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13:1213:12, 22 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ By the example of these sages one should learn that regular hearing and recitation of the Bhagavatam is the only way for self-realization. Other attempts are simply a waste of time, for they do not give any tangible results ‎No edit summary current
13:1013:10, 22 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ By regular hearing of the glories and pastimes of the Lord, the impurities in the student's heart begin to be washed off. The more one is cleansed of impurities, the more one becomes fixed in devotional service ‎No edit summary
13:0613:06, 22 June 2024 diff hist −57‎ Category:The Royal Order ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert

12:0912:09, 21 June 2024 diff hist +15‎ Maitreya: A great rsi of yore. He was spiritual master of Vidura and a great religious authority. He advised Dhrtarastra to keep good relations with the Pandavas ‎No edit summary current
12:0812:08, 21 June 2024 diff hist +1‎ Maitreya: A great rsi of yore. He was spiritual master of Vidura and a great religious authority. He advised Dhrtarastra to keep good relations with the Pandavas ‎No edit summary
12:0712:07, 21 June 2024 diff hist +1‎ Category:Maitreya is a Sage ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 21 June 2024 diff hist 0‎ Maitreya: A great rsi of yore. He was spiritual master of Vidura and a great religious authority. He advised Dhrtarastra to keep good relations with the Pandavas ‎No edit summary
12:0612:06, 21 June 2024 diff hist +2‎ Maitreya: A great rsi of yore. He was spiritual master of Vidura and a great religious authority. He advised Dhrtarastra to keep good relations with the Pandavas ‎No edit summary

14:2014:20, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ One must be qualified to receive the knowledge. Krsna is helping us from within. He is giving us knowledge from within. Without also. So without, He's spiritual master. And within He's Supersoul, caitya-guru. In this way, we are getting knowledge ‎No edit summary current
14:2014:20, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Sastra says, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28). So we have to follow these mahajana. Otherwise we cannot get the right knowledge. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah (Cc. Madhya 17.186). We have to follow great authorities ‎No edit summary current
14:1914:19, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ The definite knowledge you can get from Krsna, the perfect. Therefore all the acaryas accept Krsna. We have to follow the acaryas, acaryopasanam ‎No edit summary current
14:1814:18, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ The child is imperfect, but when he gets the knowledge from the perfect source, mother, then it is perfect. Similarly, we, we never say that we are perfect. If you are perfect, then why you are learning? We are trying to become perfect ‎No edit summary
14:1814:18, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ The people in this age, they will be dull-headed rascals. Therefore, if they get this knowledge recorded in writing, they may be able to derive some benefit ‎No edit summary current
14:1714:17, 16 June 2024 diff hist −14‎ The so-called philosophers, scientists, they have been taught by another not scientist, so he is also not scientist, not philosopher, because he has been taught by another andha. Just like one blind man leads other blind man. So what knowledge he will get ‎No edit summary current
14:1714:17, 16 June 2024 diff hist −13‎ Things which are beyond the perception of our senses, how we can get that knowledge? ‎No edit summary current
14:1614:16, 16 June 2024 diff hist +38‎ Vedas means the knowledge given by the liberated person, by God. So if you accept it, then you get the knowledge immediately. You haven't got to make research or philosophical speculation. That process is deductive process. That process is very nice ‎No edit summary
14:1614:16, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ We get this knowledge that this body is not all in all. There is soul. As soon as the soul is out of the body it is a lump of matter. But in spite of all our experience we are interested only with this body. This is called ignorance ‎No edit summary current
14:1414:14, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ We have got the advantage of getting this knowledge in this life, and again, if we go back to the cats' and dogs' knowledge, then what is the benefit of getting this body? ‎No edit summary current
14:1314:13, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Whatever I have learned from my Guru Maharaja, I am presenting. That's all. It is not mental speculation - this philosophy, that philosophy. We kick out all these things. Unless we get the knowledge from the authorized source, we don't accept ‎No edit summary current
14:1214:12, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Category:When a Person Becomes a Devotee of God he Gets Sufficient Knowledge to Understand the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary
14:1214:12, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ When you enter into the Krsna science you get so much volumes of transcendental knowledge, and we are trying to present before you this knowledge in so many ways, by cleansing your heart from this material contamination ‎No edit summary current
14:1014:10, 16 June 2024 diff hist −45‎ These are the qualifications, symptoms of guru. Sabde pare ca nisnatam. He has got full knowledge in the transcendental science, and without book, how he has got knowledge? Or without hearing from another authority ‎No edit summary current
13:5613:56, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ One knowledge you get from me, and then you practically apply your consciousness that "Yes, what Prabhupada has said, it is right." That is called vijnana ‎No edit summary current
13:5513:55, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Krsna says, "When a person becomes My devotee he automatically attains the fruits of the renunciation of material enjoyment, and he gets sufficient knowledge to understand the absolute truth" ‎No edit summary current
13:5513:55, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ If you want to become happy, first of all we must get this knowledge, that "I am not this body." ‎No edit summary
13:5513:55, 16 June 2024 diff hist −9‎ If we want to know who is my father, that is not possible to know simply by mental speculation. If we approach the authority, mother, we get the knowledge immediately ‎No edit summary current
13:5413:54, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Generally, in the material world, whatever knowledge we get is contaminated by the three modes of material nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
13:5413:54, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Even if we get some knowledge by touch or otherwise, it is all either mistaken or incomplete. It is just like the group of blind men who had encountered an elephant and tried to describe the strange new creature to one another ‎No edit summary current
13:5413:54, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Bhagavad-gita is also Veda. It is spoken by Krsna. So you cannot make any addition, alteration. You must take it as it is. Then you get the right knowledge ‎No edit summary current
13:5313:53, 16 June 2024 diff hist 0‎ Acaryopasanam. If you want to advance in knowledge, then you must worship the acaryas. Otherwise, what knowledge you will get ‎No edit summary
13:5213:52, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Because I get the knowledge from the perfect, my knowledge is perfect ‎No edit summary current
13:5113:51, 16 June 2024 diff hist +9‎ These are the qualifications, symptoms of guru. Sabde pare ca nisnatam. He has got full knowledge in the transcendental science, and without book, how he has got knowledge? Or without hearing from another authority ‎No edit summary
13:5113:51, 16 June 2024 diff hist −14‎ I propose that you can do something very tangible for us. In the Fifth Canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, there is a description of the planetary system. You are a learned scholar in Sanskrit, and also you have got knowledge in astronomy ‎No edit summary current
13:5013:50, 16 June 2024 diff hist +9‎ Everyone is poor. Who is rich? Unless one has got knowledge of Krsna, he is poor ‎No edit summary current
13:4913:49, 16 June 2024 diff hist +31‎ You remain as Christian. It doesn't matter. But there is no harm in hearing Bhagavad-gita. There is no harm. You'll get knowledge. You'll get knowledge. You'll become better Christian. You'll become better American ‎No edit summary current
13:4913:49, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Why do we pay a college fee and go to college? To hear. By sitting down and hearing from the learned professor, we get knowledge. Therefore a devotee always engages in hearing about Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:4913:49, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ We understand that we get knowledge from another person with whom we are face to face. But when Brahma was created he was alone ‎No edit summary current
13:4813:48, 16 June 2024 diff hist 0‎ We have to gather knowledge from the right source. Indeed, in reality we can get knowledge only from the Vedic sources ‎No edit summary current
13:4513:45, 16 June 2024 diff hist +14‎ We have no choice but to believe authorities in order to get knowledge. And when the authority is perfect, our knowledge is perfect ‎No edit summary current
13:4513:45, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Try to get knowledge directly from the Supreme Lord, as Bhagavad-gita is being spoken by the Supreme Lord, or statements of the pure devotees, just like Brahma is speaking. This way. Hearing. The main purpose is hearing, hearing from the right source ‎No edit summary current
13:4413:44, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ The sastras are accepted by the acaryas, the great teachers. And we get knowledge from the sastra. I may be imperfect, but I get knowledge from the perfect source. That is perfect knowledge ‎No edit summary current
13:4413:44, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ So it is very unfortunate that we are not taking care of our own treasure-house of knowledge, and we are trying to get knowledge from technology and be happy ‎No edit summary current
13:4413:44, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Our Vedic conception of life, creation, is not like Darwin. They think that they'll get knowledge from monkey. But we do not take knowledge from monkey. Therefore we do not keep ourself in darkness ‎No edit summary current
13:4313:43, 16 June 2024 diff hist +31‎ Our process of Vedic knowledge is that we get knowledge from the superior just like Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
13:3613:36, 16 June 2024 diff hist +10‎ Our point is very strong, that you cannot get perfect knowledge from imperfect person. That is not possible. That's a fact. You can get knowledge only from the perfect. That is real knowledge ‎No edit summary current
13:3613:36, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ One must be eager to hear. Lesson, everything is hearing. You go to school, college. What purpose you pay the school fee, college fee? For hearing. You hear from the learned professor, teacher, you sit down and you get knowledge ‎No edit summary
13:3613:36, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ One form of proof is proof by logic (nyaya-prasthana). One can get knowledge by logic, arguments, and philosophical research. But another form of proof is sruti, proof established by hearing from authorities ‎No edit summary current
13:3513:35, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ If you want to get the knowledge by your own sense perception, you will never be able to come to the right conclusion; neither it is possible to get knowledge in that process ‎No edit summary
13:3513:35, 16 June 2024 diff hist −9‎ If you get knowledge, automatically tapasya will follow, and then you make your advancement in spiritual life. So to get knowledge is the first item for anyone who is hoping to find the perfection of his life ‎No edit summary
13:3513:35, 16 June 2024 diff hist +31‎ If you follow Bible, you also get knowledge. That is knowledge. We are after seeing people, that he has got knowledge of God. It is not a question of Bible or Bhagavad-gita. We want that you become God conscious. That is our movement ‎No edit summary

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