User contributions for Amala Sundari
26 September 2022
- 10:1010:10, 26 September 2022 diff hist +13,917 Krsna is the real husband of all living entities, who are described as prakrti (female), not purusa (male) No edit summary current
- 10:1010:10, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,742 Krsna is the real husband not only of the gopis, but of every living entity. Everyone should perfectly understand that Krsna is the real husband of all living entities, who are described in the Bhagavad-gita as prakrti (female), not purusa (male) No edit summary current
- 10:0910:09, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,744 King Vena replied: You are not at all experienced. It is very much regrettable that you are maintaining something which is not religious and are accepting it as religious. Indeed, I think you are giving up your real husband, who maintains you No edit summary current
- 10:0910:09, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,094 Factually the only real husband of all women is Krsna, the supreme husband. Because the gopis were liberated souls, they understood this fact. Therefore they rejected their material husbands and accepted Krsna as their real husband No edit summary current
- 08:5408:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +4,488 The determined faith (in Supreme Lord) is called drdha-vrata, & it is the beginning of bhakti-yoga or transcendental loving service. That is the verdict of all scriptures. This Seventh Chapter of the Gita is the substance of that conviction. BG 1972 pur No edit summary current
- 08:5408:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,945 Without being qualified, one cannot become a brahmana or medical practitioner, and that is the verdict of all scriptures and social orders No edit summary current
- 07:4107:41, 26 September 2022 diff hist +39 No one is equal to or greater than Him, and that is the verdict of all scriptures No edit summary current
- 07:4107:41, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,339 If one is serious about escaping maya's influence and returning home, back to Godhead, one must associate with a sadhu (devotee). That is the verdict of all scriptures No edit summary current
- 07:4107:41, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,013 Determined faith is called drdha-vrata, and it is the beginning of bhakti-yoga, or transcendental loving service. That is the verdict of all scriptures No edit summary current
- 05:1705:17, 26 September 2022 diff hist −9 We are all under authority, yet we say that we don't want authority. This is called maya, illusion. We do, however, have a certain independence - we can choose to be under the authority of our senses or the authority of Krsna No edit summary current
- 05:1705:17, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,658 Guru refers to one who gives proper direction under the authority of the Vedic injunctions and according to the examples of the lives of great personalities. The best way to mold one's life is to follow in the footsteps of the authorized personalities No edit summary
- 04:5604:56, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,363 When the yogi is controlled by the mind, he falls down into the material condition. One should be very careful of the mind, just as a husband should be careful of an unchaste wife No edit summary current
- 04:5504:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +12,479 The purpose is that our mind is like that, pumscali, unchaste wife. Not that everyone is unchaste. We have got many example, the character of woman No edit summary current
- 04:5504:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,152 My dear Uddhava, that man is certainly most miserable who takes care of a cow that gives no milk, an unchaste wife, a body totally dependent on others, useless children or wealth not utilized for the right purpose No edit summary current
- 04:5504:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +1,898 My dear gentle wife, because you have worshiped me with great devotion, considering me a representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I shall reward you by fulfilling your desires, which are unobtainable for an unchaste wife No edit summary current
- 04:5404:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +8,097 Lord Krsna said, "Actually, one cannot be happy without executing his proper prescribed duty. One who does not, therefore, properly discharge his prescribed duties is compared to an unchaste wife" No edit summary current
- 04:5404:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,727 An uncontrolled mind and an unchaste wife are the same. An unchaste wife can kill her husband at any time, and an uncontrolled mind, followed by lust, anger, greed, madness, envy and illusion, can certainly kill the yogi No edit summary current
- 04:4204:42, 26 September 2022 diff hist +1,798 I shall try to teach the local boys in the way of performing Sankirtana in a circle No edit summary current
24 September 2022
- 14:4914:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,952 This Krsna consciousness movement is a self-purification movement. The method is vibration of transcendental sound. This Hare Krsna, this sound, is not material sound. It is descended from the spiritual world No edit summary
- 14:4914:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,674 One should attempt to write for self-purification. It may be published or it may not be published, but that does not matter No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,385 No one can count the unlimited followers of Nityananda Prabhu. I have mentioned some of them just for my self-purification No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,859 It is by the mercy of all these Vaisnavas and gurus that I attempt to write about the pastimes and qualities of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Whether I know it or know not, it is for self-purification that I write this book No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,576 If we want peace and prosperity in the world, we should take lessons from this verse; every state and every home must endeavor to advance the cause of 1) brahminical culture for self-purification No edit summary current
- 14:4714:47, 24 September 2022 diff hist +81,252 By this process of karma-yoga, one gradually attains self-purification, then transcendental knowledge, next perfect meditation, and ultimately transcendental service to the Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 12:2812:28, 24 September 2022 diff hist +20,025 Unfortunately, at the present moment, the word guru refers to someone who can give bodily medicine No edit summary current
- 12:2812:28, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,808 The word guru refers to the spiritual master who initiates his disciple into advancement in the science of Krsna, or Krsna consciousness, as stated by Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura - sri-bhagavan-mantropadesake gurav ity arthah No edit summary current
- 12:2712:27, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,658 The word guru refers to No edit summary current
- 12:2712:27, 24 September 2022 diff hist +20,203 The word guru means "heavy," heavy with knowledge. And what is that knowledge? Tad-vijnana. That heaviness is brahma-nistha - attachment to Brahman and to Para-brahman, Bhagavan. That is the guru's qualification No edit summary current
- 12:2612:26, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,183 The word guru may be translated as "heavy," or "the supreme" No edit summary current
- 12:2512:25, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9,651 The word guru is equally applicable to the vartma-pradarsaka-guru, siksa-guru and diksa-guru. Unless we accept the principle enunciated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, this Krsna consciousness movement cannot spread all over the world No edit summary current
- 12:2412:24, 24 September 2022 diff hist +27 The word guru-prasada indicates that the spiritual master is very merciful in bestowing the boon of devotional service upon the disciple. That is the best possible gift the spiritual master has to offer No edit summary current
- 12:2312:23, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9 There is specific mention of the word gurum, which indicates the Supreme Personality as caitya-guru No edit summary current
- 12:2012:20, 24 September 2022 diff hist +6,915 From all angles of vision the word guru is especially meant for the bona fide representative of Krsna and no one else No edit summary current
- 11:2111:21, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,664 One should always be careful to keep his body clean by bathing, brushing teeth, changing clothes, etc. As far as internal cleanliness is concerned, one should always remember the holy names of God and chant Hare Krsna (maha-mantra). BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:1811:18, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,198 You have manifested all these transcendental truths in my heart. This is exactly the way Narayana educated Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 11:1811:18, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,759 There is a variety of transcendental truths - the truth about Krsna, the truth about Radharani, the truth about Their loving affairs, the truth about transcendental humors, and the truth about the Lord's pastimes No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,059 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has personally preached the transcendental truths and mellows of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srimad-Bhagavatam and the Supreme Personality of Godhead are identical, for Srimad-Bhagavatam is the sound incarnation of Sri Krsna No edit summary
- 10:5110:51, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,083 The ideal husband-and-wife relationship is very nicely described in this statement. Kardama Muni gave Devahuti all sorts of comforts in his duty as a husband, but he was not at all attached to his wife No edit summary current
- 10:5110:51, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,210 Siva is very peaceful and very great devotee and most powerful at the same time. So that is the ideal husband No edit summary current
- 10:5010:50, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,074 No ideal husbands and wives No edit summary current
- 10:5010:50, 24 September 2022 diff hist +7,303 Lord Krsna and His queens remained together as husband and wife, and Krsna, as an ideal husband, treated them in such a way that at every moment there was an increase of transcendental bliss in their smiling exchanges, talking and mixing No edit summary current
- 10:4910:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,243 In Hindu society, unmarried girls are still taught to worship Lord Siva with the idea that they may get husbands like him. Lord Siva is the ideal husband, not in the sense of riches or sense gratification, but because he is the greatest of all devotees No edit summary current
- 10:4910:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,601 Ideal husband-and-wife relationship No edit summary current
- 10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,919 As Lord Ramacandra is the ideal husband (eka-patni-vrata), mother Sita is the ideal wife. Such a combination makes family life very happy. Yad yad acarati sresthas tat tad evetaro janah: whatever example a great man sets, common people follow No edit summary current
- 10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +8 As an ideal husband, Lord Jagannatha remained fifteen days in a secluded place with His wife, the supreme goddess of fortune. Nonetheless, the Lord wanted to come out of seclusion to give happiness to His devotees No edit summary current
- 10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,039 An ideal husband and wife are generally called Laksmi-Narayana to compare them to the Lord and the goddess of fortune, for it is significant that Laksmi-Narayana are forever happy as husband and wife No edit summary current
- 10:2510:25, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,098 Its limbs were so beautiful that they increased the beauty of the ornaments worn on different parts of His body No edit summary current
- 10:2510:25, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,019 In His early pastimes He appears as a householder with a golden complexion. His limbs are beautiful, and His body, smeared with the pulp of sandalwood, seems like molten gold No edit summary current
- 10:2410:24, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,888 His (Lord Visnu's) arms stretched down to His knees, and all His beautiful limbs were smeared with sandalwood and decorated with glittering ornaments. He wore yellow clothes, and by either side stood His energies Bhumi and Nila No edit summary current
- 10:2310:23, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,614 Bali Maharaja, jubilant at seeing Lord Vamanadeva, whose beautiful limbs contributed equally to the beauty of His entire body, offered Him a seat with great satisfaction No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9,591 The man who worships the Lord, the Lord Himself who is worshiped, the cause for which the Lord is worshiped, the source of supply, the place where such worship is done, etc. - everything is benefited by such an action No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,705 The Lord supplies the necessities of all living entities. These necessities come from the earth, and thus the earth is the source of supply No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,557 The example given here (in SB 10.4.19) is that pots and dolls are produced from the earth, and when broken or destroyed they mingle with their original ingredients. In any case, the source of supply remains the same No edit summary
- 10:1110:11, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,033 Pasturing ground for the cows - the grass is produced by rains, and the animals, they eat the grass, and they produce milk. You require milk. So everything, the main source of supply is the rainfall from the sky No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,310 A son's duty is not only to make the father the source of supply for all his needs, but also, when he is grown up, to render service unto him. That is the law of creation beginning from the time of Brahma No edit summary current
- 10:0310:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist −14 The silkworm wraps itself in a cocoon made of its own saliva, until he is in a prison from which he cannot escape. In the same way, a materialistic householder's entanglement becomes so tight that he cannot come out of the cocoon of family attraction No edit summary current
- 10:0310:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,688 The influence of the modes of nature is very strong. The living entity entangled in different types of fruitive activity is like a silkworm trapped in a cocoon. Getting free is very difficult unless he is helped by the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,478 The attached householder is like a silkworm, which weaves a cocoon in which it becomes imprisoned, unable to get out. Simply for the satisfaction of two important senses - the genitals and the tongue - one is bound by material conditions No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist −14 Now Prahlada Maharaja makes a further statement about the complications of material life. He compares the attached householder to the silkworm No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,181 If we do not act in Krsna consciousness we shall be entangled, like silkworms in cocoons. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, appears in order to teach us how to work so that we will not be entangled in this material world No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,808 He (the foolish embodied living entity, inept at controlling his senses and mind) is like a silkworm that uses its own saliva to create a cocoon and then becomes trapped in it, with no possibility of getting out No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,761 A living being is entrapped by his fruitive activities, exactly like a silkworm trapped in its own cocoon. Foolish persons are generally encaged by their fruitive actions (karma) because of a strong desire to enjoy this material world No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,645 In the Twentieth Chapter the Lord's meeting with Sanatana Gosvami is described. The Lord described the personal features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in depth No edit summary
- 09:0409:04, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,293 A challenging spirit before the spiritual master should be avoided if one is at all interested in learning the Vedic instructions in depth No edit summary
- 09:0409:04, 24 September 2022 diff hist +39,069 There is but one way to perceive things in the depth of darkness. Only if somebody brings a light into the darkness is it truly possible to see things as they are. Similarly, the light of knowledge is kindled by our preceptors No edit summary current
- 09:0309:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,906 O Maharaja Pariksit, subduer of enemies, this Revata constructed a kingdom known as Kusasthali in the depths of the ocean. There he lived and ruled such tracts of land as Anarta, etc. He had one hundred very nice sons, of whom the eldest was Kakudmi No edit summary current
- 09:0309:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,093 The impression (of a previous life) is there in the stockpile of the mind, and it suddenly expresses itself. It is like fermentation taking place in the depths of water, which sometimes manifests itself in bubbles on the water's surface No edit summary current
- 08:5908:59, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,866 The wrongdoer is misled by bad associates and by ill advice, which is against the established principles of the Lord's order, and thus he becomes subject to punishment No edit summary current
- 08:5808:58, 24 September 2022 diff hist +6,877 The King of Kalinga was a friend of Rukmi and gave him the ill advice to play chess with Balarama and thus defeat Him in a bet. Among ksatriya kings, gambling on chess was not uncommon No edit summary
- 08:5808:58, 24 September 2022 diff hist +7,637 In spite of this divine voice (voice from sky), Rukmi insisted that Balarama had lost, and by his persistence it appeared that he had death upon his head. Falsely puffed up by the ill advice of his friend, he did not give much importance to the oracle No edit summary current
- 08:5808:58, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,914 Falsely puffed up by the ill advice of his friend, Rukmi did not give much importance to the oracle, and he began to criticize Balaramaji No edit summary current
- 08:5808:58, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,902 Duryodhana was bereft of his fortune and duration of life because of the intricacy of ill advice given by Karna, Duhsasana and Saubala No edit summary current
- 08:5208:52, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,852 The atmosphere is already polluted with corruption of all description, and everyone knows it well. There are so many unwanted literatures full of materialistic ideas of sense gratification No edit summary current
- 08:5208:52, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,207 One should reject all ideas of religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation and fully engage in the service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 08:5208:52, 24 September 2022 diff hist +6,506 Mucukunda continued, "I wanted to be the master of the whole world, and as I became puffed up with ideas of sense gratification, my bodily concept of life became stronger and stronger" No edit summary current
- 08:5108:51, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,343 Mind is the center of all the activities of the senses, and thus the mind is the reservoir of all ideas of sense gratification; and, as a result, the mind and the senses become the repositories of lust. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
17 September 2022
- 13:4313:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,148 We have got already fifteen branches as follows: New York City; Boston; San Francisco; Vancouver, B.C.; Canada; Honolulu, Hawaii; New Vrindaban, an ideal Krishna Consciousness community; and London, England; and Berlin, Germany No edit summary current
- 13:4313:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,904 The ideal Krishna Conscious community No edit summary current
- 13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,117 Our ideal Vedic community will attract everyone on its own merit No edit summary current
- 13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +7,740 Living as an ideal community No edit summary current
- 13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,916 I am going in a few days to San Francisco to speak at the San Francisco State University there on the topic of "Krsna Consciousness: The Best Alternative Life Style, the Ideal Community, the New Social Order" No edit summary current
- 13:4113:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,515 Go on developing New Vrindaban into an ideal community, and I shall be pleased to see the new additions when I come there No edit summary current
- 13:4113:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,019 Be very serious to develop New Vrindaban nicely so that we can show the world how the ideal God-conscious community is working No edit summary current
- 13:4113:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,073 Before I came to your country, I was thinking to establish an ideal Vedic community No edit summary current
- 13:3613:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,439 There is no hindrance of your being a householder so far as distributing books are concerned. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu had many householder disciples who would preach Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 13:3613:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,076 I am especially proud how my householder disciples are preaching Lord Caitanya's Mission. This is a new thing in the history of the Sankirtana Movement No edit summary current
- 13:3513:35, 17 September 2022 diff hist +35 All the temples of Vrndavana were certainly started by the Six Gosvamis. Later the worship in the temples was entrusted to some householder disciples of the Gosvamis, and since then the hereditary title of gosvami has been used No edit summary
- 13:1013:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,950 You have learned the life of a Sannyasi now it is my desire that you apply for some concrete results in this new field. If you do it, it will be a very great service to the Movement & humanity at large & I will be very pleased with this work No edit summary current
- 13:1013:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,293 You are by managing the temple as a president you are doing a very great service to humanity. So please continue in this way and make it nicer and nicer No edit summary current
- 13:0913:09, 17 September 2022 diff hist +5,076 Yes, if you can inject this Krishna Consciousness to the young children, it will be a great service to the humanity and to the Lord No edit summary current
- 13:0813:08, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,964 The spreading of this Sankirtana Movement is the best service to the greater humanity and all living entities in general because it revives the divine nature of the soul in Krsna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 13:0713:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,261 The spell of Maya is very strong, and to save a living entity from such clutches is the greatest service to the humanity No edit summary current
- 13:0613:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,853 Simply your sincerity of service is required and He will dictate from within you how to make your thesis. It will be a great service to the humanity, especially to the Western world No edit summary current
- 13:0613:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist −24 Our married couples are rendering the greatest service to humanity, their countrymen, and to their parents, of that kindly be assured by me. Do not worry for anything in this connection No edit summary current
- 13:0513:05, 17 September 2022 diff hist +5,339 Our married couples are rendering the greatest service to humanity, their countrymen, and to their parents, of that kindly be assured by me No edit summary current
- 12:5812:58, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,605 Now each one of us has got a great responsibility to spread this movement as far as possible and that is the greatest service to the suffering humanity No edit summary current
- 12:5712:57, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,551 Murari Gupta could treat both bodily and spiritual disease because he was a physician by profession and a great devotee of the Lord in terms of spiritual advancement. This is an example of service to humanity No edit summary current
- 12:5512:55, 17 September 2022 diff hist +8,125 I request you, all English boys and girls present here, now you become greater than your forefathers by taking this Krsna consciousness. That will make you more powerful, spiritually powerful. You can render service to the humanity No edit summary current
- 12:5412:54, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,154 In our books we have scientifically covered demons & if these books are introduced in the schools & colleges, so many beautiful souls will be saved. Your are doing a great service to humanity to introduce our books to the people in general No edit summary current
- 12:5412:54, 17 September 2022 diff hist +8,075 If you (David Lawrence) take that process and allow this Krsna consciousness among the students, oh, it will be great service to the humanity. As a teacher, you will give the greatest service No edit summary current