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18 September 2022
- 08:5108:51, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,984 Being a yogi, Kardama Muni strictly followed these principles; therefore as soon as Kapiladeva was grown, Devahuti was placed in His charge. Kardama Muni then left home. As stated in this verse: pitari prasthite 'ranyam matuh priya-cikirsaya No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,503 When he gives up his home, he is called a vanaprastha, and after that he may take sannyasa No edit summary current
- 08:3308:33, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,688 By his (Kardama Muni's) wife, Devahuti, he had nine daughters, who were distributed to the prajapatis like Daksa Maharaja and many others. The only son of Kardama Muni was Kapiladeva, an incarnation of Krsna No edit summary
- 08:2808:28, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,714 These authorities should be followed if we want to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead and understand the purpose of religious life. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah - CC Madhya 17.186 No edit summary current
- 08:2608:26, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,717 These mahajanas follow the principles set forth by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, in Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,483 We cannot very easily understand the actual truth of religious systems, but if we follow these mahajanas, we can understand No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,524 Kapila Muni explained the glories of devotional service to His mother, Devahuti. If we follow Him, we may learn the truth of devotional service No edit summary current
- 08:2308:23, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,783 According to the system of varnasrama-dharma, one who is over fifty years of age must leave home, go to the forest and completely devote his life to spiritual realization. This is the actual varnasrama-dharma system No edit summary current
- 08:2208:22, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,301 It (varnasrama-dharma) is not a Hindu system, for the word "Hindu" is a name given by the Muslims and does not occur in any Vedic literature. However, the varnasrama-dharma is mentioned No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,724 He (Kardama Muni) also created a great spaceship as large as a small city. Modern airlines have prepared a 747, & although these are very big, Kardama Muni, by his yogic powers, was able to create a spaceship wherein there were lakes, palaces and gardens No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,826 This spaceship could also travel all over the universe. Modern scientists labor very hard to make a small spaceship to go to the moon, but Kardama Muni could create a great spaceship that could travel to all planets. This is possible by yogic powers No edit summary
- 08:1708:17, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,699 There are different siddhis, or yogic perfections - anima, laghima, prapti, and so on - and whatever yogis choose to do, they can do. That is the real yoga system No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,809 It is not that one becomes a yogi simply by pressing his nose and performing some gymnastics. One must actually attain the yogic siddhis. By these siddhis, the yogi can become very small or very large, very heavy or very light No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,580 Whatever he (a yogi) wants, he can immediately produce in his hand, and he can travel wherever he desires. Kardama Muni was such a perfected siddhi-yogi No edit summary current
- 08:1208:12, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,549 Kardama Muni was a yogi living in a cottage, and Devahuti was a princess, a king's daughter. Not being used to work, she became very skinny No edit summary current
- 08:1008:10, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,817 Being a great yogi, Kardama Muni was not very interested in family life. Nonetheless, he decided to marry, and Svayambhuva Manu brought his daughter Devahuti to him to serve as a wife No edit summary current
- 08:0608:06, 18 September 2022 diff hist +19,797 Srimad-Bhagavatam was compiled by Vyasadeva, who also compiled the Vedanta-sutra No edit summary
17 September 2022
- 14:4514:45, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,032 Generally the Mayavadis emphasize the commentary made on the Vedanta-sutra by Sankaracarya, the Sariraka-bhasya, but that is not the original commentary on Vedanta-sutra No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,206 Transcendental knowledge is therefore very logical. According to the Vedic system, the acarya must understand Vedanta-sutra (also called Brahma-sutra) before he can be accepted as an acarya No edit summary
- 14:4214:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,083 We have to approach a spiritual master who is in the disciplic succession from Vyasadeva. Everyone may claim to be following Vyasadeva, but one must actually follow him No edit summary current
- 14:4214:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,993 Vyasadeva accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Arjuna also accepted Krsna as Para-brahman, the Supreme Person No edit summary current
- 14:4114:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,078 One may say that because Arjuna was a friend of Krsna's, he accepted Him in this way (as Supreme Person), but this is not the case. Arjuna gave evidence that Vyasadeva also accepted Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:4014:40, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,332 If we are actually interested in understanding, we must approach a representative of Vyasadeva like Maitreya. Maitreya is also addressed as bhagavan, although of course the Supreme Bhagavan is Krsna Himself (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam) - SB 1.3.28 No edit summary
- 14:3914:39, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,203 It is not possible to have cent per cent knowledge of Krsna. Not even Narayana Himself is capable of that. Yet those who follow Krsna's instructions fully are sometimes called Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,823 There are many artificial Bhagavan's, but a real Bhagavan is one who knows what Krsna has taught No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,935 Vidura was very eager to receive transcendental knowledge, and because of this, Maitreya was very pleased with him No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,345 One can please the spiritual master simply by surrendering to him and rendering service, saying, - Sir, I am your most obedient servant. Please accept me and give me instructions No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,450 Although Arjuna was a very intimate friend of Krsna's, before receiving Srimad Bhagavad-gita he surrendered himself, saying, sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam: "Now I am Your disciple and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me." - BG 2.7 No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,304 This is the proper way to ask for knowledge. One does not approach the spiritual master with a challenging spirit. One should also be inquisitive to understand the spiritual science. It is not that one considers himself superior to the guru No edit summary
- 14:3514:35, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,279 One must first find a guru to whom one can surrender, and if this is not possible, one shouldn't waste his time. By surrendering to the proper person, one can very quickly come to understand transcendental knowledge No edit summary
- 14:3114:31, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,367 Source is abhijna, cognizant. Matter is not cognizant; therefore the theory of modern science that life comes from matter is incorrect. The identity from whom everything emanates is abhijna, cognizant, which means He can understand No edit summary current
- 14:2714:27, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,391 Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me." The same conclusion is also given in Vedanta-sutra, wherein it is stated, janmady asya yatah - Brahman is He from whom everything emanates No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,279 Everything - includes living entities and inert matter. Both matter and the living entities come from Krsna. Indeed, the whole world is a combination of matter and spirit, prakrti and the living entity No edit summary current
- 14:2514:25, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,186 Material energy is inferior, and spiritual energy is superior. Why? Superior energy (jiva-bhuta), the living entity, is controlling material nature. Actually he is not controlling, but is trying to utilize it No edit summary current
- 14:2414:24, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,212 Srimad-Bhagavatam is a commentary on Vedanta-sutra. Vedanta-sutra explains that the Supreme is the source of everything, and the nature of that source is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.1.1): janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat No edit summary
- 14:2114:21, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,025 It is not that we have to understand Krsna fully. That is not possible. We have no capacity to understand the unlimited. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam - Bs. 5.33 No edit summary current
- 14:1914:19, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,953 With our limited knowledge we cannot understand the unlimited; indeed, even Krsna does not understand Himself No edit summary current
- 14:1814:18, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,166 His (Krsna's) attraction is unlimited, and to understand why He is so attractive, He became Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and took on the ecstatic emotions of Srimati Radharani - radha-bhava-dyuti No edit summary current
- 14:1714:17, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,924 If we can simply understand Krsna in part, that is our perfection. Therefore Krsna says: janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah - BG 4.9 No edit summary current
- 14:1614:16, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,286 If we misunderstand Krsna and take Him to be a human being like us, we become mudhas, fools. Krsna's body is not composed of material elements like ours, and if we think this way, we are mistaken No edit summary current
- 14:1514:15, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,993 The material nature belongs to Krsna, and He is its controller. We are under the control of material nature, and that is the difference No edit summary current
- 14:1514:15, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,186 One who has real knowledge knows that prakrti, material nature, is working under Krsna's direction. It is not possible to understand how all this is going on, but we can understand it in summary No edit summary current
- 14:1414:14, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,393 Janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas ca: (SB 1.1.1) everything emanates from the Supreme Absolute Truth, Krsna. This much knowledge is sufficient. We can then increase this knowledge to understand just how material nature is working under Krsna's direction No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,320 Modern scientists mistakenly think that material nature is working independently and that things evolve by some chemical process only. However, life does not merely come from life or some chemical evolution No edit summary
- 14:1114:11, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,939 Ksetrajna is the proprietor of the ksetra (the body). The individual soul is actually not the proprietor but the occupant No edit summary current
- 14:1014:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,091 In a house, there is a tenant and a landlord. The tenant is the occupant, and the landlord is the proprietor. Similarly, the atma is simply the occupant of the body; the proprietor is Paramatma No edit summary current
- 14:1014:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,139 When the landlord tells the tenant to leave the house, the tenant must do so. Similarly, when the Paramatma says that we have to leave the body, we have to do so No edit summary current
- 14:0914:09, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,519 To receive Vedic knowledge, we must approach the proper guru. The guru's qualification is given in every sastra. In Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.3.21) it is said: One should not accept a guru unless one is inquisitive to know the ultimate goal of life No edit summary current
- 14:0714:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,312 One approaches a Mahatmaji and says, "I am suffering from this disease. Please help me." And the Mahatmaji says, "Yes, I have a mantra that will heal you and give you success. Give me a little money and take it." This is not a real guru No edit summary current
- 14:0614:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,244 One should approach a guru to learn about tattva, the Absolute Truth. One should not search out a guru to cure some material disease; rather, one requires a doctor No edit summary current