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| <div id="BG234_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="73" link="BG 2.34" link_text="BG 2.34"> | | <div id="BG234_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="73" link="BG 2.34" link_text="BG 2.34"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.34|BG 2.34, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">People will always speak of your infamy, and for a respectable person, dishonor is worse than death.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.34 (1972)|BG 2.34, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">People will always speak of your infamy, and for a respectable person, dishonor is worse than death.</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>Both as friend and philosopher to Arjuna, Lord Kṛṣṇa now gives His final judgment regarding Arjuna's refusal to fight. The Lord says, "Arjuna, if you leave the battlefield before the battle even begins, people will call you a coward. And if you think that people may call you bad names but that you will save your life by fleeing the battlefield, then My advice is that you'd do better to die in the battle. For a respectable man like you, ill fame is worse than death. So, you should not flee for fear of your life; better to die in the battle. That will save you from the ill fame of misusing My friendship and from losing your prestige in society."</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>Both as friend and philosopher to Arjuna, Lord Kṛṣṇa now gives His final judgment regarding Arjuna's refusal to fight. The Lord says, "Arjuna, if you leave the battlefield before the battle even begins, people will call you a coward. And if you think that people may call you bad names but that you will save your life by fleeing the battlefield, then My advice is that you'd do better to die in the battle. For a respectable man like you, ill fame is worse than death. So, you should not flee for fear of your life; better to die in the battle. That will save you from the ill fame of misusing My friendship and from losing your prestige in society."</p> |
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| <div id="BG67_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="229" link="BG 6.7" link_text="BG 6.7"> | | <div id="BG67_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="229" link="BG 6.7" link_text="BG 6.7"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.7|BG 6.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor are all the same.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.7 (1972)|BG 6.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor are all the same.</p> |
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| <div id="BG727_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="27" link="BG 7.27" link_text="BG 7.27"> | | <div id="BG727_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="27" link="BG 7.27" link_text="BG 7.27"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 7.27|BG 7.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Due to desire and hate, the ignorant person wants to become one with the Supreme Lord and envies Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Pure devotees, who are not deluded or contaminated by desire and hate, can understand that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appears by His internal potencies, but those who are deluded by duality and nescience think that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is created by material energies. This is their misfortune. Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of delusion.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 7.27 (1972)|BG 7.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Due to desire and hate, the ignorant person wants to become one with the Supreme Lord and envies Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Pure devotees, who are not deluded or contaminated by desire and hate, can understand that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appears by His internal potencies, but those who are deluded by duality and nescience think that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is created by material energies. This is their misfortune. Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of delusion.</p> |
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| <div id="BG114142_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="171" link="BG 11.41-42" link_text="BG 11.41-42"> | | <div id="BG114142_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="171" link="BG 11.41-42" link_text="BG 11.41-42"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 11.41-42|BG 11.41-42, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thinking of You as my friend, I have rashly addressed You "O Kṛṣṇa," "O Yādava," "O my friend," not knowing Your glories. Please 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 together, sometimes alone and sometimes in front of many friends. O infallible one, please excuse me for all those offenses.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 11.41-42 (1972)|BG 11.41-42, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thinking of You as my friend, I have rashly addressed You "O Kṛṣṇa," "O Yādava," "O my friend," not knowing Your glories. Please 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 together, sometimes alone and sometimes in front of many friends. O infallible one, please excuse me for all those offenses.</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>Although Kṛṣṇa is manifested before Arjuna in His universal form, Arjuna remembers his friendly relationship with Kṛṣṇa and is therefore asking pardon and requesting Kṛṣṇa to excuse him for the many informal gestures which arise out of friendship. He is admitting that formerly he did not know that Kṛṣṇa could assume such a universal form, although Kṛṣṇa explained 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 Yādava," etc., without acknowledging His opulence. But Kṛṣṇa is so kind and merciful that in spite of such opulence He played with Arjuna as a friend. Such is the transcendental loving reciprocation between the devotee and the Lord. The relationship between the living entity and Kṛṣṇa is fixed eternally; it cannot be forgotten, as we can see from the behavior of Arjuna. Although Arjuna has seen the opulence in the universal form, he cannot forget his friendly relationship with Kṛṣṇa.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>Although Kṛṣṇa is manifested before Arjuna in His universal form, Arjuna remembers his friendly relationship with Kṛṣṇa and is therefore asking pardon and requesting Kṛṣṇa to excuse him for the many informal gestures which arise out of friendship. He is admitting that formerly he did not know that Kṛṣṇa could assume such a universal form, although Kṛṣṇa explained 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 Yādava," etc., without acknowledging His opulence. But Kṛṣṇa is so kind and merciful that in spite of such opulence He played with Arjuna as a friend. Such is the transcendental loving reciprocation between the devotee and the Lord. The relationship between the living entity and Kṛṣṇa is fixed eternally; it cannot be forgotten, as we can see from the behavior of Arjuna. Although Arjuna has seen the opulence in the universal form, he cannot forget his friendly relationship with Kṛṣṇa.</p> |
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| <div id="BG121819_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="199" link="BG 12.18-19" link_text="BG 12.18-19"> | | <div id="BG121819_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="199" link="BG 12.18-19" link_text="BG 12.18-19"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 12.18-19|BG 12.18-19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contaminating association, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and who is engaged in devotional service—such a person is very dear to Me.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 12.18-19 (1972)|BG 12.18-19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contaminating association, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and who is engaged in devotional service—such a person is very dear to Me.</p> |
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| <div id="BG13812_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="6" link="BG 13.8-12" link_text="BG 13.8-12"> | | <div id="BG13812_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="6" link="BG 13.8-12" link_text="BG 13.8-12"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12|BG 13.8-12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As for the knowledge outlined here, the items may be analyzed as follows. Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others. The material conception of life makes us very eager to receive honor from others, but from the point of view of a man in perfect knowledge—who knows that he is not this body—anything, honor or dishonor, pertaining to this body is useless. One should not be hankering after this material deception. People are very anxious to be famous for their religion, and consequently sometimes it is found that without understanding the principles of religion one enters into some group which is not actually following religious principles and then wants to advertise himself as a religious mentor. As for actual advancement in spiritual science, one should have a test to see how far he is progressing. He can judge by these items.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.8-12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As for the knowledge outlined here, the items may be analyzed as follows. Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others. The material conception of life makes us very eager to receive honor from others, but from the point of view of a man in perfect knowledge—who knows that he is not this body—anything, honor or dishonor, pertaining to this body is useless. One should not be hankering after this material deception. People are very anxious to be famous for their religion, and consequently sometimes it is found that without understanding the principles of religion one enters into some group which is not actually following religious principles and then wants to advertise himself as a religious mentor. As for actual advancement in spiritual science, one should have a test to see how far he is progressing. He can judge by these items.</p> |
| <p>Nonviolence is generally taken to mean not killing or destroying the body, but actually nonviolence means not to put others into distress. People in general are trapped by ignorance in the material concept of life, and they perpetually suffer material pains. So unless one elevates people to spiritual knowledge, one is practicing violence. One should try his best to distribute real knowledge to the people, so that they may become enlightened and leave this material entanglement. That is nonviolence.</p> | | <p>Nonviolence is generally taken to mean not killing or destroying the body, but actually nonviolence means not to put others into distress. People in general are trapped by ignorance in the material concept of life, and they perpetually suffer material pains. So unless one elevates people to spiritual knowledge, one is practicing violence. One should try his best to distribute real knowledge to the people, so that they may become enlightened and leave this material entanglement. That is nonviolence.</p> |
| <p>Tolerance means that one should be practiced to bear insult and dishonor from others. If one is engaged in the advancement of spiritual knowledge, there will be so many insults and much dishonor from others. This is expected because material nature is so constituted. Even a boy like Prahlāda, who, only five years old, was engaged in the cultivation of spiritual knowledge, was endangered when his father became antagonistic to his devotion. The father tried to kill him in so many ways, but Prahlāda tolerated him. So there may be many impediments to making advancement in spiritual knowledge, but we should be tolerant and continue our progress with determination.</p> | | <p>Tolerance means that one should be practiced to bear insult and dishonor from others. If one is engaged in the advancement of spiritual knowledge, there will be so many insults and much dishonor from others. This is expected because material nature is so constituted. Even a boy like Prahlāda, who, only five years old, was engaged in the cultivation of spiritual knowledge, was endangered when his father became antagonistic to his devotion. The father tried to kill him in so many ways, but Prahlāda tolerated him. So there may be many impediments to making advancement in spiritual knowledge, but we should be tolerant and continue our progress with determination.</p> |
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| <div id="BG142225_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="51" link="BG 14.22-25" link_text="BG 14.22-25"> | | <div id="BG142225_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="51" link="BG 14.22-25" link_text="BG 14.22-25"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.22-25|BG 14.22-25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O son of Pāṇḍu, he who does not hate illumination, attachment and delusion when they are present or long for them when they disappear; who is unwavering and undisturbed through all these reactions of the material qualities, remaining neutral and transcendental, knowing that the modes alone are active; who is situated in the self and regards alike happiness and distress; who looks upon a lump of earth, a stone and a piece of gold with an equal eye; who is equal toward the desirable and the undesirable; who is steady, situated equally well in praise and blame, honor and dishonor; who treats alike both friend and enemy; and who has renounced all material activities—such a person is said to have transcended the modes of nature.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.22-25 (1972)|BG 14.22-25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O son of Pāṇḍu, he who does not hate illumination, attachment and delusion when they are present or long for them when they disappear; who is unwavering and undisturbed through all these reactions of the material qualities, remaining neutral and transcendental, knowing that the modes alone are active; who is situated in the self and regards alike happiness and distress; who looks upon a lump of earth, a stone and a piece of gold with an equal eye; who is equal toward the desirable and the undesirable; who is steady, situated equally well in praise and blame, honor and dishonor; who treats alike both friend and enemy; and who has renounced all material activities—such a person is said to have transcended the modes of nature.</p> |
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| <div id="BG142225_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="51" link="BG 14.22-25" link_text="BG 14.22-25"> | | <div id="BG142225_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="51" link="BG 14.22-25" link_text="BG 14.22-25"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.22-25|BG 14.22-25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The next question concerns the dealings of a transcendentally situated person. The materially situated person is affected by so-called honor and dishonor offered to the body, but the transcendentally situated person is not affected by such false honor and dishonor. He performs his duty in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and does not mind whether a man honors or dishonors him. He accepts things that are favorable for his duty in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, otherwise he has no necessity of anything material, either a stone or gold. He takes everyone as his dear friend who helps him in his execution of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and he does not hate his so-called enemy. He is equally disposed and sees everything on an equal level because he knows perfectly well that he has nothing to do with material existence. Social and political issues do not affect him, because he knows the situation of temporary upheavals and disturbances. He does not attempt anything for his own sake. He can attempt anything for Kṛṣṇa, but for his personal self he does not attempt anything. By such behavior one becomes actually transcendentally situated.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 14.22-25 (1972)|BG 14.22-25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The next question concerns the dealings of a transcendentally situated person. The materially situated person is affected by so-called honor and dishonor offered to the body, but the transcendentally situated person is not affected by such false honor and dishonor. He performs his duty in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and does not mind whether a man honors or dishonors him. He accepts things that are favorable for his duty in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, otherwise he has no necessity of anything material, either a stone or gold. He takes everyone as his dear friend who helps him in his execution of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and he does not hate his so-called enemy. He is equally disposed and sees everything on an equal level because he knows perfectly well that he has nothing to do with material existence. Social and political issues do not affect him, because he knows the situation of temporary upheavals and disturbances. He does not attempt anything for his own sake. He can attempt anything for Kṛṣṇa, but for his personal self he does not attempt anything. By such behavior one becomes actually transcendentally situated.</p> |
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| <div id="SB61440_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="535" link="SB 6.14.40" link_text="SB 6.14.40"> | | <div id="SB61440_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="535" link="SB 6.14.40" link_text="SB 6.14.40"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.14.40|SB 6.14.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A wife who has no sons is neglected at home by her husband and dishonored by her co-wives exactly like a maidservant. Certainly such a woman is condemned in every respect because of her sinful life.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.14.40|SB 6.14.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A wife who has no sons is neglected at home by her husband and dishonored by her co-wives exactly like a maidservant. Certainly such a woman is condemned in every respect because of her sinful life.</p> |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.30.41|SB 10.30.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">She told them how Mādhava had given Her much respect, but how She then suffered dishonor because of Her misbehavior. The gopīs were extremely amazed to hear this.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.30.41|SB 10.30.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">She told them how Mādhava had given Her much respect, but how She then suffered dishonor because of Her misbehavior. The gopīs were extremely amazed to hear this.</p> |
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| <div id="SB1053Summary_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="1488" link="SB 10.53 Summary" link_text="SB 10.53 Summary">
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.53 Summary|SB 10.53 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Then, as everyone looked on, Śrī Kṛṣṇa took Rukmiṇī onto His chariot. Like a lion claiming his rightful share from a band of jackals, He drove back all the opposing kings and slowly made His exit, followed by His associates. Jarāsandha and the other kings, unable to bear their defeat and dishonor, loudly condemned themselves, declaring that this defamation was like a petty animal's stealing away what rightfully belongs to the lion.</p>
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| <div id="CCMadhya19199200_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4437" link="CC Madhya 19.199-200" link_text="CC Madhya 19.199-200"> | | <div id="CCMadhya19199200_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4437" link="CC Madhya 19.199-200" link_text="CC Madhya 19.199-200"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.199-200|CC Madhya 19.199-200, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“‘Thinking of You as my friend, I have rashly addressed You "O Kṛṣṇa," "O Yādava," "O my friend," not knowing Your glories. Please 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 together, sometimes alone and sometimes in front of many friends. O infallible one, please excuse me for all those offenses.’</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.199-200|CC Madhya 19.199-200, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Thinking of You as my friend, I have rashly addressed You "O Kṛṣṇa," "O Yādava," "O my friend," not knowing Your glories. Please 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 together, sometimes alone and sometimes in front of many friends. O infallible one, please excuse me for all those offenses."</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (11.41–42). In this verse, Arjuna is addressing Kṛṣṇa, who was exhibiting His universal form on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (11.41–42). In this verse, Arjuna is addressing Kṛṣṇa, who was exhibiting His universal form on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra.</p> |
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| <div id="KB87_2" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="91" link="KB 87" link_text="Krsna Book 87"> | | <div id="KB87_2" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="91" link="KB 87" link_text="Krsna Book 87"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 87|Krsna Book 87]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"Dear Lord," the personified Vedas continued, “the devotee who wants to elevate himself simply by the process of devotional activities, especially by hearing and chanting, very soon comes out of the clutches of the dualities of material existence. By this simple process of penance and austerity, the Supersoul within the devotee's heart is very much pleased and gives the devotee directions so that he may go back home, back to Godhead.” It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that one who engages all his activities and senses in the devotional service of the Lord becomes completely peaceful because the Supersoul is satisfied with him; thus the devotee becomes transcendental to all dualities, such as heat and cold, honor and dishonor. Being freed from all dualities, he feels transcendental bliss, and he no longer suffers cares and anxieties due to material existence. The Bhagavad-gītā confirms that the devotee always absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has no anxieties for his maintenance or protection. Being constantly absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he ultimately achieves the highest perfection. While in material existence, he lives very peacefully and blissfully, without cares and anxieties, and after quitting this body he goes back home, back to Godhead. The Lord confirms in the Bhagavad-gītā, "My supreme abode is a transcendental place from which, having gone, one never returns to this material world. Anyone who attains the supreme perfection, being engaged in My personal devotional service in the eternal abode, reaches the highest perfection of human life and does not have to come back to the miserable material world."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 87|Krsna Book 87]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"Dear Lord," the personified Vedas continued, "the devotee who wants to elevate himself simply by the process of devotional activities, especially by hearing and chanting, very soon comes out of the clutches of the dualities of material existence. By this simple process of penance and austerity, the Supersoul within the devotee's heart is very much pleased and gives the devotee directions so that he may go back home, back to Godhead." It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that one who engages all his activities and senses in the devotional service of the Lord becomes completely peaceful because the Supersoul is satisfied with him; thus the devotee becomes transcendental to all dualities, such as heat and cold, honor and dishonor. Being freed from all dualities, he feels transcendental bliss, and he no longer suffers cares and anxieties due to material existence. The Bhagavad-gītā confirms that the devotee always absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has no anxieties for his maintenance or protection. Being constantly absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he ultimately achieves the highest perfection. While in material existence, he lives very peacefully and blissfully, without cares and anxieties, and after quitting this body he goes back home, back to Godhead. The Lord confirms in the Bhagavad-gītā, "My supreme abode is a transcendental place from which, having gone, one never returns to this material world. Anyone who attains the supreme perfection, being engaged in My personal devotional service in the eternal abode, reaches the highest perfection of human life and does not have to come back to the miserable material world."</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG22738LosAngelesDecember111968_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="94" link="Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968"> | | <div id="LectureonBG22738LosAngelesDecember111968_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="94" link="Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968|Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: And on the other hand, if you don't fight, then... You are known as a great warrior, a great soldier. If you go away, people will say against your reputation: "Oh, Arjuna has become a coward. He has fled away from the fight." So it is better to die than to have bad reputation. That is another argument. Yes.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968|Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: And on the other hand, if you don't fight, then... You are known as a great warrior, a great soldier. If you go away, people will say against your reputation: "Oh, Arjuna has become a coward. He has fled away from the fight." So it is better to die than to have bad reputation. That is another argument. Yes.</p> |
| <p>Devotee: 34: "People will always speak of your infamy, and for one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death ([[Vanisource:BG 2.34|BG 2.34]])."</p> | | <p>Devotee: 34: "People will always speak of your infamy, and for one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death ([[Vanisource:BG 2.34 (1972)|BG 2.34]])."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: "Now, you are so much honored as Arjuna the great fighter, Dhanañjaya, and if you leave, you go away from this fighting and leave and people will say, 'Oh, Arjuna has become coward. He did not fight,' then what is the use of your living in such a way? Better die. Fight and die. That is good for you." Yes.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: "Now, you are so much honored as Arjuna the great fighter, Dhanañjaya, and if you leave, you go away from this fighting and leave and people will say, 'Oh, Arjuna has become coward. He did not fight,' then what is the use of your living in such a way? Better die. Fight and die. That is good for you." Yes.</p> |
| <p>Devotee: 35: "The great generals who have highly esteemed your name and fame will think that you have left the battlefield out of fear only, and thus they will consider you a coward ([[Vanisource:BG 2.35|BG 2.35]])." 36: "Your enemies will..."</p> | | <p>Devotee: 35: "The great generals who have highly esteemed your name and fame will think that you have left the battlefield out of fear only, and thus they will consider you a coward ([[Vanisource:BG 2.35 (1972)|BG 2.35]])." 36: "Your enemies will..."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: A kṣatriya... It is the custom of the kṣatriya that if they are wounded on the back side, he is considered a coward, but if he is wounded on the chest, he is accepted as real kṣatriya. That means he has fought face to face. That is the injunction of military art in Vedic injunction.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: A kṣatriya... It is the custom of the kṣatriya that if they are wounded on the back side, he is considered a coward, but if he is wounded on the chest, he is accepted as real kṣatriya. That means he has fought face to face. That is the injunction of military art in Vedic injunction.</p> |
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| :sambhāvitasya cākīrtir | | :sambhāvitasya cākīrtir |
| :maraṇād atiricyate | | :maraṇād atiricyate |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 2.34|BG 2.34]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 2.34 (1972)|BG 2.34]]) |
| <p>Sambhāvitasya, one who is very reputed, famous man, if he does something wrong, then it was better to die before such infamy is grown. This is advised. Arjuna is famous as a great fighter. Not only that, he is personal friend of Kṛṣṇa, so much so that Kṛṣṇa has agreed to become his chariot driver. Just try to understand what is his position.</p> | | <p>Sambhāvitasya, one who is very reputed, famous man, if he does something wrong, then it was better to die before such infamy is grown. This is advised. Arjuna is famous as a great fighter. Not only that, he is personal friend of Kṛṣṇa, so much so that Kṛṣṇa has agreed to become his chariot driver. Just try to understand what is his position.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB62910AllahabadJanuary151971_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="710" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.9-10 -- Allahabad, January 15, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.9-10 -- Allahabad, January 15, 1971"> | | <div id="LectureonSB62910AllahabadJanuary151971_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="710" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.9-10 -- Allahabad, January 15, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.9-10 -- Allahabad, January 15, 1971"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.9-10 -- Allahabad, January 15, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.2.9-10 -- Allahabad, January 15, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore he is punishable and we must take him to the Yamarāja." And the Viṣṇudūtas protested that "Even though he was sinful throughout his whole life, because he once uttered the holy name of Nārāyaṇa some way or other—it doesn't matter—therefore he is now free from all reaction of sinful life." And he has spoken that there are different kinds of sinful life, and he has described some of them. Stenaḥ. Stenaḥ means stealing, thieves, burglars. They are very sinful. Stenaḥ; surā-paḥ, drunkard, intoxicant, those who are addicted to intoxication. So stealing and drinking, these are the honorable occupations of the moralist. But they are condemned by the Yamarāja..., by the Viṣṇu... Stenaḥ surā-po mitra-dhruk ([[Vanisource:SB 6.2.9|SB 6.2.9]]). One who is unfaithful to his friends, mitra-dhruk; brahma-hā, one who has killed a brāhmaṇa or a Vaiṣṇava, brahma-hā. And guru-talpa-gaḥ: and one who has dishonored a spiritual master or teacher. Strī-rāja-pitṛ-go-hantā, one who has killed a woman, one who has killed a king, and one who has killed a cow. These are all the severest type of sinful activities. Ye ca pātakino 'pare. Some of the sinful activities are mentioned here. And besides these sinful activities, there are other, many.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.9-10 -- Allahabad, January 15, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.2.9-10 -- Allahabad, January 15, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore he is punishable and we must take him to the Yamarāja." And the Viṣṇudūtas protested that "Even though he was sinful throughout his whole life, because he once uttered the holy name of Nārāyaṇa some way or other—it doesn't matter—therefore he is now free from all reaction of sinful life." And he has spoken that there are different kinds of sinful life, and he has described some of them. Stenaḥ. Stenaḥ means stealing, thieves, burglars. They are very sinful. Stenaḥ; surā-paḥ, drunkard, intoxicant, those who are addicted to intoxication. So stealing and drinking, these are the honorable occupations of the moralist. But they are condemned by the Yamarāja..., by the Viṣṇu... Stenaḥ surā-po mitra-dhruk ([[Vanisource:SB 6.2.9-10|SB 6.2.9]]). One who is unfaithful to his friends, mitra-dhruk; brahma-hā, one who has killed a brāhmaṇa or a Vaiṣṇava, brahma-hā. And guru-talpa-gaḥ: and one who has dishonored a spiritual master or teacher. Strī-rāja-pitṛ-go-hantā, one who has killed a woman, one who has killed a king, and one who has killed a cow. These are all the severest type of sinful activities. Ye ca pātakino 'pare. Some of the sinful activities are mentioned here. And besides these sinful activities, there are other, many.</p> |
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| <div id="MorningConversationJune231977Vrndavana_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="194" link="Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana"> | | <div id="MorningConversationJune231977Vrndavana_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="194" link="Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana|Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Everything will be shortage. That is nature's arrangement. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14|BG 7.14]]). They cannot make any plan successful without Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So long they'll insist upon this point, that "Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness we shall do everything successfully..." That is durāśā. As long as they persist on this, they'll remain rascals. Every plan will be failure. Durāśā. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī. Nature, material nature, is against them. No plan will be allowed to be... Just trace out the history. Every plan has been unsuccessful, either Eastern, Western. Napoleon made plan, Hitler made plan, Gandhi made plan. So many rascals, they made plan. Everyone's plan, impersonalist, they are unsuccessful at the end. Gandhi was killed, Napoleon was dishonored, Mussolini was killed, Hitler nowhere... Take all these big, big...</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana|Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Everything will be shortage. That is nature's arrangement. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). They cannot make any plan successful without Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So long they'll insist upon this point, that "Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness we shall do everything successfully..." That is durāśā. As long as they persist on this, they'll remain rascals. Every plan will be failure. Durāśā. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī. Nature, material nature, is against them. No plan will be allowed to be... Just trace out the history. Every plan has been unsuccessful, either Eastern, Western. Napoleon made plan, Hitler made plan, Gandhi made plan. So many rascals, they made plan. Everyone's plan, impersonalist, they are unsuccessful at the end. Gandhi was killed, Napoleon was dishonored, Mussolini was killed, Hitler nowhere... Take all these big, big...</p> |
| <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Still they have not learned their lesson.</p> | | <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Still they have not learned their lesson.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Therefore they are rascals. Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.30|SB 7.5.30]]), chewing the chewed. It has been unsuccessful many times. Still they'll do.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Therefore they are rascals. Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.30|SB 7.5.30]]), chewing the chewed. It has been unsuccessful many times. Still they'll do.</p> |
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| :anyah priyataro bhuvi | | :anyah priyataro bhuvi |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 18.69|BG 18.69]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 18.69 (1972)|BG 18.69]]) |
| <p>"There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear."</p> | | <p>"There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear."</p> |
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