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18:1518:15, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ In the middle of the night, while they were taking rest, there was suddenly a great forest fire, and it quickly appeared that the fire would soon devour all the inhabitants of Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
18:1018:10, 4 June 2025 diff hist −4‎ In that great assembly, Maharaja Prthu first of all worshiped all the respectable visitors according to their respective positions. After this, he stood up in the midst of the assembly, and it appeared that the full moon had arisen amongst the stars ‎No edit summary current
18:0518:05, 4 June 2025 diff hist +26‎ In spite of this divine voice (voice from sky), Rukmi insisted that Balarama had lost, and by his persistence it appeared that he had death upon his head. Falsely puffed up by the ill advice of his friend, he did not give much importance to the oracle ‎No edit summary
17:5917:59, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ His hair was dazzling like gold because he (Narada) was a great saint, and when he entered the assembly house it appeared that the sun-god was personally present in the midst of the assembly ‎No edit summary current
17:4817:48, 4 June 2025 diff hist +146‎ He (Krsna) told them not to be overwhelmed and in this way pacified them. But when He failed to come back with Nanda Maharaja, it appeared that He either cheated them or could not keep His promise ‎No edit summary current
17:2917:29, 4 June 2025 diff hist +193‎ He (Akrura) remained stunned in ecstasy, as if devoid of all powers to see and speak. Lord Krsna, who is very kind to His devotees, raised Akrura with His hand and embraced him. It appeared that Lord Krsna was very much pleased with Akrura ‎No edit summary current
17:2117:21, 4 June 2025 diff hist +117‎ From this advice (of Caitanya), it appeared that the Lord encouraged Gopinatha Pattanayaka to enhance his material condition. Actually, however, He did not. In fact, this was but a manifestation of His great affection for His devotee ‎No edit summary
17:1517:15, 4 June 2025 diff hist −10‎ From the very features of the sage (Kardama), it appeared that he had undergone great austerities; that is the sign of one observing brahmacarya, the vow of celibacy. If one lives otherwise, it will be manifest in the lust visible in his face and body ‎No edit summary current
17:1117:11, 4 June 2025 diff hist −7‎ From the behavior of these birds, it appeared that they were great scholars in Vedic knowledge and that they took to Krsna's transcendental vibration and rejected all branches of Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
17:0217:02, 4 June 2025 diff hist +8‎ Digging the earth with his hooves, Aristasura lifted his tail, and it appeared that clouds were hovering about the tail. His eyes were reddish and moving in anger. Pointing his horns at Krsna, he charged Him just like the thunderbolt of Indra ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Both of them were on the same level, although it appeared that Maharaja Pariksit was a great king accustomed to royal facilities whereas Sukadeva Gosvami was a typical renouncer of the world, so much so that he did not even put a cloth on his body ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 4 June 2025 diff hist −3‎ Because of the Lord's pastimes and activities and because of His absence, it appeared that Arjuna forgot the instructions left by the Personality of Godhead. But factually this was not the case, and again he became lord of his senses ‎No edit summary
16:3816:38, 4 June 2025 diff hist +81‎ Because Lord Krsna took birth in the house of King Nanda and mother Yasoda, the goddess of fortune was obliged to manifest her opulences in Vrndavana. It appeared that Vrndavana had already become a site for the pastimes of the goddess of fortune ‎No edit summary
16:3516:35, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Because Lord Krsna took birth in the house of King Nanda and mother Yasoda, the goddess of fortune was obliged to manifest her opulences in Vrndavana. It appeared that Vrndavana had already become a site for the pastimes of the goddess of fortune ‎No edit summary
16:3116:31, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ As the gopis were very hastily passing over the stone road, the flower garlands which were decorating their bodies fell to the ground, and it appeared that a shower of flowers was falling from the sky ‎No edit summary current
16:2816:28, 4 June 2025 diff hist +170‎ As the gopis & Krsna danced together, a very blissful musical sound was produced from the tinkling of their bells, ornaments & bangles. It appeared that Krsna was a greenish sapphire locket in the midst of a golden necklace decorated with valuable stones ‎No edit summary
16:2016:20, 4 June 2025 diff hist +93‎ After the Lord's departure he (Arjuna) remained in the same transcendental position, even though it appeared that he forgot all the instructions of the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary
15:2815:28, 4 June 2025 diff hist −2‎ Although this material manifestation is a by-product of fire, water, air and earth, it nonetheless appears to be factual. However, it is in Him (God) only that the spiritual and material manifestations as well as the living entities rest ‎No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 4 June 2025 diff hist −2‎ Although the moon appears to be located in the branches of a tree, it is actually situated very far away. Similarly, none of the avataras, or incarnations, of Krsna are within this material world, but they are visible by the causeless mercy of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
15:2515:25, 4 June 2025 diff hist −2‎ Although the light of the moon is the same everywhere, due to being differently appreciated it appears different. Similarly, the light of the Lord is equally distributed everywhere, but due to being differently received, it appears to be different ‎No edit summary current
15:2015:20, 4 June 2025 diff hist −29‎ Although he appears to be materially poor, a person in Krsna consciousness is not actually a poor man, but the person who has no taste for Krsna consciousness and appears to be very happy with material possessions is actually poor ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 4 June 2025 diff hist −2‎ Although he (the person in Krsna consciousness) appears to be acting with his body and senses, he is always conscious of his actual position, which is spiritual engagement. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 4 June 2025 diff hist −2‎ According to Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti, the Brahma-kalpa in the beginning of the first half appears to be the Padma-kalpa ‎No edit summary current
15:1515:15, 4 June 2025 diff hist −2‎ A devotee who dances in ecstasy but after dancing and crying appears to be attracted to material affairs has not yet reached the perfection of devotional service, which is called asaya-suddhi, or the perfection of existence ‎No edit summary current
14:1314:13, 4 June 2025 diff hist −11‎ As fire appears separate from wood and as the air flowing through the nostrils and mouth of the body appear separate from the body, so the Paramatma, the SPG, appears separate from the living being but is actually separate and not separate simultaneously ‎No edit summary current
14:1114:11, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Anything that appears as apparently not being "produced out of My energy" is called maya ‎No edit summary current
14:0914:09, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Although this material manifestation is a by-product of fire, water, air and earth, it nonetheless appears to be factual. However, it is in Him (God) only that the spiritual and material manifestations as well as the living entities rest ‎No edit summary
14:0714:07, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Although the sun moves counterclockwise, facing the constellations, with Sumeru Mountain on its left, it also moves clockwise and appears to have the mountain on its right because it is influenced by the daksinavarta wind ‎No edit summary current
14:0314:03, 4 June 2025 diff hist +126‎ Although the sun appears to rise and set, it is continuously shining somewhere on the earth. Similarly, although Krsna’s pastimes seem to appear and disappear, they are continuously existing in one brahmanda (universe) or another ‎No edit summary current
13:5713:57, 4 June 2025 diff hist +144‎ Although the moon appears to be located in the branches of a tree, it is actually situated very far away. Similarly, none of the avataras, or incarnations, of Krsna are within this material world, but they are visible by the causeless mercy of the Lord ‎No edit summary
13:5413:54, 4 June 2025 diff hist −2‎ Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti: he (one who is free from the bondage of both the gross and subtle material bodies and remains a pure soul) goes back home, back to Godhead. Thus it appears that Saubhari Muni attained that perfect stage ‎No edit summary current
13:5213:52, 4 June 2025 diff hist −26‎ Lord Balarama said, My dear Krsna, in the beginning I thought that all these cows, calves and cowherd boys were either great sages and saintly persons or demigods, but at the present it appears that they are actually Your expansions. They are all You ‎No edit summary current
11:5911:59, 4 June 2025 diff hist +29‎ Although the light of the moon is the same everywhere, due to being differently appreciated it appears different. Similarly, the light of the Lord is equally distributed everywhere, but due to being differently received, it appears to be different ‎No edit summary
11:1711:17, 4 June 2025 diff hist −154‎ Although the foolish cannot imagine how Krsna, who appears just like a human being, can control the infinite and the finite, those who are pure devotees accept this, for they know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
11:1411:14, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Although he appears to be materially poor, a person in Krsna consciousness is not actually a poor man, but the person who has no taste for Krsna consciousness and appears to be very happy with material possessions is actually poor ‎No edit summary
11:1211:12, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Although he (the person in Krsna consciousness) appears to be acting with his body and senses, he is always conscious of his actual position, which is spiritual engagement. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
11:1011:10, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Although each process (of devotional service) appears distinct, when one is situated on the absolute platform he can see that they are identical. For instance, hearing is as good as chanting, and remembering is as good as chanting or hearing ‎No edit summary current
11:0611:06, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Actually the living entity does not move. The living entity does not take birth or accept death, but because of the transient subtle and gross bodies, the living entity appears to move from one place to another or be dead and gone forever ‎No edit summary current
11:0511:05, 4 June 2025 diff hist +63‎ Actually My (Lord Caitanya's) body does not have a fair complexion. It only appears so because it has touched the body of Srimati Radharani. However, She does not touch anyone but the son of Nanda Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
11:0111:01, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ According to the reactions of karma, the living being appears separate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but actually he is very intimately related with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
10:5910:59, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ According to Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti, the Brahma-kalpa in the beginning of the first half appears to be the Padma-kalpa ‎No edit summary
10:5810:58, 4 June 2025 diff hist −97‎ A devotee who dances in ecstasy but after dancing and crying appears to be attracted to material affairs has not yet reached the perfection of devotional service, which is called asaya-suddhi, or the perfection of existence ‎No edit summary
10:5510:55, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ The navel of the Lord is so deep and coiling that it appears that the whole universe again wants to withdraw into the navel, being attracted by God's beauty. The Lord's navel and the ripples on His belly always increase the beauty of His bodily features ‎No edit summary current
10:5110:51, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ Sri Suta Gosvami was narrating the topics of the creation and destruction of the material world, but it appears that the rsis headed by Saunaka were more inclined to hear of transcendental subjects, which are on a higher level than the physical ‎No edit summary current
10:4710:47, 4 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ From this verse (SB 5.15.6) it appears that the incarnations of God are various. Some are part and parcel of the direct expansions, and some are direct expansions of Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
07:3307:33, 4 June 2025 diff hist +18‎ It (the temple at the birthplace of Sri Nityananda Prabhu) is now covered by banyan trees. Later on, a temple was constructed within which Gaura-Nityananda Deities are existing ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 4 June 2025 diff hist +248‎ It (the temple at the birthplace of Sri Nityananda Prabhu) is now covered by banyan trees. Later on, a temple was constructed within which Gaura-Nityananda Deities are existing ‎No edit summary
07:1607:16, 4 June 2025 diff hist 0‎ m It (the temple at the birthplace of Sri Nityananda Prabhu) is now covered by banyan trees. Later on, a temple was constructed within which Gaura-Nityananda Deities are existing ‎ Somnath moved page Within half a mile from this small river (Maudesvara) is the birthplace of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. It appears that there was a big kirtana hall in front of the temple, but later it became dilapidated to It (the temple at the birthplace of Sri Nityananda Prabhu) is now covered by banyan trees. Later on, a temple was constructed within which Gaura-Nityananda Deities are existing
07:1507:15, 4 June 2025 diff hist −159‎ It (the temple at the birthplace of Sri Nityananda Prabhu) is now covered by banyan trees. Later on, a temple was constructed within which Gaura-Nityananda Deities are existing ‎No edit summary

12:1312:13, 3 June 2025 diff hist +363‎ Uddhava informed Krsna, "Your servants in Vrndavana cannot sleep at night thinking of You, so now they are all lying down on the bank of the Yamuna almost paralyzed. And it appears that they are almost dead, because their breathing is very slow" ‎No edit summary current

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