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     18:59  As human beings we are meant not simply for solving economic problems on a tottering platform but for solving all the problems of the material life into which we have been placed by the laws of nature diffhist +40 Moumene talk contribs
     18:48  Varnasrama-dharma, gradually training the person how to become perfect human being and understand the goal of his life. That is our activity diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:48  The Vedic knowledge is mother, and the spiritual master is the father. So samskarad bhaved dvijah. The spiritual master trains the student gradually. That is called initiation. That is called dvija diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:48  The usual procedure is for one to get the training from very early life, from the stage of brahmacarya, and gradually progress to the gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa orders of life diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:47  The mind is always telling us to do this or that; therefore we should be very expert in disobeying the mind's orders. Gradually the mind should be trained to obey the orders of the soul. It is not that one should obey the orders of the mind diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:46  The four different social orders - brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa - gradually train a person to come to the platform of transcendental life diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:46  The duty of the government, therefore, is to take charge of training all the citizens in such a way that by a gradual process they will be elevated to the spiritual platform and will realize the self and his relationship with God diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:45  People are trained gradually to refrain from sex life. And in the sannyasa life he's completely trained. Therefore he's allowed to move in the society for preaching spiritual education diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:44  Our Vedic system is to train the human being to the ultimate goal of his life. That system is called varnasrama-dharma, gradually training the person how to become perfect human being diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:44  Just like amongst our students there are many married couples also, and there are brahmacaris also. That I barred from this? He is not barred. Nobody is barred. Simply following some regulation. That will gradually train him diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:41  If the regulative principles ordered by the spiritual master are followed rigidly, the mind will gradually be trained to desire nothing but the service of Krsna. Such training is the perfection of life diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     18:41  If, by Krsna's grace, we act in our spiritual body, we can transcend both the gross and subtle bodies. In other words, we can gradually train ourselves to act in terms of the spiritual body diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:39  We are teaching. Members are gradually learning how to sacrifice for God. So when he is completely trained up, he knows that nothing belongs to him; everything belongs to God diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:38  We all combined together have taken a great task of this Krsna Consciousness movement so I am very glad to learn that you are all gradually understanding the importance of this movement diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:17  One must accept a Vaisnava guru (adau gurv-asrayam), and then by questions and answers one should gradually learn what pure devotional service to Krsna is. That is called the parampara system diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:17  If I mix with smokers' association, then gradually I learn how to smoke. Similarly, if I mix with devotees' association, then I become gradually devotee diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:16  Gradually you will understand what it means to please Krishna and what it means to displease Krishna. That you will learn by studying our books and by yourself engaging in practical devotional service diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:16  Gradually such persons (Westerners) will learn that palatial buildings or comfortable apartments are not at all necessary. The real necessity is to become free from material bondage in whatever way possible diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:15  Gradually Akrura learned from Kunti and Vidura that the sons of Dhrtarastra were intolerant and envious of the five Pandava brothers because of their extraordinary learning in military science and their greatly developed bodily strength diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:14  Everything being a part and parcel of the Complete Whole, the neophyte student will gradually realize the hymns of Isopanisad which state that the Supreme Lord is everywhere, and he will learn the art of not committing any offense to the body of the Lord diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:14  Continue placing my books in libraries, colleges, bookstores, etc. and gradually the public will learn to appreciate this stock of transcendental literature diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     17:12  Absurd inquiries are condemned herewith. One must approach to the real spiritual master in submission. Inquire from him by rendering service. Then, gradually, you learn the science diffhist +30 Moumene talk contribs
     13:48  Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura quotes the prayer by Brahma from the Bhagavatam: One whose heart has become completely purified, my Lord, can understand the transcendental qualities of Your Lordship and can understand the greatness of Your activities diffhist −10 Deepali talk contribs
     13:45  Lord Brahma, surrounded by the other demigods, was bright-faced because the Lord was pleased. Thus he offered prayers to the Lord with transcendental words diffhist −20 Deepali talk contribs
     13:43  It appears that all the members of the assembly, including Lord Brahma, requested him (Daksa) not to be angry and leave their company, but in spite of all these requests, he left. That is the effect of cruel anger diffhist −8 Deepali talk contribs
     13:42  The whole sacrifice arranged by King Daksa had been disturbed by Lord Siva. Therefore all the demigods present there, along with Lord Brahma and the great sages, specifically requested Lord Siva to come and revive the sacrificial fire diffhist −8 Deepali talk contribs
     13:41  Brahma first looked upon Priyavrata with compassion. His smile and compassionate features also indicated that although Brahma would request Priyavrata to accept household life, Priyavrata would not be out of touch with devotional service diffhist −8 Deepali talk contribs
     13:40  Brahma drew the Lord's attention to this subject (of BG 9.26) and requested that He release Bali Maharaja, who was suffering, being bound by the ropes of Varuna, and who had already given everything, including the three worlds and whatever he possessed diffhist −8 Deepali talk contribs
     13:40  At that time, when Lord Brahma was desiring to increase the population, he requested you (Sutapa and Prsni) to generate offspring. You controlled your senses and performed severe austerities diffhist −8 Deepali talk contribs
     13:37  Another name for Lord Brahma is Svayambhu because he was born from a lotus flower emanating from the navel of Lord Visnu. Since he was not born of a father and mother, he is therefore called Svayambhu diffhist −20 Deepali talk contribs
     13:33  A pure devotee of the Lord like Brahma and persons in his disciplic succession are always unhappy to see the perplexities of the conditioned souls, who are suffering to the disturbances of material nature, and to many other such material disadvantages diffhist +9 Deepali talk contribs
     13:30  O demigods, I instruct you to approach Visvarupa, the son of Tvasta, and accept him as your guru. He is a pure and very powerful brahmana undergoing austerity and penances‎‎ 3 changes history −8 [Deepali‎ (3×)]
     
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     13:28  In the beginning of the creation, Lord Brahma received the instructions of Vedic knowledge from Lord Visnu through the medium of the heart - hrda diffhist +10 Deepali talk contribs
     13:28  In the material world, the living entity must accept different types of bodies. Bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani mayaya - BG 18.61 diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:27  In the bhava-samudra, the ocean of mental speculation and transmigration to different types of bodies, one must first control the mind diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:27  In different types of bodies, the Lord (isvara) gives directions as Paramatma, and again, to destroy the body, He employs the tamo-guna. This is the way the living entities receive different types of bodies diffhist +49 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:27  If we do not take direction from the Vedas but act whimsically according to our own choice, we are sure to be punished by the laws of the Lord, who offers different types of bodies in the 8,400,000 species of forms diffhist −6 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:15  Gradually we develop different types of body and different types of consciousness. So when we come finally to God consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, that is the perfection of life diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:15  God is not responsible for the living entity's accepting different types of bodies. One has to accept a body according to the laws of nature and one's own karma diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:14  Every one of us, because we have got different types of body according to my desire, we are acting differently. So if we come back again to the spiritual platform, then we will not work differently. We shall work concomitantly diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:13  Every conditioned soul receives a different type of body according to his work, and when the engagement is finished the body is finished diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:13  Due to our association with the modes of material nature, we get different types of bodies, good and bad diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:13  Different types of bodies in different species are produced because of the different desires and karmic activities of the jiva soul diffhist +60 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:43  By nature's arrangement the material body is given to the living entity for his suffering or enjoying. Different types of bodies are acquired for different purposes diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:43  Because the soul within the body associates with the three modes of material nature (goodness, passion and ignorance), he receives different types of bodies diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:43  Because the living entity wants to enjoy the material world and is attached to the three gunas, he receives different types of bodies diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:43  As long as one is entangled in karma-bandhana, one must accept different types of bodies that spoil the human form of facility diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:41  As long as one is engaged in activities aimed at improving the standard of bodily comfort, one is sure to transmigrate to different types of bodies, thereby continuing material bondage perpetually. BG 1972 purports diffhist +12 Nabakumar talk contribs