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29 October 2024

• 08:3808:38, 29 October 2024 diff hist +29‎ Don't misuse this opportunity. Some way or other, you have come in contact with this movement. Properly utilize it. Don't go to the darkness. Always remain in bright light ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 29 October 2024 diff hist +38‎ By attracting intelligent men to our movement, automatically, others will also be attracted to come ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 29 October 2024 diff hist +38‎ Anyone can come and hear about Krsna. That is the process of Krsna consciousness movement. We try to invite everyone, from every corner of the world, to hear about Krsna. And that is becoming successful also ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 29 October 2024 diff hist −5‎ Suppose we are conducting this KCM. Nobody is interested. Very few interested. But if we give some false hope that, "If you follow this path, then within six months you will become God, and you will be all-powerful" oh, so many people will come ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 29 October 2024 diff hist +37‎ We are conducting this Krsna consciousness movement, and very few are interested ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0808:08, 29 October 2024 diff hist +37‎ Those who are actually sincere about spiritual life will gradually see the purity of our movement as you are conducting it and they will become attracted to the real thing ‎No edit summary
• 08:0708:07, 29 October 2024 diff hist +58‎ Spiritual variegatedness is unknown to the Mayavadi philosophy; therefore all the Mayavadi philosophers and sannyasis criticized Lord Caitanya when He was conducting His sankirtana movement ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 29 October 2024 diff hist +37‎ This movement can be pushed on vigorously so long we are devotees, otherwise it will be finished. It cannot be conducted by any outsiders. No. Only the devotees. That is the secret. So long we remain devotees, our movement will go, without any check ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 29 October 2024 diff hist +15‎ This movement should therefore be conducted under strict disciplinary methods as prescribed by the 'Mahajans' or the 'Harijan' of accredited merit. In such a movement we shall have full co-operation of the 'Sadhu' community in India ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4607:46, 29 October 2024 diff hist −5‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is conducted under the supervision of Srila Rupa Gosvami. The Gaudiya Vaisnavas, or Bengali Vaisnavas, are mostly followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, of whom the six Gosvamis of Vrndavana are direct disciples ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4407:44, 29 October 2024 diff hist +37‎ People still go there (Navadvipa). We have a temple center there. It is also a sacred place of pilgrimage. Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared there, and He started this mass sankirtana movement, which is conducted without discrimination ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4107:41, 29 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ I am training some, I mean to say, advanced students so that they may be very easily take up the charge. I have made them GBC. They are under my direct training, and I think they will be able to conduct this movement ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 29 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead may become the so-called enemy of the living being, this is His chivalrous pleasure ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 29 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ A devotee or saintly person should not be dreadful to others, nor should anyone be a source of dread to him. If one treats others with nonenmity, then no one will become his enemy. There is the example, however, of Jesus Christ, who had enemies ‎No edit summary current

28 October 2024

• 10:0210:02, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Jaya and Vijaya inwardly knew that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but they purposely became His enemies to be delivered from material life ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksa were formerly Jaya and Vijaya, the gatekeepers in Vaikuntha, but by the desire of the Lord, they became His enemies for three lives ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5909:59, 28 October 2024 diff hist +30‎ The Lord ordered the gatekeepers to go down to the material world to become His enemies so that He could fight with them and His fighting desires would be satisfied by the service of His personal devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 28 October 2024 diff hist +30‎ Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has commented that because the words "bow" and "arrow" are used in this verse (SB 7.15.42), one might argue that the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entity have become enemies ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Sometimes conditioned souls exchange money, but in due course of time, enmity arises because of cheating. Although there may be a tiny profit, the conditioned souls cease to be friends and become enemies ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 28 October 2024 diff hist +11‎ In this verse (SB 4.21.21) the word sadhavah ("all great souls") is very significant. When a person is very great and famous, many unscrupulous persons become his enemies, for envy is the nature of materialists ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 28 October 2024 diff hist −19‎ In the West also, the parents of the young people who join this movement have also become enemies. We have no business creating enemies, but the process is such that nondevotees will always be inimical toward us ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 28 October 2024 diff hist +11‎ In the West also, the parents of the young people who join this movement have also become enemies. We have no business creating enemies, but the process is such that nondevotees will always be inimical toward us ‎No edit summary
• 09:5109:51, 28 October 2024 diff hist +11‎ In India the caste brahmanas have become enemies of the Krsna consciousness movement because we elevate foreigners, who are supposed to be mlecchas and yavanas, to the position of brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ For the time being, people may remain friends, but eventually they become enemies again and fight over money. Sometimes they marry and then separate by divorce or other means. On the whole, unity is never permanent ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Because Krsna wants to fight, some of His devotees come down to this material world to become His enemies and fight with Him. For example, the Lord descended to kill Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksa ‎No edit summary
• 09:4609:46, 28 October 2024 diff hist +30‎ Because a sadhu lives in this way (looks on all living beings as his brothers), he does not create enemies. If there are enemies, they become enemies out of their own character, not out of any provocation on the part of a sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ As far as transactions with money are concerned, if one person cheats another by a farthing or less, they become enemies ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ Although two friends may be living peacefully together, due to their propensity to cheat they become enemies when there is a transaction between them ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 28 October 2024 diff hist +30‎ Vidura never became an enemy of Dhrtarastra but continued to be his well-wisher, & at the last stage of his life, it was Vidura only who proved to be his real friend. Such is the behavior of Vaisnavas like Vidura: he desires all good even for his enemies ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ The confidential treatment of the weapon brahmasira was explained to Arjuna, and Dronacarya was promised by Arjuna that he would use the weapon if necessary when he (Dronacarya) personally became an enemy of Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 28 October 2024 diff hist +11‎ There are many examples, such as Prahlada Maharaja. He was only five years old, a pet child, but because he was a devotee of the Lord, his father became his enemy. This is the way of the world ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Narada had informed Kamsa that in his previous birth Kamsa was Kalanemi, a demon killed by Visnu. Consequently, Kamsa became a great enemy to all the descendants of the yadu-vamsa, the Yadu dynasty ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 28 October 2024 diff hist +30‎ Just like we sometimes want to fight, mock fight. So in the Vaikuntha world there cannot be any fight. So because Krsna wanted to exercise His fighting spirit, He sent His devotee. He became enemy and He fought ‎No edit summary
• 09:2109:21, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Jarasandha was a relative of Kamsa, the maternal uncle of Krsna, and therefore after Kamsa's death King Jarasandha became a great enemy of Krsna, and there were many fights between Jarasandha and Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Hiranyakasipu, he always defied the son's, the small child. His only fault was he was chanting Hare Krsna. And even the father, what to speak of others, he became his enemy. So don't think that Krsna consciousness will go without any difficulty ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 28 October 2024 diff hist +30‎ Even when performing devotional service a devotee has to create many enemies. Prahlada Maharaja himself had experience of this, for even his father became his enemy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ After Kamsa's death King Jarasandha became a great enemy of Krsna, and there were many fights between Jarasandha and Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ He sends some devotee in the garb of an enemy and comes here to this material world to fight with him. At the same time, the Lord teaches us that becoming His enemy is not very profitable and that it is better to become His friend ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 28 October 2024 diff hist +30‎ Kamsa was attached to bhakti-yoga by dint of fear of his death. Thus bhakti-yoga is so powerful that even becoming an enemy of the Lord and always thinking of Him can deliver one very quickly ‎No edit summary
• 09:0509:05, 28 October 2024 diff hist −10‎ You should always expect that as soon as you become a devotee, the whole world becomes your enemy. That's all. But you have to deal with them, because you are appointed servants of God. Your mission is to enlighten them ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 28 October 2024 diff hist +48‎ You should always expect that as soon as you become a devotee, the whole world becomes your enemy. That's all. But you have to deal with them, because you are appointed servants of God. Your mission is to enlighten them ‎No edit summary
• 09:0209:02, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ When a family member becomes an enemy it is very difficult to live in family life or remain a householder. Generally such situations occur in the material world ‎No edit summary
• 09:0109:01, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ Whenever Krsna desires that He is to fight with somebody, another must prepare himself for fighting, becomes His enemy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 28 October 2024 diff hist +10‎ We have to tolerate. Just like Prahlada Maharaja. So much tribulation, even his father became enemy. So Krsna consciousness is like that - even one's father becomes enemy, what to speak of others ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 28 October 2024 diff hist +9‎ The material world is such that a nondevotee father becomes an enemy of a devotee son ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5208:52, 28 October 2024 diff hist +9‎ One who does not understand the transcendental nature of the body of Krsna becomes Krsna's enemy and defies or fights with Him. The enemies eventually merge into the Lord's Brahman effulgence ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 28 October 2024 diff hist +9‎ One who does not understand the transcendental nature of the body of Krsna becomes His enemy and decries Him or fights with Him. The destination of such enemies is to merge into the Lord's Brahman effulgence ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ It is our practical experience in this material world that the same person who is one's friend today becomes one's enemy tomorrow. Our relationships as friends or enemies, family men or outsiders, are actually the results of our different dealings ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ In the material world there may be a relationship between friends, but as soon as there is a slight disagreement, the friendship breaks, and the friend becomes an enemy ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4308:43, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9‎ In family life a man is supposed to live happily with father, mother, wife and children, but sometimes, under certain conditions, a father, mother, child or wife becomes an enemy ‎No edit summary current