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14 September 2022

• 13:1413:14, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,557‎ Beginning with Lord Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara, Indra, Candra and all the demigods (there are thirty-three million demigods) and the middle and lower species. Everyone is bhrtya, or servant ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,625‎ When Krsna orders, "My dear Mr. So-and-So, now please give up your place and leave,', one must go. Therefore everyone is a servant. This is the position of Lord Brahma and the ant as well ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,385‎ When Dharmaraja asked Maharaja Yudhisthira what the most wonderful thing in the world was, Maharaja Yudhisthira replied: ahany ahani bhutani gacchantiha yamalayam. ‎No edit summary
• 13:1013:10, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,315‎ Bhagavan, the Supreme Lord, is not in this (conditioned) position. It is therefore said: bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,657‎ Every moment people are dying, but those who are living are thinking, 'My friend has died, but I shall live forever. - (Mahabharata, Vana-parva 313.116) Soft cow dung thinks the same way. This is typical of conditioned beings ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,739‎ Real knowledge means knowing that however great one may be, the four principles of material life are present: birth, old age, disease and death. These exist in the highest planetary system (Brahmaloka) and in the lowest - Patalaloka ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,391‎ Foolish people are unaware of the miserable conditions of material life. Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (13.9), janma-mrtyu jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,375‎ One cannot say, "My dear death, please give me some time to adjust." There is no adjustment; one must immediately get out ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,579‎ Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita (10.34), mrtyuh sarva-haras caham: "I am all-devouring death." Krsna comes as death and plunders everything - bank balance, skyscrapers, wife, children and whatever ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,627‎ Eventually everyone will dry up and be thrown in the fire. That is a fact. We may survive for a few years, but we cannot avoid death. In fact, it is said, - As sure as death ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,329‎ What is the result of death? One loses everything - all honor, money, position and material life itself ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,783‎ It (soft cow dung) does not know that when it dries out, it will be thrown into the fire too. We may laugh because President Nixon is in trouble, and we may think ourselves very safe because we have a big bank balance, but actually no one is safe ‎No edit summary
• 12:5812:58, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,314‎ Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovidah. The word kovidah means "intelligent." An intelligent person should try to attain shelter at the lotus feet of Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 12:5712:57, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,261‎ Human life is actually meant for getting in touch with the lotus feet of Krsna. That should be our only business ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,421‎ Within this one universe, there are fourteen planetary systems, and the living entities are wandering in different bodily forms on different planets ‎No edit summary
• 12:5412:54, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,669‎ Sometimes we may think we are very fortunate, just as President Nixon was thinking, "I am very fortunate. I have become the president of the United States." Then he soon realized that he was most unfortunate. Actually this is the situation for everyone ‎No edit summary
• 12:5312:53, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,607‎ Throughout the world there are problems everywhere. One country has one type of problem, and another country has another. There is strife within governments themselves, and even presidents are fraught with problems ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5212:52, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,678‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is an attempt to make people fortunate. In this age, everyone is unfortunate (manda-bhagyah), but now we are trying to reverse the situation ‎No edit summary
• 12:5112:51, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,867‎ It was Caitanya Mahaprabhu who said to Rupa Gosvami - The living entity is wandering up & down, from one planet to another, & he is very fortunate if by the mercy of the spiritual master & Krsna Himself he can get the seed of devotional service to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4912:49, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,783‎ Everyone is thinking, "May my child live happily" or "May I get so much money." We do not ask or pray for catastrophes, yet they come without invitation. Similarly, whatever happiness is there for our enjoyment will also come without our asking for it ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,658‎ Our actual endeavor should be to attain happiness; that is our real struggle for existence. According to the sastras: tal labhyate duhkhavat. The word duhkhavat indicates that although we do not want misery, misery comes anyway ‎No edit summary
• 12:4512:45, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,538‎ We should not worry about eating and sleeping, for the needs of the body are already arranged. We do not have to work independently to maintain the body ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,790‎ According to karma, the living entity sometimes goes up & sometimes goes down. He wanders in this way, thinking how he can become materially happy & satisfy his senses. The sastras say that we should not do this, we should endeavor to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 12:4312:43, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,289‎ The word upari indicates the higher planetary systems. There are seven higher planetary systems, and we are in the middle system, in Bhurloka ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4012:40, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,789‎ In Bhagavad-gita, Krsna never says, "Do this or that, and I will then maintain you." Rather, He states that not only will He maintain us, but He will also protect us from the results of sin, from sinful karma (BG 18.66). All of this assurance is there ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3712:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,584‎ In our Krsna consciousness movement, we have over a hundred centers, and Krsna is maintaining them all. None of our devotees are employed for independent incomes, yet they are all being maintained ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,541‎ Those who are devotees of the Lord and have taken shelter at His lotus feet, leaving everything aside simply to render service unto Him, will certainly be cared for ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2706:27, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,926‎ We cannot conceive how many living entities are being maintained by the Supreme Lord. All the great elephants, all the small ants, all the 8,400,000 species of life are maintained by Bhagavan. Why do we worry that He will not maintain us ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,463‎ There is no limit to the jivas; no one can count them. The word ananta means that they are without limit. All these jivas, living entities, are being maintained by the Supreme One ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,294‎ Nitya, bhagavan, is the singular, and nityanam are the plural jivas, or living beings. Nityo nityanam: we are many, but God is one ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2306:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,333‎ The word bhaga means "opulence," and van means "one who possesses." All the opulences of the creation are present in Bhagavan ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2006:20, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,389‎ In the previous verse (SB 3.25.1), the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Devahuti-putra Kapiladeva has been explained as bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,679‎ If we hear about Krsna, we become purified. Hearing about Krsna means associating with Krsna. In this way we may perfect our lives ‎No edit summary
• 05:3205:32, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,495‎ We need only hear about Krsna. That's all. We have therefore opened all these centers of Krsna consciousness throughout the world ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,660‎ It is our great fortune that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Krsna Himself, has appeared and given us a very easy process by which we can understand Krsna. What is that process ‎No edit summary
• 05:3105:31, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,711‎ Understanding Krsna is therefore not so easy. As stated by Krsna, out of many thousands one person may become a siddha, a self-realized being. And out of many siddhas, one may be able to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current

13 September 2022

• 10:2210:22, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,523‎ Krsna comes at intervals or sends His representative, the pure devotee. Sometimes He comes personally, and sometimes He sends His incarnation ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,303‎ We have to accept a certain type of body because we are forced to do so, but this is not the case with Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 10:2110:21, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,749‎ Presently I may have a human form, but in the future I cannot demand a human form. We receive bodies in the next life according to karma, not will. One cannot demand to be a high-court judge unless one has been educated for the job ‎No edit summary
• 10:2010:20, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,765‎ One must become qualified. If one qualifies himself, one may become a devata, a demigod like Indra or Candra, or one can become a dog or a cat. That depends on one's karma, or activities (karmana daiva-netrena) - SB 3.31.1 ‎No edit summary
• 10:1910:19, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,991‎ When Krsna or His incarnation come, they do not depend on karma for their bodies. The Supreme Lord is above karma and is fully independent. It is therefore said, atma-mayaya. The Supreme Lord comes by His own energy, not by the external energy or by force ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,420‎ Kapiladeva is an incarnation of the Supreme Person, Krsna. Therefore it is stated: kapilas tattva-sankhyata bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,753‎ When the governor visits the prison, he is not forced to do so. He is not to be considered a condemned person; rather, he goes by his own good will just to see how things are going on ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,273‎ Vedic knowledge is the mother, and the spiritual master is the father ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,670‎ When one is twice-born (dvija), he receives a sacred thread from the spiritual master and begins to learn about spiritual life. He is then allowed to read the Vedic literatures. In this way one becomes a son of Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,606‎ Nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam: (SB 1.1.3) Srimad-Bhagavatam is the essence of Vedic culture. It is a wish-fulfilling tree, and we can take whatever we want from it ‎No edit summary
• 10:1210:12, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,494‎ Vedic knowledge is perfect, and if we want to come to know it, we must take shelter of a bona fide guru (tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet) - MU 1.2.12 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1010:10, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,485‎ Unfortunately, in this age everything is mismanaged. People forget the aim of life, and at such a time the Supreme Lord Himself comes ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,463‎ The Supreme Lord descends out of compassion because He is more anxious to have us return home, back to Godhead, than we are to go ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,512‎ Because we are in ignorance, we do not know anything about the kingdom of God. We know nothing about how to get there or how to become happy. We have forgotten all this ‎No edit summary