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  • ...Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Before this Battle of Kurukṣetra from Dvārakā, He sent his uncle Akrūra: "Just go to Hastināpura, New Delhi, and see what is the sit ...usiness. Then kṣatriya, next, second-class man. So what is his livelihood? His livelihood: to take tax. The kṣatriyas were entrusted certain villages, t ...
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  • ...ord is to be considered completely liberated at present, and in the future his going back home, back to Godhead, is guaranteed. He is above all materialis ...ll the fallen souls back to Godhead, still, because he is Kṛṣṇa conscious, his path to Vaikuṇṭhaloka is open. He personally becomes qualified to enter ...
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  • ...lanet earth, where he has exploited the resources of nature to the best of his ability. He wants to go to the moon or the planet Venus to exploit resource ...l of the Lord, but when he is thrown into the material world on account of his desire to lord it over material energy, he becomes conditioned by the three ...
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  • ...very important meeting of the planning commission, and he had to surrender his life, wife, children, house, land, wealth, etc. ...very important meeting of the planning commission, and he had to surrender his life, wife, children, house, land, wealth, etc. During the political upsurg ...
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  • ...e certainly reaches one of the spiritual planets, according to the mode of his practice. The devotees of Kṛṣṇa enter the Kṛṣṇa planet, Goloka ...class="heading">In the Bhagavad-gītā Lord Kṛṣṇa gives only a small hint of His personal abode, Goloka Vṛndāvana, which is the supermost planet in the s ...
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  • ...employment. Then there will be peace. If a person is employed according to his natural tendency, he becomes successful, he becomes successful. But if you ...who is your father? Is your father a brāhmaṇa?" No. We don't take account. His father may be anything; it doesn't matter. But if he has got tendency to ac ...
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  • Apart from this, Kṛṣṇa can eat the food with any one of His transcendental senses. He can eat by seeing the food or by touching it. Nor Although Śrī Gopāla ate everything offered, still, by the touch of His transcendental hand, everything remained as before. ...
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  • ...y the true Lord Kapila, the incarnation of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who explained it to His mother, Devahūti. It is clearly explained by Him that the puruṣa, or the ...t]]:''' Śrīpāda Rāmānujācārya has also refuted the arguments of Śaṅkara in his own commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra, which is known as the Śrī-bhāṣy ...
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  • ...ṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs. 5.1). The Lord is the supreme cause, and His form has nothing to do with the material modes of nature.</p> ...is clear from this verse, however, that Advaita Prabhu, although retaining His separate identity, is nondifferent from the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...beautiful transcendental features of the Lord. Because of the fragrance of His lotus feet, carried by the air and mixed with the aroma of tulasī, their m ...monism, for it was required at that time. Otherwise there was no need for his preaching Māyāvāda philosophy. ...
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  • ...age Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana Vyāsa is the author of all Vedic literature, of which his works Vedānta-sūtra, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Mahābhārata are very popu ...ar janma jayāya. He asked the sage whether everything was going on well in his endeavor to conquer the repetition of birth and death. The whole process of ...
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  • ...student, he placed the matter before his master and questioned Kṛṣṇa as to his best course of action. In answer, Lord Kṛṣṇa elaborately explained ka .... Such men do not know that after a hard struggle for life one must change his body, with no certainty of what kind of body he will receive next. Those wh ...
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  • ...ore, He is called bhaktānāṁ māna-vardhanaḥ, "He who increases the honor of His devotees." By distributing Sāṅkhya He would increase the honor of the de ...elements because everyone who wants to be a prominent philosopher invents his own way. In India there are many parties of philosophers, such as the dvait ...
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  • ...religion speak, was fully satisfied, and without mistake or regret he gave his reply.''' ...nceivable to our present imperfect senses. Lord Caitanya therefore defined His theory of philosophy as acintya (inconceivable), and as confirmed in the Bh ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...y. He is happy by his knowledge. He'll satisfy himself. If he does not get his food, then he will think that "This day Kṛṣṇa desired that I should n ...Vedic knowledge is to understand Krishna. And Krishna can be understood by His devotee who has been fortunate to have a little fraction of the Lord's merc ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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