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20 September 2022

• 10:2710:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,621‎ He (Kapiladeva) will explain to His mother what tattva is, how one can approach the tattva jnana, and how one can actually enjoy tattva jnana. This is not simply dry speculation ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,544‎ This Krsna consciousness philosophy includes spiritual variety. People sometimes misunderstand this variety to be material, and they hanker for nirvisesa, nirakara, void ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2510:25, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,516‎ Our philosophy is not void; it is full of variety and transcendental bliss. This will later be specifically enunciated by Lord Kapiladeva ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,603‎ Our vision is of the same mountain, but due to our different positions we see haze, greenery or variegatedness. In the final stage, there are varieties - trees, animals, men, houses, and so on ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,808‎ The Absolute Truth is not without variety. Just as there is material variety, there is spiritual variety. Because the Mayavadi philosophers are seeing the Absolute Truth from a distance, they think that the Absolute Truth has no variety ‎No edit summary
• 10:2010:20, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,557‎ They (Mayavadi philosophers) consider variety to be material, but this is a misunderstanding. The Absolute Truth is described as variegated in Brahma-samhita - 5.29 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,679‎ There are Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual world, and there are devotees who are all liberated. These devotees are aksara, which means they do not fall down into the material world. They remain in the spiritual world of the Vaikunthas ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,485‎ They (aksara) are also persons like us, but they are eternal persons, complete with full knowledge and bliss. That is the difference between them and us. That is tattva jnana ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,671‎ Unless we understand the variegatedness of the Absolute Truth, there is a chance that we will fall down. It is not sufficient simply to stick to the indefinite, impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,719‎ Because the impersonalists are not allowed to enter the Vaikuntha planets, they simply remain in the Brahman effulgence. Thus they fall down again into material variety ‎No edit summary
• 10:1710:17, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,693‎ We have seen many impersonalist sannyasis who first of all give up the world as false (brahma satyam jagan mithya). They consider themselves Brahman (aham brahmasmi), consider the world false - jagat is mithya ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,801‎ Looking at a mountain from a distance, we may see a hazy cloud, and if we come nearer, we may see something green. If we actually climb the mountain, we will find many houses, trees and animals ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,640‎ Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are not different. They are simply different aspects of the complete Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,720‎ The words tattva-marga-darsanam are elucidated elsewhere in Srimad-Bhagavatam: brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate (SB 1.2.11). The Absolute Truth is understood differently according to the position of the student ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,445‎ Bhakti is obtainable for a liberated person; it is not for the conditioned soul. How is this possible ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,754‎ We must engage in the nine processes of devotional service, the first of which is hearing (sravana). Then, under the direction of the spiritual master and the sastras, one can immediately become a liberated person ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,828‎ One doesn't have to endeavor separately to become liberated if he immediately engages in devotional service. One must have a firm conviction that he is engaged in Krsna's service and is free from all material contamination. This is imperative ‎No edit summary
• 09:5209:52, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,757‎ Like Arjuna, Devahuti was aware that she was before her spiritual master, as indicated in the following verse. Indeed, Lord Brahma had informed her that her son was a powerful incarnation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,400‎ The ultimate goal of the Absolute Truth is Krsna consciousness, devotional service. The liberated stage is not final ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,526‎ If we simply understand that we are not the body, that we are spirit soul, our knowledge is insufficient. We must also act as Brahman; then our position will be fixed ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,718‎ On the bank of the Bindu-sarovara Lake, Kapiladeva personally expounded Sankhya philosophy to His mother, Devahuti, just as Krsna personally expounded the knowledge of Bhagavad-gita to His friend Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,492‎ Lord Brahma is a jiva-tattva, a living being like us. If we become spiritually powerful, we can also have the post of Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary
• 09:4509:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,531‎ Sankaracarya, the Mayavadi impersonalist philosopher, accepts Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead - sa bhagavan svayam krsnah ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,733‎ All the acaryas - Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, Nimbarka and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - also accept Krsna as the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,777‎ Kapiladeva is an incarnation of Krsna, and He gave instructions to His mother, Devahuti. We must distinguish between the two Kapilas. One Kapila is this Bhagavan Kapila, and the other Kapila is the atheist Kapila ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,755‎ Bhagavan Kapila is also known as Devahuti-putra Kapila. Both Kapilas expounded Sankhya philosophy, but the atheist Kapila expounded it without understanding, perception or realization of God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,528‎ Kapiladeva was anxious that His mother not feel the absence of His father, and He was ready to take the best care of her and give her knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,745‎ Women are inferior to men, and Vedic civilization is so perfect that men are given full charge of the women. It is therefore said: matuh priya-cikirsaya. The son is always ready to see that the mother is not unhappy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,651‎ Mahabharata is called the fifth Veda. The four preceding Vedas are the Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva. The essence of Vedic knowledge, Bhagavad-gita, is given within the Mahabharata ‎No edit summary current

18 September 2022

• 09:0909:09, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,406‎ Because women are supposed to be less intelligent, they should be given knowledge, and they should also follow this knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0809:08, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,816‎ They should follow their father's instructions, their husband's instructions and the instructions of their grown, scholarly sons like Kapiladeva. In this way, their lives can be perfect. In all cases, women should always remain dependent ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,912‎ Tasmin bindusare 'vatsid bhagavan kapilah kila. It is noteworthy that in this verse Kapiladeva is referred to as Bhagavan, which indicates that He possesses all wealth, fame, knowledge, beauty, strength and renunciation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,886‎ These six opulences are fully represented in Krsna; therefore Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28)), and others are accepted as His expansions, or incarnations - visnu-tattva ‎No edit summary
• 09:0509:05, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,674‎ In Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Rupa Gosvami has analyzed the characteristics of Bhagavan. The first Bhagavan is Sri Krsna Himself, but some of His opulences are also bestowed upon Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,497‎ Devahuti was given to her grown son, Kapiladeva, and Kapiladeva was fully aware that He had to take care of His mother ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,513‎ It is the duty of the father to protect his daughter until she attains puberty and is married to a suitable young man. The husband then takes care of the wife ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,871‎ Generally a man should marry at around twenty-five years of age, and a girl should marry no later than sixteen. If this is the case, when the man is fifty years old, his eldest son should be around twenty-five, old enough to take charge of the mother ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 18 September 2022 diff hist +12,039‎ Kapiladeva was about twenty-five years old and was quite able to take charge of His mother, Devahuti. He knew that because His father left His mother in His charge, He should take care of her and always please her. Matuh priya-cikirsaya ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,761‎ Kapiladeva was not irresponsible, but was always ready to please His mother. Kapiladeva was a brahmacari, and His mother took lessons from Him. That is the prerogative of the male ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,984‎ Being a yogi, Kardama Muni strictly followed these principles; therefore as soon as Kapiladeva was grown, Devahuti was placed in His charge. Kardama Muni then left home. As stated in this verse: pitari prasthite 'ranyam matuh priya-cikirsaya ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,503‎ When he gives up his home, he is called a vanaprastha, and after that he may take sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,688‎ By his (Kardama Muni's) wife, Devahuti, he had nine daughters, who were distributed to the prajapatis like Daksa Maharaja and many others. The only son of Kardama Muni was Kapiladeva, an incarnation of Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 08:2808:28, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,714‎ These authorities should be followed if we want to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead and understand the purpose of religious life. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah - CC Madhya 17.186 ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,717‎ These mahajanas follow the principles set forth by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,483‎ We cannot very easily understand the actual truth of religious systems, but if we follow these mahajanas, we can understand ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2408:24, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,524‎ Kapila Muni explained the glories of devotional service to His mother, Devahuti. If we follow Him, we may learn the truth of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2308:23, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,783‎ According to the system of varnasrama-dharma, one who is over fifty years of age must leave home, go to the forest and completely devote his life to spiritual realization. This is the actual varnasrama-dharma system ‎No edit summary
• 08:2208:22, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,301‎ It (varnasrama-dharma) is not a Hindu system, for the word "Hindu" is a name given by the Muslims and does not occur in any Vedic literature. However, the varnasrama-dharma is mentioned ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,724‎ He (Kardama Muni) also created a great spaceship as large as a small city. Modern airlines have prepared a 747, & although these are very big, Kardama Muni, by his yogic powers, was able to create a spaceship wherein there were lakes, palaces and gardens ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,826‎ This spaceship could also travel all over the universe. Modern scientists labor very hard to make a small spaceship to go to the moon, but Kardama Muni could create a great spaceship that could travel to all planets. This is possible by yogic powers ‎No edit summary