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08:5008:50, 8 August 2022 diff hist +4,479‎ If we simply place ourselves at the lotus feet of Krsna by taking to KC & keeping always in touch with Him by chanting Hare Krsna , we need not take much trouble in arranging to return to the spiritual world. By the mercy of Mahaprabhu, this is very easy ‎No edit summary current
08:4908:49, 8 August 2022 diff hist +7,446‎ As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, a person returning to that spiritual sky never returns to this material world of death and suffering ‎No edit summary current

06:0806:08, 7 August 2022 diff hist +4,160‎ When one takes more than his maintenance requires-be he a capitalist or a communist-he is a thief, and as such he is liable to be punished by the laws of nature ‎No edit summary current
06:0706:07, 7 August 2022 diff hist +5,760‎ We should be very careful to stick to Krsna consciousness without being agitated or deviated in any circumstances of life. Then we will not be liable to the punishment of Yamadata ‎No edit summary current

02:3902:39, 5 August 2022 diff hist +3,282‎ Those who are vegetarian, they are thinking that "We are better than the nonvegetarian." But it is not the fact. Either you eat vegetables or nonvegetable, you are liable to be punished because you are accepting something without offering to the supplier ‎No edit summary current
02:3802:38, 5 August 2022 diff hist +3,939‎ Those going against the prescribed rules and regulations of conditional life are called brahmojjhita-pathas, or persons going against the path of the Absolute Truth, and they are liable to be punished ‎No edit summary current
02:3702:37, 5 August 2022 diff hist +4,448‎ The Mayavadi philosophers should not even be seen by the devotees of the Lord, nor touched, because those philosophers are liable to be punished by Yamaraja, the superintendent demigod who judges the activities of sinful men ‎No edit summary
02:3602:36, 5 August 2022 diff hist +4,741‎ The foolish boy (Srngi) had done it out of sheer vanity in being a brahmana's son, and thus he became liable to be punished by the law of God ‎No edit summary current
02:3502:35, 5 August 2022 diff hist +1,537‎ One who serves the government but misappropriates the government's revenue is liable to be punished by the king. That is the verdict of all revealed scriptures ‎No edit summary current
02:3502:35, 5 August 2022 diff hist +3,734‎ It is explained in Bhagavad-gita that if one eats food grains without offering them to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Yajna, he is a thief and liable to be punished ‎No edit summary current
02:3202:32, 5 August 2022 diff hist +3,594‎ If all the people of the state, including the government servants, are taught the techniques of spiritual life, then although everyone is liable to be punished in different ways by the stringent laws of material nature, they will not be implicated ‎No edit summary current
02:3002:30, 5 August 2022 diff hist +6,133‎ Everyone is engaged in getting more and more money, and therefore the ideal goal of human life is being lost. Concisely, it may be said that everyone is a thief and is liable to be punished ‎No edit summary current
02:2902:29, 5 August 2022 diff hist +4,035‎ Concisely, it may be said that everyone is a thief and is liable to be punished. Punishment by the laws of nature takes place in the cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
02:2802:28, 5 August 2022 diff hist +2,348‎ Asvatthama became an assaulter of Arjuna's own family members, and thus he was liable to be punished by him ‎No edit summary current
02:2802:28, 5 August 2022 diff hist +5,557‎ According to the author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, if one compares sankirtana-yajna to other yajnas, he is a pasandi, an infidel, and is liable to be punished by Yamaraja ‎No edit summary
02:1502:15, 5 August 2022 diff hist +54‎ There are those who try to understand the Supreme Absolute Truth by cultivation of knowledge, and they can be counted in the second class. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:1402:14, 5 August 2022 diff hist +5,750‎ Only the devotee, who accepts Krsna as He describes Himself, without interpretation, can understand that the Supreme Absolute Truth can eat food and enjoy it. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:1202:12, 5 August 2022 diff hist +4,294‎ In the Vaisnava parampara it is said that if one is engaged in the devotional service of Krsna, then there is no need for a spiritual process to understand the Supreme Absolute Truth. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:0902:09, 5 August 2022 diff hist +6,462‎ If anyone wants to understand the Supreme Absolute Truth in perfection, he must take to the process of devotional service in full Krsna consciousness. Then it will be possible for him to understand the last word of the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
02:0502:05, 5 August 2022 diff hist +4,597‎ They (the four Kumaras) could only understand the Supreme Absolute Truth when they personally saw the Personality of Godhead with their own eyes ‎No edit summary current
02:0402:04, 5 August 2022 diff hist +5,097‎ The yogis and jnanis - that is, the mystic yogis and the impersonalists - can understand the Absolute Truth as impersonal or localized, but they cannot understand how the Supreme Absolute Truth can be a person ‎No edit summary current
02:0302:03, 5 August 2022 diff hist +9,656‎ The Supreme Lord manifests Himself to the devotee in proportion to the devotee's service attitude and surrender. Arguments and debates are totally inadequate means for understanding the Supreme Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
02:0202:02, 5 August 2022 diff hist +23‎ The Lord tells Arjuna that basically there is no possibility of understanding the Supreme Truth, the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, simply by speculating. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:0002:00, 5 August 2022 diff hist +6,182‎ Krsna's personal instructions are needed in order to understand the Personality of Godhead as the Supreme Absolute Truth. Bhagavad-gita is the evidence of such transcendental knowledge in gist ‎No edit summary current
01:5801:58, 5 August 2022 diff hist +6,254‎ Bhakti-yoga severs the hard knot of material affection and enables one to come at once to the stage of asamsayam samagram, understanding of the Supreme Absolute Truth Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
01:5601:56, 5 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Out of many millions of such worshipers (of demigods), some may actually engage in the process of understanding the Supreme, the Absolute Truth. They are called jnanis ‎No edit summary current
01:5501:55, 5 August 2022 diff hist +18‎ Lord Krsna Himself indicates that if anyone wants to understand the Supreme Absolute Truth in perfection, he must take to the process of devotional service in full KC. Then it will be possible for him to understand the last word of the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
01:5501:55, 5 August 2022 diff hist +6,273‎ It is very difficult for a person who is too materially affected to understand the personal nature of the Supreme Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
01:5301:53, 5 August 2022 diff hist +3,976‎ Therefore real atonement is enlightenment in perfect knowledge, Vedanta, by which one understands the Supreme Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
01:4901:49, 5 August 2022 diff hist +10,172‎ Krsna is very strict. If anyone wants to forget Him, He will give him so many chances that he will never be able to understand what is Krsna. But Krsna's devotee are more compassionate than Krsna. Therefore they preach KC to the poor people ‎No edit summary current
01:4801:48, 5 August 2022 diff hist +3,273‎ Anyone who listens to the commentary of the Mayavadi philosopher, then his fate is doomed. He is finished. He will never be able to understand bhakti philosophy ‎No edit summary current
01:4601:46, 5 August 2022 diff hist +6,921‎ You have to understand by pranipatena, by submission, not by challenging. If you challenge, then you will never be able to understand. This whole process is submission. Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja ‎No edit summary current
01:4501:45, 5 August 2022 diff hist +6,836‎ The activities of the Supreme Lord can never be understood by irresponsible persons who think the pastimes of Radha and Krsna to be ordinary affairs ‎No edit summary current
01:4401:44, 5 August 2022 diff hist +4,439‎ Persons are after some name, fame and material gain, so if someone takes to Krsna consciousness for these reasons, he will never be able to understand this philosophy. Such persons take to religious principles as a social decoration ‎No edit summary current

12:0512:05, 3 August 2022 diff hist +4,504‎ They (devotees of god) take on these lower life forms for a short while, and after they give up those animal bodies, they are again promoted to the spiritual world. Such punishment is only for a short period, and it is not due to past karma ‎No edit summary current
11:5811:58, 3 August 2022 diff hist +9,328‎ In our material existence we accept a higher form of life as a blessing and a lower form as a curse ‎No edit summary current
11:5811:58, 3 August 2022 diff hist +19,840‎ Essentially what Rsabhadeva is saying is that a life of sense gratification is meant for stool eaters like hogs, and now that we have a higher form of life, we should not try to imitate the lower forms ‎No edit summary current

13:3013:30, 2 August 2022 diff hist +23,859‎ You can train the child spiritually. That is possible. Therefore it is said, tasyaiva hetoh prayeteta kovido: use this priceless human form to attain what you could not attain in so many millions of lower forms ‎No edit summary current
13:2913:29, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,419‎ The living entity first accepts a body that is human in form, but gradually, due to his degraded activities, he falls into lower forms of life - into the animal, plant and aquatic forms ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 2 August 2022 diff hist +13,220‎ Out of the 8,400,000 different species of living beings, there are 400,000 human species. Out of these there are numerous lower forms of human life that are mostly uncivilized. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,189‎ It is said that the asuras are put into lower and lower states of ignorance life after life and so sink to the lower animal forms and have no information of the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
13:2713:27, 2 August 2022 diff hist +28,373‎ Human life by nature is full of suffering, and lower life forms are even more miserable ‎No edit summary current
13:2613:26, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,301‎ He (Krsna) is the supreme controller of all living entities, whether in human society, in demigod society in the heavenly planets, or in lower forms of life ‎No edit summary current
13:2513:25, 2 August 2022 diff hist +18,132‎ Either they (those who are acting in the modes of passion and ignorance) will have to remain in this material world as human beings, or they will descend among the species of animals or even lower life forms. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
13:2413:24, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,389‎ Eating is not prohibited, but if we eat voraciously we shall certainly sleep more than required. Sense gratification ensues, and we may be degraded to a lower life form. In that way our spiritual progress may be checked at least for the time being ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 2 August 2022 diff hist −25‎ Darwin expresses the opinion that the species are evolving from lower forms of life, but this is not the whole truth. The soul may progress from lower forms to higher forms, but in the beginning of creation all species were created by Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,311‎ Animals, birds, reptiles and other lower life forms strictly adhere to the laws of nature; therefore there is no question of sin for them, nor are the Vedic instructions meant for them ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 2 August 2022 diff hist +23,961‎ Animals simply eat, sleep, defend themselves, have sexual intercourse and die. They do not avail themselves of higher consciousness because that is not possible in the lower forms of life ‎No edit summary current
13:2113:21, 2 August 2022 diff hist +7,991‎ Actions that are performed through the misuse of one's freedom and that direct one to the lower life forms are called vikarma ‎No edit summary current
13:1713:17, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,897‎ Vasudeva took the opportunity of Kamsa’s benevolence and informed him that his atheistic activities were also due to this misconception of life - namely taking the material body to be the self ‎No edit summary current
13:1613:16, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,173‎ This gross misconception of life is so strong that a person suffers continually, life after life, under the external energy of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:1613:16, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ The two misconceptions of life, namely "I" and "mine," are verily manifested in two classes of men ‎No edit summary current
13:1413:14, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,218‎ If we want to stop this anartha, misconception of life, then we have to take to bhakti-yoga ‎No edit summary current
13:1213:12, 2 August 2022 diff hist +7,017‎ If we associate with all these things, sravanam kirtanam visnoh, hearing and chanting about Visnu, then this misconception of life, that "I am purusa," will vanquish. Then you become liberated ‎No edit summary current
13:1113:11, 2 August 2022 diff hist −10‎ His (a living entity's) constitutional position is to serve (God). After liberation, this service is never stopped. Actual liberation is getting free from misconceptions of life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
13:1113:11, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,701‎ As soon as the living entity becomes situated in his constitutional glory and begins to enjoy the transcendence beyond time and material energy, he at once gives up the two misconceptions of life and thus becomes fully manifested as the pure self ‎No edit summary current
13:0913:09, 2 August 2022 diff hist +28‎ There are selected histories (in Srimad-Bhagavatam) of great devotees who are in direct contact with the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
13:0813:08, 2 August 2022 diff hist +7,198‎ There are devotees who do not wish direct contact with the Supreme Person, but who relish the conjugal love affairs of the Lord with the gopis. Such devotees enjoy simply by hearing of the activities of the Lord with the gopis ‎No edit summary current
13:0713:07, 2 August 2022 diff hist +28‎ Meditation on the Supersoul is just another step forward. But to obtain direct contact with the Supersoul and take dictation from Him is the highest perfectional stage ‎No edit summary current
13:0613:06, 2 August 2022 diff hist +21,142‎ Lord Caitanya's spiritual master had said that the Lord was fortunate enough to have attained love of Godhead. By attaining such transcendental love, one's heart becomes very anxious to attain direct contact with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:0613:06, 2 August 2022 diff hist +28‎ Ladies who were the wives and daughters-in-law of those who died in the battlefield never came in direct contact with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:0513:05, 2 August 2022 diff hist +28‎ A devotee constantly engaged in Deity worship according to the rules and regulations laid down in the sastras and given by the spiritual master realizes gradually that he is in direct contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
13:0413:04, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,139‎ All of them (ladies) heard of Him and His great activities, and thus they thought of Him, talked of Him, His name, fame, etc., and became affectionate also, like those who were in direct contact ‎No edit summary current
13:0313:03, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,033‎ One must be so eager that without Krsna consciousness, one should become mad. One should become mad. That is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching, separation, not direct contact ‎No edit summary current
13:0213:02, 2 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Without love of Godhead there is no meaning even to direct contact. During the presence of the Lord there were thousands and thousands of men, but because they were not in love of Godhead they could hardly realize the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:0213:02, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,430‎ When the lover and beloved come together and enjoy one another by direct contact, this stage is called sambhoga. There is a statement in Padyavali as follows ‎No edit summary current
13:0113:01, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,696‎ The purchase money cannot be given to anyone else; we shall directly deal with the sellers and pay them directly. So direct contact with the sellers is absolutely necessary ‎No edit summary current
13:0113:01, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,263‎ The more a living entity is purified by devotional service, the more he comes in direct contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as confirmed in Srimad Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
13:0013:00, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,905‎ Rukmini continued, "And when he comes in direct contact with Your service, the goddess of fortune agrees to bestow all her blessings" ‎No edit summary current
12:5912:59, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ One can attain direct contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in full Krsna consciousness and revive one's eternal relationship with Him as lover, as Supreme Soul, as son, as friend or as master ‎No edit summary current
12:5812:58, 2 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ In the absence of the Lord the devotee associates with Him by remembering His separation, and because the Lord is absolute, the devotee's feeling of separation is transcendentally more relishable than direct contact ‎No edit summary current
12:5712:57, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,591‎ Conjugal love is divided into two portions: vipralambha, or conjugal love in separation, and sambhoga, or conjugal love in direct contact ‎No edit summary current
12:5712:57, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,204‎ Because the land (of Vrndavana) is identical with the Lord (Krsna), devotees like Uddhava and Vidura visited these places five thousand years ago in order to have direct contact with the Lord, visible or not visible ‎No edit summary current
12:5612:56, 2 August 2022 diff hist +7,655‎ Bali said, "By Your (Krsna's) causeless mercy only are we demons in direct contact with Your personality. This contact is not possible even for the great demigods. No one knows how You act through Your yogamaya potency ‎No edit summary current
12:5512:55, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,797‎ All of these (the nine activities in devotional service) are ways of seeing Him (God), for everything done in devotional service is a means of direct contact with the Lord ‎No edit summary
12:5512:55, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,311‎ After complete suspension of the material modes of nature, one is admitted to the spiritual sphere, and action dictated by the spiritual modes is called devotional service, or bhakti. Bhakti is nirguna attained by direct contact with the Absolute ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,597‎ You write to say that these are some nice typical examples of your binding work, so it is a great credit because these books any man would be proud to have ‎No edit summary current
12:5112:51, 2 August 2022 diff hist +7,050‎ This is a typical example of materialistic persons. At night they waste their time by sleeping more than six hours or in sex indulgence. This is their occupation at night, and in the morning they go to their office or business place just to earn money ‎No edit summary current
12:5012:50, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ There is a railway station on the South Indian Railway known as Simhacala. The temple known as Simhacala is the best temple in the vicinity of Visakhapatnam. This temple is very affluent and is a typical example of the architecture of the area ‎No edit summary current
12:4912:49, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,210‎ The typical examples of such attraction are found in Vrndavana, where everything and everyone is attracted by Krsna ‎No edit summary current
12:4912:49, 2 August 2022 diff hist +13,201‎ The typical example of the beast of burden is the ass. This humble beast is made to work very hard by his master. The ass does not really know for whom he works so hard day and night. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:4812:48, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,034‎ The typical example is the son of Samika Rsi, and all the foolish sons of brahmanas are warned hereby not to become as foolish as Srngi and be always on guard against the demoniac qualities which they had in their previous births ‎No edit summary current
12:4812:48, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ Queen Gandhari is a typical example of an ascetic because of her marvelous character in many trying situations ‎No edit summary current
12:4712:47, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,764‎ Lord Caitanya displayed the typical example of transcendental ecstasy, as we can understand from the life of this incarnation of God ‎No edit summary current
12:4712:47, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ It may appear that a devotee of the Lord is becoming poorer and poorer in terms of material prosperity, but factually he is not. The typical example is the Pandavas ‎No edit summary current
12:4612:46, 2 August 2022 diff hist +20,515‎ In the transcendental relationship the servant and the Lord are in one sense identical, for the Lord also serves the servant. The typical example is Sri Krsna's becoming the charioteer of His eternal servant Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
12:4512:45, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,862‎ He (Kholaveca Sridhara) was a great devotee of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He is a typical example of how a poor man with no material possessions can become a most exalted devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
12:4512:45, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,374‎ Emperor Bharata is a typical example of detachment. He had everything enjoyable in the material world, but he left it. This means that detachment does not mean artificially keeping oneself aloof and apart from the allurements of attachment ‎No edit summary current
12:4412:44, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ Dhrtarastra is a typical example of an attached old man in household life ‎No edit summary current
12:4212:42, 2 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ A living entity, although servant of his senses, tries to become master of the whole universe. Hiranyakasipu was a typical example of this ‎No edit summary current
12:4212:42, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ A devotee of the Lord automatically has all good qualifications. And the Emperor was a typical example of this. Personally he had no attachment for all the worldly opulences in his possession ‎No edit summary current
12:3712:37, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,941‎ It appears that although there was monarchy, it was not at all an autocracy. There were senior family members and ministers who could make changes and elect the proper person to the throne, although the throne could be occupied only by the royal family ‎No edit summary current
12:3712:37, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,653‎ In order to intelligently apply the sixfold loving reciprocations mentioned in the previous verse, one must select proper persons with careful discrimination ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,182‎ In 1922 when I (Prabhupada) saw my Guru Maharaja and when I was convinced about his argument and mode of presentation, I was so much struck with wonder. I could understand that "Here is the proper person who can give real religious idea" ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,022‎ If our family has given charity to the proper persons, if we have performed ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices I wish, in exchange, that this brahmana be freed from the burning caused by the Sudarsana cakra ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 2 August 2022 diff hist −9‎ If one is initiated by a proper person, he can be accepted as twice-born immediately. In our Krsna consciousness movement, we therefore offer the student his first initiation and allow him to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,954‎ Everything, in fact, is inconceivable, for the truth is revealed only to the proper persons ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,828‎ A peon's duty is that he must sincerely carry out the order of the postmaster and deliver the letter to the proper person. That is their duty. Similarly, this parampara system is like that. Every one of us should become a spiritual master ‎No edit summary current

14:2714:27, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,579‎ When one hears or describes with great faith the pastimes of Lord Krsna, such as His rasa dance with the gopis, the disease of lusty desires in his heart and the agitation caused by the three modes of material nature are immediately nullified ‎No edit summary current
14:2714:27, 31 July 2022 diff hist +3,059‎ To have a satisfied mind, one must give up his heart disease of lusty desires. This can be done only when one is Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
14:1014:10, 31 July 2022 diff hist +3,085‎ If one becomes Krsna conscious, then he can give up this heart disease; otherwise this disease of lusty desires will continue, and one cannot have peace in his mind ‎No edit summary current
14:0814:08, 31 July 2022 diff hist +3,937‎ Hrd-rogam kamam, this is a heart disease, to be lusty. But if anyone hears about the pastimes of Krsna and the gopis, through right source, then this hrd-rogam, this lusty desire in the heart, is suppressed and he will develop devotional service ‎No edit summary current
14:0414:04, 31 July 2022 diff hist +6,076‎ The gopis, who are expansions of His (Krsna's) energy, then he will be relieved of the most dangerous type of disease, namely lust ‎No edit summary current
14:0114:01, 31 July 2022 diff hist −10‎ As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam, kamam hrd-rogam. Materialistic life means that one is afflicted by a formidable disease called lusty desire ‎No edit summary current
01:5601:56, 31 July 2022 diff hist +9,105‎ Sometimes our devotees fall down because he has not come to that platform, ever-existing. Therefore the fire extinguished. That is possible, but everyone should be very, very careful that the fire may not be extinguished. Then again maya ‎No edit summary current
01:5101:51, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,744‎ Even a maha-bhagavata, or highly elevated devotee who has surrendered himself unto the lotus feet of Krsna, sometimes falls down from pure devotional service if he hears the Mayavada philosophy of the Sariraka-bhasya ‎No edit summary current
01:4801:48, 31 July 2022 diff hist +3,207‎ We have to keep Krsna always in the center, and then although there are disturbances and sometimes fall downs we will be able to work together and keep our society intact ‎No edit summary current
01:4601:46, 31 July 2022 diff hist +3,941‎ The Mayavadi sannyasis sometimes fall down from the path of self-realization and again enter into material activities of a philanthropic and altruistic nature, which are nothing but material engagements. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
01:4501:45, 31 July 2022 diff hist +7,453‎ The living entities, they are compared with the sparks, and the Supreme Lord as the big fire. So the big fire, that is the comparison. And the small sparks, both of them are fire. But sometimes the sparks fall down from the big fire. That is our falldown ‎No edit summary current
01:4401:44, 31 July 2022 diff hist +5,128‎ The individual soul, although within the illumination of the Supreme, sometimes falls down from that illumination because of his tiny position, and when he falls down he enters into material, conditional life ‎No edit summary current
01:4401:44, 31 July 2022 diff hist +6,291‎ The devotee, in the beginning, may sometimes fall from the standard, but still he should be considered superior to all other philosophers and yogis. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
01:4001:40, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,322‎ Sometimes even Brahma and Indra fall down ‎No edit summary current
01:3901:39, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,103‎ One who has forsaken his material occupations to engage in the devotional service of the Lord may sometimes fall down while in an immature stage, yet there is no danger of his being unsuccessful ‎No edit summary
01:3501:35, 31 July 2022 diff hist +5,554‎ In the Krsna consciousness movement these monkey disciples, being unable to follow the strict regulative principles, sometimes fall down and try to form societies based on sex ‎No edit summary current
01:3401:34, 31 July 2022 diff hist +25,249‎ In the attitude of anubhava, one dances and sometimes falls down, sometimes sings loudly, shows convulsions, yawns, and sometimes breathes very heavily - all without concern for circumstances ‎No edit summary current
01:3201:32, 31 July 2022 diff hist +5,875‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.5.17) it is said: "One who has forsaken his material occupations to engage in the devotional service of the Lord may sometimes fall down while in an immature stage, yet there is no danger of his being unsuccessful ‎No edit summary
01:3201:32, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,581‎ From Vedic scriptures it is understood that sometimes even Brahma and Indra fall down, but a devotee in the transcendental abode of the Lord never falls ‎No edit summary current
01:3101:31, 31 July 2022 diff hist −10‎ Even liberated souls sometimes fall down to material desires, but those who fully engage in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead are not affected by such desires. These are references from authoritative revealed scriptures ‎No edit summary current
01:3001:30, 31 July 2022 diff hist −10‎ Even if one falls down sometimes, if one becomes sincere, thinking, "From this time I shall remain Krsna conscious and execute His orders," then Krsna will help him ‎No edit summary current
01:2901:29, 31 July 2022 diff hist −10‎ Bhaktivinoda Thakura remarks that even a maha-bhagavata, or highly elevated devotee who has surrendered himself unto the lotus feet of Krsna, sometimes falls down from pure devotional service if he hears the Mayavada philosophy of the Sariraka-bhasya ‎No edit summary current

04:5104:51, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,805‎ This Krsna consciousness movement is the topmost education, culture. Those who have come to Krsna consciousness movement, they should seriously take it and try to understand Krsna. Their life will be successful ‎No edit summary current
04:4704:47, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,098‎ Everyone has dormant love for Krsna, and by culture and education that has to be awakened. That is the purpose of this Krsna consciousness movement ‎No edit summary current
04:4404:44, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,023‎ They may be descendants of brahmana or ksatriya forefathers, but in the age of Kali, for want of sufficient education and culture of Vedic wisdom, such a sudra-like population will defy the principles of religion ‎No edit summary current
04:4404:44, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,513‎ The nondevotee, however advanced he may be in material qualifications by education and culture, lacks in godly qualities. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:4304:43, 30 July 2022 diff hist −9‎ The human form of life is a great asset, for in this life one can fulfill the goal of existence. Unfortunately, however, because of a lack of education and culture, people are victimized by the false happiness of sex life ‎No edit summary current
04:4304:43, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,162‎ The four statuses and orders of human society - brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras, as well as brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas and sannyasis - are all divisions of quality, education, culture and spiritual advancement ‎No edit summary current
04:4104:41, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,364‎ The brahmanas thus began to condemn their own activities. They realized that in spite of being so elevated by birth, education and culture, they still were under the spell of the illusory energy ‎No edit summary current
04:4004:40, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,235‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam states that in the Age of Kali, thieves, rogues and fourth-class people who have neither education nor culture capture the seats of governments to exploit the citizens. This is a symptom of Kali-yuga that has already appeared ‎No edit summary
04:3904:39, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,638‎ One has to take his birth, rebirth, by culture, by education, by knowledge. That is called cultural birth ‎No edit summary current
04:3904:39, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,933‎ Human life is meant for cultivation of spiritual knowledge, in eternal relationship with the SPG, and the executive heads of all states and all planets are obliged to impart this lesson to the citizens by education, culture and devotion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:3804:38, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,708‎ Fourth-class people who have neither education nor culture ‎No edit summary current
04:3004:30, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,493‎ They may defy leadership, they may defy authority, but one who defies authority, he wants to become authority. So this is natural. Without leader nothing can be done ‎No edit summary current
04:2804:28, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,429‎ Our authority comes from Parampara system. If the Guru was not satisfied with Bon Maharaja and called him back, and since then, he gave up connection with Gaudiya Math and started his own institution, then how he becomes authority? ‎No edit summary current
04:1804:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist +9,124‎ He (Haridas Thakura) was apparently born in a family of Muhammadans, but because he was chanting the holy name of the Supreme Lord offenselessly, Lord Caitanya empowered him to become the authority, or acarya, of spreading the name ‎No edit summary current
04:1704:17, 30 July 2022 diff hist +8,986‎ We do not accept authority. We want to become authority ourself: "I am authority." Everyone wants to become authority. And that is being supported by so-called swamis, "Yes, you can manufacture your own religion." But that is not the process ‎No edit summary current
04:1504:15, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,309‎ Maitreya heard the narration from his bona fide spiritual master, and Vidura also heard from Maitreya. One becomes an authority simply by presenting whatever he has heard from his spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
04:1504:15, 30 July 2022 diff hist +77,774‎ It was His (the Lord's) wish that His teaching be distributed anew by Arjuna. He wanted Arjuna to become the authority in understanding the Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
04:1404:14, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,397‎ If they do not accept authority, why they become authority? Who will accept them? If everything is depending on mental speculation, then why they should be accepted as authority? ‎No edit summary current
04:1004:10, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,867‎ All these personalities (Sanaka, Sanatana, Narada, Siva, the Manus) underwent great austerities and penances and thus became authorities in Vedic knowledge. Perfect knowledge for human beings, as well as all living entities, is contained in the Vedas ‎No edit summary current

04:0604:06, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,335‎ They call all woman, "Mother." "Mother, give me some alms." And they come back to guru's place. Everything belongs to guru. This brahmacari life. This is tapasya ‎No edit summary current
04:0304:03, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,805‎ Matrvat para-daresu. From the very beginning of life, all women they are treated as mother. That is the system, Vedic system. Everyone will call a woman as "Mother." Never mind whether she is younger or older. It doesn't matter ‎No edit summary current
04:0304:03, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,204‎ If one always thinks of Krsna, feels how to serve Him and wills to execute the order of Krsna, it should be known that he has taken good instruction from his intelligence, which is called the mother ‎No edit summary current
04:0204:02, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,675‎ Although you (Parvati) cursed the King (Citraketu), he was not at all afraid or sorry. He offered respect to you, called you mother & accepted your curse thinking himself faulty. He did not say anything in retaliation. This is the excellence of a devotee ‎No edit summary current
04:0104:01, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,030‎ Krsna immediately changed His dress to look exactly like Abhimanyu and approached Abhimanyu's mother, Jatila, addressing her thus: "My dear Mother, I am your real son Abhimanyu, but just see - Krsna, dressed up like me, is coming before you!" ‎No edit summary current
04:0004:00, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,894‎ Indra addresses his mother in this manner, "My dear Mother (Aditi), persons who have given up all kinds of desire and are simply engaged in devotional service to the Lord know what is actually their self-interest" ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,955‎ The etiquette is to address every woman, never mind whether she is young or old, as "Mother." This is brahmacari ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,244‎ From the very beginning, a brahmacari is trained to sacrifice everything for the benefit of the guru. A brahmacari is advised to go begging alms door to door, addressing all women as mother, and whatever he collects goes to the benefit of the guru ‎No edit summary
03:5703:57, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,098‎ The word amba is significant. A father sometimes addresses his daughter in affection as "mother" and sometimes as "my darling." ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,531‎ Protection of bulls and cows and all other animals can be possible only when there is a state ruled by an executive head like Maharaja Pariksit. Maharaja Pariksit addresses the cow as mother, for he is a cultured, twice-born, ksatriya king ‎No edit summary
03:5503:55, 29 July 2022 diff hist +12,329‎ Arjuna sustained his unimpeachable character by closing his eyes before Urvasi, addressing her as mother of the Kuru dynasty and placing her in the category of his mothers Kunti, Madri and Sacidevi, wife of Indradeva ‎No edit summary current
03:5103:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,407‎ 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
03:5103:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,312‎ Our activities are conditioned, not free. But you can attain a life of freedom, life of unlimited energy, unlimited happiness, unlimited bliss. There is possibility. This is not story or fiction ‎No edit summary current
03:5003:50, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,170‎ In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, there is a story... Not story. Fact. It is described there that one brahmana - he was a great devotee - he wanted to offer very brilliant service, arcana, in the temple worship. But he had no money ‎No edit summary current
03:4903:49, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,698‎ Don't think that these description in the Vedas, they are stories. They are not stories. They are facts. But we cannot accommodate in our poor teeny brain. That's all. So what we shall understand about God? It is not possible ‎No edit summary current
03:4903:49, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,422‎ Because I have written some book, so I know what is the purpose of writing my book. You cannot know. My purpose you cannot know. There is a small instructive story in this - not story, fact - in this connection ‎No edit summary current
03:4703:47, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,323‎ So these statements are not overestimations, nor are they stories. They are actual facts, but are true for certain devotees and do not necessarily apply to all ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,580‎ We experience that even a young boy in Krsna consciousness is unattached to cinemas, nightclubs, naked dance shows, restaurants, liquor shops, etc. He becomes completely freed ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,395‎ They spend fifty thousand dollars weekly for seeing naked dance. You see? So money is being misused in this way. Everyone wants sense gratification. And for sense gratification, they want money. And they are earning money ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 29 July 2022 diff hist +9,082‎ They are going to the naked dance club, the sex ananda. Because in the material world there is no ananda except this ‎No edit summary current
03:4203:42, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,086‎ These people they have no aim of life. What is the aim of human..., they do not know. So their animal propensities are being adjusted this way, that way, this way, that way. Just like they go to see naked dance ‎No edit summary current
03:4203:42, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,064‎ These boys, although they are young men, they will never go to cinema. They are young men; they have got all propensities. But they are so elevated, they have given up all these low propensities - going to the club, restaurant and cinema, or naked dance ‎No edit summary current
03:4103:41, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,082‎ The animal propensity - he is seeing his wife daily naked, and still he is going to see naked dance, and paying some fees. Because they have no engagement except this animalism. Is it not? ‎No edit summary current
03:4003:40, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,161‎ Not at home sex, but "Let us go to the prostitute, go to the naked dance." They have no other ideas. Punah punas carvita-carvananam. These class of men cannot take to Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
03:4003:40, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,589‎ Everyone has got experience in every country. When he has no difficulty to get money, then what he will do? He will simply drink or invent some means of intoxication, naked dance ‎No edit summary current
03:3503:35, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,660‎ Without protection of the brahmanas and the cows, there can be no human civilization and no question of happy, peaceful life. Asuras, therefore, are always interested in killing the brahmanas and cows ‎No edit summary current
03:3403:34, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,421‎ There is no question of happy life within this material world. This is to be understood first. Very pessimistic. Those who are intelligent, they are very pessimistic. Even materially they are pessimistic ‎No edit summary current
03:3303:33, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,207‎ Opposing princes continued, "There is no question of distress or happiness for a person like you because neither of these conditions is everlasting. Take courage. Don't be disappointed by this temporary reversal. After all, we are not the final actors" ‎No edit summary current
03:3203:32, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,126‎ One practices yoga in order to attain perfection on the spiritual platform. There is no question of material happiness or distress. It is transcendental ‎No edit summary current
03:3103:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,827‎ Like small particles of sand, bodies come together and are separated by the force of time, and people falsely lament for unification and separation. Unless one knows this, there is no question of happiness ‎No edit summary current
03:3103:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,670‎ In this material world, everything happens under the influence of time. Consequently, for a learned person who sees how things are taking place, there is no question of being sorry or happy because of the waves of material nature ‎No edit summary current
03:2603:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,971‎ During their stay in the forest, there was some quarrel between Ramacandra and Ravana, and the latter kidnapped the Lord's wife, Sita. The quarrel ended in the vanquishing of the greatly powerful Ravana, along with all his kingdom and family ‎No edit summary current
03:2603:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,966‎ There is a Bengali proverb that it is not wise to pick up quarrel with a crocodile while living in the jurisdiction of the water. Therefore we may agree to the desire of Mr. Spellman to keep peace with him ‎No edit summary current
03:2503:25, 29 July 2022 diff hist +10‎ The great sage Durvasa Muni picked a quarrel with Maharaja Ambarisa, and Durvasa Muni unnecessarily became angry out of pride and therefore could not check his senses. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:2403:24, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,487‎ When the Pandavas were living at the palace of Virata incognito, the Kauravas picked a quarrel with King Virata and decided to take away his large number of cows. While they were taking away the cows, Arjuna fought with them incognito ‎No edit summary current
03:2403:24, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,511‎ There are six features of conjugal love affairs, called peacemaking, picking a quarrel, going to meet one's lover, sitting together, separation and support. Lord Krsna expanded an empire of these six features, of which He was the ruling prince ‎No edit summary current
03:2203:22, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,741‎ The great sage Durvasa Muni picked a quarrel with Maharaja Ambarisa, and Durvasa Muni unnecessarily became angry out of pride and therefore could not check his senses ‎No edit summary current
03:2103:21, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,293‎ The devotees of the Lord do not directly practice the process of mystic powers, but, by the grace of the Lord, His devotee can defeat even a great yogesvara like Durvasa Muni, who picked a quarrel with Maharaja Ambarisa ‎No edit summary
03:2003:20, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,932‎ I had some difficulty in staying in my rooms at Radha Damodara Temple. They want me to go away and are now picking up some quarrel with me to get me out of my possession ‎No edit summary current
03:1903:19, 29 July 2022 diff hist +8,535‎ He (Visvamitra) picked a quarrel with Vasistha Muni when he was a ksatriya king and performed a great sacrifice in cooperation with Matanga Muni and thus was able to vanquish the sons of Vasistha ‎No edit summary current
03:1903:19, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,074‎ Bhurisrava advised the sons of Dhrtarastra not to pick any quarrel or fight with them ‎No edit summary current
03:1803:18, 29 July 2022 diff hist +12,521‎ All of them (Somadatta, Bhurisrava and Salya) appreciated the wonderful strength of Arjuna due to his being the devotee friend of the Lord, and thus Bhurisrava advised the sons of Dhrtarastra not to pick any quarrel or fight with them ‎No edit summary current
03:1603:16, 29 July 2022 diff hist +21,163‎ When one is firmly convinced that Visnu is the only object of love and worship and that there is no one else - not even a demigod - worthy of receiving devotional service, one feels intimacy in his love relationship with God, and this is approved ‎No edit summary current
03:1603:16, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,320‎ When one develops an unflinching sense of ownership or possessiveness in relation to Lord Visnu, or, in other words, when one thinks Visnu and no one else to be the only object of love, such an awakening is called bhakti (devotion) ‎No edit summary current
03:1503:15, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,538‎ We should take advantage of the benediction given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, & when by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra we are cleansed of all dirty things (CC Antya 20.12), we shall be able to understand very easily that Krsna is the only object of love ‎No edit summary current
03:1403:14, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,533‎ Thus Rupa Gosvami became the object of love and affection for all the devotees of the Lord, including those who came from Bengal and those who resided in Orissa ‎No edit summary current
03:1403:14, 29 July 2022 diff hist +28‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is actually the only object of our love. As long as we are in this material world we have so many desires to fulfill ‎No edit summary current
03:1303:13, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,127‎ The madhyama-adhikari is a devotee who worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the highest object of love, makes friends with the Lord's devotees, is merciful to the ignorant and avoids those who are envious by nature ‎No edit summary current
03:1203:12, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,395‎ The Lord becomes a subordinate object of love in such transcendental relationships (when a devotee thinks of Him as his pet son, personal friend or most dear fiance) ‎No edit summary current
03:1103:11, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,351‎ Madhyama-adhikari adores the Lord, considering Him the object of love; he makes friends with those who are in DS; he tries to awaken the dormant love of God in the hearts of the innocent; and he avoids the atheists, who deride the very name of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
03:1003:10, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,427‎ Lord Caitanya prayed, "You (Krsna) can either embrace Me or crush Me under Your feet - whatever You like. You may make Me brokenhearted by not letting Me see You throughout My whole life, but You are My only object of love" ‎No edit summary current
03:0903:09, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,690‎ In Vrndavana, however, Krsna was not even known as the Paramatma because the residents of Vrndavana were pure unconventional devotees of the Lord and could think of Him only as their object of love. They did not know that He is the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
03:0603:06, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,067‎ This complete surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the most auspicious path for the conditioned soul because the Supreme Lord is the supreme objective of love ‎No edit summary current
03:0603:06, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,602‎ The object of love is Krsna, and the container of that love is the devotee of Krsna. Learned scholars call them alambana - the foundations ‎No edit summary current
03:0503:05, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,806‎ Krsna should be the object of love is the central point of Krsna consciousness. Constantly chanting the Hare Krsna mantra & remembering the transcendental pastimes of Krsna, one can be fully in Krsna consciousness & thus make his life sublime & fruitful ‎No edit summary
03:0503:05, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,236‎ He (Krsna) is the central object of love because He gives us all bliss, expanding Himself in so many ways according to our different situations, namely bodily, mental or spiritual ‎No edit summary current
03:0403:04, 29 July 2022 diff hist +21,112‎ Devotional service discharged with such attachment is called ragatmika, and deep attachment with deep absorption in the object of love is called ragatmika. Examples of these can be seen in the activities of the residents of Vrajabhumi ‎No edit summary
03:0303:03, 29 July 2022 diff hist +8‎ Every living being is related with the Supreme Lord by some sort of affectionate relation, either as servant or as friend or as parent or as an object of conjugal love ‎No edit summary current
03:0103:01, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,753‎ The happiness of the abode of love is in the happiness of the object of that love. This is not a relationship of desire for personal gratification ‎No edit summary current
03:0103:01, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,476‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami were the objects of love and honor for all the great stalwart devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
03:0003:00, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,804‎ Because we do not find whom to love, therefore we place our love even cats and dogs. We love a dog. Anyone who has no other object to love, no children, no family, no wife - all right, keep a cat, keep a dog. But love is there ‎No edit summary current
02:5802:58, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,472‎ I taste the bliss to which the object of love is entitled. But the pleasure of Radha, the abode of that love, is ten million times greater ‎No edit summary current
02:5802:58, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,028‎ Here in this world we find that the object of love and the lover both are the cheater and the cheated in their reciprocal dealings. That is our experience ‎No edit summary current
02:5702:57, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,237‎ Object of love is Krsna ‎No edit summary current

10:3710:37, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,988‎ Whether Arjuna accepted the Vedic conclusion that there is an atomic soul, or whether he did not believe in the existence of the soul, he had no reason to lament. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,988‎ So long you come, do not come to Krsna consciousness, your, these two business will go on, lamenting and hankering. And as soon as you come to Krsna consciousness, you become joyful. There is no reason of lamenting ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,110‎ Whether one believes in the existence of the soul, or one does not believe in the existence of the soul, there is no cause for lamentation for loss of the body. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,620‎ The Vedic wisdom encourages self-realization on the basis of the nonexistence of the material body. in either case, whether one believes in the existence of the soul or one does not believe in the existence of the soul, there is no cause for lamentation ‎No edit summary current
10:3310:33, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,086‎ Nonbelievers in the existence of the soul are called atheists by followers of Vedic wisdom. Yet even if, for argument's sake, we accept the atheistic theory, there is still no cause for lamentation. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:3210:32, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,646‎ Krsna said, "You (gopis) will understand that you are always with Me and that there is no cause of lamentation in our being separated from one another" ‎No edit summary current
10:3110:31, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,342‎ Krsna continued, "Here also I am not the proprietor of anything, but am always penniless. There is no cause to lament for such a penniless condition; I possessed nothing in the past, so why should I lament that I do not possess anything at present" ‎No edit summary current
10:2910:29, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,878‎ If, however, you think that the soul is perpetually born and always dies, still you have no reason to lament, O mighty-armed. BG 2.26 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
10:2810:28, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,947‎ If you (Arjuna) think that the soul (or the symptoms of life) is always born and dies forever, you still have no reason to lament, O mighty-armed ‎No edit summary current
10:2710:27, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,261‎ There was no cause for lamentation by Arjuna on account of death, neither for Bhisma or for Drona, for whom he was so much concerned. Rather, he should rejoice for their changing bodies from old to new ones, thereby rejuvenating their energy. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
10:2610:26, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,871‎ Even if Arjuna did not believe in the existence of the soul - as in the Vaibhasika philosophy - there would still have been no cause for lamentation. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:2610:26, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,981‎ Accepting that there are two classes of philosophers, one believing in the existence of soul and the other not believing in the existence of the soul, there is no cause for lamentation in either case. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:2410:24, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,152‎ There is no cause of lamentation because the living entity can neither be killed as he is, nor can the material body, which cannot be saved for any length of time, be permanently protected. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

02:5802:58, 27 July 2022 diff hist −9‎ Their (Krsna's, Arjuna's and the assembled kings') individuality existed in the past, and their individuality will continue in the future without interruption. Therefore, there is no cause for lamentation for anyone. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:5802:58, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,626‎ Nonbelievers in the existence of the soul are called atheists by followers of Vedic wisdom. Yet even if for argument's sake we accept the atheistic theory, there is still no cause for lamentation ‎No edit summary current
02:5702:57, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,829‎ Hearing the words of the dead son (of Srivasa Thakura), all the members of Srivasa Thakura’s family received transcendental knowledge. Thus there was no cause for lamentation ‎No edit summary current
02:5702:57, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,995‎ For a ksatriya, a military man, shooting arrows at the enemy is considered transcendental, and refraining from such a duty is demoniac. Therefore, there was no cause for Arjuna to lament. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:5602:56, 27 July 2022 diff hist −9‎ Bhisma and Drona, being noble souls, were surely going to have either spiritual bodies in the next life, or at least life in heavenly bodies for superior enjoyment of material existence. So, in either case, there was no cause of lamentation. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
02:5502:55, 27 July 2022 diff hist +24,935‎ Because of the existence of the mind and intelligence on Brahmaloka, its residents have feelings of happiness and distress, but there is no cause of lamentation from old age, death, fear or distress ‎No edit summary current
02:5502:55, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,351‎ As the soul transmigrates, one who has taken birth must give up the present body, and then he must certainly accept another body. This should be no cause for lamentation ‎No edit summary current
02:5402:54, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,603‎ Accepting that there are two classes of philosophers, one believing in the existence of the soul and the other not believing in its existence, there is no cause for lamentation in either case ‎No edit summary current
02:5102:51, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,322‎ My dear Vaisnava, seeing a person like you is the perfection of one's eyesight, touching your lotus feet is the perfection of the sense of touch, and glorifying your good qualities is the tongue's real activity ‎No edit summary current
02:5102:51, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,173‎ Activities of the material world means to act in such a way that you become liberated at the end and go back to home, back to Godhead. That is real activities of this material world ‎No edit summary current
02:4902:49, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,721‎ Then as soon as relationship (sambandha) is understood, then our real activity begins. That real activities is called bhakti, and the material activities, which is not bhakti, that is maya ‎No edit summary current
02:4902:49, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,739‎ The spirit, spirit soul is active. You cannot stop it. You cannot stop it. Now it is acting through the coverings of material, matter, therefore it is imperfect activities. But if the activity is uncovered by material things that is real activity ‎No edit summary current
02:4802:48, 27 July 2022 diff hist +11‎ When the mirror of intelligence is polished, the real activities of the living entity begin ‎No edit summary current
02:4702:47, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,370‎ The conditioned soul has forgotten the real activities of his original position. However, this is not the case with Krsna. Krsna's name and His person are identical ‎No edit summary current
02:4602:46, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,861‎ The change (of heart) must be manifested in terms of one’s real activities ‎No edit summary current
02:4602:46, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,648‎ In fact, we are engaged in real activities for obtaining the ultimate happiness in life. If one is not trained to satisfy the spiritual senses and continues in material sense gratification, he will never obtain happiness that is eternal and blissful ‎No edit summary current
02:4502:45, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,244‎ Building is not very important. Work is important. Activity is important. I started my movement not with buildings, but real activity. So building is opulence. You can do without opulence. You can start anything, even underneath a tree ‎No edit summary current
02:4402:44, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,228‎ Real activity means ‎No edit summary current
02:3502:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,853‎ When there is something fearful the child, it is nature, closes the eyes. I have practical experience. When I was young man I went to the zoo with my little son and as soon as there was a tiger cage, oh, the child closed the eyes ‎No edit summary current
02:3402:34, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,274‎ I was a young man in 1922 and I was also misled in so many ways. But my spiritual master saved me, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
02:3302:33, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,529‎ I was a newly married young man, addicted to Gandhi's movement and dressed in khadi. Fortunately, even at our first meeting His Divine Grace advised me to preach the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in English in the Western countries ‎No edit summary current
02:3202:32, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,875‎ His Divine Grace, my spiritual master, somehow or other liked me, that I should take up this responsibility. And on the first day I met him, I was at (that) time a very young man, a nationalist, and engaged in a very responsible office ‎No edit summary current
02:3102:31, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,661‎ Fifty years ago I was a young man, but that time has been taken and cannot be returned. The spiritual knowledge I received from my spiritual master, however, cannot be taken away, but will go with me ‎No edit summary current
02:3002:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +7,598‎ At that time, I was a young man and a nationalist, admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and C.R. Dass ‎No edit summary current
02:2502:25, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,376‎ She (Sukanya) was a faithful and chaste wife ‎No edit summary current
02:2502:25, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,231‎ She (Devahuti) served him (Kardama Muni) with great love and affection, and she knew how to please him. Therefore, she is designated here (SB 3.23.1) as sadhvi, which means "a chaste, faithful wife." Her rare example is the ideal of Vedic civilization ‎No edit summary
02:2102:21, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,600‎ If the husband is first class and the wife is chaste and faithful, then the home is heaven. This is the formula ‎No edit summary current

03:2203:22, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,645‎ The Aditya Purana, Markandeya Purana and Padma Purana tell about a brahmana who was suffering from leprosy but had a very chaste and faithful wife ‎No edit summary current
03:2203:22, 26 July 2022 diff hist +9,766‎ Not only should a woman be faithful and chaste to her husband, but she should also be affectionate to the friends of her husband, obedient to the father and mother of her husband, and affectionate to the younger brothers of her husband ‎No edit summary current
03:1403:14, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,173‎ A chaste and faithful woman must not practice adultery - that is a greatly sinful act ‎No edit summary current
02:1702:17, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,912‎ The enchanting vibration of His (Krsna's) songs became a great impediment to the young girls, who were supposed to remain chaste and faithful to their husbands ‎No edit summary current
02:1702:17, 26 July 2022 diff hist +1,817‎ The Asvini-kumaras were very pleased to see Sukanya's chastity and faithfulness. Thus they showed her Cyavana Muni, her husband, and after taking permission from him, they returned to the heavenly planets in their plane ‎No edit summary current
02:0402:04, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,931‎ As stated in the sastra, the results of a husband's pious activities are shared by his wife. A woman's duty is to be very chaste and faithful to her husband. Then without separate endeavor she will share in all the profit the husband earns ‎No edit summary current
02:0302:03, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,212‎ 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

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