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  • ...rt for the Pāñcāladeśa. Draupadī was gained in this Pāñcāladeśa by Arjuna, but by order of Kuntī all five of the Pāṇḍava brothers became equally the ...ust as the prisoners in the jails are not under the protection of the king but under the protection of a severe agent of the king. Without cow protection ...
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  • Prabhupāda: That is already explained. But you must be determined how to execute devotional service. Without determine ...
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  • ...er real knowledge. Such knowledge may seem inconceivable in the beginning, but when put forward by the proper authority its meaning is revealed, and then ...er real knowledge. Such knowledge may seem inconceivable in the beginning, but when put forward by the proper authority its meaning is revealed, and then ...
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  • ...h a king is not a lazy sensuous person living at the cost of the subjects, but alert always to kill thieves and dacoits. The pious kings were not merciful ...nemies. The taxing process was easy, and it was not meant for squandering, but was for strengthening the reserve fund. The soldiers were recruited from al ...
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  • ...ial bodily needs, which is a rare stage not to be imitated by foolish men, but to be worshiped by all. ...ial bodily needs, which is a rare stage not to be imitated by foolish men, but to be worshiped by all.</p> ...
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  • ...norance. Charity in the mode of goodness is recommended by the scriptures, but charity in the modes of passion and ignorance is not recommended, because i ...ṣṇa is the friend. Not only should he understand these principles himself, but he should try to convince others and propagate Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...
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  • ...the particles of Brahman are like sparks blissfully dancing within a fire, but there is a chance of their falling from the fire to smoke, although smoke i <div class="heading">But we are prone to fall down, to be under the influence of prakrti.</div> ...
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  • ...of the Lord not only acquire the necessary knowledge in spiritual science, but also attain detachment from material connection and are thus promoted to th ...is the lord of the mode of ignorance. Ultimately, the material creation is but a temporary manifestation meant to give the chance of liberation to the con ...
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  • ...recommended in the Chāndogya Upaniṣad, enables one to achieve Brahmaloka, but if, on Brahmaloka, one does not cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then h .... Human consciousness should be used for elevation to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But when a person is too much attracted to his wife and family affairs, he does ...
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  • ...e at the lotus feet of the Lord is sometimes excused by the merciful Lord, but an offense at the feet of a devotee is very dangerous for one who actually ...e at the lotus feet of the Lord is sometimes excused by the merciful Lord, but an offense at the feet of a devotee is very dangerous for one who actually ...
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  • ...s by cultivation of knowledge, meditation in the mystic yoga system, etc., but one who surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa does not have to execute so many method ...
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  • ...e mind, as expressed by Arjuna, is accepted by the Personality of Godhead. But at the same time He suggests that by practice and detachment it is possible ...main in holy places like Vṛndāvana or some holy town where the Lord lived, but a pure devotee can live anywhere and create the atmosphere of Vṛndāvana ...
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  • ...By these yogic methods one may make a little progress toward bhakti-yoga, but without coming to the stage of devotional service one cannot understand wha ...yogī fully engaged in the service of the Lord sometimes becomes ensnared; but Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so strong that such an occasional falldown is ...
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  • ...iṣṇu. No one should satisfy himself, as is the rule in the material world, but one should satisfy Kṛṣṇa. So unless one satisfies Kṛṣṇa, one ca ...iṣṇu. No one should satisfy himself, as is the rule in the material world, but one should satisfy Kṛṣṇa. So unless one satisfies Kṛṣṇa, one ca ...
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  • ...sunderstanding a rope to be a snake is mentioned in the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad, but it is meant to explain the error of identifying the body with the soul. Sin ...the purpose, missionary purpose, here. We come here not to earn some money but to see that this culture is spread. So what is his question? ...
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  • ...rding to cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma... [Bg. 4.13], not by birth, but by quality. So anyone can be trained up first class, second class, as he li ...s="heading">Actually, children who have got their parents, they take care. But in spite of their parents being present, they are suffering for want of foo ...
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  • ...ven no protection while the higher animals are given so-called protection. But this is a great science which can be learned only by one who knows the scie ...n life. The human life is especially meant for knowing the science of God, but foolish creatures, especially in this age of Kali, instead of knowing God s ...
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  • ...There are innumerable entities, and they have innumerable demands; no one but Viṣṇu can fulfill the innumerable demands of all the innumerable living ...
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  • ...; sometimes they appear as old women and suck the blood of small children. But no such ghosts and evil spirits can remain where there is chanting of the h ...ent dies, no physician can revive him. There are many means of protection, but when one is doomed, none of the protective measures can help, and without Y ...
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  • ...>One who is unable to live for a moment without Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot but think of Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours a day, being engaged in devotional s ...rd protected all of them in all circumstances. The Lord protects everyone, but one who depends completely upon Him is especially looked after by the Lord. ...
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  • ...ve words. He emphasized that Bhīṣmadeva was undoubtedly the greatest hero, but he was an old man, so everyone must especially think of his protection from ...s that surrendering unto Him is the guarantee for all protection from Him, but unfortunate persons are unable to accept this proposition, and therefore th ...
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  • ...are generally considered a mixture of the modes of ignorance and passion, but we must understand that every incarnation of the Supreme Personality of God ...In the Vedas there are sanction for killing animal in a special sacrifice, but people took it as general, and they began to kill animals like anything, un ...
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  • ...t of begging, after neglecting their own property. That was my view point. But all the same we must take only the opportunity of service without any limit ...use in America because what shall I do with them after becoming a Sannyasi but for the facility of work our own house is absolutely required.</p> ...
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  • ...ty of life and property. That is government. Not only for the human being, but even for the ant. This is government. Not that I give protection to my brot ...g, the spiritual master will call, "My dear boys, come on. Take prasādam." But if he forgets to call somebody, he will not touch.</p> ...
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  • ...ecause you are big robber, therefore you are called 'Alexander the Great.' But my business is the same as yours-encroaching upon others' property. Why do ...g prasādam. Why? For Kṛṣṇa's sake. Otherwise, why should you work so hard? But we have voluntarily accepted, "Oh, Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied." This is ...
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  • ...hing is the property of God, and all living entities—not only human beings but even animals, birds, plants and so on—are children of God, everyone has t ...ārya's party who occupied the property of the Gauḍīya Maṭha are satisfied, but they could make no progress in preaching. Therefore by the result of their ...
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  • ...ered to be a purifying agent. One might consider this to be contradictory, but it is accepted because it is Vedic injunction, and indeed by accepting this ...of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. This spirit is demonic, because demons do not believe in God but simply enjoy the property of the Supreme. Since there is a great need of an ...
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  • ...in brāhmaṇa family, he is not śuddha; he is impure by birth. That is fact. But the devotee can change. This is new birth, undoubtedly. Just like these, ou ...h prevails throughout the animal kingdom. If there were nothing else to do but to love, women would be supreme." ...
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  • ...or Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa, or Nārāyaṇa śilā. Every house, it was being worshiped. But we have lost our culture.</div> ...like here you'll find the arcā-vigraha, worshiping the Deity, is going on. But if simply these thing go on, it will be happening... Because none of us are ...
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  • ...ue to hear of the sense-enjoyable tidings of the flickering mundane world, but will have very little time to hear about the eternal living force that move ...order to cultivate intelligence, one should be doubtful in the beginning. But doubting is not very favorable when information is received from the proper ...
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  • ...claimed the friendship of Maitreya Muni, not because he was Maitreya's son but because Maitreya was actually the friend of all who have lost their spiritu ...
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  • <div class="heading">There is no other criterion but obedience to the regulative principles of scriptures. ...ing to his whims is called demoniac or asuric. There is no other criterion but obedience to the regulative principles of scriptures. It is mentioned in Ve ...
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  • ...people in general pseudo religionists themselves become so-called ācāryas, but they do not even follow the principles of the ācāryas. ...to mislead the people in general they themselves become so-called acaryas, but they do not even follow the principles of the acaryas.</p> ...
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  • ...volving. Human beings, who are advanced in consciousness, are responsible, but not all of them are punishable. Those engaged in advanced pious activities ...
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  • ...G 2.71, Purport]]:''' The living entity cannot be desireless or senseless, but he does have to change the quality of the desires. A materially desireless ...g in any position of life. People are trying to make economic development, but according to śāstra, it is not possible to develop your economic position ...
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  • ...lf solely and fully in surrendering unto the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. But men with materialistic tendencies are more attracted to the politics, econo ...of oneself with the body and the material world, one is entrapped by māyā, but as soon as one understands that he is qualitatively the same substance as t ...
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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 ...in general occupy the administration by the strength of manipulated votes, but they are never trained in the primary duties of the king, and that is also ...
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  • ...is like Sanaka and Sanātana are authorities in philosophical speculations. But Śrī Nārada Muni is the prime authority for transcendental devotional ser ...all worldly affairs. The devotee can understand by the signal of the Lord, but others take it to be unfavorable and frustrating. Mahārāja Parīkṣit wa ...
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  • ...gītā or in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, are undoubtedly transcendental subjects, but even though they are so, such transcendental matters are not to be received ...g. This is called paramparā. You try to understand with your intelligence, but you cannot make any addition or alteration. That is not possible. Therefore ...
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  • ...ss manager if he can manage. I wish I would have gone immediately to India but if I go just now the work here will suffer. So please be with me in this pr ...rk. He is working outside, editing also, and looking after other business. But combinedly you can do very nicely. Also, the New York center must be entire ...
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  • ...s important. Just like Kṛṣṇa. In the books He has given many instructions, but then He says, sarva-dharmān parityaja. If one says that "You gave me instr Madhudviṣa: We know it, but does someone else know it? ...
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  • ...ome boys like you; and I felt too much aggrieved when some of you left me, but I was confident that all of your would come again, because Krishna Consciou ...17 June, 1968]]:''' The materialists will think that Krishna was wounded, but one who knows what is Krishna, knows also that He is worshiped by the arrow ...
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  • ...Therefore, consciousness is not due to any amount of material combination, but to the spirit soul.</p> ...ren of a particular man. The body develops because of the soul's presence, but the soul has neither offshoots nor change. ...
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  • ...he obtains education and enlightenment from the superior lessons of Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa is not like the forgetful soul. If so, Kṛṣṇa's teachings ...is artificial; by induced extraneous help it remains for a limited period, but when the intoxication of the drug is finished or when one is awake, the con ...
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  • ...e at the same time are seen differently placed according to previous work. But all such material positions are impermanent.</p> ...Godhead Kṛṣṇa. The queens at Dvārakā were svakīya, or duly married wives, but the damsels of Vraja were young friends of the Lord while He was unmarried. ...
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  • ...Fault-finding men will always be there, that is the history of the world, but one has to execute his prescribed duties.</div> ...was political upheaval, protest, and window-breaking, and a general havoc. But this unique procession has convinced them that our men are very nice and th ...
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  • ...e spiritual platform and duties on the material platform may be different, but the principle of following the authorized direction is always good for the ...e spiritual platform and duties on the material platform may be different, but the principle of following the authorized direction is always good for the ...
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  • ...influence of māyā is experienced by the part and parcel spiritual entity, but it cannot influence the Supersoul, the Paramātmā.</p> ...al service ultimately attain the Vaikuṇṭha planets in the spiritual world, but one who follows the principles of love in devotional service attains to the ...
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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 ...l; its true reality is experienced in the spiritual world. Material sex is but a perverted reflection of the original; the original is found in the Absolu ...
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  • ...tyle="display: inline;">Brahmacarya essentially means the vow not to marry but to observe strict celibacy (bṛhad-vrata). A brahmacārī or sannyāsī sh ...he Supreme Personality of Godhead by transcendental loving service. No one but the Lord Himself can teach this highest form of devotional service. Therefo ...
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  • ...etiring from fruitive activities, one at once becomes as good as Nārāyaṇa. But Lord Kṛṣṇa does not approve this principle. ...etiring from fruitive activities, one at once becomes as good as Nārāyaṇa. But Lord Kṛṣṇa does not approve this principle. Without purification of h ...
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  • ...he acted as a kṣatriya. Being transcendentally situated, they could do so; but as long as one is on the material platform, he must perform his duties acco ...understood by the particular people under their particular circumstances. But the mission is the same—to lead people to God consciousness and obedience ...
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  • ...advancement of knowledge means progress of knowledge in self-realization. But in the age of Kali the less intelligent men mistakenly consider the short l ...ase of Dhruva Mahārāja. While the scientist and philosopher go to the moon but are disappointed in their attempts to stay there and live, the devotee make ...
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  • ...="text">'''[[Vanisource:BG 2.64 (1972)|BG 2.64, Translation and Purport]]: But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his sens ...ned that one may externally control the senses by some artificial process, but unless the senses are engaged in the transcendental service of the Lord, th ...
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  • ...dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa. One's aim should be to achieve liberation, but because one cannot at once give up sense gratification, in the śāstras th ...and sense gratification according to the regulations given in the śāstras, but to attain liberation one must give up household life and place himself in t ...
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  • ...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 ...>Such unauthorized persons may be very learned by academic qualifications, but because they do not follow the principles of devotional service, hearing fr ...
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  • ...-gītā is combination of both. That is scientific. You should be religious, but should understand everything philosophically.</div> ...s. They cannot make any advance. The combination. You should be religious, but try to understand each and every line philosophically.</div> ...
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  • ...Karma is regulated action for the enjoyment of the fruit by the performer, but karma-yoga is action performed by the devotee for the satisfaction of the L ...of Lord Viṣṇu are called demigods, whereas nondevotees are called asuras." But bhakti-yoga is so powerful that both demigods and asuras can derive its ben ...
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  • ...conditioned souls in material nature are all eager for material enjoyment. But the Vedic directions are so made that one can satisfy one's perverted desir ...consciousness, and all of them will be described in the following verses. But, for the present, just the principle of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is descri ...
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  • ...n all incarnations of the Lord, therefore, the same principles are taught, but they appear to be higher and lower in varied circumstances. The higher prin ...have also seen the transcendental incarnation of God, the universal form, but that is unacceptable because it is clearly stated here that unless one beco ...
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  • ...o elevate a deer to spiritual consciousness, because, after all, a deer is but an animal. It was very dangerous for Bharata Mahārāja to sacrifice all hi ...
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  • ...n all incarnations of the Lord, therefore, the same principles are taught, but they appear to be higher and lower in varied circumstances.</div> ...n all incarnations of the Lord, therefore, the same principles are taught, but they appear to be higher and lower in varied circumstances. The higher prin ...
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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 ...
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  • ...luous activities of the living entities were covering Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but after the appearance of these two brothers, people's hearts are becoming cl ...="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although this is true, this is but the external reason for the Lord's incarnation. Please hear one other reaso ...
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  • ...o more argument. When we talk friendly there is argument, counterargument. But when there is order from guru there is no more argument. ...y behavior should be exactly like a kṣatriya, to fight for the just cause, but in this case I am denying. Therefore I am kṛpaṇa." Kṛpaṇa means one ...
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  • ...be illusioned, he is prone to cheat others, and his senses are imperfect. But if one carries out the order of the spiritual master by disciplic successio ...style="display: inline;">However, if one is born in a family of dog-eaters but is a pure devotee of the Lord, he can become a spiritual master." The concl ...
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  • ...Therefore, sometimes we find a student is doing everything nice goodness, but he is attacked by passion and ignorance, and he becomes entangled. ...he government, "You cannot adulterate, you cannot do this, you cannot...," but people, propensity is to adulterate. So you cannot get pure thing. The whol ...
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  • Prabhupāda: Yes. But there is no happiness. ...
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  • ...lity of being attacked with the other two qualities and thereby fall down. But when you transcend the material platform of goodness and come to this trans ...we are part and parcel of God. We are also pure in our original position. But since we have come in contact with this material nature, our inferiority in ...
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  • ...t is necessary to engage in the prescribed duties enjoined in the śāstras. But if the soul is engaged in his natural function of Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...ough he may fall down from the standard, there is no loss or evil for him. But if he carries out all the injunctions for purification in the śāstras, wh ...
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  • ..."><p style="display: inline;">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 ...al master, who is a pure Vaiṣṇava, one pleases the Personality of Godhead, but if one displeases the spiritual master one does not know where he is going. ...
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  • ...C Adi 3.14, Purport]]:''' The Lord seldom awards pure transcendental love, but without such pure love of God, freed from fruitive activities and empiric s ...rficially seem more exalted than a devotee in spontaneous love of Godhead. But in fact such spontaneous pure love is far superior to regulated devotional ...
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  • ...us person, although situated in this material world, does not see anything but Kṛṣṇa, anywhere and everywhere. This is the sign of a mahā-bhāgavat ...port]]:''' Mother Yaśodā wanted to bind Kṛṣṇa not in order to chastise Him but because she thought that the child was so restless that He might leave the ...
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  • ...he worship of the sun, there is some sort of demand made by the worshiper, but in the case of devotional service to the Lord, there is no question of dema ...s said that everyone comes before the Lord and offers Him exalted prayers, but the Lord does not feel as pleased when offered such prayers as He does when ...
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  • ...communion with the Lord, who is sitting as Paramātmā in everyone's heart. But such communion does not take place without devotional service. One who is t ...rences arise from forgetfulness of the transcendental service of the Lord. But when one is engaged in transcendental service through Kṛṣṇa conscious ...
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  • ...the Vaiṣṇava Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, who was neither a brāhmaṇa nor a sannyāsī but an ordinary householder. Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was a Vaiṣṇava, and con ...ad is cut off in a dream, in ignorance one suffers not only while dreaming but also while awake. Without the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, ...
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  • ...s strong faith is supposed to be productive of works of material goodness. But in material conditional life, no works are completely purified. They are mi ...eal principle of religious faith is situated in the mode of pure goodness, but because the heart is tainted we find different types of religious principle ...
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  • ...ecome angry. Just like somebody calls me, "You are dog," or "you are hog." But if I am self-realized, if I know perfectly well that I am not this body so ...ass, that's a fact. I am still smaller, smaller, I do not know how smaller but I am thinking of this body. An elephant is thinking that "I am so big," or ...
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  • ...erial conception of life makes us very eager to receive honor from others, but from the point of view of a man in perfect knowledge—who knows that he is Prabhupāda: But first of all (indistinct) you what is the special attraction? Your wife sai ...
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  • ...ith Kṛṣṇa who is within your heart. Then you'll talk. He is ready to talk, but He does not talk with rascals and fools. One must acquire the qualification ...." That, no. That instruction you'll get in the colleges and universities. But Kṛṣṇa's instruction is different. He'll give you instruction so that ...
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  • ...ally refers to the spiritual world. The abode of Lord Brahmā is Satyaloka, but because Lord Brahmā resides there, it is also sometimes called Brahmaloka. ...
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  • ...style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">But a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has no opportunity to engage his sens ...n the ultimate goal of life. The ultimate goal of life is Kṛṣṇa, or Viṣṇu, but those who are addicted to sex life cannot understand that their ultimate in ...
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  • ...are not meant to be threatened by nonexistence. Our existence is eternal. But somehow or other we are put into asat. Asat refers to that which does not e ...of the living entity. We are temporarily engaged in different activities, but all of these activities can be purified when we give up all these temporary ...
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  • ...nnyāsī is strictly forbidden to see the viṣayīs, the materialistic people. But Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, out of His boundless and causeless mercy, could ...s soon as you get the knowledge from authority, your knowledge is perfect. But if you want to get the knowledge by your own sense perception, you will nev ...
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  • ...the chief of the family, some, I mean to say, gift. They expect something. But according to these ācārya rulings, the gift was only 25%, not that whatev ...ding">So everything created or given by God we should not say it is false, but we should know that This is God gifted, it is God's possession, so I must u ...
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  • ...e cooking for our purpose. Ultimately, although we shall eat the prasādam, but when we cook, we don't think that we are cooking for ourself.</p> ...dings. That is required for propaganda work, for giving shelter to people. But our main business is how to turn the face of the bewildered conditioned sou ...
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  • ...ious purity. It is foolish to try to stop the activities of consciousness, but they can be purified when they are dovetailed with the Supreme. This consci ...
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  • ...tyle="display: inline;">The nature of the mind is flickering and unsteady. But a self-realized yogī has to control the mind; the mind should not control ...ust as the prisoners in the jails are not under the protection of the king but under the protection of a severe agent of the king. Without cow protection ...
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  • ...s not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna." Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, therefore, ...e manufacture by mental concoction through the subtle mind has no reality, but is simply a mental concoction.</div> ...
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  • ...he problems of life, his knowledge is called jñāna, or purified knowledge, but on realizing the actual solution of life, one becomes situated in the devot ...he problems of life, his knowledge is called jñāna, or purified knowledge, but on realizing the actual solution of life, one becomes situated in the devot ...
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  • ...-avatāras and yugāvatāras—all appearing on schedule all over the universe. But Lord Kṛṣṇa is the primeval Lord, the fountainhead of all avatāras. L ...ate, can understand that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appears by His internal potencies, but those who are deluded by duality and nescience think that the Supreme Perso ...
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  • ...style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">But a pure devotee knows that the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa is the master of all ...rse of the brāhmaṇa's son upon him was unjustified, as everyone else knew, but he did not want to counteract it because he knew also that the age of Kali ...
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  • ...ss of the grand universes. She gives all the necessities for our existence but as soon as we become an asura like the Mohisasuras, Ravanas, Hiranyakasipus <div class="heading">And so he fought very hard to kill Arjuna, but with Krishna as Protector, no one in world could kill Arjuna. ...
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  • .... Father and mother... Every father and mother wants to protect the child, but still, the child has to meet some danger and dies. There are so many experi ...d how everyone is thinking of servant of Kṛṣṇa. That is our real position. But Kṛṣṇa sometimes elevates some of His devotees. Just like Mother Yaśo ...
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  • ...interest. I want to be lord, you want to be lord: now there must be fight. But in the Vaikuṇṭha world there is one Lord and all others servitors. Ther ...e is cured. So the modern civilization defect is that he is not this body, but he does not know it. Therefore, in the Vedic literature it is said, yasyāt ...
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  • ...d its influence over another common living being by its all-pervasiveness, but the Supreme Supersoul, the Personality of Godhead, is unlimitedly able to e ...ust as the prisoners in the jails are not under the protection of the king but under the protection of a severe agent of the king.</p> ...
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  • ...s of the demigods, was protected by the talents and tactics of Śukrācārya, but Viśvarūpa, who was most powerful, composed a protective prayer known as t ...seeing her son in such pastimes, did not show any sign of restricting Him, but rather began to watch her child with eagerness, enjoying these childhood pa ...
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  • ...nted to give over his acquired position in the heavenly kingdom to Yayāti, but he did not accept it. Yayāti went to the heavenly planet along with great ...just to estimate His qualities as far as a human being is able to see Him. But even if it is so, the above qualities can be divided into many subheadings. ...
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  • ...Better to avoid it; if not possible, to have in a regulated married life. But in all circumstances, our primary necessity is to advance in K.C.</div> <div class="heading">Yes, a woman requires protection. But normally we regard that any unmarried woman with children should take secur ...
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  • ...like these Pāṇḍus, their mother, Kuntī, she was very, very qualified lady. But still, after the death of her husband, she always remained with the sons. T ...t attraction for woman. Woman has got attraction for man. That is general. But when they are united by marriage, the attraction becomes very acute, hṛda ...
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  • ...omb of his mother. The mother was anxious to give protection to the child, but the child was fortunate that he was hearing directly from the Nārada. And ...government has to take. The responsibility is increasing, so many things, but this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will solve all the questions. It is ...
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  • ...ept as slaves, but they are like children. Children are not given freedom, but that does not mean that they are kept as slaves. The demons have now neglec ...ughter of a great king, Svāyambhuva Manu, and was qualified and beautiful, but she was completely dependent on the protection of her husband. According to ...
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  • ...with playing cradles. Otherwise, there was no need of the material world. But when they become intoxicated with the power of material science to exploit ...hers, who were in the marginal position, being neither friends nor enemies but slightly in love of Godhead by appreciating the beauty of His face, were at ...
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  • ...o teach us the process. If He does not do so, the common man may go wrong. But in the advanced stage, when one can understand the transcendental nature of ...w also that I have no genuine devotion for the service of Your lotus feet, but because Your Lordship is inconceivably powerful, You can do what is impossi ...
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  • ...><p style="display: inline;">But ye tu bhajanti māṁ bhaktyā teṣu te mayi: "But anyone who is devoted to Me, oh, I have got particular attention for him." ...harma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge. He comes down not only once, but He comes down many, many times, many, many times. Because the, this materia ...
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  • <div class="heading">The actual protectress is the material nature, but Viṣṇu is her Lord. He is the Lord of everything. Lord Janārdana is the ...aḥ sarva-śabdāś ca tasminn eva. Actually the original cause is Lord Viṣṇu, but out of ignorance people think that matter is the cause of everything. ...
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  • ...ana Hill. It is best, therefore, that one not try to imitate the powerful, but simply follow their instructions; nor should one try to occupy their posts .... There are many things which hinder one from entering devotional service. But by the association of pure devotees all these obstacles are removed. The ne ...
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  • ...alsely claim to be higher participants in the internal energy of the Lord, but factually the Lord's activities in relation with the external energy and th ...times of the creation, maintenance or annihilation of the material worlds. But a pure devotee knows that there is no difference between the pastimes of th ...
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  • ...urport]]:''' Sometimes the Lord gives extraordinary powers to His devotee, but the devotee knows always that the power belongs to the Personality of Godhe ...e, the conditioned soul is fully under the control of the law of the Lord. But, due to illusion only, he thinks himself independent in his activities.</di ...
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  • ...aster, everyone is under His orders, and no one is above Him to order Him. But when He finds that a pure devotee is ordering Him, He obtains transcendenta ...iric philosophers, mystics and devotees are all called transcendentalists, but one who is a pure devotee is the best of all.</div> ...
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  • <div class="heading">A pure devotee has no interest but to act on behalf of the Supreme Lord.</div> ...s is actually based on oneness of interest. A pure devotee has no interest but to act on behalf of the Supreme Lord. When one has even a tinge of personal ...
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  • ...the Pāṇḍavas, and we now are dealing with the topics of Mahārāja Parīkṣit, but because all these topics are related to the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, they ar ...'[[Vanisource:SB 3.7.39|SB 3.7.39, Purport]]:''' Sūris are great scholars, but they may not always be anagha, or spotless. The anagha-sūri is one who is ...
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  • ...six cakras, is suggested here. A pure devotee does not practice such yoga, but because he is always engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, at death he can ...by the word ananya-cetāḥ, in pure bhakti-yoga the devotee desires nothing but Kṛṣṇa. A pure devotee does not desire promotion to heavenly planets, ...
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  • ...nd some repetition in the descriptions of the qualifications of a devotee, but this is just to emphasize the fact that a devotee must acquire all these qu ...Undoubtedly the Lord is always within the hearts of all living creatures, but they hardly know about it because they are deluded by the illusory material ...
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  • ...main in holy places like Vṛndāvana or some holy town where the Lord lived, but a pure devotee can live anywhere and create the atmosphere of Vṛndāvana ...">Actually the Lord is not perceivable by our present materialized senses, but when one is convinced of the presence of the Lord by a practical service at ...
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  • ...oprietor of every planet and the supreme friend of all beings. No one else but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa can claim to be the proprietor of everything within ...se of that state. One should not have asked him any question at that time, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa wanted to prove that His pure devotees are always so ...
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  • ...called bhakti. Activities in bhakti appear to be like ordinary activities, but they are not contaminated.</p> ...but for us there is the affinity of being affected by the inferior modes. But the Lord, being the Supreme, is never affected. That is the difference betw ...
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  • ...e to bad association. There was but one victim like Ajāmila in those days, but in this age of Kali the poor innocent students are daily victims of cinemas ....40]]). It is certainly a great fall to go from human life to animal life, but in the case of Bharata Mahārāja or any devotee, devotional service to the ...
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  • ...Supreme Personality of Godhead alone is complete transcendental knowledge, but according to the different processes of understanding He appears differentl ...ental, and they refer to Supersoul. Supersoul is also described as puruṣa, but the word Bhagavān directly refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, w ...
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  • ...ṇa consciousness, one may not fully discharge the injunctions of the Lord, but because one is not resentful of this principle and works sincerely without ...itual life the same distinction is there, the same individuality is there, but in pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...
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  • ...hmaṇa, a cow, and an old man they should be given protection, not freedom, but protection.</div> ...hmaṇa, a cow, and an old man they should be given protection, not freedom, but protection.</div> ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...owed this by his personal example. Brahmā has a fabulous duration of life, but he was obliged to give up his body due to his grievous sin, even though he ...ct the devotees, the Lord not only satisfies them by His personal presence but also teaches them so that they will not fall down from devotional service. ...
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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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ..." 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...scendental arts of music and dance displayed by the Lord in His rāsa-līlā. But without having the Vedic knowledge one can hardly understand the transcende <div class="heading">Indra and Vṛtrāsura not only fought, but also engaged in philosophical discourses. ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...''' 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • {{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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...d ... niscyad... tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt. Simply enthusiasm but no work. But you must be engaged in the prescribed duties of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. ...ery nicely his prescribed duties according to his religion, very good boy, but if he does not develop to hear about Kṛṣṇa, or God, this propensity.. ...
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  • ...e strongest human being. She met him in his room and expressed her desires but Arjuna sustained his unimpeachable character by closing his eyes before Urv ...f Godhead is undoubtedly equal to everyone. He has no friend and no enemy, but as one desires benefits from the Lord, the Lord is very pleased to award th ...
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  • ...e="display: inline;">One may live in the darkest jungle alone out of home, but a steadfast devotee knows very well that he is not alone. The Supreme Perso ...cannot reach there by any material means like a sputnik or space capsule. But one can certainly reach there after leaving this present body, and one must ...
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  • ...e mind cannot be stopped, for they are the reflection of the eternal soul, but the quality of the activities can be changed from matter to the transcenden ...
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  • ...sages, philosophers and transcendentalists who try to conquer the senses, but in spite of their endeavors, even the greatest of them sometimes fall victi ...on. This is actually seen. Furthermore, if one engages not only in hearing but in trying to broadcast the message of devotional activities as well, or if ...
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  • ...d, even though he may not be a brāhmaṇa, is more powerful than a brāhmaṇa. But a powerful devotee never misuses the power for personal benefit. Whatever p ...acandra attempted to bridge the Indian Ocean to reach the island of Laṅkā, but Śrī Hanumānjī, the unalloyed devotee of the Personality of Godhead, cou ...
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  • ...'s garlanding the muni was not sufficient cause for being cursed to death, but since there was no way to retract the curse, the King was informed to prepa ...dha. Sometimes cows were sacrificed (gavālambha), not for eating purposes, but to give them new life in order to show the potency of the mantra. In this 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...es to preach our philosophy, and they referred to Bhagavad-gītā and so on, but unfortunately not a single person became a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, not a si ...nately not a single person became a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, not a single person. But as we presented Bhagavad-gītā as it is, within five years, thousands and ...
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  • ...f the Lord. The incarnation for this age especially preaches this process, but only Kṛṣṇa Himself can explain the confidential loving service perfor ...Kṛṣṇa. Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but He always engages in describing Kṛṣṇa and thus enjoys transcendental ...
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  • ...like Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumāra have no material desire, but sometimes they travel all over the universe, out of their own accord, to pr ...nce of God, who is then generally approached as the cosmic order-supplier. But Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's transcendental mission is to distribute l ...
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  • ...chanting) ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23]]), all that he has done is but a waste of time. Māyāvādī philosophers, who do not understand the relat ...ha, or retired person; and the sannyāsī, or the person in renounced life), but if a person is lacking in devotion or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he cannot ...
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  • ...style="display: inline;">You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the c ...ing one's prescribed duties. The Lord advised that Arjuna not be inactive, but that he perform his prescribed duty without being attached to the result. O ...
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  • ...country may have different types of sacrifice to please the Supreme Lord, but the central point in pleasing Him is ascertained in the Bhāgavatam, and it ...
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  • ...o defend himself and his Mäyäväda school by jugglery of logic and grammar, but the Lord defeated him by His forceful arguments. He affirmed that we are al ...oswāmī) understood that Lord Caitanya is no other than Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, but He has appeared as a devotee just to deliver love of Kṛṣṇa to everyon ...
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  • ...ium. Either you do it, satisfy your senses, or you satisfy Kṛṣṇa's senses. But when you satisfy Kṛṣṇa's senses, you become perfect, and when you sat ...Ultimately, I am loving a cat or dog or something else. The love is there, but we have misplaced the love. As soon as we replace our love to Kṛṣṇa, ...
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  • ...straight narration; he did not manufacture anything or add interpretation, but explained whatever he had heard from his spiritual master. Thus he accepted ...sciplic succession. He offers obeisances not to his spiritual master alone but to the whole paramparā, the chain of disciplic succession beginning with L ...
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  • ...2.8|CC Adi 12.8, Purport]]:''' Therefore, we do not belong to any faction. But because the two parties, busy dividing the material assets of the Gaudiya M ...-called scholars and philosophers are doing. They do not understand Kṛṣṇa, but talking all nonsense, and such things are very much appreciated by others. ...
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  • ...he Sanoḍiyā brāhmaṇas are considered to be in the lower status of society, but the Lord accepted meals in the family of such a brāhmaṇa also because Hi ...straight narration; he did not manufacture anything or add interpretation, but explained whatever he had heard from his spiritual master. Thus he accepted ...
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  • ...ally good because all of them indicate the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But because these sixteen are especially recommended for this age, people shoul ...ords of our spiritual master and started in a humble way—in a helpless way—but due to the spiritual force of the order of the supreme authority, this move ...
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  • ...ated in devotional service. To acknowledge that God is great is something, but not much. Caitanya, preaching as an ācārya, a great teacher, taught that The word caitanya means living force. As living entities, we can move, but a table cannot because it does not possess living force. Movement and activ ...
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  • ...ice. There are many citizens who have complete sense of national knowledge but out of many of them, one who is engaged in national service like Washington ...ting agent of matter. I do not know whether this word is in Bhagavad-gita, but praii means transcendental and drabya means matter, that which exists. This ...
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  • ...cuse them." This is sādhu. He is personally being disturbed by the demons, but still, he is merciful to the general people. They are suffering for want of ...The fortunate person will be attracted, unfortunate may not be attracted, but they have to do the duty. It is very simple.</p> ...
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  • ...ome of the people may appear to be atheistic or agnostic or philosophical, but actually there is no knowledge of philosophy. As for the common man, if he ...f one is not so advanced he should not accept the renounced order of life. But even if one has accepted the renounced order of life without sufficient kno ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...hakto 'si sakhā ceti. Because Kṛṣṇa's friend. Everything is done by Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa... And Arjuna is devotee.</p> ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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