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2 March 2024
- 04:1704:17, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Sri Narada advised Srila Vyasadeva to become absorbed in transcendental meditation on the Personality of Godhead and His activities. Srila Vyasadeva did not take notice of the effulgence of Brahman because that is not absolute vision No edit summary current
- 04:1604:16, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Priyavrata might argue that Lord Brahma was requesting him to accept family life and the responsibility for ruling a kingdom, although Narada Muni had advised him not to enter household life and be entangled in material affairs No edit summary current
- 04:1604:16, 2 March 2024 diff hist −1 One should take little risk in order to enter into the eternal life, blissful life. One should take a little risk. That is advised by Narada No edit summary
- 04:1504:15, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 One can keep his wife as an assistant in the vanaprastha stage. The idea is that the wife will assist the husband in spiritual advancement. Therefore Narada Muni advised the hunter to adopt the vanaprastha stage and leave home No edit summary current
- 04:1404:14, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 On the advice of Narada Muni he (Marutta) appointed Samvarta to the post, and he was successful in his mission No edit summary current
- 04:1404:14, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Maitreya continued: The King, Uttanapada, after being advised by Narada Muni, practically gave up all duties in relation with his kingdom, which was very vast and wide, opulent like the goddess of fortune, and he simply began to think of his son Dhruva No edit summary current
- 04:1304:13, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Maharaja Yudhisthira was advised by Narada not to disturb his uncle (Dhrtarastra) by attempting to bring him back home. He was now beyond the attraction of anything material No edit summary current
- 04:1104:11, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Maharaja Yudhisthira is advised by Narada not to worry about his uncles' suffering for want of food, for they could live on vegetables available in the jungles as prasada of the Supreme Lord and thus realize the path of salvation No edit summary current
- 04:1004:10, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 If the activities of the Supreme Brahman were material activities, then Narada would not have advised Vyasadeva to meditate upon them. And the param brahma is Lord Sri Krsna, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 04:0904:09, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Hariscandra had no sons, but on the advice of Narada he worshiped Varuna and in this way got a son named Rohita. Hariscandra promised that Rohita would be used to perform a Varuna-yajna No edit summary current
- 03:1803:18, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 He (Vyasadeva) was not satisfied until he wrote Srimad-Bhagavatam. His dissatisfaction was observed by his spiritual master, and consequently Narada advised him to write on the transcendental activities of the Lord Sri Krsna No edit summary current
- 03:1703:17, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Hariscandra had no son and was therefore extremely morose. Once, therefore, following the advice of Narada, he took shelter of Varuna and said to him "My lord I have no son. Would you kindly give me one?" No edit summary current
- 03:0703:07, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Dhruva Maharaja, having arrived at Madhuvana, took his bath in the River Yamuna and observed fasting in the night with great care and attention. After that, as advised by the great sage Narada, he engaged himself in worshiping the Supreme Person No edit summary current
- 03:0503:05, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Dhruva Maharaja was determined to achieve the benediction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore Narada advised him to go back home for the time being, and in mature time he could try to practice devotional service No edit summary current
- 02:4802:48, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Dhruva Maharaja regretted that he had rejected the advice of Narada Muni and was adamant in asking him for something perishable, namely revenge against his stepmother for her insult, and possession of the kingdom of his father (King Uttanapada) No edit summary current
- 02:4502:45, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Both Narada Muni and Suniti, the mother of Dhruva Maharaja, advised Dhruva Maharaja to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Now, Narada Muni is especially giving him directions how this worship of the Supreme Person can very quickly fructify No edit summary current
- 02:4302:43, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 Because the great sage Narada was aware of the nature of the demon Vrkasura, he did not advise him to approach Visnu or Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 02:3502:35, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 As indicated in verse 79 (SB 4.29.79), Narada Muni advised King Pracinabarhi to take to devotional service rather than waste time performing ritualistic ceremonies and fruitive activities No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2 According to the advice of Narada Muni, one should directly engage in devotional service. This will include all pious activity No edit summary current
3 November 2023
- 18:4118:41, 3 November 2023 diff hist +25 While living one may be proud of one's body, thinking oneself a very big man, minister, president or even demigod, but whatever one may be, after death this body will turn either into worms, into stool or into ashes - SB 10.10.10 No edit summary current
- 18:3518:35, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is here (in SB 3.32.18) described as hari-medhah, or "He who can deliver one from the cycle of birth and death." No edit summary current
- 18:3218:32, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44 The statement in Bhagavad-gita that the mental situation at the time of death is the basis of the next birth is also corroborated in this verse - SB 3.26.34 No edit summary current
- 18:2618:26, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44 The real purpose of life is to remember Krsna when one's life comes to an end (ante narayana-smrtih (SB 2.1.6)). If at the time of death one can remember Krsna, one's life is successful No edit summary current
- 18:2018:20, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44 The cycle of repeated birth and death is figuratively described herein - SB 8.5.28 No edit summary current
- 18:1618:16, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44 There is no birth, death, old age and disease. That eternal land is full of transcendental enjoyment and full of beauty and bliss. This very fact is also corroborated in this verse of SB (2.6.18) and the transcendental nature is described as amrta No edit summary current
31 October 2023
- 20:5720:57, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 We are talking on the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The subject matter is how one shall transfer himself from this material world to the spiritual world and thereby stop birth, death, old age and disease. This is the whole subject matter No edit summary current
- 20:5520:55, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Those who are not strictly in the Vaisnava discipline should not make a business of this Bhagavatam and become a cause of spiritual death for so many hearers No edit summary current
- 20:5020:50, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 This is the first verse, the first chapter of Second Canto Srimad-Bhagavatam, spoken by Sukadeva Gosvami. Sukadeva Gosvami came to the scene when Maharaja Pariksit was on the verge of his death. So he was perplexed what to do at the time of death No edit summary
- 18:5918:59, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 This bhagavata-dharma means that how to get out of these four defects of material life, or four miserable condition of material life - birth, death, old age and disease - and get eternal, blissful life of knowledge No edit summary current
- 18:5718:57, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 The Srimad-Bhagavatam instructs that no body should become father or mother if they cannot take this responsibility, namely, stopping the repeated birth and death cycle of their children No edit summary current
- 18:5518:55, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 The Bhagavat also says that no one should become the parent unless he can deliver the child from the clutches of death. So it is your duty to make this baby KC so that he may not have to take birth again No edit summary current
- 18:5118:51, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 The Bhagavata says: "One should not become a father, one should not become a mother, unless they are able to protect the children from the imminent danger of death." What is that? The cycle of birth and death No edit summary current
- 18:4818:48, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 There is a similarity between the prayers of Lord Caitanya and the statements of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Lord Caitanya prays, "in life after life," indicating that a devotee does not even desire the cessation of birth and death No edit summary current
- 18:4618:46, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 That is Bhagavatam's instruction: "Don't accept guru, don't accept father, don't accept . . . or don't be father, don't be mother, don't be . . . if you cannot stop death." Either you don't accept, or don't become No edit summary current
- 18:4418:44, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Sukadeva Gosvami epitomizes the proper reciter for Srimad-Bhagavatam, and Pariksit Maharaja, who purposefully left his kingdom and family prior to meeting death, epitomizes the person fit to hear it No edit summary
- 18:4018:40, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Sukadeva Gosvami, the son of Vyasadeva, in his turn delivered the Bhagavatam to the great Emperor Pariksit, who sat surrounded by sages on the bank of the Ganges, awaiting death without taking food or drink No edit summary
- 18:3818:38, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Srimad-Bhagavatam says that we should try for the highest achievement, and complete it before the next death comes No edit summary current
- 18:3618:36, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Srimad-Bhagavatam is the post-graduate study of knowledge for one who has thoroughly understood the principles of the BG. Unfortunately people have no taste for them, and therefore they are under the clutches of maya for repetition of birth and death No edit summary current
- 18:3418:34, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Simply by understanding the Supreme Lord, one goes beyond birth, death, old age and disease. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami advised Maharaja Pariksit in Srimad-Bhagavatam - in SB 2.1.5 No edit summary
- 18:3318:33, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Simply by hearing, you become perfect. Just like Pariksit Maharaja. At the time of point of his death, he had no time to perform any yajna or any big, big thing. He simply heard Srimad-Bhagavatam carefully - and he became perfect simply by hearing No edit summary current
- 17:3717:37, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Just utilize the opportunity to finish the business of Krishna Consciousness, without waiting for further incarnation. Srimad-Bhagavatam says that we should try for the highest achievement, and complete it before the next death comes No edit summary current
- 17:2617:26, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 In some editions of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the text of the last line of this verse reads anyatra kupitad dvijat, which means that the King might be overwhelmed by the thought of his imminent death by snakebite No edit summary current
- 17:2117:21, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 In the Third Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam we are informed that those who are expert in fruitive activities and sacrificial methods on earth attain to the moon at death. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 17:1217:12, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Krsna Consciousness means to be on the platform of deathlessness. Every sloka in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam is informing us of this. If you read these books carefully you will understand this platform of deathlessness No edit summary
- 17:0617:06, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 Kumbhipaka, a type of hellish condition, is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.26.13), wherein it is said that a person who cooks living birds and beasts to satisfy his tongue is brought before Yamaraja after death and punished in the Kumbhipaka hell No edit summary
- 17:0117:01, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 On the path of bondage, one eternally undergoes the repetition of birth and death. One who desires liberation from such bondage should join the ISKCON and thus take advantage of the opportunity to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from devotees No edit summary current
- 16:5316:53, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto, it is stated that an individual soul, after his death, is put into the womb of a mother where he gets a particular type of body under the supervision of superior power. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 16:4516:45, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.5.4) it is said: A materialistic person, madly engaged in activities for sense enjoyment, does not know that he is entangling himself in repeated birth and death and that his body, although temporary, is full of miseries No edit summary current
- 16:2916:29, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44 As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.5.18), pita na sa syat: one should not become a father unless one is able to protect his child from mrtyu, the path of birth and death. But where is there education about this No edit summary current
- 16:2716:27, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 Whoever, at the time of death, quits his body remembering Me (Krsna) alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt No edit summary Tag: Manual revert
- 16:2616:26, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 Your devotional service will be tested at the time of death. Because yam yam vapi smaram loke tyajaty ante kalevaram (BG 8.6). At the time of death, if we can remember Krsna, narayana-smrtih, that is all success No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:2516:25, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 Your choice, make your choice, which way. Again death or deathlessness. Stop death from you. This is human life. The karmis, jnanis, yogis, they're trying for death. There will be death. But for the bhaktas, devotees, there is deathlessness No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:2516:25, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 Your death is stopped from the point where you begin Krsna consciousness No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:2416:24, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 You may be very much advanced in scientific knowledge, but you cannot stop death. That is not possible. Neither you can stop old age, neither you can stop birth No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:2316:23, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 You must decide whether you want to stop this evolutionary process, cycle of birth and death, and go back to home, back to Godhead, or if you want to continue again the cycle of birth and death No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:2216:22, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 You prepare yourself for higher standard of life or to make a permanent solution of your miserable condition of life, namely birth, death, old age and disease. This is required. This is human business, or dharma No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:2116:21, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 You will find at the time of death, in coma, his eye drops are coming out. He is thinking, "I made so many things so nicely to live comfortably, and now I am losing everything." Great distress No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:2016:20, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 You will be judged after your death, every one of us. Of course, if he takes Krsna consciousness seriously, then the path is automatic. Automatically you go back to home, back to Godhead. There is no question of judgment No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:1916:19, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 You simply desire, and it will be fulfilled in your next life. Desire means if you strongly desire till the point of your death, then next life you are going to get No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:1816:18, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 You should become a perfect human being. Purify your existence. Why you are subjected to birth, death, old age and disease? Because we are impure. Now, if we purify our existence, then there will be no such thing as birth, death, old age and disease No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:1716:17, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 After the results of one's sacrifices, charity and other pious activities expire, one must return to the lower planetary systems and again feel the pangs of birth and death. However, one who becomes Krsna conscious can go back to Krsna No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:1616:16, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 All your chants that you are practicing, this will be tested at the time of death. If you can remember Krsna, Hare Krsna, hari-kirtana, at the time of death, then you are successful No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 16:1516:15, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44 After the death of Dantavakra, just as at the time of Sisupala's death, in the presence of all the persons standing there a small particle of spiritual effulgence came out of the demon’s body and very wonderfully merged into the body of Lord Krsna No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
30 October 2023
- 21:4821:48, 30 October 2023 diff hist +44 Whoever, at the time of death, quits his body remembering Me (Krsna) alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt No edit summary
- 21:4121:41, 30 October 2023 diff hist +44 Your devotional service will be tested at the time of death. Because yam yam vapi smaram loke tyajaty ante kalevaram (BG 8.6). At the time of death, if we can remember Krsna, narayana-smrtih, that is all success No edit summary
- 21:3721:37, 30 October 2023 diff hist +44 Your choice, make your choice, which way. Again death or deathlessness. Stop death from you. This is human life. The karmis, jnanis, yogis, they're trying for death. There will be death. But for the bhaktas, devotees, there is deathlessness No edit summary
- 21:3421:34, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 After the death of Dantavakra, just as at the time of Sisupala's death, in the presence of all the persons standing there a small particle of spiritual effulgence came out of the demon’s body and very wonderfully merged into the body of Lord Krsna No edit summary
- 21:3321:33, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 All your chants that you are practicing, this will be tested at the time of death. If you can remember Krsna, Hare Krsna, hari-kirtana, at the time of death, then you are successful No edit summary
- 21:3321:33, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 After the results of one's sacrifices, charity and other pious activities expire, one must return to the lower planetary systems and again feel the pangs of birth and death. However, one who becomes Krsna conscious can go back to Krsna No edit summary
- 21:3221:32, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 You simply desire, and it will be fulfilled in your next life. Desire means if you strongly desire till the point of your death, then next life you are going to get No edit summary
- 21:3121:31, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 You will be judged after your death, every one of us. Of course, if he takes Krsna consciousness seriously, then the path is automatic. Automatically you go back to home, back to Godhead. There is no question of judgment No edit summary
- 21:3021:30, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 You will find at the time of death, in coma, his eye drops are coming out. He is thinking, "I made so many things so nicely to live comfortably, and now I am losing everything." Great distress No edit summary
- 21:3021:30, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 You prepare yourself for higher standard of life or to make a permanent solution of your miserable condition of life, namely birth, death, old age and disease. This is required. This is human business, or dharma No edit summary
- 21:2821:28, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 You may be very much advanced in scientific knowledge, but you cannot stop death. That is not possible. Neither you can stop old age, neither you can stop birth No edit summary
- 21:2721:27, 30 October 2023 diff hist +44 Your death is stopped from the point where you begin Krsna consciousness No edit summary
- 21:2121:21, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 You may be very much advanced in scientific knowledge, but you cannot stop death. That is not possible. Neither you can stop old age, neither you can stop birth No edit summary
- 21:1921:19, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 You must decide whether you want to stop this evolutionary process, cycle of birth and death, and go back to home, back to Godhead, or if you want to continue again the cycle of birth and death No edit summary
- 21:1621:16, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 You must decide whether you want to stop this evolutionary process, cycle of birth and death, and go back to home, back to Godhead, or if you want to continue again the cycle of birth and death No edit summary
- 21:1421:14, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 You prepare yourself for higher standard of life or to make a permanent solution of your miserable condition of life, namely birth, death, old age and disease. This is required. This is human business, or dharma No edit summary
- 21:1221:12, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 You will find at the time of death, in coma, his eye drops are coming out. He is thinking, "I made so many things so nicely to live comfortably, and now I am losing everything." Great distress No edit summary
- 21:0921:09, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 You will be judged after your death, every one of us. Of course, if he takes Krsna consciousness seriously, then the path is automatic. Automatically you go back to home, back to Godhead. There is no question of judgment No edit summary
- 21:0521:05, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 You simply desire, and it will be fulfilled in your next life. Desire means if you strongly desire till the point of your death, then next life you are going to get No edit summary
- 21:0121:01, 30 October 2023 diff hist +1 You should become a perfect human being. Purify your existence. Why you are subjected to birth, death, old age and disease? Because we are impure. Now, if we purify our existence, then there will be no such thing as birth, death, old age and disease No edit summary
- 20:5820:58, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 You should become a perfect human being. Purify your existence. Why you are subjected to birth, death, old age and disease? Because we are impure. Now, if we purify our existence, then there will be no such thing as birth, death, old age and disease No edit summary
- 20:4720:47, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 After the results of one's sacrifices, charity and other pious activities expire, one must return to the lower planetary systems and again feel the pangs of birth and death. However, one who becomes Krsna conscious can go back to Krsna No edit summary
- 20:3720:37, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 All your chants that you are practicing, this will be tested at the time of death. If you can remember Krsna, Hare Krsna, hari-kirtana, at the time of death, then you are successful No edit summary
- 20:3120:31, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 After saving the boys and calves from the mouth of Aghasura, who was death personified, Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, brought them all to the bank of the river and spoke the following words - SB 10.13.4 No edit summary
- 20:2620:26, 30 October 2023 diff hist +43 After the death of Dantavakra, just as at the time of Sisupala's death, in the presence of all the persons standing there a small particle of spiritual effulgence came out of the demon’s body and very wonderfully merged into the body of Lord Krsna No edit summary
27 October 2023
- 20:1120:11, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 He (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) points out eleven factors in the sloka, namely (1) atmarama, (2) munayah, (3) nirgrantha, (4) api, (5) ca, (6) urukrama, (7) kurvanti, (8) ahaitukim, (9) bhaktim, (10) ittham-bhuta-gunah and (11) harih No edit summary current
- 20:0920:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 When everyone heard Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's explanation of the atmarama-sloka, everyone was astonished and struck with wonder. They concluded that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was none other than Lord Krsna Himself No edit summary current
- 20:0720:07, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 When all the people gathered there expressed the desire to hear again the sixty-one different meanings of the atmarama-sloka, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu again explained them No edit summary current
- 20:0520:05, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu explained this atmarama sloka very vividly before His chief devotee Srila Sanatana Gosvami No edit summary
- 20:0320:03, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 Everyone who heard the explanations of the Atmarama sloka was amazed. Indeed, everyone considered Lord Caitanya to be none other than Sri Krsna Himself No edit summary current
- 20:0220:02, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 Everyone assembled was very eager to hear the different versions of the Atmarama sloka again, and since they were so eager, Lord Caitanya again explained the sloka in the same way that He had explained it to Sanatana Gosvami No edit summary
- 20:0020:00, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 Bhattacarya began to explain the Atmarama sloka, using his methods of logic and grammar. Thus he explained the Atmarama sloka in nine different ways No edit summary current
- 19:5819:58, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 At the request of Bhattacarya, Lord Caitanya explained the Atmarama sloka. The words of the verse were analyzed thus: (11) harih. This verse has already been explained in the Lord's teachings to Sanatana Gosvami No edit summary
- 19:5619:56, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 At the request of Bhattacarya, Lord Caitanya explained the Atmarama sloka. The words of the verse were analyzed thus: (1) atmaramah, (2) ca, (3) munayah, (4) nirgranthah, (5) api, (6) , (7) kurvanti, (8) ahaitukim, (9) bhaktim, (10) itthambhuta-gunah No edit summary current
- 19:5519:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 After hearing the explanation of the atmarama sloka from the Lord, the Bhattacarya was convinced that such a scholarly presentation is impossible for an earthly creature No edit summary current
- 18:2518:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12 When things are done for others, the verb form changes to kurvanti. Thus Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu informed Sanatana Gosvami that in the atmarama verse the verb kurvanti means that things should be done only for the satisfaction of Krsna No edit summary
- 18:2118:21, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 Upon hearing Caitanya Mahaprabhu's explanation of the atmarama verse, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya was struck with wonder. He then understood Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be Krsna in person, and he thus condemned himself in the following words No edit summary current