User contributions for PoojaA

25 March 2022

• 04:5204:52, 25 March 2022 diff hist +4,771‎ Just like I am translating all the books, similarly, any book of knowledge can be translated into different languages. Not that one has to learn Sanskrit. Why? ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5204:52, 25 March 2022 diff hist +9‎ In our school at Dallas, the students are learning English and Sanskrit, and through these two languages they are studying all our books, such as Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita As It Is and The Nectar of Devotion ‎No edit summary
• 04:5104:51, 25 March 2022 diff hist +3,008‎ I just want that the children learn English and Sanskrit nicely, that's all. I want that things go on there nicely, it is so important work ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5104:51, 25 March 2022 diff hist +2,848‎ I can see from your letter that you are very sincere about Krsna Consciousness and Gurukula. Yes, you should always feel yourself most fortunate and glad that you are in the Krsna Consciousness movement where you can learn sanskrit and English ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4904:49, 25 March 2022 diff hist +2,461‎ Anyone serious about studying the Sanskrit language should first learn grammar. It is said that simply to finish studying Sanskrit grammar takes at least twelve years ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4704:47, 25 March 2022 diff hist −10‎ If someone studies these two texts (Laghu-hari-namamrta-vyakarana and Brhad-dhari-namamrta-vyakarana) in vyakarana, or grammar, he learns the grammatical rules of the Sanskrit language and simultaneously learns how to become a great devotee of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 25 March 2022 diff hist +6,029‎ A human being is called rational animal. If you come to the rationality, that is required. If you remain also another animal, another type of animal, that will not help you. You have to become actually human being ‎ Undo revision 1281734 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:3904:39, 25 March 2022 diff hist +2,897‎ When the activities are similar to the animal activities, then he is animal. Why a reasonable man will not accept that? Hmm? In that case also, he is animal. Because they say, "Man is rational animal" ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3804:38, 25 March 2022 diff hist −21‎ It is said that man is a rational animal, but from this verse we can also understand that rationality exists even in animal life ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3704:37, 25 March 2022 diff hist +7,147‎ In the science of logic it is said, "Man is a rational animal." So when rationality is missing, one becomes simply an animal. What is the possibility of being a human being ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3404:34, 25 March 2022 diff hist +7,111‎ The Bhagavata says that although in the Buddha religion there is no, I mean to say, mention of worshiping God, but Lord Buddha is himself incarnation of God, and he induced his followers to worship him ‎No edit summary
• 04:3104:31, 25 March 2022 diff hist +2,633‎ Either you follow Christianity or Vedic principle of Mohammedan religion or even Buddha religion, there is conception of God. There is an attempt to understand God. That is human society ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2904:29, 25 March 2022 diff hist +6,889‎ Buddha religion is different from Vedic religion, because he rejected Vedas. And the Vedic followers, because he rejected Vedic principles, Vedic followers said that he, "You are nastika." Nastika means unbeliever ‎No edit summary current

24 March 2022

• 13:1413:14, 24 March 2022 diff hist +7,149‎ Our Krsna consciousness movement is no sectarian movement. We don't say that this is Christian religion or Hindu religion or Mohammedan religion or Buddhist religion. These religions develop in different parts of the world under different conditions ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 24 March 2022 diff hist +7,397‎ In any human society, there is a kind of dharma, religion. It doesn't matter whether it is Christian religion, or Hindu religion, or Buddha religion, or Muhammadam religion, some sort of religious propensities are there ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 24 March 2022 diff hist +4,623‎ Buddha religion teaches ahimsa; the Krsna conscious people are ahimsa ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 24 March 2022 diff hist +8,663‎ There are two ways of animal-killing. One way is in the name of religious sacrifices. All the religions of the world - except the Buddhists - have a program for killing animals in places of worship ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 24 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ All the religions of the world - except the Buddhists - have a program for killing animals in places of worship ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 24 March 2022 diff hist +3,928‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said that the followers of the Buddhist system of religion are nastikas ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 24 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ So Buddhist religion I think animal sacrifice is prohibited, or what? Animal killing? ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 24 March 2022 diff hist +4,973‎ I know that even in Buddha philosophy, a Buddhist, a person following Buddhist religion, he has to take sannyasa at least for some time. Is it not? ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 24 March 2022 diff hist +19,738‎ Under the patronage of a Hindu king, Maharaja Asoka, the Buddhist religion was spread all over India and the adjoining countries ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 24 March 2022 diff hist +3,249‎ When husband and wife aim at spiritual advancement by mutual cooperation, there is no consideration of personal beauty or the disruption of so-called love ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0706:07, 24 March 2022 diff hist +9,461‎ This mutual cooperation can be established immediately. Apart from the point of the acharya question, I think everyone is working in his individual capacity ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 24 March 2022 diff hist +3,528‎ Such contract of spiritual wedlock is made on the basis of compatible service of the Lord because such mutual cooperation in serving the advancement of Krsna Consciousness minimizes the illusion of material compatibility and incompatibility ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 24 March 2022 diff hist +4,780‎ In our Krsna conscious society, if there is no mutual cooperation, then it will fall down immediately ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5705:57, 24 March 2022 diff hist +78,055‎ To transfer their thinking power to the spiritual sky, Krsna has given a great number of Vedic literatures. First He divided the Vedas into 4, then He explained them in the Puranas, & for less capable people He wrote the Mahabharata. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 24 March 2022 diff hist +4,964‎ In order to achieve pure devotional service, he (Bhismadeva) wanted to invest all powers of thinking, feeling and willing entirely in the Supreme Being, Lord Krsna. He is described herein (SB 1.9.32) as the leader of the devotees and all-powerful ‎No edit summary
• 05:5005:50, 24 March 2022 diff hist +11,916‎ The mind should not indulge in unnecessary thoughts; that is called samah, or calmness. Nor should one spend one's time pondering over earning money. That is a misuse of the thinking power. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4905:49, 24 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ Our imperfect senses cannot think of the greatness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, nor can we bring Him within the limitations of time or our thinking power. His position is accordingly described by the word ullanghita ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 24 March 2022 diff hist +8,731‎ One's mind can be peaceful only when one simply thinks of Krsna in full KC. This does not mean that one has to have very great thinking power: one has to understand simply the Absolute Truth, is all-pervasive by His localized aspect of Paramatma ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 24 March 2022 diff hist +2,463‎ One should not spend one's time pondering over earning money. That is a misuse of the thinking power ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 24 March 2022 diff hist +4,912‎ Everyone means those who are actually seeking after God realization, they are following the same path, but on account of their distance of vision, they are realizing the Absolute Truth in different way ‎No edit summary current

23 March 2022

• 05:4405:44, 23 March 2022 diff hist +3,184‎ We are not concerned with a scholar who knows theoretically Caitanya Vaisnava Movement but we are interested with persons who are actually devotees who actually chant Hare Krsna Mahamantra and follows the regulative principles ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 23 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ Those who are actually devotees and followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu must accept devotees from all parts of the world as pure Vaisnavas. They should be accepted not artificially but factually ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4005:40, 23 March 2022 diff hist +4,283‎ The aim of Vedic knowledge is to understand God. Therefore those who are actually following Vedic knowledge and searching after God cannot commit sinful activities against the Supreme Lord’s order ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 23 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ Sukadeva Gosvami continued: O best of the Kuru dynasty (King Pariksit), Kamsa was fiercely cruel and was actually a follower of the Raksasas. Therefore he could be neither pacified nor terrified by the good instructions given by Vasudeva - SB 10.1.46 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 23 March 2022 diff hist +7,326‎ Sanatana Gosvami was actually following the disciplic principles. He wanted to please Lord Caitanya submissively. To please the spiritual master means to approach him submissively, not in a challenging mood ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3705:37, 23 March 2022 diff hist +5,984‎ Rukmini continued, "Actually, I followed all these great souls. I followed the path of these great beggars and decided to surrender my life unto Your (Krsna's) lotus feet" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 23 March 2022 diff hist +4,332‎ Puranjana had begotten 1,100 sons within the womb of his wife, and thus passed away half of his life. Actually every man follows a similar process. If one lives for one hundred years, in his family life he simply begets children up to the age of fifty ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 23 March 2022 diff hist +7,456‎ Prahlada Maharaja and every Vaisnava who is actually following the parampara system of Vaisnava duty, they are anxious ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3405:34, 23 March 2022 diff hist +6,361‎ One who does not actually follow the hygienic principles prescribed in the Vedic rules and regulations will be subjected to many contagious diseases ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 23 March 2022 diff hist +6,806‎ Of those who actually follow the Vedic principles, most perform fruitive activity or pious activity for elevation to a high position ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 23 March 2022 diff hist +4,374‎ Of course, those who are actually following the rules and regulation of gayatri-mantra, they'll be, gradually come to the spiritual understanding. But not as official chanting. That will not help ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 23 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ It is Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami’s opinion that to follow the Hari-bhakti-vilasa strictly is to actually follow the Vaisnava rituals in perfect order ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 23 March 2022 diff hist +4,889‎ In the Age of Kali, persons who are atheists or miscreants become very prominently visible, whereas persons who are actually following the Vedic principles for spiritual emancipation are practically obscured ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2905:29, 23 March 2022 diff hist +6,521‎ In Kali-yuga the injunction is that no one should accept sannyasa. Of course, those who actually follow the rules and regulations must take sannyasa. Generally, however, people are unable to accept sannyasa life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2705:27, 23 March 2022 diff hist +2,739‎ If one actually follows Rsabhadeva, he will certainly be delivered from the clutches of maya and return home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2505:25, 23 March 2022 diff hist +6,251‎ Don't follow these naradhamas. Be faithful. Try to understand, those who are actually followers of God. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh. So you take to this line of disciplic succession from Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2405:24, 23 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ By actually following the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga as recommended by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura, one can very quickly come to the transcendental platform of liberation, as explained in this verse (SB 4.21.40) - atyanta-samam ‎No edit summary
• 05:2405:24, 23 March 2022 diff hist +2,855‎ Because it is Vrindaban, those who come should be exemplary so that all the people of Vrindaban, even those who would be prone to criticize, will see that we are actually following the six Goswamis headed by Rupa Goswami ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2305:23, 23 March 2022 diff hist +6,894‎ Among those who accept the Vedic principles generally known as varnasrama (presently known as the Hindu system), few actually follow these principles ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2105:21, 23 March 2022 diff hist +3,869‎ A person who is actually a follower of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura must immediately accept the request of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu by offering respectful obeisances unto His lotus feet and thus beg from Him the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 23 March 2022 diff hist +5,101‎ One who has actually realized his self realizes the transcendental form of one's self ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 23 March 2022 diff hist +7,208‎ If you are actually self-realized soul, in the light of God, then your treatment will be equal to all living entities. Not that "He is animal, he is man, he is black, he is white, he's this, he's Indian, he's American, he's Chinese." No ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0205:02, 23 March 2022 diff hist +2,916‎ My dear King, you have said, "You rascal, you dull, crazy fellow! I am going to chastise you, and then you will come to your senses." In this regard, let me say that although I live like a dull, deaf and dumb man, I am actually a self-realized person ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0105:01, 23 March 2022 diff hist +4,233‎ A person who is actually self-realized and who has controlled his mind is perfectly satisfied with the bare necessities of life. He does not try to gratify his senses ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 23 March 2022 diff hist +7,073‎ A person who is actually advanced in self-realization protects his energy by controlling the senses ‎No edit summary current

22 March 2022

• 13:3013:30, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,110‎ To become a brahmana means to become a first-class prisoner, that's all. Our point of view is not to become a first-class prisoner, but to get out of the prison: that is Vaisnava vision ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,647‎ These foolish creatures (the first-class prisoners) do not know that they are nothing but play dolls in the hands of material nature and that at any moment material nature’s pitiless intrigues can crush to dust all their plans for godless activities ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,957‎ The intelligent person should not try to be promoted from third-class prison life to first-class prison life, but should try to be released from the prison altogether ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2613:26, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,044‎ One may be promoted to first-class prisoner, but the same first-class prisoner is again degraded to a third-class prisoner in the next term ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,912‎ No one can be happy in prison life, although one may be a first-class prisoner and another a third-class prisoner ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,135‎ Every one of us who is in this material world is more or less a demon. Every one of us. Because just like in the prison house there may be some first-class prisoners, second-class prisoners or third-class prisoners ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,376‎ We have to train up the mind until we get the another body. That is the art of living. So if you train up your mind simply to think of Krsna, then you are safe. Otherwise there is chance of accidents ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,131‎ My Guru Maharaja used to say, man tumi kisera vaisnava. It is mental speculation that "I shall do like that, raha. I shall... In a secluded place, I shall chant." You cannot do that because your mind is not yet trained up ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,627‎ If we are serious of being transferred to the place where Krsna is, then we have to train up the mind so nicely that at the time of death I can remember Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,659‎ You can train up your mind if you simply keep your mind on the lotus feet of Krsna. Krsna is here, and you see Krsna's lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 22 March 2022 diff hist +2,792‎ The best training for the mind is gravity in thought ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 22 March 2022 diff hist +9,393‎ Since the mind may be one's enemy or one's friend, one has to train the mind to become his friend. The Krsna consciousness movement is especially meant for training the mind to be always engaged in Krsna's business ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 22 March 2022 diff hist +7,205‎ The flickering mind will hover on the platform of mental speculation for sense enjoyment, and one will have to transmigrate from one type of body to another because the mind is trained only in relation to the material elements or sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,608‎ One should never think that his mind is trained & that he can do whatever he likes. One interested in spiritual life should always engage his mind in the service of the Lord so that the enemies of the mind, who always accompany the mind, will be subdued ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 22 March 2022 diff hist +2,986‎ To make the mind austere is to detach it from sense gratification. It should be so trained that it can be always thinking of doing good for others. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 22 March 2022 diff hist +7,066‎ This spiritual platform, to reach, requires gradually process of cultivation, and there is no difficulty to reach the spiritual platform. But first of all, the training of the mind is practiced by the yoga system. Yoga means to control the mind ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,076‎ This process of transmigration is very subtle; therefore Srila Rupa Gosvami advises devotees to train their minds in order that they will be unable to remember anything other than Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 12:5512:55, 22 March 2022 diff hist −9‎ The mind is always telling us to do this or that; therefore we should be very expert in disobeying the mind's orders. Gradually the mind should be trained to obey the orders of the soul. It is not that one should obey the orders of the mind ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,246‎ The best training for the mind is gravity in thought. One should not deviate from Krsna consciousness and must always avoid sense gratification. To purify one's nature is to become Krsna conscious. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5112:51, 22 March 2022 diff hist +24,622‎ Systematic training of the mind and intelligence is needed so that at the time of death one may consciously desire a suitable body, either on this planet or another material planet or even a transcendental planet ‎No edit summary
• 12:5112:51, 22 March 2022 diff hist +2,690‎ Pantheism, or the system of feeling the presence of the Almighty everywhere, is a sort of training of the mind to become accustomed to the devotional conception ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5012:50, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,762‎ One who has not yet developed interest in Krsna consciousness should give up all material motives and train his mind by following the progressive regulative principles ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4812:48, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,953‎ Mind is the friend of oneself, and mind is the enemy of oneself. So we have to train the mind. If I train my mind for becoming my friend, then my life is successful. If I train my mind to become my enemy, then my life is unsuccessful ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,588‎ Mind has got two business: something accepting and rejecting. That's all. So we have to train our mind in such a way that we become simply attached to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,731‎ If the regulative principles ordered by the spiritual master are followed rigidly, the mind will gradually be trained to desire nothing but the service of Krsna. Such training is the perfection of life ‎No edit summary
• 12:4612:46, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,501‎ Everyone is suffering in this material world because of the mind; it is therefore proper to train the mind or to cleanse the mind from material attachment and engage it fully in the Lord's service. This is called spiritual engagement ‎No edit summary
• 05:2705:27, 22 March 2022 diff hist +11,504‎ Bhajahu Re Mana, 1972 - If you train the mind, then mind is your best friend. And if you cannot train your mind, then will be your bitterest enemy ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2505:25, 22 March 2022 diff hist −9‎ According to training, the mind is the friend and the enemy of the living entity ‎No edit summary
• 05:2005:20, 22 March 2022 diff hist +2,461‎ Those engaged as acaryas must learn from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu how to train devotees by personal example ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1905:19, 22 March 2022 diff hist +14,167‎ The Lord was personally chastising and praising individuals in the course of the cleaning, and those who are engaged as acaryas must learn from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu how to train devotees by personal example ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1905:19, 22 March 2022 diff hist +14,254‎ The Lord (Caitanya) was personally chastising and praising individuals in the course of the cleaning (of the Gundica temple), and those who are engaged as acaryas must learn from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu how to train devotees by personal example ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 22 March 2022 diff hist +9,177‎ They (Krsna and Balarama) learned how to train and engage rams and cocks in fighting for sport. They then learned how to teach parrots to speak and to answer the questions of human beings ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1405:14, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,434‎ Yudhisthira said, "You (Krsna) cannot be partial to one and not interested in others, for You sit in everyone's heart as the Supersoul and give everyone the respective results of his fruitive activities" ‎ Undo revision 1280925 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1405:14, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,311‎ You should know that it is all due to your sincerity of heart; when we are sincere, Krishna will always help us, either in external direction by the Spiritual Master, or internally by His Paramatma expansion ‎ Undo revision 1280349 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1405:14, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,832‎ You are claiming to be Isvara, God. Are you within the atom? Are you within everyone's heart? Then how do you claim that you are Isvara? Practical ‎ Undo revision 1280924 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1305:13, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,054‎ When one understands that the ultimate goal of life is to approach Krsna, he realizes Krsna within everyone's heart and helps everyone who is interested in Krsna consciousness. The perfection of life depends on one's inclination to hear about Krsna ‎ Undo revision 1280923 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1305:13, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,322‎ We have to work sincerely, and because Krishna is in everyone's heart, there will be no difficulty to have the necessary facilities ‎ Undo revision 1280922 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1305:13, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,609‎ Unless one receives dictation from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who sits within everyone's heart, one cannot be induced to create anything ‎ Undo revision 1280921 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1205:12, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,878‎ This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita, that Isvara, the Supreme Personality, is residing in everyone's heart ‎ Undo revision 1280920 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1205:12, 22 March 2022 diff hist +7,279‎ This is confirmed by Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita, Fifteenth Chapter, "I am present in everyone's heart, and I cause one to remember and forget. I am the original compiler of the Vedanta, and I am the actual knower of the Vedas" ‎ Undo revision 1280919 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1205:12, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,480‎ The word sarva-bhuta-nivasaya further clarifies how Lord Visnu lives in everyone's heart and acts as the direct witness of all the activities of the conditioned soul ‎ Undo revision 1280918 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1205:12, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,772‎ The Vedic knowledge is given to everyone because Krsna is in everyone's heart ‎ Undo revision 1280917 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1105:11, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,314‎ The system of bhakti-yoga described by Queen Suniti to her son is the standard way of God realization. Everyone can continue in his constitutional occupational duties and at the same time keep the Supreme Personality of Godhead within his heart ‎ Undo revision 1280916 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:1105:11, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,010‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul within the core of everyone's heart, gives inspirations for action according to one's mentality. All of these mentalities are merely facilities given by Krsna to the person acting ‎ Undo revision 1280915 by PoojaA (talk) Tag: Undo
• 05:1105:11, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,803‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, although eternally present in His transcendental abode, Goloka Vrndavana, is reflected in everyone's heart as the Supersoul ‎ Undo revision 1280914 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0905:09, 22 March 2022 diff hist +15,274‎ The Supersoul, being seated in everyone's heart, can witness everyone's activities - past, present and future. In the Upanisads the Supersoul is described as being seated with the individual soul as friend and witness ‎ Undo revision 1280912 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0905:09, 22 March 2022 diff hist +8,196‎ The Nagapatnis said, "We can partially understand that You (Krsna) are within our hearts as the witness of all our activities, but it is very difficult to appreciate Your presence, although every one of us can do so to some extent" ‎ Undo revision 1280910 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0905:09, 22 March 2022 diff hist +7,072‎ The Nagapatnis said, "The Lord is sitting as the Supersoul in everyone’s heart, and due to His presence the living entity either forgets himself or revives his original identity" ‎ Undo revision 1280909 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0805:08, 22 March 2022 diff hist +2,720‎ The Lord is seated in everyone's heart, and He knows the devotee's motive and arranges everything achievable ‎ Undo revision 1280908 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0805:08, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,724‎ The Lord is present in the core of everyone's heart. Thus the Lord gives protection to everyone and gives the different types of bodies the living entity wants to enjoy ‎ Undo revision 1280907 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0805:08, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,624‎ The Lord enters the hearts of all living entities as the Supersoul and He gives them intelligence and fulfills their material desires. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita. Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah. "I am sitting in everyone's heart" - BG 15.15 ‎ Undo revision 1280906 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0805:08, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,661‎ The Lord awards everyone different kinds of karma as the individual living entities desire; He is the Supersoul present within the heart of everyone, and He is so kind and liberal that He gives everyone full facilities to perform whatever acts one wants ‎ Undo revision 1280905 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0605:06, 22 March 2022 diff hist +8,922‎ The isvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, being situated in everyone's heart, gives directions to everyone in terms of one's capabilities in taking the instructions ‎ Undo revision 1280904 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0605:06, 22 March 2022 diff hist +15,566‎ The isvara, the supreme controller of the world, is seated in the heart of everyone. Not only is He in everyone's heart, but He is also present within the atom ‎ Undo revision 1280903 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0405:04, 22 March 2022 diff hist +41,363‎ Some yogis meditate within their heart on the localized Visnu, who is four-handed and who holds 4 symbols: conch, disc, mace & lotus. The yogi who thinks of the four-handed Visnu becomes absorbed in devotional ecstasy & evinces the symptoms of that state ‎ Undo revision 1280207 by PoojaA (talk) Tag: Undo
• 05:0405:04, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,576‎ She (Laksmidevi) says that everyone should simply serve the Lord without any motive. Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is sitting in everyone's heart, He knows everyone's thoughts, and in due course of time He will fulfill all desires ‎ Undo revision 1280900 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0405:04, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,954‎ One who desires material benefit by such devotional activities can never depend on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although He sits in everyone's heart. Nor does the Lord give any direction to persons who worship Him for material gain ‎ Undo revision 1280899 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0305:03, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,601‎ Lord Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca: I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness ‎ Undo revision 1280719 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0305:03, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,481‎ Lord Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15) that He is present in everyone's heart and is helping everyone to either remember or forget ‎ Undo revision 1280718 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0205:02, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,789‎ Krsna, who is situated in the core of everyone's heart as the Supersoul, dissipates all the ignorance from the heart of a devotee. As a special favor, He enlightens the devotee with all knowledge by putting before him the torch of light ‎ Undo revision 1280717 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0205:02, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,832‎ Krsna, we have already stated, is seated in everyone's heart. If you want to consult Him, He can give you instruction. The only thing is that you have to become qualified like Brahma so that you can received instruction from Him within the heart ‎ Undo revision 1280716 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0205:02, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,631‎ Krsna is situated as the Supersoul in everyone's heart. So someone who becomes a pure devotee of Lord Krsna immediately becomes pleasing to everyone ‎ Undo revision 1280714 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0105:01, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,974‎ Kng Nrga said, "My dear Lord (Krsna), You are the Supersoul seated in everyone's heart. There are many great mystic yogis who have the eyes to see You through the Vedas and Upanisads" ‎ Undo revision 1280589 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0105:01, 22 March 2022 diff hist +8,742‎ King Nrga said, "You are the shelter of all living entities, Narayana. Being seated in the heart of all living beings, You are the supreme director of everyone's sensual activities; therefore, You are called Hrsikesa" ‎ Undo revision 1280588 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0005:00, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,669‎ Isvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is staying within the heart of everyone. So within the heart for everyone, if He can come out, so what is the difficulty for Him, from within the womb of somebody He can come? ‎ Undo revision 1280587 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 05:0005:00, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,571‎ Isvara, the Supreme Lord as Supersoul, is staying in everyone's heart. That does not mean he has become divided. No, he is one ‎ Undo revision 1280585 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5904:59, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,733‎ In the Satvata-tantra it is said that the third purusa incarnation, Ksirodakasayi Visnu, is situated as the Supersoul in everyone's heart. This Ksirodakasayi Visnu is an expansion of Garbhodakasayi Visnu for pastimes ‎ Undo revision 1280583 by PoojaA (talk) Tag: Undo
• 04:5904:59, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,268‎ In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord says that He is present in everyone's heart, and from Him only all knowledge, remembrance or forgetfulness take place ‎ Undo revision 1280582 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5904:59, 22 March 2022 diff hist +7,773‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.9.42), Bhisma, a great authority to be followed by devotees, says that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated in the core of everyone's heart, just as the sun may be on everyone's head ‎ Undo revision 1280581 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5804:58, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,409‎ In Bhagavad-gita, Fifteenth Chapter, the Lord says, I am sitting in everyone's heart, and from Me come everyone's remembrance and forgetfulness ‎ Undo revision 1280580 by PoojaA (talk) Tag: Undo
• 04:5804:58, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,710‎ In Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), Krsna says that the Lord is situated in everyone's heart (sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca). As mentioned herein (SB 5.11.11), Supersoul (ksetrajna) is directing everything ‎ Undo revision 1280579 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5804:58, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,281‎ In Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15) the Lord (Krsna) says, sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca: "I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness" ‎ Undo revision 1280578 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5704:57, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,297‎ In BG 15.15 Sri Krsna says: "I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness." In the animal form the living entity is completely forgetful of his relationship with God. This is called apohanam, or forgetfulness ‎ Undo revision 1280577 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5704:57, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,107‎ If one sincerely searches for spiritual salvation, then Krsna, being situated in everyone's heart, gives him the intelligence to find a suitable spiritual master ‎ Undo revision 1280576 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5704:57, 22 March 2022 diff hist +2,645‎ I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self-effulgent Supersoul, who is the witness in everyone's heart, who enlightens the individual soul and who cannot be reached by exercises of the mind, words or consciousness ‎ Undo revision 1280575 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5604:56, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,943‎ I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me (Krsna) come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness ‎ Undo revision 1280574 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5604:56, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,976‎ I (Krsna) am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness ‎ Undo revision 1280573 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5504:55, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,844‎ I (Krsna) am in everyone's heart as the Supersoul. As soon as one desires to worship some demigod, I make his faith steady so that he can devote himself to that particular deity ‎ Undo revision 1280572 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5504:55, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,776‎ He is all-pervading: He is living within everyone's heart, and outside He is living as His universal form. As described in the BG, He appears as He is in the human society just to invite everyone to His transcendental abode, back home, back to Godhead ‎ Undo revision 1280571 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5504:55, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,677‎ He (Krsna) is in everyone's heart. The sun may be perceived differently, but the sun is one ‎ Undo revision 1280570 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5404:54, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,262‎ For one who hears about Krsna, Lord Krsna, who is dwelling in everyone's heart, acts as a best-wishing friend and purifies the devotee who constantly engages in hearing of Him. BG 1972 purports ‎ Undo revision 1280550 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5404:54, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,888‎ Everyone of us is very intimately connected with Krsna, and Krsna is sitting in everyone's heart. Krsna is so kind, that He is simply waiting, "When this rascal will turn his face towards Me" ‎ Undo revision 1280549 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5404:54, 22 March 2022 diff hist +9,494‎ Directions are given to the sincere devotee in two ways: one is by way of the saints, scriptures and spiritual master, and the other is by way of the Lord Himself, who resides within the heart of everyone ‎ Undo revision 1280548 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5304:53, 22 March 2022 diff hist +2,536‎ By His (God's) impersonal feature He is all-pervading Brahman, by His localized feature He is present in everyone's heart as the Supreme Soul ‎ Undo revision 1280205 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5204:52, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,525‎ Being forgetful of his real position, the conditioned soul may take help from sastra, guru and the Supersoul within his heart. Krsna is situated within everyone’s heart as the Supersoul ‎ Undo revision 1280545 by PoojaA (talk) Tag: Undo
• 04:5204:52, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,091‎ Being duskrtis, they (persons influenced by passion and ignoranxe) completely forget the existence of the supreme controller, who is sitting within the core of everyone's heart (isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati (BG 18.61)) ‎ Undo revision 1280544 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5104:51, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,386‎ As the Supersoul within the heart of all living entities, Krsna knows everyone’s desire, everyone’s request and everyone’s prayer. Although all these may be contradictory, the Lord has to create a situation in which everyone will be pleased ‎ Undo revision 1280543 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5004:50, 22 March 2022 diff hist +3,538‎ As the Lord (Krsna) Himself says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca: "I am in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness" ‎ Undo revision 1280542 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:5004:50, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,065‎ Although the Supreme Lord is situated in the core of everyone's heart, unless one is a Vaisnava, unless one is engaged in bhakti, one does not get sound advice by which to return home, back to Godhead. Such instructions are meant only for devotees ‎ Undo revision 1280541 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:4904:49, 22 March 2022 diff hist +5,101‎ Although the Supersoul is in everyone's heart, He talks only to the pure devotees who constantly engage in His service ‎ Undo revision 1280540 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:4904:49, 22 March 2022 diff hist +6,083‎ All recollections, knowledge, etc., as well as all forgetfulness, are engineered by the Lord, who is sitting within the heart of everyone ‎ Undo revision 1280539 by PoojaA (talk) current Tag: Undo
• 04:4804:48, 22 March 2022 diff hist +4,462‎ All intelligence emanates from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul within the heart of everyone ‎ Undo revision 1280538 by PoojaA (talk) Tag: Undo

21 March 2022

• 05:0505:05, 21 March 2022 diff hist +3,222‎ If one is trained to protect his semen by observing celibacy, naturally he is not attracted by the beauty of a woman. If one can remain a brahmacari, he saves himself so much trouble in material existence ‎No edit summary current

19 March 2022

• 13:1213:12, 19 March 2022 diff hist +7,344‎ Isvara, the Supreme Lord, is situated in everyone's heart. Therefore it is said hrda. Sometimes we get education, instruction from hrda. That hrda, Krsna, sitting in everyone's heart, instructs everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 19 March 2022 diff hist +31‎ Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15): "I (Krsna) am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness." The Lord is present in everyone's heart, and He gives the living entity intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1307:13, 19 March 2022 diff hist +4,061‎ The understanding that Krsna is present as Paramatma in everyone's heart makes the yogi faultless ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1007:10, 19 March 2022 diff hist +31‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead who is expanded as the Paramatma, the Supersoul in everyone, the all-pervading Godhead. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0907:09, 19 March 2022 diff hist +31‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead in His plenary expansion as the Paramatma, or Supersoul, sits in everyone's heart and can understand the attitudes and desires of His devotees ‎No edit summary
• 07:0607:06, 19 March 2022 diff hist +7,126‎ The Paramatma, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, knows everyone's desires ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0507:05, 19 March 2022 diff hist +3,920‎ The Paramatma, the all-pervading feature situated in everyone's body, is but a partial manifestation or expansion of Krsna. It is for this reason that Krsna is sometimes called Paramatma, the Supreme Self ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0407:04, 19 March 2022 diff hist +2,597‎ The omnipotent Yamaraja is as good as Lord Brahma for while situated in his own abode or in everyone's heart like the Paramatma, he mentally observes the past activities of a living entity & thus understands how the living entity will act in future lives ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0207:02, 19 March 2022 diff hist +6,305‎ The entrance of the Supreme Lord into everyone's heart as Paramatma sometimes bewilders the impersonalists into equating the living entities with the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0107:01, 19 March 2022 diff hist +3,804‎ The Absolute Personality of Godhead, Krsna, expands Himself by His plenary Paramatma portion in everyone's heart and He directs everyone in the matter of recollection, forgetfulness, knowledge, the absence of intelligence and all psychological activities ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0007:00, 19 March 2022 diff hist +6,855‎ Srila Sukadeva Gosvami continued, "You are present in everyone's heart as Paramatma. Therefore You are known as Jananivasa, one who lives in everyone's heart" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 19 March 2022 diff hist +31‎ Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, is the Paramatma (Supersoul) in everyone's heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5806:58, 19 March 2022 diff hist +8,545‎ Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, is the Paramatma (Supersoul) in everyone's heart & the benefactor of the truthful devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 19 March 2022 diff hist +3,727‎ Real perfection of the path of liberation is attained when one is practiced to depend fully on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who lives in everyone's heart as Paramatma ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 19 March 2022 diff hist +2,845‎ Paramatma, or Supersoul, sits in everyone's heart and can understand the attitudes and desires of His devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 19 March 2022 diff hist +31‎ Krsna can expand Himself as Paramatma in the core of everyone's heart ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5506:55, 19 March 2022 diff hist +7,182‎ It is also explained that the Paramatma, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is living in everyone's heart as isvara, as the controller and He is giving direction ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5406:54, 19 March 2022 diff hist +10,316‎ Intelligence is the form-direction of the Paramatma plenary portion of the Personality of Godhead. The presence of Paramatma in everyone's company is not very difficult to realize, even for the common man ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4306:43, 19 March 2022 diff hist +5,119‎ He (Lord Krsna) expands Himself as Paramatma in everyone's heart by His inconceivable energy, and He also expands Himself as the glowing effulgence of brahma-jyotir by expansion of His personal glow ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 19 March 2022 diff hist +5,690‎ He (Krsna) expands Himself as Paramatma in everyone's heart by His inconceivable energy, and He also expands Himself as the glowing effulgence of brahma-jyotir by expansion of His personal glow ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4006:40, 19 March 2022 diff hist +5,297‎ He (God) is the supreme director, for He confirms in the Bhagavad-gita (15.15) that He, as all-pervading Paramatma, stays in everyone's heart and keeps vigilance over all actions and witnesses all activities ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3906:39, 19 March 2022 diff hist +4,613‎ He (Brahma) was the only living creature; therefore the Vedic knowledge was imparted within his heart by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is seated within everyone as Paramatma ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3706:37, 19 March 2022 diff hist +31‎ By His (Krsna's) inconceivable energy He is present in everyone's heart, as the sun is present before everyone all over the world. The Paramatma feature of the Lord is an expansion of His plenary portions ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 19 March 2022 diff hist +31‎ BG 15.15: "I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness." When two parties fight, the fighting actually goes on under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is Paramatma, the Supersoul ‎No edit summary current

17 March 2022

• 13:4213:42, 17 March 2022 diff hist +8,423‎ We are always accompanied by the Supreme Personality of Godhead as paramatma, antaryami, within the heart. That is the Vedic statement ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 17 March 2022 diff hist +30‎ Visnu enters everyone's heart as Paramatma, and He causes the annihilation of every being through another being ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4013:40, 17 March 2022 diff hist +9,039‎ These twenty-seven elements constitute the external energy of the Lord. Great yogis meditate upon the Lord, who is situated as the Supersoul, Paramatma, within the core of the heart. May that Supersoul be pleased with me ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3713:37, 17 March 2022 diff hist +51,001‎ The Paramatma, or Supersoul, which is present within the heart of every living entity and within every atom of the universe, is but the partial representation of Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 17 March 2022 diff hist +6,221‎ The Lord as Paramatma is situated in everyone's heart, and He gives directions to the living entity to act in whatever way the living entity desires ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 17 March 2022 diff hist +3,182‎ The heart of the body can be compared to the assembly house of the capital, for the living entity is within the heart along with the Paramatma ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 17 March 2022 diff hist +6,479‎ The best devotees are atmavat, or those who have fully realized the Supreme Soul. The Personality of Godhead, as Paramatma, is sitting within everyone's heart, trying to elevate everyone to the platform of Krsna consciousness. He is called atma-bhavana ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 17 March 2022 diff hist +30‎ Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, in His Paramatma feature, is present everywhere, even in the heart of every living being ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 17 March 2022 diff hist +52,805‎ Sri Krsna Caitanya is the basis of the impersonal Brahman. The Paramatma, or Supersoul, who is present within the heart of every living entity and within every atom of the universe, is but the partial representation of Lord Caitanya - CC Intro ‎No edit summary
• 13:2913:29, 17 March 2022 diff hist +3,228‎ Paramatma is situated in the hearts of all living beings. He has four hands, which hold four symbolic weapons ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 17 March 2022 diff hist +3,789‎ One who worships the Deity of Godhead in the temples but does not know that the Supreme Lord, as Paramatma, is situated in every living entity's heart, must be in ignorance and is compared to one who offers oblations into ashes ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 17 March 2022 diff hist +4,891‎ It is said that both the jivatma, the individual soul, and the Paramatma live together within the heart. In the Vedic version it is stated, hrdi hy ayam atma: the soul and Supersoul both live within the heart ‎No edit summary
• 13:2613:26, 17 March 2022 diff hist +3,092‎ Isvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Paramatma, is sitting in everyone's core of the heart, and He is witness, witnessing everything ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 17 March 2022 diff hist +6,325‎ Isvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, paramatma, He is situated in everyone's heart. You haven't got to search out. He is there within your heart. Simply you have to know the method how to see. That is wanted ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 17 March 2022 diff hist +6,302‎ Isvara, the Supreme Lord, is situated as Paramatma in everyone's heart ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 17 March 2022 diff hist +7,411‎ Isvara is situated in everyone's heart as Paramatma, and He's giving us good counsel. We are not abiding by that. We are disobeying. Therefore we are suffering ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 17 March 2022 diff hist +6,581‎ By your partial feature as Paramatma, You are situated in the hearts of all embodied beings. You are celebrated as direct transcendental knowledge, and You are unlimited. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 17 March 2022 diff hist +4,713‎ Brahman, the impersonal Absolute Truth, is all-pervading, and Paramatma is locally situated in everyone's heart, but Bhagavan, who is worshipable by the devotees, is the original cause of all causes ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 17 March 2022 diff hist +3,750‎ As the one sun appears reflected in countless jewels, so Govinda manifests Himself (as Paramatma) in the hearts of all living beings ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 17 March 2022 diff hist +4,988‎ An uncontaminated soul or living entity can get a chance to meet the Paramatma face to face. Just as one gets a chance to consult with the Paramatma within his heart, one also gets a chance to see Him actually situated before him ‎No edit summary
• 13:1613:16, 17 March 2022 diff hist +4,297‎ The ordinary living being knows about his body to some extent, but the Supreme, Paramatma, knows the condition of all bodies. The individual living being is localized, and the Supreme, Paramatma, is all-pervading ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 17 March 2022 diff hist +10,588‎ Others view Him as the all-pervading localized aspect, dwelling within all living entities and generally known as Paramatma or the Supersoul ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 17 March 2022 diff hist +2,514‎ For the translation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you can say either Paramesvara or Bhagavan. Paramatma or Antaryami is good for localized Super-soul. If you can give the meaning of all the sanskrit words, that will be best ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 17 March 2022 diff hist +6,553‎ Because the Paramatma (the localized aspect of the Supreme Personality of Godhead) and the individual living entity are both within the body, a misunderstanding sometimes takes place that there is no difference between the two ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 17 March 2022 diff hist +30‎ According to the Bhagavatam (1.2.11) there are three levels of transcendentalists: the knowers of the Paramatma, the localized aspect of the Supreme, which is understood by the process of mystic yoga ‎No edit summary
• 13:0913:09, 17 March 2022 diff hist +3,283‎ There are also followers of the rsi known as Aruna. Following his path, they observe the activities of the arteries. Thus they gradually rise to the heart, where subtle Brahman, Paramatma, is situated. They then worship Him ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 17 March 2022 diff hist +4,682‎ The Lord is the Supersoul (Paramatma) present in the hearts of all living beings, and thus by the above hearing and glorifying process, the Lord invites the association of all in His creation ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 17 March 2022 diff hist +5,950‎ The jnanis want to see Him to become one with Him, and the yogis want to see Him partially represented within their heart as Paramatma, but the bhaktas, or the devotees, want to see Him in His complete perfection ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 17 March 2022 diff hist +3,427‎ The heart of every living entity is the seat of the Supersoul, Paramatma, a plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Without His presence the living entity cannot get into the working energy according to his past deeds ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 17 March 2022 diff hist +11‎ The all-pervading Personality of Godhead resides as Paramatma in the heart of each and every living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 17 March 2022 diff hist +34‎ Sri Krsna, in His Paramatma feature, lives in the hearts of all living beings in both the transcendental and mundane creations. As the Paramatma, He witnesses all actions the living beings perform in all phases of time, namely past, present and future ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 17 March 2022 diff hist +4,762‎ Paramatma does not hate anyone; indeed, He is in the heart of a brahmana, but he is also even in the heart of a pig ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 17 March 2022 diff hist +34‎ Just as the one sun is the object of vision of many different persons, so the one partial representation of Lord Krsna who lives in the heart of every living entity as the Paramatma is a variously perceived object ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 17 March 2022 diff hist +5,222‎ It is learned from the revealed scriptures that the moon was born from the milk ocean. There is a milk ocean in the upper planets, and there Visnu, who controls the heart of every living being as Paramatma (the Supersoul), resides as Ksirodakasayi Visnu ‎No edit summary
• 12:5212:52, 17 March 2022 diff hist +6,982‎ Although the Paramatma enters the heart of the jivatma, who is influenced and designated by a material body, the Paramatma has nothing to do with the jivatma's body ‎No edit summary current

16 March 2022

• 13:1313:13, 16 March 2022 diff hist +6,113‎ Both the Supersoul (Paramatma) and the atomic soul (jivatma) are situated on the same tree of the body within the same heart of the living being (Katha Upanisad 1.2.20). BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 16 March 2022 diff hist +4,347‎ At that time an expansion of Uddhava, acting as one of the Vasus, desired to become an associate of the Lord. The Lord knew this because He is present in the heart of every living entity as Paramatma, the Superconsciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 16 March 2022 diff hist +4,298‎ Yogis meditate upon the localized Paramatma situated in the heart, jnanis worship the impersonal Brahman as the Supreme Absolute Truth, and devotees worship Vasudeva, the Supreme Personality of God, whose transcendental body is described in the sastras ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 16 March 2022 diff hist +4,388‎ The Supreme Lord is present as the localized Paramatma in the heart of every living being, as it is said in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 13.23), and therefore he knows everything of our activities in every stage of our lives ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 16 March 2022 diff hist +5,946‎ The localized Visnu-murti is the plenary representation of Krsna dwelling within one's heart. One who has no program to realize this Visnu-murti is uselessly engaged in mock-yoga practice and is certainly wasting his time. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 16 March 2022 diff hist +3,331‎ The Brahman effulgence is the bodily luster of Lord Caitanya, and the localized Supersoul situated in the heart of every living entity is His partial representation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 16 March 2022 diff hist +4,898‎ He is (the Supreme Soul) both the all-pervading impersonal Brahman and the localized Paramatma in everyone's heart. He is the knower of all past, present and future, and nothing can be concealed from Him ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0906:09, 16 March 2022 diff hist +4,028‎ The word abudhah is significant here. Due to ignorance only, the foolish mundane wranglers misunderstand the Supreme Lord and spread their foolish imaginations amongst innocent persons by propaganda ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 16 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ The trees and seeds engage the devotees in meditation about the activities of the Lord, while the mundane wranglers waste time in dry speculation and mental concoction, which are fruitless in both this life and the next ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0706:07, 16 March 2022 diff hist +2,571‎ The mundane wranglers waste time with archaeological excavations without searching into the vital necessities of life ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 16 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ The mundane wranglers may speculate on the Gita in their own ways, but that is not Bhagavad-gita as it is. Therefore, Bhagavad-gita has to be accepted as it is, from the disciplic succession. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 16 March 2022 diff hist +9,050‎ The mundane wranglers are surprised that one can detach himself from the world of sense gratification, and thus any attempt to be fixed in God realization appears to them to be mysticism ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 16 March 2022 diff hist +3,666‎ The most wonderful puzzle for the mundane wranglers is that while they remain calculating the length and breadth of the unlimited potency of the Supreme Person, His faithful devotees are set free from the bondage of material encagement ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 16 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ The Lord discloses the transcendental nature of His existence. The mundane wranglers make mundane conceptions of the form of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 16 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ The impersonal interpretation of the mundane wranglers is completely refuted in this verse because it is clearly stated here that the Supreme Lord has His qualities, form, pastimes and everything that a person has ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0106:01, 16 March 2022 diff hist +3,784‎ 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
• 06:0106:01, 16 March 2022 diff hist +20,247‎ If the Lord Himself instructs the devotee, how can he remain foolish like the mundane wranglers ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0006:00, 16 March 2022 diff hist +4,508‎ If one accepts Krsna as the supreme friend, the attraction of material friendship will be finished for him, and he will not be dismayed by so-called friendship with mundane wranglers ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0006:00, 16 March 2022 diff hist +9,342‎ I shall always pray to Krishna that you may come out a successful and eminent scholar so that your writings and thoughts may be seriously taken by the mundane wranglers ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5905:59, 16 March 2022 diff hist +12,205‎ He (a bona fide spiritual master) preaches the message of Godhead as the Lord's appointed agent and has nothing to do with sense gratification or the mundane wrangling of the impersonalists ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 16 March 2022 diff hist +6,650‎ If you don't accept Krsna's works, which are very plainly explained in the Bhagavad gita, then you have to remain in this mrtyu-samsara-vartmani. It is very plain truth. There is no doubt about it ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 16 March 2022 diff hist +5‎ There are many pseudo-meditators who misrepresent themselves as belonging to high parentage, and great professional men who falsely pose that they have sacrificed everything for the sake of advancement in spiritual life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 16 March 2022 diff hist +4,278‎ One who is on the path of (material) progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4505:45, 16 March 2022 diff hist +3,385‎ You are a sincere devotee from the very beginning, coming from a very respectable family, intelligent, and your humbleness is a proof of your high parentage ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 16 March 2022 diff hist +7,289‎ Vidura was undoubtedly a highly elevated and pious soul, otherwise he would not have taken his birth in the Kaurava family. To have high parentage, to possess wealth, to be highly learned and to have great personal beauty are all due to past pious acts ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 16 March 2022 diff hist +8,542‎ The sacred thread on the body of a brahmana, ksatriya or vaisya is a symbol of initiation by the spiritual master; it is worth nothing if worn merely to boast of high parentage ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 16 March 2022 diff hist +3,424‎ If one takes shelter of Narada instead of material teachers, this (confidential) knowledge is possible to understand. Understanding does not depend upon high parentage ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 16 March 2022 diff hist +5,686‎ Brahminical culture includes truthfulness, sense control, forbearance, simplicity, full knowledge and full faith in God. It is not that one simply becomes proud of his high parentage ‎No edit summary current

15 March 2022

• 14:2014:20, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,790‎ The material opulences a person obtains by offering prayers to the goddess Durga are temporary. As described in Bhagavad-gita, antavat tu phalam tesam tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam: men of meager intelligence desire temporary happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 15 March 2022 diff hist +27,694‎ Why aren't people Krsna conscious? Maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan (SB 7.9.43). The rascals have created a humbug civilization for temporary happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1614:16, 15 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ Whether in the heavenly planets, the lower planets or the earthly planets, people are engrossed in temporary, material happiness ‎No edit summary
• 14:1314:13, 15 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ There are those who are purely attached to material, temporary happiness, as lords of the material world. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,239‎ The so-called temporary happiness of the world is also misery, but in ignorance we cannot understand this. That is the actual position ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 15 March 2022 diff hist +7,853‎ The real and transcendental happiness is attained only after liberation from the bondage of material existence. Any action which does not aim at such transcendental happiness is always temporary and baffling ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 15 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ The foolish mundaner enjoys only the temporary results of his activities - fleeting mundane happiness or distress - and undergoes a severe penalty of servitude dictated by the modes of nature ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,580‎ Temporary, material happiness holds no value for a devotee. The devotee is in such an exalted position that he is not interested in the actions of karma or jnana ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 15 March 2022 diff hist +38,804‎ Temporary sensations of happiness and distress, pertaining to the act of thinking, feeling, and willing under a false ego, are eternally different from the spirit soul and are therefore "unreal reality" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,282‎ Prahlada Maharaja says, maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan: (SB 7.9.43) these fools (vimudhas) are engaged in material happiness, which is surely temporary ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,992‎ Prahlada Maharaja said, My Lord, I do have a problem, however, for I am simply thinking of these rascals & fools who are busy with maya-sukha, temporary happiness, without knowledge of devotional service unto You. This is the problem faced by a Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,793‎ Prahlada Maharaja points out, maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan: (SB 7.9.43) merely for temporary materialistic happiness, these rascals are making huge arrangements, and thus they are baffled life after life ‎No edit summary
• 13:5713:57, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,740‎ One who knows that material happiness, whether good or bad, in this life or in the next, on this planet or on the heavenly planets, is temporary and useless, and that an intelligent person should not try to enjoy or even think of such things ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 15 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ One who is still immature in the cultivation of spiritual knowledge may be attracted at any moment by the illusion of temporary happiness, just as the ocean is agitated by the rushing rivers and blowing wind that occur during the rainy season ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5313:53, 15 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ One who is not disturbed by all these comings and goings of temporary happiness and distress - he alone becomes a fit person to attain eternal life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,692‎ One who has no information of the transcendental bliss in the association of the Lord foolishly desires to enjoy this temporary material happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,095‎ One cannot enjoy material illusory prosperity if he desires to return home, back to Godhead. One who has no information of the transcendental bliss in the association of the Lord foolishly desires to enjoy this temporary material happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,342‎ Of course, one can derive great amounts of temporary happiness by achieving such yogic materialistic perfections ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,159‎ None of the material planets, nor the amenities available there for living conditions, is everlasting; therefore one must have a factual reluctance to enjoy such temporary happiness as they afford ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,193‎ My dear heroic King, please keep yourself always equipoised and treat people equally, whether they are greater than you, in the intermediate stage or lower than you. Do not be disturbed by temporary distress or happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 15 March 2022 diff hist +39,106‎ Krsna, the PG, confirms in the Bhagavad-gita, only those who cultivate transcendental knowledge in relation to the eternal spirit soul and without being disturbed by temporary happiness and distress will be truly happy by gaining eternal, spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 15 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ Krsna, the PG, confirms in the Bhagavad-gita, only those who cultivate transcendental knowledge in relation to the eternal spirit soul and without being disturbed by temporary happiness and distress will be able to escape the cruel hands of birth, death ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 15 March 2022 diff hist +39,052‎ Krsna, the PG, confirms in the BG, only those who cultivate transcendental knowledge in relation to the eternal spirit soul and without being disturbed by temporary happiness and distress will be able to escape the cruel hands of old age, and disease ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4513:45, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,741‎ In this verse (SB 9.19.20), Maharaja Yayati advises that whatever material happiness we see and whatever is promised for enjoyment is all merely flickering and temporary. Abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino 'rjuna - BG 8.16 ‎No edit summary
• 13:4213:42, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,317‎ Human society should study this (the place from which one never returns), but instead of culturing such knowledge, people are attracted to temporary happiness and sense gratification, culminating in bottomless, topless passion ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5903:59, 15 March 2022 diff hist +7,560‎ Everything dependent on the outward covering is also a temporary arrangement. Happiness or distress perceived in relation with the temporary arrangement of the body and mind is also temporary ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5603:56, 15 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ Due to such conditions (of material world), Prahlada Maharaja says that these vimudhas, materialistic persons, have unnecessarily burdened themselves simply for temporary happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5503:55, 15 March 2022 diff hist +12,492‎ By pious fruitive work one is placed in a position where he can temporarily feel material happiness, whereas vicious activities lead him to a distressful position of material want and scarcity ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5403:54, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,362‎ Being in a bewildered condition, therefore, the embodied soul identifies himself with the circumstantial material body and becomes subjected to the temporary misery and happiness of life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5303:53, 15 March 2022 diff hist +38,817‎ At the present stage of our existence, it is difficult to be unaffected by the temporary happiness and distress pertaining to the body and mind. Nor is it possible at present to assert that we are unidentified with the body and mind ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5103:51, 15 March 2022 diff hist +2,443‎ A nondevotee regards the temporary so-called happiness as everything and forgets the path of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5103:51, 15 March 2022 diff hist +12,760‎ A man may think he will be happy by performing rituals, but actually if he does gain some result from them, it is only temporary. His material distresses will continue ‎No edit summary
• 03:5003:50, 15 March 2022 diff hist +12,496‎ A living entity perpetually struggles hard to rid himself of the pangs of material existence, but the path of fruitive work leads him to either temporary happiness or temporary distress in material existence ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4503:45, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,507‎ We are teaching people that you agree with the divine will. The divine will is that you surrender. So you agree to surrender. That we are teaching. That is real religion ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4403:44, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,937‎ By the Divine Will of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura we are now combined together, although originally we are born in different parts of the world, unknown to one another ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4303:43, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5‎ Being conducted by divine will, material nature, although inferior, acts so wonderfully in the construction and destruction of the cosmic manifestation. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3903:39, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,143‎ When the devotee is further advanced, he has nothing to fear. He considers the Lord and himself on an equal level ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3803:38, 15 March 2022 diff hist +8,329‎ The Lord has no competitor, and He has nothing to fear from any other being, nor can anyone be equal to Him. Although He is the root of all other beings, there are basic differences between Him and other beings ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3803:38, 15 March 2022 diff hist +2,194‎ The Lord had nothing to fear from anyone, yet He was merciful to His enemy by neglecting him ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3603:36, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,709‎ Men are afraid of Yamaraja because it is he only who awards punishment to the miscreants of the material world, but those who are devotees of the Lord have nothing to fear from him ‎No edit summary
• 03:3403:34, 15 March 2022 diff hist +7,351‎ A devotee is never afraid of death or of changing his body; his consciousness is transformed into Krsna consciousness, and even if he does not go back to Godhead, even if he transmigrates to another material body, he has nothing to fear ‎No edit summary current

14 March 2022

• 05:4105:41, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,479‎ When Indra saw that actually they were his devoted followers, he said to them: If you are all my brothers, you have nothing more to fear from me ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 14 March 2022 diff hist +8,164‎ A man in the renounced order of life must be purified by the process; thus he will feel the presence of the Lord everywhere and will have nothing to fear, such as being without any company ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,207‎ Vasudeva said: O best of the sober, you have nothing to fear from your sister Devaki because of what you have heard from the unseen omen. The cause of death will be her sons - SB 10.1.54 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 14 March 2022 diff hist −10‎ Those who are confident that they are not the material body, that they are spiritual parts of the SPG and are therefore engaged in the transcendental service of the Supreme Godhead, have nothing to fear. Their future is very bright. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,243‎ The demigods boast uselessly while away from the battlefield. Only where there is no fighting can they show their prowess. Therefore, from such demigods we (Kamsa and his ministers) have nothing to fear - SB 10.4.36 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3405:34, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,885‎ The brahmana then began to think that if the people didn't directly see the Gopala Deity, they would not believe that He had arrived. "But even if Gopala stays here," he thought, "there is still nothing to fear" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3405:34, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,567‎ Ramananda Raya replied, "My Lord, You are the supreme independent personality. You have nothing to fear from anyone because You are not dependent on anyone" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2605:26, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,035‎ As for Lord Visnu, He is in seclusion in the core of the hearts of the yogis. As for Lord Siva, he has gone to the forest. Therefore you (Kamsa) have nothing to fear - SB 10.4.36 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2505:25, 14 March 2022 diff hist −10‎ For the time being, let me (Vasudeva) promise to hand over my sons so that Kamsa will give up this immediate threat, and if in due course of time Kamsa dies, I shall have nothing to fear - SB 10.1.49-50 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0805:08, 14 March 2022 diff hist +4,493‎ One who restrains his senses and fixes his consciousness upon Me is known as a man of steady intelligence. BG 2.61 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,848‎ O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence. BG 2.68 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,769‎ He considered everything material to be useless, and therefore he was completely devoid of material desires. He always controlled his senses and life air, and being of steady intelligence and determination, he subdued all lusty desires ‎No edit summary current

13 March 2022

• 06:0006:00, 13 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ Such (niskincana) a devotee is free from all material bondage, but he engages in Krsna conscious activities. Such expert devotional service is performed without hypocrisy ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5905:59, 13 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya, The Sakha-nirnaya, verse 13, mentions Srinatha Cakravarti as a reservoir of all good qualities and an expert in the service of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5805:58, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,542‎ One who is expert in devotional service calls such symptoms raty-abhasa, a mere glimpse of attachment ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5705:57, 13 March 2022 diff hist +8‎ One should make it a point that by his work and the result of his labor he serves the Supreme Lord as prescribed by the authorities expert in the transcendental loving service of the Supreme Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5705:57, 13 March 2022 diff hist +8‎ One has to practice sense control as well as mind control and subdue the six forces of speech, mind, anger, tongue, belly and genitals. Then one can become expert in understanding the devotional service of the Lord and thus become a perfect sannyasi ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5605:56, 13 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ Like Ramananda Raya, Sanatana Gosvami was a fully cognizant expert in the conclusions of devotional service and was therefore able to describe such transcendental knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5505:55, 13 March 2022 diff hist +3,088‎ A devotee who not only is expert in devotional service but who also preaches the cult of bhakti and defeats all kinds of agnostics is called a gosthy-anandi ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5305:53, 13 March 2022 diff hist +3,235‎ A devotee who does not preach but always engages in devotional activities is called a bhajananandi, whereas a devotee who not only is expert in devotional service but who also preaches the cult of bhakti & defeats all kinds of agnostics is a gosthyanandi ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5005:50, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,041‎ The gopis know Krsna's desires, and they know how to render perfect loving service for His enjoyment. They perform their service expertly for the satisfaction of their beloved ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,145‎ The brahmanas and yajnika priests should be sufficiently paid for their expert service. This payment is called daksina ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,190‎ I cannot manufacture gold, I cannot show any jugglery, but if there is any credit, then the only credit is I don't adulterate. That's all. The pure milk, I don't show my expert service by adding water in it ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4505:45, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,525‎ Anyone desiring to become expert in the service of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna should always aspire to be under the guidance of Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 05:4105:41, 13 March 2022 diff hist +8‎ All the knowledge that Sri Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami directly acquired from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was broadcast all over the world by their expert service ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1605:16, 13 March 2022 diff hist +6,649‎ To know the principles of eternal life, and if we really want to see things in their true perspective, it is necessary for us to establish a relationship with a preceptor who can really open our eyes and lift us from the clutches of nescience ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1505:15, 13 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ The devotees of the Lord can see everything in true perspective due to the light disseminated by Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1205:12, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,942‎ Only by a transcendental vision are one's material hankerings fully satisfied. When the Lord was present, persons who were able to satisfy their material hankerings by seeing Him in true perspective were thus able to go back with Him to His kingdom ‎No edit summary
• 05:1105:11, 13 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ If we are really anxious to know the principles of eternal life or life after death, and if we really want to see things in their true perspective, it is necessary for us to establish a relationship with a preceptor who can really open our eyes ‎No edit summary
• 05:1005:10, 13 March 2022 diff hist +43,292‎ From Srimad-Bhagavatam we can know the substance as well as the relativities in their true sense and perspective ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 13 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ For spiritual realization one has to purify the heart and know things in their true perspective ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 13 March 2022 diff hist +38,763‎ Even though we have our wonderful eyes, we cannot see things in their true perspective. What is true for the eyes is also true for the other senses we use for gathering knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0305:03, 13 March 2022 diff hist +6,143‎ The personified Vedas continued, "Such unguided persons are compared to merchants going to sea on a ship without a captain" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0205:02, 13 March 2022 diff hist +30‎ No one should be proud of his prestige, power and fame without being guided by the favor of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5104:51, 13 March 2022 diff hist +3,028‎ King Yudhisthira, who is morality personified, and the Yadus are undoubtedly great allies, but without the guidance of Lord Krsna all of them are nonentities, as much as the senses of the body are useless without the guidance of consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4904:49, 13 March 2022 diff hist +14,184‎ Without guidance, however, one does not know how to renounce. First of all, one wants to enjoy, and when he is frustrated in enjoyment, he renounces. Again, when he is tired of renunciation, he enjoys, like a clock pendulum which swings from side to side ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4804:48, 13 March 2022 diff hist +6,267‎ Without guidance, all of Banasura's soldiers scattered here and there ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4704:47, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,723‎ We may invent by our advancement of material knowledge all sorts of counteracting material resources, but without being guided by the Lord all such inventions end in fiasco, however strong and stout the reactionary elements may be ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 13 March 2022 diff hist +6,430‎ Such people are called karmis, or gross materialists. Among the karmis are some vikarmis, people who act without the guidance of Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,109‎ It is not possible to train oneself (in devotional service) without guidance from the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 13 March 2022 diff hist +11,339‎ If someone, without undergoing the regulative principles of devotional service or without being guided by a bona fide spiritual master, shows such imitative attachment, this is called shadow attachment ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 13 March 2022 diff hist +9,783‎ Every human being should therefore take advantage of the Vedic instructions; otherwise one will be bound by his whimsical activities and will be without any guide ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3704:37, 13 March 2022 diff hist +14,057‎ A worker's identification with material existence cannot be changed without proper guidance. Such fruitive activity will continue one's material existence ‎No edit summary current

12 March 2022

• 09:5609:56, 12 March 2022 diff hist +4,109‎ You are brought up in a different standard in Europe and America, and in India it may be difficult because you haven't got all the facilities. But you learn tolerance. Execute Krsna consciousness. That should be our business ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 12 March 2022 diff hist +8,444‎ They (devotees of God) should learn from this verse (SB 4.22.24) that they have to become tolerant - dvandva-titiksaya ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 12 March 2022 diff hist +3,531‎ Devotees do not mind reverses in life because in the service of Narayana they have learned to tolerate whatever hardships there may be. They do not care whether they are in heaven or in hell: they simply engage in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 12 March 2022 diff hist +8,233‎ When one can learn how to tolerate these temporary so-called pains and pleasure, then he is advanced ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 12 March 2022 diff hist +3,829‎ Unless one is humble and prideless, one cannot be harmless and nonviolent. And after being nonviolent one has to learn tolerance and simplicity of living ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,186‎ One of the devotional quality is titiksa, tolerance. That should be learned, how to tolerate in every condition of life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 12 March 2022 diff hist −12‎ In material life there are many disturbances (adhyatmika, adhidaivika and adhibhautika). One who has learned to tolerate these disturbances under all circumstances is called dhira ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 12 March 2022 diff hist −10‎ One has to learn tolerance in the face of dualities such as happiness and distress, or cold and warmth, and by tolerating such dualities become free from anxieties regarding gain and loss. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 12 March 2022 diff hist +6,833‎ Then (when one is frank, free from reservations and open), by performing his particular occupational duty under the guidance of a proper spiritual master, he can achieve the highest success in life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,887‎ So long we are engaged in devotional service with proper guidance certainly we are always in transcendental position, and transcendental position is unlimited, it doesn't matter whether you are in Vrindaban or U.S.A ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1509:15, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,110‎ Regardless of whether one is born in a brahmana family, a ksatriya family or a sudra family, one may be guided by a proper brahmana and be promoted to the highest platform of being a Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,410‎ Lord Sri Krsna's name, fame, pastimes, etc., cannot be understood by material senses. Only to one who is engaged in pure devotional service under proper guidance is He revealed ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1109:11, 12 March 2022 diff hist +7,511‎ Let them be either well behaved or ill trained, let them be either learned or fools, let them be either grossly attached or in the renounced order of life, all of them can be elevated to the supreme position by discharging DS under the proper guidance ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 12 March 2022 diff hist +1,568‎ I therefore take shelter of the lotus feet of Virabhadra Gosani, so that by His mercy my great desire to write Sri Caitanya-caritamrta will be properly guided ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,252‎ If one is able to be guided by a proper and bona fide spiritual master, who can lead one to the path of elevation, to the higher stage, then one's life becomes successful. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 12 March 2022 diff hist +3,736‎ If one engages his possessions in the service of the Lord under the guidance of a proper spiritual master. he will attain happiness both in this life and the next ‎No edit summary current

11 March 2022

• 10:5710:57, 11 March 2022 diff hist +3,695‎ God means Supreme Being. You take His leadership. Then He'll properly guide you. That is our philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 11 March 2022 diff hist +6,415‎ The human beings, however fallen he may be, if he is properly guided, if he is properly instructed, he can become God conscious ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 11 March 2022 diff hist +4,625‎ In Kali-yuga there is a dearth of proper guidance. One may take guidance in the evening from the stars and moon, but in the rainy season the light of guidance comes from insignificant glowworms ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 11 March 2022 diff hist +6,280‎ Those who follow the pancaratriki-vidhi under the guidance of a proper spiritual master can understand the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 11 March 2022 diff hist +3,586‎ The Lord is so kind and merciful that He gives the devotee proper guidance and all protection, and thus the devotee very peacefully makes solid progress in Krsna consciousness without outward disturbances ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 11 March 2022 diff hist +4,277‎ The challenge was that "If you are servants of Dharmaraja, then explain what is dharma." It doesn't matter whether a man is civilized or uncivilized or good-looking or bad-looking, but if he has got proper guide, then he can speak the right thing ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 11 March 2022 diff hist +7,272‎ One should not visit all these sanctified pilgrimage places & temples with sightseeing in mind, but one must go to such temples and sanctified places immortalized by the transcendental pastimes of the Lord and be guided by proper men who know the science ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 11 March 2022 diff hist +3,744‎ One should at once engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord by the different devotional activities of hearing, chanting, etc. If performed under proper guidance, that is the surest path of progress, even for the disturbed mind ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 11 March 2022 diff hist +7,729‎ Lord Krsna said, "If a man is sufficiently educated in student life under the guidance of a proper teacher, his life becomes successful in the future" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 11 March 2022 diff hist +9‎ It is said that Lord Sri Krsna's name, fame, pastimes, etc., cannot be understood by material senses. Only to one who is engaged in pure devotional service under proper guidance is He revealed. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 11 March 2022 diff hist +3,289‎ If performed under proper guidance, that (different devotional activities of hearing and chanting) is the surest path of progress, even for the disturbed mind ‎No edit summary
• 10:3710:37, 11 March 2022 diff hist +5,159‎ If one cultivates devotional service further and further, under proper guidance, other features of devotional service will gradually become manifest ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 11 March 2022 diff hist +4,066‎ I have studied the behavior of the hippies. They are searching after something good, but they have no proper guidance ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 11 March 2022 diff hist +1,455‎ By Krishna's Grace, you are doing well and continue the same faithfully. Krishna will give you intelligence for proper guidance ‎No edit summary current

4 March 2022

• 04:5404:54, 4 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ When one is promoted in that way (under the guidance of the spiritual nature) by surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead-one attains to the stage of great soul, mahatma. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,444‎ To practice the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga one should, under the guidance of spiritual master, follow certain principles: one should rise early in the morning, take bath, enter the temple and offer prayers and chant Hare Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,567‎ To perform austerities or penances, or, for that matter, any form of devotional service, one has to be guided by a spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3804:38, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,388‎ Those who have a poor fund of knowledge accept these false sannyasis and their pretenses, although they are not bona fide guides to spiritual advancement ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3604:36, 4 March 2022 diff hist +6,930‎ This is called dvija, or the second birth. When you catch hold of a bona fide spiritual master just to guide you to act on the spiritual platform, then your second life begins. It is called dvija. So this life is so important that one must begin it ‎No edit summary
• 04:3204:32, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,214‎ The vipras are those who are expert in karma-kanda, or fruitive activities, guiding the society towards fulfilling the material necessities of life, whereas the brahmanas are expert in spiritual knowledge of transcendence ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3104:31, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,218‎ The Vedas are the storehouse of knowledge, both material and spiritual. But such knowledge aims at perfection of self-realization. In other words, the Vedas are the guides for the civilized man in every respect ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3004:30, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,580‎ The topmost transcendentalist is a liberated soul and is therefore not within the purview of the regulative principles. A neophyte, who is intended to be promoted to the spiritual plane, is guided by the spiritual master under regulative principles ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2904:29, 4 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased to guide a devotee from within and without. From within He guides him as the Supersoul, and from without He guides him as the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2504:25, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,115‎ The preceptor appears before the external senses of the fortunate conditioned soul, and at the same time the devotee is guided from within by the caittya-guru, Krsna, who is seated as the spiritual master within the heart of the living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2204:22, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,824‎ The only condition for successfully executing such spiritual activities is that they must be conducted under the guidance of a pure devotee who's completely free from all mundane desires, fruitive activities & dry speculations about the nature of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2104:21, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,539‎ The Lord (Krsna) was for them (the Pandavas) the Supreme Lord, the spiritual master, the worshipable Deity, the guide, the chariot driver, the friend, the servant, the messenger and everything they could conceive of ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1804:18, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,720‎ The disciple renders devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master or his representative for at least six months to a year. He is then recommended for a second initiation, during which a sacred thread is offered ‎No edit summary current
• 04:0704:07, 4 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ The devotees under the guidance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu aspire to reach the topmost spiritual planet, known as Goloka Vrndavana, the residence of Lord Sri Krsna and His eternal associates ‎No edit summary
• 04:0204:02, 4 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ There is no difference between chanting for Krsna consciousness and working for Krsna consciousness. On the transcendental platform, they are one. But we must be guided by the spiritual master about this oneness; we should not manufacture our own oneness ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4903:49, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,543‎ Only the Supreme Lord Himself or His empowered representative can possibly free us from confinement in this dark well. Under their guidance we can come to know of the limitless ocean of the spiritual sky ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4803:48, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,623‎ One who is not able even to practice the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga, under the guidance of a spiritual master, can still be drawn to this perfectional stage by working for the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4403:44, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,278‎ One has to study the Vedas under the guidance of the spiritual master and undergo many austerities and penances while living under his care. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4103:41, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,574‎ One's guide must be a spiritual master who is actually an unalloyed devotee strictly following the instructions of the previous acarya without deviation ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4003:40, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,461‎ Narottama dasa Thakura states that one has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3903:39, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,444‎ Material world means in every step there is danger. That is material world. So therefore we should take guide from guru, from the teacher, from the spiritual master how to make progress ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3803:38, 4 March 2022 diff hist +9,019‎ Maharaja Pariksit, after having selected Krpacarya for guidance as his spiritual master, performed three horse sacrifices on the banks of the Ganges ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2903:29, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,815‎ It is not that because one is a grhastha he may marry as many times as he likes and indulge in sex life as he likes. This is not spiritual life. In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,048‎ In the second stage, after one becomes a little advanced and mature, he automatically offers to follow the principles of devotional service under the guidance of the pure devotee and accepts him as the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,235‎ In the next stage, under the guidance of the spiritual master, the devotee executes regulative devotional service, and, as a result of such activities, he becomes freed from all unwanted occupations ‎No edit summary current

3 March 2022

• 04:4304:43, 3 March 2022 diff hist +6,936‎ In the human form of life one can obtain the guidance of a good navigator, the spiritual master. One also gets a favorable wind by the mercy of Krsna, and that wind is the instructions of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5103:51, 3 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ If such persons (demoniac persons) are fortunate enough to be guided by a spiritual master who can direct them to the path of Vedic wisdom, they can get out of this entanglement and ultimately achieve the supreme goal. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4403:44, 3 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ If he (the living entity) places himself under the guidance of a spiritual master and does everything sincerely, immediately the Lord, who is situated within everyone’s heart, dictates how to serve Him - dadami buddhi-yogam tam ‎No edit summary current
• 03:4103:41, 3 March 2022 diff hist +3,545‎ He (A KIing) first has his spiritual master, the supreme guide. Then come his ministers, his kingdom, his fortifications, his treasury, his system of law and order, and his friends or allies. If these seven are properly maintained, the king is happy ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3703:37, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,719‎ Directed from within and guided externally by the spiritual master, one attains the path of Krsna consciousness, which is the way out of the material clutches ‎No edit summary current
• 03:3303:33, 3 March 2022 diff hist +9,912‎ By the order of the sastra, by the guidance of the spiritual master, you are being trained up as apprentice. This is called abhidheya - practice ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2603:26, 3 March 2022 diff hist +6,995‎ A person in Krsna consciousness, engaged in devotional service, simply by the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master, realizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead very easily. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 03:2503:25, 3 March 2022 diff hist +11,607‎ A person gradually reaches this stage (of anartha-nivrtti) by regularly performing the primary principles of devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master ‎No edit summary
• 03:2503:25, 3 March 2022 diff hist +3,677‎ A king is not alone. He first has his spiritual master, the supreme guide. Then come his ministers, his kingdom, his fortifications, his treasury, his system of law and order, and his friends or allies ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 3 March 2022 diff hist +9,290‎ A devotee should see to the right discharge of devotional service under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master and should not stick only to the formalities ‎No edit summary
• 03:1903:19, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,428‎ All of them were introduced under some meaningless circumstances, and those who have a poor fund of knowledge accept these false sannyasis and their pretenses, although they are not bona fide guides to spiritual advancement ‎No edit summary current

2 March 2022

• 04:4404:44, 2 March 2022 diff hist +9,387‎ The misguided student of Bhagavad-gita will certainly be bewildered on the path of spiritual guidance and will not be able to go back home, back to Godhead. BG 1972 Preface ‎No edit summary
• 04:3304:33, 2 March 2022 diff hist +1,984‎ There must be a class of brahmanas for giving spiritual guidance by example ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3204:32, 2 March 2022 diff hist +3,053‎ I am rather proud to say that the movement of Krishna Consciousness which I have started in your country will fulfill the desires of many sincere citizens of your country who are actually anxious to have a bon-a-fide spiritual guidance from India ‎No edit summary current

1 March 2022

• 02:0802:08, 1 March 2022 diff hist −6‎ Hearing from an authority is a better experience than gaining personal understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0602:06, 1 March 2022 diff hist +4,466‎ Hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from authorities ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0002:00, 1 March 2022 diff hist +6,577‎ A sincere devotee must be prepared to hear the Vedic literature like the Upanisads, Vedanta and other literatures left by the previous authorities or Gosvamis, for the benefit of his progress ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5501:55, 1 March 2022 diff hist +43,403‎ The Absolute Truth is personal, for the Absolute Truth cannot be impersonal and have a sense of pure sex life ‎No edit summary current

28 February 2022

• 04:3404:34, 28 February 2022 diff hist +3,721‎ System of hearing from undisturbed authorities ‎No edit summary current
• 04:0304:03, 28 February 2022 diff hist +4,960‎ Having attained to the stage of devotion, Maharaja Prthu became uninterested in the practices of jnana and yoga and abandoned them. This is the stage of pure devotional life as described by Rupa Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 03:5903:59, 28 February 2022 diff hist +4,219‎ Srila Jiva Gosvami cites this verse (SB 11.14.21) in logically supporting that anyone who chants about the pure life and activities of Prahlada Maharaja is freed from the reactions of material activities ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5803:58, 28 February 2022 diff hist +6,912‎ My dear children, boys and girls, I request you that live happily. There is no restriction. We don't restrict eating, sleeping, or mating, or defending. But do it in relationship with Krsna, pure life, and be happy in this life and next life ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5303:53, 28 February 2022 diff hist +5‎ Protection of children begins from the very day of begetting a child by the purificatory process of garbhadhana-samskara, the beginning of pure life ‎No edit summary current

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