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18 March 2024
- 14:0614:06, 18 March 2024 diff hist +42 You should note it that this Ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita is specially meant for the devotees, especially meant for the devotees, those who have accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:0414:04, 18 March 2024 diff hist +42 The word "friend" is specifically used to indicate intense love. Friendship is better than servitude. In the stage above dasya-rasa, the devotee accepts the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a friend No edit summary current
- 13:4813:48, 18 March 2024 diff hist +1 The lowest of men (mudhas), because of sinful activities, cannot understand this (Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead), but devotees can accept it without a doubt. Thus the position of a devotee is different from that of a nondevotee No edit summary current
- 13:4813:48, 18 March 2024 diff hist +40 The lowest of men (mudhas), because of sinful activities, cannot understand this (Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead), but devotees can accept it without a doubt. Thus the position of a devotee is different from that of a nondevotee No edit summary
- 13:4713:47, 18 March 2024 diff hist +41 The inability (to find God) is due to the illusory energy of the Supreme Lord. Devotees, therefore, accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is and remain happy simply by chanting the glories of the Lord No edit summary current
- 13:4513:45, 18 March 2024 diff hist +41 The example of an uprooted tree mentioned here by the demon is very significant. Devotees accept that God is the root of everything No edit summary current
- 13:4413:44, 18 March 2024 diff hist +41 The devotee is expected to accept all nine processes of devotional service, but even if only one process is properly executed, he can still attain the highest position (paramahamsa) and go back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 13:4313:43, 18 March 2024 diff hist +21 The demigods, the devotees, would immediately accept this incident, knowing that the Lord can lift anything, however heavy it might be No edit summary current
16 March 2024
- 14:4014:40, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 The conclusion is that the time influence cannot act upon devotees who have accepted the Supreme Personality of Godhead as everything No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 They (The devotees) accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the dearmost friend, the dearmost relative, the dearmost son, the dearmost preceptor, the dearmost well-wisher or the dearmost Deity No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 Tat te 'nukampam (SB 10.14.8) Devotees endure hindrances, accepting them to be caused by Supreme Personality of Godhead & regarding them as benedictions. Demons, being unable to understand the supreme controller, regard such hindrances as accidental No edit summary current
- 14:2514:25, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 It is said that among all the devotees of the Personality of Godhead, Lord Siva is the greatest. Thus the remnants of foodstuff left by him are accepted by other devotees as maha-prasada, or great spiritual foodstuff No edit summary current
- 14:2214:22, 16 March 2024 diff hist 0 Devotees who accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead will enjoy the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:2214:22, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 Devotees who accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead will enjoy the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 14:2014:20, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 God's qualities are always inconceivable, and all processes of self-realization inquire into the potencies, energies and qualities of the SP of Godhead. However, the devotees of the Lord immediately accept the inconceivable position of the Lord No edit summary current
- 14:1714:17, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 By the yogis He is accepted as the supersoul and by the devotees as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:1414:14, 16 March 2024 diff hist +1 A Krsna conscious person wants only to serve the foremost yogi, Yogesvara (varimnah sarva-yoginam). Because we are trying to become His devotees, we accept the Supreme Lord, Yogesvara, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 16 March 2024 diff hist −1 A Krsna conscious person wants only to serve the foremost yogi, Yogesvara (varimnah sarva-yoginam). Because we are trying to become His devotees, we accept the Supreme Lord, Yogesvara, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 14:1214:12, 16 March 2024 diff hist +14 A Krsna conscious person wants only to serve the foremost yogi, Yogesvara (varimnah sarva-yoginam). Because we are trying to become His devotees, we accept the Supreme Lord, Yogesvara, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 14:0814:08, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 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
- 14:0114:01, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 All the cowherd boys used to play with Krsna, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead for devotees who have accepted eternal servitorship, and who for ordinary persons is but another ordinary child - SB 10.12.7-11 No edit summary current
- 13:5913:59, 16 March 2024 diff hist +42 All devotees in the Gaudiya-sampradaya accept the activities of Lord Ananta related in the Srimad-Bhagavatam as authentic, and they are thus benefited by going back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
7 March 2024
- 09:4109:41, 7 March 2024 diff hist −6 This was the subject of Pariksit Maharaja's inquiry. As a devotee of Lord Krsna, he knew very well that Krsna cannot be partial to anyone, but when he saw that Krsna acted as the enemy of the demons, he was somewhat doubtful No edit summary current
6 March 2024
- 16:4316:43, 6 March 2024 diff hist +47 You can say: "Why Krsna is so partial to the sadhus?" No. He gives protection to everyone. Without His protection, nobody can live. That's a fact. But He gives special protection to the sadhu, to the devotees. That is natural No edit summary current
- 16:4216:42, 6 March 2024 diff hist +47 When the Lord (Krsna) descends on this material world by His all-merciful energy, He plays like a human being, and therefore it appears that the Lord is partial to His devotees only, but that is not a fact No edit summary current
- 16:3516:35, 6 March 2024 diff hist 0 It appears that the Lord (Krsna) is partial to His devotees. Everyone is related with the Lord. He is equal to everyone, and yet He is more inclined to His own men and devotees No edit summary current
- 16:3416:34, 6 March 2024 diff hist +2 It appears that the Lord (Krsna) is partial to His devotees. Everyone is related with the Lord. He is equal to everyone, and yet He is more inclined to His own men and devotees No edit summary
- 16:3416:34, 6 March 2024 diff hist +45 It appears that the Lord (Krsna) is partial to His devotees. Everyone is related with the Lord. He is equal to everyone, and yet He is more inclined to His own men and devotees No edit summary
- 16:3216:32, 6 March 2024 diff hist +47 His (Lord Krsna) acts in His incarnations and His partiality to the devotees are all imitations only, just like the stage makeup of an expert dramatical player No edit summary current
- 16:2916:29, 6 March 2024 diff hist +46 He (Krsna) is undoubtedly known as partial to His pure devotees, but in fact He is never partial, as much as the sun is never partial to anyone No edit summary current
- 16:2616:26, 6 March 2024 diff hist +46 He (Krsna) is called the well-wisher for the devotees only. He appears to be partial to His devotees, but factually the matter rests on the living being to accept or reject equal treatment by the Lord No edit summary current
- 16:2416:24, 6 March 2024 diff hist +46 Although Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is therefore not partial to anyone, it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita that He has special attraction for a devotee who worships His name in love and affection No edit summary current
- 16:1816:18, 6 March 2024 diff hist +46 "I (Krsna) envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend to him." Although the Lord is impartial, He gives special attention to His devotees No edit summary current
22 January 2024
- 05:4605:46, 22 January 2024 diff hist +7 Yoni means the source of birth. So there are two kinds of yoni, pious and impious. Those who are pious, they are getting chance of birth, in very aristocratic, high family, educated, learned brahmana family. Janma. Then aisvarya, opulence, riches No edit summary current
- 05:4505:45, 22 January 2024 diff hist +26 When you engage yourself in the service of Lord - Krsna, I want to serve You - this much wanted, qualification. No educational qualification, no Ph.D. degree or to take birth in very high family or to become rich. Nothing. Simply a true feeling, desire No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 We do not require to be very learned scholar or very rich men or to take birth in a very high family. We do not require all these things No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 To take birth in a nice place or a high family does not mean that one avoids undergoing the material tribulations, the pangs of birth, death, old age and disease No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 22 January 2024 diff hist −12 Those puffed up by a high birth, wealth, education and personal beauty unfortunately do not care for developing Krsna consciousness, nor does the Supreme Personality of Godhead care about all these No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 22 January 2024 diff hist +6 The wives of the demigods repented because although they had the opportunity of a birth in a higher planetary system a lifetime spanning millions of years & all material comforts, they were not as fortunate as Prthu and his wife, who were surpassing them No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 22 January 2024 diff hist +6 The demoniac thinks that all these things (birth in a high family, well education, etc.) are accidental and due to the strength of his personal ability. He does not sense any arrangement behind all the varieties of people, beauty, and education. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
- 05:3305:33, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 These are the chances (taking birth in a very high family or a brahmana family) one takes when one becomes a human being No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 22 January 2024 diff hist −12 Such designations (high birth), without any knowledge of the science of God and practical knowledge of devotional service, are considered to be all decorations of dead bodies No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 Such a person (one who does not know the actual goal of life) wants to enjoy the material world by taking birth in a highly elevated family with the benefits of education, beauty and immense wealth, which in this material world are desirable No edit summary current
- 05:2805:28, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 Pious acts lead one to take birth in a good and highly placed family, to become rich, to become learned, and to acquire beautiful bodily features No edit summary current
- 05:2705:27, 22 January 2024 diff hist +6 People are enamored by this material life to have high parentage. They are enamored by these things. "I must have birth in high family, in brahmin family, in king's family, in heavenly planet, in demigod's family." They think this is life No edit summary current
- 05:2605:26, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 One may take birth in a very high family or he may take his birth in higher planets, among the demigods, for his so-called pious activities in the material world. But this work is also faulty because it does not give liberation No edit summary current
- 05:2505:25, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 Material opulence means to take birth in high family, janma. Janma means high parentage. Then . . . janmaisvarya, and wealthy, great riches No edit summary current
- 05:2405:24, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 Maharaja Pariksit was already aware of all this information due to his accumulated piety and birth in a high family of devotees, Vaisnavas, and thus he was not at all interested in the material planets No edit summary current
- 05:2305:23, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 Mahabharata especially was written for three classes of men. What are those? Stri, sudra, dvija-bandhu. Stri means woman, sudra means worker class, and dvija-bandhu means persons who have taken their birth in higher caste, but they're degraded No edit summary current
- 05:2205:22, 22 January 2024 diff hist +7 Kuntidevi says, tvam akincana-gocaram (SB 1.8.26), indicating that to be free from the intoxication caused by high birth, opulence, education, and beauty is a good qualification No edit summary current
- 05:1605:16, 22 January 2024 diff hist +5 Karanam guna-sango 'sya sad-asad-yoni janmasu (BG 13.22). The spirit soul takes birth in higher and lower species of life only because of his association with the three qualities of material nature No edit summary current
- 05:1305:13, 22 January 2024 diff hist +25 It is not possible to experience Krsna by our these material blunt senses. No educational qualification, no Ph.D. degree or to take birth in very high family or to become rich. Nothing. Simply a true feeling, desire No edit summary current
19 January 2024
- 15:3115:31, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6 It does not require any high education, high birth or great riches or to become very beautiful. Nothing required. Beautiful or not beautiful, everyone can become Krsna conscious. There is no impediment No edit summary current
- 15:1515:15, 19 January 2024 diff hist +1 If a person falls from the path of bhakti-yoga, God realization, due to attachment to fruitive activity, philosophical speculation or mystic yoga, he is given a chance to take birth in a high and rich family No edit summary current
- 15:1415:14, 19 January 2024 diff hist +24 If a person falls from the path of bhakti-yoga, God realization, due to attachment to fruitive activity, philosophical speculation or mystic yoga, he is given a chance to take birth in a high and rich family No edit summary
- 15:1215:12, 19 January 2024 diff hist +25 Human birth is a great opportunity for self-realization. One may take birth in a high planetary system among the demigods, but due to the profusion of material comforts, one cannot gain release from material bondage No edit summary current
- 15:1015:10, 19 January 2024 diff hist +25 For self-realization or God realization there is no need to take birth in a high family. The only thing needed is development of ecstatic love of God No edit summary current
- 15:0915:09, 19 January 2024 diff hist +25 For self-realization or God realization there is no need to take birth in a high family No edit summary current
- 15:0615:06, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6 Birth in high family or great nation, to be very opulent, rich, and very highly educated or very beautiful - these things are very good material possessions. But if we have got them, it is all right. Even if we have not got, there is no impediment No edit summary current
- 14:5914:59, 19 January 2024 diff hist +7 Before the advent of Lord Krsna within this universe, there were many battles between the demons and the demigods. Many demons died in the fighting, and they all were given the chance to take birth in high royal families on this earth No edit summary current
- 14:4914:49, 19 January 2024 diff hist +25 A man gets a higher birth or lower birth according to the association of the gunas, or the modes of nature No edit summary current
- 14:4714:47, 19 January 2024 diff hist +25 A human being engaged in Krsna consciousness, even if unable to complete the course of bhakti-yoga, takes birth in the higher divisions of human society so that he can automatically further his advancement in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 19 January 2024 diff hist +25 According to the law of karma, a man takes his birth in a high family, or becomes rich, or very well educated, or very beautiful because of good work in the past. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 19 January 2024 diff hist +1 According to our karma, we are sometimes taking birth in a higher planetary system as demigods and sometimes taking birth as cats and dogs or as germs in stool No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 19 January 2024 diff hist +24 According to our karma, we are sometimes taking birth in a higher planetary system as demigods and sometimes taking birth as cats and dogs or as germs in stool No edit summary
31 December 2023
- 16:1916:19, 31 December 2023 diff hist +10 Yudhisthira said, "My dear Lord, You are the ocean of unlimited knowledge and transcendental bliss. The reactions of mental concoctions in the three phases of material life - wakefulness, sleep and deep sleep - cannot exist in Krsna consciousness" No edit summary current
- 16:0916:09, 31 December 2023 diff hist +33 The Sanskrit word vibhu means the Supreme Lord who is full of unlimited knowledge, riches, strength, fame, beauty and renunciation. He is always satisfied in Himself, undisturbed by sinful or pious activities No edit summary current
- 16:0616:06, 31 December 2023 diff hist +33 The personified Vedas continued, "Because Your (Lord's) knowledge is also unlimited, there is unlimited competition between Your knowledge and Your expansion of energies" No edit summary current
- 16:0516:05, 31 December 2023 diff hist +33 The Sanskrit word vibhuh means the Supreme Lord who is full of unlimited knowledge, riches, strength, fame, beauty and renunciation. He is always satisfied in Himself, undisturbed by sinful or pious activities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:5515:55, 31 December 2023 diff hist +33 The Personality of Godhead is the complete form of sac-cid-ananda (full life, knowledge and bliss). By realization of the cit portion of the Complete Whole (unlimited knowledge), one can realize the localized aspect of the Lord, the Paramatma No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 31 December 2023 diff hist +33 The incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead known as Sesa or Ananta has unlimited strength, fame, wealth, knowledge, beauty and renunciation No edit summary current
27 December 2023
- 18:2018:20, 27 December 2023 diff hist +13 So I am sure you are a very good soul to act on behalf of Krishna, and do it nicely. Krishna will give you the proper intelligence No edit summary
- 18:1218:12, 27 December 2023 diff hist +8 By proper conviction and intelligence one should gradually cease sense activities. This is called pratyahara No edit summary current
20 December 2023
- 14:5814:58, 20 December 2023 diff hist +33 When you hear about Krsna, that is also Krsna. Actually, when you are reading Krsna book, Krsna is fighting with demons, that is also His pastime. So Krsna is present. So you should be very attentive and worship this hearing No edit summary current
- 14:5714:57, 20 December 2023 diff hist +33 When he was cursed that he would die within seven days, he became very serious, and all the sages and saintly persons agreed that, Maharaja Pariksit, for the last remaining days of his life, seven days, he should hear attentively Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current
- 14:5514:55, 20 December 2023 diff hist −11 When Hare Krishna Mantra is vibrating on your tongue and you are hearing attentively, then your consciousness becomes clear or Krishna Consciousness, and there is no question of maya or hazy consciousness No edit summary current
- 14:5314:53, 20 December 2023 diff hist −8 When all the cowherd men had very attentively heard the statements of Gargacarya through Nanda Maharaja, they better appreciated the wonderful activities of Krsna and became very jubilant and satisfied No edit summary current
- 14:5114:51, 20 December 2023 diff hist −8 The words sthane sthitah mean "remaining in the varnasrama-dharma." Even a sudra can understand what is Brahman, and in that case he becomes a brahmana automatically. It is necessary that one hear attentively. That is all No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 20 December 2023 diff hist −8 The process of Krsna consciousness is to chant Hare Krsna and to hear the sound attentively so that the mind is fixed upon the transcendental vibration of Krsna's name, which is nondifferent from Krsna the personality No edit summary current
- 14:4714:47, 20 December 2023 diff hist +10 Please hear attentively what I shall speak to you, for transcendental knowledge about Me is not only scientific but full of mysteries No edit summary current
- 14:4614:46, 20 December 2023 diff hist −8 One who hears very attentively about the spiritual subject matter, the spiritual master becomes very happy No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 20 December 2023 diff hist +1 Once while touring the world, Lord Rsabhadeva, the Supreme Lord, reached a place known as Brahmavarta. There was a great conference of learned brahmanas at that place, and all the King's sons attentively heard the instructions of the brahmanas there No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 20 December 2023 diff hist +10 Now I shall chant one mantra which is not only transcendental, pure and auspicious, but is the best prayer for anyone who is aspiring to attain the ultimate goal of life. When I chant this mantra, please hear it carefully and attentively No edit summary current
- 14:4214:42, 20 December 2023 diff hist −8 Nanda and Sunanda, the two confidential associates of Lord Visnu, said: Dear King, let there be all good fortune unto you. Please attentively hear what we shall say No edit summary current
- 14:4114:41, 20 December 2023 diff hist +2 Lord Siva advised the sons of the King to hear him attentively, for inattentive hearing is offensive No edit summary
- 14:4114:41, 20 December 2023 diff hist −10 Lord Siva advised the sons of the King to hear him attentively, for inattentive hearing is offensive No edit summary
- 14:4014:40, 20 December 2023 diff hist −8 Lord Brahma, the supreme person within this universe, said: My dear Priyavrata, kindly hear attentively what I shall say to you. Do not be jealous of the Supreme Lord, who is beyond our experimental measurements No edit summary current
- 14:3914:39, 20 December 2023 diff hist +10 Krsna says, "Please hear attentively what I shall speak to you, for transcendental knowledge about Me is not only scientific but also full of mysteries" No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 20 December 2023 diff hist −8 King Yudhisthira attentively heard the narration of the killing of Jarasandha and the setting free of the kings. He also heard of the tactics adopted by Krsna to kill Jarasandha No edit summary
- 14:3514:35, 20 December 2023 diff hist −8 I have invoked the benediction of the Lords with these two verses (texts 1 and 2 of this chapter). Now please hear attentively the purport of the third verse No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 20 December 2023 diff hist +3 It is Your natural characteristic to accept defeat at the hands of Your devotee. There is also another glory of Yours, which I ask You to hear attentively No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 20 December 2023 diff hist +7 It is Your natural characteristic to accept defeat at the hands of Your devotee. There is also another glory of Yours, which I ask You to hear attentively No edit summary
- 14:2714:27, 20 December 2023 diff hist +10 As soon as we hear about Krsna attentively and try to assimilate it, then the purification of the heart begins No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 20 December 2023 diff hist +10 As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhagavatam, by this culture of knowledge the Supreme Lord is established within his heart No edit summary current
11 December 2023
- 10:4910:49, 11 December 2023 diff hist +10 Narada Muni has eternal life, unlimited knowledge and unfathomed bliss, and he can travel all over the material and spiritual worlds without restriction No edit summary current
- 10:4810:48, 11 December 2023 diff hist −13 My Lord, as the fire in arani wood is covered, You and Your unlimited knowledge are covered by the material modes of nature. Your mind, however, is not attentive to the activities of the modes of nature No edit summary current
- 10:4710:47, 11 December 2023 diff hist −34 My grandfather, the best of all men, who achieved unlimited knowledge and was worshipable for everyone, was afraid of the common men in this world No edit summary current
- 10:4610:46, 11 December 2023 diff hist +11 My grandfather, the best of all men, who achieved unlimited knowledge and was worshipable for everyone, was afraid of the common men in this world No edit summary
- 10:4510:45, 11 December 2023 diff hist +2 Krsna is the Supreme Brahman because of His unlimited knowledge, unlimited potencies, unlimited strength, unlimited influence, unlimited beauty and unlimited renunciation No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 11 December 2023 diff hist +2 It is said here (in SB 3.32.28), jnanam ekam. Bhagavad-gita confirms that they are fools who, simply upon seeing Krsna, consider Him a common man. They do not know the unlimited knowledge, power and opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current