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30 September 2022
- 12:4112:41, 30 September 2022 diff hist +11,726 Relish Bhagavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Sri Sukadeva. Therefore this fruit has become more tasteful, although its nectarean juice was already relishable for all, including liberated souls No edit summary
- 12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +11,841 O expert and thoughtful men, relish Srimad-Bhagavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Sri Sukadeva Gosvami No edit summary current
- 12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,407 In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism. And one who has achieved this enjoys the self within himself in due course of time. BG 4.38 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,383 In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism No edit summary current
- 12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,183 In the Vedas and Upanisads there are only indirect hints to all this. Nothing is directly explained there, and therefore Srimad-Bhagavatam is the mature fruit of all the Vedic trees of literatures No edit summary current
- 12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,334 Ignorance is the cause of our bondage, and knowledge is the cause of our liberation. This knowledge is the mature fruit of devotional service. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 12:3912:39, 30 September 2022 diff hist +5,179 As explained in the beginning of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, it is the mature fruit of Vedic knowledge and is superior subject matter, above the three kandas, namely karma, jnana and upasana No edit summary
- 12:3912:39, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,767 Actually, the explanation of this mantra and of practically all the mantras of the Vedic hymns is summarized in the Vedanta-sutra and properly explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srimad-Bhagavatam is the mature fruit of the Vedic tree of wisdom No edit summary
- 12:3512:35, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,574 Rascals take shelter of man-made scriptures and try to compete with Lord Krsna. That is the greatest difficulty one encounters when trying to promote spiritual consciousness in human society No edit summary current
- 12:3512:35, 30 September 2022 diff hist −13 If somehow or other one is promoted to that stage of KC, what is the result? "Upon gaining this, he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty." - Bg. 6.22 No edit summary current
- 12:3512:35, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,617 Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. BG 6.20-23 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,272 Being situated in such a position (trance, or samadhi), one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 30 September 2022 diff hist +27,020 Being situated in such a position (boundless transcendental happiness), one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact - Bg. 6.20-23 No edit summary current
- 12:2512:25, 30 September 2022 diff hist −13 The Krsna consciousness movement introduced by Lord Caitanya is extremely important because one who takes to it becomes eternal, being freed from birth, death and old age No edit summary
- 12:2512:25, 30 September 2022 diff hist +9,169 Our New York city temple is an extremely important center and the standard of purity in Krsna Consciousness must be maintained there by all means No edit summary current
- 12:2412:24, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,338 In our movement, the guru-kula plays an extremely important part in our activities because right from childhood the boys at the guru-kula are instructed about Krsna consciousness. Thus they become steady within the cores of their hearts No edit summary current
- 12:2412:24, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,970 Hundreds and thousands of animals are killed in slaughterhouses, and no one cares about them, but the killing of even one human being is taken very seriously. Why? Because the human form of body is extremely important in executing the mission of life No edit summary current
- 12:1112:11, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,525 The Raksasas act independently, as they like, going even so far as to kidnap the goddess of fortune. This policy of Ravana's is extremely dangerous for the materialist; indeed, it brings ruin to the materialistic civilization No edit summary current
- 12:1112:11, 30 September 2022 diff hist −13 There are many kinds of offenses, but the offense known as nama-aparadha, an offense at the lotus feet of the holy name, is extremely dangerous. The Lord (Caitanya) therefore warned everyone not to see the face of the offender No edit summary current
- 12:1012:10, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,672 Mayavada philosophy is extremely dangerous, especially for a devotee. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has therefore strictly forbidden us to associate with Mayavadi philosophers No edit summary current
- 12:1012:10, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,642 Householder life in this Kali-yuga is extremely dangerous unless both the wife and husband take to Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 12:1012:10, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,727 Durvasa Muni was a very learned brahmana equipped with mystic power, but because he was not a gentleman, he did not know how to use his power. He was therefore extremely dangerous No edit summary current
- 12:0912:09, 30 September 2022 diff hist +1,931 A civilization that has become godless because of material advancement in opulence is extremely dangerous No edit summary current
- 12:0612:06, 30 September 2022 diff hist +5,955 That foolish person is killed just like this monkey. The monkey's business was not to imitate the sawman, but he wanted to imitate. The result was that he was killed. So that is not expertness No edit summary current
- 12:0512:05, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,692 Sometimes by carrying one another on the shoulders, and sometimes by exhibiting their expertness at whirling logs No edit summary current
- 12:0512:05, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,576 It requires some expert brain, how to play gamble. So that expertness, that part of expert endeavor, is Krsna No edit summary current
- 12:0412:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6,588 Expertness is you just try to do which is easily performed by you. You don't accept anything heavy task because Krsna does not want that you have to do this heavy task. Whatever you know, you just apply it. You dovetail it in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 12:0012:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +5,519 Yamunacarya said: Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste No edit summary current
- 12:0012:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,479 Sri Yamunacarya, a great devotee in KC, said: Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste. BG 1972 p No edit summary
- 11:5911:59, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,800 Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste - Yamunacarya No edit summary current
- 11:5911:59, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,929 In reference to the low-grade happiness of sex life, Yamunacarya says: "Since I have been engaged in the loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste" No edit summary current
- 11:5911:59, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,268 Because Vidura was one of the descendants of that family, naturally he engaged in spreading wide the ever-new glories of the Lord. Maitreya felt happy to have such glorious company as Vidura No edit summary current
- 11:5011:50, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,968 Perfection is attained when one hears the pastimes and activities of the Lord from a bona fide source No edit summary current
- 11:5011:50, 30 September 2022 diff hist +30 If you try to understand Krsna as far as possible through the reliable sources, through the bona fide sources, then your Vedic study is going on in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 11:4311:43, 30 September 2022 diff hist −12 The yogis, those who are real yogis, not bogus yogis, real yogi, they wants to meditate upon the Supersoul No edit summary current
- 11:4311:43, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,822 They (bogus yogis) have got some nasty ideas, they manufacture different types of religion. Religion is one. That is eternal. God is one. That is eternal. Take anything, like gold. Gold is gold, always gold No edit summary current
- 11:4311:43, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6,536 Material enjoyment, as encouraged by bogus yogis, has nothing to do with the transcendental realization of spiritual happiness No edit summary current
- 11:4211:42, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,354 Bogus Yogis they are cheating the public, but at the same time your countrymen also want to be cheated. They are cheating the public by words of extravagancy, saying that anyone can meditate even he is a drunkard No edit summary current
- 11:3811:38, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,049 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "The gopis entered the arena of the rasa dance in ecstasy, but after hearing Krsna's words of negligence and detachment, they understood that He was going to renounce them. Thus they began to chastise Him in anger" No edit summary current
- 11:0411:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +1,954 Lord Krsna, the enemy of Kamsa, took Srimati Radharani within His heart, for He desired to dance with Her. Thus He left the arena of the rasa dance and the company of all the other beautiful damsels of Vraja No edit summary current
- 11:0411:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +1,542 Here in the arena of the rasa dance, I remember Krsna, who is always fond of joking and performing pastimes No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,549 Your son will be the head of all the perfected souls. He will be approved by the acaryas expert in disseminating real knowledge, and among the people He will be celebrated by the name Kapila. As the son of Devahuti, He will increase your fame No edit summary
- 10:1710:17, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,980 When there is a scarcity of grain, the government should follow the methods prescribed in the sastra and approved by the acaryas; thus there will be a sufficient production of grains, and food scarcity and famine can be checked No edit summary current
- 10:1710:17, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,915 There are professional Bhagavata reciters who abruptly go to the rasa-lila chapters of SB, as if other portions of SB were useless. This kind of discrimination & abrupt adoption of the rasa-lila pastimes of the Lord is not approved by the acaryas No edit summary
- 10:1710:17, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,278 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu warned all His followers not to become independent or impudent. Unfortunately, after the disappearance of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, many apa-sampradayas (so-called followers) invented many ways not approved by the acaryas No edit summary current
- 07:0407:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6,338 Yudhisthira said, "This does not mean that You (Krsna) are partial to the Krsna conscious person and indifferent to the non-Krsna conscious person. You are equal to everyone; that is Your declaration" No edit summary current
- 07:0307:03, 30 September 2022 diff hist +23 When we speak of non-Krsna, or desire which has no connection with Krsna, this does not mean that anything exists without Krsna. Actually there cannot be anything "non-Krsna" because everything is a product of the energy of Krsna No edit summary current
- 07:0307:03, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,837 When we speak of desires not connected with Krsna, or "non-Krsna," this does not mean that anything exists without Krsna. Actually there cannot be anything non-Krsna because everything is a product of the energy of Krsna No edit summary current
- 07:0307:03, 30 September 2022 diff hist +46,881 When consciousness is purely centered on Krsna (Krsna consciousness), it is pure, and when consciousness is centered on something other than Krsna, or when it is directed to sense gratification, it may be called non-Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 07:0207:02, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,020 The mystery of this knowledge (In a sense, there is nothing but Sri Krsna, and yet nothing is Sri Krsna save & except His primeval personality) culminates in personal attachment to the Lord, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything - non-Krsna No edit summary current
- 07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,173 The idea is that they (demoniac human beings) do not know how to expend their energy for right causes, being unaware of the benefit of Krsna consciousness. Actually, there are two classes of men - one is Krsna conscious, the other is non-Krsna conscious No edit summary current
- 07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,138 There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (8) fraternizing with the Lord, and (9) sacrificing everything for Him No edit summary current
- 07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,132 There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (5) worshiping, (6) praying, (7) assisting No edit summary current
- 07:0007:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,268 There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (1) hearing, (2) chanting, (3) remembering, (4) serving the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:0007:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +46,906 It is in the polluted state that the conception of non-Krsna comes. In the pure state, however, there is nothing but Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
28 September 2022
- 15:4115:41, 28 September 2022 diff hist +1,797 When the great personality Prahlada Maharaja saw that the Supreme Lord was sitting there, surrounded and worshiped by His intimate associates like Sunanda, he was overwhelmed with tears of jubilation No edit summary
- 15:4115:41, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,894 The ruler Bhadrasrava and his intimate associates utter the following prayer: We offer our respectful obeisances unto the SPG, the reservoir of all religious principles, who cleanses the heart of the conditioned soul in this material world No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +5,925 The events of the rest (after twenty-four years) of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's forty-eight years were recorded in the diary of Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, another (like Murari Gupta) of His intimate associates No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +6,213 These intimate associates (Sri Ramananda Raya and Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami) of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu helped the Lord very much in the pastimes in which He felt like Radharani No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,072 Before His personal appearance, the Lord causes some of His devotees to appear as His mother, father and intimate associates. He then appears later as if He were taking birth and growing from a baby to a child and gradually into a youth No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,444 Without intelligence one cannot understand the direct activities of the senses, nor can he understand dreaming or the cessation of all gross and subtle activities No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,571 Without intelligence, nobody can understand Krsna philosophy. Dull-headed, poor fund of knowledge, they cannot understand Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,896 The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without intelligence? No edit summary current
- 11:2811:28, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,031 The potent words of such realized souls (saints and sages) penetrate the heart, thereby eradicating all misgivings accumulated through years of undesirable association No edit summary current
- 11:2711:27, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,240 The first degradation is undesirable association, the first degradation; then no more respect for scriptural injunction, second degradation No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +11,820 It so happens sometimes that one surrenders himself unto the service of the Lord by some temporary sentiment, and in the long run, due to so many other reasons, he falls down from the path of service by undesirable association No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +9,647 By self-control one can be free from false hopes, and money can be saved by avoiding undesirable association No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,765 Association with a devotee, the mercy of Krsna, and the nature of devotional service help one to give up all undesirable association and gradually attain elevation to the platform of love of Godhead No edit summary
- 11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,756 An intelligent man should give up such undesirable association and should always mix with saintly persons. When he is in association with saintly persons, all his doubts about the spiritual expansion of life are eradicated No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,089 To insult a chaste woman means to bring about disaster in the duration of life. Duhsasana, a brother of Duryodhana, insulted Draupadi, an ideal chaste lady, and therefore the miscreants died untimely No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,086 Gandhari was an ideal chaste lady, a life companion of her husband, and therefore when she saw her husband burning in the fire of mystic yoga along with his cottage of leaves, she despaired No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +12,595 Gandhari: The ideal chaste lady in the history of the world. She was the daughter of Maharaja Subala, the King of Gandhara (now Kandahar in Kabul), and in her maiden state she worshiped Lord Siva No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +21,672 Krsna says, "Yes, it (heat) is My energy." So my knowledge is perfect. Because I take the version of the greatest scientist, I am the greatest scientist No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +9 I may be a fool personally, but because I take knowledge from the greatest scientist (Krsna), I am the greatest scientist. I have no difficulty No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,238 I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person. BG 15.18 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 11:1611:16, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,585 Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person No edit summary current
- 11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist −15 We have prescribed in our Society that all our students must chant at least sixteen rounds daily. Such chanting must be offenseless in order to be of high quality No edit summary current
- 11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,431 I am always pleased and looking forward to seeing more beautiful pictures in our books. In India we make life members simply from the high quality and appearance of our books with illustrations. Our society is unrivalled in this respect No edit summary current
- 11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,241 In India we make life members simply from the high quality and appearance of our books with illustrations. Our society is unrivalled in this respect and this is your credit who are working so selflessly to illustrate my books No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 28 September 2022 diff hist +7,609 High quality devotee No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,867 Because the queens accepted the high quality of devotional service, namely administering the Lord all comforts, the Lord played the part of a faithful and complete husband No edit summary current
- 11:0711:07, 28 September 2022 diff hist −13 A devotee acts completely under the direction of the Supreme Lord. Thus his actions may not appear to be of a very high quality to the common man, but the devotee has no responsibility No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 28 September 2022 diff hist −13 The social construction of the world has changed so much that there is no possibility of one's practicing celibacy from the beginning of student life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 09:0509:05, 28 September 2022 diff hist +6,306 The complete social construction is the body of the Lord, and all the parts of the body, namely the brahmanas, the ksatriyas, the vaisyas and the sudras, are meant to serve the Lord's whole body conjointly No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 28 September 2022 diff hist +5,985 Indirectly it is said that the whole Vedic social construction of human society is so made that everyone acts as a part and parcel of the complete body of the Lord No edit summary current
- 06:2906:29, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,989 The blue lotuses are friends of the sun-god, and though they all live together, the blue lotuses plunder the cakravakas. The red lotuses, however, blossom at night and are therefore strangers or enemies to the cakravakas No edit summary
- 06:2706:27, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,348 This saffron cloth is unfit for a Vaisnava to wear; therefore I (Sanatana Gosvami) have no use for it. I shall give it to a stranger No edit summary
26 September 2022
- 12:5512:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,767 Without understanding the intricacies of Krsna, the SP of God, and without knowing His uncommon spiritual opulences, the innocent cowherd boys & men of Vrndavana began to discuss the wonderful activities of Krsna, which surpass the activities of all men No edit summary current
- 12:5412:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,836 Whereas Krsna, the Absolute Truth, the SPG, is full of transcendental bliss, possesses all six spiritual opulences in full, and is the master of the material energy, the small conditioned soul, who is always unhappy, is the servant of the material energy No edit summary
- 12:5412:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,824 What is the use of the material body, which automatically leaves its owner at the end of life? & what is the use of all one's family members, who are actually plunderers taking away money that is useful for the service of the Lord in spiritual opulence? No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,728 Krsna said to Uddhava, "Even if they are offered the four kinds of spiritual opulences, they will refuse to accept them. So what to speak of their desiring anything within the material world" No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,858 Everything about the Supreme Personality of Godhead is spiritual, including His body, opulence and paraphernalia. Mayavada philosophy, however, covering His spiritual opulence, advocates the theory of impersonalism No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,657 According to direct understanding, the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has all spiritual opulences. No one can be equal to or greater than Him No edit summary current
- 12:5112:51, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,934 Nondevotees, because of their meager knowledge and speculative habits, cannot understand the real nature of the Lord No edit summary current
- 12:5012:50, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,984 Impersonalists who depend upon the strength of their poor fund of knowledge and morbid speculative habits cannot penetrate to the mysterious region of transcendence where the Supreme Truth is a transcendental person No edit summary current
- 12:5012:50, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,185 For a neophyte devotee there are two kinds of persons whose association is undesirable: (2) unbelievers who do not serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead but serve their senses and their mental whims in terms of their speculative habits No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,134 As there are schools and colleges to train students to become chemical engineers, lawyers or specialists in many other departments of knowledge, there must be schools and colleges to train students to become brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,204 As there are schools & colleges to train students to become chemical engineers, lawyers or specialists in many other departments of knowledge, there must be schools and colleges to train students to become brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas & sannyasis No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 26 September 2022 diff hist +10,858 The conditioned soul is very proud of becoming the husband of even one wife, but the Lord laughs at this; the intelligent man can know who is the real husband. Factually, the Lord is the husband of all the women in His creation No edit summary current
- 10:1010:10, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,203 The chaste and very beautiful Sukanya could not distinguish her husband from the two Asvini-kumaras, for they were equally beautiful. Not understanding who her real husband was, she took shelter of the Asvini-kumaras No edit summary current