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12:0112:01, 22 September 2024 diff hist +28‎ To come to that platform of understanding of things as they are, that is not a very common thing, and therefore such persons who attain to it, they are described as - great souls ‎No edit summary
12:0012:00, 22 September 2024 diff hist −14‎ This is the common platform - Bhagavad-gita. Everyone, come and take to Krsna consciousness. Understand God and learn how to love Him, and your life will be perfect ‎No edit summary
11:5911:59, 22 September 2024 diff hist −14‎ The warning is already there, and responsible leaders of religious sects must meet together and form a common platform of a league of devotees of the Lord. There is no need for self-realized souls to live in a secluded place ‎No edit summary
11:5111:51, 22 September 2024 diff hist +28‎ The aim of ISKCON is not to found a new religious sect, but to invoke the living entity's dormant love of God, and thus provide the human society of all faiths with a common platform of clear theistic knowledge and practice ‎No edit summary
11:4911:49, 22 September 2024 diff hist +28‎ That common platform (for religious unity) can be achieved in transcendental devotional service. This is the verdict of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary
11:4811:48, 22 September 2024 diff hist +28‎ Persons who, due to being initiated by another sect of religious faith, do not find devotional service as the common platform for approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead, also cannot understand Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary
11:4711:47, 22 September 2024 diff hist +29‎ Man and animal, they have got common platform of these four principles of life: eating, sleeping, mating and defending. The only extra qualification of man is that he can come to understand what is Krsna and what is God. That is his special qualification ‎No edit summary current
11:3011:30, 22 September 2024 diff hist +29‎ In the land of Bharatavarsa there are many hundreds and thousands of places of pilgrimage distributed all over the country, and by traditional practice the common man visits such holy places during all seasons of the year ‎No edit summary current

10:3110:31, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ When one realizes that "I have no connection with this body, this country, this wife, these children, these are all illusory," that is called liberation. That is called brahma-bhutah prasannatma ‎No edit summary current
10:2910:29, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ Upon gaining such realization (that "I am God's eternal servant"), one attains liberation and becomes prasannatma, or jolly, for this is the constitutional position of the living entity ‎No edit summary current
10:2810:28, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ We must be under the subjugation of some kind of miseries. But if you become situated in your spiritual platform of life, brahma-bhutah, you immediately become joyful, prasannatma ‎No edit summary
10:2710:27, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ When one becomes spiritually realized (brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20)), he becomes happy (prasannatma), for he is relieved from material conceptions ‎No edit summary
10:2610:26, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ When one comes to understand that "I'm spirit soul," aham brahma, "I'm not this matter," so immediately he becomes jolly, prasannatma. And what is the sign of jolliness? Na socati na kanksati. He has no more any hankering, no more any lamentation ‎No edit summary current
10:2410:24, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ When one is self-realized that he is not this body, he is the spirit soul, brahma-bhutah, then what are the symptoms? Now, prasannatma: he becomes immediately very jolly ‎No edit summary current
10:2210:22, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Spiritual rejuvenation required. Aham brahmasmi: "I am not this body. I am Brahman, spiritual soul." Then you will be happy. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati (BG 18.54), samah sarvesu... Then there will be equality, fraternity, brotherhood ‎No edit summary current
10:2110:21, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ The word hiranya means "gold," and kasipu refers to soft cushions and bedding on which people enjoy sense gratification. The word prahlada refers to one who is always joyful in understanding Brahman. Prahlada means prasannatma, always joyful ‎No edit summary current
10:1910:19, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ The word vidanti refers to one who knows something or enjoys something. When a person is properly instructed by a spiritual master & understands transcendental bliss, he enjoys life. As stated in BG (18.54) brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati ‎No edit summary current
10:1810:18, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ This lamentation you have got is not good. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati. This is not Krishna consciousness. Do not lament, but go on with your collecting engagement enthusiastically ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ This realization. Prasannatma. He has no enemy. He becomes enemyless immediately, because he sees everyone part and parcel of God, everything energy of God, everything belongs to God, everything enjoyable by God, by Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ So long we are materially engrossed, bodily concept of life, there will be always anxiety. This is the test. Anyone who is in anxiety, means he is materially situated. And anyone who is elevated to the spiritual platform, he is prasannatma. He is jolly ‎No edit summary current
10:1110:11, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Simply by engaging in the loving service of the Lord one can attain liberation. As stated in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.54), brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati ‎No edit summary current
10:1010:10, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Self-realization, liberation, the sign is that he becomes joyful, prasannatma, immediately. If you have actually realized yourself, simply by bluffing that "I am God, I am this, I am..." No. There are signs ‎No edit summary
10:0910:09, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Real Krsna consciousness, when one achieves, he becomes prasannatma, joyful. That is the first symptom of becoming full, Krsna conscious. Prasannatma . . . brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati - BG 18.54 ‎No edit summary current
10:0510:05, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ Prasanna means happy mode of life. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma. What is the happy mode of life? Na socati na kanksati. He does not lament. He does not hanker ‎No edit summary current
10:0410:04, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Prasannatma means jubilant. You'll find all our boys and girls, they're always jubilant. Unless they are jubilant, they cannot dance in this way. It is not dancing dogs ‎No edit summary current
10:0310:03, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Prasannatma means he becomes immediately enlivened: I don't belong to this. Why I am identifying myself with these miseries of material world? I belong to the part and parcel of the Supreme, sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah (Bs. 5.1), eternal, blissful knowledge ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Prasannatma: they'll be happy. Na socati na kanksati: there will be no lamentation or needless hankering. Samah sarvesu bhutesu: they will see everyone on the spiritual platform. And finally, mad-bhaktim labhate param - BG 18.54 ‎No edit summary current
09:5909:59, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ One who is not affected by the three modes of material nature is called a liberated soul, or brahma-bhuta soul (SB 4.30.20). Brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54) is the stage of liberation ‎No edit summary
09:5809:58, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ One who is promoted to the transcendental position (brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20)) is always jubilant (prasannatma). He is unaffected by the false distinctions between good and bad in the material world ‎No edit summary current
09:5709:57, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ On the material platform, there is no possibility of equality, fraternity, or nothing. It is not possible. Unless you come to the spiritual platform, brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54), there is no question of equality, fraternity ‎No edit summary current
09:5609:56, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ Our puffed-up condition on account of this body is illusion, because I am not this body. Therefore brahma-bhutah, those who are self-realized, they are prasannatma. Any condition of life they are happy, jolly ‎No edit summary current
09:5009:50, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ One who is brahma-bhuta is always happy - prasannatma ‎No edit summary current
09:4909:49, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ One who has understood Brahman, prasannatma, - he's always joyful. He's not disturbed by these material condition ‎No edit summary current
09:4809:48, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ One who has attained this stage (of the brahma-bhutah) is characterized by Sri Krsna in Bhagavad-gita in this way: brahma-bhutah prasannatma, na socati na kanksati, samah sarvesu bhutesu, mad-bhaktim labhate param - BG 18.54 ‎No edit summary
09:4609:46, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ One immediately becomes jolly (prasannatma) when he comes to understand "I am spirit soul. I am Brahman. I am not this matter." The sign of this joy is that one no longer feels hankering and lamentation ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ My real necessity of life, spiritual life. That is great relief. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati (BG 18.54). The relief means there is no hankering, no more lamentation. These are the brahma-bhutah ‎No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ It is confirmed in the BG 18.54, where the Lord says, brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati: One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything ‎No edit summary
09:4209:42, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ It doesn't matter you are a very great swimmer. When you are in the Pacific Ocean, you are in danger. So similarly, when that very man is taken away from the Pacific Ocean and put into the land, then he becomes prasannatma, - Oh, I am saved ‎No edit summary
09:3909:39, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ In this verse (of SB 9.4.66), the word sama-darsanah is significant. The pure devotee is actually equal toward everyone, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.54): brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati/ samah sarvesu bhutesu ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ In the brahma-bhutah stage one no longer identifies with matter. The first symptom of one's having become established on the brahma-bhutah platform is that one becomes jolly (prasannatma). On that platform, there is neither lamentation nor hankering ‎No edit summary
09:3509:35, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ How one has become Krsna conscious, these are the symptoms, the brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na . . . (BG 18.54). We have to understand by the symptoms ‎No edit summary
09:3409:34, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ From your letter it appears that you are a little confused. This means that the consciousness is not clear, brahma-bhutah prasannatma, na socati na kanksati (Bg. 18.54), the clear stage of consciousness is free from hankering and lamentation ‎No edit summary
09:3309:33, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Devotee means the first sign will be happy, brahma-bhutah prasannatma. If he's not prasannatma, he's a rascal. He has not entered even devotional life. He's outside. That is the test ‎No edit summary current
05:2605:26, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ But on the spiritual platform, everybody (on the material platform, nobody is prasannatma)? ‎No edit summary current
05:2205:22, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ But now do you not think that Christianity and Islam accept this (when he is on the platform of Brahman realization, then he becomes jubilant, prasannatma, na socati na kanksati. That life is required, Brahman realization. That is education) as well? ‎No edit summary current
05:1705:17, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ Brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54). Without being fearless, one cannot be joyful. The bhaktas, the devotees, are fearless and always joyful because they are constantly engaged in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary
05:1505:15, 25 August 2024 diff hist +25‎ Brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54). This is the stage of perfection of jnana. Na socati na kanksati. He has nothing to do with the material world. That is jnani ‎No edit summary
05:1105:11, 25 August 2024 diff hist +51‎ Brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54). The word brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) refers to becoming a brahmana, or understanding what is Brahman (brahma janatiti brahmanah) ‎No edit summary current

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