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25 July 2022
- 10:2910:29, 25 July 2022 diff hist +1,576 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked, "Are there any deities on top of this hill?" The local people replied, "There are deities on this hill, but they are located within a cave" No edit summary current
- 10:2910:29, 25 July 2022 diff hist +1,610 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked the local people, "Where is Radha-kunda?" No one could inform Him, and the brahmana accompanying Him did not know either No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 25 July 2022 diff hist −13 Raghunatha dasa belonged to a very aristocratic family of the kayastha community. He had substantial influence with the local people, and therefore the caudhuri, or minister, was afraid to beat him No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,865 Neither I have got any acquaintance with them, nor I am getting any help from India's side in this great propaganda work of Krishna Consciousness Movement which is actually felt by the local people as a major spiritual revolutionary movement No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7 Near the Bindu Madhava temple is a big banyan tree, & it is said that after eating, Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to rest beneath the tree. Gradually, due to changes in language, the name became Yatana-vata. The local people still call that place Yatana-vata No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7 In Bengal there are still many places called hari-sabha, which indicates a place where local people gather to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra and discuss the pastimes of Lord Krsna No edit summary current
- 10:2610:26, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,900 He (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura) says that the word nr means "by all the local people" and that samsasya means "of he (Ambarisa) whose character was glorified" No edit summary current
- 10:2510:25, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,169 From our experience we have found it is always in the long run more stable and better situation if local people can be persuaded to help from the very beginning No edit summary current
- 10:2510:25, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,000 Durvasa Muni used the word nr-samsasya to indicate that the King was cruel, but Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura interprets it to mean that the King's character was glorified by all the local people No edit summary current
- 10:2310:23, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,093 In the First Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said that the absolute truth is one, and He is manifested as impersonal Brahman, Paramatma (supersoul), and Bhagavan (the Supreme Personality of Godhead). Here is a spiritual distinction No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7 On the material platform, there is no possibility of agreement; therefore there are different kinds of religious systems. But the Absolute Truth is one, and when one is situated in the Absolute Truth, there is no disagreement No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7 It is said that the Absolute Truth is one, but is manifested in different features as Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,863 The rtvijah, the priests, knew that God is one, yet they prayed for the Supreme Lord to become the son of Maharaja Nabhi to let the world know that the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is one without a second No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7,790 The Absolute Truth is one, but some accept Him as impersonal Brahman, some as the Supersoul existing everywhere, and some as Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The central point is the Absolute Truth No edit summary current
- 10:1710:17, 25 July 2022 diff hist +10,547 The Absolute Truth is one without a second, but He is viewed from different angles of vision by different religionists or transcendentalists under different circumstances No edit summary current
- 10:1710:17, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,234 So the Absolute Truth is one. There is no doubt about it. But according to our angle of vision, we appreciate the Absolute Truth in different ways, although the Absolute Truth is one No edit summary current
- 10:1310:13, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,878 Even the descriptions of Krsna in Srimad-Bhagavatam are sometimes misunderstood by less intelligent men with a poor fund of knowledge. Therefore, the best course by which to know Him is to engage oneself in pure devotional activities No edit summary
- 10:1110:11, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7,399 The man with a poor fund of knowledge cannot understand, although by material science one can see things far away by means of television No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,920 The identity of Brahma with the Supreme Lord is never claimed herein, and therefore such a foolish claim by the man with a poor fund of knowledge is another display of the illusory energy of the Lord No edit summary current
- 10:1010:10, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,622 Fire is possessed of heat, but heat is not fire. This simple thing is not understood by the man with a poor fund of knowledge who falsely claims that the fire and heat are the same No edit summary current
- 10:1010:10, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,320 Any sensible man who is above the average man with a poor fund of knowledge must constantly remember the Personality of Godhead by hearing about Him, by glorifying Him, by remembering Him and by worshiping Him always, without cessation No edit summary current
- 10:0810:08, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,651 This abode of the Lord, although described in revealed scriptures like the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam, remains only a myth for the less intelligent class of men with a poor fund of knowledge No edit summary
- 10:0710:07, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,958 The Visnu forms of worship in great temples of India are not arrangements of idol worship, as they are wrongly interpreted to be by a class of men with a poor fund of knowledge No edit summary current
- 10:0610:06, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,280 Temple visitors are not idolaters, as alleged by some men with a poor fund of knowledge. All the great acaryas established such temples of worship in all places just to favor the less intelligent No edit summary current
- 10:0610:06, 25 July 2022 diff hist +11 Sometimes men with a poor fund of knowledge maintain that bhakti can be applied to material things also. In other words, they say that devotional service can be rendered to one's country or to the demigods, but this is not a fact No edit summary current
- 10:0510:05, 25 July 2022 diff hist +11 It is stated that anyone desiring elevation to heavenly planets must perform these sacrifices (the n jyotistoma sacrifices), and men with a poor fund of knowledge think that this is the whole purpose of Vedic wisdom. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,589 There is a great controversy amongst the nondevotees or Mayavadis about the mysterious disappearance of the Lord, and the doubts of those men with a poor fund of knowledge have been very elaborately cleared by Srila Jiva Gosvami in his Krsna-sandarbha No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,334 Then the great hero, Vijitasva, the son of King Prthu, again took the horse and returned to his father's sacrificial arena. Since that time, certain men with a poor fund of knowledge have adopted the dress of a false sannyasi No edit summary current
- 10:0010:00, 25 July 2022 diff hist +9,304 The Lord warns Brahma that one should never be misled by the conclusion of the so-called grammarians or by other men with a poor fund of knowledge, but must always fix the mind properly, via the parampara system No edit summary
- 09:5909:59, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7,647 The Lord (Caitanya) heard the story of Saksi-gopala with great pleasure because He wanted to impress upon the atheists that the worshipable Deities in the temples approved by the great acaryas are not idols, as alleged by men with a poor fund of knowledge No edit summary current
- 09:5809:58, 25 July 2022 diff hist −24 The laws of God's nature are neither blind nor accidental, as men with a poor fund of knowledge conclude No edit summary current
- 09:5709:57, 25 July 2022 diff hist −6 The covering of the gigantic material feature is accepted by such men with a poor fund of knowledge, and how this is so is explained in the following verse No edit summary current
- 09:5709:57, 25 July 2022 diff hist +1,944 Sukadeva Gosvami said: Men with a poor fund of knowledge and a heinous character speak nonsensically. Fearing such rascals, Lord Ramacandra abandoned His wife, Sitadevi, although she was pregnant. Thus Sitadevi went to the asrama of Valmiki Muni No edit summary current
- 09:5609:56, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,467 Sometimes the history of planets beyond this world appear to such men (with poor fund of knowledge) to be unbelievable No edit summary
- 09:5509:55, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,964 Men with a poor fund of knowledge only accept the history of the world from the time of Buddha, or since 600 B.C., and prior to this period all histories mentioned in the scriptures are calculated by them to be only imaginary stories. That is not a fact No edit summary current
- 09:5509:55, 25 July 2022 diff hist −24 Men with a poor fund of knowledge mistake the bodily machinery to be the living being, but the fact is that the living being is the basis of the bodily machine No edit summary current
- 09:5309:53, 25 July 2022 diff hist −6 Men with a poor fund of knowledge claim to be equal to the Lord. They are never equal to the Lord. This is never to be No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,955 In the Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.20-23) it is clearly said that those who are mad after material enjoyment approach the different demigods for temporary benefits, which are meant for men with a poor fund of knowledge No edit summary
- 09:0409:04, 25 July 2022 diff hist +8,125 Either in the Bhagavad-gita or in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the pastimes of the Lord in the material world are delineated for the benefit of those men with a poor fund of knowledge No edit summary current
- 09:0209:02, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,786 Becoming detached from material things does not mean becoming inert altogether, as men with a poor fund of knowledge think. Naiskarma means not undertaking activities that will produce good or bad effects No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,389 Why you create unnecessary necessities of life and become complicated and forget Krsna? What is this civilization? Rascal civilization. Instead of giving protection to the cows, you are cutting the throat. Is that civilization? No edit summary current
- 03:0503:05, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,867 We are not submitting to suffering. Then what is the civilization? We don't want suffering. That is our position No edit summary current
- 03:0403:04, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,464 There is no ideal character. Everyone is drunkard and meat-eater or woman-hunter. What is the civilization? Hog civilization No edit summary current
- 03:0103:01, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,962 What is this nonsense civilization? Simply want of money and unsatisfied in every step. Especially in the Western countries they're becoming hippie. Why? The training is different No edit summary
- 02:5902:59, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,637 Just like father earns money for feeding the children, similarly, the bulls help producing, plowing, producing food grains, and the cow gives milk, mother. And what is this civilization, killing father and mother? This is not good civilization No edit summary current
- 02:5202:52, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,837 They are expanding animalism, animal civilization. Now we have to counteract for the benefit of the human civilization No edit summary current
- 02:5002:50, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,083 People all over the world, when they see the westerners, "They are advanced." What is that? Advancing in animalism. Basic principle remains the animalism. They become surprised. They also imitate No edit summary current
- 02:4802:48, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,856 Human life is meant for realization of God. That is the only necessity, not to increase a type of civilization how instead of eating simple thing, how you can eat beef. That is not advancement of civilization. That is animalism No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,192 He is simply using that better intelligence for animalism. This is the meaning. He has no education how to utilize the better intelligence. Therefore he is utilizing only in animalism No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 25 July 2022 diff hist +10,637 Hate each other, that's all right. We say what is the use of your sexual intercourse? That is animalism. You avoid it. Our Vedic civilization is to avoid it. Therefore they remain brahmacari, naisthika-brahmacari, no sexual intercourse No edit summary current
- 02:4602:46, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,426 You have to introduce real human civilization. You should not be surprised, an animal, in different shapes, in different capacity, comes out. After all, he is an animal. The basic principle is animalism. Because he is thinking, "I am this body..." No edit summary current
- 02:4502:45, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,655 The whole material civilization is based on animalism. Therefore now they are coming as naked animals. The basic principle of the civilization is animalism. Now... It was covered by the progress of time. Now they are coming to be naked animals, that's all No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3 The law makes distinctions between human beings and animals because human beings supposedly have advanced consciousness. If we do not follow rules and regulations, we again lapse into animalism No edit summary
- 02:4402:44, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,679 Law is meant for human beings, not for the animals. Those who want to be free, they are animals. So-called freedom means animalism No edit summary current
- 02:4102:41, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7,299 You cannot trace out the history when you have fallen down. That is impossible. But our position is marginal. At any moment, we can fall down. That tendency is there No edit summary current
- 02:4002:40, 25 July 2022 diff hist +8,619 Veda means not religion, Veda means knowledge. So if you can trace out the history of knowledge, then you can trace out what is the date of Veda No edit summary current
- 02:3802:38, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,345 There is no use tracing out the history when you become infected. You should not be infected. That should be your business. And as you are now infected, you try to avoid the causes of infection and take the medicine; you become cured No edit summary current
- 02:3702:37, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,347 There is no necessity of tracing out the history of when the living entity desired this (to become the Lord). But the fact is that as soon as he desired it, he was put under the control of atma-maya by the direction of the Lord No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7,893 The Vedas describe how to divide the human race into four divisions according to quality and working capacity. This is a very scientific system, and it is also sanatana, for no one can trace out its history and it has no dissolution No edit summary current
- 02:3502:35, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,433 One cannot trace out the history of when the conditioned soul first desired to lord it over material nature, but in Vedic literature we always find that the material creation is meant for the sense enjoyment of the conditioned soul No edit summary current
- 02:3402:34, 25 July 2022 diff hist −20 No one can trace out the history of when the conditioned soul first began accepting these material bodies No edit summary current
- 02:3402:34, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,885 No one can trace out the history of the Vedic principles set forth so that man might understand the Supreme Being No edit summary current
- 02:3302:33, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,371 No one can trace out the history of his becoming conditioned at a certain date in material history. Consequently, his release from the clutches of material nature is very difficult. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 02:3202:32, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,746 In the Mahabharata (Santi-parva 348.51-52) we can trace out the history of the Gita. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 02:3002:30, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,611 Eternally conditioned means we do not know when we have been conditioned like this. It is not possible to trace out the history No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,971 Because we cannot trace out the history or the date when we became conditioned, therefore it is technically called eternally conditioned. Otherwise the living entity is not actually conditioned. A living entity is always pure No edit summary current
- 02:2602:26, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,543 As explained in the Second Chapter, the living entity is eternal. There is no specific date at which the jiva was born. Nor can anyone trace out the history of jivatma's manifestation from God. Therefore it is beginningless. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
24 July 2022
- 05:0105:01, 24 July 2022 diff hist +13,797 What is the real purpose of the human form of life? Cultivating Krsna consciousness. Other things will be obtained by nature's law, which is ultimately God's law No edit summary current
- 04:5804:58, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,014 If these leaders simply become a little convinced about the real purpose of human life, there is tremendous potency for improving the world No edit summary current
- 04:5704:57, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,431 Gross material science cannot divert the real purpose of human life. They can only increase the artificial needs of life without any solution to the problems of life No edit summary current
- 04:5504:55, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,884 Those in the mode of goodness can engage in devotional service, and after that they can return home, back to Godhead (yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam). That is the real purpose of human life No edit summary current
- 04:5404:54, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,454 The word visnu-krtyan is very important in this verse (SB 6.3.29) because the purpose of human life is to please Lord Visnu. Varnasrama-dharma is also meant for that purpose No edit summary
- 04:5304:53, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,391 The real purpose of human life is to attain the spiritual platform and return to Godhead. That is the summum bonum of spiritual realization No edit summary current
- 04:4704:47, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,409 The purpose of human life is to purify oneself of this contamination so that one can regain his spiritual form and not undergo this cycle of birth and death. The recommended process of decontamination is devotional service to the Lord No edit summary current
- 04:4504:45, 24 July 2022 diff hist +13,667 The purpose of human life is to get out of the threefold miserable conditions, which are concomitant with material existence. Unfortunately, fruitive workers are mad to earn money and acquire temporary material comforts No edit summary current
- 04:4504:45, 24 July 2022 diff hist +11 The purpose of human life is indicated in the Brahma-sutra: athato brahma jijnasa. To make one's life perfect - in the past, present and future - one must learn about Brahman No edit summary current
- 04:4204:42, 24 July 2022 diff hist +6,549 Living just like a tree, eating just like a camel and having sex just like the dogs and hogs. Thus he (The living entity) has been frustrated in fulfilling the specific purpose of human life No edit summary current
- 04:4104:41, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,695 It is your great fortune to be chanting Hare Krishna Mantra. This is the special purpose of human life No edit summary
- 04:4104:41, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,094 If we forget the purpose of human life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense gratification, certainly we become thieves, and therefore we are punished by the laws of material nature. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:4004:40, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,226 If we forget the purpose of human life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense gratification we become more and more entangled in material existence, which is not the purpose of creation. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 04:3904:39, 24 July 2022 diff hist +8,276 If we forget the purpose of human life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense gratification and become more and more entangled in material existence, which is not the purpose of creation, certainly we become thieves No edit summary
- 04:3904:39, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,491 Human life is meant for tapasya, or austerity. By the austerity of voluntarily stopping sex life at home and going to the forest to engage in spiritual activities in the association of devotees, one achieves the actual purpose of human life No edit summary current
- 04:3404:34, 24 July 2022 diff hist +1,915 To be a fool before the Spiritual Master is a very good qualification. It is not a good qualification to be over intelligent before the Spiritual Master No edit summary current
- 04:3204:32, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,402 The Lord says that one who is engaged in mischievous activities cannot become a devotee of the Lord. One who is not a devotee of the Lord has no good qualifications whatsoever No edit summary current
- 04:3104:31, 24 July 2022 diff hist +8 The animal is very innocent. If you cut its throat, it won't protest. So innocence is not a very good qualification. The animals are all innocent. Therefore you get the chance to cut their throats. So to become innocent is not a very good qualification No edit summary
- 04:2904:29, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,135 One who is not a devotee has no good qualification. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:2804:28, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,715 Obedience is the first law of discipline. The people have become disobedient to the laws of God, and therefore neither rain nor wealth is equally distributed. A man who is ultimately disobedient cannot have any good qualifications No edit summary current
- 04:2804:28, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,838 It is not a good qualification to be over-intelligent before the Spiritual Master No edit summary current
- 04:2704:27, 24 July 2022 diff hist +7,281 In the society the parental affection is taken as very good qualification. But such qualification is visible even in the animals. So that is not a very good qualification. That is nature's law No edit summary current
- 04:2604:26, 24 July 2022 diff hist +7,598 If you become envious to other living entities and if you become friend of particular living entity, that is not good qualification No edit summary current
- 04:2304:23, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3 A godless civilization cannot cleanse the mind because it has no idea of God, and for this simple reason people under such a civilization cannot have good qualifications, however they may be materially equipped No edit summary
- 04:2304:23, 24 July 2022 diff hist +35 A devotee develops all the good qualities of the demigods, whereas a nondevotee, even though academically qualified, has no actual good qualifications or good characteristics according to the standard of transcendental realization No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,826 Those who are nondevotees have no good qualifications whatsoever, however they may be materially advanced No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,020 One who has no devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no good qualifications because he is engaged by mental concoction in material existence, which is the external feature of the Lord - CC Adi 8.58 No edit summary current
- 04:2004:20, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,006 Nondevotees may possess exalted material qualities, but because they are foolish they have no good qualifications No edit summary current
- 04:0504:05, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,207 He who has no devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no good qualifications because he is engaged by mental concoction in material existence, which is the external feature of the Lord - CC Madhya 22.76 No edit summary current
- 04:0404:04, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,905 He who has no devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no good qualifications because he is engaged by mental concoction in material existence, which is the external feature of the Lord No edit summary current
- 04:0404:04, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,524 Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ (SB 5.18.12). One who is not a pure devotee of the Supreme Lord has no good qualifications, however great a mystic, philosopher or fruitive worker he may be No edit summary current
- 04:0304:03, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3 A person who is not so transcendentally situated has no good qualifications, because he is sure to be taking refuge in his own mental concoctions. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:0304:03, 24 July 2022 diff hist +9,888 A person who is a nondevotee has no good qualifications because he acts on the mental platform. One who acts on the mental platform has to change his standard of knowledge periodically No edit summary current
- 03:2703:27, 24 July 2022 diff hist −18 The miscreants, as stated in the Seventh Chapter (of Bhagavad-gita), who never come to the devotional service of the Lord, have no good qualifications, as is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 03:2103:21, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,013 The Bhagavatam affirms that any person who is fully in Krsna consciousness, or devotional service of the Lord, has all the good qualities of the great sages, whereas a person who is not so transcendentally situated has no good qualifications. BG 1972 purp No edit summary current
- 03:1903:19, 24 July 2022 diff hist +25,944 Our conclusion is that anyone who does not understand Krsna has no good qualifications. Neither is he honest, nor has he knowledge. Therefore he is a third-class man. This is not dogmatism. This is a fact No edit summary current
- 03:1803:18, 24 July 2022 diff hist +29,267 If he is a nondevotee, any good qualifications have no value. He is on the mental plane, so he has no good qualification No edit summary current
- 03:1703:17, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,079 According to the verdict of Srimad-Bhagavatam, if one is not devotee, then he has no good qualifications, and if one is simply devotee, it is to be supposed that he has got all the good qualities No edit summary current
- 03:1603:16, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,026 A person who is not so transcendentally situated has no good qualifications, because he is sure to be taking refuge in his own mental concoctions No edit summary current
- 03:0903:09, 24 July 2022 diff hist +8 What is the highest happiness? Sri Krsna tells Arjuna: In that joyous state (samadhi), one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth - BG. 6.21 No edit summary current
- 03:0803:08, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,309 He (devotee of God) understands that what is happiness to him is also happiness to others and that what is distress to him is distressing for others. Therefore he is sympathetic to everyone No edit summary current
- 03:0703:07, 24 July 2022 diff hist +14,131 One has to use his intelligence to understand what is real happiness. Foolish man cannot understand what is real happiness No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 24 July 2022 diff hist +6,885 What is the actual happiness? That is beyond your senses. Not sense gratification No edit summary current
- 03:0503:05, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,869 What is happiness? Happiness is within your mind. If you are assured of your peaceful existence and the next life you are transferred to the supreme planet, or supreme place, then that is happiness No edit summary
- 03:0503:05, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,994 What is actually happiness, and what is actually distress? Because the waves flow constantly, none of them has an eternal effect No edit summary current
- 03:0303:03, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,322 I cannot understand what is misery if I have not tasted happiness. Or I cannot understand what is happiness if I have not understood misery No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 24 July 2022 diff hist +28 The devotees, therefore, following their constitutional instincts, achieve the desired goal of becoming servitors, friends, fathers, mothers or conjugal lovers of the Lord No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 24 July 2022 diff hist +28 The confidential devotees attached to the service of the Lord are divided into several categories: some of them are servants, some are friends, some are parents, and some are conjugal lovers No edit summary current
- 02:5602:56, 24 July 2022 diff hist +1,752 Krsna has many types of devotees - some are servants, some are friends, some are parents, and some are conjugal lovers No edit summary current
- 02:5602:56, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,799 Absorbed in such transcendental love, Lord Sri Krsna enjoys in Vraja with His devoted servants, friends, parents and conjugal lovers No edit summary current
- 02:5502:55, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,092 When the same relationships (from the material world with a son, a wife, a friend and a conjugal lover) awaken in Krsna consciousness, one's spiritual life is revived, and one is guaranteed to return home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 02:5402:54, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,599 When one realizes something of his constitutional relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he understands his original position and wants to be reinstated in this position, either as friend, servant, parent or conjugal lover of Krsna No edit summary current
- 02:5102:51, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,154 When a devotee is completely purified, he becomes anyabhilasita-sunya. In other words, all of his material desires become zero, being burnt to ashes, and he exists either as the Lord's servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover No edit summary current
- 02:5002:50, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,538 What is to be said of one who is related to the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover No edit summary current
- 02:5002:50, 24 July 2022 diff hist +28 The servant of the Lord is engaged in the service of the Lord as a servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover, all of whom are equally as opulent as the Lord. This is acintya-bhedabheda-tattva No edit summary current
- 02:4902:49, 24 July 2022 diff hist +1,695 The servant, friend, superior and conjugal lover are the shelters of the transcendental mellows called dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and srngara No edit summary current
- 02:4802:48, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,379 The pure souls are eternally in love with Krsna, and this permanent love, either as a servant, a friend, a parent or a conjugal lover, is not at all difficult to revive No edit summary current
- 02:4802:48, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,242 One may think of Krsna as the supreme personality, one may think of Krsna as the supreme master, one may think of Krsna as the supreme friend, one may think of Krsna as the supreme son, or one may think of Krsna as the supreme conjugal lover No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 24 July 2022 diff hist +28 One may be a devotee in a passive state;One may be a devotee in an active state;One may be a devotee as a friend;One may be a devotee as a parent;One may be a devotee as a conjugal lover. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 02:4602:46, 24 July 2022 diff hist +6,147 Of course, any devotee in any capacity, either as servant, friend or conjugal lover, always has direct association with the Lord. But according to his different individual taste, a person desires for just one of these relationships No edit summary current
- 02:4602:46, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,721 Nitya-siddha-bhakta indicates the eternally liberated associates of the Lord. Such devotees enjoy the company of the Lord in four relationships - as servant, friend, parent or conjugal lover No edit summary current
- 02:4202:42, 24 July 2022 diff hist +28 In the capacity of servitor, friend, parent or conjugal lover of the Lord (the devotee of God desires to associate with the Lord), either in one of the innumerable Vaikuntha planets or in Goloka Vrndavana, the planet of Lord Sri Krsna No edit summary
- 02:4102:41, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,051 If one is connected with Krsna in any of these transcendental relationships (as a supreme master, supreme friend, supreme son and supreme conjugal lover) , the course of one's material life is understood to have already ended No edit summary current
- 02:3702:37, 24 July 2022 diff hist +7,955 His (Krsna's) uncommon genius in all fields of endeavor, His exhibition of expert knowledge, His mercy, His chivalry, His behavior as a conjugal lover No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,499 Generally, the bhakti-yogis are engaged in five different ways: 4) vatsalya-bhakta, engaged as parent; and 5) madhurya-bhakta, engaged as conjugal lover of the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 24 July 2022 diff hist +28 A devotee female said, "I have been so attracted by Your beauty that I wish that You accept me as Your conjugal lover" No edit summary current
- 02:3402:34, 24 July 2022 diff hist +28 A devotee's mind is always calm, quiet and desireless because he is always anyabhilasita-sunyam (CC Madhya 19.167), having no desire other than to serve Krsna as His personal servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover No edit summary current
- 02:3402:34, 24 July 2022 diff hist +28 Although Lord Caitanya accepted the highest realization of the Supreme Lord as conjugal lover, He nonetheless requested Ramananda Raya to proceed further No edit summary current
- 02:3202:32, 24 July 2022 diff hist +6 When one advances through impersonal Brahman and localized Paramatma to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead in relationship with Him as a servant, friend, parent or conjugal lover, one's happiness becomes all-pervading No edit summary current
- 02:3102:31, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,754 We have eternal transcendental relationships with Krsna as His servants, friends, fathers, sons or conjugal lovers No edit summary current
- 02:3102:31, 24 July 2022 diff hist +6 Then (when one has a relationship with Him (Vasudeva) as a servant, friend, parent or conjugal lover) one automatically feels transcendental bliss, just as one becomes happy seeing the shining of the moon No edit summary current
- 02:3002:30, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,965 One should glorify God in the adoration of santa-rasa or revive his eternal relationship with Visnu as a servant in dasya-rasa, a friend in sakhya-rasa, a parent in vatsalya-rasa or a conjugal lover in madhurya-rasa. All these are on the platform of love No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 24 July 2022 diff hist +6 Because one thinks constantly in this way (as the Lord's servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover), one's present material body and mind are fully spiritualized, and the needs of one's material body completely vanish from one's existence No edit summary current
- 02:2602:26, 24 July 2022 diff hist +12,592 He (Dhruva Maharaja) was still thinking of revenge against his stepmother and wanted to occupy an exalted post within this material world. These were the causes for his moroseness even after he received all the desired benedictions from the Lord No edit summary current
- 02:2502:25, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,813 At present, politicians are very eager to take charge of the government, and they engage their men in canvassing from door to door to get votes to win the post of president or a similar exalted office No edit summary current
- 02:2402:24, 24 July 2022 diff hist −4 When a person occupies an exalted executive post, one should consider that he has acquired the grace of the Lord No edit summary current
- 02:2302:23, 24 July 2022 diff hist +6,914 Because of their royal exalted posts, all these demons became very much puffed up, and their only business was to harass their subjects. Lord Krsna appeared on this planet just at the end of Dvapara-yuga to annihilate all these demoniac kings No edit summary current
- 02:2202:22, 24 July 2022 diff hist +10,058 Age of Kali, the executive head of a state somehow or other gets votes and is elected to an exalted post, but the condition of the citizens continues to be full of anxiety, distress, unhappiness and dissatisfaction No edit summary current
- 02:2102:21, 24 July 2022 diff hist +7,675 Krsna replied, "Because of Haihaya, Nahusa, Vena & Ravana's false perception of their positions, they fell from their exalted posts & they no longer remained kings of their respective kingdoms & were lost in the violence of abominable conditioned life" No edit summary current
- 02:2102:21, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,495 Arjuna continued, "Such executive heads simply live for their own livelihood while occupying exalted posts as chiefs of state" No edit summary current
- 02:2002:20, 24 July 2022 diff hist +5,839 The principle of Lord Caitanya's movement in educating and elevating everyone to the exalted post of a gosvami is taught in the Nectar of Devotion No edit summary current
- 02:2002:20, 24 July 2022 diff hist +10,359 The brahmana also called him lubdha, which means "greedy." In other words, a king or an executive head of state should not occupy the exalted post of president or king if he is greedy and self-interested No edit summary current
- 02:1902:19, 24 July 2022 diff hist +3,726 A philosopher and writer of many books on religious principles may also accept an exalted post in a government which denies all the moral codes of the sastras No edit summary current
- 02:1602:16, 24 July 2022 diff hist +6,692 Unfortunately, mundane fools are accepted as educational leaders and are offered exalted posts for teaching irreligious principles to the general populace. This is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 7.5.31): andha yathandhair upaniyamanah No edit summary current
- 02:1602:16, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,722 The word ksatra-bandhu refers to the so-called administrators or persons promoted to the post of the administrator without proper training by culture and tradition. Nowadays they are promoted to such exalted posts by the votes of the people No edit summary current
- 02:1102:11, 24 July 2022 diff hist +4,982 Nowadays they (ksatra-bandhu) are promoted to such exalted posts by the votes of the people who are themselves fallen in the rules and regulations of life. How can such people select a proper man when they are themselves fallen in the standard of life? No edit summary current
- 02:1102:11, 24 July 2022 diff hist +8,421 Krsna replied, "In the past there were many rebellious kings, such as Haihaya, Nahusa, Vena, Ravana & Narakasura. Some of them were demigods & some were demons, but because of their false perception of their positions, they fell from their exalted posts" No edit summary current
- 02:1002:10, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,108 Exalted executive post No edit summary current
- 02:0902:09, 24 July 2022 diff hist +2,374 By worshiping the Supreme Lord, Somadatta achieved the most exalted post, a residence on the planet to which great mystic yogis are elevated No edit summary
- 02:0802:08, 24 July 2022 diff hist −13 As stated by Srinivasa Acarya, tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tuccha-vat. Krsna enlightened Sanatana Gosvami in such a way that he was able to give up his exalted post as minister No edit summary
23 July 2022
- 04:0104:01, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,133 You are advanced devotee and you should use your intelligence to convince the professors that they should use my books in the colleges. This will be the greatest service No edit summary current
- 04:0004:00, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,929 When devotional service develops and one's intelligence becomes clear, one can use his intelligence to return home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 03:5903:59, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,911 The living entity is intelligent. One therefore has to utilize his intelligence over the mind and the senses. When the mind and senses are purified by the proper use of intelligence, then the conditioned soul is liberated No edit summary
- 03:5803:58, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,826 Regardless of one's circumstances, favorable or unfavorable, one should use everything to serve the Supreme Lord. That is the perfect way to use one's intelligence No edit summary current
- 03:5703:57, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,089 Our Society is like one big family and our relationships should be based on love and trust. We must give up the fighting spirit and use our intelligence to push ahead No edit summary current
- 03:5503:55, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,030 I want that all you boys use your American intelligence cooperatively in spreading this Sankirtana movement No edit summary current
- 03:5403:54, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,325 I pray to Krishna that you all may use your intelligence for Krishna's service and not for any personal ambition No edit summary current
- 03:5303:53, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,589 Because it (sex urge) is an old habit we are unable to check it unless we can understand the nature of feeling, willing and then action, and how by proper use of intelligence and prevent thoughts which must come from maturing into actions No edit summary
- 03:4803:48, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,116 A strict disciple should always use his intelligence in conformity with the instructions of the Spiritual Master No edit summary current
- 03:4703:47, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,969 You can take action according to the necessity of business, because we must use our full intelligence in any matter No edit summary current
- 03:4603:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,954 One should know perfectly well from the authoritative sources of scriptures through the transparent medium of a bona fide spiritual master and by proper use of one's trained intelligence for meditating upon the Supersoul dwelling within every living being No edit summary
- 03:4503:45, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,122 Bali Maharaja lamented that although Indra was very learned, he did not know how to use his intelligence properly, for instead of asking Vamanadeva to allow him to engage in His service, Indra used Him to beg Bali Maharaja for material wealth No edit summary current
- 03:4403:44, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,868 You are an intelligent boy, so now you may make the best use of your intelligence in perfecting your life in Krishna Consciousness. Please continue to be very serious about this endeavor, and surely Krishna will give you all facilities for serving Him No edit summary current
- 03:4203:42, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,339 The perfection of intelligence is attained when one becomes fixed in the activities of Krsna consciousness. By the proper use of intelligence one's consciousness is expanded, and the ultimate expansion of consciousness is Krsna consciousness No edit summary
- 03:4203:42, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,160 The intelligent person can attain salvation from the illusion of material existence by proper use of intelligence No edit summary
- 03:4103:41, 23 July 2022 diff hist +10,146 The intelligent man, after many births of such use of intelligence, surrenders himself at the lotus feet of Vasudeva, as confirmed by the Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 03:4003:40, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,628 One has to strengthen the mind by use of intelligence. If by intelligence one engages one's mind in Krsna consciousness, by complete surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then, automatically, the mind becomes stronger. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 03:4003:40, 23 July 2022 diff hist +9,978 Now we come to the point that the things which are seen by a little use of intelligence cannot be animate unless we accept someone as the user of or director of the intelligence No edit summary current
- 03:3903:39, 23 July 2022 diff hist +9,918 It is definite that matter and spirit are two different identities, and this conclusion is arrived at by the use of intelligence No edit summary current
- 03:3703:37, 23 July 2022 diff hist +10,350 By a little use of intelligence we can also readily agree that the living being who sees the things beyond himself by ordinary vision has no power to see or to move independently No edit summary current
- 03:3203:32, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,175 We invite everyone, without discrimination; we request everyone to sit down and chant the Hare Krsna mantra and take as much prasada as we can supply, and thus everyone is pleased with us No edit summary current
- 03:3203:32, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,052 We have no principle striction that one is Indian, one is America, one is African, or one is Hindu, one is Christian, one is Mohammedan. We invite everyone to understand the philosophy and reform the activities of life. This is our mission No edit summary current
- 03:3103:31, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,255 This movement is universal. We invite every one to our feast and Kirtana but when one comes into the confidence we initiate him in the process and request him to observe four principles of restrictions based on philosophy and morality No edit summary current
- 03:2903:29, 23 July 2022 diff hist +7,887 We say everyone, "Come and eat." Why he should remain hungry? We invite everyone, "Come here, eat, no charge." We don't charge. Why he should remain hungry? Let us increase this program. All hungry men of Melbourne city, come here No edit summary current
- 03:2803:28, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,194 We invite everyone to join and the process is very simple. Simply chant Hare Krsna and you'll feel No edit summary current
- 03:2703:27, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,991 We don't care for the designations. We invite everyone to leave aside the designation and come in your original form and be Krsna conscious and be happy No edit summary current
- 03:2703:27, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,623 The Krsna consciousness movement invites everyone from all over the world, without discrimination as to caste or creed, to come to its centers and cultivate spiritual life perfectly No edit summary current
- 03:2603:26, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,990 The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is operating for this purpose (to spread the word of Krsna). We do not ask anyone to first change his position & then come to us. Instead, we invite everyone to come with us and simply chant Hare Krsna No edit summary current
- 03:2503:25, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,000 From Revatinandana I can understand that there is immense field for preaching amongst the youth and in all parts of the country, so do not hesitate to take the bold step forward and invite everyone to become devotee of Krsna No edit summary current
- 03:2403:24, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,390 Everyone is invited to join this movement, sit with us, take prasada and hear about Krsna No edit summary current
- 03:2403:24, 23 July 2022 diff hist +9,638 Equal terms means spiritually. That we invite everyone. There is no discrimination. We don't care for the designations. We invite everyone to leave aside the designation and come in your original form and be Krsna conscious and be happy No edit summary current
- 03:2103:21, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,207 These nine principles of devotional service-taken all together or one by one-help a devotee remain constantly in touch with God. In this way, at the end of life it is easy for the devotee to remember the Lord No edit summary current
- 03:2003:20, 23 July 2022 diff hist +7 There was a great row, and eventually, one by one, they (the pilgrims) began to find the bags in various places. After they were all found, the thief explained: Gentlemen, I am a thief by occupation No edit summary current
- 03:1903:19, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,755 There are many Indians in Tokyo and if you canvass them one by one gradually all of them will become our life members and support our activities for expanding widely in Japan No edit summary
- 03:1903:19, 23 July 2022 diff hist +1,639 The sages of Naimisaranya asked Suta Gosvami six questions, and so he is answering them one by one No edit summary current
- 03:1803:18, 23 July 2022 diff hist +1,793 One by one, Bali Maharaja used a lance, prasa, tomara, rstis and other weapons, but whatever weapons he took up, Indra immediately cut them to pieces No edit summary current
- 03:1703:17, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,317 My dear King (Pariksit), now I (Sukadeva) shall describe to you the lower planetary systems, one by one, beginning from Atala. In Atala there is a demon, the son of Maya Danava named Bala, who created ninety-six kinds of mystic power No edit summary
- 03:1703:17, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,544 Krishna was all along preparing something I could not see, and He brought you to me one by one, sincere American boys and girls, to be trained-up for doing the work of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
- 03:1403:14, 23 July 2022 diff hist +7,591 The Madhvacarya-sampradaya and Ramanuja-sampradaya are mainly worshipers of Lord Ramacandra, although the Sri Vaisnavas are supposed to be worshipers of Lord Narayana and Laksmi and the Tattvavadis are supposed to be worshipers of Lord Krsna No edit summary
- 03:1403:14, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,547 The four sects of Vaisnava disciplic succession, namely the Madhva-sampradaya, the Ramanuja-sampradaya, the Visnu-svami-sampradaya and the Nimbarka-sampradaya, in pursuance of all Vedic conclusions, agree that one should surrender unto the S P of God No edit summary current
- 03:1003:10, 23 July 2022 diff hist +1,967 Being a Vaisnava in the Ramanuja-sampradaya, Venkata Bhatta worshiped the Deities of Laksmi and Narayana. Seeing his pure devotion, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was very satisfied No edit summary current
- 03:0903:09, 23 July 2022 diff hist +11,020 The Ramanuja-sampradaya Vaisnavas prefer the worship of Lord Ramacandra to that of Radha-Krsna No edit summary current
- 03:0803:08, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,793 While traveling in southern India, Caitanya Mahaprabhu met Prabodhananda Sarasvati, who had two brothers, Venkata Bhatta and Tirumalaya Bhatta, who were Vaisnavas of the Ramanuja-sampradaya No edit summary current
- 03:0703:07, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6 Venkata Bhatta was in a branch of the Ramanuja-sampradaya known as Vadagalai. He had a brother in the Ramanuja-sampradaya known as Sripada Prabodhananda Sarasvati No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6 This smaller Deity (the vijaya-murti of Simhacala) can be moved from the temple and taken on public processions. Priests who generally belong to the Ramanuja-sampradaya are in charge of the Deity worship No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,778 There are primarily four parties spreading devotional service all over the universe. These are the Ramanuja-sampradaya, the Madhva-sampradaya, the Visnu Svami-sampradaya and the Nimbarka-sampradaya No edit summary current
- 03:0403:04, 23 July 2022 diff hist +7,470 Ramanuja-sampradaya - that means followers of Acarya Ramanuja; Madhvacarya-sampradaya, or the followers of Madhvacarya; Nimbarka-sampradaya, followers of Nimbarka Acarya; and Visnu Svami-sampradaya. Their conclusion is the same No edit summary current
- 03:0403:04, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6 Prabodhananda Sarasvati was the uncle and spiritual master of Gopala Bhatta Gosvami. In his grhastha life, Prabodhananda Sarasvati was a resident of Sri Ranga-ksetra, and he belonged to the Vaisnava Ramanuja-sampradaya No edit summary current
- 03:0203:02, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,292 If we want to understand really Vedic literature, then we must follow the parampara system. There are four sampradayas, parampara: the Ramanuja Sampradaya, Madhvacarya Sampradaya, Visnu Svami Sampradaya, Nimbarka Sampradaya No edit summary current
- 03:0103:01, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,435 Gopala Bhatta formerly belonged to the disciplic succession of the Ramanuja-sampradaya but later became part of the Gaudiya-sampradaya No edit summary current
- 03:0003:00, 23 July 2022 diff hist +7,549 From the Sri Ramanuja-sampradaya there is another branch known as Ramanandi or Ramat, & the followers of that branch also worship Deities of Sita-Rama very rigidly. The Ramanuja-sampradaya Vaisnavas prefer the worship of Lord Rama to that of Radha-Krsna No edit summary current
- 02:5902:59, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,864 From historical records it is found that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu traveled in South India in the year 1433 Sakabda (A.D. 1511) during the Caturmasya period, and it was at that time that He met Prabodhananda, who belonged to the Ramanuja-sampradaya No edit summary current
- 02:5402:54, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,267 The bona fide spiritual master is called Vyasa because he is a representative of Vyasa. Worshiping the birthday of such a spiritual master is called Vyasa-puja No edit summary current
- 02:4802:48, 23 July 2022 diff hist −10 Transcendental narrations of the pastimes of the Lord can be described only by liberated souls like Vyasadeva and his bona fide representatives who are completely merged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,479 Srila Vyasadeva or his representatives are qualified because they are rightly trained to see things in true perspective No edit summary current
- 02:4602:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,031 Srila Vyasadeva and his representatives are pure in thought due to their spiritual enlightenment, fixed in their vows due to their devotional service, and determined to deliver the fallen souls rotting in material activities No edit summary current
- 02:4602:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,522 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that these statements (of CC Antya 20.87) indicate that in the future, other representatives of Vyasadeva will elaborately describe Lord Caitanya’s pastimes No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 23 July 2022 diff hist −10 Any pure devotee in the disciplic succession who describes the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is confirmed to be a representative of Vyasadeva No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,245 All bona fide representatives of Sri Vyasadeva in the chain of disciplic succession are to be understood to be gosvamis. These gosvamis restrain all their senses, and they stick to the path made by the previous acaryas No edit summary current
- 02:4302:43, 23 July 2022 diff hist −10 A gosvami, or the bona fide representative of Sri Vyasadeva, must be free from all kinds of vices No edit summary current
- 02:4202:42, 23 July 2022 diff hist +7,394 Vyasasana is meant for the representative of Vyasadeva No edit summary current
22 July 2022
- 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,090 You will come out triumphant of all others. Actually that is happening. What we are doing? We are not playing any magic. How this Krsna consciousness movement is increasing? No edit summary current
- 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,345 We do not want this magic, neither we want to show magic. We simply, as canvasser of Krsna, we are preaching Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 04:3404:34, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,253 We are not magician, but we ask our students "Simply you chant this transcendental vibration," and he becomes gradually cleansed of all dirty things within the heart. This is our process No edit summary current
- 04:3004:30, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,660 I never showed any gold-making magic. I simply said to them the "Here is Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you surrender unto Him." That's all No edit summary current
- 04:3004:30, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,242 I never bribed them, nor I showed any magic. I simply asked them, "Chant Hare Krsna." And see the result. It is practical No edit summary current
- 04:2904:29, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,859 Ask my disciples. I have never shown any magic. Why? That is cheating business. That is not required. It is meant for the foolish men No edit summary current
- 04:2604:26, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,622 I am not a magician. My only credit is I have not spoiled the Bhagavad-gita. I have presented as it is. Therefore it is successful No edit summary current
- 04:2204:22, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,532 When the people are perplexed in this way (not having sufficient food grains), they should approach the head of government, and the president or king should take immediate action to mitigate the distress of the people No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,564 We can produce sufficient food grains for our maintenance, and the whole world has got sufficient land. I have traveled over the world at least fourteen times No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 22 July 2022 diff hist +1,717 The earth yielded sufficient food grains, the cows supplied abundant milk, and outer space was beautifully decorated with wonderful phenomena No edit summary current
- 04:2004:20, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,790 The earth was not producing sufficient food grains. This indicates that the earth can produce sufficiently if everything is properly arranged, but sometimes the earth can refuse to produce food grains for various reasons No edit summary current
- 04:2004:20, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,714 Prthu replied: My dear earth, you have disobeyed my orders and rulings. In the form of a demigod you accepted your share of the yajnas we performed, but in return you have not produced sufficient food grains. For this reason I must kill you No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,801 Our first problem is - because we have got this material body - eating. Everyone must eat. So Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, annad bhavanti bhutani (BG 3.14): "If there is sufficient food grains, then both man and animal, they become happy." No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,747 Maharaja Prthu informed her (Mother Earth) that first of all she had disobeyed his orders. This was her first sinful activity. Secondly he accused her of taking her share of the yajnas (sacrifices) but not producing sufficient food grains in return No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,661 King Prthu replied: My dear earth, you have disobeyed my orders and rulings. In the form of a demigod you accepted your share of the yajnas we performed, but in return you have not produced sufficient food grains. For this reason I must kill you No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,869 If there is time and if your population has got sufficient food grains, then you can try to grow other fruits and vegetables for exporting. The first necessity is that you should be self-sufficient. That is God's arrangement No edit summary current
- 04:1604:16, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,860 As one of the demigods, the earthly planet was taking her share in the yajnas but in return she was not producing sufficient food grains. Prthu Maharaja was therefore justified in threatening to punish her for her offense No edit summary
- 04:1404:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,789 Dhruva Maharaja's leaving home at a tender age and taking shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the forest is a unique example in this world No edit summary current
- 04:1104:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,341 We are scientifically presenting love of God, we have 84 books published - this is unique in the world. No one can speak so scientifically in so many books No edit summary current
- 04:1004:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,870 Vasudeva Datta’s example is unique not only within this world but within the universe. It is beyond the conception of fruitive actors or the speculation of mundane philosophers No edit summary current
- 04:0804:08, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,952 This sacrifice of Maharaj Mayuradhvaja for Krsna's sake is unique in the world, and we should offer our respectful obeisances to him. He had full knowledge of the SP of God in the garb of a brahmana, & he is known as the perfect dana-vira, or renouncer. No edit summary current
- 04:0704:07, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,340 Our so-called religion is unique in the world, simply because we stand solidly on philosophy, and because we are strong in that way, no one can refute or defeat us, so we are wiping out sentimental religion wherever we penetrate No edit summary current
- 04:0504:05, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,482 Mayapur is already wonderful being the transcendental birthplace of Lord Caitanya. By utilizing western talents to develop this place certainly it will be unique in the world No edit summary current
- 04:0504:05, 22 July 2022 diff hist +13 If all Indians had taken to this path (of spreading Krsna consciousness movement), as advised by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, India would have given a unique gift to the world, and thus India would have been glorified No edit summary current
- 04:0404:04, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,258 I have prepared a nice book, Krishna, and I want to print it in a deluxe edition. If some of your friends finance this publication, it will be a unique presentation to the world No edit summary current
- 04:0104:01, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,162 The elder gopis said, "If by chance They (Krsna and Balarama) cannot find the hidden butter and yogurt, They go to our little babies and pinch their bodies so that they cry, and then They go away" No edit summary current
- 04:0004:00, 22 July 2022 diff hist +9 We can perceive that there is consciousness spread all over the body. If I pinch any part of my body, I will feel pain; that means there is consciousness throughout my body No edit summary current
- 03:5903:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,839 If somebody pinches my body, because the consciousness is all over the body, so I feel: "Somebody's pinching me." But when the conscious, consciousness is not there, if somebody chops up my body I will not protest No edit summary current
- 03:5803:58, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,700 Because the atma is within the body, if I pinch or if you pinch my body, I feel pains and pleasures. As soon as the atma is not there, it will be cut with a chopper, there is no protest No edit summary current
- 03:5803:58, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11,998 Lord Buddha promulgamated a new type of religion - ahimsa paramo dharmah. "Don't commit violence. If I pinch your body, you feel pain. You should not pinch others" No edit summary current
- 03:5503:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,385 To immediately rectify his mistake, for a short time he (Bharata) was awarded the body of a deer. This was just to increase his desire for mature devotional service No edit summary current
- 03:5303:53, 22 July 2022 diff hist +9,910 The Lord is so kind to the devotee who is fully surrendered to His lotus feet that even though the devotee sometimes falls into the entanglement of vikarma - acts against the Vedic directions - the Lord at once rectifies such mistakes from within No edit summary
- 03:5203:52, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,400 Never try to hear someone who is not in our line. It is simply a waste of time to hear and then again have to rectify the mistake No edit summary current
- 03:5003:50, 22 July 2022 diff hist +12 When the devotee (Tondaradippadi) saw Ranganatha’s mercy upon prostitute, his mistake (of falling victim of this prostitute) was rectified. He then prepared the third boundary wall of the Ranganatha temple and cultivated a tulasi garden there No edit summary current
- 03:5003:50, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,906 This Krsna consciousness movement is trying to rectify this mistake. Bhagavad-gita is the most authorized scripture in the Vedic literature. Vedic literature means it is not spoken by any ordinary human being No edit summary
- 03:4203:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +1,516 Yes, you must rectify this mistake. All society stationary must bear my name as founder-acarya. Please do it immediately No edit summary current
- 03:4103:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist −9 We have been continuously committing sinful activities since time immemorial, and we do not know when this began, but this life is meant for rectification of all the mistakes that we have committed No edit summary current
- 03:3903:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,095 Satyabhama said, "After getting back the Syamantaka jewel, he (Satyabhama's father) thought it wise to rectify his mistake, so although he had promised others my hand in marriage, he submitted the jewel and me at the lotus feet of Krsna" No edit summary current
- 03:3803:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,292 People try to rectify one mistake by making another mistake. This is the way of the struggle for existence in the material world. If one in this condition is advised to take to Krsna consciousness and be happy, he does not accept such instructions No edit summary current
- 03:3703:37, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11,457 Krsna said to Rukimini: There is no harm; the mistake can still be rectified, and it is better late than never. You are at liberty to select a suitable husband who is actually an equal to you in opulence, family tradition, wealth, beauty and education No edit summary current
- 03:3703:37, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,088 He (King Nrga) prayed to them that he was their servant and that there had been some mistake. Thus, in order to rectify it, he prayed that they be very kind upon him and accept his offer in exchange for the cow No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,225 You should teach the children perfectly Sanskrit and English instead of spoiling time and money No edit summary current
- 02:4602:46, 22 July 2022 diff hist +12,256 Canakya Pandita, he was great politician, he is advising that if you have got money, spend it for Krsna. Don't keep it. Spend it for Krsna. Why? It will be spoiled. Today or tomorrow. Somebody will take and spoil it. Better, if you spend it for Krsna No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11,031 Somebody will take the money and spoil it. Better, if you spend it for Krsna, at least your service will be recognized. Krsna will see that this man is spending his hard-earned money for Me. That is called ajnata-sukrti No edit summary current
21 July 2022
- 03:2303:23, 21 July 2022 diff hist +6,188 It is my habit to see that money is not being squandered. If money is spent unnecessarily, I feel very badly. You are collecting with great effort, and I do not like to see it spoiled No edit summary current
- 03:2103:21, 21 July 2022 diff hist +2,697 You are giving your forefather's hard-earned money, and I don't want to see it spoiled in any way No edit summary current
- 03:2003:20, 21 July 2022 diff hist +2,428 Concerning your idea to go port to port by ship, why waste time and energy. Don't spoil money purchasing boat. Port to port we can go by airplane No edit summary current
- 03:1803:18, 21 July 2022 diff hist +2,686 If you have got money keep it with you. Don't spoil it unnecessarily. Concentrate on bhajan along with your father and mother. That is my advice No edit summary current
- 03:1303:13, 21 July 2022 diff hist +6,574 Since the living being is constitutionally part and parcel of the Lord, he is unable to assimilate all the knowledge that God possesses. In the conditioned state, the living being is subject to forget everything after a change of body known as death No edit summary current
- 03:1303:13, 21 July 2022 diff hist +34 Krsna is the Absolute Truth - who is one without a second, who possesses full knowledge and who is unlimited - SB 10.13.61 No edit summary current
- 03:1203:12, 21 July 2022 diff hist +34 If one is fortunate enough to possess transcendental knowledge as well as the money with which to perform sacrifices, one must do it according to the directions given in the sastras No edit summary current
- 03:1103:11, 21 July 2022 diff hist +6,859 Because He possesses unlimited knowledge, Krsna has a memory that is boundless No edit summary
- 03:1003:10, 21 July 2022 diff hist +4,606 As the Supersoul within the heart, He inspires all the activities of a transcendentally situated devotee. Those who possess true knowledge of the Absolute can render service to Lord Krsna in the mood of a servitor, a friend, and so on No edit summary
- 03:0803:08, 21 July 2022 diff hist +4,866 This is the understanding King Kulasekhara expresses in this prayer - that the spiritual knowledge a devotee possesses not only allows him to reject material existence, but it also provides him with an understanding of the reality of positive eternal SE No edit summary current
- 03:0703:07, 21 July 2022 diff hist +13 The spiritual knowledge a devotee possesses not only allows him to reject material existence, but it also provides him with an understanding of the reality of positive, eternal spiritual existence No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 21 July 2022 diff hist +2,705 The goddess of fortune, examining the assembly, thought in this way: Someone who has undergone great austerity has not yet conquered anger. Someone possesses knowledge, but he has not conquered material desires No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 21 July 2022 diff hist +4,085 Someone may possess full knowledge of religion but still not be kind to all living entities. In someone, whether human or demigod, there may be renunciation, but that is not the cause of liberation No edit summary current
- 03:0503:05, 21 July 2022 diff hist +4,347 Bodha means knowledge, and budha means one who possesses knowledge. So those who are devotees of Krsna, they are not rascals. They are not rascals. They are budhah. Not only budhah, but also bhava-samanvitah No edit summary current
- 03:0403:04, 21 July 2022 diff hist +2,688 A person who sees one spirit soul in every living being, whether a demigod, human being, animal, bird, beast, aquatic or plant, possesses knowledge in the mode of goodness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 03:0303:03, 21 July 2022 diff hist +13 A living being is sufficiently potent to possess knowledge from the Lord in the proportion of fifty sixty-fourths, or seventy-eight percent of the full knowledge acquirable No edit summary current
- 03:0103:01, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,612 We should hold sankirtana as much as possible and distribute prasadam. Gradually when their heart is softened, then we will talk of philosophy, not in the beginning No edit summary current
- 03:0003:00, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,156 The mahatmas are the pure devotees who are on the path to Vaikuntha, the kingdom of God, and who always chant and hear the glories of the Lord rather than talk of dry, profitless philosophy No edit summary current
- 02:5702:57, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,162 When there is no possibility of talking philosophy, we should simply chant, nothing more. Don't talk anything. That will help both the singer and the audience No edit summary current
- 02:5202:52, 21 July 2022 diff hist +8 Don't talk of India! Talk of philosophy. If there is not devotion, Krsna does not accept anything, either in India or in your country. Lord Krsna is not obliged to accept anything costly because it is very tasty No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 21 July 2022 diff hist +5,300 Regarding the drug-addicted young boys and girls in your country, we can give them the best service as it is already evident from our practical movement. Most of my students were drug addicted formerly and now having taken to Krsna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,649 Dr. Judah has admitted that "You have converted drug-addicted hippies into servant of Krsna and servant of humanity." That he has written No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 21 July 2022 diff hist +4,196 In the Western countries, many young boys who were addicted to drugs & who had many other bad habits, abandoned all those propensities and very seriously engaged in chanting the glories of the Lord as soon as they joined the Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
- 02:4302:43, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,002 Even a few years ago, such hippies (who are addicted to drugs) did not know the Hare Krsna mantra, but now they are chanting it and becoming pure Vaisnavas No edit summary current
- 02:4302:43, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,797 Dr. J. Stillson Judah, a learned scholar, has been very much attracted to this Hare Krsna movement because he has actually seen that it is turning hippies addicted to drugs into pure Vaisnavas who voluntarily become servants of Krsna and humanity No edit summary current
- 02:4002:40, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,497 The father likes to see the son become more famous than himself. The Lord declares very emphatically that worship of His devotee is more valuable than the worship of the Lord Himself No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 21 July 2022 diff hist +4,913 Sometimes service to the devotee is more valuable than service to the Lord (Krsna). But here the affection of Kuntidevi for the Pandavas and the Vrsnis was due to family relation No edit summary current
- 02:3502:35, 21 July 2022 diff hist +8,266 Service of the devotee is more valuable than the service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 02:3302:33, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,750 Your eagerness to get me back in the states will surely be a success because I'm also eager to return. Tears for Krishna is as good as associating with Him personally. In the spiritual world separation is more valuable than meeting No edit summary current
- 02:3102:31, 21 July 2022 diff hist +6,658 When the brahmana was seated on the golden throne, Lord Sri Krsna began to worship him exactly as the demigods worship Krsna. In this way, He taught everyone that worshiping His devotee is more valuable than worshiping Him No edit summary current
- 02:3002:30, 21 July 2022 diff hist +4,587 Dhruva Maharaja appreciated that the results of devotional service are far more valuable than merging into the Absolute or being elevated to the heavenly planets No edit summary current
- 02:3002:30, 21 July 2022 diff hist +5,651 Devotional service is so great that when it is offered even by those born in low families, the Lord accepts it as being more valuable than the service offered by the goddess of fortune No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,942 Devotees are more merciful than the Lord, and in devotional service the mercy of a devotee is more valuable than the mercy of the Lord No edit summary current
- 02:2702:27, 21 July 2022 diff hist +2,562 All of you are expert painters, so your mutual decision for painting a picture is more valuable than my suggestion No edit summary current
- 02:2302:23, 21 July 2022 diff hist −8 When one comes to the spiritual platform of Krsna consciousness, he can understand that there are no riches more valuable than love of Radha-Krsna No edit summary current
- 02:2202:22, 21 July 2022 diff hist +81,210 To underscore the validity of mystics or devotees, the Personality of Godhead says in Bhagavad-gita (6.22) that He does not consider anything more valuable than the attainment of that transcendental state No edit summary
- 02:2102:21, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,478 The spiritual master also offers respect to the Supersoul situated in the body of the disciple. The Lord says in Srimad-Bhagavatam that offering respect to His devotee is more valuable than offering respect to Him No edit summary current
- 02:2102:21, 21 July 2022 diff hist −8 The ladies' talks appeared to be more valuable than the learned brahmanas' benedictions No edit summary current
- 02:2002:20, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,491 In this age, distribution of prasada has replaced distribution of money. No one has sufficient money to distribute, but if we distribute krsna-prasada as far as possible, this is more valuable than the distribution of money No edit summary current
- 02:1902:19, 21 July 2022 diff hist +6,425 Godless, unfaithful words and actions, however materially enriched, are never to be trusted. That is the purport of this important verse. A grain of devotion is more valuable than tons of faithlessness No edit summary current
- 02:1702:17, 21 July 2022 diff hist +6,996 Bhakti-yoga is the highest quality of perfection to be achieved by the intelligent person in lieu of performing a large quantity of spiritual activities. A handful of real paddy is more valuable than heaps of paddy skins without any substance within No edit summary current
20 July 2022
- 04:4704:47, 20 July 2022 diff hist +32 In the Vedas the Supreme Lord is accepted as the purest of the pure. One who understands that Krsna is the purest of the pure can become purified from all sinful activities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:4404:44, 20 July 2022 diff hist +7,710 When you chant His name with devotion, that means Krsna is with you. And Krsna, when Krsna is with you, how you can remain impure? You become pure. The purest. That is the whole system No edit summary current
- 04:4304:43, 20 July 2022 diff hist +11,611 The Lord is the purest, and thus anyone who wants to serve the Supreme Lord must also be pure. Unless a person is pure, he can neither understand what the Personality of Godhead is nor engage in His service in love No edit summary current
- 04:4204:42, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,943 The highest purificatory process is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the purest of the pure No edit summary current
- 03:1503:15, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,271 Anyone who quits his body in Krsna consciousness is at once transferred to the transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord. The Supreme Lord is the purest of the pure. Therefore anyone who is constantly Krsna conscious is also the purest of the pure No edit summary current
- 03:1403:14, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,116 A pure devotee is cleared from all kinds of sins. The Personality of Godhead is the purest entity, and unless one is equally pure from the infection of material qualities, one cannot become a pure devotee of the Lord No edit summary current
- 03:1203:12, 20 July 2022 diff hist +1,688 My dear son, since you have inquired from me, I have answered. O sinless one, the descriptions of Kapiladeva and His mother and their activities are the purest of all pure discourses No edit summary current
- 03:0903:09, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,571 We can prepare some preachers so that even if I retire, the missionary work will go on under the able guidance of some of my selected disciples, like you, Brahmananda, Rupanuga, etc No edit summary current
- 03:0803:08, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,408 It is good news for me that our Seattle, Washington temple is growing under your able guidance, and I am much obliged to you No edit summary current
- 03:0803:08, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,434 In the human form of life, one can conquer the enemy, lust, by cultivation of Krsna consciousness under able guidance. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 20 July 2022 diff hist +7,053 In the human form of life, one can conquer the enemy, lust, by cultivation of Krsna consciousness under able guidance No edit summary current
- 03:0403:04, 20 July 2022 diff hist +6,549 After defeating all the opposing elements and forcibly carrying away Rukmini, Krsna brought her to Dvaraka, and then married her according to the Vedic ritualistic principles. After this marriage, Krsna became the King of the Yadus at Dvaraka No edit summary current
- 03:0203:02, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,788 Those engaged in devotional service according to the ritualistic principles mentioned in the scriptures attain these different kinds of liberation - sarsti, sarupya, samipya and salokya No edit summary current
- 03:0103:01, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,792 There is additional evidence in the Agastya-samhita, "A person who is engaged duly in the service of Lord Ramacandra is also not required to discharge the ritualistic principles which are indicated in the Vedic supplimentaries" No edit summary current
- 03:0003:00, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,563 Such an inquisitive transcendentalist, striving for yoga, stands always above the ritualistic principles of the scriptures. BG 6.44 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 03:0003:00, 20 July 2022 diff hist +31,827 Religious ritualistic principles No edit summary current
- 02:5902:59, 20 July 2022 diff hist +14,128 Ramananda Raya cited the verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 11.11.32) wherein the Lord says: In the scriptures I have described the ritualistic principles and the way one can become situated in devotional service. That is the highest perfection of religion No edit summary current
- 02:5902:59, 20 July 2022 diff hist +27,749 It is claimed that the impersonal speculations of great philosophers are meant for the advancement of knowledge without religious ritualistic principles. But the religious ritualistic principles are meant for the advancement of spiritual knowledge No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,681 In this verse the word (SB 5.9.15) sva-vidhina (according to their own ritualistic principles) is very significant No edit summary current
- 02:5702:57, 20 July 2022 diff hist +5,606 In accordance with Vedic ritualistic principles, Lord Krsna would offer respects to the demigods No edit summary current
- 02:5602:56, 20 July 2022 diff hist +8,670 If by following the ritualistic principles of any kind of religion, if one has not developed God consciousness or love of God, then it is simply waste of time, laboring. That's all No edit summary current
- 02:5602:56, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,589 Devotees (who are engaged in devotional service according to the ritualistic principles) are satisfied only in rendering transcendental loving service to the Lord No edit summary current
- 02:5502:55, 20 July 2022 diff hist −13 Although such devotees (those engaged in devotional service according to the ritualistic principles) can attain sarsti, sarupya, samipya and salokya, they are not concerned with these liberations No edit summary current
- 02:5302:53, 20 July 2022 diff hist +7 It may be argued that although we have accepted Him (Krsna) as a perfect person, there are many others who do not. Rut one should not think that this acceptance is whimsical; He is accepted as the perfect person on the evidence of many authorities No edit summary current
- 02:5102:51, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,769 I am not speaking my own views. I have got my acaryas, my teachers, Ramanujacarya, Sankaracarya, Madhvacarya. So it is all right. It is all right. I have got so many authorities. What authority you have got? No edit summary current
- 02:5002:50, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,568 He (Arjuna) was credited with so many military certificates from many authorities, including his adopted father Indra, the heavenly king. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 02:5002:50, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,252 If there were many authorities who gave different judgments, which could be contradictory, a person might be wrongly punished or wrongly rewarded, or he might be neither punished nor rewarded No edit summary current
- 02:4902:49, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,444 Both the Lord and His consort are beyond this material creation, as confirmed by many authorities (narayanah paro 'vyaktat); their eternal relationship cannot be changed, and Yajna, the boy born of Akuti, later married the goddess of fortune No edit summary current
- 02:4502:45, 20 July 2022 diff hist +6,068 Yudhisthira said, "Such persons who engage in Your (Krsna's) service in full Krsna consciousness, who meditate upon You only and offer prayers unto You, are purified souls" No edit summary current
- 02:4502:45, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,121 The yogi sees all the planets of the universe burning to ashes, and thus he leaves for Satyaloka by airplanes used by the great purified souls No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3 The devotees of the Lord are purified souls No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,607 He (Sukadeva Gosvami) thoroughly studied all the Vedic literatures from his great father. Thus he was a completely purified soul by dint of his extensive knowledge in the principles of religion No edit summary current
- 02:4302:43, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,175 Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto that direction where the Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated, where those purified souls in the renounced order of life, the great saintly persons, go, and from which, having gone, they never return No edit summary current
- 02:4102:41, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,592 The yogi sees all the planets of the universe burning to ashes, and thus he leaves for Satyaloka by airplanes used by the great purified souls. The duration of life in Satyaloka is calculated to be 15,480,000,000,000 years No edit summary current
- 02:4002:40, 20 July 2022 diff hist +5,678 Only the purified soul can attain the perfection of associating with the Personality of Godhead in complete bliss and satisfaction in his constitutional state No edit summary current
- 02:4002:40, 20 July 2022 diff hist +5,374 Many others like Sukadeva Gosvami and other purified souls, Kasyapa and Angirasa and others, all accompanied by their respective disciples, arrived there No edit summary current
- 02:3902:39, 20 July 2022 diff hist +81,328 Genuinely purified souls actually control all their sensory activities and also master their true, spiritual self. Such spiritualized persons alone can show actual sympathy to the fallen in terms of the individual, the place, and the time No edit summary current
19 July 2022
- 03:0003:00, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,645 We are neither Indian or American; our real identity is that we are all servants of Krsna. Always remember this philosophy and all these external affairs will not trouble you No edit summary current
- 02:5902:59, 19 July 2022 diff hist +2,237 Those who are priests engaged in Lord Jagannatha’s service are called pandas or panditas, and they are brahmanas. The attendants who look after the temple’s external affairs are called palas No edit summary current
- 02:5902:59, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,631 Our worshiping of Krsna, that is our internal affair. The external affair - we need to establish this theory (life comes from life). Otherwise they'll be leading this society. Misleading. They are misleading, not leading, misleading No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,186 Both taking sannyasa and dealing in pounds, shillings and pence are external affairs. In any condition, one should always consider how to please and satisfy Krsna. Thus even if one is involved in great material affairs, he will not become attached No edit summary current
- 02:5702:57, 19 July 2022 diff hist +2,404 Being freed from all external affairs, he had nothing to do with imperial life or family prestige, and for all practical purposes he posed himself exactly like an inert mad urchin and did not speak of material affairs No edit summary current
- 02:5402:54, 19 July 2022 diff hist +7,807 It is advised in the scriptures that the householders should treat the mendicants as their family children and should provide them with food, clothing, etc., without being asked No edit summary current
- 02:5402:54, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,233 For karma-kanda there are eighty authorized scriptures, such as Manu-samhita, which are known as dharma-sastras. In these scriptures one is advised to counteract his sinful acts by performing other types of fruitive action No edit summary current
- 02:5302:53, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,011 A devotee may not be expert in materialistic activities. It is therefore advised in the sastra that materialistic activities are not at all suitable for the living entities, especially the devotees No edit summary current
- 02:5102:51, 19 July 2022 diff hist +7,704 In the time of Maharaja Nabhi, a monarch was supposed to govern strictly according to Vedic principles under the guidance of learned brahmanas, who could advise Him according to the standard Vedic scriptures like Manu-smrti and similar sastras No edit summary
- 02:4902:49, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,854 Pisaca worship is called "black arts" or "black magic." There are many men who practice this black art, and they think that it is spiritualism, but such activities are completely materialistic. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 02:4802:48, 19 July 2022 diff hist +5,765 Witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Krsna No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,497 When Sudaksina was encouraged by Lord Siva in that way, he was sure that he would be able to kill Krsna. With a determined vow of austerity, he began to execute the black art of chanting mantras, assisted by the priests No edit summary current
- 02:4402:44, 19 July 2022 diff hist −13 This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India No edit summary current
- 02:4302:43, 19 July 2022 diff hist −13 They (Bhattatharis) are very expert in these black arts, and one such Bhattathari bewildered the personal servant of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu while the servant accompanied the Lord in His travels through South India No edit summary current
- 02:4302:43, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,059 There are many tantric followers who, wishing to eat meat and drink wine, practice the black art of worshiping the goddess Bhavani in a crematorium. Such fools also consider this bhavani-puja to be as good as worship of Lord Krsna in devotional service No edit summary current
- 02:4202:42, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,912 There (in forest) they (parts of Jarasandha's body) were later found by a witch named Jara, who was skilled in the black arts. She managed to join the two parts of the baby from top to bottom. Knowing this, Lord Krsna therefore also knew how to kill him No edit summary current
- 02:4102:41, 19 July 2022 diff hist +2,625 The practice of forcing one's wife to drink one's own semen is a black art practiced by extremely lusty persons. Those who practice this very abominable activity say that if a wife is forced to drink her husband's semen, she remains very faithful to him No edit summary current
- 02:3902:39, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,113 Such abominable tantric activities (like eating meat and drinking wine, practicing the black art of worshiping the goddess Bhavani in a crematorium) performed by so-called svamis and yogis are herein (CC Adi 17.52) condemned by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary
- 02:3802:38, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,960 Srila Rupa Gosvami has compared possessing these bhukti (material) and mukti (liberation) desires with being influenced by the black art of a witch: in both cases one is in trouble No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,941 It is very easy to understand through this important verse (BG 9.25) that if by practicing the black arts achieve the ghostly planets, why can the pure devotee not achieve the planet of Krsna or Visnu? BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 19 July 2022 diff hist +8,588 Having failed to set fire to Dvaraka, the fiery demon went back to Varanasi, the kingdom of Kasiraja. As a result of his return, all the priests who had helped instruct the black art of mantras, along with their employer, Sudaksina, were burned to ashes No edit summary current
- 02:3502:35, 19 July 2022 diff hist −13 Bhattatharis know many tantric black arts, such as the art of killing a person, of bringing him under submission, and of destroying or devastating him No edit summary current
- 02:3502:35, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,163 After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kamsa instructed a witch named Putana, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds No edit summary
- 02:3402:34, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,655 According to the methods of black art mantras instructed in the tantras, if the mantra fails to kill the enemy, then, because it must kill someone, it kills the original creator. Sudaksina was the originator, and the priests assisted him No edit summary current
- 02:3202:32, 19 July 2022 diff hist +8,360 When Vyasadeva realized the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he saw the Lord along with His external potency, which covers the pure knowledge of the individual living entities No edit summary current
- 02:3102:31, 19 July 2022 diff hist +17 Vyasadeva realized that it is this separated energy of the Lord, the material energy, that covers the knowledge of the living entities No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 19 July 2022 diff hist +7,079 This age, Kali-yuga, is compared to the cloudy season of the living entities. In this age, real knowledge is covered by the influence of the material advancement of civilization No edit summary current
- 02:2802:28, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,116 The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him No edit summary current
- 02:2702:27, 19 July 2022 diff hist +5,010 Nor does the Supreme Spirit assume anyone's sinful or pious activities. Embodied beings, however, are bewildered because of the ignorance which covers their real knowledge. BG 5.15 - 1972 No edit summary current
18 July 2022
- 06:2606:26, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,102 Nor does the Supreme Lord assume anyone's sinful or pious activities. Embodied beings, however, are bewildered because of the ignorance which covers their real knowledge No edit summary current
- 06:2306:23, 18 July 2022 diff hist −13 The summum bonum includes all potencies in one unit. The Absolute Truth combined with different characteristics is the original substance (vastu): parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate - CC Madhya 13.65, purport No edit summary current
- 03:4703:47, 18 July 2022 diff hist +8,829 There is some difference of meaning between "religion" and dharma. Religion and dharma. Religion is a faith, but dharma is the original characteristic of the living entity No edit summary current
- 03:4503:45, 18 July 2022 diff hist −13 The original characteristics of a substance are called svarupa, and the subsequent corollaries are called tatastha-laksana, or marginal characteristics No edit summary current
- 03:1503:15, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,944 So the more we become advanced in Krsna consciousness, our original characteristics, which are very pure, they become manifest No edit summary current
- 03:1403:14, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,505 Once the spirit soul takes shelter of maya, the illusory material energy, he develops the material qualities of goodness, passion, and ignorance. The spirit soul loses his original characteristics and develops a new nature No edit summary current
- 03:1403:14, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,773 Original characteristic means No edit summary current
- 03:1003:10, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,324 When the devotee sees the Supreme Personality of Godhead by his meditation, or when he sees the Lord personally, face to face, he becomes aware of everything within this universe. Indeed, nothing is unknown to him No edit summary current
- 03:0903:09, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,193 The Supreme Lord, the creator of this cosmic manifestation, knows every nook and corner of His creation. Although He is the cause of creation, there is no cause for His appearance. He is fully aware of everything No edit summary current
- 03:0803:08, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,858 As the Supersoul of all living entities, You are aware of everything, and therefore You are certainly equal toward everyone. Nonetheless, You favor Your devotees No edit summary current
- 03:0703:07, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,652 One must give up his illusory conception and thus become fully aware of everything No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,785 If one thinks always in this way (that he is engaged in a particular type of occupation by Hrsikesa), in full Krsna consciousness, then, by the grace of the Lord, he becomes fully aware of everything. That is the perfection of life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 03:0503:05, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,928 He must be aware of everything. That means life. That means life. Now the question is how He became experienced No edit summary current
- 03:0303:03, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,333 When a living being is perfect, he is aware of everything that happens, and since the Supreme Person is all-perfect, it is quite natural that He knows everything in all detail No edit summary current
- 02:1102:11, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,727 Sri Suta Gosvami said: O great sage Saunaka, after hearing Maharaja Pariksit speak respectfully and briefly on topics essential to hear, Sukadeva Gosvami, who was well aware of everything, praised his endeavor with great pleasure and replied No edit summary
- 02:1102:11, 18 July 2022 diff hist +1,564 O great soul, you are aware of everything, yet you are asking me why I am full of anxiety. Therefore, in response to your order, let me disclose the cause No edit summary current
17 July 2022
- 04:3104:31, 17 July 2022 diff hist +2,547 Ramananda Raya's service to the gopis for the satisfaction of Krsna is purely an affair of the spiritual world. Unless one is fully situated in the spiritual atmosphere, the activities of Ramananda Raya are most difficult to understand No edit summary current
- 04:3004:30, 17 July 2022 diff hist +2,337 Ministry of spiritual affairs to save the great culture of Bharatavarsa No edit summary current
- 04:2904:29, 17 July 2022 diff hist +6,924 Development of conjugal love for Krsna is not manifested in women only. The material body has nothing to do with spiritual loving affairs No edit summary current
- 04:2804:28, 17 July 2022 diff hist +5,092 Although they (women and sudras) are unfit to enter into the spiritual affairs of the Lord, can see Him as the arca-vigraha, who descends on the material world just to distribute favors to the fallen souls, including the above-mentioned women and sudras No edit summary current
- 04:2704:27, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,288 We cannot understand the affairs of the spiritual world on the basis of our experience in the material world. The Lord's pastimes with the gopis are therefore misunderstood by mundane scholars and word-wranglers No edit summary current
- 04:2504:25, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,321 In the material world everything is but a reflection of the spiritual world, and that reflection is perverted. We cannot understand the affairs of the spiritual world on the basis of our experience in the material world No edit summary current
- 04:2504:25, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,581 In all spiritual affairs, one's first duty is to control his mind and senses. Unless one controls his mind and senses, one cannot make any advancement in spiritual life No edit summary current
- 04:2304:23, 17 July 2022 diff hist +1,565 In affairs of spiritual advancement and even in ordinary dealings, you are on the level of his spiritual master. Yet not knowing his own value, he dares to advise you No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 17 July 2022 diff hist +7,044 As confirmed in the Vedic literatures, tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet: one has to search out a guru to understand the affairs of the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,422 When we read the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, it is understood that we are receiving personal instructions of Krsna. No physical barrier is there in the case of spiritual affairs No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 17 July 2022 diff hist +51,043 Just as the moon was produced by the churning of the sea, by the churning of spiritual love affairs the moon of Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared. Indeed, Caitanya's complexion was golden, just like the moon No edit summary current
- 02:5602:56, 17 July 2022 diff hist +3,209 Spiritual affair means No edit summary current
- 02:5302:53, 17 July 2022 diff hist +9 Love begins with this give and take. We give something to our lover, he gives something to us, and in this way love develops No edit summary current
- 02:5202:52, 17 July 2022 diff hist +9 In addition to giving and receiving, in the execution of devotional service one has to submit to Krsna whatever distress or confidential problem he has No edit summary current
- 02:5102:51, 17 July 2022 diff hist +28,170 When we create any loving transaction with any boy or girl, man or woman, we give and take. Thus Krsna is teaching us how to give and take. Krsna is begging us: Try to love Me. Learn how to love Me. Offer something to Me No edit summary current
- 02:5102:51, 17 July 2022 diff hist +6,695 We have to learn how to love Krsna. And love begins with this give and take. You give something to your lover; he gives you, something to you. In this way love develops No edit summary current
- 02:5002:50, 17 July 2022 diff hist +7,532 One man said that "I have got many sons in this orphanage." That is very good. So this natural inclination for loving an orphanage is there, is there. So this give and take, this inclination, is there in the human being No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 17 July 2022 diff hist +18 It is rightly said herein (BG 2.55) that one has to give up all kinds of sense desire manufactured by mental concoction. Artificially, such sense desires cannot be stopped. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 02:4602:46, 17 July 2022 diff hist +2,809 He (the living entity) has to give up all sorts of plans manufactured by mental concoction. The living entity has to dovetail himself with the supreme will. That will help him to get out of the entanglement of material existence No edit summary
- 02:4502:45, 17 July 2022 diff hist +18 As stated in BG (BG 2.55), he (living entity) has to give up all sorts of plans manufactured by mental concoction. The living entity has to dovetail himself with the supreme will. That will help him to get out of the entanglement of material existence No edit summary
- 02:4302:43, 17 July 2022 diff hist +7,641 Don't make your own manufactured, concocted plan. Therefore, to guide you, a Krsna's representative required. That is spiritual master. So there is a huge plan and huge scheme. Therefore we have to follow the footsteps of the mahajanas No edit summary current
- 02:4202:42, 17 July 2022 diff hist +5,076 Bhakta-sane vasa. Tandera carane. We should live together as devotee and follow the footprints of the acaryas. Don't manufacture concoction. Then it will be spoiled. Simply try to follow. They'll protect. They'll give protection No edit summary current
- 02:3702:37, 17 July 2022 diff hist +6,807 You want to solve something; instead of solving, you'll create so many problems. This is material life. Because our life is not meant for solving problems and creating problems. Our life is meant for understanding God No edit summary current
- 02:0202:02, 17 July 2022 diff hist +5,790 In many parts of the world there are states which are replete with all facilities of life, which are full of wealth, and economically developed, yet the problems of material existence are still present. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 01:5901:59, 17 July 2022 diff hist +3,593 To be released from these miserable conditions, one has to become Krsna conscious and take lessons from an exalted personality like Jada Bharata, Lord Krsna and Kapiladeva. That is the only way to solve the problems of material life No edit summary current
- 01:5901:59, 17 July 2022 diff hist +6,224 The problem is birth and death. But nobody wants birth and death. Nobody wants. But it is there on account of our material life. So in the material life there are four problems: birth, death, old age and disease No edit summary current
- 01:5801:58, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,558 Speculative knowledge and pious activity do not solve the problems of material life. One should be inquisitive to understand his spiritual position No edit summary current
- 01:5601:56, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,189 Out of the four problems of material existence, namely the food problem, the shelter problem, the fear problem and the mating problem, the fear problem gives us more trouble than the others No edit summary current
- 01:5501:55, 17 July 2022 diff hist +3,982 We can take advantage of these sounds (Krsna's holy name) and be free from all threatening problems of material existence No edit summary current
- 01:5401:54, 17 July 2022 diff hist +22,165 The path of devotional service is the solution to all the problems of material life No edit summary current
- 01:5301:53, 17 July 2022 diff hist +3,670 The human life is not meant for hard labor for economic development, nor is it meant for sex indulgence like that of the dogs and hogs. It is specially meant for making a solution to the problems of material life and the miseries thereof No edit summary current
16 July 2022
- 06:4906:49, 16 July 2022 diff hist +6,589 In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord says, "I am the seed-giving father of all living entities." It is very simple to understand that the father gives birth to the children but the children act according to their own desires No edit summary current
- 06:4806:48, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,777 To become one with Krsna, means that we agree to His proposals. It is very simple to understand. Just like in the family: the head of the family, and there are many members, sons and daughters or servants, wife, children, so many No edit summary current
- 06:4706:47, 16 July 2022 diff hist +10 The body is changing. Not only year after year, but at every second the body is changing. Still, you are situated there. This is very simple to understand. And because the body is there, we are suffering No edit summary current
- 06:4706:47, 16 July 2022 diff hist +16,166 It is very simple to understand. I have changed so many bodies, not only from childhood to boyhood to youth, but according to medical science we are changing bodies every second, imperceptibly. This process indicates that the soul is permanent No edit summary current
- 06:4506:45, 16 July 2022 diff hist −10 This is very simple to understand: since a machine is matter, it cannot work on its own accord but must work under spiritual direction No edit summary current
- 06:4406:44, 16 July 2022 diff hist +7,580 There must be one supreme source. That is God. Simple to understand. Is it very difficult to understand? The supreme cause, He is God No edit summary current
- 06:3906:39, 16 July 2022 diff hist +1,473 We can change the results of our karma No edit summary current
- 06:3906:39, 16 July 2022 diff hist +4,201 Those who are actually followers of Vedas, they should understand that there is no difference between the Lord and His words - absolute. We read Bhagavad-gita, the words of Krsna. Then how we can change the meaning of Gita when it is spoken by Lord? No edit summary current
- 06:3706:37, 16 July 2022 diff hist +6,050 We change our taste according to dog and hog. Similarly, we can change our taste according to the body of demigods. But the subject matter of tasting or enjoyment is the same. Eating, sleeping, sex and defense. That will continue No edit summary current
- 06:3606:36, 16 July 2022 diff hist +77,857 We are suffering or enjoying the results of our activities from time immemorial, but we can change the results of our karma, or our activity, and this change depends on the perfection of our knowledge. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 06:3206:32, 16 July 2022 diff hist +7,152 The other meaning of the word (pasu-ghna) refers to those who are actually killing animals. This means persons who are animal-eaters, for they are all engaged in killing animals, such as hunting & opening slaughterhouses No edit summary current
- 06:2906:29, 16 July 2022 diff hist +5,044 Kings are not only grhasthas, who are generally absorbed in sense gratification, but are sometimes employed to kill animals in hunting because they have to practice the killing art, otherwise it is very difficult for them to fight their enemies No edit summary current
- 06:2806:28, 16 July 2022 diff hist +2,758 If in this life a man of the higher classes (brahmana, ksatriya and vaisya) is very fond of taking his pet dogs, mules or asses into the forest to hunt and kill animals unnecessarily, he is placed after death into the hell known as Pranarodha No edit summary current
- 06:2706:27, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,409 Although ksatriyas are allowed to kill animals in hunting, they are not freed from the resultant contamination of sinful reactions No edit summary current
- 06:2106:21, 16 July 2022 diff hist +5,958 The Lord said, "My dear King, because you are a ksatriya, you have committed the offense of slaughtering animals, both in hunting and in political engagements" No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 16 July 2022 diff hist −12 Sanatana Gosvami was indicating that since the governor (the Nawab) was engaged in hunting animals and in killing men to expand his kingdom, let both of them suffer according to the acts they were performing No edit summary current
- 06:1506:15, 16 July 2022 diff hist −12 In the Western countries especially, aristocrats keep dogs and horses to hunt animals in the forest No edit summary current
- 06:0306:03, 16 July 2022 diff hist +2,573 Postdated check means No edit summary current
- 06:0006:00, 16 July 2022 diff hist +47,103 If the gardener does not see these impediments and take them out, they will overcome and choke the plant of devotion. If, however, one is careful to guard against the growth of unwanted plants, the plant of devotion grows luxuriantly No edit summary current
- 05:5905:59, 16 July 2022 diff hist +6 A mundaner should not unnecessarily intrude into affairs of transcendence and thereby displease the Lord. One must always be on guard against this sort of devotional anomaly No edit summary current
- 05:5705:57, 16 July 2022 diff hist +2,267 Wandering here and there in the middle of the night, covered by dense darkness, they came to a paddy field where they saw the exalted Jada Bharata, who was sitting in an elevated place guarding the field against the attacks of deer and wild pigs No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 16 July 2022 diff hist +4,955 This extinguishing is like the waning moon, which gradually decreases and at last becomes darkness. One should therefore be very careful while associating with pure devotees to guard against committing an offense at their lotus feet No edit summary current
- 05:4905:49, 16 July 2022 diff hist +10,233 The author of Caitanya-caritamrta has warned the neophyte devotees to be seriously on guard against the pitfall of neglecting knowledge about Krsna in regard to how great He is No edit summary current
- 05:4805:48, 16 July 2022 diff hist +9,344 One must be very careful to guard himself against such offenses at the feet of pure devotees, just as one protects a creeper by all-around fencing No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 16 July 2022 diff hist +10,394 In the CC, descriptions of the creative energy and the Lord's hand in it are explained, and the author of CC has warned the neophyte devotees to be seriously on guard against the pitfall of neglecting knowledge about Krsna in regard to how great He is No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,256 In order to guard against the invention of unauthorized incarnations of God by the fanciful, less intelligent persons, the name of the father of the bona fide incarnation is also mentioned in the authorized revealed scriptures No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,940 If one is an offender at the lotus feet of a brahmana or Vaisnava, his offenses uproot all his auspicious activities. One should very carefully guard against committing vaisnava-aparadha, or offenses at the lotus feet of a Vaisnava No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,301 If after taking a bath in the Ganges or being washed of all sins, a man guards himself against committing further sinful acts, then certainly he is delivered No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,685 Hiranyakasipu was very much afraid of Visnu's becoming an animal to kill him because his brother had been killed by Visnu when the Lord took the shape of a boar. He was therefore very careful to guard against all kinds of animals No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,225 Hiranyakasipu thought himself securely protected from any kind of death caused by any living entity within this universe. He also carefully guarded against natural death, which might take place within his house or outside of the house No edit summary current
15 July 2022
- 14:1714:17, 15 July 2022 diff hist +4,623 Hearing is essential in order to keep oneself strictly on guard against such pitfalls of sins. And in order to give special stress to the hearing process, the Gosvami invokes all auspicious fortune in this matter No edit summary current
14 July 2022
- 13:5413:54, 14 July 2022 diff hist +3,022 He (Hiranyakasipu) guarded against all kinds of time, space and countries because he was afraid of being killed by someone else in another land No edit summary current
- 13:5413:54, 14 July 2022 diff hist +5,857 Every devotee who claims to be a Vaisnava must guard against these offenses in order to quickly achieve the desired success No edit summary current
- 13:5313:53, 14 July 2022 diff hist +3,798 Even without taking the shape of an animal, Visnu could kill him by hurling His Sudarsana cakra, which can go anywhere without the Lord's physical presence. Therefore Hiranyakasipu was careful to guard against all kinds of weapons No edit summary
- 13:5113:51, 14 July 2022 diff hist +5,235 Actually, KC can be based simply on hearing, chanting, remembering, etc. Described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam are nine different processes, besides which everything done is unfavorable to KC. Thus, one should always be guarding against falldowns No edit summary current
- 13:4813:48, 14 July 2022 diff hist +5,053 Such activities (for sense gratification) are not good because in this way one creates another body for his next life, as punishment for his nefarious activities No edit summary current
- 13:4513:45, 14 July 2022 diff hist −13 These two sons (Duryodhana and Duhsasana) were very much dear to him (Dhrtarastra) for their notorious and nefarious activities, and Bhima is particularly pointed out because he killed these two pet sons No edit summary current
- 13:4413:44, 14 July 2022 diff hist +6,077 The impious and the nondevotees are against the principles of the Vedas, and so such persons are always hampered from making advances in their nefarious activities No edit summary current
- 13:4313:43, 14 July 2022 diff hist +5,604 Krsna is so merciful that because the demon Putana came to offer her breast milk to Him, He fulfilled her desire and accepted her activity as motherly. But to stop her from further nefarious activities, He immediately killed her No edit summary current
- 13:4213:42, 14 July 2022 diff hist +8,976 If there are good leaders, then they will see that the cheating scientists, they're spoiling state money. They'll be stopped in their nefarious activities. They could not become successful in the moon expedition. Now they have made another plan No edit summary current
- 13:4213:42, 14 July 2022 diff hist −13 He (Sukadeva Gosvami) points out that a demon can lose everything because of his nefarious activities No edit summary current
- 13:4113:41, 14 July 2022 diff hist +2,721 Duryodhana was so foolish that he dared to insult Vidura. This was due to his bad association with Sakuni, his maternal uncle, as well as with his friend Karna, who always encouraged Duryodhana in his nefarious acts No edit summary current
- 13:3913:39, 14 July 2022 diff hist −13 Bhimasena spoke the verse given above (in CC Madhya 15.269), remembering Duryodhana’s former nefarious and atrocious activities against them No edit summary current
- 13:3513:35, 14 July 2022 diff hist +33 A Krsna conscious person can thoroughly understand that there is duality (simultaneous identity and individuality) in Krsna, and, equipped with such transcendental knowledge, one can make steady progress on the path of liberation. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 13:3413:34, 14 July 2022 diff hist +4,588 At night we see everything as one in the darkness, but in day when the sun is up, we see everything in its real identity. Identity with individuality in spiritual life is real knowledge. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 13:3213:32, 14 July 2022 diff hist +2,815 The Lord said (in BG) that all living entities exist individually in the past, that they exist now in the present, and that they continue to retain individual identity in the future, even after liberation from the material entanglement. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
10 July 2022
- 01:4901:49, 10 July 2022 diff hist +2,861 In the beginning of the BG, the Lord said that all living entities existed individually in the past, they exist now in the present, and they continue to retain individual identity in the future, even after liberation from the material entanglement No edit summary
- 01:4901:49, 10 July 2022 diff hist +3,403 Identity with individuality in spiritual life is real knowledge No edit summary current
- 01:4801:48, 10 July 2022 diff hist +11 A devotee is especially adverse to merging into the existence of the Lord and losing his individual identity. Indeed, a devotee considers oneness with the Lord to be hellish No edit summary current
- 01:4701:47, 10 July 2022 diff hist +5,218 The aim of all such (advancement of learning, economic development, philosophical research etc) acts and endeavors must be the pleasure of the Lord and not the satisfaction of any other identity, individual or collective No edit summary current
- 01:4401:44, 10 July 2022 diff hist +6,841 The personal expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the individual identities of the Godhead, are always present. Similarly, the separated expansions of living entities have their identities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 01:4301:43, 10 July 2022 diff hist +2,825 Material suicide causes loss of the physical body, and spiritual suicide causes loss of the individual identity No edit summary current
- 01:2601:26, 10 July 2022 diff hist +9,010 Krsna Himself explains the forms of the living entities in the Second Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, where He clearly says to Arjuna that He, Arjuna and all other living entities, who were previously in their original forms, are separate individual identities No edit summary current
- 01:2401:24, 10 July 2022 diff hist +3,523 Even after liberation, the devotees do not lose their individual identities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 01:2401:24, 10 July 2022 diff hist −13 By word jugglery he (Sankaracarya) has tried to prove that the individual identities of the living entities and the material world are illusory, and he has cited the examples of mistaking a rope for a snake or an oyster shell for gold No edit summary current
- 01:2301:23, 10 July 2022 diff hist +6,127 Another example is that although different rivers ultimately mix with the water of the sea, this does not mean that the individual identities of the rivers are thereby lost No edit summary current
9 July 2022
- 02:5002:50, 9 July 2022 diff hist +6,715 You simply be engaged in chanting all day and serving Krishna and any time there is no service, simply chant Hare Krishna. Then there is no chance for illicit sex No edit summary current
- 02:4902:49, 9 July 2022 diff hist +5,758 To serve human beings by medical aid, social help and educational facilities while at the same time cutting the throats of poor animals in slaughterhouses is no service at all to the soul, the living being No edit summary
- 02:4802:48, 9 July 2022 diff hist +3,884 Communist dictating, "You, sir, render service to me," and the capitalist dictating, "Give me service, sir." But Krsna says, "No. No service to this, no service..." Sarva-dharman parityajya: "You simply give your service to Me No edit summary current
- 02:4702:47, 9 July 2022 diff hist +2,722 Simply I love you and you love me, formality, but there is no service, that is not real love No edit summary current
- 02:4502:45, 9 July 2022 diff hist +5,543 In the material world, as soon as you stop payment there is no service. Why? Because they, by serving Krsna, they get transcendental pleasure. So the more you engage yourself in the service of the Lord, the more you become enthusiastic No edit summary current
- 02:4102:41, 9 July 2022 diff hist +5,063 This is the perfection of life and the real solution to life's problems (to go back to Godhead). We should not be eager to go to the higher, heavenly planetary systems, nor should we act in such a way that we have to go to the hellish planets No edit summary current
- 02:4102:41, 9 July 2022 diff hist +7,849 The real solution is to come to the original consciousness. That is Krsna consciousness. What is the real fact of our existence? Real fact of our existence is this consciousness No edit summary current
- 02:3902:39, 9 July 2022 diff hist +8,375 Therefore those who are trying to overcome the laws of nature, that is the so-called modern scientists' endeavor. That is foolishness, rascaldom. They cannot do it. It is not possible No edit summary current
- 02:3702:37, 9 July 2022 diff hist −13 The rsis in the forest called him (Bharata) Sarvadaman, or one who is able to control everyone because of the boy's becoming so strong, more than the so-called modern Tarzan No edit summary
- 02:3602:36, 9 July 2022 diff hist +3,679 It is not that so-called modern intelligence has developed by the gradual process of evolution No edit summary current
- 02:3102:31, 9 July 2022 diff hist +4,594 Suppose we fall down. There is nothing inauspicity because whatever you have done sincerely, that is recorded in the book. In the Krsna's book. Krsna has got accountant. He keeps nice account of the activities of His devotees. That's a fact No edit summary current
- 02:1702:17, 9 July 2022 diff hist +34 The Supreme Lord has multipotencies, which act so perfectly that all consciousness, strength and activity are being directed solely by His will No edit summary current
- 02:1502:15, 9 July 2022 diff hist +3,761 This (that the jivas are part and parcel of Lord and also part of Krsna's multipotencies) is fully described by Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.5) No edit summary current
- 02:1402:14, 9 July 2022 diff hist +3,820 Although the jivas (living entities) are part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are still counted among His multipotencies No edit summary current
- 02:1202:12, 9 July 2022 diff hist +2,531 The Supreme Personality of Godhead has multipotencies (parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate (CC Madhya 13.65, purport)). Therefore, as soon as He likes, He uses one of His potencies, and by that expansion He creates this cosmic manifestation No edit summary current
- 02:1102:11, 9 July 2022 diff hist +15 Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate (CC Madhya 13.65, purport). The Supreme Lord has multipotencies, which the Lord bestows on His fortunate devotees No edit summary current
- 02:1102:11, 9 July 2022 diff hist +3,117 One who knows the Personality of Godhead can automatically know all about Him, His multipotencies and His expansions. So the devotees are congratulated as being all-successful No edit summary current
- 02:1002:10, 9 July 2022 diff hist +7,131 In the Vedic literature we find that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has multipotencies. Since all such potencies are emanations from Him (Krsna), there is no difference between Him and His potencies No edit summary current
- 02:1002:10, 9 July 2022 diff hist +9,377 As stated in the Vedic versions, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has multipotencies. According to expert opinion, Kubja represents the bhu-sakti potency of Krsna, just as Srimati Radharani represents His cit-sakti potency No edit summary current
8 July 2022
- 06:0206:02, 8 July 2022 diff hist +4,399 The seed of material enjoyment, watered by the course of material nature, fructifies to become a tree of material entanglement that endows the living entity with all kinds of material enjoyment No edit summary current
- 06:0006:00, 8 July 2022 diff hist +2,942 Befooling themselves and befooling others. But you cannot do it. You cannot do anything. Why you are worried? We are not worried. We are confident that everything will happen by nature's course No edit summary current
- 05:5905:59, 8 July 2022 diff hist +5,428 After falling from the association of the Supreme Lord, the living entity thus transmigrates from one bodily form to another according to nature's course, until he finally attains the human form No edit summary current
- 05:5805:58, 8 July 2022 diff hist +9 A naturalist can see the general course of material nature simply by studying a piece of fruit. A small fruit develops from a flower, grows, stays for some time on a branch, becomes full-grown, ripens, then begins to dwindle No edit summary current
- 05:5605:56, 8 July 2022 diff hist +4,381 By knowing the material manifestation alone, one cannot be saved, for in the course of nature there is devastation at every moment (ahany ahani bhutani gacchantiha yama-layam). Nor can one be saved from these devastations by the opening of hospitals No edit summary current
- 05:5305:53, 8 July 2022 diff hist +4,126 Take it from me that I am always praying to Lord Krishna for your success in Krishna Consciousness movement. You're very sincere devotee and if you simply stick to the principles, success is sure for your life No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 8 July 2022 diff hist +3,743 Now my request to you all is that you very seriously stick to the principles of devotional service, observing strictly the four basic restrictions No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 8 July 2022 diff hist +8,506 Let us very steadily stick to our principles and our movement will surely come out successful No edit summary current
- 05:5005:50, 8 July 2022 diff hist +3,043 If you stick to these principles with determination, then you will become free from all attachment to maya, by Krishna's Grace. The example is that when the sun is in the sky, there is no question of darkness No edit summary current