User contributions for Shaalini

8 May 2022

• 15:0015:00, 8 May 2022 diff hist +3,230‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that bhakti, devotional service, must be unconditional. No material impediments can actually check the advancement of devotional service, be it executed by a common man or a king ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5914:59, 8 May 2022 diff hist +7,835‎ If you prepare in this life, then you can go to Vaikuntha. There is no impediment. Simply you have to be purified. This bhakti-marga is the process of purification ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 8 May 2022 diff hist +28‎ Even a small beginning of such activity (in Krsna consciousness) finds no impediment, nor can that small beginning be lost at any stage. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 8 May 2022 diff hist +422‎ Category:No Impediments in Devotional Service to God ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 8 May 2022 diff hist +2,735‎ Devotional service must be without any material ambition and there is no material impediment which can check advancement in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 8 May 2022 diff hist +7,605‎ Brahma said, "Because their (Inhabitants of Vrndavana) attachment has been directed unto You & their homes have been converted into temples by Your constant presence there, & because they have forgotten everything for Your sake, there is no impediment" ‎No edit summary
• 14:4314:43, 8 May 2022 diff hist +4,636‎ Happiness in complete perfection without hindrance can be achieved only by our devotional relationship with Him. And it is only by His association that we can get free of distressful material existence ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4314:43, 8 May 2022 diff hist +4,542‎ You (Lord Krsna) are situated in every living entity's heart as the supreme director, and therefore You are aware of all endeavors by Your superior intelligence, without any hindrance whatsoever ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 8 May 2022 diff hist +5,400‎ This is called utsahan niscayad dhairyat tat-tat-karma-pravartanat, enthusiastically executing the regulative activities of devotional service with patience and confidence. In this way one can advance in devotional service without hindrance ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 8 May 2022 diff hist +4,437‎ The Lord (Krsna) was so angry that Arjuna checked Him when He was moving towards Bhismadeva, but in spite of Arjuna's checking, He proceeded towards Bhismadeva as a lover goes to a lover, without caring for hindrances ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 8 May 2022 diff hist +3,291‎ My dear princes, by My mercy, you can enjoy all the facilities of this world as well as the heavenly world. Indeed, you can enjoy all of them without hindrance and with full strength for one million celestial years ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 8 May 2022 diff hist +2,708‎ Krsna proceeded towards Bhismadeva as a lover goes to a lover, without caring for hindrances ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 8 May 2022 diff hist +8,368‎ Krsna ordered the serpent thus, "You (Kaliya) can take with you all your offspring, wives and everything that you possess. Don’t pollute the waters of the Yamuna. Let it be drunk by My cows and cowherd boys without hindrance" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 8 May 2022 diff hist +2,783‎ In the form of the Vamana incarnation, Lord Visnu, without hindrance, captured all the planets, extending from the root of the material world up to Satyaloka. Indeed, He caused every planetary system to tremble by the force of His steps ‎No edit summary
• 14:3914:39, 8 May 2022 diff hist +3,470‎ I'm sure Krishna Consciousness Movement will go forward without any hindrance. You have a strong governing body, all determined to push forward this movement and I'm sure of success in the future ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 8 May 2022 diff hist +1,339‎ Yet I still submit one petition to You. Please consider it, and if You think it proper, please accept it ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 8 May 2022 diff hist +1,482‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, "Please do not think this way any longer. You are a learned pandita. Why don't you consider the case" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 8 May 2022 diff hist +5,176‎ Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura sings, tumi ta' thakura, tomara kukura, baliya janaha more: "O my Lord, O Vaisnava, please consider me your dog." One must become the dog of a Vaisnava, a pure devotee, for a pure devotee can deliver Krsna without difficulty ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 8 May 2022 diff hist +7‎ Radharani addressed Lalita, I wish to offer My obeisances at your lotus feet. What shall I do? Please consider My condition and advise Me how I can become peaceful, even for a moment. That is My desire ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 8 May 2022 diff hist +3,219‎ O protector of the people in general, please consider the purpose of your being incarnated by Lord Visnu. The irreligious principles created by Indra are but mothers of so many unwanted religions. Please therefore stop these imitations immediately ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 8 May 2022 diff hist +1,735‎ O best of sages, best of all those who grant auspicious benedictions, please consider our situation and bestow upon my sons the benedictions by which they can regain what they have lost ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 8 May 2022 diff hist +1,491‎ My dear Lord, please consider me Your relative. Do not hesitate to order whatever You desire at any time You desire it ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 8 May 2022 diff hist +1,592‎ Lord Caitanya's residence should be very secluded and also near the temple of Jagannatha. Please consider this proposal and give me a nice place for Him ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 8 May 2022 diff hist +10,681‎ Lalita wrote Krsna the following letter on Srimati Radharani’s behalf: please consider the plight of Srimati Radharani, or very soon You will hear of Her death. Maybe at that time You will lament, although now You are jubilant ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 8 May 2022 diff hist +9,628‎ Kurus said, "Dear Lord, please consider us most foolish. Our intelligence was bewildered and not in order. Therefore we have come before You to beg Your pardon. Please excuse us" ‎No edit summary
• 14:2214:22, 8 May 2022 diff hist +4,146‎ If these books are read, there is no doubt that many sincere souls shall be attracted and will join you in your work for Krishna. So please try for selling these books, it shall be considered as the greatest service ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2214:22, 8 May 2022 diff hist +1,524‎ Fused rice, sweetmeats and all other eatables are but transformations of dirt. This is dirt, that is dirt. Please consider. What is the difference between them? ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2114:21, 8 May 2022 diff hist +1,615‎ Despite the explanation of Svarupa Damodara, Bhagavan Acarya requested, "Please hear the drama once. If you hear it, you can consider whether it is good or bad" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 8 May 2022 diff hist +3,432‎ As usual, I shall send "KRISHNA" tapes to your husband with hints for you about the pictures so you and your husband can send me the complete materials for the final printing. Please consider these suggestions and do the needful ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 8 May 2022 diff hist +395‎ Category:Becoming Free from Material Contamination by the Association of Devotees of God ‎No edit summary current

7 May 2022

• 02:3002:30, 7 May 2022 diff hist +6,091‎ This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for qualifying you to see God twenty-four hours. This is sum and substance of Krsna consciousness. If you learn this art, then you will see God twenty-four hours, without any stop ‎No edit summary
• 02:3002:30, 7 May 2022 diff hist +4,653‎ The word avicchinna, "without interruptions," is very important in this connection. No material condition can stop the flow of the devotional service of a pure devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 02:3002:30, 7 May 2022 diff hist −8‎ Sada means "always." Haridasa Thakura says, nirantara nama lao: "Chant the Hare Krsna mantra without stopping" ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2902:29, 7 May 2022 diff hist +8,570‎ If you engage yourself in pure devotional service incessantly, without any stop, then you always remain transcendental, above these three gunas. So our Krsna consciousness movement is to keep the devotee above the three gunas ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2802:28, 7 May 2022 diff hist +3,904‎ Each party began to strike the opposite party very severely in a fierce, dangerous battle that continued for twenty-seven days without stopping ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2802:28, 7 May 2022 diff hist +6,112‎ Each expected victory over the other, but the fighting continued for twenty-eight days, both in daytime and at night, without stopping ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2802:28, 7 May 2022 diff hist +6,074‎ Because he (Kamsa) was very much afraid of his death, he was thinking of Krsna in that form twenty-four hours a day, without stopping - even while eating, while walking and while breathing - and naturally he got the blessing of liberation ‎No edit summary current

5 May 2022

• 14:0314:03, 5 May 2022 diff hist +107‎ Category:Will Not Be Effective ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 5 May 2022 diff hist +8,587‎ Unless one is svanubhavam, self-realized, life is bhagavata, he cannot preach Bhagavata. That is not... That will not be effective. A gramophone will not help ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 5 May 2022 diff hist +6,554‎ Yes, that possibility is always there. But my proposal is that if you are not true Christian, then your preaching will not be effective. I don't say that now we are strictly following and we will not fall down in future. I don't say that ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 5 May 2022 diff hist +2,632‎ There is a Bengali saying that if a vulture curses a cow to die, the curse will not be effective. Similarly, accusations made by demoniac persons against devotees of Krsna cannot have any effect ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 5 May 2022 diff hist +7,329‎ Then you'll not be effective (if you rubber stamp). You can cheat, but it will not be effective. Just see our Gaudiya Matha. Everyone wanted to become guru, and a small temple and "guru." What kind of guru? No publication, no preaching ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,914‎ The Lord has stated that He is beyond the range of mental speculation and the speed of thought, yet He can be approached easily by His causeless mercy. Thus only by His causeless mercy can He be attained. Other methods will not be effective ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,414‎ That fall down propensity, tendency is always there. But my proposal is that unless one is strictly follower of the principles, his preaching will not be effective. That is my charge ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,463‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's secretary also advised that one learn the history of Srimad-Bhagavatam from a devotee. One should not hear the statements of Srimad-Bhagavatam from professional reciters, or else they will not be effective ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,935‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu practiced devotional service and preached (apani acari’ bhakti karila pracara). If a preacher behaves properly in devotional service, he will be able to convert others. Otherwise, his preaching will have no effect ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,940‎ It is not possible for a common man to write books on bhakti, for his writings will not be effective ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 5 May 2022 diff hist +2,578‎ If your calculation is true and I am a madman, then your punishment will be like beating a dead horse. There will be no effect. When a madman is punished, he is not cured of his madness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 5 May 2022 diff hist +9,606‎ If you push on this movement, unadulterated Krsna, it will go on. It will go on. And as soon as you adulterate Krsna, it will not go on. It will not be effective ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 5 May 2022 diff hist +2,589‎ If one's mind is distracted from worship, a mere show of worship will not be of any benefit ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 5 May 2022 diff hist +47,179‎ If one mistakenly considers his position to be equal to that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes contaminated by the doctrine of nonduality, and his efforts in transcendental life are rendered ineffective ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 5 May 2022 diff hist +7,955‎ As they have been trained up to rise early in the morning, this will give you spiritual strength. If you simply becomes a gramophone speaker, then it will not be effective. Gramophone or tape record speaker, that will not be. You must be live speaker ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 5 May 2022 diff hist +5,608‎ A demon never cares for any good instruction. He is just like a determined thief: one can give him moral instruction, but it will not be effective ‎No edit summary
• 13:5513:55, 5 May 2022 diff hist +10,483‎ Name means authorized. Not fictitious. If you chant fictitious name, that will not be effective. But if you chant real name of God, then you'll be purified ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 5 May 2022 diff hist +23‎ One must first act himself and then teach. This is the function of a real teacher. Unless one is able to understand the philosophy that he speaks, it will not be effective ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 5 May 2022 diff hist +5,086‎ Manufacturing many ways of chanting will never be effective. However, chanting the song or the narration left by the previous acaryas extremely effective, and this process is very easy. Therefore here (SB 7.9.48) Prahlada uses the word anjah "easily" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,210‎ It is not that the chanting of Hare Krsna is in this age very effective and it was not effective in the Satya-yuga. It is not like that ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 5 May 2022 diff hist +5,751‎ It is not necessary that the rules and regulations followed in India be exactly the same as those in Europe, America and other Western countries. Simply imitating without effect is called niyamagraha ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 5 May 2022 diff hist +23‎ If by intelligence one engages one's mind in Krsna consciousness, even though the senses are very strong, like serpents, they will be no more effective than serpents with broken fangs. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,099‎ If a snake has its poison removed and bites a man, there is no fatal effect. Similarly, wealth accumulated in the cause of the Lord has no poisonous teeth, and the effect is not fatal ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 5 May 2022 diff hist +23‎ Fools and rascals say that the worship of Yogamaya and the worship of Mahamaya are the same. This conclusion is simply the result of mental speculation, and it has no practical effect ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,847‎ Even though a person who has no assets in pious activities performs some good deed, it will have no result. Thus the weapons of the demons had no tangible effects upon Prahlada Maharaja because he was a devotee undisturbed by material conditions ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 5 May 2022 diff hist +1,954‎ But now we see that the punishment ordained under your authority is no longer effective, since your order has been transgressed by four wonderful and perfect persons ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 5 May 2022 diff hist +9,233‎ Before the creation there was neither cause nor effect, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead existed with His full opulence and energy ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 5 May 2022 diff hist +77,895‎ A Hindu may change his faith to become a Muslim, or a Muslim may change his faith to become a Hindu, or a Christian and so on. But the change of religious faith does not effect the eternal occupation of rendering service. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 5 May 2022 diff hist +2,781‎ Yes, reading my books will help you, philosophy must be there, but without performing devotional service, then simply learning the philosophy will have no effect ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,011‎ The demonic conclude that the world is phantasmagoria. There is no cause and effect, no controller, no purpose: everything is unreal ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,436‎ Not only does it have no effect in transcendental pleasure, but it is dangerous also. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu has warned that no description of the pastimes of the Lord should be heard from the Mayavada, or impersonalist, school ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,432‎ It is not that the miseries of the material world completely vanish when one takes to Krsna consciousness, but for one who is Krsna conscious the miseries of material existence have no effect ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,912‎ If a preacher behaves properly in devotional service, he will be able to convert others. Otherwise, his preaching will have no effect ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5212:52, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,517‎ Bhagavad-gita has been well known all over the world for a very long time, especially in the Western world, but because the subject matter was not discussed by devotees, there was no effect ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1302:13, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,670‎ So-called scientists are receiving Nobel Prizes for advancing the theory of chemical evolution ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1202:12, 5 May 2022 diff hist +12,608‎ In other words, all fools and rascals. Just like big, big scientists. They are theorizing that life is made out of matter. How much ignorance it is. All these Darwin's theory, chemical evolution. Simply they are basing that from matter life has come ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1102:11, 5 May 2022 diff hist +6,531‎ Darwin's theory that life is made possible by chemical evolution is not correct. They are missing the soul. That is their mistake. They are simply observing the material cover. That is the basic mistake of modern civilization ‎No edit summary

4 May 2022

• 03:2003:20, 4 May 2022 diff hist +5,435‎ Those who are meat-eaters, they can eat other, non-important animals, but cows must be saved, even from economic point of view. Here it is said that go-raksya. It does not say, Krsna, "elephant-raksya." ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2003:20, 4 May 2022 diff hist +3,576‎ The king cannot tolerate insults to the most important animal, the cow, nor can he tolerate disrespect for the most important man, the brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 03:2003:20, 4 May 2022 diff hist +3,202‎ The human society, therefore, maintains these two (the bull and the cow) important animals very carefully so that they can wander everywhere in cheerfulness ‎No edit summary
• 03:1903:19, 4 May 2022 diff hist −16‎ The cow is the most important animal for developing the human body to perfection ‎No edit summary current
• 03:0303:03, 4 May 2022 diff hist +9,331‎ The neophytes, due to their being in the lower stage of devotional service, are invariably envious, so much so that they invent their own ways and means of devotional regulations without following the acaryas ‎No edit summary current

3 May 2022

• 05:3105:31, 3 May 2022 diff hist +270‎ Category:Neophyte Devotees of God ‎No edit summary current
• 03:0503:05, 3 May 2022 diff hist +19,832‎ A neophyte Vaisnava or a Vaisnava situated on the intermediate platform can also accept disciples, but such disciples must be on the same platform, and it should be understood that they cannot advance very well toward the ultimate goal ‎No edit summary
• 03:0403:04, 3 May 2022 diff hist +15,026‎ An example of the neophyte class is Maharaja Dhruva. He was in need of his father's kingdom and therefore engaged himself in devotional service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2402:24, 3 May 2022 diff hist +4,453‎ When one is devotee, he'll chant more and more. He'll aspire, "If I could get millions of tongues and trillions of ear, then I could finish." That is devotee. And one is thinking how to finish it by chanting once, he's not devotee. That is neophyte stage ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2402:24, 3 May 2022 diff hist +8,115‎ When one (neophyte devotee) is promoted to the next platform of transcendental consciousness, one can understand the importance of mahatmas and devotees, and in that stage one tries to please them ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2302:23, 3 May 2022 diff hist +5,249‎ This practice (regulative principles of vaidhi-bhakti) can help the neophyte devotee to rise to the stage of raga-bhakti, in which the Lord responds from within as the caitya-guru, or the spiritual master as Superconsciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2202:22, 3 May 2022 diff hist +8,222‎ The neophyte stage, in the intermediate stage or in the fully advanced, perfected stage, one can make the function of the head perfect by bowing down before the Lord or His representative ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2202:22, 3 May 2022 diff hist +28‎ The duty of the spiritual master is to train the neophyte in the principles of regulated devotional service, or vaidhi-bhakti. At this stage the devotee's service is based on his capacity to serve the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 02:2102:21, 3 May 2022 diff hist +6,605‎ There are three stages in chanting the holy name of the Lord - the offensive stage, the stage of lessening offenses, and the pure stage. When a neophyte takes to the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra, he generally commits many offenses ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1502:15, 3 May 2022 diff hist +8,892‎ Such an advanced devotee (who is accustomed to chanting and takes pleasure in it) is called a madhyama-bhagavata, which indicates that he has attained the intermediate stage between the neophyte and the perfect devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1402:14, 3 May 2022 diff hist +6,265‎ Spiritual life means if somebody has advanced in spiritual life, and somebody, one, he is still in the neophyte stage, he will eulogize, "Oh, how fortunate he is. He has advanced. He is serving Krsna in such a nice way ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1002:10, 3 May 2022 diff hist +28‎ In the next stage, one becomes initiated by an elevated spiritual master, and under his instruction the neophyte devotee begins the process of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1002:10, 3 May 2022 diff hist +5,439‎ In the neophyte stage one should always engage in hearing krsna-katha. This is called sravana-dasa, the stage of hearing ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0902:09, 3 May 2022 diff hist +6,006‎ In the neophyte stage of devotion one must follow all the principles, regulated by the authority of the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current

2 May 2022

• 15:1815:18, 2 May 2022 diff hist +12,217‎ In the neophyte stage, if you try to imitate the advanced stage, then it will be simply ludicrous ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 2 May 2022 diff hist +6,759‎ In next stage one becomes initiated by an elevated spiritual master, and under his instruction the neophyte devotee begins the process of devotional service. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 2 May 2022 diff hist +466‎ Category:Neophyte Stage of Devotional Service to God ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 2 May 2022 diff hist +371‎ Category:Everyone Begins His Devotional Life from the Neophyte Stage ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 2 May 2022 diff hist +546‎ Category:Bhaktim param - Executing Devotional Service to God above the Neophyte Stage ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,213‎ The first stage is called sadhana-bhakti, or devotional service for the neophyte, which is rendered under the direction of a pure devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 2 May 2022 diff hist +6,920‎ That sort of bhakti is not the perfectional stage. The perfectional stage of bhakti, or devotional service, is completely free from material contamination. The most dangerous aspect of contamination is lust, or sex life ‎No edit summary
• 15:0415:04, 2 May 2022 diff hist +6,904‎ Sukadeva Gosvami uses two specific words, bhaktim and param. Bhaktim param means execution of devotional service above the neophyte stage. Those who are simply attracted to temple worship but do not know the philosophy of bhakti are in the neophyte stage ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 2 May 2022 diff hist +28‎ Rati-prema-taratamye bhakta-taratama - Attraction and love for God are the ultimate goal of devotional service. The degrees of such attraction and love distinguish the different stages of devotion - neophyte, intermediate & perfectional - CC Madhya 22.71 ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 2 May 2022 diff hist +5,503‎ In the neophyte stage, sadhana-bhakti includes faith, association with devotees, and practicing devotional service. Thus one is freed from all unwanted things ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 2 May 2022 diff hist +7,648‎ For neophytes, we must have many engagements. In the neophyte stage, if you try to imitate the advanced stage, then it will be simply ludicrous. In the neophyte stage we must be always engaged ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5414:54, 2 May 2022 diff hist +19,730‎ Everyone begins his devotional life from the neophyte stage, but if one properly finishes chanting the prescribed number of rounds of hari-nama, he is elevated step by step to the highest platform, uttama-adhikari ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 2 May 2022 diff hist +2,963‎ When the miscreants are punished in an exemplary manner, automatically all good fortune follows. As said before, it is the prime duty of the king or the executive head to give protection in all respects to the peaceful, offenseless citizens of the state ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,341‎ There were many things to be done upon the return of his (Pracinabarhi's) sons, but he simply left them a message. He knew what his prime duty was ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,646‎ The sum and substance of the conditioned soul's sense enjoyment is that as soon as he forgets his primary duty, to render service to the Lord, he creates an atmosphere of sense enjoyment, which is called maya; that is the cause of material creation ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 2 May 2022 diff hist +3,660‎ The spiritual master's order should be taken as the prime duty of life. If one gets a bona fide spiritual master and acts according to his direction, then his perfection of life in Krsna consciousness is guaranteed. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,178‎ The demigods, being fully satisfied with him, wanted to give him some benediction for material enjoyment, but Maharaja Khatvanga, being very much alert to his prime duty, inquired from the demigods about his remaining duration of life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3113:31, 2 May 2022 diff hist +8,931‎ Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana, a great Vaisnava scholar, defines this as bhagavad-arcana-rupaika-niskama-karmabhir visuddha-cittah - accepting transcendental loving service to the Lord as the prime duty, free from fruitive reaction ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 2 May 2022 diff hist +5,164‎ One who is apramatta, a sane, sober person, a dhira, knows very well that a human being's primary duty is to render service to the Supreme Person ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,159‎ One should always be alert in his duty for attainment of the best situation in the next life. Human life is meant for preparing ourselves for that prime duty ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 2 May 2022 diff hist +5,587‎ On faith one associates with bona fide devotees, and by such association one can become engaged in bona fide devotional service, which includes proper initiation and the execution of the primary devotional duties prescribed in the revealed scriptures ‎No edit summary
• 13:2813:28, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,861‎ My primary duty is to publish the Srimad-Bhagavatam and finish it in my life. But preaching in the western countries is also my duty as it was ordered by my Spiritual Master ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 2 May 2022 diff hist +3,448‎ My creating so many centers, big, big temples, that is not my primary duty. My primary duty is to write books. Therefore I am going on still. These are coming automatically. Maybe this is the secret of my success ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,702‎ Maharaja Khatvanga, being alert to his prime duty, inquired from demigods about his remaining duration of life. This means that he was not as anxious to accumulate material benediction from the demigods as he was to prepare for the next life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 2 May 2022 diff hist +2,302‎ Her (Diti's) sex desire was like a mad elephant, and therefore it was the prime duty of her husband (Kasyapa) to give her all protection by fulfilling her desire ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,218‎ Generally householders think that engaging in family affairs is their prime duty and that self-realization or enlightenment in spiritual knowledge is secondary. Out of compassion only, saintly persons and brahmanas go to householders' homes ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 2 May 2022 diff hist +3,505‎ Because you have come to me it will be my prime duty to guide you and utilize your talents for Krsna's service ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 2 May 2022 diff hist +6,127‎ Because everyone is under the delusion of maya and is forgetful of his prime duty, Krsna consciousness, a saintly person always desires that everyone become a saintly person ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 2 May 2022 diff hist +9,645‎ Agriculture and distribution of the foodstuff are the primary duties of the mercantile community backed by education in Vedic knowledge and trained to give in charity ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,427‎ According to Manu, the author of civic codes and religious principles, even the killer of an animal is to be considered a murderer because animal food is never meant for the civilized man, whose prime duty is to prepare himself for going back to Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 13:1913:19, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,120‎ A fully responsible man should always be conscious of the prime duty of the present human form of life. The activities to meet the immediate necessities of material life are not everything ‎No edit summary
• 13:1913:19, 2 May 2022 diff hist +4,700‎ A devotee's prime duty is to continue chanting this maha-mantra, even if he is highly elevated. Otherwise, at any stage one can fall down ‎No edit summary current

1 May 2022

• 17:0317:03, 1 May 2022 diff hist +8,154‎ The servants of Krsna were sometimes engaged massaging His (Krsna) body, preparing flower garlands and sometimes fanning His body. These were some of the primary duties of the servants of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 16:4916:49, 1 May 2022 diff hist +4,166‎ While carrying out his DS to the Lord, he could see that everything is situated in Him only and that He is situated in all living entities. The Lord is called Acyuta because He never fails in His prime duty, to give protection to His devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 16:4716:47, 1 May 2022 diff hist +17,974‎ The Lord is called Acyuta because He never fails in His prime duty, to give protection to His devotees ‎No edit summary current

15 April 2022

• 16:3516:35, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,176‎ We find the words utpadya tesu purusah (in SB 9.24.66). Therefore it is to be concluded that the Absolute Truth is purusa, a person ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3516:35, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ When a ksatriya out of cowardice flees from the battlefield, showing his back to his enemy, he is challenged with the words tistha tistha ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3516:35, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,695‎ When one becomes a devotee of Indra, he is certainly a friend to the demigods. Thus the words indra-hadeva-bandhavah are equivocal, for they say, "Your son will kill Indra, but he will be very friendly to the demigods" ‎No edit summary
• 16:3416:34, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ When the Lord replied to the sage Kardama, the word vacasamrtena is specifically mentioned, since He spoke from the transcendental world. He replied in transcendental words, and when He spoke His eyebrows moved with great affection ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3416:34, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ Vasudeva agreed and took his child back home, but because Kamsa had no character and no self-control, Vasudeva knew that he could not rely on Kamsa's word - SB 10.1.61 ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3416:34, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,575‎ This text (of CC Adi lila 4.66) from SB 4.3.23, spoken by Lord Siva confirms beyond a doubt that Lord Krsna, His name, His fame, His qualities and everything in connection with His paraphernalia exist in the sandhini-sakti of the Lord’s internal potency ‎No edit summary
• 16:3216:32, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ This (the material energy) has all been properly analyzed in sankhya-yoga by the great acaryas, especially by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, in His incarnation as Devahuti-putra Kapila. This is indicated here (SB 7.7.22) by the word acaryaih ‎No edit summary
• 16:3116:31, 15 April 2022 diff hist +5,895‎ These words of Prahlada Maharaja (in SB 7.7.17) are very important in regard to knowledge descending by the disciplic succession ‎No edit summary
• 16:3116:31, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,905‎ The words yasmin yato yarhi yena ca yasya yasmat indicate that all activities, whatever they may be, are but different features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. All of them are created by the living entity and fulfilled by the mercy of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3116:31, 15 April 2022 diff hist +5,224‎ The words used in this connection in Srimad-Bhagavatam are bhagavan api ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3116:31, 15 April 2022 diff hist +6,451‎ The words used here (in SB 3.32.26), paramatmesvarah puman, are all transcendental, and they refer to Supersoul. Supersoul is also described as purusa ‎No edit summary
• 16:3116:31, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The words tistha tistha are used by a ksatriya when he challenges his enemy. When fighting, a ksatriya cannot flee from the battlefield ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3016:30, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,881‎ The words srotranjalir upasprsya (in SB 9.24.62) indicate that simply by hearing the transcendental activities of the Lord the devotees become so pure that they are immediately immune to the contamination of materialistic fruitive activities ‎No edit summary
• 16:3016:30, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,860‎ The words samprapede harim mean that in various ways Kardama Muni satisfied the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, by his devotional service. Devotional service is also expressed by the word kriya-yogena ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2616:26, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The words purusam visvato-mukham mean the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is all-perfect. All living entities other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead are very small, although they may be big by our calculation ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist +7,316‎ The words prasanna-nipunena tapasa indicate that the King (Maharaja Nabhi) accepted all kinds of austerity very expertly and jubilantly. He did not at all mind leaving his comfortable life at home, although he was the emperor ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The words parasya para-cintakah mean those who are fully Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,684‎ The words parasya para-cintakah mean - always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - or being always Krsna conscious. When we speak of Krsna, this refers to the complete category of visnu-tattva ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,959‎ The words nrlokam ramayam asa murtya sarvanga-ramyaya (in SB 9.24.63-64) are significant. Krsna is the original form. Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is therefore described here by the word murtya. The word murti means - form ‎No edit summary
• 16:2516:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,747‎ The words namabhir vaci are very important ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2416:24, 15 April 2022 diff hist −46‎ The words itihasam puratanam (in SB 7.2.27) mean - an old history ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2416:24, 15 April 2022 diff hist +5,915‎ The words itihasam ("history") and puratanam ("old") indicate that although a living entity lives within the material body, the history of the living entity within the material body is very old ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 15 April 2022 diff hist +8,546‎ The words caiva hi, according to Sanskrit grammar, indicate that one must perform all these activities mixed with devotional service, otherwise such activities will not produce any fruit ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The words buddhim ekanta-samsthitam indicate that as an effect of Prahlada Maharaja's preaching, the students who listened to him became fixed in the conclusion that Krsna consciousness is the only object of human life ‎No edit summary
• 12:3212:32, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,702‎ The words bhusa-vasah paricchadan also appear here (in SB 3.22.23) Bhusa means "ornaments," vasah means "clothing," and paricchadan means "various household articles" ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 15 April 2022 diff hist +8,772‎ The words bhakti-yogena caiva hi mean that whatever is to be performed whether yoga or sacrifice or fruitive activity or study of Vedic literature or philosophical research or acceptance of the renounced order of life, is to be executed in bhakti-yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,979‎ The words abhivyanag jagad idam refer to he who creates this cosmic manifestation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word vidyotamanam indicates that the brahmacari feature showed in his (Kardama's) body. That is the certificate that one has undergone great austerity in yoga. A drunkard or smoker or sex-monger can never be eligible to practice yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2904:29, 15 April 2022 diff hist −46‎ The word vidhina means, "according to religious principles." The association of men and women according to religious principles is allowed in the Vedic culture ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2904:29, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,225‎ The word udyana refers to places where trees are especially grown to produce fruits and flowers, which are most important for human civilization ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2804:28, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,360‎ The word svarat is very significant here (in SB 3.32.29). Svarat means "independent." The Supreme Lord is independent, and the individual soul is also independent ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2804:28, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,379‎ The word surya-dvarena means "by the illuminated path," or through the sun planet. The illuminated path is devotional service. It is advised in the Vedas not to pass through the darkness, but to pass through the sun planet ‎No edit summary
• 04:2704:27, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,616‎ The word sudarsana means "auspicious vision." From Vedic instructions we understand that this material world is created by the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - sa aiksata, sa asrjata ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2704:27, 15 April 2022 diff hist +5,811‎ The word sucaye means one who is cleansed both externally and internally. To become actually cleansed externally and internally, one should chant the holy name of the Lord, Hare Krsna, or Visnu, constantly ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2504:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist −46‎ The word siddha-sattama refers to a liberated, pure devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2504:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word sarva-loka-namaskrtam means that He (God) is worshipable by everyone on every planet ‎No edit summary
• 04:2504:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word sarva-bhutesu is to be understood as follows. There are four different divisions of species-living entities which sprout from the earth, living entities born of fermentation or germination ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2504:25, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,635‎ The word sara-bhrtam means paramahamsas. The hamsa, or swan, accepts milk from a mixture of milk and water and rejects the water ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2404:24, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,517‎ The word santa means completely peaceful. Unless all one's desires are fulfilled, one cannot be peaceful ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2404:24, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word rasa means "taste." Actually all rasas are tastes within the earth, and as soon as seeds are sown in the ground, various trees sprout up to satisfy our different tastes ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2404:24, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,921‎ The word rantidevanuvartinah indicates that Rantideva's officers, friends, relatives and subjects all became first-class Vaisnavas by his association. In other words, Rantideva is confirmed herein (SB 9.21.18) to be a first-class devotee ‎No edit summary
• 04:2304:23, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word puranjana means one who enjoys in a body ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2104:21, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word projjhita (from CC Adi 1.91) is significant. Pra- means - complete, and ujjhita indicates rejection ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2104:21, 15 April 2022 diff hist −46‎ The word prayascittani is plural in number to indicate both karma-kanda and jnana-kanda ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2104:21, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,290‎ The word pravayasah (in SB 6.1.24) indicates Ajamila's sinfulness because although he was eighty-eight years old, he had a very young child ‎No edit summary
• 04:2004:20, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,221‎ The word prakrti means material nature, and purusa may also refer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2004:20, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,875‎ The word paramesthinam is sometimes used in connection with Brahma. Paramesthi means "the supreme person." As Brahma is the supreme person within this universe, Krsna is the Supreme Personality in the spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2004:20, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,562‎ The word param means "the supreme cause," and aparam means "the effect." The supreme cause is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the effect is material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,788‎ The word muni is very significant. Muni means one who is very expert in mental speculation or in thinking, feeling and willing. He is not mentioned here (in SB 3.28.20) as a devotee or yogi ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,962‎ The word moksanam means "liberation." For the associates of Krsna and for Krsna Himself, there is no question about liberation; they are already liberated, being in the spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word mayamayam, describing the Lord's form, should not be taken to mean illusion. Rather, the Lord's form is factual, and seeing this form is the result of perfect knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 02:3202:32, 15 April 2022 diff hist +9,180‎ The word mana (in SB 10.7.13) refers to false prestige or false pride. Those who were falsely proud, thinking that they were brahmanas because they were born in brahmana families, were never invited by Nanda Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
• 02:3202:32, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word mahatma to describe the qualifications of Daksa is used sarcastically ‎No edit summary current
• 02:3202:32, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,762‎ The word maha-purusa refers to advanced devotees and also to the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 02:3002:30, 15 April 2022 diff hist +10,610‎ The word kecit means "a few people but not all." Not everyone can become Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
• 02:3002:30, 15 April 2022 diff hist +1,647‎ The word kama-liptena (in SB 6.1.61) indicates that the sudra was decorated with turmeric smeared on his body ‎No edit summary
• 02:2902:29, 15 April 2022 diff hist −46‎ The word harsa means "jubilation," and soka means "lamentation'' ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0402:04, 15 April 2022 diff hist +7,013‎ The word grhnatah (in SB 10.8.13) indicates that Krsna is free to make His choice. In other words, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and may therefore do whatever He desires ‎No edit summary
• 02:0202:02, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,788‎ The word gavah (SB 7.2.12) indicates that cows should be given protection ‎No edit summary
• 02:0202:02, 15 April 2022 diff hist +2,400‎ The word gata-vyathāḥ, used in this connection, means "without fear." Satī did not care that she was going alone; therefore she was almost fearless ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0202:02, 15 April 2022 diff hist +6,263‎ The word drsy-adibhih is significant. According to Jiva Gosvami, drsi means jnana, philosophical research ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0202:02, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word diyatam means that knowledge of Krsna consciousness should be offered by the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0102:01, 15 April 2022 diff hist −46‎ The word dhirah, meaning "those who are undisturbed under all circumstances," is very significant ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0002:00, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,217‎ The word daivam indicates a demigod or one who accepts worship from a dependent ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5901:59, 15 April 2022 diff hist +5,287‎ The word bhutyai means "for increasing opulence," and the word sreyase refers to ultimately returning home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5701:57, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word Bhagavan directly refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full of six opulences: wealth, fame, strength, beauty, knowledge and renunciation. He is the Personality of Godhead in different spiritual skies ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5601:56, 15 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word bahir jata-viragaya means a person who has developed detachment from external and internal material propensities ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5601:56, 15 April 2022 diff hist +3,364‎ The word avivesa signifies that the Lord appeared within the mind of Vasudeva. There was no need for a discharge of semen. That is the opinion of Sripada Sridhara Svami and Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5501:55, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,428‎ The word atma-jyotih is significant. The brahma-jyotir, which is greatly appreciated by jnanis, or monistic philosophers who desire to enter it for liberation, is nothing but the rays of the Lord's body ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5501:55, 15 April 2022 diff hist +4,574‎ The word asteyam is also very important for a yogi. Asteyam means "to refrain from theft." In the broader sense, everyone who accumulates more than he needs is a thief ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5501:55, 15 April 2022 diff hist +7,310‎ The word asan (in SB 10.8.13) indicates that He is always present. Whenever the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in His full feature, He is understood to be krsna-varnam, although He appears in different colors ‎No edit summary
• 01:5401:54, 15 April 2022 diff hist +6,274‎ The word asamsrti is very important. Samsrti refers to continuing on the path of birth & death. Asamsrti, on the contrary, refers to nivrtti-marga, or the path of liberation, by which one's birth and death cease and one gradually progresses to Brahmaloka ‎No edit summary current

14 April 2022

• 16:0016:00, 14 April 2022 diff hist +2,322‎ The word anumimamsate means that he (Yamaraja) can decide in consultation with the Supersoul. Anu means - following ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0016:00, 14 April 2022 diff hist +2,570‎ The word amrtyum indicates that Diti wanted a son who would be equal in status to the demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5915:59, 14 April 2022 diff hist +5,334‎ The word amrta is also an important reference to the moon, and the word ambuja means "lotus." The pleasing moonshine and pleasing fragrance of the lotus combined to bring pleasure to everyone hearing krsna-katha from the mouth of Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 15:5915:59, 14 April 2022 diff hist −46‎ The word aja means maya, or mystic power. Everything mysterious is in full existence in Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5615:56, 14 April 2022 diff hist +2,432‎ The word adrtah is significant because it indicates that Vidura had a natural inclination for hearing the transcendental message of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and he was never fully satisfied though continuing to hear those topics ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5615:56, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word adhoksajalambham refers to keeping the mind always engaged in the Absolute Truth, who is beyond the mind and material speculation. Sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayoh (SB 9.4.18). This is the result of Deity worship ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5615:56, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,281‎ The word adhipunyam indicates that there are certainly many other pious men throughout the world, but the people of Bharata-varsa are even more pious ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5515:55, 14 April 2022 diff hist +6,345‎ The word acyutamsam is used because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is Sad-aisvarya-purna, full in the opulences of wealth, strength, fame, knowledge, beauty and renunciation. The Supreme Godhead is never separated from His personal opulences ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5515:55, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ The word "separatist" must be understood carefully. The Sanskrit words in this connection are bhinna-drk and prthag-bhavah. A separatist is one who sees his interest as separate from that of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5515:55, 14 April 2022 diff hist +4,833‎ The very word satya-krt is used (in SB 7.1.11) to establish that everything created by the Lord is factual, never false. The creation may be temporary, but it is not false ‎No edit summary
• 15:5515:55, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,620‎ The Supreme Lord is very beautiful. The word sasvat is significant. It is not that He appears beautiful to the devotees but is ultimately impersonal. Sasvat means "ever existing." That beauty is not temporary. It is ever existing - He is always youthful ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5315:53, 14 April 2022 diff hist +5,336‎ The specific words used in Srimad-Bhagavatam are yogamayam upasritah, which mean that this dancing with the gopis is on the platform of yogamaya, not mahamaya ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5215:52, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,245‎ The Sanskrit word maha is derived from the affix mahat. This affix is used when there is a great number or quantity, so maha-yoga indicates that there were many great yogis and devotees meditating on the form of Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 14 April 2022 diff hist +1,690‎ The King began to recite verses about the rasa-lila from Srimad-Bhagavatam. He recited the chapter beginning with the words "jayati te 'dhikam" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 14 April 2022 diff hist +2,212‎ The distance indicated by the word sadhikani is panca-vimsati-sahasradhikani, or 25,000 yojanas. That plus two and a half crores and twelve and a half laksa of yojanas is the distance the sun travels between each two cities - from Devadhani to Samyamani ‎No edit summary
• 14:3014:30, 14 April 2022 diff hist +12,464‎ The demigods offered their prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead because He had now appeared in the womb of His devotee Devaki to protect all the devotees harassed by Kamsa and his lieutenants. Thus the Lord acts as satyavrata ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 14 April 2022 diff hist +12,361‎ The culture of vidya is summarized in Srimad-Bhagavatam in the following words: "Therefore, with one-pointed attention one should constantly hear about, glorify, remember and worship the Personality of Godhead, who is the protector of the devotees" ‎No edit summary
• 14:2814:28, 14 April 2022 diff hist +8,728‎ Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has very nicely explained the word bhayena (in SB 7.1.26), which means "by fear" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,397‎ Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura comments that the word ojasa means by dint of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 14 April 2022 diff hist +7,395‎ Sri Sukadeva says that the word mahima means that the devotee attains the qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is called sadharma, or the same quality ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,423‎ Since He (God) is transcendental, His speech is also transcendental, as is His activity; everything in relation to Him is transcendental. The word amrta refers to one who does not meet with death ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 14 April 2022 diff hist +9,229‎ Simply by expert cooking, hundreds and thousands of palatable dishes can be prepared from agricultural produce and milk products. This is indicated here (in sb 10.7.13-15) by the words annam maha-gunam ‎No edit summary
• 14:2414:24, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ One who disobeys the orders of the spiritual master is also considered a pasandi. The word pasandi has been described in many places in Srimad-Bhagavatam, including 4.2.28, 30 and 32, 5.6.9, and 12.2.13 and 3.43 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ Mayavadis interpret this word "separatist" in a different way. They say that while worshiping the Lord, one should think himself one with the Supreme Lord. This is another adulterated form of devotion within the modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2214:22, 14 April 2022 diff hist +1,955‎ Maharaja Rantideva's words were like amrta, or nectar, and therefore, aside from rendering bodily service to an aggrieved person, by his words alone the King could save the life of anyone who might hear him ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2214:22, 14 April 2022 diff hist +2,504‎ Lord Brahma, being especially empowered, is infallible in doing whatever he wants. This is the meaning of the word amogha radhasa - in SB 7.3.22 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1914:19, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,029‎ It is understood from this verse (SB 3.29.43) that all planets in outer space are floating, and they all hold living entities. The word svasatam means "those who breathe," or the living entities. In order to accommodate them, there are innumerable planets ‎No edit summary
• 14:1814:18, 14 April 2022 diff hist +4,032‎ It is mentioned that Brahma washed the feet of Krsna with his tears, and here (in SB 10.13.62) the word sujalaih indicates that his tears were purified ‎No edit summary
• 14:1814:18, 14 April 2022 diff hist +2,545‎ It is clearly stated here (in SB 3.32.30) that this (perfect knowledge) is not possible to understand for one who has not developed devotional service in full faith. The words samahitatma and samadhi are synonymous ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1814:18, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ It is clearly mentioned here (in SB 3.28.12) that one has to meditate upon the expansion of Visnu. The word kastham refers to Paramatma, the expansion of the expansion of Visnu. Bhagavatah refers to Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,348‎ It is clear from the word catur-bhujam that Krsna first appeared with four hands, as Lord Visnu. No ordinary child in human society has ever been born with four hands. And when is a child born with fully grown hair ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ In the words of the Bhagavatam, svarupena vyavasthitih: this (Krsna consciousness) is the "real life of the living entity." BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,673‎ In the material world, desire is a product of rajo-guna and tamo-guna, but desire in the spiritual world gives rise to a variety of everlasting transcendental service. Thus the word svakarthanam (in SB 10.13.50) refers to eagerness to serve Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 3.25.38) the Lord says: The word mat-para is only used to refer to persons who are satisfied with the idea of becoming My adherents alone ‎No edit summary
• 10:3310:33, 14 April 2022 diff hist +4,796‎ In liberated stage, oneness with Supreme Lord means that one has no realization other than happiness. But the individual still exists, otherwise this word upalabdha, indicating individual realization of transcendental happiness, would not have been used ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 14 April 2022 diff hist +5,930‎ If the demigods were going to drink poison, the demons would resolve, "Why should we not share the poison and die gloriously by drinking it?" In regard to the words svadhyaya-sruta-sampannah prakhyata janma-karmabhih, another question may be raised ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 14 April 2022 diff hist +5,941‎ How is one to receive? One should receive the transcendental message by aural reception. The word karna-randhraih means "through the holes of the ears." The favor of the spiritual master is not received through any other part of the body but the ears ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ Hiranyakasipu condemned his Vaisnava son Prahlada for being durvinita-ungentle, uncivilized, or impudent. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, however, has derived a meaning from this word durvinita by the mercy of the goddess of learning, Sarasvati ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ Here the word snigdhapangavalokanat means that he was fortunate enough to see the Supreme Lord face to face. He looked healthy because he had directly received the nectarean sound vibrations from the lotus lips of the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 14 April 2022 diff hist +4,218‎ Here (in SB 6.1.4-5) the words yathedam asrjad vibhuh clearly indicate that the Supreme, the great, almighty Personality of Godhead, created this entire material world with its different varieties of planets, stars and so forth ‎No edit summary
• 10:2810:28, 14 April 2022 diff hist +3,278‎ Here (in SB 3.22.17) we find the word harmya-prsthe. Harmya means "a very big palatial building." Svad vimanat means "from his own airplane." It is suggested that private airplanes or helicopters were also current in those days ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2410:24, 14 April 2022 diff hist −46‎ By the grace of Krsna and His devotee, one’s life can change. This is confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam by the words jahati bandham and sudhyanti ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2410:24, 14 April 2022 diff hist +7,222‎ By misinterpreting tadrsih kridah, they (the sahajiyas) want to indulge in sex while pretending to imitate Lord Krsna. But one must actually understand the imports of the words through the intelligence of the authorized gosvamis ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2310:23, 14 April 2022 diff hist +8,586‎ Because the mind is ultimately controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, the word apasmrtih is significant. Forgetfulness of one's own identity is called apasmrtih ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 14 April 2022 diff hist +8,521‎ As soon as one is able to see his constitutional position (the word sva-drk means "one who is able to see"), he becomes detached from such material service and engages himself in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 14 April 2022 diff hist +6,153‎ As indicated here (in SB 10.2.18) by the word manastah, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was transferred from the core of Vasudeva's mind or heart to the core of the heart of Devaki ‎No edit summary
• 10:2010:20, 14 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ Another significant word is tarka-mudra. This indicates that the fingers are opened and the second finger is raised, along with the arm, to impress the audience with some subject matter. This is actually a symbolic representation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 14 April 2022 diff hist +5,097‎ Although He (Krsna) is the oldest of all living entities, He has His eternal form as a fresh youth. The exact words used in this connection in Srimad-Bhagavatam are vijnanam ajnana-bhidapamarjanam ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 14 April 2022 diff hist +2,721‎ After repeating obeisances for a long time, Brahma stood up & smeared his hands over his eyes. Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura comments that the word locane (in SB 10.13.64) indicates that with his two hands he wiped the two eyes on each of his four faces ‎No edit summary
• 09:0309:03, 14 April 2022 diff hist +6,192‎ According to the opinion of the acaryas, the word krama-yogopalabdhena indicates that by first performing karma-yoga and then jnana-yoga and finally coming to the platform of bhakti-yoga, one can be liberated ‎No edit summary current