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22 September 2022
- 05:5405:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,670 If we do not want to be punished, we have to follow the rules and regulations (sad-dharma). Dharma means "the laws given by God." Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam - SB 6.3.19 No edit summary current
- 05:5305:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,961 The laws are given by Bhagavan and are written in books like Manu-samhita and other Vedic literatures. According to the law, we have to obey the government, and according to dharma, we have to obey Krsna, God No edit summary
- 05:5205:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,822 We cannot manufacture our laws at home, and we cannot manufacture dharma. If one tries, he is simply cheating the public. Such false dharmas are kicked out of Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.1.2): dharmah projjhita No edit summary
- 05:5205:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,938 We must accept the principles of Bhagavad-gita, which constitute the ABC'S of dharma. Actually, we only have to accept the principle of surrender unto Krsna, but this acceptance comes after many, many births No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,940 It is not very easy, for only after many births of struggle does one come to his real perfection and surrender unto Krsna. At this time he understands perfectly that Vasudeva, Krsna, is everything No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,735 This is the greatest lesson of Bhagavad-gita, Everything is Krsna's energy, and whatever we see is but an exhibition of two types of energy No edit summary
- 05:5005:50, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,019 Everyone knows that the sun has two types of energy - heat and light. Similarly, Krsna has an external energy and an internal energy, and He also has a marginal energy, which is a mixture of the other two No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,136 Because we have given up Krsna's service, we have become servants of so many things. We are obliged to serve our parents, wife, children, country and so forth. We are indebted to many people and to the demigods who give heat and light No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,145 Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is everyone's real shelter (saranam saranyam). Everyone is seeking shelter because we are all constitutionally servants. Originally we are servants of God; therefore it is our nature to take His shelter No edit summary current
- 05:4505:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,952 Some seek an occupation or the service of a great man; others seek the service of the government or whatever. In any case, the ultimate shelter is Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 05:4505:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,116 Being Krsna's incarnation, Kapiladeva is also a shelter. Krsna has unlimited forms and unlimited incarnations. It is said in Srimad-Bhagavatam that His incarnations are expanding continuously, like waves in the ocean. Indeed, we cannot even count them No edit summary current
- 05:4405:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,889 In Brahma-samhita it is said: Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam (Bs. 5.33). In India there are many thousands of temples, and within these temples there are arca-vigrahas, Deities. All these Krsnas are nondifferent; they are one No edit summary current
- 05:4405:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,972 Krsna resides in Vaikuntha and also in the temple. The Krsnas are not different, although they are ananta, unlimited. Krsna is also the witness within everyone's heart, and He is seeing all of our activities No edit summary
- 05:4305:43, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,030 We cannot hide anything from Him, and we receive the results of our karma because the witness is Krsna Himself within the heart. How, then, can we avoid Him? Without Krsna's permission, we cannot do anything No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,287 Why does Krsna give us permission to do something wrong? He does so because we persist. Actually He does not tell us to do anything other than surrender unto Him. We want to do something, & Krsna may sanction it, but we go ahead & do it at our own risk No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,657 Krsna is not responsible. However, we should know that without the sanction of Krsna, we cannot do anything. That is a fact No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,739 We are constitutionally servants of Krsna. Even though we may declare ourselves independent, we are not. Rather, we are servants falsely declaring that we are independent No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,512 Self-realization is understanding that we are dependent on the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 05:3705:37, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,958 He (Krsna) clearly says, bhaktya mam abhijanati: (BG 18.55) "Only by devotional service can I be understood." If we want to know Krsna as He is, we have to accept the process of bhakti. It is this bhakti process that Kapiladeva will reveal to Devahuti No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,712 If I am the master of anger, I can control my anger, and if I am the master of my desires, I can control my desires. In any case, I am a servant, and my service should be transferred to Krsna. That is the perfection of life No edit summary current
21 September 2022
- 08:3908:39, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,532 We may temporarily make some compromises, but ultimately the material world is full of misery No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,736 We are very much attached to this material world, but according to the Vedic system, renunciation is compulsory, for when one reaches the age of fifty, he renounces his family life No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,556 Nature gives warning, - You are now past fifty. That's all right. You have fought in this material world. Now stop this business No edit summary current
- 08:3708:37, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,956 Children play on the beach and make houses out of sand, but after a while the father comes and says, "Now, my dear children, time is up. Stop this business and come home." This is the business of the guru - to teach his disciples detachment No edit summary current
- 08:3608:36, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,880 The world is not our place; our place is Vaikunthaloka. Krsna also comes to remind us of this. The dharma, or order, of the Supreme Person is to become His devotee and always think of Him No edit summary current
- 08:3608:36, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,713 Krsna says: "Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship Me." (BG 9.34) In this way, Krsna opens the door, but we unfortunately do not accept Him No edit summary current
- 08:3508:35, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,131 Krsna tells Arjuna, "Because you are My friend, I am revealing to you the most confidential dharma." What is that? "Simply surrender unto Me." This is the dharma taught by the SPG, and Krsna's incarnation and His devotee will teach the same dharma No edit summary current
- 08:3408:34, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,857 We are all after happiness, but we do not know how to enjoy happiness. We want to enjoy our senses, but it is not possible with these covered false senses. The senses must be opened, and that is the process of purification No edit summary current
- 08:3408:34, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,903 We are thinking of ourselves according to so many false material identifications, but we should take Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's advice: jivera 'svarupa' haya-krsnera 'nitya-dasa.' We must come to understand, - I am the eternal servant of Krsna No edit summary current
- 08:3308:33, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,872 After all, our senses are employed for the satisfaction of somebody - either for ourselves or for someone else. That is kama, krodha, lobha and matsara - illusion. If we are not serving our own lusty desires (kama), we are serving anger - krodha No edit summary current
- 08:3108:31, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,899 In any case, we will not be allowed to stay here, and although we are attached to all this, everything will be taken away at death. Whatever post we are occupying - be it president or Lord Brahma - we are occupying temporarily No edit summary current
- 08:3008:30, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,918 We may be here five years, ten years, one hundred years or five million years. Whatever, our position is limited. Our position in the material world is not eternal, but we are eternal. Why, then, should we be illusioned by the noneternal No edit summary current
- 08:2908:29, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,807 In the morning, when the sun arises, the darkness of night immediately goes away. Similarly, when God or His incarnation comes, the darkness of material life is dissipated No edit summary current
- 08:2908:29, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,919 When Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, came, Arjuna's illusion was dispelled. He was thinking, "Why should I fight with my relatives?" Actually the whole world is going on under this conception of "my" and - mine No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,937 On a train, people may argue and fight over a seat, but one who knows that he will only be on the train for two or three hours thinks, - Why should I fight? I shall only be here for a short while No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,670 One person thinks in this way, and the other person is ready to fight, thinking that his seat is permanent. No one will be allowed to stay within this material world No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,663 Everyone will have to change his body and position, and as long as one remains here, he will have to fight and struggle for existence. This is the way of material life No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,972 We are bound tightly by the modes of material nature, and yet we are thinking that we are independent. This is simply foolishness No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,192 It is said that all the people in the material world are blinded by the darkness of ignorance. When people are blind, out of their ignorance they say, - There is no God. I cannot see God No edit summary current
- 08:2308:23, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,626 God comes as Krsna or Kapiladeva and says, "Here I am. See My features. I am a person. I play the flute and enjoy Myself in Vrndavana. Why can't you see Me?" Thus God comes, explains Himself and leaves behind His instruction, Bhagavad-gita No edit summary
- 08:2308:23, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,328 People are so foolish that they claim not to understand God. If we try to see God through the instructions given to Devahuti by Lord Kapila, our lives will be successful No edit summary
- 08:2208:22, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,767 Devahuti is accepting her son, Kapila, as her guru. He consequently tells her how to solve all material problems. Material life is nothing but sex attraction. Pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam - SB 5.5.8 No edit summary current
- 08:2108:21, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,901 As soon as people join to satisfy their sex desire, the attraction becomes greater and greater. An apartment is needed for privacy, and then one has to earn a livelihood and acquire some land No edit summary current
- 08:2008:20, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,760 At the time of death Krsna comes and takes away everything - house, land, wife, children, friends, reputation and whatever. Then we have to begin another life No edit summary current
- 08:2008:20, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,471 It is not that we simply die and finish everything. We are living eternally No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,161 Everyone should know what is Bhagavan and take lessons from Bhagavan. Lord Kapila is Bhagavan, and He personally instructed His mother in Sankhya philosophy No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,976 By this knowledge we can develop or awaken our dormant love for God. Then we can see God when our eyes are anointed with love for Him No edit summary
- 08:1708:17, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,114 We can see God everywhere and at all times. We will see God and nothing but God. We will see God not only within our hearts. If we go to the ocean, we will see God No edit summary
- 08:1608:16, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,325 If one is a little thoughtful, he will see that the great ocean stays in its place. The ocean has received its orders not to go beyond such and such a limit No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,952 Any intelligent man can see God while walking down the beach. However, this requires a little intelligence No edit summary