User contributions for Amala Sundari
30 September 2022
- 07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,173 The idea is that they (demoniac human beings) do not know how to expend their energy for right causes, being unaware of the benefit of Krsna consciousness. Actually, there are two classes of men - one is Krsna conscious, the other is non-Krsna conscious No edit summary current
- 07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,138 There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (8) fraternizing with the Lord, and (9) sacrificing everything for Him No edit summary current
- 07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,132 There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (5) worshiping, (6) praying, (7) assisting No edit summary current
- 07:0007:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,268 There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (1) hearing, (2) chanting, (3) remembering, (4) serving the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:0007:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +46,906 It is in the polluted state that the conception of non-Krsna comes. In the pure state, however, there is nothing but Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
28 September 2022
- 15:4115:41, 28 September 2022 diff hist +1,797 When the great personality Prahlada Maharaja saw that the Supreme Lord was sitting there, surrounded and worshiped by His intimate associates like Sunanda, he was overwhelmed with tears of jubilation No edit summary
- 15:4115:41, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,894 The ruler Bhadrasrava and his intimate associates utter the following prayer: We offer our respectful obeisances unto the SPG, the reservoir of all religious principles, who cleanses the heart of the conditioned soul in this material world No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +5,925 The events of the rest (after twenty-four years) of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's forty-eight years were recorded in the diary of Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, another (like Murari Gupta) of His intimate associates No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +6,213 These intimate associates (Sri Ramananda Raya and Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami) of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu helped the Lord very much in the pastimes in which He felt like Radharani No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,072 Before His personal appearance, the Lord causes some of His devotees to appear as His mother, father and intimate associates. He then appears later as if He were taking birth and growing from a baby to a child and gradually into a youth No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,444 Without intelligence one cannot understand the direct activities of the senses, nor can he understand dreaming or the cessation of all gross and subtle activities No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,571 Without intelligence, nobody can understand Krsna philosophy. Dull-headed, poor fund of knowledge, they cannot understand Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,896 The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without intelligence? No edit summary current
- 11:2811:28, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,031 The potent words of such realized souls (saints and sages) penetrate the heart, thereby eradicating all misgivings accumulated through years of undesirable association No edit summary current
- 11:2711:27, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,240 The first degradation is undesirable association, the first degradation; then no more respect for scriptural injunction, second degradation No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +11,820 It so happens sometimes that one surrenders himself unto the service of the Lord by some temporary sentiment, and in the long run, due to so many other reasons, he falls down from the path of service by undesirable association No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +9,647 By self-control one can be free from false hopes, and money can be saved by avoiding undesirable association No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,765 Association with a devotee, the mercy of Krsna, and the nature of devotional service help one to give up all undesirable association and gradually attain elevation to the platform of love of Godhead No edit summary
- 11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,756 An intelligent man should give up such undesirable association and should always mix with saintly persons. When he is in association with saintly persons, all his doubts about the spiritual expansion of life are eradicated No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,089 To insult a chaste woman means to bring about disaster in the duration of life. Duhsasana, a brother of Duryodhana, insulted Draupadi, an ideal chaste lady, and therefore the miscreants died untimely No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,086 Gandhari was an ideal chaste lady, a life companion of her husband, and therefore when she saw her husband burning in the fire of mystic yoga along with his cottage of leaves, she despaired No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +12,595 Gandhari: The ideal chaste lady in the history of the world. She was the daughter of Maharaja Subala, the King of Gandhara (now Kandahar in Kabul), and in her maiden state she worshiped Lord Siva No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +21,672 Krsna says, "Yes, it (heat) is My energy." So my knowledge is perfect. Because I take the version of the greatest scientist, I am the greatest scientist No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +9 I may be a fool personally, but because I take knowledge from the greatest scientist (Krsna), I am the greatest scientist. I have no difficulty No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,238 I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person. BG 15.18 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 11:1611:16, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,585 Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person No edit summary current
- 11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist −15 We have prescribed in our Society that all our students must chant at least sixteen rounds daily. Such chanting must be offenseless in order to be of high quality No edit summary current
- 11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,431 I am always pleased and looking forward to seeing more beautiful pictures in our books. In India we make life members simply from the high quality and appearance of our books with illustrations. Our society is unrivalled in this respect No edit summary current
- 11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,241 In India we make life members simply from the high quality and appearance of our books with illustrations. Our society is unrivalled in this respect and this is your credit who are working so selflessly to illustrate my books No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 28 September 2022 diff hist +7,609 High quality devotee No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,867 Because the queens accepted the high quality of devotional service, namely administering the Lord all comforts, the Lord played the part of a faithful and complete husband No edit summary current
- 11:0711:07, 28 September 2022 diff hist −13 A devotee acts completely under the direction of the Supreme Lord. Thus his actions may not appear to be of a very high quality to the common man, but the devotee has no responsibility No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 28 September 2022 diff hist −13 The social construction of the world has changed so much that there is no possibility of one's practicing celibacy from the beginning of student life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 09:0509:05, 28 September 2022 diff hist +6,306 The complete social construction is the body of the Lord, and all the parts of the body, namely the brahmanas, the ksatriyas, the vaisyas and the sudras, are meant to serve the Lord's whole body conjointly No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 28 September 2022 diff hist +5,985 Indirectly it is said that the whole Vedic social construction of human society is so made that everyone acts as a part and parcel of the complete body of the Lord No edit summary current
- 06:2906:29, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,989 The blue lotuses are friends of the sun-god, and though they all live together, the blue lotuses plunder the cakravakas. The red lotuses, however, blossom at night and are therefore strangers or enemies to the cakravakas No edit summary
- 06:2706:27, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,348 This saffron cloth is unfit for a Vaisnava to wear; therefore I (Sanatana Gosvami) have no use for it. I shall give it to a stranger No edit summary
26 September 2022
- 12:5512:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,767 Without understanding the intricacies of Krsna, the SP of God, and without knowing His uncommon spiritual opulences, the innocent cowherd boys & men of Vrndavana began to discuss the wonderful activities of Krsna, which surpass the activities of all men No edit summary current
- 12:5412:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,836 Whereas Krsna, the Absolute Truth, the SPG, is full of transcendental bliss, possesses all six spiritual opulences in full, and is the master of the material energy, the small conditioned soul, who is always unhappy, is the servant of the material energy No edit summary
- 12:5412:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,824 What is the use of the material body, which automatically leaves its owner at the end of life? & what is the use of all one's family members, who are actually plunderers taking away money that is useful for the service of the Lord in spiritual opulence? No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,728 Krsna said to Uddhava, "Even if they are offered the four kinds of spiritual opulences, they will refuse to accept them. So what to speak of their desiring anything within the material world" No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,858 Everything about the Supreme Personality of Godhead is spiritual, including His body, opulence and paraphernalia. Mayavada philosophy, however, covering His spiritual opulence, advocates the theory of impersonalism No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,657 According to direct understanding, the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has all spiritual opulences. No one can be equal to or greater than Him No edit summary current
- 12:5112:51, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,934 Nondevotees, because of their meager knowledge and speculative habits, cannot understand the real nature of the Lord No edit summary current
- 12:5012:50, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,984 Impersonalists who depend upon the strength of their poor fund of knowledge and morbid speculative habits cannot penetrate to the mysterious region of transcendence where the Supreme Truth is a transcendental person No edit summary current
- 12:5012:50, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,185 For a neophyte devotee there are two kinds of persons whose association is undesirable: (2) unbelievers who do not serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead but serve their senses and their mental whims in terms of their speculative habits No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,134 As there are schools and colleges to train students to become chemical engineers, lawyers or specialists in many other departments of knowledge, there must be schools and colleges to train students to become brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,204 As there are schools & colleges to train students to become chemical engineers, lawyers or specialists in many other departments of knowledge, there must be schools and colleges to train students to become brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas & sannyasis No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 26 September 2022 diff hist +10,858 The conditioned soul is very proud of becoming the husband of even one wife, but the Lord laughs at this; the intelligent man can know who is the real husband. Factually, the Lord is the husband of all the women in His creation No edit summary current
- 10:1010:10, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,203 The chaste and very beautiful Sukanya could not distinguish her husband from the two Asvini-kumaras, for they were equally beautiful. Not understanding who her real husband was, she took shelter of the Asvini-kumaras No edit summary current
- 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