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  • ...splay: inline;">The six great sages mentioned above may be great thinkers, but their knowledge by mental speculation is not perfect. However perfect an em ...edānta, Vedānta-sūtra. The most important philosophical theses—not theses, but actually... So Kṛṣṇa knows what is Vedānta. And what He says, that i ...
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  • ...th Him, just as the gold ornaments are one in quality with the stock gold, but the individual gold ornament is never equal in quantity with the stock gold ...ociates, are His energies. The energy and energetic are fundamentally one, but since their functions are differently exhibited, they are simultaneously di ...
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  • ..." Devotees have no problem understanding the ultimate cause of everything, but nondevotees must face many opposing elements because everyone who wants to ...existence. The Māyāvādī philosophers offer lip service to Vedic authority but try to escape the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies. They concoct some idea of a ...
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  • ...o skillfully avoid the fighting by using Kṛṣṇa consciousness as an excuse. But as a sincere student, he placed the matter before his master and questioned ...Superficially, such persons are not very greedy for material possessions, but they are too attached to wife, children and family improvement. When a pers ...
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  • ...lotus feet, although Your lotus feet are situated within their own bodies. But let us take shelter of Your lotus feet.''' ...lish condition of life in the womb of the mother or outside of the mother. But one has to make a solution to the problems of life. A sane man should under ...
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  • ...till, there is no quivering. A more settled conditioned soul quivers less, but due to material connection the quivering quality is more or less present ev ...s or protagonists of the philosophy of monism, becoming one with the Lord. But as soon as they saw the Lord's features, their minds changed. ...
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  • ...excused by Kṛṣṇa. That is another thing. We are offending in every moment, but when it is within our consciousness we should take some precaution that "Th ...excused by Kṛṣṇa. That is another thing. We are offending in every moment, but when it is within our consciousness we should take some precaution that "Th ...
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  • ...t. There is no prohibition against meeting the proper needs of the senses, but unnecessary sense enjoyment is detrimental for spiritual advancement. There ...
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  • ...ts reality is experienced in the spiritual world. The material sex life is but a perverted reflection of the original fact. The original fact is in the Ab ...us render service unto Him in spontaneous love. A living being cannot help but render service because he is constitutionally made for that purpose. The on ...
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  • <div class="heading">Such violence and duplicity accompany political affairs, but a kṣatriya is not supposed to give up his occupational duty and try to pe ...ake of diplomacy. Such violence and duplicity accompany political affairs, but a ksatriya is not supposed to give up his occupational duty and try to perf ...
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  • ...lass="heading">By other processes the conditioned soul can reach anywhere, but even if he reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happ ...like the shackles of a prisoner. By other processes he can reach anywhere, but even if he reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happ ...
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  • ...sophy there is no reciprocation between the Supreme and the living entity, but in the personalist philosophy there is.</div> ...yī. So he wanted to teach Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Because He was a young man. But later on he accepted Caitanya Mahāprabhu as his guru. He was impersonalist ...
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  • ...owed this by his personal example. Brahmā has a fabulous duration of life, but he was obliged to give up his body due to his grievous sin, even though he ...ct the devotees, the Lord not only satisfies them by His personal presence but also teaches them so that they will not fall down from devotional service. ...
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  • ...="display: inline;">The impersonalist puts more stress on the word arūpam. But this arūpam is not impersonal. It indicates the transcendental form of ete ...gins from the impersonal Brahman and then rises to the localized Supersoul—but the ultimate word in the Absolute Truth is the Personality of Godhead. Mode ...
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  • ...also. The root is the same—the Lord—both for the real tree and the false, but the false tree is only the perverted reflection of the real tree. The Lord, ...re comfortable and more pleasant lives for hundreds of thousands of years, but life in those higher planets is not eternal. Those who desire eternal life ...
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  • ...all material activities, desires some satisfaction for his personal self. But a person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for the satisfaction of ...not attempt anything for his own sake. He can attempt anything for Kṛṣṇa, but for his personal self he does not attempt anything. By such behavior one be ...
    52 KB (7,881 words) - 12:14, 24 May 2022
  • ...ltant action may not be a stumbling block on the path of self-realization, but the personalist knows rightly his position as the eternal servitor of the S ...the Supreme. When the hand moves, it does not move out of its own accord, but by the endeavor of the whole body. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person is always ...
    74 KB (11,248 words) - 14:55, 22 November 2021
  • ...s to enjoy sense gratification in different bodily forms, life after life, but is still unsatisfied. In the name of personalism, this ism or that ism, suc ...s to enjoy sense gratification in different bodily forms, life after life, but is still unsatisfied. In the name of personalism, this ism or that ism, suc ...
    37 KB (5,747 words) - 06:36, 27 June 2022
  • ...the śāstras. The administrative class must be well versed in the śāstras, but must not take to the profession of teachers. The administrators should neve ...
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  • ...s, both the eternals constitutionally have a complete range of sentiments, but the difference is that the sentiments of the chief eternal are different in ...f the sea, the Lord awaited the arrival of Samudra, the ocean personified, but when Samudra did not come, the Lord, the master of Samudra, became angry. T ...
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