence, creates the indwelling mind, by which the original living being embraces the created nature, for itself the vicious circle of material actions and reactions.

The unhappiness, happiness and severe immoderation obtained in the course of time as a result, creates the mind embracing the material nature which tricks the entity itself into the vicious circle of material action and reaction. (Vedabase)

Text 7

For that reason speak the learned ones of the mind as the cause of, the in higher or lower conditions of life, being absorbed in the natural modes to which one then misses the qualities, and of that are the for that time manifested outer symptoms of the living entity - of being fat or skinny e.g. - the proof.

Therefore do the learned ones speak of the mind as the cause of being absorbed in the natural modes - with the qualities amiss - in higher or lower conditions of life, of which the for that time manifested outer symptoms of the living entity of being fat or skinny e.g. are the proof. (Vedabase)

Text 8

The attraction to the modes makes for the conditionings to the material world, but when the mind of the living entity is there for the ultimate good of transcending them is it as a lamp; a wick enjoying clarified butter burning improperly no doubt leads to a flame with smoke, but doing so properly in bondage to the fuel of karma is the flaming, wayward mind to the contrary evidence of the clear reality.

The attraction to the modes makes up the conditioning to the material world, but when the mind of the living entity is there for the ultimate good of being above them is he as a lamp; a wick enjoying clarified butter burning improperly no doubt leads to a flame with smoke, but doing so properly in bondage to the fuel of karma is the flaming wayward mind in contrast evidence of the clear reality. (Vedabase)

Text 9

For sure there are the eleven of the mind of the five senses of action, the five senses of knowing and the insidiousness [or the falsehood of the ego, the identification with them]; of the different actions, the different objects of the senses and the places in town where they occur - of those eleven functions say the learned, o hero, that they are the fields of action [see B.G. 13: 1-4].

For sure there are the eleven of the mind of the five senses of action, the five senses of knowing and the insidiousness [or the falsehood of the ego, the identification with them]; of the different activities, the different objects of the senses and the place where they occur - of those eleven functions say the learned, o hero, that they are the fields of activity [see B.G. 13: 1-4]. (Vedabase)

Text 10

Smell, form, touch, taste and hearing [the knowing senses]; evacuation, sexual intercourse, movement, speech and manual control [the senses of action] with the eleventh element of accepting the idea of 'mine', thus gives the 'I' to this body of which some have said that it is the twelfth element.

Smell, form, touch, taste and hearing [the knowing senses]; evacuation, sexual intercourse, movement, speech and manual control [the senses of action] with the eleventh element of accepting the idea of 'mine', thus gives the 'I' to this body of which some have said that it is the twelfth element. (Vedabase)

Text 11

By the elements, by nature itself, by the culture, by the karma and by time are all these eleven of the mind modified into the hundreds, thousands and millions who do not follow from one another nor from themselves, but from the knower of the field.

By the elements, by nature itself, by the culture, by the karma and by time are all these eleven of the mind modified into the hundreds, thousands and millions who do not follow from one another nor from themselves, but from the knower of the field. (Vedabase)

Text 12

The knower of the field purified sees all these different activities of the mind of the unpurified individual entity in action, that from time immemorial are created by the external energy; sometimes manifest [as in waking] and sometimes not manifested [as in dreams].

The knower of the field purified sees all these different activities of the mind of the unpurified individual entity in action, that from time immemorial are created by the external energy; sometimes manifest [as in waking] and sometimes not manifested [as in dreams]. (Vedabase)

Text 13-14

The knower of the field is [then] the all-pervading, omnipresent, authentic person; the original one, who is seen and heard of as existing by His own light; He who is never born, who is the transcendental one, the One Nârâyana wherein all beings rest, the Supreme Lord, the One Vâsudeva harbour of consciousness; He who by His own potency in the soul exists as the controller, of just as well the air as the nonmoving and moving entities; He is the Supersoul of expansion that entered and thus controls as the One of Fortune in the beyond who is the shelter and knower of everyone in every field; He, the vital itself that appeared in this material world [see also B.G 9: 10 & 15: 15].

The knower of the field is [then] the all pervading, omnipresent, authentic person; the original one, who is seen and heard of as existing by His own light; who is never born, who is the transcendental one, the One Nârâyana wherein all beings rest, the Supreme Lord. the One Vâsudeva harbour of consciousness; He who by His own potency in the soul exists as the controller, of just as well the air as the nonmoving and moving entities; He is the Supersoul of expansion that entered and thus controls as the One of Fortune in the beyond who is the shelter and knower of everyone in every field; the vital self that appeared in this material world [see also B.G 9: 10 & 15: 15]. (Vedabase)

Text 15

As long as the embodied one, o King, is not free from this influence of the material world, by means of the, in freedom from attachments, being awakened to the order of knowing the spiritual truth and conquering the six enemies [the mind and the senses of perception], will he till that time wander around in this material world.

As long as the embodied one, o King, is not free from this influence of the material world, by in freedom from attachments being awakened to the order knowing the spiritual truth and conquering the six enemies [the mind and the senses of perception], will he till that time wander around in this material world. (Vedabase)