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17:2317:23, 13 February 2025 diff hist +7‎ The living entities, according to different results of fruitive activities, may become rich or poor, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is unchangeable; He is always full in six opulences ‎No edit summary current
17:2317:23, 13 February 2025 diff hist +27‎ The impersonalist sometimes accepts a poor individual soul as being daridra-narayana, meaning that Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has become poor. This is a contradiction ‎No edit summary current
17:2217:22, 13 February 2025 diff hist +27‎ Temporarily I may become very rich or poor, it doesn't matter. But people are being taught, "Oh, you are poor? You become rich.'' That's all ‎No edit summary current
17:2117:21, 13 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ So this frustration of the American and English boys with the materialistic way of life is a good sign for accepting Krsna consciousness. Of course, one does not need to become poor to take to Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
17:2117:21, 13 February 2025 diff hist +43‎ So India was so rich. But now how that India has become so poor? The same land is there. Why? Because they have lost that old culture, God consciousness ‎No edit summary current
17:2117:21, 13 February 2025 diff hist −16‎ So India was so rich. But now how that India has become so poor? The same land is there. Why? Because they have lost that old culture, God consciousness ‎No edit summary
17:2017:20, 13 February 2025 diff hist +9‎ Someone has invented the word daridra-narayana, trying to show that Narayana has become poor and that the beggar who comes to my door to beg is also Narayana. This is not authorized in the Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
17:2017:20, 13 February 2025 diff hist +43‎ Natural affection of God. Not that because some of His sons are gone astray God is, God has become poorer. No. He can produce millions and trillions of sons by His desire. And why He's hankering after one son? That is His affection ‎No edit summary current
17:1917:19, 13 February 2025 diff hist −16‎ Natural affection of God. Not that because some of His sons are gone astray God is, God has become poorer. No. He can produce millions and trillions of sons by His desire. And why He's hankering after one son? That is His affection ‎No edit summary
17:1917:19, 13 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ Just like this Vivekananda philosophy, daridra-narayana-seva, to serve the poor Narayana. Narayana has become poor. These are manufactured things. This is not with reference to the authorized sastras or knowledge ‎No edit summary current
17:1817:18, 13 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ It is not a fact that the soul or Supersoul becomes poor simply because the body is poor. These are the statements of ignorant people. The soul and Supersoul are always apart from bodily pleasure and pain ‎No edit summary current
17:1817:18, 13 February 2025 diff hist −14‎ It does not require to become poor to take to Krsna consciousness, but if anyone has the desire that "I will become spiritually advanced; at the same time I shall enjoy this material life," that is not possible ‎No edit summary current
17:1717:17, 13 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ In the material world, the opulences possessed by a material person are never fixed. Today one may be a very rich man, but tomorrow he may become poor; today one is very famous, but tomorrow he may be infamous ‎No edit summary current
17:1717:17, 13 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ Impious acts lead one to become poor by parentage, to be always in want, to become a fool or illiterate and to acquire ugly bodily features ‎No edit summary current
17:1617:16, 13 February 2025 diff hist +7‎ If Narayana lives in the house of a daridra, a poor man, this does not mean that Narayana becomes poor ‎No edit summary current
17:1617:16, 13 February 2025 diff hist +9‎ If he has got elevation, he has degradation. This is common sense affairs. If you become rich, you can become poor also. Why that once you become rich and there is no question of becoming poor? Is that guaranteed ‎No edit summary current
17:1517:15, 13 February 2025 diff hist +9‎ He (God) lives everywhere - in the houses of the poor and those of the rich - but in all circumstances He remains Narayana; to think that He becomes either poor or rich is a material calculation ‎No edit summary current
17:1517:15, 13 February 2025 diff hist +3‎ Generally the goddess of fortune does not remain steadily in one place. Her name is Cancala, which means "one who is not steady." We find, therefore, that a man who is very rich may become the poorest of the poor. Another example is Ravana ‎No edit summary current
17:1417:14, 13 February 2025 diff hist −11‎ A Vaisnava, or worshiper of Lord Visnu, gradually becomes poorer in material possessions because God does not trick His devotees into becoming materially entangled by possessions. Visnu gives His devotees intelligence from within, as Bhagavad-gita says ‎No edit summary current
17:1317:13, 13 February 2025 diff hist −15‎ Asat-karma means you become poor, ugly, without any education, no riches, always hungry. These are the results of asat-karma. So this is called karma-kanda ‎No edit summary current

20:3820:38, 12 February 2025 diff hist +11‎ Without becoming Krsna, how one can distribute Krsna? Without one becoming millionaires, how he can distribute millions of dollars? ‎No edit summary current
20:3820:38, 12 February 2025 diff hist −9‎ They (karmis) may become big multimillionaires, but they are just like asses, working hard day and night. Regardless of how much money they may have, their stomachs can only hold so much ‎No edit summary current
20:3720:37, 12 February 2025 diff hist +43‎ Suppose some of our Indian friends, they come to this country, far away. Does it mean that simply by coming here he has become millionaire? No ‎No edit summary current
20:3720:37, 12 February 2025 diff hist −9‎ Suppose some of our Indian friends, they come to this country, far away. Does it mean that simply by coming here he has become millionaire? No ‎No edit summary
20:3720:37, 12 February 2025 diff hist −13‎ Sometimes we see that a poor man, working very, very hard, he becomes a millionaire. There are many instances. But that is tapasya. The result is you have got millions of dollars, but you cannot enjoy it ‎No edit summary current
20:3620:36, 12 February 2025 diff hist +11‎ Many people are becoming very great in the estimation of material life. From very poor man, they are becoming millionaires. How? They have got intelligence, certainly. Without intelligence they cannot improve. But that intelligence is also given by Krsna ‎No edit summary current
20:3620:36, 12 February 2025 diff hist +43‎ Last night you said that that man's claim was like a poor man saying, "Yes, I'll become a millionaire" ‎No edit summary current
20:3620:36, 12 February 2025 diff hist +36‎ Last night you said that that man's claim was like a poor man saying, "Yes, I'll become a millionaire" ‎No edit summary
20:3520:35, 12 February 2025 diff hist +11‎ Just see. "You give me the respect of a millionaire. I shall become in future a millionaire." What is this nonsense? First of all you become millionaire, then ask the respect. They want the credit beforehand ‎No edit summary current
20:3520:35, 12 February 2025 diff hist +43‎ Just like if I think am millionaire, does it mean I have become millionaire ‎No edit summary current
20:3420:34, 12 February 2025 diff hist +11‎ Just like if I think am millionaire, does it mean I have become millionaire ‎No edit summary
20:3420:34, 12 February 2025 diff hist +11‎ It (earthen pot) has cost me one paisa. I shall make one paisa profit. Then I can make such profit. I shall invest again, make another profit, another profit. In this way I shall become millionaire. Then I shall marry, and my wife shall be very obedient ‎No edit summary current
20:3320:33, 12 February 2025 diff hist −13‎ First of all you become millionaire, then ask the respect. They want the credit beforehand. Trust no future, however pleasant ‎No edit summary current
20:3320:33, 12 February 2025 diff hist +11‎ Engaging that money for increasing further money, increasing further money . . . then one day he may be millionaire. So that millionaire, to become, that is also not undisturbed happiness. - How to keep the money? How to invest it? ‎No edit summary current
20:3220:32, 12 February 2025 diff hist +43‎ Don't you see that two men, they are working day and night, very hard. One man has become all of a sudden millionaire, and another man, he has no employment. Why? Why this distinction? ‎No edit summary current
20:3220:32, 12 February 2025 diff hist +11‎ Don't you see that two men, they are working day and night, very hard. One man has become all of a sudden millionaire, and another man, he has no employment. Why? Why this distinction? ‎No edit summary
20:2420:24, 12 February 2025 diff hist +14‎ You (Vrtrasura) have surmounted the illusory energy of Lord Visnu, and because of this liberation, you have given up the demoniac mentality and have attained the position of an exalted devotee ‎No edit summary current
20:2420:24, 12 February 2025 diff hist +14‎ The so-called national people are sacrificing so many lives. But what is their business? Business is that doggish mentality: "I am this body." So it is very difficult to give up this doggish mentality that "I am this body." Very, very difficult ‎No edit summary current
20:2420:24, 12 February 2025 diff hist −9‎ Srila Narottama dasa Thakura, a great acarya in the preceptorial line of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, has said for our benefit that one can perfectly see the dhamas only when one completely gives up the mentality of lording it over material nature ‎No edit summary current
20:2320:23, 12 February 2025 diff hist +14‎ Prahlada Maharaja continued: My dear father, please give up your demoniac mentality. Do not discriminate in your heart between enemies and friends; make your mind equipoised toward everyone ‎No edit summary current
20:2320:23, 12 February 2025 diff hist +14‎ One’s spiritual vision develops proportionately to one’s giving up the debased mentality of unnecessarily enjoying matter ‎No edit summary current
20:2120:21, 12 February 2025 diff hist +35‎ I am a poor brahmana, and You have come to My home. Please be satisfied with whatever little food You have received and give up Your greedy mentality ‎No edit summary current
20:2020:20, 12 February 2025 diff hist −9‎ He is actually servant, but he wants to become master. That is the defect. So he has to give up this mentality, mastership, then he'll be making real progress ‎No edit summary current
20:1920:19, 12 February 2025 diff hist +12‎ Brahma's constant dropping of his body does not refer to his actually giving up his body, but rather that he gave up a particular mentality ‎No edit summary current
20:1920:19, 12 February 2025 diff hist +14‎ A devotee gives up the entire mentality of enjoying and engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. That is his constitutional glorified position. At that time he is isvara, fully independent ‎No edit summary current
20:1920:19, 12 February 2025 diff hist +14‎ As soon as you give up this mentality that, "I am the enjoyer," as soon as we change our mentality that, "Krsna is enjoyer," then immediately we become liberated. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita - 14.26 ‎No edit summary current
20:1820:18, 12 February 2025 diff hist +14‎ According to your mental condition, you'll be offered the next body. Yam yam vapi smaran loke tyajyaty ante kalevaram (BG 8.6), you'll find. Therefore, give up doggish mentality. That is Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current

18:5418:54, 11 February 2025 diff hist −43‎ Bhisma, he's authority. Next to Krsna, Bhisma is one of the authorities. There are twelve authorities: svayambhur naradah sambhuh kapilah kumaro manuh, prahlada bhisma janakah (SB 6.3.20). They are the authorities of piety, religion ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
18:4618:46, 11 February 2025 diff hist +76‎ Why is it that a devotee falls down, that he wants to surrender to Krsna and again he falls back to the material world to become a false enjoyer? ‎No edit summary current
18:4618:46, 11 February 2025 diff hist +12‎ When you want to imitate Krsna and want to become enjoyer, then you are sent in this material world. This is material world ‎No edit summary current

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