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27 February 2022
- 04:4004:40, 27 February 2022 diff hist −13 We are temporarily engaged in different activities, but all of these activities can be purified when we give up all temporary activities and take up the activities which are prescribed by the Supreme Lord. That is called pure life. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 04:3904:39, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,626 This program of constant remembrance can be disturbed by many things, but Dhruva Maharaja's life would be so pure, as assured by the Lord Himself, that Dhruva would never forget Him No edit summary current
- 04:3704:37, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,754 This is Prahlada Maharaja's instruction, that don't be falsely proud unless you have got the qualification. That is our mistake, dambha, dambha. And the pure life begins when we give up dambha, false prestige No edit summary current
- 04:3604:36, 27 February 2022 diff hist +7,099 There is concession. The concession is that you live a pure life and chant Hare Krsna mantra. This will make sufficient. A pure life: no illicit sex, no intoxication, no meat-eating, no gambling. This is pure life No edit summary current
- 04:3404:34, 27 February 2022 diff hist +6,453 The needs are artificial, and in the pure state of life there are no such needs No edit summary current
- 04:3004:30, 27 February 2022 diff hist +2,806 Real consciousness is Krsna consciousness. When one is situated in Krsna consciousness, he is in his pure life. But if his consciousness is adulterated by some type of material mentality, in the next life he gets a corresponding body. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:2804:28, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,424 From another point of view, it is understood that the jiva living entity is qualitatively one with the Lord, and thus his knowledge in the pure state of life cannot be covered by nescience, especially in the presence of the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 04:2504:25, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,726 Pure life means No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 27 February 2022 diff hist +5,266 These boys and girls are also initiated for the last two years only - they are not very great scholars in theological studies, but still by the Grace of Krishna they have created some impression in a city like London simply by their sincere effort No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 27 February 2022 diff hist +8 When the Lord is fully satisfied with the sincere efforts of the devotee, He may endow him with His loving transcendental service No edit summary current
- 04:1604:16, 27 February 2022 diff hist +8 This was the case with King Prataparudra. One has to be noticed by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and a little service with sincere efforts will convince the Lord that one is a proper candidate for returning home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 04:1504:15, 27 February 2022 diff hist +7,449 This edition of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta is presented for the study of sincere scholars who are really seeking the Absolute Truth. It is not the arrogant scholarship of a mental speculator but a sincere effort to serve the order of a superior authority No edit summary current
- 04:1004:10, 27 February 2022 diff hist +7,537 The aim of life should be to make a sincere effort to go "Back to Godhead'' but contrary to this, the tendency is to go back to hell or in the cycle of evolutionary animal life as it is described in the 16th chapter of Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 04:0904:09, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,508 By sincere efforts to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam one realizes his constitutional relationship with the Lord in the transcendental humor of servitude, friendship, paternal affection or conjugal love No edit summary current
- 04:0604:06, 27 February 2022 diff hist +2,350 To a sincere student, all of the contents of these books become revealed from within, even if he has not thoroughly studied them all No edit summary current
- 04:0404:04, 27 February 2022 diff hist +4,958 You are a sincere student from the very beginning of your spiritual life and I wish that you may advance more and more No edit summary
- 04:0304:03, 27 February 2022 diff hist +2,333 I can understand that you are a very sincere student and are an eligible candidate for going back to home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 03:5803:58, 27 February 2022 diff hist −13 The sincere student should have a firm respect for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such a student was Arjuna. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 03:5703:57, 27 February 2022 diff hist +5,152 Srimad-Bhagavatam is so scientifically presented that any sincere student of this great science will be able to understand the science of God simply by reading it with attention or simply by regularly hearing it from the bona fide speaker No edit summary
- 03:5603:56, 27 February 2022 diff hist +6,135 Lord Brahma is the perfect liberated living being within the material world, and any sincere student of transcendental knowledge must accept the words and statements of Brahmaji as infallible No edit summary current
- 03:5403:54, 27 February 2022 diff hist +6,370 A sincere student should not neglect the discussion of such conclusions, considering them controversial, for such discussions strengthen the mind. Thus one's mind becomes attached to Sri Krsna No edit summary current
- 03:5303:53, 27 February 2022 diff hist −13 A sincere student aurally receives the holy name from the spiritual master, and after being initiated he follows the regulative principles. When the holy name is properly served in this way, automatically the spiritual nature of the holy name spreads No edit summary
26 February 2022
- 05:5405:54, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,140 Sri Svarupa Damodara is a direct expansion of Radharani who helps the Lord experience the attitude of Radharani No edit summary current
- 05:4505:45, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,781 You cannot calculate. You cannot go to Brahma, you cannot go even to the moon planet. And what to speak of Brahmaloka is the ultimate, the remotest part of this universe. So by your direct experience, you cannot calculate No edit summary current
- 05:4405:44, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,521 We can directly experience the results of this science of Krsna consciousness because it is very easy to practice and is very pleasurable No edit summary current
- 05:4405:44, 26 February 2022 diff hist +4,911 The word sruta-purvaya is significant. We get experience by directly seeing or by hearing. If it is not possible to see someone directly, we can hear about him from authentic sources No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 26 February 2022 diff hist −13 The question may be raised, "Since there are so many varieties of philosophers theorizing in different ways, which of them is correct?" The answer is that the Absolute Truth, Transcendence, is never subject to direct experience or mental speculation No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 26 February 2022 diff hist −15 The mass of laborers exploited by the organizers directly experience the "welfare" conditions in these factories, but what the organizers do not know is that by the law of karma they will in due time become laborers in similar Kumbhipaka hells No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,795 The Absolute Truth, Transcendence, is never subject to the understanding of imperfect sensory endeavor, nor is He subject to direct experience No edit summary current
- 05:3605:36, 26 February 2022 diff hist +2,913 Instead of devoting yourself to solitude, why not come with me and travel in foreign countries for some time? This will help you to obtain direct experience of our activities, and maybe you can become a preacher like me No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,184 As inquisitive persons tour all over the world to gain direct local experience, the less intelligent transcendentalist similarly desires to have some experience of those planets about which he has heard so many wonderful things No edit summary current
- 03:5903:59, 26 February 2022 diff hist +7,888 Those who are overly attracted to their life situation are forced to remain in a ghostly body and are not allowed to accept another gross body. Even in the body of a ghost, they create disturbances for neighbors and relatives No edit summary current
- 03:5503:55, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,656 The term "spiritual body" is sometimes taken to refer to a ghostly body No edit summary current
- 03:5503:55, 26 February 2022 diff hist +7,802 The mind is the prime cause of such a situation (attaining a ghostly body). According to one's mind, different types of bodies are generated, and one is forced to accept them No edit summary current
- 03:5303:53, 26 February 2022 diff hist +6,398 Ghostly body means No edit summary current
- 03:4603:46, 26 February 2022 diff hist +7,449 Of all kinds of ghosts, the Brahma-raksasas are very powerful. They are brahmanas who after death have entered the ghostly species of life No edit summary current
25 February 2022
- 04:2404:24, 25 February 2022 diff hist +11,668 Varnasrama should be established on the principles of devata, to make people devata No edit summary current
- 04:2304:23, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,795 To maintain proper social order and help the citizens gradually progress toward the goal of life - namely spiritual understanding - the principles of varnasrama-dharma must be accepted No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,777 This regulative principle (always think of Krsna and never forget Him) is applicable to all varnas and asramas, the castes and occupations of life No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,508 This knot (between man and woman) is very difficult to undo, even though a man and woman separate either for the principles of varnasrama or simply to get a divorce No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,148 The Vedas say, svadharma-nisthah sata janmabhih puman virincatam eti: "One who strictly follows the principles of varnasrama-dharma for at least one hundred births will be rewarded with the post of Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 04:1604:16, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,562 The ultimate goal of life is to please Lord Visnu by varnasrama-dharma. The Vedic principles of four varnas and four asramas are meant for worship of Visnu - visnur aradhyate pumsam nanyat tat-tosa-karanam No edit summary
- 04:1604:16, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,356 The tendency in this age of Kali to make a classless society and not observe the principles of varna and asrama is a manifestation of an impossible dream No edit summary current
- 04:1404:14, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,853 The Tattvavada sampradaya of the Madhvacarya school sticks to the principle of varnasrama-dharma, which involves fruitive activity. Their ultimate goal is simply a form of material desire No edit summary current
- 04:1404:14, 25 February 2022 diff hist +2,370 The regulative principles of varnasrama-dharma in themselves are insufficient for attainment of the highest perfection No edit summary current
- 04:1304:13, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,591 The other sons of Brahma, the Kumaras, directly engaged in devotional service, and thus they had no need to execute the principles of varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current
- 04:1304:13, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,413 The Lord is so kind that He accepts a little insignificant service, and therefore it is stated in the Visnu Purana that by following the principles of varnasrama-dharma one can satisfy the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 04:1104:11, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,520 That is why in our Vedic civilization to follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma is the preliminary duty of human form of life. And one who does not understand varnasrama-dharma and does not strive for it, he remains contaminated No edit summary current
- 04:0904:09, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,101 Secular state means that the state should see that everyone is strictly following his religious principle. That is secular state. If you are Hindu or varnasrami, then you must follow the principles of how one is a brahmana, how one is a ksatriya No edit summary current
- 04:0804:08, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,766 Prahlada Maharaja advises everyone to follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma. Specifically, at a certain point one must give up family life and take to the renounced order of life to cultivate spiritual knowledge and thus become liberated No edit summary current
- 04:0704:07, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,996 People should take advantage of the opportunity afforded by Bharata-varsa, and this is especially so for those who are following the principles of varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current
- 04:0504:05, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,736 One who follows the garbhadhana samskara system is actually twice-born, but those who do not, who deviate from the principles of varnasrama-dharma, are called dvija-bandhus No edit summary current
- 04:0504:05, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,499 One has to follow the principles of the asramas (brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa), since these principles (of varnas and asramas) are considered essential for the attainment of the highest goal No edit summary current
- 04:0404:04, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,810 No one is being trained to act according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma, and thus people are becoming increasingly degraded and are heading in the direction of animal life No edit summary current
- 04:0304:03, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,526 Narada Muni's opinion is that even if there is some temporary disturbance in the execution of the varnasrama-dharma principles, they can be revived at any moment No edit summary current
- 04:0104:01, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,999 Lord Visnu advised King Prthu that everyone should follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma; then, in whatever capacity one remains within this material world, his salvation is guaranteed after death No edit summary
- 04:0004:00, 25 February 2022 diff hist +14,135 Lord Caitanya rejected the varnasrama-dharma and the offering of fruitive activity because in the field of executing pure devotional service, there is very little use for such principles No edit summary current
- 03:5803:58, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,966 In the name of secular government, unqualified people are taking the supreme governmental posts. No one is being trained to act according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma, and thus people are becoming increasingly degraded No edit summary current
- 03:5403:54, 25 February 2022 diff hist +6,154 If you did not roam about the world like the brilliant sun, leading a huge army whose trampling feet cause the globe of the earth to tremble, then all the moral laws governing the varnas and asramas created by the Lord Himself would be broken No edit summary current
- 03:5303:53, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,103 If we do not take to the principles of varnasrama-dharma by accepting the four social orders and the four orders of spiritual life, there can be no question of success in life No edit summary current
- 03:5203:52, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,499 If those who live in Bharata-varsa rigidly follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma and develop their dormant Krsna consciousness, they need not return to this material world after death No edit summary
- 03:5003:50, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,498 He (Rsabhadeva) strictly followed the principles of varnasrama-dharma and acted accordingly No edit summary current
- 03:5003:50, 25 February 2022 diff hist +6,042 Great sages (like Parasara & Manu) have already given us instructions on how to live according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma. Similarly, Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami have given us rules and regulations for becoming pure devotees of the Lord No edit summary
- 03:4803:48, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,665 Even in human life, while observing the principles of varna and asrama-brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa - one must ultimately accept sannyasa, the renounced order No edit summary current
- 03:4603:46, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,730 By His instructions, He showed how people could remain householders and at the same time become perfect by following the principles of varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current
- 03:4603:46, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,522 By following the principles of the varnasrama-dharma, one attains a better position in the material world No edit summary current
- 03:4403:44, 25 February 2022 diff hist +1,849 Being worshiped by sacrifices offered with great gifts by those who strictly followed the principles of varna and asrama, Hiranyakasipu, instead of offering shares of the oblations to the demigods, accepted them himself No edit summary current
- 03:4103:41, 25 February 2022 diff hist +14,351 Although Lord Caitanya accepted the principles, He still requested Ramananda Raya to further explain advanced devotional service. Thus Lord Caitanya gave Ramananda Raya a chance to discuss gradual advancement from the principles of varnasrama-dharma No edit summary
- 03:4003:40, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,789 According to the varnasrama principle, it is compulsory that one retire after the age of fifty, without considering other circumstances No edit summary current
24 February 2022
- 03:4103:41, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,850 Sraddha ceremony means to offer foodstuff to Visnu, and with the prasadam, to the forefathers or father it is offered so that by eating prasadam, if he is in ghost life or in hellish life, he'll be delivered No edit summary current
- 03:3903:39, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,861 To save a diseased person from ghostly life, the funeral ceremony, or sraddha ceremony, as prescribed in authorized sastra, must be performed No edit summary current
22 February 2022
- 01:4701:47, 22 February 2022 diff hist +4,933 The mahatmas have shown the perfect path of charity: devotional service to the Lord. If anyone ignores this path and instead builds hospitals, his effort to help humanity is a mere pretense No edit summary current
21 February 2022
- 07:3407:34, 21 February 2022 diff hist +8,650 One scientific man, who had no belief in God, was very much enthusiastic in making plans for his material existence and therefore opened a hospital to save the living. But after opening the hospital, he himself died within six months No edit summary current
- 07:3307:33, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,993 They are simply proud of increasing hospital. Why there should be hospital? Why not stop disease? That is scientific advancement. Stop disease, and there will be no need of opening hospital No edit summary current
- 07:3207:32, 21 February 2022 diff hist +4,922 The so-called renouncer, unable to remain in meditation upon Brahman, returns to materialistic activities by opening hospitals and schools and so on No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,567 The foolish conditioned soul may think that he is offering charity by opening hospitals for material benefit or by opening an educational institution for material education No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,715 Pious activities bring about material opulence, but one cannot acquire devotional service by any amount of material pious activity - not by giving charity, opening big hospitals and schools or working philanthropically No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 21 February 2022 diff hist +4,149 Even today, if a man who was formerly poverty-stricken gets money, he is inclined to utilize his money to perform many philanthropic activities, like opening schools for uneducated men and hospitals for the diseased No edit summary current
- 07:2007:20, 21 February 2022 diff hist −9 Sometimes he (a man) tries to open hospitals, give to charity institutions, etc. These are the signs of one in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:1807:18, 21 February 2022 diff hist +6,330 This is the most exalted qualification, to become well-wisher of all living entities, not that we open hospitals for the human being and we send the cows to the slaughterhouse or poor animals should be slaughtered No edit summary
- 07:1707:17, 21 February 2022 diff hist −9 They (Mayavadi philosophers) must come down again to this material world to open hospitals or schools or perform similar philanthropic activities No edit summary current
- 06:2806:28, 21 February 2022 diff hist +6,331 There are many jnanis or sannyasis who, after taking sannyasa and giving up the world as false, return to the world to engage in politics or philanthropy or to open schools and hospitals. This means that they could not attain the real Brahman No edit summary current
- 06:2106:21, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,804 As long as a conditioned soul does not have this knowledge (that Krsna is the proprietor), he wants to be the enjoyer of everything; he wants to become a humanitarian or philanthropist and open hospitals and schools for his fellow human beings No edit summary current
15 February 2022
- 02:2402:24, 15 February 2022 diff hist +5,366 The Mayavadis proclaim that there is no separate existence outside the impersonal Brahman and that the feeling of separation is maya, or an illusion, by which one considers a rope to be a snake No edit summary current
- 02:1402:14, 15 February 2022 diff hist −11 Sankaracarya has misrepresented all the mantras of the Vedanta-sutra to prove that there is no separate existence of the living entities & the Supreme Absolute Truth. This is similar to the politician’s attempt to prove nonviolence from the BG No edit summary current
14 February 2022
- 14:5714:57, 14 February 2022 diff hist +2,254 After considering the oneness of existence, activity and paraphernalia and after realizing the self to be different from all actions and reactions, the mental speculator (muni), according to his own realization, gives up the three states No edit summary current
- 03:1703:17, 14 February 2022 diff hist +3,664 Impersonalists prefer to merge into the existence of the Transcendence, but the personalists, or devotees, do not annihilate their individuality, & thus the devotees of God individually enjoy spiritual variegatedness on the planets of the spiritual sky No edit summary current
- 03:0503:05, 14 February 2022 diff hist −16 There are five different kinds of mukti. Impersonalists prefer to merge into the existence of the Transcendence, but the personalists, or devotees, do not annihilate their individuality No edit summary current
- 03:0403:04, 14 February 2022 diff hist +11 The ultimate goal of the yoga system is to become one with the Absolute. This means finishing one’s personal existence. But the spiritual part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead has an eternal individual existence No edit summary current
13 February 2022
- 14:5114:51, 13 February 2022 diff hist +10 It is not that they (Krsna, Arjuna and the assembled kings) did not exist as individuals in the past, and it is not that they will not remain eternal persons. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,214 The Mayavadi philosopher, who does not differentiate between the Supreme Spirit and the individual spirit, says that the conditional existence of the living entity is his lila, or pastime No edit summary current
- 14:4114:41, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,455 The individual soul who is perceiving this knowledge still remains an individual. Both in material existence and in spiritual existence the individuality continues; the only difference is in the quality of the identity No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 13 February 2022 diff hist +5,505 As we have learned from previous mantras, the brahmajyoti emanating from the transcendental body of the Lord is full of spiritual sparks that are individual entities with the full sense of existence No edit summary current
- 14:1814:18, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13 Who worship the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth & regard the forms of the demigods as temporary, sacrifice their individual selves in the supreme fire & thus end their individual existences by merging into the existence of the Supreme. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13 This (sayujya-mukti - this form of mukti means denying one’s individual existence) is absolutely opposed to the philosophy of bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yoga offers immortality to the individual conditioned soul No edit summary current
- 14:1214:12, 13 February 2022 diff hist +8,922 In the Vedanta-sutra, devotional service is clearly indicated, but the Mayavadi philosophers refuse to accept the spiritual body of the Supreme Absolute Person and refuse to accept that the living entity has an individual existence No edit summary current
- 14:1114:11, 13 February 2022 diff hist +10,576 The real fact is that oneness does not mean merging into the Supreme and losing one's own individual existence No edit summary current
- 14:0614:06, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13 Because these living entities do not wish to keep their individual existences, they are combined and allowed to remain in Brahmaloka like so many atomic particles of sunshine emanating from the sun No edit summary current
- 14:0014:00, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13 He (Sadananda Yogindra) describes both collective and individual existence in darkness No edit summary current
- 13:5713:57, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13 As for those who are impersonalists and who want to commit spiritual suicide by annihilating the individual existence of the living entity, Krsna helps also by absorbing them into His effulgence. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current