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20 January 2023

• 12:1612:16, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,646‎ The sound vibration created by the flute of Krsna caused Lord Brahma, who was sitting on the lotus flower for the creative function, to become astonished ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 20 January 2023 diff hist +1,955‎ The Rsi Maitreya said: The Lord thus heard about the suspension of the progressive creative functions of the universe due to the noncombination of His potencies, such as the mahat-tattva ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 20 January 2023 diff hist +26,646‎ The creative function of the living entity is properly manifested in the liberated state. If the living entity's activities are manifest even when he is materially conditioned, then how is it possible for his activities to stop when he attains liberation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,006‎ Any creative function in the universe always has a direct connecting link with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0412:04, 20 January 2023 diff hist +43,788‎ In the first verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said that the Supreme Lord inspired a secondary creator, Brahma, and enabled him to carry out his creative functions. In this way the Supreme Lord is the supervising engineer ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0212:02, 20 January 2023 diff hist +32‎ Fully satisfied by the answers of the sage Maitreya, Vidura wanted to understand the remaining portions of the creative function of the Lord, and he took the clue from the previous topics ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2411:24, 20 January 2023 diff hist +5,780‎ When a man dies, he is called dead, but when he again appears in a subtle form not visible to our present vision and yet acts, such a dead body is called a ghost ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1711:17, 20 January 2023 diff hist −3‎ We have got this gross body, and when the gross body is finished, then I keep myself in this mental body. That is called ghostly body ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,131‎ Those who are very sinful & attached to their family, house, village or country do not receive a gross body made of material elements but remain in a subtle body, composed of mind, ego, intelligence. Those who live in such subtle bodies are called ghosts ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,034‎ Sometimes, because of too much sinful activity, the living entity does not get a material gross body, but hovers on the subtle platform. This is called ghostly life ‎No edit summary current

19 January 2023

• 15:2615:26, 19 January 2023 diff hist +3,068‎ Lalayanti. Sometimes a mother lifts her child, and when the child falls in her hands, the child laughs, and the mother also enjoys pleasure. Yasoda used to do this, but this time Krsna became very heavy, and she could not bear His weight ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1215:12, 19 January 2023 diff hist +2,953‎ By our calculation, a universe may be very, very heavy, but because the Lord is ananta (unlimited), He feels the weight to be no heavier than a mustard seed ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 19 January 2023 diff hist +1,383‎ Due to the Lord's heavy weight, the boat began to tilt. It began filling up with water and was on the verge of sinking ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 19 January 2023 diff hist −13‎ A drowning man with a heavy weight on his head is sure to go down more swiftly than those who have no heavy weight ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5011:50, 19 January 2023 diff hist +1,396‎ I was greatly pleased to have the garland signifying the order of the Lord, and then and there I commenced to write this book ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 19 January 2023 diff hist +1,489‎ I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) was greatly pleased to have the garland signifying the order of the Lord, and then and there I commenced to write this book (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta) ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 19 January 2023 diff hist +8,810‎ In this verse SB 10.2.32 where such persons (who say that whatever process one accepts will lead to the same goal) are referred to as vimukta-maninah, signifying that although they think they have attained the highest perfection, in fact they have not ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2410:24, 19 January 2023 diff hist +39,184‎ A tridandi-sannyasi carries three dandas, signifying kaya-mano-vakya-body, mind and words. All of these should be offered to Visnu, and then one can begin devotional service ‎No edit summary current

18 January 2023

• 15:4015:40, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,613‎ To take the jewel from the child, Krsna approached, stood before him. When the nurse taking care of Rksa's child saw Krsna standing before her, she was afraid, thinking He might take away the valuable Syamantaka jewel, and she cried out loudly in fear ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3815:38, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,489‎ The conditioned soul is sometimes illusioned and afraid. Sometimes he cries loudly out of fear. Sometimes he is happy maintaining his family, and sometimes he is overjoyed and sings melodiously ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3515:35, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4‎ These (sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping, sometimes crying out very loudly, sometimes singing, and sometimes dancing and forgetting himself) are the signs of becoming intoxicated in devotional service. This stage, called the atmarama stage ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3315:33, 18 January 2023 diff hist −13‎ Sometimes he (whose heart becomes slackened while chanting the holy name, he becomes almost like a madman) laughs, sometimes he weeps, sometimes he cries out very loudly, sometimes he sings, and sometimes he dances and forgets himself ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,046‎ I will advise you to chant on your lips since you become tired chanting out loud. Also you can sit and hear your Godbrothers chanting. And you can also hear tapes ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 18 January 2023 diff hist +8,021‎ His (person who is full KC) heart becomes slackened while chanting the holy name, he becomes almost like a madman, and he does not care for any outward social conventions. Thus sometimes he laughs, sometimes he weeps, sometimes he cries out very loudly ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,895‎ The Lord is also perpetually happy, and if we associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him, take part in His association, then also we become happy. The Lord descends on this mortal world to show His pastimes in Vrndavana full of happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,323‎ The illusory human civilization that perpetually endeavors for happiness through material advancement is rejected by Prahlada Maharaja and those who strictly follow in his footsteps ‎No edit summary
• 14:1214:12, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,714‎ The absolute happiness or the perpetual happiness or the greatest happiness is that which is enjoyed by supernatural senses ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 18 January 2023 diff hist +3,411‎ In this world, family life is exactly like a blazing fire in the forest. There is not the least happiness, and gradually one becomes more and more implicated in unhappiness. In household life, there is nothing favorable for perpetual happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,644‎ Conditioned souls seek after perpetual happiness in all places - not only on this earth but also on other planets throughout the universe - because constitutionally a spiritual spark, as he is, can travel to any part of God's creation ‎No edit summary
• 14:0314:03, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,927‎ By other processes he (conditioned soul) can reach anywhere, but even if he reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happiness for which he is searching life after life ‎No edit summary
• 13:5613:56, 18 January 2023 diff hist +15,543‎ You have got a tendency for sex life, take for example. This is your tendency. But if you can check it, that is your success ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 18 January 2023 diff hist +10‎ You have already mentioned the exemplary character of Lord Jesus Christ that he sacrificed everything for God. This example should be taken. The process should be to follow the example, not to imitate the exact activities ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,492‎ You cannot change your destiny. Now, take for example, there are so many agricultural improvement. Does it mean that there is no person who is needy? There are so many needy person. But has the agricultural education improved their lot? No ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 18 January 2023 diff hist +9,244‎ You cannot avoid the natural occurrence of various social divisions. Nature's caste system will remain. Take, for example, the brahminical quality of truthfulness. All over the world, wherever you go, you'll find at least one person who is truthful ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2612:26, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11‎ We are Krsna conscious. Now take any religion and take their highest conclusion - it is there in Krsna consciousness. Take for example Buddhism. They say nonviolence. Oh, we are nonviolent. Christianism, love of God ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11‎ The modern people, they do not know. They do not know it that material condition cannot be changed. Take, for example, the pig. His body is meant for eating stool. So you cannot induce him to eat halava. That cannot be. He'll not accept it ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,075‎ Take the example of a dead man. The senses, the hands, the nose, the sense organs, and everything is there, but now he cannot enjoy. The dead body, it cannot enjoy. Why? This requires intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,418‎ Take that example of the habit, if someone is smoking out of habit. So again. So is he free in that smoking, or is it..., has he completely surrendered his freedom? ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,756‎ Take for example Buddhism. They say nonviolence. Oh, we (persons in Krsna consciousness) are nonviolent ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 18 January 2023 diff hist −15‎ Take for example, buddhi. Buddhi means intelligence. And what is that intelligence? Real intelligence? Real intelligence is, to know, to understand that, "Krsna is the Supreme, and I am part and parcel." ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3411:34, 18 January 2023 diff hist +3,305‎ Take advantage of Prthu Maharaja's example ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3011:30, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,012‎ Our different centers are meant for organizing a group of pure devotees so that neophyte visitors may take examples from them and thus become attached to Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2811:28, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,309‎ Our acharya Bhaktivinode Thakura was the perfect householder and we should take his example. How nice a householder he was and how nice children he produced; one of them is my Guru Maharaja. That is the example ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2511:25, 18 January 2023 diff hist +28‎ No one can manufacture anything. Take, for example eatables for the nonvegetarians, like meats, etc., none of which can be manufactured by men. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +28‎ No one can manufacture anything. Take, for example, all the eatables of human society. These eatables include grains, fruits, vegetables, milk, sugar, etc., for the persons in the mode of goodness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1911:19, 18 January 2023 diff hist +10,019‎ Neither the King (Pariksit) nor the great speaker of the Bhagavatam jumped up like the organizers; both of them proceeded systematically, so that both future readers and hearers might take lessons from the example of the procedure of reciting it ‎No edit summary
• 11:1111:11, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,827‎ Krsna said, "My dear gopi friends, you may know from Me that it is My energies only which are acting everywhere. Take, for example, an earthen pot. It is nothing but a combination of earth, water, air, fire and sky" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0611:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,403‎ Isvara means controller or the powerful man who controls. Take for example the president or the king. So there are many isvaras, or controllers. You are also isvara; I am also isvara ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,764‎ If we follow the Krsna conscious path... Now, take for example our wedding ceremonies. Now, the first thing that we take, the Ganapati, there is Ganasyainava, and there is various other deities that we have to respect. Now, what happens in his case? ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5810:58, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,098‎ From the earth, many varieties of manifestations take place. Take, for example, a big skyscraper manifested from the earth. When it is dismantled, the manifestation becomes again unmanifested and remains as atoms in the ultimate stage. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,063‎ Even in this fallen age if the rulers, governors and presidents take advantage of Prthu Maharaja's example, there will certainly be a reign of peace and prosperity throughout the world ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11‎ Any scripture of any country, not only of this BG, but any scripture, they are aiming simply how to get us back to Godhead. That is the purpose. take for example any of the great religious reformer or acaryas of any country, like, Jesus or Buddha ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2310:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,472‎ Good, or piety, that is God's frontage, and evil means God's back side. So taking this example, the chest or the back of my body, they are equal ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,652‎ When the artificially dressed personality of Kali saw that to fight Maharaja Pariksit was beyond his ability, he bowed down his head like a subordinate and gave up his royal dress ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,182‎ The royal dress of the personality of Kali is artificial ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,598‎ The royal dress is suitable for a king or ksatriya, but when a lower-class man artificially dresses himself as a king, his real identity is disclosed by the challenge of a bona fide ksatriya like Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,925‎ The purpose of Your appearance is to kill the followers of the demoniac rulers of the world, who are in the dress of royal princes but are actually demons. I (Vasudeva) am sure that You (Krsna) will kill all of them and their followers and soldiers ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,447‎ The elected show-bottle executive head, as representative of a degraded public, cannot be equal with a strong king like Maharaja Pariksit. The dress or style of royal order does not count. It is one's actions which are counted ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,033‎ She thought of Him in the calm and quiet atmosphere of Vrndavana, dressed as a cowherd boy. But at Kuruksetra He was in a royal dress and was accompanied by elephants, horses and crowds of men. Thus the atmosphere was not congenial for Their meeting ‎No edit summary current

17 January 2023

• 16:0516:05, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,051‎ Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya suggested, "On that Ratha-yatra festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will enter the Gundica garden. At that time you (King Prataparudra) should go there alone, without your royal dress" ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0316:03, 17 January 2023 diff hist +1,778‎ On that Ratha-yatra festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will enter the Gundica garden. At that time you should go there alone, without your royal dress ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0116:01, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13‎ Maharaja Yudhisthira to become spiritually pure, at once gave up his royal opulence, relinquishing his royal dress and garments ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5915:59, 17 January 2023 diff hist +1,857‎ Here at Kuruksetra You are dressed like a royal prince, accompanied by great warriors, but in Vrndavana You appeared just like an ordinary cowherd boy, accompanied only by Your beautiful flute ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5715:57, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,418‎ Following Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya's instructions, the King had given up his royal dress. He now entered the garden in the dress of a Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5515:55, 17 January 2023 diff hist +25‎ Being village girls, they (the gopis) were not very much attracted to the field of Kuruksetra, where Krsna was present with elephants, horses and royal dress. Indeed, they did not very much appreciate Krsna in that atmosphere ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2015:20, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,949‎ Where is this consciousness of surrender come in human life? At what stage it can come? ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist −14‎ When our consciousness is actually in the clear stage, we can understand our particular relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 17 January 2023 diff hist +36‎ The state of contaminated consciousness is compared to dream consciousness, and Krsna consciousness is compared to the awakened stage of life. Actually, as stated in Bhagavad-gita, the only absolute enjoyer is Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 14:5714:57, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,110‎ The human being is endowed with a higher, advanced stage of consciousness for getting relief from the existence of material miseries, but due to his ignorance he thinks that his higher consciousness is meant for advancing in the material comforts of life ‎No edit summary
• 14:5514:55, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,518‎ The highest stage of spiritual consciousness is Krsna consciousness. KC means, "I am Krsna's," that's all. Krsna says, "All these living entities, they are My part and parcel." So you have to understand this relationship with Krsna, that you are Krsna's ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,820‎ Suppose you are sleeping, and if I vibrate some sound, you can hear and can wake up. No other method will act. Similarly, at the present moment it is our sleeping stage. Therefore this transcendental vibration will awaken to spiritual consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 17 January 2023 diff hist −10‎ One should execute his spiritual activities in the svarupa-gata stage of consciousness. He should also chant such spiritual mantras as om namo bhagavate vasudevaya and the cin-mayi Gayatri ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 17 January 2023 diff hist +7,137‎ In the phenomenal manifestation there are three stages: the stage of consciousness, the stage of semiconsciousness in dreaming, and the stage of unconsciousness. But Your (Krsna's) Lordship is transcendental to all these material stages of existence ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 17 January 2023 diff hist +7,967‎ In the beginning of life, every living entity is food conscious. A child or an animal is satisfied only by getting nice food. This stage of consciousness, in which the goal is to eat sumptuously, is called anna-maya ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 17 January 2023 diff hist +9‎ If we act on the level of consciousness, then we can overcome the fruitive result of good work or bad work. It is a transcendental stage ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,432‎ First the soul has covered consciousness, then he reaches the stage of budding consciousness, then blossoming consciousness, and finally fully blossomed consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,693‎ Different living beings are situated in different consciousness, Some are satisfied in the matter of eating and sleeping, they are on the annamoya stage ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 17 January 2023 diff hist +13,800‎ Bhakti means the activities of the liberated stage. That is not material things. So this Krsna consciousness movement is little difficult to understand because these activities are for the persons who have already attained moksa ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13‎ A child or an animal is satisfied only by getting nice food. This stage of consciousness, in which the goal is to eat sumptuously, is called anna-maya ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,010‎ After this stage (prana-maya), when one is situated on the mental platform, his consciousness is called mano-maya ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0112:01, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,049‎ The surabhi cow said, "Therefore, You (Krsna) are our Indra, You are the supreme father of the whole cosmic manifestation, and You are the protector and elevator of all the cows, brahmanas, demigods and others who are pure devotees of Your Lordship" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5811:58, 17 January 2023 diff hist −1‎ One should directly approach Krsna, for that will save time and energy. For example, if there is a possibility of going to the top of a building by the help of an elevator, why should one go by the staircase, step by step? BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4311:43, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,576‎ You can say: "Why Krsna is so partial to the sadhus?" No. He gives protection to everyone. Without His protection, nobody can live. That's a fact. But He gives special protection to the sadhu, to the devotees. That is natural ‎No edit summary
• 11:4011:40, 17 January 2023 diff hist +38‎ The word parama-kalyana is significant because Krsna, in any of His incarnations, appears in order to protect the sadhus (paritranaya sadhunam) - BG 4.8 ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,875‎ The sadhu, who is a great devotee of the Lord, they might be tolerant. You can crucify him, can do any misbehavior to him. He's never angry. But God will never tolerate. We must always remember that. He has got special protection ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2611:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist −2‎ In India, for instance, when people were over-indulging in animal slaughter, Lord Buddha came to establish ahimsa, nonviolence to all living entities. Similarly, in the above-quoted verse BG 4.8, Sri Krsna says that He comes in order to protect the sadhus ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1611:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,503‎ Under the circumstances (in BG 2.13), it is admitted that Lord Krsna is the Supreme Lord, superior in position to the living entity, Arjuna, who is a forgotten soul deluded by maya. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,278‎ This transcendental knowledge (the arts of music, dance, dressing, decorations relished by god) is unknown to the forgotten conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,157‎ This sort of punishment (dunk someone and thrusting him completely underwater, and when he is almost suffocated take him out of the water and allow him to breathe and then again dunk him to suffocate) inflicted upon the forgotten soul by Yamaraja ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13‎ The fallen and forgotten souls are detached from the transcendental loving service of the Lord. The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord, and they are eternally servitors of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,589‎ By reestablishing relationship with God, even the most forgotten soul is roused up to the sense of spiritual life, and thus being initiated by the bhakti-vedantas, the people in general gradually progress on the path of transcendental realization ‎No edit summary
• 09:5609:56, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,527‎ The river will flow profusely to fertilize the land; the oceans will supply sufficient quantities of minerals, pearls and jewels; the forest will supply sufficient wood, drugs and vegetables ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,017‎ The ocean of Caitanya Mahaprabhu became filled with the jewels of the knowledge of pure devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,376‎ The oceans and seas are meant for producing jewels, but in Kali-yuga the oceans are mainly being utilized for fishing. Sudras and poor men were allowed to fish, but the higher classes like the ksatriyas and vaisyas would gather pearls, jewels and coral ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,358‎ The ocean, which is the source of all valuable jewels, supplied the upper and lower portions of a yellow silken garment. The predominating deity of the water, Varuna, presented flower garlands surrounded by six-legged bumblebees, drunken with honey ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 17 January 2023 diff hist −6‎ The flow of river waters fertilizes the fields, and there is more than what we need. Minerals are produced in the hills, and the jewels in the ocean ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,565‎ There (in the large palace within the water of the Karana Ocean) were many thousands of pillars and columns made of valuable jewels, and the glaring effulgence of those columns was so beautiful that Arjuna was charmed by it ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 17 January 2023 diff hist −26‎ Prabodhananda Sarasvati has composed in his Caitanya-candramrta (34): The advent of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is just like an expanding ocean of nectar. One who does not collect the valuable jewels within this ocean is certainly the poorest of the poor ‎No edit summary
• 09:3409:34, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,310‎ Oceans and seas produce pearls, coral and valuable jewels so that fortunate law-abiding people can utilize them. Similarly, the hills are full of chemicals so that when rivers flow down from them the chemicals spread over the fields to fertilize ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,000‎ King Prthu was presented with various gifts from the general populace and predominating deities of all planets. The oceans and seas were full of valuable jewels and pearls, and the hills were full of chemicals and fertilizers ‎No edit summary current