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| <div id="BGIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Preface_and_Introduction" book="BG" index="3" link="BG Introduction" link_text="BG Introduction"> | | <div id="BGIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Preface_and_Introduction" book="BG" index="3" link="BG Introduction" link_text="BG Introduction"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG Introduction|BG Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as materialists engage their minds in reading newspapers, magazines and so many materialistic literatures, we must transfer our reading to these literatures which are given to us by Vyāsadeva; in that way it will be possible for us to remember the Supreme Lord at the time of death. That is the only way suggested by the Lord, and He guarantees the result: "There is no doubt."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG (1972) Introduction|BG Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as materialists engage their minds in reading newspapers, magazines and so many materialistic literatures, we must transfer our reading to these literatures which are given to us by Vyāsadeva; in that way it will be possible for us to remember the Supreme Lord at the time of death. That is the only way suggested by the Lord, and He guarantees the result: "There is no doubt."</p> |
| :tasmāt sarveṣu kāleṣu | | :tasmāt sarveṣu kāleṣu |
| :mām anusmara yudhya ca | | :mām anusmara yudhya ca |
| :mayy arpita-mano-buddhir | | :mayy arpita-mano-buddhir |
| :mām evaiṣyasy asaṁśayaḥ | | :mām evaiṣyasy asaṁśayaḥ |
| <p>"Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Kṛṣṇa and at the same time continue your prescribed duty of fighting. With your activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you will attain Me without doubt." ([[Vanisource:BG 8.7|BG 8.7]])</p> | | <p>"Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Kṛṣṇa and at the same time continue your prescribed duty of fighting. With your activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you will attain Me without doubt." ([[Vanisource:BG 8.7 (1972)|BG 8.7]])</p> |
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| <div id="BG925_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="83" link="BG 9.25" link_text="BG 9.25"> | | <div id="BG925_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="83" link="BG 9.25" link_text="BG 9.25"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.25|BG 9.25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Piśāca worship is called "black arts" or "black magic." There are many men who practice this black art, and they think that it is spiritualism, but such activities are completely materialistic. Similarly, a pure devotee, who worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead only, achieves the planets of Vaikuṇṭha and Kṛṣṇaloka without a doubt.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.25 (1972)|BG 9.25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Piśāca worship is called "black arts" or "black magic." There are many men who practice this black art, and they think that it is spiritualism, but such activities are completely materialistic. Similarly, a pure devotee, who worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead only, achieves the planets of Vaikuṇṭha and Kṛṣṇaloka without a doubt.</p> |
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| <div id="BG934_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="92" link="BG 9.34" link_text="BG 9.34"> | | <div id="BG934_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="92" link="BG 9.34" link_text="BG 9.34"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.34|BG 9.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The devotee, in the beginning, may sometimes fall from the standard, but still he should be considered superior to all other philosophers and yogīs. One who always engages in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should be understood to be a perfectly saintly person. His accidental nondevotional activities will diminish, and he will soon be situated without any doubt in complete perfection.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.34 (1972)|BG 9.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The devotee, in the beginning, may sometimes fall from the standard, but still he should be considered superior to all other philosophers and yogīs. One who always engages in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should be understood to be a perfectly saintly person. His accidental nondevotional activities will diminish, and he will soon be situated without any doubt in complete perfection.</p> |
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| <div id="BG107_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="98" link="BG 10.7" link_text="BG 10.7"> | | <div id="BG107_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="98" link="BG 10.7" link_text="BG 10.7"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.7|BG 10.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">These are some of the opulences of the Supreme Lord. When one is firmly convinced of them, he accepts Kṛṣṇa with great faith and without any doubt, and he engages in devotional service.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.7 (1972)|BG 10.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">These are some of the opulences of the Supreme Lord. When one is firmly convinced of them, he accepts Kṛṣṇa with great faith and without any doubt, and he engages in devotional service.</p> |
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| <div id="BG1042_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="132" link="BG 10.42" link_text="BG 10.42"> | | <div id="BG1042_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="132" link="BG 10.42" link_text="BG 10.42"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.42|BG 10.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Padma Purāṇa it is said that one who considers the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa in the same category with demigods—be they even Brahmā or Śiva—becomes at once an atheist. If, however, one thoroughly studies the different descriptions of the opulences and expansions of Kṛṣṇa's energy, then one can understand without any doubt the position of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and can fix his mind in the worship of Kṛṣṇa without deviation.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.42 (1972)|BG 10.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Padma Purāṇa it is said that one who considers the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa in the same category with demigods—be they even Brahmā or Śiva—becomes at once an atheist. If, however, one thoroughly studies the different descriptions of the opulences and expansions of Kṛṣṇa's energy, then one can understand without any doubt the position of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and can fix his mind in the worship of Kṛṣṇa without deviation.</p> |
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| <div id="BG1146_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="175" link="BG 11.46" link_text="BG 11.46"> | | <div id="BG1146_4" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="175" link="BG 11.46" link_text="BG 11.46"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 11.46|BG 11.46, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.39) it is stated, rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan: the Lord is eternally situated in hundreds and thousands of forms, and the main forms are those like Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Nārāyaṇa, etc. There are innumerable forms. But Arjuna knew that Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead assuming His temporary universal form. He is now asking to see the form of Nārāyaṇa, a spiritual form. This verse establishes without any doubt the statement of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead and all other features originate from Him.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 11.46 (1972)|BG 11.46, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.39) it is stated, rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan: the Lord is eternally situated in hundreds and thousands of forms, and the main forms are those like Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Nārāyaṇa, etc. There are innumerable forms. But Arjuna knew that Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead assuming His temporary universal form. He is now asking to see the form of Nārāyaṇa, a spiritual form. This verse establishes without any doubt the statement of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead and all other features originate from Him.</p> |
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| <div id="BG128_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="190" link="BG 12.8" link_text="BG 12.8"> | | <div id="BG128_5" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="190" link="BG 12.8" link_text="BG 12.8"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 12.8|BG 12.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a doubt.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 12.8 (1972)|BG 12.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a doubt.</p> |
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| <div id="BG1622_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="88" link="BG 16.22" link_text="BG 16.22"> | | <div id="BG1622_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="88" link="BG 16.22" link_text="BG 16.22"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 16.22|BG 16.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are different rules and regulations for different castes or divisions of society, and if a person is able to follow them, he will be automatically raised to the highest platform of spiritual realization. Then he can have liberation without a doubt.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 16.22 (1972)|BG 16.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are different rules and regulations for different castes or divisions of society, and if a person is able to follow them, he will be automatically raised to the highest platform of spiritual realization. Then he can have liberation without a doubt.</p> |
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| <div id="SB11937_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="776" link="SB 1.19.37" link_text="SB 1.19.37"> | | <div id="SB11937_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="776" link="SB 1.19.37" link_text="SB 1.19.37"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.19.37|SB 1.19.37, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Unless one is perfectly anxious to inquire about the way of perfection, there is no necessity of approaching a spiritual master. A spiritual master is not a kind of decoration for a householder. Generally a fashionable materialist engages a so-called spiritual master without any profit. The pseudo spiritual master flatters the so-called disciple, and thereby both the master and his ward go to hell without a doubt.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.19.37|SB 1.19.37, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Unless one is perfectly anxious to inquire about the way of perfection, there is no necessity of approaching a spiritual master. A spiritual master is not a kind of decoration for a householder. Generally a fashionable materialist engages a so-called spiritual master without any profit. The pseudo spiritual master flatters the so-called disciple, and thereby both the master and his ward go to hell without a doubt.</p> |
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| <div id="SB71579_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="690" link="SB 7.15.79" link_text="SB 7.15.79"> | | <div id="SB71579_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="690" link="SB 7.15.79" link_text="SB 7.15.79"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15.79|SB 7.15.79, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">After hearing the conversation between Nārada and Yudhiṣṭhira, if one still has any doubts about Kṛṣṇa's being the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one should immediately give them up. Asaṁśayaṁ samagram. Without any doubt and without any defect, one should understand Kṛṣṇa to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus surrender at His lotus feet. Ordinary persons do not do this, even after hearing all the Vedas, but if one is fortunate, although it may be even after many, many births, he comes to this conclusion (bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19|BG 7.19]])).</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15.79|SB 7.15.79, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">After hearing the conversation between Nārada and Yudhiṣṭhira, if one still has any doubts about Kṛṣṇa's being the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one should immediately give them up. Asaṁśayaṁ samagram. Without any doubt and without any defect, one should understand Kṛṣṇa to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus surrender at His lotus feet. Ordinary persons do not do this, even after hearing all the Vedas, but if one is fortunate, although it may be even after many, many births, he comes to this conclusion (bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]])).</p> |
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| <div id="CCAntya465_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="725" link="CC Antya 4.65" link_text="CC Antya 4.65"> | | <div id="CCAntya465_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="725" link="CC Antya 4.65" link_text="CC Antya 4.65"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 4.65|CC Antya 4.65, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu told Sanātana Gosvāmī, “Give up all your nonsensical desires, for they are unfavorable for getting shelter at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Engage yourself in chanting and hearing. Then you will soon achieve the shelter of Kṛṣṇa without a doubt.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 4.65|CC Antya 4.65, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu told Sanātana Gosvāmī, "Give up all your nonsensical desires, for they are unfavorable for getting shelter at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Engage yourself in chanting and hearing. Then you will soon achieve the shelter of Kṛṣṇa without a doubt."</p> |
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