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  • ...nya Mahāprabhu. Therefore I am praying to the Lord for His causeless mercy upon me.</p> ...Mahāprabhu bestowed His mercy upon Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya by showing him His original form as the Lord.</p> ...
    222 KB (35,159 words) - 09:49, 18 May 2018
  • ...e spiritual master to get free from the perplexities of life, which happen without our desire ...e world situation is such' that perplexities of life automatically appear, without our wanting such confusion. No one wants fire, and yet it takes place, and ...
    165 KB (25,856 words) - 11:47, 15 May 2018
  • ...t misinterpretation, on the authority of Kṛṣṇa. To interpret Bhagavad-gītā without any reference to the will of Kṛṣṇa is the greatest offense. In order .... Kṛṣṇa, however, never brings misfortune to anyone, to say nothing of His devotees.</p> ...
    157 KB (25,517 words) - 07:35, 19 May 2018
  • ...the influence of the holy place. Sañjaya therefore informed the king that his son, Duryodhana, after seeing the military force of the Pāṇḍavas, at o ...who were also Droṇācārya's affectionate students. Arjuna, especially, was his most affectionate and brilliant student. Duryodhana also warned that such l ...
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  • <p>"Persons who are falsely under the impression of being liberated, without devotional service to the Lord, may reach the goal of the brahmajyoti, but ...preme Personality of Godhead, the angry person falls down from the peak of his improved position. This is confirmed as follows:</p> ...
    360 KB (54,344 words) - 14:56, 19 May 2018
  • ...rd desires, and the Lord is always specifically compassionate towards such devotees.</p> ...at compassion towards His pure devotees, appears in person, accompanied by His plenary portions controlling the mahat-tattva.</p> ...
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  • ...kness, and because a devotee is enlightened by the Personality of Godhead, his knowledge is certainly perfect.</p> ...fore comes Himself and leaves behind necessary instructions and also sends His good sons as representatives to call all the conditioned souls back to Godh ...
    121 KB (19,297 words) - 22:37, 19 May 2018
  • ...reme Being. The Supreme Being is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1)—that is, His form is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. Our present body is not sac-c ...menal world, the spirit behind it, and the source of both of them. This is transcendental knowledge. The Lord wants to explain the above-mentioned system of knowledg ...
    103 KB (16,874 words) - 01:35, 21 May 2018
  • ...and his wife, Devahūti, along with nine other women (sisters). He spoke to His mother about self-realization, by which, in that very lifetime, she became ...m, like Kardama, were born in the mode of goodness. Nārada was born in the transcendental state of Brahmā.</p> ...
    185 KB (29,366 words) - 23:21, 17 May 2018
  • ...g unto Krsna"|"Surrenders unto Me"|"surrender to God, Krsna"|"surrender to God, Krsna"|"surrendered to Lord Krsna"|"surrendered unto Me"|"surrendered unto .... Khaṭvāṅga Mahārāja attained this state of life just a few minutes before his death, by surrendering unto Kṛṣṇa. Nirvāṇa means ending the proces ...
    207 KB (32,450 words) - 03:10, 20 May 2018
  • ...><p style="display: inline;">Jagannātha Miśra had a number of daughters by his wife, Śrīmatī Śacīdevī, but they all expired at an early age. The two ...pīs (cowherd girls) instead of the names of the Lord. At this time some of His students, who were also disciples, came to see Him, and when they saw that ...
    137 KB (22,514 words) - 06:50, 15 May 2018
  • ...s when the sunshine is blocked. For example, if one stands facing the sun, his back will be in darkness. Since darkness stands in the absence of the sun, ...Therefore the Supreme Lord has arranged for sunshine and moonshine. But in His abode, as described in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.6), there is no necessity fo ...
    103 KB (17,185 words) - 16:49, 22 August 2011
  • ...gers because they were supported by Lord Kṛṣṇa, who had conquered, even in His childhood, demons like Kaṁsa and Jarāsandha and demigods like Brahmā an ...Godhead. God is one without a second, but He expands Himself in many forms without their being separate from one another. They are all plenary expansions. The ...
    263 KB (42,399 words) - 22:46, 15 May 2018
  • ...elf only worthy of more trouble due to his past misdeeds; and he sees that his miseries, by the grace of the Lord, are minimized to the lowest.</p> ...enjoy their facilities, he sometimes performs sacrifices (yajña), but when his merit is exhausted he returns to earth again in the form of a man. This pro ...
    128 KB (20,475 words) - 18:42, 16 May 2018
  • ...warded such powers. In other words, everyone is dependent for success upon His mercy alone, and all kinds of spiritual processes are but different degrees <p>"Whether one is without desire (the condition of the devotees), or is desirous of all fruitive results, or is after liberation, one shoul ...
    328 KB (52,560 words) - 16:38, 15 May 2018
  • ...a kaupīna and a bahirvāsa (outer covering). His head was without hair, and His hands bore a daṇḍa (stick) and a kamaṇḍalu (hermit's waterpot).</p> ...it. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu gives a practical demonstration of how to love God in a conjugal relationship. Taking the part of Rādhārāṇī, Caitanya tr ...
    287 KB (46,752 words) - 02:04, 19 May 2018
  • ...ic development or any such sphere of life. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the purely transcendental urge of the soul.</p> ...is imperative, therefore, that one sincerely seek the association of pure devotees and hear them patiently and submissively from any position of life. The pos ...
    175 KB (27,944 words) - 17:16, 19 May 2018
  • ...this: "Go, friends, go through the streets of the town, meet every man at his door and ask him to sing the name of Hari with a holy life, and then come a ...His queer religion he would be obliged to enforce Mohammedanism on Him and His followers.</p> ...
    248 KB (41,296 words) - 09:57, 16 May 2018
  • ...sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.</p> ...
    247 KB (39,730 words) - 11:42, 16 May 2018
  • ...vive the places where Kṛṣṇacandra had at the end of Dvāpara-yuga exhibited His spiritual līlā (pastimes) for the benefit of the religious world. Rūpa G ...ty, knowledge and renunciation. In short, we should know that He is Kṛṣṇa, God, and that nothing is equal to or greater than Him. There is nothing superio ...
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