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20:1620:16, 19 November 2024 diff hist −1‎ Bali Mardana was punished by Krsna, he is not ordinary person; he is authority. So even a person punished by Krsna becomes authority. Krsna is so nice ‎No edit summary current
20:1520:15, 19 November 2024 diff hist +16‎ Bali Maharaja rejected his spiritual master. That's a great sin. But he rejected on shastric ground, because he objected for Visnu worship. Therefore such spiritual master should be rejected. Therefore he became mahajana, authority ‎No edit summary current
20:1420:14, 19 November 2024 diff hist −3‎ Bali Maharaja is a great authority in devotional service because he sacrificed everything to please the Lord and relinquished the connection of his so-called spiritual master who obstructed him on the path of risking everything for the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
20:1320:13, 19 November 2024 diff hist −27‎ Bali Maharaja became an authority, because he showed the example of surrendering everything, sarvatma-snapane, even his body. First of all he gave his kingdom ‎No edit summary current
20:1320:13, 19 November 2024 diff hist −4‎ Bali Maharaja: One of the twelve authorities in the devotional service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current

21:1521:15, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ When he (Purusottama Bhattacarya) became a brahmacari, he was given the name Sri Damodara Svarupa. He left Benares shortly thereafter, without taking sannyasa, and he came to Nilacala, Jagannatha Puri, where Lord Caitanya was staying ‎No edit summary current
21:1421:14, 6 November 2024 diff hist +15‎ The great sage Maitreya said: The four great Kumara sages headed by Sanaka, as well as Narada, Rbhu, Hamsa, Aruni and Yati, all sons of Brahma, did not live at home, but became urdhva-reta, or naisthika-brahmacaris, unadulterated celibates ‎No edit summary current
21:1321:13, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ You have to become a strict brahmacari and sit in the forest with your body at a right angle to the ground, pressing your nose with your finger for six months - Who could follow such an instruction ‎No edit summary current
21:1221:12, 6 November 2024 diff hist −16‎ When one is serious about advancement of spiritual consciousness, he must live under the control of the guru to learn how to become brahmacari. This is the main purpose ‎No edit summary current
21:1121:11, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ When a child goes to a guru-kula, he becomes a brahmacari and works like a menial servant. He may be the son of a great brahmana or a great king; it doesn't matter ‎No edit summary current
21:1021:10, 6 November 2024 diff hist −16‎ We have opened our gurukula asrama in Dallas. We are teaching from the very beginning of life small children how to become brahmacari. That is required ‎No edit summary current
21:1021:10, 6 November 2024 diff hist −12‎ Vedic civilization is, from the very beginning, to train the boys to become brahmacari, celibacy. Not that modern days, the schools, boys and girls, ten years, twelve years, they're enjoying. The brain is spoiled ‎No edit summary current
21:0921:09, 6 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ Up to twenty-fifth year you remain a brahmacari, learn from guru how to become brahmacari, gurukula. Brahmacari gurukule vasan danta, how to practice self-control, sense control ‎No edit summary current
21:0821:08, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ To become a brahmacari means to make advance in spiritual life. And the social order is there, the brahmanas, ksatriyas. So it is called varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary
21:0721:07, 6 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ The first cultural education is how to teach the small children to become purified, brahmacari. In ancient times it was done by association in gurukulas. That is required, gurukula. We are starting, therefore, gurukulas ‎No edit summary current
21:0621:06, 6 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ They have got different dresses. So Kali-yuga, simply by dress, he becomes a brahmacari, he become a grhastha, he becomes a sannyasi, simply by dress. What he is acting, nobody cares, that's all ‎No edit summary
21:0521:05, 6 November 2024 diff hist −12‎ Tapasa brahmacaryena (SB 6.1.13). Tapasa, to become brahmacari, to become . . . abstaining from sex life, it requires tapasya ‎No edit summary current
21:0521:05, 6 November 2024 diff hist −16‎ Suppose one lives for a hundred years. He should become brahmacari, student, for twenty-five years, then a married man for another twenty-five years, and after fifty years, pancasordhvam vanam vrajet, he should accept the vana-vasi ‎No edit summary current
21:0321:03, 6 November 2024 diff hist −12‎ Naisthika-brahmacari - throughout the life, celibacy. But that is not possible in this age, neither it is possible to become a brahmacari. The time is changed, this age. Therefore you can control your lusty desire by Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary
21:0221:02, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ Modern civilization, not referring to the verdicts of Vedic literature, is so cruel to the members of human society that instead of teaching children to become brahmacaris, it teaches mothers to kill their children even in the womb ‎No edit summary current
21:0121:01, 6 November 2024 diff hist +2‎ In Vedic civilization a man is taught from the beginning of his life to become a brahmacari, then an ideal grhastha, then vanaprastha, then sannyasi, and the wife is taught just to follow the husband strictly in all conditions of life ‎No edit summary current
21:0021:00, 6 November 2024 diff hist −38‎ In the varnasrama system, one first becomes a brahmacari, then a grhastha, a vanaprastha and finally a sannyasi. Going to the forest means accepting vanaprastha life, which is between grhastha life and sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
20:5920:59, 6 November 2024 diff hist −12‎ In the system of varnasrama-dharma, which is the beginning of actual human life, small boys after five years of age are sent to become brahmacari at the guru's asrama ‎No edit summary current
20:5820:58, 6 November 2024 diff hist −10‎ In the beginning, one becomes a brahmacari, a student who studies Vedic knowledge under the authoritative guidance of a spiritual master. He then becomes a householder and executes household duties according to the Vedic process ‎No edit summary current
20:5720:57, 6 November 2024 diff hist −13‎ If you have desire to enjoy, then don't become a sannyasi, brahmacari. You become a married man, live peacefully with wife and children. That is allowed ‎No edit summary current
20:5620:56, 6 November 2024 diff hist 0‎ Human society means to understand it, that what is the basic principle of material life. If we understand it is sex, therefore we have to cut down the sex desire gradually by becoming brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa. This is the process ‎No edit summary current
20:5620:56, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ For instance, the hatha-yoga process would say: You have to become a strict brahmacari and sit in the forest with your body at a right angle to the ground, pressing your nose with your finger for six months ‎No edit summary current
20:5520:55, 6 November 2024 diff hist −14‎ For brahmana, the four asramas are compulsory. He must become a brahmacari. Then from brahmacari he becomes grhastha. Then from grhastha he must become vanaprastha. Then he must become a sannyasi ‎No edit summary current
20:5420:54, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ First of all, they used to become brahmacari, to become most obedient servant of the spiritual master before becoming grhastha. Celibacy, brahmacari, then grhastha ‎No edit summary current
20:5420:54, 6 November 2024 diff hist −25‎ Every mother must take care of her son and train him to become a brahmacari ‎No edit summary current
20:5320:53, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ Every mother, like Suniti, must take care of her son and train him to become a brahmacari from the age of five years and to undergo austerities and penances for spiritual realization ‎No edit summary current
20:5220:52, 6 November 2024 diff hist −11‎ Children at the age of five are sent to the guru-kula, or the place of the spiritual master, and the master trains the young boys in the strict discipline of becoming brahmacaris. Without such practice, no one can make advancement in any yoga. BG 1972 p ‎No edit summary current
20:5020:50, 6 November 2024 diff hist −35‎ A boy is trained to become brahmacari. Brahmacari. Brahmacari means complete celibacy. No sex life, no amusement. Because just to train him not to be attracted by this material sense enjoyment. Then he'll be able to grasp what is spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
20:4920:49, 6 November 2024 diff hist −26‎ A boy is trained to become brahmacari. Brahmacari. Brahmacari means complete celibacy. No sex life, no amusement. Because just to train him not to be attracted by this material sense enjoyment. Then he'll be able to grasp what is spiritual life ‎No edit summary
18:5118:51, 6 November 2024 diff hist −2‎ Because there is no institution to teach people how to become brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras or brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas and sannyasis, these demons want a classless society. This is resulting in chaotic conditions ‎No edit summary current
18:5018:50, 6 November 2024 diff hist −25‎ Because there is no institution to teach people how to become brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras or brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas and sannyasis, these demons want a classless society. This is resulting in chaotic conditions ‎No edit summary
18:4618:46, 6 November 2024 diff hist −21‎ One begins as a brahmacari then becomes a grhastha, a vanaprastha and finally a sannyasi to take advantage of the duration of one's life by engaging oneself fully in self-realization ‎No edit summary
18:4418:44, 6 November 2024 diff hist +33‎ This (schools and colleges to train students to become brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras, brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas and sannyasis) will provide the preliminary condition for good citizenship - varnasrama-gunan-vitah ‎No edit summary current
18:4318:43, 6 November 2024 diff hist −29‎ To become fixed, become sannyasi, the other three processes are there: to become brahmacari, to become grhastha, to become vanaprastha, stage by stage. But if one is able, he can take sannyasa ‎No edit summary

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