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1 December 2020
- 09:2509:25, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Medicine and a physician cannot save one from death, nor can a boat or similar means of protection save a person drowning in the water, for everything is controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1909:19, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Maharaja Pariksit's question was very much appreciated by Sukadeva Gosvami because although it was composed of a small number of words, it contained meaningful inquiries about how the sons of Diti, although born as demons, became demigods Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 09:1809:18, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Madhvacarya says: When one thinks that the living entity is nondifferent in all respects from the Supreme Lord, there is no doubt that he is in ignorance - tamah Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1709:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Lord Visnu and the individual souls, who are part and parcel of Him, are both eternal. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). Lord Visnu is the chief living being, whereas the individual living entities are parts of Lord Visnu Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1609:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,263 Lord Siva knew that he would have to play the part of anger for the Lord. Kala means Lord Siva (Bhairava), and kopa refers to the Lord's anger. These words, combined together as kopa-kala, refer to the end of each millennium Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 09:1609:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 When a devotee very sincerely wants to render service to the Lord, the Lord dictates in a different way Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 09:1509:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Lord Nrsimhadeva, for example, appeared for the protection of His devotee Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1509:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,533 Lord Brahma, King Indra and the other demigods living in the upper planetary systems are situated in a different spirit of consciousness Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:0709:07, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Just as heat and light emanate from fire, these two energies - the physical elements and the living entities - emanate from the Supreme Lord. Therefore the Lord says, aham vai sarva-bhutani: "I expand the physical and spiritual categories" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:0509:05, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 It may be said that He (God) sits in the core of everyone's heart as the neutral witness of the causes and effects of one's activities, good and bad Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:0309:03, 1 December 2020 diff hist −49 Understanding of the master begins from understanding of the spiritual master Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 09:0109:01, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 It is said that although great elephants are taken away by the flooding waters of the river, the small fish swim opposite the current Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:0009:00, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,142 It is said, vaisnavera kriya-mudra vijne na bujhaya. Even if a man is very advanced in learning, he cannot understand the behavior of a Vaisnava Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:5708:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 It is clearly understood that a devotee does not need to be born in a very high family, to be rich, to be aristocratic or to be very beautiful. None of these qualifications will engage one in devotional service Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:5508:55, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 It is a fact that Krsna is the source of everything, as we understand from Krsna Himself in Bhagavad-gita (aham sarvasya prabhavah) - BG 10.8 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:5308:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Intelligence is supplied by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who accompanies the individual soul as a friend Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:4808:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In this material world, everyone is trying to counteract the onslaught of material nature, but everyone is ultimately fully controlled by material nature Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:4708:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In this material world, everyone is in fearful consciousness (sada samudvigna-dhiyam), and the only means to make everyone fearless is Krsna consciousness. When Lord Nrsimhadeva appeared, all the devotees became fearless Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:4308:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In the jungle there are sometimes fights between lions and elephants. Here (in SB 7.8.23) the Lord appeared like a lion, and Hiranyakasipu, unafraid of the Lord, attacked Him like an elephant Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 08:4208:42, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,979 There was a difference between Bharata Maharaja's acquiring a deer body and others' acquiring different bodies according to their mental condition at the time of death Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 08:4108:41, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In the Vedas it is said, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13): the Lord is the chief individual living entity, the leader of the subordinate living entities Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3808:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In studying one's own body, one must ask himself whether his head is his soul, his fingers are his soul, his hand is his soul, and so on. In this way, one must gradually reject all the material elements & the combinations of material elements in the body Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3708:37, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In spite of being the son of the demon Hiranyakasipu, Prahlada never feared the chastisements of the seminal brahmana sons of a demoniac father Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3608:36, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In recent history we have seen many political leaders work hard for individual and collective economic development, but they have all failed. This is the law of nature, as clearly explained in the next verse - SB 7.7.42 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3408:34, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,382 In his prayers to the ten incarnations, Jayadeva Gosvami says, kesava dhrta-narahari-rupa jaya jagad-isa hare. Prahlada Maharaja was a devotee of Lord Nrsimha, who is Kesava, Krsna Himself Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3308:33, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,047 In dreams we sometimes enjoy eating sweet rice and sometimes suffer as if one of our beloved family members had died Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3108:31, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In bhakti there are nine different activities: sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 08:2708:27, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In Bhagavad-gita (15.7) the Lord (Krsna) says, mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah: "The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:2508:25, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Ignorance is the bodily conception of life Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:2108:21, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If the hand of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is present in everything, where is the question of being liberated from material encagement to spiritual, blissful life? Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:1708:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one wants to be elevated to the higher planetary systems, he may follow the Vedic directions Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 08:1608:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one wants the uncontaminated pleasure of blissful life, he must engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:1508:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one understands the Supreme Lord through devotional service with faith in the disciplic succession and then advances further, he awakens his natural love for God, and then his success in life is assured Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:1408:14, 1 December 2020 diff hist +9,001 The other class of jnanis, whose jnana is mixed with bhakti, are also of two kinds - those who are devoted to the so-called false form of the SPG and those who understand the SPG as sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), the actual spiritual form Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 08:1308:13, 1 December 2020 diff hist +2,682 If one is spiritually advanced, being a staunch, liberal devotee of the Lord, all good qualities are manifest in his body Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:1208:12, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one is fortunate enough to understand his relationship with God, knowing that God is great (vibhu) whereas the living entity is small (anu), he is perfect in knowledge Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:0908:09, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one forgets the difference between the Supreme Lord and the living entity, his conditional life begins. Conditional life means giving up one body to accept another and undergoing death to accept death again Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:0808:08, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one does not take to the path of disciplic succession, it is not possible for one to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:0408:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If a person actually became a friend of the demigods, he certainly would not be able to kill Indra Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 08:0208:02, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If a candala, a lowborn person, is a devotee and has fully surrendered unto the lotus feet of the Lord, he can purify his entire family Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:5907:59, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,475 I worship the Supreme Personality of God, Govinda (Krsna), who is the original person - absolute, infallible, without beginning, although expanded into unlimited forms, still the same original, the oldest, and the person always appearing as a fresh youth Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:4307:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 He (a devotee of God) becomes increasingly attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead because of his being purified by his suffering. Suffering is also a process of purification Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:4107:41, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 He (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) considers himself unqualified, lower than the worms in stool, and more sinful than Jagai and Madhai. A pure Vaisnava actually thinks of himself in this way Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:3507:35, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Harih sarvesu bhutesu means that Hari is situated as Paramatma, not as atma, although atma is a part of Paramatma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:2507:25, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Generally the elephant is defeated by the lion, and therefore the comparison in this verse (SB 7.8.23) is appropriate Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:2207:22, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 From within, the Lord gives the living being the intelligence with which to work. Therefore the previous verse (SB 6.16.51) said that after the Supreme Personality of Godhead endeavors, our endeavors begin Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1807:18, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 For those who are strong enough, however, there is no question of forgetting Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1707:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 For one who engages in worshiping Lord Visnu, nothing is very wonderful. This is a fact Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1607:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Foolish persons do not distinguish between the atma and the Paramatma, who are situated in every body. The atma is the living entity, and the Paramatma is the SPG. The individual living entity, however, is different from the Paramatma, the Supreme Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1107:11, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,862 Everything that is done, whether in the higher, middle or lower planetary systems, is due to the supervision or control of the Supreme Lord. It is therefore said, karmana-daiva-netrena jantur dehopapattaye - SB 3.31.1 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current