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  • ...age of forgetfulness of our eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa is separation. But that is also illusory because there is no such separation. The gopīs were ...age of forgetfulness of our eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa is separation. But that is also illusory because there is no such separation. The gopīs were ...
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  • ...ill find the material inconveniences of birth, death, disease and old age. But one who wants to approach the supreme planet, Kṛṣṇaloka, or any of th ...inated like the sun in the material sky. The kingdom of God is everywhere, but the spiritual sky and the planets thereof are called paraṁ dhāma, or sup ...
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  • ...re not actually philosophers, scientists, educators, administrators, etc., but who pose themselves as such for material gain, do not accept the plan or pa ...rt text"><p style="display: inline;">n the Vaikuṇṭhas there are airplanes, but they make no tumultuous sounds. Material airplanes are not at all safe: the ...
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  • <div class="heading">Everyone tries to make a permanent plan for happiness, but everyone is baffled by the laws of material nature. ...t ant—can be happy. Everyone tries to make a permanent plan for happiness, but everyone is baffled by the laws of material nature. Therefore the materiali ...
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  • ...y: inline;">In the material world, a servant is provided for by the master but is always planning how to capture the master's post. There have been many i ...nality of Godhead or His mother, Devakī. Thus he was also Kṛṣṇa conscious. But devotees are Kṛṣṇa conscious favorably (viṣṇu-bhaktaḥ smṛto d ...
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  • ...ī, etc. They are all one and the same. The personalities may be different, but the aim of the mission is one and the same, namely, to deliver the fallen s ...I know Kṛṣṇa—the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And He has requested me. But I tell you frankly, I cannot do without it. So when Kṛṣṇa will be ple ...
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  • ...ve no eyes to see that their attempts at peace and friendship are failing. But here is the hint to get over the hurdle. If we want actual peace, we must o ...t ant—can be happy. Everyone tries to make a permanent plan for happiness, but everyone is baffled by the laws of material nature. Therefore the materiali ...
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  • ...you know that next day you'll be kicked out, you'll die, will you do that? But it is a fact. Next day or two days after, you'll die.</p> ...p style="display: inline;">For Vaiṣṇava there is no suffering, personally. But he is very much anxious: "How these rascals will be happy?" That is his bus ...
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  • ...ities. Similarly, this means that I shall not independently make any plan, but I must accept the standard plan which is coming directly from the supreme c ...]]). It is the place for suffering so that we can understand our position. But these fools, they do not take the suffering into consideration. They are ma ...
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  • ...d-gita; and one mantra, Hare Krishna. This idea is not manufactured by me, but it is authoritative statement in the Gita Mahatma Skanda Purana. You have a ...trusted to cast Radha-Krishna murtis in brass. He tried it in so many ways but it was not practical. So at the present moment he is engaged there in prepa ...
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  • ...his past good deeds. He is given an opportunity to accumulate such things, but he has no conception of past causes.</p> ...from all illusion. He could understand that Kṛṣṇa was not only his friend but the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And he understood Kṛṣṇa factually ...
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  • ...of life. It doesn't matter whether you are a śūdra or you are a brāhmaṇa, but if you act for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa according to the prescriptio ...is boy is being trained up in higher science. Why he should be disturbed?" But they have no idea. Therefore imperfect. The intellectual persons, those who ...
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  • ...ality that is changed. Before the food was offered, it was something else, but after it is offered the food acquires a transcendental quality. Because the “No one can understand Kṛṣṇa by the blunt material senses. But He reveals Himself to the devotees, being pleased with them for their trans ...
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  • ...with us, will gradually also come to say that this movement is very good. But one who joins with an ulterior purpose, to get material benefit or personal ...
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  • ...lusion that a living entity is not a part and parcel of the material world but of the supreme spirit whole. ...lusion that a living entity is not a part and parcel of the material world but of the supreme spirit whole. Consequently, the spirit soul has nothing to d ...
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  • ...l Sāṅkhya philosophy is described by Lord Kapila in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, but even that Sāṅkhya has nothing to do with the current topics.</p> ...: inline;">One may not give up work and prescribed duties all of a sudden; but by gradually developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one can be situated in a ...
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  • ...splay: inline;">The six great sages mentioned above may be great thinkers, but their knowledge by mental speculation is not perfect. However perfect an em ...edānta, Vedānta-sūtra. The most important philosophical theses—not theses, but actually... So Kṛṣṇa knows what is Vedānta. And what He says, that i ...
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  • ...th Him, just as the gold ornaments are one in quality with the stock gold, but the individual gold ornament is never equal in quantity with the stock gold ...ociates, are His energies. The energy and energetic are fundamentally one, but since their functions are differently exhibited, they are simultaneously di ...
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  • ..." Devotees have no problem understanding the ultimate cause of everything, but nondevotees must face many opposing elements because everyone who wants to ...existence. The Māyāvādī philosophers offer lip service to Vedic authority but try to escape the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies. They concoct some idea of a ...
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  • ...o skillfully avoid the fighting by using Kṛṣṇa consciousness as an excuse. But as a sincere student, he placed the matter before his master and questioned ...Superficially, such persons are not very greedy for material possessions, but they are too attached to wife, children and family improvement. When a pers ...
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  • ...lotus feet, although Your lotus feet are situated within their own bodies. But let us take shelter of Your lotus feet.''' ...lish condition of life in the womb of the mother or outside of the mother. But one has to make a solution to the problems of life. A sane man should under ...
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  • ...till, there is no quivering. A more settled conditioned soul quivers less, but due to material connection the quivering quality is more or less present ev ...s or protagonists of the philosophy of monism, becoming one with the Lord. But as soon as they saw the Lord's features, their minds changed. ...
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  • <div class="heading">They are three, and therefore they are separate, but at the same time they are one. This is the philosophy of simultaneous onene ...d. This accounts for unity in diversity. There are diverse manifestations, but, at the same time, they are one in Viṣṇu. Everything is an expansion of ...
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  • ...ome from Saṅkarṣaṇa, and that Aniruddha, the ego, has come from Pradyumna. But one cannot say that the living entity (jīva) takes birth or is created, fo ...
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  • ...st. So this is ignorance. The goat, it is to be killed after five minutes, but if you give him a morsel of grass he's happy, he's eating. Just like a chil ...72, Sydney]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Sudāmā: But even where does... In my mind, if I hear the word chance, where does chance ...
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  • ...hakto 'si sakhā ceti. Because Kṛṣṇa's friend. Everything is done by Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa... And Arjuna is devotee.</p> ...
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  • ...ming back to L.A. by that time. So we will think over the matter later on. But I shall be glad to know when the exact time you plan to return to L.A. You ...cisco and Hamsaduta in New York, they are combinedly planning this scheme. But I think you have got better responsibility in India than to come here and j ...
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  • ...east qualifies as a brāhmaṇa. The devotee is already a brāhmaṇa by action. But that is not the end of it. As referred to above, such a brāhmaṇa has to ...h-court judge, so also one does not become a brāhmaṇa simply by birthright but by acquiring the necessary qualifications of a brāhmaṇa. As the high-cou ...
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  • ...Lord, situated in the hearts of all living entities, directs their senses. But He directs in terms of the surrender of the living entity, and in the case ...votee, the senses are not at all artificially stopped from doing anything, but they are given different good engagements</div> ...
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  • ...ous principles should be given more importance than politics or sociology, but he did not know that knowledge of matter, soul and the Supreme is even more But Caitanya Mahāprabhu said—this is the statement of Caitanya Mahāprabhu: ...
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  • ...and Kuntī, remembering the scene, was bewildered, and she could do nothing but praise the transcendental filial love. Indirectly mother Yaśodā is praise ...s="heading">If one simply sticks to the religious formulas and formalities but does not become elevated to the position of love of God, he is considered t ...
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  • ...mily. He was born in a family of mixed caste, or an uncultured low family. But because of higher association, like Sri Sukadeva Gosvami and the great rsis ...earned brahmana-Vaisnava who can explain clearly and eradicate all doubts, but if he does not follow the Vaisnava principles, then he is not situated on a ...
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  • ...over the universe in His impersonal feature. Everything is resting on Him, but that does not mean that everything is He Himself. A highly advanced mahā-b ...
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  • <div class="heading">But just after Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's passing away, his leading se ...eratively. He did not instruct a particular man to become the next acarya. But just after his passing away, his leading secretaries made plans, without au ...
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  • ...sances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has no material senses but through whose direction and will all the material senses are working. He is ...
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  • ...e unnecessarily at this time of your life to learn some foreign languages, but the program as we have followed with good success is to find out some local ...
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  • ...knowledge is also created. The conditioned souls are not originally fools, but by the influence of the avidyā function of material nature they are made f ...s a special gift. Suppose you can argue very nicely. That's all. I cannot. But somebody may come—he's more powerful in arguments. He can defeat you. So ...
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  • ...s extremely advanced in spiritual consciousness, household life is nothing but a dark well in which one commits suicide. Prahlāda Mahārāja therefore re ...at is Kṛṣṇa. Because now we have got poor intelligence. We cannot do that. But you simply accept what Arjuna says. Then you are perfect.</div> ...
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  • ...n leaving this body also. You have to go alone and to accept another body. But if you cultivate spiritual consciousness or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that ...uted consciousness. The real... We have got consciousness, that is a fact, but our consciousness is polluted. So we have to purify the consciousness. To p ...
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  • ...al movements, I become the head of the political institution of the state, but I do not wish to die. Death comes and he takes away everything, my politica ...al movements, I become the head of the political institution of the state, but I do not wish to die. Death comes and he takes away everything, my politica ...
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  • ...Kumāras were situated first in the impersonal Brahman conception of truth, but then they gradually rose to the platform of devotional service. ...Kumāras were situated first in the impersonal Brahman conception of truth, but then they gradually rose to the platform of devotional service.</p> ...
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  • ...ttachment for regulated sense enjoyment must also be avoided by all means. But attachment to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or acting always in the loving ser ...
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  • ...Arjuna definitely proved that not only was he a great devotee of the Lord but he was also highly enlightened and had complete control over his mind and s ...ancement in life, not only does one become happy and opulent in this life, but also, at the end, he enters into the eternal kingdom of God, either merging ...
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  • ...of the gopīs in Vṛndāvana. They are not interested in understanding Kṛṣṇa, but only in loving Him. That platform of love is the pure state of devotional s ...a greater span of life, such as on Brahmaloka. These are material desires, but because a mixed devotee engages in the service of the Lord, ultimately, aft ...
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  • ...eve liberation from this material world and go back home, back to Godhead. But this is a fact. The Lord comes as a human being, and if one becomes attache <div class="heading">If one chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra but his life is still full of sinful activities, it will be very difficult for ...
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  • ...f course He was very much pleased that Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya understood, but because He was playing the part of an ācārya, He, externally He became, " ...have written all these things?" He immediately torn out and throw it away. But the devotees saved only two.</div> ...
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  • ...l knowledge there is a need for personal ability and researching aptitude, but in the case of spiritual knowledge, all progress depends more or less on th ...inline;">These methods are undoubtedly helpful for spiritual realization, but the real effect is brought about by the grace of a mahātmā. In Viśvanāt ...
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  • <div class="heading">But for one who takes pleasure in the self, whose human life is one of self-rea But for one who takes pleasure in the self, whose human life is one of self-rea ...
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  • ...y the impersonalists do not merge into the existence of the Supreme Person but into His personal bodily luster, which is called the brahmajyoti. Although ...devotees accept the narrations of the pastimes of the Lord not as stories but as Absolute Truth. The words mama pauruṣāṇi are significant. Devotees ...
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  • ...d, as they can vote a man into the position of a political executive head. But the transcendental Supreme Personality of Godhead is perfectly described in ...hey should not indulge in these four prohibited principles. Others may do. But the leaders, the political executive, administrators, and the priests who a ...
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  • ...pletely smashed their idea. There was a great hard struggle for some time, but it has turned out successfully, and it is now correctly and practically est ...
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  • ...crisis coming?" The solution is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is already there. But you rascal, you will not take it. Solution is already there. ...
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  • ...are becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious, what is the process, how they're executing. But Kṛṣṇa consciousness means, as generally the consciousness is absorbed ...pan><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">But if you want a God's body you will get it also. So why not take a God's body ...
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  • ...it is, sattva-guṇa. Simply they are studying the animal bones. That's all. But actually perfection of evolutionary process is to come to the platform of s ...this material world we cannot understand. We cannot get full information. But if we take Kṛṣṇa's instruction... He's giving personally the instruct ...
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  • ...Muni, who also traveled in space. Actually, the perfect yogī can do that. But even if one can travel all over the universe and show wonderful feats like ...e sun is situated in the sky, far, far away from the surface of the earth, but its reflection can be seen in a pot of water in the corner of a room.</p> ...
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  • ...vāgni means the fire in the forest. In the forest nobody goes to set fire, but it takes place. Just like we, in India we thought that "By driving away the ...reach there, adhokṣaja... Because we take everything by direct perception, but that is beyond direct perception. Adhokṣaja. Kṣemāya kalpante ye 'nu t ...
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  • ...estioning his suffering, unless he realizes that he doesn't want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all suffering, then one is not to be con ...estioning his suffering, unless he realizes that he doesn't want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all suffering, then one is not to be con ...
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  • ...oga system, which will help him not only to see the Lord within constantly but to see Him face to face and become His associate in Vaikuṇṭhaloka or Go ...re descriptions of karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga, bhakti-yoga, dhyāna-yoga, etc., but unless one comes to the point of bhakti-yoga, these other yogas cannot help ...
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  • ...Therefore, consciousness is not due to any amount of material combination, but to the spirit soul. In the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad (3.1.9) the measurement o ..., anger, lust, illusion, insanity and enviousness—all materially affected. But even while executing such dictations of different temperaments, he is perpe ...
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  • ...ally followed by perfect knowledge and detachment from material existence. But there are others who consider that all kinds of different occupational enga ...act by breathing. So many our activities are... So in all these, going on. But a tattva-vit, one who is in the perfect knowledge and is Kṛṣṇa consci ...
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  • ...rsonal Brahman or localized Paramātmā are certainly accepted as liberated, but due to their imperfect knowledge they are described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ...āna, perfect knowledge, is far superior to devotional service of the Lord. But as recorded in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 3.201): ...
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  • ...in a particular type of transcendental relationship it is called anubhāva. But the stage of mahābhāva is visible amongst the personal pleasure potential ...
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  • ...six sages mentioned above speak the facts according to their own thinking, but Śukadeva Gosvāmī presents the knowledge which comes down directly from B ...our process. We don't try to speculate. That may or may not be successful, but if you accept knowledge from the perfect authority, that knowledge is perfe ...
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  • ...ince God is everywhere, why should one restrict himself to temple worship? But if God is everywhere, is He not in the temple or in the Deity? Although the ...said that the perfect devotee may see many movable and immovable objects, but in everything he sees that the energy of Kṛṣṇa is acting. ...
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  • ...s mission and thus be benefited yourself. It is not the least exaggeration but actual fact and to become a member for this mission will to your own intere ...s mission and thus be benefited yourself. It is not the least exaggeration but actual fact and to become a member for this mission will to your own intere ...
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  • ...t servitor of the Lord, Brahmā creates all these as a matter of necessity, but he is not happy in doing so because a devotee of the Lord naturally does no ...ce, the all-merciful Lord first of all tries to protect him from the trap, but when the living entity persists in gliding down to hell, the Lord helps him ...
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  • ...gst human beings can be delivered by this submissive hearing process only, but unfortunately they even refuse to give an aural reception to these messages ...
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  • ...material amelioration and the man in knowledge all become themselves pure. But in the preparatory stage, the man who is in full knowledge of the Supreme L ...inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is one, but He can appear in everyone's heart by His inconceivable potency. Thus althou ...
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  • {{terms|"a man is born fool, but he is made intelligent by educational culture"|"even an inexperienced boy w <div class="heading">A man is born fool, but he is made intelligent by educational culture.</div> ...
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  • ...serpents, they will be no more effective than serpents with broken fangs. But even though the soul is the master of intelligence and mind, and the senses ...ociation, just like fruitive workers, who are always prone to degradation. But even though he falls down, a devotee is never to be considered the same as ...
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  • ...Lord, situated in the hearts of all living entities, directs their senses. But He directs in terms of the surrender of the living entity, and in the case ...ontamination is not completely washed off, they are by nature nondevotees. But even those who have material desires and who resort to the Supreme Lord are ...
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  • ...characteristics are sublime. A devotee does not create enmity with anyone, but if someone becomes his enemy, that person will be vanquished by the Supreme ...
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  • ...g, they think that one accepts sannyāsa to escape social responsibilities. But one does not accept sannyāsa to escape from responsibility to society. Gen ...When I went to foreign countries, I lived according to the same principle, but when Europeans and Americans began to give money profusely, I started templ ...
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  • ...''' A person who is self-realized does not recommend the worship of anyone but the Supersoul. He knows that to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead ...
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  • ...vatam is certainly a very dear scripture for all the devotees of the Lord, but it is auspicious even for the nondevotees also because it explains that eve ...
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  • ...s given in the Bhagavad-gītā. The atheist does not believe in the creator, but he cannot give a good theory to explain the creation. Material nature has n ...f Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, He is completely independent to act however He likes, but all His actions are full of bliss, knowledge and eternity. Only the foolish ...
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  • ...out them from the perfect sources. Many want to speak something to others, but because they are not trained to speak on the subject matter of Vedic wisdom ...ing. Amongst them, there are big, big scholars. Not scholars. All rascals, but they cheat. They pose themselves as scholars and people want to be cheated, ...
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  • ...not fool. Arjuna has been been described as Guḍākeśa. How he can be fool? But he is playing the part of fool. If he does not play the part of a fool, how ...ur business. How I can manufacture? I am imperfect. How can I manufacture? But the spiritual master who follows the perfect teacher, he is perfect. He is ...
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  • ...ltant action may not be a stumbling block on the path of self-realization, but the personalist knows rightly his position as the eternal servitor of the S ...the Supreme. When the hand moves, it does not move out of its own accord, but by the endeavor of the whole body. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person is always ...
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  • ...s to enjoy sense gratification in different bodily forms, life after life, but is still unsatisfied. In the name of personalism, this ism or that ism, suc ...s to enjoy sense gratification in different bodily forms, life after life, but is still unsatisfied. In the name of personalism, this ism or that ism, suc ...
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  • ...the śāstras. The administrative class must be well versed in the śāstras, but must not take to the profession of teachers. The administrators should neve ...
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  • ...s, both the eternals constitutionally have a complete range of sentiments, but the difference is that the sentiments of the chief eternal are different in ...f the sea, the Lord awaited the arrival of Samudra, the ocean personified, but when Samudra did not come, the Lord, the master of Samudra, became angry. T ...
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  • ...ng a bath early in the morning, offering respects to the forefathers, etc. But when one is fully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and is engaged in His transc ...ho are after mystic powers are all unhappy because of unfulfilled desires. But the person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is happy in the service of the Lord ...
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  • ...t. There is no prohibition against meeting the proper needs of the senses, but unnecessary sense enjoyment is detrimental for spiritual advancement. There ...
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  • ...excused by Kṛṣṇa. That is another thing. We are offending in every moment, but when it is within our consciousness we should take some precaution that "Th ...excused by Kṛṣṇa. That is another thing. We are offending in every moment, but when it is within our consciousness we should take some precaution that "Th ...
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  • ...t. These are... From material estimation, these things are very good work. But you are being bound up.</div> ...going to commit nonviolence, violence—he is nonviolent—he's very good man. But from spiritual point of view, it is not so. From spiritual point of view, i ...
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  • ...l. That is their philanthropism. They, they speak so many nonsense things, but the real idea is how to get money.</div> ...many things—philanthropism, altruism, nationalism, this "ism," that "ism," but without Kṛṣṇa. It is the same position. Without Kṛṣṇa conscious ...
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  • ...ar. Not only was Śukadeva Gosvāmī vastly learned in the Vedic literatures, but he was also a great self-realized soul and a powerful devotee of the Lord. ...imes. The Lord is not formless, as wrongly conceived by the impersonalist, but His form is not like one that we have experienced. The Lord discloses His f ...
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  • ...all material activities, desires some satisfaction for his personal self. But a person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for the satisfaction of ...not attempt anything for his own sake. He can attempt anything for Kṛṣṇa, but for his personal self he does not attempt anything. By such behavior one be ...
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  • ...also. The root is the same—the Lord—both for the real tree and the false, but the false tree is only the perverted reflection of the real tree. The Lord, ...re comfortable and more pleasant lives for hundreds of thousands of years, but life in those higher planets is not eternal. Those who desire eternal life ...
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  • ...="display: inline;">The impersonalist puts more stress on the word arūpam. But this arūpam is not impersonal. It indicates the transcendental form of ete ...gins from the impersonal Brahman and then rises to the localized Supersoul—but the ultimate word in the Absolute Truth is the Personality of Godhead. Mode ...
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  • ...for success upon His mercy alone, and all kinds of spiritual processes are but different degrees of success on the same path. Unless, therefore, one comes ...even after liberation. 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. Identit ...
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  • ...ms of life. Generally if a person is breathing he is accepted to be alive. But a person without Kṛṣṇa consciousness may be compared to a bellows in ...
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  • ...e present status of our life, not only have we forgotten the Supreme Lord, but we have forgotten our eternal relationship with the Lord. Every living bein ...He lived as their husband are not, therefore, women of this mundane world, but are eternally related with Him as transcendental wives, a position which th ...
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  • ...yle="display: inline;">We are temporarily engaged in different activities, but all of these activities can be purified when we give up all these temporary ...ed reflection of the love of God which is natural for every living entity. But if one is educated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness from the very beginning, th ...
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  • ...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 de ...opt to gain relief from the actions and reactions of all these activities, but this is also explained in the Bhagavad-gītā.</p> ...
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  • ...ts reality is experienced in the spiritual world. The material sex life is but a perverted reflection of the original fact. The original fact is in the Ab ...us render service unto Him in spontaneous love. A living being cannot help but render service because he is constitutionally made for that purpose. The on ...
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  • <div class="heading">Such violence and duplicity accompany political affairs, but a kṣatriya is not supposed to give up his occupational duty and try to pe ...ake of diplomacy. Such violence and duplicity accompany political affairs, but a ksatriya is not supposed to give up his occupational duty and try to perf ...
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  • ...lass="heading">By other processes the conditioned soul can reach anywhere, but even if he reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happ ...like the shackles of a prisoner. By other processes he can reach anywhere, but even if he reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happ ...
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  • ...sophy there is no reciprocation between the Supreme and the living entity, but in the personalist philosophy there is.</div> ...yī. So he wanted to teach Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Because He was a young man. But later on he accepted Caitanya Mahāprabhu as his guru. He was impersonalist ...
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