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5 March 2025

• 20:4520:45, 5 March 2025 diff hist +11‎ If one has full faith in Krsna and confidence in Him, one becomes eligible to discharge devotional service confidentially. According to one's faith, one is a topmost, intermediate or inferior devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 20:4520:45, 5 March 2025 diff hist +9‎ If a person who is about to die takes full shelter of the Supreme Lord and places himself fully under His care, he actually attains immortality and becomes eligible to associate with the Supreme Lord and enjoy transcendental bliss ‎No edit summary current
• 20:4420:44, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ However sinful a man may be, if he receives knowledge from the proper spiritual master and repents his past activities in his sinful life and stops them, he immediately becomes eligible to return home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 20:4420:44, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ He (a liberated soul who is surrendered unto the lotus feet of the all-pervading Godhead) at once becomes eligible to be promoted to the spiritual kingdom, and he has nothing to do with the miserable land of the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 20:4320:43, 5 March 2025 diff hist −12‎ Gaurangera Duti Pada, 1969 part two - one who can understand that the associates of Lord Caitanya are ever-liberated... Nitya-siddha bale mani, sei yaya vrajendra suta-pasa. Immediately he becomes eligible to enter into the abode of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 20:4320:43, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ Fighting for sense gratification is a materialistic activity, but fighting by the order of Krsna is spiritual. By spiritual activities one becomes eligible to go back home, back to Godhead, and then enjoy blissful life eternally ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3820:38, 5 March 2025 diff hist +9‎ Even while suffering in the midst of difficulties, devotees simply offer their prayers and service more enthusiastically. In this way they become firmly fixed in devotional service and eligible to return home, back to Godhead, without a doubt ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3820:38, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ Even one who has never done any pious activities - if he simply drinks the caranamrtam which is kept in the temple, he will become eligible to enter into the kingdom of God. In the temple it is the custom that the caranamrtam be kept in a big pot ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3720:37, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ Even after undergoing severe penances and austerities and performing the yogic principles, the great mystic yogis can hardly become eligible to achieve the dust of the lotus feet of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3720:37, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ By understanding the science of devotional service in Sankhya philosophy, one can become free from the modes of material nature. The eternal self, after becoming freed from the spell of material nature, becomes eligible to enter into the kingdom of God ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3620:36, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ By praying to the almighty Lord one will become eligible to remain constantly in the association of the Lord, thus fulfilling the mission of going back home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3620:36, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ By good fortune one becomes eligible to cross the ocean of nescience, and when one's term of material existence decreases, one may get an opportunity to associate with pure devotees. By such association, one's attraction to Krsna is awakened ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3620:36, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ By engagement in the service of the Lord, the designative disqualifications are removed, and as pure souls they become eligible to enter into the kingdom of God ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3520:35, 5 March 2025 diff hist +9‎ By austerity, one becomes purified and eligible to return home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3520:35, 5 March 2025 diff hist +31‎ By attachment to the DS of Lord Caitanya, one immediately comes to the ecstatic position. When he develops his love for Nityananda he is freed from all attachment to the material world, & he becomes eligible to understand the Lord's pastimes in Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3420:34, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ By associating with sadhus and engaging in devotional service one can get freed from conditional life and become eligible to return home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3420:34, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ Brahma said, "It is said in the Bhagavad-gita, anyone who can understand a little of the transcendental pastimes, appearance & disappearance of the Lord becomes immediately eligible to enter into the kingdom of God after quitting the material body" ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3420:34, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ Because the people of this age are so fallen, they can simply chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. In this way they can rid themselves of the bodily conception of life and become eligible to engage in the Lord’s devotional service ‎No edit summary
• 20:3320:33, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ A person who has once offenselessly chanted the holy name of God becomes immediately eligible to perform Vedic sacrifices. One should not be astonished by this statement of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3320:33, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ A learned man does not distinguish between a wise brahmana & a dog because he sees the soul within the body, not the external bodily features. Such a perfected, self-realized person becomes eligible to understand bhakti, or devotional service to the God ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3220:32, 5 March 2025 diff hist +10‎ A devotee who constantly engages in hearing and chanting (sravana-kirtana) is certainly freed from the disease of envy, and thus he becomes eligible to go back home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3220:32, 5 March 2025 diff hist −15‎ As soon as you are initiated and you execute the regulative principles as they are prescribed, you become eligible (for going back to home, back to Godhead); there is no doubt. So the only thing remains that you become trained up ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3120:31, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ As it is said in Bhagavad-gita, tato mam tattvato jnatva: after discharging pure devotional service, one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead in fact, and one becomes eligible to enter into His association in one of the spiritual planets ‎No edit summary
• 20:3120:31, 5 March 2025 diff hist −11‎ Akrura continued, "I can thus understand that when a person becomes eligible to be delivered from the path of repeated birth, death, it is only by Your causeless mercy that he comes nearer to Your lotus feet & becomes attached to Your devotional service" ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3120:31, 5 March 2025 diff hist −15‎ After understanding Krsna as He is, one can become eligible to enter Krsnaloka and associate with Him. The mind is the cause of such an exalted position. The mind can also get one a body like those of dogs and hogs ‎No edit summary current

4 March 2025

• 20:3120:31, 4 March 2025 diff hist +43‎ Why it seems that when the soul comes into contact with material nature it becomes contaminated? ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3120:31, 4 March 2025 diff hist +35‎ Why it seems that when the soul comes into contact with material nature it becomes contaminated? ‎No edit summary
• 20:3020:30, 4 March 2025 diff hist −12‎ When we come into this material world, we become contaminated, we become affected by this, by the influence of this material nature. But Visnu, although He is looking after the management of creation of this brahmanda, He is not affected ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3020:30, 4 March 2025 diff hist −12‎ When one eats food offered by a materialistic man, one's mind becomes contaminated, and when the mind is contaminated, one is unable to think of Krsna properly ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3020:30, 4 March 2025 diff hist +15‎ The Supreme Lord is always in His sac-cid-ananda (BS 5.1) form, but the living entity, although part and parcel of the Lord, becomes materially contaminated when he desires to come to the material world for material enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2920:29, 4 March 2025 diff hist +13‎ The soul is fundamentally pure but he has an aptitude to come to the impure state of material contamination. He is therefore called tatastha or marginal. He has got the liberty of staying within the pure state or becoming contaminated. That is his choice ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2920:29, 4 March 2025 diff hist −17‎ The servants were so careful that a male could not even see what was going on there, & so they were surprised that she (Usa) had become contaminated. Since they could not trace out the reason for it, they submitted the whole situation before their master ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2820:28, 4 March 2025 diff hist +14‎ The pure status of consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, exists in the beginning; just after creation, consciousness is not polluted. The more one becomes materially contaminated, however, the more consciousness becomes obscured ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2820:28, 4 March 2025 diff hist −12‎ The Mayavadis, or monists, think that they themselves are Krsna, and if one thinks that he himself has become Nanda Maharaja, then his parental love will become contaminated with the Mayavada philosophy ‎No edit summary
• 20:2820:28, 4 March 2025 diff hist −12‎ The following questions may be posed. As long as the liberated soul is in contact with the body, why don't the bodily activities affect him? Doesn't he actually become contaminated by the action and reaction of material activities ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2720:27, 4 March 2025 diff hist −13‎ The cloud and air are different substances. Similarly consciousness is pure spiritual, but when the consciousness desires to enjoy matter, it becomes cloudy and dusty, or contaminated ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2620:26, 4 March 2025 diff hist −12‎ Sages said, "By the process of enjoying the senses of the material body, the spirit soul is covered, and his consciousness becomes materially contaminated. It is due to material consciousness that one cannot understand the SP of Godhead, Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2620:26, 4 March 2025 diff hist −12‎ If one mistakenly considers his position to be equal to that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes contaminated by the doctrine of nonduality, and his efforts in transcendental life are rendered ineffective ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2520:25, 4 March 2025 diff hist +14‎ Goodness in the material world also at times becomes contaminated by touches of the modes of passion and ignorance. In the Vaikunthaloka, it is unalloyed goodness only ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2520:25, 4 March 2025 diff hist +14‎ Due to the propensity for material enjoyment, the living entity becomes contaminated by the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 20:2520:25, 4 March 2025 diff hist −12‎ By electing Vena to the throne, the saintly sages certainly associated with him. Ultimately King Vena became so mischievous that the saintly sages actually became afraid of becoming contaminated by his activities ‎No edit summary
• 20:2420:24, 4 March 2025 diff hist +8‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita, the Lord descends on the earth by His own internal potency, and therefore there is no question of His becoming materially contaminated, changed or otherwise affected by the modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current

27 February 2025

• 20:4020:40, 27 February 2025 diff hist −3‎ We have got experience that if we infect some disease, contaminous disease, then we must suffer from that disease. So it is not God's creation that somebody is suffering from some painful condition and somebody is enjoying. No ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3920:39, 27 February 2025 diff hist −12‎ To satisfy the senses, that also requires tapasya, hard labor. But here Rsabhadeva says that you accept some painful condition - it is not at all painful, but it appears - tapo divyam, for God realization ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3920:39, 27 February 2025 diff hist −12‎ Tapa-traya. Tapa means painful condition. Tapa. Just like if you touch fire, it creates a painful condition by burning the part, similarly, this world is also a blazing fire, samsara-davanala ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3920:39, 27 February 2025 diff hist −12‎ Tanava, thinness, is described as follows: Consider the condition of the gopis! Srimati Radharani especially is in a very painful condition because of separation from You (Krsna). She has grown skinny, and Her bodily luster is almost gone ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3820:38, 27 February 2025 diff hist +72‎ So if somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition? ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3820:38, 27 February 2025 diff hist +6‎ It is said that when a woman is having labor pains she promises that she will never again become pregnant and suffer from such a severely painful condition ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3720:37, 27 February 2025 diff hist −12‎ It is not a fact that because material enjoyment involves so many painful conditions one will automatically become detached. One needs the blessings of a devotee like Narada Muni. Then one can renounce his attachment for the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3720:37, 27 February 2025 diff hist +6‎ In the material world the pleasure enjoyed by the conditioned soul is followed by many painful conditions. We have seen that in the two great wars, which were conducted by the rajo-guna and tamo-guna, both parties were actually ruined ‎No edit summary current