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5 April 2024
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist −13 When the black-eyed, beautiful Rukmini heard of the settlement, she immediately became very morose. However, being a king's daughter, she understood political diplomacy and decided that there was no use in simply being morose No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist +5 When He was caught, Krsna was almost on the point of crying. He smeared His hands over His eyes, which were anointed with black eye cosmetics. The child saw His mother’s face while she stood over Him, and His eyes became restless from fear No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist −13 King Malayadhvaja fathered one daughter, who had very black eyes. He also had seven sons, who later became rulers of that tract of land known as Dravida. Thus there were seven kings in that land No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist +5 Bilvamangala said, "I am eagerly waiting to see that boy of Vrndavana whose bodily beauty is captivating the whole universe, whose eyes are always bounded by black eyebrows and expanded like lotus petals" No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist +6 Because of his great affection for Krsna, King Iksvaku became greatly attached to the black cloud, the black deer, the deer's black eyes and the lotus flower, which is always compared to the eyes of the Lord No edit summary current
30 March 2024
- 08:1708:17, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 We Gaudiya Vaisnavas, under the guidance of Lord Caitanya, want steady attention for Krishna, not flickering. Therefore, in our line of thoughts and action there is no scope for worshiping any other demigods No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 We Gaudiya Vaishnavas, under the guidance of Lord Chaitanya, want steady attention for Krishna, not flickering. Therefore, in our line of thoughts and action there is no scope for worshiping any other demigods No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 Ksatriya's fight, it is not ordinary fight like cats and dogs. The cats and dogs also fight and the ksatriyas in the battlefield of Kuruksetra, under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are not the same No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 One should also consider that those who engage in the missionary activities of the Krsna consciousness movement are under the guidance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. They are not actually beggars; their real business is to deliver fallen souls No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 There is immense potency of preaching the philosophy of KC under the guidance of Lord Caitanya, and I wish that all my Godbrothers should go to different parts of the world and preach this sublime message everywhere, because that is the His desire No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 They (human being) are trying now to approach distant planetary systems by electronic mechanical power. But the highest goal of human civilization is to work hard under the guidance of the Lord (Krsna) and become completely dependent on Him No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +20 The fruitive actor enjoys only the fruits of his own activities, but a devotee, being under the guidance of the Supreme Lord, simply advances in devotional service to achieve the ultimate goal of life - to go back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +20 In Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.1) the Lord recommends, mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah. This indicates that one must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 He (Maharaja Yudhisthira) fought for the right cause under the guidance of Lord Sri Krsna, but he could not enjoy the results of his victory because his cousins were all killed in the fight No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist −2 As one can understand the presence of the air by the aromas it carries, so, under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can understand the living soul by these three divisions of intelligence No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 All these airs are generated from the center of the heart, which is one only. This central energy is superior energy of the Lord, who is seated within the heart with the soul of the body, who acts under the guidance of the Lord No edit summary current
28 March 2024
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 He said, "My Lord, You are the protector of brahminical culture, and You are also very merciful. Therefore, kindly show Your great mercy by protecting the religious principles of us two brahmanas" No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 From Karusa, another son of Manu, came the Karusa dynasty, a family of ksatriyas. The Karusa ksatriyas were the kings of the northern direction. They were celebrated protectors of brahminical culture and were all firmly religious No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 For protecting the cows and brahminical culture, the Lord, who is very kind to the cow and the brahmanas (go-brahmana-hitaya), will be pleased with us and will bestow upon us real peace No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 A society devoid of cow protection and brahminical culture is not under the direct protection of the Lord, just as the prisoners in the jails are not under the protection of the king but under the protection of a severe agent of the king No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 A king should protect brahminical culture and should be very alert to the welfare of his citizens; he should not be greedy due to attachment to material enjoyment No edit summary
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 At the present, especially on this planet earth, there is no protection of brahminical culture and cows, which are the basic prerequisites for all kinds of good fortune. This age is very dangerous because society is being managed by demons and Raksasas No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Although the inhabitants of Gokula were mostly cowherd men and cultivators, they knew how to defend themselves from danger and how to give protection to the women, the old men, the cows and the children, as well as to the brahminical purohitas No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist 0 If human society wants to be exalted, the leaders of society must follow the instructions of Bhagavad-gita and give protection to the cows, the brahmanas and brahminical culture No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Without the spread of brahminical culture and without proper protection from the government, no social standard can be maintained properly No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Without protection of cows, brahminical culture cannot be maintained; and without brahminical culture, the aim of life cannot be fulfilled No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 To remain under the jurisdiction or administration of such a king or leader (like Maharaja Prthu) is the perfect status for human society. The primary responsibility of such a king or leader is to protect the brahminical culture and the cows in his state No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 This (the need for brahminical culture and protection from the government) is admitted in this verse (SB 4.21.52) by the citizens of Maharaja Prthu, who could maintain the wonderful situation of his government due to his position in pure goodness No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 The Supreme Personality of Godhead respects and protects the brahmanas and brahminical culture, as well as the cows; in other words, wherever there are brahmanas and brahminical culture, there are cows and cow protection No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 The perfection of human life is attained by following three principles of civilization: protecting the cows, maintaining the brahminical culture and, above all, becoming a pure devotee of the Lord No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 The Lord is the protector of cows and the brahminical culture No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 The Lord is described as go-brahmana-hitaya because His incarnation is only for the protection of the cows & brahmanas. Unfortunately, because in Kali-yuga there is no protection of the cows and brahminical culture, everything is in a precarious position No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 One cannot become spiritually advanced without acquiring the brahminical qualifications and giving protection to cows No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Lord Krsna is the prime protector of brahminical culture and the cow. Without knowing and respecting these, one cannot realize the science of God, and without this knowledge, any welfare activities or humanitarian propaganda cannot be successful No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the prime protector of brahminical culture and the cow No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 It is the duty of the ksatriya kings to maintain the brahminical culture and protect the qualified brahmanas, and all these kings discharged their duties rightly No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 In Vedic culture, the welfare of the cows and the welfare of the brahmanas are essential. Without a proper arrangement for developing brahminical culture and protecting cows, all the affairs of administration will go to hell No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 If human society wants to be exalted, the leaders of society must follow the instructions of Bhagavad-gita and give protection to the cows, the brahmanas and brahminical culture No edit summary
- 06:1606:16, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 In flattering a woman, in joking, in a marriage ceremony, in earning one's livelihood, when one's life is in danger, in protecting cows and brahminical culture, or in protecting a person from an enemy's hand, falsity is never condemned No edit summary
9 March 2024
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 Without brahminical qualification one cannot understand Vedic knowledge. Therefore it is stated that a sudra is prohibited from reading Vedas. That does not mean that reading of Vedic culture or Vedic knowledge is monopolized by a certain class of men No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 What is the meaning of vrsalaih? Hmm? Unlawful meat-eaters. Unlawful meat-eaters. Just like at the modern age everyone is unlawful meat-eaters. There is a certain class of men always who are meat-eaters. Not the higher class No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 We know sanatana-dharma. We have heard it only. But sanatana-dharma is not limited to a certain class of men or certain class of society or certain kind of country No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 University is not restricted to a certain class. It is open for everyone. Everyone can go, take the knowledge. And similarly, prison house is open for everyone. Now you make your choice whether you go to university or prison house No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 The society requires to train a certain class of men to become brahmanas. Just like we are training the Krsna conscious. The Krsna consciousness is meant for the brahmanas No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 The propaganda by a certain class of impersonalists that spiritual life is void of all varieties is dangerous propaganda to mislead the living beings into becoming more and more attracted by material enjoyments No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 There are certain class of men who are simply philosophizing and there are certain class of men who are simply blindly following religious ritualistic process. So Bhagavad-gita is combination of both. That is scientific No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 Srila Jiva Gosvami Prabhu, therefore, affirms that recommendations in the scriptures for a certain class of men are never to be considered adharma, or irreligious. But such activities are factually adharma, and they are never to be encouraged No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 One who does not follow all these rules and regulations (according to the Vedic principles) is called a yavana or mleccha. One should not mistakenly think that these words refer to certain classes of men in other countries No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Nature can give you anything. After all, it is the nature that supplies your necessities, not the industry. Industry simply transformed in a different way, and a certain class make profit out of it. Industry does not mean really economic improvement No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 It is the nature that supplies your necessities, not the industry. Industry simply transformed in a different way, and a certain class make profit out of it No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 It is not a sectarian movement meant for a certain class of men, but it is a necessary movement for all humanity irrespective of caste, creed, or color No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 In the modern age a certain class of fools think that they can vote anyone into the position of God, as they can vote a man into the position of a political executive head. But the transcendental SPG is perfectly described in the authentic scriptures No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 We should try to understand that this place is full of miseries. It takes a certain amount of developed consciousness to understand this. Cats and dogs and hogs cannot understand that they are suffering No edit summary current
- 05:3105:31, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 We are already destined to have a certain amount of happiness and a certain amount of distress, and we cannot change that. The change we should make, therefore, is to get free from this material condition of life. That should be our only business No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 The whole Vedic civilization is based on the understanding that destiny allows only a certain amount of material happiness in this world, and that our efforts should therefore be directed toward self-realization No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 The Vedic system is this: The human being has a certain amount of energy - better energy than the animals', better consciousness - and that energy should be utilized for spiritual advancement No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 There are regulative directions for satisfaction of such senses because the body is made of senses, which also require a certain amount of satisfaction. But the senses are not meant for unrestricted enjoyment No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Sense enjoyment is also allowed to the lower animals by the law of nature, and thus a human being is also destined to a certain amount of sense enjoyment according to his past or present life No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Real happiness can be achieved in the spiritual world. Not in the material world. So certain amount of happiness and certain amount of distress we have to enjoy and suffer. You cannot change it. This is the law of nature in this material world No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 One can cultivate a garden. Anyone who has land-in India, at least, any poor man has a certain amount of land-can utilize that for Krsna by growing flowers to offer Him. He can sow tulasi plants. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Nobody is enjoying uninterrupted material happiness. That is not possible. A certain amount of material happiness and a certain amount of material distress - these both must be present always No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 In a prohibited area a habituated drunkard puts forward his application to the director of drinking, and the director, considering his case, sanctions only a certain amount of liquor for drinking No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 If I say that heat is the energy of Krsna, you cannot deny it, because it is not your energy. In your body there is some certain amount of heat. Similarly, heat is someone's energy. And who is that person? That is Krsna No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 For those who are hesitant and have no faith, Krsna consciousness is very difficult. Even in our daily affairs a certain amount of faith is required No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Everyone of us has got a certain amount of good energy derived from Krishna, and when that energy is employed under the expert direction of Spiritual Master, one's life becomes successful. That is the secret of Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 By material means, one cannot avoid the happiness and distress unique to his particular body. There are 8,400,000 bodily forms, each destined to enjoy and suffer a certain amount of happiness and distress No edit summary current
- 05:2805:28, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 A man in perfect knowledge knows that one cannot be happier than he is destined to be. In this material world, everyone is destined to suffer a certain amount of distress and enjoy a certain amount of happiness No edit summary current
5 March 2024
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist +5 Method of one acarya may be different from that of another No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist +11 In other words, there is a qualitative difference between the different kinds of worshiping methods as well as the respective results derived from the predominating deities, namely Brahma, Visnu and Hara No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist +5 Every acarya has a specific means of propagating his spiritual movement with the aim of bringing men to Krsna consciousness. Therefore, the method of one acarya may be different from that of another, but the ultimate goal is never neglected No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Bhakti Yoga is the process for all the ages, but the method is different in each age. The rascal people have got some idea of Bhakti according to their whims. Some meditate on light, but real meditation means to concentrate on Krishna No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist +5 Two different methods for controlling the material senses are recommended in the Vedic scriptural wisdom No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 The followers of the Vedas have a different method of acquiring knowledge. They accept the statements of the Vedic literatures as authority in toto, as we have already discussed in Canto One No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 The bhakti-yoga process is practiced by the devotees in different methods like hearing, chanting, remembering, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, worshiping, praying, rendering service in love, becoming friendly, and offering all that one may possess No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 These different methods for liberation are generally only a professional practice and means of livelihood for those who have not conquered their senses. Because such persons are falsely proud, these procedures may not be successful No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 These (the ten different methods of liberation) may be very attractive, but by following such methods, one cannot actually understand the real cause and effect and the original cause of everything (janmady asya yatah) - SB 1.1.1 No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 There are nine different methods of cultivating devotional service such as hearing, chanting, remembering, etc, and all these processes are employed in the first stage of devotional service No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are many different methods for people who want this, but cultivation of Krsna consciousness is different. The particular word used by Srila Rupa Gosvami in this connection is anusilana, or cultivation by following the predecessor teachers (acaryas) No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 There are different methods of self-realization. But here (in SB 3.25.29) Devahuti especially refers to the bhakti-yoga system, which has already been primarily explained by the Lord No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are different methods how to get out of the suffering condition, karmi, jnani, yogi. But ultimate, very easy process is, if you become a devotee, if you become engaged in KC, then it is very easy. Then your prosperity, your auspicity, is guaranteed No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are different methods and prescribed duties recommended in these innumerable number of revealed scriptures No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 Out of all the nine different methods, the first one, namely hearing, is the most important function in the process of bhakti-yoga. Without hearing sufficiently and properly, no one can make any progress by any of the methods of practice No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 My dear Parvati, there are different methods of worship, and out of all such methods the worship of the Supreme Person is considered to be the highest. But even higher than the worship of the Lord is the worship of the Lord's devotees No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Many so-called students of spiritual understanding follow the ten different methods known as mauna-vrata-sruta-tapo-'dhyayana-sva-dharma-vyakhya-raho japa-samadhayah No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 It is true that whatever relationship a particular devotee has with the Lord is the best for him; still, when we study all the different methods from a neutral position, we can understand that there are higher and lower degrees of love No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 In politics there are different methods of achieving success: first repression (dama), then compromise (sama), and then asking for a gift - dana No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 In other Puranas there are different methods set forth by which one can worship the demigods. But in the Bhagavatam only the Supreme Lord is mentioned No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 How the living entity comes into contact with material nature, how he is delivered by the Supreme Lord through the different methods of fruitive activities, cultivation of knowledge, and the discharge of devotional service are explained. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Devotional service to Krsna is the chief function of the living entity. There are different methods for the liberation of the conditioned soul - karma, jnana, yoga and bhakti - but all are dependent on bhakti No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist +31 Devotional service of the Lord begins by hearing about Him (Krsna). There are nine different methods in devotional service, of which hearing is the chief No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Caitanya also described different methods for worshiping the Lord, which are the methods of the fivefold paraphernalia and fifty-fold paraphernalia No edit summary current
27 February 2024
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 You have to live within this body certain age. So if you change the body, new, that doesn't mean you prolong your life. That is not possible. It is the duration of life, that is considered No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 The Vedic civilization enjoins that after a certain age, following in the footsteps of Maharaja Bharata, one should cease to enjoy material opulences and should take the order of vanaprastha No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +30 The upakurvana-brahmacari, is a brahmacari who takes the vow of celibacy up to a certain age. For example, he may take the vow to remain celibate up to twenty-five years of age; then, with the permission of his spiritual master, he enters married life No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 There is a story Savitri-Satyavan. It is not a story. It is historical fact that one gentleman, he was a king's son, prince. His name was Satyavan. But he was to die at a certain age his horoscope said. But one girl Savitri, she fell in love with that boy No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Sannyasi should be always preaching. Parivrajakacarya. Four stages of sannyasa: kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajaka, and paramahamsa. In the beginning... Because according to Vedic civilization everyone has to take sannyasa at a certain age No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 If one is at all interested in being freed from the bondage of repeated birth, death, old age and disease, after a certain age one must go to the forest. pancasordhvam vanam vrajet No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Forced separation cannot make anyone happy, but by mutual consent or by the Vedic arrangement one must separate from his family affairs at a certain age and fully depend on Krsna. This makes one's life successful No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Everyone should give up family connection at a certain age, after the age of 50. One should not remain in family life. That is Vedic culture No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Because of this (if in the household life the husband becomes subordinate to the wife, involvement in materialistic life again becomes prominent), according to the Vedic system, after a certain age a man is recommended to abandon his family life No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Affection is the very hard knot for being bound up in this material world, this affection. Therefore the Vedic civilization is that the affection is to be cut off compulsory at a certain age, not that the affection should continue No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 According to the Vedic system, after a certain age a man is recommended to abandon his family life for the stages of vanaprastha and sannyasa No edit summary current
21 February 2024
- 15:4815:48, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 Many great kings left their princely standard of living and went to the forest to practice austerity according to Vedic culture, just to become purified No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 Without being married, according to Vedic culture, no man or woman can mix very intimately. That is even in the ordinary dealings No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 We offer them the sacred thread although they are born, according to Vedic culture, in the families of other than Brahmanas or even than the Sudras No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist +13 We don’t accept any source of knowledge which is not authorized. So according to Vedic culture the Vedas are the authorities. Therefore among the learned circle even at the present age, if you can give evidence from the Vedas, then the truth is accepted No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 The poverty-stricken condition is a kind of austerity. According to Vedic culture, therefore, the brahmanas, as a matter of routine, keep themselves in a poverty-stricken condition to save themselves from the false prestige of material opulence No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life. The real meaning of brahmacarya is complete celibacy, and according to Vedic culture in the beginning of life one should strictly follow the regulations of brahmacarya No edit summary current
- 15:4615:46, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 So according to Vedic culture, if one woman has got son, she is not considered to be widow. Widow means one who hasn't got husband or husband is dead. So if the husband's representative is there, so, strictly speaking, she is not widow No edit summary current
- 15:4315:43, 21 February 2024 diff hist +1 According to Vedic culture, although polygamy is allowed, none of one’s wives should be ill-treated. In other words, one may take many wives only if he is able to satisfy all of them equally as an ideal householder; otherwise it is not allowed No edit summary current
- 15:4215:42, 21 February 2024 diff hist +39 According to Vedic culture, although polygamy is allowed, none of one’s wives should be ill-treated. In other words, one may take many wives only if he is able to satisfy all of them equally as an ideal householder; otherwise it is not allowed No edit summary
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 It is quite clear that according to Vedic culture a woman who accepts a paramour or second husband in the presence of the husband she has married is certainly responsible for the degradation of her father's family and the family of her husband No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +17 For spiritual advancement, according to Vedic culture, sex indulgence is always restricted No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 For a young girl to leave the care of husband, father, and go to another young boy, according to Vedic culture, it is the most abominable. So still, because, it was, the center was Krsna, it is accepted as the highest type of worship No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 Every person is actually Brahman, spirit soul. We are not actually the body. Awareness of aham brahmasmi ("I am Brahman") is actual self-realization. According to Vedic culture, one must understand that he is Brahman, not the body No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 Everyone has the propensity for sex life, but in demoniac civilization sex is enjoyed without restriction. According to Vedic culture, sex is enjoyed under Vedic instructions No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 Dharma means occupational duty. Just like according to Vedic culture, we are supposed to follow the varnasrama-dharma. It has become very ambiguous at the present moment, Hindu dharma. There is no such thing as Hindu dharma mentioned No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 A Brahmin, according to Vedic culture, a Brahmin is considered . . . Brahmin means vidya-vinaya-sampanne. He is very gentle and very learned. That is the first qualification of Brahmin. Not by birth but by qualification No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture one must give up association of woman which is known as renunciation or sannyasa No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 According to Vedic culture one has to take leave of his family members just after his fiftieth year so that the balance of his life may be completely devoted in search of Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture, white teeth are very much appreciated. Devahuti's white teeth increased the beauty of her face and made it look like a lotus flower No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture, we are interested in sex only for begetting children, that's all. Not to study the psychology of sex life. There is already natural psychology for that No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture, the king is honored as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he represents Narayana, who also gives protection to the citizens. He is therefore natha, or the proprietor No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +13 According to Vedic culture, the higher class, in every home there is narayana-sila for worship, especially of the brahmins No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture, there are four stages of life: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa. Brahmacari is student life devoted to training in spiritual understanding No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +13 According to Vedic culture, one should leave home as soon as he has reached fifty years of age; one should not live at home and go on producing children No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture, one has to judge by the result. Not by if you simply talk nonsense, one has to accept No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture, learned men consider all natural products, such as food grains, fruits, flowers, and milk, to be God-sent. Spiritually cultured men feel obliged to the Lord when they get sufficient natural foodstuffs by the grace of the Lord No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture, learned men consider all natural products, such as food grains, fruits, flowers, and milk, to be God-sent. No one can manufacture these things in man-made factories, however scientifically advanced people may be No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +17 According to Vedic culture, Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 According to Vedic culture, first protection: to the cows, to the women, to the brahmanas, to the children and to the old man. This is the first business of the government, to give protection No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 According to Vedic culture, every respectable family has an acarya, or spiritual master No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture, even if a young woman is given an old husband, she must respectfully serve him. This is chastity. It is not that because she dislikes her husband she may give him up and accept another. This is against Vedic culture No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 According to Vedic culture, destroying the undeveloped embryo of the soul in the womb is as sinful as killing a cow or a brahmana No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 According to Vedic culture, a woman must accept the husband given to her by her parents and remain chaste and faithful to him. Therefore King Saryati was surprised to see a young man by the side of Sukanya No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 According to Vedic culture, a wife is considered the property of her husband, and a son born by illicit sex is called dvaja. The common word still current in Hindu society for such a son is dogla No edit summary current
- 15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 According to Vedic culture, anyone who does not follow the regulative principles observed by the higher castes (the brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas) or even those observed by the laborer class (the sudras) is called a mleccha or yavana No edit summary current
14 February 2024
- 16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 If it is accepted by the great acaryas that He's God then there is no doubt. If Krsna is accepted God, by all the acaryas, bona fide acaryas, authorities No edit summary current
- 16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 If we accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and worship Him, all the parts and expansions of the Lord are automatically worshiped No edit summary current
- 16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 If vedo narayanah saksat, if Vedas are to be considered as Narayana directly, then Krsna is accepted by the acaryas as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is a conclusion of the Vedas also No edit summary current
- 16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 If you are real follower of Sankaracarya, you accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 If you simply accept it without any hypocrisy that, "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He'll protect me. Let me serve His lotus feet as far as possible," this much qualification is sufficient No edit summary current
- 16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 In his commentation on the Bhagavad-gita, Sripada Sankaracarya accepted Lord Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but later on he commented from the impersonalist's view No edit summary current
- 16:0816:08, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 If one does not accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then he should be rejected immediately. It is not sectarian. It is test tube No edit summary current
- 16:0716:07, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 It was an emergency (Mayavada philosophy was necessary to defeat the Buddhist philosophy of the nonexistence of the spirit soul). Thus Lord Krsna was accepted by Sankaracarya as the Supreme Personality of Godhead in his commentation on Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 He (Lord Krsna) is further explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is considered the explanation of the Vedanta-sutra. Lord Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by these authentic scriptures, not simply by vox populi No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 God is Krsna, the Supreme. Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah (Bs. 5.1), accepted by all acaryas, by all Vedic sastra. And when He was present Himself, He proved Himself that He's God No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 From the very moment of His appearance to the moment of His disappearance, every one of His activities is unparalleled in the history of the world, and therefore anyone who knows what we mean by Godhead will accept Krsna as the SP of Godhead No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 From Vedic knowledge, you get all knowledge. So if you don't accept Krsna as God, that is also your mistake. You do not know God, but here Krsna presents Himself as God, and He is accepted by authorities No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 For them (the demons who do not like the idea that Krsna should be accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead) only Arjuna inquires on this point (BG 4.4), as if he were himself not aware of the Personality of Godhead, or Krsna. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Formerly the acaryas like Vyasadeva, Sukadeva Gosvami, Narada . . .; later, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So all accept Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Formerly, during Krsna's time, there were authorities like Vyasadeva, like Narada. They also accepted that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Everyone claims that "We are also following Vyasadeva." But not superficially. Actually following Vyasadeva. Just like Vyasadeva accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Even if one does not accept Lord Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His instructions are so exalted and beneficial for humanity that if one follows His instructions one will be saved No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 If a Godbrother is more enlightened and advanced in Krsna consciousness, one should accept him as almost equal to the spiritual master, and one should be happy to see such Godbrothers advance in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 15:4915:49, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Devotees who accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead will enjoy the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 15:4915:49, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 Bhagavan ultimately means Lord Krsna because the Srimad-Bhagavatam has already accepted the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Krsna. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28) No edit summary current
- 15:4915:49, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 Bhagavad-gita should be explained to persons who are ready to accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is a subject matter for the devotees only and not for philosophical speculators. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 We are accepting Krsna as God not blindly, but by testing. By testing. His character is mentioned in the books. Therefore, we accept God, not by blind faith, but by testing. Although we cannot test, but sastra gives us the chance of testing No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 You may also accept iron as gold. That is your ignorance: you do not know what gold is. But if you actually know what God is, you will accept Krsna as God. There is no doubt about it No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 We accept Krsna as God. Even by His activities He is not ordinary. He had to meet so many dangers before He was accepted God. From childhood, when He was baby, just three months old, He had to struggle. He had to struggle with His position as God No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Mayavadi philosophy means they accept Krsna as God, but He has assumed a body which is given by this material nature, as it is given to us. That is their policy. They count Krsna an ordinary man, on the same level. But that is not a fact No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Love is something tangible. It is not merely fantasy or imagination. So we Krsna conscious people accept Krsna as God, and we are worshiping Krsna, and we are making progress No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 From Vedic knowledge, you get all knowledge. So if you don't accept Krsna as God, that is also your mistake. You do not know God, but here Krsna presents Himself as God, and He is accepted by authorities No edit summary
- 14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 A learned man who has thoroughly studied the scriptures cannot hesitate to accept Sri Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If such a man argues about this matter, certainly he must be doing so to agitate the minds of his opponents No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 At least in India there are many great acaryas - Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, and even Sankaracarya and Guru Nanak. All of these have accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Why, then, should we reject Him No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 As far as Krsna is concerned, every Vedic authority has accepted Him as God. When He was present on earth, His activities displayed were superhuman. If one does not believe this, it is to be concluded that he will not believe whatever evidence is given No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 As Arjuna, we should accept Krsna as the SP of Godhead and do as He says (BG 9.27): O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Associate with sadhus means those who are actually on the platform. So if he associates with the sadhu - the sadhus accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead - he will get the understanding that Krsna is the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Arjuna says that Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead not only by himself but by authorities like the sage Narada, Asita, Devala, Vyasadeva & so on. These are great personalities who distribute the Vedic knowledge. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 Arjuna is not inquiring for himself but for those who do not believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead or for the demons who do not like the idea that Krsna should be accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Arjuna has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the supreme abode of all living entities, not only because of his personal experience but also because of the evidences of great authorities like Narada, Asita, Devala & Vyasa. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Arjuna accepts Sri Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and any commentary on the Gita following in the footsteps of Arjuna is real devotional service to the cause of this great science. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Arjuna accepted Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, param brahma param dhama (BG 10.12). So if we follow Arjuna then we can understand Bhagavad-gita very easily. So we should not waste No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 Arjuna, after hearing the essential four verses of Bhagavad-gita in this chapter, became completely free from all doubts and accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 Although they (the four sampradayas) are four in number, their conclusion is the same. And another sect is Sankarite sampradaya. So all these five different section of the Hindus, they accept Sri Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Acaryopasanam: this information (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam) is not concocted, but is accepted by the acaryas in the disciplic succession. Although an impersonalist, Sankaracarya has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 Acaryopasanam. The Sankaracarya even, although he is impersonalist, he has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and what to speak of others No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36 All other acaryas have also confirmed this statement (Krsna is the original Personality of Godhead), and thus there is no chance of not accepting Lord Sri Krsna as the original Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 After hearing Bhagavad-gita from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Arjuna accepted Krsna as Param Brahma, the Supreme Brahman. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 14:4214:42, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7 According to Vedic culture, Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 14:2814:28, 14 February 2024 diff hist +25 This godless civilization is so acute that it is very difficult to make them understand God consciousness, or Krsna consciousness. But still, as a matter of duty, we have to present, submit, these teachings of Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current
- 14:2814:28, 14 February 2024 diff hist +48 The great sage Maitreya, therefore, recommends that to enlighten people about the Absolute Truth (tattva), devotees should preach the teachings of Srimad-Bhagavatam throughout the entire world No edit summary current
- 14:2814:28, 14 February 2024 diff hist +25 They (six Gosvamis) have chalked out ways for all classes of men in terms of the different castes and orders of life in pursuance of the teachings of Srimad-Bhagavatam and similar other authoritative scriptures No edit summary current
12 February 2024
- 12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 Why this ordinary question to be repeatedly made and I answer? A waste of time. This is a serious movement. One should be responsible men, leaders of the society. If you want to take some benefit out of this movement, they should question No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 We have to spoil hundreds of gallons' blood before one comes to the point. It is very simple thing. Only our leaders of the society, they are sleeping. They are misguided themselves and misguiding others. That is the difficulty No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 Unfortunately the modern leaders of the society have made the common man forget God somehow or other. Our humble attempt is to revive the forgotten consciousness of the human society No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 The world is feeling so much disturbed by the misarrangement of the leaders of the society. They have forgotten Krsna or God. They are thinking that by material advancement they will be happy, but that is never possible No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 The leaders of the society, they should take very serious attention how you can improve the social condition of this world. Not only here; everywhere No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 The leaders of the society, if they are serious about advancement of human civilization, they must take to Krsna consciousness, or God consciousness; otherwise, they'll be baffled No edit summary current
- 12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 The leaders of the society, if it is serious, will adopt this, in the educational system, in their private life. In that way they shall ask some question, then it will benefit. Otherwise it will be simply a show No edit summary current
- 12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist +11 The Godless leaders of the society are blind themselves and their followers are also blind. So blind men leading blind men has no meaning No edit summary current
- 12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 They are poor because they have no spiritual conception of life. So that situation is always existing; therefore it is the duty of the leaders of the society, especially of the brahmanas and ksatriyas, to take sannyasa and preach KC to the mass of people No edit summary current
- 12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist +11 That will be very nice propaganda, to select real leaders of the society. The . . . we are misled by rascal leaders. That is the difficulty - all rascals No edit summary current
- 12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist +32 Let us not revive this old matter, but I want to know from you what is your opinion of the matter, and how is it that Hamsaduta and Atreya Rsi were able to persuade you all senior leaders of the Society to follow their foolish activities? Kindly inform No edit summary current
- 12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 If the leaders of the society lead the people in the proper channel on the basic principle of spiritual life, then everything will be solved. Everyone will be happy No edit summary current
- 12:5112:51, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10 Cats and dogs are passing on as religionists. Some hogs and pigs are going on as philosopher. And other animals is going as scientist, Darwin. They're animals only, cats and dogs. They are the leaders of the society No edit summary current
- 12:5112:51, 12 February 2024 diff hist +32 At least the brahmanas, the priestly heads of religion, the king and the public leader, they should stop these four sinful activities. The leaders of the society, they must be sinless. Then the human society will make nice progress No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 12 February 2024 diff hist +11 We are not poor-feeding. That is not our philosophy. Like Vivekananda. Daridra-narayana-seva. No, we are not after that. We are giving you prasadam. And that is fact, that by eating, eating, eating, eating, you one day will become Krsna conscious No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 12 February 2024 diff hist +40 Our philosophy is not like that, that we give protection to the human being and send the cows to the slaughterhouse. No, that is not our philosophy No edit summary current
- 12:4712:47, 12 February 2024 diff hist +15 Don't think that we are after vegetarian, nonvegetarian. No. That is not our philosophy. Because either you take vegetable or you take meat, you are killing. And you have to kill, otherwise you cannot live. That is nature's way No edit summary current
- 12:4712:47, 12 February 2024 diff hist +11 It is nice that we are feeding 200 daily, but gradually try to increase. But do not advertise, we shall be self-advertising. And do not go to poor areas, this is not our philosophy No edit summary current
- 12:4412:44, 12 February 2024 diff hist +28 As a man must follow great personalities like Brahma and Narada, a woman must follow the path of such ideal women as Sita, Mandodari and Draupadi. By staying chaste and faithful to her husband, a woman enriches herself with supernatural power No edit summary current
11 February 2024
- 10:3710:37, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13 When there is sufficient food, the government should not allow the eating of cow's flesh just to satisfy the fastidious tongue No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +6 Those who are meat-eaters, they have been recommended to eat the flesh of goats or other lower animals - sometimes dogs also they eat, or the hogs - you can eat. But never the flesh of cows. So, innocent animal, the most important animal No edit summary
- 10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13 Only the cobbler class, the muci class, they eat this cow's flesh after taking the dead animal. So after killing, everyone eats, so why not wait for the natural death and eat it? But because they are asuras, raksasas, they do not wait for that No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13 Meat-eaters, according to their different positions and the directions of the sastra, are allowed to eat flesh, but never the flesh of cows No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +23 It is not forbidding meat-eating, but don't eat cows' flesh. That is loss. It is a great loss to the human society No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +23 In the Vedic culture those who are meat-eaters are recommended to eat the flesh of goats, dogs, hogs, or other lower animals, but never the flesh of cows, the most important animals No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13 In that very room he cooked the flesh of a cow for three consecutive days. Then the next day he left, accompanied by his followers No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +6 In our Krsna consciousness movement, our first provision is that no one should be allowed to eat any kind of flesh. It does not matter whether it is cows' flesh or goats' flesh, but we especially stress the prohibition against cows' flesh No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +6 If you are at all meat-eater, you can eat pigs, goats, but don't eat cow's flesh. That is very sinful. Why it is sinful? Because it's a very, very important animal in the human society No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist +23 Instead of killing the cow to eat flesh, civilized men must prepare various milk products that will enhance the condition of society. If one follows the brahminical culture, he will become competent in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist +4 I am glad also that you have a new gosala. Let other farms see what is our behavior for the cows and how we derive benefit from them and that will be the living example to persons who are using cow flesh rather than cow milk No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13 In India, cow flesh is strictly forbidden. But it doesn't mean that they are vegetarian. They eat fish and goat, lamb, sometimes buffalo. But not to touch the cow. No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist +6 If Krsna says that, "Give Me dog" or "Give Me cow flesh," we shall give and eat. But not before that. So we have no quarrel with these fish-eaters or cow-eaters. We are concerned Krsna says, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13 Here (SB 4.17.25) we find some indication of how the government can arrange for the eating of cow flesh. It is here indicated that in a rare circumstance when there is no supply of grains, the government may sanction the eating of meat No edit summary current
- 10:2210:22, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5 We know that there are four ages (yugas), namely Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali. These four together constitute one divya-yuga No edit summary current
- 10:2210:22, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5 We have information of Lord Brahma's duration of life from the BG: 1,000 times the duration of the four ages, or 1,000 x 4,320,000 years, constitute Brahma's 12 hours. Similarly, one moment of Brahma's time is equal to one year of our solar calculation No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5 The four ages of earth (Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali) last only twelve thousand years according to the time scale of the upper planets. Such a length of time multiplied by one thousand constitutes one day of Brahma, and one night of Brahma is the same No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5 Such days and nights (four ages of earth) accumulate into months and years, and Brahma lives for one hundred such years. At the end of Brahma's life, the complete universal manifestation is vanquished No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5 He passed his time, which lasted seventy-one cycles of the four ages (71 x 4,320,000 years), always thinking of Vasudeva and always engaged in matters regarding Vasudeva. Thus he transcended the three destinations No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5 Your body, my body, in youthhood it is very beautiful, and in due course of time it will be ugly like me. So this is the work of the time. Similarly, nature's way, there are four ages: Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga, Kali-yuga. Seasonal changes No edit summary current
10 February 2024
- 14:4114:41, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12 People think that this is idol worship and imagination, but this method is prescribed in all the sastras for developing God consciousness. It is an actual science No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 Ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham (BG 4.11). If one wants the body of a king, Krsna will give it; if one follows the prescribed method, one will get the body of a king No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist +8 We can begin to experience this bliss by following the prescribed methods of devotional service. When we see the Deity, we can gradually realize how Krsna is smiling, playing on His flute and enjoying the company of Srimati Radharani No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist +6 The sahajiya's illicit connection and their imitation of the dress of Rupa Gosvami, as well as their avoidance of the prescribed methods of revealed scriptures, will lead them to the lowest regions of hell No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist −18 The real purpose of controlling the mind by the prescribed method of clearing the passage of the life air is achieved immediately if one fixes his mind directly on the lotus feet of Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32 The personified Vedas continued, "Dear Lord, it is imperative that the living entities be engaged in Krsna consciousness, always rendering devotional service by such prescribed methods as hearing and chanting and executing Your orders" No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist −18 The expert yogi who has thoroughly practiced the control of the life air by the prescribed method of the yoga system is advised to quit the body as follows No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 There are ten prescribed methods on the path to liberation - to remain silent, not to speak to anyone, to observe vows, to amass all kinds of Vedic knowledge, to undergo austerities, to study the Vedas and other Vedic literatures No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 There are ten prescribed methods on the path to liberation - to execute the duties of varnasrama-dharma, to explain the sastras, to stay in a solitary place, to chant mantras silently, and to be absorbed in trance No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 There are certain prescribed methods for employing our senses and mind in such a way that our dormant consciousness for loving Krsna will be invoked, as much as the child, with a little practice, can begin to walk No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32 Prahlada Maharaja also (like Caitanya Mahaprabhu) prayed to Lord Nrsimhadeva that he might be engaged as the servant of the Lord's servant. This is the prescribed method of devotional service No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 Our greatest success of life is how to love God, Krsna. Now you can do it. But there is prescribed method, given by great acaryas. Just like in this temple we are doing No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 10 February 2024 diff hist +8 Medicine is not the remedial measures for our bodily troubles unless we are helped by Krishna. Therefore, whenever there is bodily trouble we may adopt the prescribed methods of medical science and depend upon Krishna for His Mercy No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 10 February 2024 diff hist −18 Materialistic life is full of thorns, and so one should live only by the prescribed method of Vedic regulations just to make the best use of a bad bargain No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12 Maintaining one's family is certainly the duty of a householder, but one should be eager to earn his livelihood by the prescribed method, as stated in the scriptures No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12 I am very glad that you are trying to live Krishna Conscious lifestyle. If you simply try to follow very carefully the prescribed method that has been chalked out for us in the vedas No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 In this age, the congregational chanting of the holy names of the Lord is the prescribed method for waking up No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 In Kali-yuga people have lost all their stamina. They are so sinful that there is no question of becoming pious through all these prescribed methods. The only means is hearing about Krsna and chanting His names No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist +6 If the mode of passion, instead of being degraded into the mode of ignorance, is elevated to the mode of goodness by the prescribed method of living and acting, then one can be saved from the degradation of wrath by spiritual attachment No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 If the modes of passion are elevated to the modes of goodness by the prescribed method of living and acting, then one can be saved from the degradation of wrath by spiritual attachment. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 If one maintains his family by prescribed methods and honest means, there is no objection to one's being a family man No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 Even though we may produce many good children, our desire for sex that is beyond the prescribed method is to be considered sinful No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 Because the senses are material, it is not at all possible to realize the Transcendence by them. Therefore the senses have to be spiritualized by the prescribed method under the direction of the spiritual master No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32 Among the ways of executing devotional service, the nine prescribed methods are the best, for these processes have great potency to deliver Krsna and ecstatic love for Him No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12 Although the subject matter is durvijneyam, extremely difficult to understand, it becomes easy if one follows the prescribed method No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 10 February 2024 diff hist +1 According to Vedic civilization, one has to give up family life at a certain age (the age of fifty), take vanaprastha and eventually remain alone as a sannyasi. That is the prescribed method of Vedic civilization known as varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current
- 14:2914:29, 10 February 2024 diff hist +7 According to Vedic civilization, one has to give up family life at a certain age (the age of fifty), take vanaprastha and eventually remain alone as a sannyasi. That is the prescribed method of Vedic civilization known as varnasrama-dharma No edit summary