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16:2316:23, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ At the entrance to Jagannatha Puri is a bridge with eighteen arches called Atharanala - Athara means eighteen ‎No edit summary current
16:1916:19, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ Asadhu, or demon, means persons who deny the authority of God. They are called demons ‎No edit summary current
16:1816:18, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As you inquire what is svami, svami means master. And master, what does it mean? Master of the senses. Generally people are driven by the dictation of the senses. So if you can control your senses, then you become a svami ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As we understand from Brahma-samhita, advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam (BS 5.33). Ananta means "innumerable ‎No edit summary current
16:1516:15, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As stated in this verse, sadrso 'sti sivah pantha. Para-brahman is Krsna, and brahma-siddhaye means understanding our relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
16:1316:13, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As stated in Srinivasacarya's prayer to the six Gosvamis (Sad-gosvamy-astaka): sankhya-purvaka-nama-gana-natibhih kalavasani-krtau. The word sankhya-purvaka means "maintaining a numerical strength ‎No edit summary current
16:1116:11, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains, the word nirapeksa means not being affected by anything material and remaining fixed in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
16:0916:09, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As soon as we speak of karma, there must be somebody else to judge. And that judgment is said, daiva netrena. Daiva means divine supervision ‎No edit summary current
16:0016:00, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As described in the beginning of the Vedanta-sutra, the Supreme Person is the origin of all qualities. He is generally called nirguna. Nirguna means "whose qualities are beyond estimation." Guna means "quality," and nir means "beyond estimation" ‎No edit summary current
15:5715:57, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As a sincere friend of Krsna, one should preach this philosophy, requesting everyone to surrender unto Krsna. Atma-nivedanam means offering Krsna everything, including one's body, mind, intelligence and whatever one may possess ‎No edit summary current
15:5215:52, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ Arthadam means you can derive the greatest value in this life. Arthadam. Artha means money, and paramartha means spiritual consciousness ‎No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ Arcanam means worshiping Lord Visnu as one does in the temple, and vandanam means offering respectful obeisances. Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru (BG 18.65). Vandanam means namaskuru - offering obeisances or offering prayers ‎No edit summary current
15:4515:45, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anyone who is well-versed in bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam, he can become guru. Not others. And in many places this is confirmed, that sat-karma-nipuno vipro. A brahmana, very well expert in his business. Brahmana's business means sat-karma, 6 kinds of karma ‎No edit summary current

06:4406:44, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Apaurusa means "not spoken by any person materially created." It is stated in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam, tene brahma hrda ‎No edit summary current
06:4306:43, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Any living entity who is within this material world, they have come here with that two principles - iccha, dvesa. Iccha means they want to be happy with material enjoyment and "What is God? I am God." These two things ‎No edit summary current
06:4206:42, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anukulyena krsnanusilanam means when you have accepted the bona fide spiritual master, you should work in such a way that your spiritual master is pleased with you. Then your path is very clear ‎No edit summary current
06:4106:41, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anu means "following", and anu also means "always." So one must always follow the disciplic succession and not hear from any stray professional reciter, whether a Mayavadi or an ordinary man ‎No edit summary current
06:3906:39, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Antardhana means that these living creatures can be perceived to be present, but they cannot be seen by vision ‎No edit summary current
06:3406:34, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anagha, O sinless one, means that unless one is free from all sinful reactions, it is very difficult to understand Krsna. One has to become free from all contamination, all sinful activities; then he can understand. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:2906:29, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ahimsa, nonviolence, means that one should not do anything which will put others into misery or confusion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

12:0112:01, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Another word in this verse (SB 3.25.29), bhagavad-banah, is very significant. Banah means arrow ‎No edit summary current
12:0012:00, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Another medha means killing. So one who keeps himself in household life, he kills himself. Killing ‎No edit summary current
11:5711:57, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Another feature of the devotee is nirihaya, simple living. Niriha means "gentle," "meek" or "simple ‎No edit summary
11:5311:53, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anna means "food." After this one lives in the consciousness of being alive. If one can continue his life without being attacked or destroyed, one thinks himself happy ‎No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Aniketanah means "without lodging." He (a sannyasi) should not have his own house, but should depend completely on the Supreme Lord for his food and lodging. He should travel ‎No edit summary current
11:4811:48, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anartha means things which are not wanted. We are accustomed to so many things, rascal things, which is not at all wanted. But we have been accustomed. By bad association ‎No edit summary current
11:4711:47, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anartha means meaningless. No artha. Artha means meaning. So if we want to stop this anartha, misconception of life, then we have to take to bhakti-yoga ‎No edit summary current
11:4511:45, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ananya-cetah, without any deviation from this path of Krsna consciousness and devotional service in submission, if anyone thinks always of Krsna . . . Krsna says, tasyaham sulabhah. Sulabha means - I am very easily available for him ‎No edit summary current
11:4411:44, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anantam means unlimited. You are searching after happiness, but this is limited. Even if you enjoy sex life, that is also limited for a few moments. But anantam. That is... You will enjoy it eternally ‎No edit summary current
11:4211:42, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ananta indicates that there is nothing which is not covered by the influence and energy of the Supreme Lord, and devesa means that He is the controller of all demigods and is above them all. He is the center of the whole universe. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
11:4011:40, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ananda means the reservoir of all pleasure. The impersonalists are seeking to merge into the Brahman effulgence of eternity and knowledge, but the major portion of the absolute pleasure which is in Krsna is avoided by them ‎No edit summary current
11:3911:39, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ananda means blissfulness, joyfulness. There cannot be any joyfulness in this body. There are three kinds of miserable condition of material life: adhyatmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika. So either these three or one or two is always there ‎No edit summary current
11:3611:36, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anadir adir govindah. Go means senses, go means cow, and go means land. He is the proprietor of all land, He is the proprietor of all cows, and He is the creator of all senses ‎No edit summary current
11:3111:31, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ An Aryan means advanced, advanced in knowledge, and one who is advanced in knowledge, he is advanced civilized ‎No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Although Krsna is the Supreme Lord and is unborn and unchangeable, He appears in His original transcendental nature. The word prakrti means - nature ‎No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Although God is equally disposed to everyone, He is especially inclined to His devotees. Sat means the Absolute Truth. And persons who are servitors of the Absolute Truth are called satvatas ‎No edit summary current
11:1811:18, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Akincana means one who has nothing to give materially ‎No edit summary current
11:1711:17, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Akhanditam means not exactly "fragmented" but "constitutionally always infinitesimal." No one can separate the molecular parts of the sunshine from the sun, but at the same time the molecular part of the sunshine is not as expansive as the sun itself ‎No edit summary current
11:1511:15, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Akartrtvat means not doing anything for sense gratification. When one does something at his own risk, there is a sense of proprietorship and a reaction, but when one does everything for Krsna, there is no proprietorship over the activities ‎No edit summary current
11:1011:10, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ahimsa means not being violent. There are eighteen processes for attaining knowledge and perfection, and by his vow, Kardama Muni adopted all the principles of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
11:0811:08, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ahankara means the point where the pure soul touches matter. That junction is called ahankara. Ahankara is still finer than intelligence ‎No edit summary current
11:0611:06, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Agra means "first," and puja means "worship." This Agra-puja is similar to the election of a president ‎No edit summary current
11:0311:03, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Advaita Acarya especially intended to teach the conditioned souls about devotional service. The word acarya means "teacher." The special function of such a teacher is to make people Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
11:0111:01, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Adhyatmika means pertaining to the body and mind. "I have got headache today. I have got some pain here in the back. My mind is not very much settled up today. I cannot talk with you." ‎No edit summary current
10:5910:59, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Adhoksaja means beyond the perception of the senses ‎No edit summary current
10:5510:55, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Actually, married couples should be paramahamsas. Paramahamsa means the topmost stage of sannyasi. Paramahamsa. A sannyasi has got four stages: kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajakacarya and paramahamsa ‎No edit summary current
10:4910:49, 28 September 2023 diff hist +2‎ According to Vedic scripture, nirvana means cessation of the materialistic way of life. Atmanam means realization of the Supersoul within the heart. Ultimately, the highest perfection is realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
10:4910:49, 28 September 2023 diff hist +36‎ According to Vedic scripture, nirvana means cessation of the materialistic way of life. Atmanam means realization of the Supersoul within the heart. Ultimately, the highest perfection is realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
10:4510:45, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ According to the impersonalists, there are no transcendental qualities in the impersonal Brahman; therefore we should understand that brahmani means "in the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
10:4210:42, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ According to Sri Jiva Gosvami, nidhanam means the transcendental abode of the Lord. Ni means the highest, and dhanam means opulence ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ According to smrti-sastra, a child generally follows the principles of his maternal uncle's house. Naranam matula-karma means that a child generally follows the qualities of his maternal family ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ According to our Vedic knowledge, we shall accept a thing when it is proved by Vedic evidence. Therefore Veda means knowledge, perfect knowledge ‎No edit summary current

09:5709:57, 26 August 2023 diff hist +20‎ Acarya means he must show by example. Apani acari prabhu jiveri sikhaimu ‎No edit summary current
09:5509:55, 26 August 2023 diff hist +20‎ Acarati. Practically you have to behave; then you can preach. Otherwise you cannot become acarya. Acarya means one who practices the acara and then teaches. He is acarya ‎No edit summary current
09:5209:52, 26 August 2023 diff hist +20‎ Above all others, the supreme controller is Krsna, who is known as Hrsikesa. The word hrsika means "senses." We are enjoying our senses, but ultimately the controller of the senses is Krsna ‎No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 26 August 2023 diff hist +20‎ Abodha means fools, rascals, ignorant; born foolish rascals, ignorant. We are all born foolish. So if we are not properly educated, then we remain fools and rascals, and the activities of fools and rascals, this is simply waste of time ‎No edit summary current
09:3909:39, 26 August 2023 diff hist +20‎ Abhadrani means inauspicious things accumulated within our heart. By this Krsna kirtana, as recommended by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, ceto-darpana-marjanam (CC Antya 20.12), the heart is cleansed ‎No edit summary
09:2709:27, 26 August 2023 diff hist +20‎ A Vaisnava living according to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's injunctions is certainly not on the materialistic platform. Caitanya means "spiritual force." All of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's activities were carried out on the platform of spiritual understanding ‎No edit summary current

10:5110:51, 19 August 2023 diff hist +5,745‎ A sudra means he becomes disturbed. He becomes disturbed: "Oh, I have no employment. How shall I eat? Where shall I go? Where shall I live?" He has no faith in Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:4810:48, 19 August 2023 diff hist +5,139‎ A sadhu means one who follows the principles of scripture and at the same time is a devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current

16:2716:27, 7 August 2023 diff hist +20‎ A devotee is considered to be on the brahma-bhuta platform when he has no material contamination. In the Padma Purana this is also confirmed: mukti means engagement in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current

11:2311:23, 3 August 2023 diff hist +20‎ A devotee is also called a muni. The word muni means "thoughtful ‎No edit summary current
11:0011:00, 3 August 2023 diff hist +3,030‎ A person who acts exactly according to the tenets of scripture is called Sastra-caksus. Sastra-caksus means one who sees through the eyes of the authorized scriptures ‎No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 3 August 2023 diff hist +3,192‎ A devotee like Narada Muni is addressed as suvrata. Su means "good," and vrata means "vow." Thus the word suvrata refers to a person who has nothing to do with the material world, which is always bad ‎No edit summary current

17:0517:05, 26 July 2023 diff hist +34,967‎ Guru means heavy ‎No edit summary current
10:1710:17, 26 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ Your knowledge has not benefited you. Our taking your so-called science has benefited you because you are using it for Krsna. You have worked so hard, so result is going to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:1110:11, 26 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ Your duty is to appoint nice physician, nice medicine. But is there any guarantee that he will live? Why does he die? You can say that "I have given the best medicine and best medical treatment," still, he dies. What is the cause ‎No edit summary current
10:0610:06, 26 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You should judge by the result, not by sophisticated ideas. There is no necessity ‎No edit summary current
10:0410:04, 26 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You read Bhagavad-gita. It was spoken four hundred millions of years ago, and then again, five thousand years ago. Still, if you read Bhagavad-gita daily, you will find it fresh. You will never find it old. As Krsna is never old ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 26 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You prepare yourself for higher standard of life or to make a permanent solution of your miserable condition of life, namely birth, death, old age and disease. This is required. This is human business, or dharma ‎No edit summary
10:0110:01, 26 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You must go to a person where you can surrender yourself. That means you've to check, "Who is the real person who can give me instruction on BG or any Vedic literature, or any scripture, right?" And not that, to search out a person as a, whimsically. No ‎No edit summary current

05:3405:34, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You must fix up (chanting) in numerical strength ‎No edit summary current
05:3105:31, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You must find out somebody whom you can accept as guru. That guru must be bona fide. Otherwise what is the use of accepting a bogus guru? So what is that bona fide guru? That bona fide guru means one who has accepted Krsna as guru ‎No edit summary current
05:3005:30, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You might have invented very nice medicine by your scientific method, up-to-date medicines, but you cannot stop the disease. Just discover a tablet that you take this tablet there will be no more any disease. That is not possible. Disease will be there ‎No edit summary current
05:2805:28, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5,908‎ You may make very much advance in scientific knowledge, but there is no solution, by your so-called science, of these four problems: birth, death, old age and disease. There is no solution ‎No edit summary current
05:2705:27, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You may be very much advanced in knowledge or so-called science, but because God says that in the material life you must die, you cannot avoid this law ‎No edit summary
05:2605:26, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You just become devotee of Lord Caitanya. I am flattering you, I am falling down on your feet - this is preaching. If one is doing like that, Krsna immediately recognizes. So if you are recognized by Krsna, then what you want more ‎No edit summary
05:2405:24, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You just always chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. Never mind you are in factory. Never mind you are (in) hell. Never mind you are in the skyscraper houses. Go on chanting HK. There is no expense. There is no bar. There is no caste. Anyone: chant and hear ‎No edit summary current
05:2305:23, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5,645‎ You have to take shelter of guru. Adau gurv-asrayam sad-dharma-prccha: "Then you inquire from him about Krsna." Sad-dharma-prccha, sadhu-marganugamanam: "Then follow the footstep of big, big devotees." Just like Prahlada Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
05:2105:21, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You have to see through the sastra, sastra-caksusa. Just like you see the sun just like a disc, but when you go through the sastra, authorized books, you understand that it is fourteen hundred thousand times bigger than this earth ‎No edit summary current
05:1905:19, 25 July 2023 diff hist +4,987‎ You have to give up these things: no illicit sex, no intoxication." He said: "Oh, it is impossible. For us, it is impossible." So actually, these four prohibitory rules is impossible for the rascals ‎No edit summary current
05:1705:17, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You have to find out pratikaram, counteraction, how to save yourself from danger. Just like when we walk, we see in so many doors, "Danger," so that you may be . . . you are warned. Sometimes the doors are, "Beware of the dog." So you have to take care ‎No edit summary current
05:1605:16, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You have to come to the stage of spiritual platform; then there is question of love, brotherhood, equality, fraternity, otherwise, all bogus propaganda. It's not possible ‎No edit summary current
05:1505:15, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6,575‎ You have to accept death. Nobody wants to die, but why death is there? But they (the modern civilization) are callous. They think, "We have to accept this death" or "This is finished," all vague idea, no real idea ‎No edit summary
05:1305:13, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You have no duty. Your only duty is to surrender to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
05:1205:12, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You have got body, shape, very minute shape. That we cannot see, we cannot measure. But the spirit soul has a form. How, what is the length and breadth of that form, that is not in your power. In your power, but not materially ‎No edit summary current
05:1005:10, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You have done right by removing the pictures which deal in Gopis and Krishna. They are never for public show. They are very confidential & meant for advanced devotees. The neophytes will be misguided by such pictures. I hope you will understand me right ‎No edit summary current
05:0705:07, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You cannot protect yourself by so-called science, physician, or power. It is not possible. Because the death is Krsna ‎No edit summary current
05:0205:02, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You cannot produce clay. You can simply work as a laborer to bring the clay, to bring the wood, to bring the stone and collect them and stand, make, construct a very big skyscraper house. But actually, the proprietor is God ‎No edit summary current
04:5904:59, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You cannot do anything for your present generation, and you are thinking of future generation, which you do not know, who is your future generation ‎No edit summary current
04:5804:58, 25 July 2023 diff hist +4,162‎ You can manufacture nice medicine, but you cannot stop disease. So we have become steel-hearted, steel-framed heart. We do not consider all these things ‎No edit summary current
04:5704:57, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You can join with Krsna and dance with Him. Why you are forgetting that? But you have to qualify yourself. You cannot dance with the dog and God at the same time ‎No edit summary current
04:4404:44, 25 July 2023 diff hist +4,754‎ You are very intelligent boy and Krishna will also give you extra intelligence how to deal with your father ‎No edit summary current
04:3804:38, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You are trying to make nice medicine to get out of the attack of disease. But you can manufacture a better medicine, but you cannot get out of disease. That is not possible ‎No edit summary current
04:3704:37, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You are thinking of Krsna. That is meditation. Not that simply sit down at a place. The real meditation is how to think of Krsna. That is real meditation ‎No edit summary current
04:3604:36, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You are thinking in summer season something as very pleasing. The same thing in winter season will not be pleasing. So they will come and go. Don't bother about this so-called suffering and enjoyment. Do your duty, Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You are distributing this knowledge, so you become immediately recognized, very dear servant, very confidential servant of Krsna. He says personally - Amongst the human beings, those who are doing this preaching, nobody is dearer than these persons to Me ‎No edit summary current
04:3304:33, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ You are discovering very nice medicine. The drug shop is full with various types of up-to-date medicine, but none of the medicine is sufficient to make a man not to die. That is not possible ‎No edit summary current
04:3204:32, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ You are completely under the control of the laws of nature, & nature is being controlled by God. How you can say that you're independent of God? Therefore it's not very good business that people are pushing on a type of civilization, Godless civilization ‎No edit summary current
04:2904:29, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5,816‎ You are all educated men. You study this philosophy, try to understand; also join. It is your duty, because you are Indian. Caitanya Mahaprabhu entrusted this mission to the Indians. Indians are meant for doing good to others. That is Caitanya's mission ‎No edit summary current

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