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2 March 2024

• 04:1704:17, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Sri Narada advised Srila Vyasadeva to become absorbed in transcendental meditation on the Personality of Godhead and His activities. Srila Vyasadeva did not take notice of the effulgence of Brahman because that is not absolute vision ‎No edit summary
• 04:1604:16, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Priyavrata might argue that Lord Brahma was requesting him to accept family life and the responsibility for ruling a kingdom, although Narada Muni had advised him not to enter household life and be entangled in material affairs ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 2 March 2024 diff hist −1‎ One should take little risk in order to enter into the eternal life, blissful life. One should take a little risk. That is advised by Narada ‎No edit summary
• 04:1504:15, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ One can keep his wife as an assistant in the vanaprastha stage. The idea is that the wife will assist the husband in spiritual advancement. Therefore Narada Muni advised the hunter to adopt the vanaprastha stage and leave home ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1404:14, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ On the advice of Narada Muni he (Marutta) appointed Samvarta to the post, and he was successful in his mission ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1404:14, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Maitreya continued: The King, Uttanapada, after being advised by Narada Muni, practically gave up all duties in relation with his kingdom, which was very vast and wide, opulent like the goddess of fortune, and he simply began to think of his son Dhruva ‎No edit summary
• 04:1304:13, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Maharaja Yudhisthira was advised by Narada not to disturb his uncle (Dhrtarastra) by attempting to bring him back home. He was now beyond the attraction of anything material ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1104:11, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Maharaja Yudhisthira is advised by Narada not to worry about his uncles' suffering for want of food, for they could live on vegetables available in the jungles as prasada of the Supreme Lord and thus realize the path of salvation ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1004:10, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ If the activities of the Supreme Brahman were material activities, then Narada would not have advised Vyasadeva to meditate upon them. And the param brahma is Lord Sri Krsna, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 04:0904:09, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Hariscandra had no sons, but on the advice of Narada he worshiped Varuna and in this way got a son named Rohita. Hariscandra promised that Rohita would be used to perform a Varuna-yajna ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1803:18, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ He (Vyasadeva) was not satisfied until he wrote Srimad-Bhagavatam. His dissatisfaction was observed by his spiritual master, and consequently Narada advised him to write on the transcendental activities of the Lord Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1703:17, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Hariscandra had no son and was therefore extremely morose. Once, therefore, following the advice of Narada, he took shelter of Varuna and said to him "My lord I have no son. Would you kindly give me one?" ‎No edit summary
• 03:0703:07, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Dhruva Maharaja, having arrived at Madhuvana, took his bath in the River Yamuna and observed fasting in the night with great care and attention. After that, as advised by the great sage Narada, he engaged himself in worshiping the Supreme Person ‎No edit summary
• 03:0503:05, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Dhruva Maharaja was determined to achieve the benediction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore Narada advised him to go back home for the time being, and in mature time he could try to practice devotional service ‎No edit summary
• 02:4802:48, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Dhruva Maharaja regretted that he had rejected the advice of Narada Muni and was adamant in asking him for something perishable, namely revenge against his stepmother for her insult, and possession of the kingdom of his father (King Uttanapada) ‎No edit summary current
• 02:4502:45, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Both Narada Muni and Suniti, the mother of Dhruva Maharaja, advised Dhruva Maharaja to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Now, Narada Muni is especially giving him directions how this worship of the Supreme Person can very quickly fructify ‎No edit summary current
• 02:4302:43, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Because the great sage Narada was aware of the nature of the demon Vrkasura, he did not advise him to approach Visnu or Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary
• 02:3502:35, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ As indicated in verse 79 (SB 4.29.79), Narada Muni advised King Pracinabarhi to take to devotional service rather than waste time performing ritualistic ceremonies and fruitive activities ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2902:29, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ According to the advice of Narada Muni, one should directly engage in devotional service. This will include all pious activity ‎No edit summary current

3 November 2023

• 18:4118:41, 3 November 2023 diff hist +25‎ While living one may be proud of one's body, thinking oneself a very big man, minister, president or even demigod, but whatever one may be, after death this body will turn either into worms, into stool or into ashes - SB 10.10.10 ‎No edit summary current
• 18:3518:35, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is here (in SB 3.32.18) described as hari-medhah, or "He who can deliver one from the cycle of birth and death." ‎No edit summary current
• 18:3218:32, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ The statement in Bhagavad-gita that the mental situation at the time of death is the basis of the next birth is also corroborated in this verse - SB 3.26.34 ‎No edit summary current
• 18:2618:26, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ The real purpose of life is to remember Krsna when one's life comes to an end (ante narayana-smrtih (SB 2.1.6)). If at the time of death one can remember Krsna, one's life is successful ‎No edit summary current
• 18:2018:20, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ The cycle of repeated birth and death is figuratively described herein - SB 8.5.28 ‎No edit summary current
• 18:1618:16, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ There is no birth, death, old age and disease. That eternal land is full of transcendental enjoyment and full of beauty and bliss. This very fact is also corroborated in this verse of SB (2.6.18) and the transcendental nature is described as amrta ‎No edit summary current

31 October 2023

• 20:5720:57, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ We are talking on the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The subject matter is how one shall transfer himself from this material world to the spiritual world and thereby stop birth, death, old age and disease. This is the whole subject matter ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5520:55, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Those who are not strictly in the Vaisnava discipline should not make a business of this Bhagavatam and become a cause of spiritual death for so many hearers ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5020:50, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ This is the first verse, the first chapter of Second Canto Srimad-Bhagavatam, spoken by Sukadeva Gosvami. Sukadeva Gosvami came to the scene when Maharaja Pariksit was on the verge of his death. So he was perplexed what to do at the time of death ‎No edit summary
• 18:5918:59, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ This bhagavata-dharma means that how to get out of these four defects of material life, or four miserable condition of material life - birth, death, old age and disease - and get eternal, blissful life of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 18:5718:57, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam instructs that no body should become father or mother if they cannot take this responsibility, namely, stopping the repeated birth and death cycle of their children ‎No edit summary
• 18:5518:55, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ The Bhagavat also says that no one should become the parent unless he can deliver the child from the clutches of death. So it is your duty to make this baby KC so that he may not have to take birth again ‎No edit summary
• 18:5118:51, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ The Bhagavata says: "One should not become a father, one should not become a mother, unless they are able to protect the children from the imminent danger of death." What is that? The cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary
• 18:4818:48, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ There is a similarity between the prayers of Lord Caitanya and the statements of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Lord Caitanya prays, "in life after life," indicating that a devotee does not even desire the cessation of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
• 18:4618:46, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ That is Bhagavatam's instruction: "Don't accept guru, don't accept father, don't accept . . . or don't be father, don't be mother, don't be . . . if you cannot stop death." Either you don't accept, or don't become ‎No edit summary current
• 18:4418:44, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Sukadeva Gosvami epitomizes the proper reciter for Srimad-Bhagavatam, and Pariksit Maharaja, who purposefully left his kingdom and family prior to meeting death, epitomizes the person fit to hear it ‎No edit summary
• 18:4018:40, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Sukadeva Gosvami, the son of Vyasadeva, in his turn delivered the Bhagavatam to the great Emperor Pariksit, who sat surrounded by sages on the bank of the Ganges, awaiting death without taking food or drink ‎No edit summary
• 18:3818:38, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam says that we should try for the highest achievement, and complete it before the next death comes ‎No edit summary current
• 18:3618:36, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is the post-graduate study of knowledge for one who has thoroughly understood the principles of the BG. Unfortunately people have no taste for them, and therefore they are under the clutches of maya for repetition of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
• 18:3418:34, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Simply by understanding the Supreme Lord, one goes beyond birth, death, old age and disease. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami advised Maharaja Pariksit in Srimad-Bhagavatam - in SB 2.1.5 ‎No edit summary
• 18:3318:33, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Simply by hearing, you become perfect. Just like Pariksit Maharaja. At the time of point of his death, he had no time to perform any yajna or any big, big thing. He simply heard Srimad-Bhagavatam carefully - and he became perfect simply by hearing ‎No edit summary
• 17:3717:37, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Just utilize the opportunity to finish the business of Krishna Consciousness, without waiting for further incarnation. Srimad-Bhagavatam says that we should try for the highest achievement, and complete it before the next death comes ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2617:26, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ In some editions of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the text of the last line of this verse reads anyatra kupitad dvijat, which means that the King might be overwhelmed by the thought of his imminent death by snakebite ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2117:21, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ In the Third Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam we are informed that those who are expert in fruitive activities and sacrificial methods on earth attain to the moon at death. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 17:1217:12, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Krsna Consciousness means to be on the platform of deathlessness. Every sloka in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam is informing us of this. If you read these books carefully you will understand this platform of deathlessness ‎No edit summary
• 17:0617:06, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Kumbhipaka, a type of hellish condition, is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.26.13), wherein it is said that a person who cooks living birds and beasts to satisfy his tongue is brought before Yamaraja after death and punished in the Kumbhipaka hell ‎No edit summary
• 17:0117:01, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ On the path of bondage, one eternally undergoes the repetition of birth and death. One who desires liberation from such bondage should join the ISKCON and thus take advantage of the opportunity to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from devotees ‎No edit summary
• 16:5316:53, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto, it is stated that an individual soul, after his death, is put into the womb of a mother where he gets a particular type of body under the supervision of superior power. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 16:4516:45, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.5.4) it is said: A materialistic person, madly engaged in activities for sense enjoyment, does not know that he is entangling himself in repeated birth and death and that his body, although temporary, is full of miseries ‎No edit summary
• 16:2916:29, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.5.18), pita na sa syat: one should not become a father unless one is able to protect his child from mrtyu, the path of birth and death. But where is there education about this ‎No edit summary
• 16:2716:27, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ Whoever, at the time of death, quits his body remembering Me (Krsna) alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt ‎No edit summary Tag: Manual revert