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  • ...nline;">Kuntīdevī is quite aware that the existence of the Pāṇḍavas is due to Śrī Kṛṣṇa only. The Pāṇḍavas are undoubtedly well established ...(Darbhaṅga). During the time of cow-stealing in Virāṭa-nagara, he was able to arrest Mahārāja Virāṭa, but later Mahārāja Virāṭa was released by ...
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  • ...eldest brother wanted her to be given away to King Śiśupāla, who happened to be a cousin of Kṛṣṇa. So there was open competition, and as usual Lor ...>It was fixed that Vaidarbhī, daughter of King Vidarbha, was to be married to a very powerful man, Malayadhvaja, an inhabitant of the Pāṇḍu country. ...
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  • <div class="heading">That means there is no life. If you want to keep it frozen, that means after this body there is no life. ...plan to freeze people at the time of death. This is actually going on now—to be awoken out of such frozen state when the science is advanced...</p> ...
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  • ...Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya requested Him that "You are going to South India. You must meet Rāmānanda Rāya. He's a great devotee." So when He was sitting ...a Krsna -- August 4, 1969, Los Angeles" link_text="Lord Caitanya Play Told to Tamala Krsna -- August 4, 1969, Los Angeles"> ...
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  • <p>Prabhupāda: Where is that boy who said that some Nepalese boy has come? You told me some new boy has come?</p> ...erstood that because we are now losing India, there is no more possibility to keep our eastern empire. Therefore they liquidated. Why? Actually, the whol ...
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  • ...osvāmīs, principal disciples of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He was requested to write the Caitanya-caritāmṛta by the devotees of Vṛndāvana. Although ...ṣṇava-sampradāya is a disciplic succession from Madhvācārya. This fact has been accepted in the authorized books known as Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā and P ...
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  • ...His eating there were some remnants of His foodstuff, and that was offered to Sanātana while the Lord took His rest.</p> ...votee of His, to Sanātana, and that Mahārāṣṭrīya brāhmaṇa invited Sanātana to accept lunch daily at his place as long as he remained in Benares.</p> ...
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  • ...e of all incarnations. He expands Himself in these six categories of forms to establish His supremacy throughout the universe.</p> ...for the original cause, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to change due to the changes or transformations of His different energies.</p> ...
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  • ...;">Prabhupāda: Doctor's land, Dr. Durgacaran Bannerjee Road, they belonged to very respectable family of that quarter, Bannerjee family. And Surendranath ...bhogī then. (laughter) Instead of yogi... Otherwise, he was becoming yogi. You'll find from his photo. In the beginning, he was very lean and thin, and la ...
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  • ...xposed. The Caitanya-caritāmṛta shows that there are many wonderful things to discover by glorifying the Supreme.</p> ...
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  • ...separation. In this way He returned from Vṛndāvana, and when He came down to Prayag, modern Allahabad, at that time He met Rūpa Gosvāmī. Rūpa Gosvā ...d remember that He was Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa used to play in these forests. He used to play in the forest. Yes. Now He met Rūpa Gosvāmī.</p> ...
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  • ...xt"><p style="display: inline;">Jayapatāka: For this year there is no time to make those.</p> <p>Prabhupāda: Then as much as possible you can do. What is there? Engage hundred workers and it will be done.</p> ...
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  • ...tyle="display: inline;">Interviewer: The swami... Now did I understand you to say the swami has no sex life?</p> <p>Interviewer: Certainly not. All right, now when you...</p> ...
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  • ...r glories? How can we understand You?" In this verse, the particular thing to be noted is that the Personality of Godhead is not understood by great libe ...ire to fight with him. Then Kṛṣṇa, dressed as a brāhmaṇa, declared Himself to be the same Kṛṣṇa who was the King's eternal enemy.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3> ..., although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu knew that the food had not been offered to the Deity. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs do not worship the Deity, or if they do ...
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  • ...tely to fail, for the slightest thought of sense pleasure will agitate him to gratify his desires.</p> ...ass="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Of priests, O Arjuna, know Me to be the chief, Bṛhaspati. Of generals I am Kārtikeya, and of bodies of wa ...
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  • ...parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3> ...egan to cry, and Kṛṣṇa sent His messenger to pacify them. Thus He was able to travel toward Mathurā. On the way, Akrūra was shown the entire Viṣṇul ...
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  • ...ty of Godhead, but unfortunately the Māyāvādī school unreasonably attempts to do this.</p> ...f all qualities because qualities are manifested only in matter. According to them, all qualities are like temporary, flickering mirages.</p> ...
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  • ...hich would be considered quite artistic, but maybe we can send them to you to see if they meet your approval and maybe reproduce them.</p> <p>Prabhupāda: No, whatever card, form, we get, unless we have got arrangement for worship... Of course, we can keep, but our, any form, w ...
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  • ...we can give that. That is the difference. Otherwise the primary principle, to understand God—God is great; we are small, tiny; we are subordinate; we a ...a medical man, do you ask him, "Are you Christian or Muslim or Hindu?" Do you ask him?</p> ...
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  • ...even without performing the religious process regularly, one can be raised to the highest perfection. How is this possible? This is also confirmed in Ved ...e possible, but without a tinge of bhakti one cannot see; that has already been explained.</p> ...
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  • ...is servant of someone. Thus, to profess a particular type of faith is not to profess one's sanātana-dharma. The rendering of service is sanātana-dharm ...st be freed from all kinds of designations, and when one is thus converted to transcendental purity, one can then serve the Lord by purified senses.</p> ...
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  • .... The brāhmaṇa society was so strong. As soon as they will accept service. You know, the Tagore family of Calcutta, Rabindranatha Tagore, they are also br ...inline;">Bhaktijana: The Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, is he nice? Do you know Rabindranath Tagore?</p> ...
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  • ...ārdana, O Keśava, why do You want to engage me in this ghastly warfare, if You think that intelligence is better than fruitive work?</p> ...lass="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Vedas compare the Lord to a tree standing still yet bearing many varieties of fruits, flowers and cha ...
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  • ...are twelve in all, and, again, They are known by different names according to the placement of the symbols in Their hands.</p> ...Nārāyaṇa. But Kṛṣṇa has four special qualities, which are: (1) He is able to manifest wonderful pastimes; (2) He is expert at transcendental flute-playi ...
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  • ...can derive from the study of the Bhāgavatam all benefits that are possible to be derived from the personal presence of the Lord. It carries with it all t ...., from the waist of the Lord, gradually rising to the face, and then down to the lotus feet. In the round, everything there is in order.</p> ...
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  • ...a, even Kṛṣṇa Himself, because He is bestowing freely what no one else has ever given—pure love of Kṛṣṇa."</p> ...sūtra says at the very beginning, athāto brahma jijñāsā: "Now let us begin to inquire about the Supreme Absolute Truth."</p> ...
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  • [[Category:To Some Extent|1]] ...ans the arm. Uru means this, this, or waist. And pada. So anywhere, either you take this state or that state—doesn't matter—unless there is a smooth, ...
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  • ...e of all incarnations. He expands Himself in these six categories of forms to establish His supremacy throughout the universe.</p> ...material and spiritual universes, but still Lord Kṛṣṇa is full in Himself. To think that God has lost His personality because His many parts and parcels ...
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  • ...velop the good qualifications. Of course he does not extraneously endeavor to acquire these qualifications, but engagement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness a ...hṛtarāṣṭra from such intriguing policies. Therefore, he was always partial to the Pāṇḍavas, just as a bird protects its eggs by its wing.</p> ...
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  • ...8]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That you cannot calculate. Nārada Muni is one of the sons of Brahma, so he's presen ...me something of your own background? That is, where you were educated, how you became a disciple of Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...as recommended herein (yajñeśa-makhā mahotsavāḥ) and to distribute prasāda to millions of hungry people hankering for spiritual emancipation. This is the ...merge into the Brahman existence, but that is not real profit, for one has to come down again even from the liberated condition of being merged in Brahma ...
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  • ...gh in actuality the river was the Ganges. In this way the Lord was brought to the house of Advaita Prabhu at Śāntipura after three days, and He accepte ...the bank of the river Godāvarī to be Vṛndāvana. In that place He happened to meet Rāmānanda Rāya.</p> ...
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  • ..., she, whole body is poisonous. So the politician used to engage such girl to kill his opponent politician. Very nice, beautiful girl, and (s)he will go, ...also rascal. He gives you something wrong information. And you try it and you will fall down, there is no happiness. This is going on. The inquiry is the ...
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  • ...one who tries to approach the Absolute through yoga practice will be able to realize Paramātmā, but one who has complete knowledge and spiritual under ...material sky, for the rays of the sun in the material sky can be compared to the brahmajyoti, the glowing rays of the Personality of Godhead. In the bra ...
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  • ...lefield, was at once overwhelmed by compassion for them who had so decided to fight amongst themselves.</p> ...ife. The transcendental life, however, is different. Since a devotee wants to satisfy the desires of the Lord, he can, Lord willing, accept all kinds of ...
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  • ...mes revealed. Bhakti-yoga is so powerful. Otherwise, what qualification we have got in comparison, their M.A., Ph.D., D.S.D. and so on, so on? Still they c ...iversity, you come." That is the real facility. So if anyone is interested to understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness, why it should be denied? Why this sho ...
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  • ...d krishna"|"devotion to lord krsna"|"devotion to lord sri krsna"|"devotion to sri krsna"|"devotion unto krsna"}} [[Category:Devotion to Krsna|1]] ...
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  • ...ans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Kṛṣṇa, maintainer of the people, I have heard by disciplic succession that those whose family traditions are destro ...endant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body can never be slain. Therefore you need not grieve for any living being.</p> ...
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  • ...2, Jaipur" link_text="Room Conversation Including Discussion on SB 4.13.48 to SB 4.14.11 -- January 18, 1972, Jaipur"> ...uary 18, 1972, Jaipur|Room Conversation Including Discussion on SB 4.13.48 to SB 4.14.11 -- January 18, 1972, Jaipur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style ...
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  • ..."Now opium is the religion of the people because everyone is taking drugs. You say religion is the opiate. Now opium is the religion." They think there sh <p>Guru-kṛpā: They have already banned with their land-ceiling...</p> ...
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  • ..." class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withe ...weapons, which are now unknown to modern science. Nor do modern scientists have knowledge of tornado weapons. Nonetheless, the soul can never be cut into p ...
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  • ...: inline;">Prabhupāda: So if they invite, I can go. Why don't you ask them to invite us? Then we can go immediately.</p> <p>Prabhupāda: But how many preachers they have produced?</p> ...
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  • ...o repeated. For one who has not controlled his senses, going to the forest to become a so-called yogī is meaningless.</p> ...bhu and Lord Śrī Nityānanda! All glories to Advaitacandra, and all glories to the devotees of Lord Gaurāṅga!</p> ...
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  • ...lgent, and there is no need for any court judgment. A false ācārya may try to override a Vaiṣṇava by a high-court decision, but Bhaktivinoda Ṭhāku ...le="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu warned all His followers not to become independent or impudent. Unfortunately, after the disappearance of L ...
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  • <p>Interviewer: So you are authorized.</p> <p>Interviewer: Well, maybe you ought to find out, because, you know, this is widely distributed in the United States.</p> ...
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  • ...l, on the Phālgunī Pūrṇimā evening in the year 1407 Śakābda (corresponding to February 1486 by the Christian calendar).</p> ...as recommended herein (yajñeśa-makhā mahotsavāḥ) and to distribute prasāda to millions of hungry people hankering for spiritual emancipation. This is the ...
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  • ...v class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Interviewer: Where in India did you come from originally?</p> ...aller: Yes, yes, I see. One thing I just wanted to clarify, did you... are you are follower of Lord Kṛṣṇa?</p> ...
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  • ...forgive whatever I may have done in madness or in love. I have dishonored You many times, jesting as we relaxed, lay on the same bed, or sat or ate toget ...ained it as his intimate friend. Arjuna did not know how many times he may have dishonored Kṛṣṇa by addressing Him "O my friend," "O Kṛṣṇa," "O ...
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  • ...dually move west, the movement They began five hundred years ago will come to the Western civilizations by Their mercy.</p> ...the Lord from the crowds. Another of his duties was to distribute prasādam to the devotees after kīrtana.”</p> ...
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