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  • ...kinds of different occupational engagements, including those of religion, are meant for material gain.</div> ...ce:SB 3.5.51|SB 3.5.51, Translation]]: O Supreme Self, please give us, who are created in the beginning from the mahat-tattva, the total cosmic energy, Yo ...
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  • ...'[[Vanisource:SB 2.2.16|SB 2.2.16, Purport]]:''' The functions of the mind are thinking, feeling and willing. When the mind is materialistic, or absorbed ...ery, very glorious. Such a person has perfect intelligence, whereas others are in the ignorance of material existence.</div> ...
    12 KB (1,939 words) - 10:43, 6 February 2022
  • ...mulate money for sense gratification. However, because in Kali-yuga people are more or less prone to sense gratification, immature sannyāsa is not recomm ...ependently or whimsically; (5) associating with worldly-minded persons who are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness; and (6) being greedy for munda ...
    4 KB (621 words) - 16:39, 11 September 2010
  • [[Category:Devotees of God Are Peaceful]] [[Category:All the Characteristics of Devotees of God Are Sublime]] ...
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  • ...s cannot account for the senses of the living entities, and therefore they are always anxious to describe all living entities as senseless, or impersonal. <div class="heading">Those who are freed from all material contaminations surrender unto the Supreme Lord and ...
    53 KB (8,864 words) - 16:03, 12 May 2018
  • ...then, automatically, the mind becomes stronger, and even though the senses are very strong, like serpents, they will be no more effective than serpents wi ...allen down due to uncongenial association, just like fruitive workers, who are always prone to degradation. But even though he falls down, a devotee is ne ...
    27 KB (4,417 words) - 07:55, 20 May 2022
  • ...autama, and the systems of philosophers like Kaṇāda, Kapila and Dattātreya are dangerous creatures in the ocean of nescience. By the grace of Śrī Caitan ...taking LSD? So will that be taken as pleasure or will that be accepted? We are talking of philosophy. ...
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  • ...passed away from this world like an ordinary man. Such asuric conceptions are rejected by persons in knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ...passed away from this world like an ordinary man. Such asuric conceptions are rejected by persons in knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Ajo ...
    47 KB (7,599 words) - 05:37, 11 July 2022
  • ...gigantic manifestation of the universal form. The biggest and the minutest are beyond their conception, so they cannot imagine that a form like that of a ...ust like a human being, can control the infinite and the finite, those who are pure devotees accept this, for they know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Pe ...
    109 KB (16,842 words) - 07:07, 17 May 2018
  • ...rld are misusing their independence, and therefore five kinds of nescience are imposed upon them. As an obedient servitor of the Lord, Brahmā creates all ...
    3 KB (517 words) - 01:48, 28 December 2018
  • ...a true guru and the symptoms of a true devotee. The symptoms of a devotee are described in the Padma Purāṇa: A person who is a qualified brāhmaṇa a Guest (4): Your Divine Grace, there are many swamis and gurus and religious people throughout the world. How does o ...
    4 KB (739 words) - 15:00, 13 November 2022
  • ..."text"><p style="display: inline;">The difficulty is that misguided people are more interested in the matter of sense gratification than in self-realizati ...n to India I will have to take with me some of the boys for training. They are all nice boys to take up the training. So your cooperation in this connecti ...
    20 KB (3,305 words) - 04:58, 5 June 2022
  • ...="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are also many impersonalists who deride temple worship. They say that since God ...
    110 KB (17,643 words) - 05:43, 23 April 2019
  • ...s engage in meditation upon Your lotus feet, as described above. Those who are serious about executing their occupational duties and who want freedom from ...ning of meditation. However, from Vedic literature we learn that the yogīs are always absorbed in meditation upon the lotus feet of the Lord. Dhyānāvast ...
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  • ...are suffering or where they came from and where they shall go after death are proper students for understanding Bhagavad-gītā. The sincere student shou ...ne;">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. The human being, after attain ...
    52 KB (8,477 words) - 09:17, 21 March 2022
  • ...isplay: inline;">Some of the names of the descendants of Gaurīdāsa Paṇḍita are as follows: (1) Śrī Nṛsiṁha-caitanya, (2) Kṛṣṇadāsa, (3) Viṣ ...
    4 KB (688 words) - 18:53, 17 December 2009
  • ...hat only on this planet there are living entities, and other planets there are no living entities. No, that is not a fact. Anyway, here the proposal is ho ...durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]). They are thinking, "By adjustment of this material world, we shall be happy." That i ...
    22 KB (3,442 words) - 10:24, 5 February 2022
  • ...authorities are followed by people in general. Leaders of ideal character are therefore needed in society. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhea ...flavor extracts and fuel. They are the perfect example of noble life. They are like a noble person who has sacrificed everything possible—his body, mind ...
    41 KB (6,346 words) - 00:37, 19 May 2018
  • ...guṇa, goodness. They do not know even what it is, sattva-guṇa. Simply they are studying the animal bones. That's all. But actually perfection of evolution ...va-deva na vedmi. We cannot understand. It is not possible. So many things are there even in this material world we cannot understand. We cannot get full ...
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  • ...aged in the animal propensities of the eat-drink-and-be-merry type of life are simply wasting their lives by the unseen passing away of valuable years. We ...erial body is just a covering of the spiritual soul. Mind and intelligence are the undercoverings, and the gross body of earth, water, air and so on is th ...
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