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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
04:2804:28, 25 July 2023 diff hist +8,198‎ You (human being) are ordained to eat fruits, flowers, nice grain, milk preparation, but you, because you are dog, you are eating meat. The extra intelligence that.. Because you have got extra intelligence, you should utilize the food for you ‎No edit summary current
04:2504:25, 25 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ Yogi, those who are yogis, transcendentalists, they are trying to observe the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Dhyanavasthita, by meditation. That is real meditation, to focus the mind to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead within the heart ‎No edit summary current
04:2404:24, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ Yoga process is authorized, but Arjuna says that it is too difficult. So-called yogis are simply making farce. They do not reach to the perfectional point of yoga. Therefore Krsna said, anyone who is thinking of Him within his heart is first class yogi ‎No edit summary current

14:3514:35, 4 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ Yoga ladder, it has been compared with a ladder. Just like steps in a big skyscraper house there are steps. So every step is a progress, that's a fact. So the whole stepladder may be called the yoga system ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 4 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ Without reviving our eternal affinity with the SPG, we cannot be happy. The Vedic injunction is sarve sukhino bhavantu: "Everyone become happy." We are actually struggling for existence to become happy, but we do not know how to become happy ‎No edit summary current
14:3314:33, 4 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ Without knowing that there is a very nice medicine, mrta-sanjivani, they take so many troublesome medicines. Similarly, the great leaders of religious principles, without knowing this Hare Krsna maha-mantra, they take to so many troublesome ceremonies ‎No edit summary current
14:3114:31, 4 July 2023 diff hist +8,153‎ Without being sinless, nobody can understand what is Bhagavan, what is Bhagavad-bhajana. Therefore this is the beginning of sinless life: no intoxication, no illicit sex... If you can, if somebody avoids these things, he does not die ‎No edit summary current
14:3014:30, 4 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ Within the cage there is the bird. You don't take care of the bird, and you simply cleanse this cage - the bird will not be satisfied ‎No edit summary current
14:2914:29, 4 July 2023 diff hist +5‎ Why studying so many books? For the sake of establishing real religious life. Sad-dharma. There are two kinds of dharmas, religious, religions: pravrtti-marga, nivrtti-marga. Pravrtti-marga means materialism, and nivrtti-marga means spiritualism ‎No edit summary current
14:2814:28, 4 July 2023 diff hist +6‎ Why should we identify ourself as animal - "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am this"? It is wrong type of civilization ‎No edit summary current

14:3414:34, 20 June 2023 diff hist +6,079‎ Whole world, whomever you meet, you speak of Krsna. That is gosvami. Not that gosvami profession means that I make a means of my livelihood, and I bring money from outside and engage in my son's marriage and daughter's marriage. That is not gosvami ‎No edit summary current

09:1409:14, 19 June 2023 diff hist +6,240‎ Who requires a guru? Guru's not a fashion. "Oh, I have got a guru. I shall make a guru." Guru means one who's serious. Tasmad gurum prapadyeta. One has to seek out a guru. Why? Jijnasu sreya uttamam. One who is inquisitive of the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
09:1209:12, 19 June 2023 diff hist +6,692‎ Who needs a guru? A third-class, fourth-class man, ordinary man, doesn't require a guru. To keep a guru or to have a guru is not a fashion. One who is very serious to understand spiritual life, he requires a guru. Otherwise, there is no need of guru ‎No edit summary current
09:0709:07, 19 June 2023 diff hist +6‎ Who is this Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu? He immediately recognized, "He is Krsna." He is Krsna. Krsna, as the Supreme Person, He ordered this vairagya-vidya, "Give up, nonsense, all these things. Just surrender to Me." This is vairagya-vidya ‎No edit summary current

16:2216:22, 14 June 2023 diff hist +6,204‎ Who is qualified to understand Bhagavad-gita? You (the devotees) can understand. Those who are not bhaktas, they can also understand superficially ‎No edit summary current

18:0818:08, 6 June 2023 diff hist +5‎ When the person leaves this body it is dead lump of matter. So people are giving more importance to the lump of matter than to the real person within the body. Just like a bird is within the cage, it is being washed very nicely and no food to the bird ‎No edit summary current
18:0718:07, 6 June 2023 diff hist +6‎ When the living being thinks himself to be the enjoyer, that is called false ego ‎No edit summary current
18:0518:05, 6 June 2023 diff hist +5‎ When somebody says, "You prove it," the answer is (from mudhas), "Well, we are advancing. Some day will come; we shall prove it." That's all. "Some day will come." They do not understand that - Trust no future however pleasant ‎No edit summary current
18:0418:04, 6 June 2023 diff hist +6‎ When pure consciousness is polluted by material contamination, and identification with the body becomes predominant, this is called false ego ‎No edit summary current
18:0118:01, 6 June 2023 diff hist +9,384‎ When one wants to know the Absolute Truth by his teeny brain, "I shall make research to find out the Absolute Truth," then you'll have vague idea, impersonal idea. And if you become a meditator, then you will find that God is situated within your heart ‎No edit summary current

14:0014:00, 4 June 2023 diff hist +6‎ When one is separate, one may fully devote in Krishna, but no more marriage. If this is not followed, I will not take part in anyone's marriage in the future. I hope you will understand me right and do the needful ‎No edit summary current

16:3416:34, 30 May 2023 diff hist +4,715‎ We take bitter medicine just to cure our existence. Similarly, at the present moment, our existence is impure. Therefore we have to accept birth, death, old age and disease on account of impure existence. Otherwise, we are spirit soul, we are eternal ‎No edit summary current
16:3316:33, 30 May 2023 diff hist +7,291‎ We should take part in all-round activities of the human society to make them happy. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. This is the Vedic culture, that Vedic culture wants to see everyone is happy ‎No edit summary
16:3216:32, 30 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ We should not think independent. We must become bhadra. Then all auspicity will come ‎No edit summary current

08:2508:25, 29 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ We should not take the risk of next birth. In this life, in this birth, we should make a permanent solution of all miseries. That is Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
08:2308:23, 29 May 2023 diff hist +5‎ We should be interested to understand actually "What I am," aham brahmasmi. That is real solution of all problems. This is called knowledge ‎No edit summary current
08:2108:21, 29 May 2023 diff hist +4,444‎ We see in your country, every house: "Beware of dog. Don't come here." Because... What is that? Because they cannot trust anybody. Anybody. So this is not advancement of civilization ‎No edit summary current
08:2008:20, 29 May 2023 diff hist +5‎ We request that "You take Krsna. You will be benefited." And actually it is being done. We don't present a false person. We present the real person, Krsna. Now, if you are misfortunate, you cannot take, that is your business. That is your business ‎No edit summary current
08:1908:19, 29 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ We observe the system followed in Jagannath Puri. First the foodstuff is offered to Lord Jagannath and then His Prasad is offered to the different demigods; then we may take such remainders as prasadam ‎No edit summary current

09:0809:08, 11 May 2023 diff hist +8,781‎ We know who is God. Therefore this business is possible by us, not by others. We know what is God. We have no vague idea. We know who is God, where does He live, what does He do, His name, address, His father's name - everything we know ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 11 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ We have to understand through sastra. We cannot see our past, present and future, but if we see through the sastras . . . Sastra-caksusa: "You should try to see from the sastra." Actually, we understand everything through sastra, not directly ‎No edit summary
09:0509:05, 11 May 2023 diff hist +4,119‎ We have to take information of Krsna from the sastra. Sastram eva caksusa. Vedanta-sutra. Your eyes should be sastra, not your so-called imagination. Sastra-caksus ‎No edit summary current
09:0309:03, 11 May 2023 diff hist +4,977‎ We have to receive mercy both from the spiritual master and Krsna. We cannot jump over to Krsna. That is another nonsense. We must approach Krsna through guru. That is parampara system. Krsna is not so cheap thing that you can jump over ‎No edit summary
09:0109:01, 11 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ We have to know actually from authentic sastra what is the actual thing. Sastra-caksusa. You don't see with your these blunt eyes, rascal eyes. We see through the sastra. That should be. That is real knowledge ‎No edit summary current
09:0009:00, 11 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ We have manufactured such a nice medicine that cancer or any other disease will not attack us. That is very nice. But find out some medicine that death will not attack you, "Oh, that is not possible." Then where is the meaning of your advancement ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 11 May 2023 diff hist +3‎ We have heard so many so-called Gods, that "He attained such perfection of mystic power. Now he has become God." That is also another maya. Nobody can become God. God is God; dog is dog. This is the law of identity ‎No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 11 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ We have got many sastric evidences how one can become completely sinless simply by chanting Hare Krsna maha-mantra and observing very strictly the four prohibitive rules and regulations ‎No edit summary current

14:1114:11, 10 April 2023 diff hist +5‎ We are supported by God. He is one, God is one. And the supported Brahmans, or living entities, they are innumerable, beyond the numerical strength. Asankhya. Nobody can count how many living entities are there, but God is one ‎No edit summary current

17:2217:22, 8 April 2023 diff hist +5‎ We are so much attached to this bag of flesh and bones, but those who are learned, they know that this body is nothing but flesh and bones. The real person, the real force, is the soul ‎No edit summary current
17:2017:20, 8 April 2023 diff hist +5‎ We are not for expectation, future hope. We do not believe in that. Trust no future, however pleasant. It may be pleasant to you, but we don't believe it ‎No edit summary current
17:1917:19, 8 April 2023 diff hist +3,476‎ We are known practically all over the world as the Hare Krsna people. Wherever we go, they immediately recognize us as the Hare Krsna people ‎No edit summary current
17:1817:18, 8 April 2023 diff hist +5‎ We are in this apartment; we go to another apartment. Tatha dehantara-praptih (BG 2.13). Similarly, nobody dies. It is change of body, from this body to another body. So we have no death. This is illusion ‎No edit summary current
17:1517:15, 8 April 2023 diff hist +5‎ We are advancing in science, but at the same time, the so-called science, at the same time we are creating many disadvantages. Many disadvantages ‎No edit summary current
17:1417:14, 8 April 2023 diff hist +5,402‎ We (human society) have got extra intelligence. Why this extra intelligence? That is for understanding dharma, religion ‎No edit summary current

11:0211:02, 3 March 2023 diff hist +5‎ Vedic civilization is to think, "Oh, let everyone be happy." Sarve sukhino bhavantu: "Everyone be happy." So we are preaching this Krsna consciousness cult. It is not a cult. It is an actual, the fact for solving all problems ‎No edit summary current
11:0111:01, 3 March 2023 diff hist +5‎ Vedic civilization is sarve sukhino bhavantu: "Everyone be happy." This is Vedic civilization. And this is the way, Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission ‎No edit summary current
11:0011:00, 3 March 2023 diff hist +5‎ Vedic civilization desires that everyone be happy. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. Vedic civilization is not animal civilization, exploiting others ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 3 March 2023 diff hist +5‎ Vedas says, tad-vijnanartham: "In order to know that transcendental science," sa gurum evabhigacchet, "he must go to a guru. He must approach." A guru means not bogus guru. One who knows expert. But one has to do that. There is no other alternative ‎No edit summary current
10:5610:56, 3 March 2023 diff hist +6‎ Vedanta-sutra says that you should see everything through the sastra, sastra-caksusa ‎No edit summary current
10:5510:55, 3 March 2023 diff hist +5‎ Varnasrama-dharma is very important. That is the beginning of perfect human civilization ‎No edit summary current
10:5410:54, 3 March 2023 diff hist +5‎ Vaisnavas, they chanted with a numerical strength, sankhya-purvaka. Sankhya-purvaka-nama-gana-natibhih. Nama means chanting of the holy name. Gana means also prayer ‎No edit summary current
10:5310:53, 3 March 2023 diff hist +4,596‎ Vaisnava will always think like that, how people will be happy. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. Vaisnava desire is not exploitation. Vaisnava desire is that - How others will be happy, how they will understand Krsna, how they will get happiness in this life ‎No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 3 March 2023 diff hist +6‎ Vaisnava has no duty except serving Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:4210:42, 3 March 2023 diff hist +7,105‎ To love Krsna, you don't require any material acquisition. No, it will not help. So if somebody says: "I have to bring fruit and flower at least, and incense to the temple, otherwise..." Yes. That is the sign of love. The sign of love is six ‎No edit summary current
10:4110:41, 3 March 2023 diff hist +6,879‎ To understand superficially Krsna that, "He appeared in Mathura in His uncle's prison house," that is also nice. But one should try to understand Krsna in fact and that can be revealed by devotional service. You cannot challenge Krsna. Krsna will reveal ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 3 March 2023 diff hist +5‎ Uttisthatah jagratah prapta-varam nibodhata: "You have got now human being form of life. Now get up and make your life successful by spiritual realization." This is our message. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. By spiritual realization everyone will become happy ‎No edit summary current
10:2710:27, 3 March 2023 diff hist +6‎ Unfortunately, Bhagavad-gita has been misinterpreted by so many commentators that people have misunderstood the Bhagavad-gita. Actually, Bhagavad-gita means to develop Krsna consciousness, and we are trying to do that ‎No edit summary current
10:2610:26, 3 March 2023 diff hist +6,550‎ Unfortunately you have no brain; therefore you misunderstand. On this point the Bhagavad-gita will explain. What do you think? "Brainwash or brain-giving?" This should be the heading ‎No edit summary current
10:2310:23, 3 March 2023 diff hist +5‎ Two words are there. One is singular number, nitya, eternal, and the other is plural number, nityanam. So we are plural number. Plural number eternals. We do not know what is the numerical strength of the living entities. They are described as asankhya ‎No edit summary current

10:1810:18, 28 February 2023 diff hist +6‎ To follow the four prohibitive rules and to daily chant sixteen rounds means they (devotees) cannot deviate ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 28 February 2023 diff hist +6‎ To chant the holy name of the Lord means to achieve all auspicity ‎No edit summary current
10:1410:14, 28 February 2023 diff hist +5‎ To accept one guru is not a fashion. Nowadays it has become a fashion that accept some guru, Guru Maharaja. Whether he knows or does not know, it doesn't matter, and whether one is inquisitive or not. It is a fashion. No ‎No edit summary current

16:1116:11, 6 February 2023 diff hist +6‎ Tirtha Maharaja belonged to Ramakrishna Mission Society. So he is very ambitious. He took the opportunity of starting this movement, finding out the saintly person. Apart from that, with his help this Gaudiya Mission was started, & gradually it developed ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 6 February 2023 diff hist +6‎ Three kinds of incarnations are already explained. Now the remainder three kinds of incarnations, manvantaravatara, yugavatara and saktyavesavatara ‎No edit summary current

01:1401:14, 12 November 2022 diff hist +3,735‎ This is rascal civilization. They have no responsibility of life, and dancing like dog ‎No edit summary current
01:1301:13, 12 November 2022 diff hist +1‎ This is politics, "Tit for tat." Canakya Pandita says, if somebody is very cunning, you should be also cunning. This is politics. You should not be, at that time, a brahmana, liberal. No ‎No edit summary current
01:1201:12, 12 November 2022 diff hist +5‎ This is not optional, that "If I don't take to Krsna consciousness, that is my wish, my desire." No. If you desire in that way then you'll be punished ‎No edit summary current
01:1101:11, 12 November 2022 diff hist +6‎ This is no use, imitation. Anusarana, not anukarana. Anukarana is dangerous. Anusarana. Sadhu-marganugamanam. This is bhakti. We shall try to follow the footsteps of big, big devotees, sadhus ‎No edit summary current

18:5718:57, 5 November 2022 diff hist +5‎ This is basis of Gita. Tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya (BG 4.34). Learn from the real person, tattva-darsinah, who has seen, who has actual experience of the truth. Learn from him ‎No edit summary current
18:5618:56, 5 November 2022 diff hist +5‎ This is advancement of civilization. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. This is Vedic civilization. "Let everyone be happy." That is Vedic civilization ‎No edit summary current
18:5418:54, 5 November 2022 diff hist +3,857‎ This is acceptance of spiritual master. You don't say: "Oh, I am such a great scholar, and unjustly my spiritual master says that I am fool." Then you lose the connection at once. He is, Caitanya Mahaprabhu is speaking about His own discipleship ‎No edit summary current
18:5118:51, 5 November 2022 diff hist +5‎ This human body is smashed, you enter into the dog's body, finished. That is not in your control, that is God's control, nature's control. Tatha dehantara-praptih (BG 2.13), it is not under your control or so-called science ‎No edit summary current
18:5018:50, 5 November 2022 diff hist +2,948‎ This Hare Krsna is the bright side, and the other things, material activities and sinful activities, meat-eating, intoxication, gambling, illicit sex, the dark side. So it is your choice. If you remain the bright side, then your progress is certain ‎No edit summary current
18:4918:49, 5 November 2022 diff hist +5‎ This education, technical education, how you can very nicely hammer, this will not solve the problem. So if we want real solution of the problems, then our duty is first of all to take the shelter of nitai-pada-kamala. Then we'll be happy ‎No edit summary current
18:4818:48, 5 November 2022 diff hist +5‎ Things which are beyond our conception, that cannot be established simply by argument, logic, so-called science and philosophy, that is not possible ‎No edit summary current
18:4518:45, 5 November 2022 diff hist +6‎ They'll never reach the right conclusion about what is life, what makes this body move, what is death. Because they're missing the essential point, the spiritual element ‎No edit summary current
18:4418:44, 5 November 2022 diff hist +1‎ They will fight amongst themselves, Protestant and Catholic, Russian and France, and France and Germany. This is going on. Why? This is the nature's law. Tit for tat. You have killed (innocent cows and animals). Now you become killed, amongst yourselves ‎No edit summary

10:4610:46, 2 November 2022 diff hist +6,134‎ They (scientists) are trying to solve these problems (miserable condition of life) by so-called scientific research or so-called philosophical research, but actually the solution is to reform or to purify your consciousness ‎No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 2 November 2022 diff hist +5‎ They (people) say, "This bhakti-marga is slave mentality. Instead of becoming God, they want to become servant or slave of God. So this is slave mentality." No, this is not slave mentality. This is actual liberation ‎No edit summary current
10:4110:41, 2 November 2022 diff hist +5,968‎ These so-called Christians. They say that - We are very weak. We can not restrain ourself from sinful activities, so we believe in Christ, and he has taken contract for suffering. That's all ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 2 November 2022 diff hist +6‎ These dances, they are not artificial. They feel some transcendental bliss, therefore they dance. It is not they are dancing dog. No. They dance from the spiritual platform ‎No edit summary current

04:1504:15, 23 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ The authorized process is chanting of the Holy Name as it is recommended in all the Vedic literatures, and it is being effective amongst the people whose background is neither Hinduism nor Indianism ‎No edit summary current
04:1204:12, 23 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ The acaryas and the devotee, big, big devotees, they have given the routine work for cultivation. Just like we have got this Nectar of Devotion, how to cultivate devotional life ‎No edit summary current
04:1104:11, 23 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ The Absolute Truth is one. One who knows the Absolute Truth, he knows that Brahman, Paramatma, Bhagavan, the same objective, but they are realized by different devotees or different knower in different features ‎No edit summary current
04:0904:09, 23 October 2022 diff hist +3,897‎ That means another condition. From frying pan to the fire. As soon as you give up religious principles, you are no better than animal. That means he will manufacture. The same disease. "I'll not follow the traditional." This is their death block ‎No edit summary current

07:0207:02, 17 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ Ordinarily, you can steal and hide yourself, but in the eyes of God, you cannot steal and hide yourself. That is not possible. You have stolen; you must suffer ‎No edit summary current
06:5906:59, 17 October 2022 diff hist +4‎ Only we, the Vaisnavas, we are trying to become servant. The karmis and jnanis, they do not like to become servant. They criticize us that - You Vaisnavas, you have got slave mentality ‎No edit summary current
06:5806:58, 17 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ One who takes to Krsna consciousness and falls down, for him, he says, "What is inauspicity there?" That means there is auspicity still, although he has fallen ‎No edit summary current
06:5706:57, 17 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ One who knows perfectly well that everything belongs to Krsna, that He is the proprietor of everything, and everything is engaged in the service of the Lord, naturally has nothing to do with the results of his activities, whether virtuous or sinful ‎No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 17 October 2022 diff hist +3,387‎ One who engages himself in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord, Krsna, it is to be understood that he has seen all activities of auspicity. That means he has already finished or passed the examination of pious activities ‎No edit summary current

19:4019:40, 9 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ Nobody cannot create any doubts, Swamiji, as long as you are establishing the equality of man in the eyes of God ‎No edit summary current
19:3919:39, 9 October 2022 diff hist +5‎ Nobody can make any solution of these sufferings (birth, death, old age and disease). But if you want real solution, permanent solution, permanent life, then you become attached to Krsna. Simple method ‎No edit summary current
19:3819:38, 9 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ No physician can stop disease. He can suggest, "This is very nice medicine," but my problem is, "Why shall I become diseased?" That is my problem ‎No edit summary current
19:3719:37, 9 October 2022 diff hist +6‎ No one is working as a paid servant so if the dealings are not friendly everyone will decide to leave ‎No edit summary current
19:3619:36, 9 October 2022 diff hist +7,865‎ Nityo sasvato yam na jayate na mriyate va kadacit. The soul is eternal. Soul is eternal and soul does not take birth. The body, we get a new body, that is called birth. And when this body is annihilated, that is called death ‎No edit summary current

19:5719:57, 7 October 2022 diff hist +5‎ Nirvana means not to accept any more material body. Don't try to make it void. That is another nonsense. Void, you are not void. Void means to make void this material body. This full of miserable conditional body. Just try to grow your spiritual body ‎No edit summary current
19:5419:54, 7 October 2022 diff hist +1‎ Nature's law is so strong that if you kill the child in the womb then you'll be also killed. "Tit for tat." There is no escape ‎No edit summary current

09:1009:10, 6 October 2022 diff hist +5‎ My childhood body, my babyhood body is finished. It is no longer existing. So how I am existing? Therefore his statement that body is finished and the soul is finished is wrong. We see practically. The body is finished, the soul is existing ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 6 October 2022 diff hist +5,577‎ Mind and intelligence is always focussed towards the lotus feet of Krsna, mayy arpita, to the form of Krsna. That is real meditation ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 6 October 2022 diff hist +5‎ Meditation means to attempt to understand oneself, "What I am." That is real meditation ‎No edit summary current
09:0509:05, 6 October 2022 diff hist +5‎ Meditating means this subject matter: that I don't want death, why death is forced upon me? That is real meditation ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 6 October 2022 diff hist +5‎ Maya is so strong, because we are qualitatively one (with God), we are thinking we are the Supreme Brahman. That is another nonsense. "Because I am salty, therefore I am the sea water." This is not very good logic. A part cannot be equal to the whole ‎No edit summary
09:0309:03, 6 October 2022 diff hist +6,596‎ Maya is everywhere. Maya will dictate, "Oh, you are so tired. Why don't you come out and smoke a cigarette?" Yes. And he thinks he is advancing, the nonsense is advancing. No. Phalena pariciyate. By the result one has to be judged how far he has advanced ‎No edit summary current

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