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31 January 2024

• 09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ Since the Vedic literatures say that the living entity is eternal, one should not think the living being to be produced at a certain time ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ Krsna has thousands and thousands of names, of which the name Krsna is the chief, and there are no hard and fast rules for chanting. It is not that one must chant at a certain time. No. At any time one may chant ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ It is not that automatically we have to award a devotee second initiation after he has been with us for a certain time, but the qualifications have to be there ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ If one falls down, his progress might be checked for a certain time, but it will again become manifest at an opportune moment ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Because He (Anantadeva) is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is kind toward us and checks His anger and intolerance. Only at certain times does He express His anger and destroy the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ At a certain time, the Personality of Godhead, Karanodakasayi Visnu, lies in the Karana Ocean and produces many thousands of universes from His breathing ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ Although the subordinate mellow may be manifested for a certain time, at length it will become merged into the prominent whole. Thus it is called an unconstitutional ecstasy of devotional service ‎No edit summary current

20 January 2024

• 05:5005:50, 20 January 2024 diff hist +18‎ The living entity attains a certain position in life in a particular type of body according to his pious and impious activities, but his transmigration into different bodies should not be taken as progress ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5005:50, 20 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ No one can accuse the Supreme Lord of partiality in giving one type of body to a certain type of living entity and another type of body to another living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ When conditioned by material nature, the living entity must accept a certain type of body, which is offered by nature under the direction of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ We may rent and occupy a house, but actually the owner of the house is the landlord. Similarly, we may be allotted a certain type of body as a facility with which to enjoy this material world, but the actual proprietor of the body is the SP of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ We have to accept a certain type of body because we are forced to do so, but this is not the case with Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not appear because He is forced to do so by karma like ordinary living entities who are forced to accept a certain type of body ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The soul has no death, but when the same pure soul desires to enjoy the material world independently, he is placed under the conditions of material nature and must therefore accept a certain type of body and suffer the pains and pleasures thereof ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The next body has to be immediately accepted according to karma. One will be forced to accept a certain type of body, and protesting will not help. That is the stringent law of nature ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The Mayavadi monist must accept a certain type of body, being forced by the laws of nature; therefore, his claim to being one with Krsna, or God, is only theoretical ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The living entity desires a certain type of body, and by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that body is created from material nature, which is nothing but a kind of machine handled by the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ The conditioned soul is forced to take a certain type of body and senses under the three modes of material nature. That body is not received according to his own choice ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ The body is created according to one's karma, and material nature supplies the ingredients for the development of a certain type of body. The soul the body covers is different from the bodily construction ‎No edit summary
• 05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Similarly, the seeds of our desires are varied. Every living entity has a different type of desire, and that desire is the seed which causes his growth in a certain type of body. This is explained by Rupa Gosvami by the word papa-bija ‎No edit summary
• 05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ O King, all good fortune unto you! The mind is the cause of the living entity's attaining a certain type of body in accordance with his association with material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ One is obliged to accept a certain type of body according to his karma, sometimes as an animal, sometimes a demigod and so on ‎No edit summary
• 05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Material world means you associate with the material three qualities - goodness, passion or ignorance. And according to that, as you associate, you get a certain type of body ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Karmana daiva-netrena jantor dehopapattaye (SB 3.31.1). We develop a certain type of body according to our karma ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Karmana daiva-netrena: (SB 3.31.1) we work under the influence of material nature contaminated by the three modes, and thus we get a certain type of body according to superior order. This is called karma-bandha ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ I am not the proprietor of this body. Krsna is the proprietor of the body. I wanted a certain type of body to use it for my sense gratification. He has given it and I am not happy. Therefore I shall learn how to use this machine for the proprietor ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ If you analyze very scrutinizingly, there will be some difference from your body, from your daughter's body, from your boy's body. So every body . . . every living entity is getting a certain type of body according to his desire ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ He (the living entity) does not know that after death he will be thrown into the hands of a very strong material nature that will force him to accept a certain type of body according to his present work. This body may not even be a human body ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Every other living entity is forced to accept a certain type of body by his previous actions. But when Krsna appears, He always appears in a body that is not forced upon Him by the action of His past deeds ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Every living entity who has come to this material world has come for material enjoyment, but according to his own karma, activities, must accept a certain type of body given to him by material nature under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −23‎ Everyone is compelled to accept a certain type of body offered by the Supreme Lord and thus be allotted different grades of happiness and distress ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Everyone has achieved a certain type of body given by material nature according to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Due to the mode of passion, we desire many things, and according to our desire or anxiety and according to the order of the Supreme Lord, material nature gives us a certain type of body. For some time we play as master or servant ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ By the supervision of superior order, superior vigilance, we get a certain type of body ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Because a hog has a certain type of body, his sense gratification comes from eating stool, the very thing that is most obnoxious to you. At once, after evacuating, you leave to get free from the bad smell - but the hog is waiting ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ A pig has a certain type of body, and his eatable is stool. This is destined. You cannot change it - "Let the pig eat halava." That is not possible ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ A foolish person does not know that he is completely under the bondage of material nature and that after death material nature will impose upon him a certain type of body, which he will have to accept ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ A conditioned soul has no free choice; he has to accept a certain type of body according to his karma ‎No edit summary
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ At the time of death, the mind and intelligence of a living entity create the subtle form of a certain type of body for the next life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ At the time of death, because I have got a certain type of mentality, man-mentality or God-mentality or dog-mentality or fly-mentality, any kind of... There are so many. So I have to take a certain type of body ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ As long as the mind is absorbed in the laws of karma, a certain type of body must be accepted in the next life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ All those who heard considered the speech of Krsna for some time, and they concluded that Krsna was actually the S.P.G playing the role of an ordinary humans , who is forced to take a certain type of body as a result of the reactions of his past deeds ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4005:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Actually we get this material body due to our ignorance. By ignorance we commit so many wrong things, and you have obliged to accept a certain type of body. Therefore it is a network of ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4005:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to the Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad, every living being is forced by divine superintendence to take a certain type of body according to his past deeds ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4005:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to the association of guna, or quality, prakrti gives you a certain type of body. The body is given by prakrti, by nature. Therefore, nature is called mother, Durga ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3603:36, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ Voidist philosophers think that under certain material conditions the symptoms of life occur in the material body, but the fact is that the material body cannot act on its own ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3603:36, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ We can be proud of our eyes only under certain favorable conditions created by an external agency, namely the material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3603:36, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ The real religion of a living being is his natural inborn quality, whereas pretentious religion is a form of nescience that artificially covers a living entity's pure consciousness under certain unfavorable conditions ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3603:36, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ All our senses are imperfect. We claim to observe everything and anything, but we must admit that we can observe things under certain material conditions only, which are also beyond our control ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3603:36, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ It is existing under a certain qualifying condition. Our dharma or constitutional position is that we are part and parcel of the Supreme, and this being the case, we have to dovetail or subjugate our consciousness to the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3603:36, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ Only grhasthas are allowed to associate with women under certain very much restricted conditions - that is, one associates with women to propagate nice children. Other reasons for association are condemned ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3503:35, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ Our eyes can gather knowledge only under certain favorable conditions. We cannot see things that are too far away from us; we cannot penetrate the darkness, nor can we see things that are very close to the eye, such as our own eyelids ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3503:35, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ The idea is not to encourage one to eat meat but to allow one who insists on eating meat to eat it under certain restricted conditions ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3503:35, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ The modern civilization of ignorance is simply engaged in analyzing the body, and thus people come to the erroneous conclusion that the living force within the body is generated under certain material conditions ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3503:35, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ See that the cows are healthy & strong. Even if a cow doesn't give milk, feed her and just by her stool and urine she will be valuable. Cows are not to be touched for any reason, still they must be protected, not protected only under a certain condition ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2603:26, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ We have fallen under certain conditions that we have to work. This is our position. We have to work very hard, so that foam will come out of the mouth, and still, we are not assured success; always fearful ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2603:26, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ Under certain condition the rain falls, and astral influence. Then so many things are produced - the valuable stones, the pearls. They do not know how these things are coming ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2603:26, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ Things are born or created under certain conditions, they stay for some time, and, if they continue to live, they grow, procreate, gradually dwindle and finally vanish ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2603:26, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ The Vedic system is for a daughter of a king to be offered under certain conditions ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ The pot is produced under certain conditions of action and reaction of material energy, but the potter is not in the pot. In a similar way, the material creation is set up by the Lord, but He remains aloof ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ The green leaves not falling down - the dry leaves falling down, under certain condition. So it is not the law of gravitation. Why the green leaves does not fall down? Only the rejected things are falling ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ The five direct transcendental mellows of devotional service are permanently situated in the heart of the devotee, whereas the seven indirect emotions appear suddenly under certain conditions and appear more powerful ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist +15‎ The eye can see only under certain conditions, and therefore it is understood that our vision is limited. Similarly, all our other senses are also limited. It is not possible to understand the unlimited by these imperfect, limited senses ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ The body of the living entity in different forms is supplied by material nature, but the living entity himself is supplied by the Supreme Lord. The father and mother give the body necessary for the living entity under certain conditions ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ They (senses) can only act under certain conditions. For example, our eyes. As long as the sunshine is there, our eyes are useful to a certain extent. But in the absence of sunshine, the eyes are useless ‎No edit summary
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ They (atheists) believe only in matter and hold that matter under certain conditions of amalgamation gives rise to the living force, which then appears as purusa, the enjoyer ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ Religious scripture means they are meant for training you to that conception of life that you are pure soul. Nothing more. They restrict your bodily activities under certain conditions. Under certain conditions. That is called morality ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist +15‎ People wanted material advantage, so separated from Vedic culture. Just like Buddhism. Buddhism was a Hindu culture. But Lord Buddha wanted to stop animal sacrifice. In the Vedas, animal sacrifice is recommended under certain condition ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ Only under certain conditions do the planets float as weightless balls in the air, and as soon as these conditions are disturbed, the planets may fall down in the Garbhodaka Ocean, which covers half the universe ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ Men are mad after false name and form. The form of body obtained under certain conditions is taken up as factual, and the name also taken bewilders the conditioned soul into misusing the energy in the name of so many "isms" ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ I say, that the law of gravitation acts under certain condition. This is also conditional ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ I have got my this body, a dress, covering. And when I go India, this is not required. So they are taking that the body has evolved like that. But no. Here, under certain condition, I accept this dress ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ It is customary among ksatriyas for a princess to be offered under certain conditions. For instance, Draupadi was offered in marriage to one who could pierce a fish with an arrow simply by seeing the reflection of that fish ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 20 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ In the spiritual world, if the servant cannot serve under certain conditions, the master is still pleased. And if the master does not pay, the servant is also pleased. That is called oneness, absolute ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2303:23, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ In family life a man is supposed to live happily with father, mother, wife and children, but sometimes, under certain conditions, a father, mother, child or wife becomes an enemy ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2303:23, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ Gravitation works on condition. It is not final. Under certain condition it works ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2003:20, 20 January 2024 diff hist +38‎ Feelings of separation which are present under certain conditions even when the lovers meet are called love anxieties. Such love anxieties are exhibited in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.90.15) by the princesses who kept awake nights and watched Krsna sleep ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2003:20, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ Even those who are accustomed to eat animals can offer foodstuff, not to the Lord directly, but to an agent of the Lord, under certain conditions of religious rites ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2003:20, 20 January 2024 diff hist +15‎ Either my father was lord or I have accumulated some wealth, the government has recognized me as lord . . . under certain condition, I have become lord. But He is adi. Adi means He is the origin. There is nothing beyond Him; therefore adi. Adi, anadi ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2003:20, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ Because I am eternal, you are eternal, so I want to live forever. But we are put under certain condition of this material world that we have to die ‎No edit summary current

19 January 2024

• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ When Krsna is not present the devotee is present, but the mission is the same: to free the poor conditioned souls from the clutches of the maya that chastises them ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ This Krsna consciousness means it is declaration of fighting with maya. Maya is killing all the poor conditioned souls, and Caitanya Mahaprabhu declared war against maya by spreading Krsna consciousness. And the commander-in-chiefs are Rupa-Sanatana ‎No edit summary
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ The impersonalist sometimes accepts a poor individual soul as being daridra-narayana, meaning that Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has become poor. This is a contradiction ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is called maha-vadanyavatara because although He is Sri Krsna Himself, He is even more favorably disposed to the poor fallen souls than Lord Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ Because of their compassion for the poor fallen souls, the six Gosvamis gave up their exalted positions as ministers and took vows as mendicants ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ As they were leaving, those bhakti-vedantas, who are very kind to poor-hearted souls, instructed me (Narada Muni) in that most confidential subject which is instructed by the Personality of Godhead Himself ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist +24‎ Any Vaisnava who is actually feeling for the poor, conditioned souls, he must make arrangement for delivering these rascals from the death knell of ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ We should not be angry with these poor souls. Try to convince them by argument and reason but do not become angry with them ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full in all opulences. He can agree to live with a poor soul or even with an animal, but this does not make Him poor ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 19 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The secret of success is unknown to people in general, and therefore Srila Vyasadeva, being compassionate toward the poor souls in this material world, especially in this age of Kali, has given us the Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 19 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The material world is characterized by a struggle for existence, and survival of the fittest is a well-known principle, but the poor souls of this material world do not know what is survival and who is fit ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ Not only were all the pure devotees like Narada self-realized souls, but they were engaged in preaching work automatically by spiritual impetus, and thus they delivered many poor souls entangled in the material modes ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 19 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Kaliya said, "O killer of the Mura demon, I have acquired many mystic powers by my austerity and penances, but before You I am nothing, I am most insignificant. Therefore, please be kind upon a poor soul like me, and don't be angry with me" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 19 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In spite of their (mundane wrangelrs') pride in speculation, they can never appreciate the simple potential activities of the banyan tree. Such speculators are poor souls destined to remain in matter perpetually ‎No edit summary current

18 January 2024

• 08:2908:29, 18 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ Yes. I initiate also. Well, this is the process of self-realization, to know... ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ We have been contaminated by this material affection. So one has to come out of it. That is the process of self-realization, liberation, whatever you call. The process is to come out of this contamination ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ This verse clearly states that anyone who accepts any other path cannot be delivered. This is the reason for the triple repetition 'nothing else, nothing else, nothing else,' which emphasizes the real process of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ This process of self-realization (chanting the holy names of the Lord) is very suitable for the fallen souls of this age, when life is short and when people are slow in understanding the importance of spiritual realization ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 18 January 2024 diff hist +20‎ The speculative process of self-realization, or the jnana process, is suicidal ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 18 January 2024 diff hist +41‎ The simple process of self-realization for every living entity is described here (in SB 3.21.31). The first principle to be understood is that this world is a product of the supreme will ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The process of self-realization and the path home, back to Godhead, means surrendering to the bona fide spiritual master and taking the dust of his lotus feet on one's head. Thus one advances on the path of transcendental realization ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 18 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ The personified Vedas said that if the yogis and the jnanis do not free themselves from sinful desires, then their particular process of self-realization will never be successful ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 18 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ The personified Vedas continued, "When one's mind is thus fixed on the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one does not take to any kind of inferior worship or inferior process of self-realization" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2708:27, 18 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ The personified Vedas continued, "By attempting to worship a demigod or by taking to any other process of self-realization, the living entity becomes a victim of the cycle of birth and death" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 18 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ The only factual process of self-realization or God realization is devotional service, and one who takes to this process takes to the real process of God realization ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The devotees' process of self-realization is completely different from the processes of the karmis, jnanis and yogis. Everyone else is trying to satisfy himself, whereas the devotee tries only to satisfy the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The buddhi-yoga process of self-realization with intelligence transcendental to the mind (devotional service) can alone elevate one from the conditioned state of material entanglement in the cosmic construction ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu established the process of self-realization by His own personal behavior. As stated in the Caitanya-caritamrta - CC Madhya 8.274 ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Philosophers following the precepts of Patanjali practice raja-yoga. They imagine a form of the Absolute Truth within many forms. That is their process of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 18 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ Our philosophy is that we must apply in practical life what we believe. In this age no other philosophy or process of self-realization will be practical and effective as Krishna Consciousness is ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ One who engaged in the process of self-realization, or connecting with the Supreme Absolute Truth, but fell short is allowed to take birth in such a rich family, or he is allowed to take birth in the family of pious brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ One attains the supreme stage of Brahman simply by renouncing the result of his work for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord. That is the process of self-realization. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Lord Krsna was always pleased with Maharaja Pariksit's family, at the verge of Maharaja Pariksit's death Sukadeva Gosvami was sent to help him in the process of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ Krsna and the sound vibration "Krsna" are nondifferent, so if one loudly vibrates Hare Krsna, he will be able to think of Krsna immediately. This process of chanting is the best process of self-realization in this age ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ I think they are not prepared to hear these things. If you talk that "You are God, I am God," then they will like it. As soon as the real process of self-realization, God-realization, is put before them, they are not agreeing ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ It is in Kali-yuga that the Lord engages in preaching love of Godhead through the sankirtana movement, and those living entities who are intelligent adopt this process of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ It is by the mercy of the Lord that one gets all material opulence, but if such material opulence causes one to become puffed up and forget the process of self-realization, the Lord certainly takes all the opulence away ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2308:23, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the Kali-yuga, the maximum duration of life being one hundred years only and that combined with various difficulties, the recommended process of self-realization is that of hearing and chanting of the holy name, fame, and pastimes of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In Satya-yuga the process of self-realization was meditation, & this process is taught by the white incarnation of God. This incarnation gave a benediction to the sage Kardama by which he could have an incarnation of the Personality of Godhead as his son ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ He is advanced in the opulence of spiritual assets, and He engages in executing austerity until the end of this millennium. This is the process of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ He (one who engaged in the process of self-realization, or connecting with the Supreme Absolute Truth) is guaranteed to appear in human society in his next life ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ By the process of self-realization or God realization through fruitive activities, philosophical speculation or mystic yoga, one cannot actually approach the supreme source of everything ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Arjuna said: What is the destination of the man of faith who does not persevere, who in the beginning takes to the process of self-realization but who later desists due to worldly-mindedness & thus does not attain perfection in mysticism? BG 6.37 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Arjuna next asks: "What is the destination of the man of faith who does not persevere, who in the beginning takes to the process of self-realization but who later desists due to worldly-mindedness & does not attain perfection in mysticism?" - Bg. 6.37 ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ After scrutinizingly studying all the process of self-realization or transcendental realization, when one comes to the perfectional point, he understands that vasudevah sarvam iti: (BG 7.19) Vasudeva, Krsna, is everything ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ "Let me offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha." This was the process of self-realization for the Dvapara age ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 18 January 2024 diff hist +19‎ The knowledge is distributed in so many departments of Vedic knowledge, but the whole process aims at God realization ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 18 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ The human form of life is meant for God realization, but this process, which begins with sravanam kirtanam visnoh - hearing and chanting of the holy name of the Lord - is disturbed as long as our senses are materially attracted ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 18 January 2024 diff hist +40‎ The best process is to accept the instructions of the previous acaryas and follow them. Then God realization and self-realization become extremely easy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 18 January 2024 diff hist +19‎ Our business should be, for God realization, to please Him. And that pleasing process is this devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 18 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ One who is expert in understanding the different processes of self-realization realizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is represented in the material world as well as in transcendence ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 18 January 2024 diff hist +40‎ I think they are not prepared to hear these things. If you talk that "You are God, I am God," then they will like it. As soon as the real process of self-realization, God-realization, is put before them, they are not agreeing ‎No edit summary
• 06:5106:51, 18 January 2024 diff hist +19‎ For this age Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given an easy process for God realization. All that is necessary is careful listening. We have to listen to Bhagavad-gita, and we have to chant the names of Krsna and listen to them carefully ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 18 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ By the process of self-realization or God realization through fruitive activities, philosophical speculation or mystic yoga, one cannot actually approach the supreme source of everything ‎No edit summary
• 06:5006:50, 18 January 2024 diff hist +19‎ The only factual process of self-realization or God realization is devotional service, and one who takes to this process takes to the real process of God realization ‎No edit summary
• 06:5006:50, 18 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Devotional service is not a mental concoction of depraved persons but is an actual process of God realization characterized by full cognizance and detachment and based on the Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current

17 January 2024

• 11:0311:03, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ When one takes to Krsna consciousness, one always hears unpalatable words from relatives. This is the nature of the world; one cannot avoid mental distress due to the backbiting of envious people ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ When one is engaged in devotional service, he is often surrounded by envious people, and often many enemies come to try to defeat him or stop him ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ This (counteracting freezing cold, scorching heat, etc.) is an example of the struggle for existence, the attempt to counteract the onslaught of material nature. This creates enmity in society, and consequently society is filled with envious people ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ The material world is full of envious people. Even within one's inner circle there is much backbiting, and this is compared to the sound vibration of a cricket in the forest. One cannot see the cricket, but one hears its sounds and thus becomes aggrieved ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ There are some envious people who cannot tolerate the expansion of KCM all over the world. They find fault with the preacher who has spread this movement and do not praise him for the excellent service he has rendered in fulfilling Caitanya’s mission ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Some envious people conclude that because Raghunatha dasa had not taken birth in the family of a brahmana, Caitanya did not give him the right to worship the Deity directly but instead gave him a stone from Govardhana. This kind of thought is hellish ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ 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 current
• 11:0211:02, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ Many envious people accuse the Krsna consciousness movement of spoiling the rigidity of so-called Hinduism. That is not actually the fact ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ In this material world there are many envious people. There is the tax-exacting government, which is compared to an owl, and there are invisible crickets that create unbearable sounds ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ In this forest there are dense bowers composed of thickets of bushes, grass and creepers. In these bowers the conditioned soul is always disturbed by cruelly biting mosquitoes (envious people) ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 17 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ If the Krsna consciousness movement spreads all over the world, and if by the grace of Krsna everyone accepts it, the thinking of envious people will change. Everyone will think of the welfare of others ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ Every businessman is afraid of his associates because this material world is the field of activities for all kinds of envious people who have come here to compete with the opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 17 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ Envious people create many impediments to the Krsna consciousness movement, but we have to tolerate them. There is no alternative. One must be peaceful and depend on Krsna in all circumstances. These are the ornaments of a sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 17 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ The word jnana-ghanaya is especially used here (in SB 8.3.12) to refer to those whose knowledge has become solidified by dint of their searching for the Lord through speculative philosophical understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 17 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ The Lord is by nature the reservoir of all pleasures, and because He wants to enjoy pleasure, there must be energies to give Him pleasure or supply Him the impetus for pleasure. This is the perfect philosophical understanding of the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 17 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ One of them (methods for controlling the senses) is the process of jnana, the path of philosophical understanding of the Supreme - Brahma, Paramatma & Bhagavan. The other is that of direct engagement in the transcendental loving devotional service of God ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 17 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ Krsna then confirmed all of Vasudeva’s statements as follows: "My dear father, whatever you may say, We are, after all, your sons. What you have said about Us is certainly a highly philosophical understanding of spiritual knowledge" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 17 January 2024 diff hist +41‎ Isvara, jiva, prakrti. And then time - what is the time factor, past, present & future. & then there is karma, activity. These five things, primary principles of philosophical speculation or philosophical understanding, are very clearly stated in the BG ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 17 January 2024 diff hist +41‎ In order to remain steadily fixed in Krishna consciousness there must be a sound philosophical understanding. Otherwise it will become only sentiment ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 17 January 2024 diff hist +41‎ If respectable gentlemen become interested in our Krishna Conscious Movement then our temple in Vrindaban will stand first, because all other temples in Vrindaban gather general mass of people without philosophical understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Bhagavata-dharma means it is scientific knowledge. It is not sentiment. Religion without philosophical understanding is sentiment. And philosophy without understanding of God is mental speculation ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 17 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ Bhagavad-gita you'll find everything. A combination of religious sentiments plus philosophical understanding. That is wanted ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ According to the Mahabharata, there is no point in arguing about the Absolute Truth because there are so many different Vedic scriptures and philosophical understandings that no one philosopher can agree with another ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 17 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ Superior to the forest of Vrndavana is Govardhana Hill, for it was raised by the divine hand of Sri Krsna and was the site of His various loving pastimes ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 17 January 2024 diff hist +38‎ Narada spoke as follows: "By Your (Krsna's) causeless mercy, my Lord, You descend to exhibit Your various transcendental pastimes, which are illuminating and full of glory. Therefore I have no alternative but to offer my respectful obeisances unto You" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 17 January 2024 diff hist +38‎ Lord Krsna thought: "Taking these pure devotees with Me, I shall descend and sport in various wonderful ways, unknown even in Vaikuntha. I shall broadcast such pastimes by which even I am amazed" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 17 January 2024 diff hist +38‎ Lord Krsna manifests His own form in Mathura and Dvaraka. He enjoys pastimes in various ways by expanding into the quadruple forms ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 17 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ Krsna's activities - beginning with the killing of the Putana demon - are displayed in innumerable universes, and there is no limit to them. Indeed, at every moment, at every second, His manifestations and various pastimes are seen in different universes ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 17 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ Just as there is no limit to the flowing of the waves of the Ganges, there is no cessation of various features of Lord Krsna's pastimes in different universes ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 17 January 2024 diff hist +38‎ By their various activities in different pastimes, all of these friends used to give transcendental pleasure to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Why are there so many different bodies? Why not one kind of body? The answer to this is also given in Bhagavad-gita (13.22) - It is due to his association with the modes of material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is present as the Supersoul in all bodies, knows everything about all bodies. He knows all the different bodies of all the various species of life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species - Bhagavad-gita 13.22 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongst various species - BG 13.22 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongst various species. BG 13.22 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity in material nature follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species - BG 13.22 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity in material nature follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity in material nature follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of material nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species - BG 13.22 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity has a small material body taken in various species and forms, and similarly the whole universe is but the material body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This body is described in the sastras as virat-rupa ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ The living entities take their different forms in the various species of life according to their past deeds, and the Lord doesn't interfere with them. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ The energy and the intelligence you got for your self-realization or your, this precarious position, constantly dying and taking birth in various species of life, this is your problem, and this was to be solved in human life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ The conditioned souls are wandering throughout the different planets of the universe, entering various species of life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ These desires (for sense gratification) are represented in the various species of life, from germs to the most perfected material bodies, those of Brahma and the demigods. All of these living entities have bodies composed of matter in different shapes ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ There are various species of living entities, but a devotee does not see the outward covering; he sees the inner soul inhabiting the body ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ There are different stages of spiritual development in matter. In the material world the spiritual sparks of the PG are covered by the material energy in different proportions, and gradually they become spiritualized in various species of life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ Please also describe the imperfections and contradictions of the faithless atheists, the situation of crossbreeding, and the movements of the living entities in various species of life according to their particular modes of nature and work ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ O my Lord, by Your own will You appear in the various species of living entities, among animals lower than human beings as well as among the demigods, to perform Your transcendental pastimes ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ Narottama dasa Thakura says: One travels throughout various species of life and eats all kinds of nonsense. Thus he spoils his existence ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ It is confirmed in the CC that the living entities are wandering within the universe in various species of life but by the mercy of Krsna & the spiritual master they can get the seed of devotional service, and thus their path of liberation can be cleared ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 13.22), karanam guna-sango 'sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu: Because of the living entity's association with material nature, he meets with good and evil among various species ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In this way he (a living entity) performs all sorts of misconceived activities, which lead to his perpetual bondage in repetition of birth and death in various species ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In this way (sometimes going here and sometimes there and sometimes doing this or that) the living entity wanders throughout the entire universe, imprisoned in various species and thus engaging in various activities for which he must suffer the reactions ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ A pure devotee does not even want to stop the repetition of birth and death. To a pure devotee, it does not matter whether he has to take birth again in the various species of life. His only ambition is that he not forget the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita, karanam guna-sango 'sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu: "This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species" - BG 13.22 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 17 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ All classes of living entities in various species of life are existing within this material world. This explains superior and inferior life - forms within the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 17 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ After every dissolution of the material cosmos, all the living entities take shelter in the body of Karanodakasayi Visnu, and when creation takes place again, they come forth from His body in their various species to resume their activities ‎No edit summary current

10 January 2024

• 12:5612:56, 10 January 2024 diff hist +31‎ There are persons who worship various demigods, but the Supreme Truth, Krsna, declares in BG (7.23), antavat tu phalam tesam tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam - Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Unintelligent persons who thirst for sense enjoyment and who worship various demigods are no better than animals in the human form of life. Because of their animalistic propensities, they fail to worship Your Lordship ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 10 January 2024 diff hist +30‎ Those who want to be relieved from the material clutches give up the worship of the various demigods who have fearful bodily features. Such peaceful devotees, who are not envious of the demigods, worship the different forms of the S P of God, Narayana ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Those who are situated in goodness generally worship the demigods. The demigods include Brahma, Siva and others such as Indra, Candra and the sun-god. There are various demigods. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Those who are bereft of all good sense, or those whose intelligence is withdrawn by the deluding energy of maya, aspire to achieve all sorts of material enjoyment in life 1) by pleasing the various demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The worshipers of various demigods also worship the Supreme Lord, but they do so against the regulative principles. The purpose of the regulative principles is to satisfy Lord Visnu. In the Visnu Purana (3.8.9) the very same thing is confirmed ‎No edit summary
• 12:5512:55, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The Vedas recommend fruitive activities by which people can advance to higher planets, and they also recommend worship of the various demigods for the purpose of attaining their planets ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The various demigods are all acting under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and according to their various actions the demigods are differently named ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Sama-veda is rich with beautiful songs played by the various demigods. One of these songs is the Brhat-sama, which has an exquisite melody and is sung at midnight. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Queen (Arci) executed the necessary funerary functions (of King Prthu) and offered oblations of water. After bathing in the river, she offered obeisances to various demigods situated in the sky in the different planetary systems ‎No edit summary
• 12:5412:54, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The karmis, in order to achieve success within this material world, worship the various demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The impersonalists imagine the various demigods to be forms of the Lord. For example, the Mayavadis worship five demigods pancopasana ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The demigods said: The three worlds are created by the five elements - namely ether, air, fire, water and earth - which are controlled by various demigods, beginning from Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The first division (the karma-kanda) recommends fruitive activities by which people can advance to higher planets. Above this is the upasana-kanda, which recommends worship of the various demigods for the purpose of attaining their planets ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The demigods are also in the category of living entities; they are not separate gods. But men whose knowledge is immature and contaminated by the modes of material nature worship various demigods, according to their intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ They are fond of performing many yajnas to propitiate the various demigods and the forefathers in heaven. Such persons are automatically promoted to the moon, where they enjoy soma, a celestial beverage ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ They are (men whose knowledge is immature and contaminated by the modes of material nature worship various demigods, according to their intelligence) rebuked in Bhagavad-gita (kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah prapadyante 'nya-devatah) - BG 7.20 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ They (persons who are not in real knowledge) create diverse purposes and worship various demigods to have these purposes fulfilled ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ There are recommendations in the Vedas for the worship of various demigods as well as Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5212:52, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ There are many so-called religions devoted to the worship of various demigods, but here (in SB 5.5.10-13) good association means association with one who simply accepts Krsna as his worshipable Deity ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4812:48, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Sri means "beauty," aisvarya means "riches," praja means "children," and ipsavah means "desiring." As described in the Second Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, one has to worship various demigods for different types of benedictions ‎No edit summary
• 12:4712:47, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Some commentators on the Gita say that one who worships a demigod can reach the Supreme Lord, but here it is clearly stated that the worshipers of demigods go to the different planetary systems where various demigods are situated. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Sometimes the Lord would go with other children to bathe in the Ganges, and the neighboring girls would also come there to worship various demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Since everything in the cosmic creation is dependent on the asraya-tattva - the creative manifestation or Visnu manifestation - the various demigods and manifestations of energy, the living entities and all material elements are dependent on Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 12:4712:47, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Raksasas and demons worship various demigods, such as Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, just to take the post of these demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 10 January 2024 diff hist +30‎ People who are too lusty worship various demigods instead of worshiping Lord Visnu, the Supersoul of all living entities, but ultimately it is Lord Visnu they worship because He is the Supersoul of all demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4612:46, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ People are generally addicted to offering obeisances to various demigods, but Bharata Maharaja simply wanted to please Lord Vasudeva. As stated in Bhagavad-gita: bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4612:46, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Our senses are also controlled by different demigods; our senses are representations of various demigods, and the mind is the representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4612:46, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ One should worship Lord Visnu or His devotee for spiritual advancement in knowledge, and for protection of heredity and advancement of a dynasty one should worship the various demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4612:46, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ My Lord, we, the various demigods, the directors of this universe, have come to Your lotus feet. Please fulfill the purpose for which we have come ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4612:46, 10 January 2024 diff hist +30‎ Lord Krsna said, "One should be careful to discharge duties according to his natural instinct and not divert attention to the worship of various demigods" ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Lord Krsna's partial expansion, the Supersoul, resides in everyone's heart, and it is He who instills within one's heart faith and respect for the various demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ It is recommended in the Vedic scriptures that if one wants money, health or education, then he should worship the various demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah prapadyante ’nya-devatah: only men who have lost their intelligence worship the various demigods to fulfill their desires - BG 7.20 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ In the Visnu-rahasya there is a statement to the effect that one should prefer to embrace a snake, a tiger or an alligator rather than associate with persons who are worshipers of various demigods and who are impelled by material desire ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ His (Krsna's) purpose was to teach that we need not satisfy the various demigods in charge of the various departments of cosmic affairs; instead we must offer sacrifices to the Supreme Lord, for the Lord is the master and all others are His servants ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ He (a self-realized person) knows that to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead is easier than to worship various demigods under the influence of lust and the desire for material enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Having material desires, men worship various demigods. They have no idea how to get out of matter; they want to utilize the material world to its best capacity ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Generally, such people (who take shelter of demigods) do not go to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because they are in particular modes of nature (ignorance and passion) and therefore worship various demigods. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ For the protection of the child, he (Nanda Maharaja) had worshiped various demigods and forefathers and given charity to everyone's satisfaction ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ For that sacrifice, the various demigods who control the winds offered foodstuffs, and the Visvedevas were members of the assembly ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Foolish people who are after more wealth, more wives and more children worship various demigods. The aim of life is to end the miseries of life and not to increase them ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Everyone is a servant. No one can actually claim to be master. If we simply take shelter of Krsna, we do not have to offer sacrifices to various demigods. If we water the root of a tree, we do not have to water the branches, twigs, flowers or fruits ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Because they are (whose knowledge is contaminated by the modes of material nature) unintelligent and not very advanced and have not properly considered the truth, they take to the worship of various demigods or speculate according to various philosophies ‎No edit summary
• 12:4412:44, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ A person who desires elevation to the heavenly planets worships various demigods, and material nature may be pleased to offer such devotees their desired positions ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4312:43, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.20), kamais tais tair hrta jnanah prapadyante 'nya-devatah: those who are unintelligent approach the various demigods for temporary material benefits ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4312:43, 10 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ A devotee knows that various demigods are but different parts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that these parts need not be worshiped ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4312:43, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Although in all cases Visnu is the chief Deity on the sacrificial altar, the performers of fruitive rituals aim to satisfy various demigods to achieve in return some material prosperity ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4312:43, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ All the helmets of the various demigods and Brahmas shone brightly in the great assembly, and the prayers of the demigods made a great sound ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ While Sukadeva was narrating various activities of Krsna in playing the role of an ordinary human being, he also narrated the history of the battle between the dynasty of Yadu & the demon Salva, who had managed to possess a wonderful airship named Saubha ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ When the Lord is worshiped with pure love, the various activities performed in the course of that worship awaken transcendental bliss in the heart of the devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ We should not accept any rascal as God or an incarnation of God, for God displays special features in His various activities ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ We are engaged in various activities undoubtedly, but we do not know what sort of activities we shall adopt that will give us relief from the actions and reactions of all activities. That is also explained in the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ We are engaged in various activities. Undoubtedly we do not know what sort of activities we should adopt to gain relief from the actions and reactions of all these activities, but this is also explained in the Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ This bhakti consists of various activities (sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam (SB 7.5.23)), and to understand the Lord one must take to this path of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The yogi in Krsna consciousness-even though he may be engaged in various activities while in material existence-remains always situated in Krsna. This is confirmed in the BRS of Srila Rupa Gosvami: nikhilesu avasthasu jivanmukta sa ucyate. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ The various activities of God must be very disturbing to the tiny living entities, but since God is supremely great, He is never affected. Lord Siva or any other pure devotee can see this clearly without being blinded by bheda-buddhi, or differentiation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ The Vaisnava sannyasis have nothing to do with material activities, and yet they perform various activities in their devotional service to the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ The Supreme Lord is unborn, there is no cessation to His appearance in different forms as incarnations like Lord Krsna and Lord Rama. Since His incarnations are eternal, the various activities performed by these incarnations are also eternal ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ The neophyte devotees are advised to worship the Lord in the form of His Deity incarnation in the temples, and to engage in various activities of Krsna consciousness to increase the number of godly persons for perfect peace in the world ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Lord says that when He endeavors or breathes, the material universes come into existence, and various activities gradually develop ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Lord has unlimited transcendental qualities and opulences, and one who feels influenced by the Lord's qualities in various activities offers prayers to the Lord. In this way he becomes successful ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The consciousness of the soul becomes polluted by the material atmosphere, and thus various activities are exhibited in the false ego of bodily identification ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ They are accepted as pious (sukrtinah) due to their inquiring about the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Not knowing the various activities and engagements of the Lord, such people unnecessarily disturb the Lord for material gain ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ These various activities are described in Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.41) as bahu-sakha hy anantas ca buddhayo 'vyavasayinam. The conditioned soul is bewildered into various activities for want of pure consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ There are various activities in Krsna consciousness, and all of them will be described in the following verses (BG 24-42). But, for the present, just the principle of Krsna consciousness is described. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ Suta Gosvami continued: O Saunaka, leader of the great sages, after hearing Maitreya speak about the various activities of King Prthu, the original king, who was fully qualified, glorified and widely praised all over the world ‎No edit summary
• 12:2912:29, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ Only the Supreme Lord is self-sufficient. When Lord Krsna appeared on earth five thousand years ago, He displayed His full manifestation as the Personality of Godhead through His various activities ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ One must constantly be engaged in various activities (of devotional service to God), and the hard labor involved is certainly an austerity ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ One may be engaged in various activities, but one should not be attached to the result of his work, but the result should be done for Him (Krsna). BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ One may be able to see the universal form of Krsna by adding a little tinge of devotional service to various activities like penance, Vedic study and philosophical speculation, etc. But without a tinge of bhakti, one cannot see. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2812:28, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Na hanyate hanyamane sarire: (BG 2.20) He does not die, even after the annihilation of the body. Thus the living entity transmigrates from one body to another and performs various activities ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ Liberated impersonalists become attracted to devotional service by the various activities of Lord Krsna. Such are the transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 10 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ Krsna appeared Himself five thousand years ago in India, and He exhibited His godly qualities, established Himself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by His various activities, and still people are dying to see God. That is very regrettable ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In this way (sometimes going here and sometimes there and sometimes doing this or that) the living entity wanders throughout the entire universe, imprisoned in various species and thus engaging in various activities for which he must suffer the reactions ‎No edit summary
• 12:2412:24, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that one who knows the truth about Sri Krsna's descent and His various activities is at once liberated and does not have to fall again to this existence of birth and death after he leaves his present material body ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ In human society there are various activities performed for the protection of one's wealth and life by one's words, one's mind and one's actions, but they are all performed for one's personal or extended sense gratification with reference to the body ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ Generally pure devotees utilize their valuable time in chanting and discussing various activities of Lord Krsna or Lord Caitanya amongst themselves ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 10 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ Generally, pure devotees utilize their valuable time in chanting and discussing various activities of Lord Krsna or Lord Caitanya amongst themselves ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Everyone is attracted to hard labor for becoming happy in this material world, but although various activities are going on all over the world simply for the sake of happiness, unfortunately only problems are being created from such fruitive activities ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Even while engaged in various activities, devotees whose minds are completely absorbed at Your lotus feet are always on the transcendental platform, and thus they can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead - SB 10.2.37 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ During the day, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu engaged in various activities with His devotees, but at night He felt great separation from Krsna and used to cry ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Demigod worhsip by the general populace is also advised in the Vedic literature just so people can accept the superior power of God. The demigods are servants of the Lord deputed to look after the management of various activities of universal affairs ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 10 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ By their various activities in different pastimes, all of these friends used to give transcendental pleasure to Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 12:2212:22, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Being influenced by the modes of material nature, he identifies himself with the body and, for the interest of the body, becomes attached to various activities ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 10 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ A pure devotee never wants to see the Lord unnecessarily. The Lord is engaged in various activities, and the pure devotee does not want to see Him whimsically, for his own sense gratification. The pure devotee simply depends on the Lord's mercy ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ A devotee does not care about his own happiness and distress; he is simply interested in seeing that Krsna is happy, and for that purpose he engages in various activities ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 10 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ Assisted by the descendants of Bhoja, Vrsni, Andhaka, Madhu, Surasena, Dasarha, Kuru, Srnjaya and Pandu, Lord Krsna performed various activities ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 10 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Although the transcendental pleasure being enjoyed by the cowherd boys could not be stopped, unless they stopped the transcendental pleasure of their various activities they could not eat their lunch ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 10 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ All the various activities exhibited by the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are certainly pleasing to the ear and to the mind. Simply by one's hearing of these activities, the dirty things in one's mind immediately vanish - SB 10.7.1-2 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2112:21, 10 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ 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 current

31 December 2023

• 14:0114:01, 31 December 2023 diff hist +5‎ Yudhisthira said, "My dear Lord, You are the ocean of unlimited knowledge and transcendental bliss. The reactions of mental concoctions in the three phases of material life - wakefulness, sleep and deep sleep - cannot exist in Krsna consciousness" ‎No edit summary
• 14:0114:01, 31 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Yawning so hard as to make ripples on His abdomen, Lord Baladeva, the bearer of the plow, returned to His deep sleep. This is an instance of sleepiness in ecstatic love ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 31 December 2023 diff hist +5‎ When we are awakened, and we are acting with our intelligence, this is one stage. Then the another stage, that we are sleeping, dreaming. Another stage is that we are in deep sleep, forgetting everything. That is susuptih, or deep sleep ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ When the living entity is in deep sleep, when he faints, when there is some great shock on account of severe loss, at the time of death, or when the body temperature is very high, the movement of the life air is arrested ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ When one becomes unconscious due to being bitten by a snake, one cannot understand what is taking place outside the body. This unconscious condition is the condition of deep sleep ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ When one's consciousness is completely purified of the contamination of material existence, without being agitated as in the working and dreaming states, and when the mind is not dissolved as in susupti, deep sleep, one comes to the platform of trance ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ When a person is in deep sleep or when he has fainted, he forgets his gross body. Similarly, under chloroform or some other anesthetic, the living entity forgets his gross body and does not feel pain or pleasure during a surgical operation ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ When a person is in deep sleep, he dreams and sees in himself many other objects, such as great mountains and rivers or perhaps even the entire universe, although they are far away ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ The thirty-three vyabhicari-bhavas, bodily symptoms manifest in ecstatic love, are as follows: (29) asuya, jealousy; (30) capalya, impudence; (31) nidra, sleep; (32) supti, deep sleep, and (33) prabodha, awakening ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ The living entity can vividly feel his existence as the seer but because of the disappearance of the ego during the state of deep sleep he falsely takes himself to be lost like a man who has lost his fortune & feels distressed thinking himself to be lost ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ The living entity actually has no connection with either the activities of sleep or the activities of the so-called wakened state. When a person is in deep sleep or when he has fainted, he forgets his gross body ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ The actual identity of the living entity is his consciousness, which is always present while the living entity is awake, dreaming or in deep sleep. Even in deep sleep, he can perceive by consciousness whether he is happy or distressed ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ There are three states to our existence, namely wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep. In all three states, we have different experiences. Thus the soul is the observer of these three states ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Srila Madhvacarya concisely states that the Lord is turya-sthitah, always situated in transcendence. In transcendence there is no such thing as jagarana-nidra-susupti - wakefulness, sleep and deep sleep ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Sometimes we want to forget ourself by transferring ourself into that deep sleep, forgetting everything. Actually, that is our natural tendency. When we are too much afflicted with these material activities, anxieties ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Sometimes they are manifest in the wakening state and in the dream state, but during deep sleep (unconsciousness) or trance, they disappear. A person who is liberated in this life (jivan-mukta) can see all these things vividly ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ O sons of the demons, your duty is to take to Krsna consciousness, which can burn the seed of fruitive activities artificially created by the modes of material nature and stop the flow of the intelligence in wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ O King, know Him (Narayana) who is causeless and yet is the cause of creation, maintenance and annihilation. He exists in the three states of consciousness - namely waking, dreaming and deep sleep - as well as beyond them ‎No edit summary
• 13:5713:57, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ One attains the ultimate realization of the Personality of Godhead when one gives up the activities of the mind - thinking, feeling and willing - or when mental speculation stops. This transcendental realization is above susupti, deep sleep ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Of course, in the process of development, there is no consciousness, just like deep sleeping. It is like that. But as soon as the body is little developed, the... There are nine holes: two nostrils, two ears, two eyes, one navel, one genital, one rectum ‎No edit summary
• 13:5713:57, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ None of these conditions of the living entities - namely, deep sleep, dreaming and wakefulness - is substantial. They are simply displays of various phases of conditional life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 31 December 2023 diff hist +24‎ Just like you go on sleep every night, so death means to sleep for seven months, unconsciousness, very deep sleep in the womb of the mother ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ In BG 15.15 Krsna says: "I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness." The living entities are completely absorbed in the three states of wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep through their intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 31 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ In all three stages of their consciousness - namely, wakefulness, dreaming & deep sleep - the devotees are absorbed in the thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, in their complete absorption in the thought of Krsna, they do not sleep ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Intelligence can be perceived in three states of activity - wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep. The person who perceives these three is to be considered the original master, the ruler, the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ If a conditioned soul does not take advantage of this opportunity, after the dissolution of this material world he enters into the body of Narayana and remains there in deep sleep until the time of another creation ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Even though during the time of dissolution all the conditioned living entities remain merged within the spiritual existence of the Lord, as if in deep sleep, their original desires to lord it over the material nature do not subside ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 31 December 2023 diff hist +5‎ Daksa got up as if he were awakened from deep sleep. In Sanskrit this is called supta ivottasthau. The meaning is that after a man awakens from sleep, he immediately remembers all the duties which he must execute ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 31 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Consciousness acts in three stages under the material conception of life. When we are awake, consciousness acts in a particular way, when we are asleep it acts in a different way, and when we are in deep sleep, consciousness acts in still another way ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Conditioned souls are resting in the condition called susupti which is exactly deep sleep without dream, or anesthetized state, therefore they do not remember being with Krsna when they wake up in the material world and become engaged in material affairs ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ By the influence of this internal potency, Yogamaya, all the residents of Kamsa’s palace, especially the doorkeepers, were overwhelmed with deep sleep, and all the palace doors opened, although they were barred and shackled with iron chains ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ A living entity can never be lost. When one forgets his identity in deep sleep, he becomes absorbed in dreams, and he may think himself a different person or may think himself lost. But actually his identity is intact ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ At that time the conditioned souls are resting in the condition called susupti which is exactly deep sleep without dream, or anesthetized state, therefore they do not remember being with Krsna when they wake up in the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 31 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ All the conditions of deep sleep, dreaming and wakefulness are but energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One should always remember the original creator of these conditions, the Supreme Lord, who is unaffected by them ‎No edit summary current

27 December 2023

• 07:5407:54, 27 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master, all the imports of Vedic knowledge are automatically revealed ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 27 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ The Vedas (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23) enjoin that for one who has unflinching faith in the lotus feet of the Lord, as well as in the spiritual master, the real import of Vedic knowledge can be revealed ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 27 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23: 'Unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master, all the imports of Vedic knowledge are automatically revealed" ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 27 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed - Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23 ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 27 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed - Svetasvatara Up. 6.23 ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 27 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed. This Vedic injunction is very important, and Sri Caitanya supported it by His personal behavior ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 27 December 2023 diff hist +19‎ Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 27 December 2023 diff hist +19‎ Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 27 December 2023 diff hist +19‎ Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord & the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed - Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23 ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 27 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord & the spiritual master are all the imports of the Vedic knowledge automatically revealed ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ We have got this body produced, or born, at a certain date. It keeps, sustains, for a certain period - say fifty years, sixty years or a hundred years, utmost - and then again it is destroyed ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ This whole cosmic manifestation, this material world, innumerable universes, they have been produced at a certain date and they will be finished at a certain date. Everything will be finished. But there is another nature, where the planets are everlasting ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ This is material world. Material world means it comes into existence at a certain date, it remains for some time, it gives so many by-products, and it expands, and then dwindles, then finish ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ This creation takes place exactly like your body, my body. The creation of this body takes place at a certain date. That is the beginning of history ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ The body we have now is dated. At a certain date I was born of my father and mother, and now this body will stay for some time ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ The body, for example, takes birth at a certain date, and then it grows and stays for some time. From the body come so many byproducts in the form of sons and daughters, and then the body becomes old and weak, and finally when it is very old it dies ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ Sraddha is prasadam offered to the forefathers at a certain date of the year or month. The sraddha-patra, or plate offered to the forefathers, is then offered to the best of the brahmanas in society ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ Our body has taken birth at a certain date, it lasts for some years - ten years, twenty years, fifty years, or whatever, according to the body - and then it will be finished. Where did this body come from, and when it is destroyed where will it go ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ One can very easily understand that the material body is temporary, for it is generated at a certain date and ends at a certain date, after undergoing the six kinds of change, namely birth, death, growth, maintenance, transformation and dwindling ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ No one can trace out the history of his becoming conditioned at a certain date in material history. Consequently, his release from the clutches of material nature is very difficult. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 27 December 2023 diff hist +3‎ Material world means it comes into existence at a certain date, it remains for some time, it gives so many by-products, and it expands, and then dwindles, then finish ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ This whole cosmic manifestation, this material world, innumerable universes, they have been produced at a certain date and they will be finished at a certain date. Everything will be finished. But there is another nature, where the planets are everlasting ‎No edit summary
• 07:4807:48, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ This is material world. Material world means it comes into existence at a certain date, it remains for some time, it gives so many by-products, and it expands, and then dwindles, then finish ‎No edit summary
• 07:4807:48, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ This creation takes place exactly like your body, my body. The creation of this body takes place at a certain date. That is the beginning of history ‎No edit summary
• 07:4807:48, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ The body we have now is dated. At a certain date I was born of my father and mother, and now this body will stay for some time ‎No edit summary
• 07:4807:48, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ The body, for example, takes birth at a certain date, and then it grows and stays for some time. From the body come so many byproducts in the form of sons and daughters, and then the body becomes old and weak, and finally when it is very old it dies ‎No edit summary
• 07:4807:48, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ Sraddha is prasadam offered to the forefathers at a certain date of the year or month. The sraddha-patra, or plate offered to the forefathers, is then offered to the best of the brahmanas in society ‎No edit summary
• 07:4707:47, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ Our body has taken birth at a certain date, it lasts for some years - ten years, twenty years, fifty years, or whatever, according to the body - and then it will be finished. Where did this body come from, and when it is destroyed where will it go ‎No edit summary
• 07:4707:47, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ One can very easily understand that the material body is temporary, for it is generated at a certain date and ends at a certain date, after undergoing the six kinds of change, namely birth, death, growth, maintenance, transformation and dwindling ‎No edit summary
• 07:4707:47, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ No one can trace out the history of his becoming conditioned at a certain date in material history. Consequently, his release from the clutches of material nature is very difficult. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 07:4707:47, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ Material world means it comes into existence at a certain date, it remains for some time, it gives so many by-products, and it expands, and then dwindles, then finish ‎No edit summary
• 07:4707:47, 27 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ We have got this body produced, or born, at a certain date. It keeps, sustains, for a certain period - say fifty years, sixty years or a hundred years, utmost - and then again it is destroyed ‎No edit summary

22 December 2023

• 08:3508:35, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ Yukta Vairagya means that we should simply accept the bare necessities of our material part of life, and try to save time for spiritual advancement. This should be the motto of New Vrindaban, if you at all develop it to the perfectional stage ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ Yukta Vairagya, means that we should simply accept the bare necessities of our material part of life, & try to save time for spiritual advancement. This should be the motto of New Vrindaban, I am always at your service to help you by practical suggestion ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ Why you are being carried away by the waves of maya and becoming drowned and sometimes up, sometimes down? Why you are wasting your life in that way? Jiva krsna das e biswas korle to. If you simply accept Krsna as your guidance, there is no more maya ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ When someone simply accepts the impersonal exhibition of spiritual energy to the exclusion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he does not accept the Absolute Truth in full ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ We simply accept a sincere soul who wants to dedicate his life for God's service. So it is not easy thing ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ We must simply accept the word of Lord Ramacandra, Lord Krsna and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and follow in Their footsteps. Then it may be possible for us to know the purpose of Their incarnations ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ We do not make any research, or we do not make any statement made by us. We simply accept the injunctions given by great acaryas. Acaryopasanam. That is the process of Vedic system ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ We cannot concoct the form and attributes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We must simply accept the description given in Vedic literatures about the Lord's form and activities ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ The King of the elephants, Gajendra, simply accepted that there must be someone who has created this cosmic manifestation and has supplied its ingredients. This should be admitted by everyone, even the most determined atheists ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ The gopis said, "We do not wish to ask You (Krsna) to accept us as Your wives. Simply accept us as Your maidservants" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ The exact adjustment is in Vaisnava philosophy, which is called Yukta Vairagya, means that we should simply accept the bare necessities of our material part of life, and try to save time for spiritual advancement ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ There is no need of discussing higher philosophy or becoming a mystic or magician or juggler or bluffer or cheater, nothing. Simply accept this simple process. You come here and chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra and automatically you'll be ecstatic ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ There is nothing superior than Krsna. If you accept that, you immediately advance fifty percent in spiritual knowledge, if you simply accept this, that Krsna said that mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya. And that is the verdict of the sastra ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ There are many so-called religions devoted to the worship of various demigods, but here (in SB 5.5.10-13) good association means association with one who simply accepts Krsna as his worshipable Deity ‎No edit summary
• 08:3408:34, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ That is Vaisnavism. We don't manufacture ideas. We don't commit such rascaldom. We simply accept the behavior or the activities of previous acaryas. There is no difficulty ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ Tattvatah means in truth, not superficially. If you understand Krsna in truth, as He is speaking Himself about Himself. If you simply accept Krsna, what He says, if you follow, then you become perfect and you become fit for going back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Surrender means one should simply accept favorable service to Krsna and reject anything which is unfavorable ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura says “I simply accept a person who follows in the footsteps of the six Gosvamis, and the dust of such a person’s lotus feet is my food.” ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ So when there is attack, the brahmanas are not expected to go forward; the ksatriyas. So this is training. Everything is perfectly there. People are not accepting. You don't require conference. You simply accept the standard knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ So-called followers of Vedic principles simply accept the Vedas formally, but they act against Vedic principles. This is symptomatic of this Age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ One should simply accept whatever he earns by his own profession ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ One should simply accept the words of Lord Caitanya as He spoke them before Prakasananda Sarasvati and the Mayavadi sannyasis ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ I (Narottama dasa) simply accept a person who follows in the footsteps of the Six Gosvamis, and the dust of such a person's lotus feet is my food ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ It is practical that by simply accepting the authorized statements of bonafide scripture without mental speculation or fashionable interpretation one fulfills the mission of human life very easily and goes back to home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ It is not a question of simply accepting God as the center of everything and peace will be achieved, but the question is how to live in God ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ In the BRS (1.2.108), it is said: The bare necessities of life must be accepted, but one shouldn't superfluously increase his necessities. Nor should they be unnecessarily decreased. One should simply accept what is necessary to help advance spiritually ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ If you simply accept it without any hypocrisy that, "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He'll protect me. Let me serve His lotus feet as far as possible," this much qualification is sufficient ‎No edit summary
• 08:3308:33, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ If we simply accept the Lord’s inconceivability, we can then adjust all things in Him. Nondevotees cannot understand the Lord’s inconceivable energy, and consequently for them it is said that He is beyond the range of conceivable expression ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ If we simply accept one of these mahajanas, we will be successful in understanding the Absolute Truth, but if we try to understand the Absolute Truth by logic and argument, we will ultimately be frustrated ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ If one has not the taste what is Krsna consciousness, simply accept sannyasa, then he will do all this nonsense work ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ However advanced a man is in academic qualifications, as long as he is not fixed in Krsna consciousness he will simply accept and reject and will never be able to fix his mind on a particular subject matter ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 22 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ Everyone is being washed away by the big waves of the ocean of nescience, but if he simply accepts, "No, I am Krsna dasa. I am not master. I am not God. I am simply a servant..." And the more you become servant of the servant, more you are perfect ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ A devotee, because a nondevotee has become a devotee, he is practicing how to simply accept Krsna's orders. But by his previous habit he's still engaged in "do it" and "don't do it." That is his previous habit ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ As far as our ISKCON movement is concerned, we simply ask that one observe the four prohibitive rules, chant sixteen rounds and, instead of indulging in luxurious eating for the tongue, simply accept prasada offered to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ Although Prahlada's father was insisting that he was God, Prahlada Maharaja could not accept this. He simply accepted his father as an asura, and consequently there was a quarrel between them ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 22 December 2023 diff hist +30‎ Advaita Acarya then requested the Lord to simply accept the prasadam without pretense. If He could not eat it all, the balance could be left on the plate ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 22 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ When the devotee feels "The Lord is my master" and renders service unto Him, Krsna consciousness is awakened. This fixed consciousness is on a higher platform than simple cognizance of love of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 22 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ When one cultivates knowledge for this purpose, he is considered to be on a higher platform than one who is engaged in karma-yajna, or fruitive activities ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 22 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ We can understand that on the higher platform whatever we are experiencing are the actions and reactions of the different energies of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 22 December 2023 diff hist +7‎ Unless you are situated in the quality of goodness, you cannot be promoted to the higher platform ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 22 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ The raga-marga, or bhagavata-marga, friendship exists on a higher platform with Krsna, namely the platform of visrambha friendship ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 22 December 2023 diff hist +9‎ The Lord creates the material world to give the conditioned souls a chance to elevate themselves to the higher platform of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 22 December 2023 diff hist +29‎ The devotee should also know his own position and should not try to imitate a devotee situated on a higher platform ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 22 December 2023 diff hist +9‎ There are no such distinctions of higher and lower on the transcendental platform. The important thing is that we are engaging our time and energy in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 22 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Tad brahma niskalam anantam: brahmananda is unlimited. But that unlimited pleasure can also be surpassed. That is the nature of the Transcendence. The unlimited can be surpassed also, and that higher platform is Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 22 December 2023 diff hist +9‎ Krsna conducts the material world under the three modes of material nature, and consequently there are three platforms of life - higher, middle and lower. On whatever platform one may be situated, one is tossed by the waves of material nature ‎No edit summary
• 08:2508:25, 22 December 2023 diff hist +9‎ In the transcendental loving service of the Lord, it doesn't matter whether we are working, cooking, painting, writing, chanting, or whatever, they are all the same. There are no such distinctions of higher and lower on the transcendental platform ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 22 December 2023 diff hist +9‎ In santa, the marginal stage of devotional service, there is no activity. But above the santa humor are servitude, friendship, parental affection and conjugal love, which represent the gradual growth of devotional service to higher and higher platforms ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 22 December 2023 diff hist +10‎ We have got this body produced, or born, at a certain date. It keeps, sustains, for a certain period - say fifty years, sixty years or a hundred years, utmost - and then again it is destroyed ‎No edit summary
• 07:5907:59, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ The mudha, they'll work day and night for sense gratification. Therefore, at a certain period of life, that stupidity should be given up and taken sannyasa. No, finished. That is sannyasa. Now this portion of life should be completely for Krsna's service ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ The manifested cosmic nature is created at a certain period by the will of the Lord. It is maintained for some time, and then it is annihilated by His will. Therefore, the supreme will is behind all cosmic activities ‎No edit summary
• 07:5907:59, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ The manifested cosmic creation is created at a certain period by the will of the Lord, is maintained for some time and is finally annihilated by His will. Thus He is the supreme will behind all activities ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ The fine and immeasurable anti-material particle is always indestructible, permanent and eternal. After a certain period, however, its encagement by material particles is annihilated ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ The fighting spirit, it is to be understood. The fighting spirit is there in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it is exhibited at a certain period just to teach us when fighting should be taken ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ The animals, they beget, they mate at a certain period, but a human being, at the present moment, they have no such restriction. Any time. Therefore they want contraceptive method ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ They (Nitya-baddhas) go on merrily with plans, but by the will of the Lord both the planmakers and the plans are annihilated at the end of a certain period, as above mentioned ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ Mahatma Vidura, being treated just like a godly person by his kinsmen (like Yudhisthira Maharaja), remained there (in Yudhisthira's home) for a certain period just to rectify the mentality of his eldest brother (Dhrtarastra) ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ In Vedic civilization a certain period is devoted for accepting renounced order of life, sannyasa. This sannyasa order, as we have accepted, it is compulsory regulative principle of Vedic way of life ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ If someone becomes angry for a certain period, no one can say that his anger is false. It is simply temporary. Everything we experience in our daily lives is of this same character; it is temporary but real ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ Any amount of materialistic adjustment for becoming happy in a place which is meant for distress cannot benefit the misguided man because, after all, the whole universe with all its paraphernalia will come to an end after a certain period ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 22 December 2023 diff hist −11‎ We shall not live forever with this body. The animals also, they'll also not live forever. The body will be finished after certain period of time ‎No edit summary current

21 December 2023

• 04:4704:47, 21 December 2023 diff hist +8‎ We are impure because we are compact in designations: Oh, I am Christian-I am Hindu-I am American-I am Indian-I am white-I am black. These are all designations. If you simply know that "I am servant of Krsna. I am servant of God," then you are purified ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4704:47, 21 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ So-called earners of money are those who simply know tricks by which they can take away God's money under the guise of business and industry. After accumulating this money, they enjoy seeing it plundered by their sons and grandsons ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4704:47, 21 December 2023 diff hist +8‎ If you simply know Krsna, then you know everything. And if you know everything and you do not know Krsna, then you are rascal, that's all. Mudha. That is the test. If you know everything but do not know Krsna, then you are a rascal ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4704:47, 21 December 2023 diff hist +8‎ In our Krsna consciousness movement we are putting the candidate into practice. Without practice, simply knowledge is no good ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4704:47, 21 December 2023 diff hist +28‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu knew it very well that all the rascals, they will call them vedanti and do all nonsense. So don't become falsely a vedanti. Real vedanti means if you simply know Krsna and surrender unto Him, then you become a vedanti, real vedanti ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 21 December 2023 diff hist −10‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam confirms that it is not possible for one to become liberated by cultivation of empiric philosophical speculation. Simply knowing that one is not matter but spirit soul, or Brahman, does not purify one's intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 21 December 2023 diff hist −18‎ That is a confidential part of knowledge: simply knowing that the spirit soul is different from this body and that its nature is immutable, indestructible and eternal ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 21 December 2023 diff hist +8‎ That is a confidential part of knowledge: simply knowing that the spirit soul is different from this body and that its nature is immutable, indestructible and eternal ‎No edit summary
• 04:4604:46, 21 December 2023 diff hist +8‎ Simply knowing that the spirit soul is different from this body and that its nature is immutable, indestructible and eternal. But that gives no positive information about the soul ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 21 December 2023 diff hist +8‎ Simply knowing that spirit soul is different from this body and that its nature is immutable, indestructible and eternal. But that gives no positive information about the soul. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 04:4604:46, 21 December 2023 diff hist +8‎ If we are mistaken about our identity, we will also be mistaken about our activities. Simply knowing that we are not these material bodies is not sufficient; we must act according to the conviction that we are spiritual ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 21 December 2023 diff hist +8‎ The voidist philosophers want to establish that ultimately everything is senseless, and the impersonalists want to establish that in the next world there is simply knowledge devoid of activity ‎No edit summary current

20 December 2023

• 07:5007:50, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ The devotees simply want to satisfy the senses of the Supreme Lord, and so they take part in the pure activities of love of Godhead. There is no question of lust in that category of pure transcendental love ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ You write to say that you do not know what is my desire, but my desire is an open secret. I simply want all over the Western countries people may take this simple formula of chanting, dancing and eating Krishna Prasadam, and being happy ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ When a saintly person wants to see his kinsmen, he has no material desire to see them. He simply wants to give them some instructions so that they can benefit ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ What is this nonsense civilization? Simply want of money and unsatisfied in every step. Especially in the Western countries they're becoming hippie. Why? The training is different ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ We simply want to see that everyone is God conscious. Never mind through which venue ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ We simply want that people should understand God, and love him also, because human life is meant for this purpose. So if a man loves God more than anything else, he is the perfect man ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 20 December 2023 diff hist +5‎ We simply want people to become God conscious and that will bring forth real peace in the world ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ We do not want stopping the natural instincts of the living entities, we simply want them to be dovetailed in Krishna's service ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ We are preaching love of God. So it doesn't matter what type of religion one is following; we simply want to see that he has love for God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist −15‎ Vrtrasura prayed "I do not want the facilities for happiness on Brahmaloka, Svargaloka or even Dhruvaloka, not to speak of this earth or the lower planets. I simply want to return home, back to Godhead." This is the determination of a pure devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Those who have complete knowledge never think that in the future they will become one with the Supreme. They simply want to remain in their constitutional position as part and parcel of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Those who are not brahmanas but atheists do not know what is pravrtti-marga or nivrtti-marga; they simply want to obtain pleasure at any cost ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Those who are devotees, they have no kama. Anyabhilasita-sunyam (Brs. 1.1.11). Anya. Anya means other than Krsna's service. They have made all, everything zero. We don't want all these things. We simply want to serve Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ This is the actual position of the devotee. The devotee simply wants to be in the presence of the Supreme Lord—either in this world or in the next—and engage in His service. That is the ultimate goal and benediction for the devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ The so-called silence of a silent impersonalist svami indicates that he has nothing to say; he simply wants to beg. But the silence adopted by Kardama Muni was not like that. He became silent for relief from nonsensical talk ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ The Lord does not want the living entity to become entangled in the reactions of activities, be they good or bad. He simply wants everyone to go back home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ The karmis, jnanis, yogis, they are in want. The karmis, they simply want material happiness. "I want this, I want this, I want this, I want this." The whole world is rolling. Modern material civilization means to create wants. That is karmi ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ The jnanis, yogis and karmis are not particularly dear, for the karmis simply want to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead as their order supplier ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ The gopis simply wanted to satisfy Krsna's senses, and thus they completely gave up the conventional path of social restriction, not caring for their relatives or the chastisement of their husbands ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4707:47, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ The damsels of Vraja, the gopis, being attracted by the beauty of Krsna, simply wanted to embrace Him and His arms, which are like serpents. Thus the gopis ultimately tasted the nectar of the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4707:47, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ The aim is how to improve spiritual life. That is grhastha-asrama. And one who has no such aim, he simply wants to enjoy the senses, and for that purpose he's decorating the house, decorating the wife, children - that is called grhamedhi ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ They simply want to instruct by his experience. But what is your experience? They're all imperfect. But they are persisting, "No, we cannot accept any knowledge without experiment." Is it not the position ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ They (Kurus) simply wanted to see Him (Balarama) exhibit His inconceivable strength. Thus with great pleasure they handed over their daughter to Samba, and the whole matter was settled ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ They (disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura) simply wanted to take credit for having gone to foreign lands and utilize this recognition in India by advertising themselves as repatriated preachers ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ They (devotees) simply want to serve Krsna, they are waiting for the order of Krsna, and that is their satisfaction ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ They (Bhima, Duryodhana, Sahadeva, Nakula, Arjuna, Krsna, Draupadi, Karna, Satyaki, Vikarna, Hardikya, Vidura, Santardana and Bhurisrava) were all so bound in loving affection for King Yudhisthira that they simply wanted to please him ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ There must always be activity. Not that we have a nice house for comfortable living. We simply want to bring people back home, Back to Godhead. That is the purpose of our temples, of our books, and our festivals, and preachings ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ There is a path toward liberation in the higher planetary systems and a path toward the hellish planets, but a narayana-para devotee is unafraid wherever he is sent; he simply wants to remember Krsna, wherever he may be ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ That is nice that you are distributing many books. I do not want money, or buildings or anything else, I simply want to see that my books are being distributed and because you are doing that I am quite happy ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Sufferings are due to the bodily concept of life. As you stated, that you simply want to leave the material world and be with Krishna, that is the best solution, rather than taking account of how things happened that you came here ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Such persons, being unable to rise to the standard of self-realized souls like Lord Siva, are always envious. The example given is suitable. Asuras, demons or atheists, are always envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead they simply want to kill Him ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Sensualists are never prepared for death. They simply want to live on and on and extend their life by so-called scientific advancement ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Prahlada Maharaja was offered all the blessings of an opulent position in the material world and even the liberation of merging into Brahman, but he refused all this. He simply wanted to engage in the service of the servant of the servant of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Prahlada Maharaja rejected bhukti, mukti and siddhi; he simply wanted to engage as an apprentice under the guidance of a pure devotee ‎No edit summary
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ People are generally addicted to offering obeisances to various demigods, but Bharata Maharaja simply wanted to please Lord Vasudeva. As stated in Bhagavad-gita: bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram ‎No edit summary
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ One who is actually devotee, he doesn't care where he is placed, in the hell or heaven, he doesn't care. He simply wants to serve Krsna, never mind where, not even heaven or hell ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Once Krsna left the gopis and changed into His four-handed Visnu form. The gopis went out searching for Krsna, and when they saw the four-handed Visnu form, they did not offer much respect. They simply wanted to see Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 07:4207:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist +5‎ Nrsimhadeva offered Prahlada Maharaja all kinds of benedictions, but Prahlada Maharaja did not accept any of them, for he simply wanted to engage in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 07:4107:41, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ Now I am old man and a little inclined for retirement, but now our organization is expanding more and more and I simply want to see that the things get done, therefore I am relying on you, my senior disciples, to do everything nicely for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4107:41, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ Materialistic point of view is like that. They do not know that we are eternal & we are responsible for our activities. That is knowledge. But they have no knowledge. They simply want to enjoy. They do not care for death also. Simply sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4107:41, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Liberation from material contamination is the stage at which devotional service can be achieved. For a person who simply wants to have liberation and to merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti, attachment to Krsna is not possible to acquire ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3407:34, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ Krsna simply wants to see that we are sincere. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that every particular person has his own duty in life, regardless of his position and regardless of his society ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3407:34, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ I simply want to see that you, your wife and your whole family become perfect Vaisnavas, Krsna's devotees. Remain in your position and try to understand the philosophy - that will make you perfect ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3407:34, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ I simply want to engage everyone in the service of Krishna, that's all. And that means preaching. So if the preaching work has stopped, what can I do? In that case you must expect there will be so many troubles ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3407:34, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ I simply want things to be developed which we have got, not to make so many big big plans and changing all the time, that is not very practical ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3407:34, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ I do not want immediately a very large storefront or anything like that; I simply want that a center may immediately be started in Berlin and gradually we will try to develop it ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3307:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ It is said by Canakya Pandita that a rascal appears very intelligent as long as he does not speak. But speaking is the test. The so-called silence of a silent impersonalist svami indicates that he has nothing to say; he simply wants to beg ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3307:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ It is better to be God's father, God's controller. This is bhakti-marga, the path of devotional service. A devotee does not want to be equal to God or one with God. He simply wants to render service ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3307:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ In the Narada-pancaratra it is stated: I do not want any one of the four desirable stations. I simply want to engage as a servant of the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3307:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ In the Mukunda-mala-stotra, King Kulasekhara, author of the book, states in his prayer: My dear Lord, I don't want any position of sense gratification within this material world. I simply want to engage in Your service perpetually ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3307:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ In Sankara’s explanation of one sutra, ananda-mayo ’bhyasat, he has interpreted the affix mayat with such word jugglery that this very explanation proves that he had little knowledge of the Vedanta-sutra but simply wanted to support his impersonalism ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3307:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ If people do not take to Krishna and simply want to utilize the Goddess of Fortune for sense gratification as it was the policy of the demons like Ravana and Hiranyakasipu, then the finishing touch will certainly culminate in releasing the nuclear weapon ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3307:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist −12‎ If by the asirvada he can get some tenants, this is . . . all these men, they simply want asirvada. They don't want Krsna. They want asirvada so that their nefarious activities may continue peacefully ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3307:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ He simply wants success in the progress of devotional service. For a devotee, there cannot be worship of others or demigod worship. A pure devotee does not engage himself in such pseudo devotional service. He is interested only in satisfying Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ He (the pure devotee) simply wants to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead like the inhabitants of Vrndavana - Srimati Radharani, the gopis, Krsna's father and mother (Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda), Krsna's friends and Krsna's servants ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ He (Svarupa Damodara) did not want to be disturbed by the formality of the sannyasa order. He simply wanted to worship Lord Sri Krsna without disturbance; therefore with heart and soul he took up the renounced order but not the formalities accompanying it ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ He (Prahlada) refused to go into the kingdom of God without taking all the fallen souls with him. This is a Vaisnava. Nanyam tvad asya saranam bhramato 'nupasye: "I simply want to teach them how to surrender unto You (God). That's all. That is my goal ‎No edit summary
• 07:2907:29, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ He (Lord Caitanya) requests Lord Krsna's service birth after birth. It is not that He is seeking salvation; rather, He simply wants to serve Krsna one life after another ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ He (a devotee) simply wants to engage everything in the service of God; therefore he has no problem (with the senses). He stands in his original constitutional position. All this is possible when one receives Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's merciful glance ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Gopala Capala simply wanted to be delivered from the bodily sufferings of leprosy, but Sri Caitanya, although accepting his sincere appeal, wanted to inform him of the real cause of suffering ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 20 December 2023 diff hist −12‎ Generally, at the present moment, everyone is grha-vrata. That's all. They simply want "How to improve my economic condition." That's all. Individually, socially, family wise, internationally or nationally, that is their aim ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ From Back To Godhead I don't want anything for my book fund; I simply want my books to be nicely distributed ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ Even if we find some discrepancies in the life of a devotee... Just like these European, Americans. They're devotees. They are pure devotee of Krsna. How? They have no other desire. They simply want to satisfy their spiritual master and Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Continue this boat program. I do not know about motor launch or not, but you should consult and do the needful. I simply want to see that the preaching goes on. That's all ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 20 December 2023 diff hist +26‎ Bali Maharaja said, "I will give you what you want." "I simply want whatever land I can cover in three steps,'? the boy (Krsna) said ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ A pure devotee simply wants to engage in the service of the Lord without material desire, and if he wants this within the core of his heart, where the Lord is situated, and if he is without ulterior motive, why should the Lord not understand ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ A person without devotional service who simply wants to know things (kevala-bodha-labdhaye) gains only dry speculative knowledge but no spiritual profit - SB 10.14.4 ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ And one who has no such aim, he simply wants to enjoy the senses, and for that purpose he's decorating the house, decorating the wife, children - that is called grha-vrata or grhamedhi ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ Although Lord Buddha was an incarnation of Krsna, he did not speak about God, for the people were unable to understand. He simply wanted to stop animal-killing ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 20 December 2023 diff hist +6‎ All your programs are approved by me; simply if you keep on with it, slowly but surely we will become very solidly situated there with many devotees and books and temples. Krsna simply wants to see our desire ‎No edit summary current

19 December 2023

• 03:5503:55, 19 December 2023 diff hist +7‎ With this mission, I have come to your country with the hope that if the American people take it very seriously, then it will be the greatest contribution to the world ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5503:55, 19 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ With this (Krsna consciousness) mission, I have come to your country with the hope that if the American people take it very seriously, then it will be the greatest contribution to the world ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5503:55, 19 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ Why shouldn't this spiritual education be given to the American people in an organized way? The whole world is going down and becoming Godless ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5503:55, 19 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ When I first came to your country I had no idea how much the American people would cooperate with my Krsna Consciousness mission ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5403:54, 19 December 2023 diff hist +7‎ When I first came to your country I had no idea how much the American people would cooperate with my Krsna Consciousness .But now good boys like yourself and all my other spiritual sons and daughters all around the world have been giving me great hope ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5403:54, 19 December 2023 diff hist +7‎ This kindness of your nation will cause the blessings of Lord Caitanya to be showered upon them and the higher section of American people will all of them become Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5203:52, 19 December 2023 diff hist −13‎ The humble service which I am rendering to the American people, in the matter of Krishna Consciousness, is undoubtedly being responded nicely by the American younger generation ‎No edit summary current