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  • ...tion and Purport]]: O King, your uncle Dhṛtarāṣṭra, his brother Vidura and his wife Gāndhārī have gone to the southern side of the Himalaya Mountains, ...began to describe the future movements of his uncle, which he could see by his foreseeing powers</div> ...
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  • <div class="heading">From the personal example of Śrī Nārada Muni in his previous birth, it is clear that the service of the Lord begins with the se ...rvice, accept such a servant as the spiritual master and engage himself in his (the spiritual master's) service.</p> ...
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  • ...a pure state are called devotees. The Supreme Lord becomes the devotee of His devotees. If a reciprocal relationship is not present between the devotee a ...t Vedānta-sūtra is personal philosophy. So he was convinced, and he became his disciple.</div> ...
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  • ...ving entities associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him and take part in His association, then they also become happy.</div> ...ving entities associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him and take part in His association, then they also become happy.</div> ...
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  • ...the duty"|"performs the duty"|"performs the duties"|"perform the duties of his particular body"}} ...duties. As long as one is not liberated, one has to perform the duties of his particular body in accordance with religious principles in order to achieve ...
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  • ...zation, sex life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. Therefore, sex life is not unreal. Its ...
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  • ...od that he has burned up the reactions of his work by perfect knowledge of his constitutional position as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality ...ne attains the supreme stage of Brahman simply by renouncing the result of his work for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord. That is the process of self- ...
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  • <div class="heading">The Supreme Lord and His transcendental abode are both sanātana, as are the living entities, and th ...ed by the Supreme Lord. That is called our pure life. The Supreme Lord and His transcendental abode are both sanātana, as are the living entities, and th ...
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  • ...little of his godly opulence. A devotee like Nārada can act wonderfully by his spiritual perfection, which every individual is trying to attain. Śrīla N ...ial modes, he tries to travel in space by spacecraft and so fails to reach his destination.</p> ...
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  • ...at the devotee always absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has no anxieties for his maintenance or protection. Being constantly absorbed in Kṛṣṇa conscio ...voracious eating capacity is compared to the eating of dogs and hogs, and his enjoyment in sex life is compared to that of hogs and goats.” ...
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  • ...ake in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activiti ...warded such powers. In other words, everyone is dependent for success upon His mercy alone, and all kinds of spiritual processes are but different degrees ...
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  • ...representing just like ordinary man like us, and Kṛṣṇa is Hṛṣīkeśa, giving His advice, perfect advice.</div> ...representing just like ordinary man like us, and Kṛṣṇa is Hṛṣīkeśa, giving His advice, perfect advice. If we take, if we read Bhagavad-gītā in the spiri ...
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  • ...olute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is all-pervading by His multi-energies, both material and spiritual. ...umines the transcendental sky, and as a tree spreads its roots, He spreads His extensive energies."</p> ...
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  • ...ee. The Lord, being the real tree, is here offered obeisances by Brahmā on his own behalf and also on behalf of Lord Śiva.</div> <div class="heading">Is He managing personally? No. He is managing through His potency.</div> ...
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  • ...are vividly described in the Mahābhārata. Arjuna was defeated, however, by his son Babhruvāhana at Maṇipura and fell unconscious when Ulūpī saved him ...age of the transcendental arts of music and dance displayed by the Lord in His rāsa-līlā. But without having the Vedic knowledge one can hardly underst ...
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  • ...ned scholars. Why then should he again request Śukadeva Gosvāmī to clarify his insufficient knowledge about the Lord? The reason is clear. Not only was Ś ...eading">The Lord discloses His form, even to the extent of measurement, to His pure devotees, and that is the meaning of yāvān, as explained by Śrīla ...
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  • ...mad after something... Kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ [Bg. 7.20]. When, then his knowledge becomes bewildered. They do not care to do anything, either sinfu ...
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  • ...ly of a brāhmaṇa, in the family of a rich man. For pious work, one can get his janma. And aiśvarya. Aiśvarya means you can become very rich man by pious ...
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  • ...t devotees of Kṛṣṇa offered prayers to Kṛṣṇa to please forgive him for all his sinful activities. So then this can be taken as prayers too.</p> ...eva sa mantavyaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.30 (1972)|BG 9.30]])? Unwillingly, by his practice, he has committed. That is excused. Not that "Because I have becom ...
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  • ...ake in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activiti ...thers, etc. But when one is fully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and is engaged in His transcendental loving service, one becomes indifferent to all these regulat ...
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  • <div class="heading">When Rāmacandra was angry and showed His red-hot eyes, the whole ocean became heated with that energy, so much so th ...sentiments of the dependent eternals. When Rāmacandra was angry and showed His red-hot eyes, the whole ocean became heated with that energy, so much so th ...
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  • ...Lord degraded Arjuna at that time to the status of an uncivilized man for his avowed acceptance of the cult of nonviolence. The administrative class must ...
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  • ...ng and that there is no contradiction. Therefore Lord Caitanya established His sublime doctrine: acintya bheda-and-abheda-tattva—simultaneous oneness an ...a and Kṛṣṇa as impersonal because he has no idea of service to Kṛṣṇa. Thus his only business is punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5 ...
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  • ...in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord.</p> ...kinsmen he would be happier than by enjoying the kingdom after conquering his cousins and brothers, the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. In both ways, the bas ...
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  • ...-open eyes, ceasing all material activities, desires some satisfaction for his personal self. But a person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for t ...empt 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 becomes ac ...
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  • ...d Caitanya Mahāprabhu advises, therefore, that one does not have to change his position. One simply has to hear from the perfect source (this is called pa ...taken this from this Vedic knowledge, and he has placed the whole thing in his imaginative way. Otherwise the evolutionary process is mentioned in the Ved ...
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  • ...free will. Thus He lies on the ocean of kāraṇa, from where He glances over His material nature, and the mahat-tattva is at once created. Thus electrified ...a perfect plan of natural sequence, and doing everything by the agency of His different potencies, He remains eternally the supreme independent.</div> ...
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  • ...rive for personal gain. Whereas a jñāna-yogī, karma-yogī or haṭha-yogī has his own selfish interests, a perfect devotee has no desire other than to please ...is always staying there, by His different manifestations of energy and by His plenary expansion He is present everywhere in all parts of the material and ...
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  • ...time being the London scheme. Brahmananda is shortly going there and after his return, we may all go together to London and start a branch there in grand ...king forward to beginning this activity there. Next month, Paramananda and his wife, Satyabhama, who is a qualified teacher, will be going to New Vrindaba ...
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  • <div class="heading">One who enlightens his disciple and saves him from rotting in the darkness of ignorance in this ma ...needs to be enlightened with transcendental knowledge. One who enlightens his disciple and saves him from rotting in the darkness of ignorance in this ma ...
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  • ...cation, immature sannyāsa is not recommended. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī writes in his Nectar of Instruction: ...
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  • ...sādhu has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime. ...s. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime."</p> ...
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  • ...all material contaminations surrender unto the Supreme Lord and engage in His devotional service</div> ...all material contaminations surrender unto the Supreme Lord and engage in His devotional service. As long as the material contamination is not completely ...
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  • ...s to his senses again by the mercy of the Lord and is set right to execute his devotional service.</p> ...ted person, in the name of prasāda, eats very luxurious foodstuffs. Due to his past sinful life he becomes attracted by Cupid and eats good food voracious ...
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  • ...ultimate goal of life. Let us all worship Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for His gracious mercy to the conditioned souls.</div> Prabhupāda: What is his philosophy? First of all he says the greatest number of people, generally.. ...
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  • ...d, it is supported that a murderer should be condemned to death so that in his next life he will not have to suffer for the great sin he has committed. Th ...rsonal Brahman and Paramātmā. When one is fully purified, he realizes that his constitutional position is to be the eternal servant of God. So by associat ...
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  • ...In other words, the spiritual master awakens the sleeping living entity to his original consciousness so that he can worship Lord Viṣṇu. This is the p ...s, "Without being empowered by the direct potency of Lord Kṛṣṇa to fulfill His desire and without being specifically favored by the Lord, no human being c ...
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  • ...evotee of the Lord naturally does not like to see anyone falling down from his real position"}} ...evotee of the Lord naturally does not like to see anyone falling down from his real position.</div> ...
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  • ...d just to show the example of perfect authority, and people have to follow His path.</div> ...d just to show the example of perfect authority, and people have to follow His path. The Vedic injunction is that one cannot understand the Absolute Truth ...
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  • ...class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell ...ng">For the perfect yogī who has attained success in the method of leaving his body in perfect consciousness, transferring from one planet to another is a ...
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  • ...on, he would easily transfer himself to the spiritual world after quitting his material body. Such meditation is still more conveniently performed by chan ...
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  • ...preme Personality of Godhead, who by His omniscience perfectly understands His own position and that of the conditioned living entity, represented by the ...of the society, somebody is servant of the country, somebody is servant of his wife or family, or some cats and dogs, ultimately. One must be a servant.</ ...
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  • ...the cause of creation, maintenance and annihilation. Prahlāda Mahārāja, in his prayers, has described the transcendental qualities of the Lord and has als ...ay perfectly follow religious rituals and ceremonies, he is simply wasting his time (śrama eva hi kevalam) if he does not attain this perfection.</div> ...
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  • ...raments, he is perpetually unhappy. When one actually feels this and turns his intelligence to inquiring about it from the right sources, he gets informat ...
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  • ...y to see the Lord within constantly but to see Him face to face and become His associate in Vaikuṇṭhaloka or Goloka Vṛndāvana. ...evotee conquer the unconquerable Supreme Personality of Godhead and become His associate after giving up the material body.</div> ...
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  • <div class="heading">Unless one is awakened to this position of questioning his suffering, unless he realizes that he doesn't want suffering but rather wan ...position and so on. Unless one is awakened to this position of questioning his suffering, unless he realizes that he doesn't want suffering but rather wan ...
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  • ...to the Supreme. The individual soul is part and parcel of the Supreme, and his position is to render transcendental service to the Lord. This transcendent ...
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  • ...class="purport text"><p>Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya, "The village of Maheśa Paṇḍita, which is known as Pālap ...
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  • ...created. He is above creation. Before creation, He was existing; therefore His existence is not within this creation. That is adhokṣaja. Within this cre ...sanas, dhyāna dhāraṇā, āsana, praṇāyāma. So where is śānti? He has to keep his head down and, what is called? Śīrṣāsana. That is also another āsana. ...
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  • ...d just to show the example of perfect authority, and people have to follow His path.</p> ...
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