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13:5713:57, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,740‎ One who knows that material happiness, whether good or bad, in this life or in the next, on this planet or on the heavenly planets, is temporary and useless, and that an intelligent person should not try to enjoy or even think of such things ‎No edit summary current
13:5413:54, 15 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ One who is still immature in the cultivation of spiritual knowledge may be attracted at any moment by the illusion of temporary happiness, just as the ocean is agitated by the rushing rivers and blowing wind that occur during the rainy season ‎No edit summary current
13:5313:53, 15 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ One who is not disturbed by all these comings and goings of temporary happiness and distress - he alone becomes a fit person to attain eternal life ‎No edit summary current
13:5213:52, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,692‎ One who has no information of the transcendental bliss in the association of the Lord foolishly desires to enjoy this temporary material happiness ‎No edit summary current
13:5113:51, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,095‎ One cannot enjoy material illusory prosperity if he desires to return home, back to Godhead. One who has no information of the transcendental bliss in the association of the Lord foolishly desires to enjoy this temporary material happiness ‎No edit summary current
13:5013:50, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,342‎ Of course, one can derive great amounts of temporary happiness by achieving such yogic materialistic perfections ‎No edit summary current
13:5013:50, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,159‎ None of the material planets, nor the amenities available there for living conditions, is everlasting; therefore one must have a factual reluctance to enjoy such temporary happiness as they afford ‎No edit summary current
13:4913:49, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,193‎ My dear heroic King, please keep yourself always equipoised and treat people equally, whether they are greater than you, in the intermediate stage or lower than you. Do not be disturbed by temporary distress or happiness ‎No edit summary current
13:4813:48, 15 March 2022 diff hist +39,106‎ Krsna, the PG, confirms in the Bhagavad-gita, only those who cultivate transcendental knowledge in relation to the eternal spirit soul and without being disturbed by temporary happiness and distress will be truly happy by gaining eternal, spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
13:4713:47, 15 March 2022 diff hist +10‎ Krsna, the PG, confirms in the Bhagavad-gita, only those who cultivate transcendental knowledge in relation to the eternal spirit soul and without being disturbed by temporary happiness and distress will be able to escape the cruel hands of birth, death ‎No edit summary current
13:4613:46, 15 March 2022 diff hist +39,052‎ Krsna, the PG, confirms in the BG, only those who cultivate transcendental knowledge in relation to the eternal spirit soul and without being disturbed by temporary happiness and distress will be able to escape the cruel hands of old age, and disease ‎No edit summary current
13:4513:45, 15 March 2022 diff hist +4,741‎ In this verse (SB 9.19.20), Maharaja Yayati advises that whatever material happiness we see and whatever is promised for enjoyment is all merely flickering and temporary. Abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino 'rjuna - BG 8.16 ‎No edit summary
13:4213:42, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,317‎ Human society should study this (the place from which one never returns), but instead of culturing such knowledge, people are attracted to temporary happiness and sense gratification, culminating in bottomless, topless passion ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 15 March 2022 diff hist +7,560‎ Everything dependent on the outward covering is also a temporary arrangement. Happiness or distress perceived in relation with the temporary arrangement of the body and mind is also temporary ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 15 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ Due to such conditions (of material world), Prahlada Maharaja says that these vimudhas, materialistic persons, have unnecessarily burdened themselves simply for temporary happiness ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 15 March 2022 diff hist +12,492‎ By pious fruitive work one is placed in a position where he can temporarily feel material happiness, whereas vicious activities lead him to a distressful position of material want and scarcity ‎No edit summary current
03:5403:54, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,362‎ Being in a bewildered condition, therefore, the embodied soul identifies himself with the circumstantial material body and becomes subjected to the temporary misery and happiness of life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:5303:53, 15 March 2022 diff hist +38,817‎ At the present stage of our existence, it is difficult to be unaffected by the temporary happiness and distress pertaining to the body and mind. Nor is it possible at present to assert that we are unidentified with the body and mind ‎No edit summary current
03:5103:51, 15 March 2022 diff hist +2,443‎ A nondevotee regards the temporary so-called happiness as everything and forgets the path of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
03:5103:51, 15 March 2022 diff hist +12,760‎ A man may think he will be happy by performing rituals, but actually if he does gain some result from them, it is only temporary. His material distresses will continue ‎No edit summary
03:5003:50, 15 March 2022 diff hist +12,496‎ A living entity perpetually struggles hard to rid himself of the pangs of material existence, but the path of fruitive work leads him to either temporary happiness or temporary distress in material existence ‎No edit summary current
03:4503:45, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5,507‎ We are teaching people that you agree with the divine will. The divine will is that you surrender. So you agree to surrender. That we are teaching. That is real religion ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,937‎ By the Divine Will of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura we are now combined together, although originally we are born in different parts of the world, unknown to one another ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 15 March 2022 diff hist +5‎ Being conducted by divine will, material nature, although inferior, acts so wonderfully in the construction and destruction of the cosmic manifestation. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:3903:39, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,143‎ When the devotee is further advanced, he has nothing to fear. He considers the Lord and himself on an equal level ‎No edit summary current
03:3803:38, 15 March 2022 diff hist +8,329‎ The Lord has no competitor, and He has nothing to fear from any other being, nor can anyone be equal to Him. Although He is the root of all other beings, there are basic differences between Him and other beings ‎No edit summary current
03:3803:38, 15 March 2022 diff hist +2,194‎ The Lord had nothing to fear from anyone, yet He was merciful to His enemy by neglecting him ‎No edit summary current
03:3603:36, 15 March 2022 diff hist +3,709‎ Men are afraid of Yamaraja because it is he only who awards punishment to the miscreants of the material world, but those who are devotees of the Lord have nothing to fear from him ‎No edit summary
03:3403:34, 15 March 2022 diff hist +7,351‎ A devotee is never afraid of death or of changing his body; his consciousness is transformed into Krsna consciousness, and even if he does not go back to Godhead, even if he transmigrates to another material body, he has nothing to fear ‎No edit summary current

05:4105:41, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,479‎ When Indra saw that actually they were his devoted followers, he said to them: If you are all my brothers, you have nothing more to fear from me ‎No edit summary current
05:3805:38, 14 March 2022 diff hist +8,164‎ A man in the renounced order of life must be purified by the process; thus he will feel the presence of the Lord everywhere and will have nothing to fear, such as being without any company ‎No edit summary current
05:3605:36, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,207‎ Vasudeva said: O best of the sober, you have nothing to fear from your sister Devaki because of what you have heard from the unseen omen. The cause of death will be her sons - SB 10.1.54 ‎No edit summary current
05:3605:36, 14 March 2022 diff hist −10‎ Those who are confident that they are not the material body, that they are spiritual parts of the SPG and are therefore engaged in the transcendental service of the Supreme Godhead, have nothing to fear. Their future is very bright. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,243‎ The demigods boast uselessly while away from the battlefield. Only where there is no fighting can they show their prowess. Therefore, from such demigods we (Kamsa and his ministers) have nothing to fear - SB 10.4.36 ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,885‎ The brahmana then began to think that if the people didn't directly see the Gopala Deity, they would not believe that He had arrived. "But even if Gopala stays here," he thought, "there is still nothing to fear" ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,567‎ Ramananda Raya replied, "My Lord, You are the supreme independent personality. You have nothing to fear from anyone because You are not dependent on anyone" ‎No edit summary current
05:2605:26, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,035‎ As for Lord Visnu, He is in seclusion in the core of the hearts of the yogis. As for Lord Siva, he has gone to the forest. Therefore you (Kamsa) have nothing to fear - SB 10.4.36 ‎No edit summary current
05:2505:25, 14 March 2022 diff hist −10‎ For the time being, let me (Vasudeva) promise to hand over my sons so that Kamsa will give up this immediate threat, and if in due course of time Kamsa dies, I shall have nothing to fear - SB 10.1.49-50 ‎No edit summary current
05:0805:08, 14 March 2022 diff hist +4,493‎ One who restrains his senses and fixes his consciousness upon Me is known as a man of steady intelligence. BG 2.61 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
05:0605:06, 14 March 2022 diff hist +1,848‎ O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence. BG 2.68 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
05:0605:06, 14 March 2022 diff hist +2,769‎ He considered everything material to be useless, and therefore he was completely devoid of material desires. He always controlled his senses and life air, and being of steady intelligence and determination, he subdued all lusty desires ‎No edit summary current

06:0006:00, 13 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ Such (niskincana) a devotee is free from all material bondage, but he engages in Krsna conscious activities. Such expert devotional service is performed without hypocrisy ‎No edit summary current
05:5905:59, 13 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya, The Sakha-nirnaya, verse 13, mentions Srinatha Cakravarti as a reservoir of all good qualities and an expert in the service of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
05:5805:58, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,542‎ One who is expert in devotional service calls such symptoms raty-abhasa, a mere glimpse of attachment ‎No edit summary current
05:5705:57, 13 March 2022 diff hist +8‎ One should make it a point that by his work and the result of his labor he serves the Supreme Lord as prescribed by the authorities expert in the transcendental loving service of the Supreme Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
05:5705:57, 13 March 2022 diff hist +8‎ One has to practice sense control as well as mind control and subdue the six forces of speech, mind, anger, tongue, belly and genitals. Then one can become expert in understanding the devotional service of the Lord and thus become a perfect sannyasi ‎No edit summary current
05:5605:56, 13 March 2022 diff hist +28‎ Like Ramananda Raya, Sanatana Gosvami was a fully cognizant expert in the conclusions of devotional service and was therefore able to describe such transcendental knowledge ‎No edit summary current
05:5505:55, 13 March 2022 diff hist +3,088‎ A devotee who not only is expert in devotional service but who also preaches the cult of bhakti and defeats all kinds of agnostics is called a gosthy-anandi ‎No edit summary current
05:5305:53, 13 March 2022 diff hist +3,235‎ A devotee who does not preach but always engages in devotional activities is called a bhajananandi, whereas a devotee who not only is expert in devotional service but who also preaches the cult of bhakti & defeats all kinds of agnostics is a gosthyanandi ‎No edit summary current
05:5005:50, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,041‎ The gopis know Krsna's desires, and they know how to render perfect loving service for His enjoyment. They perform their service expertly for the satisfaction of their beloved ‎No edit summary current
05:4805:48, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,145‎ The brahmanas and yajnika priests should be sufficiently paid for their expert service. This payment is called daksina ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,190‎ I cannot manufacture gold, I cannot show any jugglery, but if there is any credit, then the only credit is I don't adulterate. That's all. The pure milk, I don't show my expert service by adding water in it ‎No edit summary current
05:4505:45, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,525‎ Anyone desiring to become expert in the service of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna should always aspire to be under the guidance of Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami ‎No edit summary
05:4105:41, 13 March 2022 diff hist +8‎ All the knowledge that Sri Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami directly acquired from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was broadcast all over the world by their expert service ‎No edit summary current
05:1605:16, 13 March 2022 diff hist +6,649‎ To know the principles of eternal life, and if we really want to see things in their true perspective, it is necessary for us to establish a relationship with a preceptor who can really open our eyes and lift us from the clutches of nescience ‎No edit summary current
05:1505:15, 13 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ The devotees of the Lord can see everything in true perspective due to the light disseminated by Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
05:1205:12, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,942‎ Only by a transcendental vision are one's material hankerings fully satisfied. When the Lord was present, persons who were able to satisfy their material hankerings by seeing Him in true perspective were thus able to go back with Him to His kingdom ‎No edit summary
05:1105:11, 13 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ If we are really anxious to know the principles of eternal life or life after death, and if we really want to see things in their true perspective, it is necessary for us to establish a relationship with a preceptor who can really open our eyes ‎No edit summary
05:1005:10, 13 March 2022 diff hist +43,292‎ From Srimad-Bhagavatam we can know the substance as well as the relativities in their true sense and perspective ‎No edit summary current
05:0905:09, 13 March 2022 diff hist −13‎ For spiritual realization one has to purify the heart and know things in their true perspective ‎No edit summary current
05:0905:09, 13 March 2022 diff hist +38,763‎ Even though we have our wonderful eyes, we cannot see things in their true perspective. What is true for the eyes is also true for the other senses we use for gathering knowledge ‎No edit summary current
05:0305:03, 13 March 2022 diff hist +6,143‎ The personified Vedas continued, "Such unguided persons are compared to merchants going to sea on a ship without a captain" ‎No edit summary current
05:0205:02, 13 March 2022 diff hist +30‎ No one should be proud of his prestige, power and fame without being guided by the favor of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
04:5104:51, 13 March 2022 diff hist +3,028‎ King Yudhisthira, who is morality personified, and the Yadus are undoubtedly great allies, but without the guidance of Lord Krsna all of them are nonentities, as much as the senses of the body are useless without the guidance of consciousness ‎No edit summary current
04:4904:49, 13 March 2022 diff hist +14,184‎ Without guidance, however, one does not know how to renounce. First of all, one wants to enjoy, and when he is frustrated in enjoyment, he renounces. Again, when he is tired of renunciation, he enjoys, like a clock pendulum which swings from side to side ‎No edit summary current
04:4804:48, 13 March 2022 diff hist +6,267‎ Without guidance, all of Banasura's soldiers scattered here and there ‎No edit summary current
04:4704:47, 13 March 2022 diff hist +2,723‎ We may invent by our advancement of material knowledge all sorts of counteracting material resources, but without being guided by the Lord all such inventions end in fiasco, however strong and stout the reactionary elements may be ‎No edit summary current
04:4604:46, 13 March 2022 diff hist +6,430‎ Such people are called karmis, or gross materialists. Among the karmis are some vikarmis, people who act without the guidance of Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
04:4304:43, 13 March 2022 diff hist +4,109‎ It is not possible to train oneself (in devotional service) without guidance from the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
04:4204:42, 13 March 2022 diff hist +11,339‎ If someone, without undergoing the regulative principles of devotional service or without being guided by a bona fide spiritual master, shows such imitative attachment, this is called shadow attachment ‎No edit summary current
04:4104:41, 13 March 2022 diff hist +9,783‎ Every human being should therefore take advantage of the Vedic instructions; otherwise one will be bound by his whimsical activities and will be without any guide ‎No edit summary current
04:3704:37, 13 March 2022 diff hist +14,057‎ A worker's identification with material existence cannot be changed without proper guidance. Such fruitive activity will continue one's material existence ‎No edit summary current

09:5609:56, 12 March 2022 diff hist +4,109‎ You are brought up in a different standard in Europe and America, and in India it may be difficult because you haven't got all the facilities. But you learn tolerance. Execute Krsna consciousness. That should be our business ‎No edit summary current
09:5409:54, 12 March 2022 diff hist +8,444‎ They (devotees of God) should learn from this verse (SB 4.22.24) that they have to become tolerant - dvandva-titiksaya ‎No edit summary current
09:4909:49, 12 March 2022 diff hist +3,531‎ Devotees do not mind reverses in life because in the service of Narayana they have learned to tolerate whatever hardships there may be. They do not care whether they are in heaven or in hell: they simply engage in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
09:4609:46, 12 March 2022 diff hist +8,233‎ When one can learn how to tolerate these temporary so-called pains and pleasure, then he is advanced ‎No edit summary current
09:4609:46, 12 March 2022 diff hist +3,829‎ Unless one is humble and prideless, one cannot be harmless and nonviolent. And after being nonviolent one has to learn tolerance and simplicity of living ‎No edit summary current
09:4209:42, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,186‎ One of the devotional quality is titiksa, tolerance. That should be learned, how to tolerate in every condition of life ‎No edit summary current
09:3909:39, 12 March 2022 diff hist −12‎ In material life there are many disturbances (adhyatmika, adhidaivika and adhibhautika). One who has learned to tolerate these disturbances under all circumstances is called dhira ‎No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 12 March 2022 diff hist −10‎ One has to learn tolerance in the face of dualities such as happiness and distress, or cold and warmth, and by tolerating such dualities become free from anxieties regarding gain and loss. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:1809:18, 12 March 2022 diff hist +6,833‎ Then (when one is frank, free from reservations and open), by performing his particular occupational duty under the guidance of a proper spiritual master, he can achieve the highest success in life ‎No edit summary current
09:1709:17, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,887‎ So long we are engaged in devotional service with proper guidance certainly we are always in transcendental position, and transcendental position is unlimited, it doesn't matter whether you are in Vrindaban or U.S.A ‎No edit summary current
09:1509:15, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,110‎ Regardless of whether one is born in a brahmana family, a ksatriya family or a sudra family, one may be guided by a proper brahmana and be promoted to the highest platform of being a Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
09:1409:14, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,410‎ Lord Sri Krsna's name, fame, pastimes, etc., cannot be understood by material senses. Only to one who is engaged in pure devotional service under proper guidance is He revealed ‎No edit summary current
09:1109:11, 12 March 2022 diff hist +7,511‎ Let them be either well behaved or ill trained, let them be either learned or fools, let them be either grossly attached or in the renounced order of life, all of them can be elevated to the supreme position by discharging DS under the proper guidance ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 12 March 2022 diff hist +1,568‎ I therefore take shelter of the lotus feet of Virabhadra Gosani, so that by His mercy my great desire to write Sri Caitanya-caritamrta will be properly guided ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 12 March 2022 diff hist +5,252‎ If one is able to be guided by a proper and bona fide spiritual master, who can lead one to the path of elevation, to the higher stage, then one's life becomes successful. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:0509:05, 12 March 2022 diff hist +3,736‎ If one engages his possessions in the service of the Lord under the guidance of a proper spiritual master. he will attain happiness both in this life and the next ‎No edit summary current

10:5710:57, 11 March 2022 diff hist +3,695‎ God means Supreme Being. You take His leadership. Then He'll properly guide you. That is our philosophy ‎No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 11 March 2022 diff hist +6,415‎ The human beings, however fallen he may be, if he is properly guided, if he is properly instructed, he can become God conscious ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 11 March 2022 diff hist +4,625‎ In Kali-yuga there is a dearth of proper guidance. One may take guidance in the evening from the stars and moon, but in the rainy season the light of guidance comes from insignificant glowworms ‎No edit summary current
10:4610:46, 11 March 2022 diff hist +6,280‎ Those who follow the pancaratriki-vidhi under the guidance of a proper spiritual master can understand the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 11 March 2022 diff hist +3,586‎ The Lord is so kind and merciful that He gives the devotee proper guidance and all protection, and thus the devotee very peacefully makes solid progress in Krsna consciousness without outward disturbances ‎No edit summary current
10:4310:43, 11 March 2022 diff hist +4,277‎ The challenge was that "If you are servants of Dharmaraja, then explain what is dharma." It doesn't matter whether a man is civilized or uncivilized or good-looking or bad-looking, but if he has got proper guide, then he can speak the right thing ‎No edit summary current
10:4110:41, 11 March 2022 diff hist +7,272‎ One should not visit all these sanctified pilgrimage places & temples with sightseeing in mind, but one must go to such temples and sanctified places immortalized by the transcendental pastimes of the Lord and be guided by proper men who know the science ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 11 March 2022 diff hist +3,744‎ One should at once engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord by the different devotional activities of hearing, chanting, etc. If performed under proper guidance, that is the surest path of progress, even for the disturbed mind ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 11 March 2022 diff hist +7,729‎ Lord Krsna said, "If a man is sufficiently educated in student life under the guidance of a proper teacher, his life becomes successful in the future" ‎No edit summary current
10:3910:39, 11 March 2022 diff hist +9‎ It is said that Lord Sri Krsna's name, fame, pastimes, etc., cannot be understood by material senses. Only to one who is engaged in pure devotional service under proper guidance is He revealed. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:3810:38, 11 March 2022 diff hist +3,289‎ If performed under proper guidance, that (different devotional activities of hearing and chanting) is the surest path of progress, even for the disturbed mind ‎No edit summary
10:3710:37, 11 March 2022 diff hist +5,159‎ If one cultivates devotional service further and further, under proper guidance, other features of devotional service will gradually become manifest ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 11 March 2022 diff hist +4,066‎ I have studied the behavior of the hippies. They are searching after something good, but they have no proper guidance ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 11 March 2022 diff hist +1,455‎ By Krishna's Grace, you are doing well and continue the same faithfully. Krishna will give you intelligence for proper guidance ‎No edit summary current

04:5404:54, 4 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ When one is promoted in that way (under the guidance of the spiritual nature) by surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead-one attains to the stage of great soul, mahatma. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:4104:41, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,444‎ To practice the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga one should, under the guidance of spiritual master, follow certain principles: one should rise early in the morning, take bath, enter the temple and offer prayers and chant Hare Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:4104:41, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,567‎ To perform austerities or penances, or, for that matter, any form of devotional service, one has to be guided by a spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
04:3804:38, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,388‎ Those who have a poor fund of knowledge accept these false sannyasis and their pretenses, although they are not bona fide guides to spiritual advancement ‎No edit summary current
04:3604:36, 4 March 2022 diff hist +6,930‎ This is called dvija, or the second birth. When you catch hold of a bona fide spiritual master just to guide you to act on the spiritual platform, then your second life begins. It is called dvija. So this life is so important that one must begin it ‎No edit summary
04:3204:32, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,214‎ The vipras are those who are expert in karma-kanda, or fruitive activities, guiding the society towards fulfilling the material necessities of life, whereas the brahmanas are expert in spiritual knowledge of transcendence ‎No edit summary current
04:3104:31, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,218‎ The Vedas are the storehouse of knowledge, both material and spiritual. But such knowledge aims at perfection of self-realization. In other words, the Vedas are the guides for the civilized man in every respect ‎No edit summary current
04:3004:30, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,580‎ The topmost transcendentalist is a liberated soul and is therefore not within the purview of the regulative principles. A neophyte, who is intended to be promoted to the spiritual plane, is guided by the spiritual master under regulative principles ‎No edit summary current
04:2904:29, 4 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased to guide a devotee from within and without. From within He guides him as the Supersoul, and from without He guides him as the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
04:2504:25, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,115‎ The preceptor appears before the external senses of the fortunate conditioned soul, and at the same time the devotee is guided from within by the caittya-guru, Krsna, who is seated as the spiritual master within the heart of the living entity ‎No edit summary current
04:2204:22, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,824‎ The only condition for successfully executing such spiritual activities is that they must be conducted under the guidance of a pure devotee who's completely free from all mundane desires, fruitive activities & dry speculations about the nature of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
04:2104:21, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,539‎ The Lord (Krsna) was for them (the Pandavas) the Supreme Lord, the spiritual master, the worshipable Deity, the guide, the chariot driver, the friend, the servant, the messenger and everything they could conceive of ‎No edit summary current
04:1804:18, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,720‎ The disciple renders devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master or his representative for at least six months to a year. He is then recommended for a second initiation, during which a sacred thread is offered ‎No edit summary current
04:0704:07, 4 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ The devotees under the guidance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu aspire to reach the topmost spiritual planet, known as Goloka Vrndavana, the residence of Lord Sri Krsna and His eternal associates ‎No edit summary
04:0204:02, 4 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ There is no difference between chanting for Krsna consciousness and working for Krsna consciousness. On the transcendental platform, they are one. But we must be guided by the spiritual master about this oneness; we should not manufacture our own oneness ‎No edit summary current
03:4903:49, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,543‎ Only the Supreme Lord Himself or His empowered representative can possibly free us from confinement in this dark well. Under their guidance we can come to know of the limitless ocean of the spiritual sky ‎No edit summary current
03:4803:48, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,623‎ One who is not able even to practice the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga, under the guidance of a spiritual master, can still be drawn to this perfectional stage by working for the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,278‎ One has to study the Vedas under the guidance of the spiritual master and undergo many austerities and penances while living under his care. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:4103:41, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,574‎ One's guide must be a spiritual master who is actually an unalloyed devotee strictly following the instructions of the previous acarya without deviation ‎No edit summary current
03:4003:40, 4 March 2022 diff hist +3,461‎ Narottama dasa Thakura states that one has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
03:3903:39, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,444‎ Material world means in every step there is danger. That is material world. So therefore we should take guide from guru, from the teacher, from the spiritual master how to make progress ‎No edit summary current
03:3803:38, 4 March 2022 diff hist +9,019‎ Maharaja Pariksit, after having selected Krpacarya for guidance as his spiritual master, performed three horse sacrifices on the banks of the Ganges ‎No edit summary current
03:2903:29, 4 March 2022 diff hist +4,815‎ It is not that because one is a grhastha he may marry as many times as he likes and indulge in sex life as he likes. This is not spiritual life. In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru ‎No edit summary current
03:2503:25, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,048‎ In the second stage, after one becomes a little advanced and mature, he automatically offers to follow the principles of devotional service under the guidance of the pure devotee and accepts him as the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
03:2403:24, 4 March 2022 diff hist +5,235‎ In the next stage, under the guidance of the spiritual master, the devotee executes regulative devotional service, and, as a result of such activities, he becomes freed from all unwanted occupations ‎No edit summary current

04:4304:43, 3 March 2022 diff hist +6,936‎ In the human form of life one can obtain the guidance of a good navigator, the spiritual master. One also gets a favorable wind by the mercy of Krsna, and that wind is the instructions of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
03:5103:51, 3 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ If such persons (demoniac persons) are fortunate enough to be guided by a spiritual master who can direct them to the path of Vedic wisdom, they can get out of this entanglement and ultimately achieve the supreme goal. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 3 March 2022 diff hist +32‎ If he (the living entity) places himself under the guidance of a spiritual master and does everything sincerely, immediately the Lord, who is situated within everyone’s heart, dictates how to serve Him - dadami buddhi-yogam tam ‎No edit summary current
03:4103:41, 3 March 2022 diff hist +3,545‎ He (A KIing) first has his spiritual master, the supreme guide. Then come his ministers, his kingdom, his fortifications, his treasury, his system of law and order, and his friends or allies. If these seven are properly maintained, the king is happy ‎No edit summary current
03:3703:37, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,719‎ Directed from within and guided externally by the spiritual master, one attains the path of Krsna consciousness, which is the way out of the material clutches ‎No edit summary current
03:3303:33, 3 March 2022 diff hist +9,912‎ By the order of the sastra, by the guidance of the spiritual master, you are being trained up as apprentice. This is called abhidheya - practice ‎No edit summary current
03:2603:26, 3 March 2022 diff hist +6,995‎ A person in Krsna consciousness, engaged in devotional service, simply by the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master, realizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead very easily. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
03:2503:25, 3 March 2022 diff hist +11,607‎ A person gradually reaches this stage (of anartha-nivrtti) by regularly performing the primary principles of devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master ‎No edit summary
03:2503:25, 3 March 2022 diff hist +3,677‎ A king is not alone. He first has his spiritual master, the supreme guide. Then come his ministers, his kingdom, his fortifications, his treasury, his system of law and order, and his friends or allies ‎No edit summary current
03:2403:24, 3 March 2022 diff hist +9,290‎ A devotee should see to the right discharge of devotional service under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master and should not stick only to the formalities ‎No edit summary
03:1903:19, 3 March 2022 diff hist +4,428‎ All of them were introduced under some meaningless circumstances, and those who have a poor fund of knowledge accept these false sannyasis and their pretenses, although they are not bona fide guides to spiritual advancement ‎No edit summary current

04:4404:44, 2 March 2022 diff hist +9,387‎ The misguided student of Bhagavad-gita will certainly be bewildered on the path of spiritual guidance and will not be able to go back home, back to Godhead. BG 1972 Preface ‎No edit summary
04:3304:33, 2 March 2022 diff hist +1,984‎ There must be a class of brahmanas for giving spiritual guidance by example ‎No edit summary current
04:3204:32, 2 March 2022 diff hist +3,053‎ I am rather proud to say that the movement of Krishna Consciousness which I have started in your country will fulfill the desires of many sincere citizens of your country who are actually anxious to have a bon-a-fide spiritual guidance from India ‎No edit summary current

02:0802:08, 1 March 2022 diff hist −6‎ Hearing from an authority is a better experience than gaining personal understanding ‎No edit summary current
02:0602:06, 1 March 2022 diff hist +4,466‎ Hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from authorities ‎No edit summary current
02:0002:00, 1 March 2022 diff hist +6,577‎ A sincere devotee must be prepared to hear the Vedic literature like the Upanisads, Vedanta and other literatures left by the previous authorities or Gosvamis, for the benefit of his progress ‎No edit summary current
01:5501:55, 1 March 2022 diff hist +43,403‎ The Absolute Truth is personal, for the Absolute Truth cannot be impersonal and have a sense of pure sex life ‎No edit summary current

04:3404:34, 28 February 2022 diff hist +3,721‎ System of hearing from undisturbed authorities ‎No edit summary current
04:0304:03, 28 February 2022 diff hist +4,960‎ Having attained to the stage of devotion, Maharaja Prthu became uninterested in the practices of jnana and yoga and abandoned them. This is the stage of pure devotional life as described by Rupa Gosvami ‎No edit summary
03:5903:59, 28 February 2022 diff hist +4,219‎ Srila Jiva Gosvami cites this verse (SB 11.14.21) in logically supporting that anyone who chants about the pure life and activities of Prahlada Maharaja is freed from the reactions of material activities ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 28 February 2022 diff hist +6,912‎ My dear children, boys and girls, I request you that live happily. There is no restriction. We don't restrict eating, sleeping, or mating, or defending. But do it in relationship with Krsna, pure life, and be happy in this life and next life ‎No edit summary current
03:5303:53, 28 February 2022 diff hist +5‎ Protection of children begins from the very day of begetting a child by the purificatory process of garbhadhana-samskara, the beginning of pure life ‎No edit summary current

04:4004:40, 27 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ We are temporarily engaged in different activities, but all of these activities can be purified when we give up all temporary activities and take up the activities which are prescribed by the Supreme Lord. That is called pure life. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
04:3904:39, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,626‎ This program of constant remembrance can be disturbed by many things, but Dhruva Maharaja's life would be so pure, as assured by the Lord Himself, that Dhruva would never forget Him ‎No edit summary current
04:3704:37, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,754‎ This is Prahlada Maharaja's instruction, that don't be falsely proud unless you have got the qualification. That is our mistake, dambha, dambha. And the pure life begins when we give up dambha, false prestige ‎No edit summary current
04:3604:36, 27 February 2022 diff hist +7,099‎ There is concession. The concession is that you live a pure life and chant Hare Krsna mantra. This will make sufficient. A pure life: no illicit sex, no intoxication, no meat-eating, no gambling. This is pure life ‎No edit summary current
04:3404:34, 27 February 2022 diff hist +6,453‎ The needs are artificial, and in the pure state of life there are no such needs ‎No edit summary current
04:3004:30, 27 February 2022 diff hist +2,806‎ Real consciousness is Krsna consciousness. When one is situated in Krsna consciousness, he is in his pure life. But if his consciousness is adulterated by some type of material mentality, in the next life he gets a corresponding body. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:2804:28, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,424‎ From another point of view, it is understood that the jiva living entity is qualitatively one with the Lord, and thus his knowledge in the pure state of life cannot be covered by nescience, especially in the presence of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
04:2504:25, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,726‎ Pure life means ‎No edit summary current
04:1904:19, 27 February 2022 diff hist +5,266‎ These boys and girls are also initiated for the last two years only - they are not very great scholars in theological studies, but still by the Grace of Krishna they have created some impression in a city like London simply by their sincere effort ‎No edit summary current
04:1704:17, 27 February 2022 diff hist +8‎ When the Lord is fully satisfied with the sincere efforts of the devotee, He may endow him with His loving transcendental service ‎No edit summary current
04:1604:16, 27 February 2022 diff hist +8‎ This was the case with King Prataparudra. One has to be noticed by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and a little service with sincere efforts will convince the Lord that one is a proper candidate for returning home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
04:1504:15, 27 February 2022 diff hist +7,449‎ This edition of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta is presented for the study of sincere scholars who are really seeking the Absolute Truth. It is not the arrogant scholarship of a mental speculator but a sincere effort to serve the order of a superior authority ‎No edit summary current
04:1004:10, 27 February 2022 diff hist +7,537‎ The aim of life should be to make a sincere effort to go "Back to Godhead'' but contrary to this, the tendency is to go back to hell or in the cycle of evolutionary animal life as it is described in the 16th chapter of Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
04:0904:09, 27 February 2022 diff hist +3,508‎ By sincere efforts to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam one realizes his constitutional relationship with the Lord in the transcendental humor of servitude, friendship, paternal affection or conjugal love ‎No edit summary current
04:0604:06, 27 February 2022 diff hist +2,350‎ To a sincere student, all of the contents of these books become revealed from within, even if he has not thoroughly studied them all ‎No edit summary current
04:0404:04, 27 February 2022 diff hist +4,958‎ You are a sincere student from the very beginning of your spiritual life and I wish that you may advance more and more ‎No edit summary
04:0304:03, 27 February 2022 diff hist +2,333‎ I can understand that you are a very sincere student and are an eligible candidate for going back to home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 27 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ The sincere student should have a firm respect for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such a student was Arjuna. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
03:5703:57, 27 February 2022 diff hist +5,152‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is so scientifically presented that any sincere student of this great science will be able to understand the science of God simply by reading it with attention or simply by regularly hearing it from the bona fide speaker ‎No edit summary
03:5603:56, 27 February 2022 diff hist +6,135‎ Lord Brahma is the perfect liberated living being within the material world, and any sincere student of transcendental knowledge must accept the words and statements of Brahmaji as infallible ‎No edit summary current
03:5403:54, 27 February 2022 diff hist +6,370‎ A sincere student should not neglect the discussion of such conclusions, considering them controversial, for such discussions strengthen the mind. Thus one's mind becomes attached to Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
03:5303:53, 27 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ A sincere student aurally receives the holy name from the spiritual master, and after being initiated he follows the regulative principles. When the holy name is properly served in this way, automatically the spiritual nature of the holy name spreads ‎No edit summary

05:5405:54, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,140‎ Sri Svarupa Damodara is a direct expansion of Radharani who helps the Lord experience the attitude of Radharani ‎No edit summary current
05:4505:45, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,781‎ You cannot calculate. You cannot go to Brahma, you cannot go even to the moon planet. And what to speak of Brahmaloka is the ultimate, the remotest part of this universe. So by your direct experience, you cannot calculate ‎No edit summary current
05:4405:44, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,521‎ We can directly experience the results of this science of Krsna consciousness because it is very easy to practice and is very pleasurable ‎No edit summary current
05:4405:44, 26 February 2022 diff hist +4,911‎ The word sruta-purvaya is significant. We get experience by directly seeing or by hearing. If it is not possible to see someone directly, we can hear about him from authentic sources ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 26 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ The question may be raised, "Since there are so many varieties of philosophers theorizing in different ways, which of them is correct?" The answer is that the Absolute Truth, Transcendence, is never subject to direct experience or mental speculation ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 26 February 2022 diff hist −15‎ The mass of laborers exploited by the organizers directly experience the "welfare" conditions in these factories, but what the organizers do not know is that by the law of karma they will in due time become laborers in similar Kumbhipaka hells ‎No edit summary current
05:4005:40, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,795‎ The Absolute Truth, Transcendence, is never subject to the understanding of imperfect sensory endeavor, nor is He subject to direct experience ‎No edit summary current
05:3605:36, 26 February 2022 diff hist +2,913‎ Instead of devoting yourself to solitude, why not come with me and travel in foreign countries for some time? This will help you to obtain direct experience of our activities, and maybe you can become a preacher like me ‎No edit summary current
05:3005:30, 26 February 2022 diff hist +5,184‎ As inquisitive persons tour all over the world to gain direct local experience, the less intelligent transcendentalist similarly desires to have some experience of those planets about which he has heard so many wonderful things ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 26 February 2022 diff hist +7,888‎ Those who are overly attracted to their life situation are forced to remain in a ghostly body and are not allowed to accept another gross body. Even in the body of a ghost, they create disturbances for neighbors and relatives ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 26 February 2022 diff hist +3,656‎ The term "spiritual body" is sometimes taken to refer to a ghostly body ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 26 February 2022 diff hist +7,802‎ The mind is the prime cause of such a situation (attaining a ghostly body). According to one's mind, different types of bodies are generated, and one is forced to accept them ‎No edit summary current
03:5303:53, 26 February 2022 diff hist +6,398‎ Ghostly body means ‎No edit summary current
03:4603:46, 26 February 2022 diff hist +7,449‎ Of all kinds of ghosts, the Brahma-raksasas are very powerful. They are brahmanas who after death have entered the ghostly species of life ‎No edit summary current

04:2404:24, 25 February 2022 diff hist +11,668‎ Varnasrama should be established on the principles of devata, to make people devata ‎No edit summary current
04:2304:23, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,795‎ To maintain proper social order and help the citizens gradually progress toward the goal of life - namely spiritual understanding - the principles of varnasrama-dharma must be accepted ‎No edit summary current
04:2104:21, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,777‎ This regulative principle (always think of Krsna and never forget Him) is applicable to all varnas and asramas, the castes and occupations of life ‎No edit summary current
04:2104:21, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,508‎ This knot (between man and woman) is very difficult to undo, even though a man and woman separate either for the principles of varnasrama or simply to get a divorce ‎No edit summary current
04:1904:19, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,148‎ The Vedas say, svadharma-nisthah sata janmabhih puman virincatam eti: "One who strictly follows the principles of varnasrama-dharma for at least one hundred births will be rewarded with the post of Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
04:1604:16, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,562‎ The ultimate goal of life is to please Lord Visnu by varnasrama-dharma. The Vedic principles of four varnas and four asramas are meant for worship of Visnu - visnur aradhyate pumsam nanyat tat-tosa-karanam ‎No edit summary
04:1604:16, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,356‎ The tendency in this age of Kali to make a classless society and not observe the principles of varna and asrama is a manifestation of an impossible dream ‎No edit summary current
04:1404:14, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,853‎ The Tattvavada sampradaya of the Madhvacarya school sticks to the principle of varnasrama-dharma, which involves fruitive activity. Their ultimate goal is simply a form of material desire ‎No edit summary current
04:1404:14, 25 February 2022 diff hist +2,370‎ The regulative principles of varnasrama-dharma in themselves are insufficient for attainment of the highest perfection ‎No edit summary current
04:1304:13, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,591‎ The other sons of Brahma, the Kumaras, directly engaged in devotional service, and thus they had no need to execute the principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
04:1304:13, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,413‎ The Lord is so kind that He accepts a little insignificant service, and therefore it is stated in the Visnu Purana that by following the principles of varnasrama-dharma one can satisfy the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
04:1104:11, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,520‎ That is why in our Vedic civilization to follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma is the preliminary duty of human form of life. And one who does not understand varnasrama-dharma and does not strive for it, he remains contaminated ‎No edit summary current
04:0904:09, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,101‎ Secular state means that the state should see that everyone is strictly following his religious principle. That is secular state. If you are Hindu or varnasrami, then you must follow the principles of how one is a brahmana, how one is a ksatriya ‎No edit summary current
04:0804:08, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,766‎ Prahlada Maharaja advises everyone to follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma. Specifically, at a certain point one must give up family life and take to the renounced order of life to cultivate spiritual knowledge and thus become liberated ‎No edit summary current
04:0704:07, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,996‎ People should take advantage of the opportunity afforded by Bharata-varsa, and this is especially so for those who are following the principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
04:0504:05, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,736‎ One who follows the garbhadhana samskara system is actually twice-born, but those who do not, who deviate from the principles of varnasrama-dharma, are called dvija-bandhus ‎No edit summary current
04:0504:05, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,499‎ One has to follow the principles of the asramas (brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa), since these principles (of varnas and asramas) are considered essential for the attainment of the highest goal ‎No edit summary current
04:0404:04, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,810‎ No one is being trained to act according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma, and thus people are becoming increasingly degraded and are heading in the direction of animal life ‎No edit summary current
04:0304:03, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,526‎ Narada Muni's opinion is that even if there is some temporary disturbance in the execution of the varnasrama-dharma principles, they can be revived at any moment ‎No edit summary current
04:0104:01, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,999‎ Lord Visnu advised King Prthu that everyone should follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma; then, in whatever capacity one remains within this material world, his salvation is guaranteed after death ‎No edit summary
04:0004:00, 25 February 2022 diff hist +14,135‎ Lord Caitanya rejected the varnasrama-dharma and the offering of fruitive activity because in the field of executing pure devotional service, there is very little use for such principles ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,966‎ In the name of secular government, unqualified people are taking the supreme governmental posts. No one is being trained to act according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma, and thus people are becoming increasingly degraded ‎No edit summary current
03:5403:54, 25 February 2022 diff hist +6,154‎ If you did not roam about the world like the brilliant sun, leading a huge army whose trampling feet cause the globe of the earth to tremble, then all the moral laws governing the varnas and asramas created by the Lord Himself would be broken ‎No edit summary current
03:5303:53, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,103‎ If we do not take to the principles of varnasrama-dharma by accepting the four social orders and the four orders of spiritual life, there can be no question of success in life ‎No edit summary current
03:5203:52, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,499‎ If those who live in Bharata-varsa rigidly follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma and develop their dormant Krsna consciousness, they need not return to this material world after death ‎No edit summary
03:5003:50, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,498‎ He (Rsabhadeva) strictly followed the principles of varnasrama-dharma and acted accordingly ‎No edit summary current
03:5003:50, 25 February 2022 diff hist +6,042‎ Great sages (like Parasara & Manu) have already given us instructions on how to live according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma. Similarly, Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami have given us rules and regulations for becoming pure devotees of the Lord ‎No edit summary
03:4803:48, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,665‎ Even in human life, while observing the principles of varna and asrama-brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa - one must ultimately accept sannyasa, the renounced order ‎No edit summary current
03:4603:46, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,730‎ By His instructions, He showed how people could remain householders and at the same time become perfect by following the principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
03:4603:46, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,522‎ By following the principles of the varnasrama-dharma, one attains a better position in the material world ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 25 February 2022 diff hist +1,849‎ Being worshiped by sacrifices offered with great gifts by those who strictly followed the principles of varna and asrama, Hiranyakasipu, instead of offering shares of the oblations to the demigods, accepted them himself ‎No edit summary current
03:4103:41, 25 February 2022 diff hist +14,351‎ Although Lord Caitanya accepted the principles, He still requested Ramananda Raya to further explain advanced devotional service. Thus Lord Caitanya gave Ramananda Raya a chance to discuss gradual advancement from the principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary
03:4003:40, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,789‎ According to the varnasrama principle, it is compulsory that one retire after the age of fifty, without considering other circumstances ‎No edit summary current

03:4103:41, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,850‎ Sraddha ceremony means to offer foodstuff to Visnu, and with the prasadam, to the forefathers or father it is offered so that by eating prasadam, if he is in ghost life or in hellish life, he'll be delivered ‎No edit summary current
03:3903:39, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,861‎ To save a diseased person from ghostly life, the funeral ceremony, or sraddha ceremony, as prescribed in authorized sastra, must be performed ‎No edit summary current

01:4701:47, 22 February 2022 diff hist +4,933‎ The mahatmas have shown the perfect path of charity: devotional service to the Lord. If anyone ignores this path and instead builds hospitals, his effort to help humanity is a mere pretense ‎No edit summary current

07:3407:34, 21 February 2022 diff hist +8,650‎ One scientific man, who had no belief in God, was very much enthusiastic in making plans for his material existence and therefore opened a hospital to save the living. But after opening the hospital, he himself died within six months ‎No edit summary current
07:3307:33, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,993‎ They are simply proud of increasing hospital. Why there should be hospital? Why not stop disease? That is scientific advancement. Stop disease, and there will be no need of opening hospital ‎No edit summary current
07:3207:32, 21 February 2022 diff hist +4,922‎ The so-called renouncer, unable to remain in meditation upon Brahman, returns to materialistic activities by opening hospitals and schools and so on ‎No edit summary current
07:3107:31, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,567‎ The foolish conditioned soul may think that he is offering charity by opening hospitals for material benefit or by opening an educational institution for material education ‎No edit summary current
07:2607:26, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,715‎ Pious activities bring about material opulence, but one cannot acquire devotional service by any amount of material pious activity - not by giving charity, opening big hospitals and schools or working philanthropically ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 21 February 2022 diff hist +4,149‎ Even today, if a man who was formerly poverty-stricken gets money, he is inclined to utilize his money to perform many philanthropic activities, like opening schools for uneducated men and hospitals for the diseased ‎No edit summary current
07:2007:20, 21 February 2022 diff hist −9‎ Sometimes he (a man) tries to open hospitals, give to charity institutions, etc. These are the signs of one in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 21 February 2022 diff hist +6,330‎ This is the most exalted qualification, to become well-wisher of all living entities, not that we open hospitals for the human being and we send the cows to the slaughterhouse or poor animals should be slaughtered ‎No edit summary
07:1707:17, 21 February 2022 diff hist −9‎ They (Mayavadi philosophers) must come down again to this material world to open hospitals or schools or perform similar philanthropic activities ‎No edit summary current
06:2806:28, 21 February 2022 diff hist +6,331‎ There are many jnanis or sannyasis who, after taking sannyasa and giving up the world as false, return to the world to engage in politics or philanthropy or to open schools and hospitals. This means that they could not attain the real Brahman ‎No edit summary current
06:2106:21, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,804‎ As long as a conditioned soul does not have this knowledge (that Krsna is the proprietor), he wants to be the enjoyer of everything; he wants to become a humanitarian or philanthropist and open hospitals and schools for his fellow human beings ‎No edit summary current

02:2402:24, 15 February 2022 diff hist +5,366‎ The Mayavadis proclaim that there is no separate existence outside the impersonal Brahman and that the feeling of separation is maya, or an illusion, by which one considers a rope to be a snake ‎No edit summary current
02:1402:14, 15 February 2022 diff hist −11‎ Sankaracarya has misrepresented all the mantras of the Vedanta-sutra to prove that there is no separate existence of the living entities & the Supreme Absolute Truth. This is similar to the politician’s attempt to prove nonviolence from the BG ‎No edit summary current

14:5714:57, 14 February 2022 diff hist +2,254‎ After considering the oneness of existence, activity and paraphernalia and after realizing the self to be different from all actions and reactions, the mental speculator (muni), according to his own realization, gives up the three states ‎No edit summary current
03:1703:17, 14 February 2022 diff hist +3,664‎ Impersonalists prefer to merge into the existence of the Transcendence, but the personalists, or devotees, do not annihilate their individuality, & thus the devotees of God individually enjoy spiritual variegatedness on the planets of the spiritual sky ‎No edit summary current
03:0503:05, 14 February 2022 diff hist −16‎ There are five different kinds of mukti. Impersonalists prefer to merge into the existence of the Transcendence, but the personalists, or devotees, do not annihilate their individuality ‎No edit summary current
03:0403:04, 14 February 2022 diff hist +11‎ The ultimate goal of the yoga system is to become one with the Absolute. This means finishing one’s personal existence. But the spiritual part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead has an eternal individual existence ‎No edit summary current

14:5114:51, 13 February 2022 diff hist +10‎ It is not that they (Krsna, Arjuna and the assembled kings) did not exist as individuals in the past, and it is not that they will not remain eternal persons. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,214‎ The Mayavadi philosopher, who does not differentiate between the Supreme Spirit and the individual spirit, says that the conditional existence of the living entity is his lila, or pastime ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,455‎ The individual soul who is perceiving this knowledge still remains an individual. Both in material existence and in spiritual existence the individuality continues; the only difference is in the quality of the identity ‎No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 13 February 2022 diff hist +5,505‎ As we have learned from previous mantras, the brahmajyoti emanating from the transcendental body of the Lord is full of spiritual sparks that are individual entities with the full sense of existence ‎No edit summary current
14:1814:18, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ Who worship the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth & regard the forms of the demigods as temporary, sacrifice their individual selves in the supreme fire & thus end their individual existences by merging into the existence of the Supreme. BG 1972 p ‎No edit summary current
14:1314:13, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ This (sayujya-mukti - this form of mukti means denying one’s individual existence) is absolutely opposed to the philosophy of bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yoga offers immortality to the individual conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
14:1214:12, 13 February 2022 diff hist +8,922‎ In the Vedanta-sutra, devotional service is clearly indicated, but the Mayavadi philosophers refuse to accept the spiritual body of the Supreme Absolute Person and refuse to accept that the living entity has an individual existence ‎No edit summary current
14:1114:11, 13 February 2022 diff hist +10,576‎ The real fact is that oneness does not mean merging into the Supreme and losing one's own individual existence ‎No edit summary current
14:0614:06, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ Because these living entities do not wish to keep their individual existences, they are combined and allowed to remain in Brahmaloka like so many atomic particles of sunshine emanating from the sun ‎No edit summary current
14:0014:00, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ He (Sadananda Yogindra) describes both collective and individual existence in darkness ‎No edit summary current
13:5713:57, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ As for those who are impersonalists and who want to commit spiritual suicide by annihilating the individual existence of the living entity, Krsna helps also by absorbing them into His effulgence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

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