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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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  • ...="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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  • ...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 ...
    110 KB (17,886 words) - 15:06, 20 June 2020
  • ...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 ...
    34 KB (5,376 words) - 07:32, 10 July 2022
  • ...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 ...
    61 KB (9,926 words) - 00:43, 19 May 2018
  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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. ...
    50 KB (7,743 words) - 16:58, 17 January 2022
  • ...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 ...
    38 KB (6,019 words) - 07:45, 22 July 2022
  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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. 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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  • ...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 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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  • ...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. ...
    110 KB (17,643 words) - 05:43, 23 April 2019
  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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