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19 January 2022

• 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..."