User contributions for Shaalini
14 May 2022
- 11:3111:31, 14 May 2022 diff hist +4,462 A devotee, who is called narayana-para, is never afraid of anything because he is always aware of the fact that the Lord protects him in all circumstances. With this conviction, Vidura traveled alone, & he was not seen or recognized by any friend or foe No edit summary current
- 11:3011:30, 14 May 2022 diff hist +8,744 As clearly stated by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.3): Those who are not faithful on the path of devotional service cannot attain Me, O conqueror of foes, but return to birth and death in this material world No edit summary
- 11:3011:30, 14 May 2022 diff hist +2,570 Arjuna envisioned only unhappiness in the battlefield (of Kuruksetra) - he would not be happy even by gaining victory over the foe. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
13 May 2022
- 12:4712:47, 13 May 2022 diff hist +4,403 When I return to India my ambition is to construct an American House at Vrindaban and get some of you boys and girls there to train for our preaching work in this part of the world No edit summary
- 12:4712:47, 13 May 2022 diff hist +5,014 When a girl and boy are united, both are trained for a life dedicated to a higher purpose. The boy is trained to execute his duty in accordance with the higher purpose of life, and the girl is trained to follow him No edit summary
- 12:4612:46, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,413 To train the innocent boy to be a sense gratifier at the early age when the child is actually happy in any circumstance is the greatest violence No edit summary current
- 12:4512:45, 13 May 2022 diff hist +2,867 This boy was known as Srngi, and he achieved good training in brahmacarya by his father so that he could be as powerful as a brahmana, even at that age No edit summary current
- 12:4512:45, 13 May 2022 diff hist +4,031 This boy is a new boy, and he might have so many ideas within his brain and if you can train him for your purpose he will be a great service No edit summary current
- 12:4412:44, 13 May 2022 diff hist +4,167 The training was compulsory not only to create good citizens of the state, but also to prepare the boy's future life for spiritual realization No edit summary current
- 12:3812:38, 13 May 2022 diff hist +2,806 The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has decided to introduce the gurukula system of education for the proper training of young boys in the traditional gurukula way laid down in the Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current
- 12:3712:37, 13 May 2022 diff hist +4,199 Since both the boys and the girls are being trained to become preachers, those girls are not ordinary girls but are as good as their brothers who are preaching Krsna consciousness No edit summary
- 12:3612:36, 13 May 2022 diff hist +2,226 Please train our boys and girls to follow the principles very strictly No edit summary
- 12:3612:36, 13 May 2022 diff hist +5,279 Not that these boys and girls are being initiated all of a sudden. They are trained up for six months, one year, then they are offered hari-nama No edit summary
- 12:2812:28, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,127 I wish that instead of wasting your time for 2 or 3 years for taking a degree, you may increase your scope of activities for recruiting such boys and training them in Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 12:2812:28, 13 May 2022 diff hist +4,615 I approached many respectable friends for giving me at least one boy from each family to be trained up in this line of self-realization, but I was not successful. The parents had no interest, the same difficulty of sudra mentality No edit summary current
- 12:2812:28, 13 May 2022 diff hist +2,562 I am very pleased to hear that Haihaya is doing nicely as manager. He is a good boy. Now train him to be first class manager No edit summary current
- 12:2612:26, 13 May 2022 diff hist +2,370 I am just trying to train three or four of the advanced boys to work as the superintendents of the centers No edit summary current
- 12:2612:26, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,405 It is essential that girls as well as boys be trained to discharge spiritual duties so that at the time of cooperation both will be benefited. The training of the boy is brahmacarya, and the training of the girl is chastity No edit summary
- 12:2012:20, 13 May 2022 diff hist +7,263 Especially we are giving training to our boys to learn simply English and Sanskrit No edit summary current
- 12:1912:19, 13 May 2022 diff hist +5,446 A boy is trained to become brahmacari. Brahmacari. Brahmacari means complete celibacy. No sex life, no amusement. Because just to train him not to be attracted by this material sense enjoyment. Then he'll be able to grasp what is spiritual life No edit summary
- 12:1912:19, 13 May 2022 diff hist +10,980 A boy is trained as a student up to twenty-five years, restricting sex life. Brahmacari. So, some of the boys remain naisthika-brahmacari - celibate for life No edit summary current
- 12:1912:19, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,733 A boy born in the family of a brahmana is not immediately a brahmana; he has to take up the training and the purificatory process No edit summary current
- 12:1812:18, 13 May 2022 diff hist +5,480 As soon as they (the American boys) enter the Krsna consciousness movement being started in America, they are trained to meet the brahminical qualifications, even though they have fallen to the lowest conditions as sudras No edit summary current
- 02:5002:50, 13 May 2022 diff hist +13,166 Those who are actually in knowledge do not admit such conclusions (if one chant Hare Krsna or the name of demigods, the result will be the same), which are against the authority of the sastras No edit summary current
- 02:5002:50, 13 May 2022 diff hist +6,141 The sadhu will speak only on the authority of sastra. And sastra means the description given by the sadhu. They are correlative No edit summary current
- 02:5002:50, 13 May 2022 diff hist −10 It has already been explained in the previous verses that Prthu Maharaja advised the citizens to become adhoksaja-dhiyah, which means God conscious, or Krsna conscious, and in this verse (SB 4.21.27) he specifically presents the authority of sastra No edit summary
- 02:4902:49, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,458 Concerning our use of analogy. We do not bring in imperfect analogy, but we follow the instructions of the Sastras strictly. Our authority is on the basis of Sastra, not analogy No edit summary current
- 02:4302:43, 13 May 2022 diff hist +6,302 Out of the twelve mahajanas, Prahlada Maharaja is one of them. Because he was very bold. He was not afraid of his demonic father No edit summary
- 02:4202:42, 13 May 2022 diff hist +4,871 One must be very bold so that he can conquer these enemies of Krsna consciousness. Not caring for the good and bad of this material world, one must boldly propagate Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 02:4202:42, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,332 My (Manu) dear Dhruva, at the age of only five years you were very grievously afflicted by the words of your mother's co-wife, and you very boldly gave up the protection of your mother and went to the forest to engage in the yogic process No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 The suvarna-vanik community to which Uddharana Datta belonged was actually a Vaisnava community. Its members were bankers and gold merchants - suvarna means - gold, and vanik means - merchant No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,722 The priests who guide the Kalawaras and the Sanwadas are called Sanodiya brahmanas. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura states that the word sanoyada in Bengal indicates suvarna-vanik No edit summary current
- 02:2802:28, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 The merchants, who were the principal residents, were called Saptagrama suvarna-vaniks. There were very many rich people there, and Hiranya Majumadara and Govardhana Majumadara belonged to the kayastha community No edit summary current
- 02:2802:28, 13 May 2022 diff hist +37 They (the suvarna-vanik) have been ostracized from the higher castes, namely the brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas. But by the grace of Srila Nityananda Prabhu, the suvarna-vanik community was again elevated No edit summary current
- 02:2802:28, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 They (suvarna-vanik) were known as the Saptagrami mercantile community of Calcutta, and most of them belonged to the Mullik and Sil families. More than half of Calcutta belonged to this community, as did Srila Uddharana Thakura No edit summary current
- 02:2802:28, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,714 Some of them (the vaisyas) are called tila-vanik, or grain raisers, some are called gandha-vanik, or merchants in spices, and some are called suvarna-vanik, or merchants in gold and banking No edit summary current
- 02:2702:27, 13 May 2022 diff hist −5 Our paternal family also came from this district (Hugli) and belonged to the same community - suvarna-vanik No edit summary current
- 02:2702:27, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 Long ago there was a misunderstanding between Ballal Sena and the suvarna-vanik community because of the great banker Gauri Sena No edit summary current
- 02:2702:27, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 It is said in the Caitanya-bhagavata, yateka vanik-kula uddharana haite pavitra ha-ila dvidha nahika ihate: there is no doubt that all the community members of the suvarna-vanik society were again purified by Sri Nityananda Prabhu No edit summary current
- 02:2702:27, 13 May 2022 diff hist +3,815 In this connection (of CC Madhya 16.217), one may refer to Adi-lila (Chapter Eleven, verse 41), which describes Uddharana Datta, who also belonged to the Saptagrami suvarna-vanik community No edit summary current
- 02:2202:22, 13 May 2022 diff hist +37 In Bengal the suvarna-vanik class are always very rich, for they are bankers and dealers in gold and silver No edit summary current
- 02:2102:21, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 In Bengal there are priests who guide the suvarna-vanik community, which is also considered a low class. There is little difference between the Sanwadas and the suvarna-vaniks No edit summary current
- 02:1902:19, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 Historically, the Agarwalas came from the up-country named Ayodha, and the suvarna-vanik community also came from Ayodha. It therefore appears that the suvarna-vaniks and the Agarwalas belong to the same community No edit summary
- 02:1902:19, 13 May 2022 diff hist +5,257 He (Ballal Sena) tried to induce the brahmanas not to accept the suvarna-vaniks as followers of the instructions of the Vedas under the brahminical directions No edit summary current
- 02:1802:18, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 Generally the suvarna-vaniks are bankers dealing in gold and silver. In western India, the Agarwalas also belong to the banking profession. This is the original business of the suvarna-vanik or Agarwala community No edit summary current
- 02:1802:18, 13 May 2022 diff hist +7,628 Formerly, in our childhood, we visited this temple with our parents because all the members of the suvarna-vanik community enthusiastically take interest in this temple of Uddharana Datta Thakura No edit summary current
- 02:1802:18, 13 May 2022 diff hist +14 Five hundred years ago, vaisyas, especially those of the suvarna-vanik community, were accepted as sudras in Bengal, and even the vaidyas, who were generally physicians, were also considered sudras No edit summary
- 02:1802:18, 13 May 2022 diff hist +37 Calcutta was developed under British rule by the influential mercantile community, and especially by the suvarna-vanik community who came down from Saptagrama to establish their businesses and homes all over Calcutta No edit summary current
- 02:1802:18, 13 May 2022 diff hist +37 Before the time of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the suvarna-vanik class was condemned by Ballal Sena, who was then the King of Bengal, due to a personal grudge No edit summary current
- 02:1702:17, 13 May 2022 diff hist +7,979 Ballal Sena was taking loans from Gauri Sena and spending money extravagantly, and therefore Gauri Sena stopped supplying money. Ballal Sena took revenge by instigating a social conspiracy to make the suvarna-vaniks outcastes No edit summary current