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08:5208:52, 30 January 2025 diff hist +45‎ As soon as devotees begin to hear and chant about Visnu, some rascal svami will say, - No, hearing or chanting any name will do. Why Visnu? Why not Kali ‎No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 30 January 2025 diff hist +26‎ Apavitrah pavitro va: either he is pure or impure; sarvavastham gato 'pi va: any condition of life, if he chants the holy name of Visnu, then he becomes immediately purified internally and externally ‎No edit summary
08:4608:46, 30 January 2025 diff hist +45‎ Although Lord Siva was present and he is all-auspicious, it was necessary to sanctify the place because his followers had broken into the arena and committed so many obnoxious acts. That sanctification was possible only by chanting the holy name of Visnu ‎No edit summary current
08:4408:44, 30 January 2025 diff hist +52‎ Although Ajamila was calling for his son, he chanted the holy name of the Lord, Narayana, and simply by a glimpse of the chanting of the holy name, he immediately achieved the association of Lord Visnu's order carriers ‎No edit summary
08:1608:16, 30 January 2025 diff hist +49‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, or Krsna, is known as bhakta-vatsala, and we find Lord Siva described as dharma-vatsala. The word dharma-vatsala refers to a person who lives according to religious principles. That is understood ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 30 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, resides within the material world as the sattva-guna-avatara. Lord Siva is the tamo-guna-avatara, and Lord Brahma is the rajo-guna-avatara, but although Lord Visnu is among them, He is not in the same category ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 30 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, who can counteract any unfavorable situation, then assumed the form of an extremely beautiful woman ‎No edit summary current
08:1308:13, 30 January 2025 diff hist −27‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself in the plenary forms of the visnu-tattva, and although they are equally powerful, the original powerful Personality of Godhead is considered the source ‎No edit summary current
08:1208:12, 30 January 2025 diff hist +153‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself in the plenary forms of the visnu-tattva, and although they are equally powerful, the original powerful Personality of Godhead is considered the source ‎No edit summary
08:1008:10, 30 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead in His form of Ksirodakasayi Visnu maintains all the affairs of material nature. Thus the supreme controller of the three modes of material nature is Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
07:4507:45, 30 January 2025 diff hist +83‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead in His form of Visnu maintains the entire material world. Since He is always beyond the material qualities, the material nature cannot touch Him ‎No edit summary current

17:3517:35, 19 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The transcendental words of the Vedas emanated from the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the Vedic principles should be understood to be Vaisnava principles because Visnu is the origin of the Vedas ‎No edit summary current
17:3317:33, 19 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The ultimate aim is acyutatmatvam - to think always of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, or Visnu. To make advancement in Krsna consciousness, one has to become a brahmana, with the above-mentioned (in SB 7.11.21) symptoms ‎No edit summary current
17:3217:32, 19 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The ultimate goal of life is Visnu, or Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
17:3017:30, 19 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The Vaisnava does not deride even ordinary living entities, including the small ant; everyone is offered proper respect according to his position. The offering, however, is in relation to the center, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, or Visnu ‎No edit summary current
17:2817:28, 19 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The various forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, such as Narayana and Visnu, are beautifully decorated with different weapons. The Lord exhibits those forms to maintain all the varied planets created by His personal potency, yogamaya ‎No edit summary current
17:2217:22, 19 January 2025 diff hist +49‎ The Vedic injunction is there should be division in the society, varnasrama, varnasramacaravata. Because the whole aim is to reach the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu ‎No edit summary current
17:2017:20, 19 January 2025 diff hist +49‎ The Vedic ritualistic ceremonies are certainly meant to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. However, by such activities one does not factually satisfy the Lord. Rather, with the sanction of the Lord, one tries to satisfy one's own senses ‎No edit summary current
17:1917:19, 19 January 2025 diff hist +68‎ The whole aim of life is to go back to home, back to Godhead, Visnu. We have forgotten Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, we are loitering in this material world under different species of life ‎No edit summary current
17:1817:18, 19 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The whole creation is made by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His form of Brahma, it is maintained by Him in the form of Visnu, and it is destroyed by Him in the form of Rudra, or Siva, all in due course ‎No edit summary current
17:1717:17, 19 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The words paurusam dhama have been explained by various acaryas. Sri Viraraghava Acarya says that these words refer to the effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Vijayadhvaja says that they signify visnu-tejas, & Sukadeva says bhagavat-svarupa ‎No edit summary current
17:1617:16, 19 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The words sevya bhagavan in this verse of the Caitanya-caritamrta are important. Bhagavan indicates the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu. Lord Visnu alone is worshipable. There is no need to worship demigods ‎No edit summary current

18:3718:37, 13 January 2025 diff hist +49‎ The words yajnesam srir vadhur iva indicate that Queen Arci served her husband just as the goddess of fortune serves the Supreme Personality of Godhead Visnu ‎No edit summary current
18:3418:34, 13 January 2025 diff hist +50‎ The word askhalita indicates that orders by the king could not be disobeyed by anyone in the entire world. Such orders, however, were never issued to control saintly persons or the descendants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu ‎No edit summary current
18:3318:33, 13 January 2025 diff hist +112‎ The word asura refers to one who is against devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu ‎No edit summary current
18:3118:31, 13 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The word kovidah is very significant, for it indicates the devotees of the Lord. Only the devotees know perfectly that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, is all-pervading ‎No edit summary current
18:3018:30, 13 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ The word yoga-nidram is used in reference to the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Maha-visnu). One should understand that this nidra, or sleep, is not like our nidra in the mode of ignorance. The Lord is always situated in transcendence ‎No edit summary current

09:1909:19, 10 January 2025 diff hist +76‎ The yogi, by meditation, being in samadhi, they are seeing the Absolute Truth, Personality of Godhead, Visnu, within the heart. And those who are devotees, they are seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Arjuna is seeing, personally, face to face ‎No edit summary current
09:1809:18, 10 January 2025 diff hist +49‎ This devotional service is natural because Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the most beloved, the master of the soul, and the well-wisher of all other living beings ‎No edit summary current
09:1609:16, 10 January 2025 diff hist +100‎ This is the mantra by which the inhabitants of Plaksadvipa worship the Supreme Lord. Let us take shelter of the sun-god, who is a reflection of Lord Visnu, the all-expanding Supreme Personality of Godhead, the oldest of all persons ‎No edit summary current
09:1509:15, 10 January 2025 diff hist +49‎ This Krsna consciousness movement is not Hinduism. It is Vaisnavism. Vaisnava means Visnu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and one who loves Visnu or loves God, he is Vaisnava. So Hinduism is not like that ‎No edit summary current
09:1309:13, 10 January 2025 diff hist +68‎ This ninefold process (sravanam, kirtanam, etc.) is described in this verse (SB 4.21.34) as visuddha-vijnana-ghanah, or satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly by transcendental knowledge concentrated on the form of the Supreme Lord, Visnu ‎No edit summary current
09:1109:11, 10 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ This story concerning the great King Satyavrata and the fish incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, is a great transcendental narration. Anyone who hears it is delivered from the reactions of sinful life ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 10 January 2025 diff hist +26‎ Those who are qualified brahmanas worship only the Visnu form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which means Krsna, Rama and all Visnu expansions ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 10 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ Those who are qualified brahmanas worship only the Visnu form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which means Krsna, Rama and all Visnu expansions ‎No edit summary
09:0709:07, 10 January 2025 diff hist +68‎ Through the purusa-avatara Maha-Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead created the whole cosmic manifestation. Simply by breathing out all the universes, the Lord creates and maintains the cosmic manifestation as Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary
09:0509:05, 10 January 2025 diff hist +68‎ Thus Lord Siva could understand his position and that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has unlimited potencies. Having reached this understanding, he was not at all surprised by the wonderful way Lord Visnu had acted upon him ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 10 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ To take away this burden, however, is not the work of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The maintainer, Lord Visnu, is the one who protects the universe ‎No edit summary current
09:0309:03, 10 January 2025 diff hist +38‎ Vaisnavah sva-paco guruh: but a Vaisnava, a bona fide representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, can become a guru, even if he is sva-paca, a member of a family of dog-eaters ‎No edit summary current
09:0009:00, 10 January 2025 diff hist +68‎ Varnasrama-dharma is the systematic institution for advancing in worship of Visnu. But if one engages in the process of devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it may not be necessary to undergo the disciplinary system of varnasrama ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 10 January 2025 diff hist +51‎ Visnu is honored and offered obeisances by Lord Siva and Lord Brahma. To consider that they are all equal is a great offense. They are all equal in the sense that Lord Visnu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and all others are His eternal servants ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 10 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ Visnu is the cause of creation. From Bhagavad-gita also we learn that prakrti begins to work and is still working under Krsna's, or Visnu's, glance of superintendence, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is unchangeable ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 10 January 2025 diff hist +83‎ Visnu is the expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but the impersonalists, because they do not ultimately believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, imagine that the Visnu form is just another aspect of the impersonal Brahman. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 10 January 2025 diff hist +57‎ Visnu is the Supreme Lord, Supreme Personality of Godhead. People, they do not know what is the ultimate goal of life. The ultimate goal of life is to understand the Lord ‎No edit summary current

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