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3 March 2022

• 16:0216:02, 3 March 2022 diff hist −19‎ Vipra-sasana is a word generally used in the Orissa province to indicate the quarters where brahmanas live ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5615:56, 3 March 2022 diff hist +1,398‎ The man's being a vipra is known, but his erudition is unknown. Therefore the person is identified first and his erudition later ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5415:54, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,694‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave us His opinion in the verse kiba vipra kiba nyasi, etc. This indicates that the Lord understood the weakness of society in its maintaining that only a grhastha-brahmana should be a spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5015:50, 3 March 2022 diff hist +6,222‎ It is evident from Lord Krsna’s dealings with Sudama Vipra that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very, very much pleased with a person who possesses brahminical qualities ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4915:49, 3 March 2022 diff hist +5,072‎ A qualified brahmana like Sudama Vipra is naturally a devotee of Lord Krsna. Therefore it is said, brahmano vaisnavah: a brahmana is a Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4715:47, 3 March 2022 diff hist +1,749‎ Indeed, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu eagerly tore this page from the Kurma Purana, although the book was very old, and He later showed it to Ramadasa Vipra, whose unhappiness was mitigated ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4015:40, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,748‎ Because of His great respect for brahmanas Krsna embraced Sudama Vipra, although he was not a regular brahmana but a brahma-bandhu, or friend of a brahmana family ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3915:39, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,294‎ A vipra means he has the twelve qualifications, and he also has the qualification of faith. I don't understand exactly what it means when Prahlada Maharaja says that I should be meditating on a follower who has no faith in God or God watching him ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 3 March 2022 diff hist +3,870‎ As you have recommended him, I am glad to accept Karnamrta das for second initiation. Enclosed find one sacred thread duly chanted by me, and you may hold a fire yagna and give him gayatri mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4906:49, 3 March 2022 diff hist +6,139‎ The word sva-dharmam indicates that the system of varnasrama - which indicates the occupational duties of the brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra and which is the perfect institution for humanity - must be supported by bhakti-yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4806:48, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,358‎ Unfortunately the modern brahmanas, or so-called brahmanas who come in originally brahminical families, have left their own occupational duties, but they do not allow others to occupy the posts of brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 3 March 2022 diff hist +5,910‎ The sastras enjoin that even though a brahmana may be well versed in the occupational brahminical duties and may be very learned in Vedic knowledge, he cannot give advice as a guru until he is a Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 3 March 2022 diff hist +3,122‎ The occupational duty of a brahmana should not be accepted by persons in lower social orders, especially vaisyas and sudras ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4006:40, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,777‎ The occupational duty of a brahmana is certainly in the mode of goodness, but if a person is not by nature in the mode of goodness, he should not imitate the occupational duty of a brahmana. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0906:09, 3 March 2022 diff hist +3,631‎ Just as it is the duty of the brahmanas to elect a proper king, it is the duty of the king to see that all the varnas-brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra - are fully engaged in their respective occupational duties ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 3 March 2022 diff hist +5,523‎ Brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras and everyone are engaged in their occupational duty, but if one remembers his first duty - keeping in constant contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead - everything will be successful ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2305:23, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,553‎ A leader should train the people as brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras and engage them in various occupational duties, thus helping them progress toward Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,302‎ A brahmana especially should execute his occupational duties not for material gain but to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The ksatriya, vaisya and sudra should work in a similar way ‎No edit summary
• 05:1705:17, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,500‎ A brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or sudra can perfect his occupational duties only by rendering service unto the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1305:13, 3 March 2022 diff hist +3,229‎ An occupational duty of the brahmana is to teach Vedic knowledge, but unless there is an emergency, this professional duty should not be accepted by the ksatriyas, vaisyas or sudras ‎No edit summary

2 March 2022

• 13:1413:14, 2 March 2022 diff hist +17,259‎ Vipratve sutram eva hi (SB 12.2.3): in Kali-yuga, simply by putting on a thread worth two paise, one becomes a brahmana. Such brahmanas were not called for by Nanda Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 2 March 2022 diff hist +6,935‎ Unfortunately, in this age of Kali, the executive is not selected by very intelligent people, nor is he guided by qualified brahmanas. Consequently, chaos results ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 2 March 2022 diff hist +6,740‎ This system of visiting places of pilgrimage and providing the local brahmana priests with all necessities of life has greatly deteriorated in this Age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 March 2022 diff hist +4,709‎ This instruction by Krsna to the brahmana is very significant. The purport is that a true brahmana should not be disturbed in any situation. In this modern age, Kali-yuga, the so-called brahmanas have accepted the abominable position of sudras ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 2 March 2022 diff hist +4,264‎ This (the neglect of the real qualification of a brahmana) is all due to the influence of the age of Kali. Thus mother earth, represented as a cow, was lamenting the regrettable condition ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 2 March 2022 diff hist +4,280‎ The third curse inflicted by Nandisvara on the brahmanas who supported Daksa is completely functioning in the age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 2 March 2022 diff hist +7,370‎ The so-called brahmanas of the Kali-yuga are sometimes very proud that a great brahmana like Bhrgu Muni could touch the chest of Lord Visnu with his foot ‎No edit summary
• 12:3912:39, 2 March 2022 diff hist +2,910‎ The inexperienced brahmana, puffed up by a little brahma-tejas, became influenced by the spell of Kali-yuga ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 2 March 2022 diff hist +3,905‎ The downfall of the brahminical powers began as they gave importance to birthright without culture. The downfall of the brahmana caste began in the age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 2 March 2022 diff hist +4,910‎ The demons who acted inimically toward the Personality of Godhead but were not killed by the Lord were allowed to take birth in the families of brahmanas to take advantage of the age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2812:28, 2 March 2022 diff hist +2,823‎ The beginning of the misuse of brahminical power began, and gradually the brahmanas in the age of Kali became devoid of both brahminical powers and culture ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3908:39, 2 March 2022 diff hist +3,427‎ They (brahmanas, sannyasis and ksatriyas) are meant for full cooperation for common welfare. Maharaja Pariksit was experienced enough to drive away Kali from his field of activities and thereby make the state receptive to spiritual enlightenment ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 2 March 2022 diff hist +4,734‎ There are different kinds of men, beginning with the brahmana and going down to the lowest platform, candala. Whatever one’s position, everyone in this Age of Kali needs to be enlightened in Krsna consciousness. That is the greatest need of the day ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 2 March 2022 diff hist +3,948‎ Such people (the Jains) do not respect the real followers of Vedic principles, the ideal brahmanas. Nor do they have respect for the SPG, the Supreme Brahman. Due to the influence of this age of Kali, they are apt to concoct false religious systems ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 2 March 2022 diff hist +3,539‎ Maharaja Pariksit knew also that the age of Kali had begun and that the first symptom of the age, namely degradation of the highly talented brahmana community, had also begun ‎No edit summary
• 08:0208:02, 2 March 2022 diff hist +8,082‎ In this Age of Kali there is no such learned brahmana or priest available; therefore, all such sacrifices are forbidden. The only sacrifice recommended in the sastras is the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0108:01, 2 March 2022 diff hist +2,796‎ In this age of Kali there are no powerful brahmanas who can invite the demigods or give renewed life to animals ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 2 March 2022 diff hist +29,615‎ In the present age, Kali-yuga, animal sacrifices are forbidden because there are no expert brahmanas who can properly perform the yajna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4507:45, 2 March 2022 diff hist +3,437‎ In the age of Kali, the women and the children, along with brahmanas and cows, will be grossly neglected and left unprotected ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4007:40, 2 March 2022 diff hist +8,330‎ In the age of Kali, taking advantage of the fact that by feeding a brahmana one obtains a more effective result than by performing sacrifices ‎No edit summary current

1 March 2022

• 10:4910:49, 1 March 2022 diff hist +4,188‎ In Kali-yuga, the first attack of the venomous snake strikes against the God-made varnasrama-dharma, & thus a person properly qualified as a brahmana is called a sudra, & a sudra by qualification is passing as a brahmana, all on a false birthright claim ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4810:48, 1 March 2022 diff hist +4,670‎ In Kali-yuga, especially at the present moment, there is no such thing as a real brahmana, and therefore society is in a chaotic condition ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4710:47, 1 March 2022 diff hist +8,897‎ In Kali-yuga, caste brahmanas are accepted as brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 1 March 2022 diff hist +28,166‎ In Kali-yuga, brahmana means one two-paisa thread ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 1 March 2022 diff hist +2,615‎ Hatred of the lower orders of life began from this brahmana boy, under the influence of Kali, and thus cultural life began to dwindle day after day ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 1 March 2022 diff hist +3,053‎ Gradually the brahmana families have become degraded because of the contamination of Kali-yuga. Thus they misguide people by exploiting their sentiments ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 1 March 2022 diff hist +2,227‎ Formerly there were powerful brahmanas who could make such experiments using Vedic hymns, but now, because of the Kali-yuga, brahmanas are not so powerful. Therefore the killing of cows and bulls for rejuvenation is forbidden ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 1 March 2022 diff hist +4,545‎ Fallen conditioned souls are not worthy to be called brahmanas, but in Kali-yuga they claim to be brahmanas, and if a person actually tries to attain the brahminical qualifications they try to hinder his progress. This is the situation in the present age ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2210:22, 1 March 2022 diff hist +8,069‎ Different varieties of sacrifices are recommended for different purposes, but the mantras are all to be chanted by qualified brahmanas. Because in this Age of Kali such qualified brahmanas are not available, all Vedic ritualistic sacrifices are forbidden ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 1 March 2022 diff hist +3,809‎ By the influence of Kali, the son of a brahmana became puffed up with brahminical power and thus wrongly compared Maharaja Pariksit to crows and watchdogs ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 1 March 2022 diff hist +2,450‎ By chanting the Vedic mantras properly in a sacrifice, one can perform many wonderful things. In Kali-yuga, however, there are no qualified brahmanas who can chant the mantras properly. Consequently no attempt should be made to perform such big sacrifices ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 1 March 2022 diff hist +5,041‎ At present, in the age of Kali, it is very difficult to render service to the brahmana-kula, or the brahmana class. The difficulty, according to the Varaha Purana, is that demons, taking advantage of Kali-yuga, have taken birth in brahmana families ‎No edit summary current

28 February 2022

• 13:3913:39, 28 February 2022 diff hist +5,041‎ The brahmanas represent His mouth, the ksatriyas His arms, the vaisyas His thighs, and the sudras are born of His legs ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 28 February 2022 diff hist +3,208‎ The brahmanas were created from the mouth of the Supreme Person, and therefore they are meant to spread the knowledge of the Vedas in order to spread the glories of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 28 February 2022 diff hist +5,530‎ The main qualification of a brahmana is to be inclined to the Vedic wisdom. The Vedas are situated on the mouth of the Lord, and therefore anyone who is inclined to the Vedic wisdom is certainly situated on the mouth of the Lord, and he is a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 28 February 2022 diff hist +5,643‎ If other parts are cut off from the body, a man can continue his life, but if the mouth is cut off, one cannot live. This most important part of the body of the Lord is called the sitting place of the brahmanas, who are inclined to the Vedic wisdom ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 28 February 2022 diff hist +5,158‎ Brahmanas are born from the mouth of the universal form of Visnu, the ksatriyas are born from His arms, the vaisyas from His abdomen or waist, and the sudras from His legs. In the formation of a body, the head is the principal factor ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 28 February 2022 diff hist +5,309‎ As stated before, the brahmanas are produced from the mouth of the Lord, and the ksatriyas are produced from the chest or arms of the Lord ‎No edit summary

27 February 2022

• 13:1513:15, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,502‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is everlastingly independent and who exists in everyone's heart, is very pleased with those who follow in His footsteps and engage without reservation in the service of the descendants of brahmanas and Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 27 February 2022 diff hist +4,858‎ Unless one is self-satisfied, he cannot be free from the miserable conditions of material existence. Therefore it is essential to render service to the brahmanas and Vaisnavas to achieve the perfection of self-satisfaction ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 27 February 2022 diff hist +2,932‎ These services can be offered to the Supreme Person not directly but through the service of brahmanas and Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,737‎ Lord Krsna is very much pleased by service rendered to brahmanas, and when the Lord is pleased, the opulence of one's devotional service increases ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 27 February 2022 diff hist +7,729‎ Kumari Kunti, at her father's house, used to minister all kinds of services to all great brahmanas, and being satisfied with her good reception Durvasa Muni blessed her with a power to call any demigod she desired ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 27 February 2022 diff hist +4,533‎ Krsna is pleased when a Vaisnava is rendered service. Because the younger brahmana served the older one, Lord Gopala agreed to become a witness of the marriage negotiation in order to maintain the prestige of both devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5012:50, 27 February 2022 diff hist +1,561‎ Indeed, the young brahmana always rendered service to the older one, and the old man, being very satisfied with his service, was pleased with him ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3912:39, 27 February 2022 diff hist +5,616‎ Danaih refers to charity which is offered to a suitable party. such as those who are engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, the brahmanas and the Vaisnavas. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3103:31, 27 February 2022 diff hist −8‎ The social classes can be further characterized as follows: (4) He who has no special knowledge but is satisfied by serving the other three classes (namely brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas) is called a sudra ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2203:22, 27 February 2022 diff hist +5,331‎ The particular use of the word anativelam ("without delay") is very significant because simply by serving brahmanas and Vaisnavas one can get liberation. There is no need to undergo severe penances and austerities ‎No edit summary
• 03:0103:01, 27 February 2022 diff hist +6,996‎ Rukmini continued, 'My dear Lord, in my previous life I may have done public welfare work, digging wells & planting trees, or pious activities such as performing ritualistic ceremonies & sacrifices & serving the spiritual master, brahmanas & Vaisnavas' ‎No edit summary
• 02:5902:59, 27 February 2022 diff hist +4,707‎ In this world there is no fruitive activity superior to serving the brahmana class, for this can bring pleasure to the demigods, for whom the many sacrifices are recommended ‎No edit summary current

26 February 2022

• 16:2016:20, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,553‎ While Lord Caitanya was in the womb of Sacimata, Jagannatha Misra received all these necessities of life (money, cloth, grain, etc) without asking for them. Because of the presence of the Lord in his family, everyone offered him due respect as a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1916:19, 26 February 2022 diff hist +4,439‎ When Sudama Vipra reached Krsna's palace, Krsna received him very well, and both He and His wife washed the feet of Sudama Vipra, showing respect to the brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1716:17, 26 February 2022 diff hist +4,210‎ When a president or king is sitting on his throne, he does not need to show respect to everyone who comes within his assembly, but he must show respect to superiors like his spiritual master, brahmanas and Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1716:17, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,270‎ To transgress the laws of respectful behavior toward the brahmanas is certainly a great offense ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1516:15, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,884‎ The Vaisnava is always the best of the brahmanas, and as such one should offer all respects to a Vaisnava, not only as a brahmana but as the best of the brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,199‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead respects and protects the brahmanas and brahminical culture, as well as the cows; in other words, wherever there are brahmanas and brahminical culture, there are cows and cow protection ‎No edit summary
• 07:1307:13, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,607‎ The Lord says that although He is the predominating factor of the internal energy and although the material world is sanctified just by the water that has washed His feet, He has the greatest respect for the brahmana and the Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,723‎ The Lord's statement that His opulence is due to the benediction of the brahmanas and Vaisnavas is only to teach others that they should offer respect to the brahmanas and Vaisnavas, the devotees of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3906:39, 26 February 2022 diff hist −8‎ These (God or the demigods, the perfect, qualified brahmanas and the spiritual master and superiors like father, mother or any person who is conversant with Vedic knowledge) should be given proper respect. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 06:3306:33, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,384‎ Thereafter they offered the brahmanas highly delicious foodstuffs first offered to the Personality of Godhead and offered their respectful obeisances by touching their heads to the ground. They lived perfectly by protecting the cows and the brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 26 February 2022 diff hist +1,780‎ Thereafter, he should satisfy the brahmanas. When the satisfied brahmanas bestow their blessings, he should devotedly offer them respectful obeisances with his head, and with their permission he should take prasada ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1206:12, 26 February 2022 diff hist +6,061‎ Sudama thought, "He (Krsna) also respects the brahmanas so much that He embraced to His chest such a poor brahmana as me, although He never embraces anyone to His chest except the goddess of fortune" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,015‎ Sages said, "You (Krsna) always hold the brahmanas in respect, and You are considered to be the topmost of all followers of brahminical culture. You are therefore known as brahmanya-deva" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 26 February 2022 diff hist +6,714‎ Rukmini was so elated by the brahmana's message that she wanted to give him in charity everything she possessed. However, finding nothing suitable for presentation, she simply offered him her respectful obeisances ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1203:12, 26 February 2022 diff hist +2,841‎ One should offer, or learn to offer, respect to God or to the demigods, the perfect, qualified brahmanas and the spiritual master and superiors like father, mother or any person who is conversant with Vedic knowledge. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 03:0303:03, 26 February 2022 diff hist +6,479‎ Lord Sri Krsna was playing just like a human being. Because He belonged to the ksatriya division of the social system and was a young boy, it was His duty to show respect to such a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 03:0203:02, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,998‎ Lord Krsna was never reduced in His position by becoming a cowherd boy or by offering respect to Sudama Brahmana or His other devotees like Nanda Maharaja, Vasudeva, Maharaja Yudhisthira and the Pandavas' mother, Kunti ‎No edit summary current

25 February 2022

• 18:1418:14, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,934‎ Krsna said, "You know very well that even I Myself offer My obeisances to the brahmanas with great respect three times daily. You should therefore follow My instruction & example. I shall not forgive anyone who does not follow them & I shall punish him" ‎No edit summary current
• 18:0918:09, 25 February 2022 diff hist +1,974‎ King Prthu thus satisfied and offered all respect to all the leaders of the brahmanas and other castes, to his servants, to his ministers and to the priests, citizens, general countrymen, people from other communities, admirers and others ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1116:11, 25 February 2022 diff hist +7,455‎ Instead of being angry or cursing Bhrgu Muni, Lord Visnu immediately got up from His bed along with His wife, the goddess of fortune, and offered respectful obeisances to the brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1016:10, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,385‎ If the authorities or the leaders of society do not give special respect to the brahmanas then the path of progress will be lost to human civilization. The Lord personally wanted to teach this, and therefore He offered so much praise to the Kumaras ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2215:22, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,311‎ If the authorities or the leaders of society do not give special respect to the brahmanas and Vaisnavas and do not offer them not only sweet words but all facilities, then the path of progress will be lost to human civilization ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,742‎ He (a devotee) should offer respect to the cows and to the brahmanas and should serve the Vaisnavas by offering them respectful obeisances and meditating upon them ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1515:15, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,797‎ For persons who are papistha, very sinful, and duracara, misbehaved or very unclean in their habits, who are against the existence of God, who disrespect Vaisnavas and brahmanas, and who eat anything and everything, untimely death is sure ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 25 February 2022 diff hist +20,670‎ Five items-time, worship, offering of respect, offering of oblation into the fire and offering of food to a brahmana-comprise purascarya. This and other rituals are mentioned in the hari-bhakti-vilasa, the authoritative book of directions ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,029‎ Everyone should respect the position of a brahmana, as indicated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu (in CC Adi 17.9). Neither the Lord nor His followers displayed any disrespect to brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,440‎ Dear Lord, we have studied the Vedas, accepted a spiritual master and offered respect to brahmanas, advanced devotees and aged personalities who are spiritually very advanced ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,621‎ Being thus ordered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all the boys went to the brahmanas and began to ask for some charity. They approached them with folded hands and fell down on the ground to offer respect ‎No edit summary current

24 February 2022

• 17:1317:13, 24 February 2022 diff hist +3,234‎ Asvatthama may be respected by a good-natured woman, but that does not mean that he is as good as a genuine brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 16:5116:51, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,449‎ Accompanied by mother Sita and Laksmana, Lord Ramacandra then offered His respectful obeisances unto the learned brahmanas and the elderly persons in the family, and all the citizens of Ayodhya offered their respectful obeisances unto the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 24 February 2022 diff hist +7,009‎ The wives of the brahmanas said, "We have surrendered unto Your lotus feet, which are covered by tulasi leaves, so we have no desire to give up the shelter of Your lotus feet and return to the company of our so-called relatives, friends and society" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 24 February 2022 diff hist +3,517‎ This is an instance of a marriage negotiation between an elderly brahmana & a youthful one. The elderly brahmana was certainly willing to give his daughter in charity to the young brahmana, but his son & relatives became impediments to this transaction ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 24 February 2022 diff hist +1,950‎ He (a brahmana) should offer oblations to the relatives of the forefathers during the mahalaya ceremonies in the month of Asvina ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,307‎ When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu was a newborn baby, He was visited by the neighboring ladies, most of whom were the wives of respectable brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0805:08, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,508‎ The victimized Ajamila engaged in sinful acts in her association because his intelligence was pierced by the lustful glance of the prostitute. He even gave up the company of his very beautiful young wife, who came from a very respectable brahmana family ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,261‎ The twenty-second devotee, Krsnadasa, was born of a pure and respectable brahmana family. While touring southern India, Lord Caitanya took Krsnadasa with Him ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 24 February 2022 diff hist +4,955‎ The slaughter of animals is also restricted by certain rules and regulations in the Vedas. Considering these points, there was no reason to kill Jada Bharata, who was born in a respectable, highly exalted brahmana family ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0105:01, 24 February 2022 diff hist −33‎ The descendants of Madhai still exist, and they are respectable brahmanas. The tombs of these two brothers, Jagai and Madhai, are in a place known as Ghosahata, or Madhaitala-grama, which is situated about one mile south of Katwa ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 24 February 2022 diff hist +5,758‎ The cowherd boys said, "You (the brahmanas) are the most respectable brahmanas within the human society, and you are expected to know all the principles of religious procedure" ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 24 February 2022 diff hist +3,155‎ The brahmanas especially were known as saj-jana, or respectable gentlemen who guided the entire society. If there were disputes in the village, people would approach these respectable brahmanas to settle them ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5304:53, 24 February 2022 diff hist +17,076‎ Sri Sanatana Gosvami, although he belonged to a most respectable brahmana family, was exceptional for his humility and meekness ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0902:09, 24 February 2022 diff hist −33‎ Ordinary people saw them (celestial ladies like the wives of Lord Brahma and Lord Siva) as respectable brahmana ladies of the neighborhood , but actually they were all celestial ladies dressed in that way ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0802:08, 24 February 2022 diff hist +8,021‎ On this occasion (of Krsna's first birthday), mother Yasoda arranged to distribute a large quantity of grain, and first-class cows decorated with golden ornaments were made ready to be given in charity to the learned, respectable brahmanas ‎No edit summary current

23 February 2022

• 08:1408:14, 23 February 2022 diff hist +1,823‎ One should perfectly honor the respectable brahmanas one has fed, and then, after taking their permission, one should take prasada with his friends and relatives ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 23 February 2022 diff hist +1,100‎ One respectable brahmana named Sri Gunarnava Misra was serving the Deity ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 23 February 2022 diff hist −33‎ Nilambara Cakravarti used to call them (Raghunatha dasa's father and uncle) his younger brothers because both of them were very much devoted to the brahmanas and were very respectable gentlemen ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 23 February 2022 diff hist +40,305‎ Jagai and Madhai were born in respectable brahmana families, but they adopted the professions of thieves and rogues and thus became implicated in all kinds of undesirable activities, especially woman-hunting, intoxication and gambling ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 23 February 2022 diff hist +3,498‎ Jagai & Madhai were born in respectable brahmana families, but they adopted the professions of thieves and rogues and thus became implicated in all kinds of undesirable activities, especially woman-hunting, intoxication and gambling ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 23 February 2022 diff hist +5,133‎ In this way, Kamalakara Pippalai became the worshiper of Lord Jagannatha, and since then his family members have been designated as Adhikari, which means - one who is empowered to worship the Lord.These Adhikaris belong to a respectable brahmana family ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0208:02, 23 February 2022 diff hist +4,185‎ In the Bhakti-ratnakara it is clearly stated that because Sakara Mallika & Dabira Khasa associated with lower-class men, they introduced themselves as belonging to the lower classes. Actually, however, they had been born in respectable brahmana families ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 23 February 2022 diff hist +1,565‎ He kept one-fourth of his wealth with a respectable brahmana. He kept this for his personal safety because he was expecting some legal complications ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 23 February 2022 diff hist +17,494‎ He (Sanatana Gosvami) actually belonged to a respectable brahmana family, but because he considered his behavior to be abominable, he did not try to place himself among the brahmanas but always remained among people of the lower castes ‎No edit summary
• 05:3605:36, 23 February 2022 diff hist +4,159‎ He (Kesava Kasmiri) got the title dig-vijayi, which means - one who has conquered everyone in all directions - He belonged to a very respectable brahmana family of Kashmir ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 23 February 2022 diff hist +8,834‎ Here a Hindu coming from very respectable brahmana family and another man is coming from the dog-eater's family. It doesn't matter. As soon as one becomes Vaisnava he is classless society ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3105:31, 23 February 2022 diff hist +1,516‎ Hearing that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had come, all the respectable members of the brahmana and ksatriya communities came to see Him ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1405:14, 23 February 2022 diff hist +2,737‎ Gentlemen, every night I worship the goddess Bhavani. Since the paraphernalia for the worship is present here, now all you respectable brahmanas and members of the higher castes can understand my position ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0505:05, 23 February 2022 diff hist +5,714‎ Different types of galleries were arranged for respectable persons - kings, brahmanas and ksatriyas. The various kings had reserved thrones, and others had arranged seats also ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3104:31, 23 February 2022 diff hist +15,117‎ Becoming very angry at Romaharsana, Balarama declared from His seat, "This man, Romaharsana, is so impudent that he has accepted a higher seat than that of all the respectable brahmanas present here, although he was born in a degraded pratiloma family" ‎No edit summary

22 February 2022

• 17:5517:55, 22 February 2022 diff hist +4,291‎ Although the two brothers, Rupa and Sanatana (at that time Dabira Khasa and Sakara Mallika), presented themselves as being born in a low family, they nonetheless belonged to a most respectable brahmana family that was originally from Karnata ‎No edit summary
• 17:5517:55, 22 February 2022 diff hist +6,862‎ As Sridhara Svami says, pujyatvam: he immediately becomes as respectable as a most learned brahmana and can be allowed to perform Vedic sacrifices ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5317:53, 22 February 2022 diff hist +5,485‎ A very respectable brahmana in Calcutta never took a doctor's medicine. Even though he sometimes felt sick, he would not accept medicine from the physician but would simply drink Ganges water, and he was always cured within a very short time ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5117:51, 22 February 2022 diff hist +4,748‎ Although brahmanas would go door to door just like beggars, they were honored as very respectable guests. This was the system in Hindu society five hundred years ago, during the time of Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3616:36, 22 February 2022 diff hist +2,136‎ All sorts of respectable brahmana gentlemen and ladies, carrying plates filled with various gifts, came with their presentations. Seeing the newborn child, whose form resembled natural glaring gold, all of them happily offered their blessings ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3416:34, 22 February 2022 diff hist +3,477‎ Actually Sanatana Gosvami belonged to a very respectable brahmana family. Nonetheless, he submitted himself as a fallen, lowborn person because he had served in the Muslim government ‎No edit summary
• 08:1708:17, 22 February 2022 diff hist +4,464‎ All the brahmanas who were engaged in the various activities of the sacrifice were very pleased with Lord Ramacandra, who was greatly affectionate and favorable to the brahmanas. Thus with melted hearts they returned all the property received from Him ‎No edit summary
• 07:3307:33, 22 February 2022 diff hist +7,407‎ Lord Krsna said, "If someone takes away the property of a very liberal brahmana who is encumbered by a large dependent family, then such a usurper is put into the hell known as Kumbhipaka" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5705:57, 22 February 2022 diff hist +5,818‎ Lord Krsna said, "He (who even wishes to possess property of Brahmana) will be defeated by his enemies, and after being bereft of his royal position, when he gives up his body he will become a serpent, giving trouble to all other living entities" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5605:56, 22 February 2022 diff hist +7,473‎ Lord Krsna said, "A person who takes away a brahmana's property, whether it was originally given by him or by someone else, is condemned to live for at least sixty thousand years as a miserable insect in stool" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 22 February 2022 diff hist +10,013‎ For ordinary poison there is treatment - one can be relieved from its effects - but if one drinks the poison of taking a brahmana's property, there is no remedy for the mistake. The perfect example is King Nrga ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 22 February 2022 diff hist +7,228‎ A brahmana's property is called brahma-sva, and according to Manu's law it cannot be acquired even by the government. Both brahmanas, however, insisted that the cow was theirs and could not be taken back under any condition ‎No edit summary
• 05:2805:28, 22 February 2022 diff hist −24‎ The auspicious atmosphere of such a reception depends on the paraphernalia described above, including conchshells, flowers, incense, decorated elephants, and the qualified brahmanas reciting verses from the Vedic literatures ‎No edit summary current

21 February 2022

• 03:4603:46, 21 February 2022 diff hist +5,492‎ The Lord is the real protector, but He is unattached to the affairs of protection. He creates brahmanas for the protection of the ksatriyas, and ksatriyas for the protection of the brahmanas. He remains aloof from all activities ‎No edit summary current

20 February 2022

• 15:3915:39, 20 February 2022 diff hist +5,135‎ The brahmanas are intended to be protected by the ksatriyas, and the ksatriyas also are intended to be enlightened by the brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 20 February 2022 diff hist +3,161‎ O brahmana, let Me now advise you for your own protection. Please hear from Me. By offending Maharaja Ambarisa, you have acted with self-envy. Therefore you should go to him immediately, without a moment's delay ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1912:19, 20 February 2022 diff hist +2,827‎ Ksatriyas are specifically meant to maintain the brahmanas because if the brahmanas are protected, then the head of civilization is protected ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 20 February 2022 diff hist +2,649‎ King Prthu was very respectful to the brahmanas, and he protected them. He also protected persons advanced in age. Whatever the King would decide to do, no one would be able to stop. That is called drdha-sankalpa, or drdha-vrata ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 20 February 2022 diff hist +1,508‎ I shall certainly appear there, and at that time I shall protect the honor of both you brahmanas by bearing witness to the promise ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 20 February 2022 diff hist +1,740‎ The two brothers devised a means whereby they could give up their material activities. For this purpose, they appointed two brahmanas and paid them a large amount of money ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4806:48, 20 February 2022 diff hist +4,938‎ The brahmana Canakya was his (Maharaja Candragupta's) unpaid prime minister ‎No edit summary current

19 February 2022

• 16:0416:04, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,994‎ The Lord as Paramatma is present both in the outcaste and in the brahmana, although the body of a brahmana and that of an outcaste are not the same. The bodies are material productions of different modes of material nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0216:02, 19 February 2022 diff hist +6,373‎ The Lord (Krsna) smeared the body of the brahmana (Sudama) with different kinds of scented pulp, such as sandalwood, aguru and saffron ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4515:45, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,847‎ Sometimes it is necessary to preach a philosophical doctrine which is against the Vedic conclusion. In the Siva Purana it is stated that Lord Siva said to Parvati that in the Kali-yuga, in the body of a brahmana, he would preach the Mayavada philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4015:40, 19 February 2022 diff hist −30‎ One who is advanced in self-realization must be considered to possess the body of a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3915:39, 19 February 2022 diff hist +4,812‎ Jada Bharata was Bharata Maharaja in the body of a brahmana, and he outwardly conducted himself as if he were dull, deaf, dumb and blind. Actually he was quite alert within ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,249‎ In the body of a brahmana, Bharata Maharaja appeared deaf and dumb, yet he was the most intelligent man in the world ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 19 February 2022 diff hist +4,556‎ If one is a brahmana he should not give up his body because by doing so he would be responsible for killing a brahmana; therefore a brahmana should leave the place or block his ears so that he will not hear the blasphemy ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 19 February 2022 diff hist +1,707‎ Although suffering from leprosy, the brahmana Vasudeva was enlightened. As soon as one worm fell from his body, he would pick it up and place it back again in the same location ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 19 February 2022 diff hist +8,238‎ Although he (Visvamitra) was a ksatriya by birth, he became a brahmana in the very same body by the power of his spiritual achievements ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 19 February 2022 diff hist +1,933‎ Whatever money came because of the influence of his transcendental son, he gave it in charity to the brahmanas for the satisfaction of Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4908:49, 19 February 2022 diff hist +6,102‎ You may be sannyasi or may be grhastha or may be brahmacari or a brahmana, a ksatriya, or vaisya, sudra. Never mind. Try to satisfy Krsna. Try to please Krsna. Then your life is successful. Otherwise, you are pramatta, mad ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 19 February 2022 diff hist +5,161‎ When the conditioned soul is not satisfied with them, he comes to devotees and pure brahmanas who try to elevate him for final liberation from material bondage ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4408:44, 19 February 2022 diff hist +2,117‎ When all the brahmanas engage in performing sacrifices in your kingdom, all the demigods, who are plenary expansions of the Lord, will be very much satisfied by their activities and will give you your desired result ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3608:36, 19 February 2022 diff hist +2,035‎ Ugrasrava (Suta Gosvami), the son of Romaharsana, being fully satisfied by the perfect questions of the brahmanas, thanked them (the sages of Naimisaranya) and attempted to reply ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,913‎ To satisfy Lord Visnu it was necessary for Nanda Maharaja to satisfy His devotees, such as the learned brahmanas, magadhas and sutas. Thus, in a roundabout way, ultimately it was Lord Visnu who was to be satisfied ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,034‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is go-brahmana-hitaya ca: He is always very kind to cows and brahmanas. Therefore one who worships Govinda must satisfy Him by worshiping the brahmanas and cows ‎No edit summary
• 07:0207:02, 19 February 2022 diff hist +1,883‎ The spiritual strength, education, austerity and reputation of a devotee or brahmana who is not self-satisfied dwindle, and his knowledge gradually vanishes because of greed for the sake of the senses ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0107:01, 19 February 2022 diff hist +15,894‎ The rules and regulations set up for the execution of the duties of brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras or brahmacārīs, gṛhasthas, vānaprasthas and sannyāsīs are all meant to satisfy the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0107:01, 19 February 2022 diff hist +1,726‎ The learned brahmanas, who were very satisfied with the charities of the King, addressed him as the chief amongst the Purus and informed him that his son was certainly in the line of descent from the Purus ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0007:00, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,587‎ The difference between a Vaisnava and a smarta-brahmana. A smarta-brahmana is always interested in material profit, whereas a Vaisnava is interested only in satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0007:00, 19 February 2022 diff hist +7,682‎ The demons said "The Vedic injunctions, the brahmanas, the cows, austerities, sacrifices, performances of charity and distribution of wealth are all for the satisfaction of Lord Visnu" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 19 February 2022 diff hist +2,015‎ The brahmanas guide human society in becoming happy by satisfying Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 19 February 2022 diff hist +5,766‎ The brahmanas were so satisfied by this charitable action (after Krsna's appearance) that they were obliged to say that the charity of Nanda Maharaj had excelled the charity of such past kings as Maharaj Prthu and Nrga ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5506:55, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,782‎ The brahmanas who performed Vedic rituals were so satisfied with the King (Gaya) that they very readily agreed to part with a sixth of their pious activities for his benefit in the next life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4905:49, 19 February 2022 diff hist +5,286‎ The brahmanas, ksatriyas, sudras and vaisyas must execute their prescribed duties as these duties are stated in the sastras. In this way everyone can satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4905:49, 19 February 2022 diff hist +6,324‎ They cannot use money, simply for sense gratification. That is the sudra. And brahmana, ksatriya, especially ksatriya, as soon as they get money, they would make a big sacrifice to satisfy visnu-yajna ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 19 February 2022 diff hist +6,828‎ There were also many learned brahmanas present (at the birth ceremony of Krsna), and Nanda Maharaja, being very satisfied on this occasion, gave them different kinds of garments, ornaments and cows in charity ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,379‎ That (to satisfy Krsna) is the real qualification of a brahmana. Because Sanda and Amarka were seminal brahmanas and had become servants of such a master as Hiranyakasipu, they unnecessarily wanted to chastise Prahlada Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 19 February 2022 diff hist +1,633‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was very satisfied to hear about the brahmana's method of worship. Finally the brahmana hastily made arrangements for cooking ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 19 February 2022 diff hist +5,832‎ So whether one is a brahmana or a sudra, he has to satisfy the Supreme Lord by his activities ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 19 February 2022 diff hist +3,669‎ Similarly, all the brahmanas in his kingdom were very satisfied with King Gaya's munificent charities. Consequently the brahmanas contributed a sixth of their pious activities for King Gaya's benefit in the next life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 19 February 2022 diff hist +6,994‎ Persons who had participated in the Rajasuya sacrifice - including cultured priests, the brahmanas, the citizens of all the varnas, & the kings, demigods, sages, saints & citizens of Pitrloka - were all very much satisfied by the dealings of Yudhisthira ‎No edit summary current

18 February 2022

• 17:3017:30, 18 February 2022 diff hist +1,940‎ O most auspicious lady, one should perform all the ceremonies under the direction of learned acaryas and should satisfy them and their priests. By distributing prasada, one should also satisfy the brahmanas and others who have assembled ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2717:27, 18 February 2022 diff hist +4,709‎ O brahmanas, the opulence of the King was so enchanting that the denizens of heaven aspired for it. But because he was absorbed in the service of the Lord, nothing could satisfy him except the Lord's service ‎No edit summary
• 17:2517:25, 18 February 2022 diff hist +3,100‎ O best of the brahmanas, you should therefore go immediately to King Ambarisa, the son of Maharaja Nabhaga. I wish you all good fortune. If you can satisfy Maharaja Ambarisa, then there will be peace for you ‎No edit summary
• 17:0917:09, 18 February 2022 diff hist +5,803‎ Neither any material opulence, nor a qualified brahmana with twelve high qualifications can satisfy the Lord simply by such acquisition. One can satisfy the Lord simply by love and devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3616:36, 18 February 2022 diff hist +4,153‎ Nanda Maharaja wanted to see his newborn child happy. That was his purpose. Therefore he wanted to satisfy Lord Visnu, and to satisfy Lord Visnu it was necessary to satisfy His devotees, such as the learned brahmanas, magadhas and sutas ‎No edit summary
• 16:3516:35, 18 February 2022 diff hist +4,300‎ Lord Krsna as Govinda is more inclined to the brahmanas and the cows, indicating thereby that human prosperity depends more on these two items, namely brahminical culture and cow protection. Lord Krsna is never satisfied where these are lacking ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2915:29, 18 February 2022 diff hist +3,460‎ My dear King, of all persons a qualified brahmana must be accepted as the best within this material world because such a brahmana, by practicing austerity, Vedic studies and satisfaction, becomes the counterpart body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 18 February 2022 diff hist +2,885‎ Maharaja Ambarisa satisfied all the guests who arrived at his house, especially the brahmanas. He gave in charity sixty crores of cows whose horns were covered with gold plate and whose hooves were covered with silver plate ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1515:15, 18 February 2022 diff hist +6,525‎ Lord Krsna continued, "O best of all the brahmanas, you should always remain satisfied, for if a brahmana is always self-satisfied he will not deviate from his prescribed duties" ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 18 February 2022 diff hist +6,544‎ Krsna said, "I therefore request you, My dear father (Nanda), to begin a sacrifice which will satisfy the local brahmanas and Govardhana Hill, and let us have nothing to do with Indra" ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3612:36, 18 February 2022 diff hist +1,808‎ King Yayati performed various sacrifices, in which he offered abundant gifts to the brahmanas to satisfy the Supreme Lord, Hari, who is the reservoir of all the demigods and the object of all Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 18 February 2022 diff hist +1,788‎ I am a poor brahmana, and You have come to My home. Please be satisfied with whatever little food You have received and give up Your greedy mentality ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 18 February 2022 diff hist +5,001‎ It is actually better to be a sudra than to be a brahmana and not develop the service attitude, because that attitude alone satisfies the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2812:28, 18 February 2022 diff hist +5,237‎ In this connection, there is a story in the Brahma-vaivarta Purana that in the city of Pratisthanapura in South India there was once a brahmana who was not very well-to-do, but who was nevertheless satisfied in himself ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2712:27, 18 February 2022 diff hist +39,543‎ In the city of Pratisthana-pura, long ago, there resided a brahmana who was poverty-stricken but innocent and not dissatisfied. One day he heard a discourse in an assembly of brahmanas concerning how to worship the Deity in the temple ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2612:26, 18 February 2022 diff hist +2,274‎ In that sacrifice, King Indra became intoxicated by drinking a large quantity of soma-rasa. The brahmanas received ample contributions, and therefore they were satisfied ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 18 February 2022 diff hist +2,121‎ If the brahmana Vamanadeva is not satisfied by whatever gifts one has given, why not please Him with the riches one is destined to lose at death? ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2112:21, 18 February 2022 diff hist +5,655‎ He (the brahmana) was not very satisfied with the offering because the sweet rice had been prepared recently and it was still very hot ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 18 February 2022 diff hist +14,587‎ From the beginning of creation, the three syllables om tat sat have been used to indicate the Supreme Absolute Truth (Brahman). They were uttered by brahmanas while chanting Vedic hymns and during sacrifices for the satisfaction of the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 18 February 2022 diff hist +8,505‎ Everywhere, you take politically or socially or spiritually, for human beings, if you want to make your life successful, then you must keep the tradition of brahmana-vaisnava. So our, we are Vaisnava. Our only tradition is how to satisfy Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5811:58, 18 February 2022 diff hist +7,177‎ Duryodhana was intelligent enough to satisfy the brahmana (Durvasa Muni) by all means, and the great rsi wanted to give some benediction to Duryodhana ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5211:52, 18 February 2022 diff hist +7,570‎ Duryodhana knew his (Durvasa Muni's) mystic powers, and he knew also that the mystic brahmana, if dissatisfied, could cause some havoc, and thus he designed to engage the brahmana to show his wrath upon his enemy cousins, the Pandavas ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3111:31, 18 February 2022 diff hist +5,800‎ By your vaisya-vrtti, krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam, you can satisfy Krsna. By your brahmana-vrtti you can satisfy Krsna. Even by your sudra-vrtti you can satisfy Krsna. That possibility is here, that Krsna says sva-karmana tam abhyarcya ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 18 February 2022 diff hist +4,846‎ By regular service to the brahmanas and Vaisnavas, one can clear the dirt from his heart and thus enjoy supreme peace and liberation from material attachment and be satisfied ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 18 February 2022 diff hist +7,301‎ Brahmanas or ksatriya, you can do your duty, but there should be a test whether you have become successful in discharging your duty. That test is hari-tosanam, whether you have satisfied the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 18 February 2022 diff hist +6,819‎ Being very much satisfied by these transcendental pastimes with the Lord, the brahmana narrated the whole story of his mission in coming to see Krsna. He got out the letter Rukmini had written to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 18 February 2022 diff hist +2,131‎ A brahmana who is satisfied with whatever is providentially obtained is increasingly enlightened with spiritual power, but the spiritual potency of a dissatisfied brahmana decreases, as fire diminishes in potency when water is sprinkled upon it ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 18 February 2022 diff hist +3,363‎ A brahmana is strictly prohibited from becoming a servant of anyone else, for that is the business of dogs and sudras. A dog must satisfy his master, but a brahmana does not have to satisfy anyone; he is simply meant to satisfy Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 07:1007:10, 18 February 2022 diff hist +5,167‎ A brahmana is not supposed to improve his economic condition. He's not interested. He's simply satisfied: "By the grace of God, whatever I have got, that is sufficient." God is supplying everyone, even birds and beasts and cats and dogs ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0107:01, 18 February 2022 diff hist +3,404‎ An actual brahmana is very much satisfied to see anyone, not to speak of his disciple, become a devotee of Lord Krsna. Such brahmanas are meant to satisfy the supreme master ‎No edit summary current

17 February 2022

• 16:3016:30, 17 February 2022 diff hist +9,779‎ Although the brahmana friend of Lord Krsna was a householder, he was not busy accumulating wealth for very comfortable living; he was satisfied by the income which came according to his destiny. This is the sign of perfect knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2911:29, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,532‎ Visnu lives wherever there are religious principles, traditional culture, the Vedas, cows, brahmanas, austerities, and sacrifices with proper remuneration ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,032‎ Whatever a brahmana speaks cannot be changed. It must act. The learned sages who were priests at Maharaja Nabhi's sacrifice were not only brahmanas but were so qualified that they were like devas, demigods, or God Himself ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 17 February 2022 diff hist +7,593‎ When the brahmanas' wives returned, the sacrifice was duly and nicely executed. One of the brahmanas' wives, however, who had been forcibly checked from going to see Krsna, began to remember Him as she heard of His bodily features ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,781‎ When the Lord heard that Bali Maharaja was performing asvamedha sacrifices under the patronage of brahmanas belonging to the Bhrgu dynasty, the Supreme Lord, who is full in every respect, proceeded there to show His mercy to Bali Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 17 February 2022 diff hist +7,137‎ When the Vedic followers, the brahmanas, inspire rich men like kings and members of the wealthy mercantile community to give charity in the performance of great sacrifices, the distribution of such wealth is also nectarean ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,824‎ Whether or not the brahmanas were uttering the Vedic hymns correctly was tested by sacrifice in the arena. On the whole, the animals thus sacrificed were not at all the losers ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,735‎ Ksatriyas killed in the battlefield attain the heavenly planets as do the brahmanas who attain them by offering sacrifice. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,229‎ Lord Krsna, the enjoyer of all sacrifices and penances, is very fond of a brahmana like Sudama Vipra, and we have seen by the actual behavior of Lord Krsna how much He adores such a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0808:08, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,955‎ Lord Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, being invited to the sacrifices by Maharaja Yudhisthira, saw to it that they were performed by qualified (twice-born) brahmanas. After that, for the pleasure of the relatives, the Lord remained a few months ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4607:46, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,145‎ My dear lord, by your form as the Vedas personified and through knowledge relating to the activities of all the yajnic brahmanas, you spread the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies of the seven kinds of sacrifices, headed by agnistoma ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4407:44, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,525‎ Neither belonged to the brahmana community. Therefore, Krsna considered that the brahmanas engaged in performing sacrifices might not be induced to give charity to a ksatriya and vaisya ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,064‎ Our lord, Bali Maharaja, is always fixed in truthfulness, and this is especially so at present, since he has been initiated into performing a sacrifice. He is always kind and merciful toward the brahmanas, and he cannot at any time speak lies ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4007:40, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,607‎ Once some of the gopis went to the place where the brahmanas were performing sacrifices and said, "My dear wives of the brahmanas, you must know that not even a slight smell of distress can touch Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3907:39, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,239‎ Once the great King Anga arranged to perform the great sacrifice known as asvamedha. All the expert brahmanas present knew how to invite the demigods, but in spite of their efforts, no demigods participated or appeared in that sacrifice ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3507:35, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,417‎ Once upon a time King Prthu initiated the performance of a very great sacrifice in which great saintly sages, brahmanas, demigods from higher planetary systems and great saintly kings known as rajarsis all assembled together ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3407:34, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,830‎ Only sacrifice recommended in this age is the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra because in this age it is not possible to accumulate the needed funds for performing sacrifices, not to speak of finding expert brahmanas who can chant the mantras perfectly ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,358‎ O best of the brahmanas, Sukracarya, please describe the fault or discrepancy in your disciple Bali Maharaja, who engaged in performing sacrifices. This fault will be nullified when judged in the presence of qualified brahmanas ‎No edit summary
• 07:2507:25, 17 February 2022 diff hist +1,991‎ O Kamsa, we (the ministers), who are your adherents in all respects, shall therefore kill the brahmanas (because Visnu lives wherever there are religious principles & sacrifices), the persons engaged in offering sacrifices and austerities - SB 10.4.40 ‎No edit summary current

16 February 2022

• 15:4715:47, 16 February 2022 diff hist +9,730‎ Professor Apte, in his dictionary, describes the Brahmana portion of the Vedas as that portion which states the rules for employment of hymns at various sacrifices and gives detailed explanations of their origin, sometimes with lengthy illustrations ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4415:44, 16 February 2022 diff hist +5,444‎ Pure consciousness can be revived by the process of sacrifice, charity, pious activities, etc., but when one pollutes his Krsna consciousness by offending a brahmana or a Vaisnava, it is very difficult to revive ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2715:27, 16 February 2022 diff hist +8,566‎ Since it is described in the previous verse (SB 4.21.41) that feeding a living brahmana is more effective than offering oblations in a fire sacrifice, in this verse it is now clearly described what brahmanism is and who a brahmana is ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2215:22, 16 February 2022 diff hist +1,997‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Hearing this, the great sages replied to King Indra, "O King of heaven, all good fortune unto you. Do not fear. We shall perform an asvamedha sacrifice to release you from any sin you may accrue by killing the brahmana" ‎No edit summary
• 14:4314:43, 16 February 2022 diff hist +3,933‎ Sri Krsna had ordered His friend Sudama to go to a brahmana's house and ask for some food. The brahmanas were performing a great sacrifice, and Sri Krsna told Sudama to plead with them that He and Balarama were feeling hungry and needed some food ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3614:36, 16 February 2022 diff hist +4,983‎ Sometimes envious people ask how Europeans and Americans in this Krsna consciousness movement can become brahmanas and perform sacrifices. They do not know that the Europeans and Americans have already been purified by chanting the holy name of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 07:2207:22, 16 February 2022 diff hist +4,597‎ Such sacrifices were performed with great opulence and suitable paraphernalia and with contributions of daksina to the brahmanas, who were supervised by great personalities like Vasistha, Asita and Gautama, representing the king ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 16 February 2022 diff hist +4,646‎ The brahmanas' statement is that Lord Visnu is everything - the fire, the offering, the clarified butter, the utensils, the place of sacrifice and the kusa ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 16 February 2022 diff hist +7,263‎ They (the brahmanas) began to talk among themselves: "To hell with our being born brahmanas! To hell with our learning all the Vedic literatures! To hell with our performing great sacrifices and observing all the rules and regulations" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 16 February 2022 diff hist +3,590‎ The brahmanas are meant to administer some fruitive sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas, but the parivrajakacaryas, or learned preachers, are meant to disseminate transcendental knowledge to one and all ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 16 February 2022 diff hist +4,547‎ The brahmanas said: Dear Lord, You are sacrifice personified. You are the offering of clarified butter, You are the fire, You are the chanting of Vedic hymns by which the sacrifice is conducted, You are the fuel, You are the flame, You are the kusa grass ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 16 February 2022 diff hist +2,394‎ The brahmana descendants of Bhrgu, being very pleased with their disciple, who had conquered the entire universe, now engaged him in performing one hundred asvamedha sacrifices ‎No edit summary current

15 February 2022

• 14:3014:30, 15 February 2022 diff hist +14‎ The brahmana descendants of Bhrgu decided that although Bali was situated on the throne of Indra, he would not be able to stay there unless he performed such sacrifices. Therefore they advised Bali to perform at least as many asvamedha-yajnas as Indra ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 15 February 2022 diff hist +5,431‎ Jarasandha never refused charity to any brahmana, and he performed many sacrifices also, yet he was not on a par with devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1006:10, 15 February 2022 diff hist +9,123‎ It is said that out of thousands of brahmanas, one is qualified to perform sacrifices, and out of many thousands of such qualified brahmanas expert in sacrificial offerings, one learned brahmana may have passed beyond all Vedic knowledge - Garuda Purana ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5505:55, 15 February 2022 diff hist −29‎ In this age it is very difficult to find qualified brahmanas who can perform sacrifices as prescribed in the Vedas ‎No edit summary current

14 February 2022

• 16:1816:18, 14 February 2022 diff hist +4,163‎ In due course a qualified brahmana becomes uninterested in materialistic activities and sacrifices, but he offers the sensual sacrifices, in full knowledge, into the working senses, which are illuminated by the fire of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1816:18, 14 February 2022 diff hist +3,916‎ In conditioned life, all work is contaminated by the material modes of nature. Even if one is a brahmana, he has to perform sacrifices in which animal killing is necessary. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1716:17, 14 February 2022 diff hist +4,447‎ Instead of offering fire sacrifices, one should offer foodstuffs to brahmanas and Vaisnavas, for that process is more effective than fire yajna ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1516:15, 14 February 2022 diff hist +11,450‎ If even a person born in a family of dog-eaters hears & repeats the chanting of Your glories (God's), he is immediately greater than a brahmana & is therefore eligible to perform sacrifices. Therefore, what is to be said of one who has seen You directly ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 14 February 2022 diff hist +4,611‎ Generally brahmanas are puffed up with false prestige because they belong to the aristocracy and perform many Vedic sacrifices. In South India especially, this fastidious position is most prominent. At any rate, this was the case five hundred years ago ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 14 February 2022 diff hist +9,350‎ Great learned brahmanas who are expert in performing ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices can extract the fire dormant within wooden fuel by chanting the fifteen Samidheni mantras, thus proving the efficacy of the Vedic mantras ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 14 February 2022 diff hist +7,106‎ Generally, only a person who is born in a family of brahmanas, who has been reformed by the ten kinds of purificatory processes and who is learned in Vedic literature is allowed to perform the Vedic sacrifices ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2613:26, 14 February 2022 diff hist +4,453‎ From the beginning of creation, the three words om tat sat were used to indicate the Supreme Absolute Truth. These three symbolic representations were used by brahmanas while chanting the hymns of the Vedas and during sacrifices ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 14 February 2022 diff hist +2,648‎ For instance, some of the wives of the brahmanas who were performing sacrifices gave up their lives in the presence of their husbands for the sake of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 14 February 2022 diff hist +33,378‎ Formerly, the brahmanas well conversant in Vedic mantras could show the potency of the mantras, but in this age, because there are no such brahmanas, all such sacrifices are forbidden ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 14 February 2022 diff hist +9,691‎ Formerly, the brahmanas used to ignite the fire of sacrifice not with matches or any other external fire but with their powerful mantras, called arani ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 14 February 2022 diff hist +8,225‎ Following the instructions of the brahmanas, the ksatriyas should engage the populace in austerity, sacrifices, Vedic study and adherence to the rules and regulations established by Vedic principles ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 14 February 2022 diff hist +4,903‎ Even brahmanas, who perform different types of sacrifice, sometimes must kill animals because sometimes animals are sacrificed in such ceremonies. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1503:15, 14 February 2022 diff hist +3,686‎ By following the Vedic culture, by performing great sacrifices and by becoming a strict follower of the Vedic instructions, one may become a brahmana, a sannyasi or an Aryan ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1203:12, 14 February 2022 diff hist +2,273‎ By chanting the Vedic mantras properly in a sacrifice, one can perform many wonderful things. In Kali-yuga, however, there are no qualified brahmanas who can chant the mantras properly ‎No edit summary current
• 03:0603:06, 14 February 2022 diff hist +5,562‎ But Krsna replied, "My dear father, don't delay. The sacrifice you propose for Govardhana and the local brahmanas will take much time" ‎No edit summary current
• 03:0503:05, 14 February 2022 diff hist +2,136‎ Being thirsty one night, the King entered the arena of sacrifice, and when he saw all the brahmanas lying down, he personally drank the sanctified water meant to be drunk by his wife ‎No edit summary current
• 03:0503:05, 14 February 2022 diff hist +3,380‎ Being fully satisfied, he (Janamejaya) most munificently gave charities to the brahmanas present at the sacrifice ‎No edit summary current

13 February 2022

• 14:5414:54, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,709‎ A person born in a brahmana family cannot perform Vedic sacrifices until he is properly purified and has attained his sacred thread ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5314:53, 13 February 2022 diff hist +11,102‎ A person born into a family of dog-eaters is generally not fit for performing yajna, or sacrifice. The priestly caste in charge of performing these ritualistic ceremonies recommended in the Vedas is called the brahmana order ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5214:52, 13 February 2022 diff hist +5,338‎ A devotee automatically attains the qualifications of an expert brahmana authorized to perform sacrifices, even though the devotee may not have taken his birth in a brahmana family. Such is the omnipotence of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3814:38, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,774‎ A brahmana is supposed to be qualified with twelve qualities. As stated in the Mahabharata: He must be detached, humble and tolerant. He must not envy anyone, and he must be expert in performing sacrifices and giving whatever he has in charity ‎No edit summary
• 14:2814:28, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,757‎ A brahmana, when he's offering sacrifice, sometimes animals are sacrificed; so that does not mean that he is committing sin. This animal sacrifice was made not for eating the animals. It was for testing the Vedic mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 13 February 2022 diff hist +1,785‎ At that time, all the persons assembled in the sacrificial arena - the priests, the chief of the sacrificial performance, and the brahmanas and their wives - wondered where the darkness was coming from ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1614:16, 13 February 2022 diff hist +6,759‎ At home (during the birth of Krsna), the brahmanas, who were accustomed to offering sacrifices in the fire, found their homes very pleasant for offerings ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 13 February 2022 diff hist +6,738‎ At home, the brahmanas, who were accustomed to offer sacrifices in the fire, found their homes very pleasant for offerings - at the time of Krsna's birth ‎No edit summary current

12 February 2022

• 17:4717:47, 12 February 2022 diff hist +4,374‎ Animal sacrifices are impossible in this age due to the scarcity of expert brahmanas or rtvijah who are able to take the responsibility. In the absence of these, the sankirtana-yajna is recommended. After all, sacrifices are executed to please the SPG ‎No edit summary current
• 17:4517:45, 12 February 2022 diff hist +7,415‎ Although the companions of Lord Krsna and Balarama were simple cowherd boys, they were in a position to dictate even to the high-class brahmanas engaged in the Vedic rituals of sacrifice ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3417:34, 12 February 2022 diff hist +2,481‎ All the twice-born (brahmanas) were forbidden henceforward to perform any sacrifice, and they were also forbidden to give charity or offer clarified butter. Thus King Vena sounded kettledrums throughout the countryside ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1917:19, 12 February 2022 diff hist +3,142‎ All these wives (of the brahmanas) were very much devoted to Lord Krsna in spontaneous love, and as soon as they heard the request of the cowherd boys and understood that Krsna wanted some food, they immediately left the place of sacrifice ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1616:16, 12 February 2022 diff hist +2,293‎ After the strong, stout cowherd men assembled the pots and paraphernalia on the handcart and set it up as before, the brahmanas performed a ritualistic ceremony with a fire sacrifice to appease the bad planet - SB 10.7.12 ‎No edit summary
• 15:4415:44, 12 February 2022 diff hist +4,022‎ After the sacrificial ceremony the brahmanas are invited to eat the remnants of the offered food. When the brahmanas eat the food, it is to be considered directly eaten by the Supreme Lord. Thus no one can be compared to qualified brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 12 February 2022 diff hist +3,493‎ After Maharaja Dusmanta's death, Bharata, the son of Sakuntala, was enthroned. He performed many great sacrifices, in which he gave great riches in charity to the brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 12 February 2022 diff hist +5,048‎ After King Yudhisthira took his bath at the conclusion of the sacrifice and stood in the midst of all the learned sages and brahmanas, he seemed exactly like the King of heaven and thus looked very beautiful ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 12 February 2022 diff hist +4,427‎ According to the Vedic culture, brahmanas do not possess anything, whereas ksatriyas possess riches, but only for performing sacrifices and other noble activities as prescribed in the Vedic injunctions ‎No edit summary
• 09:0509:05, 12 February 2022 diff hist +1,828‎ Practically all the brahmanas residing in Nadia were dependent on the charity of Hiranya and Govardhana, who gave them money, land and villages ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 12 February 2022 diff hist +2,959‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami also followed this principle (saving money for the service of the Lord or a Vaisnava) by spending fifty percent of his money in order to serve Krsna through brahmanas and Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary
• 09:0309:03, 12 February 2022 diff hist +5,192‎ The brahmanas or Vaisnavas do not live at others' cost; they live by spending their own money, although it appears that they are collecting this money from others ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 12 February 2022 diff hist +4,964‎ The prostitute (vesya) had earned money by questionable means, and therefore Haridasa Thakura advised her to distribute to the brahmanas whatever she possessed ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 12 February 2022 diff hist +1,794‎ The revenue of the government is more sacred than the property of a brahmana. One who misappropriates the government's money and uses it to enjoy sense gratification is most sinful ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4908:49, 12 February 2022 diff hist +4,406‎ Instead of spending money unnecessarily on performing yajnas impossible to perform in this age of Kali because of the scarcity of yajnika-brahmanas, one who is intelligent performs sankirtana-yajna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 12 February 2022 diff hist +5,445‎ Everything belongs to the brahmanas, but the ksatriya government and the mercantile people keep everything in custody, like bankers, and whenever the brahmanas need money, the ksatriyas and vaisyas should supply it ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 12 February 2022 diff hist +1,422‎ He (Rupa Gosvami) collected whatever money he had accumulated in Bengal and divided it among his relatives, the brahmanas and the temples ‎No edit summary
• 08:4308:43, 12 February 2022 diff hist +2,253‎ Although Navadvipa was very opulent & populous during Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s time, practically all the brahmanas depended on the charity of Hiranya & Govardhana. Because the brothers highly respected the brahmanas, they very liberally gave them money ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4607:46, 12 February 2022 diff hist +5,183‎ Whenever the brahmanas need money, the ksatriyas and vaisyas should supply it. It is like a savings account with money which the depositor can draw out at his will ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1506:15, 12 February 2022 diff hist +3,796‎ The grhastha cannot accept charity. But a grhastha-brahmana, he can accept charity, but he will not, I mean to say, accumulate money by taking charity. Whatever he gets, he must spend ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2505:25, 12 February 2022 diff hist +4,793‎ The brahmana had no money nor any means of worshiping the Deity, but within his mind he arranged everything nicely. He had gold pots to bring water from the sacred rivers to wash the Deity, & he offered the Deity very sumptuous food, including sweet rice ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2405:24, 12 February 2022 diff hist +5,649‎ The brahmana accepts all kinds of contributions (pratigraha) from his followers - namely, the ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras. But he does not keep all the money. He keeps only as much as required and gives the balance to others in charity - dana ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 12 February 2022 diff hist +1,316‎ Raghunatha dasa did not accept the money and men sent by his father. Therefore the brahmana and one of the servants stayed there with the money ‎No edit summary current
• 04:0604:06, 12 February 2022 diff hist +6,620‎ One must collect money for the temple expenditures, or if one is a householder he must go to work in accordance with the prescribed duties of a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or sudra ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5903:59, 12 February 2022 diff hist +7,110‎ Money is the criterion, not family. Formerly, there was family, respectable family, aristocratic family, brahmana family, ksatriya family. All these things are gone now. If you accumulate some money some way or other, then you are respectable ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5203:52, 12 February 2022 diff hist +6,409‎ Money given in charity to a suitable person is guaranteed bank balance in the next life. Such charity is recommended to be given to a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1803:18, 12 February 2022 diff hist +3,379‎ Jagannatha Misra was a brahmana; therefore people would send him all bodily necessities - money, cloth, grain and so on ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1803:18, 12 February 2022 diff hist +4,877‎ I came here not to ask for any money. But I want to give lesson. This is brahmana's business ‎No edit summary current
• 02:5902:59, 12 February 2022 diff hist +3,741‎ If you have got money, then you are big man. Never mind what you are. Therefore people are after money. Who is going to be brahmana? If you become a perfect brahmana, who will care for you? Nobody is interested to become a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 02:5702:57, 12 February 2022 diff hist +5,921‎ If the money is given in charity to a non-brahmana (without brahminical qualification) the money is returned in the next life in the same proportion. If it is given in charity to a half-educated brahmana, even then the money is returned double ‎No edit summary current
• 02:5502:55, 12 February 2022 diff hist +6,354‎ If the money is given in charity to a learned & fully qualified brahmana, the money is returned a hundred & a thousand times, if the money is given to a veda-paraga (one who has realized the path of the Vedas) it is returned by unlimited multiplication ‎No edit summary current
• 02:5102:51, 12 February 2022 diff hist +5,617‎ Generally one earns money by many questionable means. Therefore at some time one should retire and distribute whatever one has to the brahmanas and Vaisnavas who engage in devotional service by preaching the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current

11 February 2022

• 17:1017:10, 11 February 2022 diff hist +4,917‎ Charity should actually be given to brahmanas and sannyasis because whatever money they get they spend for Krsna. Whatever charity one gives to a brahmana goes to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1017:10, 11 February 2022 diff hist +4,269‎ Brahmana's business is dana-pratigraha. He will collect. Brahmana has the right to collect from his disciples, spiritual master. But he will distribute it. Dana-pratigraha. He will be also a man charitably disposed, spending that money for public welfare ‎No edit summary
• 17:0917:09, 11 February 2022 diff hist +8,067‎ Bilvamangala Thakura. He was a South Indian brahmana, very rich brahmana. But by bad association or something like that, he became a very staunch prostitute hunter. So he engaged all his income, money, everything, after one prostitute ‎No edit summary current
• 17:0817:08, 11 February 2022 diff hist +2,021‎ Although born of a brahmana family, this rascal, bereft of intelligence because of the prostitute's association, earned money somehow or other, regardless of whether properly or improperly, and used it to maintain the prostitute's sons and daughters ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 11 February 2022 diff hist +1,987‎ Nahusa, however, blinded and maddened by power and opulence, made undesirable proposals to Indra's wife with a desire to enjoy her. Thus Nahusa was cursed by a brahmana and later became a snake ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 11 February 2022 diff hist +5,526‎ Maharaja Vena went astray from the path of righteousness, and the brahmanas chastised him by the thunderbolt curse. By this King Vena was burnt with his good deeds and opulence and was en route to hell ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1405:14, 11 February 2022 diff hist +4,143‎ A brahmana may receive much opulence from his disciples, he should not utilize the rewards of his priesthood for his personal benefit; he must use them for the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current

10 February 2022

• 16:4916:49, 10 February 2022 diff hist +1,644‎ Brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras are distinguished by the qualities born of their own natures in accordance with the material modes ‎No edit summary current
• 16:4816:48, 10 February 2022 diff hist +7,425‎ The four castes (the brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras) are created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to the material modes of nature and the particular duties discharged in those modes ‎No edit summary current
• 16:4516:45, 10 February 2022 diff hist +7,619‎ The present position is misunderstanding, that "I am product of this material nature," "I am this body." "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am brahmana," "I am ksatriya," and so on ‎No edit summary

9 February 2022

• 16:3316:33, 9 February 2022 diff hist +22,952‎ The brahmanas are born from the mouth of the universal form of the Lord, the ksatriyas are born out of the arms, the vaisyas out of the waist, and the sudras out of the legs. As such, they are qualified in the different modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3216:32, 9 February 2022 diff hist +5,671‎ There is no point in becoming a brahmana in preference to an American or becoming an American in preference to a Negro. After all, these are all bodily conceptions under the modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3016:30, 9 February 2022 diff hist +5,747‎ Situated on the vehicle given by material nature and reminded by the Supersoul within the heart, the living entity struggles all over the universe to fulfill his plans, thinking, "I am a brahmana," "I am a ksatriya," "I am an American," "I am an Indian," ‎No edit summary
• 16:3016:30, 9 February 2022 diff hist +8,308‎ Division means under the jurisdiction of the three modes of material nature. That is division. Otherwise, brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, these divisions are calculated when one is under the control of the material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2616:26, 9 February 2022 diff hist +5,856‎ Even a brahmana is also under the control of material nature. But the same brahmana, when he becomes a Vaisnava, a devotee, he becomes the best of the brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 9 February 2022 diff hist +3,604‎ According to the different modes of material nature, men are classified in the mode of goodness (brahmanas), the mode of passion (ksatriyas), the mixed modes of passion and ignorance (vaisyas), and the mode of ignorance (sudras, or workers). BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current

8 February 2022

• 16:4516:45, 8 February 2022 diff hist +6,842‎ The wives of the brahmanas said, "Anyone who comes and surrenders unto You never goes back to the conditioned life of material existence. We expect that You will now fulfill Your promise" ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2916:29, 8 February 2022 diff hist +4,912‎ Only the dvijas (the brahmanas) and the devas (the demigods) can be delivered from material existence by the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 8 February 2022 diff hist +5,078‎ The swans (in the forest of material existence) are the perfect brahmanas, and the monkeys are the extravagant sudras engaged in eating, sleeping, mating and defending ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 8 February 2022 diff hist +9,788‎ There is a similar prayer by a brahmana who says, "Let others worship the Vedas and the Upanisads, and let others worship the Mahabharata if they are afraid of material existence and want to become liberated from that condition" ‎No edit summary current

7 February 2022

• 18:5018:50, 7 February 2022 diff hist +4,163‎ Sanatana had a touchstone with him, which he kept with the garbage. On the request of the poor brahmana, Sanatana Gosvami gave him the touchstone, and the brahmana was very happy to have it ‎No edit summary
• 11:4911:49, 7 February 2022 diff hist +5,723‎ He (Sudama) was a qualified brahmana, unattached to all sorts of material sense enjoyment, and at the same time he was a great devotee of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 7 February 2022 diff hist +8,238‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said, "There was a very nice brahmana friend of Lord Krsna. As a perfect brahmana, he was very elevated in transcendental knowledge, and because of his advanced knowledge, he was not at all attached to material enjoyment" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 7 February 2022 diff hist +1,728‎ Srila Rupa and Sanatana Gosvami beg a little food from the houses of brahmanas. Giving up all kinds of material enjoyment, they take only some dry bread and fried chickpeas ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 7 February 2022 diff hist +2,991‎ One who falls down from yoga practice is elevated to the heavenly planets, and after enjoying the material facilities there he again comes down to the earthly planet and takes birth in a very rich family or a very pious brahmana family ‎No edit summary
• 11:4511:45, 7 February 2022 diff hist +5,912‎ One who falls down from the process of bhakti-yoga is again offered the opulence of the demigods, and after enjoying such material opulence, he is given a chance to take birth in a noble family of a pure brahmana, or in a rich family ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3411:34, 7 February 2022 diff hist +2,019‎ Thinking that because the brahmanas have no material desires they should possess the entire world, Lord Ramacandra delivered the land between the east, west, north and south to the acarya ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3311:33, 7 February 2022 diff hist +6,742‎ The society was divided into brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras, and the members of this society would limit their endeavors to meeting their minimum demands. The brahmanas, in particular, would have no material desires ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3311:33, 7 February 2022 diff hist +4,306‎ The krpanas, who always desire material benefits, are foolish, whereas brahmanas, who always desire spiritual benefits, are intelligent ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3211:32, 7 February 2022 diff hist +4,097‎ Brahmanas who are pure Vaisnavas always engage in the Lord's service and are devoid of any desire for material gain ‎No edit summary current

5 February 2022

• 17:5217:52, 5 February 2022 diff hist +2,143‎ My dear King, some brahmanas are very much attached to fruitive activities, some are attached to austerities and penances, and still others study the Vedic literature, whereas some, although very few, cultivate knowledge and practice different yogas ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5117:51, 5 February 2022 diff hist +4,345‎ Like everyone, this brahmana was attached to his home, and he had forgotten that someday he would die. Death, however, was not forgetful. At the proper time, death appeared and took him away ‎No edit summary
• 11:1811:18, 5 February 2022 diff hist +4,052‎ Visvamitra was a ksatriya, and by undergoing severe austerities he wanted to become a brahmana, but Vasistha would not agree to accept him. In this way there was always disagreement between the two ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1811:18, 5 February 2022 diff hist +3,212‎ We are among the qualified brahmanas, who are accepted as the face of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The brahmanas have created the entire universe by their austerity, and they always keep the Absolute Truth within the core of their hearts ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1811:18, 5 February 2022 diff hist +5,720‎ We train them in austerities and penances and recognize them as brahmanas by awarding them sacred threads. Thus the caste brahmanas of India are very displeased by our activities in the Western world ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 5 February 2022 diff hist +4,044‎ Visvamitra and Vasistha were always inimical. Formerly, Visvamitra was a ksatriya, and by undergoing severe austerities he wanted to become a brahmana, but Vasistha would not agree to accept him. In this way there was always disagreement between the two ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 5 February 2022 diff hist +3,426‎ Visvamitra, the son of Maharaja Gadhi, was as powerful as the flames of fire. From the position of a ksatriya, he achieved the position of a powerful brahmana by undergoing penances and austerities ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 5 February 2022 diff hist +2,877‎ The foundation of all the demigods is Lord Visnu, who lives and is worshiped wherever there are religious principles, traditional culture, the Vedas, cows, brahmanas, austerities, and sacrifices with proper remuneration - SB 10.4.39 ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 5 February 2022 diff hist +2,798‎ The austerity of the body consists in this: worship of the Supreme Lord, the brahmanas, the spiritual master, and superiors like the father and mother. Cleanliness, simplicity, celibacy and nonviolence are also austerities of the body. BG 17.14 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0811:08, 5 February 2022 diff hist +7,158‎ They executed the required austerities and penances in their lives and were liberal, meeting the standard of qualified brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0711:07, 5 February 2022 diff hist +5,953‎ They (brahmanas) are supposed to be engaged in brahminical occupations, as described in the Bhagavad-gita namely, they must be very learned and must perform austerity and penances. Not only must they themselves be learned, but they must also teach others ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0711:07, 5 February 2022 diff hist +4,269‎ These brahmanas take to education, austerity and vows only for the purpose of maintaining the body. They shall be devoid of discrimination between what to eat and what not to eat ‎No edit summary current

4 February 2022

• 17:3817:38, 4 February 2022 diff hist +4,432‎ In the dynasty of Gadhi, the most powerful Visvamitra took birth. By dint of his austerity and penance, he became a brahmana. He had 101 sons, who were celebrated as the Madhucchandas ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3717:37, 4 February 2022 diff hist +8,303‎ In brahminical culture a brahmana's transcendental position is eternally maintained because the injunctions of the Vedas are accepted with faith, austerity, scriptural conclusions, full sense and mind control, and meditation ‎No edit summary
• 17:3717:37, 4 February 2022 diff hist +3,314‎ Here is a learned, highly qualified brahmana, engaged in performing austerity and eagerly desiring to worship the Supreme Lord, the Supersoul who lives within the core of the heart in all living entities ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3717:37, 4 February 2022 diff hist +2,526‎ For a brahmana, austerity and learning are certainly auspicious, but when acquired by a person who is not gentle, such austerity and learning are most dangerous ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3417:34, 4 February 2022 diff hist +7,280‎ Durvasa Muni: A powerful mystic brahmana determined to observe the principles of religion with great vows and under strict austerities ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3417:34, 4 February 2022 diff hist +3,610‎ By this means, householder brahmanas who actually abide by the principles of austerity and penance maintain themselves and their families and perform all necessary pious activities ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3317:33, 4 February 2022 diff hist +4,080‎ A first-class brahmana does not accept any rewards from his disciples or yajamanas. Practicing austerities and penances, he instead goes to the agricultural field and collects food grains left by the agriculturalists to be collected by brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3217:32, 4 February 2022 diff hist +1,946‎ Bali Maharaja then said to Lord Vamanadeva: O brahmana, I offer You my hearty welcome and my respectful obeisances. Please let us know what we may do for You. We think of You as the personified austerity of the great brahmana-sages ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3217:32, 4 February 2022 diff hist +8,754‎ It is understood that he (one who chant the holy name of God offenselessly) has already performed all sorts of rites. It is the so-called brahmanas who actually have to undergo different kinds of austerities before reaching that point of purification ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2517:25, 4 February 2022 diff hist +4,743‎ A brahmana is supposed to be qualified with twelve qualities. As stated in the Mahabharata: A brahmana must be perfectly religious. He must be truthful, and he must be able to control his senses. He must execute severe austerities ‎No edit summary
• 11:5211:52, 4 February 2022 diff hist +4,591‎ The brahmanas should live by spreading knowledge and should therefore take contributions from their disciples ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4311:43, 4 February 2022 diff hist +3,897‎ The acarya is a perfect brahmana and has unlimited intelligence in guiding the activities of his disciple ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 4 February 2022 diff hist +2,681‎ Because a brahmana depends on his disciples, when Sarmistha was heavily rebuked by Devayani she charged Devayani with belonging to a family of crowlike beggars. It is the nature of women to fight verbally at even a slight provocation ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3908:39, 4 February 2022 diff hist +5,239‎ Govinda came from a sudra family, but because he was initiated by Isvara Puri, he was certainly a brahmana. Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya here (in CC Madhya 10.136) asked Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu why Isvara Puri accepted a disciple from a sudra family ‎No edit summary

3 February 2022

• 13:3813:38, 3 February 2022 diff hist +3,053‎ The krpana, or the miserly man, has no estimation of his material body, but the brahmana has a true estimation of himself and the material body ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 3 February 2022 diff hist +3,820‎ O exalted governors of various planets, the true brahmana, who has no material possessions, maintains himself by the profession of accepting silonchana. In other words, he picks up grains left in the field and on the ground in the wholesale marketplace ‎No edit summary

2 February 2022

• 11:3911:39, 2 February 2022 diff hist +1,584‎ Yadunandana Acarya was the priest and spiritual master of Raghunatha dasa. Although born in a brahmana family, he had accepted the mercy of Vasudeva Datta ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 2 February 2022 diff hist +2,825‎ Visvarupa, who was a most learned brahmana, not only accepted the request of the demigods, but took their request seriously and performed the activities of priesthood with an undiverted mind ‎No edit summary
• 08:0608:06, 2 February 2022 diff hist +4,684‎ The higher-caste men, namely the brahmanas and ksatriyas, could accept a woman of the vaisya or the sudra community, but a man from the lower castes could not contact a woman of the higher caste ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 2 February 2022 diff hist +4,107‎ The brahmanas did not refuse Lord Ramacandra's gift, after accepting it they returned it to the King. The brahmanas were so pleased with Lord Ramacandra's affection toward them that their hearts melted ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 2 February 2022 diff hist +3,688‎ The brahmanas are specifically restricted from accepting such service (which denies all the moral codes of the sastras). But in this age they will not only accept service, but they will do so even if it is of the meanest quality ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 2 February 2022 diff hist +5,252‎ Rupa and Sanatana Gosvami were born in a high brahmana family, but because they accepted employment under a Muslim government, they were considered Muslims ‎No edit summary
• 07:2707:27, 2 February 2022 diff hist +9,875‎ There must be brahmanas who are independent. Canakya Pandita, whose name is still, still celebrated, he was prime minister of Maharaja Candragupta, but he was not accepting a single paisa as salary ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 2 February 2022 diff hist +14,510‎ Personalities like Sri Ganga-narayana, Ramakrsna and many others, who were actually born in brahmana families, accepted Narottama dasa Thakura and Syamananda Gosvami as their spiritual masters ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 2 February 2022 diff hist +1,767‎ In those days (of Lord Caitanya) also, the caste brahmanas were very proud. They were not prepared to accept chastisement even from a teacher or spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 2 February 2022 diff hist +4,977‎ Out of their humility the brahmanas accept charity from the ksatriyas, or kings, and the vaisyas, or merchants ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 2 February 2022 diff hist +4,595‎ Kings like Maharaja Pariksit had their council of advisers, and all the members of that council were either great sages or brahmanas of the first order. They did not accept any salary, nor had they any necessity for such salaries ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 2 February 2022 diff hist +2,661‎ Maharaja Pariksit was curious about how Sukracarya, a powerful brahmana, could accept the principle of pratiloma. Maharaja Pariksit was eager to know the cause for this uncommon marriage ‎No edit summary
• 02:2602:26, 2 February 2022 diff hist +18‎ Only the brahmanas and sannyasis are authorized to accept charity from the householders ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1702:17, 2 February 2022 diff hist +7,016‎ In the sastra it is said that a brahmana, if he's in difficulty, he may accept the profession of a ksatriya or up to vaisya, but never accept the occupation of a sudra. These are described in the sastras ‎No edit summary current

22 January 2022

• 16:3816:38, 22 January 2022 diff hist −25‎ Everything in the world belongs to the brahmanas, and out of their humility the brahmanas accept charity from the ksatriyas, or kings, and the vaisyas, or merchants ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3616:36, 22 January 2022 diff hist +6,223‎ Drauni (Asvatthama), although he belonged to the brahmana family and he accepted the profession of a ksatriya, he degraded so much that he cut off the heads of five sons of Draupadi while they were sleeping ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3316:33, 22 January 2022 diff hist +3,402‎ Formerly brahmanas would not accept charity from a person unless he were very pious. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave this instruction for all spiritual masters ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1816:18, 22 January 2022 diff hist +5,280‎ Because he (sudra) cannot even live without having a master. He must have a master to provide him. But the Vedic culture is that brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, they will not accept any service ‎No edit summary
• 15:3315:33, 22 January 2022 diff hist +8,738‎ According to Vedic principle, without becoming a brahmana he cannot be accepted as disciple ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 22 January 2022 diff hist +14,925‎ According to his (Romaharsana's) position by birth he should not even have accepted the higher sitting position, because many learned brahmanas and sages were present (at Naimisaranya) ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4314:43, 22 January 2022 diff hist +2,876‎ A learned brahmana should become a teacher, a priest and a recipient of charity. A bona fide brahmana is authorized to accept such professions ‎No edit summary
• 14:3714:37, 22 January 2022 diff hist +4,332‎ A ksatriya's duty is to give charity, & a brahmana's duty is to accept charity, but not more than needed to maintain body & soul together. Therefore, when the brahmanas were given so much land by Lord Ramacandra, they returned it to Him & were not greedy ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 22 January 2022 diff hist +5,818‎ A brahmana should do this (adhyayana, adhyapana, yajana and yajana) without remuneration, but he is allowed to accept charity from a person whom he teaches how to be a human being ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 22 January 2022 diff hist +3,152‎ A brahmana may renounce his family and accept sannyasa. Others - ksatriyas and vaisyas - may also give up their families and take to Krsna consciousness. Such renunciation is called karma-tyaga. By such renunciation, the SP of Godhead is satisfied ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1914:19, 22 January 2022 diff hist −25‎ Although Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted the then-existing order of sannyasa (namely eka-danda), He still recited a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam about the tridanda-sannyasa accepted by the brahmana of Avantipura ‎No edit summary
• 14:1814:18, 22 January 2022 diff hist +2,982‎ As ksatriyas, the proper livelihood of the Pandavas was only to rule, and not to accept any other occupation. A brahmana, ksatriya or vaisya will not accept employment for his livelihood under any circumstances ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 22 January 2022 diff hist +18‎ Another point for Jagai and Madhai was that, as members of a brahmana family, they did not accept service under anyone. The sastras strictly forbid a brahmana to accept service under anyone ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 22 January 2022 diff hist +4,960‎ According to the smrti-sastra, which gives directions for the management of the varnasrama institution, a brahmana cannot accept a disciple from the lower castes ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 22 January 2022 diff hist +6,244‎ According to our Vedic principle a brahmana is supposed to accept the four asramas, namely brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 22 January 2022 diff hist +4,898‎ According to our vedic principle, a person, especially a Brahmana, should leave home after the 50th year and accept the order of Vanaprastha ‎No edit summary current

21 January 2022

• 14:1414:14, 21 January 2022 diff hist +1,653‎ The mind of the brahmana was purified by the revelation of Lord Krsna, and therefore he could understand the truth of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in all details ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 21 January 2022 diff hist +2,163‎ The inhabitants of the island of Kusadvipa are celebrated as the Kusalas, Kovidas, Abhiyuktas and Kulakas. They are like the brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras respectively. By bathing in the waters of those rivers, they all become purified ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 21 January 2022 diff hist +1,954‎ The mind of the brahmana was already purified by his seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He therefore went to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and described what had taken place before the Mayavadi sannyasi Prakasananda ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 21 January 2022 diff hist +5,209‎ Such a devotee is better than such a brahmana because the devotee can purify his whole family, whereas the so-called brahmana in a position of false prestige cannot purify even himself ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 21 January 2022 diff hist +8,855‎ Aryans means advance. And what way advance? Advance in eating? Advance in sleeping? No. Advance in purification. They are called Aryans. And the most advanced purified is called the brahmana. And less than that, the ksatriya. And less than that, vaisyas ‎No edit summary current

19 January 2022

• 16:0916:09, 19 January 2022 diff hist +8,405‎ Actually, we are seeing practically how by chanting this holy name of the Lord, Hare Krsna mantra, how nasty people are becoming purified, Vaisnava, brahmana. Actually nasty ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0316:03, 19 January 2022 diff hist +7,796‎ The brahmanas who were present at that time were all qualified because they were not envious, they never indulged in untruthfulness, they were never proud, they were nonviolent, and they never claimed any false prestige ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4315:43, 19 January 2022 diff hist +33‎ Unfortunately caste brahmanas do not offer obeisances to a Vaisnava sannyasi. They are so proud that they do not offer obeisances even to Indian sannyasis, what to speak of European and American sannyasis ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4215:42, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,730‎ To protect the brahmana, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised him to chant the Hare Krsna mantra incessantly. By doing so, he would never become unnecessarily proud ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3715:37, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,472‎ Being meek and humble, the brahmana Vasudeva worried that he would become proud after being cured by the grace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2914:29, 19 January 2022 diff hist +4,210‎ They should not be proud that "I am brahmana." No. As you are required, as much, the sudra is also required. It is not that only the brahmanas are required ‎No edit summary current

18 January 2022

• 11:0811:08, 18 January 2022 diff hist +4,719‎ A brahmana, or one who is properly qualified to understand the Absolute Truth, as well as the devotee of Lord Krsna, who is known as Muradvisa, enemy of a demon named Mura, is not subject to the rules and regulations of the state ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0711:07, 18 January 2022 diff hist +5,223‎ According to Vedic civilization, a brahmana, or one who is properly qualified to understand the Absolute Truth - one belonging to the intelligent social order - as well as the devotee of Lord Krsna is not subject to the rules and regulations of the state ‎No edit summary current

17 January 2022

• 16:2616:26, 17 January 2022 diff hist +7,667‎ When one perfectly understands the Absolute Truth he is called a brahmana. And when the brahmana reaches further perfection, he becomes a Vaisnava, or a devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 17 January 2022 diff hist +3,347‎ Vrtrasura was a perfect Vaisnava, and therefore he was also a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1816:18, 17 January 2022 diff hist +5,060‎ The important members of ISKCON should give careful attention to our Dallas school, where children are being taught Sanskrit and English to become perfect brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1716:17, 17 January 2022 diff hist +4,308‎ The highest perfectional brahmana is the Vaisnava. A Vaisnava who knows the science of the Absolute Truth but is not able to preach such knowledge to others is described as being in the lower stage ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1516:15, 17 January 2022 diff hist +3,150‎ The general populace should follow the perfect brahmana. In this way, one can learn how to control the mind and senses and thus gradually advance to spiritual perfection ‎No edit summary

16 January 2022

• 16:5916:59, 16 January 2022 diff hist +3,508‎ Srila Sanatana Gosvami in his Hari-bhakti-vilasa says that a person, whatever he may be, can attain the perfection of a twice-born brahmana ‎No edit summary
• 16:5616:56, 16 January 2022 diff hist +14,877‎ Romaharsana Suta had been given the chance to become a perfect brahmana, but because of his ill behavior in his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his low birth was immediately remembered ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1916:19, 16 January 2022 diff hist +3,714‎ My dear friends, O sons of the demons, you cannot please the SPG by becoming perfect brahmanas, demigods or great saints or by becoming perfectly good in etiquette or vast learning. None of these qualifications can awaken the pleasure of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 16 January 2022 diff hist +3,361‎ How he (Ajamila) fell down in spite of all these qualities (of a perfect brahmana) and thus came to be threatened with punishment by Yamaraja will be described in the following verses - of SB Sixth Canto, Chapter one ‎No edit summary
• 15:0315:03, 16 January 2022 diff hist +3,370‎ Gadadhara Gosvami is a representative of a perfect brahmana spiritual master. Srivasa Thakura represents a perfect brahmana devotee. These five (Lord Caitanya, Advaita Prabhu, Nityananda Prabhu, Gadadhara & Srivasa Thakura) are known as the Panca-tattva ‎No edit summary current

13 January 2022

• 17:4417:44, 13 January 2022 diff hist +4,635‎ Every father has to take care. The state has to take care, the teacher has to take care - how to make the children, the poor children, the innocent children, to..., a perfect brahmana ‎No edit summary
• 17:2217:22, 13 January 2022 diff hist +4,541‎ A perfect Vaisnava is also a perfect brahmana, as indicated by the words brahmanyah sila-sampannah ‎No edit summary current
• 17:0417:04, 13 January 2022 diff hist +2,860‎ As a perfect brahmana he (Vasistha) tolerated all the taunts of Visvamitra. Once he tried to commit suicide on account of Visvamitra's torture, but all his attempts were unsuccessful ‎No edit summary current

10 January 2022

• 14:2014:20, 10 January 2022 diff hist +2,891‎ The demigods are in a position many times higher than that of human beings. Therefore, although the great saints and sages were also powerful brahmanas, they requested the demigods to revive Nimi's body, which had been preserved in various perfumed balms ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 10 January 2022 diff hist +3,664‎ The brahmanas (dvija, the twice-born), are given a chance by the sastric regulations to become almost as powerful as the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 10 January 2022 diff hist +2,346‎ Sri Suta Gosvami said: While returning home, the King (Maharaja Pariksit) felt that the act he had committed against the faultless and powerful brahmana was heinous and uncivilized. Consequently he was distressed ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0212:02, 10 January 2022 diff hist +3,695‎ Durvasa Muni was certainly a powerful brahmana, but his acts against the pure devotee Maharaja Ambarisa were no better than the activities of asuras ‎No edit summary current

8 January 2022

• 18:4618:46, 8 January 2022 diff hist +3,303‎ Ajamila was like a perfect brahmana. A brahmana is expected to be perfectly pious, to follow all the regulative principles and to have all good qualities ‎No edit summary current

7 January 2022

• 17:4117:41, 7 January 2022 diff hist +11‎ According to the system of varnasrama-dharma, the pious and learned brahmanas were the natural guardians of society ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3217:32, 7 January 2022 diff hist +5,510‎ Screaming loudly, the demon (Balvala), who had been such a great disturbance to the pious brahmanas, fell to the ground like a great mountain with a red oxide peak being struck and smashed to the ground by a thunderbolt ‎No edit summary current

6 January 2022

• 15:5715:57, 6 January 2022 diff hist +4,646‎ A qualified brahmana must be expert in the occupational duties of a brahmana. His duties are mentioned as six brahminical engagements ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2915:29, 6 January 2022 diff hist +5,701‎ Actually, we should become on the platform of brahmana, qualified brahmana, qualification Vaisnava so that others may not criticize. That is our special request. That chance is there, everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5711:57, 6 January 2022 diff hist +4,886‎ One who is not mature in his performance of yoga, he is given chance, another chance -- another chance in a very nice family, sucinam, very pure brahmana family; srimatam, very rich, royal or very rich mercantile family ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 6 January 2022 diff hist +3,990‎ Anyone who hears this history (The Brahmana Sudama Blessed by Lord Krsna) gradually becomes as qualified as Sudama Vipra, and he is thus transferred to the spiritual kingdom of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current

5 January 2022

• 15:1815:18, 5 January 2022 diff hist +4,468‎ One who stops these four principles of sinful activity (meat-eating, intoxication, illicit sex and gambling) and chants the Hare Krsna maha-mantra can certainly become a pure brahmana through the process of bona fide initiation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 5 January 2022 diff hist +5,623‎ As indicated here (in SB 9.4.21) by the words tan-nistha-viprabhihitah, Maharaja Ambarisa took advice from brahmanas who were pure devotees of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 11:5311:53, 5 January 2022 diff hist +4,821‎ The conclusion is that Vidura was never a sudra, but was greater than the purest type of brahmana ‎No edit summary current

4 January 2022

• 16:3316:33, 4 January 2022 diff hist +2,627‎ After seeing a man embracing a young woman and practically doing everything required for sex life, even a fully qualified brahmana, as described above (Ajamila), could not control his lusty desires and restrain himself from pursuing them ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2416:24, 4 January 2022 diff hist +4,769‎ According to Vedic civilization, charity should be given only to the qualified brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2216:22, 4 January 2022 diff hist +4,961‎ Above Angaraka by another 200,000 yojanas is the planet called Brhaspati-graha (Jupiter), which is always very favorable for qualified brahmanas. Above Brhaspati-graha is the planet Sanaiscara (Saturn), which is very inauspicious ‎No edit summary
• 15:0515:05, 4 January 2022 diff hist +1,671‎ Who is a real brahmana? ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0405:04, 4 January 2022 diff hist +1,850‎ When You go through the jungle, there will be no brahmana available from whom You can accept lunch. Therefore please give permission for at least one pure brahmana to accompany You ‎No edit summary current

3 January 2022

• 17:4117:41, 3 January 2022 diff hist +3,218‎ Srila Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My dear King, after giving up the body of a deer, Bharata Maharaja took birth in a very pure brahmana family ‎No edit summary
• 14:1114:11, 3 January 2022 diff hist +3,499‎ From a pure brahmana, he fell down ‎No edit summary current

15 February 2021

• 06:3506:35, 15 February 2021 diff hist +4,286‎ N Ultimate goal of life is to please Lord Visnu, the Supreme Lord. The uncivilized man or materialistic person, however, does not know this aim of life. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum-SB 7.5.31. One's real self-interest lies in satisfying Lord Visnu ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The ultimate goal of life is to please Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Lord. The uncivilized man or materialistic person, however,..."
• 06:2306:23, 15 February 2021 diff hist +3,896‎ N The varnasrama system is entirely meant for visnu-aradhana, worship of Lord Visnu. Varnasramacaravata purusena parah puman/ visnur aradhyate - CC Madhya 8.58 (Visnu Purana 3.8.9) ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The varṇāśrama system is entirely meant for viṣṇu-ārādhana, worship of Lord Viṣṇu. Varṇāśramācāravatā pur..." current

14 February 2021

• 09:1309:13, 14 February 2021 diff hist +4,127‎ N The varnasrama system is entirely meant for visnu-aradhana, worship of Lord Visnu. Varnasramacaravata purusena parah puman/ visnur aradhyate - CC Madhya 8.58 - (Visnu Purana 3.8.9). The ultimate goal of life is to please Lord Visnu, the Supreme Lord ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The varṇāśrama system is entirely meant for viṣṇu-ārādhana, worship of Lord Viṣṇu. Varṇāśramācāravatā pur..."
• 08:4408:44, 14 February 2021 diff hist +1‎ Mad-bhakta-pujabhyadhika (SB 11.19.21). The Lord says, "Worshiping My devotees is better than worshiping Me directly ‎No edit summary
• 08:4308:43, 14 February 2021 diff hist +3,810‎ N Mad-bhakta-pujabhyadhika (SB 11.19.21). The Lord says, "Worshiping My devotees is better than worshiping Me directly ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Mad-bhakta-pūjābhyadhikā (SB 11.19.21). The Lord says, "Worshiping My devotees is better than worshiping Me directly"}} {{n..."
• 08:3608:36, 14 February 2021 diff hist +4,047‎ N They (vrajavasis) were not daridra, nor were they Narayana. Rather, they were devotees of Narayana, and by their educational qualifications they would satisfy Narayana. Therefore, satisfying them was an indirect way of satisfying Lord Visnu ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"They were not daridra, nor were they Nārāyaṇa. Rather, they were devotees of Nārāyaṇa, and by their educational qualif..."

12 February 2021

• 08:1408:14, 12 February 2021 diff hist +3,981‎ N Although it has become fashionable to speak of daridra-narayana, the words visnor aradhanarthaya do not mean that all the people satisfied by Nanda Maharaja in this great ceremony were Visnus ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Although it has become fashionable to speak of daridra-nārāyaṇa, the words viṣṇor ārādhanārthāya do not mean that..." current

11 February 2021

• 12:2812:28, 11 February 2021 diff hist +2,410‎ N There was (five thousand years ago) no limit to how extensively milk, butter, curd and other such products were used in human society ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"There was no limit to how extensively milk, butter, curd and other such products were used in human society"}} {{notes|}} {{co..."
• 12:2312:23, 11 February 2021 diff hist +2,613‎ N From this statement (in SB 10.5.14) we can understand that five thousand years ago not only was there enough milk, butter and curd to eat, drink and cook with, but when there was a festival it would be thrown about without restriction ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"From this statement we can understand that five thousand years ago not only was there enough milk, butter and curd to eat, dri..."
• 11:3611:36, 11 February 2021 diff hist +3,005‎ N The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 4.7) - Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion - at that time I descend Myself. ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā (BG 4.7): yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātm..."

10 February 2021

• 09:2309:23, 10 February 2021 diff hist +3,744‎ N All these gopis were going to offer Krsna their presentations because the gopis are eternal associates of the Lord. Now the gopis were more jubilant because of the news of Krsna's appearance in Vrndavana ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"All these gopīs were going to offer Kṛṣṇa their presentations because the gopīs are eternal associates of the Lord. No..."
• 06:4906:49, 10 February 2021 diff hist +3,081‎ N In Western countries topless, bottomless beauty may be easily purchased in clubs and shops and for public advertisements ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Western countries, where topless, bottomless beauty may be easily purchased in clubs and shops and for public advertisements"}..."

9 February 2021

• 11:5011:50, 9 February 2021 diff hist +3,275‎ m The word balibhih (in SB 10.5.10) indicates that the women were carrying gold coins, jeweled necklaces, nice cloths, newly grown grass, sandalwood pulp, flower garlands and similar offerings on plates made of gold. Such offerings are called bali ‎ ManiGopal moved page The word balibhih indicates that the women were carrying gold coins, jeweled necklaces, nice cloths, newly grown grass, sandalwood pulp, flower garlands and similar offerings on plates made of gold. Such offerings are called bali to [[The word balibhih (in SB 10.5.10) indicates that the women were carrying gold coins, jeweled necklaces, nice cloths, newly grown grass, sandalwood pulp, flower garlands and similar offerings on plates made of gold. Such offerings are cal...
• 11:3011:30, 9 February 2021 diff hist +3,122‎ N This description (in SB 10.5.10) of the village women gives a clear example of the contrast between natural life and the artificial life of a condemned society, such as that of the Western countries ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"This description of the village women gives a clear example of the contrast between natural life and the artificial life of a..."

7 February 2021

• 16:4316:43, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,998‎ N Krsna is always worshiped by the gopis wherever He goes. Therefore Krsna is so vividly described in Srimad-Bhagavatam. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has also described Krsna in this way: ramya kacid upasana vrajavadhu-vargena ya kalpita ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Kṛṣṇa is always worshiped by the gopīs wherever He goes. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is so vividly described in Śrīmad-Bhā..."
• 16:3416:34, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,990‎ N The description of the gopis, who were going to the house of Maharaja Nanda to welcome Krsna, is especially significant ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The description of the gopīs, who were going to the house of Mahārāja Nanda to welcome Kṛṣṇa, is especially significa..."
• 14:5714:57, 7 February 2021 diff hist +3,125‎ N The words tvaritam jagmuh indicate how happy the village women were to understand that mother Yasoda had given birth to a wonderful child known as Krsna ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The words tvaritaṁ jagmuḥ indicate how happy the village women were to understand that mother Yaśodā had given birth to..."
• 14:4614:46, 7 February 2021 diff hist +3,212‎ N The word balibhih (in SB 10.5.10) indicates that the women were carrying gold coins, jeweled necklaces, nice cloths, newly grown grass, sandalwood pulp, flower garlands and similar offerings on plates made of gold. Such offerings are called bali ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The word balibhiḥ indicates that the women were carrying gold coins, jeweled necklaces, nice cloths, newly grown grass, sand..."
• 14:1214:12, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,024‎ N By the atrocious activities of ugra-karma, how we are killing the opportunity of human civilization ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"By the atrocious activities of ugra-karma, how we are killing the opportunity of human civilization"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|M..."
• 14:0314:03, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,614‎ At the present, however, agriculture having been neglected & cow protection given up, the agriculturalist is suffering pitiably & is dressed in a niggardly torn cloth. This is the distinction between the India of history and the India of the present day ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 7 February 2021 diff hist +5,011‎ The jata-karma ceremony can take place when the umbilical cord, connecting the child and the placenta, is cut. However, since Krsna was brought by Vasudeva to the house of Nanda Maharaja, where was the chance for this to happen? ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,327‎ N At the present, however, agriculture having been neglected & cow protection given up, the agriculturalist is suffering pitiably & is dressed in a niggardly torn cloth. This is the distinction between the India of history and the India of the present day ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"At the present, however, agriculture having been neglected and cow protection given up, the agriculturalist is suffering pitia..."
• 13:3213:32, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,389‎ N When we consider the past condition of the agriculturalist in the village, we can see how opulent he was, simply because of agricultural produce and protection of cows ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When we consider the past condition of the agriculturalist in the village, we can see how opulent he was, simply because of ag..." current
• 09:1609:16, 7 February 2021 diff hist +3,140‎ How to protect the cows & how rich this community was are explained in these verses (SB 10.5.7). We can hardly imagine that cows, bulls & calves could be cared for so nicely & decorated so well with cloths & valuable golden ornaments. How happy they were ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1209:12, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,893‎ N This is Indian civilization. Yet in the same place, India, Bharata-varsa, how much people are suffering by giving up the Vedic way of life and not understanding the teachings of Bhagavad-gita ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"This is Indian civilization. Yet in the same place, India, Bhārata-varṣa, how much people are suffering by giving up the Ve..." current
• 09:0409:04, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,620‎ N As described elsewhere in the Bhagavatam, during Maharaja Yudhisthira's time the cows were so happy that they used to muddy the pasturing ground with milk ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"As described elsewhere in the Bhāgavatam, during Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira's time the cows were so happy that they used to m..." current
• 08:4108:41, 7 February 2021 diff hist +3,016‎ N How to protect the cows & how rich this community was are explained in these verses (SB 10.5.7). We can hardly imagine that cows, bulls & calves could be cared for so nicely & decorated so well with cloths & valuable golden ornaments. How happy they were ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"How to protect the cows and how rich this community was are explained in these verses. We can hardly imagine that cows, bulls..."
• 08:2708:27, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,577‎ N Nanda Maharaja belonged to the vaisya community, the agriculturalist community ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Nanda Mahārāja belonged to the vaiśya community, the agriculturalist community"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|ManiGopal}} {{compl..."
• 08:1308:13, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,816‎ m The Supreme Personality of Godhead has instructed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.44), krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam vaisya-karma-svabhavajam - Farming, cow protection and trade are the qualities of work for the vaisyas ‎ ManiGopal moved page The Supreme Personality of Godhead has instructed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.44), krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam vaisya-karma-svabhavajam: "Farming, cow protection and trade are the qualities of work for the vaisyas." to The Supreme Personality of Godhead has instructed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.44), krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam vaisya-karma-svabhavajam - Farming, cow protection and trade are the qualities of work for the vaisyas current
• 02:2402:24, 7 February 2021 diff hist +2,826‎ N The Supreme Personality of Godhead has instructed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.44), krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam vaisya-karma-svabhavajam - Farming, cow protection and trade are the qualities of work for the vaisyas ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The Supreme Personality of Godhead has instructed in Bhagavad-gītā (BG 18.44), kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṇijyaṁ vaiśya-ka..."
• 02:1302:13, 7 February 2021 diff hist +4,524‎ When Nanda Maharaja met Vasudeva, Vasudeva could not disclose, "Your son Krsna is actually my son. You are His father in a different way, spiritually." ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5701:57, 7 February 2021 diff hist +22‎ Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has discussed the significance of the words nandas tu. The word tu, he says, is not used to fulfill the sentence, because without tu the sentence is complete ‎No edit summary current

6 February 2021

• 13:0813:08, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,190‎ N Because of fear of Kamsa, Vasudeva could not observe the festival for Krsna's birth, Nanda Maharaja, however, took full advantage of this opportunity ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Because of fear of Kaṁsa, Vasudeva could not observe the festival for Kṛṣṇa's birth, Nanda Mahārāja, however, took f..."
• 11:5211:52, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,270‎ Krsna appeared as Varahadeva from the nostril of Brahma, and therefore Brahma is described as the father of Varahadeva ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 6 February 2021 diff hist +2,390‎ N In India five thousand years ago, even in the villages such as that of Nanda Maharaja, people knew know to purify things, and thus they enjoyed even material life without contamination ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In India five thousand years ago, even in the villages such as that of Nanda Mahārāja, people knew know to purify things, an..."
• 06:1906:19, 6 February 2021 diff hist +2,473‎ N These (in SB 10.5.4) are sastric injunctions concerning how one can purify everything according to Vedic civilization. Unless purified, anything we use will infect us with contamination ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"These are śāstric injunctions concerning how one can purify everything according to Vedic civilization. Unless purified, any..."
• 05:5005:50, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,298‎ N According to the opinion of some authorities, Krsna was actually born as the son of Yasoda ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"According to the opinion of some authorities, Kṛṣṇa was actually born as the son of Yaśodā"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Ma..."
• 05:4605:46, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,434‎ N Significant (in SB 10.5.1-2) are the words karayam asa vidhivat. Being overwhelmed with jubilation over the birth of his son, Nanda Maharaja did not see whether the cord was cut or not. Thus he performed the ceremony very gorgeously ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Being overwhelmed with jubilation over the birth of his son, Nanda Mahārāja did not see whether the cord was cut or not. Thu..."
• 05:3905:39, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,345‎ N Krsna appeared as Varahadeva from the nostril of Brahma, and therefore Brahma is described as the father of Varahadeva ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Kṛṣṇa appeared as Varāhadeva from the nostril of Brahmā, and therefore Brahmā is described as the father of Varāhade..."
• 05:3405:34, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,362‎ N Even though there may be doubts about the cutting of the umbilical cord, and even though it is possible that this was not done, when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears, such events are regarded as factual ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Even though there may be doubts about the cutting of the umbilical cord, and even though it is possible that this was not done..." current
• 04:5704:57, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,805‎ N In this regard, Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura desires to prove with evidence from many sastras that Krsna actually took birth as the son of Yasoda before the birth of Yogamaya, who is therefore described as the Lord's younger sister ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this regard, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura desires to prove with evidence from many śāstras that Kṛṣṇa actual..."
• 04:3804:38, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,455‎ N When Nanda Maharaja met Vasudeva, Vasudeva could not disclose, "Your son Krsna is actually my son. You are His father in a different way, spiritually." ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When Nanda Mahārāja met Vasudeva, Vasudeva could not disclose, "Your son Kṛṣṇa is actually my son. You are His father..."
• 04:3104:31, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,472‎ N Although Krsna appeared as the son of Devaki, Devaki and Vasudeva did not enjoy the jata-karma, the festival of the birth ceremony. Instead, this ceremony was enjoyed by Nanda Maharaja, as stated here (nandas tv atmaja utpanne jatahlado maha-manah) ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Although Kṛṣṇa appeared as the son of Devakī, Devakī and Vasudeva did not enjoy the jāta-karma, the festival of the b..."
• 04:2204:22, 6 February 2021 diff hist +4,288‎ N Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has discussed the significance of the words nandas tu. The word tu, he says, is not used to fulfill the sentence, because without tu the sentence is complete ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has discussed the significance of the words nandas tu. The word tu, he says, is no..."

15 December 2020

• 15:4115:41, 15 December 2020 diff hist +5,244‎ N Arcye visnau sila-dhih: everyone knows that the Deity in the temple is made of stone, but to think that the Deity is merely stone is an offense ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Arcye viṣṇau śilā-dhīḥ: everyone knows that the Deity in the temple is made of stone, but to think that the Deity is..."
• 14:2814:28, 15 December 2020 diff hist +5,325‎ N It is enjoined, gurusu nara-matih: one should stop thinking of the spiritual master as an ordinary human being with a material body ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is enjoined, gurusu nara-matih: one should stop thinking of the spiritual master as an ordinary human being with a material..."

12 December 2020

• 07:5007:50, 12 December 2020 diff hist −141‎ The material body is meant for sense enjoyment, whereas the spiritual body engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 12 December 2020 diff hist +5,478‎ N The material body is meant for sense enjoyment, whereas the spiritual body engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The material body is meant for sense enjoyment, whereas the spiritual body engages in the transcendental loving service of the..."

11 December 2020

• 11:4711:47, 11 December 2020 diff hist +5,542‎ N The material body certainly consists only of material elements, but when one awakens to Krsna conscious understanding, the body is no longer material but spiritual ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The material body certainly consists only of material elements, but when one awakens to Kṛṣṇa conscious understanding, t..."
• 11:1711:17, 11 December 2020 diff hist +5,007‎ N In this verse (8.3.2) the words etac cid-atmakam are very important ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this verse the words etac cid-ātmakam are very important"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|ManiGopal}} {{complete|ALL}} {{first|202..."

10 December 2020

• 15:2515:25, 10 December 2020 diff hist +4,766‎ Because of chanting the name of Narayana for the purpose of calling his (Ajamila's) son, whom he had named Narayana, he became advanced, even though he was involved in sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 10 December 2020 diff hist +4,700‎ N We should not forget the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra under any circumstances. It will help us in the greatest danger, as we find in the life of Gajendra ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"we should not forget the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra under any circumstances. It will help us in the greatest dang..." current
• 14:2314:23, 10 December 2020 diff hist +4,803‎ Ajamila, in his boyhood, practiced chanting the name of Narayana under the direction of his father, but later, in his youth, he fell down and became a drunkard, woman-hunter, rogue and thief ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 10 December 2020 diff hist +4,713‎ N Because of chanting the name of Narayana for the purpose of calling his (Ajamila's) son, whom he had named Narayana, he became advanced, even though he was involved in sinful activities ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Nonetheless, because of chanting the name of Nārāyaṇa for the purpose of calling his son, whom he had named Nārāyaṇa,..."
• 13:1813:18, 10 December 2020 diff hist +4,953‎ N Ajamila, in his boyhood, practiced chanting the name of Narayana under the direction of his father, but later, in his youth, he fell down and became a drunkard, woman-hunter, rogue and thief ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"For example, Ajāmila, in his boyhood, practiced chanting the name of Nārāyaṇa under the direction of his father, but late..."
• 12:4412:44, 10 December 2020 diff hist +4,720‎ N Of course, a devotee should try to perfect his Krsna consciousness in this life ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Of course, a devotee should try to perfect his Kṛṣṇa consciousness in this life"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|ManiGopal}} {{c..."

9 December 2020

• 17:3517:35, 9 December 2020 diff hist +5,180‎ N Every devotee should practice in order to chant some mantra perfectly so that even though he may be imperfect in spiritual consciousness in this life, in his next life he will not forget Krsna consciousness, even if he becomes an animal ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Every devotee should practice in order to chant some mantra perfectly so that even though he may be imperfect in spiritual con..."
• 12:2012:20, 9 December 2020 diff hist +4,967‎ N Certainly one should chant the Hare Krsna mantra, which is the maha-mantra, or great mantra, and also one should practice chanting cintamani-prakara-sadmasu or the Nrsimha strotra - ito nrsimhah parato nrsimho yato yato yami tato nrsimhah ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Certainly one should chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, which is the mahā-mantra, or great mantra, and also one should practi..."

8 December 2020

• 19:0119:01, 8 December 2020 diff hist +4,766‎ N It is imperative, therefore (because we can be immediately rescued by the Supreme Personality of Godhead), that all devotees in Krsna consciousness practice chanting some mantra ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is imperative, therefore, that all devotees in Kṛṣṇa consciousness practice chanting some mantra"}} {{notes|}} {{comp..."
• 12:5712:57, 8 December 2020 diff hist +4,837‎ N Although the King of the elephants, Gajendra, was put in danger, this was a chance for him to remember his previous devotional activities so that he could immediately be rescued by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"although the King of the elephants, Gajendra, was put in danger, this was a chance for him to remember his previous devotional..." current
• 12:2912:29, 8 December 2020 diff hist +4,541‎ N Yatate ca tato bhuyah samsiddhau kuru-nandana. To enable one to achieve perfection, Krsna gives one the chance to remember Him again ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ saṁsiddhau kuru-nandana. To enable one to achieve perfection, Kṛṣṇa gives one the chance to r..."