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2 September 2022

• 13:3613:36, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,794‎ The path of bhakti is not at all difficult if we follow in the footsteps of previous acaryas and authorities, but those who are too materially contaminated by the modes of material nature cannot follow them ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,340‎ The Vedic process is to follow in the footsteps of great authorities, and that is the only process for knowing that which is beyond our imagination ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,473‎ It is not a valid principle that an unqualified man who is born in a brahmana family is a brahmana whereas a brahminically qualified person born in a non-brahmana family cannot be accepted ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +7,310‎ According to the Caitanya-bhagavata, this statement (Acyutananda was a class friend of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) is not at all valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +15,148‎ The idea is that any man may be given the chance to become a brahmana, but if he improperly uses the position of a brahmana without actual realization, then his elevation to the brahminical position is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +13,248‎ The Buddhists argue that the world is false, but this is not valid. The world is temporary, but it is not false. As long as we have the body, we must suffer the pleasures and pains of the body, even though we are not the body ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4‎ They may take it as "new smrti," but smrti is smrti - it is not new. In any spiritual statement, you have to give references to sruti and smrti. Otherwise, it is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +12,486‎ There must be veda-pramana, sabda-pramana: evidence from the Vedas and from the explanatory Vedic literature. Otherwise, there is no evidence. Your statement is not valid: you cannot change the original sruti-smrti ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,701‎ Some propagandists say that regardless of what one does he will ultimately reach the supreme abode of the Personality of Godhead, but this is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,964‎ Since Brahma and the other creators are nothing but small portions of a portion of You, their partial power to create does not make them God (isvara). Their consciousness of themselves as separate Lords is therefore merely false prestige. It is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +7,920‎ Mistaking the rope for a snake does not mean that the rope or the snake is false, and therefore this example, used by the Mayavadis to illustrate the falsity of the material world, is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,622‎ It appears from the exchange of Daksa's head that the modern scientific theory that the brain substance is the cause of all intelligent work is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 2 September 2022 diff hist +6,096‎ The word avyakta, "unmanifested," in this verse indicates that the Absolute Truth cannot be manifested by any strain of so-called scientific advancement of knowledge. Transcendence is not the subject matter of direct experience ‎No edit summary
• 12:4612:46, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,581‎ Sensualists are never prepared for death. They simply want to live on and on and extend their life by so-called scientific advancement ‎No edit summary
• 12:3712:37, 2 September 2022 diff hist +6,808‎ By your so-called scientific advancement, you cannot increase or, I mean to say, stop nonproduction. That you cannot ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,852‎ We are not concerned with other religions or yogas in terms of competition or sectarian spirit. Actual spiritual knowledge is to take the authoritative statements from the scriptures and from the great acaryas, spiritual masters in disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1712:17, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,293‎ Sri Madhavendra Puri is one of the acaryas in the disciplic succession from Madhvacarya. Madhavendra Puri had two principal disciples, Isvara Puri and Sri Advaita Prabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 2 September 2022 diff hist +52,051‎ Sri Madhavendra Puri, also known as Sri Madhava Puri is one of the acaryas in the disciplic succession from Madhvacarya ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 2 September 2022 diff hist +7,859‎ Srila Madhavendra Puri was one of the acaryas in the Tattvavada disciplic succession, and he established the ultimate goal of transcendentalism to be attainment of pure devotional service, love of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 2 September 2022 diff hist +49‎ One of the acaryas, known as Narahari Tirtha, who was in the disciplic succession of Madhvacarya, received these Deities (of Sita-Rama which were in the palace of last king of the Pandavas, Ksemakanta) from the King of Orissa ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,133‎ I have not done anything personally, very wonderful. I am simply serving my spiritual master and all the acaryas in the disciplic succession. If I have done anything of credit it is that I have not changed their teachings ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,699‎ It is very difficult to understand the secret of Krsna consciousness, but one who advances by the instruction of the previous acaryas and follows in the footsteps of his predecessors in the line of disciplic succession will have success. Others will not ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 2 September 2022 diff hist +8,584‎ It is said acaryavan puruso veda: one who follows the disciplic succession of acaryas knows things as they are - Chandogya Upanisad 6.14.2 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 2 September 2022 diff hist +5,406‎ It is our movement only which strictly follows the principles of the Bhagavad-gita, under the guidance of the authorities or acaryas in disciplic succession from Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 2 September 2022 diff hist +41,487‎ In the disciplic succession of Gaudiya sampradaya, there are 2 great acaryas (Thakura Narottama & Syamananda Gosvami) who were not born in brahmana families but were accepted as spiritual masters by many brahmanas including Ganganarayana, Ramakrsna, etc ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,170‎ Doubtful persons have no status whatsoever in spiritual emancipation. One should therefore follow in the footsteps of great acaryas who are in the disciplic succession and thereby attain success. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 2 September 2022 diff hist +5,691‎ All the acaryas, they are not different from one another. Because they are coming in the disciplic succession from the original spiritual master and they have no different views, therefore, although they are many, they are one ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 2 September 2022 diff hist +9,397‎ Acaryas in the disciplic succession of Lord Caitanya teach us that we shall try to place the message of Lord Caitanya very humbly to the people in general and that will make us successful in our service to the Lord ‎No edit summary

27 August 2022

• 15:1915:19, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,601‎ 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
• 15:1915:19, 27 August 2022 diff hist +7,048‎ When King Mucukunda saw Krsna's magnificent features, he wondered about His identity, and with great humility he asked the Lord, "My dear Lord, may I inquire how it is that You happened to be in the cave of this mountain? Who are You" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,743‎ When he met Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Bhattacarya fell down flat to offer Him respects. After offering various prayers to Him, he spoke of his previous bad disposition with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,038‎ Upon hearing her husband, who excelled in knowledge of all kinds of transcendental science, innocent Devahuti was very satisfied. Her smiling face shining with a slightly bashful glance, she spoke in a choked voice because of great humility and love ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,827‎ Thinking in this way, Vallabha Bhatta approached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu the next morning, and in great humility, offering many prayers, he sought shelter and surrendered at the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 August 2022 diff hist +9,719‎ The wife of the brahmana again & again requested, in great humility and submission, that he go to Lord Krsna. The brahmana thought that there was no need to ask any material benefit from Sri Krsna, but he was induced by the repeated requests of his wife ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,332‎ The ocean deity immediately appeared before the Lord and offered Him all respectful obeisances with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,434‎ The next day, Paramananda Puri and other devotees approached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with great humility and submission ‎No edit summary
• 15:1615:16, 27 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ The Kumaras praised the characteristics of Maharaja Prthu and his great devotional attitude and humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,705‎ The ecstatic symptoms of envy, great eagerness, humility, zeal and supplication all became manifest at once ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,772‎ The brahmana submitted his invitation with great humility, and he touched the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,825‎ The brahmanas from different places, such as Kanyakubja and South India, who were all strict followers of the Vedic religion, offered invitations to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,621‎ The author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta says - I beg their pardon (who imitate some smarta-brahmana) with great humility, but I am submitting that I personally have no desire to add or subtract anything ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,428‎ Thereafter, with great submission and humility, Vallabha Bhatta invited Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to dine at his home ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 27 August 2022 diff hist +7,043‎ Thereafter, with great humility, the King (Nrga) offered each of them (the two brahmanas) 100,000 cows in exchange for the one cow that was causing the fight between them ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,689‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My dear King Pariksit, when Citraketu was cursed by Parvati, he descended from his airplane, bowed before her with great humility and pleased her completely ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,520‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Ramananda Raya is a mine of great humility. Therefore he has attributed his own words to another's intelligence" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 27 August 2022 diff hist +7,268‎ Sometimes there are many other symptoms, such as great anxiety, lamentation, frustration, being stunned, humility, restlessness, madness and illusion ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1215:12, 27 August 2022 diff hist +12,787‎ Sanatana fell at the feet of the Lord and with great humility asked about his own real identity. "I am born of a lower family," Sanatana said ‎No edit summary
• 15:1215:12, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,408‎ Ramananda Raya said, "My dear Lord, with Your permission I have already written a letter to the King with great humility" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,488‎ Raghunatha dasa’s father wrote a letter to Sivananda Sena, asking him with great humility, "Please return my son" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 August 2022 diff hist +28‎ Out of His great magnanimity and humility, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu presented Himself as a subordinate disciple of Prakasananda Sarasvati ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 August 2022 diff hist +2,000‎ One day Balarama Acarya requested Haridasa Thakura with great humility to come to the assembly of the Majumadaras, Hiranya and Govardhana. Thus Balarama Acarya went there with Haridasa Thakura ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,111‎ Murari Gupta, the twenty-first branch of the tree of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was a storehouse of love of Godhead. His great humility and meekness melted the heart of Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,645‎ In great humility, considering Himself a conditioned soul of the material world, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu again expressed His desire to be endowed with service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,727‎ In great humility, both brothers took bunches of straw between their teeth and, each binding a cloth around his neck, fell down like rods before the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,434‎ In great haste Paramananda Puri Gosani went before Him and with great humility persuaded Him to sit down in His room ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,334‎ He offered his obeisances to Pradyumna Misra with all respect and then, with great humility, spoke as follows ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,567‎ He (Vidyadhara, the serpent) offered obeisances to Lord Krsna and stood before Him with great humility. Krsna then asked the demigod, "You appear to be a very nice demigod and to be favored by the goddess of fortune" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 August 2022 diff hist +26,105‎ He (Prakasananda Sarasvati) was the chief amongst the impersonalist sannyasis, and he addressed Lord Caitanya with great humility, asking Him to come and sit amongst them ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Haridasa Thakura, out of his great humility, did not want to violate these existing rules - that only brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras can enter the temple of Jagannatha Puri ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,476‎ From a distance, the brothers Rupa Gosvami and Sri Vallabha fell on the ground and offered obeisances to Vallabha Bhatta with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,751‎ Being encouraged by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's words, Gadadhara Pandita became absorbed in ecstatic love. Immediately clasping the lotus feet of the Lord, he began to speak with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,483‎ At that time, however, Vasudeva, the father of Lord Krsna and the most celebrated of all pious men, approached the sages and with great humility offered his respects by falling down at their feet ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,565‎ Approaching him with great humility, Vallabha Bhatta said, "I have taken shelter of you, my dear sir. Kindly be merciful to me and save my life" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 27 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Although personally called by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu to take prasadam with Them, still, out of great humility, Haridasa Thakura submitted - I shall take the prasadam outside of the house ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 27 August 2022 diff hist +2,811‎ Although Bali Maharaja was actually following the path of his grandfather (Prahlad Maharaja), because of his great humility he thought that he was not ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,893‎ After stopping the kirtana, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is a great example of humility, offered prayers unto the feet of Prakasananda Sarasvati. At this, Prakasananda Sarasvati immediately came forward and clasped the Lord's lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,545‎ After receiving the Lord's causeless mercy, the two brothers folded their hands and in great humility offered the following prayers unto the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0215:02, 27 August 2022 diff hist +10,955‎ You won't find Krsna is morose and sitting or crying. (laughter) Even if He is killing some demon, very laughingly, as easy job. You see? So either He is killing or dancing, He is happy ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0215:02, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,573‎ Whatever Krsna consciousness movement is going forward, it is due to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's magnanimous compassion for the poor people suffering in this Kali-yuga. Otherwise, to become Krsna conscious is not very easy job, is not easy job ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0215:02, 27 August 2022 diff hist +10,055‎ To understand Krsna is not easy job. But Krsna in the form of Caitanya Mahaprabhu is so compassionate, not only He's giving Himself, Krsna, but He's giving krsna-prema, love of Krsna. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's avatara. Daya. Maha-vadanyavatara ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 27 August 2022 diff hist +9,641‎ To understand God, to understand Krsna, is not very easy job; very, very difficult job. Therefore we don't find anyone is interested in Krsna. Anywhere you go, all over the world, you make a statistic: nobody is interested in Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,583‎ To become a spiritual master is not easy job. One must be very learned scholar and must have full realization of the self and everything ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,461‎ Such performances (Rajasuya sacrifice) required hundreds of millions of dollars, and it was not an easy job for a petty king ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4514:45, 27 August 2022 diff hist +23,247‎ Out of many thousands who are liberated, only one or two may understand what and who Krsna is. So understanding Krsna is not such an easy job ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 27 August 2022 diff hist +11,375‎ Narayana-parayana is not very easy job. Muktanam api siddhanam kotisv api maha-mune. But this is the special mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that He is compassionate. Seeing the fallen souls of this age, He is distributing krsna-prema so cheaply ‎No edit summary
• 13:4213:42, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,209‎ Sweet is intoxication. Perhaps you know, all. The liquor is made from sugar. Sugar is fermented with acid, sulphuric acid, and then it is distilled. That is liquor. Therefore too much sweet eating is prohibited ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,724‎ Sri Rupa Gosvami also warns that too much eating and too much endeavor (atyaharah prayasas ca NOI 2) are against the principles by which one can advance in spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,341‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami has advised that atyahara, too much eating, is an impediment to advancement in spiritual life ‎No edit summary
• 13:4113:41, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,507‎ Regulation of diet and sleep is recommended herein (BG 6.16) for the yogis. Too much eating means eating more than is required to keep the body and soul together. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 13:4113:41, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,012‎ Everything should be regulated in devotional service. Just like eating. Eating is necessary to remain fit, but too much eating means disease and too little eating means starving. One must adjust things properly, that is the program of Krsna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 27 August 2022 diff hist +6,743‎ Especially for devotee, too much eating is very, very bad ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,619‎ Eating should be minimized. Too much eating leads to too much sleeping, and then sex desire. So, management should be done very carefully to see that there is not easy-going, lazy attitude which will only end in fall down ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 27 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ A neophyte devotee should neither eat too much nor collect more money than necessary. Eating too much or collecting too much is called atyahara. For such atyahara one must endeavor very much. This is called prayasa ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 27 August 2022 diff hist −28‎ We should always remember the maxim that one man's food is another man's poison. We should not, therefore, reject the stories and histories of the Puranas as imaginary ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,729‎ It is said that "one man's food is another man's poison." Because they have become disgusted with this material world, sometimes our devotees appear to have foolishly disregarded everything ‎No edit summary current

25 August 2022

• 15:1915:19, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,044‎ The Bhagavad-gita religion is not Hindu religion or Christian religion or Mohammedan religion. It is the real religion, between the soul and God. The reciprocation, the exchange of dealings between the Supreme and the subordinate ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 25 August 2022 diff hist +3,661‎ Religion means to find out the supreme controller who is forcing everything. That is religion. That is stated in the dictionary. Religion is not some sentiment, some ritualistic ceremony. No. This inquiry about the supreme controller ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 25 August 2022 diff hist +7,937‎ Religion means the law which is given by God, and if you follow, then your life is successful. This is religion. Religion is not that concocted, you manufacture some religion. That is not religion ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 25 August 2022 diff hist +2,706‎ Religion is not manufactured, but it is given by God. That is our point ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 25 August 2022 diff hist +2,660‎ Our religion is not a part time transcendental recreation. We live in God ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8,211‎ If there is no conception of God, there is no direction of God, that is not religion. Religion is not a kind of blind faith. Religion is factual ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,275‎ Hold classes at least five hours. As in the schools and colleges there are regular classes, forty-five minutes' class, then five or ten minutes' recess, again forty-five minutes' class, in this way, so we have got enough subject matter to study ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,263‎ As soon as you get time, read. I do that. Reading, writing, or chanting. But when there is no other way, you sleep little. Not to enjoy sleep, but because it is not possible to continue, all right, sleep 1, 2, 3, 4, or five hours. Not more than that ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,389‎ To be more clear, we may understand that the various feelings of happiness derived from discharging devotional service may be termed the "mellows" of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,160‎ The householder's lif it is said, yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham: (SB 7.9.45) the householder's life is based on sense gratification, and therefoe is based on sense gratification, and therefore the happiness derived from it is very meager ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8,892‎ The happiness in the Lord is also identical with the Lord on account of absolute knowledge. So the happiness derived from the Lord may be measured by the Lord, but the happiness increases again, and the Lord measures it again ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,319‎ The happiness derived from merging in the impersonal Brahman and the happiness derived from the eight perfections of mystic yoga (anima, laghima, prapti and so on) do not give any pleasure to the devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,446‎ The conditioned soul is sometimes attracted to the little happiness derived from sense gratification. Thus he has illicit sex or steals another's property. At such a time he may be arrested by the government or chastised by the woman's husband ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,952‎ The 4 progressive realizations of religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation, all combined together, cannot compare, any more than a straw could, to the happiness derived from hearing about the transcendental activities of God ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 25 August 2022 diff hist +13‎ Srimati Radharani and the gopis are not interested in their personal happiness derived from association with Krsna. Rather, they become happy by seeing one another associate with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,410‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami says that if brahmananda, or the happiness of becoming one with the Supreme, is multiplied by one trillionfold, still it cannot be compared with an atomic fraction of the happiness derived from the ocean of devotional service ‎No edit summary
• 13:0113:01, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,208‎ Rupa Gosvami divided happiness into three categories, 1) happiness derived from material enjoyment, 2) happiness derived by identifying oneself with the Supreme Brahman, and 3) happiness derived from Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 25 August 2022 diff hist +2,034‎ Pure devotional service is so sublime that one can very easily forget the happiness derived from material enjoyment, material liberation and mystic or yogic perfection. Thus the devotee is bound by Krsna's mercy and His uncommon power and qualities ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,780‎ It is said that even one drop of happiness in Krsna consciousness stands beyond comparison with an ocean of happiness derived from any other activity ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8,006‎ In the asamprajnata-samadhi there is no longer any connection with mundane pleasure, for one is then transcendental to all sorts of happiness derived from the senses. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,632‎ In other words, a pure devotee does not lack any kind of happiness derived from any source. He does not want anything but service to Krsna, but even if he should have another desire, the Lord fulfills this without the devotee's asking ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 25 August 2022 diff hist +13‎ He (the person who is acting in Krsna consciousness) becomes accustomed to not taking pleasure in anything beyond the transcendental happiness derived from the service of the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 25 August 2022 diff hist +3,156‎ Happiness derived from the touch of skin, or sensuous happiness, is present in the life of hogs and dogs. Such happiness is very insignificant. If a devotee worships the Lord for such insignificant happiness, he must be considered devoid of all knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,515‎ Happiness derived from society, friendship and love is like a drop of water in the scorching heat of the desert. One may want to become very great and powerful in society, but this is like attempting to climb a hill full of thorns ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 25 August 2022 diff hist +15,594‎ Happiness derived from religiousness ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,455‎ Happiness derived from pure devotional service is the highest because it is eternal. But the happiness derived from material perfection or understanding oneself to be Brahman is inferior because it is temporary ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8,159‎ Happiness derived from conquering them and happiness derived by seeing kinsmen alive are both on the basis of personal sense gratification, for there is a sacrifice of wisdom and duty. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,673‎ Foolish men seek after material sense pleasure as a substitute for real happiness, but such foolish men forget that temporary so-called happiness derived from sense pleasures is also enjoyed by the dogs and hogs ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,672‎ Foolish men forget that temporary so-called happiness derived from sense pleasures is also enjoyed by the dogs and hogs. No animal, bird or beast is bereft of this sense pleasure ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,588‎ Ekatva, or merging into the effulgence of the Supreme Lord, is called kaivalya, but the happiness derived from kaivalya is considered by the pure devotee to be hellish ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,071‎ Devotees are not desirous of any material happiness, including the happiness derived from liberation. This is called anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam - Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 25 August 2022 diff hist +2,834‎ Caitanya said, "Love of Krsna is so powerful that it simultaneously defeats the poisonous effects of a snake, as well as the happiness derived from pouring nectar on one's head. It is perceived as doubly effective, simultaneously poisonous & nectarean" ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,294‎ As far as happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time, just as in due course of time we obtain miseries even though we do not desire them ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,966‎ As far as happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time, just as in course of time we obtain miseries even though we do not desire them ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 25 August 2022 diff hist +11,801‎ Any person who has developed even a small amount of devotional service doesn't care a fig for any kind of happiness derived from religiousness, economic development, sense gratification or the five kinds of liberation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,031‎ Any person who has developed even a little quantity of pure devotional service can very easily kick out all the other kinds of happiness derived from religiousness, economic development, sense gratification and liberation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,390‎ Actually, a pure devotee does not aspire after any of these perfections because the happiness derived from devotional service in Krsna consciousness is so transcendental and so unlimited that no other happiness can be compared with it ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 25 August 2022 diff hist +7,829‎ If one is found doing mistake or doing something wrong, but because he is sticking to this principle of Krsna consciousness, he is sadhu. Sadhu means a holy man. He is holy. He is not doing any wrong consciously. But due to habit ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,687‎ Simply thinking of Krsna. That will help you. Ananya-bhavena. This is sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 25 August 2022 diff hist +3,752‎ What is Bible? Scripture. Why the scripture? It is fully contains the instruction of sadhu, holy man, or spiritual master, Lord Jesus Christ, therefore is scripture. The scripture means the statement of liberated holy man. That is sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,655‎ We have the tendency of controlling over the material nature, lording it over the material nature, but we are not the supreme controller. So that thing is explained in the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ You can move your hand if you like. So I am not the controller of your body, and you are not the controller of my body, but the Supreme Soul is the controller of your body and my body and every body ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ I speak of this hand as "my hand" because I can work with this hand and move it according to my desire. But I am not the controller of your hand. If I desire to move your hand, that is not in my power; that is in your power ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0112:01, 25 August 2022 diff hist 0‎ I also feel that I am controlling my bodily affairs to some extent, but because I am not the supreme controller, if there is something wrong in this body, I have to go to a physician. Similarly, I have no control over other bodies ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0012:00, 25 August 2022 diff hist +9,104‎ In this way, controller, controller, bigger controller, bigger controller, you go to the Brahma, the controller of the universe. But he is also not Supreme Controller ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5911:59, 25 August 2022 diff hist −24‎ Although we have a tendency to lord it over material nature, we should know that we are not the supreme controller. This is explained in Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5811:58, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ According to our capacity, everyone of us has some controlling power. But we are not the supreme controller. The supreme controller is God, Krsna ‎No edit summary current

18 August 2022

• 12:1612:16, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,594‎ Pleasure potency is not painful to Krsna. But it is painful. It is painful to us, conditioned souls. This Golden Moon (name of a bar?), everyone comes there for pleasure, but he is becoming implicated in sinful activities. Therefore it is not pleasure ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,066‎ Throughout the whole world they're implicated in these four kinds of sinful activities. How you can expect that he's going to have next body very nice? ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4311:43, 18 August 2022 diff hist +7,701‎ Without a doubt whenever we refer to control over others we must admit the existence of a personal feature ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,406‎ When Krsna was fighting with Kaliya, Mother Yasoda exclaimed, "Krsna is now entrapped within the hoods of the Kaliya snake, and yet I am not tattered to pieces! So I must admit how wonderful is the preserving power of this material body!" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,676‎ The queens continued, "Dear black cloud, we must admit frankly that to establish an intimate relationship with Syamasundara means to purchase unnecessary anxieties while we are otherwise comfortable at home" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,226‎ The intelligent class of men must admit the Lord as the ultimate source of all energies and thus pay tribute to the Lord for His good blessings ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist −17‎ The Absolute Truth is beyond our conception. One must admit that He has unblemished qualities that He does not share with every living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist +8,760‎ Princes offered prayers to Krsna, "O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, we must admit that before this we were puffed up with our material opulences. It was as if we were intoxicated" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ One has to abide by superior dictation. When one's mind is fixed on the superior nature, he has no other alternative but to follow the dictation of the Supreme. The mind must admit some superior dictation and follow it. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,856‎ My dear Queen, due to my sinful desires I went to the forest to hunt without asking you. Therefore I must admit that I have offended you. Nonetheless, thinking of me as your most intimate subordinate, you should still be very much pleased with me ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist +6,072‎ My dear Lord, I must admit that due to Your bodily effulgence, unbearable to my eyes, I cannot see You properly. I can fully realize that the influence of Your effulgence has diminished my power ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Matter can never work automatically, without a living hand, and therefore we must admit the existence of God, the supreme living being, behind the laws of nature ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,835‎ I must admit my frailties in presenting Srimad-Bhagavatam, but still I am hopeful of its good reception by the thinkers and leaders of society on the strength of the following statement of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,814‎ I beg to acknowledge receipt of your pictures and note and it has so much engladdened me that I must admit that there is a little fraction of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's merciful glance upon you ‎No edit summary
• 11:4011:40, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,218‎ In the Sri Caitanya-candrodaya (beginning of the eighth act) Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says - Sarvabhauma, I have traveled to many holy places, but I cannot find a Vaisnava as good as you anywhere. However, I must admit that Ramananda Raya is wonderful ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 18 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ In an honest search for truth, we must admit that His (Lord's) powers are inconceivable to our tiny brains ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,881‎ Behind the laws of nature is the living brain of God, just as there is always a lawmaker behind all the laws of the state. It does not matter whether or not we see the lawmaker behind the common laws; we must admit that there is a lawmaker ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,311‎ All our senses are imperfect. We claim to observe everything and anything, but we must admit that we can observe things under certain material conditions only, which are also beyond our control ‎No edit summary
• 11:3711:37, 18 August 2022 diff hist +2,217‎ You are supposed to be the commander of many foot soldiers, and now you may take prompt steps to overthrow Us. Give up all your foolish talk and wipe out the cares of your kith and kin by slaying Us ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3611:36, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,520‎ We have no other power than to offer our respectful obeisances and prayers unto You, the transcendental person. The chanting of Your auspicious transcendental qualities will wipe out the sins of all mankind ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3611:36, 18 August 2022 diff hist +2,851‎ The Lord continued: Because I am the servitor of My devotees, My lotus feet have become so sacred that they immediately wipe out all sin ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3611:36, 18 August 2022 diff hist +7,143‎ The culture of nescience is different from that of knowledge. The universities are, so to speak, centers of nescience only; consequently scientists are busy discovering lethal weapons to wipe out the existence of other countries ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3611:36, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4‎ There is no control by the trained agent of the Lord. We must look into the defects of modern civilization by comparison here, and should follow in the footsteps of Maharaja Yudhisthira to cleanse man and wipe out anachronisms ‎No edit summary current

16 August 2022

• 15:2015:20, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,265‎ To maintain the body, we require shelter, food, water and clothing, and all these necessities can be obtained without approaching puffed-up rich men. One can collect old garments that have been thrown out, one can eat fruits offered by the trees ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2015:20, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,967‎ The crows take pleasure in a place where garbage is thrown out, just as the passionate fruitive workers take pleasure in wine and woman and places for gross sense pleasure ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2015:20, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,709‎ One can collect old garments that have been thrown out, one can eat fruits offered by the trees, one can drink water from the rivers, and one can live within the caves of mountains ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 16 August 2022 diff hist −12‎ Once I have chewed sugar cane and taken its juice, it is thrown out in the street, and if someone wants to taste it to see how sweet it is, he is chewing the chewed ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 16 August 2022 diff hist +9,979‎ If there is no conception of God, if one does not know what is God and what is the order of God, then that type of religion is cheating religion and that kind of religion is completely thrown out from Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 15:1915:19, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,861‎ Eventually they (the living entities) are thrown out of association by the waves of material nature. This process has been going on since the creation of material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 16 August 2022 diff hist +1,644‎ A relative should not be killed even if his wrongdoing warrants capital punishment. Rather, he should be thrown out of the family. Since he has already been killed by his own sin, why kill him again? ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1515:15, 16 August 2022 diff hist +6,533‎ All these jewels (of the Red Fort) have been taken away when British government was there, and they are now protected in the British museum ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1515:15, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,755‎ Your description of how you are managing is nice. This is management. The British government was conducting the management of 600 million people with just 200 Britishers. We cannot expect all foreigners to come and manage Mayapur affairs ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1515:15, 16 August 2022 diff hist +7,843‎ When British rule came, their Lord Macaulay's private report was that "If you want to keep them as Indian Hindu, you will never be able to rule over." So it was British government's policy to condemn everything Indian ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,371‎ The British government stopped this practice (saha-marana), considering it inhuman ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,241‎ Later the British government made it a policy to divide the Hindus and the Muslims, and thus they maintained ill feelings between them. The result was that India was divided into Pakistan and Hindustan ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,761‎ When Yudhisthira was lamenting the possibility of His disappearance, it was just in pursuance of a custom of lamenting the disappearance of a great friend, but the Lord never quits His transcendental body, as is misconceived by less intelligent persons ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,099‎ When the Khandava forest was being devoured by the fire-god, Agni, there was a demon of the name Maya who was saved by Arjuna from the devastating fire. For this reason, that former demon became a great friend of Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 16 August 2022 diff hist +6,670‎ When they (the princes) attacked Krsna's party, shot arrows like incessant torrents of rain, Arjuna, Krsna's best friend, took charge of the challenge, he alone very easily drove them off to please his great friend Krsna on the occasion of His marriage ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 16 August 2022 diff hist +6,323‎ This gorilla was a great friend of Bhaumasura, or Narakasura, who was killed by Krsna in connection with his kidnapping sixteen thousand princesses from all over the world ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,876‎ The wife is maya but at the same time a great friend. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu remarked that the wife is the goddess of fortune somewhere and somewhere she is a witch ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,030‎ Sri Mukunda, a great friend and associate of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, used to visit many places where people were against the Vaisnava cult. When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to know of this, He punished Mukunda, forbidding him to see Him again ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,362‎ Lokanatha Bhatta - this devotee, who lived in the village of Talakhadi in the district of Yasohara (Jessore) and constructed the temple of Radhavinoda, was the spiritual master of Narottama dasa Thakura and a great friend of Bhugarbha Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,976‎ Krsna, if He's not our friend, why He's coming down on this platform where we are living in rotten condition? He's great friend, Dina-bandhu ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,317‎ King Salva was a great friend of Sisupala's. When Sisupala went to marry Rukmini, Salva was one of the members of the bridegroom's party ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,836‎ If one makes friendship with Krsna, one will never be cheated, and he will get all help needed. Arousing this consciousness of the conditioned soul is the greatest service, not posing oneself as a great friend of another living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 16 August 2022 diff hist +7,233‎ He (Uddhava) was a great friend of Krsna's, and being the direct student of Brhaspati, the teacher and priest of the heavenly planets, he was very intelligent and sharp in decision ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 16 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Bhugarbha Gosani, formerly known as Prema-manjari, was a great friend of Lokanatha Gosvami, who constructed the temple of Gokulananda ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,244‎ Arjuna is very enlightened and is glad that he has a great friend like Krsna, but now he is thinking that although he may accept Krsna as the source of everything, others may not. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,115‎ After the departure of the Lord, Arjuna was conscious of his great friend, but there was no mistake on the part of Arjuna, nor any ill estimation of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0507:05, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,676‎ Even living entities who are lower than human can be raised to Krsna consciousness by other methods. For example, Sivananda Sena, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya, delivered a dog by feeding him prasada ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,599‎ Those who are in the mode of passion remain within this material world on the earth or on heavenly planets, but those who are in the mode of ignorance are degraded to an animal life on planets where life is lower than human ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,499‎ This was explained by Thakura Haridasa when Caitanya Mahaprabhu inquired from him how living entities lower than human beings can be delivered from material bondage ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,957‎ The relationship between husband and wife in any society, whether higher or lower than human society, is nothing but the same relationship between he-goat and she-goat, for the material relationship between man and woman is one of sex ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,618‎ The greatest danger is the danger of getting a body lower than that of a human being ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +2,702‎ They (the living entities lower than human beings) are not punishable, for under the laws of material nature they are automatically evolving ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +2,683‎ Species lower than human beings are not responsible for their actions because they are made to act in a certain way, but in the developed life of human consciousness, if one is not responsible for his activities, then he is sure to get a hellish life ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +2,916‎ O my Lord, by Your own will You appear in the various species of living entities, among animals lower than human beings as well as among the demigods, to perform Your transcendental pastimes ‎No edit summary
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +2,984‎ Only a small fraction of the living entities, perhaps one fourth, are in the material world. And the major portion of the living entities in the material world - 8,000,000 of the 8,400,000 forms of life - are lower than human beings ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,103‎ In the various forms of life lower than human life the intelligence does not go beyond the range of life's primary necessities - namely eating, sleeping, mating and defending ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,340‎ In the living entities lower than the human being, they follow the nature's way, their allotted food. So similarly, we are human beings, and we have got special food ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,952‎ If the birthrate of human beings is increasing, then the birthrate of other living beings is increasing proportionately. The birthrate of lower animals-beasts, aquatics, birds, etc.-is far greater than that of human beings ‎No edit summary current

30 July 2022

• 08:4508:45, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,432‎ Regarding your present edition of Back To Godhead: I have already informed you in my previous letter that it has become very nice, and try to continue the effort improving the quality and I think you are getting good advertisement also ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,816‎ Laksmana said, "As I have already informed you, from the very beginning my mind was attracted by Lord Krsna, and thus I considered the garlanding of the Lord my great victory" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 30 July 2022 diff hist +1,997‎ I have already informed you that I received only one document, which I have received from Gargamuni Swami. I received no sale deed. You may take one certified copy and use that ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4408:44, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,310‎ I have already informed you that if Mohta's house is available completely vacated, then immediately we can purchase, paying cash down ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,086‎ There are twenty different types of scripture for following religious principles, and among them the scriptures of Manu and Yajnavalkya are considered to be all-pervading authorities ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,242‎ The Bhattacarya explained the atmarama verse in nine different ways on the basis of scripture. After hearing his explanation, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, smiling a little, began to speak ‎No edit summary
• 08:0608:06, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,486‎ The purpose of all Vedic literature is to awaken this God consciousness in the forgetful living being, and this same purpose is presented in various ways in the different scriptures of the world for the understanding of a foolish mankind ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,293‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the beneficiary of all kinds of sacrificial ceremonies. Such sacrificial ceremonies are prescribed differently in the scriptures for different ages ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 30 July 2022 diff hist +52,862‎ 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
• 08:0508:05, 30 July 2022 diff hist +51,249‎ 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
• 08:0308:03, 30 July 2022 diff hist +12,675‎ Twenty different kinds of scripture ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 30 July 2022 diff hist +11‎ There are many different kinds of scriptures, and by reading them one often becomes puzzled. But when one receives the mercy of the Lord, his confusion is mitigated ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0108:01, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,017‎ Sri Rupa Gosvami affirms that all the quotations given in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu from different scriptures are accepted by the great acaryas and devotees of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 08:0108:01, 30 July 2022 diff hist +10,898‎ Neither you can understand the real truth simply by going through different scriptures, nor you can understand the real truth simply by your logical force or argument ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0008:00, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,123‎ In different Vedic scriptures, there are prescribed rules and regulative principles for worshiping different types of forms ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,107‎ Different calculations of the scriptures ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,715‎ By Your auspicious mercy, quarrels and disagreements arising among different scriptures are vanquished ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 30 July 2022 diff hist −12‎ A person becomes fully qualified with all transcendental qualities by following the rules and regulations, as recommended in different scriptures ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 30 July 2022 diff hist −12‎ As far as scriptures are concerned, we find different scriptures describing the Absolute Truth in different ways. If we analyze all of them, there will be bewilderment ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,953‎ Arjuna was perplexed because Asvatthama was to be killed as well as spared according to different scriptures cited by different persons ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,940‎ According to the time, circumstances, men, the different scriptures are there. The ultimate aim of scripture is to bring one to Krsna consciousness. But everything is not explained because the people are unable to understand ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,009‎ This is confirmed in every scripture, and a disciple should accept the spiritual master as such ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ The opinions of Sridhara Svami are corroborated. In each and every scripture, the supremacy of Krsna is stressed. Baladeva, Sankarsana and other expansions of Krsna are emanations of Maha-Sankarsana ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,967‎ The conclusion that Lord Visnu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead is confirmed in every scripture ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says: saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih. The spiritual master is described in every scripture as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,202‎ It is recommended that one honor the spiritual master as being on an equal status with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Saksad dharitvena samasta-sastraih. This is enjoined in every scripture ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ In every scripture and in every lawbook man is warned not to kill, yet no one is concerned with these laws. What is the remedy for this? Drsta-srutabhyam yat papam - SB 6.1.9 ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ In every scripture, every Veda, devotional service is the objective. That is explained in Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1607:16, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,555‎ In each and every scripture there is rules and regulation to follow to become more and more aware of the topmost principle, the original cause of all causes ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1607:16, 30 July 2022 diff hist +27,967‎ If matter were accepted as the original cause of creation, all the authorized scriptures would be useless, for in every scripture, especially the Vedic scriptures like the Manu-smrti, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is said to be the ultimate creator ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ Following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, we are trying to convince everyone that the devotional service of the Lord is enjoined in every scripture ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,804‎ Enjoined in every scripture ‎No edit summary
• 05:3505:35, 30 July 2022 diff hist +51,035‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu informs us that in every country and in every scripture there is some hint of love of Godhead. Unfortunately no one knows what love of Godhead actually is ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu informs us that in every country and in every scripture there is some hint of love of Godhead. But no one knows what love of Godhead actually is - CC Intro ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 30 July 2022 diff hist +22,740‎ All the pastimes of Krsna are eternal, and this is confirmed in every scripture ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,153‎ The qualifications in themselves are insufficient for one to occupy the post: it must be awarded by some superior authority ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 30 July 2022 diff hist +10,022‎ Such intelligence (intelligence or the direction of a superior being) is all-pervading. Every living being has his intelligence, and this intelligence, being the direction of some higher authority, is just like a father giving direction to his son ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 30 July 2022 diff hist +28‎ Sometimes Sri Krsna descends Himself, and sometimes He sends His representative. The major religions of the world - Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Moslem - believe in some supreme authority or personality coming down from the kingdom of God ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2905:29, 30 July 2022 diff hist +19,968‎ Since we have to accept some authority, why not accept His (Krsna's)? Simply by hearing of His glories from Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam and by chanting His names - Hare Krsna - we can swiftly perfect our lives ‎No edit summary
• 05:2905:29, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,585‎ One has to accept, after all, some authority. The modern scientists are also authorities for the common man for some scientific truths. The common man follows the version of the scientist. This means that the common man follows the authority ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 30 July 2022 diff hist +10,588‎ Intelligence gives one direction like some higher authority, and the living being cannot see or move or eat or do anything without the use of intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,508‎ Any decision, however important, should be confirmed by some authority. That makes the matter perfect. This means that the monarchs who ruled the earth in those days were not irresponsible dictators ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,263‎ Any decision, however important, should be confirmed by some authority. That makes the matter perfect ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,667‎ Although they (the Yamadutas) had gone to arrest Ajamila, following Yamaraja's order, they found themselves unsuccessful because of the order of some higher authority. Therefore they were unsure of whether there were many authorities or only one ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2705:27, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,096‎ Some authorities say that there is a total of twenty-one hellish planets, and some say twenty-eight. My dear King (Pariksit), I (Sukadeva Gosvami) shall outline all of them according to their names, forms and symptoms ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2705:27, 30 July 2022 diff hist +28‎ According to the opinion of some authorities, Krsna was actually born as the son of Yasoda ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2705:27, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,329‎ According to some authorities there are two Varahas. According to others, Varaha appeared during the regime of Svayambhuva & stayed in the water until that of Raivata. Some doubt that this could be possible, but the answer is that everything is possible ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2705:27, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,887‎ According to some authorities, this condition cannot be accepted as one of the transcendental humors, or rasas ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2605:26, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,096‎ According to some authorities, the present tense is also used to indicate the nearest margin of time from the past. In that sense, the present tense is applied to the reign of Maharaja Pariksit here. For a continuous fact, also, present tense can be used ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2605:26, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,061‎ According to some authorities ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1905:19, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,629‎ The word upadharayan, "considering," is very significant in this verse (of SB 8.4.11-12). This word indicates that a devotee knows what is what; he understands what is happening in material, conditional life ‎No edit summary
• 05:1805:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,440‎ The Vedic injunction is that no one can have full knowledge without being under the guidance of an acarya. Acaryavan puruso veda: one who has accepted an acarya knows what is what ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist +24,806‎ The Gita says that a wise man is not bewildered by this, for he knows what is what. Why then should he bother himself attaining material wealth ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,699‎ A pure devotee is not confused by misguiding commentaries on Bhagavad-gita because he knows what is what. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist +10,016‎ Why these universities are there? Because we do not know what is what. Therefore we are being educated. So that means this body is not full of knowledge. It is full of ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1705:17, 30 July 2022 diff hist +31‎ We must understand that our suffering is due to our sinful activity, and sinful activity is due to our ignorance. Sins, or transgressions, are committed by those who do not know what is what ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1705:17, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,355‎ The verdict of Krsna is the final and complete answer to all doubts because He knows past, present and future perfectly - but no one knows Him. Krsna and Krsna conscious devotees alone can know what is what. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1705:17, 30 July 2022 diff hist +8,160‎ The leaders (of India) are blind. They have no training. They are not in disciplic succession. They do not know what is what, and they are taking the part of leadership, then everything is spoiled ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1605:16, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,321‎ Maharaja Ambarisa wanted to complete the Ekadasi-parana as part of devotional service to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore he drank a little water. But although Durvasa Muni was a great mystic brahmana, he did not know what is what ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1205:12, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,055‎ Without any adulteration means ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,240‎ We have simply to present them (Prabhupada's Books) without any adulteration, in humble service spirit. That is the secret of success ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 30 July 2022 diff hist +9,119‎ This Krsna consciousness movement is training people how to become unalloyed servant of Krsna. Suddha-bhakta, unalloyed, without any adulteration ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,283‎ So far I am concerned, I don't take any credit, but I am confident that because I am presenting the Vedic knowledge as it is, without any adulteration, it is being effective. That is my contribution ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,878‎ Since Bhagavad-gita is being presented as it is, within four years there are hundreds and thousands of Krsna-bhaktas. That is our point, that you present the thing as it is, without any adulteration ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,845‎ Personally I have no credit for myself, but I am trying to act as faithful servant of my predecessors and just presenting without any adulteration the message which I have received from my Spiritual Master ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,369‎ My responsibility is, what I have received from disciplic succession, from my spiritual master, I am just presenting the same thing, but without any adulteration. That is my business ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,147‎ I am delivering it without any adulteration. That may be my credit. And if you take it without any adulteration and practice it, then your life is successful ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,971‎ If we simply repeat this philosophy exactly as it is, without any misrepresentation or adulteration, then this movement will never be checked, and we will conquer the world ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 30 July 2022 diff hist +12,676‎ If there is any miracle, that miracle is that we present things as they are. That's all. Without any adulteration. So that should be the principle. Present as it is. It will be accepted ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 30 July 2022 diff hist +9,492‎ If personally I (Prabhupada) have any credit in this matter (of Krsna consciousness movement), it is only that I have tried to present Bhagavad-gita as it is, without adulteration. BG 1972 Preface ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ With such a mentality (desiring to lord it over the material nature), one is led to believe in the strength of material science, with its discovery of atomic energy and space travel by mechanical vehicles ‎No edit summary
• 04:5904:59, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,505‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by one of His plenary parts expands Himself all over the material world, and His existence can be perceived even within the atomic energy ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,523‎ The radiation of atomic energy is very insignificant in comparison to the heat produced by a brahmastra. The atomic bomb explosion can at utmost blow up one globe, but the heat produced by the brahmastra can destroy the whole cosmic situation ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,068‎ The modern trend of material civilization is to increase the temperature of the feverish material condition, which has reached the point of 107 degrees in the form of atomic energy ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,361‎ The highest scientific advancement of the material scientists is atomic energy. But the material scientist is not able to have an estimation of the particles of atoms contained in the whole universe ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,681‎ The heat created by the flash of a brahmastra resembles the fire exhibited in the sun globe at the time of cosmic annihilation. The radiation of atomic energy is very insignificant in comparison to the heat produced by a brahmastra ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,862‎ The buildings, furniture, cars, bungalows, mills, factories, industries, peace, war or the highest perfection of material science, atomic energy & electronics, are all bewildering names of material elements with concomitant reactions of the three modes ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,774‎ The brahmastra is similar to the modern nuclear weapon manipulated by atomic energy. The atomic energy works wholly on total combustibility, and so the brahmastra also acts ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,121‎ The atomic energy works wholly on total combustibility, and so the brahmastra also acts. It creates an intolerable heat similar to atomic radiation ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,215‎ They are studying now atomic energy. Still they are finding difficulty. Dividing, dividing, dividing. Because they cannot find out that there is God, there is Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,199‎ Materialistic philosophers and scientists are too much engrossed with atomic energy and the gigantic situation of the universal form ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 30 July 2022 diff hist +17,726‎ Gautama and Kanada have given stress to this theory that the creation resulted from a fortunate combination of material elements, and they have tried to establish that atomic energy is the origin of creation ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,120‎ First of all, the atomic energy is not powerful enough to destroy the world. And secondly, ultimately it all rests on the supreme will of the Supreme Lord because without His will or sanction nothing can be built up or destroyed ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 30 July 2022 diff hist +10,477‎ Developing the business of economic condition, means the business of eating. And defending - either you defend with atomic energy or with your nails and claws, the process is defending. That is in the animal life also ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ A great scientist may make discoveries in atomic energy for the quick destruction of the world and may be awarded the best prize in recognition of his service (or disservice) ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ A great scientist may make discoveries in atomic energy for the quick destruction of the world, but he has to undergo the reactions of his work by rotating in the cycle of repeated births and deaths under the superhuman law of material nature ‎No edit summary current

28 July 2022

• 07:4507:45, 28 July 2022 diff hist −10‎ Whether we commit an act knowingly or unknowingly, the reactions and consequent sufferings are there. However, through knowledge we can understand what the actual situation is, who God is, and what our relationship with Him is ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4407:44, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,399‎ This material world is so created that one has to act sinfully, knowingly or unknowingly, and unless his life is dedicated to Visnu, he has to suffer all the reactions of sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,235‎ They (the sages) never discharge their semen, either knowingly or unknowingly. By such celibacy they are able to raise the semen to the brain. Thus they become most intelligent and develop very sharp memories ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,932‎ These verses (SB 10.6.37-38) explain how devotional service rendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whether directly or indirectly, knowingly or unknowingly, becomes successful ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 28 July 2022 diff hist +1,946‎ Service rendered to the Supreme Lord, knowingly or unknowingly, never goes in vain ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 28 July 2022 diff hist +1,402‎ Knowingly or unknowingly I have accepted this renounced order. Still, I shall never be indifferent to you ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +1,509‎ Knowingly or unknowingly I (Lord Caitanya) have accepted this renounced order. Still, I shall never be indifferent to you (Mother Saci) ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,148‎ Knowingly or unknowingly, everyone, especially the householder, commits five kinds of sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,476‎ King Satyavrata wanted to show his own mercy, not knowing that the fish was Lord Visnu. By such unknowing devotional service, one is favored by the SP of Godhead. Service rendered to the Supreme Lord, knowingly or unknowingly, never goes in vain ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,358‎ Even though one does not know the value of chanting the holy name of the Lord, if one chants knowingly or unknowingly, the chanting will be very effective ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,084‎ Due to our ignorance, we act in some way, but nature is so stringent that it will never excuse you, either you do it knowingly or unknowingly ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,851‎ Devotional service in Krsna consciousness is so sublime that even a little service rendered to Krsna, knowingly or unknowingly, gives one the greatest transcendental benefit ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,436‎ As a fire burns dry grass to ashes, so the holy name of the Lord, whether chanted knowingly or unknowingly, burns to ashes, without fail, all the reactions of one's sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,213‎ Association with a great saintly person also results in liberation, just as whether one goes toward fire knowingly or unknowingly, the fire will make one warm ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0507:05, 28 July 2022 diff hist +7,323‎ You might have discovered - you are great scientist - that under this law, the law of gravitation or this law, that law, so many laws there are. But the background you have to inquire, "Who is the law-maker?" ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0407:04, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,443‎ The so-called law of gravitation which sustains the planets is described herein (SB 3.13.42) as the potency of God. This potency is invested by God in the way that an expert sacrificial brahmana puts fire in the arani wood by the potency of Vedic mantras ‎No edit summary
• 07:0407:04, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,983‎ The materialists can explain that the planets are floating by the law of gravitation, but the law of gravitation works under the control or direction of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary
• 07:0307:03, 28 July 2022 diff hist +20,446‎ In the scientific world this feature of the Lord (magnetism) is referred to as the law of gravitation, but factually this law, which keeps all the planets floating in space, is one of the energies of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 07:0307:03, 28 July 2022 diff hist −6‎ But being conditioned by the material modes, he tries to travel in space by spacecraft and so fails to reach his destination. The law of gravitation is binding upon him like the shackles of a prisoner ‎No edit summary
• 07:0307:03, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,004‎ Ananta, or Sesa, is the source of the power which sustains all the planets in their different positions. Materially this sustaining power is known as the law of gravitation, but actually it is a display of the potency of Sankarsana ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3906:39, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,467‎ You cannot control maya. That is not possible, because you are servant. If you don't become servant of Krsna, you must become servant of maya ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3906:39, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,814‎ When I become servant of maya, even I do not wish to do something which is not very good, still I am obliged to do it ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3806:38, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,686‎ We are not Christian nor Hindu nor Muslim. We are God's servant. That's all. Anyone who is God's servant, there is no disagreement. And when one is maya's servant, servant of maya, illusion, there is disagreement ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3806:38, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,333‎ Unless we are very sincere, we cannot cope with maya. That is not possible. If you remain a servant of maya, you cannot conquer over maya. You must be very sincere servant of Krsna. Then you can conquer ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3806:38, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,613‎ There are two kinds of servants: the maya's servant and Krsna's servant. Nobody is master. That is illusion. Everyone is servant. Every living entity is a servant ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3706:37, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,425‎ Servant of maya means servant of senses. And spiritual life means instead of becoming servant of maya or servant of senses, we become the servant of Krsna, or God ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3706:37, 28 July 2022 diff hist +8,003‎ Our constitutional position is like that. If we do not serve God, we do not agree... We are servant of God, but if we deny that "No, I am not servant," so that means I become servant of maya. Servant I'll have to remain. That is my constitutional position ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,668‎ In his conditional life the living entity is servant of the illusory maya, and in his liberated state he is the pure, unqualified servant of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,819‎ Forgetting his real contact with the Supreme Lord, the living entity becomes a servant of maya ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 28 July 2022 diff hist +11,040‎ Because we are constitutionally servant of God, but we have given up that service, we have now become the servant of maya ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 28 July 2022 diff hist +29‎ A person in the material world is a servant of maya. However, a person in the spiritual energy is a servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 28 July 2022 diff hist +8‎ As servant of maya, Sometimes he is in heaven and sometimes in hell. Sometimes he is a demigod, and sometimes he is a demon. Sometimes he is a servant, and sometimes he is a master. In this way the living entity wanders all over the universe ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 28 July 2022 diff hist +8‎ As servant of maya, he (the living entity who forgets his position) sometimes becomes a king, sometimes an ordinary citizen, sometimes a brahmana, a sudra, and so on. Sometimes he is a happy man, sometimes a prosperous man, sometimes a small insect ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 28 July 2022 diff hist +8‎ All these plans (of the so-called scientists) are ultimately failures because they are illusory. In this way the living entity forgets his position as an eternal servant of the Lord. He instead becomes a servant of maya. In any case he remains a servant ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,240‎ Actually, our real constitutional position is to be controlled by Krsna, but because we have revolted against Krsna, therefore we are servant of maya ‎No edit summary current

27 July 2022

• 15:1115:11, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,944‎ Whatever Krsna says or He said 5,000 years ago, we are repeating the same thing. That is called parampara system. Not that "The world has changed. Scientific advancement is very great. Now we can interpret in this way and that way." This is all nonsense ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,487‎ Whatever Krsna says, we accept. This is Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,937‎ That is Krsna consciousness. His will is supreme. Whatever He says, that's all. As soon as you manufacture, everything is spoiled ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,878‎ Our knowledge is parampara. That Krsna says, whatever He says is all right. Krsna is not common man, avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam. He's not man at all He's Supreme Personality of Godhead. Abhijnah. Experience in everything ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,407‎ One who is not a devotee must speak nonsensically because he does not have the power to speak about the glories of Krsna. Thus whatever he says is influenced by the illusory energy and is compared to the croaking of a frog ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 July 2022 diff hist +33‎ If one does whatever Krsna says, his activities are not material. For example, when Arjuna fought in response to the order of Krsna, his activities were not material ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 July 2022 diff hist +29,722‎ He (Arjuna) voluntarily accepted: "Whatever Krsna says, I shall do it." Just like all my disciples - they have not lost their individuality, but they have surrendered their individuality. That is required ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 July 2022 diff hist +77,764‎ Arjuna tells Krsna that he accepts whatever He says to be completely perfect. Sarvam etad rtam manye: I accept everything You say to be true. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 July 2022 diff hist +11‎ Arjuna does not cavil with Krsna but agrees with whatever He says. This is his special qualification, and this is the way of understanding Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 27 July 2022 diff hist +9,659‎ How there can be solution because they are all uneducated, not educated? So if you want to be educated, make the solution of all the problems of the world, then you must take to this Krsna consciousness movement. This is the only solution ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 27 July 2022 diff hist +25,933‎ Understanding the inconceivability of the Absolute is the only solution to the question of duality. This is because duality arises from the inconceivable energy of the Absolute ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 27 July 2022 diff hist −9‎ The only effective solutions (of the three miseries) are those mentioned in Bhagavad-gita, and we have to adopt them in our practical lives for our own benefit. The three miseries of material nature are not found in the pastimes of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 27 July 2022 diff hist +29,301‎ Some philosophies propound that there is no nature other than the one we are presently experiencing and that the only solution to this is to nullify it and become void. But we cannot be void because we are living entities ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0215:02, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,997‎ Krsna Consciousness is factually the only solution to all the suffering which is besetting fellow humanity and all living entities. So we have great responsibilities in discharging our duties in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0215:02, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,614‎ For this contradiction (the gopis have no inclination for their own enjoyment, and yet their joy increases) I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) see only one solution: the joy of the gopis lies in the joy of their beloved Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,116‎ Both mother (Queen Suniti) and son (Dhruva Maharaja) decided to take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord because that is the only solution to all material problems ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 27 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ A devotee should always be very kind to the general public in instructing Krsna consciousness because that is the only solution for getting out of the clutches of maya. That is really humanitarian work, for it is the way to show mercy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,368‎ When the three worlds were submerged in water, Visnu was alone, lying on His bedstead, although He appeared to be in slumber in His own internal potency, free from the action of the external energy, His eyes were not completely closed ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,114‎ When Kunti, the mother of Pandavas, saw her nephew Krsna, the SPG, she was overpowered by love & affection. She at once got up from her bedstead & appeared before Him with her daughter-in-law, Draupadi, & in maternal love & affection she embraced Him ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 27 July 2022 diff hist +7,757‎ We (the Kurus) have allowed the Yadu dynasty to use the royal insignias like the whisk, fan, conchshell, white umbrella, crown, royal throne, sitting place and bedstead, along with everything else befitting the royal order ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,714‎ This creation takes place by the glance of the Lord from His bedstead of mystic slumber. And thus all the universes and the lord of the universe, Brahma, are again and again manifested and annihilated ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,652‎ The Sesa who bears the globes is a potent incarnation of Sankarsana, and therefore He is sometimes also called Sankarsana. The bedstead feature of Sesa always presents himself as an eternal servitor of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 27 July 2022 diff hist +9,540‎ The Queens knew that he must have performed great pious activities; otherwise why was Krsna, the husband of the goddess of fortune, taking care of him so much? They were still more surprised to see that the brahmana was seated on the bedstead of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,050‎ The couches and the bedsteads were made of ivory and bedecked with gold and jewels, and the bedding was as white as the foam of milk and as soft as a lotus ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,780‎ The bedding in the palace was as white as the foam of milk and was very soft. The bedsteads were made of ivory with embellishments of gold, and the chairs, benches and other sitting places and furniture were made of gold ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,652‎ There are two features of Sesa. One is the bearer of the globes, and the other is the bedstead servitor ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,714‎ There are many nice things offered to Krsna - garlands, bedsteads, nice ornaments, nice food and even nicely prepared pan, betel nuts - but a humble Vaisnava, thinking his body material and nasty, does not accept such preparations for himself ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 27 July 2022 diff hist +8,209‎ Sudama thought, "Lord Krsna was so kind to me that He allowed me to sit on the same bedstead where the goddess of fortune lies down. He considered me His real brother" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,562‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, "You might as well bring a bedstead here for Me to lie on. Jagadananda wants Me to enjoy material happiness" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,634‎ Srimati Radharani's bedstead is pride itself, and it is situated in the abode of Her bodily aroma. She is always seated there thinking of Krsna's association ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 27 July 2022 diff hist +9,338‎ Lord Krsna had him seated on His own bedstead and personally brought all kinds of fruits and drinks to offer him, as is proper in receiving a worshipable guest ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,531‎ Laksmana said, "In great happiness he (Laksmana's father) began to distribute to friends and relatives various kinds of gifts, such as valuable garments, ornaments, bedsteads and sitting carpets" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 27 July 2022 diff hist +9,434‎ Krsna was sitting on the bedstead of Rukmini, and the maidservants were fanning Him with camaras (yak-tail fly-whisks) ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 27 July 2022 diff hist +9,585‎ Krsna was sitting on the bedstead of Queen Rukmini. Even from a considerable distance He could see the brahmana coming to His home, He could recognize him as His friend ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,886‎ Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, worshiped even by Narada, yet as soon as Krsna saw Narada enter the palace, He got down immediately from Rukmini's bedstead and stood up to honor him ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +22‎ I have given many times example, if you take a fish out of water, you can give it a very comfortable velvet bedstead, but still the fish cannot be happy; it will die ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,523‎ I am in the renounced order, and therefore I must lie on the floor. For Me to use a bedstead, quilt or pillow would be very shameful ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +7,657‎ It is not advancement of civilization when you think that you have got good apartment, good house, and sleeping in a nice bedstead, and the cat and dog is lying on the floor or in the street. No. She sleeping; when you sleep, the enjoyment is as good ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,957‎ In due time, the brahmana took his bath, accepted his meals & lay down to rest on a bedstead completely bedecked with soft silk. As he was resting, Krsna silently approached, with great respect, put the brahmana's legs on His lap & began to massage them ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,132‎ If one is able to lie down on the floor, then why should one endeavor to get a good bedstead or soft cushion to lie on ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,583‎ He (Krsna) got down from the bedstead, lifted her (Rukmini) up by her hands and, placing His cooling hands on her face, smoothed the scattered hair on her head ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5‎ He (a devotee) thinks that by accepting such things (as garlands, bedsteads, nice ornaments, nice food and even nicely prepared pan, betel nuts) he will offend the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,773‎ Brahma could see that on the water there was a gigantic lotus-like white bedstead, the body of Sesa-naga, on which the Personality of Godhead was lying alone ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 27 July 2022 diff hist +10,460‎ At the present moment they have taken that lying down on a very nice bedstead, cot, and silken bed, that is advancement of civilization. But that is not advancement of civilization ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,314‎ When I hear of your advancement of devotional service by book distribution, it invigorates me although I am an old man. Although I am traveling all over the world, my mind is always in Los Angeles ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,809‎ We have got so much land even on this earthly planet. I am traveling all over the world. You can produce food grains so in large quantity that you can feed all the population, ten times population ‎No edit summary
• 07:3007:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,638‎ Unfortunately at the present moment, in no university there is any department of knowledge where this education is given where there is life after death. I am traveling all over the world. There is no such department ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,118‎ That is the first principle, the GBC. Not sit down in one place and pass resolution. No, they must be active. They must act like me. As I am old man, I am traveling all over the world ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,820‎ Just like I am traveling all over the world twice, thrice, in a year. My duty is to see that my disciples who have accepted me guru, they may not fall down. That is my anxiety ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,607‎ I have several times said that there are ample space. There is no question of scarcity. Ample space. I am traveling all over the world. So much space lying vacant in America, in Africa, Australia ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,413‎ I have been traveling all over the world over the past few months and it is a bit straining. Now I am thinking to sit down for a while in Los Angeles for translating work ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,050‎ I am traveling all over the world; I see people are very busy for searching out food and shelter. But according to Vedic scripture, it is said that food and shelter is already there, given by God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,110‎ I am traveling all over the world. There is not a single institution which is meant for giving education about the transmigration of the soul, how one can get better life ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,241‎ I am traveling all over the world. So much space lying vacant in America, in Africa, Australia. Why the Chinese or the Indians should be congested, overpopulation? But they will not allow. "It is my country." ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,573‎ I am traveling all over the world. My opinion is that, materially, America is happy. And spiritually some portion of India is happy. Otherwise, there is no happiness all over the world ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,479‎ I am traveling all over the world. It is my calculation that we can produce food to give food ten times of the population if we properly utilize the whole planet according to this - produce food ‎No edit summary
• 07:1107:11, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,114‎ I am this old age, I cannot move. Still I am traveling all over the world. I am simply interested that whatever I have done, it may not be vanquished in my absence. Let me go and encourage them ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0807:08, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,690‎ As I am old man, I am traveling all over the world, now to give me relief, the GBC members . . . I shall expand into twelve more, so that they can exactly work like me. Gradually they will (be) initiators. At least first initiation ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,963‎ Your idea that when I am in Los Angeles I shall simply lecture on Sundays, and on the weekdays the boys will lecture so I shall be free to go on with my translating work is very stimulating ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,818‎ This preaching work is very pleasing to me. Go on with your translation work, and Krishna will surely bless you. Thank you very much ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,271‎ There was no force. Only proposal. That's all. When it was proposed before me, I also said, "It depends on the choice." So anyway, go on with your work, sankirtana movement you have started ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,751‎ Please go on with your translation work. When I see the translation, then we shall consider the honorarium ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,452‎ No one can stop this Krsna Consciousness Movement because Lord Caitanya wants that His Holy Names will be spread to every village and town. So go on with the preaching work and keep me informed of your progress ‎No edit summary
• 06:0306:03, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,034‎ Let us go on with our work for Krishna for His satisfaction and for the benefit of the whole world. Thank you once more for your great service ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,740‎ I have seen a photo of the dolls you have made of Krishna lifting Govardhana Hill and also Balarama. Your son has sent the photo. So you have done it very nicely. Go on with this work ‎No edit summary
• 06:0206:02, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,618‎ Go on with your preaching work, Krsna will bless you. A little attempt is required, then all other things will come from Krsna. This is my practical experience ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,296‎ Go ahead with your translation work. This is very important and work together with Yasomatinandana. We want very much to publish Hindi publications and distribute throughout India ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0106:01, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,551‎ Go ahead and continue your work and try to work co-operatively with Yasomatinandana dasa ‎No edit summary current

26 July 2022

• 14:2514:25, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,667‎ So-called householders keep themselves shackled in family life, and furthermore they want their children to be shackled in the same way. Playing the parts of playboys in the hands of women, they glide down to the darkest regions of material existence ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,292‎ One should give up his household, which is a place for going further and further down into the darkest regions of material existence. The first advice is that one must give up household life - grham andha-kupam ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,017‎ Materialists who are overly attracted to the material body, material world and material enjoyment, who cannot control their material senses, are carried to the darkest regions of material existence ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,724‎ If one wants to go to the darkest regions of material existence, one may continue to associate with persons who are attached to women (yositam sangi-sangam). The word yosit means "woman." Persons who are too materialistic are attached to women ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 26 July 2022 diff hist +16‎ A grhavrata, one who has taken a vow to execute family duties, has no chance to become Krsna conscious. This is because most grhavratas are guided by sense gratification and therefore gradually glide down to the darkest regions of material existence ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,824‎ You may be very much proud of your scientific advancement of knowledge, but here is the real science. If you can overcome birth, death, old age and disease, then you can say your science is triumphant ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1114:11, 26 July 2022 diff hist +28‎ We are so proud to think that this is advancement of knowledge, but if we can manufacture something that can stop death, we have really advanced in knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1114:11, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,013‎ They are very much proud of advancement of knowledge, but they do not know that the cause of suffering is this body. They do not know. And they do not know how to make a solution of this material existence ‎No edit summary
• 14:1114:11, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,063‎ They (conditioned soul) are so blind that they cannot see anything beyond the jurisdiction of the subtle mind, intelligence or ego, but they are very much proud of their advancement in knowledge, science and material prosperity ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,379‎ Nobody likes death, but death is there. Nobody likes to become old, but the old age is there. Why they set aside these big problems and he's proud of scientific advancement of knowledge? What kind of education this is? ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,836‎ However they may be proud of their advancement of knowledge, it is childish civilization because they have no future ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,265‎ By advancement of knowledge, we have manufactured atom bomb so that killing process can be accelerated. People are dying, and that dying process is accelerated, and we are proud. Advancement of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 26 July 2022 diff hist +28‎ At the present moment, people do not even know what is liberation and what is entanglement. They are so ignorant and foolish, and still they are proud of their advancement in knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,944‎ At the present moment, people, although very much proud of their advancement of knowledge, do not know what is the active principle of life ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,517‎ Although people have no knowledge, they are very proud. But it is not advancement of knowledge to go to the moon after ten years of effort and take a rock and come back ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,915‎ All the universities and educational institutions are in darkness and still they are very much proud of advancement of knowledge. This we shall challenge everywhere and come out victorious ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2911:29, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,913‎ Vajrangaji (Hanuman) attained perfection by rendering service to Lord Ramacandra, and Arjuna attained perfection simply by being Krsna's friend. Bali Maharaja attained perfection by dedicating everything to the lotus feet of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2811:28, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,880‎ This process entails always considering oneself the eternal servant of Krsna, making friends with Him and dedicating everything unto Him. These nine items of devotional service, when directly offered to Krsna, constitute the highest attainment of life ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 26 July 2022 diff hist +35‎ The process of devotional service entails always considering oneself the eternal servant of Krsna, making friends with Him and dedicating everything unto Him ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 26 July 2022 diff hist +35‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is teaching people how to come to the stage of dedicating everything to the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,428‎ Sakhyam, always think that Krsna is your best friend, atma-nivedanam, and dedicating everything to Krsna. This is our process ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2611:26, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,255‎ I can understand from your letters that you are following Krsna's dictation & are trying sincerely to help in spreading this great movement of KC & for this I shall always be grateful to you for dedicating everything to assist me ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2611:26, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,598‎ They (the inhabitants of Vrndavana) had dedicated everything to Krsna: their lives, property, affection, activities - everything was for Krsna - and when they saw Him in that condition, they became overwhelmed with fear and fell down on the ground ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2511:25, 26 July 2022 diff hist +9,166‎ Nanda and all the other cowherd men, who had dedicated everything, including their lives, to Krsna, were ready to enter the waters of the Yamuna, but Lord Balarama checked them because He was in perfect knowledge that there was no danger ‎No edit summary
• 11:2511:25, 26 July 2022 diff hist +1,901‎ In all respects, this is very difficult to understand, but one who has dedicated everything to the lotus feet of Krsna can taste the transcendental mellows ‎No edit summary
• 11:2511:25, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,507‎ If a brahmana has all twelve of the brahminical qualifications but is not a devotee and is averse to the lotus feet of the Lord, he is certainly lower than a devotee who is a dog-eater but who has dedicated everything to the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2411:24, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,063‎ We cannot stop this movement. It is actually a fight against Maya. So Maya may also sometimes cause casualties in our camp. So, we must only thank Krsna and seriously dedicate everything for Him ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2411:24, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,933‎ One who does not dedicate everything to the Supreme Lord is described in this verse (SB 7.9.11) as avidusa, a rascal ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2411:24, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,410‎ It does not matter what one is. One must dedicate everything in the service of the Lord. If one is a learned scholar, scientist, philosopher, poet, etc., then he should employ his learning to establish the supremacy of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1611:16, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,287‎ Virabhadra Gosvami was the direct son of Srila Nityananda Prabhu and a disciple of Jahnava-devi. His real mother was Vasudha ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1611:16, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,953‎ There are seven kinds of mothers, according to Vedic injunction: the real mother, the wife of a teacher or spiritual master, the wife of a king, the wife of a brahmana, the cow, the nurse and mother earth ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1611:16, 26 July 2022 diff hist +1,662‎ Suniti, the real mother of Dhruva Maharaja, embraced the tender body of her son, who was dearer to her than her own life, and thus forgot all material grief, for she was very pleased ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,705‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya, “Virabhadra Gosani was the direct son of Srila Nityananda Prabhu and a disciple of Jahnava-devi. His real mother was Vasudha ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7‎ Lord Krsna also did not distinguish His real mother from His stepmothers, and He equally offered His obeisances unto all the wives of Vasudeva present on the occasion ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1311:13, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,974‎ Krsna and Balarama continued, "Please rest assured that We shall come back to Vrndavana just after giving some satisfaction to Our real father and mother, Vasudeva and Devaki, and Our grandfather and other family members" ‎No edit summary
• 11:1311:13, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,479‎ In the Rama incarnation He remained a king's son from His very childhood, but in the incarnation of Krsna, although He was the son of a king, He at once left the shelter of His real father & mother (King Vasudeva & Queen Devaki) just after His appearance ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1211:12, 26 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ If a real mother wants her son to progress spiritually, she had better allow him to go out searching for Krsna. The mother naturally desires the welfare of the son ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1211:12, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,614‎ His (Krsna's) killing of His mother or nurse was no different from His love for His real mother or His foster mother, Yasoda. We further understand from Vedic information that Putana was also treated as a mother and given the same facility as Yasoda ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,184‎ Everyone naturally gets a father and mother at the time of birth, but the real father and mother are those who can release their offspring from the clutches of imminent death. This is possible only for parents advanced in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,048‎ Devaki is the real mother of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,334‎ Devaki and Rohini said, "We shall never forget your kindly behavior toward us. When Krsna and Balarama were born, before They even saw Their real father and mother, They were entrusted to your care" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,702‎ Devaki and Rohini said, "Actually They are not our sons; They belong to you. Nanda Maharaja and you (Yasodadevi) are the real father and mother of Krsna and Balarama" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0611:06, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,476‎ After Krsna left the shelter of His real father and mother, He went to the lap of Yasodamayi to play the part of an ordinary cowherd boy in the blessed Vrajabhumi, which is very sanctified because of His childhood pastimes ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,925‎ After entering the house of His father, He (Krsna) was embraced by the mothers present, and the Lord offered His obeisances unto them by placing His head at their feet. The mothers were headed by Devaki (His real mother) ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,084‎ According to scriptures also, there are seven mothers: (1) the real mother, (2) the wife of the spiritual master, (3) the wife of a brahmana, (4) the wife of the king, (5) the cow, (6) the nurse, and (7) the earth. All of them are mothers ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,130‎ The point is that bhakti-lata, the cult of devotion, fixes one in his spiritual position. One so fixed never comes down, and he begets children who are strict followers of the sastric injunctions ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,644‎ The brahmanas from these places (Kanyakubja, Sarasvata, Gauda, Maithila, Andhra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Dravida and Maharashtra) are considered to be very strict followers of the Vedic principles, and they are accepted as pure brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,182‎ They (veda-vadi, or so-called strict followers of the Vedas) describe worship of the different forms or incarnations of the Lord as anthropomorphism ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,515‎ There is a class of miscreants who are known in the words of Bhagavad-gita as veda-vadi, or so-called strict followers of the Vedas. They do not believe in the incarnation of the Lord, what to speak of the Lord's incarnation as the worshipable hog ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,288‎ Strict followers of the Vedas who despise the eternal forms of the Lord may know from Srimad-Bhagavatam that such incarnations are personified forms of the Vedas ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,714‎ Ordinary people cannot understand the essence of sastra, nor can they understand the pure character, behavior and abilities of strict followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s principles ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 26 July 2022 diff hist +9,110‎ Misinterpretation of the word aham by the word jugglery of the impersonalist should not disturb the mind of the strict followers of the Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,455‎ Lord Siva, whose hair is matted on his head, has certainly undergone great austerities and penances. Indeed, he is the president in the assembly of strict followers of Vedic principles ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,173‎ Lord Buddha directly denied the authority of the Vedas, and he established his own religion. Only for this reason, the Buddhist religion was not accepted by the strict followers of the Vedas ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,857‎ In the line of devotional service, those who are initiated are strict followers of the Vedic scriptural injunctions ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,367‎ Dhruva Maharaja, the son of Suniti, who was devoted to her husband, acquired an exalted position not possible to attain even for the so-called Vedantists or strict followers of the Vedic principles, not to speak of ordinary human beings ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,394‎ Among the six sons (of Advaita Acarya), three were strict followers of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and of these three, Acyutananda was the eldest ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,627‎ All the brothers (Trita, Ekat and Dvita the three sons of Prajapati Gautama) were great sages and strict followers of the principles of religion. By dint of severe penances they were promoted to Brahmaloka ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,860‎ All strict followers of the Vedic religion stand up in the water throughout the whole period of the eclipse and chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current

22 July 2022

• 13:1613:16, 22 July 2022 diff hist +1,762‎ Within his heart, Ramadasa Visvasa was an impersonalist who desired to merge into the existence of the Lord, and he was very proud of his learning ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +9,070‎ Whatever they desire for the future will be baffled. Even if they apparently engage in devotional service, they are described as moghasah because they ultimately desire to merge into the Brahman effulgence ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11,357‎ Those who understand simply that the living being is not matter but spirit soul and who desire to merge into the Supreme Spirit Soul are in the lowest transcendental position ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11‎ The mental speculators desire to merge into the existence of the Lord, or to become one with the Lord, whereas the devotees of the Lord desire to keep separate identities and constantly engage in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,244‎ The Mayavadis are attracted to merging into the existence of the Lord, but Krsna is more attractive than the desire to merge ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,659‎ The impersonalists desire to merge into the spiritual existence, to end their individual existence, but according to Srimad-Bhagavatam, mukti is only the beginning of one's becoming situated in his normal condition ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,427‎ The impersonalists desire to merge into the existence of the supreme, but without keeping their individuality they have no chance of hearing and chanting the glories of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,327‎ The ambitious Mayavadi philosophers desire to merge into the existence of the Lord, and this may be accepted as sayujya-mukti. However, this form of mukti means denying one’s individual existence. In other words, it is a kind of spiritual suicide ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11‎ They (those who desire to merge into the existence of God) have no information about serving the lotus feet of the Lord. Consequently, they are doomed to stand like trees for many thousands of years. Although trees are living entities, they are nonmoving ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,905‎ That (that Prthu does not desire to merge with God's existence) is made clear in this verse (SB 4.20.24): "My dear Lord, I do not want such a benediction." Maharaja Prthu wanted to have a million ears to hear the glories of the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,208‎ Impersonal Brahman is a subordinate feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and since impersonal Brahman worshipers desire to merge into the Brahman effulgence, they cannot be considered followers of bhagavad-dharma ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,118‎ Devotional service must not be executed for some material purpose. One should not even have a desire to merge into the Absolute Truth. One has to render such service out of love only ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11‎ Above them (those who desire to merge into the Supreme Spirit Soul) are the mystic yogis, who by meditation see within their hearts the four-handed Visnu form of the Paramatma, or Supersoul ‎No edit summary
• 13:0613:06, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,992‎ Devotees cannot be situated in the impersonal Brahman effulgence, into which impersonalists desire to merge ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,056‎ As they (the impersonalists) desire, they are allowed to merge in the spiritual effulgence emanating from the transcendental body of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,843‎ As far as fruitive activity is concerned, the contamination is the desire for elevation to a higher standard of life, and for speculative knowledge the contamination is the desire to merge into the existence of the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 22 July 2022 diff hist −8‎ After accepting sannyasa, Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to reach Vrndavana. He was unlike the Mayavadi sannyasis, who desire to merge into the existence of the Absolute ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,516‎ We are all born foolish. So if we are not properly educated, then we remain fools and rascals, and the activities of fools and rascals, this is simply waste of time ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,259‎ These rascals, they are born fools and rascals, and they are working in rascaldom. Therefore, whatever they are doing, it is defeat. Therefore this crisis has come ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +12‎ Out of millions of entities, one may be enlightened. Generally we are all born fools. As soon as I take birth I am nurtured by parents and educated to falsely claim a land as my own ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0812:08, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,820‎ Born rascal, fool. He has to be enlightened, he has to be given knowledge, and he has to receive knowledge to make his life perfect. Therefore parabhavah means one who does not make his life perfect, he's being defeated ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0712:07, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2‎ The sastra says, everyone is born a fool: because he has this body, therefore he was born a fool. No being, either American or Indian, cat or dog, is free from this. You have come to disease, that's all ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0712:07, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,533‎ Every one of us is a born fool. Why? From the beginning of our life I know that "I am this body," although I am not this body. Therefore we are all born fools, everyone. And therefore, according to Vedic civilization, one has to take his second birth ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,040‎ Every conditioned soul is inexperienced. Everyone is abodha jata - born a fool and rascal ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2‎ A man is born fool, but he is made intelligent by educational culture ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,439‎ Abodha-jatah means one who is born fool. Every one of us is a born fool. Why? From the beginning of our life I know that "I am this body," although I am not this body. Therefore we are all born fools, everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,934‎ Every one of us is born foolish because we identify with this temporary body as myself. Therefore we are foolish. Everyone knows that the body does not exist, and still, everyone identifies himself with this body. This is called ignorance, or illusion ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5911:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,931‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura said that the grhastha asrama, or the status of family life, is a sort of concession for sense gratification. Therefore a grhastha should not falsely adopt the title gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5911:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,041‎ He (Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura) said: "My dear mind, what kind of devotee are you? Simply for cheap adoration, you sit in a solitary place and pretend to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, but this is all cheating" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5911:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,952‎ Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, he said that "When our men will be sahajiya, oh, they'll be more dangerous" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5911:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,845‎ Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, after seeing me, said that you all are learned then why don’t you preach the teaching of Caitanya Mahaprabhu in foreign countries, On this I argued with him, I said we are dependent country, who will listen to us? ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,691‎ Summarizing this chapter (the Chastisement of Junior Haridasa), Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that one should derive from it the following lessons... ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4811:48, 22 July 2022 diff hist +15‎ Summarizing this chapter (CC Antya 2), Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that one should derive from it the lessons ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4811:48, 22 July 2022 diff hist +15‎ Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati says that Krsna is obtainable for the faithful, but for those who are accustomed to argue, Krsna is far, far away. Similarly, these talks between Ramananda Raya and Caitanya can be understood by a person who has firm faith ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 22 July 2022 diff hist +15‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the word pasandi refers (in CC Madya 18.115) to one who considers the living entity under the control of the illusory energy to be equal with the SP of God, who is transcendental to all material qualities ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,423‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the name of this village (Candapura) was later changed to Krsnapura ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,428‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the mellow of neutrality increases to simple love of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 22 July 2022 diff hist +27‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the kayasthas who came from Kanyakubja were high-class men. Of them, Dasaratha Vasu was a great personality, and the thirteenth generation of his family included Gunaraja Khan ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,488‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the introduction, which is technically called amukha, may be of five different kinds, according to the Sahitya-darpana ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,096‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that sometimes these smarta caste gosvamis write books on Vaisnava philosophy or commentaries on the original scriptures, but a pure devotee should cautiously avoid reading them ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +15‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that people who are advanced in learning but attached to material enjoyment, who are puffed up by material possessions may offer showbottle devotional service to the Deity and also offer prasadam to Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +44‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that people who are advanced in learning but attached to material enjoyment, who are puffed up by education, may offer showbottle devotional service to the Deity and also offer prasadam to Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist −2‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that if something impedes the execution of devotional service, it should be understood to be impure. Pure devotees of the Lord do not accept impure principles ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,417‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that if an observer immediately remembers the holy name of Krsna upon seeing a Vaisnava, that Vaisnava should be considered a maha-bhagavata, a first-class devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist −2‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that a devotee is attracted by the service of the inhabitants of Vrndavana - namely the cowherd men, Maharaja Nanda, mother Yasoda, Radharani, the gopis and the cows and calves ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3811:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +15‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that any Vaisnava who is constantly chanting the holy name of the Lord should be considered to have attained the second platform of Vaisnavism ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3811:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,482‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that all writers after Vrndavana dasa Thakura who are pure devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and who have tried to describe the Lord's activities are to be considered like Vyasa ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3811:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +44‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati says that Caitanya, the ocean of mercy, chastised Junior Haridasa, although Junior Haridasa was His dear devotee, to establish that one in the devotional line, engaged in pure devotional service, should not be a hypocrite ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,883‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada says, Persons without attainment of the highest perfectional stage of loving service cannot achieve any auspiciousness simply by artificially laughing, crying, or dancing without any spiritual understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,740‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja says in this connection (person who may be materially exalted but doesn't worship Gaura): “O living entities, simply engage yourselves in Krsna consciousness. This is the message of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.” ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,160‎ Regarding the variety of personalities known as Bhagavan, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the Personality of Godhead known as Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that His expansions are also called the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3611:36, 22 July 2022 diff hist +27‎ Referring to the words laksa-grantha, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the total number of verses written by Rupa Gosvami is 100,000 (eka-laksa or laksa-grantha). The copyists count both the verses and the prose sections of the Sanskrit works ‎No edit summary
• 11:3611:36, 22 July 2022 diff hist −2‎ In this (CC Madhya 2.47) connection, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the lovable Supreme Lord is the supreme shelter ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3511:35, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,891‎ In his Anubhasya Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada says that Bhagavata Acarya was formerly among the followers of Advaita Acarya but was later counted among the followers of Gadadhara Pandita ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3511:35, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,130‎ In his Anubhasya commentary, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that this stage - devotional service mixed with speculative knowledge - is also external and not within the jurisdiction of pure devotional service as practiced in Vaikunthaloka ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3411:34, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,408‎ In connection with this verse (CC Madhya 3.6), which is a quotation from SB 11.23.57, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati says that of the 64 items required for rendering devotional service, acceptance of the symbolic marks of sannyasa is a regulative principle ‎No edit summary
• 11:3311:33, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,152‎ Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that material lust should never be attributed to Krsna, who is full of transcendental knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3311:33, 22 July 2022 diff hist +27‎ Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Says: My dear mind, you are trying to imitate Haridasa Thakura and chant the Hare Krsna mantra in a secluded place, but you are not worth being called a Vaisnava because what you want is cheap popularity ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3211:32, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,553‎ Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami says that sometimes persons who have no love of Godhead at all display ecstatic bodily symptoms. Artificially they sometimes laugh, cry and dance just like madmen, but this cannot help one progress in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current