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06:1806:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,093‎ The whole world is Krsna's property. The material world is a field of activities for the corrupt conditioned souls who desire to enjoy in imitation of the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
06:1806:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,074‎ The whole process (of KC) depends on perfect knowledge of the soul beyond the conception of the body - not theoretically but practically, when there is no longer chance for sense gratification manifested in fruitive activities. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:1806:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +31,936‎ The Vedas say that the puruṣa (the ātmā or the soul) has no connection with all its dreamlike material activities. Therefore we must engage in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness process to awaken from this dreaming condition ‎No edit summary current
06:1706:17, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,239‎ The Supersoul is observing the activities of the individual soul. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:1606:16, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,550‎ The Supersoul and the individual soul are like two birds sitting on the same tree (the material body). The Supersoul is only a witness to the activities of the first bird, who is his friend ‎No edit summary current

12:5412:54, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,773‎ The Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, seated beside the individual soul, is the witness of the individual soul's activities and is the source of the soul's various types of consciousness ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 27 July 2022 diff hist +12‎ The Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, seated beside the individual soul, is the witness of the individual soul's activities and is the source of consciousness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,255‎ The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace because he offers the result of all activities to Me (Krsna); whereas a person who is not in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor, becomes entangled ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,213‎ The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace because he offers the result of all activities to Me; whereas a person who is not in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor, becomes entangled. BG 5.12 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,788‎ The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 27 July 2022 diff hist +36‎ The spiritual soul has spiritual activities and spiritual desires, as described by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: mama janmani janmanisvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi - CC Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4 ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,545‎ The soul's activity becomes adulterated in contact with matter, and as such the diseased activities are expressed in the form of lust, desire, hankering, inactivity, foolishness and sleep ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,505‎ The situation of the world, due to ignorance of the soul they are creating so many sinful activities and becoming entangled. But they have no knowledge how they are becoming entangled. This is maya's, praksepatmika-sakti, avaranatmika ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,825‎ The self-controlled great soul Dhruva Maharaja thus passed many, many years favorably executing three kinds of worldly activities, namely religiosity, economic development and satisfaction of all material desires ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,293‎ The sadhana-siddha devotees are chosen from the conditioned souls. Out of the sadhana devotees, there are mixed and pure devotees. The mixed devotees are sometimes enthusiastic about fruitive activities and are habituated to philosophical speculation ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 27 July 2022 diff hist +10,976‎ The real ego is aham brahmasmi: "I am spirit soul." But on account of being in touch, being born in this material world, my kriya-sakti, my activities, are being done under different designation ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +8,164‎ The Lord is within everything, and He is all-covering also, without being disturbed by the activities of the individual souls. He is infinite, and the living entities are infinitesimal ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +81,031‎ The learned and liberated souls who are eternal servitors of Krsna sometimes remain in the midst of ordinary activities, just to attract the foolish mundaners to the process of karma-yoga ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,958‎ The jnani division of spiritualists go on speculating only to distinguish the soul from matter, but they have no information of the activities of the soul after being liberated by knowledge ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,485‎ The jivatma is enjoying or suffering by eating the fruits of the bodily activities, but the Paramatma, who is free from such bondage, witnesses and sanctions the activities of the individual soul as the individual soul desires ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,310‎ The influence of material nature cannot harm an enlightened soul, even though he engages in material activities, because he knows the truth of the Absolute, and his mind is fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
12:3112:31, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,931‎ The individual soul works and enjoys the fruits of the body, whereas the Supersoul simply witnesses the activities of the individual soul but does not enjoy the fruits of those activities ‎No edit summary current
12:3112:31, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,087‎ The individual soul knows about his own thinking, feeling and willing activities, but the Supersoul, or the Paramatma, the supreme controller, being present everywhere, knows everyone's thinking, feeling and willing activities ‎No edit summary current
12:3112:31, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,866‎ The individual soul is transmigrating from one body to another, and his present body and present activities are the background of his next body. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:3112:31, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,654‎ The individual soul enjoys the activities of a particular field, but the Supersoul is present not as finite enjoyer nor as one taking part in bodily activities, but as the witness, overseer, permitter and supreme enjoyer. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:3012:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,747‎ The individual soul eats the fruit of the tree, while the other bird does not eat the fruit but only observes the activities of the eating bird. Without attachment, the witnessing bird helps the fruit-eating bird perform fruitful activities ‎No edit summary current
12:3012:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,500‎ The individual soul bereft of Krsna consciousness has many ideas and activities created in the mind by the external energy. They have been existing from time immemorial ‎No edit summary current
12:3012:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,223‎ The individual souls in the material world engage in different activities according to their past unfinished desires. After the dissolution of a particular body, the individual soul forgets everything ‎No edit summary current
12:3012:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,857‎ The individual souls have spiritual senses, but in conditioned life they are covered with the material elements, and therefore the sense activities are exhibited through matter ‎No edit summary
12:2912:29, 27 July 2022 diff hist +28,630‎ The individual souls, who are put into the miseries of the material world, are suffering the resultant reactions of their unsanctioned activities. This is the verdict of Bhagavad-gita - BG 16.19 ‎No edit summary current
12:2912:29, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,375‎ The individual living soul is subject to the laws of fruitive activity, but the Supersoul, Paramatma, is not affected by the fruitive activities of the individual soul ‎No edit summary
12:2912:29, 27 July 2022 diff hist +12‎ The individual liberated soul has no other activity (without inspiration to fulfill the desire of the Lord). pratinivrtta-guna-pravahah ‎No edit summary current
12:2912:29, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,246‎ The following questions may be posed. As long as the liberated soul is in contact with the body, why don't the bodily activities affect him? Doesn't he actually become contaminated by the action and reaction of material activities ‎No edit summary current
12:2812:28, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,227‎ The five stores are the five working sensory organs. They transact their business through the combined forces of the five elements, which are eternal. Behind all this activity is the soul. The soul is a person and an enjoyer in reality ‎No edit summary current
12:2812:28, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,745‎ The conditioned soul who is very much disgusted with material activities becomes refreshed and forgets all the fatigue of material activities simply by dipping into the transcendental ocean of Your pastimes ‎No edit summary current
12:2212:22, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,152‎ The conditioned soul suffers many miserable bodily conditions, such as being affected by severe cold and strong winds. He also suffers due to the activities of other living beings and due to natural disturbances ‎No edit summary current
12:2212:22, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,117‎ The conditioned soul is subjected to birth and death, either by pious or sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,421‎ The conditioned soul is entrapped in material existence, and he attempts to lord over material nature. And so, according to his capacity to dominate material nature, he gets a field of activity. That field of activity is the body. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 27 July 2022 diff hist +52,488‎ The Caitanya-caritamrta teaches that the spirit soul is immortal and that our activities in the spiritual world are also immortal - CC Intro ‎No edit summary

03:1903:19, 17 July 2022 diff hist +3,335‎ The body is considered a fruitful tree, and the living entity and God as Supersoul are like two birds seated in that tree. The individual soul is eating the fruit of the tree, but the Supersoul, the Lord, is witnessing the activities of the other bird ‎No edit summary current
03:1903:19, 17 July 2022 diff hist +5,903‎ The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities which are in actuality carried out by nature - BG 3.27 ‎No edit summary current
03:1903:19, 17 July 2022 diff hist +3,008‎ The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature. BG 3.27 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
03:1903:19, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,413‎ The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature - Bhagavad-gita 3.27 ‎No edit summary current
03:1903:19, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,916‎ The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature ‎No edit summary current
03:1803:18, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,032‎ The bewildered soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature - BG 3.27 ‎No edit summary current
03:1803:18, 17 July 2022 diff hist +7,842‎ The activities of the material senses are perverted reflections of the activities of the original, spiritual senses. In his diseased condition, the spirit soul engages in material activities under the material covering ‎No edit summary current
03:1803:18, 17 July 2022 diff hist +5,714‎ The actions of the living entities in the spiritual kingdom are not illusory; they are the actual, eternal activities of liberated souls ‎No edit summary current
03:1803:18, 17 July 2022 diff hist +17‎ These elevated souls (who are expert in fruitive activities and sacrificial methods on earth attain to the moon) live on the moon for about 10,000 years (by demigod calculations) and enjoy life by drinking soma-rasa. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:1803:18, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,026‎ These activities (of the body) are completely different from the activities of the spirit soul of the living entity ‎No edit summary current
03:1803:18, 17 July 2022 diff hist +3,475‎ There are many witnesses (of our sinful activities), including the sun, fire, sky, air, moon, demigods, evening, day, night, directions, water, land and the Supersoul Himself, who sits with the individual soul within his heart ‎No edit summary
03:1703:17, 17 July 2022 diff hist +6,640‎ Suddha-bhakti, the activity of the soul proper - in other words, engagement in the transcendental loving service of the Lord - is performed in a liberated condition ‎No edit summary
03:1103:11, 17 July 2022 diff hist +5,658‎ Such act (God's pastimes in relation with the external energy) are as good as hearing rasa-lila in the liberated stage. Conditioned souls should not imitate the activities of liberated souls. Caitanya never indulged in hearing rasa-lila with ordinary men ‎No edit summary current
03:1103:11, 17 July 2022 diff hist +6,214‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's philanthropic activities are performed in connection with the eternal soul ‎No edit summary current
03:0803:08, 17 July 2022 diff hist +8,669‎ Spirit soul in his original condition is joyful, blissful, eternal and full of knowledge. Only by his implication in material activities has he become miserable, temporary and full of ignorance. This is due to vikarma ‎No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 17 July 2022 diff hist +7,562‎ Rupa Gosvami has discussed the sequence of sinful activities of the conditioned soul, and he has established, in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, that those who engage in devotional service become freed from the reactions of all sinful activities ‎No edit summary
03:0703:07, 17 July 2022 diff hist +4,984‎ O Lord, You do not desire the creation, maintenance or annihilation of this material world, but You perform these activities for the conditioned souls by Your creative energy ‎No edit summary current
03:0603:06, 17 July 2022 diff hist +12‎ One does not need this material body, and he does not need to accept the dictations of the material body. The qualities of the material modes in the body will act, but as spirit soul the self is aloof from such activities. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:0603:06, 17 July 2022 diff hist +5,039‎ One of them, (the individual soul and the Supreme Soul as Paramatma are sitting like two birds) the living being, is enjoying the fruits of the tree, whereas the Supreme Being is there to witness the activities ‎No edit summary current
03:0003:00, 17 July 2022 diff hist +3,655‎ No one can independently create, maintain or annihilate. Bhagavad-gita (BG 3.27) says:The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature ‎No edit summary
02:5802:58, 17 July 2022 diff hist +28,917‎ Life outside of a prison is certainly free from prison activities, but is not devoid of activity. The soul is by nature eternally active, but the impersonalists try to negate the activities of the soul in the spiritual realm ‎No edit summary current

09:3809:38, 9 July 2022 diff hist +17‎ Just as aromas are distinct from the material vehicle in which they are carried, the soul is unattached to material activities. This analysis can be considered by a person who is fully under the shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 9 July 2022 diff hist +13,391‎ I (Prabhupada) sincerely hope that by understanding the teachings of Lord Caitanya presented in this book, Sri CC, human society will experience a new light of spiritual life, which will open the field of activity for the pure soul - CC Preface ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 9 July 2022 diff hist +6,130‎ Liberated souls have no interest in materialistic activities ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 9 July 2022 diff hist +2,621‎ It is stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 3.27): "The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature" ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 9 July 2022 diff hist +36‎ It is only after many, many births of sense gratificatory activities that a great soul surrenders unto Vasudeva, Lord Krsna, thereby fulfilling the search after the ultimate truth. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 9 July 2022 diff hist +5,884‎ It has been seen that great mayavadi (impersonalist) sannyasis - very highly educated and almost realized souls - may sometimes take to political activities or to social welfare activities ‎No edit summary current
03:5703:57, 9 July 2022 diff hist +3,169‎ In this material body, at the present moment the living soul is acting, and when the material body, due to its incapability to function, ceases, he also ceases to perform his reactionary activities ‎No edit summary current
03:5703:57, 9 July 2022 diff hist +12,941‎ In the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that you, the soul, are present in your body and that your body is the field of your activities. So whatever you are doing is limited by the field of your body ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 9 July 2022 diff hist +4,527‎ In the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that one should surrender unto Him, giving up all other engagements. The Lord also gives His word there that He will protect such surrendered souls from the reactions of all sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 9 July 2022 diff hist +4,362‎ In the absence of varieties of enjoyment, the spirit soul feels an attraction to enjoy a life of bliss, and not having any information of Krsnaloka or Vaikunthaloka, he naturally falls down to material activities in order to enjoy material varieties ‎No edit summary current
03:4903:49, 9 July 2022 diff hist +4,927‎ If the soul is so active in its abnormal condition, existing under the covering of matter, how can one deny its activity when free? ‎No edit summary current
03:4803:48, 9 July 2022 diff hist +12‎ In order to perceive the Supersoul within the individual soul, one has to cease the sensual activities of seeing, hearing, tasting, working, etc. Then one comes to understand that the Supreme Soul is present everywhere. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

05:3205:32, 8 July 2022 diff hist +3,899‎ I, the pure soul, appearing now bound by my activities, am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of maya. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him who is also here with me but who is unaffected and changeless ‎No edit summary current
05:3205:32, 8 July 2022 diff hist +3,729‎ I, the pure soul, appearing now bound by my activities, am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of maya ‎No edit summary current
05:3105:31, 8 July 2022 diff hist +4,898‎ He (God as the Supersoul) remains with the jiva simply as sanction-giver and witness so that the living entity can receive the results of his activities, good or bad ‎No edit summary current
05:3005:30, 8 July 2022 diff hist +4,648‎ Hence even though he is the passive performer of all activities, how can there be freedom for the soul as long as material nature acts on him and binds him? ‎No edit summary current

04:0304:03, 7 July 2022 diff hist +3,713‎ For the impersonalist, pure egotism is aham brahmasmi - "I am not this body; I am spirit soul." But in its actual position, the spirit soul has devotional activities to perform ‎No edit summary current
04:0304:03, 7 July 2022 diff hist +4,906‎ Everyone should be interested in the activities of the spirit soul, not the body. As long as one is activated by the bodily conception of life, there is always the danger of being misled, whether one is a man or a woman ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 7 July 2022 diff hist +374‎ Category:Devotional Service to God is the Activity of the Soul Proper ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 7 July 2022 diff hist +4,522‎ Constant association with the spiritual activities of the Supreme Lord gradually spiritualizes the conditioned soul and ultimately severs the knot of material bondage ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 7 July 2022 diff hist +12‎ Confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 3.27): "The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature" ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 7 July 2022 diff hist +50,894‎ Caitanya-caritamrta teaches that the spirit soul is immortal and that our activities in the spiritual world are also immortal ‎No edit summary
03:5503:55, 7 July 2022 diff hist +4,975‎ By glorifying the Lord constantly the living entity can understand that he does not belong to the material world but is a spirit soul whose actual activity is to advance in Krsna consciousness so that he may become free from the material clutches ‎No edit summary current
03:4703:47, 7 July 2022 diff hist +36‎ Category:Sinful Activities of a Conditioned Soul ‎No edit summary current
03:4703:47, 7 July 2022 diff hist +6,342‎ Blaspheming the Supreme Lord or His devotee is not at all good for the conditioned soul, but Krsna, being very kind, punishes the conditioned soul in one life for such sinful activities and then takes him back home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 7 July 2022 diff hist +6,217‎ Bhakti-yoga is the proper activity of the soul, and when one actually engages in unalloyed, uncontaminated devotional service, he is already liberated ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 7 July 2022 diff hist +7,828‎ BG 3.27: The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 7 July 2022 diff hist +4,757‎ Being engaged in all these materialistic activities, the living soul entangles himself in the cycle of the law of fruitive actions. This entails the chain of birth and death in the 8,400,000 species of life ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 7 July 2022 diff hist +7,054‎ Because they are ignorant and bewildered concerning the soul and its activities, even though some of them have a vague idea of the soul, many controversies arise, and the philosophical speculators can never reach a conclusion ‎No edit summary current

03:0703:07, 5 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ A gross materialist, whether he be an empiric philosopher, a scientist, a psychologist or whatever, cannot attain such success (in mystic perfection and merging of oneself in the activities of the soul & Supersoul) through blunt efforts and word jugglery ‎No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 5 July 2022 diff hist +36‎ A conditioned soul thinks that he is working stealthily and that no one can see his sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
03:0203:02, 5 July 2022 diff hist +6‎ Category:Activities of a Conditioned Soul ‎No edit summary current
03:0103:01, 5 July 2022 diff hist +4,385‎ Also, please describe the inner and outer space of the universe by specific divisions, as well as the character and activities of the great souls, and also the characteristics of the different classifications of the castes and orders of social life ‎No edit summary
03:0003:00, 5 July 2022 diff hist +6‎ Actually, the activities of the body are not the activities of the soul. The soul is different from the body ‎No edit summary current
03:0003:00, 5 July 2022 diff hist +6‎ Activities of the spirit soul are indicated here (in BG 9.2) as constituting the king of all knowledge, the most confidential part of all knowledge. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
02:4102:41, 5 July 2022 diff hist +6,484‎ When the living entities desire to enjoy themselves, they develop a consciousness of duality and come to hate the service of the Lord. In this way the living entities fall into the material world ‎No edit summary current
02:3802:38, 5 July 2022 diff hist +2,978‎ Uttara said: O Lord of lords, Lord of the universe! You are the greatest of mystics. Please protect me, protect me, for there is no one else who can save me from the clutches of death in this world of duality ‎No edit summary current
02:3702:37, 5 July 2022 diff hist +3,165‎ This material world is the world of duality, in contrast with the oneness of the absolute realm. The world of duality is composed of matter and spirit, whereas the absolute world is complete spirit without any tinge of the material qualities ‎No edit summary current
02:3702:37, 5 July 2022 diff hist +5,373‎ This material world is only a shadow phantasmagoria of the spiritual kingdom of God, and because it is a shadow it is never eternal; the variegatedness in the material world of duality (spirit and matter) cannot be compared to that of the spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
02:3702:37, 5 July 2022 diff hist +3,448‎ This material world is called dvaita, the world of duality. A devotee knows very well that everything within this material world is but a manifestation of the Supreme Lord's energy ‎No edit summary current

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