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  • ...inline;">Pure devotional service is without aspiration and without desire for material profit. The Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.1.11) defines pure devoti ...ntal loving service to the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa favorably and without desire for material profit or gain through fruitive activities or philosophical specul ...
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  • ...philosophical theses. Nonetheless, Tapana Miśra has been very kind to me, for he speaks about topics relating to Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...>Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī prays to his spiritual master, Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, for the protection of Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu—"The Ocean of the Pure Nectar ...
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  • ...eans. It is specially suitable for this age. How many people, they are fit for studying philosophy? Very few. It requires very learned knowledge to unders ...7 May, 1957|Letter to Sri Padampat Singhania -- Kanpur 7 May, 1957,]]''': For all practical purposes if we systematically preach to chant the holy name o ...
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  • ...the jail rules and regulations, and violating the rules means another term for extension of prison life. Similarly, we in this material existence are alwa ...How could the honor of the devotees be increased unless Sāṅkhya were meant for devotional service? Devotees are not interested in speculative knowledge; t ...
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  • ...stand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Superficially, such persons are not very greedy for material possessions, but they are too attached to wife, children and famil ...sing the will-o'-the-wisp. Such men do not know that after a hard struggle for life one must change his body, with no certainty of what kind of body he wi ...
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  • ...dane topics than in the philosophy of life. The Vedānta-sūtra was compiled for persons already above the mundane topics, who might already have tasted the ...and Purport]]: O Lord, persons who are entangled by undesirable eagerness for the temporary body and kinsmen, and who are bound by thoughts of "mine" and ...
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  • ...Sukham, pleasure or happiness, should always be in that which is favorable for the cultivation of the spiritual knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness</di ...unfavorable for the cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Anything favorable for the development of Kṛṣṇa consciousness should be accepted, and anythi ...
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  • ...situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activities are on the absolute plane, for they are no longer subject to dualities like good and bad. The highest perf ...xt"><p style="display: inline;">The Vedic rites and rituals are imperative for neophytes: comprehending all kinds of prayer three times a day, taking a ba ...
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  • ...principle of sex life. In modern civilization, sex life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. ...r nescience. And out of such desire the living being makes different plans for material enjoyment centered about a perverted sex life.</div> ...
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  • ...odily plane sva-dharma is called varnasrama-dharma, or man's steppingstone for spiritual understanding. Human civilization begins from the stage of varnas ...be violent to kill his enemies, and sometimes a ksatriya has to tell lies for the sake of diplomacy. Such violence and duplicity accompany political affa ...
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  • ...f he reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happiness for which he is searching life after life.</div> ...comes to his senses, however, he seeks after Brahman happiness, knowing it for certain that unlimited happiness, which he is seeking, is never attainable ...
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  • ...because you are human being, if you act as an animal you'll be responsible for your acts. And you'll be punished if you do something wrong. You cannot say ...
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  • ...entities are the marginal energy of the Lord, and therefore they are meant for being properly utilized in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. W ...of the Lord and, according to personal capacity, to distribute the message for others' welfare without motive of material gain.</p> ...
    77 KB (12,498 words) - 01:07, 19 May 2018
  • ...who knows Him can transcend the bonds of birth and death. There is no way for liberation other than this knowledge of that Supreme Person.</p> ...Personality of Godhead. Modern impersonalists are still less intelligent, for they do not even follow their great predecessor Śaṅkarācārya, who has ...
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  • ...rd Viṣṇu is the root of that tree also. The root is the same—the Lord—both for the real tree and the false, but the false tree is only the perverted refle ...terial world, the yogīs can enjoy more comfortable and more pleasant lives for hundreds of thousands of years, but life in those higher planets is not ete ...
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  • ...on for his personal self. But a person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for the satisfaction of the whole, without self-interest.</p> ...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 become ...
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  • ...brothers, the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. In both ways, the basic principles were for sense gratification. Happiness derived from conquering them and happiness d ...vice. Those who are engaged in this process are known to be without desire for personal sense gratification.</p> ...
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  • ...he Lord in water by its taste, and the personalist also glorifies the Lord for His kindly supplying tasty water to quench man's thirst. That is the way of ..., that scripture is the supreme revelation of the glories of Lord Govinda, for it reveals the topmost knowledge about Him. Since all conclusions are brief ...
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  • <div class="heading">For one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide s ...Godhead by revelation. One cannot understand Kṛṣṇa by mental speculation. For one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide s ...
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  • ...exceptional cases to the mahā-bhāva stage, which is generally not possible for the living entities. All these were manifested by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahā ...exceptional cases to the mahā-bhāva stage, which is generally not possible for the living entities. All these were manifested by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahā ...
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