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10:5210:52, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,761‎ We are also Krsna's forms, but we are vibhinnamsa, separated expansions. We are the expansions of the energies ‎No edit summary current
10:5110:51, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,851‎ The demigods have many activities, but Krsna is always peaceful. The Krsna who engages in killing demons is Vasudeva Krsna, not the original Krsna ‎No edit summary
10:4610:46, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,959‎ We cannot say that the sunshine is false and that the sun is true. If the sun is true, the sunshine is also true. Similarly, we do not say that the material universe is false. It may be temporary, but it is not false ‎No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,197‎ The Mayavadi philosophers say, brahma satyam jagan mithya: "The Supreme Truth is real, whereas the world is false" - but Vaisnavas do not use the word mithya (false), because God, the Supreme Brahman, is truth, and nothing false can emanate from the truth ‎No edit summary current
10:4310:43, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,744‎ If we prepare an earring from gold, the earring is also gold. We cannot say that the earring is false ‎No edit summary current
10:4310:43, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,729‎ The Vaisnava philosophers accept the world as temporary, but not false, as the Mayavadi philosophers do ‎No edit summary current
10:4210:42, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,832‎ The world (jagat) has emanated from the Supreme; therefore it is not mithya, but it is temporary. That is also explained in Bhagavad-gita (8.19): bhutva bhutva praliyate ‎No edit summary current
10:4110:41, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,015‎ The material world comes into existence, remains for some time, and is then annihilated. It is not false, for it can be utilized to realize the Supreme Truth. This is Vaisnava philosophy ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,935‎ The world is temporary, but we must use it for spiritual purposes. If something is used for the ultimate truth, the Absolute Truth, it becomes integral with the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
10:3910:39, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,082‎ The word mumuksubhih refers to those who aspire for mukti, liberation. When one becomes disgusted with material engagement, one wants to destroy everything that has anything to do with the material world ‎No edit summary
10:3810:38, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,158‎ The Vaisnava says, prapancikataya buddhya hari-sambandhi-vastunah. Everything has some relationship with the Supreme Person, the Absolute Truth. For instance, a microphone is made of metal, but what is metal? It is another form of earth ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,225‎ Sri Krsna says: "Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego - all together these comprise My separated material energies." All of these are Krsna's energies, and if Krsna is the source of them, how can they be untrue? They are not ‎No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,045‎ A Vaisnava will never say that metal has no connection with Krsna. It is a product of one of His energies, just as this material world is a product of the sun ‎No edit summary current
10:3310:33, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,932‎ Although he (managing director) sits in his office without disturbance, he is not very happy because he is always thinking about how to do this or that, how to manage this affair or that ‎No edit summary current
10:3210:32, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,682‎ This is material nature, and therefore it is said that there is always anxiety in the material world ‎No edit summary current
10:3210:32, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,894‎ When Hiranyakasipu, the father of Prahlada Maharaja, asked his son, - My dear boy, what is the best thing you have learned from your teachers ‎No edit summary
10:3110:31, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,924‎ Prahlada Maharaja immediately replied, tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat (SB 7.5.5). "I have learned that materialists have accepted the asad guna." Asat means - that which is not ‎No edit summary
10:3010:30, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,970‎ We should not remain on this platform, but should go to the platform of sat (om tat sat). This is the Vedic injunction. The material world is asad-vastu; it cannot possibly remain ‎No edit summary current
10:3010:30, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,840‎ In the material world, everything will ultimately be vanquished. Whatever exists in the material world exists only for some time. It is temporary ‎No edit summary current
10:2910:29, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,842‎ Yato imani bhutani jayante: the Supreme Absolute Truth is He from whom everything is emanating. If everything is emanating from the Absolute Truth, nothing can actually be false ‎No edit summary current
10:2610:26, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,906‎ If we organize a business, we have many anxieties. The managing director or proprietor of the business particularly has many anxieties ‎No edit summary current
10:2310:23, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,876‎ There are saktyavesa-avataras, guna-avataras and svayam-avataras, and these are all described in Srimad-Bhagavatam. All these avataras, or incarnations, are svacchandatma, free from care and anxiety ‎No edit summary current
10:1710:17, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,074‎ Before the creation there was no Brahma or Siva. There was only Krsna. Krsna therefore says, aham adir hi devanam (BG 10.2). He is the creator of all demigods and all other living entities ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,304‎ After the cosmic manifestation is created, the living entities are placed in it. In the Vedas it is stated that in the beginning there was neither Brahma nor Siva, but only Narayana (eko narayana asit). Narayana is also another plenary expansion of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,767‎ The beginning is sravanam kirtanam, hearing and chanting. One must be very eager to hear and chant ‎No edit summary
10:1410:14, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,994‎ We have to learn from the scriptures that Krsna is the origin of all. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam: (SB 1.3.28) all the visnu-tattvas and incarnations are but plenary expansions or expansions of the plenary expansions of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,891‎ We can understand the pastimes of the Lord by following one or some of the authorized devotional processes ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,909‎ We have to speak or chant about the holy activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but first we have to hear about them ‎No edit summary current
10:0710:07, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,872‎ When we speak of Visnu, we mean Krsna. Krsna is the origin of the visnu-tattva - that is, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:0310:03, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,229‎ Nine basic processes of devotional service - hearing & chanting about the Supreme Lord, remembering Him, serving His lotus feet, worshiping Him, offering prayers to the Lord, acting as His servant, becoming His friend, & surrendering everything to Him ‎No edit summary current
09:5809:58, 15 September 2022 diff hist +25,868‎ Concerning Kapiladeva, Saunaka Rsi says, kapilas tattva-sankhyata. Kapila is the Supreme Person; therefore He can explain the Absolute Truth. Actually only Bhagavan can know the true position of the ultimate truth. No one else can know it ‎No edit summary current

13:3713:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,387‎ The easiest way to go to the Vaikunthalokas is: janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah (BG 4.9). Simply try to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:3713:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,716‎ Why does He come? What are His activities? Where does He come from? Why does He come in the form of a human being? We only have to try to understand this and study Krsna as He explains Himself in Bhagavad-gita. What is the difficulty ‎No edit summary current
13:3613:36, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,502‎ God personally explains Himself as He is, and if we accept Bhagavad-gita as it is, we shall no longer have to transmigrate. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti - BG 4.9 ‎No edit summary current
13:3513:35, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,598‎ We shall no longer have to endure birth and death, for we can attain our spiritual bodies (sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1)) and live happily in Krsna's family. Krsna is providing for us here, and He will also provide for us there ‎No edit summary current
13:3413:34, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,428‎ We should know that our happiness is in returning home, back to Godhead, where we can eat, drink and be merry in Krsna's company ‎No edit summary current
13:3113:31, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,494‎ Everything is present in Vaikunthaloka. There we can have an eternal, blissful life full of knowledge (sac-cid-ananda). It is not compulsory for us to rot in this material world ‎No edit summary current
13:2913:29, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,404‎ In this life we enjoy or suffer the results of our past karma, and in the same way we are creating further karma for our next body ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,360‎ We should work in such a way that we will not get another material body, How can this be done? We simply have to try to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary
13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,358‎ There are many types of yogis, but he who is devoted to Krsna is the topmost yogi. Sri Krsna is far above all yogic processes ‎No edit summary current
13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,850‎ In India there are many yogis who display some magical feats. They can walk on water, make themselves very light or very heavy and so forth. But what is this compared to Krsna's yogic mystic powers? By His potencies, great planets are floating in space ‎No edit summary
13:2313:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,556‎ Who can manage to float even a small stone in the air? Sometimes a yogi may show a little mystic power by manufacturing some gold, and we are so foolish that we accept him as God ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,672‎ We forget that the real yogi, the Supreme Lord Himself, has created millions of gold mines and is floating them in space. Those who are Krsna conscious are not befooled by yogis who claim to be Bhagavan ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,775‎ A Krsna conscious person wants only to serve the foremost yogi, Yogesvara (varimnah sarva-yoginam). Because we are trying to become His devotees, we accept the Supreme Lord, Yogesvara, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
13:2013:20, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,645‎ It is due to one's work that one becomes a criminal and is therefore put in jail. It is not compulsory for everyone to go to jail. As living entities, we have our proper place in Vaikunthaloka ‎No edit summary current
13:1813:18, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,515‎ Yas tv indragopam athavendram aho sva-karma (Bs. 5.54). From Lord Indra to indragopa, an insignificant insect, everyone is reaping the consequences of his karma. We are creating our own karma, our next body, in this life ‎No edit summary
13:1713:17, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,563‎ We come onto this planet to enjoy or suffer life for a few days - fifty or a hundred years - but Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, does not come for that purpose (na mam karmani limpanti) - BG 4.14 ‎No edit summary
13:1613:16, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,635‎ There is a Bengali proverb: Dry cow dung is used for fuel, and it is said that when the dry cow dung is being burned, the soft cow dung is laughing, saying, - Oh, you are being burned, but I am safe ‎No edit summary current
13:1513:15, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,421‎ It is further stated, na hy asya varsmanah: "No one is greater than Him." No one is greater than Bhagavan or equal to Him. Everyone is inferior ‎No edit summary current
13:1413:14, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,363‎ According to Caitanya-caritamrta (CC Adi 5.142), ekale isvara krsna, ara saba bhrtya. There is only one master - Krsna. All others are subservient ‎No edit summary current

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