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06:3706:37, 29 March 2022 diff hist +8,382‎ What are the Vedic rituals and injunctions of the supplementary Vedic rites, and what are the procedures of religion, economic development and sense satisfaction ‎No edit summary current
06:2706:27, 29 March 2022 diff hist +8,831‎ There is a hereditary class of brahmanas called the smarta-brahmanas who are of the opinion that even if such persons who are chanting the holy name of the Lord are accepted as purified, they still have to perform the Vedic rites ‎No edit summary current
06:2406:24, 29 March 2022 diff hist +18,265‎ Now, according to Vedic rites, activities in the mode of goodness are considered auspicious for progress on the path of liberation, and such activities are known as deva prakrti, transcendental by nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:2106:21, 29 March 2022 diff hist +3,957‎ The Vedic rites and rituals are imperative for neophytes: comprehending all kinds of prayer three times a day, taking a bath early in the morning, offering respects to the forefathers, etc. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
05:5505:55, 29 March 2022 diff hist +8,764‎ The production of grains, grass, etc. becomes possible by rain, and this rain is made to shower properly by performance of recommended sacrifices. Such sacrifices are directed by the rites of the Vedas, namely Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva ‎No edit summary current

13:3813:38, 28 March 2022 diff hist +81,232‎ The Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, says in Bhagavad-gita (5.28) that one can attain the supreme peace by knowing that He is the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, God of all the universes, and also the supreme friend of all living entities ‎No edit summary current
13:3413:34, 28 March 2022 diff hist +5,486‎ The conditioned souls within the clutches of illusory energy are all anxious to attain peace in the material world. But they do not know the formula for peace, which is explained in this part of the Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
13:3313:33, 28 March 2022 diff hist +9‎ Sri Krsna says: "He (one who has decided to refrain from his immoral habits and make progress in Krsna consciousness) quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kunti, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes." - BG. 9.31 ‎No edit summary current
13:3013:30, 28 March 2022 diff hist +9‎ Sankaracarya - who did not accept the Personality of Godhead and preached morality and ethics in the spirit of pantheism - never preached that there is any possibility of attaining eternal peace and prosperity in this material world ‎No edit summary current
13:2913:29, 28 March 2022 diff hist −10‎ Research is going on for the karmis, jnanis and yogis, but until the search is complete, no one can attain peace. Therefore the Bhagavad-gita (BG 5.229) says, jnatva mam santim rcchati: one can actually attain peace when he knows Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 28 March 2022 diff hist +4,684‎ One who offers Me respect but is envious of the bodies of others and is therefore a separatist never attains peace of mind, because of his inimical behavior towards other living entities ‎No edit summary current
13:2613:26, 28 March 2022 diff hist +2,853‎ O scion of Bharata, surrender unto Him utterly. By His grace you will attain transcendental peace and the supreme and eternal abode. BG 18.62 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 28 March 2022 diff hist +4,241‎ Krsna explains in BG 5.29: A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets & demigods, & the benefactor & well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace ‎No edit summary current
13:2013:20, 28 March 2022 diff hist +3,461‎ A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego - he alone can attain real peace. BG 2.71 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current

11:0011:00, 20 March 2022 diff hist +3,375‎ Generally people are enchanted by the three modes of material nature and therefore practically unable to understand that behind all materialistic activities in the cosmic manifestation is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:5910:59, 20 March 2022 diff hist +5,612‎ Krishna Cons. is not a miracle, it is science, & because we are Krishna conscious, therefore we know everything, so practically we can understand how Krishna wanted to please His devotees & He appeared there so wonderfully. We do not see anything miracle ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 20 March 2022 diff hist +3,284‎ Within this material world, one should understand by practical experience the value of material opulence, longevity and influence ‎No edit summary current
10:5710:57, 20 March 2022 diff hist +5,293‎ One attains a completely spiritual body fit to render service to the transcendental couple Radha and Krsna: sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam ‎No edit summary current
10:5610:56, 20 March 2022 diff hist +5,138‎ Text 38 (of SB 10.12) explains that Aghasura attained a body exactly like that of Visnu, and the verse after that also clearly states that he attained a completely spiritual body like that of Narayana ‎No edit summary current
10:5510:55, 20 March 2022 diff hist +5,290‎ When one is spiritually situated and does not desire a gross or subtle body, he attains his original spiritual body. As confirmed by the Bhagavad-gita: tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti so 'rjuna ‎No edit summary current
08:3508:35, 20 March 2022 diff hist +8,801‎ The people in general are naturally inclined to enjoy, and you (Vyasa Muni) have encouraged them in that way in the name of religion. This is verily condemned and is quite unreasonable. Because they are guided under your instructions ‎No edit summary current
08:3308:33, 20 March 2022 diff hist −3‎ Neither the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, nor His devotee ever sanctions animal-killing in the name of religion ‎No edit summary current
08:3008:30, 20 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ Animal sacrifice in the name of religion is current practically all over the world in every religion ‎No edit summary current
08:2908:29, 20 March 2022 diff hist +3,550‎ Those who are very enthusiastic about killing animals in the name of religion or for food must await similar punishment after death ‎No edit summary current
08:2808:28, 20 March 2022 diff hist +10,745‎ These animal sacrifices are recommended in the name of religion, but actually animal sacrifice is meant for persons in the mode of ignorance. When such people kill animals, they can at least do so in the name of religion ‎No edit summary current
08:2508:25, 20 March 2022 diff hist +6,153‎ The flesh-eaters still continue to perform animal sacrifice before some demigod or goddess in the name of religion because in some of the Vedic literatures such regulated sacrifices are recommended ‎No edit summary current
08:2308:23, 20 March 2022 diff hist +3,033‎ Slaughtering animals, either for religion or for food, is most abominable and is condemned herein (SB 7.15.10). Unless one is merciless, one cannot sacrifice animals, either in the name of religion or for food ‎No edit summary
08:2108:21, 20 March 2022 diff hist +8,757‎ Krsna incarnated Himself as Lord Buddha to put an end to animal-killing in the name of religion. Animal sacrifice under the name of religion is conducted by the influence of tamo-guna ‎No edit summary current
08:1708:17, 20 March 2022 diff hist +4,375‎ In the name of religion so many sinful acts are being carried on that the people in general have neither peace of mind nor health of body ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 20 March 2022 diff hist +3,285‎ In Bhagavad-gita the last instruction is to give up all other engagements in the name of religion and take shelter of the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 20 March 2022 diff hist +18,391‎ If there are restrictions, rules and regulations, people will not become attracted. Therefore those who want followers in the name of religion, just to have a show only, don't restrict the lives of their students nor their own lives. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
08:1308:13, 20 March 2022 diff hist +6,384‎ At a certain stage of human civilization when such material activities in the name of religion were too much rampant, the Lord incarnated Himself as Buddha and decried the authority of the Vedas in order to stop animal sacrifice in the name of religion ‎No edit summary current
08:1008:10, 20 March 2022 diff hist +7,062‎ Animal sacrifice in the name of religion is current practically all over the world in every established religion ‎No edit summary current
08:0908:09, 20 March 2022 diff hist +9,862‎ After performing the preliminaries of various sacrifices, Bharata offered the results in the name of religion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva. In other words, he performed all the yajnas for the satisfaction of Lord Vasudeva, Krsna ‎No edit summary
08:0808:08, 20 March 2022 diff hist +8,917‎ A Vaisnava acarya like Narada Muni knows very well that persons engaged in such animal-killing in the name of religion are certainly becoming involved in the cycle of birth and death, forgetting the real aim of life: to go home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary
08:0508:05, 20 March 2022 diff hist +8,832‎ A person in ignorance of the principles of religion who therefore does nothing in the matter of religion is far better than a person who misguides others in the name of religion without reference to the factual religious principles of devotional service ‎No edit summary
07:5707:57, 20 March 2022 diff hist +13,191‎ If all material bodies are doomed to annihilation, we must obtain a nonmaterial body, or a spiritual body, if we wish the next birth to be anything but false. How the spiritual body is attained is explained by Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita - BG 4.9 ‎No edit summary current
07:4707:47, 20 March 2022 diff hist +3,681‎ There is no birth, death, old age and disease for the spiritual body, so one who attains a spiritual body, becomes one of the associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engages in eternal devotional service, is really liberated. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
07:4507:45, 20 March 2022 diff hist +4,812‎ Some of the conditioned souls, who follow the transcendental sound in the form of Vedic literatures and are thus able to go back to Godhead, attain spiritual and original bodies after quitting the conditional gross and subtle material bodies ‎No edit summary current
07:4107:41, 20 March 2022 diff hist +4,050‎ I am spirit soul. I am not feeling comfortable with this material body. Therefore the right conclusion is how to go to the spiritual world or attain a spiritual body. That information we are getting from Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary
07:3807:38, 20 March 2022 diff hist +77,750‎ This life is a preparation for the next life. If we can prepare, therefore, in this life to get promotion to the kingdom of God, then surely, after quitting this material body, we will attain a spiritual body just like the Lord. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
07:3707:37, 20 March 2022 diff hist −8‎ This (hearing Bhagavad-gita from the realized person) will lead to niscala, remembering the Supreme Lord, and will enable one, upon leaving the body, to attain a spiritual body which is just fit for association with the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
07:3607:36, 20 March 2022 diff hist +2,017‎ In his liberated stage the devotee is attracted by one of the five humors in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. As he continues to serve the Lord in that transcendental mood, he attains a spiritual body to serve Krsna in Goloka Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
07:3207:32, 20 March 2022 diff hist −8‎ If a person continuously serves Krsna during this life in a particular ecstasy, upon giving up the material body he attains a spiritual body suitable for serving Krsna in terms of his particular attachment ‎No edit summary current
07:3007:30, 20 March 2022 diff hist +4,038‎ However, as explained in Bhagavad-gita, devotees can give up the material body and attain a spiritual body free from all material tinges, gross and subtle (tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti so 'rjuna (BG 4.9)) ‎No edit summary current
07:2707:27, 20 March 2022 diff hist +4,694‎ As far as the rasa-lila pastimes of the Lord are concerned, it is futile for one who is within the material world to attempt to imitate the Lord’s dances. One has to attain a spiritual body like that of a gopi to enter into the pastimes of the rasa-lila ‎No edit summary current

10:1710:17, 18 March 2022 diff hist +4,267‎ Theoretical knowledge is called jnana, and practical knowledge is called vijnana ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 18 March 2022 diff hist +3,396‎ One should have the practical knowledge that matter, being an inferior state of existence, is useless for our spiritual, blissful life, whereas spirit, being a finer state, is full of bliss ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 18 March 2022 diff hist +3,768‎ One should have not only theoretical knowledge, but practical knowledge ‎No edit summary current
10:1410:14, 18 March 2022 diff hist +9,618‎ Especially in India, there are many such doctors (who becomes a doctor by practical knowledge) who perform their medical services perfectly. They are accepted even by the government ‎No edit summary current
10:1010:10, 18 March 2022 diff hist +1,550‎ Thus with two intentions the Lord appeared with His devotees and tasted the nectar of prema with the congregational chanting of the holy name ‎No edit summary
10:0910:09, 18 March 2022 diff hist +3,290‎ The Lord licks His toe to taste the nectar for which the devotees always aspire ‎No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 18 March 2022 diff hist +2,019‎ At night, in the company of His most confidential devotees, such as Ramananda Raya and Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, He tasted the nectar of the transcendental mellows of Lord Sri Krsna's pastimes ‎No edit summary current
09:5609:56, 18 March 2022 diff hist +9,416‎ The Lord has declared openly in Bhagavad-gita how He becomes pleased with us, and the same process is practically demonstrated in the life and preaching work of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
09:4709:47, 18 March 2022 diff hist +12,374‎ When the Yamuna and the moonshine come in contact on the bank of the river, the water tastes just like nectar, and drinking it gives great satisfaction. It is as cooling as piles of snow ‎No edit summary current
09:4709:47, 18 March 2022 diff hist +1,567‎ What to speak of others, even Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, personally descends to taste the nectar of love of Godhead in the form of the chanting of Hare Krsna ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 18 March 2022 diff hist +4,628‎ Those who are chanting Hare Krsna maha-mantra without any offense, they are tasting spiritual nectarine ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 18 March 2022 diff hist +3,124‎ This chanting and dancing do not belong to this material world. They are actually transcendental activities, for the more one engages in chanting and dancing, the more he can taste the nectar of transcendental love of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 18 March 2022 diff hist +1,181‎ There were varieties of cakes, sweet rice and fine cooked rice that surpassed the taste of nectar. There were also varieties of vegetables ‎No edit summary current
09:4209:42, 18 March 2022 diff hist +1,529‎ There was sukhta, bitter melon mixed with all kinds of vegetables, defying the taste of nectar. There were five types of bitter and pungent sukhtas ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 18 March 2022 diff hist +12,909‎ There is no difference between the teachings of Lord Caitanya presented here and the teachings of Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita. The teachings of Lord Caitanya are practical demonstrations of Lord Krsna’s teachings ‎No edit summary current
09:2709:27, 18 March 2022 diff hist +51,178‎ Although they officially promote love of Godhead, they have no idea how to execute it. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu gives a practical demonstration of how to love God in a conjugal relationship ‎No edit summary current
09:0009:00, 18 March 2022 diff hist +5,365‎ Such designations (high birth), without any knowledge of the science of God and practical knowledge of devotional service, are considered to be all decorations of dead bodies ‎No edit summary

16:5716:57, 17 March 2022 diff hist +4,269‎ Those who have tasted the nectar of devotion by relishing the transcendental vibration of chanting Your (Lord`s) glories do not care for any other spiritual bliss or for material comforts ‎No edit summary current

05:2805:28, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,224‎ Raghunatha Bhatta was an expert cook. Whatever he prepared tasted just like nectar ‎No edit summary current
05:1805:18, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,756‎ The chanting of the holy name of Krsna expands the blissful ocean of transcendental life. It gives a cooling effect to everyone and enables one to taste full nectar at every step ‎No edit summary current
04:5204:52, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,467‎ Since Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu was the original trunk, the taste of the fruits that grew on the branches and subbranches surpassed the taste of nectar ‎No edit summary current
04:1304:13, 14 March 2022 diff hist +4,561‎ Sri Rupa Gosvami advises, that devotees who have already tasted the nectar of devotion should be very careful to protect devotional service from such dry speculators, formal ritualistic elevationists and impersonal salvationists ‎No edit summary
04:0504:05, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,942‎ Radharani continued, "The nectar from the lips of Lord Krsna and His transcendental qualities and characteristics surpass the taste of the essence of all nectar, and there is no fault in tasting such nectar" ‎No edit summary current
04:0304:03, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,771‎ One particle of that transcendental, blissful nectar is the life and soul of the ear, which is like a cakora bird that lives in hope of tasting that nectar ‎No edit summary current
04:0004:00, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,954‎ Once Lord Krsna considered within His heart, "Although the entire creation is full of different tastes because of Me, I am charmed by the nectarean taste of the lips of Srimati Radharani" ‎No edit summary current
03:5703:57, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,715‎ O killer of the Madhu demon, incessant transcendental bliss flows in the minds of those who have even once tasted but a drop of the nectar from the ocean of Your glories ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,750‎ Narrations of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's activities are just like nectar to hear. Indeed, they satisfy both the ears and mind. One who tastes the nectar of these activities is certainly very fortunate ‎No edit summary current

14:0614:06, 13 March 2022 diff hist +1,936‎ Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who personally tasted the nectar of ecstatic love for Krsna and then instructed His devotees how to taste it ‎No edit summary current
14:0214:02, 13 March 2022 diff hist +9‎ It (sankirtana movement) increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious ‎No edit summary current
13:5913:59, 13 March 2022 diff hist +5,573‎ In relation to the KCM, we actually see that those who have tasted the nectar of krsna-katha lose all material desires, whereas those who cannot understand Krsna or krsna-katha regard the Krsna conscious life as "brainwashing" and "mind control" ‎No edit summary current
13:5713:57, 13 March 2022 diff hist +1,961‎ If one tastes the nectar of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta with faith and love, I become like a bumblebee tasting the honey of transcendental love from his lotus feet ‎No edit summary
13:5513:55, 13 March 2022 diff hist +5,120‎ If materialists were to use their dry tongues to chant the holy name of the Lord - Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare - Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare - as exemplified by Lord Caitanya, they would taste sweet nectar and enjoy life ‎No edit summary current
13:5213:52, 13 March 2022 diff hist +1,616‎ Haridasa Thakura accepted food daily at the house of Advaita Acarya. Meeting together, the two of them would taste the nectar of discourses on the subject matter of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:5013:50, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,495‎ For sexual pleasure, begetting offspring and tasting heavenly nectar, the Lord developed the genitals, and thus there is the genital organ and its controlling deity, the Prajapati ‎No edit summary current
13:4813:48, 13 March 2022 diff hist +1,477‎ Balarama dasa always fully tasted the nectar of love of Krsna. Upon hearing the name of Nityananda Prabhu, he would become greatly maddened ‎No edit summary current
13:4613:46, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,036‎ Baladeva, Laksmana, Advaita Acarya, Lord Nityananda, Lord Sesa and Lord Sankarsana taste the nectarean mellows of the transcendental bliss of Lord Krsna by recognizing Themselves as being His devotees and servants ‎No edit summary current
13:4413:44, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,871‎ Anyone who hears the narrations of the His pastimes in Dvaraka will certainly find it very easy to traverse the path of liberation and taste the nectar of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna. And thus he will be engaged in Lord Krsna's devotional service ‎No edit summary current

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