User contributions for Samruddhi
6 November 2023
- 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
3 October 2023
- 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
28 September 2023
- 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
26 August 2023
- 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
19 August 2023
- 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
7 August 2023
- 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
3 August 2023
- 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
26 July 2023
- 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
25 July 2023
- 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
4 July 2023
- 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
20 June 2023
- 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
19 June 2023
- 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
14 June 2023
- 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
8 June 2023
- 04:1304:13, 8 June 2023 diff hist +5 Whenever you'll see Krsna, He's just a perfect young boy, nava-yauvanam ca. You'll never see Krsna's picture as He has become old, He has grown some big, big beard and . . . no. Krsna, you'll never see. Krsna is just like a twenty-years-old young boy No edit summary current
- 04:1004:10, 8 June 2023 diff hist +5 When your heart will be clear, then you'll understand your relationship with Krsna, & relationship with this world. Then you'll be able to chalk out your plan, what to do. But without knowing your identity, whatever you are doing, simply waste of time No edit summary current
- 04:0904:09, 8 June 2023 diff hist +6 When you come to that purest form of spirit soul, you don't think that your indriyas, or senses, are lost. No. Senses are there. At that time, if you enjoy your senses in cooperation with the Supreme, that is called bhakti, or Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 04:0704:07, 8 June 2023 diff hist +6 When you agree to abide by the orders of Krsna, then your life is perfect. That is Krsna consciousness, that you have to agree. Krsna does not force; He says, "Do this like this," and if we agree, then we are Krsna conscious No edit summary current
- 04:0304:03, 8 June 2023 diff hist +5,795 When we reach that stage, love of God, love of Krsna, then we love everyone because Krsna is everyone. Without coming to that central point, our love on the material conception of life - equality, fraternity, brotherhood - are all simply cheating process No edit summary current
- 04:0104:01, 8 June 2023 diff hist +5 When there is disease, fever, it is not it is less painful to the rich man and very painful to the poor man. The pain is the same. So actually, so long there is material existence, the so-called suffering and enjoying, they're on the same level No edit summary current
6 June 2023
- 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
4 June 2023
- 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
2 June 2023
- 04:5004:50, 2 June 2023 diff hist +3,186 When Krsna takes charge, He gradually educates the devotee buddhi-yogam, in devotion service, so that he may go back home, back to Godhead, Krsna. That is real auspicity No edit summary current
- 04:4804:48, 2 June 2023 diff hist +6 When Krsna comes, He is not like us. And if we consider Him as one of us, then we must be rascal number one No edit summary current
- 04:4604:46, 2 June 2023 diff hist +6 When a person transcends the platform of duality - especially when he no longer takes part in the controversy over the Absolute Truth's monistic or dualistic existence - he sees Lord Krsna in his enlightenment and worships Him as one without a second No edit summary current
- 04:4404:44, 2 June 2023 diff hist +5 When a person comes at your home, never mind even if he's enemy... Friend is welcome, that's all right. But even an enemy comes, they are not forbidden (Vedic injunction). Not that in the gate there is, oh, "Beware of dog," "No trespasser allowed." No No edit summary current
- 04:3104:31, 2 June 2023 diff hist +6 Whatever we have to do to induce people to take a book, that is nice. We shall judge the thing by its result, not by its means. At the same time, we must avoid irritating or disappointing anyone by cheating them or telling big lies which become detected No edit summary current
- 04:2904:29, 2 June 2023 diff hist +6 What the people really want is a philosophy to give their life meaning and guide it under all changing circumstances--and the only philosophy available nowadays is profit, where is profit for sense gratification, or Marxism, or this -ism or that -ism No edit summary current
- 04:2804:28, 2 June 2023 diff hist +1 What one fails to comprehend is how the leaders of these (thirteen unauthorized) cults, who have never accept discipleship and tutelage from any bona fide spiritual master, can suddenly rise to the position of spiritual master themselves No edit summary current
- 04:2604:26, 2 June 2023 diff hist +5 What is the wrong? The right side or wrong side, I am driving my car - but it is criminal. You know or not know. Ignorance of law is no excuse. So just similarly there is law of God. So as soon as you violate, you must suffer No edit summary current
- 04:2304:23, 2 June 2023 diff hist +5 What is the use of these scientists? Any rascal will say. Trust no future, however pleasant. You can talk of all pleasant things in future, but you don't trust it. You as you don't trust, because you do not see soul, you don't trust No edit summary current
- 04:2004:20, 2 June 2023 diff hist +1 What is the use of changing party? Because this party or that party, they are not surrendered to Krsna. So unless you come to the point of surrendering to Krsna, there cannot be any peace. Simply by changing from frying pan to the fire will not save you No edit summary current
- 04:1404:14, 2 June 2023 diff hist +5 What is the duty of the finger? The finger has to catch the foodstuff and put into the mouth. The finger cannot enjoy; it has given to the stomach. Similarly, if we are parts and parcel of Krsna, we cannot enjoy anything directly without giving Krsna No edit summary current
- 04:1304:13, 2 June 2023 diff hist +5 We want to see you all happy. That is our program. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. Every one of you become happy. But you must take the path how you can be happy. This is the path, Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 04:1204:12, 2 June 2023 diff hist +5 We want to see that everyone is happy. That is the Vedic vision. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. This is human life. Human life means paropakāra. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission, to do others something auspicious. That is human life No edit summary current
- 04:1104:11, 2 June 2023 diff hist +6 We want to see everyone happy. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. But people do not know how to become happy. They do not take the standard path to become happy. They manufacture their own way. That is the difficulty No edit summary current
1 June 2023
- 05:0205:02, 1 June 2023 diff hist +5 We want to become powerful here by so-called science, so-called yoga, kundalini and what other nonsense they are think... They are trying to be immortal, powerful. No, sir, that is not possible. It is not possible No edit summary current
- 05:0105:01, 1 June 2023 diff hist +4,494 We understand, we people who are conducting this KC movement, that without being Krsna conscious, nobody will be happy. Therefore our struggle is different. We are trying to make the people actually happy. Sarve sukhino bhavantu: Everyone become happy No edit summary
30 May 2023
- 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
29 May 2023
- 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
11 May 2023
- 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
16 April 2023
- 17:5217:52, 16 April 2023 diff hist +6 We don't say that, "This religion is better than this religion," or "My process is better." We want to see by the result. In the Sanskrit there is a word, phalena pariciyate. A thing is judged by the result No edit summary current
- 17:5117:51, 16 April 2023 diff hist +5 We do not know what kind of meditation there is. But real meditation, recommended in the Vedas, dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ (SB 12.13.1). Yogi. Yogis see the Supreme Personality of Godhead by meditation No edit summary
12 April 2023
- 18:0318:03, 12 April 2023 diff hist +5 We cannot perform real meditation. We cannot perform the preliminary activities. Yama niyama asana pranayama. It is not possible at the present moment. So those principles are not rejected, but it is not possible at the present moment No edit summary
- 18:0218:02, 12 April 2023 diff hist +7,907 We cannot claim any favor from the Supreme unless we are in love. So love means...there are six principles of loving. What is that? dadati pratigrhnati guhyam akhyati prcchati bhunkte bhojayate caiva sad-vidham priti-laksanam No edit summary current
- 17:5817:58, 12 April 2023 diff hist +10 We can change our home into Vaikuntha. It is not difficult. Because as Krsna can be all-pervading, Vaikuntha is all-pervading. But we have to simply realize it by the authorized process. Everyone, we can change our home into Vaikuntha No edit summary current
10 April 2023
- 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
8 April 2023
- 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
3 March 2023
- 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
28 February 2023
- 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
6 February 2023
- 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
15 January 2023
- 07:3407:34, 15 January 2023 diff hist +6 Those who want to commit spiritual suicide by sacrificing their individuality are a breed by themselves. Such self-destroyers are known as pure monists. On the other hand, those who desire to maintain their individuality are dualists, or personalists No edit summary current
- 07:3407:34, 15 January 2023 diff hist +5 Those who are desiring for Krsna, they are not behind any enjoyment. They are rather in perfect enjoyment. These Krsna conscious students, they are desiring for Krsna nice prasadam, so they are not bereft. Practically they are enjoying but it is Krsnized No edit summary current
4 December 2022
- 15:3415:34, 4 December 2022 diff hist +5 Those who are aware of the Absolute Truth, they say that Absolute Truth is one, but He's realized in three angle of vision, namely, Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 15:3015:30, 4 December 2022 diff hist +5 Those who are actually intelligent, they should not neglect this movement, KC movement. It is the greatest welfare movement for the whole human society to make people God conscious, KC, without which there will be so many troubles. It is already there No edit summary
- 15:2815:28, 4 December 2022 diff hist +5 This theory, that there is a shortage of food or overpopulation, we do not accept it. God is so powerful that He can feed everyone without any difficulty. Simply we are mismanaging. Otherwise there is no difficulty No edit summary current
- 15:2715:27, 4 December 2022 diff hist +5 This soul-killing civilization is misleading us. We must know this, this very misleading civilization. Our real aim of life is to understand our spiritual identification and search out our relationship with God, Krsna. That is our real business No edit summary current
- 15:2515:25, 4 December 2022 diff hist +6 This question was put by Sanatana Gosvami, that "I am prime minister. People adore me as pandita, but why I am put into these tribulations of the laws of nature? Why as prime minister and learned pandita I cannot counteract it?" This is real question No edit summary
- 15:2415:24, 4 December 2022 diff hist +5 This Purana-purusa, Krsna, He's the oldest. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca (Bs. 5.33). That is Krsna. You'll never see Krsna's picture as old man. No No edit summary current
- 15:2215:22, 4 December 2022 diff hist +6 This process, mauna, to remain silent, is meant for persons who cannot control the senses. It is better not to talk than to talk foolish No edit summary current
- 15:2115:21, 4 December 2022 diff hist +6 This life, this human form of life, is meant for a sublime gain. What is that? To make a permanent solution of the miserable condition of our life No edit summary current
- 15:1815:18, 4 December 2022 diff hist +5 This is the proof. There is no difficulty to understand. As I am still living, in spite of my changing childhood body, babyhood body, boyhood body, youthhood body, so naturally it should be concluded when I give up this body No edit summary current
20 November 2022
- 05:0905:09, 20 November 2022 diff hist +5 This is the opportunity to understand your spiritual identity & relationship with God. If you lose this opportunity, die without understanding God, that's not very good business. We must utilize this human form of life for the highest achievement of life No edit summary current
- 05:0605:06, 20 November 2022 diff hist +5 This is self-realization. That active principle is soul, and the soul is migrating from one body to another as you are migrating from childhood to babyhood, babyhood to boyhood, boyhood to youthhood. So the soul is the same. The body is different No edit summary current
- 05:0505:05, 20 November 2022 diff hist +5,675 This is science. "I do not want to be old. Why I become old?" Nityah sasvato 'yam. Because the living entity is eternal, so why he should become old? Krsna never becomes old. Krsna's picture you have never seen old. Similarly, you also cannot become old No edit summary current
- 05:0405:04, 20 November 2022 diff hist +6 This is real question: "What I am?" So Sanatana Gosvami's question is being answered by Caitanya Mahaprabhu, "Because you have this inquiry, this is the beginning of human life." If one is little inquisitive to know what I am, then his real life begins No edit summary
- 05:0305:03, 20 November 2022 diff hist +5 This is real movement (Krsna consciousness). Krsna, what Krsna is speaking, what Caitanya Mahaprabhu is speaking, that is not cheating. That is real solution of the problem. So we have taken the business of Krsna, Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
12 November 2022
- 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
5 November 2022
- 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
2 November 2022
- 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
25 October 2022
- 17:1717:17, 25 October 2022 diff hist +6 The Bhagavad-gita should be read very widely, and should be understood very widely. That is the only source of auspicity for the human society. But don't misrepresent it No edit summary current
- 17:1617:16, 25 October 2022 diff hist +5 The beginning of BG is to give lesson that we are not this body. It will be later on explained that the spirit soul, or the real person, is within this body. Just like we are here. We are within this shirt and coat, but we are not the shirt and coat No edit summary current
23 October 2022
- 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
17 October 2022
- 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
16 October 2022
- 18:3018:30, 16 October 2022 diff hist +5 One should try to understand what he is. That is also the beginning of Vedanta-sutra. Athato brahma jijnasa: one should be inquisitive to understand about himself, Brahman, or the Supreme Brahman. That is the real necessity of this human form of life No edit summary current
- 18:2918:29, 16 October 2022 diff hist +5 One name is sufficient. If you can chant one name only, that is sufficient. But that is not possible. So to understand the value of name at least we must have some numerical strength. All the Gosvamis used to do that. We follow their footprints No edit summary current
9 October 2022
- 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
7 October 2022
- 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
6 October 2022
- 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
- 09:0109:01, 6 October 2022 diff hist +8,154 Mauna means don't talk rubbish. It is better not to talk than to talk foolish. So mauna is meant for them who cannot talk about Krsna. Better stop talking. Mauna-vrata. Because he does not know Krsna, he'll talk all nonsense No edit summary current
- 08:5708:57, 6 October 2022 diff hist +6 Materialistic person, the so-called scientist, philosopher, they know this body - the self. They do not know that the body is the cover of the self. This real self, the real person, goes to Krsna to live forever No edit summary current
- 08:5608:56, 6 October 2022 diff hist +5 Material taste is finishable. It is not unlimited. But real taste is unlimited. If you taste one then you cannot forget. It will go on, increasing, increasing. Anandambudhi-vardhanam. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that - This taste is simply increasing No edit summary
- 08:5308:53, 6 October 2022 diff hist +5 Many things are reducing. We are thinking that we are making progress, but actually we are reducing. This is called maya. We are making progress on the wrong side No edit summary current
30 September 2022
- 19:1219:12, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6 Any country you go, if you are strictly adherent to the rules and regulation of chanting sixteen rounds, that is your spiritual strength, and following the, I mean to say, prohibitive rules, then you will be honored everywhere No edit summary current
- 19:0919:09, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6 And somebody, they are coming, going. So you cannot check them, because they are not our paid servants. If they are very kind that they have come here, cooperating with us No edit summary current
- 19:0619:06, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6 And Krsna, one, He married, and He was expanded in sixteen thousand forms and features. Now, the feature, the body, is the same, but in different house with different devotees, the exchange of feelings is different. That is called vaibhava-prakasa No edit summary current
- 19:0419:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +5 Amongst the sannyasa stage also, there are four stages: kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajakacarya, and paramahamsa. Not that all sannyasis on the equal status. The first status is kuticaka. Sannyasa means one has to give up the relationship with family No edit summary current
29 September 2022
- 19:2619:26, 29 September 2022 diff hist +6 Although they are medicine, but they are bitter medicine. Not very palatable. Neither everyone can take it No edit summary current
- 19:2519:25, 29 September 2022 diff hist +6 Although Krsna is the maintainer of everyone, sometimes He takes the part of a beggar. He begs to benefit the charitable. Who is giving in charity, he is benefited. Just like Bali Maharaja, he gave everything to Vamanadeva. There are different devotees No edit summary current
- 19:2319:23, 29 September 2022 diff hist +5 Although He (Krsna) is adyam, purana-purusam, the oldest personality, still, nava-yauvanam ca, always young. You have never seen Krsna's photograph as old man. No No edit summary current
- 19:2019:20, 29 September 2022 diff hist +5 Along with the other sannyasis, GBC members, and other leaders become very serious to actually give the human kind the greatest welfare, namely, this Krishna Consciousness movement No edit summary current
27 September 2022
- 18:5818:58, 27 September 2022 diff hist +4,709 All the Vaisnavas, they are expert. Just like Rupa, Sanatana, expert managment, even in worldly affairs. Not that "I am so much big devotee that I cannot manage worldly affairs." Expert. Must be expert No edit summary
- 18:5618:56, 27 September 2022 diff hist +6 All the rasas in relationship with Krsna is perfect. But according to different devotees' taste. Everyone says: My relationship with Krsna is the best No edit summary current
- 18:5418:54, 27 September 2022 diff hist +6 All the big, big devotees we see. Narada Muni, before becoming Narada Muni, he had to pass through severe examination, test. So that chance is there in the human form of life, to pass the examination, test No edit summary current
- 18:4818:48, 27 September 2022 diff hist +6 After instructing Arjuna, Krsna will ask him, "Now what you want to do?" Because Krsna does not force. Krsna says that, "You surrender unto Me." He does not force that, "You must surrender. I am God. You are My part and parcel." No, He'll never say that No edit summary current
- 18:4618:46, 27 September 2022 diff hist +6 After death, my mind and intelligence carry me to another separate body according to my thinking at the time of death. So false ego. This false ego is that "I am something of material product." This is called false ego No edit summary current
25 September 2022
- 20:0220:02, 25 September 2022 diff hist +5 Adau sraddha tato sadhu-sanga tatha bhajana-kriya. Bhajana-kriya means one becomes anxious. The effect of sadhu-sanga (CC Madhya 22.83) is to become anxious how to execute this devotional service properly. That is called initiation No edit summary current
- 19:5919:59, 25 September 2022 diff hist +4,884 Actually, we are servants of God. That is our real position. But we sometimes become envious, that - Why shall I become servant of God? This is slave mentality No edit summary current
- 19:5719:57, 25 September 2022 diff hist +5,368 Actually, those who are Krsna conscious, they have no material suffering. Although it appears that they are suffering, they are not suffering. They can accept any so-called suffering and accept it as mercy of Krsna. They never take it as suffering No edit summary current
- 19:5519:55, 25 September 2022 diff hist +5 Actually, there are two kinds of dharmas: pasu-dharma and manava-dharma. Pasu-dharma means eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. This is pasu-dharma. Eating, this is essential. Try to understand what is dharma. Dharma means which you cannot give up No edit summary current
24 September 2022
- 20:4820:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5 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
- 20:4220:42, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5 Actually, everyone is butcher. Actually, so-called gentlemen who are, I mean to say, supporting these butchers, they are also butchers No edit summary current
23 September 2022
- 19:3619:36, 23 September 2022 diff hist +5 Actually yoga meditation means to see the form of the Lord, four-handed visnu-murti within the heart. That is real meditation. Now these rascals, they have manufactured so-called meditation. That is not meditation No edit summary
22 September 2022
- 15:3115:31, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5 Actually we are in a very precarious condition, the modern civilization, I mean to say, manipulated by the Western people. It is a soul-killing civilization, this civilization No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,829 According to Viraraghava Acarya, candalas, or conditioned souls who are born in lower than sudra families, can also be initiated according to circumstances. The formalities may be slightly changed here and there to make them Vaisnavas No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 22 September 2022 diff hist +6 According to Vedic system, there are seven mothers. And cow is accepted one of them. Because she gives milk, and we take her milk, therefore she's our mother. So this is our philosophy No edit summary current
- 15:2215:22, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,416 According to Vedic culture, one has to judge by the result. Not by if you simply talk nonsense, one has to accept No edit summary
- 15:2015:20, 22 September 2022 diff hist +6 According to Vedic civilization, the progressive march towards perfection of life is to realize one's relationship with Krsna, or God No edit summary current
21 September 2022
- 19:3419:34, 21 September 2022 diff hist +6 About 40 years before, Sripada Bon Maharaj, guided by our senior old Tirtha Maharaj were sent to London, and perhaps Gaudiya Mission was established at that time No edit summary current
20 September 2022
- 06:1006:10, 20 September 2022 diff hist +5 A small child, the baby comes out from the mother's womb. Within the womb, when he's in suffering, he prays to God, This time kindly release me. Now I shall begin bhagavad-bhajana No edit summary
- 06:0806:08, 20 September 2022 diff hist +6 A philosopher is not a philosopher if he does not agree with other . . . if he does not agree other philosophers. So in this way, you are perplexed. Therefore it is advised, we should accept the authority, and then we shall be benefited No edit summary current
- 06:0406:04, 20 September 2022 diff hist +6 A patient, since his birth he is sick, lying in the hospital, cannot walk or cannot eat nice things. All bitter medicine, injection, always suffering. If he is informed that, "After your cure, you shall be able to eat nice rasagulla," he cannot believe No edit summary current
- 06:0306:03, 20 September 2022 diff hist +6 A patient who is suffering for, suppose from birth, he cannot understand that there is activities after being cured of this disease. He cannot understand. He thinks activity means lying down on the bed and drinking all bitter medicine and pass stool No edit summary current
- 06:0206:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +5 A mukta-purusa, a liberated person, he is not affected by this so-called suffering or enjoying. That is called liberation No edit summary current
- 06:0106:01, 20 September 2022 diff hist +5 A jaundice patient doesn't taste sugar as sweet, but if he continues to take sugar candy, then he'll have the real taste for it, sweet, not bitter. So he has to continue to eat sugar candy continually. Sravanam, kirtanam. Then he'll have the taste No edit summary current
18 September 2022
- 18:5818:58, 18 September 2022 diff hist +4,153 A human being should realize the aim of human life. This direction is given in all the Vedic literature, and the essence is given in the Bhagavad-gita. Vedic literature are meant for the human being and not for the cats and dogs No edit summary
- 18:5518:55, 18 September 2022 diff hist +5 A huge mass of material body with so many mountains, so many seas, oceans, skyscraper houses, cities, towns, countries, it is floating just like a swab, cotton swab, in the air. So if one understands how it is floating, that is knowledge No edit summary current
17 September 2022
- 18:3318:33, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,764 A devotee never accuses Krsna that "Krsna, I am serving You so nicely, and You are giving me so much suffering?" No. This is not devotee's view. Devotee will take that - This so-called suffering is also Krsna's favor No edit summary current
- 18:2418:24, 17 September 2022 diff hist +5,315 A devotee neither claims; neither it is possible. Even he may be very, very big devotee, he will never claim any credit for his glorious activities. His glorious activities means to make Krsna glorious No edit summary current
- 18:1918:19, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6 A child talks all foolish things; nobody cares for it. But the same child, when he gets another body, if he talks foolish, then he will be called, "Oh, you are so fool, you are talking like this." Because the body has changed No edit summary current
19 August 2022
- 05:3105:31, 19 August 2022 diff hist +4,004 N So everyone should join this movement and be sure of his activity, result, good result. That is real United Nation - to work in Krsna consciousness.Every, any department, if we work for Krsna, then it is perfect.That is sure Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"So everyone should join this movement and be sure of his activity, result, good result. That is real United Nation - to work i..."
18 August 2022
- 08:0008:00, 18 August 2022 diff hist +2,547 N Let us cooperate. You'll see how I can change the face of India. And this is the only platform where real United Nation can be made. That is practical. That is practical. That United Nation has failed Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Let us cooperate. You'll see how I can change the face of India. And this is the only platform where real United Nation can be..."