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  • ...(the enjoyer) and prakṛti (the enjoyed) are under the control of the Lord, for it is by His supervision that everything works systematically. Not seeing t ...reme Lord's name, form, qualities, pastimes, associates, or paraphernalia, for they wrongly consider these transcendental subjects illusory. They act capr ...
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  • ...eing the food or by touching it. Nor should one think that it is necessary for Kṛṣṇa to eat. He does not become hungry like an ordinary human being; ...eing the food or by touching it. Nor should one think that it is necessary for Kṛṣṇa to eat. He does not become hungry like an ordinary human being; ...
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  • ...having fighting spirit, they should be selected as kṣatriya. Those who are for increasing money, mercantile mentality, they should be also collected. Simi ...ys who are spiritually inclined, and now unnecessarily we are being called for military service. Just see, how discrepancy!</div> ...
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  • ...est planet, through some sort of mechanical contrivance by maybe traveling for forty thousand years (and who would live that long?), we will still find th ...
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  • ...ientists, educators, administrators, etc., but who pose themselves as such for material gain, do not accept the plan or path of the Supreme Lord. They hav ...lanning commissions as passengers, nor do they carry cargo or postal bags, for these are all unknown there. ...
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  • ...ms|"plan for happiness"|"plan to be happy"|"planning for happiness"|"plans for happiness"|"plans to be happy"}} [[Category:Planning for Happiness|1]] ...
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  • ...ences. Your Lordship always takes away the devotee's miserable conditions, for Your brain plans how to do so. You live everywhere as Paramātmā; therefor ..."><p style="display: inline;">In the material world, a servant is provided for by the master but is always planning how to capture the master's post. Ther ...
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  • ...luenced by the age of Kali. They are always disturbed by various diseases. For example, in the present age there are so many TB patients and TB hospitals, ...ially meant to deliver the fallen souls, who are always planning something for material enjoyment. ...
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  • {{terms|"plan for"|"planned for"|"planned. For"|"planning for"|"plans for"}} [[Category:Plans For|1]] ...
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  • {{terms|"plan for"|"planned for"|"planning for"|"plans for"}} [[Category:Plans For|1]] ...
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  • {{terms|"plan for"|"planned for"|"planning for"|"plans for"}} [[Category:Plans For|1]] ...
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  • ...ill always remain and will always criticize anything that is actually good for human society. But the preachers of the saṅkīrtana movement should not b ...a vidyate. Simply by seeing the Lord on the chariot, one makes advancement for stopping the repetition of birth and death. ...
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  • ...ut one cannot say that the living entity (jīva) takes birth or is created, for such a statement is against the injunction of the Vedas. As stated in the K ...
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  • ...derful that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, in the form of Lord Gaurāṅga, has made it easy for everyone to approach Him.</div> ...
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  • ...give up the association of their families, even in old age or invalidity, for they are attached to sense enjoyment.</div> ...illusory condition of life, so even from the philosophical point of view, for them there was no separation.</div> ...
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  • ...mprajñāta-samādhi there is no longer any connection with mundane pleasure, for one is then transcendental to all sorts of happiness derived from the sense ...le; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this ...
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  • ...inline;">Pure devotional service is without aspiration and without desire for material profit. The Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.1.11) defines pure devoti ...ntal loving service to the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa favorably and without desire for material profit or gain through fruitive activities or philosophical specul ...
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  • ...philosophical theses. Nonetheless, Tapana Miśra has been very kind to me, for he speaks about topics relating to Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...>Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī prays to his spiritual master, Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, for the protection of Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu—"The Ocean of the Pure Nectar ...
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  • ...eans. It is specially suitable for this age. How many people, they are fit for studying philosophy? Very few. It requires very learned knowledge to unders ...7 May, 1957|Letter to Sri Padampat Singhania -- Kanpur 7 May, 1957,]]''': For all practical purposes if we systematically preach to chant the holy name o ...
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  • ...the jail rules and regulations, and violating the rules means another term for extension of prison life. Similarly, we in this material existence are alwa ...How could the honor of the devotees be increased unless Sāṅkhya were meant for devotional service? Devotees are not interested in speculative knowledge; t ...
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  • ...stand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Superficially, such persons are not very greedy for material possessions, but they are too attached to wife, children and famil ...sing the will-o'-the-wisp. Such men do not know that after a hard struggle for life one must change his body, with no certainty of what kind of body he wi ...
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  • ...dane topics than in the philosophy of life. The Vedānta-sūtra was compiled for persons already above the mundane topics, who might already have tasted the ...and Purport]]: O Lord, persons who are entangled by undesirable eagerness for the temporary body and kinsmen, and who are bound by thoughts of "mine" and ...
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  • ...y of monism, for it was required at that time. Otherwise there was no need for his preaching Māyāvāda philosophy. ...nto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Generally people worship Lord Śiva for some material benefit, and although they cannot see him personally, they de ...
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  • ...of us is an expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This accounts for unity in diversity. There are diverse manifestations, but, at the same time ...nally renders service unto Him as a plenary portion. This is inconceivable for Māyāvādīs because they think in terms of mundane sense perception and t ...
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  • {{terms|"plan for"|"planned for"|"planning for"|"plans for"}} [[Category:Plans For|1]] ...
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  • {{notes|Reference not found for: SB 10.1. Additional Notes for this Chapter}} ...oes not hesitate to act in any sinful way and so deals in the black market for illegal gratification. He is enamored by the possessions he has already, su ...
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  • ...e have no love for Kṛṣṇa, so this process will help how to invoke his love for Kṛṣṇa. This is standard process.</p> ...on, the greatest for ten years. They said that there were so many mistakes for the last ten years in introducing the basic education that everybody said t ...
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  • ...ppily thinks himself the master or husband of material nature. Scientists, for example, try to be the masters of material nature, life after life, not car ...rance. One can very easily understand that the material body is temporary, for it is generated at a certain date and ends at a certain date, after undergo ...
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  • <div class="heading">I am exactly like that he-goat, for I am so poor in intelligence that I am captivated by your beauty and have f ...]: O my dear wife with beautiful eyebrows, I am exactly like that he-goat, for I am so poor in intelligence that I am captivated by your beauty and have f ...
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  • <div class="heading">As the high-court judgeship is a post for the qualified man, so also the post of a brāhmaṇa is attainable by quali ...nally pointed out these differences, and He is about to explain the reason for this in the following ślokas.</p> ...
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  • ...e:BG 1.15 (1972)|BG 1.15, Purport]]:''' The impersonalists cannot account for the senses of the living entities, and therefore they are always anxious to ...osition of a pure devotee. Mahārāja Parīkṣit, due to his natural affection for Lord Kṛṣṇa as a devotee of the Lord, was always executing his royal d ...
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  • ...who is learned—one who knows what is body and what is soul—does not lament for any stage of the body, neither in the living nor in the dead condition." As ...on of religion, first-class religion. If we do not awaken our dormant love for God, then śrama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]. Then you follow any type of rel ...
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  • ...ding">Indirectly mother Yaśodā is praised for her unique position of love, for she could control even the all-powerful Lord as her beloved child</div> ...love. Indirectly mother Yaśodā is praised for her unique position of love, for she could control even the all-powerful Lord as her beloved child.</div> ...
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  • ...d willing our Society to gather strength throughout the world. I thank you for your good will. ...point is forgetfulness of God. This is not a new thing because the reason for our material existence is forgetfulness of our relationship with God. Lord ...
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  • ...osition of an ācārya is that he executes devotional service with no desire for elevation to a higher position of life</div> ...osition of an acarya is that he executes devotional service with no desire for elevation to a higher position of life.</div> ...
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  • ...Utkala was fully satisfied and unattached to the world. He was equipoised, for he could see everything resting in the Supersoul and the Supersoul present ...
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  • <div class="heading">Because Vidura renounced the world for spiritual enlightenment by the authority of Ṛṣi Maitreya and was thorou ...t is accepted that he was a sudra by birth, because he renounced the world for spiritual enlightenment by the authority of Rsi Maitreya and was thoroughly ...
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  • <div class="heading">The holy places all over the earth are meant for purifying the polluted consciousness of the human being by an atmosphere su ...ply such instructions in practical life and thus gradually prepare oneself for the ultimate salvation, going back to Godhead. To go to some holy place of ...
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  • ...aspired for by the Māyāvādīs, is considered hellish." That oneness is not for pure devotees. ...personal, one can imagine a personal form of the impersonal Absolute Truth for the time being, but as soon as one becomes liberated the worship stops. Tha ...
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  • ...of self-realization, and who is satisfied in the self only, fully satiated—for him there is no duty.</div> ...of self-realization, and who is satisfied in the self only, fully satiated—for him there is no duty.''' ...
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  • ...our energy for making this material world very comfortable or you may live for some years very comfortably, but cruel death will come and snatch from comf ...ible to extinguish. We have to seek mercy. But the demons, they don't care for Kṛṣṇa, or God. They think that "We shall do. I am God. I shall do it. ...
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  • ...n start for N.Y. for film opportunities is quite approved by me. Thank you for your energetic enthusiasm. Hope you are well.</p> ...style="display: inline;">I've received your note along with Brahmananda's for first time since you left to N.Y. You had no desire to stop in London. This ...
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  • ...a living entity is expected to be sane and to follow the regulations given for elevating his life to the highest platform, but if he does not follow them, ...atform of devotional service. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was absorbed in attachment for Lord Kṛṣṇa. Seeing this, the great sages assembled were very pleased, ...
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  • ...it is confirmed by the Lord in the Seventh Chapter (7.14). Therefore, even for the most highly educated person on the mundane plane, it is impossible to g ...enjoyment, there is every chance of falling down; therefore any attachment for regulated sense enjoyment must also be avoided by all means. But attachment ...
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  • ...his spiritual master), indicate. It is concluded that Arjuna was quite fit for liberation. Unless the senses are controlled, there is no chance of elevati ...in God and His revealed word find no good in this world, nor in the next. For them there is no happiness whatsoever. One should therefore follow the prin ...
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  • ...ese relationships are on the platform of love. Viṣṇu is the center of love for everyone, and therefore the duty of everyone is to engage in the loving ser .... Sometimes one must take care of more than one item of important business for the same purpose. Therefore mother Yaśodā was not unjust when she left he ...
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  • ...but his life is still full of sinful activities, it will be very difficult for him to achieve the platform of loving service to the Lord.</div> ...
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  • ...pt obeisances in the temple of the Lord before the Deity. Nor is it proper for a devotee to offer obeisances and touch the feet of the spiritual master be ...
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  • ...o the plane of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I should, therefore, meditate and pray for his mercy three times a day, and offer my respectful obeisances unto him, m ...e="display: inline;">For advancement of material knowledge there is a need for personal ability and researching aptitude, but in the case of spiritual kno ...
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  • ...either highly learned scholars nor mystic yogīs. They had spontaneous love for the Lord, and thus He became their heart and soul, and the gopīs also beca ...e, His conchshell and His pleasing attitude all provoke love in friendship for Him.</div> ...
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  • ...source of converts to Krsna Consciousness. I do not think it is necessary for you to spend time unnecessarily at this time of your life to learn some for ...
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  • {{terms|"The same knowledge can be utilized for finding out God. That is mahātmā. This is the difference"}} [[Category:Utilizing for God]] ...
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  • ...reds of years without any knowledge of the problems of life—better to live for a moment with full consciousness of the supreme interest to be fulfilled. T <div class="heading">For the perfect yogī who has attained success in the method of leaving his bod ...
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  • ...B 1.7.26 -- Vrndavana, September 2, 1976]]:''' Therefore Arjuna knows, but for our education he's asking Kṛṣṇa that "Wherefrom this high temperature ...ng means: paṭhana pāṭhana yajana yājana dāna pratigraha. Brāhmaṇa is meant for teaching others and become himself a learned scholar. That is brāhmaṇa b ...
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  • ...es not follow the brahminical culture, he is simply a burden on the state, for he cannot benefit the citizens. Mahārāja Pṛthu is the perfect example o ...sake of worshiping Kṛṣṇa. Thus Pṛthu Mahārāja serves as a perfect example for yogīs also. Whatever he did, he did to please the Supreme Personality of G ...
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  • ...ato]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: Now for Plato, perfect happiness is in attempting to become godlike.</p> ...s, you surrender unto Me, I will make you happy.' " Then he becomes happy. For this message, God comes. Because this rascal will not do according to the d ...
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  • ...tanding Bhagavad-gītā. The sincere student should also have a firm respect for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such a student was Arjuna.</p> ...ccept the supremacy of the Lord and agree to render loving service to Him. For this they have been created. Without this, there cannot be any peace or tra ...
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  • {{terms|"perfect institution for humanity"}} ...brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra and which is the perfect institution for humanity—must be supported by bhakti-yoga if one at all wants security in ...
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  • ...e transcendental loving service of the Lord. Instead of serving materially for the abovementioned different humors of the body, the living entity's intell ...m intelligence so that he can forget Kṛṣṇa for good. Not for good—at least for some time.</div> ...
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  • ...different occupational engagements, including those of religion, are meant for material gain.</div> ...elf, and for bodily interest, he commits so many sinful activities, simply for satisfaction of the senses. But if he's cultured, if he's given proper know ...
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  • ...Perfect knowledge is that the Supreme Soul, Kṛṣṇa, is the supreme shelter for all living entities, and giving up such shelter, the living entities are de ...
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  • ...d philosophers should become familiar with the Supreme Lord's perfect plan for universal maintenance.</div> ...d philosophers should become familiar with the Supreme Lord's perfect plan for universal maintenance.</div> ...
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  • ...re these atheist fools, they want to deny next life. That is very horrible for them. That is very horrible to them. If they accept next life... They know <div class="heading">For perfect knowledge, we have to take it from the perfect authority, not by ou ...
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  • ...to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the Lord says that for anyone who is unflinchingly devoted to Him, He is easy to attain.</p> ...her, Hiraṇyakaśipu, chastised him severely when he was only five years old for his becoming an unalloyed devotee of the Lord. He was the first son of Hira ...
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  • {{terms|"cooperate fully for preaching the Mission"|"cooperate in this very important mission"|"cooperat <div class="heading">We invite you to cooperate with the mission for collective welfare and help in the matter of wider circulation of the spiri ...
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  • ...do not care for the path of realization get full facilities from the Lord for executing their proclivities to the fullest extent, and Brahmā helps in th ...
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  • ...thought, "Let me try in this old age"|0126|I will never die, I shall live for my books, and you will utilize|0128}} ...41]]). If you stick to the order of spiritual master, then, without caring for your own convenience or inconvenience, then you become perfect.</p> ...
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  • ...trol the infinite and the finite, those who are pure devotees accept this, for they know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore ...and tongue. That is tapasya. The entire varṇāśrama-dharma society is meant for tapasya. Without tapasya, or austerity, no human being can get liberation. ...
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  • ...be condemned to death so that in his next life he will not have to suffer for the great sin he has committed. Therefore, the king's punishment of hanging ...akṣa in his bereavement because the time of bereavement is a suitable time for appreciating bhakti-yoga. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (7.16), four kinds o ...
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  • ...the ultimate goal of life. Let us all worship Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for His gracious mercy to the conditioned souls.</div> ...
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  • ...e devotee foolishly thinks of accumulating some material power in exchange for devotional service. Such foolish devotees are sometimes put into difficulty ...usness, he falls down, being attracted by Cupid, and takes to another wife for sex enjoyment. The fall of the neophyte devotee from the path of Kṛṣṇ ...
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  • ...ce:BG 1.15 (1972)|BG 1.15, Purport]]:''' The impersonalists cannot account for the senses of the living entities, and therefore they are always anxious to ...trol the infinite and the finite, those who are pure devotees accept this, for they know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore ...
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  • ...ty per cent of it should be invested in printing books, and fifty per cent for expenditures, especially in establishing centers all over the world.</div> ...tion. Sannyāsa does not mean begging from door to door to accumulate money for sense gratification. However, because in Kali-yuga people are more or less ...
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  • ...han to worship various demigods under the influence of lust and the desire for material enjoyment. The devotee is therefore always engaged in the loving d ...same time has all the symptoms of a devotee can become a spiritual master for all classes of men. Such a devotee and spiritual master must be respected a ...
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  • {{terms|"a very dear scripture for all the devotees"}} [[Category:Srimad-Bhagvatam is Certainly a Very Dear Scripture for All Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...r because the scriptures like Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam are made for that purpose. Living beings other than human beings have no ability to hear ...omanly qualities. Similarly, the tongue, which is given to the human being for chanting the Vedic hymns, will be considered a prostitute when engaged in c ...
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  • Just like we have got a fixed time for the sunrise. Everyone knows that in the morning at 6:30 there will be sunri Mr. Wadell: Can we go back to the physician. It is possible for a physician to be wrong. ...
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  • ...situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activities are on the absolute plane, for they are no longer subject to dualities like good and bad. The highest perf ...stic powers are awarded such powers. In other words, everyone is dependent for success upon His mercy alone, and all kinds of spiritual processes are but ...
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  • ...brothers, the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. In both ways, the basic principles were for sense gratification. Happiness derived from conquering them and happiness d ...vice. Those who are engaged in this process are known to be without desire for personal sense gratification.</p> ...
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  • ...he Lord in water by its taste, and the personalist also glorifies the Lord for His kindly supplying tasty water to quench man's thirst. That is the way of ..., that scripture is the supreme revelation of the glories of Lord Govinda, for it reveals the topmost knowledge about Him. Since all conclusions are brief ...
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  • <div class="heading">For one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide s ...Godhead by revelation. One cannot understand Kṛṣṇa by mental speculation. For one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide s ...
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  • ...exceptional cases to the mahā-bhāva stage, which is generally not possible for the living entities. All these were manifested by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahā ...exceptional cases to the mahā-bhāva stage, which is generally not possible for the living entities. All these were manifested by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahā ...
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  • ...d the personified ocean trembled in fear and offered the Lord an easy path for reaching the enemy's city.</div> ...d the personified ocean trembled in fear and offered the Lord an easy path for reaching the enemy's city. The impersonalists will see havoc in this red-ho ...
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  • ...situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activities are on the absolute plane, for they are no longer subject to dualities like good and bad. The highest perf ...xt"><p style="display: inline;">The Vedic rites and rituals are imperative for neophytes: comprehending all kinds of prayer three times a day, taking a ba ...
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  • ...Sukham, pleasure or happiness, should always be in that which is favorable for the cultivation of the spiritual knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness</di ...unfavorable for the cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Anything favorable for the development of Kṛṣṇa consciousness should be accepted, and anythi ...
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  • ...any great devotees of Kṛṣṇa offered prayers to Kṛṣṇa to please forgive him for all his sinful activities. So then this can be taken as prayers too.</p> ...
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  • ...refused to work, refused to fight, that "My dear Kṛṣṇa, it is not possible for me to fight with my relatives, brothers. I am not going to fight," but from ...amily. Just like in the family of a brāhmaṇa, in the family of a rich man. For pious work, one can get his janma. And aiśvarya. Aiśvarya means you can b ...
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  • ...t for the Englishmen or Americans," or "I am for the human being. I am not for the cows and goats. They should be sent to the slaughterhouse"—these thin ...ṣṇa consciousness. That is possible. So far your body is concerned... Take for example, just all of you, you were accustomed to the Western way of life, e ...
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  • ...on for his personal self. But a person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for the satisfaction of the whole, without self-interest.</p> ...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 become ...
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  • ...rd Viṣṇu is the root of that tree also. The root is the same—the Lord—both for the real tree and the false, but the false tree is only the perverted refle ...terial world, the yogīs can enjoy more comfortable and more pleasant lives for hundreds of thousands of years, but life in those higher planets is not ete ...
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  • ...who knows Him can transcend the bonds of birth and death. There is no way for liberation other than this knowledge of that Supreme Person.</p> ...Personality of Godhead. Modern impersonalists are still less intelligent, for they do not even follow their great predecessor Śaṅkarācārya, who has ...
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  • ...s that the devotee always absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has no anxieties for his maintenance or protection. Being constantly absorbed in Kṛṣṇa con ...s not engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service, it is useless for him to exhibit the symptoms of life. Generally if a person is breathing he ...
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  • {{notes|Reference not found for:SB 10.1. Additional Notes for this Chapter}} ...igure in this material world. Why, then, are there severe types of penance for the perfection of devotional service? ...
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  • ...>Lust is only the perverted reflection of the love of God which is natural for every living entity. But if one is educated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness fr ...ead Kṛṣṇa. The science of the Personality of Godhead is the subject matter for study by the postgraduate students in the spiritual line. Foolish men, or m ...
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  • ...r planetary systems enjoys a longer duration of life and better facilities for sense enjoyment, yet one is not allowed to stay there forever. One is again ...all Vedic literature. He has come to the conclusion perfectly. Of course, for the ordinary persons who are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness or who are no ...
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  • ...rtificial movement of the body... must always be rejected. One should wait for the natural sequence within devotional service, and at that time, when one ...
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  • ...principle of sex life. In modern civilization, sex life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. ...r nescience. And out of such desire the living being makes different plans for material enjoyment centered about a perverted sex life.</div> ...
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  • ...odily plane sva-dharma is called varnasrama-dharma, or man's steppingstone for spiritual understanding. Human civilization begins from the stage of varnas ...be violent to kill his enemies, and sometimes a ksatriya has to tell lies for the sake of diplomacy. Such violence and duplicity accompany political affa ...
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  • ...f he reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happiness for which he is searching life after life.</div> ...comes to his senses, however, he seeks after Brahman happiness, knowing it for certain that unlimited happiness, which he is seeking, is never attainable ...
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  • ...because you are human being, if you act as an animal you'll be responsible for your acts. And you'll be punished if you do something wrong. You cannot say ...
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