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11 December 2023
- 10:4210:42, 11 December 2023 diff hist +2 If we think that He (Krsna) is a controller like us, that is our misconception. He is controller. There is controller. With unlimited knowledge and unlimited assistants, with unlimited potencies, He is managing No edit summary current
- 10:4210:42, 11 December 2023 diff hist +11 Every one of us is searching after real happiness in life, namely eternal life, eternal or unlimited knowledge and unending blissful life No edit summary current
- 10:4110:41, 11 December 2023 diff hist +2 Because He possesses unlimited knowledge, Krsna has a memory that is boundless No edit summary current
- 10:4010:40, 11 December 2023 diff hist −13 A living entity is called anu, an atomic particle of the supreme soul, and his brain is also atomic. It cannot accommodate unlimited knowledge. This does not mean that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, has a limited brain No edit summary current
- 10:3910:39, 11 December 2023 diff hist +1 Arjuna might have been a very great warrior, a well-cultured member of the Kuru dynasty, but after all, he was an ordinary human being, whereas Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the possessor of unlimited knowledge No edit summary current
- 10:3810:38, 11 December 2023 diff hist +10 Although Lord Brahma knows past, present and future, he is unable to understand the unlimited knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 10:2910:29, 11 December 2023 diff hist −11 When the sun is in the sky, then where is the question of darkness? Similarly, when Hare Krishna mantra is vibrating on your tongue, and you are hearing attentively, then your consciousness becomes clear or Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 10:2410:24, 11 December 2023 diff hist +12 When Hare Krishna mantra is vibrating on your tongue, and you are hearing attentively, then your consciousness becomes clear No edit summary current
- 10:2310:23, 11 December 2023 diff hist +10 The process of hearing attentively about the pastimes of the Lord will endow devotees with innumerable benefits, such as wealth, fame, longevity and other desirable aims of life No edit summary current
- 10:2210:22, 11 December 2023 diff hist −9 The message should be heard attentively, and if spoken by a realized soul, it will act on the dormant heart of the conditioned soul. And by continuously hearing, one can attain the perfect stage of self-realization No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 11 December 2023 diff hist −7 That happens, you see. Not hearing attentively, sometimes wrong conclusion is made No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 11 December 2023 diff hist +33 One can attain to the highest perfection of life simply by attentive hearing of the transcendental pastimes of the Lord from the right sources, as Sri Narada heard them from the pure devotees (bhakti-vedantas) in his previous life No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 11 December 2023 diff hist +10 During all the days Pariksit Maharaj heard Bhagavatam, he did not take food or drink, nor did he sleep a moment. So everything about him is wonderful, and his activities are worth hearing attentively. Desire is expressed herein to hear about him in detail No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 11 December 2023 diff hist −9 Where is there a bread problem? Krsna can supply unlimited amounts of bread. There are thousands of elephants in Africa, and Krsna supplies food to them No edit summary current
- 10:0410:04, 11 December 2023 diff hist +10 They work like asses day and night to find bread, and if they go to church, there also they pray, "Give me bread." They are concerned only with the bread problem No edit summary current
- 10:0310:03, 11 December 2023 diff hist +12 They are cheating processes in the sense that the basic principle is for economic development, and if it is simply for solving the problem of bread, it is not true religion as described by Srimad Bhagavatam No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 11 December 2023 diff hist +12 Rich men get the opportunity that they haven't got to think over much about the maintenance of the body and soul together. Ordinary men, they have to seek how to earn the bread. Problem of bread is there No edit summary current
- 10:0010:00, 11 December 2023 diff hist −9 If He (Krsna) can supply food to the elephants, why not to the human beings? The Bhagavatam therefore says, "Don't waste your time with this bread problem." - SB 1.5.18 No edit summary current
- 09:5909:59, 11 December 2023 diff hist +12 He thinks, "If I do not solve my bread problem, if I do not drive my trucks day and night, how can I live?" This is the nonsense of our modern civilization No edit summary current
- 09:5709:57, 11 December 2023 diff hist +12 He (the living entity) thinks that 'If I do not solve my bread problem, if I do not drive my trucks day and night'. 'Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.' Such a nonsense civilization No edit summary current
2 December 2023
- 18:3818:38, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 With great humility, Raghunatha dasa placed one hundred gold coins and about two tolas of gold before Raghava Pandita for all the other devotees No edit summary current
- 18:3818:38, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 The word balibhih (in SB 10.5.10) indicates that the women were carrying gold coins, jeweled necklaces, nice cloths, newly grown grass, sandalwood pulp, flower garlands and similar offerings on plates made of gold. Such offerings are called bali No edit summary current
- 18:3718:37, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 The palmist said, "This man Sanatana possesses eight gold coins." Hearing this, the landlord was very pleased and spoke the following to Sanatana Gosvami No edit summary
- 18:3718:37, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 The brahmanas were not only given well-fed cows in charity, but also gold, gold coins, bedding, clothing, animal-skin seats, blankets, horses, elephants, girls and sufficient land for maintenance No edit summary current
- 18:3518:35, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Thereupon, Sanatana Gosvami took the seven gold coins in his hands and went to the landlord. Holding the gold coins before him, he spoke as follows No edit summary
- 18:3418:34, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Srikanta had 300,000 gold coins with him, which had been given to him by the emperor for the purchase of horses. Thus Srikanta was buying horses and dispatching them to the emperor No edit summary current
- 18:3418:34, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Smiling, the landlord said, "Before you offered them, I already knew that there were eight gold coins in your servant's possession" No edit summary current
- 18:3218:32, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Sanatana was suspicious of his (hotelkeeper's) behavior, and he inquired from his servant Isana whether he had money, and Isana told him that he had seven gold coins No edit summary
- 18:3118:31, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Sanatana at once took the gold coins and offered them to the hotelkeeper. He then requested that the hotelkeeper help him through the jungle No edit summary
- 18:2918:29, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Sanatana asked his servant, "Isana, I think you have some valuable things with you." Isana replied, "Yes, I have seven gold coins" No edit summary
- 18:2718:27, 2 December 2023 diff hist −12 One second of human life wasted in the vain research of planning for happiness in the material world can never be replaced, even if one spends millions of coins of gold No edit summary current
- 18:2618:26, 2 December 2023 diff hist +6 My Guru Maharaja used to say the present human society is combination of cheaters and cheated, that's all. No intelligent person. Formerly money was gold and silver coins. It had some value. But what is the present currency? Simply piece of paper No edit summary current
- 18:2418:24, 2 December 2023 diff hist +6 Many other riches, including gold and silver coins, were also presented to the child No edit summary
- 18:2418:24, 2 December 2023 diff hist −12 I have these seven gold coins with me. Please accept them, and from a religious point of view please get me across that hilly tract of land No edit summary current
- 18:2318:23, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 I am very satisfied with your behavior. I shall not accept these gold coins, but I shall get you across that hilly tract of land simply to perform a pious activity No edit summary current
- 18:2218:22, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 It is said, "Bad money drives away good money.'' If you put bad money, just like nowadays the currency is some paper, paper currency, so drives away good money. Good money means gold coins. They are not to be seen. That's economic law No edit summary current
- 18:2018:20, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 It is described in the Caitanya-caritamrta that his accumulated savings in gold coins equaled millions of dollars and filled a large boat No edit summary current
- 18:1918:19, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 In Patada, Sanatana Gosvami rested in a hotel, but the hotelkeeper was informed by an astrologer employed there that Sanatana Gosvami had some gold coins with him. The hotelkeeper, desiring to get the money, spoke to Sanatana with seeming respect No edit summary
- 18:1818:18, 2 December 2023 diff hist +5 In our childhood, we have seen gold mohor, guinea. They were used in practical use. And silver coins, gold coins, we saw. But now it is, everything, paper. So we are so advanced that there is no more gold and silver No edit summary current
- 18:1718:17, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Indeed, the silver and gold coins he (Rupa Gosvami) brought back filled a large boat. After arriving home, he divided the accumulated wealth first in twain and distributed one part to the brahmanas and Vaisnavas No edit summary
- 18:1618:16, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 If you put bad money, just like nowadays the currency is some papers, paper currency, so drives away good money. Good money means gold coins. They are not to be seen. That is economic law: as soon as you put bad money, the good money will vanish No edit summary current
- 18:1518:15, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Here are five thousand gold coins. Please accept them. By releasing me, you will receive the results of pious activities and gain material profit as well. Thus you will profit in two ways simultaneously No edit summary current
- 18:1418:14, 2 December 2023 diff hist −12 Gresham's theory: "Bad money drives away good money." As soon as there is bad money, this paper currency, the coin, gold coins and silver coins, they are finished, they are no more No edit summary current
- 18:1218:12, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Betting was with gold coins, and Balarama first of all challenged with one hundred coins, then one thousand coins, then ten thousand coins. Each time, Balarama lost, and Rukmi was victorious No edit summary current
- 18:1118:11, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 Bad money drives away good money. Instead of paper currency, actual gold coins should be used for exchange, and this will stop prostitution of gold No edit summary current
- 18:1018:10, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 After crossing the hills, Sanatana Gosvami told his servant, "Isana, I think you still have some balance left from the gold coins" No edit summary current
- 18:0118:01, 2 December 2023 diff hist −13 After consulting with Raghava Pandita, he secretly delivered one hundred gold coins and about seven tolas of gold into the hand of Nityananda Prabhu's treasurer No edit summary current
19 November 2023
- 14:4314:43, 19 November 2023 diff hist +5 Why should Arjuna be afraid of or aggrieved at the death of his relatives since he was discharging his proper duty? He did not deserve to break the law, thereby becoming subjected to the reactions of sinful acts, of which he was so afraid. BG 1972 pur No edit summary
- 14:3814:38, 19 November 2023 diff hist +5 The society must be divided - brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra - and they must execute their proper duty. In this way there will be nice management No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 19 November 2023 diff hist +5 Lord Krsna said, "We belong to the vaisya community, and our proper duty is to farm, to trade with the agricultural produce, to protect cows or to take to banking" No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 19 November 2023 diff hist +5 Lord Krsna said, "The proper prescribed duty of the brahmanas is the study of the Vedas; the proper duty of the royal order, and the ksatriyas, is engagement in protecting the citizens" No edit summary current
- 14:2914:29, 19 November 2023 diff hist +5 Lord Krsna said, "The proper duty of the vaisya community is agriculture, trade and protection of the cows; and the proper duty of the sudras is service to the higher classes, namely the brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas" No edit summary current
- 14:2414:24, 19 November 2023 diff hist −13 In Krsna reside (20) the discharge of proper duty, (21) complete independence, (22) dexterity, (23) fullness of all beauty, (24) serenity, (25) kindheartedness, (26) ingenuity, (27) gentility, (28) magnanimity (29) determination No edit summary current
- 14:2214:22, 19 November 2023 diff hist +5 Brahmaji's duty is just to wake the living entities from their slumber and to engage them in their proper duty No edit summary current
- 13:5213:52, 19 November 2023 diff hist +13 I know you are a sincere devotee of Krishna and He will give you proper intelligence how to prosecute your present activities. I can simply pray to Krishna that He may bless you with all energy for serving Him No edit summary current
- 13:4813:48, 19 November 2023 diff hist +13 One who is not fixed in proper intelligence discovers many modes of life. Thus involved in material activities, he is exposed to the different modes of material nature and subjected to varieties of so-called happiness and distress No edit summary current
- 13:4513:45, 19 November 2023 diff hist +8 Proper conviction and intelligence No edit summary current
- 13:3113:31, 19 November 2023 diff hist +13 The Lord, being the Lord of intelligence in everyone (even in the nondevotee), favors His devotee with proper intelligence so that automatically the pure devotee is enlightened with the factual truth about the Lord and His different energies No edit summary current
- 13:3013:30, 19 November 2023 diff hist −12 The mercantile class is required to give protection to the cows in order to get sufficient milk and milk products, which alone can give the proper health and intelligence to maintain a civilization perfectly meant for knowledge of the ultimate truth No edit summary current
18 November 2023
- 10:0210:02, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 When the Lord's two nostrils separately manifested themselves, the dual Asvini-kumaras entered them in their proper positions, and because of this the living entities can smell the aromas of everything No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 When bulls are yoked together and tied to a central post to thresh rice, they tread around that pivot without deviating from their proper positions - one bull being closest to the post, another in the middle, and a third on the outside No edit summary current
- 10:0010:00, 18 November 2023 diff hist −12 We will not be happy by following either of these paths (bhoga or tyaga) because it is not our proper position to either enjoy or renounce No edit summary current
- 09:5909:59, 18 November 2023 diff hist −12 Two kinds of life, animal life and human life but if they do not take to the proper position of human life, cultivation of knowledge and religion, then they are animals so gradually they will decline to animal life No edit summary current
- 09:5809:58, 18 November 2023 diff hist +7 The living entity in the marginal position identifies himself with material energy and thereby becomes subjected to the threefold miseries. Only when he is free from such material contamination can he be situated in his proper position No edit summary current
- 09:5609:56, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 Taking the proper position from which to describe the dynasty of Manu, Sukadeva Gosvami begins by saying that when the entire world is inundated, only the Supreme Personality of Godhead exists, and nothing else No edit summary current
- 09:5509:55, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 Srila Rupa Gosvami had been delayed in Bengal for a year because he was dividing his money among his relatives to situate them in their proper positions No edit summary
- 09:4909:49, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 In the beginning of creation Brahma created the Manus, along with the ritualistic sacrificial method, and blessed them: Continue these sacrificial rites, and you will be gradually elevated to your proper position of self-realization No edit summary
- 09:4709:47, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 If this finger is cut off from my body, if you trample down with your feet this finger, I don't care for it. Similarly, to help oneself means to put oneself in the proper position, as part and parcel of Krsna. That is real helping No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 If one's mind is distorted, then the indriyas cannot work. That is madman. You try to cure the mental disease just to bring him in proper position to control the senses. Otherwise, he does not know how to control the senses No edit summary current
- 09:4309:43, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 Brahmanas are supposed to be the head of the social body; if the head is clear and has not gone mad, then everything is in proper position No edit summary
- 09:3709:37, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 Both sides are there in your country, bhoga and tyaga. But in neither of the paths you'll be happy, because that is not your proper position. You cannot enjoy or you cannot renounce. Actually the whole thing belongs to Krsna No edit summary current
- 09:2309:23, 18 November 2023 diff hist +12 To propagate the devotional service of Krsna consciousness, it requires the fit person. Not that one can imitate. It is not possible. One who is fit to take this responsibility, he receives proper instruction and help from higher authorities No edit summary current
- 09:2209:22, 18 November 2023 diff hist +12 Those who are innocent but simply carried away by bad association should be shown favor if they are eager to receive proper instructions from pure devotees No edit summary current
- 09:2109:21, 18 November 2023 diff hist −13 The demigods' heads, thighs & arms & the other parts of their bodies were injured by the sharp arrows of the demons. The demigods, headed by Indra, saw no other course than to immediately approach Brahma with bowed heads for shelter & proper instruction No edit summary current
- 09:2009:20, 18 November 2023 diff hist +12 Our only business is to spread Krishna Consciousness to the best of our possibility, and Krishna has given us discrimination and judgment. So, Krishna is within you, you chant and ask Him, Krishna and He will give you proper instruction No edit summary current
- 09:1909:19, 18 November 2023 diff hist +12 One can fulfill the ultimate goal of life only by engaging in devotional service to the Lord. Then the Lord will give one proper instructions on how to go back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 09:1409:14, 18 November 2023 diff hist +12 By the grace of a spiritual master like Maitreya, one gets the proper instruction and advances in his spiritual life No edit summary current
17 November 2023
- 11:0511:05, 17 November 2023 diff hist +10 When the soul is out of the body, the body is called dead. The soul is said to be lost when there is no proper knowledge exhibited No edit summary current
- 10:5810:58, 17 November 2023 diff hist −13 The Lord continued: One who is not in proper knowledge thinks that demigods like Brahma and Siva are independent, or he even thinks that the living entities are independent No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 17 November 2023 diff hist −12 The Krsna consciousness movement has been started to give philosophers, scientists, and people in general the proper knowledge about the destiny of life. Everyone should take advantage of this movement and learn the real goal of life No edit summary current
- 10:5010:50, 17 November 2023 diff hist −12 The argument that unless one has proper knowledge one cannot be freed from material miseries is undoubtedly true. But because the lotus feet of the Lord are full of transcendental knowledge, acceptance of His lotus feet completes that necessity No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 17 November 2023 diff hist +10 Only when one has attained proper knowledge can he actually be liberated. The stage of liberation is also called the brahma-bhutah stage No edit summary current
- 10:4110:41, 17 November 2023 diff hist +10 My first business is to give the devotees the proper knowledge and engage them in devotional service, so that is not very difficult task for you, I have given you everything, so read and speak from the books and so many new lights will come out No edit summary current
- 10:4010:40, 17 November 2023 diff hist −13 Manifestations of the internal potency are the reality, of which the material shadow is only a temporary representation from which everyone with proper knowledge must be detached No edit summary current
- 10:3810:38, 17 November 2023 diff hist +10 Lord Krsna said, "A human being who takes advantage of these spiritual masters and, receiving proper knowledge from them, crosses the ocean of material existence is to be understood as having properly utilized his human form of life" No edit summary current
- 10:3710:37, 17 November 2023 diff hist +10 It is stated that Vidura heard from Maitreya Rsi, and that Maitreya Rsi was very pleased. Unless one satisfies his guru, one cannot receive proper knowledge. That is quite natural No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 17 November 2023 diff hist +10 If one writes poetry without proper knowledge, there is every possibility that the mellows will overlap. When this occurs, no learned or advanced Vaisnava will like to hear it No edit summary current
- 10:3310:33, 17 November 2023 diff hist −1 If he (the individual soul) thinks that although under ignorance he is not conscious that his hands and legs are diffused all over, but when he attains to proper knowledge he will come to that stage, his thinking is contradictory. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:3210:32, 17 November 2023 diff hist −12 If he (the individual soul) thinks that although under ignorance he is not conscious that his hands and legs are diffused all over, but when he attains to proper knowledge he will come to that stage, his thinking is contradictory. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 10:3110:31, 17 November 2023 diff hist +10 Everything is given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore everything is spiritual, but those who are not advanced in proper knowledge make distinctions because of the interactions of the three modes of material nature No edit summary current
- 10:2910:29, 17 November 2023 diff hist −13 By proper knowledge received from the scriptures in disciplic succession and by proper application of that knowledge, one can free himself from this binding combination of matter and spirit No edit summary current
31 October 2023
- 16:0416:04, 31 October 2023 diff hist +2 A sincere student aurally receives the holy name from the spiritual master, and after being initiated he follows the regulative principles. When the holy name is properly served in this way, automatically the spiritual nature of the holy name spreads No edit summary current
- 15:2615:26, 31 October 2023 diff hist +8 When one is forced to act in a way which is forbidden, or to refrain from acting in a way which is proper, he becomes regretful and thinks himself dishonored. At that time there is a sense of disappointment No edit summary current
- 15:1915:19, 31 October 2023 diff hist −13 This is the proper way to ask for knowledge. One does not approach the spiritual master with a challenging spirit. One should also be inquisitive to understand the spiritual science. It is not that one considers himself superior to the guru No edit summary
- 15:1915:19, 31 October 2023 diff hist +4 This is not the proper way to discharge devotional service (desiring some material benefit in exchange for service). Out of ignorance, of course, sometimes a devotee does so, but Dhruva Maharaja regrets his personal behavior in this connection No edit summary current
- 15:1815:18, 31 October 2023 diff hist −13 The Vedic scriptures are different in that they can direct the individual in the proper way to love God. Other scriptures do not give information on how one can love God, nor do they actually define or describe what or who the Godhead actually is No edit summary current
- 15:1715:17, 31 October 2023 diff hist −13 The Vedic scriptures are different in that they can direct the individual in the proper way to love God. Other scriptures do not give information on how one can love God, nor do they actually define or describe what or who Godhead actually is - CC Intro No edit summary current
- 15:1615:16, 31 October 2023 diff hist −13 The Vaisnavas actually hear Vedanta-sutra, because they do not interpret it. When Krsna says, "I am the Supreme," the Vaisnavas accept it, and that is the proper way of hearing No edit summary current
- 15:1515:15, 31 October 2023 diff hist −13 The sankhya-yoga propounded herein is actually bhakti. It is stated here that the proper way to receive this knowledge is by disciplic succession, not by philosophical speculation No edit summary current
- 15:1315:13, 31 October 2023 diff hist −13 The proper way of reclaiming all the fallen souls: by Krsna consciousness movement. Krsna says, mam hi partha vyapasritya. One has to be educated to take shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna. Mam hi partha vyapasritya No edit summary current