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  • ...even more important than religious formularies. And because he was lacking in that knowledge, he should not have posed himself as a very learned man.</p> ...are placing great stress on the bodily necessities of life, not caring for the vital soul.</p> ...
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  • ...uman civilization"|"advancement of human civilization"|"human civilization has advanced"|"human civilization is advanced"|"human civilization will advance ...tic inventions are considered to be advancement of human civilization, but the result is that people grow more and more violent and more and more cruel, c ...
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  • ...you were false to them. By this falsity I mean illusion or in other words the false friendship and honours obtained thereby were but creation of maya and ...cent in the preaching work of Bhagavad-gita, which is the real function of the Mahatmas, you shall have to meet with such inglorious deaths as Mussolini, ...
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  • ...t is stated that anyone who lives on concocted ideas, without reference to the śāstras, never becomes successful and does not attain happiness or libera ...karṣati. When the mind and senses are engaged in material activities, one has to continue his material existence and struggle to attain happiness.</p> ...
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  • ...the duties, one must associate with devotees, and one must be very honest in dealing. Six things. If these six things are there, sure success.</p> ...v style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">God is the purest. So unless we are purest, we cannot approach God. Therefore it is st ...
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  • ...r whole life will become purified, and ultimately we will be able to reach the destination which is beyond this material sky (yad gatvā na nivartante tad ...rāhmaṇa, or he who is intelligent enough to utilize this body to solve all the problems of life. Ya etad akṣaraṁ gārgi viditvāsmāḻ lokāt praiti ...
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  • ...hose who are fit to assimilate the messages of Bhāgavatam are mentioned in the very beginning ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.2|SB 1.1.2]]): A bona fide audience fit ...s of Lord Caitanya, who appeared as a sannyāsī, and he himself came to see the Lord. Upon reaching Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Rāmānanda Rāya prostrated hims ...
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  • ...cousins and brothers, and he wanted to be sure of the fate of his sons on the battlefield. ...room of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. And so, Dhṛtarāṣṭra asked him about the situation on the battlefield.</p> ...
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  • ...xpressed in this verse, should never be encouraged at any time, especially in this age. ...xpressed in this verse, should never be encouraged at any time, especially in this age. It is not advised by Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...ars—one dollar equal to eight rupees—and they have come here. Why? Through the mercy of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p> ...nya Mahāprabhu personally said. Don't keep Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu compact in your room and take some monetary profit. This is not required. This is not ...
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  • ...s is generally known as yajña, or activities (sacrifices) simply meant for the satisfaction of Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...of meeting the Lord. And that is the perfect stage of meeting the Lord of the soul, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...abhu predicted that this culture of saṅkīrtana would be broadcast all over the world, from town to town and village to village. ...ṅkīrtana movement of Lord Caitanya. This avatāra of the Lord does not kill the miscreants, but delivers them by His causeless mercy.</p> ...
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  • ...orming devotional service, he attains all these, and at the end he reaches the supreme eternal abode.</p> ...ating among charity in goodness, in passion and in ignorance, as described in Bhagavad-gītā.</p> ...
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  • ...ent"|"Krsna consciousness movement is very important"|"Krsna consciousness movement is so important"}} [[Category:Importance of the Krsna Consciousness Movement|1]] ...
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  • ...ṛṣṇa consciousness-realization that there is no existence besides Kṛṣṇa is the platform of peace and fearlessness.</p> ...ṇa is very good, he has not yet gained adequate knowledge of Kṛṣṇa through the scriptures like Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā.</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">One has to give up all kinds of sense desire manufactured by mental concoction. ...thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness."</p> ...
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  • ...eaning to the word fire. Similarly, we must discover the essential part of the living being, that part which is his constant companion. That constant comp ...rofess a particular type of faith is not to profess one's sanātana-dharma. The rendering of service is sanātana-dharma.</p> ...
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  • ...al world, and parakīya is not exhibited anywhere in Vaikuṇṭha, but only in the portion of Goloka Vṛndāvana known as Vraja.</p> ...My heart. Nonetheless, I shall be done with all formalities and speak from the heart. Please hear."</p> ...
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  • ...So it is very much encouraging to me to learn of your activities there in the Bahama Islands.</p> ...e is in the right order of civilization because his very aim is to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> ...
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  • ...hing the eternal relation of living entity with the Absolute Truth of Whom the living entities are but parts &amp; parcels.</p> ...ty) and ignorance (the spirit of passive acceptance of being controlled by the laws of material nature).</p> ...
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  • ...rtamānasya. How he is situated (break) ...as it was everywhere, especially in India, that if one is not God conscious, he is a third-class rascal. That s <p>Prabhupāda: Who is realistic? The rascals?</p> ...
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  • ...) and the other class is called the asura (demonic or godless). As sons of the almighty Father Supreme Godhead, all individual living individuals have the ...ore a family unit and one should wonder as to why there is so much anomaly in this universal family affair.</p> ...
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  • ...e us and displays His pastimes, which are replicas of those pastimes found in His abode.</p> ...have no idea that one must think of the soul, and thus make a solution to the material miseries.</p> ...
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  • ...the lowest status of life." Many politicians of the world have fallen down in that way. Such downfalls only constitute more causes for lamentation.</p> ...and bad. The highest perfection of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is renunciation of the material conception of life. This state is automatically achieved by progre ...
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  • ...form of letter as the President and Acarya of the Gaudiya Sangha (Regd) in the following words and oblige.</p> ...ndi Swami Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja is engaged in preaching the cult in the western world.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"automatically satisfies the demigods"|"pranopaharac ca yathendriyanam"|"tathaiva sarvarhanam acyutejya" {{notes|VedaBase query: "4.31.14" or "automatically satisfies the demigods" or "pranopaharac ca yathendriyanam" or "tathaiva sarvarhanam acyu ...
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  • ...na consciousness movement now has"|"krsna consciousness movement therefore has"}} [[Category:Krsna Consciousness Movement Has...|1]] ...
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  • ...are placing great stress on the bodily necessities of life, not caring for the vital soul.</p> ...rson progress in spiritual understanding so that he can get liberated from the material world.</p> ...
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  • ..."helping other"|"helping others"|"helping the other"|"helps others"|"helps the other three"}} ...at least one of them must we have and we can engage them in the service of the Lord.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:In Every Way|1]] <div class="heading">His devotee must be very, in every way, very expert and fit. Kṛṣṇa wants to see. ...
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  • ...tances in the history of the world. But Arjuna, being a saintly devotee of the Lord, is always conscious of moral principles and therefore takes care to a ...as only moral codes. One should not, therefore, limit his progress only to the point of moral codes, but should transcend them, to attain Kṛṣṇa cons ...
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  • ...the leader of the Brahman. Just like the president is the first citizen of the state.</p> ...e? The first order is "Thou shalt not kill." Why they are killing? What is the answer?</p> ...
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  • ...know that he is subordinate to the Supreme Lord. Due to rebellion against the Supreme Lord, one becomes subordinate to material nature. One must know and ...>Actually the living entity is originally the spiritual part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, but due to his rebellious nature, he is conditioned within ma ...
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  • ...esult of such discussions not only for your benefit but for the benefit of the world at large—as I know that you are sincere, honest and moralist.</p> ...esult of such discussions not only for your benefit but for the benefit of the world at large—as I know that you are sincere, honest and moralist.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"hare krsna movement"|"movement of hare krsna"}} [[Category:Hare Krsna Movement|1]] ...
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  • ...eholder should give in charity to institutional societies that are engaged in that way. ...ly to propagate Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world. That is charity in the mode of goodness.</p> ...
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  • ...ld you describe where Kṛṣṇa consciousness started and why you have come to the Western world?</p> ...trace out the history of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but taking consideration of the present history, it is at least as old as five thousand years.</p> ...
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  • ...ll manufacture their own, two plus two equal to five or three, not exactly the four.</p> ...ne Englishman started this Congress sometimes in 1887, 1867, like that. So in our childhood we used to see that Surendranath Bannerjee was being elected ...
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  • <p>Prabhupāda: (indistinct) Where is the kīrtana going on?</p> <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: On the street. They are getting ready for saṅkīrtana.</p> ...
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  • ...he Gandhian way, I mean that fitting respect to his memory will be done in the following manner.</p> ...e was to overhaul the very foundation of present civilization by the novel philosophy of satyagraha and nonviolence.</p> ...
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  • ...on sexual intercourse and which brings him all kinds of material miseries. In this way one is no better than a foolish animal.</p> ...industries are created to satisfy unfathomable lusty desires. Consequently the people are greatly harassed by governmental taxation.</p> ...
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  • ...e="display: inline;">Guest: And that's because, you would say that we have the wrong...</p> ...to feed them. It is not the question of increasing population. But what is the question of demonic civilization.</p> ...
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  • ...t present Krsna as He is, there was not a single Krsna conscious person in the Western world"|"so many swamis went before me"|"they're admitting that befo [[Category:Krsna and the Yogis|2]] ...
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  • ...at desirelessness. They talk like that, and then they'll smoke a cigarette the next moment as they criticize us. They say, "You should not have to do anyt ...onceive that in the spiritual world exactly the same things there are, but the position is different. That is absolute, without any designation.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"interpret, from the very beginning there is no question"|"no question of interpretation"|"no qu ...go for pilgrimage in Kurukṣetra, and the station is there, Kurukṣetra, and the place is there. People go there. Kurukṣetra. Why one should interpret tha ...
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  • ...ddicted to sex and intoxication, and these things are completely forbidden in our temple.</p> <p>Madhudviṣa: She was in correspondence with her brother, and her brother was had some problems with ...
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  • ...own spiritual activities silently. Such bewildered persons may be engaged in such primary moral principles of life as nonviolence and similar materially ...inclined to His devotees. He is the last word in Brahman realization, and the devotees alone can realize Him as He is.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"involve"|"involved"|"involvement"|"involvements"|"involves"|"involving"}} ...r promotion to the planets of the demigods, and another involves realizing the Absolute Truth and His impersonal feature and becoming one with Him.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"eternal servant"|"eternal servants"|"eternally servant"|"eternally the servant"}} ...s, cowherd girls, who are all goddesses of fortune. When Kṛṣṇa descends to the material world, this same Vṛndāvana descends with Him, just as an entour ...
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  • ...llow for a pure devotee, even though the devotee does not aspire for them. The example set herein is exactly suitable. It is said that one who is hungry i ...endental pastimes on the face of the earth. In His absence the age of Kali has spread its influence everywhere, so I am sorry to see this condition of exi ...
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