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  • <div class="purport text"><p>Since time immemorial each living entity has accumulated the various reactions of his good and bad work. As such, he is ...al loving service of the Lord, which alone can raise one to the kingdom of God.</p> ...
    42 KB (6,819 words) - 07:55, 20 May 2018
  • ...he holy names of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa even in the midst of greatest dangers. The transcendental name of Kṛṣṇa, even though uttered unconsciously or by force of circu ...melted the plane. This enraged Lord Śiva. Lord Śiva then attacked the sun-god, who fled away and at last fell down at Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), and the pl ...
    32 KB (5,122 words) - 09:14, 19 May 2018
  • ...ficient for me because whenever I chant I immediately merge in an ocean of transcendental bliss. I only lament to see others bereft of Your love. They are rotting in ...e;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As he read the thousand names of the Lord, in due course the holy name of Lord Nṛsiṁha appeared. When ...
    74 KB (11,976 words) - 17:25, 18 May 2018
  • ...never become God. The asuras, or demons, who think that anyone can become God, are condemned.</p> ...: inline;">(1) In commenting on Vedānta-sūtra 2.2.42, Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has claimed that Saṅkarṣaṇa is a jīva, an ordinary living entity, but th ...
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  • ...or elsewhere and attend a so-called yoga class and thus become a yogī. One has to practice controlling the mind and avoiding all kinds of sense gratificat ...ir of all truth, knowledge and bliss. He is the combination of these three transcendental features, and He is the object of worship for the followers of the Upaniṣ ...
    90 KB (14,489 words) - 05:04, 21 May 2018
  • ...dly given me about these most confidential spiritual subjects, my illusion has now been dispelled.</p> ...ctionate to Your devotees. Please help us remember You and utter Your holy names, attributes and activities, which can dispel all the reactions of our sinfu ...
    38 KB (6,000 words) - 11:29, 16 May 2018
  • ...but the Lord is not subject to the actions and reactions of time, for time has been created by Him. To be more clear, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭ ...ma-nivedanam. The word Ātma-nivedanam refers to the stage at which one who has no motive other than to serve the Lord surrenders everything to the Lord an ...
    61 KB (9,334 words) - 06:46, 18 May 2018
  • ...ee of the body within the same heart of the living being, and only one who has become free from all material desires as well as lamentations can, by the g ...me. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no doubt about the supremacy of Kṛṣṇa. He has no doubt because he is completely freed from all sins. This is the state of ...
    56 KB (8,725 words) - 22:33, 16 May 2018
  • ...d. He has an eternal, blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin, and He is the prime cause of all causes." (Bs. 5.1). In th ...al kingdom, or the kingdom of God. The spiritual planets are called Vaikuṇṭhas because there is no lamentation or fear there; everything is eternal.</p> ...
    57 KB (8,922 words) - 19:11, 5 January 2011
  • ...and His devotees; therefore this verse considers dāsya the first stage of transcendental devotional service.</p> ...planation that because a sannyāsī in the Śaṅkara-sampradāya thinks that he has become the Supreme, Lord Caitanya, wanting to avoid such a misconception, k ...
    52 KB (8,174 words) - 11:10, 19 May 2018
  • ...alists sacrifice their time in philosophical speculation to understand the transcendental nature of the Supreme. In other words, the fruitive workers sacrifice their ...
    102 KB (16,506 words) - 01:27, 17 May 2018
  • ...f material nature. The twigs are the objects of the senses. This tree also has roots going down, and these are bound to the fruitive actions of human soci ...tyle="display: inline;">Actually, it is not a cloud; it is a big hill. One has to learn from authority that the sight of a cloud is not actually a cloud b ...
    50 KB (8,107 words) - 02:40, 17 May 2018
  • ...el and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no othe ...most abominable activities of the Māyāvādī philosophers that Lord Caitanya has introduced the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.</p> ...
    50 KB (8,134 words) - 08:27, 16 May 2018
  • ...ve all the rules and regulations of the Vedas which a person who is in the transcendental position does not need to observe. Dakṣa found fault with Lord Śiva for ...he disease become a source of all kinds of pain. Those who are advanced in transcendental consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, are never envious, neither of ...
    47 KB (7,278 words) - 22:58, 20 May 2018
  • [[Category:God and Lord Brahma|2]] [[Category:God's Telling|2]] ...
    62 KB (9,805 words) - 06:30, 19 June 2020
  • ...ukārāma, who became from that time a religious preacher himself. This fact has been admitted in his ābhāṅgas, which have been collected in a volume by ...
    68 KB (11,389 words) - 18:16, 18 March 2012
  • [[Category:God's Plenary Portions|1]] ...s by establishing a connection with the puruṣa known as Paramātmā. One who has thoroughly studied the intricacies of creation can know very easily that th ...
    78 KB (12,612 words) - 17:33, 17 June 2020
  • ...activities, but we have a tendency to fall down into material nature. God has no such tendency. Being all-powerful, He never comes under the control of m ...wledge simply has to be accepted. According to the Vedic method, śabda, or transcendental sound, is regarded as evidence. Sound is very important in Vedic understand ...
    88 KB (13,788 words) - 13:40, 24 October 2011
  • ...eight of his material acquisition. Advancement of material science without God consciousness is a heavy load on the head of human society, and so one must ...-clad guards with turbans, fine uniforms and jeweled earrings. The glow of numerous jewel-studded lamps dispelled all darkness in the palace. My dear King, on ...
    42 KB (6,882 words) - 23:40, 20 May 2018
  • ...nce, which may be compared to the sunshine. The Upaniṣads confirm that one has to penetrate the dazzling effulgence of Brahman before one can see the real ...sonalist philosophers (Māyāvādīs) maintain that both the living entity and God Himself are under the control of māyā when they come into this material w ...
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