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14:5214:52, 31 March 2022 diff hist +3,052‎ This awakening of divine consciousness enthralls a devotee, who thus relishes his eternal transcendental mellow. Such an awakening is awarded only to those convinced by devotional service about the transcendental nature of the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 31 March 2022 diff hist +11,964‎ Various agents of the external energy make explicit propaganda to try to root out the very seed of DC. But this is impossible to do, because although circumstances may choke up a living being's divine consciousness for the time being, it cannot be killed ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 31 March 2022 diff hist +7,382‎ If you keep divine association, then your consciousness is made divine ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 31 March 2022 diff hist +20,646‎ The Supreme Father does not forget His rebellious sons. He creates scriptures for them like the Vedas and Puranas in order to revive their lost relationship with Him and awaken their divine consciousness ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 31 March 2022 diff hist +3,566‎ By virtue of the divine consciousness of his previous life, he automatically becomes attracted to the yogic principles-even without seeking them. BG 6.44 - 1972 ‎No edit summary

15:2915:29, 30 March 2022 diff hist +3,809‎ Association is so important. So if we become serious for developing divine consciousness, then this is the only association - we have established the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 30 March 2022 diff hist +3,404‎ As fire is kindled from wood by another fire, the divine consciousness of man can similarly be kindled by another divine grace ‎No edit summary current
15:2615:26, 30 March 2022 diff hist +3,319‎ A person in the divine consciousness, although engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving about, sleeping, and breathing, always knows within himself that he actually does nothing at all. BG 5.8-9 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
15:1815:18, 30 March 2022 diff hist +6,036‎ Indian civilization, based on Vedic knowledge, is estimated so high, perfect. Perfect scheme system for human society, based on Vedic civilization. Everything is correctly visioned, and the ideas are given by persons who are above material contamination ‎No edit summary

14:5114:51, 29 March 2022 diff hist +7‎ Krsna advises in BG 18.65: man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru. The perfect yoga system consists of always thinking of Krsna, always engaging in devotional service, always worshiping Krsna and always offering obeisances unto Him ‎No edit summary current
14:5114:51, 29 March 2022 diff hist +5,016‎ Knowledge received from the greatest personality, greatest authority, is, according to Vedic system, accepted as perfect ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 29 March 2022 diff hist +5,449‎ According to Vedic system, there should be four classes of men: the brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, social order; and spiritual order: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa. This is perfect system of human civilization ‎No edit summary current

11:2711:27, 28 March 2022 diff hist +2,873‎ Both the lowest of fools and he who is transcendental to all intelligence enjoy happiness, whereas persons between them suffer the material pangs ‎No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 28 March 2022 diff hist +7‎ It is clear that in spite of His (Krsna's) being in the material world, He is the same unborn, eternal form of bliss and knowledge, changeless in His transcendental body and intelligence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
11:2211:22, 28 March 2022 diff hist +3,596‎ Advanced transcendentalists are called sudhiyah. Sudhi means "intelligence," sudhi means "highly advanced," and sudhi means "devotee." ‎No edit summary current
11:1711:17, 28 March 2022 diff hist +3,191‎ Saints are very rarely seen in the houses of householders, and Maharaja Pariksit prayed to him (Sukadeva) to instruct him as soon as possible. The householders also should be intelligent enough to get some transcendental information from visiting sages ‎No edit summary
11:0711:07, 28 March 2022 diff hist +15,767‎ Grtsamada was a great scholar of the Rg-veda, and thus he was highly respected by the brahmana community. He lived a life of celibacy and was powerful in every respect ‎No edit summary current
11:0511:05, 28 March 2022 diff hist +2,829‎ Unfortunately, there are many great scholars of the Vedas who do not know the ultimate purport of studying them. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

15:2815:28, 26 March 2022 diff hist +8,800‎ Those operating in the modes of ignorance and passion cannot be as perfect as that system in the mode of goodness. In Bhagavad-gita everything has been divided into three qualitative divisions; therefore religious systems are similarly categorized ‎No edit summary current
15:0515:05, 26 March 2022 diff hist +3,732‎ Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old age and death take refuge in Me in devotional service. They are actually Brahman because they entirely know everything about transcendental and fruitive activities. BG 7.29 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current

16:0916:09, 24 March 2022 diff hist +4,127‎ The idea is that not only the king but everyone should keep his hard-earned money confidentially and secretly so that in due course of time the money can be spent for good, practical purposes ‎No edit summary current
16:0416:04, 24 March 2022 diff hist +3,108‎ The defect of Mayavada philosophy is that it does not accept the variety that is useful for practical purposes ‎No edit summary current
16:0416:04, 24 March 2022 diff hist −12‎ For all practical purposes, the whole world is full of nondevotees, and so one kind of very advanced devotee is called bhajananandi. Those who are gosthy-anandi, however, preach to increase the number of devotees ‎No edit summary current
16:0316:03, 24 March 2022 diff hist +4,589‎ All the samskaras, purificatory processes, are not mere formalities or social functions only, but they are all for practical purposes and can be successfully performed by expert brahmanas like Dhaumya and Krpa ‎No edit summary current

14:3714:37, 23 March 2022 diff hist +3,458‎ Sacimata gave the example that although an earthen pot and a lump of dirt are basically one, for practical purposes the waterpot is useful whereas the lump of dirt is useless ‎No edit summary current
14:3614:36, 23 March 2022 diff hist +3,071‎ One who follows the principles and instructions enjoined by the great sages of the past can utilize these instructions for practical purposes. Such a person can very easily enjoy life and pleasures ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 23 March 2022 diff hist +6,705‎ The very word created means that He has transcendental intelligence. For example, when a father begets a child, the child has senses because the father also has senses ‎No edit summary current
14:2114:21, 23 March 2022 diff hist +2,923‎ The pure devotee is equipoised in his vision and sees himself to be uncontaminated by matter because of his transcendental intelligence ‎No edit summary current
14:1814:18, 23 March 2022 diff hist +5,551‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami has given much stress to Radha-kunda because of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's desire to find it. Who, then, would give up Radha-kunda and try to reside elsewhere? No person with transcendental intelligence would do so ‎No edit summary current
14:1814:18, 23 March 2022 diff hist +13‎ Pure devotees may deal with the three modes of material nature, but because of their transcendental intelligence in Krsna consciousness, they are not influenced by the material qualities. The spell of material activities does not attract such devotees ‎No edit summary current

18:0318:03, 21 March 2022 diff hist +9,324‎ Unfortunately, unauthorized scholars of the Vedas become captivated by the purificatory ceremonies only, and natural progress is thereby checked. To such bewildered persons of atheistic propensity, Lord Buddha is the emblem of theism ‎No edit summary

16:2816:28, 20 March 2022 diff hist +3,124‎ Due to transcendental intelligence, I now refuse to obey the unwanted orders of these desires, and I now come to You to surrender myself at Your fearless lotus feet. Kindly engage me in Your personal service and save me ‎No edit summary current
16:0916:09, 20 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ Although they (the Mayavadis) present themselves as great Vedantists, they are factually mayayapahrta-jnana; in other words, they seem to be very learned scholars, but the essence of their knowledge has been taken away ‎No edit summary current

16:5316:53, 19 March 2022 diff hist +7‎ Out of many millions of learned Vedanta scholars, there may be one visnu-bhakta, or devotee of Lord Visnu. It is he who is most exalted ‎No edit summary current
16:5216:52, 19 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ There are different grades of Vaisnavas (kanistha-adhikari, madhyama-adhikari and uttama-adhikari), but to be a madhyama-adhikari preacher one must be a learned scholar in the Vedanta-sutra and other Vedic literatures ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 19 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ He (Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya) started a school at Jagannatha Puri for the study of Vedanta philosophy, of which he was a great scholar ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 19 March 2022 diff hist +4,951‎ By studying Vedanta-sutra, by becoming a very great scholar, to achieve transcendental position of devotional service is very, very difficult ‎No edit summary current
16:4716:47, 19 March 2022 diff hist +6,039‎ Your name is Romaharsana. Romaharsana was a great learned scholar for explaining Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
16:4616:46, 19 March 2022 diff hist +4,530‎ To them (foolish scholars of Vedic literature), the ritualistic ceremonies are considered to be all in all. They have no depth of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 19 March 2022 diff hist +7,242‎ There is no validity in a material conception of the Lord produced by the mental speculator. Thus He remains always a mystery for the mundane scholar, even if he is vastly learned in the Vedic literatures ‎No edit summary current
16:4316:43, 19 March 2022 diff hist +8,806‎ The foolish scholars of Vedic literature who do not care to receive the transcendental message through the transcendental realized sources of disciplic succession are sure to be bewildered ‎No edit summary current
16:4216:42, 19 March 2022 diff hist +5,731‎ Prthu Maharaja had no control over the brahmana-kula, which refers to the learned scholars in Vedic knowledge, nor over the Vaisnavas, who are above the considerations of Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary
16:4016:40, 19 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ It does not matter whether a person is a vipra (learned scholar in Vedic wisdom) or is born in a lower family, or is in the renounced order of life - if he is master in the science of Krsna, he is the perfect and bona fide spiritual master. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current

19:3719:37, 18 March 2022 diff hist +6,124‎ Krsna replied, "Foolish Salva, you are talking nonsensically. You do not know that the moment of death is already upon your head. Actual heroes do not talk much. They prove their prowess by practical exhibition of chivalrous activities" ‎No edit summary current
19:3419:34, 18 March 2022 diff hist +3,176‎ The Veda-mantras are all practical, and the proof is rejuvenation of the sacrificed animal ‎No edit summary current
19:3119:31, 18 March 2022 diff hist +4,318‎ Influenced by Lord Caitanya’s Krsna consciousness movement, supposedly learned scholars give up their studies of Vedic literature, yogis give up their impractical practices of mystic yoga, ascetics give up their austere activities of penance & austerity ‎No edit summary current
19:3019:30, 18 March 2022 diff hist +7,193‎ From the behavior of these birds, it appeared that they were great scholars in Vedic knowledge and that they took to Krsna's transcendental vibration and rejected all branches of Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
19:2719:27, 18 March 2022 diff hist +2,438‎ Even though he may be born in a family of dog-eaters, he is recognized by learned scholars. But although a person may be a learned scholar in Vedic knowledge, he is not recognized if he is an atheist ‎No edit summary current
19:2519:25, 18 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ Even though one is a very learned scholar of the Vedic sastras, he may be completely unaware of the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His name, fame, qualities and so forth ‎No edit summary current
19:2219:22, 18 March 2022 diff hist +3,598‎ Describing the history of Ajamila's life, the Yamadutas relate that in the beginning he was a learned scholar of the Vedic literature. He was well behaved, neat and clean, and very kind to everyone. In fact, he had all good qualities ‎No edit summary current

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