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11:2811:28, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ At the end of Bhagavad-gita (18.66) Sri Krsna advises Arjuna: "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." This is the most confidential part of knowledge ‎No edit summary
11:2611:26, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ At least three times a day I should offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
11:2211:22, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ At every moment, every second, every day, every hour, the body is changing, so the last change is when one cannot act with the body, and so he has to take another one ‎No edit summary
11:1211:12, 1 December 2022 diff hist −3‎ As you are married, there is no need of separation as you are practicing artificially. You must live just like a respectable married couple and earn money as a Grhastha, and spend 50% for Krishna - that is the real program ‎No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As we associate with Krsna, He helps us to understand Him and dispels the darkness of ignorance with the light of knowledge. Krsna is sitting within our hearts acting as guru ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As soon as we become a little inclined toward Him, He begins to give favorable instructions from within our hearts so that we can gradually make progress ‎No edit summary
10:4710:47, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ As soon as there is some personal interpretation (in the carried message of authority), the message is lost and the instructions become offensive. A person who interprets the scriptures according to his own whims should be immediately rejected ‎No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ As soon as a boy and girl are married, they want an apartment. Then they have children. And when they have children, they want social recognition - society, friendship, and love. In this way their material attachment goes on increasing ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As long as we have the body, we must eat to maintain it, and we must sleep in order to give it rest. We cannot expect to negate these activities, but the Vedic literatures do give us guidelines for regulation in eating, sleeping, mating, etc ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As living spiritual souls, we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now adulterated by the material atmosphere ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 1 December 2022 diff hist +36,192‎ As far as the science of God is concerned, Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, advises us to go to a person to whom we can surrender ‎No edit summary current
10:2810:28, 1 December 2022 diff hist +24,488‎ As Arjuna, we should accept Krsna as the SP of Godhead and do as He says (BG 9.27): O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me ‎No edit summary
10:2610:26, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna was thinking that controlling the mind was simply not possible for him. Are we then to assume that what was impossible for Arjuna in a more advanced age is possible for us in this degenerate age ‎No edit summary current
10:2010:20, 1 December 2022 diff hist +11,799‎ Arjuna was renowned as a great warrior and administrator. He was such an intelligent man that he could understand Bhagavad-gita within one hour, whereas at the present moment great scholars cannot even understand it in the course of a lifetime ‎No edit summary current
10:1710:17, 1 December 2022 diff hist +25,394‎ Arjuna was Krsna's constant friend, so when Krsna went to His abode, Arjuna was overwhelmed, but just by remembering His teachings he got relief from the pains of separation. Thus whenever we feel separation, it is best to remember the teachings ‎No edit summary current
10:1410:14, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna says that he accepts all that Krsna has said to him because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead - BG 18.73 ‎No edit summary current
10:1110:11, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna says that controlling this mind is more difficult than stopping the wind from blowing. One can imagine a man stretching out his arms trying to stop a hurricane ‎No edit summary
10:0810:08, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna heard explanation of meditational system of yoga, all this being conducted in a secluded place alone - he replied: O Madhusudana, the system of yoga, You have summarized appears impractical & unendurable to me, for the mind is restless & unsteady ‎No edit summary current
10:0510:05, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Are we to despair the mind's ever being controlled? No, it can be controlled, and the process is this Krsna consciousness. The mind must be fixed always in Krsna. Insofar as the mind is absorbed in Krsna it has attained the perfection of yoga ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Are we to assume that Arjuna is simply not sufficiently qualified to control his mind? The actual fact is that we cannot begin to understand the immense qualifications of Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
09:5709:57, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone who is a representative of Krsna - if he takes (charity), that is perfection ‎No edit summary current
09:4809:48, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone knows that an unbridled horse is dangerous to ride. He can go in any direction at any speed, and his rider is likely to come to some harm. Insofar as the mind is unbridled, Krsna agrees with Arjuna that the yoga system is very difficult work indeed ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone can take part in vibrating this transcendental sound without any previous qualification. In a more advanced stage, of course, one is not expected to commit offenses on grounds of spiritual understanding ‎No edit summary
09:4009:40, 1 December 2022 diff hist +5,734‎ Ananta-rupam. Adyam, He (Krsna) is the original person. Purana-purusam, the oldest person, because He is the original. Nava-yauvanam ca, but He is still young man. You have seen the picture of Krsna. You will never see Krsna as old man ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Although the sadhus do not mind if they are insulted, Krsna does not tolerate any insult to them. As stated in the Ninth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, Krsna is alike to all, but He is especially inclined to His devotees - BG 9.29 ‎No edit summary current

15:4715:47, 30 November 2022 diff hist +15,201‎ Although Prahlada was only five years old, by advancement in knowledge he was imparting perfect instructions to his classmates. Some may find these instructions unpalatable ‎No edit summary
15:4315:43, 30 November 2022 diff hist −4‎ Although Krsna is neutral to all, for one who is constantly engaged in Krsna consciousness, who is spreading the message of Bhagavad-gita, He gives special protection ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 30 November 2022 diff hist +27,164‎ Although Krsna delineates the meditational yoga system in the Sixth Chapter, He does not stress it nor encourage Arjuna to pursue it as his path ‎No edit summary current
15:3415:34, 30 November 2022 diff hist +5,020‎ Although He (Krsna) assumes so many varieties of visnu-tattva, still, advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca. Therefore visnu-tattva is, never looks like old man. Nava-yauvanam. Always young. Krsna always young ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 30 November 2022 diff hist +26,960‎ All these requirements (for disciplining the body), however, can essentially be broken down into four basic rules: no illicit sexual connection, no intoxication, no meat-eating and no gambling ‎No edit summary current
15:2415:24, 30 November 2022 diff hist −4‎ All the information necessary is set forth in Bhagavad-gita, and a sane man will take advantage of this knowledge ‎No edit summary

09:5709:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,154‎ There must be ideal, first-class men to act as advisors, second-class men to act as administrators, third-class men to produce food and protect cows, and fourth-class men who obey the three higher classes of society ‎No edit summary current
09:5609:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,030‎ The scientific proposal is that there is first class man and there is tenth class man, but everyone can be utilized for the ultimate goal of life. That is classless. And that means everyone can become Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary
09:5609:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,420‎ They (the American people) must divide their society into first-class men, second-class men, third-class men and fourth-class men. Since they are now creating only men who are less than fourth class, how can they avoid the dangers of a criminal society ‎No edit summary
09:5509:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,675‎ These boys and girls, American boys and girls, they're being taught, instructed to become first-class, intelligent man. This is the movement ‎No edit summary current
09:5309:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,026‎ The organized society should be that there should be first-class men, brahmana. They would give advice to the second-class men, the administrators. And the administrator class of men, they will see that everyone is following the religious principles ‎No edit summary
09:5309:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,971‎ The four classes of men are there, still. But the third-class, fourth-class man is taking the place of first class. And the first-class man is kicked out, "Go out. Don't talk of God." This is the position at the present moment ‎No edit summary current
09:5209:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,248‎ The first-class men are called brahmana, most learned scholar. Learned scholar means, as I was explaining, one who has complete knowledge of God. That is learned scholar ‎No edit summary
09:5209:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,972‎ The first-class faithful men are the Vaisnavas and the brahmanas, then the ksatriyas, then the vaisyas, then the sudras, then the mlecchas, the yavanas and at last the candalas ‎No edit summary current
09:5109:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,992‎ Suppose you are in this Krsna conscious society. Now, you cannot expect that all the members of the society will be first-class men. How can we expect? We are collecting members of the society from all classes of men ‎No edit summary current
09:5109:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,986‎ So far we are concerned we are trying to train first class men. How much great responsibility we have to follow regulative principles, chant the beads, live with personal character etc ‎No edit summary current
09:4909:49, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,050‎ The perfect civilization, Krsna has giving idea, there must be first-class, second-class, third-class, fourth-class. And less than fourth-class, fifth-class. So, first-class man is described, samo damah tapah saucam ksantir arjavam ‎No edit summary current
09:4609:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,043‎ One big man came. So I talked about first-class men, and he admitted. So he said at the last moment, "Now let me go and engage myself in fourth-class activities." So everyone is engaged in fourth-class activities, and we are trying to make first-class men ‎No edit summary
09:4509:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,180‎ Occupational duties are described in the religious scriptures. If one analyzes them, he can fully understand their qualities & faults and then give them up completely to render service unto the S P of God. Such a person is considered a first-class man ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,883‎ Lord says to Uddhava, "My dear Uddhava, any person who takes shelter of Me in complete surrender and follows My instructions, giving up all occupational duties, is to be considered the first-class man" ‎No edit summary
09:4409:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,321‎ Krsna consciousness movement means we are trying to create some first-class men ‎No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,219‎ In our sastra charity is recommended to be given to the high-class men, brahmanas and Vaisnavas. They know how to spend money ‎No edit summary current
09:4109:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,364‎ Ideal is that man must be first-class ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,149‎ I am very glad to hear that the building work is going on with full speed, including both day & night shifts of workers. Do not worry, I am sending you two first-class men from England, both of them have got good experience in engineering & building work ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,892‎ For the satisfaction of the tongue they are risking their own life and committing sinful life to suffer later on. Therefore the first-class man's first duty is to samah, controlling the mind ‎No edit summary

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