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18:4118:41, 11 February 2025 diff hist +33‎ The conditioned soul has many aspirations such as becoming a religious man, a rich man, or a first-class enjoyer or becoming God himself, or becoming powerful like the mystics and acting wonderfully by getting anything or doing anything ‎No edit summary current
18:4018:40, 11 February 2025 diff hist −8‎ There is only a material world for those who want to imitate the Lord and become enjoyers. Indeed, the material world is nothing but forgetfulness of the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the creator of everything ‎No edit summary current
18:3918:39, 11 February 2025 diff hist +11‎ There is no reason for the living entity's being put into the miserable threefold condition of material existence but that he voluntarily accepts material existence on the false pretext of becoming an enjoyer ‎No edit summary current
18:3918:39, 11 February 2025 diff hist +12‎ So if we simply become renouncer, that will not help us. Then again we shall become enjoyer, so-called enjoyer. That is like pendulum, balancing, tak, tak, this way, this way ‎No edit summary current
18:3918:39, 11 February 2025 diff hist −8‎ Save and except the Lord, no one can be called the enjoyer, but the living entity falsely desires to become the enjoyer. This is the origin of false ego ‎No edit summary current
18:3818:38, 11 February 2025 diff hist +13‎ Sanandana said, "The personified Vedas sing, 'Due to their (the living entities) own faults they imitate You (Visnu) by trying to become the supreme enjoyer. Thus they disobey Your supremacy and become offenders'" ‎No edit summary current
18:3818:38, 11 February 2025 diff hist −8‎ Our philosophy is different. We do not wish to become enjoyer. We want to be enjoyed. That is our real position. We want to serve Krsna. We want to offer everything to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
18:3818:38, 11 February 2025 diff hist +13‎ On one side we become false renunciants, and on the other we become false enjoyers. The remedy, however, is here ‎No edit summary current
18:3718:37, 11 February 2025 diff hist +13‎ If you simply understand that Krsna is the only enjoyer, then your propensity to become false enjoyer will be vanquished that, "I am not enjoyer. Krsna is the enjoyer." Then there is no question of renunciation ‎No edit summary current
18:3718:37, 11 February 2025 diff hist +13‎ Influenced by the deluding energy, the living being becomes a false enjoyer under the dictation of the modes of nature ‎No edit summary current
18:3718:37, 11 February 2025 diff hist +12‎ First of all we try to become enjoyer like the head of the family man or a minister or this and that, so many. Everyone is trying to become head, enjoyer. And at last, being baffled in every respect, he wants to become God ‎No edit summary current
18:3518:35, 11 February 2025 diff hist +35‎ Every rascal is trying to become enjoyer. This is the material world. Everyone is after sense. Even the so-called prakrti, woman, the propensity is to enjoy. Purusa ‎No edit summary current
18:3518:35, 11 February 2025 diff hist +12‎ A pure devotee has none of the tinges of the above contaminations (becoming a religious man, a rich man, a first-class enjoyer or becoming God himself), which are the influence of material desires, impersonal speculations and attainment of mystic powers ‎No edit summary current
18:3518:35, 11 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ As soon as one declines to remain subordinate and tries to become an enjoyer, he begins his material conditioning. When he abandons this spirit of being an individual owner or enjoyer, he becomes situated in his liberated state ‎No edit summary current
18:2618:26, 11 February 2025 diff hist −43‎ Bhisma is accepted as mahajana, as authority. And what was his business? He wanted to kill Krsna and Arjuna. Just try to understand. Therefore, we have to follow only the instruction of mahajana; otherwise, we'll be bewildered ‎No edit summary current
18:2318:23, 11 February 2025 diff hist +43‎ You say it's a real body (the Deity), but it appears to be stone? ‎No edit summary current
18:2318:23, 11 February 2025 diff hist +23‎ You say it's a real body (the Deity), but it appears to be stone? ‎No edit summary
18:2218:22, 11 February 2025 diff hist −13‎ You dream that you have gone to somewhere or in the forest or somewhere, somewhere, somewhere. But you forget that "My real body is lying in this bed." You do not remember. This is practical. So I change this, my self. I am soul ‎No edit summary current
18:2218:22, 11 February 2025 diff hist −13‎ This material body is simply outward covering of the spiritual body by physical atmosphere, but real body is within ‎No edit summary current
18:2218:22, 11 February 2025 diff hist −13‎ Sages said, "When a person dreams at night, hallucinatory figures created by the dream are accepted as real, and the imaginary dream body is accepted as one’s real body" ‎No edit summary current
18:2118:21, 11 February 2025 diff hist +42‎ Real body means ‎No edit summary current
18:2118:21, 11 February 2025 diff hist −15‎ Real body means ‎No edit summary
18:2018:20, 11 February 2025 diff hist +5‎ I am the proprietor of this body. Just as one is covered by a shirt and coat which are external to his real body, similarly we are covered by this gross body ‎No edit summary current
18:2018:20, 11 February 2025 diff hist +5‎ If we want to attain a body like Brahma's, we can get it. If we want a body like a worm in stool, we can get it. Or, if we want a body like Krsna's, we can get that also. That is our real body of sac-cid-ananda ‎No edit summary current

16:5416:54, 6 February 2025 diff hist +2‎ You may discover defensive weapons, nuclear weapons, and aeroplanes and bombs, and so many things, because they have got higher intelligence. But the ultimate conclusion: that the defensive propensity is there in you also ‎No edit summary current
16:5416:54, 6 February 2025 diff hist +2‎ Why shall I bother God? He is supplying everyone food, why shall I ask Him food? My food is also there. Let me serve Him - That is his higher intelligence ‎No edit summary current
16:5416:54, 6 February 2025 diff hist +13‎ We have got higher intelligence than the animals. The animals also live on this land, but they cannot utilize their intelligence for constructing a nice building, nice garden or industry or trade or car, because they have no brain ‎No edit summary current
16:5316:53, 6 February 2025 diff hist +2‎ The living entity, as he develops from lower animal life to a higher human being and gradually to higher intelligence, becomes anxious to get free from the clutches of death ‎No edit summary current
16:5316:53, 6 February 2025 diff hist −18‎ The higher intelligence should be utilized to know God or Krsna. When we say: "Krsna," Krsna means God ‎No edit summary current
16:5316:53, 6 February 2025 diff hist −18‎ The first step in human civilization consists of occupational engagements performed according to the scriptural injunctions. The higher intelligence of a human being should be trained to understand basic dharma ‎No edit summary current
16:5216:52, 6 February 2025 diff hist −18‎ Philosophical speculations and artificial attempts to control the senses by the so-called practice of yogic postures can never help a man toward spiritual life. He must be trained in Krsna consciousness by higher intelligence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:5216:52, 6 February 2025 diff hist +2‎ Our proposal is that you have got higher intelligence. Utilize it for higher purpose ‎No edit summary current
16:5116:51, 6 February 2025 diff hist +2‎ Our higher intelligence comes with his human body. Because we have higher consciousness, we should try for the higher enjoyment in life, which is spiritual enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
16:5116:51, 6 February 2025 diff hist +1‎ Men with the lowest qualities cannot do any work that requires higher intelligence. However, although such a division of men must exist according to their quality and work, it is suggested here (SB 7.14.11) that everyone must have the necessities of life ‎No edit summary current
16:5116:51, 6 February 2025 diff hist +13‎ It requires higher intelligence to understand Krsna consciousness. Krsna consciousness is trying to give the people the happiness to which is simply blissful, without any inebrieties ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 6 February 2025 diff hist +2‎ Instead of using his higher intelligence to cultivate God consciousness, so-called intelligent men misuse their intelligence to produce many unnecessary and unwanted things ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 6 February 2025 diff hist +2‎ If such a person (the Mayavadis) becomes narayana-parayana, a devotee of Lord Narayana, he is better than a jivan-mukta, one who is liberated or perfect. This requires higher intelligence ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 6 February 2025 diff hist +1‎ If a Mayavadi becomes narayana-parayana, a devotee of Lord Narayana, he is better than a jivan-mukta, one who is liberated or perfect. This requires higher intelligence ‎No edit summary current
16:4916:49, 6 February 2025 diff hist +2‎ Human life is meant for God realization, and the human being is given higher intelligence for this purpose. Those who believe that this higher intelligence is meant to attain a higher state should follow the instructions of the Vedic literatures ‎No edit summary current
16:4916:49, 6 February 2025 diff hist +13‎ Human intelligence is there to enquire about the Absolute Truth. So they have got better developed consciousness or intelligence than the lower animals. So that higher intelligence should be utilized for enquiring about the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
16:4816:48, 6 February 2025 diff hist −18‎ Higher intelligence is utilized for purification. That is the teaching ‎No edit summary current

18:2118:21, 5 February 2025 diff hist +32‎ You have been put into that profession. That does not mean because you have to deal with some sinful men you have to become a sinful ‎No edit summary current
18:2018:20, 5 February 2025 diff hist +29‎ When people become too much sinful, the earth becomes overburdened by the sinful activities of the people. Therefore it is called bhuri-bharavatara. And Krsna comes to mitigate. This is the purpose of avatara ‎No edit summary current
18:2018:20, 5 February 2025 diff hist −15‎ When a man commits murder he becomes sinful, and therefore he also must be killed; otherwise after death he must suffer many sinful reactions ‎No edit summary current
18:1918:19, 5 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ We are creating our next body in this life. So if we become sinful, or if we act only sinful activities, then we get next body a very lower class of body, even as the germ in the stool. And if we act nicely, piously, then we get better body ‎No edit summary current
18:1918:19, 5 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ Unnecessarily they are killing animals, and becoming sinful. So they have created their own field of activities just to become bereft of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
18:1918:19, 5 February 2025 diff hist −12‎ The mind becomes sinful because we are always engaged in sinful activities. Anything not connected with Krsna consciousness should be understood to be sinful ‎No edit summary current
18:1818:18, 5 February 2025 diff hist −15‎ The idea is that there is no food problem. As the mother earth said to King Prthu that, "I am restricting," so the more you become sinful, the food supply will be stopped. This is the law of nature ‎No edit summary current
18:1818:18, 5 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ These (not allowing the citizens to become sinful and godless) are the principles for a ruling power, and because Maharaja Prthu observed all the principles for a ruling chief, he is referred to here as adi-rajah ‎No edit summary current
18:1718:17, 5 February 2025 diff hist −13‎ That (twenty to thirty years) will be duration of life, because people are becoming more and more sinful. So that is fixed up ‎No edit summary current

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