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9 March 2021
- 11:2611:26, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,515 I have already briefly spoken about the pastimes of His birth in chronological order. Now I shall give a synopsis of His childhood pastimes Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2611:26, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,746 I have all approval of your plan to travel from temple to temple in order to give them the benefits of your carpentry skill. Do it nicely Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2511:25, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,918 I had part of your letter read aloud to a group of devotees how you have one cow who will be giving 70-80 pounds a day Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2511:25, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,470 I had no desire to give my daughter to this person, who has broken all rules of civility Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2511:25, 9 March 2021 diff hist +4,148 I found you a good soul and therefore I did propose it to you but if you refuse co-operation then what I can do. Even Sri Krishna cannot compel one for co-operation because every living being is given full chance of utilizing independant views Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2511:25, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,642 I don't know who has given you this idea of shaving your head and wearing white garments. In India only the widows are allowed to shave head. I have never suggested your husband to take to Sannyas Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2511:25, 9 March 2021 diff hist +5,860 I do not wish to mention by name - one artificial God, he was teaching his disciple, and the disciple was feeling electrical shocks. So unfortunately, I cannot give you electrical shocks Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2511:25, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,513 I do not know my duty or the goal of my life. Therefore, please personally give me instructions from Your transcendental mouth Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2411:24, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,070 I can go to Zambia at any time by my secretary's arrangement. So, Brahmananda Swami, my chief secretary, is coming to meet me in Los Angeles on the 20th of June, and then he can give you reply as to when I shall be coming to Zambia Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2411:24, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,763 I asked the Christian so many times that "Your Bible says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' Why you are killing?" They cannot give any satisfactory answer. This is my experience Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2411:24, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,478 I am very satisfied with the work Harikesa Swami is doing there in Germany and Eastern Europe, therefore in order to encourage him and give him facility to rectify the situation in Germany, I have appointed him as acting GBC/BBT until the Mayapur meeting Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2411:24, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,581 I am very much pleased to see all these pictures and our magazines gives information to the people that we do not stick only to the cities, but we train people in the remote villages also. So everything should be done very attentively and amicably Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2311:23, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,649 I am very much anxious to know what you have done about the land which Tahsilder and Patwari proposed to give us. I am very much anxious to know it Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2311:23, 9 March 2021 diff hist +5,201 I am very glad to hear that a new devotee has given $6,500 to your temple. A similar report has come from Hansadutta. It is a good sign that people are coming & of their own accord giving everything, that is the proof of your powerful preaching work Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2311:23, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,628 I am very encouraged by the report of how nicely our books are being distributed. This is our main business all over the world. If you give full attention to this, there will never be any shortage of funds Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2311:23, 9 March 2021 diff hist +4,346 I am the grandson of Maharaja Prahlada. How can I withdraw my promise because of greed for money when I have already said that I shall give this land? How can I behave like an ordinary cheater, especially toward a brahmana? Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2211:22, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,665 I am now prepared to give you all benedictions, according to your desire. I belong to the celestial world of demigods, who do not die like human beings. Therefore, although you are subject to death, your audience with me will not go in vain Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:2211:22, 9 March 2021 diff hist +5,222 I am now happy; I have everything in order; my bank balance is quite enough; I can now give my children enough estate; I am now successful; the poor beggar sannyasis depend on God, but they come to beg from me; therefore I am more than the Supreme God Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2211:22, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,601 I am merely an insignificant jiva, so what power do I have to give directions to You? By Your own personal choice You will meet with the King. I shall see it Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:2111:21, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,954 I am hopeful that if we can widely distribute free foodstuffs to the people of India, by giving it out at our centers as well as by travelling parties to villages, we will win over the whole country and the whole world by this activity on Krsna's behalf Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2111:21, 9 March 2021 diff hist +4,827 I am glad that you have decided to give your time now fully to serving Krsna directly, but do not misunderstand the position of "outside" jobs. Any work performed by a devotee in KC is never work on the material platform although it may appear to be so Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2111:21, 9 March 2021 diff hist +5,609 I am given the hand to use it for my purpose, for my eating, for my collecting. But actually it is not my hand Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2111:21, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,825 I am always very much encouraged when senior devotees like yourself and Rupanuga Maharaja are tending to their Lordships. This gives me assurity that our high standard will continue. Thank you very much for this Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2111:21, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,393 I am always thinking of Caracas temple. Although I went there once, it has given me some impression. Now I am an old man, and am depending on you to carry on our mission more enthusiastically. The seed is already there. Now water it Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2011:20, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,571 I am able to give You an entire island because I am the proprietor of the three divisions of the universe. You have come to take something from me and have pleased me by Your sweet words, but You are asking only three paces of land Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2011:20, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,409 I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) shall describe all these incidents elaborately later on. Now I have given only a brief reference Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2011:20, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,718 I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have thus given a summary description of the madhya-lila, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's travels to and from Jagannatha Puri. Indeed, the Lord traveled to and fro continuously for six years Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2011:20, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,459 I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have here given a brief account of these pastimes of Lord Caitanya, but later I shall describe them in an extensive way Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:2011:20, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,591 I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have given but a single hint of these pastimes, for Vrndavana dasa Thakura, in his book Caitanya-mangala (now Caitanya-bhagavata), has described them all vividly Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1911:19, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,811 I'm not very much fond of reception. I want to know how people give reception to this movement. That is my concern Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1811:18, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,785 How the Deity will be kept from being mishandled or kept in a dirty place or even thrown away at the whim of the child? You cannot always check her. Therefore to such a small child the Deity of Lord Jagannatha should not be given Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:1711:17, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,270 His real name was Pradyumna Brahmacari. The name Nrsimhananda had been given to him by Lord Gaurasundara Himself Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1711:17, 9 March 2021 diff hist +4,737 His purpose (Maharaja Priyavrata's) was to give abundant benefits in material existence Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1711:17, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,470 His brothers used to give him broken rice, oil cakes, the chaff of rice, worm-eaten grains and burned grains that had stuck to the pot, but he gladly accepted all this as if it were nectar. He did not hold any grudges and ate all this very gladly Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1711:17, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,083 His (Dhaumya's) name is mentioned also when the general funeral ceremony was performed after the Battle of Kuruksetra. In the Anusasana-parva of Mahabharata (127.15-16), he gave religious instructions very elaborately to Maharaja Yudhisthira Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:1611:16, 9 March 2021 diff hist +5,137 His (Balarama) exemplary action in performing sacrifices was only to give a lesson to the common man to show how one should abide by the injunctions of the Vedas Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:1611:16, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,937 His (Arjuna's) samskara of being given a name was performed in the presence of the rsis, residents of Satasrnga Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1611:16, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,672 Hiranyakasipu advised his assistants: My dear demons, give complete protection to this boy at the guru-kula where he is instructed, so that his intelligence will not be further influenced by Vaisnavas who may go there in disguise Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1611:16, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,774 Hiranya dasa was collecting 2,000,000 coins and therefore should have delivered 1,500,000 to the government. Instead, he was giving only 1,200,000, thus making an extra profit of 300,000 coins Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1611:16, 9 March 2021 diff hist +5,177 Here is a programme of spiritual movement (an appeal enclosed herewith). I am struggling alone very hard to give it an effective shape without any help from persons like you. You can help the movement a lot without the least difficulty or disturbances Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:1511:15, 9 March 2021 diff hist +7,614 Here (in Srimad-Bhagavatam) ten subjects are described: (1) the creation of the ingredients of the cosmos, (2) the creations of Brahma, (3) the maintenance of the creation, (4) special favor given to the faithful, (5) impetuses for activity Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:1511:15, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,659 Here (in SB 9.2.17) it is said, ksatram brahma-bhuyam gatam ksitau: although the Dharstas belonged to the ksatriya, they were able to convert themselves into brahmanas. This gives clear evidence supporting the statement by Narada in SB 7.11.35 Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:1511:15, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,107 Here (in SB 8.24.15) is an example of giving service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead even without knowledge. Such service is called ajnata-sukrti Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:1511:15, 9 March 2021 diff hist +3,159 Here (in SB 10.10.38) the process of understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead is given. This process is bhakti Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted
- 11:1411:14, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,615 Hearing this request, Raghunatha dasa's father agreed. Giving him many servants and materials, the father sent him to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, requesting him to return soon Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1411:14, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,769 Hearing Mukunda dasa give this proper decision, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu confirmed it, saying, "Yes, it is correct. One who awakens devotion to Krsna is certainly the spiritual master" Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1411:14, 9 March 2021 diff hist +1,887 He would like to stay with us very much so see that full prasadam as well as a room is given during his stay in Vrndavana Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1411:14, 9 March 2021 diff hist +4,639 He would also give them good instructions on how to become first-class citizens. (This is called anusasana.) Such were the characteristics of King Gaya's royal order Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1311:13, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,559 He will give us 25 bighas at Mathura Gochar Bhumi as a concessional free gift. So immediately go and see the land, and if suitable then immediately take it Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current
- 11:1311:13, 9 March 2021 diff hist +2,843 He who is able to give charity does not know the beggar's difficulty, for otherwise he would not refuse to give the beggar anything he might want as charity Vanibot #0046: Restore a category that has been deleted current