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4 July 2022
- 06:0006:00, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,371 In the BS it is stated, premanjanacchurita... One can see the SPG, Govinda, always within himself and outside himself if he has developed the transcendental loving attitude towards Him. Thus for people in general He is not visible. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 05:5905:59, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,075 How wonderful it is that simply by residing in Mathura even for one day, one can achieve a transcendental loving attitude toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead! This land of Mathura must be more glorious than Vaikuntha-dhama, the kingdom of God No edit summary current
- 05:5905:59, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,752 By intense ecstasy in loving service, the damsels of Vrajabhumi attained qualitative oneness with the Lord by dancing with Him on an equal level, embracing Him in nuptial love, smiling at Him in joke, and looking at Him with a loving attitude No edit summary current
- 05:5905:59, 4 July 2022 diff hist +7,529 Brahma said, "When You place Yourself as subordinate to Your father and mother, Nanda and Yasoda, You are not reduced in Your potency; this is an expression of Your loving attitude toward Your devotees. There is no second identity to compete with You" No edit summary
- 05:5905:59, 4 July 2022 diff hist +25,243 Attachment to Krsna is permanent. That permanent loving attitude is sometimes mixed with different kinds of taste, called vibhava, anubhava and vyabhicari No edit summary current
- 05:5805:58, 4 July 2022 diff hist +8,632 As stated in Brahma-samhita (BS 5.38): One can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, always, within oneself and outside oneself, if one has developed the transcendental loving attitude toward Him. Thus for people in general, He is not visible No edit summary
- 05:4305:43, 4 July 2022 diff hist +10,341 We have nothing to research. Everything is there. Simply we have to hear from a person who is dhira, who is not agitated by the six kinds of agitating agents. That is the process of Vedic knowledge No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 4 July 2022 diff hist +9 This is the process of receiving perfect knowledge - to accept the transcendental vibration coming down from higher sources. The entire stock of Vedic knowledge is a transcendental vibration to help us understand the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,613 The conditioned souls are forgetful souls in their relationship with the Lord, and thus a period of creation and the process of dissemination of Vedic knowledge are necessary activities of the Lord No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,606 That is the way of explaining the Vedic knowledge (it is disseminated by authorities like Sukadeva Gosvami), technically known as the parampara system, or descending process No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 4 July 2022 diff hist +7,484 Srimad-Bhagavatam is recognized Vedic wisdom, and the system of receiving Vedic knowledge is called avaroha-pantha, or the process of receiving transcendental knowledge through bona fide disciplic succession No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,308 Our process of knowledge, if there is Vedic evidence, that is perfect. You don't require to experiment. Experimental knowledge is never perfect No edit summary current
- 05:3805:38, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,512 In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly stated that the purpose of Vedic knowledge is to understand Krsna, and Krsna is understood by devotional service, beginning with the process of surrender No edit summary current
- 05:3705:37, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,217 In the Vedic process of knowledge the authority has been accepted as the perfect source of knowledge No edit summary current
- 05:3705:37, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,634 In the beginning, one becomes a brahmacari, a student who studies Vedic knowledge under the authoritative guidance of a spiritual master. He then becomes a householder and executes household duties according to the Vedic process No edit summary current
- 05:3605:36, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,067 As the decision of the supreme court of a state is final, similarly the judgment of Brahmaji, the supreme authority in the universe, is final in the Vedic process of acquiring knowledge No edit summary current
- 05:3605:36, 4 July 2022 diff hist +8,696 Ascending process is not recommended in the Vedic process of knowledge. Vedic way of receiving knowledge - by aural reception, by submissive aural reception from the spiritual master to the student. This is the way No edit summary current
2 July 2022
- 07:4407:44, 2 July 2022 diff hist +2,869 There are different degrees of ignorance however, and to come to the highest perfectional platform of knowledge is to surrender fully to the Lotus Feet of Krishna No edit summary current
- 07:4207:42, 2 July 2022 diff hist +13 The Mayavadi philosophers consider the highest goal of perfection to be liberation (mukti), which is the fourth perfectional platform No edit summary current
- 07:4107:41, 2 July 2022 diff hist +3,947 Explaining everything in grammar in relationship to Krsna, the Lord (Caitanya) induced His students to refrain from worldly education, for it is better to become Krsna conscious and in this way attain the highest perfectional platform of education No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 2 July 2022 diff hist +5,870 This modern civilization is most dangerous civilization, soul-killing civilization. The human being got the chance of understanding God, but they are being refused by the authorities to understand God No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 2 July 2022 diff hist +4,355 It is a very dangerous civilization. You cannot expect any peace and prosperity in this type of civilization. Therefore this Krsna consciousness movement is very, very essential No edit summary current
- 07:2307:23, 2 July 2022 diff hist +38,602 This eternal truth, the indestructible spirit, does exist as the living entity in each and every body. He is very minute and is finer than the finest atom No edit summary current
- 07:2307:23, 2 July 2022 diff hist +6,761 The word ca is significant, for it indicates the total number of bodies. That is the opinion of Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana: Krsna is the Supersoul present in each and every body apart from the individual soul. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:2207:22, 2 July 2022 diff hist +5,146 The theory of reflection can be applied to the Supersoul who is present in each and every individual body and is known as the Paramatma, who is different from the individual living entity. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 07:2207:22, 2 July 2022 diff hist +3,976 The similarity in the quality of the soul and the Supersoul does not make them equal in quantity, for the individual soul is present only in that particular body, whereas the Paramatma is present in each and every body. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:2207:22, 2 July 2022 diff hist +28,100 The purusa, the enjoyer, is inactive and without material qualities, although at the same time He is the master, existing separately in each and every body as the emblem of knowledge No edit summary current
- 07:2107:21, 2 July 2022 diff hist +4,562 The individual person is the proprietor or master of his own body but that Krsna, who is the Supersoul present in everyone's heart, is the supreme proprietor and supreme master of each and every individual body No edit summary
- 07:2107:21, 2 July 2022 diff hist +4,522 The first purusa incarnation of Govinda, Lord Krsna, known as the Maha-visnu, goes into a yoga-nidra mystic sleep, and the innumerable universes are situated in potency in each and every hair hole of His transcendental body No edit summary current
- 07:2007:20, 2 July 2022 diff hist +7,331 The big sky is the body itself, and the intestines and other parts of the body occupy the small sky. Each and every part of the body has individuality, even though occupying a small part of the total body No edit summary current
- 07:2007:20, 2 July 2022 diff hist +6,619 Sanat-kumara advised the King: Therefore, my dear King Prthu, try to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is living within everyone's heart along with the individual soul, in each and every body, either moving or not moving No edit summary current
- 07:2007:20, 2 July 2022 diff hist +5,958 It is further stated that with each and every part of His body He can do the work of the other senses. This means that the Lord can walk with His hands, accept things with His legs, see with His hands and feet, eat with His eyes, etc No edit summary current
- 07:1907:19, 2 July 2022 diff hist +5,457 In our own bodies we do not show any actual difference in our treatment towards the hands or legs. Each and every part of the body is important, although the mouth is the most important of the bodily parts No edit summary current
- 07:1907:19, 2 July 2022 diff hist +6,597 In each and every individual body, the fragmental portion of the Supreme Lord is present. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 07:1807:18, 2 July 2022 diff hist +1 Every body is the embodiment or the temple of the Supreme Lord, and as such, as one offers respect to the temple of the Lord, he should similarly properly respect each and every body in whom the Paramatma dwells. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:1807:18, 2 July 2022 diff hist +2,524 Each and every part of the body or senses has its particular function. After seeing the Lord, all the senses become fully awakened to render service unto the Lord because in the liberated state the senses are fully efficient in serving the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:1807:18, 2 July 2022 diff hist +4,087 Each and every part of His transcendental body can perform each and every function of the other parts No edit summary current
- 07:1707:17, 2 July 2022 diff hist +3,813 Each and every body means No edit summary current
- 07:1607:16, 2 July 2022 diff hist +5 A Krsna conscious person has full knowledge of this (the Paramatma is present in each and every body), and therefore he is truly learned and has equal vision. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
1 July 2022
- 14:3914:39, 1 July 2022 diff hist +4,497 One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who who is inconceivable, and who is always a person. He is luminous like the sun and, being transcendental, is beyond this material nature. BG 8.9 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 1 July 2022 diff hist +18 In the Svetasvatara Upanisad (3.8), the Supreme is described as aditya-varnam tamasah parastat, He whose self-manifest form is luminous like the sun and transcendental to the darkness of ignorance No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 1 July 2022 diff hist +35 He (Krsna) is luminous like the sun and, being transcendental, is beyond this material nature No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 1 July 2022 diff hist +4,153 The Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the source of light in all luminous objects like the sun, moon, stars, etc. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 1 July 2022 diff hist +7,054 The process of uncovering is like this: the rays of sunshine are luminous, and the sun itself is also luminous. In the presence of the sun, the rays illuminate just like the sun No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 1 July 2022 diff hist +46,572 The land (of Vrndavana) is made of touchstone and the water of nectar. In that land all speech is song, and all walking is dancing, and one's constant companion is the flute. Everything is self-luminous, just like the sun in this material world No edit summary current
- 14:1614:16, 1 July 2022 diff hist +5,117 Although they (tapasvis, yogis, jnanis and others who have a bodily concept of life) may sometimes be called santa-bhaktas, real bhakti begins with dasya-rasa No edit summary current
- 14:1514:15, 1 July 2022 diff hist +16,760 Bhakti is not official transaction. Bhakti means priti, real love. When I actually love Krsna, that is called priti No edit summary current
- 14:1414:14, 1 July 2022 diff hist +3,666 Bhakti is main thing, not your palatable dish. Visnu is quite competent to prepare thousand times better palatable dishes than you can offer. But the real thing is bhakti No edit summary current
- 14:1414:14, 1 July 2022 diff hist +7 Bhakti-yoga means anukulyena krsnanusilanam: (CC Madhya 19.167) one should serve Krsna very favorably. This is the real injunction No edit summary current
- 14:1414:14, 1 July 2022 diff hist +6,915 The real yoga system is to divert the mind towards God, to control the mind from material engagement and divert it to spiritual engagement, or bhakti-yoga No edit summary
- 14:1314:13, 1 July 2022 diff hist +3,651 The real fact is that bhakti can be applied only to Lord Visnu and His expansions No edit summary current
- 14:1214:12, 1 July 2022 diff hist +6,296 Real spiritual process is bhakti-yoga No edit summary current
- 14:1114:11, 1 July 2022 diff hist +3,631 Real sannyasa-yoga or bhakti means that one should know his constitutional position as the living entity, and act accordingly. The living entity has no separate independent identity. He is the marginal energy of the Supreme. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:1114:11, 1 July 2022 diff hist +2,484 Real ingredient is bhakti (devotion) No edit summary current
- 14:1014:10, 1 July 2022 diff hist +3,636 Real dharma means bhakti, or devotional service to the Lord. The Sudarsana cakra is here (in SB 9.5.6) addressed as dharma-setave, the protector of dharma No edit summary
- 14:1014:10, 1 July 2022 diff hist +6,659 Real devotees of bhakti-yoga accept only the material necessities of life absolutely needed to maintain the body and soul together; they refrain completely from all exaggerated material sense gratification No edit summary current
- 14:1014:10, 1 July 2022 diff hist +3,537 Real bhakti yoga No edit summary current
- 14:0914:09, 1 July 2022 diff hist +3,527 Real bhakti-yoga means No edit summary current
- 14:0814:08, 1 July 2022 diff hist +5,668 Priti-sandarbha, Bhagavata-sandarbha, six sandarbha, very highly philosophical books. Bhakti is not official transaction. Bhakti means priti, real love No edit summary current
- 14:0714:07, 1 July 2022 diff hist +5,858 One should not think that he is the proprietor, benefactor, friend or enjoyer. He should always be cognizant that the real enjoyer is Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; that is the basic principle of bhakti-yoga No edit summary current
- 14:0714:07, 1 July 2022 diff hist +29,612 Krsna has very many tasteful dishes in Vaikuntha. He is not hankering after your food. He accepts your devotion, bhakti. The real thing is devotion, not the food No edit summary current
- 14:0714:07, 1 July 2022 diff hist +6,944 If the real purpose of all yoga is to please Lord Krsna, then this simple bhakti-yoga system recommended for this age is sufficient. It is necessary to engage constantly in the service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 14:0614:06, 1 July 2022 diff hist +7 God confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.26) - "If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it." The real ingredient is bhakti (devotion). Pure devotion is uncontaminated by the modes of material nature No edit summary current
- 14:0614:06, 1 July 2022 diff hist +6,748 Everything is mixed up with little bhakti, but... Just like karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, there are different. But the real yoga means loving Vasudeva, Bhagavan No edit summary
- 14:0614:06, 1 July 2022 diff hist +13,407 Bhakti means when one has attained real jnanam. Without real jnanam, nobody can become bhakta. The foolish person says that bhakti's meant for ajnani, or less intelligent No edit summary current
- 14:0414:04, 1 July 2022 diff hist +25 Bhakti is realizing that one is pure spirit and not matter at all. Our real identity is not this body, which is simply a covering of the spirit, but our real identity is dasa, servant of Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:0314:03, 1 July 2022 diff hist +6,596 When you employ your senses in the service of the proprietor of the senses, that is called bhakti. That is called bhakti. So that is real yoga, bhakti-yoga. Otherwise artificially if you try, one or two may be successful but mostly they will fail No edit summary current
- 14:0314:03, 1 July 2022 diff hist +5,603 Vaidhi-bhakti, that is apprenticeship. Real bhakti, para-bhakti, that is raganuga-bhakti No edit summary current
- 14:0214:02, 1 July 2022 diff hist +6,820 When a pure devotee always fears material association, his real position of bhakti is manifested, and he naturally becomes uninterested in material enjoyment No edit summary current
24 June 2022
- 11:1111:11, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,653 If you want equality, fraternity, friendship, love and perfection, solution of problems, all problems, economic, political, social, religious, then come to Krsna consciousness. Come to this platform. Then all your ambitions will be fulfilled No edit summary current
- 11:0511:05, 24 June 2022 diff hist +3,170 You have accepted me as father, so I have also accepted you as my dear and real son. Relationship of father & son on spiritual platform is real and eternal, on the material platform such relationship is ephemeral and temporary No edit summary current
- 11:0311:03, 24 June 2022 diff hist +6,641 Jatila, the mother of Abhimanyu, immediately believed that Krsna was her own son and thus became very angry at her real son who was coming home. She began to drive away her real son, who was crying, "Mother! Mother! What are you doing?" No edit summary current
- 11:0211:02, 24 June 2022 diff hist +6,630 It is surprising that Vasudeva and Devaki did not enjoy the transcendental bliss of Krsna’s childhood pastimes, although Krsna was their real son No edit summary current
- 11:0211:02, 24 June 2022 diff hist +2,618 If a son is an obedient devotee of the Lord he is called putra, or a real son; otherwise, if he is not learned and is not a devotee, a son is nothing better than urine No edit summary current
- 10:5610:56, 24 June 2022 diff hist +11 When you preach you can say what you think. They are so-called Christians - but what are they doing for God No edit summary current
- 10:5510:55, 24 June 2022 diff hist +5,349 The so-called Christians and Mohammedans, they cannot understand. They (are) simply fanatics. Cannot understand what is soul, what is God. They have got some theories and they are thinking we are religionists No edit summary current
- 10:5010:50, 24 June 2022 diff hist +3,467 The Sankirtana devotees are very very dear to Krishna. Because you are doing the field work of book distribution, Krishna has immediately recognized them as true servants No edit summary current
- 10:3910:39, 24 June 2022 diff hist +16,034 Anyone whose work is not meant for elevating him to religious life, anyone whose religious ritualistic performances do not raise him to renunciation, must be considered dead, although he is breathing No edit summary current
23 June 2022
- 12:2812:28, 23 June 2022 diff hist +37 There are four stages within sannyasa life, and paramahamsa is the highest order. The Srimad-Bhagavatam is called the paramahamsa-samhita, the treatise for the highest class of human beings No edit summary current
- 12:2712:27, 23 June 2022 diff hist +4,114 In the sannyasa order also there are four stages of upliftment toward perfection. These stages are called kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajakacarya, and paramahamsa No edit summary current
- 12:1712:17, 23 June 2022 diff hist +31 We must remember always that the body is like a dress; therefore why lament the changing of a dress? The material body has no factual existence in relation to the eternal soul. It is something like a dream No edit summary current
- 12:1512:15, 23 June 2022 diff hist +5,504 The material body has no factual existence in relation to the eternal soul. It is something like a dream. In a dream we may think of flying in the sky or sitting on a chariot as a king No edit summary current
- 12:1412:14, 23 June 2022 diff hist +31 The impersonalist followers of Sankaracarya, as well as the Vaisnavas following in the disciplic succession from Lord Sri Krsna, acknowledge the factual existence of the soul, but the Buddhist philosophers do not No edit summary current
- 12:1212:12, 23 June 2022 diff hist +24,291 Factual existence No edit summary current
- 12:1112:11, 23 June 2022 diff hist +5,730 Although one may consider the reflection of the sun from a mirror to be false, it has its factual existence. Accordingly, to prove by speculative knowledge that there is no reality would be extremely difficult No edit summary current
- 12:0012:00, 23 June 2022 diff hist +38 What is a demigod? It is stated in the Vedic scriptures that those who are devotees of Lord Visnu are demigods. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:5911:59, 23 June 2022 diff hist +5,598 The Lord informs Brahma that knowledge of Him, the Supreme Absolute Truth, as it is stated in the revealed scriptures, is very subtle and cannot be understood unless one is self-realized by the grace of the Lord No edit summary current
- 11:5911:59, 23 June 2022 diff hist +6,988 There are five kinds of liberation stated in the scriptures. One is to become one with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or to forsake one's individuality and merge into the Supreme Spirit. This is called ekatmatam No edit summary current
- 11:5611:56, 23 June 2022 diff hist +24,416 Stated in the scriptures No edit summary current
- 11:5511:55, 23 June 2022 diff hist +4,722 Persons who have fallen, who have no hope for reaching the supreme destination, for them Lord Caitanya is the only hope. In this age, it is stated in authoritative scriptures, in this age the people are unfortunate No edit summary current
- 11:5311:53, 23 June 2022 diff hist +3,787 Maintaining one's family is certainly the duty of a householder, but one should be eager to earn his livelihood by the prescribed method, as stated in the scriptures No edit summary
- 11:4711:47, 23 June 2022 diff hist +6,778 Experienced munis, those who are liberated souls, those who are expert in Vedic knowledge, they understand that this is avatara, or incarnation, by the symptoms, as they are stated in the scriptures No edit summary current
- 11:4511:45, 23 June 2022 diff hist +4,437 As stated in the Vedic scriptures, the first-class process is to call the bridegroom to the home of the bride and hand her to him in charity with a dowry of necessary ornaments, gold, furniture and other household paraphernalia No edit summary current
- 11:2511:25, 23 June 2022 diff hist +5,663 There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of progressive material enjoyment, which is temporary, miserable and illusory, is inferior No edit summary current
- 11:2411:24, 23 June 2022 diff hist +28,884 The ambition for happiness is natural and good, but the attempt to derive it from inert matter by so-called scientific arrangements is an illusory attempt doomed to frustration. Those who are befooled cannot understand this No edit summary current
- 11:2211:22, 23 June 2022 diff hist +9 This (maya-sukhaya) creates problems after problems, and therefore it is maya-sukhaya, illusory happiness No edit summary current
22 June 2022
- 06:1406:14, 22 June 2022 diff hist +4,074 The conditioned souls hover in dreams of such heavenly illusory pleasures, but actually they do not relish any tangible happiness in such places No edit summary current
- 05:5805:58, 22 June 2022 diff hist +2,689 No one is happy here within the universe, and what is felt as happiness is maya's illusion. The illusory energy of the Lord is so strong that even the hog who lives on filthy stool feels happy No edit summary current
- 05:5505:55, 22 June 2022 diff hist +3,350 Most of the residents of these planets, who are known as Daityas, Danavas and Nagas, live as householders. Their wives, children, friends and society are all fully engaged in illusory, material happiness No edit summary
- 05:4705:47, 22 June 2022 diff hist +5,123 Independently means if we want to enjoy life according to my whims. That is called so-called independence. But by such independence, we are never happy, so we transmigrate for this so-called illusory happiness from one body to another No edit summary current