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  • <div class="heading">Amongst all of the planets in the spiritual sky there is one supreme planet called Goloka Vṛndāvana, which is the original planet in ...l inconveniences. Amongst all of the planets in the spiritual sky there is one supreme planet called Goloka Vṛndāvana, which is the original planet in ...
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  • ..., purified person in the society. If there is one brāhmaṇa in a family, or one society, the whole family, whole society becomes sanctified.</div> ...ha. And the vaiśyas, two āśramas: brahmacārī and gṛhastha. And śūdra, only one āśrama, only gṛhastha. A śūdra is never offered sannyāsa. A... Only ...
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  • ...dental senses. He can eat by seeing the food or by touching it. Nor should one think that it is necessary for Kṛṣṇa to eat. He does not become hungr “If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will ...
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  • <div class="heading">One who joins with an ulterior purpose, to get material benefit or personal gra ...h 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 gra ...
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  • ...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, for su ...
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  • ...taught the philosophy of surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One who has surrendered to the Supreme can make further progress by learning to ...unto the Supreme, the sambhūta. Real service to humanity is rendered when one teaches surrender to and worship of the Supreme Lord with full love and ene ...
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  • [[Category:Simultaneously One and Different|2]] ...are three, and therefore they are separate, but at the same time they are one. This is the philosophy of simultaneous oneness and difference, which is ca ...
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  • ...ywhere, but due to being differently received, it appears to be different. One should not, therefore, accept the reflection of the moon on the water as ac ...were impersonalists or protagonists of the philosophy of monism, becoming one with the Lord. But as soon as they saw the Lord's features, their minds cha ...
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  • ...opt the service of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. If one is convinced of this philosophy of life, that is faith.</div> ...e in a condemned life of miseries. This material body continues as long as one is not detached from the false conception of lording it over material natur ...
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  • ...s not advisable to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa in a secluded place, where one may acquire only cheap adoration from the innocent public. Arjuna also thou ...sons also cannot understand the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Even if one is not greedy for material possessions but is too attached to family life, ...
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  • <div class="heading">Philosophy means to seek after the right knowledge of one's own self, or the knowledge of self-realization. ...soners are always fearful as within a prison house. In the prison house no one can violate the jail rules and regulations, and violating the rules means a ...
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  • ...ding">Unless one is perfectly conversant with the law of the Supreme Lord, one cannot speak such things touching philosophical truths.</div> ...one. Unless one is perfectly conversant with the law of the Supreme Lord, one cannot speak such things touching philosophical truths. The Emperor, being ...
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  • ...([[Vanisource:BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]) "Only by devotional service can one understand Me." Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī has composed a nice verse in thi ..."My dear Vyāsadeva, you are great personality, but do you think as long as one is situated in the bodily plane or in the mental plane, does he derive any ...
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  • ...style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should not, therefore, misunderstand that the sāṅkhya-yoga mentioned her ...f. The indirect process is philosophical speculation, by which, gradually, one may come to the point of Kṛṣṇa consciousness; and the other process i ...
    112 KB (16,749 words) - 01:30, 19 May 2018
  • <div class="heading">By Sāṅkhya philosophical research one comes to the conclusion that a living entity is not a part and parcel of th ...ment. Detachment from matter and attachment to Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. One who can see this sees things as they are.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Performing One's Duty|1]] ...wo kinds of sva-dharmas, specific duties. As long as one is not liberated, one has to perform the duties of his particular body in accordance with religio ...
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  • ...ern civilization, sex life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. Therefore, sex life is not un ...eme Lord. Unless, therefore, one is beyond the boundary of this nescience, one cannot get free from the threefold miseries of material life. That is the l ...
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  • ...lso 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 Kardama Muni ...ent in the behavior of the gopīs; therefore Lord Caitanya declared that no one can worship the Supreme Lord by any method which is better than the method ...
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  • ...ave a little fraction of the Lord's mercy. Bhagavatam says, "My Dear Lord, one who has a little bit of mercy of the rays of Your lotus feet can understand ...
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  • ...iv style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draw ...the method of leaving his body in perfect consciousness, transferring from one planet to another is as easy as an ordinary man's walking to the grocery st ...
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  • ...them have presented a philosophical path by themselves. Patañjali is also one of them, and all these six great ṛṣis have their own way of thinking, e ...stand the Absolute Truth simply by mental speculation or logical argument. One has to follow the authorities. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ [Cc. Ma ...
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  • ...the Deity? Although the personalist and the impersonalist will fight with one another perpetually, a perfect devotee in Kṛṣṇa consciousness knows t ...the instruction of the Lord can be understood by the devotees only and no one else. ...
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  • ...y Krsna Consciousness mission"|"cooperate with my mission"|"cooperate with one another in our mission"|"cooperate with the mission"|"cooperate with this a ...got some of the above assets of the above four principles if not at least one of them must we have and we can engage them in the service of the Lord. Sri ...
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  • ...upreme Lord, is auspicious for all living beings residing in every planet. One who takes it as belonging to a particular sect is certainly mistaken. Śrī ...
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  • <div class="heading">One who enlightens his disciple and saves him from rotting in the darkness of i ...Therefore everyone needs to be enlightened with transcendental knowledge. One who enlightens his disciple and saves him from rotting in the darkness of i ...
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  • ...a vānaprastha and finally a sannyāsī to take advantage of the duration of one's life by engaging oneself fully in self-realization. Sannyāsa does not me "One's devotional service is spoiled when he becomes too entangled in the follow ...
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  • ...all material lust. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is recommended that whether one is a pure devotee and is free from all material desires, or is full of mate <div class="heading">By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord</div> ...
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  • ...strengthen the mind by use of intelligence. If by intelligence one engages one's mind in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, by complete surrender unto the Supreme ...king are not one and the same. An orphan is really poor because he has no one to take care of him, but a beloved son of a rich man, although he appears t ...
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  • ...eatures in the ocean of nescience. By the grace of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu one can have real understanding of the essence of knowledge by avoiding these s ...
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  • ...vanced he comes to the knowledge of impersonal Brahman and Paramātmā. When one is fully purified, he realizes that his constitutional position is to be th ...n—ārta (one who is distressed), arthārthī (one in need of money), jijñāsu (one who is inquisitive) and jñānī (a person in knowledge)—try to understan ...
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  • ...et liberation. The theory that there is no need of austerity in life, that one can go on speculating and everything will be nice, is recommended neither i ...satisfying Him. The purport is that human life is meant for understanding one's relationship with the Supreme Lord, and by acting in that way any human b ...
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  • ...from the tattva-vit, not from the so-called scholars and politicians. No. One who knows the truth, you have to hear from him. And if you stick to that pr ...
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  • ...ther to forget. Actually, His mercy is not exhibited in partiality towards one and enmity towards another. The living entity, as part and parcel of the Lo ...
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  • ...s above, therefore He is not within this creation. We cannot take Kṛṣṇa as one of the created beings like us. We are all created beings. But Kṛṣṇa i ...s not want that "I shall show some magic and people will be attracted." If one is Kṛṣṇa-bhakta, he attracts thousands without any magic. The only ma ...
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  • ...wn as Pālapāḍā, is situated in the district of Nadia within a forest about one mile south of the Cākadaha railway station. The Ganges flows nearby. It is ...
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  • ...for the natural sequence within devotional service, and at that time, when one cries or dances or sings, it is approved. A person artificially showing sym ...
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  • ...ves in the cycle of birth and death on higher and lower planetary systems. One should better take to the spiritual world to enjoy an eternal life full of <div class="heading">One should reach up to that platform of understanding the Supreme Personality o ...
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  • ...ng">From any stage of life, or from the time of understanding its urgency, one can begin regulating the senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional se ...So, from any stage of life, or from the time of understanding its urgency, one can begin regulating the senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional se ...
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  • ...revive that svarūpa, and that stage is called svarūpa-siddhi—perfection of one's constitutional position.</p> <div class="heading">One has to undergo severe types of penance, otherwise no one can become an important figure in this material world. Why, then, are there ...
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  • ...gītā, “My supreme abode is a transcendental place from which, having gone, one never returns to this material world. Anyone who attains the supreme perfec ...ed prāṇa-maya, or consciousness of one’s existence. After this stage, when one is situated on the mental platform, his consciousness is called mano-maya. ...
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  • ...xt"><p style="display: inline;">A strong faith that by Kṛṣṇa consciousness one will be elevated to the highest perfection of life is called vyavasāyātmi ...sness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activities are on the absolut ...
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  • ...gavad-gītā. By my mental speculation, by rascal interpretation, by showing one's scholarship, you cannot understand Bhagavad-gītā. That is not possible. <div class="heading">In order to know that science, one has to approach a perfect teacher.</div> ...
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  • <div class="heading">One who has perfectly heard from the perfect source becomes convinced about the ...ds of the total society. Hearing is solidified by the process of chanting. One who has perfectly heard from the perfect source becomes convinced about the ...
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  • ...He likes by perfect planning, although personally He has nothing to do. No one is greater than or equal to Him. That is the verdict of the Vedas.</div> ...He likes by perfect planning, although personally He has nothing to do. No one is greater than or equal to Him. That is the verdict of the Vedas.</div> ...
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  • ...ng">Perfect knowledge is acquired from the ācāryas, or liberated souls. No one can be perfect in knowledge without being trained by the paramparā system< ...e." Perfect knowledge is acquired from the acaryas, or liberated souls. No one can be perfect in knowledge without being trained by the parampara system. ...
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  • ...many births, when one perfect in knowledge surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa, or when one attains Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then everything is revealed to him, as e ...o the submissive aural receiver who is bona fide by service and surrender. One cannot challenge the authority of the Supreme and know Him also at the same ...
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  • ...be performed strongly in perfect knowledge and with transcendental vision. One must be strongly renounced and must engage in austerity and perform mystic ...Vanisource:SB 4.24.43|SB 4.24.43, Purport]]:''' Without perfect knowledge, one cannot act perfectly. The real source of knowledge is the vācaḥ, or soun ...
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  • ...such dictations of different temperaments, he is perpetually unhappy. When one actually feels this and turns his intelligence to inquiring about it from t ...fice of saṅkīrtana. According to the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, if one compares saṅkīrtana-yajña to other yajñas, he is a pāṣaṇḍī, an ...
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  • ...s the perfect institution for humanity—must be supported by bhakti-yoga if one at all wants security in life.</div> ...: to think of the lotus feet of the Lord. Lord Śiva therefore advises that one who is actually serious about purification must engage himself in this type ...
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  • ...want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all suffering, then one is not to be considered a perfect human being. ...
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