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10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,530‎ The entire palace was decorated with flags and garlands and bedecked with valuable stones, shining with a celestial effulgence ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +3,153‎ The castle is described: "yielding whatever one desired." It was full of jewels. Even the pillars were made of pearls and valuable stones. These valuable jewels and stones were not subject to deterioration, but were everlastingly and increasingly opulent ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +7,337‎ There is a valuable jewel stone. If you turn, you will find many colorful manifestations, although that stone is one. Similarly, although God is one, He can manifest Himself in many forms. That is the prerogative of God ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,549‎ Real opulence is supplied by natural gifts such as gold, silver, pearls, valuable stones, fresh flowers, trees and silken cloth. Thus the Vedic civilization recommends opulence and decoration with these natural gifts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,509‎ Not only do regulated rains help ample production of grains and fruits, but when they combine with astronomical influences there is ample production of valuable stones and pearls ‎No edit summary current
10:5710:57, 18 May 2022 diff hist +9,054‎ Krsna and Balarama learned the art of cutting valuable stones such as diamonds, and They also learned the art of questioning and answering by immediately composing poetry within the mind ‎No edit summary current
10:5710:57, 18 May 2022 diff hist +7,148‎ He (Sudama) saw that in place of his cottage there were big palaces made of valuable stones and jewels, glittering like the sun, moon and rays of fire ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,688‎ He (Krsna) appeared before them (the inhabitants of Vrndavana) nicely decorated, smeared all over with candana pulp, bedecked with valuable jewels and stones, and almost completely covered with gold ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,123‎ Eternal time is also without beginning, but it is the creator of all creatures. The example is given of touchstone, which creates many valuable stones and jewels but does not decrease in power ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,687‎ By utilizing the sun rays, sometimes even the stones become valuable, whereas a blind man cannot see the sun, although there are enough sun rays before him ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,171‎ A sannyasi who has dipped into the ocean of the Absolute Truth and collected some valuable stones of knowledge from that ocean, who never falls from the regulative principles of a sannyasi, is called Sagara ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +1,590‎ As the Kaustubha-mani is considered the most precious of valuable stones, this verse is similarly considered the best of poems dealing with the mellows of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,574‎ As the gopis & Krsna danced together, a very blissful musical sound was produced from the tinkling of their bells, ornaments & bangles. It appeared that Krsna was a greenish sapphire locket in the midst of a golden necklace decorated with valuable stones ‎No edit summary
10:3610:36, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,456‎ Artistic jewelry and decorations giving the appearance of eyes are not imaginary. Even in recent times the Mogul emperors constructed their palaces with decorations of jeweled birds with eyes made of valuable stones ‎No edit summary current
10:2510:25, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,781‎ Trying to defy the authority of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so-called scientists, philosophers and politicians manufacture plans and schemes for the destruction of the world ‎No edit summary current
10:2410:24, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,665‎ The word devata refers to one who carries the authority of the Vedas, whereas Raksasas are those who defy the Vedic authority. If the authority of the Vedas is lost, the entire universe becomes chaotic ‎No edit summary current
10:2410:24, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,498‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Lord Brahma, because of material opulence a foolish person becomes dull-witted and mad. Thus he has no respect for anyone within the three worlds and defies even My authority ‎No edit summary current
10:2310:23, 18 May 2022 diff hist +13‎ The devotees of the Supreme Lord are called devas because they also become like God, whereas those who defy the authority of the Supreme are called asuras or demons. These two classes are always found in human society ‎No edit summary
10:2310:23, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,183‎ These atheist class of men, who defy the authority of Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they'll meet Krsna. When? At the time of death, when Krsna will take everything, his body, his society, his country, his family, his bank balance, his house ‎No edit summary current
10:2210:22, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,582‎ When Krsna defied the authority of Indra, Indra became angry because he thought that he was all in all within this universe and that no one was as powerful as he ‎No edit summary
10:1310:13, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,626‎ Maya has no powers. Krsna has given her power to chastise these individual souls who are defying the authority of Krsna. They should be punished. It is Maya's thankless task, but Maya is obedient servant of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:1310:13, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,566‎ Material world means full of criminals, or against God, or defying the authority of God. And the spiritual world? Everyone is accepting the supremacy of God. That is material world and spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
10:1310:13, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,100‎ Material world means full of criminals, or against God, or defying the authority of God. And the spiritual world? Everyone is accepting the supremacy of God ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,153‎ Indra cursed the action of the inhabitants of Vrndavana and said, "By defying the authority of the demigods, the inhabitants of Vrndavana will suffer in material existence" ‎No edit summary
10:1210:12, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,067‎ If they (the scientists) accept God, then we give them all credit. That's all right. Otherwise zero. We don't deprecate their intention of advancement in knowledge. But we simply protest against their defying the authority of God. That is our point ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 18 May 2022 diff hist +43,351‎ If such scientists cannot even manufacture such brains, what to speak of foolish atheists who defy the authority of the Lord? ‎No edit summary
10:0810:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,927‎ Dharmasya glanih means when we defy authority. That is called discrepancy in the discharge of religiosity or occupational duty ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,216‎ Atheism means defying the authority of the Vedas and decrying the great acaryas who teach Vedic scriptures for the benefit of the people in general ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +7,393‎ And if he does not follow the instruction of spiritual master, he is a rascal. He is defying the authority. That's all ‎No edit summary current

15:4015:40, 17 May 2022 diff hist +3,021‎ Those who have full knowledge of self-realization, who know very well that the spirit soul is eternal whereas the body is perishable, are not overwhelmed by lamentation. But persons who lack knowledge of self-realization certainly lament ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 17 May 2022 diff hist +5,126‎ This (sanatana) yoga has two divisions of sacrificial actions: one is called sacrifice of one's material possessions, and the other is called knowledge of self, which is pure spiritual activity. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,185‎ Since these living entities have very little knowledge of self-realization, they are not getting any relief, although they are very anxious to attain peace of mind and some substantial happiness ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,160‎ One should not at any time associate with a coarse fool who is bereft of the knowledge of self-realization and who is no more than a toy animal in the hands of a woman ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,437‎ Long penance and transcendental knowledge of self-realization had matured Brahma in practical knowledge, and thus he drank the wind completely, along with the water ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,013‎ Jnana refers to knowledge of self as distinguished from non-self, or in other words, knowledge that the spirit soul is not the body. Vijnana refers to specific knowledge of the spirit soul's constitutional position and his relationship to the Supreme Soul ‎No edit summary
15:3815:38, 17 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ Jnanam refers to knowledge of self as distinguished from non-self, or, in other words, knowledge that the spirit soul is not the body. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,746‎ He (Arjuna) would soon be free from the false lamentation resulting from family affection and would be enlightened with perfect knowledge of self-realization, or Krsna consciousness, and would then surely fight. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 17 May 2022 diff hist +5,075‎ Due to a lack of knowledge of self, we become victimized by the force of ignorance and thus spoil the valuable energy of human life in a vain search after permanent living conditions, which are impossible in this material world ‎No edit summary
15:2915:29, 17 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ The Lord advised Arjuna to regulate the senses from the very beginning so that he could curb the greatest sinful enemy, lust, which destroys the urge for self-realization, and specifically, knowledge of the self. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 17 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ The knowledge of the self and the Supreme Self is very confidential and mysterious, being veiled by maya, but such knowledge and specific realization can be understood if it is explained by the Lord Himself. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,031‎ The knowledge of the self and Supreme Self is very confidential and mysterious, but such knowledge and specific realization can be understood if explained with their various aspects by the Lord Himself ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 17 May 2022 diff hist +5,325‎ One who follows the path of the Gita as it is can very easily understand two important divisions of spiritual knowledge. For him there is no difficulty in obtaining perfect knowledge of the self as part and parcel of the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 17 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ BG gives us that knowledge (of the self & the Supreme Self), specifically knowledge of the self. The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord, and therefore they are simply meant to serve the Lord. This consciousness is called KC. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary
15:1915:19, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,917‎ Thus he remains at home just like a pet dog & eats whatever is so negligently given to him. Afflicted with many illnesses, such as dyspepsia and loss of appetite, he eats only very small morsels of food, & he becomes an invalid, who cannot work any more ‎No edit summary current
15:1815:18, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,337‎ I am the pet dog of my Guru Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
15:1815:18, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,936‎ If you think that you know better than Krsna or Krsna's representative, the guru, there is no necessity of accepting guru. Do not keep a guru as a pet dog ‎No edit summary current
15:1315:13, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,243‎ My consciousness is impure because I accept all these goods from people who are interested only in pounds, shillings and pence. Therefore by this kind of invitation I get only some material reputation ‎No edit summary current
15:1215:12, 17 May 2022 diff hist +8,441‎ Because of their (those without devotional service) impure consciousness and for want of shelter in the Vaikunthalokas, such so-called liberated persons again fall down into material existence ‎No edit summary current
15:0415:04, 17 May 2022 diff hist +7,128‎ The exact word used in Srimad-Bhagavatam is pasu-ghna, which means killing animals or killing oneself. Persons who are not self-realized and who are not interested in spiritual realization are killing themselves; they are committing suicide ‎No edit summary
15:0415:04, 17 May 2022 diff hist +3,695‎ Take your Bible, take Koran, take Vedas. There are some prescribed duties. Just like in your Bible, there are ten commandments. "Thou shall not kill." So for whom? One who is not self-realized ‎No edit summary current

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