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  • ...or "necessity of life" or "necessit* of * life" or "necessit* of * lives" not "bare necessit* of life"}} ...e who enjoys such gifts without offering them to the demigods in return is certainly a thief.</p> ...
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  • ...f the Lord"|"forms such as Krsna"|"is the form"|"personal form of Lord Sri Krsna"}} {{notes|VedaBase query: "form* Krsna*"@5 or "form* Krishna*"@5 or "His Form"}} ...
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  • ...as to apply violence in suitable cases for law and order. Therefore he has to conquer the soldiers of inimical kings, and thus, with religious principles ...be on the battlefield and to become nonviolent is the philosophy of fools. In the Parāśara-smṛti, or religious codes made by Parāśara, the great sa ...
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  • ...eep ourselves fit and healthy for the purpose of self-realization, leading to the ultimate goal of life, namely, liberation from the material struggle fo ...o deceive a person, no one can surpass Him in His deceit. His greatness is not simply one-sided-it is all-sided.</p> ...
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  • ...ife is called tapomaya-yajña. There are still others who engage themselves in different kinds of mystic yogas like the Patañjali system (for merging int ...One who seeks that objective is the real student of Bhagavad-gītā, but one who doubts the authority of Kṛṣṇa falls back.</p> ...
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  • ...n an elephant in the jungle is caught by the use of a trained she-elephant who leads him into a pit. We should learn by observing these tricks of nature.< ...ttempts to gain liberation from the material clutches, he must first learn to control the sex urge.</p> ...
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  • ...s of material nature. At the same time, he must have a full sense of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...rustrations that result in void philosophy. Then one can ultimately attain to the abode of the Supreme Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...what that love of Godhead actually is and how it is developed can be found in the Vaiṣṇava literatures. It is the unique and highest development of l ...r experience within this conditioned life is situated in the Supreme Lord, who is the ultimate source of everything.</p> ...
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  • ...to the laws of material nature. One should therefore be intelligent enough to know that except the Lord, nobody is the proprietor of anything within the ...en cannot understand this Bhagavad-gītā. And he is posted as the professor in the Oxford University.</p> ...
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  • ...similar instances"|"many similar instances"|"many, many instances"|"there are many instances"}} ...the Lord, is always conscious of moral principles and therefore takes care to avoid such activities.</p> ...
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  • ...y. Thus real prāyaścitta, atonement, is the awakening of our dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...situated on the platform of transcendental life. However, one who engages in mundane activity—be he a so—called jñānī, yogī, karmī, philanthrop ...
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  • {{notes|VedaBase query: prime not "prime minister*"}} ...they will continue to remain individuals in the future, because all of us are individual souls eternally.</p> ...
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  • ...Especially nowadays, because there is want of good population, and they go in the government, and how you can expect good government, good administration ...og a king, does it mean that he'll not lick up shoes? Yes, dog's nature is to lick up shoes.</p> ...
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  • {{notes|VedaBase query: active* not principle}} ...hat a devotee is in a relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in one of five different ways:</p> ...
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  • ...ord. He does not endeavor much to achieve something with great difficulty; therefore he is always joyful.</p> ...
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  • ...to carry out my order, and I think You are fixed up in Your that promise. Therefore I am asking you, Acyuta. You don't fall from Your promise." This is the... ...madeva was crying, that "These five boys, they are so pure, so honest, and not only pure and honest, so powerful warriors, Arjuna and Bhīma. And this Dra ...
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  • ...rtunity when he'll, he would enjoy the rasa by killing Duryodhana. So all, in all our dealings, directly or indirectly, there is some rasa.</p> ...am put into this miserable condition of life although I do not know, I do not want it?</p> ...
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  • ...nscendental bliss, and it enables us to taste the full nectar for which we are always anxious.</p> ...for chanting these holy names. O My Lord, You have so kindly made it easy to approach You by Your holy names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no att ...
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  • {{terms|"in the name of"|"in the names of"}} [[Category:In the Name of|1]] ...
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  • ..." not "different types of bodies" not "different types of material bodies" not "different types of temporary body"}} ...l these bhakta subjects taken together constitute Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is Kṛṣṇa Himself.</p> ...
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  • ...His fifth year, He was admitted into a school, where He picked up Bengali in a very short time.</p> ...p while he was at Purī. Mahāprabhu had written in reply that he would come to them and extricate them from their spiritual difficulties.</p> ...
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  • ...e manifested Himself in the separate form of Rādhārāṇī, and when He wanted to understand Himself through the agency of Rādhā, He united with Rādhārā ...My special qualification that attracts Her so? And what is the actual way in which She loves Me?" It seems strange that Kṛṣṇa, as the Supreme, sho ...
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  • ...ve an aural reception to these messages, and what to speak of surrendering to the will of the Supreme Lord? Narādhamas, or the lowest of mankind, willfu ...e Personality of Godhead. Anyone who is able to understand this, according to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, knows the purpose of ...
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  • ...efore, consciousness is not due to any amount of material combination, but to the spirit soul.</p> ...w becoming fashionable in America—are also adhering to this philosophy, as are the nihilistic nondevotional Buddhist sects.</p> ...
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  • ...asures. When by the grace of Kṛṣṇa and the devotees one reaches perfection in devotional service, he can appreciate Kṛṣṇa as Gopījana-vallabha, th ...e, and the material world is compared to the dark regions where the sun is not visible.</p> ...
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  • ...uly. Generally at that time people go to Vṛndāvana to offer their respects to the Deities there.</p> ...friendship, parental affection or conjugal love, such awe and veneration are impediments.</p> ...
    170 KB (28,631 words) - 06:39, 16 May 2018
  • ...that is real service. So what is going on in the name of service, that is not service. That is simply washing the coat and shirt. That's all. (break) Har ...sciousness within. Our process, the saṅkīrtana movement, is to awaken that consciousness. That's all.</p> ...
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  • ...sidering, "Whether I shall kill them or not?" Ahiṁsā. It is consideration, not that it is final settlement.</p> ...ss. But if you become self-realized, if you become aware actually what you are, then na śocati na kāṅkṣati.</p> ...
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  • ...votee, mahā-bhāgavata, highly advanced devotee, he sees trees, but he does not see the tree.</p> ...h. That is the basic principle. And this word, śraddhā, has been described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta by Kavirāja Gosvāmī,</p> ...
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  • ...vors to check them. One indirectly embraces the husband by sending the son to embrace him because the son is developed as part of the mother's body.</p> ...alace. He was not sorry, for he considered the acts of the external energy to be supreme.</p> ...
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  • ...n the grip of the Personality of Godhead, they would all scatter like dust in the air. Modern scientists can only impractically explain this inconceivabl ...at the Personality of Godhead personally instructs His loving devotees how to make certain progress on the path of devotion and thus surely approach the ...
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  • {{terms|"I give the understanding by which they can come to Me"|"tesam satata-yuktanam"}} ...edaBase query: "10.10" or "I give the understanding by which they can come to Me" or "tesam satata-yuktanam"}} ...
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  • ...ṣṇa. Academic knowledge, scholarship, high position, etc., are all useless in solving the problems of life; help can be given only by a spiritual master ...istence. Therefore, without being fully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one should not give up his occupational duties.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"devotee are"|"devotee is"|"devotees are"}} ...otee are not"not "devotees are not"not "devotee is not"not "devotees never"not "devotee never"}} ...
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  • ...accept a body within the 8,400,000 species of life, and becoming the worm in the stool.</p> ...dhanaḥ. Karmāṇi nirdaheti kintu ca bhakti-bhājām (Bs. 5.54). Otherwise, we are bound up by the reaction of every act.</p> ...
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  • ...ving entity is offered a particular type of body as a result of his action in the present body."</p> ...do you do? You get down. You get another car. Similarly, when this body's not working, then you give up this body; you take another body.</p> ...
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  • ...ever failed to engage in carefully performing prescribed duties, O Pārtha, certainly all men would follow My path.</p> ...igion He followed the prescribed rules. Otherwise, common men would follow in His footsteps, because He is the greatest authority. From the Śrīmad-Bhā ...
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  • ...lord"|"pure devotees of Lord"|"pure devotees of krishna"|"pure devotees of krsna"|"pure devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"|"pure devotees of th ...and out of them the liberated souls. He said that there are only a few who are actually pure devotees of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...stop the mind and senses by force, but ultimately they give in to them and are carried away by the waves of sense gratification.</p> ...erior men; superior men, being engaged in the superior activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, naturally retire from the inferior activities of material existence.</p> ...
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  • ...vad-gītā, where Lord Kṛṣṇa says that of all yogīs, the greatest is the one who constantly thinks of the Lord within the core of his heart with love and de ...sive stage of chanting one may desire all kinds of material happiness, but in the second stage one becomes clear of all material contamination. When one ...
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  • {{notes|VedaBase query: palatabl* or unpalatable not "palatable dish" not "palatable dishes"}} ...many things, passing stool and urine, activities on the bed. So as soon as they inform that "After being cured there is also passing of stool and urine and ...
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  • ...t Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 (New-2003)" link_text="Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 "> ...rich, just like in your country Rockefeller, Ford, there are many rich men in your, the..., your country is very rich. So if one is very rich he is calle ...
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  • ...Absolute Truth, who is eternally existent in His transcendental abode, and who is forever free of illusion." ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]])</p> ...bhagavate vāsudevāya. Bhagavate, "unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Vāsudeva." Vāsudeva means the son of Vasudeva. Even the leade ...
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  • {{terms|"They fall down from their position of imagined superiority"|"patanty adhaḥ"|"y {{notes|VedaBase query: "10.2.32" or "They fall down from their position of imagined superiority" or "patanty adhaḥ" ...
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  • ..._by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3> ...Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="5" link="KB 1" link_text="Krsna Book 1"> ...
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  • ...ot "very much valuable" not "very nice valuable" not "very nice, valuable" not "very high valuable"}} ...clearly reveal His mission and precepts. These supremely valuable prayers are translated herein.</p> ...
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  • ...e in the sky and the rainy season begins, and after the rainy season there are so many new green vegetation all over the field, we can see. And as soon as ...f from the actions and reactions of all activities. That is also explained in the Bhagavad-gītā.</p> ...
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  • ...ence; one woman is going to another boy, dead of night. Superficially they are sinful activities. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommends, ramyā kācid upās ...ndhu. The science of devotional service which is giving you indication how to see God always and everywhere. Go on reading.</p> ...
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  • ...e original person. We find it, description, in the Saṁhitās, in the Vedas, in the Ṛg Veda: oṁ tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sūr ...cart Jagannātha, Subhadrā, and Baladeva, then he does not take birth again in this material world.</p> ...
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  • {{notes|VedaBase query: "absolute truth*" not supreme}} ...after many, many births of struggling in karma, jñāna, yoga, he surrenders to Kṛṣṇa. When he actually becomes wise. Jñānavān.</p> ...
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  • ...see her son. Both pleasure and pain invaded her heart when she saw her son in the attire of a sannyāsī. As a sannyāsī, Kṛṣṇa Caitanya put on no ...d: "I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord who is absorbed in Rādhārāṇī's thoughts."</p> ...
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  • ...that platform is not reached, then everything is simply waste of time. But in the beginning, if you follow these principles, as laid down by Śrīla Rūp ...votee, mahā-bhāgavata, highly advanced devotee, he sees trees, but he does not see the tree. He sees Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...ndhu. The science of devotional service which is giving you indication how to see God always and everywhere. Go on reading.</p> ...s approach Rādhārāṇī. "Jaya Rādhe." Because if Rādhārāṇī advocates for him to Kṛṣṇa, it is very easily accepted. And Rādhārāṇī says... If Rā ...
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  • ...world. Rūpa Gosvāmī left Allahabad for Vṛndāvana, and Mahāprabhu came down to Benares.</p> ...nd that nothing is equal to or greater than Him. There is nothing superior to be conceived. He is the Supreme Person.</p> ...
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  • ...e very much proud of material advancement of science, but still, they have to make advancement, subtle matter. And above that subtle matter, within that ...ng that: "This piṇḍodaka, by offering piṇḍa, prasāda and water, it will go to my forefather.</p> ...
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  • ...ever, the scholarly demons misguide the masses of people by directing them to the impersonal, unmanifest, eternal, unborn truth rather than the Personali ..., when there is a disturbance created by the demons, who are always trying to disrupt the administration of the demigods.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Krsna's Qualities|2]] ...there is no source of understanding the soul except by studying the Vedas. In other words, the soul is inconceivable by human experimental knowledge.</p> ...
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  • ...s liberation: the liberation for which great great saintly persons, sages, they undergo severe austerities for life after life, simply by being killed, he ...st like a menial servant. Whatever the spiritual master will order, he has to do it. This is brahmacārī.</p> ...
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  • ...hey, that Absolute Truth, from where everything is emanating, is discussed in the beginning of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</p> ...e to the Lord. He compares their arguments and logic to volcanic eruptions in the midst of the ocean."</p> ...
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  • ...he saṅkīrtana movement has been started. What to do?" In this way you have to finish that scene.</p> ...<p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: I might be able to combine these if they...</p> ...
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  • ...ciousness, or material consciousness, when we are freed from this material consciousness, that is called mukti.</p> ...t Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 (New-2003)" link_text="Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 "> ...
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  • ...ity, but they were ostracized due to their acceptance of ministerial posts in the government of Hussain Shah. It is the grace of Lord Caitanya that He ac ...t at the present moment, because everyone accepts the profession of śūdra, therefore śāstra says: kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ.</p> ...
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  • ...living beings, the products of the energy of the Supreme Lord, we are just to cooperate with Him. That cooperation will help.</p> ...all are stated in the Bhagavad-gītā and there is no bar for anyone. It is not that a particular class of men can approach. Thinking of Lord Kṛṣṇa i ...
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  • ...n Him. Consequently, one who thinks that the name of some demigod is equal to the Lord's name is an offender. The Supreme Lord and the demigods should ne ...s secondary, one can primarily devote his time to the cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness through the chanting of the holy names of God.</p> ...
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  • ...of life. Lord Caitanya said that one who is master in the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, regardless of his social position, is the real spiritual master.</p> ...only qualification is that one carry out devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...
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  • ...uld gather are so many soldiers?" So immediately, to consult the commander-in-chief Dronācārya....</p> ...nam abravīt ([[Vanisource:BG 1.2 (1972)|BG 1.2]]). Then he began to speak, to inform Dronācārya.</p> ...
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  • ...aBase query: religious* not "religious system*" not "religious principle*" not "religious life"}} ..., Nectar of Devotion published by us. And gradually it is being introduced in other colleges and schools.</p> ...
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  • ...nma naiti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]), you are no more subjected to this gross body... (break)</p> ...to My abode, he never comes back." This is the perfection. Doctor, Sir you are a scientist. So how do you think our explanation? Does it tally with your s ...
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  • ...s approach Rādhārāṇī. "Jaya Rādhe." Because if Rādhārāṇī advocates for him to Kṛṣṇa, it is very easily accepted. And Rādhārāṇī says... If Rā ...G 15.15 (1972)|BG 15.15]]). So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to give Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa se tomāra, kṛṣṇa dite pāra. Bhaktivin ...
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  • ...ver's waves were so strong, he was carried away. I could not find him." So in this way, Sanātana Gosvāmī escaped after bribing.</p> ...ng against his nature. And after understanding Bhagavad-gītā, he was posed in his real nature.</p> ...
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